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Adam, Seth, Enosh; {{rf{2}}} Kenan, Mahalalel, Jared; {{rf{3}}} Enoch, Methuselah, Lamech; {{rf{4}}} Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth. {{rf{5}}} The sons of Japheth: Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras. {{rf{6}}} The sons of Gomer: Ashkenaz, Diphath, and Togarmah. {{rf{7}}} The sons of Javan: Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim, and Rhodanim. {{rf{8}}} The sons of Ham: Cush, Mizraim, Put, and Canaan. {{rf{9}}} The sons of Cush: Seba, Havilah, Sabta, Raamah, and Sabteca. And the sons of Raamah: Sheba and Dedan. {{rf{10}}} And Cush fathered Nimrod; he himself began to be mighty on earth. {{rf{11}}} And Mizraim fathered the Ludim, the Anamim, the Lehabim, the Naphtuhim, {{rf{12}}} the Pathrusim, the Casluhim (from whence the Philistines descended), and the Caphtorim. {{rf{13}}} And Canaan fathered Zidon his firstborn, and Heth, {{rf{14}}} and the Jebusites, the Amorites, the Girgashites, {{rf{15}}} the Hivites, the Arkites, the Sinites, {{rf{16}}} the Arvadites, the Zemarites, and the Hamathites. {{rf{17}}} The sons of Shem: Elam, Asshur, Arphaxad, Lud, Aram, Uz, Hul, Gether, and Meshech. {{rf{18}}} And Arphaxad fathered Shelah; and Shelah fathered Eber. {{rf{19}}} And two sons were born to Eber: the name of the one was Peleg (for in his days the earth was divided), and the name of his brother was Joktan. {{rf{20}}} And Joktan fathered Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah, {{rf{21}}} Hadoram, Uzal, Diklah, {{rf{22}}} Ebal, Abimael, Sheba, {{rf{23}}} Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab; all these were the sons of Joktan. {{rf{24}}} Shem, Arphaxad, Shelah; {{rf{25}}} Eber, Peleg, Reu; {{rf{26}}} Serug, Nahor, Terah; {{rf{27}}} Abram, that is, Abraham. {{rf{28}}} The sons of Abraham: Isaac and Ishmael. {{rf{29}}} These are their generations: the firstborn of Ishmael, Nebaioth, and Kedar, Abdeel, Mibsam, {{rf{30}}} Mishma, Dumah, Massa, Hadad, Tema, {{rf{31}}} Jetur, Naphish, and Kedmah. These are the sons of Ishmael. {{rf{32}}} And the sons of Keturah, Abraham's concubine: she gave birth to Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, and Shuah. And the sons of Jokshan: Sheba and Dedan. {{rf{33}}} And the sons of Midian: Ephah, Epher, Enoch, Abida, and Eldaah. All these were the sons of Keturah. {{rf{34}}} Abraham fathered Isaac. The sons of Isaac: Esau and Israel. {{rf{35}}} The sons of Esau: Eliphaz, Reuel, Jeush, Jalam, and Korah. {{rf{36}}} The sons of Eliphaz: Teman, Omar, Zephi, Gatam, Kenaz, Timna, and Amalek. {{rf{37}}} The sons of Reuel: Nahath, Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah. {{rf{38}}} And the sons of Seir: Lotan, Shobal, Zibeon, Anah, Dishon, Ezer, and Dishan. {{rf{39}}} And the sons of Lotan: Hori and Homam; and the sister of Lotan was Timna. {{rf{40}}} The sons of Shobal: Alian, Manahath, Ebal, Shephi, and Onam. And the sons of Zibeon: Aiah and Anah. {{rf{41}}} The sons of Anah: Dishon. And the sons of Dishon: Hamran, Eshban, Ithran, and Keran. {{rf{42}}} The sons of Ezer: Bilhan, Zaavan, and Jaakan. The sons of Dishan: Uz and Aran. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|1Chron-01-01]] }}}
<<Bbl 1Ch 12:32 abbr >> Of course, the good men of Issachar validated their understanding by showing up!
Chap 17 -- Here we find the Temple site identified as Mount Moriah.
<<Bbl 1Ch 29:10 abbr >>-12 Echoes found in the Lord's model prayer.
<<Bbl 1Ch 30:1 abbr >>-12 Reminiscent of Paul's proclamation and its reception in Athens, <<Bbl A 17:32 >>-34 Delitzsch says that <<Bbl I 22:1 >>-14 to this crisis (Isaiah, p.389ff).
{{rf{43}}} These are the kings who reigned in the land of Edom before any king reigned over the Israelites: Bela son of Beor, and the name of his city was Dinhabah. {{rf{44}}} When Bela died, Jobab son of Zerah from Bozrah reigned in his place. {{rf{45}}} When Jobab died, Husham from the land of the Temanites reigned in his place. {{rf{46}}} When Husham died, Hadad son of Bedad, who defeated the Midianites in the country of Moab, reigned in his place. And the name of his city was Avith. {{rf{47}}} When Hadad died, Samlah from Masrekah reigned in his place. {{rf{48}}} When Samlah died, Shaul from Rehoboth-by-the-River reigned in his place. {{rf{49}}} When Shaul died, Baal-Hanan son of Achbor reigned in his place. {{rf{50}}} When Baal-Hanan died, Hadad reigned in his place, and the name of his city was Pai. And the name of his wife was Mehetabel, daughter of Matred, daughter of Me-Zahab. {{rf{51}}} And Hadad died. And the chiefs of Edom were: chiefs Timna, Aliah, Jetheth, {{rf{52}}} Oholibamah, Elah, Pinon, {{rf{53}}} Kenaz, Teman, Mibzar, {{rf{54}}} Magdiel, and Iram. These are the chiefs of Edom. {{rf big{1}}} These are the sons of Israel: Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Zebulun, {{rf{2}}} Dan, Joseph, Benjamin, Naphtali, Gad, and Asher. {{rf{3}}} The sons of Judah: Er, Onan and Shelah; these three were born to him from Bathshua the Canaanite. Now Er, Judah's firstborn, was evil in the sight of Yahweh, and he put him to death. {{rf{4}}} And Tamar his daughter-in-law bore Perez and Zerah to him. The sons of Judah were five in all. {{rf{5}}} The sons of Perez: Hezron and Hamul. {{rf{6}}} The sons of Zerah: Zimri, Ethan, Heman, Calcol, and Dara, five in all. {{rf{7}}} The son of Carmi: Achar, the troubler of Israel, who acted unfaithfully in the matter of the devoted thing. {{rf{8}}} And the son of Ethan was Azariah. {{rf{9}}} The sons of Hezron who were born to him: Jerahmeel, Ram, and Caleb. {{rf{10}}} And Ram fathered Amminadab, and Amminadab fathered Nahshon, prince of the sons of Judah. {{rf{11}}} And Nahshon fathered Salma, and Salma fathered Boaz. {{rf{12}}} And Boaz fathered Obed, and Obed fathered Jesse. {{rf{13}}} And Jesse fathered Eliab his firstborn, Abinadab the second, Shimea the third, {{rf{14}}} Nethanel the fourth, Raddai the fifth, {{rf{15}}} Ozem the sixth, David the seventh. {{rf{16}}} And their sisters were Zeruiah and Abigail. The sons of Zeruiah: Abishai, Joab, and Asahel, three. {{rf{17}}} And Abigail bore Amasa, and the father of Amasa was Jether the Ishmaelite. {{rf{18}}} And Caleb the son of Hezron fathered children by Azubah his wife and by Jerioth. And these were her sons: Jesher, Shobab, and Ardon. {{rf{19}}} And when Azubah died, Caleb married Ephrathah, and she bore Hur to him. {{rf{20}}} And Hur fathered Uri, and Uri fathered Bezalel. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|1Chron-01-43]] }}}
{{rf{21}}} And afterward Hezron went in to the daughter of Makir the father of Gilead. And he married her when he was sixty years old. And she bore Segub to him. {{rf{22}}} And Segub fathered Jair, and he had twenty-three cities in the land of Gilead. {{rf{23}}} And Geshur and Aram took Havvoth-Jair from them, Kenath and its villages, sixty cities. All these were the descendants of Makir, the father of Gilead. {{rf{24}}} And after the death of Hezron in Caleb-Ephrathah, Abijah the wife of Hezron bore to him Ashhur, the father of Tekoa. {{rf{25}}} And the sons of Jerahmeel the firstborn of Hezron were Ram his firstborn, Bunah, Oren, Ozem, and Ahijah. {{rf{26}}} And Jerahmeel had another wife, and her name was Atarah. She was the mother of Onam. {{rf{27}}} The sons of Ram the firstborn of Jerahmeel were Maaz, Jamin, and Eker. {{rf{28}}} And the sons of Onam were Shammai and Jada. And the sons of Shammai were Nadab and Abishur. {{rf{29}}} And the name of the wife of Abishur was Abihail, and she bore to him Ahban and Molid. {{rf{30}}} And the sons of Nadab were Seled and Appaim. And Seled died without children. {{rf{31}}} And the sons of Appaim: Ishi. The sons of Ishi: Sheshan. The sons of Sheshan: Ahlai. {{rf{32}}} And the sons of Jada the brother of Shammai: Jether and Jonathan. And Jether died without children. {{rf{33}}} And the sons of Jonathan: Peleth and Zaza. These were the children of Jerahmeel. {{rf{34}}} And Sheshan had no sons, only daughters, but Sheshan had an Egyptian slave, and his name was Jarha. {{rf{35}}} So Sheshan gave his daughter to Jarha his slave for a wife, and she bore to him Attai. {{rf{36}}} And Attai fathered Nathan, and Nathan fathered Zabad. {{rf{37}}} And Zabad fathered Ephlal, and Ephlal fathered Obed. {{rf{38}}} And Obed fathered Jehu, and Jehu fathered Azariah. {{rf{39}}} And Azariah fathered Helez, and Helez fathered Eleasah. {{rf{40}}} And Eleasah fathered Sismai, and Sismai fathered Shallum. {{rf{41}}} And Shallum fathered Jekamiah, and Jekamiah fathered Elishama. {{rf{42}}} And the sons of Caleb the brother of Jerahmeel were Mesha his firstborn; he was the father of Ziph. The sons of Mareshah: Hebron. {{rf{43}}} And the sons of Hebron were Korah, Tappuah, Rekem, and Shema. {{rf{44}}} And Shema fathered Raham, the father of Jorkeam. And Rekem fathered Shammai. {{rf{45}}} And the son of Shammai was Maon, and Maon was the father of Beth-Zur. {{rf{46}}} And Ephah, the concubine of Caleb, gave birth to Haran, Moza, and Gazez. And Haran fathered Gazez. {{rf{47}}} And the sons of Jahdai were Regem, Jotham, Geshan, Pelet, Ephah, and Shaaph. {{rf{48}}} Maacah, the concubine of Caleb, gave birth to Sheber and Tirhanah. {{rf{49}}} She also gave birth to Shaaph the father of Madmannah, Sheva the father of Machbenah and the father of Gibea; and the daughter of Caleb was Acsah. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|1Chron-02-21]] }}}
{{rf{50}}} These were the descendants of Caleb. The sons of Hur the firstborn of Ephrathah: Shobal the father of Kiriath-Jearim, {{rf{51}}} Salma the father of Bethlehem, and Hareph the father of Beth-Gader. {{rf{52}}} And Shobal the father of Kiriath-Jearim had other sons: Haroeh, half of the Menuhoth. {{rf{53}}} And the families of Kiriath-Jearim: the Ithrites, the Puthites, the Shumathites, and the Mishraites. From these descended the Zorathites and the Eshtaolites. {{rf{54}}} The sons of Salma: Bethlehem, the Netophathites, Ataroth-Beth-Joab, and half of the Manahathites, the Zorites. {{rf{55}}} And the families of the scribes who lived at Jabez: the Tirathites, the Shimeathites, and the Sucathites. These were the Kenites who came from Hammath, the father of the house of Recab. {{rf big{1}}} These were the sons of David who were born to him in Hebron: the firstborn, Amnon, by Ahinoam the Jezreelite; the second, Daniel, by Abigail the Carmelite; {{rf{2}}} the third, Absalom, the son of Maacah the daughter of Talmai, king of Geshur; the fourth, Adonijah, the son of Haggith; {{rf{3}}} the fifth, Shephatiah, by Abital; the sixth, Ithream, by his wife Eglah. {{rf{4}}} Six were born to him in Hebron. And he reigned there seven years and six months. And he reigned thirty-three years in Jerusalem. {{rf{5}}} And these were born to him in Jerusalem: Shimea, Shobab, Nathan, and Solomon, four by Bathshua the daughter of Ammiel; {{rf{6}}} then Ibhar, Elishama, Eliphelet, {{rf{7}}} Nogah, Nepheg, Japhia, {{rf{8}}} Elishama, Eliada, and Eliphelet, nine. {{rf{9}}} All these were the sons of David, besides the sons of the concubines. And Tamar was their sister. {{rf{10}}} Now the son of Solomon was Rehoboam; Abijah was his son, Asa was his son, Jehoshaphat was his son, {{rf{11}}} Joram was his son, Ahaziah was his son, Joash was his son, {{rf{12}}} Amaziah was his son, Azariah was his son, Jotham was his son, {{rf{13}}} Ahaz was his son, Hezekiah was his son, Manasseh was his son, {{rf{14}}} Amon was his son, Josiah was his son. {{rf{15}}} And the sons of Josiah: Johanan the firstborn, the second Jehoiakim, the third Zedekiah, the fourth Shallum. {{rf{16}}} And the descendants of Jehoiakim: Jeconiah his son, Zedekiah his son. {{rf{17}}} And the sons of Jeconiah, the captive: Shealtiel his son, {{rf{18}}} Malchiram, Pedaiah, Shenazzar, Jekamiah, Hoshama, and Nedabiah. {{rf{19}}} And the sons of Pedaiah: Zerubbabel and Shimei. And the sons of Zerubbabel: Meshullam and Hananiah, and Shelomith their sister, {{rf{20}}} and Hashubah, Ohel, Berekiah, Hasadiah, and Jushab-Hesed, five. {{rf{21}}} And the sons of Hananiah: Pelatiah and Jeshaiah. The sons of Rephaiah, the sons of Arnan, the sons of Obadiah, the sons of Shecaniah. {{rf{22}}} And the sons of Shecaniah: Shemaiah. And the sons of Shemaiah: Hattush, Igal, Bariah, Neariah, and Shaphat, six. {{rf{23}}} And the sons of Neariah: Elioenai, Hezekiah, and Azrikam, three. {{rf{24}}} And the sons of Elioenai: Hodaviah, Eliashib, Pelaiah, Akkub, Johanan, Delaiah, and Anani, seven. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|1Chron-02-50]] }}}
The sons of Judah: Perez, Hezron, Carmi, Hur, and Shobal. {{rf{2}}} And Reaiah the son of Shobal fathered Jahath, and Jahath fathered Ahumai and Lahad. These were the clans of the Zorathites. {{rf{3}}} And these were the sons of Etam: Jezreel, Ishma, and Idbash. And the name of their sister was Hazzelelponi, {{rf{4}}} and Penuel was the father of Gedor, and Ezer was the father of Hushah. These were the sons of Hur, the firstborn of Ephrathah, the father of Bethlehem. {{rf{5}}} And Ashhur, the father of Tekoa, had two wives: Helah and Naarah. {{rf{6}}} And Naarah bore him Ahuzzam, Hepher, Temeni, and Haahashtari. These were the sons of Naarah. {{rf{7}}} The sons of Helah: Zereth, Izhar, and Ethnan. {{rf{8}}} And Koz fathered Anub, Zobebah, and the clans of Aharhel, the son of Harum. {{rf{9}}} And Jabez was more honorable than his brothers. And his mother called his name Jabez, saying, "Because I bore him in pain." {{rf{10}}} And Jabez called upon the God of Israel, saying, "Oh that you would surely bless me and enlarge my border. And may your hand be with me, that you would keep me from evil so that it might not harm me!" And God granted what he asked. {{rf{11}}} Chelub, the brother of Shuhah, fathered Mehir. He was the father of Eshton. {{rf{12}}} And Eshton fathered Beth-Rapha, Paseah, and Tehinnah, the father of the city of Nahash. These are the men of Recah. {{rf{13}}} The sons of Kenaz: Othniel and Seraiah. And the sons of Othniel: Hathath. {{rf{14}}} And Meonothai fathered Ophrah; and Seraiah fathered Joab, the father of Ge-Harashim, because they were craftsmen. {{rf{15}}} The sons of Caleb, the son of Jephunneh: Iru, Elah, and Naam. And the sons of Elah: Kenaz. {{rf{16}}} The sons of Jehallelel: Ziph, Ziphah, Tiria, and Asarel. {{rf{17}}} The sons of Ezrah: Jether, Mered, Epher, and Jalon. And she became pregnant with Miriam, Shammai, and Ishbah, the father of Eshtemoa. {{rf{18}}} And his Judahite wife bore Jered the father of Gedor, Heber the father of Soco, and Jekuthiel the father of Zanoah. And these were the sons of Bithiah daughter of Pharaoh, whom Mered married. {{rf{19}}} The sons of the wife of Hodiah, the sister of Naham, were the fathers of Keilah the Garmite and Eshtemoa the Maacathite. {{rf{20}}} The sons of Shimon: Amnon, Rinnah, Ben-Hanan, and Tolon. The sons of Ishi: Zoheth and Ben-Zoheth. {{rf{21}}} The sons of Shelah, the son of Judah: Er the father of Lecah, Laadah the father of Mareshah, and the families of the house of linen workers at Beth Ashbea; {{rf{22}}} and Jokim, and the men of Cozeba, and Joash, and Saraph, who ruled in Moab and returned to Lehem. (Now the records are ancient). {{rf{23}}} These were the potters and inhabitants of Netaim and Gederah. They lived there with the king in his service. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|1Chron-04-01]] }}}
{{rf{24}}} The sons of Simeon: Nemuel, Jamin, Jarib, Zerah, Shaul. {{rf{25}}} Shallum his son, Mibsam his son, Mishma his son. {{rf{26}}} The sons of Mishma: Hammuel his son, Zaccur his son, Shimei his son. {{rf{27}}} Shimei had sixteen sons and six daughters, but his brothers did not have many children. But all their families did not multiply like the men of Judah. {{rf{28}}} And they lived in Beersheba, Moladah, Hazar Shual, {{rf{29}}} Bilhah, Ezem, Tolad, {{rf{30}}} Bethuel, Hormah, Ziklag, {{rf{31}}} Beth-Marcaboth, Hazar-Susim, Beth-Biri, and Shaaraim. These were their cities until David reigned. {{rf{32}}} And their villages were Etam, Ain, Rimmon, Token, and Ashan, five cities {{rf{33}}} and all their villages that surrounding these cities as far as Baal. These were their settlements, and they kept a genealogical record for them. {{rf{34}}} Meshobab, Jamlech, and Joshah the son of Amaziah, {{rf{35}}} Joel, and Jehu the son of Joshibiah, son of Seraiah, son of Asiel. {{rf{36}}} And Elioenai, Jaakobah, Jeshohaiah, Asaiah, Adiel, Jesimiel, Benaiah, {{rf{37}}} and Ziza the son of Shiphi, son of Allon, son of Jedaiah, son of Shimri, son of Shemaiah. {{rf{38}}} These mentioned by name were leaders in their families, and their fathers' households increased greatly. {{rf{39}}} And they went to the entrance of Gedor, up to the east side of the valley, to seek pasture for their flocks. {{rf{40}}} And they found fertile and good pasture, and the land was very broad, quiet, and at ease, for the former inhabitants there were from Ham. {{rf{41}}} These, mentioned by name, came in the days of Hezekiah, king of Judah, and attacked their tents and the Meunites who were found there. And they devoted them to destruction to this day, and they settled among them because there was pasture there for their flocks. {{rf{42}}} And some of them from the Simeonites went to Mount Seir, five hundred men. And Pelatiah, Neariah, Rephaiah, and Uzziel, the sons of Ishi, were under their leadership. {{rf{43}}} And they destroyed the remainder of the Amalekites who had escaped, and they have lived there to this day. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|1Chron-04-24]] }}}
The sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel (for he was the firstborn, but when he defiled the couch of his father, his birthright was given to the sons of Joseph, the son of Israel, so that he was not enrolled in the genealogy as the firstborn, {{rf{2}}} though Judah became strong among his brothers and a chief came from him, but the birthright belonged to Joseph). {{rf{3}}} The sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel: Enoch, Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi. {{rf{4}}} The sons of Joel: Shemaiah his son, Gog his son, Shimei his son, {{rf{5}}} Micah his son, Reaiah his son, Baal his son, {{rf{6}}} Beerah his son, a leader of the Reubenites, whom Tiglath-Pilneser king of Assyria deported into exile. {{rf{7}}} And his kinsmen by their families, when their generations were recorded in the genealogy: the chief, Jeiel, and Zechariah, {{rf{8}}} and Bela son of Azaz, son of Shema, son of Joel, who lived in Aroer, as far as Nebo and Baal-Meon. {{rf{9}}} He also lived to the east up to the entrance of the desert this side of the River Euphrates, for their livestock had multiplied in the land of Gilead. {{rf{10}}} And in the days of Saul they made war against the Hagrites, and they fell into their hand. And they lived in their tents in all the region east of Gilead. {{rf{11}}} And the sons of Gad lived near to them in the land of Bashan as far as Salecah: {{rf{12}}} Joel the chief, Shapham the second, Janai, and Shaphat in Bashan. {{rf{13}}} And their kinsmen according to their fathers' households: Michael, Meshullam, Sheba, Jorai, Jacan, Zia, and Eber, seven. {{rf{14}}} These were the sons of Abihail the son of Huri, son of Jaroah, son of Gilead, son of Michael, son of Jeshishai, son of Jahdo, son of Buz. {{rf{15}}} Ahi son of Abdiel, son of Guni, was chief in their fathers' households. {{rf{16}}} And they lived in Gilead, in Bashan, and in its towns, and in all the pasturelands of Sharon to their limits. {{rf{17}}} All of them were enrolled in the genealogy in the days of Jotham, king of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam, king of Israel. {{rf{18}}} The Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh had valiant men who carried a shield and a sword, and archers, and who were expert in war, forty-four thousand seven hundred and sixty for going out as an army. {{rf{19}}} And they made war against the Hagrites, Jetur, Naphish, and Nodab. {{rf{20}}} And they were helped against them, and the Hagrites and all who were with them were given into their hand, for they cried out to God in the battle, and he responded to their prayer because they trusted in him. {{rf{21}}} And they captured their livestock: fifty thousand of their camels; two hundred and fifty thousand sheep; two thousand donkeys; and one hundred thousand men alive. {{rf{22}}} For many were slain because the war was of God. And they lived under them until the exile. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|1Chron-05-01]] }}}
{{rf{23}}} And the sons of the half-tribe of Manasseh lived in the land from Bashan to Baal-Hermon, Senir, and Mount Hermon. They were numerous. {{rf{24}}} Now these were the heads of their fathers' households: Epher, Ishi, Eliel, Azriel, Jeremiah, Hodaviah, and Jahdiel, mighty men of strength, famous men, heads of their fathers' households. {{rf{25}}} But they transgressed against the God of their ancestors and prostituted themselves after the gods of the peoples of the land, whom God had destroyed before them. {{rf{26}}} So the God of Israel stirred up the spirit of Pul, king of Assyria, and the spirit of Tiglath-Pilneser, king of Assyria, and he took them into exile, namely, the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh. And he brought them to Halah, Habor, Hara, and the river Gozan, until this day. {{rf big{1}}} The sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari. {{rf{2}}} The sons of Kohath: Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel. {{rf{3}}} The children of Amram: Aaron, Moses, and Miriam. The sons of Aaron: Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar. {{rf{4}}} Eleazar fathered Phinehas; Phinehas fathered Abishua; {{rf{5}}} Abishua fathered Bukki; Bukki fathered Uzzi; {{rf{6}}} Uzzi fathered Zerahiah; Zerahiah fathered Meraioth; {{rf{7}}} Meraioth fathered Amariah; Amariah fathered Ahitub; {{rf{8}}} Ahitub fathered Zadok; Zadok fathered Ahimaaz; {{rf{9}}} Ahimaaz fathered Azariah; Azariah fathered Johanan; {{rf{10}}} and Johanan fathered Azariah. It was he who served as priest in the temple that Solomon built in Jerusalem. {{rf{11}}} And Azariah fathered Amariah; Amariah fathered Ahitub; {{rf{12}}} Ahitub fathered Zadok; Zadok fathered Shallum; {{rf{13}}} Shallum fathered Hilkiah; Hilkiah fathered Azariah; {{rf{14}}} Azariah fathered Seraiah; Seraiah fathered Jehozadak. {{rf{15}}} And Jehozadak went into exile when Yahweh sent Judah and Jerusalem into exile by the hand of Nebuchadnezzar. {{rf{16}}} The sons of Levi: Gershom, Kohath, and Merari. {{rf{17}}} Now these are the names of the sons of Gershom: Libni and Shimei. {{rf{18}}} The sons of Kohath: Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel. {{rf{19}}} The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. Now these are the families of the Levites according to their ancestors. {{rf{20}}} Of Gershom: Libni his son, Jahath his son, Zimmah his son, {{rf{21}}} Joah his son, Iddo his son, Zerah his son, Jeatherai his son. {{rf{22}}} The sons of Kohath: Amminadab his son, Korah his son, Assir his son, {{rf{23}}} Elkanah his son, Ebiasaph his son, Assir his son, {{rf{24}}} Tahath his son, Uriel his son, Uzziah his son, and Shaul his son. {{rf{25}}} The sons of Elkanah: Amasai and Ahimoth, {{rf{26}}} Elkanah his son, Zophai his son, Nahath his son, {{rf{27}}} Eliab his son, Jeroham his son, Elkanah his son. {{rf{28}}} The sons of Samuel: Joel his firstborn and Abijah the second. {{rf{29}}} The sons of Merari: Mahli, Libni his son, Shimei his son, Uzzah his son, {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|1Chron-05-23]] }}}
{{rf{30}}} Shimea his son, Haggiah his son, and Asaiah his son. {{rf{31}}} Now these are the men whom David appointed for control of singing in the house of Yahweh where the ark rested. {{rf{32}}} They were ministering with song before the tabernacle of the tent of assembly until Solomon built the temple of Yahweh in Jerusalem. And they stood according to their order with respect to their duty. {{rf{33}}} Now these are those who served and their sons. Of the sons of the Kohathites: Heman the singer, the son of Joel, son of Samuel, {{rf{34}}} son of Elkanah, son of Jeroham, son of Eliel, son of Toah, {{rf{35}}} son of Zuph, son of Elkanah, son of Mahath, son of Amasai, {{rf{36}}} son of Elkanah, son of Joel, son of Azariah, son of Zephaniah, {{rf{37}}} son of Tahath, son of Assir, son of Ebiasaph, son of Korah, {{rf{38}}} son of Izhar, son of Kohath, son of Levi, son of Israel; {{rf{39}}} and his brother Asaph, who stood on his right namely, Asaph the son of Berechiah, son of Shimea, {{rf{40}}} son of Michael, son of Baaseiah, son of Malkijah, {{rf{41}}} son of Ethni, son of Zerah, son of Adaiah, {{rf{42}}} son of Ethan, son of Zimmah, son of Shimei, {{rf{43}}} son of Jahath, son of Gershom, son of Levi. {{rf{44}}} On the left were their brothers, the sons of Merari: Ethan the son of Kishi, son of Abdi, son of Malluch, {{rf{45}}} son of Hashabiah, son of Amaziah, son of Hilkiah, {{rf{46}}} son of Amzi, son of Bani, son of Shemer, {{rf{47}}} son of Mahli, son of Mushi, son of Merari, son of Levi. {{rf{48}}} And their brothers the Levites were appointed for all the service of the tabernacle of the house of God. {{rf{49}}} But Aaron and his sons made offerings on the altar of burnt offering and on the altar of incense for all the work of the most holy place, and to make atonement for Israel, according to all that Moses the servant of God had commanded. {{rf{50}}} Now these are the sons of Aaron: Eleazar his son, Phinehas his son, Abishua his son, {{rf{51}}} Bukki his son, Uzzi his son, Zerahiah his son, {{rf{52}}} Meraioth his son, Amariah his son, Ahitub his son, {{rf{53}}} Zadok his son, Ahimaaz his son. {{rf{54}}} And these are their dwellings according to their settlements within their borders: to the sons of Aaron of the clans of Kohathites, for the first lot was theirs, {{rf{55}}} and they gave to them Hebron in the land of Judah and its surrounding pasturelands, {{rf{56}}} but the fields of the city and its villages they gave to Caleb the son of Jephunneh. {{rf{57}}} To the sons of Aaron they gave the cities of refuge: Hebron, Libnah with its pasturelands, Jattir, Eshtemoa with its pasturelands, {{rf{58}}} Hilen with its pasturelands, Debir with its pasturelands, {{rf{59}}} Ashan with its pasturelands, and Beth-Shemesh with its pasturelands. {{rf{60}}} And from the tribe of Benjamin, Geba with its pasturelands, Alemeth with its pasturelands, and Anathoth with its pasturelands. All their cities were thirteen cities throughout their clans. {{rf{61}}} To the Kohathites who remained from the family of the half-tribe, the half of Manasseh, were given by lot ten cities. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|1Chron-06-30]] }}}
{{rf{62}}} To the Gershomites according to their clans thirteen cities were allotted out of the tribe of Issachar, out of the tribe of Asher, out of the tribe of Naphtali, and out of the tribe of Manasseh in Bashan. {{rf{63}}} To the Merarites twelve cities were allotted according to their clans out of the tribe of Reuben, out of the tribe of Gad, and out of the tribe of Zebulun. {{rf{64}}} So the Israelites gave the Levites the cities with their pasturelands. {{rf{65}}} And they gave by lot out of the tribe of Judah, out of the tribe of Simeon, and out of the tribe of Benjamin these cities that are mentioned by name. {{rf{66}}} And of the clans of the sons of Kohath were cities of their territory out of the tribe of Ephraim. {{rf{67}}} And they gave them the cities of refuge: Shechem with its pasturelands in the hill country of Ephraim, Gezer with its pasturelands, {{rf{68}}} Jokmeam with its pasturelands, Beth-Horon with its pasturelands, {{rf{69}}} Aijalon with its pasturelands, and Gath-Rimmon with its pasturelands. {{rf{70}}} And out of the half-tribe of Manasseh: Aner with its pasturelands, and Bileam with its pasturelands for the remaining the clans of the Kohathites. {{rf{71}}} To the Gershomites were given out of the clan of the half-tribe of Manasseh: Golan in Bashan with its pasturelands and Ashtaroth with its pasturelands. {{rf{72}}} And out of the tribe of Issachar: Kedesh with its pasturelands, Daberath with its pasturelands, {{rf{73}}} Ramoth with its pasturelands, and Anem with its pasturelands. {{rf{74}}} And out of the tribe of Asher: Mashal with its pasturelands, Abdon with its pasturelands, {{rf{75}}} Hukok with its pasturelands, and Rehob with its pasturelands. {{rf{76}}} And out of the tribe of Naphtali: Kedesh in Galilee with its pasturelands, Hammon with its pasturelands, and Kiriathaim with its pasturelands. {{rf{77}}} To the remainder of the Merarites were allotted out of the tribe of Zebulun: Rimmono with its pasturelands, Tabor with its pasturelands. {{rf{78}}} And beyond the Jordan at Jericho, on the east side of the Jordan, out of the tribe of Reuben: Bezer in the wilderness with its pasturelands, Jahzah with its pasturelands, {{rf{79}}} Kedemoth with its pasturelands, and Mephaath with its pasturelands. {{rf{80}}} And out of the tribe of Gad: Ramoth in Gilead with its pasturelands, Mahanaim with its pasturelands, {{rf{81}}} Heshbon with its pasturelands, and Jazer with its pasturelands. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|1Chron-06-62]] }}}
The sons of Issachar: Tola, Puah, Jashub, and Shimron, four. {{rf{2}}} The sons of Tola: Uzzi, Rephaiah, Jeriel, Jahmai, Ibsam, and Shemuel, heads of their fathers' houses; for Tola, mighty warriors of their generations, their number in the days of David were twenty-two thousand six hundred. {{rf{3}}} The sons of Uzzi: Izrahiah. And the sons of Izrahiah: Michael, Obadiah, Joel, and Isshiah; all five of them were chiefs. {{rf{4}}} And in addition to them, according to their generations, according to the house of their fathers, were troops of the army for war: thirty-six thousand. For they had many wives and sons. {{rf{5}}} Now their kinsmen belonging to all the clans of Issachar were in all eighty-seven thousand mighty warriors, enrolled according to their genealogy. {{rf{6}}} The sons of Benjamin: Bela, Beker, and Jediael, three. {{rf{7}}} The sons of Bela: Ezbon, Uzzi, Uzziel, Jerimoth, and Iri, five, the heads of the house of the fathers, mighty warriors. And their enrollment by genealogy was twenty-two thousand thirty-four. {{rf{8}}} The sons of Beker: Zemirah, Joash, Eliezer, Elioenai, Omri, Jeremoth, Abijah, Anathoth, and Alemeth. All these were the sons of Beker. {{rf{9}}} And their enrollment by genealogy according to their generations, as heads of the house of their fathers, mighty warriors, was twenty thousand two hundred. {{rf{10}}} The sons of Jediael: Bilhan. And the sons of Bilhan: Jeush, Benjamin, Ehud, Kenaanah, Zethan, Tarshish, and Ahishahar. {{rf{11}}} All these were the sons of Jediael according to the heads of the families, mighty warriors, seventeen thousand two hundred, able to go to war. {{rf{12}}} And Shuppim and Huppim were the sons of Ir; Hushim, the son of Aher. {{rf{13}}} The sons of Naphtali: Jahziel, Guni, Jezer, and Shallum, the descendants of Bilhah. {{rf{14}}} The sons of Manasseh: Asriel, whom his Aramean concubine bore; she gave birth to Makir the father of Gilead. {{rf{15}}} And Machir took a wife for Huppim and for Shuppim. And the name of his sister was Maacah. And the name of the second, Zelophehad. And Zelophehad had daughters. {{rf{16}}} And Maacah the wife of Machir gave birth to a son, and she called his name Peresh. And the name of his brother was Sheresh, and his sons were Ulam and Rekem. {{rf{17}}} The sons of Ulam: Bedan. These were the sons of Gilead the son of Makir, son of Manasseh. {{rf{18}}} And his sister, Hammolecheth, gave birth to Ishhod, Abiezer, and Mahlah. {{rf{19}}} The sons of Shemida were Ahian, Shechem, Likhi, and Aniam. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|1Chron-07-01]] }}}
{{rf{20}}} The sons of Ephraim: Shuthelah and Bered his son, Tahath his son, Eleadah his son, Tahath his son, {{rf{21}}} Zabad his son, Shuthelah his son, and Ezer and Elead. And the men of Gath who were born in the land killed them because they came down to take their livestock. {{rf{22}}} And Ephraim their father mourned many days, and his brothers came to comfort him. {{rf{23}}} And Ephraim went in to his wife, and she conceived and gave birth to a son. And he called his name Beriah because disaster had been upon his house. {{rf{24}}} And his daughter was Sheerah, and she built Lower and Upper Beth-Horon and Uzzen-Sheerah. {{rf{25}}} And Rephah was his son, and Resheph, and Telah his son, Tahan his son, {{rf{26}}} Ladan his son, Ammihud his son, Elishama his son, {{rf{27}}} Nun his son, Joshua his son. {{rf{28}}} And their property and their dwellings were Bethel and its towns. And to the east, Naaran. And to the west, Gezer and its towns, and Shechem and its towns, up to Aija and its towns. {{rf{29}}} And along the borders of the sons of Manasseh: Beth-Shean and its towns, Taanach and its towns, Megiddo and its towns, and Dor and its towns. In these lived the sons of Joseph the son of Israel. {{rf{30}}} The sons of Asher: Imnah, Ishvah, Ishvi, Beriah, and their sister Serah. {{rf{31}}} The sons of Beriah: Heber and Malkiel, who was the father of Birzayith. {{rf{32}}} And Heber fathered Japhlet, Shomer, Hotham, and their sister Shua. {{rf{33}}} The sons of Japhlet: Pasach, Bimhal, and Ashvath. These were the sons of Japhlet. {{rf{34}}} The sons of Shemer: Ahi, Rohgah, Jehubbah, and Aram. {{rf{35}}} The sons of Helem his brother: Zophah, Imna, Shelesh, and Amal. {{rf{36}}} The sons of Zophah: Suah, Harnepher, Shual, Beri, Imrah, {{rf{37}}} Bezer, Hod, Shamma, Shilshah, Ithran, and Beera. {{rf{38}}} The sons of Jether: Jephunneh, Pispah, and Ara. {{rf{39}}} The sons of Ulla: Arah, Hanniel, and Rizia. {{rf{40}}} All of these were the sons of Asher, heads of the house of the fathers, chosen mighty warriors, heads of the princes. And their number enrolled by genealogy, in the army for the war, was twenty-six thousand men. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|1Chron-07-20]] }}}
Now Benjamin fathered Bela his firstborn, Ashbel the second, Aharah the third, {{rf{2}}} Nohah the fourth, and Rapha the fifth. {{rf{3}}} And Bela had sons: Addar, Gera, Abihud, {{rf{4}}} Abishua, Naaman, Ahoah, {{rf{5}}} Gera, Shephuphan, and Huram. {{rf{6}}} And these are the sons of Ehud (these were heads of the families for the inhabitants of Geba, and they took them away to Manahath): {{rf{7}}} Naaman, Ahijah, and Gera, who took them away. And he fathered Uzza and Ahihud. {{rf{8}}} And Shaharaim fathered children in the fields of Moab after he had sent them away -- Hushim and Baara, his wives. {{rf{9}}} And he fathered by Hodesh his wife Jobab, Zibia, Mesha, Malcam, {{rf{10}}} Jeuz, Sakia, and Mirmah. These were his sons, heads of the families. {{rf{11}}} And by Husham he fathered Abitub and Elpaal. {{rf{12}}} The sons of Elpaal: Eber, Misham, Shemed (he built Ono and Lod with its towns), {{rf{13}}} and Beriah and Shema who were the heads of the families of the inhabitants of Aijalon (they themselves chased away the inhabitants of Gath). {{rf{14}}} Now Ahio, Shashak, Jeremoth, {{rf{15}}} Zebadiah, Arad, Eder, {{rf{16}}} Michael, Ishpah, and Joha were sons of Beriah. {{rf{17}}} And Zebadiah, Meshullam, Hizki, Heber, {{rf{18}}} Ishmerai, Izliah, and Jobab were the sons of Elpaal. {{rf{19}}} And Jakim, Zikri, Zabdi, {{rf{20}}} Elienai, Zillethai, Eliel, {{rf{21}}} Adaiah, Beraiah, and Shimrath were the sons of Shimei. {{rf{22}}} And Ishpan, Eber, Eliel, {{rf{23}}} Abdon, Zikri, Hanan, {{rf{24}}} Hananiah, Elam, Antothijah, {{rf{25}}} Iphdeiah, and Peniel were the sons of Shashak. {{rf{26}}} And Shamsherai, Shehariah, Athaliah, {{rf{27}}} Jaareshiah, Elijah, and Zikri were the sons of Jeroham. {{rf{28}}} These were the heads of the families according to their generations, chiefs. These lived in Jerusalem. {{rf{29}}} And Jeiel the father of Gibeon lived in Gibeon. And the name of his wife was Maacah. {{rf{30}}} And his firstborn son was Abdon, then Zur, Kish, Baal, Nadab, {{rf{31}}} Gedor, Ahio, Zeker, {{rf{32}}} and Mikloth (he fathered Shimeah). Now these also lived nearby their brothers in Jerusalem with their kinsmen. {{rf{33}}} And Ner fathered Kish, and Kish fathered Saul, and Saul fathered Jonathan, Malchi-Shua, Abinadab, and Eshbaal. {{rf{34}}} And the son of Jonathan was Merib-baal, and Merib-baal fathered Micah. {{rf{35}}} And the sons of Micah: Pithon, Melech, Tarea, and Ahaz. {{rf{36}}} And Ahaz fathered Jehoaddah, and Jehoaddah fathered Alemeth, Azmaveth, and Zimri. And Zimri fathered Moza. {{rf{37}}} And Moza fathered Binea; Raphah was his son, Eleasah his son, and Azel his son. {{rf{38}}} And Azel had six sons, and these are their names: Azrikam, Bokeru, Ishmael, Sheariah, Obadiah, and Hanan. All these were the sons of Azel. {{rf{39}}} And the sons of Eshek his brother: Ulam his firstborn, Jeush the second, and Eliphelet the third. {{rf{40}}} And the sons of Ulam were men who were mighty warriors, bowmen, and they had many sons and grandsons, one hundred and fifty. All these were Benjaminites. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|1Chron-08-01]] }}}
So all Israel was enrolled in genealogy. And behold, they were written in the book of the kings of Israel. And Judah was taken away to Babylon on account of their sin. {{rf{2}}} Now the first inhabitants who were settled on their property in their cities in Israel were the priests, the Levites, and the temple servants. {{rf{3}}} And some of the people of Judah, Benjamin, Ephraim, and Manasseh lived in Jerusalem: {{rf{4}}} Uthai the son of Ammihud, son of Omri, son of Imri, son of Bani, from the sons of Perez, the son of Judah. {{rf{5}}} And from the Shilonites: Asaiah the firstborn and his sons. {{rf{6}}} And from the sons of Zerah: Jeuel and their brethren, six hundred and ninety. {{rf{7}}} And from the sons of Benjamin: Sallu the son of Meshullam, son of Hodaviah, the son of Hassenuah; {{rf{8}}} Ibneah the son of Jeroham; Elah the son of Uzzi, son of Michri; Meshullam the son of Shephatiah, son of Reuel, son of Ibnijah; {{rf{9}}} and their brethren according to their generations, nine hundred and fifty-six. All these men were the heads of the families in the house of their fathers. {{rf{10}}} And from the priests: Jedaiah; Jehoiarib; Jakin; {{rf{11}}} Azariah son of Hilkiah, son of Meshullam, son of Zadok, son of Meraioth, son of Ahitub, the commander of the house of God; {{rf{12}}} Adaiah son of Jeroham, son of Pashhur, son of Malkijah; Maasai the son of Adiel, son of Jahzerah, son of Meshullam, son of Meshillemith, son of Immer; {{rf{13}}} and their kinsmen, heads of the house of their fathers, one thousand seven hundred and sixty mighty men for the work of the service of the house of God. {{rf{14}}} And from the Levites: Shemaiah son of Hasshub, son of Azrikam, son of Hashabiah, from the sons of Merari; {{rf{15}}} Bakbakkar; Heresh; Galal; Mattaniah the son of Mica, son of Zicri, son of Asaph; {{rf{16}}} Obadiah the son of Shemaiah, son of Galal, son of Jeduthun; and Berechiah the son of Asa, son of Elkanah, who lived in the villages of Netophathite. {{rf{17}}} And the gatekeepers were Shallum, Akkub, Talmon, Ahiman, and their brethren (Shallum was the chief); {{rf{18}}} until then they were gatekeepers at the gate of the king on the east side toward the camps of the Levites. {{rf{19}}} And Shallum the son of Kore, son of Ebiasaph, son of Korah, and his kinsmen of the house of his fathers, the Korahites, were over the work of the service, the guardians of the entrances to the tent, and their fathers were over the camp of Yahweh, guardians of the entrance. {{rf{20}}} And Phinehas the son of Eleazar was the leader over them in time past; Yahweh was with him. {{rf{21}}} Zechariah the son of Meshelemiah was gatekeeper at the doorway to the tent of assembly. {{rf{22}}} All of them were chosen as gatekeepers at the entrances, two hundred and twelve. They were enrolled by genealogies in their villages. They were established by David and Samuel the seer on account of their faithfulness. {{rf{23}}} So they and their sons were over the gates of the house of Yahweh at the house of the tent as guards. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|1Chron-09-01]] }}}
{{rf{24}}} The gatekeepers were on four sides: east, west, north, and south. {{rf{25}}} And their brethren in their villages were to come every seven days by turn to be with these. {{rf{26}}} For the four mighty gatekeepers, they who were Levites, were entrusted and were over the chambers and over the storerooms of the house of God. {{rf{27}}} And they lodged all around the house of God, for upon them was a responsibility. And they had charge of opening the house of God every morning. {{rf{28}}} And some of them were over the utensils of the service, for they count them when they are brought in and they count them when they are brought out. {{rf{29}}} And some of them were appointed over the objects, over the objects of the sanctuary, and over the wheat flour and the wine, the olive oil, the frankincense, and the spices. {{rf{30}}} And some of the sons of the priests mixed the fragrant ointment for the spices. {{rf{31}}} And Mattithiah, one of the Levites, was the firstborn of Shallum the Korahite and was entrusted with the work of the pan breads. {{rf{32}}} And from the sons of the Kohathites, some of their kinsmen were over the showbread to prepare it every Sabbath. {{rf{33}}} Now these were the singers; the heads of the families of the Levites were in the chambers free from other service, for day and night they were over them on the service. {{rf{34}}} These were the heads of the families of the Levites according to their genealogies, leaders. These lived in Jerusalem. {{rf{35}}} And these lived in Gibeon: Jeiel the father of Gibeon. And the name of his wife was Maacah. {{rf{36}}} And his firstborn son Abdon, and Zur, Kish, Baal, Ner, Nadab, {{rf{37}}} Gedor, Ahio, Zechariah, and Mikloth. {{rf{38}}} And Mikloth fathered Shimeam. And they also lived nearby their brothers in Jerusalem with their brothers. {{rf{39}}} And Ner fathered Kish, and Kish fathered Saul, and Saul fathered Jonathan, Malchi-Shua, Abinadab, and Eshbaal. {{rf{40}}} And the son of Jonathan was Meribaal. And Meribaal fathered Micah. {{rf{41}}} And the sons of Micah were Pithon, Melech, Tahrea, and Ahaz. {{rf{42}}} And Ahaz fathered Jarah, and Jarah fathered Alemeth, Azmaveth, and Zimri. And Zimri fathered Moza, {{rf{43}}} and Moza fathered Binea; and Rephaiah was his son, Eleasah his son, Azel his son. {{rf{44}}} And Azel had six sons, and these are their names: Azrikam, Bokeru, Ishmael, Sheariah, Obadiah, and Hanan. These were the sons of Azel. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|1Chron-09-24]] }}}
Now the Philistines fought against Israel, and every Israelite fled away from before the Philistines. And they fell slain upon Mount Gilboa. {{rf{2}}} And the Philistines overtook Saul and his sons. And the Philistines killed Jonathan, Abinadab, and Malki-Shua, the sons of Saul. {{rf{3}}} And the battle was heavy against Saul, and the archers found him, and he was wounded by the archers. {{rf{4}}} And Saul said to his armor-bearer, "Draw your sword and thrust me through with it, lest these uncircumcised come and deal harshly with me." But he was very afraid. Then Saul took the sword and fell upon it. {{rf{5}}} When his armor-bearer saw that Saul was dead, he also fell upon the sword, and he died. {{rf{6}}} So Saul died. And his three sons and all his house died together. {{rf{7}}} And when all the men of Israel who were in the valley saw that they had fled and that Saul and his sons were dead, they abandoned their cities and fled. Then the Philistines came and dwelled in them. {{rf{8}}} And it happened that on the next day when the Philistines came to strip the dead, they found Saul and his sons fallen on Mount Gilboa. {{rf{9}}} And they stripped him and took his head and his weapons, and they sent them throughout the land of the Philistines to bring news to their idols and the nation. {{rf{10}}} And they put his weapons in the temple of their gods, and they fastened his skull to the temple of Dagon. {{rf{11}}} When all Jabesh-Gilead heard all that the Philistines had done to Saul, {{rf{12}}} every strong man arose and took the dead body of Saul and the dead bodies of his sons and brought them to Jabesh. And they buried their bones under the oak in Jabesh and fasted seven days. {{rf{13}}} So Saul died on account of his sin which he had sinned against Yahweh concerning the command of Yahweh that he did not keep. He also consulted a medium to seek guidance. {{rf{14}}} But he did not seek Yahweh. So Yahweh put him to death and turned over the kingship to David, the son of Jesse. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|1Chron-10-01]] }}}
Then all Israel gathered to David in Hebron, saying, "Look -- we are your flesh and bones. {{rf{2}}} For some time now, even when Saul was king, you were the one who led the army of Israel in battle. And Yahweh your God said to you, 'You will shepherd my people Israel and will be leader over my people Israel.'" {{rf{3}}} Then all the elders of Israel came to the king at Hebron, and David made a covenant with them at Hebron in the presence of Yahweh. And they anointed David as king over Israel according to the word of Yahweh by the hand of Samuel. {{rf{4}}} And David and all Israel went to Jerusalem (that is Jebus). And the Jebusites, the inhabitants of the land, were there. {{rf{5}}} And the inhabitants of Jebus said to David, "You will not enter here." But David captured the stronghold of Zion; that is, the city of David. {{rf{6}}} Then David said, "Whoever strikes the Jebusites first will be chief and commander." And Joab the son of Zeruiah went up first and became chief. {{rf{7}}} And David lived in the fortress. Therefore they called it the city of David. {{rf{8}}} And he built the city all around from the Millo and up to the circuit. And Joab restored the remainder of the city. {{rf{9}}} And David became greater and greater. And Yahweh of hosts was with him. {{rf{10}}} Now these are the chiefs of the mighty men who were for David, who gave him strong support in his kingdom, together with all Israel to make him king according to the word of Yahweh concerning Israel. {{rf{11}}} And this is the numbering of the mighty warriors who were for David: Jashobeam son of Hachmoni was chief of the three. He himself raised his spear against three hundred whom he killed on one occasion. {{rf{12}}} And after him was Eleazar son of Dodo the Ahohite. He was among the three mighty warriors. {{rf{13}}} He himself was with David at Pas-Dammim when the Philistines were gathered there for the battle. And there was a plot of the field filled with barley, and the people fled before the Philistines. {{rf{14}}} But they took their stand in the middle of the plot and defended it. And they killed the Philistines. And Yahweh saved them with a great victory. {{rf{15}}} And three of the thirty chiefs went down toward the rock to David at the cave of Adullam when the army of the Philistines was encamped in the valley of Rephaim. {{rf{16}}} And David was then in the stronghold, and the garrison of the Philistines was then in Bethlehem. {{rf{17}}} And David had a craving, and he said, "Who could give me a drink of water from the well of Bethlehem that is by the gate!" {{rf{18}}} Then the three broke through into the camp of the Philistines and drew water from the well of Bethlehem that was by the gate and brought it and came to David. But David would not drink it and poured it out before Yahweh. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|1Chron-11-01]] }}}
{{rf{19}}} And he said, "Far be it from me that I would do this before my God. Shall I drink the lifeblood of these men? For at the risk of their lives they brought it." And he was not willing to drink it. These things the three mighty men did. {{rf{20}}} Now Abishai the brother of Joab was himself the head of the three. And he roused himself with his spear against three hundred whom he killed and made a name for himself among the three. {{rf{21}}} He was twice as renowned among the three and was their commander. But he did not attain to the three. {{rf{22}}} And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was a strong man from Kabzeel, one who did great deeds. He himself struck down two sons of Ariel of Moab. And he himself went down and struck down a lion within a pit on a snowy day. {{rf{23}}} And he himself struck down an Egyptian man, a large man five cubits tall. And in the hand of the Egyptian was a spear like a weaver's beam. But he went down to him with a club and seized the spear from the hand of the Egyptian and killed him with his own spear. {{rf{24}}} These things Benaiah son of Jehoiada did and had a name among the three mighty warriors. {{rf{25}}} He himself was certainly distinguished among the thirty, but he did not attain to the three. And David appointed him over his bodyguard. {{rf{26}}} Now the mighty warriors of the troops were Asahel the brother of Joab, Elhanan the son of Dodo from Bethlehem, {{rf{27}}} Shammoth the Harorite, Helez the Pelonite, {{rf{28}}} Ira the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite, Abiezer the Anathothite, {{rf{29}}} Sibbecai the Hushathite, Ilai the Ahohite, {{rf{30}}} Maharai the Netophathite, Heled the son of Baanah the Netophathite, {{rf{31}}} Ittai the son of Ribai from Gibeah of the people of Benjamin, Benaiah the Pirathonite, {{rf{32}}} Hurai of the valleys of Gaash, Abiel the Arbathite, {{rf{33}}} Azmaveth the Baharumite, Eliahba the Shaalbonite, {{rf{34}}} the sons of Hashem the Gizonite, Jehonathan the son of Shagee the Hararite, {{rf{35}}} Ahiam the son of Sacar the Hararite, Eliphal the son of Ur, {{rf{36}}} Hepher the Mekerathite, Ahijah the Pelonite, {{rf{37}}} Hezro the Carmelite, Naari the son of Ezbai, {{rf{38}}} Joel the brother of Nathan, Mibhar the son of Hagri, {{rf{39}}} Zelek the Ammonite, Naharai the Beerothite, the bearer of the weapons of Joab the son of Zeruiah, {{rf{40}}} Ira the Ithrite, Gareb the Ithrite, {{rf{41}}} Uriah the Hittite, Zabad the son of Ahlai, {{rf{42}}} Adina the son of Shiza the Reubenite, a leader of the Reubenites, and thirty with him, {{rf{43}}} Hanan the son of Maacah, Jehoshaphat the Mithnite, {{rf{44}}} Uzzia the Ashterathite, Shama and Jeiel the sons of Hotham the Aroerite, {{rf{45}}} Jediael the son of Shimri and Joha his brother the Tizite, {{rf{46}}} Eliel the Mahavite, Jeribai and Joshaviah the sons of Elnaam, Ithmah the Moabite, {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|1Chron-11-19]] }}}
{{rf{47}}} Eliel, Obed, and Jaasiel the Mezobaite. {{rf big{1}}} Now these are the ones who came to David at Ziklag while he was still shut up because of Saul, the son of Kish. And they were the mighty warriors helping with the war. {{rf{2}}} They were armed with the bow, able to shoot right-handed or left-handed, slinging stones or shooting arrows with the bow; they were kinsmen of Saul from Benjamin. {{rf{3}}} The leader was Ahiezer, then Jehoash, sons of Shemaah the Gibeonite; Jeiel and Pelet, sons of Azmaveth; Beracah; Jehu the Anathothite; {{rf{4}}} Ishmaiah the Gibeonite, a mighty warrior among the thirty who was over the thirty; Jeremiah; Jahaziel; Johanan; Jozabad the Gederathite; {{rf{5}}} Eluzai; Jerimoth; Bealiah; Shemariah; Shephatiah the Hariphite; {{rf{6}}} Elkanah, Isshiah, Azarel, Joezer, and Jashobeam the Korahites; {{rf{7}}} Joelah and Zebadiah, sons of Jeroham from the Gedor. {{rf{8}}} And from the Gadites, valiant mighty warriors, soldiers fit for war, expert with shield and spear, defected to David at the fortress toward the wilderness. And they had faces like lions and were swift as gazelles upon the mountains. {{rf{9}}} Ezer the chief, Obadiah second, Eliab third, {{rf{10}}} Mishmannah fourth, Jeremiah fifth, {{rf{11}}} Attai sixth, Eliel seventh, {{rf{12}}} Jehonan eighth, Elzabad ninth, {{rf{13}}} Jeremiah tenth, Macbannai eleventh. {{rf{14}}} These were the sons of Gad, leaders of the army. The smallest one was as a hundred, and the greatest as a thousand. {{rf{15}}} These were they who crossed the Jordan in the first month, when it was filled over its banks. And they put to flight all who were in the valley to the east and to the west. {{rf{16}}} And some of the sons of Benjamin and from Judah came to the fortress, to David. {{rf{17}}} And David went out to meet them and answered and said to them, "If you come in peace to me, to help me, my heart will be joined with you, but if you come to betray me to my adversaries, although there is no wrong on my hands, may the God of our fathers see and pass judgment." {{rf{18}}} Then the Spirit came upon Amasai, chief of the thirty who said: "We are yours, O David! And we are with you, O son of Jesse! Peace! Peace to you, and peace to those who help you, for your God helps you." So David appointed them as heads of the troops. {{rf{19}}} And some Manassites deserted to David when he came with the Philistines to the battle against Saul, but he did not help them, for the rulers of the Philistines sent him away upon counsel, saying, "He will desert to his master Saul at the cost of our heads." {{rf{20}}} When he went to Ziklag some Manassites deserted to him: Adnah, Jehozabad, Jediael, Michael, Jozabad, Elihu, and Zillethai, heads of the thousands that were for Manasseh. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|1Chron-11-47]] }}}
{{rf{21}}} And they themselves helped David against the troops, for all of them were mighty men of strength and were commanders in the army. {{rf{22}}} Day in and day out they came to David to help him until there was a great army, like the army of God. {{rf{23}}} And these are the numbers of the chiefs of those prepared for the army who came to David at Hebron to turn the kingdom of Saul over to him according to the word of Yahweh. {{rf{24}}} The sons of Judah bearing shield and spear: six thousand eight hundred armed troops. {{rf{25}}} From the men of Simeon, mighty warriors of strength for war: seven thousand one hundred. {{rf{26}}} From the Levites: four thousand six hundred. {{rf{27}}} Jehoiada the chief officer of the house of Aaron, and with him, three thousand seven hundred. {{rf{28}}} And Zadok, a young man, a mighty warrior of strength, and the house of his father: twenty-two commanders. {{rf{29}}} From the men of Benjamin, kinsmen of Saul, three thousand, and even still the majority of them remained loyal to the house of Saul. {{rf{30}}} And from the men of Ephraim: twenty thousand eight hundred mighty warriors of strength, famous men in the house of their fathers. {{rf{31}}} And from the half-tribe of Manasseh: eighteen thousand who were designated by name to come to make David king. {{rf{32}}} And from the men of Issachar: men who were skilled in understanding the times to know what Israel should do. Their chiefs were two hundred, and all their kinsmen were under their command. {{rf{33}}} From Zebulun, those who went out armed, equipped for battle with all the weapons of war: fifty thousand to help David with singleness of purpose. {{rf{34}}} From Naphtali: one thousand commanders; and those with them with shield and spear: thirty-seven thousand. {{rf{35}}} From the Danites, those equipped for battle: twenty-eight thousand six hundred. {{rf{36}}} And from Asher, those who went out armed and prepared for battle: forty thousand. {{rf{37}}} And from beyond the Jordan, from the Reubenites and the Gadites and the half-tribe of Manasseh, with all their weapons of war for battle: one hundred and twenty thousand. {{rf{38}}} All these were men of war arrayed in battle line with a whole heart. They came to Hebron to make David king over all Israel. Likewise, all the rest of Israel had one heart to make David king. {{rf{39}}} And they were there with David three days, eating and drinking, for their kinsmen were prepared for them. {{rf{40}}} And also their relatives, as far as Issachar and Zebulun and Naphtali, brought food on donkeys, on camels, on mules, and on oxen -- provisions of flour, cakes of figs, raisin cakes, wine and oil, cattle and sheep in abundance, for there was great joy in Israel. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|1Chron-12-21]] }}}
And David consulted with the commanders of thousands and hundreds, with every leader. {{rf{2}}} And David said to all the assembly of Israel, "If it seems good to you and before Yahweh our God, let us send word abroad to our brothers who remain in all the land of Israel and to the priests and Levites with them in the cities with their pasturelands that they might be gathered to us. {{rf{3}}} Then let us bring around the ark of our God to us, for we did not seek it in the days of Saul." {{rf{4}}} And all the assembly agreed to do so, for the word was pleasing in the eyes of all the people. {{rf{5}}} And David summoned all Israel from Shihor of Egypt up to Lebo-Hamath to bring the ark of God from Kiriath-Jearim. {{rf{6}}} And David and all Israel went up to Baalah, Kiriath-Jearim of Judah, to bring up from there the ark of Yahweh God who is enthroned between the cherubim, which is called the name. {{rf{7}}} And they carried the ark of God upon a new cart from the house of Abinadab, and Uzza and Ahio were driving the cart. {{rf{8}}} Now David and all Israel were celebrating before God with all their strength, and with songs, lyres, harps, tambourines, cymbals, and trumpets. {{rf{9}}} And when they came to the threshing floor of Kidon, Uzza reached out his hand to hold the ark because the cattle had stumbled. {{rf{10}}} And Yahweh was angry with Uzza, and he struck him down because he reached his hand upon the ark. And he died there before God. {{rf{11}}} And David was angry because Yahweh had broken out in wrath against Uzza. And that place is called Perez Uzza unto this day. {{rf{12}}} And David feared God on that day, saying, "How can I bring the ark of God home to me?" {{rf{13}}} So David did not move the ark to himself into the city of David but diverted it to the house of Obed-Edom the Gittite. {{rf{14}}} And the ark of God remained with the household of Obed-Edom in his house three months. And Yahweh blessed the household of Obed-Edom and all that he had. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|1Chron-13-01]] }}}
And Hiram, king of Tyre, sent messengers to David and cedar trees, masons, and carpenters to build a house for him. {{rf{2}}} And David knew that Yahweh had established him as king over Israel and that his kingdom was highly exalted for the sake of his people Israel. {{rf{3}}} And David took more wives in Jerusalem, and David fathered more sons and daughters. {{rf{4}}} Now these are the names of the children who were born to him in Jerusalem: Shammua, Shobab, Nathan, Solomon, {{rf{5}}} Ibhar, Elishua, Elpelet, {{rf{6}}} Nogah, Nepheg, Japhia, {{rf{7}}} Elishama, Beeliada, and Eliphelet. {{rf{8}}} When the Philistines heard that David had been anointed as king over all Israel, all the Philistines went up to search for David. But David heard and went out from before them. {{rf{9}}} Now the Philistines came and carried out a raid in the Valley of Rephaim. {{rf{10}}} Then David inquired of God, saying, "Shall I go up against the Philistines? Will you put them into my hand?" And Yahweh said to him, "Go up. I will put them into your hand." {{rf{11}}} And he went up to Baal-Perazim, and David struck them there. And David said, "God has burst out against my enemies by my hand like waters burst out." Therefore they will call the name of this place Baal-Perazim. {{rf{12}}} And they abandoned their gods there. And David commanded, and they were burnt with fire. {{rf{13}}} Then the Philistines carried out another raid in the valley. {{rf{14}}} Then David inquired again of God. And God said to him, "You shall not go up after them. Go around from before them and come against them the opposite way of the balsam trees. {{rf{15}}} And it shall be that when you hear the sound of marching in the tops of the balsam trees, then go out into battle, for God goes out before you to strike the camp of the Philistines." {{rf{16}}} And David did as God commanded him, and they struck the camp of the Philistines from Gibeon to Gezer. {{rf{17}}} And the fame of David went out through all the lands. And Yahweh put the fear of him upon all the nations. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|1Chron-14-01]] }}}
And David built houses for himself in the city of David, and he established a place for the ark of God. And he pitched a tent for it. {{rf{2}}} Then David ordered that none except the Levites should carry the ark of God, for Yahweh had chosen them to carry the ark of Yahweh and to serve him forever. {{rf{3}}} And David gathered all Israel to Jerusalem to bring up the ark of Yahweh to its place that he had established for it. {{rf{4}}} And David gathered the sons of Aaron and the Levites. {{rf{5}}} Of the sons of Kohath: Uriel the chief and one hundred and twenty of his brothers. {{rf{6}}} Of the sons of Merari: Asaiah the chief and two hundred and twenty of his brothers. {{rf{7}}} Of the sons of Gershom: Joel the chief and one hundred and thirty of his brothers. {{rf{8}}} Of the sons of Elizaphan: Shemaiah the chief and two hundred of his brothers. {{rf{9}}} Of the sons of Hebron: Eliel the chief and eighty of his brothers. {{rf{10}}} Of the sons of Uzziel: Amminadab the chief and one hundred and twelve of his brothers. {{rf{11}}} Then David summoned Zadok and Abiathar the priests, and the Levites Uriel, Asaiah, Joel, Shemaiah, Eliel, and Amminadab. {{rf{12}}} And he said to them, "You are the heads of the families for the Levites. Sanctify yourselves and your brothers and bring up the ark of Yahweh, the God of Israel, to the place I have established for it. {{rf{13}}} Because the first time you did not, and Yahweh our God burst out against us, for we did not care for it according to the law." {{rf{14}}} Then the priests and the Levites sanctified themselves to bring up the ark of Yahweh, the God of Israel. {{rf{15}}} And the sons of the Levites carried the ark of God according to what Moses commanded, according to the word of Yahweh, on their shoulders with the carrying poles upon them. {{rf{16}}} Then David ordered the chiefs of the Levites to appoint their brothers as singers with instruments of song, musical instruments, stringed instruments, and cymbals, raising their voices for joy. {{rf{17}}} So the Levites appointed Heman son of Joel, and from his brothers, Asaph the son of Berekiah, and from the sons of Merari, their brothers, Ethan the son of Kushaiah; {{rf{18}}} and with them their brothers of the second rank, Zechariah the son, Jaaziel, Shemiramoth, Jehiel, Unni, Eliab, Benaiah, Maaseiah, Mattithiah, Eliphelehu, Mikneiah, and the gatekeepers Obed-Edom and Jeiel. {{rf{19}}} Now the singers, Heman, Asaph, and Ethan, were to sound bronze cymbals; {{rf{20}}} Zechariah, Aziel, Shemiramoth, Jehiel, Unni, Eliab, Maaseiah, and Benaiah were to play on harps according to Alamoth; {{rf{21}}} and Mattithiah, Eliphelehu, Mikneiah, Obed-Edom, Jeiel, and Azaziah were to play lyres, directing according to the Sheminith. {{rf{22}}} And Kenaniah, chief of the Levites in singing, was to be an instructor in singing because he understood. {{rf{23}}} And Berekiah and Elkanah were gatekeepers for the ark. {{rf{24}}} And Shebaniah, Jehoshaphat, Nethanel, Amasai, Zechariah, Benaiah, and Elizezer the priests sounded the trumpets before the ark of God. And Obed-Edom and Jehiah were gatekeepers for the ark. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|1Chron-15-01]] }}}
{{rf{25}}} And it happened that David and the elders of Israel and the commanders of thousands went to bring up the ark of the covenant of Yahweh from the house of Obed-Edom with joy. {{rf{26}}} And it happened that when God helped the Levites carrying the ark of the covenant of Yahweh, they sacrificed seven bulls and seven rams. {{rf{27}}} Now David was clothed with a robe of fine linen; so also all the Levites who were carrying the ark, the singers, and Kenaniah the chief of the singing. And David wore a linen ephod. {{rf{28}}} And all Israel brought up the ark of the covenant of Yahweh with shouting, with the sound of a shofar, and with trumpets and cymbals, making loud music with musical instruments and stringed instruments. {{rf{29}}} And when the ark of the covenant of Yahweh came into the city of David, then Michal the daughter of Saul looked down from the window and saw the king, David, leaping and dancing. And she despised him in her heart. {{rf big{1}}} And they brought the ark of God and set it inside the tent that David had pitched for it. And they offered burnt offerings and fellowship offerings before God. {{rf{2}}} And when David had finished offering the burnt offerings and fellowship offerings, he blessed the people in the name of Yahweh. {{rf{3}}} And he distributed to every man of Israel, both men and women, to each person a loaf of bread, a cake of dates, and a cake of raisins. {{rf{4}}} Then he appointed some of the Levites as ministers before the ark of Yahweh, to invoke, thank, and praise Yahweh the God of Israel. {{rf{5}}} Asaph was chief, and his second was Zechariah; Jeiel, Shemiramoth, Jehiel, Mattithiah, Eliab, Benaiah, Obed-Edom, and Jeiel were on harps and lyres. And Asaph played on the cymbals. {{rf{6}}} And Benaiah and Jahaziel the priests blew on the trumpets continually before the ark of the covenant of God. {{rf{7}}} Then on that day David first appointed to give thanks to Yahweh by the hand of Asaph and his brothers. {{rf{8}}} Give thanks to Yahweh; call upon his name; make known his deeds among the nations! {{rf{9}}} Sing to him; sing praises to him; tell of his wondrous works! {{rf{10}}} Glory in his holy name; let the hearts of those seeking Yahweh rejoice! {{rf{11}}} Seek Yahweh and his strength; seek his face continually! {{rf{12}}} Remember his wonderful works that he has done, his wonders and the judgments of his mouth, {{rf{13}}} O offspring of Israel, his servant, O sons of Jacob, his chosen ones! {{rf{14}}} He is Yahweh our God; his judgments are in all the earth. {{rf{15}}} Remember his covenant forever, the word he commanded for a thousand generations, {{rf{16}}} that he made with Abraham, his sworn oath to Isaac. {{rf{17}}} And he confirmed it to Jacob as a statute, an everlasting covenant to Israel, {{rf{18}}} saying, "To you I will give the land of Canaan, the portion of your inheritance." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|1Chron-15-25]] }}}
{{rf{19}}} When you were few in number, little, and sojourners were in it, {{rf{20}}} when they wandered from nation to nation, and from one kingdom to another people, {{rf{21}}} he did not allow anyone to oppress them, and he rebuked kings on their account, {{rf{22}}} saying, "You must not touch my anointed nor do harm to my prophets!" {{rf{23}}} Sing to Yahweh, all the earth! Proclaim his salvation from day to day! {{rf{24}}} Proclaim his glory among the nations, his wondrous works among the peoples! {{rf{25}}} For Yahweh is great and greatly praised, and he is feared among all gods. {{rf{26}}} For all the gods of the nations are idols, but Yahweh made the heavens. {{rf{27}}} Splendor and majesty are before him; strength and joy are in his place. {{rf{28}}} Ascribe to Yahweh, O clans of the nations, ascribe to Yahweh glory and strength! {{rf{29}}} Ascribe to Yahweh the glory of his name! Lift up an offering and come before him! Bow down to Yahweh in the splendor of holiness! {{rf{30}}} Tremble before him, all the earth; surely the world shall not be shaken. {{rf{31}}} Let the heavens rejoice, and let the earth be glad, and let them tell the peoples, "Yahweh reigns!" {{rf{32}}} Let the sea roar and its fullness; let the field rejoice and all that is in it. {{rf{33}}} Then the trees of the forest shall sing for joy before Yahweh, for he comes to judge the earth. {{rf{34}}} Oh give thanks to Yahweh, for he is good; his loyal love is everlasting. {{rf{35}}} Then say, "Save us, O God of our salvation; gather us and rescue us from the nations that we may give thanks to your holy name and glory in your praise. {{rf{36}}} Blessed be Yahweh the God of Israel, from everlasting to everlasting!" Then all the people said, "Amen!" and praised Yahweh. {{rf{37}}} So he left Asaph and his brothers there before the ark of the covenant of Yahweh to minister before the ark regularly as each day required, {{rf{38}}} and he left Obed-Edom with his sixty-eight brothers. And Obed-Edom, the son of Jeduthun, and Hosah were gatekeepers. {{rf{39}}} And he left Zadok the priest and his brothers the priests before the tabernacle of Yahweh at the high place which was at Gibeo {{rf{40}}} to offer burnt offerings regularly to Yahweh on the altar of burnt offering, morning and evening, according to all that was written in the law of Yahweh that he commanded concerning Israel. {{rf{41}}} And with them were Heman and Jeduthun and the remainder of those chosen, who were designated by name to give thanks to Yahweh, for his loyal love is everlasting. {{rf{42}}} And Heman and Jeduthun with them had trumpets and cymbals for making music, along with instruments for the song of God. And the sons of Jeduthun were at the gate. {{rf{43}}} Then all the people went each to his house, and David turned to bless his household. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|1Chron-16-19]] }}}
And as David lived in his house, David said to Nathan the prophet, "Look, I live in a house of cedar, but the ark of the covenant of Yahweh is under tent curtains." {{rf{2}}} And Nathan said to David, "Whatever is in your heart, do, for God is with you." {{rf{3}}} And it happened that same night the word of God came to Nathan, saying, {{rf{4}}} "Go and say to David my servant, 'Thus says Yahweh, "You are not to build a house for me to live in, {{rf{5}}} for I have not lived in a house from the day that I brought out Israel unto this day. I have been from tent to tent and from tabernacle to tabernacle. {{rf{6}}} In every place I have moved about, did I say one word with the judges of Israel I commanded to shepherd my people, saying, 'Why have you not built for me a house of cedar?'" ' {{rf{7}}} So now, thus you shall say to my servant David, 'Thus says Yahweh of hosts, "I took you from the pasture, from following the sheep, to be leader over my people Israel, {{rf{8}}} and I have been with you wherever you went and have cut down your enemies from before you and will make a name for you, like the name of the great ones on the earth. {{rf{9}}} And I will appoint a place for my people Israel, and I will plant them, and they shall dwell in their place and be in anguish no longer. And wicked men will no longer wear them down as before, {{rf{10}}} from the day that I commanded judges over my people Israel. And I will subdue your enemies, and I declare to you that Yahweh will build for you a house. {{rf{11}}} And it shall be that when your days are fulfilled to go and sleep with your ancestors, then I will raise up your seed after you, who will be one of your sons, and I will establish his kingdom. {{rf{12}}} He himself will build for me a house, and I will establish his throne forever. {{rf{13}}} I myself will be a father to him, and he himself will be a son to me. And I will not remove my steadfast love from him as I took it away from whoever was before you. {{rf{14}}} And I will establish him in my house and in my kingdom forever, and his throne will be established forever." '" {{rf{15}}} According to all these words and according to all this revelation, thus did Nathan speak to David. {{rf{16}}} Then King David went and sat before Yahweh and said, "Who am I, O Yahweh God, and what is my house that you have brought me thus far? {{rf{17}}} And this was a small matter in your eyes, O God. And you have spoken concerning the house of your servant for a long time and have shown me future generations to come, O Yahweh God. {{rf{18}}} What more can David do to you for honoring your servant? Now you know your servant. {{rf{19}}} O Yahweh, for the sake of your servant and according to your heart you have done all this greatness, to make known all these great things. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|1Chron-17-01]] }}}
{{rf{20}}} O Yahweh, there is none like you, and there is no God except you, according to all that we have heard with our ears. {{rf{21}}} And who is like your people Israel, the one nation upon earth whom God went to redeem for himself, to establish for you a reputation for great and awesome things, to drive out nations from before your people whom you redeemed from Egypt? {{rf{22}}} And you made your people Israel an everlasting nation for yourself. And you, O Yahweh, became their God. {{rf{23}}} So now, O Yahweh, let the word that you spoke to your servant and to his house be established forever, that you might do what you have spoken. {{rf{24}}} And let your name be established and be magnified forever, saying, 'Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, is Israel's God, and may the house of David your servant be established before you.' {{rf{25}}} For you, my God, have informed your servant that you will build a house for him. Therefore, your servant has found courage to pray before you. {{rf{26}}} So now, O Yahweh, you yourself are God, and you have spoken to your servant this good thing. {{rf{27}}} And now may you begin to bless the house of your servant to continue forever before you, for you, O Yahweh, have blessed. And it will be blessed forever." {{rf big{1}}} And it happened that after David struck the Philistines and subdued them, he captured Gath and its villages out of the hand of the Philistines. {{rf{2}}} And he struck Moab, and the Moabites became servants to David, bearing tribute. {{rf{3}}} And David struck Hadadezer, king of Zobah-Hamath, as he set up his monument at the Euphrates River. {{rf{4}}} And David captured from him one thousand chariots, seven thousand horsemen, and twenty thousand foot soldiers. And David hamstrung all the chariot horses but left one hundred of them to remain for chariots. {{rf{5}}} And when the Arameans of Damascus came to help Hadadezer king of Zobah-Hamath, David struck down twenty-two thousand men of Aram. {{rf{6}}} Then David set up garrisons in Aram of Damascus, and the Arameans became servants to David, bearing tribute. And Yahweh delivered David wherever he went. {{rf{7}}} And David took small round shields of gold that were upon the servants of Hadadezer and brought them to Jerusalem. {{rf{8}}} And from Tibhath and from Cun, cities of Hadadezer, David captured very much bronze. Solomon made the bronze sea with it along with the columns and objects of bronze. {{rf{9}}} And when Tou the king of Hamath heard that David had defeated the whole army of Hadadezer the king of Zobah, {{rf{10}}} he sent Hadoram his son to King David to ask him for peace and to bless him because he had fought against Hadadezer and defeated him, for Tou had been at war with Hadadezer. And he brought with him all the objects of gold, silver, and bronze. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|1Chron-17-20]] }}}
{{rf{11}}} King David dedicated these also to Yahweh, along with the silver and gold that he had taken from all the nations, from Edom, Moab, the sons of Ammon, the Philistines, and Amalek. {{rf{12}}} And Abishai son of Zeruiah defeated eighteen thousand of Edom in the Valley of Salt. {{rf{13}}} And he put garrisons in Edom, and all Edom became servants to David. And Yahweh delivered David wherever he went. {{rf{14}}} So David reigned over all Israel, and he administered justice and righteousness to all his people. {{rf{15}}} And Joab son of Zeruiah was over the army, and Jehoshaphat son of Ahilud was recorder. {{rf{16}}} And Zadok son of Ahitub and Abimelech son of Abiathar were priests, and Shavsha was secretary. {{rf{17}}} And Benaiah son of Jehoiada was over the Kerethites and the Pelethites. And the sons of David were chief officials under the hand of the king. {{rf big{1}}} And it happened that after this Nahash the king of the Ammonites died, and his son reigned in his place. {{rf{2}}} And David said, "I will deal kindly with Hanun the son of Nahash because his father showed kindness to me." So David sent messengers to comfort him concerning his father. And the servants of David came to the land of the Ammonites, to Hanun, to comfort him. {{rf{3}}} But the princes of the Ammonites said to Hanun, "Do you think because David sent comforters to you that David honors your father? Is it not for the purpose of exploring so as to overthrow and spy out the land that his servants have come to you?" {{rf{4}}} So Hanun took the servants of David and shaved them and cut off their garments at the middle, up to the buttocks, and sent them away. {{rf{5}}} And they went and told David concerning the men, and he inquired of them, for the men were very disgraced. And the king said, "Dwell in Jericho until your beards grow out; then return." {{rf{6}}} And when the Ammonites saw that they made themselves odious to David, Hanun and the Ammonites sent one thousand talents of silver to hire for themselves horses and chariots from Aram-Naharaim, Aram-Maacah, and Zobah. {{rf{7}}} And they hired for themselves thirty-two thousand chariots and the king of Maacah and his people, and they came and encamped before Medeba. And the Ammonites were gathered from their cities and came to the battle. {{rf{8}}} And when David heard, he sent Joab and the entire army of mighty warriors. {{rf{9}}} And the Ammonites went out and took up positions for battle at the entrance of the city. And the kings who had come were alone in the field. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|1Chron-18-11]] }}}
{{rf{10}}} When Joab saw that there was a battle line against him at the front and the back, he chose from among the chosen men in Israel and arranged them to meet Aram. {{rf{11}}} And the remainder of the people he put in the hand of Abishai his brother, and they were arranged to meet the Ammonites. {{rf{12}}} And he said, "If Aram is too strong for me, then you must be a help to me, but if the Ammonites are too strong for you, then I will help you. {{rf{13}}} Be strong! Let us strengthen ourselves on behalf of our people and on behalf of the cities of our God. And may Yahweh do what is good in his eyes." {{rf{14}}} And Joab and the people who were with him drew near before Aram for battle, and they fled before him. {{rf{15}}} And when the Ammonites saw that Aram had fled, they also fled before Abishai his brother, and they came to the city. Then Joab came to Jerusalem. {{rf{16}}} And when Aram saw that they were defeated before Israel, they sent messengers and brought out Aram, who was from beyond the Euphrates, with Shophach the commander of the army of Hadadezer before them. {{rf{17}}} And when it was told to David, he gathered all Israel and crossed the Jordan. And he came to them and was arrayed against them. Then David was arrayed to meet Aram in battle, and they fought with him. {{rf{18}}} And Aram fled before Israel. And David killed from Aram the men of seven thousand chariots and forty thousand foot soldiers, and he put to death Shophach the commander of the army. {{rf{19}}} And when the servants of Hadadezer saw that they were defeated before Israel, they made peace with David and became servants to him. So Aram was no longer willing to help the Ammonites. {{rf big{1}}} And it happened that in the spring time of year, the time when kings go out to battle, Joab led the troops of the army and destroyed the land of the Ammonites. And he came and besieged Rabbah, but David remained in Jerusalem. And Joab struck Rabbah and destroyed it. {{rf{2}}} And David took the crown of their king from his head and found it to weigh a talent of gold. And in it was a precious stone. Then it was placed upon the head of David. And he brought out the booty of the city, a large amount. {{rf{3}}} And the people who were in it he brought out, and he set them to work with saws and iron implements and axes. Thus David did to all the cities of the Ammonites. Then David returned, and all the nation went with him. {{rf{4}}} And after this there arose a war in Gezer with the Philistines. Then Sibbecai the Hushathite struck down Sippai, one of the descendants of the Rephaim. And they were subdued. {{rf{5}}} And again there was war with the Philistines. And Elhanan son of Jair struck down Lahmi, the brother of Goliath the Gittite, the shaft of whose spear was like a weaver's beam. {{rf{6}}} And again there was war in Gath. And there was a very tall man there, and he had six fingers on each hand and six toes on each foot, twenty-four in all. He himself was also a descendant of the Rephaim. {{rf{7}}} And he taunted Israel, but Jehonathan son of Shimea, brother of David, struck him down. {{rf{8}}} These were born to the giants in Gath, and they fell by the hand of David and by the hand of his servants. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|1Chron-19-10]] }}}
Then Satan stood against Israel and urged David to count Israel. {{rf{2}}} So David said to Joab and to the commanders of the nation, "Go, count Israel from Beersheba to Dan and bring a report to me that I might know their number." {{rf{3}}} But Joab said, "May Yahweh add to the people a hundred times what they are! Are they not, O my lord the king, all of them the king's servants? Why does my lord seek this? Why would he bring guilt to Israel?" {{rf{4}}} But the word of the king prevailed over Joab. Then he went about through all Israel and came to Jerusalem. {{rf{5}}} And Joab gave the number of the enrollment of the people to David. And it happened that all Israel was one million one hundred thousand men drawing a sword, and in Judah were four hundred and seventy thousand men drawing a sword. {{rf{6}}} But he did not count Levi and Benjamin among them, for the word of the king was repulsive to Joab. {{rf{7}}} But this word was displeasing in the eyes of God, and he struck Israel. {{rf{8}}} Then David said to God, "I have sinned severely in that I have done this thing. But now, please forgive the sin of your servant, for I have been very foolish." {{rf{9}}} Then Yahweh spoke to Gad the seer of David, saying, {{rf{10}}} "Go, you must speak to David, saying, 'Thus says Yahweh: "Three choices I offer to you. Choose one of them for yourself that I will do to you." '" {{rf{11}}} So Gad came to David and said to him, "Thus says Yahweh: 'Choose for yourself: {{rf{12}}} whether three years of famine or three months of devastation by your enemies while the sword of your enemies overtakes you, or three days of the sword of Yahweh, with disease in the land and the angel of Yahweh destroying throughout all the territory in Israel.' So now, see what word I should return to my sender." {{rf{13}}} Then David said to Gad, "I am very troubled. Let me into the hand of Yahweh, for his compassion is very great, but do not let me fall into the hand of a man." {{rf{14}}} So Yahweh sent a pestilence through Israel, and seventy thousand men from Israel fell. {{rf{15}}} And God sent an angel to Jerusalem to destroy it, and as he was about to destroy it, Yahweh saw and was grieved on account of the calamity. Then he said to the angel, the destroyer, "It is enough; slacken your hand." And the angel of Yahweh was standing by the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite. {{rf{16}}} And David lifted his eyes and saw the angel of Yahweh standing between earth and heaven, with his sword drawn in his hand, stretched out over Jerusalem. Then David and the elders, clothed in sackcloth, fell upon their faces. {{rf{17}}} Then David said to God, "Was it not I who gave a command to count the people? Now I am he who has sinned, and I have certainly done wickedness, but these sheep, what have they done? O Yahweh, my God, please let your hand be against me and against the house of my father, but against your people, let there be no plague." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|1Chron-21-01]] }}}
{{rf{18}}} Now the angel of Yahweh had spoken to Gad to say to David that David should go up and erect an altar for Yahweh. {{rf{19}}} So David went up at the word of Gad that he had spoken in the name of Yahweh. {{rf{20}}} Now Ornan was threshing wheat, and Ornan turned and saw the angel, and his four sons with him hid themselves. {{rf{21}}} Then David came to Ornan, and Ornan looked and saw David. And he went out from the threshing floor, and they bowed down to David, faces to the ground. {{rf{22}}} Then David said to Ornan, "Please give me the place, the threshing floor, that I might build an altar on it to Yahweh; at full price please give it to me, that the plague against the people might be stopped." {{rf{23}}} And Ornan said to David, "Take it to yourself; let my lord the king do what is good in his eyes. See, I give the cattle for the burnt offerings and threshing sledges for the wood and wheat for the grain offering -- I give it all." {{rf{24}}} But King David said to Ornan, "No, for I will certainly buy it at full value; indeed, I will not take what is yours for Yahweh and offer burnt offerings for nothing." {{rf{25}}} So David gave to Ornan six hundred shekels of gold by weight for the place. {{rf{26}}} Then David built an altar there to Yahweh, and he offered burnt offerings and peace offerings, and he called to Yahweh. And he answered him with fire from heaven upon the altar of burnt offering. {{rf{27}}} Then Yahweh commanded the angel, and he returned his sword to its sheath. {{rf{28}}} At that time, when David saw that Yahweh answered him at the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite, he sacrificed there. {{rf{29}}} Now the tabernacle of Yahweh that Moses had made in the desert and the altar of burnt offering were at that time at the high place of Gibeon. {{rf{30}}} But David was not able to go before it to seek God, for he was afraid on account of the sword of the angel of Yahweh. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|1Chron-21-18]] }}}
Then David said, "This will be the house of Yahweh God, and this altar of burnt offering for Israel." {{rf{2}}} And David commanded to assemble the resident aliens who were in the land of Israel and appointed stone craftsmen to cut dressed stones to build the house of God. {{rf{3}}} And David provided much iron for nails for the doors of the gates and for the seams, and abundant copper that could not be weighed, {{rf{4}}} and cedar timbers without number, for the Sidonians and Tyrians brought abundant cedars to David. {{rf{5}}} Then David said, "Solomon my son is a boy and inexperienced, and the house built for Yahweh must be exceedingly great in fame and splendor throughout every land. I will make preparations for him." So David provided abundant materials before he died. {{rf{6}}} Then he called to Solomon his son and commanded him to build a house for Yahweh, the God of Israel. {{rf{7}}} And David said to Solomon his son, "I myself had in my heart to build a house for the name of Yahweh my God, {{rf{8}}} but it happened that the word of Yahweh came over me, saying, 'You have shed much blood and have made much war; you shall not build a house for my name because you have shed much blood upon the ground before me. {{rf{9}}} Behold, a son shall be born to you; he himself will be a man of rest, and I will give rest to him from all his enemies all around, for his name will be Solomon, and peace and quietness I will give to Israel in his days. {{rf{10}}} He himself will build a house for my name, and he himself will be to me a son, and I will be to him as a father, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom over Israel forever.' {{rf{11}}} Now, my son, Yahweh will be with you, that you may succeed and build the house of Yahweh your God as he has spoken concerning you. {{rf{12}}} Only may Yahweh give to you understanding and insight that he might give you charge over Israel and the keeping of the law of Yahweh your God. {{rf{13}}} Then you will prosper if you take care to do the statutes and judgments which Yahweh commanded Moses concerning Israel. Be strong and be courageous; fear not and do not be dismayed. {{rf{14}}} Now see, with great effort I have made provision for the house of Yahweh: 100,000 talents of gold, 1,000,000 talents of silver, and bronze and iron that cannot be weighed, for there is an abundance. Also timber and stone I have provided, but to these you should add. {{rf{15}}} And with you there is an abundance of craftsmen: stonecutters, masons, carpenters, and everyone skilled in every kind of craftsmanship {{rf{16}}} with gold, silver, bronze, and iron without number. Arise and work! Yahweh will be with you!" {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|1Chron-22-01]] }}}
{{rf{17}}} And David commanded all the commanders of Israel to help Solomon his son, saying, {{rf{18}}} "Is not Yahweh your God with you? And has he not given you rest all around? For he has put in my hand the inhabitants of the land, and the land is subdued before Yahweh and before his people. {{rf{19}}} Now set your heart and mind to seek Yahweh your Go, and arise and build the sanctuary of Yahweh God, that the ark of the covenant of Yahweh and the holy vessels of God might be brought into the house built for the name of Yahweh. {{rf big{1}}} Now David was old and full of days. And he made Solomon his son king over Israel. {{rf{2}}} And he assembled all the commanders of Israel and the priests and the Levites. {{rf{3}}} And the Levites thirty years old and above were counted, and their number according to their head count for the men was thirty-eight thousand. {{rf{4}}} Of these, David said, "Twenty-four thousand are to direct the work of the house of Yahweh, along with six thousand judges and officials, {{rf{5}}} four thousand gatekeepers, and four thousand offering praise with the instruments that I have made for praise." {{rf{6}}} And David organized them in divisions according to the sons of Levi: to Gershon, Kohath, and Merari. {{rf{7}}} For the Gershonites were Ladan and Shimei. {{rf{8}}} The sons of Ladan: Jehiel the chief and Zetham and Joel, three. {{rf{9}}} The sons of Shimei: Shelomoth, Haziel, and Haran, three. These were the heads of the families of Ladan. {{rf{10}}} And the sons of Shimei: Jahath, Zina, Jeush, and Beriah; these four were the sons of Shimei. {{rf{11}}} And Jahath was the chief, and Zizah the second, but Jeush and Beriah did not have many sons. They were enrolled as one for the house of a father. {{rf{12}}} The sons of Kohath: Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel, four. {{rf{13}}} The sons of Amram: Aaron and Moses. And Aaron was set apart to consecrate the most holy things. He and his sons were to burn offerings forever before Yahweh to serve him and to bless in his name forever. {{rf{14}}} But Moses the man of God and his sons were reckoned among the tribe of Levi. {{rf{15}}} The sons of Moses: Gershom and Eliezer. {{rf{16}}} The sons of Gershom: Shebuel the chief. {{rf{17}}} And the sons of Eliezer were Rehabiah, the head. And Eliezer had no other sons, but the sons of Rehabiah were very many. {{rf{18}}} The sons of Izhar: Shelomith the chief. {{rf{19}}} The sons of Hebron: Jeriah the chief, Amariah the second, Jahaziel the third, and Jekameam the fourth. {{rf{20}}} The sons of Uzziel: Micah the chief and Isshiah the second. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|1Chron-22-17]] }}}
{{rf{21}}} The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. The sons of Mahli: Eleazar and Kish. {{rf{22}}} And Eleazar died, and he did not have sons, but only daughters. And the sons of Kish, their relatives, married them. {{rf{23}}} The sons of Mushi: Mahli, Eder, and Jeremoth, three. {{rf{24}}} These were the sons of Levi according to the house of their fathers, the heads of the families, according to their enrollment, by the number of the names, according to their head count, who were to do the work of the service of the house of Yahweh, from twenty years old and above. {{rf{25}}} For David said, "Yahweh, the God of Israel, has given rest to his people, and he dwells in Jerusalem forever. {{rf{26}}} And also, the Levites do not need to carry the tabernacle and all its vessels for its service." {{rf{27}}} For by the last words of David, they are the number of the sons of Levi, from twenty years old and above. {{rf{28}}} For their station was to assist the sons of Aaron with the service of the house of Yahweh, over the courtyards, over the chambers, and over the cleansing of all the sanctified objects, and with the work of the service of the house of God, {{rf{29}}} and with the rows of bread, the flour, the grain offering, the wafers of unleavened bread, the baked offering, the offering mixed with oil, and for all the amounts and measurements. {{rf{30}}} And they were to stand every morning, thanking and praising Yahweh, and likewise in the evening, {{rf{31}}} and for every burnt offering offered to Yahweh, on Sabbaths, on new moon festivals, and at the appointed feasts, according to the customary number required of them, regularly before Yahweh. {{rf{32}}} And they shall keep the responsibility of the tent of assembly, the responsibility of the sanctified objects, and the responsibility of the sons of Aaron, their brothers, to serve the house of Yahweh. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|1Chron-23-21]] }}}
And as for the sons of Aaron, these were their divisions. The sons of Aaron were Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar. {{rf{2}}} And Nadab and Abihu died before their father, and they had no sons, so Eleazar and Ithamar served as priests. {{rf{3}}} And David, with Zadok of the sons of Eleazar and Ahimelech of the sons of Ithamar, divided them according to their appointments for their service. {{rf{4}}} And more sons of Eleazar were found as heads of the men than the sons of Ithamar, so they divided them to the sons of Eleazar to be sixteen heads over the house of the fathers, and to the sons of Ithamar over the house of the fathers were eight heads. {{rf{5}}} They divided them by lot all alike, for they were commanders of the sanctuary and commanders of God from among the sons of Eleazar and the sons of Ithamar. {{rf{6}}} And Shemaiah the son of Nethanel, the scribe, from the Levites, recorded them before the king, the princes, Zadok the priest, Ahimelech the son of Abiathar, and the heads of the families of the priests and Levites, one father's house drawn by Lot for Eleazar and one drawn by lot for Ithamar. {{rf{7}}} And the first lot went out to Jehoiarib, the second to Jedaiah, {{rf{8}}} the third to Harim, the fourth to Seorim, {{rf{9}}} the fifth to Malkijah, the sixth to Mijamin, {{rf{10}}} the seventh to Hakkoz, the eighth to Abijah, {{rf{11}}} the ninth to Jeshua, the tenth to Shekaniah, {{rf{12}}} the eleventh to Eliashib, the twelfth to Jakim, {{rf{13}}} the thirteenth to Huppah, the fourteenth to Jeshebeab, {{rf{14}}} the fifteenth to Bilgah, the sixteenth to Immer, {{rf{15}}} the seventeenth to Hezir, the eighteenth to Ha-Pizzez, {{rf{16}}} the nineteenth to Pethahiah, the twentieth to Ezekiel, {{rf{17}}} the twenty-first to Jakin, the twenty-second to Gamul, {{rf{18}}} the twenty-third to Delaiah, the twenty-fourth to Maaziah. {{rf{19}}} These were their appointments for their service to come into the house of Yahweh according to their custom by the hand of Aaron their father, as Yahweh the God of Israel had commanded him. {{rf{20}}} And as for the remainder of the sons of Levi: of the sons of Amram, Shubael; of the sons of Shubael, Jehdeiah. {{rf{21}}} Of Rehabiah: of the sons of Rehabiah, Isshiah the chief. {{rf{22}}} Of the Izharites, Shelomoth; of the sons Shelomoth, Jahath. {{rf{23}}} Of the sons of Jeriah, Amariah the second, Jahaziel the third, Jekameam the fourth. {{rf{24}}} The sons of Uzziel, Micah; the sons of Micah, Shamur. {{rf{25}}} The brother of Micah, Isshiah; of the sons of Isshiah, Zechariah. {{rf{26}}} The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi; the sons of Jaaziah, his son. {{rf{27}}} The sons of Merari: of Jaaziah, his son, Shoham, Zakkur, and Ibri. {{rf{28}}} Of Mahli: Eleazar, who had no sons. {{rf{29}}} Of Kish: the sons of Kish, Jerahmeel. {{rf{30}}} And the sons of Mushi: Mahli, Eder, and Jerimoth. These were the sons of the Levites according to the house of their fathers. {{rf{31}}} And lots were also cast for these, just as their brothers, the sons of Aaron, before David the king, Zadok, Ahimelech, and the heads of the families for the priests and for the Levites the fathers, on the principle of the chief and younger brother alike. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|1Chron-24-01]] }}}
And David and the commanders of the army set apart for the service the sons of Asaph, of Heman, and of Jeduthun, who prophesied with stringed instruments, with harps, and with cymbals. And their inventory of the men of the work and for their duty was: {{rf{2}}} for the sons of Asaph: Zakkur, Joseph, Nethaniah, and Asarelah, sons of Asaph, under the hand of Asaph, who prophesied under the hands of the king. {{rf{3}}} Of Jeduthun, the sons of Jeduthun: Gedaliah, Zeri, Jeshaiah, Heshabiah, and Mattithiah, six, under the hands of their father Jeduthun, who prophesied with the stringed instrument with thanksgiving and praise to Yahweh. {{rf{4}}} Of Heman, the sons of Heman: Bukkiah, Mattaniah, Uzziel, Shebuel and Jerimoth, Hananiah, Hanani, Eliathah, Giddalti and Romamti-ezer, Joshbekashah, Mallothi, Hothir, Mahazioth. {{rf{5}}} All these were sons to Heman, the seer of the king, according to the words of God to raise a horn. And God had given to Heman fourteen sons and three daughters. {{rf{6}}} All these were under the direction of their father in the music of the house of Yahweh, with cymbals, harps, and stringed instruments for the service of the house of God. Asaph, Jeduthun, and Heman were under the direction of the king. {{rf{7}}} And their number, along with their brothers, trained singers, all the skilled people for Yahweh, were two hundred and eighty-eight. {{rf{8}}} And they cast lots for responsibilities on the principle of small and great alike, teacher with student. {{rf{9}}} And the first lot for Asaph went out to Joseph; the second to Gedaliahu; he and his brothers and his twelve sons. {{rf{10}}} The third, Zakkur, his sons and his brothers, twelve; {{rf{11}}} the fourth to Izri, his sons and his brothers, twelve; {{rf{12}}} the fifth, Nethaniah, his sons and his brothers, twelve; {{rf{13}}} the sixth, Bukkiah, his sons and his brothers, twelve; {{rf{14}}} the seventh, Jesarelah, his sons and his brothers, twelve; {{rf{15}}} the eighth, Jeshaiah, his sons and his brothers, twelve; {{rf{16}}} the ninth, Mattaniah, his sons and his brothers, twelve; {{rf{17}}} the tenth, Shimei, his sons and his brothers, twelve; {{rf{18}}} eleventh, Azarel, his sons and his brothers, twelve; {{rf{19}}} the twelfth to Hashabiah, his sons and his brothers, twelve; {{rf{20}}} to the thirteenth, Shubael, his sons and his brothers, twelve; {{rf{21}}} to the fourteenth, Mattithiah, his sons and his brothers, twelve; {{rf{22}}} to the fifteenth, to Jeremoth, his sons and his brothers, twelve; {{rf{23}}} to the sixteenth, to Hananiah, his sons and his brothers, twelve; {{rf{24}}} to the seventeenth, to Joshbekashah, his sons and his brothers, twelve; {{rf{25}}} to the eighteenth, to Hanani, his sons and his brothers, twelve; {{rf{26}}} to the nineteenth, to Mallothi, his sons and his brothers, twelve; {{rf{27}}} to the twentieth, to Eliathah, his sons and his brothers, twelve; {{rf{28}}} to the twenty-first, to Hothir, his sons and his brothers, twelve; {{rf{29}}} to the twenty-second, to Giddalti, his sons and his brothers, twelve; {{rf{30}}} to the twenty-third, to Mahazioth, his sons and his brothers, twelve; {{rf{31}}} to the twenty-fourth, to Romamti-ezer, his sons and his brothers, twelve. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|1Chron-25-01]] }}}
As for the working groups of the gatekeepers: of the Korahites, Meshelemiah the son of Kore, from the sons of Asaph. {{rf{2}}} And Meshelemiah had sons: Zechariah the firstborn, Jediael the second, Zebadiah the third, Jathniel the fourth, {{rf{3}}} Elam the fifth, Jehohana the sixth, Eliehoenai the seventh. {{rf{4}}} And Obed-Edom had sons: Shemaiah the firstborn, Jehozabad the second, Joah the third, Sachar the fourth, Nethanel the fifth, {{rf{5}}} Ammiel the sixth, Issachar the seventh, Peullethai the eighth; for God blessed him. {{rf{6}}} And to Shemaiah his son were sons born who were rulers in the house of their father, for they were mighty warriors of ability. {{rf{7}}} The sons of Shemaiah: Othni, Rephael, Obed, and Elzabad, whose brothers were sons of ability, Elihu and Semakiah. {{rf{8}}} All these from the sons of Obed-Edom, they and their sons, and their brothers were men of ability with strength for service; sixty-two of Obed-Edom. {{rf{9}}} And Meshelemiah had sons and brothers, sons of ability, eighteen. {{rf{10}}} And Hosah, from the sons of Merari, had sons: Shimri the chief (though he was not firstborn, his father appointed him as chief), {{rf{11}}} Hilkiah the second, Tabaliah the third, Zechariah the fourth: all the sons and brothers of Hosah were thirteen. {{rf{12}}} These working groups of gatekeepers, corresponding to the chief men, had responsibilities like their brothers to serve in the house of Yahweh. {{rf{13}}} And they cast lots, small and great alike, by their fathers' houses, for their gates. {{rf{14}}} And the lot fell to the east to Shelemiah. As for Zechariah his son, a wise counselor, they cast lots. And his lot came out for the north. {{rf{15}}} To Obed-Edom went out the south, and to his sons, the storehouses. {{rf{16}}} For Shuppim and Hosah it went out for the west, at the gate of Shalleketh, on the road that goes up, guard for guard. {{rf{17}}} To the east, six Levites; to the north, four daily; to the south, four daily; and at the storerooms, two by two. {{rf{18}}} For the court to the west, four at the road, two at the court. {{rf{19}}} These were the working groups of the gatekeepers among the sons of the Korahites and among the sons of Merari. {{rf{20}}} And of the Levites: Ahijah was over the treasuries of the house of God and over the treasuries of the sanctified objects. {{rf{21}}} The sons of Ladan: the sons of the Gershonites belonging to Ladan, the heads of the families belonging to Ladan the Gershonite: Jehieli. {{rf{22}}} The sons of Jehieli, Zetham and Joel his brother, were over the treasuries of the house of Yahweh. {{rf{23}}} Of the Amramites, the Izharites, the Hebronites, and the Ozzielites: {{rf{24}}} Shebuel the son of Gershom, the son of Moses, was commander over the treasuries. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|1Chron-26-01]] }}}
{{rf{25}}} And his brothers: from Eliezer were Rehabiah his son, and Jeshaiah his son, and Joram his son, and Zikri his son, and Shelomoth his son. {{rf{26}}} That Shelomoth and his brothers were over all the treasuries of the sanctified objects that King David and the heads of the families to the commanders of thousands and hundreds and the commanders of the army had dedicated. {{rf{27}}} From the battles and from the spoil they had dedicated these things to strengthen the house of Yahweh. {{rf{28}}} And all that Samuel the seer, and Saul the son of Kish, and Abner the son of Ner, and Joab the son of Zeruiah had dedicated -- all the dedicated gifts were under the hand of Shelomith and his brothers. {{rf{29}}} For the Izharites: Kenaniah and his sons were appointed to the duties outside of Israel as officials and as judges. {{rf{30}}} For the Hebronites: Hashabiah and his brothers, one thousand seven hundred men of ability, were over the administration of Israel beyond the Jordan westward, for all the work of Yahweh and for the service of the king. {{rf{31}}} For the Hebronites: Jeriah the chief of the Hebronites for the genealogy for the families. (In the fortieth year of the reign of David they were examined, and there was found among them mighty warriors of strength at Jazer in Gilead.) {{rf{32}}} And his brothers, sons of ability, were two thousand seven hundred heads of the families, and King David appointed them over the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh, for every matter of God and matter of the king. {{rf big{1}}} And as for the number of the Israelites, the heads of families, the commanders of thousands and hundreds, and their officials who serve the king in all matters of the working groups that came and went, month by month, throughout all the months of the year, each working group: twenty-four thousand. {{rf{2}}} Over the first working group for the first month: Jashobeam the son of Zabdiel. And he was over his working group of twenty-four thousand. {{rf{3}}} From the sons of Perez who was the chief of the commanders of the armies for the first month. {{rf{4}}} And over the working groups of the second month: Dodai the Ahohite and his working group, and Mikloth the commander. And he was over his working group of twenty-four thousand. {{rf{5}}} The third commander of the army for the third month was Benaiah son of Jehoiada the chief priest. And he was over his working group of twenty-four thousand. {{rf{6}}} This was Benaiah who was a mighty warrior of thirty, and over the thirty and his working group was Ammizabad his son. {{rf{7}}} The fourth, for the fourth month, was Asahel the brother of Joab and his son Zebadiah after him. And he was over his working group of twenty-four thousand. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|1Chron-26-25]] }}}
{{rf{8}}} The fifth, for the fifth month, the commander was Shamhuth the Izrahite. And he was over his working group of twenty-four thousand. {{rf{9}}} The sixth, for the sixth month, was Ira the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite. And he was over his working group of twenty-four thousand. {{rf{10}}} The seventh, for the seventh month, was Helez the Pelonite, from the sons of Ephraim. And he was over his working group of twenty-four thousand. {{rf{11}}} The eighth, for the eighth month, was Sibbecai the Hushathite of the Zerahites. And he was over his working group of twenty-four thousand. {{rf{12}}} The ninth, for the ninth month, was Abiezer the Anathothite of the Benjamites. And he was over his working group of twenty-four thousand. {{rf{13}}} The tenth, for the tenth month, was Maharai the Netophathite of the Zerahites. And he was over his working group of twenty-four thousand. {{rf{14}}} The eleventh, for the eleventh month, was Benaiah the Pirathonite from the sons of Ephraim. And he was over his working group of twenty-four thousand. {{rf{15}}} The twelfth, for the twelfth month, was Heldai the Netophathite, of Othniel. And he was over his working group of twenty-four thousand. {{rf{16}}} And over the tribes of Israel, for the Reubenites: the commander was Eliezer the son of Zikri. For the Simeonites: Shephatiah the son of Maacah. {{rf{17}}} For Levi: Hashabiah the son of Kemuel. For Aaron, Zadok. {{rf{18}}} For Judah: Elihu, from the brothers of David. For Issachar: Omri the son of Michael. {{rf{19}}} For Zebulun: Ishmaiah the son of Obadiah. For Naphtali: Jerimoth the son of Azriel. {{rf{20}}} For the Ephraimites: Hoshea the son of Azaziah. For the half-tribe of Manasseh: Joel the son of Pedaiah. {{rf{21}}} For the half-tribe of Manasseh in Gilead: Iddo the son of Zechariah. For Benjamin: Jaasiel son of Abner. {{rf{22}}} For Dan: Azarel the son of Jeroham. These were the commanders of the tribes of Israel. {{rf{23}}} And David did not take a census of those twenty years old or under because Yahweh promised to make Israel more numerous than the stars of heaven. {{rf{24}}} Joab the son of Zeruiah began to count, but he did not finish. But wrath came upon Israel concerning this, and the number was not included in the chronicles of King David. {{rf{25}}} And over the treasury rooms of the king was Azmaveth the son of Adiel. And over the treasuries in the country, in the cities, in the unwalled villages, and in the towers was Jonathan the son of Uzziah. {{rf{26}}} And over those who did the work in the field to till the soil was Ezri the son of Kelub. {{rf{27}}} And over the vineyards was Shemei the Ramathite. And over the produce in the vineyards for the storehouses of the wine was Zabdi the Shiphmite. {{rf{28}}} And over the olive trees and the sycamore trees that were in the Shephelah was Baal-Hanan the Gederite. And over the treasury houses of olive oil was Joash. {{rf{29}}} And over the cattle pastured in the Sharon was Shitrai the Sharonite. And over the cattle in the valley was Shaphat the son of Adlai. {{rf{30}}} And over the camels was Obil the Ishmaelite. And over the female donkeys was Jehdeiah the Meronothite. And over the sheep was Jaziz the Hagrite. {{rf{31}}} All of these were officials of the property of King David. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|1Chron-27-08]] }}}
{{rf{32}}} And Jehonathan the uncle of David was an adviser, a man of insight, and he was a scribe. And Jehiel the son of Hachmoni was with the sons of the king. {{rf{33}}} And Ahithophel was an adviser to the king, and Hushai the Arkite was a friend of the king. {{rf{34}}} And after Ahithophel came Jehoiada, the son of Benaiah, and Abiathar. And Joab was the commander of the king's army. {{rf big{1}}} Then David assembled all the commanders of Israel, the commanders of the tribes and the commanders of working groups who served the king, and the commanders of thousands, the commanders of hundreds, and the commanders over all the property of the king and his sons, with the court officials and mighty warriors, and all the mighty warriors of ability, at Jerusalem. {{rf{2}}} And King David rose to his feet and said, "Listen to me, my brothers and my people. I myself wanted to build a house of rest for the ark of the covenant of Yahweh and the footstool of our God, and I prepared to build. {{rf{3}}} But God said to me, 'You may not build a house for my name because you are a man of war, and you have shed blood.' {{rf{4}}} But Yahweh the God of Israel chose me from all of the house of my father to be king over Israel forever, for he chose Judah as leader, and in the house of Judah, the house of my father, and among the sons of my father he took pleasure in me to reign over all Israel. {{rf{5}}} And from all my sons -- for Yahweh has given many sons to me -- he has chosen Solomon my son to sit on the throne of the kingdom of Yahweh over Israel. {{rf{6}}} And he said to me, 'Solomon your son, he himself shall build my house and my courts, for I have chosen him as a son to myself, and I myself will be as a father to him, {{rf{7}}} and I will establish his kingdom forever if he firmly performs my commandments and my judgments as he has to this day.' {{rf{8}}} So now in the sight of all Israel, the assembly of Yahweh, and in the hearing of our God, observe and seek all the commandments of Yahweh your God so that you may take possession of this good land and bestow it as an inheritance to your children after you forever." {{rf{9}}} "And you, Solomon my son, know the God of your father and serve him with a whole heart and a willing mind, for Yahweh searches all hearts and understands every plan and all thoughts. If you seek him, he will be found by you, but if you abandon him, he will reject you forever. {{rf{10}}} Look now, for Yahweh has chosen you to build a house for the sanctuary; be strong and do it!" {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|1Chron-27-32]] }}}
{{rf{11}}} Then David gave to Solomon his son the plan of the vestibule and of its houses, its treasuries, its upper rooms, its inner chambers, and of the house of the lid of the ark, {{rf{12}}} and the plan of all that he had in mind for the courtyards of the house of Yahweh and for all the surrounding storage rooms, the treasuries of the house of God, and the treasuries for sanctified objects, {{rf{13}}} and for the working groups of the priests and the Levites, and for all the work of the service of the house of Yahweh, and for all the vessels for the service of the house of Yahweh, {{rf{14}}} and for the gold, according to the weight of the gold for all the vessels of the service, and the service of all the vessels of silver according to the weight of all the vessels for every kind of service. {{rf{15}}} And the weight of the golden lampstands and the golden lamps, the weight of each lampstand and each lamp, and the silver according to the weight of a lampstand and its lamp, according to the use of each lampstand, {{rf{16}}} and the weight of gold for the tables of the arranged bread, each table, and silver for the tables of silver, {{rf{17}}} and pure gold for the three-pronged meat forks, and the bowls and the pitchers, and for the golden bowls, by weight for each bowl, and for the silver bowls, by weight for each bowl, {{rf{18}}} and for the altar of incense made of refined gold, by weight, and gold for the plan for the chariot -- the cherubim with outspread and covering wings over the ark of the covenant of Yahweh. {{rf{19}}} "All this I give you in writing; from the hand of Yahweh he instructed me about all the workings of this plan." {{rf{20}}} Then David said to Solomon his son, "Be strong and courageous, and do this! Do not be afraid and do not be dismayed, for Yahweh God, my God, is with you. He will not fail you and will not forsake you until all the work of the service of the house of Yahweh is finished. {{rf{21}}} And behold, the working groups of the priests and the Levites for all the service of the house of God; and with you in all the work for all those willing with the skill for every service, and the commanders and all the people for all your commands." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|1Chron-28-11]] }}}
Then David the king said to all the assembly, "God has chosen Solomon my son alone, a young man and inexperienced, and the work is great, for the citadel is not for humankind, but for Yahweh God. {{rf{2}}} So I have provided for the house of my God according to all my strength, the gold for the things of gold, the silver for the things of silver, the bronze for the things of bronze, the iron for the things of iron, and the wood for the things of wood, along with an abundance of onyx stones, stones for settings, stones of turquoise, and variegated stones, and all kinds of precious stones and alabaster stones. {{rf{3}}} And moreover, with respect to my provisions for the house of my God I have a treasure of gold and silver that I have given to the house of my God above all that I have provided for the holy house: {{rf{4}}} three thousand talents of gold from the gold of Ophir and seven thousand talents of refined silver to overlay the walls of the houses, {{rf{5}}} gold for the golden things and silver for the silver things, for all the work by the hand of skilled craftsmen. Now who will offer willingly, consecrating himself today to Yahweh?" {{rf{6}}} Then the commanders of the families, the commanders of the tribes of Israel, and the commanders of thousands and hundreds, and the commanders of the work of the king offered themselves willingly. {{rf{7}}} And they gave for the service of the house of God five thousand talents and ten thousand darics of gold, ten thousand talents of silver, eighteen thousand talents of bronze, and one hundred thousand talents of iron. {{rf{8}}} And whoever had precious stones gave them to the treasury of the house of Yahweh under the authority of Jehiel the Gershonite. {{rf{9}}} And the people rejoiced over their freewill offering, for with a whole heart they had willingly offered to Yahweh, and King David also rejoiced with great joy. {{rf{10}}} Then David blessed Yahweh in the sight of all the assembly, and David said, "Blessed are you, O Yahweh, God of Israel, our father forever and ever! {{rf{11}}} To you, O Yahweh, is the greatness and the power and the splendor and the glory and the strength, for everything in the heavens and in the earth. Yours, O Yahweh, is the kingdom and exaltation over all as head! {{rf{12}}} And wealth and glory are from you, and you rule over all. And in your hand is power and might. And in your hand is power to make great and to give strength to all. {{rf{13}}} And now, our God, we give thanks to you and offer praise to the name of your splendor. {{rf{14}}} And indeed, who am I, and who are my people that we retain power to offer according to these offerings willingly? For everything is from you, and from your hand we have given to you. {{rf{15}}} For we are strangers before you and sojourners like all our ancestors. Our days are like the shadow upon earth, and there is no hope of abiding. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|1Chron-29-01]] }}}
{{rf{16}}} O Yahweh our God, all this abundance that we have provided to build for you a house for your holy name is from your hand, and all of it is yours. {{rf{17}}} And I know, my God, that you yourself test the heart and are pleased with uprightness. I, in the uprightness of my heart, have willingly offered all these things, and now I have seen your people who are found here willingly offer to you. {{rf{18}}} O Yahweh, God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, our ancestors, keep this forever as a plan and thoughts of the heart of your people, and establish their heart toward you. {{rf{19}}} Grant to Solomon my son a heart of peace to keep your commands, your statutes, and your regulations to do everything, and to build the citadel for which I have provided." {{rf{20}}} And David said to all the assembly, "Bless Yahweh your God!" And all the assembly blessed Yahweh, the God of their ancestors. And they bowed down and prostrated themselves before Yahweh and the king. {{rf{21}}} And they offered sacrifices to Yahweh, and on that next day they offered burnt offerings to Yahweh: one thousand bulls, one thousand rams, one thousand lambs, with their libations and sacrifices in abundance for all Israel. {{rf{22}}} And they ate and drank before Yahweh on that day with great joy. And they made Solomon the son of David king the second time, and they anointed him commander for Yahweh, and Zadok the priest. {{rf{23}}} Then Solomon sat upon the throne of Yahweh as king in place of David his father. And he prospered, and all Israel obeyed him. {{rf{24}}} And all the officials and mighty warriors, and also all the sons of King David, pledged allegiance to King Solomon. {{rf{25}}} And Yahweh made Solomon exceedingly great in the sight of all Israel, and he bestowed upon him royal splendor that was not bestowed upon any king before him in Israel. {{rf{26}}} And David the son of Jesse reigned over all Israel. {{rf{27}}} And the days that he reigned over Israel were forty years. In Hebron he reigned seven years, and in Jerusalem he reigned thirty-three years. {{rf{28}}} And he died in a good old age, full of days, wealth, and honor. And Solomon his son reigned in his place. {{rf{29}}} Now the words of King David, from the first to the last, see, they are written among the words of Samuel the seer, and among the words of Nathan the prophet, and among the words of Gad the seer, {{rf{30}}} with all the accounts of his kingdom, his power, and the times that came upon him, and upon Israel, and upon all the kingdoms of the earth. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|1Chron-29-16]] }}}
* America is Corinth. The American church is the Corinthian church. We should give close attention to these letters.
* If it weren't for Paul's admonishments to the Corinthians we would hardly know how to speak to the stubbornly immature. More than half of our concept of the selfish, unsanctified believer (witness the descriptor //carnal//) is formed by these two letters.
* About shaming, see <<Bbl 1C 3:1 "" note >>.
Paul, called to be an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Sosthenes our brother, {{rf{2}}} to the church of God sanctified in Christ Jesus that is in Corinth, called to be saints, together with all those who call upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ in every place, their Lord and ours. {{rf{3}}} Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. {{rf{4}}} I give thanks to my God always concerning you, because of the grace of God which was given to you in Christ Jesus, {{rf{5}}} that in everything you were made rich in him, in all speech and all knowledge, {{rf{6}}} just as the testimony about Christ has been confirmed in you, {{rf{7}}} so that you do not lack in any spiritual gift as you eagerly await the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ, {{rf{8}}} who will also confirm you until the end, blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ. {{rf{9}}} God is faithful, by whom you were called to fellowship with his Son Jesus Christ our Lord. {{rf{10}}} Now I exhort you, brothers, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you all say the same thing and there not be divisions among you, and that you be made complete in the same mind and with the same purpose. {{rf{11}}} For it has been made clear to me concerning you, my brothers, by Chloe's people, that there are quarrels among you. {{rf{12}}} But I say this, that each of you is saying, "I am with Paul," and "I am with Apollos," and "I am with Cephas," and "I am with Christ." {{rf{13}}} Has Christ been divided? Paul was not crucified for you, was he? Or were you baptized in the name of Paul? {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|1Cor-01-01]] }}}
1:1-10 The introduction resounds with the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ and with reminders of their eternal status and calling, all in preparation for vs. 10.
1:6-8 A reciprocal confirmation.
1:12 //I am Christ's// - Perhaps they claimed special guidance as gnostics; or one faction had somehow reduced Christ to a party-leader in the earthly terms; or perhaps Paul is making a rhetorical point.
1:14-16 Paul practically steps on himself to avoid some perceived slight. Thoughtfull kindness, combined no doubt with hard experience.
<<Bbl 1C 1:18 abbr >> [[Divide]]
<<Bbl 1C 1:20 abbr >> see <<Bbl I 19:11 >>, <<Bbl I 29:14 >>. All promises yes and amen - as He is, so are we in the world - so that 'tongue of the disciple' applies to me, even me.
<<Bbl 1C 1:21 abbr >> God's effectual calling.
1:22-25 the Jews seek signs and stumble over weakness; the Greeks seek wisdom and stumble over foolishness.
1:25 see <<Bbl Jer 50:36 >>
<<Bbl 1C 1:26 abbr >> noble [eugenes], well-born.
1:28 base [agenes], low-born, lowly in estate. Grosheide, p. 52, f.n. These are the [[Remnant]], the overlooked.
1:27 see the Book of Judges and consider Samuel.
1:28 //Nullify//, that is, make not; this verse would bear study.
{{rf{14}}} I give thanks that I baptized none of you except Crispus and Gaius, {{rf{15}}} lest anyone should say that you were baptized in my name. {{rf{16}}} (Now I also baptized the household of Stephanas. Beyond that I do not know if I baptized anyone else.) {{rf{17}}} For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to proclaim the gospel, not with clever speech, lest the cross of Christ be emptied. {{rf{18}}} For the message about the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. {{rf{19}}} For it is written, "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and the intelligence of the intelligent I will confound." {{rf{20}}} Where is the wise person? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world? {{rf{21}}} For since, in the wisdom of God, the world through its wisdom did not know God, God was pleased through the foolishness of preaching to save those who believe. {{rf{22}}} For indeed, Jews ask for sign miracles and Greeks seek wisdom, {{rf{23}}} but we preach Christ crucified, to the Jews a cause for stumbling, but to the Gentiles foolishness, {{rf{24}}} but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ is the power of God and the wisdom of God. {{rf{25}}} For the foolishness of God is wiser than human wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than human strength. {{rf{26}}} For consider your calling, brothers, that not many were wise according to human standards, not many were powerful, not many were well born. {{rf{27}}} But the foolish things of the world God chose in order that he might put to shame the wise, and the weak things of the world God chose in order that he might put to shame the strong, {{rf{28}}} and the insignificant of the world, and the despised, God chose, the things that are not, in order that he might abolish the things that are, {{rf{29}}} so that all flesh may not boast before God. {{rf{30}}} But from him you are in Christ Jesus, who became wisdom to us from God, and righteousness and sanctification and redemption, {{rf{31}}} so that, just as it is written, "The one who boasts, let him boast in the Lord." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|1Cor-01-14]] }}}
And I, when I came to you, brothers, did not come with superiority of speech or of wisdom, proclaiming to you the testimony of God. {{rf{2}}} For I decided not to know anything among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified. {{rf{3}}} And I came to you in weakness and in fear and with much trembling, {{rf{4}}} and my speech and my preaching were not with the persuasiveness of wisdom, but with a demonstration of the Spirit and power, {{rf{5}}} in order that your faith would not be in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God. {{rf{6}}} Now we do speak wisdom among the mature, but wisdom not of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are perishing, {{rf{7}}} but we speak the hidden wisdom of God in a mystery, which God predestined before the ages for our glory, {{rf{8}}} which none of the rulers of this age knew. For if they had known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. {{rf{9}}} But just as it is written, "Things which eye has not seen and ear has not heard, and have not entered into the heart of man, all that God has prepared for those who love him." {{rf{10}}} For to us God has revealed them through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, even the depths of God. {{rf{11}}} For who among men knows the things of a man, except the spirit of the man that is in him? Thus also no one knows the things of God except the Spirit of God. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|1Cor-02-01]] }}}
2:1-5 see <<Bbl 1S 17:45 >>
<<Bbl 1C 2:2 abbr >> <<Bbl 1C 1:30 >>, <<Bbl 1Th 1:5 >>
<<Bbl 1C 2:4 abbr >> see <<Bbl 1C 4:20 >>
<<Bbl 1C 2:12 abbr >> possibly the source of the term zietgiest ??
Paul has established a theme here: what God has given. 1:4, 21, 30; 2:7, 9.
2:13 thoughts and words are set off in italics.
2:14 see <<Bbl 1J 3:1 >>
<<Bbl 1C 2:15 abbr >> I am appraised by no natural man. Cf <<Bbl Pr 28:5 >>. Sunglasses, as used by many people, are a worldly approximation; they seem to announce hidden knowledge and say, "You are unable to assess me." When truly spiritual people meet, there is true spiritual recognition.
A good picture of this is found at a stop-light intersection at early morning. When the sun is rising directly behind you and pouring into the windshield of some poor fellow across the way, you can scrutinize him thoroughly -- while he is mustering all endurance just to see if the light has turned green.
2:16 see <<Bbl I 55:8 >>
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<<Bbl 1C 2:26 abbr >> James says that faith without works is like the body without the spirit. I think I would have reversed the order of his analogy, because the body is material, visible, like works; and also because the body is the less essential element. James clearly is thinking differently.
{{rf{12}}} Now we have received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, in order that we may know the things freely given to us by God, {{rf{13}}} things which we also speak, not in words taught by human wisdom, but in words taught by the Spirit, explaining spiritual things to spiritual people. {{rf{14}}} But the natural man does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he is not able to understand them, because they are spiritually discerned. {{rf{15}}} Now the spiritual person discerns all things, but he himself is judged by no one. {{rf{16}}} "For who has known the mind of the Lord; who has advised him?" But we have the mind of Christ. {{rf big{1}}} And I, brothers, was not able to speak to you as to spiritual people, but as to fleshly people, as to infants in Christ. {{rf{2}}} I gave you milk to drink, not solid food, for you were not yet able to eat it. But now you are still not able, {{rf{3}}} for you are still fleshly. For where there is jealousy and strife among you, are you not fleshly, and do you not live like unregenerate people? {{rf{4}}} For whenever anyone says, "I am with Paul," and another, "I am with Apollos," are you not merely human? {{rf{5}}} Therefore, what is Apollos and what is Paul? Servants through whom you believed, and to each as the Lord gave. {{rf{6}}} I planted, Apollos watered, but God was causing it to grow. {{rf{7}}} So then, neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is anything, but God who is causing it to grow. {{rf{8}}} Now the one who plants and the one who waters are one, but each one will receive his own reward according to his own labor. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|1Cor-02-12]] }}}
<<Bbl 1C 3:1 abbr >>ff This shaming (see <<Bbl 1C 6:5 >>, <<Bbl 1C 15:34 >>) comparison is a dominant theme especially for the first third of the letter.
<<Bbl 1C 3:1 abbr >>-3. He has contrasted the man of God (<<Bbl 1C 1:30 >>, <<Bbl 1C 2:12 >>) with the man of the world (<<Bbl 1C 1:18 >>, <<Bbl 1C 2:14 >>; now he establishes a third category to account for these Corinthians.
3:4 Paul is referring not only to local leaders but also (obliquely) to those he suspects are entering as usurpers. In aspiring to anything other than Christ, we lose out. How can one rise above that which is most highly esteemed?
3:7 One edge of the sword.
3:8 The other edge. Possibly the thinking is this: God's agents are nothing, vs. 7; therefore they are one, no distinction being possible; yet, vs. 8 continues, they receive a personally significant reward for their personally significant labor.
3:9 For, the thought continues, they are indeed His agents.
God's //edifice// (the word is from Latin). God's building is the institution of His Kingdom, used of the eternal Church, the eternal Church of the local assembly, and the person of the believer. It is the converse of the tower of Babel.
<<Bbl 1C 3:10 abbr >> Apportioned grace: compare <<Bbl R 12:3>>-6.
3:11 see <<Bbl Mt 7:24 >>-27
<<Bbl 1C 3:12 abbr >> It seems the six materials listed fall into two categories: non-flammable and flammable. (Glen Martin, on the other hand, proposed that God's fire will do away with all of them.)
3:13 Fire always simplifies, always reduces, always reveals.
If the remark on 3:12 is correct, then the term quality does not refer to a sliding scale of value, but rather to one of two essential characteristics: eternal or temporal value. Within those two characteristics, we recognize degrees of durability. But the significance of these degrees practically disappears as we see their essential quality. So it is with degrees of torment in Hell, or degrees of bliss or favor in Heaven: however mitigated the punishment of a "righteous sinner" (as some rabbis say) may be, he is still separated from God by the abyss. However attenuated the reward of a child of God, he still rests on God's bosum. (But we must note that damnation and joy are not the subject of these verses, rather Paul is talking about the worth of one's Christian ministry.)
3:15 see <<Bbl Amos 3:12 >>, <<Bbl Amos 4:11 >>; <<Bbl Zec 3:1 >>-7
<<Bbl 1C 3:16 abbr >> see <<Bbl R 8:9 >>, <<Bbl Eph 2:21 >>, <<Bbl 1C 6:19 >>. //You// is plural.
<<Bbl 1C 3:17 abbr >> Paul presents leaders as over the building in <<Bbl 1C 3:10 >> (one of Paul's many contributions to the distinction of clergy and laity.) Now he assigns them a stern judgment for work done badly. Again one sees a somewhat disguised reference to usurpers; this is supported by the start of chapter 4 (however this is generally taken as a warning to the "laity").
<<Bbl 1C 3:18 abbr >> see <<Bbl I 5:21 >>, <<Bbl 1C 8:2 >>,<<Bbl 1C 13:8 >>-12 , <<Bbl Gal 6:3 >>
<<Bbl 1C 3:21 abbr >>-23 Paul is emphasizing our tremendous authority in Christ in a passage that parallels <<Bbl E 1:20 "" note>>-23 and <<Bbl 1C 2:15 >>-16.
{{rf{9}}} For we are God's fellow workers; you are God's field, God's building. {{rf{10}}} According to the grace of God given to me, like a skilled master builder I laid a foundation, and another is building upon it. But each one must direct his attention to how he is building upon it. {{rf{11}}} For no one is able to lay another foundation than the one which is laid, which is Jesus Christ. {{rf{12}}} Now if anyone builds upon the foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, grass, straw, {{rf{13}}} the work of each one will become evident. For the day will reveal it, because it will be revealed with fire, and the fire itself will test the work of each one, of what sort it is. {{rf{14}}} If anyone's work that he has built upon it remains, he will receive a reward. {{rf{15}}} If anyone's work is burned up, he will suffer loss, but he himself will be saved, but so as through fire. {{rf{16}}} Do you not know that you are God's temple and the Spirit of God dwells in you? {{rf{17}}} If anyone destroys God's temple, God will destroy this one. For God's temple is holy, which you are. {{rf{18}}} Let no one deceive himself. If anyone thinks himself to be wise among you in this age, let him become a fool, in order that he may become wise. {{rf{19}}} For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God, for it is written, "The one who catches the wise in their craftiness," {{rf{20}}} and again, "The Lord knows the thoughts of the wise, that they are futile." {{rf{21}}} So then, let no one boast in people. For all things are yours, {{rf{22}}} whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas or the world or life or death or things present or things to come, all things are yours, {{rf{23}}} and you are Christ's, and Christ is God's. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|1Cor-03-09]] }}}
Thus let a person consider us as servants of Christ and stewards of God's mysteries. {{rf{2}}} In this case, moreover, it is sought in stewards that one be found faithful. {{rf{3}}} But to me it is a very little matter that I be judged by you or by a human court, but I do not even judge myself. {{rf{4}}} For I am conscious of nothing against myself, but not by this am I vindicated. But the one who judges me is the Lord. {{rf{5}}} Therefore do not judge anything before the time, until the Lord should come, who will both enlighten the hidden things of darkness and will reveal the counsels of hearts, and then praise will come to each one from God. {{rf{6}}} Now I have applied these things, brothers, to myself and Apollos for your sake, in order that in us you may learn not to go beyond what is written, lest someone be inflated with pride on behalf of one person against the other. {{rf{7}}} For who concedes you superiority? And what do you have that you did not receive? But if indeed you received it, why do you boast as if you did not receive it? {{rf{8}}} Already you are satiated! Already you are rich! Apart from us you reign as kings! And would that indeed you reigned as kings, in order that we also might reign as kings with you! {{rf{9}}} For, I think, God has exhibited us apostles last of all, as condemned to death, because we have become a spectacle to the world and to angels and to people. {{rf{10}}} We are fools for the sake of Christ, but you are prudent in Christ! We are weak, but you are strong! You are honored, but we are dishonored! {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|1Cor-04-01]] }}}
<<Bbl 1C 4:6 abbr >> The NAS says "figuratively", but commentaries seem to disagree ??
4:10 see <<Bbl Amos 5:13 >>
<<Bbl 1C 4:13 abbr >> see <<Bbl Mt 20:25 >>-28
<<Bbl 1C 4:16 abbr >> see <<Bbl 1C 11:1 >>, <<Bbl Php 3:17 >>, <<Bbl Php 4:9 >>, <<Bbl 1Ths 1:6 >>
<<Bbl 2C 4:17 abbr >>-18 God reveals the motive. In the furnace the weightiest element goes to the bottom and there becomes pure. Hell is pure, and heaven is pure. God is the weightiest element in the godly person, so difficult circumstances work to reveal God in his life.
For the unseen, see [[Invisible-Visible]].
<<Bbl 1C 4:20 abbr >> see <<Bbl 1C 2:4 >>
<<Bbl 1C 5:1 abbr >> The expression of incest seems euphemistic, but it may also allude to <<Bbl Lv 20:11 >>.
<<Bbl 1C 5:5 abbr >> see <<Bbl 1C 3:17 >>, <<Bbl Pr 23:14 >>, <<Bbl 1Tim 1:20 >>
<<Bbl 1C 5:9 abbr >> Mention of another letter. Also, see [[Discipline-Church]]
5:11 //Revile//, criticize in an abusive or hostile way. See <<Bbl Mt 18:17 >>
<<Bbl 1C 5:54 abbr>> A future promise. Not to be used at a funeral.
{{rf{11}}} Until the present hour we are both hungry and thirsty and poorly clothed and roughly treated and homeless, {{rf{12}}} and we toil, working with our own hands. When we are reviled, we bless; when we are persecuted, we endure; {{rf{13}}} when we are slandered, we encourage. We have become like the refuse of the world, the offscouring of all things, until now. {{rf{14}}} I am not writing these things to shame you, but admonishing you as my dear children. {{rf{15}}} For if you have ten thousand guardians in Christ, yet you do not have many fathers, for in Christ Jesus I fathered you through the gospel. {{rf{16}}} Therefore I exhort you, become imitators of me. {{rf{17}}} Because of this, I have sent to you Timothy, who is my dear and faithful child in the Lord, who will remind you of my ways in Christ Jesus, just as I teach everywhere in every church. {{rf{18}}} But some have become arrogant, as if I were not coming to you. {{rf{19}}} But I am coming to you soon, if the Lord wills, and I will know not the talk of the ones who have become arrogant, but the power. {{rf{20}}} For the kingdom of God is not with talk, but with power. {{rf{21}}} What do you want? Shall I come to you with a rod, or with love and a spirit of gentleness? {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|1Cor-04-11]] }}}
It is reported everywhere that there is sexual immorality among you, and sexual immorality of such a kind which does not even exist among the Gentiles, so that someone has the wife of his father. {{rf{2}}} And you are inflated with pride, and should you not rather have mourned, so that the one who has done this deed would be removed from your midst? {{rf{3}}} For although I am absent in body but present in spirit, I have already passed judgment on the one who has done this in this way, as if I were present. {{rf{4}}} In the name of our Lord Jesus, when you are assembled, and my spirit, together with the power of our Lord Jesus, {{rf{5}}} I have decided to hand over such a person to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, in order that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord. {{rf{6}}} Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole batch of dough? {{rf{7}}} Clean out the old leaven in order that you may be a new batch of dough, just as you are unleavened. For Christ our Passover has been sacrificed. {{rf{8}}} So then, let us celebrate the feast, not with the old leaven or with the leaven of wickedness and sinfulness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth. {{rf{9}}} I wrote to you in the letter not to associate with sexually immoral people. {{rf{10}}} By no means did I mean the sexually immoral people of this world or the greedy people and swindlers or idolaters, since then you would have to depart out of the world. {{rf{11}}} But now I have written to you not to associate with any so-called brother, if he is a sexually immoral person or a greedy person or an idolater or an abusive person or a drunkard or a swindler -- with such a person not even to eat. {{rf{12}}} For what is it to me to judge those outside? Should you not judge those inside? {{rf{13}}} But those outside God will judge. Remove the evil person from among yourselves. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|1Cor-05-01]] }}}
Does anyone among you, if he has a matter against someone else, dare to go to court before the unrighteous, and not before the saints? {{rf{2}}} Or do you not know that the saints will judge the world? And if by you the world is judged, are you unworthy of the most insignificant courts? {{rf{3}}} Do you not know that we will judge angels, not to mention ordinary matters? {{rf{4}}} Therefore, if you have courts with regard to ordinary matters, do you seat these despised people in the church? {{rf{5}}} I say this to your shame. So is there not anyone wise among you who will be able to render a decision between his brothers? {{rf{6}}} But brother goes to court with brother, and this before unbelievers! {{rf{7}}} Therefore it is already completely a loss for you that you have lawsuits with one another. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be defrauded? {{rf{8}}} But you wrong and defraud, and do this to brothers! {{rf{9}}} Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived! Neither sexually immoral people, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor passive homosexual partners, nor dominant homosexual partners, {{rf{10}}} nor thieves, nor greedy persons, not drunkards, not abusive persons, not swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. {{rf{11}}} And some of you were these things, but you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|1Cor-06-01]] }}}
<<Bbl 1C 6:2 0 >> Again, the theme of our authority in Christ.
<<Bbl 1C 6:9 0 >> These clauses refer to the passive and active partners in consensual homosexual acts (source: ESV footnote).
** //male prostitutes// -- μαλακοὶ; see [[Clothing]].
** //homosexual offenders// -- ἀρσενοκοῖται; male + bed
<<Bbl 1C 6:9 abbr >>-10. Seems incongruous with the preceding, but the final category //swindler// does fit.
6:11 //for such were some of you.// Paul does not say you __behaved__ this way. He says you __were these__.
<<Bbl 1C 6:12 abbr >> <<Bbl 1C 10:23 >> Various interpretations available for the idea of a //lawful thing//. See my online post.
6:13 Some things are aspects of life in the world. They will cease. Other things, such as immorality, are aspects of a life that is of the world. The bodily function of eating will disappear, but the body itself is a permanent, eternal vessel.
6:14 see <<Bbl 1J 4:2 >>, <<Bbl 1J 5:20 >>; the perfect participle tense in both of these verses seems to declare that Jesus is seated in His glorified flesh through eternity. This verse here the first support for that idea that I have noticed elsewhere in scripture. Paul's argument seems to depend on it.
<<Bbl 1C 6:19 abbr >>-20 <<Bbl Gn 2:21 >> "" note.
6:20 see <<Bbl 1C 7:23 >>
<<Bbl 1C 7:1 abbr >>-9 Celibacy is for Paul a high calling. Like all callings, of course, one has to have been called! The words Jesus used to qualify his statement about eunuchs -- "Not everyone can receive this word, but only those to whom it is given" -- can well be applied to Paul's exhortation.
* //Who is the first person in the Bible who didn't have this gift? Adam!//
* <<Bbl L 2:37 >> presents a woman free from the distraction described by Paul.
<<Bbl 1C 7:3 abbr >>-5, 32-34. A double bind
7:5 A form of fasting. I have read the last clause as meaning that you ought to quit the fast in order to avoid temptation; but Mike Westphall once told me his interpretation, that the fast is in fact undertaken to avoid it (//Dry-dock for the Ship of Love//). Cf <<Bbl Mt 4:10 >>
<<Bbl 1C 7:5 abbr >> Paul could have said, don't stop prayer except for a little while so you can have sex.
7:7,10,12,25,40 Paul makes some remarkable admissions. He is exercising in a wonderful way his authority and liberty in giving advice, but he very carefully circumscribes the advice with these attributes.
7:7 //I, however, God:// A beautiful admission. It could be applied to any aspect of godly living. We all wish everybody was like ourselves; however, God has arranged things differently. It is, in casual terms, the subjective and the Objective.
7:14 This sanctification is temporal; two verses later he refers to eternal salvation.
7:15 see <<Bbl H 12:14 >>
<<Bbl 1C 7:15 abbr >> A subtle admission of the welcome relief, of something breaking your way.
<<Bbl 1C 7:16 abbr >> [[Cover]]
<<Bbl 1C 7:18 abbr >>a Craig Keener says surgery had progressed to allow some cosmetic form of reversal of circumcision.
<<Bbl 1C 7:19 abbr >> Paul distinguishes obedience to God's commands from circumcision, supporting Lancaster's position.
<<Bbl 1C 7:20 abbr >>-27 Note statement in the Declaration of Independence that no change of governments should be taken lightly. This truth applies to all senses of the term government.
7:28 see <<Bbl Mt 19:10 >>-11
<<Bbl 1C 7:29 abbr >>-35 The heart behind the instruction. To any who may be chafing under this word, he gives release: "Not to put a restraint upon you." See <<Bbl Num 6:6 >>-8 , <<Bbl Lv 21:1 >>-6 .
<<Bbl 1C 7:29 abbr >> <<Bbl Lv 21:1 >>-6 , <<Bbl Num 6:6 >>-8
<<Bbl 1C 7:31 abbr >> [[World-Transcient]]. The morning vision of dragonflies.
<<Bbl 1C 7:33 abbr >>-34 <<Bbl 1K 11:4 >>-8
{{rf{12}}} All things are permitted for me, but not all things are profitable. All things are permitted for me, but I will not be controlled by anything. {{rf{13}}} Food is for the stomach, and the stomach for food, but God will abolish both of them. Now the body is not for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body. {{rf{14}}} And God both raised up the Lord and will raise us up by his power. {{rf{15}}} Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Therefore, shall I take away the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? May it never be! {{rf{16}}} Or do you not know that the one who joins himself to a prostitute is one body with her? For it says, "The two will become one flesh." {{rf{17}}} But the one who joins himself to the Lord is one spirit with him. {{rf{18}}} Flee sexual immorality. Every sin that a person commits is outside his body, but the one who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body. {{rf{19}}} Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own? {{rf{20}}} For you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God with your body. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|1Cor-06-12]] }}}
Now concerning the things about which you wrote: "It is good for a man not to touch a woman." {{rf{2}}} But because of sexual immorality, let each man have his own wife and let each woman have her own husband. {{rf{3}}} The husband must fulfill his obligation to his wife, and likewise also the wife to her husband. {{rf{4}}} The wife does not have authority over her own body, but her husband does. And likewise also the husband does not have authority over his own body, but his wife does. {{rf{5}}} Do not defraud one another, except perhaps by agreement, for a time, in order that you may devote yourselves to prayer, and then you should be together again, lest Satan tempt you because of your lack of self control. {{rf{6}}} But I say this as a concession, not as a command. {{rf{7}}} I wish all people could be like myself, but each one has his own gift from God, one in this way and another in that way. {{rf{8}}} Now I say to the unmarried and to the widows: It is good for them if they remain as I am. {{rf{9}}} But if they cannot control themselves, they should marry, for it is better to marry than to burn with sexual desire. {{rf{10}}} To the married I command -- not I, but the Lord -- a wife must not separate from her husband. {{rf{11}}} But if indeed she does separate, she must remain unmarried or be reconciled to her husband. And a husband must not divorce his wife. {{rf{12}}} Now to the rest I say -- not the Lord -- if any brother has an unbelieving wife and she consents to live with him, he must not divorce her. {{rf{13}}} And if any wife has an unbelieving husband and he consents to live with her, she must not divorce her husband. {{rf{14}}} For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by his wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the brother, since otherwise your children are unclean, but now they are holy. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|1Cor-07-01]] }}}
{{rf{15}}} But if the unbeliever leaves, let him leave. The brother or the sister is not bound in such cases. But God has called us in peace. {{rf{16}}} For how do you know, wife, whether you will save your husband? Or how do you know, husband, whether you will save your wife? {{rf{17}}} But to each one as the Lord has apportioned. As God has called each one, thus let him live -- and thus I order in all the churches. {{rf{18}}} Was anyone called after being circumcised? He must not undo his circumcision. Was anyone called in uncircumcision? He must not become circumcised. {{rf{19}}} Circumcision is nothing and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the commandments of God. {{rf{20}}} Each one in the calling in which he was called -- in this he should remain. {{rf{21}}} Were you called while a slave? Do not let it be a concern to you. But if indeed you are able to become free, rather make use of it. {{rf{22}}} For the one who is called in the Lord while a slave is the Lord's freedperson. Likewise the one who is called while free is a slave of Christ. {{rf{23}}} You were bought at a price; do not become slaves of men. {{rf{24}}} Each one in the situation in which he was called, brothers -- in this he should remain with God. {{rf{25}}} Now concerning virgins I do not have a command from the Lord, but I am giving an opinion as one shown mercy by the Lord to be trustworthy. {{rf{26}}} Therefore, I consider this to be good because of the impending distress, that it is good for a man to be thus. {{rf{27}}} Are you bound to a wife? Do not seek release. Are you free from a wife? Do not seek a wife. {{rf{28}}} But if you marry, you have not sinned, and if the virgin marries, she has not sinned. But such people will have affliction in the flesh, and I would spare you. {{rf{29}}} But I say this, brothers: the time is shortened, that from now on even those who have wives should be as if they do not have wives, {{rf{30}}} and those who weep as if they do not weep, and those who rejoice as if they do not rejoice, and those who buy as if they do not possess, {{rf{31}}} and those who make use of the world as if they do not make full use of it. For the present form of this world is passing away. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|1Cor-07-15]] }}}
{{rf{32}}} But I want you to be free from care. The unmarried person cares for the things of the Lord, how he may please the Lord. {{rf{33}}} But the one who is married cares for the things of the world, how he may please his wife, {{rf{34}}} and he is divided. And the unmarried woman or the virgin cares for the things of the Lord, in order that she may be holy both in body and in spirit. But the married woman cares for the things of the world, how she may please her husband. {{rf{35}}} Now I am saying this for your own benefit, not that I may put a restriction on you, but to promote appropriate and devoted service to the Lord without distraction. {{rf{36}}} But if anyone thinks he is behaving dishonorably concerning his virgin, if she is past her prime and it ought to be thus, let him do what he wishes. He does not sin. Let them marry. {{rf{37}}} But he who stands firm in his heart, not having necessity, but has authority concerning his own will, and has decided this in his own heart, to keep his own virgin, he will do well. {{rf{38}}} So then, the one who marries his own virgin does well, and the one who does not marry her will do better. {{rf{39}}} A wife is bound for as long a time as her husband lives. But if her husband dies, she is free to marry whomever she wishes, only in the Lord. {{rf{40}}} But she is happier if she remains thus, according to my opinion -- and I think I have the Spirit of God. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|1Cor-07-32]] }}}
Now concerning food sacrificed to idols, we know that "we all have knowledge." Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up. {{rf{2}}} If anyone thinks he knows anything, he has not yet known as it is necessary to know. {{rf{3}}} But if anyone loves God, this one is known by him. {{rf{4}}} Therefore, concerning the eating of food sacrificed to idols, we know that "an idol is nothing in the world" and that "there is no God except one." {{rf{5}}} For even if after all there are so-called gods, whether in heaven or on earth, just as there are many gods and many lords, {{rf{6}}} yet to us there is one God, the Father, from whom are all things, and we are for him, and there is one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things, and we are through him. {{rf{7}}} But this knowledge is not in everyone. But some, being accustomed until now to the idol, eat this food as food sacrificed to idols, and their conscience, because it is weak, is defiled. {{rf{8}}} But food does not bring us close to God. For neither if we eat do we have more, nor if we do not eat do we lack. {{rf{9}}} But watch out lest somehow this right of yours becomes a cause for stumbling to the weak. {{rf{10}}} For if someone should see you who has knowledge reclining for a meal in an idol's temple, will not his conscience, because it is weak, be strengthened so that he eats the food sacrificed to idols? {{rf{11}}} For the one who is weak -- the brother for whom Christ died -- is destroyed by your knowledge. {{rf{12}}} Now if you sin in this way against the brothers and wound their conscience, which is weak, you sin against Christ. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|1Cor-08-01]] }}}
<<Bbl 1C 8:1 abbr >>-13 Compares closely with <<Bbl R 14:1 >> - 15:6. Written as an appeal to those who don't believe abstaining from meat is helpful. (I have customarily tried to read it as speaking to the other viewpoint, to my own confusion.) Paul takes pains to examine each point through both eyes, and one detects possible irony.
<<Bbl 1C 8:2 abbr >> see <<Bbl I 5:21 >>,<<Bbl 1C 3:18 >>,<<Bbl 1C 13:8 >>-12 , <<Bbl Gal 6:3 >>
<<Bbl 1C 8:3 abbr >> For, asserts Paul, the marketplace believers are God's people.
<<Bbl 1C 8:4 abbr >> Expounded in vss 5-6.
<<Bbl 1C 8:4 abbr >>-6 Powerful knowledge, and it can go with a snotty attitude - so Paul cuts that short in <<Bbl 1C 8:1 >>-3.
<<Bbl 1C 8:10 abbr >>-11 Knowledge -- that which puffs up, says vs. 1.
9:1-23 "Paul's proud boast" -- he exercises it directly in <<Bbl A 20:33 >>-35.
<<Bbl 1C 9:1 abbr >> . FYI. The self-defense of <<Bbl 1C 9:1 >>ff seems a non-sequitor; <<Bbl 1C 10:1 >>-13 pivots to idolatry.
9:1 Paul covers, respectively, his
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<<Bbl 1C 9:19 abbr >>-23 see <<Bbl Php 2:5 >>-8
<<Bbl 1C 9:20 abbr >>-21 Lancaster says three classes; God-fearers, //under the law// taken to mean proselytes, and Jews. See <<Bbl Gal 4:12 0 note>>.
<<Bbl 1C 9:22 abbr >> Weak as described in chap. 8.
9:27 Paul says //buffet//, not //buff//.
10:1 -- "Upon this [[Rock]] I will build My church." <<Bbl Num 20:9 >>. //All// points back to <<Bbl 1C 9:24 >>a.
10:2 Image of the Spirit and the water. Isasmuch as baptism may here refer to water, it is a figurative or poetic association. It has to refer to more than that as well. And it might not, at all; they were //baptised __into__ Moses//, and after all they walked over with dry feet. Paul may think of it as arch-typical, but it is still based in an image. The physicality gives way immediately to the real and spiritual.
<<Bbl 1C 10:3 abbr >>-04 //Spiritual food// is implicitly likened to communion.
10:6 examples -- [typos], types; RSV says "warnings." There follows a list of five incidents from Exodus and Numbers.
<<Bbl 1C 10:13 abbr >>. That provision, the way of escape, includes training in how to *spot* the way of escape. But this training is available to the obedient heart. For the disobedient, that way of escape whizzes by without notice. "The next thing I knew, right out of the blue, there I was, sinning." __Closing the Window__, p 89.
<<Bbl 1C 10:13 abbr >> This grace of God is well attested in the narratives from which Paul is preaching. There could have been many Calebs and Joshuas.
<<Bbl 1C 10:14 abbr >>-22 is an exhortion against the idolatry of the believer; possibly Paul is preventing a hazard of idolatry being compartmentalized as a Greek activity (<<Bbl 1C 10:7 >>) or an external activity (<<Bbl 1C 8:10 >>).
<<Bbl 1C 10:16 abbr >>-17 Anticipates <<Bbl 1C 11:20 abbr >>.
<<Bbl 1C 10:17 abbr >> . The oneness of God indicates the unity of God's people. This theme pursued in <<Bbl 1C 11:12 >>, <<Bbl 1C 11:18 >>-19, <<Bbl 1C 12:4 >>-32,
<<Bbl 1C 10:18 abbr >> - 11:1 -- [[Scruples]]
<<Bbl 1C 10:18 abbr >> <<Bbl R 9:13 >>.
<<Bbl 1C 10:20 abbr >>-22 See <<Bbl Dt 32:16 >>-17.
<<Bbl 1C 10:23 abbr >> takes up where <<Bbl 1C 8:13 abbr >> left off.
<<Bbl 1C 10:27 abbr >>
<<Bbl 1C 10:31 abbr >> Seems to refer directly to <<Bbl Zech 7:6 >>
{{rf{13}}} Therefore, if food causes my brother to sin, I will never eat meat forever, in order that I may not cause my brother to sin. {{rf big{1}}} Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus our Lord? Are you not my work in the Lord? {{rf{2}}} If to others I am not an apostle, yet indeed I am to you, for you are my seal of apostleship in the Lord. {{rf{3}}} My defense to those who examine me is this: {{rf{4}}} Do we not have the right to eat and drink? {{rf{5}}} Do we not have the right to take along a sister as wife, like the rest of the apostles and the brothers of the Lord and Cephas? {{rf{6}}} Or do only I and Barnabas not have the right to refrain from working? {{rf{7}}} Who ever serves as a soldier at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat the fruit of it? Who shepherds a flock and does not drink from the milk of the flock? {{rf{8}}} I am not saying these things according to a human perspective. Or does the law not also say these things? {{rf{9}}} For in the law of Moses it is written, "You must not muzzle an ox while it is threshing." It is not about oxen God is concerned, is it? {{rf{10}}} Or doubtless does he speak for our sake? For it is written for our sake, because the one who plows ought to plow in hope and the one who threshes ought to do so in hope of a share. {{rf{11}}} If we have sown spiritual things among you, is it too great a thing if we reap material things from you? {{rf{12}}} If others share this right over you, do we not do so even more? Yet we have not made use of this right, but we endure all things, in order that we may not cause any hindrance to the gospel of Christ. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|1Cor-08-13]] }}}
{{rf{13}}} Do you not know that those performing the holy services eat the things from the temple, and those attending to the altar have a share with the altar? {{rf{14}}} In the same way also the Lord ordered those who proclaim the gospel to live from the gospel. {{rf{15}}} But I have not made use of any of these rights. And I am not writing these things in order that it may be thus with me. For it would be better to me rather to die than for anyone to deprive me of my reason for boasting. {{rf{16}}} For if I proclaim the gospel, it is not to me a reason for boasting, for necessity is imposed on me. For woe is to me if I do not proclaim the gospel. {{rf{17}}} For if I do this voluntarily, I have a reward, but if I do so unwillingly, I have been entrusted with a stewardship. {{rf{18}}} What then is my reward? That when I proclaim the gospel, I may offer the gospel free of charge, in order not to make full use of my right in the gospel. {{rf{19}}} For although I am free from all people, I have enslaved myself to all, in order that I may gain more. {{rf{20}}} I have become like a Jew to the Jews, in order that I may gain the Jews. To those under the law I became as under the law (although I myself am not under the law) in order that I may gain those under the law. {{rf{21}}} To those outside the law I became as outside the law (although I am not outside the law of God, but subject to the law of Christ) in order that I may gain those outside the law. {{rf{22}}} To the weak I became weak, in order that I may gain the weak. I have become all things to all people, in order that by all means I may save some. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|1Cor-09-13]] }}}
{{rf{23}}} I do all this for the sake of the gospel, in order that I may become a participant with it. {{rf{24}}} Do you not know that those who run in the stadium all run, but one receives the prize? Run in such a way that you may win. {{rf{25}}} And everyone who competes exercises self-control in all things. Thus those do so in order that they may receive a perishable crown, but we an imperishable one. {{rf{26}}} Therefore I run in this way, not as running aimlessly; I box in this way, not as beating the air. {{rf{27}}} But I discipline my body and subjugate it, lest somehow after preaching to others, I myself should become disqualified. {{rf big{1}}} For I do not want you to be ignorant, brothers, that our fathers were all under the cloud and all went through the sea, {{rf{2}}} and all were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea, {{rf{3}}} and all ate the same spiritual food, {{rf{4}}} and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank from the spiritual rock that followed them, and the rock was Christ. {{rf{5}}} But God was not pleased with the majority of them, for they were struck down in the desert. {{rf{6}}} Now these things happened as examples for us, so that we should not be desirers of evil things, just as those also desired them, {{rf{7}}} and not become idolaters, as some of them did, just as it is written, "The people sat down to eat and drink, and stood up to play," {{rf{8}}} nor commit sexual immorality, as some of them committed sexual immorality, and twenty-three thousand fell in one day, {{rf{9}}} nor put Christ to the test, as some of them tested him, and were destroyed by snakes, {{rf{10}}} nor grumble, just as some of them grumbled, and were destroyed by the destroyer. {{rf{11}}} Now these things happened to those people as an example, but are written for our instruction, on whom the ends of the ages have come. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|1Cor-09-23]] }}}
{{rf{12}}} Therefore, the one who thinks that he stands must watch out lest he fall. {{rf{13}}} Temptation has not come upon you except what is common to humanity. But God is faithful, who will not permit you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but will also make a way out together with the temptation, so that you may be able to endure it. {{rf{14}}} Therefore, my dear friends, flee from idolatry. {{rf{15}}} I am speaking as to sensible people; you judge what I am saying. {{rf{16}}} The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not a participation in the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not a participation in the body of Christ? {{rf{17}}} Because there is one bread, we who are many are one body, for we all share from the one bread. {{rf{18}}} Consider Israel according to the flesh: are not the ones who eat the sacrifices sharers in the altar? {{rf{19}}} Therefore, what am I saying? That food sacrificed to idols is anything, or that an idol is anything? {{rf{20}}} No, but that the things which they sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons and not to God, and I do not want you to become sharers with demons. {{rf{21}}} You are not able to drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons. You are not able to share the table of the Lord and the table of demons. {{rf{22}}} Or are we attempting to provoke the Lord to jealousy? We are not stronger than he is, are we? {{rf{23}}} All things are permitted, but not all things are profitable. All things are permitted, but not all things build up. {{rf{24}}} Let no one seek his own good but the good of the other. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|1Cor-10-12]] }}}
{{rf{25}}} Eat everything that is sold in the meat market, asking no questions for the sake of the conscience, {{rf{26}}} for "the earth is the Lord's, and its fullness." {{rf{27}}} If any of the unbelievers invites you, and you want to go, eat everything that is set before you, asking no questions for the sake of the conscience. {{rf{28}}} But if someone says to you, "This is offered to idols," do not eat it, for the sake of that one who informed you and the conscience. {{rf{29}}} Now I am not speaking about your own conscience, but the conscience of the other person. For why is my freedom judged by another's conscience? {{rf{30}}} If I partake with thankfulness, why am I slandered concerning that for which I give thanks? {{rf{31}}} Therefore, whether you eat or you drink or whatever you do, do all things for the glory of God. {{rf{32}}} Give no offense both to Jews and to Greeks and to the church of God, {{rf{33}}} just as I also please all people in all things, not seeking my own benefit, but the benefit of the many, in order that they may be saved. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|1Cor-10-25]] }}}
Become imitators of me, just as I also am of Christ. {{rf{2}}} Now I praise you that you remember me in all things, and just as I handed over to you the traditions, you hold fast to them. {{rf{3}}} But I want you to know that Christ is the head of every man, and the man is the head of the woman, and the head of Christ is God. {{rf{4}}} Every man who prays or prophesies while having something on his head dishonors his head, {{rf{5}}} but every woman who prays or prophesies with uncovered head dishonors her head, for she is one and the same with the one whose head is shaved. {{rf{6}}} For if a woman does not cover herself, let her hair be shorn off. But if it is shameful for a woman to have her head shorn or shaved, let her cover her head. {{rf{7}}} For indeed a man ought not to cover his head, because he is the image and glory of God, but the woman is the glory of the man. {{rf{8}}} For man is not from woman, but woman from man. {{rf{9}}} For indeed man was not created for the sake of the woman, but woman for the sake of the man. {{rf{10}}} Because of this, the woman ought to have a symbol of authority on her head, on account of the angels. {{rf{11}}} Nevertheless, neither is woman anything apart from man, nor is man anything apart from woman in the Lord. {{rf{12}}} For just as the woman is from the man, thus also the man is through the woman. But all things are from God. {{rf{13}}} You judge for yourselves: is it fitting for a woman to pray to God with her head uncovered? {{rf{14}}} And does not nature itself teach you that a man, if he wears long hair, it is a dishonor to him? {{rf{15}}} But a woman, if she wears long hair, it is her glory, because her hair is given for a covering. {{rf{16}}} But if anyone is disposed to be contentious, we have no such custom, nor do the churches of God. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|1Cor-11-01]] }}}
<<Bbl 1C 11:1 abbr>> seems to belong with 1C 10:32. @@Division@@
11:4-6 Paul deals with some public aspects of public worship. He is describing current mores, not prescribing new ones. For a woman to come without a shawl would have been like arriving in a two-piece bikini today. Prostitutes had their heads shaved.
<<Bbl 1C 11:18 abbr >>-19 (which connects the issues of personal favoritism with the Lord's Supper)
<<Bbl 1C 11:19 abbr >> I //think// this means God allows there to be occasions for [[Stumble]] so the true saints can be identified through their righteous response. Perhaps it means the sense of popularity for a select few tells Paul there must be factions.
<<Bbl 1C 11:26 abbr>> According to F.F. Bruce, this probably refers to a spoken Passion narrative.
11:27-29 unworthy manner -- not acknowledging the complete useless of our flesh. Judas certainly violated this principle. See <<Bbl Pr 4:17 >>, <<Bbl Pr 30:20 >>.
<<Bbl 1C 11:32 abbr >> Consider the original Passover.
<<Bbl 1C 12:3 abbr >> see many verses in John's writings (<<Bbl 1J 4:2 >>-3 ), also <<Bbl I 26:13 >>.
<<Bbl 1C 12:4 abbr >>-31 The variety of gifts is a demonstration of diversity, which argues for [[Unity]]. The goal is not a catalog, as for shopping. (The Corinthians were all too good at inventory.)
<<Bbl 1C 12:12 abbr >>-31 Compares closely with <<Bbl R 12:3 >>-8 . Also, look ahead to 14:1.
<<Bbl 1C 12:20 abbr >> A [[2010 statement|ag.org/Beliefs/Topics-Index/Baptism-in-the-Holy-Spirit]] from the Assemblies of God denomination says Paul means there are some church meetings that don't have the use of tongues (allowing them to preserve the wrong and hurtful teaching of "evidential tongues"). It claims support from the next rhetorical question, //Do all interpret?// (which alludes presumably to <<Bbl 1C 14:13 abbr>>). This is puffily presented as "both the broad context and the immediate context", but in truth the context is the arrangement of the members in the body - the eye is not the ear, and so on. Their interpretation is like saying "the eye is not the ear, sometimes". And it doesn't make sense to say offices of apostle, prophet, and teacher (v 28) happen only in some meetings.
<<Bbl 1C 12:31 abbr >> Some imagine sarcasm, but <<Bbl 1C 14:1 >> is a sequel doesn't support that.
<<Bbl 1C 13:1 abbr>> It's praise, to be sure, with its own value; compare <<Bbl Ps 150:5 >>.
* From //knowing// to //annoying//
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<<Bbl 1C 13:4 abbr >> See <<Bbl Titus 3:3 >>-4
<<Bbl 1C 13:11 abbr >> //I behaved as a child -- // I hear this mistakenly applied as an exhortation from Paul to "Grow up!"
<<Bbl 1C 13:13 abbr >> Love continues in Heaven, unlike the others. <<Bbl 1J 3:2 >>, "Abandon hope, all ye who enter here" was the entrance-sign to Dante's hell; Heaven is the end of hope through it's fulfillment.
14:1 Closes the passage, as 12:31 opened it.
14:11 More of the fruit of Babel.
{{rf{17}}} But in giving this instruction I do not praise you, because you come together not for the better but for the worse. {{rf{18}}} For in the first place, when you come together as a church, I hear there are divisions among you, and in part I believe it. {{rf{19}}} For indeed it is necessary that there be factions among you, in order that those who are approved may become evident among you. {{rf{20}}} Therefore, when you come together in the same place, it is not to eat the Lord's supper. {{rf{21}}} For when you eat it, each one of you goes ahead to take his own supper, and one is hungry and another is drunk. {{rf{22}}} For do you not have houses for eating and drinking? Or do you despise the church of God and humiliate those who do not have anything? What shall I say to you? Shall I praise you? In this I will not praise you! {{rf{23}}} For I received from the Lord what I also passed on to you, that the Lord Jesus, on the night in which he was betrayed, took bread, {{rf{24}}} and after he had given thanks, he broke it and said, "This is my body which is for you. Do this in remembrance of me." {{rf{25}}} Likewise also the cup, after they had eaten, saying, "This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me." {{rf{26}}} For as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord's death until he comes. {{rf{27}}} So then, whoever eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty of the body and the blood of the Lord. {{rf{28}}} But let a person examine himself, and in this way let him eat from the bread and let him drink from the cup. {{rf{29}}} For the one who eats and drinks, if he does not recognize the body, eats and drinks judgment against himself. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|1Cor-11-17]] }}}
{{rf{30}}} Because of this, many are weak and sick among you, and quite a few have died. {{rf{31}}} But if we were evaluating ourselves, we would not be judged. {{rf{32}}} But if we are judged by the Lord, we are being disciplined, in order that we will not be condemned with the world. {{rf{33}}} So then, my brothers, when you come together in order to eat the Lord's supper, wait for one another. {{rf{34}}} If anyone is hungry, let him eat at home, lest you come together for judgment. And I will give directions about the remaining matters whenever I come. {{rf big{1}}} Now concerning spiritual gifts, brothers, I do not want you to be ignorant. {{rf{2}}} You know that when you were pagans, you were led astray to the speechless idols, however you were led. {{rf{3}}} Therefore I make known to you that no one speaking by the Spirit of God says, "Jesus is accursed," and no one is able to say "Jesus is Lord" except by the Holy Spirit. {{rf{4}}} Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit, {{rf{5}}} and there are varieties of ministries, and the same Lord, {{rf{6}}} and there are varieties of activities, but the same God, who works all things in all people. {{rf{7}}} But to each one is given the manifestation of the Spirit for what is beneficial to all. {{rf{8}}} For to one is given a word of wisdom through the Spirit, and to another a word of knowledge by the same Spirit, {{rf{9}}} to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healing by the one Spirit, {{rf{10}}} to another miraculous powers, to another prophecy, to another distinguishing of spirits, to another kinds of tongues, to another interpretation of tongues. {{rf{11}}} But in all these things one and the same Spirit is at work, distributing to each one individually just as he wishes. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|1Cor-11-30]] }}}
{{rf{12}}} For just as the body is one and has many members, but all the members of the body, although they are many, are one body, thus also Christ. {{rf{13}}} For by one Spirit we were all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free persons, and all were made to drink one Spirit. {{rf{14}}} For the body is not one member, but many. {{rf{15}}} If the foot should say, "Because I am not a hand, I am not a part of the body," not because of this is it not a part of the body. {{rf{16}}} And if the ear should say, "Because I am not an eye, I am not a part of the body, not because of this is it not a part of the body. {{rf{17}}} If the whole body were an eye, where would the hearing be? If the whole were hearing, where would the sense of smell be? {{rf{18}}} But now God has placed the members, each one of them, in the body just as he wanted. {{rf{19}}} And if they all were one member, where would the body be? {{rf{20}}} But now there are many members, but one body. {{rf{21}}} Now the eye is not able to say to the hand, "I do not have need of you," or again, the head to the feet, "I do not have need of you." {{rf{22}}} But by much more the members of the body which are thought to be weaker are necessary, {{rf{23}}} and the parts of the body which we think to be less honorable, these we clothe with more abundant honor, and our unpresentable parts come to have more abundant presentability, {{rf{24}}} but our presentable parts do not have need of this. Yet God composed the body by giving more abundant honor to the part which lacked it, {{rf{25}}} in order that there not be a division in the body, but the members would have the same concern for one another. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|1Cor-12-12]] }}}
{{rf{26}}} And if one member suffers, all the members suffer together; if a member is honored, all the members rejoice with it. {{rf{27}}} Now you are the body of Christ, and members of it individually, {{rf{28}}} and whom God has appointed in the church: first, apostles, second, prophets, third, teachers, then miracles, then gifts of healing, helps, administrations, kinds of tongues. {{rf{29}}} Not all are apostles, are they? Not all are prophets, are they? Not all are teachers, are they? Not all are workers of miracles, are they? {{rf{30}}} Not all have gifts of healing, do they? Not all speak with tongues, do they? Not all interpret, do they? {{rf{31}}} But strive for the greater gifts. And I will show you a still more excellent way. {{rf big{1}}} If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but do not have love, I have become a ringing brass gong or a clashing cymbal. {{rf{2}}} And if I have the gift of prophecy and I know all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith so that I can remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. {{rf{3}}} And if I parcel out all my possessions, and if I hand over my body in order that I will be burned, but do not have love, it benefits me nothing. {{rf{4}}} Love is patient, love is kind, love is not jealous, it does not boast, it does not become conceited, {{rf{5}}} it does not behave dishonorably, it is not selfish, it does not become angry, it does not keep a record of wrongs, {{rf{6}}} it does not rejoice at unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth, {{rf{7}}} bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|1Cor-12-26]] }}}
{{rf{8}}} Love never ends. But if there are prophecies, they will pass away. If there are tongues, they will cease. If there is knowledge, it will pass away. {{rf{9}}} For we know in part and we prophesy in part, {{rf{10}}} but whenever the perfect comes, the partial will pass away. {{rf{11}}} When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I set aside the things of a child. {{rf{12}}} For now we see through a mirror indirectly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know completely, just as I have also been completely known. {{rf{13}}} And now these three things remain: faith, hope, and love. But the greatest of these is love. {{rf big{1}}} Pursue love, and strive for spiritual gifts, but especially that you may prophesy. {{rf{2}}} For the one who speaks in a tongue does not speak to people but to God, because no one understands, but by the Spirit he speaks mysteries. {{rf{3}}} But the one who prophesies speaks to people edification and encouragement and consolation. {{rf{4}}} The one who speaks in a tongue edifies himself, but the one who prophesies edifies the church. {{rf{5}}} Now I want you all to speak with tongues, but even more that you may prophesy. The one who prophesies is greater than the one who speaks with tongues, unless he interprets, in order that the church may receive edification. {{rf{6}}} But now, brothers, if I come to you speaking with tongues, how do I benefit you, unless I speak to you either with a revelation or with knowledge or with a prophecy or with a teaching? {{rf{7}}} Likewise, the inanimate things which produce a sound, whether flute or lyre, if they do not produce a distinction in the tones, how will it be known what is played on the flute or on the lyre? {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|1Cor-13-08]] }}}
{{rf{8}}} For indeed, if the trumpet produces an indistinct sound, who will prepare for battle? {{rf{9}}} And so you through the tongue, unless you produce a clear message, how will it be known what is spoken? For you will be speaking into the air. {{rf{10}}} There are probably so many kinds of languages in the world, and none without meaning. {{rf{11}}} Therefore, if I do not know the meaning of the language, I will be a barbarian to the one who is speaking, and the one who is speaking will be a barbarian in my judgment. {{rf{12}}} In this way also you, since you are zealous of spiritual gifts, seek for the edification of the church, in order that you may abound. {{rf{13}}} Therefore the one who speaks in a tongue must pray that he may interpret. {{rf{14}}} For if I pray in a tongue, my spirit prays but my mind is unproductive. {{rf{15}}} Therefore what should I do? I will pray with my spirit, but I will also pray with my mind. I will sing praise with my spirit, but I will also sing praise with my mind. {{rf{16}}} For otherwise, if you praise in your spirit, how will the one who fills the place of the outsider say the "amen" at your thanksgiving, because he does not know what you are saying? {{rf{17}}} For indeed you are giving thanks well, but the other person is not edified. {{rf{18}}} I give thanks to God that I speak with tongues more than all of you, {{rf{19}}} but in the church I prefer to speak five words with my mind, in order that I may instruct other people, than ten thousand words in a tongue. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|1Cor-14-08]] }}}
{{rf{20}}} Brothers, do not become children in your understanding, but with respect to wickedness be as a child, and in your understanding be mature. {{rf{21}}} In the law it is written: "By those who speak a foreign language and by the lips of others I will speak to this people, and not even in this way will they obey me," says the Lord. {{rf{22}}} So then, tongues are for a sign not to those who believe, but to unbelievers, but prophecy is not for unbelievers, but for those who believe. {{rf{23}}} Therefore, if the whole church comes together at the same time and all speak with tongues, and outsiders or unbelievers enter, will they not say that you are out of your minds? {{rf{24}}} But if all prophesy, and some unbeliever or outsider enters, he is convicted by all, he is judged by all, {{rf{25}}} the secret things of his heart become evident, and so, falling on his face, he will worship God, proclaiming, "God is truly among you!" {{rf{26}}} Therefore what should you do, brothers? Whenever you come together, each one of you has a psalm, has a teaching, has a revelation, has a tongue, has an interpretation. All things must be done for edification. {{rf{27}}} If anyone speaks in a tongue, it must be on one occasion two or at most three, and one after the other, and one must interpret. {{rf{28}}} But if there is no interpreter, he must be silent in the church, but let him speak to himself and to God. {{rf{29}}} Let two or three prophets speak, and the others evaluate. {{rf{30}}} And if something is revealed to another who is seated, the first must be silent. {{rf{31}}} For you are all able to prophesy in turn, in order that all may learn and all may be encouraged, {{rf{32}}} and the spirits of prophets are subject to prophets. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|1Cor-14-20]] }}}
14:23 In our time we must deal with the //spiritually ignorant or ungifted//, but also the traumatized and skeptical.
<<Bbl 1C 14:33 abbr >>b-38 Vs. 36 reveals dire disunity or at least the potential.
14:33 The NIV closes one sentence with the word peace and throws the rest in with the next verse. Wherever we place the clause, Paul is saying that the consensus of the church is indicative of the will of God. John says something like this in <<Bbl 1J 2:18 >>.
<<Bbl 1C 14:34 abbr >>-35 The larger context might lead one to restrict the command of v. 34 to tongues and prophecy, but verse 35 includes normal speech.
<<Bbl 1C 15:1 abbr >>-2 Four whichs -- good preaching.
<<Bbl 1C 15:1 abbr >>-3 //hear, preached, believe, receive, stand upon, hold to, pass on, remind// -- verbs all applied to salvation and the Gospel.
<<Bbl 1C 15:5 abbr >>-8. Reference a song from the dining dynamic clark sisters.
<<Bbl 1C 15:11 abbr >> <<Bbl 1C 15:18 >>.
<<Bbl 1C 15:18 abbr >> <<Bbl 1C 15:11 >>.
<<Bbl 1C 15:21 abbr>>-22,45-50 Compares closely with <<Bbl R 5:12 >>-19 .
<<Bbl 1C 15:23 abbr >> <<Bbl Pr 27:17 >> about //good// company.
15:27 <<Bbl H 2:8 >> quotes the same Psalm and draws a similar conclusion.
15:29 If //for// means "concerning", then <<Bbl Col 2:12 >> would be another verse with the same idea. Hobbs (Preaching Values from the Papyri, pp 39-40) evinces this view.
15:32 See <<Bbl 1Tim 4:17 >>.
<<Bbl 1C 15:33 abbr >>-33 The question of the resurrection seems to be the only point addressed by Paul as a doctrinal division among the Corinthians (v. 12). Here he says that bad company corrupts good morals ([[Debauchery]]), but the context implies another point: bad doctrine corrupts good morals. A doctrine denying the resurrection will lessen a sense of daily spiritual responsibility.
16:5 But Paul was deterred; <<Bbl 2C 1:23>>ff
{{rf{33}}} For God is not a God of disorder but of peace. As in all the churches of the saints, {{rf{34}}} the women must be silent in the churches, for it is not permitted for them to speak, but they must be in submission, just as the law also says. {{rf{35}}} But if they want to learn something, let them ask their own husbands at home, for it is shameful for a woman to speak in church. {{rf{36}}} Or has the word of God gone out from you, or has it come to you only? {{rf{37}}} If anyone thinks he is a prophet or spiritual, he should recognize that the things which I am writing to you are of the Lord. {{rf{38}}} But if anyone ignores this, he is ignored. {{rf{39}}} So then, my brothers, desire to prophesy, and do not prevent speaking with tongues. {{rf{40}}} But let all things be done decently and according to proper procedure. {{rf big{1}}} Now I make known to you, brothers, the gospel which I proclaimed to you, which you have also received, in which you also stand, {{rf{2}}} by which you are also being saved, if you hold fast to the message I proclaimed to you, unless you believed to no purpose. {{rf{3}}} For I passed on to you as of first importance what I also received, that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures, {{rf{4}}} and that he was buried, and that he was raised up on the third day according to the scriptures, {{rf{5}}} and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve, {{rf{6}}} then he appeared to more than five hundred brothers at once, the majority of whom remain until now, but some have fallen asleep. {{rf{7}}} Then he appeared to James, then to all the apostles, {{rf{8}}} and last of all, as it were to one born at the wrong time, he appeared also to me. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|1Cor-14-33]] }}}
{{rf{9}}} For I am the least of the apostles, not worthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God. {{rf{10}}} But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace to me has not been in vain, but I labored even more than all of them, and not I, but the grace of God with me. {{rf{11}}} Therefore whether I or those, in this way we preached, and in this way you believed. {{rf{12}}} Now if Christ is preached as raised up from the dead, how do some among you say that there is no resurrection of the dead? {{rf{13}}} But if there is no resurrection of the dead, Christ has not been raised either. {{rf{14}}} But if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is in vain, and your faith is in vain. {{rf{15}}} And also we are found to be false witnesses of God, because we testified against God that he raised Christ, whom he did not raise if after all, then, the dead are not raised. {{rf{16}}} For if the dead are not raised, Christ has not been raised either. {{rf{17}}} But if Christ has not been raised, your faith is empty; you are still in your sins. {{rf{18}}} And as a further result, those who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished. {{rf{19}}} If we have put our hope in Christ in this life only, we are of all people most pitiable. {{rf{20}}} But now Christ has been raised from the dead, the first fruits of those who have fallen asleep. {{rf{21}}} For since through a man came death, also through a man came the resurrection of the dead. {{rf{22}}} For just as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all will be made alive. {{rf{23}}} But each in his own group: Christ the first fruits, then those who are Christ's at his coming, {{rf{24}}} then the end, when he hands over the kingdom to the God and Father, when he has abolished all rule and all authority and power. {{rf{25}}} For it is necessary for him to reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|1Cor-15-09]] }}}
{{rf{26}}} The last enemy to be abolished is death. {{rf{27}}} For "he subjected all things under his feet." But when it says "all things" are subjected, it is clear that the one who subjected all things to him is not included. {{rf{28}}} But whenever all things are subjected to him, then the Son himself will be subjected to the one who subjected all things to him, in order that God may be all in all. {{rf{29}}} Otherwise, why do they do it, those who are being baptized on behalf of the dead? If the dead are not raised at all, why indeed are they being baptized on behalf of them? {{rf{30}}} And why are we in danger every hour? {{rf{31}}} I die every day -- yes indeed, by my boasting in you, which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord! {{rf{32}}} If according to a human perspective I fought wild beasts at Ephesus, what benefit is it to me? If the dead are not raised, let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die. {{rf{33}}} Do not be deceived! "Bad company corrupts good morals." {{rf{34}}} Sober up correctly and stop sinning, for some have no knowledge of God -- I say this to your shame. {{rf{35}}} But someone will say, "How are the dead raised? And with what sort of body do they come?" {{rf{36}}} Foolish person! What you sow does not come to life unless it dies. {{rf{37}}} And what you sow is not the body which it will become, but you sow the bare seed, whether perhaps of wheat or of some of the rest. {{rf{38}}} But God gives to it a body just as he wishes, and to each one of the seeds its own body. {{rf{39}}} Not all flesh is the same, but there is one flesh of human beings, and another flesh of animals, and another flesh of birds, and another of fish, {{rf{40}}} and heavenly bodies and earthly bodies. But the glory of the heavenly bodies is of one kind, and the glory of the earthly bodies is of another kind. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|1Cor-15-26]] }}}
{{rf{41}}} There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars, for star differs from star in glory. {{rf{42}}} Thus also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption, it is raised in incorruptibility. {{rf{43}}} It is sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness, it is raised in power. {{rf{44}}} It is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body. {{rf{45}}} Thus also it is written, "The first man, Adam, became a living soul"; the last Adam became a life-giving spirit. {{rf{46}}} But the spiritual is not first, but the natural; then the spiritual. {{rf{47}}} The first man is from the earth, made of earth; the second man is from heaven. {{rf{48}}} As the one who is made of earth, so also are those who are made of earth, and as the heavenly, so also are those who are heavenly. {{rf{49}}} And just as we have borne the image of the one who is made of earth, we will also bear the image of the heavenly. {{rf{50}}} But I say this, brothers, that flesh and blood is not able to inherit the kingdom of God, nor can corruption inherit incorruptibility. {{rf{51}}} Behold, I tell you a mystery: we will not all fall asleep, but we will all be changed, {{rf{52}}} in a moment, in the blink of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed. {{rf{53}}} For it is necessary for this perishable body to put on incorruptibility, and this mortal body to put on immortality. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|1Cor-15-41]] }}}
{{rf{54}}} But whenever this perishable body puts on incorruptibility and this mortal body puts on immortality, then the saying that is written will take place: "Death is swallowed up in victory. {{rf{55}}} Where, O death, is your victory? Where, O death, is your sting? {{rf{56}}} Now the sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. {{rf{57}}} But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ! {{rf{58}}} So then, my dear brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, because you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord. {{rf big{1}}} Now concerning the collection for the saints: just as I gave directions about it to the churches of Galatia, so you do also. {{rf{2}}} On the first day of the week, each one of you put aside something, saving up to whatever extent he has prospered, in order that whenever I come, at that time collections do not take place. {{rf{3}}} And whenever I arrive, whomever you approve by letters, I will send these to take your gift to Jerusalem. {{rf{4}}} And if it is worthwhile for me to go also, they will travel with me. {{rf{5}}} But I will come to you whenever I go through Macedonia (for I am going through Macedonia), {{rf{6}}} and perhaps I will stay with you, or even spend the winter, so that you may send me on my way wherever I may go. {{rf{7}}} For I do not want to see you now in passing, for I hope to remain some time with you, if the Lord allows it. {{rf{8}}} But I will remain in Ephesus until Pentecost, {{rf{9}}} for a great and effective door has opened for me, and there are many opponents. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|1Cor-15-54]] }}}
{{rf{10}}} But if Timothy comes, see that he is with you without cause to fear, for he is carrying out the Lord's work, as I also am. {{rf{11}}} Therefore do not let anyone disdain him, but send him on his way in peace in order that he may come to me, for I am expecting him with the brothers. {{rf{12}}} Now concerning Apollos our brother, I urged him many times that he should come to you with the brothers, and he was not at all willing that he should come now, but he will come whenever he has an opportunity. {{rf{13}}} Be on the alert, stand firm in the faith, act courageously, be strong. {{rf{14}}} All your actions must be done in love. {{rf{15}}} Now I urge you, brothers -- you know about the household of Stephanas, that they are the first fruits of Achaia, and they have devoted themselves to the ministry for the saints -- {{rf{16}}} that you also be subject to such people, and to all those who work together and labor. {{rf{17}}} Now I rejoice over the arrival of Stephanas and Fortunatus and Achaicus, because these make up for your absence, {{rf{18}}} for they have refreshed my spirit and yours. Therefore recognize such people. {{rf{19}}} The churches of the province of Asia greet you. Aquila and Prisca greet you in the Lord many times, together with the church in their house. {{rf{20}}} All the brothers greet you. Greet one another with a holy kiss. {{rf{21}}} The greeting is by my hand -- Paul's. {{rf{22}}} If anyone does not love the Lord, let him be accursed. O Lord, come! {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|1Cor-16-10]] }}}
{{rf{23}}} The grace of the Lord Jesus be with you. {{rf{24}}} My love be with all of you in Christ Jesus. LENGTH SHORT {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|1Cor-16-23]] }}}
What was from the beginning, what we have heard, what we have seen with our eyes, what we have looked at and our hands have touched, concerning the word of life -- {{rf{2}}} and the life was revealed, and we have seen and testify and announce to you the eternal life which was with the Father and was revealed to us -- {{rf{3}}} what we have seen and heard, we announce to you also, in order that you also may have fellowship with us, and indeed our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ. {{rf{4}}} And these things we write, in order that our joy may be complete. {{rf{5}}} And this is the message which we have heard from him and announce to you, that God is light and there is no darkness in him at all. {{rf{6}}} If we say that we have fellowship with him and walk in the darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth. {{rf{7}}} But if we walk in the light as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin. {{rf{8}}} If we say that we do not have sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us. {{rf{9}}} If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just, so that he will forgive us our sins and will cleanse us from all unrighteousness. {{rf{10}}} If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|1John-01-01]] }}}
The phrase "we know" ties together much of the book.
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<<Bbl 1J 1:1 abbr >>ff fellowship, it's basis
1:1-2 The emphasis on eye-witness truth which marks some of John's passages is, I am told, part of his argument against the gnostic doctrine which held the advent of Jesus to be less than fully human, fully physical.
1:8 Compare <<Bbl Pr 28:13 >>.
<<Bbl 1J 1:11 abbr>> cleansing. Is it that same verb for pruning?
<<Bbl 1J 2:1 abbr >> The same word as in John's gospel, indicating someone called alongside.
2:2 Here is a sharp statement for unlimited atonement, like <<Bbl 1Tim 4:10 >>.
<<Bbl 1J 2:4 abbr >> "I have come to know Him" -- this is a perfect participle.
<<Bbl 1J 2:12 abbr >>-14 is not for taxonomy! It is for unity, for appreciating another category in age. Note also generalization.
<<Bbl 1J 2:15 abbr >> this too is essential to unity, see v 10. Compare <<Bbl Jms 4:4 >>.
<<Bbl 1J 2:18 abbr >>-19 From among your own selves -- compare <<Bbl A 20:29 >>-30 .
<<Bbl 1J 3:1 abbr >> //Behold what manner// invites or anticipates amazement, compare the same wording in <<Bbl Mk 4:41 >>. Wuest renders great as "exotic". Compare <<Bbl 1C 2:14 >>.
<<Bbl 1J 3:2 abbr >> See <<Bbl Mt 10:24 >>-25 ; <<Bbl L 6:10 >>.
<<Bbl 1J 3:15 abbr >> This follows the reference to Cain, vs.12.
3:20 Compare <<Bbl Ps 119:32 >>.
<<Bbl 1J 3:23 abbr >> Compare <<Bbl J 6:29 >>.
<<Bbl 1J 4:2 abbr >> //has come// is a perfect participle (compare <<Bbl 1J 5:20 abbr >>), indicating that He is even now in the flesh .
4:3 Refering to gnosticism.
4:6 Compare <<Bbl 1Tim 6:3 >>-7 .
<<Bbl 1J 5:3 abbr >> see <<Bbl Dt 28:11 >>-14.
<<Bbl 1J 5:7 abbr >> Entertaining history. Vulgate, Erasmus, KJV.
<<Bbl 1J 5:13 abbr >> See <<Bbl J 19:35 >>.
<<Bbl 1J 5:19 abbr >> John Stott calls this "a fact of great solemnity."
5:20 See 4:2
My little children, I am writing these things to you in order that you may not sin. And if anyone sins, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous one, {{rf{2}}} and he is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world. {{rf{3}}} And by this we know that we have come to know him, if we keep his commandments. {{rf{4}}} The one who says "I have come to know him," and does not keep his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in this person. {{rf{5}}} But whoever keeps his word, truly in this person the love of God has been perfected. By this we know that we are in him. {{rf{6}}} The one who says that he resides in him ought also to walk just as that one walked. {{rf{7}}} Dear friends, I am not writing a new commandment to you, but an old commandment which you have had from the beginning. The old commandment is the message which you have heard. {{rf{8}}} Again, I am writing a new commandment to you, which is true in him and in you, because the darkness is passing away and the true light already is shining. {{rf{9}}} The one who says he is in the light and hates his brother is in the darkness until now. {{rf{10}}} The one who loves his brother resides in the light, and there is no cause for stumbling in him. {{rf{11}}} But the one who hates his brother is in the darkness, and walks in the darkness, and does not know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|1John-02-01]] }}}
{{rf{12}}} I am writing to you, little children, because your sins have been forgiven you on account of his name. {{rf{13}}} I am writing to you, fathers, because you have known the One who is from the beginning. I am writing to you, young men, because you have conquered the evil one. {{rf{14}}} I have written to you, children, because you have known the Father. I have written to you, fathers, because you have known the One who is from the beginning. I have written to you, young men, because you are strong, and the word of God resides in you, and you have conquered the evil one. {{rf{15}}} Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him, {{rf{16}}} because everything that is in the world -- the desire of the flesh and the desire of the eyes and the arrogance of material possessions -- is not from the Father, but is from the world. {{rf{17}}} And the world is passing away, and its desire, but the one who does the will of God remains forever. {{rf{18}}} Children, it is the last hour, and just as you have heard that antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have arisen, by which we know that it is the last hour. {{rf{19}}} They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have remained with us. But they went out, in order that it might be shown that all of them are not of us. {{rf{20}}} And you have an anointing from the Holy One, and you all know. {{rf{21}}} I have not written to you because you do not know the truth, but because you do know it, and because every lie is not of the truth. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|1John-02-12]] }}}
{{rf{22}}} Who is the liar except the one who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This person is the antichrist, the one who denies the Father and the Son. {{rf{23}}} Everyone who denies the Son does not have the Father either; the one who confesses the Son has the Father also. {{rf{24}}} As for you, what you have heard from the beginning must remain in you. If what you have heard from the beginning remains in you, you also will remain in the Son and in the Father. {{rf{25}}} And this is the promise which he himself promised us: eternal life. {{rf{26}}} These things I have written to you concerning the ones who are trying to deceive you. {{rf{27}}} And as for you, the anointing which you received from him remains in you, and you do not have need that anyone teach you. But as his anointing teaches you about all things, and is true and is not a lie, and just as it has taught you, you reside in him. {{rf{28}}} And now, little children, remain in him, so that whenever he is revealed we may have confidence and not be put to shame before him at his coming. {{rf{29}}} If you know that he is righteous, you know that everyone who practices righteousness has been fathered by him. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|1John-02-22]] }}}
See what sort of love the Father has given to us: that we should be called children of God, and we are! Because of this the world does not know us: because it did not know him. {{rf{2}}} Dear friends, now we are children of God, and what we will be has not yet been revealed. We know that whenever he is revealed we will be like him, because we will see him just as he is. {{rf{3}}} And everyone who has this hope in him purifies himself, just as that one is pure. {{rf{4}}} Everyone who practices sin also practices lawlessness, and sin is lawlessness. {{rf{5}}} And you know that that one was revealed in order that he might take away sins, and in him there is no sin. {{rf{6}}} Everyone who resides in him does not sin. Everyone who sins has neither seen him nor known him. {{rf{7}}} Little children, let no one deceive you: the one who practices righteousness is righteous, just as that one is righteous. {{rf{8}}} The one who practices sin is of the devil, because the devil has been sinning from the beginning. For this reason the Son of God was revealed: in order to destroy the works of the devil. {{rf{9}}} Everyone who is fathered by God does not practice sin, because his seed resides in him, and he is not able to sin, because he has been fathered by God. {{rf{10}}} By this the children of God and the children of the devil are evident: everyone who does not practice righteousness is not of God, namely, the one who does not love his brother. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|1John-03-01]] }}}
{{rf{11}}} For this is the message that you have heard from the beginning: that we should love one another, {{rf{12}}} not as Cain, who was of the evil one and violently murdered his brother. And for what reason did he violently murder him? Because his deeds were evil and the deeds of his brother were righteous. {{rf{13}}} Do not marvel, brothers, if the world hates you. {{rf{14}}} We know that we have passed over from death to life because we love the brothers. The one who does not love remains in death. {{rf{15}}} Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that every murderer does not have eternal life residing in him. {{rf{16}}} We have come to know love by this: that he laid down his life on behalf of us, and we ought to lay down our lives on behalf of the brothers. {{rf{17}}} But whoever has the world's material possessions and observes his brother in need and shuts his heart against him, how does the love of God reside in him? {{rf{18}}} Little children, let us not love with word or with tongue, but in deed and truth. {{rf{19}}} By this we know that we are of the truth and will convince our heart before him, {{rf{20}}} that if our heart condemns us, that God is greater than our heart and knows all things. {{rf{21}}} Dear friends, if our heart does not condemn us, we have confidence before God, {{rf{22}}} and whatever we ask we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do what is pleasing in his sight. {{rf{23}}} And this is his commandment: that we believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ and love one another, just as he commanded us. {{rf{24}}} And the one who keeps his commandments resides in him, and he in him. And by this we know that he resides in us: by the Spirit whom he has given to us. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|1John-03-11]] }}}
Dear friends, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to determine if they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world. {{rf{2}}} By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God, {{rf{3}}} and every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God, and this is the spirit of the antichrist, of which you have heard that it is coming, and now it is already in the world. {{rf{4}}} You are from God, little children, and have conquered them, because the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world. {{rf{5}}} They are from the world; therefore they speak from the world and the world listens to them. {{rf{6}}} We are from God. The one who knows God listens to us; whoever is not from God does not listen to us. By this we know the Spirit of truth and the spirit of deceit. {{rf{7}}} Dear friends, let us love one another, because love is from God, and everyone who loves has been fathered by God and knows God. {{rf{8}}} The one who does not love does not know God, because God is love. {{rf{9}}} By this the love of God is revealed in us: that God sent his one and only Son into the world in order that we may live through him. {{rf{10}}} In this is love: not that we have loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. {{rf{11}}} Dear friends, if God loved us in this way, we also ought to love one another. {{rf{12}}} No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God resides in us and his love is perfected in us. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|1John-04-01]] }}}
{{rf{13}}} By this we know that we reside in him and he in us: that he has given us of his Spirit. {{rf{14}}} And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son to be the Savior of the world. {{rf{15}}} Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God resides in him and he in God. {{rf{16}}} And we have come to know and have believed the love that God has in us. God is love, and the one who resides in love resides in God, and God resides in him. {{rf{17}}} By this love is perfected with us, so that we may have confidence in the day of judgment, because just as that one is, so also are we in this world. {{rf{18}}} There is no fear in love, but perfect love drives out fear, because fear includes punishment, and the one who is afraid has not been perfected in love. {{rf{19}}} We love, because he first loved us. {{rf{20}}} If anyone says, "I love God," and hates his brother, he is a liar, for the one who does not love his brother whom he has seen is not able to love God whom he has not seen. {{rf{21}}} And this is the commandment we have from him: that the one who loves God should love his brother also. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|1John-04-13]] }}}
Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been fathered by God, and everyone who loves the father also loves the child fathered by him. {{rf{2}}} By this we know that we love the children of God: whenever we love God and keep his commandments. {{rf{3}}} For this is the love of God: that we keep his commandments. And his commandments are not burdensome, {{rf{4}}} because everyone who is fathered by God conquers the world. {{rf{5}}} Now who is the one who conquers the world except the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God? {{rf{6}}} This is the one who came by water and blood -- Jesus Christ, not with the water only, but with the water and with the blood. And the Spirit is the one who testifies, because the Spirit is the truth. {{rf{7}}} For there are three that testify, {{rf{8}}} the Spirit and the water and the blood, and the three are in agreement. {{rf{9}}} If we receive the testimony of people, the testimony of God is greater, because this is the testimony of God that he has testified concerning his Son. {{rf{10}}} (The one who believes in the Son of God has the testimony in himself. The one who does not believe God has made him a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony that God has testified concerning his Son.) {{rf{11}}} And this is the testimony: that God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. {{rf{12}}} The one who has the Son has the life; the one who does not have the Son of God does not have the life. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|1John-05-01]] }}}
{{rf{13}}} These things I have written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, in order that you may know that you have eternal life. {{rf{14}}} And this is the confidence that we have before him: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us. {{rf{15}}} And if we know that he hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we have the requests that we have asked from him. {{rf{16}}} If anyone should see his brother sinning a sin not leading to death, he should ask, and he will grant life to him, to those who sin not leading to death. (There is a sin leading to death; I do not say that he should ask about that. {{rf{17}}} All unrighteousness is sin, and there is a sin not leading to death.) {{rf{18}}} We know that everyone who is fathered by God does not sin, but the one fathered by God, he protects him, and the evil one does not touch him. {{rf{19}}} We know that we are from God, and the whole world lies in the power of the evil one. {{rf{20}}} And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding, in order that we may know the one who is true, and we are in the one who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. This one is the true God and eternal life. {{rf{21}}} Little children, guard yourselves from idols. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|1John-05-13]] }}}
Now King David had become old, advanced in years, and they covered him with garments, but he was not warm. {{rf{2}}} His servants said to him, "Let them search for a young virgin for my lord the king, and let her stand before the king. Let her be of use for him, and let her lie in your lap that my lord the king may be warm." {{rf{3}}} So they sought a beautiful young woman in all the territory of Israel, and they found Abishag the Shunnamite and brought her to the king. {{rf{4}}} Now the young woman was very beautiful; she was of use for the king, and she served him, but the king did not have sexual relations with her. {{rf{5}}} Now Adonijah the son of Haggith was exalting himself, saying, "I will be king," so he prepared for himself a chariot and horsemen and fifty men running before him. {{rf{6}}} His father did not rebuke him at any time by saying, "Why did you do so?" Now he was also very handsome of appearance; she had borne him after Absalom. {{rf{7}}} He conferred with Joab the son of Zeruiah and with Abiathar the priest, and they supported Adonijah. {{rf{8}}} But Zadok the priest, Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, Nathan the prophet, Shimei, Rei, and the mighty warriors were David's; they were not with Adonijah. {{rf{9}}} And Adonijah sacrificed sheep, oxen, and fattened animals near the stone of Zoheleth, which is beside En Rogel. He invited all of his brothers, the sons of the king, and all the men of Judah, the servants of the king. {{rf{10}}} But he did not invite Nathan the prophet or Benaiah or the mighty warriors or Solomon his brother. {{rf{11}}} Then Nathan said to Bathsheba the mother of Solomon, "Have you not heard that Adonijah the son of Haggith has become king, but our lord David does not know? {{rf{12}}} So then, come, let me advise you please, that you may save your life and the life of your son, Solomon. {{rf{13}}} Come, go to King David and say to him, 'Have you not, my lord the king, sworn to your servant, "Surely Solomon your son shall become king after me. And he will sit on my throne"? But why is Adonijah king?' {{rf{14}}} While you are still there speaking with the king, I will enter after you, and I will confirm your words." {{rf{15}}} So Bathsheba went to the king in the private room. Now the king was very old, and Abishag the Shunnamite was attending the king. {{rf{16}}} Bathsheba knelt and bowed down before the king, and the king asked, "What do you want?" {{rf{17}}} She said to him, "My lord, you swore by Yahweh your God to your servant, 'Solomon your son surely shall become king after me, and he will sit upon my throne!' {{rf{18}}} But now, look! Adonijah has become king! And now, my lord the king, you do not know! {{rf{19}}} He has sacrificed oxen and sheep and fattened animals in abundance, and he has invited all the sons of the king, Abiathar the priest, Joab the commander of the army, but Solomon your servant he did not invite. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|1Kings-01-01]] }}}
<<Bbl 1K 1:4 abbr>> [[Usurp]]
1:5 see <<Bbl 2S 15:1 >>
<<Bbl 1K 2:6 abbr >>-9 Already referring to wisdom.
<<Bbl 1K 2:22 abbr>> The excuse Solomon might easily have been seeking, for the man seems treacherous. Or perhaps, as I've read, this was a powerful jealousy for the woman for whom the Song of Songs was composed.
<<Bbl 1K 3:1 abbr >> Hebron, the city of David? The answer is no, but maybe a subdistrict. See 8:1.
3:1-3 Already the beginnings of his apostasy.
3:15 Why do we say, "It was only a dream?"
3:26-27 An encounter with the wisdom of God -- with all its import of life and death. The decision concerns not ownership but life and murder. A study in righteousness; the issue of genetic motherhood is transcended by righteousness. Indeed, this may be the sole reference of Solomon's concluding statement.
3:28 Larger historical significance of the story.
<<Bbl 1K 4:33 abbr>> Authority as of Adam, who named the animals.
{{rf{20}}} But as for you, my lord the king, the eyes of all of Israel are on you, to tell them who shall sit on the throne of my lord the king after him. {{rf{21}}} It shall be that when my lord the king sleeps with his ancestors, I and my son Solomon will be considered as sinners." {{rf{22}}} While she was still speaking with the king, Nathan the prophet came in. {{rf{23}}} They told the king, "Nathan the prophet is here." He came into the presence of the king and bowed down before the king with his face to the ground. {{rf{24}}} Nathan said, "My lord the king, have you said, 'Adonijah shall be king after me and he shall sit on my throne'? {{rf{25}}} "For he went down today and sacrificed oxen, sheep, and fattened animals in abundance. He invited all the sons of the king, the commanders of the army, and Abiathar the priest, and look, they are eating and drinking before him. They have also said, "Long live King Adonijah! {{rf{26}}} But me, your servant, Zadok the priest, Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and Solomon your servant he did not invite. {{rf{27}}} If it was from my lord the king that this thing has happened, then all is well, but if not, you must let your servants know who shall sit on the throne of my lord the king after him." {{rf{28}}} Then King David answered and said, "Summon Bathsheba for me." Then she came before the king and stood in his presence. {{rf{29}}} Then the king swore and said, "As Yahweh lives, who has saved my life from all trouble, {{rf{30}}} surely as I swore to you by Yahweh the God of Israel, saying, 'Solomon your son shall surely be king after me, and he shall sit on my throne in my place,' surely I shall do so this very day." {{rf{31}}} Then Bathsheba knelt with her face to the ground and did obeisance to the king, and she said, "May my lord, King David, live forever." {{rf{32}}} Then King David said, "Summon Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada," and they came before the king. {{rf{33}}} The king said to them, "Take with you all the servants of your lord, and let them make Solomon my son ride on my mule, and bring him down to Gihon. {{rf{34}}} Let Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet anoint him there as king over Israel. Blow on the trumpet and say, 'Long live King Solomon!' {{rf{35}}} Then you shall go up after him, and let him come and sit on my throne; he shall be king in my place. I have appointed him to be leader over Israel and Judah." {{rf{36}}} Then Benaiah the son of Jehoiada answered the king and said, "Amen! So may Yahweh, the God of my lord the king, confirm it! {{rf{37}}} As Yahweh was with my lord the king, so may he be with Solomon and make his throne greater than the throne of my lord King David." {{rf{38}}} Then Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet, Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the Kerethites, and the Pelethites went down, and they let Solomon ride on the mule of King David, and they brought him to Gihon. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|1Kings-01-20]] }}}
{{rf{39}}} Then Zadok the priest took the horn of oil from the tent, and he anointed Solomon. They blew on the trumpet, and all the people said, "Long live King Solomon!" {{rf{40}}} All the people went up after him, and the people were playing on the flutes and rejoicing with great joy, and the earth shook with their noise. {{rf{41}}} And Adonijah and all the invited guests who were with him heard it. Now they were finished eating when Joab heard the sound of the trumpet and said, "Why is there such a noise in the city?" {{rf{42}}} While he was still speaking, suddenly Jonathan the son of Abiathar the priest came. Adonijah said, "Come, for you are a man of valor, and you bring good news." {{rf{43}}} Jonathan answered and said to Adonijah, "But our lord King David has made Solomon king! {{rf{44}}} He sent Zadok the priest with the king, and Nathan the prophet, Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the Kerethites, and the Pelethites; they made him ride on the king's mule. {{rf{45}}} Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet anointed him as king at Gihon, and they have gone up from there rejoicing. The city has gone wild; this is the sound which you heard. {{rf{46}}} And also, Solomon sits on the throne of the kingdom! {{rf{47}}} The servants of the king also came to congratulate our lord King David, saying, 'Your God has made the name of Solomon better than your name and his throne greater than your throne!' So the king worshiped on the bed. {{rf{48}}} What is more, the king said, 'May Yahweh the God of Israel be blessed, who has given this day one sitting on my throne, and my eyes are seeing it!'" {{rf{49}}} Then all the invited guests who were for Adonijah trembled and got up and went, each on his way. {{rf{50}}} Adonijah was afraid because of Solomon, and he got up and went and grasped the horns of the altar. {{rf{51}}} Solomon was told, "Look, Adonijah is afraid of King Solomon, and he has grasped the horns of the altar, saying, 'Let King Solomon swear to me first that he will surely not kill his servant with the sword!'" {{rf{52}}} Solomon said, "If he is a son of noble character, not a hair of his head will fall to the ground, but if evil is found in him, then he will die." {{rf{53}}} Then King Solomon sent and brought him down from upon the altar. He came and did obeisance to King Solomon. Solomon said to him, "Go to your house." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|1Kings-01-39]] }}}
The days of David came near for him to die, and he charged Solomon his son, saying, {{rf{2}}} "I am about to go the way of all the world. Be strong and be courageous. {{rf{3}}} You shall keep the charge of Yahweh your God, to walk in his ways, to keep his statutes, his commandments, his judgments, and his testimonies, as are written in the law of Moses, so that you may prosper in all that you do and everywhere you turn, {{rf{4}}} so that Yahweh may establish his word which he spoke concerning me, saying, 'If your sons take heed of their way, to walk before me in faithfulness, with all their heart and with all their soul, no man of yours will be cut off from the throne of Israel.'" {{rf{5}}} "Moreover, you also know what Joab the son of Zeruiah did to me when he dealt with the two commanders of the armies of Israel, to Abner son of Ner and to Amasa son of Jether, and he murdered them and put the blood of war in a time of peace. He put the blood of war on the leather belt that was on his waist and on the sandals which were on his feet. {{rf{6}}} You must act according to your wisdom, but you must not let his gray hair go down to Sheol in peace. {{rf{7}}} Regarding the sons of Barzillai the Gileadite, you shall do loyal love and let them be among those who eat at your table, because they met me when I fled from Absalom your brother. {{rf{8}}} And look, Shimei the son of Gera the son of the Benjaminite from Bahurim is with you. Now he cursed me severely when I went to Mahanaim, but he came down to meet me at the Jordan, so I swore to him by Yahweh, 'I surely will not kill you with the sword.' {{rf{9}}} So then, do not leave him unpunished, for you are a wise man, and you will know what you must do to him. You must bring his grey hair down to Sheol with blood." {{rf{10}}} Then David slept with his ancestors and was buried in the city of David. {{rf{11}}} The days that David reigned over Israel were forty years; he reigned seven years in Hebron and thirty-three years in Jerusalem. {{rf{12}}} Then Solomon sat on the throne of David his father, and his kingdom was firmly established. {{rf{13}}} Adonijah the son of Haggith came to Bathsheba the mother of Solomon, and she said, "Are you coming in peace?" He said, "Peace." {{rf{14}}} Then he said, "May I have a word with you?" Then she said, "Go on." {{rf{15}}} He said, "You know that the kingship was mine and that all Israel had set their face toward me as king, but the kingship turned around and became my brother's, for it was from Yahweh for him to have it. {{rf{16}}} Now one request I am asking from you, and you must not refuse me." Then she said to him, "Go on." {{rf{17}}} He said, "Please speak to King Solomon, for he will not refuse you, so that he will give to me Abishag the Shunnamite as wife." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|1Kings-02-01]] }}}
{{rf{18}}} Then Bathsheba said, "Very well, I will speak to the king concerning you." {{rf{19}}} Bathsheba came to King Solomon to speak to him concerning Adonijah, and the king got up to meet her, bowed down to her, and then sat on his throne. Then he set up a throne for the king's mother, and she sat on his right. {{rf{20}}} She said, "I have one small request I am asking from you. Do not refuse me." The king said to her, "Ask, my mother, for I will not refuse you." {{rf{21}}} Then she said, "Let Abishag the Shunnamite be given to Adonijah your brother as wife." {{rf{22}}} King Solomon answered and said to his mother, "Why are you asking Abishag the Shunnamite for Adonijah? Ask for him also the kingdom, for he is my brother, older than I; and ask for him also Abiathar the priest, and for Joab the son of Zeruiah." {{rf{23}}} Then King Solomon swore by Yahweh, saying, "Thus may God do to me and thus may he add, if Adonijah hasn't spoken this thing at the expense of his life. {{rf{24}}} So then, as Yahweh lives, who has established me and seated me on the throne of my father David and who has established for me a dynasty as he promised, then surely Adonijah will be put to death today." {{rf{25}}} King Solomon sent through the hand of Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, so he struck him, and he died. {{rf{26}}} To Abiathar the priest, the king said, "Go to Anathoth, to your field, for you deserve to die, but on this day I will not kill you, for you carried the ark of the Lord Yahweh before David my father, and because you endured hardship in all the hardship that my father endured." {{rf{27}}} So Solomon banished Abiathar from being priest to Yahweh, thus fulfilling the word which Yahweh had spoken concerning the house of Eli in Shiloh. {{rf{28}}} When the message came to Joab (now Joab had supported Adonijah but had not supported Absalom), he fled to the tent of Yahweh and grasped the horns of the altar. {{rf{29}}} It was told to King Solomon that Joab had fled to the tent of Yahweh and was beside the altar. So Solomon sent word to Benaiah son of Jehoiada, saying, "Go and fall upon him." {{rf{30}}} So Benaiah went to the tent of Yahweh, and he said to him, "Thus says the king: 'Come out.'" And he said, "No, for I want to die here." So Benaiah returned a word to the king, saying, "Thus Joab spoke, and thus he answered me." {{rf{31}}} Then the king said to him, "Do as he spoke; fall upon him and bury him, and so you shall remove the innocent blood that Joab shed from on me and from on the house of my father. {{rf{32}}} Yahweh will return his blood on his head, because he fell upon two men, more righteous and better than he, and he killed them with the sword, even though my father did not know it; namely Abner son of Ner, commander of the army of Israel, and Amasa son of Jether, commander of the army of Judah. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|1Kings-02-18]] }}}
{{rf{33}}} And their blood will return on the head of Joab and on the head of his descendants forever, but for David and his descendants and for his house and his throne, there will be peace forever from Yahweh." {{rf{34}}} So Benaiah son of Jehoiada went up, and he fell on him and killed him, and he was buried in his house in the wilderness. {{rf{35}}} Then the king appointed Benaiah the son of Jehoiada in his place over the army, and the king appointed Zadok the priest in place of Abiathar. {{rf{36}}} Then the king sent and summoned Shimei, and he said to him, "Build yourself a house in Jerusalem and live there, but you must not go out anywhere whatsoever from there. {{rf{37}}} It shall happen that on the day you go out and cross over the Wadi Kidron, know for certain that you will surely die. Your blood will be on your head." {{rf{38}}} Shimei said to the king, "The word is good that my lord the king has spoken to me; thus will your servant do." So Shimei lived in Jerusalem many days. {{rf{39}}} It happened that at the end of three years, two of Shimei's slaves fled to Achish, son of Maacah, the king of Gath. They told Shimei, saying, "Your slaves are here in Gath." {{rf{40}}} So Shimei got up and saddled his donkey, and he went to Gath, to Achish, to search for his slaves. So Shimei went and brought his slaves from Gath. {{rf{41}}} When Solomon was told that Shimei had gone from Jerusalem to Gath and had returned, {{rf{42}}} the king sent and summoned Shimei, and he said to him, "Did I not make you swear by Yahweh? I warned you, saying, 'On the day you go out and you go anywhere whatsoever, know for certain that you will surely die.' And you said to me, 'The word is good; I accept.' {{rf{43}}} Why have you not kept the oath of Yahweh and the command which I commanded you?" {{rf{44}}} Then the king said to Shimei, "You know all the evil which your heart knows, what you did to David my father. Now Yahweh will return the evil on your head, {{rf{45}}} but King Solomon will be blessed and the throne of David will be established before Yahweh forever." {{rf{46}}} Then the king commanded Benaiah son of Jehoiada, and he went out and fell upon him, and he died. So the kingdom was established in the hand of Solomon. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|1Kings-02-33]] }}}
Solomon intermarried with Pharaoh the king of Egypt, and he took the daughter of Pharaoh and brought her to the city of David until he finished building his house, the house of Yahweh, and the walls of Jerusalem all around. {{rf{2}}} But the people were sacrificing on the high places, for the house for the name of Yahweh had not yet been built in those days. {{rf{3}}} Solomon loved Yahweh, by walking in the statutes of David his father; only he was sacrificing and offering incense on the high places. {{rf{4}}} So the king went to Gibeon to sacrifice, for the great high place was there. Solomon used to offer a thousand burnt offerings on that altar. {{rf{5}}} Yahweh appeared to Solomon at Gibeon in a dream at night, and God said, "Ask what I should give to you." {{rf{6}}} Then Solomon said, "You have shown great loyal love with your servant David my father, as he walked before you in faithfulness and in righteousness and in uprightness of heart with you. You have shown for him this great loyal love, and you have given a son to him who is sitting on his throne as it is this day. {{rf{7}}} So then, O Yahweh, you are my God. You have made your servant king in place of David my father though I am a young boy. I do not know going out or coming in. {{rf{8}}} Your servant is in the middle of your people whom you have chosen; a great people who cannot be counted or numbered because of abundance. {{rf{9}}} Give to your servant a listening heart to judge your people, to discern between good and bad, because who is able to judge this, your difficult people?" {{rf{10}}} The word was good in the eyes of the Lord that Solomon had asked this thing. {{rf{11}}} And God said to him, "Because you have asked this thing and you did not ask for yourself a long life and you did not ask riches for yourself and you did not ask for the life of your enemies, but you have asked for yourself the ability to make wise judgments; {{rf{12}}} behold, I do hereby do according to your word. I hereby give you a wise and discerning heart; there was no one like you before you, nor afterwards will one like you arise. {{rf{13}}} Too, what you have not asked I give to you: both riches and honor, so that no man among the kings will be like you all of your days. {{rf{14}}} If you will walk in my ways by keeping my statutes and my commandments, as David your father walked, then I will lengthen your days." {{rf{15}}} Then Solomon awoke, and look, it was a dream, and he came to Jerusalem and stood before the ark of the covenant of the Lord, and he offered burnt offerings and presented fellowship offerings, and he held a feast for all of his servants. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|1Kings-03-01]] }}}
{{rf{16}}} Then two prostitutes came to the king, and they stood before him. {{rf{17}}} The one woman said, "Please my lord, I and this woman are living in one house, and I gave birth, with her in the house. {{rf{18}}} It happened on the third day after my giving birth, this woman also gave birth, and we were together. There was not anyone with us in the house, only the two of us were in the house. {{rf{19}}} Then the son of this woman died in the night because she laid on him. {{rf{20}}} So she got up in the middle of the night, and she took my son from beside me while your servant was asleep, and she put him in her lap, and she put her dead son in my lap. {{rf{21}}} When I got up in the morning to nurse my son, behold, he was dead! When I looked closely at him in the morning, behold, it was not my son whom I had borne." {{rf{22}}} Then the other woman said, "No, for my son is the living one, and your son is the dead one." The other kept on saying, "No, for your son is the dead one, and my son is the living one," and so they argued in front of the king. {{rf{23}}} Then the king said, "This one is saying, 'This is my son, the living one, but your son is the dead one,' and the other one keeps saying, 'But no! Your son is the dead one, and my son is living!'" {{rf{24}}} So the king said, "Bring me a sword," and they brought the sword before the king. {{rf{25}}} Then the king said, "Divide the living child into two, and give half to the one and half to the other." {{rf{26}}} Then the woman whose son was the living one spoke to the king because her compassion was aroused for her son, and she said, "Please, my lord, give her the living child, but certainly do not kill him!" The other one was saying, "As for me, so for you! Divide him!" {{rf{27}}} Then the king answered and said, "Give the living child to her, and do not kill him; she is his mother." {{rf{28}}} When all of Israel heard the judgment that the king had rendered, they stood in awe of the king, because they realized that the wisdom of God was in him to execute justice. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|1Kings-03-16]] }}}
King Solomon was king over all Israel. {{rf{2}}} Now these are the officials who were his: Azariah the son of Zadok was the priest. {{rf{3}}} Elihoreph and Ahijah, the sons of Shisha, were the secretaries; Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud was the recorder. {{rf{4}}} Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the army, and Zadok and Abiathar were priests. {{rf{5}}} Azariah the son of Nathan was over the governors, and Zabud the son of Nathan was a priest, an advisor to the king. {{rf{6}}} Ahishar was over the palace, and Adoniram the son of Abda was over the forced labor. {{rf{7}}} Solomon had twelve governors over all Israel, and they sustained the king and his palace, each one was to sustain for each month of the year. {{rf{8}}} These are their names: Ben-Hur was in the hill country of Ephraim. {{rf{9}}} Ben-Deker was in Makaz and in Shaalbim and in Beth-Shemesh and Elon of Beth-Hanan. {{rf{10}}} Ben-Hesed was in the Arubbot; Socoh and all the land of Hepher were his. {{rf{11}}} Ben-Abinadab was in all of Naphat of Dor; Taphath the daughter of Solomon was his wife. {{rf{12}}} Baanah the son of Ahilud was in Taanach and Megiddo and all Beth-Shean which is beside Zarethan below Jezreel, of Beth-Shean up to Abel-Meholah up to the other side of Jokmeam. {{rf{13}}} Ben-Geber was in Ramoth-Gilead; the villages of Jair, the son of Manasseh which are in the Gilead were his, and the region of Argob which is in the Bashan, sixty great cities, with walls having crossbars of bronze, were his. {{rf{14}}} Ahinadab the son of Iddo was in Mahanaim. {{rf{15}}} Ahimaaz was in Naphtali; he moreover also had taken Basemath the daughter of Solomon as wife. {{rf{16}}} Baanah the son of Hushai was in Asher and Bealoth. {{rf{17}}} Jehoshaphat the son of Paruah was in Issachar. {{rf{18}}} Shimei the son of Ela was in Benjamin. {{rf{19}}} Geber the son of Uri was in the land of Gilead, the land of Sihon, the king of the Amorites, and of Og, the king of Bashan; one governor which was over the land. {{rf{20}}} Judah and Israel were as many as the sand which is on the seashore in abundance, eating and drinking and rejoicing! {{rf{21}}} Now Solomon was ruling over all the kingdoms from the River to the land of the Philistines, and up to the border of Egypt, who were bringing tribute and were serving Solomon all the days of his life. {{rf{22}}} The food of Solomon for one day was thirty dry measures of choice meal and sixty dry measures of flour; {{rf{23}}} ten stall-fed oxen and twenty pasture-fed oxen and a hundred sheep, besides deer and buck gazelles and roebucks and well-fed fowls. {{rf{24}}} For he was ruling over all the west of the River from Tiphsah up to Gaza, over all the kings west of the River; and he had peace from every side all around. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|1Kings-04-01]] }}}
{{rf{25}}} Judah and Israel lived in security, each man under his vine and under his fig tree, from Dan as far as Beersheba, all the days of Solomon. {{rf{26}}} Now Solomon had forty thousand stalls of horses for his war chariots and twelve thousand horsemen. {{rf{27}}} These governors sustained King Solomon and all who came near to the table of King Solomon, each in his month; they did not omit anything. {{rf{28}}} The barley and the straw for the horses and for packhorses they brought to the place where they were, each according to his share. {{rf{29}}} God gave wisdom to Solomon and very great discernment, as well as breadth of understanding, as the sand which is on the edge of the seashore. {{rf{30}}} The wisdom of Solomon was greater than the wisdom of all the people of the east and more than all the wisdom of Egypt. {{rf{31}}} He was wiser than all the men: Ethan the Ezrahite; Heman, Calcol, and Darda the children of Mahol; and he was very well known. {{rf{32}}} He spoke three thousand proverbs, and his songs were one thousand and five. {{rf{33}}} He spoke concerning the trees, from the cedar which is in Lebanon up to the hyssop which grows on the wall; he also spoke concerning the animals, concerning the birds, concerning the creeping things, and concerning the fish. {{rf{34}}} They came from all the nations to hear the wisdom of Solomon; from all the kings of the earth who had heard of his wisdom.
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{{rf big{1}}} Hiram king of Tyre sent his servants to Solomon when he heard that they had anointed him as king in place of his father, for Hiram had always been a friend for David. {{rf{2}}} Then Solomon sent to Hiram, saying, {{rf{3}}} "You knew David my father, that he was not able to build a house for the name of Yahweh his God, in view of the warfare which surrounded him, until Yahweh placed them under the soles of his feet. {{rf{4}}} But now Yahweh my God has given me rest all around me. There is no adversary, and there is no bad occurrence. {{rf{5}}} Here I am, intending to build a house for the name of Yahweh my God, as Yahweh promised to my father David, saying, 'Your son, whom I will set in your place on your throne, shall build the house for my name.' {{rf{6}}} So then, command that they may cut cedars for me from Lebanon, and let my servants be with your servants. The wage of your servants I will give to you according to all that you say, for you know that there is no one among us who knows how to cut timber like the Sidonians." {{rf{7}}} When Hiram heard the words of Solomon, he rejoiced greatly, and he said, "Blessed be Yahweh this day, who has given to David a wise son over this great people." {{rf{8}}} Hiram sent to Solomon, saying, "I have heard what you have sent to me; I will do all of your desire concerning the timber of cedars and concerning the timber of cypresses. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|1Kings-04-25]] }}}
<<Bbl 1K 5:3 abbr>>-5 Echoes <<Bbl 2S 7:1>>.
<<Bbl 1K 5:3 abbr>>c See <<Bbl Ps 110:1>>.
<<Bbl 1K 7:51 abbr>> David's dedicated wealth.
8:1 – a bad chapter division. This verse goes with 7:51.
8:5 – any blessing for this? See 2 Samuel 6:13.
<<Bbl 1K 8:22 abbr>> This begins a high priestly prayer. Highlight verse 38. Compare with John 17.
8:59 – intercession.
<<Bbl 1K 10:01 abbr>> //Now the queen of Sheba had heard of the fame of Solomon regarding the name of Yahweh, and she came to test him with hard questions.//
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* In this episode God is entirely glorified.
* This state visit could be likened to the dance shared by Reagan and Thatcher.
* The [[Honor]] is reciprocal (<<Bbl 1K 10:13 abbr>>). The Queen is wise herself.
* <<Bbl Mt 12:42>> strongly suggests she receives eternal life. [[Witness]]
* She is ''not'' one of the foreign women who snared Solomon's heart; this encounter is how it should have gone with all those lovely dignitaries.
!!! However, this brings a turning point.
* <<Bbl 1K 10:24>> -25 The world's beautiful people (they are fools, unlike the Queen) trade in their riches to listen to him.
* It appears they purchase on a subscription basis (v 25).
* Imagine them boasting over who had seen him most recently.
* Solomon prostitutes his wisdom. He //answers fools and becomes like them.//
* Though it is not cited with the rest in <<Bbl 1K 10:25>>, one of the goods available for trade is princesses.
* His wisdom ironically opens the door for his undoing, as he fails to observe <<Bbl 1K 3:14 abbr>>.
* <<Bbl 1K 11:01 abbr>> to 11:06, his [[attachments|Attach]] and the corresponding rebellion are developed richly.
}}}
<<Bbl 1K 10:3 abbr >> //Solomon answered all of her questions...//
{{hilite{
* The wonder is in both the knowledge and its transmission. So with Jesus.
* Solomon explained the natural world (<<Bbl 1K 4:29 abbr >>, <<Bbl Eccl 1:6 >>-7), the wisdom of the Book of Proverbs.
* He explained the revelation of the covenant, which she fully apprehended (<<Bbl 1K 10:9 abbr >>).
}}}
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A technical note for the wiki: This is a good format for boxed information. The scripture link is presented with relevant text, and the box follows separately.
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<<Bbl 1K 11:01 abbr>>ff See <<Bbl 1K 10:01 "" note>>.
<<Bbl 1K 11:26 abbr >> Rachel vs Leah
<<Bbl 1K 11:31 abbr>> The visual aid presented seems to offer the idea of [[Futility]]. What good are 10 //pieces// of a robe? Did he think to be grieved at having scraps of fabric (did he save them, cherish them?)
{{rf{9}}} My servants will bring them down from Lebanon to the sea, and I will make them into rafts in the sea to float to the place which you indicated to me. Then I shall break them up there, and you may carry them further, and you shall meet my needs by giving food for my house." {{rf{10}}} So Hiram was giving to Solomon the cedar timbers and the cypress timbers, everything he needed. {{rf{11}}} Then Solomon gave to Hiram twenty thousand dry measures of wheat as food for his household, and twenty dry measures of specially prepared olive oil; thus Solomon gave to Hiram year by year. {{rf{12}}} Yahweh gave wisdom to Solomon as he promised to him, and there was peace between Hiram and Solomon, and the two of them made a covenant.
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{{rf{13}}} Then King Solomon conscripted a forced labor from all Israel, and the forced labor numbered thirty thousand men. {{rf{14}}} He sent them to Lebanon, ten thousand every month; the work groups were a month in Lebanon and two months at home; now Adoniram was over the forced labor. {{rf{15}}} Solomon had seventy thousand common laborers and eighty thousand stone craftsmen in the hill country. {{rf{16}}} Besides the chiefs of the officers Solomon had, there were three thousand three hundred having charge over the people who were doing the work. {{rf{17}}} When the king commanded, they quarried great stones and precious stones to lay the foundation of the house with hewn stones. {{rf{18}}} So Solomon's builders and Hiram's builders and the Gebalites hewed stones, and they prepared the timber and the stone to build the house. {{rf big{1}}} It happened in the four hundred and eightieth year after the Israelites went out from the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon's rule over Israel, the month of Ziv (that is the second month), that he began to build the house for Yahweh. {{rf{2}}} Now the house that King Solomon built for Yahweh was sixty cubits in its length and twenty cubits in its width and thirty cubits in its height. {{rf{3}}} The vestibule on the face of the main hall of the temple was twenty cubits in its length, and the width of the temple was ten cubits wide on the face of the temple. {{rf{4}}} And he made for the temple specially designed framed windows, {{rf{5}}} and he built a structure against the wall of the temple running all along the walls of the house, for the outer sanctuary and for the inner sanctuary, and made side rooms all around. {{rf{6}}} The lower structure was five cubits in its width and the middle was six cubits in its width and the third was seven cubits in its width, for he made niches for the temple all around to the outside, so that beams would not attach to the walls of the temple. {{rf{7}}} Now while the temple was being built, it was built with stones finished at the quarry, so that no hammer or stone shaping tool or any instrument of iron was heard in the temple as it was being built. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|1Kings-05-09]] }}}
{{rf{8}}} The doorway of the side room in the middle of the side of the temple was on the south; they went up with a stairway to the middle and from the middle to the third floor. {{rf{9}}} So he built the house and finished it. He covered the temple with rafters and wood planks and with the cedars. {{rf{10}}} He also built the structure against all of the temple five cubits in height and fastened it to the temple with beams of cedar. {{rf{11}}} Then the word of Yahweh came to Solomon, saying, {{rf{12}}} "Regarding this temple that you are building: if you walk in my ordinances and if you do my judgments and you keep all my commandments to walk in them, then I will establish my promise with you which I made to David your father. {{rf{13}}} And I will dwell among the Israelites, and I will not forsake my people Israel." {{rf{14}}} So Solomon built the temple and finished it. {{rf{15}}} He lined the walls of the inside of the house with boards of cedar; from the floor of the temple up to the rafters of the ceiling he covered them with wood on the inside. He also covered the floor of the temple with cypress boards. {{rf{16}}} He built twenty cubits from the rear of the house with boards of cedar from the floor up to the ceiling, and he built for it an inner sanctuary on the inside, as the most holy place. {{rf{17}}} The main hall of the temple was forty cubits in front of the inner sanctuary, {{rf{18}}} with the cedar within the inner house having carvings of gourds and buds of flowers. It was entirely of cedar; there was not a stone visible. {{rf{19}}} Now in the inner sanctuary in the middle of the temple he prepared the inside to place the ark of the covenant of Yahweh there. {{rf{20}}} In front, the inner sanctuary was twenty cubits long and twenty cubits wide and twenty cubits high, and he overlaid it with pure gold and covered the altar with cedar. {{rf{21}}} Solomon overlaid the temple on the inside with pure gold, and he drew across it with golden chains in front of the inner sanctuary, which he overlaid with gold. {{rf{22}}} All of the temple he overlaid with gold until all of the temple was finished; all of the altar which belonged to the inner sanctuary he overlaid with gold. {{rf{23}}} He made two cherubim of olive wood for the inner sanctuary, ten cubits high. {{rf{24}}} Five cubits was the first wing of the cherub, and five cubits the second wing of the cherub, from the tip of his one wing up to the tip of his other wing. {{rf{25}}} The second cherub was ten cubits according to the same measurement, and there was one shape for the two cherubim. {{rf{26}}} The height of the first cherub was ten cubits and so was the second cherub. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|1Kings-06-08]] }}}
{{rf{27}}} He placed the cherubim in the middle of the inner house, and they spread out the wings of the cherubim; the wing of the first cherub touched against the wall and the wing of the second cherub was touching against the second wall; their wings spread to the middle of the house and were touching wing to wing. {{rf{28}}} He also overlaid the cherubim with gold. {{rf{29}}} On all of the walls around the house, he carved engravings of cherubim and palm tree images and budding flowers both inside and out. {{rf{30}}} He overlaid the floor of the house with gold both inside and out. {{rf{31}}} He made doors of olive wood for the doorway of the inner sanctuary, as well as for the doorpost of the fifth doorframe. {{rf{32}}} On the two doors of olive wood he made carvings of cherubim and palm tree images and budding flowers, and he overlaid them with gold by beating out the gold on the cherubim and the palm tree images. {{rf{33}}} Thus he made doorframes of olive wood on four sides for the doorway of the main hall {{rf{34}}} and two doors of cypress wood; one door with two folding panels and the second door with two folding panels. {{rf{35}}} He carved cherubim and palm tree images and budding flowers and overlaid them with gold evenly applied on the carved work. {{rf{36}}} Then he built the inner courtyard with three rows of dressed stone and a row of cedar beams. {{rf{37}}} In the fourth year, the house of Yahweh was founded in the month of Ziv. {{rf{38}}} In the eleventh year in the month of Bul, that is, the eighth month, the house was finished according to all his specifications and according to all his plans. He had built it in seven years. {{rf big{1}}} Solomon built his house over thirteen years, and he finished all of his house. {{rf{2}}} He built the House of the Forest of Lebanon; one hundred cubits its length, fifty cubits its width, and thirty cubits its height, on four rows of cedar pillars and cedar beams atop the pillars. {{rf{3}}} It was covered with cedar above, and the supporting beams which were on the forty-five pillars, fifteen to the row. {{rf{4}}} There were three rows of specially designed windows; with window to window three times. {{rf{5}}} All of the doorways and the doorframes had four-sided casings, with opening to opposite opening three times. {{rf{6}}} The hall of pillars he made fifty cubits in its length and thirty cubits in its width, and a porch was in front of them, with pillars and an overhang in front of them. {{rf{7}}} He made the hall of the throne where he would pronounce judgment, the hall of justice, and it was covered with cedar from the floor to the rafters. {{rf{8}}} His house where he would live in the next courtyard on the inside of the porch was like this work, and he would make a house like this porch for the daughter of Pharaoh whom Solomon had taken as wife. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|1Kings-06-27]] }}}
{{rf{9}}} All of these were of precious stones, according to the measurement of dressed stone, sawn with a saw on all sides; from the foundation up to the eaves and from the outside up to the great courtyard. {{rf{10}}} The foundation was of precious stones, and large stones of ten cubits and stones of eight cubits {{rf{11}}} with precious stones above, just the right size, and cedar. {{rf{12}}} The great courtyard all around had three rows of dressed stones and a row of cedar beams; for both the courtyard of the inner house of Yahweh and for the porch of the house. {{rf{13}}} King Solomon invited and received Hiram from Tyre. {{rf{14}}} He was the son of a widow woman from the tribe of Naphtali, and his father was a man of Tyre, an artisan of bronze. He was filled with wisdom and with ability and with the knowledge to do all the work with the bronze. And he came to King Solomon, and he did all of his work. {{rf{15}}} He cast the two pillars out of bronze; eighteen cubits was the height of the first, and a cord of twelve cubits would encircle the second pillar. {{rf{16}}} He made two capitals to place on the tops of the pillars out of molten bronze; the first capital was five cubits in height, and the second capital was five cubits in height. {{rf{17}}} A network of latticework and wreaths of chainwork with small chains were for the capitals which were on top of the pillars; seven for the first capital and seven for the second capital. {{rf{18}}} He also made the pillars with two rows around on the lattice, each to cover the capitals which were on top, out of the pomegranate-shaped ornaments, and thus he did for the second capital as well. {{rf{19}}} And on the capitals which were on top of the pillars in the porch were works of lilies four cubits high. {{rf{20}}} And capitals were on the two pillars above near the bulging section which was beside the lattice, and two hundred pomegranate-shaped ornaments were in rows all around on the second capital. {{rf{21}}} He set up the pillars for the porch of the main hall; he erected the pillar on the right and called its name Jakin, and he set up the pillar on the left and called its name Boaz. {{rf{22}}} On the top of the pillars was a work of lilies; and so the work of the pillars was finished. {{rf{23}}} He also made the molten sea, ten cubits in diameter, and five cubits was its height. A measuring line of thirty cubits would encircle it all around. {{rf{24}}} Gourds were under its rim surrounding it all around; ten to the cubit, surrounding the sea all around with two rows of gourds, which were cast when he cast the metal. {{rf{25}}} The sea was standing on twelve oxen, with three facing to the north, three facing to the west, three facing to the south, and three facing to the east. The sea was on top of them, with all of their hindquarters turned to the inside. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|1Kings-07-09]] }}}
{{rf{26}}} Its thickness was a handbreadth, but its rim was as the work on the brim of a cup, like the bud of a lily; it held two thousand baths. {{rf{27}}} He made the ten stands of bronze; each stand was four cubits long, four cubits wide, and three cubits in height. {{rf{28}}} Now this was the construction of the stands: there were frames for them and frames between the crossbars, {{rf{29}}} and on the frames which were between the crossbars were lions, oxen, and cherubim. On the crossbars both above and beneath the lions and oxen were works of cascading wreaths. {{rf{30}}} There were four bronze wheels for each of the stands, with bronze axles; the four support pedestals for these were under the basin, and the supports were decorated on each side with wreaths. {{rf{31}}} Its opening from the inside of the capital and above was a cubit; its pedestal was a round work of a cubit and a half; moreover, on its opening were the carvings with four-sided frames, not circular. {{rf{32}}} Four of the wheels were underneath the frames, and the axles of the wheels were on the stands. The height of each wheel was a cubit and a half. {{rf{33}}} The construction of the wheel was like the construction of the wheel of the chariot; their axles, their rims, their spokes, and their naves were all cast. {{rf{34}}} The four supports were the four corners of each stand, with the stand supporting it. {{rf{35}}} On top of the stand was half a cubit deep, circular all around, and on the top of the stand were its supports and its frames. {{rf{36}}} He engraved on the plates, on its supports, and on its frame cherubim, lions and images of a palm tree, according to the space for each, with wreaths all around. {{rf{37}}} He made the ten stands like this in one cast, with the same measurement and shape for each of them. {{rf{38}}} He also made ten bronze basins, each holding forty baths; each basin was four cubits, one basin on each of the ten stands. {{rf{39}}} He placed five of the stands on the south side of the house and five on the north side of the house, and the sea he set on the southeast side of the house. {{rf{40}}} Hiram also made the basins and the shovels and the bowls for drinking wine; and so Hiram finished doing all of the work that he was to do for King Solomon in the house of Yahweh: {{rf{41}}} the two pillars and the bowls of the capitals which were atop the two pillars, and the two lattice works to cover the two bowls of the capitals which were atop the pillars; {{rf{42}}} and the four hundred pomegranate-shaped ornaments for the two lattice works, the two rows of pomegranate-shaped ornaments for each latticework to cover the two bowls of the capitals which were on the surface of the pillars; {{rf{43}}} and the ten stands and the ten basins on the stands; {{rf{44}}} and the one sea and the twelve oxen under the sea; {{rf{45}}} and the pots, the shovels, and the bowls for drinking wine. All the vessels of the tent which Hiram had made for King Solomon for the house of Yahweh were polished bronze. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|1Kings-07-26]] }}}
{{rf{46}}} The king had cast them in the plain of the Jordan with the casting mold set in the ground between Succoth and Zarethan. {{rf{47}}} Solomon left all of the vessels unweighed because of their very great abundance, so the weight of the bronze could not be determined. {{rf{48}}} Solomon also made all of the vessels which were in the house of Yahweh: the golden altar and the golden table on which was the bread of the presence; {{rf{49}}} as well as the five lampstands of beaten gold at the south and five lampstands at the north before the presence of the inner sanctuary, with the flower-shaped ornaments, the lamps, and the pair of tongs all of gold. {{rf{50}}} The cups, the snuffers, the bowls for drinking wine, the bowls for the incense, and the firepans were made from beaten gold; the facades for the doors of the inner house, for the most holy place, for the doors of the main hall of the temple were of gold. {{rf{51}}} When all of the work which king Solomon did on the house of Yahweh was completed, Solomon brought out the holy objects of his father David, the silver and the gold and the vessels, which he put in the treasury rooms of the house of Yahweh. {{rf big{1}}} At that time, Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, all the heads of the tribes, and the leaders of the families of the Israelites before King Solomon, in order to bring up the ark of the covenant of Yahweh from the city of David, that is, Zion. {{rf{2}}} All the men of Israel assembled before King Solomon at the festival in the month of Ethnaim, that is, the seventh month. {{rf{3}}} All the elders of Israel came, and the priests carried the ark. {{rf{4}}} So they brought up the ark of Yahweh and the tent of assembly and all of the holy vessels that were in the tent; the priests and the Levites brought them up. {{rf{5}}} King Solomon and all the assembly of Israel who were assembling with him in the presence of the ark were sacrificing sheep and oxen that could not be counted nor numbered because of abundance. {{rf{6}}} The priests brought the ark of the covenant of Yahweh to its place in the inner sanctuary of the house, to the most holy place, under the wings of the cherubim, {{rf{7}}} for the cherubim were spreading their wings over the place of the ark. The cherubim overshadowed the ark and its poles from above. {{rf{8}}} The poles were long, and the ends of the poles could be seen from the holy place in front of the inner sanctuary, but they could not be seen from the outside, and they are there until this day. {{rf{9}}} There was not anything in the ark except the two tablets of stone which Moses had placed there at Horeb, where Yahweh made a covenant with the Israelites after they went out from the land of Egypt. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|1Kings-07-46]] }}}
{{rf{10}}} When the priests went out from the holy place, the cloud filled the house of Yahweh. {{rf{11}}} The priests were not able to stand to minister because of the presence of the cloud, for the glory of Yahweh filled the house of Yahweh. {{rf{12}}} Then Solomon said, "Yahweh has said that he would dwell in the very thick cloud. {{rf{13}}} I have certainly built a lofty house for you, a place for you to live forever." {{rf{14}}} Then the king turned his face around, and he blessed all of the assembly of Israel. (Now all the assembly of Israel was standing). {{rf{15}}} Then he said, "Blessed be Yahweh the God of Israel who has promised with his mouth to David my father and fulfilled by his oath, saying, {{rf{16}}} 'From the day that I brought out my people Israel from Egypt I have not chosen a city from all the tribes of Israel to build a house where my name might be, but I have chosen David to be over my people Israel.' {{rf{17}}} David my father desired to build a house for the name of Yahweh the God of Israel, {{rf{18}}} but Yahweh said to David my father, 'Because you desired to build a house for my name, you did well in that it was within your heart. {{rf{19}}} However, you will not build the house, but your son who has come from your loins, he shall build the house for my name.' {{rf{20}}} Yahweh has carried out his promise which he had made; I have risen in place of David my father, and I sit on the throne of Israel as Yahweh promised, and I have built the house for the name of Yahweh the God of Israel. {{rf{21}}} I have provided a place there for the ark, in which is the covenant which Yahweh made with our ancestors when He brought them out of the land of Egypt." {{rf{22}}} Then Solomon stood before the altar of Yahweh in the presence of all of the assembly of Israel, and he spread out his hands to the heavens, {{rf{23}}} and he said, "O Yahweh, God of Israel, there is no god like you in the heavens above or on the earth beneath, keeping the covenant and the loyal love for your servants who are walking before you with all their heart. {{rf{24}}} You have kept for your servant David my father what you promised to him, and you have spoken with your mouth, and with your hand you have fulfilled it this very day. {{rf{25}}} So then, O Yahweh, God of Israel, keep for your servant David my father what you promised to him, saying, 'For you, no man will be cut off from before me who will be sitting on the throne of Israel, if only your sons keep their ways to walk before me just as you have walked before me.' {{rf{26}}} So then, O God of Israel, please let your word be confirmed which you have promised to your servant David my father. {{rf{27}}} For will God really dwell on the earth? Behold, the heavens and the heaven of heavens could not contain you! How could this house that I have built? {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|1Kings-08-10]] }}}
{{rf{28}}} You must regard the prayer of your servant and his plea! O Yahweh my God, listen to the pleading and to the prayer that your servant is praying before you this day, {{rf{29}}} so that your eyes will be open to this house night and day, to the place which you said, 'My name will be there,' to hear the prayer that your servant prays toward this place. {{rf{30}}} You must listen to the plea of your servant and your people Israel which they pray toward this place; and you must hear from the place where you live, from heaven you must hear and you must forgive. {{rf{31}}} If a man sins against his neighbor and he pronounces an oath against him to curse him, and the curse comes before your altar in this house, {{rf{32}}} then you shall hear in heaven and you shall act and you shall judge your servant, to declare the wicked guilty by bringing his way upon his head and to declare the righteous innocent by rewarding him according to his righteousness. {{rf{33}}} When your people Israel are defeated before the enemy because they sinned against you, and when they turn to you and confess your name and pray and beg for mercy from you in this house, {{rf{34}}} then you shall hear in heaven and forgive the sin of your people Israel, and you shall bring them back to the ground which you gave to their ancestors. {{rf{35}}} When you shut up the heavens so there is no rain because they have sinned against you, then they pray to this place and they confess your name and they return from their sin because you punished them, {{rf{36}}} then you shall hear in heaven and forgive the sin of your servants and your people Israel, for you will teach them the good way in which they should go, and you will give rain upon your land which you have given to your people as an inheritance. {{rf{37}}} If there should be in the land famine or disease, if there should be blight or mildew or locust or caterpillars, if it happens that his enemy lays siege against him in the land of his gates, if any plague or any disease, {{rf{38}}} any prayer or any plea which is offered by any person for all of your people Israel, who each knows the infestation of his own heart and spreads out his palms to this house, {{rf{39}}} then you shall hear in heaven the place of your dwelling, and you shall forgive and act and give to the man whose heart you know, according to all his ways, for you alone know the heart of all the sons of man. {{rf{40}}} Do these things so that they may fear you all the days that they live on the face of the land that you gave to our ancestors. {{rf{41}}} Also for the foreigner who is not from your people Israel, and he comes from a distant land because of your name, {{rf{42}}} (for they shall hear of your great name and your powerful hand and your outstretched arm), and he shall come and pray toward this house, {{rf{43}}} you shall hear in heaven, the place of your dwelling, and act according to all that the foreigner calls to you, so that all the peoples of the earth may know your name, to fear you as your people Israel, and to know that your name has been invoked over this house that I have built. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|1Kings-08-28]] }}}
{{rf{44}}} If your people go out to battle against his enemy in the way that you shall send them and they pray to Yahweh, toward the city which you have chosen and the house which I have built for your name, {{rf{45}}} then you shall hear in heaven their prayer and their plea, and you shall vindicate them. {{rf{46}}} "If they sin against you (for there is not a person who does not sin) and you are angry with them and you give them to an enemy and they take them captive to the land of the enemy far or near, {{rf{47}}} and then they return their heart in the land where they have been taken captive and they return and plead to you in the land of their captivity, saying, 'We have sinned and we did wrong. We acted wickedly,' {{rf{48}}} if they return to you with all of their heart and with all of their soul in the land of their enemies who took them captive and they pray to you toward their land which you gave to their ancestors, the city that you have chosen and the house that you built for your name, {{rf{49}}} then you shall hear in heaven, the place of your dwelling, their prayer and their plea, and you shall vindicate them. {{rf{50}}} You shall forgive your people who sinned against you, even for all their transgressions which they committed against you. You shall give them compassion before their captors so that they may have compassion on them, {{rf{51}}} for they are your people and your inheritance whom you brought from Egypt from the middle of the smelter of iron. {{rf{52}}} O, that your eyes may be open to the plea of your servant and to the plea of your people Israel, to listen to them in all things when they call to you. {{rf{53}}} For you have separated them for yourself as an inheritance from all the peoples of the earth, as you promised through the hand of Moses your servant when you brought out our ancestors from Egypt, my Lord Yahweh!" {{rf{54}}} It happened that when Solomon finished praying to Yahweh all of the prayer and this plea, he got up from before the altar of Yahweh, from kneeling down on his knees with his palms outstretched to heaven. {{rf{55}}} He stood and blessed all of the assembly of Israel with a loud voice, saying, {{rf{56}}} "Blessed be Yahweh who gave a resting place to his people Israel. According to all that he promised, not one word has fallen from all of his promises concerning the good which he spoke through the hand of Moses his servant. {{rf{57}}} May Yahweh our God be with us as he was with our ancestors, and may he not leave us or abandon us, {{rf{58}}} to incline our hearts toward him, to walk in all his ways and to keep his commandments, his statutes, and his judgments which he commanded our ancestors. {{rf{59}}} Let these my words which I pleaded before Yahweh be near to Yahweh our God, by day and by night, to maintain the justice of his servant and the justice of his people Israel as each day requires {{rf{60}}} so that all of the people of the earth may know that Yahweh, he is God; there is none other. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|1Kings-08-44]] }}}
{{rf{61}}} Let your heart be completely with Yahweh our God by walking in his statutes, by keeping his commands as this day." {{rf{62}}} Then the king and all of Israel with him offered a sacrifice in the presence of Yahweh. {{rf{63}}} Solomon sacrificed the fellowship offerings which he offered to Yahweh: twenty-two thousand oxen and one hundred and twenty thousand sheep; and the king and all of the Israelites dedicated the house of Yahweh. {{rf{64}}} On that day the king consecrated the middle of the courtyard before the house of Yahweh because he offered there the burnt offerings, the grain offerings, and the fat of the fellowship offerings because the bronze altar that was in the presence of Yahweh was too small to hold the burnt offerings and the grain offerings and the fat of the fellowship offerings. {{rf{65}}} Solomon held the festival at that time and all of Israel with him, a great assembly from Lebo Hamath up to the wadi of Egypt before Yahweh our God, for seven days and seven days, a total of fourteen days. {{rf{66}}} On the eighth day, he sent the people away, and they blessed the king, and they went to their tents rejoicing and in good spirits because of all the goodness that Yahweh had shown to David his servant and to Israel his people. {{rf big{1}}} It happened that as Solomon finished the building of the house of Yahweh, the king's house, and all the things Solomon desired to do, {{rf{2}}} Yahweh appeared to Solomon a second time, as he had appeared to him in Gibeon. {{rf{3}}} Yahweh said to him, "I have heard your prayer and your plea which you have made before me. I have consecrated this house which you have built, by putting my name there forever. My eyes and my heart will always be there. {{rf{4}}} As for you, if you walk before me as David your father walked, with integrity of heart and with uprightness, to do according to all that I have commanded you, and if you keep my ordinances and my judgments, {{rf{5}}} then I will establish the throne of your kingdom over Israel forever, as I promised David your father, saying, 'A man will not be cut off for you from upon the throne of Israel.' {{rf{6}}} "If ever you or any of your descendants turn from following me and do not keep my commandments and my ordinances that I have set before you and you go and serve other gods and bow down to them, {{rf{7}}} then I will cut Israel off from the face of the land that I have given to them, even the house which I have consecrated for my name I will cast away from my face; and Israel shall become a proverb and an object of taunting among all the peoples. {{rf{8}}} This house shall become a heap of ruins; all those passing by will be appalled by it and hiss, and they will say, 'On what account did Yahweh do this to this land and to this house?' {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|1Kings-08-61]] }}}
{{rf{9}}} And they will say, 'Because they have forsaken Yahweh their God who brought their ancestors out from the land of Egypt and they embraced other gods and bowed down to them and served them. Therefore, Yahweh brought on them all of this disaster.'" {{rf{10}}} It happened at the end of twenty years in which Solomon had built the two houses, the house of Yahweh and the house of the king, {{rf{11}}} since Hiram king of Tyre had supplied Solomon with wood of cedar and with wood of cypresses and with the gold according to all his desire, then King Solomon gave twenty cities in the land of the Galilee to Hiram. {{rf{12}}} So Hiram went out from Tyre to see the cities that Solomon had given him, but they were not right in his eyes. {{rf{13}}} So he said, "What are these cities that you have given to me, my brother?" So they are called the land of Cabul until this day. {{rf{14}}} Then Hiram sent to the king a hundred and twenty talents of gold. {{rf{15}}} This is the account of the forced labor that King Solomon conscripted to build the house of Yahweh and his house, the Millo, the walls of Jerusalem, Hazor, Megiddo, and Gezer. {{rf{16}}} Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, had gone up and captured Gezer and burnt it with fire. He had also killed the Canaanites who were living in the city and had given it as a dowry to his daughter, the wife of Solomon. {{rf{17}}} Solomon rebuilt Gezer and Lower Beth-Horon, {{rf{18}}} as well as Baalath and Tamar in the wilderness in the land; {{rf{19}}} and he also built all of the storage cities which were Solomon's, the cities for the chariots, the cities for the cavalry, and all of Solomon's desire that he wanted to build in Jerusalem and in Lebanon and in all the land of his dominion. {{rf{20}}} All of the people who were remaining from the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites who were not of the Israelites, {{rf{21}}} their children who remained after them in the land, whom the Israelites were not able to completely destroy, Solomon conscripted them for forced labor, until this very day. {{rf{22}}} But from the Israelites Solomon did not make a slave, but they were the men of war, his officers, his commanders, his captains, and the commanders of his chariots and his cavalry. {{rf{23}}} These were the commanders of the overseers who were over the work for Solomon, five hundred and fifty, ruling over the people doing the work. {{rf{24}}} As soon as the daughter of Pharaoh went up from the city of David to her house which he built for her, then he built the Millo. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|1Kings-09-09]] }}}
{{rf{25}}} Solomon sacrificed three times a year: burnt offerings and fellowship offerings on the altar that he had built to Yahweh, and he offered incense with it before Yahweh; and so he completed the house. {{rf{26}}} King Solomon also built a fleet of ships at Ezion-Geber which is near Elath on the shore of the Red Sea in the land of Edom. {{rf{27}}} Hiram sent his servants with the fleet of ships, sailors who knew the sea, with the servants of Solomon. {{rf{28}}} They went to Ophir and imported from there four hundred and twenty talents of gold, and they brought it to King Solomon.
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{{rf big{1}}} Now the queen of Sheba had heard of the fame of Solomon regarding the name of Yahweh, and she came to test him with hard questions. {{rf{2}}} So she came to Jerusalem with very great wealth; with camels carrying spices, very much gold, and precious stones. She came to Solomon, and she spoke to him all that was on her heart. {{rf{3}}} Solomon answered all of her questions; there was not a thing hidden from the king which he could not explain to her. {{rf{4}}} When the queen of Sheba observed all the wisdom of Solomon and the house which he had built, {{rf{5}}} the food of his table, the seat of his servants, the manner of his servants and their clothing, his cupbearers, and his burnt offerings which he offered in the house of Yahweh, she was breathless. {{rf{6}}} Then she said to the king, "The report which I heard in my land was true concerning your accomplishments and your wisdom. {{rf{7}}} I had not believed the report to be true until I came and my eyes had seen, and behold! The half had not been told to me. Your wisdom and prosperity surpass the report that I had heard. {{rf{8}}} Happy are your men and happy are these your servants who stand before you continually hearing your wisdom. {{rf{9}}} May Yahweh your God be blessed, who has delighted in you to set you on the throne of Israel, because of the love of Yahweh for Israel forever, and he has made you king to execute justice and righteousness." {{rf{10}}} Then she gave the king a hundred and twenty talents of gold, abundant spices, and precious stones. Spices as these did not come again in such abundance as that which the queen of Sheba brought to King Solomon. {{rf{11}}} Moreover, the fleet of ships of Hiram which carried the gold from Ophir also brought from Ophir abundant amounts of almug wood and precious stones. {{rf{12}}} The king made a raised structure for the house of Yahweh and for the house of the king out of the almug wood, as well as lyres and harps for the singers. This much almug wood has not come nor been seen again up to this day. {{rf{13}}} King Solomon gave to the queen of Sheba all of her desire that she asked, besides that which King Solomon freely offered her. Then she turned and went to her land with her servants. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|1Kings-09-25]] }}}
{{rf{14}}} The weight of the gold that came to Solomon in one year was six hundred and sixty-six talents of gold, {{rf{15}}} apart from that of the men of the traders and the profits of the traders, and all the kings of the Arabs and the governors of the land. {{rf{16}}} King Solomon made two hundred shields of hammered gold; six hundred measures of gold went up over each shield. {{rf{17}}} Also he made three hundred small shields of hammered gold; three minas of gold went up over each of the small shields; and the king put them into the House of the Forest of Lebanon. {{rf{18}}} The king also made a large ivory throne, and he overlaid it with fine gold. {{rf{19}}} Six steps led up to the throne, and there was a circular top to the throne behind it, and armrests were on each side of the seat, with two lions standing beside the armrests. {{rf{20}}} Twelve lions were standing there, six on each of the six steps on either side; nothing like this was made for any of the kingdoms. {{rf{21}}} All of the drinking vessels of King Solomon were gold, and all the vessels for the House of the Forest of Lebanon were pure gold. There was no silver; it was not considered as something valuable in the days of Solomon. {{rf{22}}} For the fleet of Tarshish belonged to the king and was on the sea with the fleet of Hiram; once every three years the fleet of Tarshish used to come carrying gold and silver, ivory, apes, and baboons. {{rf{23}}} King Solomon was greater than all the kings of the earth with respect to wealth and wisdom. {{rf{24}}} All of the earth was seeking the presence of Solomon, to hear his wisdom which God had put in his heart. {{rf{25}}} They were each bringing his gift; objects of silver and objects of gold, clothing, weapons, spices, horses, and mules. This used to happen year after year. {{rf{26}}} Solomon gathered chariots and horses; he had fourteen hundred chariots and twelve thousand horses. He stationed them in the cities of the chariots and with the king in Jerusalem. {{rf{27}}} The king made the silver in Jerusalem as the stones, and the cedars he made as the sycamore fig trees which are in the Shephelah in abundance. {{rf{28}}} The import of the horses which were Solomon's was from Egypt and from Kue; the traders of the king received horses from Kue at a price. {{rf{29}}} A chariot went up and went out from Egypt at six hundred silver shekels and a horse at a hundred and fifty. So it was for all the kings of the Hittites and for the kings of Aram; by their hand they were exported. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|1Kings-10-14]] }}}
King Solomon loved many foreign women: the daughter of Pharaoh, Moabite, Ammonite, Edomite, Sidonian, Hittite; {{rf{2}}} from the nations which Yahweh had said to the Israelites, "You shall not marry them, and they shall not marry you. They will certainly turn your heart after other gods." But Solomon clung to them to love. {{rf{3}}} He had seven hundred princesses and three hundred concubines, and his wives turned his heart. {{rf{4}}} It happened at the time of Solomon's old age that his wives guided his heart after other gods, and his heart was not fully with Yahweh his God as the heart of David his father had been. {{rf{5}}} Solomon went after Ashtoreth the god of the Sidonians and after Molech the abhorrence of the Ammonites. {{rf{6}}} So Solomon did evil in the eyes of Yahweh and did not fully follow after Yahweh as David his father. {{rf{7}}} At that time, Solomon built a high place for Chemosh, the abomination of Moab, on the mountain which faces Jerusalem and for Molech, the abomination of the Ammonites. {{rf{8}}} Thus he did for all of his foreign wives, offering incense and sacrificing to their gods. {{rf{9}}} Yahweh was angry with Solomon, for he had turned his heart from Yahweh, the God of Israel who had appeared to him twice. {{rf{10}}} And he had commanded him concerning this matter not to go after other gods, but he did not keep that which Yahweh commanded. {{rf{11}}} So Yahweh said to Solomon, "Because this was with you, and you did not keep my covenant and my ordinances which I have commanded you, I will certainly tear the kingdom from you, and I will give it to your servant. {{rf{12}}} However, I will not do it in your days, for the sake of David your father; from the hand of your son I will tear it away. {{rf{13}}} Yet all of the kingdom I will not tear away. I will give one tribe to your son for the sake of my servant David and for the sake of Jerusalem which I have chosen." {{rf{14}}} Then Yahweh raised an adversary against Solomon, Hadad the Edomite, from the descendants of that king in Edom. {{rf{15}}} It had happened that when David was at Edom, Joab the commander of the army went up to bury the slain, and he killed every male in Edom. {{rf{16}}} For Joab and all Israel had stayed there six months until he exterminated every male in Edom. {{rf{17}}} But Hadad himself had fled, and some Edomite men from the servants of his father with him, to go to Egypt, when Hadad was a young boy. {{rf{18}}} They had set out from Midian until they came to Paran where they took men from Paran with them and came to Egypt, to Pharaoh king of Egypt. He gave to him a house and assigned food for him and gave him land. {{rf{19}}} Hadad found great favor in the eyes of Pharaoh, and he gave him the sister of his wife, the sister of Tahpenes the queen, as wife. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|1Kings-11-01]] }}}
{{rf{20}}} The sister of Tahpenes bore Genubath his son for him, and Tahpenes weaned him in the middle of the house of Pharaoh. Genubath was in the house of Pharaoh in the midst of the children of Pharaoh. {{rf{21}}} Now Hadad heard in Egypt that David had slept with his ancestors and that Joab the commander of the army was dead. Then Hadad said to Pharaoh, "Send me away that I may go to my land." {{rf{22}}} Pharaoh said to him, "What do you lack with me that you now are seeking to go to your land?" He said, "No, but you must surely send me away." {{rf{23}}} God had also raised Rezon the son of Eliada as an adversary against him, who had fled from Hadadezer the king of Zobah, his master. {{rf{24}}} He gathered men around him and he became the commander of bandits. When David killed some of them, they went to Damascus and settled there, and they reigned in Damascus. {{rf{25}}} He was an adversary for Israel all the days of Solomon, and along with the evil that Hadad did, he detested Israel while he reigned over Aram. {{rf{26}}} Now Jeroboam the son of Nebat, an Ephraimite from Zeredah (now the name of his mother was Zeruah, a widow woman), a servant of Solomon rebelled against the king. {{rf{27}}} This is the reason that he rebelled against the king: when Solomon built the Millo, he closed the gap of the city of David his father. {{rf{28}}} Now the man Jeroboam was a man of ability, and Solomon saw that the young man was a diligent worker, so he appointed him over all of the forced labor for the house of Joseph. {{rf{29}}} It happened at that time that Jeroboam went out from Jerusalem, and he accidentally met Ahijah the Shilonite the prophet on the way. Now he had clothed himself with new clothing. While the two of them were alone in the field, {{rf{30}}} Ahijah took hold of the new cloak which was on him and tore it into twelve pieces. {{rf{31}}} Then he said to Jeroboam, "Take for yourself ten pieces, for thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel: 'Behold, I am about to tear the kingdom from the hand of Solomon, and I will give to you ten tribes, {{rf{32}}} but one tribe shall be for him, for the sake of my servant David and for the sake of Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen from all the tribes of Israel; {{rf{33}}} because he has forsaken me, and they bowed down to Ashtoreth, the god of the Sidonians, to Chemosh, the god of Moab, and to Molech, the god of the Ammonites. They did not walk in my ways to do right in my eyes, my ordinances, or my judgments, as did David his father. {{rf{34}}} But I will not take all of the kingdom from his hand, but I will make him a leader all the days of his life for the sake of David my servant whom I chose, who kept my commandments and my ordinances. {{rf{35}}} But I will take the kingship from the hand of his son, and I will give ten tribes to you. {{rf{36}}} To his son I will give one tribe in order to be a lamp for my servant David, always before my face, in Jerusalem the city in which I have chosen to place my name. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|1Kings-11-20]] }}}
{{rf{37}}} You I will take, and you shall reign over all your soul desires, and you shall be king over Israel. {{rf{38}}} It shall be that if you listen to all that I command you and you walk in my ways and you do right in my eyes by keeping my statutes and my commandments, as David my servant did, then I will be with you, and I will build an enduring house for you as I built for David, and I will give Israel to you. {{rf{39}}} I will punish the offspring of David on account of this; however, not always.'" {{rf{40}}} Then Solomon sought to kill Jeroboam, but Jeroboam got up and fled to Egypt, to Shishak the king of Egypt, and he remained in Egypt until the death of Solomon. {{rf{41}}} Now the rest of the acts of Solomon and all that he did and his wisdom; are they not written on the scroll of the acts of Solomon? {{rf{42}}} All the days that Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all of Israel were forty years. {{rf{43}}} Then Solomon slept with his ancestors, and they buried him in the city of David his father, and Rehoboam his son became king in his place. {{rf big{1}}} Then Rehoboam went to Shechem, for all of Israel had come to Shechem to make him king. {{rf{2}}} It happened that Jeroboam the son of Nebat heard of it while he was still in Egypt where he had fled from the face of King Solomon, and Jeroboam had lived in Egypt. {{rf{3}}} So they sent and summoned him, and Jeroboam and all the assembly of Israel came. Then they spoke to Rehoboam, saying, {{rf{4}}} "Your father made our yoke heavy; now lighten the hard labor of your father and the heavy yoke which he placed on us, and we will serve you." {{rf{5}}} He said, "Go up for three days and then return to me"; so the people went away. {{rf{6}}} Then King Rehoboam consulted with the old men who had been serving before Solomon his father when he was alive, saying, "How are you advising me to answer this people?" {{rf{7}}} They said to him, "If you will be a servant today to this people, then you will serve them; and if you answer them and speak good words to them, they will always be your servants." {{rf{8}}} But he rejected the advice of the old men, which they gave him, and he consulted with the youngsters who had grown up with him, who were serving before him. {{rf{9}}} He said to them, "What are you advising that we should reply to this people who spoke to me by saying, 'Lighten the yoke your father put on us.'" {{rf{10}}} Then the youngsters who had grown up with him spoke to him, saying, "Thus you shall say to this people who spoke to you: 'Your father made our yoke heavy, but you lighten it for us,' you shall say to them, 'My little finger is thicker than my father's loins. {{rf{11}}} So then, my father loaded a heavy yoke on all of you, but I will add to your yoke; my father disciplined you with whips, but I will discipline you with scorpions!'" {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|1Kings-11-37]] }}}
<<Bbl 1K 12:27 abbr >> The fabric (<<Bbl 1K 11:31 >>) is fraying.
<<Bbl 1K 12:32 abbr >> A counterfeit feast of [[Succoth]].
<<Bbl 1K 13:9 abbr >> the injunction not to eat protects the man from any charge of profiteering. See <<Bbl Amos 1: >> for a parallel 200 years later.
<<Bbl 1K 13:11 abbr >> the old man subjects the younger to a test. The death of the younger is a vindication of the genuineness of his ministry.
16:1 This is the crucial text for dating the Exodus at 1445 BC.
<<Bbl 1K 17:10 abbr>>
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So he arose and went to Zarephath; and when he came to the gate of the city, behold, a widow was there gathering sticks: and he called to her, and said, 'Please get me a little water in a vessel, that I may drink.' As she was going to get it, he called to her, and said, 'Please bring me a morsel of bread in your hand.' She said, 'As Yahweh your God lives, I don't have a cake, but a handful of meal in the jar, and a little oil in the jar. Behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and bake it for me and my son, that we may eat it, and die.'
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18 This chapter preaches of the incapacity of mere religion to show power. In the soaking of the sacrifice I see my own journey through darkness, prior to recieving the fire of God.
<<Bbl 1K 18:32 abbr >>-38 "Dale cited several of the Greek fathers, Origen, Basil Magnus, Gregory of Nazianzus, and the Latin father, Ambrose, who commented on this passage. In each case, they spoke of Elijah baptizing (Gr. baptizō, Lt. baptizo) the altar and sacrifices with water (even though the water was applied by pouring). God responds by consuming the whole of it with fire, but only by the prayer of Elijah and not by the prayers of the prophets of Baal. Origen connects this episode with the words of John the Baptist in Luke 3:16, arguing that Elijah was a type of Christ who baptized with the Holy Spirit and with fire. His interpretation reminds us of John 1:25: “They asked him, saying, "Why then do you baptize if you are not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the Prophet?” John the Baptist answered by saying that One was coming who was greater than he, who would baptize with the Holy Spirit for He is the Son of God.
<<Bbl 1K 19:3 abbr >> Leaves [[Serve]] Vss 5-7, 21.
<<Bbl 1K 19:18 abbr>> Imagine the French underground resistance in WWII.
19:19-21 Elijah had a distinctive appearance; in <<Bbl 2K 1:8 >> King Ahaziah identifies Elijah when his messengers describe the man with the hairy garment (whether all prophets had the garment or Elisha knew of Elijah's personal apparel is not clear). Thus Elisha knew what had happened when the cloak fell upon him.
19:19 The idea apparently is that twelve teams, each followed by a plowman, were at work; the pair of vs. 21 reinforces this. In any case, Elisha is indicated by the oxen as a wealthy man, which brings to mind the rich young ruler.
19:20 Elijah's reply to the younger states, "I have put no claim on you yet". This same self-divestment is found at the end of their relationship, <<Bbl 2K 2:2 >>-6 . How much more should we cling to the One who said with directness, "Follow Me!"
19:21 Elisha "put his hand to the plow," and he never looked back. He not only destroyed the remnant of his old life, but positively he made it a sacrifice. He left no provision for the flesh, but displayed the new creation in which "old things are passed away." No Peter he, to return to fishing!
<<Bbl 1K 21:19 abbr >> <<Bbl 2K 9:21-26 >>
<<Bbl 1K 22:6 abbr >>-8 The court prophets speak in the name of //Adonai//. Jehoshaphat, and Ahab in response, use Yahweh.
<<Bbl 1K 22:16 abbr >> mysterious
{{rf{12}}} Jeroboam and all of the people came to Rehoboam on the third day, as the king had spoken: "Return to me on the third day." {{rf{13}}} Then the king answered all the people harshly, as he had rejected the advice of the old men that they had offered. {{rf{14}}} He spoke to them according to the advice of the youngsters, saying, "My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add onto your yoke; my father disciplined you with whips, but I will discipline you with scorpions." {{rf{15}}} So the king did not listen to the people, for it was a turning of events from Yahweh in order to fulfill his word which Yahweh had spoken through the hand of Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam the son of Nebat. {{rf{16}}} When all of Israel saw that the king would not listen to them, the people answered the king, saying, "What share do we have in David? There is no inheritance in the son of Jesse. To your tents, Israel! Now look to your house, David!" Then Israel went to their tents. {{rf{17}}} The Israelites were living in the cities of Judah, and Rehoboam was reigning over them. {{rf{18}}} King Rehoboam sent Adoram who was over the forced labor, and all of Israel cast stones at him and he died, but King Rehoboam managed to get up on the chariot to flee to Jerusalem. {{rf{19}}} So Israel rebelled against the house of David until this day. {{rf{20}}} It happened that just when all of Israel heard that Jeroboam had returned, they sent and called him to the assembly and made him king over all of Israel. Not one followed after the house of David except the tribe of Judah alone. {{rf{21}}} When Rehoboam came to Jerusalem, he assembled all of the house of Judah and the tribe of Benjamin, a hundred and eighty thousand choice troops to fight with the house of Israel, to restore the kingship to Rehoboam the son of Solomon. {{rf{22}}} Then the word of God came to Shemaiah the man of God, saying, {{rf{23}}} "Say to Rehoboam the son of Solomon the king of Judah and to all the house of Judah and Benjamin and the remainder of the people, saying, {{rf{24}}} 'Thus says Yahweh: "You shall not go up and you shall not fight with your brothers the Israelites. Return each of you to his house, for this thing was from me." '" So they heeded the word of Yahweh, and they returned to go home according to the word of Yahweh. {{rf{25}}} Then Jeroboam built Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim, and he resided in it. Then he went out from there and built Penuel. {{rf{26}}} Then Jeroboam said to himself, "Now the kingdom will return to the house of David {{rf{27}}} if this people go up to offer sacrifices in the house of Yahweh in Jerusalem. The heart of this people will return to their master Rehoboam the king of Judah, and they shall kill me and return to him." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|1Kings-12-12]] }}}
{{rf{28}}} And the king had decided, so he made two golden calves and he said to them, "You have been going up to Jerusalem long enough; here are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up from the land of Egypt." {{rf{29}}} He put one in Bethel, and the other he put in Dan. {{rf{30}}} This thing became a sin, and the people walked before the one as far as Dan. {{rf{31}}} Then he built the houses on the high places, and he appointed priests from all walks of life who were not from the sons of Levi. {{rf{32}}} Jeroboam also inaugurated a religious feast in the eighth month on the fifteenth day of the month, like the religious feast which was in Judah, and he offered sacrifices on the altar. Thus he did in Bethel, by sacrificing to the calves that he had made; and he placed in Bethel the priests of the high places which he had made. {{rf{33}}} He offered sacrifices on the altar which he had made in Bethel on the fifteenth day of the eighth month which his heart had devised. He inaugurated a religious feast for the Israelites, and he went up to the altar to offer incense. {{rf big{1}}} Suddenly a man of God from Judah came to Bethel, by the word of Yahweh, while Jeroboam was standing at the altar to offer incense. {{rf{2}}} Then he proclaimed against the altar by the word of Yahweh and said, "O altar, altar, thus says Yahweh: 'Look, a son will be born to the house of David, Josiah by name, and he shall sacrifice on you the priests of the high places who burn incense on you, and human bones shall burn on you.'" {{rf{3}}} He gave a sign on that day, saying, "This is the sign that Yahweh has predetermined: Look, this altar will be torn apart, and the ashes that are on it will be poured out." {{rf{4}}} It happened at the moment the king heard the word of the man of God that he cried out against the altar in Bethel, Jeroboam stretched out his hand from the altar, saying, "Seize him!" But his hand which he stretched out to him was paralyzed, and he was not able to draw it back to himself. {{rf{5}}} Then the altar was torn apart and the ashes from the altar poured out according to the sign which the man of God had announced by the word of Yahweh. {{rf{6}}} Then the king responded and said to the man of God, "Please entreat the favor of Yahweh your God, and pray for me that my hand may return to me." So the man of God entreated the face of Yahweh, and the hand of the king returned to him, as it was in the beginning. {{rf{7}}} Then the king spoke to the man of God, "Come with me to the house and refresh yourself, that I may give you a gift." {{rf{8}}} Then the man of God said to the king, "Even if you give to me half of your house I will not come with you, nor will I eat bread or drink water in this place, {{rf{9}}} for the word of Yahweh has commanded me, saying, 'You shall not eat bread nor drink water, and you shall not return on the way that you came.'" {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|1Kings-12-28]] }}}
{{rf{10}}} So he went another way, and he did not return by the way on which he had come to Bethel. {{rf{11}}} Now a certain older prophet was living in Bethel, and his son came and recounted to him all of the things that the man of God had done that day in Bethel and the words he had spoken to the king, and they told them to their father. {{rf{12}}} Then their father asked them, "Which way did he go?" His sons had seen the way which the man of God who had come from Judah had taken. {{rf{13}}} Then he said to his sons, "Saddle the donkey for me." So they saddled the donkey for him, and he mounted it {{rf{14}}} and went after the man of God. He found him sitting under the oak and said to him, "Are you the man of God who came from Judah?" He said, "I am." {{rf{15}}} Then he said to him, "Come with me to the house and eat some food." {{rf{16}}} Then he said, "I am not able to return with you or to go with you. I will not eat food nor will I drink water with you in this place. {{rf{17}}} For a word came to me by the word of Yahweh, 'You shall not eat food, nor shall you drink water there. You shall not return to go by the way that you came.'" {{rf{18}}} Then he said, "I am also a prophet like you. An angel spoke to me by the word of Yahweh, saying, 'Let him return with you to your house that he may eat food and drink water.'" He lied to him. {{rf{19}}} So he returned with him and ate food in his house and drank water. {{rf{20}}} Now it happened that they were sitting at the table, and the word of Yahweh came to the prophet who brought him back. {{rf{21}}} He proclaimed to the man of God who came from Judah, saying, "Thus says Yahweh: 'Because you have disobeyed the word of Yahweh and have not kept the command which Yahweh your God commanded you, {{rf{22}}} but you have returned and have eaten food and drank water in the place which he ordered you not to eat food nor to drink water, then your dead body shall not return to the tomb of your ancestors.'" {{rf{23}}} It happened after he ate food and drank water that he saddled the donkey for the prophet whom he had brought back. {{rf{24}}} When he left, a lion found him on the road and killed him, and his dead body was thrown on the road with the donkey standing beside it, and the lion was standing by the dead body. {{rf{25}}} As men were passing by and they saw the dead body thrown in the road and the lion standing beside the dead body, they came and told it in the city where the old prophet was living. {{rf{26}}} When the prophet who had brought him back from the way heard, he said, "It is the man of God who disobeyed the mouth of Yahweh, and Yahweh has given him to the lion. He tore him in pieces and killed him according to the word of Yahweh which he had spoken to him." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|1Kings-13-10]] }}}
{{rf{27}}} Then he spoke to his sons, saying, "Saddle the donkey for me." So they saddled it. {{rf{28}}} He went and found his dead body thrown in the road and a donkey with the lion standing beside it, but the lion had not eaten the corpse nor attacked the donkey. {{rf{29}}} So the prophet lifted up the corpse of the man of God and put it on the donkey and brought it back. He came to the city of the old prophet to mourn him and to bury him. {{rf{30}}} He put his corpse in his tomb, and they mourned over him, "Alas, my brother!" {{rf{31}}} It happened after he buried him that he said to his sons, "When I die, you shall bury me in the tomb where the man of God is buried; you shall lay my bones beside his bones. {{rf{32}}} For surely, the thing which he proclaimed by the word of Yahweh against the altar which is in Bethel will happen, as it will against all the houses of the high places which are in the cities of Samaria." {{rf{33}}} After this event, Jeroboam did not turn from his evil way, but he returned and again made priests for the high places of people from all walks of life. He filled his hand with all his desire and became one of the priests of the high places himself. {{rf{34}}} This matter became sin in the house of Jeroboam, to make it disappear and to destroy it from the surface of the earth. {{rf big{1}}} At that time, Abijah son of Jeroboam became ill. {{rf{2}}} Jeroboam said to his wife, "Please get up and disguise yourself so that they will not know that you are the wife of Jeroboam, and go to Shiloh. Look, Ahijah the prophet is there, and he spoke concerning me before I became king over this people. {{rf{3}}} You must take ten loaves of bread in your hand and cakes and a jar of honey, and you must go to him. He shall tell you what will happen to the boy." {{rf{4}}} The wife of Jeroboam did so. She got up, went to Shiloh, and came to the house of Ahijah. Now Ahijah was not able to see, for his eyes were fixed because of his old age. {{rf{5}}} Then Yahweh said to Ahijah, "Look, the wife of Jeroboam is coming to seek a word from you about her son, for he is ill. Thus and so you shall say to her. When she comes, she will be disguising herself." {{rf{6}}} It happened at the moment Ahijah heard the sound of her footsteps coming through the doorway, he said, "Come in, wife of Jeroboam. Why are you making yourself unrecognizable? I have been sent a hard message for you: {{rf{7}}} Go, tell Jeroboam, 'Thus says Yahweh the God of Israel: "Because I raised you from the midst of the people and I made you leader over my people Israel, {{rf{8}}} I tore the kingdom from the house of David and I gave it to you. But you were not like my servant David who kept my commandments, and who went after me with all his heart, to do only what is right in my eyes. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|1Kings-13-27]] }}}
{{rf{9}}} But you did more evil than all who were before you. You have gone and made for yourself other gods and molten idols to provoke me, but me you have completely disregarded. {{rf{10}}} Therefore, look, I am about to bring disaster upon the house of Jeroboam, and I will cut off males from Jeroboam, bond or free, in Israel. I will burn after the house of Jeroboam as one burns after the manure, until it is finished. {{rf{11}}} He who dies for Jeroboam in the city, the dogs will eat. He who dies in the open field, the birds from the heavens will eat, for Yahweh has spoken it." ' {{rf{12}}} As for you, get up. Go to your house. When your feet enter the city, the child will die. {{rf{13}}} All of Israel will mourn for him, and they will bury him. This one alone will come to a tomb for Jeroboam, because a good thing has been found in him by Yahweh the God of Israel in the house of Israel. {{rf{14}}} Yahweh will raise up a king for himself over Israel who will even now cut off the house of Jeroboam this day. {{rf{15}}} Yahweh will strike Israel as one shakes the reed plant in the water, and he will root Israel up from this good land that he gave to their ancestors. He will scatter them beyond the River because they have made their sacred poles which are provoking Yahweh. {{rf{16}}} He will give up Israel because of the sin of Jeroboam which he sinned and which he caused Israel to sin." {{rf{17}}} Then the wife of Jeroboam got up, went, and came to Tirzah. As she was coming to the threshold of the house, the boy died. {{rf{18}}} They buried him and all of Israel mourned for him, according to the word of Yahweh which he had spoken by the hand of his servant Ahijah the prophet. {{rf{19}}} The remainder of the acts of Jeroboam, how he fought and how he reigned, behold, they are written in the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Israel. {{rf{20}}} The days which Jeroboam reigned were twenty-two years, and he slept with his ancestors. Then Nadab his son became king in place of him. {{rf{21}}} Now Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah. He was forty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which, from all of the tribes of Israel, Yahweh chose to place his name. And the name of his mother was Naamah the Ammonitess. {{rf{22}}} But Judah did evil in the eyes of Yahweh, and they annoyed him more than their fathers did with their sins that they had committed. {{rf{23}}} They also built for themselves high places and stone pillars and sacred poles on every high hill and under every green tree. {{rf{24}}} There were also male shrine prostitutes in the land, and they did according to all the abominations of the nations which Yahweh had driven out from before the Israelites. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|1Kings-14-09]] }}}
{{rf{25}}} It happened in the fifth year of King Rehoboam that Shishak the king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem, {{rf{26}}} and he took the treasures of the house of Yahweh, and he took all the treasures of the king's house. He took the small gold shields that Solomon had made, {{rf{27}}} so King Rehoboam made small copper shields in place of them and entrusted them to the commanders of the royal guard who keep the doorway of the king's house. {{rf{28}}} Whenever the king came to the house of Yahweh, the royal guard carried them and brought them back to the alcove room of the royal guard. {{rf{29}}} The remainder of the acts of Rehoboam and all that he did, are they not written on the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Judah? {{rf{30}}} There was always war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam. {{rf{31}}} Then Rehoboam slept with his ancestors, and he was buried with his ancestors in the city of David. The name of his mother was Naamah the Ammonitess. Abijam his son became king in his place. {{rf big{1}}} In the eighteenth year of King Jeroboam the son of Nebat, Abijam began to reign over Judah. {{rf{2}}} Three years he reigned in Jerusalem. The name of his mother was Maacah the daughter of Abishalom. {{rf{3}}} He walked in all the sins of his father that he had done before him, and his heart was not fully with Yahweh his God as the heart of David his father. {{rf{4}}} For the sake of David, Yahweh his God gave him a lamp in Jerusalem, by establishing his son after him and by causing Jerusalem to exist; {{rf{5}}} because David did right in the eyes of Yahweh and he didn't turn aside from all that he commanded him all the days of his life, except in the matter of Uriah the Hittite. {{rf{6}}} There was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all the days of his life. {{rf{7}}} The remainder of the acts of Abijam and all that he did, are they not written in the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Judah? There was also war between Abijam and Jeroboam. {{rf{8}}} Abijam slept with his ancestors, and they buried him in the city of David, and Asa his son became king in his place. {{rf{9}}} In the twentieth year of Jeroboam the king of Israel, Asa became the king of Judah. {{rf{10}}} He reigned forty-one years in Jerusalem, and the name of his mother was Maacah the daughter of Abishalom. {{rf{11}}} Asa did right in the eyes of Yahweh, like David his ancestor. {{rf{12}}} He put away the male shrine prostitutes from the land, and he removed all of the idols that his ancestors made. {{rf{13}}} Also, he had Maacah his mother removed from the office of queen mother, as she had made a repulsive image for the Asherah. Asa also cut down her repulsive image and burned it in the Wadi Kidron. {{rf{14}}} But the high places he did not remove. Nevertheless, the heart of Asa was completely with Yahweh all of his days. {{rf{15}}} He brought the holy objects of his father and his own holy objects to the house of Yahweh, silver and gold and utensils. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|1Kings-14-25]] }}}
{{rf{16}}} There was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all of their days. {{rf{17}}} Baasha king of Israel went up against Judah, and he built Ramah to hinder the coming and going of anyone to Asa king of Judah. {{rf{18}}} Asa took all of the silver and gold remaining in the storerooms of the house of Yahweh and in the treasury rooms of the house of the king, and he gave them into the hand of his servants; so King Asa sent them to Ben-Hadad the son of Tabrimmon the son of Hezion, the king of Aram, who lived in Damascus, saying, {{rf{19}}} "Let there be a covenant between me and you, between my father and your father. Look, I have sent you a gift of silver and gold. Go, break your covenant with Baasha king of Israel that he may go up away from me." {{rf{20}}} Ben-Hadad listened to King Asa, and he sent the commanders of his armies against the cities of Israel and he attacked Ijon, Dan, Abel-Beth-Maacah, and all of Kinnereth, in addition to all the land of Naphtali. {{rf{21}}} When Baasha heard, he stopped building Ramah, and he lived in Tirzah. {{rf{22}}} Then King Asa proclaimed among all of Israel that there was no one free from obligation, so they carried the stones of Ramah and its wood with which Baasha had built, and King Asa rebuilt Geba in Benjamin with them, and the Mizpah. {{rf{23}}} The remainder of the acts of Asa, all of his achievements, all that he did, and the cities which he built, are they not written in the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Judah? But at the time of his old age, he developed a foot disease. {{rf{24}}} Asa slept with his ancestors and was buried with his ancestors in the city of David his ancestor; Jehoshaphat his son became king in his place. {{rf{25}}} Nadab the son of Jeroboam began to reign over Israel in the second year of Asa king of Judah, and he reigned over Israel two years. {{rf{26}}} He did evil in the eyes of Yahweh, and he walked in the way of his father and in his sin that he caused Israel to commit. {{rf{27}}} Baasha son of Ahijah of the house of Issachar conspired against him, and Baasha struck him down at Gibbethon, which belonged to the Philistines. Now Nadab and all of Israel were laying siege to Gibbethon, {{rf{28}}} and Baasha killed him in the third year of Asa the king of Judah, and he reigned in his place. {{rf{29}}} It happened that as soon as he became king, he killed all of the house of Jeroboam. There was no one left of Jeroboam who breathed, until he had destroyed him according to the word of Yahweh that he had spoken by the hand of his servant, Ahijah the Shilonite, {{rf{30}}} because of the sins of Jeroboam that he had committed and that he had caused Israel to commit and because of his anger with which he had provoked Yahweh the God of Israel. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|1Kings-15-16]] }}}
{{rf{31}}} Now the remainder of the acts of Nadab and all that he did, are they not written on the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Israel? {{rf{32}}} There was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days. {{rf{33}}} In the third year of Asa king of Judah, Baasha son of Ahijah had become king over all of Israel; he lived in Tirzah twenty-four years. {{rf{34}}} He did evil in the eyes of Yahweh, and he walked in the way of Jeroboam and in his sin that he caused Israel to commit. {{rf big{1}}} The word of Yahweh came to Jehu the son of Hanani against Baasha, saying, {{rf{2}}} "Because I exalted you from the dust and I made you a leader over my people Israel, but you have walked in the way of Jeroboam and you caused my people Israel to sin, to provoke me with their sins, {{rf{3}}} I am now about to consume Baasha and his house. I will make your house like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat. {{rf{4}}} Those who die for Baasha in the city, the dogs will eat; those who die for him in the field, the birds of the heavens will eat." {{rf{5}}} The remainder of the acts of Baasha, what he did, and his powerful deeds, are they not written on the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Israel? {{rf{6}}} Baasha slept with his ancestors and was buried in Tirzah, and Elah his son became king in his place. {{rf{7}}} Moreover, the word of Yahweh came to Baasha and to his house by the hand of Jehu the son of Hanani the prophet, because of all the evil that he did in the eyes of Yahweh by provoking him with the work of his hands, by being like the house of Jeroboam; and he destroyed him. {{rf{8}}} In the twenty-sixth year of Asa king of Judah, Elah the son of Baasha became king over Israel for two years. {{rf{9}}} His servant Zimri the commander of half of the chariots conspired against him. Now he had been in Tirzah drinking himself drunk in the house of Arza who was over the palace in Tirzah. {{rf{10}}} Zimri came and struck him down and killed him in the twenty-seventh year of Asa king of Judah and became king in his place. {{rf{11}}} It happened that as soon as he became king, at the moment he sat on his throne, he killed all of the house of Baasha. He left no males among his kindred or any of his friends. {{rf{12}}} So Zimri destroyed all of the house of Baasha according to the word of Yahweh which he spoke against Baasha by the hand of Jehu the prophet {{rf{13}}} because of all the sins of Baasha and the sins of Elah his son which they committed and which they caused Israel to sin by provoking Yahweh the God of Israel with their idols. {{rf{14}}} The remainder of the acts of Elah and all that he did, are they not written in the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Israel? {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|1Kings-15-31]] }}}
{{rf{15}}} In the twenty-seventh year of Asa king of Judah, Zimri reigned seven days in Tirzah. Now the army was encamping against Gibbethon which belonged to the Philistines. {{rf{16}}} The encamping army heard that Zimri had conspired and moreover had killed the king, so they made Omri the commander of the army of Israel king over all Israel in the camp on that day. {{rf{17}}} Then Omri went up and all Israel with him from Gibbethon, and they besieged Tirzah. {{rf{18}}} It happened that when Zimri saw that the city was taken, he went to the citadel fortress of the house of the king, and he burnt the house of the king over him with fire so that he died. {{rf{19}}} This happened because of his sin which he committed by doing evil in the eyes of Yahweh, by going the way of Jeroboam and in his sin which he did by causing Israel to sin. {{rf{20}}} The remainder of the acts of Zimri and his conspiracy which he made, are they not written on the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Israel? {{rf{21}}} At that time, the people of Israel were divided into two parts: half of the people went after Tibni the son of Ginath to make him king, and the other half went after Omri. {{rf{22}}} The people who went after Omri overcame the people who went after Tibni the son of Ginath, so that he died and Omri became king. {{rf{23}}} In the thirty-first year of Asa king of Judah, Omri became king over Israel for twelve years. He reigned in Tirzah six years, {{rf{24}}} then bought the hill of Samaria from Shemer for two talents of silver, fortified the hill, and called the name of the city Samaria that he built after Shemer, the owner of the hill. {{rf{25}}} But Omri did evil in the eyes of Yahweh more than all who were before him. {{rf{26}}} He went in all the way of Jeroboam the son of Nebat and in his sins that he caused Israel to sin by provoking Yahweh the God of Israel with their idols. {{rf{27}}} The remainder of the acts of Omri that he did and his powerful deeds, are they not written in the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Israel? {{rf{28}}} Omri slept with his ancestors, and he was buried in Samaria, and Ahab his son became king in his place. {{rf{29}}} Now Ahab son of Omri became king over Israel in the thirty-eighth year of Asa king of Judah. Ahab son of Omri reigned over Israel in Samaria twenty-two years. {{rf{30}}} But Ahab son of Omri did evil in the eyes of Yahweh more than all who were before him. {{rf{31}}} If it wasn't enough that he went after the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, he also took as wife Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal the king of the Sidonians. He went and served Baal and bowed down to him. {{rf{32}}} And he built an altar to Baal in the house of Baal which he had built in Samaria. {{rf{33}}} Ahab also made the sacred pole, and he continued to provoke Yahweh the God of Israel more than all the kings of Israel who were before him. {{rf{34}}} In his days, Hiel the Bethelite rebuilt Jericho; at the cost of Abiram his firstborn he laid its foundation, and at the cost of Segub his younger sibling, he set up its gates, according to the word of Yahweh which he spoke by the hand of Joshua the son of Nun. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|1Kings-16-15]] }}}
Elijah the Tishbite from Tishbe of Gilead said to Ahab, "As Yahweh lives, the God of Israel before whom I stand, there shall surely not be dew nor rain these years except by my command." {{rf{2}}} Then the word of Yahweh came to him, saying, {{rf{3}}} "Go from this place and turn to the east; you must hide yourself in the Wadi Kerith which faces the Jordan. {{rf{4}}} It shall be that you shall drink from the wadi, and I have commanded the crows to sustain you there." {{rf{5}}} So he went and did according to the word of Yahweh. He went and stayed in the Wadi Kerith which faces the Jordan. {{rf{6}}} The crows were bringing bread and meat in the morning for him and bread and meat in the evening, and he drank from the wadi. {{rf{7}}} It happened after a while that the wadi dried up, because there was no rain in the land. {{rf{8}}} Then the word of Yahweh came to him, saying, {{rf{9}}} "Get up and go to Zarephath which belongs to Sidon and stay there. Look, I have commanded a woman there, a widow, to sustain you." {{rf{10}}} So he arose and went to Zarephath and came to the gate of the city. There was a widow woman gathering wood, so he called to her, and he said, "Please bring a little water for me in a vessel so that I can drink." {{rf{11}}} She went to fetch it, and he called to her and said, "Please bring me a morsel of bread in your hand." {{rf{12}}} She said, "As Yahweh your God lives, surely I do not have a cake, but only a handful of flour in the jar and a little olive oil in the jug. Here I am gathering a few pieces of wood, and I will go and prepare it for me and my son, that we might eat it and die." {{rf{13}}} Elijah said to her, "Don't be afraid. Go and do according to your word; only make for me a small bread cake from it first, and bring it out to me. Make it for yourself and for your son afterward. {{rf{14}}} For thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel: 'The jar of flour will not be emptied and the jug of olive oil will not run out until the day Yahweh gives rain on the surface of the earth.'" {{rf{15}}} So she went and did according to the word of Elijah; then both she and he ate with her household for many days. {{rf{16}}} The jar of flour was not emptied and the jug of olive oil did not run out, according to the word of Yahweh which he spoke by the hand of Elijah. {{rf{17}}} It happened after these things that the son of the woman, the mistress of the house, became ill; and his illness was very severe until there was no breath left in him. {{rf{18}}} She said to Elijah, "What do you have against me, O man of God, that you have come to me to make known my guilt and to cause my son to die?" {{rf{19}}} Then he said to her, "Give me your son." He took him from her lap and carried him up to the upper room where he was staying, and he laid him on his bed. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|1Kings-17-01]] }}}
{{rf{20}}} Then he called to Yahweh and said, "O Yahweh my God, are you also causing evil to come upon the widow with whom I am dwelling as an alien by causing her son to die?" {{rf{21}}} He stretched himself out on the child three times and called to Yahweh and said, "O Yahweh my God, please let the life of this child return within him." {{rf{22}}} Yahweh listened to the voice of Elijah, and the life of the child returned within him, and he lived. {{rf{23}}} Elijah then took the child and brought him down from the upper room to the house and gave him to his mother. Elijah said, "Look, your son is alive." {{rf{24}}} Then the woman said to Elijah, "Now this I know, that you are a man of God and the word of Yahweh in your mouth is truth." {{rf big{1}}} It happened many days later that the word of Yahweh came to Elijah in the third year, saying, "Go, present yourself to Ahab so that I may give rain on the surface of the earth." {{rf{2}}} So Elijah went to present himself to Ahab. Now the famine was severe in Samaria. {{rf{3}}} Ahab summoned Obadiah who was over the house. (Now Obadiah was fearing Yahweh greatly. {{rf{4}}} It had happened that when Jezebel killed the prophets of Yahweh, Obadiah took a hundred prophets and hid them by fifties in the cave and sustained them with food and water.) {{rf{5}}} Ahab said to Obadiah, "Go through the land to all the springs of water and to all the wadis. Perhaps we may find green grass that we may keep horses and mules alive and that we might not lose any of the animals." {{rf{6}}} So they divided the land for themselves in order to pass through it; Ahab went one way by himself, and Obadiah went another way by himself. {{rf{7}}} It happened that Obadiah was on the way, and suddenly Elijah was there to meet him. When he recognized him, he fell on his face and said, "Is this you, my lord Elijah?" {{rf{8}}} He said to him, "I am. Go, say to your lord, 'Elijah is here.'" {{rf{9}}} He said, "How have I sinned that you are giving your servant into the hand of Ahab to kill me? {{rf{10}}} As Yahweh your God lives, surely there is not a nation or a kingdom to which my lord has not sent me to seek you. If they would say, 'He is not here,' then he would make the kingdom or the nation swear that it could not find you. {{rf{11}}} Now you are saying, 'Go, say to your lord: "Elijah is here." ' {{rf{12}}} And it will happen that I will go from you and the Spirit of Yahweh will carry you up to where I do not know. Then I will come to tell Ahab, but he will not find you, and then he will kill me, even though your servant has feared Yahweh from my youth. {{rf{13}}} Has it not been told to my lord what I did when Jezebel killed the prophets of Yahweh? I hid a hundred men of the prophets of Yahweh by fifties in the cave, and I sustained them with food and water. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|1Kings-17-20]] }}}
{{rf{14}}} Now you are saying, 'Go, say to your lord: "Elijah is here," ' and he will kill me." {{rf{15}}} Elijah said, "As Yahweh of hosts lives, before whom I stand, I will certainly show myself to him today." {{rf{16}}} So Obadiah went to meet Ahab, and he told him, so Ahab went to meet Elijah. {{rf{17}}} When Ahab saw Elijah, Ahab said to him, "Is this you who throws Israel into confusion?" {{rf{18}}} He said, "I did not throw Israel into confusion; rather you and the house of your father have by forsaking the commands of Yahweh when you went after the Baals! {{rf{19}}} So then, send word and assemble all of Israel to me on Mount Carmel, with the four hundred and fifty prophets of Baal and the four hundred prophets of Asherah, who eat at the table of Jezebel." {{rf{20}}} So Ahab sent word among the Israelites, and he assembled the prophets to Mount Carmel. {{rf{21}}} Elijah approached to all the people and said, "How long will you go limping over two opinions? If Yahweh is God, go after him; but if Baal, go after him." But the people did not answer him a word. {{rf{22}}} Then Elijah said to the people, "I alone am left a prophet of Yahweh, but the prophets of Baal are four hundred and fifty men. {{rf{23}}} Let them give us two bulls, and let them choose for themselves one bull, cut him in pieces, and put it on the wood, but don't let them start a fire on it. I will prepare the other bull and set it on the wood, but I will put no fire on it. {{rf{24}}} Then you call on the name of your god, and I will call on the name of Yahweh, and it shall be that the god who answers by fire, he is God." Then all the people answered and said, "The word is good!" {{rf{25}}} Then Elijah said to the prophets of Baal, "Choose for yourselves one bull and prepare it first, for you are the majority, and call on the name of your god, but don't set fire under it." {{rf{26}}} So they took the bull that he allowed to them, prepared it, and called upon the name of Baal from morning until noon, saying, "O Baal, answer us!" But there was no voice and there was no answer, so they limped about the altar which they had made. {{rf{27}}} It happened at noon that Elijah mocked them and said, "Call out with a loud voice, for he is a god! Perhaps he is meditating, or is using the bathroom, or is on a journey. Perhaps he is asleep and must wake up!" {{rf{28}}} So they called out with a loud voice, and they cut themselves with swords and with spears as was their custom, until the blood poured out over them. {{rf{29}}} It happened as noon passed, they raged until the time of the evening offering, but there was no voice, there was no answer, and no one paid attention. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|1Kings-18-14]] }}}
{{rf{30}}} Then Elijah said to all the people, "Come near to me," so all the people came closer to him. He repaired the altar of Yahweh that had been destroyed. {{rf{31}}} Elijah took twelve stones according to the number of the tribes of the sons of Jacob, to whom the word of God came, saying, "Israel shall be your name." {{rf{32}}} With them, he built an altar in the name of Yahweh, and he made a trench which would have held about two seahs of seed, all around the altar. {{rf{33}}} And he arranged the wood, cut the bull into pieces, and placed it on the wood. Then he said, "Fill four jars with water, and pour it on the burnt offering and on the wood." {{rf{34}}} He said, "Do it again!" They did it again. He said, "Do it a third time!" So they did it a third time. {{rf{35}}} The water went all around the altar, and the trench also was filled with water. {{rf{36}}} It happened at the offering of the evening oblation, Elijah the prophet went near, and he said, "O Yahweh, God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel; let it be known today that you are God in Israel and that I am your servant and that I have done all of these things by your words. {{rf{37}}} Answer me, O Yahweh, answer me; that this people may know that you, O Yahweh, are God and that you have turned their hearts back again." {{rf{38}}} Then the fire of Yahweh fell, and it consumed the burnt offering, and the wood, and the stones, and the dust; and the water which was in the trench it licked up! {{rf{39}}} When all the people saw, they fell on their faces and said, "Yahweh, he is God! Yahweh, he is God!" {{rf{40}}} Then Elijah said to them, "Seize the prophets of Baal; don't let any man of them escape!" So they seized them, and Elijah brought them down to the wadi of Kishon and killed them there. {{rf{41}}} Then Elijah said to Ahab, "Go up, eat and drink, for there is the sound of the noise of rain." {{rf{42}}} So Ahab went up to eat and to drink while Elijah went to the top of Carmel, bent down to the earth, and put his face between his knees. {{rf{43}}} Then he said to his servant, "Please go and look in the direction of the sea." So he went up and looked; then he said, "There is nothing." Then he said, "Go back," seven times. {{rf{44}}} It happened that at the seventh time, he said, "Look, there is a small cloud, as the hand of a man, coming up from the sea." Then Elijah said, "Go up, say to Ahab, 'Harness your horses and go down, lest the rain stop you.'" {{rf{45}}} In no time the heavens grew black with clouds and wind, and there was heavy rain. Ahab rode and he went to Jezreel, {{rf{46}}} but the hand of Yahweh was on Elijah; he girded up his loins and ran before Ahab as one comes to Jezreel. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|1Kings-18-30]] }}}
Then Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done and how he had killed all the prophets with the sword. {{rf{2}}} Then Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, saying, "Thus may the gods do to me, and may they add to it, surely at this time tomorrow I will make your life as the life of one of them!" {{rf{3}}} Then he became afraid, got up, and fled for his life. He came to Beersheba which belongs to Judah, and he left his servant there. {{rf{4}}} Then he went into the wilderness one day's journey, and he went and sat under a certain broom tree. Then he asked Yahweh that he might die, and he said, "It is enough now, Yahweh; take my life, for I am no better than my ancestors." {{rf{5}}} He lay down and fell asleep under a certain broom tree, and suddenly this angel was touching him and said to him, "Get up, eat!" {{rf{6}}} He looked, and behold, a bread cake on hot coals was near his head and a jar of water, so he ate and drank. Then he did it again and lay down. {{rf{7}}} The angel of Yahweh appeared a second time and touched him and said, "Get up, eat, for the journey is greater than you." {{rf{8}}} So he got up, ate, drank, and went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights up to Horeb, the mountain of God. {{rf{9}}} He came to the cave there and spent the night there. Suddenly the word of Yahweh came to him and asked him, "Elijah, what are you doing here?" {{rf{10}}} Then he said, "I have been very zealous for Yahweh the God of hosts, for the Israelites have forsaken your covenant. They have demolished your altars, and they have killed your prophets with the sword. I alone am left over, and they seek to take my life. {{rf{11}}} He said, "Go out and stand on the mountain before Yahweh." Suddenly Yahweh was passing by, with a great and strong wind ripping the mountains and crushing rocks before Yahweh; but Yahweh was not in the wind. After the wind, there was an earthquake; but Yahweh was not in the earthquake. {{rf{12}}} After the earthquake was a fire, but Yahweh was not in the fire. After the fire there was the sound of a gentle whisper. {{rf{13}}} It happened at the moment Elijah heard, he covered his face with his cloak and went out and stood at the entrance of the cave. Suddenly a voice came to him and said, "Elijah, why are you here?" {{rf{14}}} He said, "I have been very zealous for Yahweh the God of Hosts, for the Israelites have forsaken your covenant, demolished your altars, and killed your prophets with the sword; I alone am left, and they seek to take my life!" {{rf{15}}} Then Yahweh said to him, "Go, return on your way to the wilderness of Damascus. Go and anoint Hazael as king over Aram; {{rf{16}}} and Jehu son of Nimshi you shall anoint as king over Israel. You shall also anoint Elisha son of Shaphat from Abel-Meholah as prophet in your place. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|1Kings-19-01]] }}}
{{rf{17}}} It shall be that the one who escapes from the sword of Hazael, Jehu will kill; the one who escapes from the sword of Jehu, Elisha shall kill. {{rf{18}}} I will leave in Israel seven thousand, all of the knees that have not bowed down to Baal and all of the mouths that have not kissed him." {{rf{19}}} So he went from there and found Elisha son of Shaphat while he was plowing with twelve pairs of oxen before him. When he and the twelve passed Elijah, he threw his cloak on him. {{rf{20}}} Then he left the oxen and ran after Elijah and said, "Please let me kiss my father and my mother, and then I will go after you." Then he said, "Go, return, for what I have done to you?" {{rf{21}}} So he returned from after him, and he took a pair of oxen and slaughtered them, and with the yoke of the oxen he boiled the flesh and gave it to the people and they ate. Then he arose and went after Elijah and served him. {{rf big{1}}} Ben-Hadad king of Aram gathered all of his army, and thirty-two kings were with him, and horses and chariots. He went up and laid siege against Samaria and fought with it. {{rf{2}}} He sent messengers to the city to Ahab king of Israel. {{rf{3}}} He said to him, "Thus says Ben-Hadad: 'Your silver and your gold are mine, and your women and your best sons are mine.'" {{rf{4}}} Then the king of Israel answered and said, "As your word, my master the king; I am yours, and all that is mine is yours." {{rf{5}}} The messengers returned and said, "Thus says Ben-Hadad, saying, 'I sent to you saying, "Your silver and gold are mine, and your women and your best sons you must give to me." {{rf{6}}} So at this time tomorrow, I will send my servants to you that they might search your house and the houses of your servants. All the desire of your eyes they will lay hands on and take it away.'" {{rf{7}}} Then the king of Israel called all the elders of the land and said, "Please know and realize that this man is seeking trouble, for he sent to me for my women, my sons, my silver, and my gold, and I did not withhold anything from him." {{rf{8}}} All of the elders and all of the people said to him, "Do not listen and do not consent." {{rf{9}}} So he said to the messengers of Ben-Hadad, "Say to my lord the king, 'All that you demanded from your servant at the first, I will do, but this thing I am not able to do.'" Then the messengers went and made a report to him. {{rf{10}}} Then Ben-Hadad sent to him and said, "Thus may the gods do to me and thus may they add if the dust of Samaria is sufficient for the hollow of a hand for all of the people who are at my feet." {{rf{11}}} The king of Israel answered and said, "Tell him, 'Let not him who girds on his armor boast as one who takes off his armor.'" {{rf{12}}} It happened at the moment he heard this word, he and the kings were drinking in the tents. He said to his servants, "Get ready to attack." So they got ready to attack the city. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|1Kings-19-17]] }}}
{{rf{13}}} Suddenly a certain prophet approached Ahab king of Israel and said, "Thus says Yahweh: 'Have you seen all this great crowd? Behold, I am giving it into your hand today, that you may know that I am Yahweh.'" {{rf{14}}} Ahab said, "By whom?" And he said, "Thus says Yahweh: 'By the servants of the commanders of the provinces.'" He asked, "Who will begin the battle?" And he said, "You." {{rf{15}}} So he mustered the servants of the commanders of the provinces, and there were two hundred and thirty-two. After them he mustered all of the army, all the sons of Israel, seven thousand. {{rf{16}}} They went out at noon while Ben-Hadad was drinking himself drunk in the tents, he and the thirty-two kings helping him. {{rf{17}}} Then the servants of the commanders of the provinces went out first, and Ben-Hadad sent, and they reported to him, saying, "Men have come out from Samaria." {{rf{18}}} Then he said, "If they have come out for peace, seize them alive; and if they have come out for war, seize them alive." {{rf{19}}} But these had come out from the city, the servants of the commanders of the provinces, and the army that was after them. {{rf{20}}} Each man killed his man, and the Arameans fled, so Israel pursued them, but Ben-Hadad king of Aram escaped on a horse with cavalry. {{rf{21}}} The king of Israel went out and attacked the horses and the chariots and defeated Aram with a great blow. {{rf{22}}} Then the prophet came near to the king of Israel, and he said to him, "Go, strengthen yourself; consider well what you should do, for the king of Aram is coming against you at the turn of the year." {{rf{23}}} The servants of the king of Aram said to him, "Their gods are gods of the mountains, therefore they were stronger than we. Let us fight with them in the plain; surely we will be stronger than they. {{rf{24}}} Do this thing: remove the kings each from his post, and put a governor in their place. {{rf{25}}} You must muster an army for yourself as the army you have lost, and horses and chariots as the horses and chariots you lost, then we will fight them in the plain. Surely we will be stronger than they." So he listened to their voice and did so. {{rf{26}}} It happened at the turning of the year that Ben-Hadad mustered Aram and went up to Aphek for the war with Israel. {{rf{27}}} The Israelites had been mustered and provisioned, and they went to engage them. The Israelites encamped opposite them as two flocks of goats, but the Arameans filled the land. {{rf{28}}} Then the man of God approached, and he spoke to the king of Israel, and he said, "Thus says Yahweh: 'Because Aram has said, "Yahweh is a god of the mountains and not a god of the valleys," ' I will give all this great crowd into your hand that you may know that I am Yahweh." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|1Kings-20-13]] }}}
{{rf{29}}} These encamped opposite for seven days, and it happened on the seventh day that the battle began, and the Israelites killed the Arameans, one hundred thousand infantry in one day. {{rf{30}}} Then those who remained fled to Aphek, to the city, and the wall fell on twenty-seven thousand men who had remained, so Ben-Hadad fled and went to the innermost rooms of the city. {{rf{31}}} Then his servants said to him, "Please now, we have heard that the kings of the house of Israel are kings of mercy. Let us now put sackcloth on around our waists and ropes on our heads. Then let us go out to the king of Israel. Perhaps he will let you live." {{rf{32}}} So they tied sackcloth around their waists and ropes on their heads. Then they went to the king of Israel and said, "Your servant Ben-Hadad says, 'Please let me live.'" And he said, "Is my brother still alive?" {{rf{33}}} The men took this as a good omen and they quickly accepted it as true from him, and they said, "Your brother Ben-Hadad lives." So he said, "Go, get him." Ben-Hadad came out to him, and Ahab pulled him up on the chariot. {{rf{34}}} Ben-Hadad said to him, "The cities which my father took from your father I shall return. You may set up streets with stalls for yourself in Damascus just as my father set up in Samaria." Then Ahab said, "On these terms I will let you go," So he made a covenant with him and let him go.
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{{rf{35}}} A certain man from the sons of the prophets said to his fellow countryman, "By the word of Yahweh, please strike me." But the man refused to strike him. {{rf{36}}} He said to him, "Because you have not obeyed the voice of Yahweh, look, as you now are going from me, a lion will kill you." When he went from beside him, the lion found him and killed him. {{rf{37}}} Then he found another man and said, "Strike me, please," so the man struck him sharply and wounded him. {{rf{38}}} Then the prophet went and waited for the king along the road and disguised himself with a headband over his eyes. {{rf{39}}} As the king was passing by, he called to the king and said, "Your servant went out in the thick of the battle, and suddenly a man turned and brought a man to me and said, 'Guard this man. If by any means he should be missed, it will be your life in his place, or you shall pay a talent of silver.' {{rf{40}}} It happened that your servant was busy here and there, and he disappeared." Then the king said to him, "Your own judgment has been determined." {{rf{41}}} He quickly removed the headband from his eyes, and the king of Israel recognized him, that he was from the prophets. {{rf{42}}} He said to him, "Thus says Yahweh: 'Because you have let the man I devoted for destruction go from your hand, your life shall be in place of his life and your people in place of his people.'" {{rf{43}}} Then the king of Israel went to his house, sullen and angry, and he came to Samaria. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|1Kings-20-29]] }}}
It happened after these things that Naboth the Jezreelite had a vineyard which was in Jezreel beside the palace of Ahab king of Samaria. {{rf{2}}} Ahab spoke to Naboth, saying, "Give me your vineyard that it may be mine for a garden of vegetable plants, because it is near, beside my house, and I will give to you a better vineyard in place of it. If it is better in your eyes, I will give you the money of its price." {{rf{3}}} Naboth said to Ahab, "Far be it from me from Yahweh that I should give the inheritance of my ancestors to you." {{rf{4}}} Then Ahab went to his house, sullen and angry because of the word that Naboth the Jezreelite had spoken to him when he had said, "I will not give to you the inheritance of my ancestors." So he lay on his bed, turned away his face, and would not eat any food. {{rf{5}}} Then Jezebel his wife came to him, and she said to him, "What is this, that your spirit is sullen and you are not eating food?" {{rf{6}}} Then he said to her, "When I spoke to Naboth the Jezreelite and asked him, 'Give me your vineyard for money, or it you prefer, I will give you a vineyard in place of it,' he said, 'I will not give you my vineyard.'" {{rf{7}}} Jezebel his wife said to him, "Now, you rule over Israel. Get up, eat food, and let your heart be cheerful. I myself will give you the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite." {{rf{8}}} So she wrote letters in the name of Ahab and sealed them with his seal. She sent the letters to the elders and the nobles who were dwelling with Naboth in his city. {{rf{9}}} She had written in the letters, saying, "Call a fast and seat Naboth at the head of the people. {{rf{10}}} Seat two men, scoundrels, opposite him. Let them witness against him saying, 'You cursed God and the king.' Then you shall bring him out and stone him so that he dies." {{rf{11}}} The men of his city and the elders and nobles who were living in his city did according to what Jezebel had sent to them, as was written in the letters which she had sent to them. {{rf{12}}} They called a fast, and they seated Naboth at the head of the people. {{rf{13}}} Then the two men, scoundrels, came, sat opposite him, and the scoundrels witnessed against Naboth before the people, saying, "Naboth cursed God and the king," so they brought him outside of the city and stoned him with stones, and he died. {{rf{14}}} They sent to Jezebel saying, "Naboth has been stoned, and he is dead." {{rf{15}}} It happened at the moment Jezebel heard that Naboth had been stoned and died, Jezebel said to Ahab, "Get up, take possession of the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite which he had refused to give to you for money, for Naboth is not alive, but dead." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|1Kings-21-1]] }}}
{{rf{16}}} When Ahab heard that Naboth was dead, he got up to go down to the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite to take possession of it. {{rf{17}}} The word of Yahweh came to Elijah the Tishbite, saying, {{rf{18}}} "Arise, go down to meet Ahab the king of Israel who is in Samaria. Look in the vineyard of Naboth, where he has gone to take possession of it. {{rf{19}}} You shall say to him, 'Thus says Yahweh: "Have you committed murder and also taken possession?" ' You shall also say to him, 'Thus says Yahweh: "In the place where the dogs licked the blood of Naboth, the dogs will also lick your blood." '" {{rf{20}}} Then Ahab said to Elijah, "Have you found me, my enemy?" He said, "I have found you because you have sold yourself to do evil in the eyes of Yahweh. {{rf{21}}} 'Look, I am bringing disaster on you, and I will sweep away after you. I will cut off for Ahab every male in Israel, bond or free. {{rf{22}}} I will make your house like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat and like the house of Baasha the son of Ahijah, because you made me angry and have caused Israel to sin.' {{rf{23}}} Moreover, concerning Jezebel, Yahweh has said, 'The dogs will eat Jezebel in the outer rampart of Jezreel.' {{rf{24}}} The one who dies for Ahab in the city, the dogs will eat; the one who dies in the open country, the birds of heaven will eat." {{rf{25}}} Truly, there was no one like Ahab who had sold himself by doing evil in the eyes of Yahweh, whose wife Jezebel urged him on. {{rf{26}}} Also, he acted very abominably by going after idols like all the Amorites had done whom Yahweh had driven out from before the Israelites." {{rf{27}}} When Ahab heard these words, he tore his clothes and put sackcloth over his flesh, fasted, lay in the sackcloth, and went about dejectedly. {{rf{28}}} Then the word of Yahweh came to Elijah the Tishbite, saying, {{rf{29}}} "Have you seen how Ahab has humbled himself before me? Because he has humbled himself before me, I will not bring disaster in his days. I will bring the disaster on his house in the days of his son." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|1Kings-21-16]] }}}
They lived three years, and there was no war between Aram and Israel. {{rf{2}}} It happened in the third year, Jehoshaphat king of Judah went down to the king of Israel, {{rf{3}}} and the king of Israel said to his servants, "Do you know Ramoth-Gilead belongs to us, and we are doing nothing about taking it from the hand of the king of Aram?" {{rf{4}}} Then he said to Jehoshaphat, "Will you go with me to the battle for Ramoth-Gilead?" Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, "I am like you; my people are like your people; my horses are like your horses." {{rf{5}}} Jehoshaphat also said to the king of Israel, "Please inquire for the word of Yahweh today." {{rf{6}}} Then the king of Israel assembled the prophets, about four hundred men, and he said to them, "Shall I go against Ramoth-Gilead for the battle, or should I refrain?" Then they said, "Go up, for the Lord will give it into the hand of the king." {{rf{7}}} So Jehoshaphat said, "Is there no prophet of Yahweh here that we might still inquire from him?" {{rf{8}}} Then the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, "There is still one man to inquire from Yahweh, but I despise him, for he never prophesies anything good concerning me, but only bad: Micaiah the son of Imlah." Then Jehoshaphat said, "The king should not say so." {{rf{9}}} The king of Israel summoned a certain court official, and he said, "Quickly fetch Micaiah son of Imlah." {{rf{10}}} The king of Israel and Jehoshaphat king of Judah were each sitting on his throne, dressed in their robes, at the threshing floor at the entrance of the gate of Samaria, with all the prophets prophesying before them. {{rf{11}}} Zedekiah son of Kenaanah made horns of iron for himself and said, "Thus says Yahweh: 'With these you shall gore the Arameans until finishing them.'" {{rf{12}}} All of the prophets were likewise prophesying, saying, "Go up to Ramoth-Gilead and triumph, and Yahweh will give it into the hand of the king." {{rf{13}}} Then the messenger who had gone to summon Micaiah said to him, "Please now, the words of the prophet are unanimously favorable to the king. Please let your words be as one word with them, and speak favorably." {{rf{14}}} Then Micaiah said, "As Yahweh lives, surely only as Yahweh speaks to me, that will I speak." {{rf{15}}} When he came to the king, the king asked him, "Micaiah, shall we go to Ramoth-Gilead to the battle, or shall we refrain?" He said to him, "Go up and triumph, and Yahweh will give it into the hand of the king." {{rf{16}}} Then the king said to him, "How many times must I make you swear that you shall not tell me anything but truth in the name of Yahweh?" {{rf{17}}} So he said, "I saw all of Israel scattering to the mountains, like the sheep without a shepherd. Yahweh also said, 'There are no masters for these, let them return in peace, each to his house.'" {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|1Kings-22-01]] }}}
{{rf{18}}} Then the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, "Did I not say to you that he would not prophesy good concerning me, but disaster?" {{rf{19}}} And he said, "Therefore, hear the word of Yahweh. I saw Yahweh sitting on his throne with all the hosts of heaven standing beside him from his right hand and from his left hand. {{rf{20}}} And Yahweh said, 'Who will entice Ahab so that he will go up and fall at Ramoth-Gilead?' Then this one was saying one thing and the other one was saying another. {{rf{21}}} Then a spirit came out and stood before Yahweh and said, 'I will entice him,' and Yahweh said to him, 'How?' {{rf{22}}} He said, 'I will go out and I will be a false spirit in the mouth of all his prophets.' And he said, 'You shall entice and succeed, go out and do so.' {{rf{23}}} So then, see that Yahweh has placed a false spirit in the mouth of all of these your prophets, and Yahweh has spoken disaster concerning you." {{rf{24}}} Then Zedekiah son of Kenaanah came near and slapped Micaiah on the cheek and said, "When did the Spirit of Yahweh pass from me to speak with you?" {{rf{25}}} Then Micaiah said, "Behold, you are about to see on that day when you go from room to room to hide." {{rf{26}}} The king of Israel said, "Take Micaiah and return him to Amon the commander of the city and to Jehoash the son of the king; {{rf{27}}} and say, 'Thus says the king: "Put this fellow in the house of imprisonment and feed him reduced rations of food and water until I come in peace." '" {{rf{28}}} Then Micaiah said, "If you indeed return in peace, then Yahweh has not spoken with me." Then he said, "Let all the peoples hear!" {{rf{29}}} Then the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat king of Judah went up to Ramoth-Gilead. {{rf{30}}} Then the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, "I will disguise myself and go into the battle, but you wear your robes." So the king of Israel disguised himself, and he went into the battle. {{rf{31}}} The king of Aram commanded his thirty-two chariot commanders, saying, "You shall not fight with small or great, but only against the king of Israel, him alone!" {{rf{32}}} When the chariot commanders saw Jehoshaphat, they said, "Surely he is the king of Israel," and they turned to fight against him, so Jehoshaphat called out. {{rf{33}}} When the chariot commanders saw that it was not the king of Israel, they turned away from him. {{rf{34}}} But another man drew his bow fully and struck the king of Israel between the armor scales and the breastplate; so he said to his chariot driver, "Turn the chariot and bring me out from the camp, for I am wounded." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|1Kings-22-18]] }}}
{{rf{35}}} The battle intensified on that day, and the king was being propped up in the chariot opposite Aram, but he died in the evening, and the blood of the wound ran out to the floor of the chariot. {{rf{36}}} Then the shout passed through the camp about sunset, saying, "Each man to his city and each to his land!" {{rf{37}}} So the king died, and they brought him to Samaria, and they buried the king in Samaria. {{rf{38}}} They washed the chariot by the pool of Samaria, and the dogs licked his blood (now, the prostitutes washed themselves there) according to the word of Yahweh which he had spoken. {{rf{39}}} The remainder of the acts of Ahab and all that he did, and the ivory palace and all the cities that he built, are they not written in the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Israel? {{rf{40}}} So Ahab slept with his ancestors, and Ahaziah his son became king in his place. {{rf{41}}} Jehoshaphat the son of Asa became king over Judah in the fourth year of Ahab king of Israel. {{rf{42}}} Jehoshaphat was thirty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned twenty-five years in Jerusalem. The name of his mother was Azubah daughter of Shilhi. {{rf{43}}} He walked in all of the way of Asa his father, and he did not turn aside from it, doing right in the eyes of Yahweh. Only he did not remove the high places; the people were still sacrificing and burning incense on the high places. {{rf{44}}} But, Jehoshaphat made peace with the king of Israel. {{rf{45}}} The remainder of the acts of Jehoshaphat, his powerful deeds he did, and how he fought, are they not written in the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Judah? {{rf{46}}} The remainder of the male shrine prostitutes who were left over in the days of Asa his father he exterminated from the land. {{rf{47}}} There was not a king in Edom; a governor served as king. {{rf{48}}} Jehoshaphat built ships of the Tarshish type to go to Ophir for the gold; but he did not go because the ships were destroyed at Ezion-Geber. {{rf{49}}} Then Ahaziah son of Ahab said to Jehoshaphat, "Let my servants go with your servants in the ships," but Jehoshaphat was not willing. {{rf{50}}} And Jehoshaphat slept with his ancestors and was buried with his ancestors in the city of David his ancestor, and Joram his son became king in his place. {{rf{51}}} Ahaziah son of Ahab became king over Israel in Samaria in the seventeenth year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, and he reigned over Israel two years. {{rf{52}}} He did evil in the eyes of Yahweh, and he went in the way of his father and his mother and in the way of Jeroboam son of Nebat who caused Israel to sin. {{rf{53}}} He served Baal and bowed down to him; and he provoked Yahweh the God of Israel according to all that his father did. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|1Kings-22-35]] }}}
Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the chosen who are residing temporarily in the dispersion in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, {{rf{2}}} according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, by the sanctification of the Spirit, for obedience and for sprinkling with the blood of Jesus Christ. May grace and peace be multiplied to you. {{rf{3}}} Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his great mercy has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, {{rf{4}}} into an inheritance imperishable and undefiled and unfading, reserved in heaven for you {{rf{5}}} who are being protected by the power of God through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time, {{rf{6}}} in which you rejoice greatly, although now for a short time, if necessary, you are distressed by various trials, {{rf{7}}} so that the genuineness of your faith, more valuable than gold that is passing away, but is tested by fire, may be found to result in praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ, {{rf{8}}} whom, although you have not seen, you love; in whom now you believe, although you do not see him, and you rejoice greatly with joy inexpressible and full of glory, {{rf{9}}} obtaining the goal of your faith, the salvation of your souls. {{rf{10}}} Concerning this salvation, the prophets who prophesied about the grace meant for you sought and made careful inquiry, {{rf{11}}} investigating for what person or which time the Spirit of Christ in them was indicating when he testified beforehand to the sufferings with reference to Christ and the glories after these things, {{rf{12}}} to whom it was revealed that they were serving not themselves but you with reference to the same things which now have been announced to you through those who proclaimed the gospel to you by the Holy Spirit sent from heaven, things into which angels desire to look. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|1Peter-01-01]] }}}
* [[Peter]]
* <<Bbl 1P 2:11 >>-12 hinge.
* Philip Jensen believes Peter is writing to Jews. Strangely this view is not supported by commentators (Jensen is wittily self-deprecating).
** He is the Apostle to the Jews.
** 0101-02, 0118, 0114-16, 0403-04.
** The use of scripture seems pointedly for Jews.
** <<Bbl 1P 5:13 >>
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<<Bbl 1P 1:1 abbr >>-02 The introduction would seem to refer to the diaspora.
<<Bbl 1P 1:2 abbr >> strangers and aliens introduces the theme of suffering. For he asserts: you don't fit and you never will. For his audience this characterization is doubled: Jews who have repudiated the future ways of their fathers. 0513 seems a closing sequel.
<<Bbl 1P 1:14 abbr >>-16 makes sense as written to Jews.
<<Bbl 1P 1:18 abbr >> futile ways is cited as evidence Peter wrote to former pagans but it is a good description of fallen Judiastic life.
<<Bbl 1P 2:11 abbr >>-12 hinge.
<<Bbl 1P 3:7 abbr >> uses unusual word for woman, specific to reproduction.
<<Bbl 1P 4:3 abbr >>-04 Debauchery is not unique to paganism but does fulfill //the will of the pagans//, no reason here to conclude Peter is writing to Gentiles. "Your Jewish friends are going to be there! Why wouldn't you?" The final reference to idolatry is arresting. But it could mean that is the final outcome of the //course of the pagans//. It could mean inculturation is so complete as to make them definitely (issues such as eating dedicated meat). It could mean idolatry as recognized by the awakened heart. The last might be presuming much on the intelligence of his audience, but the alternative is presuming ignorance so great they cannot grasp the application in 0210 of Hosea's cry to the House of Israel.
<<Bbl 1P 5:5 abbr >> <<Bbl James 4:6 >> <<Bbl PR 3:34 >>
<<Bbl 1P 5:13 abbr >> <<Bbl 1P 1:2 >> note.
<<Bbl 1P 1:2 abbr>> All three Persons of God are agents for our salvation.
<<Bbl 1P 1:3 abbr >> God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ -- Christ's dual nature.
<<Bbl 1P 1:17 abbr >> see <<Bbl Ez 18:30 >>.
<<Bbl 1P 1:18 abbr >> see <<Bbl Ez 20:4 >>.
<<Bbl 1P 1:21 abbr >> Outside of this resurrection, our faith and hope would be in something other than God.
{{rf{13}}} Therefore, when you have prepared your minds for action by being self-controlled, put your hope completely in the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ. {{rf{14}}} As obedient children, do not be conformed to the former desires you used to conform to in your ignorance, {{rf{15}}} but as the one who called you is holy, you yourselves be holy in all your conduct, {{rf{16}}} for it is written, "You will be holy, because I am holy." {{rf{17}}} And if you call on him as Father who judges impartially according to each one's work, conduct yourselves with fear during the time of your temporary residence, {{rf{18}}} because you know that you were redeemed from your futile way of life inherited from your ancestors not with perishable things like silver or gold, {{rf{19}}} but with the precious blood of Christ, like that of an unblemished and spotless lamb {{rf{20}}} who was foreknown before the foundation of the world, but has been revealed in these last times for you {{rf{21}}} who through him are believing in God, who raised him from the dead and gave him glory, so that your faith and hope are in God. ''{{rf{22}}} Having purified your souls by your obedience to the truth for sincere brotherly love, love one another fervently from the heart, {{rf{23}}} because you have been born again, not from perishable seed but imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God.'' {{rf{24}}} For "all flesh is like grass, and all its glory like the flower of the grass. The grass withers and the flower falls off, {{rf{25}}} but the word of the Lord endures forever." And this is the word that has been proclaimed to you. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|1Peter-01-13]] }}}
Therefore, ridding yourselves of all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander, {{rf{2}}} like newborn infants long for the unadulterated spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up to salvation, {{rf{3}}} if you have tasted that the Lord is kind, {{rf{4}}} to whom you are drawing near, a living stone rejected by men but chosen and precious in the sight of God. {{rf{5}}} And you yourselves, as living stones, are being built up as a spiritual house for a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. {{rf{6}}} For it stands in scripture, "Behold, I am laying in Zion a stone, a chosen and precious cornerstone, and the one who believes in him will never be put to shame." {{rf{7}}} Therefore the honor is for you who believe, but for those who refuse to believe, "The stone that the builders rejected, this one has become the cornerstone," {{rf{8}}} and "A stone of stumbling and a rock of offense," who stumble because they disobey the word to which also they were consigned. {{rf{9}}} But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God's possession, so that you may proclaim the virtues of the one who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light, {{rf{10}}} who once were not a people, but now are the people of God, the ones who were not shown mercy, but now are shown mercy. {{rf{11}}} Dear friends, I urge you as foreigners and temporary residents to abstain from fleshly desires which wage war against your soul, {{rf{12}}} maintaining your good conduct among the Gentiles, so that in the things in which they slander you as evildoers, by seeing your good deeds they may glorify God on the day of visitation. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|1Peter-02-01]] }}}
2:2 //long for, crave// -- Howard Hendricks says it means to develop an appetite.
2:5 See [[Sacrifice]]
<<Bbl 1P 2:11 abbr >> Jesus makes a like statement in <<Bbl Mt 5:16 >>.
<<Bbl 1P 2:12 abbr >> see <<Bbl Mt 5:11 >>
<<Bbl 1P 2:20 abbr >> Do not sinners do the same? Jacob under Laban provides a case study.
2:21-25 Peter alludes carefully and deliberately to Isa 53. Writing to servants, Peter introduces the great Servant. And //stripes// (welts, buises) must mean something to the mistreated slave who is receiving Peter's exhortation.
2:23 entrusted Himself -- see 4:19
2:24 This passage alludes strongly to <<Bbl I 53:1>>-6.
2:25 The sheep in part A means an untended sheep; part B indicates we are still vulnerable. [[Shepherd|Sheep]]
{{holyquote{
2:25: For you were going astray like sheep, but you have turned back now to the shepherd and guardian of your souls.
}}}
{{rf{13}}} Subject yourselves to every human authority for the sake of the Lord, whether to a king as having supreme authority, {{rf{14}}} or to governors as those sent out by him for the punishment of those who do evil and the praise of those who do good. {{rf{15}}} For the will of God is as follows: by doing good to silence the ignorance of foolish people. {{rf{16}}} Live as free persons, and not using your freedom as a covering for evil, but as slaves of God. {{rf{17}}} Honor all people, love the community of believers, fear God, honor the king. {{rf{18}}} Domestic slaves, be subject to your masters with all respect, not only to those who are good and gentle, but also to those who are unjust. {{rf{19}}} For this finds favor, if because of consciousness of God someone endures sorrows while suffering unjustly. {{rf{20}}} For what credit is it if, when you sin and are beaten for it, you endure? But if you endure when you do good and suffer for it, this finds favor with God. {{rf{21}}} For to this you were called, because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, so that you should follow in his footsteps, {{rf{22}}} who did not commit sin, nor was deceit found in his mouth, {{rf{23}}} who when he was reviled, did not revile in return; when suffering, he did not threaten, but entrusted himself to the one who judges justly, {{rf{24}}} who himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, so that we may die to sins and live to righteousness, by whose wounds you were healed. {{rf{25}}} For you were going astray like sheep, but you have turned back now to the shepherd and guardian of your souls. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|1Peter-02-13]] }}}
In the same way, wives, be subject to your own husbands, so that even if some are disobedient to the word, they may be won over without a word by the conduct of their wives, {{rf{2}}} when they see your respectful, pure conduct. {{rf{3}}} Let your adornment not be the external kind, braiding hair and putting on gold jewelry or putting on fine clothing, {{rf{4}}} but the hidden person of the heart, with the imperishable quality of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is highly valuable in the sight of God. {{rf{5}}} For in the same way formerly the holy women also, who hoped in God, used to adorn themselves by being subject to their own husbands, {{rf{6}}} like Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord, whose children you have become when you do good and are not frightened with respect to any terror. {{rf{7}}} Husbands, in the same way live with your wives knowledgeably, as with the weaker female vessel, showing them honor as fellow heirs also of the grace of life, so that your prayers will not be hindered. {{rf{8}}} And finally, all of you be harmonious, sympathetic, showing mutual affection, compassionate, humble, {{rf{9}}} not repaying evil for evil or insult for insult, but on the other hand blessing others, because for this reason you were called, so that you could inherit a blessing. {{rf{10}}} For "The one who wants to love life and see good days must keep his tongue from evil and his lips must not speak deceit. {{rf{11}}} And he must turn away from evil and do good; he must seek peace and pursue it. {{rf{12}}} For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, and his ears are open to their prayer. But the face of the Lord is against those who do evil. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|1Peter-03-01]] }}}
<<Bbl 1Pe 3:1 abbr>> A pivot to daily relations is found in <<Bbl 1Pe 2:11 abbr>>-12, in particular on how to regard the //earthly institutions// of authority. Marriage is found under this heading; wife to husband is the prevailing (mundane) rule of order (as servant to master, or minion to king) and so must be observed - as mere earthly matters.
<<Bbl 1P 3:3 abbr >>-4 you can be gaudy or godly, but not both. Not at the same time, and not in alternation.
<<Bbl 1P 3:16>> John Piper is persuasive that Christ did not "go down to hell and preach," but this refers to Noah's witness.
[[1Pt-03-16ff-chiasmus]]
<<Bbl 1P 3:21 abbr >> Neither the act nor the water is the point.
{{rf{13}}} And who is the one who will harm you if you are a zealous adherent for what is good? {{rf{14}}} But even if you might suffer for the sake of righteousness, you are blessed. And do not be afraid of their intimidation or be disturbed, {{rf{15}}} but set Christ apart as Lord in your hearts, always ready to make a defense to anyone who asks you for an accounting concerning the hope that is in you. {{rf{16}}} But do so with courtesy and respect, having a good conscience, so that in the things in which you are slandered, the ones who malign your good conduct in Christ may be put to shame. {{rf{17}}} For it is better to suffer for doing good, if God wills it, than for doing evil. {{rf{18}}} For Christ also suffered once for sins, the just for the unjust, in order that he could bring you to God, being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit, {{rf{19}}} in which also he went and proclaimed to the spirits in prison, {{rf{20}}} who were formerly disobedient, when the patience of God waited in the days of Noah, while an ark was being constructed, in which a few -- that is, eight souls -- were rescued through water. {{rf{21}}} And also, corresponding to this, baptism now saves you, not the removal of dirt from the flesh, but an appeal to God for a good conscience through the resurrection of Jesus Christ, {{rf{22}}} who is at the right hand of God, having gone into heaven, with angels and authorities and powers having been subjected to him. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|1Peter-03-13]] }}}
{{{
A 16 and keep a good conscience so that
in the thing in which you are slandered,
/ those who revile your good behavior in Christ will be put to shame.
B 17 For it is better, if God should will it so, that you suffer
/ for doing what is right rather than for doing what is wrong.
C 18 For Christ also died for sins once for all, the just for the unjust,
so that He might bring us to God, having been put to death
/ in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit;
D [Me: Jesus goes to Hades] 19 in which also He went and
made proclamation to the spirits now in prison,
E 20 who once were disobedient, when the patience of God kept waiting
a few, that is, eight persons, were brought safely through the water.
E’ 21 Corresponding to that, baptism now saves you
D’ 22 who is at the right hand of God, having gone into heaven,
after angels and authorities and powers had been subjected to Him.
C’ 4:1 Therefore, since Christ has suffered
/ in the flesh,
B’ with the same purpose – who has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin,
2 live in the flesh no longer for the lusts of men, but for the will of God.
A’ 3 to have carried out the desire of the Gentiles,
having pursued a course of sensuality,
4 they are surprised and they malign you;
/ 5 but they will give account to Him who is
ready to judge the living and the dead.
}}}
[[source|https://biblicalchiasmus.wordpress.com/2014/08/26/1-peter-316-45/]]
Therefore, because Christ suffered in the flesh, you also equip yourselves with the same way of thinking, because the one who has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin, {{rf{2}}} in order to live the remaining time in the flesh no longer for human desires, but for the will of God. {{rf{3}}} For the time that has passed was sufficient to do what the Gentiles desire to do, having lived in licentiousness, evil desires, drunkenness, carousing, drinking parties, and wanton idolatries, {{rf{4}}} with respect to which they are surprised when you do not run with them into the same flood of dissipation, and so they revile you. {{rf{5}}} They will give an account to the one who is ready to judge the living and the dead. {{rf{6}}} Because for this reason also the gospel was preached to those who are dead, so that they were judged by human standards in the flesh, but they may live in the spirit by God's standards. {{rf{7}}} Now the end of all things draws near. Therefore be self-controlled and sober-minded for your prayers. {{rf{8}}} Above all, keep your love for one another constant, because love covers a large number of sins. {{rf{9}}} Be hospitable to one another without complaining. {{rf{10}}} Just as each one has received a gift, use it for serving one another, as good stewards of the varied grace of God. {{rf{11}}} If anyone speaks, let it be as the oracles of God; if anyone serves, let it be as by the strength that God provides, so that in all things God will be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom is the glory and the power forever and ever. Amen. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|1Peter-04-01]] }}}
<<Bbl 1P 4:9 abbr >> <<Bbl R 12:8 >>d
4:18 Perhaps a quote of <<Bbl Pr 11:31 >>.
{{holyquote{
19 So then also those who suffer according to the will of God must entrust their souls to a faithful Creator in doing good.
}}}
<<Bbl 1P 4:19 abbr >> //Entrust// - The word relates to making a deposit. Charles Swindoll points out that banks typically have a stated maximum on deposits because they want to limit their liability. Not God!
<<Bbl 1P 4:19 abbr >> //in doing what is right// - that is, those who suffer in their "active well-doing" should continue in it (NAS is unclear).
<<Bbl 1P 5:1 abbr >> Peter is humble, leaving to the side his authority as an apostle and emphasizing his solidarity with fellow pastors.
<<Bbl 1P 5:5 abbr >> Don Fraser: "And I've got enough problems in my life without God opposing me."
<<Bbl 1P 5:6 abbr >>-7 Love and power together.
5:10 see <<Bbl L 22:31 >>
{{rf{12}}} Dear friends, do not be surprised at the fiery ordeal among you, when it takes place to test you, as if something strange were happening to you. {{rf{13}}} But to the degree that you share in the sufferings of Christ, rejoice, so that also at the revelation of his glory you may rejoice and be glad. {{rf{14}}} If you are reviled on account of the name of Christ, you are blessed, because the Spirit of glory and of God rests on you. {{rf{15}}} By all means do not let anyone of you suffer as a murderer or a thief or an evildoer or as a meddler. {{rf{16}}} But if someone suffers as a Christian, he must not be ashamed, but must glorify God with this name. {{rf{17}}} For it is the time for the judgment to begin out from the household of God. But if it begins out from us first, what will be the outcome for those who are disobedient to the gospel of God? {{rf{18}}} And if the righteous are saved with difficulty, what will become of the ungodly and the sinner? {{rf{19}}} So then also those who suffer according to the will of God must entrust their souls to a faithful Creator in doing good. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|1Peter-04-12]] }}}
Therefore I, your fellow elder and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and also a sharer of the glory that is going to be revealed, exhort the elders among you: {{rf{2}}} shepherd the flock of God among you, exercising oversight not by compulsion but willingly, in accordance with God, and not greedily but eagerly, {{rf{3}}} and not as lording it over those under your care, but being examples for the flock. {{rf{4}}} And when the chief Shepherd appears, you will receive the unfading crown of glory. {{rf{5}}} In the same way, younger men, be subject to the elders, and all of you clothe yourselves with humility toward one another, because God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble. {{rf{6}}} Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, so that he may exalt you at the right time, {{rf{7}}} casting all your cares on him, because he cares for you. {{rf{8}}} Be sober; be on the alert. Your adversary the devil walks around like a roaring lion, looking for someone to devour. {{rf{9}}} Resist him, steadfast in your faith, because you know the same kinds of sufferings are being accomplished by your community of believers in the world. {{rf{10}}} And the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory in Christ, after you have suffered for a short time, will himself restore, confirm, strengthen, and establish you. {{rf{11}}} To him be the power forever and ever. Amen. {{rf{12}}} Through Silvanus, the faithful brother (as I consider him), I have written to you briefly to encourage you and to attest that this is the true grace of God. Stand firm in it. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|1Peter-05-01]] }}}
{{rf{13}}} She who is in Babylon, chosen the same as you, greets you, and so does my son Mark. {{rf{14}}} Greet one another with a loving kiss. Peace to all of you who are in Christ. LENGTH SHORT {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|1Peter-05-13]] }}}
<<Bbl 1P 3:15>> to <<Bbl 1P 4:6 abbr>> has internal allusions that suggest chiasmus.
{{{
14 But even if you might suffer for the sake of righteousness...
15 but set Christ apart as Lord ...concerning the hope...
16 ...with courtesy...so the ones who malign ...put to shame.
17 For it is better to suffer for doing good, if God wills...
18 For Christ also suffered ...the just for the unjust,
in order that he could bring you to God,
being put to death in the flesh, but made alive...
19 in which also he went ...to the spirits in prison,
20 who were formerly disobedient... rescued through water.
21 corresponding to this, baptism now saves you
...through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,
22 who is at the right hand of God... gone into heaven,
with angels and authorities and powers subjected...
1 Therefore, because Christ suffered in the flesh,
...you also equip yourselves...
2 in order to live the remaining time ...for the will of God.
3 For the time that has passed ...they revile you.
5 They will give an account...
6 ...the gospel was preached to those who are dead
...they may live in the spirit by God's standards.
7 Now the end of all things draws near.
}}}
There was a certain man from Ramathaim Zophim, from the hill country of Ephraim, whose name was Elkanah the son of Jeroham, the son of Elihu, the son of Tohu, the son of Zuph, an Ephraimite. {{rf{2}}} He had two wives; the name of the first was Hannah, and the name of the second was Peninnah. Now Peninnah had children, but Hannah had no children. {{rf{3}}} Now this man used to go up from his town year by year to worship and to sacrifice to Yahweh of hosts in Shiloh, where the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were priests to Yahweh. {{rf{4}}} On the day Elkanah sacrificed, he would give portions to his wife Peninnah and to all her sons and daughters. {{rf{5}}} But to Hannah he would give a double portion, because he loved Hannah, though Yahweh had closed her womb. {{rf{6}}} (Now her rival wife would provoke her severely in order to upset her because Yahweh had closed her womb.) {{rf{7}}} And so he used to do year after year; whenever she went up to the house of Yahweh, she would provoke her so that she would weep and would not eat. {{rf{8}}} So Elkanah her husband would say to her: "Hannah, why do you weep and why do you not eat? And why are you heartsick? Am I not better to you than ten sons?" {{rf{9}}} Then Hannah got up after eating and drinking at Shiloh. (Now Eli the priest was sitting on his chair by the doorpost of the temple of Yahweh.) {{rf{10}}} She was deeply troubled, so she prayed to Yahweh and wept bitterly. {{rf{11}}} She made a vow and said: "O Yahweh of hosts, if you will look with compassion on the misery of your female servant, and will remember me, and not forget your female servant, and will give to your female servant a male child then I will give him to Yahweh all the days of his life, and a razor will never pass over his head." {{rf{12}}} While she continued to pray before Yahweh, Eli was observing her mouth. {{rf{13}}} Now Hannah had been speaking in her heart; her lips were moving, but her voice could not be heard, so Eli considered her to be drunk. {{rf{14}}} Then Eli said to her, "How long will you behave like someone who is drunk? Put away your wine!" {{rf{15}}} But Hannah answered and said, "No, my lord. I am a woman deeply distressed, but I have not drunk wine or strong drink. Rather, I have poured out my soul before Yahweh. {{rf{16}}} Do not regard your female servant as worthless, but because of the extent of my worries and my provocation I have spoken all of this." {{rf{17}}} Then Eli answered and said, "Go in peace, and may the God of Israel grant your request that you have asked of him." {{rf{18}}} And she said, "May your female slave find favor in your sight." Then the woman went on her way and ate something, and her face did not look sad any longer. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|1Sam-01-01]] }}}
<<Bbl 1S 1:6 abbr >> A humble woman, made humble through circumstances. While Elkinah is giving her a double portion, it does her no good - she's not eating.
1:8 His contentment may have increased the sense of hurt. One senses Hannah hid her trials from her husband. The next verse says //after they had eaten//, and this setting her secret torment would have been at its worst with the other wife's covert insults and her inability to take food. Note she is praying inaudibly; she feels unable to open up.
2:10 This is the reference of <<Bbl Ps 113:7>>-9.
1:14 Eli seems to misjudge so much.
<<Bbl 1S 1:18 abbr >> [[Believe]].
[[Samuel]] for more on these passages.
<<Bbl 1S 2:13 abbr >>, 15 The priests (the sons of Eli) do not themselves come for the meat -- they have a servant for that! If the servant returns with a bad cut of beef, or it is too much boiled, he is scolded and threatened with expulsion from his "holy calling".
<<Bbl 1S 2:14 abbr >> The sons showed up early in the process, when the meat had just entered the boiling water; for they wanted it roasted not boiled. These were boys who knew they barbeque. You can imagine them, ears alert, sniffing the air, making sure they hadn't missed the moment, scowling with impatience if the protest of the countryman lasted longer than a minute.
<<Bbl 1S 2:20 abbr >> Through his career God continues to let Eli conduct his office with some dignity and power. God honors the office. But never do we see (as with Samuel) that he "ministered before the Lord", and it is always in relation to the advent and ascendency of Samuel that we see these blessings.
<<Bbl 1S 2:22 abbr >> Besides male servants to fetch meat, the Bad Boys of Shiloh have female servants for sex.
<<Bbl 1S 2:27 abbr >> //your father's house// refers to Aaron of the tribe of Levi. The Passover, the redemption of the first-born, the sacrifice that saves, the calling of the Levites.
<<Bbl 1S 2:27 abbr >> All of Malachi
<<Bbl 1S 2:29 abbr >> Three-fold sin. //...made yourself fat// is fulfilled in Eli's death. Inner denial has kept him from reproving his sons; when he does, as with Lot, they are too far gone to listen. At that point he appears to have increased his dereliction by not taking strong, authoritative control; it's clear he could have had the support of the common people. He did not nobly fulfill his role as a judge of Israel <<Bbl 1S 4:18 abbr>>.
<<Bbl 1S 2:30 abbr >> [[Revere]]
<<Bbl 1S 2:36 abbr >> Meat is no longer the goal -- just a piece of bread!
{{rf{19}}} Then they rose early in the morning and worshiped before Yahweh and returned to their house at Ramah. Then Elkanah had sexual relations with Hannah his wife, and Yahweh remembered her. {{rf{20}}} In due time, Hannah conceived and gave birth to a son. She called his name Samuel, for she said, "I requested him from Yahweh." {{rf{21}}} So the man Elkanah went up with all his household to make the annual sacrifice to Yahweh and to pay his vow. {{rf{22}}} But Hannah did not go up, for she said to her husband, "Once the boy is weaned, I will bring him, so that he may appear before Yahweh; and he will remain there forever." {{rf{23}}} So her husband Elkanah said to her, "Do what seems right to you; stay until you wean him. Only may Yahweh fulfill his word." So the woman remained and nursed her son until she weaned him. {{rf{24}}} Then she brought him up with her when she had weaned him, along with three bulls, one ephah of flour, and a skin of wine. She brought him to the house of Yahweh at Shiloh while the boy was still young. {{rf{25}}} They slaughtered the bull, and they brought the boy to Eli. {{rf{26}}} She said, "Excuse me, my lord. As you live, my lord, I am the woman who stood with you in this place to pray to Yahweh. {{rf{27}}} I prayed for this boy, and Yahweh has given me my request that I asked from him. {{rf{28}}} I in turn have lent him to Yahweh. As long as he lives he is lent to Yahweh." Then they worshiped Yahweh there. {{rf big{1}}} Then Hannah prayed and said, "My heart exults in Yahweh, my strength is exalted in Yahweh; I grin over my enemies, for I rejoice over your salvation. {{rf{2}}} There is no one holy like Yahweh, for there is no one besides you, and there is no rock like our God. {{rf{3}}} Do not increase speaking very proud words! Let no arrogance go forth from your mouth, for Yahweh is a God of knowledge whose deeds are not weighed. {{rf{4}}} The bows of mighty warriors are shattered, but those who stumble gird themselves with strength. {{rf{5}}} Those who were full must hire themselves out for bread, but those who are hungry will become fat. As for the infertile, she will bear seven, but she who has many sons withers away. {{rf{6}}} Yahweh kills and restores alive, he brings down to Sheol and raises up. {{rf{7}}} Yahweh makes poor and makes rich; he brings low and also exalts. {{rf{8}}} He raises up the poor from the dust. From the ash heap he lifts up the needy, to cause them to sit with noble people and to cause them to inherit a seat of honor. For the pillars of the earth belong to Yahweh and he has set the inhabited world on them. {{rf{9}}} He will guard the feet of his faithful ones, but the wicked will be destroyed in the darkness, because a man will not prevail by his might. {{rf{10}}} Yahweh will shatter his adversaries; he will thunder against them in the heavens. Yahweh will judge the ends of the earth. He will give strength to his king and will exalt the might of his anointed one. {{rf{11}}} Then Elkanah went to Ramah, to his house. Now the boy was serving Yahweh in the presence of Eli the priest. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|1Sam-01-19]] }}}
{{rf{12}}} Now the sons of Eli were worthless scoundrels; they did not know Yahweh. {{rf{13}}} And the custom of the priests with the people was this: When any man brought a sacrifice, as the meat was boiling, the servant of the priest would take a three-pronged meat fork in his hand {{rf{14}}} and would thrust it into the pan or into the kettle or into the cauldron or into the cooking pot. All that the meat fork brought up the priest would take for himself. This is what they used to do to all of the Israelites who came there at Shiloh. {{rf{15}}} Also, before they offered up the fat as a burnt offering, the servant of the priest would come and say to the man who was sacrificing, "Give the priest meat for roasting, for he will not take boiled meat from you, but only raw." {{rf{16}}} And if the man said to him, "Let them burn the fat completely first, then take for yourself as you desire," then he would say to him, "No! Give it now! If not, I will take it by force!" {{rf{17}}} So the sin of the young men was very great in the sight of Yahweh, because the men treated the offering of Yahweh with contempt. {{rf{18}}} Now Samuel was serving before Yahweh, as a boy wearing a linen ephod. {{rf{19}}} His mother used to make for him a small robe and take it to him year by year whenever she came up with her husband to offer the annual sacrifice. {{rf{20}}} And Eli would bless Elkanah and his wife, and he said, "May Yahweh give you an offspring from this woman in place of the petitioned one that she requested from Yahweh." Then they went to their home. {{rf{21}}} Yahweh took note of Hannah, and she conceived and gave birth to three sons and two daughters, while the young man Samuel grew up with Yahweh. {{rf{22}}} Now Eli was very old, and he heard all that his sons were doing to all Israel and that they were having sexual relations with the women who were serving at the entrance of the tent of assembly. {{rf{23}}} And he asked them, "Why are you doing all these things that I am hearing, namely, your evil dealings with all these people? {{rf{24}}} No, my sons, the report is not good that I am hearing the people of Yahweh spreading. {{rf{25}}} If a man sins against a man, then God can intercede for him. But if a man sins against Yahweh, who can intercede for him?" But they did not obey their father, because Yahweh wanted to kill them. {{rf{26}}} But the boy Samuel continued to grow in stature and in favor with Yahweh and with the people. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|1Sam-02-12]] }}}
{{rf{27}}} Now a man of God came to Eli and said to him: "Thus says Yahweh: 'Did I not clearly reveal myself to the house of your ancestor when they were in Egypt under the house of Pharaoh? {{rf{28}}} And I chose him from all the tribes of Israel to be a priest to me, to go up to my altar, to burn incense, and to bear an ephod before me. I gave to the house of your ancestor all the offerings made by fire by the Israelites. {{rf{29}}} Why do you despise my sacrifice and my offering which I commanded for my dwelling place, while you honored your sons more than me by making yourselves fat from the best of all the offerings of my people Israel? {{rf{30}}} Therefore,' declares Yahweh the God of Israel, 'though I solemnly said that your house and the house of your ancestor would walk before me forever, but now,' declares Yahweh, 'far be it from me, for those who honor me I will honor, but those who despise me, I will treat with contempt! {{rf{31}}} Look, days are coming when I will cut off your strength and the strength of the house of your ancestor so that no one in your house will live to old age. {{rf{32}}} You will look at the distress of my dwelling place, despite all the good caused for Israel, but there will never be an old man in your household forever! {{rf{33}}} The only one I will not cut off from my altar is you. Rather, to cause your eyes to fail and to cause your soul to grieve, all the members of your household will die as men. {{rf{34}}} This is the sign for you that will come regarding your two sons Hophni and Phinehas: they will both die on the same day! {{rf{35}}} But I will raise up for myself a reliable priest; he will do just according to what is in my heart and in my soul. I will build for him a lasting house and he will walk continually before my anointed one forever. {{rf{36}}} All the remainder of your household will come to bow down before him for a bit of silver or a loaf of bread and will say, "Please assign me to one of the priestly offices so that I can eat a morsel of bread." '" {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|1Sam-02-27]] }}}
Now the boy Samuel was serving Yahweh in the presence of Eli. The word of Yahweh was rare in those days; visions were not widespread. {{rf{2}}} And then one day when Eli was lying in his place (now his eyes had begun to grow weak so that he was not able to see) {{rf{3}}} and the lamp of God had not yet gone out, Samuel was lying in the temple of Yahweh where the ark of God was. {{rf{4}}} Then Yahweh called out to Samuel and he said, "Here I am!" {{rf{5}}} And he ran to Eli and said, "Here I am, because you called me." But he said, "I did not call you. Go back and lie down." So he went and lay down. {{rf{6}}} And Yahweh called Samuel again, so Samuel got up and went to Eli and said, "Here I am, because you called me." And he said, "I did not call you, my son. Go back and lie down." {{rf{7}}} Now Samuel did not yet know Yahweh, and the word of Yahweh had not yet been revealed to him. {{rf{8}}} Again Yahweh called Samuel a third time, so he got up and went to Eli and said, "Here I am, because you called me." Then Eli realized that Yahweh was calling the boy. {{rf{9}}} So Eli said to Samuel "Go lie down. If he calls to you, then you must say, 'Speak Yahweh, because your servant is listening.'" So Samuel went and lay down in his place. {{rf{10}}} Then Yahweh came and stood there and called out as before, "Samuel! Samuel!" And Samuel said, "Speak, because your servant is listening." {{rf{11}}} So Yahweh said to Samuel, "Look, I am doing something in Israel which will cause the two ears of everyone who hears it to tingle. {{rf{12}}} On that day I will fulfill against Eli all that I have spoken against his household, from beginning to end. {{rf{13}}} I will make him know that I am about to judge his household forever because of the iniquity that he knew, for his sons were bringing curses on themselves, but he did not rebuke them. {{rf{14}}} Therefore I swore to the house of Eli that the iniquity of the house of Eli would not be atoned for by sacrifice or by offering forever." {{rf{15}}} So Samuel lay down until morning; then he opened the doors of the house of Yahweh, but Samuel was afraid of telling the vision to Eli. {{rf{16}}} Then Eli called Samuel and said, "Samuel, my son!" And he said, "Here I am." {{rf{17}}} And he said, "What is the message that he spoke to you? Please do not conceal it from me. May God punish you severely if you conceal anything from me of all the words that he told you." {{rf{18}}} So Samuel told him all the words and did not conceal anything from him. And he said, "He is Yahweh, he will do what is good in his sight." {{rf{19}}} And Samuel grew up, and Yahweh was with him. He did not allow any of his prophecies to go unfulfilled. {{rf{20}}} All Israel from Dan to Beersheba realized that Samuel was faithful as a prophet to Yahweh. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|1Sam-03-01]] }}}
<<Bbl 1S 3:1 abbr >>-2 Delizsch observes that Eli's failing vision explains why Samuel would hasten to his bedside when called. However, note the connection between vss. 1 & 2.
3:4 Reference to the lamp going out for the evening: <<Bbl Ex 3:8 >>; <<Bbl Ex 27:21 >>; <<Bbl Lv 14:2 >>; <<Bbl 2Ch 13:11 >>. So this is the wee hours of the morning, and there is a similarity between the lamp about to go out, the dimness of Eli's old age, and the night almost passed through to brilliant day.
<<Bbl 1S 3:4 abbr>>-6 [[Samuel]] matures to accountability; his age is not given.
3:7-8 The palpable transfer of authority from Eli to Samuel. God seems to give Eli just enough spiritual capacity to allow him to hear the news of his downfall.
3:13 Compare the [[Passivity]] of Samuel's response to his ardor for the physical Ark in <<Bbl 1S 4:13 abbr>>
3:19 The LORD is the subject in upholding Samuel's words, but the statement attests to the boy's integrity. With 2:21,26, these words echo the statements of the Christ's development as a child.
3:8 Eli shows rare discernment here.
3:19-20 Day begins to break at last!
3:21 -- 4:1 An awfully bad chapter @@division@@.
4:1 But the stone is not yet raised nor the place named, see <<Bbl 1S 7:12 abbr>>.
<<Bbl 1S 4:3 abbr>> //Let us take to ourselves// -- easily emulated by their enemies, <<Bbl 1S 5:1 abbr>>-2.
4:3-4,13,22 These verses show a strong spirit of idolatry. [[Ark-Covenant]]
4:4 Contrast of holiness and rebellion.
4:8 see 6:6.
4:13 Eli was an idolator.
4:18 //He was old and heavy// -- heavy from his gluttony, precisely condemned in <<Bbl 1S 2:29 abbr>>.
{{rf{21}}} And Yahweh appeared again in Shiloh, for Yahweh revealed himself to Samuel in Shiloh through the word of Yahweh. {{rf big{1}}} And the word of Samuel came to all Israel. Now Israel went out to meet the Philistines for battle, and they encamped at Ebenezer, and the Philistines encamped at Aphek. {{rf{2}}} The Philistines lined up for the battle to meet Israel, and the battle was prolonged until Israel was defeated before the Philistines, who killed about four thousand men on the battlefield. {{rf{3}}} When the army came back to the camp, the elders of Israel asked, "Why has Yahweh defeated us today before the Philistines? Let us bring the ark of the covenant of Yahweh to us from Shiloh so that it may come into our midst and deliver us from the hand of our enemies." {{rf{4}}} So the army sent to Shiloh and brought from there the ark of the covenant of Yahweh of hosts who sits between the cherubim. And the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were there with the ark of the covenant of God. {{rf{5}}} Now when the ark of the covenant of Yahweh arrived at the camp, all Israel let out a loud shout so that the earth shook. {{rf{6}}} When the Philistines heard the noise of the shouting, they said, "What is the noise of this loud shouting in the camp of the Hebrews?" Then they learned that the ark of Yahweh had come into the camp. {{rf{7}}} So the Philistines were afraid, for they said, "God has come to the camp." And they said, "Woe to us, for this has never happened before! {{rf{8}}} Woe to us! Who can deliver us from the hand of these mighty gods? These are the same gods who struck the Egyptians with all sorts of plagues in the desert. {{rf{9}}} Take courage and be men, you Philistines, lest you end up serving the Hebrews just like they have served you. Be men and fight!" {{rf{10}}} So the Philistines fought and Israel was defeated and each man fled to his tent, for the slaughter was very great. Thirty thousand foot soldiers from Israel fell. {{rf{11}}} Furthermore, the ark of God was captured, and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, died. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|1Sam-03-21]] }}}
{{rf{12}}} A man of Benjamin ran from the battle line and came to Shiloh that same day, and his clothes were torn and earth was on his head. {{rf{13}}} When he came, there was Eli sitting on his chair by the side of the road watching, because his heart was anxious about the ark of God. Now the man had come to give his report in the city, and all the city cried out. {{rf{14}}} When Eli heard the noise of the outcry, he said, "What is the noise of this commotion?" Then the man came quickly and told Eli. {{rf{15}}} Now Eli was ninety-eight years old and his eyes stayed fixed ahead and he was not able to see. {{rf{16}}} And the man said to Eli, "I am the one who has come from the battle line! I have fled today from the battle line!" And he said, "What exactly happened, my son?" {{rf{17}}} Then the messenger answered and said, "Israel has fled before the Philistines. There has been a great defeat among the troops. Also, your two sons have died, Hophni and Phinehas, and the ark of God has been captured." {{rf{18}}} Just as he mentioned the ark of God, he fell from his chair backwards against the side of the gate. He broke his neck and died, because the man was old and heavy. He had judged Israel forty years. {{rf{19}}} Now his daughter-in-law, the wife of Phinehas, was pregnant and about to give birth. When she heard the news concerning the capture of the ark of God and that her father-in-law and her husband had died, she went into labor and gave birth, because her labor pains came upon her. {{rf{20}}} Just before the time of her death, those attending her said, "Do not fear, for you have given birth to a son." But she did not answer, or pay any attention. {{rf{21}}} She called the boy Ichabod, saying, "The glory has departed from Israel," referring to the capture of the ark of God and concerning her father-in-law and husband. {{rf{22}}} And she said, "The glory has departed from Israel, because the ark of God was captured."
{{floatright tiny{ [[Open|1Sam-04-12]] }}}
{{rf{1}}} Now the Philistines had captured the ark of God and brought it from Ebenezer to Ashdod. {{rf{2}}} Then the Philistines took the ark of God and brought it to the temple of Dagon and placed it beside Dagon. {{rf{3}}} When the Ashdodites got up early the next morning, there was Dagon fallen with his face to the ground before the ark of Yahweh! So they took Dagon and returned him to his place. {{rf{4}}} When they got up early in the morning the next day, there was Dagon fallen again with his face to the ground before the ark of Yahweh! The head of Dagon and the palms of his two hands were cut off, lying at the threshold; only the body of Dagon was left. {{rf{5}}} (Therefore the priests of Dagon and all who come into the house of Dagon do not tread on the threshold of Dagon in Ashdod until this very day.) {{rf{6}}} Now the hand of Yahweh was heavy against the Ashdodites and he destroyed them and struck them with tumors, both in Ashdod and its territories. {{rf{7}}} The men of Ashdod saw that it was so, and they said, "The ark of the God of Israel should not remain with us, because his hand is harsh on us and on Dagon our god!" {{rf{8}}} So they sent and gathered all the rulers of the Philistines to them, and they asked, "What shall we do with the ark of the God of Israel?" And they said, "Let the ark of the God of Israel be brought around toward Gath." So they moved the ark of the God of Israel to Gath. {{rf{9}}} After they moved it, the hand of Yahweh was against the city, causing a very great confusion, and he struck the men of the city from the youngest to the oldest, causing tumors to break out on them. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|1Sam-05-01]] }}}
<<Bbl 1Sam 5:3 abbr>>-4 an open spoiling of and triumph over wicked spiritual principalities.
** The first night's disaster is private -- the priests can tidy things up and swear each other to secrecy.
** The second night is a fully exposed devastation.
This is like hidden waywardness which becomes exposed in rampant addiction.
<<Bbl 1S 4:4 abbr>> The threshold belongs to the door, which pertains to [[Judge]] (gate).
5:8 Probably carried with as much care as it had ever received.
5:10 Liken this to the consternation which greets a proposal for a toxic-waste dump site -- //Not in my backyard!//
<<Bbl 1S 6:4 abbr>> Perhaps the ark had been 'round to Gaza and Ashkelon also (5:1,6,8,10, 6:17).
6:5 Are mice implied earlier in the account?
6:9 An interesting possibility of mere coincidence. Wishful thinking which God does not ignore.
6:19 One of the more dramatic manifestations of the ark's power and holiness. [[Ark-Covenant]]
<<Bbl 1S 6:21 abbr>> Continuation of the game of "hot potato"!
7:1ff. These verses belong with the preceding ones; like the opening of 4, this is a lousy @@division@@.
<<Bbl 1S 7:2 abbr >>-3 Samuel exhorts the people to a "sorrow that produces repentance." The two verses are not to be divided; a vav consecutive joins them.
<<Bbl 1S 7:4 abbr>> The climax and turning point.
7:5 This seems the right place for a @@division@@.
7:6 Delizsch says this is a figure of repentance; <<Bbl 2S 14:14 >>; <<Bbl Ps 22:15 >>; <<Bbl Lam 2:19 >>.
<<Bbl 1S 7:12 abbr >>
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The two periods of battle in chapter 4 and 7 are a pointed contrast. In the first Israel is the provoker; when foolish bravado gives way to initial defeat, they treacherously turn to the Ark. The second is marked with humility and reverence for God; when threatened, the response is to ask [[Samuel]] for his intercession. The urgent desire for a monarchy could be taken as an attempt to get a synthetic middle way.
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{{rf{10}}} So they sent the ark of God to Ekron. But when the ark of God came to Ekron, the Ekronites cried out, saying, "They have brought around the ark of the God of Israel to kill us and our people!" {{rf{11}}} So they sent and gathered all the rulers of the Philistines, and they said, "Send away the ark of the God of Israel and let it return to its place, so that it will not kill us and our people." For a deadly confusion was throughout all the city; the hand of God was very heavy there. {{rf{12}}} The men who did not die were struck with the tumors, so that the cry of the city for help went up to heaven. {{rf big{1}}} Now the ark of Yahweh had been in the territory of the Philistines for seven months, {{rf{2}}} and the Philistines called to the priests and to those who practiced divination, saying, "What should we do with the ark of Yahweh? Inform us how we should send it to its place." {{rf{3}}} They said, "If you are sending the ark of the God of Israel away, you must not send it away empty, but by all means return it with a guilt offering. Then you will be healed and it will become known to you why his hand is not turned aside from you." {{rf{4}}} And they said, "What is the guilt offering that we should return to him?" They said, "The number of the rulers of the Philistines is five. Therefore send five gold tumors and five gold mice, because one plague was on all of you and all your rulers. {{rf{5}}} You must make images of your tumors and images of your mice that are ravaging the land, and you must give glory to the God of Israel. Perhaps he will lighten his hand on you and on your gods and on your land. {{rf{6}}} Why should you harden your hearts like the Egyptians and Pharaoh hardened their heart? Is it not just like when he dealt with them wantonly so that they sent them away and they left? {{rf{7}}} So then, prepare one new utility cart and two milking cows that have never had a yoke on them, and you must harness the cows to the utility cart and then turn their calves from following them to their stall. {{rf{8}}} And you must take the ark of Yahweh and place it on the utility cart with the gold objects that you are returning to him as a guilt offering. You must place them in the container beside the ark and then send it off so that it goes away. {{rf{9}}} You must watch; if it goes up by the way of its territory to Beth Shemesh, he has caused this great disaster to come on us. But if not, then we will know his hand has not struck us; it was by chance that this happened to us. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|1Sam-05-10]] }}}
{{rf{10}}} So the men did so; they took two milking cows and harnessed them to the utility cart, but they shut up their calves in the stall. {{rf{11}}} Then they put the ark of Yahweh on the utility cart with the container holding the gold mice and the images of their tumors. {{rf{12}}} The cows went straight on the way on the road to Beth Shemesh, on the one main road, lowing as they went. They did not turn aside to the right or to the left, and the rulers of the Philistines were walking after them up to the border of Beth Shemesh. {{rf{13}}} Now the people of Beth Shemesh were reaping the wheat harvest in the valley. They lifted their eyes and saw the ark, and they were glad to see it. {{rf{14}}} The utility cart came to the field of Joshua of Beth Shemesh and stopped there where there was a large stone. They split the wood of the utility cart and sacrificed the cows as a burnt offering to Yahweh. {{rf{15}}} Then the Levites took down the ark of Yahweh and the container that was beside it, in which were the gold objects, and they set them on the large stone. Then the men of Beth Shemesh offered burnt offerings, and they made sacrifices to Yahweh on that day. {{rf{16}}} The five rulers of the Philistines saw it and returned to Ekron that same day. {{rf{17}}} Now these are the gold tumors which the Philistines returned as a guilt offering to Yahweh: one for Ashdod, one for Gaza, one for Ashkelon, one for Gath, one for Ekron. {{rf{18}}} And the gold mice according to the number of all the cities of the Philistines, for their five rulers, from the fortified city to the unwalled village of the open country as far as the great stone, where they set the ark of Yahweh until this day in the field of Joshua of Beth Shemesh. {{rf{19}}} He struck seventy men among the men of Beth Shemesh because they looked into the ark of Yahweh. So the people mourned because Yahweh had struck a great blow among the people. {{rf{20}}} Then the men of Beth Shemesh asked, "Who is able to stand before Yahweh, this holy God? And to whom shall it go up from us?" {{rf{21}}} So they sent messengers to the inhabitants of Kiriath Jearim saying, "The Philistines have returned the ark of Yahweh. Come down and take it up to yourselves." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|1Sam-06-10]] }}}
The men of Kiriath Jearim came and brought up the ark of Yahweh, and they brought it to the house of Abinadab in Gibeah. They consecrated Eleazer his son to guard the ark of Yahweh. {{rf{2}}} From the day the ark stayed in Kiriath Jearim, days multiplied and became twenty years while all the house of Israel mourned after Yahweh. {{rf{3}}} And Samuel spoke to all the house of Israel, saying, "If with all your heart you are turning to Yahweh, remove the foreign gods and Ashtoreths from your midst. Commit your hearts to Yahweh and serve him alone. Then he will deliver you from the hand of the Philistines." {{rf{4}}} So the Israelites removed the Baals and the Ashtoreths, and they served Yahweh alone. {{rf{5}}} Then Samuel said, "Gather all Israel to Mizpah, and I will pray to Yahweh for you." {{rf{6}}} So they gathered to Mizpah and drew water and poured it out before Yahweh. They fasted on that day and said there, "We have sinned against Yahweh!" So Samuel judged the Israelites at Mizpah. {{rf{7}}} Now when the Philistines heard that the Israelites had gathered at Mizpah, the rulers of the Philistines went up against Israel. And when the Israelites heard of it, they were afraid of the Philistines. {{rf{8}}} Then the Israelites said to Samuel, "You must not cease from crying out to Yahweh our God, so that he will deliver us from the hand of the Philistines." {{rf{9}}} So Samuel took a single nursing lamb and sacrificed it as a whole burnt offering to Yahweh. Then Samuel cried out to Yahweh on behalf of Israel, and Yahweh answered him. {{rf{10}}} While Samuel was sacrificing the burnt offering, the Philistines drew near for the battle against Israel. But Yahweh thundered against the Philistines with a great noise on that day and threw them into confusion so that they were defeated before Israel. {{rf{11}}} Then the men of Israel went out from Mizpah and pursued the Philistines and they struck them down as far as below Beth Car. {{rf{12}}} So Samuel took a single stone and put it between Mizpah and Shen, and he named it Ebenezer and said, "Up to here Yahweh has helped us." {{rf{13}}} So the Philistines were subdued and they did not come into the territory of Israel again, and the hand of Yahweh was against the Philistines all the days of Samuel. {{rf{14}}} The towns which the Philistines had taken from Israel were returned to Israel from Ekron to Gath, and Israel delivered their territories from the hand of the Philistines. Then there was peace between Israel and the Amorites. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|1Sam-07-01]] }}}
{{rf{15}}} Samuel judged Israel all the days of his life. {{rf{16}}} He used to go on the circuit from year to year. He went around Bethel, Gilgal, and Mizpah, and he judged Israel in all these places. {{rf{17}}} Then he returned to Ramah, because his house was there, and there he judged Israel, and he built an altar to Yahweh there. {{rf big{1}}} When Samuel grew old he appointed his sons as judges over Israel. {{rf{2}}} The name of his firstborn son was Joel, and the name of his second son was Abijah. They were judges in Beersheba. {{rf{3}}} But his sons did not walk in his ways; they turned aside after gain, they took bribes, and they perverted justice. {{rf{4}}} So all the elders of Israel gathered together and came to Samuel at Ramah. {{rf{5}}} They said to him, "Look, you are old and your sons do not follow in your ways. So then appoint a king for us to judge us, like all the nations. {{rf{6}}} But the matter was displeasing to Samuel when they said, "Give us a king to judge us," so Samuel prayed to Yahweh. {{rf{7}}} Then Yahweh said to Samuel, "Listen to the voice of the people concerning all that they say to you; for they have not rejected you, but they have rejected me from being king over them. {{rf{8}}} Like all the deeds they have done from the day I brought them up from Egypt until this day, they have forsaken me and have served other gods -- so they are doing to you also. {{rf{9}}} And so then, listen to their voice. However, you must earnestly warn them; you must explain to them the custom of the king who will rule over them." {{rf{10}}} So Samuel spoke all the words of Yahweh to the people who were requesting a king from him. {{rf{11}}} He said, "This will be the custom of the king who will reign over you: he will take your sons and appoint them to his chariots and his horsemen, and they will run before his chariots. {{rf{12}}} He will appoint for himself commanders of thousands and commanders of fifties, and those to do his plowing and to reap his harvest, and those to make weapons of war and the equipment for his chariots. {{rf{13}}} He will take your daughters as his perfume makers and as cooks and as bakers. {{rf{14}}} He will take the best of your fields and your vineyards and your olive trees and will give them to his servants. {{rf{15}}} He will take a tenth of your seed and your vineyards and give it to his high officials and to his servants. {{rf{16}}} He will take your male slaves and your female slaves and the best of your young men and your donkeys and will use them for his projects. {{rf{17}}} He will take a tenth of your flocks, and you yourselves will become his servants. {{rf{18}}} So you will cry out on that day because of your king whom you have chosen for yourselves, but Yahweh will not answer you on that day!" {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|1Sam-07-15]] }}}
<<Bbl 1S 8:3 abbr >> Samuel's sons are precisely different from Eli's sons. The former were insolent bullies, gluttonous, sexually wicked. But the latter are more refined and crafty. They're going for the money, using their power to extort, making their threats in secret.
8:7-9 The true meaning of [[Reject]], and possibly a word of comfort for [[Samuel]]; see <<Bbl J 15:18 >>-21 . "Now you know the pain I have felt, Samuel." The request of the people is equated with [[Idolatry]]. Samuel's identification with the grief of God is also shown in 15:11,35.
<<Bbl 1S 8:13 abbr >>ff Samuel's description really matches only the good times to come. There were to be many bad times, too; the daughters of Israel would be put to much worse bondage than making cookies and purfume. Samuel seems not to imagine a standing army -- yet he was one day to anoint David, who sinned by counting his soldiers.
8:15-17 A tithe, that which had been reserved for the Lord.
8:19 A faint foreshadow of the crowd before Pilate -- //Caesar is our king!//
8:20 Something, please, a bit more reliable than the ark of God in chapter four.
8:21 Prayer. //Oh Lord, they said this, and I replied thus, and then they said that!// The intermediary, the priest.
The main theme of Samuel's meeting with Saul is favor. There are many supernatural tokens. Notice Samuel talks about the family's concern for the donkeys shifting to concern for Saul using words that quote Saul. The whole point is to affirm to Saul his charge, and the charge is all glory, all confidence, and just one other thing -- an instruction to wait for Samuel before eating.
9:9 The precise detail in this paragraph even explains vocabulary.
<<Bbl 1S 9:13 abbr >> //those who are invited will eat// -- of which, in the counsel of God, Saul himself is foremost (<<Bbl 1S 9:19 abbr>>)! Find here also a foreshadowing of Saul's impatience, born of doubt-filled anxiety and self-will, followed by sternest reproof in <<Bbl 1S 13:8abbr >>-11.
<<Bbl 1S 10:7 abbr >> Full trust and rein (reign) from the beginning.
10:12 see <<Bbl 1S 19:24 abbr >>
10:25 Perhaps a civil-government rendering of the Law -- doubtless providing for some of the "procedure" described in 8:9-17.
10:27 But apparently, unlike Samuel, their trust isn't in the Lord either.
{{rf{19}}} However, the people refused to listen to the voice of Samuel and they said, "No, but there must be a king over us, {{rf{20}}} so that we also may be like all the nations, and our king may rule us and go out before us and fight our battles." {{rf{21}}} Now when Samuel heard all the words of the people, he repeated them in the ears of Yahweh. {{rf{22}}} Then Yahweh said to Samuel, "Listen to their voice, and appoint a king for them." So Samuel spoke to the men of Israel, "Each of you go to his own town." {{rf big{1}}} Now there was a man from Benjamin whose name was Kish, the son of Abiel, the son of Zeror, the son of Becorath, the son of Aphiah, the son of a Benjaminite, a very wealthy man. {{rf{2}}} He had a son whose name was Saul, a young and handsome man. There was not a man from the Israelites more handsome than he was; from his shoulders up, he was taller than all the people. {{rf{3}}} Now the female donkeys of Kish the father of Saul got lost, and Kish said to Saul his son, "Please take one of the servants with you and get up; go and seek the female donkeys." {{rf{4}}} So he passed through the hill country of Ephraim; he passed through the land of Shalisha but they did not find them. They passed through the land of Shaalim but they were not there. He passed through the land of Benjamin but did not find them. {{rf{5}}} When they entered the land of Zuph, Saul said to his servant who was with him, "Come, let us return, lest my father cease caring about the female donkeys and worry about us!" {{rf{6}}} But he said to him, "Look, a man of God is in this town, and the man is honored. All that he says certainly comes true. So then let us go there; perhaps he will tell us about our journey on which we have gone." {{rf{7}}} So Saul said to his servant, "Look, we may go, but what should we bring to the man? For the bread is gone from our bags, and there is no present to bring to the man of God. What do we have with us?" {{rf{8}}} The servant again answered Saul and said, "Look, I have in my hand a quarter shekel of silver! I will give it to the man of God so that he will tell us our way." {{rf{9}}} (Formerly in Israel, when a man went to inquire of God, he would say: "Come, let us go up to the seer." For the prophet of today was formerly called a seer.) {{rf{10}}} So Saul said to his servant, "Your suggestion is a good one. Come, let us go." And they went to the town where the man of God was. {{rf{11}}} They were going up the ascent of the town when they found young women going out to draw water. They said to them, "Is there the seer here?" {{rf{12}}} They answered them and said, "There is. Look, he is just in front of you! Hurry now, because he has come to the town today, because there is a sacrifice for the people today at the high place. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|1Sam-08-19]] }}}
{{rf{13}}} As soon as you enter the town, you will find him, before he goes up to the high place to eat. For the people will not eat until he comes, because he must bless the sacrifice. Then afterward the invited guests will eat. So then, go up, because you will find him today!" {{rf{14}}} So they went up to the town. As they were entering into the middle of the town, Samuel was coming forth to meet them, to go up to the high place. {{rf{15}}} Now Yahweh had revealed this to Samuel the day before Saul arrived, saying, {{rf{16}}} "This time tomorrow I will send to you a man from the land of Benjamin, and you must anoint him as leader over my people Israel. He will deliver my people from the hand of the Philistines. For I have seen the suffering of my people, because their cry of distress has come to me." {{rf{17}}} When Samuel saw Saul, Yahweh answered him, "Here is the man about whom I told you! This is the one who will govern my people." {{rf{18}}} Then Saul approached Samuel in the middle of the gate and said, "Please tell me, where is the house of the seer?" {{rf{19}}} Samuel answered Saul and said, "I am the seer. Go up ahead of me to the high place, and you will eat with me today; then I will send you away in the morning. I will tell you all that is on your mind. {{rf{20}}} And as for your female donkeys that were lost three days ago, do not be concerned about them, because they have been found. For whom is all the desire of Israel? Is it not for you and for all the house of your father?" {{rf{21}}} Saul answered and said, "Am I not a Benjaminite, from the smallest of the tribes of Israel, and my family the humblest of all the families of the tribes of Benjamin? Why do you speak to me in this way?" {{rf{22}}} So Samuel took Saul and his servant and brought them to a room in the building and gave them a place at the head of the invited guests. There were about thirty men. {{rf{23}}} Then Samuel said to the cook, "Bring the portion that I gave to you, about which I said to you, 'Keep it with you.'" {{rf{24}}} So the cook took up the shank and what was on it and put it before Saul, and he said, "Look, the saved portion is placed before you -- eat, because it has been kept for you for the appointed time," and he said, "I have invited the people." So Saul ate with Samuel that day. {{rf{25}}} When they came down from the high place to the town, he spoke with Saul on the roof. {{rf{26}}} They got up early, and as dawn was breaking, Samuel called to Saul on the roof, saying, "Get up, so that I can send you away." So Saul got up and the two of them, he and Samuel, went outside. {{rf{27}}} As they were going down to the outskirts of the town, Samuel said to Saul, "Tell the servant to pass on before us. When he has passed, you stand here a while, so that I can make known to you the word of God." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|1Sam-09-13]] }}}
Then Samuel took a flask of oil and poured it over his head and kissed him and said, "Has not Yahweh anointed you as leader over his inheritance? {{rf{2}}} As you go from with me today, you will find two men near the burial site of Rachel in the territory of Benjamin at Zelzah. They will say to you, 'The female donkeys that you went to search for have been found.' Now look, your father is no longer concerned about the female donkeys and has begun worrying about you, saying, 'What should I do about my son?' {{rf{3}}} Then you will go on from there and further you will come to the oak of Tabor. There three men will meet you, who are going up to God at Bethel. One will be carrying three male kid goats, one will be carrying three loaves of bread, and one will be carrying a skin of wine. {{rf{4}}} They will ask how you are doing and will give you two loaves, which you will take from their hand. {{rf{5}}} After this, you will come to the Gibeah of God, where there are sentries of the Philistines. Just as you enter the town there, you will meet a procession of prophets coming down from the high place, with harp, tambourine, flute, and zither before them, and they will be prophesying. {{rf{6}}} Then the Spirit of Yahweh will rush upon you, and you will prophesy with them; and you will turn into a different person. {{rf{7}}} When these signs come to you, do for yourself what your hand finds to do, for God will be with you. {{rf{8}}} Then you will go down before me to Gilgal. Look, I am coming down to you to offer burnt offerings and to make fellowship offerings. You must wait seven days until I come to you. Then I will let you know what you should do." {{rf{9}}} Just as he turned his shoulder to depart from Samuel, God changed his heart. And all these signs were fulfilled on that day. {{rf{10}}} When they went from there to Gibeah, a procession of prophets met him, and the Spirit of God rushed upon him, and he prophesied among them. {{rf{11}}} And when all who knew him formerly saw that he prophesied with prophets, the people said to one another, "What is this that has happened to the son of Kish? Is Saul also among the prophets?" {{rf{12}}} And a man from there responded and said, "And who is their father?" Therefore it became a proverb: "Is Saul also among the prophets?" {{rf{13}}} When he finished prophesying, he went to the high place. {{rf{14}}} Then Saul's uncle said to him and to his servant, "Where did you go?" And he said, "To search for the female donkeys; and when we saw none, we went to Samuel." {{rf{15}}} So Saul's uncle said to him, "Please tell me, what did Samuel say to you?" {{rf{16}}} Then Saul said to his uncle, "He told us for certain that the female donkeys had been found." But he did not tell him about the matter of the kingship of which Samuel had spoken. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|1Sam-10-01]] }}}
{{rf{17}}} Then Samuel summoned the people to Yahweh at Mizpah, {{rf{18}}} and he said to the Israelites, "Thus says Yahweh the God of Israel: 'I brought Israel up from Egypt, and I delivered you from the hand of the Egyptians and from the hand of all the kingdoms that were oppressing you.' {{rf{19}}} But you today have rejected your God who always delivers you from all of your calamities and your distresses. You have said to him, 'No, but you must appoint a king over us!' So then present yourselves before Yahweh by your tribes and by your clans." {{rf{20}}} So Samuel brought near all the tribes of Israel, and the tribe of Benjamin was selected by lot. {{rf{21}}} Then he brought near the tribe of Benjamin according to its families, and the family of Matri was selected by lot. Then Saul the son of Kish was chosen, and they sought him, but he could not be found. {{rf{22}}} So they inquired again of Yahweh, "Did the man come here?" And Yahweh said, "Look, he is hiding himself among the baggage." {{rf{23}}} So they ran and took him from there, and when he took his stand among the people, he was taller than all the people from his shoulders and up. {{rf{24}}} Then Samuel said to all the people, "Do you see him whom Yahweh has chosen? For there is no one like him among all the people!" And all the people shouted and said, "Long live the king!" {{rf{25}}} Then Samuel told the people the custom of the kingship, and he wrote the rules down on a scroll and laid it before Yahweh. Then Samuel sent all the people away, each to his own house. {{rf{26}}} And Saul also went to his house at Gibeah, and the troops whose hearts God had touched went with him. {{rf{27}}} However, some worthless men said, "How can this man deliver us?" So they despised him and brought no gift to him, but he kept silent. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|1Sam-10-17]] }}}
Now Nahash the Ammonite went up and encamped against Jabesh Gilead. All the men of Jabesh said to Nahash, "Make a treaty with us and we will serve you." {{rf{2}}} But Nahash the Ammonite said to them, "On this condition I will make a treaty with you, by gouging out the right eye of each of you, so that I can make it a disgrace for all Israel." {{rf{3}}} So the elders of Jabesh said to him, "Leave us alone for seven days so that we may send messengers in all the territory of Israel, and if there is no deliverer for us, then we will come out to you." {{rf{4}}} When the messengers came to Gibeah of Saul, they reported these things to the people. Then all the people lifted up their voices and wept. {{rf{5}}} Just then, Saul was coming from the field behind the cattle. Saul said, "What is the matter with the people, that they are weeping?" So they recounted to him the words of the men of Jabesh. {{rf{6}}} Then the Spirit of God rushed upon Saul when he heard these words, and he became very angry. {{rf{7}}} So he took a yoke of oxen and cut them into pieces and sent them throughout all the territory of Israel by the hand of the messengers, saying, "Whoever is not going out after Saul and after Samuel, so will it be done to his oxen." Then the fear of Yahweh fell on the people and they went out as one man. {{rf{8}}} He mustered them at Bezek; the Israelites were three hundred thousand, and the men of Judah were thirty thousand. {{rf{9}}} They said to the messengers who had come, "Thus you will say to the men of Jabesh Gilead: 'Tomorrow deliverance for you will come when the sun is hot.'" When the messengers went and told the men of Jabesh, they rejoiced. {{rf{10}}} The men of Jabesh said, "Tomorrow we will come out to you and you may do to us whatever seems good to you." {{rf{11}}} And the next day Saul placed the people in three divisions. Then they came into the middle of the camp at the early morning watch and struck down the Ammonites until the heat of the day. It happened that the remainder were scattered so that no two among them remained together. {{rf{12}}} Then the people said to Samuel, "Who is the one who asked, 'Will Saul reign over us?' Give the men to us that we may kill them." {{rf{13}}} But Saul said, "No one will be put to death on this day, because today Yahweh has provided deliverance in Israel." {{rf{14}}} Then Samuel said to the people, "Come, let us go to Gilgal, and let us renew the kingship there." {{rf{15}}} So all the people went to Gilgal and they made Saul king there before Yahweh in Gilgal. They sacrificed fellowship offerings there before Yahweh. Then Saul rejoiced there greatly along with all the men of Israel. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|1Sam-11-01]] }}}
<<Bbl 1S 11:1 abbr >> Saul invokes the name of Samuel. How cheap is that?
11:8 The very first-ever mention of Israel and Judah as distinct? And with a census that shows a ten-to-one population.
<<Bbl 1S 11:12 abbr >>-15 So like David does Saul behave in this verse.
11:14 The history of Gilgal ("rolling") is significant here.
12 Samuel's sermon.
<<Bbl 1S 12:3 abbr >>-5 Compare Moses' statement, <<Bbl Num 16:15 >>. And Paul, <<Bbl 2C 7:2 >>.
12:12 – a curious sequence. Nahash, chapter 11; the request for a king, chapter 8.
<<Bbl 1S 12:14 abbr >> Against the idea of the king as federal spiritual head.
12:18 This is Samuel's "Mount Carmel moment." But he is dealing with immaturity rather than entrenched rebellion.
12:21 i.e., idols ??
13:2 Israel's first standing army; probably a bodyguard (and one which could not fulfill its charter in the end, <<Bbl 1S 31:1 abbr >>ff).
13:6 i.e., wherever they could!
<<Bbl 1S 13:9 abbr >>ff Saul's first error and calamity, and the first test of his leadership and power. When some are abandoning him the temptation comes -- just as it did for Jesus, and Paul also, the temptation to rely on man. Contrast <<Bbl 1S 30:6 abbr >>
13:13 This book usually provides a full introduction to any event.
13:14 David is introduced, next reference 15:28.
Then Samuel said to all Israel, "Look, I have listened to your voice regarding all that you have said to me, so I have set a king over you. {{rf{2}}} And so then here is the king walking about before you. Now I am old and gray, but my sons (look at them!) are with you; and I have walked about before you from my youth until this day. {{rf{3}}} Here I am! Testify against me before Yahweh and before his anointed one! Whose ox have I taken? Or whose donkey have I taken? Or whom have I exploited? Whom have I oppressed? Or from whose hand have I taken a bribe, that I may shut my eyes regarding him?-then I will restore it to you." {{rf{4}}} Then they said, "You have not exploited us or oppressed us, and you have not taken anything from the hand of anyone." {{rf{5}}} So he said to them, "Yahweh is witness against you, and his anointed one is witness this day, that you have not found anything in my hand." Then they said, "He is witness." {{rf{6}}} Then Samuel said to the people, "Yahweh is witness, who appointed Moses and Aaron, and who brought your ancestors up from the land of Egypt. {{rf{7}}} So then take your stand, so that I may judge you before Yahweh with regard to all the deeds of justice of Yahweh that he performed with both you and your ancestors. {{rf{8}}} "When Jacob came to Egypt, your ancestors cried out to Yahweh, so he sent Moses and Aaron, and they brought your ancestors out from Egypt and settled them in this place. {{rf{9}}} But they forgot Yahweh their God, so he sold them into the hand of Sisera, commander of the hosts of Hazor, and into the hand of the Philistines, and into the hand of the king of Moab, and they fought against them. {{rf{10}}} So they cried out to Yahweh and said, 'We have sinned, because we have forsaken Yahweh and have served the Baals and the Ashtoreths. But now deliver us from the hand of our enemies and we will serve you!' {{rf{11}}} So Yahweh sent Jerub-Baal and Bedan and Jephthah and Samuel. Then he delivered you from the hand of your enemies all around, and you lived in security. {{rf{12}}} "And when you saw that Nahash, the king of the Ammonites, was coming against you, you said to me, 'No! A king shall reign over us,' although Yahweh your God is your king. {{rf{13}}} So then look! Here is the king you have chosen, for whom you have asked! Look, Yahweh has placed a king over you! {{rf{14}}} If you will fear Yahweh, and serve him, and listen to his voice, and not be rebellious against what Yahweh says, and both you and the king who rules over you will follow after Yahweh your God, all will be well. {{rf{15}}} But, if you do not listen to the voice of Yahweh, and you rebel against what Yahweh says, then the hand of Yahweh will be against you as it was against your ancestors. {{rf{16}}} So then take your stand again and see this great thing that Yahweh is going to do before your eyes. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|1Sam-12-01]] }}}
{{rf{17}}} Is the wheat harvest not today? I will call out to Yahweh so that he still sends thunder and rain, so that you will know and will see that your wickedness is great that you have done in the eyes of Yahweh by asking for a king for yourselves." {{rf{18}}} So Samuel called out to Yahweh, and Yahweh brought thunder and rain that same day, so all the people feared Yahweh and Samuel greatly. {{rf{19}}} Then all the people said to Samuel, "Pray for your servants to Yahweh your God so that we will not die, because we have added to all our sins by requesting a king for ourselves." {{rf{20}}} And Samuel said to the people, "Do not fear! You have done all this evil; only do not turn aside from following Yahweh. But you must serve Yahweh with all your heart. {{rf{21}}} And do not turn aside after the triviality, which have no value and cannot deliver, for they are triviality. {{rf{22}}} For Yahweh will not forsake his people for the sake of his great name, because Yahweh has decided to make you his own people. {{rf{23}}} Also, as for me, far be it from me that I should sin against Yahweh by ceasing to pray for you! I will instruct you in the good and righteous way. {{rf{24}}} Only fear Yahweh and serve him faithfully with all of your heart. For consider what great things he has done for you. {{rf{25}}} But if you continue to do wickedness, both you and your king will be swept away." {{rf big{1}}} Saul was thirty years old at the beginning of his reign, and he reigned forty-two years over Israel. {{rf{2}}} He chose for himself three thousand from Israel. Two thousand of these were with Saul at Micmash in the hill country of Bethel, and a thousand were with Jonathan at Gibeah in Benjamin. He sent away the rest of the people, each to his tent. {{rf{3}}} Jonathan defeated the garrison of the Philistines that was at Geba, and the Philistines heard about it. Then Saul blew the trumpet throughout all the land, saying, "Let the Hebrews hear!" {{rf{4}}} And all Israel did hear, saying, "Saul has defeated the garrison of the Philistines; and also, Israel has become a stench among the Philistines!" So the people were called out after Saul at Gilgal. {{rf{5}}} And the Philistines assembled to fight with Israel, thirty thousand chariots and six thousand horsemen and an army as numerous as sand which is on the seashore. And they came up and encamped at Micmash, east of Beth Aven. {{rf{6}}} When the men of Israel saw that it was too difficult for them, because the army was hard pressed, the people hid themselves in the caves, in the thorn bushes, in the cliffs, in the vaults and in the wells. {{rf{7}}} Some of the Hebrews crossed over the Jordan to the land of Gad and Gilead. But Saul was still at Gilgal, and all the army followed him trembling. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|1Sam-12-17]] }}}
{{rf{8}}} He waited seven days according to the appointed time Samuel determined, but Samuel did not come to Gilgal, and the army started to slip away from him. {{rf{9}}} So Saul said, "Bring here to me the burnt offering and the fellowship offerings." Then he offered up the burnt offering. {{rf{10}}} Just as he finished offering the burnt sacrifice, Samuel was coming. So Saul went out to meet him and to bless him. {{rf{11}}} But Samuel said, "What have you done?" Saul said, "Because I saw that the army was scattering from me and you did not come at the appointed time and that the Philistines had gathered at Micmash, {{rf{12}}} therefore I said, 'Now the Philistines will come down against me at Gilgal, and I have not yet implored the face of Yahweh.' So I forced myself and offered the burnt offering." {{rf{13}}} Then Samuel said to Saul, "You have behaved foolishly! You have not kept the command of Yahweh your God which he commanded you. For then, Yahweh would have established your kingdom over Israel forever. {{rf{14}}} But now, your kingdom will not endure. Yahweh has sought for himself a man according to his own heart, and Yahweh has appointed him as leader over his people, because you have not kept what Yahweh commanded you." {{rf{15}}} Then Samuel got up and went up from Gilgal to Gibeah of Benjamin. And Saul mustered the people who were found with him, about six hundred men. {{rf{16}}} Saul and Jonathan his son and the army that remained with them were staying in Geba of Benjamin, and the Philistines encamped at Micmash. {{rf{17}}} The raiders went out from the camp of the Philistines in three divisions. One division turned on the road to Ophrah toward the land of Shual. {{rf{18}}} One division turned on the road to Beth Horon, and one turned on the road toward the border overlooking the valley of Zeboim toward the wilderness. {{rf{19}}} Now no skilled craftsman could be found in all the land of Israel, for the Philistines had said, "So that the Hebrews cannot make swords or spears for themselves." {{rf{20}}} So all Israel went down to the Philistines, each to have his plowshare, his mattock, his axe, and his iron plowshare sharpened. {{rf{21}}} The charge was two-thirds of a shekel for the plowshare and for the mattock, and a third of a shekel for the pick and for the axe, and to set the goading sticks. {{rf{22}}} So on the day of battle, there was not a sword or a spear found in the hands of all the army that was with Saul and Jonathan, but Saul and his son Jonathan had them. {{rf{23}}} Now the garrison of the Philistines went out to the pass of Micmash. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|1Sam-13-08]] }}}
One day Jonathan the son of Saul said to his armor bearer, "Come and let us go over to the garrison of the Philistines which is over there." But he did not tell his father. {{rf{2}}} Now Saul was staying at the outskirts of Gibeah under the pomegranate tree that was in Migron, and the troops that were with him were about six hundred men. {{rf{3}}} Now Ahijah, the son of Ahitub (the brother of Ichabod), the son of Phinehas, the son of Eli the priest of Yahweh at Shiloh, was carrying an ephod. The troops did not know that Jonathan had gone. {{rf{4}}} Now between the passes where Jonathan sought to go over to the garrison of the Philistines there was a crag of rock on one side and a crag of rock on the other. The name of the one was Bozez and the name of the other was Seneh. {{rf{5}}} The one crag on the north was opposite Micmash and the other on the south was opposite Geba. {{rf{6}}} So Jonathan said to his armor bearer, "Come, let us go over to the garrisons of these uncircumcised; perhaps Yahweh will act for us, for there is no hindrance for Yahweh to save by many or by few." {{rf{7}}} And his armor bearer said, "Do all that is in your heart that you are inclined to do. I am with you all of the way! {{rf{8}}} Then Jonathan said, "Look, we are about to go over to the men; and we will show ourselves to them. {{rf{9}}} If they say to us: 'Wait until we reach you,' then we will stand as we are and not go up to them. {{rf{10}}} But if they say, 'Come up to us,' then we will go up, for Yahweh has given them into our hand, and this will be the sign for us." {{rf{11}}} So the two of them showed themselves to the garrison of the Philistines, and the Philistines said, "The Hebrews are coming out from the holes in which they have hidden themselves." {{rf{12}}} Then the men of the garrison answered Jonathan and his armor bearer, "Come up to us and we will show you something!" Then Jonathan said to his armor bearer, "Come up after me, for Yahweh has given them into the hand of Israel!" {{rf{13}}} So Jonathan went up on his hands and his feet, with his armor bearer after him. They fell before Jonathan and then his armor bearer would kill them after him. {{rf{14}}} So was the first attack in which Jonathan and his armor bearer killed about twenty men within about half of a furrow in an acre of an open field. {{rf{15}}} Then there was terror in the camp, in the open field, and among all the army of the garrison. Even the raiders trembled. The earth shook, and it became a very great panic. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|1Sam-14-01]] }}}
14:16 see 13:8
<<Bbl 1S 14:24 abbr >> To bind up the whole nation under an [[Vow]] seems as presumptious as it is unprecedented.
14:27 The ironic result of earlier events. The same victory caused the inspiration for the oath and the absence of Jonathon resulting in its violation.
14:29 A true statement -- with a yet more dire fulfillment impending.
14:33 In their zeal not to sin against Saul, they sin against God's law.
14:40 Nervously I'm sure.
15:15 What a picture of fake holiness, selective holiness.
15:21 Blame-laying.
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15.22: Samuel said, "Has Yahweh as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of Yahweh? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to listen than the fat of rams. 15.23 For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as idolatry and teraphim.
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<<Bbl 1S 15:24 abbr >> Man-pleasing seems to be at the root of Saul's downfall.
15:28 see 13:14
15:32 Agag proposes //the bitterness of death is past//, but Samuel responds that it is not at all past -- the bitterness of Agag's crimes is now to be avenged through Agag's own bitter death.
Saul never took in the purpose of the enterprise -- vengeance, the expression of God's wrath. Samuel's exploit shows how fully he was controlled by that purpose. Every soldier must have felt mortified to see good Samuel forced to do the warrior's horrible work.
{{rf{16}}} And the lookouts of Saul in Gibeah of Benjamin saw that the multitude surged back and forth. {{rf{17}}} Saul said to the troops that were with him, "Please call the roll and see who has gone from us." So they called the roll and found that Jonathan and his armor bearer were not present. {{rf{18}}} Then Saul said to Ahijah, "Bring near the ark of God" (for the ark of God was at that time with the Israelites). {{rf{19}}} While Saul was still speaking to the priest, the tumult in the camp of the Philistines increased more and more, so Saul said to the priest, "Withdraw your hand!" {{rf{20}}} Then Saul and all the troops who were with him were assembled on command and came up to the battle, and look! Each Philistine's sword was against his friend; and there was a very great confusion. {{rf{21}}} The Hebrews who had been for the Philistines previously, who had gone up with them into the camp all around, even they joined the Israelites who were with Saul and Jonathan. {{rf{22}}} All the men of Israel who had hidden themselves in the hill country of Ephraim heard that the Philistines had fled, so even they pursued them closely in the battle. {{rf{23}}} So on that day Yahweh delivered Israel, and the battle shifted to Beth Aven. {{rf{24}}} Now the men of Israel were hard pressed on that day, because Saul had made the army take an oath, saying, "Cursed be the man who eats any food until evening, when I will have avenged myself on my enemies!" So none of the army tasted any food. {{rf{25}}} (Now all the people of the land used to go into the forest, for there was honey on the surface of the ground.) {{rf{26}}} When the army came to the forest, look! There was honey flowing, but no one put his hand to his mouth, for the army was afraid of the solemn oath. {{rf{27}}} However, Jonathan had not heard about the oath of his father with the army, so he extended the end of the staff which was in his hand, and he dipped it into the honeycomb. Then he put his hand to his mouth and his eyes gleamed. {{rf{28}}} Then a man from the army informed him and said, "Your father made the army swear a solemn oath, saying, 'Cursed be the man who eats food today,'" so the army is exhausted. {{rf{29}}} Then Jonathan said, "My father has brought trouble on the land! See now that my eyes have brightened because I have tasted a little of this honey. {{rf{30}}} How much more could have been done if the troops had eaten freely today from the plunder of their enemies that they had found! For now the loss among the Philistines is not great." {{rf{31}}} They defeated the Philistines that day from Micmash to Aijalon, and the troops were very weary. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|1Sam-14-16]] }}}
{{rf{32}}} Then the troops took the plunder: they took sheep and cattle and calves and slaughtered them on the ground and the troops ate them all with the blood. {{rf{33}}} So they reported it to Saul, saying, "Look! The troops are sinning against Yahweh by eating the animals with the blood!" And he said, "You have dealt treacherously! Roll to me a large stone today!" {{rf{34}}} Then Saul said, "Disperse yourselves among the troops and say to them, 'Bring to me each one his ox and each his sheep and slaughter them in this place and eat, but do not sin against Yahweh by eating the animals with the blood.'" So all the troops brought them, each leading his ox in his hand that night, and slaughtered it there. {{rf{35}}} Then Saul built an altar to Yahweh; it was the first altar he built to Yahweh. {{rf{36}}} Saul said, "Let us go down after the Philistines by night, and let us plunder them until the morning light, and let us not leave alive a man among them." So they said, "Do all that is good in your eyes." But the priest said, "Let us draw near to God here." {{rf{37}}} So Saul inquired of God, "Should I go down after the Philistines? Will you give them into the hand of Israel?" But he did not answer him on that day. {{rf{38}}} Then Saul said, "Come here, all you leaders of the people, so that we find out what the sin was this day. {{rf{39}}} For as Yahweh lives, who delivers Israel, I swear that even if it is in Jonathan my son, he will certainly die!" But nobody from all the army answered him. {{rf{40}}} Then he said to all Israel, "You will be on one side, and I and my son Jonathan will be on the other." And the army said to Saul, "Do what is good in your eyes." {{rf{41}}} Then Saul said to Yahweh the God of Israel, "Render a decision perfectly." Jonathan and Saul were chosen by lot and the people went out. {{rf{42}}} Then Saul said, "Let them cast the lot between me and my son Jonathan," and Jonathan was chosen. {{rf{43}}} So Saul said, "Tell me what you have done." So Jonathan told him and said, "I merely tasted a little honey with the end of the staff that was in my hand. Here I am, I must die." {{rf{44}}} Then Saul said, "So may God do to me and more, you will certainly die today, Jonathan!" {{rf{45}}} But the army said to Saul, "Must Jonathan die, who accomplished this great victory in Israel? Far from it! As Yahweh lives, not a hair from his head will fall to the ground, for he has worked with God this day." So the army ransomed Jonathan and he did not die. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|1Sam-14-32]] }}}
{{rf{46}}} Saul went up from pursuing the Philistines, and the Philistines went to their place. {{rf{47}}} So Saul took the kingship over Israel, and he fought all around against his enemies, against Moab, against the Ammonites, against Edom, against the kings of Zobah, and against the Philistines. He inflicted punishment against all who rebelled. {{rf{48}}} He acted bravely and defeated the Amalekites and rescued Israel from the hand of those who plundered it. {{rf{49}}} Now the sons of Saul were Jonathan, Ishvi, and Malki-Shua; the names of his two daughters were as follows: the name of the firstborn was Merab and the younger was Michal. {{rf{50}}} The name of Saul's wife was Ahinoam the daughter of Ahimaaz, and the name of the commander of his army was Abner, the son of Ner, Saul's uncle. {{rf{51}}} Now Kish was the father of Saul, but Ner, the father of Abner, was the son of Abiel. {{rf{52}}} Warfare was severe against the Philistines all the days of Saul. Whenever Saul saw anyone who was a mighty warrior or any brave man, he conscripted him into his service.
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{{rf big{1}}} Then Samuel said to Saul, "Yahweh sent me to anoint you as king over his people Israel. So then, listen to the words of Yahweh! {{rf{2}}} Thus says Yahweh of hosts: 'I have observed what Amalek did to Israel, how he opposed him when he went up from Egypt. {{rf{3}}} So then, go and attack Amalek and utterly destroy all that is his! You must not spare him, but kill both man and woman, both child and nursing infant, both ox and sheep, both camel and donkey.'" {{rf{4}}} Saul summoned the army and mustered them at Telaim; two hundred thousand foot soldiers and ten thousand men of Judah. {{rf{5}}} Then Saul came up to the city of Amalek and set an ambush in the wadi. {{rf{6}}} Saul said to the Kenites, "Go, leave! Withdraw from among the Amalekites so that I do not destroy you with them. You have shown loyal love to all the Israelites when they came up from Egypt." So the Kenites left from among the Amalekites. {{rf{7}}} Then Saul defeated the Amalekites from Havilah as one goes to Shur which is east of Egypt. {{rf{8}}} He captured Agag the king of Amalek alive, but all the people he utterly destroyed with the edge of the sword. {{rf{9}}} However, Saul and the army spared Agag and the best of the sheep and the cattle and the second best of the young fatlings and all that was valuable; they were not willing to utterly destroy them. But all the possessions that were despised or worthless, they utterly destroyed. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|1Sam-14-46]] }}}
{{rf{10}}} Then the word of Yahweh came to Samuel, saying, {{rf{11}}} "I regret that I made Saul king, for he has turned back from following me and has not kept my word." Samuel became angry, and he cried out to Yahweh all night. {{rf{12}}} Then Samuel got up early in the morning to meet Saul. Samuel was told, "Saul has gone to Carmel, and look, he is setting up a monument for himself." Then he turned around and crossed over and went down to Gilgal. {{rf{13}}} When Samuel came to Saul, Saul said to him, "May you be blessed by Yahweh! I have kept the word of Yahweh." {{rf{14}}} But Samuel said, "Then what is this bleating of the sheep that I hear in my ears and the lowing of the cattle that I am hearing?" {{rf{15}}} Saul said, "They have brought them from the Amalekites; the troops spared the best of the sheep and the cattle in order to sacrifice them to Yahweh your God. But the rest we have utterly destroyed." {{rf{16}}} Then Samuel said to Saul, "Stop and let me tell you what Yahweh said to me last night." So he said to him, "Speak." {{rf{17}}} Samuel said, "Even though you are small in your own eyes, are you not the head of the tribes of Israel? Yahweh has anointed you as king over Israel. {{rf{18}}} When Yahweh sent you on your way, he said to you: 'Go! You must utterly destroy the sinners, the Amalekites, and you must fight against them until you have destroyed them.' {{rf{19}}} Why did you not listen to the voice of Yahweh and fall with shouting on the plunder? You have done evil in the sight of Yahweh!" {{rf{20}}} Then Saul said to Samuel, "I have listened to the voice of Yahweh, and I have gone on the way that Yahweh sent me! I brought Agag the king of Amalek, and the Amalekites I have utterly destroyed. {{rf{21}}} The troops took from the plunder, sheep and cattle, the best of the things devoted to destruction, to sacrifice to Yahweh your God at Gilgal." {{rf{22}}} Then Samuel said, "Is there as much delight for Yahweh in burnt offerings and sacrifices as there is in obeying Yahweh? Look! To obey is better than sacrifice; to give heed than the fat of rams. {{rf{23}}} For rebellion is like the sin of divination; arrogance is like iniquity and idolatry. Because you have rejected the word of Yahweh, he has rejected you from being king!" {{rf{24}}} Then Saul said to Samuel, "I have sinned because I have transgressed the commandment of Yahweh and your words, for I feared the troops and I listened to their voice. {{rf{25}}} So then, please pardon my sin and return with me so that I can worship Yahweh." {{rf{26}}} But Samuel said to Saul, "I will not return with you, for you have rejected the word of Yahweh, and he has rejected you from being king over Israel!" {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|1Sam-15-10]] }}}
{{rf{27}}} As Samuel turned around to go, he caught hold of the hem of his robe, and it tore. {{rf{28}}} Then Samuel said to him, "Yahweh has torn the kingdom of Israel from you today and has given it to your neighbor who is better than you. {{rf{29}}} Moreover, the Glory of Israel will not break faith and will not regret, for he is not a human that he should regret." {{rf{30}}} Then he said, "I have sinned! Now please honor me before the elders of my people and before Israel, and return with me so that I can worship Yahweh your God." {{rf{31}}} So Samuel returned after Saul, and Saul worshiped Yahweh. {{rf{32}}} Then Samuel said, "Bring Agag the king of Amalek out to me!" Agag came to him confidently, for Agag thought, "Surely the bitterness of death is over." {{rf{33}}} Samuel said, "Just as your sword bereaved women, so will your mother be bereaved among women!" Then Samuel hacked Agag to pieces in the presence of Yahweh at Gilgal. {{rf{34}}} Then Samuel went to Ramah and Saul went up to his house in Gibeah of Saul. {{rf{35}}} Samuel did not see Saul again until the day of his death, but Samuel mourned over Saul, and Yahweh regretted that he made Saul king over Israel. {{rf big{1}}} Then Yahweh said to Samuel, "How long will you mourn about Saul? I have rejected him from being king over Israel! Fill up your horn with oil and go. I will send you to Jesse the Bethlehemite, for I have chosen a king for myself among his sons." {{rf{2}}} But Samuel said, "How can I go? If Saul hears, he will kill me." Yahweh said, "You must take a heifer from the herd with you, and you must say, 'I have come to sacrifice to Yahweh.' {{rf{3}}} You will invite Jesse to the sacrifice and I will make known to you what you must do. You will anoint for me the one whom I tell you." {{rf{4}}} So Samuel did what Yahweh said. He came to Bethlehem, and the elders of the city came trembling to meet him. They said, "Have you come in peace?" {{rf{5}}} He said, "I come in peace. I have come to sacrifice to Yahweh. Sanctify yourselves and come with me to the sacrifice." So he sanctified Jesse and his sons and invited them to the sacrifice. {{rf{6}}} When they came, he saw Eliab and said, "Surely his anointed one is before Yahweh!" {{rf{7}}} But Yahweh said to Samuel, "Do not look at his appearance or at the height of his stature, because I have rejected him. For God does not see what man sees, for a man looks on the outward appearance, but Yahweh looks on the heart." {{rf{8}}} Then Jesse called Abinadab and made him pass before Samuel, and he said, "This one also Yahweh has not chosen." {{rf{9}}} So Jesse made Shammah pass before Samuel, but he said, "Yahweh also has not chosen this one." {{rf{10}}} And Jesse made seven of his sons pass before Samuel, but Samuel said to Jesse, "Yahweh has not chosen any of these." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|1Sam-15-27]] }}}
16:1 Introduction of David as Jesse's son. Similar to the intro <<Bbl 1S 17:12 abbr >>.
<<Bbl 1S 16:6 abbr >> Samuel's natural expectation after the time he found Saul -- vss. 1-5 seem to allude to that precedent.
16:7 see <<Bbl I 11:3 >>; <<Bbl J 7:24 >>, <<Bbl J 8:15 >>
<<Bbl 1S 16:13 abbr>>b-14 compares with <<Bbl 1S 18:12 abbr>>.
<<Bbl 1S 16:18 abbr >> Saul was interested in valiant men anyway, see 14:52, also <<Bbl Pr 18:16 >>, <<Bbl Pr 22:29 >>.
16:23 The man who will ease Samuel's torment is none other than the //sweet psalmist of Isael// (<<Bbl 2S 23:2>>). But the same anointing that gives relief will also provoke a spirit of murder, for Saul's ungodly heart will not tolerate such worship.
Eliab is the one Samuel first is drawn too. God says: not him, for I look at the heart. David has the right heart. Later Eliab accosts David. Eliab accuses him of having a bad heart. In doing this, Eliab reveals his own bad heart -- vindicating God's choice as given to Samuel. This is Satan -- giving the accusation, and not just anywhere, but at the point of truth and relevance.
At the time Eliab accosts David, he is sharing the shame of Israel's army and feeling nettled about it. And perhaps he still seethes at being passed over -- the oldest son for the eighth and youngest.
{{rf{11}}} Then Samuel said to Jesse, "Are all the young men here?" And he said, "The youngest still remains, but look, he is shepherding the flock." And Samuel said to Jesse, "Send and bring him, for we cannot sit down until he comes here." {{rf{12}}} So he sent and brought him. Now he was ruddy with beautiful eyes and of handsome appearance. And Yahweh said, "Arise, anoint him, for this is he." {{rf{13}}} So Samuel took the horn of oil and anointed him in the midst of his brothers. Then the Spirit of Yahweh rushed upon David from that day on. Then Samuel got up and went to Ramah. {{rf{14}}} Now the Spirit of Yahweh departed from Saul and an evil spirit from Yahweh tormented him. {{rf{15}}} So the servants of Saul said to him, "Look please, an evil spirit from God is tormenting you. {{rf{16}}} Please, let our lord command your servants who are before you! Let them seek a man skilled in playing on the lyre. When the evil spirit from God is upon you, he can play on it and you will feel better." {{rf{17}}} So Saul said to his servants, "Please select a man who plays a stringed instrument well and bring him to me." {{rf{18}}} One of the servants answered and said, "Look, I have seen a son of Jesse the Bethlehemite who is skillful in playing a stringed instrument, a brave man, a warrior, prudent in speech, and handsome. And Yahweh is with him." {{rf{19}}} So Saul sent messengers to Jesse and said, "Send me David your son who is with the sheep." {{rf{20}}} And Jesse took a donkey loaded with bread and a skin of wine and one young goat and sent them to Saul by the hand of David his son. {{rf{21}}} So David came to Saul and entered his service. He loved him greatly and he became Saul's armor bearer. {{rf{22}}} Then Saul sent word to Jesse, saying, "Please let David stand before me, because he has found favor in my sight." {{rf{23}}} So whenever the evil spirit from God came to Saul, David would take the stringed instrument and play it with his hand. Then it would bring relief for Saul; he would feel better and the evil spirit would depart from him. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|1Sam-16-11]] }}}
The Philistines gathered their camps for battle and they were gathered at Socoh which belongs to Judah. They camped between Socoh and Azekah in Ephes Dammim. {{rf{2}}} Then Saul and the men of Israel were gathered and encamped in the valley of Elah, and they formed ranks for the battle to meet the Philistines. {{rf{3}}} The Philistines were standing on the hill on one side and the army of Israel was standing on the hill on the other side with the valley between them. {{rf{4}}} Then a champion went out from the camps of the Philistines, whose name was Goliath from Gath. His height was six cubits and a span. {{rf{5}}} A bronze helmet was on his head, and he was clothed with scale body armor; the weight of the body armor was five thousand bronze shekels. {{rf{6}}} Bronze greaves were on his legs, and a bronze javelin was slung between his shoulders. {{rf{7}}} The shaft of his spear was like a weaver's beam and the point of his spear weighed six hundred iron shekels. His shield bearer was walking in front of him. {{rf{8}}} He stood and called to the battle lines of Israel and said to them, "Why have you come out to form ranks for battle? Am I not the Philistine, and you the servants of Saul? Commission for yourselves a man and let him come down to me. {{rf{9}}} If he is able to fight with me and he defeats me, then we will be your servants; but if I prevail over him and defeat him, then you will be our servants and you will serve us." {{rf{10}}} Then the Philistine said, "I hereby defy the battle lines of Israel today! Give me a man so that we may fight each other!" {{rf{11}}} When Saul and all Israel heard these words of the Philistine, they were dismayed and very afraid. {{rf{12}}} Now David was the son of an Ephrathite. This man was from Bethlehem of Judah, and his name was Jesse. He had eight sons; in the days of Saul this man was old, yet he still walked among the men. {{rf{13}}} The three oldest sons of Jesse had gone and followed Saul to the battle. The names of his three sons who went to the battle were Eliab the firstborn, his second oldest was Abinadab, and the third was Shammah. {{rf{14}}} Now David was the youngest. The three oldest followed Saul, {{rf{15}}} but David went back and forth from Saul to feed the sheep of his father in Bethlehem. {{rf{16}}} Now the Philistine came forward early and late, and he took his stand for forty days. {{rf{17}}} Then Jesse said to his son David, "Please take for your brothers an ephah of this roasted grain and these ten loaves of bread, and bring them quickly to the camp for your brothers. {{rf{18}}} And these ten portions of cheese you will bring to the commander of the thousand; find out how your brothers are doing, and take their pledge." {{rf{19}}} Now Saul and they and all the men of Israel were in the valley of Elah fighting the Philistines. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|1Sam-17-01]] }}}
<<Bbl 1S 17:4 abbr >> Representative combat. "Ding ding ding!"
<<Bbl 1S 17:29 abbr >>-30 A kingly response.
17:34-37 First his part, then God's.
17:35 Here he will rescue Israel as he had once rescued a lamb, which says a big thing about God's compassion for us. See <<Bbl J 10:11 >>-13 , <<Bbl L 16:10 >>, <<Bbl L 19:17 >>.
<<Bbl 1S 17:38 abbr >> For he loved him, 16:21. David, as Saul's armor bearer, recognizes the armor (assuming a certain sequence, which may not be correct in fact). Saul seems utterly without discernment. Perhaps it is a symbolic gesture. For after all, it is Saul who should be out there. He is the one head and shoulders above the rest. In any case it is most like a pastor who doesn't equip the congregation rightly. ''More pertinently, it is like the citizens of Jerusalem making Jesus out to be a warrior-king in the flesh.''
17:41 In battle the armor bearer follows. This is ceremonial.
17:43 i.e., presumably David as a stick.
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"...And all of this assembly will know that Yahweh does not rescue with sword or with spear, for the battle belongs to Yahweh, and he will give you into our hands!"
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17:45-47 This challenge would have been impossible using Saul's weapons. Built on the faith of <<Bbl 1S 14:6 abbr>>, it absolutely glorifies God, as Paul does in <<Bbl 1C 2:1 >>-5 . Note too that as a leader, he hauls the rest in with himself.
17:55-58 Saul seems to be meeting David for the first time. First, we must observe that this event may precede the onset of Saul's demonic oppression -- when David is suggested as a musician, he is cited as a warrior. Second, the emphasis here is on whose son this is, which agrees with the context, for the victor has been promised release from taxes //for his father's house//. He will also receive the king's daughter as a wife, bringing up the matter of family connections.
David rose early in the morning and left the sheep with a keeper, and he took the provisions and went as Jesse had commanded him. He came to the encampment while the troops were going to the battle line, and they raised the war cry. {{rf{21}}} Israel and the Philistines drew up in battle lines, one battle line against the other. {{rf{22}}} David left the baggage he had with him in the care of the baggage keeper, ran to the battle line, and came and asked how his brothers were doing. {{rf{23}}} While he was speaking to them, the champion, whose name was Goliath the Philistine from Gath, was coming up from the caves of the Philistines. He spoke just as he had previously, and David heard his words. {{rf{24}}} When all the men of Israel saw the man, they fled from his presence and were very afraid. {{rf{25}}} And the men of Israel said, "Did you see this man who has come up? For he is going up to defy Israel! It will be that the man who defeats him, the king will make him very rich with great wealth and will give him his daughter in marriage and will make his father's house free in Israel." {{rf{26}}} Now David had spoken to the men who were standing with him, saying, "What will be done for the man who defeats this Philistine and removes the disgrace from Israel? For who is this uncircumcised Philistine that he defies the battle lines of the living God?" {{rf{27}}} And the troops had spoken to him according to this word, saying, "So it will be done for the man who defeats him." {{rf{28}}} His oldest brother Eliab heard while he was speaking to the men, and Eliab became very angry against David and said, "Why have you come down today, and with whom have you left those few sheep in the wilderness? I know your presumptuousness and the evil of your heart! For you have come down in order to see the battle!" {{rf{29}}} David replied, "What have I done now? I merely asked a question! {{rf{30}}} He turned around from him to another opposite him and he spoke to him in the same way, and the people answered him as before. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|1Sam-17-20]] }}}
Now the words which David had spoken were heard and they reported them to Saul, and he summoned him. {{rf{32}}} David said to Saul, "Do not let anyone's heart fail concerning him! Your servant will go and fight with this Philistine." {{rf{33}}} But Saul said to David, "You will not be able to go against this Philistine to fight with him, because you are only a boy, whereas he has been a man of war since his childhood!" {{rf{34}}} And David said to Saul, "Your servant has been a shepherd of the flock for his father. If the lion or the bear would come and carry off a sheep from the group, {{rf{35}}} I would go out after it and strike it down and rescue the sheep from its mouth. If it rose against me, I would grab it by its beard and strike it down and kill it. {{rf{36}}} Your servant has struck down both the lion and the bear, and this uncircumcised Philistine will be like one of them, because he defied the battle lines of the living God." {{rf{37}}} And David said, "Yahweh, who rescued me from the hand of the lion and from the hand of the bear, will rescue me from the hand of this Philistine!" Then Saul said to David, "Go and may Yahweh be with you!" {{rf{38}}} Then Saul clothed David with his own fighting attire and put a helmet of bronze on his head and clothed him with body armor. {{rf{39}}} Then David strapped on his sword over his fighting attire, but he tried in vain to walk around, for he was not trained to use them. So David said to Saul, "I am not able to walk with these, because I am not trained to use them." So David removed them. {{rf{40}}} Then he took his staff in his hand, picked out for himself five smooth stones from the wadi, and he put them in his shepherd's bag, in the pouch. And with his sling in his hand, he approached the Philistine. {{rf{41}}} Then the Philistine came on, getting nearer and nearer to David, with his shield bearer in front of him. {{rf{42}}} When the Philistine looked and saw David, he despised him, for he was only a boy and ruddy with a handsome appearance. {{rf{43}}} So the Philistine said to David, "Am I a dog, that you are coming to me with sticks?" Then the Philistine cursed David by his gods. {{rf{44}}} The Philistine said to David, "Come to me so that I can give your flesh to the birds of heaven and to the wild animals of the field!" {{rf{45}}} Then David said to the Philistine, "You are coming to me with a sword and with a spear and with a javelin, but I am coming to you in the name of Yahweh of hosts, the God of the battle lines of Israel, whom you have defied! {{rf{46}}} This day Yahweh will deliver you into my hand, and I will strike you down and cut off your head! Then I will give the corpses of the army of the Philistines this day to the birds of heaven and to the animals of the earth, so that all the earth may know that there is a God who is for Israel. {{rf{47}}} And all of this assembly will know that Yahweh does not rescue with sword or with spear, for the battle belongs to Yahweh, and he will give you into our hands!" {{rf{48}}} When the Philistine got up and came and drew near to meet David, David ran quickly to the battle line to meet the Philistine. {{rf{49}}} Then David put his hand into the bag and took a stone from it and slung it. He struck the Philistine on his forehead, and the stone sank into his forehead, and he fell on his face to the ground. {{rf{50}}} So David prevailed over the Philistine with the sling and with the stone, and he struck down the Philistine and killed him, but there was no sword in David's hand. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|1Sam-17-31]] }}}
{{rf{51}}} Then David ran and stood over the Philistine and took his sword and drew it from its sheath and killed him and cut off his head with it. When the Philistines saw that their champion was dead, they fled. {{rf{52}}} The men of Israel and Judah got up, raised the war cry, and pursued the Philistines as far as the valley and up to the gates of Ekron. So the slain of the Philistines fell on the way to Shaaraim up to Gath and as far as Ekron. {{rf{53}}} Then the Israelites returned from pursuing the Philistines and plundered their camp. {{rf{54}}} And David took the head of the Philistine and brought it to Jerusalem and placed his weapons in his tent. {{rf{55}}} Now when Saul saw David going out to meet the Philistine, he said to Abner, the commander of the army, "Whose son is this young man, Abner?" And Abner said, "As your soul lives, O king, I do not know." {{rf{56}}} Then the king said, "You inquire whose son this young man is." {{rf{57}}} So when David returned from striking down the Philistine, Abner took him and brought him before Saul. The head of the Philistine was in his hand. {{rf{58}}} Then Saul said to him, "Whose son are you, young man?" And David said, "I am the son of your servant Jesse the Bethlehemite." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|1Sam-17-51]] }}}
{{rf{1}}} When he finished speaking to Saul, the soul of Jonathan became attached to the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul. {{rf{2}}} Saul took him on that very day and did not allow him to return to his father's house. {{rf{3}}} Then Jonathan made a covenant with David, because he loved him as his own soul. {{rf{4}}} Jonathan stripped off the robe that he was wearing and gave it to David, along with his fighting attire, and even his sword, his bow, and his belt. {{rf{5}}} David went out whenever Saul sent him, and he succeeded. So Saul appointed him over the men of the war, and it pleased all the people and even pleased the servants of Saul. {{rf{6}}} When they were coming back after David had returned from striking down the Philistine, the women went out from all the cities of Israel singing and dancing to meet King Saul with tambourines, with joy, and with three-stringed instruments. {{rf{7}}} And the women sang as they danced, and they said, "Saul has struck down his thousands, but David his ten thousands!" {{rf{8}}} Saul became very angry, and this saying displeased him, and he thought, "They have attributed to David ten thousands, but to me they have attributed thousands! What more can he have but the kingdom?" {{rf{9}}} So Saul was watching David with suspicion from that day onward. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|1Sam-18-01]] }}}
<<Bbl 1S 18:1 abbr >> [[Israel-DividedKingdom]]
<<Bbl 1S 18:1 abbr >> In David's victory of chapter 17, Jonathan recognized the same power at work in his own slaughter of the Philistines (14:1-15). It's like John the Baptist leaping in the womb. See 20:17.
18:4 A strong sign of covenant, similar to an incident in Bruce Olsen's Bruchko. This is the second gift of armor -- David had to turn down the first, from Saul. So it is better to receive equipment during peace than in duress.
<<Bbl 1S 18:6 abbr >> The slight against Saul is emphasized by the title //King//.
18:8-9,12,15,28-29 Saul's fear of David.
18:11 A biography of Saul's spear, or all his weapons, would be interesting as a device to follow his life. <<Bbl 1S 31:10 abbr >> is the conclusion.
<<Bbl 1S 18:12 abbr>>b-14 compares with <<Bbl 1S 16:13 abbr>>.
18:13 A demotion? What is meant by the proverb (also vs. 16) ??
18:15 //going out before them// -- with every sortie a victory, every departure naturally became a parade. Since Saul's hope that David would be killed was frustrated, this was intolerable.
18:21 Perhaps that David would have additional recognition as royalty? But see vs. 25.
18:21 This is precisely what David did to Uriah much later.
{{rf{10}}} On the next day, the evil spirit from God rushed upon Saul, and he prophesied in the middle of the house. Now David was playing the lyre with his hand on that day as usual, and the spear was in Saul's hand. {{rf{11}}} Then Saul hurled the spear and thought, "I will pin David to the wall." But David eluded him twice. {{rf{12}}} Now Saul was threatened by the presence of David because Yahweh was with him, but had departed from Saul. {{rf{13}}} So Saul removed him from his presence, and made him commander of a thousand, so he marched in and out at the front of the army. {{rf{14}}} And David was achieving success in all his ways and Yahweh was with him, {{rf{15}}} but when Saul saw that he was very successful, he was severely threatened by him. {{rf{16}}} However, all of Israel and Judah were loving David, for he was going forth and marching ahead of them. {{rf{17}}} Then Saul said to David, "Here is my older daughter Merab. I will give her to you as your wife. Only be a brave warrior for me and fight the battles of Yahweh." For Saul thought, "My hand will not be against him, but let the hand of the Philistines be against him." {{rf{18}}} But David said to Saul, "Who am I, and who are my relatives, the clan of my father in Israel, that I should be a son-in-law to the king?" {{rf{19}}} But at the time Saul's daughter Merab was to be given to David, she was given instead to Adriel the Meholathite as wife. {{rf{20}}} Now Saul's daughter Michal loved David, so they told Saul, and the matter pleased him. {{rf{21}}} And Saul thought, "I will give her to him, so that she may be a snare for him and the hand of the Philistines may be against him." So Saul said to David, "For a second time you can become my son-in-law today." {{rf{22}}} Then Saul commanded his servants, "Speak to David in secret, saying, 'Look, the king is pleased with you, and all his servants love you. So then, become a son-in-law of the king.'" {{rf{23}}} And Saul's servants spoke these words to David privately. But David said, "Is it insignificant in your sight to become the son-in-law of the king, as I am a poor and lightly esteemed man?" {{rf{24}}} So the servants of Saul informed him, saying, "This is what David said." {{rf{25}}} Then Saul said, "This is what you must say to David: 'The king desires no bride price except for a hundred foreskins of the Philistines, to avenge himself on the enemies of the king.'" (Now Saul had planned to allow David to fall by the hand of the Philistines.) {{rf{26}}} So his servants told David these words, and the matter pleased David to become the son-in-law of the king as the specified time had not expired. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|1Sam-18-10]] }}}
{{rf{27}}} And David got up, and he and his men went and struck down two hundred men of the Philistines. Then David brought their foreskins, and they presented the full number to become the king's son-in-law. Then Saul gave him Michal his daughter as his wife. {{rf{28}}} When Saul realized that Yahweh was with David and his own daughter Michal loved him, {{rf{29}}} Saul was threatened by David still more, so Saul became a perpetual enemy of David. {{rf{30}}} Then the commanders of the Philistines went out for battle, and as often as they went out, David succeeded more than all the servants of Saul, and his name became very esteemed. {{rf big{1}}} Now Saul spoke to Jonathan his son and to all his servants about killing David, but Saul's son Jonathan liked David very much. {{rf{2}}} So Jonathan informed David, saying, "My father Saul is trying to kill you; now please take care! In the morning you should stay in the hiding place and conceal yourself. {{rf{3}}} I will go out and stand at my father's side in the field where you are, and I will speak about you to my father; if I find out anything I will tell it to you." {{rf{4}}} So Jonathan spoke well about David to his father Saul and said to him, "The king should not sin against his servant David, because he has not sinned against you, and because his service for you has been very good. {{rf{5}}} He put his life in his hand and attacked the Philistine, and Yahweh brought about a great victory for all of Israel, and you saw it and rejoiced! Now why should you sin against innocent blood by killing David without cause?" {{rf{6}}} And Saul listened to the voice of Jonathan and swore, "As Yahweh lives, he will not be put to death!" {{rf{7}}} Jonathan called to David and told him all of these words. Then Jonathan brought David to Saul and he was before him as formerly. {{rf{8}}} War came again, so David went out and fought against the Philistines and defeated them thoroughly so that they fled before him. {{rf{9}}} Then the evil spirit from Yahweh came upon Saul while he was sitting in his house with his spear in his hand. And David was playing a stringed instrument in his hand. {{rf{10}}} So Saul tried to pin David to the wall with the spear, but he eluded Saul, so that he struck the spear into the wall, and David fled and escaped that same night. {{rf{11}}} Then Saul sent messengers to David's house to guard him and to kill him in the morning, but Michal his wife told David, saying, "If you do not save your life tonight, then tomorrow you will be killed!" {{rf{12}}} So Michal lowered David through the window, and he went and fled and escaped. {{rf{13}}} Then Michal took the household god and put it on the bed and put a quilt of goat's hair at its head and covered it with the clothes. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|1Sam-18-27]] }}}
<<Bbl 1S 19:20 abbr>>-24 Like Balaam. Refers also back to <<Bbl 1S 10:12 abbr>>.
<<Bbl 1S 20:17 abbr>> A deepening of 18:1ff.
20:19 Which is the eventful day ?? What does Ezel signify ??
20:32 see <<Bbl L 23:22 >>
<<Bbl 1S 20:40 abbr >>-41 This seems to defeat the purpose of the strategem. Seemingly Jonathan can't bear not seeing David.
<<Bbl 1S 20:42 abbr >> [[Israel-DividedKingdom]]
<<Bbl 1S 21:6 abbr >> As Jesus was to state, nothing consecrated is withheld from a consecrated man. In fact there are rich parallels between David and Jesus at this point -- <<Bbl Mk 2:25 >>ff.
<<Bbl 1S 21:7 abbr>> see <<Bbl 1S 22:9 abbr>>-22
21:13 Scribbling on the door of the gate would be sharply symbolic.
21:15 What sarcasm!
22:2 The afflicted of the world, like the parable of the feast. Like the first-ever recovery group.
22:3-4 Moab is Ruth's homeland. Roots. Moab almost always gets a bad rap, per the original prophecies.
22:4 Where is the stronghold?
<<Bbl 1S 22:5 abbr>> For Keilah must be delivered.
22:18 Men of the cloth.
<<Bbl 1S 22:23 abbr>> Jesus offers just this promise to us in <<Bbl J 15:18 >>-20.
{{rf{14}}} And Saul sent messengers to arrest David, but she said, "He is ill." {{rf{15}}} So Saul sent the messengers to see David, saying, "Bring him up to me in the bed, so that I can kill him." {{rf{16}}} When the messengers came, to their surprise the idol was on the bed with the quilt of goat's hair at the head. {{rf{17}}} Then Saul said to Michal, "Why have you deceived me like this and sent away my enemy, so that he escaped?" Michal said to Saul, "He said to me, 'Let me go, why should I kill you?'" {{rf{18}}} So David fled and escaped, and he came to Samuel at Ramah and told him all that Saul had done to him. Then he and Samuel went and stayed in Naioth. {{rf{19}}} And it was told to Saul, "David is in Naioth in Ramah." {{rf{20}}} So Saul sent messengers to capture David. When they saw the company of the prophets prophesying and Samuel standing as chief over them, then the Spirit of God came upon Saul's messengers, and they also prophesied. {{rf{21}}} So they told Saul, and he sent other messengers, and they also prophesied. Again Saul sent messengers a third time, and they also prophesied. {{rf{22}}} Then he also went to Ramah. When he came to the great cistern which was in Secu, he asked and said, "Where are Samuel and David?" Someone said, "Look they are in Naioth in Ramah." {{rf{23}}} So he went there to Naioth in Ramah and the Spirit of God came upon him also, and he walked along prophesying until he came to Naioth in Ramah. {{rf{24}}} He also stripped off his clothes and prophesied before Samuel. He lay naked all that day and all night. Therefore they say, "Is Saul also among the prophets?" {{rf big{1}}} Then David fled from Naioth in Ramah and came and said before Jonathan, "What have I done? What is my guilt and what is my sin before your father that he is trying to kill me? {{rf{2}}} And he said to him, "Far from it! You will not die! Look, my father does not do anything large or small unless he reveals it to me. Why should my father hide this thing or anything from me?" {{rf{3}}} Then David took an oath again and said, "Your father knows very well that I have found favor in your eyes, and he thought, 'Do not let Jonathan know this, lest he worry.' But as Yahweh lives and as your soul lives, surely there is merely a step between me and death!" {{rf{4}}} Then Jonathan said to David, "Whatever you wish, I will do for you." {{rf{5}}} David said to Jonathan, "Look, tomorrow is the new moon, and I should certainly sit with the king to eat. You must send me away so that I can hide myself in the field until the third evening. {{rf{6}}} If your father misses me at all, then you must say, 'David earnestly asked from me to run to Bethlehem his city, for the yearly sacrifice is there for all the clan.' {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|1Sam-19-14]] }}}
{{rf{7}}} If he says 'Good,' it will mean peace for your servant; but if he is very angry, know that he has decided to do me harm. {{rf{8}}} So you must show loyal love to your servant, for you have brought your servant into a covenant of Yahweh with you. But if there is guilt in me, then kill me yourself! But why should you bring me to your father?" {{rf{9}}} Then Jonathan said, "Far be it from you! For if I know for certain that my father decided evil should come upon you, would I not have told it to you?" {{rf{10}}} Then David said to Jonathan, "Who will tell me if what your father answers you is harsh?" {{rf{11}}} And Jonathan said to David, "Come, let us go out to the field." So the two of them went out to the field. {{rf{12}}} Then Jonathan said to David, "Yahweh the God of Israel is my witness that I will question my father by this time the day after tomorrow. And look, if he is well disposed toward you, will I not send word to you and disclose it to you? {{rf{13}}} So may Yahweh punish Jonathan and more if my father decides to do you harm and if I fail to disclose it to you and send word to you that you can go safely. And may Yahweh be with you, as he has been with my father. {{rf{14}}} And not while I am still alive, will you not show the loyal love of Yahweh with me, that I may not die? {{rf{15}}} And do not cut off your loyal love from my family forever, not even when Yahweh exterminates each of the enemies of David from the face of the earth." {{rf{16}}} So Jonathan made a covenant with the house of David, saying, "May Yahweh call the enemies of David to account." {{rf{17}}} And Jonathan again made David swear an oath, because he loved him; for with the love of his soul he loved him. {{rf{18}}} Then Jonathan said to him, "Tomorrow is the new moon, and you will be missed, for your seat will stay empty. {{rf{19}}} On the third day you must go down quickly and go to the place where you hid yourself on the day all this started and remain beside the stone Ezel. {{rf{20}}} I will shoot three arrows to the side as if I were shooting at a target. {{rf{21}}} Then I will send word to my servant, 'Go, find the arrows!' If I clearly say to the boy, 'Look, the arrows are on this side of you; bring it,' then come, for it means peace for you. And there is no problem, as Yahweh lives. {{rf{22}}} But if I say this to the young man, 'Look, the arrows are beyond you,' go, for Yahweh has sent you away. {{rf{23}}} And as for the matter about which you and I spoke, look, Yahweh is between you and me forever." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|1Sam-20-07]] }}}
{{rf{24}}} So David hid himself in the field. When the new moon came, the king was seated at the feast. {{rf{25}}} The king sat at his seat as before, the seat by the wall, and Jonathan got up, and Abner sat beside Saul, but David's place was empty. {{rf{26}}} But Saul said nothing on that day, for he thought, "Something happened to him. He is not ceremonially clean; surely he is not clean." {{rf{27}}} And then on the next day, the second day of the new moon, that David's place was empty. So Saul asked Jonathan his son, "Why did the son of Jesse not come either yesterday or today to the feast?" {{rf{28}}} Jonathan answered Saul, "David earnestly asked permission from me to go up to Bethlehem. {{rf{29}}} He said, 'Send me away, please, for our clan sacrifice is in the city, and my brother commanded me to be present. So then, if I have found favor in your eyes, please let me slip away and see my brothers.' Therefore he has not come to the table of the king." {{rf{30}}} Then Saul became angry at Jonathan and said to him, "You son of a perverse, rebellious woman! Do I not know that you have chosen the son of Jesse to your shame and to the shame of your mother's nakedness? {{rf{31}}} For as long as the son of Jesse is alive on the earth, you and your kingdom will not be established! So then, send and bring him to me, for he will surely die!" {{rf{32}}} But Jonathan answered his father Saul and said to him, "Why should he be put to death? What has he done?" {{rf{33}}} Then Saul hurled his spear at him to kill him. So Jonathan knew that his father had decided to kill David. {{rf{34}}} Jonathan got up from the table enraged, and did not eat on the second day of the new moon because he was upset about David, because his father had disgraced him. {{rf{35}}} And then in the morning Jonathan went out to the field for the appointment with David, and a young boy was with him. {{rf{36}}} He said to his servant, "Run, please find the arrows that I am shooting!" The boy ran, and he shot the arrow to pass over him. {{rf{37}}} When the boy came up to the place of the arrow that Jonathan had shot, Jonathan called out after the boy and said, "Is not the arrow beyond you?" {{rf{38}}} Then Jonathan called out after the boy, "Quick, hurry, do not linger!" And Jonathan's servant collected the arrows and came to his master. {{rf{39}}} But the boy did not know anything about this; only Jonathan and David knew the matter. {{rf{40}}} Jonathan gave his weapons to his servant and said to him, "Go, bring them to the city." {{rf{41}}} The boy left, and then David got up from the south side, and he fell on his face to the ground and bowed three times. And they kissed each other and wept together, but David wept the most. {{rf{42}}} Jonathan said to David, "Go in peace, because we have sworn, the two of us, an oath in the name of Yahweh, saying, "Yahweh will be between me and you, and between my offspring and your offspring forever." Then he got up and left, and Jonathan went into the city. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|1Sam-20-24]] }}}
Now David came to Nob, to Ahimelech the priest. And Ahimelech came trembling to meet David, and he said to him, "Why are you alone and there are no men with you?" {{rf{2}}} So David said to Ahimelech the priest, "The king charged me with a matter and said to me, 'No one must know anything about this matter on which I am sending you, with which I have charged you and the servants.'" So I have arranged to meet with my servants at a certain place. {{rf{3}}} Now then, what do you have at hand? Give me five loaves of bread or whatever is here." {{rf{4}}} The priest answered David and said, "There is no ordinary bread here at hand; there is only holy bread, but only if the young men have kept themselves from women." {{rf{5}}} David answered the priest and said to him, "Indeed, women were held back from us as it has been when I've gone out before. And the things of the young men are holy when it is an ordinary journey. How much more today will the things be holy?" {{rf{6}}} So the priest gave him the holy bread, for there was no bread there except the bread of the Presence, which was removed from before Yahweh, in order to set hot bread there on the day when it was taken away. {{rf{7}}} Now there was a man from the servants of Saul on that day, detained before Yahweh, whose name was Doeg the Edomite, the chief of Saul's shepherds. {{rf{8}}} David asked Ahimelech, "Is there not at your disposal a spear or a sword? For I took neither my sword nor my weapons with me because the king's matter was urgent." {{rf{9}}} So the priest said, "The sword of Goliath the Philistine whom you killed in the valley of Elah is here, wrapped in a cloth behind the ephod. If you want to take it for yourself, then take it, for there is no other except it here." And David said, "There is none like it; give it to me." {{rf{10}}} So David got up and fled on that day from the presence of Saul, and he came to Achish the king of Gath. {{rf{11}}} The servants of Achish said to him, "Is not this David the king of the land? Is it not for this one that they sang in the dances, saying, 'Saul killed his thousands, but David his ten thousands?'" {{rf{12}}} David took these words seriously and felt severely threatened by Achish the king of Gath. {{rf{13}}} So he changed his behavior before them and pretended to be mad in their presence. He made scratches on the doors of the gate and let his saliva run down into his beard. {{rf{14}}} Then Achish said to his servants, "Look, you see a madman! Why did you bring him to me? {{rf{15}}} Do I lack madmen that you have brought this one to act like a madman before me? Should this one enter my household?" {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|1Sam-21-01]] }}}
David went from there and escaped to the cave of Adullam. When his brothers and all his father's household heard, they came down to him there. {{rf{2}}} Every man in distress and every man who had a creditor and every embittered man gathered to him, and he became their commander. Now there were about four hundred men with him. {{rf{3}}} And David went up from there to Mizpah of Moab. He said to the king of Moab, "Please let my father and my mother stay with you until I know what God will do for me." {{rf{4}}} So he brought them before the king of Moab, and they stayed with him all the days David was in the stronghold. {{rf{5}}} Then Gad the prophet said to David, "You should not stay in the stronghold; leave and go into the land of Judah." So David left and came to the forest of Hereth. {{rf{6}}} Now Saul heard that David and the men who were with him had been located. Saul was sitting at Gibeah under the tamarisk tree at Ramah. Now his spear was in his hand and all his servants were stationed around him. {{rf{7}}} Then Saul said to the servants who were standing around him, "Please listen, Benjaminites! Will the son of Jesse give you all fields and vineyards? Will he make all of you commanders of thousands and commanders of hundreds? {{rf{8}}} For all of you have conspired against me, and no one discloses to me the making of an agreement between my son and the son of Jesse! None of you have had sympathy for me or disclosed to me that my son commissioned my servant against me to ambush me as has been done this day!" {{rf{9}}} But Doeg the Edomite, who was stationed among the servants of Saul, answered and said, "I saw the son of Jesse going to Nob, to Ahimelech the son of Ahitub. {{rf{10}}} And he inquired of Yahweh for him and gave him provisions and gave him the sword of Goliath the Philistine." {{rf{11}}} So the king sent to summon Ahimelech the son of Ahitub the priest, and all his father's household, the priests who were at Nob. So all of them came to the king. {{rf{12}}} Saul said, "Listen please, son of Ahitub." He said, "Here I am, my lord." {{rf{13}}} Then Saul said to him, "Why did you conspire against me, you and the son of Jesse, when you gave to him bread and a sword, and by inquiring of God for him so that he might arise against me to ambush me as has been done this day?" {{rf{14}}} But Ahimelech answered the king and said, "And who among all your servants is as faithful as David? He is the son-in-law of the king who moves quickly to safeguard you and is honored in your house. {{rf{15}}} Only today I began to inquire of God for him. Far be it from me that the king should impute anything against his servant or against my father's household, for your servant has not known any of this matter, little or much." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|1Sam-22-01]] }}}
{{rf{16}}} Then the king said, "You must certainly die, Ahimelech, you and all your father's household!" {{rf{17}}} So the king said to the runners who were stationed around him, "Turn and kill the priests of Yahweh, because they also support David and because they knew that he was fleeing and did not disclose it to me." But the servants of the king were not willing to raise their hand to attack the priests of Yahweh. {{rf{18}}} Then the king said to Doeg, "You turn and attack the priests!" So Doeg the Edomite turned and attacked the priests himself, and on that day he killed eighty-five men who wore the linen ephod. {{rf{19}}} And he put to the sword Nob, the city of the priests, from man to woman, from child to infant, and ox and donkey and sheep; all to the sword. {{rf{20}}} But, one of the sons of Ahimelech the son of Ahitub, whose name was Abiathar, escaped and fled after David. {{rf{21}}} Abiathar told David that Saul had killed the priests of Yahweh. {{rf{22}}} Then David said to Abiathar, "I knew on that day that Doeg the Edomite was there, that he would certainly tell Saul. I am responsible for the deaths of all your father's household! {{rf{23}}} Stay with me! Do not fear, because he who seeks my life seeks your life. You are in good care with me." {{rf big{1}}} Now they told David, "Look, the Philistines are fighting in Keilah and they are raiding the threshing floors." {{rf{2}}} So David inquired of Yahweh, saying, "Shall I go and attack these Philistines?" And Yahweh said to David, "Go and attack the Philistines and save Keilah." {{rf{3}}} But David's men said to him, "Look, we are afraid here in Judah. How much more if we go to Keilah to the battle lines of the Philistines?" {{rf{4}}} So David again inquired of Yahweh, and Yahweh answered him and said, "Get up, go down to Keilah, for I am giving the Philistines into your hand." {{rf{5}}} So David and his men went to Keilah and fought with the Philistines. They drove off their livestock and dealt them a heavy blow. So David saved the inhabitants of Keilah. {{rf{6}}} Now when Abiathar the son of Ahimelech fled to David at Keilah, he went down with an ephod in his hand. {{rf{7}}} When it was told to Saul that David had gone to Keilah, Saul said, "God has given him into my hand, because he has shut himself in by going into a city with two barred gates. {{rf{8}}} Saul then summoned all of the army for the battle, to go down to Keilah to lay a siege against David and his men. {{rf{9}}} When David learned that Saul was plotting evil against him, he said to Abiathar the priest, "Bring the ephod here." {{rf{10}}} And David said, "O Yahweh, God of Israel, your servant has clearly heard that Saul is seeking to come to Keilah to destroy the city because of me. {{rf{11}}} Will the rulers of Keilah deliver me into his hand? Will Saul come down as your servant has heard? O Yahweh, God of Israel, please tell your servant!" And Yahweh said, "He will come down." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|1Sam-22-16]] }}}
<<Bbl 1S 23:14 abbr >> Sound guerrilla tactics.
23:17 see 24:20. But Jonathon will die -- another victim of Saul's hatred of God.
23:22 "I am told" -- such pomposity.
<<Bbl 1S 24:2 abbr>> David's distrust
24:4 Was Saul wearing the robe ??
24:22 For David does not trust Saul.
25:2-4 Odd syntax in the NAS.
25:10-11 Ostensibly that he doesn't know these are David's men for sure.
<<Bbl 1S 25:20 abbr>> She anticipates his route. Like Jacob, the gift goes on ahead.
25:22 The KJV is more interesting.
25:37 She's courageous, too.
25:39 Possibly the memory of this turn of events inspired the murder of Uriah later.
{{rf{12}}} Then David said, "Will the rulers of Keilah deliver me and my men into the hand of Saul?" And Yahweh said, "They will deliver you." {{rf{13}}} So David and his men got up, about six hundred men, and went out from Keilah and wandered wherever they could go. When it was told to Saul that David had escaped from Keilah, he stopped his pursuit. {{rf{14}}} David remained in the wilderness, in the strongholds, and in the hill country in the wilderness of Ziph. And Saul sought him continually, but God did not give him into his hand. {{rf{15}}} When David realized that Saul had gone out to seek his life, David was in the wilderness of Ziph at Horesh. {{rf{16}}} So Jonathan the son of Saul got up and went to David at Horesh, and encouraged him through God. {{rf{17}}} He said to him, "Do not be afraid, for the hand of my father Saul will not find you. You will be king over Israel, and I will be second to you. My father Saul knows this also." {{rf{18}}} Then the two of them made a covenant before Yahweh. David remained at Horesh, and Jonathan went to his house. {{rf{19}}} Then the Ziphites went up to Saul at Gibeah, saying, "Is not David hiding among us in the strongholds at Horesh on the hill of Hakilah, which is south of Jeshimon? {{rf{20}}} So then, O king, whenever you want to come down, come down, and it will be for us to deliver him into the hand of the king." {{rf{21}}} And Saul said to them, "May you be blessed by Yahweh, for you have shown me compassion! {{rf{22}}} Go, please, make certain again! Find out and see exactly where he is and who has seen him there! For they have said to me, 'He is very cunning.' {{rf{23}}} Look, find out all of the hiding places where he hides. Then return to me with dependable information, and I will go with you. And then if he is there in the land, then I will seek him among all the thousands of Judah." {{rf{24}}} Then they got up and went to Ziph before Saul. Now David and his men were in the wilderness of Maon in the Arabah, to the south of Jeshimon. {{rf{25}}} And Saul and his men went to seek him, and they told David, so he went down to the rock and stayed in the wilderness of Maon. When Saul heard this, he pursued David into the wilderness of Maon. {{rf{26}}} Saul went on one side of the mountain, and David and his men went on the other side of the mountain. David was hurrying to get away from Saul, while Saul and his men were closing in on David and his men to capture them. {{rf{27}}} But a messenger came to Saul, saying, "Hurry and come, because the Philistines have made a raid on the land!" {{rf{28}}} So Saul returned from pursuing David, and he went to confront the Philistines. Therefore, they called that place the Rock of Division. {{rf{29}}} David went up from there and stayed in the strongholds of En Gedi. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|1Sam-23-12]] }}}
When Saul returned from pursuing the Philistines, they told him, "Look, David is in the wilderness of En Gedi." {{rf{2}}} So Saul took three thousand chosen men from all Israel, and he and his men went to search for David in the direction of the Rocks of the Mountain Goats. {{rf{3}}} He came to the sheep pens beside the road, and a cave was there. Then Saul went in to relieve himself. Now David and his men were sitting in the innermost part of the cave. {{rf{4}}} And David's men said to him, "Look, today is the day about which Yahweh said to you, 'See, I am giving your enemy into your hand, and you can do to him whatever seems good to you.'" So David got up and secretly cut the hem of Saul's robe. {{rf{5}}} And then afterward David felt guilty, because he had cut the hem of Saul's robe. {{rf{6}}} He said to his men, "Far be it from me in Yahweh, that I do this thing to my lord, to Yahweh's anointed one, by stretching out my hand against him! For he is the anointed one of Yahweh." {{rf{7}}} So David rebuked his men with the words and did not allow them to rise against Saul. And Saul got up from the cave, and he went on his way. {{rf{8}}} Then David got up afterward and went out of the cave and called after Saul, "My lord the king!" When Saul looked after him, David knelt down with his face to the ground and bowed down. {{rf{9}}} Then David said to Saul, "Why do you listen to the words of people who say: 'Look, David is seeking to do you harm'? {{rf{10}}} Look, this day your eyes have seen that Yahweh gave you today into my hand in the cave, and some said to kill you. But I took pity on you and said, 'I will not stretch out my hand against my lord, because he is Yahweh's anointed one.' {{rf{11}}} Now, my father, see, yes, see, the hem of your robe in my hand! For when I cut the hem of your robe I did not kill you. Know and realize that there is no evil or rebellion in my hand. I did not sin against you, but you are hunting down my life to take it. {{rf{12}}} May Yahweh judge between me and you, and may Yahweh avenge me on you, but my hand will not be against you! {{rf{13}}} Just as the ancient proverb says, 'From the wicked, wickedness goes out,' but my hand will not be against you! {{rf{14}}} After whom did the king of Israel go out? After whom are you pursuing? After a dead dog? After one flea? {{rf{15}}} May Yahweh be the judge, and let him judge between me and you, and may he see and plead my case. May he vindicate me against you!" {{rf{16}}} When David finished speaking these words to Saul, Saul said, "Is this your voice, my son David?" And Saul lifted up his voice and wept. {{rf{17}}} Then he said to David, "You are more righteous than I, for you have repaid me the good, but I have repaid you the evil. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|1Sam-24-01]] }}}
{{rf{18}}} You have explained to me today that you have dealt well with me, how Yahweh delivered me into your hand but you did not kill me. {{rf{19}}} For a man has found his enemy but sent him on his way safely. Now may Yahweh reward you with good in return for this day, for what you have done for me. {{rf{20}}} So now then, look, I know that you will certainly be king and the kingdom of Israel will be established in your hand. {{rf{21}}} So then, swear to me by Yahweh that you will not cut off my descendants after me and that you will not wipe out my name from my father's house." {{rf{22}}} So David swore this on oath to Saul, and Saul went to his house, but David and his men went up to the stronghold.
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{{rf big{1}}} Now Samuel died, and all Israel assembled and mourned for him. They buried him at his house at Ramah. Then David got up and went down to the wilderness of Paran. {{rf{2}}} Now there was a man in Maon, whose business was in Carmel. The man was very rich and owned three thousand sheep and a thousand goats. Now the shearing of his sheep was taking place in Carmel. {{rf{3}}} The name of the man was Nabal, and the name of his wife was Abigail. Now the woman was wise and beautiful, but the man was stubborn and mean, and he was as his heart. {{rf{4}}} David heard in the wilderness that Nabal was shearing his sheep. {{rf{5}}} So David sent ten young men, and David said to the young men, "Go up to Carmel and go to Nabal; you will greet him in my name. {{rf{6}}} Then you must say to him, 'Long life to you, and may it go well with you, with your house, and with all that is yours. {{rf{7}}} Now I have heard that you have shearers. Now while your shepherds were with us, we did not mistreat them, and nothing of theirs was missing, all the days they were in Carmel. {{rf{8}}} Ask your servants and they will tell you! Let the young men find favor in your eyes because we have come on a feast day. Please give whatever you have on hand for your servants and for your son David." {{rf{9}}} So David's young men came and they spoke all these words to Nabal in the name of David. Then they waited. {{rf{10}}} But Nabal answered David's servants and said, "Who is David? And who is the son of Jesse? Today, there are many servants breaking away from the presence of their masters. {{rf{11}}} Should I take my bread and my water and my meat which I have slaughtered for my shearers and give it to men whom I do not know where they are from? {{rf{12}}} So David's young men turned on their way and returned and came and told him according to all these words. {{rf{13}}} Then David said to his men, "Each man strap on his sword!" So each one strapped on his sword, and David also strapped on his sword. About four hundred men went up after David, while two hundred remained with the baggage. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|1Sam-24-18]] }}}
{{rf{14}}} But a young man of the servants told Abigail, Nabal's wife, saying, "Look, David sent messengers from the desert to greet our master, but he addressed them angrily, {{rf{15}}} even though the men were very good to us; we were not mistreated and did not miss anything all the days we went about with them while we were in the field. {{rf{16}}} They were a wall to us both night and day, all the days we were with them keeping the sheep. {{rf{17}}} And so then, know and consider what you should do, for evil has been decided against our master and against all his household, and he is such a wicked man, nobody can reason with him!" {{rf{18}}} Then Abigail quickly took two hundred loaves of bread, two skins of wine, five prepared sheep, five seahs of roasted grain, a hundred raisin cakes, and two hundred fig cakes, and she put them on the donkeys. {{rf{19}}} Then she said to her servants, "Go ahead before me; look, I am coming after you," but she did not tell her husband Nabal. {{rf{20}}} And then, as she was riding on the donkey and was going down the ravine of the mountain, David and his men were coming down to meet her, and she met them. {{rf{21}}} Now David had said, "Surely in vain I guarded all that this fellow had in the desert. And nothing was missed of all that was his, but he returned evil against me in place of good! {{rf{22}}} May God severely punish the enemies of David and again do thus if I leave behind anything that is his until the morning, not even one male!" {{rf{23}}} When Abigail saw David, she hurried and got down from the donkey and fell on her face before David's anger, and she bowed down to the ground. {{rf{24}}} She fell at his feet and said, "On me, my lord, be the guilt! Please let your female servant speak to you personally! Hear the words of your female servant! {{rf{25}}} Please do not let my lord set his heart against this worthless man, Nabal; for as his name, so is he. Nabal is his name, and stupidity is with him! But I, your female servant, did not see the young men of my lord whom you sent. {{rf{26}}} So then, my lord, as Yahweh lives and as your soul lives, since Yahweh restrained you from bloodguilt by taking matters into your own hand, so then, may your enemies be like Nabal, even those who seek to do my lord harm. {{rf{27}}} So then, this gift which your female servant has brought to my lord, may it be given to the young men who follow my lord. {{rf{28}}} Please forgive the transgression of your female servant, because Yahweh will certainly make a lasting house for my lord, because my lord is fighting the battles of Yahweh, and evil will not be found in you as long as you live. {{rf{29}}} Should a man arise to pursue you and to seek your life, may the life of my lord be wrapped in the pouch of the living with Yahweh your God. But as for the life of your enemy, he will sling it from within the pocket of the sling! {{rf{30}}} And then when Yahweh has done for my lord according to all the good that he has spoken concerning you, and has appointed you as leader over Israel, {{rf{31}}} then this will not be an obstacle for you or a stumbling block of conscience for my lord either by the shedding of blood without cause or by my lord taking matters into his own hands. And when Yahweh does good to my lord, then remember your female servant." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|1Sam-25-14]] }}}
{{rf{32}}} Then David said to Abigail, "Blessed be Yahweh the God of Israel who has sent you this day to meet me! {{rf{33}}} And blessed be your discretion, and blessed be you who have prevented me this day from bloodguilt and from delivering myself by my own hand. {{rf{34}}} But as Yahweh lives, the God of Israel who has prevented me from harming you, if you had not hurried and come to meet me, surely there would not have been one male left alive for Nabal by the light of morning!" {{rf{35}}} Then David took from her hand what she had brought for him, and he said to her, "Go up to your house in peace. See, I have listened to your voice, and I have granted your request." {{rf{36}}} Then Abigail went to Nabal, and look, he was holding a feast in his house like the feast of the king. Nabal was enjoying himself, and he was very drunk, so she did not tell him a thing, nothing at all, until the light of morning. {{rf{37}}} And then in the morning when the wine had gone out of Nabal, his wife told him these words. Then his heart died within him, and he became like a stone. {{rf{38}}} And then, about ten days later, Yahweh struck Nabal and he died. {{rf{39}}} When David heard that Nabal had died, he said, "Blessed be Yahweh who has vindicated the case of my reproach from the hand of Nabal, and he has kept back his servant from evil; but Yahweh has returned the evil of Nabal on his own head." Then David sent and spoke with Abigail to take her for his wife. {{rf{40}}} So the servants of David came to Abigail at Carmel, and they spoke to her, saying, "David has sent us to you to take you for his wife." {{rf{41}}} She got up and bowed down with her face to the ground and said, "Here is your female servant, as a slave to wash the feet of my lord's servants." {{rf{42}}} Then Abigail quickly got up and rode on the donkey, along with five of her maidservants who attended her, and she went after the messengers of David and became his wife. {{rf{43}}} David had also taken Ahinoam from Jezreel, and both of them became his wives. {{rf{44}}} (Now Saul had given his daughter Michal, David's wife, to Palti the son of Laish, who was from Gallim.) {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|1Sam-25-32]] }}}
The Ziphites came to Saul at Gibeah, saying, "Is not David hiding on the hill of Hakilah opposite Jeshimon?" {{rf{2}}} Then Saul got up and went down to the wilderness of Ziph, and three thousand chosen men of Israel with him, to seek David in the wilderness of Ziph. {{rf{3}}} Now Saul was on the hill of Hakilah, which is opposite Jeshimon by the road, but David was staying in the wilderness. When he realized that Saul had come to the wilderness after him, {{rf{4}}} David sent spies, and he learned that Saul had come for certain. {{rf{5}}} Then David got up and came to the place where Saul had encamped, and David saw the place where Saul was lying down, as well as Abner the son of Ner, the commander of his army. (Now Saul was lying in the encampment, and the army was encamping around him.) {{rf{6}}} David answered and said to Ahimelech the Hittite and to Abishai the son of Zeruiah the brother of Joab, saying, "Who will go down with me to Saul, in the camp?" And Abishai said, "I will go down with you." {{rf{7}}} So David and Abishai came to the army by night, and there was Saul lying asleep in the encampment with his spear thrust into the ground near his head, and Abner and the army were lying all around him. {{rf{8}}} Then Abishai said to David, "God has handed over your enemy into your hand today! So then, please let me pin him to the ground with the spear one time, and I will not strike him twice." {{rf{9}}} But David said to Abishai, "Do not destroy him! For who has stretched out his hand against Yahweh's anointed one and remained blameless?" {{rf{10}}} And David said, "As Yahweh lives, certainly Yahweh will strike him, or his day will come and he will die, or he will go down in the battle and perish. {{rf{11}}} Yahweh forbid me from stretching out my hand against Yahweh's anointed one! So then, please take the spear that is near his head and the jar of water, and let us go." {{rf{12}}} So David took the spear and the jar of water from near Saul's head, and they went away. No one saw, no one knew, and no one awakened, for all of them were sleeping because a deep sleep of Yahweh had fallen upon them. {{rf{13}}} Then David went to the other side and stood on the top of the hill at a distance; the distance was great between them. {{rf{14}}} David called out to the army and to Abner the son of Ner, "Will you not answer, Abner?" And Abner answered and said, "Who are you that you call to the king?" {{rf{15}}} So David said to Abner, "Are you not a man? And who is like you in Israel? Why did you not keep watch over your lord the king? For one of the people came to destroy your lord the king. {{rf{16}}} This thing that you have done is not good. As Yahweh lives, surely you people deserve to die since you have not kept watch over your lord, over Yahweh's anointed one! So then, see where the king's spear is and the jar of water that was near his head!" {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|1Sam-26-01]] }}}
26:8 Saul had tried to do this for David.
26:20 Partridge -- i.e., for sport ??
26:24 An appeal not to Saul but to the Lord, the source of David's life.
28:1 Testing this new loyalty.
<<Bbl 1S 28:7>>ff Concerning the medium of Endor, see Vine's OT Dict., p. 59.
29 God's deliverance from a dilemma.
30:6 The opposite of Saul's response to disloyalty, see 13:9ff.
30:10 Weak from grief and disheartenment, see 30:4,6.
30:13-15 David again gains favor with the afflicted.
30:22 Inevitable problems with this army of outcasts. We should not be surprised when those humble enough to have recieved salvation show frailty.
30:24-25 Graciously calls it a division of labor.
31:4 Pierce me through -- interesting repetition of the phrase.
<<Bbl 1S 31:8>> The loss of the bodyguard (possibly men referred to in <<Bbl 1S 13:2>>) results in the greatest conceivable shame.
31:10 Just as the sword of Goliath had been enshrined.
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The division between the two books of Samuel is badly placed. David's lament over Saul and Jonathan (2 Samuel chapter 1) should not be separated with the tragedy of their death.
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{{rf{17}}} Then Saul recognized David's voice and said, "Is this your voice, my son David?" And David said, "It is my voice, my lord the king." {{rf{18}}} Then he said, "Why is my lord pursuing after his servant? For what have I done? And what evil is in my hand? {{rf{19}}} And so then, please let my lord the king listen to the words of his servant: If Yahweh has incited you against me, may he delight in an offering; but if it is mortals, may they be accursed before Yahweh, for they have driven me away today from sharing in the inheritance of Yahweh, saying, 'Go, serve other gods!' {{rf{20}}} And so then, do not let my blood fall to the ground away from the presence of Yahweh, for the king of Israel has gone out to seek a single flea, as one hunts a partridge in the mountains." {{rf{21}}} Then Saul said, "I have sinned! Come back, David my son, for I will not harm you again, because my life was precious in your eyes this day. Look, I have acted like a fool and have made a terrible mistake." {{rf{22}}} David answered and said, "Here is the king's spear; let one of the young men come over and take it. {{rf{23}}} Yahweh repays to each one his righteousness and his faithfulness, for Yahweh gave you into my hand today, but I was not willing to stretch out my hand against Yahweh's anointed. {{rf{24}}} Look, as your life was precious in my eyes this day, may my life be great in the eyes of Yahweh, and may he rescue me from all trouble." {{rf{25}}} Then Saul said to David, "Blessed are you, my son David; you will not only do many things, but also will always succeed!" Then David went on his way and Saul returned to his place. {{rf big{1}}} Then David thought to himself, "Now I will perish one day by the hand of Saul! There is nothing better for me but that I must certainly escape to the land of the Philistines. Then Saul will desist from searching for me further in all of the territories of Israel, and so I will escape from his hand." {{rf{2}}} So David got up and crossed over, he and the six hundred men who were with him, to Achish the son of Maoch, the king of Gath. {{rf{3}}} David settled with Achish in Gath, he and his men, each with his household. David took along his two wives Ahinoam from Jezreel and Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite. {{rf{4}}} And it was reported to Saul that David had fled to Gath, so he no longer searched for him. {{rf{5}}} Then David said to Achish, "Please, if I have found favor in your eyes, then let them give me a place in one of the country towns that I can live there. Why should your servant live in the royal city with you?" {{rf{6}}} So Achish gave him Ziklag on that day. (Therefore, Ziklag has belonged to the kings of Judah until this day.) {{rf{7}}} The number of days that David lived in the countryside of the Philistines was one year and four months. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|1Sam-26-17]] }}}
{{rf{8}}} Now David and his men went up and raided the Geshurites and the Girzites and the Amalekites, for they had been living in the land for a long time in the direction of Shur and as far as the land of Egypt. {{rf{9}}} So David struck the land and did not leave a man or a woman alive; he took the sheep, the cattle, the donkeys, the camels, and the clothing. Then he returned and came to Achish. {{rf{10}}} And Achish said, "Against whom have you raided today?" David said, "Against the Negev of Judah and against the Negev of the Jerahmeelites and against the Negev of the Kenites." {{rf{11}}} And David did not leave alive a man or a woman to bring them back to Gath, thinking, "So that they will not report about us, saying, 'David did thus and so.'" Thus was his practice all the days that he lived in the countryside of the Philistines. {{rf{12}}} And Achish trusted David, saying, "He has made himself utterly hated among his people in Israel, and he will be my servant forever." {{rf big{1}}} Now in those days the Philistines gathered their forces for war to fight against Israel. So Achish said to David, "Certainly you realize that you must go out with me in the army, you and your men." {{rf{2}}} David said to Achish, "Very well, you will know what your servant can do." Achish said to David, "Very well, I will make you my bodyguard for life." {{rf{3}}} (Now Samuel had died, and all Israel had mourned for him, and they had buried him in Ramah, his own city. And Saul had expelled the mediums and the soothsayers from the land.) {{rf{4}}} Then the Philistines assembled and came and encamped at Shunem, so Saul assembled all Israel, and they encamped at Gilboa. {{rf{5}}} When Saul saw the army of the Philistines, he was afraid and his heart trembled greatly. {{rf{6}}} And Saul inquired of Yahweh, but Yahweh did not answer him, not by dreams or by the Urim or by the prophets. {{rf{7}}} So Saul said to his servants, "Search for me a woman who is a medium so that I may go to her and inquire of her." His servants said to him, "Look there is a woman who is a medium in Endor." {{rf{8}}} So Saul disguised himself and put on other clothes, and he went with two of his men. And they came to the woman by night and he said, "Please consult a spirit for me through the ritual pit, and bring up for me the one whom I tell you." {{rf{9}}} But the woman said to him, "Look, you know what Saul did, how he exterminated the mediums and the soothsayers from the land! Why are you setting a trap for my life to kill me?" {{rf{10}}} Then Saul swore to her by Yahweh, "As Yahweh lives, you will not be punished for this thing." {{rf{11}}} So the woman asked, "Whom shall I bring up for you?" He said, "Bring up Samuel for me." {{rf{12}}} When the woman saw Samuel, she cried out with a loud voice, and the woman said to Saul, "Why did you deceive me? You are Saul!" {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|1Sam-27-08]] }}}
{{rf{13}}} The king said to her, "Do not be afraid! What do you see?" And the woman said to Saul, "I see a god coming up from the ground!" {{rf{14}}} Then he said to her, "What is his appearance?" She said, "An old man is coming up, and he is wrapped in a robe." Then Saul realized that it was Samuel, and he knelt with his face to the ground and bowed down. {{rf{15}}} Then Samuel said to Saul, "Why have you disturbed me by bringing me up?" And Saul said, "I am in distress! For the Philistines are about to make war against me, but God has turned away from me, and he does not answer me any more, not by the prophets or by the dreams. So I called to you to let me know what I should do." {{rf{16}}} Then Samuel said, "Why do you ask me, since Yahweh has turned away from you and has become your enemy? {{rf{17}}} Yahweh has done to you just as he spoke by my hand! Yahweh has torn the kingdom from your hand and has given it to your neighbor, to David. {{rf{18}}} Because you did not obey Yahweh and did not carry out the fierce anger of his wrath against Amalek, therefore Yahweh has done this thing to you today. {{rf{19}}} And Yahweh will also give Israel with you into the hands of the Philistines, and tomorrow you and your sons will be with me, and Yahweh will also give the army of Israel into the hand of the Philistines." {{rf{20}}} Then Saul immediately fell prostrate to the ground, and he was very afraid because of the words of Samuel; there was no more strength in him, for he had not eaten food all day and all night. {{rf{21}}} Then the woman came to Saul and realized that he was absolutely terrified, so she said to him, "Look, your female servant has obeyed you, and I have risked my life. I have listened to your words that you have spoken to me. {{rf{22}}} So then, you also please listen to the voice of your female servant, and let me set before you a morsel of bread, and you eat so that you will have strength in you when you go on your way." {{rf{23}}} But he refused and said, "I will not eat!" However, his servants urged him, and the woman also. So he listened to what they said, and he got up from the ground and sat on the bed. {{rf{24}}} Now the woman had a fattened bull calf in the house, so she quickly slaughtered it and took flour, kneaded dough, and baked him some unleavened bread. {{rf{25}}} She brought it before Saul and his servants, and they ate. Then they got up and went away that very night. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|1Sam-28-13]] }}}
Now the Philistines assembled all their forces at Aphek, and Israel was encamped at the spring that is in Jezreel. {{rf{2}}} The rulers of the Philistines were passing on according to hundreds and thousands, David and his men passing on at the rear with Achish. {{rf{3}}} Then the commanders of the Philistines said, "What are these Hebrews doing here?" And Achish said to the commanders of the Philistines, "Is this not David, the servant of Saul, the king of Israel, who has been with me for days and years? I have not found anything threatening in him from the day of his desertion until this day!" {{rf{4}}} But the commanders of the Philistines were angry with him and they said to him, "Send the man back so that he might return to his place where you have assigned him! But he will not go down with us into the battle, so that he does not become an adversary to us in the battle. By what could this fellow make himself favorable to his lord? Is it not with the heads of these men? {{rf{5}}} Is this not David about whom they sing in the dances, saying, 'Saul has killed his thousands, but David his ten thousands'?" {{rf{6}}} So Achish called David and said to him, "As Yahweh lives, certainly you were honest, and I am pleased to have you marching with me in the campaign. For I have not found any wrong in you from the day you came to me until this day, but in the eyes of the rulers, you are not good. {{rf{7}}} So then, return and go in peace, so that you do not do something that displeases the rulers of the Philistines." {{rf{8}}} Then David said to Achish, "But what have I done? And what have you found in your servant from the day that I entered your service until this day, that I should not go and fight against the enemies of my lord the king?" {{rf{9}}} And Achish answered and said to David, "I know that you are good in my eyes, like an angel of God! However, the commanders of the Philistines have said, 'He must not go up with us into the battle.' {{rf{10}}} So then, rise early in the morning, you and the servants of your lord who came with you. When you rise early in the morning and it is light enough for you, leave. {{rf{11}}} So David set out early, he and his men, to leave in the morning to return to the land of the Philistines, but the Philistines went up to Jezreel. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|1Sam-29-01]] }}}
Now when David and his men came to Ziklag on the third day, the Amalekites had raided the Negev and Ziklag. When they attacked Ziklag, they burned it with fire. {{rf{2}}} They took captive the women who were in it, from the youngest to the oldest. They did not kill anyone, but carried them off and went on their way. {{rf{3}}} When David and his men came to the city, they saw, and it was burned with fire, and their wives, their sons, and their daughters had been taken captive. {{rf{4}}} Then David and the people who were with him raised their voices and wept until there was not enough strength in them to weep. {{rf{5}}} Two of David's wives had been taken captive. Ahinoam from Jezreel and Abigail, the wife of Nabal the Carmelite. {{rf{6}}} And David was in a very precarious situation, for the people spoke of stoning him, for the souls of all the people were bitter, each one over his sons and his daughters. But David strengthened himself in Yahweh his God. {{rf{7}}} Then David said to Abiathar the priest, the son of Ahimelech, "Please bring the ephod here for me." So Abiathar brought the ephod to David. {{rf{8}}} And David inquired of Yahweh, saying, "Should I pursue after this band of raiders? Will I overtake them?" He said to him, "Pursue them, for you will certainly overtake them, and you will certainly rescue them." {{rf{9}}} So David went, he and the six hundred men who were with him, and they came to the Wadi Besor, but the rest remained. {{rf{10}}} David pursued, he and four hundred men; but two hundred men stayed because they were too exhausted to pass over the Wadi Besor. {{rf{11}}} Then they found an Egyptian man in the open country and brought him to David, and they gave him food and he ate; they also gave him water. {{rf{12}}} They gave him a slice of fig cake and two raisin cakes; he ate and this revived him, because he had not eaten food or drunk water for three days and three nights. {{rf{13}}} Then David said to him, "To whom do you belong, and from where are you? The young man said, "I am an Egyptian young man, a servant of an Amalekite man, but my master abandoned me because I became ill three days ago. {{rf{14}}} We raided the Negev of the Kerethites and that which belongs to Judah and then the Negev of Caleb, and we burned Ziklag with fire." {{rf{15}}} So David asked him, "Will you take me down to this band of raiders?" He said, "Swear to me by God that you will not kill me and that you will not deliver me into my master's hand! Then I will take you down to this band." {{rf{16}}} So he took him down, and there they were, spread out over the surface of all the land, eating and drinking and dancing because of all of the abundant plunder which they had taken from the land of the Philistines and from the land of Judah. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|1Sam-30-01]] }}}
{{rf{17}}} Then David attacked them from twilight until the evening of the next day. Not a man of them escaped except four hundred young men who rode off on camels and fled. {{rf{18}}} So David recovered all that the Amalekites had taken; David also rescued his two wives. {{rf{19}}} None of theirs was missing from the smallest to the greatest, even sons and daughters, from the plunder up to everything they had taken for themselves; David brought back everything. {{rf{20}}} And David took all of the sheep, and the cattle they drove along in front of that livestock, and they said, "This is David's plunder." {{rf{21}}} Then David came to the two hundred men who had been too exhausted to follow David; they had left them behind at the Wadi Besor. They went out to meet David and to meet the people who were with him. David came near with the people and asked them how they were doing. {{rf{22}}} Then all the corrupt and useless men among the men who went with David reacted and said, "Because they did not go with us, we will not give them anything from the plunder which we recovered, except each man may take his own wife and children. They must take them along and go!" {{rf{23}}} But David said to them, "You should not do so, my brothers, with what Yahweh has given to us! He has preserved us and has given the raiding band that came against us into our hand. {{rf{24}}} And who would listen to you regarding this matter? For as the share of the one who went down into the battle, so the share of the one who remained with the baggage will be. They will share alike." {{rf{25}}} So from that day and beyond, he made it a rule and a regulation for Israel until this day. {{rf{26}}} Then David came to Ziklag, and he sent some of the plunder to the elders of Judah, to his friends, saying, "Here is a gift for you from the plunder of the enemies of Yahweh!" {{rf{27}}} It was for those in Bethel, for those in Ramoth of the Negev, for those in Jattir, {{rf{28}}} for those in Aroer, for those in Siphmoth, for those in Eshtemoa, {{rf{29}}} for those in Racal, for those in the towns of the Jerahmeelites, for those in the towns of the Kenites, {{rf{30}}} for those in Hormah, for those in Bor Ashan, for those in Athach, {{rf{31}}} for those in Hebron, and for all the places where David and his men had roamed. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|1Sam-30-17]] }}}
Now the Philistines were fighting against Israel, and the men of Israel fled before the Philistines, and they fell slain on Mount Gilboa. {{rf{2}}} And the Philistines overtook Saul and his sons, and the Philistines killed Jonathan and Abinadab and Malki-Shua, the sons of Saul. {{rf{3}}} Saul was in the thick of the battle, and the archers spotted him, and he was badly wounded by the archers. {{rf{4}}} Then Saul said to his armor bearer, "Draw your sword and thrust me through with it, so that these uncircumcised do not come and thrust me through and make a fool of me!" But his armor bearer was not willing to do so because he was very afraid. So Saul took the sword and fell on it. {{rf{5}}} And when his armor bearer saw that Saul was dead, he also fell on his sword and died with him. {{rf{6}}} So Saul died, and his three sons, his armor bearer, and all his men together that same day. {{rf{7}}} And when the men of Israel who were on the other side of the valley and those who were beyond the Jordan saw that the men of Israel had fled and that Saul and his sons were dead, they abandoned the towns and fled. Thus the Philistines came and lived in them. {{rf{8}}} And then the next day, the Philistines came to strip the dead and they found Saul and his three sons lying dead on Mount Gilboa. {{rf{9}}} So they cut off his head and stripped off his armor. Then they sent messengers around in the land of the Philistines to proclaim victory in the temples of their idols and to the people. {{rf{10}}} And they put his armor in the temple of the Ashtoreth, and they fastened his corpse to the wall of Beth Shan. {{rf{11}}} When the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead heard about it, what the Philistines had done to Saul, {{rf{12}}} all of the valiant men set out and went all night and took the corpse of Saul and the corpses of his sons from the wall of Beth Shan, and they came to Jabesh and burned them there. {{rf{13}}} Then they took their bones and buried them under the tamarisk in Jabesh, and they fasted for seven days. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|1Sam-31-01]] }}}
Paul and Silvanus and Timothy, to the church of the Thessalonians in God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. Grace to you and peace. {{rf{2}}} We give thanks to God always concerning all of you, making mention constantly in our prayers, {{rf{3}}} because we remember your work of faith and labor of love and steadfastness of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ in the presence of our God and Father, {{rf{4}}} knowing, brothers dearly loved by God, that he has chosen you, {{rf{5}}} because our gospel did not come to you with word only, but also with power and with the Holy Spirit and with much certainty, just as you know what sort of people we became among you for your sake. {{rf{6}}} And you became imitators of us and of the Lord, receiving the word in much affliction, with the joy of the Holy Spirit, {{rf{7}}} so that you became an example to all those who believe in Macedonia and in Achaia, {{rf{8}}} for from you the word of the Lord has sounded forth, not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but in every place your faith toward God has gone out, so that we have no need to say anything. {{rf{9}}} For they themselves report about us, what sort of welcome we had with you, and how you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God, {{rf{10}}} and to await his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, Jesus, the one who delivers us from the coming wrath. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|1Thes-01-01]] }}}
''Themes:''
* God's will: <<Bbl 1Th 2:13 abbr>>d, <<Bbl 1Th 5:24 abbr>>
* Mentoring, imitation, inculcation, instruction
* Community, reciprocity
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1:3-10 Describes the journey of learning to trust in Christ, v 3 describing the final fruit. A good inductive study.
<<Bbl 1Th 1:6 abbr >>-7 Having imitated Paul, they became the objects of imitation by others. [[Example]] is a theme of the letter.
<<Bbl 1Th 1:9 abbr >> cites wrath as future; <<Bbl 1Th 2:16 abbr >>b as accomplished.
<<Bbl 1Th 2:2 abbr >> Insulted is a word used of Christ before the soldiers (need to confirm this).
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''Inductive study of 1 Thess 2:6b-13''
* What were Paul's activities while with these people?
* How does Paul describe his relationship with them?
* What was Paul's lifestyle? What characteristics were on display?
* How did Paul's lifestyle help people understand his teaching?
* How did Paul's teaching help people understand his lifestyle?
* Paul says at the end of the passage that the word of God is "at work in you believers". God's work was not merely improving their thinking, nor was it merely working in Paul for their benefit, but it was working IN EACH OF THEM. How would Paul's dealings with the Thessalonians have helped them discover and accept that truth?
* Talk about a time you have personally observed or been a part of this kind of impartation.
* For silent reflection (1-2 minutes):
** Is there someone in your life right now who personally imparts God's truth and love to you?
*** If the answer is no, ask God to give you someone. If yes, give thanks for that person.
** Is there someone currently to whom YOU are imparting God's truth and love?
*** If the answer is no, ask God to give you someone. If yes, give thanks for that person.
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<<Bbl 1Th 2:5 abbr>> Paul seeks a witness first from the Thessalonians (//as you know//) and second from God, perhaps because the second point is more in the realm of secret motivations.
<<Bbl 1Th 2:7 abbr>>-12 Reinforced in <<Bbl 2Th 3:7>>-9.
<<Bbl 1Th 2:14 abbr>> -16 A description of Paul himself, before his repentance.
<<Bbl 1Th 2:16 abbr>> God's wrath was accomplished in the judgment laid on the generation that crucified the Lord. But His wrath is not exhausted, <<Bbl 1Th 1:9 abbr >>
<<Bbl 1Th 4:4 abbr >> Vine takes //vessel// as referring to one's spouse.
<<Bbl 1Th 4:10 abbr>> //Brethren// is a Greek term reserved for blood siblings.
<<Bbl 1Th 4:11 abbr>>-13 Three clear points: fruitfulness, peace and mutual support.
<<Bbl 1Th 4:11 abbr>> This is no ordinary "ambition", being rather quiet! In that culture, //minding your own business// means abstaining from the patron-client enmeshments that regulated Roman culture and would by their nature compromise or subvert a free fellowship.
For you yourselves know, brothers, our reception with you, that it was not in vain, {{rf{2}}} but after we had already suffered and been mistreated in Philippi, just as you know, we had the courage in our God to speak to you the gospel of God amid much opposition. {{rf{3}}} For our exhortation is not from error or from impurity or with deceit, {{rf{4}}} but just as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel, thus we speak, not as pleasing people but God, who examines our hearts. {{rf{5}}} For never did we come with a word of flattery, just as you know, nor with a pretext of greediness (God is witness), {{rf{6}}} nor seeking glory from people, neither from you nor from others. {{rf{7}}} Although we could have insisted on our own importance as apostles of Christ, yet we became infants in your midst, like a nursing mother cherishes her own children. {{rf{8}}} Longing for you in this way, we determined to share with you not only the gospel of God but also our own souls, because you had become dear to us. {{rf{9}}} For you remember, brothers, our labor and hardship: working by night and day in order not to be a burden to any of you, we proclaimed to you the gospel of God. {{rf{10}}} You are witnesses, and so is God, how devoutly and righteously and blamelessly we became to you who believe, {{rf{11}}} just as you know how we treated each one of you, like a father his own children, {{rf{12}}} exhorting and consoling you and insisting that you live in a manner worthy of God, who calls you to his own kingdom and glory. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|1Thes-02-01]] }}}
{{rf{13}}} And because of this we also give thanks to God constantly, that when you received God's word that you heard from us, you accepted it not as the word of men, but as it truly is, the word of God, which also is at work in you who believe. {{rf{14}}} For you became imitators, brothers, of the churches of God which are in Judea in Christ Jesus, because you also suffered the same things at the hands of your own people, just as they themselves did also at the hands of the Jews, {{rf{15}}} who killed both the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and who persecuted us, and who are not pleasing to God and are opposed to all people, {{rf{16}}} hindering us from speaking to the Gentiles in order that they may be saved, so that they always fill up their sins. But wrath has come upon them to the end. {{rf{17}}} But when we were made orphans by separation from you, brothers, for a short time (in face, not in heart), we were even more eager with great desire to see your face, {{rf{18}}} because we wanted to come to you -- I, Paul, on more than one occasion -- and Satan hindered us. {{rf{19}}} For who is our hope or joy or crown of boasting? Is it not even you, in the presence of our Lord Jesus at his coming? {{rf{20}}} For you are our glory and joy. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|1Thes-02-13]] }}}
Therefore when we could bear it no longer, we determined to be left behind in Athens alone, {{rf{2}}} and we sent Timothy, our brother and fellow worker for God in the gospel of Christ, in order to strengthen and to encourage you about your faith, {{rf{3}}} so that no one would be shaken by these afflictions. For you yourselves know that we are appointed for this, {{rf{4}}} for indeed when we were with you we told you beforehand that we were about to be afflicted, just as indeed it happened, and you know. {{rf{5}}} Because of this, I also, when I could endure it no longer, sent in order to know your faith, lest somehow the tempter tempted you and our labor should be in vain. {{rf{6}}} But now, because Timothy has come to us from you and has brought good news to us of your faith and love, and that you always think kindly of us, desiring to see us just as also we desire to see you, {{rf{7}}} because of this, brothers, we have been comforted because of you in all our distress and affliction through your faith, {{rf{8}}} because now we live, if you stand firm in the Lord. {{rf{9}}} For what thanks can we repay to God concerning you, because of all the joy with which we rejoice because of you before our God, {{rf{10}}} night and day praying beyond all measure that we may see your face and complete what is lacking in your faith? {{rf{11}}} Now may our God and Father himself and our Lord Jesus direct our way to you, {{rf{12}}} and may the Lord cause you to increase and to abound in love for one another and for all, just as also we do for you, {{rf{13}}} so that your hearts may be established blameless in holiness before our God and Father at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his saints. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|1Thes-03-01]] }}}
Finally therefore, brothers, we ask you and appeal to you in the Lord Jesus that, just as you have received from us how it is necessary for you to live and to please God, just as indeed you are living, that you progress even more. {{rf{2}}} For you know what commands we gave to you through the Lord Jesus. {{rf{3}}} For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you abstain from sexual immorality; {{rf{4}}} that each of you know how to possess his own vessel in sanctification and honor, {{rf{5}}} not in lustful passion, just as also the Gentiles who do not know God; {{rf{6}}} not to transgress and to exploit his brother in the matter, because the Lord is the one who avenges concerning all these things, just as also we told you beforehand and testified solemnly. {{rf{7}}} For God did not call us to impurity, but in holiness. {{rf{8}}} Therefore the one who rejects this is not rejecting man, but God, who also gives his Holy Spirit to you. {{rf{9}}} But concerning brotherly love, I do not have need to write to you, for you yourselves are taught by God to love one another, {{rf{10}}} for indeed you are practicing it toward all the brothers in all of Macedonia. But we urge you, brothers, to progress even more, {{rf{11}}} and to aspire to live a quiet life, and to attend to your own business, and to work with your hands, just as we commanded you, {{rf{12}}} so that you may live decently toward those outside, and may have need of nothing. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|1Thes-04-01]] }}}
{{rf{13}}} Now we do not want you to be ignorant, brothers, concerning those who have fallen asleep, so that you will not grieve as also the rest, who have no hope. {{rf{14}}} For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, thus also God will bring those who have fallen asleep through Jesus together with him. {{rf{15}}} For this we say to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive, who remain until the Lord's coming, will not possibly precede those who have fallen asleep. {{rf{16}}} For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a shout of command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. {{rf{17}}} Then we who are alive, who remain, will be snatched away at the same time together with them in the clouds for a meeting with the Lord in the air, and thus we will be together with the Lord always. {{rf{18}}} Therefore comfort one another with these words. {{rf big{1}}} Now concerning the times and the seasons, brothers, you have no need of anything to be written to you, {{rf{2}}} for you yourselves well know that the day of the Lord is coming in the same way as a thief in the night. {{rf{3}}} Whenever they say "Peace and security," then sudden destruction will overtake them like the birth pains of a pregnant woman, and they will not possibly escape. {{rf{4}}} But you, brothers, are not in the darkness, so that the day should catch you like a thief, {{rf{5}}} for you are all sons of light and sons of day. We are not of the night nor of darkness. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|1Thes-04-13]] }}}
{{rf{6}}} So then, we must not sleep like the rest, but must be on the alert and be self-controlled. {{rf{7}}} For those who sleep, sleep at night, and those who get drunk, are drunk at night. {{rf{8}}} But because we are of the day, we must be sober, by putting on the breastplate of faith and love and as a helmet the hope of salvation, {{rf{9}}} because God did not appoint us for wrath, but for the obtaining of salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ, {{rf{10}}} who died for us, so that whether we are awake or asleep, we will live at the same time with him. {{rf{11}}} Therefore encourage one another and build up each other, just as indeed you are doing. {{rf{12}}} Now we ask you, brothers, to respect those who labor among you and rule over you in the Lord and admonish you, {{rf{13}}} and to esteem them beyond all measure in love, because of their work. Be at peace among yourselves. {{rf{14}}} And we urge you, brothers, admonish the disorderly, console the discouraged, help the sick, be patient toward all people. {{rf{15}}} See to it that no one pays back evil for evil to anyone, but always pursue good toward one another and toward all people. {{rf{16}}} Rejoice always, {{rf{17}}} pray constantly, {{rf{18}}} give thanks in everything; for this is the will of God for you in Christ Jesus. {{rf{19}}} Do not quench the Spirit. {{rf{20}}} Do not despise prophecies, {{rf{21}}} but examine all things; hold fast to what is good. {{rf{22}}} Abstain from every form of evil. {{rf{23}}} Now may the God of peace himself sanctify you completely, and may your spirit and soul and body be kept complete, blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|1Thes-05-06]] }}}
{{rf{24}}} The one who calls you is faithful, who also will do this. {{rf{25}}} Brothers, pray for us. {{rf{26}}} Greet all the brothers with a holy kiss. {{rf{27}}} I adjure you by the Lord, have this letter read aloud to all the brothers. {{rf{28}}} The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. LENGTH SHORT {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|1Thes-05-24]] }}}
Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus according to the command of God our Savior and of Christ Jesus our hope, {{rf{2}}} to Timothy, my true child in the faith. Grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord. {{rf{3}}} Just as I urged you when I traveled to Macedonia, remain in Ephesus, so that you may instruct certain people not to teach other doctrine, {{rf{4}}} and not to pay attention to myths and endless genealogies, which cause useless speculations rather than God's plan that is by faith. {{rf{5}}} But the goal of our instruction is love from a pure heart and a good conscience and a faith without hypocrisy, {{rf{6}}} from which some have deviated, and have turned away into fruitless discussion, {{rf{7}}} wanting to be teachers of the law, although they do not understand either the things which they are saying or the things concerning which they are speaking confidently. {{rf{8}}} But we know that the law is good, if anyone makes use of it lawfully, {{rf{9}}} knowing this, that the law is not given for a righteous person but for the lawless and rebellious, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and totally worldly, for the one who kills his father and the one who kills his mother, for murderers, {{rf{10}}} sexually immoral people, homosexuals, kidnappers, liars, perjurers, and whatever else is opposed to sound teaching, {{rf{11}}} according to the glorious gospel of the blessed God that I was entrusted with. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|1Tim-01-01]] }}}
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<<Bbl 1Tim 2:4 abbr >> //who desires all men//...The Blue Letter Bible has a wonderful explanation from Spurgeon, who also takes up the question of how in general to cope with mysteries of God. [[LINK|http://www.blueletterbible.org/Comm/spurgeon_charles/sermons/1516.cfm?a=1121004]] In essence he says that //desire// means that kind of wish that God does not see fit to consummate in this realm as we might have guessed.
<<Bbl 1Tim 2:11 abbr >> Joseph's Brothers
<<Bbl 1Tim 2:12 abbr >>a Daniel
<<Bbl 1Tim 2:12 abbr >>b Adam, or Esau
<<Bbl 1Tim 2:13 abbr >> all who waver or depart. Peter, Jonah, Demos, Judas.
<<Bbl 1Tim 2:15 abbr >> How is it that delivery of the child results in deliverance of the woman?
<<Bbl 1Tim 3:1 abbr >> Elders. //Having but one wife// is a bad translation. <<Bbl 1Tim 5:9 abbr >> uses the same phrase, and as Paul is encouraging remarriage for widow her can hardly mean a woman of ultimately one husband only. NIV gets <<Bbl 1Tim 5:9 abbr >> right but not <<Bbl 1Tim 3:1 abbr >>.
<<Bbl 1Tim 3:2 abbr>> //...of one wife // -- A wealthy Roman man customarily had a wife, a Grecian slave girl, and a temple prostitute on retainer.
<<Bbl 1Tim 3:12 abbr >> //Managing household// is practical; for starters, you need to be available.
<<Bbl 1Tim 3:14 abbr >>, <<Bbl 1Tim 4:13 abbr >> //...until I come...// The local scope is Timothy in Ephesus awaiting Paul. The larger scope is All in the world awaiting Christ. For the first we recognize <<Bbl 1Tim 1:3 abbr >> and <<Bbl 1Tim 1:20 abbr >>; for the second, <<Bbl 1Tim 1:4 abbr >>b ff and <<Bbl 1Tim 1:19 abbr >>. There are many statements inducing one or the other, so we are firmly fixed in both. Thus Philip Jensen calls this an 'occasional, permanent letter' - written for us, though not to us. So it is 'until Christ comes.' This is proved by the commands; they are not in effect only until Paul arrives.
<<Bbl 1Tim 4:12 abbr>> {{{A}}} is answered with {{{B}}}; the doing of the second part will fulfill the first.
<<Bbl 1Tim 4:13 abbr >> <<Bbl 1Tim 3:14 "" note>>
<<Bbl 1Tim 5:9 abbr >> <<Bbl 1Tim 3:1 "" note >>
<<Bbl 1Tim 5:18 abbr >> Paul asserts as Scripture the statement //The laborer is worthy of his wages.// This are the words of Jesus as recorded in <<Bbl L 10:7 >> -- so Paul is validating Luke's Gospel as Scripture!
<<Bbl 1Tim 6:8 abbr >> The same two categories are seen in <<Bbl Mt 6:25 >>.
I include a car among my needs, but there really is a bottom line at which the car is a luxury. God lets us work with a financial overhead, but does not let us depend on it.
<<Bbl 1Tim 6:10 abbr>> //A love of money// -- [[Wealth]]
<<Bbl 1Tim 6:17 abbr>>c
{{rf{12}}} I give thanks to the one who strengthens me, Christ Jesus our Lord, because he considered me faithful, placing me into ministry, {{rf{13}}} although I was formerly a blasphemer and a persecutor and a violent man, but I was shown mercy because I acted ignorantly in unbelief, {{rf{14}}} and the grace of our Lord abounded with the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus. {{rf{15}}} The saying is trustworthy and worthy of all acceptance: Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am the foremost. {{rf{16}}} But because of this I was shown mercy, in order that in me foremost, Christ Jesus might demonstrate his total patience, for an example for those who are going to believe in him for eternal life. {{rf{17}}} Now to the King of the ages, immortal, invisible, to the only God, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen. {{rf{18}}} I am setting before you this instruction, Timothy my child, in accordance with the prophecies spoken long ago about you, in order that by them you may fight the good fight, {{rf{19}}} having faith and a good conscience, which some, because they have rejected these, have suffered shipwreck concerning their faith, {{rf{20}}} among whom are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I have handed over to Satan, in order that they may be taught not to blaspheme. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|1Tim-01-12]] }}}
Therefore, I urge first of all that petitions, prayers, requests, and thanksgiving be made on behalf of all people, {{rf{2}}} on behalf of kings and all those who are in authority, in order that we may live a tranquil and quiet life in all godliness and dignity. {{rf{3}}} This is good and acceptable before God our Savior, {{rf{4}}} who wants all people to be saved and to come to a knowledge of the truth. {{rf{5}}} For there is one God and one mediator between God and human beings, the man Christ Jesus, {{rf{6}}} who gave himself a ransom for all, the testimony at the proper time, {{rf{7}}} for which I was appointed a herald and an apostle -- I am speaking the truth, I am not lying -- a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth. {{rf{8}}} Therefore I want the men in every place to pray, lifting up holy hands without anger and dispute. {{rf{9}}} Likewise also the women should adorn themselves in appropriate clothing, with modesty and self-control, not with braided hair and gold jewelry or pearls or expensive clothing, {{rf{10}}} but with good deeds which are fitting for women who profess godliness. {{rf{11}}} A woman must learn in quietness with all submission. {{rf{12}}} But I do not permit a woman to teach or to exercise authority over a man, but to remain quiet. {{rf{13}}} For Adam was formed first, then Eve, {{rf{14}}} and Adam was not deceived, but the woman, because she was deceived, came into transgression. {{rf{15}}} But she will be saved through the bearing of children, if she continues in faith and love and holiness with self-control. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|1Tim-02-01]] }}}
The saying is trustworthy: if anyone aspires to supervision, he desires a good work. {{rf{2}}} Therefore the overseer must be irreproachable, the husband of one wife, temperate, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, skillful in teaching, {{rf{3}}} not addicted to wine, not a violent person, but gentle, peaceable, not loving money, {{rf{4}}} managing his own household well, having children in submission with all dignity {{rf{5}}} (but if someone does not know how to manage his own household, how will he take care of the church of God?), {{rf{6}}} not newly converted, lest he become conceited and fall into the condemnation of the devil. {{rf{7}}} But he must also have a good testimony from those outside, in order that he may not fall into disgrace and the trap of the devil. {{rf{8}}} Deacons likewise must be dignified, not insincere, not devoted to much wine, not fond of dishonest gain, {{rf{9}}} holding the mystery of the faith with a clear conscience, {{rf{10}}} and these also must be tested first; then let them serve if they are above reproach. {{rf{11}}} The wives likewise must be dignified, not slanderous, temperate, faithful in all things. {{rf{12}}} Deacons must be husbands of one wife, managing their children and their own households well. {{rf{13}}} For those who have served well acquire a good standing for themselves, and great boldness in the faith that is in Christ Jesus. {{rf{14}}} I am writing these things to you, hoping to come to you in a short time. {{rf{15}}} But if I am delayed, I am writing in order that you may know how one must conduct oneself in the household of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and mainstay of the truth. {{rf{16}}} And most certainly, great is the mystery of godliness: Who was revealed in the flesh, was vindicated by the Spirit, was seen by angels, was proclaimed among the Gentiles, was believed on in the world, was taken up in glory. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|1Tim-03-01]] }}}
Now the Spirit explicitly says that in the last times some will depart from the faith, paying attention to deceitful spirits and teachings of demons, {{rf{2}}} by the hypocrisy of liars, who are seared in their own conscience, {{rf{3}}} who forbid marrying and insist on abstaining from foods that God created for sharing in with thankfulness by those who believe and who know the truth, {{rf{4}}} because everything created by God is good and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with thankfulness, {{rf{5}}} for it is made holy by the word of God and prayer. {{rf{6}}} By teaching these things to the brothers, you will be a good servant of Christ Jesus, trained in the words of the faith and of the good teaching that you have followed faithfully. {{rf{7}}} But reject those worthless myths told by elderly women, and train yourself for godliness. {{rf{8}}} For the training of the body is somewhat profitable, but godliness is profitable for everything, because it holds promise for the present life and for the life to come. {{rf{9}}} The statement is trustworthy and deserving of complete acceptance. {{rf{10}}} For to this end we labor and suffer reproach, because we have put our hope in the living God, who is the Savior of all people, especially of believers. {{rf{11}}} Command these things and teach them. {{rf{12}}} Let no one look down on your youth, but be an example for the believers in word, in conduct, in love, in faith, in purity. {{rf{13}}} Until I come, pay attention to the public reading, to exhortation, to teaching. {{rf{14}}} Do not neglect the gift that is in you, that was granted to you through prophecy with the laying on of hands by the council of elders. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|1Tim-04-01]] }}}
{{rf{15}}} Practice these things. Be diligent in these things, in order that your progress may be evident to everyone. {{rf{16}}} Fix your attention on yourself and on your teaching. Continue in them, for by doing this you will save both yourself and those who hear you. {{rf big{1}}} Do not rebuke an older man, but appeal to him as a father, younger men as brothers, {{rf{2}}} older women as mothers, younger women as sisters, with all purity. {{rf{3}}} Honor widows who are truly widows. {{rf{4}}} But if any widow has children or grandchildren, they must learn to show profound respect for their own household first, and to pay back recompense to their parents, for this is pleasing in the sight of God. {{rf{5}}} But the widow who is one truly, and is left alone, has put her hope in God and continues in her petitions and prayers night and day. {{rf{6}}} But the one who lives for sensual pleasure is dead even though she lives. {{rf{7}}} And command these things, in order that they may be irreproachable. {{rf{8}}} But if someone does not provide for his own relatives, and especially the members of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever. {{rf{9}}} Let a widow be put on the list if she is not less than sixty years old, the wife of one husband, {{rf{10}}} being well-attested by good works, if she has brought up children, if she has shown hospitality, if she has washed the feet of the saints, if she has helped those who are oppressed, if she has devoted herself to every good work. {{rf{11}}} But refuse younger widows, for whenever their physical desires lead them away from Christ, they want to marry, {{rf{12}}} thus incurring condemnation because they have broken their former pledge. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|1Tim-04-15]] }}}
{{rf{13}}} And at the same time also, going around from house to house, they learn to be idle, and not only idle, but also gossipy and busybodies, saying the things that are not necessary. {{rf{14}}} Therefore I want younger widows to marry, to bear children, to manage a household, to give the adversary no opportunity for reproach. {{rf{15}}} For already some have turned away and followed after Satan. {{rf{16}}} If any believing woman has widows, she must help them, and the church must not be burdened, in order that it may help those who are truly widows. {{rf{17}}} The elders who lead well must be considered worthy of double honor, especially those who labor by speaking and teaching. {{rf{18}}} For the scripture says, "You must not muzzle an ox while it is threshing," and "The worker is worthy of his wages." {{rf{19}}} Do not accept an accusation against an elder except on the evidence of two or three witnesses. {{rf{20}}} Reprove those who sin in the presence of all, in order that the rest also may experience fear. {{rf{21}}} I testify solemnly before God and Christ Jesus and the elect angels that you observe these things without prejudice, doing nothing according to partiality. {{rf{22}}} Lay hands on no one hastily, and do not participate in the sins of others. Keep yourself pure. {{rf{23}}} (No longer drink only water, but use a little wine for your stomach and your frequent illnesses.) {{rf{24}}} The sins of some people are evident, preceding them to judgment, but for some also they follow after them. {{rf{25}}} Likewise also good works are evident, and those considered otherwise are not able to be hidden. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|1Tim-05-13]] }}}
All those who are under the yoke as slaves must regard their own masters as worthy of all honor, lest the name of God and the teaching be slandered. {{rf{2}}} And those who have believing masters must not look down on them because they are brothers, but rather they must serve, because those who benefit by their service are believers and dearly loved. {{rf{3}}} If anyone teaches other doctrine and does not devote himself to the sound words of our Lord Jesus Christ and the teaching that is in accordance with godliness, {{rf{4}}} he is conceited, understanding nothing, but having a morbid interest concerning controversies and disputes about words, from which come envy, strife, slanders, evil suspicions, {{rf{5}}} constant wrangling by people of depraved mind and deprived of the truth, who consider godliness to be a means of gain. {{rf{6}}} But godliness with contentment is a great means of gain. {{rf{7}}} For we have brought nothing into the world, so that neither can we bring anything out. {{rf{8}}} But if we have food and clothing, with these things we will be content. {{rf{9}}} But those who want to be rich fall into temptation and a trap and many foolish and harmful desires, which plunge those people into ruin and destruction. {{rf{10}}} For the love of money is a root of all evil, by which some, because they desire it, have gone astray from the faith and have pierced themselves with many pains. {{rf{11}}} But you, O man of God, flee from these things, and pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patient endurance, gentleness. {{rf{12}}} Fight the good fight of the faith; take hold of the eternal life to which you were called, and confessed the good confession in the presence of many witnesses. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|1Tim-06-01]] }}}
{{rf{13}}} I command you, in the sight of God who gives life to all things and Christ Jesus who testified the good confession before Pontius Pilate, {{rf{14}}} that you observe the commandment without fault, irreproachable until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ, {{rf{15}}} which he will make known in his own time, the blessed and only Sovereign, the King of those who reign as kings and Lord of those who rule as lords, {{rf{16}}} the one who alone possesses immortality, who lives in unapproachable light, whom no human being has seen nor is able to see, to whom be honor and eternal power. Amen. {{rf{17}}} Command those who are rich in this present age not to be proud and not to put their hope in the uncertainty of riches, but in God, who provides us all things richly for enjoyment, {{rf{18}}} to do good, to be rich in good works, to be generous, sharing freely, {{rf{19}}} storing up for themselves a good foundation for the future, in order that they may take hold of what is truly life. {{rf{20}}} O Timothy, guard what has been entrusted to you. Turn away from pointless empty talk and contradictions of what is falsely called knowledge, {{rf{21}}} which some, by professing it, have deviated concerning the faith. Grace be with you all. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|1Tim-06-13]] }}}
And Solomon the son of David strengthened himself concerning his kingdom, and Yahweh his God was with him and made him exceedingly great. {{rf{2}}} And Solomon spoke to all Israel, to the commanders of thousands and of hundreds, and to the judges, and to all the leaders for all Israel, the heads of the families. {{rf{3}}} And Solomon and the whole assembly with him went to the high place that was at Gibeon, for the tent of assembly of God that Moses the servant of Yahweh had made in the desert was there. {{rf{4}}} (But the ark of God David had brought up from Kiriath-Jearim to the place David had prepared for it, for David had pitched a tent for it in Jerusalem.) {{rf{5}}} And the bronze altar that Bezalel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, had made was there before the tabernacle of Yahweh. And Solomon and the assembly sought it out. {{rf{6}}} And Solomon went up there to the bronze altar before Yahweh, which was at the tent of assembly, and he offered upon it a thousand burnt offerings. {{rf{7}}} On that night God appeared to Solomon and said to him, "Ask what I shall give to you." {{rf{8}}} Then Solomon said to God, "You yourself have shown steadfast loyal love to David my father and have made me king in his place. {{rf{9}}} Now, O Yahweh God, let your word to David my father be fulfilled, for you yourself have made me king over a people as numerous as the dust of the earth. {{rf{10}}} Now, give to me wisdom and knowledge that I may go out and come in before this people, for who can judge this, your great people?" {{rf{11}}} Then God said to Solomon, "Because this was with your heart and you did not ask for wealth, possessions, honor, and the lives of your enemies, and also did not ask for long life, but have asked for wisdom and knowledge that you might judge my people over whom I have made you king, {{rf{12}}} wisdom and knowledge is given to you. And I will also give to you wealth, possessions, and honor, the like of which was not had by the kings who were before you, nor will there be the like after you." {{rf{13}}} So Solomon went from the high place which was at Gibeon to Jerusalem before the tent of assembly. And he reigned over Israel. {{rf{14}}} And Solomon gathered chariots and horsemen. And he had one thousand four hundred chariots and twelve thousand horsemen, and he placed them in the chariot cities and with the king in Jerusalem. {{rf{15}}} And the king made silver and gold in Jerusalem like the stones. And he made cedar as abundant as the sycamore fig trees that were in the Shephelah. {{rf{16}}} And Solomon's horses were imported from Egypt and from Kue. The traders of the king received them from Kue at a price. {{rf{17}}} They went up and exported a chariot from Egypt for six hundred shekels of silver and a horse for one hundred and fifty shekels. And these were likewise exported to all the kings of the Hittites and the kings of Aram. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|2Chron-01-01]] }}}
<<Bbl 2Ch 2:7 abbr >> harkens to Exodus (find ref). Huram abi (7) and Hiram (8).
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...any plea that is made by any person and by all your people Israel, each one who knows his own affliction and his own anguish... <<Bbl 2Ch 6:28 abbr >>
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<<Bbl 2Ch 21:7 abbr>> See <<Bbl Ps 132:17 >>
<<Bbl 2Ch 27:2 abbr >> Perhaps one is allowed a wry smile at this point.
<<Bbl 2Chron 33:10 abbr >>,12. Verb, //hearing//.
<<Bbl 2Chron 33:18 abbr >>-19. This closing summary is evocative, didactic, citing twice the prayer of repentance.
<<Bbl 2Chron 33:6 abbr >> ref <<Bbl Jer 15:4 >>
<<Bbl 2Ch 34:3 abbr >> Josiah obediently fulfills his role for eighteen years (v 8) despite lacking a copy of the Law.
2Ch 34:6 //...in their surrounding ruins// - and Joash comes to add ruin for righteousness' sake. See also v 11.
<<Bbl 2Ch 34:8 abbr >>-21. Here is an instant change from the material to the spiritual. The emphasis on accountability changes from money to God's word. There is no rebuke against the concern about the money. Rather the faithfulness in money presages the discovery of the scripture. Faithful in a little thing, they are entrusted with a greater thing.
<<Bbl 2Chron 36:15 abbr >>-16
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And Yahweh, the God of their ancestors, had repeatedly and persistently sent to them by the hand of his messengers, because he had compassion on his people and on his dwelling place. But they were mocking the messengers of God and despising his words and scoffing at his prophets until the wrath of Yahweh rose against his people until there was no remedy.
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And Solomon planned to build a house for the name of Yahweh and a royal palace for himself. {{rf{2}}} And Solomon assigned seventy thousand men to bear burdens and eighty thousand quarriers in the hill country, and three thousand six hundred men to supervise them. {{rf{3}}} And Solomon sent word to Huram king of Tyre, saying, "As you have dealt with David my father and sent cedar to him to build for himself a house in which to live, please deal with me. {{rf{4}}} Look, I am building a house for the name of Yahweh my God to dedicate to him, to offer sweet spices of incense before him, and for the regular rows of bread, and burnt offerings for mornings, evenings, Sabbaths, and new moon festivals, and for appointed feasts of Yahweh our God which are everlasting for Israel. {{rf{5}}} And the house that I am building will be great, for our God is greater than all gods. {{rf{6}}} Now who indeed has adequate strength to build a house for him? For the heavens and the highest heavens are not able to contain him. Now who am I that I would build a house for him, except to burn incense before him? {{rf{7}}} So then, send to me skilled men to work with gold, silver, bronze, and iron, and with purple, crimson, and blue fabric, knowledgeable in engraving, with the skilled men who are with me in Judah and in Jerusalem, whom David my father has established. {{rf{8}}} Send me trees of cedar, cypress, and algum from Lebanon, for I myself know that your servants are knowledgeable in cutting the trees of Lebanon. Now see, my servants will be with your servants {{rf{9}}} to prepare trees in abundance for me, for the house that I am building will be great and wonderful. {{rf{10}}} Now see, I will provide twenty thousand dry measures of crushed wheat, twenty thousand dry measures of barley, twenty thousand baths of wine, and twenty thousand baths of oil to the woodcarvers and those who cut timber." {{rf{11}}} Then Huram king of Tyre answered in a letter, and he sent word to Solomon: "Because Yahweh loves his people, he has made you king over them." {{rf{12}}} Then Huram said, "Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Israel, who has made the heavens and the earth, who has given to King David a wise son knowing discretion and understanding, who will build for Yahweh a house and a royal palace for himself. {{rf{13}}} So now I have sent a skilled man, knowledgeable and with understanding: my master Huram, {{rf{14}}} a son of a woman from the daughters of Dan, and his father was a man of Tyre, knowledgeable for working with gold, silver, bronze, iron, stone, and wood, and with purple, blue, and crimson fabric, and with fine linen, for engraving any engraving and devising any plan that is given to him, with your skilled men and the skilled men of my lord David your father. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|2Chron-02-01]] }}}
{{rf{15}}} Now as for the wheat, barley, oil, and wine that my lord mentioned, let him send that to his servants. {{rf{16}}} And we ourselves will cut trees from Lebanon according to all your need, and we will bring them to you on rafts over the sea to Joppa, so that you may bring them up to Jerusalem." {{rf{17}}} Then Solomon counted all the resident alien men who were in the land of Israel after the census that David his father had taken of them. And there were found one hundred and fifty-three thousand. {{rf{18}}} And he appointed from them seventy thousand to bear burdens, eighty thousand to quarry in the hill country, and three thousand six hundred overseers to make the people work. {{rf big{1}}} Then Solomon began to build the house of Yahweh in Jerusalem, on Mount Moriah, where Yahweh had appeared to David his father, at the place that David had established, on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite. {{rf{2}}} And he began to build in the second month of the fourth year of his reign. {{rf{3}}} Now these were the measurements of Solomon for building the house of God: the length in cubits by the former measurement was sixty cubits, and the width was twenty cubits. {{rf{4}}} The length of the portico that was in front was the same as the front of the width of the house: twenty cubits. And its height was one hundred and twenty cubits. And he overlaid it on the inside with pure gold. {{rf{5}}} And the great house itself he covered with cypress wood, then he overlaid it with pure gold. And he put on it palm tree images and ornate chains. {{rf{6}}} Then he overlaid the house with precious stone as decoration. (Now the gold was the gold of Parvaim.) {{rf{7}}} And he overlaid the house with gold -- the beams, the thresholds, the walls, and the doors. And he carved cherubim upon the walls. {{rf{8}}} Then he made the most holy place. Its length was equal to the width of the house: twenty cubits. And its breadth was twenty cubits. And he overlaid it with six hundred talents of fine gold. {{rf{9}}} And the weight for the nails was fifty shekels of gold. And he overlaid its upper rooms with gold. {{rf{10}}} And he made two sculpted wood cherubim in the most holy place, and he overlaid them with gold. {{rf{11}}} The length of the outstretched wings of the cherubim were twenty cubits; one wing of five cubits touched the wall of the house, and the other wing of five cubits was touching the outstretched wing of the other cherub. {{rf{12}}} And the wing of five cubits of the other cherub was touching the wall of the house, and its other wing five cubits long touching the wing of the first cherub. {{rf{13}}} The wings of these cherubim extended twenty cubits, and they were standing on their feet, their faces toward the house. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|2Chron-02-15]] }}}
{{rf{14}}} And he made the curtain of blue and purple and crimson and fine linen, and put cherubim on it. {{rf{15}}} And at the front of the house he made two columns, thirty-five cubits high, and the capital on their top was five cubits. {{rf{16}}} And he made decorative chains in the inner sanctuary and put them on top of the columns. And he made one hundred pomegranate ornaments, and put them on the chains. {{rf{17}}} And he erected the columns in front of the temple, one on the south and one on the north. He called the name of the southern one Jakin, and the name of the northern one Boaz. {{rf big{1}}} And he made an altar of bronze, twenty cubits was its length, and twenty cubits was its width, and ten cubits was its height. {{rf{2}}} Then he made the sea of molten metal, from brim to brim it was ten cubits, completely round. And it was five cubits in height, and its circumference measured thirty cubits. {{rf{3}}} Under it were figures of oxen all around it, ten cubits high, encircling the sea all around. The oxen were in two rows cast as one piece with it. {{rf{4}}} It was standing upon twelve oxen, three facing north, and three facing west, and three facing south, and three facing east. The sea was set upon them from above, and all their hindquarters faced inward. {{rf{5}}} And its thickness was a handbreadth, and its brim was like the working of the lip of a cup, the blossom of a lily. And it held three thousand baths. {{rf{6}}} And he made ten basins. And he set five on the south and five on the north in which to wash; they washed off the work of the burnt offering in them, but the sea was for the priests to wash therein. {{rf{7}}} And he made ten golden lampstands according to their custom, and he set them in the temple, five on the south and five on the north. {{rf{8}}} And he made ten tables and placed them in the temple, five on the south and five on the north. And he made a hundred drinking bowls of gold. {{rf{9}}} And he made the courtyard of the priests and the great outer courtyard and the doors for the outer court. And he overlaid their doors with bronze. {{rf{10}}} And he set the sea at the southeast corner of the temple. {{rf{11}}} And Huram made the pots, the shovels, and the drinking bowls. So Hiram finished making the work that he made on the house of God for King Solomon: {{rf{12}}} the two columns, the bowls, and the two capitals on top of the columns, and the two latticeworks to cover the two bowls of the capitals that were on top of the columns, {{rf{13}}} and the four hundred pomegranates for the two latticeworks, two rows of pomegranates for the latticework, to cover the two bowls of the capitals that were before the columns. {{rf{14}}} And he made the water carts, and he made the basins on the water carts, {{rf{15}}} and the one sea and the twelve oxen underneath it. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|2Chron-03-14]] }}}
{{rf{16}}} And Huram-abi made for King Solomon the pots, the shovels, the three-pronged meat forks, and all the utensils of polished bronze for the house of Yahweh. {{rf{17}}} The king cast them in the plain of the Jordan, in the clay soil between Succoth and Zeredah. {{rf{18}}} Solomon made all these utensils in great abundance, for the weight of the bronze could not be determined. {{rf{19}}} So Solomon made all the objects that were in the house of God: the altar of gold; the tables upon which was the bread of the presence; {{rf{20}}} the lampstands, and the lamps for burning according to the custom before the inner sanctuary, of solid gold; {{rf{21}}} and the blossoms, the lamps, and the tongs that were of solid gold; {{rf{22}}} and the snuffers, the drinking bowls, the dishes, and the firepans, of solid gold; and the entrance to the house, the inner doors to the most holy place, and the doors to the house of the temple were of gold. {{rf big{1}}} When all the work that Solomon did for the house of Yahweh was finished, Solomon brought the holy objects of David his father: the silver, the gold, and all the objects he had put into the storehouses of the house of God. {{rf{2}}} Then Solomon assembled all the elders of Israel and all the heads of the tribes, the leaders of the families for the Israelites, to Jerusalem in order to bring up the ark of the covenant of Yahweh from the city of David, which is Zion. {{rf{3}}} And all the men of Israel assembled before the king at the feast that is in the seventh month. {{rf{4}}} And all the elders of Israel came, and the Levites took up the ark. {{rf{5}}} And they brought up the ark, the tent of assembly, and all the holy objects that were in the tent; the Levitical priests brought them up. {{rf{6}}} And King Solomon and the whole community of Israel that was assembled before him were before the ark, sacrificing sheep and cattle that could not be counted nor numbered for abundance. {{rf{7}}} Then the priests brought up the ark of the covenant of Yahweh to its place in the inner sanctuary of the house, into the most holy place, underneath the wings of the cherubim. {{rf{8}}} The cherubim were spreading their wings over the place of the ark, so that the cherubim were covering the ark and over its poles from above. {{rf{9}}} But the poles were so long that the ends of the poles from the ark were seen from before the inner sanctuary, but they could not be seen from the outside. And they are there until this day. {{rf{10}}} There was nothing in the ark but the two stone tablets that Moses had put inside at Horeb on which Yahweh had made a covenant with the Israelites when they went out from Egypt. {{rf{11}}} And when the priests came out of the sanctuary (for all the priests who were present sanctified themselves without keeping their divisions) {{rf{12}}} and all the Levitical singers -- Asaph, Heman, Jeduthun, their sons, their brothers, dressed in fine linen, with cymbals, harps, and stringed instruments -- they were standing to the east of the altar. And with them outside were one hundred and twenty priests who were trumpet blowers. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|2Chron-04-16]] }}}
{{rf{13}}} And it was the primary duty of the trumpeters and singers to make themselves heard with one voice, to praise and give thanks to Yahweh. And when a sound from the trumpets, cymbals, and other instruments of song was raised to Yahweh -- for he is good, because his loyal love is everlasting -- then the house, the house of Yahweh, was filled with a cloud. {{rf{14}}} And the priests were not able to stand to minister because of the cloud, for the glory of Yahweh filled the house of God. {{rf big{1}}} Then Solomon said, "Yahweh has decided to dwell in the deep gloom. {{rf{2}}} But I have built for you an exalted house, even a place for you to dwell in forever." {{rf{3}}} Then the king turned around and blessed all the assembly of Israel, and all the assembly of Israel were standing. {{rf{4}}} And he said, "Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Israel, who spoke with his mouth with David my father, and with his hands he has fulfilled it, saying, {{rf{5}}} 'From the day that I brought my people out of the land of Egypt I did not choose a city among all the tribes of Israel to build a house in order for my name to be there. Nor did I choose a man to be leader over my people Israel. {{rf{6}}} But I have chosen my name to be there in Jerusalem, and I have chosen David to be over my people Israel.' {{rf{7}}} Now, it was in the heart of David my father to build a house for the name of Yahweh, the God of Israel. {{rf{8}}} But Yahweh said to David my father, 'Because it was in your heart to build a house for my name, you did well that it was in your heart, {{rf{9}}} but you yourself will not build the house, but your son who will proceed from your loins; he himself will build the house for my name.' {{rf{10}}} Now Yahweh has fulfilled his word that he spoke. I have risen in the place of David my father and am seated on the throne of Israel as Yahweh has spoken. I have built the house for the name of Yahweh, the God of Israel. {{rf{11}}} And I have there the ark in which is the covenant of Yahweh that he made with the Israelites." {{rf{12}}} Then Solomon stood before the altar of Yahweh before all the assembly of Israel and spread out his hands. {{rf{13}}} (For Solomon had made a platform of bronze five cubits long and five cubits wide and three cubits high, and placed it in the midst of the outer court.) And he stood upon it, then knelt down on his knees before the whole assembly of Israel and spread out his hands to heaven. {{rf{14}}} And he said, "O Yahweh, God of Israel, there is none like you, a God in the heavens and on the earth, keeping the covenant and loyal love with your servants who walk before you with all their heart, {{rf{15}}} that you have kept for your servant David my father what you spoke to him. You spoke with your mouth, and by your hand you have fulfilled it on this day. {{rf{16}}} And now, O Yahweh, God of Israel, keep for your servant David, my father, what you have spoken to him, saying, 'You shall not lack a man to sit on the throne of Israel before me, if only your sons keep their way, to walk in my law as you have walked before me.' {{rf{17}}} And now, O Yahweh, God of Israel, let your word that you have spoken to your servant David be confirmed. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|2Chron-05-13]] }}}
{{rf{18}}} "But will God indeed dwell with humankind upon the earth? Look, the heavens and the highest heavens cannot contain you! Surely then this house that I have built will not contain you! {{rf{19}}} But turn to the prayer of your servant and to his plea, O Yahweh my God, to hearken to the pleading and to the prayer that your servant is praying before you, {{rf{20}}} that your eyes may be open day and night to this house, to the place that you have promised to place your name there, that you may hear the prayer that your servant has prayed to this place. {{rf{21}}} And listen to the pleas of your servant and your people Israel when they pray toward this place, that you yourself might hear from the place of your dwelling, from the heavens, that you might hear and forgive. {{rf{22}}} "If a man sins against his neighbor and makes him swear an oath and comes with an oath before your altar in this house, {{rf{23}}} then may you yourself hear from the heavens and act and judge your servants, to repay the guilty by bringing his way upon his head and to vindicate the righteous by giving to him according to his righteousness. {{rf{24}}} "And if your people Israel are defeated before an enemy because they have sinned against you and they repent and confess your name and pray and plead before you in this house, {{rf{25}}} then may you yourself hear from the heavens and forgive the sin of your people Israel and again bring them back to the land that you gave to them and to their ancestors. {{rf{26}}} "When the heavens are stopped up and there is no rain because they have sinned against you and they pray to this place and confess your name and turn back from their sin when you humble them, {{rf{27}}} then may you yourself hear from the heavens and forgive the sin of your servants and your people Israel, when you teach them the good way in which they should walk, and give rain upon your land that you have given to your people as an inheritance. {{rf{28}}} "If there is a famine in the land; if there is disease, blight, mildew, locust, and caterpillar; if it happens that his enemy lays siege to him in the land and his gates; any kind of plague, any kind of disease, {{rf{29}}} then any prayer, any plea that is made by any person and by all your people Israel, each one who knows his own affliction and his own anguish and who spreads out his hands to this house, {{rf{30}}} then may you yourself hear from the heavens, your dwelling place, and forgive and give to each according to all his ways, since you know the heart of the children of humankind, {{rf{31}}} that they may fear you and walk in your ways all the days that they are alive upon the face of the land that you have given to our ancestors. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|2Chron-06-18]] }}}
{{rf{32}}} "And also, with respect to the foreigner, he who is not of your people Israel, but comes from a distant land, for the sake of your great name and your powerful hand and outstretched arm, when he comes and prays to this house, {{rf{33}}} then may you yourself hear from the heavens, from your dwelling place, and do according to all that the foreigner asks of you, so that all peoples of earth will know of your name and fear you, as do your people Israel, and that they may know that your name possesses this house that I have built. {{rf{34}}} "When your people go out to battle against their enemy according to the way that you have sent them, and they pray to you toward this city that you have chosen and the house that I have built for your name, {{rf{35}}} then may you hear their prayer and their pleas from the heavens and uphold their case. {{rf{36}}} When they sin against you -- for there is no person who does not sin -- and you become angry with them and place them before their enemy that they carry them away as captives to a land far or near, {{rf{37}}} but if they repent in the land where they were taken captive and repent and beg you for mercy in the land of their captivity, saying, 'We have sinned and acted perversely and done wickedly, {{rf{38}}} and we return to you,' with their whole heart and with all their inmost being in the land of their captivity where they took them captive, and if they pray toward their land that you have given to their ancestors and the city that you have chosen and to the house that I have built for your name, {{rf{39}}} then may you hear their prayer and their pleas from the heavens, from your dwelling place, and uphold their case and forgive your people who sinned against you. {{rf{40}}} Now, O my God, please let your eyes be open and your ears attentive to the prayer of this place! {{rf{41}}} "And now arise, O Yahweh God, to your resting place, you and the ark of your strength! O Yahweh God, let the priests be clothed with salvation, and let your holy ones rejoice in your goodness! {{rf{42}}} O Yahweh God, do not turn away the face of your anointed one! Remember the loyal love of your servant, David!" {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|2Chron-06-32]] }}}
And when Solomon finished praying, then fire came down from heaven and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices, and the glory of Yahweh filled the house. {{rf{2}}} And the priests were not able to go into the house of Yahweh, for the glory of Yahweh had filled the house. {{rf{3}}} When all the Israelites saw the fire come down and the glory of Yahweh upon the house, they knelt down with their faces to the ground on the pavement and worshiped and gave thanks to Yahweh, for he is good, for his loyal love is everlasting. {{rf{4}}} Then the king and all the people were offering a sacrifice before Yahweh. {{rf{5}}} And King Solomon offered a sacrifice of twenty-two thousand cattle and one hundred and twenty thousand sheep. So the king and all the people dedicated the house of God. {{rf{6}}} And the priests stood at their posts with the Levites, with the instruments of the song of Yahweh that King David had made to give thanks to Yahweh -- for his loyal love is everlasting -- whenever David offered praise by their hand. Now the priests sounded trumpets standing opposite them, and all Israel stood. {{rf{7}}} And Solomon consecrated the middle of the courtyard that was before the house of Yahweh, for there he had made the burnt offerings and the fat of the fellowship offerings, for the bronze altar that Solomon had made was not able to hold the burnt offerings, cereal offerings, and the fat. {{rf{8}}} And Solomon held a feast at that time of seven days. And all Israel was with him, a very great assembly, from Lebo-Hamath to the river of Egypt. {{rf{9}}} And on the eighth day they made a solemn assembly, for they held the dedication of the altar seven days and the feast seven days. {{rf{10}}} And on the twenty-third day of the seventh month he sent the people away to their tents rejoicing and festive of heart on account of the goodness that Yahweh had done for David, Solomon, and Israel his people. {{rf{11}}} And Solomon finished the house of Yahweh and the house of the king. And all that came into the heart of Solomon to do with respect to the house of Yahweh and his own house he accomplished. {{rf{12}}} Then Yahweh appeared to Solomon at night and said to him, "I have heard your prayer and have chosen this place for myself as a house of sacrifice. {{rf{13}}} When I hold back the heavens so that there is not rain, and when I command the locust to devour the earth, and if I send disease among my people, {{rf{14}}} then if my people who are called by my name will humble themselves and will pray and will seek my face and will turn from their evil ways, then I myself shall hear from the heavens and will forgive their sins and heal their land. {{rf{15}}} Now my eyes will be open and my ears attentive to the prayer of this place. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|2Chron-07-01]] }}}
{{rf{16}}} And now I have chosen and consecrated this house for my name to be there forever. My eyes and my heart will be there for all time. {{rf{17}}} Now as for you, if you will walk before me as David your father walked and do according to all that I have commanded you and will keep my ordinances and judgments, {{rf{18}}} then I will establish the throne of your kingdom as I promised to David your father, saying, 'A man shall not be cut off for you from ruling over Israel.' {{rf{19}}} "But if you turn yourselves away and forsake my ordinances and my commandments which I have given before you all and will go and serve other gods and bow down to them, {{rf{20}}} then I will uproot them from upon my land that I have given to them, and this house that I have consecrated for my name I will send away from before my face, and I will make it a proverb and a taunt among all the nations. {{rf{21}}} And as for this house, which was exalted, all who pass by it will be appalled and will say, 'Why has Yahweh done thus to this land and to this house?' {{rf{22}}} Then they will say, 'Because they forsook Yahweh, the God of their ancestors, who brought them out from the land of Egypt, and they laid hold of other gods and worshiped them and served them. Therefore he has brought upon them all this evil.'" {{rf big{1}}} And it happened that at the end of twenty years in which Solomon had built the house of Yahweh and his own house, {{rf{2}}} Solomon also built the cities that Huram had given to him, and he settled the Israelites in them. {{rf{3}}} And Solomon went to Hamath-Zobah and laid siege upon it. {{rf{4}}} And he built Tadmor in the desert, and he built all the storage cities in Hamath. {{rf{5}}} He also built Upper Beth-Horon and Lower Beth-Horon, fortified cities with walls, gates, and bars; {{rf{6}}} Baalath and all the storage cities that belonged to Solomon; all the cities for chariots and cities for horses; and any desire of Solomon that he desired to build in Jerusalem, in Lebanon, and in all the land of his dominion. {{rf{7}}} All the people who remained from the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites who were not from Israel, {{rf{8}}} from the descendants who were left over after them in the land, whom the Israelites had not destroyed, Solomon conscripted them as forced labor until this day. {{rf{9}}} But from the Israelites Solomon did not give as servants for his work, but they were men of war, his commanders of his officers, and commanders of his chariots and his horses. {{rf{10}}} And these were the commanders of the garrisons that belonged to King Solomon, two hundred and fifty who exercised authority over the people. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|2Chron-07-16]] }}}
{{rf{11}}} And Solomon brought up the daughter of Pharaoh from the city of David to the house that he had built for her, for he said, "My wife shall not dwell in the house of David, king of Israel, for those places to which the ark of Yahweh has come are holy. {{rf{12}}} Then Solomon offered burnt offerings to Yahweh on the altar of Yahweh that he had built before the portico, {{rf{13}}} as was the daily requirement, to offer up according to the commandments of Moses for Sabbaths, new moon festivals, and the three annual feasts: the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the Feast of Weeks, and the Feast of Booths. {{rf{14}}} And in accord with the ordinance of David his father he appointed working groups of priests for their service, Levites for their responsibilities for praise and cultic service before the priests according to the daily requirement, and the gatekeepers in their working groups, gate by gate. For thus David the man of God had commanded. {{rf{15}}} And they did not turn aside from the commandment of the king concerning the priests and the Levites concerning anything, and concerning the treasury rooms. {{rf{16}}} And Solomon accomplished all the work from the day the foundation stone was laid for the house of Yahweh until its completion, and the house of Yahweh was finished. {{rf{17}}} Then Solomon went to Ezion-Geber, and to Elath, on the edge of the sea in the land of Edom. {{rf{18}}} And Huram sent to him, by the hand of his servants, ships and servants knowledgeable of the sea. And they went with the servants of Solomon to Ophir, and from there they collected four hundred and fifty talents of gold and brought it to King Solomon. {{rf big{1}}} Now the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon, and she came to Jerusalem to test Solomon with hard questions, with much wealth and camels, bearing spices and much gold and precious stones. And she came to Solomon and told him all that was on her mind. {{rf{2}}} And Solomon answered all her questions. Not a word was hidden from Solomon that he did not answer for her. {{rf{3}}} When the queen of Sheba saw the wisdom of Solomon and the house he had built, {{rf{4}}} and the food of his table, and the position of his officers, the duty of his servants and their clothing, his cupbearers and their clothing, and his burnt offerings that he offered at the house of Yahweh, there was no longer any breath in her. {{rf{5}}} And she said to the king, "The word which I heard in my land concerning your words and your wisdom is true, {{rf{6}}} but I did not believe their words until I came and saw with my own eyes. And behold, half the greatness of your wisdom was not reported to me; you surpass the rumors that I had heard. {{rf{7}}} Blessed are your men, and blessed are these your servants who stand before you regularly and hear your wisdom! {{rf{8}}} Blessed be Yahweh your God who took delight in you, to put you on his throne as king for Yahweh your God! Because your God loved Israel, he established him forever and has put you over them as king to do justice and righteousness!" {{rf{9}}} And she gave to the king one hundred and twenty talents of gold and a very great amount of spices and precious stones. And there were no spices such as those that the queen of Sheba gave to King Solomon. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|2Chron-08-11]] }}}
{{rf{10}}} Moreover the servants of Hiram and the servants of Solomon who brought gold from Ophir brought algum wood and precious stones. {{rf{11}}} And the king made steps for the house of Yahweh and the house of the king, and lyres and harps for the singers from the algum wood. And there was not seen anything like them before in the land of Judah. {{rf{12}}} Now King Solomon gave to the queen of Sheba every desired thing she asked, besides what she had brought to the king. Then she turned and went to her land, she and her servants. {{rf{13}}} And it happened that the weight of the gold that came to Solomon in one year was six hundred and sixty-six talents of gold, {{rf{14}}} besides the gold and silver the traders and merchants brought, and all the kings of Arabia and the governors of the land brought. {{rf{15}}} And King Solomon made two hundred shields of beaten gold; six hundred shekels of beaten gold went into each shield. {{rf{16}}} And he made three hundred small shields of beaten gold; three hundred shekels went into each small shield. And the king put them in the House of the Forest of Lebanon. {{rf{17}}} And the king made a large ivory throne and overlaid it with pure gold. {{rf{18}}} And the throne had six steps, and a footstool of gold was attached to the throne. And there were armrests on each side. And by the seat were two lions standing beside the armrests. {{rf{19}}} And twelve lions were standing there on each of the six steps on each end. And there was nothing like it made in all the kingdom. {{rf{20}}} And all the drinking vessels of King Solomon were of gold, and all the vessels of the House of the Forest of Lebanon were of pure gold. Silver was not valued as anything in the days of Solomon. {{rf{21}}} For the ships of the king went to Tarshish with the servants of Huram. Once every three years the ships of Tarshish came carrying gold, silver, ivory, apes, and peacocks. {{rf{22}}} Thus King Solomon was greater than all the kings of the earth in wealth and wisdom. {{rf{23}}} And all the kings of the earth sought the face of Solomon to hear his wisdom that God put in his heart. {{rf{24}}} And each of them brought his gifts, objects of silver, objects of gold, cloaks, myrrh, spices, horses, and mules, as an amount year by year. {{rf{25}}} And Solomon had four thousand stalls for horses and chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen. And he stationed them in the chariot cities and with the king in Jerusalem. {{rf{26}}} And he ruled over all the kings from the River to the land of the Philistines, to the boundary of Egypt. {{rf{27}}} And the king made silver in Jerusalem as stones, and he made cedar as the sycamore trees that are in the Shephelah for abundance. {{rf{28}}} And the horses were imported from Egypt and from all lands for Solomon. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|2Chron-09-10]] }}}
{{rf{29}}} As for the remainder of the words of Solomon from the first to the last, are they not written in the chronicles of Nathan the prophet and in the prophecy of Ahijah the Shilonite, and in the visions of Iddo the seer, concerning Jeroboam the son of Nebat? {{rf{30}}} And Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel forty years. {{rf{31}}} And Solomon slept with his ancestors, and they buried him in the city of David his father. And Rehoboam his son reigned in his place. {{rf big{1}}} Then Rehoboam went to Shechem, for all Israel had come to Shechem to make him king. {{rf{2}}} And it happened that when Jeroboam the son of Nebat heard it -- now he was in Egypt, where he had fled from the presence of King Solomon -- Jeroboam returned from Egypt. {{rf{3}}} And they sent and called him. Then Jeroboam and all Israel went, and they spoke to Rehoboam, saying, {{rf{4}}} "Your father made our yoke heavy. Now, therefore, lighten the hard service of your father and his heavy yoke which he put upon us, and we will serve you." {{rf{5}}} And he said to them, "In three days return to me again." And the people went away. {{rf{6}}} Then King Rehoboam took counsel with the elders who had been serving before Solomon his father when he was alive, saying, "What word do you advise to answer this people?" {{rf{7}}} And they said to him, "If you will be good to this people and please them, then speak good words to them. Then they will be your servants forever." {{rf{8}}} But he forsook the advice of the elders that advised him and took counsel of the young men who had grown up with him who were serving before him. {{rf{9}}} And he said to them, "What do you advise that we should say in return to this people, who said to me, 'Lighten the yoke that your father has put upon us'?" {{rf{10}}} Then the young men who had grown up with him said to him, "Thus you should say to this people who have said to you, 'Your father made our yoke heavy, so you yourself should lighten it for us.' Thus you should say to them, 'My little finger is thicker than the loins of my father. {{rf{11}}} So now, my father laid upon you a heavy yoke, but I myself will add to the yoke. My father disciplined you with whips, but I myself will do so with scorpions.'" {{rf{12}}} Then Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam on the third day as the king had spoken, saying, "Return to me on the third day." {{rf{13}}} And the king answered them harshly, and King Rehoboam forsook the advice of the elders. {{rf{14}}} And he spoke to them according to the advice of the young men, saying, "I will make your yoke heavy, and I myself will add to it. My father disciplined you with whips, but I will do so with scorpions." {{rf{15}}} So the king did not listen to the people, for it was a turning of events from God, so that Yahweh might fulfill his word that he had spoken by the hand of Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam son of Nebat. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|2Chron-09-29]] }}}
{{rf{16}}} So all Israel saw that the king would not listen to them, and the people answered the king, saying, "What portion is there for us in David? We have no inheritance in the son of Jesse. Each to your tents, O Israel! Now look to your own house, David!" And all Israel went to their own tents. {{rf{17}}} But as for the Israelites who were living in the cities of Judah, Rehoboam ruled over them. {{rf{18}}} Then King Rehoboam sent Hadoram, who was in charge of the forced labor, but the Israelites stoned him with stones, and he died. Then King Rehoboam hastily went up into the chariot to flee to Jerusalem. {{rf{19}}} So Israel has rebelled against the house of David until this day. {{rf big{1}}} When Rehoboam came to Jerusalem he assembled the house of Judah and Benjamin, one hundred and eighty thousand chosen warriors, to fight against Israel to restore the kingdom to Rehoboam. {{rf{2}}} But the word of Yahweh came to Shemaiah, the man of God, saying, {{rf{3}}} "Say to Rehoboam, son of Solomon, king of Judah, and to all Israel in Judah and Benjamin, {{rf{4}}} 'Thus says Yahweh: "Do not go up, and do not fight against your brothers. Return, each man to his house, for this matter has come from me." '" So they obeyed the words of Yahweh and turned back from going against Jeroboam. {{rf{5}}} And Rehoboam lived in Jerusalem, and he built cities as strongholds in Judah. {{rf{6}}} He built Bethlehem, Etah, Tekoa, {{rf{7}}} Beth-Zur, Socoh, Adullam, {{rf{8}}} Gath, Mareshah, Ziph, {{rf{9}}} Adoraim, Lachish, Azekah, {{rf{10}}} Zorah, Aijalon, and Hebron, fortified cities that are in Judah and in Benjamin. {{rf{11}}} And he strengthened the fortifications and put commanders in them, along with stores of food, olive oil, and wine. {{rf{12}}} And in all the cities he put shields and spears, and he greatly strengthened them. So he had Judah and Benjamin. {{rf{13}}} Now the priests and the Levites who were throughout all Israel took their stand with him from all their territories. {{rf{14}}} For the Levites left their pasturelands and their property and came to Judah and to Jerusalem, for Jeroboam and his sons had rejected them from serving as priests to Yahweh. {{rf{15}}} And he appointed his own priests for the high places and for the goat idols and for the bull calves that he had made. {{rf{16}}} Then after them, from all the tribes of Israel, those who set their heart to seek Yahweh, the God of Israel, came to Jerusalem to offer to Yahweh, the God of their ancestors. {{rf{17}}} And they strengthened the kingdom of Judah and made Rehoboam, the son of Solomon, secure for three years, for they walked in the way of David and Solomon for three years. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|2Chron-10-16]] }}}
{{rf{18}}} Then Rehoboam took to himself as a wife Mahalath, the daughter of Yerimot son of David, and of Abihail the daughter of Eliab the son of Jesse. {{rf{19}}} And she bore to him sons: Jeush, Shemariah, and Zaham. {{rf{20}}} And after her he took Maacah the daughter of Absalom, who bore to him Abijah, Attai, Ziza, and Shelomith. {{rf{21}}} And Rehoboam loved Maacah the daughter of Absalom more than all his wives and concubines (for he took eighteen wives and sixty concubines, and he fathered twenty-eight sons and sixty daughters). {{rf{22}}} And Rehoboam appointed Abijah the son of Maacah as chief and crown prince over his brothers, in order to make him king. {{rf{23}}} And he dealt wisely and distributed some of his sons throughout all the land of Judah and Benjamin, through all the fortified cities, and gave abundant provisions to them and obtained many wives for them. {{rf big{1}}} And when the kingdom of Rehoboam was established and when he was strengthened, he forsook the law of Yahweh, and all Israel with him. {{rf{2}}} And it happened that in the fifth year of King Rehoboam (for they had acted unfaithfully against Yahweh), Shishak the king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem {{rf{3}}} with one thousand two hundred chariots and sixty thousand horsemen. And there was no number to the people who came up with him from Egypt -- Libyans, Sukkites, and Cushites. {{rf{4}}} And he took the fortified cities that belonged to Judah, and he came up to Jerusalem. {{rf{5}}} Then Shemaiah the prophet came to Rehoboam and the princes of Judah who had gathered at Jerusalem from before Shishak. And he said to them, "Thus says Yahweh: 'You yourselves have abandoned me, and I myself have surely abandoned you into the hand of Shishak.'" {{rf{6}}} Then the princes of Israel and the king humbled themselves and said, "Yahweh is righteous." {{rf{7}}} And when Yahweh saw that they humbled themselves, the word of Yahweh came to Shemaiah, saying, "They have humbled themselves; I will not destroy. I will give to them some way of escape, that my anger not be poured out against Jerusalem by the hand of Shishak. {{rf{8}}} However, they shall be his servants, that they might know my service and the service of the kingdoms of other countries." {{rf{9}}} Then Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem, and he took the treasures out of the house of Yahweh and the treasures out of the king's house. He took everything. He also took the small shields of gold that Solomon had made. {{rf{10}}} And King Rehoboam made small shields of bronze in their place and committed them into the hand of the commanders of the guards who were keeping the entrance of the house of the king. {{rf{11}}} And whenever the king went into the house of Yahweh, the guards came and carried them, and then they returned them to the alcove of the guards. {{rf{12}}} And when he humbled himself, the anger of Yahweh was turned away from him, so that he did not destroy the city completely. Moreover, matters were well in Judah. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|2Chron-11-18]] }}}
{{rf{13}}} So King Rehoboam was strengthened in Jerusalem, and he reigned there. Now, Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city where Yahweh had chosen to put his name out of all the tribes of Israel. And the name of his mother was Naamah the Ammonite. {{rf{14}}} And he did evil, for he did not set his heart to seek Yahweh. {{rf{15}}} Now the words of Rehoboam from the first to the last, are they not written in the chronicles of Shemaiah the prophet and Iddo the seer as a record? And there were battles between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all their days. {{rf{16}}} And Rehoboam slept with his ancestors, and he was buried in the city of David, and Abijah his son reigned in his place. {{rf big{1}}} In the eighteenth year of King Jeroboam, Abijah reigned over Judah. {{rf{2}}} He reigned for three years in Jerusalem. And the name of his mother was Micaiah the daughter of Uriel from Gibeah. Now there was war between Abijah and between Jeroboam. {{rf{3}}} And Abijah joined in the battle with an army of four hundred thousand battle-hardened warriors, chosen men, and Jeroboam put the battle in order against him with eight hundred thousand chosen men, an army of mighty warriors. {{rf{4}}} Then Abijah stood up on top of Mount Zemaraim that is in the hill country of Ephraim and said, "Hear me, O Jeroboam and all Israel! {{rf{5}}} Do you not all know that Yahweh the God of Israel gave the kingdom to David over Israel forever, to him and to his sons by a covenant of salt? {{rf{6}}} But Jeroboam the son of Nebat, a servant of Solomon the son of David, rose up and rebelled against his master, {{rf{7}}} and worthless men, sons of wickedness, were gathered about him and became hostile against Rehoboam the son of Solomon, when Rehoboam was a boy and gentle of heart and was not strong enough to stand before them. {{rf{8}}} So now you yourselves are considering that you are strong before the kingdom of Yahweh which is in the hand the sons of David, since you yourselves are a great multitude and you have bull calves of gold that Jeroboam has made for idols. {{rf{9}}} Did you not drive out the priests of Yahweh, the sons of Aaron, the Levites? Have you not made for yourselves priests like all the peoples of the lands? All who come to be consecrated for priestly service with a young bull or seven rams becomes a priest of what is not a god. {{rf{10}}} But as for us, Yahweh is our God, and we have not forsaken him. The priests serving Yahweh are the sons of Aaron, the Levites, according to their service. {{rf{11}}} They offer burnt offerings to Yahweh every morning and every evening, sweet spices of incense, and the rows of bread upon the pure table. And the golden lampstand with its lamps they keep kindled every evening, for we are keeping the requirement of Yahweh our God, but you yourselves have forsaken him. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|2Chron-12-13]] }}}
{{rf{12}}} And look, God is with us at the head, and his priests have the trumpets for sounding blasts against you, O sons of Israel. Do not fight against Yahweh, the God of your ancestors, for you will not succeed." {{rf{13}}} Then Jeroboam sent around an ambush to come behind them. So they were in front of Judah, but the ambush was behind them. {{rf{14}}} When Judah turned, then behold, the battle against them was in front and behind, and they cried to Yahweh, and the priests blew on the trumpets. {{rf{15}}} Then the men of Judah shouted, and it happened that when the men of Judah were shouting, then God defeated Jeroboam and all Israel before Abijah and Judah. {{rf{16}}} And the Israelites fled from before Judah, and God gave them into their hand. {{rf{17}}} And Abijah and his people struck a great blow against them, and the dead from Israel that fell were five hundred thousand chosen men. {{rf{18}}} And the Israelites were subdued at that time, and the people of Judah were victorious, for they relied upon Yahweh the God of their ancestors. {{rf{19}}} And Abijah pursued after Jeroboam and took cities from him: Bethel with its villages, Jeshanah with its villages, and Ephron with its villages. {{rf{20}}} And Jeroboam did not regain strength again in the days of Abijah. And Yahweh plagued him and he died. {{rf{21}}} But Abijah became strong, and he took to himself fourteen wives and fathered twenty-two sons and sixteen daughters. {{rf{22}}} Now the rest of the words of Abijah and his ways and his words are written in the story of the prophet Iddo. {{rf big{1}}} And Abijah slept with his ancestors, and they buried him in the city of David. And Asa his son became king in his place. In his days the land was at rest ten years. {{rf{2}}} Asa did that which was good and right in the eyes of Yahweh his God. {{rf{3}}} He removed the foreign altars and high places, broke down the stone pillars, and cut down the Asherahs. {{rf{4}}} And he commanded Judah to seek Yahweh, the God of their ancestors, and to keep the law and the commandment. {{rf{5}}} And he removed the high places and the incense stands from all the cities of Judah, and the kingdom had rest under him. {{rf{6}}} And he built fortified cities in Judah, for the land was at rest. Under him there was no war in those years, for Yahweh had given rest to him. {{rf{7}}} And he said to Judah, "Let us build these cities and surround them with walls, towers, gates, and bars while the land is before us, because we have sought Yahweh our God. We have sought and he has given rest to us on every side." So they built and had success. {{rf{8}}} And Asa had an army of three hundred thousand from Judah, bearing shields and spears, and two hundred and eighty thousand from Benjamin who carried shields and drew bows. All of these were mighty warriors of strength. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|2Chron-13-12]] }}}
{{rf{9}}} Zerah the Cushite came out against them with an army of a thousand thousands and three hundred chariots. And he came to Mareshah. {{rf{10}}} And Asa went out before him, and a battle was put in order in the valley of Zepah at Mareshah. {{rf{11}}} Then Asa cried out to Yahweh his God. And he said, "O Yahweh, there is none with you to help between the great and the powerless. Help us, O Yahweh our God, for we rely upon you, and in your name we have come against this multitude. O Yahweh, you are our God! Let no man prevail against you!" {{rf{12}}} So Yahweh defeated the Cushites before Asa and before Judah, and the Cushites fled. {{rf{13}}} Then Asa and the army with him pursued them to Gerar. And many from the Cushites fell, for they had no deliverance, for they were shattered before Yahweh and before his army. And they carried away much war booty. {{rf{14}}} And they struck all the cities around Gerar, for the fear of Yahweh was upon them. And they plundered all the cities, for there was much plunder in them. {{rf{15}}} And they also struck the tents of the herdsmen and carried away many sheep and camels. Then they returned to Jerusalem. {{rf big{1}}} Now Azariah the son of Oded -- the Spirit of God came upon him. {{rf{2}}} And he went out before Asa and said to him, "Hear me, O Asa and all of Judah and Benjamin! Yahweh is with you while you are with him. And if you will seek him he will be found by you. But if you forsake him he will forsake you. {{rf{3}}} Now Israel has been without the true God many days, and without a teaching priest, and without law, {{rf{4}}} but at its trouble he returned to Yahweh, the God of Israel. They sought him, and he was found by them. {{rf{5}}} And in those times there was no peace for the one going out and the one coming in, for great tumults were upon all the inhabitants of the lands. {{rf{6}}} Nation was crushed by nation, and city was against city, for God threw them into confusion by all sorts of trouble. {{rf{7}}} But as for you, be strong and let not your hands be weak, for there is reward for your labor." {{rf{8}}} And when Asa heard these words, the prophecy of Oded the prophet, he took courage and removed the vile idols from all the lands of Judah and Benjamin, and from the cities that he had taken in the hill country of Ephraim, and he repaired the altar of Yahweh that was in front of the portico of Yahweh. {{rf{9}}} And he gathered all Judah and Benjamin and those sojourning with them, from Ephraim, Manasseh, and Simeon, for many had deserted to him from Israel when they saw that Yahweh his God was with him. {{rf{10}}} And they were gathered at Jerusalem in the third month of the fifteenth year of the reign of Asa. {{rf{11}}} And they sacrificed to Yahweh on that day from the war booty they brought back: seven hundred oxen and seven thousand sheep. {{rf{12}}} And they entered into a covenant to seek Yahweh, the God of their ancestors, with all their heart and with all their inmost being, {{rf{13}}} but all who will not seek Yahweh the God of Israel should be killed, from young to old, from men to women. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|2Chron-14-09]] }}}
{{rf{14}}} And they took an oath to Yahweh with a great voice, with shouting, with trumpets, and with horns. {{rf{15}}} And all Judah rejoiced over the oath, for they swore with all their heart. And they sought him with their whole desire, and he was found by them, and Yahweh gave rest to them all around. {{rf{16}}} And also Maacah, the mother of Asa, the king removed her from being queen, because she had made a repulsive image for Asherah. And Asa cut down her repulsive image, and he crushed and burned it at the Wadi Kidron. {{rf{17}}} But the high places were not removed from Israel. Nevertheless, the heart of Asa was fully devoted all his days. {{rf{18}}} And he brought the holy objects of his father and his own holy objects into the house of God -- silver and gold and vessels. {{rf{19}}} And there was no war until the thirty-fifth year of the reign of Asa. {{rf big{1}}} In the thirty-sixth year of the reign of Asa, Baasha the king of Israel went up against Judah. And he built Ramah in order not to allow anyone to go out or come in to Asa, king of Judah. {{rf{2}}} Then Asa brought out silver and gold from the storehouses of the house of Yahweh and the house of the king, and he sent them to Ben-Hadad, king of Aram, who lived in Damascus, saying, {{rf{3}}} "There is a covenant between me and you, as there was between my father and your father. Look, I am sending you silver and gold. Go, break your covenant with Baasha, king of Israel, that he might withdraw from me." {{rf{4}}} And Ben-Hadad listened to King Asa, and he sent commanders of his troops that were with him against the cities of Israel. And they struck Ijon, Dan, Abel-Maim, and all the storage cities of Naphtali. {{rf{5}}} And it happened that when Baasha heard this, he stopped building Ramah and ceased his work. {{rf{6}}} Then King Asa took all of Judah, and they carried away the stones of Ramah and its timber with which Baasha had been building, and he built Geba and Mizpah with them. {{rf{7}}} And at that time Hanani the seer came to Asa king of Judah and said to him, "On account of your reliance upon the king of Aram, and since you did not rely on Yahweh your God, therefore the troops of the king of Aram escaped from your hand. {{rf{8}}} Were not the Cushites and Libyans a mighty army with very abundant chariots and horsemen? And because of your reliance on Yahweh he gave them into your hand. {{rf{9}}} For the eyes of Yahweh roam throughout all the earth to strengthen those whose heart is fully devoted to him. You have been foolish in this, for from now on you will have wars." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|2Chron-15-14]] }}}
{{rf{10}}} Then Asa was angry with the seer and put him in the prison, for he was enraged with him concerning this. And Asa oppressed some of the people at that time. {{rf{11}}} Now behold, the words of Asa from the first to the last, behold, they are written in the scroll of the kings of Judah and Israel. {{rf{12}}} And in the thirty-ninth year of his reign, he fell severely ill in his feet. But even in his illness he did not seek Yahweh, but only among the healers. {{rf{13}}} And Asa slept with his ancestors. And he died in the forty-first year of his reign. {{rf{14}}} And they buried him in his burial site, which had been cut out for him in the city of David. And they laid him on the bier which they had filled with all kinds of spices made by the perfumers as a fragment ointment. And they made a great fire in his honor. {{rf big{1}}} And Jehoshaphat his son reigned in his place, and he strengthened himself against Israel. {{rf{2}}} And he put troops in all the fortified cities of Judah, and put garrisons in the land of Judah and in the cities of Ephraim that Asa his father had taken. {{rf{3}}} And Yahweh was with Jehoshaphat, because he walked in the former ways of David his father and did not seek after the Baals, {{rf{4}}} but he sought after the God of his ancestors and walked in his commandments and not according to the works of Israel. {{rf{5}}} So Yahweh established the kingdom in his hand. And all Judah gave tribute to Jehoshaphat, and he had much wealth and honor. {{rf{6}}} And his heart was courageous in the ways of Yahweh. Moreover, he removed the high places and the Asherahs from Judah. {{rf{7}}} In the third year of his reign he sent his officials, Ben-Hail, Obadiah, Zechariah, Nethanel, and Micaiah, to teach in the cities of Judah; {{rf{8}}} and with them the Levites Shemaiah, Nethaniah, Zebadiah, Asahel, Shemiramoth, Jehonathan, Adonijah, Tobijah, and Tob-Adonijah; and with them the priests Elisham and Joram. {{rf{9}}} And they taught in Judah, and the scroll of the law of Yahweh was with them when they went around in all the cities of Judah, and they taught the people. {{rf{10}}} And the fear of Yahweh was upon all the kingdoms of the lands surrounding Judah, and they did not make war against Jehoshaphat. {{rf{11}}} And some of the Philistines brought a gift and silver to Jehoshaphat as tribute. The Arabians also brought him seven thousand seven hundred sheep and seven thousand seven hundred goats. {{rf{12}}} And Jehoshaphat grew greater and greater, and he built fortresses and storage cities in Judah. {{rf{13}}} And he had many supplies in the cities of Judah and mighty warriors for battle in Jerusalem. {{rf{14}}} Now these were their enrollment by the house of their ancestors: of Judah, the commanders of thousands: Adnah, the commander, and with him were three hundred thousand mighty armed warriors; {{rf{15}}} and at his side, Jehohanan the commander, and with him were two hundred and eighty thousand; {{rf{16}}} and at his side, Amasiah the son of Zicri, who had made a freewill offering to Yahweh, and with him were two hundred thousand mighty armed warriors. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|2Chron-16-10]] }}}
{{rf{17}}} And from Benjamin: Eliada, a powerful mighty warrior, and with him were two hundred thousand armed with bow and shield; {{rf{18}}} and at his side, Jehozabad, and with him were one hundred and eighty thousand armed for war. {{rf{19}}} These were serving the king, besides those whom the king had placed in the fortified cities throughout all Judah. {{rf big{1}}} Now Jehoshaphat had much wealth and honor, and he became son-in-law to Ahab. {{rf{2}}} And after some years he went down to Ahab in Samaria. And Ahab slaughtered many sheep and cattle for him and for the people who were with him, and urged him to go up against Ramoth-Gilead. {{rf{3}}} And Ahab the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, king of Judah, "Will you go up with me to Ramoth-Gilead?" And he answered him, "I am as you are, and my people are as your people with you in war." {{rf{4}}} Then Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, "Seek first of all the word of Yahweh." {{rf{5}}} Then the king of Israel gathered the prophets, four hundred men. And he said to them, "Shall we go to Ramoth-Gilead to battle, or shall we cease?" And they said, "Go up, since God will give it into the hand of the king." {{rf{6}}} Then Jehoshaphat said, "Is there not here another prophet of Yahweh that we might inquire of him?" {{rf{7}}} Then the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, "There is yet one man by whom to seek Yahweh, but I hate him, because he never prophesies good concerning me, but always disaster. He is Micaiah the son of Imlah." Then Jehoshaphat said, "Let not the king say thus." {{rf{8}}} Then the king of Israel called to a eunuch and said, "Quickly bring Micaiah the son of Imlah." {{rf{9}}} Now the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah were each sitting on his throne, clothed in robes. And they were sitting at the threshing floor at the entrance of the gate of Samaria, and all the prophets were prophesying before them. {{rf{10}}} And Zedekiah the son of Kenaanah made for himself horns of iron, and he said, "Thus says Yahweh: 'With these you will gore Aram to their destruction.'" {{rf{11}}} And all the prophets prophesied thus, saying, "Go up to Ramoth-Gilead and triumph! Yahweh will give it into the hand of the king." {{rf{12}}} Then the messenger who went to call Micaiah said to him, "Behold, the words of the prophets are good with one voice to the king. Please let your word be as one with them and speak good." {{rf{13}}} But Micaiah said, "As Yahweh lives, only what my God has said, that will I speak." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|2Chron-17-17]] }}}
{{rf{14}}} And when he had come to the king, the king said to him, "Micaiah, shall we go to Ramoth-Gilead to war or shall I cease?" And he said, "Go up and triumph! They shall be given into your hand." {{rf{15}}} But the king said to him, "How many times shall I make you swear that you speak nothing except the truth in the name of Yahweh?" {{rf{16}}} Then he said, "I saw all Israel scattered upon the mountains like sheep that had no shepherd. And Yahweh said, 'These have no masters; let them return to his own house in peace.'" {{rf{17}}} Then the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, "Did I not say to you he would not prophesy good concerning me, but only disaster?" {{rf{18}}} Then Micaiah said, "Therefore hear the word of Yahweh: I saw Yahweh sitting upon his throne with all the host of heaven standing on his right and on his left. {{rf{19}}} And Yahweh said, 'Who will entice Ahab the king of Israel that he would go up and fall at Ramoth-Gilead?' And one said this, and another said that. {{rf{20}}} Then a spirit came forth and stood before Yahweh and said, 'I will entice him.' Then Yahweh said to him, 'By what means?' {{rf{21}}} Then he said, 'I will go forth and will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets.' And he said, 'You will entice him and will also succeed. Go out and do so.' {{rf{22}}} So now, behold, Yahweh has put a spirit of deception into the mouths of these your prophets. Yahweh has spoken disaster against you." {{rf{23}}} Then Zedekiah the son of Kenaanah came near and struck Micaiah on the cheek and said, "Which way did the Spirit of Yahweh come from me to speak to you?" {{rf{24}}} Then Micaiah said, "Behold, you will see on that day when you go into a private room to hide yourself." {{rf{25}}} Then the king of Israel said, "Take Micaiah and return him to Amon the commander of the city and to Jehoash the son of the king, {{rf{26}}} and say, 'Thus says the king: "Put this one into the prison house, and let him eat a meager ration of bread and water until I return in peace." '" {{rf{27}}} And Micaiah said, "If you surely return in peace Yahweh has not spoken with me." Then he said, "Hear, peoples, all of them!" {{rf{28}}} Then the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat king of Judah went up to Ramoth-Gilead. {{rf{29}}} And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, "I will disguise myself and go into battle, but you, wear your garments." So the king of Israel disguised himself, and they went to war. {{rf{30}}} Now the king of Aram had commanded the commanders of his chariots, saying, "Do not fight with the small or the great, but only with the king of Israel." {{rf{31}}} And it happened that when the commanders of the chariots saw Jehoshaphat, then they said, "It is the king of Israel!" And they turned against him to fight. Then Jehoshaphat cried out and Yahweh helped him. God drove them away from him. {{rf{32}}} And it happened that when the commanders of the chariots saw that it was not the king of Israel, they turned back from following him. {{rf{33}}} Now a certain man drew the bow at random and struck the king of Israel between the soldering of his breastplate armor. Then he said to the chariot driver, "Turn around; get me away from the war camp, for I am wounded." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|2Chron-18-14]] }}}
{{rf{34}}} And the battle went on that day, and the king of Israel was propped up in the chariot facing Aram until the evening. And he died at the time of the going down of the sun. {{rf big{1}}} Then Jehoshaphat king of Judah returned to his house in peace to Jerusalem. {{rf{2}}} And Jehu son of Hanani the seer went out to meet him. And he said to King Jehoshaphat, "Should you be a help to the wicked and love those who hate Yahweh? On account of this, wrath has come against you from Yahweh. {{rf{3}}} Nevertheless some good things have been found in regard to you, for you burned the Asherahs out of the land and set your heart to seek God." {{rf{4}}} And Jehoshaphat lived in Jerusalem and returned and went out among the people from Beersheba to the hill country of Ephraim and brought them back to Yahweh, the God of their ancestors. {{rf{5}}} And he appointed judges in the land and in all the fortified cities of Judah, city by city. {{rf{6}}} And he said to the judges, "Consider what you are doing, for you are not judging for a man but for Yahweh. Now he is with you in speaking justice. {{rf{7}}} So now, let the fear of Yahweh be upon you all. Be careful what you do, for there is neither wickedness nor showing partiality and taking bribes with Yahweh our God." {{rf{8}}} Moreover, Jehoshaphat appointed in Jerusalem some of the Levites and the priests and heads of the families of Israel as judges and to decide legal disputes for Yahweh. And they sat in Jerusalem. {{rf{9}}} And he commanded them, saying, "Thus you must do in the fear of Yahweh in faithfulness and with a whole heart. {{rf{10}}} Any legal dispute that comes before you from your brothers who live in their cities concerning bloodguilt, law, commandment, statutes, and justice, you must warn them, so that they do not incur guilt before Yahweh, and that wrath may not come upon you and your brothers. Thus you must do that you do not incur guilt. {{rf{11}}} And behold, Amariah the chief priest is over you in all matters of the word of Yahweh, and Zebadiah the son of Ishmael, the governor of the house of Judah, in all matters of the king, and the Levites shall be before you as officials. Be strong and do well! May Yahweh be with the upright." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|2Chron-18-34]] }}}
And it happened that afterward, the Moabites, the Ammonites, and some of the Meunites came against Jehoshaphat for war. {{rf{2}}} And they came and reported it to Jehoshaphat, saying, "A great multitude from beyond the sea, from Aram, is coming against you. Now behold, they are in Hazazon Tamar" (that is, En Gedi). {{rf{3}}} Then Jehoshaphat was afraid and set his face to seek Yahweh. And he called for a fast through all Judah. {{rf{4}}} And Judah assembled to seek after Yahweh; even from all the cities of Judah they came to seek Yahweh. {{rf{5}}} Then Jehoshaphat stood in the assembly of Judah and Jerusalem in the house of Yahweh before the new courtyard. {{rf{6}}} And he said, "O Yahweh, God of our ancestors, are you not God in heaven? Now you rule in all the kingdoms of the nations, and in your hand are power and might, and there is none who can resist against you. {{rf{7}}} O, our God, did you yourself not drive out the inhabitants of this land before your people Israel and give it to the descendants of Abraham your friend forever? {{rf{8}}} And they lived in it and built for you a sanctuary for your name in it, saying, {{rf{9}}} 'If disaster, a sword, punishment, disease, or famine come upon us, we shall stand before this house and before you -- for your name is in this house -- and cry out to you out of our trouble, then you will hear and save us.' {{rf{10}}} And now, look, the people of Moab and Ammon and Mount Seir whom you did not allow Israel to come against when they came from Egypt, from whom they turned aside and did not destroy, {{rf{11}}} now behold, they are rewarding us by coming to dispossess us from your possession which you gave us as an inheritance. {{rf{12}}} O our God, will you not judge them, for there is no power in us before this great multitude that is coming against us. Now we do not know what we shall do, for our eyes are upon you." {{rf{13}}} And all Judah was standing before Yahweh, and also their little children, their wives, and their children. {{rf{14}}} Then the Spirit of Yahweh came upon Jahaziel, the son of Zechariah, the son of Benaiah, the son of Jeiel, the son of Mattaniah, the Levite from the descendants of Asaph, in the midst of the assembly. {{rf{15}}} And he said, "Listen, all Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem and King Jehoshaphat, thus says Yahweh to you: 'Do not be afraid and do not be dismayed before this great multitude, for the battle is not yours, but God's. {{rf{16}}} Tomorrow go down against them. Behold, they are coming up the ascent of Ziz. And you will find them at the end of the valley facing the desert of Jeruel. {{rf{17}}} There will be no need for you to fight in this battle. Take your stand! Stand and see the deliverance of Yahweh among you, O Judah and Jerusalem! Do not fear and do not be dismayed. Tomorrow go out before them and Yahweh will be with you.'" {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|2Chron-20-01]] }}}
{{rf{18}}} Then Jehoshaphat bowed his face down to the ground, and all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem fell before Yahweh to worship Yahweh. {{rf{19}}} Then the Levites, from the Kohathites and from the Korahites stood up to praise Yahweh the God of Israel with an exceedingly loud voice. {{rf{20}}} And they rose up early in the morning and went out to the desert of Tekoa. And when they went out, Jehoshaphat stood and said, "Hear me, O Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem! Believe in Yahweh your God, and you shall be established! Believe in his prophets, and you shall succeed!" {{rf{21}}} And when he had taken counsel with the people, he appointed singers to Yahweh who were giving praise to the splendor of his holiness when they went out before the army. And they said, "Give thanks to Yahweh, for his loyal love is everlasting!" {{rf{22}}} And when they began with singing and praise, Yahweh set ambushes against the people of Ammon, Moab, and Mount Seir who were coming against Judah. And they were defeated {{rf{23}}} when the people of Ammon and Moab rose up against the inhabitants of Mount Seir to destroy and demolish them. And when the inhabitants of Seir had made an end of them, each helped to destroy his comrade. {{rf{24}}} And Judah came against the watchtower of the wilderness. And they looked at the crowd, and behold, corpses were lying on the ground. There was none who had escaped. {{rf{25}}} When Jehoshaphat came with his people to plunder their booty, they found among them in abundance possessions, corpses, and precious items. And they took plunder for themselves until they could carry no more. And they were three days in plundering the booty, for it was abundant. {{rf{26}}} And on the fourth day, they assembled in the Valley of Berakah, for there they blessed Yahweh. Therefore the name of that place is called the Valley of Berakah up to this day. {{rf{27}}} And all the men of Judah and Jerusalem returned, and Jehoshaphat was at their head in returning to Jerusalem with joy, for Yahweh caused them to rejoice over their enemies. {{rf{28}}} And they came to Jerusalem with harps, stringed instruments, and trumpets to the house of Yahweh. {{rf{29}}} And the fear of God came upon all the kingdoms of the earth when they heard that Yahweh had fought against the enemies of Israel. {{rf{30}}} So the kingdom of Jehoshaphat was at rest, since his God gave rest to him all around. {{rf{31}}} So Jehoshaphat reigned over Judah. He was thirty-five years old when he began to reign. And he reigned twenty-five years in Jerusalem. The name of his mother was Azubah, the daughter of Shilhi. {{rf{32}}} And he walked in the way of his father Asa and did not turn aside from it, to do what was right in the eyes of Yahweh. {{rf{33}}} Only the high places were not removed. The people still had not yet set their heart on the God of their ancestors. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|2Chron-20-18]] }}}
{{rf{34}}} Now the rest of the words of Jehoshaphat, from the first to the last, behold, they are written in the chronicles of Jehu the son of Hanani, which are recorded in the scroll of the kings of Israel. {{rf{35}}} And afterward Jehoshaphat the king of Judah joined with Ahaziah the king of Israel, who acted wickedly. {{rf{36}}} He joined with him to build ships to go to Tarshish. And they built the ships in Ezion Geber. {{rf{37}}} Then Eliezer the son of Dodavahu of Mareshah prophesied against Jehoshaphat, saying, "Because of your joining with Ahaziah, Yahweh will break down your works." And the ships were destroyed and were not able to go to Tarshish.
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{{rf big{1}}} And Jehoshaphat slept with his ancestors and was buried with his ancestors in the city of David, and Jehoram his son reigned in his place. {{rf{2}}} Now he had brothers, the sons of Jehoshaphat: Azariah, Jehiel, Zechariah, Azariah, Michael, and Shephatiah. All these were the sons of Jehoshaphat, king of Israel. {{rf{3}}} And their father gave to them many gifts of silver, gold, and valuables, with fortified cities in Judah, but he gave the kingdom to Jehoram, for he was the firstborn. {{rf{4}}} When Jehoram ascended to the kingdom of his father, he strengthened himself and murdered all his brothers with the sword, and even some of the princes of Israel. {{rf{5}}} Jehoram was thirty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem. {{rf{6}}} And he walked in the way of the kings of Israel as the house of Ahab had done, for the daughter of Ahab was his wife. And he did evil in the sight of Yahweh. {{rf{7}}} But Yahweh was not willing to destroy the house of David on account of the covenant that he had made with David and since he had promised to give a lamp to him and to his descendants forever. {{rf{8}}} In his days Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah, and they set up a king of their own. {{rf{9}}} Then Jehoram passed over with his commanders and all the chariots with him, and when night came he struck Edom who was all around him and the commanders of his chariots. {{rf{10}}} So Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah until this day. Then Libnah also revolted at that time from under his hand, because he had forsaken Yahweh, the God of his ancestors. {{rf{11}}} Moreover, he made high places in the hill country of Judah, and he enticed the inhabitants of Jerusalem to be unfaithful, and he led Judah astray. {{rf{12}}} And a letter from Elijah the prophet came to him, saying, "Thus says Yahweh, the God of David your father: 'Because you have not walked in the ways of Jehoshaphat your father or in the ways of Asa, the king of Judah, {{rf{13}}} but have walked in the way of the kings of Israel and have enticed Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to be unfaithful like the unfaithfulness of the house of Ahab, and have also murdered your brothers of the house of your father who were better than you, {{rf{14}}} behold, Yahweh is inflicting a great plague on your people, your children, your wives, and all your possessions, {{rf{15}}} and you yourself will be afflicted with great illness, with sickness in your bowels, until your bowels come out on account of the illness, day by day.'" {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|2Chron-20-34]] }}}
{{rf{16}}} And Yahweh stirred up the spirit of the Philistines and the Arabs who were near the Cushites against Jehoram. {{rf{17}}} And they came up against Judah and invaded it and carried away all the possessions found in the house of the king, and also his sons and his wives, so that no son was left to him except Jehoahaz his youngest son. {{rf{18}}} And after all this Yahweh afflicted him in his bowels with an illness for which there was no cure. {{rf{19}}} And it happened that after many days, at the end of two years, his bowels came out because of his illness, and he died in terrible agony. And his people did not make a fire for him like the fire for his ancestors. {{rf{20}}} He was thirty-two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem. And he departed with no one's regret. And they buried him in the city of David, but not in the burial sites of the kings. {{rf big{1}}} And the inhabitants of Jerusalem made Ahaziah his youngest son king in his place, for the band of men who had come with the Arabs to the camp had murdered all the older sons. And Ahaziah the son of Jehoram, the king of Judah, reigned. {{rf{2}}} Ahaziah was forty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. And the name of his mother was Athaliah, the daughter of Omri. {{rf{3}}} He also walked in the ways of the house of Ahab, for his mother was his counselor for doing wickedness. {{rf{4}}} And he did evil in the eyes of Yahweh as the house of Ahab had done, for they were his counselors to his destruction after the death of his father. {{rf{5}}} He also walked in their counsel and went with Jehoram the son of Ahab, king of Israel, to war against Hazael king of Aram at Ramoth-Gilead. And the Arameans wounded Joram. {{rf{6}}} And he returned to be healed in Jezreel because of the wounds he had suffered at Ramah, when he made war against Hazael king of Aram. And Azariah the son of Jehoram, king of Judah, went down to see Jehoram son of Ahab in Jezreel for he was sick. {{rf{7}}} But the downfall of Ahaziah was from God, and intended to come to Joram. And when he came, he went out with Jehoram to Jehu the son of Nimshi, whom Yahweh had anointed to destroy the house of Ahab. {{rf{8}}} And it happened that when Jehu was judging the house of Ahab, he found the princes of Judah and the sons of the brothers of Ahaziah who ministered to Ahaziah, and he killed them. {{rf{9}}} And he searched for Ahaziah and captured him. And he was hiding in Samaria. And they brought him to Jehu and put him to death. And they buried him, for they said, "He is the descendant of Jehoshaphat, who sought Yahweh with his whole heart." And the house of Ahab had no one to exercise power over the kingdom. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|2Chron-21-16]] }}}
{{rf{10}}} Now when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she arose and murdered all the royal descendants of the house of Judah. {{rf{11}}} But Jehosheba the daughter of the king took Joash, the son of Ahaziah, and kidnapped him away from the sons of the king who were to be put to death. And she put him and his nurse in a private bedroom. So Jehosheba the daughter of King Jehoram, the wife of Jehoiada the priest, because she was a sister of Ahaziah, hid him from before Athaliah so that she did not put him to death. {{rf{12}}} And he was hidden with them in the house of God six years, but Athaliah reigned over the land. {{rf big{1}}} And in the seventh year Jehoiada strengthened himself and took with him into a covenant relationship the commanders of hundreds: Azariah the son of Jeroham, Ishmael the son of Jehohanan, Azariah the son of Obed, Maaseiah the son of Adaiah, and Elishaphat the son of Zicri. {{rf{2}}} And they went around in Judah and gathered the Levites from all the cities of Judah, and the heads of the families of Israel, and they came to Jerusalem. {{rf{3}}} And all the assembly made a covenant with the king in the house of God. And he said to them, "Behold, the son of the king shall reign as Yahweh has spoken concerning the sons of David. {{rf{4}}} This is the thing that you must do: one third of you priests and Levites coming off duty on the Sabbath shall be gatekeepers at the entrances, {{rf{5}}} and one third at the house of the king, and one third at the Gate of the Foundation. And all the people shall be in the courtyards of the house of Yahweh. {{rf{6}}} Let no one enter into the house of Yahweh except the priests and the ministering Levites. They themselves may enter, for they are holy, but all the people shall keep the requirements of Yahweh. {{rf{7}}} And the Levites shall surround the king all around, each with his weapons in his hand. And whoever comes into the house shall be put to death. You shall be with the king when he comes in and when he goes out." {{rf{8}}} And the Levites and all Judah did according to all that Jehoiada the priest commanded. And they each took his men who were coming off duty on the Sabbath with the ones going out to duty on the Sabbath, for Jehoiada the priest did not dismiss the working groups. {{rf{9}}} And Jehoiada the priest gave the spears and small shields that had belonged to King David that were in the house of God to the commanders of hundreds. {{rf{10}}} And he appointed all the people, each with his weapon in his hand from the south side of the house to the north side of the house around the altar and the house. {{rf{11}}} Then they brought out the son of the king and set upon him the crown and gave him the statute and made him king. And Jehoiada and his sons anointed him and said, "Long live the king!" {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|2Chron-22-10]] }}}
{{rf{12}}} When Athaliah heard the sound of the people running and praising the king, she came to the people at the house of Yahweh. {{rf{13}}} And she looked and, behold, the king was standing by his column at the entrance, and the commanders and trumpeters beside the king, along with all the people of the land, rejoicing and blowing with trumpets, and the singers with the instruments of song leading the praise. And Athaliah tore her garments and cried, "Conspiracy! Conspiracy!" {{rf{14}}} Then Jehoiada the priest brought out the commanders of the hundreds appointed over the troops, and he said to them, "Bring her out between the ranks, and whoever goes after her shall be put to death with the sword." For the priest had said, "You must not kill her in the house of Yahweh." {{rf{15}}} And they laid hands on her, and she went into the entrance of the Horse Gate of the house of the king, and they killed her there. {{rf{16}}} And Jehoiada made a covenant between himself and all the people and the king, that they should be Yahweh's people. {{rf{17}}} Then all the people went to the house of Baal and broke it down. And they smashed his altars and his images, and they killed Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars. {{rf{18}}} And Jehoiada placed appointees at the house of Yahweh under the hand of the Levitical priests whom David had allotted to the house of Yahweh to offer burnt offerings to Yahweh as was written in the law of Moses, with joy and with song, according to the order of David. {{rf{19}}} And he set the gatekeepers at the gates of the house of Yahweh so that no person unclean with respect to any matter could enter. {{rf{20}}} And he took the commanders of hundreds, the noblemen, the governors over the people, and all the people of the land, and they brought the king down from the house of Yahweh. And they came through the upper gate to the house of the king, and they set the king upon the throne of the kingdom. {{rf{21}}} So all the people of the land rejoiced, and the city was quiet after Athaliah had been killed with the sword. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|2Chron-23-12]] }}}
Joash was seven years old when he became king, and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem. And the name of his mother was Zibiah from Beersheba. {{rf{2}}} And Joash did what was right in the eyes of Yahweh all the days of Jehoiada the priest. {{rf{3}}} And Jehoiada took two wives for him, and he fathered sons and daughters. {{rf{4}}} And afterward it was in the heart of Joash to repair the house of Yahweh. {{rf{5}}} So he gathered the priests and the Levites and said to them, "Go out to the cities of Judah and gather money from all Israel to strengthen the house of your God sufficiently year by year. Now you yourselves must hasten to the matter." But the Levites did not act with haste. {{rf{6}}} So the king called Jehoiada the chief, and he said to him, "Why have you not required the Levites to bring from Judah and Jerusalem the tax of Moses, the servant of Yahweh, and of the assembly of Israel for the tent of the testimony?" {{rf{7}}} For the sons of the wicked Athaliah had broken into the house of God and had used all the holy vessels of the house of Yahweh for the Baals. {{rf{8}}} Then the king commanded, and they made a chest and put it at the gate outside the house of Yahweh. {{rf{9}}} And they issued a proclamation in Judah and in Jerusalem to bring to Yahweh the tax that Moses the servant of God had levied upon Israel in the wilderness. {{rf{10}}} And all the princes and all the people rejoiced, and they brought their tax and threw it into the chest until it was finished. {{rf{11}}} And whenever he brought the chest to the appointee of the king by the hand of the Levites, and when they saw that there was much money in it, then the secretary of the king and the officer of the chief priest came and emptied the chest, then they took it and returned it to its place. Thus they did day by day and gathered money in abundance. {{rf{12}}} And the king and Jehoiada gave it to those who did the work of the service of the house of Yahweh. And they hired stonemasons and skilled craftsmen to restore the house of Yahweh, and also workers in iron and bronze to repair the house of Yahweh. {{rf{13}}} So those doing the work labored, and the restoration for the work made progress under their hand. And they restored the house of God to its position and strengthened it. {{rf{14}}} And when they had finished, they brought the remainder of the money before the king and Jehoiada, and they used it for objects for the house of Yahweh, objects for the service and the burnt offerings, dishes, and objects of gold and silver. And they were offering burnt offerings in the house of Yahweh regularly, all the days of Jehoiada. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|2Chron-24-01]] }}}
{{rf{15}}} And Jehoiada grew old and full of days, and he died; he was one hundred and thirty years old at his death. {{rf{16}}} And they buried him in the city of David with the kings, for he did good in Israel and with respect to God and his house. {{rf{17}}} Now after the death of Jehoiada, the princes of Judah came and bowed down to the king. Then the king listened to them. {{rf{18}}} And they forsook the house of Yahweh, the God of their ancestors and served the Asherahs and the idols. And wrath came upon Judah and Jerusalem on account of this guilt. {{rf{19}}} But he sent prophets among them, to bring them back to Yahweh. And they testified against them, and they did not obey. {{rf{20}}} Then the Spirit of God clothed Zechariah the son of Jehoiada the priest, and he stood above the people and said to them, "Thus says God: 'Why are you transgressing the commandments of Yahweh so that you will not succeed? For you have forsaken Yahweh, so he will forsake you.'" {{rf{21}}} Then they conspired against him and stoned him with stones at the command of the king in the courtyard of the house of Yahweh. {{rf{22}}} So King Joash did not remember the loyal love that Jehoiada had shown to him, and he killed his son. And as he was dying he said, "May Yahweh see and avenge!" {{rf{23}}} And it happened at the turn of the year that the army of Aram went up against him, and they came to Judah and Jerusalem and destroyed all the commanders of the people from among the people, and all the war booty they sent to the king of Damascus. {{rf{24}}} Though the army of Aram came with few men, Yahweh gave a very large army into their hand, for they had forsaken Yahweh, the God of their ancestors. And they inflicted punishment on Joash. {{rf{25}}} And when they were going away from him (for they had left him with many wounds), his servants conspired against him on account of the blood of the sons of Jehoiada the priest. So they killed him on his bed and he died. And they buried him in the city of David, but they did not bury him at the burial sites of the kings. {{rf{26}}} Now these are the ones who conspired against him: Zabad the son of Shimeath, the Ammonite, and Jehozabad the son of Shimrith, the Moabite. {{rf{27}}} And as for his sons, the many oracles against him, and his repair of the foundation of the house of God, behold, they are written in the story of the scroll of the kings. And Amaziah his son reigned in his place. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|2Chron-24-15]] }}}
Amaziah was twenty-five years old when he became king. And he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem, and the name of his mother was Jehoaddan from Jerusalem. {{rf{2}}} And he did what was right in the eyes of Yahweh, only not with a fully-devoted heart. {{rf{3}}} And it happened that as his reign was strengthened, he killed his servants who had killed his father the king. {{rf{4}}} But he did not put their children to death, according to what is written in the law, in the scroll of Moses, where Yahweh commanded, saying, "Fathers shall not be put to death on account of the sons, and the sons shall not be put to death on account of the fathers, but each shall be put to death for his own sin." {{rf{5}}} Then Amaziah assembled the men of Judah and set them by families under commanders of thousands and commanders of hundreds for all Judah and Benjamin. And he counted them from twenty years old and upward, and found them to be three hundred thousand chosen for going out to battle, able with spear and shield. {{rf{6}}} And he hired from Israel one hundred thousand strong, mighty warriors for one hundred talents. {{rf{7}}} But a man of God came to him, saying, "O king, do not let the army of Israel go with you, for Yahweh is not with Israel, all the Ephraimites. {{rf{8}}} But even still, you yourself go, do! Be strong for the battle else God will make you stumble before the enemy! For there is power with God to help and to cause stumbling." {{rf{9}}} And Amaziah said to the man of God, "Now what should I do with the one hundred talents that I have given to the troops of Israel?" And the man of God said, "Yahweh is able to give to you more than this." {{rf{10}}} Then Amaziah dismissed the troops that came to him from Ephraim to go to their home. And they became very angry with Judah, and they returned to their home in great anger. {{rf{11}}} Then Amaziah strengthened himself, and leading his army, he went to the Valley of Salt. And he struck down ten thousand men of Seir. {{rf{12}}} Now the troops captured ten thousand others alive, and they brought them to the top of the rock and threw them from the top of the rock. So all of them were smashed to pieces. {{rf{13}}} As for the troops Amaziah had sent back from going with him to war, they raided the cities of Judah from Samaria to Beth-Horon. And they struck down three thousand of them and plundered much booty. {{rf{14}}} And it happened that after Amaziah came back from killing the Edomites, he brought the gods of the sons of Seir, and he stood them up to himself as gods and bowed down before them and make smoke offerings for them. {{rf{15}}} So Yahweh became very angry with Amaziah and sent a prophet to him, and he said to him, "Why have you sought the gods of the people who could not deliver their own people from your hand?" {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|2Chron-25-01]] }}}
{{rf{16}}} And it happened that while he was speaking to him, he said to him, "Have we appointed you as a counselor to the king? Stop -- why should you be killed?" So the prophet stopped and said, "I know that God has determined to destroy you, because you have done this and have not listened to my advice." {{rf{17}}} Then Amaziah king of Judah took counsel, and he sent to Joash the son of Jehoahaz the son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying, "Come, let us face one another. {{rf{18}}} And Joash the king of Israel sent to Amaziah king of Judah, saying, "The thorn bush that is in Lebanon has sent to the cedar which is in Lebanon, saying, 'Give your daughter to my son as wife.' But a wild animal of the field that was in Lebanon passed by and trampled the thorn bush. {{rf{19}}} Look, you say that you have struck Edom, and your heart has lifted you up to boast. Now remain at your home. Why stir up disaster that you fall, you and Judah with you?" {{rf{20}}} But Amaziah did not listen, for it was from God that he might give them into the hand of enemies, because they sought the gods of Edom. {{rf{21}}} So Joash the king of Israel went up, and he and Amaziah the king of Judah faced one another at Beth-Shemesh, which belongs to Judah. {{rf{22}}} And Judah was defeated before Israel, and each man fled to his tent. {{rf{23}}} And Joash the king of Israel captured Amaziah the king of Judah, the son of Joash, the son of Jehoahaz, at Beth-Shemesh. And they brought him to Jerusalem and broke down the wall of Jerusalem from the Gate of Ephraim to the Corner Gate, four hundred cubits. {{rf{24}}} Then with all the gold and silver, all the objects found in the house of God with Obed-Edom, the storehouses of the house of the king, and the hostages, he returned to Samaria. {{rf{25}}} And Amaziah the son of Joash, king of Judah, lived after the death of Joash the son of Jehoahaz, the king of Israel, fifteen years. {{rf{26}}} Now the remainder of the words of Amaziah, from the first to the last, behold, are they not written in the scroll of the kings of Judah and Israel? {{rf{27}}} And from the time that Amaziah turned away from Yahweh, they had plotted a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem. And he fled to Lachish, but they sent after him to Lachish and killed him there. {{rf{28}}} And they carried him on the horses and buried him with his ancestors in the city of Judah. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|2Chron-25-16]] }}}
Then all the people of Judah took Uzziah (now he was sixteen years old) and made him king in the place of his father Amaziah. {{rf{2}}} He built Elath and returned it to Judah after the king slept with his ancestors. {{rf{3}}} Uzziah was sixteen years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem fifty-two years. And the name of his mother was Yecoliah of Jerusalem. {{rf{4}}} And he did what was right in the eyes of Yahweh, according to all that Amaziah his father had done. {{rf{5}}} And he began to seek God in the days of Zechariah who was teaching in visions of God. And whenever he sought Yahweh God made him have success. {{rf{6}}} And he went out and made war against the Philistines, and he broke down the wall of Gath and the wall of Jabneh and the wall of Ashdod, and he built cities in Ashdod and among the Philistines. {{rf{7}}} And God helped him against the Philistines and against the Arabs who were living in Gur-Baal and Meunim. {{rf{8}}} And the Ammonites gave tribute to Uzziah, and his fame went out to the boundary of Egypt, for he became very strong. {{rf{9}}} And Uzziah built towers in Jerusalem at the Corner Gate, at the Valley Gate, and at the Angle, and he strengthened them. {{rf{10}}} And he built towers in the desert and hewed many cisterns, for he had much livestock, both in the Shephelah and on the plain, along with farmers and vinedressers in the hills and in the fertile lands, for he loved the soil. {{rf{11}}} And Uzziah had troops trained and ready for war in divisions according to the number of their enrollment at the hand of Jeuel the scribe and Maaseiah the officer, under the hand of Hananiah of the king's commanders. {{rf{12}}} The whole number of the heads of the families for mighty warriors of strength was two thousand six hundred. {{rf{13}}} And under their hand were army troops numbering three hundred and seven thousand five hundred who could make war with power and strength to help the king against an enemy. {{rf{14}}} And Uzziah prepared small shields, spears, helmets, breastplates, bows, and slingstones for the whole army. {{rf{15}}} And he made siege machines in Jerusalem designed by skillful men to be set upon the towers and upon the corners to shoot arrows and large slingstones. And his fame went out far, for he helped marvelously, for he was strong. {{rf{16}}} But on account of his strength his heart grew proud unto destruction. And he acted unfaithfully against Yahweh his God and went into the temple of Yahweh to offer an incense offering on the altar. {{rf{17}}} And Azariah the priest, along with eighty strong priests with him, went in after him. {{rf{18}}} And they stood against King Uzziah and said to him, "It is not for you, Uzziah, to burn incense to Yahweh, but it is for the priests, the descendants of Aaron, who are consecrated to burn incense. Go out of the sanctuary, for you have acted unfaithfully. There will be no honor for you from Yahweh God." {{rf{19}}} Then Uzziah, his censer in hand to burn incense, became angry. And when he became angry with the priests, then leprosy appeared on his forehead in front of the priests in the house of Yahweh at the altar of incense. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|2Chron-26-01]] }}}
{{rf{20}}} When Azariah the chief priest and all the priests turned to him, behold, he was leprous in the forehead. So they rushed him away from there, and he also hastened to go out, for Yahweh had smitten him. {{rf{21}}} So King Uzziah was leprous until the day of his death, and he lived in a separate house as a leper, for he was cut off from the house of Yahweh. And Jotham his son was over the house of the king, judging the people of the land. {{rf{22}}} Now the remainder of the words of Uzziah, from the first to the last, Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, wrote them. {{rf{23}}} And Uzziah slept with his ancestors, and they buried him with his ancestors in the burial field which belonged to the kings, because, they said, "He was leprous." And Jotham his son reigned in his place.
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{{rf big{1}}} Jotham was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. And the name of his mother was Jerusha the daughter of Zadok. {{rf{2}}} And he did what was right in the eyes of Yahweh, according to all that his father Uzziah had done -- only he did not go into the temple of Yahweh. But the people still acted corruptly. {{rf{3}}} He built the upper gate of the house of Yahweh, and he did much restoration on the wall of Ophel. {{rf{4}}} And he built cities in the hill country of Judah, and he built forts and towers in the wooded places. {{rf{5}}} Now he fought with the king of the Ammonites and prevailed against them. And the Ammonites gave to him in that year one hundred talents of silver and ten thousand measures of wheat and ten thousand measures of barley. This is what the Ammonites rendered to him, as well as in the second and third year. {{rf{6}}} And Jotham strengthened himself, for he established his ways before Yahweh his God. {{rf{7}}} Now the remainder of the words of Jotham and all his wars and his ways, behold, they are written upon the scroll of the kings of Israel and Judah. {{rf{8}}} He was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. {{rf{9}}} And Jotham slept with his ancestors, and they buried him in the city of David. And his son Ahaz became king in his place. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|2Chron-26-20]] }}}
Ahaz was twenty years old when he became king, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. And he did not do what is right in the eyes of Yahweh like David his ancestor. {{rf{2}}} But he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel and also made molten idols for the Baals. {{rf{3}}} And he himself burned incense in the valley of Ben-Hinnom and burned his sons in the fire, according to the detestable practices of the nations whom Yahweh drove out before the Israelites. {{rf{4}}} And he sacrificed and burned incense at the high places, on the hilltops, and under every flourishing tree. {{rf{5}}} Then Yahweh his God gave him into the hand of the king of Aram who defeated him and captured many captives from him and brought them to Damascus. Moreover, he was also given into the hand of the king of Israel, and he defeated him by a great attack. {{rf{6}}} And Pekah, the son of Remaliah, killed in one day one hundred and twenty thousand in Judah, all men of strength, because they forsook Yahweh the God of their ancestors. {{rf{7}}} And Zikri, a mighty warrior of Ephraim, killed Maaseiah the son of the king, Azrikam the commander of the house, and Elkanah the second to the king. {{rf{8}}} And the Israelites captured two hundred thousand of their brothers, women, sons, and daughters. And they also plundered much booty from them and brought the booty to Samaria. {{rf{9}}} Now a prophet of Yahweh was there; Oded was his name. And he went out before the army that was coming to Samaria and said to them, "Look, it is on account of the anger of Yahweh, the God of your ancestors, against Judah that he gave them into your hands, and you killed them in a rage reaching to the heavens. {{rf{10}}} So now, you yourselves plan to subdue people of Judah and Jerusalem as slaves and female servants for yourselves. Is there not also guilt on your part against Yahweh your God? {{rf{11}}} So now, listen to me and return the captives of your brothers whom you have taken captive, for the fierce anger of Yahweh is against you." {{rf{12}}} Then men from the heads of Ephraim -- Azariah the son of Jehohanan, Berekiah the son of Meshillemoth, Hezekiah the son of Shallum, and Amasa the son of Hadlai -- stood against those returning from the fight. {{rf{13}}} And they said to them, "You shall not bring the captives here, for it is as guilt against Yahweh upon us. You yourselves plan to add to our sins and to our guilt, but our guilt is very great, and there is great anger against Israel." {{rf{14}}} So the soldiers left the captives and the plunder before the commanders and all the assembly. {{rf{15}}} Then the men designated by name arose and took the captives and from the plunder clothed all their nakedness. So they clothed them, gave them sandals, gave them food to eat, gave them water to drink, anointed them, and guided them with the donkeys provided for all those who stumbled, and brought them to Jericho, the city of the palm trees, next to their brothers. Then they returned to Samaria. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|2Chron-28-01]] }}}
{{rf{16}}} At that time King Ahaz sent to the king of Assyria to help him, {{rf{17}}} since again the Edomites came and struck against Judah and took captives. {{rf{18}}} And the Philistines sent raids into the cities of the Shephelah and the Negeb of Judah. And they captured Beth-Shemesh, Aijalon, Gederoth, Socoh with its villages, Timnah with its villages, and Gimzo with its villages. And they settled there. {{rf{19}}} For Yahweh subdued Judah for the sake of Ahaz, king of Israel, for he created disorder in Judah and acted unfaithfully against Yahweh. {{rf{20}}} Then Tiglath-Pileser the king of Assyria came against him and brought trouble for him, instead of helping him, {{rf{21}}} for Ahaz took a portion from the house of Yahweh and the house of the king and the princes, and he gave it to the king of Assyria, but it was no help to him. {{rf{22}}} And in the time of his distress, King Ahaz continued to act unfaithfully against Yahweh. {{rf{23}}} He sacrificed to the gods of Damascus that had defeated him and said, "Because the gods of the king of Aram helped them, I will sacrifice to them so that they will help me." But they were a disaster to him and to all Israel. {{rf{24}}} Then Ahaz gathered the objects of the house of God, and he cut the objects of the house of God to pieces. And he shut the doors of the house of Yahweh and made for himself altars in every corner of Jerusalem. {{rf{25}}} And in every city of Judah he made high places to burn incense to other gods, and he provoked Yahweh, the God of his ancestors, to anger. {{rf{26}}} Now the remainder of his words and all his ways, from the first to the last, behold, they are written upon the scroll of the kings of Judah and Israel. {{rf{27}}} And Ahaz slept with his ancestors, and they buried him in the city, in Jerusalem, for they did not bring him to the burial site of the kings of Israel. And Hezekiah his son became king in his place. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|2Chron-28-16]] }}}
Hezekiah became king when he was twenty-five years old, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. And the name of his mother was Abijah the daughter of Zechariah. {{rf{2}}} And he did that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh, according to all that David his father had done. {{rf{3}}} In the first year of his kingship, in the first month, he opened the doors of the house of Yahweh and strengthened them. {{rf{4}}} And he brought in the priests and the Levites, and he gathered them into the eastern square. {{rf{5}}} And he said to them, "Hear me, O Levites! Sanctify yourselves now, and sanctify the house of Yahweh, the God of your ancestors, and bring out the defilement from the sanctuary. {{rf{6}}} For our ancestors acted unfaithfully and did evil in the sight of Yahweh our God, and have forsaken him and turned away their faces from the dwelling place of Yahweh. They have turned their backs on it. {{rf{7}}} They also shut the doors of the portico and extinguished the lamps. And they did not burn incense or offer burnt offerings in the sanctuary to the God of Israel. {{rf{8}}} And the wrath of Yahweh was upon Judah and Jerusalem. And he made them as an abhorrence, as a desolation and an object of scorn, as you see with your own eyes. {{rf{9}}} Now behold, our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons and our daughters and our wives are in captivity on account of this. {{rf{10}}} Now it is in my heart to make a covenant with Yahweh, the God of Israel, so that his fierce anger might turn away from him. {{rf{11}}} Now, my sons, do not be negligent, for Yahweh has chosen you to stand before him to serve him and to be his servants and incense burners." {{rf{12}}} Then the Levites arose -- Mahath the son of Amasai and Joel the son of Azariah, from the Kohathites; and Kish the son of Abdi and Azariah the son of Jehallelel from the Merarites; and Joah son of Zimmah and Eden son of Joah, from the Gershonites. {{rf{13}}} And from the descendants of Elizaphan: Shimri and Jeiel; and from the descendants of Asaph: Zechariah and Mattaniah; {{rf{14}}} and from the descendants of Heman: Jeiel and Shimei; and from the descendants of Jeduthun: Shemaiah and Uzziel -- {{rf{15}}} and they gathered their brothers and sanctified themselves, and they went in according to the command of the king because of the words of Yahweh, to purify the house of Yahweh. {{rf{16}}} And the priests went into the inner part of the house of Yahweh to purify it. And they brought out all the impurity that they found in the temple of Yahweh out to the courtyard of the house of Yahweh. And the Levites took them to bring them outside to the Wadi Kidron. {{rf{17}}} And they began to sanctify themselves on the first day of the first month. And on the eighth day of the month they came to the portico of Yahweh. And they sanctified the house of Yahweh for eight days, and on the sixteenth day of the first month they finished. {{rf{18}}} And they went into the inner part to King Hezekiah and said, "We have cleansed all the house of Yahweh: the altar of burnt offering, all its objects, the table of the rows of bread and all its objects, {{rf{19}}} and all the objects that King Ahaz discarded in his reign when he sinned, we have prepared and sanctified. Look, they are before the altar of Yahweh." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|2Chron-29-01]] }}}
{{rf{20}}} Then King Hezekiah rose early and gathered the officials of the city, and he went up to the house of Yahweh. {{rf{21}}} And they brought seven bulls, seven rams, seven lambs, and seven male goats as a purification offering for the kingdom, for the sanctuary, and for Judah. And he commanded the descendants of Aaron, the priests, to offer them on the altar of Yahweh. {{rf{22}}} And they slaughtered the cattle, and the priests received the blood and threw it toward the altar. Then they slaughtered the rams and threw the blood toward the altar, and then they slaughtered the lambs and threw the blood toward the altar. {{rf{23}}} Then they brought the goats of the sin offering before the king and the assembly, and they laid hands upon them. {{rf{24}}} And the priest killed them and offered their blood against the altar to make atonement for all Israel, for the king had commanded the burnt offering and the sin offering for all Israel. {{rf{25}}} And he stood the Levites in the house of Yahweh with cymbals, harps, and lyres, according to the command of David and Gad, the seer of the king, and Nathan the prophet, for the command was by the hand of Yahweh by the hand of his prophets. {{rf{26}}} When the Levites stood with the objects of David and the priests with the trumpets, {{rf{27}}} Hezekiah commanded to offer the burnt offering upon the altar. And at the time the burnt offering began, the song of Yahweh began, and also the trumpets, at the hands of the instruments of David king of Israel. {{rf{28}}} Then all the assembly bowed down, and the song was sung, and the trumpeters trumpeted -- all together until the end of the burnt offering. {{rf{29}}} And when the offering was finished, the king and all who were found with him knelt down and bowed themselves. {{rf{30}}} Then King Hezekiah and the princes commanded the Levites to praise Yahweh with the words of David and Asaph the seer. So they offered praise with joy, and they bowed down and worshiped. {{rf{31}}} Then Hezekiah answered and said, "Now you have consecrated yourselves to Yahweh. Come near and bring sacrifices and thank offerings to the house of Yahweh!" And the assembly brought sacrifices and thank offerings, and all who were willing in heart brought burnt offerings. {{rf{32}}} And the number of burnt offerings that the assembly brought was seventy cattle, one hundred rams, two hundred lambs -- all these were to offer to Yahweh. {{rf{33}}} And the consecrated offerings of cattle were six hundred cattle and three thousand sheep. {{rf{34}}} But the priests were too few, and they were not able to offer all the burnt offerings, so their brothers, the Levites, strengthened them to finish the work, and until the rest of the priests consecrated themselves. (For the Levites were more conscientious to sanctify themselves than the priests.) {{rf{35}}} And beside the many burnt offerings was the fat of the peace offerings and the libations for the burnt offerings. So the service of the house of Yahweh was established. {{rf{36}}} And Hezekiah and all the people rejoiced over what God had established with the people, for the matter happened suddenly. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|2Chron-29-20]] }}}
Then Hezekiah sent to all Israel and Judah, and he also wrote letters to Ephraim and Manasseh, to come to the house of Yahweh in Jerusalem to make a Passover feast to Yahweh the God of Israel. {{rf{2}}} Now the king and his princes, and all the assembly in Jerusalem had taken counsel to make the Passover feast in the second month -- {{rf{3}}} but they were not able to make it at that time, for the priests had not consecrated themselves in sufficient numbers, and the people had not been assembled in Jerusalem -- {{rf{4}}} and the plan seemed right in the eyes of the king and in the eyes of all the assembly. {{rf{5}}} So they let the decree stand, to make a proclamation throughout all Israel, from Beersheba to Dan, to come to make a Passover feast to Yahweh the God of Israel. {{rf{6}}} And the runners went with the letter from the hand of the king and his princes throughout all Israel and Judah according to the command of the king, saying, "O sons of Israel, return to Yahweh, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, that he may turn again to the remnant of you who escaped from the hand of the kings of Assyria. {{rf{7}}} Do not be like your fathers and like your brothers, who acted unfaithfully before Yahweh, the God of their ancestors, so that he made them as a desolation, as you see. {{rf{8}}} Now, do not stiffen your neck as your fathers, but give a hand to Yahweh and come to his sanctuary, which he has consecrated forever, and serve Yahweh your God that his fierce anger may turn away from you. {{rf{9}}} For when you return to Yahweh, your brothers and your children will find compassion before their captors and return to this land, for Yahweh your God is gracious and compassionate, and he will not turn away his face from you if you return to him." {{rf{10}}} And it happened that the runners were passing from city to city in the land of Ephraim and Manasseh, and up to Zebulun, but they were laughing at them and mocking them. {{rf{11}}} Only men from Asher, Manasseh, and Zebulun humbled themselves and came to Jerusalem. {{rf{12}}} The hand of God was also upon Judah, to give them one heart to obey the command of the king and the princes concerning the word of Yahweh. {{rf{13}}} So many people gathered in Jerusalem to hold the Feast of Unleavened Bread in the second month; it was a very great assembly. {{rf{14}}} And they rose up and removed the altars that were in Jerusalem. And they removed all the incense altars and threw them away in the Wadi Kidron. {{rf{15}}} And they slaughtered the Passover lamb on the fourteenth day of the second month. And the priests and the Levites were disgraced, so they consecrated themselves and brought burnt offerings into the house of Yahweh. {{rf{16}}} Then they stood at their positions according to custom, according to the law of Moses the man of God. The priests were sprinkling the blood from the hand of the Levites. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|2Chron-30-01]] }}}
{{rf{17}}} For there were many in the assembly who did not consecrate themselves, so the Levites were over the killing of the Passover sacrifices for all who were not clean, to consecrate them to Yahweh. {{rf{18}}} For a majority of the people, many from Ephraim, Manasseh, Issachar, and Zebulun, had not cleansed themselves. But they ate the Passover sacrifice otherwise than prescribed, but Hezekiah had prayed for them, saying, "May the good Yahweh make atonement unto {{rf{19}}} everyone whose heart is set to seek God, Yahweh the God of his ancestors, though not according to the cleansing for the sanctuary." {{rf{20}}} And Yahweh listened to Hezekiah, and he healed the people. {{rf{21}}} And the Israelites who were found in Jerusalem kept the Feast of Unleavened Bread seven days with great joy. And the Levites and the priests were offering praise to Yahweh day by day, with powerful instruments to Yahweh. {{rf{22}}} And Hezekiah spoke to the heart of all the Levites who were skilled at service to Yahweh. So they ate the feast seven days, offering peace offerings and giving thanks to Yahweh, the God of their ancestors. {{rf{23}}} Then the whole assembly decided to make seven more days of feasting, so they made seven more days with joy, {{rf{24}}} for Hezekiah the king of Judah had provided one thousand bulls and seven thousand sheep for the assembly, and the princes provided one thousand bulls and ten thousand sheep for the assembly. And many priests consecrated themselves. {{rf{25}}} And the whole assembly of Judah, the priests and the Levites, all the assembly who had come from the land of Israel, and those living in Judah rejoiced. {{rf{26}}} And there was great joy in Jerusalem, for from the days of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel, there was nothing such as this in Jerusalem. {{rf{27}}} Then the priests and the Levites arose and blessed the people, and their voice was heard, and their prayer came to his holy dwelling place in the heavens. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|2Chron-30-17]] }}}
And when all this was finished, all Israel who were found in the cities of Judah went out and shattered the stone pillars, cut down the Asherahs, and destroyed the high places and the altars from all Judah, Benjamin, Ephraim, and Manasseh to the very last one. Then all the Israelites returned, each to his own property and to their cities. {{rf{2}}} And Hezekiah appointed working groups of the priests and the Levites, each according to their divisions, according to the service for priests and Levites, for burnt offerings, for peace offerings, to serve, to give thanks, and to praise in the gates of the camps of Yahweh. {{rf{3}}} And the gift of the king was out of his own possessions for the burnt offerings -- the burnt offerings for the morning and the evening and for Sabbaths, new moon festivals, and appointed feasts, as is written in the law of Yahweh. {{rf{4}}} Then he said to the people, to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, to give a gift for the priests and the Levites, so that they might be strong in the law of Yahweh. {{rf{5}}} And the word spread. The Israelites gave abundantly from the firstfruits of grain, new wine, olive oil, honey, and all kinds of grains from the field. And they brought tithes of everything in abundance. {{rf{6}}} Then the people of Israel and Judah who were living in the cities of Judah, they also brought a tithe of cattle and sheep and a tithe of consecrated objects to Yahweh their God. And they gave heaps upon heaps. {{rf{7}}} In the third month the heaps began to pile up, and in the seventh month they ceased. {{rf{8}}} When Hezekiah and the princes came and saw the heaps, they blessed Yahweh and his people Israel. {{rf{9}}} And Hezekiah questioned the priests and the Levites concerning the heaps. {{rf{10}}} And Azariah the chief priest of the house of Zadok answered him, saying, "Since the offerings began to be brought to the house of Yahweh, we have eaten and been satisfied, and have much to spare, for Yahweh has blessed his people. Now see this abundant remainder!" {{rf{11}}} And Hezekiah commanded to prepare chambers in the house of Yahweh, and they were prepared. {{rf{12}}} Then they brought the offerings and tithes and holy objects faithfully. And over them as leader was Conaniah the Levite. And Shimei his brother was second in rank. {{rf{13}}} And Jehiel, Azaziah, Nathan, Asahel, Jerimoth, Jozabad, Eliel, Ismachiah, Mahath, and Benaiah were chief officers under the hand of Conaniah and Shimei, his brother, by appointment of King Hezekiah. And Azaraiah was leader of the house of God. {{rf{14}}} Now Kore the son of Imlah, the Levite, the gatekeeper of the east gate was over the freewill offerings of God, to give offerings to Yahweh and the most holy things. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|2Chron-31-01]] }}}
{{rf{15}}} And at his hand were Eden, Miniamin, Jeshua, Shemaiah, Amariah, and Shecaniah in the cities of the priests and entrusted to give to their brothers by working groups, according to the eldest to the youngest, {{rf{16}}} besides their enrollment by genealogy, to males from three years old and upward, to all who came into the house of Yahweh, as each day required for their service in their posts according to their working groups. {{rf{17}}} And the enrollment of the priests was according to the house of their fathers, and the Levites, from twenty years old and upward, according to their posts by their working groups. {{rf{18}}} And they were enrolled with all their little ones, their wives, their sons, and their daughters for the whole assembly because of their faithfulness. And they sanctified themselves in holiness. {{rf{19}}} And for the descendants of Aaron, the priests, who were in the fields of the pasturelands of their cities, in each and every one of their cities were men who were designated by name to give shares to every male among the priests and to everyone enrolled among the Levites. {{rf{20}}} And Hezekiah did according to this throughout all Judah. And he did what is good and what is right and what is faithful before Yahweh his God. {{rf{21}}} And in every work that he began in the service of the house of God or with respect to the law and the commandment to seek his God, he did with all his heart, and he prospered. {{rf big{1}}} After these things and these acts of faithfulness, Sennacherib the king of Assyria came, and he came against Judah. And he encamped against the fortified cities and planned to break them down for himself. {{rf{2}}} When Hezekiah saw that Sennacherib had come and that his face was set for battle against Jerusalem, {{rf{3}}} he took counsel with his commanders and his mighty warriors to block off the waters of the springs that came from outside the city, and they helped him. {{rf{4}}} Then many people were gathered, and they blocked off all the springs and the river that flowed through the midst of the land, saying, "Why should the kings of Assyria come and find much water?" {{rf{5}}} Then he strengthened himself and built up all the walls that were broken down, and raised towers upon them and another wall outside. And he strengthened the Millo of the city of David and made much weaponry and small shields. {{rf{6}}} And he appointed commanders for battle over the people and gathered them to himself into the public square of the gate of the city. And he spoke to their hearts, saying, {{rf{7}}} "Be strong! Be courageous! Do not fear and do not be dismayed before the king of Assyria and before all the crowd that is with him, for there are more with us than with him. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|2Chron-31-15]] }}}
{{rf{8}}} With him is the arm of flesh, and with us is Yahweh our God, to help us and to fight our battles." And the people took confidence with the words of Hezekiah, king of Judah. {{rf{9}}} After this Sennacherib the king of Assyria sent his servants to Jerusalem (now he and all his armies with him were against Lachish) to Hezekiah king of Judah and to all of Judah that was in Jerusalem, saying, {{rf{10}}} "Thus says Sennacherib the king of Assyria: 'On what are you relying that you are dwelling in siege works in Jerusalem? {{rf{11}}} Is not Hezekiah urging you to give you up to die by starvation and thirst, saying, "Yahweh our God will save us from the hand of the king of Assyria"? {{rf{12}}} Has not Hezekiah himself removed his high places and his altars and said to Judah and to Jerusalem, saying, "You must bow down before one altar and upon it you must make offerings"? {{rf{13}}} Do you not know what I have done, I and my ancestors, to all the peoples of the lands? Were the gods of the nations of all the lands at all able to save their land from my hand? {{rf{14}}} Who among all the gods of those nations whom my ancestors utterly destroyed was able to save his people from my hand, that your God will be able to save you from my hand? {{rf{15}}} So now, do not let Hezekiah deceive you. Do not let him urge you according to this. Do not put trust in him, for no god of any nation and kingdom has been able to save his people from my hand and from the hand of my ancestors. Surely then your God will not save you from my hand!'" {{rf{16}}} And still more his servants said against Yahweh God and against Hezekiah his servant. {{rf{17}}} And he wrote letters to treat Yahweh the God of Israel with contempt and spoke against him, saying, "As the gods of the nations of the earth who did not save their people from my hand, so likewise the God of Hezekiah will not save his people from my hand." {{rf{18}}} Then they called with a great voice in Judean to the people of Jerusalem who were upon the wall to frighten them and terrify them, so that they could take the city captive. {{rf{19}}} And they spoke about the God of Jerusalem as about the gods of the peoples of the earth, the works of the hands of humankind. {{rf{20}}} Then King Hezekiah and Isaiah the son of Amoz, the prophet, prayed concerning this. And they cried to the heavens. {{rf{21}}} Then Yahweh sent an angel, and he destroyed every mighty warrior of strength, commander, and officer in the camp of the king of Assyria. And he returned with shamed face to his land and went into the house of his god. And some of the offspring of his loins fell upon him there with the sword. {{rf{22}}} So Yahweh saved Hezekiah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem from the hand of Sennacherib, king of Assyria, and from the all their enemies, and gave them rest all around. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|2Chron-32-08]] }}}
{{rf{23}}} And many brought tribute to Yahweh, to Jerusalem, and precious things to Hezekiah king of Judah, so that he was exalted in the eyes of all the nations thereafter. {{rf{24}}} In those days Hezekiah fell ill unto death, and he prayed to Yahweh. And he answered him and gave him a sign. {{rf{25}}} But Hezekiah did not reciprocate according to the benefit placed upon him, because his heart became proud. So wrath was upon him and upon Judah and Jerusalem. {{rf{26}}} But Hezekiah humbled himself with respect to the arrogance of his heart, he and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that the wrath of Yahweh did not come upon them in the days of Hezekiah. {{rf{27}}} And Hezekiah had very much wealth and honor, and he made storehouses for himself for silver, gold, precious stones, spices, small shields, and all sorts of desirable objects; {{rf{28}}} and storage buildings for the yield of grain, new wine, and olive oil; and animal stalls for all kinds of animals, and animals and herds for animal stalls. {{rf{29}}} And he made cities for himself, and livestock of sheep and abundant cattle, for God had given to him very abundant possessions. {{rf{30}}} And this same Hezekiah blocked off the flow of the waters of the upper Gihon, and directed them down the west side of the city of David. And Hezekiah prospered in all his works. {{rf{31}}} And thus in the matter of the envoys of the commanders of Babylon who had been sent to him to seek the sign that had happened in the land, God forsook him, to test him and to know all that was in his heart. {{rf{32}}} Now the remainder of the words of Hezekiah and his loyal love, behold, they are written in the visions of Isaiah the son of Amoz, the prophet, upon the scroll of the kings of Judah and Israel. {{rf{33}}} And Hezekiah slept with his ancestors, and they buried him in the upper part of the burial sites of the descendants of David. And all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem did him honor at his death. And Manasseh his son became king in his place. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|2Chron-32-23]] }}}
Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem. {{rf{2}}} And he did evil in the eyes of Yahweh according to the detestable things of the nations whom Yahweh drove out before the Israelites. {{rf{3}}} And he rebuilt the high places that Hezekiah his father broke down, and he set up altars for the Baals, made Asherahs, and bowed down to the host of heaven and served them. {{rf{4}}} And he built altars in the house of Yahweh, of which Yahweh had said, "In Jerusalem my name shall be forever." {{rf{5}}} And he built altars to all the host of heaven in the two courtyards of the house of Yahweh. {{rf{6}}} And he himself burned his sons in the fire in the Valley of Ben-Hinnom. And he practiced sorcery and divination, and he engaged in witchcraft and dealt with mediums and spiritists. And he did much evil in the eyes of Yahweh, to provoke him to anger. {{rf{7}}} And he placed the carved image of the idol that he had made in the house of God, of which God had said to David and to Solomon his son, "In this house and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen from all the tribes of Israel, I will put my name forever. {{rf{8}}} And I will never remove the foot of Israel from upon the land that I appointed to your ancestors, if only you will take care to do all that I have commanded them, all the law, the regulations, and the judgments by the hand of Moses." {{rf{9}}} And Manasseh seduced Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to do evil more than the nations that Yahweh destroyed before the Israelites. {{rf{10}}} And Yahweh spoke to Manasseh and to his people, but they would not listen. {{rf{11}}} So Yahweh brought the commanders of the army of the king of Assyria upon them, and they took Manasseh captive with hooks, and they bound him with bronze fetters and brought him to Babylon. {{rf{12}}} And when he was in distress he entreated Yahweh his God and greatly humbled himself before the God of his ancestors {{rf{13}}} and prayed to him. And God responded to him and heard his plea and let him return to Jerusalem to his kingdom. And Manasseh knew that Yahweh was God. {{rf{14}}} Then afterward he built an outer wall for the city of David west of the Gihon in the valley, and for the entrance into the Gate of the Fishes. And it encircled the Ophel and raised it very high. Then he placed strong commanders in all the fortified cities of Judah. {{rf{15}}} And he removed the foreign gods and the carved image from the house of Yahweh and all the altars which he built on the mountain of the house of Yahweh and in Jerusalem, and he threw them outside the city. {{rf{16}}} And he restored the altar of Yahweh and offered sacrifices of peace offerings and thank offerings upon it. And he commanded Judah to serve Yahweh, the God of Israel. {{rf{17}}} Nevertheless, the people offered at the high places, but only to Yahweh their God. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|2Chron-33-01]] }}}
{{rf{18}}} Now the remainder of the words of Manasseh and his prayer to his God and the words of the seers who spoke to him in the name of Yahweh, the God of Israel, behold, they are in the words of the kings of Israel. {{rf{19}}} And his prayer, and how he responded to him, all his sin and his unfaithful acts, and the places where he built the high places and set up Asherahs and idols before he humbled himself, behold, they are written in the words of the seers. {{rf{20}}} And Manasseh slept with his ancestors, and they buried him in his house. And Amon his son became king in his place. {{rf{21}}} Amon was twenty-two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned two years in Jerusalem. {{rf{22}}} And he did what was evil in the eyes of Yahweh as Manasseh his father had done. And Amon sacrificed to all the idols that Manasseh his father had made, and he served them. {{rf{23}}} And he did not humble himself before Yahweh, as Manasseh his father humbled himself, but Amon himself multiplied his guilt. {{rf{24}}} And his servants conspired against him and killed him in his house. {{rf{25}}} But the people of the land struck down all who conspired against King Amon. And the people of the land made his son Josiah king in his place. {{rf big{1}}} Josiah was eight years old when he became king, and he reigned thirty-one years in Jerusalem. {{rf{2}}} And he did what was right in the eyes of Yahweh, and he walked in the ways of David his ancestor and did not deviate to the right or to the left. {{rf{3}}} In the eighth year of his reign, while he was still a boy, he began to seek the God of David his ancestor. And in the twelfth year he began to cleanse Judah and Jerusalem of the high places, the Asherahs, the idols, and the images. {{rf{4}}} And he destroyed before him the altars for the Baals, and he cut down the incense stands above them. And the Asherahs, the idols, and the images he smashed. And he ground them to powder and sprinkled the dust over the burial sites of those who sacrificed to them. {{rf{5}}} And he burned the bones of the priests on the altars and cleansed Judah and Jerusalem. {{rf{6}}} And in the cities of Manasseh, Ephraim, Simeon, and as far as Naphtali, in their ruins all around, {{rf{7}}} he broke down the altars and the Asherahs and crushed the idols, grinding them to dust, and he cut down all the incense stands in all the land of Israel. Then he returned to Jerusalem. {{rf{8}}} Now in the eighteenth year of his reign after he purged the land and the house, he sent Shaphan the son of Azaliah, Maaseiah the commander of the city, and Joah the son of Joahaz, the recorder, to repair the house of Yahweh his God. {{rf{9}}} And they came to Hilkiah the high priest and gave the money that was brought for the house of God, which the Levites, the guardians of the threshold, had gathered from the hand of Manasseh, Ephraim, and from the whole remnant of Israel, and from all Judah and Benjamin and the inhabitants of Jerusalem. {{rf{10}}} And they delivered it into the hand of the workmen who were appointed in the house of Yahweh, and they in turn gave it to those doing the work who were at work in the house of Yahweh, to repair and restore the house. {{rf{11}}} And they dispensed it to the skilled craftsmen and the builders to buy stone for hewing and timber for the seams and for binding the houses that the kings of Judah had destroyed. {{rf{12}}} And the men did the work faithfully. Over them as supervisors were appointed Jahath and Obadiah, the Levites from the Merarites, and Zechariah and Meshullam from the Kohathites. And other Levites, all who were skilled in instruments of song, {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|2Chron-33-18]] }}}
{{rf{13}}} were over the porters and were directing all who worked on each task. And some of the Levites were scribes, officials, and gatekeepers. {{rf{14}}} And when they brought out the money that had been brought to the house of Yahweh, Hilkiah the priest found a scroll of the law of Yahweh by the hand of Moses. {{rf{15}}} And Hilkiah answered and said to Shaphan the scribe, "I have found a scroll of the law in the house of Yahweh!" Then Hilkiah gave the scroll to Shaphan. {{rf{16}}} And Shaphan brought the scroll to the king and also informed the king, saying, "All that was put into the hand of your servants they are doing. {{rf{17}}} They have dispensed the money which was found in the house of Yahweh and have put it into the hand of the overseers and those doing the work." {{rf{18}}} Then Shaphan the scribe reported to the king, "Hilkiah the priest gave to me a scroll." Then Shaphan read from it before the king. {{rf{19}}} And when the king heard the words of the law, he tore his garments, {{rf{20}}} and the king commanded Hilkiah, Ahikam the son of Shaphan, Abdon the son of Micah, Shaphan the scribe, and Asaiah the servant of the king, saying, {{rf{21}}} "Go! Seek Yahweh on my behalf and on behalf of those remaining in Israel and Judah concerning the words of the scroll that was found, for the anger of Yahweh that was poured out on us is great, because our ancestors have not kept the word of Yahweh, to do all that is written in this scroll." {{rf{22}}} Then Hilkiah and those whom the king had sent went to Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum, son of Tikvath, son of Hasrah, keeper of the garments. (Now she was living in Jerusalem in the second district.) And they spoke to her concerning this. {{rf{23}}} And she said to them, "Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel: 'Say to the man who sent you all to me: {{rf{24}}} "Thus says Yahweh: 'Behold, I am bringing disaster upon this place and upon its inhabitants -- all the curses written in the scroll that were read before the king of Judah -- {{rf{25}}} because they have abandoned me and burned incense to other gods so as to provoke me to anger with all the works of their hands. And my wrath will be poured out on this place and it will not be quenched.' {{rf{26}}} But to the king of Judah who sent you to seek Yahweh, thus shall you say to him: 'Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel: As for the words which you heard, {{rf{27}}} because your heart was responsive and you humbled yourself before God when you heard his words against this place and against its inhabitants and you humbled yourself before me and tore your garments and wept before me, now I also have heard,' declares Yahweh. {{rf{28}}} 'Behold, I will gather you to your ancestors, and you will be gathered to your grave in peace. Your eyes will not see any of the disaster that I am bringing upon this place.'" '" {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|2Chron-34-13]] }}}
{{rf{29}}} Then they sent word to the king, and he gathered all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem. {{rf{30}}} And the king went up to the house of Yahweh with all the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, with the priests and the Levites -- all the people from great to small -- and they read in their ears all the words of the scroll of the covenant that was found in the house of Yahweh. {{rf{31}}} And the king stood at his position. And he made the covenant before Yahweh, to walk after Yahweh and to keep his commands and statutes and regulations with all his heart and with all his soul, to do the words of the covenant that were written on this scroll. {{rf{32}}} Then he obligated all who were found in Jerusalem and in Benjamin, that the inhabitants of Jerusalem would do according to the covenant of God, the God of their ancestors. {{rf{33}}} And Josiah removed all the detestable things from the whole land that belonged to the Israelites and obligated all who were found in Israel to serve Yahweh their God. All his days they did not turn aside from following Yahweh, the God of their ancestors. {{rf big{1}}} Josiah kept the Passover to Yahweh in Jerusalem. And they slaughtered the Passover sacrifice on the fourteenth day of the first month. {{rf{2}}} And he set the priests at their posts and encouraged them in the service of the house of Yahweh. {{rf{3}}} And he said to the Levites who were teaching all Israel, who were sanctified to Yahweh, "Put the holy ark in the house which Solomon the son of David, king of Israel, built. There is no need to carry it on your shoulders. Now serve Yahweh your God and his people Israel. {{rf{4}}} And prepare yourselves according to your families, according to your working groups, according to the decree of David king of Israel and according to the decree of Solomon his son. {{rf{5}}} And stand in the sanctuary according to the clans of your families for your brothers, the lay people, and a part of the family of the Levites. {{rf{6}}} And slaughter the Passover lamb and consecrate yourself and prepare for your brothers to do according to the word of Yahweh by the hand of Moses. {{rf{7}}} Then Josiah provided for the lay people sheep, lambs, and young goats, all for the Passover for all who were found there, to the sum of thirty thousand, along with three thousand bulls. These were the possession of the king. {{rf{8}}} And his officials contributed a freewill offering to the people, to the priests, and to the Levites. Hilkiah, Zechariah, and Jehiel, commanders of the house of God, gave to the priests two thousand six hundred Passover lambs and three hundred bulls. {{rf{9}}} Conaniah also, and Shemaiah and Nethanel his brothers, and Hashabiah and Jeiel and Jehozabad, commanders of the Levites, contributed to the Levites five thousand Passover lambs and five hundred bulls. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|2Chron-34-29]] }}}
{{rf{10}}} And when the work had been completed, the priests stood at their positions and the Levites in their working groups according to the command of the king. {{rf{11}}} And they slaughtered the Passover lamb, and the priests sprinkled the blood from their hand, and the Levites flayed the sacrifices. {{rf{12}}} And they set aside the burnt offerings to give them to the clans of the families for the lay people, to offer to Yahweh according to what is written in the scroll of Moses. And thus they did with the bulls. {{rf{13}}} Then they roasted the Passover lamb in the fire according to the ordinance. And they boiled the holy offerings in pots, in kettles, and in dishes and brought it quickly to the lay people. {{rf{14}}} And afterward they prepared for themselves and for the priests, since the priests, the descendants of Aaron, were busy with offering the burnt offerings and the fat until night. So the Levites prepared for themselves and for the priests, the descendants of Aaron. {{rf{15}}} And the singers, the descendants of Asaph, were at their stations according to the decree of David and Asaph and Heman and Jeduthun, the seer of the king. And the gatekeepers were at each gate. They did not need to depart from their service, for their brothers the Levites had made preparations for them. {{rf{16}}} So all the service of Yahweh was prepared on that day to keep the Passover and to sacrifice burnt offerings on the altar of Yahweh, according to the command of King Josiah. {{rf{17}}} And the Israelites who were present kept the Passover at that time, and the Feast of Unleavened Bread seven days. {{rf{18}}} And there was no Passover like it kept in Israel since the days of Samuel the prophet. And none of the kings of Israel kept a Passover like that which Josiah and the priests and the Levites, and all of Judah and Israel who were present, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, kept. {{rf{19}}} In the eighteenth year of the reign of Josiah this Passover was kept. {{rf{20}}} After all of this that Josiah had prepared for the temple, Neco the king of Egypt went up to make war at Carchemish on the Euphrates, and Josiah went up to meet him. {{rf{21}}} And he sent messengers to him, saying, "What is there between us, O king of Judah? I am not against you yourself this day, but against the house making war against me. And God has commanded me to make haste. Stop opposing God, who is with me that he will not destroy you." {{rf{22}}} But Josiah did not turn his face from him, but he disguised himself to fight with him. He did not listen to the words of Neco from the mouth of God, and he went out to fight in the plain of Megiddo. {{rf{23}}} And the archers shot King Josiah, and the king said to his servants, "Take me away, for I am badly wounded." {{rf{24}}} So his servants took him out of the chariot and transported him in his second chariot and brought him to Jerusalem. And he died and was buried in the burial sites of his ancestors. And all Judah and Jerusalem mourned over Josiah. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|2Chron-35-10]] }}}
{{rf{25}}} And Jeremiah uttered a lament for Josiah, and all the male and female singers have spoken in their laments about Josiah to this day. And they made them a requirement in Israel, and behold, they are written in the laments. {{rf{26}}} Now the remainder of the words of Josiah and his loyal love for what is written in the law of Yahweh {{rf{27}}} and his words, from the first to the last, behold, they are written in the scroll of the kings of Israel and Judah. {{rf big{1}}} And the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah and made him king in place of his father in Jerusalem. {{rf{2}}} Jehoahaz was twenty-three years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem. {{rf{3}}} Then the king of Egypt deposed him in Jerusalem and laid a tribute upon the land of one hundred talents of silver and one talent of gold. {{rf{4}}} And the king of Egypt made Eliakim his brother king over Judah and Jerusalem, and he changed his name to Jehoiakim. But Neco took Jehoahaz his brother and brought him to Egypt. {{rf{5}}} Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. And he did evil in the eyes of Yahweh his God. {{rf{6}}} Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon went up against him, and he bound him with bronze fetters to bring him to Babylon. {{rf{7}}} And Nebuchadnezzar brought to Babylon the objects of the house of Yahweh and put them into the temple in Babylon. {{rf{8}}} Now the remainder of the words of Jehoiakim and the detestable things that he did and what was found against him, behold, they are written in the scroll of the kings of Israel and Judah. And Jehoiachin his son reigned in his place. {{rf{9}}} Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he became king, and he reigned three months and ten days in Jerusalem. And he did evil in the eyes of Yahweh. {{rf{10}}} And at the turn of the year King Nebuchadnezzar sent and brought him to Babylon, with objects of the treasure of the house of Yahweh. And he made Zedekiah his brother king in Judah and Jerusalem. {{rf{11}}} Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. {{rf{12}}} And he did evil in the eyes of Yahweh his God. He did not humble himself before Jeremiah the prophet who spoke for Yahweh. {{rf{13}}} And he also rebelled against King Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him swear by God. He stiffened his neck and hardened his heart against turning to Yahweh, the God of Israel. {{rf{14}}} All the leaders of the priests and the people likewise increased in unfaithfulness according to all the detestable things of the nations. And they polluted the house of Yahweh that he had consecrated in Jerusalem. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|2Chron-35-25]] }}}
{{rf{15}}} And Yahweh, the God of their ancestors, had repeatedly and persistently sent to them by the hand of his messengers, because he had compassion on his people and on his dwelling place. {{rf{16}}} But they were mocking the messengers of God and despising his words and scoffing at his prophets until the wrath of Yahweh rose against his people until there was no remedy. {{rf{17}}} Therefore he brought against them the king of the Chaldeans, and he killed their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary. He showed no mercy on a young man, a virgin, the elderly, or decrepit. He delivered all into his hand. {{rf{18}}} And all the vessels of the house of God, the great and the small, the storehouses of the house of Yahweh, and the storehouses of the king and his princes, these all he brought to Babylon. {{rf{19}}} And they burned the house of God. And they shattered the walls of Jerusalem and burned its citadels with fire and destroyed all the vessels of its treasuries. {{rf{20}}} And he took those who escaped the sword to Babylon. And they became servants to him and to his sons until the rule of the kingdom of Persia, {{rf{21}}} to fulfill the word of Yahweh by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land has enjoyed its Sabbaths. All the days of desolation it kept Sabbath, to fulfill seventy years. {{rf{22}}} And in the first year of Cyrus, the king of Persia, in order to fulfill the word of Yahweh by the mouth of Jeremiah, Yahweh stirred up the spirit of Cyrus, king of Persia, so that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom and also in writing, saying: {{rf{23}}} "Thus says Cyrus, king of Persia: 'Yahweh the God of heaven has given to me all the kingdoms of the earth, and he has appointed me to build a house for him at Jerusalem, which is in Judah. Whoever is among you from all his people, may Yahweh his God go up with him.'" {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|2Chron-36-15]] }}}
Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy our brother, to the church of God that is in Corinth, together with all the saints who are in all Achaia. {{rf{2}}} Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. {{rf{3}}} Blessed is the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, {{rf{4}}} who comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in all affliction with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God. {{rf{5}}} For just as the sufferings of Christ overflow to us, thus through Christ our comfort overflows also. {{rf{6}}} But if we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation; if we are comforted, it is for your comfort that is at work in the patient endurance of the same sufferings that we also suffer. {{rf{7}}} And our hope for you is firm, because we know that as you are sharers in the sufferings, so also you will be sharers in the comfort. {{rf{8}}} For we do not want you to be ignorant, brothers, concerning our affliction that happened in the province of Asia, that we were burdened to an extraordinary degree, beyond our strength, so that we were in despair even of living. {{rf{9}}} But we ourselves had the sentence of death in ourselves, so that we would not be putting confidence in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead, {{rf{10}}} who delivered us from so great a risk of death, and will deliver us, in whom we have put our hope that he will also deliver us again, {{rf{11}}} while you also join in helping on our behalf by prayer, so that thanks may be given on our behalf by many persons for this gracious gift given to us through the help of many. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|2Cor-01-01]] }}}
<<Bbl 2C 1:3 abbr >>-7 //Comfort// throughout is //paracletes//. This Helper is a coach: no passive sort of agent.
<<Bbl 2C 1:9>> Paul gives us glimpse of an inner landscape of despair (not solitary but shared); he offers this with clarity not often found in Bible narrative.
2:3 Refers to <<Bbl 1C 16:5>>-7.
<<Bbl 2C 2:10 abbr >> If we will take this attitude, we can find release from the steady accumulation of bitternesses which otherwise will sink our ministry.
<<Bbl 2C 2:12 abbr>>-13 Hughes says Paul wanted to learn from Titus the state of the Corinthian believers. He recounts his deep unrest and the decision to leave Troas to show his purposeful affection for them (commentary on 2 Corinthians). Ac 20:6-12 indicates the //open door// remained for later ministry.
<<Bbl 2C 3:21 abbr >>-23 <<Bbl R 8:32 >>
3:7 <<Bbl Ex 34:29ff>>. Some believe the radiance began to fade between sessions in God's presence. I used to look at it that way. But Paul seems to be viewing the matter from a higher altitude, historically. And I'm thinking it's only from this verse that the "weekday fade" concept has occured to anyone.
<<Bbl 2C 3:18 abbr >> is consummated in <<Bbl 1J 3:2 >>-03. [[SeeJesus]] <<Bbl 2C 3:18 >> is consummated in <<Bbl 1J 3:2 >>-03. [[SeeJesus]]
<<Bbl 2C 4:2 abbr>> -- renouncing [[Shame]]
4:4-6 The work of the evangelist is couched between verses which describe, first, the work of Satan, and second, the illuminating grace of God.
4:7 See <<Bbl Jer 32:17 >>.
<<Bbl 2C 4:7 abbr>> Contrast with <<Bbl 2Tim 2:20>> where Paul uses the same image for an entirely different purpose. We must not easily and wrongly assume an image is used with same intent in every place.
<<Bbl 2C 4:17 abbr >>-18 Charles Simeon's statement comparing life with its hardships to making one's way through a hedge.
5:5 see <<Bbl Eph 1:13 >>
<<Bbl 2C 5:20 abbr >> Diplomatic immunity might preach by analogy.
<<Bbl 2C 6:14 abbr>> Refers to <<Bbl Dt 22:10 >> (although many have proposed a letter between the two we have).
{{rf{12}}} For our reason for boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience that we conducted ourselves in the world, and especially toward you, in holiness and purity of motive from God, not in merely human wisdom, but by the grace of God. {{rf{13}}} For we are not writing anything else to you except what you can read or also understand. But I hope that you will understand completely, {{rf{14}}} just as you have also understood us in part, that we are your reason for boasting, just as you are also ours in the day of our Lord Jesus. {{rf{15}}} And with this confidence, I was wanting to come to you previously, in order that you may have a second proof of my goodwill, {{rf{16}}} and through you to go to Macedonia, and to come to you again from Macedonia, and to be sent on my way by you to Judea. {{rf{17}}} Therefore, when I was wanting to do this, perhaps then was I making use of vacillation? Or was I deciding what I was deciding according to the flesh, in order that with me my "yes" may be "yes" and my "no" may be "no" at the same time? {{rf{18}}} But God is faithful, so that our word to you is not "yes" and "no." {{rf{19}}} For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, the one who was proclaimed among you by us, by me and Silvanus and Timothy, did not become "yes" and "no," but has become "yes" in him. {{rf{20}}} For as many as are the promises of God, in him they are "yes"; therefore also through him is the "amen" to the glory of God through us. {{rf{21}}} Now the one who establishes us together with you in Christ and who anoints us is God, {{rf{22}}} who also sealed us and gave the down payment of the Spirit in our hearts. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|2Cor-01-12]] }}}
{{rf{23}}} But I call upon God as witness against my life, that in order to spare you, I did not come again to Corinth. {{rf{24}}} Not that we lord it over your faith, but we are fellow workers for your joy, because by faith you stand firm. {{rf big{1}}} For I have decided this for myself, not to come to you again in sorrow. {{rf{2}}} For if I cause you sorrow, then who will make me glad except the one who is caused to be sad by me? {{rf{3}}} And I wrote this very thing in order that when I came, I would not experience sorrow from those who ought to have made me glad, because I have confidence about you all, that my joy belongs to all of you. {{rf{4}}} For out of great distress and anguish of heart I wrote to you through many tears, not so that you may be caused to be sad, but so that you may know the love that I have especially for you. {{rf{5}}} But if anyone has caused sorrow, he has not caused me sorrow, but to some degree -- in order not to say too much -- to all of you. {{rf{6}}} This punishment by the majority is sufficient for such a person. {{rf{7}}} So then, you should rather forgive and comfort him, lest somehow this person should be overwhelmed by excessive sorrow. {{rf{8}}} Therefore I urge you to confirm your love for him. {{rf{9}}} Because for this reason also I wrote, in order that I could know your proven character, whether you are obedient in everything. {{rf{10}}} Now to whomever you forgive anything, I also do; for indeed, whatever I have forgiven, if I have forgiven anything, it is for your sake in the presence of Christ, {{rf{11}}} in order that we may not be exploited by Satan (for we are not ignorant of his schemes). {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|2Cor-01-23]] }}}
{{rf{12}}} Now when I arrived in Troas for the gospel of Christ and a door was opened for me by the Lord, {{rf{13}}} I did not experience rest in my spirit, because I did not find Titus my brother, but saying farewell to them, I departed for Macedonia. {{rf{14}}} But thanks be to God, who always leads us in triumphal procession in Christ, and who reveals the fragrance of the knowledge of him through us in every place. {{rf{15}}} For we are the aroma of Christ to God among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing, {{rf{16}}} to those on the one hand an odor from death to death, and to those on the other hand a fragrance from life to life. And who is qualified for these things? {{rf{17}}} For we are not like the majority who peddle the word of God, but as from pure motives -- but as from God -- we speak before God in Christ.
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{{rf big{1}}} Are we beginning to commend ourselves again? Or do we, like some, need letters of recommendation to you or from you? {{rf{2}}} You are our letter, inscribed on our hearts, known and read by all people, {{rf{3}}} revealing that you are a letter of Christ, delivered by us, inscribed not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on stone tablets but on tablets of human hearts. {{rf{4}}} Now we possess such confidence through Christ toward God. {{rf{5}}} Not that we are adequate in ourselves to consider anything as from ourselves, but our adequacy is from God, {{rf{6}}} who also makes us adequate as servants of a new covenant, not of the letter, but of the Spirit, for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|2Cor-02-12]] }}}
{{rf{7}}} But if the ministry of death in letters carved on stone came with glory, so that the sons of Israel were not able to look intently into the face of Moses because of the glory of his face, which was transitory, {{rf{8}}} how will the ministry of the Spirit not be even more with glory? {{rf{9}}} For if there was glory in the ministry of condemnation, by much more will the ministry of righteousness overflow with glory. {{rf{10}}} For indeed what had been glorified has not been glorified in this case, on account of the glory that surpasses it. {{rf{11}}} For if what was transitory came with glory, by much more what remains is with glory. {{rf{12}}} Therefore, because we have such a hope, we use much boldness, {{rf{13}}} and not as Moses used to place a veil over his face, in order that the sons of Israel would not stare at the end of what was transitory. {{rf{14}}} But their minds were hardened. For until this very day, the same veil remains upon the reading of the old covenant, not being uncovered, because it is done away with in Christ. {{rf{15}}} But until today, whenever Moses is read aloud, a veil lies upon their heart, {{rf{16}}} but whenever one turns to the Lord, the veil is removed. {{rf{17}}} Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. {{rf{18}}} And we all, with unveiled face, reflecting the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory into glory, just as from the Lord, the Spirit. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|2Cor-03-07]] }}}
Because of this, since we have this ministry, just as we have been shown mercy, we do not lose heart, {{rf{2}}} but we have renounced shameful hidden things, not behaving with craftiness or adulterating the word of God, but with the open proclamation of the truth commending ourselves to every person's conscience before God. {{rf{3}}} But if indeed our gospel is veiled, it is veiled among those who are perishing, {{rf{4}}} among whom the god of this age has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, so that they would not see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God. {{rf{5}}} For we do not proclaim ourselves, but Christ Jesus as Lord, and ourselves as your slaves for the sake of Jesus. {{rf{6}}} For God who said, "Light will shine out of darkness," is the one who has shined in our hearts for the enlightenment of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ. {{rf{7}}} But we have this treasure in earthenware jars, in order that the extraordinary degree of the power may be from God and not from us. {{rf{8}}} We are afflicted in every way, but not crushed; perplexed, but not despairing; {{rf{9}}} persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed; {{rf{10}}} always carrying around the death of Jesus in our body, in order that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body. {{rf{11}}} For we who are alive are continually being handed over to death because of Jesus, in order that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our mortal flesh. {{rf{12}}} So then, death is at work in us, but life in you. {{rf{13}}} But because we have the same spirit of faith in accordance with what is written, "I believed, therefore I spoke," we also believe, therefore we also speak, {{rf{14}}} because we know that the one who raised Jesus will also raise us together with Jesus and present us together with you. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|2Cor-04-01]] }}}
{{rf{15}}} For all these things are for your sake, in order that the grace that is increasing through the many may cause thanksgiving to abound to the glory of God. {{rf{16}}} Therefore we do not lose heart, but even if our outer person is being destroyed, yet our inner person is being renewed day after day. {{rf{17}}} For our momentary light affliction is producing in us an eternal weight of glory beyond all measure and proportion, {{rf{18}}} because we are not looking at what is seen, but what is not seen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is not seen is eternal. {{rf big{1}}} For we know that if our earthly house, the tent, is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made by hands, eternal in the heavens. {{rf{2}}} For indeed, in this house we groan, because we desire to put on our dwelling from heaven, {{rf{3}}} if indeed, even after we have taken it off, we will not be found naked. {{rf{4}}} For indeed we who are in this tent groan, being burdened for this reason, that we do not want to be unclothed, but to be clothed, in order that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life. {{rf{5}}} Now the one who has prepared us for this very thing is God, who has given us the down payment, the Spirit. {{rf{6}}} Therefore, although we are always confident and know that while we are at home in the body we are absent from the Lord -- {{rf{7}}} for we live by faith, not by sight -- {{rf{8}}} so we are confident and prefer rather to be absent from the body and to be at home with the Lord. {{rf{9}}} Therefore indeed we have as our ambition, whether at home in the body or absent from the body, to be acceptable to him. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|2Cor-04-15]] }}}
{{rf{10}}} For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, in order that each one may receive back the things through the body according to what he has done, whether good or bad. {{rf{11}}} Therefore, because we know the fear of the Lord, we are attempting to persuade people, but we are revealed to God, and I hope to be revealed in your consciences. {{rf{12}}} We are not commending ourselves to you again, but are giving you an opportunity to boast about us, in order that you may have an answer for those who boast in appearance and not in heart. {{rf{13}}} For if we are out of our senses, it is for God; if we are of sound mind, it is for you. {{rf{14}}} For the love of Christ controls us, because we have concluded this: that one died for all; as a result all died. {{rf{15}}} And he died for all, in order that those who live should no longer live for themselves, but for the one who died for them and was raised. {{rf{16}}} So then, from now on we know no one from a human point of view, if indeed we have known Christ from a human point of view, but now we know him this way no longer. {{rf{17}}} Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old things have passed away; behold, new things have come. {{rf{18}}} And all these things are from God, who has reconciled us to himself through Christ, and who has given us the ministry of reconciliation, {{rf{19}}} namely, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation. {{rf{20}}} Therefore we are ambassadors on behalf of Christ, as if God were imploring you through us. We beg you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|2Cor-05-10]] }}}
{{rf{21}}} He made the one who did not know sin to be sin on our behalf, in order that we could become the righteousness of God in him. {{rf big{1}}} Now because we are fellow workers, we also urge you not to receive the grace of God in vain. {{rf{2}}} For he says, "At the acceptable time I heard you, and in the day of salvation I helped you." Behold, now is the acceptable time; behold, now is the day of salvation! {{rf{3}}} We are giving no one an occasion for taking offense in anything, in order that our ministry will not have fault found with it, {{rf{4}}} but commending ourselves as servants of God in every way, in much endurance, in afflictions, in distresses, in difficulties, {{rf{5}}} in beatings, in prisons, in disturbances, in troubles, in sleepless nights, in going hungry, {{rf{6}}} in purity, in knowledge, in patience, in kindness, in the Holy Spirit, in love without hypocrisy, {{rf{7}}} in the word of truth, in the power of God, with the weapons of righteousness for the right hand and left hand, {{rf{8}}} through glory and dishonor, through slander and good repute, regarded as deceivers and yet truthful, {{rf{9}}} as unknown and yet known completely, as dying, and behold, we go on living, as disciplined, and yet not put to death, {{rf{10}}} as grieving, but always rejoicing, as poor, but making many rich, as having nothing, and possessing everything. {{rf{11}}} We have spoken freely and openly to you, Corinthians; our heart is open wide. {{rf{12}}} You are not restricted by us, but you are restricted in your affections. {{rf{13}}} Now the same way in exchange (I am speaking as to children), you open wide your hearts also. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|2Cor-05-21]] }}}
{{rf{14}}} Do not become unevenly yoked with unbelievers, for what participation is there between righteousness and lawlessness? Or what fellowship does light have with darkness? {{rf{15}}} And what agreement does Christ have with Beliar? Or what share does a believer have with an unbeliever? {{rf{16}}} And what agreement does the temple of God have with idols? For we are the temple of the living God, just as God said, "I will live in them and will walk about among them, and I will be their God and they will be my people." {{rf{17}}} Therefore "come out from their midst and be separate," says the Lord, "and do not touch what is unclean, and I will welcome you, {{rf{18}}} and I will be a father to you, and you will be sons and daughters to me," says the all-powerful Lord. {{rf big{1}}} Therefore since we have these promises, dear friends, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of body and spirit, accomplishing holiness in the fear of God. {{rf{2}}} Make room for us in your hearts. We have wronged no one, we have ruined no one, we have defrauded no one. {{rf{3}}} I do not say this to condemn you, because I have already said that you are in our hearts, so that we die together and we live together. {{rf{4}}} Great is my confidence toward you; great is my boasting on your behalf; I am filled with encouragement; I am overflowing with joy in all our affliction. {{rf{5}}} For even when we arrived in Macedonia, our body had no rest, but we were afflicted in every way -- quarrels outside, fears within. {{rf{6}}} But God, who comforts the humble, comforted us by the coming of Titus, {{rf{7}}} and not only by his coming, but also by the comfort with which he was comforted among you, because he reported to us your longing, your mourning, your zeal for me, so that I rejoiced even more. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|2Cor-06-14]] }}}
<<Bbl 2C 8:1 abbr >>-7 Grace opens and closes. Verse 1 says //grace of God//, which illuminates verses 6,7 - it is not a mere human grace.
<<Bbl 2C 9:7 abbr >> The word here rendered cheerful is related to our English word "hilarious" and could be translated as "merrily, with pleasure".
<<Bbl 2C 10:5 abbr >> . Compare Ezekiel chapter 6.
<<Bbl 2C 10:5 abbr>> //We take every thought captive// -- Jericho provides a rich picture of this work, and [[Rahab]] of us the delivered.
<<Bbl 2C 10:5 abbr >> Do not take a light view of //taking captive//, as if it were a mere quarantine. Paul indicates this //thought// is a token or messenger of a //stronghold//. Imagine a king who is aware of repeated incursions; it is not enough to put the miscreants in prison - they must be interrogated. So we must examine our temptations and distractions to find their source.
<<Bbl 2C 11:8 abbr>>-09 <<Bbl 2C 14:36 abbr >>.
<<Bbl 2C 11:22 abbr >> This idea is expanded in <<Bbl Php 3:5 abbr >>. Essentially Paul has traded in status and achievements for trials.
<<Bbl 2C 12:9 abbr>> Chiastic structure. [[source|http://www.preceptaustin.org/2corinthians_129_commentary.htm]]
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A is sufficient
B for you
C my grace
C´ my power
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12:15 A crux.
13:10 Severity, says Paul, does not come naturally to me; like the "strange work" of <<Bbl I 28:21 >>.
<<Bbl 2C 14:36 abbr >> <<Bbl 2C 11:8 >>-09.
{{rf{8}}} For if indeed I grieved you by my letter, I do not regret it. Even if I did regret it (I see that that letter grieved you, even though for a short time), {{rf{9}}} now I rejoice, not that you were grieved, but that you were grieved to repentance. For you were grieved according to the will of God, so that you suffered loss in no way through us. {{rf{10}}} For grief according to the will of God brings about a repentance leading to salvation, not to be regretted, but worldly grief brings about death. {{rf{11}}} For behold how much diligence this very thing, being grieved according to the will of God, has brought about in you: what defense of yourselves, what indignation, what fear, what longing, what zeal, what punishment! In everything you have demonstrated yourselves to be innocent in this matter. {{rf{12}}} Consequently, even if I wrote to you, it was not because of the one who did wrong or because of the one who had been wronged, but in order that your diligence on our behalf might be revealed to you before God. {{rf{13}}} Because of this we have been encouraged, and in addition to our encouragement, we rejoiced much more over the joy of Titus, because his spirit had been refreshed by all of you. {{rf{14}}} For if I have boasted anything to him about you, I have not been put to shame, but as I have spoken everything to you in truth, thus also our boasting to Titus has proven to be true. {{rf{15}}} And his affection for you is all the more when he remembers the obedience of all of you as you welcomed him with fear and trembling. {{rf{16}}} I rejoice, because in everything I am completely confident in you. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|2Cor-07-08]] }}}
Now we make known to you, brothers, the grace of God that has been given among the churches of Macedonia, {{rf{2}}} that with a great ordeal of affliction, the abundance of their joy and the extreme depth of their poverty have overflowed to the wealth of their generosity. {{rf{3}}} I testify that they gave according to their ability, and beyond their ability, by their own choice, {{rf{4}}} requesting of us with much exhortation the favor and the fellowship of the ministry to the saints, {{rf{5}}} and not just as we had hoped, but they gave themselves first to the Lord and then to us, by the will of God. {{rf{6}}} So we urged Titus that, just as he had previously begun it, thus he would also complete for you this act of grace. {{rf{7}}} But just as you excel in everything -- in faith and in speaking and in knowledge and with all diligence and in the love from us that is in you -- so may you excel in this grace also. {{rf{8}}} I am not saying this as a command, but proving the genuineness of your love by means of the diligence of others. {{rf{9}}} For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that although he was rich, for your sake he became poor, in order that you, by his poverty, may become rich. {{rf{10}}} And I am giving an opinion in this matter, because this is profitable for you who not only began previously, a year ago, to do something, but also to want to do it. {{rf{11}}} So now also complete the doing of it, in order that just as you have the eagerness to want to do it, thus also you may complete it from what you have. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|2Cor-08-01]] }}}
{{rf{12}}} For if the eagerness is present according to what one has, it is acceptable not according to what one does not have. {{rf{13}}} For this is not that for others there may be relief, and for you difficult circumstances, but as a matter of equality. {{rf{14}}} At the present time your abundance will be for their need, in order that their abundance may also be for your need, so that there may be equality, {{rf{15}}} just as it is written, "The one who gathered much did not have too much, and the one who gathered little did not have too little." {{rf{16}}} But thanks be to God, who has put in the heart of Titus the same devotion on your behalf, {{rf{17}}} because he not only welcomed our request, but being very earnest, by his own choice he went out to you. {{rf{18}}} And we have sent at the same time with him the brother whose praise in the gospel has become known throughout all the churches. {{rf{19}}} And not only this, but he was also chosen by the churches as our traveling companion together with this gift that is being administered by us to the glory of the Lord himself and to show our readiness to help. {{rf{20}}} We are trying to avoid this, lest anyone should find fault with us in this abundant gift that is being administered by us. {{rf{21}}} For we are taking into consideration what is honorable not only before the Lord, but also before people. {{rf{22}}} And we are sending with them our brother whom we have tested many times in many things that he is diligent, but now much more diligent because of his great confidence in you. {{rf{23}}} If there is a question concerning Titus, he is my partner and fellow worker for you. If there is a question concerning our brothers, they are messengers of the churches, the glory of Christ. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|2Cor-08-12]] }}}
{{rf{24}}} Therefore show to them the proof of your love and our boasting about you openly before the churches. {{rf big{1}}} For it is unnecessary for me to write to you concerning the ministry to the saints, {{rf{2}}} because I know your readiness to help, concerning which I keep on boasting to the Macedonians about you, that Achaia has been ready to help since last year, and your zeal has stirred up the majority of them. {{rf{3}}} But I am sending the brothers in order that our boasting about you would not prove to be empty in this case, so that you may be prepared just as I was saying, {{rf{4}}} lest somehow if Macedonians should come with me and find you unprepared, we -- not to speak of you -- would be humiliated in connection with this project. {{rf{5}}} Therefore I considered it necessary to urge the brothers that they should go on ahead to you and make arrangements in advance for your generous gift that was promised previously, so this would be prepared as a generous gift and not as grudgingly granted. {{rf{6}}} Now the point is this: the one who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and the one who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully. {{rf{7}}} Each one should give as he has decided in his heart, not reluctantly or from compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver. {{rf{8}}} And God is able to cause all grace to abound to you, so that in everything at all times, because you have enough of everything, you may overflow in every good work. {{rf{9}}} Just as it is written, "He scattered widely, he gave to the poor; his righteousness remains forever." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|2Cor-08-24]] }}}
{{rf{10}}} Now the one who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will provide and multiply your seed, and will cause the harvest of your righteousness to grow, {{rf{11}}} being made rich in every way for all generosity, which is producing through us thanksgiving to God, {{rf{12}}} because the service of this ministry is not only supplying the needs of the saints, but also is overflowing through many expressions of thanksgiving to God. {{rf{13}}} Through the proven character of this service they will glorify God because of the submission of your confession to the gospel of Christ and the generosity of your participation toward them and toward everyone, {{rf{14}}} and they are longing for you in their prayers for you, because of the surpassing grace of God to you. {{rf{15}}} Thanks be to God for his indescribable gift! {{rf big{1}}} Now I, Paul, appeal to you myself by the humility and gentleness of Christ, who when I am present in person am humble among you, but when I am absent am bold toward you -- {{rf{2}}} now I ask when I am present that I will not need to be bold with the confidence with which I propose to show boldness toward some who consider us as behaving according to the flesh. {{rf{3}}} For although we are living in the flesh, we do not wage war according to the flesh, {{rf{4}}} for the weapons of our warfare are not merely human, but powerful to God for the tearing down of fortresses, tearing down arguments {{rf{5}}} and all pride that is raised up against the knowledge of God, and taking every thought captive to the obedience of Christ. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|2Cor-09-10]] }}}
{{rf{6}}} And we are ready to punish all disobedience, whenever your obedience is completed. {{rf{7}}} You are looking at things according to appearance. If anyone is convinced he himself is Christ's, he should consider this concerning himself again: that just as Christ himself is, so also are we. {{rf{8}}} For even if I boast somewhat more about our authority that the Lord gave us for building you up and not for tearing you down, I will not be put to shame, {{rf{9}}} so that I do not want to appear as if I were terrifying you by my letters, {{rf{10}}} because it is said, "His letters are severe and powerful, but his bodily presence is weak and his speech is of no account." {{rf{11}}} Let such a person consider this: that what we are in word by letters when we are absent, we will also be in actions when we are present. {{rf{12}}} For we do not dare to classify or to compare ourselves with some who commend themselves, but they themselves, when they measure themselves by themselves and compare themselves with themselves, do not understand. {{rf{13}}} But we will not boast beyond limits, but according to the measure of the assignment that God has assigned to us as a measure to reach even as far as you. {{rf{14}}} For we are not overextending ourselves, as if we had not reached you, because we have reached even as far as you with the gospel of Christ, {{rf{15}}} not boasting beyond limits in the labors of others, but having hope that as your faith is growing to be enlarged greatly by you according to our assignment, {{rf{16}}} so that we may proclaim the gospel in the regions that lie beyond you, and not boast in the things accomplished in the area assigned to someone else. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|2Cor-10-06]] }}}
{{rf{17}}} But "the one who boasts, let him boast in the Lord." {{rf{18}}} For it is not the one commending himself who is approved, but the one whom the Lord commends. {{rf big{1}}} I wish that you would put up with me in something a little foolish -- but indeed you are putting up with me. {{rf{2}}} For I am jealous for you with a godly jealousy, because I promised you in marriage to one husband, to present you as a pure virgin to Christ. {{rf{3}}} But I am afraid lest somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve by his craftiness, your minds may be led astray from the sincerity and the purity of devotion to Christ. {{rf{4}}} For if the one who comes proclaims another Jesus whom we have not proclaimed, or you receive a different spirit which you did not receive, or a different gospel which you did not accept, you put up with it well enough! {{rf{5}}} For I consider myself in no way to be inferior to the preeminent apostles. {{rf{6}}} But even if I am unskilled in speech, yet I am not in knowledge; certainly in everything we have made this clear to you in every way. {{rf{7}}} Or did I commit a sin by humbling myself in order that you may be exalted, because I proclaimed the gospel of God to you without payment? {{rf{8}}} I robbed other churches by accepting support from them for the ministry to you. {{rf{9}}} And when I was present with you and was in need, I did not burden anyone, for the brothers who came from Macedonia supplied my need, and in everything I kept myself from being a burden to you, and will keep myself from being a burden. {{rf{10}}} As the truth of Christ is in me, this boasting of mine will not be stopped in the regions of Achaia. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|2Cor-10-17]] }}}
{{rf{11}}} Why? Because I do not love you? God knows I do! {{rf{12}}} But what I am doing, I will also do, in order that I may remove the opportunity of those who want an opportunity, that they may be found just as also we are in what they are boasting about. {{rf{13}}} For such people are false apostles, deceitful workers, disguising themselves as apostles of Christ. {{rf{14}}} And no wonder, for Satan himself disguises himself as an angel of light. {{rf{15}}} Therefore it is not a great thing if his servants also disguise themselves as servants of righteousness, whose end will be according to their deeds. {{rf{16}}} Again I say, do not let anyone think I am foolish. But indeed, if you do, accept me even as foolish, in order that I also may boast a little. {{rf{17}}} What I am saying in this project of boasting, I am not saying as the Lord would say, but as in foolishness. {{rf{18}}} Since many are boasting according to human standards, I also will boast. {{rf{19}}} For because you are wise, you put up with foolish people gladly! {{rf{20}}} For you put up with it if someone enslaves you, if someone devours you, if someone takes advantage of you, if someone is presumptious toward you, if someone strikes you in the face. {{rf{21}}} I say this to my shame, namely, that we have been weak. But in whatever anyone dares to boast -- I am speaking in foolishness -- I also dare to boast. {{rf{22}}} Are they Hebrews? I am also! Are they Israelites? I am also! Are they descendants of Abraham? I am also! {{rf{23}}} Are they servants of Christ? -- I am speaking as though I were beside myself -- I am more so, with far greater labors, with far more imprisonments, with beatings to a much greater degree, in danger of death many times. {{rf{24}}} Five times I received at the hands of the Jews forty lashes less one. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|2Cor-11-11]] }}}
{{rf{25}}} Three times I was beaten with rods. Once I received a stoning. Three times I was shipwrecked. A day and a night I have spent in the deep water. {{rf{26}}} I have been on journeys many times, in dangers from rivers, in dangers from robbers, in dangers from my own people, in dangers from the Gentiles, in dangers in the city, in dangers in the wilderness, in dangers at sea, in dangers because of false brothers, {{rf{27}}} with toil and hardship, often in sleepless nights, with hunger and thirst, often going hungry, in cold and poorly clothed. {{rf{28}}} Apart from these external things, there is the pressure on me every day of the anxiety about all the churches. {{rf{29}}} Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is caused to sin, and I do not burn with indignation? {{rf{30}}} If it is necessary to boast, I will boast about the things related to my weakness. {{rf{31}}} The God and Father of the Lord Jesus, who is blessed forever, knows that I am not lying. {{rf{32}}} In Damascus, the governor under King Aretas was guarding the city of the Damascenes in order to take me into custody, {{rf{33}}} and I was lowered through a window through the wall in a rope-basket, and I escaped his hands. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|2Cor-11-25]] }}}
It is necessary to boast; it is not profitable, but I will proceed to visions and revelations of the Lord. {{rf{2}}} I know a man in Christ fourteen years ago -- whether in the body I do not know, or outside the body I do not know, God knows -- such a man was caught up to the third heaven, {{rf{3}}} and I know this man -- whether in the body or apart from the body I do not know, God knows -- {{rf{4}}} that he was caught up to paradise and heard words not to be spoken, which it is not permitted for a person to speak. {{rf{5}}} On behalf of such a person I will boast, but on behalf of myself I will not boast, except in my weaknesses. {{rf{6}}} For if I want to boast, I will not be foolish, because I will be telling the truth, but I am refraining, so that no one can credit to me more than what he sees in me or hears anything from me, {{rf{7}}} even because of the extraordinary degree of the revelations. Therefore, so that I would not exalt myself, a thorn in the flesh was given to me, a messenger of Satan, in order that it would torment me so that I would not exalt myself. {{rf{8}}} Three times I appealed to the Lord about this, that it would depart from me. {{rf{9}}} And he said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, because the power is perfected in weakness." Therefore rather I will boast most gladly in my weaknesses, in order that the power of Christ may reside in me. {{rf{10}}} Therefore I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in calamities, in persecutions and difficulties for the sake of Christ, for whenever I am weak, then I am strong. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|2Cor-12-01]] }}}
{{rf{11}}} I have become a fool! You compelled me, for I ought to have been commended by you, for I am in no way inferior to the preeminent apostles, even if I am nothing. {{rf{12}}} Indeed, the signs of an apostle have been done among you with all patient endurance, both signs and wonders and deeds of power. {{rf{13}}} For in what respect are you made worse off more than the rest of the churches, except that I myself was not a burden to you? Forgive me this wrong! {{rf{14}}} Behold, this third time I am ready to come to you, and I will not be a burden to you. For I am not seeking your possessions, but you. For children are not obligated to save up for their parents, but parents for their children. {{rf{15}}} But I will spend and be expended most gladly for your lives. If I love you much more, am I to be loved less? {{rf{16}}} But let it be. I have not been a burden to you, but because I was crafty, I took you by cunning. {{rf{17}}} I have not taken advantage of you through anyone whom I sent to you, have I? {{rf{18}}} I urged Titus to go, and I sent the brother with him. Titus did not take advantage of you, did he? Did we not conduct ourselves in the same spirit? Did we not walk in the same footsteps? {{rf{19}}} Have you been thinking all this time that we are defending ourselves to you? We are speaking in Christ before God, and all these things, dear friends, are for your edification. {{rf{20}}} For I am afraid lest somehow when I arrive, I will not find you as I want, and I may be found by you as you do not want. I am afraid lest somehow there will be strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, selfish ambition, slander, gossip, pride, disorder. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|2Cor-12-11]] }}}
{{rf{21}}} I am afraid lest when I come again my God will humiliate me in your presence, and I will grieve over many of those who sinned previously and have not repented because of their impurity and sexual immorality and licentiousness that they have practiced. {{rf big{1}}} This is the third time I am coming to you. By the testimony of two or three witnesses every word will be established. {{rf{2}}} I have already said when I was present the second time, and although I am absent now I also say in advance to those who sinned previously and to all the rest, that if I come again I will not spare anyone, {{rf{3}}} since you are demanding proof that Christ, who is not weak toward you, but is powerful among you, is speaking in me. {{rf{4}}} For indeed, he was crucified because of weakness, but he lives because of the power of God. For we also are weak in him, but we will live together with him because of the power of God toward you. {{rf{5}}} Test yourselves to see if you are in the faith. Examine yourselves! Or do you not recognize regarding yourselves that Jesus Christ is in you, unless you are unqualified? {{rf{6}}} And I hope that you will recognize that we are not unqualified! {{rf{7}}} Now we pray to God that you not do wrong in any way, not that we are seen as approved, but that you do what is good, even though we are seen as though unqualified. {{rf{8}}} For we are not able to do anything against the truth, but rather only for the truth. {{rf{9}}} For we rejoice whenever we are weak, but you are strong, and we pray for this: your maturity. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|2Cor-12-21]] }}}
{{rf{10}}} Because of this, I am writing these things although I am absent, in order that when I am present I may not have to act severely according to the authority that the Lord has given me for building up and not for tearing down. {{rf{11}}} Finally, brothers, rejoice, be restored, be encouraged, be in agreement, be at peace, and the God of love and peace will be with you. {{rf{12}}} Greet one another with a holy kiss. All the saints greet you. {{rf{13}}} The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with all of you. LENGTH SHORT {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|2Cor-13-10]] }}}
<<Bbl 2J 1:10 >> Compare <<Bbl 2The 3:6 >>.
Moab rebelled against Israel after the death of Ahab. {{rf{2}}} Ahaziah had fallen through the lattice in his upper room, which was in Samaria, and he was injured. So he sent messengers, and he said to them, "Go, inquire of Baal-Zebub, the god of Ekron, if I will survive this injury." {{rf{3}}} Then the angel of Yahweh spoke to Elijah the Tishbite, "Get up, go up to meet the messengers of the king of Samaria and speak to them, 'Is it because there is no God in Israel that you are going to inquire of Baal-Zebub, the god of Ekron?' {{rf{4}}} Therefore, thus says Yahweh, 'The bed upon which you have gone, you will not come down from it, but you shall surely die.'" So Elijah went. {{rf{5}}} When the messengers returned to him, he asked them, "Why have you returned?" {{rf{6}}} Then they said to him, "A man came up to meet us, and he said to us, 'Go, return to the king who sent you and speak to him, "Thus says Yahweh, 'Is it because there is no God in Israel that you are sending to inquire of Baal-Zebub the god of Ekron? Therefore the bed upon which you have gone, you will not come down from it, for you will surely die.'" '" {{rf{7}}} Then he spoke to them, "What was the manner of the man who came up to meet you and spoke to you all these things?" {{rf{8}}} They answered him, "A hairy man with a leather belt girded around his waist." And he said, "It is Elijah the Tishbite." {{rf{9}}} So Ahaziah sent to him the commander of fifty with his fifty men, and he went up to him while he was sitting on the top of the hill. He said to him, "O man of God, the king says, 'Come down.'" {{rf{10}}} Then Elijah answered and said to the commander of the fifty, "If I am a man of God, let fire come down from heaven and consume you and your fifty!" Then fire came down from heaven and consumed him and his fifty. {{rf{11}}} So he again sent another commander of fifty and his fifty men. He answered and said to him, "O man of God, thus says the king, 'Come down quickly!'" {{rf{12}}} Then Elijah answered and said to them, "If I am a man of God, then let fire come down from heaven and consume you and your fifty!" Then the fire of God came down from heaven and consumed him and his fifty. {{rf{13}}} So he again sent a third time a commander of fifty and his fifty, and the commander of the third fifty went up and came and knelt down on his knees before Elijah and entreated him. He said to him, "O man of God, please let my life and the lives of your servants, these fifty, be precious in your eyes. {{rf{14}}} Behold, fire from heaven came down and consumed the first two commanders of fifty and their fifties, so then let my life be precious in your eyes." {{rf{15}}} Then the angel of Yahweh spoke to Elijah, "Go down with him. Do not be afraid because of him." So he got up and went down with him to the king, {{rf{16}}} and he said to him, "Thus says Yahweh, 'Because you have sent messengers to inquire of Baal-Zebub, the god of Ekron -- is it because there is no God in Israel from whom to inquire his word? -- therefore the bed upon which you went, you shall not come down from it, for you shall surely die.'" {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|2Kings-01-01]] }}}
2:9 According to some notes of mine, seven great miracles are recorded for the older, and fourteen for the one who asked a double portion.
2:12-13 Elisha rends his own, old clothing and takes up his mentor's garment. This reminds us of the time he broke up the plow and sacrificed the oxen.
<<Bbl 2K 2:2 >>-25 -
<<Bbl 2K 2:16 abbr>>-18 Elisha faces his first leadership crisis when his proteges demand to form a search party in pursuit of Elijah. To be sure, Elijah had been well known to appear spontaneously and surprisingly, sometimes where least expected (and this tendency was even fulfilled into the next era). But one is struck by the refusal of the men to accept Elisha's decision and instead [[Shame]] him into action. Elisha perhaps is learning that as a leader, just when you most desire support, you may have to give it instead. And, that prophets don't always know what's right. The prophets are learning that Elisha does know, and also that he's responsive even when pushing back. I imagine in future episodes, Elisha need only to raise one eyebrow to summon the credulity of his fellows.
<<Bbl 2K 2:19 abbr >>ff What a picture of salvation. Only God can cleanse the inner spring.
2:24 "All that is necessary is to admit that the worthless spirit which prevailed in Bethel was openly manifested in the ridicule of the children, and that these boys knew Elisha, and in his person insulted the prophet of the Lord." -- C.F. Keil
Note, too, that ''forty-two'' young men were killed. It had to have been a mob (a flash-mob?).
He had just come from making bitter waters sweet.
The wrath of God is well encapsulated in this story.
{{rf{17}}} So he died, according to the word of Yahweh which Elijah had spoken, and Joram became king in his place in the second year of Joram the son of Jehoshaphat, the king of Judah, because he had no son. {{rf{18}}} The remainder of the acts of Ahaziah which he did, are they not written in the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Israel? {{rf big{1}}} When Yahweh was about to take Elijah up in the storm to heaven, Elijah and Elisha went from Gilgal. {{rf{2}}} Elijah said to Elisha, "Please stay here, for Yahweh has sent me up to Bethel." Elisha said, "As Yahweh lives and as your soul lives, I will certainly not leave you!" So they went down to Bethel. {{rf{3}}} Then the sons of the prophets who were in Bethel came out to Elisha, and they said to him, "Do you know that Yahweh is going to take your master from you today?" He said, "I also know; be quiet!" {{rf{4}}} Elijah said to him, "Elisha, please stay here because Yahweh has sent me to Jericho." And he said, "As Yahweh lives and as your soul lives, I will certainly not leave you!" So they came to Jericho. {{rf{5}}} Then the sons of the prophets who were in Jericho came near to Elisha, and they said to him, "Do you know that Yahweh is going to take your master from you today?" He said, "I also know; be quiet!" {{rf{6}}} Then Elijah said to him, "Please stay here, because Yahweh has sent me to the Jordan." He said, "As Yahweh lives and as your soul lives, I will certainly not leave you!" So the two of them went on. {{rf{7}}} Then fifty men from the sons of the prophets went and stood opposite them at a distance while the two of them stood by the Jordan. {{rf{8}}} Elijah took his cloak, rolled it up, and struck the water. It divided in two, and the two of them crossed over on dry land. {{rf{9}}} After they crossed over, Elijah said to Elisha, "Ask what I may do for you before I am taken away from you." Then Elisha said, "Please let there come to me a double portion of your spirit." {{rf{10}}} He said, "What you ask is difficult. If you see me being taken from you, it will be so for you, but if not, it will not happen." {{rf{11}}} Then they were walking, talking as they went. Suddenly a fiery chariot with horses of fire appeared and separated between the two of them. Elijah went up in the storm to the heavens {{rf{12}}} while Elisha was watching and crying out, "My father, my father; the chariot of Israel and its horsemen!" But he could not see him any longer, and he grasped his clothes and tore them in two pieces. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|2Kings-01-17]] }}}
{{rf{13}}} Then he picked up Elijah's cloak that had fallen off of him, and he returned and stood on the bank of the Jordan. {{rf{14}}} He took Elijah's cloak that had fallen from upon him and struck the water. Then he said, "Where is Yahweh, the God of Elijah?" So he also struck the water, and it divided in two, and Elisha crossed over. {{rf{15}}} When the sons of the prophets who were at Jericho saw him from the other side, they declared, "The spirit of Elijah rests upon Elisha," and they came to meet him and bowed down to him to the ground. {{rf{16}}} Then they said to him, "Look, there are with your servants fifty able men. Please let them go and look for your master, lest the Spirit of Yahweh has lifted him up and thrown him on one of the mountains or into one of the valleys," but he said, "You must not send them." {{rf{17}}} But they urged him until embarrassing him, so he said, "Send them." So they sent fifty men, and they looked for three days, but they could not find him. {{rf{18}}} Then they returned to him while he was staying in Jericho. He said to them, "Did I not tell you not to go?" {{rf{19}}} The men of the city said to Elisha, "Please now, the location of the city is good, as my master can see, but the water is bad and the land unproductive." {{rf{20}}} So he said, "Bring me a new bowl and put salt in it." So they brought it to him. {{rf{21}}} Then he went out to the spring of waters and threw the salt into it there and said, "Thus says Yahweh, 'I hereby purify these waters; let there be no longer any death or unproductiveness from it.'" {{rf{22}}} Then the waters were purified until this very day according to the word of Elisha that he spoke. {{rf{23}}} Then he went up from there to Bethel; as he was going up along the way, young boys came out from the city and mocked at him and said to him, "Go up, baldhead; go up, baldhead!" {{rf{24}}} When he turned around and saw them, he cursed them in the name of Yahweh. Then two bears came out of the forest and mauled forty-two boys among them. {{rf{25}}} Then he went from there to Mount Carmel and from there he returned to Samaria. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|2Kings-02-13]] }}}
Now Joram the son of Ahab had become king over Israel in Samaria in the eighteenth year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah. He reigned twelve years {{rf{2}}} and did evil in the eyes of Yahweh, yet not as his father or his mother, as he removed the stone pillars of Baal that his father had made. {{rf{3}}} But he did cling to the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat who caused Israel to sin, and he did not depart from it. {{rf{4}}} Now Mesha king of Moab was a sheep breeder, and he used to deliver to the king of Israel a hundred thousand male lambs and a hundred thousand wool rams. {{rf{5}}} It happened that when Ahab died, Mesha king of Moab rebelled against the king of Israel. {{rf{6}}} So King Joram went out on that day from Samaria, and he mustered all of Israel. {{rf{7}}} He went and sent a message to Jehoshaphat king of Judah, saying, "The king of Moab has rebelled against me. Will you go with me against Moab for the battle?" And he said, "I will go up. I am like you; my people are like your people; my horses are like your horses." {{rf{8}}} Then he said, "Which way shall we go up?" And he answered, "By way of the wilderness of Edom." {{rf{9}}} So the king of Israel and the king of Judah and the king of Edom went around, a way of seven days, but there was no water for the army or for the animals which were with them. {{rf{10}}} Then the king of Israel said, "Aha, Yahweh has called for these three kings to give them into the hand of Moab." {{rf{11}}} Then Jehoshaphat asked, "Is there no prophet of Yahweh here that we might inquire guidance from Yahweh?" One of the servants of the king of Israel answered and said, "Elisha the son of Shaphat is here, who poured water on the hands of Elijah." {{rf{12}}} Jehoshaphat said, "The word of Yahweh is with him." So the king of Israel, Jehoshaphat, and the king of Edom went down to him. {{rf{13}}} Then Elisha said to the king of Israel, "What do we have in common? Go to the prophets of your father and to the prophets of your mother." Then the king of Israel said to him, "No, for Yahweh has called for these three kings to give them into the hand of Moab." {{rf{14}}} Then Elisha said, "As Yahweh of hosts lives, before whom I stand, surely if I was not regarding the face of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, I would have not looked at you nor even glanced at you. {{rf{15}}} But now, bring me a musician." It happened that at the moment the musician played, the hand of Yahweh came upon him. {{rf{16}}} He said, "Thus says Yahweh, 'Make this wadi full of cisterns,' {{rf{17}}} for thus says Yahweh, 'You will see neither wind nor rain, yet this wadi will be full of water; and you and all of your livestock and your animals shall drink.' {{rf{18}}} And since this is too trivial in the eyes of Yahweh, he will also give Moab into your hand, {{rf{19}}} and you shall defeat every fortified city, every choice city, and you shall fell every good tree. All of the springs of water you shall stop up, and every tract of good land you shall ruin with the stones." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|2Kings-03-01]] }}}
3:4 You have to stop and wonder at the idea of Israel jobbing out their wool production!
4:1 A godly man... yet a debtor, and a big-time one. Shall we infer that this disproves the false-prosperous religion? Or is it more that this man followed God and neglected his trade? Could the woman's plaint have a touch of blame-casting?
4:2 //a little oil// -- it could be very little indeed, when one considers how hard it is to fully empty and oil jar. But I think better to presume it was a minimal working amount. Reminds one of the boy with loaves and fishes.
4:3 Can be likened to spiritual capacities.
4:5 Implication that the woman was pouring continuously and perhaps that any cessation meant the end of the miracle.
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<<Bbl 2K 4:8 abbr>>-10 The godliness of the Shunnamite woman has made her renowned, even if (like Samson's mother) we don't know her name.
4:9 Spiritual discernment.
4:10 Her request has both initiative and respect, and her husband respects her -- even though she is barren. His blessing on her request will result in a child for both of them! (Possible to present or explore the narrative from the husband's perspective.)
4:14 //Her husband is old// is not mentioned to explain her childlessness, because the procreative power of the male is not much limited by age; rather Gehazi is stating that the provision for her life, found for a woman of that time first in her husband and afterwards in her offspring, is soon to disappear.
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Structure is subtly provided by the image of the door.
<<Bbl 2K 4:10 abbr>>-15 The important door is part of this room -- verse 15. He rests on the provided bed, then calls her to pursue the blessing.
<<Bbl 2K 4:21 abbr>> //She went up and laid him on the ''bed'' of the man of God, then ''shut the door'' and went out.//
<<Bbl 2K 4:33 abbr>>-37 //He went in, ''shut the door'' on the two of them and prayed to the LORD. Then he got on the ''bed'' ... When she came, he said, "Take your son." She ''came in'', fell at his feet and bowed to the ground. Then she took her son and went out.//
The door is implied in the woman's actions. She is in the precise spot the original promise given. //The last time I was here...// (Bryan Duncan)
This woman's life is in effect saved four times by Elisha:
# He gives her the provision of a son.
# The son dies, so he brings him back to life.
# A famine strikes, so Elisha directs her to another region ahead of the time.
# On her return to Israel, her entitlement to her own land is in great jeopardy (note this entitlement was dependent on her son) -- but because Gehazi is at that moment recounting her story to the king, the situation is immediately resolved in her favor. Elisha is not even still alive for the last of these deliverances!
{{rf{20}}} It happened in the morning about the time of the morning offering, that water was suddenly coming from the direction of Edom and the land was filled with water. {{rf{21}}} Now all of Moab had heard that the kings had come up to fight against them, and all who were fighting age and up were called up, and they stood at the border. {{rf{22}}} When they arose early in the morning, the sun shone on the waters, and Moab saw the waters from the opposite side as red as blood. {{rf{23}}} Then they said, "This is blood! Certainly the kings have fought one another, and each has killed his neighbor. Now, to the war booty, O Moab!" {{rf{24}}} But when they came to the camp of Israel, Israel stood up and killed Moab, so that they fled from before them. They came at her and defeated Moab. {{rf{25}}} The cities they tore down, on every good tract of land they threw stones until it was filled up, every spring of water they stopped up, and every good tree they felled. They let the stone walls at Kir Hareseth remain, but the slingers surrounded and attacked it. {{rf{26}}} When the king of Moab saw that the battle was too heavy for him, he took with him seven hundred men who drew the sword to break through to the king of Edom, but they were not able. {{rf{27}}} He took his firstborn son who was to become king in his place and offered him as a burnt offering on the wall. Great wrath came upon Israel, and they withdrew from him and returned to the land. {{rf big{1}}} A certain woman from the wives of the sons of the prophets cried out to Elisha, saying, "Your servant my husband is dead. Now you know that your servant was a fearer of Yahweh, but the creditor came to take two of my children for himself as slaves. {{rf{2}}} Elisha asked her, "What shall I do for you? Tell me, what do you have in the house?" Then she said, "Your servant has nothing in the house except a jar of olive oil." {{rf{3}}} Then he said to her, "Go, ask for yourself some containers from the streets, from all your neighbors. You must collect as many empty containers as you can! {{rf{4}}} You must also go and shut the door behind you and your children, and you must pour out oil into all of these containers and set the filled ones aside." {{rf{5}}} So she went from him, and she shut the door behind her and her children. They were bringing containers to her, and she kept pouring. {{rf{6}}} It happened that when the containers were full, she said to her son, "Bring near me another container," but he said to her, "There is not another container." Then the olive oil stopped flowing. {{rf{7}}} So she came and told the man of God, and he said, "Go, sell the olive oil and repay your debt. You and your sons can live on what is left over." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|2Kings-03-20]] }}}
{{rf{8}}} It happened one day that Elisha passed through to Shunem where there was a wealthy woman, and she urged him to eat bread; so it happened each time he passed through, he would stop there to eat. {{rf{9}}} She said to her husband, "Please now, I know that he is a holy man of God who is passing our way regularly; {{rf{10}}} let us make a small enclosed room upstairs and put a bed, table, chair, and lampstand there for him, so that when he comes to us, he can turn and stay there. {{rf{11}}} One day it happened that he came there and went to the upper room and lay down there. {{rf{12}}} He said to Gehazi his servant, "Call to this Shunammite," so he called to her, and she stood before him. {{rf{13}}} He said to him, "Please say to her, 'Look, you took all this trouble, showing care for us; what is there for me to do for you? To speak for you to the king or to the commander of the army?'" She said, "I am living among my people." {{rf{14}}} Then he said, "What may be done for her?" Gehazi said, "Well, she has no son, and her husband is old." {{rf{15}}} And he said, "Call for her," so he called for her and she stood in the doorway. {{rf{16}}} And he said, "At this time next spring, you will be embracing a son." She said, "No, my lord, O man of God! You must not tell a lie to your servant!" {{rf{17}}} But the woman conceived, and she bore a son in the spring, which Elisha had promised to her. {{rf{18}}} The child grew older, and it happened one day that he went out to his father and to the reapers. {{rf{19}}} Then he said to his father, "My head, my head!" So he said to the servant, "Carry him to his mother." {{rf{20}}} So they carried him and brought him to his mother; he sat on her lap until noon and then died. {{rf{21}}} She went up, laid him on the bed of the man of God, closed the door, and went out behind it. {{rf{22}}} She called to her husband and said, "Please send one of the servants and one of the female donkeys for me, so that I can go quickly up to the man of God and return." {{rf{23}}} And he said, "Why are you going to him today? It is neither the new moon nor the Sabbath!" And she said, "Peace." {{rf{24}}} She saddled the female donkey, and she said to her servant, "Drive along and go; you must not hold me back from riding, unless I tell you." {{rf{25}}} So she went and came to the man of God by Mount Carmel. It happened when the man of God saw her at a distance, he said to Gehazi his servant, "There is this Shunammite. {{rf{26}}} Now, please run to meet her and ask her, 'Is it peace for you? Is it peace for your husband? Is it peace for the boy?'" She said, "Peace." {{rf{27}}} So she came to the man of God at the mountain, and she caught hold of his feet. Then Gehazi came near to push her away, but the man of God said, "Let her alone, for her soul is bitter, and Yahweh has hidden it from me and has not told me." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|2Kings-04-08]] }}}
{{rf{28}}} Then she said, "Did I ask for a son from my lord? Did I not say that you must not mislead me?" {{rf{29}}} Then he said to Gehazi, "Gird up your loins and take my staff in your hand and go. If you meet anyone, you must not greet them; if anyone greets you, you must not answer them. You must put my staff on the face of the boy." {{rf{30}}} Then the mother of the boy said, "As Yahweh lives and as your soul lives, I will surely not leave you." So he got up and went after her. {{rf{31}}} Gehazi crossed over before them, and he put the staff on the face of the boy; but there was no sound, and there was no sign of life, so he returned to meet him. He told him, saying, "The boy did not wake up." {{rf{32}}} When Elisha came to the house, here was the boy dead, lying on his bed. {{rf{33}}} He went and closed the door behind the two of them and prayed to Yahweh. {{rf{34}}} Then he went up and lay upon the child and put his mouth on his mouth, his eyes on his eyes, and his palms on his palms. As he bent down over him, the flesh of the boy became warm. {{rf{35}}} He returned and went to and fro in the house one time, then he went up and bent over him. Then the boy sneezed seven times and opened his eyes. {{rf{36}}} Elisha called to Gehazi and said, "Call this Shunammite." So he called her and she came to him; then he said, "Pick up your son." {{rf{37}}} She came and fell at his feet and bowed down to the ground; then she picked up her son and went out. {{rf{38}}} So Elisha returned to Gilgal. Now the famine was in the land, and the sons of the prophets were sitting before him. He said to his servant, put on the large pot and cook a stew for the sons of the prophets. {{rf{39}}} One went out to the field to gather herbs, and he found a wild vine and gathered wild gourds from it and filled his cloak. Then he came and cut them into the pot of stew, but they did not know what they were. {{rf{40}}} They served the men to eat, but when they ate from the stew, they cried out and said, "There is death in the pot, O man of God!" They were not able to eat it. {{rf{41}}} Then he said, "Bring some flour," and he threw it into the pot. He then said, "Serve the people and let them eat." There was nothing harmful in the pot. {{rf{42}}} A man came from Baal-Shalishah and brought food to the man of God: firstfruits and twenty loaves of barley bread, with ripe grain in his sack. He said, "Give it to the people and let them eat." {{rf{43}}} Then his servant said, "How can I set this before a hundred men?" He said, "Give it to the people and let them eat, for thus Yahweh says, 'They shall eat and have some left over.'" {{rf{44}}} So he set it before them, and they ate and had some left over, according to the word of Yahweh. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|2Kings-04-28]] }}}
Now Naaman was the commander of the army of the king of Aram. He was a great man before his master and highly regarded, for by him Yahweh had given victory to Aram. Now the man was a mighty warrior, but he was afflicted with a skin disease. {{rf{2}}} When the Arameans went on a raid, they brought back a young girl from the land of Israel, and she came into the service of the wife of Naaman. {{rf{3}}} She said to her mistress, "If only my lord would come before the prophet who is in Samaria; then he would cure his skin disease." {{rf{4}}} He came and told his master, saying, "Thus and so the girl who is from the land of Israel said." {{rf{5}}} So the king of Aram said, "Go, I will send a letter to the king of Israel." He went and took with him ten talents of silver, six thousand shekels of gold, and ten sets of clothing. {{rf{6}}} So he brought the letter of the king to Israel, saying, "Now, when this letter comes to you, I have just sent Naaman my servant to you that you may cure him from his skin disease." {{rf{7}}} It happened that when the king of Israel read the letter, he tore his clothes and said, "Am I God to cause death or to give life? This man is sending a man to me to cure his disease. Indeed! But know and see that he seeks an opportunity against me." {{rf{8}}} It happened that as soon as Elisha the man of God heard that the king of Israel had torn his clothes, he sent to the king, saying, "Why did you tear your clothes? Please may he come to me, that he might know that there is a prophet in Israel." {{rf{9}}} Then Naaman came with his horses and his chariots, and he stopped at the doorway of the house of Elisha. {{rf{10}}} Elisha sent a messenger to him, saying, "Go, you must wash seven times in the Jordan, then your flesh shall return to you, and you shall be clean." {{rf{11}}} But Naaman became angry and he went and said, "Look, I said to myself, 'Surely he will come out, stand, call upon the name of Yahweh his God, and wave his hands over the spot; then he would take away the skin disease.' {{rf{12}}} Are not the Abana and the Pharpar, the rivers of Damascus, better than all of the waters of Israel? Could I not wash in them that I may be clean?" Then he turned and left in anger. {{rf{13}}} But his servants came near and spoke to him and said, "My father, if the prophet had spoken a difficult thing to you to do, would you not have done it? Why not even when he says to you, 'Wash and you shall be clean'?" {{rf{14}}} So he went down and plunged into the Jordan seven times, according to the word of the man of God, and his flesh returned as the flesh of a small boy, and he was clean. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|2Kings-05-01]] }}}
<<Bbl 2K 5:3 abbr>> What a blessed little girl! Naaman was prolly up all night weighing that girl's advice.
<<Bbl 2K 5:7 abbr>> the King of Israel assumes the worst launches a tirade and intimates the prospect of war. It is a rich illustration of "fix it" thinking. His first statement carries a sense of affront that is based in inadequacy -- //Am I God?// His second statement brings the offense into full belligerence, just as we may easily do when we fail to call upon God when faced with an insurmountable need. Elisha intervenes; his answer is God's answer to us in that circumstance.
5:9 A doorway - again this image in connection with Elisha.
<<Bbl 2K 5:11 abbr>> Now it is Naaman who is in danger of wrecking everything through misplaced anger. [[War]]
<<Bbl 2K 5:13 abbr>> It is the little people who are holding together history -- the little girl at the beginning, and Naaman's servants, who implore him -- //If he has assigned you some herculean task, you would have played the hero. So why not just dip in the Jordan, a small thing?// Then too, if he disobeyed the prophet, it was at the peril of his commission.
[[Gehazi]]
<<Bbl 2K 5:18 abbr>>-19 [[Deceive]] as godliness
I imagine Naaman presenting himself again to his king. The king embraces hum, kisses him, and says with astonished laughter, //Naaman, you're softer than a baby's butt!// In extreme joy and with humor, they bring up the princess with her infant son and compare the lad's buttocks with Naaman's cheek. Then the king asks, and what were you charged for this miracle, this rejuvenation? The answer, by Elisha's dictate, should have been //Nothing at all!// -- but with Gehazi's meddling, it is reduced to a somewhat less stunning answer.
<<Bbl 2K 6:21 abbr>>-23 How like the disciple Peter.
{{rf{15}}} When he returned to the man of God, he and all of his army, he came and stood before him and said, "Please now, I know that there is no God in all of the world except in Israel. So then, please take a gift from your servant." {{rf{16}}} And he said, "As Yahweh lives, before whom I stand, I surely will not take it." Still he urged him to take it, but he refused. {{rf{17}}} Then Naaman said, "If not, then please let a load of soil on a pair of mules be given to your servants, for your servant will never again bring a burnt offering and sacrifice to other gods, but only to Yahweh. {{rf{18}}} As far as this matter, may Yahweh pardon your servant when my master goes into the house of Rimmon to worship there, and he is leaning himself on my arm, that I also bow down in the house of Rimmon: when I bow down in the house of Rimmon, may Yahweh please pardon your servant in this matter." {{rf{19}}} He said to him, "Go in peace," so he went from him a short distance. {{rf{20}}} But Gehazi the servant of Elisha, the man of God, thought, "Look, my master has refrained from taking what this Aramean Naaman brought from his hand. As Yahweh lives, I will certainly run after him, and I will accept something from him." {{rf{21}}} So Gehazi pursued after Naaman. When Naaman saw someone running after him, he jumped off his chariot to meet him and asked him, "Is it peace?" {{rf{22}}} He said, "Peace. My master has sent me saying, 'Look, just now two servants from the hill country of Ephraim came to me, from the sons of the prophets. Please give them a talent of silver and two sets of clothing.'" {{rf{23}}} Then Naaman said, "Be prepared to accept two talents." So he urged him and tied up two talents of silver in two bags, with two sets of clothing and gave it to two of his servants and they carried it before him. {{rf{24}}} When he came to the citadel, he took them from their hand and put them in the house, then sent away the men so that they went. {{rf{25}}} When he went and stood by his master, Elisha asked him, "From where have you come, Gehazi?" And he said, "Your servant has not gone anywhere." {{rf{26}}} Then he said to him, "Did not my heart go with you as the man turned from on his chariot to meet you? Is it time to take silver, clothes, olive orchards, vineyards, sheep, oxen, male slaves, and female slaves? {{rf{27}}} The skin disease of Naaman shall cling to you and to your offspring forever." Then he went out from before him having a skin disease like the snow. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|2Kings-05-15]] }}}
Then the sons of the prophets said to Elisha, "Please look; the place where we are living before you is too cramped for us. {{rf{2}}} Let us please go to the Jordan and each bring from there one log that we might make a place there for us to live." Then he said, "Do so." {{rf{3}}} Then a certain one said, "Please be prepared and go with your servants," and he said, "I will go." {{rf{4}}} He went with them, and they went to the Jordan, and they cut down the trees. {{rf{5}}} It happened as the one was felling the log, that the iron ax fell into the water. He called out and said, "Oh, no! My master, it was borrowed!" {{rf{6}}} Then the man of God said, "Where did it fall?" So he showed him the place, and then he cut off a stick and threw it there and made the iron ax float. {{rf{7}}} Then he said, "Pick it up for yourself," so he stretched out his hand and took it.
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{{rf{8}}} The king of Aram was fighting with Israel, so he consulted with his officers, saying, "My camp is at such and such a place." {{rf{9}}} Then the man of God sent to the king of Israel, saying, "Take care while crossing over to this place, because the Arameans are descending there." {{rf{10}}} So the king of Israel sent to the place which the man of God said to him and warned him, so he was on guard there continually. {{rf{11}}} Then the heart of the king of Aram was stormy because of this matter, so he called his servants and said to them, "Can you not tell me who among us sides with the king of Israel?" {{rf{12}}} Then one of his servants said, "No, my lord the king, but Elisha the prophet who is in Israel tells the king of Israel things which you speak in your own bedchamber." {{rf{13}}} Then he said, "Go and see where he is so that I can send and capture him." Then he was told to him, "Look, he is in Dothan." {{rf{14}}} So he sent horses, chariots, and an oppressing army there. They arrived at night and surrounded the town. {{rf{15}}} The attendant of the man of God arose early and went out, and look, the army was surrounding the city with horses and chariots. His servant said to him, "Oh no, my master! What shall we do?" {{rf{16}}} And he said, "Don't be afraid, for more are with us than are with them." {{rf{17}}} Then Elisha prayed and said, "O Yahweh, please open his eyes that he may see," and Yahweh opened the eyes of the servant, and he saw, and look, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire all around Elisha. {{rf{18}}} They came down to him, and Elisha prayed to Yahweh and said, "Please strike this people with blindness," so he struck them with blindness as Elisha had spoken. {{rf{19}}} Then Elisha said to them, "This is not the way and this is not the city. Come after me, and I will bring you to the man whom you seek." Then he brought them to Samaria. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|2Kings-06-01]] }}}
{{rf{20}}} It happened at the moment they came to Samaria, Elisha said, "O Yahweh, open the eyes of these that they may see," so Yahweh opened their eyes, and they saw, and look, the middle of Samaria! {{rf{21}}} Then the king of Israel said to Elisha when he saw them, "Shall I kill them? Shall I kill, my father?" {{rf{22}}} And he said, "You shall not kill. Would you kill those whom you took captive with the sword or with the bow? Put food and water before them that they may eat and drink and then go to their master." {{rf{23}}} So he made a great feast for them, and they ate and drank; then he sent them, and they went to their master. And the bands of the Arameans did not come again into the land of Israel.
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{{rf{24}}} It happened after this that Ben-Hadad king of Aram assembled all of his army and marched up and laid siege against Samaria. {{rf{25}}} There was a great famine in Samaria, and behold, a siege was against it, until the head of a donkey went for eighty shekels of silver, and one fourth of the measure of the dung of doves went for five shekels of silver. {{rf{26}}} It happened that the king of Israel was crossing over on the wall, and a woman called out to him, saying, "Help, my lord the king!" {{rf{27}}} He said, "No, let Yahweh help you. How can I save you? From the threshing floor or from the wine press?" {{rf{28}}} The king said to her, "What is the problem?" Then the woman said, "This woman said to me, 'Give me your son, and let us eat him today, then tomorrow we will eat my son.' {{rf{29}}} So we cooked my son and ate him, and I said to her the next day, 'Give your son that we may eat him.' But she had hidden her son." {{rf{30}}} It happened that when the king heard the words of the woman, he tore his clothes. Now he had been walking on the wall, and the people saw, and behold, sackcloth was over his flesh underneath. {{rf{31}}} Then he said, "May God do to me and thus may he add, if the head of Elisha the son of Shaphat remains on him today!" {{rf{32}}} Now Elisha was sitting in his house and the elders were sitting with him, and the king dispatched a man from before him, but before the messenger came to him, he said to the elders, "Did you see that this son of a murderer has sent to remove my head? Look, when the messenger comes, close the door; and you must hold the door closed against him. Is not the sound of the feet of his master behind him?" {{rf{33}}} While he was still speaking with them, suddenly the messenger was coming down to him, and he said, "Look this trouble is from Yahweh. Why should I wait for Yahweh any longer?" {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|2Kings-06-20]] }}}
<<Bbl 2K 7:17 abbr>>-20 Perhaps he resisted the crowd.
<<Bbl 2K 9:1 abbr >>ff and chapter 10. The //bloodshed of Jezreel// is condemned in <<Bbl Hosea 1:4 >>. Jehu's massacres went past God's directives. Bright p 54ff.
<<Bbl 2K 9:21-26 abbr >> <<Bbl 1K 21:19 >>
<<Bbl 2K 12:4 abbr>>ff is rich (so to speak) in details about money -- vss 4 specifies //use of the current valuation,// vs 12 suggests line-item designation, vs 10 recounts the recounting procedure, and so on.
<<Bbl 2K 14:25 >> [[Jonah]]
<<Bbl 2K 15:5 abbr>> See <<Bbl I 7:1>>
<<Bbl 2K 15:19 abbr >> This is corroborated by Assyrian record.
<<Bbl 2K 15:27 abbr >> Bright explains that //20 years// must be an error.
Elisha said, "Hear the word of Yahweh: 'Thus says Yahweh, "At this time tomorrow a seah of wheat bread flour will sell for a shekel, and two seahs of barley for a shekel in the gate of Samaria.'" {{rf{2}}} Then the officer on whom the king relied answered the man of God and said, "Look, even if Yahweh is making windows in heaven, could this thing happen?" And he said, "Look, you will be seeing it with your eyes, but you shall not eat from it there." {{rf{3}}} Now four men who had a skin disease were at the entrance of the gate, and they said to each other, "Why are we sitting here until we die? {{rf{4}}} If we say, 'Let us go into the city,' the famine is in the city, and we shall die there; but if we sit here, we shall die. So then, come, let us fall into the camp of the Arameans. If they let us live, we shall live; but if they kill us, then we shall die." {{rf{5}}} So they got up at dusk to go to the camp of the Arameans. They went up to the edge of the camp of the Arameans, and look, there was no man there! {{rf{6}}} Now the Lord had caused the camp of the Arameans to hear the sound of chariots, the sound of horses, and the sound of a great army. So they said to one another, "Look, the king of Israel has hired the kings of the Hittites and the kings of Egypt to come against us!" {{rf{7}}} So they got up and fled at dusk and left their tents, their horses, their donkeys, and the camp as it was, and they fled for their lives. {{rf{8}}} When these who had the skin disease came to the edge of the camp, they went into a certain tent and they ate, drank, and took from there silver and gold and clothes. Then they went and hid them, then returned and came to another tent, and they took from there and went and hid them. {{rf{9}}} Then they said to one another, "We are not doing right. This day is a day of good news! If we are silent and wait until the light of morning, they will find us and we will be punished. So then, come, let us go and tell the house of the king." {{rf{10}}} When they came, they called to the gatekeepers of the city and told them, saying, "We came to the camp of the Arameans, and behold, there was no man or the voice of a man there! Only the horses and the donkeys were tied up, and the tents were left as they were." {{rf{11}}} Then the gatekeepers called and told it inside the house of the king. {{rf{12}}} The king got up in the night and said to his servants, "Please let me tell you what the Arameans have done to us. The Arameans know that we are hungry, so they went out from the camp to hide in the field, saying, 'When they go out from the city, we shall seize them alive and go into the city.'" {{rf{13}}} Then one of his servants replied and said, "Please let them take five of the remaining horses which remain in the city; behold, they are like all of the multitude of Israel that remain in it; they are like all the multitude of Israel who have perished. Let us send and see." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|2Kings-07-01]] }}}
{{rf{14}}} So he took two charioteer horsemen, and the king sent after the camp of the Arameans, saying, "Go, find out," {{rf{15}}} and they went after them to the Jordan. Look, all of the way was littered with clothes and equipment which the Arameans had thrown away in their haste. Then the messengers returned and told the king. {{rf{16}}} So the people went out and plundered the camp of the Arameans. A seah of wheat flour went for a shekel and two seahs of barley went for a shekel according to the word of Yahweh. {{rf{17}}} Then the king appointed the officer he was depending on over the gate, but the people trampled him and he died, according to that which the man of God had said which he spoke when the king came down to him. {{rf{18}}} It happened as the man of God spoke to the king, saying, "Two seahs of barley shall be sold for a shekel and a seah of wheat flour for a shekel at this time tomorrow in the gate of Samaria." {{rf{19}}} Then the officer had replied to the man of God and said, "Look, even if Yahweh is opening the windows in heaven, could this thing happen?" And he had said, "Look you are about to see it with your eyes, but you will not eat from it." {{rf{20}}} So it had happened to him; the people trampled him in the gate and he died.
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{{rf{1}}} Elisha spoke to the woman whose son he had restored to life, saying, "Get up and go, you and your household, and dwell as an alien wherever you can, for Yahweh has called for a famine, and it will come to the land for seven years." {{rf{2}}} So the woman got up and did according to the word of the man of God. She and her household went and dwelt as an alien in the land of the Philistines for seven years. {{rf{3}}} It happened at the end of seven years that the woman returned from the land of the Philistines and went out to appeal to the king for her household and for her properties. {{rf{4}}} Now the king was speaking to Gehazi the servant of the man of God, saying, "Please tell me all of the great things which Elisha has done." {{rf{5}}} It happened that as he was telling the king how he had restored the dead to life, suddenly the woman whose son he had restored to life was crying out to the king about her household and about her field. Then Gehazi said, "My lord the king, this is the woman and this is her son whom Elisha restored to life!" {{rf{6}}} So the king asked the woman, and she told him. So the king appointed for her a certain court official, saying, "Restore all that is hers and all the yield of the field from the day she left the land up to now." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|2Kings-07-14]] }}}
{{rf{7}}} Elisha came to Damascus. Now Ben-Hadad king of Aram was ill, and he was told, "The man of God has come up here." {{rf{8}}} Then the king said to Hazael, "Take a gift in your hand and go meet the man of God. Inquire of Yahweh from him, saying, 'Shall I recover from this illness?'" {{rf{9}}} So Hazael went to meet him and took a gift in his hand of all of the good things of Damascus, a load on each of forty camels, and he came and stood before him. Then he said, "Your son Ben-Hadad king of Aram has sent me to you, saying, 'Shall I recover from this illness?'" {{rf{10}}} Elisha said to him, "Go; say to him, 'You shall certainly recover,' but Yahweh has shown me that he certainly will die." {{rf{11}}} Then the man fixed his gaze and stared at him until he was ashamed and the man of God cried. {{rf{12}}} Then Hazael asked, "Why is my lord crying?" He said, "Because I know what evil you will do to the Israelites. You will set their fortifications on fire, and you will kill their young men with the sword. Their little ones you will dash to pieces, and their pregnant women you will rip open!" {{rf{13}}} Then Hazael said, "But how could your servant, who is like a dog, do this great thing?" Elisha said, "Yahweh has shown me that you are to be king over Aram." {{rf{14}}} So he departed from Elisha and came to his master. He asked him, "What did Elisha say to you." So he said, "He said to me that you will certainly recover." {{rf{15}}} On the next day, he took the bed cover, dipped it in the water, and spread it over his face so that he died. Then Hazael became king in his place. {{rf{16}}} Now in the fifth year of Joram son of Ahab, king of Israel, and Jehoshaphat king of Judah, Joram son of Jehoshaphat became the king of Judah. {{rf{17}}} He was thirty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem. {{rf{18}}} He walked in the way of the kings of Israel as the house of Ahab had done, for the daughter of Ahab became his wife, and he did evil in the eyes of Yahweh. {{rf{19}}} Yet Yahweh was not willing to destroy Judah, for the sake of David his servant, as he had promised to give him a lamp for his sons always. {{rf{20}}} In his days, Edom rebelled against the rule of Judah, and they set up a king over them. {{rf{21}}} So Joram crossed over to Zair and all the chariots with him. It happened that he arose by night and attacked Edom who had surrounded him and the commanders of the chariots; but the army fled to their tents. {{rf{22}}} So Edom has rebelled against the rule of Judah until this day; then Libnah also rebelled at that time. {{rf{23}}} The remainder of the acts of Joram and all that he did, are they not written in the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Judah? {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|2Kings-08-07]] }}}
{{rf{24}}} So Joram slept with his ancestors, and he was buried with his ancestors in the city of David, and Ahaziah his son became king in place of him. {{rf{25}}} In the twelfth year of Joram the son of Ahab, king of Israel, Ahaziah the son of Joram became king of Judah. {{rf{26}}} Ahaziah was twenty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. The name of his mother was Athaliah daughter of Omri, king of Israel. {{rf{27}}} He walked in the way of the house of Ahab and did evil in the eyes of Yahweh, as the house of Ahab; for he was the son-in-law of the house of Ahab. {{rf{28}}} He went with Joram the son of Ahab for the battle against Hazael king of Aram at Ramoth-Gilead, and the Arameans wounded Joram. {{rf{29}}} Joram the king returned to Jezreel to heal from the wounds which the Arameans had inflicted at Ramah when Hazael king of Aram fought him. Ahaziah the son of Joram, king of Judah, went down to see Joram the son of Ahab in Jezreel, for he was ill.
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{{rf{1}}} Now Elisha the prophet called for one of the sons of the prophets, and he said to him, "Gird your loins, and take this flask of olive oil in your hand, and go to Ramoth-Gilead. {{rf{2}}} Go there and look there for Jehu the son of Jehoshaphat the son of Nimshi. Go, for you must cause him to arise from among his brothers, and you must bring him into an inner room. {{rf{3}}} You must take the flask of olive oil and pour it out on his head. You must say, 'Thus says Yahweh, "I hereby anoint you as king over Israel." ' Then you must open the door and flee; do not linger!" {{rf{4}}} So the young man, servant of the prophet, went to Ramoth-Gilead. {{rf{5}}} He came, and look, the commanders of the army were sitting there. He said, "I have a word for you, O commander!" Jehu said, "For whom? For all of us?" And he said, "For you, O commander!" {{rf{6}}} He got up and went to the house, and poured the olive oil on his head and said to him, "Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel: 'I hereby anoint you as king over the people of Yahweh, over Israel. {{rf{7}}} You will destroy the house of Ahab your master, and you will avenge the blood of my servants the prophets and the blood of all of the servants of Yahweh, from the hand of Jezebel. {{rf{8}}} All of the house of Ahab will perish, and I shall cut off all males from Ahab, both bond and free. {{rf{9}}} I will make the house of Ahab like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat and like the house of Baasha the son of Ahijah. {{rf{10}}} The dogs will eat Jezebel in the territory of Jezreel, and there shall not be anyone to bury her.'" Then he opened the door and fled. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|2Kings-08-24]] }}}
{{rf{11}}} Then Jehu came out to the officers of his master, and they said to him, "Peace? Why did this madman come to you?" And he said to them, "You know the man and his foolish talk." {{rf{12}}} Then they said, "Liar. Please tell us." He said, "Thus and so he said to me, saying, 'Thus says Yahweh, "I hereby anoint you as king over Israel." '" {{rf{13}}} So they hastened each one to take his cloak, and they spread them under him on the bare steps, blew on the trumpet, and said, "Jehu is king!" {{rf{14}}} So Jehu the son of Jehoshaphat the son of Nimshi conspired against Joram. Now Joram was keeping guard in Ramoth-Gilead, he and all of Israel, because of the threat of Hazael king of Aram. {{rf{15}}} But Joram the king had returned to heal in Jezreel from the wound which the Arameans had inflicted on him when he fought with Hazael king of Aram. Jehu said, "If this is what you want, do not let him go out as a fugitive from the city to go to make it known in Jezreel." {{rf{16}}} Jehu mounted his chariot and went to Jezreel, for Joram was lying there, and Ahaziah king of Judah had gone down to visit Joram. {{rf{17}}} Now the watchman was standing on the tower in Jezreel, and he saw the company of Jehu when he came, and he said, "I see a company." Joram said, "Take a horseman and send him to meet them." And he said, "Is it peace?" {{rf{18}}} So the rider of the horse went out to meet him, and he said, "Thus the king asks, 'Is it peace?'" Then Jehu said, "What do you have to do with peace? Turn after me." Then the watchman reported, saying, "The messenger went up to them, but he did not return." {{rf{19}}} Then he sent out a second horseman, and he came to them and said, "Thus the king asks, 'Is it peace?'" Then Jehu said, "What do you have to do with peace? Turn after me." {{rf{20}}} So the sentinel reported, saying, "He went up to them, but he did not return, and the driving is like the driving of Jehu the son of Nimshi, for he drives with madness." {{rf{21}}} Then Joram said, "Get ready," so he got his chariot ready. Joram king of Israel went out, and Ahaziah king of Judah, each with his chariot. They went out to meet Jehu, and they found him at the tract of land of Naboth the Jezreelite. {{rf{22}}} When Joram saw Jehu, he asked, "Is it peace?" And he said, "What peace is there while the prostitutions of your mother Jezebel and her sorceries are numerous?" {{rf{23}}} Joram turned his chariot and fled and said to Ahaziah, "It's treason, Ahaziah!" {{rf{24}}} Then Jehu drew his bow and shot Joram between his shoulders so that the arrow went out from his heart, and he slumped down in his chariot. {{rf{25}}} He said to Bidkar his third servant, "Lift him out and throw him on the plot of the field of Naboth the Jezreelite, for remember, you and I were with the pair of chariots behind Ahab his father when Yahweh pronounced this oracle against him: {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|2Kings-09-11]] }}}
{{rf{26}}} '"Since I saw the blood of Naboth and the blood of his children yesterday," declares Yahweh, "I will requite it for you in this tract of land," declares Yahweh.' So then lift him out and throw him on the tract of land according to the word of Yahweh." {{rf{27}}} When Ahaziah king of Judah saw, he fled the way of Beth-Haggen. Jehu pursued after him and said, "Shoot him also, in the chariot." They shot him at the ascent of Gur which is in Ibleam, and he fled to Megiddo, but he died there. {{rf{28}}} Then his officers carried him to Jerusalem, and they buried him in his tomb with his ancestors in the city of David. {{rf{29}}} In the eleventh year of Joram the son of Ahab, Ahaziah had become king over Judah. {{rf{30}}} When Jehu came to Jezreel, Jezebel heard of it, so she painted her eyes with black eye paint and adorned her head and looked through the window. {{rf{31}}} Now Jehu had come in the gate, so she said, "Is it peace, O Zimri, murderer of his master?" {{rf{32}}} When he lifted up his face to the window, he asked, "Who is with me?" Two or three eunuchs looked down to him. {{rf{33}}} So he said, "Throw her down." So they threw her down, and her blood spattered on the wall and on the horses, and they trampled her. {{rf{34}}} Then he came and ate and drank, and said, "Please take care of this cursed one and bury her, for she is the daughter of a king." {{rf{35}}} When they went to bury her, they could not find her, except the skull, the feet, and the palms of the hands. {{rf{36}}} They returned and told him, and he said, "This is the word of Yahweh which he spoke by the hand of his servant Elijah the Tishbite, saying, 'On the plot of ground of Jezreel, the dogs shall eat the flesh of Jezebel.'" {{rf{37}}} So the dead body of Jezebel became dung on the surface spread on the field in the plot of ground of Jezreel, so one cannot say, "This is Jezebel." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|2Kings-09-26]] }}}
Ahab had seventy sons in Samaria, and Jehu wrote letters, and he sent them to Samaria to the officials of Jezreel, to the elders and to the guardians of Ahab, saying, {{rf{2}}} "Now, when this letter comes to you and your master's sons are with you, the chariots are with you, the horses, a fortified city, and weapons, {{rf{3}}} then you must select the best and the most suitable from the sons of your master, and you must place him on the throne of his father, and they must fight for the house of your masters." {{rf{4}}} But they were very afraid, and they said, "Look, two kings could not stand before him; how can we stand?" {{rf{5}}} So whoever was over the house, and whoever was over the city, and the elders and the guardians sent to Jehu, saying, "We are your servants; all that you say to us, we shall do. We shall not make anyone a king. Do what is good in your eyes." {{rf{6}}} Then he wrote to them a second letter, saying, "If you are for me, and you are listening to my voice, take the heads of the men of the sons of your master and come to me at this time tomorrow at Jezreel." Now the sons of the king, seventy men, were with the leaders of the city who were raising them. {{rf{7}}} When the letter came to them, they took the sons of the king, and they killed seventy men. Then they put their heads in baskets and sent them to him at Jezreel. {{rf{8}}} Then the messenger came and told him, saying, "They have brought the heads of the king's sons," and he said, "Put them in two piles at the entrance of the gate until morning." {{rf{9}}} It happened in the morning that he went out, stood, and said to all of the people, "You are righteous. Look, I conspired against my master and killed him. But who killed all of these? {{rf{10}}} Know then that the word of Yahweh will not fail which Yahweh spoke concerning the house of Ahab; Yahweh has done what he spoke by the hand of his servant Elijah. {{rf{11}}} Then Jehu killed all of the remainder of the house of Ahab in Jezreel, all of his leaders, his close friends, and his priests, until there was no survivor left for him. {{rf{12}}} Then he arose and went and came to Samaria. On the way, he was at Beth-Eked of the shepherds, {{rf{13}}} and Jehu met the brothers of Ahaziah king of Judah. He asked, "Who are you?" They said, "We are the brothers of Ahaziah; we came down for the peace of the king's children and the children of the queen." {{rf{14}}} Then he said, "Seize them alive!" So they seized them alive but then slaughtered them at the cistern of Beth-Eked, forty-two men. He did not allow any of them to survive. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|2Kings-10-01]] }}}
{{rf{15}}} Next he went from there and found Jehonadab the son of Recab to meet him. He greeted him and asked him, "Is your heart right with me as my heart is with you?" Then Jehonadab said, "Yes, it is. Give your hand!" And he gave his hand and took him up to him on the chariot. {{rf{16}}} Then he said, "Come with me! Look at my zeal for Yahweh!" So he let him ride in his chariot. {{rf{17}}} Then he came to Samaria and killed all who remained to Ahab in Samaria until he wiped them out according to the word of Yahweh which he had spoken to Elijah. {{rf{18}}} Then Jehu assembled all of the people and said to them, "Ahab served Baal a little, but Jehu will worship him greatly. {{rf{19}}} So then, summon to me all of the prophets of Baal and all of his servants and his priests; no man should fail to come, for I have a great sacrifice for Baal. Anyone who fails to come shall not live!" Now Jehu was acting with cunning in order to destroy the servants of Baal. {{rf{20}}} Then Jehu said, "Sanctify a solemn assembly for Baal!" So they proclaimed it. {{rf{21}}} Jehu sent word through all of Israel, and all of the servants of Baal came; there did not remain a man who did not come. They came to the house of Baal so that the house of Baal was filled from wall to wall. {{rf{22}}} He said to the one who was over the wardrobe, "Bring out clothing for all of the servants of Baal." So he brought the clothing out for them. {{rf{23}}} Then Jehu and Jehonadab the son of Recab came to the temple of Baal, and he said to the servants of Baal, "Search and see that there is none of the servants of Yahweh here with you; only those who serve Baal." {{rf{24}}} They came to offer sacrifices and burnt offerings. Now Jehu had stationed for himself eighty men outside, and he said, "The man who lets anyone escape from the men who I am entrusting to you, he will pay with his life!" {{rf{25}}} It happened that when he finished offering the burnt offering, Jehu said to the royal guard and to the officers, "Come and kill them; let no man go free!" So they put them to the sword, and the royal guard and the officers threw them out, then they went up to the citadel of the temple of Baal. {{rf{26}}} They brought out the stone pillars of the temple of Baal and burned them. {{rf{27}}} So they broke down the stone pillars of Baal and destroyed the temple of Baal and made it into a latrine until this day. {{rf{28}}} So Jehu wiped out Baal from Israel. {{rf{29}}} Only Jehu did not turn aside from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat by which he caused Israel to sin; namely, the calf-shaped idols of gold which were in Bethel and Dan. {{rf{30}}} Yahweh said to Jehu, "Because you have done well by doing right in my eyes and you have done to the house of Ahab according to all that was in my heart; therefore, sons of the fourth generation will sit for you on the throne of Israel." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|2Kings-10-15]] }}}
{{rf{31}}} But Jehu was not careful to walk in the law of Yahweh God of Israel with all his heart; he did not turn from the sins of Jeroboam by which he caused Israel to sin. {{rf{32}}} In those days, Yahweh began to reduce Israel, so Hazael defeated them in every territory of Israel, {{rf{33}}} from the Jordan eastward: all of the land of Gilead, the Gadites, the Reubenites, and the Manassites, from Aroer which is on the Wadi Arnon and Gilead and Bashan. {{rf{34}}} Now the remainder of the acts of Jehu and all that he did and all of his powerful deeds, are they not written in the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Israel? {{rf{35}}} So Jehu slept with his ancestors, and they buried him in Samaria, and Jehoahaz his son became king in his place. {{rf{36}}} Now the days which Jehu had reigned over Israel were twenty-eight years in Samaria. {{rf big{1}}} Now Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, so she prepared to destroy all of the offspring of the royal family. {{rf{2}}} But Jehosheba the daughter of King Joram and sister of Ahaziah took Jehoash the son of Ahaziah, and she stole him from among the sons of the king who were being put to death, putting him and his nurse in the inner bedroom. So they hid him from the presence of Athaliah, and he was not killed. {{rf{3}}} He remained with her in the temple of Yahweh, hidden for six years while Athaliah was reigning over the land. {{rf{4}}} But in the seventh year Jehoiada sent and took the commanders of the hundreds of the Carites and the runners, and he brought them to himself to the temple of Yahweh. Then he made a covenant with them and made them swear in the house of Yahweh and showed them the son of the king. {{rf{5}}} He commanded them, saying, "This is the thing which you must do: one third of you who go off duty on the Sabbath, the keepers of the guard in the house of the king, {{rf{6}}} and another third at the gate of Sur, and a third at the gate behind the runners, shall guard the post of the palace alternately. {{rf{7}}} Two of the units among you, all who go on duty on the Sabbath, guard the post of the temple of Yahweh for the king. {{rf{8}}} You must surround the king all about, each with his weapon in his hand; whoever comes to the ranks must be killed. Be with the king wherever he goes." {{rf{9}}} So the commanders of hundreds did according to all that Jehoiada the priest commanded, and each took his men who went off duty on the Sabbath and those who came on duty on the Sabbath, and they came to Jehoiada the priest. {{rf{10}}} Then the priest gave to the commanders of the hundreds spears and small round shields which were King David's, which were in the temple of Yahweh. {{rf{11}}} So the royal runners stood, each with his weapons in his hand, from the side of the temple to the south up to the side of the temple on the north, around the altar and around the temple, about the king all around. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|2Kings-10-31]] }}}
{{rf{12}}} Then he brought out the son of the king, put the crown on him with the testimony, and they made him king, anointed him, clapped their hands, and said, "Long live the king!" {{rf{13}}} When Athaliah heard the sound of the runners of the people, she came to the people at the temple of Yahweh. {{rf{14}}} She looked, and there was the king standing by the pillar according to the custom. The commanders and the trumpeters were by the king, and all of the people of the land were rejoicing and blowing on the trumpets. Athaliah tore her clothes and she called, "Treason, treason!" {{rf{15}}} Then Jehoiada the priest commanded the commanders of the hundreds, the appointed of the army, and he said to them, "Bring her out to the house of the ranks! The one coming after her should kill her with the sword," for the priest had said, "Let her not be killed in the temple of Yahweh." {{rf{16}}} So they grabbed her as she went by the entranceway of the horses to the palace of the king, and she was killed there. {{rf{17}}} Then Jehoiada made a covenant between Yahweh and the king and the people, that the people should be as a people for Yahweh, and also a covenant between the king and the people. {{rf{18}}} Then all the people of the land went to the temple of Baal and tore it down, and its altars and its images they broke completely into pieces. Mattan the priest of Baal they killed in front of the altars. Then the priest put guards over the house of Yahweh. {{rf{19}}} He took the commanders of the hundreds and the Carites and the runners and all the people of the land, and they brought the king down from the temple of Yahweh. And they marched by the way of the runner's gate to the palace of the king, and he sat on the throne of the kings. {{rf{20}}} All the people of the land rejoiced, and the city rested; for Athaliah had been killed with the sword in the palace of the king. {{rf{21}}} Jehoash was seven years old when he began to reign. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|2Kings-11-12]] }}}
In the seventh year of Jehu, Jehoash became king. He reigned in Jerusalem forty years, and the name of his mother was Zibiah from Beersheba. {{rf{2}}} Jehoash did right in the eyes of Yahweh all of his days, because Jehoiada the priest instructed him. {{rf{3}}} Only the high places were not removed; the people were still making sacrifices and offering incense on the high places. {{rf{4}}} Jehoash said to the priests, "All of the money for the sacred things that is brought to the temple of Yahweh, the money taxed at its proper value for each person and all of the money which comes upon the heart of a man to bring to the temple of Yahweh, {{rf{5}}} let the priests take for themselves, each from his treasurers, and let them repair the breach of the temple for every place where damage is found." {{rf{6}}} It happened in the twenty-third year of King Jehoash that the priests had not repaired the damage in the temple. {{rf{7}}} So King Jehoash summoned Jehoiada the priest and the priests, and he said to them, "Why are you not repairing the damage in the temple? Now, you shall not take money from your treasurers for the damage in the temple. You must provide it." {{rf{8}}} So the priests agreed not to take money from the people and not to repair the damage to the temple.
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{{rf{9}}} Then Jehoiada the priest took a certain chest and bored a hole in its lid, and he put it beside the altar to the right as a man enters into the temple of Yahweh; then the priests who were keepers of the threshold would put there all of the money brought into the temple. {{rf{10}}} It happened that when they saw a great deal of money in the chest, the secretary of the king and the high priest would come up, put the money in bags, then count the money found in the temple of Yahweh. {{rf{11}}} They placed the money, which was weighed out, into the hands of the workers who were appointed over the temple of Yahweh, and they paid it to the skilled craftsmen of wood and to the builders working on the temple of Yahweh {{rf{12}}} and to the masons and the stonecutters, to buy timber and stones for hewing, in order to repair the damage of the temple of Yahweh, and for all who went to the temple to repair it. {{rf{13}}} Only, for the temple of Yahweh, there were not any silver basins, snuffers, bowls for drinking wine, trumpets, or any vessel of gold or silver from the money being brought to the temple of Yahweh. {{rf{14}}} For they gave that to all the workers, and they repaired the temple of Yahweh with it. {{rf{15}}} They did not have to settle accounts with the men into whose hands they placed the money to give to the workers, for they were dealing honestly. {{rf{16}}} The money of the guilt offering and the money of the sin offering was not brought into the temple of Yahweh, but were each for the priests. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|2Kings-12-01]] }}}
{{rf{17}}} At that time, Hazael king of Aram went up and fought against Gath and captured it; then Hazael set his face to go up against Jerusalem. {{rf{18}}} Jehoash king of Judah took all of the holy objects that Jehoshaphat, Joram, and Ahaziah his ancestors, the kings of Judah, had devoted, and all his holy objects and all of the gold found in the treasuries of the temple of Yahweh, and in the palace of the king, and he sent them to Hazael king of Aram, so that he went up from Jerusalem. {{rf{19}}} Now the remainder of the acts of Joash and all that he did, are they not written in the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Judah? {{rf{20}}} Then his servants arose and conspired and killed Joash in the house of the Millo as he was going down toward Silla. {{rf{21}}} Jozabad the son of Shimeath and Jehozabad the son of Shomer, his servants, struck him and killed him, so they buried him with his ancestors in the city of David. Then Amaziah his son became king in his place. {{rf big{1}}} In the twenty-third year of Joash the son of Ahaziah, king of Judah, Jehoahaz the son of Jehu became king over Israel in Samaria, reigning seventeen years. {{rf{2}}} But he did evil in the eyes of Yahweh, and he went after the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat with which he had caused Israel to sin, and he did not depart from it. {{rf{3}}} So the anger of Yahweh was kindled against Israel, and he gave them into the hand of Hazael king of Aram and into the hand of Ben-Hadad the son of Hazael repeatedly. {{rf{4}}} Then Jehoahaz entreated Yahweh, and Yahweh listened to him, for he saw the oppression of Israel, because the king of Aram oppressed them. {{rf{5}}} Yahweh gave Israel a savior, and they went out from under the hand of Aram. So the Israelites lived in their tents as formerly. {{rf{6}}} Yet they did not depart from the sins of the house of Jeroboam which he caused Israel to sin, but walked in it; and also, the pole of the Asherah worship was still standing in Samaria. {{rf{7}}} For there was no army left over for Jehoahaz except for fifty horsemen, ten chariots, and ten thousand infantry, for the king of Aram had destroyed them and made them as the dust at threshing. {{rf{8}}} Now the remainder of the acts of Jehoahaz and all that he did and his powerful deeds, are they not written in the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Israel? {{rf{9}}} Then Jehoahaz slept with his ancestors and they buried him in Samaria, and Jehoash his son became king in his place. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|2Kings-12-17]] }}}
{{rf{10}}} In the thirty-seventh year of Joash king of Judah, Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz became king over Israel in Samaria, reigning sixteen years. {{rf{11}}} He did evil in the eyes of Yahweh; he did not depart from all of the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat which he caused Israel to sin, but walked in it. {{rf{12}}} The remainder of the acts of Joash and all that he did, his powerful deeds, and how he fought with Amaziah king of Judah, are they not written in the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Israel? {{rf{13}}} Then Joash slept with his ancestors, and Jeroboam sat on his throne. Joash was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel. {{rf{14}}} Elisha became ill with the illness with which he would die, so Jehoash king of Israel went down to him and wept before him, and said, "My father, my father; the chariot of Israel and its horsemen!" {{rf{15}}} Elisha said to him, "Take a bow and arrows," so he took him a bow and arrows. {{rf{16}}} He said to the king of Israel, "Lay your hand on the bow," so he lay hold of it; then Elisha put his hand on the hands of the king. {{rf{17}}} Then he said, "Open the window to the east," so he opened it. Elisha said, "Shoot," and he shot. Then he said, "An arrow of victory for Yahweh, and an arrow of victory against Aram; you shall fight the Arameans in Aphek until finishing them." {{rf{18}}} Then he said, "Take the arrows," so he took them. He said to the king of Israel, "Strike the ground," so he struck three times and stopped. {{rf{19}}} Yet the man of God became angry against him and said, "For striking five or six times, then you would have defeated Aram until finishing them, but now you will defeat Aram only three times." {{rf{20}}} Elisha died and they buried him. Now the raiding parties of Moab came in the spring. {{rf{21}}} And it happened that they were burying a man; suddenly they saw the marauding band, so they threw the man in the grave of Elisha. As he went in, the man touched the bones of Elisha, and became alive and got up on his feet! {{rf{22}}} Hazael king of Aram oppressed Israel all the days of Jehoahaz. {{rf{23}}} But Yahweh had mercy on them and showed compassion to them and turned to them because of his covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. He was not willing to destroy them nor cast them from his presence up to now. {{rf{24}}} When Hazael king of Aram died, his son Ben-Hadad became king in his place. {{rf{25}}} Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz returned and took the cities from the hand of Ben-Hadad the son of Hazael which he had taken from the hand of Jehoahaz his father in the war. Three times Jehoash defeated him and recovered the towns of Israel. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|2Kings-13-10]] }}}
In the second year of Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz king of Israel, Amaziah the son of Jehoash king of Judah began to reign. {{rf{2}}} He was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem; and the name of his mother was Jehoaddin from Jerusalem. {{rf{3}}} He did right in the eyes of Yahweh, only not as David his ancestor; as all which Jehoash his father had done, he did. {{rf{4}}} Only the high places were not removed; the people were still sacrificing and offering incense on the high places. {{rf{5}}} It happened that when the kingdom was firmly in his hand, he killed his servants who had killed his father the king. {{rf{6}}} But the sons of the killers he did not kill, as it is written in the scroll of the law of Moses which Yahweh had commanded, saying, "Fathers should not be killed because of children, and children should not be killed because of fathers; but a man should die because of his own sin." {{rf{7}}} He also killed ten thousand Edomites in the Valley of Salt, and he seized Sela in the battle, and he called its name Jokteel, until this day. {{rf{8}}} Then Amaziah sent messengers to Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz the son of Jehu king of Israel, saying, "Come let us meet face-to-face." {{rf{9}}} So Jehoash the king of Israel sent to Amaziah, saying, "The thornbush which is in Lebanon sent to the cedar which is in Lebanon, saying, 'Give your daughter to my son as wife,' but an animal of the field which is in Lebanon passed by and trampled the thornbush. {{rf{10}}} You have indeed defeated Edom and your heart is lifted up; enjoy the honor and stay home. Why should you provoke trouble so that you fall and Judah with you?" {{rf{11}}} But Amaziah would not listen, so Jehoash king of Israel went up and they met face-to-face, he and Amaziah king of Judah, at Beth-Shemesh which belongs to Judah. {{rf{12}}} Judah was defeated before Israel and they fled, each to this tent. {{rf{13}}} Jehoash king of Israel captured Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Jehoash, the son of Ahaziah, at Beth-Shemesh. Then they came to Jerusalem, and he broke down the wall of Jerusalem from the Gate of Ephraim up to the Corner Gate, four hundred cubits! {{rf{14}}} He also took all of the gold and silver and all the vessels found in the temple of Yahweh and in the treasury rooms of the palace of the king, as well as the hostages; then he returned to Samaria. {{rf{15}}} Now the remainder of the acts of Jehoash which he did, and his powerful deeds, and how he fought with Amaziah king of Judah, are they not written on the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Israel? {{rf{16}}} Then Jehoash slept with his ancestors and was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel, and Jeroboam his son reigned in his place. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|2Kings-14-01]] }}}
{{rf{17}}} Amaziah the son of Jehoash king of Judah lived fifteen years after the death of Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz king of Israel. {{rf{18}}} The remainder of the acts of Amaziah, are they not written on the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Judah? {{rf{19}}} They conspired against him in Jerusalem, so he fled to Lachish. But they sent men after him to Lachish, and they killed him there. {{rf{20}}} Then they carried him on the horses, and he was buried with his ancestors in the city of David. {{rf{21}}} All of the people of Judah took sixteen-year-old Azariah and made him king in place of this father Amaziah. {{rf{22}}} He rebuilt Elath and restored it to Judah after the king slept with his ancestors. {{rf{23}}} In the fifteenth year of Amaziah the son of Jehoash king of Judah, Jeroboam the son of Jehoash king of Israel began to reign in Samaria, reigning forty-one years. {{rf{24}}} But he did evil in the eyes of Yahweh; he did not depart from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat which he caused Israel to sin. {{rf{25}}} He restored the boundary of Israel from Lebo-Hamath up to the sea of the Arabah, according to the word of Yahweh which he spoke by the hand of his servant Jonah the son of Amittai the prophet, who was from Gath-Hepher. {{rf{26}}} For Yahweh saw that the misery of Israel was very bitter, whether bond or free, but there was no helper for Israel. {{rf{27}}} Yahweh did not decree to blot out the name of Israel from under the heavens, so he saved them by the hand of Jeroboam the son of Jehoash. {{rf{28}}} Now the remainder of the acts of Jeroboam, all that he did, his powerful deeds, how he fought, and how he restored Damascus and Hamath of Judah to Israel, are they not written on the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Israel? {{rf{29}}} So Jeroboam slept with his ancestors the kings of Israel, and his son Zechariah became king in his place. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|2Kings-14-17]] }}}
In the twenty-seventh year of Jeroboam king of Israel, Azariah the son of Amaziah king of Judah began to reign. {{rf{2}}} He was sixteen years old when he became king, and he reigned fifty-two years in Jerusalem. The name of his mother was Jecoliah of Jerusalem. {{rf{3}}} He did right in the eyes of Yahweh, according to all that Amaziah his father had done. {{rf{4}}} Only he did not remove the high places; the people were still sacrificing and burning incense on the high places. {{rf{5}}} Yahweh struck the king, and he was infected with a skin disease until the day of his death. He lived in a separate house, while Jotham the son of the king was over the house, governing the people of the land. {{rf{6}}} The remainder of the acts of Azariah, and all that he did, are they not written on the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Judah? {{rf{7}}} So Azariah slept with his ancestors, and they buried him with his ancestors in the city of David, and Jotham his son became king in his place.
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{{rf{8}}} In the thirty-eighth year of Azariah king of Judah, Zechariah the son of Jeroboam reigned over Israel in Samaria for six months. {{rf{9}}} He did evil in the eyes of Yahweh as his ancestors had done. He did not depart from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat which he caused Israel to sin. {{rf{10}}} Shallum the son of Jabesh conspired against him, struck him in front of the people, killed him, and reigned in his place. {{rf{11}}} Now the remainder of the acts of Zechariah, look, they are written on the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Israel. {{rf{12}}} This is the word of Yahweh which he spoke to Jehu, saying, "Sons of a fourth generation shall sit for you on the throne of Israel," and it was so. {{rf{13}}} Shallum the son of Jabesh began to reign in the thirty-ninth year of Uzziah king of Judah, and he reigned a full month in Samaria. {{rf{14}}} Then Menahem the son of Gadi came up from Tirzah, and he came to Samaria and struck down Shallum the son of Jabesh in Samaria and killed him. Then he became king in place of him. {{rf{15}}} Now the remainder of the acts of Shallum, and his conspiracy which he conspired; look, they are written on the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Israel. {{rf{16}}} At that time Menahem destroyed Tiphsah, all who were in it, and all its territory from Tirzah, because it had not opened to him, so he destroyed it and ripped open all of its pregnant women.
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{{rf{17}}} In the thirty-ninth year of Azariah king of Judah, Menahem the son of Gadi began to reign over Israel for ten years in Samaria. {{rf{18}}} But he did evil in the eyes of Yahweh. He did not depart all of his days from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat which he caused Israel to sin. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|2Kings-15-01]] }}}
{{rf{19}}} Pul the king of Assyria came against the land, so Menahem gave a thousand talents of silver to Pul so that his hand would be with him to strengthen his hold on the kingdom. {{rf{20}}} Menahem exacted the money from Israel, from all the very rich, to give to the king of Assyria fifty shekels of silver for each one. Then the king of Assyria returned and did not stay there in the land. {{rf{21}}} Now the rest of the acts of Menahem, and all that he did, are they not written in the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Israel? {{rf{22}}} So Menahem slept with his ancestors, and Pekahiah his son became king in his place.
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{{rf{23}}} In the fiftieth year of Azariah king of Judah, Pekahiah the son of Menahem began to reign over Israel in Samaria for two years. {{rf{24}}} But he did evil in the eyes of Yahweh. He did not depart from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat which he caused Israel to sin. {{rf{25}}} Pekah the son of Remaliah, his captain, conspired against him, so he attacked him in Samaria in the citadel fortress of the palace of the king, with Argob and Arieh. With him also were fifty men from the children of the Gileadites, and he killed him and became king in his place. {{rf{26}}} Now the remainder of the acts of Pekahiah and all that he did, look, they are written in the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Israel.
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{{rf{27}}} In the fifty-second year of Azariah king of Judah, Pekah the son of Remaliah began to reign over Israel in Samaria for twenty years. {{rf{28}}} He did evil in the eyes of Yahweh. He did not depart from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat which he caused Israel to sin. {{rf{29}}} In the days of Pekah king of Israel, Tiglath-Pileser the king of Assyria came and took Ijon, Abel-Beth-Maacah, Janoah, Kedesh, Hazor, the Gilead, the Galilee, and all the land of Naphtali; then he deported them to Assyria. {{rf{30}}} Hoshea the son of Elah conspired against Pekah the son of Remaliah, and he attacked and killed him. He reigned in place of him in the twentieth year of Jotham the son of Uzziah. {{rf{31}}} Now the remainder of the acts of Pekah and all that he did, look, they are written in the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Israel.
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{{rf{32}}} In the second year of Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, Jotham the son of Uzziah king of Judah began to reign. {{rf{33}}} He was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem, and the name of his mother was Jerusha the daughter of Zadok. {{rf{34}}} He did what was right in the eyes of Yahweh, according to all that Uzziah his father had done. {{rf{35}}} Only the high places were not removed; the people still were sacrificing and offering incense on the high places. He built the upper gate of the temple of Yahweh. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|2Kings-15-19]] }}}
{{rf{36}}} Now the remainder of the acts of Jotham which he did, are they not written on the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Judah? {{rf{37}}} (Now, in those days, Yahweh began to send Rezin the king of Aram and Pekah the son of Remaliah against Judah.) {{rf{38}}} So Jotham slept with his ancestors and was buried with his ancestors in the city of David his ancestor, and his son Ahaz became king in his place. {{rf big{1}}} In the seventeenth year of Pekah the son of Remaliah, Ahaz the son of Jotham king of Judah began to reign. {{rf{2}}} Ahaz was twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. He did not do right in the eyes of Yahweh his God as David his ancestor. {{rf{3}}} He walked in the way of the kings of Israel; he even let his son pass through the fire according to the detestable things of the nations which Yahweh drove out from before the Israelites. {{rf{4}}} He sacrificed and offered incense on the high places, on the hills, and under every green tree. {{rf{5}}} Then Rezin the king of Aram went up with Pekah the son of Remaliah king of Israel against Jerusalem for battle, and they besieged Ahaz but were not able to defeat him. {{rf{6}}} At that time, Rezin king of Aram recovered Elath for Aram and drove out the Judeans from Elath. The Arameans came to Elath and have lived there until this day. {{rf{7}}} Ahaz sent messengers to Tiglath-Pileser king of Assyria, saying, "I am your servant and your son. Come up and rescue me from the hand of the king of Aram and from the hand of the king of Israel who are rising up against me." {{rf{8}}} Ahaz took the silver and gold found in the house of Yahweh and in the treasury rooms of the palace of the king, and he sent a gift to the king of Assyria. {{rf{9}}} So the king of Assyria listened to him and he went up to Damascus and captured it and deported them to Kir. He also killed Rezin. {{rf{10}}} So King Ahaz went to meet Tiglath-Pileser the king of Assyria in Damascus, and he saw the altar which was in Damascus, so King Ahaz sent to Uriah the priest the builder's plan of the altar and the exact model of how it had been made. {{rf{11}}} So Uriah the priest built the altar according to all that King Ahaz had sent from Damascus; thus Uriah the priest did before King Ahaz came from Damascus. {{rf{12}}} When the king came from Damascus, the king saw the altar, so he went near to the altar and went up on it. {{rf{13}}} Then he offered his burnt offerings and his grain offerings, he poured his libations and dashed the blood of his fellowship offerings against the altar. {{rf{14}}} Now the bronze altar which was before Yahweh, he brought over from the front of the temple, from between his altar and the temple of Yahweh, and he placed it at the side of his altar to the north. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|2Kings-15-36]] }}}
<<Bbl 2K 16:1 abbr >>ff Bright summarizes chapters 16 through 19, p 78ff. @@color:brown;... It was at this time of high courage and brute agony - when any hope at all might seem to be a luxury beyond affording - that the Old Testament hope of the messianic Kingdom was was given both its most eloquent expression and its definitive form.@@
<<Bbl 2K 16:10 abbr>>-18 A display of usurpation and selfish appropriation that is deeply revolting.
<<Bbl 2K 18:17 abbr>>-35 The nature of the speech, its delivery to everyone in familiar language, with familiar theology, with its ultimate threats and mocking. But note Hezekiah's wise instruction to his people (and their obedience) -- //Do not answer him.// And there follows Hezekiah's intercession. In prayer, they use the very cruelty as an argument for God's rescue in <<Bbl 2K 19:4>>.
<<Bbl 2K 20:12 abbr >>ff It seems he displayed his pearls to swine. I am not sure it is made explicit that he sinned. But he did not do as Solomon, making wisdom the main glory. See [[Witness]] for comparison.
<<Bbl 2K 21:13 abbr>> //I will make you squeaky-clean!// -- as befits a precious vessel.
<<Bbl 2K 22:1 abbr>> Good King Josiah had once been dedicated to the idol, according to Mannasseh's practice (<<Bbl 2K 21:6 abbr>>) which was followed by his son Anon (<<Bbl 2K 21:20 abbr>>)
{{rf{15}}} Then King Ahaz commanded Uriah the priest, saying, "On the great altar burn the morning burnt offering and the grain offering of the evening, the burnt offering of the king and his grain offering, the burnt offering of all of the people of the land, their offerings, their libations, and all of the blood of the burnt offerings, the blood of the sacrifices you must dash on it. But the bronze altar shall be for me to inquire by." {{rf{16}}} So Uriah the priest did according to all that King Ahaz commanded. {{rf{17}}} Then King Ahaz cut off the side panels of the water carts and removed from upon them the basin, and the sea he took down from the bronze oxen that were under it and put it on a stone base. {{rf{18}}} The covering for the Sabbath which they had built in the palace and in the entrance of the king to the outside, he removed from the temple of Yahweh because of the presence of the king of Assyria. {{rf{19}}} Now the remainder of the acts of Ahaz which he did, are they not written in the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Judah? {{rf{20}}} So Ahaz slept with his ancestors and was buried with his ancestors in the city of David, and Hezekiah his son reigned in his place. {{rf big{1}}} In the twelfth year of Ahaz the king of Judah, Hoshea the son of Elah began to reign over Israel in Samaria, reigning nine years. {{rf{2}}} He did evil in the eyes of Yahweh, only not as the kings of Israel who were before him. {{rf{3}}} Shalmaneser the king of Assyria came up against him, and Hoshea became his vassal and paid tribute to him. {{rf{4}}} But the king of Assyria found treachery in Hoshea, for he had sent messengers to So king of Egypt, and he did not offer tribute to the king of Assyria as he had year after year; so the king of Assyria arrested him, and confined him in a house of imprisonment. {{rf{5}}} So the king of Assyria went up in all the land, then he went up to Samaria and besieged it for three years. {{rf{6}}} In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria captured Samaria and deported Israel to Assyria. He placed them in Halah, in Habor, in the river regions of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes. {{rf{7}}} Now this happened because the Israelites had sinned against Yahweh their God when he brought them up from the land of Egypt from under the hand of Pharaoh the king of Egypt and they feared other gods. {{rf{8}}} They walked in the statutes of the nations whom Yahweh had driven out from before the Israelites, which the kings of Israel had introduced. {{rf{9}}} The Israelites secretly did things which were not right, against Yahweh their God; they built high places for themselves in all their towns, from the watchtower up to the fortified city. {{rf{10}}} They set up for themselves stone pillars and poles of Asherah worship on every high hill and under every green tree. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|2Kings-16-15]] }}}
{{rf{11}}} They burned incense there on all the high places, like the nations which Yahweh deported before them, and they did evil things to provoke Yahweh. {{rf{12}}} They served idols which Yahweh had said to them, "You shall not do this thing!" {{rf{13}}} Yahweh warned Israel and Judah by the hand of his every prophet, with every seer saying, "Turn from all of your evil ways, and keep my commandments and my ordinances, according to all the law which I commanded your ancestors, which I sent to you by the hand of my servants the prophets." {{rf{14}}} But they did not listen and they stiffened their necks, like the necks of their ancestors who did not believe in Yahweh their God. {{rf{15}}} They rejected his statutes, his covenant which he made with their ancestors, and his warnings which he gave to them; and they went after the idols, became vain, and went after all the nations which were all around them, which Yahweh had commanded them not to do as they did. {{rf{16}}} They abandoned all the commands of Yahweh their God and made for themselves two molten calf-shaped idols; they made a pole of Asherah worship and bowed down to the army of the heavens and served Baal. {{rf{17}}} They made their sons and their daughters pass through the fire, they practiced divination and read omens, and they sold themselves to do evil in the eyes of Yahweh to provoke him. {{rf{18}}} So Yahweh was very angry with Israel and he removed them from his presence; none remained except the tribe of Judah alone. {{rf{19}}} Even Judah did not keep the commands of Yahweh their God, and they walked in the customs of Israel which they introduced, {{rf{20}}} so Yahweh rejected all the offspring of Israel and punished them, and he gave them into the hand of the plunderers until he banished them from his presence. {{rf{21}}} For he had torn Israel from the house of David, and they made Jeroboam the son of Nebat king, but Jeroboam detached Israel from following Yahweh, and he made them sin a great sin. {{rf{22}}} The Israelites walked in all the sins of Jeroboam which he committed, and they did not depart from it, {{rf{23}}} until Yahweh removed Israel from his presence as he had foretold by the hand of all his servants, the prophets. And so he deported Israel from upon his land to Assyria until this day. {{rf{24}}} The king of Assyria brought from Babylonia, from Cush, from Arva, from Hamath, and Sepharvaim, and he settled them in the cities of Samaria in place of the Israelites, so they took possession of Samaria and lived in her cities. {{rf{25}}} It happened that when they began living there, they did not fear Yahweh, so Yahweh sent lions among them, and they were killing them. {{rf{26}}} So they said to the king of Assyria, "The nations whom you deported and settled in the cities of Samaria do not know the customs of the God of the land, so he sent lions among them, and now they are killing them because they do not know the customs of the God of the land." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|2Kings-17-11]] }}}
{{rf{27}}} Then the king of Assyria commanded, saying, "Release one of the priests whom you deported from there, and let him go and settle there. Let him teach them the customs of the God of the land." {{rf{28}}} So one of the priests went, whom they had deported from Samaria, and he settled in Bethel and was teaching them how they should fear Yahweh. {{rf{29}}} Yet every nation was making their gods, and they put them in the shrine of the high places that the Samaritans had made, every nation in their cities in which they were living. {{rf{30}}} The men of Babylonia made Succoth Benoth; the men of Cush made Nergal; the men of Hamath made Ashima. {{rf{31}}} The Arvites made Nibhaz and Tartak; the Sepharvites were burning their children in the fire to Adrammelech and Anammelech the gods of Sepharvaim. {{rf{32}}} Those who were fearing Yahweh made priests of the high places from among themselves, and they were sacrificing for them in the shrines of the high places. {{rf{33}}} Yahweh they were fearing, but their gods they were serving, according to the customs of the nations from which they were deported. {{rf{34}}} Until this day they are doing according to their former customs; none of them are fearing Yahweh, and none of them are doing according to their statutes, to their decisions, to the law, or to the commands that Yahweh commanded the descendants of Jacob to which he had given the name Israel. {{rf{35}}} Yahweh had made a covenant with them and commanded them, "You shall not fear other gods, nor shall you bow down to them, nor shall you serve them, nor shall you sacrifice to them. {{rf{36}}} Rather, Yahweh, who brought you out from the land of Egypt with great strength and with an outstretched arm -- him you shall fear, and to him you shall bow down, and to him you shall sacrifice. {{rf{37}}} The statutes, the decisions, the law, and the commands that he wrote to you, you shall observe to do always, and you shall not fear other gods. {{rf{38}}} The covenant that I have made with you, you shall not forget, and you shall not fear other gods. {{rf{39}}} But Yahweh your God you shall fear, and he will deliver you from the hand of all of your enemies." {{rf{40}}} They did not listen but kept on doing according to their former customs. {{rf{41}}} So these nations were fearing Yahweh, but they were serving their idols, as were their children and their children's children; as their ancestors did, they are doing until this day. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|2Kings-17-27]] }}}
It happened in the third year of Hoshea the son of Elah king of Israel, that Hezekiah the son of Ahaz king of Judah became king. {{rf{2}}} He was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. The name of his mother was Abi, the daughter of Zechariah. {{rf{3}}} He did right in the eyes of Yahweh according to all that David his ancestor had done. {{rf{4}}} He removed the high places, and he smashed the stone pillars; he cut down the poles of Asherah worship and demolished the bronze serpent which Moses had made, for up to those days the Israelites were offering incense to it and called it Nehushtan. {{rf{5}}} He trusted in Yahweh the God of Israel; there was no one like him, before or after, among all the kings of Judah. {{rf{6}}} He held on to Yahweh; he did not depart from following him, and he kept his commands that Yahweh had commanded Moses. {{rf{7}}} Yahweh was with him; everywhere he went, he succeeded. He rebelled against the king of Assyria and did not serve him. {{rf{8}}} He attacked the Philistines up to Gaza and its territory from the watchtower up to the fortified city. {{rf{9}}} It happened in the fourth year of King Hezekiah, that is, the seventh year of Hoshea the son of Elah king of Israel, Shalmaneser king of Assyria came against Samaria and laid siege against her. {{rf{10}}} At the end of three years, he captured it in the sixth year of Hezekiah, that is, the ninth year of Hoshea king of Israel; Samaria was captured. {{rf{11}}} Then the king of Assyria deported Israel to Assyria and settled them in Halah, in Habor, in the river regions of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes, {{rf{12}}} because they did not listen to the voice of Yahweh their God, and they transgressed his covenant; all that he had commanded Moses, the servant of Yahweh, they did not listen to nor did they obey. {{rf{13}}} In the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah, Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all of the fortified cities of Judah and captured them. {{rf{14}}} So Hezekiah king of Judah sent word to the king of Assyria at Lachish, saying, "I have done wrong. Withdraw from me. What you impose on me I will bear." So the king of Assyria imposed on Hezekiah king of Judah three hundred talents of silver and thirty talents of gold. {{rf{15}}} Then Hezekiah gave all of the silver found in the temple of Yahweh and in the storerooms of the house of the king. {{rf{16}}} At that time, Hezekiah cut off the doors of the temple of Yahweh and the doorposts which Hezekiah king of Judah had overlaid, and he gave them to the king of Assyria. {{rf{17}}} So the king of Assyria sent the commander in chief, the chief eunuch, and the chief advisor from Lachish to King Hezekiah at Jerusalem with a heavy army. They went up and came to Jerusalem, then they went up and came and stood at the aqueduct of the upper pool which is on the main road of the washer's field. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|2Kings-18-01]] }}}
{{rf{18}}} Then they called to the king, so Eliakim the son of Hilkiah who was over the palace, Shebna the secretary, and Joah the son of Asaph the recorder, came out to them. {{rf{19}}} Then the chief advisor said to them, "Please say to Hezekiah: 'Thus says the great king, the king of Assyria: "What is this confidence that you trust? {{rf{20}}} You think only a word of lips, 'I have advice and power for the war.' Now, on whom do you trust that you have rebelled against me? {{rf{21}}} Now, look! You rely on the staff of this broken reed, on Egypt, which when a man leans on it, it goes into his hand and pierces it! So is Pharaoh the king of Egypt for all who are trusting on him! {{rf{22}}} But if you say to me, 'On Yahweh our God we trust,' is it not he whose high places and altars Hezekiah removed, and he had said to Judah and to Jerusalem, 'In the presence of this altar you shall bow down only in Jerusalem?' {{rf{23}}} So then, please make a wager with my lord, with the king of Assyria, and I will give to you a thousand horses if you are able on your part to put riders on them. {{rf{24}}} How can you repulse a single captain among the least of the servants of my master? Yet you rely for yourself on Egypt for chariots and horsemen! {{rf{25}}} Have I now come up against this place without Yahweh to destroy it? Yahweh has said to me, 'Go up against this land and destroy it!'" '" {{rf{26}}} Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah and Shebna and Joah said to the chief commander, "Please speak to your servants in Aramaic, for we are understanding, but you must not speak Judean with us in the ears of the people who are on the wall." {{rf{27}}} The chief commander said to them, "Is it solely to your master and to you my master has sent me to speak these words? Is it not for the men who sit on the wall to eat their feces and to drink their urine with you?" {{rf{28}}} Then the chief commander stood and called with a great voice in Judean, and he spoke and said, "Hear the word of the king, the great king of Assyria! {{rf{29}}} Thus says the king, 'Do not let Hezekiah deceive you, for he will not be able to rescue you from my hand. {{rf{30}}} Do not let Hezekiah make you trust in Yahweh, saying, "Certainly Yahweh will rescue us, and this city shall not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria!" ' {{rf{31}}} Do not listen to Hezekiah; for thus says the king of Assyria, 'Make with me a treaty of peace and come out to me that each may eat from his vine and each from his fig tree, and each may drink water from his cistern! {{rf{32}}} Until I come and take you to a land like your land, a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of olive trees, olive oil, and honey, that you may live and not die! You must not listen to Hezekiah, for he has misled you by saying, "Yahweh will deliver us!" {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|2Kings-18-18]] }}}
{{rf{33}}} Did the gods of each of the nations ever rescue the land from the hand of the king of Assyria? {{rf{34}}} Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivvah? For did they rescue Samaria from my hand? {{rf{35}}} Who among all of the gods of the countries have rescued their countries from my hand that Yahweh should rescue Jerusalem from my hand?'" {{rf{36}}} The people were silent, and they did not answer him a word, for the command of that king was saying, "You shall not answer him." {{rf{37}}} Eliakim the son of Hilkiah who was over the palace, and Shebna the secretary, and Joah the son of Asaph the recorder came to Hezekiah with torn clothes, and they told him the words of the chief commander. {{rf big{1}}} It happened that when King Hezekiah heard, he tore his clothes and covered himself with sackcloth and went to the temple of Yahweh. {{rf{2}}} He sent Eliakim who was over the palace, Shebna the secretary, the elders, and the priests, all clothed in sackcloth, to Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz. {{rf{3}}} They said to him, "Thus says Hezekiah, 'A day of distress, rebuke, and disgrace is this day, for the children are about to be born, but there is no strength to bear them. {{rf{4}}} Perhaps Yahweh your God will hear all of the words of the chief commander whom his master the king of Assyria has sent to insult the living God, and he will rebuke the words which Yahweh your God has heard. Therefore lift up a prayer for the remainder who are left.'" {{rf{5}}} So the servants of King Hezekiah came to Isaiah, {{rf{6}}} and Isaiah said to them, "Thus you must say to your master, 'Thus says Yahweh, "You must not be afraid because the face of the words which you have heard, with which the servants of the king of Assyria have reviled me. {{rf{7}}} Look, I am putting in him a spirit. He will hear a rumor and return to his land. Then I will cause him to fall by the sword in his land." '" {{rf{8}}} When the chief commander returned, he found the king of Assyria fighting against Libnah, for he had heard that he had departed from Lachish. {{rf{9}}} He heard about Tirhakah, the king of Cush, saying, "Look, he has set out to fight with you," so he again sent messengers to Hezekiah, saying, {{rf{10}}} "Thus you shall say to Hezekiah the king of Judah, 'Let not your God whom you are trusting deceive you, by his saying, "Jerusalem shall not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria!" {{rf{11}}} Look, you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all the lands, by utterly destroying them, and shall you be delivered? {{rf{12}}} Did the gods of the nations that my predecessors destroyed deliver them? Not Gozan, Haran, Rezeph, nor the children of Eden who were in Tel Assar. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|2Kings-18-33]] }}}
{{rf{13}}} Where are the king of Hamath, the king of Arpad, the king of the city of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivvah?'" {{rf{14}}} Hezekiah took the letters from the hand of the messengers and read them. Then he went up to the temple of Yahweh, and Hezekiah spread them out before the presence of Yahweh. {{rf{15}}} Then Hezekiah prayed before the face of Yahweh and said, "O Yahweh, God of Israel who lives above the cherubim. You are God, you alone, of all the kingdoms of the world; you have made the heavens and the earth. {{rf{16}}} Incline your ears and hear; open, O Yahweh, your eyes and see and hear the words of Sennacherib which he has sent to insult the living God. {{rf{17}}} Truly, O Yahweh, the kings of Assyria have utterly destroyed the nations and their land. {{rf{18}}} He has hurled their gods in the fire because they are not gods, but the work of the hands of a human made of wood and stone, so they destroyed them. {{rf{19}}} So then, O Yahweh our God, rescue us, please, from his hand, that all of the kingdoms of the earth may know that you, O Yahweh, you alone are God!" {{rf{20}}} Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, "Thus says Yahweh the God of Israel, 'What you have prayed to me about Sennacherib king of Assyria I have heard. {{rf{21}}} This is the word that Yahweh has spoken concerning him: She despises you, she scorns you, the virgin daughter of Zion. Behind you the daughter of Jerusalem shakes her head. {{rf{22}}} Whom have you mocked and reviled? And against whom have you have raised your voice and have haughtily lifted your eyes? Against the Holy One of Israel! {{rf{23}}} By the hand of your messengers you have mocked the Lord, and you have said, 'With my many chariots I have gone up to the height of the mountains. To the remote areas of Lebanon, I have felled the tallest of its cedars, the choicest of its cypresses. I have entered the place of overnight lodging. Even to the edge of forest of its fertile land. {{rf{24}}} I dug wells and I drank foreign water, and I dried up with the sole of my steps all the canals of Egypt.' {{rf{25}}} Have you not heard? From long ago I have determined it, from the days of old I have planned it, and now I am bringing it to pass. It shall be turned into a pile of rocks; fortified cities are ruined. {{rf{26}}} Their inhabitants, short of hand, shall be dismayed; and they shall be ashamed. They have become green plants of the open field, and tender grass, green grass of the roof and blight before the standing grain. {{rf{27}}} Your sitting, your going out, and your coming in I know, and your raging against me. {{rf{28}}} Because you are raging against me, and your arrogance has come up in my ears, I will put my nose ring in your nose and my bridle in your mouth. And I will turn you back on the way that you have come. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|2Kings-19-13]] }}}
{{rf{29}}} " 'This will be the sign for you: Eat the volunteer plants for the year, and in the second year, the volunteer plants that spring up from that. But in the third year, sow and reap, plant vineyards and eat their fruit. {{rf{30}}} The remainder of the house of Judah which survives will again take root below and bear fruit above. {{rf{31}}} For from Jerusalem a remnant shall go out and survivors from Mount Zion; the zeal of Yahweh will do this. {{rf{32}}} " 'Therefore thus says Yahweh to the king of Assyria, "He shall not come to this city, nor shall he shoot an arrow there, nor shall he bring a small shield near her, nor shall he cast a siege ramp against her. {{rf{33}}} By the way that he came to her he shall return; but to this city, he shall not come," declares Yahweh. {{rf{34}}} And I will defend this city to save her for my sake and for the sake of David my servant.'" {{rf{35}}} It happened in that night that an angel of Yahweh went out, and he struck down one hundred and eighty-five thousand in the camp of Assyria. When they got up early in the morning, look! All of them were dead corpses. {{rf{36}}} Then Sennacherib king of Assyria set out and went and returned and lived in Nineveh. {{rf{37}}} It happened that he was worshiping in the temple of Nisroch his god, and Adrammelech and Sharezer struck him with the sword. Then they escaped into the land of Ararat, and Esarhaddon his son became king in his place. {{rf big{1}}} In those days Hezekiah became deathly ill, and Isaiah the son of Amoz the prophet came to him and said to him, "Thus says Yahweh, 'Command your house, for you are about to die; you will not recover.'" {{rf{2}}} Then he turned his face to the wall and prayed to Yahweh, saying, {{rf{3}}} "O Yahweh, please remember how I went about before you in faithfulness and with a whole heart, and remember the good that I have done in your eyes." Then Hezekiah wept bitterly. {{rf{4}}} Isaiah had not gone out from the middle of the city when the word of Yahweh came to him, saying, {{rf{5}}} "Return; you must say to Hezekiah, the leader of my people, 'Thus says Yahweh the God of David your ancestor, "I have heard your prayer and I have seen your tears. Look, I am about to heal you. On the third day you shall go up to the temple of Yahweh. {{rf{6}}} I will add to your days fifteen years, and from the hand of the king of Assyria I will deliver you and this city. I will defend this city for my sake and for the sake of David my servant." '" {{rf{7}}} Then Isaiah said, "Bring a lump of figs," so they took and put it on the skin sores, and he lived. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|2Kings-19-29]] }}}
{{rf{8}}} Hezekiah said to Isaiah, "What is the sign that Yahweh will heal me that I shall go up on the third day to the temple of Yahweh?" {{rf{9}}} Isaiah said, "This is the sign for you from Yahweh that Yahweh will do the thing that he has promised: Shall the shadow advance ten steps or shall it return ten steps?" {{rf{10}}} Hezekiah answered, "It is easy for the shadow to lengthen ten steps. No, but let the shadow return backwards ten steps." {{rf{11}}} Isaiah the prophet called to Yahweh, and he brought back the shadow on the steps where it had gone down on the steps of Ahaz, backwards ten steps. {{rf{12}}} At that time, Berodak-Baladan the son of Baladan king of Babylon sent letters and a gift to Hezekiah, for he had heard that Hezekiah had been ill. {{rf{13}}} Hezekiah heard about them and showed them all of the house of his treasure, both the silver and the gold, the spices, the good olive oil, the room of his weapons, and all that could be found in his treasuries. There was nothing that he did not show them in his palace and in all of his kingdom. {{rf{14}}} Then Isaiah the prophet came to King Hezekiah and said to him, "What did these men say, and from where have they come to you?" Hezekiah said, "From a far land; they have come from Babylon." {{rf{15}}} Then he asked, "What did they see in your palace?" And Hezekiah said, "All that is in my palace they have seen; there is nothing that I did not show them in my treasuries." {{rf{16}}} Then Isaiah said to Hezekiah, "Hear the word of Yahweh! {{rf{17}}} 'Look, days are coming when all that is in your palace will be carried off; even all that your ancestors have stored up until this day, to Babylon; nothing shall be left,' says Yahweh. {{rf{18}}} 'Your sons who went out from you, whom you brought forth, will be taken, and they shall be eunuchs in the temple of the king of Babylon.'" {{rf{19}}} Then Hezekiah said to Isaiah, "The word of Yahweh which you have spoken is good," and he thought, "Is it not that peace and security shall be in my days?" {{rf{20}}} Now the remainder of the acts of Hezekiah, all of his powerful deeds, and how he made the pool and the conduit and brought the water into the city, are they not written in the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Judah? {{rf{21}}} Then Hezekiah slept with his ancestors, and Manasseh his son became king in his place. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|2Kings-20-08]] }}}
Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem. The name of his mother was Hephzibah. {{rf{2}}} He did evil in the eyes of Yahweh, according to the detestable things of the nations that Yahweh had driven out from the presence of the Israelites. {{rf{3}}} He returned and rebuilt the high places which Hezekiah his father had destroyed. He erected altars for Baal and made a pole of Asherah worship just as Ahab king of Israel had made, and he bowed down to all of the host of heaven and served them. {{rf{4}}} He built altars in the temple of Yahweh about which Yahweh had said, "I will put my name in Jerusalem." {{rf{5}}} He built an altar to all of the host of heaven in the two courtyards of the temple of Yahweh. {{rf{6}}} He made his son pass through the fire, practiced soothsaying and divination, and dealt with mediums and spiritists. He increased the doing of evil in the eyes of Yahweh to provoke him. {{rf{7}}} He put the image of the Asherah that he had made in the temple which Yahweh had said to David and to Solomon his son, "In this temple and in Jerusalem which I have chosen from all of the tribes of Israel, I will put my name forever. {{rf{8}}} I will not again make the feet of Israel wander from the land which I have given to their ancestors, if they only observe to do according to all that I have commanded them, as far as the law that Moses my servant commanded them." {{rf{9}}} But Manasseh did not listen and tempted them to do evil more than the nations that Yahweh destroyed before the presence of the Israelites. {{rf{10}}} So Yahweh spoke by the hand of his servants the prophets, saying, {{rf{11}}} "Because Manasseh the king of Judah committed these detestable things and did evil more than the Amorites did who were before him and caused even Judah to sin with his idols, {{rf{12}}} therefore, thus says Yahweh the God of Israel, 'Look, I am bringing disaster upon Jerusalem and Judah about which the two ears of all who hear it will tingle. {{rf{13}}} I will stretch out over Jerusalem the measuring line of Samaria and the plumb line of the house of Ahab, and I will wipe Jerusalem as one wipes the dish; he wipes it and turns it on its face. {{rf{14}}} I will give up the remainder of my inheritance, and I will give them into the hand of their enemies. They shall become as prey and as spoil for all their enemies, {{rf{15}}} because they have done evil in my eyes and were provoking me from the day that their ancestors came out from Egypt up to this day.'" {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|2Kings-21-01]] }}}
{{rf{16}}} Moreover, Manasseh shed very much innocent blood until he filled Jerusalem from one end to another, apart from his sin which he caused Judah to sin by doing evil in the eyes of Yahweh. {{rf{17}}} The remainder of the acts of Manasseh and all that he did and his sin that he committed, are they not written on the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Judah? {{rf{18}}} Then Manasseh slept with his ancestors and was buried in the garden of his palace, in the garden of Uzza. Amon his son became king in his place. {{rf{19}}} Amon was twenty-two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned two years in Jerusalem. The name of his mother was Meshullemeth the daughter of Haruz from Jotbah. {{rf{20}}} He did evil in the eyes of Yahweh as Manasseh his father had done. {{rf{21}}} He walked in all of the way which his father had walked, and he served the idols which his father had served and bowed down to them. {{rf{22}}} He abandoned Yahweh the God of his ancestors and did not walk in the way of Yahweh. {{rf{23}}} The servants of Amon conspired against him and killed the king in his palace. {{rf{24}}} But the people of the land killed all who conspired against the king and made Josiah his son king in his place. {{rf{25}}} The remainder of the acts of Amon that he did, are they not written on the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Judah? {{rf{26}}} They buried him in his tomb in the garden of Uzza, and Josiah his son became king in place of him. {{rf big{1}}} Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned thirty-one years in Jerusalem. The name of his mother was Jedidah the daughter of Adaiah from Bozkath. {{rf{2}}} He did right in the eyes of Yahweh, and he walked in all of the way of David his ancestor and did not turn aside to the right or to the left. {{rf{3}}} It happened in the eighteenth year of King Josiah, the king sent word to Shaphan the son of Azaliah the son of Meshullam, the secretary of the temple of Yahweh, saying, {{rf{4}}} "Go up to Hilkiah the high priest, and let them count the money being brought to the temple of Yahweh which the keepers of the threshold have collected from the people, {{rf{5}}} and let them give it into the hand of those appointed doers of the work at the temple of Yahweh. Let them give it to the doers of the work who are at the temple of Yahweh to repair the breach of the temple: {{rf{6}}} to the skilled craftsmen, to the builders, to the masons, and to buy timber and hewing stones to repair the temple. {{rf{7}}} Only the money being given to them is not to be accounted for by them, for they are dealing with honesty." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|2Kings-21-16]] }}}
{{rf{8}}} Then Hilkiah the high priest said to Shaphan the secretary, "I have found the scroll of the Torah in the temple of Yahweh," and Hilkiah gave the scroll to Shaphan and he read it. {{rf{9}}} Shaphan the secretary came to the king and returned the king a word, and he said, "Your servant poured out the money found in the temple, and they have given it into the hand of the doers of the work appointed over the temple of Yahweh." {{rf{10}}} Then Shaphan the secretary informed the king saying, "Hilkiah the priest has given me a scroll." Then Shaphan read before the king. {{rf{11}}} When the king heard the words of the scroll of the Torah, he tore his clothes. {{rf{12}}} Then the king commanded Hilkiah the priest, Ahikam the son of Shaphan, Acbor the son of Micaiah, Shaphan the secretary, and Asaiah the servant of the king, saying, {{rf{13}}} "Go, inquire of Yahweh for me and for the people and for all of Judah concerning the words of this scroll that was found. For the wrath of Yahweh that is kindled against us is great because our ancestors did not listen to the words of this scroll to do according to all that is written concerning us!" {{rf{14}}} So Hilkiah the priest, Ahikam, Acbor, Shaphan, and Asaiah went to Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of Tikvah the son of Harhas, the keeper of the robes. Now she was living in Jerusalem in the second district. Then they spoke to her, {{rf{15}}} and she said to them, "Thus says Yahweh the God of Israel, 'Say to the man who sent you to me, {{rf{16}}} "Thus says Yahweh, 'Look I am bringing evil to this place and upon its inhabitants, according to all of the words of that scroll that the king of Judah has read {{rf{17}}} because they have abandoned me and they have burned incense to other gods, provoking me to anger with all of the works of their hands. My wrath shall be kindled against this place and not be quenched.'" {{rf{18}}} And to the king of Judah who sent all of you to inquire of Yahweh, thus you shall say to him, "Thus says Yahweh the God of Israel, 'Concerning the words that you have heard, {{rf{19}}} because you have a responsive heart, and you humbled yourself before Yahweh when you heard how I spoke against this place and against its inhabitants to become a desolation and a curse, and you have torn your clothes and wept before my face, I have also heard, declares Yahweh. {{rf{20}}} Therefore look, I am gathering you to your ancestors, and you shall be gathered to your tombs in peace. Your eyes will not see all of the disaster that I am bringing onto this place.'" '" Then they reported the word to the king. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|2Kings-22-08]] }}}
So the king sent word, and all of the elders of Judah and Jerusalem gathered to him. {{rf{2}}} Then the king went up to the temple of Yahweh, and all of the men of Judah and all of the inhabitants of Jerusalem were with him, including the priests, the prophets, and all of the people from smallest to greatest; and in their hearing he read all of the words of the scroll of the covenant that had been found in the temple of Yahweh. {{rf{3}}} Then the king stood by the pillar, and he made a covenant before Yahweh, to go after Yahweh and to keep his commands and his warnings and his statutes, with all of his heart and with his all of his soul, to keep the words of this covenant written on this scroll. Then all of the people joined in the covenant. {{rf{4}}} Then the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, the second priests, and the keepers of the threshold, to bring out of the temple of Yahweh all of the objects made for Baal and for the Asherah and for all the host of heaven, and he burned them outside of Jerusalem in the fields of the Kidron, and then he carried their ashes to Bethel. {{rf{5}}} He removed the priests whom the kings of Judah had ordained to burn incense on the high places at the cities of Judah and around Jerusalem and who offered incense to, to the sun, to the moon, to the constellations, and to all the host of heaven. {{rf{6}}} He brought out the Asherah image from the temple of Yahweh outside of Jerusalem to the Wadi of the Kidron and burnt it there; then he pulverized it to dust and threw its dust upon the tombs of the children of the people. {{rf{7}}} He tore down the shrines of the male shrine prostitutes which were in the temple of Yahweh, where the women were weaving shrines for the Asherah. {{rf{8}}} Then he brought all of the priests from the cities of Judah and defiled the high places where the priests from Geba up to Beersheba burned incense. He tore down the high places of the gates which were at the entrance of the gate of Joshua, the governor of the city, which were on the left of each gate of the city. {{rf{9}}} However, the priests of the high places did not come up to the altar of Yahweh in Jerusalem, but they ate unleavened bread in the midst of their relatives. {{rf{10}}} He defiled the Topheth which is in the Valley of Ben-Hinnom, to prevent anyone causing his sons or his daughters to pass through the fire for Molech. {{rf{11}}} He kept the horses that the kings of Judah had dedicated to the sun from coming to the temple of Yawheh at the side room of Nathan-Melech the eunuch, which was in the court; and the chariots of the sun he burned with fire. {{rf{12}}} The altars which were on the roof of the upper room of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which Manasseh had made in the two courtyards of the temple of Yahweh, the king tore down and ran from there and threw their ashes into the Wadi Kidron. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|2Kings-23-01]] }}}
{{rf{13}}} The high places which were east of Jerusalem, which were on the south of the Mountain of Destruction which Solomon king of Israel had built for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Sidonians and for Chemosh the abomination of Moab and for Molech the detestable thing of the Ammonites, the king defiled. {{rf{14}}} He also broke into pieces the stone pillars and cut down the Asherah poles and covered their sites with human bones. {{rf{15}}} Moreover, the altar which was in Bethel, the high place which Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who had caused Israel to sin, had built, even that altar and the high place, Josiah tore down. Then he burned down the high place and crushed the pole of Asherah worship to dust and burned it with fire. {{rf{16}}} When Josiah turned and saw the tombs which were there on the hill, he sent and took the bones from the tombs and burned them on the altar. Thus he defiled them according to the word of Yahweh that the man of God had proclaimed who had proclaimed these things. {{rf{17}}} Then he said, "What is this gravestone that I am seeing?" The men of the city said to him, "This is the tomb of the man of God who came from Judah and proclaimed these things which you have done against the altar of Bethel." {{rf{18}}} So Josiah said, "Let him rest and let no man move his bones." So they left his bones undisturbed with the bones of the prophet who had come from Samaria. {{rf{19}}} Moreover, all of the shrines of the high places which were in the towns of Samaria which the kings of Israel had made to provoke Yahweh, Josiah removed, and he did to them like all of the deeds he had done in Bethel. {{rf{20}}} Then he slaughtered all of the priests of the high places who were there, on the altars, and he burned the bones of the humans on them. Then he returned to Jerusalem. {{rf{21}}} Then the king commanded all of the people, saying, "Keep the Passover to Yahweh your God, as has been written on the scroll of this covenant." {{rf{22}}} For they had not kept this Passover from the days of the judges who had judged over Israel or during the days of the kings of Israel and the kings of Judah. {{rf{23}}} But in the eighteenth year of King Josiah, this Passover was kept for Yahweh in Jerusalem. {{rf{24}}} Moreover, the mediums and the spiritists, the household gods and the idols, and all of the abominations that were seen in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, Josiah removed in order to establish the words of the law written on the scroll that Hilkiah the priest had found in the temple of Yahweh. {{rf{25}}} There was not a king like him before him, who turned to Yahweh with all of his heart and with all of his soul and with all of his might according to the law of Moses, nor did one arise like him afterwards. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|2Kings-23-13]] }}}
{{rf{26}}} However, Yahweh did not turn from the fierceness of his great anger which was kindled against Judah because of all of the provocations with which Manasseh had provoked him. {{rf{27}}} Yahweh had said, "Even Judah I will remove from my face, as I have removed Israel; I will reject this city that I have chosen, even Jerusalem and the house of which I said, 'My name shall be there'!" {{rf{28}}} The remainder of the acts of Josiah and all that he did, are they not written on the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Judah? {{rf{29}}} In his days, Pharaoh Neco, king of Egypt, went up against the king of Assyria at the Euphrates River. King Josiah went to meet him, and he killed him at Megiddo as soon as he saw him. {{rf{30}}} So his servants drove him dead in a chariot from Megiddo, and they brought him to Jerusalem and buried him in his tomb. Then the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah and anointed him and made him king in place of his father. {{rf{31}}} Jehoahaz was twenty-three years old when he became king, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem. The name of his mother was Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah from Libnah. {{rf{32}}} He did evil in the eyes of Yahweh according to all his ancestors had done. {{rf{33}}} Then Pharaoh Neco confined him at Riblah in the land of Hamath, from reigning in Jerusalem, and imposed a levy on the land of a hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold. {{rf{34}}} Then Pharaoh Neco made Eliakim the son of Josiah king in place of Josiah his father, and he changed his name to Jehoiakim. Then he took Jehoahaz and brought him to Egypt, and he died there. {{rf{35}}} The silver and the gold Jehoiakim gave to Pharaoh; however, he taxed the land to give the silver to meet the demands of Pharaoh. Each according to assessment, he exacted payment of the silver and the gold from the people of the land to give to Pharaoh Neco. {{rf{36}}} Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. The name of his mother was Zebudah, the daughter of Pedaiah from Rumah. {{rf{37}}} He did evil in the eyes of Yahweh according to all that his ancestors had done. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|2Kings-23-26]] }}}
In his days, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up because Jehoiakim had become his servant for three years; then he turned and rebelled against him. {{rf{2}}} So Yahweh sent against him raiding bands of Chaldeans, raiding bands of Aram, raiding bands of Moab, and raiding bands of the Ammonites. He had sent them against Judah to destroy it, according to the word of Yahweh that he had spoken by the hand of his servants the prophets. {{rf{3}}} Surely, it was on the command of Yahweh against Judah to remove them from his sight because of the sins of Manasseh, according to all that he had done. {{rf{4}}} Also, for the blood of the innocent that he had shed -- and he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood -- Yahweh was not willing to forgive. {{rf{5}}} The remainder of the acts of Jehoiakim and all that he did, are they not written on the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Judah? {{rf{6}}} So Jehoiakim slept with his ancestors, and Jehoiachin his son became king in his place. {{rf{7}}} The king of Egypt did not again come out from his land, for the king of Babylon had taken territory from the Wadi of Egypt to the Euphrates River. {{rf{8}}} Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem. The name of his mother was Nehushta daughter of Elnathan from Jerusalem. {{rf{9}}} He did evil in the eyes of Yahweh according to all that his father had done. {{rf{10}}} At that time, the servants of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came to Jerusalem, and the city came under the siege. {{rf{11}}} Then Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came against the city while his servants were besieging it. {{rf{12}}} Jehoiachin king of Judah went out to the king of Babylon, he, his mother, his servants, his commanders, and his court officials. The king of Babylon took him in the eighth year of his reign. {{rf{13}}} Then he took from there all of the treasures of the temple of Yahweh and the treasures of the palace of the king. He cut up all of the vessels of gold which Solomon the king of Israel had made in the temple of Yahweh, as Yahweh had foretold. {{rf{14}}} He deported all of Jerusalem: all of the commanders, ten thousand of the skilled warriors, and the artisans; no one was left over except the poorest of the people of the land. {{rf{15}}} He deported Jehoiachin to Babylon; the mother of the king, the wives of the king, his court officials, and the citizenry of the land he caused to go into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon: {{rf{16}}} of all of the skilled men, seven thousand, and of the skilled craftsmen and the artisans, one thousand. All of the mighty warriors fit for war the king of Babylon brought captive to Babylon. {{rf{17}}} Then the king of Babylon made Mattaniah his uncle king in his place and changed his name to Zedekiah. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|2Kings-24-01]] }}}
{{rf{18}}} Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. The name of his mother was Hamutal daughter of Jeremiah from Libnah. {{rf{19}}} He did evil in the eyes of Yahweh just like all that Jehoiakim had done. {{rf{20}}} For it happened because of the anger of Yahweh, in Jerusalem and in Judah, until they were cast out from his presence. Then Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon. {{rf big{1}}} It happened that in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, on the tenth of the month, Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon came, he and his army, against Jerusalem. He encamped against it and built siege works against it all around. {{rf{2}}} So the city came under siege until the eleventh year of the king. {{rf{3}}} In the ninth month, the famine became severe in the city, and there was no food for the people of the land. {{rf{4}}} Then the city was breached, and all of the men of war entered by night by way of the gate between the wall which was by the garden of the king, and the Chaldeans were against the city all around, so he left by the way of the Arabah. {{rf{5}}} But the army of the Chaldeans pursued the king, and they overtook him in the Arabah of Jericho, and all of his army scattered from him. {{rf{6}}} So they captured the king and brought him up to the king of Babylon at Riblah, and they passed sentence on him. {{rf{7}}} They slaughtered the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes; then they blinded the eyes of Zedekiah and bound him in bronze fetters and brought him to Babylon. {{rf{8}}} In the fifth month, on the seventh of the month, that is, the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, Nebuzaradan, a commander of the imperial guard, a servant of the king of Babylon, came to Jerusalem. {{rf{9}}} He burned the temple of Yahweh, the palace of the king, and all of the houses of Jerusalem; every large house he burned with fire. {{rf{10}}} He and all the army of the Chaldeans who were with the imperial guard tore down the wall of Jerusalem all around. {{rf{11}}} The remainder of the people left in the city, the deserters who had deserted to the king of Babylon, and the remainder of the multitude, Nebuzaradan the commander of the imperial guard deported. {{rf{12}}} But the poor of the land the commander of the imperial guard left for the vineyards and for tilling. {{rf{13}}} The bronze pillars which were in the temple of Yahweh, the water carts, and the bronze sea that was in the temple of Yahweh, the Chaldeans broke into pieces and carried their bronze to Babylon. {{rf{14}}} The pots, the shovels, the snuffers, the dishes, and the vessels of bronze with which they served there, they took. {{rf{15}}} The firepans and the basins, whatever was gold, the commander of the imperial guard took for the gold and whatever was silver, for the silver. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|2Kings-24-18]] }}}
{{rf{16}}} The two pillars, the one sea, and the water cart which Solomon had made for the temple of Yahweh, there was no weighing to the bronze of all of these vessels. {{rf{17}}} The height of the one pillar was eighteen cubits; a bronze capital was on it, with the height of the capital being three cubits. The latticework and pomegranates on the capital all around were bronze, and likewise on the latticework for the second pillar. {{rf{18}}} Then the commander of the imperial guard took Seraiah the chief priest, Zephaniah the second priest, and three of the threshold keepers. {{rf{19}}} From the city he took one court official who was chief officer over the men of war, five men from the king's council who were found in the city, the secretary of the commander of the army who mustered the people of the land, and sixty men from the people of the land being found in the city. {{rf{20}}} Nebuzaradan commander of the imperial guard took them and brought them to the king of Babylon at Riblah. {{rf{21}}} Then the king of Babylon struck them down and killed them at Riblah in the land of Hamath; thus Judah was removed from its land. {{rf{22}}} Now as far as the people left in Judah whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon left behind, he appointed Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan over them. {{rf{23}}} When all of the commanders of the troops heard, they and the men, that the king of Babylon had appointed Gedaliah, they came to Gedaliah at Mizpah, even Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, Johanan the son of Kareah, Seriah the son of Tanhumeth the Netophathite, Jaazaniah the son of the Maacathite, they and their men. {{rf{24}}} Gedaliah swore to them and to their men, and he said to them, "You must not be afraid because of the Chaldeans. Settle in the land and serve the king of Babylon, and may it go well with you." {{rf{25}}} But it happened in the seventh month that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah the son of Elishama from the offspring of the kingship came, and ten men with him, and they struck down Gedaliah so that he died with the Judeans and with the Chaldeans who were with him at Mizpah. {{rf{26}}} Then all the people, from youngest to oldest, and the commanders of the troops, went to Egypt, for they were afraid of the presence of the Chaldeans. {{rf{27}}} It happened in the thirty-seventh year of the exile of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month on the twenty-seventh of the month, lifted Evil-Merodach king of Babylon in the year that he became king, the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah from the house of imprisonment. {{rf{28}}} He spoke kindly to him, and he gave him a better seat than the seat of the kings who were with him in Babylon. {{rf{29}}} So he changed the clothes of his imprisonment, and he ate food continually in his presence all the days of his life. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|2Kings-25-16]] }}}
{{rf{30}}} His allowance was continually given to him from the king, a portion every day all the days of his life. LENGTH SHORT {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|2Kings-25-30]] }}}
Simeon Peter, a slave and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who have obtained a faith equal in value to ours by the righteousness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ. {{rf{2}}} May grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord, {{rf{3}}} because his divine power has bestowed on us all things that are necessary for life and godliness, through the knowledge of the one who called us by his own glory and excellence of character, {{rf{4}}} through which things he has bestowed on us his precious and very great promises, so that through these you may become sharers of the divine nature after escaping from the corruption that is in the world because of evil desire, {{rf{5}}} and for this same reason, and by applying all diligence, supply with your faith excellence of character, and with excellence of character, knowledge, {{rf{6}}} and with knowledge, self-control, and with self-control, patient endurance, and with patient endurance, godliness, {{rf{7}}} and with godliness, brotherly love, and with brotherly love, love. {{rf{8}}} For if these things are yours and are increasing, this does not make you useless or unproductive in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. {{rf{9}}} For the one for whom these things are not present is blind, being nearsighted, having forgotten the cleansing of his former sins. {{rf{10}}} Therefore, brothers, be zealous even more to make your calling and election secure, because if you do these things, you will never ever stumble. {{rf{11}}} For in this way entrance into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ will be richly supplied for you. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|2Peter-01-01]] }}}
<<Bbl 2P 1:1 abbr >>-11 You can, therefore (v 5, 10) you must. God's grace is our command. Any misconstruction of this is deadly. Can't skip "You Can". If you start with "You Must", you are left to perform and fail (high jump is intrinsically discouraging); or, you may set a shallow standard so as to succeed. Can't skip 'You Must". Then no holiness (<<Bbl 2P 2:18 >>). But together, confidence. Like a children's adventure, Elmer Elevator has everything he needs in his knapsack.
<<Bbl 2P 1:1 abbr >>b is paralleled in v 3.
<<Bbl 2P 1:5 abbr>>-7 This describes the divine nature described in the two preceding verses.
<<Bbl 2P 1:7 abbr >> Consider the verbs in "Do you love me? Feed..." Are two of them here?
<<Bbl 2P 1:8 abbr >>-09 Consequences following our response, good or bad.
<<Bbl 2P 1:10 abbr >> a restatement of v 4.
<<Bbl 2P 1:16 abbr >> an overriding concern is the assertion of Christ's second coming, <<Bbl 2P 3:10 >>; so v 19.
<<Bbl 2P 1:16 abbr >>a <<Bbl 2P 2:3 >>
<<Bbl 2P 1:20 abbr>> Wuest says: "...every prophecy of scripture does not originate from any private explanation (held by the writer of that scripture), for not by the desire of man did prophecy come aforetime, but being carried along by the Holy Spirit men spoke words from God who is the ultimate source (of what they spoke)."
{{rf{12}}} Therefore I intend to remind you continually concerning these things, although you know them and are established in the truth that you have. {{rf{13}}} But I consider it right, for as long as I am in this habitation, to stir you up by a reminder, {{rf{14}}} because I know that the removal of my habitation is imminent, as indeed our Lord Jesus Christ made clear to me. {{rf{15}}} And I will also make every effort that you are able at any time, after my departure, to recall these things to mind. {{rf{16}}} For we did not make known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ by following ingeniously concocted myths, but by being eyewitnesses of that one's majesty. {{rf{17}}} For he received honor and glory from God the Father when a voice such as this was brought to him by the Majestic Glory, "This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased." {{rf{18}}} And we ourselves heard this voice brought from heaven when we were with him on the holy mountain, {{rf{19}}} and we possess as more reliable the prophetic word, to which you do well if you pay attention to it as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts, {{rf{20}}} recognizing this above all, that every prophecy of scripture does not come about from one's own interpretation, {{rf{21}}} for no prophecy was ever produced by the will of man, but men carried along by the Holy Spirit spoke from God. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|2Peter-01-12]] }}}
But there were also false prophets among the people, as there will be false teachers among you also, who will bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them, thus bringing on themselves swift destruction. {{rf{2}}} And many will follow their licentious ways, because of whom the way of truth will be reviled. {{rf{3}}} And in greediness they will exploit you with false words, whose condemnation from long ago is not idle, and their destruction is not asleep. {{rf{4}}} For if God did not spare the angels who sinned, but held them captive in Tartarus with chains of darkness and handed them over to be kept for judgment, {{rf{5}}} and did not spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah, a proclaimer of righteousness, and seven others when he brought a flood on the world of the ungodly, {{rf{6}}} and condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to destruction, reducing them to ashes, having appointed them as an example for those who are going to be ungodly, {{rf{7}}} and rescued righteous Lot, worn down by the way of life of lawless persons in licentiousness {{rf{8}}} (for that righteous man, as he lived among them day after day, was tormenting his righteous soul by the lawless deeds he was seeing and hearing), {{rf{9}}} then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials and to reserve the unrighteous to be punished at the day of judgment, {{rf{10}}} and especially those who go after the flesh in defiling lust and who despise authority. Bold and arrogant, they do not tremble in awe as they blaspheme majestic beings, {{rf{11}}} whereas angels, who are greater in strength and power, do not bring against them a demeaning judgment. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|2Peter-02-01]] }}}
<<Bbl 2P 2:2 abbr >>-03 Sensuality and greed combined: this theme continues.
<<Bbl 2P 2:3 >> <<Bbl 2P 1:16 abbr >>a
<<Bbl 2P 2:7 abbr>> //righteous Lot...//
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@@color:brown;Lot was righteous in the same way that you and I are righteous - by trusting in the God of Abraham. God remembered Abraham (Gen 19:29), whose faith was counted to him as righteousness (Gen 15:6). The only biblically consistent answer to the question of how Lot was righteous (2 Pet 2:7) is that he, like Abraham, believed God. Lot was righteous not because he acted perfectly in the incident with the two strangers in Genesis 19 - far from it. But we know from Peter that he was troubled by the sin he saw around him day after day.@@ //- Chris Bruno, [[source, with added explanation|https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/article/you-asked-how-could-sinful-lot-have-been-righteous/]]//
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<<Bbl 2P 2:9 abbr>>-22 Although predators are luridly described, the warning is pointed at those who would be the prey.
2:12 See <<Bbl 2S 23:7 >>.
<<Bbl 2P 2:14 abbr >> Eyes. Recall our Lord's statement about lust and the eyes.
<<Bbl 2P 2:17 abbr >> Recall the proverb about //clouds without rain.//
<<Bbl 2P 3:3 abbr >> This is the root cause leading to flagrant sin, for it denies the judgment. This is what leaves out the "You Must" component (found in opening ten verses).
<<Bbl 2P 3:5 abbr >> NIV asserts a willful denial.
<<Bbl 2P 3:9 abbr>> see <<Bbl Ez 18:23 >>
<<Bbl 2P 3:14 abbr >>-16 Peter is emphatic and crystal clear in his affirmation of Paul and his writings. Peter's eagerness to classify Paul's writings with the rest of the Scriptures is objectionable to modern critics, who respond by rejecting the authorship.
{{rf{12}}} But these persons, like irrational animals born only with natural instincts for capture and killing, blaspheming about things they do not understand, in their destruction will also be destroyed, {{rf{13}}} being harmed as the wages of unrighteousness. Considering reveling in the daytime a pleasure, they are stains and blemishes, carousing in their deceitful pleasures when they feast together with you, {{rf{14}}} having eyes full of desire for an adulteress and unceasing from sin, enticing unstable persons, and having hearts trained for greediness. Accursed children! {{rf{15}}} By leaving the straight path, they have gone astray, because they followed the way of Balaam the son of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness, {{rf{16}}} but received a rebuke for his own lawlessness: a speechless donkey, speaking with a human voice, restrained the prophet's madness. {{rf{17}}} These people are waterless springs and mists driven by a hurricane, for whom the gloom of darkness has been reserved. {{rf{18}}} For by speaking high-sounding but empty words, they entice with desires of the flesh and with licentiousness those who are scarcely escaping from those who live in error, {{rf{19}}} promising them freedom although they themselves are slaves of depravity. For to whatever someone succumbs, by this he is also enslaved. {{rf{20}}} For if, after they have escaped from the defilements of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, and they are again entangled in these things and succumb to them, the last state has become worse for them than the first. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|2Peter-02-12]] }}}
{{rf{21}}} For it would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness than having known it, to turn back from the holy commandment that had been delivered to them. {{rf{22}}} The statement of the true proverb has happened to them, "A dog returns to its own vomit," and "A sow, after washing herself, returns to wallowing in the mud." {{rf big{1}}} Dear friends, this is already the second letter I am writing to you, in both of which I am attempting to stir up your sincere mind by a reminder, {{rf{2}}} to remember the words proclaimed beforehand by the holy prophets and the commandment of the Lord and Savior through your apostles, {{rf{3}}} above all knowing this, that in the last days scoffers will come with scoffing, following according to their own desires {{rf{4}}} and saying, "Where is the promise of his coming? For ever since the fathers fell asleep, all things have continued just as they have been from the beginning of creation." {{rf{5}}} For when they maintain this, it escapes their notice that the heavens existed long ago and the earth held together out of water and through water by the word of God, {{rf{6}}} by means of which things the world that existed at that time was destroyed by being inundated with water. {{rf{7}}} But by the same word the present heavens and earth are reserved for fire, being kept for the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly people. {{rf{8}}} Now, dear friends, do not let this one thing escape your notice, that one day with the Lord is like a thousand years, and a thousand years is like one day. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|2Peter-02-21]] }}}
{{rf{9}}} The Lord is not delaying the promise, as some consider slowness, but is being patient toward you, because he does not want any to perish, but all to come to repentance. {{rf{10}}} But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, in which the heavens will disappear with a rushing noise, and the celestial bodies will be destroyed by being burned up, and the earth and the deeds done on it will be disclosed. {{rf{11}}} Because all these things are being destroyed in this way, what sort of people must you be in holy behavior and godliness, {{rf{12}}} while waiting for and hastening the coming of the day of God, because of which the heavens will be destroyed by being burned up and the celestial bodies will melt as they are consumed by heat! {{rf{13}}} But according to his promise, we are waiting for new heavens and a new earth in which righteousness resides. {{rf{14}}} Therefore, dear friends, because you are waiting for these things, make every effort to be found at peace, spotless and unblemished in him. {{rf{15}}} And regard the patience of our Lord as salvation, just as also our dear brother Paul wrote to you, according to the wisdom that was given to him, {{rf{16}}} as he does also in all his letters, speaking in them about these things, in which there are some things hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable distort to their own destruction, as they also do the rest of the scriptures. {{rf{17}}} Therefore, dear friends, because you know this beforehand, guard yourselves so that you do not lose your own safe position because you have been led away by the error of lawless persons. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|2Peter-03-09]] }}}
{{rf{18}}} But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be the glory, both now and to the day of eternity. Amen. LENGTH SHORT {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|2Peter-03-18]] }}}
After the death of Saul, David returned from defeating the Amalekites and he stayed at Ziklag two days. {{rf{2}}} On the third day, a man came from the camp from being with Saul, with his clothes torn and with dirt on his head. When he came to David, he fell to the ground and bowed down. {{rf{3}}} David said to him, "Where did you come from?" He said to him, "I have escaped from the camp of Israel." {{rf{4}}} Then David said to him, "How did things go? Please tell me." He answered, "When the army fled from the battle, and many of the people fell; also, Saul and Jonathan his son died." {{rf{5}}} Then David asked the young man who was reporting to him, "How do you know that Saul and his son Jonathan died?" {{rf{6}}} The young man who was reporting to him said, "I merely happened to be on Mount Gilboa. Here Saul was leaning on his spear, and look, the chariots and the horsemen were getting close to him. {{rf{7}}} When he turned around and saw me, he called to me, and I said, 'Here I am.' {{rf{8}}} Then he said to me, 'Who are you?' And I said to him, 'I am an Amalekite.' {{rf{9}}} He said to me, 'Please stand over me and kill me, for convulsions have seized me, even though my life is still in me.' {{rf{10}}} So I stood over him and killed him, for I knew that he could not live after his falling; I took the crown that was on his head and the bracelet which was on his arm; and here, I have brought them to my lord. {{rf{11}}} David grabbed at his clothes and tore them, as did all of the men who were with him. {{rf{12}}} Then they mourned and wept and fasted over Saul and Jonathan his son until the evening, as well as over the people of Yahweh and over the house of Israel because they had fallen by the sword. {{rf{13}}} Then David said to the young man who was reporting to him, "Where are you from?" And he said, "I am the son of an alien man. I am an Amalekite." {{rf{14}}} David said to him, "How is it that you were not afraid to stretch out your hand to destroy Yahweh's anointed one?" {{rf{15}}} Then David called to one of the young men and said to him, "Come near; strike him." So he struck him down and he died. {{rf{16}}} David said to him, "Your blood is on your head, for your mouth has testified against you by saying, 'I killed Yahweh's anointed one!'" {{rf{17}}} Then David sang this funeral song over Saul and over Jonathan his son. {{rf{18}}} And he ordered "The Bow" to be taught to the children of Judah. Look, it is written on the scroll of Jashar. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|2Sam-01-01]] }}}
<<Bbl 2S 1:19 abbr>> //How the mighty have fallen// -- this is used in our time in sarcasm, as a jeer. How shocking and disrespectful to the original lament.
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* ''Chapter 1'' is David's lament over Saul and Jonathan. It should not be read apart from the tragedy of death that closes the first book of Samuel. The book division is bad.
* ''Chapters 2-4'' present a set of dramas that are chaotic, awkward, sickening. A mere human recounting would leave them out, at least in detail.
* ''Chapter 5'' commences the formal (albeit at first fragile) kingship of David. 5:1 is, or should be (if only in wish!), the true beginning of David's story. Yet the vindication of David comes in stages, each riven with heavy asterisks.
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<<Bbl 2S 2:22 abbr >> see <<Bbl 2S 3:27 abbr >>
2:27 The significance may be //You started it//.
<<Bbl 2S 3:9 abbr >> An interesting admission.
<<Bbl 2S 4:1 abbr >> Apparently they had still been counting him as their own.
<<Bbl 2S 5:3 abbr >> Note the title.
5:8 The probable shaft used for the attack was discovered by Sir Charles Warren about 1870 (Moody Bible Atlas).
<<Bbl 2S 5:21 abbr >> More spoiling of the principalities.
<<Bbl 2S 6:1 abbr >>-19 – see <<Bbl 1K 8:1 abbr>>-66.
6:2 The wording here attaches profound and truthful reverence to the [[Ark-Covenant]].
6:3 A new cart, perhaps remembering the Philistines.
<<Bbl 2S 6:6 abbr >> God seems less concerned about the Ark's possible upset than He does its possible desecration. Perhaps Uzzah had a caretaker attitude (like Martha's) that kept him from worshiping in spirit and in truth. Or -- and this is chilling -- maybe he just violated that one little rule. Why couldn't they simply carry it as it had been designed?
6:9 The same ending as in all these Ark stories!
6:11 No doubt because of his faith in keeping the thing.
<<Bbl 2S 6:20 abbr >> David was returning //to bless his own household//. And what a reception he receives. Not Michal's contempt is based on the [[Fear]] of man; she is the true daughter of Saul, as reflected in David's response.
<<Bbl 2S 6:23 abbr >> Apparently David lays no curse on her, but speaks prophetically: Saul will have no progeny in David's house.
{{rf{19}}} "The glory of Israel is on your high places; how the mighty have fallen! {{rf{20}}} Do not tell it in Gath; do not proclaim it in the streets of Ashkelon, lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, lest the daughters of the uncircumcised exult. {{rf{21}}} O mountains of Gilboa, let there be no dew or rain upon you or on the fields of grain for offerings, for there the small shield of the mighty was defiled, the small shield of Saul was not anointed with oil. {{rf{22}}} From the blood of the slain, from the fat of the mighty, the bow of Jonathan did not turn back, and the sword of Saul did not return without effect. {{rf{23}}} Saul and Jonathan were beloved and pleasant in their lives and were not separated in their death. They were swifter than eagles, stronger than lions. {{rf{24}}} O daughters of Israel, weep over Saul, the one who clothed you with crimson, the one who adorned your clothing with golden ornaments. {{rf{25}}} How the mighty have fallen in the midst of the battle; Jonathan lies slain on your high places. {{rf{26}}} I am distressed over you, my brother Jonathan. you were very dear to me; your love was more wonderful to me than the love of women. {{rf{27}}} How the mighty have fallen and the weapons of warfare perished." {{rf big{1}}} It happened after this that David inquired of Yahweh, saying, "Shall I go up into one of the cities of Judah?" And Yahweh said to him, "Go up." David asked, "Where shall I go up?" And he said, "To Hebron." {{rf{2}}} So David went up there along with his two wives, Ahinoam from Jezreel and Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite. {{rf{3}}} Also, David brought up his men who were with him, each with his household, and they settled in the towns of Hebron. {{rf{4}}} Then the men of Judah came, and they anointed David there as king over the house of Judah, and they told David, "The men of Jabesh-Gilead buried Saul." {{rf{5}}} So David sent messengers to the men of Jabesh-Gilead and said to them, "May you be blessed by Yahweh because you did this loyal love with your lord, with Saul, and you buried him. {{rf{6}}} Now may Yahweh show loyal love and faithfulness with you. I will also show the good with you that you have done in this matter. {{rf{7}}} So then, let your hands be strong and be valiant, for your lord Saul is dead, and the house of Judah has anointed me as king over them." {{rf{8}}} But Abner the son of Ner, the commander of Saul's army, had taken Ish-Bosheth the son of Saul and brought him over to Mahanaim. {{rf{9}}} He made him king over Gilead, over the Ashurites, over Jezreel, over Ephraim, over Benjamin, and over Israel, all of it. {{rf{10}}} Ish-Bosheth the son of Saul was forty years old when he became king over Israel and he reigned two years; however, the house of Judah followed David. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|2Sam-01-19]] }}}
{{rf{11}}} The number of days that David was king over Hebron, over the house of Judah, was seven years and six months. {{rf{12}}} Abner the son of Ner and the servants of Ish-Bosheth the son of Saul went out from Mahanaim to Gibeon. {{rf{13}}} Then Joab the son of Zeruiah and the servants of David went out, and they met at the pool of Gibeon. The one group sat on one side of the pool, and the other sat on the other side. {{rf{14}}} Abner said to Joab, "Let the young men come up and fight in our presence." And Joab said, "Let them come up." {{rf{15}}} So they came forward and passed by in number: twelve for Benjamin and for Ish-Bosheth the son of Saul, and twelve from the servants of David. {{rf{16}}} Then each seized his opponent by the head and each thrust his sword in the side of his opponent, so they fell together. So they called the name of that place Helkath Hazzurim, which is in Gibeon. {{rf{17}}} Then the battle became increasingly fierce on that day, and Abner and the men of Israel were defeated before the servants of David. {{rf{18}}} The three sons of Zeruiah were there, Joab and Abishai and Asahel. Now Asahel was swift with his feet as one of the gazelles which is in the open field. {{rf{19}}} So Asahel pursued Abner, and he did not turn aside to the right or to the left from going after Abner. {{rf{20}}} Abner turned around and said, "Are you this Asahel?" And he said, "Yes." {{rf{21}}} Abner said to him, "Turn aside to your right or to your left; seize for yourself one of the young men, and take his belongings for yourself." But Asahel was not willing to turn aside from him. {{rf{22}}} So Abner said to Asahel once again, "For your own sake, turn aside from following me. Why should I strike you down to the ground? How could I show my face to Joab your brother?" {{rf{23}}} But he refused to turn away, so Abner struck him in the stomach with the butt of the spear, and the spear went out of his back. He fell there and he died on the spot. Then all who came to the place where Asahel fell and died just stood there. {{rf{24}}} So Joab and Abishai pursued Abner when the sun went down. And they came to the hill country of Ammah, which is before Giah on the way to the wilderness of Gibeon. {{rf{25}}} The descendants of Benjamin rallied after Abner, and they became as one fighting group and stood on the top of a certain hill. {{rf{26}}} Then Abner called to Joab and said, "Will the sword devour forever? Do you not know that there will be bitterness in the end? How long will you not tell the people to turn away from pursuing their brothers?" {{rf{27}}} Joab said, "As God lives, for if you had not spoken, the people would surely have gone up in the morning, each one of them from following after his brother." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|2Sam-02-11]] }}}
{{rf{28}}} Then Joab blew on the trumpet and all the people stopped, and they no longer pursued after Israel, and they did not fight with them again. {{rf{29}}} Then Abner and his men went through the Arabah all that night, and they crossed over the Jordan. They went all the forenoon and came to Mahanaim. {{rf{30}}} After Joab returned from pursuing Abner, he gathered all the people; nineteen of the servants of David were missing along with Asahel. {{rf{31}}} The servants of David had killed some of the Benjaminites among the men of Abner; three hundred and sixty men had died. {{rf{32}}} Then they picked up Asahel and buried him in the grave of his father, which was at Bethlehem. Joab and his men went all that night arriving in Hebron at first light. {{rf big{1}}} The battle was prolonged between the house of Saul and the house of David, but David was growing stronger and stronger while the house of Saul was becoming weaker and weaker. {{rf{2}}} And sons were born to David in Hebron; his firstborn was Amnon by Ahinoam from Jezreel. {{rf{3}}} His second was Kileab by Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite; the third was Absalom the son of Maacah, who was the daughter of Talmai the king of Geshur. {{rf{4}}} The fourth was Adonijah the son of Haggith; the fifth was Shephatiah the son of Abital. {{rf{5}}} The sixth was Ithream by Eglah the wife of David. These were born to David in Hebron. {{rf{6}}} As the war between the house of Saul and the house of David was continuing, Abner was strengthening himself in the house of Saul. {{rf{7}}} Saul had had a concubine, and her name was Rizpah the daughter of Aiah. Then Ish-Bosheth said to Abner, "Why did you have sex with my father's concubine?" {{rf{8}}} Abner became very angry at the words of Ish-Bosheth, and he said, "Am I the head of a dog which is for Judah today? Do I not continue to show loyal love with the house of Saul your father, to his brothers, and to his friends? I have not let you fall into the hands of David, yet you have accused me of sin with this woman today. {{rf{9}}} Thus may God punish Abner, if I do not accomplish what Yahweh has sworn to David; {{rf{10}}} specifically, to transfer the kingdom from the house of Saul and to establish the throne of David over Israel and over Judah from Dan to Beersheba!" {{rf{11}}} And Ish-Bosheth was no longer able to answer Abner because he feared him. {{rf{12}}} Abner sent messengers to David where he was, saying, "To whom does the land belong? Make your covenant with me! Look, my hand is with you to bring all of Israel over to you!" {{rf{13}}} He said, "Good. I will make a covenant with you. I am asking only one thing from you: You shall not see my face unless you bring Michal the daughter of Saul when you come to see me." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|2Sam-02-28]] }}}
{{rf{14}}} Then David sent messengers to Ish-Bosheth the son of Saul, saying, "Give me my wife Michal whom I betrothed to myself for a hundred foreskins of the Philistines." {{rf{15}}} So Ish-Bosheth sent and took her from her husband, from Paltiel the son of Laish. {{rf{16}}} But her husband went with her, weeping all along after her as far as Bahurim. Then Abner said to him, "Go and return." So he returned. {{rf{17}}} The word of Abner came to the elders of Israel, saying, "For quite some time you were seeking David as king over you. {{rf{18}}} So then, bring it about, because Yahweh had said to David, "Through the hand of David my servant I am about to save my people Israel from the hand of the Philistines and from the hand of all their enemies." {{rf{19}}} Abner also spoke privately to Benjamin. Abner also went to speak to David in Hebron, all that was good in the eyes of Israel and in the eyes of all the house of Benjamin. {{rf{20}}} Then Abner came to David in Hebron and with him were twenty men. David had prepared a feast for Abner and for the men who were with him. {{rf{21}}} And Abner said to David, "Let me get up and go and gather all of Israel to my lord the king, that they may make a covenant with you so you can reign over all which your soul desires." So David dismissed Abner, and he left in peace. {{rf{22}}} And look, the servants of David and Joab came from the raid, and they brought much plunder with them. But Abner was not with David at Hebron, for he had dismissed him, and he had gone in peace. {{rf{23}}} When Joab and all the army that was with him came, they told Joab, "Abner the son of Ner came to the king, and he sent him away, and he left in peace." {{rf{24}}} Then Joab came to the king and said, "What have you done? Abner came here to you? Why have you dismissed him that he actually went away? {{rf{25}}} You know that Abner the son of Ner came to deceive you. He came to learn about your going out and coming in and to know all which you are doing." {{rf{26}}} Then Joab went out from David, and he sent messengers after Abner, and they brought him back from Bor Hasirah, but David did not know it. {{rf{27}}} When Abner returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside to the middle of the gate to speak with him in private. Then he struck him in the stomach there and he died, for he had shed the blood of Asahel his brother. {{rf{28}}} When David heard this afterwards, he said: "I and my kingdom are innocent before Yahweh forever for the blood of Abner the son of Ner. {{rf{29}}} May the blood come down on the head of Joab and all the house of his father. May the house of Joab never lack one with a bodily discharge or one with leprosy or one who grasps the distaff or one who falls by the sword or one who is lacking food." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|2Sam-03-14]] }}}
{{rf{30}}} So Joab and Abishai, his brother, killed Abner because he had killed Asahel, their brother, at Gibeon in the battle. {{rf{31}}} David said to Joab and to all the people who were with him, "Tear your clothing and put on sackcloth and mourn before Abner." Now King David was following after the bier. {{rf{32}}} And they buried Abner at Hebron. And the king lifted up his voice and wept at the grave of Abner, and all the people wept. {{rf{33}}} The king sang a lament for Abner and said, "Should Abner have died the death of a fool? {{rf{34}}} Your hands were not tied and your feet were not in contact with bronze fetters. You have fallen as one who falls before sons of wickedness." Then all the people wept over him again. {{rf{35}}} Then all the people came to give David food. Still on that day, David swore, "May God punish me if I taste food or anything before the sun goes down." {{rf{36}}} All the people noticed, and it was good in their eyes, as everything that the king did was good in the eyes of all the people. {{rf{37}}} Then all the people and all of Israel realized on that day that the king had not desired to kill Abner the son of Ner. {{rf{38}}} Then the king said to his servants, "Did you not realize that a prince and a great man has fallen today in Israel? {{rf{39}}} I am weak today even though anointed king, and these men, the sons of Zeruiah, are crueler than I am. May Yahweh pay them back for doing wickedness according to their own wickedness." {{rf big{1}}} When the son of Saul heard that Abner had died in Hebron, his courage failed and all of Israel was horrified. {{rf{2}}} Two of the men, commanders of the raiding bands, were for the son of Saul. The name of one was Baanah, and the name of the other was Recab, the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite from the descendants of Benjamin; also, Beeroth was regarded as belonging to Benjamin. {{rf{3}}} The Beerothites fled to Gittaim, and they are resident aliens there until this day. {{rf{4}}} (Now Jonathan the son of Saul had a son who was crippled in the feet. He was five years old when the message of Saul and Jonathan came from Jezreel, and his nurse had picked him up and fled. It happened that as she was hurrying away to flee, he fell and became crippled. His name was Mephibosheth.) {{rf{5}}} When the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, Recab and Baanah, set out, they came at the heat of the day to the house of Ish-Bosheth while he was taking a noontime rest. {{rf{6}}} They came as far as the middle of the house as if takers of wheat, and they struck him in the stomach. Then Recab and Baanah his brother escaped. {{rf{7}}} When they had come into the house, he was lying on his couch in his bedchamber, and they attacked him and killed him. Then they beheaded him, and they took his head and went on the way of the Arabah all night. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|2Sam-03-30]] }}}
{{rf{8}}} They brought the head of Ish-Bosheth to David at Hebron, and they said to the king, "Here is the head of Ish-Bosheth, the son of Saul your enemy, who sought your life. Yahweh has given to my lord the king vengeance this day on Saul and on his offspring." {{rf{9}}} Then David answered Recab and Baanah his brother, the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, and he said to them, "As Yahweh lives, who redeemed my soul from all trouble, {{rf{10}}} when the one who told me, "Look, Saul is dead," thought that he was bringing good news, I seized him and killed him at Ziklag, which was as my giving the news back to him. {{rf{11}}} How much more when wicked men kill a righteous man in his house, on his bed! So then, shall I not seek his lifeblood from your hand, so that I may destroy you from the earth?" {{rf{12}}} Then David commanded the young men, and they killed them, and they cut off their hands and their feet, and they hung them at the pool at Hebron, but the head of Ish-Bosheth they took and buried in the grave of Abner at Hebron. {{rf big{1}}} So all the tribes of Israel came to David at Hebron, and they said, "Here we are, we are your flesh and blood. {{rf{2}}} For some time, when Saul was king over us, you were leading Israel in and out. Yahweh had said to you, 'You shall be the shepherd of my people Israel, and you will be the leader over Israel.'" {{rf{3}}} All the elders of Israel came to the king at Hebron, and King David made a covenant with them at Hebron in the presence of Yahweh; then they anointed David as king over Israel. {{rf{4}}} David was thirty years old when he began to reign; he reigned forty years. {{rf{5}}} He reigned over Judah at Hebron for seven years and six months; and he reigned over all Israel and Judah at Jerusalem for thirty-three years. {{rf{6}}} The king and his men went to Jerusalem, to the Jebusites, the inhabitants of the land. They said to David, "You will not come here, for even the blind and the lame can turn you back, saying, 'David cannot come here.'" {{rf{7}}} David captured the fortress of Zion, the city of David. {{rf{8}}} David had said, "On that day when we attack the Jebusites, one must attack the lame and the blind, those who hate the soul of David, by means of the water supply." For thus the blind and the lame would say, "He cannot come into the house." {{rf{9}}} David occupied the fortress and called it the city of David. And David built all around it from the Millo and inward. {{rf{10}}} David continued growing stronger and stronger, and Yahweh the God of hosts was with him. {{rf{11}}} So Hiram, the king of Tyre, sent messengers to David, along with cedar trees and craftsmen skilled in wood and in stone masonry, and they built a house for David. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|2Sam-04-08]] }}}
{{rf{12}}} David realized that Yahweh had established him as king over Israel and that he had exalted his kingdom because of his people Israel. {{rf{13}}} David took more concubines and wives from Jerusalem after he came from Hebron, and more sons and daughters were born to him. {{rf{14}}} These are the names of the ones born to him in Jerusalem: Shammua and Shobab and Nathan and Solomon; {{rf{15}}} Ibhar and Elishua and Nepheg and Japhia; {{rf{16}}} Elishama and Eliada and Eliphelet. {{rf{17}}} When the Philistines heard that they had anointed David as king over Israel, all the Philistines went up to seek David, but David heard and went down to the stronghold. {{rf{18}}} Now the Philistines had come, and they spread out in the Valley of Rephaim. {{rf{19}}} And David inquired of Yahweh, saying, "Shall I go up to the Philistines? Will you give them into my hands?" Yahweh said to David, "Go up, for I will certainly give the Philistines into your hand." {{rf{20}}} So David came to Baal Perazim and defeated them there; and David said, "Yahweh has burst through my enemies before me like the bursting of water." Therefore he called the name of that place Baal Perazim. {{rf{21}}} They had left their idols there, so David and his men carried them away. {{rf{22}}} Once again the Philistines came up and spread out in the Valley of Rephaim. {{rf{23}}} So David inquired of Yahweh, but he said, "You shall not go up. Rather, go around to their rear and come to them from opposite the balsam trees. {{rf{24}}} And it shall be that when you hear the sound of marching in the tops of the balsam trees, then pay attention, for then Yahweh has gone out before you to strike down the army of the Philistines." {{rf{25}}} So David did thus, just as Yahweh had commanded him, and he struck down the Philistines from Geba all the way to Gezer. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|2Sam-05-12]] }}}
David again gathered all the chosen men in Israel, thirty thousand. {{rf{2}}} David got up and went and all the people who were with him, from Baale-judah to bring up from there the ark of God which is called the name, the name of Yahweh of hosts, upon which the cherubim sit. {{rf{3}}} They loaded the ark of God on a new utility cart, and they carried it from the house of Abinadab, which was on the hill. Now Uzza and Ahio, the sons of Abinadab, were driving the new utility cart along. {{rf{4}}} So they brought it out from the house of Abinadab, which was on the hill with the ark of God, and Ahio was going before the ark. {{rf{5}}} Now David and all the house of Israel were dancing before Yahweh, with all kinds of musical instruments made from ash trees, and with zithers, harps, tambourines, sistrums, and cymbals. {{rf{6}}} When they came to the threshing floor of Nakon, Uzza reached out to the ark of God and took hold of it, because the oxen had stumbled. {{rf{7}}} Then the anger of Yahweh was kindled against Uzza, and God struck him down there because of the indiscretion, and he died there beside the ark of God. {{rf{8}}} David was angry because Yahweh had burst out against Uzza, and he called that place Perez-Uzza until this day. {{rf{9}}} But David feared Yahweh on that day and said, "How can the ark of Yahweh come to me?" {{rf{10}}} However, David was not willing to bring the ark of Yahweh to himself, to the city of David, so David caused it to turn to the house of Obed-Edom the Gittite. {{rf{11}}} So the ark of Yahweh remained in the house of Obed-Edom the Gittite for three months, and Yahweh blessed Obed-Edom and all his household.
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{{rf{12}}} It was told to King David, "Yahweh has blessed the household of Obed-Edom and all that is his because of the ark of God." So David went and brought up the ark of God from the house of Obed-Edom to the city of David with jubilation. {{rf{13}}} It happened that when the carriers of the ark of Yahweh had marched six steps that he sacrificed an ox and a fatling. {{rf{14}}} Now David was dancing with all his might before Yahweh, and David was wearing a linen ephod. {{rf{15}}} So David and all the house of Israel were bringing up the ark of Yahweh with shouts of joyful acclaim and with the sound of the trumpet. {{rf{16}}} It happened that when the ark of Yahweh came into the city of David, Michal the daughter of Saul looked down through the window and saw King David leaping and dancing before Yahweh, and she despised him in her heart. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|2Sam-06-01]] }}}
{{rf{17}}} They brought the ark of Yahweh and set it in its place in the middle of the tent which David had pitched for it. Then David offered up burnt offerings and fellowship offerings in the presence of Yahweh. {{rf{18}}} When David had finished from the sacrificing of the burnt offerings and the fellowship offerings, he blessed the people in the name of Yahweh of hosts. {{rf{19}}} Then he distributed to all the people, to all the multitude of Israel, from man to woman, to each: one ring-shaped piece of bread, one cake of dates, and one cake of raisins; and all the people went each to his house. {{rf{20}}} When David returned to bless his household, Michal the daughter of Saul came out to meet David. She said, "How the king of Israel honored himself today by uncovering himself before the eyes of the maids of his servants, as the total exposure of a worthless one." {{rf{21}}} So David said to Michal, "In the presence of Yahweh who chose me over your father and over his household, to appoint me as leader over the people of Yahweh, over Israel, I have celebrated before Yahweh. {{rf{22}}} I will demean myself again more than this, and I will be abased in my eyes, but with the maids whom you mentioned, with them I will be honored." {{rf{23}}} So for Michal the daughter of Saul, she had no child until the day of her death.
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{{rf big{1}}} It happened that the king settled in his house. (Now Yahweh had given rest to him from all his enemies all around.) {{rf{2}}} And the king said to Nathan the prophet, "Look, please, I am living in a house of cedar, but the ark of God is staying in the middle of the tent." {{rf{3}}} Nathan said to the king, "Go and do all that is in your heart, for Yahweh is with you." {{rf{4}}} But it happened that night, the word of Yahweh came to Nathan, saying, {{rf{5}}} "Go and tell my servant David, 'Thus says Yahweh: "Are you the one to build for me a house for my dwelling? {{rf{6}}} For I have not dwelt in a house from the day I brought up the Israelites from Egypt until this day; rather, I was going about in a tent and in a tabernacle. {{rf{7}}} In all of my going about among all the Israelites, did I speak a word with one of the tribes of Israel whom I commanded to shepherd my people Israel, saying, 'Why did you not build me a cedar house?'" ' {{rf{8}}} So then, thus you shall say to my servant David, 'Thus says Yahweh of hosts, "I took you from the pasture from following the sheep to be a leader over my people, over Israel, {{rf{9}}} and I have been with you everywhere you went. I have cut off all of your enemies from in front of you, and I will make a great name for you, as the name of the great ones who are on the earth. {{rf{10}}} I will make a place for my people Israel, and I will plant them so that they can dwell in their own place. They will not tremble any longer, and the children of wickedness will not afflict them again, as in the former days. {{rf{11a}}} In the manner that I appointed judges over my people Israel, I will give you rest from all your enemies. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|2Sam-06-17]] }}}
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In chapter 6 the king, the city and the tabernacle are united - an epochal confluence. Now we will see God declare the true meaning of His [[Temple]].
* the parallel account is <<Bbl 1Ch 17:1>>ff.
* [[House]] is used to mean [[Palace]], [[Temple]] and royal dynasty.
!!! Mutual desire to bless and glorify the other.
* This is a covenant, according to 2Sam 23:5 and Ps 89:3 (Ps 132:11 deserves mention).
* The essential transaction is a //house//: God will build one for David, not the other way around. 7:5,11,16,25-29
!!! Allusions to Abraham:
* <<Bbl Gn 22:16>>-18: [[Reciprocity|Reciprocate]]
* I will make your name great.
** Gen 12: Abram, I will make your name great. (This follows Gen 11 //Let us make a name for ourselves//.)
* My people will fill the land in security and holiness.
** [[Land-Promised]]
** Gen 12, 15, 17, 22
** Unfulfilled, as God points out in 10-11.
** And the promise was not about "a dusty parcel of land on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea (L. Duncan)". According to <<Bbl R 4:13 >>, it was the realm of all nations, a redeemed globe.
* A Son of destiny
** Saul wanted a royal dynasty. But lost his place - and his son.
** David got a destiny //from [his] own body// (vs 12):
### His sons retained the throne for over four hundred years (which is perhaps longer than any other dynasty in history).
### But that is not forever! <<Bbl 2Ki 24:8>>ff records the perverse, doomed reigns that ended the visible succession of David.
''All these promises to Abraham and David are unfulfilled at the deportation.''
!!! Pointing to Messiah
* Two promises unfulfilled a century after David (see <<Bbl Ps 89:1 >>ff).
## That the people will dwell in peace in their land.
## That the dynasty of King David will reign forever.
* Psalms <<Bbl Ps 2:1 abbr>>ff, <<Bbl Ps 21:1 abbr>>ff, <<Bbl Ps 45:1 abbr>>ff, <<Bbl Ps 110:1 abbr>>ff, <<Bbl Ps 132:1 abbr>>ff.
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* Useful [[recorded messages|https://www.blueletterbible.org/csb/2sa/7/1/t_comms_274001]] by Ligon Duncan.
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<<Bbl 2S 7:1 abbr>> God has granted peace and unity, as realized by David in <<Bbl 2S 5:12 abbr>>.
<<Bbl 2S 7:1 abbr>>ff <<Bbl Ps 132:1>>ff is a glorious sequel.
<<Bbl 2S 7:3 abbr >> //Do all that is in your heart; the LORD is with you.// This is true, as v 9a affirms. David's impulse was noble, reverent, laudable (as Mike Reed taught); <<Bbl 1K 8:18>>/<<Bbl 2Ch 6:8>>. In the sequel, David will do all that is God's heart while God will do all that is in David's heart. [[Reciprocity|Reciprocate]].
7:6-7 With a question, God subtly and poignantly points out his companionship with God's people. He //went about in a tent// - how incarnational! [[God-Presence]]
7:8 This tender evocation of God's presence and friendship is now applied to the blessings David has received.
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* The subtext is that David's brainchild, whatever good it brings, will not enhance the relationship of God to His people.
* It suggests that the existing make-shift housing is better ([[Tabernacle-of-David]]).
* @@color:brown;Don't you understand, David, that I didn't seek to exalt Myself in a palace while my people were living as nomads? I wanted to be near them!@@ // - Ligon Duncan//
* This is apprehended theologically and expressed, albeit abstractly, by Solomon a generation later at the dedication of his Temple.
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<<Bbl 2S 7:10 abbr >> "I go to prepare a place for you..."
7:11 This verse should be have a division between its two parts.
7:12-15 The promise of Solomon (as he acknowledges in <<Bbl 1K 8:20>>) and a primary Messianic prophecy (<<Bbl L 1:32>>-33).
7:17 One must not overlook the importance of a prophet's faithfulness.
{{rf{11 (part b)}}} And Yahweh declares to you that Yahweh will build a house for you. {{rf{12}}} When your days are full and you lie down with your ancestors, I will raise up your offspring after you who will go out from your body, and I will establish his kingdom. {{rf{13}}} He will build a house for my name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever. {{rf{14}}} I will be a father to him, and he will be a son for me, whom I will punish when he does wrong, with a rod of men and with blows of the human beings. {{rf{15}}} But my loyal love shall not depart from him as I took it from Saul, whom I removed from before you. {{rf{16}}} Your house and your kingdom shall endure forever before you; your throne shall be established forever." '" {{rf{17}}} According to all these words and according to all this vision, this Nathan spoke to David.
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{{rf{18}}} Then King David went and sat before Yahweh and said, "Who am I, my lord Yahweh, and what is my house that you have brought me up to this place? {{rf{19}}} Still, this was insignificant in your eyes, my lord Yahweh, and also you have spoken about the house of your servant from afar, and this may be the teaching of humans, my lord Yahweh. {{rf{20}}} What more can David say to you? You know your servant, my lord Yahweh. {{rf{21}}} Because of your word and according to your heart, you have done all of this great thing, in order to let your servant know. {{rf{22}}} Therefore you are great, my lord Yahweh, for there is no one like you, and there is no god except you, in all that we have heard with our ears. {{rf{23}}} Who is like your people, like Israel? Israel is the one nation on earth whose God led them, in order to redeem a people for himself, and to make a name for himself, and to do for you the great and awesome things for your land in the presence of your people whom he redeemed for himself from Egypt, from the nations and their gods. {{rf{24}}} You have established your people Israel for yourself as a people forever, and you, O Yahweh, have become their God. {{rf{25}}} So then, Yahweh God, the word that you have spoken concerning your servant and concerning his house, confirm it forever, and do just as you have promised. {{rf{26}}} Your name shall be great forever, and they will say, 'Yahweh of hosts is God over Israel'; and the house of your servant David shall be established before you. {{rf{27}}} For you, O Yahweh of hosts, are God of Israel! You have revealed to the ear of your servant, 'I will build a house for you'; therefore your servant has found courage to pray this prayer to you. {{rf{28}}} Now, my Lord Yahweh, you alone are God, and your words are true. You have promised this good to your servant. {{rf{29}}} So then, be content and bless the house of your servant to be forever in your presence, for you, my Lord Yahweh, have spoken, and because of your blessing, may the house of your servant be blessed forever." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|2Sam-07-11]] }}}
<<Bbl 2S 7:18 abbr>>a David //went in and sat before the Lord// - compelling evidence that a dedicated physical Temple is not needed.
<<Bbl 2S 7:18 abbr>>ff This may be the most fully informed prayer in the history so far of God's people. Moses perhaps comes close. Consider it as a prayer of Jesus giving thanks to His Father.
<<Bbl 2S 7:19 abbr>>b Translations differ greatly.
* //And is this the manner of man?// (N/KJV, DBY, WEB)
* //and this too after the manner of men!// (ASV, HNV)
* //Is this your usual way of dealing with men?// (NET, NLT)
* //and this decree is for a mere human!// (NIV)
* //...a revelation (or custom, instruction) for mankind.// (CSB, ESV, NIV fn, NLT fn)
* //...the custom (or law) of mankind.// (NASB, LSB)
* //...the law of the Man.// (YLT)
* //and hast shown me future generations!// (RSV)
This accords well with vss 25-29: //But that was tiddlywinks compared to what you are declaring now. In their most prideful moments men are prone to say something like this -- yet it's what You, the most holy and unfailing God, are now doing.//
7:27 Prayer based on promises. A house suggests security -- of one's person and family, of salvation, of Heaven.
{{rf {1}}} It happened afterwards that David attacked the Philistines and subdued them, and he took Metheg Ammah from the hands of the Philistines. {{rf{2}}} When he defeated Moab, he measured them with the cord, making them lie on the ground. He measured two cords to kill and the third cord to let live. So Moab became servants of David, bringing tribute. {{rf{3}}} Then David struck down Hadadezer the son of Rehob, king of Zobah, when he went to restore his monument at the Euphrates River. {{rf{4}}} David captured from him one thousand and seven hundred horsemen and twenty thousand foot soldiers. David hamstrung all the chariot horses, but from them he spared a hundred chariot horses. {{rf{5}}} When Aram of Damascus came to help Hadadezer, the king of Zobah, David killed twenty-two thousand men of Aram. {{rf{6}}} David placed garrisons in Aram of Damascus, so Aram became servants of David, bringing tribute. Yahweh protected David everywhere he went. {{rf{7}}} David took the small round gold shields which had belonged to the servants of Hadadezer, and he brought them to Jerusalem. {{rf{8}}} From Betah and from Berothai, the towns of Hadadezer, King David took very many bronze items. {{rf{9}}} When Toi, the king of Hamath, heard that David had defeated all the army of Hadadezer, {{rf{10}}} Toi sent Joram his son to King David to greet him and to congratulate him because he had fought against Hadadezer and defeated him; for Hadadezer had often been at war with Toi. He brought with him objects of silver and objects of gold and objects of bronze. {{rf{11}}} King David dedicated them also to Yahweh along with the silver and the gold that he had dedicated from all of the nations which he had subdued; {{rf{12}}} from Aram and from Moab and from the Ammonites and from the Philistines and from Amalek and from the plunder of Hadadezer the son of Rehob, the king of Zobah. {{rf{13}}} So David made a name for himself when he returned from defeating Aram in the Valley of Salt, eighteen thousand. {{rf{14}}} He put garrisons in Edom; all over Edom he put garrisons, and all of Edom became servants of David. Yahweh protected David wherever he went. {{rf{15}}} David reigned over all of Israel, and he was administering justice and righteousness for all his people. {{rf{16}}} Joab the son of Zeruiah was over the army, and Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud was secretary. {{rf{17}}} Zadok the son of Ahitub and Ahimelech the son of Abiathar were priests and Seraiah was scribe. {{rf{18}}} Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the Kerethites and the Pelethites, and the sons of David were priests. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|2Sam-08-01]] }}}
<<Bbl 2S 8:7 abbr>>-12 future building materials for the Temple (This is followed up in David's charge to his son).
<<Bbl 2S 8:9 abbr >>-10 Wonderfully diplomatic.
<<Bbl 2S 9:1 abbr >>-11 See [[Mephibosheth]]. Note shifting reference of //David// and //the king//, establishing the different viewpoints.
9:7 i.e., of the original family inheritance.
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<<Bbl 2S 10:3 abbr >> Hunan is inspired by bad counsel to launch a stupid war.
10:5 David's humiliations have instilled compassion.
10:19 Powers of enemy alliance being destroyed.
Then David said, "Is there still anyone who is left for the house of Saul that I may show loyal love to him for the sake of Jonathan?" {{rf{2}}} Now Saul's household had a servant whose name was Ziba, so they summoned him to David, and the king asked him, "Are you Ziba?" He said, "At your service!" {{rf{3}}} Then the king said, "But is there still anyone of Saul's household that I may show the loyal love of God with him?" And Ziba said to the king, "There is still a son of Jonathan who is lame in the feet." {{rf{4}}} The king said to him, "Where is he?" And Ziba said to the king, "He is here in the house of Makir the son of Ammiel in Lo Debar." {{rf{5}}} So King David sent and brought him from the house of Makir the son of Ammiel from Lo Debar. {{rf{6}}} So Mephibosheth the son of Jonathan, the son of Saul, came to David. And he fell on his face and did obeisance. David said, "Mephibosheth," and he said, "I am ready to serve you." {{rf{7}}} Then David said to him, "Don't be afraid, for I will certainly show loyal love to you for the sake of Jonathan your father, and I will restore to you all the lands of Saul your father. And you shall always eat food at my table." {{rf{8}}} Then he did obeisance and said, "What is your servant that you have paid attention to the dead dog like me?" {{rf{9}}} David summoned Ziba the servant of Saul and said to him, "All that was Saul's and all his household I have given to the son of your master. {{rf{10}}} You shall till the land for him, you and your sons and your servants; you shall bring in the produce and it shall be food for the son of your master that he may eat. But Mephibosheth the son of your master may always eat food at my table." (Now Ziba had fifteen sons and twenty slaves.) {{rf{11}}} Ziba said to the king, "According to all that my master the king commands his servant, so your servant will do." So Mephibosheth was eating at his table as one of the sons of the king. {{rf{12}}} Now Mephibosheth had a young son whose name was Micah, and all of the dwelling of the household of Ziba became servants for Mephibosheth. {{rf{13}}} And Mephibosheth was living in Jerusalem, because he was continually eating at the table of the king, even though he was lame in both of his feet. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|2Sam-09-01]] }}}
Afterwards the king of the Ammonites died, and his son Hanun ruled in his place. {{rf{2}}} David said, "I will show loyal love with Hanun, the son of Nahash, as his father showed loyal love with me." So David sent to console him concerning his father, by the hand of his servants. And the servants of David came to the land of the Ammonites. {{rf{3}}} But the commanders of the Ammonites said to Hanun their master, "In your opinion, is David honoring your father because he has sent condolences to you? Is it not in order to search the city, to spy it out, and to overthrow it that David sent his servants to you?" {{rf{4}}} Then Hanun took the servants of David, and he shaved off half of their beards and cut their garments off in the middle up to their buttocks, then sent them away. {{rf{5}}} When they told David, he sent to meet them, for the men were greatly ashamed. And the king said, "Remain in Jericho until your beards have grown, and then you can return." {{rf{6}}} When the Ammonites saw that they had become odious to David, the Ammonites sent word and hired Aram Beth-Rehob and Aram-Zobah, twenty thousand infantry; and they also hired the king of Maacah, a thousand men, and the men of Tob, twelve thousand men. {{rf{7}}} When David heard, he sent Joab and all the army of mighty warriors. {{rf{8}}} The Ammonites came out and drew up a battle formation at the entrance of the gate, but Aram-Zobah and Rehob and the men of Tob and Maacah were alone in the open field. {{rf{9}}} When Joab saw that the battle was to be fought on two fronts, he chose from all the members of the elite troops of Israel and lined them up for battle to meet Aram. {{rf{10}}} The rest of the army he placed into the hand of his brother Abishai, who arranged them in battle lines to meet the Ammonites. {{rf{11}}} Then he said, "If Aram is stronger than I am, you must become my deliverer; but if the Ammonites are too strong for you, then I will come to rescue you. {{rf{12}}} Be strong, and let us strengthen ourselves for the sake of the people and for the sake of the cities of our God. May Yahweh do what is good in his eyes. {{rf{13}}} Joab and all the people who were with him moved forward into the battle against Aram, and they fled from before him. {{rf{14}}} When the Ammonites saw that Aram had fled, they fled from before Abishai and entered the city. Then Joab returned from fighting against the Ammonites and came to Jerusalem. {{rf{15}}} When the Arameans saw that they were defeated before Israel, they gathered themselves together. {{rf{16}}} Then Hadadezer sent and brought out the Arameans who were beyond the Euphrates, and they came to Helam. Now Shobach, the commander of the army of Hadadezer, was at their head. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|2Sam-10-01]] }}}
{{rf{17}}} David was told, so he gathered all Israel and crossed over the Jordan and came to Helam. Aram arranged themselves in battle lines to meet David, and they fought with him. {{rf{18}}} And Aram fled before Israel, and David killed from the Arameans seven hundred chariot teams and forty thousand horsemen. He struck down Shobach, the commander of his army, and he died there. {{rf{19}}} When all the kings, the servants of Hadadezer, saw that he had been defeated before Israel, they made peace with Israel and served them, and Aram was afraid to help the Ammonites any longer. {{rf big{1}}} It came about in the spring, at the time kings go out, David sent Joab and his servants with him and all of Israel. They ravaged all of the Ammonites and besieged Rabbah, but David was remaining in Jerusalem. {{rf{2}}} It happened late one afternoon that David got up from his bed and walked about on the roof of the king's house, and he saw a woman bathing on her roof. Now the woman was very beautiful. {{rf{3}}} David sent and inquired about the woman, and someone said, "Is this not Bathsheba the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite?" {{rf{4}}} Then David sent messengers and took her, and she came to him, and he slept with her. (Now she had been purifying herself from her uncleanness.) And she returned to her house. {{rf{5}}} The woman became pregnant, and she sent and told David, and she said, "I am pregnant." {{rf{6}}} So David sent to Joab, "Send Uriah the Hittite to me." So Joab sent Uriah to David. {{rf{7}}} Uriah came to him, and David asked how Joab and the army fared and how the war was going. {{rf{8}}} David said to Uriah, "Go down to your house, and wash your feet." So Uriah went out from the king's house, and a gift from the king went out after him. {{rf{9}}} But Uriah slept at the entrance of the king's house with all the servants of his master and did not go down to his house. {{rf{10}}} They told David, "Uriah did not go down to his house." David said to Uriah, "Are you not coming from a journey? Why did you not go down to your house?" {{rf{11}}} Uriah said to David, "The ark and Israel and Judah are living in the booths; and my lord Joab and the servants of my lord are camping on the surface of the open field; and I, shall I go to my house to eat and to drink and to sleep with my wife? By your life and the life of your soul, I surely will not do this thing." {{rf{12}}} David said to Uriah, "Remain here today, and tomorrow I will send you away." So Uriah remained in Jerusalem on that day and the next. {{rf{13}}} David invited him, and he ate and drank in his presence so that he became drunk, and he went out in the evening to lie on his bed with the servants of his lord, but he did not go down to his house. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|2Sam-10-17]] }}}
<<Bbl 2S 11:1 abbr >> War has a season. David seems to be out of it.
11:2 Was Bathsheba making a display of herself? Some say so.
11:3 <<Bbl 2S 23:39 >> for Uriah's renown as a warrior.
<<Bbl 2S 11:8 abbr >>-10 //Uriah, take a hint!// David may be tacitly requesting that Uriah cover for him (John Edwards was aided by Andrew Young). But Uriah refused and paid the price.
<<Bbl 2S 11:11 abbr>> What reverence. Everyone seems conscious of the temporary housing of the Ark.
11:15 see <<Bbl 1S 18:17 >> -- Saul's strategy. It must have seemed so little like murder to a king being tempted.
<<Bbl 2S 11:27 abbr>>b Better chapter @@division@@.
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<<Bbl 2S 12:3 abbr>> A highly emotional appeal, especially as it's being made to a long-time shepherd. And possibly the Bible's only presentation of a sheep as adorable. The word //bosum// reappears in 12:8. //Bought// reminds David of the limited resources of common people (and it was his conscious honor to buy the land for the Temple).
12:1-6 God reproves not the adultery, not the murder, but lack of compassion!
12:9 see <<Bbl A 2:23 >> (???)
<<Bbl 2S 12:11 abbr >>-12 "Shout it on the housetops" -- <<Bbl L 12:2 >>-3 . The rooftop upon which this prophesy is to be fulfilled (<<Bbl 2S 16:22 >>) is the very same rooftop from which David observed Bathsheba.
12:13 David's repentance is more concerned with the offense than its punishment.
see <<Bbl Jms 1:15 >>, where lust conceives sin and gives birth to death.
<<Bbl 2S 12:14 abbr>> //But because you have given occasion for the enemies of God to blaspheme...//That the ministry may have no reproach.
12:16 For he knows God's mercy, vs. 22.
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<<Bbl 2S 12:26 abbr >> Better chapter @@division@@.
12:28 As Jerusalem was named after David, see <<Bbl 1S 5:9 >>.
<<Bbl 2S 12:31 abbr >> The NASB indicates punishment to the point of torture. One of few comparable events is <<Bbl Jud 8:16 >>. The NIV is much easier, the Lexham is ambiguous and noncommittal.
{{rf{14}}} And it happened in the morning, David wrote a letter to Joab, and he sent it by the hand of Uriah. {{rf{15}}} He had written in the letter, "Put Uriah in the front, in the face of the fiercest fighting, then draw back from behind him so that he may be struck down and die." {{rf{16}}} When Joab was besieging the city, he put Uriah toward the place which he knew there were valiant warriors. {{rf{17}}} The men of the city came out and fought with Joab. Some from the army from the servants of David fell; Uriah the Hittite also died. {{rf{18}}} Joab sent and told David all of the news of the battle. {{rf{19}}} He instructed the messenger, saying, "As you are finishing to speak all the news of the battle to the king, {{rf{20}}} if the anger of the king rises and he says to you, 'Why did you go near the city to fight? Did you not know that they would shoot from atop the wall? {{rf{21}}} Who killed Abimelech the son of Jerub-bosheth, if not a woman who threw an upper millstone on him from atop the wall and he died at Thebez? Why did you go near the wall?' Then you shall say, 'Your servant Uriah the Hittite also died.'" {{rf{22}}} Then the messenger left, and he came and told David all that Joab had sent him to say. {{rf{23}}} The messenger said to David, "Because the men overpowered us, the men came out to us in the field, but we forced them back to the entrance of the gate. {{rf{24}}} The archers shot at your servant from atop the wall, and some of the servants of the king died; your servant Uriah the Hittite also died." {{rf{25}}} Then David said to the messenger, "Thus you shall say to Joab, 'Do not feel badly about this matter; now one and then another the sword will devour. Intensify your attack on the city and overthrow it.'" And he encouraged him. {{rf{26}}} When the wife of Uriah heard that Uriah her husband was dead, she mourned over her husband. {{rf{27}}} When the mourning was over, David sent and brought her to his household, and she became his wife and bore him a son. But the thing which David had done was evil in the eyes of Yahweh. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|2Sam-11-14]] }}}
So Yahweh sent Nathan to David, and he came to him and said, "Two men were in a certain city; one was rich and the other was poor. {{rf{2}}} The rich man had very many flocks and herds, {{rf{3}}} but the poor man had nothing except for one small ewe lamb which he had bought. He had nurtured her, and she grew up with him and with his children together. She used to eat from his morsel and drink from his cup, and she used to lie in his lap and became like a daughter for him. {{rf{4}}} And a visitor came to the rich man, but he was reluctant to take from his flocks or from his herds to prepare a meal for the traveler when he came to him. So he took the ewe lamb of the poor man and prepared it for the man who had come to him." {{rf{5}}} Then the anger of David was kindled against the man, and he said to Nathan, "As Yahweh lives, the man who has done this deserves to die! {{rf{6}}} He shall restore the ewe lamb fourfold because he has done this thing, and because he had no pity." {{rf{7}}} Then Nathan said to him, "You are the man! Thus says Yahweh the God of Israel: 'I anointed you as king over Israel, and I delivered you from the hand of Saul. {{rf{8}}} I gave you the household of your master and the women of your master into your lap. I also gave you the house of Israel and Judah; if that had been too little, I would have added to you much more. {{rf{9}}} Why have you despised the word of Yahweh by doing evil in his eyes? Uriah the Hittite you have struck down with the sword, and his wife you have taken to yourself as wife! You have killed him with the sword of the Ammonites! {{rf{10}}} So then, a sword will not turn away from your house forever, because you have despised me and have taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your wife!' {{rf{11}}} Thus says Yahweh, 'Look, I am going to raise up evil against you from within your house, and I will take your women before your eyes, and I will give them to your neighbor, and he shall sleep with your wives in broad daylight. {{rf{12}}} Though you did this in secret, I will do this thing before all of Israel in broad daylight!'" {{rf{13}}} Then David said to Nathan, "I have sinned against Yahweh!" Nathan said to David, "Yahweh has also forgiven your sin; you shall not die. {{rf{14}}} But because you have utterly scorned Yahweh in this matter, the son born for you will certainly die." {{rf{15}}} Then Nathan went to his house, and Yahweh struck the child that the wife of Uriah bore for David, and he became ill. {{rf{16}}} David pleaded with God on behalf of the boy and David fasted. He went to spend the night and lay upon the ground. {{rf{17}}} The elders of his household stood over him to lift him up from the ground, but he was not willing, and he did not eat any food with them. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|2Sam-12-01]] }}}
{{rf{18}}} It happened on the seventh day that the child died, and the servants of David were afraid to tell him that the child was dead, for they said, "Look, when the child was alive, we spoke to him, but he would not listen to our voice. How can we tell him, 'The child is dead'? He may do something evil." {{rf{19}}} When David saw that his servants were whispering together, he realized that the child was dead. Then David said to his servants, "Is the child dead?" And they said, "He is dead." {{rf{20}}} David stood up from the ground and washed and anointed himself and changed his clothing. Then he went to the house of Yahweh and worshiped, and he went to his own house. He asked, so they served him food, and he ate. {{rf{21}}} Then his servants said to him, "What is this thing that you have done? While the child was alive, you fasted and wept; now that the child has died, you get up and eat food!" {{rf{22}}} He said, "When the child was still alive, I fasted and I wept because I thought, 'Who knows? Yahweh may have mercy on me that the child will live.' {{rf{23}}} But now he is dead. Why should I be fasting? Am I able to return him again? I am going to him, but he cannot return to me." {{rf{24}}} David consoled Bathsheba his wife, and he went to her and slept with her. She bore a son, and he called him Solomon, and Yahweh loved him. {{rf{25}}} He sent word by the hand of Nathan the prophet, so he called him Jedidiah because of Yahweh.
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{{rf{26}}} And Joab fought against Rabbah of the Ammonites, and he captured the royal city. {{rf{27}}} Then Joab sent messengers to David and said, "We have fought against Rabbah, and we captured the city of the waters. {{rf{28}}} So then, gather the remainder of the army and encamp against the city and capture it, lest I capture the city and my name be proclaimed over it." {{rf{29}}} So David gathered all of the army, and he went to Rabbah and fought against it and captured it. {{rf{30}}} He took the crown of their king from his head. (Now its weight was a talent of gold, and there was a precious stone in it and it was put on David's head.) He brought out the plunder of the city in great abundance. {{rf{31}}} He also brought out the people who were in it and put them to the saws and to the iron picks and to the iron axes, and he sent them to the place of the brickmakers. Thus he used to do to all the cities of the Ammonites, and he and all of the army returned to Jerusalem. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|2Sam-12-18]] }}}
It happened afterwards that Absalom the son of David had a beautiful sister whose name was Tamar, and Amnon the son of David fell in love with her. {{rf{2}}} And Amnon was so frustrated that he felt ill because of Tamar his sister, because she was a virgin, and it was too difficult in Amnon's eyes to do anything with her. {{rf{3}}} Now Amnon had a friend whose name was Jonadab the son of Shimeah, the brother of David. (Now Jonadab was a very crafty man.) {{rf{4}}} And he said to him, "Why are you so sullen every morning, O son of the king? Will you not tell me?" And Amnon said to him, "I am in love with Tamar, the sister of my brother Absalom." {{rf{5}}} Then Jonadab said to him, "Lie down on your bed and appear ill. If your father comes to see you, you shall say to him, 'Please let Tamar my sister come and give me food to eat, and let her prepare the food before my eyes, in order that I may see it and eat from her hand.'" {{rf{6}}} So Amnon lay down and pretended to be ill, and the king came to see him. Amnon said to the king, "Please let Tamar my sister come, and let her bake two cakes before my eyes that I may eat from her hand." {{rf{7}}} So David sent to the house for Tamar, saying, "Please go to the house of Amnon your brother and prepare food for him." {{rf{8}}} Tamar went to the house of Amnon her brother. Now he was lying down, and she took the dough and kneaded it and made cakes before his eyes, and she baked the cakes. {{rf{9}}} Then she took the pan and poured it out before him, but he refused to eat. Then Amnon said, "Let all the men go out from me." So all the men went out from him. {{rf{10}}} Then Amnon said to Tamar, "Bring the food to the private room that I may eat from your hand." So Tamar took the cakes which she had made and brought them to Amnon her brother in the private room. {{rf{11}}} When she brought them near to him to eat, he took hold of her and said to her, "Come, lie with me, my sister!" {{rf{12}}} Then Tamar said to him, "No, my brother! Do not force me, for such a thing has not been done in Israel. Do not do this disgraceful thing! {{rf{13}}} As for me, where should I take my disgrace? You will be as one of the fools in Israel. So please, speak to the king, for he will not withhold me from you." {{rf{14}}} But he was not willing to listen to her voice. He was stronger than she, and he forced her and lay with her. {{rf{15}}} Then Amnon hated her very deeply, for the hatred with which he hated her was greater than the love with which he had loved her. So Amnon said to her, "Get up and go." {{rf{16}}} She said to him, "No, because this evil in sending me away is greater than the other you have done to me." But he was not willing to listen to her. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|2Sam-13-01]] }}}
<<Bbl 2S 13:3 abbr>> Jonadab, David's nephew, wickedly plays all sides. After arranging the plot he steps in as the bearer of helpful insight (vss. 32,35). I wonder if at this point he felt events had spun out of control -- perhaps was dealing with remorse. [[David]]
13:6 David is always a pastor, a shepherd.
<<Bbl 2S 13:13 abbr >>-14 -- interesting converse with Shechem and Dinah, <<Bbl Gn 34:2 >>-3
13:15 see <<Bbl Ez 16:37 >>
<<Bbl 2S 13:20 abbr >> Plan of vengeance requires this diplomatic guile.
13:39 see 12:22-23
14:3 Check the KJV -- origin of expression ??
<<Bbl 2S 14:6 abbr>>-7 alludes to Cain and Abel.
14:7 see <<Bbl Mt 12:20 >>
<<Bbl 2S 14:11 abbr >> God is the creator of lawful vengeance.
14:14 Remarkable summary of the Gospel.
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14.14 For we must die, and are as water split on the ground, which can't be gathered up again; neither does God take away life, but devises means, that he who is banished not be an outcast from him.
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<<Bbl 2S 15:4 abbr>> Appeal to historical roots.
15:24-26 More adventures. His habitation -- David may have anticipated seeing the Temple, though he knew he could not build it. In any case this wording reminds me of the many statements in the Psalms about God's house. David's confidence in God does not require the trappings of power.
<<Bbl 2S 16:3 abbr>> Is the man in reference Mica, son of Mephibosheth? NIV says "my grandfather's kingdom".
16:5 A son of Saul, and thus under David's blessing.
16:12 That is, to the degree that I am cursed without defending myself, let me be blessed.
<<Bbl 2S 16:22 abbr >> As prophesied in <<Bbl 2S 12:11 abbr >>-12.
16:23 I do not trust my old notes, but the name Ahithophel may have a strong meaning. According to the same notes, his son Eliam was one of David's thirty mighty men, and Eliam's daughter was Bathsheba.
<<Bbl 2S 17:8 abbr>>ff God gives Hushai a barnstormer of a speech. Oratory may have made the victory. But Hushai doesn't rest, or consider the victory secure -- he sends an alert to David.
17:23 Joining with Absalom produced its own Judgment.
{{rf{17}}} Then he called his young man who was serving him and said, "Please send this woman from me to the outside, and bolt the door behind her!" {{rf{18}}} Now there was a long-sleeved robe on her, for so they clothed the daughters of the king who were virgins, in robes. His servant put her outside, and he bolted the door behind her. {{rf{19}}} Tamar put ashes on her head, and she tore the long-sleeved robe which was on her. She put her hand on her head, and she went away, crying out as she went. {{rf{20}}} Absalom her brother said to her, "Was Amnon your brother with you? But now, my sister, be quiet; he is your brother. Do not take this matter to heart." So Tamar remained a desolate woman in the house of Absalom her brother. {{rf{21}}} Now King David heard all these things, and he became very angry. {{rf{22}}} Absalom did not speak with Amnon either bad or good, for Absalom hated Amnon over the matter when he raped Tamar his sister. {{rf{23}}} About two full years later, Absalom's shearers were in Baal Hazor, which is near Ephraim, and Absalom summoned all the sons of the king. {{rf{24}}} Then Absalom went to the king and said, "Look, here are your servant's shearers; please let the king and his servants go with your servant. {{rf{25}}} The king said to Absalom, "No my son, not all of us shall go, so that we not be a burden to you." And he urged him, but he was not willing to go, but he blessed him. {{rf{26}}} So Absalom said, "But will you not let Amnon my brother go with us?" And the king said to him, "Why should he go with you?" {{rf{27}}} But Absalom pressed him, so he sent Amnon with him and all of the sons of the king. {{rf{28}}} Absalom commanded his servants, saying, "Please watch. At the moment the heart of Amnon is tipsy with wine, then I shall say to you, 'Strike Amnon down,' and you shall kill him! Don't be afraid. Is it not I myself who has commanded you? Be courageous and be valiant! {{rf{29}}} So Absalom's servants did to Amnon just as Absalom commanded, and all the sons of the king got up, and each mounted his mule and fled. {{rf{30}}} While they were on the way, the message came to David, "Absalom has killed all the sons of the king, and not one of them was left." {{rf{31}}} Then the king rose and tore his garments, and he lay on the ground, and all his servants standing by were tearing their garments. {{rf{32}}} Then Jonadab the son of Shimeah, the brother of David, responded and said, "My lord should not think that all the young men, the sons of the king, are dead, because only Amnon is dead. Absalom was talking about it, as it was being determined from the day he raped Tamar his sister. {{rf{33}}} So then, let not my lord the king set his heart on this matter, thinking, 'All the sons of the king are dead,' for only Amnon alone is dead." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|2Sam-13-17]] }}}
{{rf{34}}} So Absalom fled, and the young man who was keeping watch lifted up his eyes and saw, and there were many people coming from the road behind him from the side of the mountain. {{rf{35}}} Jonadab said to the king, "Look, the sons of the king have come. According to the word of your servant, so it has come about." {{rf{36}}} When he finished speaking, look, the sons of the king came and they lifted up their voice and wept. Also, the king and all his servants wept a very great weeping. {{rf{37}}} Absalom fled and went to Talmai the son of Ammihur, the king of Geshur. David mourned over his son day after day. {{rf{38}}} But Absalom had fled and went to Geshur, and he was there three years. {{rf{39}}} King David longed to go out to Absalom, for he was consoled that Amnon had died. {{rf big{1}}} Joab the son of Zeruiah realized that the mind of the king was on Absalom. {{rf{2}}} So Joab sent to Tekoa and took from there a wise woman, and he said to her, "Please pretend to mourn and put on garments of mourning. You should not anoint yourself with oil, and you must act like this woman who has been mourning over the dead for a long time. {{rf{3}}} Then you must go to the king and speak to him according to this word." Thus Joab put the words in her mouth. {{rf{4}}} So the Tekoite woman spoke to the king, and she fell on her face to the ground and did obeisance. She said, "Help me, O king!" {{rf{5}}} Then the king asked her, "What do you want?" And she said, "Truly I am a widow, and my husband is dead. {{rf{6}}} Your servant had two sons, and they both fought in the open field, and there was no one to part them. One struck the other and killed him. {{rf{7}}} And look, all of the family has risen up against your servant, and they said, 'Give up the one who struck his brother, that we may kill him in exchange for the life of his brother whom he murdered. We will also wipe out the heir,' and so they would put out my embers which remain, by not preserving for my husband a name and a remnant on the face of the earth." {{rf{8}}} Then the king said to the woman, "Go to your house, and I myself will give the command concerning you." {{rf{9}}} The Tekoite woman said to the king, "On me, my lord the king, is the guilt, and on the house of my father, but the king on his throne is innocent." {{rf{10}}} The king said, "Whoever has spoken to you, bring him to me, and he will not touch you again." {{rf{11}}} Then she said, "Please may the king remember Yahweh your God, to prevent the increase of blood avengers who kill, so that they not wipe out my son." He said, "As Yahweh lives, surely not one hair shall fall from your son to the ground." {{rf{12}}} The woman said, "Please let your servant speak a word to my lord the king." And he said, "Speak." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|2Sam-13-34]] }}}
{{rf{13}}} The woman said, "But why have you plotted like this against the people of God? By speaking this word, he is guilty not to bring back his banished one. {{rf{14}}} ''For we must certainly die, and we are as the waters spilled to the ground which cannot be gathered. God will not take a life but devises plans for a banished person not to be cast out from him.'' {{rf{15}}} Now I have come to speak this word to my lord the king, because the people made me afraid, and your servant thought, 'I will speak to the king, perhaps the king will grant the request of his servant. {{rf{16}}} For the king will listen, to deliver his servant from the hand of the man who seeks to destroy me and my son together from the inheritance of God.' {{rf{17}}} Your servant also thought, 'May the word of my lord the king bring rest, for as an angel of God, so is my lord the king, to sense what is good and what is bad.' May Yahweh your God be with you." {{rf{18}}} The king answered and said to the woman, "Please do not withhold from me a thing which I am about to ask you." The woman said, "Please let my lord the king speak." {{rf{19}}} The king asked, "Was the hand of Joab with you in all of this?" The woman answered and said, "As your soul lives, my lord the king, surely one cannot go to the right or to the left from all that my lord the king has spoken. Yes, your servant Joab himself commanded me, and he put all of these words in the mouth of your servant. {{rf{20}}} In order to change the situation, your servant Joab did this thing. But my lord has wisdom, as the wisdom of an angel of God, to know all that is on the earth." {{rf{21}}} Then the king said to Joab, "Look, please, I will grant this thing. Go and bring back the young man Absalom." {{rf{22}}} Joab fell with his face to the ground and did obeisance. And he blessed the king, and he said, "Today your servant knows that I have found favor in your eyes, my lord the king, in that the king has granted the request of his servant." {{rf{23}}} Then Joab got up and went to Geshur and brought Absalom to Jerusalem. {{rf{24}}} The king said, "Let him go over to his house, and he may not see my face." So Absalom went over to his house, and did not see the face of the king. {{rf{25}}} As far as Absalom, there was not a more handsome man in all of Israel to admire so much; from the sole of his foot up to his crown, there was no physical defect on him. {{rf{26}}} When he shaved his head, it would happen every year, which he did because it was heavy on him, he would shave it off and weigh the hair of his head: two hundred shekels by the king's weight. {{rf{27}}} Three sons were born to Absalom and one daughter, whose name was Tamar. She was a woman beautiful of appearance. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|2Sam-14-13]] }}}
{{rf{28}}} Absalom lived in Jerusalem two full years, but he did not see the face of the king. {{rf{29}}} So Absalom sent for Joab, in order that he send him to the king, but he was not willing to go to him. He sent again a second time, but he was not willing to go. {{rf{30}}} So he said to his servants, "Look at the tract of land of Joab next to mine, for he has barley plants there. Go, set it ablaze with fire." So the servants of Absalom set the tract of land ablaze with fire. {{rf{31}}} Then Joab got up and went to Absalom, to the house, and said to him, "Why have your servants set my tract of land ablaze with fire?" {{rf{32}}} Absalom said to Joab, "Look, I have sent to you, saying, 'Come here that I may send you to the king to say, "Why have I come from Geshur? It would be better for me if I were still there." ' So then, let me see the face of the king; if there is guilt in me, then let him kill me." {{rf{33}}} So Joab went to the king and he told him. Then he summoned Absalom, and he came to the king, and he bowed down to him with his face to the ground before the king. Then the king kissed Absalom. {{rf big{1}}} It happened afterward that Absalom made himself a chariot with horses and fifty men running before him. {{rf{2}}} Absalom used to rise early in the morning, and he stood beside the road at the gate; anyone who had a legal dispute to bring to the king for judgment Absalom would call to him and say, "Where are you from?" And he would say, "Your servant is from one of the tribes of Israel." {{rf{3}}} Then Absalom would say to him, "Look, your case is good and right, but for you there is no hearing with the king." {{rf{4}}} Then Absalom would say, "Oh, that someone would appoint me as judge in the land, that anyone might come to me who had a legal dispute or a case, and I would give him justice." {{rf{5}}} It happened whenever anyone drew near to do obeisance to him, that he would stretch his hand and take hold of him and kiss him. {{rf{6}}} Absalom did like this to all of Israel who came to the king for judgment; so Absalom stole the hearts of the people of Israel. {{rf{7}}} It happened at the end of four years that Absalom said to the king, "Please let me go and pay my vow which I have made to Yahweh in Hebron, {{rf{8}}} for your servant made a vow while I was staying in Geshur in Aram, saying, 'If Yahweh will indeed let me return to Jerusalem, then I will worship Yahweh.'" {{rf{9}}} Then the king said to him, "Go in peace." So he got up and went to Hebron. {{rf{10}}} Then Absalom sent scouts throughout all the tribes of Israel, saying, "When you hear the sound of the trumpet, you shall shout 'Absalom has become king in Hebron!'" {{rf{11}}} Two hundred men from Jerusalem went with Absalom as invited guests, going in their innocence as they did not know anything. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|2Sam-14-28]] }}}
{{rf{12}}} Absalom sent for Ahithophel the Gilonite, the advisor of David, from his city Giloh, while he offered the sacrifices. The conspiracy grew in strength, and the people were going and increasing with Absalom. {{rf{13}}} Then the messenger came to David, saying, "The hearts of the men of Israel have gone after Absalom." {{rf{14}}} Then David said to all his servants who were with him in Jerusalem, "Get up and let us flee, for there will be no escape for us from Absalom! Hurry to go, otherwise he will come quickly and overtake us! And he will bring disaster on us and evil! He will attack the city with the edge of the sword!" {{rf{15}}} Then the servants of the king said to the king, "According to all that my lord the king chooses, your servants are ready to act!" {{rf{16}}} The king went out with all his household following him, but the king left behind ten concubines to look after the house. {{rf{17}}} So the king went out with all the people following him, and they stopped at the last house. {{rf{18}}} All his servants were passing by him: all of the Kerethites and all of the Pelethites and all of the Gittites -- six hundred men who had followed him from Gath -- passing before the king. {{rf{19}}} The king said to Ittai the Gittite, "Why are you also coming with us? Return and stay with the king, for you are a foreigner; moreover, you are an exile. You are far from your place. {{rf{20}}} Yesterday when you came and today, I have caused you to wander by going with us. Now I am going to where I am going; return and let your brothers return. May loyal love and faithfulness be with you." {{rf{21}}} But Ittai answered the king and said, "As Yahweh lives and my lord the king lives, surely in the place wherever my lord the king shall be, if for death or if for life, surely there your servant will be." {{rf{22}}} Then David said to Ittai, "Go and pass over." So Ittai the Gittite passed over and all his men and all of the little children who were with him. {{rf{23}}} All of the land was weeping with a loud voice as all the people were passing by and the king was crossing through the Wadi Kidron, and all the people were passing on the road to the wilderness. {{rf{24}}} Suddenly Zadok was there, and all of the Levites with him, carrying the ark of the covenant of God. They set the ark of God down, and Abiathar offered sacrifices until all the people passed out of the city. {{rf{25}}} The king said to Zadok, "Let the ark of God return to the city. If I find favor in the eyes of Yawheh, he will let me return and let me see him in his dwelling place. {{rf{26}}} But if he says, 'I take no pleasure in you,' then I am ready. Let him do to me that which is good in his eyes. {{rf{27}}} Then the king said to Zadok the priest, "Are you a seer? Return to the city in peace, with Ahimaaz your son and Jonathan the son of Abiathar, your two sons with you. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|2Sam-15-12]] }}}
{{rf{28}}} See, I am waiting at the fords of the wilderness until a word comes from you all to inform me." {{rf{29}}} So Zadok and Abiathar returned the ark of God to Jerusalem and they remained there. {{rf{30}}} Now David was going up on the Ascent of the Olives, weeping as he went, with his head covered and going barefoot. All the people who were with him each covered their head and wept as they went. {{rf{31}}} Now David was told, "Ahithophel was among the conspirators with Absalom." Then David said, "Please frustrate the counsel of Ahithophel, O Yahweh." {{rf{32}}} It happened that as David was coming up to the summit where he used to worship God, suddenly Hushai the Arkite was there to meet him. His coat was torn and dirt was on his head. {{rf{33}}} David said to him, "If you move on with me, you will be a burden to me, {{rf{34}}} but if you want to return to the city and say to Absalom, 'I am your servant, O king. I used to be a servant of your father, but from then and now I will be your servant,' then you can frustrate the counsel of Ahithophel for me. {{rf{35}}} Will not Zadok and Abiathar the priests be with you there? It shall be that all the words you hear from the house of the king you shall tell Zadok and Abiathar the priests. {{rf{36}}} Look, there with them are their two sons, Ahimaaz of Zadok and Jonathan of Abiathar. You shall send to me by means of them all the words that you hear." {{rf{37}}} So Hushai the friend of David came to the city as Absalom was entering Jerusalem. {{rf big{1}}} Now David passed a little from beyond the summit, and suddenly Ziba the servant of Mephibosheth was there to meet him with a pair of saddled donkeys; on them were two hundred loaves of bread and a hundred raisin cakes, with a hundred summer fruits and a skin of wine. {{rf{2}}} The king said to Ziba, "What do you want to accomplish by bringing these?" And Ziba said, "The donkeys are for the king's household to ride on; the bread and the summer fruit are for the young men to eat, and the wine is for the faint in the wilderness to drink. {{rf{3}}} Then the king said, "Where is the son of your lord?" And Ziba said to the king, "He is living in Jerusalem for he said, 'Today the house of Israel shall return the kingdom of my father to me.'" {{rf{4}}} The king said to Ziba, "Look, all that was Mephibosheth's is yours." Ziba said, "I hereby do obeisance; may I find favor in your eyes, my lord the king." {{rf{5}}} King David came up to Bahurim and suddenly a man from there was coming out from the family of the house of Saul, and his name was Shimei the son of Gera. He was cursing as he came out. {{rf{6}}} And he threw stones at David and at all the servants of King David and at all the people and at all the mighty warriors on his right and on his left. {{rf{7}}} Shimei said while cursing him, "Go out, go out, you man of bloodshed, you man of wickedness. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|2Sam-15-28]] }}}
{{rf{8}}} Yahweh has returned on you all the blood of the household of Saul whom you have supplanted as king, and Yahweh has given the kingship into the hand of Absalom your son. Look, you are in disaster for you are a man of blood." {{rf{9}}} Then Abishai the son of Zeruiah said to the king, "Why should this dead dog curse my lord the king? Please let me go over and take off his head." {{rf{10}}} The king said, "What do we have in common, sons of Zeruiah? If he curses because Yahweh has said to him 'Curse David,' who can say, "Why have you done this?" {{rf{11}}} David said to Abishai and to all his servants, "Look, my son who came out of my loins is seeking my life. Now as far as this Benjaminite, leave him alone and let him curse, for Yahweh has spoken to him. {{rf{12}}} Perhaps Yahweh will look in my eye and repay good for me in place of his curse this day. {{rf{13}}} Then David and his men went on the road, with Shimei going on the side of the hill beside him, cursing as he went. He threw stones beside him and threw dust in the air. {{rf{14}}} When the king and all of the people who were with him arrived, he was weary, so he recovered there. {{rf{15}}} Now Absalom and all the people, the men of Israel, had come to Jerusalem, and Ahithophel was with him. {{rf{16}}} When Hushai the Arkite the friend of David came to Absalom, Hushai said to Absalom, "Long live the king, long live the king!" {{rf{17}}} Absalom said to Hushai, "This is your loyal love with your friend? Why did you not go with your friend?" {{rf{18}}} Then Hushai said to Absalom, "No, rather, whom Yahweh and this people and all the men of Israel have chosen, to him I will be, and with him I will remain. {{rf{19}}} Furthermore, for whom have I served? Is it not in the presence of his son that I have served before your father? So shall I serve you!" {{rf{20}}} Then Absalom said to Ahithophel, "Give your advice. What shall we do?" {{rf{21}}} And Ahithophel said to Absalom, "Go to the concubines of your father whom he left behind to watch over the house, then all of Israel will hear that you made yourself odious to your father, and all of your followers will be motivated!" {{rf{22}}} Then they pitched a tent for Absalom on the roof, and he went in to the concubines of his father before the eyes of all Israel. {{rf{23}}} The counsel that Ahithophel gave in those days was regarded as when a man inquired of the word of God, so all the counsel of Ahithophel was esteemed both by David and by Absalom. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|2Sam-16-08]] }}}
Then Ahithophel said to Absalom, "Please let me choose twelve thousand men, and I will set out and pursue after David tonight. {{rf{2}}} I will come upon him while he is weary and weak. I will startle him, and all of the people who are with him will flee. Then I will strike down the king while he is alone. {{rf{3}}} Then I will return all the people to you; when all have returned, the man whom you are seeking will be dead, but all the people will be safe." {{rf{4}}} The word was right in the eyes of Absalom and in the eyes of all the elders of Israel. {{rf{5}}} Then Absalom said, "Please call also for Hushai the Arkite, and let us hear what he has to say also." {{rf{6}}} So Hushai came to Absalom, who said to him, "Shall we do according to this word that Ahithophel has spoken? If not, then you tell us." {{rf{7}}} Then Hushai said to Absalom, "The counsel that Ahithophel gave is not good at this time." {{rf{8}}} Hushai continued, "You know your father and his men, that they are mighty warriors and they are enraged as a bear robbed of her offspring in the field. Your father is a man of war, so he will not spend the night with the troops. {{rf{9}}} Now he has hidden himself in one of the caves or in one of the places. At the moment he falls on them the first time, whoever hears the report will say, 'There has been a defeat among the people who follow after Absalom.' {{rf{10}}} And he is also a valiant warrior, whose heart is like the heart of the lion. He will certainly melt with fear, for all Israel knows that your father is a mighty warrior and those who are with him are valiant warriors. {{rf{11}}} I give the advice that all of Israel from Dan to Beersheba should be completely gathered to you, as the sand which is on the seashore for abundance, with you personally going into the battle. {{rf{12}}} Then we will come to him in one of the places where he may be found, and we shall come upon him as the dew falls on the ground. He and all the men who are with him will not survive, not even one! {{rf{13}}} Even if he withdraws to a city, all Israel will bring up ropes to that city, and they will drag him away to the valley until there is not even a pebble to be found." {{rf{14}}} Then Absalom and all the men of Israel said, "The advice of Hushai the Arkite is better than the advice of Ahithophel." (Now Yahweh had ordained to frustrate the good counsel of Ahithophel in order for Yahweh to bring misery upon Absalom). {{rf{15}}} Hushai said to Zadok and to Abiathar the priests, "Thus and so Ahithophel advised Absalom and the elders of Israel, but thus and so I have advised. {{rf{16}}} So then, send quickly and tell David, 'Don't spend the night at the fords of the wilderness! Moreover, by all means cross over lest the king and all the people who are with him be swallowed up.'" {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|2Sam-17-01]] }}}
{{rf{17}}} Now Jonathan and Ahimaaz were staying at En Rogel, so a servant girl used to go and tell them, then they would go and tell King David, for they were not able to be seen coming to the city. {{rf{18}}} But a young man saw them and told Absalom, so both of them went quickly and came to the house of a man at Bahurim. Now he had a well in his courtyard, so they went down there. {{rf{19}}} Then the woman took and spread a covering over the opening of the well; then she spread out dried grain on it, so nothing was discovered. {{rf{20}}} When the servants of Absalom came to the woman at the house, they said, "Where are Ahimaaz and Jonathan?" And she said to them, "They crossed over the brook of water." So they searched but could not find them, so they returned to Jerusalem. {{rf{21}}} After they left, they came up from the well and went and told King David. They said to David, "Set out and cross over the water quickly, for thus Ahithophel has advised against you." {{rf{22}}} So David and all the people who were with him set out, and they crossed over the Jordan until morning light until there was no one missing who had not crossed over the Jordan. {{rf{23}}} When Ahithophel saw that his advice was not followed, he saddled the donkey, and he set out and went up to his house in his city. After he set his house in order, he hanged himself, and he died and was buried in the tomb of his ancestors. {{rf{24}}} Now David had come to Mahanaim, and Absalom had crossed over the Jordan, he and all the men of Israel with him. {{rf{25}}} Absalom had appointed Amasa in place of Joab over the army. Now Amasa was the son of a man whose name was Ithra the Israelite, who had married Abigail the daughter of Nahash the sister of Zeruiah, the mother of Joab. {{rf{26}}} Israel and Absalom camped in the land of Gilead. {{rf{27}}} Just as David had arrived in Mahanaim, Shobi the son of Nahash from Rabbah of the Ammonites and Makir the son of Ammiel from Lo Debar and Barzillai the Gileadite from Rogelim {{rf{28}}} brought beds and basins and objects of pottery, as well as wheat, barley, flour, roasted grain, beans, lentils, {{rf{29}}} honey, curds, sheep, cheese, and cattle for David and for the people who were with him to eat. For they had thought, "The troops are hungry and weary and thirsty in the wilderness." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|2Sam-17-17]] }}}
Then David mustered the people who were with him, and he appointed over them commanders of thousands and commanders of hundreds. {{rf{2}}} David sent forth a third of the troops under the command of Joab, and a third under the command of Abishai, the brother of Joab, the son of Zeruiah, and the remaining third under the command of Ittai the Gittite. And the king said to the troops, "I, even I, will certainly go out with you." {{rf{3}}} Then the troops said, "You will not go out, for if we must flee, then they will not care about us; even if half of us die, they will not care about us, but now, you are like ten thousand of us. And so then, it is better for us that you be in the city to help." {{rf{4}}} The king said to them, "I will do what seems good in your eyes." So the king stood at the side of the gate while all of the troops went out by hundreds and by thousands. {{rf{5}}} The king ordered Joab, Abishai, and Ittai, "With respect to the young man Absalom, deal gently for me." And all the troops heard when the king ordered all of the commanders concerning the matter of Absalom. {{rf{6}}} The army went out to the field to meet Israel, and the battle was fought in the forest of Ephraim. {{rf{7}}} The army of Israel was defeated there before the servants of David, and the defeat there was great on that day: twenty thousand. {{rf{8}}} The battle there was spreading over the surface of all the land, and the forest devoured more among the army than the sword did on that day. {{rf{9}}} Absalom was found in the presence of the servants of David as he was riding on the mule. The mule went under the thicket of the great oak tree, and his head was caught in the tree. He was left hanging between heaven and earth, and the mule which was under him went on. {{rf{10}}} When a certain man saw it, he told Joab, and he said, "Look, I saw Absalom hanging in the oak tree!" {{rf{11}}} Then Joab said to the man who was telling him, "Look, if you saw, why did you not strike him down to the ground there? I would have gladly given you ten pieces of silver and a leather belt." {{rf{12}}} The man said to Joab, "Even if I felt the weight of a thousand pieces of silver in my palms, I would not have sent my hand against the son of the king, for in our ears the king commanded you and Abishai and Ittai, 'Whoever you may be, protect the young man Absalom.' {{rf{13}}} If I had dealt treacherously against his life, and there is not any matter hidden from the king, you would have presented yourself aloof." {{rf{14}}} Joab said, "No longer will I wait in your presence." Then he took three spears in his hand and thrust them into the heart of Absalom while he was still alive in the oak tree. {{rf{15}}} Then ten of the young men who bore the weapons of Joab surrounded him and struck and killed Absalom. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|2Sam-18-01]] }}}
Absalom is caught by his hair and loses his mule. The mule is a symbol of kingship, so this gives a lot to ponder.
<<Bbl 2S 18:17 abbr>> What does Absalom have this monument, when he has sons in <<Bbl 2S 14:27 abbr>>? Two obvious possibilities are that he had sons but they died early (which could be the reason we do not learn their names), or he erected the monument at an earlier period (the wording seems to indicate this) and had sons later.
<<Bbl 2S 18:18 abbr>> Is the monument an ironic contrast to the verse preceding?
<<Bbl 2S 19:13 abbr>> Now trouble must follow -- <<Bbl 2S 20:4 abbr>>ff. [[David]]
<<Bbl 2S 19:24 abbr>> Mephibosheth offers convincing evidence of his sincerity -- no usurper would behave this way.
<<Bbl 2S 18:29 abbr>> Ahimaaz loses his nerve. The Cushite either doesn't know better, or is willing to assume the risk. But contrary to custom, no one dies.
18:20 Perhaps Joab recalls the fate of the men announcing Saul's death.
18:24-27 Positive confession!
19:22 [[David]] speaks with an assurance that tragically is not borne out in the event.
<<Bbl 2S 19:40 abbr >> @@This should begin a chapter.@@
<<Bbl 2S 20:1 abbr >>-2 Apparently resulting from 19:40-43, for he //happened to be there.//
<<Bbl 2S 20:10 abbr>> //He did not strike him again// -- usually this seems to be the equivalent of //one shot, one kill//, as in <<Bbl 1S 26:8>>; but the awful significance here may be the slower death that results from a belly wound.
21:14 //God was entreated// -- Weekley gives Coverdale's rendering (see entry for //Atone//), // at one with the londe.//
<<Bbl 2S 22:2 abbr >> Chiasmus
24:24 See <<Bbl Gn 22:2 "" note >>.
{{rf{16}}} Then Joab blew on the trumpet and the troops returned from pursuing after Israel, for Joab kept back the troops. {{rf{17}}} They took Absalom and they threw him into the large pit in the forest and raised a very great heap of stones over him. Then all of Israel fled, each to his tent. {{rf{18}}} (Now Absalom had taken and set up for himself in his lifetime a stone pillar that is in the valley of the king, because he said, "I have no son in order to remember my name," and he called the stone pillar by his name. It is called the monument of Absalom until this day). {{rf{19}}} Now Ahimaaz the son of Zadok said, "Please let me run and bring the good news to the king that Yahweh has vindicated him from the hand of his enemies." {{rf{20}}} Joab said to him, "You will not be a man bringing good news this day! You may bring good news on another day, but today you will not be bringing good news because the king's son is dead." {{rf{21}}} Then Joab said to the Cushite, "Go, tell the king what you have seen"; then the Cushite bowed down to Joab and ran off. {{rf{22}}} Then Ahimaaz the son of Zadok again said to Joab, "Come what may, please let me also run after the Cushite." Joab asked, "Why are you wanting to run, my son, when for you there is no messenger's reward?" {{rf{23}}} "Come what may, I want to run." He said to him, "Run," so Ahimaaz ran on the road on the plain, and he passed the Cushite. {{rf{24}}} Now David was sitting between the two gates, and the sentinel went up to the roof of the gate by the wall and he lifted up his eyes and watched, and look, a man was running by himself. {{rf{25}}} The sentry called and told the king, and the king said, "If he is alone, good news is in his mouth." He kept coming closer. {{rf{26}}} Then the sentinel saw another man running, so the sentinel called to the gatekeeper and said, "Look, a man running alone." The king said, "This one also is bringing good news." {{rf{27}}} The sentinel said, "I am seeing that the running of the first is like the running of Ahimaaz the son of Zakok." The king said, "He is a good man; he will come, for good news." {{rf{28}}} Then Ahimaaz called and said to the king, "Peace." He bowed down to the king with his face to the ground, and he said, "May Yahweh your God be blessed, who has delivered the men who raised their hand against my lord the king." {{rf{29}}} The king said, "Is it peace for the young man Absalom?" Ahimaaz said, "I saw the great commotion when Joab the servant of the king sent your servant, but I do not know what it was all about." {{rf{30}}} Then the king said, "Turn aside, take your place here," so he turned aside and waited. {{rf{31}}} Suddenly the Cushite arrived and said, "May my lord the king receive the good news, for Yahweh has vindicated you today from the power of all who stood up against you." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|2Sam-18-16]] }}}
{{rf{32}}} The king said to the Cushite, "Is it peace for the young man Absalom?" Then the Cushite answered, "May the enemies of my lord the king and all who rise up against you to harm you be like the young man!" {{rf{33}}} The king was upset, and he went up to the upper room of the gate and wept. He said as he went, "My son, Absalom, my son, my son, Absalom. If only I had died instead of you, Absalom, my son, my son." {{rf big{1}}} And it was told to Joab that the king was weeping and he mourned over Absalom, {{rf{2}}} so the victory turned to mourning on that day for all the army, because they had heard that day, "The king is grieving over his son." {{rf{3}}} The army came secretly into the city on that day because the army was disgraced when they fled in the battle, {{rf{4}}} and because the king had covered his face and cried with a loud voice, "My son, Absalom, Absalom, my son, my son." {{rf{5}}} Then Joab came to the king's house and said, "Today you have humiliated the faces of all of your servants who have saved your life this day, and the life of your sons and your daughters, the life of your wives, and the life of your concubines, {{rf{6}}} by loving those who hate you and hating those who love you. Indeed, you have made clear this day that you have no regard for your commanders or officers, for I have realized today that were Absalom alive, and all of us were dead, then that would have been right in your eyes! {{rf{7}}} So then, get up and go out and speak kindly to your servants, for I swear by Yahweh, if you do not go out, no man will lodge this night with you, and this disaster will be greater for you than any disaster that has come upon you from your childhood until now!" {{rf{8}}} So the king got up and he sat in the gate, and they told all the army, "Look, the king is sitting in the gate." Then all the army came before the king; whereas all of Israel had fled, each to his tent. {{rf{9}}} Then it happened that all the people were disputing among all the tribes of Israel, saying, "The king delivered us from the hand of our enemies, and he saved us from the hand of the Philistines, but now he has fled from the land because of Absalom. {{rf{10}}} Now Absalom whom we anointed as king over us has died in the battle; so then, why are you taking no action to restore the king?" {{rf{11}}} Then King David sent to Zadok and to Abiathar the priests, saying, "Speak to the elders of Judah: 'Why are you last to bring back the king to his house? The talk of all Israel has come to the king in his house. {{rf{12}}} My brothers, you are my bones and you are my flesh. Why should you be the last to bring back the king?' {{rf{13}}} To Amasa you shall say: 'Are you not my bones and my flesh? May God punish me if you are not the commander of my army before me forever, in place of Joab.'" {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|2Sam-18-32]] }}}
{{rf{14}}} So he turned the heart of all the men of Judah as one man, and they sent word to the king, "Return, you and all your servants." {{rf{15}}} Then the king returned and he came to the Jordan; Judah had come to Gilgal to come to meet the king, to bring the king over the Jordan. {{rf{16}}} Then Shimei the son of Gera, the son of the Benjaminite, who was from Bahurim quickly came down with the men of Judah to meet King David, {{rf{17}}} and a thousand men were with him from Benjamin. Too, Ziba the servant of the household of Saul and fifteen of his sons and twenty of his servants were with him, and they rushed to the Jordan before the king. {{rf{18}}} The crossing took place to bring the household of the king over and to do good in his eyes. Then Shimei the son of Gera fell before the king when he crossed over the Jordan, {{rf{19}}} and he said to the king, "May not my lord hold me guilty, and may you not remember how your servant did wrong on the day that my lord the king went out from Jerusalem, by taking it to heart! {{rf{20}}} For your servant knows that I have sinned; look, I have come this day as the first of all the house of Joseph to come down to meet my lord the king." {{rf{21}}} Then Abishai the son of Zeruiah responded and said, "Because of this, should not Shimei be put to death, for he cursed the anointed one of Yahweh?" {{rf{22}}} Then David said, "What is it to me or to you, sons of Zeruiah, that you should be an adversary today? Should anyone be put to death in Israel? Do I not know today that I am king over Israel?" {{rf{23}}} Then the king said to Shimei, "You shall not die," and so the king swore to him. {{rf{24}}} Now, Mephibosheth the son of Saul came down to meet the king; he had not taken care of his feet nor trimmed his moustache nor washed his clothes from the day the king left until the day he came back in peace. {{rf{25}}} It happened that when he came to Jerusalem to meet the king, the king said to him, "Why did you not come with me, Mephibosheth?" {{rf{26}}} Then he said, "My lord the king, my servant deceived me, for your servant had said, 'Let me saddle the donkey that I may ride on her and go with the king,' for your servant is lame. {{rf{27}}} But he slandered against your servant to my lord the king. My lord the king is like the angel of God; do as you see fit.." {{rf{28}}} For there was no one in all the house of my father who were not doomed to death before my lord the king, but you set your servant among those who eat at your table. Do I have any righteousness any longer except to cry out to the king?" {{rf{29}}} Then the king said to him, "Why should you speak any more about the matter? I have decided: you and Ziba shall divide the land." {{rf{30}}} Then Mephibosheth said to the king, "Let him take the whole thing, since my lord the king has come safely to his house." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|2Sam-19-14]] }}}
{{rf{31}}} Then Barzillai the Gileadite came down from Rogelim and crossed with the king over the Jordan to escort him through the Jordan. {{rf{32}}} Now Barzillai was very old, eighty years old. Now he had provided the king with food while he was staying at Mahanaim, for he was a very wealthy man. {{rf{33}}} The king said to Barzillai, "You cross over with me, and I will provide for you to dwell with me in Jerusalem." {{rf{34}}} Then Barzillai said to the king, "What are the days of the years of my life, that I should go with the king to Jerusalem? {{rf{35}}} I am eighty years old today. Can I discern between good and bad? Or can your servant taste what I eat or what I drink? Or can I still hear the voice of singing men and women? Why should your servant be a burden any longer to my lord the king? {{rf{36}}} Your servant shall go over the Jordan with the king a little way, but why should the king recompense me with this reward? {{rf{37}}} Please let your servant return, and let me die in my city in the tomb of my father and my mother. Here is your servant Kimham; let him cross over with my lord the king, and do for him that which is good in your eyes." {{rf{38}}} The king said, "Let Kimham go over with me, and I will do for him the good in your eyes, and all that you desire of me I will do for you." {{rf{39}}} Then all the people crossed over the Jordan, and the king crossed and kissed Barzillai and blessed him; then he returned to his place.
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{{rf{40}}} The king went over to Gilgal, and Kimham went over with him. All the people of Judah went over with the king, and half of the people of Israel too. {{rf{41}}} Suddenly, all the men of Israel were coming to the king. They said to the king, "Why have our brothers the men of Judah stolen away and brought the king and his household over the Jordan, with all the men of David?" {{rf{42}}} Then all the men of Judah answered the men of Israel, "Because the king is my close relative! Why are you this angry over this matter? Have we by any means eaten anything from the king? Did we take by any means anything that was not ours?" {{rf{43}}} Then the people of Israel answered the men of Judah and said, "I have ten times as much in the king, moreover in David I have more than you. Why did you treat me with contempt by not giving me first chance to bring back my king?" But the words of the men of Judah were fiercer than the word of the men of Israel. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|2Sam-19-31]] }}}
Now a man of wickedness was found there whose name was Sheba the son of Bichri, a Benjaminite. He blew the horn and said, "There is no share for us in David, and there is no inheritance for us in the son of Jesse; each to his tents, O Israel!" {{rf{2}}} Then all the men of Israel went up from following after David, following instead after Sheba the son of Bicri, but the men of Judah stuck to their king from the Jordan up to Jerusalem. {{rf{3}}} David went up to his house in Jerusalem, then the king took the ten concubines whom he had left to look after the house, and he put them under confinement. However, he provided for them, but he did not sleep with them. So they were confined until the day of their death, like a lifetime of widowhood. {{rf{4}}} Then the king said to Amasa, "Summon for me the men of Judah within three days, and be here yourself." {{rf{5}}} So Amasa went to summon Judah, but he tarried more than the appointed time which he had set for him. {{rf{6}}} Then David said to Abishai, "Now Sheba the son of Bicri will do us more harm than Absalom. You take the servants of your lord and pursue after him, lest he find fortified cities for himself and escape from us." {{rf{7}}} Then the men of Joab, the Kerethites and the Pelethites, and all the mighty warriors went out after him; they went out from Jerusalem to pursue after Sheba the son of Bicri. {{rf{8}}} They were near the big rock that is in Gibeon, and Amasa came before them. Joab was dressed in his military clothing, with a utility belt on him and a sword strapped to his waist in its scabbard. Now he went out, and it fell out. {{rf{9}}} Then Joab said to Amasa, "Is it peace, O you my brother?" Then the right hand of Joab took hold of the beard of Amasa as if to kiss him. {{rf{10}}} Now Amasa was not on his guard against the sword that was in Joab's hand, and he struck him with it into the stomach, and his entrails poured out to the ground. He did not strike him again, and he died. Then Joab and Abishai his brother pursued after Sheba the son of Bicri. {{rf{11}}} A young man stood over him, from the young men of Joab, and he said, "Whoever takes delight in Joab and whoever is for David, follow after Joab." {{rf{12}}} Now Amasa was wallowing in the blood in the middle of the highway; when the man saw that all the people stood there, he turned Amasa over from the highway into the field, and he threw a garment over him because he had seen that all who had come by him had stopped. {{rf{13}}} After he was removed from the highway, all the men passed by after Joab to pursue after Sheba the son of Bicri. {{rf{14}}} (He had passed through all the tribes of Israel to Abel and Beth Maacah; now all of the Berites had been treated badly, so they also followed after him.) {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|2Sam-20-01]] }}}
{{rf{15}}} And they came and besieged him in Abel Beth Maacah. They threw up a siege ramp against the city, and they stood against the ramparts. And all the army who were with Joab were battering to cause the wall to fall. {{rf{16}}} Then a wise woman from the city called out, "Listen, listen! Please speak to Joab to come near here so that I may speak to you." {{rf{17}}} Then he came near to her, and the woman asked, "Are you Joab?" And he said, "I am." Then she said to him, "Listen to the words of your servant." He said, "I am listening." {{rf{18}}} Then she said, "In former times, they would always say, 'By all means, let them inquire in Abel,' and so they settled things. {{rf{19}}} I am one of the faithful representatives of Israel. You are seeking to destroy a city and a mother in Israel. Why do you want to swallow the inheritance of Yahweh?" {{rf{20}}} Then Joab answered and said, "Far be it, far be it from me that I should swallow or I should destroy. {{rf{21}}} That is not the matter. But a man from the mountains of Ephraim, whose name is Sheba the son Bicri, has lifted up his hand against the king, against David. Give only him to us, and I will depart from the city." The woman said to Joab, "Look, his head is being thrown down to you over the wall." {{rf{22}}} The woman went to all of the people with her wise plan, so they cut off the head of Sheba the son of Bicri and threw it to Joab. Then he blew the horn and dispersed from the city, each to his tent. Then Joab returned to Jerusalem to the king. {{rf{23}}} Now Joab was over all the army of Israel and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the Carites and over the Pelethites. {{rf{24}}} Adoram was over the forced labor, and Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud was the recorder. {{rf{25}}} Shiya was secretary, and Zadok and Abiathar were priests. {{rf{26}}} Also Ira the Jairite was priest for David. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|2Sam-20-15]] }}}
There was a famine in the days of David for three years, year after year. And David inquired of Yahweh, and Yahweh said, "The bloodguilt is on Saul and on his household, because he killed the Gibeonites." {{rf{2}}} So the king called the Gibeonites and spoke to them. Now the Gibeonites were not from the Israelites; they were from the remainder of the Amorites. Now the Israelites had sworn to them, but Saul tried to wipe them out in his zeal for the Israelites and Judah. {{rf{3}}} So David asked the Gibeonites, "What can I do for you, and with what can I make amends that you may bless the inheritance of Yahweh?" {{rf{4}}} Then the Gibeonites said to him, "It is not a matter for us of silver or gold with Saul or with his household. It is not for us to put to death anyone in Israel." He asked, "What are you saying that I should do for you all?" {{rf{5}}} Then they said to the king, "The man who consumed us and who plotted against us so that we were destroyed from existing in all of the territory of Israel, {{rf{6}}} let seven men from his sons be given over to us, and we will execute them before Yahweh in Gibeah of Saul, the chosen one of Yahweh." Then the king said, "I will give them over." {{rf{7}}} But the king spared Mephibosheth the son of Jonathan, the son of Saul, because of the sworn oath of Yahweh which was between them, between David and Jonathan the son of Saul. {{rf{8}}} So the king took two of the sons of Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, whom she bore to Saul, namely Armoni and Mephibosheth, and five of the sons of Michal the daughter of Saul whom she had borne to Adriel the son of Barzillai the Meholathite. {{rf{9}}} He gave them into the hands of the Gibeonites, and they executed them on the mountain in the presence of Yahweh, and the seven fell together. Now they were put to death in the days of the harvest, at the beginning of the harvest of barley. {{rf{10}}} Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took the sackcloth, and she spread it for herself on the rock at the beginning of the harvest until water gushed forth on them from heaven, but she did not allow the birds of heaven to rest on them by day nor the animals of the field by night. {{rf{11}}} David was told about what Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, the concubine of Saul, had done. {{rf{12}}} So David left and took the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son from the rulers of Jabesh Gilead, who had stolen them from the public square of Beth Shan, where the Philistines hung them when the Philistines killed Saul on Gilboa. {{rf{13}}} He brought up the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son from there, and they gathered the bones of the executed. {{rf{14}}} And they buried the bones of Saul and Jonathan his son in the land of Benjamin at Zela, in the tomb of Kish his father. They did all that the king had commanded, and afterward God was entreated for the land. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|2Sam-21-01]] }}}
{{rf{15}}} There was war again for the Philistines with Israel, and David and his servants with him went down, and they fought the Philistines, and David grew weary. {{rf{16}}} Now Yishbi in Nob, who was among the descendents of Raphah (now the weight of his spearhead was three hundredweight of bronze, and he was newly armed), said that he would kill David. {{rf{17}}} But Abishai the son of Zeruiah helped him, and he attacked the Philistine and killed him. Then the men of David swore to him, saying, "You shall not go out with us any longer to the battle, so that you do not quench the lamp of Israel." {{rf{18}}} It happened afterward that there was again battle at Gob with the Philistines. Then Sibbecai the Hushathite killed Saph who was among the descendants of the Raphah. {{rf{19}}} There was again a battle with the Philistines at Gob. And Elhanan the son of Jaare-Oregim, the Bethlehemite, killed Goliath the Gittite, the shaft of whose spear was like the beam of a weaver. {{rf{20}}} Once again there was battle at Gath, and there was a man of great size. The fingers of his hand and the toes of his feet were six and six, twenty-four in number. He was also born to the Raphah. {{rf{21}}} He taunted Israel but Jonathan the son of Shimei, the brother of David, killed him. {{rf{22}}} These four were born for the Raphah in Gath, and they fell by the hand of David and by the hand of his servants.
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{{rf big{1}}} Then David spoke to Yahweh the words of this song, on the day Yahweh delivered him from the hand of all his enemies and from the hand of Saul. {{rf{2}}} And he said: "Yahweh is my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer. {{rf{3}}} I take refuge in God, my rock, my shield, and the strength of my salvation. My stronghold and my refuge, O my savior, you will save me from violence! {{rf{4}}} I call upon Yahweh who is praiseworthy, and I am saved from those who hate me. {{rf{5}}} For the breaker waves of death engulfed me; the currents of chaos overwhelmed me. {{rf{6}}} The ropes of Sheol entangled me; the snares of death confronted me. {{rf{7}}} In my distress I called upon Yahweh, and to my God I called. He heard my voice from his temple, and my cry for help was to his ears. {{rf{8}}} The earth heaved and shook, the foundations of heaven trembled and heaved because he was angry. {{rf{9}}} Smoke went up from his nostrils and fire from his mouth. Burning coals devoured, they burned from him. {{rf{10}}} He bowed the heavens and came down; a very thick cloud was under his feet. {{rf{11}}} He rode upon a cherub and flew; he was seen on the wings of the wind. {{rf{12}}} He put darkness as a canopy all around him, a collection of thick rain clouds. {{rf{13}}} From the brightness before him flamed burning coals of fire. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|2Sam-21-15]] }}}
{{rf{14}}} Yahweh thundered from heaven, and the Most High uttered his voice. {{rf{15}}} He sent arrows and he scattered them, lightning, and he directed them. {{rf{16}}} Then the channels of water of the sea were exposed, the foundations of the world, at the rebuke of Yawheh, from the blast of the breath of his nostrils. {{rf{17}}} He sent from a high position and took me; he drew me from mighty waters. {{rf{18}}} He delivered me from my strong enemies, from those who hate me, for they were mightier than I. {{rf{19}}} They approached me on the day of my disaster, but Yahweh was my support. {{rf{20}}} He brought me out to a spacious place. He delivered me because he delighted in me. {{rf{21}}} Yahweh rewarded me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands he recompensed me. {{rf{22}}} For I have kept the ways of Yahweh; I have not acted wickedly against my God. {{rf{23}}} For all of his ordinances were before me, and I did not turn aside from his statutes. {{rf{24}}} I was blameless before him, and I kept myself from my iniquity. {{rf{25}}} Yahweh has recompensed me according to my righteousness, according to my cleanness before his eyes. {{rf{26}}} With the loyal, you act as loyal, and with the blameless, you show yourself blameless. {{rf{27}}} With the pure, you show yourself pure, but with the crooked, you appear as a fool. {{rf{28}}} Humble people you will deliver, but your eyes are on the haughty, whom you bring down. {{rf{29}}} For you, O Yahweh are my lamp, and Yahweh lightens my darkness. {{rf{30}}} For by you I can run a raid; by my God I can leap over a wall. {{rf{31}}} This God, his way is blameless; the promise of Yahweh is flawless. He is a shield to all who take refuge in him. {{rf{32}}} For who is God apart from Yahweh? And who is a rock apart from our God? {{rf{33}}} God is my strong refuge, he has fully opened my way. {{rf{34}}} He makes my feet like a doe deer, and on my high places he has set me. {{rf{35}}} He trains my hands for the war, so that my arms can bend a bow of bronze. {{rf{36}}} You have given me the shield of your salvation; your willingness to help has made me great. {{rf{37}}} You have broadened my steps beneath me; my ankles have not wobbled. {{rf{38}}} I pursued those who hate me, and I destroyed them. I did not turn back until finishing them. {{rf{39}}} I wiped them out and I smashed them; they did not get up; they fell under my feet. {{rf{40}}} You have girded me with physical strength for the battle; you caused those who rose up against me to kneel under me. {{rf{41}}} My enemies you cause to retreat from me; I destroy those who hate me. {{rf{42}}} They looked out, but there was no deliverer, even to Yahweh, but he did not answer them. {{rf{43}}} I beat them fine, like the dust of the earth; like the mire of the streets, I crushed them, I stamped them down. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|2Sam-22-14]] }}}
{{rf{44}}} You delivered me from the strife of my people; you preserved me as the head of the nations. A people I had not known served me. {{rf{45}}} Children of a foreign land came cringing to me; when they heard of me, they became obedient to me. {{rf{46}}} Children of a foreign land lost heart and came trembling from their strongholds. {{rf{47}}} Yahweh lives! Blessed be my rock! May God, the rock of my salvation, be exalted! {{rf{48}}} God does vengeance for me, bringing down peoples under me. {{rf{49}}} He brings me out from my enemies, and from those who rose up against me you lift me up, and from men of violence you rescue me. {{rf{50}}} Therefore I will extol you, Yahweh, among the nations! I will sing praises to your name! {{rf{51}}} He makes great salvation for his king and shows loyal love to his anointed one, David and to his descendants forever." {{rf big{1}}} These are the last words of David, the declaration of David the son of Jesse, and the declaration of the man exalted by the Most High, the anointed one of the God of Jacob and the darling of the songs of Israel. {{rf{2}}} "The spirit of Yahweh speaks through me, and his word is upon my tongue. {{rf{3}}} The God of Israel said to me, the rock of Israel has spoken; 'He who rules over mankind rules righteously, in the fear of God. {{rf{4}}} Like the light of the morning when the sun rises, shining with no clouds, bringing vegetation from the earth apart from rain.' {{rf{5}}} Yet not so is my house with God, for he made an everlasting covenant for me, arranging everything. He has secured all my deliverance, and all my desire he will cause to happen. {{rf{6}}} But evil persons are like thorns cast aside; all of them, because they cannot be picked up in the hand. {{rf{7}}} And if a man wants to touch them, he must use an iron instrument or the shaft of a spear; then they are consumed entirely with fire on the spot." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|2Sam-22-44]] }}}
{{rf{8}}} These are the names of the mighty warriors who were David's: Josheb-Basshebeth a Tahkemonite was chief of three officers; first Adino, whose spear was against eight hundred slain on one occurrence. {{rf{9}}} Next to him Eleazar, the son of Dodo the son of an Ahohite, was among the three mighty warriors with David when they defied the Philistines and they gathered there for the battle and the men of Israel withdrew. {{rf{10}}} He stood up and struck down the Philistines until his hand grew tired and his hand clung to the sword, and Yahweh brought about a great victory on that day. Then the army returned back to him only for stripping the dead. {{rf{11}}} Next to him was Shamma, the son of Agee the Hararite. When the Philistines assembled at Lehi, a plot of the field was there filled with lentils, and the army fled there from the presence of the Philistines. {{rf{12}}} But he took a stand in the middle of the plot of land and defended it. He killed the Philistines, and Yahweh brought about a great victory. {{rf{13}}} Then three of the thirty leaders went down and came to David at the time of the harvest to the cave of Adullam, while a group of the Philistines were camping in the valley of the Rephaim. {{rf{14}}} Now at that time, David was in the stronghold, and a garrison of the Philistines was in Bethlehem at that same time. {{rf{15}}} David said longingly, "Oh that someone would bring me a drink of water from the well of Bethlehem that is at the gate." {{rf{16}}} So three of the mighty warriors broke into the camp of the Philistines, and they drew water from the well of Bethlehem that was at the gate, and they carried it and brought it to David. But he was not willing to drink it, but poured it out to Yahweh. {{rf{17}}} He said, "Far be it from me before Yahweh that I should do this. Is this not the blood of the men who went at the risk of their lives?" So he was not willing to drink it. These things the three mighty warriors did. {{rf{18}}} Now Abishai the brother of Joab the son of Zeruiah was himself the leader of the thirty. He was wielding his spear against three hundred slain and gained a name among the thirty. {{rf{19}}} Among the thirty, is it not that he was honored and became a commander for them? But he did not come up to the three. {{rf{20}}} Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of Ish-Hai, was a great man of deeds from Kabzeel. He struck down two sons of Ariel of Moab, and he went down and killed a lion in the middle of a pit on a snowy day. {{rf{21}}} He also killed a good-looking Egyptian man, in whose hand was a spear. He went down against him with the staff and snatched the spear from the hand of the Egyptian and killed him with his spear. {{rf{22}}} These things Benaiah the son of Jehoiada did and gained a name for himself among the three mighty warriors. {{rf{23}}} He was honored more than the thirty, but he did not come up to the three. David appointed him in charge of his bodyguard. {{rf{24}}} Among the thirty were Asahel the brother of Joab, Elhanan the son of Dodo of Bethlehem, {{rf{25}}} Shammah the Harodite, Elika the Harodite, {{rf{26}}} Helez the Paltite, Ira the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite, {{rf{27}}} Abiezer the Anathothite, Mebunnai the Hushathite, {{rf{28}}} Zalmon the Ahohite, Maharai the Netophathite, {{rf{29}}} Heleb the son of Baanah the Netophathite, Ittai the son of Ribai from Gibeah of the sons of Benjamin, {{rf{30}}} Benaiah the Pirathonite, Hiddai from the wadis of Gaash, {{rf{31}}} Abi-Albon the Arbathite, Azmaveth the Barhumite, {{rf{32}}} Eliahba the Shaalbonite, the sons of Jashen, Jonatha {{rf{33}}} the son of Shammah the Hararite, Ahiam the son of Sharar the Ararite, {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|2Sam-23-08]] }}}
{{rf{34}}} Eliphelet the son of Ahasbai the son of the Maacathite, Eliam the son of Ahithophel the Gilonite, {{rf{35}}} Hezro the Carmelite, Paarai the Arbite, {{rf{36}}} Igal the son of Nathan from Zobah, Bani the Gadite, {{rf{37}}} Zelek the Ammonite, Naharai the Beerothite, the carriers of the weapons of Joab the son of Zeruiah, {{rf{38}}} Ira the Ithrite, Gareb the Ithrite, {{rf{39}}} Uriah the Hittite; in all, thirty-seven. {{rf big{1}}} Again Yahweh was angry with Israel, and he incited David against them, saying, "Go count Israel and Judah." {{rf{2}}} The king said to Joab, the commander of the army who was with him: "Please go about through all the tribes of Israel from Dan to Beersheba, and count the people that I may know the number of the people." {{rf{3}}} Then Joab said to the king, "May Yahweh your God increase the people a hundred times what they are as the eyes of my lord the king are seeing. But my lord the king, why does he desire this thing?" {{rf{4}}} But the word of the king prevailed over Joab and over the commanders of the army, so Joab and the commanders of the army went out from before the king to count the people of Israel. {{rf{5}}} They crossed over the Jordan and camped at Aroer to the south of the city, which was in the middle of the wadi of Gad, and up to Jazer. {{rf{6}}} Then they went to Gilead and to the land of Tahtim Hodshi. They came to Dan Jaan and around to Sido {{rf{7}}} and came to the fortress of Tyre and all the cities of the Hivites and the Canaanites. Then they went out to the Negev of Judah at Beersheba. {{rf{8}}} They went about through all the land, and they came to Jerusalem at the end of nine months and twenty days. {{rf{9}}} Then Joab gave the number of the counting of the people to the king. Israel was eight hundred thousand valiant warriors wielding the sword, and the men of Judah were five hundred thousand. {{rf{10}}} The heart of David struck him after he had counted the people, and David said to Yahweh, "I have sinned greatly in what I have done! So then, O Yahweh, please forgive the guilt of your servant because I have acted very foolishly." {{rf{11}}} When David got up in the morning, the word of Yahweh came to Gad the prophet, the seer of David, saying, {{rf{12}}} "Go and speak to David, 'Thus says Yahweh, three things I am laying on you; choose for yourself one of them and I will do it to you.'" {{rf{13}}} Then Gad came to David, and he told him and said to him, "Shall seven years of famine in the land come to you? Or three months of your fleeing from your enemies while he is pursuing you? Or should there be three days of pestilence in your land? Now consider and decide what I must return to the one who sent me a word." {{rf{14}}} Then David said to Gad, "I am greatly distressed. Please let us fall into the hand of Yahweh, because he is great in his compassion; but into the hand of man don't let me fall." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|2Sam-23-34]] }}}
{{rf{15}}} Then Yahweh sent a plague into Israel from the morning until the agreed time, and from the people from Dan to Beersheba, seventy thousand men died. {{rf{16}}} When the angel stretched out his hand to destroy Jerusalem, Yahweh regretted about the evil, and he said to the angel who brought destruction among the people, "Enough, now relax your hand." Now the angel of Yahweh was at the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite. {{rf{17}}} David spoke to Yahweh when he saw the angel destroying among the people, and he said, "Look, I have sinned and I have done wrong, but these sheep, what did they do? Please let your hand be against me and against the house of my father." {{rf{18}}} Then Gad came to David on that same day and said to him, "Go up and erect an altar to Yahweh at the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite." {{rf{19}}} So David went up according to the word of Gad, as Yahweh had commanded. {{rf{20}}} Araunah looked down and saw the king and his servants coming over to him, so Araunah went out and bowed down before the king with his face to the ground. {{rf{21}}} Then Araunah said, "Why has my lord the king come to his servant?" David said, "To buy from you the threshing floor, to build an altar to Yahweh who brought a halt to the plague on the people." {{rf{22}}} Araunah said to David, "Let my lord the king take and offer what is good in his eyes. Look, here are the cattle for the burnt offering and the threshing sledge and the yokes of the oxen for the firewood. {{rf{23}}} All of this Araunah hereby gives to the king." Then Araunah said to the king, "May Yahweh your God respond favorably for you." {{rf{24}}} Then the king said to Araunah, "No, but I will certainly buy it from you for a price; I don't want to offer to Yahweh my God burnt offerings that cost me nothing." So David bought the threshing floor and the cattle for fifty shekels of silver. {{rf{25}}} David built an altar to Yahweh there, and he offered burnt offerings and fellowship offerings. Then Yahweh responded to his prayer for the land and brought the plague to a halt from upon Israel. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|2Sam-24-15]] }}}
Paul and Silvanus and Timothy, to the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. {{rf{2}}} Grace to you and peace from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. {{rf{3}}} We ought to give thanks to God always concerning you, brothers, just as it is fitting, because your faith is flourishing and the love of each one of you all toward one another is increasing {{rf{4}}} so that we ourselves boast in you in the churches of God about your patient endurance and faith in all your persecutions and the afflictions that you are enduring, {{rf{5}}} a proof of the righteous judgment of God, so that you may be considered worthy of the kingdom of God, on behalf of which also you are suffering, {{rf{6}}} since it is righteous in the sight of God to pay back those who are afflicting you with affliction, {{rf{7}}} and to you who are being afflicted, rest with us at the revelation of the Lord Jesus from heaven with his powerful angels, {{rf{8}}} with burning flame giving punishment to those who do not know God and who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus, {{rf{9}}} who will pay the penalty of eternal destruction, away from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his strength, {{rf{10}}} whenever he should come to be glorified on that day by his saints and to be marveled at by all who believe, because our testimony was believed among you, {{rf{11}}} for which purpose we also pray always for you, that you may be considered worthy of the calling of our God, and he might fulfill every desire for goodness and work of faith with power, {{rf{12}}} in order that the name of our Lord Jesus may be glorified in you, and you in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|2Thes-01-01]] }}}
<<Bbl 2Th 2:4 abbr >> Compare <<Bbl I 14:13 >>.
<<Bbl 2Th 2:7 abbr >> //Taken out of the way// should probably be rendered //fully established or developed//. This is not generally accepted. Yet the proposal seems undeniable; it's hard to imagine how the accepted rendering entered anyone's mind. ([[Source|https://bethanygu.edu/news/the-retrainer/]])
<<Bbl 2Th 2:11 abbr >>-12 Compare <<Bbl 2C 4:3 >>-4 .
<<Bbl 2Th 3:1 abbr >>-5 Does not distinguish between those he addresses and himself.
<<Bbl 2Th 3:6 abbr >>-15 deals with disassociation.
<<Bbl 2Th 3:7 abbr>>-9 Expanded in <<Bbl 1Th 2:10>>-12
3:11 A word-play, workers and busy-bodies. Vine's amplifies the meaning of busybodies.
Now we ask you, brothers, concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our assembling to him, {{rf{2}}} that you not be easily shaken from your composure, nor be troubled either by a spirit or by a message or by a letter alleged to be from us, to the effect that the day of the Lord has arrived. {{rf{3}}} Do not let anyone deceive you in any way, for that day will not come unless the rebellion comes first, and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of destruction, {{rf{4}}} who opposes and who exalts himself over every so-called god or object of worship, so that he sits down in the temple of God, proclaiming that he himself is God. {{rf{5}}} Do you not remember that while we were still with you, we were saying these things to you? {{rf{6}}} And you know that which restrains him now, so that he will be revealed in his own time. {{rf{7}}} For the mystery of lawlessness is at work already; only the one who now restrains will do so until he is out of the way, {{rf{8}}} and then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus will slay with the breath of his mouth, and wipe out by the appearance of his coming, {{rf{9}}} whose coming is in accordance with the working of Satan, with all power and signs and lying wonders, {{rf{10}}} and with every unrighteous deception against those who are perishing, in place of which they did not accept the love of the truth, so that they would be saved. {{rf{11}}} And because of this, God sends them a powerful delusion so that they will believe the lie, {{rf{12}}} in order that all may be condemned who did not believe the truth, but delighted in unrighteousness. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|2Thes-02-01]] }}}
{{rf{13}}} But we ought to give thanks to God always concerning you, brothers dearly loved by the Lord, because God has chosen you as first fruits for salvation by the sanctification of the Spirit and faith in the truth, {{rf{14}}} for which purpose he called you through our gospel for the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ. {{rf{15}}} So then, brothers, stand firm and hold fast to the traditions which you were taught, whether by spoken word or by letter from us. {{rf{16}}} Now may our Lord Jesus Christ himself and God our Father, who has loved us and given us eternal encouragement and good hope by grace, {{rf{17}}} encourage your hearts and strengthen you in every good work and word. {{rf big{1}}} Finally, brothers, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may progress and be honored, just as also it was with you, {{rf{2}}} and that we may be delivered from evil and wicked people, for not all have the faith. {{rf{3}}} But the Lord is faithful, who will strengthen you and guard you from the evil one. {{rf{4}}} And we have confidence in the Lord about you, that you are both doing and you will do the things that we are commanding. {{rf{5}}} Now may the Lord direct your hearts toward the love of God and toward the patient endurance of Christ. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|2Thes-02-13]] }}}
{{rf{6}}} But we command you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you keep away from every brother who lives irresponsibly and not according to the tradition that they received from us. {{rf{7}}} For you yourselves know how it is necessary to imitate us, that we did not behave irresponsibly among you, {{rf{8}}} nor did we eat bread from anyone without paying, but with toil and labor, we were working night and day in order not to be a burden to any of you, {{rf{9}}} not that we do not have the right, but so that we may give ourselves as an example to you, so that you may imitate us. {{rf{10}}} For even when we were with you, we used to command this to you: that if anyone does not want to work, neither should he eat. {{rf{11}}} For we hear that some among you are living irresponsibly, working at nothing, but being busybodies. {{rf{12}}} Now we command and we exhort such people in the Lord Jesus Christ that, working with quietness, they eat their own bread. {{rf{13}}} But as for you, brothers, do not be discouraged while doing what is right. {{rf{14}}} But if anyone does not obey our message through this letter, take note not to associate with him, in order that he may be put to shame. {{rf{15}}} And do not consider him as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother. {{rf{16}}} Now may the Lord of peace himself grant you peace through everything in every way. May the Lord be with all of you. {{rf{17}}} The greeting is by my hand, Paul's, which is a sign of genuineness in every letter: this is how I write. {{rf{18}}} The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with all of you. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|2Thes-03-06]] }}}
Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, according to the promise of life which is in Christ Jesus, {{rf{2}}} to Timothy, my dear child. Grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord. {{rf{3}}} I am thankful to God, whom I have served with a clear conscience as my ancestors did, when I remember you constantly in my prayers night and day, {{rf{4}}} longing to see you as I remember your tears, so that I may be filled with joy, {{rf{5}}} remembering the sincere faith in you, which lived first in your grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice, and I am convinced that is in you also, {{rf{6}}} for which reason I remind you to rekindle the gift of God that is in you through the laying on of my hands. {{rf{7}}} For God has not given us a spirit of cowardice, but of power and love and self-discipline.
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{{rf{8}}} Therefore, do not be ashamed of the testimony about our Lord, nor me his prisoner, but suffer along with me for the gospel, according to the power of God, {{rf{9}}} who saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works but according to his own purpose and grace that was given to us in Christ Jesus before time began, {{rf{10}}} but has now been disclosed by the appearing of our Savior Jesus Christ, who has abolished death and brought to light life and immortality through the gospel, {{rf{11}}} for which I was appointed a proclaimer and an apostle and a teacher, {{rf{12}}} for which reason also I suffer these things. But I am not ashamed, because I know in whom I have believed, and I am convinced that he is able to guard what I have entrusted until that day. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|2Tim-01-01]] }}}
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Endure hardship for the Good News according to the power of God.
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* God upholds us -- this is a major theme. //Join me in suffering!// -- but holy suffering //according to the power of God.//
* God guards (1:12) and through Him we guard (1:14).
* Paul places our suffering in the context of eternity past and eternity future.
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<<Bbl 2Tim 1:12 abbr >> Wonderful trust. Paul trusted the Lord for the Gospel truth; Elisha for the Shunnamite's child, Abraham for Isaac, Jesus for Peter, John the Immerser for his Messiah.
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''Study for 2 Timothy 2:1-3:''
* What does it mean to be intentional? Tell us about a time when you've seen it in action.
* Read 2 Timothy 2:1-3. Focus on the passage as you consider these questions:
** Paul calls Timothy //my child//. How is Timothy the child of Paul?
** What does it mean to //entrust//? (v 2)
** What is it that Timothy is to entrust to others?
** What are the sort of people to whom this trust should be given?
** Paul refers to //many witnesses//. Who might those be? Why does Paul mention them now?
** The passage describes a process. What could go wrong that is outside your control?
** What could go wrong that might be IN your control?
** How does Christ Jesus fit into the picture? (v 1 and v3)
** Look again at the last part of v 2. How does it relate to v 3?
** Have you suffered this kind of hardship? How do you feel about it?
** Pray over verses 3-7; obey this passage by asking God for wisdom.
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<<Bbl 2Tim 2:3 abbr >> //Enduring hardship// must not be imagined as a high-stakes effort of advanced ministry. Everyone must make the lowly beginning steps. Apply to addiction, the refusal to self-medicate.
2:18 This heresy seems to have upset the Thessalonians; I think much of the letters is given to refuting it.
2:19 Is foundation related to the house concept that follows?
2:20-21 i.e., the Church. Be an honorable vessel. //These things// is from vss. 14,16.
<<Bbl 2Tim 2:20 abbr>> Contrast <<Bbl 2C 4:7>> where Paul uses the same image for an entirely different purpose. We must not easily and wrongly assume an image is used with same intent in every place.
3:5 Claiming God but refusing to submit to God's authority.
<<Bbl 2Tim 3:16 abbr >>ff tension between God-breathed and having to "work" to understand. In harmony with covenants of God.
<<Bbl 2Tim 3:16 abbr >> "Theo-pneuma". The Vulgate gave us the rendering "inspiration". Applaud the NIV, for "God-breathed" is closer.
<<Bbl 2Tim 3:17 abbr >> Meshes poetically with the //large furnished upper room//.
3:17 This gives an important //why,// a purpose for the [[Scripture]] -- and tells us that God's goodness is Scripture-goodness.
<<Bbl 2Tim 4:6 abbr >> C. Williams has it, //The time has come for me to sail away.// //Analuo// (from ἀναλύσεώς) refers to an unloosing (of things woven), a breaking-down (as of a camp) or a dissolution (as of a boat loosed from the mooring). <<Bbl Php 1:23 >> uses a verbal form. See also <<Bbl 2C 5:1 >>.
{{rf{13}}} Hold fast to the pattern of sound words which you heard from me, in the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus. {{rf{14}}} Guard the good deposit through the Holy Spirit who lives in us. {{rf{15}}} You know this, that all those in Asia turned away from me, among whom are Phygelus and Hermogenes. {{rf{16}}} May the Lord grant mercy to the household of Onesiphorus, because he refreshed me many times, and was not ashamed of my imprisonment, {{rf{17}}} but when he was in Rome, he diligently sought me and found me. {{rf{18}}} May the Lord grant him to find mercy from the Lord in that day! And how much he served me in Ephesus you know very well.
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{{rf big{1}}} You, therefore, my child, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus, {{rf{2}}} and the things which you have heard from me in the presence of many witnesses, entrust these things to faithful people who will be competent to teach others also. {{rf{3}}} Suffer together with me as a good soldier of Christ Jesus. {{rf{4}}} No one who serves as a soldier is entangled in the activities of everyday life, so that he may please the one who enlisted him. {{rf{5}}} And also if anyone competes he is not crowned unless he competes according to the rules. {{rf{6}}} The farmer who works hard must be the first to receive a share of the crops. {{rf{7}}} Consider what I am saying, for the Lord will grant you understanding in all these things. {{rf{8}}} Remember Jesus Christ, raised from the dead, a descendant of David according to my gospel, {{rf{9}}} in connection with which I suffer misfortune to the point of imprisonment as a criminal, but the word of God is not bound. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|2Tim-01-13]] }}}
{{rf{10}}} Because of this, I endure all things for the sake of the chosen, in order that they also may obtain salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory. {{rf{11}}} The saying is trustworthy: For if we died with him, we will also live with him; {{rf{12}}} if we endure, we will also reign with him; if we deny him, he also will deny us; {{rf{13}}} if we are unfaithful, he remains faithful -- he cannot deny himself. {{rf{14}}} Remind people of these things, solemnly urging them before the Lord not to dispute about words. This is in no way beneficial and leads to the ruin of the hearers.
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{{rf{15}}} Make every effort to present yourself approved to God, a worker having no need to be ashamed, guiding the word of truth along a straight path. {{rf{16}}} But avoid pointless chatter, for it will progress to greater ungodliness, {{rf{17}}} and their message will spread like gangrene, among whom are Hymenaeus and Philetus, {{rf{18}}} who have deviated concerning the truth by saying the resurrection has already taken place, and they are upsetting the faith of some. {{rf{19}}} However, the solid foundation of God stands firm, having this seal: "The Lord knows those who are his," and "Everyone who names the name of the Lord must abstain from unrighteousness." {{rf{20}}} Now in a great house there are not only gold and silver vessels, but also wooden and earthenware ones, some of which are for honorable use, and some of which are for ordinary use. {{rf{21}}} Therefore, if someone cleanses himself from these things, he will be a vessel for honorable use, set apart, useful to the Master, prepared for every good work. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|2Tim-02-10]] }}}
{{rf{22}}} But flee from youthful desires, and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, in company with those who call upon the Lord from a pure heart. {{rf{23}}} But avoid foolish and uninformed controversies, because you know that they produce quarrels. {{rf{24}}} And the slave of the Lord must not quarrel, but be kind toward everyone, skillful in teaching, tolerant, {{rf{25}}} correcting those who are opposed with gentleness, seeing whether perhaps God may grant them repentance to a knowledge of the truth, {{rf{26}}} and they will come to their senses again and escape from the trap of the devil, being held captive by him to do his will.
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{{rf big{1}}} But know this, that in the last days difficult times will come, {{rf{2}}} for people will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, arrogant, slanderers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, {{rf{3}}} hardhearted, irreconcilable, slanderous, without self-control, savage, with no interest for what is good, {{rf{4}}} traitors, reckless, conceited, loving pleasure rather than loving God, {{rf{5}}} maintaining a form of godliness, but denying its power. Avoid these people. {{rf{6}}} For from these are those who slip into houses and captivate foolish women loaded down with sins, led by various kinds of desires, {{rf{7}}} always learning and never able to come to a knowledge of the truth. {{rf{8}}} And just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so also these oppose the truth, people corrupted in mind, disqualified concerning the faith. {{rf{9}}} But they will not progress to a greater extent, for their folly will be quite evident to everyone, as also the folly of those two was. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|2Tim-02-22]] }}}
{{rf{10}}} But you have faithfully followed my teaching, way of life, purpose, faith, patience, love, endurance, {{rf{11}}} persecutions, and sufferings that happened to me in Antioch, in Iconium, and in Lystra, what sort of persecutions I endured, and the Lord delivered me from all of them. {{rf{12}}} And indeed, all those who want to live in a godly manner in Christ Jesus will be persecuted. {{rf{13}}} But evil people and imposters will progress to the worse, deceiving and being deceived. {{rf{14}}} But you continue in the things which you have learned and are convinced of, because you know from whom you learned them, {{rf{15}}} and that from childhood you have known the holy writings that are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. {{rf{16}}} All scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness, {{rf{17}}} in order that the person of God may be competent, equipped for every good work. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|2Tim-03-10]] }}}
I solemnly charge you before God and Christ Jesus, who is going to judge the living and the dead, and by his appearing and his kingdom, {{rf{2}}} preach the word, be ready in season and out of season, reprove, rebuke, exhort, with all patience and instruction. {{rf{3}}} For there will be a time when they will not put up with sound teaching, but in accordance with their own desires, they will accumulate for themselves teachers, because they have an insatiable curiosity, {{rf{4}}} and they will turn away from the hearing of the truth, but will turn to myths. {{rf{5}}} But you, be self-controlled in all things, bear hardship patiently, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry.
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{{rf{6}}} For I am already being poured out as a drink offering, and the time of my departure is imminent. {{rf{7}}} I have fought the good fight, I have completed the race, I have kept the faith. {{rf{8}}} Finally, the crown of righteousness is reserved for me, that the Lord, the righteous Judge, will award to me on that day, and not only to me, but also to all who have loved his appearing. {{rf{9}}} Make haste to come to me quickly. {{rf{10}}} For Demas deserted me, because he loved the present age, and went to Thessalonica. Crescens went to Galatia; Titus went to Dalmatia. {{rf{11}}} Luke alone is with me. Take along Mark and bring him with you, because he is useful to me for ministry. {{rf{12}}} But I have sent Tychicus to Ephesus. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|2Tim-04-01]] }}}
{{rf{13}}} When you come, bring the cloak that I left behind in Troas with Carpus, and the scrolls, especially the parchments. {{rf{14}}} Alexander the metalworker did me much harm; may the Lord pay back to him according to his deeds, {{rf{15}}} against whom you also be on guard, because he vehemently opposed our words. {{rf{16}}} At my first defense, no one came to my aid, but they all deserted me; may it not be counted against them. {{rf{17}}} But the Lord helped me and strengthened me, so that through me the proclamation might be fulfilled and all the Gentiles might hear, and he rescued me from the lion's mouth. {{rf{18}}} The Lord will rescue me from every evil deed, and will save me for his heavenly kingdom, to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen.
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{{rf{19}}} Greet Prisca and Aquila and the household of Onesiphorus. {{rf{20}}} Erastus remained in Corinth, but Trophimus I left behind in Miletus because he was sick. {{rf{21}}} Make haste to come before winter. Eubulus and Pudens and Linus and Claudia and all the brothers greet you. {{rf{22}}} The Lord be with your spirit. Grace be with you. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|2Tim-04-13]] }}}
<<Bbl 3J 1:3 >> //Bearing witness// is a continuous theme.
<<Bbl 3J 1:7 >> Like worldly projects that bear the names of their sponsors, stickers on the fiberglass exterior.
<<Bbl 3J 1:9 >> Diotrephes //loves to be first//.
One man, and one family, is chosen to represent God's love and care for the fallen world. The latter 39 chapters of Genesis are dedicated to the stories of four generations: Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and Joseph.
* <<Bbl Gn 12:1>>-3
* <<Bbl Gn 12:7>>-8
* <<Bbl Gn 13:14>>-18
* <<Bbl Gn 15:1>>-21 - The promise of a son takes distinct shape.
* <<Bbl Gn 17:1>>-22 - Age 99
* <<Bbl Gn 18:1>>-33
* <<Bbl Gn 21:1>>
* <<Bbl Gn 22:1>>-18 - The Binding (//Akedah//) of Isaac. See [[AtoningSubstitute]].
* Friend of God: <<Bbl 2Ch 20:7>>; <<Bbl I 41:8 >>; <<Bbl Jms 2:23 >>; see also <<Bbl Job 29:4>>
* A prophet: <<Bbl Gn 20:7 >>.
* Heir to the world: <<Bbl R 4:13 >>, [[Inherit]]
* [[Covenant]]: <<Bbl Gn 12:1 >>-2 , <<Bbl Gn 17:7 >>
* Almost the first word in the NT is Abraham. Matthew knows that he is tracing the beginning of not only Jesus' genealogy but of His Gospel.
* [[Believe]]: <<Bbl Gal 3:8 >>, <<Bbl R 4:3 >>
* Faith looking above: <<Bbl H 11:9 >>-10
* The eviction of Ishmael at Sarah's behest (with God confirming) prefigures the coming sacrifice of Isaac. Maybe the preservation of Ishmael's life has added significance.
* <<Bbl Gn 20:1 "" note>>
* <<Bbl A 3:25 >>-26
!!! The gentile convert
* ...who himself won converts - Lot's family. (Gentile converts always come with baggage. Abraham came in with a "Lot" of baggage.)
!!! Son of Abraham
* <<Bbl Gal 1:1 >>
* Zaccheus.
* Even today a convert to Judaism is given the surname ~Ben-Abraham.
!!! Holiness.
* A theme of holiness develops. <<Bbl Gn 17:1 >>c, <<Bbl Gn 17:9 >>ff, <<Bbl Gn 18:19 >>.
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* In Romans 3, the [[belief|Believe]] of Abraham as at a young stage.
* Abram and Sarai were considered models for gentile conversion as well as witness to the gentiles. So Paul preaches them to gentile audiences. [[PeopleOfGod]]
* When he went to Hagar (<<Bbl Gn 16:2>>) it was not yet explicit that the son (<<Bbl Gn 15:4>>) was to be from Sarah (<<Bbl Gn 17:16 abbr>>).
* And Ishmael was the [[Firstborn]]
* Like the Calvinist who fell down the stairs: Picked himself up, checked his bones, slapped some dust off his pants and said //Thank God that's over with!//
* //Accepting hardship as a pathway to peace...//
* //entrust ourselves to a loving Creator to do what is right// -- Peter
* [[Contentment]]
* [[Submit]]
* [[Hardship]]
* [[Respond]], [[Attitude]]
* [[Resignation]]
* <<Bbl R 15:7>> [[OneAnother]]
!!! Prayer for Grace
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<<<
@@color:indigo;O Lord Jesus Christ,
Thank You for Your complete and never-ending love
which shines in my life through Christ.
Today, in obedience to your claim upon me
I surrender my life to You.
Today, all that I am, and all that I have,
is wholly and unconditionally Yours.
Set me free from preoccupation with myself.
Use me -- where You want, when You want,
with whom You want, for as long as you want.
Amen.@@
<<<
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!!! Accepted
* <<Bbl Eph 1:6>>
* [[Reproove]]
* [[Confess]]
* [[Openness]]
* [[Immorality-No]]
* * <<Bbl Gal 6:2 >> [[PersonalRelations]]
* [[Stewardship]]
* <<Bbl 2K 12:4 "" note>>ff
* A sound rule of business proposes that each of us need "RAA":
## [[Responsibility]] (a charge)
## [[Authorize]] (delegated power)
## ''Accountability''
!!! King Joash and Jehoiada the priest
* <<Bbl 2K 12:15 "" note>> (qv), <<Bbl 2K 22:7 abbr >> -- The Temple workmen in Josiah's reign were considered so faithful that no accounting was required (two citations in the account). This tells us that accountability IS the norm. It says flexibility is possible; but it enforces a high view.
!!! Evasion
* [[Deceive]], [[Subvert]]
* 'Gene, how could you even ask such a thing?' -- crazy-making.
* 'Gene, we're big boys, so let's skip these questions and just talk.' //Gene Getz//
* <<Bbl Josh 7:26>>, <<Bbl Josh 1:0 "" note>>
* <<Bbl Hosea 2:15>> calls it //a door of hope//.
I produced the former account, O Theophilus, about all that Jesus began to do and to teach, {{rf{2}}} until the day he was taken up, after he had given orders through the Holy Spirit to the apostles whom he had chosen, {{rf{3}}} to whom he also presented himself alive after he suffered, with many convincing proofs, appearing to them over a period of forty days and speaking the things about the kingdom of God. {{rf{4}}} And while he was with them, he commanded them, "Do not depart from Jerusalem, but wait for what was promised by the Father, which you heard about from me. {{rf{5}}} For John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days from now." {{rf{6}}} So when they had come together, they began asking him, saying, "Lord, is it at this time you are restoring the kingdom to Israel?" {{rf{7}}} But he said to them, "It is not for you to know the times or seasons that the Father has set by his own authority. {{rf{8}}} But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the farthest part of the earth." {{rf{9}}} And after he had said these things, while they were watching, he was taken up, and a cloud received him from their sight. {{rf{10}}} And as they were staring into the sky while he was departing, behold, two men in white clothing stood by them {{rf{11}}} who also said, "Men of Galilee, why do you stand there looking into the sky? This Jesus who was taken up from you into heaven like this will come back in the same way you saw him departing into heaven!" {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Acts-01-01]] }}}
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One of Luke's primary purposes in Ac is to validate Paul's apostleship and ministry. The dispute over the equal treatment of the widows starts a narrative thread that proceeds directly through several episodes to Paul's conversion. (In his glowing descriptions of communal generosity at the start, we find an implied exhortation; maybe a hint of nostalgia.)
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<<Bbl L 2:1 abbr >>-7 Bears close comparison with <<Bbl Gn 11:1 >>-9 , the tower of Babel. Themes of unity, power, God's intervention, and of course language and understanding. Note also that from Babel a large multitude is scattered, and at Pentecost it is gathered (leading to the in-gathering at Peter's sermon). At Babel they hoped to //make a name for ourselves,//- securing man-made unity; at Pentecost they gathered in the name of Jesus, the source of their true [[Unity]]. Pentecost is the sequel to Babel.
<<Bbl L 2:6 abbr >> Obviously the disciples weren't in a huddle, facing into each other. They were out facing the crowds, preaching loudly.
2:9-11 The list of [[Nations]] would include representatives of today's Iran, Iraq, Israel, Turkey, Egypt, Libya, Saudi Arabia, Greece, Italy.
** This is a large portion of the 10/40 window; Saudi Arabia has the highest percentage of Protestant Christians (mostly expatriates such as Filipinos). Taken all together, fewer than four our of a thousand would be a Protestant Christian (Operation World, 1993). So there is a prophetic significance we can perhaps apply today; God's word does not return to Him void.
** Also looks ahead to the promise of Revelation, //from every tongue.//
** It's interesting that Jews and Judeans (vs 9, 11) are lumped in with the other nations; reminiscent of some prophetic OT passages.
<<Bbl A 2:14 abbr >> NIV capitalizes //Eleven//.
2:14-36
** Peter's first sermon contains a clear argument: "No one present is drunk. Rather, Joel's prophecies of the final day are being fulfilled. First, there are prophetic words (which you mistake for drunkenness). Second, there are signs in the earth (as were noted at Christ's death). Jesus of Nazareth is the Messiah! He was killed and resurrected, as David prophesied would happen to the Messiah. Also He has ascended into heaven, again as David prophesied of the Messiah."
** Note the dual fulfillment of Joel's prophecy; the new indwelling of the Spirit, and the incredible events surrounding Jesus' death, indicating that day of the sermon, and also the signs of the final day. Peter thought them one and the same.
<<Bbl A 2:23 abbr >>. <<Bbl 2Cor 4:11 >>. Handed over yet in no doubt of the outcome. I die daily. Counted a sheep.
<<Bbl A 2:24 abbr >>b. <<Bbl Hebrews 11:19 >>. Abraham believed death could have no claim.
2:24 //agonies//, lit., birth pangs.
<<Bbl A 2:25 abbr >>-32 parenthetical.
2:29 An apologetic we sometimes use.
<<Bbl A 2:38 abbr >> Should this be understood as water baptism?
2:39 In this moment of revelation, Peter looks ahead to something yet dimly revealed -- the inclusion of the Gentiles. He didn't know how it could happen, but he knew the Lord his God could // call to Himself.//
<<Bbl A 2:42 abbr >>-47 Recurrence of //together, added//.
2:42 The teaching was simply a continual recounting of the life and words of the Christ, and an exposition of the scriptures which pointed to Him. Can we do any better? Why are we so excited by novel doctrines?
<<Bbl A 2:47 abbr >> Apparently no small number according to <<Bbl A 2:41 >>.
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3:17 see <<Bbl L 23:34 >>
<<Bbl A 3:25 abbr >>-26 Peter has this revelation insight: the promise of blessing given to Abraham entails repentance and righteousness.
{{rf{12}}} Then they returned to Jerusalem from the mountain that is called Olive Grove which is near Jerusalem, a Sabbath day's journey away. {{rf{13}}} And when they had entered, they went up to the upstairs room where they were staying -- Peter and John and James and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James son of Alphaeus and Simon the Zealot and Judas son of James. {{rf{14}}} All these were busily engaged with one mind in prayer, together with the women and Mary the mother of Jesus and with his brothers. {{rf{15}}} And in those days Peter stood up in the midst of the brothers (and it was a crowd of persons of about one hundred twenty at the same place) and said, {{rf{16}}} "Men and brothers, it was necessary that the scripture be fulfilled, which the Holy Spirit proclaimed beforehand through the mouth of David concerning Judas, who became a guide to those who arrested Jesus, {{rf{17}}} because he was counted among us and received a share in this ministry." {{rf{18}}} (Now this man acquired a field for the wages of his wickedness, and falling headlong, he burst open in the middle and all his intestines spilled out. {{rf{19}}} And it became known to all who live in Jerusalem, so that that field was called in their own language "Akeldama," that is, "Field of Blood.") {{rf{20}}} "For it is written in the book of Psalms, 'Let his residence become deserted, and let there be no one to live in it,' and, 'Let another person take his position.' {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Acts-01-12]] }}}
{{rf{21}}} Therefore it is necessary for one of the men who have accompanied us during all the time in which the Lord Jesus went in and went out among us, {{rf{22}}} beginning from the baptism of John until the day on which he was taken up from us -- one of these men must become a witness of his resurrection together with us." {{rf{23}}} And they proposed two men, Joseph called Barsabbas (who was called Justus) and Matthias. {{rf{24}}} And they prayed and said, "You, Lord, who know the hearts of all, show clearly which one of these two you have chose {{rf{25}}} to take the place in this ministry and apostleship from which Judas turned aside to depart to his own place." {{rf{26}}} And they cast lots for them, and the lot fell on Matthias, and he was added to serve with the eleven apostles. {{rf big{1}}} And when the day of Pentecost had come, they were all together in the same place. {{rf{2}}} And suddenly a sound like a violent rushing wind came from heaven and filled the whole house where they were sitting. {{rf{3}}} And divided tongues like fire appeared to them and rested on each one of them. {{rf{4}}} And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other languages as the Spirit gave them ability to speak out. {{rf{5}}} Now there were Jews residing in Jerusalem, devout men from every nation under heaven. {{rf{6}}} And when this sound occurred, the crowd gathered and was in confusion, because each one was hearing them speaking in his own language. {{rf{7}}} And they were astounded and astonished, saying, "Behold, are not all these who are speaking Galileans? {{rf{8}}} And how do we hear, each one of us, in our own native language? {{rf{9}}} Parthians and Medes and Elamites and those residing in Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia, {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Acts-01-21]] }}}
{{rf{10}}} Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the parts of Libya toward Cyrene, and the Romans who were in town, {{rf{11}}} both Jews and proselytes, Cretans and Arabs -- we hear them speaking in our own languages the great deeds of God!" {{rf{12}}} And all were amazed and greatly perplexed, saying to one another, "What can this mean?" {{rf{13}}} But others jeered and said, "They are full of sweet new wine!" {{rf{14}}} But Peter, standing with the eleven, raised his voice and declared to them, "Judean men, and all those who live in Jerusalem, let this be known to you, and pay attention to my words! {{rf{15}}} For these men are not drunk, as you assume, because it is the third hour of the day. {{rf{16}}} But this is what was spoken through the prophet Joel: {{rf{17}}} 'And it will be in the last days,' God says, 'I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh, and your sons and your daughters will prophesy, and your young men will see visions, and your old men will dream dreams. {{rf{18}}} And even on my male slaves and on my female slaves I will pour out my Spirit in those days, and they will prophesy. {{rf{19}}} And I will cause wonders in the heaven above and signs on the earth below, blood and fire and vapor of smoke. {{rf{20}}} The sun will be changed to darkness and the moon to blood, before the great and glorious day of the Lord comes. {{rf{21}}} And it will be that everyone who calls upon the name of the Lord will be saved.' {{rf{22}}} "Israelite men, listen to these words! Jesus the Nazarene, a man attested to you by God with deeds of power and wonders and signs that God did through him in your midst, just as you yourselves know -- {{rf{23}}} this man, delivered up by the determined plan and foreknowledge of God, you executed by nailing to a cross through the hand of lawless men. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Acts-02-10]] }}}
{{rf{24}}} God raised him up, having brought to an end the pains of death, because it was not possible for him to be held by it. {{rf{25}}} For David says with reference to him, 'I saw the Lord before me continually, for he is at my right hand so that I will not be shaken. {{rf{26}}} For this reason my heart was glad and my tongue rejoiced greatly, furthermore also my flesh will live in hope, {{rf{27}}} because you will not abandon my soul in Hades, nor will you permit your Holy One to experience decay. {{rf{28}}} You have made known to me the paths of life; you will fill me with gladness with your presence.' {{rf{29}}} "Men and brothers, it is possible to speak with confidence to you about the patriarch David, that he both died and was buried, and his tomb is with us until this day. {{rf{30}}} Therefore, because he was a prophet and knew that God had sworn to him with an oath to seat one of his descendants on his throne, {{rf{31}}} by having foreseen this, he spoke about the resurrection of the Christ, that neither was he abandoned in Hades nor did his flesh experience decay. {{rf{32}}} This Jesus God raised up, of which we all are witnesses. {{rf{33}}} Therefore, having been exalted to the right hand of God and having received the promise of the Holy Spirit from the Father, he has poured out this that you see and hear. {{rf{34}}} For David did not ascend into heaven, but he himself says, 'The Lord said to my Lord, "Sit at my right hand, {{rf{35}}} until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet." ' {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Acts-02-24]] }}}
{{rf{36}}} Therefore let all the house of Israel know beyond a doubt, that God has made him both Lord and Christ -- this Jesus whom you crucified!" {{rf{37}}} Now when they heard this, they were pierced to the heart and said to Peter and the other apostles, "What should we do, men and brothers?" {{rf{38}}} And Peter said to them, "Repent and be baptized, each one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. {{rf{39}}} For the promise is for you and for your children, and for all those who are far away, as many as the Lord our God calls to himself." {{rf{40}}} And with many other words he solemnly urged and exhorted them, saying, "Be saved from this crooked generation!" {{rf{41}}} So those who accepted his message were baptized, and on that day about three thousand souls were added. {{rf{42}}} And they were devoting themselves to the teaching of the apostles and to fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayers. {{rf{43}}} And fear came on every soul, and many wonders and signs were being performed by the apostles. {{rf{44}}} And all who believed were in the same place, and had everything in common. {{rf{45}}} And they began selling their possessions and property, and distributing these things to all, to the degree that anyone had need. {{rf{46}}} And every day, devoting themselves to meeting with one purpose in the temple courts and breaking bread from house to house, they were eating their food with joy and simplicity of heart, {{rf{47}}} praising God and having favor with all the people. And the Lord was adding every day to the total of those who were being saved. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Acts-02-36]] }}}
Now Peter and John were going up to the temple at the hour of prayer, the ninth hour. {{rf{2}}} And a certain man was being carried who was lame from birth. He was placed every day at the gate of the temple called "Beautiful," so that he could ask for charitable gifts from those who were going into the temple courts. {{rf{3}}} When he saw Peter and John about to go into the temple courts, he began asking to receive alms. {{rf{4}}} And Peter looked intently at him, together with John, and said, "Look at us!" {{rf{5}}} So he fixed his attention on them, expecting to receive something from them. {{rf{6}}} But Peter said, "Silver and gold I do not possess, but what I have, this I give to you -- in the name of Jesus Christ the Nazarene, walk!" {{rf{7}}} And taking hold of him by the right hand, he raised him up, and immediately his feet and ankles were made strong. {{rf{8}}} And leaping up, he stood and began walking around and entered into the temple courts with them, walking and leaping and praising God. {{rf{9}}} And all the people saw him walking and praising God, {{rf{10}}} And they recognized him, that this one was the one who used to sit asking for alms at the Beautiful Gate of the temple, and they were filled with awe and astonishment at what had happened to him. {{rf{11}}} And while he was holding fast to Peter and John, all the people ran together to them in the portico called Solomon's, utterly astonished. {{rf{12}}} And when he saw it, Peter replied to the people, "Men and Israelites, why are you astonished at this? Or why are you staring at us, as if by our own power or godliness we have made him walk? {{rf{13}}} The God of Abraham and of Isaac and of Jacob, the God of our fathers, has glorified his servant Jesus, whom you handed over and denied in the presence of Pilate, after he had decided to release him. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Acts-03-01]] }}}
{{rf{14}}} But you denied the Holy and Righteous One and demanded that a man -- a murderer -- be granted to you. {{rf{15}}} And you killed the originator of life, whom God raised from the dead, of which we are witnesses! {{rf{16}}} And on the basis of faith in his name, his name has made this man strong, whom you see and know, and the faith that is through him has given him this perfect health in the presence of you all. {{rf{17}}} And now, brothers, I know that you acted in ignorance, just as your rulers did also. {{rf{18}}} But the things which God foretold through the mouth of all the prophets, that his Christ would suffer, he has fulfilled in this way. {{rf{19}}} Therefore repent and turn back, so that your sins may be blotted out, {{rf{20}}} so that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord, and he may send the Christ appointed for you -- Jesus, {{rf{21}}} whom heaven must receive until the times of the restoration of all things, about which God spoke through the mouth of his holy prophets from earliest times. {{rf{22}}} Moses said, 'The Lord God will raise up for you a prophet like me from your brothers. You will listen to him in everything that he says to you. {{rf{23}}} And it will be that every soul who does not listen to that prophet will be destroyed utterly from the people.' {{rf{24}}} And indeed, all the prophets from Samuel and all those who followed him have spoken about and proclaimed these days. {{rf{25}}} You are the sons of the prophets and of the covenant that God ordained with your fathers, saying to Abraham, 'And in your offspring all the nations of the earth will be blessed.' {{rf{26}}} God, after he had raised up his servant, sent him to you first, to bless you by turning each of you back from your wickedness!" {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Acts-03-14]] }}}
{{rf big{1}}} And while they were speaking to the people, the priests and the captain of the temple and the Sadducees approached them, {{rf{2}}} greatly annoyed because they were teaching the people and proclaiming in Jesus the resurrection from the dead. {{rf{3}}} And they laid hands on them and put them in custody until the next day, because it was already evening. {{rf{4}}} But many of those who listened to the message believed, and the number of the men was approximately five thousand. {{rf{5}}} And it happened that on the next day, their rulers and elders and scribes came together in Jerusalem, {{rf{6}}} and Annas the high priest, and Caiaphas and John and Alexander, and all those who were from the high priest's family. {{rf{7}}} And they made them stand in their midst and began to ask, "By what power or by what name did you do this?" {{rf{8}}} Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said to them, "Rulers of the people and elders, {{rf{9}}} if we are being examined today concerning a good deed done to a sick man -- by what means this man was healed -- {{rf{10}}} let it be known to all of you and to all the people of Israel that by the name of Jesus Christ the Nazarene, whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead -- by him this man stands before you healthy! {{rf{11}}} This one is the stone that was rejected by you, the builders, that has become the cornerstone. {{rf{12}}} And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven that is given among people by which we must be saved." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Acts-04-01]] }}}
<<Bbl A 4:1 abbr>>-2 The Sadducees are still stumbling over the doctrine of the resurrection.
<<Bbl A 4:23 abbr>>-31 They do not pray for protection.
Throughout Acts, filled with the Holy Spirit means that they're made bold to witness. Thus filled, they welcome danger and adversity.
<<Bbl A 4:28 abbr>> see <<Bbl Mt 27:25 >>
<<Bbl A 4:32 abbr >> @@division@@ - Seems that this should open the chapter.
<<Bbl A 4:34 abbr >>-36 Hinge (pivot)
<<Bbl A 5:1 abbr>> The sin was lying, but note the [[Motivation]] underneath. For their money they had two goals, personal spending and church status. Cf <<Bbl J 12:6>>.
5:6,9 These may be written to echo <<Bbl Lv 10:4 >>-5 , the carrying out of Nadab and Abihu.
<<Bbl A 5:30 abbr >>, <<Bbl A 10:39 abbr >>, <<Bbl A 13:29 abbr >> : Although the Law of Moses only once cites //hanging on a tree// (<<Bbl Dt 90:90 >>), it foreshadows the cross and in a mysterious way judicially ties the murder of Jesus to those who "sit in the seat of Moses". Compare <<Bbl A 2:23 abbr >>, where perhaps this insight hasn't been noticed.
<<Bbl A 5:39 abbr>> Gamaliel is utterly free of the description Jesus gave of those who, in persecuting the Church, think they are "rendering service to God". See <<Bbl A 19:35 abbr>>-36. As for the rest, it says much that they heed his counsel.
{{rf{13}}} Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and understood that they were uneducated and untrained men, they were astonished, and recognized them, that they had been with Jesus. {{rf{14}}} And because they saw the man who had been healed standing there with them, they had nothing to say in return. {{rf{15}}} But after they had ordered them to go outside the Sanhedrin, they began to confer with one another, {{rf{16}}} saying, "What should we do with these men? For that a remarkable sign has taken place through them is evident to all those who live in Jerusalem, and we are not able to deny it! {{rf{17}}} But in order that it may not spread much further among the people, let us warn them to speak no more in this name to anyone at all." {{rf{18}}} And they called them back and commanded them not to speak or to teach at all in the name of Jesus. {{rf{19}}} But Peter and John answered and said to them, "Whether it is right in the sight of God to listen to you rather than God, you decide! {{rf{20}}} For we are not able to refrain from speaking about the things that we have seen and heard." {{rf{21}}} So after threatening them further, they released them, finding no way to punish them on account of the people, because they were all praising God for what had happened. {{rf{22}}} For the man on whom this sign of healing had been performed was more than forty years old. {{rf{23}}} And when they were released, they went to their own people and reported all that the chief priests and the elders had said to them. {{rf{24}}} And when they heard it, they lifted their voices with one mind to God and said, "Master, you are the one who made the heaven and the earth and the sea and all the things in them, {{rf{25}}} the one who said by the Holy Spirit through the mouth of our father David, your servant, 'Why do the nations rage, and the peoples conspire in vain? {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Acts-04-13]] }}}
{{rf{26}}} The kings of the earth stood opposed, and the rulers assembled together at the same place, against the Lord and against his Christ.' {{rf{27}}} For in truth both Herod and Pontius Pilate, together with the Gentiles and the peoples of Israel, assembled together in this city against your holy servant Jesus whom you anointed, {{rf{28}}} to do all that your hand and plan had predestined to take place. {{rf{29}}} And now, Lord, concern yourself with their threats and grant your slaves to speak your message with all boldness, {{rf{30}}} as you extend your hand to heal and signs and wonders are performed through the name of your holy servant Jesus." {{rf{31}}} And when they had prayed, the place in which they were gathered was shaken, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak the word of God with boldness. {{rf{32}}} Now the group of those who believed were one heart and soul, and no one said anything of what belonged to him was his own, but all things were theirs in common. {{rf{33}}} And with great power the apostles were giving testimony to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus, and great grace was on them all. {{rf{34}}} For there was not even anyone needy among them, because all those who were owners of plots of land or houses were selling them and bringing the proceeds of the things that were sold {{rf{35}}} and placing them at the feet of the apostles. And it was being distributed to each as anyone had need. {{rf{36}}} So Joseph, who was called Barnabas by the apostles (which is translated "son of encouragement"), a Levite of Cyprus by nationality, {{rf{37}}} sold a field that belonged to him and brought the money and placed it at the feet of the apostles. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Acts-04-26]] }}}
Now a certain man named Ananias, together with his wife Sapphira, sold a piece of property, {{rf{2}}} and he kept back for himself some of the proceeds, and his wife was aware of it. And he brought a certain part and placed it at the feet of the apostles. {{rf{3}}} But Peter said, "Ananias, for what reason has Satan filled your heart, that you lied to the Holy Spirit and kept back for yourself some of the proceeds of the piece of land? {{rf{4}}} When it remained to you, did it not remain yours? And when it was sold, was it at your disposal? How is it that you have contrived this deed in your heart? You have not lied to people, but to God!" {{rf{5}}} And when Ananias heard these words, he fell down and died. And great fear came on all those who heard about it. {{rf{6}}} So the young men stood up, wrapped him up, and carried him out and buried him. {{rf{7}}} And it happened that there was an interval of about three hours, and his wife came in, not knowing what had happened. {{rf{8}}} And Peter said to her, "Tell me whether you both were paid this much for the piece of land." And she said, "Yes, this much." {{rf{9}}} So Peter said to her, "How is it that it was agreed by you two to test the Spirit of the Lord? Behold, the feet of those who buried your husband are at the door, and they will carry you out!" {{rf{10}}} And immediately she fell down at his feet and died. So when the young men came in, they found her dead, and carried her out and buried her with her husband. {{rf{11}}} And great fear came on the whole church and on all who heard about these things. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Acts-05-01]] }}}
{{rf{12}}} Now many signs and wonders were being performed among the people through the hands of the apostles. And they were all together in Solomon's Portico. {{rf{13}}} And none of the rest dared to join them, but the people spoke highly of them. {{rf{14}}} And even more believers in the Lord were being added, large numbers of both men and women, {{rf{15}}} so that they even carried out the sick into the streets and put them on cots and mats so that when Peter came by, at least his shadow would fall on some of them. {{rf{16}}} And the people of the towns around Jerusalem also came together, bringing the sick and those tormented by unclean spirits, who were all being healed. {{rf{17}}} Now the high priest rose up and all those who were with him (that is, the party of the Sadducees), and they were filled with jealousy. {{rf{18}}} And they laid hands on the apostles and put them in the public prison. {{rf{19}}} But during the night an angel of the Lord opened the doors of the prison and led them out and said, {{rf{20}}} "Go and stand in the temple courts and proclaim to the people all the words of this life." {{rf{21}}} And when they heard this, they entered at daybreak into the temple courts and began teaching. Now when the high priest and those with him arrived, they summoned the Sanhedrin -- even the whole council of elders of the sons of Israel -- and sent to the prison to have them brought. {{rf{22}}} But the officers who came did not find them in the prison, and they returned and reported, {{rf{23}}} saying, "We found the prison locked with all security and the guards standing at the doors, but when we opened them, we found no one inside!" {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Acts-05-12]] }}}
{{rf{24}}} Now when both the captain of the temple and the chief priests heard these words, they were greatly perplexed concerning them, as to what this might be. {{rf{25}}} But someone came and reported to them, "Behold, the men whom you put in prison are standing in the temple courts and teaching the people!" {{rf{26}}} Then the captain went with the officers and brought them, not with force (for they were afraid of the people, lest they be stoned by them). {{rf{27}}} And when they had brought them, they made them stand in the Sanhedrin, and the high priest put a question to them, {{rf{28}}} saying, "We strictly commanded you not to teach in this name? And behold, you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching! And you are intending to bring upon us the blood of this man!" {{rf{29}}} But Peter and the apostles answered and said, "It is necessary to obey God rather than men! {{rf{30}}} The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom you killed by hanging him on a tree. {{rf{31}}} This one God has exalted to his right hand as Leader and Savior to grant repentance to Israel and forgiveness of sins. {{rf{32}}} And we are witnesses of these things, and so is the Holy Spirit whom God has given to those who obey him." {{rf{33}}} Now when they heard this, they were infuriated, and were wanting to execute them. {{rf{34}}} But a certain man stood up in the Sanhedrin, a Pharisee named Gamaliel, a teacher of the law respected by all the people, and gave orders to put the men outside for a short time. {{rf{35}}} And he said to them, "Men and Israelites, take care for yourselves what you are about to do to these men! {{rf{36}}} For before these days, Theudas rose up saying he was somebody. A number of men, about four hundred, joined him. He was executed, and all who followed him were dispersed and came to nothing. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Acts-05-24]] }}}
{{rf{37}}} After this man, Judas the Galilean rose up in the days of the census and caused people to follow him in revolt. And that one perished, and all who followed him were scattered. {{rf{38}}} And now I tell you, keep away from these men, and leave them alone, because if this plan or this matter is from people, it will be overthrown. {{rf{39}}} But if it is from God, you will not be able to overthrow them, lest you even be found fighting against God." So they were persuaded by him. {{rf{40}}} And they summoned the apostles, beat them, commanded them not to speak in the name of Jesus, and released them. {{rf{41}}} So they went out from the presence of the Sanhedrin rejoicing, because they had been considered worthy to be dishonored for the sake of the name. {{rf{42}}} Every day, both in the temple courts and from house to house, they did not stop teaching and proclaiming the good news that the Christ was Jesus. {{rf big{1}}} Now in these days, as the disciples were increasing in number, a complaint arose by the Greek-speaking Jews against the Hebraic Jews because their widows were being overlooked in the daily distribution of food. {{rf{2}}} So the twelve summoned the community of disciples and said, "It is not desirable that we neglect the word of God to serve tables. {{rf{3}}} So, brothers, select from among you seven men of good reputation, full of the Spirit and wisdom, whom we will put in charge of this need. {{rf{4}}} But we will devote ourselves to prayer and to the ministry of the word." {{rf{5}}} And the statement pleased the whole group, and they chose Stephen (a man full of faith and of the Holy Spirit), and Philip, and Prochorus, and Nicanor, and Timon, and Parmenas, and Nicolaus (a convert from Antioch), {{rf{6}}} whom they stood before the apostles. And they prayed and placed their hands on them. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Acts-05-37]] }}}
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With the complaint of the widows, the miraculous unity of the incipient church is disrupted. This crisis is given searching examination by the leaders and by Luke's history. Ultimately God's hand will be seen, as events lead to the raising of Paul.
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<<Bbl A 6:5 abbr>> An intentional record of diversity to ensure cross-cultural representation.
<<Bbl A 7:2 abbr>> [[Preach]]
<<Bbl A 7:5 abbr >> ref <<Bbl H 11:13 >>
<<Bbl A 7:30 abbr>> [[Thorns]]
<<Bbl A 7:34 abbr >> //come down... sent//
<<Bbl A 7:35 abbr >>ff //This Moses// clangs like a hammer on an anvil, as Stephen details that man's virtues and circumstance in the light of Him who was to follow. //Redeemer// (some versions?)
<<Bbl A 7:39 abbr >> <<Bbl J 1:11 >>
<<Bbl A 7:48 abbr >> Stephen quotes <<Bbl I 66:1>>-2 and, judging by the denunciation that follows, concludes that the sin of Israel has been filled up apparently in connection with the Temple.
<<Bbl A 7:58 abbr>> See <<Bbl A 22:20 abbr>>
<<Bbl A 8:2 abbr >> @@division@@
<<Bbl A 8:39 abbr >> About Philip, Bruce, __Acts__ p 190.
{{rf{7}}} And the word of God kept spreading, and the number of disciples in Jerusalem was increasing greatly, and a large number of priests began obeying the faith. {{rf{8}}} Now Stephen, full of grace and power, was performing great wonders and signs among the people. {{rf{9}}} But some of those from the Synagogue of the Freedmen (as it was called), both Cyrenians and Alexandrians, and those from Cilicia and Asia, stood up and disputed with Stephen. {{rf{10}}} And they were not able to resist the wisdom and the Spirit with which he was speaking. {{rf{11}}} Then they secretly instigated men who said, "We have heard him speaking blasphemous words against Moses and God!" {{rf{12}}} And they incited the people and the elders and the scribes, and they came up and seized him and brought him to the Sanhedrin. {{rf{13}}} And they put forward false witnesses who said, "This man does not stop speaking words against the holy place and the law! {{rf{14}}} For we have heard him saying that this Nazarene Jesus will destroy this place and will change the customs that Moses handed down to us." {{rf{15}}} And as they looked intently at him, all those who were sitting in the Sanhedrin saw his face was like the face of an angel. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Acts-06-07]] }}}
And the high priest said, "Is it so concerning these things?" {{rf{2}}} So he said, "Men -- brothers and fathers -- listen: The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham while he was in Mesopotamia, before he settled in Haran, {{rf{3}}} and said to him, 'Go out from your land and from your relatives and come to the land that I will show you.' {{rf{4}}} Then he went out from the land of the Chaldeans and settled in Haran. And from there, after his father died, he caused him to move to this land in which you now live. {{rf{5}}} And he did not give him an inheritance in it -- not even a footstep -- and he promised to give it to him for his possession, and to his descendants after him, although he did not have a child. {{rf{6}}} But God spoke like this: 'His descendants will be foreigners in a foreign land, and they will enslave them and mistreat them four hundred years, {{rf{7}}} and the nation that they will serve as slaves, I will judge,' God said, 'and after these things they will come out and will worship me in this place.' {{rf{8}}} And he gave him the covenant of circumcision, and so he became the father of Isaac and circumcised him on the eighth day, and Isaac did so with Jacob, and Jacob did so with the twelve patriarchs. {{rf{9}}} And the patriarchs, because they were jealous of Joseph, sold him into Egypt. And God was with him, {{rf{10}}} and rescued him from all his afflictions and granted him favor and wisdom in the sight of Pharaoh king of Egypt. And he appointed him ruler over Egypt and all his household. {{rf{11}}} And a famine came over all Egypt and Canaan and great affliction, and our fathers could not find food. {{rf{12}}} So when Jacob heard there was grain in Egypt, he sent out our fathers first. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Acts-07-01]] }}}
{{rf{13}}} And on the second visit Joseph was made known to his brothers, and the family of Joseph became known to Pharaoh. {{rf{14}}} So Joseph sent and summoned his father Jacob and all his relatives, seventy-five persons in all. {{rf{15}}} And Jacob went down to Egypt and died, he and our fathers. {{rf{16}}} And they were brought back to Shechem and buried in the tomb that Abraham had bought for a sum of silver from the sons of Hamor in Shechem. {{rf{17}}} "But as the time of the promise that God had made to Abraham was drawing near, the people increased and multiplied in Egypt {{rf{18}}} until another king arose over Egypt who did not know Joseph. {{rf{19}}} This man deceitfully took advantage of our people and mistreated our ancestors, causing them to abandon their infants so that they would not be kept alive. {{rf{20}}} At this time Moses was born, and he was beautiful to God. He was brought up for three months in his father's house, {{rf{21}}} and when he was abandoned, the daughter of Pharaoh took him up and brought him up as her own son. {{rf{22}}} And Moses was educated in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and was powerful in his words and deeds. {{rf{23}}} "But when he was forty years old, it entered in his heart to visit his brothers, the sons of Israel. {{rf{24}}} And when he saw one of them being unjustly harmed, he defended him and avenged the one who had been oppressed by striking down the Egyptian. {{rf{25}}} And he thought his brothers would understand that God was granting deliverance to them by his hand, but they did not understand. {{rf{26}}} And on the following day, he made an appearance to them while they were fighting and was attempting to reconcile them in peace, saying, 'Men and brothers, why are you doing wrong to one another?' {{rf{27}}} But the one who was doing wrong to his neighbor pushed him aside, saying, 'Who appointed you a ruler and a judge over us? {{rf{28}}} You do not want to do away with me the same way you did away with the Egyptian yesterday, do you?' {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Acts-07-13]] }}}
{{rf{29}}} And at this statement, Moses fled and became a foreigner in the land of Midian, where he became the father of two sons. {{rf{30}}} "And when forty years had been completed, an angel appeared to him in the desert of Mount Sinai in the flame of a burning bush. {{rf{31}}} And when Moses saw it, he was astonished at the sight, and when he approached to look at it, the voice of the Lord came: {{rf{32}}} 'I am the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham and of Isaac and of Jacob!' So Moses began trembling and did not dare to look at it. {{rf{33}}} And the Lord said to him, 'Untie the sandals from your feet, for the place on which you are standing is holy ground. {{rf{34}}} I have certainly seen the mistreatment of my people who are in Egypt and have heard their groaning, and I have come down to deliver them. And now come, I will send you to Egypt.' {{rf{35}}} This Moses whom they had repudiated, saying, 'Who appointed you a ruler and a judge?' -- this man God sent as both ruler and redeemer with the help of the angel who appeared to him in the bush. {{rf{36}}} This man led them out, performing wonders and signs in the land of Egypt and at the Red Sea and in the wilderness for forty years. {{rf{37}}} "This is the Moses who said to the sons of Israel, 'God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your brothers.' {{rf{38}}} This is the one who was in the congregation in the wilderness with the angel who spoke to him at Mount Sinai, and who with our fathers received living oracles to give to us, {{rf{39}}} to whom our fathers were not willing to become obedient, but rejected him and turned back in their hearts to Egypt, {{rf{40}}} saying to Aaron, 'Make us gods who will go on before us! For this Moses, who led us out from the land of Egypt -- we do not know what has happened to him!' {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Acts-07-29]] }}}
{{rf{41}}} And they manufactured a calf in those days, and offered up a sacrifice to the idol, and began rejoicing in the works of their hands. {{rf{42}}} But God turned away and gave them over to worship the host of heaven, just as it is written in the book of the prophets: 'You did not bring offerings and sacrifices to me for forty years in the wilderness, did you, house of Israel? {{rf{43}}} And you took along the tabernacle of Moloch and the star of the god Rephan, the images that you made, to worship them, and I will deport you beyond Babylon!' {{rf{44}}} The tabernacle of the testimony belonged to our fathers in the wilderness, just as the one who spoke to Moses directed him to make it according to the design that he had seen, {{rf{45}}} and which, after receiving it in turn, our fathers brought in with Joshua when they dispossessed the nations that God drove out from the presence of our fathers, until the days of David, {{rf{46}}} who found favor in the sight of God and asked to find a habitation for the God of Jacob. {{rf{47}}} But Solomon built a house for him. {{rf{48}}} But the Most High does not live in houses made by human hands, just as the prophet says, {{rf{49}}} 'Heaven is my throne and earth is the footstool for my feet. What kind of house will you build for me, says the Lord, or what is the place of my rest? {{rf{50}}} Did not my hand make all these things?' {{rf{51}}} "You stiff-necked people and uncircumcised in hearts and in your ears! You constantly resist the Holy Spirit! As your fathers did, so also do you! {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Acts-07-41]] }}}
{{rf{52}}} Which of the prophets did your fathers not persecute? And they killed those who announced beforehand about the coming of the Righteous One, whose betrayers and murderers you have now become, {{rf{53}}} you who received the law by directions of angels and have not observed it!" {{rf{54}}} Now when they heard these things, they were infuriated in their hearts and gnashed their teeth at him. {{rf{55}}} But he, being full of the Holy Spirit, looked intently into heaven and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God. {{rf{56}}} And he said, "Behold, I see the heavens opened and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God!" {{rf{57}}} But crying out with a loud voice, they stopped their ears and rushed at him with one purpose. {{rf{58}}} And after they had driven him out of the city, they began to stone him, and the witnesses laid aside their cloaks at the feet of a young man named Saul. {{rf{59}}} And they kept on stoning Stephen as he was calling out and saying, "Lord Jesus, receive my spirit!" {{rf{60}}} And falling to his knees, he cried out with a loud voice, "Lord, do not hold this sin against them!" And after he said this, he fell asleep. {{ref big{1}}} And Saul was agreeing with his murder. Now there happened on that day a great persecution against the church in Jerusalem, and they were all scattered throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria, except the apostles. {{rf{2}}} And devout men buried Stephen and made loud lamentation over him. {{rf{3}}} But Saul was attempting to destroy the church. Entering house after house, he dragged off both men and women and delivered them to prison. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Acts-07-52]] }}}
{{rf{4}}} Now those who had been scattered went about proclaiming the good news of the word. {{rf{5}}} And Philip came down to the city of Samaria and began proclaiming the Christ to them. {{rf{6}}} And the crowds with one mind were paying attention to what was being said by Philip, as they heard him and saw the signs that he was performing. {{rf{7}}} For many of those who had unclean spirits, they were coming out of them, crying out with a loud voice, and many who were paralyzed and lame were healed. {{rf{8}}} And there was great joy in that city. {{rf{9}}} Now a certain man named Simon had been in the city practicing magic and astonishing the people of Samaria, saying he was someone great. {{rf{10}}} They were all paying attention to him, from the least to the greatest, saying, "This man is the power of God that is called 'Great.'" {{rf{11}}} And they were paying attention to him because for a long time he had astonished them with his magic. {{rf{12}}} But when they believed Philip as he was proclaiming the good news about the kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ, both men and women were being baptized. {{rf{13}}} And Simon himself also believed, and after he was baptized he was keeping close company with Philip. And when he saw the signs and great miracles that were taking place, he was astonished. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Acts-08-04]] }}}
{{rf{14}}} Now when the apostles in Jerusalem heard that Samaria had accepted the word of God, they sent Peter and John to them, {{rf{15}}} who went down and prayed for them so that they would receive the Holy Spirit. {{rf{16}}} (For he had not yet fallen on any of them, but they had only been baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.) {{rf{17}}} Then they placed their hands on them and they received the Holy Spirit. {{rf{18}}} Now Simon, when he saw that the Spirit was given through the laying on of the apostles' hands, offered them money, {{rf{19}}} saying, "Give to me also this power, so that whomever I place my hands on may receive the Holy Spirit!" {{rf{20}}} But Peter said to him, "May your silver be destroyed along with you, because you thought you could acquire the gift of God by means of money! {{rf{21}}} You have no part or share in this matter, because your heart is not right before God. {{rf{22}}} Therefore repent of this wickedness of yours, and ask the Lord if perhaps the intent of your heart may be forgiven you!" {{rf{23}}} For I see you are in a state of bitter envy and bound by unrighteousness." {{rf{24}}} But Simon answered and said, "You pray to the Lord for me so that nothing of what you have said will come upon me." {{rf{25}}} So when they had solemnly testified and spoken the word of the Lord, they turned back toward Jerusalem, and were proclaiming the good news to many villages of the Samaritans. {{rf{26}}} Now an angel of the Lord spoke to Philip, saying, "Get up and go toward the south on the road that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza." (This is a desert road.) {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Acts-08-14]] }}}
{{rf{27}}} And he got up and went, and behold, there was a man, an Ethiopian eunuch (a court official of Candace, queen of the Ethiopians, who was over all her treasury) who had come to worship in Jerusalem {{rf{28}}} and was returning and sitting in his chariot, and reading aloud the prophet Isaiah. {{rf{29}}} And the Spirit said to Philip, "Approach and join this chariot." {{rf{30}}} So Philip ran up to it and heard him reading aloud Isaiah the prophet and said, "So then, do you understand what you are reading?" {{rf{31}}} And he said, "So how could I, unless someone will guide me?" And he invited Philip to come up and sit with him. {{rf{32}}} Now the passage of scripture that he was reading aloud was this: "He was led like a sheep to the slaughter, and like a lamb before its shearer is silent, so he did not open his mouth. {{rf{33}}} In his humiliation justice was taken from him. Who can describe his descendants? For his life was taken away from the earth." {{rf{34}}} And the eunuch answered and said to Philip, "I ask you, about whom does the prophet say this -- about himself or about someone else?" {{rf{35}}} So Philip opened his mouth and beginning from this scripture, proclaimed the good news to him about Jesus. {{rf{36}}} And as they were traveling down the road, they came to some water. And the eunuch said, "Look! Water! What prevents me from being baptized?" {{rf{38}}} And he ordered the chariot to stop, and they both went down into the water -- Philip and the eunuch -- and he baptized him. {{rf{39}}} And when they came up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord carried Philip away, and the eunuch did not see him any longer, for he went on his way rejoicing. {{rf{40}}} But Philip found himself at Azotus, and as he passed through, he proclaimed the good news to all the towns until he came to Caesarea. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Acts-08-27]] }}}
But Saul, still breathing threats and murder against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest {{rf{2}}} and asked for letters from him to the synagogues in Damascus, so that if he found any who were of the Way, both men and women, he could bring them tied up to Jerusalem. {{rf{3}}} Now as he proceeded, it happened that when he approached Damascus, suddenly a light from heaven flashed around him. {{rf{4}}} And falling to the ground, he heard a voice saying to him, "Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me?" {{rf{5}}} So he said, "Who are you, Lord?" And he said, "I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting! {{rf{6}}} But get up and enter into the city, and it will be told to you what you must do." {{rf{7}}} (Now the men who were traveling together with him stood speechless, because they heard the voice but saw no one.) {{rf{8}}} So Saul got up from the ground, but although his eyes were open he could see nothing. And leading him by the hand, they brought him into Damascus. {{rf{9}}} And he was unable to see for three days, and he did not eat or drink. {{rf{10}}} Now there was a certain disciple in Damascus named Ananias, and the Lord said to him in a vision, "Ananias!" And he said, "Behold, here I am, Lord!" {{rf{11}}} And the Lord said to him, "Get up, go to the street called 'Straight' and in the house of Judas look for a man named Saul from Tarsus. For behold, he is praying, {{rf{12}}} and he has seen in a vision a man named Ananias coming in and placing hands on him so that he may regain his sight." {{rf{13}}} But Ananias replied, "Lord, I have heard from many people about this man, how much harm he has done to your saints in Jerusalem, {{rf{14}}} and here he has authority from the chief priests to tie up all who call upon your name!" {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Acts-09-01]] }}}
{{rf{15}}} But the Lord said to him, "Go, because this man is my chosen instrument to carry my name before Gentiles and kings and the sons of Israel. {{rf{16}}} For I will show him how much he must suffer for the sake of my name." {{rf{17}}} So Ananias departed and entered into the house, and placing his hands on him, he said, "Brother Saul, the Lord Jesus, who appeared to you on the road by which you came, has sent me so that you may regain your sight and be filled with the Holy Spirit." {{rf{18}}} And immediately something like scales fell from his eyes and he regained his sight and got up and was baptized, {{rf{19}}} and after taking food, he regained his strength. And he was with the disciples in Damascus several days. {{rf{20}}} And immediately he began proclaiming Jesus in the synagogues: "This one is the Son of God!" {{rf{21}}} And all who heard him were amazed, and were saying, "Is this not the one who was wreaking havoc in Jerusalem on those who call upon this name, and had come here for this reason, that he could bring them tied up to the chief priests?" {{rf{22}}} But Saul was increasing in strength even more, and was confounding the Jews who lived in Damascus by proving that this one is the Christ. {{rf{23}}} And when many days had elapsed, the Jews plotted to do away with him. {{rf{24}}} But their plot became known to Saul, and they were also watching the gates both day and night so that they could do away with him. {{rf{25}}} But his disciples took him at night and let him down through the wall by lowering him in a basket. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Acts-09-15]] }}}
{{rf{26}}} And when he arrived in Jerusalem, he was attempting to associate with the disciples, and they were all afraid of him, because they did not believe that he was a disciple. {{rf{27}}} But Barnabas took him and brought him to the apostles and related to them how he had seen the Lord on the road and that he had spoken to him, and how in Damascus he had spoken boldly in the name of Jesus. {{rf{28}}} And he was going in and going out among them in Jerusalem, speaking boldly in the name of the Lord. {{rf{29}}} And he was speaking and debating with the Greek-speaking Jews, but they were trying to do away with him. {{rf{30}}} And when the brothers found out, they brought him down to Caesarea and sent him away to Tarsus. {{rf{31}}} Then the church throughout all of Judea and Galilee and Samaria had peace, being strengthened. And living in the fear of the Lord and the encouragement of the Holy Spirit, it was increasing in numbers. {{rf{32}}} Now it happened that as Peter was traveling through all the places, he also came down to the saints who lived in Lydda. {{rf{33}}} And he found there a certain man named Aeneas who was paralyzed, who had been lying on a mat for eight years. {{rf{34}}} And Peter said to him, "Aeneas, Jesus Christ heals you! Get up and make your bed yourself!" And immediately he got up. {{rf{35}}} And all those who lived in Lydda and Sharon saw him, who all indeed turned to the Lord. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Acts-09-26]] }}}
{{rf{36}}} Now in Joppa there was a certain female disciple named Tabitha (which translated means "Dorcas"). She was full of good deeds and charitable giving which she was constantly doing. {{rf{37}}} Now it happened that in those days after becoming sick, she died. And after washing her, they placed her in an upstairs room. {{rf{38}}} And because Lydda was near Joppa, the disciples, when they heard that Peter was in Lydda, sent two men to him, urging, "Do not delay to come to us!" {{rf{39}}} So Peter got up and accompanied them. When he arrived, they brought him up to the upstairs room, and all the widows came to him, weeping and showing him tunics and other clothing that Dorcas used to make while she was with them. {{rf{40}}} But Peter sent them all outside, and, falling to his knees, he prayed. And turning toward the body, he said, "Tabitha, get up!" And she opened her eyes, and when she saw Peter, she sat up. {{rf{41}}} And he gave her his hand and raised her up. And he called the saints and the widows and presented her alive. {{rf{42}}} And it became known throughout all Joppa, and many believed in the Lord. {{rf{43}}} And it happened that he stayed many days in Joppa with a certain Simon, a tanner. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Acts-09-36]] }}}
Now there was a certain man in Caesarea named Cornelius, a centurion of what was called the Italian Cohort, {{rf{2}}} devout and fearing God together with all his household, doing many charitable deeds for the people and praying to God continually. {{rf{3}}} About the ninth hour of the day, he saw clearly in a vision an angel of God coming to him and saying to him, "Cornelius." {{rf{4}}} And he stared at him and became terrified and said, "What is it, Lord?" And he said to him, "Your prayers and your charitable deeds have gone up for a memorial offering before God. {{rf{5}}} And now, send men to Joppa and summon a certain Simon, who is also called Peter. {{rf{6}}} This man is staying as a guest with a certain Simon, a tanner, whose house is by the sea." {{rf{7}}} And when the angel who spoke to him departed, he summoned two of the household slaves and a devout soldier from those who attended him, {{rf{8}}} and after he had explained everything to them, he sent them to Joppa. {{rf{9}}} And the next day, as they were on their way and approaching the city, Peter went up on the housetop to pray at about the sixth hour. {{rf{10}}} And he became hungry and wanted to eat. But while they were preparing the food, a trance came over him. {{rf{11}}} And he saw heaven opened and an object something like a large sheet coming down, being let down to the earth by its four corners, {{rf{12}}} in which were all the four-footed animals and reptiles of the earth and birds of the sky. {{rf{13}}} And a voice came to him, "Get up, Peter, slaughter and eat!" {{rf{14}}} But Peter said, "Certainly not, Lord! For I have never eaten anything common and unclean!" {{rf{15}}} And the voice came again to him for the second time: "The things which God has made clean, you must not consider unclean!" {{rf{16}}} And this happened three times, and immediately the object was taken up into heaven. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Acts-10-01]] }}}
<<Bbl A 10:13 abbr >>-15 For us, a winsome slogan. For Peter, a bewildering imperative.
<<Bbl A 10:15 abbr >> Peter is pressed to fulfil the Commission of <<Bbl A 1:8 abbr >> by bring the Gospel to a Roman soldier, a representative of the brutally oppressive empire. For his part, Cornelius is pressed to entertain a rural fisherman (who lives with a tanner).
<<Bbl A 10:47 abbr >>-48 refers to water baptism with no ambiguity. Peter is both persuasive and directive, and will not entertain any misgivings from the //circumcised believers// (Luke's polemic).
<<Bbl A 11:4 abbr>> In chapters 10 and 11, Luke seems to be going over this perhaps a bit tediously. But bear in mind first that he promised (<<Bbl A 1:3 abbr>>) a thorough account to his audience and second the paramount importance of this episode -- so dramatic, so controversial, so potentially disputable -- in the history of the Church.
<<Bbl A 11:19 abbr >> ff. Jerusalem is concerned... gentiles! Barnabas sees hundreds of gentiles and gets Paul. Paul spends a year... No conversions to judaism. "My Gospel." <<Bbl Gal 2:1 >>.
<<Bbl A 11:20 abbr >> What groundbreakers.
<<Bbl A 11:27 abbr >>ff. //Divine revelation, a warning of famine? That's in the Bible! Let's do as the patriarch Joseph!//
<<Bbl A 11:27 abbr>> This is the first recorded church collection, I believe. See faith at work: faith first in the prophecy, second in God's provision. And if anyone lacked faith, perhaps giving for appearance sake, that person would be a witness as events confirmed the word.
<<Bbl A 11:28 abbr >> <<Bbl Gal 2:2 >>.
<<Bbl A 11:30 abbr >> <<Bbl Gal 2:2 >>
{{rf{17}}} Now while Peter was greatly perplexed within himself as to what the vision that he had seen might be, behold, the men who had been sent by Cornelius, having found the house of Simon by asking around, stood at the gate. {{rf{18}}} And they called out and asked if Simon who was also called Peter was staying there as a guest. {{rf{19}}} And while Peter was reflecting about the vision, the Spirit said to him, "Behold, men are looking for you. {{rf{20}}} But get up, go down, and go with them -- not hesitating at all, because I have sent them." {{rf{21}}} So Peter went down to the men and said, "Behold, I am he whom you are looking for! What is the reason for which you have come?" {{rf{22}}} And they said, "Cornelius, a centurion, a righteous and God-fearing man -- and well spoken of by the whole nation of the Jews -- was directed by a holy angel to summon you to his house and to hear words from you." {{rf{23}}} So he invited them in and entertained them as guests, and on the next day he got up and went away with them. And some of the brothers from Joppa accompanied him. {{rf{24}}} And on the next day he entered into Caesarea. {{rf{25}}} So it happened that when Peter entered, Cornelius met him, fell at his feet, and worshiped him. {{rf{26}}} But Peter helped him up, saying, "Get up! I myself am also a man!" {{rf{27}}} And as he conversed with him, he went in and found many people gathered. {{rf{28}}} And he said to them, "You know that it is forbidden for a Jewish man to associate with or to approach a foreigner. And to me God has shown that I should call no man common or unclean. {{rf{29}}} Therefore -- and without raising any objection -- I came when I was sent for. So I ask for what reason you sent for me." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Acts-10-17]] }}}
{{rf{30}}} And Cornelius said, "Four days ago at this hour, the ninth, I was praying in my house. And behold, a man in shining clothing stood before me {{rf{31}}} and said, 'Cornelius, your prayer has been heard, and your charitable deeds have been remembered before God. {{rf{32}}} Therefore send to Joppa and summon Simon who is also called Peter. This man is staying as a guest in the house of Simon, a tanner, by the sea. {{rf{33}}} Therefore I sent for you at once, and you were kind enough to come. So now we all are present before God to hear all the things that have been commanded to you by the Lord." {{rf{34}}} So Peter opened his mouth and said, "In truth I understand that God is not one who shows partiality, {{rf{35}}} but in every nation the one who fears him and who does what is right is acceptable to him. {{rf{36}}} As for the message that he sent to the sons of Israel, proclaiming the good news of peace through Jesus Christ -- this one is Lord of all -- {{rf{37}}} you know the thing that happened throughout all Judea, beginning from Galilee, after the baptism that John proclaimed: {{rf{38}}} Jesus of Nazareth -- how God anointed him with the Holy Spirit and with power, who went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, because God was with him. {{rf{39}}} And we are witnesses of all the things that he did both in the land of the Judeans and in Jerusalem, whom they also executed by hanging him on a tree. {{rf{40}}} God raised this one up on the third day and granted that he should become visible, {{rf{41}}} not to all the people but to us who had been chosen beforehand by God as witnesses, who ate and drank with him after he rose from the dead. {{rf{42}}} And he commanded us to preach to the people and to testify solemnly that this one is the one appointed by God as judge of the living and of the dead. {{rf{43}}} To this one all the prophets testify, that through his name everyone who believes in him receives forgiveness of sins." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Acts-10-30]] }}}
{{rf{44}}} While Peter was still speaking these words, the Holy Spirit fell on all those who were listening to the message. {{rf{45}}} And those believers from the circumcision who had accompanied Peter were astonished that the gift of the Holy Spirit had been poured out even on the Gentiles, {{rf{46}}} for they heard them speaking in tongues and glorifying God. Then Peter said, {{rf{47}}} "Surely no one can withhold the water for these people to be baptized, who have received the Holy Spirit as we also did!" {{rf{48}}} So he ordered that they be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ. Then they asked him to stay for several days. {{rf big{1}}} Now the apostles and the brothers who were throughout Judea heard that the Gentiles also had accepted the word of God. {{rf{2}}} So when Peter went up to Jerusalem, those of the circumcision took issue with him, {{rf{3}}} saying, "You went to men who were uncircumcised and ate with them!" {{rf{4}}} But Peter began and explained it to them in an orderly sequence, saying, {{rf{5}}} "I was in the city of Joppa praying, and in a trance I saw a vision -- an object something like a large sheet coming down, being let down from heaven by its four corners, and it came to me. {{rf{6}}} As I looked intently into it, I was considering it, and I saw the four-footed animals of the earth and the wild animals and the reptiles and the birds of the sky. {{rf{7}}} And I also heard a voice saying to me, 'Get up, Peter, slaughter and eat!' {{rf{8}}} But I said, 'Certainly not, Lord! For nothing common or unclean has ever entered into my mouth!' {{rf{9}}} But the voice replied from heaven for the second time, 'The things which God has made clean, you must not consider unclean!' {{rf{10}}} And this happened three times, and everything was pulled up into heaven again. {{rf{11}}} And behold, at once three men who had been sent to me from Caesarea approached the house in which we were staying. {{rf{12}}} And the Spirit told me to accompany them, not hesitating at all. So these six brothers also went with me, and we entered into the man's house. {{rf{13}}} And he reported to us how he had seen the angel standing in his house and saying, 'Send to Joppa and summon Simon, who is also called Peter, {{rf{14}}} who will speak words to you by which you will be saved, you and all your household.' {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Acts-10-44]] }}}
{{rf{15}}} And as I was beginning to speak, the Holy Spirit fell on them, just as also on us at the beginning. {{rf{16}}} And I remembered the word of the Lord, how he said, 'John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit.' {{rf{17}}} Therefore if God gave them the same gift as also to us when we believed in the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I to be able to hinder God?" {{rf{18}}} And when they heard these things, they became silent and praised God, saying, "Then God has granted the repentance leading to life to the Gentiles also!" {{rf{19}}} Now those who had been scattered because of the persecution that took place over Stephen traveled as far as Phoenicia and Cyprus and Antioch, proclaiming the message to no one except Jews alone. {{rf{20}}} But some of them were men from Cyprus and Cyrene, who, when they came to Antioch, began to speak to the Hellenists also, proclaiming the good news about the Lord Jesus. {{rf{21}}} And the hand of the Lord was with them, and a large number who believed turned to the Lord. {{rf{22}}} And the report came to the attention of the church that was in Jerusalem about them, and they sent out Barnabas as far as Antioch, {{rf{23}}} who, when he arrived and saw the grace of God, rejoiced and encouraged them all to remain true to the Lord with devoted hearts, {{rf{24}}} because he was a good man and full of the Holy Spirit and of faith. And a large number were added to the Lord. {{rf{25}}} So he departed for Tarsus to look for Saul. {{rf{26}}} And when he found him, he brought him to Antioch. And it happened to them also that they met together for a whole year with the church and taught a large number of people. And in Antioch the disciples were first called Christians. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Acts-11-15]] }}}
{{rf{27}}} Now in those days prophets came down from Jerusalem to Antioch. {{rf{28}}} And one of them named Agabus stood up and indicated by the Spirit that a great famine was about to come over the whole inhabited earth (which took place in the time of Claudius). {{rf{29}}} So from the disciples, according to their ability to give, each one of them determined to send financial aid for support to the brothers who lived in Judea, {{rf{30}}} which they also did, sending the aid to the elders by the hand of Barnabas and Saul. {{rf big{1}}} Now at that time, Herod the king laid hands on some of those from the church to harm them. {{rf{2}}} So he executed James the brother of John with a sword. {{rf{3}}} And when he saw that it was pleasing to the Jews, he proceeded to arrest Peter also. (Now this was during the feast of Unleavened Bread.) {{rf{4}}} After he had arrested him, he also put him in prison, handing him over to four squads of soldiers to guard him, intending to bring him out for public trial after the Passover. {{rf{5}}} Thus Peter was kept in the prison, but prayer was fervently being made to God by the church for him. {{rf{6}}} Now when Herod was about to bring him out, on that very night Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains, and guards before the door were watching the prison. {{rf{7}}} And behold, an angel of the Lord stood near him, and a light shone in the prison cell. And striking Peter's side, he woke him up, saying, "Get up quickly!" And his chains fell off of his hands. {{rf{8}}} And the angel said to him, "Gird yourself and put on your sandals!" And he did so. And he said to him, "Wrap your cloak around you and follow me!" {{rf{9}}} And he went out and was following him. And he did not know that what was being done by the angel was real, but was thinking he was seeing a vision. {{rf{10}}} And after they had passed the first and second guard, they came to the iron gate that leads to the city, which opened for them by itself, and they went out and went forward along one narrow street, and at once the angel departed from him. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Acts-11-27]] }}}
<<Bbl A 12:1 abbr >>ff. It is possible Paul was present, if he timed his trip to Jerusalem with the Passover. But it seems Luke would add this point with the many details he includes.
<<Bbl A 12:2 abbr >> Luke records this but without notice of any anguish, nor concern over the disruption to the apostolic order.
!!! <<Bbl A 12:5 abbr>>-19 Six stages of deliverance
# Deliverance not
# Deliverance, but without cognizance
# Deliverance with cognizance, but others unaware (Peter's //dawn// comes way before the dawn!)
# Deliverance, one girl (Rhoda) aware, but others can't believe
# Deliverance -- and the church is praising God!
# Deliverance -- the open scandal!
Perhaps we are like Peter sometimes, yet to //come to himself// (vs. 11) -- yet to appreciate our position in Christ. Can compare to the servants in John 3.
<<Bbl A 12:8 abbr >> The same clothing that was to be used for his judgment (<<Bbl Acts 12:16 abbr>>). But not yet is <<Bbl John 21:18 >> to be fulfilled.
<<Bbl A 12:9 abbr >> Peter is not optimistic following the recent martyrdom.
<<Bbl A 12:14 abbr >> "This is too rich - now, of all moments, a closed door. I can be even __more__ sure I'm not dreaming!"
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<<Bbl A 13:6 abbr>>-12 compare with the magicians of Pharaoh. The proconsul's heart is not hardened.
<<Bbl A 13:46 abbr>> Cf <<Bbl J 3:18 >>. We reject the current psychology, but must acknowledge that in these verses we choose our own destinies.
<<Bbl A 15:2 abbr >> and <<Bbl A 15:6 abbr >>-7 present a contrast in kinds of conflict.
<<Bbl A 15:7 abbr >> earlier Paul publicly and successfully challenged Peter over unity of Jews and gentiles. We can be certain on this occasion Paul didn't bring it up to shame Peter. The pivotal decision is voiced by Peter and reveals the persuasion of Paul - indeed, Peter may be using language directly learned from him.
<<Bbl A 15:19 abbr >> If a gentile believer becomes Jewish, he will no longer be from the //other nations// (v 17, also rendered as //the rest of humanity//). <<Bbl Amos 9:12 >> note.
<<Bbl A 15:24 abbr >>a Very Pauline.
<<Bbl A 15:24 abbr >>b Strong authority, brooks no contradiction, allows no one to accuse of prevarication.
<<Bbl A 15:28 abbr >>a No question of God's authority.
<<Bbl A 15:29 abbr >> I guess these were offenses most typically cited by Jews when disparaging "dogs". They are important both morally and culturally; and given how numerous the moral concerns could have been, I wonder if the latter is more in view. This is itself a radical affirmation of grace.
{{rf{11}}} And when Peter came to himself, he said, "Now I know truly that the Lord has sent out his angel and rescued me from the hand of Herod and all that the Jewish people expected!" {{rf{12}}} And when he realized this, he went to the house of Mary, the mother of John (who is also called Mark), where many people were gathered together and were praying. {{rf{13}}} And when he knocked at the door of the gateway, a female slave named Rhoda came up to answer. {{rf{14}}} And recognizing Peter's voice, because of her joy she did not open the gate, but ran in and announced that Peter was standing at the gate. {{rf{15}}} But they said to her, "You are out of your mind!" But she kept insisting it was so. And they kept saying, "It is his angel!" {{rf{16}}} But Peter was continuing to knock, and when they opened the door they saw him and were astonished. {{rf{17}}} But motioning to them with his hand to be silent, he related to them how the Lord had brought him out of the prison. And he said, "Report these things to James and to the brothers," and he departed and went to another place. {{rf{18}}} Now when day came, there was not a little commotion among the soldiers as to what then had become of Peter. {{rf{19}}} And when Herod had searched for him and did not find him, he questioned the guards and ordered that they be led away to execution. And he came down from Judea to Caesarea and stayed there. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Acts-12-11]] }}}
{{rf{20}}} Now he was very angry with the Tyrians and Sidonians. So they came to him with one purpose, and after persuading Blastus, the king's chamberlain, they asked for peace, because their country was supported with food from the king's country. {{rf{21}}} So on an appointed day Herod, after putting on royal clothing and sitting down on the judgment seat, began to deliver a public address to them. {{rf{22}}} But the people began to call out loudly, "The voice of a god and not of a man!" {{rf{23}}} And immediately an angel of the Lord struck him down because he did not give the glory to God. And he was eaten by worms and died. {{rf{24}}} But the word of God kept on increasing and multiplying. {{rf{25}}} So Barnabas and Saul returned to Jerusalem when they had completed their service, having taken along with them John (who is also called Mark). {{rf big{1}}} Now there were prophets and teachers in Antioch in the church that was there: Barnabas, and Simeon (who was called Niger), and Lucius the Cyrenian, and Manaen (a close friend of Herod the tetrarch), and Saul. {{rf{2}}} And while they were serving the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, "Set apart now for me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them." {{rf{3}}} Then, after they had fasted and prayed and placed their hands on them, they sent them away. {{rf{4}}} Therefore, sent out by the Holy Spirit, they came down to Seleucia, and from there they sailed away to Cyprus. {{rf{5}}} And when they came to Salamis, they began to proclaim the word of God in the synagogues of the Jews. And they also had John as assistant. {{rf{6}}} And when they had crossed over the whole island as far as Paphos, they found a certain man, a magician, a Jewish false prophet whose name was Bar-Jesus, {{rf{7}}} who was with the proconsul Sergius Paulus, an intelligent man. This man summoned Barnabas and Saul and wished to hear the word of God. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Acts-12-20]] }}}
{{rf{8}}} But Elymas the magician (for his name is translated in this way) opposed them, attempting to turn the proconsul away from the faith. {{rf{9}}} But Saul (also called Paul), filled with the Holy Spirit, looked intently at him {{rf{10}}} and said, "O you who are full of all deceit and of all unscrupulousness, you son of the devil, you enemy of all righteousness! Will you not stop making crooked the straight paths of the Lord! {{rf{11}}} And now behold, the hand of the Lord is against you, and you will be blind, not seeing the sun for a while. And immediately mist and darkness fell over him, and he was going around looking for people to lead him by the hand. {{rf{12}}} Then when the proconsul saw what had happened, he believed, because he was astounded at the teaching about the Lord. {{rf{13}}} Now Paul and his companions put out to sea from Paphos and came to Perga in Pamphylia, but John departed from them and returned to Jerusalem. {{rf{14}}} And they went on from Perga and arrived at Pisidian Antioch. And they entered into the synagogue on the day of the Sabbath and sat down. {{rf{15}}} So after the reading from the law and the prophets, the rulers of the synagogue sent word to them, saying, "Men and brothers, if there is any message of exhortation by you for the people, say it." {{rf{16}}} So Paul stood up, and motioning with his hand, he said, "Israelite men, and those who fear God, listen! {{rf{17}}} The God of this people Israel chose our fathers and exalted the people during their stay in the land of Egypt, and with uplifted arm he led them out of it. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Acts-13-08]] }}}
{{rf{18}}} And for a period of time of about forty years, he put up with them in the wilderness. {{rf{19}}} And after destroying seven nations in the land of Canaan, he gave their land to his people as an inheritance. {{rf{20}}} This took about four hundred and fifty years. And after these things, he gave them judges until Samuel the prophet. {{rf{21}}} And then they asked for a king, and God gave them Saul son of Kish, a man from the tribe of Benjamin, for forty years. {{rf{22}}} And after removing him, he raised up David for their king, about whom he also said, testifying, 'I have found David the son of Jesse to be a man in accordance with my heart, who will carry out all my will.' {{rf{23}}} From the descendants of this man, according to his promise, God brought to Israel a Savior, Jesus. {{rf{24}}} Before his coming John had publicly proclaimed a baptism of repentance to all the people of Israel. {{rf{25}}} But while John was completing his mission, he said, 'What do you suppose me to be? I am not he! But behold, one is coming after me of whom I am not worthy to untie the sandals of his feet!' {{rf{26}}} "Men and brothers, sons of the family of Abraham and those among you who fear God -- to us the message of this salvation has been sent! {{rf{27}}} For those who live in Jerusalem and their rulers, because they did not recognize this one, and the voices of the prophets that are read on every Sabbath, fulfilled them by condemning him. {{rf{28}}} And although they found no charge worthy of death, they asked Pilate that he be executed. {{rf{29}}} And when they had carried out all the things that were written about him, they took him down from the tree and placed him in a tomb. {{rf{30}}} But God raised him from the dead, {{rf{31}}} who appeared for many days to those who had come up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem -- who are now his witnesses to the people. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Acts-13-18]] }}}
{{rf{32}}} And we proclaim the good news to you: that the promise that was made to the fathers, {{rf{33}}} this promise God has fulfilled to our children by raising Jesus, as it is also written in the second psalm, 'You are my Son; today I have fathered you.' {{rf{34}}} But that he has raised him from the dead, no more going to return to decay, he has spoken in this way: 'I will give you the reliable divine decrees of David.' {{rf{35}}} Therefore he also says in another psalm, 'You will not permit your Holy One to experience decay.' {{rf{36}}} For David, after serving the purpose of God in his own generation, fell asleep and was buried with his fathers, and experienced decay. {{rf{37}}} But he whom God raised up did not experience decay. {{rf{38}}} "Therefore let it be known to you, men and brothers, that through this one forgiveness of sins is proclaimed to you, and from all the things from which you were not able to be justified by the law of Moses, {{rf{39}}} by this one everyone who believes is justified! {{rf{40}}} Watch out, therefore, lest what is stated by the prophets come upon you: {{rf{41}}} 'Look, you scoffers, and be astonished and perish! For I am doing a work in your days, a work that you would never believe even if someone were to tell it to you.'" {{rf{42}}} And as they were going out, they began urging that these things be spoken about to them on the next Sabbath. {{rf{43}}} And after the synagogue had broken up, many of the Jews and the devout proselytes followed Paul and Barnabas, who were speaking to them and were persuading them to continue in the grace of God. {{rf{44}}} And on the coming Sabbath, nearly the whole city came together to hear the word of the Lord. {{rf{45}}} But when the Jews saw the crowds, they were filled with jealousy, and began contradicting what was being said by Paul by reviling him. {{rf{46}}} Both Paul and Barnabas spoke boldly and said, "It was necessary that the word of God be spoken first to you, since you reject it and do not consider yourselves worthy of eternal life! Behold, we are turning to the Gentiles! {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Acts-13-32]] }}}
{{rf{47}}} For so the Lord has commanded us: 'I have appointed you to be a light for the Gentiles, that you would bring salvation to the end of the earth.' {{rf{48}}} And when the Gentiles heard this, they began to rejoice and to glorify the word of the Lord. And all those who were designated for eternal life believed. {{rf{49}}} So the word of the Lord was carried through the whole region. {{rf{50}}} But the Jews incited the devout women of high social standing and the most prominent men of the city, and stirred up persecution against Paul and Barnabas and threw them out of their district. {{rf{51}}} So after shaking off the dust from their feet against them, they went to Iconium. {{rf{52}}} And the disciples were filled with joy and with the Holy Spirit. {{rf big{1}}} Now it happened that in Iconium they entered together into the synagogue of the Jews and spoke in such a way that a large number of both Jews and Greeks believed. {{rf{2}}} But the Jews who were disobedient stirred up and poisoned the minds of the Gentiles against the brothers. {{rf{3}}} So they stayed there for a considerable time, speaking boldly for the Lord, who testified to the message of his grace, granting signs and wonders to be performed through their hands. {{rf{4}}} But the population of the city was divided, and some were with the Jews and some with the apostles. {{rf{5}}} So when an inclination took place on the part of both the Gentiles and the Jews, together with their rulers, to mistreat them and to stone them, {{rf{6}}} they became aware of it and fled to the Lycaonian cities -- Lystra and Derbe and the surrounding region. {{rf{7}}} And there they were continuing to proclaim the good news. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Acts-13-47]] }}}
{{rf{8}}} And in Lystra a certain man was sitting powerless in his feet, lame from birth, who had never walked. {{rf{9}}} This man listened while Paul was speaking. Paul, looking intently at him and seeing that he had faith to be healed, {{rf{10}}} said with a loud voice, "Stand upright on your feet!" And he leaped up and began walking. {{rf{11}}} And when the crowds saw what Paul had done, they raised their voices in the Lycaonian language, saying, "The gods have become like men and have come down to us!" {{rf{12}}} And they began calling Barnabas Zeus and Paul Hermes, because he was the principal speaker. {{rf{13}}} And the priest of the temple of Zeus that was just outside the city brought bulls and garlands to the gates and was wanting to offer sacrifice, along with the crowds. {{rf{14}}} But when the apostles Barnabas and Paul heard about it, they tore their clothing and rushed out into the crowd, shouting {{rf{15}}} and saying, "Men, why are you doing these things? We also are men with the same nature as you, proclaiming the good news that you should turn from these worthless things to the living God, who made the heaven and the earth and the sea and all the things that are in them -- {{rf{16}}} who in generations that are past permitted all the nations to go their own ways. {{rf{17}}} And yet he did not leave himself without witness by doing good, giving you rain from heaven and fruitful seasons, satisfying you with food and your hearts with gladness." {{rf{18}}} And although they said these things, only with difficulty did they dissuade the crowds from offering sacrifice to them. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Acts-14-08]] }}}
{{rf{19}}} But Jews arrived from Antioch and Iconium, and when they had won over the crowds and stoned Paul, they dragged him outside the city, thinking he was dead. {{rf{20}}} But after the disciples surrounded him, he got up and went into the city. And on the next day he departed with Barnabas for Derbe. {{rf{21}}} And after they had proclaimed the good news in that city and made many disciples, they returned to Lystra and to Iconium and to Antioch, {{rf{22}}} strengthening the souls of the disciples, encouraging them to continue in the faith and saying, "Through many persecutions it is necessary for us to enter into the kingdom of God." {{rf{23}}} And when they had appointed elders for them in every church, after praying with fasting, they entrusted them to the Lord, in whom they had believed. {{rf{24}}} And they passed through Pisidia and came to Pamphylia. {{rf{25}}} And after they proclaimed the message in Perga, they went down to Attalia, {{rf{26}}} and from there they sailed away to Antioch where they had been commended to the grace of God for the work that they had completed. {{rf{27}}} And when they arrived and called the church together, they reported all that God had done with them, and that he had opened a door of faith for the Gentiles. {{rf{28}}} And they stayed no little time with the disciples. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Acts-14-19]] }}}
And some men came down from Judea and began teaching the brothers, "Unless you are circumcised according to the custom prescribed by Moses, you cannot be saved." {{rf{2}}} And after there was no little strife and debate by Paul and Barnabas against them, they appointed Paul and Barnabas and some others from among them to go up to the apostles and elders in Jerusalem concerning this issue. {{rf{3}}} So they were sent on their way by the church, and passed through both Phoenicia and Samaria, telling in detail the conversion of the Gentiles and bringing great joy to all the brothers. {{rf{4}}} And when they arrived in Jerusalem, they were received by the church and the apostles and the elders, and reported all that God had done with them. {{rf{5}}} But some of those who had believed from the party of the Pharisees stood up, saying, "It is necessary to circumcise them and to command them to observe the law of Moses!" {{rf{6}}} Both the apostles and the elders assembled to deliberate concerning this matter. {{rf{7}}} And after there was much debate, Peter stood up and said to them, "Men and brothers, you know that in the early days God chose among you through my mouth that the Gentiles should hear the message of the gospel and believe. {{rf{8}}} And God, who knows the heart, testified to them by giving them the Holy Spirit, just as he also did to us. {{rf{9}}} And he made no distinction between us and them, cleansing their hearts by faith. {{rf{10}}} So now why are you putting God to the test by placing on the neck of the disciples a yoke that neither our fathers nor we have been able to bear? {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Acts-15-01]] }}}
{{rf{11}}} But we believe we will be saved through the grace of the Lord Jesus in the same way those also are." {{rf{12}}} And the whole group became silent and listened to Barnabas and Paul describing all the signs and wonders God had done among the Gentiles through them. {{rf{13}}} And after they had stopped speaking, James answered, saying, "Men and brothers, listen to me! {{rf{14}}} Simeon has described how God first concerned himself to take from among the Gentiles a people for his name. {{rf{15}}} And with this the words of the prophets agree, just as it is written: {{rf{16}}} 'After these things I will return and build up again the tent of David that has fallen, and the parts of it that had been torn down I will build up again and will restore it, {{rf{17}}} so that the rest of humanity may seek the Lord, even all the Gentiles who are called by my name, says the Lord, who makes these things {{rf{18}}} known from of old.' {{rf{19}}} Therefore I conclude we should not cause difficulty for those from among the Gentiles who turn to God, {{rf{20}}} but we should write a letter to them to abstain from the pollution of idols and from sexual immorality and from what has been strangled and from blood. {{rf{21}}} For Moses has those who proclaim him in every city from ancient generations, because he is read aloud in the synagogues on every Sabbath." {{rf{22}}} Then it seemed best to the apostles and the elders, together with the whole church, to send men chosen from among them to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas -- Judas who was called Barsabbas and Silas, men who were leaders among the brothers -- {{rf{23}}} writing this letter to be delivered by them: The apostles and the elders, brothers. To the brothers who are from among the Gentiles in Antioch and Syria and Cilicia. Greetings! {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Acts-15-11]] }}}
{{rf{24}}} Because we have heard that some have gone out from among us -- to whom we gave no orders -- and have thrown you into confusion by words upsetting your minds, {{rf{25}}} it seemed best to us, having reached a unanimous decision, and having chosen men, to send them to you together with our dear friends Barnabas and Paul, {{rf{26}}} men who have risked their lives on behalf of the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. {{rf{27}}} Therefore we have sent Judas and Silas, and they will report the same things by word of mouth. {{rf{28}}} For it seemed best to the Holy Spirit and to us to place on you no greater burden except these necessary things: {{rf{29}}} that you abstain from food sacrificed to idols, and from blood, and from what has been strangled, and from sexual immorality. If you keep yourselves from these things you will do well. Farewell. {{rf{30}}} So when they were sent off, they came down to Antioch, and after calling together the community, they delivered the letter. {{rf{31}}} And when they read it aloud, they rejoiced at the encouragement. {{rf{32}}} Both Judas and Silas, who were also prophets themselves, encouraged and strengthened the brothers by a long message. {{rf{33}}} And after spending some time, they were sent away in peace from the brothers to those who had sent them. {{rf{35}}} But Paul and Barnabas remained in Antioch teaching and proclaiming the word of the Lord with many others also. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Acts-15-24]] }}}
{{rf{36}}} And after some days, Paul said to Barnabas, "Come then,let us return and visit the brothers in every town in which we proclaimed the word of the Lord, to see how they are doing." {{rf{37}}} Now Barnabas wanted to take John who was called Mark along also, {{rf{38}}} but Paul held the opinion they should not take this one along, who departed from them in Pamphylia and did not accompany them in the work. {{rf{39}}} And a sharp disagreement took place, so that they separated from one another. And Barnabas took along Mark and sailed away to Cyprus, {{rf{40}}} but Paul chose Silas and departed, after being commended to the grace of the Lord by the brothers. {{rf{41}}} And he traveled through Syria and Cilicia, strengthening the churches. {{rf big{1}}} And he came also to Derbe and to Lystra. And behold, a certain disciple was there named Timothy, the son of a believing Jewish woman but of a Greek father, {{rf{2}}} who was well spoken of by the brothers in Lystra and Iconium. {{rf{3}}} Paul wanted this one to go with him, and he took him and circumcised him because of the Jews who were in those places, for they all knew that his father was Greek. {{rf{4}}} And as they went through the towns, they passed on to them to observe the rules that had been decided by the apostles and elders who were in Jerusalem. {{rf{5}}} So the churches were being strengthened in the faith and were growing in number every day. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Acts-15-36]] }}}
{{rf{6}}} And they traveled through the Phrygian and Galatian region, having been prevented by the Holy Spirit from speaking the message in Asia. {{rf{7}}} And when they came to Mysia, they attempted to go into Bithynia, and the Spirit of Jesus did not permit them. {{rf{8}}} So going through Mysia, they went down to Troas. {{rf{9}}} And a vision appeared to Paul during the night: a certain Macedonian man was standing there and imploring him and saying, "Come over to Macedonia and help us!" {{rf{10}}} And when he had seen the vision, we wanted at once to go away to Macedonia, concluding that God had called us to proclaim the good news to them. {{rf{11}}} So putting out to sea from Troas, we sailed a straight course to Samothrace, and on the following day to Neapolis, {{rf{12}}} and from there to Philippi, which is a leading city of that district of Macedonia, a Roman colony. And we were staying in this city for some days. {{rf{13}}} And on the day of the Sabbath, we went outside the city gate beside the river, where we thought there was a place of prayer, and we sat down and spoke to the women assembled there. {{rf{14}}} And a certain woman named Lydia from the city of Thyatira, a merchant dealing in purple cloth who showed reverence for God, was listening. The Lord opened her heart to pay attention to what was being said by Paul. {{rf{15}}} And after she was baptized, and her household, she urged us, saying, "If you consider me to be a believer in the Lord, come to my house and stay." And she prevailed upon us. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Acts-16-06]] }}}
<<Bbl A 16:15 abbr >> Lydia, the leader of her home.
<<Bbl A 16:25 abbr >> This is no false front - it is grace.
<<Bbl A 16:26 abbr>> Jail earthquake is a nice diversion (if this were a movie).
<<Bbl A 17:28>> – This is worship: Do you live in God move, breathe, and //be// in God?
17:32-34 Compare Hezekiah's announcement of the Passover and its reception (<<Bbl 2Ch 30:1 >>-12 ).
<<Bbl A 18:1 abbr >>-6 Here Paul becomes our model for the working missionary. And the glorious fruit of this time is Aquila and Priscilla, who figure strongly through the rest of the chapter.
18:24-28 Apollos' qualifications were truly remarkable; much like those of Paul. What did Aquila and Priscilla find lacking?
18:28 As Peter did in his sermon of Acts 2. see <<Bbl A 5:35 abbr >>-39; <<Bbl Jud 6:31 >>.
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20:29-30 Compare <<Bbl 1J 2:18 >>-19 .
<<Bbl A 20:33 abbr >>-35 This is "Paul's proud boast," explained in <<Bbl 1C 9:1 >>-23.
<<Bbl A 21:4 abbr >> Luke doesn't gloss over the challenge presented by this scene. It appears either Paul or the Holy Spirit has to be wrong.
<<Bbl A 21:12 abbr >> One might conclude that while Agabus has rightly prophesied (11), this response by the community is emotional and misguided. That is, while the outcome promises to be fatal, Paul's determination should convince everyone that the proper response is acceptance. But v 4 makes this solution less tenable.
<<Bbl A 21:14 abbr >> Illustration of a response to conflict of an excruciating sort.
<<Bbl A 22:19 abbr >>-20 Paul is remonstrating with God that his notoriety is great, thus he will be effective (F.F. Bruce). Maybe he also wants to vindicate the community he had persecuted.
22:20 See 7:58.
23:3 see <<Bbl Ez 13:10 >>
<<Bbl A 24:25 abbr >> This and <<Bbl A 24:28 abbr >> indicate the positive evangelistic effect which Paul presented through his legal appeals.
<<Bbl A 25:11 abbr>> Paul seizes an opportunity (and guarantees it, A 26:32) to go to Rome, as foretold in <<Bbl A 19:21 abbr>>, <<Bbl A 23:11 abbr>>.
<<Bbl A 26:17 abbr>> Unlike his defense in Ephesus (A 22.21), Paul is allowed to continue past this point.
<<Bbl A 26:26 abbr >> Paul is utterly fearless as confronts the king who is presiding over his trial.
<<Bbl A 26:28 abbr>> has another possible rendering: "Would you so easily persuade me to be a Christian?
<<Bbl A 27:31 abbr>>. The would-be escapees are presumably skilled seamen (consistent with their assignment, v 30b), confident in their ability to survive on their own. The rigors ahead demand a solid crew, so Paul forbids the attempt.
<<Bbl A 27:31 abbr >> From captive to captain, says Conrad Carter.
{{rf{16}}} And it happened that as we were going to the place of prayer, a certain female slave who had a spirit of divination met us, who was bringing a large profit to her owners by fortune-telling. {{rf{17}}} She followed Paul and us and was crying out, saying, "These men are slaves of the Most High God, who are proclaiming to you the way of salvation!" {{rf{18}}} And she was doing this for many days. But Paul, becoming greatly annoyed and turning around, said to the spirit, "I command you in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her!" And it came out immediately. {{rf{19}}} But when her owners saw that their hope of profit was gone, they seized Paul and Silas and dragged them into the marketplace before the rulers. {{rf{20}}} And when they had brought them to the chief magistrates, they said, "These men are throwing our city into confusion, being Jews, {{rf{21}}} and are proclaiming customs that are not permitted for us to accept or to practice, because we are Romans!" {{rf{22}}} And the crowd joined in attacking them, and the chief magistrates tore off their clothing and gave orders to beat them with rods. {{rf{23}}} And after they had inflicted many blows on them, they threw them into prison, giving orders to the jailer to guard them securely. {{rf{24}}} Having received such an order, he put them in the inner prison and fastened their feet in the stocks. {{rf{25}}} Now about midnight, Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them. {{rf{26}}} And suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken. And immediately all the doors were opened and all the bonds were unfastened. {{rf{27}}} And after the jailer was awake and saw the doors of the prison open, he drew his sword and was about to kill himself, because he thought the prisoners had escaped. {{rf{28}}} But Paul called out with a loud voice, saying, "Do no harm to yourself, for we are all here!" {{rf{29}}} And demanding lights, he rushed in and, beginning to tremble, fell down at the feet of Paul and Silas. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Acts-16-16]] }}}
{{rf{30}}} And he brought them outside and said, "Sirs, what must I do so that I can be saved?" {{rf{31}}} And they said, "Believe in the Lord Jesus and you will be saved, you and your household!" {{rf{32}}} And they spoke the message of the Lord to him, together with all those in his house. {{rf{33}}} And he took them at that very hour of the night and washed their wounds, and he himself was baptized at once, and all those of his household. {{rf{34}}} And he brought them up into his house and set a meal before them, and rejoiced greatly that he had believed in God with his whole household. {{rf{35}}} And when it was day, the chief magistrates sent the police officers, saying, "Release those men." {{rf{36}}} And the jailer reported these words to Paul: "The chief magistrates have sent an order that you should be released. So come out now and go in peace!" {{rf{37}}} But Paul said to them, "They beat us in public without due process -- men who are Roman citizens -- and threw us into prison, and now they are wanting to release us secretly? Certainly not! Rather let them come themselves and bring us out!" {{rf{38}}} So the police officers reported these words to the chief magistrates, and they were afraid when they heard that they were Roman citizens. {{rf{39}}} And they came and apologized to them, and after they brought them out they asked them to depart from the city. {{rf{40}}} And when they came out of the prison, they went to Lydia and when they saw them, they encouraged the brothers and departed. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Acts-16-30]] }}}
Now after they traveled through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where there was a synagogue of the Jews. {{rf{2}}} And as was his custom, Paul went in to them and on three Sabbath days he discussed with them from the scriptures, {{rf{3}}} explaining and demonstrating that it was necessary for the Christ to suffer and to rise from the dead, and saying, "This Jesus whom I am proclaiming to you is the Christ." {{rf{4}}} And some of them were persuaded and joined Paul and Silas, and also a large number of God-fearing Greeks and not a few of the prominent women. {{rf{5}}} But the Jews were filled with jealousy and, taking along some worthless men from the rabble in the marketplace and forming a mob, threw the city into an uproar. And attacking Jason's house, they were looking for them to bring them out to the popular assembly. {{rf{6}}} And when they did not find them, they dragged Jason and some brothers before the city officials, shouting, "These people who have stirred up trouble throughout the world have come here also, {{rf{7}}} whom Jason has entertained as guests! And these people are all acting contrary to the decrees of Caesar, saying there is another king, Jesus!" {{rf{8}}} And they threw the crowd into confusion, and the city officials who heard these things. {{rf{9}}} And after taking money as security from Jason and the rest, they released them. {{rf{10}}} Now the brothers sent away both Paul and Silas at once, during the night, to Berea. They went into the synagogue of the Jews when they arrived. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Acts-17-01]] }}}
{{rf{11}}} Now these were more open-minded than those in Thessalonica. They accepted the message with all eagerness, examining the scriptures every day to see if these things were so. {{rf{12}}} Therefore many of them believed, and not a few of the prominent Greek women and men. {{rf{13}}} But when the Jews from Thessalonica found out that the message of God had been proclaimed by Paul in Berea also, they came there too, inciting and stirring up the crowds. {{rf{14}}} So then the brothers sent Paul away at once to go to the sea, and both Silas and Timothy remained there. {{rf{15}}} And those who conducted Paul brought him as far as Athens, and after receiving an order for Silas and Timothy that they should come to him as soon as possible, they went away. {{rf{16}}} Now while Paul was waiting for them in Athens, his spirit was provoked within him when he observed the city was full of idols. {{rf{17}}} So he was discussing in the synagogue with the Jews and the God-fearing Gentiles, and in the marketplace every day with those who happened to be there. {{rf{18}}} And even some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers were conversing with him, and some were saying, "What does this babbler want to say?" But others said, "He appears to be a proclaimer of foreign deities," because he was proclaiming the good news about Jesus and the resurrection. {{rf{19}}} And they took hold of him and brought him to the Areopagus, saying, "May we learn what is this new teaching being proclaimed by you? {{rf{20}}} For you are bringing some astonishing things to our ears. Therefore we want to know what these things mean." {{rf{21}}} (Now all the Athenians and the foreigners who stayed there used to spend their time in nothing else than telling something or listening to something new.) {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Acts-17-11]] }}}
{{rf{22}}} So Paul stood there in the middle of the Areopagus and said, "Men of Athens, I see you are very religious in every respect. {{rf{23}}} For as I was passing through and observing carefully your objects of worship, I even found an altar on which was inscribed, 'To an unknown God.' Therefore what you worship without knowing it, this I proclaim to you -- {{rf{24}}} the God who made the world and all the things in it. This one, being Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in temples made by human hands, {{rf{25}}} nor is he served by human hands as if he needed anything, because he himself gives to everyone life and breath and everything. {{rf{26}}} And he made from one man every nation of humanity to live on all the face of the earth, determining their fixed times and the fixed boundaries of their habitation, {{rf{27}}} to search for God, if perhaps indeed they might feel around for him and find him. And indeed he is not far away from each one of us, {{rf{28}}} for in him we live and move and exist, as even some of your own poets have said: 'For we also are his offspring.' {{rf{29}}} Therefore, because we are offspring of God, we ought not to think the divine being is like gold or silver or stone, an image formed by human skill and thought. {{rf{30}}} Therefore although God has overlooked the times of ignorance, he now commands all people everywhere to repent, {{rf{31}}} because he has set a day on which he is going to judge the world in righteousness by the man who he has appointed, having provided proof to everyone by raising him from the dead." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Acts-17-22]] }}}
{{rf{32}}} Now when they heard about the resurrection of the dead, some scoffed, but others said, "We will hear you about this again also." {{rf{33}}} So Paul went out from the midst of them. {{rf{34}}} But some people joined him and believed, among whom also were Dionysius the Areopagite and a woman named Damaris and others with them. {{rf big{1}}} After these things he departed from Athens and went to Corinth. {{rf{2}}} And he found a certain Jew named Aquila, a native of Pontus who had arrived recently from Italy along with Priscilla his wife, because Claudius had ordered all the Jews to depart from Rome, and he went to them. {{rf{3}}} And because he was practicing the same trade, he stayed with them and worked, for they were tentmakers by trade. {{rf{4}}} And he argued in the synagogue every Sabbath, attempting to persuade both Jews and Greeks. {{rf{5}}} Now when both Silas and Timothy came down from Macedonia, Paul began to be occupied with the message, solemnly testifying to the Jews that the Christ was Jesus. {{rf{6}}} And when they resisted and reviled him, he shook out his clothes and said to them, "Your blood be on your own heads! I am guiltless! From now on I will go to the Gentiles!" {{rf{7}}} And leaving there, he entered into the house of someone named Titius Justus, a worshiper of God whose house was next door to the synagogue. {{rf{8}}} And Crispus, the ruler of the synagogue, believed in the Lord together with his whole household. And many of the Corinthians, when they heard about it, believed and were baptized. {{rf{9}}} And the Lord said to Paul by a vision in the night, "Do not be afraid, but speak and do not keep silent, {{rf{10}}} because I am with you and no one will attack you to harm you, because many people are mine in this city." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Acts-17-32]] }}}
{{rf{11}}} So he stayed a year and six months, teaching the word of God among them. {{rf{12}}} Now when Gallio was proconsul of Achaia, the Jews rose up with one purpose against Paul and brought him before the judgment seat, {{rf{13}}} saying, "This man is persuading people to worship God contrary to the law!" {{rf{14}}} But when Paul was about to open his mouth, Gallio said to the Jews, "If it was some crime or wicked villainy, O Jews, I would have been justified in accepting your complaint. {{rf{15}}} But if it is questions concerning a word and names and your own law, see to it yourselves! I do not wish to be a judge of these things." {{rf{16}}} And he drove them away from the judgment seat. {{rf{17}}} So they all seized Sosthenes, the ruler of the synagogue, and began beating him in front of the judgment seat. And none of these things was a concern to Gallio. {{rf{18}}} So Paul, after remaining many days longer, said farewell to the brothers and sailed away to Syria, and with him Priscilla and Aquila. He shaved his head at Cenchrea, because he had taken a vow. {{rf{19}}} So they arrived at Ephesus, and those he left behind there, but he himself entered into the synagogue and discussed with the Jews. {{rf{20}}} And when they asked him to stay for a longer time, he did not give his consent, {{rf{21}}} but saying farewell and telling them, "I will return to you again if God wills," he set sail from Ephesus. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Acts-18-11]] }}}
{{rf{22}}} And when he arrived at Caesarea, he went up and greeted the church, and went down to Antioch. {{rf{23}}} And after spending some time there, he departed, traveling through one place after another in the Galatian region and Phrygia, strengthening all the disciples. {{rf{24}}} Now a certain Jew named Apollos, a native Alexandrian, arrived in Ephesus -- an eloquent man who was well-versed in the scriptures. {{rf{25}}} This man had been instructed in the way of the Lord, and being enthusiastic in spirit, he was speaking and teaching accurately the things about Jesus, although he knew only the baptism of John. {{rf{26}}} And he began to speak boldly in the synagogue, but when Priscilla and Aquila heard him, they took him aside and explained the way of God to him more accurately. {{rf{27}}} And when he wanted to cross over to Achaia, the brothers encouraged him and wrote to the disciples to welcome him. When he arrived, he assisted greatly those who had believed through grace. {{rf{28}}} For he was vigorously refuting the Jews in public, demonstrating through the scriptures that the Christ was Jesus. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Acts-18-22]] }}}
And it happened that while Apollos was in Corinth, Paul traveled through the inland regions and came to Ephesus and found some disciples. {{rf{2}}} And he said to them, "Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?" And they said to him, "But we have not even heard that there is a Holy Spirit!" {{rf{3}}} And he said, "Into what then were you baptized?" And they said, "Into the baptism of John." {{rf{4}}} And Paul said, "John baptized with a baptism of repentance, telling the people that they should believe in the one who was to come after him -- that is, in Jesus." {{rf{5}}} And when they heard this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus. {{rf{6}}} And when Paul laid hands on them, the Holy Spirit came upon them and they began to speak in tongues and to prophesy. {{rf{7}}} (Now the total number of men was about twelve.) {{rf{8}}} So he entered into the synagogue and was speaking boldly for three months, discussing and attempting to convince them concerning the kingdom of God. {{rf{9}}} But when some became hardened and were disobedient, reviling the Way before the congregation, he departed from them and took away the disciples, leading discussions every day in the lecture hall of Tyrannus. {{rf{10}}} And this took place for two years, so that all who lived in Asia heard the word of the Lord, both Jews and Greeks. {{rf{11}}} And God was performing extraordinary miracles by the hands of Paul, {{rf{12}}} so that even handkerchiefs or work aprons that had touched his skin were carried away to those who were sick, and their diseases left them and the evil spirits came out of them. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Acts-19-01]] }}}
{{rf{13}}} But some itinerant Jewish exorcists also attempted to pronounce the name of the Lord Jesus over those who had evil spirits, saying, "I adjure you by Jesus whom Paul preaches!" {{rf{14}}} (Now seven sons of a certain Sceva, a Jewish chief priest, were doing this.) {{rf{15}}} But the evil spirit answered and said to them, "Jesus I know, and Paul I am acquainted with, but who are you?" {{rf{16}}} And the man who had the evil spirit leaped on them, subdued all of them, and prevailed against them, so that they ran away from that house naked and wounded. {{rf{17}}} And this became known to all who lived in Ephesus, both Jews and Greeks, and fear fell upon them all, and the name of the Lord Jesus was exalted. {{rf{18}}} And many of those who had believed came, confessing and disclosing their practices, {{rf{19}}} and many of those who practiced magic brought together their books and burned them up in the sight of everyone. And they counted up their value and found it was fifty thousand silver coins. {{rf{20}}} In this way the word of the Lord was growing in power and was prevailing. {{rf{21}}} Now when these things were completed, Paul resolved in the Spirit to go to Jerusalem, passing through Macedonia and Achaia, saying, "After I have been there, it is necessary for me to see Rome also." {{rf{22}}} So after sending two of those who were assisting him, Timothy and Erastus, to Macedonia, he himself stayed some time in Asia. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Acts-19-13]] }}}
{{rf{23}}} Now there happened at that time no little disturbance concerning the Way. {{rf{24}}} For someone named Demetrius, a silversmith who made silver replicas of the temple of Artemis, was bringing no little business to the craftsmen. {{rf{25}}} These he gathered together, and the workers occupied with such things, and said, "Men, you know that from this business we get our prosperity, {{rf{26}}} and you see and hear that not only in Ephesus but in almost all of Asia this man Paul has persuaded and turned away a large crowd by saying that the gods made by hands are not gods. {{rf{27}}} So not only is there a danger this line of business of ours will come into disrepute, but also the temple of the great goddess Artemis will be regarded as nothing -- and she is about to be brought down even from her grandeur, she whom the whole of Asia and the entire world worship!" {{rf{28}}} And when they heard this and became full of rage, they began to shout, saying, "Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!" {{rf{29}}} And the city was filled with the tumult, and with one purpose they rushed into the theater, seizing Gaius and Aristarchus, Macedonians who were traveling companions of Paul. {{rf{30}}} But when Paul wanted to enter into the popular assembly, the disciples would not let him. {{rf{31}}} And even some of the Asiarchs who were his friends sent word to him and were urging him not to risk himself by going into the theater. {{rf{32}}} So some were shouting one thing and some another, for the assembly was in confusion, and the majority did not know why they had assembled. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Acts-19-23]] }}}
{{rf{33}}} And some of the crowd advised Alexander, when the Jews put him forward. But Alexander, motioning with his hand, was wanting to defend himself to the popular assembly. {{rf{34}}} But when they recognized that he was a Jew, they were shouting with one voice from all of them for about two hours, "Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!" {{rf{35}}} And when the city secretary had quieted the crowd, he said, "Ephesian men, for who is there among men who does not know the Ephesian city is honorary temple keeper of the great Artemis and of her image fallen from heaven? {{rf{36}}} Therefore because these things are undeniable, it is necessary that you be quiet and do nothing rash! {{rf{37}}} For you have brought these men here who are neither temple robbers nor blasphemers of our goddess. {{rf{38}}} If then Demetrius and the craftsmen who are with him have a complaint against anyone, the court days are observed and there are proconsuls -- let them bring charges against one another! {{rf{39}}} But if you desire anything further, it will be settled in the lawful assembly. {{rf{40}}} For indeed we are in danger of being accused of rioting concerning today, since there is no cause in relation to which we will be able to give an account concerning this disorderly gathering!" And when he had said these things, he dismissed the assembly. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Acts-19-33]] }}}
Now after the turmoil had ceased, Paul summoned the disciples, and after encouraging them, he said farewell and departed to travel to Macedonia. {{rf{2}}} And after he had gone through those regions and encouraged them at length, he came to Greece {{rf{3}}} and stayed three months. Because a plot was made against him by the Jews as he was about to set sail for Syria, he came to a decision to return through Macedonia. {{rf{4}}} And Sopater son of Pyrrhus from Berea, and Aristarchus and Secundus from Thessalonica, and Gaius from Derbe, and Timothy, and Tychicus and Trophimus from Asia, were accompanying him. {{rf{5}}} And these had gone on ahead and were waiting for us in Troas. {{rf{6}}} And we sailed away from Philippi after the days of Unleavened Bread and came to them at Troas within five days, where we stayed seven days. {{rf{7}}} And on the first day of the week, when we had assembled to break bread, Paul began conversing with them, because he was going to leave on the next day, and he extended his message until midnight. {{rf{8}}} Now there were quite a few lamps in the upstairs room where we were gathered. {{rf{9}}} And a certain young man named Eutychus who was sitting in the window was sinking into a deep sleep while Paul was conversing at length. Being overcome by sleep, he fell down from the third story and was picked up dead. {{rf{10}}} But Paul went down and threw himself on him, and putting his arms around him, said, "Do not be distressed, for his life is in him." {{rf{11}}} So he went up and broke bread, and when he had eaten and talked for a long time, until dawn, then he departed. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Acts-20-01]] }}}
{{rf{12}}} And they led the youth away alive, and were greatly comforted. {{rf{13}}} But we went on ahead to the ship and put out to sea for Assos, intending to take Paul on board there. For having made arrangements in this way, he himself was intending to travel by land. {{rf{14}}} And when he met us at Assos, we took him on board and went to Mitylene. {{rf{15}}} And we sailed from there on the next day, and arrived opposite Chios. And on the next day we approached Samos, and on the following day we came to Miletus. {{rf{16}}} For Paul had decided to sail past Ephesus so that he would not be having to spend time in Asia. For he was hurrying if it could be possible for him to be in Jerusalem on the day of Pentecost. {{rf{17}}} And from Miletus he sent word to Ephesus and summoned the elders of the church. {{rf{18}}} And when they came to him, he said to them, "You know from the first day on which I set foot in Asia how I was the whole time with you -- {{rf{19}}} serving the Lord with all humility and with tears, and with the trials that happened to me through the plots of the Jews -- {{rf{20}}} how I did not shrink from proclaiming to you anything that would be profitable, and from teaching you in public and from house to house, {{rf{21}}} testifying both to Jews and to Greeks with respect to repentance toward God and faith in our Lord Jesus. {{rf{22}}} "And now behold, bound by the Spirit I am traveling to Jerusalem, not knowing the things that will happen to me there, {{rf{23}}} except that the Holy Spirit testifies to me in town after town, saying that bonds and persecutions await me. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Acts-20-12]] }}}
{{rf{24}}} But I consider my life as worth nothing to myself, in order to finish my mission and the ministry that I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify to the gospel of the grace of God. {{rf{25}}} "And now behold, I know that all of you, among whom I went about proclaiming the kingdom, will see my face no more. {{rf{26}}} Therefore I testify to you on this very day that I am guiltless of the blood of all of you, {{rf{27}}} for I did not shrink from proclaiming to you the whole purpose of God. {{rf{28}}} Be on guard for yourselves and for all the flock among which the Holy Spirit has appointed you as overseers, to shepherd the church of God which he obtained through the blood of his own Son. {{rf{29}}} I know that after my departure fierce wolves will come in among you, not sparing the flock. {{rf{30}}} And from among you yourselves men will arise, speaking perversions of the truth in order to draw away the disciples after them. {{rf{31}}} Therefore be on the alert, remembering that night and day for three years I did not stop warning each one of you with tears. {{rf{32}}} "And now I entrust you to God and to the message of his grace, which is able to build you up and to give you the inheritance among all those who are sanctified. {{rf{33}}} I have desired no one's silver or gold or clothing! {{rf{34}}} You yourselves know that these hands served to meet my needs and the needs of those who were with me. {{rf{35}}} I have shown you with respect to all things that by working hard in this way it is necessary to help those who are in need, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus that he himself said, "It is more blessed to give than to receive." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Acts-20-24]] }}}
{{rf{36}}} And when he had said these things, he fell to his knees and prayed with them all. {{rf{37}}} And there was considerable weeping by all, and hugging Paul, they kissed him, {{rf{38}}} especially distressed at the statement that he had said, that they were going to see his face no more. And they accompanied him to the ship. {{rf big{1}}} And it happened that after we tore ourselves away from them, we put out to sea, and running a straight course we came to Cos and on the next day to Rhodes, and from there to Patara. {{rf{2}}} And finding a ship that was crossing over to Phoenicia, we went aboard and put out to sea. {{rf{3}}} And after we sighted Cyprus and left it behind on the port side, we sailed to Syria and arrived at Tyre, because the ship was to unload its cargo there. {{rf{4}}} And we stayed there seven days after we found the disciples, who kept telling Paul through the Spirit not to set foot in Jerusalem. {{rf{5}}} And it happened that when our days were over, we departed and went on our way, while all of them accompanied us, together with their wives and children, as far as outside the city. And after falling to our knees on the beach and praying, {{rf{6}}} we said farewell to one another and embarked in the ship, and they returned to their own homes. {{rf{7}}} And when we had completed the voyage from Tyre, we arrived at Ptolemais. And after we greeted the brothers, we stayed one day with them. {{rf{8}}} And on the next day we departed and came to Caesarea, and entered into the house of Philip the evangelist, who was one of the seven, and stayed with him. {{rf{9}}} (Now this man had four virgin daughters who prophesied.) {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Acts-20-36]] }}}
{{rf{10}}} And while we were staying there many days, a certain prophet named Agabus came down from Judea. {{rf{11}}} And he came to us and took Paul's belt. Tying up his own feet and hands, he said, "This is what the Holy Spirit says: 'In this way the Jews in Jerusalem will tie up the man whose belt this is, and will deliver him into the hands of the Gentiles.'" {{rf{12}}} And when we heard these things, both we and the local residents urged him not to go up to Jerusalem. {{rf{13}}} Then Paul replied, "What are you doing weeping and breaking my heart? For I am ready not only to be tied up, but even to die in Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus!" {{rf{14}}} And because he would not be persuaded, we remained silent, saying, "The will of the Lord be done." {{rf{15}}} So after these days we got ready and went up to Jerusalem. {{rf{16}}} And some of the disciples from Caesarea also traveled together with us, bringing us to a certain Mnason of Cyprus, a disciple of long standing, with whom we were to be entertained as guests. {{rf{17}}} And when we came to Jerusalem, the brothers welcomed us gladly. {{rf{18}}} And on the next day Paul went in with us to James, and all the elders were present. {{rf{19}}} And after greeting them, he began to relate one after the other the things which God had done among the Gentiles through his ministry. {{rf{20}}} And when they heard this, they began to glorify God. And they said to him, "You see, brother, how many ten thousands there are among the Jews who have believed, and they are all zealous adherents of the law. {{rf{21}}} And they have been informed about you that you are teaching all the Jews who are among the Gentiles the abandonment of Moses, telling them not to circumcise their children or to live according to our customs. {{rf{22}}} What then is to be done? Doubtless they will all hear that you have come! {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Acts-21-10]] }}}
{{rf{23}}} Therefore do this that we tell you: we have four men who have taken a vow upon themselves. {{rf{24}}} Take these men and purify yourself along with them and pay their expenses so that they can shave their heads, and everyone will know that the things which they had been informed about you are nothing, but you yourself also agree with observing the law. {{rf{25}}} But concerning the Gentiles who have believed, we have written a letter after deciding they should avoid food sacrificed to idols and blood and what has been strangled and sexual immorality." {{rf{26}}} Then Paul took along the men on the next day, and after he had purified himself together with them, he entered into the temple courts, announcing the completion of the days of purification until the time the offering would be presented on behalf of each one of them. {{rf{27}}} But when the seven days were about to be completed, the Jews from Asia who had seen him in the temple courts stirred up the whole crowd and laid hands on him, {{rf{28}}} shouting, "Israelite men, help! This is the man who is teaching everyone everywhere against the people and the law and this place! And furthermore he also brought Greeks into the temple, and has defiled this holy place!" {{rf{29}}} (For they had previously seen Trophimus the Ephesian in the city with him, whom they thought that Paul had brought into the temple.) {{rf{30}}} And the whole city was stirred up, and the people came running together, and they seized Paul and dragged him outside of the temple courts, and immediately the doors were shut. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Acts-21-23]] }}}
{{rf{31}}} And as they were seeking to kill him, a report came up to the military tribune of the cohort that all Jerusalem was in confusion. {{rf{32}}} He immediately took along soldiers and centurions and ran down to them. And when they saw the military tribune and the soldiers, they stopped beating Paul. {{rf{33}}} Then the military tribune came up and arrested him and ordered him to be bound with two chains, and inquired who he was and what it was that he had done. {{rf{34}}} But some in the crowd were shouting one thing and others another, and because he was not able to find out the truth on account of the commotion, he gave orders to bring him into the barracks. {{rf{35}}} And when he came to the steps, it happened that he had to be carried by the soldiers on account of the violence of the crowd, {{rf{36}}} for the crowd of people was following them, shouting, "Away with him!" {{rf{37}}} And as he was about to be brought into the barracks, Paul said to the military tribune, "Is it permitted for me to say something to you?" And he said, "Do you know Greek? {{rf{38}}} Then you are not the Egyptian who before these days raised a revolt and led out into the wilderness the four thousand men of the Assassins?" {{rf{39}}} But Paul said, "I am a Jewish man from Tarsus in Cilicia, a citizen of no unimportant city. Now I ask you, allow me to speak to the people." {{rf{40}}} So when he permitted him, Paul, standing there on the steps, motioned with his hand to the people. And when there was a great silence, he addressed them in the Aramaic language, saying, {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Acts-21-31]] }}}
"Men -- brothers and fathers -- listen to my defense to you now!" {{rf{2}}} And when they heard that he was addressing them in the Aramaic language, they became even more silent. And he said, {{rf{3}}} "I am a Jewish man born in Tarsus in Cilicia, but brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, educated according to the exactness of the law received from our fathers, being zealous for God, just as all of you are today. {{rf{4}}} I persecuted this Way to the death, tying up and delivering to prison both men and women, {{rf{5}}} as indeed the high priest and the whole council of elders can testify about me, from whom also I received letters to the brothers in Damascus, and was traveling there to lead away those who were there also tied up to Jerusalem so that they could be punished. {{rf{6}}} "And it happened that as I was traveling and approaching Damascus around noon, suddenly a very bright light from heaven flashed around me, {{rf{7}}} and I fell to the ground and heard a voice saying to me, 'Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me?' {{rf{8}}} And I answered, 'Who are you, Lord?' And he said to me, 'I am Jesus the Nazarene whom you are persecuting.' {{rf{9}}} (Now those who were with me saw the light but did not hear the voice of the one who was speaking to me.) {{rf{10}}} So I said, 'What should I do, Lord?' And the Lord said to me, 'Get up and proceed to Damascus, and there it will be told to you about all the things that have been appointed for you to do.' {{rf{11}}} And as I could not see as a result of the brightness of that light, I arrived in Damascus led by the hand of those who were with me. {{rf{12}}} And a certain Ananias, a devout man according to the law, well spoken of by all the Jews who live there, {{rf{13}}} came to me and stood by me and said to me, 'Brother Saul, regain your sight!' And at that same time I looked up at him and saw him. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Acts-22-01]] }}}
{{rf{14}}} And he said, 'The God of our fathers has appointed you to know his will, and to see the Righteous One and to hear a voice from his mouth, {{rf{15}}} because you will be a witness for him to all people of what you have seen and heard. {{rf{16}}} And now why are you delaying? Get up, be baptized, and wash away your sins, calling on his name!' {{rf{17}}} "And it happened that when I returned to Jerusalem and I was praying in the temple courts, I was in a trance, {{rf{18}}} and saw him saying to me, 'Hurry and depart quickly from Jerusalem, because they will not accept your testimony about me.' {{rf{19}}} And I said, 'Lord, they themselves know that from synagogue to synagogue I was imprisoning and beating those who believed in you. {{rf{20}}} And when the blood of your witness Stephen was being shed, I myself also was standing near and was approving, and was guarding the cloaks of those who were killing him.' {{rf{21}}} And he said to me, 'Go, because I will send you far away to the Gentiles!'" {{rf{22}}} Now they were listening to him until this word, and they raised their voices, saying, "Away with such a man from the earth! For it is not fitting for him to live!" {{rf{23}}} And while they were screaming and throwing off their cloaks and throwing dust into the air, {{rf{24}}} the military tribune ordered him to be brought into the barracks, saying he was to be examined with a lash so that he could find out for what reason they were crying out against him in this way. {{rf{25}}} But when they had stretched him out for the lash, Paul said to the centurion standing there, "Is it permitted for you to flog a man who is a Roman citizen and uncondemned?" {{rf{26}}} And when the centurion heard this, he went to the military tribune and reported it, saying, "What are you about to do? For this man is a Roman citizen!" {{rf{27}}} So the military tribune came and said to him, "Tell me, are you a Roman citizen?" And he said, "Yes." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Acts-22-14]] }}}
{{rf{28}}} And the military tribune replied, "I acquired this citizenship for a large sum of money." And Paul said, "But I indeed was born a citizen. {{rf{29}}} Then immediately those who were about to examine him kept away from him, and the military tribune also was afraid when he realized that he was a Roman citizen and that he had tied him up. {{rf{30}}} But on the next day, because he wanted to know the true reason why he was being accused by the Jews, he released him and ordered the chief priests and the whole Sanhedrin to assemble, and he brought down Paul and had him stand before them. {{rf big{1}}} And looking intently at the Sanhedrin, Paul said, "Men and brothers, I have lived my life in all good conscience before God to this day." {{rf{2}}} So the high priest Ananias ordered those standing near him to strike his mouth. {{rf{3}}} Then Paul said to him, "God is going to strike you, you whitewashed wall! And are you sitting there judging me according to the law, and acting contrary to the law do you order me to be struck?" {{rf{4}}} And those who stood nearby said, "Are you reviling the high priest of God?" {{rf{5}}} And Paul said, "I did not know, brothers, that he was high priest. For it is written, 'You must not speak evil of a ruler of your people.'" {{rf{6}}} Now when Paul realized that one part were Sadducees and the other Pharisees, he shouted out in the Sanhedrin, "Men and brothers! I am a Pharisee, a son of Pharisees! I am being judged concerning the hope and the resurrection of the dead!" {{rf{7}}} And when he said this, a dispute developed between the Pharisees and Sadducees, and the assembly was divided. {{rf{8}}} (For the Sadducees say there is no resurrection or angel or spirit, but the Pharisees acknowledge them all.) {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Acts-22-28]] }}}
{{rf{9}}} And there was loud shouting, and some of the scribes from the party of the Pharisees stood up and contended sharply, saying, "We find nothing wrong with this man! But what if a spirit or an angel has spoken to him?" {{rf{10}}} And when the dispute became severe, the military tribune, fearing lest Paul be torn apart by them, ordered the detachment to go down, take him away from their midst, and bring him into the barracks. {{rf{11}}} And the next night the Lord stood by him and said, "Have courage, for as you have testified about me in Jerusalem, so you must also testify in Rome." {{rf{12}}} And when it was day, the Jews made a conspiracy and bound themselves under a curse, saying they would neither eat nor drink until they had killed Paul. {{rf{13}}} Now there were more than forty who had made this conspiracy, {{rf{14}}} who went to the chief priests and the elders and said, "We have bound ourselves under a curse to partake of nothing until we have killed Paul. {{rf{15}}} Therefore, now you along with the Sanhedrin explain to the military tribune that he should bring him down to you, as if you were going to determine more accurately the things concerning him. And we are ready to do away with him before he comes near." {{rf{16}}} But when the son of Paul's sister heard about the ambush, he came and entered into the barracks and reported it to Paul. {{rf{17}}} So Paul called one of the centurions and said, "Bring this young man to the military tribune, because he has something to report to him." {{rf{18}}} So he took him and brought him to the military tribune and said, "The prisoner Paul called me and asked me to bring this young man to you because he has something to tell you." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Acts-23-09]] }}}
{{rf{19}}} And the military tribune, taking hold of his hand and withdrawing privately, asked, "What is it that you have to report to me?" {{rf{20}}} And he said, "The Jews have agreed to ask you that you bring Paul down to the Sanhedrin tomorrow, as if they were going to inquire somewhat more accurately concerning him. {{rf{21}}} You therefore do not be persuaded by them, because more than forty men of their number are lying in wait for him, who have bound themselves under a curse neither to eat nor to drink until they have done away with him. And now they are ready, waiting for you to agree." {{rf{22}}} So the military tribune sent the young man away, directing him, "Tell no one that you have revealed these things to me." {{rf{23}}} And he summoned two of the centurions and said, "Make ready from the third hour of the night two hundred soldiers and seventy horsemen and two hundred spearmen, in order that they may proceed as far as Caesarea. {{rf{24}}} And provide mounts so that they can put Paul on them and bring him safely to Felix the governor." {{rf{25}}} He wrote a letter that had this form: {{rf{26}}} Claudius Lysias. To his excellency Governor Felix. Greetings! {{rf{27}}} This man was seized by the Jews and was about to be killed by them when I came upon them with the detachment and rescued him, because I learned that he was a Roman citizen. {{rf{28}}} And because I wanted to know the charge for which they were accusing him, I brought him down to their Sanhedrin. {{rf{29}}} I found he was accused concerning controversial questions of their law, but having no charge deserving death or imprisonment. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Acts-23-19]] }}}
{{rf{30}}} And when it was made known to me there would be a plot against the man, I sent him to you immediately, also ordering his accusers to speak against him before you. {{rf{31}}} Therefore the soldiers, in accordance with their orders, took Paul and brought him to Antipatris during the night. {{rf{32}}} And on the next day they let the horsemen go on with him, and they returned to the barracks. {{rf{33}}} The horsemen, when they came to Caesarea and delivered the letter to the governor, also presented Paul to him. {{rf{34}}} So after reading the letter and asking what province he was from, and learning that he was from Cilicia, {{rf{35}}} he said, "I will give you a hearing whenever your accusers arrive also," giving orders for him to be guarded in the praetorium of Herod. {{rf big{1}}} And after five days the high priest Ananias came down with some elders and an attorney, a certain Tertullus, all of whom brought charges against Paul to the governor. {{rf{2}}} And when he had been summoned, Tertullus began to accuse him, saying, "We have experienced much peace through you, and reforms are taking place in this nation through your foresight. {{rf{3}}} Both in every way and everywhere we acknowledge this, most excellent Felix, with all gratitude. {{rf{4}}} But so that I may not impose on you for longer, I implore you to hear us briefly with your customary graciousness. {{rf{5}}} For we have found this man to be a public menace and one who causes riots among all the Jews throughout the Roman Empire and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes, {{rf{6}}} who even attempted to desecrate the temple, and we arrested him. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Acts-23-30]] }}}
{{rf{8}}} When you yourself examine him you will be able to find out from him about all these things of which we are accusing him." {{rf{9}}} And the Jews also joined in the attack, asserting these things were so. {{rf{10}}} And when the governor gestured for him to speak, Paul replied, "Because I know you have been a judge over this nation for many years, I defend myself cheerfully with respect to the things concerning myself. {{rf{11}}} You can ascertain that it has not been more than twelve days since I went up to Jerusalem to worship. {{rf{12}}} And neither did they find me arguing with anyone or making a crowd develop in the temple courts nor in the synagogues nor throughout the city. {{rf{13}}} Nor can they prove the things to you concerning which they are now accusing me. {{rf{14}}} But I do confess this to you, that according to the Way (which they call a sect), so I worship the God of our fathers, believing all things that are in accordance with the law and that are written in the prophets, {{rf{15}}} having a hope in God which these men also themselves await: that there is going to be a resurrection of both the righteous and the unrighteous. {{rf{16}}} For this reason also I myself always do my best to have a clear conscience toward God and people. {{rf{17}}} So after many years, I came to practice charitable giving and offerings to my people, {{rf{18}}} in which they found me purified in the temple courts, not with a crowd or with a disturbance. {{rf{19}}} But there are some Jews from Asia who ought to be present before you and bring charges against me, if they have anything against me, {{rf{20}}} or these men themselves should say what crime they found when I stood before the Sanhedrin, {{rf{21}}} other than concerning this one declaration that I shouted while standing there before them: 'I am being judged before you today concerning the resurrection of the dead!'" {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Acts-24-08]] }}}
{{rf{22}}} But Felix, because he understood the facts concerning the Way more accurately, put them off, saying, "When Lysias the military tribune comes down, I will decide your case." {{rf{23}}} He ordered the centurion for him to be guarded and to have some freedom, and in no way to prevent any of his own people from serving him. {{rf{24}}} And after some days, when Felix arrived with his wife Drusilla, who was Jewish, he sent for Paul and listened to him concerning faith in Christ Jesus. {{rf{25}}} And while he was discussing about righteousness and self control and the judgment that is to come, Felix became afraid and replied, "Go away for the present, and when I have an opportunity, I will summon you." {{rf{26}}} At the same time he was also hoping that money would be given to him by Paul. For this reason also he sent for him as often as possible and talked with him. {{rf{27}}} And when two years had passed, Felix received as successor Porcius Festus. And because he wanted to do a favor for the Jews, Felix left Paul behind as a prisoner. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Acts-24-22]] }}}
Now when Festus set foot in the province, after three days he went up to Jerusalem from Caesarea. {{rf{2}}} And the chief priests and the most prominent men of the Jews brought charges against Paul to him, and were urging him, {{rf{3}}} asking for a favor against him, that he summon him to Jerusalem, because they were preparing an ambush to do away with him along the way. {{rf{4}}} Then Festus replied that Paul was being kept at Caesarea, and he himself was about to go there in a short time. {{rf{5}}} So he said, "Let those among you who are prominent go down with me, and if there is any wrong in the man, let them bring charges against him." {{rf{6}}} And after he had stayed among them not more than eight or ten days, he went down to Caesarea. On the next day he sat down on the judgment seat and gave orders for Paul to be brought. {{rf{7}}} And when he arrived, the Jews who had come down from Jerusalem stood around him, bringing many and serious charges that they were not able to prove, {{rf{8}}} while Paul said in his defense, "Neither against the law of the Jews nor against the temple nor against Caesar have I sinned with reference to anything!" {{rf{9}}} But Festus, because he wanted to do a favor for the Jews, answered and said to Paul, "Are you willing to go up to Jerusalem to be tried before me there concerning these things?" {{rf{10}}} But Paul said, "I am standing before the judgment seat of Caesar, where it is necessary for me to be judged. I have done no wrong to the Jews, as you also know very well. {{rf{11}}} If then I am doing wrong and have done anything deserving death, I am not trying to avoid dying. But if there is nothing true of the things which these people are accusing me, no one can give me up to them. I appeal to Caesar!" {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Acts-25-01]] }}}
{{rf{12}}} Then Festus, after discussing this with his council, replied, "You have appealed to Caesar -- to Caesar you will go!" {{rf{13}}} Now after some days had passed, King Agrippa and Bernice arrived at Caesarea to welcome Festus. {{rf{14}}} And while they were staying there many days, Festus laid out the case against Paul to the king, saying, "There is a certain man left behind by Felix as a prisoner, {{rf{15}}} concerning whom when I was in Jerusalem the chief priests and the elders of the Jews presented evidence, asking for a sentence of condemnation against him. {{rf{16}}} To them I replied that it was not the custom of the Romans to give up any man before the one who had been accused met his accusers face to face and received an opportunity for a defense concerning the accusation. {{rf{17}}} Therefore, when they had assembled here, I made no delay; on the next day I sat down on the judgment seat and gave orders for the man to be brought. {{rf{18}}} When they stood up, his accusers began bringing no charge concerning him of the evil deeds that I was suspecting, {{rf{19}}} but they had some issues with him concerning their own religion, and concerning a certain Jesus, who was dead, whom Paul claimed to be alive. {{rf{20}}} And because I was at a loss with regard to the investigation concerning these things, I asked if he was willing to go to Jerusalem and to be judged there concerning these things. {{rf{21}}} But when Paul appealed that he be kept under guard for the decision of His Majesty the Emperor, I gave orders for him to be kept under guard until I could send him to Caesar." {{rf{22}}} So Agrippa said to Festus, "I want to hear the man myself also." "Tomorrow," he said, "you will hear him." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Acts-25-12]] }}}
{{rf{23}}} So on the next day, Agrippa and Bernice came with great pageantry and entered into the audience hall, along with military tribunes and the most prominent men of the city. And when Festus gave the order, Paul was brought in. {{rf{24}}} And Festus said, "King Agrippa and all who are present with us, you see this man about whom the whole population of the Jews appealed to me, both in Jerusalem and here, shouting that he must not live any longer. {{rf{25}}} But I understood that he had done nothing deserving death himself, and when this man appealed to His Majesty the Emperor, I decided to send him. {{rf{26}}} I do not have anything definite to write to my lord about him. Therefore I have brought him before you all -- and especially before you, King Agrippa -- so that after this preliminary hearing has taken place, I may have something to write. {{rf{27}}} For it seems unreasonable to me to send a prisoner and not to indicate the charges against him." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Acts-25-23]] }}}
So Agrippa said to Paul, "It is permitted for you to speak for yourself." Then Paul extended his hand and began to defend himself: {{rf{2}}} "Concerning all the things of which I am accused by the Jews, King Agrippa, I consider myself fortunate that before you I am about to defend myself today, {{rf{3}}} because you are especially acquainted with both all the customs and controversial questions with respect to the Jews. Therefore I beg you to listen to me with patience. {{rf{4}}} "Now all the Jews know my manner of life from my youth, that had taken place from the beginning among my own people and in Jerusalem, {{rf{5}}} having known me for a long time, if they are willing to testify, that in accordance with the strictest party of our religion I lived as a Pharisee. {{rf{6}}} And now I stand here on trial on the basis of hope in the promise made by God to our fathers, {{rf{7}}} to which our twelve tribes hope to attain as they earnestly serve him night and day. Concerning this hope I am being accused by the Jews, O king! {{rf{8}}} Why is it thought incredible by you people that God raises the dead? {{rf{9}}} Indeed, I myself thought it was necessary to do many things opposed to the name of Jesus the Nazarene, {{rf{10}}} which I also did in Jerusalem, and not only did I lock up many of the saints in prison, having received authority from the chief priests, but also when they were being executed, I cast my vote against them. {{rf{11}}} And throughout all the synagogues I punished them often and tried to force them to blaspheme, and because I was enraged at them beyond measure, I was pursuing them even as far as to foreign cities. {{rf{12}}} In this activity I was traveling to Damascus with the authority and full power of the chief priests. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Acts-26-01]] }}}
{{rf{13}}} In the middle of the day along the road, O king, I saw a light from heaven, more than the brightness of the sun, shining around me and those who were traveling with me. {{rf{14}}} And when we had all fallen to the ground, I heard a voice saying to me in the Aramaic language, 'Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me? It is hard for you to kick against the goads!' {{rf{15}}} So I said, 'Who are you, Lord?' And the Lord said, 'I am Jesus whom you are persecuting. {{rf{16}}} But get up and stand on your feet, because for this reason I have appeared to you, to appoint you a servant and witness both to the things in which you saw me and to the things in which I will appear to you, {{rf{17}}} rescuing you from the people and from the Gentiles to whom I am sending you, {{rf{18}}} to open their eyes so that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, so that they may receive forgiveness of sins and a share among those who are sanctified by faith in me.' {{rf{19}}} "Therefore, O King Agrippa, I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision, {{rf{20}}} but to those in Damascus first, and in Jerusalem and all the region of Judea and to the Gentiles, I proclaimed that they should repent and turn to God, doing deeds worthy of repentance. {{rf{21}}} On account of these things the Jews seized me in the temple courts and were attempting to kill me. {{rf{22}}} Therefore I have experienced help from God until this day, and I stand here testifying to both small and great, saying nothing except what both the prophets and Moses have said were going to happen, {{rf{23}}} that the Christ was to suffer and that as the first of the resurrection from the dead, he was going to proclaim light both to the people and to the Gentiles." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Acts-26-13]] }}}
{{rf{24}}} And as he was saying these things in his defense, Festus said with a loud voice, "You are out of your mind, Paul! Your great learning is driving you insane!" {{rf{25}}} But Paul said, "I am not out of my mind, most excellent Festus, but am speaking words of truth and rationality. {{rf{26}}} For the king knows about these things, to whom also I am speaking freely, for I am not convinced that these things in any way have escaped his notice, because this was not done in a corner. {{rf{27}}} Do you believe the prophets, King Agrippa? I know that you believe." {{rf{28}}} But Agrippa said to Paul, "In a short time are you persuading me to become a Christian?" {{rf{29}}} And Paul replied, "I pray to God, whether in a short time or in a long time, not only you but also all those who are listening to me today may become such people as I also am, except for these bonds!" {{rf{30}}} Both the king and the governor got up, and Bernice and those who were sitting with them. {{rf{31}}} And as they were going out, they were talking to one another, saying, "This man is not doing anything deserving death or imprisonment." {{rf{32}}} And Agrippa said to Festus, "This man could have been released if he had not appealed to Caesar." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Acts-26-24]] }}}
And when it was decided that we would sail away to Italy, they handed over Paul and some other prisoners to a centurion named Julius of the Augustan Cohort. {{rf{2}}} And we went aboard a ship from Adramyttium that was about to sail to the places along the coast of Asia and put out to sea. Aristarchus, a Macedonian from Thessalonica, was with us. {{rf{3}}} And on the next day, we put in at Sidon. And Julius, treating Paul kindly, allowed him to go to his friends to be cared for. {{rf{4}}} And from there we put out to sea and sailed under the lee of Cyprus, because the winds were against us. {{rf{5}}} And after we had sailed across the open sea along Cilicia and Pamphylia, we put in at Myra in Lycia. {{rf{6}}} And there the centurion found an Alexandrian ship sailing for Italy and put us on board it. {{rf{7}}} And sailing slowly, in many days and with difficulty we came to Cnidus. Because the wind did not permit us to go further, we sailed under the lee of Crete off Salmone. {{rf{8}}} And sailing along its coast with difficulty, we came to a certain place called Fair Havens, near which was the town of Lasea. {{rf{9}}} And because considerable time had passed and the voyage was now dangerous because even the Fast was already over, Paul strongly recommended, {{rf{10}}} saying to them, "Men, I perceive that the voyage is going to end with disaster and great loss, not only of the cargo and the ship, but also of our lives!" {{rf{11}}} But the centurion was convinced even more by the shipmaster and the shipowner than by what was said by Paul. {{rf{12}}} And because the harbor was unsuitable for spending the winter in, the majority decided on a plan to put out to sea from there, if somehow they could arrive at Phoenix, a harbor of Crete facing toward the southwest and toward the northwest, to spend the winter there. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Acts-27-01]] }}}
{{rf{13}}} And when a southwest wind began to blow gently, because they thought they could accomplish their purpose, they weighed anchor and sailed close along Crete. {{rf{14}}} But not long afterward a wind like a hurricane, called the northeaster, rushed down from it. {{rf{15}}} And when the ship was caught and was not able to head into the wind, we gave way and were driven along. {{rf{16}}} And running under the lee of a certain small island called Cauda, we were able with difficulty to get the ship's boat under control. {{rf{17}}} After hoisting it up, they made use of supports to undergird the ship. And because they were afraid lest they run aground on the Syrtis, they lowered the sea anchor and thus were driven along. {{rf{18}}} And because we were violently battered by the storm, on the next day they began jettisoning the cargo, {{rf{19}}} and on the third day they threw overboard the gear of the ship with their own hands. {{rf{20}}} But when neither sun nor stars appeared for many days, and with not a little bad weather confronting us, finally all hope was abandoned that we would be saved. {{rf{21}}} And because many were experiencing lack of appetite, at that time Paul stood up in their midst and said, "Men, you ought to have followed my advice not to put out to sea from Crete, and thus avoided this damage and loss! {{rf{22}}} And now I urge you to cheer up, for there will be no loss of life from among you, but only of the ship. {{rf{23}}} For this night an angel of the God whose I am and whom I serve came to me, {{rf{24}}} saying, 'Do not be afraid, Paul! It is necessary for you to stand before Caesar, and behold, God has graciously granted you all who are sailing with you.' {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Acts-27-13]] }}}
{{rf{25}}} Therefore keep up your courage, men, for I believe God that it will be like this -- according to the way it was told to me. {{rf{26}}} But it is necessary that we run aground on some island." {{rf{27}}} And when the fourteenth night had come, as we were being driven in the Adriatic Sea about the middle of the night, the sailors suspected they were approaching some land. {{rf{28}}} And taking soundings, they found twenty fathoms. So going on a little further and taking soundings again, they found fifteen fathoms. {{rf{29}}} And because they were afraid lest somewhere we run aground against rough places, they threw down four anchors from the stern and prayed for day to come. {{rf{30}}} And when the sailors were seeking to escape from the ship and were lowering the ship's boat into the sea, pretending as if they were going to lay out anchors from the bow, {{rf{31}}} Paul said to the centurion and the soldiers, "Unless these men remain with the ship, you cannot be saved!" {{rf{32}}} Then the soldiers cut away the ropes of the ship's boat and let it fall away. {{rf{33}}} And until the day was about to come, Paul was urging them all to take some food, saying, "Today is the fourteenth day you have waited anxiously, and you have continued without eating, having taken nothing. {{rf{34}}} Therefore I urge you to take some food, for this is necessary for your preservation. For not a hair from your head will be lost." {{rf{35}}} And after he said these things and took bread, he gave thanks to God in front of them all, and after breaking it, he began to eat. {{rf{36}}} So they all were encouraged and partook of food themselves. {{rf{37}}} (Now we were in all two hundred seventy six persons on the ship.) {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Acts-27-25]] }}}
{{rf{38}}} And when they had eaten their fill of food, they lightened the ship by throwing the wheat into the sea. {{rf{39}}} Now when day came, they did not recognize the land, but they noticed a certain bay having a beach, onto which they decided to run the ship ashore if they could. {{rf{40}}} And slipping the anchors, they left them in the sea, at the same time loosening the ropes of the steering oars. And hoisting the foresail to the wind that was blowing, they held course for the beach. {{rf{41}}} But falling into a place of crosscurrents, they ran the ship aground. And the bow stuck fast and stayed immovable, but the stern was being broken up by the violence. {{rf{42}}} Now the plan of the soldiers was that they would kill the prisoners lest any escape by swimming away, {{rf{43}}} but the centurion, because he wanted to save Paul, prevented them from doing what they intended, and gave orders that those who were able to swim should jump in first to get to the land, {{rf{44}}} and then the rest, some of whom floated on planks and some of whom on anything that was from the ship. And in this way all were brought safely to the land. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Acts-27-38]] }}}
And after we were brought safely through, then we found out that the island was called Malta. {{rf{2}}} And the local inhabitants showed extraordinary kindness to us, for they lit a fire and welcomed us all, because of the rain that had begun and because of the cold. {{rf{3}}} And when Paul had gathered a large number of sticks and was placing them on the fire, a viper came out because of the heat and fastened itself on his hand. {{rf{4}}} And when the local people saw the creature hanging from his hand, they began saying to one another, "Doubtless this man is a murderer whom, although he was rescued from the sea, Justice has not permitted to live!" {{rf{5}}} He, in turn, shook off the creature into the fire and suffered no harm. {{rf{6}}} But they were expecting that he was going to swell up or suddenly to fall down dead. So after they had waited for a long time and saw nothing unusual happen to him, they changed their minds and began saying that he was a god. {{rf{7}}} Now in the regions around that place were fields belonging to the chief official of the island, named Publius, who welcomed us and entertained us hospitably for three days. {{rf{8}}} And it happened that the father of Publius was lying down, afflicted with fever and dysentery. Paul went to him and after praying, he placed his hands on him and healed him. {{rf{9}}} And after this had taken place, the rest of those on the island who had diseases were coming and being healed also. {{rf{10}}} They also honored us with many honors, and when we were putting out to sea, they gave us the things we needed. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Acts-28-01]] }}}
{{rf{11}}} Now after three months we put out to sea in a ship that had wintered at the island, an Alexandrian one with the twin gods Castor and Pollux as its insignia. {{rf{12}}} And putting in at Syracuse, we stayed there three days. {{rf{13}}} From there we got underway and arrived at Rhegium, and after one day a south wind came up and on the second day we came to Puteoli, {{rf{14}}} where we found brothers, and were implored to stay with them seven days. And in this way we came to Rome. {{rf{15}}} And from there the brothers, when they heard the news about us, came to meet us as far as the Forum of Appius and Three Taverns. When he saw them, Paul gave thanks to God and took courage. {{rf{16}}} And when we entered into Rome, Paul was allowed to stay by himself with the soldier who was guarding him. {{rf{17}}} Now it happened that after three days, he called together those who were the most prominent of the Jews. And when they had assembled, he said to them, "Men and brothers, although I had done nothing against our people or the customs of our fathers, from Jerusalem I was delivered as a prisoner into the hands of the Romans, {{rf{18}}} who, when they had examined me, were wanting to release me, because there was no basis for an accusation worthy of death with me. {{rf{19}}} But because the Jews objected, I was forced to appeal to Caesar (not as if I had any charge to bring against my own people). {{rf{20}}} Therefore for this reason I have requested to see you and to speak with you, for because of the hope of Israel I am wearing this chain!" {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Acts-28-11]] }}}
{{rf{21}}} And they said to him, "We have received no letters about you from Judea, nor has any of the brothers come and reported or spoken anything evil about you. {{rf{22}}} But we would like to hear from you what you think, for concerning this sect it is known to us that it is spoken against everywhere." {{rf{23}}} And when they had set a day with him, many more came to him at his lodging place, to whom he was explaining from early in the morning until evening, testifying about the kingdom of God and attempting to convince them about Jesus from both the law of Moses and the prophets. {{rf{24}}} And some were convinced by what was said, but others refused to believe. {{rf{25}}} So being in disagreement with one another, they began to leave after Paul made one statement: "The Holy Spirit spoke rightly through the prophet Isaiah to your fathers, {{rf{26}}} saying, 'Go to this people and say, "You will keep on hearing and will never understand, and you will keep on seeing and will never perceive. {{rf{27}}} For the heart of this people has become dull, and with their ears they hear with difficulty, and they have shut their eyes, lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and turn, and I would heal them." ' {{rf{28}}} Therefore let it be known to you that this salvation of God has been sent to the Gentiles. They also will listen!" {{rf{30}}} So he stayed two whole years in his own rented house, and welcomed all who came to him, {{rf{31}}} proclaiming the kingdom of God and teaching the things concerning the Lord Jesus Christ with all boldness, without hindrance. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Acts-28-21]] }}}
Adam ------related to adamah, the earth?
* Addiction is [[Sin]] exposed, [[Idolatry]] that will refuse to be hidden. See <<Bbl 1S 5:3 "" note>>-4
* The canary in the coal mine. The weed that was chopped at the stem, instead of uprooted.
* [[Servitude]]
* <<Bbl Pr 26:11 "" note >> //A dog returns...//
* <<Bbl Pr 23:20 "" note >>-21
* <<Bbl H 2:14 >>-15 - a ready application
* <<Bbl 1K 11:4 >>-6, 11 Solomon's heart corrupted
* Ezekiel in two or three lessons?
* <<Bbl Pr 4:23 >> //keep your heart//
* <<Bbl Pr 5:20 >>, <<Bbl Proverbs 6:25 >> the adulteress
* <<Bbl Pr 26:11 "" note>> //a dog returns to its vomit//
* <<Bbl Ps 19:13 >> guard me from arrogant sins
* <<Bbl Ps 101:2 >>-4 Holiness and the rejection of evil
* <<Bbl Ps 106:15 >> //He sent leaness into their souls//
* <<Bbl Ps 119:9 >> //How shall a young man make his way pure?//
* <<Bbl Ps 119:37 >> //Turn away my eyes from looking at what is worthless//
* <<Bbl Mt 5:28 >> //who who looks with lust//
* <<Bbl 2Tim 2:22 >> //flee youthful desires//
* <<Bbl E 2:1 >>-6 //once fulfilling the desires of the flesh//
* <<Bbl E 5:3 >>-14 do not participate in the unfruitful deeds of darkness...Wake up, sleeper, and rise from the dead
* <<Bbl Gal 5:16 >>-17, 19 //deeds of the flesh//
* <<Bbl James 1:14 >>-15 //enticed by his own desires//
* <<Bbl R 13:11 >> //...it is already the hour for you to wake up from sleep. For our salvation is nearer now than when we believed. The night is far gone, and the day has drawn near. Therefore let us throw off the deeds of darkness and put on the weapons of light. Let us live decently, as in the day, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and licentiousness, not in strife and jealousy. [14] But put on the Lord Jesus Christ and do not make provision for the desires of the flesh.//
* <<Bbl Titus 2:11 >>-12 //training us to say no//
* <<Bbl 1P 1:13 >>-16 //Prepare your minds...Be holy//
* <<Bbl 1P 2:11 >> //fleshly desires which wage war against your soul//
* <<Bbl 2P 2:14 >> Although predators are luridly described, the warning seems to be pointed at those who would be the prey.
* <<Bbl 1J 2:16 >>-17 //the desire of the flesh and ... eyes ... the world is passing away...//
* Cosmetics:<<Bbl 2K 9:30 >>, <<Bbl Jer 4:30 >>
* [[Gold]]
* Earrings: <<Bbl Gn 35:4 >>, <<Bbl Ex 32:2 >>ff, <<Bbl Ex 33:5 >>-6 ; <<Bbl Ex 35:22 >>; <<Bbl Num 31:50 >>; <<Bbl Jud 8:24 >>-27 , <<Bbl Ez 16:17 >>.
* [[Clothing]]
* [[Sash]]
* [[Pride]], [[Glory]], [[Honor]]
* <<Bbl J 6:5>>-6 "Where are we to buy bread -- ?" And this He was saying to test him; for He Himself knew --
* <<Bbl J 2:21>>-22.
* <<Bbl J 11:52>>.
* [[Hardship]]
* @@color:brown;I am afraid that all the grace that I have got of my comfortable and easy times and happy hours, might almost lie on a penny. But the good that I have received from my sorrows, and pains, and griefs, is altogether incalculable ... Affliction is the best bit of furniture in my house. It is the best book in a minister's library.@@ // -- C. Spurgeon//
* @@color:indigo;I dare say the greatest earthly blessing that God can give to any of us is health, with the exception of sickness ... If some men, that I know of could only be favoured with a month of rheumatism, it would, by God's grace mellow them marvelously.@@ // -- C. Spurgeon//
* [[Persevere]]
* <<Bbl Job 36:15>>
* Pr 24:10
* Ps 23:4
* Jer 29?
* <<Bbl 2Th 3:2>>
@@color:#396;I believe that in the heart of every man resides a little boy who longs to hear the words, "Well done, son. I'm proud of you and I love you." The greatest Father who has ever existed knew that a long time ago. He knew that need and saw it so clearly that one day He opened up heaven and yelled so loudly that everyone could hear, "You are my Son, whom I love; with you I am well pleased.@@ //- Troy Haas// <<Bbl Mk 1:11>>
!! Instrument
* A drum, a dulcimer. There is much to mediate on.
* [[Grace]] makes me His instrument.
* God //uses// Pharaoh, Paul, Cyrus, and Christ.
!! of God
* <<Bbl 1P 1:2 abbr>>
A place designated for worship.
* Surely it comes from Latin, //alt//?
* <<Bbl Gn 8:20 >> (1st mention) (See NASB concordance)(?)
* Abraham's altars are like a trail of Ebenezers: <<Bbl Gn 12:7 "" note>>, 12:8, 13:4, 13:18
* In general, God says Yes. [[God's promises are Yes|./Bbl/2Cor.htm#1#17]]
* //Amen, amen// is a phrase that occurs only in John's gospel. George Murray proposes that Jesus only used it to introduce a statement that He knew would not be received by His hearers. "There's no way you could possibly believe this, but it is true, it is true."
* see also <<Bbl 1Ch 17:1 >>-15 , <<Bbl 1C 3:21 >>-23 ; <<Bbl R 8:31 >>-32 ; <<Bbl Gn 2:15 >>-17 ; <<Bbl Ps 21:1 >>-6 , <<Bbl Ps 37:4 >>; <<Bbl Mt 7:7 >>-11 ; <<Bbl L 12:32 >>.
* Also <<Bbl Mk 10:35 >>-40 .
* As a title for Christ, see <<Bbl I 65:16 >> (Heb); <<Bbl 2C 1:20 >>; <<Bbl Rev 3:14 >>.
* The rendering "So be it" seems to come from the way the LXX handled the Hebrew term.
* Are you amenable? [[Engage]]
* The arrival of Amos from the south in the kingdom of Jeroboam 2 has illuminating parallels with the arrival 200 years earlier of an unnamed prophet from the south in the kingdom of Jeroboam 1, <<Bbl 1K 13:11 >>ff.
** The first prophet was commanded to eat nothing, while Amos is accused of eating at the locals' expense (<<Bbl Amos 7:12 abbr >>).
** Both episodes refer strongly to [[Succoth]].
* Possible allusions to Elijah who prophesied rain after a killing drought. Carmel must always be a contested place.
* Amos means //Burden//.
* David is extolled to the shame of Amos' audience, the northern kingdom. <<Bbl Amos 6:5 abbr >>, <<Bbl Amos 9:11 abbr >>.
* The remnant section is the meta view, grand summary.
!!! The embedded psalm (refers to Baal's attributes)
''1:2'' He said, The LORD roars from Zion And from Jerusalem He utters His voice; And the shepherds' pasture grounds mourn, And the summit of Carmel dries up. ''4:13'' For behold, He who forms mountains and creates the wind And declares to man what are His thoughts, He who makes dawn into darkness And treads on the high places of the earth, The LORD God of hosts is His name. ''5:8'' He who made the Pleiades and Orion And changes deep darkness into morning, Who also darkens day [into] night, Who calls for the waters of the sea And pours them out on the surface of the earth, The LORD is His name. ''9:5-6'' The Lord GOD of hosts, The One who touches the land so that it melts, And all those who dwell in it mourn, And all of it rises up like the Nile And subsides like the Nile of Egypt; The One who builds His upper chambers in the heavens And has founded His vaulted dome over the earth, He who calls for the waters of the sea And pours them out on the face of the earth, The LORD is His name.
The words of Amos, who was among the shepherds from Tekoa, which he saw concerning Israel in the days of Uzziah the king of Judah and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Jehoash, two years before the earthquake. {{rf{2}}} And he said, "Yahweh roars from Zion and he utters his voice from Jerusalem; the pastures of the shepherds wither and the top of Carmel dries up." {{rf{3}}} Thus says Yahweh, "For three transgressions of Damascus and for four I will not revoke the punishment, because they threshed Gilead with threshing sledges of iron! {{rf{4}}} So I will send fire against Hazael's house and it will consume the citadel fortresses of Ben-Hadad. {{rf{5}}} I will break the gate bars of Damascus and I will cut off the inhabitants from the Valley of Aven and the one who takes hold of the scepter of Beth Eden, and the people of Aram will go into exile to Kir," says Yahweh. {{rf{6}}} Thus says Yahweh: "For three transgressions of Gaza and for four I will not revoke the punishment, because they exiled a whole community, handing them over to Edom! {{rf{7}}} So I will send a fire against the wall of Gaza and it will devour its citadel fortresses. {{rf{8}}} And I will cut off the inhabitants from Ashdod and the one who takes hold of the scepter of Ashkelon. I will also turn my hand against Ekron, and the remnant of the Philistines will perish," says the Lord Yahweh. {{rf{9}}} Thus says Yahweh: "For three transgressions of Tyre and for four I will not revoke the punishment, because they delivered up a whole community to Edom and they did not remember the covenant of brotherhood! {{rf{10}}} So I will send a fire against the wall of Tyre and it will devour its citadel fortresses." {{rf{11}}} Thus says Yahweh: "For three transgressions of Edom and for four I will not revoke the punishment, because he pursued his brother with the sword! He stifled his compassion and his anger tore them apart continually, and he kept his rage forever. {{rf{12}}} So I will send a fire against Teman and it will devour the citadel fortresses of Bozrah." {{rf{13}}} Thus says Yahweh: "For three transgressions of Ammon and for four I will not revoke the punishment, because they ripped open the pregnant women of Gilead in order to enlarge their territory! {{rf{14}}} So I will kindle a fire against the wall of Rabbah and it will devour its citadel fortresses with a war cry on the day of battle, with a storm on the day of the violent tempest. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Amos-01-01]] }}}
<<Bbl Amos 1:2 abbr >> - 2:3 The cities surrounding Jerusalem are systematically reviewed, in the sort of pattern one uses for loosening lug nuts on a wheel.
<<Bbl Amos 1:3 abbr >>ff //For three sins, even four// - but Amos cites only one sin. This pattern continues as nations are reviewed - <<Bbl until 2:6 >>, when Israel is condemned for seven sins (three plus four).
<<Bbl Amos 1:9 abbr >>,11 God hates one who "sows strife among brethren."
<<Bbl Amos 2:4 abbr >>-8 As seems common, Israel is judged for a profusion of idolatrous sins that appear to far supersede Judah's.
<<Bbl Amos 2:6 abbr >> <<Bbl See 1:3 >> note.
<<Bbl Amos 2:7 abbr >>a All you have is the dust of morning? Hand it over.
<<Bbl Amos 3:2 abbr >> Hertz calls this //the most famous 'therefore' in the history of the world.//
<<Bbl Amos 3:3 abbr >> Companionship, as of God and His prophet (J Hertz). A house divided against itself cannot stand.
<<Bbl Amos 3:3 abbr >>-08 Amos defends his authority with a sweeping set of rhetorical questions.
<<Bbl Amos 3:7 abbr >> Every stroke of judgment against Israel is announced by God through His prophets. This is a vindication of Jesus as a prophet.
<<Bbl Amos 4:6 abbr >>-11 see <<Bbl I 9:13 >>
<<Bbl Amos 4:11 abbr >> see Zech 3:2
<<Bbl Amos 5:8 abbr >> The water cycle
<<Bbl Amos 5:13 abbr >> Amos is evidently not prudent, since he is not keeping silent. See <<Bbl 1C 4:10 >>, <<Bbl I 59:15 >>, <<Bbl Pr 27:12 >>
<<Bbl Amos 5:18 abbr >>-20 First use of the phrase //Day of the LORD//.
<<Bbl Amos 7:12 abbr >> Amaziah says go //eat bread in Judah//: ply your trade where you belong, since you want to speak of the House of David. See <<Bbl Amos 1: >>.
<<Bbl Amos 7:13 abbr >> Amaziah declares the cult of the king at Bethel.
<<Bbl Amos 7:13 abbr >> Amaziah says, this is the King's sanctuary. Amos responds speaking for God: MY people Israel.
<<Bbl Amos 9:6 abbr >> The water cycle
<<Bbl Amos 9:7 abbr >>-15 The sieve is the domination of pagan nations. If //no pebble will fall to the ground//, there must be a resurrection for the righteous!
<<Bbl Amos 9:11 abbr >> The //booth// of David - another reference to Succoth.
<<Bbl Amos 9:11 abbr>> Righteous Uzziah is Judah's king in the line of David, so the house is not yet fallen. Prophetic anticipation.
<<Bbl Amos 9:12 abbr>> Possess the land of Edom alludes to prophecy at Jacob's pre-nativity, <<Bbl Gn 25:23 >>. Closure on the opening chapters. Septuagint is based a variant which changes Edom to Adam (by dropping the third letter, vav); this is important for <<Bbl A 15:19 >> note.
{{rf{15}}} And their king will go into exile, he and his commanders together," says Yahweh. {{rf big{1}}} Thus says Yahweh: "For three transgressions of Moab and for four I will not revoke the punishment, because he burned to lime the bones of the king of Edom. {{rf{2}}} So I will send a fire against Moab and it will devour the citadel fortresses of Kerioth, and Moab will die amid uproar, amid war cries and amid the sound of a horn. {{rf{3}}} And I will cut off the ruler from its midst and I will kill all of its officials with him," says Yahweh. {{rf{4}}} Thus says Yahweh: "For three transgressions of Judah and for four I will not revoke the punishment, because they have rejected the law of Yahweh and have not kept his rules, and their lies have led them astray, after which their ancestors walked! {{rf{5}}} So I will send a fire against Judah and it will devour the citadel fortresses of Jerusalem. {{rf{6}}} Thus says Yahweh: "For three transgressions of Israel and for four I will not revoke the punishment, because they sell the righteous for money and the poor for a pair of sandals! {{rf{7}}} Those who trample the heads of the powerless into the dust of the ground and turn aside the way of the destitute, a man and his father have sexual relations with the same girl, so that they profane my holy name. {{rf{8}}} They stretch themselves out beside every altar on clothing taken in pledge and they drink wine, bought with fines imposed, in the house of their God. {{rf{9}}} Yet I destroyed the Amorite before them, who was as tall as cedars and was as strong as the oaks. I destroyed his fruit above and his roots beneath. {{rf{10}}} And I brought you up from the land of Egypt, and I led you in the wilderness forty years to take possession of the land of the Amorite. {{rf{11}}} And I raised up some of your sons to be prophets and some of your young men to be Nazirites. Is it not so, O people of Israel? This is the declaration of Yahweh! {{rf{12}}} But you made the Nazirites drink wine and commanded the prophets, saying, 'You shall not prophesy.' {{rf{13}}} Look! I am going to press you down in your place just as a utility cart full of mature stalks of grain is pressed down. {{rf{14}}} Flight will perish from the swift and the strong person will not muster his strength and the warrior will not save his life. {{rf{15}}} And the one who takes hold of the bow will not stand and the one who is swift on his feet will not save himself, nor will the one who rides the horse save his life. {{rf{16}}} Even those who are strong of heart among the mighty will flee away naked from the city on that day. This is the declaration of Yahweh!" {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Amos-01-15]] }}}
Hear this word that Yahweh has spoken against you, O people of Israel, against the whole clan that I brought up from the land of Egypt: {{rf{2}}} "You only have I chosen of all the clans of the earth. Therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities. {{rf{3}}} Do two walk together unless they have met? {{rf{4}}} Does a lion roar in the forest when he has no prey? Does a fierce, young lion cry out from his den unless he has caught something? {{rf{5}}} Does a bird fall into a trapping net on the earth when there is no snare for it? Does a trapping net spring up from the ground unless it has certainly caught something? {{rf{6}}} Or is a horn blown in a city and people are not afraid? Or does a disaster occur in the city and Yahweh has not done it? {{rf{7}}} Surely my Lord does not do anything unless he has revealed his secret to his servants the prophets. {{rf{8}}} A lion has roared! Who is not afraid? My Lord Yahweh has spoken, who will not prophesy? {{rf{9}}} Proclaim to the citadel fortresses in Ashdod and the citadel fortresses in the land of Egypt and say: "Gather on the mountains of Samaria and see the great panic in her midst and the oppression in her midst!" {{rf{10}}} "They do not know how to do right," declares Yahweh, "those who store up violence and destruction in their citadel fortresses." {{rf{11}}} Therefore, thus says my Lord Yahweh, "A foe shall surround the land and bring down your strongholds, and your citadel fortresses shall be plundered." {{rf{12}}} Thus says Yahweh, "Just as the shepherd rescues two legs or a piece of an ear from the mouth of the lion, so shall the people of Israel who dwell in Samaria, with the corner of a couch and the damask of a bed." {{rf{13}}} "Listen and testify against the house of Jacob," declares my Lord Yahweh, the God of hosts. {{rf{14}}} "For on the day I punish Israel for its transgression, I will also punish the altars of Bethel and the horns of the altar will be cut off and fall to the ground. {{rf{15}}} I will ruin the winter house as well as the summer house, and the houses of ivory will perish and the great houses shall come to an end," declares Yahweh. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Amos-03-01]] }}}
Hear this word, you cows of Bashan who live on the mountain of Samaria, who oppress the powerless, who crush the poor, who say to their husbands, "Bring something so that we may drink!" {{rf{2}}} My Lord Yahweh has sworn by his holiness that, "Behold, the days are coming upon you when they will take you away with hooks, even the last of you with fishing hooks. {{rf{3}}} And you shall leave through breaches in the wall, each one in front of her. You will be dragged off toward Harmon," declares Yahweh. {{rf{4}}} "Come to Bethel and transgress; to Gilgal and multiply transgression! Bring your sacrifices in the morning and your tithes on the third day. {{rf{5}}} And bring a thank offering of unleavened bread, and proclaim freewill offerings, pronounce them, for so you love to do, O people of Israel," is the declaration of my Lord Yahweh. {{rf{6}}} "And I in turn gave you cleanness of teeth in all your cities and lack of bread in all your places. Yet you did not return to me," is the declaration of Yahweh. {{rf{7}}} "And I also withheld the rain from you when there were still three months to the harvest. And I would send rain on one city and send no rain on another city. One tract of land will be rained on, and the tract of land on which it does not rain will dry up. {{rf{8}}} So two or three cities wandered to one city to drink water and they were not satisfied, yet you did not return to me," is the declaration of Yahweh. {{rf{9}}} "I struck you with blight and with mildew. Frequently the cutting locust devoured your gardens and your vineyards and your fig trees and your olive trees, yet you did not return to me," is the declaration of Yahweh. {{rf{10}}} "I sent among you a plague in the manner of Egypt; I killed your young men with the sword, along with the captivity of your horses. And I made the stench of your camps go up into your nostrils, yet you did not return to me," is the declaration of Yahweh. {{rf{11}}} "I overthrew some of you as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and you were as a stick snatched from the fire, and yet you did not return to me," is the declaration of Yahweh. {{rf{12}}} "Therefore, thus I will do to you, O Israel. Because I will do this to you, O Israel, prepare to meet your God! {{rf{13}}} Yes, here is the one who forms the mountains, and the one who creates the wind, and the one who reveals to humans what his thoughts are, and the one who treads on the heights of the earth; Yahweh, the God of hosts, is his name!" {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Amos-04-01]] }}}
Hear this word that I am going to intone over you as a lament, O house of Israel! {{rf{2}}} Virgin Israel has fallen and will not rise again. She is deserted on her land; there is no one to raise her up. {{rf{3}}} For thus says my Lord Yahweh, "The city that marches out with a thousand will only have a hundred left. And the one that marches out with a hundred will only have ten left for the house of Israel." {{rf{4}}} For thus says Yahweh to the house of Israel, "Seek me so that you may live." {{rf{5}}} But do not seek Bethel or go to Gilgal or cross over to Beersheba, for Gilgal will certainly go into exile and Bethel will come to disaster." {{rf{6}}} Seek Yahweh so that you may live, so that he will not break out like a fire against the house of Joseph! And it will devour, with none to quench it for Bethel. {{rf{7}}} Ah, you who turn justice into wormwood and hurl righteousness to the ground! {{rf{8}}} The one who made the Pleiades and Orion and who turns deep darkness into the morning and darkens day into night, the one who calls for the waters of the sea and pours them out on the surface of the earth, Yahweh is his name! {{rf{9}}} The one who makes destruction flash upon the fierce, so that destruction comes upon the fortification. {{rf{10}}} They hate the one who reproves in the gate and they abhor the one who speaks honestly. {{rf{11}}} Therefore, because you trample on the poor and you take a grain tax from them, you built houses of dressed stone, but you will not live in them. You built vineyards of delightfulness, but you will not drink their wine. {{rf{12}}} For I know your transgressions are many and your sins are numerous, you foes of the righteous, those who take a bribe, and those who push aside the poor ones in the gate! {{rf{13}}} Therefore, whoever has insight will keep silent in that time, for it is a time of evil. {{rf{14}}} Seek good and not bad in order that you may live, and so Yahweh, the God of hosts, will be with you, as you have said. {{rf{15}}} Hate evil and love good and establish justice in the gate; perhaps Yahweh, the God of hosts, will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph. {{rf{16}}} Therefore, thus says Yahweh, the God of hosts, my Lord, "In all of the public squares there will be wailing, and in all of the streets they will say, 'Alas, alas, alas!' They shall call the farmers to mourning and to wailing, to those who are skilled in lamentation. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Amos-05-01]] }}}
{{rf{17}}} And in all of the vineyards there will be wailing, because I will pass in your midst," says Yahweh. {{rf{18}}} Alas, those who desire the day of Yahweh, why is this for you the day of Yahweh? It will be darkness and not light! {{rf{19}}} It will be as if a man fled from a lion and a bear met him; or he went into the house and leaned his hand against the wall and a snake bit him. {{rf{20}}} Is not the day of Yahweh darkness and not light, and pitch dark with no brightness in it? {{rf{21}}} "I hate, I despise your festivals, and I take no delight in your assemblies. {{rf{22}}} Yes, even if you offer me your burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them, and I will not look at the fellowship offerings of your fattened animals. {{rf{23}}} Remove from me the noise of your songs, and I do not want to hear the melody of your harps! {{rf{24}}} But let justice roll on like the water, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream. {{rf{25}}} Did you bring to me sacrifices and offerings those forty years in the desert, O house of Israel? {{rf{26}}} And you will take up Sikkuth, your king, and Kaiwan, your images, the star of your gods which you made for yourselves. {{rf{27}}} And I will deport you beyond Damascus," says Yahweh -- the God of hosts is his name. {{rf big{1}}} Alas for those being at ease in Zion, and those who feel secure on Mount Samaria, the notables of the best of the nations! The house of Israel resorts to them. {{rf{2}}} Cross over to Calneh and see, and go from there to Hamath Rabbah and go down to Gath of the Philistines. Are you better than these kingdoms, or is their territory greater than your territory? {{rf{3}}} You that put off the day of disaster and bring near a reign of violence! {{rf{4}}} Alas for those who lie on beds of ivory and lounge on their couches, and those eating young rams from the sheep and goats, and bull-calves from the middle of the animal stall. {{rf{5}}} Alas for those who sing to the tune of the harp; like David they improvise on instruments of music. {{rf{6}}} Alas for those who drink from sprinkling bowls of wine and anoint themselves with the best of olive oils and are not grieved over the ruin of Joseph. {{rf{7}}} Therefore, they shall now go into exile at the head of the exiles and the feast of lounging shall pass away. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Amos-05-17]] }}}
{{rf{8}}} My Lord Yahweh has sworn by himself, declares Yahweh, the God of hosts: "I abhor the pride of Jacob and I hate his citadel fortresses and I will deliver the city and its fullness!" {{rf{9}}} And then if ten people remain in one house, they too will die. {{rf{10}}} And if one's relative, who burns the body, lifts it up and brings the body out of the house and he will say to someone in the innermost part of the house, "Are there any more with you?" and he will say, "None," then he will say, "Silence," because we must not invoke the name of Yahweh. {{rf{11}}} Look, Yahweh is going to command and the great house will be destroyed to bits and the little house to pieces. {{rf{12}}} Do horses run on rocks, or does one plow the sea with oxen? But you have turned justice into poison and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood! {{rf{13}}} You who rejoice over Lo-Debar, who say, "Have we not taken Karnaim for ourselves by our strength?" {{rf{14}}} Indeed, I am going to raise up against you a nation, O house of Israel, declares Yahweh, the God of hosts. And they shall oppress you from Lebo-hamath up to the wadi of the Arabah. {{rf big{1}}} This is what my Lord Yahweh showed me, and look, he is going to form locusts at the beginning of the sprouting of the second crop, and look, after the mowings of the king. {{rf{2}}} And then when they finished eating the vegetation of the land, I said, "O Lord Yahweh, please forgive! How can Jacob stand, because he is small?" {{rf{3}}} Yahweh relented concerning this. "It will not be," said Yahweh. {{rf{4}}} This is what my Lord Yahweh showed me, and look, my Lord Yahweh was going to call for a legal case with fire, and it devoured the great deep and it ate up the plots of ground. {{rf{5}}} Then I said, "O Lord Yahweh, please stop! How can Jacob stand, because he is small?" {{rf{6}}} Yahweh also relented concerning this. "This also will not be," said my Lord Yahweh. {{rf{7}}} This is what he showed me: Behold, my Lord was standing beside a wall built with a plummet, and a plummet was in his hand. {{rf{8}}} And Yahweh said to me, "What do you see?" And I said, "A plummet." And my Lord said, "Look, I am going to set a plummet in the midst of my people, Israel. I will not pass them by again. {{rf{9}}} The high places of Isaac shall become desolate and the sanctuaries of Israel shall be laid waste. And I will rise against the house of Jeroboam with the sword." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Amos-06-08]] }}}
{{rf{10}}} Then Amaziah the priest of Bethel sent to Jeroboam the king of Israel, saying, "Amos has conspired against you in the midst of the house of Israel. The land is not able to endure all of his words. {{rf{11}}} For this Amos has said, 'Jeroboam will die by the sword and Israel will certainly go into exile away from his land.'" {{rf{12}}} And Amaziah said to Amos, "O seer, go, flee to the land of Judah and earn food there and prophesy there!" {{rf{13}}} But do not prophesy again at Bethel, because this is a sanctuary of a king and this is a temple of a kingdom." {{rf{14}}} And Amos answered and said to Amaziah, "I am not a prophet and I am not a son of a prophet, but I am a herdsman and I am one taking care of sycamore trees. {{rf{15}}} And Yahweh took me from following behind the sheep and goats and Yahweh said to me, "Go, prophesy to my people Israel! {{rf{16}}} And so then, hear the word of Yahweh! You are saying, 'You must not prophesy against Israel and you must not preach against the house of Isaac!' {{rf{17}}} Therefore, thus says Yahweh, 'Your wife will become a prostitute in the city and your sons and your daughters will fall by the sword and your land will be divided with a line, and you will die in an unclean land and Israel will surely go into exile from this land.'" {{rf big{1}}} My Lord Yahweh showed me this, and there was a basket of summer fruit. {{rf{2}}} And he said, "What do you see, Amos?" And I said, "A basket of summer fruit." And Yahweh said to me, "The end has come upon my people Israel. I will not pass by them again!" {{rf{3}}} "And the songs of the temple shall become wailings in that day," declares my Lord Yahweh. "The corpses are numerous; he throws them in every place. Be quiet!" {{rf{4}}} Hear this, those who trample on the poor and who annihilate the afflicted of the land, {{rf{5}}} saying, "When will the new moon be over, so that we can sell grain? And the Sabbath, so that we can open the grain bins, that we can make the ephah small and make the shekel large, and can practice deceit with a set of scales of deceit? {{rf{6}}} That we can buy the powerless with silver and the poor for the sake of a pair of sandals, and we can sell the waste of the grain?" {{rf{7}}} Yahweh has sworn by the pride of Jacob, "Surely I will never forget any of their deeds! {{rf{8}}} On account of this, will not the land tremble and will not every living thing in it mourn? And all of it will rise like the Nile and it will be tossed about and subside like the Nile of Egypt. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Amos-07-10]] }}}
{{rf{9}}} And then in that day," declares my Lord Yahweh, "I will make the sun go down at noon and I will darken the land on a day of light. {{rf{10}}} And I will turn your feasts into mourning and all of your songs into lament, and I will put sackcloth on all loins and baldness on every head. And I will make it like the mourning for an only child, and its end like a bitter day. {{rf{11}}} Look, the days are coming," declares my Lord Yahweh, "when I will send a famine in the land, not a famine for bread and not a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of Yahweh! {{rf{12}}} And they will wander from sea to sea and from the north and to the east. They will roam about to seek the word of Yahweh, but they will not find it! {{rf{13}}} In that day the beautiful young women and the young men will faint because of thirst. {{rf{14}}} These are those who swear by the guilt of Samaria and say, 'By the life of your gods, O Dan,' and 'By the life of the way of Beersheba,' they will fall and they will not rise again." {{rf big{1}}} I saw my Lord standing by the altar and he said, "Strike the capitals so that the thresholds will shake, and shatter them on the head of all of them, and I will kill the rest of them with the sword. A fugitive belonging to them will not run away, and a survivor belonging to them will not escape. {{rf{2}}} If they dig into Sheol, from there my hand will take them, and even if they climb up to heaven, from there I will bring them down. {{rf{3}}} And even if they hide themselves on the top of Carmel, from there I will search and will take them, and even if they hide from before my eyes at the bottom of the sea, from there I will command the sea serpent and it will bite them. {{rf{4}}} And even if they go into captivity before their enemies, from there I will command the sword and it will kill them, and I will fix my eyes on them for harm and not for good." {{rf{5}}} And thus will do the Lord Yahweh of hosts, who touches the earth and it melts, and all of those living in it mourn, and all of it rises like the Nile and it sinks down like the Nile of Egypt, {{rf{6}}} who builds his upper chambers in the heavens and lays the foundation of his vault on the earth, who calls for the waters of the sea and pours them on the surface of the earth -- Yahweh is his name. {{rf{7}}} "Are you not like the Cushites to me, O people of Israel?" declares Yahweh. "Did I not bring up Israel from the land of Egypt and the Philistines from Caphtor and the Arameans from Kir? {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Amos-08-09]] }}}
{{rf{8}}} Look, the eyes of my Lord Yahweh are on the kingdom of sin, and I will destroy it from the surface of the earth. However, I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob," declares Yahweh. {{rf{9}}} "Yes, look, I am going to command and I will shake the house of Israel among all the nations like one who shakes with a sieve, but not a pebble will fall to the ground. {{rf{10}}} All the sinners of my people will die by the sword, who say, 'Evil will not overtake or confront us.' {{rf{11}}} On that day I will raise up the booth of David that is fallen, and I will repair its breaches and will raise up its ruins and will build it like the days of old. {{rf{12}}} Thus they may take possession of the remnant of Edom and all the nations who are called by my name," declares Yahweh, who does this. {{rf{13}}} "Look, days are coming," declares Yahweh, "when the one who plows will overtake the one who reaps, the one who treads grapes will catch up with the one who sows the seed. And the mountains will drip sweet wine and all of the hills will flow with it. {{rf{14}}} And I will restore the fortunes of my people Israel, and they will rebuild the desolated cities and will inhabit them. And they will plant vineyards and will drink their wine, and they will make gardens and will eat their fruit. {{rf{15}}} And I will plant them on their land and they will not be uprooted again from their land that I have given to them," says Yahweh your God. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Amos-09-08]] }}}
Jesus himself created the angels (<<Bbl Col 1:16 >>; cf. <<Bbl J 1:3 >>; <<Bbl Heb 1:2 >>, 10) and is worshiped by them (<<Bbl Heb 1:6 >>).
* <<Bbl Eph 4:26 >> doesn't refer to resolving every conflict; rather, not holding a grudge. We must not be ruled by anger from day to day, for that is godless and dangerous (B. Matthews 2015).
* Esau planned vengeance against Jacob
* Absalom, snared by the wicked and opportunistic Jonadab when he harbored revenge against Amnon.
* <<Bbl Jms 1:19 >>-20 .
* Jesus is only once explicitly cited as angry -- against men's hardness of heart, Mark 3
* Anger leads to [[React]].
''Smearing''
* [[Authorize]], [[Favor]]
* [[SpiritOfChrist]]
* [[Oil]], //unction//
* [[Christ]], [[Christ-AccordingToPlan]], //AnointedOne//. <<Bbl A 10:38 >>
!! Believers, Volumn 1
God anoints a ''person'' for a ''role or task'':
## [[King]]
## [[Priest]]
## ... and the occasional [[Prophet|Prophecy]]
## [[Teacher]] -- Bezalel, a remarkable instance
!! Believers, Volume 2
* It is without the thinking of the New Testament to view someone's anointing as referring to a station, an office, a function, a spiritual gift or capacity. Likewise to view it as impermanent or circumstantial. However there remains a temporal empowering (see [[SpiritOfChrist]]).
* Noun: χρίω chríō, g5548. Verb: χρῖσμα chrîsma, g5545.
* <<Bbl 2Cor 2:21>>-22 Now He who establishes us with you in Christ and anointed us is God, who also sealed us and gave us the Spirit in our hearts as a pledge.
* <<Bbl 1J 2:20>>, 27 An instance of meyonymy referring to the Holy Spirit. 2:20 is plain that __all__ believers have the anointing, and 2:27 adds that it does not go away.
!!!! Other words
* ἀλείφω aleíphō, g217. This tends to a more mundane, less sacred function. But the distinction is not firm.
* Muron "ointment." (Muron=myrhh?) The distinction between muron, "ointment", and elaion, "oil", is observable in <<Bbl L 7:46>> in which the Pharisee who, while desiring Christ to eat with him, failed in the ordinary marks of courtesy; "My head with oil (elaion) thou didst not anoint, but she hath anointed My feet with ointment (muron)".
Presuppositions. "What do you know? Dead men DO bleed!" * http://ProofthatGodexists.org Sye Ten Bruggencate * To argue for his existence violates Proverbs 26. * We cannot reason *to* God (ex, the cosmological argument: how do things exist). We must establish that no one can reason without God. * We seek to destroy the unbelievers world view. But never to act like a jerk. Of course we will be accused of condescension and discourtesy. But we can deny all just grounds. We could be compared to a plane passenger dismantling the plane. Naturally our fellows are unhappy! Being kind as we proceed helps ensure they won't bail out into Lake Scientology or Lake Hinduism, but into salvation through Christ.
* Authorization, breaking new ground. * Signs * sufferings Mt 10, Lk 10, 1co 04. * Luke accords with the Gospels in reserving it for the original twelve plus the replacement. Paul gives it the wider scope.
* One set aside for a special purpose. -- apo-, from + stellein, to send. The verb, to send forth, is regular NT -- but the noun is not.
* In New Testament, used two ways: First, used by Jesus to denote the Twelve: <<Bbl L 6:12 >>-16 ; <<Bbl Mt 19:28 >>; <<Bbl A 2:24 >>; <<Bbl Rev 21:14 >>. Second, to denote those who preach the gospel, and perhaps specifically those who build churches, area missionaries: <<Bbl A 14:14 >>; <<Bbl Eph 4:13 >>; <<Bbl R 16:7 >>; <<Bbl 1Thes 2:6 >>. F.F. Bruce comments in Colossians concerning the salutation.
* "Missionary" is the Vulgate form of our word apostle.
* Jesus: <<Bbl H 3:1 >>
* Paul: <<Bbl 1C 9:1 >>-2 .
* Means ambassador, and like the English word, subject to range of meaning from momentously formal to the nearly frivolous. Groundbreaking, church-planting, which requires signs and wonders. A 12. The other offices do not come with "of Jesus Christ Christ" added.
* Individually and corporately, they were always in danger of becoming a new religious elite.
* Smile: //It is general acknowledged that the apostle Peter was, at some point, robbed to pay the apostle Paul.//
!! First advent of Christ
!!! prophesied
* <<Bbl Mal 3:1 >>-3
!! Second advent of Christ
* Physical, visible (<<Bbl A 1:9 >>-11; cf. <<Bbl Tit 2:13 >>), and will be accompanied by visible cosmic disturbances (<<Bbl Mt 24:29 >>-30).
* Every eye will see him (<<Bbl Rev 1:7 >>).
* Jehovah’s Witnesses believe that the second coming was an invisible, spiritual event that occurred in the year 1914.
!! Other references
* [[Glory]]
* [[Dawn]]
* <<Bbl 1S 3:20>>-21 General, yet glorious
'' To misuse, show presumption.''
* [[Usurp]]
* <<Bbl Ez 7:20 >> . The golden calf.
* <<Bbl I 10:13 >> Assyria's hubris.
* <<Bbl Jms 4:13 >>-16, <<Bbl Pr 27:1 >> //You do not know what tomorrow will bring//
* {{anti{[[Relinquish]]}}}
* The Ark has a biography of its own, the Adventures of the Ark from Exodus to Revelation. Ref. the Moody Atlas, pp. 110-111.
* It may serve well as a picture of Christ's voluntary debasement. //No one takes... I lay it down of my own volition.//
* <<Bbl Num 10:35>>-36 //Then it came about when the Ark set out that Moses said, "Rise up, O LORD! And let Your enemies be scattered, And let those who hate You flee before You." When it came to rest, he said, "Return, O LORD, To the myriad thousands of Israel."//
<<Bbl 1S 4:3>>-4,13,22 show a strong spirit of idolatry concerning the Ark of God. Was the Ark properly handled at this time? Not long after, priests are struck dead for their careless treatment - why not now? The answer is that Hophni and Phineas are storing up judgment for themselves. It is prophesied for them to die on the same day. God's plan of reproof calls for national shame and confusion in the "capture" of the Ark. The Ark, we could say, does not lay down its own life. Its sojourn in Ashdod can be compared to Jesus' subjection to the Roman authority.
When the sons die, not then does all Israel understand why. Samuel does - God had told him in the night. He must have let his Temple colleagues leave Shiloh with a sense of dread and satisfaction. The Philistines learn reverence through very difficult and deadly lessons, and by the time they choose to send the Ark away they have clearly gotten the idea that God and his Ark are to be given the highest respect. From this point on, it is this understanding of [[Revere]] that seems to mark the fortunes of all who approach. The men of Beth Shamesh do very poorly, and it seems clear that the men of Keirath Jairam do very well by comparison.
<<Bbl 1S 6:21>> recounts how the men of Beth Shamesh asked for the art to be taken off their hands by the people of Kiriath Jearim. To Beth Shamesh the Ark had arrived, on a cart, special delivery from God by the hand of the Philistines. The locals are very happy, but then a huge number of them die because of irreverence: some of the men have looked down into the Ark, and there must be a communal participation or approving response to cause such a wide swathe of destruction!
So in the 1st Samuel chapter 7, the men of Keirath Jairam take hold of the Arctic and they bring it – it is not written how – to the house of Abinidab, and they consecrate Eleazar his son to keep the Ark of the Lord (Numbers 1:50-51). There it stays for many years (20, 100?). <<Bbl 1S 7:2>> adds that it was a sad time.
Here we begin the adventures of Israel's desire to have a king, fulfilled. Perhaps the next time we pick up the story of the Ark is in 1st Chronicles chapter 13. It is decided that they will move the Ark, and they put it on a cart, which turns out to be a very bad decision, being obviously disobedient. It is several pages later that we learn David has realized the cause of the trouble: 1st Chronicles 15:13 records this. But in the meantime, we have the wonderful story of those three months when the Ark stayed at the home of Obed Edom. 1st Chronicles chapter 13 verse 14 records that during that time the Lord bless the family of Obed Edom.
One imagines there was a certain amount of inconvenience, not to say hard work, in being stewards of the Ark for this time. But by the end, we guess Obed Edom had decided it was a pretty good deal overall, and he was coming out ahead. That's what everyone else perceived also, judging by the decision to go ahead and relocate the Ark in Jerusalem.
Beginning with this day and Obed Edom, it seems that the role of the Ark in the nation of Israel has been restored. 1st Chronicles chapter 14 is a glorious triumphant account which includes David's realization that God has established him as king over Israel and that his kingdom is highly exalted. This is followed by the huge defeat of the Philistines at Baal-Perezim. In chapter 15, David does to pivotally important things were more than two: he prepares a place for the Ark of God, and this may be the 1st time in some while that has been done; and he pitches a tent. Then he realizes that it is the role of the Levites to carry the Ark; this harkens back to the devastation and Beth Shamesh. But he must go a step further: David calls in verse 11 for Zadok and Aniathat the priests and for the Levites, and he gives them the instructions that they should know themselves – they must consecrate themselves, and they must carry the Ark properly.
And then, having ensured that the Ark of God will be carried on their shoulders as recounted in verse 15, David appoints music for worship. Verse 25 gives us the word joy, and the verses that follow abandon to joy. And here we have the irreverence of David's wife Michal.
In verse 16 we have, I believe, the true tabernacle of David. Obed Edom seems to be an honorary priest at this point, as he receives special mention in verse 38. Of course, we don't know; perhaps he is a Levite perhaps it is a Levite – why not suppose so, since the Ark was brought to his property and left in his care earlier. David leaves a team that is closely organized and active to offer sacrifices, give thanks, and sing and play music on instruments. Interestingly, teaching is missing here. And as observed, in the next chapter David himself takes on teaching and instruction in his role of leadership.
The parallel account in 2 Samuel begins with a profound descriptive identification of the Ark that associates it with the [[Name]] of God (<<Bbl 2S 6:2>>)
The NT does not present the army as a metaphor for God's church in the earth.
* Comparing the individual to a soldier is common, but the collective is not found.
* The song "Onward Christian Soldiers" promotes a false view of the church.
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* The ordered hosts of Israel; the marching routine of the wilderness. The [[Trumpet]], [[Banner]], the clear [[Communication]].
* [[Power]], [[Glory]]
** "The composure of an army is the wrath of a nation," so recites Chesterton's policeman.
** <<Bbl Song 6:4 "" note>>
Christ's ascension is his coronation. He is now enthroned at the Right Hand of God the Father, which secures his power to intercede for the saints. As for benefit, he explained the Spirit could not come unless the Son depart. (One might question whether J 16 refers to his temporary departure into the grave.)
It seems his removal from the earth is essential to the requirement of faith in his followers. Therefore his ascension sets the terms for our trust and obedience, which is to our benefit.
! Do Not (trust as salvation or holiness)
* [[Legalism]], [[Strive]]
* [[SelfControl-False]]
* <<Bbl 1C 7:5 >> note.
! Do
* [[Fast]]
* [[SelfControl]]
* <<Bbl Job 42:6 >> , <<Bbl 2S 13:19 >> , <<Bbl Esther 4:1 >>, 3 , <<Bbl I 61:3 >> , <<Bbl Jer 6:26 >> , <<Bbl Ez 27:30 >> , <<Bbl Dan 9:3 >> , <<Bbl Mt 11:21 >>
* [[Lowliness]]
''The believer's assurance of salvation''
* ''Assurance'' is close in meaning to certainty, but it is reserved for relationships. This word is close in meaning to certainty, but it is reserved for relationships. Not intellectually apprehended.
* [[SecurityOfBeliever]]
* [[Confidence]]
* [[Security]] -- objective, while this is subjective
* <<Bbl 2Pe 1:10 >>
* <<Bbl Ps 138:8 >>
The Contestant
The Organizer
The Motivator
A race satisfies all needs of teleology -- start, finish, and all between.
Running with no goal -> existentialism
The Organizer has an interest.
Christ is The Way. Christ is the start, finish, and all between.
* [[Select]] (referring to the doctrine of selection or specific atonement)
* [[AtoningSubstitute]]
* Weekley gives a thorough etymology. Literally, at-one-ment, from the anglo-saxon. See <<Bbl 2S 21:14 "" note>>.
* [[Sacrifice]], [[Redeem]], [[Favor]]
* The Wycliffe Ency. has an interesting analysis and a list of "Scriptural Formulations".
* Unlimited & to all nations: <<Bbl I 19:23 >>-25 , <<Bbl I 56:6 >>-8 , <<Bbl I 66:19 >>-21 , <<Bbl 1Jo 2:2 >>, <<Bbl 1Tim 4:10 >> or <<Bbl 2Tim 4:10 >>, <<Bbl Mt 26:20 >>-28 .
* despising of: <<Bbl 1S 3:14 >>, <<Bbl 1S 2:17 >>; <<Bbl H 2:3 >>, <<Bbl H 6:4 >>-8 , <<Bbl H 10:29 >>
* [[Atone]], [[Sacrifice]]
* [[Abraham]]
* <<Bbl Dt 21:22 >>-23 : //If a man guilty of a capital offense is put to death and his body is hung on a tree, you must not leave his body on the tree overnight. Be sure to bury him that same day, because anyone who is hung on a tree is under God's curse. You must not desecrate the land the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance.//
* @@color:indigo;The disciples' claim (according to Paul's theology before the Damascus road experience) that Jesus was the Messiah undermined the law - what was of primary importance was the affirmation of the law: 'a hanged man is accursed of God.' The idea that one who had died under the curse of God could be the Messiah was blasphemous and scandalous. [After his conversion, this argument] was still valid, but received a new significance. By raising Jesus from the dead, God had reversed that curse. But why should Jesus have undergone the curse in the first place? Sooner rather than later, Paul must have reached the conclusion set out in ''<<Bbl Gal 3:10 >>-13'' , that Jesus submitted to the death of the cross in order to take on himself the curse which the law pronounced on all who failed to keep it completely (''<<Bbl Dt 27:26 >>''). The form of this argument
- interpreting two texts in the light of a common term which they shared (here, the term 'cursed' or 'accursed' in ''<<Bbl Dt 21:23 >>'' and ''<<Bbl Dt 27:26 >>'', LXX) - was such as Paul was quite familiar with in the rabbinical schools, but no rabbi had ever formulated the substance of this bold argument: that, by voluntarily undergoing the curse of the law in one form, the Messiah should neutralize that curse on behalf of those who had incurred it in another form. But in this way the doctrine of a crucified Messiah, which had once been such a stone of stumbling to Paul, became the corner-stone of his faith and preaching.@@ // - F.F. Bruce, Romans, p. 35//
* <<Bbl Isaiah 53:12 >> supports the idea of Christ as a guilt offering.
* [[Genesis-22-01-note]]
* <<Bbl 1P 2:24 >>
* Lecture from Jackie Perry-Hill on TGC: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsvN25hfTIY
!!! A common error
* ''Atonement has a logical argument'' resting on the perfect obedience of Christ's life, His identification with His people, and the sacrifice of His body on the cross.
** ''While logical, it is not self-explaining. It must be traced out in God's revealed word.''
** Still, lazy thinkers treat it as having a kind of internal logic, sufficient in itself. The lazy evangelist (been one, am one) declares, "Only a perfect man could offer the needed sacrifice - surely you can see how that must be true". In the evening he marvels at the persistence of unbelief. Meanwhile his friend is wondering why anyone thinks the New Testament makes sense.
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* @@color:darkgreen;'Til on that cross as Jesus died, The wrath of God was satisfied - For ev'ry sin on Him was laid; Here in the death of Christ I live.@@ // - Stan Getty//
!!! Objections
* @@color:brown;George ~MacDonald rejected the doctrine of penal substitutionary atonement as developed by John Calvin, which argues that Christ has taken the place of sinners and is punished by God in their place... The problem was not the need to appease a wrathful God but the disease of cosmic evil itself.@@ This Wikipedia article goes on to say ~MacDonald didn't believe meaningfully in Hell.
* @@color:navy;...the Christadelphians deny the substitutionary atonement of Jesus. They say that He did not take our place on the cross and that He did not bear our sins. This is in direct contradiction to Scripture (1 Peter 2:24). Instead, they teach a kind of representation that was not effective to remove sin and say, "Christ did not die as our substitute, but as our representative," (Answers, p. 25).
Attachment is a //major// theme in God's counsel, I have tagged this //major//. I have also tagged over a dozen tiddlers as //Attachment//. I'm not sure where I'm going with this system, however. I think it's what the //Story// function is supposed to handle -- see [[Build]] for that.
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!!!! Tiddlers tagged with //Attachment//
<<matchTags %0 "\n" Attachment >>
Satan seems dormant, almost gone, while you are asleep in you sin. Only when you think about holiness does he come to make trouble.
* [[Ensnare]]
* [[War]]
* We use that label for such tiny things. If this are the things by which Satan actually discourages or even deters us then we should consider what can be done to raise the bar.
* [[ThoughtLife]]
* [[Accept]]
!!! Mary and Martha
* <<Bbl L 10:38>>-42
* What is sustainence? Which do we regard more highly, earthly or spiritual?
* To be sure, many a sermon has rode harder on Martha than Jesus did. She too had her gift (<<Bbl R 12:7>>). How interesting! that she is the one who welcomed Him into her village and her home (who knows what Mary was up to at the moment). We can infer she regarded Him as the Messiah.
* But considering how the two are fitly described in <<Bbl R 12:2>>, we can't be two careful.
* See Vine's. This word is indeed the root of the English word //author//.
* [[Head]]
* [[Leader]]
* [[Govern]]
* Master: <<Bbl Gn 4:7 >>; <<Bbl I 26:13 >>; <<Bbl Dt 28:36 >>; <<Bbl Ruth 2:22 >>; <<Bbl 2Ch 12:8 >>; <<Bbl Hos 2:7 >>; <<Bbl L 15:17 >>-19 ; <<Bbl Josh 24:14 >>-20 ; <<Bbl Mt 6:24 >>
* <<Bbl Mt 10:14 >>-15, 40 [[Commission]]
!!! of God
* [[Sovereignty]], [[Dominate]]
!!! Spiritual
* "Thy kingdom come" See [[King]], [[Kingdom-ofGod]], [[Principalities]]
* sovereignty of God over: <<Bbl Num 22:6 >>; <<Bbl J 11:40 >>-51 ; <<Bbl Col 2:10 >>
* true power: <<Bbl Jer 1:4 >>, <<Bbl Mt 9:6 >>, <<Bbl Mt 10:1 >>, <<Bbl Mt 21:25 >>; <<Bbl 1C 4:20 >>.
* laying on of hands: <<Bbl 1Tim 5:22 >>
* [[Elder]], [[Priest]]
* [[Leadership-Church]]
!!! Earthly
* ordained by [[God]]: <<Bbl Ex 22:28 >>; <<Bbl 1S 26:9 >>
* sovereignty of God over: <<Bbl Dan 4:17 >>; <<Bbl Pr 21:1 >>; <<Bbl L 2:1 "" note >>
* In Vol 1 authority is discovered in the roles of [[Prophet|Prophecy]], [[Priest]] and [[King]].
* [[Individual]] vs. Group -- Authority through identification (husband is //head=source//)
* [[Disciple]]
* [[Obey]]
* see F.F. Bruce, Romans, p. 54 footnote
* [[Marry]]
* [[Responsibility]] of: <<Bbl 2S 24:17 >>; <<Bbl Pr 16:10 >>; <<Bbl Mic 3:1 >>
* non-responsibility of: <<Bbl 1S 12:14 >>
* [[Judge]] upon: <<Bbl Ex 12:12 >>; <<Bbl I 3:14 >>-15 ; <<Bbl Ez 21:12 >>
* over Jeremiah: <<Bbl Jer 38:24 >>-28
* false authority: <<Bbl Hos 3:4 >>, <<Bbl Hos 8:4 >>, <<Bbl Hos 13:10 >>-11 ; <<Bbl Pr 19:10 >>
* as an idol: <<Bbl Hos 3:4 >> ([[Idolatry]])
* [[Statism]]
* Squandered: Esau and [[Judah]].
* Deut 17 and 18 The offices of ''King, Priest and Prophet'' are covered. The passage about occult spiritism seems to interrupt, but it rather reveals how the roles of priest and prophet intersect. As King, Jesus fulfilled the mandate. His colt is borrowed, His marriage is holy.
!!! of Angels
* Angels as territorial authority. <<Bbl Dt 32:8 >> in the Septuagint. Dan 10
!!! Rejection.
* By name: Nabal toward David, a demon toward the sons of Sceva, the Israelites toward Moses (while he was on Sinai).
* <<Bbl Zph 1:12 >>; <<Bbl Ps 85:8 >>; <<Bbl Pr 14:14 >>, <<Bbl Pr 25:26 >>, <<Bbl Pr 26:11 >>; <<Bbl J 5:14 >>; <<Bbl 1P 2:18 >>-22 ; <<Bbl Mt 12:43 >>-45 ; <<Bbl H 2:3 >>, <<Bbl H 6:4 >>-8 , <<Bbl H 10:26 >>-31 ; <<Bbl I 57:17 >>-21.
* Backsliders begin with dusty Bibles and end with filthy garments. - Spurgeon
* //Apostasy//
8 [[Tempt]], [[Commitment]]
Hebrew term is //thing raised up.//
!!! Usages
* <<Bbl Ex 17:15 >> the serpent -- //Yahweh Nissi//.
* <<Bbl Num 21:4>>-9 Moses' hands, lifted up during battle.
* <<Bbl I 11:20 >>-12
!!! Significance
* [[Order]] as for an [[Army]] or council.
** Thus, a [[Sign]] that creates and signals [[Unity]].
** Indicates [[Preserve]], thus brings [[Hope]] (our national anthem).
** the tribes marched under their respective banners.
* [[Gathering]]
* [[Proclamation]]
** The opposite of hiding.
** [[Victory]], [[Strength]]. "O, Say can you see...?"
** Open conquest. We got it and we don't care who knows it. Iwo Jima. "All your base are belong to us!"
** <<Bbl Ps 20:5 >>
** <<Bbl Ps 60:4 >>
** [[Joy]] is the emotional consummation.
!!! Christ
* <<Bbl J 3:14 >>, <<Bbl J 12:32 >> //the Son of Man be lifted up...//
!! Spiritual baptism into Christ by the Spirit
!! Spiritual baptism of Christ with the Spirit
'' The passages below have not been sorted, but some will belong to the category above.''
* <<Bbl Mk 1:8 >>;
* <<Bbl A 1:5 >>;
* <<Bbl 1C 12:13 >>-27
* <<Bbl R 3:24 >>; 5:15-21; 12:5;
* <<Bbl 1C 1:2 >>; 5:19; 15:22b;
* <<Bbl 2C 5:17 >>;
* <<Bbl Gal 1:22 >>; 2:17; 3:28;
* <<Bbl Eph 1:4 >>; 2:12; 3:6; 4:32;
* <<Bbl 2Tim 2:10 >>;
* <<Bbl 1Thes 4:16 >>
!! [[Water]] baptism
* ''~SoF:'' @@color:brown;Baptism (<<Bbl Mt 28:18 >>-20 ; <<Bbl R 6:3 >>-4 ; <<Bbl Col 2:12 >>)@@
* Hebrew term //mikvah//. I have heard the ritual of water baptism was reserved for an incoming gentile; so we declare we are all (Jew and greek) coming to Christ from the outside excluded world.
* Naaman's healing
* //washing//
* Cleansing of [[Conscience]]
* Geerhardus Vos says the baptism of Jesus by John was for God's people corporately, Jesus representing Israel to God; thus it //fulfills righteousness.//
Components: The agent (baptizer). The subject (baptizee). The element (water, etc.). The occasion. The effect or result.
! //Baptizo//
# to dip repeatedly (incl for color dyeing, to immerse, to submerge (of vessels sunk).
# to cleanse by dipping or submerging, to wash, to make clean with water, to wash one's self, bathe. This word is used in the Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible to describe Naaman’s sevenfold immersion in the Jordan River (<<Bbl 2K 5:14 >>).
# to overwhelm: <<Bbl I 21:4 >> LXX. (More Septuagint uses listed [[here|https://bible.org/article/what-primary-meaning-baptism-some-translational-difficulties]].)
Intensive form of //bapto//. Nicander (200 B.C.) says that a vegetable should first be 'dipped' (bapto) into boiling water and then 'baptised' (baptizo) in a vinegar solution. The first immersion is temporary, the second produces a permanent change - such as we experience in Christ! (citing James Montgomery Boice, Bible Study Magazine, May 1-9-8-9.)
! Christ, with the Spirit and with Fire
** <<Bbl 1K 18:32 >> note
** <<Bbl Mt 3:11 >>; ; <<Bbl L 3:16 >>; ; <<Bbl Mk 1:8 >>; <<Bbl J 1:33 >>
** <<Bbl A 1:5 >> //not many days from now//
** <<Bbl A 11:16 >> //He used to say, 'John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit//
! God (or whatever secondary agents), with suffering
** <<Bbl Mk 10:38 >>-39 //you shall be baptized with the baptism with which I am baptized//
** <<Bbl L 12:50 >> //a baptism to undergo//
! John the Immerser, in water and into Christ
!!! Placing the Judeans into the River
* In the smaller view, the occasion is the readiness of the subject. This is expressed as repentance and confession of sins. John has several ministries related to God's righteousness: his own stark, concrete dedication; the evocation of Elijah, who knew no compromise; his teaching for those who asked ethical questions (which evokes the work of the Judges), with its implicit approval; his fierce rejection of corrupt officialdom; and finally his dependence and obedience to the Son of Righteousness.
* "...that purification rite by which men on confessing their sins were bound to spiritual reformation, obtained the pardon of their past sins and became qualified for the benefits of the Messiah's kingdom soon to be set up."
** <<Bbl A 1:22 >> - the ongoing validity of John's baptism. "This was the only baptism the apostles received and it is not recorded anywhere that they were ever rebaptised after Pentecost. "
** <<Bbl A 18:25 >>, <<Bbl A 19:3 >>-04 - Yet John's baptism must be informed by Christ.
** <<Bbl Mt 3:6 >>; <<Bbl Mk 1:4 >>-5
* The occasion is, in the large view, the imminent arrival of the Day of the Lord - which John presents as a person, the Messiah.
** <<Bbl Mt 3:11 >>; ; <<Bbl Mk 1:8 >>; <<Bbl L 3:16 >>; <<Bbl J 1:26 >>-33, <<Bbl J 4:1 >>
** <<Bbl J 3:22 >>-23, <<Bbl J 4:2 >>; <<Bbl L 3:21 >>;
** <<Bbl A 19:4 >>
* So John's baptism displays the union of God's confessing people (in their obedient readiness) with God's plan for His people (which is now culminating in Christ's arrival).
** <<Bbl L 7:29 >>-30 //they acknowledged God's justice, having been baptized with the baptism of John...rejected God's purpose for themselves, not having been baptized by John. //
* John is overwhelmed - one may say //baptized// - by the utter confluence of these two occasions when Christ submits Himself for water baptism. He is further overwhelmed at the denoument!
** <<Bbl J 1:31 >>-33; <<Bbl Mk 1:6 >>; <<Bbl Mt 3:14 >>-16 ; <<Bbl L 3:21 >>
Yet his ministry is fulfilled but not exhausted at this point.
** <<Bbl Mt 21:25 >>, <<Bbl Mk 11:30 >>, <<Bbl L 20:4 >>
** <<Bbl A 10:37 >>, <<Bbl A 13:24 >>
! Christ and followers (in the mode of John)
** <<Bbl J 3:26 >> //Rabbi, He who was with you beyond the Jordan, ...He is baptizing and all are coming to Him//
** <<Bbl J 3:22 >>-23
** <<Bbl J 4:1 >>-02
! God's missionaries (apostles) in Christ, with/into the Lord
!!! Uambiguous: Water
** <<Bbl A 8:36 >>-38 //Water! What prevents me from being baptized?//
** <<Bbl A 10:47 "" note >>-48 //Surely no one can refuse the water for these to be baptized who have received the Holy Spirit...he ordered them to be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ//
** <<Bbl 1C 1:13 >>-17 Paul says //I baptized//, suggesting a concrete act, thus water. But this reasoning may not hold (<<Bbl Mt 28:19 >>, <<Bbl A 10:48 >>).
** <<Bbl 1C 15:29 >> //baptized for the dead// (it is hard to imagine this proxy rite being other than a water ceremony)
** <<Bbl 1P 3:21 >> //Corresponding to that, baptism now saves you - not the removal of dirt from the flesh, but an appeal to God for a good conscience...// Peter seems not to limit his meaning to water without worry.
** <<Bbl Heb 6:2 >>, <<Bbl Heb 9:10 >> //washings// - uncertain if he even includes the basic water baptism in his thoughts, or if the two statements (both parenthetical) have the same thing in mind.
!!! Unambiguous: Identification with Christ
** <<Bbl 1C 12:13 >> //by one Spirit we were all baptized into one body//
!!! Ambiguous or uncertain - as history
** <<Bbl A 2:38 >>, 41 //Repent, and each of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins; and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit//
** <<Bbl A 8:12 >>-13 // they were being baptized, men and women alike//
** <<Bbl A 8:16 >> //He had not yet fallen upon any of them; they had simply been baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus//
** <<Bbl A 9:18 >> Paul //got up and was baptized//
** <<Bbl A 16:15 >>, <<Bbl A 16:33 >>, <<Bbl A 18:8 >>, <<Bbl A 19:3 >>-5
** <<Bbl A 22:16 >> //and wash away your sins//
! Ambiguous or uncertain - as theology
** <<Bbl Mk 16:16 >> //He who has believed and has been baptized shall be saved//
** <<Bbl Mt 28:19 >> Referring to the nations!
** <<Bbl 1C 10:2 >> note //baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea//
** <<Bbl Gal 3:27 >> //who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ//
** <<Bbl R 6:3 >>-4 We are //have been baptized into His death// - clearly the issue is identification, but does the first use denote (bring to mind) water baptism?
** <<Bbl E 4:5 >> //one Lord, one faith, one baptism, //
** <<Bbl Col 2:12 >> // having been buried with Him in baptism, in which you were also raised up with Him through faith//
! Related - the promise of the Spirit
** <<Bbl A 2:33 >>, 1045; <<Bbl Joel 2:17 >>,18.
The word Faith is pretty useless after all we've put it through. Most places in the Bible (but not all), you can substitute "trust" or "reliance" (or "faithfulness" at some points) for clarity.
! TRUST as reliance
* Faith in Christ results in salvation.
** This faith consists of depending on Him who is dependable.
* <<Bbl 2P 1:2 >> - Yours is adequate. The apostle has no superior station.
* Robert Browning. @@color:navy;You call for faith, I give you doubt, to prove that faith exists. The greater the doubt, the stronger the faith, I say, if faith overcomes doubt.@@
* @@color:indigo;Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time.@@ // -- Oswald Chambers//
* In the NT, contrasts directly with Sight. This is not so we can feel deprived of an essential capacity, as if we are now left merely blind. The [[Eye]] gives limited insight. Faith gives us richer perception than is offered by our physical eyes.
* Faith is the realization of God's [[Provide]] without its natural presentation.
* @@color:brown;Faith honors Christ more than anything else, so Christ honors faith more than anything else.@@ // -- Matthew Henry//
* @@color:darkgreen;To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.@@ // -- Thomas Aquinas //
* For Abram to believe he would have a son, he needed an extreme kind of faith. It's one thing to wait for a train at the train station, and another thing to expect it to stop for you standing along an empty stretch of track; Abram's faith is more like expecting the train to take you aboard where no track has ever been laid. But it was God who issued the ticket and instructed Abram where to wait.
* Jude's command to //contend for the faith// places a wide scope on the word. The conflict he describes is hardly limited to correct dogma, and in fact that seems far from his concern. <<Bbl Jude 1:3 "" note>>
* [[Trust]]
* [[Wait]]
* [[Confidence]], [[Expect]]
* {{anti{[[Unbelief]]}}}
* [[Credulity]]
* <<Bbl A 11:27 "" note >> about faith in the early church.
!! only with [[Obey]]
* [[Faith-And-Works]]
* [[Road]]
* Good to collect other illustrations of this correlate.
!! Need and Trial
* Requests of faith are based in [[Need]]. Sometimes the need may be to know God's blessing (as when Elisha smites the water). <<Bbl Mk 10:35 >> exemplifies false faith, even the "claim-it" distortion of prayer.
* [[Trial]]s present needs. See <<Bbl Ps 23:1 "" note >>.
* <<Bbl R 4:19 >> -- "Without weakening in his faith, [[Abraham]] //faced the fact// (or //considered//, NASB) that his body was as good as dead..." Fascinating that <<Bbl H 11:11 >> shifts the focus onto Sarah.
* Faith as a chair: This demonstration is hackneyed and often misleading, but it could work like this:
## The speaker has a man standing at edge of stage put on a blindfold.
## He requests the man to walk toward him to center stage (to avoid danger and its implication, possible following a string) and turn to face the audience.
## He says "now hang on a moment" and very quietly places a chair behind the man.
## Stepping away, he says "you can remove your blindfold now", which the man does.
## "I want you to keep looking only in the direction of the audience. Now, there's a chair right behind you. Sit down."
## The man smiles and sits down. This can be followed by an interview about assurance in this context.
!! Doubt
* The word doubt is related to the word double. <<Bbl Ex 5:23 >>; <<Bbl Ex 15:11 >>-12; <<Bbl 1K 4:16 >> or <<Bbl 2K 4:16 >> ,28; <<Bbl Ez 12:22 >>; <<Bbl Ez 18:25 >>
* //Weak faith// used by Paul to describe individual [[Scruples]].
! COUNTERFEIT
* [[Faith-Heresy]]
* Faith is not credulity, not superstition, not "an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable" (Mencken). It is a trust based in [[Reason]] and approached though our [[Intellect]].
* Beware of the subtle error that faith is self-operating. See <<Bbl Mt 14:28 "" note >>. @@color:darkgreen;I deny that 'prayer changes things'. God hears your prayer, and ''God'' changes things.@@ // -- Fount Schultz//
** Faith in faith presents an hundred hazards: Is it great enough (Jesus says a mustard seed works; Christ is mighty apart from our capacity)? Does it feel correct? Is a sense of doubt also present (Satan can easily instill that)? Is enough knowledge attached? Enough effort? Enough desire? Has it had time to accumulate? Has a method or recipe been followed? Can you know if your desire had been fulfilled? Have I not made myself the agent instead of God?
* <<Bbl Job 3:25 >> is used to propose that the actual reason for Satan's test was Job's sense of worry. How ridiculous and how deadly to the book's teaching, and how subtly blasphemous.
* Faith is the //substance of things not seen.// Maybe a distorted doctrine about faith could be humorously described as //substance abuse.//
! BELIEF (as opposed to reliance)
The word faith does often appear in the NT as a synonym for belief. Belief and reliance may not necessarily exclude each other.
* [[LifeInChrist]]
* [[Faith-And-Works]]
* The ubiquitous NT phrase "faith in Jesus Christ" should better be translated [[FaithfulnessOfJesus]] Christ, says D. Thomas Lancaster.
* Well-founded trust.
* Demonstrated by the Gibeonites in <<Bbl Joshua 9:24 >>ff.
* <<Bbl Gn 13:14 "" note >>
* <<Bbl L 17:14 >>
* <<Bbl J 4:50 "" note >>
* <<Bbl 2S 7:27 >>, <<Bbl Ezra 8:21 >>-23 , <<Bbl Esther 4:14 >>.
* Paul's challenge to King Festus.
* [[Bless]]
* //Forget not all His benefits ...//.
* //O taste and see that the Lord is good//.
* Paul Lyon mentions the compounding interest of godly living.
* [[Trust]] is the prerequisite for treachery.
* Cordell and Cordell, divorce lawyers who tout themselves as "the partner men can count on."
<<tabs "Gospels"
"Torah" "First Five Books" tabTorah
"Histories" "Histories" tabHistories
"Poetry" "Poetry, a.k.a. Wisdom" tabPoetry
"Prophets" "Prophets" tabProphets
"Gospels" "Gospels and Acts" tabGospels
"Paul" "Paul's Letters" tabPaul
"Letters" "other Letters" tabLetters
>> <<tiddler HideTiddlerTags>>
/***
[[BibleHyperlinkInfo]] for info
***/
//{{{
config.macros.Bbl = {
handler: function (place, macroName, params, wikifier, paramString, tiddler) {
var book = params[0];
var strLink = book;
strLink = parseBook(book);
var ch_vs_ref = params[1] || "1:1";
var array_ch_vs_ref = ch_vs_ref.split(":");
var ch = array_ch_vs_ref[0];
var vs = array_ch_vs_ref[1];
var book_show = params[2] || "";
var entry_type = params[3] || "t"; // t=text n=note
var strSuffix = "";
if (entry_type == 'note') { strSuffix = "-note" }
var strLinkMe;
strLinkMe = funcLinkProx(strLink, ch, vs, strSuffix, "m");
store.resumeNotifications();
store.notifyAll();
//wikify(strLinkMe, place);
var strLabel;
strLabel = ch + ":" + vs;
if (book_show == '') { strLabel = book + " " + strLabel }
if (entry_type == 'note') { strLabel = strLabel + " note" }
var strLinkFinal;
if (entry_type == 'note') {
strLinkFinal = "[[" + strLabel + "|" + strLinkMe + "]]";
} else {
strLinkFinal = "<<showPopup tiddler:[[" + strLinkMe + "]] label:'" + strLabel + "' tip:'Use open button to make the passage stick open' buttonClass:'bibleLink' popupClass:'holyquote' >>";
}
wikify(strLinkFinal, place);
}
};
function parseBook(raw) {
var book = raw;
if (raw == 'Gn') { book = 'Genesis' }
if (raw == 'Dt') { book = 'Deut' }
if (raw == 'Ex') { book = 'Exodus' }
if (raw == 'Lv') { book = 'Lev' }
if (raw == 'Josh'){ book = 'Joshua' }
if (raw == 'Jud') { book = 'Judges' }
if (raw == '1S') { book = '1Sam' }
if (raw == '2S') { book = '2Sam' }
if (raw == '1K') { book = '1Kings' }
if (raw == '2K') { book = '2Kings' }
if (raw == '1Ch') { book = '1Chron' }
if (raw == '2Ch') { book = '2Chron' }
if (raw == 'Neh') { book = 'Nehemiah' }
if (raw == 'Pr') { book = 'Proverbs' }
if (raw == 'Ps') { book = 'Psalms' }
//if (raw == 'Ecc') { book = 'Eccl' } // fix all these
if (raw == 'I') { book = 'Isaiah' }
if (raw == 'Jer') { book = 'Jeremiah' }
if (raw == 'Lam') { book = 'Lament' }
if (raw == 'Ez') { book = 'Ezekiel' }
if (raw == 'Dan') { book = 'Daniel' }
if (raw == 'Hos') { book = 'Hosea' }
if (raw == 'Hab') { book = 'Habakkuk' }
if (raw == 'Mal') { book = 'Malachi' }
if (raw == 'Mt') { book = 'Matthew' }
if (raw == 'Mk') { book = 'Mark' }
if (raw == 'J') { book = 'John' }
if (raw == 'L') { book = 'Luke' }
if (raw == 'A') { book = 'Acts' }
if (raw == 'R') { book = 'Romans' }
if (raw == '1C') { book = '1Cor' }
if (raw == '2C') { book = '2Cor' }
if (raw == 'E') { book = 'Eph' }
if (raw == 'Php') { book = 'Philip' }
if (raw == '1Th') { book = '1Thes' }
if (raw == '2Th') { book = '2Thes' }
if (raw == 'Tit') { book = 'Titus' }
if (raw == 'H') { book = 'Hebrews' }
if (raw == 'Jms') { book = 'James' }
if (raw == '1P') { book = '1Peter' }
if (raw == '2P') { book = '2Peter' }
if (raw == '1J') { book = '1John' }
if (raw == '2J') { book = '2John' }
if (raw == '3J') { book = '3John' }
if (raw == 'Rev') { book = 'Revelation' }
return book;
}
function funcLinkProx(book, ch, vs, suffix, dir) {
var ch_n = ch;
var vs_n = vs;
var ch_pad = "";
var vs_pad = "";
var strLinkFinal = "";
var found = false;
if ( book=="Psalms" ) {
pad_spec = -3
var pad_string = "00"
//max values help "next" show as "next" not "prev"
var ch_n_max = 151 //need fine-tune?
var vs_n_max = 160 //need fine-tune?
} else {
var pad_spec = -2;
var pad_string = "0"
var ch_n_max = 67
var vs_n_max = 90
}
if ( dir == "p" || dir == "m" ) {
if ( dir == "p" ) { vs_n = --vs_n; }
do {
ch_pad = (pad_string + ch_n).slice (pad_spec);
do {
vs_pad = (pad_string + vs_n).slice (pad_spec);
strLinkFinal = book + "-" + ch_pad + "-" + vs_pad + suffix;
//return strLinkFinal;
found = store.tiddlerExists(strLinkFinal);
if (found) { return strLinkFinal; }
vs_n = --vs_n;
} while ( vs_n > 0 )
vs_n = ch_n_max + 5;
ch_n = --ch_n;
} while ( ch_n > 0 )
} else { //dir == "n"
vs_n = ++vs_n;
do {
ch_pad = (pad_string + ch_n).slice (pad_spec);
do {
vs_pad = (pad_string + vs_n).slice (pad_spec);
//alert(ch_pad + " " + ch_n + " " + vs_pad + " " + vs_n);
strLinkFinal = book + "-" + ch_pad + "-" + vs_pad + suffix;
found = store.tiddlerExists(strLinkFinal);
if (found) { return strLinkFinal; }
vs_n = ++vs_n;
} while ( vs_n < vs_n_max )
vs_n = 1;
ch_n = ++ch_n;
} while ( ch_n < ch_n_max )
}
return "";
}
config.macros.BblProx = {
handler: function (place, macroName, params, wikifier, paramString, tiddler) {
var dir = params[0];
var thisTiddler = params[1] || tiddler.title;
var array_ch_vs_ref = thisTiddler.split("-");
var bk = array_ch_vs_ref[0];
var ch = array_ch_vs_ref[1];
var vs = array_ch_vs_ref[2];
ch = ch.replace(/^0+/, "");
vs = vs.replace(/^0+/, "");
var strSuffix = "-note";
if ( thisTiddler.slice(-5) != strSuffix ) { strSuffix = ""; }
store.suspendNotifications();
var strLinkMe;
strLinkMe = funcLinkProx(bk, ch, vs, strSuffix, dir);
store.resumeNotifications();
store.notifyAll();
strLabel = "{{tiny{//" + strLinkMe + "//}}}";
if ( strLinkMe == "" ) {
wikify(' . . . . . ', place);
} else if ( dir == 'p' ) {
wikify(strLabel + ' [[Prev|' + strLinkMe + ']]', place);
} else {
wikify('[[Next|' + strLinkMe + ']] ' + strLabel, place);
}
}
};
config.macros.BblMatchNote = {
handler: function (place, macroName, params, wikifier, paramString, tiddler) {
var thisTiddler = params[0] || tiddler.title;
var array_ch_vs_ref = thisTiddler.split("-");
var bk = array_ch_vs_ref[0];
var ch = array_ch_vs_ref[1];
ch = ch.replace(/"0"/g,"");
var vs = array_ch_vs_ref[2];
vs = vs.replace(/"0"/g,"");
strSuffix = "-note";
store.suspendNotifications();
var strLinkMe;
strLinkMe = funcLinkProx(bk, ch, vs, strSuffix, "m");
store.resumeNotifications();
store.notifyAll();
strLabel = "Notes";
wikify('[[' + strLabel + "|" + strLinkMe + ']]', place);
}
};
//BblStickMe fails when viewed in a popup
//(which if course is the only reason to have it.)
//I tried putting in the Scriptr template: <div class='tagged' macro='BblStickMe'></div>
//It would be worth posting a request on how to deal with this.
config.macros.BblStickMe = {
handler: function (place, macroName, params, wikifier, paramString, tiddler) {
store.notifyAll();
strLabel = "Open";
wikify('[[' + strLabel + "|" + tiddler.title+ ']]', place);
}
};
//}}}
The current method for scripture links (and some alternatives) is explained here: [[BibleHyperlinkInfo]]
!! @@To Do@@ for Scripture links in Notes tiddlers
* Python to go through {{{Comment}}} tiddlers and fix erroneous references. This is where an outside reference was erroneously carried forward and used for the next reference (the outside reference closed a line, the next reference opened a new line).
* Python to go through {{{Comment}}} tiddlers and replace every reference with a link.
* Wishing to deal with quirks of Bible referencing (first step might be to strip all {{{ <<Bbl >> }}} links):
{{{
1Bk 3:16; 2Bk 2:20
1Bk 3:16ff; 2Bk 2:20
1Bk 3:16a; 2Bk 2:20
1Bk 3:16b; 2Bk 2:20
1Bk 3:16; 4:12; 2Bk 2:20
1Bk 3:16-17; 2Bk 2:20
1Bk 3:16-4:5; 2Bk 2:20
1Bk 3:16-17, 22; 2Bk 2:20
}}}
!! Change to an outside API?
Particularly interested in an API to replace my home-made JavaScript solution. This would remove one obstacle for migrating to Tiddlywiki 5. ''External links don't render correctly with Tiddly Desktop. If you see issues, copy and paste the list into a text document and open from there.''
* https://hackathon.bible/data/
* https://api.esv.org/docs/passage-text/ @@promising@@
* https://labs.bible.org/api_web_service @@promising@@
* https://labs.bible.org/NETBibleTagger/
** Better-than-usual reference link converter. May need some adaptation for TW.
* https://labs.bible.org/api/?passage=John%201-20&type=text
** This link can be replicated for 99 books for a complete download. You just need to know how many chapters are in the book.
** https://labs.bible.org/api/?passage=Psalm%201-150&type=json
** https://labs.bible.org/api_web_service for some details.
* https://jsonbible.com/ @@promising@@
* https://bible-api.com/ @@promising@@
* https://netbible.org/bible/Matthew+1
* https://docs.api.bible/common-questions (limited in versions)
* https://getbible.net/about
* https://www.biblearc.com/
* https://github.com/godlytalias/Bible-Database
* http://nasb.literalword.com/?h=28&q=Jeremiah+22
[[BibleHyperlink]] is a macro that renders a internal hyperlink to a Scripture package.
| Usage | Display | Action |h
|{{{ <<Bbl L 15:1 >> }}} |<<Bbl L 15:1 >> <<Bbl L 15:1 >> |Points to self-same (vs.1) |
|{{{ <<Bbl L 6:49 >> }}} |<<Bbl L 6:49 >> |Points to self-same |
|{{{ <<Bbl L 8:15 abbr >> }}} |<<Bbl L 8:15 abbr >> |Hunts back to earlier verse ''08-09''; also no book name |
|{{{ <<Bbl L 7:13 >> }}} |<<Bbl L 7:13 >> |Hunts back to preceding chapter ''06-46'' |
|{{{ <<Bbl L 15:1 "" note >> }}} |<<Bbl L 15:1 "" note >> |Points to self-same (vs.1) ''note'' |
|{{{ <<Bbl L 6:49 "" note >> }}} |<<Bbl L 6:49 "" note >> |Points to self-same //note// |
|{{{ <<Bbl L 8:15 "" note >> }}} |<<Bbl L 8:15 abbr note >> |Hunts back to ''2'' chapters! ''06-46'' //note// |
|{{{ <<Bbl L 7:13 "" note >> }}} |<<Bbl L 7:13 "" note >> |Hunts back to preceding chapter ''06-46'' //note// |
|{{{ <<BblProx p Luke-08-09 >> }}} |<<BblProx p Luke-08-09 >> |Hunts to previous chapter ''07-36'' from <<Bbl L 8:9 abbr >> |
|{{{ <<BblProx n Luke-08-09 >> }}} |<<BblProx n Luke-08-09 >> |Hunts to next chapter 08-27 from <<Bbl L 8:9 abbr >> |
|{{{ <<BblMatchNote Luke-08-15 >> }}} |<<BblMatchNote Luke-08-15 >> |Corresponding //note// |
All these produce a working link, abbreviated to leave out the book name: <<Bbl Amos 4:11 abbr >>:
* {{{<<Bbl Amos 4:11 abbr >>}}}
* {{{<<Bbl Amos 4:11 false >>}}}
* {{{<<Bbl Amos 4:11 0 >>}}}
!!!! Abbreviations
* You can see the list in the macro [[BibleHyperlink]].
* I wish to make the list free-standing (like the color palette); but I can't figure out how.
* Links will work with either the official abbreviation ({{{Mt}}}) or the name of the book as found in the title of the Scripture tiddler ({{{Matthew}}}).
----
!!!! Retrieve text from a separate wiki
Here is the code I used when there wasn't enough RAM to keep everything in one wiki:
{{{
config.macros.Bbl = {
handler: function (place, macroName, params, wikifier, paramString, tiddler) {
loadTiddlers(label:John 1:23, tiddler:John-01-23, bible_wiki_txt.htm, noreport, nodirty, temporary);
}
};
}}}
Workable approaches
* framed link
* temporary tiddler
Loading methods
* inclusion on a per-tiddler basis, using a line like {{{ <<include "./Bbl/bible_txt.htm" filters: tag"[[Matthew-07-01]]">> }}}\
* import all //Text// tiddlers on launch, the usual way.
* It seems we have it backwards in our learned prayers.
* <<Bbl Gn 12:3 >> NAS note.
<<matchTags '* %0' '\n' bio >>
* <<Bbl Gn 15:11 >>, <<Bbl Gn 40:17 >>.
* <<Bbl Lv 6:8 >>-9 (?) leprosy
* Eagle: <<Bbl Rev 19:4 >>
* The stain glass window in Casablanca
* Births are recorded but not described. But sometimes the event has significant details and these must be recorded.
* <<Bbl L 2:6 "" note>>ff
* <<Bbl Gn 25:24>>-26.
* <<Bbl L 1:57>>.
* <<Bbl Ex 2:2>>.
* <<Bbl Rev 12:2>>-6.
* <<Bbl Gn 3:12 >>
* <<Bbl Hosea 13:13 >>
* <<Bbl Mic 4:9 >>-10
* <<Bbl Eccl 3:2 >>
* <<Bbl I 26:16 >>-19
* <<Bbl I 42:14 >>
* <<Bbl I 65:23 >>
* <<Bbl J 16:21 >>-22
* <<Bbl A 2:24 >> (agonies is literally birth pangs); <<Bbl Rev 12:1 >>-6
* <<Bbl R 8:21 "" note>>
* <<Bbl Gal 04:19 "" note>>
[[Suffer]], [[Live]]
* Adam blaming Eve -- an effect of guilt and [[Shame]].
* //A man's folly perverts his way, but his heart rages against the Lord//
* //Let no man say 'I am being tempted by God'..."//
* [[Attitude]]
''Direct, deliberate insult of God.''
* In high school we sang: " ... , super-star, who -- -- -- do you think you are!"
* [[Sin]]
* [[Name]]
* Failing to ascribe glory to God
** Texas State "holiday message" includes enlightening quotes from the so-called great world religions. <<Bbl L 6:31 >> is attributed to "Christianity"; Jesus is not named.
* commands to: <<Bbl Mt 5:43 >>-48 , <<Bbl L 6:27 >>-38 , <<Bbl R 12:14 >>, <<Bbl 1Pe 3:9 >> -- //The LORD bless you and keep you//
* of Paul: <<Bbl 1C 4:12 >>
* Blessing and {{anti{[[Curse]]}}} -- <<Bbl Gn 4:7 >>, <<Bbl Gn 12:3 >> @@>@@ <<Bbl Gal 3:9>>-14, <<Bbl Dt 11:26 >>-28 , <<Bbl Dt 27:12 >>-13 , chap. 28, 30:1,15-20; <<Bbl Mt 7:24 >>-27
* Blessing God-- <<Bbl Ez 3:12 >>, <<Bbl I 6:3 >>; <<Bbl 1Tim 2:17 >>, <<Bbl 1Tim 3:16 >>, <<Bbl 1Tim 6:13 >>-16 , <<Bbl 2Tim 4:18 >>, <<Bbl Rev 4:8 >>; <<Bbl Rev 5:12 >>-14 ; <<Bbl Rev 7:9 >>-12 .
//doxology, benediction//
!!! The [[Father-Son]] blessing given to Jesus
''At His baptism''
* <<Bbl Mt 3:17>>, <<Bbl Mk 1:11>>, <<Bbl L 3:22>>
''On the mount of transfiguration''
* <<Bbl Mt 17:5>>, <<Bbl Mk 9:7>>, <<Bbl L 9:35>>, also <<Bbl 2P 1:17>>
----
* <<Bbl Mt 12:18>> (This does not have the Father-Son context however)
* essential to [[Live]]: @@color:darkgreen;The Bible reveals that blood is in some sense the carrier of life.@@ // -- James Jordan//
* sacredness of: <<Bbl Gn 9:4 >>-6 , <<Bbl Lv 3:17 >>, <<Bbl Num 35:33 >>, <<Bbl H 9:18 >>-22.
!!! Symbol of guiltiness
* [[Responsibility]], [[Guilt]], [[Shame]]
* of a newborn (original sin): <<Bbl Ez 16:6 >>
* of Abel: <<Bbl Mt 23:35 >>; <<Bbl H 11:4 >>
* <<Bbl Gn 4:10 >>; <<Bbl Job 16:18 >>; <<Bbl Mt 23:35 >>, <<Bbl Mt 27:25 >>; <<Bbl A 5:28 >>; <<Bbl Ez 18:13 >>; <<Bbl 1C 11:27 >>
!!! ... and guilt's remedy
* sprinkling of: <<Bbl Lv 8:30 >>, <<Bbl Ex 24:7 >>.
* Christ's: <<Bbl L 22:20 >> (see <<Bbl Ex 24:7 >>-8 ), <<Bbl A 20:28 >> //the blood of God//; <<Bbl H 9:18 >>-28; <<Bbl 1J 1:7 >> //cleanses us from all sin//.
* Passover: <<Bbl Ex 12:13 >>;
* <<Bbl Zech 9:11 >>
* [[Sacrifice]]
* [[Atone]]
* [[Covenant]]
!!! Appropriation
* <<Bbl 1J 1:7 >>
* the Lord's model prayer
* We probably err by teaching that "you have to apply the blood of Christ." The blood is always applied by the [[Priest]], and the priest is Christ Himself. This is His [[Intercede]].
* The Blue Letter Bible is a wonderful resource. Find it at [[Blue Letter Bible|http://www.blueletterbible.org/]]
* Link format: {{{ http://www.blueletterbible.org/Bible.cfm?b=Gal&c=2&v=20&t=ESV#20 }}}
<html><form action="http://blb.org/search/preSearch.cfm" onSubmit="if(this.cscs.value=='Optional Verse Range') this.cscs.value='';" method="get" target="_blank"> <p> <input type="text" name="Criteria" /> <select name="Version">
<option value="KJV">KJV</option>
<option value="NKJV">NKJV</option>
<option value="NLT">NLT</option>
<option value="NIV">NIV</option>
<option value="ESV" selected="selected">ESV</option>
<option value="NASB">NASB</option>
<option value="RSV">RSV</option>
<option value="ASV">ASV</option>
<option value="YNG">YNG</option>
<option value="WEB">WEB</option>
<option value="HNV">HNV</option>
</select> <input type="text" name="cscs"
title="Use semicolons to separate groups -
Gen;Jdg;Psa-Mal;Rom 3-12; Mat 1:15;Mat 5:12-22"
value="Optional Verse Range"
onfocus="if(this.value=='Optional Verse Range')
this.value='';"
onblur="if(this.value=='')
this.value='Optional Verse Range';" /> <input type="submit" value="Search" /> </p></form> </html>
!! The physical body
* as a possession to be nourished, enjoyed
# to be sanctified
** <<Bbl R 6:13 >>
** <<Bbl 1C 9:27 >>
** David's band of young soldiers; his appeal to the priest.
** <<Bbl 1Thes 4:4 >>
** <<Bbl 1C 6:17>>
* To be transcended:
** <<Bbl 2C 4:7 >>
!! The church as His Body
* [[Humor idea|./scott_wiki.htm#BodyMetaphor]]
* metaphor ...only Paul's?! <<Bbl 1C 11:29 >> (possibly ??), 12:12-27; <<Bbl Col 1:18 >>,<<Bbl Col 2:19 >>.
* [[Individual]] as member of the whole: [[Unity]]
* In Corinthians Paul argues that the body is integral because God is one.
** <<Bbl R 8:1 >>
** <<Bbl R 12:3 >>-5
** <<Bbl R 15:5 abbr>>-7
** <<Bbl 1C 12:13 >>, 25 >>-26 - the chapter as context.
** <<Bbl 2C 13:14 >>
** <<Bbl Eph 4:3 >>-4
** <<Bbl Php 1:27 >> - 2:4
** <<Bbl Col 1:18>>
** <<Bbl Col 2:19>>
** <<Bbl Col 3:14 >>
* <<Bbl Eph 4:16 >> Builds itself as it is nourished
* [[Egypt]]
* <<Bbl 2P 2:18 >>
!!! As from God
* {{anti{[[Free]]}}}
* Ez 4:8
* Jn 21:18
* Ac 21:11, 28:20
* When John Bunyon learned his prison sentence he said, "There is a book I have been wanting to write, and now I'll be able to write it."
!!! Use of scrolls and writings
* <<Bbl Ezra 4:15 "" note>>
* The //Scroll// must have seemed lovely as a Kindle.
* [[Scripture]], writings
!!! The Book of [[Life|Live]]
* <<Bbl Ps 56:8 >>, <<Bbl Ps 68:28 >> (as a curse), <<Bbl Mal 3:16 >>-18 , <<Bbl Ex 32:32 >>, <<Bbl I 4:3 >>, <<Bbl I 30:8 >>, <<Bbl I 34:16 >> (ironic), <<Bbl Ez 13:9 >>, <<Bbl Dan 7:11 >>, <<Bbl Dan 12:1 >>, <<Bbl Ps 69:28 >>, <<Bbl Phi 4:3 >>, <<Bbl L 10:20 >>.
* <<Bbl Rev 3:5 >>, <<Bbl Rev 5:1 abbr >>-10 , <<Bbl Rev 13:8 abbr >>, <<Bbl Rev 20:12 abbr >>.
* [[Limitations]]
* //Do not cast your pearls out to swine...//
* Hezekiah's tour of the Temple.
* <<Bbl Pr 27:15>>-16. The Proverbs advise against ungodly control. //He who would restrain her restrains the wind, And grasps oil with his right hand.//
* One yard has a fence, the other doesn't. The children play with more confidence, ease and delight in the yard with the fence. You may think of boundaries as restrictive, but we need good boundaries because they are liberating. (Peter Dusan)
* "Companion", with-bread
* [[Food]]
!! Yeast
* //leaven//
* [[Redeem]]. Works like yeast. I heard the news when I was 17. I left my Mom's home on the east coast and went hitch-hiking. Sometimes the people who gave me rides and helped me would talk about the Lord, and the Bible. So when I got to Wyoming, I took a short break from hitch-hiking and I bought a Bible, a real small one so it would fit in my pack. After a couple of months, I continue traveling, but now there’s something different. In my pack there’s an active ingredient. By the time I get to Texas I've read the New Testament, and it’s starting to permeate my soul. I don’t know what’s happening, but something is lifting. And there I am in a Baptist church in Victoria, total culture shock, and it’s December and we’re singing: "How silently, how silently the wondrous gift is given. So God imparts to human hearts the wonders of His heaven."
* [[Remnant]]. <<Bbl R 11:16>>
/***
|Name|BreadcrumbsPlugin|
|Author|Eric Shulman|
|Source|http://www.TiddlyTools.com/#BreadcrumbsPlugin|
|Documentation|http://www.TiddlyTools.com/#BreadcrumbsPluginInfo|
|Version|2.1.5|
|License|http://www.TiddlyTools.com/#LegalStatements|
|~CoreVersion|2.1|
|Type|plugin|
|Description|list/jump to tiddlers viewed during this session plus "back" button/macro|
This plugin provides a list of links to all tiddlers opened during the session, creating a "trail of breadcrumbs" from one tiddler to the next, allowing you to quickly navigate to any previously viewed tiddler, or select 'home' to reset the display to the initial set of tiddlers that were open at the start of the session (i.e., when the document was loaded into the browser).
!!!!!Documentation
<<<
see [[BreadcrumbsPluginInfo]]
<<<
!!!!!Configuration
<<<
<<option chkCreateDefaultBreadcrumbs>> automatically create breadcrumbs display (if needed)
<<option chkShowBreadcrumbs>> show/hide breadcrumbs display
<<option chkReorderBreadcrumbs>> re-order breadcrumbs when visiting a previously viewed tiddler
<<option chkBreadcrumbsHideHomeLink>> omit 'Home' link from breadcrumbs display
<<option chkBreadcrumbsSave>> prompt to save breadcrumbs when 'Home' link is pressed
<<option chkShowStartupBreadcrumbs>> show breadcrumbs for 'startup' tiddlers
<<option chkBreadcrumbsReverse>> show breadcrumbs in reverse order (most recent first)
<<option chkBreadcrumbsLimit>> limit breadcrumbs display to {{twochar{<<option txtBreadcrumbsLimit>>}}} items
<<option chkBreadcrumbsLimitOpenTiddlers>> limit open tiddlers to {{twochar{<<option txtBreadcrumbsLimitOpenTiddlers>>}}} items
<<<
!!!!!Revisions
<<<
2012.06.10 2.1.5 refactored default options to eliminate global variable and use init() handling
| Please see [[BreadcrumbsPluginInfo]] for previous revision details |
2006.02.01 1.0.0 initial release
<<<
!!!!!Code
***/
//{{{
version.extensions.BreadcrumbsPlugin = { major: 2, minor: 1, revision: 5, date: new Date(2012,6,10) };
config.macros.breadcrumbs = {
crumbs: [], // the list of current breadcrumbs
askMsg: "Save current breadcrumbs before clearing?\n"
+"Press OK to save, or CANCEL to continue without saving.",
saveMsg: 'Enter the name of a tiddler in which to save the current breadcrumbs',
saveTitle: 'SavedBreadcrumbs',
options: {
chkShowBreadcrumbs: true,
chkReorderBreadcrumbs: true,
chkCreateDefaultBreadcrumbs: true,
chkShowStartupBreadcrumbs: false,
chkBreadcrumbsReverse: false,
chkBreadcrumbsLimit: false,
txtBreadcrumbsLimit: 5,
chkBreadcrumbsLimitOpenTiddlers:false,
txtBreadcrumbsLimitOpenTiddlers:5,
chkBreadcrumbsHideHomeLink: false,
chkBreadcrumbsSave: false,
txtBreadcrumbsHomeSeparator: ' | ',
txtBreadcrumbsCrumbSeparator: ' > '
},
init: function() {
merge(config.options,this.options,true);
},
handler: function(place,macroName,params,wikifier,paramString,tiddler) {
var area=createTiddlyElement(place,"span",null,"breadCrumbs",null);
area.setAttribute("homeSep",params[0]||config.options.txtBreadcrumbsHomeSeparator);
area.setAttribute("crumbSep",params[1]||config.options.txtBreadcrumbsCrumbSeparator);
this.render(area);
},
add: function (title) {
var thisCrumb = title;
var ind = this.crumbs.indexOf(thisCrumb);
if(ind === -1)
this.crumbs.push(thisCrumb);
else if (config.options.chkReorderBreadcrumbs)
this.crumbs.push(this.crumbs.splice(ind,1)[0]); // reorder crumbs
else
this.crumbs=this.crumbs.slice(0,ind+1); // trim crumbs
if (config.options.chkBreadcrumbsLimitOpenTiddlers)
this.limitOpenTiddlers();
this.refresh();
return false;
},
getAreas: function() {
var crumbAreas=[];
// find all DIVs with classname=="breadCrumbs"
var all=document.getElementsByTagName("*");
for (var i=0; i<all.length; i++)
try{ if (hasClass(all[i],"breadCrumbs")) crumbAreas.push(all[i]); } catch(e) {;}
// or, find single DIV w/fixed ID (backward compatibility)
var byID=document.getElementById("breadCrumbs")
if (byID && !hasClass(byID,"breadCrumbs")) crumbAreas.push(byID);
if (!crumbAreas.length && config.options.chkCreateDefaultBreadcrumbs) {
// no crumbs display... create one
var defaultArea = createTiddlyElement(null,"span",null,"breadCrumbs",null);
defaultArea.style.display= "none";
var targetArea= document.getElementById("tiddlerDisplay");
targetArea.parentNode.insertBefore(defaultArea,targetArea);
crumbAreas.push(defaultArea);
}
return crumbAreas;
},
refresh: function() {
var crumbAreas=this.getAreas();
for (var i=0; i<crumbAreas.length; i++) {
crumbAreas[i].style.display = config.options.chkShowBreadcrumbs?"inline":"none";
removeChildren(crumbAreas[i]);
this.render(crumbAreas[i]);
}
},
render: function(here) {
var co=config.options; var out=""
if (!co.chkBreadcrumbsHideHomeLink) {
createTiddlyButton(here,"Home",null,this.home,"tiddlyLink tiddlyLinkExisting");
out+=here.getAttribute("homeSep")||config.options.txtBreadcrumbsHomeSeparator;
}
for (c=0; c<this.crumbs.length; c++) // remove non-existing tiddlers from crumbs
if (!store.tiddlerExists(this.crumbs[c]) && !store.isShadowTiddler(this.crumbs[c]))
this.crumbs.splice(c,1);
var count=this.crumbs.length;
if (co.chkBreadcrumbsLimit && co.txtBreadcrumbsLimit<count) count=co.txtBreadcrumbsLimit;
var list=[];
for (c=this.crumbs.length-count; c<this.crumbs.length; c++) list.push('[['+this.crumbs[c]+']]');
if (co.chkBreadcrumbsReverse) list.reverse();
out+=list.join(here.getAttribute("crumbSep")||config.options.txtBreadcrumbsCrumbSeparator);
wikify(out,here);
},
home: function() {
var cmb=config.macros.breadcrumbs;
if (config.options.chkBreadcrumbsSave && confirm(cmb.askMsg)) cmb.saveCrumbs();
story.closeAllTiddlers(); restart();
cmb.crumbs = []; var crumbAreas=cmb.getAreas();
for (var i=0; i<crumbAreas.length; i++) crumbAreas[i].style.display = "none";
return false;
},
saveCrumbs: function() {
var tid=prompt(this.saveMsg,this.saveTitle); if (!tid||!tid.length) return; // cancelled by user
var t=store.getTiddler(tid);
if(t && !confirm(config.messages.overwriteWarning.format([tid]))) return;
var who=config.options.txtUserName;
var when=new Date();
var text='[['+this.crumbs.join(']]\n[[')+']]';
var tags=t?t.tags:[]; tags.pushUnique('story');
var fields=t?t.fields:{};
store.saveTiddler(tid,tid,text,who,when,tags,fields);
story.displayTiddler(null,tid);
story.refreshTiddler(tid,null,true);
displayMessage(tid+' has been '+(t?'updated':'created'));
},
limitOpenTiddlers: function() {
var limit=config.options.txtBreadcrumbsLimitOpenTiddlers; if (limit<1) limit=1;
for (c=this.crumbs.length-1; c>=0; c--) {
var tid=this.crumbs[c];
var elem=story.getTiddler(tid);
if (elem) { // tiddler is displayed
if (limit <=0) { // display limit has been reached
if (elem.getAttribute("dirty")=="true") { // tiddler is being edited
var msg= "'"+tid+"' is currently being edited.\n\n"
+"Press OK to save and close this tiddler\n"
+"or press Cancel to leave it opened";
if (confirm(msg)) {
story.saveTiddler(tid);
story.closeTiddler(tid);
}
}
else story.closeTiddler(this.crumbs[c]);
}
limit--;
}
}
}
};
//}}}
// // PreviousTiddler ('back') command and macro
//{{{
config.commands.previousTiddler = {
text: 'back',
tooltip: 'view the previous tiddler',
handler: function(event,src,title) {
var crumbs=config.macros.breadcrumbs.crumbs;
if (crumbs.length<2) config.macros.breadcrumbs.home();
else story.displayTiddler(story.findContainingTiddler(src),crumbs[crumbs.length-2]);
return false;
}
};
config.macros.previousTiddler= {
label: 'back',
prompt: 'view the previous tiddler',
handler: function(place,macroName,params,wikifier,paramString,tiddler) {
var label=params.shift(); if (!label) label=this.label;
var prompt=params.shift(); if (!prompt) prompt=this.prompt;
createTiddlyButton(place,label,prompt,function(ev){
return config.commands.previousTiddler.handler(ev,this)
});
}
}
//}}}
// // HIJACKS
//{{{
// update crumbs when a tiddler is displayed
if (Story.prototype.breadCrumbs_coreDisplayTiddler==undefined)
Story.prototype.breadCrumbs_coreDisplayTiddler=Story.prototype.displayTiddler;
Story.prototype.displayTiddler = function(srcElement,tiddler) {
var title=(tiddler instanceof Tiddler)?tiddler.title:tiddler;
this.breadCrumbs_coreDisplayTiddler.apply(this,arguments);
if (!startingUp || config.options.chkShowStartupBreadcrumbs)
config.macros.breadcrumbs.add(title);
}
// update crumbs when a tiddler is deleted
if (TiddlyWiki.prototype.breadCrumbs_coreRemoveTiddler==undefined)
TiddlyWiki.prototype.breadCrumbs_coreRemoveTiddler=TiddlyWiki.prototype.removeTiddler;
TiddlyWiki.prototype.removeTiddler= function() {
this.breadCrumbs_coreRemoveTiddler.apply(this,arguments);
config.macros.breadcrumbs.refresh();
}
//}}}
/***
|Name|BreadcrumbsPluginInfo|
|Author|Eric Shulman|
|Source|http://www.TiddlyTools.com/#BreadcrumbsPlugin|
|Documentation|http://www.TiddlyTools.com/#BreadcrumbsPluginInfo|
|Version|2.1.5|
|License|http://www.TiddlyTools.com/#LegalStatements|
|~CoreVersion|2.1|
|Type|documentation|
|Description|Documentation for BreadcrumbsPlugin|
This plugin provides a list of links to all tiddlers opened during the session, creating a "trail of breadcrumbs" from one tiddler to the next, allowing you to quickly navigate to any previously viewed tiddler, or select 'home' to reset the display to the initial set of tiddlers that were open at the start of the session (i.e., when the document was loaded into the browser).
!!!!!Usage
<<<
{{{
<<breadcrumbs homeSeparator crumbSeparator>>
}}}
By default, the breadcrumbs are displayed as a continuous, //horizontal// word-wrapped line of text, using default character sequences for ''homeSeparator'' (" | ") and ''crumbSeparator'' (" > "). The //optional// ''homeSeparator'' and ''crumbSeparator'' macro parameters allow you to specify alternative separators. For example, to display the breadcrumbs //vertically// (in a stack, rather than a row), set the separator values to use {{{[[<br>]]}}}... and, to display a horizontal line as the home separator, use {{{[[<html><hr></html>]]}}}.
{{{
<<previousTiddler>>
}}}
This macro embeds a 'back' button in your content. Clicking the button opens/scrolls to the most recent previously viewed tiddler. You can also add the {{{previousTiddler}}} keyword to the ~ViewToolbar slice definition in ToolbarCommands. This adds a 'back' button directly to the toolbar of each tiddler that is displayed.
<<<
!!!!!Examples:
<<<
{{{
<<breadcrumbs>>
}}}
<<breadcrumbs>>
{{{
<<breadcrumbs [[<html><hr></html>]] [[<br>]]>>
}}}
<<breadcrumbs [[<html><hr></html>]] [[<br>]]>>
<<<
!!!!!Customization
<<<
Using CSS and a few of the plugin configuration options (see below), you can make the breadcrumbs display resemble browser tabs by adding the following to your [[StyleSheet]]:
{{{
.breadCrumbs { border-bottom:1px solid; }
.breadCrumbs a {
border: 1px solid; padding: 0px 1em;
-moz-border-radius-topleft:.5em; -moz-border-radius-topright:.5em;
-webkit-border-top-left-radius:.5em; -webkit-border-top-right-radius:.5em;
}
}}}
and this in [[ConfigTweaks]] (tagged with systemConfig, of course):
{{{
config.options.chkShowStartupBreadcrumbs=true;
config.options.chkBreadcrumbsLimitOpenTiddlers=true;
config.options.txtBreadcrumbsLimitOpenTiddlers=1;
config.macros.breadcrumbs.homeSeparator=" ";
config.macros.breadcrumbs.crumbSeparator=" ";
}}}
<<<
!!!!!Configuration
<<<
__''display placement:''__
<<option chkCreateDefaultBreadcrumbs>> automatically create breadcrumbs display (if needed)
{{{<<option chkCreateDefaultBreadcrumbs>>}}}
>By default, the plugin automatically creates the "breadCrumbs" display element at the top of the story column, just above the tiddlerDisplay area. To manually control the display and placement of the breadcrumbs display, you can define a DIV with class="breadCrumbs" in a custom [[PageTemplate]] or embed the {{{<<breadcrumbs>>}}} macro in specific tiddler content.
>
>For example, to add the breadcrumbs below the mainMenu, change this:
{{{
<div id='mainMenu' refresh='content' tiddler='MainMenu'></div>
}}}
>to:
{{{
<div id='mainMenu'>
<div refresh='content' tiddler='MainMenu'></div>
<div id='breadCrumbs' class='breadCrumbs'></div>
</div>
}}}
>You can also block automatic creation of the breadcrumbs display by setting
{{{
config.options.chkCreateDefaultBreadcrumbs=false;
}}}
>in a [[CookieJar]]/[[ConfigTweaks]] plugin tiddler.
__''other settings:''__
<<option chkShowBreadcrumbs>> show/hide breadcrumbs display
{{{<<option chkShowBreadcrumbs>>}}}
>This checkbox toggles the visibility of the breadcrumbs display. However, the display is not updated until the next crumb is added (or a previous crumb is clicked on). For immediate effect, you can use [[ToggleBreadcrumbs]] to synchronize the checkbox setting and the breadcrumbs display.
<<option chkReorderBreadcrumbs>> re-order breadcrumbs when visiting a previously viewed tiddler
{{{<<option chkReorderBreadcrumbs>>}}}
>When visiting a previously viewed tiddler, the title of the most-recently displayed tiddler is simply moved to the end of the list and individual breadcrumbs are not removed from the list unless the underlying tiddler is deleted. When ''re-ordering'' is disabled, the breadcrumbs list is ''trimmed'' so that all crumbs following that tiddler are removed from the list.
<<option chkBreadcrumbsHideHomeLink>> omit 'Home' link from breadcrumbs display
{{{<<option chkBreadcrumbsHideHomeLink>>}}}
>Enabling this option suppresses the automatic display of the "Home" link (and home separator). To manually add the home link elsewhere in your document, use the following HTML:
{{{
<html><a href="javascript:;" onclick="config.macros.breadcrumbs.home()">home</a></html>
}}}
<<option chkBreadcrumbsSave>> prompt to save breadcrumbs when 'Home' link is pressed
{{{<<option chkBreadcrumbsSave>>}}}
>Whenever you press the 'home' button, you can be prompted to save the current breadcrumbs in a tiddler as a space-separated list of tiddler links (default title="SavedBreadcrumbs").
<<option chkShowStartupBreadcrumbs>> show breadcrumbs for 'startup' tiddlers
{{{<<option chkShowStartupBreadcrumbs>>}}}
>Breadcrumbs are usually only added for tiddlers that are opened after the document has been loaded, and not for tiddlers displayed during initial startup (e.g., [[DefaultTiddlers]]). Enabling this option displays breadcrumbs for all viewed tiddlers, regardless of when they are opened.
<<option chkBreadcrumbsReverse>> show breadcrumbs in reverse order
{{{<<option chkBreadcrumbsReverse>>}}}
>As tiddlers are displayed, breadcrumbs are usually added to the //end// of the list. Enabling this option displays breadcrumbs in reverse order, so that the most recently visited tiddlers are listed first.
<<option chkBreadcrumbsLimit>> limit breadcrumbs display to {{twochar{<<option txtBreadcrumbsLimit>>}}} items
{{{<<option chkBreadcrumbsLimit>>}}} and {{{<<option txtBreadcrumbsLimit>>}}}
>By default, breadcrumbs are displayed for all tiddlers that have been visited (unless the list is being 'trimmed' by disabling the chkReorderBreadcrumbs option above). Enabling this option limits the display of the list to a maximum specified number of breadcrumbs.
<<option chkBreadcrumbsLimitOpenTiddlers>> limit open tiddlers to {{twochar{<<option txtBreadcrumbsLimitOpenTiddlers>>}}} items
{{{<<option chkBreadcrumbsLimitOpenTiddlers>>}}} and {{{<<option txtBreadcrumbsLimitOpenTiddlers>>}}}
>By default, tiddlers remain open (e.g., displayed in the story column) until you explicitly close them. When this option is enabled, only the most recently opened tiddlers will remain open: ''any tiddlers in excess of the specified limit are automatically closed.'' //Note: for 'data safety', if a tiddler is being edited, you will be asked for permission to "save-and-close" that tiddler or leave it open (even if that would exceed the specified limit).//
<<<
!!!!!Revisions
<<<
2012.06.10 2.1.5 refactored default options to eliminate global variable and use init() handling
2011.02.16 2.1.4 in refresh(), use 'inline' instead of 'block' style (avoids unwanted linebreak). In previousTiddler(), allow handling even if not in a tiddler so that back button can be placed in ~MainMenu or ~SidebarOptions.
2010.11.30 2.1.3 use story.getTiddler()
2009.10.19 2.1.2 code reduction
2009.03.22 2.1.0 added 'save breadcrumbs to tiddler' feature
2008.05.01 2.0.0 added 'limit open tiddlers' feature (with safety check for tiddler in edit mode)
2008.04.06 1.9.1 corrected 'limit' logic so that //last// N crumbs are shown instead of //first// N crumbs. Also, added chkBreadcrumbsHideHomeLink
2008.04.04 1.9.0 added chkBreadcrumbsReverse and chk/txtBreadcrumbsLimit
2008.03.29 1.8.4 in displayTiddler(), get title from tiddler object (if needed). Fixes errors caused when calling function passes a tiddler *object* instead of a tiddler *title*
2008.03.24 1.8.3 include shadow tiddlers in breadcrumbs list. Also changed settings so that "reordering" breadcrumbs is the default, instead of "trimming" the list
2007.12.04 [*.*.*] update for TW2.3.0: replaced deprecated core functions, regexps, and macros
2007.10.26 1.8.2 documentation cleanup
2007.10.18 1.8.1 in GetAreas(), use try/catch to avoid "Bad NPObject as private data" fatal error caused when embedded QuickTime player element is accessed by hasClass() function.
2007.10.02 1.8.0 major documentation and code cleanup. Moved config.breadCrumbs.* to config.macros.breadcrumbs.* to consolidate objects. Also, fixed homeSeparator and crumbSeparator default handling.
2007.10.02 1.7.0 added config.options.chkShowStartupBreadcrumbs option
2007.09.16 1.6.1 in getAreas(), removed errant use of 'place' (was causing fatal error when creating default breadcrumbs display element). Also, added chkCreateDefaultBreadcrumbs configuration setting to enable/disable automatic creation of a default breadcrumbs display.
2007.09.16 1.6.0 re-wrote refresh() to enable multiple display instances, by finding elements with "breadCrumbs" classname. Fallback to fixed ID (="breadCrumbs") is still used for backward-compatibility. move rendering code from refresh() to separate render() function, and added definition for {{{<<breadCrumbs>>}}} macro to support embedding breadcrumbs displays in tiddler content.
2007.09.15 [1.5.9.1] updated documentation
2007.09.15 1.5.9 defined homeSeparator (" | ") and crumbSeparator (" > ") as object properties so that they can be redefined as desired for different layouts (e.g., using 'newline' for the crumbSeparator will arrange crumbs in a column rather than a row.
2007.06.21 [1.5.8.1] in home(), return false to prevent IE from attempting to navigate away...
2007.05.26 1.5.8 added support for {{{<<option chkReorderBreadcrumbs>>}}} to toggle trim vs. re-order behavior when visiting previously viewed tiddlers
2007.05.25 1.5.7 added support for {{{<<option chkShowBreadcrumbs>>}}} to toggle //display// of breadcrumbs
2007.05.24 1.5.6 in refresh(), remove non-existing tiddler titles from crumb list. Also, hijack removeTiddler() so crumbs can be updated after tiddler is deleted.
2007.04.11 1.5.5 added optional params to previousTiddler macro handler() to allow alternative label and tooltip text (instead of default "back")
2007.03.02 1.5.4 in refresh(), for TW2.2, look for "storyDisplay" instead of "tiddlerDisplay" but keep fallback to "tiddlerDisplay" for TW2.1 or earlier
2007.02.24 1.5.3 changed from hijack of onClickTiddlerLink to hijack of displayTiddler() so that ALL displayed tiddlers are recorded in the crumbs, including programmatically displayed tiddlers opened by macros, scripts, etc., (such as [[GotoPlugin]], among many others) in addition to those opened by clicks on links.
2007.02.24 [1.5.2.0] eliminated global space clutter by moving function and data declarations so they are contained inside config.breadCrumbs object.
2007.02.06 1.5.1 added "previousTiddler" macro (for use in sidebar)
2007.02.05 1.5.0 added "previousTiddler" toolbar command (aka, "back")
2006.08.04 [1.4.0.1] change spaces to tabs
2006.08.04 1.4.0 modified from 1.4.0 distro: in refresh(), set {{{display:none/block}}} instead of {{{visibility:hidden/visible}}}. In home(), check for valid crumbArea before setting style.
2006.08.02 1.4.0 Fixed bug, the redefined onClickTiddlerLink_orig_breadCrumbs works incorrectly on IE
2006.07.20 1.3.0 Runs compatibly with TW 2.1.0 (rev #403+)
2006.02.07 1.2.0 change global array breadCrumbs to config.breadCrumbs by Eric's suggestion
2006.02.04 1.1.0 JSLint checked
2006.02.01 1.0.0 initial release
<<<
* [[Need]], [[Lowliness]], [[Sin]], [[Depravity]]
* [[Free]]
* [[Attitude]]
* {{anti{[[Deny]]}}}
* //crush, press//, [[Thresh]]
* [[Vessel]] Something powerful is released.
* <<Bbl Jud 7:19 >> -- Joshua's army broke the clay pitchers -- the torches, hidden inside, shined out.
* Jerusalem's walls //broken// and //burned with fire//
* <<Bbl Mt 15:34 >>-37 . Why didn't he just make it become a lot of little loaves? But he broke it, and kept breaking it. Then they picked up the //broken pieces// (vs. 37).
* <<Bbl Mk 14:3 >>-9 The woman brought in perfume, but in order to put it on the feet the Jesus she had to break the alabaster vial.
* Jesus knew that in order for Him to be shared He would have to be broken. [[LordsSupper]]
* <<Bbl L 24:25 >>-35 , especially vs. 35.
* In the garden, sin was isolated. Now sin is normative. (Todd Tipton)
* Isaiah 55 thirsty and broke
* <<Bbl Ps 51:17 >>, <<Bbl Ps 51:8 >>. <<Bbl Hos 6:6 >>.
* @@color:indigo;Our life is full of brokenness -- broken relationships, broken promises, broken expectations. How can we live with that brokenness without becoming bitter and resentful except by returning again and again to God's faithful presence in our lives.@@ // -- Henri Nouwen//
* @@color:brown; My faithful request and admonition is that you join our company and associate with us, who are real, great, and hard-boiled sinners. You must by no means make Christ to seem paltry and trifling to us, as though He could be our Helper only when we want to be rid from imaginary, nominal, and childish sins. No, no! That would not be good for us. He must rather be a Savior and Redeemer from real, great, grievous and damnable transgressions and iniquities, yes, from the very greatest and most shocking sins -- to be brief, from all sins added together in a grand total. You want to be a superficial sinner and, accordingly, expect to have in Christ a superficial Savior. You will have to get used to the belief that Christ is a real Savior and you are a real sinner. For God is neither jesting nor dealing in imaginary affairs, but He was greatly and most assuredly in earnest when He sent His own Son into the world and sacrificed Him for our sakes.@@ // -- Martin Luther, in a letter to Spalatin //
* Brother with Christ -- <<Bbl H 2:11 >>-12 , <<Bbl J 20:17 >>, <<Bbl R 8:29 >>; <<Bbl Mt 12:49 >>-50 =<<Bbl L 8:19 >>-21 .
* [[Family]]
* //Am I my brother's keeper?// The Bible ultimately offers a somewhat complicated answer.
!! Levirate
* Latin for //brother-in-law//
* Gen 38:8
* <<Bbl Dt 25:5>>-10
* [[Graft]]
!!!! False or misplaced
* Genesis chapter 19 Verse 31 in which the daughters of lot take matters into their own hands. Or their own.
* Also the remedies of Abraham and Sarah in their distress. & .
The "magic minute" -- Jesus conducted Himself so to flout this. It tips into deep irony when Mary protests the opening of the tomb. No, no one doubts the magic minute -- no one DELAYS to pray in the face of immeidate fatality.
Eutychus who falls asleep -- it is impossible not to imagine humor on Luke's face, recording this.
The Eutychus chapter also valuable for displaying what an in-house sermon was like... are there other clues?
[[House]]
[[Founding]]
[[Door]]
[[Gate]]
[[Security]]
[[Tent]]
[[Tabernacle-of-David]]
[[Tower]]
[[Encourage-AsBuild]]
[[Individual]]
* <<Bbl Mt 11:18 >>
* <<Bbl Gal 1:1 "" note>>, <<Bbl Gal 3:13 "" note>>
* //yoke// <<Bbl Matt 11:29 >> vs <<Bbl A 15:10 >>.
!! As prophecy
* Amos means burden.
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* [[God-Purposes]]
* [[Name]]
* [[Peter]]
* Jesus says the name twice, <<Bbl L 10:41 >>, 2213, <<Bbl Mt 27:46 >>.
who has little, will receive more
do you not know we shall judge the angels?
All provision is a token of the next trial or need
Is this is so, why then is it this way? -- Genesis Mom
from glory to glory
your suffering is for the future comfort of another
killed the lion and the bear
[[Grow]]
<<Bbl I 56:3 >>-8 ; <<Bbl Mt 19:11 >>-12 ; <<Bbl 1C 7:7 >>-35 ; <<Bbl Rev 14:1 >>
* [[Sexuality]]
* Nehemiah models some of today's principles. [Later note: I wonder what I was thinking of with this tiddler.]]
* //Courtship//
* [[Immorality-No]], [[Purity]]
* {{anti{[[Immorality]]}}}
* Where you put your hands, your body will follow. As a wave approaches the beach, it cannot subside one hundred yards away but must break on the shore.
* Divorce follows fornication. The couple that falsely swears chastity will hardly do better on the wedding vows.
* @@color:brown;The essence of chastity is not the suppression of lust, but the total orientation of one's life towards a goal. @@ // - Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Letters and Papers From Prison//
* Chiasmus is a concentric [[Parallelism]] that shapes writing in order to accentuate the main idea.
* It is the //rhetoric reversal of the order of words in the second of two parallel phrases// [[source|http://www.preceptaustin.org/2corinthians_129_commentary.htm]].
* https://www.litcharts.com/literary-devices-and-terms/chiasmus has superb explanations.
* Chiasmus involves two elements: inversion and balance. These produce a third: climactic centrality.
* Chiasmus is distinctive of Semitic language; but plenty to see the NT as well.
* It is important to narrative (and only narrative?).
* One infers it is essential to oral history.
* Adj //chiastic//. (The nouns //chiasmus, chiasma// apply to physiology and not literature - at least formally.)
* The work of exegesis that explores chiasmus is known generally as [[form criticism|Scripture-FormCriticism]].
* [[StudyResources]] for some sources
!! Instances outside of the Bible
** At narrative level, __The Rival Poet__ by Billy Collins (not sure I perceive this anymore)
** At narrative level, __Flowers for Algernon__
** At sentence level: "A place for everything, and everything in its place."
!! In the Bible
@@display:block;height:24em;overflow:auto;
|<<Bbl Eccl 11:3 "" note>>-12:2b ||
|<<Bbl Gn 3:6 "" note>>-11 ||
|<<Bbl Gn 6:10 "" note>> to <<Bbl Gn 9:19>> |God remembered Noah (<<Bbl Gn 8:1>>) |
|<<Bbl Gn 7:21>>-22 |All flesh died... ||
|<<Bbl Gn 17:1 "" note>>-25 ||
|<<Bbl Gn 22:1 "" note>>ff ||
|[[Gen-31-01-chiasmus]] | |
|<<Bbl Gn 32:1 "" note>> |Jacob crossing the river |
|[[Ex-03-08-chiasmus]] |The Name of the Lord - I AM |
|<<Bbl Josh 1:8 "" note>> |Be strong and courageous |
|Joshua 1:27-3:8 |Possibly 1:27=3:1, 2:1=2:20, 2:6=2:17, 2:11ff=2:14 |
|[[Ruth-02-01-chiasmus ]] | |
|In ''Job'' the climactic storm parallels the early catastrophes. |>|
|<<Bbl Ps 1:1 "" note >> |The righteous prosper, not so the wicked |
|<<Bbl Ps 9:10 "" note>> |Those who know Your Name |
|<<Bbl Ps 22:1 >>-5 @@?@@ ||
|<<Bbl Ps 23:1 "" note >> |You comfort me |
|<<Bbl Ps 74:1 "" note >> ||
|Ps 133:1 ff |Unity and God's anointing, blessing |
|<<Bbl Ps 137:1 "" note >> ||
|<<Bbl 2S 22:2 >>-25 |David says God arrived on the wings of the wind|
|<<Bbl 2K 2:2 >>-25 |and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven. |
|<<Bbl 2Ch 1:1 >> to 9:31 |the Life of Solomon, King of Israel. |
|<<Bbl Hos 1:9 "" note >> to <<Bbl Hos 2:23 abbr >> |But Me she forgot, -- says the LORD. |
|<<Bbl I 6:1>>-7 ||
|<<Bbl I 60:1>>-3 ||
|[[Esther-01-00-chiasmus]] ||
|John 1 to 5, 5 to 1, with others embedded. Joel says to look at the verbs, the "was's". |>|
|<<Bbl J 1:18>> |See my Zondevan Greek Interlinear |
|<<Bbl J 2:1 "" note>> ||
|<<Bbl Mt 13:13>>-18 ||
|<<Bbl Mt 28:18 "" note>>-20 ||
|Lk 15:11-32 |24-25 are at the center |
|<<Bbl R 1:1 "" note >> ||
|<<Bbl R 2:4 >>-11 ||
|<<Bbl R 3:20 >>-28 ||
|<<Bbl R 8:35 >>-39 ||
|<<Bbl Col 1:9 "" note>>-11 |Fruitful and pleasing to God |
|<<Bbl 2C 12:9 "" note>> |"my Grace is..." Good for an intro! |
|[[Hebrews-11-chiasmus]] ||
|<<Bbl Titus 1:10 >> to <<Bbl Titus 3:11 >> ||
|[[1Pt-03-16ff-chiasmus]] |Possible |
|<<Bbl Rev 21:1>>-5 |__Redemption__ p 90 |
Often a metaphor for [[Dependence|Depend]]
* Innocence is not in view!
* But simplicity is; that is an aspect of dependence.
* In 1981, no one mentioned we sometimes sang what had been published for children.
* <<Bbl Mk 9:37 >>
* <<Bbl Mt 18:3 "" note >>-4
* <<Bbl Mt 10:42 "" note >>, <<Bbl Mt 18:5 "" note >> //Little Ones// does not refer to literal children.
!! A child is given
* <<Bbl Gn 15:4 >>
* <<Bbl Gn 17:19 >>
* <<Bbl I 9:6>>
* <<Bbl L 2:11 >>
* Jesus is too good to be too good to be true. He is too good to be imaginary. // -- Peter Dusan//
* What was His vocation while on earth? Jesus was an evangelist.
* [[Jesus]]
* [[Christ-DualNature]], [[Kenosis]]
!!! The offices of Christ
* [[Prophet|Prophecy]] //(Mind ...?)//
* [[Priest]] //(Emotions ...?)//
* [[King]] //(Will ...?)//
* Sage
These consummate the OT representations of [[Authorize]].
!!! The relations of Christ
* [[Savior|Salvation-Savior]]
* [[Son|Father-Son]]
* [[Victor|Victory]]
!!! Other topics
* [[Hope]]
* [[Appear]]
* [[Ascend]]
* <<Bbl J 17:12>> Christ kept all, //except the son of perdition, in order that the scriptures might be fulfilled.//
* <<Bbl A 1:16>> Christ chose twelve and destined them to judge the twelve tribes of Israel. Yet one of them was supremely unworthy. How to reconcile this paradox? This they know: //the scriptures had to be fulfilled//.
* <<Bbl Mt 6:25>>
* <<Bbl L 12:15>>
* <<Bbl J 13:34>>-35
* <<Bbl A 1:8>>
* [[Command]]
* [[GoldenRule]]
{|
| [[God-Preeminent]]
| [[Man]]
|-
| [[Sovereignty]]
| [[IdentifyWith]]
|-
| [[Glory]]
| [[Humility]]
|-
| [[Strength]], [[Power]]
| [[Weakness]], [[Frailty]]
|-
| [[Holiness]]<br> [[Righteousness]]
| Likeness of<br>[[Sin]]ful [[Flesh]]
|-
| [[Live]]
| [[Die]]
|-
| [[King]]
| [[Serve]]
|-
| [[Wealth]]
| [[Poverty]]
|-
|colspan="2"| ''Manifest, Hidden;'' [[Invisible-Visible]]
|}
!!All mysterious!
* Exploration of the doctrine of [[Kenosis]] cannot but magnify the glory of the mystery (though many blaspheme with cold academic analysis).
* Two terms unhelpful: hypostatic union and "the God-man". Scripture never attempts this level of summary; shorthand is misleading and almost instantly irreverent.
* <<Bbl I 49:1 >>-3
* <<Bbl R 01:03 "" note >> -04.
* James' presentation of Elijah is similar to a statement in Hebrews about Jesus. Yet we are to avoid the humanizing error.
* Some biographical verses force us to perceive or understand Jesus as one or the other. Even in Hebrews, the statements that force his humanity are biographical.
* Son of man.
## A human, similar to Moroccan //Ben-Adam//.
## as an Aramaic expression, one's self (the Canadian "one raises corgis").
## the coming ruler of Dan 7 (with ref to Acts 7:55,56); a title for [[Christ-Messiah]]
! [[Man]]
* The early acknowledgements of Jesus as the Son of God (<<Bbl Mt 14:33>>, <<Bbl Mt 16:16 abbr >>, <<Bbl Mt 26:63 abbr >>) mean acceptance of Him as Messiah but not as God. The term //Son of God// did not mean divinity. It did not equate to //God the Son//. It was keyed in history and psalms to the promise to David. It happens Jesus has both titles, but this was not known for most of His earthly life.
* ''Messiah'' suggested a unique human.
* <<Bbl Ps 110:10 "" note >>
* <<Bbl J 1:1 "" note >>-3
* <<Bbl J 17:4 >>
* <<Bbl J 13:23 "" note >>
* <<Bbl Mk 5:30 >> //He couldn't escape notice// - well, we know from elsewhere that He ''could''.
* <<Bbl Mk 7:24 >> //He couldn't escape notice// - well, we know from elsewhere that He ''could''.
* Eating fish, he is human.
* //Not my will, but yours// -- where so often before he had signaled obedience and even more, integrity.
* <<Bbl H 5:7>>-9: In the days of His ''flesh'', He offered up both prayers and ''supplications with loud crying and tears'' to the One ''able to save Him'' from death, and He was ''heard //because of// His piety''. 8 Although He was a Son, He ''learned'' obedience from the things which He suffered. 9 And having been ''made perfect'', He became to all those who obey Him the source of eternal salvation,
* <<Bbl Mt 4:11 >> //And angels came and ministered to Him// -- mysterious.
* <<Bbl L 22:33 "" note >> to see another angel at work. (Reference is wrong.)
! [[God]]
* Jesus is eternally God (<<Bbl J 1:1 >>; 8:58; cf. <<Bbl Ex 3:14 >>) and has the exact same divine nature as the Father (<<Bbl J 5:18 >>; 10:30; <<Bbl Heb 1:3 >>).
* A comparison of the OT and NT equates Jesus with Jehovah.
** <<Bbl I 43:11 >> with <<Bbl Tit 2:13 >>
** <<Bbl I 44:24 >> with <<Bbl Col 1:16 >>
** <<Bbl I 6:1 >>-5 with <<Bbl J 12:41 >>
* Christ was sovereign when He died on the cross.
* @@color:brown;Sovereignty is an attribute of God. According to Don Fortner it means ruling "all things, everywhere, at all times absolutely." If, by becoming man, [[Christ|Christ-DualNature]] gave up the use of His divine attributes in any way, then He was not sovereign. If Jesus was not sovereign during His earthly ministry, then He was not God. If He was not God, the Word that was God (<<Bbl J 1:1>>) never became flesh - only part of the Word did. And the name "Immanuel," meaning "God with us" (<<Bbl Mt 1:23>> NASB), is a lie, and God's Word is not true.@@ ([[D. Musick |http://kenosis.info/index.shtml#KenoticistsChristian]])
* <<Bbl J 1:1 >>-3, <<Bbl J 1:14 >>, <<Bbl 1J 4:2 >>, <<Bbl 1P 1:20 >>
* <<Bbl J 10:30 "" note >>
* Thomas' final confession
* <<Bbl A 20:28>> -- the blood of God
* <<Bbl Col 1:17>>-20
* <<Bbl 1C 8:6 >>
* <<Bbl 2C 5:19>>
* <<Bbl 1Tim 3:16>>
! Immanuel: “God with us”
* <<Bbl Col 2:9 "" note >>
* <<Bbl Mt 1:23 >>; cf. <<Bbl I 7:14 >>;
* <<Bbl J 1:1 >>, <<Bbl J 1:14 >>, <<Bbl J 1:18 >>;
* <<Bbl J 10:30 >>;
* <<Bbl J 14:9 >>-10
* Jehovah’s Witnesses believe that when Jesus was born on earth, he was a mere human and not God in human flesh. They believe that he was created by Jehovah as the archangel Michael before the physical world existed, and is a lesser, though mighty, god.
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* [[Redeem]] rests upon his Nature, God and man.
* [[Sovereignty]]
As a rule, in the synoptic Gospels, [[Son of God|SonOfGod]] is not an attestation of deity. It denotes the Messiah, the heir of David's throne. See [[Son of God|SonOfGod]] and [[Christ-DualNature]]
! As promised in the First Volume.
* The coming champion was not seen as God in the flesh.
* <<Bbl Gn 49:10 >> -- Israel's blessing pronounced on Judah.
* ''<<Bbl Dt 18:15 >>-19'' -- my words in his mouth (God, through Moses)
* <<Bbl Jer 3:14 >>-19; <<Bbl Jer 30:18 >>, 21-24.
* <<Bbl H 1:9 >>
* [[Anoint]], Anointed, Messianic
! Promises as considered in the Second Volume
{{fyi{
For Jesus and His people, //Israel// refers to the entire Jewish homeland and //Judah// to the royal heartland and Messiah's line. (The Roman occupation lumps everything under //Judah//, as we do by saying //Jews//.)
}}}
* <<Bbl J 2:17 "" note >>-22
* <<Bbl L 24:21 >>
! As fulfilled in the Second Volume
* <<Bbl L 2:11 >> - Early divine announcement of a [[Child]]
* <<Bbl L 2:25 >>, <<Bbl L 2:38 >> - Expectations
* <<Bbl J 4:25 >> - Messiah is coming (he who is called Christ). When he comes...
* <<Bbl J 11:27 >> - the Christ, the Son of God, who is coming into the world (Martha)
* <<Bbl J 1:45 >> - him of whom Moses in the Law and also the prophets wrote (Philip)
* <<Bbl A 7:37 >>-38
* <<Bbl A 7:52 >>
* We learn more from John than the synoptics.
* [[Suffer]]
* <<Bbl 1P 2:21 >>
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* Paul says we participate. Not as atonement, so what? Perhaps the ongoing demonstration of God's mercy. Perhaps the filling-up of sins to be consummated in Judgment; now Christ has come, it is flouting His rule that is the cardinal sin (Rev 6 the martyrs). <<Bbl L 2:34>>b
* Bruce, __Acts__ p 126.
* <<Bbl J 18:8 >> - Spurgeon's reading for March 26th (morning).
[[God-Central]]
{{fyi{
God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in Him.
}}}
* Christ's [[Intercede]]
>I always wondered why a young man will practice basketball for hours on a cracked cement slab. //It can't feel like a hardwood floor. There's even some gravel. And the hoop is too low. How can make progress on a driveway like that?//
>The answer is that while the floor and the hoop are not completely irrelevant, there's only one thing the player has to know inside-out and top-to-bottom: ''the ball.''
>A perfect court with no ball is useless. A ball is valuable even with nothing else. Every ball-handler knows this. I was never a ball-handler, so it's taken some study on my part to understand.
>That's how it is with Jesus. We think we need a functioning church, the right friends, trendy religious vocabulary. In reality we need to touch, handle, grasp, hug the Lord Jesus.
>If you don't understand this, that gravel driveway will always look unusable. Worse, you won't know Jesus.
* <<Bbl Mt 16:18 >>; <<Bbl 1C 12:28 >>; <<Bbl Eph 4:4 >>-6; 5:25; <<Bbl H 12:28 >>
* The Gospel accounts close by ushering in the Church.
!! Comprised of all who are in Christ
* <<Bbl Ps 103:12>>; <<Bbl I 44:22 >>; <<Bbl J 3:16 >>; <<Bbl A 16:31 >>; <<Bbl R 3:20 >>-28; 4:3; 5:1, 21; 8:1, 30, 33-34; 10:4, 9; <<Bbl 2C 5:21 >>; <<Bbl Gal 2:16 >>; <<Bbl Eph 2:8 >>-9; <<Bbl Phil 3:9 >>; <<Bbl Tit 3:7 >>; <<Bbl H 10:14>>
* Catholic: kata + holos: through + entire. This means completely and with full coverage (change management). This means relevant and needed for all classes and cultures of humanity while remaining integral.
!! Christ the Head.
* <<Bbl Eph 1:22 >>-23; 4:15-16; <<Bbl Col 1:18 >>; 2:19
* Manifest in local [[churches|Church-Local]]
!! Other topics
* Saints
* [[Church-Local]]
* [[Grace-Prevenient]]
* [[Invisible-Visible]]
* [[Body]], [[House]], [[Marry]], [[Family]], [[Fellowship]], [[Church-Eternal]]
* [[Discipline-Church]]
* [[Leadership-Church]]
* Comparing the dysfunctional church to a retirement home where you can only remain in residence as long as you aren't too frail, sick or depressed. (Arterburn?)
* <<Bbl A 9:31 >>; 20:28-30; <<Bbl R 16:5 >>; <<Bbl 1C 1:2 >>; 16:19; <<Bbl 2C 1:1 >>; <<Bbl 1Thes 1:1 >>; Philem. 1-2
* sodality/modality
* Bonhoeffer on false idealism: [[Link|./Wiki_Bible/Bonhoeffer_Community.txt]]
* [[Grace-Probatory]]
!!! "He goes to a dead church"
* Volume 1 nowhere suggests there is such a thing as a "dead local church", at least not in today's sense which tacitly leaves room for that church as part of the local spiritual community.
* The opening of Revelation has warns against a church losing its love and losing its lampstand. We would hardly dare to apply such a dire assessment.
* <<Bbl H 13:13 "" note>>ff is not about leaving the dead church, but it is erroneously applied that way.
* When God gets a [[Man]]'s attention, he'll remember where his attention was got at.
* <<Bbl Gn 17:9>>-14
* Of the heart, Deuteronomy
* In NT Roman culture, circumcision was denounced as a kind of mutilation. Reversal of circumcision (by drawing up what skin was available) was a remedy for non-Romans trying to integrate (particularly atheletes, who ran naked).
! "A tale of two cities"
[[Abraham]]'s trek was away from the Babel of Babylon and toward Zion.
!!! the whore
* Babylon.
!!! the Bride
* [[Jerusalem]], and the New Jerusalem
! as safety
* [[Wall]]
* Urbanization forced in Egypt due to famine.
* Lot and Zoar.
* Ps 107 -- //He led them to a city.//
!...and identity
* <<Bbl Gn 4:16>>–17 Babel.
* <<Bbl Gn 11:4>> Cain built a city.
* //Fulfillment, satisfaction, completion//
* //end of the ages, teleology, teleos//
* Gn 3.2 -- [[Rest]].
* //Unto// is different than //to//, because it asserts an ultimate destination. See this in the KJV. (Word decay.)
* Nakedness symbolizes man's pristine innocence, and [[Shame]] once this innocence was lost. Clothing symbolizes his redeemed state. We do not return to nudity, not even in Revelation; neither, apparently, are our eyes closed to the knowledge of [[GoodAndEvil]].
* [[Transparency]]
* By removing our clothes, says the idealistic nudist, we can achieve perfection.
* As a carpet for honor: <<Bbl 2K 9:13 >>
* <<Bbl Gn 3:7 >>, the first mention.
* <<Bbl I 61:10 >>
* <<Bbl Jer 13:7 >>
* <<Bbl Rev 6:9 >>
* <<Bbl Zech 3:4 >>
* <<Bbl L 15:22 >>
* <<Bbl 2C 5:2 >>-4
* <<Bbl Gal 3:27 >>
* <<Bbl 1P 5:5 >>
* <<Bbl Rev 3:4 >>-5
* <<Bbl Rev 19:8 >>.
* <<Bbl Rev 16:15 >>, <<Bbl Lv 18:6 >>ff
* [[Joseph]]'s garment was bestowed on him by his father -- prophetically, given the royal garb that would be his. In between, a garment was used as evidence to imprison him.
* Elijah's mantle
* [[Gender]]
* [[Footware]]
* [[Colors]]
!! As purity, honor and rightousness
* The finest linen is known for revealing any slightest stain. Herodotus noted four grades, the finest having 360 fibers per thread.
* Improper dress <<Bbl Mt 22:11 >>
* "Aaron" by George Herbert
* David's emissaries; Isaiah's statements; wedding parables; <<Bbl Rev 3:18 >>, <<Bbl Rev 16:15 >>
* The bride of the [[Wedding]]
!! Sash
<<Bbl I 13:11 >>, <<Bbl I 22:21 >>
!! //Soft clothing// as dissoluteness, perversion
μαλακοὶ refers to soft clothing.
* <<Bbl 1C 6:9>> //male prostitutes//
* <<Bbl L 7:25>> a contrast with [[John_Immerser]].
Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy our brother, {{rf{2}}} to the saints and faithful brothers in Christ in Colossae. Grace to you and peace from God our Father. {{rf{3}}} We give thanks always to God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ when we pray for you, {{rf{4}}} since we heard about your faith in Christ Jesus and the love that you have for all the saints, {{rf{5}}} because of the hope reserved for you in heaven, which you have heard about beforehand in the word of truth, the gospel, {{rf{6}}} that has come to you, just as also in all the world it is bearing fruit and increasing, just as also among you from the day you heard about and understood the grace of God in truth, {{rf{7}}} just as you learned it from Epaphras, our dear fellow slave who is a faithful minister of Christ on our behalf, {{rf{8}}} who also made clear to us your love in the Spirit. {{rf{9}}} Because of this also we, from the day we heard about it, did not cease praying for you, and asking that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual insight, {{rf{10}}} so that you may live in a manner worthy of the Lord, to please him in all respects, bearing fruit in every good deed and increasing in the knowledge of God, {{rf{11}}} enabled with all power, according to his glorious might, for all steadfastness and patience with joy, {{rf{12}}} giving thanks to the Father who has qualified you for a share of the inheritance of the saints in light, {{rf{13}}} who has rescued us from the domain of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of the Son he loves, {{rf{14}}} in whom we have the redemption, the forgiveness of sins, {{rf{15}}} who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation, {{rf{16}}} because all things in the heavens and on the earth were created by him, things visible and things invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or powers, all things were created through him and for him, {{rf{17}}} and he himself is before all things, and in him all things are held together, {{rf{18}}} and he himself is the head of the body, the church, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, so that he himself may become first in everything, {{rf{19}}} because he was well pleased for all the fullness to dwell in him, {{rf{20}}} and through him to reconcile all things to himself, by making peace through the blood of his cross, through him, whether things on earth or things in heaven. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Col-01-01]] }}}
Some themes: Paul's conscious ministry to the world-wide Church; the mystery of God's revelation; spiritual wisdom; [[God-Preeminent]]
!!!! Colossians and Philemon
From Col 4:9, it seems Onesimus carried the two letters. Paul's directive to Philemon has an open witness.
* Differences
** Colossians is addressed to the believers in a region, to be read in various meetings (4:15ff). Philemon is addressed principally to one man, Philemon, and (if we take Apphia and Archippus to be the wife and son) his household.
** Colossians deals with issues that are general to the larger circumstance and region. Philemon deals with is a specific human relationship.
* Commonalities:
** References to Timothy, Archippus, Onesimus, Epaphras, Mark, Aristarchus, Demas and Luke indicate the same place and time period.
** Paul was imprisoned. Tradition attributes both letters to Paul’s Roman imprisonment.
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<<Bbl Col 1:6 abbr >> The Word bearing fruit in our hearts is microcosmic of its larger manifestations.
<<Bbl Col 1:9 abbr >>-20 The Lexham translation is happy to render this a one sentence with 268 words. 11 uses of //All//, 4 of //through//, 20 of the masculine singular pronoun //he/his/him/himself//.
<<Bbl Col 1:9 abbr>>-11 Chiasmus
{{{
9b praying for you, and asking
9c that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will
in all wisdom and spiritual insight,
10 so that you may live in a manner worthy of the Lord,
to please him in all respects,
bearing fruit in every good deed
10d and increasing in the knowledge of God,
11 enabled with all power
}}}
1:10 God can be more pleased or less pleased with our conduct.
<<Bbl Col 1:12 abbr>> Saints are separated. They are in the [[Light]]. Imagine a spotlight on a figure; all around is dark. It is Darkness from which we were transferred.
<<Bbl Col 1:12 abbr>>-13 Light/Darkness and Visible/Invisible.
<<Bbl Col 1:13 abbr >> //Darkness// is the hinge or pivot to a new aspect of discourse.
<<Bbl Col 1:16 abbr >> not //by Him and for us//
1:16-17 He is //firstborn//, but this can never be construed as "early created" for He has created //All things//.
<<Bbl Col 1:18 abbr>>-19 [[God-Preeminent]].
1:20 The big view of Salvation.
{{rf{21}}} And although you were formerly alienated and enemies in attitude, because of your evil deeds, {{rf{22}}} but now you have been reconciled by his physical body through death, to present you holy and blameless and above reproach before him, {{rf{23}}} if indeed you remain in the faith, established and steadfast and not shifted away from the hope of the gospel that you heard, which was proclaimed in all creation under heaven, of which I, Paul, became a minister. {{rf{24}}} Now I rejoice in my sufferings on behalf of you, and I fill up in my flesh what is lacking of the afflictions of Christ, on behalf of his body which is the church, {{rf{25}}} of which I became a minister, according to God's stewardship which was given to me for you, to complete the word of God, {{rf{26}}} the mystery which has been hidden from the ages and from the generations, but has now been revealed to his saints, {{rf{27}}} to whom God wanted to make known what is the glorious wealth of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory, {{rf{28}}} whom we proclaim, by admonishing every person and teaching every person with all wisdom, in order that we may present every person mature in Christ, {{rf{29}}} for which purpose also I labor, striving according to his working which is at work powerfully in me. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Col-01-21]] }}}
<<Bbl Col 1:23 abbr>> Not "good clean living", but the hope of the gospel.
2:1 A world Christian.
{{holyquote{
...so that their hearts may be encouraged, united in love and into all the wealth of the full assurance of insight into the knowledge of the mystery of God, Christ, in whom all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge are hidden. -- 2:2-3
}}}
2.4 //plausible// - 2.23 speaks of //the appearance of wisdom.//
<<Bbl Col 2:8 abbr >> //Empty// contrast with fullness. Idols are empty in the OT.
<<Bbl Col 2:9 abbr >> //Fullness// (plērōma) carries the idea of the sum total. //Deity// (theotēs) refers to the nature, being, and attributes of God. Therefore, the incarnate Jesus is the totality of God's nature and being in human bodily form. See <<Bbl Php 2:6 >>-7.
2:12 Compare the baptism described in <<Bbl 1C 15:29 >>.
2:14 <<Bbl Ps 51:9 >>
<<Bbl Col 2:15 abbr >> Cashiering
2:22 "It is not what goes into a man that defiles him."
For I want you to know how great a struggle I have on behalf of you, and those in Laodicea, and all those who have not seen my face in person, {{rf{2}}} so that their hearts may be encouraged, united in love and into all the wealth of the full assurance of insight into the knowledge of the mystery of God, Christ, {{rf{3}}} in whom all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge are hidden. {{rf{4}}} I say this in order that no one will deceive you with persuasive speech, {{rf{5}}} for even if I am absent in the flesh, yet I am with you in spirit, rejoicing and seeing your good order and the steadfastness of your faith in Christ. {{rf{6}}} Therefore as you have received Christ Jesus the Lord, live in him, {{rf{7}}} firmly rooted and built up in him and established in the faith, just as you were taught, abounding with thankfulness. {{rf{8}}} Beware lest anyone take you captive through philosophy and empty deceit, according to human tradition, according to the elemental spirits of the world and not according to Christ, {{rf{9}}} because in him all the fullness of deity dwells bodily, {{rf{10}}} and you are filled in him, who is the head over every ruler and authority, {{rf{11}}} in whom also you were circumcised with a circumcision not made by hands, by the removal of the body of the flesh, by the circumcision of Christ, {{rf{12}}} having been buried with him in baptism, in which also you were raised together with him through faith in the working of God, who raised him from the dead. {{rf{13}}} And although you were dead in the trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, he made you alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses, {{rf{14}}} having destroyed the certificate of indebtedness in ordinances against us, which was hostile to us, and removed it out of the way by nailing it to the cross. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Col-02-01]] }}}
{{rf{15}}} When he had disarmed the rulers and the authorities, he made a display of them in public, triumphing over them by it. {{rf{16}}} Therefore do not let anyone judge you with reference to eating or drinking or participation in a feast or a new moon or a Sabbath, {{rf{17}}} which are a shadow of what is to come, but the reality is Christ. {{rf{18}}} Let no one condemn you, taking pleasure in humility and the worship of angels, going into detail about the things which he has seen, inflated without cause by his fleshly mind, {{rf{19}}} and not holding fast to the head, from whom the whole body, supported and held together by the ligaments and sinews, grows with the growth of God. {{rf{20}}} If you have died with Christ to the elemental spirits of the world, why do you submit to them as if living in the world? {{rf{21}}} "Do not handle, do not taste, do not touch," {{rf{22}}} which things are all meant for destruction by consuming according to human commandments and teachings, {{rf{23}}} which things although they have, to be sure, an appearance of wisdom in self-made religion and humility and unsparing treatment of the body, do not have any value against the indulgence of the flesh. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Col-02-15]] }}}
Therefore, if you have been raised together with Christ, seek the things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. {{rf{2}}} Set your mind on the things above, not on the things on earth. {{rf{3}}} For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. {{rf{4}}} When Christ, who is your life, is revealed, then you also will be revealed with him in glory. {{rf{5}}} Therefore put to death what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustful passion, evil desire, and greediness, which is idolatry, {{rf{6}}} because of which the wrath of God is coming upon the sons of disobedience, {{rf{7}}} in which also you once lived, when you used to live in them. {{rf{8}}} But now you also lay aside all these things: anger, rage, wickedness, slander, abusive language from your mouth. {{rf{9}}} Do not lie to one another, because you have taken off the old man together with his deeds, {{rf{10}}} and have put on the new man that is being renewed in knowledge according to the image of the one who created him, {{rf{11}}} where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, slave, or free, but Christ is all, and in all. {{rf{12}}} Therefore, as the chosen of God, holy and dearly loved, put on affection, compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, patience, {{rf{13}}} putting up with one another and forgiving one another. If anyone should have a complaint against anyone, just as also the Lord forgave you, thus also you do the same. {{rf{14}}} And to all these things add love, which is the bond of perfection. {{rf{15}}} And the peace of Christ must rule in your hearts, to which also you were called in one body, and be thankful. {{rf{16}}} Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another with all wisdom, with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing with thankfulness in your hearts to God, {{rf{17}}} and everything whatever you do in word or in deed, giving thanks for all things in the name of the Lord Jesus to God the Father through him. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Col-03-01]] }}}
3:1-5 Goldsworthy, p 230.
<<Bbl Col 3:1 abbr>>-2 Seek the kingdom of <<Bbl Mt 6:19 >>-21 . This verse sums up the preceding exhortation of 2:16-23 -- and should not be separated from them.
<<Bbl Col 3:3 abbr>> //Hidden// means much more than out-of-view. It means protected!
3:12-19 Read at my wedding.
3:16 see <<Bbl Eph 5:19 >>
<<Bbl Col 3:17 abbr >> see <<Bbl I 26:13 >>. Word or deed -- the former are covered in 3:18-25 - 4:1, the latter in 4:2-6.
----
<<Bbl Col 3:18 abbr >> Our cultural setting requires that <<Bbl Eph 5:21>> not be overlooked.
<<Bbl Col 3:19 abbr >> Men's eyes glaze over when they hear this. They do not think: "That might be me." It needs to be applied with a lot of synonyms, such as grouchy, irritable, defensive, petulant, demanding, discourteous, brusque, button-pushing. Gentleness likewise must be described.
<<Bbl Col 3:20 abbr >> How glorious that Paul would address the children! This is supported well by <<Bbl Eph 6:2>> which speaks of the promise.
<<Bbl Col 3:21 abbr >> //Do not provoke// needs explanation.
<<Bbl Col 3:21 abbr >> All the translations say //Fathers//. Yet the context seems to demand //Parents//, and if that is so then here is a genuine opportunity for gender-inclusive translation.
<<Bbl Col 3:22 abbr >> The exhortation to slaves must be applied to everyone in the workplace.
3:20-21 Compare <<Bbl Eph 6:1 >>-4
3:22-24 Compare <<Bbl Eph 6:7 >>-8
<<Bbl Col 3:25 abbr >> The God who will not leave sin unpunished is described in <<Bbl Ex 20:7 >>.
<<Bbl Col 4:2 abbr >> This is the proper start; maybe the worst chapter division in the New Testament.
4:16 It has been proposed (apparently credibly) that this refers to our Letter to the Ephesians.
{{rf{18}}} Wives, be subject to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord. {{rf{19}}} Husbands, love your wives and do not be embittered against them. {{rf{20}}} Children, obey your parents in everything, for this is pleasing in the Lord. {{rf{21}}} Fathers, do not provoke your children, so that they will not become discouraged. {{rf{22}}} Slaves, obey your human masters in everything, not while being watched, as people pleasers, but with sincerity of heart, fearing the Lord. {{rf{23}}} Whatever you do, accomplish it from the soul, as to the Lord, and not to people, {{rf{24}}} because you know that from the Lord you will receive the reward of the inheritance. Serve the Lord Christ. {{rf{25}}} For the one who does wrong will receive back whatever wrong he has done, and there is no partiality. {{rf big{1}}} Masters, grant your slaves justice and fairness, knowing that you also have a master in heaven.
----
{{rf{2}}} Be devoted to prayer, keeping alert in it with thanksgiving, {{rf{3}}} praying at the same time for us also, that God may open for us a door of the message, to speak the mystery of Christ, for which also I am a prisoner, {{rf{4}}} so that I may reveal it, as it is necessary for me to speak. {{rf{5}}} Live with wisdom toward those outside, making the most of the time. {{rf{6}}} Let your speech always be with grace, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how it is necessary for you to answer each one. {{rf{7}}} Tychicus, my dear brother and faithful servant and fellow slave in the Lord, will make known to you all my circumstances, {{rf{8}}} whom I have sent to you for this very reason, in order that you may know our circumstances and he may encourage your hearts, {{rf{9}}} together with Onesimus, my faithful and dear brother, who is one of you. They will make known to you all the circumstances here. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Col-03-18]] }}}
{{rf{10}}} Aristarchus, my fellow prisoner, greets you, and Mark, the cousin of Barnabas (about whom you received instructions -- if he should come to you, welcome him), {{rf{11}}} and Jesus who is called Justus. These are the only ones who are fellow workers for the kingdom of God from the circumcision, who have been a comfort to me. {{rf{12}}} Epaphras, who is one of you, greets you, a slave of Christ always struggling on behalf of you in his prayers, that you may stand mature and fully assured in all the will of God. {{rf{13}}} For I testify to him that he is working hard on behalf of you and those in Laodicea and those in Hierapolis. {{rf{14}}} Luke the physician, our dear friend, greets you, as does Demas. {{rf{15}}} Greet the brothers in Laodicea, and Nympha and the church in her house. {{rf{16}}} And whenever this letter is read among you, see to it that it is read also among the Laodicean church, and that you also read the letter from Laodicea. {{rf{17}}} And tell Archippus, "Direct your attention to the ministry that you received in the Lord, in order that you may complete it." {{rf{18}}} The greeting is by my hand, Paul's. Remember my imprisonment. Grace be with you. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Col-04-10]] }}}
/***
|Name|CollapseTiddlersPlugin|
|Source|http://gensoft.revhost.net/Collapse.html|
|Version|2008.10.05|
|Author|Bradley Meck (modified by ELS)|
|License|unknown|
|~CoreVersion|2.1|
|Type|plugin|
|Requires|CollapsedTemplate|
|Overrides||
|Description|show/hide content of a tiddler while leaving tiddler title visible|
|ELS 10/5/2008: collapseAll() and expandAll(): added "return false" to button handlers to prevent IE page transition |
|ELS 3/6/2008: refactored code for size reduction, readability, and I18N/L10N-readiness. Also added 'folded' flag to tiddler elements (for use by other plugins that need to know if tiddler is folded (e.g., [[SinglePageModePlugin]]) |
|ELS 10/11/2007: moved [[FoldFirst]] inline script and converted to {{{<<foldFirst>>}}} macro. |
|ELS 9/12/2007: suspend/resume SinglePageMode (SPM/TPM/BPM) when folding/unfolding tiddlers |
|ELS 6/5/2007: add "return false" at the end of each command handler to prevent IE 'page transition' problem. |
|ELS 3/30/2007: add a shadow definition for CollapsedTemplate. Tweak ViewTemplate shadow so "fold/unfold" and "focus" toolbar items automatically appear when using default templates. Remove error check for "CollapsedTemplate" existence, since shadow version will now always work as a fallback. |
|ELS 2/24/2006: added fallback to "CollapsedTemplate" if "WebCollapsedTemplate" is not found |
|ELS 2/6/2006: added check for 'readOnly' flag to use alternative "WebCollapsedTemplate" |
***/
//{{{
config.shadowTiddlers.CollapsedTemplate=
"<!--{{{-->\
<div class='toolbar' macro='toolbar expandTiddler collapseOthers closeTiddler closeOthers +editTiddler permalink references jump'></div>\
<div class='title' macro='view title'></div>\
<!--}}}-->";
// automatically tweak shadow ViewTemplate to add "collapseTiddler collapseOthers" commands
config.shadowTiddlers.ViewTemplate=config.shadowTiddlers.ViewTemplate.replace(/closeTiddler/,"collapseTiddler collapseOthers closeTiddler");
config.commands.collapseTiddler = {
text: "fold",
tooltip: "Collapse this tiddler",
collapsedTemplate: "CollapsedTemplate",
webCollapsedTemplate: "WebCollapsedTemplate",
handler: function(event,src,title) {
var e = story.findContainingTiddler(src); if (!e) return false;
// don't fold tiddlers that are being edited!
if(story.isDirty(e.getAttribute("tiddler"))) return false;
var t=config.commands.collapseTiddler.getCollapsedTemplate();
config.commands.collapseTiddler.saveTemplate(e);
config.commands.collapseTiddler.display(title,t);
e.setAttribute("folded","true");
return false;
},
getCollapsedTemplate: function() {
if (readOnly&&store.tiddlerExists(this.webCollapsedTemplate))
return this.webCollapsedTemplate;
else
return this.collapsedTemplate
},
saveTemplate: function(e) {
if (e.getAttribute("savedTemplate")==undefined)
e.setAttribute("savedTemplate",e.getAttribute("template"));
},
// fold/unfold tiddler with suspend/resume of single/top/bottom-of-page mode
display: function(title,t) {
var opt=config.options;
var saveSPM=opt.chkSinglePageMode; opt.chkSinglePageMode=false;
var saveTPM=opt.chkTopOfPageMode; opt.chkTopOfPageMode=false;
var saveBPM=opt.chkBottomOfPageMode; opt.chkBottomOfPageMode=false;
story.displayTiddler(null,title,t);
opt.chkBottomOfPageMode=saveBPM;
opt.chkTopOfPageMode=saveTPM;
opt.chkSinglePageMode=saveSPM;
}
}
config.commands.expandTiddler = {
text: "unfold",
tooltip: "Expand this tiddler",
handler: function(event,src,title) {
var e = story.findContainingTiddler(src); if (!e) return false;
var t = e.getAttribute("savedTemplate");
config.commands.collapseTiddler.display(title,t);
e.setAttribute("folded","false");
return false;
}
}
config.macros.collapseAll = {
text: "collapse all",
tooltip: "Collapse all tiddlers",
handler: function(place,macroName,params,wikifier,paramString,tiddler){
createTiddlyButton(place,this.text,this.tooltip,function(){
story.forEachTiddler(function(title,tiddler){
if(story.isDirty(title)) return;
var t=config.commands.collapseTiddler.getCollapsedTemplate();
config.commands.collapseTiddler.saveTemplate(tiddler);
config.commands.collapseTiddler.display(title,t);
tiddler.folded=true;
});
return false;
})
}
}
config.macros.expandAll = {
text: "expand all",
tooltip: "Expand all tiddlers",
handler: function(place,macroName,params,wikifier,paramString,tiddler){
createTiddlyButton(place,this.text,this.tooltip,function(){
story.forEachTiddler(function(title,tiddler){
var t=config.commands.collapseTiddler.getCollapsedTemplate();
if(tiddler.getAttribute("template")!=t) return; // re-display only if collapsed
var t=tiddler.getAttribute("savedTemplate");
config.commands.collapseTiddler.display(title,t);
tiddler.folded=false;
});
return false;
})
}
}
config.commands.collapseOthers = {
text: "focus",
tooltip: "Expand this tiddler and collapse all others",
handler: function(event,src,title) {
var e = story.findContainingTiddler(src); if (!e) return false;
story.forEachTiddler(function(title,tiddler) {
if(story.isDirty(title)) return;
var t=config.commands.collapseTiddler.getCollapsedTemplate();
if (e==tiddler) t=e.getAttribute("savedTemplate");
config.commands.collapseTiddler.saveTemplate(tiddler);
config.commands.collapseTiddler.display(title,t);
tiddler.folded=(e!=tiddler);
})
return false;
}
}
// {{{<<foldFirst>>}}} macro forces tiddler to be folded when *initially* displayed.
// Subsequent re-render does NOT re-fold tiddler, but closing/re-opening tiddler DOES cause it to fold first again.
config.macros.foldFirst = {
handler: function(place,macroName,params,wikifier,paramString,tiddler){
var e=story.findContainingTiddler(place);
if (e.getAttribute("foldedFirst")=="true") return; // already been folded once
var title=e.getAttribute("tiddler")
var t=config.commands.collapseTiddler.getCollapsedTemplate();
config.commands.collapseTiddler.saveTemplate(e);
config.commands.collapseTiddler.display(title,t);
e.setAttribute("folded","true");
e.setAttribute("foldedFirst","true"); // only when tiddler is first rendered
return false;
}
}
//}}}
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<div class='toolbar' macro='toolbar [[ToolbarCommands::CollapsedToolbar]]'></div>
<div class='title' macro='view title'></div>
<!--}}}-->
Name: MptwTeal
Background: #fff
Foreground: #000
PrimaryPale: #B5D1DF
PrimaryLight: #699
PrimaryMid: #366
PrimaryDark: #033
SecondaryPale: #ffc
SecondaryLight: #fe8
SecondaryMid: #db4
SecondaryDark: #841
TertiaryPale: #eee
TertiaryLight: #ccc
TertiaryMid: #999
TertiaryDark: #666
QuaternaryPale: #aef
QuaternaryLight: #8ad
QuaternaryMid: #38c
QuaternaryDark: #026
Error: #f88
[[ColorPalette]]
<<paletteView [[ColorPalette]]>>
[[ColorPaletteBAK]]
<<paletteView [[ColorPaletteBAK]]>>
Background: #fff
Foreground: #000
PrimaryPale: #aef
PrimaryLight: #8ad
PrimaryMid: #38c
PrimaryDark: #026
SecondaryPale: #ffc
SecondaryLight: #fe8
SecondaryMid: #db4
SecondaryDark: #841
TertiaryPale: #eee
TertiaryLight: #ccc
TertiaryMid: #999
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QuaternaryPale: #cf8
QuaternaryLight: #8f1
QuaternaryMid: #4b0
QuaternaryDark: #140
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* A collection of colors was precious.
** We find hard to imagine.
*** The tile-makers of Italy supposedly had a huge count of unique shades
*** Pantone color matching system (how many?)
*** LED colors (16 million)
* Gems; peacocks
* Fabrics, [[Clothing]]
** Joseph's coat
** Priestly robes (gems on breastplate)
** the Veil in the Temple
* Dust offers the plainest color
* <<Bbl Rev 21:3 "" note >>-4
* Lewis refers to the "old, strong meaning" -- it's chicken soup, and we must include the deepest aspects.
* Mind map from Summer of 2002
* [[Provide]]
** [[Help]]
** [[Grace]]
* [[Hope]]
** [[Peace]]
** [[Encourage]]
** [[Confidence]]
* [[Encourage-AsBuild]]
** [[Guide]]
** [[SanctifiedProgressive]]
* [[SpiritOfChrist]]
** [[Power]]
** [[Strength]]
** [[Justice]]
* [[Host]]
** [[Marry]]
** [[IdentifyWith]]!!! Limited
* 1 Samuel 1:8 Then said Elkanah her husband to her, Hannah, why weepest thou? and why eatest thou not? and why is thy heart grieved? am not I better to thee than ten sons?
* With God's command there is grace to fulfill it. So find His biggest commands to understand the measure of His grace.
* [[Christ-Commands]]
* [[Law]]
* [[Obey]]
!!! The Ten Commands
<<Bbl Ex 20:1 abbr >>-17 From my notes: "According to R. Bainton (ref. unknown, p. 22), Philo numbered 'Thou shalt have no other gods . . .' as the first and 'no graven image' as the second. But Augustine combined them. Eastern Orthodoxy and Calvinists have followed the former, Catholic and Lutheran the latter. This division, specifically which commandment was the fourth, prevented (or hindered?) the union of Lutheran and Presbyterian churches in southern India." Now I can see why I jotted it down, but 1) how would the latter view make a total of ten, and 2) why the fourth as a special point of contention?
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<div class='toolbar' macro='toolbar [[ToolbarCommands::ViewToolbar]]'></div>
<span class='title' macro='view title'></span>
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<span macro='view modifier link'></span>, <span macro='view modified date'></span> (<span macro='message views.wikified.createdPrompt'></span> <span macro='view created date'></span>)</div> -->
<div class='subtitle fine'>
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<div class='tagClear'></div>
<!--- <div class='tagging' macro='tagging'></div> //SDM -->
<div class='tagged' macro='tags'></div>
<div class='tagged'><span><span style='margin: 0px 10px;' macro="BblProx p"></span><span style='margin: 0px 10px;' macro="BblProx n"></span></span></div>
<div class='viewer' macro='view text wikified'></div>
<div class='tagClear'></div>
<div class='toolbar' style='line-height:100%;margin-top:.5em;'><a href="javascript:;"
onclick="window.scrollTo(0,ensureVisible(story.findContainingTiddler(this)));return false;"
onmouseover="this.title='scroll to top of '+story.findContainingTiddler(this).getAttribute('tiddler')">▲</a>
</div>
<div class='tagClear'></div>
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* Tasks and anointing; the calling out; Paul and Silas; the artisans of the tabernacle.
* [[Minister]]
* [[Authorize]]
* [[Stewardship]]
* [[Apostle]]
* [[Commitment]]
* [[Separate]]
* [[Athlete]], [[Soldier]]
* Sometimes it is not enough to choose; sometimes you must //chase.//
* Do you //pursue//, or just //peruse//?
* Commitment is first presented as ''exclusive'' -- no outside applicants (<<Bbl Ex 20:2>>-7). Then it is presented as ''complete'' -- no inside applicants.
* [[Confront]]
* [[Commission]]
* <<Bbl Ruth 1:14 >>
* <<Bbl Esther 4:16 >>
* <<Bbl Mt 13:46 >> -- a man who //bought a field//
* <<Bbl Mk 1:20 >>
* <<Bbl 1P 4:19 >>
* [[PersonalRelations]]
* [[Revere]]
!! Associated traits
* [[Persevere]]
* [[Discipline]]
* [[Vigilence]]
* Allegiance, devotion
* [[SelfControl]]
* [[Accountability]]
* [[Jealousy]]
* [[Zeal]]
* [[Courage]]
* [[Obey]]
* [[Faithfulness]]
* {{anti{[[Passivity]]}}}
!! Activities
* [[Wait]]
* [[Decide]]
!! Roles
* [[Apostle]]
* [[Disciple]]
* [[Athlete]]
* [[Covenant]]
* [[Soldier]]
* [[Slave|Servitude]]
* [[Builder|Building]]
* Sympathy is merely the transference of emotion (Sam Cooksey); how does compassion transcend that?
* <<Bbl 2S 12:1 "" note >>-6; <<Bbl Pr 29:7 >>; <<Bbl Ez 34:2 >>-5 ; <<Bbl Mt 9:36 >>, <<Bbl Mt 14:13 >>-16 , <<Bbl Mt 15:32 >>, <<Bbl Mt 20:34 >>; <<Bbl Hos 11:8 >>-9 <<Bbl I 55:6 >>-9
* [[IdentifyWith]]
* Isaiah's object of rebuke
* Pro 32 -- //the complacency of fools//
* <<Bbl Zeph 1:12>>
* <<Bbl Ps 73:12>>
* The opposite must be [[FearOfGod]]
* Once I had a leaky tire. I got used to filling it regularly. Then one day I discovered the three other tiles had all gone flat.
* [[Deny]]
* Comfort zone. @@color:brown;We think it is calm here, or that our storm is the right size.@@ // - William Stafford//
* <<Bbl Nu 14:27 >>-28
* Chapter in __Redemption__ (M Wilkenson)
* [[Passivity]]
* Ananias and his wife
* Herod and Pilate
* the law of the Medes and Persians in Daniel
* //We have a law, and by that law he should die!//
* opposite: <<Bbl Dt 13:1 >>ff
!!! Enabling
* <<Bbl Jr 44:19>> Husbands, responsibility of
* Pr. //a good man who gives way before the wicked//
* [[ Codependency ]]
* <<Bbl Gn 20:5>>
* [[ SilenceWrong ]]
* "Don't ask, don't tell."
* The lazy highway repair crew - don't dare try to work.
* Adam, Herod and Pilate, The husbands mentioned in Jeremiah.
*[[ Passivity ]]
''Acquiescence to the request or [[Command]] of another.''
* [[Obey]], //comply.//
----
As these considerations go on, it becomes more imaginable that God could personally reveal His will so as to override natural considerations.
* Does it violate God's command?
* Does it violate local, applicable law?
* Has God personally revealed His will one way or the other?
* Is it within one's ability?
* Is there a previous commitment? Vow?
* Is there a general relational constraint, like family or marriage?
* Is it unseemly or likely to raise suspicions?
* Is it hazardous, imprudent, or otherwise foolish?
* Does it violate your [[Conscience]]?
* Does it violate another person's conscience?
* Does it do harm by supporting bad ministry, or promoting bad doctrine?
* Does it do good by supporting good ministry?
* Does it promote witness to the open-minded?
* Does it promote a good reputation in general?
* <<Bbl I 1:22 >>
* Lot
* Saul sparing Agag
* Pilate
* Potiphar
* Herod //because of his guests//
* Darius //the laws of the Medes and the Persians//
* <<Bbl Pr 25:26 >> -- //A good man who gives way before the wicked//
* //Stolen bread is sweet// -- cognitive dissonance
* //lukewarm//
* [[Syncretism]]
!! In general, kinds of confession
* [[Praise]]
* [[Worship]]
* [[Blaspheme]]
* [[Witness]]
* [[Proclamation]]
* {{anti{ [[Silence]] }}}
!! of sin, for [[Repent]]
* You aren't saved by your confession, but you aren't protected by your silence or hidden by your secrecy - or helped.
* @@color:darkgreen;The goal for those who come alongside an addict is not to be a priest-confessor. The goal is to encourage the addict to keep walking in the light and to be alert to the deceptive ways we can be waylaid by Satan's influence.@@ //(E.T. Welch, __Addictions__ p. 188)// This is important for people who feel the weekly check-in is somehow inimical to grace.
* [[Accountability]]
* <<Bbl Jud 13:23 >>
* <<Bbl 2Ch 30:18 >>ff -- Hezekiah's makeshift Passover
* Cited in the letter to the Hebrews
* [[Trust]]
* [[Believe]]
* [[Conscience]]
* [[Boldness]]
* [[Courage]]
* {{anti{[[Fear]]}}}
* My first climb at Enchanted Rock, which turned out to be far outside my future skills. Things you can do when you don't know what you can't do!
* Would you follow Jesus anywhere, as soldiers say, with a spoon?
* [[Dissent]]
* [[Confront]]
* [[Trial]]
* [[ConflictResolution]]
* [[Reprove]]
* [[Conflict]]
* [[Gate]] <<Bbl Amos 5:10 >>
* Paul's coaching of Titus.
* <<Bbl 1Tim 5:20>> - confront publically those who sin
* <<Bbl 1Tim 5:1>>ff - do not confront an older man
* INTERVENTION - <<Bbl Gal 6:1>> 'you' PLURAL. 'who are spiritual' who have your act together. Success requires humility.
* <<Bbl Neh 13:8 >>
* @@color:brown;I would not give a penny for your love to the truth if it is not accompanied with a hearty hatred of error.@@ // -- Charles H. Spurgeon//
* <<Bbl Lv 19:17 >>-18 //Do not hate your brother in your heart. Rebuke your neighbor frankly so you will not share in his guilt...love your neighbor as yourself. I am the Lord.//
* <<Bbl A 23:3>>ff
* {{anti{[[Order]]}}}
* For the Christian, ignorance may be inevitable; confusion however must give way to peace.
* <<Bbl 1C 14:33 >> //not a God of disorder//
* ... //nor of [[Subvert]]//
* From God, to the Philistines: <<Bbl 1S 5:9 >>, <<Bbl 1S 7:10 >>, <<Bbl 1S 14:20 >> (or possibly to Saul ??)
* Babel
* The unclear trumpet
* [[Sea]]
* My co-worker has having trouble following the plot of Anna Karanina. She was listening to it on CD disks while commuting, and eventually she discovered the chapters were being played in "shuffle mode".
* [[PersonalRelations]]
* <<Bbl Gn 2:7 >> //formed//, the potter's term
* <<Bbl Col 2:19 >> // -- connection with the Head, from whom the whole body, supported and held together by its ligaments and sinews, grows as God causes it to grow.//
* <<Bbl Col 1:17 >> // He is before all things, and in Him all things hold together. //
* <<Bbl Eph 4:15 >>-16 // From Him the whole body, joined and held together by every supporting ligament, grows and builds itself up in love, as each part does its work.//
* <<Bbl Ps 139:15 >> // My frame was not hidden from You when I was made in the secret place. When I was woven together in the depths of the earth, Your eyes saw my unformed body. //
* <<Bbl Job 10:10 >>-11 // Did You not pour me out like milk and curdle me like cheese, clothe me with skin and flesh and knit me together with bones and sinews? You gave me life and showed me kindness, and in Your providence watched over my spirit.//
* <<Bbl H 1:3 >> //sustaining all things by His powerful word.//
A [[response|Respond]] of conviction or vindication. An aspect of [[Outcome]].
!!! Conviction, yielding [[Grief|Grieve]]
* <<Bbl A 2:37>>, <<Bbl A 5:33>> (the phrases are different)
* Violation of
* [[Scruples]]
!!! [[Vindication|Vindicate]], yielding [[Joy]]
*
!!! [[Redemption|Redeem]], yielding [[Hope]]
Contentment is known only within circumstances for precisely the reason it is independent of circumstances. You cannot say "I am content, just not in these circumstances."
* {{anti{[[Covet]], //discontent//}}}
* [[Attitude]]
* [[Accept]], [[Boundary]]
* Intrinsic to [[Thank]].
* Great aural contrast with //{{anti{contention}}}//.
* <<Bbl Mt 6:25 "" note >>
* <<Bbl Pr 14:30 >> //The life of the body is a heart at peace, but envy rots the bones.//
* <<Bbl Pr 19:23>> //The fear of the Lord leads to life: Then one rests content, untouched by trouble.//
* <<Bbl Pr 30:7>>-9 //give me neither poverty nor riches//
* <<Bbl Mt 6:25 >> applies to discontent as well as worry.
* <<Bbl Pr 23:4>>-5 Do not wear yourself out to get rich; have the wisdom to show restraint. Cast but a glance at riches, and they are gone, for they will surely sprout wings and fly off to the sky like an eagle.
* <<Bbl Pr 23:17>> Do not let your heart envy sinners, but always be zealous for the fear of the Lord.
* <<Bbl Pr 23:20>>-21 Do not join those who drink too much wine or gorge themselves on meat, for drunkards and gluttons become poor, and drowsiness clothes them in rags.
* <<Bbl Pr 25:16>> If you find honey, eat just enough-- too much of it, and you will vomit.
* <<Bbl Pr 25:27>> It is not good to eat too much honey, nor is it honorable to seek one's own honor.
* <<Bbl Php 4:10-13>> //I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me//
* The prayer for serenity (in Thinking Wiki).
* [[Conflict]]
* <<Bbl J 8:24 >>
/***
|Name|CopyTiddlerPlugin|
|Source|http://www.TiddlyTools.com/#CopyTiddlerPlugin|
|Version|3.2.5|
|Author|Eric Shulman|
|License|http://www.TiddlyTools.com/#LegalStatements|
|~CoreVersion|2.3|
|Type|plugin|
|Requires||
|Overrides||
|Description|Quickly create a copy of any existing tiddler|
!!!Usage
<<<
The plugin automatically updates the default (shadow) ToolbarCommands definitions to insert the ''copyTiddler'' command, which will appear as ''copy'' when a tiddler is rendered. If you are already using customized toolbar definitions, you will need to manually add the ''copyTiddler'' toolbar command to your existing ToolbarCommands tiddler, e.g.:
{{{
|EditToolbar|... copyTiddler ... |
}}}
When the ''copy'' command is selected, a new tiddler is created containing an exact copy of the current text/tags/fields, using a title of "{{{TiddlerName (n)}}}", where ''(n)'' is the next available number (starting with 1, of course). If you copy while //editing// a tiddler, the current values displayed in the editor are used (including any changes you may have already made to those values), and the new tiddler is immediately opened for editing.
The plugin also provides a macro that allows you to embed a ''copy'' command directly in specific tiddler content:
{{{
<<copyTiddler TidderName label:"..." prompt:"...">>
}}}
where
* ''TiddlerName'' (optional)<br>specifies the //source// tiddler to be copied. If omitted, the current containing tiddler (if any) will be copied.
* ''label:"..."'' (optional)<br>specifies text to use for the embedded link (default="copy TiddlerName")
* ''prompt:"..."'' (optional)<br>specifies mouseover 'tooltip' help text for link
//Note: to use non-default label/prompt values with the current containing tiddler, use "" for the TiddlerName//
<<<
!!!Configuration
<<<
<<option chkCopyTiddlerDate>> use date/time from existing tiddler (otherwise, use current date/time)
{{{<<option chkCopyTiddlerDate>>}}}
<<<
!!!Revisions
<<<
2009.06.08 [3.2.5] added option to use timestamp from source tiddler
2009.03.09 [3.2.4] fixed IE-specific syntax error
2009.03.02 [3.2.3] refactored code (again) to restore use of config.commands.copyTiddler.* custom settings
2009.02.13 [3.2.2] in click(), fix calls to displayTiddler() to use current tiddlerElem and use getTiddlerText() to permit copying of shadow tiddler content
2009.01.30 [3.2.1] fixed handling for copying field values when in edit mode
2009.01.23 [3.2.0] refactored code and added {{{<<copyTiddler TiddlerName>>}}} macro
2008.12.18 [3.1.4] corrected code for finding next (n) value when 'sparse' handling is in effect (thanks to RussThomas for identifying and diagnosing the problem)
2008.11.14 [3.1.3] added optional 'sparse' setting (avoids 'filling in' missing numbers that may have been previously deleted)
2008.11.14 [3.1.2] added optional 'zeroPad' setting
2008.11.14 [3.1.1] moved hard-coded '(n)' regex into 'suffixPattern' object property so it can be customized
2008.09.26 [3.1.0] changed new title generation to use '(n)' suffix instead of 'Copy of' prefix
2008.05.20 [3.0.3] in handler, when copying from VIEW mode, create duplicate array from existing tags array before saving new tiddler.
2007.12.19 [3.0.2] in handler, when copying from VIEW mode, duplicate custom fields before saving new tiddler. Thanks to bug report from Ken Girard.
2007.09.26 [3.0.1] in handler, use findContainingTiddler(src) to get tiddlerElem (and title). Allows 'copy' command to find correct tiddler when transcluded using {{{<<tiddler>>}}} macro or enhanced toolbar inclusion (see [[CoreTweaks]])
2007.06.28 [3.0.0] complete re-write to handle custom fields and alternative view/edit templates
2007.05.17 [2.1.2] use store.getTiddlerText() to retrieve tiddler content, so that SHADOW tiddlers can be copied correctly when in VIEW mode
2007.04.01 [2.1.1] in copyTiddler.handler(), fix check for editor fields by ensuring that found field actually has edit=='text' attribute
2007.02.05 [2.1.0] in copyTiddler.handler(), if editor fields (textfield and/or tagsfield) can't be found (i.e., tiddler is in VIEW mode, not EDIT mode), then get text/tags values from stored tiddler instead of active editor fields. Allows use of COPY toolbar directly from VIEW mode (based on a request from LaurentCharles)
2006.12.12 [2.0.0] completely rewritten so plugin just creates a new tiddler EDITOR with a copy of the current tiddler EDITOR contents, instead of creating the new tiddler in the STORE by copying the current tiddler values from the STORE.
2005.xx.xx [1.0.0] original version by Tim Morgan
<<<
!!!Code
***/
//{{{
version.extensions.CopyTiddlerPlugin= {major: 3, minor: 2, revision: 5, date: new Date(2009,6,8)};
// automatically tweak shadow EditTemplate to add 'copyTiddler' toolbar command (following 'cancelTiddler')
config.shadowTiddlers.ToolbarCommands=config.shadowTiddlers.ToolbarCommands.replace(/cancelTiddler/,'cancelTiddler copyTiddler');
if (config.options.chkCopyTiddlerDate===undefined) config.options.chkCopyTiddlerDate=false;
config.commands.copyTiddler = {
text: 'copy',
hideReadOnly: true,
tooltip: 'Make a copy of this tiddler',
notitle: 'this tiddler',
prefix: '',
suffixText: ' (%0)',
suffixPattern: / \(([0-9]+)\)$/,
zeroPad: 0,
sparse: false,
handler: function(event,src,title)
{ return config.commands.copyTiddler.click(src,event); },
click: function(here,ev) {
var tiddlerElem=story.findContainingTiddler(here);
var template=tiddlerElem?tiddlerElem.getAttribute('template'):null;
var title=here.getAttribute('from');
if (!title || !title.length) {
if (!tiddlerElem) return false;
else title=tiddlerElem.getAttribute('tiddler');
}
var root=title.replace(this.suffixPattern,''); // title without suffix
// find last matching title
var last=title;
if (this.sparse) { // don't fill-in holes... really find LAST matching title
var tids=store.getTiddlers('title','excludeLists');
for (var t=0; t<tids.length; t++) if (tids[t].title.startsWith(root)) last=tids[t].title;
}
// get next number (increment from last matching title)
var n=1; var match=this.suffixPattern.exec(last); if (match) n=parseInt(match[1])+1;
var newTitle=this.prefix+root+this.suffixText.format([String.zeroPad(n,this.zeroPad)]);
// if not sparse mode, find the next hole to fill in...
while (store.tiddlerExists(newTitle)||document.getElementById(story.idPrefix+newTitle))
{ n++; newTitle=this.prefix+root+this.suffixText.format([String.zeroPad(n,this.zeroPad)]); }
if (!story.isDirty(title)) { // if tiddler is not being EDITED
// duplicate stored tiddler (if any)
var text=store.getTiddlerText(title,'');
var who=config.options.txtUserName;
var when=new Date();
var newtags=[]; var newfields={};
var tid=store.getTiddler(title); if (tid) {
if (config.options.chkCopyTiddlerDate) var when=tid.modified;
for (var t=0; t<tid.tags.length; t++) newtags.push(tid.tags[t]);
store.forEachField(tid,function(t,f,v){newfields[f]=v;},true);
}
store.saveTiddler(newTitle,newTitle,text,who,when,newtags,newfields,true);
story.displayTiddler(tiddlerElem,newTitle,template);
} else {
story.displayTiddler(tiddlerElem,newTitle,template);
var fields=config.commands.copyTiddler.gatherFields(tiddlerElem); // get current editor fields
var newTiddlerElem=document.getElementById(story.idPrefix+newTitle);
for (var f=0; f<fields.length; f++) { // set fields in new editor
if (fields[f].name=='title') fields[f].value=newTitle; // rename title in new tiddler
var fieldElem=config.commands.copyTiddler.findField(newTiddlerElem,fields[f].name);
if (fieldElem) {
if (fieldElem.getAttribute('type')=='checkbox')
fieldElem.checked=fields[f].value;
else
fieldElem.value=fields[f].value;
}
}
}
story.focusTiddler(newTitle,'title');
return false;
},
findField: function(tiddlerElem,field) {
var inputs=tiddlerElem.getElementsByTagName('input');
for (var i=0; i<inputs.length; i++) {
if (inputs[i].getAttribute('type')=='checkbox' && inputs[i].field == field) return inputs[i];
if (inputs[i].getAttribute('type')=='text' && inputs[i].getAttribute('edit') == field) return inputs[i];
}
var tas=tiddlerElem.getElementsByTagName('textarea');
for (var i=0; i<tas.length; i++) if (tas[i].getAttribute('edit') == field) return tas[i];
var sels=tiddlerElem.getElementsByTagName('select');
for (var i=0; i<sels.length; i++) if (sels[i].getAttribute('edit') == field) return sels[i];
return null;
},
gatherFields: function(tiddlerElem) { // get field names and values from current tiddler editor
var fields=[];
// get checkboxes and edit fields
var inputs=tiddlerElem.getElementsByTagName('input');
for (var i=0; i<inputs.length; i++) {
if (inputs[i].getAttribute('type')=='checkbox')
if (inputs[i].field) fields.push({name:inputs[i].field,value:inputs[i].checked});
if (inputs[i].getAttribute('type')=='text')
if (inputs[i].getAttribute('edit')) fields.push({name:inputs[i].getAttribute('edit'),value:inputs[i].value});
}
// get textareas (multi-line edit fields)
var tas=tiddlerElem.getElementsByTagName('textarea');
for (var i=0; i<tas.length; i++)
if (tas[i].getAttribute('edit')) fields.push({name:tas[i].getAttribute('edit'),value:tas[i].value});
// get selection lists (droplist or listbox)
var sels=tiddlerElem.getElementsByTagName('select');
for (var i=0; i<sels.length; i++)
if (sels[i].getAttribute('edit')) fields.push({name:sels[i].getAttribute('edit'),value:sels[i].value});
return fields;
}
};
//}}}
// // MACRO DEFINITION
//{{{
config.macros.copyTiddler = {
label: 'copy',
prompt: 'Make a copy of %0',
handler: function(place,macroName,params,wikifier,paramString,tiddler) {
var title=params.shift();
params=paramString.parseParams('anon',null,true,false,false);
var label =getParam(params,'label',this.label+(title?' '+title:''));
var prompt =getParam(params,'prompt',this.prompt).format([title||this.notitle]);
var b=createTiddlyButton(place,label,prompt,
function(ev){return config.commands.copyTiddler.click(this,ev)});
b.setAttribute('from',title||'');
}
};
//}}}
/***
|Name|CoreTweaks|
|Source|http://www.TiddlyTools.com/#CoreTweaks|
|Version||
|Author|Eric Shulman|
|License|http://www.TiddlyTools.com/#LegalStatements|
|~CoreVersion|2.2.0|
|Type|plugin|
|Description|a small collection of overrides to TW core functions|
This tiddler contains small changes to TW core functions that correct or enhance standard features or behaviors.
***/
//{{{
// calculate TW version number - used to determine which tweaks should be applied
var ver=version.major+version.minor/10+version.revision/100;
//}}}
/***
----
***/
// // closed: won't fix //(leave as core tweaks)//
// // {{block{
/***
!!!637 TiddlyLink tooltip - custom formatting
***/
// // {{groupbox small{
/***
http://trac.tiddlywiki.org/ticket/637 - CLOSED: WON'T FIX
This tweak modifies the tooltip format that appears when you mouseover a link to a tiddler. It adds an option to control the date format, as well as displaying the size of the tiddler (in bytes)
Tiddler link tooltip format:
{{stretch{<<option txtTiddlerLinkTootip>>}}}
^^where: %0=title, %1=username, %2=modification date, %3=size in bytes, %4=description slice, %5=first N characters of tiddler content^^
Tiddler link tooltip date format:
{{stretch{<<option txtTiddlerLinkTooltipDate>>}}}
Tiddler excerpt limit (chars):
{{stretch{<<option txtTiddlerLinkTooltipLimit>>}}}
***/
//{{{
config.messages.tiddlerLinkTooltip='%0 - %1, %2 (%3 bytes) - %4';
config.messages.tiddlerLinkTooltipDate='DDD, MMM DDth YYYY 0hh12:0mm AM';
config.messages.tiddlerLinkTooltipLimit=50;
config.options.txtTiddlerLinkTootip=
config.options.txtTiddlerLinkTootip||config.messages.tiddlerLinkTooltip;
config.options.txtTiddlerLinkTooltipDate=
config.options.txtTiddlerLinkTooltipDate||config.messages.tiddlerLinkTooltipDate;
config.options.txtTiddlerLinkTooltipLimit=
config.options.txtTiddlerLinkTooltipLimit||config.messages.tiddlerLinkTooltipLimit;
Tiddler.prototype.getSubtitle = function() {
var modifier = this.modifier;
if(!modifier) modifier = config.messages.subtitleUnknown;
var modified = this.modified;
if(modified) modified = modified.formatString(config.options.txtTiddlerLinkTooltipDate);
else modified = config.messages.subtitleUnknown;
var descr=store.getTiddlerSlice(this.title,'Description')||'';
var txt=this.text.substr(0,config.options.txtTiddlerLinkTooltipLimit);
if (this.text.length>config.options.txtTiddlerLinkTooltipLimit) txt+="...";
return config.options.txtTiddlerLinkTootip.format([this.title,modifier,modified,this.text.length,descr,txt]);
};
//}}}
// // }}}}}}// // {{block{
/***
!!!607 add HREF link on permaview command
***/
// // {{groupbox small{
/***
http://trac.tiddlywiki.org/ticket/607 - CLOSED: WON'T FIX
This tweak automatically sets the HREF for the 'permaview' sidebar command link so you can use the 'right click' context menu for faster, easier bookmarking. Note that this does ''not'' automatically set the permaview in the browser's current location URL... it just sets the HREF on the command link. You still have to click the link to apply the permaview.
***/
//{{{
config.macros.permaview.handler = function(place)
{
var btn=createTiddlyButton(place,this.label,this.prompt,this.onClick);
addEvent(btn,'mouseover',this.setHREF);
addEvent(btn,'focus',this.setHREF);
};
config.macros.permaview.setHREF = function(event){
var links = [];
story.forEachTiddler(function(title,element) {
links.push(String.encodeTiddlyLink(title));
});
var newURL=document.location.href;
var hashPos=newURL.indexOf('#');
if (hashPos!=-1) newURL=newURL.substr(0,hashPos);
this.href=newURL+'#'+encodeURIComponent(links.join(' '));
}
//}}}
// // }}}}}}// // {{block{
/***
!!!458 add permalink-like HREFs on internal TiddlyLinks
***/
// // {{groupbox small{
/***
http://trac.tiddlywiki.org/ticket/458 - CLOSED: WON'T FIX
This tweak assigns a permalink-like HREF to internal Tiddler links (which normally do not have any HREF defined). This permits the link's context menu (right-click) to include 'open link in another window/tab' command. Based on a request from Dustin Spicuzza.
***/
//{{{
window.coreTweaks_createTiddlyLink=window.createTiddlyLink;
window.createTiddlyLink=function(place,title,includeText,theClass,isStatic,linkedFromTiddler,noToggle)
{
// create the core button, then add the HREF (to internal links only)
var link=window.coreTweaks_createTiddlyLink.apply(this,arguments);
if (!isStatic)
link.href=document.location.href.split('#')[0]+'#'+encodeURIComponent(String.encodeTiddlyLink(title));
return link;
}
//}}}
// // }}}}}}
// // to be fixed in 2.6.0:
// // {{block{
/***
!!!1151 adjust popup placement when root element is in scrolled DIV
***/
// // {{groupbox small{
/***
http://trac.tiddlywiki.org/ticket/1151
When a popup link is placed inside a DIV with style "overflow:scroll" or "overflow:auto" and that DIV is then scrolled, the position of the resulting popup appears further down the page that intended, because it is not adjusting for the relative scroll offset of the containing DIV. This tweak patches the Popup.place() function to calculate and subtract the current scroll offset from the computed popup position, so that it appears in the correct location on the page.
Test case: //(scroll to the bottom of this DIV and click on "test popup")//
{{groupbox{
<<tiddler ScrollBox with: CoreTweaks##1151test 12em>>}}}/%
!1151test
<<tiddler About>>
<<showPopup tiddler:About label:"test popup" tip:About popupClass:sticky>>
!end
%/
***/
//{{{
window.findScrollOffsetX=function(obj) {
var x=0;
while(obj) {
if (obj.scrollLeft && obj.nodeName!='HTML')
x+=obj.scrollLeft;
obj=obj.parentNode;
}
return -x;
}
window.findScrollOffsetY=function(obj) {
var y=0;
while(obj) {
if (obj.scrollTop && obj.nodeName!='HTML')
y+=obj.scrollTop;
obj=obj.parentNode;
}
return -y;
}
var fn=Popup.place.toString();
if (fn.indexOf('findScrollOffsetX')==-1) { // only once
fn=fn.replace(/var\s*rootLeft\s*=/,'var rootLeft = window.findScrollOffsetX(root) +');
fn=fn.replace(/var\s*rootTop\s*=/,'var rootTop = window.findScrollOffsetY(root) +');
eval('Popup.place='+fn);
}
//}}}
// // }}}}}}// // {{block{
/***
!!!1147 tiddler macro with params does not refresh
***/
// // {{groupbox small{
/***
http://trac.tiddlywiki.org/ticket/1147
when the {{{<<tiddler SomeTiddler>>}}} macro is handled, the resulting span has extra attributes: {{{refresh='content'}}} and {{{tiddler='SomeTiddler'}}}. If SomeTiddler is changed, {{{store.notify('SomeTiddler')}}} triggers {{{refreshDisplay()}}}, which automatically re-renders transcluded content in any span that has these extra attributes. However, when additional arguments are passed by using {{{<<tiddler SomeTiddler with: arg arg arg ...>>}}} then the resulting span does NOT get the extra attributes noted above and, as a consequence, the transcluded content is not being refreshed, even though the underlying tiddler has changed
To correct this, in {{{config.macros.tiddler.handler}}}:
*set the 'refresh' and 'tiddler' attributes even when arguments are present in the macro
*store the arguments themselves in an attribute (e.g, 'args'), using as a space-separated, bracketed list
Then, in {{{config.refreshers.content}}}:
*retrieve the stored arguments (if any) and the tiddler source
*substitute arguments into source and re-render the span with the updated content
***/
//{{{
config.refreshers.content=function(e,changeList) {
var title = e.getAttribute("tiddler");
var force = e.getAttribute("force");
var args = e.getAttribute("args"); // ADDED
if(force != null || changeList == null || changeList.indexOf(title) != -1) {
removeChildren(e);
// wikify(store.getTiddlerText(title,""),e,null,store.fetchTiddler(title)); // REMOVED
config.macros.tiddler.transclude(e,title,args); // ADDED
return true;
} else
return false;
};
config.macros.tiddler.handler=function(place,macroName,params,wikifier,paramString,tiddler) {
params = paramString.parseParams("name",null,true,false,true);
var names = params[0]["name"];
var tiddlerName = names[0];
var className = names[1] || null;
var args = params[0]["with"];
var wrapper = createTiddlyElement(place,"span",null,className);
// if(!args) { // REMOVED
wrapper.setAttribute("refresh","content");
wrapper.setAttribute("tiddler",tiddlerName);
// } // REMOVED
if(args!==undefined) wrapper.setAttribute("args",'[['+args.join(']] [[')+']]'); // ADDED
this.transclude(wrapper,tiddlerName,args); // REFACTORED TO ...tiddler.transclude
}
// REFACTORED FROM ...tiddler.handler
config.macros.tiddler.transclude=function(wrapper,tiddlerName,args) {
var text = store.getTiddlerText(tiddlerName); if (!text) return;
var stack = config.macros.tiddler.tiddlerStack;
if(stack.indexOf(tiddlerName) !== -1) return;
stack.push(tiddlerName);
try {
if (typeof args == "string") args=args.readBracketedList(); // ADDED
var n = args ? Math.min(args.length,9) : 0;
for(var i=0; i<n; i++) {
var placeholderRE = new RegExp("\\$" + (i + 1),"mg");
text = text.replace(placeholderRE,args[i]);
}
config.macros.tiddler.renderText(wrapper,text,tiddlerName,null); // REMOVED UNUSED 'params'
} finally {
stack.pop();
}
};
//}}}
// // }}}}}}// // {{block{
/***
!!!1134 allow leading whitespace in section headings / TBD handle shadow tiddler sections
***/
// // {{groupbox small{
/***
http://trac.tiddlywiki.org/ticket/1134
This tweak REPLACES and extends {{{store.getTiddlerText()}}} so it can return sections defined in shadow tiddlers as well as permitting use of leading whitespace in section headings.
***/
//{{{
TiddlyWiki.prototype.getTiddlerText = function(title,defaultText)
{
if(!title) return defaultText;
var parts = title.split(config.textPrimitives.sectionSeparator);
var title = parts[0];
var section = parts[1];
var parts = title.split(config.textPrimitives.sliceSeparator);
var title = parts[0];
var slice = parts[1]?this.getTiddlerSlice(title,parts[1]):null;
if(slice) return slice;
var tiddler = this.fetchTiddler(title);
var text = defaultText;
if(this.isShadowTiddler(title))
text = this.getShadowTiddlerText(title);
if(tiddler)
text = tiddler.text;
if(!section) return text;
var re = new RegExp("(^!{1,6}[ \t]*" + section.escapeRegExp() + "[ \t]*\n)","mg");
re.lastIndex = 0;
var match = re.exec(text);
if(match) {
var t = text.substr(match.index+match[1].length);
var re2 = /^!/mg;
re2.lastIndex = 0;
match = re2.exec(t); //# search for the next heading
if(match)
t = t.substr(0,match.index-1);//# don't include final \n
return t;
}
return defaultText;
};
//}}}
// // }}}}}}// // {{block{
/***
!!!824 ~WindowTitle - alternative to combined ~SiteTitle/~SiteSubtitle in window titlebar
***/
// // {{groupbox small{
/***
http://trac.tiddlywiki.org/ticket/824 - OPEN
This tweak allows definition of an optional [[WindowTitle]] tiddler that, when present, provides alternative text for display in the browser window's titlebar, instead of using the combined text content from [[SiteTitle]] and [[SiteSubtitle]] (which will still be displayed as usual in the TiddlyWiki document header area).
Note: this ticket replaces http://trac.tiddlywiki.org/ticket/401 (closed), which proposed using a custom [[PageTitle]] tiddler for this purpose. ''If you were using the previous '401 ~PageTitle' tweak, you will need to rename [[PageTitle]] to [[WindowTitle]] to continue to use your custom window title text''
***/
//{{{
config.shadowTiddlers.WindowTitle='<<tiddler SiteTitle>> - <<tiddler SiteSubtitle>>';
window.getPageTitle=function() { return wikifyPlain('WindowTitle'); }
store.addNotification('WindowTitle',refreshPageTitle); // so title stays in sync with tiddler changes
//}}}
// // }}}}}}// // {{block{
/***
!!!471 'creator' field for new tiddlers
***/
// // {{groupbox small{
/***
http://trac.tiddlywiki.org/ticket/471 - OPEN
This tweak HIJACKS the core's saveTiddler() function to automatically add a 'creator' field to a tiddler when it is FIRST created. You can use """<<view creator>>""" (or """<<view creator wikified>>""" if you prefer) to show this value embedded directly within the tiddler content, or {{{<span macro="view creator"></span>}}} in the ViewTemplate and/or EditTemplate to display the creator value in each tiddler.
***/
//{{{
// hijack saveTiddler()
TiddlyWiki.prototype.CoreTweaks_creatorSaveTiddler=TiddlyWiki.prototype.saveTiddler;
TiddlyWiki.prototype.saveTiddler=function(title,newTitle,newBody,modifier,modified,tags,fields)
{
var existing=store.tiddlerExists(title);
var tiddler=this.CoreTweaks_creatorSaveTiddler.apply(this,arguments);
if (!existing) store.setValue(title,'creator',config.options.txtUserName);
return tiddler;
}
//}}}
// // }}}}}}
// // fixed in ~TW2.4.3
// // {{block{
/***
!!!444 'tiddler' and 'place' - global variables for use in computed macro parameters
***/
// // {{groupbox small{
/***
http://trac.tiddlywiki.org/ticket/444 - CLOSED:FIXED - TW2.4.3 - http://trac.tiddlywiki.org/changeset/8367
When invoking a macro, this tweak makes the current containing tiddler object and DOM rendering location available as global variables (window.tiddler and window.place, respectively). These globals can then be used within //computed macro parameters// to retrieve tiddler-relative and/or DOM-relative values or perform tiddler-specific side-effect functionality.
***/
//{{{
if (ver<2.43) {
window.coreTweaks_invokeMacro = window.invokeMacro;
window.invokeMacro = function(place,macro,params,wikifier,tiddler) {
var here=story.findContainingTiddler(place);
window.tiddler=here?store.getTiddler(here.getAttribute('tiddler')):tiddler;
window.place=place;
window.coreTweaks_invokeMacro.apply(this,arguments);
}
}
//}}}
// // }}}}}}
// // fixed in ~TW2.4.2:
// // {{block{
/***
!!!823 apply option values via paramifiers (e.g. #chk...and #txt...)
***/
// // {{groupbox small{
/***
http://trac.tiddlywiki.org/ticket/823 - CLOSED:FIXED - TW2.4.2 http://trac.tiddlywiki.org/changeset/7988
This tweak extends and ''//replaces//'' the core {{{invokeParamifier()}}} function to support use of ''option paramifiers'' that set TiddlyWiki option values on-the-fly, directly from a document URL.
If a paramifier begins with 'chk' (checkbox) or 'txt' (text field), it's value will be automatically stored in {{{config.options.*}}}, adding to or overriding any existing 'chk' or 'txt' option values that may have already been loaded from browser cookies and/or assigned by the TW core or plugin initialization functions using hard-coded default values. Note: option values that have been overriden by paramifiers are only applied during the current document session, and are not //automatically// retained. However, if you edit an overridden option value during that session, then the modified value is, of course, saved in a browser cookie, as usual.
***/
//{{{
if (ver<2.42) {
function invokeParamifier(params,handler)
{
if(!params || params.length == undefined || params.length <= 1)
return;
for(var t=1; t<params.length; t++) {
var p = config.paramifiers[params[t].name];
if(p && p[handler] instanceof Function)
p[handler](params[t].value);
else { // not a paramifier with handler()... check for an 'option' prefix
var h=config.optionHandlers[params[t].name.substr(0,3)];
if (h && h.set instanceof Function)
h.set(params[t].name,params[t].value);
}
}
}
}
//}}}
// // }}}}}}
// // open tickets:
// // {{block{
/***
!!!608/609/610 toolbars - toggles, separators and transclusion
***/
// // {{groupbox small{
/***
http://trac.tiddlywiki.org/ticket/608 - OPEN (more/less toggle)
http://trac.tiddlywiki.org/ticket/609 - OPEN (separators)
http://trac.tiddlywiki.org/ticket/610 - OPEN (wikify tiddler/slice/section content)
This combination tweak extends the """<<toolbar>>""" macro to add use of '<' to insert a 'less' menu command (the opposite of '>' == 'more'), as well as use of '*' to insert linebreaks and "!" to insert a vertical line separator between toolbar items. In addition, this tweak add the ability to use references to tiddlernames, slices, or sections and render their content inline within the toolbar, allowing easy creation of new toolbar commands using TW content (such as macros, links, inline scripts, etc.)
To produce a one-line style, with "less" at the end, use
| ViewToolbar| foo bar baz > yabba dabba doo < |
or to use a two-line style with more/less toggle:
| ViewToolbar| foo bar baz > < * yabba dabba doo |
***/
//{{{
merge(config.macros.toolbar,{
moreLabel: 'more\u25BC',
morePrompt: 'Show additional commands',
lessLabel: '\u25C4less',
lessPrompt: 'Hide additional commands',
separator: '|'
});
config.macros.toolbar.onClickMore = function(ev) {
var e = this.nextSibling;
e.style.display = 'inline'; // show menu
this.style.display = 'none'; // hide button
return false;
};
config.macros.toolbar.onClickLess = function(ev) {
var e = this.parentNode;
var m = e.previousSibling;
e.style.display = 'none'; // hide menu
m.style.display = 'inline'; // show button
return false;
};
config.macros.toolbar.handler = function(place,macroName,params,wikifier,paramString,tiddler) {
for(var t=0; t<params.length; t++) {
var c = params[t];
switch(c) {
case '!': // ELS - SEPARATOR (added)
createTiddlyText(place,this.separator);
break;
case '*': // ELS - LINEBREAK (added)
createTiddlyElement(place,'BR');
break;
case '<': // ELS - LESS COMMAND (added)
var btn = createTiddlyButton(place,
this.lessLabel,this.lessPrompt,config.macros.toolbar.onClickLess,'moreCommand');
break;
case '>':
var btn = createTiddlyButton(place,
this.moreLabel,this.morePrompt,config.macros.toolbar.onClickMore,'moreCommand');
var e = createTiddlyElement(place,'span',null,'moreCommand');
e.style.display = 'none';
place = e;
break;
default:
var theClass = '';
switch(c.substr(0,1)) {
case '+':
theClass = 'defaultCommand';
c = c.substr(1);
break;
case '-':
theClass = 'cancelCommand';
c = c.substr(1);
break;
}
if(c in config.commands)
this.createCommand(place,c,tiddler,theClass);
else { // ELS - WIKIFY TIDDLER/SLICE/SECTION (added)
if (c.substr(0,1)=='~') c=c.substr(1); // ignore leading ~
var txt=store.getTiddlerText(c);
if (txt) {
// trim any leading/trailing newlines
txt=txt.replace(/^\n*/,'').replace(/\n*$/,'');
// trim PRE format wrapper if any
txt=txt.replace(/^\{\{\{\n/,'').replace(/\n\}\}\}$/,'');
// render content into toolbar
wikify(txt,createTiddlyElement(place,'span'),null,tiddler);
}
} // ELS - end WIKIFY CONTENT
break;
}
}
};
//}}}
// // }}}}}}// // {{block{
/***
!!!529 IE fixup - case-sensitive element lookup of tiddler elements
***/
// // {{groupbox small{
/***
http://trac.tiddlywiki.org/ticket/529 - OPEN
This tweak hijacks the standard browser function, document.getElementById(), to work-around the case-INsensitivity error in Internet Explorer (all versions up to and including IE7) //''Note: This tweak is only applied when using IE, and only for lookups of rendered tiddler elements within the containing 'tiddlerDisplay' element.''//
***/
//{{{
if (config.browser.isIE) {
document.coreTweaks_coreGetElementById=document.getElementById;
document.getElementById=function(id) {
var e=document.coreTweaks_coreGetElementById(id);
if (!e || !e.parentNode || e.parentNode.id!='tiddlerDisplay') return e;
for (var i=0; i<e.parentNode.childNodes.length; i++)
if (id==e.parentNode.childNodes[i].id) return e.parentNode.childNodes[i];
return null;
};
}
//}}}
// // }}}}}}// // {{block{
/***
!!!890 add conditional test to """<<tiddler>>""" macro
***/
// // {{groupbox small{
/***
http://trac.tiddlywiki.org/ticket/890 - OPEN
This tweak extends the {{{<<tiddler>>}}} macro syntax so you can include a javascript-based //test expression// to determine if the tiddler transclusion should be performed:
{{{
<<tiddler TiddlerName if:{{...}} with: param param etc.>>
}}}
If the test is ''true'', then the tiddler is transcluded as usual. If the test is ''false'', then the transclusion is skipped and //no output is produced//.
***/
//{{{
config.macros.tiddler.if_handler = config.macros.tiddler.handler;
config.macros.tiddler.handler = function(place,macroName,params,wikifier,paramString,tiddler)
{
params = paramString.parseParams('name',null,true,false,true);
if (!getParam(params,'if',true)) return;
this.if_handler.apply(this,arguments);
};
//}}}
// // }}}}}}// // {{block{
/***
!!!831 backslash-quoting for embedding newlines in 'line-mode' formats
***/
// // {{groupbox small{
/***
http://trac.tiddlywiki.org/ticket/831 - OPEN
This tweak pre-processes source content to convert 'double-backslash-newline' into {{{<br>}}} before wikify(), so that literal newlines can be embedded in line-mode wiki syntax (e.g., tables, bullets, etc.)
***/
//{{{
window.coreWikify = wikify;
window.wikify = function(source,output,highlightRegExp,tiddler)
{
if (source) arguments[0]=source.replace(/\\\\\n/mg,'<br>');
coreWikify.apply(this,arguments);
}
//}}}
// // }}}}}}// // {{block{
/***
!!!683 FireFox3 Import bug: 'browse' button replacement
***/
// // {{groupbox small{
/***
http://trac.tiddlywiki.org/ticket/683 - OPEN
The web standard 'type=file' input control that has been used as a local path/file picker for TiddlyWiki no longer works as expected in FireFox3, which has, for security reasons, limited javascript access to this control so that *no* local filesystem path information can be revealed, even when it is intentional and necessary, as it is with TiddlyWiki. This tweak provides alternative HTML source that patches the backstage import panel. It replaces the 'type=file' input control with a text+button combination of controls that invokes a system-native secure 'file-chooser' dialog box to provide TiddlyWiki with access to a complete path+filename so that TW functions properly locate user-selected local files.
>Note: ''This tweak also requires http://trac.tiddlywiki.org/ticket/604 - cross-platform askForFilename()''
***/
//{{{
//if (window.Components) { SDM per Eric S.
if (false) {
var fixhtml='<input name="txtBrowse" style="width:30em"><input type="button" value="..."'
+' onClick="window.browseForFilename(this.previousSibling,true)">';
var cmi=config.macros.importTiddlers;
cmi.step1Html=cmi.step1Html.replace(/<input type='file' size=50 name='txtBrowse'>/,fixhtml);
}
merge(config.messages,{selectFile:'Please enter or select a file'}); // ready for I18N translation
window.browseForFilename=function(target,mustExist) { // note: both params are optional
var msg=config.messages.selectFile;
if (target && target.title) msg=target.title; // use target field tooltip (if any) as dialog prompt text
// get local path for current document
var path=getLocalPath(document.location.href);
var p=path.lastIndexOf('/'); if (p==-1) p=path.lastIndexOf('\\'); // Unix or Windows
if (p!=-1) path=path.substr(0,p+1); // remove filename, leave trailing slash
var file=''
var result=window.askForFilename(msg,path,file,mustExist); // requires #604
if (target && result.length) // set target field and trigger handling
{ target.value=result; target.onchange(); }
return result;
}
//}}}
// // }}}}}}// // {{block{
/***
!!!604 cross-platform askForFilename()
***/
// // {{groupbox small{
/***
http://trac.tiddlywiki.org/ticket/604 - OPEN
invokes a system-native secure 'file-chooser' dialog box to provide TiddlyWiki with access to a complete path+filename so that TW functions properly locate user-selected local files.
***/
//{{{
window.askForFilename=function(msg,path,file,mustExist) {
var r = window.mozAskForFilename(msg,path,file,mustExist);
if(r===null || r===false)
r = window.ieAskForFilename(msg,path,file,mustExist);
if(r===null || r===false)
r = window.javaAskForFilename(msg,path,file,mustExist);
if(r===null || r===false)
r = prompt(msg,path+file);
return r||'';
}
window.mozAskForFilename=function(msg,path,file,mustExist) {
if(!window.Components) return false;
try {
netscape.security.PrivilegeManager.enablePrivilege('UniversalXPConnect');
var nsIFilePicker = window.Components.interfaces.nsIFilePicker;
var picker = Components.classes['@mozilla.org/filepicker;1'].createInstance(nsIFilePicker);
picker.init(window, msg, mustExist?nsIFilePicker.modeOpen:nsIFilePicker.modeSave);
var thispath = Components.classes['@mozilla.org/file/local;1'].createInstance(Components.interfaces.nsILocalFile);
thispath.initWithPath(path);
picker.displayDirectory=thispath;
picker.defaultExtension='html';
picker.defaultString=file;
picker.appendFilters(nsIFilePicker.filterAll|nsIFilePicker.filterText|nsIFilePicker.filterHTML);
if (picker.show()!=nsIFilePicker.returnCancel)
var result=picker.file.path;
}
catch(ex) { displayMessage(ex.toString()); }
return result;
}
window.ieAskForFilename=function(msg,path,file,mustExist) {
if(!config.browser.isIE) return false;
try {
var s = new ActiveXObject('UserAccounts.CommonDialog');
s.Filter='All files|*.*|Text files|*.txt|HTML files|*.htm;*.html|';
s.FilterIndex=3; // default to HTML files;
s.InitialDir=path;
s.FileName=file;
return s.showOpen()?s.FileName:'';
}
catch(ex) { displayMessage(ex.toString()); }
return result;
}
window.javaAskForFilename=function(msg,path,file,mustExist) {
if(!document.applets['TiddlySaver']) return false;
// TBD: implement java-based askFile(...) function
try { return document.applets['TiddlySaver'].askFile(msg,path,file,mustExist); }
catch(ex) { displayMessage(ex.toString()); }
}
//}}}
// // }}}}}}// // {{block{
/***
!!!657 wrap tabs onto multiple lines
***/
// // {{groupbox small{
/***
http://trac.tiddlywiki.org/ticket/657 - OPEN
This tweak inserts an extra space element following each tab, allowing them to wrap onto multiple lines if needed.
***/
//{{{
config.macros.tabs.handler = function(place,macroName,params)
{
var cookie = params[0];
var numTabs = (params.length-1)/3;
var wrapper = createTiddlyElement(null,'div',null,'tabsetWrapper ' + cookie);
var tabset = createTiddlyElement(wrapper,'div',null,'tabset');
tabset.setAttribute('cookie',cookie);
var validTab = false;
for(var t=0; t<numTabs; t++) {
var label = params[t*3+1];
var prompt = params[t*3+2];
var content = params[t*3+3];
var tab = createTiddlyButton(tabset,label,prompt,this.onClickTab,'tab tabUnselected');
createTiddlyElement(tab,'span',null,null,' ',{style:'font-size:0pt;line-height:0px'}); // ELS
tab.setAttribute('tab',label);
tab.setAttribute('content',content);
tab.title = prompt;
if(config.options[cookie] == label)
validTab = true;
}
if(!validTab)
config.options[cookie] = params[1];
place.appendChild(wrapper);
this.switchTab(tabset,config.options[cookie]);
};
//}}}
// // }}}}}}// // {{block{
/***
!!!628 hide 'no such macro' errors
***/
// // {{groupbox small{
/***
http://trac.tiddlywiki.org/ticket/628 - OPEN
When invoking a macro that is not defined, this tweak prevents the display of the 'error in macro... no such macro' message. This is useful when rendering tiddler content or templates that reference macros that are defined by //optional// plugins that have not been installed in the current document.
<<option chkHideMissingMacros>> hide 'no such macro' error messages
***/
//{{{
if (config.options.chkHideMissingMacros===undefined)
config.options.chkHideMissingMacros=false;
window.coreTweaks_missingMacro_invokeMacro = window.invokeMacro;
window.invokeMacro = function(place,macro,params,wikifier,tiddler) {
if (!config.macros[macro] || !config.macros[macro].handler)
if (config.options.chkHideMissingMacros) return;
window.coreTweaks_missingMacro_invokeMacro.apply(this,arguments);
}
//}}}
// // }}}}}}
// // <<foldHeadings>>
* [[Wisdom]], advice
* The evangelism of the believer's heart.
!!! Sources
# God
** James 1
** Solomon
** Proverbs intro
# Elders
** Proverbs intro
# Prophet
# Brethren
** Paul to the Corinthians -- better a newbie than a worldly court
----
//The counsel of _____ is better than that of Ahithophel.// So God frustrates our plans. On a separate note, we must always watch our sources.
!!! Religion or Ritual?
* <<Bbl 1K 12:27 >>ff
* <<Bbl I 1:10 >>-17 (see <<Bbl Mt 21:28 >>-32), <<Bbl I 29:1>>,13, <<Bbl Jer 7:21 >>-23 , <<Bbl Jer 22:15 >>-16 , <<Bbl Hos 6:6 >>, <<Bbl Amo 4:5 >>, <<Bbl Amo 5:21 >>-27 , <<Bbl Amos 6:5 >>, <<Bbl Mic 6:6 >>-8
* <<Bbl Ps 40:16 abbr >>-23 , <<Bbl Ps 50:7 >>-15 , <<Bbl Ps 51:16 >>-19 , <<Bbl Ps 69:30 >>-31 , <<Bbl Pr 21:3 >>
* <<Bbl Mt 15:1 >>-20 ; <<Bbl Mk 12:28 >>-34 , <<Bbl Jms 1:27 >>
* <<Bbl 1Tim 6:1-5>>, <<Bbl 2Tim 3:5>>
!!! Religion, False
* pragmatic: <<Bbl J 4:14 >>-15 , <<Bbl J 6:26 >>-27 , <<Bbl 1Tim 6:5 >>
* <<Bbl Mk 3:6 abbr >> -- Pharisees violating the Sabbath by plotting murder.
* The song "Onward Christian Soldiers" promotes a false view of the church.
* {{anti{[[Revere]]}}}
* {{anti{[[Believe]]}}}
** see subsection on ''Counterfeit Faith''.
** [[False-Claim]]
| Truth | Counterfeit |h
|[[Worship]] |[[Idolatry]] |
|[[Humility]] |[[Adorn]] |
|[[Truth]] |[[Hypocrisy]] |
|[[Believe]] |[[Presumption]] |
|[[Clothing]] |pretend covering |
|[[Peace]] |activity, dead works |
|[[River]], spring |cistern |
|[[Eye]], Vision |blindness |
|[[Marry]] |many lovers |
|[[Obey]] |sacrifice (futile) |
|[[Remnant]] |false cult claim |
* [[FearNot]]
* {{anti{[[Fear]]}}}, confidence
* Note Latin, [con + fide]. "When a man wants what God wants for the same reasons God wants them, he cannot be stopped (unknown)." <<Bbl Eph 3:12 >>; <<Bbl H 10:19 >>; <<Bbl 1J 2:28 >>, <<Bbl 1J 3:21 >>
* <<Bbl Pr 28:1 >>; <<Bbl A 4:13 >>, <<Bbl A 9:27 >>-29 ; <<Bbl Eph 3:12 >>, <<Bbl Eph 6:19 >>; <<Bbl Php 1:14 >>; <<Bbl H 4:16 >>; <<Bbl 1J 4:17 >>.
* From God: <<Bbl 2Tim 1:7 >>; <<Bbl Pr 28:1 >>; <<Bbl 1J 4:18 >>; <<Bbl R 8:15 >>
* Other wiki for my first rock climb.
The Bible is ''the Book of the Covenant'' (and so it is named on one occasion). This is not an oversimplification.
* Why is so much the Bible presented as narrative? Because God will present His references. But the context is his covenant.
* The Psalms express how to view life's triumph and challenges in light of the Covenant.
* [[Salt]], [[Food]], [[LordsSupper]]
* [[Wedding]]
* {{{diatheke:}}} "...An agreement or compact between two parties, for the observance of which pledges are given" (J. Hertz, Pentateuch and Haftorahs, p. 27).
* A covenant is a mandate.
* The Bible convenants have three aspects, which are recognizable starting from Genesis 2:
## God states the requirements for obedience.
## His people fulfill the requirements by obeying.
## God blesses in recognition (or the opposite).
* <<Bbl Gn 15:17 "" note >>
!!!! The Covenant of [[Grace]]
* @@color:brown;The covenant of grace was made with Christ as the second Adam, and it Him with all the elect as His Seed.@@ // - Larger Catechism, Question 31//
* The preceding state is given in <<Bbl R 5:14>>.
* 1Co 15:22, Christ our [[Represent]].
* Jn 16:38. The //will of the Father// performed by Christ was an eternally established plan.
* [[Substitute]]
!!!! The Covenant of [[Redemption|Redeemer]]
* Seems a good way to refer to the eternal transcendant compact of God's counsel.
* <<Bbl Eph 1:3>>-6, 9-11
----
* [[Mediate]]
* Adam and Eve had a relationship with the Creator that was hindered. But Eve acknowledges God and seems to declare a reliance on and gratitude toward Him. It seems Adam and Eve are redeemed by [[Believe]], but faith based on the most scant knowledge imaginable -- pre-[[Abraham]], pre-[[Melchizedek]], pre-[[Noah]]. [[Dominate]]
| | Mistaken view | Reality |h
|Man disobeyed, so ... | God initiated a covenant of works | God initiated a covenant of grace |
|The [[Law]] was given to ... | enhance the covenant of works | demonstrate God's holiness, our need for grace |
|[[Christ]] came to ... | supersede the covenant of works | make grace fully realized with a New Covenant |
----
But note that //the covenant of the Law// is fully correct. The problem would seem to be contrasting it with a covenant of Grace.
Note treatment by J. Edwards, p 37
* Three covenants (Davidic, Abrahamic, New) are cited by Zacharias in <<Bbl L 1:69 >>-77.
* [[Faithfulness]] of God's: <<Bbl Jer 31:31 >>-34 =<<Bbl H 8:6 >>-13 ; chap. 9, <<Bbl Ps 74:20 >>, <<Bbl Ps 89:30 >>-37 , <<Bbl I 42:6 >>, <<Bbl I 49:8 >> (Jesus, and ourselves, as the covenant itself), 54:10, 58:13-14; 59:21, <<Bbl Jer 33:19 >>-26 , <<Bbl Jer 50:5 >>, <<Bbl Zec 9:11 >>, <<Bbl Gn 6:18 >>, <<Bbl Gn 8:1 >>, <<Bbl Gn 9:8 >>-17 , <<Bbl 1K 11:36 >>-38 , <<Bbl I 49:14 >>ff, <<Bbl Ps 56:12 >>.
* in terms of [[Man]]: <<Bbl 2Ch 15:12 >> (note def. article), <<Bbl Ps 50:5 >>, <<Bbl Pr 20:28 >>, <<Bbl I 58:13 >>-14 , <<Bbl Ez 16:8 >>, <<Bbl Ez 44:7 >>, <<Bbl Hos 6:7 >>Kng 9:3-9, 11:36-39.
* with [[Die]]: <<Bbl I 28:15 >>.
* between eternal Father and Son: <<Bbl H 3:1 >>-3 , <<Bbl H 10:5 >>-7
* [[Break]]: <<Bbl Ez 16:59 >>, <<Bbl Ez 44:7 >>
* new: <<Bbl Jer 31:31 >>-34 ; <<Bbl Mk 14:24 >>
* of [[Peace]]
** with Phineas: <<Bbl Num 25:11 >>-12
** After the flood: //Never again ...//
----
|[[Adam]] |Foundations |
|[[Noah]] |Stability |
|[[Abraham]] |Promise |
|[[Moses]] |Law |
|[[David]] |Kingship |
|[[Jesus]] |Fulfillment |
Epochal diachronic approach to OT. If your teenager is requested to use the stove, does not protest he doesn't know how. Later coaching does not require a repeat of early coaching.
* The covenant is with Israel, not the gentiles! We be grafted in.
* [[Envy]], [[Sin]]
* [[Lust]] -- <<Bbl Eph 5:3 >>
* //Greed//
* To desire something that should not be possessed. The opposite of {{anti{[[Contentment]]}}}. "If you want to make a man happy, do not add to his pleasures, but take away from his desires" -- Epicurus. Only God can accomplish that!
* The KJV uses the term positively as well, e.g., <<Bbl 1C 12:31 >> concerning the gifts.
* [[Seek]]
* The first of the ten commands can be correlated with the final command against coveting; Devotion leads to contentment.
* Fantasizing about driving a hot car that you see on the highway is no different than fantasizing about a woman you see in the hall.
* <<Bbl Gn 3:4 >>-6 , the serpent incites envy; <<Bbl Josh 7:21 >>, Achan's sin; <<Bbl 1S 15:9 >>, Saul repeats Achan's sin; <<Bbl Mic 2:1 >>-2 , first the thought, then the action; <<Bbl Mt 6:33 >>, "all these things"; <<Bbl 1C 6:12 >>, mastered by nothing; <<Bbl Php 4:11 >>-19 , Paul's secret.
* <<Bbl Dt 7:25 >>
* Source of [[Conflict]]
[[God-Word]] is Creative.
!!! Creation and the Creator
* Creation doesn't answer the old riddle, 'which came first...?' But it does make it less critical an issue.
!!! Fallen
* Subject to [[Futility]].
!!! Salvation and the New Creation
* <<Bbl J 12:24 "" note>>
* The days of original creation are re-enacted in [[Regenerate]].
''Trust which is easily misplaced.''
* A man easily believes what he most hopes or fears. - La Fontaine
* <<Bbl Mk 6:14 >>
* Messiah as immediate deliverer.
* [[Suffer]]
* [[Shame]]
* It was not particularly bloody, as the goal was to prolong torment. This makes the spear more significant.
* The breaking of the legs was a concession to Jewish law. In other Roman colonies the practice was exposure over days - a longer death, a longer display.
* <<Bbl I 52:13 >> to <<Bbl I 53:12 >>
* Doesn't care if it says Church on the door. Or Marriage on the certificate.
* [[LordsSupper]]
* [[Wine]]
* [[Vessel]]
* [[PourOut]]
!!!! Word Study
* {{{3563a/468a}}} -- the main Hebrew word, but unused until the Psalms.
** Positive sense: <<Bbl Ps 16:5>>, <<Bbl Ps 23:5 abbr>>, <<Bbl Ps 116:13 abbr>>;
** for Judgment on the wicked: <<Bbl Ps 11:6>>, <<Bbl Ps 75:8 abbr>>.
** Expresses intimacy in <<Bbl Ps 2S 12:3 >>.
** Its only other occurrences are in the prophets. <<Bbl Jer 16:7 >> refers to a cup of consolation (as well as bread). With this exception, all refer to the cup in the same sense as the Psalms concerning Judgment on Israel, Jerusalem, and all the nations. <<Bbl I 51:17 >>; <<Bbl Jer 25:15 >>-29 , <<Bbl Jer 49:12 >>, <<Bbl Jer 51:7 >>; <<Bbl Lam 4:21 >>; <<Bbl Ez 23:32 >>-34 , <<Bbl Hab 2:15 >>-16 .
* {{{5592a/706b}}} -- For blood of the Passover lamb, <<Bbl Ex 12:22 >> above), <<Bbl Zec 12:2 >>; <<Bbl Hab 2:15 >>; several other uses, notably the temple vessels.
* The grape gives everything to become wine.
!!!! Destiny
* <<Bbl Ps 16:6 "" note >>
!!!! [[Drunkenness]]
!!!! [[Judge]]
* <<Bbl Jer 13:12 >>-14
* <<Bbl Mt 20:22 >>-23 , <<Bbl Mt 26:37 >>-42 , <<Bbl Mk 14:33 >>-36 (asking not if it were possible, but if it were willed), <<Bbl J 18:11 >>, <<Bbl Rev 14:9 >>-10 , <<Bbl Rev 16:19 >>, <<Bbl Rev 17:2 >>-4 (see <<Bbl Jer 51:7 >>), 18:6.
* I am also referred to the Martyrdom of Polycarp 14:2.
* {{anti{[[Bless]]}}}
* The KC Chiefs chant.
* <<Bbl Jud 17:2 "" note >>
* Proverbs says //A curse without a cause cannot alight.//
* I curse, in that I think //I'd like to magically shoot out the tires of that car// that is honking at midnight.
!! From God, a consequence.
* [[Rachel]]
!! From man, also; but often a usurpation.
* The end of Judges has an effectual curse of a mother on her son (which she retracts to no avail apparently). It may be taken as the basis for much trouble to follow.
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Whenever TiddlyWiki renders a given tiddler, it creates a 'tree' of DOM (Document Object Model) elements that represent the information that is displayed by the browser. You can use the ''DOMViewer'' macro to examine the internal DOM elements that are produced by TiddlyWiki's formatter (the 'wikifier'), or elements directly produced by embedded macros that create custom formatted output. This can be particularly helpful when trying to fine tune the layout and appearance of your tiddler content.
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|please see [[TidIDEPluginInfo]] for additional revision details|
2006.04.15 0.5.0 Initial ALPHA release. Converted from inline script.
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* //Peril//
* Would you stand on a sea jetty made of sugar cubes?
* [[Fear]], [[Need]], [[Mistreat]], [[Privation]], [[Persecute]]
* [[Die]]
* [[Warn]]
* {{anti{[[Security]]}}}
!! Holiness
* Consecration
* Integrity
!! Perseverence
* Steadiness
!! Courage
!! Obedience
In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah, Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon came to Jerusalem and besieged it. {{rf{2}}} And the Lord gave Jehoiakim the king of Judah into his hand and some of of the utensils of the temple of God, and he brought them to the land of Shinar to the temple of his gods, and he brought the utensils to the treasury of his gods. {{rf{3}}} And the king ordered Ashpenaz, the commander of his court officials, to bring some of the Israelites from the royal family and from the lords, {{rf{4}}} youths who have no physical defect, and who are handsome, and who are prudent in all wisdom and endowed with knowledge, and who understand insight, and who have the ability in them to serve in the palace of the king. And the king ordered him to teach them the literature and the language of the Chaldeans. {{rf{5}}} And the king assigned to them his daily portion from the fine food of the king, and from the wine that he drank, and instructed that they were to be educated for three years. And at the end of their training, they were to be stationed before the king. {{rf{6}}} Now there was among them from the Judeans, Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael and Azariah. {{rf{7}}} And the commander of the court officials gave them names, and he called Daniel, Belteshazzar; and Hananiah, Shadrach; and Mishael, Meshach; and Azariah, Abednego. {{rf{8}}} Now Daniel resolved that he would not defile himself with the fine food of the king, and with the wine that he drank, and so he requested from the commander of the court officials permission so that he would not defile himself. {{rf{9}}} And God gave Daniel favor and compassion before the commander of the court officials, {{rf{10}}} and the commander of the court officials said to Daniel, "I am afraid of my lord, the king, who has determined your food and your drink, for why should he see your face having a worse appearance than the young men who are your age? Then you will endanger my head with the king." {{rf{11}}} Then Daniel asked the guard whom the commander of the court officials had appointed over Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah, {{rf{12}}} "Please test your servants for ten days, and let them give us some of the vegetables, and let us eat and let us drink water. {{rf{13}}} Then let our appearances and the appearance of the young men who are eating the fine food of the king be compared before you, and then deal with your servants according to what you see." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Daniel-01-01]] }}}
* Words relating to wisdom are found nine times in this chapter. The theme is primary throughout
* Each chapter a power encounter. What is the core conflict? What does one learn about God? What shows as virtue in Daniel?
* Egypt without the Exodus! But then Cyrus. Is Daniel a blessed converse to Moses?
----
<<Bbl Dan 1:2 abbr >>-4 Vessels for the temple, youths for the court.
<<Bbl Dan 1:5 abbr >> The king is trying to "improve his stock."
<<Bbl Dan 1:7 abbr >> 4:8 gives some insight into the Belteshazzar.
<<Bbl Dan 1:8 abbr >> Daniel's resolve makes him the exception to the prophecy of (<<Bbl Hosea 9:3>>).
Daniel may have had in mind the <<Bbl Proverbs 23:1 >>-8 .
<<Bbl Dan 1:4 abbr >> and <<Bbl Pr 1:4 >> have a provocative correspondence. Also, of course, he was anxious to keep the dietary law.
<<Bbl Dan 1:17 abbr >> he must have thought of Joseph
<<Bbl Dan 2:2 abbr >> ,b 4.9,b 5.11-12. Always an afterthought. No place for security.
<<Bbl Dan 2:34 abbr >> The Judgment strikes at the sin.
<<Bbl Dan 2:38 abbr >> This seems like an ultimate statement of God delegating power to unregenerate man.
<<Bbl Dan 2:39 abbr >> This is announced in 5:28.
<<Bbl Dan 2:47 abbr >> Nabuchednezer acknowledges the supremacy of God, but later events (like 3:1) reveal this confession as incomplete.
<<Bbl Dan 2:49 abbr >> explains why Daniel not in next test
<<Bbl Dan 3:1 abbr >> About ninety feet tall and nine feet wide, and seemingly inspired directly by his dream.
3:5-6 An attempt to simulate the power of the proclamation by trumpet and Judgment by fire that is God's alone.
<<Bbl Dan 3:8 abbr >>-12 scheming to exclude the chief but kill his accomplices.
<<Bbl Dan 3:8 abbr >> These Chaldeans are ungrateful for Daniel's deliverance (2:24) and are possibly motivated by envy by the favor shown in 2:48.
<<Bbl Dan 3:12 abbr >> Possibly they are afraid to bring an allegation against <<Bbl Dan 3:28 >> Compare <<Bbl R 12:1 >>!
<<Bbl Dan 3:19 abbr >> As the king's countenance increased in wrath, so the furnace was increased in fury.
4 The "King's Soliloquy."
<<Bbl Dan 4:4 abbr >> contented and prosperous - because of his Jewish subordinates!
<<Bbl Dan 4:27 abbr >> An interesting "How-to" of repentance.
4:33 It seems entirely possible Daniel led the nation for these years. Like Joseph, he anticipated the national crisis through God's counsel concerning a dream; like Joseph, perhaps he served as vice-regent.
{{rf{14}}} So he agreed to this proposal with them, and he tested them for ten days. {{rf{15}}} And at the end of ten days their appearances appeared better and they were healthier of body than all the young men who were eating the fine food of the king. {{rf{16}}} So the guard continued to withhold their fine food and the wine of their drink, and he gave them vegetables. {{rf{17}}} And as for these four young men, God gave to them knowledge and insight into all literature and wisdom, and Daniel had insight into all visions and dreams. {{rf{18}}} And at the end of the time the king had set to bring them, the commander of the court officials brought them in before Nebuchadnezzar. {{rf{19}}} And the king spoke with them, and among all of them no one was found like Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah; then they stood before the king. {{rf{20}}} And in every matter of wisdom and understanding about which the king inquired from them, he found them ten times better than all of the magicians and conjurers that were in his entire kingdom. {{rf{21}}} And Daniel was there until the first year of Cyrus the king. {{rf big{1}}} Now in the second year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuchadnezzar dreamed dreams; and his spirit was troubled and his sleep left him. {{rf{2}}} So the king said to call the magicians and the conjurers and the sorcerers and the astrologers to tell to the king his dreams. And they came in and they stood before the king. {{rf{3}}} And the king said to them, "I have had a dream and my spirit is anxious to know the dream." {{rf{4}}} And the astrologers said to the king in Aramaic, "O king, live forever! Tell the dream to your servants and we will reveal the explanation." {{rf{5}}} The king answered and said to the astrologers, "The command from me is firm: if you do not make known to me the dream and its explanation, then you will be broken into pieces and your houses will be laid in ruins. {{rf{6}}} But if you tell me the dream and its explanation, you will receive gifts and rewards and great honor from me. Therefore, tell me the dream and its explanation." {{rf{7}}} They answered once more and said, "Let the king tell the dream to his servants and we will make the explanation known." {{rf{8}}} The king answered and said, "Certainly I know that you are trying to gain time because you have seen that this matter is firmly decreed by me, {{rf{9}}} for if you do not make the dream known to me, your verdict is fixed, and you have conspired to say a lying and deceitful word to me until the circumstances will change. Therefore, tell me the dream, and I will know that you can tell me its explanation." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Daniel-01-14]] }}}
{{rf{10}}} The astrologers answered the king and said, "There is not a man on earth that is able to reveal the word of the king; in fact, no great and powerful king has ever asked a thing like this of any magician or conjurer or astrologer. {{rf{11}}} And the thing that the king is asking is too difficult and there is no one who can reveal it to the king except the gods whose dwelling is not with mortals." {{rf{12}}} Because of this the king became angry, and he became very much enraged, and he said that all the wise men of Babylon are to be destroyed. {{rf{13}}} And the decree was issued, and the wise men were on the verge of being executed, and they searched for Daniel and his companions to be executed. {{rf{14}}} Then Daniel responded prudently and discretely to Arioch, the commander of the imperial guard of the king, who had gone out to execute the wise men of Babylon. {{rf{15}}} He asked and said to Arioch, the royal official of the king, "Why is the decree from the king so severe?" Then Arioch explained the matter to Daniel. {{rf{16}}} And Daniel went in and requested from the king that he would give him time, and he would tell the king the explanation. {{rf{17}}} Then Daniel went to his home, and he made the matter known to Hananiah, Mishael and Azariah, his companions, {{rf{18}}} and told them to seek mercy from the God of heaven concerning this mystery, so that Daniel and his companions, along with the remainder of the wise men of Babylon, would not be killed. {{rf{19}}} Then in a vision of the night the mystery was revealed to Daniel; then Daniel blessed the God of heaven. {{rf{20}}} Daniel said: "Let his name, the name of God, be blessed throughout the ages, for the wisdom and the power are his. {{rf{21}}} And he changes the times and the seasons, and he deposes kings and he sets up kings; he gives wisdom to wise men and knowledge to men who know understanding. {{rf{22}}} He reveals the deep and the hidden things; he knows what is in the darkness, and the light dwells with him. {{rf{23}}} To you, O God of my ancestors, I give thanks and I give praises, for the wisdom and the power you gave to me, and now you have made known to me what we have asked from you, for you have made known to us the matter of the king." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Daniel-02-10]] }}}
{{rf{24}}} Therefore Daniel went to Arioch, whom the king had appointed to destroy the wise men of Babylon; he went and thus he said to him: "You must not destroy the wise men of Babylon; take me in before the king and I will give the explanation to the king." {{rf{25}}} Then Arioch quickly brought Daniel in before the king and thus he said to him: "I have found a man among the exiles of Judah who can relate the explanation to the king. {{rf{26}}} The king then asked and said to Daniel, whose name was Belteshazzar, "Are you able to make known to me the dream that I have seen and its explanation?" {{rf{27}}} Daniel answered the king and said, "The mystery that the king asks, no wise men, conjurers, magicians, or diviners are able to make known to the king. {{rf{28}}} But there is a God in heaven who reveals mysteries, and he has made known to King Nebuchadnezzar what it is that will be at the end of days. This is your dream and the visions of your head on your bed. {{rf{29}}} "As for you, king, your thoughts on your bed turned to what it was that would be in the future, and the revealer of mysteries has made known to you what that would be. {{rf{30}}} And as for me, it is not because of wisdom that is in me more than any other living person that this mystery is revealed to me, but in order that the explanation may be made known to the king and you will understand the thoughts of your mind. {{rf{31}}} "You, O king, were looking and, look, there was one great statue. This statue was huge and its brilliance extraordinary, standing there before you, and its appearance was frightening. {{rf{32}}} The head of this statue was of fine gold, its chest and its arms of silver, its belly and its thighs of bronze, {{rf{33}}} its legs of iron, its feet, part of them of iron and part of them of clay. {{rf{34}}} You were looking on until a stone was chiseled out -- that not by hands -- and it struck the statue on its feet of iron and clay, and it broke them in pieces. {{rf{35}}} Then the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver and the gold all at once broke into pieces and they became like chaff from the summer threshing floor, and the wind carried them away and any trace of them could not be found. But the stone that struck the statue became a great mountain and it filled the whole earth. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Daniel-02-24]] }}}
{{rf{36}}} "This was the dream, and now we will tell its interpretation to the king. {{rf{37}}} You, O king, the king of kings, to whom the God of heaven has given the kingdom, the power and the might and the glory, {{rf{38}}} and also human beings wherever they dwell, the animals of the field and the birds of heaven -- he has given into your hand and made you ruler over all of them -- you are the head of gold. {{rf{39}}} And after you another kingdom inferior to yours will arise, and another third kingdom of bronze that will rule over the whole earth. {{rf{40}}} And a fourth kingdom will be strong as iron, and just as iron crushes and smashes everything, and as iron shatters all of these other metals, so it will crush and it will shatter these nations. {{rf{41}}} And just as you saw the feet and the toes, partly potter's clay and partly iron, it will be a divided kingdom; and some hardness of the iron will be in it, just as you have seen the iron mixed with the wet clay. {{rf{42}}} And as the toes of the feet were partly iron and partly clay, so part of the kingdom will be strong and partly brittle. {{rf{43}}} And in that you saw the iron was mixed with wet clay, so they will mix in marriage and they will not cling to one another, just as iron does not mix with clay. {{rf{44}}} And in the day of those kings, the God of heaven will set up a kingdom that will never be destroyed, and the kingdom will not be left for another nation, and it will bring an end to all these kingdoms, but it will stand forever. {{rf{45}}} Inasmuch as you saw that a stone from the mountain was chiseled out but not by hands, and that it crushed the iron, the bronze, the clay, the silver and the gold, thereby the great God made known to the king what will be in the future, and the dream is certain and its explanation trustworthy." {{rf{46}}} Then the king, Nebuchadnezzar, fell on his face and he paid homage to Daniel; and he commanded them to offer a grain offering and incense offering to him. {{rf{47}}} The king answered Daniel and said, "Truly your God is the God of gods and the Lord of kings, and he reveals mysteries, for you are able to reveal this mystery." {{rf{48}}} Then the king promoted Daniel and gave him many great gifts, and made him ruler over the whole province of Babylon and the chief prefect over all the wise men of Babylon. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Daniel-02-36]] }}}
{{rf{49}}} And Daniel made a request from the king, and he appointed Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego over the affairs of the province of Babylon, while Daniel remained in the court of the king. {{rf big{1}}} Nebuchadnezzar the king made a statue of gold. Its height was sixty cubits and its width was six cubits; he set it up in the valley of Dura in the province of Babylon. {{rf{2}}} Then Nebuchadnezzar the king sent directions to assemble the satraps, the prefects, and the governors, the counselors, the treasurers, the judges, the magistrates and all of the officials of the provinces to come to the dedication of the statue that Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up. {{rf{3}}} Then the satraps, the prefects, the governors, the counselors, the treasurers, the judges, the magistrates, and all the officials of the province were assembled for the dedication of the statue that Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up, and were standing before the statue that Nebuchadnezzar had set up. {{rf{4}}} Then the herald proclaimed aloud, "To you it is commanded, O peoples, nations and people of all languages, {{rf{5}}} that at the time that you hear the sound of the horn, the flute, the lyre, the trigon, the harp, the drum and all kinds of music, you must fall down and you must worship the statue of gold that Nebuchadnezzar the king has set up. {{rf{6}}} And whoever does not fall down and worship will be thrown immediately into the midst of the furnace of blazing fire." {{rf{7}}} Therefore, at that time, as soon as all the peoples heard the sound of the horn, the flute, the lyre, the trigon, the harp and all kinds of music, all the peoples, the nations and people of all languages were falling down and were worshiping the statue of gold that Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up. {{rf{8}}} Therefore at this time some astrologers came forward and they denounced the Jews. {{rf{9}}} They responded and said to Nebuchadnezzar the king, "O king, may you live forever! {{rf{10}}} You, O king, have made a decree that everyone who hears the sound of the horn, the flute, the lyre, the trigon, the harp and the drum and all kinds of music, he shall fall down and shall worship the statue of gold. {{rf{11}}} And whoever does not fall down and worship shall be thrown into the midst of the furnace of blazing fire. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Daniel-02-49]] }}}
{{rf{12}}} However there are Judean men whom you have appointed over the affairs of the province of Babylon -- Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego -- these men, O king, pay you no heed and were not serving your god, and the statue of gold that you set up they are not worshiping." {{rf{13}}} Then Nebuchadnezzar said in rage and anger to bring in Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego; then they brought in these men before the king. {{rf{14}}} Nebuchadnezzar answered and said to them, "Is it true, Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego, that you are not serving my god, and you are not worshiping the statue of gold that I have set up? {{rf{15}}} Now if you are ready so that when you hear the sound of the horn, the flute, the lyre, the trigon, the harp and the drum and all kinds of music, you fall down and you worship the statue that I have made, that will be good. But if you do not worship it, immediately you will be thrown into the midst of the furnace of blazing fire, and who is the god who will rescue you from my hands?" {{rf{16}}} Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego answered and said to the king, Nebuchadnezzar, "We have no need on this matter to present a defense to you. {{rf{17}}} If it is so, our God, whom we serve, is able to rescue us from the furnace of blazing fire. And from your hand, O king, let him rescue us. {{rf{18}}} And if not, let it be known to you, O king, that we will not serve your gods, and the statue of gold that you have set up we will not worship." {{rf{19}}} Then Nebuchadnezzar was filled with anger and the image of his face was changed toward Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego, so he ordered and said to heat up the one furnace seven times what was usual to heat it up. {{rf{20}}} And he commanded the strongest men of the guards who were in his army to bind Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego and to throw them into the furnace of blazing fire. {{rf{21}}} Then these men were bound with their garments, their trousers and their turbans and their other clothing, and they were thrown into the midst of the furnace of blazing fire. {{rf{22}}} Therefore because the word of the king was severe and the furnace was exceedingly hot, the flame of the fire killed these men who lifted up Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego. {{rf{23}}} But these men, the three of them, Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego, fell down into the midst of the furnace of blazing fire, and they were bound. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Daniel-03-12]] }}}
{{rf{24}}} Then Nebuchadnezzar the king was astonished, and he rose up in haste and he asked, saying to his advisers, "Did we not throw three men, bound, into the midst of the fire? They answered, saying to the king, "Certainly, O king!" {{rf{25}}} He answered, saying, "Look, I see four men unbound walking in the midst of the fire and there is no damage to them, and the appearance of the fourth man resembles the son of a god." {{rf{26}}} Then Nebuchadnezzar approached the door of the furnace of blazing fire, and he called out, saying, "Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego, servants of the Most High God, come out and come here!" {{rf{27}}} And the satraps, the prefects, the governors and the advisors of the king were assembling, and they saw these men, that the fire had no power over their bodies, and the hair of their heads was not singed, and their garments were not harmed, and the smell of fire did not come from them. {{rf{28}}} Nebuchadnezzar responded, saying, "Blessed be their God, the God of Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego, who sent his angel and rescued his servants who trusted in him, and the command of the king they disobeyed, and they gave their bodies so that they did not serve and did not worship any god except their God. {{rf{29}}} And from me is set forth a decree that any people, nation, or language that may utter criticism against their God -- the God of Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego -- will be broken into pieces and their house will be made like ruins. For there is not another God who is able to rescue like this God." {{rf{30}}} Then the king promoted Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego in the province of Babylon. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Daniel-03-24]] }}}
Nebuchadnezzar the king to all of the nations, the peoples and languages that live in the whole earth: "May your prosperity increase! {{rf{2}}} It is pleasing to me to recount the signs and wonders that the Most High God worked for me. {{rf{3}}} How great are his signs and wonders, how strong is his kingdom, an everlasting kingdom; and his sovereignty is from generation to generation. {{rf{4}}} "I, Nebuchadnezzar, was content in my house and prospering in my palace. {{rf{5}}} And I saw a dream and a revelation on my bed and it frightened me, and the visions of my head terrified me. {{rf{6}}} And a decree was sent out, ordering that all the wise men of Babylon were to be brought in before me so that they may make known to me the explanation of the dream. {{rf{7}}} Then the magicians, the conjurers, the astrologers and the diviners came in and I told them the dream, but they could not make known to me its explanation. {{rf{8}}} Then at last Daniel came before me whose name was Belteshazzar, according to the name of my god, and in whom was the spirit of the holy gods, and I related the dream to him. {{rf{9}}} " 'O Belteshazzar, chief of the magicians, I myself know that the spirit of the holy gods is in you, and no mystery is too difficult for you. Now tell me the visions of my dream that I saw, and its explanation. {{rf{10}}} Now these were the visions of my head as I was lying on my bed: I was gazing and, look, a tree was in the midst of the earth, and its height was exalted. {{rf{11}}} The tree grew and it became strong, and its height reached to heaven, and it was visible to the end of the whole earth. {{rf{12}}} Its foliage was beautiful, and its fruit abundant, and in it was provision for all. Under it the animals of the field sought shade, and in its branches the birds of heaven nested, and from it all the living beings were fed. {{rf{13}}} " 'I was looking in the vision of my head as I lay on my bed, and look, a watcher, and a holy one, came down from heaven. {{rf{14}}} He cried aloud and so he said: "Cut down the tree and chop off its branches; shake off its foliage and scatter its fruit. Let the animals flee from under it, and the birds from its branches. {{rf{15}}} But the stump of its roots leave in the earth, along with a band of iron and bronze; leave it in the grass of the field. And in the dew of heaven let it be watered, and with the animals let his lot be in the grass of the earth. {{rf{16}}} Let his mind be changed from that of a human, and let the mind of an animal be given to him, and let seven times pass over him. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Daniel-04-01]] }}}
{{rf{17}}} The sentence is by the decree of the watchers, and the decision by the command of the holy ones, in order that the living will know that the Most High is sovereign over the kingdom of humankind, and to whomever he wills he gives it, and he even sets the humblest of men over it." {{rf{18}}} " 'This is the dream that I, Nebuchadnezzar the king, saw. Now you, Belteshazzar, declare its explanation, for all of the wise men of my kingdom were not able to make the explanation known to me, but you are able because the spirit of holy gods is in you.' {{rf{19}}} "Then Daniel, whose name was Belteshazzar, was distressed for some time, and his thoughts disturbed him. The king answered and he said, 'Belteshazzar, let the dream and its explanation not disturb you.' Belteshazzar answered and said, 'My lord, may the dream and its explanation be for those who hate you and for your enemies. {{rf{20}}} The tree that you saw, which grew and became strong and its height reached to heaven and it was visible to the end of the whole earth, {{rf{21}}} and its foliage was beautiful and its fruit abundant, and so there was provision for all in it, and the animals of the field lived under it and in its branches nest the birds of heaven, {{rf{22}}} -- it is you, O king, who have grown great and you have grown strong, and so your greatness has increased and it has reached to heaven and your sovereignty to the end of the earth. {{rf{23}}} And inasmuch that the king saw the watcher, a holy one coming down from heaven and he said, "Cut down the tree and destroy it, but the stump of its root in the earth leave with a band of iron and bronze in the grass of the field, and let it be watered with the dew of heaven and let his lot be with the animals of the field until seven times have passed over him." {{rf{24}}} This is the explanation, O king, and it is a decree of the Most High that has come upon my lord the king: {{rf{25}}} you will be driven away from human society and you will dwell with the animals of the field, and you will be caused to graze grass like the oxen yourself, and you will be watered with the dew of heaven, and seven periods of time will pass over you until that you have acknowledged that the Most High is sovereign over the kingdom of humankind, and to whom he wills he gives it. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Daniel-04-17]] }}}
{{rf{26}}} And in that they said to leave alone the stump of the tree's root, so your kingdom will be restored for you when you acknowledge that heaven is sovereign. {{rf{27}}} Therefore, O king, let my advice be acceptable to you and your sin remove with righteousness and your iniquity with having mercy on the oppressed, in case there might be a prolongation of your prosperity.'" {{rf{28}}} All this happened to Nebuchadnezzar the king. {{rf{29}}} At the end of twelve months he was walking on the roof of the royal palace of Babylon. {{rf{30}}} And the king answered and said, "Is this not the great Babylon which I have built as a royal palace by the strength of my own power, and for the glory of my own majesty?" {{rf{31}}} While the words were still in the mouth of the king, a voice from heaven came, saying, 'To you, King Nebuchadnezzar, it is declared that the kingdom has departed from you, {{rf{32}}} and you will be driven away from human society and your dwelling will be with the animals of the field and they will cause you to graze the grass like oxen, and seven times will pass over you, until you acknowledge that the Most High is sovereign over the kingdom of humankind and that he gives it to whom he wills.' {{rf{33}}} Immediately the word was fulfilled concerning Nebuchadnezzar, and he was expelled from human society and he ate grass like oxen, and his body was bathed with the dew of heaven until his hair was like the hair of an eagle and his nails grew like a bird's claws. {{rf{34}}} "But at the end of that period, I, Nebuchadnezzar, lifted up my eyes to heaven, and then my reason returned to me; and I blessed the Most High and the one who lives forever I praised and I honored. "For his sovereignty is an everlasting sovereignty, and his kingdom continues from generation to generation. {{rf{35}}} And all the dwellers of the earth are regarded as nothing, and he does according to his desire in the host of heaven and among the dwellers of earth, and there is not one who can hold back his hand, or ask him, 'What are you doing?' {{rf{36}}} "At that time my reason returned to me, and also the glory of my kingdom and my majesty and splendor returned to me, and my advisers and my lords searched me out, and I was established over my kingdom and abundant greatness was added to me. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Daniel-04-26]] }}}
{{rf{37}}} Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and exalt and honor the king of heaven, for all his works are truth, and his ways are justice and that he is able to humble those who walk in pride." {{rf big{1}}} Belshazzar the king made a great festival for a thousand of his lords, and in the presence of the thousand lords he was drinking wine. {{rf{2}}} When he tasted the wine, Belshazzar commanded that they bring the vessels of gold and silver that Nebuchadnezzar his predecessor had taken from the temple that was in Jerusalem, so that the king and his lords, his wives and his concubines may drink from them. {{rf{3}}} Then they brought in the vessels of gold that they took from the temple, the house of God that was in Jerusalem, and the king and his lords, his wives and his concubines drank from them. {{rf{4}}} They drank the wine and praised the gods of gold and silver, bronze, iron, wood and stone. {{rf{5}}} Immediately human fingers appeared and they wrote opposite the lampstand on the plaster of the wall of the palace of the king, and the king was watching the palm of the hand that was writing. {{rf{6}}} Then his face changed and his thoughts terrified him, and his hip joints gave way and his knees knocked together. {{rf{7}}} The king cried aloud to bring in the conjurers, the astrologers and the diviners; the king spoke and said to the wise men of Babylon, "Any man that can read this writing and can tell me its explanation will be clothed in purple and will have a necklace of gold hung around his neck and he will rule as third in authority in the kingdom." {{rf{8}}} Then all the wise men of the king came in, but they were not able to read the writing or to make known its explanation. {{rf{9}}} Then the king, Belshazzar, became greatly terrified, and his facial features changed upon him, and his lords were perplexed. {{rf{10}}} Because of the words of the king and his lords, the queen came into the banqueting hall and the queen spoke up and said, "O king, live forever, and let not your thoughts terrify you and do not let your facial expressions grow pale. {{rf{11}}} There is a man in your kingdom who has the spirit of the holy gods in him. And in the days of your predecessor, enlightenment and insight and wisdom like the wisdom of the gods was found in him; and, O king, Nebuchadnezzar your predecessor appointed him as chief of the magicians, the conjurers, the astrologers, and the diviners. Your predecessor the king did this {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Daniel-04-37]] }}}
Ezekiel cites Daniel - his contemporary in a far-off region! - as exemplary of wisdom.
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<<Bbl Dan 5:4 abbr>>-5 – God's lively power is contrasted with dead idols. Possibly see also verse 23 and 24.
<<Bbl Dan 5:11 abbr>> It is unknown to us how Daniel sunk again into obscurity. Verse 22 is significant.
<<Bbl Dan 5:25 abbr>> The descration of Hebrew worship has resulted in a judgement so explicitly Hebrew that only a Hebrew can interpret it. Is Hebrew the language of those words?
<<Bbl Dan 5:23 abbr >> This is Belshazzar's sin; he wanted to hold God in his hand (vessels for the temple, youths for the court; 1:2-4), while really his life was in God's hand -- the same hand now inscribing the Judgment.
<<Bbl Dan 5:28 abbr >> Daniel knew this as the ram with two horns, chap 8.
<<Bbl Dan 5:29 abbr >> Accustomed to idolatries, the king tries to make it a business deal according to his promise in vs. 17. The next verse is a black irony.
<<Bbl Dan 6:5 abbr >> Compare <<Bbl Neh 6:13 >>. Perhaps they do not so much expect that Daniel will stand firm.
<<Bbl Dan 6:8 abbr >> <<Bbl Esther 1:19 >> refers to this formula.
<<Bbl Dan 6:10 abbr >> see Solomon's prayer, <<Bbl 1K 8:48 >>-53 . This was not an attempt to provoke, but rather Daniel's routine which was unchanged by circumstance, as the next verse proves.
<<Bbl Dan 6:11 abbr >> , he knows Greece will conquer but he does not know or presume the timing. The persecution he endures is not taken as sign.
<<Bbl Dan 6:14 abbr >> 18-20 These verses show the distress of the king, as vs. 23 shows his happiness at Daniel's deliverance.
<<Bbl Dan 6:15 abbr >> This situation seems different from <<Bbl Mt 14:9 >>, <<Bbl Mk 6:26 >>, where Herod really desires the death of the righteous John; apparently these lawyers had found a tactic which outfoxed Darius.
6:16,19,19 These verses show the faith and intercession of the king, after his own attempts to free Daniel were exhausted. His prayers had the outcome of faith; I think we could make him an example of prayer.
<<Bbl Dan 6:17 abbr >> Here the stone and the seal remind us of the gospels.
<<Bbl Dan 6:22 abbr >> Lions and angels also in <<Bbl Mk 1:13 >> (b)
<<Bbl Dan 6:22 abbr >> Daniel does not regard his defiance of the edict as a sin against the king. Perhaps he sees it as a contrivance of the king's enemies and thus not true law. This interpretation would agree with 3:28.
<<Bbl Dan 7:1 abbr >> change to first-person
7:9-14 These descriptions show the Father and the Son .
<<Bbl Dan 7:17 abbr >>-1 8 The earth and the Highest One are contrasted.
<<Bbl Dan 8:27 abbr >> The weight of revelation is overwhelming, one could almost say traumatizing.
8:26-27 See 10:1,12:4.
<<Bbl Dan 9:1 abbr >> small context, <<Bbl Dan 9:2 >> big
<<Bbl Dan 9:2 abbr >> Refers to <<Bbl Jer 29:10 >>.
<<Bbl Dan 9:13 abbr >>-16 <<Bbl Jer 29:10 >>-14. Compares with the [[Exodus]]. <<Bbl I 43:5 >>-07, <<Bbl I 43:16 >>-21.
<<Bbl Dan 9:19 abbr >> An earnest and discerning appeal for the glory of God.
<<Bbl Dan 9:20 abbr >> Compare <<Bbl Neh 1:6 >>.
<<Bbl Dan 9:26 abbr >> Compare <<Bbl Mt 27:51 >>-53 .
<<Bbl Dan 10:1 abbr >> See 8:26-27.
<<Bbl Dan 11:32 abbr >> exploits (KJV) Check out the English word's etymology.
<<Bbl Dan 11:36 abbr >> This is the great chronological break for pre-millenialists.
<<Bbl Dan 12:3 abbr >> See <<Bbl Pr 11:30 >>, "He who is wise ..."
<<Bbl Dan 12:4 abbr >> See 8:26.
{{rf{12}}} because there was found in him an excellent spirit and understanding and insight for interpreting dreams and explaining riddles and solving riddles; that is, in Daniel whom the king named Belteshazzar. Now, let Daniel be called and he will tell the explanation." {{rf{13}}} Then Daniel was brought in before the king, and the king spoke and said to Daniel, "You are Daniel who are one of the exiles of Judah whom my predecessor, the king, brought from Judah. {{rf{14}}} And I have heard that a spirit of the gods is in you and enlightenment and insight and excellent wisdom was found in you. {{rf{15}}} And now the wise men and the conjurers were brought in before me so that they could read this writing in order to make its explanation known to me, but they were not able to disclose the explanation of the matter. {{rf{16}}} But I have heard concerning you that you are able to produce interpretations and to solve riddles; now if you are able to read the writing and to make known its explanation to me, you will be clothed in purple and a necklace of gold will be placed around your neck and you will rule as third in command in the kingdom." {{rf{17}}} Then Daniel answered and said before the king, "Let your gifts be for yourself or your rewards give to another; nevertheless, I will read the writing to the king and I will make known to him the explanation. {{rf{18}}} O king, the Most High God gave the kingdom and the greatness and the glory and the majesty to Nebuchadnezzar your predecessor. {{rf{19}}} And because of the greatness that he gave to him, all the peoples, the nations and languages trembled and feared before him; whomever he wanted he killed, and whomever he wanted he let live, and whomever he wanted he honored, and whomever he wanted he humbled. {{rf{20}}} But when his heart became arrogant and his spirit became hard so as to act proudly, he was deposed from the throne of his kingdom and the glory was taken away from him. {{rf{21}}} And he was driven away from human society and his mind was made like the animals and his dwelling was with the wild asses; and he was given grass like oxen to eat, and with the dew of heaven his body was bathed, until he acknowledged that the Most High God is sovereign over the kingdom of humankind, and whoever he wants he sets over it. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Daniel-05-12]] }}}
{{rf{22}}} "But you his successor, Belshazzar, have not humbled your heart even though you knew all this. {{rf{23}}} And now you have exalted yourself against the Lord of heaven, and the vessels of his temple you have brought in before you, and you and your lords, your wives and your concubines, have been drinking wine from them, and you have praised the gods of silver, gold, bronze, iron, wood, and stone that do not see and do not hear and do not know, but the God who holds your life in his hand and all of your ways come from him, you have not honored. {{rf{24}}} So then the palm of the hand was sent out from his presence and this writing was inscribed. {{rf{25}}} "Now this was the writing that was inscribed: 'Mene, Mene, Tekel and Parsin.' {{rf{26}}} "This is the explanation of the matter: 'Mene' -- God has numbered your kingdom and brought an end to it. {{rf{27}}} " 'Tekel' -- you have been weighed on scales and you have been found wanting. {{rf{28}}} " 'Peres' -- your kingdom has been divided and given to the Medes and Persians.'" {{rf{29}}} Then Belshazzar commanded, and they clothed Daniel with purple and placed a necklace of gold around his neck, and they made a proclamation concerning him that he would be the third ruler in authority in the kingdom. {{rf{30}}} That same night Belshazzar, the Chaldean king, was killed. {{rf{31}}} And Darius the Mede received the kingdom when he was about sixty-two years old. {{rf big{1}}} It pleased Darius, and he set up one hundred and twenty satraps over the kingdom, that they were throughout the whole kingdom, {{rf{2}}} and over them were three administrators, of whom Daniel was one, so that these satraps were giving account to them, and the king would not be suffering loss. {{rf{3}}} Then Daniel began distinguishing himself above the administrators and the satraps because an exceptional spirit was in him, and so the king planned to appoint him over the whole kingdom. {{rf{4}}} Then the other administrators and satraps began to seek to find a pretext against Daniel in connection with the kingdom, but they were not able to find any pretext and corruption because he was trustworthy, and no negligence or corruption could be found in him. {{rf{5}}} Then these men said, "We will not find any pretext against this Daniel unless we find it in connection with the law of his God." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Daniel-05-22]] }}}
{{rf{6}}} So the administrators and the satraps conspired with respect to the king and so they said to him, "Darius, O king, live forever! {{rf{7}}} All of the administrators of the kingdom, and the prefects, the satraps, the counselors and the governors took counsel and have agreed to establish an edict of the king and to enforce a decree that whoever will seek a prayer from any god or human except from you for up to thirty days will be thrown into the lion pit. {{rf{8}}} Now, O king, establish the edict and you must sign the document so that it cannot be changed, according to the law of the Medes and Persians which cannot be revoked." {{rf{9}}} So the king, Darius, signed the writing and the interdict. {{rf{10}}} Now when Daniel realized that the document was signed, he went to his house (now he had windows in his upper room that were open toward Jerusalem), and three times daily he knelt on his knees and prayed and gave praise before his God, just as he had been doing previously. {{rf{11}}} Then these men came as a group and they found Daniel praying and pleading for mercy before his God. {{rf{12}}} Then they approached and spoke with the king concerning the edict of the king, "Did you not sign an edict that any person who would seek anything from any God or human within thirty days except from you, O king, would be thrown into the lion pit?" The king answered and said, "The matter as you have just stated is certain according to the law of the Medes and Persians which cannot be revoked." {{rf{13}}} Then they responded and said before the king, "Daniel, who is from the exiles of Judah, is not paying any attention to you, O king, or to the decree that you have signed, and three times daily he says his prayer." {{rf{14}}} Then the king, when he heard that report, he was extremely distressed over it; and concerning Daniel he was determined to rescue him. And until the setting of the sun he was making every effort to deliver him. {{rf{15}}} Then these men came as a group to the king and said, "Recall, O king, that with respect to the law of the Medes and Persians that any decree or edict that the king establishes cannot be changed." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Daniel-06-06]] }}}
{{rf{16}}} Then the king gave the command, and Daniel was brought in and they threw him into the lion pit. The king said to Daniel, "Your God, whom you serve faithfully, may he rescue you!" {{rf{17}}} And a stone was brought and it was put on the entrance of the pit, and the king sealed it with his signet ring and with the signet rings of his lords, so that nothing would be changed concerning Daniel. {{rf{18}}} Then the king went to his palace and spent the night in fasting, and no food was brought in before him and his sleep fled from him. {{rf{19}}} Then the king got up at daybreak, at first light, and he went in haste to the lion pit. {{rf{20}}} And when he came near to the pit, he cried out to Daniel with a distressed voice, and the king spoke and said to Daniel, "O Daniel, servant of the living God, your God whom you serve faithfully, was he able to rescue you from the lions?" {{rf{21}}} Then Daniel spoke to the king, "O king, live forever! {{rf{22}}} My God sent his angel and he shut the mouth of the lions and they did not hurt me, because before him I was found blameless, and also before you, O king, I have not done any wrong." {{rf{23}}} Then the king was exceedingly glad over it and commanded that Daniel be lifted up from the pit; and there was not any wound found on him, because he had trusted in his God. {{rf{24}}} The king then commanded, and these men were brought who had accused Daniel, and they threw them and their children and their wives into the lion pit, and they had not reached the floor of the pit before the lions had overpowered them and they had crushed all of their bones. {{rf{25}}} Then Darius the king wrote to all the people, the nations, and the languages living in the whole earth, "May your prosperity become great! {{rf{26}}} I make a decree that in all the dominion of my kingdom people will be trembling and fearing before the God of Daniel, for he is the living God and endures forever and his kingdom is one that will not be destroyed and his dominion has no end. {{rf{27}}} He is rescuing, delivering, and working signs and wonders in the heavens and on earth, for he has rescued Daniel from the power of the lions." {{rf{28}}} So this Daniel prospered during the kingdom of Darius and during the kingdom of Cyrus the Persian. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Daniel-06-16]] }}}
In the first year of Belshazzar the king of Babylon, Daniel saw a dream and visions of his head as he lay on his bed; then he wrote down the dream and the summary of the words as follows: {{rf{2}}} Daniel explained and said, "I was looking in my vision in the night, and look, the four winds of heaven were stirring up the great sea. {{rf{3}}} And four great beasts were coming up from the sea, differing from one another. {{rf{4}}} The first was like a lion and had the wings of an eagle. I was watching until its wings were plucked off, and it was lifted up from the earth and it was raised on its feet like a human, and a human heart was given to it. {{rf{5}}} And look, another beast, a second one, looking like a bear. And it was raised up on one side and three tusks were in its mouth between its teeth, and so it was told, "Arise, eat much flesh!" {{rf{6}}} After this I was watching and look, another beast like a leopard; it had four wings of a bird on its back, and the beast had four heads, and dominion was given to it. {{rf{7}}} After this in the visions of the night I was looking and there was a fourth beast, terrifying and frightful and exceedingly strong, and it had great iron teeth, and it was devouring and crushing, and it stamped the remainder with its feet; and it was different from all the other beasts that preceded it and it had ten horns. {{rf{8}}} I was considering the horns, and look, another little horn came up among them, and three of the earlier horns were rooted out from before it, and there were eyes like the eyes of a human in this horn and also a mouth that was speaking boastfully. {{rf{9}}} "I continued watching until thrones were placed and an Ancient of Days sat; his clothing was like white snow and the hair of his head was like pure wool and his throne was a flame of fire and its wheels were burning fire. {{rf{10}}} A stream of fire issued forth and flowed from his presence; thousands upon thousands served him and ten thousand upon ten thousand stood before him. The judge sat, and the books were opened. {{rf{11}}} "I continued watching then because of the noise of the boastful words of the horn who was speaking; I continued watching until the beast was slain and its body was destroyed, and it was given over to burning with fire. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Daniel-07-01]] }}}
{{rf{12}}} And as for the remainder of the beasts, their dominion was taken away, but a prolongation of their life was given to them for a season and a time. {{rf{13}}} "I continued watching in the visions of the night, and look, with the clouds of heaven one like a son of man was coming, and he came to the Ancient of Days, and was presented before him. {{rf{14}}} And to him was given dominion and glory and kingship that all the peoples, the nations, and languages would serve him; his dominion is a dominion without end that will not cease, and his kingdom is one that will not be destroyed. {{rf{15}}} "As for me, Daniel, my spirit was troubled within me, and the visions of my head terrified me. {{rf{16}}} So I approached one of the attendants and I asked him about the truth concerning all this; and he told me that he would make known to me the explanation of the matter. {{rf{17}}} 'These great beasts which are four in number are four kings who will arise from the earth. {{rf{18}}} But the holy ones of the Most High will receive the kingdom, and they will take possession of the kingdom forever, forever and ever.' {{rf{19}}} "Then I desired to make certain concerning the fourth beast that was different from all the others -- exceedingly terrifying, with its iron teeth and its claws of bronze; it devoured and crushed and stamped the remainder with its feet -- {{rf{20}}} and concerning the horns that were on its head, and concerning the other horn that came up and before which three horns fell, and this horn had eyes and a mouth speaking boastfully, and its appearance was larger than its companions. {{rf{21}}} I continued watching, and this horn made war with the holy ones and it prevailed over them, {{rf{22}}} until the Ancient of Days came and gave judgment to the holy ones of the Most High; and the time arrived and the holy ones took possession of the kingdom. {{rf{23}}} "And he said, 'The fourth beast is the fourth kingdom that will be on the earth that will be different from all the other kingdoms, and it will devour the whole earth and it will trample it and it will crush it. {{rf{24}}} And as for the ten horns coming from it, from this kingdom ten kings will arise, and another will arise after them. And he will be different from the earlier ones, and he will subdue three kings. {{rf{25}}} And he will speak words against the Most High, and he will wear out the holy ones of the Most High, and he will attempt to change times and law, and they will be given into his hand for a time and two times and half a time. {{rf{26}}} Then the court will sit, and his dominion will be removed, to be eradicated and to be destroyed totally. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Daniel-07-12]] }}}
{{rf{27}}} And the kingdom and the dominion and the greatness of the kingdoms under the whole heaven will be given to the nation of the holy ones of the Most High; his kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and all the dominions will serve and obey him.' {{rf{28}}} This is the end of the account. As for me, Daniel -- my thoughts terrified me greatly and my face changed over me, but I kept the matter in my heart." {{rf big{1}}} In the third year of the kingdom of Belshazzar the king, a vision appeared to me, Daniel, after the one that appeared to me previously. {{rf{2}}} And I saw in the vision, and when I saw, I was in Susa, the citadel that was in the province of Elam. And I saw in the vision, and I myself was at the stream of Ulai. {{rf{3}}} And I lifted up my eyes and I saw, and look! A ram standing before the stream, and it had two horns, and the horns were long, but the one was longer than the second, and the longer one came up after the other one. {{rf{4}}} I saw the ram charging westward and northward and southward, and none of the beasts stood before it, and there was no rescuing from its power, and it did what it wanted and it became strong. {{rf{5}}} And I was considering this, and look, a he-goat coming from the west across the face of the whole earth, and it was not touching the ground; and the he-goat had a conspicuous horn between its eyes. {{rf{6}}} Then it came toward the ram that had the two horns that I saw standing before the stream, and it ran at it with the rage of its power. {{rf{7}}} And I saw it approaching the ram and it was furious at it, and it struck the ram, and it broke its two horns, and there was not strength in the ram to stand before him, and he threw it down to the ground and trampled it, and there was no one who could rescue the ram from its power. {{rf{8}}} And the he-goat grew exceedingly great, and at the height of its power the great horn was broken, and four conspicuous horns came up in place of it toward the four winds of heaven. {{rf{9}}} And from one of them came forth a horn, a little one, and it grew exceedingly toward the south, and toward the east, and toward the beautiful land. {{rf{10}}} And it grew up to the host of heaven, and it threw down to the ground some of the host and some of the stars and trampled them. {{rf{11}}} Even against the prince of the hosts it acted arrogantly and took away from him the regular burnt offering, and the place of his sanctuary was overthrown. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Daniel-07-27]] }}}
{{rf{12}}} And on account of transgression, the host was given over to the horn in addition to the regular burnt offering. And it cast down truth to the ground, and it acted, and it had success. {{rf{13}}} And I heard a certain holy one speaking, and a certain other holy one said to the specific one who was speaking, "For how long is the vision concerning the regular burnt offering, and the transgression that makes desolate, and the giving over of the sanctuary and the host to trampling?" {{rf{14}}} And he said to me, "For two thousand three hundred evenings and mornings, then the sanctuary will be restored." {{rf{15}}} And then when I, Daniel, saw the vision, and I was seeking understanding, there was one standing before me with the appearance of a man. {{rf{16}}} And I heard the voice of a human at the Ulai, and he called and said, "Gabriel, make this man understand the vision." {{rf{17}}} And he came beside where I was standing, and when he came I became terrified and I fell prostrate on my face. And he said to me, "Understand, son of man, that the vision is for the time of the end." {{rf{18}}} And when he spoke with me I fell into a trance with my face to the ground, and he touched me and made me stand on by feet. {{rf{19}}} And he said, "Look, I am making known to you what will happen in the period of wrath, for it refers to the appointed time of the end. {{rf{20}}} "The ram that you saw who had two horns represents the kings of Media and Persia. {{rf{21}}} "And the hairy he-goat is the kingdom of Greece, and the great horn that is between his eyes -- he is the first king. {{rf{22}}} And the horn that was broken, and then there arose four horns in place of it -- these are four kingdoms that will arise from his nation, but not with his power. {{rf{23}}} And at the end of their kingdom, when the transgressions are completed, a king will arise, fierce in countenance and skilled in riddles. {{rf{24}}} And his power will grow, but not by his own power, and he will cause fearful destruction, and he will succeed and he will act, and he will destroy the mighty and the people of the holy ones. {{rf{25}}} And by his planning he will make a success of deceit by his hand, and in his mind he will boast, and in their ease he will destroy many, and even against the prince of princes he will rise up, and he will be broken, but not by human hands. {{rf{26}}} And the vision of the evening and the morning that has been described, it is true; and you, seal up the vision, for it refers to many days to come." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Daniel-08-12]] }}}
{{rf{27}}} And I, Daniel, was overcome, and I became ill for some days, and I performed the business of the king, and I was dismayed over the vision and I did not understand it. {{rf big{1}}} In the first year of Darius, the son of Ahasuerus, from the offspring of the Medes, who became king over the kingdom of the Chaldeans -- {{rf{2}}} in the first year of his kingship I, Daniel, observed in the scrolls the number of the years that it was that were to be fulfilled according to the word of Yahweh to Jeremiah the prophet for the devastation of Jerusalem -- seventy years. {{rf{3}}} Then I turned my face to the Lord God to seek him by prayer and pleas for mercy, in fasting and in sackcloth and ashes. {{rf{4}}} And I prayed to Yahweh my God, and I made confession and I said, "O Lord, the great and awesome God, keeping the covenant and loyal love with those who love him and with those who keep his commandments, {{rf{5}}} we have sinned and we have done wrong and we acted wickedly and we rebelled and have been turning aside from your commandments and from your ordinances. {{rf{6}}} We have not listened to your servants the prophets, who spoke in your name to our kings, our princes and our ancestors and to all the people of the land. {{rf{7}}} "Righteousness belongs to you, O Lord, and on us is open shame, just as it is this day to the people of Judah and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem and to all Israel, those who are near and those who are far off in all the lands to which you have driven them, because of their infidelity which they displayed against you. {{rf{8}}} Yahweh, on us is open shame, on our kings, on our princes, and on our ancestors, because we have sinned against you. {{rf{9}}} Compassion and forgiveness belong to the Lord, our God, for we have rebelled against him, {{rf{10}}} and we have not listened to the voice of Yahweh our God, by following his law which he placed before us by the hand of his servants the prophets. {{rf{11}}} "And all Israel transgressed your law and turned aside so as not to listen to your voice, and so the curse and the oath which was written in the law of Moses, the servant of God, has been poured out upon us, because we have sinned against him. {{rf{12}}} And so he has carried out his words which he spoke against us and against our rulers who ruled us, to bring upon us a great calamity which was not done under all of heaven as it was done in Jerusalem. {{rf{13}}} Just as it is written in the law of Moses, all of this calamity has come upon us, and we have not implored the face of Yahweh our God so as to turn from our iniquities and to attend closely to your faithfulness. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Daniel-08-27]] }}}
{{rf{14}}} So Yahweh has kept watch over the calamity, and now he has brought it upon us. Indeed, Yahweh our God is righteous concerning all his works that he has done, but we have not listened to his voice. {{rf{15}}} "And now, Lord our God, who have brought your people out from the land of Egypt with a strong hand, and you have made for yourself a name until this day -- we have sinned, we have acted wickedly. {{rf{16}}} Lord, according to all your righteousness, please let your anger and your rage turn away from your city Jerusalem, your holy mountain, because through our sins and through the iniquities of our ancestors Jerusalem and your people have become an object of mockery among all of our neighbors. {{rf{17}}} "And now, listen to the prayer of your servant and to his pleas for mercy. Shine your face upon your desolate sanctuary for your sake, O Lord. {{rf{18}}} Incline your ear, my God, and listen; open your eyes and look at our desolation and the city that is called by your name, for we are not presenting our pleas for mercy before you because of our righteousness, but rather because of your great compassion. {{rf{19}}} Lord, listen! Lord, forgive! Lord, pay heed and act! You must not delay for your sake, my God; because your city and your people are called by your name." {{rf{20}}} Now I was still speaking and praying, and confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and presenting my plea before Yahweh my God, on behalf of the holy mountain of my God. {{rf{21}}} And I was still speaking in prayer, and the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision previously, in my weariness touched me at the time of the evening offering. {{rf{22}}} And he instructed me and he spoke with me and he said, "Daniel I have now come out to teach you understanding. {{rf{23}}} At the beginning of your pleas for mercy, a word went out, and now I have come to declare it, for you are highly esteemed, and so consider the word and understand the vision. {{rf{24}}} "Seventy weeks is decreed for your people and for your holy city, to put an end to the transgression and to seal up sin and to make atonement for guilt and to bring in everlasting righteousness and to seal vision and prophet and to anoint the most holy place. {{rf{25}}} And you must know and you must understand that from the time of the going out of the word to restore and build Jerusalem until an anointed one -- a leader -- will be seven weeks and sixty-two weeks; it will be restored and will be built with streets and a moat, but in a time of oppression. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Daniel-09-14]] }}}
{{rf{26}}} "And after the sixty and two weeks an anointed one shall be cut off, and he shall have nothing, and the people of the coming leader will destroy the city and the sanctuary, and its end will be with the flood and on to the end there shall be war; these desolations are determined. {{rf{27}}} And he will make a strong covenant with the many for one week, but in half of the week he will let cease sacrifice and offering and in its place a desolating abomination comes even until the determined complete destruction is poured out on the desolator." {{rf big{1}}} In the third year of Cyrus the king of the Persians, a word was revealed to Daniel, who was called by his name Belteshazzar, and the word was reliable and it concerned a great tribulation, and he understood the word and he received understanding. {{rf{2}}} In those days, I, Daniel, I myself was in mourning for three whole weeks. {{rf{3}}} I had not eaten any choice food, and meat and wine did not enter my mouth, and I did not use any ointment until the end of three whole weeks. {{rf{4}}} And then on the twenty-fourth day of the first month, I myself was on the bank of the great river; that is, the Tigris. {{rf{5}}} And I lifted up my eyes and I saw, and there was a man, and he was dressed in linen, and his waist was girded with the gold of Uphaz. {{rf{6}}} Now his body was like turquoise, and his face was like the appearance of lightning, and his eyes were like torches of fire, and his arms and his legs were like the gleam of polished bronze, and the sound of his words was like the sound of a multitude. {{rf{7}}} And I saw, I, Daniel alone, the vision; and the people who were with me did not see the vision; nevertheless, a great trembling fell upon them and they fled in order to hide themselves. {{rf{8}}} And I myself, Daniel, alone saw this great vision, and as a result no strength was left in me and my complexion grew deathly pale, and I did not retain any strength. {{rf{9}}} And I heard the sound of his words, and when I heard the sound of his words I myself began falling into a trance on my face, with my face to the ground. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Daniel-09-26]] }}}
{{rf{10}}} And look, a hand touched me and it roused me to my knees and the palms of my hands. {{rf{11}}} And he said to me, "Daniel, a man beloved, pay attention to the words that I am speaking to you and stand upright where you are, for I have now been sent to you." And while he was speaking with me this word, I stood up trembling. {{rf{12}}} And he said to me, "You must not fear, Daniel, for from the first day that you set your heart to understand and to humble yourself before your God, your words were heard, and I myself have come because of your words. {{rf{13}}} But the prince of the kingdom of Persia stood before me for twenty-one days. And look, Michael, one of the chief princes, came to assist me, and I left him there beside the king of the Persians. {{rf{14}}} And I have come to instruct you about what will happen to your people in the future, for there is a further vision here for the future. {{rf{15}}} And while he was speaking with me according to these words, I turned my face toward the ground and I was speechless. {{rf{16}}} Then look, there was one in the form of a human; he touched my lips and I opened my mouth and I spoke and I said to the one standing before me, "My lord, because of the vision my anxieties fell upon me and I have not retained my strength. {{rf{17}}} So how am I, a servant of my lord to speak with you, my lord, and I just now have no strength in me?" {{rf{18}}} And he again touched me, the one in the form of a human, and he strengthened me. {{rf{19}}} And he said, "You must not fear, O beloved man. Peace be to you; be strong and be courageous!" And when he spoke with me, I was strengthened and I said, "Let my lord speak, for you have strengthened me." {{rf{20}}} Then he asked, "Do you know why I have come to you? And now I return to fight against the prince of Persia and I myself am going, and look, the prince of Javan will come. {{rf{21}}} However, I will tell you what is inscribed in the book of truth, and there is not one who contends with me against these beings except Michael, your prince." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Daniel-10-10]] }}}
"And I, in the first year of Darius the Mede, I stood as a support and as a protection for him. {{rf{2}}} And now I will reveal the truth to you. Look! Still three kings will arise in Persia, and the fourth will get abundance and great wealth, even more than all of them, and when he becomes strong through his wealth, then he will stir up everyone against the kingdom of Javan. {{rf{3}}} And a mighty king will arise, and he will rule with great dominion, and he will do as he pleases. {{rf{4}}} But as he rises in power, his kingdom will be divided toward the four winds of heaven, but not to his posterity, and not according to his dominion by which he ruled, for his kingdom will be uprooted and be given to others besides them. {{rf{5}}} "Then the king of the south will grow strong and also one of his officials, and he will grow stronger than him and he will rule a dominion greater than his dominion. {{rf{6}}} And at the end of some years they will make an alliance, and the daughter of the king of the south will come to the king of the north to make a peace treaty, but she will not retain her position of power, and his offspring will not endure, and she will be given up, she and her attendants and her child supporting her, in those times. {{rf{7}}} And a branch from her roots will rise up in his place, and he will come against the army and he will enter the stronghold of the king of the north and he will take action against them and he will prevail. {{rf{8}}} And also their gods with their idols and with the precious vessels, silver and gold he will take to Egypt into captivity, and for years he will leave the king of the north alone. {{rf{9}}} And then he will come into the kingdom of the king of the south, but he will return to his land. {{rf{10}}} "But his sons will wage war and they will gather a multitude of great forces and he will advance with great force, and he will overflow like a flood and he will pass through and he will return, and they will wage war up to his fortress. {{rf{11}}} And the king of the south will become furious, and he will go and he will battle against him, against the king of the north; and he will muster a great multitude, and the multitude will be given into his hand. {{rf{12}}} When the multitude is carried off, his heart will be exalted and he will overthrow tens of thousands, but he will not prevail. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Daniel-11-01]] }}}
{{rf{13}}} And the king of the north will again raise a multitude, greater than the former, and at the end of some years he will surely come with a great army and with great supplies. {{rf{14}}} "And in these times many will rise up against the king of the south, and the violent ones of your people will lift themselves to fulfill the vision, but they will fall. {{rf{15}}} And the king of the north will come, and he will throw up siege ramps and capture a city of fortifications and the military forces of the south and his choice troops will not stand, for there is no strength left to resist. {{rf{16}}} And the one coming to him will act according to his pleasure, and there is no one who will stand before him, and he will stand in the beautiful land and complete destruction will be in his power. {{rf{17}}} And he will set his face to come with the authority of his whole kingdom and will form an agreement; and he will act, and the daughter of women he will give to him to destroy it, but the ploy will not succeed and she will not support him. {{rf{18}}} And he will turn his face to the coastlands, and he will capture many, but a commander will end his insults to him so that instead his insults will turn back upon him. {{rf{19}}} And he will turn back his face toward the strongholds of his land, but he will stumble and he will fall and will not be found. {{rf{20}}} "Then in his place will arise one sending an official throughout the glory of his kingdom, and in a few days he will be broken, but not in anger and not in battle. {{rf{21}}} And in his place a despicable person will arise on whom they have not conferred the majesty of the kingdom, and he will come in without warning and he will seize the kingdom by deceit. {{rf{22}}} And before him mighty military forces will be utterly swept away, and they will be broken, and also the leader of the covenant. {{rf{23}}} And after an alliance is made with him, he will act deceitfully, and he will rise and he will become powerful with few people backing him. {{rf{24}}} In a time of ease and in the rich parts of the province, he will come and he will do what his predecessors did not do; he will distribute plunder and spoil and possessions to them, and he will devise his plans against fortifications, but only for a time. {{rf{25}}} And he will stir up his power and his heart against the king of the south and with a much greater and stronger army; but he will not succeed, for they will devise plans against him. {{rf{26}}} And those who eat of his royal rations will break him and his army will be overwhelmed, and many will fall, slain. {{rf{27}}} And two of the kings will bend their hearts to evil. And at the same table they will speak lies, but what is discussed will not succeed, for still an end is coming at the appointed time. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Daniel-11-13]] }}}
{{rf{28}}} Then he will return to his land with many possessions, but his heart will be set against the holy covenant, and he will take action and he will return to his land. {{rf{29}}} "At the appointed time he will return and he will come into the south, but it will not be as it was before. {{rf{30}}} And the ships of Kittim will come against him, and he will lose heart, and he will turn back, and he will be enraged against the holy covenant, and he will take action, and he will turn back, and he will pay attention to those who forsake the holy covenant. {{rf{31}}} And military forces from him will occupy and will profane the sanctuary stronghold, and they will abolish the regular burnt offering, and they will set up the abomination that causes desolation. {{rf{32}}} "And those who violate the covenant he will seduce with flattery, but the persons who know their God will stand firm and will take action. {{rf{33}}} And those who have insight will instruct the many, but they will fall by sword and by flame, by captivity and by plunder for some time. {{rf{34}}} And when they fall they will receive little help, and many will join with them in hypocrisy. {{rf{35}}} And even some of those who have insight will fall in order for them to be refined by it, and to be purified and cleansed until the time of the end, for the appointed time is still to come. {{rf{36}}} "Then the king will do as he pleases, and he will exalt himself and will consider himself above any god, and he will speak horrendous things against the God of gods, yet he will succeed until the period of anger is finished, for what is determined will be done. {{rf{37}}} He will not pay respect to the gods of his ancestors, or to the darling of women, and not to any god will he pay respect, for he will consider himself great over all gods. {{rf{38}}} But instead he will honor the god of fortresses, a god whom his ancestors did not know. He will honor him with gold, and with silver, and with precious stones and with costly gifts. {{rf{39}}} And he will deal with the fortified strongholds with the help of a foreign god; and he will increase wealth for whoever will acknowledge him, and he will cause them to rule over the many, and he will distribute land for a price. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Daniel-11-28]] }}}
{{rf{40}}} "And at the time of the end the king of the south will attack him, and the king of the north will storm against him with chariots and with horsemen and with many ships, and he will advance against the countries and he will sweep through like a flood. {{rf{41}}} And he will come into the beautiful land and many will fall victim, but these will escape from his power: Edom and Moab and the best part of the Ammonites. {{rf{42}}} And he will stretch out his hand against countries and the land of Egypt will not escape. {{rf{43}}} And he will rule over the treasures of gold and the silver and over all the precious things of Egypt; and the Libyans and the Cushites will follow in his footsteps. {{rf{44}}} But reports will terrify him from the east and from the north, and he will go out with great fury to destroy and to exterminate many. {{rf{45}}} And then he will pitch the tents of his palace between the sea and the beautiful holy mountain, and he will come to his end, and there is no one helping him." {{rf big{1}}} "Now at that time, Michael, the great prince, will arise, the protector over the sons of your people, and it will be a time of distress that has not been since your people have been a nation until that time. And at that time your people will escape, everyone who is found written in the scroll. {{rf{2}}} And many from those sleeping in the dusty ground will awake, some to everlasting life and some to disgrace and everlasting contempt. {{rf{3}}} But the ones having insight will shine like the brightness of the expanse, and the ones providing justice for the many will be like the stars forever and ever. {{rf{4}}} But you, Daniel, keep the words secret and seal the scroll until the time of the end; many will run back and forth and knowledge will increase." {{rf{5}}} Then I looked, I myself, Daniel, and look, there were two others standing: one on this bank of the stream and one on the other. {{rf{6}}} Then he said to the man who was clothed in linen who was above the water of the stream, "How long until the end of the wonders?" {{rf{7}}} And I heard the man who was clothed in linen who was above the water of the stream, and he raised his right hand and his left hand to heaven and he swore by the one who lives forever that an appointed time, appointed times, and half an appointed time would pass when the shattering of the power of the holy people would be completed; then all these things will be accomplished. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Daniel-11-40]] }}}
{{rf{8}}} Now I myself heard, but I did not understand, and I said, "My lord, what will be the outcome of these things?" {{rf{9}}} And he said, "Go, Daniel, for the words are secret and are sealed up until the time of the end. {{rf{10}}} Many will be purified and will be cleansed and will be refined, but the wicked will act wickedly and none of the wicked will understand, but those who have insight will understand. {{rf{11}}} And from the time the regular burnt offering is removed and the abomination that causes desolation is set up there will be one thousand two hundred and ninety days. {{rf{12}}} Happy is the one who is persevering, and attains to the one thousand three hundred and thirty-five days. {{rf{13}}} But you, go on to the end and rest, and you will arise for your allotted inheritance at the end of the days." LENGTH SHORT {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Daniel-12-08]] }}}
With artificial lighting, the darkness of //night// is not so significant. But in older times it signaled the end of activity and the beginning of forced idleness.
* Gollum's riddle is a wonderful description
* <<Bbl 1S 3:4 "" note>>
* <<Bbl Ex 10:23 >>
* <<Bbl Ps 30:5 >>
* <<Bbl Ps 139:12 >>
* <<Bbl Col 1:12>>-13
* <<Bbl J 1:5>>
* <<Bbl J 8:12>>
* <<Bbl J 3:19>>-21
* <<Bbl 1The 5:4 >>-8
* [[Lamp]]
* Always active. A one-way operation. Creates [[Security]].
* Darkness can never penetrate {{anti{[[Light]]}}}, because light is a presence, but darkness is only light's absence. Darkness flees to precisely the degree that light is present. Light "more than overcomes" (it would make a good pulpit demonstration).
* Light is as straight as straight can be. When you "eyeball" a plank for straightness, it is light (and its shadow) that gives confirmation. (Beam passages in the pyramids.)
* There is no convenient way to catalog the references to David in subsequent history. His person, station and writings permeate all that follows.
* No else in the OT has such a colorful, detailed and numerous supporting cast.
* <<Bbl 1S 16:12>>, <<Bbl 1S 17:42 abbr>> David was a "fresh-faced youth", "but a youth" (17:33). Fine-looking, but hardly a man and possibly a punk.
* <<Bbl 1S 22:1>> After the victory over Goliath, no one hears much bad about David's family of origin. There is one great exception - the devastating machinations of Jonadab.
! In Suffering
* David vanquished Goliath. How remarkable that he later spent so much time fleeing enemies.
* He was despised among his brothers. Like Jesus, //even his brothers were not believing in him.//
* [[Israel-DividedKingdom]]
* The Psalms of lament.
! In Good Leadership
''Beloved by his people''
* <<Bbl 2S 3:36 >> //the people took note of it...//
* <<Bbl 1S 18:5 "" note>>
* He gathers the people //with one heart//.
* When the Ark arrives in Jerusalem, every Israelite receives a cake of bread, a cake of dates and a cake of raisins.
! In Dysfunction
* <<Bbl 2S 13:21>> -- but David does nothing with his anger.
* Lust for Bathsheba; the murder of Uriah.
* <<Bbl 1K 1:6>>
! In Worship
* The [[Tabernacle-of-David]]
* Moving in a confidence of consecration, <<Bbl 1S 21:1 >>-6
* <<Bbl Ps 132:2>> records David's vow to build the Temple.
* How the Spirit rushes and remains on David.
* <<Bbl 2S 6:20 "" note>> Dancing before the Ark.
! In Humility
* [[Serve]] of the Lord
* Friend of the humble -- <<Bbl 1S 22:2 >>
! In Power
* [[Favor]]
* [[Key]]
! In destiny and lineage
* [[David-RoyalDestiny]]
* [[SonOfGod]]
* <<Bbl Ps 132:1ff >>
* <<Bbl L 2:32 >>
* <<Bbl A 13:36 >> David //served the purpose of God in his own generation// - A stirring commendation, but also a declaration that God's purposes went far beyond his life and death.
''A destiny, a dynasty, a Redeemer.''
* David knew that God had sworn to put one of his descendants on his throne (Acts 2:30)
* God raised up David to be their king (Acts 13:22-23);
!!! Promised by covenant
* <<Bbl 2S 7:1 "" note>>
!!! Fulfilled in an immediate, fragmentary, non-fulfilled context
* <<Bbl 2S 7:1 "" note>>
!!! Fulfilled in Christ's first advent
* [[King]] Jesus
* <<Bbl A 2:30>>-31 quotes <<Bbl Ps 16:8>>-11
!!! Fulfilled in Christ's final advent
* When He arrives in martial triumph
* [[Relief]], [[Appear]]
* {{anti{[[Darkness]]}}}
* [[Kingdom-ofGod]]
* [[LastDays]] for notes about "Already and Not Yet"
* [[Die]], [[Live]], [[Resurrect]]
* <<Bbl Jonah 1:17 >>
* <<Bbl J 12:24>>
* <<Bbl 2C 1:9>>
!! the mortification of the [[Flesh]]
* <<Bbl L 9:23>>-25
* <<Bbl Gal 2:20>>
* Once quarters, designed after the fifty states, were special. Not so now, when we have Caldwell County and Singapore.
* //Depreciation, standards, downgrade//
* Romans chapter 1.
* <<Bbl R 1:23 >> <<Bbl Ps 50:21 >> <<Bbl L 19:22 >> <<Bbl Job 42:5 >>
* CS Lewis quote about a holiday at the beach versus making mud pies in a slum.
* the quote about ambition that I have preserved somewhere.
* Time is __not__ money; money is man-made and not timeless. Time is installed deep in creation; it will pass, but it is intrinsic now.
* {{anti{[[See]]}}}
* [[Subvert]]
* Dictionary: extreme indulgence in appetite, sensuality, dissipation.
* In my mind, it is the loss of innocence in exchange for vice. It is sin learned in the company of practiced sinners.
* In <<Bbl 1P 4:3 >>-04, the loss of godly Jewish virtues through corrupting pagan influence.
* Proverbs, Psalms -- the synergy of sinners
* [[Friend]]
* [[Secrecy]]
* //deception, lying, lies, guile//
* {{anti{[[Truth]]}}}
* <<Bbl Jer 23:27 >>, <<Bbl A 5:4 >>
* <<Bbl I 28:15 >> -- //we have made lies our refuge//
* E.T. Welch, __Addictions__, chapter 9 //Turning from Lies//.
* [[Jacob]]
* "I'm not gonna lie..." How strange of people to say this. It's like a least-committed version of "I solemnly swear". It invites the thought that one is accustomed to lying and has barely escaped doing so.
!!! False believers
* [[Subvert]], [[Counterfeit]], [[Hypocrisy]]
* <<Bbl Jude 1:4 >>, <<Bbl Jude 1:12 abbr >>, <<Bbl Jude 1:16 abbr >>
* Wolves in sheep's clothing
* Tares sown among wheat ("oversowing")
* <<Bbl A 20:30 >>
* <<Bbl Tit 1:10>>-15
!!! Deception as a means for good
* <<Bbl Ex 1:19 >>-20
* <<Bbl 2K 5:18 >>-19
* [[Judge]]
* [[Obey]]
* [[Comply]]
* [[Respond]]
* [[Divide]]
* //Choose this day whom you will serve...// -- Joshua
* //I set before you this day life and death. Choose life, that you may live!// -- Moses
* //Exodus//, which may take the form of [[Exile]].
* <<Bbl A 12:5 "" note >>-19 -- Stages of deliverance
* <<Bbl Ps 15:15 >>
* ...belongs to the LORD!
* <<Bbl Jonah 2:9 >>
* <<Bbl Ps 3:8 >>
* <<Bbl I 45:17 >>
* [[Salvation-Savior]]
* //Yeshua//, which is //Jesus// or //Joshua//, means Salvation.
* The Passover
* [[Redeem]]
* [[Rahab]]
* [[Adam]] and Eve -- promised a Seed, a Messiah
* [[Noah]]
* [[Jacob]]
* [[Joseph]]
* ... you get the idea ...
* <<Bbl Hos 4:12 >>; <<Bbl Dt 32:17 >>; <<Bbl Lv 17:7 >>; <<Bbl 2Ch 11:15 >>
* [[Satan]]
* Possession by a demon is an assault against the incarnation of God's love in human form in Jesus Christ. (Alistair Begg)
* //'Peace, peace' when there is no peace//
* [[Error]]
* My grandma loved the hymn "Amazing Grace". Except for the part where it says "a wretch like me". But the grace is not amazing if you leave out "a wretch like me". And the term is heavier than we nowadays allow; it refers to a special combination of a person and garbage.
* {{anti{[[Brokeness|Break]]}}}
!! Suppressing the truth
* <<Bbl R 1:18>>
* <<Bbl 2P 3:5 "" note >>
* "Denial. Why don't we acknowledge it?"
* The elephant in the room.
!! The believer is tempted to pride
You would never say it, but you secretly wish that you did not need to be regulated by God. Since you wish it, your soul drifts easily into believing it. See [[Contentment]].
''Trust that knows better than to look elsewhere.''
* //Reliance, rely on//, [[Trust]], [[Wait]]
* The chief quality of a [[Child]].
* As sheep are dependent, so the vine. <<Bbl J 15:1 >>-8.
* Lord, to whom else would we go? You have words of eternal life, and we have believed and come to know that You are the Holy One of God.
* [[Break]], [[Sin]], [[Wickedness]]
* And we compound the problem with [[Deny]]. And //instability//.
* @@color:indigo;Man makes evil like a bee makes honey@@ // -- William Golding//
* @@color:brown;There are no just people -- merely hearts more or less lacking in justice.@@ // -- A. Camus//
* AA says //once an addict, always an addict//
* Depravity is described as //total// not because there is no way I could be more depraved than I am, but because there is no faculty or aspect of my being that hasn't been affected by sin. Total depravity means there can never be a worthy aspect by which I might claim merit' there is no "spark of goodness."
* Total depravity does not suggest that every man is as bad as he can possibly become. Nor does it imply that he is incapable of thinking or doing any good whatsoever. Rather, we are to understand by the term that man is inherently corrupt in every part of his nature and is incapable of doing any spiritual good (that is, in relation to God). (Wycliffe Bible Ency., “Fall of Man”)
* I imagined the word might be related to the famous Russian word //Pravda//. Sadly for me, there is no connection. The Latin root //Parvus// means crooked or perverse.
* Imagine a sailor commendable for his diligence who works on a pirate ship. (Philipp Jenson) The problem with this superb illustration is the inability to appreciate that pirates are wicked rather than entertaining.
* <<Bbl Jer 17:9 >>. Turn the instrument upside down.
* Gn 6:5, 8:21
* Ps 14:2-3
* Ps 58:3
* <<Bbl Pr 27:20 "" note>>
* Ro 7:18
* Ro 8:7 //...the sinful mind is hostile to God. It does not submit to God's law, nor can it do so.//
* Titus 1:15 //both their minds and consciences are corrupted//
* 2Tm 2:26
* Eph 2:1-5
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!! Total Depravity (Total Inability)
Total Depravity is probably the most misunderstood tenet of Calvinism. When Calvinists speak of humans as "totally depraved," they are making an extensive, rather than an intensive statement. The effect of the fall upon man is that sin has extended to every part of his personality -- his thinking, his emotions, and his will. Not that he is exhaustively sinful, but that sin has extended to his entire being.
The unregenerate (unsaved) man is dead in his sins (Romans 5:12). Without the power of the Holy Spirit, the natural man is blind and deaf to the message of the gospel (Mark 4:11f). This is why Total Depravity has also been called "Total Inability." The man without a knowledge of God will never come to this knowledge without God's making him alive through Christ (<<Bbl Eph 2:1>>-5). [[source!http://www.reformed.org/calvinism/index.html]]
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About Rom 1:
Romans 1 offers "a haunting literary echo of Gen 3"
"When we look at the world thru our lusts, we dishonor our bodies,
worship the world, and
demand that the watching world approve our behavior.
After all, it is very lonely to live without God's blessing, and if we cannot have God's blessing
we will demand it of men."
The crescendo of Paul's description of waxing depravity is found far from homosexuality:
"Homosexuality is listed here in the middle of the passage as one of the many parts of this journey that
moves away from recognizig God as our author.
In the Bible, homosexuality is not causal; it's consequential.
Homosexuality , from God's POV, is an identity-rooted ethical outworking of a world-view transgression, inherited thru original sin."
- Rosaria Butterfield
* Hate the sin, love the sinner? There is no sin apart from the sinner. You can't defeat a rebellion without dealing personally with rebels. Separate a sinner from his sin at your peril.
* And drop false-positive expectations for yourself and other sinners.
* <<Bbl Jer 51:51 >>
* <<Bbl Ps 74:5 >> or thereabouts
* Man of lawlessness
* [[Blaspheme]], //Sacrilege//
* {{anti{[[Holiness]]}}}
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* __The Bridal Bible__ is now in print.
** Titles you'll never see:
### __The Windows 7 Koran__
### __The Windows 7 Baghvad Gita__
### __The Windows 7 Book of Mormon__
** Look on our nation, O Lord.
* <<Bbl Job 2:9 "" note >>.
* [[Die]], //suicide.//
* [[Legacy]] -- destiny viewed in hind-sight. Destiny is the prequel, precursor.
* <<Bbl Ps 16:5 "" note>>
* @@color:indigo;There are two great days in a person's life -- the day we are born and the day we discover why.@@ // -- William Barclay //
* They have made for themselves idols for destruction
* Shipwreck
* [[Judge]]
Determinism means the theory or concept of how things are determined. We each carry around a theory to explain how the world works, and the term itself is neutral (i.e., an emphasis on "free will" is a form of determinism).
* @@color:indigo; We do not believe in any form of God's sovereignty that nullify man's responsibility. @@// - Duncan Campbell//
* //Mystery, tension//
* We believe in the sovereignty of God as opposed to the Arminian approach because there are scriptures to support it and it is consistent with [[God's aseity|God-Aseity]].
** Where we find scriptures that seem inconsistent we understand the writers focus is on human experience.
** Perseverance is held equally important regardless of this perspective.
** People who purport to be Christians based on a single response from the distant past are using a convenient mix of the two.
* Only God makes decisions - that's what our determinism says. Yet He makes people in His image, which - marvelously - includes the virtue of decision-making.
** Why? For His glory. He is blasphemed when we are blasphemous and revered when we are reverent.
** How? That is sealed in His counsel. It's marvelous, in the strong sense.
* [[God-Sovereign]]
* [[God-Will]]
!! Human drama
* [[Decide]]
These are the words that Moses spoke to all of Israel on the other side of the Jordan in the desert, in the desert plateau opposite Suph, between Paran and between Tophel and Laban and Hazeroth and Dizahab. {{rf{2}}} It is a journey of eleven days from Herob by the way of Mount Seir up to Kadesh Barnea. {{rf{3}}} And it was in the fortieth year, on the eleventh month, on the first day of the month, Moses spoke to the Israelites according to all that Yahweh had instructed him to speak to them. {{rf{4}}} This happened after defeating Sihon king of the Amorites, who was reigning in Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, who was reigning in Ashtaroth in Edrei. {{rf{5}}} On the other side of the Jordan in the land of Moab Moses began to explain this law, saying: {{rf{6}}} "Yahweh our God spoke to us at Horeb, saying, 'You have stayed long enough at this mountain. {{rf{7}}} Turn now and move on, and go into the hill of the Amorites and to all of the neighboring regions in the Jordan Valley in the hill country and in the Negev and in the coastal area along the sea, into the land of the Canaanites and into the Lebanon, as far as the great river Euphrates. {{rf{8}}} Look, I have set the land before you; go and take possession of the land that Yahweh swore to your ancestors, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give it to them and to their offspring after them.' {{rf{9}}} "And I spoke to them at that time, saying, 'I am not able to bear you alone. {{rf{10}}} Yahweh your God has multiplied you, and look; you are today as the stars of the heaven in number. {{rf{11}}} Yahweh, the God of your ancestors, may he add to you as you are now a thousand times, and may he bless you just as he promised you. {{rf{12}}} How can I bear you by myself, your burden and your load and your strife? {{rf{13}}} Choose for yourselves wise and discerning and knowledgeable men for each of your tribes, and I will appoint them as your leaders.' {{rf{14}}} "And you answered me, and you said, 'The thing you have said to do is good.' {{rf{15}}} And so I took the leaders of your tribes, wise and knowledgeable men, and then I appointed them as leaders over you as commanders of groups of thousands and commanders of groups of hundreds and commanders of groups of fifties and commanders of groups of tens as officials for your tribes. {{rf{16}}} And at that time I instructed your judges, saying, 'hear out your fellow men, and then judge fairly between a man and between his brother and between his opponent who is a resident alien. {{rf{17}}} You must not be partial in your judgment; hear out the small person as also the great person; do not be intimidated by any person, because the judgment is God's; and the case that is too difficult for you, bring it to me, and I will hear it out.' {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Deut-01-01]] }}}
* Three speeches of Moses that constitute last will and testament, including the transfer of authority to Joshua. It begins with his statement he won't enter the land, concludes with the record of his death.
* Very much about the authority of leaders: priest, judge, king, prophet.
* Not a retelling but an exposition of the law. <<Bbl Dt 1:5 abbr >>: //Moses undertook to explain...//
* It stands as bridge between two parts of deliverance: the judgment on Egypt (//out of//) and the entry //into// the land.
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<<Bbl Dt 1:22 abbr >> Very different than <<Bbl Num 13:1 >>-02.
<<Bbl Dt 1:31 abbr >> see <<Bbl Hosea 11:3 >>.
<<Bbl Dt 1:37 abbr >> Moses' appeal. Moses blames the people, for they provoked him to anger. Intimacy: don't speak to me again about it. God eventually answers this appeal.
<<Bbl Dt 2:1 abbr >> the history shifts to recent events. Sihon was a dry run, Moses present. * Holy Land is different. You can't just do anything. Patriarchs.
<<Bbl Dt 3:1 abbr >> The Israelites couldn't take a city! Those early kings made the mistake of coming OUT of their cities.
<<Bbl Dt 3:9 abbr >> Mount Hermon, known by 3 names - coveted, contested!
<<Bbl Dt 3:11 abbr >> Og - see, he was a giant - slain by the children of those who had been trapped in fear. Uncertain bed or tomb; in either case, is a Standing memorial. Application: the seeming obstacles to God's purpose become the means.
<<Bbl Dt 4:1 abbr >> (?) Baalpeor recent history, sexual subversion was their defensive weapon.
<<Bbl Dt 4:1 abbr >> Chapter 4 captures the whole of Dt and the whole of the Bible story. Note sequence of first salvation then law.
<<Bbl Dt 4:19 abbr >> Let them worship the stars. God //overlooks//.
<<Bbl Dt 4:20 abbr >> Hot enough for iron.
<<Bbl Dt 4:25 abbr >>ff is reprised in <<Bbl Dt 31:20 >>ff.
<<Bbl Dt 4:27 abbr >>-30 Moses prophesies the diaspora.
<<Bbl Dt 4:28 abbr >> //Serving idols//... Includes slavery to the adherents of paganism. <<Bbl Prov 5:8 >>-10
<<Bbl Dt 4:29 abbr >>-31 [[Mercy]]. This is NOT in the Suzerain mode.
<<Bbl Dt 4:30 abbr >> first mention of last days.
<<Bbl Dt 4:32 abbr >> Moses almost parenthetically cites God as Creator, but His wonderful topic is the consecration of Israel.
<<Bbl Dt 4:33 abbr >> //and survived// - that's the rub!
<<Bbl Dt 4:33 abbr >> //hearing his voice//: power. //And lived//: Mercy.
<<Bbl Dt 4:33 abbr >> The voice of God from the fire has an echo in the burning bush.
<<Bbl Dt 4:33 abbr >> creation
<<Bbl Dt 4:34 abbr >> God's distinctive work, and it will be repeated when Ezekiel's remnant leaves Jerusalem and when the church of the Lord Jesus is raised in that same city.
<<Bbl Dt 4:37 abbr >> His presence, literally His Face. No intermediary agent.
<<Bbl Dt 4:41 abbr >> God's grace in the cities of refuge. Justice safeguarded with wisdom. The commandment against murder has much support: a murderer is not protected, and an accident is not allowed to propagate into murderous vengeance. And geographically distributed to be available.
{{rf{18}}} And so I instructed you at that time concerning all of the things that you should do. {{rf{19}}} "Then we set out from Horeb, and we went through the whole of that great and terrible desert that you saw on the way to the hill country of the Amorites as Yahweh our God had commanded us, and so we came up to Kadesh Barnea. {{rf{20}}} I said to you, 'You have reached the hill country of the Amorites that Yahweh our God is giving to us. {{rf{21}}} See, Yahweh your God has set before you the land; go up and possess it as Yahweh the God of your ancestors said to you; do not fear and do not be dismayed.' {{rf{22}}} "Then all of you approached me, and you said, 'Let us send men before us, and let them explore the land for us, and let them bring back a report to us concerning the way that we should take and concerning the cities that we shall come to.' {{rf{23}}} The plan was good in my opinion, and so I took from among you twelve men, one from each tribe. {{rf{24}}} And they set out and went up into the hill country, and they went up to the wadi of Eschol, and they spied out the land. {{rf{25}}} They took in their hands some of the fruit of the land, and they brought it down to us, and they brought to us back a report, and they said, 'The land that Yahweh our God is giving to us is good.' {{rf{26}}} But you were not willing to go up, and you rebelled against the command of Yahweh your God. {{rf{27}}} And you grumbled in your tents, and you said, 'Because of the hatred of Yahweh toward us he has brought us out from the land of Egypt to give us into the hand of the Amorites to destroy us. {{rf{28}}} Where can we go up? Our brothers have made our hearts melt, saying, "The people are greater and taller than we are, and there are great fortified cities reaching up to heaven, and we saw the sons of the Anakites living there." ' {{rf{29}}} "And so I said to you, 'Do not be terrified, and do not fear them. {{rf{30}}} Yahweh your God, who is going before you, will himself fight for you, just as he did for you in Egypt before your eyes, {{rf{31}}} and just as he did in the wilderness when you saw that Yahweh your God carried you, just as someone carries his son, all along the way that you traveled until you reached this place.' {{rf{32}}} But through all of this you did not trust in Yahweh your God, {{rf{33}}} who goes before you on your way, seeking a place for your encampment, in fire at night and in a cloud by day, to show you the way that you should go. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Deut-01-18]] }}}
{{rf{34}}} "Then Yahweh heard the sound of your words, and he was angry, and he swore, saying, {{rf{35}}} 'No one of these men of this evil generation will see the good land that I swore to give to your ancestors, {{rf{36}}} except Caleb, the son of Jephunneh; he himself shall see it, and to him I will give the land upon which he has trodden and to his sons because he followed Yahweh unreservedly.' {{rf{37}}} Even with me Yahweh was angry because of you, saying, 'Not even you shall enter there. {{rf{38}}} Joshua, the son of Nun, your assistant, will go there; encourage him because he will cause Israel to inherit it. {{rf{39}}} And your little children, who you thought shall become plunder, and your sons, who do not today know good or bad, shall themselves go there, and I will give it to them, and they shall take possession of it. {{rf{40}}} But you turn and set out in the direction of the wilderness by way of the Red Sea.' {{rf{41}}} "You replied and said to me, 'We have sinned against Yahweh, and now we will go up and fight according to all that Yahweh our God commanded us'; and so each man fastened on his battle gear, and you regarded it as easy to go up into the hill country. {{rf{42}}} So Yahweh said to me, 'Say to them, "You shall not go up, and you shall not fight because I am not in your midst; you will be defeated before your enemies." ' {{rf{43}}} So I spoke to you, but you did not listen; you rebelled against the command of Yahweh; you behaved presumptuously, and you went up into the hill country. {{rf{44}}} The Amorites living in the hill country went out to oppose you and chased you as a swarm of wild honey bees do; and so they beat you down in Seir as far as Hormah. {{rf{45}}} So you returned and wept before Yahweh; but Yahweh did not listen to your voice and did not pay any attention to you. {{rf{46}}} You stayed in Kadesh many days; such were the days that you stayed there. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Deut-01-34]] }}}
"Then we turned and set out toward the wilderness in the direction of the Red Sea, as Yahweh told me, and we went around Mount Seir for many days. {{rf{2}}} Yahweh spoke to me, saying, {{rf{3}}} 'Long enough you have been skirting this mountain; turn yourselves north, {{rf{4}}} and instruct the people, saying, "You are about to cross through the territory of your brothers, the descendants of Esau, who are living in Seir; they will be afraid of you, and so be very careful. {{rf{5}}} Do not get involved in battle with them, for I will not give you any of their land, not even a foot's breadth of it; since I have given Mount Seir as a possession for Esau. {{rf{6}}} You shall buy food from them so that you may eat; and also you shall purchase water from them with money so that you may drink. {{rf{7}}} The fact of the matter is, Yahweh your God has blessed you in all the work you have done; he knows your travels with respect to this great wilderness; forty years Yahweh your God has been with you; you have not lacked a thing." ' {{rf{8}}} And so we passed by our brothers, the descendants of Esau, who live in Seir, past the road of the Arabah, from Elath and Ezion Geber, and we turned and traveled along the route of the desert of Moab. {{rf{9}}} And Yahweh said to me, 'You shall not attack Moab, and you shall not engage in war with them, for I will not give you any of his land as a possession; I have given Ar to the descendants of Lot as a possession.' {{rf{10}}} (The Emim previously lived in it, a people large, numerous, and tall, like the Anakites. {{rf{11}}} They were reckoned also as Rephaim as the Anakites were; but the Moabites called them Emim. {{rf{12}}} The Horites previously lived in Seir, but the descendants of Esau dispossessed them and destroyed them from among themselves, as Israel did with respect to the land of their possession that Yahweh gave to them.) {{rf{13}}} So now arise and cross over the wadi of Zered yourselves; and so we crossed the wadi of Zered. {{rf{14}}} Now the length of time that we had traveled from Kadesh Barnea until the time when we crossed the wadi of Zered was thirty-eight years, until the perishing of all of that generation; that is, the men of war from the midst of the camp as Yahweh had sworn to them. {{rf{15}}} The hand of Yahweh was against them to root them out from the midst of the camp until they perished completely. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Deut-02-01]] }}}
{{rf{16}}} "And then when all the men of war had died from among the people, {{rf{17}}} Yahweh spoke to me, saying, {{rf{18}}} 'You are about to cross over the boundary of Moab today at Ar. {{rf{19}}} When you approach the border of the Ammonites, you shall not harass them, and you shall not get involved in battle with them, for I have not given the land of the Ammonites to you as a possession; because I have given it to the descendants of Lot as a possession. {{rf{20}}} (It is also considered the land of Rephaim; Rephaim lived in it previously, and the Ammonites called them Zamzummim, {{rf{21}}} a people great and numerous and as tall as the Anakites; Yahweh destroyed them from before them, and they dispossessed them and settled in place of them, {{rf{22}}} just as he did for the descendants of Esau, who live in Seir, when he destroyed the Horites from before them and dispossessed them, and then they settled in their place up to this day. {{rf{23}}} And also the Avvites, who lived in villages as far as Gaza, and the Caphtorim, who came out from Caphtor, destroyed them and then settled in their place. {{rf{24}}} Arise, set out and cross over the wadi of Arnon. Look! I have given Sihon the Amorite, the king of Heshbon, and his land into your hand; begin to take possession of it, and engage with him in battle. {{rf{25}}} This day I will begin to place the dread of you and the fear of you before the peoples under all the heavens. They will hear the report about you, and so they will shake and tremble because of you.' {{rf{26}}} "So I sent messengers from the wilderness of Kedemoth to Sihon king of Heshbon; I sent terms of peace, saying, {{rf{27}}} 'Let me cross through your land and only along the road I will go; I will not turn aside to the right or to the left. {{rf{28}}} Food for money you shall sell me, so that I may eat, and water for money you will give to me, so that I may drink; just let me cross on foot. {{rf{29}}} Just as the descendants of Esau did for me, who live in Seir, and the Moabites, who live in Ar, until I cross the Jordan into the land that Yahweh our God is giving to us.' {{rf{30}}} But Sihon king of Heshbon was not willing to let us cross through his territory because Yahweh your God hardened his spirit and made him obstinate in order to give him into your hand, just as he has now done. {{rf{31}}} Yahweh said to me, 'Look! I have begun to give over to you Sihon and his land; begin to take possession of his land.' {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Deut-02-16]] }}}
{{rf{32}}} Then Sihon and all his people came out to meet us for battle at Jahaz. {{rf{33}}} And so Yahweh our God gave him over to us, and we struck him down, and his sons and all of his people. {{rf{34}}} So we captured all of his cities at that time, and we destroyed each town of males and the women and the children; we did not leave behind a survivor. {{rf{35}}} We took only the livestock as spoil for ourselves, and also the booty of the cities that we had captured. {{rf{36}}} From Aroer, which is on the edge of the wadi of Arnon and the city that was in the wadi on up to Gilead, there was not a city that was inaccessible to us; Yahweh our God gave everything to us. {{rf{37}}} Only the land of the Ammonites you did not approach, all along the whole upper region of the Jabbok River and the towns of the hill country, according to all that Yahweh our God had instructed. {{rf big{1}}} "Then we turned, and we went up the road to Bashan, and Og the king of Bashan came out to meet us, he and all of his army for the battle at Edrei. {{rf{2}}} And Yahweh said to me, 'You should not fear him, for I have given him and all of his army and his land into your hand. And so you will do to him as you did to Sihon the king of the Amorites, who was reigning in Heshbon.' {{rf{3}}} And so Yahweh our God also gave Og the king of Bashan, and all of his army into our hand, and we struck him down until not a survivor remained to him. {{rf{4}}} And we captured all of his towns at that time; there was not a city that we did not take from them. {{rf{5}}} All of these were fortified towns with high walls, gates, and bars, apart from very many of the villages of the open country. {{rf{6}}} And so we destroyed them just as we had done to Sihon the king of Heshbon; we destroyed utterly each town of males, the women, and the little children. {{rf{7}}} But all of the livestock and the booty of the towns we kept as spoil for ourselves. {{rf{8}}} "And so we took at that time the land from the control of the two kings of the Amorites who were on the other side of the Jordan, from the wadi of Arnon up to Mount Hermon. {{rf{9}}} (The Sidonians called Hermon 'Sirion,' and the Amorites called it 'Senir.') {{rf{10}}} All of the towns of the plateau and the whole of Gilead and all of Bashan up to Salecah and Edrei, the towns of the kingdom of Og in Bashan. {{rf{11}}} (For only Og, king of Bashan, was left from the remnant of the Rephaim. Indeed, his bedstead -- it was a bedstead of iron. It is in Rabbah of the Ammonites. Nine cubits is its length, and four cubits is its width according to the cubit of a man.) {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Deut-02-32]] }}}
{{rf{12}}} And so we took possession of this land at that time, from Aroer, which is on the edge of the wadi of Arnon, and also half of the hill country of Gilead and its towns I gave to the Reubenites and to the Gadites. {{rf{13}}} And the remainder of Gilead and all of Bashan, the kingdom of Og, I gave to the half-tribe of Manasseh, the whole region of Argo. All of that area of Bashan was called the land of the Rephaim. {{rf{14}}} Jair the descendant of Manasseh acquired the whole region of Argob, up to the boundary of the Geshurites and the Maacathites, and he called it, that is Bashan, after his own name, Havvoth Jair, as it still is today. {{rf{15}}} And also I gave Gilead to Makir. {{rf{16}}} And to the Reubenites and to the Gadites I gave, from Gilead up to the wadi of Arnon, the middle of the wadi as a boundary and up to the Jabbok River, the boundary of the Ammonites. {{rf{17}}} And the Jordan Valley with the Jordan River as its boundary, from Kinnereth up to the Sea of the Arabah, the Salt Sea, with the slopes of Pisgah toward the east. {{rf{18}}} "And I charged you all at that time when I said, "Yahweh has given you -- to all of you -- this land to possess. All the warriors shall cross over, ready to fight, before your brothers, the Israelites. {{rf{19}}} Only your wives and your little children and your livestock (I know that you have much livestock) must stay in your towns that I have given you, {{rf{20}}} until Yahweh shall give rest to your brothers as he did to you, and also they take possession of the land that Yahweh your God is giving to them beyond the Jordan; then they may return, each one to his possession that I have given to them. {{rf{21}}} And I commanded Joshua at that time, saying, 'Your eyes see all that Yahweh your God has done to these two kings; so Yahweh will do to all of the kingdoms where you are about to cross over to. {{rf{22}}} You shall not fear them, for Yahweh your God is the one fighting for you. {{rf{23}}} "And I pleaded with Yahweh at that time, saying, {{rf{24}}} 'Lord Yahweh, you have begun to show your servant your greatness and your strong hand, for what god is there in the heaven or on the earth who can do according to your works and according to your mighty deeds? {{rf{25}}} Let me cross over, please, and let me see the good land that is beyond the Jordan, this good hill country and Lebanon.' {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Deut-03-12]] }}}
{{rf{26}}} But Yahweh was very angry with me because of you, and he would not listen to me, and Yahweh said, 'Enough of that from you! You shall not speak to me any longer about this matter! {{rf{27}}} Go up to the top of Pisgah and look around you toward the west, toward the north, and toward the east, and view the land with your eyes, for you will not cross this Jordan. {{rf{28}}} Now instruct Joshua and support him and encourage him because he himself will cross over before this people and enable them to inherit the land that you will see.' {{rf{29}}} So we remained in the valley opposite Beth Peor. {{rf big{1}}} "Now, Israel, listen to the rules and to the regulations that I am teaching you to do, in order that you may live and you may go in and you may take possession of the land that Yahweh, the God of your ancestors, is giving to you. {{rf{2}}} You must not add to the word that I am commanding you, and you shall not take away from it in order to keep the commands of Yahweh your God that I am commanding you to observe. {{rf{3}}} Your eyes have seen what Yahweh did with the case of Baal Peor, for each man that followed after Baal Peor Yahweh your God destroyed from your midst. {{rf{4}}} But you, the ones holding fast to Yahweh your God, are all alive today. {{rf{5}}} See, I now teach you rules and regulations just as Yahweh my God has commanded me, to observe them just so in the midst of the land where you are going, to take possession of it. {{rf{6}}} And you must observe them diligently, for that is your wisdom and your insight before the eyes of the people, who will hear all of these rules, and they will say, 'Surely this great nation is a wise and discerning people.' {{rf{7}}} For what great nation has for it a god near to it as Yahweh our God, whenever we call upon him? {{rf{8}}} And what other great nation has for it just rules and regulations just like this whole law that I am setting before you today? {{rf{9}}} "However, take care for yourself and watch your inner self closely, so that you do not forget the things that your eyes have seen, so that they do not slip from your mind all the days of your life; and you shall make them known to your children and to your grandchildren. {{rf{10}}} Remember the day that you stood before Yahweh your God at Horeb when Yahweh said to me, 'Summon for me the people so that I can tell them my words, that they may learn to fear me all of the days they are alive on the earth and so that they may teach their children.' {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Deut-03-26]] }}}
{{rf{11}}} And so you came near, and you stood under the mountain, and the mountain was burning with fire up to the heart of the heaven, dark with a very thick cloud. {{rf{12}}} And Yahweh spoke to you from the midst of the fire; you heard a sound of words, but you did not see a form -- only a voice. {{rf{13}}} And he declared to you his covenant, the Ten Commandments, which he charged you to observe, and he wrote them on the two tablets of stone. {{rf{14}}} And Yahweh charged me at that time to teach you rules and regulations for your observation of them in the land that you are about to cross into to take possession of it. {{rf{15}}} "So you must be very careful for yourselves, because you did not see any form on the day Yahweh spoke to you at Horeb from the midst of the fire, {{rf{16}}} so that you do not ruin yourselves and make for yourselves a divine image in a form of any image, a replica of male or female, {{rf{17}}} a replica of any animal that is upon the earth, a replica of any winged bird that flies in the air, {{rf{18}}} a replica of any creeping thing on the ground, a replica of any fish that is in the water below the earth. {{rf{19}}} And do this so that you do not lift your eyes toward heaven and observe the sun and the moon and the stars, all the host of the heaven, and be led astray and bow down to them and serve them, things that Yahweh your God has allotted to all of the peoples under all of the heaven. {{rf{20}}} But Yahweh has taken you and brought you out from the furnace of iron, from Egypt, to be a people of inheritance to him, as it is this day. {{rf{21}}} "And Yahweh was angry with me because of you, and he swore that I would not cross the Jordan and that I would not go to the good land that Yahweh your God is giving you as an inheritance. {{rf{22}}} For I am going to die in this land; I am not going to cross the Jordan, but you are going to cross, and you are going to take possession of this good land. {{rf{23}}} Watch out for yourselves so that you do not forget the covenant of Yahweh your God that he had made with you and make for yourselves a divine image of the form of anything that Yahweh your God has forbidden, {{rf{24}}} for Yahweh your God is a devouring fire, a jealous God. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Deut-04-11]] }}}
{{rf{25}}} "When you have had children and grandchildren and you have grown old in the land and you act corruptly and you make a divine image of the form of anything and you do evil in the eyes of Yahweh your God, thus provoking him to anger, {{rf{26}}} I call to witness against you today the heaven and the earth, that you will perish soon and completely from the land that you are crossing the Jordan into it to take possession of it; you will not live long on it, but you will be completely destroyed. {{rf{27}}} And Yahweh will scatter you among the peoples, and you will be left few in number among the nations to where Yahweh will lead you. {{rf{28}}} And you will there serve gods made by human hands, of wood and stone, gods that cannot see and cannot hear and cannot eat and cannot smell. {{rf{29}}} But from there you shall seek Yahweh your God and will find him, if you seek him with all your heart and with all your soul. {{rf{30}}} In your distress when all these things have found you in the latter days, then you will return to Yahweh your God, and you will listen to his voice. {{rf{31}}} For Yahweh your God is a compassionate God; he will not abandon you, and he will not destroy you, and he will not forget the covenant of your ancestors that he swore to them. {{rf{32}}} "Yes, ask, please, about former days that preceded you from the day that God created humankind on the earth; ask even from one end of the heaven up to the other end of heaven whether anything ever happened like this great thing or whether anything like it was ever heard. {{rf{33}}} Has a people ever heard the voice of God speaking from the midst of the fire, just as you heard it, and lived? {{rf{34}}} Or has a god ever attempted to go to take for himself a nation from the midst of a nation, using trials and signs and wonders and war, with an outstretched arm and with great and awesome deeds, like all that Yahweh your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes? {{rf{35}}} You yourselves were shown this wonder in order for you to acknowledge that Yahweh is the God; there is no other God besides him. {{rf{36}}} From heaven he made you hear his voice to teach you, and on the earth he showed you his great fire, and you heard his words from the midst of the fire. {{rf{37}}} And because he loved your ancestors he chose their descendants after them. And he brought you forth from Egypt with his own presence, by his great strength, {{rf{38}}} to drive out nations greater and more numerous than you from before you, to bring you and to give to you their land as an inheritance, as it is this day. {{rf{39}}} So you shall acknowledge today, and you must call to mind that Yahweh is God in heaven above and on the earth beneath. There is no other God. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Deut-04-25]] }}}
{{rf{40}}} And you shall keep his rules and his commandments that I am commanding you today, so that it may go well for you and for your children after you, and so that you may remain a long time on the land that Yahweh your God is giving to you during all of those days." {{rf{41}}} Then Moses set apart three cities on the other side of the Jordan, toward the east, {{rf{42}}} in order for a manslayer to flee there who has killed his neighbor without intent and was not hating him previously, and so he could flee to one of these cities and be safe. {{rf{43}}} He set apart Bezer in the wilderness in the land of the plateau of the Reubenites; Ramoth in Gilead of the Gadites, and Golan in Bashan of the Manassites. {{rf{44}}} Now this is the law that Moses set before the Israelites; {{rf{45}}} these are the legal provisions and the rules and the regulations that Moses spoke to the Israelites when they left Egypt, {{rf{46}}} beyond the Jordan in the valley opposite Beth Peor in the land of Sihon the king of the Amorites, who was reigning in Heshbon and whom Moses and the Israelites defeated when they came out of Egypt. {{rf{47}}} And so they took possession of his land and the land of Og king of Bashan, the two kings of the Amorites who were beyond the Jordan, eastward, {{rf{48}}} from Aroer, which is on the bank of the wadi of Arnon and as far as Mount Sirion; that is, Hermon, {{rf{49}}} and all of the Arabah beyond the Jordan, eastward, and as far as the Sea of the Arabah under the slopes of Pisgah. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Deut-04-40]] }}}
And then Moses summoned all of Israel and said to them, "Hear, Israel, the rules and the regulations that I am speaking in your ears today, and you shall learn them, and you must observe them diligently. {{rf{2}}} Yahweh our God made a covenant with us at Horeb. {{rf{3}}} It was not with our ancestors that Yahweh made this covenant, but with these of us who are here alive today. {{rf{4}}} Face to face Yahweh spoke with you at the mountain from the midst of the fire. {{rf{5}}} I was standing between Yahweh and you at that time to report to you the word of Yahweh, for you were afraid because of the presence of the fire, and so you did not go up the mountain. He said, {{rf{6}}} 'I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out from the land of Egypt, from the house of slavery. {{rf{7}}} There shall not be for you other gods besides me. {{rf{8}}} 'You shall not make for yourself a divine image of any type of form that is in the heaven above or that is on the earth beneath or that is in the water under the earth. {{rf{9}}} 'You shall not bow down to them, and you shall not serve them, for I, Yahweh your God, am a jealous God, punishing the guilt of fathers upon their children and upon the third and upon the fourth generation of those hating me, {{rf{10}}} but showing loyal love to thousands of those who love me and of those who keep my commandments. {{rf{11}}} 'You shall not take up the name of Yahweh your God for a worthless purpose, for Yahweh will not leave unpunished anyone who uses his name for a worthless purpose. {{rf{12}}} 'Observe the Sabbath day to make it holy, just as Yahweh your God has commanded you. {{rf{13}}} Six days you shall work, and you shall do all of your work, {{rf{14}}} but the seventh day is a Sabbath unto Yahweh your God; you shall not do any work, or your son, or your daughter, or your slave, or your slave woman, or your ox, or your donkey, or any of your domestic animals, or your resident alien who is in your towns, so that your slave and your slave woman may rest as you rest. {{rf{15}}} And you shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and Yahweh your God brought you out with a strong hand and with an outstretched arm; therefore, Yahweh your God commanded you to keep the Sabbath. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Deut-05-01]] }}}
<<Bbl Dt 5:1 abbr >> (need precise ref) Furnace... Of preparation
<<Bbl Dt 5:1 abbr >> (need precise ref) I, Moses, stand as an example of the price of disobedience. Exile.
<<Bbl Dt 5:1 abbr >> (need precise ref) Rooted in history. Faith wasn't needed at Sinai, there were no atheists.
<<Bbl Dt 5:1 abbr >> (need precise ref) The ''Ten Words'' is a refined idea, not clear in Exodus.
<<Bbl Dt 5:1 abbr >> Suzerain treat is recognizable, as a lease would be to future observer. 2 tablets = 2 copies
<<Bbl Dt 5:15 abbr >> Slavery, in which there was no day of rest. See <<Bbl Ex 16:23 "" note >>. Also, slaves were freed every sabbatical year, <<Bbl Ex 21:2 >>.
<<Bbl Dt 6:4 abbr >> ''Hear, O Israel!'' Christ gave this full credence, which could help a Muslim accept that His followers are not polytheists.
<<Bbl Dt 6:5 abbr >> a conditional promise. The land is guaranteed (vv 3, 10, 18-19, 23); life is not (2, 3, 15, 16, 18 24-25). Also <<Bbl Dt 8:18 >>-19.
<<Bbl Dt 6:6 abbr >> a command, but much more. For every mandate comes with an enabling and this one is the kernel of great prophecy and fulfillment to follow.
<<Bbl Dt 6:7 abbr >> <<Bbl E 6:4 >>
6:9 See 11:20.
6:10-11 "Just look at these walk-in closets!"
<<Bbl Dt 6:10 abbr >>-11 a vivid presentation of God's generosity.
<<Bbl Dt 6:11 abbr >> see <<Bbl Neh 9:25 >>
<<Bbl Dt 6:16 abbr >> Israelites might assume entry into the land means the end of testing, but no.
<<Bbl Dt 6:22 abbr >> This does not mean slowly, but systematically and organically.
<<Bbl Dt 6:23 abbr >> <> <<Bbl Phil 1:6 >>
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<<Bbl Dt 7:16>>-26 <<Bbl Joshua 23:11>>-16
<<Bbl Dt 7:2 abbr >>-03 Apparent contradiction; but the conquest will be gradual.
<<Bbl Dt 7:4 abbr >> Bible history makes clear that marrying outside the faith is the problem, not outside the ethnic household.
<<Bbl Dt 7:20 abbr >> Hornets alludes to the plagues on Egypt. But this new plague is more devastating than those, even the last. The death of the first-born has an ongoing and didactic horror, but hornets will merely kill you as you run.
<<Bbl Dt 8:2 abbr >> I allowed you to go hungry. Integrity check. Hardship.
<<Bbl Dt 8:3 abbr >> Not bread alone. Reverses Maslow. His *Word* , manna, a way you do not understand. Food is the test. Garden allusion. Failure is a possible outcome.
<<Bbl Dt 8:5 abbr >> Discipline accompanied by care and provision.
<<Bbl Dt 8:10 abbr >> Basis for Jewish custom of giving thanks after the meal. The proverb asking to be given "not too much".
<<Bbl Dt 9:8 abbr >> a great and particular betrayal
<<Bbl Dt 9:9 abbr >> Moses fasted, then, eighty days. With water this is humanly possible, but as he states that he neither ate nor drank, God must have sustained him supernaturally.
<<Bbl Dt 11:20 abbr >> See 6:9.
<<Bbl Dt 12:1 abbr >>-05 An early version of the ark of the covenant, not mentioned in Exodus. Moses must supply the replacement tablets, as in Exodus.
<<Bbl Dt 12:4 abbr >> You shall not have a formula-driven placement of shrines. <<Bbl Dt 12:13 >>.
<<Bbl Dt 12:13 abbr >>-27 Meat as food is not limited to that which is sacrificed.
<<Bbl Dt 12:29 abbr >> Don't become curious; I will give you only a hint of how horrible it can be, I will tell you the end of it to dissuade your interest.
{{rf{16}}} 'Honor your father and your mother, as Yahweh your God commanded you, so that it will be good for you in the land that Yahweh your God is giving to you. {{rf{17}}} 'You shall not murder. {{rf{18}}} 'And you shall not commit adultery. {{rf{19}}} 'And you shall not steal. {{rf{20}}} 'And you shall not falsely bear evidence against your neighbor. {{rf{21}}} 'And you shall not covet the wife of your neighbor, and you shall not crave the house of your neighbor, his field or his slave or his slave woman or his ox and his donkey or anything that belongs to your neighbor.' {{rf{22}}} "These words Yahweh spoke to your whole assembly at the mountain from the midst of the fire and the very thick cloud with a loud voice, and he did not add anything, and then he wrote them on two tablets of stone and gave them to me. {{rf{23}}} And then when you heard the voice from the midst of the darkness, and as the mountain was burning with fire, and and all the heads of your tribes and your elders approached me, {{rf{24}}} you said, 'Look, Yahweh our God has shown us his glory and his greatness, and we have heard his voice from the midst of the fire; this day we have seen that God can speak with a human being, yet he remains alive. {{rf{25}}} And so then why shall we die, for this great fire will consume us if we continue to hear the voice of Yahweh our God any longer, and so we shall die? {{rf{26}}} For who is there of all flesh who has heard the voice of the living God speaking from the midst of the fire as we have heard it and remained alive? {{rf{27}}} You go near and hear everything that Yahweh our God will say; and then you tell us all that Yahweh our God tells you, and we will listen, and we will do it.' {{rf{28}}} "And Yahweh heard the sound of your words when you spoke to me, and Yahweh said to me, 'I have heard the sound of the words of this people that they have spoken to you; they are right with respect to all that they have spoken. {{rf{29}}} If only they had such a mind'; that is, to fear me and to keep all my commandments at all times, so that it will go well for them and for their children forever. {{rf{30}}} Go! Say to them, "Return to your tents." {{rf{31}}} But you stand here with me, and let me tell you all of the commandments and the rules and the regulations that you shall teach them, so that they may do them in the land that I am giving to them to take possession of it.' {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Deut-05-16]] }}}
{{rf{32}}} "So you must be careful to do just as Yahweh your God commanded you; you shall not turn to the right or to the left. {{rf{33}}} In exactly the path that Yahweh your God has commanded, you must go, so that you may live and it will go well for you and you may live long in the land that you will take possession of." {{rf big{1}}} "Now this is the commandment, the rules and the regulations, that Yahweh your God charged to teach to you for you to observe in the land that you are about to cross over into to take possession of it, {{rf{2}}} so that you may revere Yahweh your God by keeping all his statutes and his commandments that I am commanding you, you and your children and grandchildren, all the days of your life and so you may live long lives. {{rf{3}}} And you shall hear, Israel, and be careful to observe these instructions, so that it may go well for you and that you may multiply greatly, just as Yahweh, the God of your ancestors, promised you, in a land with milk and honey. {{rf{4}}} "Hear, Israel, Yahweh our God, Yahweh is unique. {{rf{5}}} And you shall love Yahweh your God with all of your heart and with all of your soul and with all of your might. {{rf{6}}} And these words that I am commanding you today shall be on your heart. {{rf{7}}} And you shall recite them to your children, and you shall talk about them at the time of your living in your house and at the time of your going on the road and at the time of your lying down and at the time of your rising up. {{rf{8}}} And you shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as an emblem between your eyes. {{rf{9}}} And you shall write them on the doorframe of your house and on your gates. {{rf{10}}} "And then it will happen that when Yahweh your God will bring you to the land that he swore to your ancestors, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give to you large and fine cities that you did not build, {{rf{11}}} and houses full of all sorts of good things that you did not fill, and hewn cisterns that you did not hew, vineyards and olive groves that you did not plant, and you have eaten your fill, {{rf{12}}} then take care for yourself, so that you do not forget Yahweh, who brought you out from the land of Egypt from the house of slavery. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Deut-05-32]] }}}
{{rf{13}}} "You shall fear Yahweh your God, and you shall serve him, and by his name you shall swear. {{rf{14}}} You shall not go after other gods from the gods of the peoples who are all around you, {{rf{15}}} for Yahweh your God is a jealous god in your midst, so that the anger of Yahweh your God would be kindled, and he would destroy you from the face of the earth. {{rf{16}}} You shall not put Yahweh your God to the test, as you tested him at Massah. {{rf{17}}} You shall diligently keep the commandments of Yahweh your God and his legal provisions and his rules that he has commanded you. {{rf{18}}} And you shall do what is right and good in the eyes of Yahweh, so that it shall go well for you and so that you may go and you may take possession of the good land that Yahweh swore for your ancestors, {{rf{19}}} by driving out all of your enemies before you, just as Yahweh has promised. {{rf{20}}} "When your child asks you in the future, saying, 'What is the meaning of the legal provisions and the rules and the regulations that Yahweh our God commanded for you?' {{rf{21}}} Then you shall say to your child, 'We were slaves of Pharaoh in Egypt, and Yahweh brought us out from Egypt with a strong hand. {{rf{22}}} And Yahweh gave great and awesome signs and wonders in Egypt against Pharaoh and against his entire household in our presence. {{rf{23}}} But he brought us out from there in order to bring us here to give us the land that he swore to our ancestors. {{rf{24}}} And so Yahweh commanded us to observe all of these rules and to revere Yahweh our God for our benefit all the days that we live, as it is today. {{rf{25}}} And it shall be righteousness for us if we diligently observe and do all of this commandment before Yahweh our God, as he has commanded us.' {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Deut-06-13]] }}}
"When Yahweh your God brings you into the land that you are about to enter into it to take possession of it, and he drives out many nations before you, the Hittites and the Girgashites and the Amorites and the Canaanites and the Hivites and the Jebusites, seven nations mightier and more numerous than you, {{rf{2}}} and Yahweh your God will give them over to you and you defeat them, you must utterly destroy them; you shall not make a covenant with them, and you shall not show mercy to them. {{rf{3}}} And you shall not intermarry with them; you shall not give your daughter to their son; and you shall not take his daughter for your son. {{rf{4}}} For their sons and daughters will cause your son to turn away from following me, and so they will serve other gods, and the anger of Yahweh would be kindled against you, and he would quickly destroy you. {{rf{5}}} But this is what you must do to them: you shall break down their altars, and their stone pillars you shall smash, and their Asherah poles you shall hew down, and you shall burn their idols with fire. {{rf{6}}} For you are a holy people for Yahweh your God; Yahweh your God has chosen you to be for him a people, a treasured possession from among all the peoples that are on the face of the earth. {{rf{7}}} "Yahweh loved you and chose you not because of your great number exceeding all other peoples, for you are fewer than all of the peoples, {{rf{8}}} but because of the love of Yahweh for you and because of his keeping of the sworn oath that he swore to your ancestors, Yahweh brought you out with a strong hand and redeemed you from the house of slavery, from the hand of Pharaoh, the king of Egypt. {{rf{9}}} So know that Yahweh your God, he is God, the trustworthy God, maintaining his covenant and his loyal love with those who love him and with those who keep his commandments to a thousand generations, {{rf{10}}} but repaying those who hate him in their own person to destroy them; he is not slow with those who hate him in their own person; he repays them. {{rf{11}}} And so you shall keep the commandment and the rules and the regulations that I am commanding you today to observe them. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Deut-07-01]] }}}
{{rf{12}}} "And then because you listen to these regulations and you diligently keep and you do them, then Yahweh your God will maintain his covenant and his loyal love that he swore to your ancestors. {{rf{13}}} And he will love you, and he will bless you, and he will multiply you, and he will bless the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your soil, your grain, your wine, and your olive oil, and newborn calves of your cattle, and the newborn lambs of your flocks in the land that he swore to your ancestors to give you. {{rf{14}}} You shall be blessed more than all of the peoples; among you there shall not be sterility and bareness, even among domestic animals. {{rf{15}}} And Yahweh will turn away from you all the illness and all the harmful diseases of Egypt that you experienced; he will not lay them on you, but he will lay them on all of those who hate you. {{rf{16}}} And you shall devour all of the peoples that Yahweh your God is giving to you; you shall not pity them, and you shall not serve their gods, which will be a snare for you. {{rf{17}}} "If you think in your heart, 'These nations are more numerous than I, so how can I dispossess them?' {{rf{18}}} then remember you must not be afraid of them; you must well remember what Yahweh your God did to Pharaoh and to all of Egypt: {{rf{19}}} the great trials that your eyes saw and the signs and the wonders and the workings of the strong hand and the outstretched arm by which Yahweh your God brought you out; so Yahweh your God will do to all of the peoples because of whom you are in fear before them. {{rf{20}}} And, moreover, Yahweh your God will send the hornets among them until both the survivors and the fugitives are destroyed before you. {{rf{21}}} You must not be in dread from the presence of them, because Yahweh your God, who is in your midst, is a great and awesome God. {{rf{22}}} And Yahweh your God will clear away these nations from before you little by little; you will not be able to finish them off quickly, lest the wild animals multiply against you. {{rf{23}}} But Yahweh your God will give them to you, and he will throw them into great panic until they are destroyed. {{rf{24}}} And he will give their kings into your hand, and you shall blot out their names from under the heaven; anyone will not be able to stand against you until you destroy them. {{rf{25}}} You shall burn the images of their gods with fire; you shall not covet the silver or gold that is on them, and so you take it for yourself, so that you are not ensnared by it, for it is a detestable thing to Yahweh your God. {{rf{26}}} And you must not bring a detestable thing into your house, or you will become a thing devoted to destruction like it; you must utterly detest it, and you must utterly abhor it, for it is an object devoted to destruction. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Deut-07-12]] }}}
"All of the commandments that I am commanding you today you must diligently observe, so that you may live and multiply, and you may go and take possession of the land that Yahweh swore to your ancestors. {{rf{2}}} And you shall remember all of the way that Yahweh your God led you during these forty years in the desert in order to humble you and to test you to know what is in your heart, whether you would diligently keep his commandments or not. {{rf{3}}} And he humbled you and let you go hungry, and then he fed you with that which you did not know nor did your ancestors know, in order to make you know that not by bread alone but by all that goes out of the mouth of Yahweh humankind shall live. {{rf{4}}} Your clothing did not wear out on you, and your feet did not swell during these forty years. {{rf{5}}} And you should know with your heart that as a man disciplines his son, so Yahweh your God is disciplining you. {{rf{6}}} So you must keep the commandments of Yahweh your God by walking in his ways and by fearing him. {{rf{7}}} For Yahweh your God is bringing you to a good land with streams of water, springs and underground water, welling up in the valleys and in the hills, {{rf{8}}} to a land of wheat and barley and vines and fig trees and pomegranate trees, a land of olive trees, olive oil and honey; {{rf{9}}} to a land where you may eat food in it without scarcity; you will not find anything lacking in it, a land where its stones are iron and from its mountains you can mine copper. {{rf{10}}} And you will eat, and you will be satisfied, and you will bless Yahweh your God because of the good land that he has given to you. {{rf{11}}} "Take care for yourself so that you not forget Yahweh your God by not keeping his commandments and his regulations and his statutes that I am commanding you today, {{rf{12}}} lest when you have eaten and you are satisfied and you have built good houses and you live in them, {{rf{13}}} and your herds and your flocks have multiplied, and you have accumulated silver and gold, and all that you have has multiplied, {{rf{14}}} then your heart becomes proud and you forget Yahweh your God, the one who brought you out from the land of Egypt, from the house of slavery, {{rf{15}}} the one leading you in the great and terrible desert infested with dangerous snakes and scorpions and parched ground, where there is no water, and the one bringing out water for you from flint rock, {{rf{16}}} the one feeding you manna in the desert, food that your ancestors did not know, in order to humble you and in order to test you so that he could do good to you in the future. {{rf{17}}} And you may think in your heart, 'My strength and the might of my hand acquired this wealth for me.' {{rf{18}}} But you must remember Yahweh your God, for he is the one giving you strength to acquire wealth in order to confirm his covenant that he swore to your ancestors as it is today. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Deut-08-01]] }}}
{{rf{19}}} And it will happen that if you indeed forget Yahweh your God and you go after other gods and you serve them and you bow down before them, I warn you today that you will surely perish. {{rf{20}}} As with the nations that Yahweh is destroying before you, so you shall perish because you would not obey the voice of Yahweh your God. {{rf big{1}}} "Hear, Israel, you are about to cross the Jordan today to go to dispossess nations larger and more numerous than you, great cities fortified with high walls, {{rf{2}}} a great and tall people, the sons of the Anakites, whom you know and of whom you have heard it said, 'Who could stand before the sons of Anak?' {{rf{3}}} You should know today that Yahweh your God is the one crossing ahead of you as a devouring fire; he will destroy them, and he will subdue them before you; so you will dispossess them, and you will destroy them quickly, just as Yahweh promised you. {{rf{4}}} "You shall not say to yourself when Yahweh your God is driving them out before you, saying, 'Because of my righteousness Yahweh brought me to take possession of this land'; but because of the wickedness of these nations Yahweh is driving them out before you. {{rf{5}}} It is not because of your righteousness and because of the uprightness of your heart that you are coming to take possession of their land, but because of the wickedness of these nations Yahweh your God is driving them before you, and in order to confirm the promise that Yahweh swore to your ancestors, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob. {{rf{6}}} "So you should understand that it is not because of your righteousness that Yahweh your God is giving you this good land to take possession of it, because you are a stubborn people. {{rf{7}}} Remember, do not forget, that you provoked Yahweh your God in the desert, and from the day that you went out from the land of Egypt until you came to this place you were rebelling against Yahweh. {{rf{8}}} "And remember at Horeb you provoked Yahweh, and Yahweh became angry enough to destroy you. {{rf{9}}} When I went up the mountain to receive the stone tablets, the tablets of the covenant that Yahweh made with you, and remained on the mountain forty days and forty nights, I did not eat food and I did not drink water. {{rf{10}}} And Yahweh gave me the two tablets of stone written with the finger of God, and on them was writing according to all the words that Yahweh spoke with you at the mountain, from the midst of the fire on the day of the assembly. {{rf{11}}} And then at the end of forty days and forty nights, Yahweh gave me the two tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Deut-08-19]] }}}
{{rf{12}}} And Yahweh said to me, 'Come now, go down quickly from this mountain because your people behave corruptly whom you brought out from Egypt, for they turned quickly from the way that I commanded them to follow; they have made for themselves a cast image.' {{rf{13}}} And Yahweh spoke to me, saying, 'I have seen this people, and look! They are a stubborn people. {{rf{14}}} Leave me alone, and let me destroy them, and let me blot out their name from under heaven, and let me make you into a nation mightier and more numerous than they!' {{rf{15}}} "And I turned, and I went down the mountain, as the mountain was burning with fire, and the two tablets of the covenant were in my two hands. {{rf{16}}} And I looked, and indeed you had sinned against Yahweh your God; you had made for yourselves an image of a calf of cast metal; you had turned quickly from the way that Yahweh had commanded for you. {{rf{17}}} And I took hold of the two tablets, and I threw them out of my two hands and smashed them before your eyes. {{rf{18}}} And then I lay prostrate before Yahweh, as earlier, forty days and forty nights; I did not eat food and I did not drink water because of all your sins that you committed, by doing evil in the eyes of Yahweh and so provoking him. {{rf{19}}} For I was in dread from being in the presence of the anger and the wrath with which Yahweh was angry with you so as to destroy you, but Yahweh listened to me also at that time. {{rf{20}}} And with Aaron Yahweh was angry enough to destroy him, and I prayed also for Aaron at that time. {{rf{21}}} And your sinful thing that you had made, the molten calf, I took and I burned it with fire, and I crushed it, grinding it thoroughly until it was crushed to dust, and I threw its dust into the stream that flowed down the mountain. {{rf{22}}} "And also at Taberah and at Massah and at Kibroth Hattaavah you provoked Yahweh to anger. {{rf{23}}} And when Yahweh sent you out from Kadesh Barnea, saying, 'Go up and take possession of the land that I have given you,' you rebelled against the command of Yahweh your God, and you did not believe him, and you did not listen to his voice. {{rf{24}}} You have been rebellious toward Yahweh from the day I have known you. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Deut-09-12]] }}}
{{rf{25}}} "And I lay prostrate before Yahweh through forty days, and through forty nights I prostrated myself, because Yahweh intended to kill you. {{rf{26}}} And I prayed to Yahweh, and I said, 'Lord Yahweh, you must not destroy your people and your inheritance whom you redeemed in your greatness, whom you brought out from Egypt with a strong hand. {{rf{27}}} Remember your servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; you must not pay attention to the stubbornness of this people, to their wickedness and to their sin, {{rf{28}}} lest the people of the land from which you brought us out from there say, "Because Yahweh was not able to bring them to the land that he promised to them and because of his hatred toward them, he has brought them out to kill them in the desert." {{rf{29}}} For they are your people and your inheritance whom you brought with your great power and with your outstretched arm.' {{rf big{1}}} "At that time Yahweh said to me, 'Carve for yourself two tablets of stone just as the former ones, and come up the mountain to me, and you shall make for yourself an ark of wood. {{rf{2}}} And I will write on the tablets the words that were on the former tablets, which you smashed, and you must put them in the ark.' {{rf{3}}} And so I made an ark of acacia wood, and I carved two tablets of stone like the former ones, and I went up the mountain with the two tablets in my hand. {{rf{4}}} And he wrote upon the tablets according to the first writing, the ten words that Yahweh spoke to you on the mountain from the midst of the fire on the day of the assembly, and Yahweh gave them to me. {{rf{5}}} And I turned, and I came down from the mountain, and I put the tablets in the ark that I had made, and they are there, just as Yahweh commanded me. {{rf{6}}} "And the Israelites journeyed from the wells of Bene-Yaqan to Moserah; there Aaron died and was buried, and Eleazar, his son, served as a priest in place of him. {{rf{7}}} From there they journeyed to Gudgodah, and from Gudgodah to Jotbathah, a land flowing with streams of water. {{rf{8}}} At that time Yahweh set apart the tribe of Levi to carry the ark of the covenant of Yahweh to stand before Yahweh, to serve him and to bless the people in his name until this day. {{rf{9}}} Therefore there was not for Levi an allotment or an inheritance along with his brothers; rather Yahweh is his inheritance just as Yahweh your God promised to him. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Deut-09-25]] }}}
{{rf{10}}} And I stayed on the mountain just as during the former forty days and forty nights, and Yahweh listened to me also on that occasion; Yahweh was not willing to destroy you. {{rf{11}}} And Yahweh said to me, 'Come, continue your journey before the people, so that you may go and take possession of the land that I swore to their ancestors to give to them.' {{rf{12}}} And now, Israel, what is Yahweh your God asking from you, except to revere Yahweh your God, to go in all his ways and to love him and to serve Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your soul, {{rf{13}}} to keep the commandments of Yahweh and his statutes that I am commanding you today for your own good. {{rf{14}}} Look! For to Yahweh your God belong heaven and the highest heavens, the earth and all that is in it. {{rf{15}}} Yet to your ancestors Yahweh was very attached, so as to love them, and so he chose their offspring after them, namely you, from all the peoples, as it is today. {{rf{16}}} So you shall circumcise the foreskin of your heart, and do not be stubborn. {{rf{17}}} For Yahweh your God, he is God of the gods and Lord of the lords, the great and mighty God, the awesome one who is not partial, and he does not take bribes. {{rf{18}}} And he executes justice for the orphan and widow, and he is one who loves the alien, to give to them food and clothing. {{rf{19}}} And you shall love the alien, for you were aliens in the land of Egypt. {{rf{20}}} Yahweh your God, you shall revere him, you shall serve him, and to him you shall cling, and by his name you shall swear. {{rf{21}}} He is your praise, and he is your God, who has done with you these great and awesome things that your eyes have seen. {{rf{22}}} With only seventy persons your ancestors went down to Egypt, but now Yahweh your God has made you as the stars of the heaven with respect to multitude. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Deut-10-10]] }}}
"And you shall love Yahweh your God, and you shall keep his obligations and his statutes and his regulations and his commandments always. {{rf{2}}} And you shall realize today that it is not with your children who have not known and who have not seen the discipline of Yahweh your God -- his greatness, his strong hand, and his outstretched arm, {{rf{3}}} and his signs and his deeds that he did in the midst of Egypt to Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, and to all of his land, {{rf{4}}} and what he did to the army of Egypt and to their horses and to their chariots, and how he made the water of the Red Sea flow over them, when they pursued after them, and so Yahweh has destroyed them, as is the case today, {{rf{5}}} and what he did to you in the desert until you came up to this place, {{rf{6}}} and what he did to Dathan and to Abiram, the sons of Eliab, the son of Reuben, how the earth opened its mouth wide and swallowed them, their households and their tents, and all of the living creatures that were in their possession and that were following along with them in the midst of all of Israel. {{rf{7}}} The fact of the matter is, your own eyes have seen all of the great deeds of Yahweh that he did. {{rf{8}}} "And you must keep all of the commandments that I am commanding you today, so that you may have strength and you may go and you may take possession of that land to which you are crossing to take possession of it, {{rf{9}}} so that you may live long on the land that Yahweh swore to your ancestors, to give it to them and to their offspring, a land flowing with milk and honey. {{rf{10}}} For the fact is that the land that you are about to go into to take possession of it is not like the land of Egypt, from which you have come out of, where you sow your seed and you give water by your foot, as in a vegetable garden. {{rf{11}}} But the land that you are about to cross into to take possession of it is a land of hills and valleys, and by the rain of the heaven it drinks water, {{rf{12}}} a land that Yahweh your God is caring for it; continually the eyes of Yahweh your God are on it, from the beginning of the year up to the end of the year. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Deut-11-01]] }}}
{{rf{13}}} "And it will happen that if you listen carefully to my commandments that I am commanding you today, to love Yahweh your God, and to serve him with all of your heart and with all of your soul, {{rf{14}}} then 'I will send the rain for your land in its season, early rain and later rain, and you will gather your grain and your wine and your olive oil. {{rf{15}}} And I will give vegetation in your field for your livestock, and you will eat your fill.' {{rf{16}}} Take care so that your heart is not easily deceived, and you turn away, and you serve other gods, and you bow down to them. {{rf{17}}} And then the anger of Yahweh will be kindled against you, and he will shut up the heavens, and there shall not be rain, and so the ground will not give its produce, and you will perish quickly from the good land that Yahweh is giving to you. {{rf{18}}} "And you shall put these, my words, on your heart and on your inner self, and you shall bind them as a sign on your hand and let them be as an emblem between your eyes. {{rf{19}}} And you shall teach them to your children by talking about them when you sit in your house and when you travel on the road and when you lie down and when you get up. {{rf{20}}} And you shall write them on the doorframes of your house and on your gates, {{rf{21}}} so that they may multiply your days and the days of your children on the land that Yahweh swore to your ancestors to give it to them as long as heaven endures over the earth. {{rf{22}}} Yes, if you diligently keep all this commandment that I am commanding you to observe it, by loving Yahweh your God by walking in all his ways and by holding fast to him, {{rf{23}}} then Yahweh will drive out all of these nations before you, and you will dispossess nations larger and more numerous than you. {{rf{24}}} Every place on which the sole of your foot treads, it shall be yours; your boundary shall be from the desert and Lebanon from the river, the river Euphrates, on up to the western sea. {{rf{25}}} No one can take a stand against you; your dread and your fear Yahweh your God will put on the surface of all the land where you tread, just as he promised to you. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Deut-11-13]] }}}
{{rf{26}}} "See, I am setting before you today a blessing and a curse: {{rf{27}}} the blessing, if you listen to the commandments of Yahweh your God that I am commanding you today, {{rf{28}}} and the curse, if you do not listen to the commandments of Yahweh your God, but rather you turn from the way that I am commanding you today to go after other gods that you have not known. {{rf{29}}} "And it will happen that when Yahweh your God has brought you to the land that you are going to, to take possession of it, then you shall pronounce the blessing on Mount Gerizim and the curse on Mount Ebal. {{rf{30}}} (Are they not beyond the Jordan, toward the west, in the land of the Canaanites living in the Jordan Valley, opposite Gilgal beside the terebinth of Moreh?) {{rf{31}}} For you are now about to cross the Jordan to go to take possession of the land that Yahweh, your God, is giving to you, and you will take possession of it and live in it, {{rf{32}}} and you must diligently observe all the rules and the regulations that I am setting before you today." {{rf big{1}}} "These are the rules and the regulations that you must diligently observe in the land that Yahweh, the God of your ancestors, has given to you to take possession of it, during all the days that you are living on the land. {{rf{2}}} You must completely demolish all of the places there where they served their gods, that is, the nations whom you are about to dispossess, on the high mountains, and on the hills and under each leafy green tree. {{rf{3}}} And you shall break down their altars, and you shall smash their stone pillars, and their Asherah poles you must burn with fire, and the images of their gods you shall hew down, and you shall blot out their names from that place. {{rf{4}}} You shall not worship Yahweh your God like this. {{rf{5}}} But only to the place that Yahweh your God will choose from all of your tribes to place his name there as his dwelling shall you seek, and there you shall go. {{rf{6}}} And you shall bring there your burnt offerings and your sacrifices and your tithes and your donations and your votive gifts and your freewill offerings and the firstling of your herd and your flock. {{rf{7}}} And you shall eat there before Yahweh your God, and you shall rejoice in all your endeavors, you and your family in which Yahweh your God has blessed you. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Deut-11-26]] }}}
{{rf{8}}} "You must not do just as we are doing here today, each according to all that is right in his eyes. {{rf{9}}} For you have not come up to now to the resting place and to the inheritance that Yahweh your God is giving to you. {{rf{10}}} But you will cross the Jordan, and you will settle in the land that Yahweh your God is giving you as an inheritance, and he will give rest to you from all your enemies from all around, and you will live securely, {{rf{11}}} and then at the place that Yahweh your God will choose, to let his name dwell there, there you shall bring all the things I am commanding you, your burnt offerings and your sacrifices, your tithes and your donations, and all of the choice things, your votive gifts that you vow to Yahweh. {{rf{12}}} And you shall rejoice before Yahweh your God, you and your sons and your daughters and your slaves and your slave women and the Levite who is in your towns, because there is not for him a plot of ground and an inheritance with you. {{rf{13}}} "Take care for yourself so that you do not offer your burnt offerings at just any place that you happen to see, {{rf{14}}} but only at the place that Yahweh will choose among one of your tribes; there you shall offer your burnt offerings, and there you shall do all the things that I am commanding you. {{rf{15}}} "But whenever you desire you may slaughter, and you may eat meat according to the blessing of Yahweh your God that he has given to you in all of your towns; the unclean and the clean may eat it just as they would the gazelle and as the deer. {{rf{16}}} Only the blood you must not eat, but on the ground you must pour it like water. {{rf{17}}} You are not allowed to eat in your towns the tithe of your grain and your wine and your olive oil and the firstborn of your herd and your flock and all of your votive gifts that you vowed and your freewill offering and your donations. {{rf{18}}} But only before Yahweh your God you shall eat it, at the place that Yahweh your God will choose, you and your son and your daughter and your slave and your slave woman and the Levite who is in your towns, and you must rejoice before your God in all your undertakings. {{rf{19}}} Take care so that you do not neglect the Levite all of your days on your land. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Deut-12-08]] }}}
{{rf{20}}} "When Yahweh your God enlarges your territory just as he has promised to you, and you say 'I want to eat some meat,' because you want it, whenever you desire you may eat meat. {{rf{21}}} If the place that Yahweh your God will choose to put his name there is too far from you, and you slaughter any of your herd and any of your flock that Yahweh has given to you just as I have commanded you, then you may eat whenever you desire in your towns. {{rf{22}}} Surely just as the gazelle and the deer is eaten, so both the unclean and the clean together may eat it. {{rf{23}}} Only, be sure not to eat the blood, because the blood is the life, and you shall not eat the life with the meat. {{rf{24}}} You shall not eat it, but on the ground you shall pour it out like water. {{rf{25}}} You shall not eat it, so that it will go well for you and your children after you, because then you will be doing what is right in the eyes of Yahweh. {{rf{26}}} Only your holy objects that are yours and your votive gifts you must carry and you must bring to the place that Yahweh will choose. {{rf{27}}} And you shall offer your burnt offerings, the flesh and the blood on the altar of Yahweh your God, and the blood of your sacrifices you shall pour out on the altar of Yahweh your God, but the meat you may eat. {{rf{28}}} Be careful to obey all these things that I am commanding you, so that it will go well for you and for your children after you forever, because then you will be doing what is good and right in the eyes of Yahweh your God. {{rf{29}}} "When Yahweh your God has cut off the nations whom you are about to go to, to dispossess them before you, and you have dispossessed them, and you live in their land, {{rf{30}}} take care so that you are not ensnared into imitating them after their being destroyed from before you, and so that you not enquire concerning their gods, saying, 'How did these nations serve their gods, and thus I myself want to do also.' {{rf{31}}} You must not do so toward Yahweh your God, because of every detestable thing they have done for their gods Yahweh hates, for even their sons and their daughters they would burn in the fire to their gods. {{rf{32}}} All of the things that I am commanding you, you must diligently observe; you shall not add to it, and you shall not take away from it." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Deut-12-20]] }}}
"If a prophet stands up in your midst or a dreamer of dreams and he gives to you a sign or wonder, {{rf{2}}} and the sign or the wonder comes about that he spoke to you, saying, 'Let us go after other gods (those whom you have not known), and let us serve them,' {{rf{3}}} you must not listen to the words of that prophet or to that dreamer, for Yahweh your God is testing you to know whether you love Yahweh your God with all of your heart and with all of your inner self. {{rf{4}}} You shall go after Yahweh your God, and him you shall revere, and his commandment you shall keep, and to his voice you shall listen, and him you shall serve, and to him you shall hold fast. {{rf{5}}} But that prophet or the dreamer of that dream shall be executed, for he spoke falsely about Yahweh your God, the one bringing you out from the land of Egypt and the one redeeming you from the house of slavery, in order to seduce you from the way that Yahweh your God commanded you to go in it; so in this way you shall purge the evil from your midst. {{rf{6}}} "If your brother, the son of your mother or your son or your daughter or your wife whom you embrace or your intimate friend in secrecy says, 'Let us go and let us serve other gods!' gods that you and your ancestors have not known, {{rf{7}}} from among the gods of the people who are around you, those near you or those far from you, from one end of the earth and up to the other end of the earth, {{rf{8}}} you must not give in to him, and you shall not listen to him, and your eye shall not take pity on him, and you shall not have compassion, and you shall not cover up for him. {{rf{9}}} But you shall certainly kill him; your hand shall be first against him to kill him and next the hand of all of the people. {{rf{10}}} And you shall stone him with stones and let him die, for he tried to seduce you from Yahweh your God, the one bringing you from the land of Egypt, from the house of slavery. {{rf{11}}} And all of Israel shall hear, and they shall fear, and they shall not continue to act according to this evil thing in your midst. {{rf{12}}} "If you hear in one of your towns which Yahweh your God is giving to you to live in, someone saying that {{rf{13}}} worthless men have gone out from your midst and have seduced the inhabitants of their town, saying, 'Let us go and serve other gods!' whom you have not known, {{rf{14}}} then you shall inquire and examine and interrogate thoroughly, and, look! It is true; the thing has actually been done, this detestable thing in your midst, {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Deut-13-01]] }}}
{{rf{15}}} then you shall certainly strike down the inhabitants of that town with the edge of the sword; you shall destroy it and everything in it, its domestic animals with the edge of the sword. {{rf{16}}} And then you shall gather all of its booty into the middle of its public square, and you shall burn the town and all of its war-booty totally for Yahweh your God, and it shall be a pile of rubble forever; it shall not be built again. {{rf{17}}} And let not something cling to your hand from the things devoted to destruction, so that Yahweh may turn back from his burning anger, and he may show compassion to you and he may continue to show compassion and so multiply you just as he swore to your ancestors, {{rf{18}}} if you listen to the voice of Yahweh your God, to keep all of his commandments that I am commanding to you today so as to do the right thing in the eyes of Yahweh your God." {{rf big{1}}} "You are children of Yahweh your God; therefore you must not gash yourself, and you must not make your forehead bald for the dead. {{rf{2}}} For you are a people holy to Yahweh your God, and you Yahweh has chosen to be a treasured possession from among all of the peoples that are on the surface of the earth. {{rf{3}}} You shall not eat any detestable thing. {{rf{4}}} These are the animals you may eat: ox, sheep, goats, {{rf{5}}} deer, gazelle, roebuck, wild goat, ibex, antelope, and mountain sheep. {{rf{6}}} And any animal having a split hoof and so a dividing of the hoof into two parts and that chews the cud among the animals -- that animal you may eat. {{rf{7}}} Only these you may not eat from those chewing the cud and from those having a division of the hoof: the camel and the hare and the coney, because they chew the cud, but they do not divide the hoof; they are therefore unclean for you. {{rf{8}}} And also the pig because it has a division of the hoof but does not chew the cud; it is unclean for you; from their meat you shall not eat, and you shall not touch their carcasses. {{rf{9}}} "This is what you shall eat from all that is in the water: everything that has fins and scales you may eat. {{rf{10}}} But anything that does not have fins and scales, you may not eat, for it is unclean for you. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Deut-13-15]] }}}
<<Bbl Dt 15:10 abbr >> - <<Bbl L 6:35 >>
* Deut 17 and 18 The offices of ''King, Priest and Prophet'' are covered. The passage about occult spiritism seems to interrupt, but it rather reveals how the roles of priest and prophet intersect. As King, Jesus fulfilled the mandate. His colt is borrowed, His marriage is holy.
<<Bbl Dt 17:1 abbr >> A //blemish or defect// is anything that would make you pick a different animal for the Honest Sheep Exchange. The blemished animal is not detestable in itself. Low-balling God is.
<<Bbl Dt 17:6 abbr >> Not to witnesses, but two or three. This calls for judgment based on the case whether two is sufficient; two may not be. This calls for weighing the evidence.
<<Bbl Dt 17:7 abbr >> , <<Bbl Dt 17:18 >> Both by his own hand.
<<Bbl Dt 17:8 abbr >>-13 A system of appeals, and a terminus.
17:14-16 Solomon violated ALL of these prohibitions.
<<Bbl Dt 21:15 abbr >>-17 Jacob's preferential fathering may be in mind. "Don't think about using his story to justify doing the same."
<<Bbl Dt 21:22 abbr >> The hanging is not prescribed. (The Law does not anticipate Roman crucifixion.) But the unwholesome excessive use of the body is prohibited. The last word is //talooie//, hanged one. <<Bbl Gal 3:12 >>.
23:3-6 In //''(Reference unknown) 18:1-3''// this law is broadened to mean that intermarriage with the two peoples is forbidden. But the book of Ruth finds no such meaning.
<<Bbl Dt 23:13 abbr >> The world deals with wrong by ignoring it. Stench and disease are the results. We, however, deal with wrong by burying it. Holiness does not mean pretending sin does not exist. It means being personally equipped to put it away. As Christians we actually deal with the crap of the world which the world refuses to acknowledge. We handle it safely and cleanly.
Compare <<Bbl L 10:31 >>.
24:1-3 See exegesis at [[Divorce]].
<<Bbl Dt 24:5 abbr >> The verse for newlyweds -- and the origin of that very concept in our culture.
<<Bbl Dt 24:10 abbr >>-11 This respect for physical or domestic privacy is summed up for the British in the words, "A man's home is his castle."
<<Bbl Dt 25:6 abbr>> [[IdentifyWith]], see NASB note //to stand in his place//.
28:11-14 <<Bbl 1J 5:3 >>
<<Bbl Dt 29:14 abbr >>-21 : see <<Bbl Mt 12:21 >>, <<Bbl J 8:24 >> -- the "unforgivable sin".
<<Bbl Dt 29:29 abbr >> God's place, our place.
{{holyquote{
The secret things belong to Yahweh our God; but the things that are revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law.
}}}
<<Bbl Dt 30:4 abbr>> Closely recalled in <<Bbl Neh 1:9>>.
31:24-26 Joshua is commanded to read the Book carefully, <<Bbl Josh 1:8 >>-9 .
<<Bbl Dt 33:16 abbr >> [[Thorns]]. Joseph's tribulation is linked to Jesus'.
{{rf{11}}} "All of the birds that are clean you may eat. {{rf{12}}} Now these are the ones you shall not eat any of them: the eagle and the vulture and the short-toed eagle, {{rf{13}}} and the red kite and the black kite or any kind of falcon, {{rf{14}}} and any kind of crow according to its kind, {{rf{15}}} and the ostrich and the short-eared owl and the seagull and the hawk according to its kind, {{rf{16}}} the little owl and the great owl and the barn owl, {{rf{17}}} and the desert owl and the carrion vulture and the cormorant, {{rf{18}}} and the stork and the heron according to its kind and the hoopoe and the bat. {{rf{19}}} And also all of the winged insects; they are unclean for you; you shall not eat them. {{rf{20}}} You may eat any clean bird. {{rf{21}}} "You shall not eat any carcass; you may give it to the alien who is in your towns, and he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner, for you are a holy people for Yahweh your God; you may not boil a kid in its mother's milk. {{rf{22}}} "Certainly you must give a tithe of all the yield of your seed, which comes forth from your field year after year. {{rf{23}}} And you shall eat before Yahweh your God in the place that he will choose to make to dwell his name there the tithe of your grain, your wine and your olive oil and the firstling of your herd and your flock, so that you may learn to revere Yahweh your God always. {{rf{24}}} But if the distance is too great for you, so that you are not able to transport it, because the place that Yahweh your God will choose to set his name there, it is too far from you, when Yahweh your God will bless you, {{rf{25}}} then in that case you may exchange for money, and you shall take the money to your hand and go to the place that Yahweh your God will choose. {{rf{26}}} You may spend the money for anything that you desire, for oxen or for sheep or for wine or for strong drink or for anything that you desire, and you shall eat it there before Yahweh your God, and you shall rejoice, you and your household. {{rf{27}}} And as to the Levite who is in your towns, you shall not neglect him, because there is not a plot of ground for him and an inheritance along with you. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Deut-14-11]] }}}
{{rf{28}}} "At the end of three years you shall bring out all of the tithe of your yield for that year, and you shall store it in your towns. {{rf{29}}} And so the Levite may come, because there is no plot of ground for him or an inheritance with you, and the alien also may come and the orphan and the widow that are in your towns, and they may eat their fill, so that Yahweh your God may bless you in all of the work of your hand that you undertake." {{rf big{1}}} "At the end of seven years you shall grant a remission of debt. {{rf{2}}} And this is the manner of the remission of debt: every creditor shall remit his claim that he holds against his neighbor, and he shall not exact payment from his brother because there a remission of debt has been proclaimed unto Yahweh. {{rf{3}}} With respect to the foreigner you may exact payment, but you must remit what shall be owed to you with respect to your brother. {{rf{4}}} Nevertheless, there shall not be among you a poor person, because Yahweh will certainly bless you in the land that Yahweh your God is giving to you as an inheritance, to take possession of it. {{rf{5}}} If only you listen well to the voice of Yahweh your God by observing diligently all of these commandments that I am commanding you today. {{rf{6}}} When Yahweh your God has blessed you, just as he promised to you, then you will lend to many nations, but you will not borrow from them, and you will rule over many nations, but they will not rule over you. {{rf{7}}} If there is a poor person among you from among one of your brothers in one of your towns that Yahweh your God is giving to you, you shall not harden your heart, and you shall not shut your hand toward your brother who is poor. {{rf{8}}} But you shall certainly open your hand for him, and you shall willingly lend to him enough to meet his need, whatever it is. {{rf{9}}} Take care so that there will not be a thought of wickedness in your heart, saying, 'The seventh year, the year of the remission of debt is near,' and you view your needy neighbor with hostility, and so you do not give to him, and he might cry out against you to Yahweh, and you would incur guilt against yourself. ''{{rf{10}}} By all means you must give to him, and you must not be discontented at your giving to him,'' because on account of this very thing, Yahweh your God will bless you in all your work and in all that you undertake. {{rf{11}}} For the poor will not cease to be among you in the land; therefore I am commanding you, saying, 'You shall willingly open your hand to your brother, to your needy and to your poor that are in your land.' {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Deut-14-28]] }}}
{{rf{12}}} If your relative who is a Hebrew man or a Hebrew woman is sold to you, and he or she has served you six years, then in the seventh year you shall send that person out free. {{rf{13}}} And when you send him out free from you, you shall not send him away empty-handed. {{rf{14}}} You shall generously supply him from among your flocks and from your threshing floor and from your press; according to that with which Yahweh your God has blessed you, you shall give to him. {{rf{15}}} And remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and Yahweh your God redeemed you; therefore I am commanding you thus today. {{rf{16}}} And then if it will happen that he says to you, 'I do not want to go out from you,' because he loves you and your family, because it is good for him to be with you; {{rf{17}}} then you shall take an awl, and you shall thrust it through his earlobe and into the door, and he shall be to you a slave forever; and you shall also do likewise for your slave woman. {{rf{18}}} It shall not be hard in your eyes when you send him forth free, because for six years he has served you worth twice the wage of a hired worker; and Yahweh your God will bless you in whatever you will do. {{rf{19}}} "Every firstling male that is born of your herd and of your flock you shall consecrate to Yahweh your God; you shall not do work with the firstling of your ox, and you shall not shear the firstling of your flock. {{rf{20}}} Rather before Yahweh your God you shall eat it year by year at the place Yahweh will choose, you and your household. {{rf{21}}} But if there is a physical defect in it, such as lameness or blindness, any serious defect, you shall not sacrifice it to Yahweh your God. {{rf{22}}} In your towns you shall eat it, the unclean and the clean together may eat it, just as they eat the gazelle and as they eat the deer. {{rf{23}}} But you shall not eat its blood; you shall pour it on the ground like water." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Deut-15-12]] }}}
"Observe the month of Abib, and you shall keep the Passover to Yahweh your God, for in the month of Abib Yahweh your God brought you out from Egypt by night. {{rf{2}}} And you shall offer the Passover sacrifice to Yahweh your God from among your flock and herd at the place that Yahweh will choose, to let his name dwell there. {{rf{3}}} You shall not eat with it anything leavened; seven days you shall eat with it unleavened bread of affliction, because in haste you went out from the land of Egypt, so that you will remember the day of your going out from the land of Egypt all the days of your life. {{rf{4}}} And leaven shall not be seen with you in any of your territory for seven days, and none of the meat that you will slaughter on the evening on the first day shall remain overnight until morning. {{rf{5}}} You are not allowed to offer the Passover sacrifice in one of your towns that Yahweh your God is giving to you, {{rf{6}}} but only at the place that Yahweh your God will choose, to let his name dwell there; you shall offer the Passover sacrifice in the evening at sunset, at the designated time of your going out from Egypt. {{rf{7}}} And you shall cook, and you shall eat it at the place that Yahweh your God will choose; and you may turn in the morning and go to your tents. {{rf{8}}} Six days you shall eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh day there shall be an assembly for Yahweh your God; you shall not do work. {{rf{9}}} "You shall count off seven weeks for you; from the time you begin to harvest the standing grain you shall begin to count seven weeks. {{rf{10}}} And then you shall celebrate the Feast of Weeks for Yahweh your God with the measure of the freewill offering of your hand that you shall give just as Yahweh your God has blessed you. {{rf{11}}} And you shall rejoice before Yahweh your God, you and your son and your daughter and your slave and your slave woman and the Levite that is in your towns and the alien and the orphan and the widow who are in your midst in the place that Yahweh your God will choose to let his name dwell there. {{rf{12}}} And you shall remember that you were a slave in Egypt, and so you shall diligently observe these rules. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Deut-16-01]] }}}
{{rf{13}}} "You shall celebrate the Feast of Booths for yourselves seven days at the gathering in of the produce from your threshing floor and from your press; {{rf{14}}} and you shall rejoice at your feast, you and your son and your daughter and your slave and your slave woman and the Levite and the orphan and the widow that are in your towns. {{rf{15}}} Seven days you shall celebrate your feast to Yahweh your God at the place Yahweh will choose, for Yahweh your God shall bless you in all of your produce and in all of the work of your hand, and you shall surely be rejoicing. {{rf{16}}} Three times in the year all of your males shall appear before Yahweh your God at the place that he will choose, at the Feast of Unleavened Bread and at the Feast of Weeks and at the Feast of Booths, and they shall not appear before Yahweh empty-handed. {{rf{17}}} Each person shall give as he is able, that is, according to the blessing of Yahweh your God that he has given to you. {{rf{18}}} "You shall appoint judges and officials for you in all your towns that Yahweh your God is giving to you throughout your tribes, and you shall render for the people righteous judgments. {{rf{19}}} You shall not subvert justice; you shall not show partiality; and you shall not take a bribe, for the bribe makes blind the eyes of the wise and misrepresents the words of the righteous. {{rf{20}}} Justice, only justice you shall pursue, so that you may live, and you shall take possession of the land that Yahweh your God is giving to you. {{rf{21}}} You shall not plant for yourselves an Asherah pole beside the altar of Yahweh your God that you make for yourselves. {{rf{22}}} And you shall not set up for yourselves a stone pillar, a thing that Yahweh your God hates. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Deut-16-13]] }}}
"You shall not sacrifice to Yahweh your God an ox or sheep that has a physical defect of anything seriously wrong, for that is a detestable thing to Yahweh your God. {{rf{2}}} If there is found in one of your towns that Yahweh your God is giving to you a man or a woman that does evil in the eyes of Yahweh your God to transgress his covenant {{rf{3}}} and by going and serving other gods and so he bows down to them and to the sun or to the moon or to any of the host of heaven which I have forbidden, {{rf{4}}} and it is reported to you or you hear about it and you enquire about it thoroughly and, indeed, the trustworthiness of the deed has been established, it has occurred, this detestable thing, in Israel, {{rf{5}}} then you shall bring out that man or that woman who has done this evil thing to your gates; that is, the man or the woman, and you shall stone them with stones to death. {{rf{6}}} On the evidence of two or three witnesses the person shall be put to death. The person shall not be put to death by the mouth of one witness. {{rf{7}}} The hand of the witnesses shall be first against the person to kill the person, and afterward the hands of all the people, and so you shall purge the evil from your midst. {{rf{8}}} "If a matter is too difficult for you, for example disputes between blood and blood, between legal claim and legal claim and between assault and assault and between matters of discernment in your towns, then you shall get up and you shall go to the place that Yahweh your God will choose; {{rf{9}}} then you shall go to the priests and the Levites and to the judge who will be in office in those days, and you shall enquire, and they shall announce to you the verdict. {{rf{10}}} "And you shall carry out exactly the decision that they announced to you from that place that Yahweh will choose, and you shall diligently observe according to all that they instruct you. {{rf{11}}} And so according to the instruction of the law that they teach you and according to the decisions that they say to you, you shall do; you shall not turn from the word that they tell you to the right or to the left. {{rf{12}}} And the man who treats with contempt so as not to listen to the priest who is standing to minister on behalf of Yahweh your God or to the judge, that man shall die; so you shall purge the evil from Israel. {{rf{13}}} And all the people will hear and will be afraid, and they will not behave presumptuously again. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Deut-17-01]] }}}
{{rf{14}}} "When you have come to that land that Yahweh your God is giving to you and you have taken possession of it and you have settled in it, and you say, 'I will set over me a king like all the nations that are around me,' {{rf{15}}} indeed, you may set a king over you whom Yahweh your God will choose, from the midst of your countrymen you must set a king over you; you are not allowed to appoint over you a man, a foreigner, who is not your countryman. {{rf{16}}} Except, he may not make numerous for himself horses, and he may not allow the people to to go to Egypt in order to increase horses, for Yahweh has said to you that you may never return. {{rf{17}}} And he must not acquire many wives for himself, so that his heart would turn aside; and he must not accumulate silver and gold for himself excessively. {{rf{18}}} "And then when he is sitting on the throne of his kingdom, then he shall write for himself a copy of this law on a scroll before the Levitical priests. {{rf{19}}} And it shall be with him, and he shall read it all the days of his life, so that he may learn to revere Yahweh your God by diligently observing all the word of this law and these rules, {{rf{20}}} so as not to exalt his heart above his countrymen and not to turn aside from the commandment to the right or to the left, so that he may reign long over his kingdom, he and his children in the midst of Israel." {{rf big{1}}} "And there shall not be for the Levitical priests, the whole tribe of Levi, a plot of ground and an inheritance with Israel, rather they may eat an offering made by fire as their inheritance, for Yahweh. {{rf{2}}} And there shall not be for them an inheritance of land in the midst of his brothers; rather Yahweh is his inheritance, just as he promised to them. {{rf{3}}} Now this shall be the share of the priest from the people, from those who sacrifice the sacrifice, whether it is an ox, sheep, or goat, and they shall give the priest the shoulder and the jawbones and the stomach. {{rf{4}}} The firstfruits of your grain, your wine, and your olive oil and the firstfruits of the fleece of your sheep you shall give to him. {{rf{5}}} For Yahweh your God has chosen him from among all your tribes to stand to minister in the name of Yahweh, he and his sons forever. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Deut-17-14]] }}}
{{rf{6}}} And if a Levite comes from one of your towns from anywhere in Israel where he is residing, he may come whenever he desires, to the place that Yahweh will choose, {{rf{7}}} and he may minister in the name of Yahweh his God, just like all his brothers, the Levites who stand there before Yahweh. {{rf{8}}} They shall eat equal portions, apart from what he may receive from the sale of his patrimony. {{rf{9}}} "When you come to the land that Yahweh your God is giving to you, you must not learn to do like the detestable practices of those nations. {{rf{10}}} There shall not be found among you one who makes his son or his daughter go through the fire, or one who practices divination, or an interpreter of signs, or an augur, or sorcerer, {{rf{11}}} or one who casts magic spells, or one who consults a spirit of the dead, or spiritist, or one who inquires of the dead. {{rf{12}}} For everyone doing these things is detestable to Yahweh, and because of these detestable things Yahweh your God is driving them out from before you. {{rf{13}}} You must be blameless before Yahweh your God. {{rf{14}}} For these nations that you are about to dispossess listen to interpreters of signs and to diviners, but Yahweh your God has not allowed you to do the same. {{rf{15}}} "Yahweh your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from your midst, from your countrymen, and to him you shall listen. {{rf{16}}} This is according to all that you asked from Yahweh your God at Horeb, on the day of the assembly, saying, 'I do not want again to hear the voice of Yahweh my God, and I do not want to see again this great fire, so that I may not die!' {{rf{17}}} And Yahweh said to me, 'They are right in what they have said. {{rf{18}}} I will raise up a prophet for them from among their countrymen like you, and I will place my words into his mouth, and he shall speak to them everything that I command him. {{rf{19}}} And then the man that will not listen to my words that he shall speak in my name, I will hold accountable. {{rf{20}}} However, the prophet that behaves presumptuously by speaking a word in my name that I have not commanded him to speak, and who speaks in the name of other gods, then that prophet shall die.' {{rf{21}}} And if you say to yourself, 'How can we know the word that Yahweh has not spoken to him?' {{rf{22}}} Whenever what the prophet spoke in the name of Yahweh, the thing does not take place and does not come about, that is the thing that Yahweh has not spoken to him. Presumptuously the prophet spoke it; you shall not fear that prophet." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Deut-18-06]] }}}
"When Yahweh your God has exterminated the nations concerning whom Yahweh your God is giving to you their land, and you have dispossessed them, and you have settled in their towns and in their houses, {{rf{2}}} you shall set apart three cities for you in the midst of your land that Yahweh your God is giving to you to take possession of it. {{rf{3}}} You shall prepare the roads for yourselves, and you shall divide the regions of your land into thirds that Yahweh your God gives you as a possession, so that it will be available for any manslayer to flee there. {{rf{4}}} "Now this is the case of the manslayer who may flee there and live there who has killed his neighbor unintentionally, and he did not hate him previously. {{rf{5}}} For example, when somebody goes with his neighbor into the forest to cut wood, and the iron head slips from the handle of the tool and strikes his neighbor and he dies, then he may flee to one of these cities, and so he may live. {{rf{6}}} He does this lest the avenger of blood might pursue after the killer, because he is hot with anger and he overtakes him, because it is a long distance to the city of refuge, and so he kills him, but he did not deserve a death sentence, because he was not hating him before. {{rf{7}}} Therefore I am commanding you, saying, 'You shall set apart three cities.' {{rf{8}}} Then if Yahweh your God enlarges your territory just as he swore to your ancestors and gives to you all the land that he promised to give to your ancestors, {{rf{9}}} then if you diligently observe this entire commandment that I am commanding you today by loving Yahweh your God and by going in his ways at all times, then you shall add three more cities for yourselves to these three. {{rf{10}}} Do this so that innocent blood will not be shed in the midst of your land that Yahweh your God is giving to you as an inheritance and thereby bloodguilt would be on you. {{rf{11}}} But if someone hates his neighbor and lies in wait for him and rises up against him and murders him, and the murderer flees to one of these cities, {{rf{12}}} then the elders of his city shall send and take him from there, and they shall give him into the hand of the avenger of blood, and he shall be put to death. {{rf{13}}} Your eye shall not take pity on him, and you shall purge the guilt of innocent blood from Israel, so that good will be directed toward you. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Deut-19-01]] }}}
{{rf{14}}} "You shall not move the boundary marker of your neighbor that former generations set up on your property in the land that Yahweh your God is giving to you to take possession of it. {{rf{15}}} The testimony of a single witness may not be used to convict with respect to any crime and for any wrongdoing in any offense that a person committed; on the evidence of two witnesses or on the evidence of three witnesses a charge shall be sustained. {{rf{16}}} If a malicious witness gets up to accuse anyone to testify against him falsely, {{rf{17}}} then the two men to whom the legal dispute pertains shall stand before Yahweh, before the priests and the judges who are in office in those days. {{rf{18}}} Then judges shall make a thorough inquiry, and if it turns out that the witness is a false witness and he testified falsely against his brother, {{rf{19}}} then you shall do to him as he meant to do to his brother, and so you shall purge the evil from your midst. {{rf{20}}} And the rest shall hear and shall fear, and they shall not continue to do such a thing again as this evil thing in your midst. {{rf{21}}} You must show no pity: life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot." {{rf big{1}}} "If you go out to war against your enemies and you see a horse and a chariot, an army larger that you, you shall not be afraid because of them; for Yahweh your God is with you, the one who brought you from the land of Egypt. {{rf{2}}} And then when you approach the battle, then the priest shall come near and speak to the troops. {{rf{3}}} And he shall say to them, 'Hear, Israel, you are near today to the battle against your enemies; do not lose heart; you shall not be afraid, and you shall not panic, and you shall not be terrified because of them, {{rf{4}}} for Yahweh your God is going with you to fight for you against your enemies to help you.' {{rf{5}}} And the officials shall speak to the troops, saying, 'Who is the man who has built a new house and has not dedicated it? Let him go and return to this house, so that he does not die in battle and another man dedicates it. {{rf{6}}} And who is the man that has planted a vineyard and has not enjoyed it? Let him go and let him return to his house, so that he does not die in battle and another man enjoys it. {{rf{7}}} And who is the man who got engaged to a woman and has not married her? Let him go and let him return to his house, so that he does not die in battle and another man marries her.' {{rf{8}}} And the officials shall continue to speak to the troops, and they shall say, 'What man is afraid and disheartened? Let him go, and let him return to his house, and let him not cause the heart of his brothers to melt like his.' {{rf{9}}} And when the officials have finished speaking to the army troops, then they shall appoint commanders of divisions at the head of the troops. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Deut-19-14]] }}}
{{rf{10}}} "When you approach a city to fight against it, you must offer it peace. {{rf{11}}} And then if they accept your terms of peace and they surrender to you, and then all the people inhabiting it shall be forced labor for you, and they shall serve you. {{rf{12}}} But if they do not accept your terms of peace and they want to make war with you, then you shall lay siege against it. {{rf{13}}} And Yahweh your God will give it into your hand, and you shall kill all its males with the edge of the sword. {{rf{14}}} Only the women and the little children and the domestic animals and all that shall be in the city, all of its spoil you may loot for yourselves, and you may enjoy the spoil of your enemies that Yahweh you God has given to you. {{rf{15}}} Thus you shall do to all the far cities from you, which are not from the cities of these nations located nearby. {{rf{16}}} But from the cities of these peoples that Yahweh your God is giving to you as an inheritance, you shall not let anything live that breathes. {{rf{17}}} Rather, you shall utterly destroy them, the Hittites and the Amorites, the Canaanites and the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, just as Yahweh your God has commanded you, {{rf{18}}} so that they may not teach you to do like all their detestable things that they do for their gods and thereby you sin against Yahweh your God. {{rf{19}}} "If you besiege a town for many days to make war against it in order to seize it, you shall not destroy its trees by wielding an ax against them, for you may eat from them, and so you must not cut them down. Are the trees of the field humans that they should come in siege against you? {{rf{20}}} Only the trees that you know are not fruit trees you may destroy and you may cut down, and you may build siege works against that city that is making war with you until it falls." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Deut-20-10]] }}}
"If someone slain is found in the land that Yahweh your God is giving to you to take possession of it and is lying in the field, and it is not known who killed him, {{rf{2}}} then your elders and your judges shall go out and shall measure the distance to the cities that are around the slain one. {{rf{3}}} And then the nearest city to the slain one, the elders of that city shall take a heifer of the herd that has not been worked with in the field, that has not pulled a yoke, {{rf{4}}} and the elders of that city shall bring the heifer down to a wadi that flows with water all year and that has not been plowed and has not been sown; then there they shall break the neck of the heifer in the wadi. {{rf{5}}} Then the priests, the descendants of Levi, shall come near, for Yahweh your God has chosen them to bless in the name of Yahweh, and every legal dispute and every case of assault will be subject to their ruling. {{rf{6}}} And all of the elders of that city nearest to the slain person shall wash their hands over the heifer with the broken neck in the wadi. {{rf{7}}} And they shall declare, and they shall say, 'Our hands did not shed this blood, and our eyes did not see what was done. {{rf{8}}} Forgive your people, Israel, whom you redeemed, Yahweh, and do not allow the guilt of innocent blood in the midst of your people Israel, and let them be forgiven with regard to blood.' {{rf{9}}} And so you shall purge the innocent blood from your midst, because you must do the right thing in the eyes of Yahweh. {{rf{10}}} "When you go out for battle against your enemies, and Yahweh your God gives them into your hand, and you lead the captives away, {{rf{11}}} and you see among the captives a woman beautiful in appearance, and you become attached to her and you want to take her as a wife, {{rf{12}}} then you shall bring her into your household, and she shall shave her head, and she shall trim her nails. {{rf{13}}} And she shall remove the clothing of her captivity from her, and she shall remain in your house, and she shall mourn her father and her mother a full month, and after this you may have sex with her, and you may marry her, and she may become your wife. {{rf{14}}} And then if you do not take delight in her, then you shall let her go to do whatever she wants, but you shall not treat her as a slave, since you have dishonored her. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Deut-21-01]] }}}
{{rf{15}}} "If a man has two wives, and the one is loved and the other one is disliked and the one loved and the one that is disliked have borne for him sons, if it happens that the firstborn son belongs to the one that is disliked, {{rf{16}}} nevertheless it will be the case that on the day of bestowing his inheritance upon his sons, he will not be allowed to treat as the firstborn son the son of the beloved wife in preference to the son of the disliked wife, who is the firstborn son. {{rf{17}}} But he shall acknowledge the firstborn son of the disliked wife by giving him a double portion of all that he has, for he is the firstfruit of his vigor; to him is the legal claim of the birthright. {{rf{18}}} "If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who does not listen to the voice of his father and to the voice of his mother, and they discipline him, and he does not obey them, {{rf{19}}} then his father and his mother shall take hold of him, and they shall bring him out to the elders of his city and to the gate of his town, {{rf{20}}} and they shall say to the elders of his city, 'This our son is stubborn and rebellious; he does not obey us, and he is a glutton and a drunkard.' {{rf{21}}} Then all the men of his city shall stone him with stones and let him die; and so you shall purge the evil from your midst, and all of Israel will hear, and they will fear. {{rf{22}}} "And if a man commits a sin punishable by death, and so he is put to death and you hang him on a tree, {{rf{23}}} his dead body shall not hang on the tree, but certainly you shall bury him on that day, for cursed by God is one that is being hung; so you shall not defile your land that Yahweh your God is giving to you as an inheritance." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Deut-21-15]] }}}
"You shall not watch the ox of your neighbor or his sheep or goat straying and ignore them; certainly you shall return them to your neighbor. {{rf{2}}} And if your countryman is not near you or you do not know who he is, then you shall bring it to your household, and it shall be with you until your countryman seeks after it, and you shall return it to him. {{rf{3}}} And thus also you shall do regarding his donkey, and thus you shall do concerning his garment, and so you shall do with respect to all of the lost property of your countryman that is lost from him and you find it; you are not allowed to withhold help. {{rf{4}}} "You shall not see the donkey of your neighbor or his ox fallen on the road and you ignore them; certainly you must help them get up along with him. {{rf{5}}} "The apparel of a man shall not be put on a woman, and a man shall not wear the clothing of a woman, because everyone who does these things is detestable to Yahweh your God. {{rf{6}}} "If a bird's nest is found before you on the road in any tree or on the ground, and there are chicks or eggs, and the mother is lying down on the chicks or the eggs, you shall not take the mother along with the young; {{rf{7}}} you shall certainly let the mother go, but you may take the young for yourselves; do this so that it may go well for you and you may live long in the land. {{rf{8}}} "When you build a new house then you shall make a parapet wall for your roof, so that you will not bring bloodguilt on your house if anyone should fall from it. {{rf{9}}} "You shall not sow your vineyard with differing kinds of seed, so that you shall not forfeit the whole harvest, both the seed that you sowed and the yield of the vineyard. {{rf{10}}} "You shall not plow with an ox and with a donkey yoked together. {{rf{11}}} "You shall not wear woven material made of wool and linen mixed together. {{rf{12}}} "You shall make tassels for yourselves on the four corners of your clothing with which you cover yourself. {{rf{13}}} "If a man takes a woman and he has sex with her, but he then dislikes her, {{rf{14}}} and he accuses her falsely, and he defames her, and he says 'This woman I took and I lay with her and I discovered that she was not a virgin,' {{rf{15}}} then in defense the father of the young woman shall take, along with her mother, and together they must bring out the evidence of the virginity of the young woman to display it to the elders of the city at the city gate. {{rf{16}}} And then the father of the young woman shall say to the elders, 'I gave my daughter to this man as wife, but he now dislikes her, {{rf{17}}} and now look he has accused her falsely, saying, "I did not find your daughter a virgin," but here is evidence of the virginity of my daughter'; and they shall spread the cloth out before the elders of the city. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Deut-22-01]] }}}
{{rf{18}}} Then the elders of that city shall take the man, and they shall discipline him. {{rf{19}}} Then they shall fine him a hundred shekels of silver, and they shall give them to the father of the young woman, for he defamed an Israelite young woman, and she shall become his wife; he will not be allowed to divorce her all his days. {{rf{20}}} "But if this charge was true, and the signs of virginity were not found for the young woman, {{rf{21}}} and then they shall bring out the young woman to the doorway of the house of her father, and the men of her city shall stone her with stones, and she shall die, because she did a disgraceful thing in Israel by playing the harlot in the house of her father, and so you shall purge the evil from your midst. {{rf{22}}} "If a man is found lying with a married woman, then they shall both die; both of them, the man who lay with the woman and the woman also, so you shall purge the evil from Israel. {{rf{23}}} "If it happens that a young woman, a virgin, is engaged to a man, and a man finds her in the town and lies with her, {{rf{24}}} then you shall bring out both of them to the gate of that city, and you shall stone them with stones so that they shall die, the young woman because she did not cry out in the town, and the man because he violated his neighbor's wife; and so you shall purge the evil from your midst. {{rf{25}}} "But if the man finds the young engaged woman in the field and the man overpowers her and he has sex with her, then the man only must die who lay with her. {{rf{26}}} But you shall not do anything to the young woman, for there is not reckoned against the young woman a sin deserving death; it is similar to when a man rises up against his neighbor and murders him, a fellow human being, just so is this case, {{rf{27}}} for he found her in the field, the engaged young woman cried out, but there was no rescuer to help her. {{rf{28}}} "If a man finds a young woman, a virgin who is not engaged, and he seizes her and he has sex with her and they are caught, {{rf{29}}} then the man who lay with her shall give to the father of the young woman fifty shekels of silver, and she shall become his wife because he violated her, and he is not allowed to divorce her during his lifetime. {{rf{30}}} A man may not take the wife of his father, and so he may not dishonor his father. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Deut-22-18]] }}}
"No man with crushed testicles or whose male organ is cut off may come into the assembly of Yahweh. {{rf{2}}} An illegitimate child may not come into the assembly of Yahweh; even to the tenth generation none of his descendants may come into the assembly of Yahweh. {{rf{3}}} An Ammonite or a Moabite may not come into the assembly of Yahweh; even to the tenth generation none of his descendants may come into the assembly of Yahweh forever, {{rf{4}}} because they did not come to meet you with food and with water when you came out of Egypt, and also because they hired Balaam, son of Beor, from Pethor, in Aram Naharaim to act against you to curse you. {{rf{5}}} But Yahweh your God was not willing to listen to Balaam, and Yahweh your God turned the curse into a blessing for you, because Yahweh your God loved you. {{rf{6}}} You shall not promote their welfare or their prosperity all your days forever. {{rf{7}}} "You shall not abhor an Edomite, because he is your brother; you shall not abhor an Egyptian because you were an alien in his land. {{rf{8}}} The children that are born to them in the third generation may come representing them in the assembly of Yahweh. {{rf{9}}} "If you go out to encamp against your enemies, then you shall guard against doing anything evil. {{rf{10}}} "If there is among you a man that is not clean because of a seminal emission during the night, he shall go outside the camp; he shall not come within the camp. {{rf{11}}} And then toward the coming of the evening, he shall bathe with water, and at the going down of the sun, he may come to the midst of the camp. {{rf{12}}} "And there shall be for you a designated place outside the camp; and you shall go there to relieve yourself, {{rf{13}}} and a digging tool shall be included in addition to your other utensils for yourself; and then when you relieve yourself outside the camp you shall dig with it, and then you shall turn, and you shall cover your excrement. {{rf{14}}} For Yahweh your God is walking about in the midst of your camp to deliver you and to hand your enemies over to you before you, and so let your camp be holy, so that he shall not see in it anything indecent, and he shall turn away from going with you. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Deut-23-01]] }}}
{{rf{15}}} "And you shall not hand over a slave to his master who has escaped and fled to you from his master. {{rf{16}}} He shall reside with you in your midst in the place that he chooses in one of your towns wherever he pleases; you shall not oppress him. {{rf{17}}} "No woman of Israel shall be a temple prostitute, and no man of Israel shall be a male shrine prostitute. {{rf{18}}} You may not bring the hire of a prostitute or the earnings of a male prostitute into the house of Yahweh your God, for any vow offerings, because both are a detestable thing to Yahweh your God. {{rf{19}}} "You shall not charge your brother interest on money, interest on food, or interest on anything that one could lend on interest. {{rf{20}}} You may lend on interest to the foreigner, but to your countryman you may not lend on interest, so that Yahweh your God may bless you in all your undertakings in the land where you are going, in order to take possession of it. {{rf{21}}} "When you make a vow to Yahweh your God, you shall not postpone fulfillment of it, for certainly Yahweh your God shall require it from you and if postponed you will incur guilt. {{rf{22}}} And if you refrain from vowing, you shall not incur guilt. {{rf{23}}} The utterance of your lips you must perform diligently just as you have vowed freely to Yahweh your God whatever it was that you promised with your mouth. {{rf{24}}} "When you come into the vineyard of your neighbor, then you may eat grapes as you please and until you are full, but you shall not put any into your container. {{rf{25}}} "When you come into the standing grain of your neighbor, then you may pluck ears with your hand, but you may not swing a sickle among the standing grain of your neighbor." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Deut-23-15]] }}}
"When a man takes a wife and he marries her and then she does not please him, because he found something objectionable and writes her a letter of divorce and puts it in her hand and sends her away from his house, {{rf{2}}} and she goes from his house, and she goes out and becomes a wife for another man, {{rf{3}}} and then the second man dislikes her and he writes her a letter of divorce and places it into her hand and sends her from his house, or if the second man dies who took her to himself as a wife, {{rf{4}}} her first husband who sent her away is not allowed to take her again to become a wife to him after she has been defiled, for that is a detestable thing before Yahweh, and so you shall not mislead into sin the land that Yahweh your God is giving to you as an inheritance. {{rf{5}}} "When a man takes a new wife he shall not go out with the army, and he shall not be obligated with anything; he shall be free from obligation, to stay at home for one year, and he shall bring joy to his wife that he took. {{rf{6}}} "A person shall not take a pair of millstones or an upper millstone, for he is taking necessities of life as a pledge. {{rf{7}}} "If a man is caught kidnapping somebody from among his countrymen, the Israelites, and he treats him as a slave or he sells him, then that kidnapper shall die, and so you shall purge the evil from among you. {{rf{8}}} Be watchful with respect to an outbreak of any infectious skin disease, by being very careful and by acting according to all that the priests and the Levites have instructed you, just as I have commanded them, so you shall diligently observe. {{rf{9}}} So remember what Yahweh your God did to Miriam on the journey when you went out from Egypt. {{rf{10}}} "When you make a loan to your neighbor, a loan of any kind, you shall not go into his house to take his pledge. {{rf{11}}} You shall wait outside, and the man to whom you are lending, he shall bring the pledge outside to you. {{rf{12}}} And if he is a needy man, you shall not sleep in his pledge. {{rf{13}}} You shall certainly return the pledge to him as the sun sets, so that he may sleep in his cloak and may bless you, and it shall be considered righteousness on your behalf before Yahweh your God. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Deut-24-01]] }}}
{{rf{14}}} "You shall not exploit a hired worker, who is needy and poor, from among your fellow men or from among your aliens who are in your land and in your towns. {{rf{15}}} On his day you shall give his wage, and the sun shall not go down, because he is poor and his life depends on it; do this so that he does not cry out against you to Yahweh, and you incur guilt. {{rf{16}}} "Fathers shall not be put to death because of their children, and children shall not be put to death because of their fathers; each one shall be put to death for his own sin. {{rf{17}}} You shall not subvert the rights of an alien or an orphan, and you shall not take as pledge the garment of a widow. {{rf{18}}} And you shall remember that you were a slave in Egypt and that Yahweh your God redeemed you from there; therefore I am commanding you to do this commandment. {{rf{19}}} "When you reap your harvest in your field and you forget a sheaf in the field, you shall not return to get it, for it shall be for the alien, for the orphan, and for the widow, so that Yahweh your God may bless you in all the work of your hands. {{rf{20}}} When you beat off the fruit of your olive trees you shall not search through the branches afterward, for it shall be for the alien, for the orphan, and for the widow. {{rf{21}}} When you harvest grapes, you shall not glean your vineyards again; it shall be for the alien, for the orphan, and for the widow. {{rf{22}}} And you shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, therefore I am commanding you to do this thing." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Deut-24-14]] }}}
"When a legal dispute takes place between men and they come near to the court, and the judges judge with respect to them, then they shall declare the righteous to be in the right and they shall condemn the wicked, {{rf{2}}} then it will happen if the guilty one deserves beating, then the judge shall make him lie, and he shall beat him before him, according to the prescribed number of lashes proportionate to the offense. {{rf{3}}} He may beat him with forty lashes, and he shall not do more than these, so that he will not beat more in addition to these many blows, and your countryman would be degraded before your eyes. {{rf{4}}} "You shall not muzzle an ox when he is threshing. {{rf{5}}} "When brothers dwell together and one of them dies and has no son, the wife of the deceased shall not become the wife of a man of another family; her brother-in-law shall have sex with her, and he shall take her to himself as a wife, and he shall perform his duty as a brother-in-law with respect to her. {{rf{6}}} And then the firstborn that she bears shall represent his dead brother, so that his name is not blotted out from Israel. {{rf{7}}} But if the man does not want to take his sister-in-law, then his sister-in-law shall go up to the gate, to the elders, and she shall say, 'My brother-in-law refused to perpetuate his brother's name in Israel, for he is not willing to marry me.' {{rf{8}}} Then the elders of his town shall summon him and speak to him, and if he persists and says, 'I do not desire to marry her' {{rf{9}}} then his sister-in-law shall go near him before the eyes of the elders, and she shall pull off his sandal from his foot, and she shall spit in his face, and she shall declare and she shall say, 'This is how it is done to the man who does not build the house of his brother.' {{rf{10}}} And his family shall be called in Israel, 'The house where the sandal was pulled off.' {{rf{11}}} "If a man and his brother fight each other and the wife of the one man comes near to rescue her husband from the hand of his attacker and she stretches out her hand and she seizes his genitals, {{rf{12}}} then you shall cut off her hand; your eye shall not take pity. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Deut-25-01]] }}}
{{rf{13}}} "There shall not be for your use in your bag two kinds of stone weights, a large one and a small one. {{rf{14}}} There shall not be in your house for your use two kinds of measures. {{rf{15}}} Rather a full and honest weight shall be for your use; there shall be for you a full and honest measure, so that your days on the land that Yahweh your God is giving to you may be long. {{rf{16}}} For detestable to Yahweh your God is everyone who is doing such things, everyone who is acting dishonestly. {{rf{17}}} "Remember what Amalek did to you on the journey when you went out from Egypt, {{rf{18}}} that he met you on the journey and attacked you, all those lagging behind you and when you were weary and worn out, and he did not fear God. {{rf{19}}} And when Yahweh your God gives rest to you from all your enemies from around about you in the land that Yahweh your God is giving to you as an inheritance to take possession of it, you shall blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under the heavens; you shall not forget!" {{rf big{1}}} "And then when you come to the land that Yahweh your God is giving to you as an inheritance, and you take possession of it and you settle in it, {{rf{2}}} then you shall take from the firstfruit of all the fruit of the ground that you harvest from your land that Yahweh your God is giving to you, and you shall put it in a basket, and you shall go to the place that Yahweh your God will choose to make his name to dwell there. {{rf{3}}} And you shall go to the priest who is in office in those days, and you shall say, 'I declare today to Yahweh your God that I have come into the land that Yahweh swore to our ancestors to give to us.' {{rf{4}}} Then the priest takes the basket from your hand and places it before the altar of Yahweh your God. {{rf{5}}} And you shall declare and you shall say before your God, 'My ancestor was a wandering Aramean, and he went down to Egypt, and there he dwelt as an alien few in number, and there he became a great nation, mighty and numerous. {{rf{6}}} And the Egyptians treated us badly, and they oppressed us and imposed on us hard labor. {{rf{7}}} And we cried to Yahweh, the God of our ancestors, and Yahweh heard our voice and saw our affliction and our toil and our oppression. {{rf{8}}} And Yahweh brought us out from Egypt with a strong hand and an outstretched arm and with great terror and with signs and with wonders. {{rf{9}}} And he brought us to this place and gave to us this land, a land flowing with milk and honey. {{rf{10}}} And now, look, I am bringing the firstfruit of the fruit of the ground that you gave to me, Yahweh,' and you shall place it before Yahweh your God, and you shall bow down before Yahweh your God. {{rf{11}}} And you shall celebrate with all of the bounty that Yahweh your God gave to you and to your family, you and the Levite and the alien who is in your midst. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Deut-25-13]] }}}
{{rf{12}}} "When you are finished giving a tithe, all of the tithe of your produce in the third year, the year of the tithe, then you shall give to the Levite, to the alien, to the orphan, and to the widow, so that they may eat in your towns and they may be satisfied. {{rf{13}}} And you shall say before Yahweh your God, 'I have removed the sacred portion from the house and, moreover, I have given it to the Levite and to the alien and to the orphan and to the widow according to all your commandment that you commanded me; I have not transgressed any of your commandments, and I have not forgotten any of them. {{rf{14}}} I have not eaten during my time of mourning, and I have not removed anything from it while being unclean, and I have not offered any of it to someone who has died. I have listened to the voice of Yahweh my God; I have done all that you commanded me to do. {{rf{15}}} Look down from the dwelling place of your holiness, from heaven, and bless your people Israel, and the land that you have given to us, as you swore to our ancestors, a land flowing with milk and honey.' {{rf{16}}} "This day Yahweh your God is commanding you to do these rules and regulations, and you must observe them diligently with all your heart and with all your soul. {{rf{17}}} Yahweh you have declared today to be for you as your God, and to go in his ways and to observe his rules and his commandments and his regulations and to listen to his voice. {{rf{18}}} And Yahweh has declared you today to be for him as a people, a treasured possession, as he promised to you, and that you are to observe all his commandments, {{rf{19}}} and that he then will set you high above all the nations that he has made for his praise and for fame and for honor and for you to be a holy people to Yahweh your God, as he promised." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Deut-26-12]] }}}
Then Moses and the elders of Israel charged the people, saying, "Keep all of the commandment that I am commanding you today. {{rf{2}}} And then on the day that you cross the Jordan to the land that Yahweh your God is giving to you, then you shall set up for yourselves large stones, and you shall paint them with lime, {{rf{3}}} and you shall write on them all the words of this law at your crossing, so that you may come into the land that Yahweh your God is giving to you, a land flowing with milk and honey, as Yahweh, the God of your ancestors, promised to you. {{rf{4}}} And when you cross the Jordan, you shall set up these stones that I am commanding you about today on Mount Ebal, and you shall paint them with lime. {{rf{5}}} And you shall build an altar there for Yahweh your God, an altar of stone, but you shall not use an iron tool to shape the stones. {{rf{6}}} You must build the altar of your God with unhewn stones, and you shall sacrifice on it burnt offerings to Yahweh your God. {{rf{7}}} And you shall sacrifice fellowship offerings, and you shall eat them there, and you shall rejoice before Yahweh your God. {{rf{8}}} You shall write on the stone all of the words of this law very clearly." {{rf{9}}} Then Moses and the priests, the Levites, spoke to all Israel, saying, "Be silent and hear, Israel, for this day you have become a people for Yahweh your God. {{rf{10}}} And listen to the voice of Yahweh your God, and observe his commandments and his rules that I am commanding you today." {{rf{11}}} And Moses charged the people on that day, saying, {{rf{12}}} "These tribes shall stand on Mount Gerizim to bless the people when you cross the Jordan: Simeon and Levi and Judah and Issachar and Joseph and Benjamin. {{rf{13}}} And these shall stand on Mount Ebal for delivering the curse: Reuben, Gad and Asher and Zebulun, Dan and Naphtali. {{rf{14}}} And the Levites shall declare, and they shall say to each man of Israel with a loud voice, {{rf{15}}} 'Cursed be the man that makes a divine image or a cast image, which is a detestable thing for Yahweh, the work of the hand of a skilled craftsman, and then sets it in a hiding place.' And all the people shall respond, 'Amen.' {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Deut-27-01]] }}}
{{rf{16}}} 'Cursed be the one who dishonors his father or his mother.' And all of the people shall say, 'Amen.' {{rf{17}}} 'Cursed be the one who moves the boundary marker of his neighbor.' And all the people shall say, 'Amen.' {{rf{18}}} 'Cursed be the one who misleads a blind person on the road.' And all the people shall say, 'Amen.' {{rf{19}}} 'Cursed be the one who deprives the alien, the orphan, and the widow of justice.' And all the people shall say, 'Amen.' {{rf{20}}} 'Cursed be the one who lies with the wife of his father, because he has dishonored his father's bed.' And all the people shall say, 'Amen.' {{rf{21}}} 'Cursed be the one who lies with any kind of animal.' And all the people shall say, 'Amen.' {{rf{22}}} 'Cursed be the one who lies with his sister, the daughter of his father or the daughter of his mother.' And all the people shall say, 'Amen.' {{rf{23}}} 'Cursed be the one who lies with his mother-in-law.' And all the people shall say, 'Amen.' {{rf{24}}} 'Cursed be the one who strikes down his neighbor in secret.' And all the people shall say, 'Amen.' {{rf{25}}} 'Cursed be the one who takes a bribe to murder an innocent person.' And all the people shall say, 'Amen.' {{rf{26}}} 'Cursed be the one who does not keep the words of this law, to observe them.' And all the people shall say, 'Amen.'" {{rf big{1}}} "And it will happen that if you indeed listen to the voice of Yahweh your God, to diligently observe all his commandments that I am commanding you today, then Yahweh your God will set you above all the nations of the earth. {{rf{2}}} And all of these blessings shall come upon you, and they shall have an effect on you if you listen to the voice of Yahweh your God: {{rf{3}}} "You will be blessed in the city, and you will be blessed in the field. {{rf{4}}} "Blessed will be the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your ground and the fruit of your livestock, the calf of your cattle and the lambs of your flock. {{rf{5}}} "Blessed will be your basket and your kneading trough. {{rf{6}}} "Blessed will you be when you come in and blessed will you be when you go out. {{rf{7}}} "Yahweh will cause your enemies who rise up against you to be defeated before you; on one road they shall come out against you, but on seven roads they shall flee before you. {{rf{8}}} Yahweh will command concerning you the blessing to be in your barns and in all your endeavors; and he will bless you in the land that Yahweh your God is giving to you. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Deut-27-16]] }}}
{{rf{9}}} Yahweh will establish you for himself as a holy people as he has sworn to you, if you keep the commandments of Yahweh your God and you walk in his ways. {{rf{10}}} And all of the peoples of the earth shall see that by the name of Yahweh you are called, and they shall fear you. {{rf{11}}} And Yahweh will make you successful and prosperous, in the fruit of your womb and on the land that Yahweh swore to your ancestors to give to you. {{rf{12}}} Yahweh shall open for you his rich storehouse, even the heavens, to give the rain for your land in its time and to bless all of the work of your hand, and you will lend to many nations; you will not borrow from them. {{rf{13}}} And Yahweh shall make you as head and not the tail, and you shall be only at the top of the nations, and you shall not be at the bottom, if you listen to the commandments of Yahweh your God that I am commanding you today and diligently observe them. {{rf{14}}} And you shall not turn aside from any of the words that I am commanding you today to the right or left by going after other gods to serve them. {{rf{15}}} "And then if you do not listen to the voice of Yahweh your God by diligently observing all of his commandments and his statutes that I am commanding you today, then all of these curses shall come upon you, and they shall overtake you: {{rf{16}}} "You shall be cursed in the city, and you shall be cursed in the field. {{rf{17}}} "Your basket shall be cursed and your kneading trough. {{rf{18}}} "The fruit of your womb shall be cursed and the fruit of you ground, the calves of your cattle and the lambs of your flock. {{rf{19}}} "You shall be cursed when you come in, and you shall be cursed when you go out. {{rf{20}}} "Yahweh will send upon you the curse, the panic, and the threat in everything that you undertake, until you are destroyed and until you perish quickly because of the evil of your deeds in that you have forsaken me. {{rf{21}}} Yahweh will cause the plague to cling to you until it consumes you from the land that you are going to, to take possession of it. {{rf{22}}} Yahweh will afflict you with the wasting diseases and with the fever and with the inflammation and with the scorching heat and with the sword and with the blight and with the mildew, and they shall pursue you until you perish. {{rf{23}}} And your heavens that are over your heads shall be like bronze, and the earth that is under you shall be like iron. {{rf{24}}} Yahweh will change the rain of your land to fine dust and to sand; from the heaven it shall come down upon you until you are destroyed. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Deut-28-09]] }}}
{{rf{25}}} "Yahweh shall cause you to be defeated before your enemies; on one road you shall go against them, but you will flee on seven roads before them, and you shall become a thing of horror to all of the kingdoms of the earth. {{rf{26}}} And your dead bodies shall be as food for all of the birds of the heaven and to the animals of the earth, and there shall not be anyone to frighten them away. {{rf{27}}} "Yahweh shall afflict you with the boils of Egypt and with tumors and with the scurvy and with the skin rash that cannot be healed. {{rf{28}}} Yahweh shall afflict you with madness and with blindness and with confusion of heart. {{rf{29}}} And you shall be groping at noon just as the blind person gropes in the dark, and you shall not succeed in finding your way, and you shall only be abused and robbed all the time, and there will not be anyone who will rescue you. {{rf{30}}} You shall become engaged to a woman, but another man shall sleep with her; you shall build a house, but you shall not live in it; a vineyard you shall plant, but you shall not enjoy it. {{rf{31}}} Your ox shall be slaughtered before your eyes, and you shall not eat it; your donkey shall be stolen right before you, and it shall not be returned to you; your sheep and your goats shall be given to your enemies, and there shall not be anyone who rescues you. {{rf{32}}} Your sons and your daughters shall be given to other people, and you will be looking on longingly for them all day, but you will be powerless to do anything. {{rf{33}}} A people that you do not know shall consume the harvest of your land and all your labor, and you will be only oppressed and crushed for the rest of your lives. {{rf{34}}} You shall become mad because of what your eyes shall see. {{rf{35}}} Yahweh shall strike you with grievous boils on the knees and on the upper thighs from which you will not be able to be healed, from the sole of your foot and up to your crown. {{rf{36}}} Yahweh will bring you and your king whom you set up over you to a nation that you or your ancestors have not known, and there you will serve other gods of wood and stone. {{rf{37}}} And you will become a horror and a proverb and ridicule among all the peoples where Yahweh drives you there. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Deut-28-25]] }}}
{{rf{38}}} "You shall carry out much seed to the field, but you shall gather little produce, for the locust shall devour it. {{rf{39}}} You shall plant vineyards and you shall dress them, but you shall not drink wine and you shall not gather grapes, for the worm shall eat it. {{rf{40}}} There shall be olive trees for you in all of your territory, but you shall not anoint yourself, for your olives shall drop off. {{rf{41}}} You shall bear sons and daughters, but they shall not be yours, for they shall go into captivity. {{rf{42}}} The cricket shall take possession of all your trees and the fruit of your ground. {{rf{43}}} The alien that is in your midst shall ascend over you, higher and higher, but you shall go down lower and lower. {{rf{44}}} He shall lend to you, but you shall not lend to him; he shall be the head, but you shall be the tail. {{rf{45}}} "And all of these curses shall come over you, and they shall pursue you, and they shall overtake you until you are destroyed, because you did not listen to the voice of Yahweh your God, by observing his commandments and his statutes that he commanded you. {{rf{46}}} And they shall be among you as a sign and as a wonder and among your offspring forever. {{rf{47}}} "Because of the fact that you did not serve Yahweh your God with joy and with gladness of heart for the abundance of everything, {{rf{48}}} then you shall serve your enemies, whom Yahweh will send against you under conditions of famine, in thirst, in nakedness, and in a lack of everything; and he shall place a yoke of iron on your neck until he has destroyed you. {{rf{49}}} Yahweh will raise up against you a nation from far off, from the end of the earth, attacking as the eagle swoops down, a nation whose language you will not understand, {{rf{50}}} a grim-faced nation who does not show respect to the old and the young and does not show pity. {{rf{51}}} And it shall consume the fruit of your livestock and the fruit of your ground until you are destroyed, and who will not leave for you any grain, wine, and olive oil, calves of your herds, and lambs of your flock until it has destroyed you. {{rf{52}}} And it shall besiege you in all your towns until your high and fortified walls fall, which you are trusting in throughout your land; and it shall besiege you in all of your towns in all of your land that Yahweh your God has given to you. {{rf{53}}} And you shall eat the fruit of your womb, the flesh of your sons and your daughters, whom Yahweh your God gave to you, during the siege and during the distress your enemy inflicts upon you. {{rf{54}}} The most refined and the very sensitive man among you shall be mean with his brother and against his beloved wife and against the rest of his children that he has left over, {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Deut-28-38]] }}}
{{rf{55}}} by refraining from giving to even one of them any of the meat of his children that he eats, because there is not anything that is left over for him during the siege and distress that your enemy inflicts upon you. {{rf{56}}} The most refined and the most delicate woman among you, who shall not venture to put the sole of her foot on the ground from being so delicate and from such gentleness, shall be mean to her beloved husband and against her son and against her daughter, {{rf{57}}} and even concerning her afterbirth that goes out from between her feet and also concerning her children that she bears, because she eats them for lack of anything in secret during the siege and during the distress that your enemy inflicts upon her in your towns. {{rf{58}}} "If you do not diligently observe all the words of this law written in this scroll by revering this glorious and awesome name, Yahweh your God, {{rf{59}}} then Yahweh shall overwhelm you with your plagues and the plagues of your offspring, severe plagues and lasting illnesses, grievous and enduring. {{rf{60}}} And he shall bring back upon you all the diseases of Egypt concerning which you were in dread because of them. {{rf{61}}} Also any illness and any plague that is not written in the scroll of this law, he shall bring them, Yahweh, upon you until you are destroyed. {{rf{62}}} And you shall remain only a few people in place of the fact you were formerly as the stars of heaven as far as number is concerned, because you did not listen to the voice of Yahweh your God. {{rf{63}}} And then as Yahweh delighted over you to make you prosperous to make you numerous, so Yahweh shall delight over you to exterminate you and to destroy you, and so you shall be plucked from the land that you are going there to take possession of it. {{rf{64}}} And Yahweh shall scatter you among all the nations from one end of the earth up to the other end of the earth, and there you shall serve other gods that you have not known nor your ancestors, gods of wood and stone. {{rf{65}}} And among these nations you shall not find rest, and there shall not be a resting place for the sole of your foot, and Yahweh shall give you there an anxious heart and a weakening of eyes and a languishing of your inner self. {{rf{66}}} And your life shall hang in doubt before you, and you shall be startled night and day, and you shall not be confident of your life. {{rf{67}}} In the morning you shall say, 'If only it was evening!' and in the evening you shall say 'If only it was morning!' because of the dread of your heart that you shall feel, and because of the sight of your eyes that you shall see. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Deut-28-55]] }}}
{{rf{68}}} And Yahweh shall bring you back to Egypt in ships by the route that I promised to you that 'You shall not see it again!' And you shall sell yourself there to your enemies as slaves and as female slaves, but there will not be a buyer." {{rf big{1}}} These are the words of the covenant that Yahweh commanded Moses to make with the Israelites in the land of Moab besides the covenant that he made with them at Horeb. {{rf{2}}} And Moses summoned all of Israel and said to them, "You saw all that Yahweh did before your eyes in the land of Egypt and to Pharaoh and to all his servants and to all his land; {{rf{3}}} that is, the great trials that your eyes saw, and those great signs and wonders. {{rf{4}}} But Yahweh has not given to you a heart to understand, or eyes to see, or ears to hear, even to this day. {{rf{5}}} And I have led you forty years in the desert; your clothes have not worn out on you, and your sandal has not worn out on your foot. {{rf{6}}} You have not eaten bread, and you have not drunk wine and strong drink, so that you may know that I am Yahweh your God. {{rf{7}}} And when you came to this place then Sihon the king of Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, came out to meet you for battle, and we defeated them. {{rf{8}}} And we took their land and gave it as an inheritance to the Reubenites and to the Gadites and to the half-tribe of Manasseh. {{rf{9}}} And you must diligently observe the words of this covenant, so that you may succeed in all that you do. {{rf{10}}} "You are standing today, all of you, before Yahweh your God, your leaders, your tribes, your elders, and your officials, all the men of Israel, {{rf{11}}} your little children, your women and your aliens who are in the midst of your camp, from the choppers of your wood to the drawers of your water, {{rf{12}}} in order for you to enter into the covenant of Yahweh your God, and into his oath that Yahweh your God is making with you today, {{rf{13}}} in order to establish you today to himself as a people and so that he may be for you as God, just as he promised to you and just as he swore to your ancestors, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Deut-28-68]] }}}
{{rf{14}}} "Now I am not making this covenant and this oath with you alone. {{rf{15}}} But with whoever is standing here with us today before Yahweh our God, and with whoever is not standing here with us today. {{rf{16}}} For you know how we lived in the land of Egypt and how we traveled through the midst of the nations that you traveled through. {{rf{17}}} And you have seen their detestable things and their idols of wood and stone, silver, and gold that were among them, {{rf{18}}} so that there is not among you a man or a woman or a clan or a tribe whose heart turns today from being with Yahweh our God to go to serve the gods of these nations, so that there is not among you a root sprouting poison and wormwood. {{rf{19}}} And then when he hears the words of this oath, then he will assure himself in his heart, saying, 'Safety shall be mine even though I go in the stubbornness of my heart,' thereby destroying the well-watered land along with the parched. {{rf{20}}} Yahweh will not be willing to forgive him, for by then the anger of Yahweh will smoke, and his passion against that man and all the curses written in this scroll will descend on him, and Yahweh will blot out his name from under heaven. {{rf{21}}} And Yahweh will single him out for calamity out of all the tribes of Israel, according to all the curses of the covenant written in the scroll of this law. {{rf{22}}} "And the next generation, that is, your children who will rise up after you, and the foreigner who will come from a distant land, when they will see the plagues of that land and its diseases that Yahweh has inflicted upon it, will say, {{rf{23}}} 'All its land is brimstone and salt left by fire, none of its land will be sown, and it will not make plants sprout out and it will not grow any vegetation; it is as the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Adman and Zeboiim, which Yahweh overturned in his anger and in his wrath.' {{rf{24}}} And all the nations will say, 'Why has Yahweh done such a thing to this land? What caused the fierceness of this great anger?' {{rf{25}}} And they will say, 'It is because they abandoned the covenant of Yahweh, the God of their ancestors, which he made with them when he brought them out from the land of Egypt. {{rf{26}}} And they went and served other gods and bowed down to them, gods whom they did not know them and he had not allotted to them. {{rf{27}}} So the anger of Yahweh was kindled against that land to bring upon it all the curses written in this scroll, {{rf{28}}} and Yahweh uprooted them from their land in anger and in wrath and in great fury, and he cast them into another land, just as it is today.' {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Deut-29-14]] }}}
{{rf{29}}} "The hidden things belong to Yahweh our God, but the revealed things belong to us to know and to our children forever, in order to do all the words of this law." {{rf big{1}}} "And then when all of these things come upon you, the blessing and the curse that I have set before you and you call them to mind among the nations there where Yahweh your God has scattered you, {{rf{2}}} and you return to Yahweh and you listen to his voice according to all that I am commanding you today, both you and your children, with all your heart and with all your inner self, {{rf{3}}} and Yahweh your God will restore your fortunes, and he will have compassion upon you, and he will again gather you together from all the peoples where Yahweh your God scattered you there. {{rf{4}}} "Even if you are outcasts at the end of the heavens, even from there Yahweh your God shall gather you, and from there he shall bring you back. {{rf{5}}} And Yahweh your God will bring you to the land that your ancestors had taken possession of, and he will make you successful, and he will make you more numerous than your ancestors. {{rf{6}}} "And Yahweh your God will circumcise your heart and the heart of your offspring to love Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your inner self so that you may live. {{rf{7}}} And Yahweh your God will put all these curses on your enemies and on those who hate you, on those who harassed you. {{rf{8}}} And you will again listen to the voice of Yahweh, and you will do all his commandments that I am commanding you today. {{rf{9}}} And Yahweh your God will make you prosperous in all your undertakings, and in the fruit of your livestock and in the fruit of your ground abundantly, for Yahweh will again rejoice over you, just as he rejoiced over your ancestors. {{rf{10}}} He will do this if you listen to the voice of Yahweh your God by keeping his commandment and his statutes written in the scroll of this law and if you return to Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your inner self. {{rf{11}}} "For this commandment that I am commanding you today is not too wonderful for you, and it is not too far from you. {{rf{12}}} It is not in the heavens so that you might say, 'Who will go up for us to the heavens and get it for us and cause us to hear it, so that we may do it?' {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Deut-29-29]] }}}
{{rf{13}}} And it is not beyond the sea, so that you might say, 'Who will cross for us to the other side of the sea and take it for us and cause us to hear it, so that we may do it?' {{rf{14}}} But the word is very near you, even in your mouth and in your heart, so that you may do it. {{rf{15}}} "See, I am setting before you today life and prosperity and death and disaster; {{rf{16}}} what I am commanding you today is to love Yahweh your God by going in his ways and by keeping his commandments and his statutes and his regulations, and then you will live, and you will become numerous, and Yahweh your God will bless you in the land where you are going. {{rf{17}}} However, if your heart turns aside and you do not listen and you are lured away and you bow down to other gods and you serve them, {{rf{18}}} I declare to you today that you will certainly perish; you will not extend your time on the land that you are crossing the Jordan to go there to take possession of it. {{rf{19}}} I invoke as a witness against you today the heaven and the earth: life and death I have set before you, blessing and curse. So choose life, so that you may live, you and your offspring, {{rf{20}}} by loving Yahweh your God by listening to his voice and by clinging to him, for he is your life and the length of your days in order for you to live on the land that Yahweh swore to your ancestors, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give to them." {{rf big{1}}} And Moses went and spoke these words to all Israel. {{rf{2}}} And he said to them, "I am a hundred and twenty years old today; I am not able to go out and to come in any longer, and Yahweh said to me, 'You may not cross this Jordan.' {{rf{3}}} Yahweh your God is about to cross before you; he will destroy these nations before you, and you shall dispossess them. Joshua will be crossing before you, just as Yahweh promised. {{rf{4}}} And Yahweh will do to them just as he did to Sihon and to Og, kings of the Amorites, and to their land, which he destroyed with them. {{rf{5}}} And Yahweh will deliver them to you before you, and you shall do to them according to every commandment that I have commanded you. {{rf{6}}} Be strong and be courageous; you should not be afraid, and you should not be in dread from their presence, for Yahweh your God is the one going with you; he will not leave you alone and he will not forsake you." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Deut-30-13]] }}}
{{rf{7}}} Then Moses summoned Joshua, and he said to him in the presence of all Israel, "Be strong and be courageous, for you will go with this people into the land that Yahweh swore to their ancestors to give to them, and you will give it to them as an inheritance. {{rf{8}}} Yahweh is the one going before you; he will be with you, and he will not leave you alone, and he will not forsake you; you shall not be afraid, and you shall not be discouraged." {{rf{9}}} So Moses wrote this law, and he gave it to the priests, the descendants of Levi, the ones carrying the ark of the covenant of Yahweh, and to all the elders of Israel. {{rf{10}}} Then Moses commanded them, saying, "At the end of seven years, in the time of the year for canceling debts during the Feast of Booths, {{rf{11}}} when all Israel comes to appear before Yahweh their God at the place that he will choose, you shall read this law before all Israel in their hearing. {{rf{12}}} Assemble the people, the men and the women and the little children and your aliens that are in your towns, so that they may hear and so that they may learn and they may revere Yahweh your God, and they shall diligently observe all the words of this law. {{rf{13}}} And then their children, who have not known, they too may hear, and they may learn to revere Yahweh their God all the days that you live on the land that you are crossing the Jordan to get there to take possession of it." {{rf{14}}} Then Yahweh said to Moses, "Look, you are about to die; call Joshua and present yourselves in the tent of assembly, so that I may instruct him." So Moses and Joshua went and presented themselves in the tent of assembly. {{rf{15}}} And Yahweh appeared in the tent in a column of cloud, and the column of the cloud stood at the entrance of the tent. {{rf{16}}} And Yahweh said to Moses, "Look, you are about to lie down with your ancestors, and this people will arise and they will play the prostitute after the foreign gods of the land to which they are going. {{rf{17}}} And my anger shall flare up against them on that day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide my face from them, and they shall become as prey, and disasters and troubles shall find them, and they shall say on that day, 'Is it not because our God is not in our midst that these disasters have found us?' {{rf{18}}} But I will certainly hide my face on that day, because of all of the evil that they did because they turned to other gods. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Deut-31-07]] }}}
{{rf{19}}} "And so then write this song for yourselves and teach it to the Israelites; put it in their mouth, so that this song may be for me as a witness against the Israelites. {{rf{20}}} For when I bring them into the land that I swore to their ancestors, a land flowing with milk and honey, they will eat their fill, and they will become fat, and then they will turn to other gods, and they will serve them, and they will spurn me, and they will break my covenant. {{rf{21}}} And then many disasters and troubles will come upon them, and this song will give evidence before them as a witness, because it will not be forgotten from out of the mouth of their descendants, for I know their inclination that they are having today before I have brought them into the land that I swore." {{rf{22}}} And Moses wrote this song on that day and taught it to the Israelites. {{rf{23}}} Then he told Joshua the son of Nun, and said to him, "Be strong and be courageous, for you shall bring the Israelites into the land that I swore to them, and I will be with you." {{rf{24}}} And then when Moses finished writing the words of this law on the scroll until they were complete, {{rf{25}}} then Moses commanded the Levites carrying the ark of the covenant of Yahweh, saying, {{rf{26}}} "Take the scroll of this law and put it at the side of the ark of the covenant of Yahweh your God, and it will be there as a witness against you. {{rf{27}}} For I know your rebellion and your stiff neck even now while I am still alive with you today, rebelling against Yahweh, and how much more after my death. {{rf{28}}} Assemble to me all the elders of your tribes and your officials, so that I may speak in their ears these words, and that I may call as witness against them heaven and earth. {{rf{29}}} For I know that after my death you will certainly act corruptly, and you will turn aside from the way that I have commanded you, and the disaster in the future days will befall you, because you will do evil in the eyes of Yahweh, provoking him with the work of your hands." {{rf{30}}} So Moses spoke into the ears of the assembly of Israel the words of this song until they were complete. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Deut-31-19]] }}}
"Give ear, O heavens, and I will speak, and let the earth hear the words of my mouth. {{rf{2}}} May my teaching trickle like the dew, my words like rain showers on tender grass, and like spring showers on new growth. {{rf{3}}} For I will proclaim the name of Yahweh; ascribe greatness to our God! {{rf{4}}} The Rock, his work is perfect, for all his ways are just; he is a faithful God, and without injustice; righteous and upright is he. {{rf{5}}} They have behaved corruptly toward him; they are not his children; this is their flaw, a generation crooked and perverse. {{rf{6}}} Like this do you treat Yahweh, foolish and unwise people? Has he not, your father, created you? He made you, and he established you. {{rf{7}}} Remember the old days, the years long past; ask your father, and he will inform you, your elders and they will tell you. {{rf{8}}} When the Most High apportioned the nations, at his dividing up of the sons of humankind, he fixed the boundaries of the peoples, according to the number of the children of Israel. {{rf{9}}} For Yahweh's portion was his people, Jacob the share of his inheritance. {{rf{10}}} He found him in a desert land, and in a howling, desert wasteland; he encircled him, he cared for him, he protected him like the apple of his eye. {{rf{11}}} As an eagle stirs up its nest, hovers over its young, spreads out its wings, takes them, carries them on its pinions, {{rf{12}}} so Yahweh alone guided him, and there was no foreign god accompanying him. {{rf{13}}} And he set him on the high places of the land, and he fed him the crops of the field, and he nursed him with honey from crags, and with oil from flinty rock, {{rf{14}}} With curds from the herd, and with milk from the flock, with the fat of young rams, and rams, the offspring of Bashan, and with goats along with the finest kernels of wheat, and from the blood of grapes you drank fermented wine. {{rf{15}}} And Jeshurun grew fat, and he kicked; you grew fat, you bloated, and you became obstinate; and he abandoned God, his maker, and he scoffed at the rock of his salvation. {{rf{16}}} They made him jealous with strange gods; with detestable things they provoked him. {{rf{17}}} They sacrificed to the demons, not God, to gods whom they had not known, new gods who came from recent times; their ancestors had not known them. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Deut-32-01]] }}}
{{rf{18}}} The rock who bore you, you neglected, and you forgot God, the one giving you birth. {{rf{19}}} Then Yahweh saw, and he spurned them, because of the provocation of his sons and his daughters. {{rf{20}}} So he said, 'I will hide my face from them; I will see what will be their end, for they are a generation of perversity, children in whom there is no faithfulness. {{rf{21}}} They annoyed me with what is not a god; they provoked me with their idols. So I will make them jealous with those not a people, with a foolish nation I will provoke them. {{rf{22}}} For a fire was kindled by my anger, and it burned up to the depths of Sheol, and it devoured the earth and its produce, and it set afire the foundation of the mountains. {{rf{23}}} I will heap disasters upon them; my arrows I will spend on them. {{rf{24}}} They will become weakened by famine, and consumed by plague and bitter pestilence; and the teeth of wild animals I will send against them, with the poison of the creeping things in the dust; {{rf{25}}} From outside her boundaries the sword will make her childless, and from inside, terror; both for the young man and also the young woman, the infant along with the gray-headed man. {{rf{26}}} I thought, "I will wipe them out; I will make people forget they ever existed." {{rf{27}}} If I had not feared a provocation of the enemy, lest their foes might misunderstand, lest they should say, "Our hand is triumphant, and Yahweh did not do all this." ' {{rf{28}}} For they are a nation void of sense, and there is not any understanding in them. {{rf{29}}} If only they were wise, they would understand this; they would discern for themselves their end. {{rf{30}}} How could one chase a thousand and two could cause a myriad to flee, if their Rock had not sold them, and Yahweh had not given them up? {{rf{31}}} For the fact of the matter is, their rock is not like our Rock, and our enemies recognize this. {{rf{32}}} For their vine is from the vine of Sodom, and from the terraces of Gomorrah; their grapes are grapes of poison; their clusters are bitter. {{rf{33}}} Their wine is the poison of snakes, and the deadly poison of horned vipers. {{rf{34}}} 'Is not this stored up with me, sealed in my treasuries?' {{rf{35}}} Vengeance belongs to me and also recompense, for at the time their foot slips, because the day of their disaster is near, and fate comes quickly for them.' {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Deut-32-18]] }}}
{{rf{36}}} For Yahweh will judge on behalf of his people, and concerning his servants; he will change his mind when he sees that their power has disappeared, and there is no one left, confined or free. {{rf{37}}} And he will say, 'Where are their gods, their rock in whom they took refuge? {{rf{38}}} Who ate the fat of their sacrifices and drank the wine of their libations? Let them rise up, and let them help you; Let them be to you a refuge. {{rf{39}}} See, now, that I, even I am he, and there is not a god besides me; I put to death and I give life; I wound and I heal; there is not one who delivers from my hand! {{rf{40}}} For indeed I lift up my hand to heaven, And I promise as I live forever, {{rf{41}}} When I sharpen my flashing sword, and my hand takes hold of it in judgment, I will take reprisals against my foes, and my haters I will repay. {{rf{42}}} I will make my arrows drunk with blood, and my sword shall devour flesh with the blood of the slain, and captives from the heads of the leaders of the enemy.' {{rf{43}}} Call for songs of joy, O nations, concerning his people, for the blood of his servants he will avenge, and he will take reprisals against his foes, and he will make atonement for his land, his people." {{rf{44}}} And Moses came, and he spoke all the words of this song in the ears of the people; that is, he and Joshua the son of Nun. {{rf{45}}} And when Moses finished speaking all these words to all Israel, {{rf{46}}} then he said to them, "Take to heart all the words that I am admonishing against you today concerning which you should instruct them with respect to your children so that they will observe diligently all the words of this law, {{rf{47}}} for it is not a trifling matter among you, but it is your life, and through this word you will live long in the land that you are about to cross the Jordan to get there to take possession of it." {{rf{48}}} And Yahweh said to Moses on exactly this day, saying, {{rf{49}}} "Go up to this mountain of the Abarim range, Mount Nebo, which is opposite Jericho, and see the land of Canaan that I am giving to the Israelites as a possession. {{rf{50}}} You shall die on that mountain that you are about to go up there, and you will be gathered to your people, just as your brother Aaron died on Mount Hor and he was gathered to his people, {{rf{51}}} because of the fact that you broke faith with me in the midst of Israel at the waters of Meribah Kadesh, in the desert of Zin, because you did not treat me as holy in the midst of the Israelites. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Deut-32-36]] }}}
{{rf{52}}} Yes, from afar you may view the land, but there you shall not enter there, that is, into the land that I am giving to the Israelites." {{rf big{1}}} Now this is the blessing with which Moses, the man of God, blessed the Israelites before his death. {{rf{2}}} Then he said, "Yahweh came from Sinai, and he dawned upon them from Seir; he shone forth from Mount Paran, and he came with myriads of holy ones, at his right hand a fiery law for them. {{rf{3}}} Moreover, he loves his people, all the holy ones were in your hand, and they bowed down to your feet, each one accepted directions from you. {{rf{4}}} A law Moses instructed for us, as a possession for the assembly of Jacob. {{rf{5}}} And then a king arose in Jeshurun, at the gathering of the leaders of the people, united were the tribes of Israel. {{rf{6}}} "May Reuben live, and may he not die, and let his number not be few." {{rf{7}}} And he said this of Judah, "Hear, O Yahweh, the voice of Judah, and bring him to his people; his own hands strive for him, and may you be a help against his foes." {{rf{8}}} And of Levi he said, "Your Thummim and your Urim are for your faithful one, whom you tested at Massah; you contended with him at the waters of Meribah. {{rf{9}}} The one saying of his father and of his mother, 'I have not regarded them,' and his brothers he did not acknowledge, and his children he did not know, but rather they observed your word, and your covenant they kept. {{rf{10}}} They taught your regulations to Jacob, and your law to Israel; they placed incense smoke before you, and whole burnt offerings on your altar. {{rf{11}}} Bless, O Yahweh, his substance, and with the work of his hands you must be pleased; smite the loins of those who attack him, and those hating him, so that they cannot arise." {{rf{12}}} Of Benjamin he said, "The beloved of Yahweh dwells securely, the Most High shields all around him, all the day, and between his shoulders he dwells." {{rf{13}}} And of Joseph he said, "Blessed by Yahweh is his land, with the choice things of heaven, with dew, and with the deep lying down beneath, {{rf{14}}} and with the choice things of the fruits of the the sun, and with the choice things of the yield of the seasons, {{rf{15}}} and with the finest things of the ancient mountains, and with the choice things of the eternal hills, {{rf{16}}} and with the choice things of the earth and its fullness, and the favor of the one who dwelt in the bush. Let them come to the head of Joseph, and to the crown of the prince among his brothers. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Deut-32-52]] }}}
{{rf{17}}} As the firstborn of his ox, majesty belongs to him, and his horns are the horns of a wild ox; with them he drives people together, and they are the myriads of Ephraim, and they are the thousands of Manasseh." {{rf{18}}} And of Zebulun he said, "Rejoice, Zebulun, in your going out, and rejoice, Issachar, in your tents; {{rf{19}}} They summon people to the mountains; there they sacrifice the sacrifices of righteousness, because the affluence of the seas they suck out, and the most hidden treasures of the sand." {{rf{20}}} And of Gad he said, "Blessed be the one who enlarges Gad; like a lion he dwells, and he tears an arm as well as a scalp. {{rf{21}}} And he selected the best part for himself, for there the portion of a ruler is included, and he came with the heads of the people; he did the righteousness of Yahweh, and his regulations for Israel." {{rf{22}}} And of Dan he said, "Dan is a cub of a lion; he leaps from Bashan." {{rf{23}}} And of Naphtali, he said, "Oh, Naphtali, sated of favor, and full of the blessing of Yahweh; take possession of the lake, and the land to the south." {{rf{24}}} And of Asher he said, "Blessed more than sons is Asher; may he be the favorite of his brothers, dipping his feet in the oil. {{rf{25}}} Your bars are iron and bronze, and as your days, so is your strength." {{rf{26}}} "There is no one like God, O, Jeshurun, who rides through the heavens to your help, and with his majesty through the skies. {{rf{27}}} The God of ancient time is a hiding place, and underneath are the arms of eternity, and he drove out from before you your enemy, and he said, 'Destroy them!' {{rf{28}}} So Israel dwells alone and carefree, the spring of Jacob in a land of grain and wine; his heavens even drip dew. {{rf{29}}} Blessed are you, O Israel. Who is like you, a people who is saved by Yahweh, the shield of your help, and who is the sword of your triumph, and your enemies, they shall fawn before you, and you shall tread on their backs." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Deut-33-17]] }}}
Then Moses went up from the desert plateau of Moab to Mount Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, which is opposite Jericho, and Yahweh showed him all of the land, Gilead all the way up to Dan, {{rf{2}}} and all of Naphtali and the land of Ephraim and Manasseh and all of the land of Judah, up to the western sea, {{rf{3}}} and the Negev and the plain of the valley of Jericho, the city of palms, on up to Zoar. {{rf{4}}} And Yahweh said to him, "This is the land that I swore to Abraham to Isaac and to Jacob, saying, 'To your offspring I will give it.' I have let you see it with your eyes, but you shall not cross into it." {{rf{5}}} Then Moses, the servant of Yahweh, died there in the land of Moab according to the command of Yahweh. {{rf{6}}} And he buried him in the valley in the land of Moab opposite Beth Peor. But until this day no one knows his burial site. {{rf{7}}} Now Moses was a hundred and twenty years old when he died; his sight was not impaired and his vigor had not abated. {{rf{8}}} And the Israelites wept concerning Moses thirty days; finally the days of weeping and mourning for Moses were completed. {{rf{9}}} Now Joshua the son of Nun was full of the spirit of wisdom because Moses had placed his hands on him, and the Israelites listened to him, and they did as Yahweh had commanded Moses. {{rf{10}}} And not again has a prophet arisen in Israel like Moses, whom Yahweh knew face to face, {{rf{11}}} as far as all the signs and the wonders Yahweh sent him to do in the land of Egypt, against Pharaoh and all of his servants and against all of his land, {{rf{12}}} and as far as all of the mighty deeds and as far as the great awesome wonders Moses did before the eyes of all Israel. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Deut-34-01]] }}}
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!!! Early 2014
* I am running the wiki from TiddlyDesktop.
** This is because the browsers have all shut down sandbox mode.
** There are other options, but this is easiest.
** Biggest downside: external links open within the TiddlyDesktop interface, which isn't a full-fledged browser.
!!! Late Feb 2013
* Added new transclusion macro from Yakov and it appears to work well. The only peeve (six months later) is a ten-second delay upon initial load. Also, concerned that if I chunk passages down more, this time may increase.
!!! Summer 2013
* Everything seems to work very well. Bible text is searchable, and inclusion is optional. Compared with a year ago, great progress.
* The Bible text now handles so well that I'd prefer the chunking to be much finer than it is, maybe times three. I'm especially happy with the options available when you view a passage. It starts as a pop-up, but you can open the tiddler and you also can open the tiddler within the Bible text doc.
* The Bible Text tiddler is a regular TW doc, not a pure store, so I can make revisions naturally. I have stripped off most macros. @@NOTE:@@ Python remains the best way to deal with revisions.
!!! Before that
* From 1983 to 1998, these were hand entries. In about 1995 I started transcribing them a word-processing document. From 2000 to 2010, they fossilized in MS Word because it was too hard to load and navigate the document.
* In September 2010 I imported the document into this [[TiddlyWiki|http://www.tiddlywiki.com]] and I was immediately able to make good use of my notes. A month later I experimented with a complete Bible text and came to appreciate the [[World English Bible|WorldEnglishBible]] project. [[Wiki-WEB-Import]]
* In late 2012 I improved my javascript to improve performance and succeeded with //Previous// and //Next// links (except for an occasional bug which misses the adjacent tiddler).
* Early 2013 -- [[SharedTiddlersPlugin]] resolves many issues.
* Sheol may be derived from the root, "to ask." Cf <<Bbl Job 14:10 >>. Hades means "the unseen."
!! The "first death"
* <<Bbl H 9:27 >>
* Abraham's barren body <<Bbl R 4:17 >>, 19
!!!! desire for (a.k.a. suicide)
* <<Bbl Job 3:1 >>-13, <<Bbl Job 3:21 abbr>>, <<Bbl Job 10:18 abbr>>-22 , <<Bbl Job 14:13 abbr >>-14 ; <<Bbl Num 11:15 >>, <<Bbl Num 14:2 abbr >>, <<Bbl Num 20:3 abbr>>; <<Bbl 1K 19:4 >>; <<Bbl Jonah 4:3 >>-4 (also chapter 1, //throw me overboard//); <<Bbl Rev 6:16 >>, <<Bbl Rev 9:6 >>
* we can be certain Jesus was thus tempted
* Hagar in her perceived exigency
* Saul in his true and final exigency
* Contrast of Jesus and Jonah when out on the water in a storm: <<Bbl Jonah 1:16 >>, <<Bbl Mk 4:31 >>-38 (Tim Keller finds a deliberate allusion)
!!!! "fallen asleep"
* <<Bbl A 13:36 >> and <<Bbl 2P 3:4 >> indicate that the phrase was not innovated by our Lord.
* <<Bbl Mt 9:24 >>, <<Bbl Mt 27:52 >>; <<Bbl Mk 5:39 >>; <<Bbl J 11:11 >>-14 ; <<Bbl A 7:60 >>; <<Bbl 1C 15:6 >>; <<Bbl 1Thes 4:13 >>-15 , <<Bbl 1Thes 5:10 >>.
!!!! and [[Fear]]
* The //power of death//
* [[Murder]]
* [[Sword]]
* fear of:
* <<Bbl H 2:15 >>
!!!! Closeness of death
* Paul uses a word meaning to unloose in <<Bbl Php 1:23 >>, <<Bbl 2Tim 4:6 >>; see Vine's, p.294-295.
* David's statement to Jonathan -- // not a step separates me//
* <<Bbl Dt 28:66>>
!! The "second death" <<Bbl Rev 20:6>>
* <<Bbl 2C 7:10 >>.
* hell: <<Bbl Ez 26:20 >>, <<Bbl Ez 32:24 >>
* keys of death and [[Hell]]: <<Bbl Rev 1:18 >>
----
* and [[Sin]]: <<Bbl Pr 8:36 >>
* misc.: <<Bbl 2S 12:23 >>,<<Bbl 2S 14:14 >>; <<Bbl Job 3:13 >>-19 ; <<Bbl Ps 6:5 >>,<<Bbl Ps 116:15 >>; <<Bbl Ecc 7:2 >>; <<Bbl I 57:1 >>; <<Bbl Ez 19:23 >>2
!! [[Faithfulness]] unto death
* //Do not fear him who...//
* <<Bbl Rev 12:11>>
!! Victory over death
* <<Bbl Rev 20:6>>, <<Bbl Rev 21:4 abbr>>
* the great question: <<Bbl Job 14:13- >>14
* [[Death-unto-Life]]
* {{anti{[[Shirk]], [[Dissipation]]}}}
* [[Resources-Personal]]
* //Know well the condition of your flocks//
USE OF TIME:
Time is valuable because it is in no way fungible – you and redo make more time.
<<Bbl Eph 5:15>>-17; <<Bbl Ps 90:12>>; <<Bbl Psalm 27:1>>; <<Bbl James 4:13>> to 15. Andy Stanley provides this test: in light of my past experience, current circumstances, future hopes and dreams, and God's will, what is the wise thing to do?
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|Name|DisableWikiLinksPlugin|
|Source|http://www.TiddlyTools.com/#DisableWikiLinksPlugin|
|Version|1.6.0|
|Author|Eric Shulman|
|License|http://www.TiddlyTools.com/#LegalStatements|
|~CoreVersion|2.1|
|Type|plugin|
|Description|selectively disable TiddlyWiki's automatic ~WikiWord linking behavior|
This plugin allows you to disable TiddlyWiki's automatic ~WikiWord linking behavior, so that WikiWords embedded in tiddler content will be rendered as regular text, instead of being automatically converted to tiddler links. To create a tiddler link when automatic linking is disabled, you must enclose the link text within {{{[[...]]}}}.
!!!!!Usage
<<<
You can block automatic WikiWord linking behavior for any specific tiddler by ''tagging it with<<tag excludeWikiWords>>'' (see configuration below) or, check a plugin option to disable automatic WikiWord links to non-existing tiddler titles, while still linking WikiWords that correspond to existing tiddlers titles or shadow tiddler titles. You can also block specific selected WikiWords from being automatically linked by listing them in [[DisableWikiLinksList]] (see configuration below), separated by whitespace. This tiddler is optional and, when present, causes the listed words to always be excluded, even if automatic linking of other WikiWords is being permitted.
Note: WikiWords contained in default ''shadow'' tiddlers will be automatically linked unless you select an additional checkbox option lets you disable these automatic links as well, though this is not recommended, since it can make it more difficult to access some TiddlyWiki standard default content (such as AdvancedOptions or SideBarTabs)
<<<
!!!!!Configuration
<<<
<<option chkDisableWikiLinks>> Disable ALL automatic WikiWord tiddler links
<<option chkAllowLinksFromShadowTiddlers>> ... except for WikiWords //contained in// shadow tiddlers
<<option chkDisableNonExistingWikiLinks>> Disable automatic WikiWord links for non-existing tiddlers
Disable automatic WikiWord links for words listed in: <<option txtDisableWikiLinksList>>
Disable automatic WikiWord links for tiddlers tagged with: <<option txtDisableWikiLinksTag>>
<<<
!!!!!Code
***/
//{{{
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if (config.options.chkDisableNonExistingWikiLinks==undefined) config.options.chkDisableNonExistingWikiLinks= false;
if (config.options.chkDisableWikiLinks==undefined) config.options.chkDisableWikiLinks=false;
if (config.options.txtDisableWikiLinksList==undefined) config.options.txtDisableWikiLinksList="DisableWikiLinksList";
if (config.options.chkAllowLinksFromShadowTiddlers==undefined) config.options.chkAllowLinksFromShadowTiddlers=true;
if (config.options.txtDisableWikiLinksTag==undefined) config.options.txtDisableWikiLinksTag="excludeWikiWords";
// find the formatter for wikiLink and replace handler with 'pass-thru' rendering
initDisableWikiLinksFormatter();
function initDisableWikiLinksFormatter() {
for (var i=0; i<config.formatters.length && config.formatters[i].name!="wikiLink"; i++);
config.formatters[i].coreHandler=config.formatters[i].handler;
config.formatters[i].handler=function(w) {
// supress any leading "~" (if present)
var skip=(w.matchText.substr(0,1)==config.textPrimitives.unWikiLink)?1:0;
var title=w.matchText.substr(skip);
var exists=store.tiddlerExists(title);
var inShadow=w.tiddler && store.isShadowTiddler(w.tiddler.title);
// check for excluded Tiddler
if (w.tiddler && w.tiddler.isTagged(config.options.txtDisableWikiLinksTag))
{ w.outputText(w.output,w.matchStart+skip,w.nextMatch); return; }
// check for specific excluded wiki words
var t=store.getTiddlerText(config.options.txtDisableWikiLinksList);
if (t && t.length && t.indexOf(w.matchText)!=-1)
{ w.outputText(w.output,w.matchStart+skip,w.nextMatch); return; }
// if not disabling links from shadows (default setting)
if (config.options.chkAllowLinksFromShadowTiddlers && inShadow)
return this.coreHandler(w);
// check for non-existing non-shadow tiddler
if (config.options.chkDisableNonExistingWikiLinks && !exists)
{ w.outputText(w.output,w.matchStart+skip,w.nextMatch); return; }
// if not enabled, just do standard WikiWord link formatting
if (!config.options.chkDisableWikiLinks)
return this.coreHandler(w);
// just return text without linking
w.outputText(w.output,w.matchStart+skip,w.nextMatch)
}
}
Tiddler.prototype.coreAutoLinkWikiWords = Tiddler.prototype.autoLinkWikiWords;
Tiddler.prototype.autoLinkWikiWords = function()
{
// if all automatic links are not disabled, just return results from core function
if (!config.options.chkDisableWikiLinks)
return this.coreAutoLinkWikiWords.apply(this,arguments);
return false;
}
Tiddler.prototype.disableWikiLinks_changed = Tiddler.prototype.changed;
Tiddler.prototype.changed = function()
{
this.disableWikiLinks_changed.apply(this,arguments);
// remove excluded wiki words from links array
var t=store.getTiddlerText(config.options.txtDisableWikiLinksList,"").readBracketedList();
if (t.length) for (var i=0; i<t.length; i++)
if (this.links.contains(t[i]))
this.links.splice(this.links.indexOf(t[i]),1);
};
//}}}
* They developed distinctive practices and customs which made they conspicuous. <<Bbl Mt 12:1 >>, 1502. Merely modeling after the Lord, or supported in their intellect? One learns the former, see <<Bbl Mt 15:20 >> which follows 15:2.
[[Tradition]]
* <<Bbl I 30:20 >>-22; <<Bbl J 8:31 >>-32
* <<Bbl I 50:4 >> //the Lord God has given me the tongue of a disciple ... encourage the weary one with a word.//
* [[Obey]], [[Humility]]
* [[Learn]], [[Teachable]], [[Discipleship]]
* [[Disciple]]
* [[Relate]], [[Learn]], [[Obey]]
* integrates Principle, Practice and Process.
* The Great Commission fully expresses it.
* George Patterson
!! [[Engage]]
!! ''Establish''
* [[Found]]
!! [[Equip]]
* [[Grow]]
!! ''Empowerment''
* [[Power]], [[Trust]], [[Stewardship]]
''...as brought to bear from above or outside.'' Or, see [[Discipline-Personal]].
* of God -- <<Bbl Dt 4:36 >>, <<Bbl Dt 8:5 >>; <<Bbl 2S 7:14 >>-15; <<Bbl 1K 17:25 >> or <<Bbl 2K 17:25 >> ; <<Bbl 2Ch 33:10 >>-13 ; <<Bbl Job 5:17 >>-18 ; <<Bbl Ps 51:8 >>, <<Bbl Ps 78:34 >>, <<Bbl Ps 83:17 >>-18 , <<Bbl Ps 118:18 >>-19 ; <<Bbl Pr 1:23 >>, <<Bbl Pr 3:11 >>-12 , <<Bbl Pr 15:31 >>; <<Bbl I 1:5 >>-9 , <<Bbl I 19:22 >>, <<Bbl I 28:23 >>-29 ; <<Bbl Jer 46:28 >>; <<Bbl Hos 6:1 >>, <<Bbl Hos 7:12 >>; <<Bbl 1C 10:31 >>; <<Bbl H 12:4 >>-13 Tm 5:20
* refused: <<Bbl Pr 29:1 >>, <<Bbl Jer 5:3 >>, <<Bbl Jer 6:29 >>; //a hundred blows into a fool//
* bridle, for the stubborn
** <<Bbl Num 21:8 "" note >>
** <<Bbl Pr 26:3 >>
** <<Bbl Ps 32:9 >>
* <<Bbl Eccl 8:11 >>
* for Child -- <<Bbl Pr 19:18 >>; <<Bbl Eph 6:4>>; <<Bbl Col 3:20>>-21
* @@color:#06C;Wise parents realize that not all non-conforming responses of the child deserve to be styled rebellion@@ //-- John Stott//
* [[Suffer]], [[Prune]]
* Discipline-Church.
* Book of common prayer. Restitution.
* <<Bbl 1Tim 5:20 >>
* <<Bbl 2Thes 3:14 >> //take special note of that man//
* 1 and 2 Corinthians
* Matthew
* [[Church-Local]], [[Leader]]
* [[Confront]]
* //Disfellowship, shun//
* <<Bbl 3J 1:10>>
* <<Bbl Titus 3:8>>-10
* @@color:indigo;All churches have discipline, in one way or another. If wicked people are not reproved, then it is the righteous who are being disciplined. It isn't right for good, godly people to be vexed because of wickedness in the church that isn't dealt with. This means avoiding the difficult issues is not the same as not making a decision - you've already decided, in favor of the wicked.@@ // - Douglas Wilson // [[Passivity]]
* Douglas Wilson points out that in <<Bbl 1C 5:9 "" note >> Paul tells the Corinthians to associate with the wicked of this world, but not with any so-called brother whose ways are evil. Yet in many churches, we get this precisely reversed.
* Edwards (__Banquet in the Grave__, p. 232) has steps in a process of [[Change|Transform]]:
## Engage the battle. Separate from the object of your sinful affections. [[Commitment]]
## Turn to Christ and commit yourself to keep turning to Christ. [[Devotion]]
## Surround yourself with wise counselors. Be part of a church. [[Counsel]], [[Fellowship]]
## Speak honestly. Uncover the more subtle lies. [[Truth]], [[Deny]].
## Commit yourself to thinking God's thoughts about [[Addiction]]s and [[Wisdom]].
## Engage the battle at the level of the [[Imagination]].
## Delight in the fear of the Lord. [[FearOfGod]]
* <<Bbl Pr 22:3 >>, <<Bbl Mt 7:6 >>
* <<Bbl Pr 27:12 abbr >>, <<Bbl Amo 5:13 >>, <<Bbl I 59:15 >>
* One must avoid showing off, or carelessly inciting offense or envy. A desk placard says, "I am silently correcting your grammar."
* @@color:brown;Do you not neatly lay aside the commands of God in order to honor the traditions of your fathers?@@
* Delayed obedience is disobedience.
!!!Righteous
* Hebrew midwives of Exodus 2
* The Hebrew children of Daniel
* the Apostles -- //judge for yourselves//
* [[Sin]]
* [[Deceive]]
* {{anti{[[Obey]]}}}
* Adam and Eve
* Cain
* Noah
* Lot
* Jacob
* Joseph
* Naomi
* Ruth
* the servant girl of Naaman
* David
* //Exile, Diaspora//
* Interested in Paul's handling of dissension.
* 2 Thess, "if any man does not listen"
* Corinthians; Galatians
* Oneness is not sameness.
* [[Propagate]]
* <<Bbl Gal 3:8 >>
* For Paul in Corinthians, diversity serves to support [[Unity]]. The greater the variety, the stronger the demonstration. <<Bbl 1C 1:26 >>, <<Bbl 1C 3:6 >>-8, <<Bbl 1C 6:9 >>-10, <<Bbl 1C 12:4 >>-31 (v 13).
One thing takes on, according to its beholder, either of two absolutely different natures. The response is the sole determinant. The Proverbs talk about the law of God that way, and here are some other verses:
!! Polar Reactions
* the word of the cross <<Bbl 1C 1:18 abbr >>
* our courage <<Bbl Php 1:28 >>
* "the ways of the LORD" <<Bbl Hos 14:9 >>, <<Bbl Pr 10:29 >>
* righteous civil gov't <<Bbl R 13:3 >>
* savor, aroma <<Bbl 2C 2:15 >>-1 6
* the Christ <<Bbl L 2:34 >>
* the Baptist <<Bbl L 7:29 >>-30
* the glory cloud <<Bbl Ex 14:20 >>
* Moses' testimony <<Bbl Dt 30:19 >>
* God's coming (burning) <<Bbl Mal 3:3 >>, <<Bbl Mal 4:1 >>
* faith in God's Son <<Bbl J 3:36 >>
* Christ the Corner Stone <<Bbl 1P 2:7 >>-8
* Cut the quick <<Bbl A 2:37>>, <<Bbl A 5:33>> (the phrases are different)
----
* {{anti{[[Integrity]]}}}
* [[Respond]]
* [[Separate]]
* [[Marry]]
* <<Bbl Lv 21:7 >>; <<Bbl Dt 22:19 >>, <<Bbl Dt 24:1 >>-3 , <<Bbl Jer 3:1 >>, <<Bbl Mal 2:16 >>, <<Bbl Mt 5:31 >>, <<Bbl Mt 19:3 >>-12 , <<Bbl Mk 10:2 >>-12 , <<Bbl L 16:17 >>.
* <<Bbl Mt 19:3>> -- [[Reformed article|http://www.reformed-theology.org/html/issue07/divorce.htm]]
<<<
Referring to Mosaic law about divorce, Jesus answered the Pharisees that writing a certificate of divorce should not be taken as a legislative privilege, as some men at that time were taking it, simply because the wife no longer found favor in the husband's eyes ...
+++Jesus brought to their attention that the law states that a man writes a certificate of divorce after "a woman becomes displeasing to him because he finds something indecent about her." The Mosaic guidelines were clear. A certificate of divorce had to have just cause; something indecent had to be found about her.
Note that Jesus uses the word "fornication" (porneia), not "adultery" (moicheia), as we have often been told in error in our churches, when He answers them about the acceptable cause for divorce. Had Jesus meant to use the more limited word adultery, he would have.
Both the root words for indecent behavior (Deuteronomy 24:1) and fornication (Matthew 19:9) "denote generic, ethically abhorrent misbehavior with the focus on sexual immorality." Jesus was taking a stand to uphold the law as it was originally intended, a law which was more protective of women than the current practices of His day.
The word fornication refers to a broader group of sins or uncleanness than does the word adultery. Fornication is frequently used metaphorically in the Bible referring to forsaking God or following after idols. Indeed, Sutton contends that fornication includes not only all manner of sexual sins but also all the capital offenses of the Bible and are parallel to the offenses listed in the Thou-shalt-nots of the Ten Commandments.
Furthermore, sins against a spouse are basically the same as sins against God "...because of the relationship of the offenses between God and man, and husband and wife, the capital offenses of the Biblical covenant are the divorceable offenses of the marital covenant."
What are the divorceable offenses? Sutton lists two broad categories. The first group includes sins against God including idolatry, blasphemy, witchcraft, divination, and spiritism.
The second group consists of sins against the spouse. This group is then divided into two subgroups: the first subgroup includes all sexual sins, and second is a subgroup he calls "murder." Murder includes physical abuse and desertion (physical and sexual), infant sacrifice, and failure to provide economically. As you can see, the list of divorceable offenses includes far more than adultery.
<<<
The writer (a divorced woman) goes on to propose the grounds for divorce are potentially varied, and a divorce on such grounds can properly lead to another marriage.
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* [[King]]
* [[Covenant]]
* [[Sovereignty]], dominion
!! in Volume 1
* Adam had at the role of naming the animals, cultivating the garden, and enjoying God and His creation - all contained in the command to //take dominion//.
* Eve was the giver of life, <<Bbl Gn 3:20>>. And this of course entailed taking dominion also. Together, they had the role of representing God, bearing his image; maintaining their marriage, which was a remedy for aloneness; honoring God through obedience; and enjoying. <<Bbl Gen 1:28>>, <<Bbl Gen 2:9>>, 16, and <<Bbl Gen 3:6>>.
* <<Bbl Gn 9:2>>
* <<Bbl Ps 8:1 "" note>>
!! in Volume 2
The scope of delegation changes from humanity to redeemed humanity, and the realm of authority changes from the natural world to include the spiritual as well (including unredeemed humanity).
* <<Bbl H 2:8>>-9
* <<Bbl E 1:20>>-23
* <<Bbl 1C 3:21>>-23
* It conveys tranquil authority of a [[King]].
** It's nicer for the king. There are rural people today, tough people, who prefer a donkey to a horse. The ride is more comfortable.
** <<Bbl 1K 1:33>>ff and other references.
** The donkey signals [[Humility]], [[Peace]] with no weakness, and strength with no hostility. Only sovereignty can have these.
** This means Jesus, as He entered the holy city and fulfilled <<Bbl Zech 9:9>>, was establishing His kingdom in a converse fashion.
*** This is a statement: Already, and not yet.
*** And moreover: Not yet, and certainly not on your terms.
* Saul couldn't find his father's donkeys -- that quest went unfulfilled. And he never fulfilled the monarchal ideal by entering the city upon one.
* Isaac journeyed to Mount Moriah on a donkey, the sacrifice in preparation.
* It is nowhere said that Mary rode a donkey.
* The inscription of the Law's demands
* the piercing of the slave's ear
* the covering of lamb's blood.
* <<Bbl 2K 4:10 "" note >> Powerful recurring image of the door with Elisha and the Shunnamite woman.
* A //room// without a door is just a //tomb//.
* [[Gate]].
* //I stand at the door and knock.//
* //Open you hearts to us, O Corinthians!//
* <<Bbl Amos 5:10 >>
* <<Bbl 1K 19:13 >> - out of isolation
* <<Bbl Song 8:10 '' note>>
* I heard perhaps on the radio in 2010 that the most value-building improvement you can make on your home, dollar for dollar, is installing a front door made of metal.
* Ps 141:3
* Hughes reviews Paul's use of the image in his commentary on 2 Corinthians (p 74, concerning <<Bbl 2C 2:13>>).
''A door must do two things well: Open and close.''
''Walking through a doorway is a threshold event.''. A study confirmed that short-term memory tends to fail with this act.
!! [[Openness]] and closing
* <<Bbl Rev 3:7 >>-8 //No man can shut//
* Release from prison: <<Bbl A 12:6 >>, <<Bbl A 12:10 abbr >>, and ironically <<Bbl A 12:14 abbr >>
* Paul //a big door has opened for me//
!! Closing
* <<Bbl Gn 7:16 >> -- the ark
* The angels protecting Lot. Negotiating a semi-closed door with a potential enemy is difficult, dangerous. Thus the security chain.
* [[Key]]
* [[Wine]], [[Cup]]
* [[Dissipation]]
* //Strong drink// as acceptable <<Bbl Dt 14:26 >>
* <<Bbl Pr 31:4>>-9
* <<Bbl Gn 9:18 "" note>>
* Jesus calls it wickedness to //eat and drink with drunkards// (<<Bbl Mt 24:49 >>)
* <<Bbl Dt 21:20 >>; <<Bbl Pr 20:1 >>, <<Bbl Pr 23:29 >>-35 ; <<Bbl I 5:11 >>, <<Bbl I 28:7 >>; <<Bbl Hos 4:11 >>; <<Bbl Mt 24:48 >>-51 ; <<Bbl R 13:13 >>; <<Bbl 1C 5:11 >>, <<Bbl 1C 6:9 >>-10 . Noah, Lot, Ben-hadad (<<Bbl 1K 20:16 >>).
!!!! Compared or Confused with Spirit's filling
* Eli and Hannah
* <<Bbl A 2:4 >>
!!!! Contrasted with
* <<Bbl Eph 5:18 >>
* <<Bbl Num 6:3 >>, <<Bbl L 1:15 >>
<<tabs "God"
"God" "God" [[EFCA-Statement##1]]
"Bible" "the Bible" [[EFCA-Statement##2]]
"Man" "the Human Condition" [[EFCA-Statement##3]]
"Christ" "Jesus Christ" [[EFCA-Statement##4]]
"His Work" "the Work of Christ" [[EFCA-Statement##5]]
"His Spirit" "the Holy Spirit" [[EFCA-Statement##6]]
"Church" "the Church" [[EFCA-Statement##7]]
"Living" "Christian Living" [[EFCA-Statement##8]]
"His Return" "Christ's Return" [[EFCA-Statement##9]]
"Response" "Response and Eternal Destiny" [[EFCA-Statement##10]]
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''Statement in [[PDF format|./Wiki_Bible/EFCA-statement-of-faith.pdf]]''
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!!! EFCA SOF with Scripture References
EFCA Statement of Faith Adopted by the Conference on June 26, 2008 (with Scripture References a SHC working document The Evangelical Free Church of America is an association of autonomous churches united around these theological convictions
!!! 1
{{fyi{
We believe in one God,
Creator of all things,
holy,
infinitely perfect,
and eternally existing
in a loving unity
of three equally divine Persons:
the Father,
the Son,
and the Holy Spirit.
Having limitless knowledge
and sovereign power,
God has graciously purposed from eternity to redeem a people for Himself
and to make all things new
for His own Glory.
}}}
* [[Create]], <<Bbl Dt 6:4 >>; <<Bbl Mk 12:29 >>
* <<Bbl Gn 1:1 >>; <<Bbl Ps 33:6 >>; <<Bbl J 1:3 >>; <<Bbl Col 1:15 >>-17; <<Bbl H 11:3 >>
* [[Holiness]], <<Bbl Ex 15:11 >>; <<Bbl I 6:3 >>; 57:15
* <<Bbl Dt 32:4 >>; Job 1:7-10; <<Bbl Ps 18:30 >>; 50:2; 90:2; 145:3; <<Bbl Mt 5:48 >>
* <<Bbl Ps 33:11 >>; 102:25-27; 115:3; <<Bbl Dan 4:34 >>-35; <<Bbl J 5:26 >>; <<Bbl A 17:24 >>-25
* [[One-In-Three]]<<Bbl J 3:35 >>; 17:24; <<Bbl 1J 4:8 >>,16
* <<Bbl J 17:11 >>; <<Bbl Mt 3:16 >>-17; 28:19; <<Bbl 2C 13:14 >>; <<Bbl 1P 1:2 >>
* ''Father:'' <<Bbl Dt 32:6 >>; <<Bbl Mt 6:6 >>; <<Bbl R 8:15 >>; <<Bbl 1C 8:6 >>
* ''Son:'' <<Bbl Mt 3:17 >>; <<Bbl J 1:14 >>; 3:16; <<Bbl Gal 4:4 >>; <<Bbl H 1:5 >>
* ''Spirit:'' <<Bbl J 14:16 >>, 17, 26; 15:26; 16:7-15; <<Bbl R 8:9 >>, 26; <<Bbl Gal 4:6 >>
* <<Bbl Ps 139:1 >>-16; 147:5; <<Bbl I 46:10 >>; <<Bbl J 21:17 >>
* [[God-Sovereign]], <<Bbl Jer 32:17 >>; <<Bbl Eph 1:11 >>; <<Bbl R 8:28 >>; <<Bbl 2C 6:18 >>; <<Bbl Eph 3:20 >>; <<Bbl Rev 1:8 >>
* [[Redeem]], <<Bbl 1C 2:7 >>; <<Bbl Eph 1:11 >>; 3:10,11; <<Bbl 2Tim 1:9 >>; <<Bbl Tit 1:2 >>; <<Bbl 1P 1:20 >>; <<Bbl Rev 13:8 >>
* <<Bbl Mt 19:28 >>; <<Bbl A 3:21 >>; <<Bbl R 8:19 >>-21; Rev. 21,22
* <<Bbl Ps 19:1 >>-2; <<Bbl I 43:7 >>; <<Bbl Jer 13:11 >>; <<Bbl Col 1:15 >>-23; <<Bbl Rev 4:11 >>; 5:9- 14
!!! 2
{{fyi{
We believe that God has spoken in the [[Scriptures|Scripture]],
* <<Bbl Mt 1:22 >>; 4:4; 19:4,5; <<Bbl H 1:1 >>- 2
both Old and New Testaments,
* <<Bbl 2P 3:15 >>,16
through the words of human authors.
* <<Bbl L 1:1 >>-4
As the verbally inspired Word of God,
* <<Bbl 2Tim 3:16 >>; <<Bbl 2P 1:20 >>,21
the Bible is without error in the original writings,
* <<Bbl Num 23:19 >>; <<Bbl 2S 7:28 >>; Pr. 30:5; <<Bbl Ps 119:96 >>, 160; <<Bbl Mt 5:18 >>; Jn. 10:35; 17:17; <<Bbl Tit 1:1 >>,2
the complete [[Reveal]] of His will for salvation,
* <<Bbl L 16:29 >>-31; <<Bbl Gal 1:8 >>,9; <<Bbl 2Tim 3:15 >>
and the ultimate [[Authorize]] by which every realm of human knowledge and endeavor should be judged.
* <<Bbl J 17:17 >>; <<Bbl 1Tim 3:15 >>-17; <<Bbl 1P 1:23 >>; <<Bbl Ps 119:44 >>,45,165
Therefore, it is to be believed in all that it teaches,
* <<Bbl Mt 22:29 >>; <<Bbl R 15:4 >>; <<Bbl 2Tim 3:16 >>
obeyed in all that it requires,
* <<Bbl Mt 28:20 >>; <<Bbl 2Thes 3:14 >>; <<Bbl 1J 2:5 >>
and trusted in all that it promises.
* <<Bbl R 1:2 >>; 4:21; <<Bbl H 10:23 >>; <<Bbl 2P 1:4 >>; 3:13
}}}
!!! 3
{{fyi{
We believe that God created Adam and Eve in His image,
* [[Man]]
* <<Bbl Gn 1:26 >>-27; 5:1; 9:6; <<Bbl 1C 11:7 >>; <<Bbl Col 3:10 >>; <<Bbl Jms 3:9 >>
but they sinned when [[tempted|Temptation]] by [[Satan]].
* <<Bbl Gn 3:1 >>-6; <<Bbl J 8:44 >>; <<Bbl R 5:12 >>-14; 16:20; <<Bbl 2C 11:3 >>; <<Bbl 1Tim 2:13 >>-14
In union with Adam,
Job 14:4; <<Bbl Ps 51:5 >>; <<Bbl J 3:6 >>; <<Bbl R 3:12 >>; 5:12-14; <<Bbl 1C 15:22 >>a; <<Bbl 1J 1:8 >>
human beings are [[Sin]]ners by nature and by choice,
* <<Bbl Gn 6:5 >>; <<Bbl Jer 17:9 >>; <<Bbl I 6:5 >>; <<Bbl R 5:15 >>; 8:5-8; <<Bbl Eph 2:1 >>-2; 4:17-19
alienated from God,
* <<Bbl R 5:10 >>
and under His [[Wrath]].
* <<Bbl R 1:18 >>; 2:5; 3:9-19; 3:23; <<Bbl Eph 2:3 >>
Only through God's saving work in Jesus Christ
* <<Bbl A 4:12 >>; <<Bbl 1Tim 2:5 >>
can we be [[Rescue]]d,
* <<Bbl 1Thes 1:10 >>
[[reconciled|Reconciliation]],
* <<Bbl R 5:1 >>,2,10; <<Bbl Col 1:20 >>
and renewed.
* <<Bbl R 8:29 >>; <<Bbl 2C 3:18 >>; <<Bbl Eph 4:24 >>; <<Bbl Php 3:21 >>; <<Bbl 1J 3:2 >>
}}}
!!! 4
{{fyi{
We believe that Jesus [[Christ]]
* <<Bbl Mt 1:21 >>; 16:18
is God incarnate,
* <<Bbl J 1:14 >>, 18; <<Bbl 1J 4:2 >>
fully [[God]]
* <<Bbl I 9:6 >>; <<Bbl Jer 23:6 >>; <<Bbl J 1:1 >>; 20:28; <<Bbl R 9:5 >>; <<Bbl Col 2:9 >>
and fully [[Man]],
* <<Bbl Mt 4:2 >>; <<Bbl L 2:40 >>, 52; <<Bbl J 11:35 >>; <<Bbl H 5:7 >>-8; <<Bbl 1J 1:1 >>-3
one Person in two natures.
* <<Bbl J 3:13 >>; 10:30; 17:5
Jesus {{{--}}} Israel's promised Messiah {{{--}}}
* <<Bbl Gn 3:14 >>-20; 12:1-3; 49:8-12; <<Bbl 2S 7:11 >>b-16; <<Bbl Mt 1:1 >>, 17; <<Bbl L 4:16 >>-22; 24:25-27; <<Bbl J 1:41 >>; 4:25-26; <<Bbl A 2:36 >>; 13:23,32; <<Bbl R 1:2 >>-3; <<Bbl 2Tim 2:8 >>,9
was conceived through the Holy Spirit
* <<Bbl Mt 1:18 >>; <<Bbl L 1:34 >>,35
and born of the virgin Mary.
* <<Bbl I 7:14 >>; <<Bbl Mt 1:20 >>; <<Bbl L 1:34 >>,35
He lived a sinless life,
* <<Bbl R 5:19 >>; <<Bbl Gal 4:4 >>,5; <<Bbl Mt 3:15 >>; <<Bbl Php 2:7 >>,8; <<Bbl H 4:15 >>
was crucified under Pontius Pilate,
* <<Bbl Dt 21:23 >>; <<Bbl Ps 16:10 >>; <<Bbl Mt 27:26 >>; <<Bbl Mk 15:15 >>; <<Bbl L 23:16 >>; <<Bbl J 19:16 >>; <<Bbl A 2:27 >>, 37
[[aroseResurrection]] bodily from the dead,
* <<Bbl Mt 28:1 >>-10; <<Bbl Mk 16:1 >>-8; <<Bbl L 24:39 >>; <<Bbl R 4:25 >>; <<Bbl 1C 15:20 >>, 44-45; <<Bbl Col 1:18 >>; <<Bbl Rev 1:5 >>
ascended into heaven
* <<Bbl L 24:51 >>; <<Bbl A 1:6 >>-11; <<Bbl Eph 1:20 >>; 4:8-10; <<Bbl 1Tim 3:16 >>
and sits at the right hand of God the Father
* <<Bbl Eph 1:20 >>; <<Bbl Col 3:1 >>; <<Bbl H 1:3 >>; 8:1; 10:12; <<Bbl 1P 3:22 >>
as our High [[Priest]]
* <<Bbl H 2:17 >>; 3:1; 4:14; 6:20; 8:1
and Advocate
* <<Bbl R 8:34 >>; <<Bbl H 7:25 >>; 9:24; <<Bbl 1J 2:1 >>
}}}
!!! 5
{{fyi{
We believe that Jesus Christ, as our representative
and [[Substitute|Substitution]],
shed His [[Blood]] on the cross
as the perfect, all-sufficient [[Sacrifice]]
for our sins.
}}}
* <<Bbl Gn 2:15 >>-17; <<Bbl Mt 4:1 >>-11; <<Bbl Mk 1:12 >>-13; <<Bbl L 4:1 >>-13; <<Bbl R 5:18 >>-19; <<Bbl 1C 1:30 >>; 15:45, 47; <<Bbl Php 3:9 >>
* <<Bbl Mk 10:45 >>; <<Bbl H 2:16 >>-17; <<Bbl 1P 2:24 >>; <<Bbl 1P 3:18 >>
* <<Bbl Lev 17:11 >>; <<Bbl Mt 26:28 >>; <<Bbl H 9:14 >>, 22; 10:19; <<Bbl 1P 1:18 >>-19; <<Bbl Rev 12:10 >>-11
* <<Bbl 1C 5:7 >>; <<Bbl H 9:23 >>-24, 26, 28; 10:1; 13:11, 12
* <<Bbl I 53:5 >>-7, 12; <<Bbl J 1:29 >>; <<Bbl R 3:21 >>-26; <<Bbl 2C 5:21 >>; <<Bbl Gal 3:13 >>; <<Bbl 1J 3:5 >>
His [[atoning|Atonement]] death
* <<Bbl R 3:25 >>; <<Bbl H 2:17 >>; <<Bbl 1J 2:2 >>; <<Bbl 1J 4:10 >>
and victorious [[Resurrect]]
* <<Bbl Col 1:13 >>; 2:13-15; <<Bbl H 2:14 >>-15
constitute the only ground for [[Salvation|Salvation-Savior]].
* <<Bbl R 4:25 >>; 6:4, 11, 14; <<Bbl 1C 6:14 >>; 15:20; <<Bbl 2C 4:14 >>; <<Bbl Eph 1:19 >>-20; 2:5-6; <<Bbl 1P 1:3 >>
}}}
!!! 6
{{fyi{
We believe that the [[Holy Spirit|SpiritOfChrist]], in all that He does, glorifies the Lord Jesus Christ.
* <<Bbl J 16:14 >>
He convicts the [[World]] of its [[Guilt]].
* <<Bbl J 16:8 >>; <<Bbl 1C 2:14 >>
He regenerates sinners,
* <<Bbl Ez 36:25 >>-27; <<Bbl J 3:3 >>, 5; <<Bbl 1C 12:3 >>; <<Bbl 2C 5:17 >>; <<Bbl Eph 2:5 >>; <<Bbl Col 2:13 >>; <<Bbl 1Thes 1:4 >>-5; <<Bbl 2Thes 2:13 >>; <<Bbl Tit 3:5 >>; <<Bbl Jms 1:18 >>; <<Bbl 1P 1:3 >>
and in Him they are [[Baptized|Baptism]]
* <<Bbl Mk 1:8 >>; <<Bbl A 1:5 >>; <<Bbl 1C 12:13 >>
into union with Christ
* <<Bbl R 3:24 >>; 5:15-21; 12:5; <<Bbl 1C 1:2 >>; 5:19; 15:22b; <<Bbl 2C 5:17 >>; <<Bbl Gal 1:22 >>; 2:17; 3:28; <<Bbl Eph 1:4 >>; 2:12; 3:6; 4:32; <<Bbl 2Tim 2:10 >>; <<Bbl 1Thes 4:16 >>
and adopted as [[heirs|Inheritance]]
* <<Bbl R 8:15 >>, 23; 9:4; <<Bbl Gal 4:5 >>; <<Bbl Eph 1:5 >>; <<Bbl Tit 3:7 >>
in the [[Family]] of God.
* <<Bbl Mt 12:49 >>-50; <<Bbl 2C 6:18 >>; <<Bbl Eph 3:14 >>; <<Bbl 1J 3:14 >>-18
He also indwells,
* <<Bbl J 14:17 >>; <<Bbl R 8:11 >>; <<Bbl 1C 3:16 >>
illuminates,
* <<Bbl 1C 2:2 >>; <<Bbl 2C 4:4 >>-15; <<Bbl Eph 1:17 >>-19; <<Bbl Php 1:9 >>-11
[[guides|Guidance]],
* <<Bbl J 16:13 >>; <<Bbl A 15:28 >>; <<Bbl R 8:4 >>, 14; <<Bbl Gal 5:16 >>, 18
[[equips|Equipping]],
* <<Bbl R 12:4 >>-8; 1Cor. 12: 4-10; Eph. 4: 7-11; <<Bbl 1P 4:10 >>-11
and [[empowers|Power]]
* <<Bbl A 1:8 >>; 10:38; <<Bbl R 15:13 >>; <<Bbl 1C 12:11 >>; <<Bbl Eph 3:16 >>; <<Bbl 2Tim 1:7 >>
believers for Christ-like living and service.
* <<Bbl A 6:8 >>; <<Bbl R 8:4 >>-6, 12-16; <<Bbl 2C 13:14 >>; <<Bbl Gal 3:3 >>, 5; 5:22-23, 25; <<Bbl Eph 2:22 >>; 4:3; <<Bbl Php 2:1 >>-2
}}}
!!! 7
{{fyi{
We believe that the true church
* <<Bbl Mt 16:18 >>; <<Bbl 1C 12:28 >>; <<Bbl Eph 4:4 >>-6; 5:25; <<Bbl H 12:28 >>
comprises all who have been justified by God's [[Grace]] through [[Believe]] alone in Christ alone.
* <<Bbl Ps 103:12>>; <<Bbl I 44:22 >>; <<Bbl J 3:16 >>; <<Bbl A 16:31 >>; <<Bbl R 3:20 >>-28; 4:3; 5:1, 21; 8:1, 30, 33-34; 10:4, 9; <<Bbl 2C 5:21 >>; <<Bbl Gal 2:16 >>; <<Bbl Eph 2:8 >>-9; <<Bbl Php 3:9 >>; <<Bbl Tit 3:7 >>; <<Bbl H 10:14 >>
They are united by the Holy Spirit in the body of Christ,
* <<Bbl 1C 12:12 >>-27
of which He is the Head.
* <<Bbl Eph 1:22 >>-23; 4:15-16; <<Bbl Col 1:18 >>; 2:19
The true [[Church-Eternal]] is manifest in local [[churches|Church-Local]],
* <<Bbl A 9:31 >>; 20:28-30; <<Bbl R 16:5 >>; <<Bbl 1C 1:2 >>; 16:19; <<Bbl 2C 1:1 >>; <<Bbl 1Thes 1:1 >>; Philem. 1-2
whose membership should be composed only of believers.
* <<Bbl Mt 18:15 >>-20; <<Bbl A 2:41 >>, 47; 14:23; 20:7; <<Bbl 1C 1:2 >>, 9; 11:20; 12:13; 14:40; 16:1-2; <<Bbl 1Tim 3:1 >>- 13; 5:9; <<Bbl Tit 1:5 >>-9; <<Bbl H 10:25 >>
. The Lord Jesus mandated two ordinances, [[Baptize]]
* <<Bbl Mt 28:18 >>-20; <<Bbl R 6:3 >>-4; <<Bbl Col 2:12 >>
and the [[Lord's Supper|LordsSupper]]
* <<Bbl Mt 26:26 >>-29; <<Bbl Mk 14:22 >>-25; <<Bbl L 22:15 >>-20; <<Bbl 1C 11:23 >>-26
, which visibly and tangibly express the gospel. Though they are not the means of salvation, when celebrated by the church in genuine faith, these ordinances confirm and nourish the believer.
* <<Bbl J 6:55 >>-56; <<Bbl A 2:38 >>; 8:39; 16:34; <<Bbl 1C 10:16 >>; 11:29-30; <<Bbl Col 2:12 >>
}}}
!!! 8
{{fyi{
We believe that God's justifying [[Grace]] must not be separated from His sanctifying power and purpose.
God commands us to love Him supremely and others sacrificially
and to live out our faith with care for one another,
[[Compassion]] toward the [[Poor]]
and [[Justice]] for the oppressed.
With God's Word, the Spirit's power, and fervent [[Pray]] in Christ's name,
we are to combat the spiritual forces of [[evil|Wickedness]].
In obedience to Christ's commission, we are to make [[Disciple]]s among all people,
always bearing [[Witness]] to the gospel
in word and deed.
}}}
* <<Bbl Mt 7:17 >>-18; 12:33, 35; <<Bbl H 11:6 >>; <<Bbl Eph 2:10 >>; 1Cor. 10:31; <<Bbl Col 3:17 >>, 23; <<Bbl 2Thes 2:13 >>; 5:23; <<Bbl 2C 5:17 >>; <<Bbl 1J 2:29 >>; 3:9; 5:18; <<Bbl 2C 3:18 >>; <<Bbl Tit 3:5 >>; <<Bbl 1C 6:11 >>; <<Bbl R 6:11 >>, 14; <<Bbl 1P 1:15 >>; <<Bbl Php 2:12 >>-13; <<Bbl H 12:1 >>, 14; Rom. 6; <<Bbl 2Tim 1:9 >>; <<Bbl Jms 2:17 >>; <<Bbl 1P 2:24 >>; <<Bbl 2P 1:3 >>-11
* <<Bbl Dt 6:5 >>; <<Bbl Lev 19:18 >>; <<Bbl Mt 22:37 >>-39; <<Bbl Mk 12:30 >>; <<Bbl L 10:27 >>
* <<Bbl R 12:10 >>; 14:13; 15:7, 14; <<Bbl Gal 5:26 >>; <<Bbl Eph 4:32 >>; <<Bbl 1Thes 3:12 >>; 5:11, 15; <<Bbl H 10:24 >>-25; <<Bbl 1P 4:9 >>
* <<Bbl Dt 15:11 >>; <<Bbl Ps 82:3 >>,4; <<Bbl Ps 140:12; <<Bbl Pr 14:21 >>,31; 19:17; 22:9,16,22,23; 28:8; 29:7; 31:8,9; <<Bbl Jer 22:16 >>; <<Bbl Gal 2:10 >>; <<Bbl Jms 1:27 >>
* <<Bbl Ex 23:6 >>; <<Bbl Lev 19:15 >>; <<Bbl Ps 82:3 >>,4; 140:12; <<Bbl Pr 29:7 >>; 31:9; <<Bbl I 1:17 >>; <<Bbl Jer 9:24 >>; <<Bbl Mic 6:8 >>; <<Bbl Zech 7:9 >>,10; <<Bbl Mt 23:23 >>; <<Bbl L 4:18 >>
* <<Bbl Eph 6:10 >>-18
* <<Bbl H 3:13 >>; 10:25; <<Bbl 2C 10:3 >>-5; <<Bbl Eph 6:11 >>, 12; <<Bbl 2Tim 4:7 >>; <<Bbl 1J 5:3 >>-4
* <<Bbl Mt 28:19 >>; <<Bbl J 20:21 >>; <<Bbl Rev 7:9 >>
* <<Bbl A 1:8 >>
* <<Bbl Mt 5:13 >>- 16
!!! 9
{{fyi{
We believe in the personal, bodily
//and premillennial*//
[[return|Eschatology]] of our Lord Jesus Christ.
The coming of Christ, at a time known only to God,
requires constant expectancy
and, as our blessed [[Hope]],
motivates the believer to godly living, sacrificial service and energetic mission.
}}}
* <<Bbl Mt 24:30 >>; 26:64; <<Bbl A 1:11 >>; <<Bbl Rev 1:7 >>
* <<Bbl Rev 20:1 >>-10
* <<Bbl Mt 25:31 >>; <<Bbl Tit 2:13 >>; <<Bbl 2Thes 1:6 >>-8; <<Bbl Rev 19:11 >>-21
* <<Bbl Mt 24:36 >>; <<Bbl Mk 13:32 >>
* <<Bbl Mt 24:42 >>-51; <<Bbl R 13:11 >>- 14; <<Bbl 1Thes 5:1 >>-11; <<Bbl Jms 5:8 >>,9; <<Bbl 2P 3:10 >>-14; <<Bbl Rev 3:3 >>
* <<Bbl Tit 2:13 >>
* <<Bbl 2Thes 1:6 >>-8; <<Bbl 2Tim 4:8 >>; <<Bbl Tit 2:14 >>; <<Bbl H 9:28 >>; <<Bbl 1J 3:2 >>-3; <<Bbl 2P 3:10 >>-14
{{floatright{ {{tiny{ This is the only part of the EFCA Statement to which I do not subscribe.}}} }}}
!!! 10
{{fyi{
We believe that God commands everyone everywhere
to believe the [[Gospel]]
by turning to Him in [[Repent]]
and receiving the Lord Jesus Christ.
We believe that God will raise the dead bodily
and [[judge|Judgment]] the world,
assigning the unbeliever to condemnation and [[eternal conscious punishment|Hell]],
and the believer to eternal blessedness and joy with the Lord,
in the new [[Heaven]] and the new earth,
to the praise of His glorious grace. Amen.
}}}
* <<Bbl A 17:30 >>; <<Bbl A 20:20 >>
* <<Bbl Mk 1:15 >>; <<Bbl J 6:29 >>; 8:24; 11:26; 14:1; 20:31; <<Bbl A 16:31 >>; <<Bbl R 3:22 >>; 10:14; <<Bbl Gal 3:22 >>; <<Bbl 1Tim 1:16 >>; <<Bbl 1P 1:8 >>; <<Bbl 1J 3:23 >>
* <<Bbl I 55:6 >>-7; <<Bbl L 24:47 >>; <<Bbl A 2:37 >>-38; 3:19; 14:15; 17:30; 20:21; 26:17,18; <<Bbl R 2:4 >>; <<Bbl 2C 7:9 >>-10
* <<Bbl J 1:12 >>
* <<Bbl I 26:19 >>; <<Bbl Dan 12:2 >>; 1Cor. 15; <<Bbl 1Thes 4:13 >>-18; <<Bbl Rev 20:13>>
* <<Bbl Ecc 12:14 >>; <<Bbl Mt 12:36 >>; 26:31-32; <<Bbl A 17:31 >>; <<Bbl R 14:10 >>; <<Bbl 2C 5:10 >>; <<Bbl 2Tim 4:1 >>; <<Bbl Rev 20:12>>
* <<Bbl Mt 25:46 >>; <<Bbl L 16:26 >>; <<Bbl 2Thes 1:9 >>; <<Bbl Rev 14:11 >>; 21:6,8; 22:14,15
* <<Bbl Mt 25:34 >>, 46; <<Bbl J 14:2 >>; <<Bbl Rev 21:1 >>-3
* <<Bbl I 65:17 >>; 66:22; <<Bbl R 8:19 >>-21; <<Bbl H 12:26 >>;27; <<Bbl 2P 3:13 >>; <<Bbl Rev 21:1 >>; 22:3
* <<Bbl Eph 1:6 >>, 12
!!! end
===
The words of the Teacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem. {{rf{2}}} "Vanity of vanities!" says the Teacher, "Vanity of vanities! All is vanity!" {{rf{3}}} What does a person gain in all his toil with which he toils under the sun? {{rf{4}}} A generation goes, and a generation comes, but the earth stands forever. {{rf{5}}} The sun rises, and the sun goes down; to its place it hurries, and there it rises again. {{rf{6}}} The wind goes to the south and goes around to the north; around and around it goes, and on its circuit the wind returns. {{rf{7}}} All the streams flow to the sea, but the sea is never full; to the place where the streams flow, there they continue to flow. {{rf{8}}} All things toil continuously; no one can ever finish describing this. The eye is never satisfied with seeing, and the ear is never filled with hearing. {{rf{9}}} What has been -- it is what will be; what has been done -- it is what will be done; there is nothing new under the sun. {{rf{10}}} There is a thing of which it is said, "Look at this! This is new!" But it already existed in ages past before us. {{rf{11}}} There is neither remembrance of former generations, nor will there be remembrance of future generations. {{rf{12}}} I, the Teacher, was king over Israel in Jerusalem. {{rf{13}}} I applied my mind to seek and to search by wisdom all that is done under the heavens. It is a grievous task God has given to humans. {{rf{14}}} I saw all the works that are done under the sun. Look! Everything is vanity and chasing wind. {{rf{15}}} What is twisted cannot be straightened, and what is lacking cannot be counted. {{rf{16}}} I said to myself, "Look! I have become great and have increased in wisdom more than anyone who has preceded me over Jerusalem. I have acquired a great deal of wisdom and knowledge." {{rf{17}}} So I dedicated myself to learn about wisdom and to learn about delusion and folly. However, I discovered that this also is chasing wind. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Eccl-01-01]] }}}
!!! General Notes
* In which the author takes up a materialistic argument and then struggles mightily with it.
* Two guiding phrases:
## //under the sun//
## //under Heaven//
* <<Bbl Eccl 11:3 abbr >>-12:2b -- Daniel C. Fredericks (1991) "identifies the focus verse (that is, the main message) in Eccl. 11:9 -- //But know that for all these things God will bring you to judgement.//"
----
1:13 Compare <<Bbl Pr 25:2 >>, "the glory of kings."
3:4b Compare <<Bbl Mt 11:17 >>
<<Bbl Eccl 4:6 abbr >> Compare <<Bbl Mt 5:30 >>.
<<Bbl Eccl 4:11 abbr >> Possibly Solomon is recalling the episodes of <<Bbl 1K 1:1 >>-9.
5:1 "...forgive them, for they know not what they do." A sacrifice of fools?
5:11 see <<Bbl Job 10:10 >>-11 ; <<Bbl Ps 139:13 >>-15
<<Bbl Eccl 5:19 abbr >>,<<Bbl Ps 6:2 >> Compare 2:25.
7:12 This goes with 1:18 in a funny way.
7:26 see <<Bbl Pr 22:14 >>
<<Bbl Eccl 8:2 abbr >>-3 <<Bbl Pr 24:21 >> has the same wisdom.
10:15 Compare <<Bbl Ps 107:4 >>-7 . Who can say these do not have the same root or origin?
11:2 Diversification of investments.
<<Bbl Eccl 11:3 abbr >>-12:2b -- Daniel C. Fredericks (1991) "identifies the focus verse (that is, the main message) in Eccl. 11:9 -- //But know that for all these things God will bring you to judgement.// This is a verse that many biblical scholars had scoffed at, saying that it appeared contrary to Qohelet's whole //carpe diem// philosophy and had probably been added by a pious scribe in order to get the book into the Old Testament canon. But Fredericks, in showing that the structure of the passage absolutely depended on its focus verse, demolished such arguments." //[[source|http://www.hccentral.com/gkeys/chiasmus.html]]//
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Eccl. 11:3 Clouds and Rain
Eccl. 11:7 Light and Sun
Eccl. 11:8a Consider the days of darkness
Eccl. 11:8b All that comes is breath
Eccl. 11:9a Enjoy your Youth
Eccl. 11:9b But know ... God will bring you to judgment
Eccl. 11:10a Enjoy your Youth
Eccl. 11:10b All of youth is breath
Eccl. 12:1 Consider God before the days of darkness
Eccl. 12:2a Sun and Light
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12:11 The sayings of the wise. Contrast <<Bbl Pr 26:7>>
{{rf{18}}} For in much wisdom is much frustration, and whoever increases knowledge increases sorrow. {{rf big{1}}} I said to myself, "Come! I will test pleasure to see whether it is worthwhile." But look, "This also is vanity!" {{rf{2}}} I said of laughter, "It is folly!" and of pleasure, "What does it accomplish?" {{rf{3}}} I also explored the effects of indulging my flesh with wine. My mind guiding me with wisdom, I investigated folly so that I might discover what is good under heaven for humans to do during the days of their lives. {{rf{4}}} I accomplished great things. I built for myself houses; I planted for myself vineyards. {{rf{5}}} I made for myself gardens and parks, and I planted all sorts of fruit trees in them. {{rf{6}}} I made for myself pools of water from which to irrigate a grove of flourishing trees. {{rf{7}}} I acquired male slaves and female slaves, as well as children born in my house. I also had livestock, cattle, and flocks more than anyone who was before me in Jerusalem. {{rf{8}}} I also gathered to myself silver and gold -- the royal and provincial treasuries. I acquired for myself male and female singers, as well as the delight of men, voluptuous concubines. {{rf{9}}} Thus, I accomplished far more than anyone who was before me in Jerusalem -- indeed, my wisdom stood by me. {{rf{10}}} I neither withheld anything from my eyes that they desired, nor did I deprive any pleasure from my heart. My heart rejoiced in all my toil, for this was my reward from all my toil. {{rf{11}}} Yet when I considered all the effort which I expended and the toil with which I toiled to do, then behold, "Everything is vanity and chasing wind! There is nothing profitable under the sun!" {{rf{12}}} Next, I considered wisdom, as well as delusion and folly. What can anyone do who will come after the king that has not already been done? {{rf{13}}} I realized that wisdom has an advantage over folly, just as light has an advantage over darkness. {{rf{14}}} The wise man can see where he is walking, but the fool walks in darkness. Yet I also realized that both of them suffer the same fate. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Eccl-01-18]] }}}
{{rf{15}}} So I said to myself, "If I also suffer the same fate as the fool, what advantage is my great wisdom?" So I said to myself, "This also is vanity!" {{rf{16}}} Certainly no one will remember the wise man or the fool in future generations. When future days come, both will have been forgotten already. How is it that the wise man dies the same as the fool? {{rf{17}}} So I hated life because the work done under the sun is grievous to me. For everything is vanity and chasing wind! {{rf{18}}} So I hated all my toil with which I have toiled under the sun, for I must leave it behind to someone who will be after me. {{rf{19}}} And who knows whether he will be wise or foolish? Yet he will exercise control of all the fruit of my toil with which I toiled wisely under the sun. This also is vanity! {{rf{20}}} So I began to despair of all the toil with which I toiled under the sun. {{rf{21}}} For although a person may toil with great wisdom and skill, he must leave his reward to someone who has not toiled for it. This also is vanity and a great calamity. {{rf{22}}} For what does a person receive for all his toil and in the longing of his heart with which he toils under the sun? {{rf{23}}} All his days are painful, his labor brings grief, and his heart cannot rest at night. This also is vanity! {{rf{24}}} There is nothing better for a person than to eat and drink and find delight in his toil. For I also realized that this is from the hand of God! {{rf{25}}} For who can eat and drink, and who can enjoy life apart from him? {{rf{26}}} For to the person who is good in his eyes, he gives wisdom, knowledge, and joy; but to the sinner he gives the task of gathering and heaping up only to give it to him who is pleasing to him. This also is vanity and chasing wind! {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Eccl-02-15]] }}}
For everything there is an appointed time, a time for every matter under heaven: {{rf{2}}} a time to bear and a time to die; a time to plant and a time to root up what is planted; {{rf{3}}} a time to kill and a time to heal; a time to break down and a time to build up; {{rf{4}}} a time to weep and a time to laugh; a time to mourn and a time to dance; {{rf{5}}} a time to throw away stones and a time to gather stones; a time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing; {{rf{6}}} a time to seek and a time to lose; a time to keep and a time to throw away; {{rf{7}}} a time to tear and a time to sew; a time to be silent and a time to speak; {{rf{8}}} a time to love and a time to hate; a time for war and a time for peace. {{rf{9}}} What does the worker gain in his toil? {{rf{10}}} I have seen the busyness God gives to humans to preoccupy them. {{rf{11}}} He has made everything suitable in its time. He also has put the past in their hearts, yet no one can grasp what God does from the beginning to the end. {{rf{12}}} So I realized that there is nothing better for them than to rejoice and enjoy themselves during their lives. {{rf{13}}} And for anyone to eat and drink, that is, to enjoy the fruit of all his toil, this also is a gift of God. {{rf{14}}} I know everything God does endures forever; nothing can be added to it, and nothing can be taken from it, for God so acts that humans might stand in awe before him. {{rf{15}}} What is -- it already was, and what will be -- it already is, for God will do what he has done. {{rf{16}}} I saw something else under the sun: instead of justice there was evil; instead of righteousness there was wickedness. {{rf{17}}} So I said to myself, "God will surely judge the righteous and the wicked, for he has appointed a time of judgment for every deed and every work." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Eccl-03-01]] }}}
{{rf{18}}} I said to myself concerning humans, "God sifts them in order to show them that they are like beasts." {{rf{19}}} For the fate of humans and the fate of the beast is the same. The death of the one is like the death of the other, for both are mortal. Man has no advantage over the beast, for both are fleeting. {{rf{20}}} Both go to one place -- both came from dust and both return to dust. {{rf{21}}} For no one knows whether the spirit of a human ascends to heaven and whether the spirit of the beast descends to the ground! {{rf{22}}} So I concluded that there is nothing better for a person than to enjoy the fruit of his labor, for this is his lot in life. For no one knows what will happen in the future. {{rf big{1}}} I looked again, and I saw all the oppression that occurs under the sun. I saw the tears of the oppressed -- no one comforts them! Those who oppress them are powerful -- no one can comfort them! {{rf{2}}} So I deemed the dead who have already died more fortunate than the living who are still alive. {{rf{3}}} But better off than both of them is the one who has not yet been born and has not seen the evil deeds that are done under the sun. {{rf{4}}} I also realized that all of the toil and all of the skillful work that is done -- it is envy between one man and another. This also is vanity and chasing wind! {{rf{5}}} The fool refuses to work with his hands, so he has nothing to eat except his own skin! {{rf{6}}} Better is one handful with peace than two fists full with toil and chasing wind. {{rf{7}}} I turned again and saw another vanity under the sun. {{rf{8}}} Sometimes a man is all alone with no companion; he also has neither son nor brother. Yet there is no end to all his toil, and his eye is not satisfied with wealth. He laments, "For whom am I toiling and depriving myself of pleasure?" This also is vanity -- it is an unhappy business! {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Eccl-03-18]] }}}
{{rf{9}}} Two are better than the one, for they enjoy a better reward for their toil. {{rf{10}}} For if one falls, his companion may help him up. But pity the one who falls and there is no one to help him up. {{rf{11}}} Also if two lie together, they can keep each other warm. But how can one person be warm? {{rf{12}}} Although an assailant may overpower one person, two may withstand him. A threefold cord is not easily broken! {{rf{13}}} A poor but wise youth is better than an old but foolish king who no longer knows how to receive advice. {{rf{14}}} For he came out of the prison house to reign, since he was born poor in his kingdom. {{rf{15}}} I saw all the living who move about under the sun with the youth; the second who will stand in his place. {{rf{16}}} There is no end to all the people, to all who were before him. Yet the later generation will not rejoice in him, for this also is vanity and chasing wind! {{rf big{1}}} Guard your steps when you go to the house of God; draw near to listen rather than to offer a sacrifice of fools, for they do not know that they are doing evil. {{rf{2}}} Do not be rash with your mouth, and do not let your heart be quick to utter a word before God. For God is in heaven, and you are on earth; therefore, let your words be few. {{rf{3}}} For a dream comes with many cares, and the voice of a fool with many words. {{rf{4}}} When you make a vow to God, do not delay in fulfilling it, for he takes no pleasure in fools. Fulfill what you vow! {{rf{5}}} It is better that you not vow than that you vow and not fulfill it. {{rf{6}}} Do not let your mouth lead your flesh into sin, and do not tell the messenger that it was a mistake. Why anger God at your words, so that he destroys the work of your hands? {{rf{7}}} For with many dreams come vanities and numerous words. Therefore, fear God! {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Eccl-04-09]] }}}
{{rf{8}}} Do not be surprised if you see the poor being oppressed with violence or do not see justice and righteousness in the province. For one official is watched by a higher official, and there are even higher officials over them! {{rf{9}}} The produce of the land is exploited by everyone; even the king profits from the field of the poor! {{rf{10}}} Whoever loves money is not satisfied with money, and whoever loves wealth is not satisfied with profit. This also is vanity! {{rf{11}}} When prosperity increases, those who consume it increase. So its owner gains nothing, except to see his wealth before it is spent. {{rf{12}}} The sleep of the laborer is pleasant, whether he eats little or much, but the wealth of the rich man does not allow him to rest. {{rf{13}}} There is a grievous evil which I have seen under the sun: wealth hoarded by its owner to his harm. {{rf{14}}} That wealth was lost in a bad venture. Although he has borne a child, he has nothing to leave to him. {{rf{15}}} Just as he came from his mother's womb naked, he will depart just as he came; he will take nothing with him for his toil. {{rf{16}}} This also is a grievous illness. Exactly as he came, so he will go. What profit does he gain for all his toil for the wind? {{rf{17}}} Also, he eats in darkness all his days; he is frustrated in much sickness and resentment. {{rf{18}}} Look! I have discovered what is good and fitting: to eat and to drink and to enjoy all the fruit of the toil with which one toils under the sun during the number of the days of his life that God gives to him -- for this is his lot. {{rf{19}}} This indeed is a gift of God: everyone to whom God gives wealth and possessions, he also empowers him to enjoy them, to accept his lot, and to rejoice in the fruit of his toil. {{rf{20}}} For he does not remember the brief days of his life, for God keeps his heart preoccupied with enjoyment of life. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Eccl-05-08]] }}}
Here is another misfortune that I have seen under the sun, and it is prevalent among humankind. {{rf{2}}} God gives a man wealth, possessions, and honor, so that he lacks nothing his heart desires; yet God does not enable him to enjoy it -- instead someone else ends up enjoying it. This is vanity -- indeed, it is a grievous ill! {{rf{3}}} Even if a man fathers a hundred children and lives many years so that the days of his years are many, if his heart is not satisfied with his prosperity and he does not receive a proper burial, I deem the stillborn better than him. {{rf{4}}} For he comes into vanity and departs into darkness, and his name is shrouded in darkness. {{rf{5}}} He has neither seen nor known the sun, yet he has more rest than him. {{rf{6}}} Even if a man lives a thousand years twice, if he does not enjoy prosperity, both suffer the same fate! {{rf{7}}} All of a man's toil is for his mouth -- yet his appetite is never satisfied. {{rf{8}}} So do the wise really have an advantage over fools? Can the poor really gain anything by knowing how to act in front of others? {{rf{9}}} Better to be content with what your eyes see than for your soul to constantly crave more. This also is vanity and chasing wind! {{rf{10}}} Whatever is -- it was already determined, what will be -- it has already been decided. As for man, he cannot argue against what is more powerful than him. {{rf{11}}} Increasing words only multiplies futility, how does that profit anyone? {{rf{12}}} For who knows what is good for a man in his life during the few days of his fleeting life, which are fleeting as a shadow? For who can tell anyone what will happen in the future under the sun? {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Eccl-06-01]] }}}
A good name is better than precious ointment, and the day of death is better than the day of one's birth. {{rf{2}}} Better to go to the house of mourning than to go to the house of feasting, for death is the end of every person, and the living should take it to his heart. {{rf{3}}} Sorrow is better than laughter, for by sadness of countenance the heart is made good. {{rf{4}}} The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning, but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth. {{rf{5}}} Better to listen to the rebuke of the wise than for a man to listen to the song of fools. {{rf{6}}} Like the sound of thorns under a pot, so also the laughter of fools. This also is vanity! {{rf{7}}} Surely oppression makes a fool of the wise, and a bribe corrupts the heart. {{rf{8}}} The end of a matter is better than its beginning; better to be slow to anger than hot-headed. {{rf{9}}} Do not be quick in your spirit to anger, for anger lodges in the bosom of fools. {{rf{10}}} Do not say, "Why were the former days better than these?" For it is not from wisdom that you ask this. {{rf{11}}} Wisdom is good with an inheritance; it benefits the living. {{rf{12}}} For wisdom offers protection like money offers protection. But knowledge has an advantage -- wisdom restores life to its possessor. {{rf{13}}} Consider the work of God. For who is able to make straight what he made crooked? {{rf{14}}} In the day of prosperity, rejoice! But in the day of adversity, consider! For God made one in place of another so that mortals cannot find out what will happen in the future. {{rf{15}}} I have seen all these things in my vain life: Sometimes a righteous man perishes in spite of his righteousness, and sometimes a wicked man lives a long life in spite of his evil. {{rf{16}}} Do not be excessively righteous, and do not act excessively wise, lest you destroy yourself. {{rf{17}}} Do not act excessively wicked, and do not be a fool, lest you die before your time. {{rf{18}}} It is good to take hold of the one and also must not let go of the other; for whoever fears God will hold both of them secure. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Eccl-07-01]] }}}
{{rf{19}}} Wisdom gives more strength to the wise than ten rulers who are in the city. {{rf{20}}} Surely there is no one righteous on the earth who continually does good and never sins. {{rf{21}}} Do not pay attention to everything people say, lest you hear your own servant curse you. {{rf{22}}} For your heart knows that you also have cursed others many times. {{rf{23}}} All this I have tested with wisdom. I said, "I will be wise!" but it was beyond my grasp. {{rf{24}}} Whatever is -- it is far beyond comprehension. Who can discover it? {{rf{25}}} I set my mind to try to seek wisdom and the plan, and to know that wickedness is foolishness and that folly is delusion. {{rf{26}}} I myself found that more bitter than death is the woman who is a trap, whose heart is a snare, and whose hands are bonds. The one who pleases God escapes from her, but the sinner is caught by her. {{rf{27}}} "Look! I found this," said the Teacher, "while trying to find how the plan fits together. {{rf{28}}} What my heart sought, I did not find. Although I found one righteous man among one thousand, I did not find one upright woman among all these. {{rf{29}}} Look! This alone I found: God made mankind upright, but they have devised many schemes." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Eccl-07-19]] }}}
Who is like the sage? Who knows the interpretation of a thing? A man's wisdom makes his face shine, and the hardness of his face is changed. {{rf{2}}} Keep the command of the king because of your oath to God. {{rf{3}}} Do not be terrified of his presence! Go at once and do not delay when a matter is unpleasant, for he can do anything that he desires. {{rf{4}}} Since the word of the king is supreme, no one can say to him, "What are you doing?" {{rf{5}}} Whoever obeys his command will not suffer disaster. The wise mind knows the proper time and the right procedure. {{rf{6}}} For there is a proper time and right procedure for every matter, even though the trouble of man weighs heavy upon him. {{rf{7}}} Surely no one knows what will be, so who can tell anyone what will happen? {{rf{8}}} Just as no one can control the wind to restrain the wind, so also no one can control the day of his death. Just as no one is discharged in time of war, so wickedness will not deliver the wicked. {{rf{9}}} I saw all this as I applied my heart to all the deeds done under the sun: sometimes those in authority harm others. {{rf{10}}} Meanwhile, I saw the wicked being honorably buried, but those who came and went from the holy place were forgotten in the city, even though they had done so. This also is vanity! {{rf{11}}} Because sentence against an evil deed is not carried out quickly, the heart of humans fills up within them to do evil. {{rf{12}}} Although the sinner does evil a hundred times and prolongs his life, yet I also know that it will be good for those who fear God -- because they fear his presence. {{rf{13}}} But it will not go well with the wicked, and they will not prolong their days, like the shadow; because there is no fearing God's presence. {{rf{14}}} There is a vanity that happens on earth: sometimes the righteous suffer what the wicked deserve, and sometimes the wicked receive what the righteous deserve. I said, "This also is vanity!" {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Eccl-08-01]] }}}
{{rf{15}}} So I recommend enjoyment. For there is nothing better for man under the sun than to eat and to drink and to rejoice. This will accompany him in his toil the days of his life that God gives to him under the sun. {{rf{16}}} I applied my mind to know wisdom and to understand the business that is done on earth -- how neither day nor night one's eyes see sleep. {{rf{17}}} Then I saw all the work of God -- man is not able to discover the work that is done under the sun. Although man may toil in seeking, he cannot find it. Even if a wise man claims that he knows it, he cannot find it. {{rf big{1}}} So all this I laid to my heart, and I concluded that the righteous and the wise, as well as their deeds, are in the hand of God. So no one knows anything that will come to them, whether it will be love or hatred. {{rf{2}}} The same fate comes to everyone: to the righteous and to the wicked, to the good and to the wicked, to the clean and to the unclean, to those who sacrifice and to those who do not sacrifice. As with the good man, so also to the sinner; as with those who swear an oath, so also those who fear oaths. {{rf{3}}} This is the injustice that is done under the sun: the same fate comes to everyone. Also the hearts of humans are full of evil; delusion is in their hearts during their lives, and then they die. {{rf{4}}} Whoever is joined to all the living has hope. After all, even a live dog is better than a dead lion! {{rf{5}}} For the living know that they will die, but the dead do not know anything. They no longer have a reward, and even the memory of them is forgotten. {{rf{6}}} What they loved and hated, as well as what they desired, has already perished. They no longer have any share in what is done under the sun. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Eccl-08-15]] }}}
{{rf{7}}} Go -- eat your food with joy, and drink your wine with a merry heart! For God already has approved your deeds. {{rf{8}}} Always be clothed in white garments, and never let your head lack oil! {{rf{9}}} Enjoy life with the wife whom you love all the days of your vain life which he gives you under the sun, because this is your lot in life and in the toil with which you toil under the sun. {{rf{10}}} Whatever your hand finds to do -- do it with all your might; for in Sheol -- where you are going -- no one works, plans, knows, or thinks about anything. {{rf{11}}} I looked again and saw under the sun that the race does not belong to the swift, the battle does not belong to the mighty, food does not belong to the wise, wealth does not belong to the intelligent, and success does not belong to the skillful, for time and chance befalls all of them. {{rf{12}}} For man does not know his time. Just as fish are caught in a cruel net and like birds who are seized in a snare, so also humans are ensnared at a cruel time when it falls suddenly upon them. {{rf{13}}} I have also seen this example of wisdom under the sun, and it seemed great to me. {{rf{14}}} There was a small city with few people in it. A great king came and besieged it, building great siege works against it. {{rf{15}}} Now, a poor wise man was found in it, and he delivered the city by his wisdom. {{rf{16}}} So I concluded that wisdom is better than might, yet the wisdom of the poor is despised, and his words are not heard. {{rf{17}}} The words of the wise are heard in peace more than the shouting of a ruler is heard among the fools. {{rf{18}}} Wisdom is better than weapons of war, but one sinner destroys much good. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Eccl-09-07]] }}}
Dead flies cause a bad smell and ruin the ointment of the perfumer. So also a little folly outweighs wisdom and honor. {{rf{2}}} The heart of the wise inclines to his right, but the heart of the fool inclines to his left. {{rf{3}}} Even when the fool walks along the road, he lacks sense; he tells everyone that he is a fool. {{rf{4}}} If the anger of the ruler rises against you, do not leave your post, for calmness can undo great offenses. {{rf{5}}} There is an evil I have seen under the sun -- it is an error that proceeds from a ruler! {{rf{6}}} The fool is set in many high places, but the rich sit in lowly places. {{rf{7}}} I have even seen slaves riding on horses and princes walking like slaves on the earth! {{rf{8}}} Whoever digs a pit will fall into it. Whoever breaks through a wall, a snake will bite him. {{rf{9}}} Whoever quarries stones will be wounded by them. Whoever splits logs will be endangered by them. {{rf{10}}} If the ax is blunt but one does not sharpen its edge, he must exert more effort, but the advantage of wisdom is it brings success. {{rf{11}}} If the snake bites before the charming, the snake charmer will not succeed. {{rf{12}}} The wise man wins favor by the words of his mouth, but the fool is devoured by his own lips. {{rf{13}}} He begins by saying what is foolish and ends by uttering what is wicked delusion. {{rf{14}}} The fool talks too much, for no one knows what will be. Who can tell anyone what will happen in the future? {{rf{15}}} The fool is so worn out by a hard day's work he cannot even find his way home at night. {{rf{16}}} Woe to you, O land, when your king is a youth and your princes feast in the morning. {{rf{17}}} Blessed are you, O land, when your king is a son of nobility and your princes feast at the proper time -- to gain strength and not to get drunk. {{rf{18}}} Through sloth the roof sinks in, and through idleness of hands the house leaks. {{rf{19}}} Feasts are held for celebration, wine cheers the living, and money answers everything. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Eccl-10-01]] }}}
{{rf{20}}} Do not curse the king even in your thoughts, and do not curse the rich even in your own bedroom, for a bird of the sky may carry your voice; a winged messenger may repeat your words. {{rf big{1}}} Send out your bread on the water, for in many days you will find it. {{rf{2}}} Divide your share in seven or in eight, for you do not know what disaster will happen on the earth. {{rf{3}}} When the clouds are full, they empty rain on the earth. Whether a tree falls to the south or whether it falls to the north, the place where the tree falls -- there it will be. {{rf{4}}} Whoever watches the wind will not sow; whoever watches the clouds will not reap. {{rf{5}}} Just as you do not know how the path of the wind goes, nor how the bones of a fetus form in a mother's womb, so you do not know the work of God who makes everything. {{rf{6}}} Sow your seed in the morning, and do not let your hands rest in the evening, for you do not know what will prosper -- whether this or that, or whether both of them alike will succeed. {{rf{7}}} The light is sweet, and it is pleasant for the eyes to see the sun. {{rf{8}}} For if a man lives many years, let him rejoice in all of them! Let him remember that the days of the darkness will be many -- all that is coming is vanity! {{rf{9}}} Rejoice, O young man, in your youth, and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth! Follow the ways of your heart and the sight of your eyes -- but know that God will bring you into judgment for all these things. {{rf{10}}} Banish anxiety from your heart, and put away pain from your body, for youth and vigor are vanity. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Eccl-10-20]] }}}
Remember your Creator in the days of your youth -- before the days of trouble come and the years draw near when you will say, "I find no pleasure in them!" {{rf{2}}} Before the sun, the light, the moon, and the stars darken and the clouds return after the rain. {{rf{3}}} When the guards of the house tremble, and the men of strength are bent; the grinders cease because they are few, and those looking through the windows see dimly. {{rf{4}}} When the doors on the street are shut, when the sound of the grinding mill is low; one rises up to the sound of the bird, and all the daughters of song are brought low. {{rf{5}}} They are afraid of heights, and terrors are on the road. The almond tree blossoms, and the grasshopper draws itself along, and desire fails because man goes to his eternal home, and the mourners go about in the streets. {{rf{6}}} Before the silver cord is snapped and the golden bowl is broken; and the jar at the foundation is broken, and the wheel at the cistern is broken. {{rf{7}}} And the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the breath returns to God who gave it. {{rf{8}}} "Vanity of vanity!" says the Teacher. "Everything is vanity!" {{rf{9}}} The Teacher was full of wisdom, and he taught the people with knowledge. He carefully considered many proverbs and carefully arranged them. {{rf{10}}} The Teacher sought to find delightful words, and he wrote what is upright -- truthful words. {{rf{11}}} The words of the wise are like cattle goads; the collections of the sages are like pricks inflicted by one shepherd. {{rf{12}}} My son, be careful about anything beyond these things. For the writing of books is endless, and too much study is wearisome. {{rf{13}}} Now that all has been heard, here is the final conclusion: Fear God and obey his commandments, for this is the whole duty of man. {{rf{14}}} For God will bring every deed into judgment, including every secret thing, whether good or evil. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Eccl-12-01]] }}}
* It was in a garden that Noah failed.
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Unconditional election is the doctrine which states that God chose those whom he was pleased to bring to a knowledge of himself, not based upon any merit shown by the object of his grace and not based upon his looking forward to discover who would "accept" the offer of the gospel. God has elected, based solely upon the counsel of his own will, some for glory and others for damnation (Romans 9:15,21). He has done this act before the foundations of the world (Ephesians 1:4-8).
This doctrine does not rule out, however, man's responsibility to believe in the redeeming work of God the Son (John 3:16-18). ''Scripture presents a tension between God's sovereignty in salvation, and man's responsibility to believe which it does not try to resolve.''
* Both are true:
** to ''deny man's responsibility'' is to affirm an unbiblical hyper-Calvinism;
** to ''deny God's sovereignty'' is to affirm an unbiblical Arminianism.
The elect are saved unto good works (Ephesians 2:10). Thus, though good works will never bridge the gulf between man and God that was formed in the Fall, good works are a result of God's saving grace. This is what Peter means when he admonishes the Christian reader to make his "calling" and "election" sure (2 Peter 1:10). Bearing the fruit of good works is an indication that God has sown seeds of grace in fertile soil. [[Source|http://www.reformed.org/calvinism/]]
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Westminster Catechism Chapter XXV, "Of the Church":
I. The catholic or universal Church, which is invisible, consists of the whole number of the elect, that have been, are, or shall be gathered into one, under Christ the Head thereof; and is the spouse, the body, the fulness of Him that filleth all in all.
II. The visible Church, which is also catholic or universal under the Gospel (not confined to one nation, as before under the law), consists of all those throughout the world that profess the true religion; and of their children: and is the kingdom of the Lord Jesus Christ, the house and family of God, out of which there is no ordinary possibility of salvation.
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A comparison can be made to the way the prophets viewed Israel They did not see too great a contradiction in affirming the specialness of Abraham's physical seed and God's election of a remnant. And "election" did not categorically refer to the ultimately saved; God's choice could refer to a generation, could be reversed.
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* G. Goldsworthy, p 122.
* Predestination seems to cut across the reality of human drama. (And so it does for the Muslim: "muktoob!") In truth it only complements that reality.
* Sheep and goats. As created. Never is it proposed a goat is transformed into a sheep. Nor do weeds become wheat.
* Proceeds from the doctrine of unmerited favor. Is the true foundation of gratitude in worship.
* Of the two men who were crucified with Jesus, both were cursing at the outset.
* <<Bbl Lv 16:8 >> - a lot cast before the Lord for life and death.
* Hymn: "Salvation Unto Us Has Come".
* <<Bbl 2Tim 1:9 >>
* <<Bbl J 6:64 >>-65 reflects on <<Bbl J 6:43 abbr >>. And is complicated by <<Bbl J 6:70 abbr >>.
* Elijah and Jezebel never were face to face.
* //Like passions// includes fear and morbid depression.
* [[Gehazi]]
* [[Leader]]
* <<Bbl Gal 2:1 >>-7
* <<Bbl 1C 2:1 >>
* <<Bbl Pr 16:21>>, 23-24
* [[Intellect]], persuasion
!!!! Falseness in
* Paul did not come with smooth speech.
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We think of them as controlling us, but God wants them under His control. The Psalms address this.
* [[ThoughtLife]]
* Heart: will and thinking. Kidneys: emotions.
* [[Hope]]
* <<Bbl 2C 1:3 >>-7
* <<Bbl Gn 12:2 >>-3
* <<Bbl R 4:16 >>-18
* Barnabas
* [[House]]
* <<Bbl Pr 27:17 >> -- //edification, encouragement//
* <<Bbl 1C 15:33 >> -- the negative opposite
* <<Bbl 1P 2:4>>-5 -- As you come to him, the living Stone -- rejected by men but chosen by God and precious to him -- you also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
* //companionship//
* Instructions to Timothy
* Is //the Lord God has given me the tongue of a disciple ... encourage the weary one with a word.//
* <<Bbl Jer 12:5>>
* <<Bbl R 12:12>>
* <<Bbl 2tim 2:10 >>-13
* A job search can be described as //No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, YES.//
* Not {{anti{[[Passivity]]}}}
* Kick off that blister packaging.
* Say [[Amen]] during the sermon. It will make you listen and commit. This commitment requires assessing or judging the content; a person who is not "amenable" cannot give the amen, for he withholds judgment - this can be like the Pharisees, searching for a fault.
* Man’s chief end is to glorify God, and to enjoy Him forever.
* God is glorified by your enjoyment of Him, just as He is anti-glorified (disrespected, despised, blasphemed) by your enjoyment of anti-Him. It's right to receive normal, incidental pleasures as good; better yet to learn that good things are truly appreciated only in His goodness. Pleasure comes by His grace; our appreciation will be consummated in worship to the Giver.
* <<Bbl 1Tim 6:17>>c teaches that God does not withhold enjoyment from Christ's follower.
* @@color:indigo;...that I may be reasonably happy in this life, and supremely happy with you forever in the next...@@ // -- the serenity prayer//
* [[Thank]]
* <<Bbl H 12:1>>
* [[Sin]] entangles, like a bola. The verb conveys limited yet critical influence.
* The snare is not important in itself. It is the goal of the trapper that makes it meaningful. It is the fate beyond the snare that matters.
* My friend was mugged by people who tripped him, send their limbs into his craftily.
!! the wicked snare themselves
PS 9:14-16. The ideal end for a nemesis (Lion King, Spiderman). 7:15-16, PR 1:18.
* E.T. Welch speaks of weak (because deceived) Christians longing for God's help as "Feeling a bit like prisoners in Alcatraz who heard the parties across the San Francisco Bay."
* [[Covet]]
*''<<Bbl E 1:1 abbr >>-<<Bbl E 3:12 abbr >>'' answers the question, //''What has God done for us?''//
## He blessed us with every spiritual blessing in heavenly places in Christ.
## He chose us in him before the foundation of the world.
## He predestined us to the adoption of sons.
## He bought redemption through His blood.
## He revealed the mystery of His will.
## He provided us an inheritance.
## He sealed us in him with the Holy Spirit of promise.
## He made us alive in Christ.
## He raised us up with Christ.
## He joined us with other believers in the church.
*''<<Bbl E 3:13 abbr >>-21'' is the linchpin (hinge) and answers the question, //''How does God expect us to be able to change?''//
*''<<Bbl E 4:1 abbr >>-<<Bbl E 6:24 abbr >>'' answers the question, //''What does God desire from us?''//
## Develop biblical unity (<<Bbl E 4:1 abbr >>-10).
## Develop spiritual gifts (<<Bbl E 4:11 abbr >>-16).
## Develop Christlike godliness (<<Bbl E 4:17 abbr >>-<<Bbl E 6:9 abbr >>).
## Deploy spiritual armor (<<Bbl E 6:10 abbr >>-19).
(Source: Howard Eyrich)
Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, to the saints who are in Ephesus and faithful in Christ Jesus: {{rf{2}}} Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. {{rf{3}}} Blessed is the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ, {{rf{4}}} just as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him in love, {{rf{5}}} having predestined us to adoption through Jesus Christ to himself according to the good pleasure of his will, {{rf{6}}} to the praise of the glory of his grace that he bestowed on us in the beloved, {{rf{7}}} in whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace, {{rf{8}}} that he caused to abound to us in all wisdom and insight, {{rf{9}}} making known to us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure that he purposed in him, {{rf{10}}} for the administration of the fullness of times, to bring together all things in Christ, the things in the heavens and the things on the earth, in him {{rf{11}}} in whom also we were chosen, having been predestined according to the purpose of the One who works all things according to the counsel of his will, {{rf{12}}} that we who hoped beforehand in Christ should be for the praise of his glory, {{rf{13}}} in whom also you, when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, in whom also when you believed you were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit, {{rf{14}}} who is the down payment of our inheritance, until the redemption of the possession, to the praise of his glory. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Eph-01-01]] }}}
* Phrase //faith in Jesus Christ// not found in Ephesians (?).
<<Bbl E 1:1 abbr >> the final phrase is not simply a bit of affirmation. It actually qualifies for whom the letter is written.
1:3-14 This is an exposition of the One-In-Three: 3-6 deals with the Father, 6b-13a with the Son, and 13b-14 with the Spirit.
<<Bbl E 1:3 abbr >> The two uses of //blessed// are different; one as homage, the other as bestowal.
<<Bbl E 1:11 abbr>>-14 The inheritance from the adoption, vs. 5.
1:13 see <<Bbl 2C 5:5 >>
<<Bbl E 1:18 abbr >>-19 Despair, insecurity and fear are answered in the 3 areas of revelation.
<<Bbl E 1:20 abbr>>-23 The original created order was //God, humankind, the world//. Paul asserts a recreated order: //God, the redeemed in Christ, the world//. Compare <<Bbl 1C 3:21>>-23
{{rf{15}}} Because of this I also, hearing of your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love for all the saints, {{rf{16}}} do not cease giving thanks for you, making mention in my prayers, {{rf{17}}} that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may give you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him {{rf{18}}} (the eyes of your hearts having been enlightened), so that you may know what is the hope of his calling, what are the riches of the glory of his inheritance among the saints, {{rf{19}}} and what is the surpassing greatness of his power toward us who believe, according to the working of his mighty strength {{rf{20}}} which he has worked in Christ, raising him from the dead and seating him at his right hand in the heavenly places, {{rf{21}}} above all rule and authority and power and lordship and every name named, not only in this age but also in the coming one, {{rf{22}}} and he subjected all things under his feet and gave him as head over all things to the church, {{rf{23}}} which is his body, the fullness of the one who fills all things in every way. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Eph-01-15]] }}}
And you, although you were dead in your trespasses and sins, {{rf{2}}} in which you formerly walked according to the course of this world, according to the ruler of the authority of the air, the spirit now working in the sons of disobedience, {{rf{3}}} among whom also we all formerly lived in the desires of our flesh, doing the will of the flesh and of the mind, and we were children of wrath by nature, as also the rest of them were. {{rf{4}}} But God, being rich in mercy, because of his great love with which he loved us, {{rf{5}}} and we being dead in trespasses, he made us alive together with Christ (by grace you are saved), {{rf{6}}} and raised us together and seated us together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, {{rf{7}}} in order that he might show in the coming ages the surpassing riches of his grace in kindness upon us in Christ Jesus. {{rf{8}}} For by grace you are saved through faith, and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God; {{rf{9}}} it is not from works, so that no one can boast. {{rf{10}}} For we are his creation, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, so that we may walk in them. {{rf{11}}} Therefore remember that formerly you, the Gentiles in the flesh, the so-called uncircumcision by the so-called circumcision in the flesh, made by hands, {{rf{12}}} that you were at that time apart from Christ, alienated from the citizenship of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of promise, not having hope, and without God in the world. {{rf{13}}} But now in Christ Jesus you, the ones who once were far away, have become near by the blood of Christ.
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{{rf{14}}} For he himself is our peace, who made both one and broke down the dividing wall of the partition, the enmity, in his flesh, {{rf{15}}} invalidating the law of commandments in ordinances, in order that he might create the two in himself into one new man, thus making peace, {{rf{16}}} and might reconcile both in one body to God through the cross, killing the enmity in himself. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Eph-02-01]] }}}
<<Bbl E 2:3 abbr>> //children of wrath// - hebraism. Sin nature inherited from Adam. No distinction made for the Jews.
<<Bbl E 2:8 abbr>> Lancaster identifies //works// as circumcision, a token of conversion to Judaism. This would mean the //works// of v. 9 are in a separate catogory.
2:10 We are His poetry, to extrapolate from the Greek. In Christ Jesus we are perfectly suited to the good works prepared in advance. There is no mismatch. This is man in his setting. Since these works are prepared individually and relationally, there is no competition, no comparing.
<<Bbl E 2:19 abbr >>c. //Household// launches the illustration of a building.
{{rf{17}}} And coming, he proclaimed the good news of peace to you who were far away and peace to the ones who were near, {{rf{18}}} because through him we both have access in one Spirit to the Father. {{rf{19}}} Consequently, therefore, you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but you are fellow citizens of the saints and members of the household of God, {{rf{20}}} built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the cornerstone, {{rf{21}}} in whom the whole building, joined together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord, {{rf{22}}} in whom you also are built up together into a dwelling place of God in the Spirit.
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{{rf big{1}}} On account of this I, Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus for the sake of you Gentiles {{rf{2}}} -- if indeed you have heard about the stewardship of God's grace given to me for you. {{rf{3}}} According to revelation the mystery was made known to me, just as I wrote beforehand in brief, {{rf{4}}} so that you may be able when you read to understand my insight into the mystery of Christ {{rf{5}}} (which in other generations was not made known to the sons of men as it has now been revealed to his holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit): {{rf{6}}} that the Gentiles are fellow heirs, and fellow members of the body, and fellow sharers of the promise in Christ Jesus through the gospel, {{rf{7}}} of which I became a servant, according to the gift of God's grace given to me, according to the working of his power. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Eph-02-17]] }}}
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3:1-12 In taking up the first person, Paul reflects back to his salutation (//an apostle of Christ//) and opens a new phase of writing - or begins to open it.
<<Bbl Eph 3:3 abbr >> //As I wrote before in brief// - There is another writing; or this refers to the previous chapter, but it that case our translation would just say "as I ave said".
3:6 This pivotal verse explains Paul's "mystery". The term is apokalypsis; <<Bbl I 25:7 "" note >>.
<<Bbl Eph 3:12 abbr >> Bold access is also encouraged in <<Bbl H 4:16 >>.
<<Bbl Eph 3:20 abbr >> This truly closes the first half by restating that God's power is at work, particularly //in us// the church; the effects outstrip any human imagination. The church is the vessel of His glory eternally (//forever and ever//) but also in this current age (//all generations//). The rest of the letter is dedicated to securing this glory in the most immediate and temporal sense (not as separate from the eternal dimension).
{{rf{8}}} To me, the least of all the saints, was given this grace: to proclaim the good news of the fathomless riches of Christ to the Gentiles, {{rf{9}}} and to enlighten everyone as to what is the administration of the mystery hidden from the ages by God, who created all things, {{rf{10}}} in order that the many-sided wisdom of God might be made known now to the rulers and the authorities in the heavenly places through the church, {{rf{11}}} according to the purpose of the ages which he carried out in Christ Jesus our Lord, {{rf{12}}} in whom we have boldness and access in confidence through faith in him.
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{{rf{13}}} Therefore I ask you not to be discouraged at my afflictions on behalf of you, which are your glory. {{rf{14}}} On account of this, I bend my knees before the Father, {{rf{15}}} from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named, {{rf{16}}} that he may grant you according to the riches of his glory to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in the inner person, {{rf{17}}} that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith (you having been firmly rooted and established in love), {{rf{18}}} in order that you may be strong enough to grasp together with all the saints what is the breadth, and length, and height, and depth, {{rf{19}}} and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, in order that you may be filled up to all the fullness of God. {{rf{20}}} Now to the one who is able to do beyond all measure more than all that we ask or think, according to the power that is at work in us, {{rf{21}}} to him be the glory in the church and in Christ Jesus to all generations forever and ever. Amen. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Eph-03-08]] }}}
Therefore I, the prisoner in the Lord, exhort you to live in a manner worthy of the calling with which you were called: {{rf{2}}} with all humility and gentleness, with patience, putting up with one another in love, {{rf{3}}} being eager to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace; {{rf{4}}} one body and one Spirit (just as also you were called with one hope of your calling), {{rf{5}}} one Lord, one faith, one baptism, {{rf{6}}} one God and Father of all, who is over all, and through all, and in all. {{rf{7}}} Now to each one of us was given this grace, according to the measure of Christ's gift. {{rf{8}}} Therefore it says, "Ascending on high he led captivity captive; he gave gifts to men." {{rf{9}}} Now "he ascended," what is it, except that he also descended to the lower regions of the earth? {{rf{10}}} The one who descended himself is also the one who ascended above all the heavens, in order that he might fill all things. {{rf{11}}} And he himself gave some as apostles and some as prophets and some as evangelists and some as pastors and teachers {{rf{12}}} for the equipping of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for building up the body of Christ, {{rf{13}}} until we all reach the unity of the faith and the knowledge of the Son of God, to a mature man, to a measure of the maturity of the fullness of Christ, {{rf{14}}} so that we may no longer be infants, tossed about by waves and carried about by every wind of teaching, by the trickery of people, by craftiness with reference to the scheming of deceit. {{rf{15}}} But speaking the truth in love, we are to grow into him with reference to all things, who is the head, Christ, {{rf{16}}} from whom the whole body, joined together and held together by every supporting ligament, according to the working by measure of each single part, the growth of the body makes for the building up of itself in love. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Eph-04-01]] }}}
<<Bbl E 4:1 abbr >> [[Walk]]
4:11 If it's taken as a five-fold ministry, the left hand can sketch out the offices.
## thumb -- apostle (alone able to address all the other digits)
## index finger -- prophet (pointing)
## middle finger -- evangelist (it's the longest)
## ring finger -- pastor (married to the fellowship)
## pinky -- teachers should be humble.
<<Bbl E 4:11 abbr >> Is there or is there not a comma?!
<<Bbl E 4:14 abbr >> False fads of doctrine; all mechanations of this world such as porn, marketing, fraud and manipulation.
<<Bbl E 4:16 abbr >> every joint supplies (necessary active sub parts), each part working properly, causing (agency) the growth, building up of itself (the whole nothing reveals of this agency of sub parts). [[Interdependence]].
<<Bbl E 4:17 abbr >> //insist on it in the Lord// - Interesting equivalent to <<Bbl 1C 7:10 >>. Interesting also that it supports a tacit assumption that Paul might not be speaking, as it were "ex cathedra".
<<Bbl E 4:17 abbr >>-24 Sets a pattern which continues (at points loosely) through <<Bbl E 5:21 abbr >>.
<<Bbl E 4:26 abbr >> [[Anger]]
<<Bbl E 4:27 abbr >> The pattern established in verses 1-24 makes this the sequel to v. 26.
<<Bbl E 5:1 abbr >> @@Division@@. See <<Bbl a 5:21 abbr >> note.
<<Bbl E 5:3 abbr >> Reiterated in <<Bbl E 5:5 abbr >>.
<<Bbl E 5:3 abbr >> unmentionable, like <<Bbl E 5:12 abbr >>
<<Bbl E 5:4 abbr >> , <<Bbl E 5:20 abbr>> both contrast with vice.
<<Bbl E 5:9 abbr >> ,11 compares with <<Bbl Gal 5:19 >>-23.
<<Bbl E 5:10 abbr >>-11 Troy Haas p 72.
<<Bbl E 5:11 abbr >> ,12 contrast participation with confrontation.
<<Bbl E 5:12 abbr >> The shame of //speaking of// seems to conflict with the command to //expose//. But the connection is with the warning against joining in (v 11a). The shame is in the ''doing''; that is what makes it unspeakable.
<<Bbl E 5:21 abbr >> Hinge from <<Bbl E 4:17 abbr>>-5:20 into <<Bbl E 5:22 abbr>>-6:9.
{{rf{17}}} This therefore I say and testify in the Lord, that you no longer walk as the Gentiles walk: in the futility of their mind, {{rf{18}}} being darkened in understanding, alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardness of their heart, {{rf{19}}} who, becoming callous, gave themselves over to licentiousness, for the pursuit of all uncleanness in greediness. {{rf{20}}} But you did not learn Christ in this way, {{rf{21}}} if indeed you have heard about him, and you were taught by him (just as truth is in Jesus), {{rf{22}}} that you take off, according to your former way of life, the old man, who is being destroyed according to deceitful desires, {{rf{23}}} be renewed in the spirit of your mind, {{rf{24}}} and put on the new man (in accordance with God), who is created in righteousness and holiness from the truth. {{rf{25}}} Therefore, putting aside the lie, speak truth each one of you with his neighbor, because we are members of one another. {{rf{26}}} Be angry and do not sin; do not let the sun set on your anger, {{rf{27}}} nor give place to the devil. {{rf{28}}} The one who steals must steal no longer, but instead must labor, working with his own hands what is good, so that he may have something to share with the one who has need. {{rf{29}}} No rotten word must proceed from your mouth, but only something good for the building up of the need, in order that it may give grace to those who hear, {{rf{30}}} and do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption. {{rf{31}}} All bitterness, and rage, and wrath, and clamor, and abusive speech, must be removed from you, together with all wickedness. {{rf{32}}} Become kind toward one another, compassionate, forgiving one another, just as also God in Christ has forgiven you. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Eph-04-17]] }}}
Therefore become imitators of God, as beloved children, {{rf{2}}} and live in love, just as also Christ loved us, and gave himself for us an offering and sacrifice to God for a fragrant smell. {{rf{3}}} But sexual immorality, and all uncleanness, or greediness, must not even be named among you (as is fitting for saints), {{rf{4}}} and obscenity, and foolish talk, or coarse jesting (which are not proper), but rather thanksgiving. {{rf{5}}} For this you know for certain, that every sexually immoral person, or unclean person, or greedy person (who is an idolater), does not have an inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God. {{rf{6}}} Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God is coming on the sons of disobedience. {{rf{7}}} Therefore do not be sharers with them, {{rf{8}}} for you were formerly darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Live like children of light {{rf{9}}} (for the fruit of the light is in all goodness and righteousness and truth), {{rf{10}}} trying to learn what is well-pleasing to the Lord. {{rf{11}}} And do not participate in the unfruitful deeds of darkness, but rather even expose them. {{rf{12}}} For it is shameful even to speak about the things being done by them in secret, {{rf{13}}} but all things exposed by the light are made visible, {{rf{14}}} for everything made visible is light. Therefore it says, Wake up, sleeper, and rise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Eph-05-01]] }}}
{{rf{15}}} Therefore, consider carefully how you live, not as unwise but as wise, {{rf{16}}} making the most of the time because the days are evil. {{rf{17}}} Because of this do not become foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is. {{rf{18}}} And do not be drunk with wine (in which is dissipation), but be filled by the Spirit, {{rf{19}}} speaking to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and singing praise in your heart to the Lord, {{rf{20}}} giving thanks always for all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ to the God and Father, {{rf{21}}} being subject to one another out of reverence for Christ {{rf{22}}} -- wives to their own husbands as to the Lord, {{rf{23}}} because the husband is the head of the wife, as also Christ is the head of the church (he himself being the Savior of the body). {{rf{24}}} But as the church is subject to Christ, thus also wives should be subject to their husbands in everything. {{rf{25}}} Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for her; {{rf{26}}} in order that he might sanctify her by cleansing her with the washing of water by the word; {{rf{27}}} in order that he might present to himself the church glorious, not having a spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but that she may be holy and blameless. {{rf{28}}} Thus also husbands ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. The one who loves his own wife loves himself. {{rf{29}}} For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as also Christ does the church, {{rf{30}}} because we are members of his body. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Eph-05-15]] }}}
5:19 see <<Bbl Col 3:16 >>
<<Bbl E 5:22 abbr >> Alice Bower.
<<Bbl E 5:24 abbr >> [[Submit]]
<<Bbl E 5:24 abbr >> a man cherishes his own flesh. Husband, if you mistreat your wife, perhaps the cause is a failure to appreciate your actual unity; if you did, the connection to Christ would be evident. The remedy has already been presented, beginning with Paul's prayer for spiritual awareness. Working from the knowledge of Christ, your marriage can be an oasis.
<<Bbl Eph 5:28 abbr >>-29, 33b
* the [[GoldenRule]]. I am always responsive to my body's needs: I'm hungry, so I eat.
* see <<Bbl 1S 18:3 >>
<<Bbl E 5:32 abr >> not it's a profound mystery, rather this mystery is profound.
<<Bbl E 5:33 abbr >> Having asserted the spiritual reality, Paul returns to the mundane to deny any misleading dichotomy. Husband and wife are each enjoined to self-government, not regulation of the other.
{{rf{31}}} "For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two will become one flesh." {{rf{32}}} (This mystery is great, but I am speaking with reference to Christ and the church.) {{rf{33}}} Only you also, each one of you, must thus love his own wife as himself, and the wife must respect her husband.
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{{rf big{1}}} Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. {{rf{2}}} "Honor your father and mother" (which is the first commandment with a promise), {{rf{3}}} "in order that it may be well with you, and you may live a long time on the earth." {{rf{4}}} And fathers, do not make your children angry, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord. {{rf{5}}} Slaves, obey your earthly masters with fear and trembling, in the sincerity of your heart, as to Christ, {{rf{6}}} not while being watched, as people pleasers, but as slaves of Christ doing the will of God from the heart, {{rf{7}}} serving with goodwill as to the Lord and not to people, {{rf{8}}} because you know that each one of you, whatever good he should do, this he will receive back from the Lord, whether slave or free. {{rf{9}}} And masters, do the same things to them, giving up threats, knowing that both their Lord and yours is in heaven, and there is no partiality with him. {{rf{10}}} Finally, become strong in the Lord and in the might of his strength. {{rf{11}}} Put on the full armor of God, so that you may be able to stand against the stratagems of the devil, {{rf{12}}} because our struggle is not against blood and flesh, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the world rulers of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Eph-05-31]] }}}
<<Bbl E 6:1 abbr >>-4 -- see [[Discipline]], also compare <<Bbl Col 3:20 >>-21.
<<Bbl E 6:1 abbr >> <<Bbl Ex 20:12 >>
<<Bbl E 6:1 abbr >>-06 Consider Paul's audience: grouchy dads, oppositional wives, insolent kids, mean bosses, delinquent employees. But imagine the family that together has heard this read; everyone now has permission to check each other.
<<Bbl E 6:4 abbr >> <<Bbl Dt 6:7 >>
<<Bbl E 6:4 abbr >> refers, like the rest, to <<Bbl E 5:21 >>. It is a subtle yet daring stroke.
<<Bbl E 6:4 abbr >>a what OT law can be cited here? The principle that we do not cause another to stumble: for it is hard to honor an angry parent, and our job as parents is to make obedience as easy and natural as possible.
<<Bbl E 6:9 abbr >> [[Slave]]
<<Bbl E 6:15 abbr >> //utility belt of truth// (WEB)
{{rf{13}}} Because of this, take up the full armor of God, in order that you may be able to resist in the evil day, and having done everything, to stand. {{rf{14}}} Stand therefore, girding your waist with truth, and putting on the breastplate of righteousness, {{rf{15}}} and binding shoes under your feet with the preparation of the good news of peace, {{rf{16}}} in everything taking up the shield of faith, with which you are able to quench all the flaming arrows of the evil one, {{rf{17}}} and receive the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God, {{rf{18}}} with all prayer and supplication praying at all times in the Spirit, and to this end being alert with all perseverance and supplication for all the saints, {{rf{19}}} and for me, that a word may be given to me at the opening of my mouth, to make known with boldness the mystery of the gospel, {{rf{20}}} for the sake of which I am an ambassador in chains, that in them I may speak freely, as it is necessary for me to speak. {{rf{21}}} Now, so that you also may know my circumstances, what I am doing, Tychicus, my dear brother and faithful servant in the Lord, will make known to you all things, {{rf{22}}} whom I have sent to you for this very reason, that you may know our circumstances, and he may encourage your hearts. {{rf{23}}} Peace to the brothers and love with faith, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. {{rf{24}}} Grace be with all who love our Lord Jesus Christ in incorruptibility. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Eph-06-13]] }}}
* //Fairness//, [[Justice]]
* Unequal treatment of the widows led to deaconate.
* The world's divisions, imposed by society; Downton Abbey; "cardholders".
* <<Bbl Col 3:26>>-28
* [[Readiness]]
* <<Bbl 2Tim 3:17>>
* <<Bbl H 13:21>>
* <<Bbl 1S 17:38 "" note>> -- wrong-size armor
* <<Bbl 1S 18:5>> The gift of armor. The time for equipping is not when pressed or stressed.
* <<Bbl Dt 23:13 "" note>> -- soldier's accoutrement
{{fyi{
I heartily subscribe to the EFCA statement of faith with the exception of one point, one word: //premillennial//.
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* [[LastDays]], [[DayOfTheLord]]
* <<Bbl Ps 96:10 >>-13 ; <<Bbl Mt 24:45 >>-51 ; <<Bbl J 14:1 >>-3 ; <<Bbl L 21:34 >>; <<Bbl A 1:10 >>-11 ; <<Bbl R 12:17 >>-19 ; <<Bbl 1C 15:23 >>; <<Bbl 1Thes 4:15 >>-17 ; <<Bbl 2Tim 4:8 >>; <<Bbl Tit 2:13 >>, <<Bbl Php 3:20 >>; <<Bbl 1P 5:4 >>; <<Bbl 1J 2:28 >>; <<Bbl 1J 3:2 >> ("...he who has this hope purifies himself...")
* The coming of the Lord as a thief: <<Bbl Joe 2:1 >>; <<Bbl 1Thes 5:2 >>-3 , <<Bbl Mt 24:42 >>-43
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* [[Eschatology-Theories]]
(below not checked much)
# Futurist or Premillennialist -- See [[Eschatology]]
# Historist or Postmillennialist
# Preterist or Amillennialist
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* [[Eschatology]]
http://www.jhsonline.org/cocoon/JHS/a093.html (do the scripture ref links work?)
https://www.inthebeginning.org/chiasmus/xfiles/xesther.pdf
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The king is usually at the center; and he is the subject (joined by Mordecai at the end) of the intro and outro.
(A) Feast: <<Bbl Esther 1:2 abbr >> .
. .(B) Vashti- the queen: <<Bbl Esther 1:9 abbr >>
. .(C) "Vashti, come!"/ Seven Eunuchs: <<Bbl Esther 1:10 abbr >>
. . . .(D) King Follows Advice/ Seven Nobles: <<Bbl Esther 1:13 abbr >>
. . . . . .(X) The King Remembers: <<Bbl Esther 2:1 abbr >>
. . . .(D') King follows advice/ Personal attendants: <<Bbl Esther 2:2 abbr >>
. .(C') Esther comes to the king/ Seven maids: <<Bbl Esther 2:5 abbr >>
. .(B') Esther made queen: <<Bbl Esther 2:17 abbr >>
(A') Banquet: <<Bbl Esther 2:18 abbr >>
This follows by interlude about Mordecai, <<Bbl Esther 2:19 abbr >>-23
(A'/A) At the Gate/ Haman Honored/ Mordecai's "Jewishness" revealed: <<Bbl Esther 3:1 abbr >>
. .(B) Date/ Decree/ Signet Ring/ Bewilderment in Susa: <<Bbl Esther 3:7 abbr >>
. .(C) Haman with the king/ Mordecai mourning in the city: <<Bbl Esther 4:1 abbr >>
. .(D) Haman Uncovered: <<Bbl Esther 4:7 abbr >>
. . . .(E) Esther's Request: <<Bbl Esther 5:1 abbr >>
. . . .(F) At the Banquet/ Esther's Petition: <<Bbl Esther 5:6 abbr >>
. . . . . .(G) Haman and his advisors/ Haman Boasting: <<Bbl Esther 5:9 abbr >>
. . . . . .(H) Haman to go to the king about hanging Mordecai:
. . . . . . . .(X) The King Remembers: <<Bbl Esther 6:1 abbr >>
. . . . . .(H') Haman goes to the king about hanging Mordecai: <<Bbl Esther 6:4 abbr >>
. . . . . .(G') Mordecai Honored/ Haman and his advisors: <<Bbl Esther 6:6 abbr >>
. . . .(F') At the Banquet: <<Bbl Esther 6:14 abbr >>
. . . .(E') Esther's Request: <<Bbl Esther 7:2 abbr >>
. .(D') Haman Uncovered/ Covered: <<Bbl Esther 7:5 abbr >>
. .(C') Haman hanged/ Mordecai in the kings presence: <<Bbl Esther 7:9 abbr >>
. .(B') Date/ Decree/ Signet Ring/ Rejoicing: <<Bbl Esther 8:2 abbr >>
(A') Mordecai leaving the king's presence/ Jews Celebrate:
(A'/ A) Date/ Mordecai in charge: <<Bbl Esther 9:1 abbr >>
. .(B) Throughout the Land the Jews execute a campaign: <<Bbl Esther 9:4 abbr >>
. . . .(C) In Susa 500 Killed/ Haman's Sons killed/ No Plunder: <<Bbl Esther 9:6 abbr >>
. . . . . .(X) At the Palace the Kings Asks- "Anything else?": <<Bbl Esther 9:12 abbr >>
. . . .(C') In Susa 10 Sons Hanged/ 300 Killed/ No Plunder: <<Bbl Esther 9:14 abbr >>
. .(B') Throughout the Land the Jews execute a campaign: <<Bbl Esther 9:16 abbr >>
(A') Date/ Feasting: <<Bbl Esther 9:17 abbr >>
(A) Mordecai's Letter/ Purim: <<Bbl Esther 9:20 abbr >>
. .(B) Haman plotting: <<Bbl Esther 9:24 abbr >>
. . . .(X) The king finds out: <<Bbl Esther 9:25 abbr >>
. .(B') Haman punished: <<Bbl Esther 9:26 abbr >>
(A') Mordecai's Letter/ Purim: Esther <<Bbl Esther 9:28 abbr >>
! Form criticism
* The opening through <<Bbl Esther 2:4 abbr>> presents as an officious royal history.
** It is a wonderful dramatic hook, with plenty of irony between the lines (mostly front-loaded for later enjoyment). It is in fact a marvelously modern kind of introduction.
** <<Bbl Esther 2:5 abbr>> commences the story in more traditional fashion.
* Mordecai's intervention to deliver the King is a small standout separating the big structures.
* Esther has many instances of [[Chiasmus]]. My perception is that these structures vary in scope from a single statement to sets of episodes, and they overlap or intersect instead of appearing in succession. They are unmistakable present, but points of correspondence or beginning and ending seem doubled or allusive.
** [[Esther-01-00-chiasmus]]
** Search on //chiasmus// in notes for more.
* The king's ''presence'' in Esther
** [[Nearness]]
** The first eleven verses establish a thematic emphasis on the presence and proximity of subjects to their king.
** This culminates in the raised scepter of <<Bbl Esther 4:11>>, <<Bbl Esther 5:2 abbr>>, and again in the private banquet of chapter 7.
** This use of //presence// is useful for teaching the power of this motif as applied to God. For example, a comparison of <<Bbl Esther 1:13>>-19 or <<Bbl Esther 5:1-8 abbr>> ... can be approached inductively.
! The remarkable cast
!!!! King Ahasuerus
* Also known as Xerxes.
* Christ is a better King (chap 1).
* And a better bridegroom (2).
!!!! Queen Vashti
* We learn some things about Vashti.
** This is a mark of God's wisdom and scripture's inspiration.
** In an ordinary course of review, a historian might comment: the Vashti episode provides a little background for the legal enactment, but is basically unimportant. This despite the interest of women, who over several generations gathered in groups to discuss this "little background".
!!!! Mordecai
* Mordecai is of Benjamin, the tribe of Kish of Saul.
* Mordecai's situation at one point is like <<Bbl Eccl 9:14 >>-16, the poor man who delivered a city and was forgotten.
* But Mordecai is at last remembered because of Queen Esther's credit given in <<Bbl Esther 2:22>> and recorded for the posterity of <<Bbl Esther 6:1 abbr>>.
!!!! Esther
* Her danger and degradation are simply due to the sins of her forefathers.
* She is pressed into royal service through a government-sponsored sex-trafficking ring of empiric proportions.
* When introduced, her identity is left imprecise, which seems designed to fit the narrative. First, she is "a nobody" in Susa, and second, Mordecai has directed her to hide her lineage and thus her heritage.
* Like Moses, who also finds himself inside the empire, a crisis forces her to choose which side she will serve. Mordecai explains the stakes.
* Esther knows her beauty is a depreciating asset. (Similar to Joseph, who knew he would be forgotten, leaving God's people vulnerable.)
!!!! Haman
* He is descended from an //Agagite//, which may refer to the Agag of 1 Samuel. That nemesis was spared through Saul's disobedience; so Mordecai's relationship to Saul's family is significant. Since all the local names are foreign, maybe Haman is not connected to that Agag - but the writer might use the similar sound to build tension.
!!!! Zeresh
* The third woman in the story is perhaps a foil for both Vashti and Esther.
* <<Bbl Esther 4:14 abbr>>, <<Bbl Esther 5:13 abbr>>, <<Bbl Esther 6:12 abbr>>
And it happened in the days of Ahasuerus, the Ahasuerus who reigned from India to Cush -- over one hundred and twenty-seven provinces. {{rf{2}}} In those days as King Ahasuerus was sitting on the throne of his kingdom, which was in the citadel of Susa, {{rf{3}}} he gave a banquet in the third year of his reign for all his officials and servants. The army of Persia and Media and the nobles and officials of the provinces were in his presence {{rf{4}}} as he displayed the wealth of the glory of his kingdom and the glorious splendor of his greatness for many days, one hundred and eighty days. {{rf{5}}} And when those days were completed, the king gave for all the people that were present at the citadel of Susa, both great and small, a banquet in the courtyard of the king's palace garden that lasted seven days. {{rf{6}}} There were curtains of finely woven linen and blue cloth tied with cords of fine white linen and purple cloth to silver curtain rings and pillars of alabaster, and couches of gold and silver on a paved floor of alabaster, precious stone, mother-of-pearl, and costly stones. {{rf{7}}} Drinks were served in goblets of gold and goblets of different kinds, and there was plentiful royal wine according to the bounty of the king. {{rf{8}}} There were no restrictions on the drinking, for the king had instructed every official of his palace to do as each one pleased. {{rf{9}}} Furthermore, Queen Vashti gave a banquet for the women in the palace that belonged to King Ahasuerus. {{rf{10}}} On the seventh day, when the heart of the king was merry with wine, he said to Mehuman, Biztha, Harbona, Bigtha, Abagtha, Zethar, and Carcas, seven of the eunuchs attending King Ahasuerus, {{rf{11}}} to bring Queen Vashti before the king with her royal crown to show the people and the officials her beauty, for she was very attractive. {{rf{12}}} But Queen Vashti refused to come at the word of the king that was conveyed by the eunuchs. And the king became very angry, and his anger burned in him. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Esther-01-01]] }}}
1:8 By the king's decree, everyone gets as much as they want of whatever they like. So the king sets firmly in place the elements of Esther's elevation: drunken decision-making (v 10 and 2:1), self-will (v 12), and directives that rebound unexpectedly.
1:11 Queen Vashti is a ''"10"''. She's the capstone of Ahasuerus' glory, and everyone knows it. The importance of her defiance is in exact proportion to the anticipation of her appearing.
<<Bbl Esther 1:12 abbr>> In this sordid episode, there is no point in debating who is in the wrong, or how the marriage could have been improved. Its only significance is to show God's power to open the door of a pagan palace to a humble Jewish virgin. <<Bbl Pr 21:1>>
<<Bbl Esther 1:19 abbr >> This formula found also in <<Bbl Dan 6:8 >>. It's not unlike adding an amendment to the Texas State Constitution. Don't miss the peremptory loss of Vashti's royal title.
1:22 The closing phrase is odd. It seems misplaced, an artifact from the explanation just earlier that the law was translated for all realms.
<<Bbl Esther 2:1 abbr >>-11 shows chiasmus. The queen's defiance (v 12) interrupts the kingdom harmony (vss 1-2).
<<Bbl Esther 2:1 abbr >> The chapter division seems misplaced, but the larger chiastic structure indicates not.
<<Bbl Esther 2:5 abbr >>-7 shows chiasmus, with Esther's beauty (//form and figure//) at the center. This seems to be in a larger structure, 2:1-17; and verse 18 proclaims a banquet corresponding with chapter 1.
<<Bbl Esther 2:7 abbr>> is a compact example, with Esther's gob-stopping beauty at the center.
<<Bbl Esther 2:10 abbr >> Examples of Esther's discretion and obedience.
2:12-20 shows chiasmus.
<<Bbl Esther 2:15 abbr >>, <<Bbl Esther 2:20 abbr >>, Esther's inner character is the inner key of chiasmus.
{{rf{13}}} And the king said to the wise men, the ones who know the times -- for it was the procedure of the king before all those who knew law and rights; {{rf{14}}} and those next to him were Carshena, Shethar, Admatha, Tarshish, Meres, Marsena, Memucan, the seven officials of Persia and Media who had access to the king and sat first in the kingdom -- {{rf{15}}} "According to the law, what is to be done with Queen Vashti, because she has not done the command of King Ahasuerus conveyed by the eunuchs? {{rf{16}}} And Memucan said before the king and the officials, "Not only has Queen Vashti done wrong to the king, but to all the officials and all of the people who are in all the provinces of King Ahasuerus. {{rf{17}}} For this deed of the queen will be known to all the women, causing them to look with contempt on their husbands, as they will say, 'King Ahasuerus commanded Queen Vashti to be brought before him but she did not come!' {{rf{18}}} This day the women of nobility from Persia and Media will respond to all the officials of the king and there will be no end to contempt and anger. {{rf{19}}} If it pleases the king, let a royal edict go out from him, and let it be written among the laws of Persia and Media so that it will not be altered, that Vashti cannot come before King Ahasuerus; and let the king give her royal position to her neighbor who is better than she. {{rf{20}}} And let the king's decree that he will make be proclaimed in all his kingdom, because it is vast and all the women will honor their husbands, great and small." {{rf{21}}} This advice pleased the king and the officials, and the king acted according to the word of Memucan. {{rf{22}}} And he sent letters to all the provinces of the king, to each province according to its own script, and to every people in their own language, that every man should be the master of his house and who speaks in the language of his people. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Esther-01-13]] }}}
After these things, when the anger of King Ahasuerus subsided, he remembered Vashti and what she had done and what had been decreed against her. {{rf{2}}} And the king's servants attending him said, "Let them seek attractive young virgins for the king. {{rf{3}}} Let the king appoint chief officers in all the provinces of his kingdom, and let them gather every attractive young virgin to the harem in the citadel of Susa under the care of Hegai, the king's eunuch, who is in charge of the women; and let him give them their beauty treatment. {{rf{4}}} And let the young woman who is pleasing in the king's eyes become queen in place of Vashti. The thing was good in the king's eyes, and he acted accordingly.
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{{rf{5}}} There was a Jew in the citadel of Susa whose name was Mordecai son of Jair, son of Shimei, son of Kish, a Benjaminite, {{rf{6}}} who was deported from Jerusalem with the exiles who were deported with Jeconiah the king of Judah, whom King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon had deported. {{rf{7}}} He was raising Hadassah, that is Esther, his uncle's daughter, for she did not have a father or a mother; the young woman had a beautiful figure and was very attractive. When her father and mother died, Mordecai had taken her as his daughter. {{rf{8}}} And it happened, at the proclaiming of the edict of the king and his law, when many young women were being gathered to the citadel of Susa under Hegai's care, Esther was taken to the king's palace under the care of Hegai who was in charge of the women. {{rf{9}}} The young woman pleased him and she won favor in his presence, and he quickly provided for her beauty treatment and her portion of food, with seven chosen maids to give to her from the king's palace, and he advanced her and her maids to the best part of the harem. {{rf{10}}} Esther did not disclose her people and her family because Modecai had charged her that she must not tell. {{rf{11}}} And every day Modecai would walk up and down in front of the courtyard of the harem to learn how Esther was doing. {{rf{12}}} When the turn came for each girl to go to King Ahasuerus, after the end of twelve months of being under the regulations of the women -- for the days of their beauty treatments had to be filled, six months with the oil of myrrh and six months with perfumes and women's cosmetics -- {{rf{13}}} in this way, the girl goes to the king and all that she asks is given to her to take with her from the harem to the king's palace. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Esther-02-01]] }}}
{{rf{14}}} In the evening she would go and in the morning she would return to the second harem under the care of Shaashgaz, the king's eunuch in charge of the concubines. She would not go back to the king unless the king delighted in her and she was called by name. {{rf{15}}} When the turn came near for Esther daughter of Abihail the uncle of Mordecai, who had taken her as a daughter, to go to the king, she did not ask anything except what Hegai the eunuch of the king who was in charge of the women, advised. And Esther carried favor in the eyes of everyone that saw her. {{rf{16}}} Esther was taken to King Ahasuerus, to his palace, in the tenth month that is Tebeth in the seventh year of his reign. {{rf{17}}} And the king loved Esther more than all the women, and she won his favor and loyalty more than all the virgins, so he put a royal crown on her head and made her queen instead of Vashti. {{rf{18}}} And the king gave a great banquet, Esther's banquet, for all his officials and servants. And he granted a tax amnesty to the provinces and he gave gifts with royal liberality. {{rf{19}}} When the virgins were gathered a second time, Mordecai was sitting at the gate of the king. {{rf{20}}} Esther had not made known her family and her people, just as Mordecai had instructed her; for Esther did what Mordecai told her, just as when she was brought up by him.
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{{rf{21}}} In those days Mordecai was sitting at the gate of the king. Bigthana and Teresh, two of the king's eunuchs from the keepers of the threshold, became angry and they conspired to assassinate King Ahasuerus. {{rf{22}}} And the matter became known to Mordecai and he told it to Queen Esther, and Esther told it to the king in the name of Mordecai. {{rf{23}}} And the matter was investigated and found to be so; and the two of them were hanged on the gallows, and it was written in the scroll of the events of the days before the presence of the king. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Esther-02-14]] }}}
After these things King Ahasuerus promoted Haman son of Hammedatha the Agagite, and he exalted him and set his position above all the officials who were with him. {{rf{2}}} And all of the king's servants who were at the gate of the king were kneeling and bowing down to Haman; for so the king had commanded concerning him, but Mordecai did not kneel and bow down. {{rf{3}}} And the king's servants who were at the gate of the king said to Mordecai, "Why are you transgressing the command of the king?" {{rf{4}}} They spoke to him day after day, but he did not listen to them, and they informed Haman to see if Mordecai's resolve would prevail; for he had told them that he was a Jew. {{rf{5}}} And Haman saw that Mordecai was not kneeling and bowing down to him, and he was filled with anger. {{rf{6}}} But he considered it beneath him to lay hands on Mordecai only, for they told him of Mordecai's people, and Haman sought to destroy all the Jews, the people of Mordecai, who were in the kingdom of Ahasuerus. {{rf{7}}} In the first month, that is, the month of Nisan, in the twelfth year of King Ahasurus, he cast pur -- that is, the lot -- before the presence of Haman for the day and for the month, until the twelfth month, that is, the month of Adar. {{rf{8}}} And Haman said to King Ahasuerus, "There is a certain people scattered and separated among the peoples in all of the provinces of your kingdom; their laws are different from every other people, and they do not observe the laws of the king; it is not appropriate for the king to tolerate them. {{rf{9}}} If it pleases the king, let a decree be issued to destroy them, and I will pay ten thousand talents of silver to those who do the job, to bring to the treasury of the king." {{rf{10}}} So the king removed his signet ring from his hand and gave it to Haman son of Hammedatha the Agagite, the enemy of the Jews. {{rf{11}}} And the king said to Haman, "The money is given to you and to the people to do with it as you see fit. {{rf{12}}} And the king's secretaries were called in the first month on the thirteenth day, and a decree was issued, according to all that Haman commanded, to the satraps of the king and to the governors who were over all the provinces, and to the officials of all the people, to each province according to its own script and to all people according to their own language; it was written in the name of King Ahasuerus and was sealed with the king's ring. {{rf{13}}} Letters were sent by couriers to all the provinces of the king to destroy, to kill, and to annihilate all the Jews, both young and old, women and children, on one day, the thirteenth day of the month, that is Adar, and to plunder their goods. {{rf{14}}} A copy of the edict was presented as law in every province making it known to all the people to be ready for that day. {{rf{15}}} The couriers went out quickly by order of the king, and the law was issued in the citadel of Susa. The king and Haman sat down to drink; and the city of Susa was bewildered. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Esther-03-01]] }}}
<<Bbl Esther 3:1 abbr >>-2 so Agag was not quite childless. And Mordecai is from Saul, who failed in vanquishing Agag of Amalek. The defiance perhaps explained.
<<Bbl Esther 3:1 abbr >>. Wrong promotion. But Haman is wealthy and likes a banquet, <<Bbl Esther 3:15 abbr>>.
3:2 This is the offense that marked out Daniel - holiness. Mordecai is not one of the king's servants.
3:8
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^^3:8^^ 'There is a certain people scattered and separated among the peoples in all of the provinces of your kingdom...'
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This reasoning found also in <<Bbl J 19:12 >>; see also <<Bbl J 7:7 >>.
<<Bbl Esther 3:08 abbr >> Scattered, yet clearly identifiable. Sound familiar? [[Holiness]].
3:11 I wonder if this has a discreet allusion to menstruation; a woman in favor is summoned monthly.
<<Bbl Esther 3:15 abbr >> The city of Susa is seen in 8:15.
<<Bbl Esther 3:12 abbr >>. From whence such wealth? Possibly from the Jews.
<<Bbl Esther 3:12 abbr >>. Genocide was perhaps a little less common than a queen's dethronement. The king thinks little of it, asks no questions. But the populace may not accept it as easily.
<<Bbl Esther 3:15 abbr >> So the whims of Herod disturbed //all of Jerusalem//.
<<Bbl Esther 4:10 abbr >>-17 The high point of suspense of the story.
4:14 As events unfold in <<Bbl Esther 5:14 abbr>> and <<Bbl Esther 6:13 abbr>>, one has to wonder if Haman's wife was in favor of his audience with the famously lovely queen.
<<Bbl Esther 5:14 abbr>> This advice is directly (and ironically) repudiated in <<Bbl Esther 6:13 abbr>>. Maybe Haman is hated by most of the people whom he thought esteemed him.
<<Bbl Esther 7:8 abbr>> In a microcosm of the true imminent assault, the king realizes Haman's villainy. The cry he gives is a small echo of God's jealousy for the people He calls His bride.
<<Bbl Esther 9:26 abbr>>ff Mordecai instead of Ahasuerus is now the administrator of regions, with a sly, mirthful reference to the 127 provinces mentioned in <<Bbl Esther 1:1 abbr>>.
{{rf big{1}}} Mordecai learned all that had been done and he tore his clothes and put on sackcloth and ashes. And he went through the middle of the city and cried out a loud and bitter cry; {{rf{2}}} he went up to the entrance of the gate of the king, for he could not go to the gate of the king in sackcloth. {{rf{3}}} In every province each place where the king's edict and his law came, there was great mourning for the Jews with fasting, crying, wailing, and sackcloth; and ashes were spread out as a bed for them. {{rf{4}}} And Esther's maids and her eunuchs came and they told her, and the queen was deeply distressed; she sent garments to clothe Mordecai so that he might remove his sackcloth -- but he did not accept them. {{rf{5}}} Then Esther called Hathach from the king's eunuchs who regularly attended to her, and she ordered him to go to Mordecai to learn what was happening and why. {{rf{6}}} So Hathach went out to Mordecai, to the public square of the city, which was in front of the gate of the king, {{rf{7}}} and Mordecai told him all that had happened to him, and the exact amount of money that Haman has promised to pay to the treasury of the king for the destruction of the Jews. {{rf{8}}} And he gave him a copy of the edict of the law that had been issued in Susa for their destruction to show Esther, and to inform her, and to charge her to go to the king and make supplication to him and entreat before him for her people. {{rf{9}}} And Hathach went back and told Esther the words of Mordecai. {{rf{10}}} And Esther spoke to Hathach and she gave him a message for Mordecai: {{rf{11}}} "All the king's servants and the people of the king's provinces know that if any man or woman who goes to the king to the inner courtyard, who is not called, he has one law, to be killed, except if the king extends to him the gold scepter so that he may live. I have not been called to come to the king for thirty days." {{rf{12}}} And they told Mordecai the words of Esther. {{rf{13}}} Then Mordecai told them to reply to Esther: "Do not think that your life will be saved in the palace of the king more than all the Jews. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Esther-03-14]] }}}
{{rf{14}}} For if indeed you keep silent at this time, relief and deliverance will arise for the Jews from another place, and you and the family of your father will perish. Who knows? Perhaps you have come to a royal position for a time such as this." {{rf{15}}} Esther replied to Mordecai: {{rf{16}}} "Go, gather all the Jews that are found in Susa and fast for me; do not eat or drink for three days, both night and day. I and my young girls will fast likewise, and then I will go to the king, which is not according to the law; if I perish, I perish. {{rf{17}}} And Mordecai went away and he did everything that Esther commanded him. {{rf big{1}}} And it happened, on the third day, and Esther put on royal clothes, and she stood in the inner courtyard of the king's palace, opposite the king's palace; the king was sitting on his royal throne in the throne room opposite the doorway of the palace. {{rf{2}}} When the king saw Queen Esther standing in the courtyard she found favor in his eyes, and the king held out the gold scepter that was in his hand to Esther, and Esther approached and touched the top of the scepter. {{rf{3}}} And the king said to her, "What is it, Queen Esther? What is your request? It will be given to you -- even half the kingdom." {{rf{4}}} And Esther said, "If it is good to the king, let the king and Haman come today to the banquet that I have prepared for him." {{rf{5}}} And the king said, "Bring Haman quickly to fulfill the request of Esther." So the king and Haman came to the banquet that Esther had prepared. {{rf{6}}} And the king said to Esther while they were drinking wine, "What is your petition? It will be given to you. What is your request? Even half the kingdom, it will done. {{rf{7}}} And Esther answered and said, "This is my petition and my request. {{rf{8}}} If I have found favor in the eyes of the king, and if it is good to the king to grant my petition and fulfill my request, let the king and Haman come to the banquet that I will prepare for them tomorrow, and I will do according to the word of the king. {{rf{9}}} And Haman went out on that day rejoicing and feeling good. But when Haman saw Mordecai at the gate of the king, and he did not rise or tremble before him, Haman was filled with rage toward Mordecai. {{rf{10}}} But Haman controlled himself and went to his house, and he sent for and brought his friends and Zeresh his wife. {{rf{11}}} And Haman recounted to them the splendor of his wealth and the number of his sons and all the ways that the king had honored him and promoted him above the officials and king's servants. {{rf{12}}} And Haman added, "Esther the Queen did not let just anyone come to the banquet that she prepared with the king except me, and I am also invited tomorrow to her banquet with the king. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Esther-04-14]] }}}
{{rf{13}}} But all this fails to satisfy me when I see Mordecai the Jew setting at the gate of the king." {{rf{14}}} And Zeresh his wife and all of his friends said to him, "Let them make a gallows fifty cubits high, and in the morning tell the king, "Let them hang Mordecai on it; then go with the king to the banquet happily." The advice pleased Haman, so he had the gallows made. {{rf big{1}}} During that night the king's sleep escaped him, and he gave orders to bring the scroll of records and chronicles, and they were read before the king. {{rf{2}}} And it was found written how Mordecai had reported concerning Bigthana and Teresh, two of the king's eunuchs from the keepers of the threshold who had conspired to assassinate King Ahasuerus. {{rf{3}}} And the king asked, "What has been done to bestow honor to Mordecai for this?" And the king's servants who attended him said, "Nothing has been done for him." {{rf{4}}} And the king asked, "Who is in the courtyard?" Haman had just come to the courtyard of the king's outer palace to tell the king to hang Mordecai on the gallows that he had prepared for him. {{rf{5}}} And the king's servants said to him, "Look! Haman is standing in the courtyard." And the king said, "Let him come." {{rf{6}}} And Haman came, and the king said to him, "What is to be done for the man whom the king wishes to honor?" And Haman thought to himself, "Whom would the king wish to honor more than me?" {{rf{7}}} So Haman said to the king, "For a man whom the king wishes to honor, {{rf{8}}} let them bring royal clothing with which the king has clothed himself, and a horse that the king has ridden, and on whose head a royal head-dress has been given. {{rf{9}}} And let the clothing and the horse be given to the man by the officials of the king's nobles; let them cloth the man whom the king wishes to honor, and let him ride on his horse through the public square of the city, and let them proclaim before him, 'Thus, it will be done for the man whom the king wishes to honor.'" {{rf{10}}} Then the king said to Haman, "Quickly, take the clothing and the horse, just as you have said, and do so to Mordecai the Jew who sits at the gate of the king; you must not leave out anything from what you have said." {{rf{11}}} So Haman took the clothing and the horse, and he clothed Mordecai and let him ride through the public square of the city; and he proclaimed before him, "Thus, it is done to the man whom the king wishes to honor." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Esther-05-13]] }}}
{{rf{12}}} Then Mordecai returned to the gate of the king, and Haman rushed to his house mournful and with his head covered. {{rf{13}}} And Haman told Zeresh his wife and all his friends all that had happened to him. And his advisers and Zeresh his wife said to him, "If Mordecai, before whom you have begun to fall, is from the descendants of the Jews, you will not prevail against him, but will certainly fall before him." {{rf{14}}} As they were still speaking with him the king's eunuchs arrived and hurried to bring Haman to the banquet that Esther had prepared. {{rf big{1}}} So the king and Haman went to dine with Queen Esther. {{rf{2}}} And the king again said to Esther, on the second day while they were drinking, "What is your petition, Queen Esther? It will be given to you. What is your request? It will be given to you -- even half the kingdom." {{rf{3}}} Then Queen Esther answered, and she said, "If I have found favor in your eyes, O king, and if it is good to the king, let my life be given to me at my petition and my people at my request; {{rf{4}}} I and my people have been sold to be destroyed and killed, to be annihilated. If we had been sold as male and female slaves I would have kept quiet, because this is not a need sufficient to trouble the king." {{rf{5}}} And King Ahasuerus said to Queen Esther, "Who is he, and where is he, who gave himself the right to do this?" {{rf{6}}} And Esther said, "The adversary and enemy is this evil Haman!" And Haman was terrified before the king and queen. {{rf{7}}} The king rose in his anger from the banquet and went to the palace garden, and Haman stood to beg for his life from Queen Esther, for he realized that the king was determined to make an end to his life. {{rf{8}}} And the king returned from the palace garden to the banquet hall, where Haman was lying prostrate on the couch that Esther was on, and the king said, "Will he also molest the queen with me in the house?" As the words went from the king's mouth they covered Haman's face. {{rf{9}}} And Habrona, one of the eunuchs in the presence of the king, said, "Look, the same gallows that Haman had prepared for Mordecai who spoke good for the sake of the king stands at Haman's house, fifty cubits high." And the king said, "Hang him on it." {{rf{10}}} And they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai, and the anger of the king was abated. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Esther-06-12]] }}}
On that day King Ahasuerus gave Queen Esther the house of Haman, the enemy of the Jews; and Mordecai came before the king, for Esther had told what he was to her. {{rf{2}}} And the king removed his signet ring that he had taken away from Haman, and he gave it to Mordecai. So Esther set Mordecai over the house of Haman. {{rf{3}}} And Esther again spoke before the king, and she fell before his feet and wept, pleading for his grace to avert Haman the Agagite's evil plan and the plot that he devised against the Jews. {{rf{4}}} And the king held out to Esther the scepter of gold, and Esther rose and stood before the king, {{rf{5}}} and she said, "If it is good to the king, and if I have found favor before him, and if the king is pleased with this matter, and I have his approval, let an edict be written to revoke the letters of the plans of Haman son of Hammedatha the Agagite, which he wrote to destroy the Jews that are in all the provinces of the king. {{rf{6}}} For how can I bear to look on the disaster that will find my people, and how can I bear to look on the destruction of my family?" {{rf{7}}} And King Ahasuerus said to Queen Esther and to Mordecai the Jew, "Look, I have given Haman's house to Esther, and they have hanged him on the gallows because he plotted against the Jews. {{rf{8}}} Write as you see fit concerning the Jews in the name of the king, and seal it with the king's signet ring; for a decree that is written in the name of the king and sealed with the king's signet ring cannot be revoked." {{rf{9}}} And the secretaries of the king were summoned at that time, in the third month, which is in the month of Sivan on the twenty-third day, and an edict was written according to all that Mordecai commanded, to the Jews and to the governors and satraps and officials of the provinces from India to Cush -- one hundred and twenty-seven provinces -- each province according to its own script and to every people in their own language, and to the Jews in their own script and language. {{rf{10}}} And he wrote in the name of King Ahasuerus, and he sealed the letters with the king's signet ring and sent them by couriers on horses, riding on royal horses bred by racing mares. {{rf{11}}} In them the king allowed the Jews who were in every city to assemble and defend their lives, to destroy and kill and annihilate any army of any people or province attacking them, including women and children, and to plunder their spoil, {{rf{12}}} in one day in all the provinces of King Ahasuerus, on the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month of Adar. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Esther-08-01]] }}}
{{rf{13}}} A copy of the edict was to be given as law in each province to inform all the people, so that the Jews would be ready on that day to avenge themselves from their enemies. {{rf{14}}} The mounted couriers on the royal horses went out without delay, urged by the king's word. The law was given in the citadel of Susa. {{rf{15}}} Mordecai went out from the presence of the king in royal clothing of blue cloth and white linen, and a great crown of gold and a robe of fine white linen and purple, and the city of Susa was shouting and rejoicing. {{rf{16}}} For the Jews, there was light and gladness, joy and honor. {{rf{17}}} In every province and city, wherever the king's edict and his law came, there was gladness and joy for the Jews, a banquet and a holiday, and many of the people from the country were posing as Jews because the fear of the Jews had fallen on them. {{rf big{1}}} In the twelfth month, that is the month of Adar, on the thirteenth day, on which the edict of the king arrived and his law was enacted, on the day in which the enemies of the Jews had hoped to gain power over them but was overturned, and the Jews gained power against their enemies, {{rf{2}}} the Jews gathered in their cities in all the provinces of King Ahasuerus to strike against those who sought their destruction, and no one could withstand them, as the fear of them fell on all the people. {{rf{3}}} All the officials of the provinces, the satraps, governors, and those who did the work of the king were supporting the Jews, because the fear of Mordecai had fallen on them. {{rf{4}}} For Mordecai was high-ranking in the king's palace and his fame spread throughout all the provinces as Mordecai grew more and more powerful. {{rf{5}}} The Jews struck down all their enemies with the sword, killing and destroying them; and they did as they pleased with those that hated them. {{rf{6}}} And in the citadel of Susa the Jews killed and destroyed five hundred men, {{rf{7}}} and Parshandatha, Dalphon, Aspatha, {{rf{8}}} Portha, Adalia, Aridatha, {{rf{9}}} Parmashta, Arisai, Aridai, and Vaizatha, {{rf{10}}} the ten sons of Haman, the son of Hammedatha, the enemy of the Jews; but they did not touch the plunder. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Esther-08-13]] }}}
{{rf{11}}} On that day the number of those being killed in the citadel of Susa was reported to the king. {{rf{12}}} And the king said to Queen Esther, "In the citadel of Susa the Jews killed and destroyed five hundred men and the ten sons of Haman. What have they done in the rest of the king's provinces? What is your petition? It will be granted to you. And what further is your request? It will be done." {{rf{13}}} Esther replied, "If it is good to the king, let tomorrow also be granted to the Jews who are in Susa to do according to the edict of today; and let them hang Haman's ten sons on the gallows." {{rf{14}}} And the king said to do so. And a decree was issued in Susa and Haman's ten sons were hanged. {{rf{15}}} And the Jews were gathered who were in Susa, and on the fourteenth day of the month of Adar and they killed in Susa three hundred men, but they did not touch the plunder. {{rf{16}}} The rest of the Jews who were in the king's provinces gathered and defended their lives and found repose from their enemies. And they killed seventy-five thousand of those that hated them, but they did not touch the plunder. {{rf{17}}} This was on the thirteenth day of the month of Adar. They rested on the fourteenth day and made it a day of feasting and joy. {{rf{18}}} But the Jews who were in Susa gathered on the thirteenth and on the fourteenth day, and rested on the fifteenth day. And they made it a day of feasting and joy. {{rf{19}}} Therefore the Jews in the rural areas, living in the rural towns, made the fourteenth month of Adar a day of joy and feasting, a festive day of giving gifts to each other. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Esther-09-11]] }}}
{{rf{20}}} Mordecai wrote down these things and he sent letters to all the Jews who were in all of the provinces of King Ahasuerus, both near and far, {{rf{21}}} to impose on them to keep the fourteenth day of the month of Adar, and the fifteenth day, every year, {{rf{22}}} as the day that the Jews found relief from their enemies, and the month which changed for them from sorrow to joy, and from a mourning ceremony to a festive day; to make them days of feasting and joy, and giving gifts to each other and to the poor. {{rf{23}}} And the Jews adopted what they had begun to do and what Mordecai had written to them. {{rf{24}}} For Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, the enemy of all the Jews had plotted against the Jews to destroy them, and he had cast pur, that is the lot, to rout them out and destroy them. {{rf{25}}} But when it came to the attention of the king, he gave orders in writing that his evil plot that he had devised against the Jews should return on his head, and they hung him and his sons on the gallows. {{rf{26}}} Therefore they called these days Purim, because of the name Pur. Thus because of all the words of this letter, and of what they faced concerning this, and of what had happened to them, {{rf{27}}} the Jews established and adopted it for themselves and for their offspring, and for all who joined them. They did not neglect to observe these two days every year as it was written and appointed to them. {{rf{28}}} These days are to be remembered and are to be kept in every generation, and in family, province, and city; and these days of Purim are not to be neglected among the Jews, and their memory shall not come to an end among their offspring. {{rf{29}}} So Queen Esther the daughter of Abihail and Mordecai the Jew wrote in full authority to confirm this second letter of Purim. {{rf{30}}} He sent letters of words of peace and truth to all the Jews, to the one hundred and twenty-seven provinces of Ahasuerus' kingdom, {{rf{31}}} to establish these days of Purim at their appointed times, just as Mordecai the Jew and Queen Esther had imposed, and just as they had imposed on themselves and their offspring regulations of the fast and their lament. {{rf{32}}} And the command of Esther established these practices of Purim, and it was written on the scroll. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Esther-09-20]] }}}
King Ahasuerus imposed forced labor on the land and islands of the sea. {{rf{2}}} All the work of his authority and his powerful deeds, and the full accounting of the greatness of Mordecai, to which the king advanced him, are they not written on the scroll of the chronicles of the kings of Media and Persia? {{rf{3}}} For Mordecai the Jew was second-in-command to King Ahasuerus. He was great for the Jews and popular with many of his brothers, for he sought good for his people, interceding for the welfare of all his descendants. LENGTH SHORT {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Esther-10-01]] }}}
Ethics: Conducting yourself in a way that is worthy of approval; those who observe such conduct have no grounds for accusation.
Effectiveness: Doing something good.
If you are effective and ethical, those who observe you are forced to consider God's truth. This is the goal of ethics!
The goal of ethics is to give power to your witness through observable rightousness.
NOT the goal of ethics:
X To be holy.
X To make everybody like you.
X To never be accused of anything.
X To obey everyone's rules.
* If you neglect ethics, you are failing to appreciate one of these things:
## The hatred and cunning of Satan. (And what does "satan" mean?)
## The value of your witness.
* What was Jesus' vocation while on earth? Evangelism. Jesus was an evangelist.
* <<Bbl Mt 4:19>>
** This is not fly-fishing, not recreation, but what Peter knew it to be -- tiring, dangerous, necessary.
** The fisher (of men) must necessarily be situated apart from the fish.
* [[Witness]]
! For God's examination
* <<Bbl Gn 4:10 >>, <<Bbl Gn 6:4 >>.
! For man
* <<Bbl Gn 37:33 >>, <<Bbl Gn 39:16 >>, 27 Jacob , 38 Tamar
* <<Bbl Gn 42:20 >>, <<Bbl Gn 42:28 >>, <<Bbl Gn 43:18 >>, <<Bbl Gn 44:12 >>
{{{
7 The LORD said, “I have surely seen the affliction of My people who are in Egypt,
and have given heed to their cry because of their taskmasters,
for I am aware of their sufferings. 8 So I have come down to deliver them
from the power of the Egyptians, and to bring them up from that land
to a good and spacious land, to a land flowing with milk and honey,
to the place of the Canaanite and the Hittite and the Amorite and
the Perizzite and the Hivite and the Jebusite.
9 Now, behold, the cry of the sons of Israel has come to Me; furthermore,
I have seen the oppression with which the Egyptians are oppressing them.
10 Therefore, come now, and I will send you to Pharaoh,
so that you may bring My people, the sons of Israel, out of Egypt.”
11 But Moses said to God, “Who am I, that I should go to Pharaoh,
and that I should bring the sons of Israel out of Egypt?”
12 And He said, “Certainly I will be with you,
and this shall be the sign to you that it is I who have sent you:
when you have brought the people out of Egypt,
you shall worship God at this mountain.”
13 Then Moses said to God, “Behold, I am going to the sons of Israel,
and I will say to them, ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you.’
Now they may say to me, ‘What is His name?’ What shall I say to them?”
14 God said to Moses, “I AM WHO I AM”;
and He said, “Thus you shall say to the sons of Israel, ‘I AM has sent me to you.’”
15 God, furthermore, said to Moses, “Thus you shall say to the sons of Israel,
‘The LORD, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham,
the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you.’
This is My name forever, and this is My memorial-name to all generations.
16 Go and gather the elders of Israel together and say to them,
‘The LORD, the God of your fathers,
the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, has appeared to me,
saying, “I am indeed concerned about you and what has been done to you in Egypt.
17 So I said, I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt to
the land of the Canaanite and the Hittite and the Amorite and the
Perizzite and the Hivite and the Jebusite, to a land flowing with milk and honey.”’
}}}
{{{
a 3:8a a land flowing with milk and honey
b 3:8b to the place of the Canaanites and the Hittites and ...
c 3:9a the cry of the children of Israel has come to Me
d 3:9b I have also seen the oppression with which the Egyptians oppress them.
e 3:10 I will send you to Pharaoh
f 3:12 this shall be a sign to you that I have sent you
g 3:13a The God of your fathers has sent me to you,
i 3:13b What is His name?
j 3:13c What shall I say to them
x 3:14 And God said to Moses, -- I AM WHO I AM. --
j 3:14b Thus you shall say to the children of Israel,
i 3:14c I AM has sent me to you.
g 3:15a The LORD God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the
God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you.
f 3:15c This is My name forever, and this is My memorial to all generations.
e 3:16a Go and gather the elders of Israel
d 3:16b I have surely visited you and seen what is done to you in Egypt
c 3:17a I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt
b 3:17b to the land of the Canaanites and the Hittites and the Amorites ...
a 3:17c a land flowing with milk and honey
}}}
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* //Imitate//
* <<Bbl Mt 23:2 >>-4 (negative); <<Bbl Tit 2:7 >>; <<Bbl H 13:7 >>
* Paul sets himself as an example: <<Bbl 1C 4:16 >>,<<Bbl 1C 10:31 >> - 11.1; <<Bbl Php 3:17 >>-19 ,<<Bbl Php 4:9 >>; <<Bbl 1Thes 1:6 >>-7
* Timothy to be one: <<Bbl 1Tim 4:12 >>
* Elders: <<Bbl 1P 5:3 >>
* Example of God, Christ
* <<Bbl Lv 20:7 abbr >>; <<Bbl L 6:36 >>; <<Bbl Php 5:5 >>-13 ; <<Bbl H 10:7 >>; <<Bbl 1P 1:15 >>, <<Bbl 1P 2:21 >>; <<Bbl 1J 3:16 >>.
* ''Standard for {{anti{[[Accept]]}}}''
* [[Jealousy]]
* <<Bbl Jud 12:5 >>-6. The Shibboleth device (whereby enemies are identified for death on the basis of wrong pronunciation) has appeared at least ten other times in history.
* dire [[Need]]
* << Bbl Pr 6:11 >> (NASB) //Your poverty will come in like a vagabond and your need like an armed man.//
* in 1902 there was a mining accident in Tennessee. Lately the last letters were recovered.
* Drought can have a hidden effect - as in the death of our tree in the front yard. This illustrates the ''unmet'' need (water) in conjunction with the ''wound-event'' (fungal attack).
* Isa 2, 11.
* <<Bbl I 40:3 >> (John the immerser).
* Hos 11.
* <<Bbl Dan 9:13 >>-16 <<Bbl Jer 29:10 >>-14. <<Bbl I 43:5 >>-07, <<Bbl I 43:16 >>-21.
* <<Bbl Jer 23:7 >>-08
* <<Bbl Ps 78:51 >>-053
* <<Bbl R 8:14 >>-23
And these are the names of the sons of Israel who came to Egypt; with Jacob, they each came with his family: {{rf{2}}} Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah; {{rf{3}}} Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin; {{rf{4}}} Dan and Naphtali, Gad and Asher. {{rf{5}}} And all those who descended from Jacob were seventy individuals, and Joseph was in Egypt. {{rf{6}}} And Joseph died and all of his brothers and all of that generation. {{rf{7}}} And the Israelites were fruitful and multiplied and were many and were very, very numerous, and the land was filled with them. {{rf{8}}} And a new king rose over Egypt who did not know Joseph. {{rf{9}}} And he said to his people, "Look, the people of the Israelites are greater and more numerous than us. {{rf{10}}} Come, we must deal shrewdly with them, lest they become many, and when war happens, they also will join our enemies and will fight against us and go up from the land." {{rf{11}}} And they appointed commanders of forced labor over them in order to oppress them with their forced labor, and they built storage cities for Pharaoh -- Pithom and Rameses. {{rf{12}}} And as he oppressed them, so they became many, and so they spread out, and the Egyptians were afraid because of the presence of the Israelites. {{rf{13}}} And the Egyptians ruthlessly compelled the Israelites to work. {{rf{14}}} And they made their lives bitter with hard work with mortar and with bricks and with all sorts of work in the field -- with all their work in which they ruthlessly enslaved them. {{rf{15}}} And the king of Egypt said to the Hebrew midwives -- of whom the name of the one was Shiphrah and the name of the second was Puah -- {{rf{16}}} and he said, "When you help the Hebrews give birth, you will look upon the pairs of testicles; if he is a son, you will put him to death, and if she is a daughter, she will live." {{rf{17}}} But the midwives feared God, and they did not do as the king of Egypt had said to them. They let the boys live. {{rf{18}}} And the king of Egypt summoned the midwives, and he said to them, "Why have you done this thing and let the boys live?" {{rf{19}}} And the midwives said to Pharaoh, "Because the Hebrew women are not like the Egyptian women, because they are vigorous; before the midwife comes to them, they have given birth." {{rf{20}}} And God did the midwives good, and the Israelite people became many and were very numerous. {{rf{21}}} And so because the midwives feared God, he gave them families. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Exodus-01-01]] }}}
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10/13/88 -- I make it through the first book of my good old tattered and mutilated Bible -- yea!
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The ease of transition from Genesis to Exodus indicates same authorship. Note the Land of Goshen particularly.
For the date of the Exodus, see <<Bbl 1K 6:1 >>
1:7 The crisis of a fragile progeny with few representatives has been replaced by a different crisis, that of a multitude in danger of losing their heritage through pagan domination.
<<Bbl Ex 1:9 abbr >> A type is established from the beginning: Egypt is Satan and his oppressive tactics, Israel is the Church being delivered.
<<Bbl Ex 1:11 abbr >> See <<Bbl Gn 47:24 >>-26.
1:12 Persecution -- and its typical result. Persecution and fear intensify each other in an horrible cycle.
<<Bbl Ex 1:13 abbr >> and 14. Babel was the first brick and mortar edifice; these are the first big box stores.
1:15-21 A beautiful short story.
1:15 Pharaoh uses the midwives just as he uses the foremen, <<Bbl Exo 5:4>>.
1:16 see <<Bbl Rev 12:17 >>. Pharaoh fears the arrival of a deliverer, and employs Herod's strategy. But in both cases the very one they fear alone escapes, and in both cases it much later results in their downfall (a different Pharaoh).
<<Bbl Ex 1:19 abbr >>-20 [[Deceive]] as godliness. How perfectly the plan of Egypt backfires: the agents of procreation are more free than ever.
2:3 Obedience of a sort to the edict. A resignation (but not perhaps completely) of the child to death. Very nearly a picture of the ark of Noah. Cf <<Bbl H 11:24 >>
<<Bbl Ex 2:6 abbr >> Women don't understand war so well.
2:10 Another resignation of the child to death.
<<Bbl Ex 2:11 abbr >>-13 Moses had understanding without authority. And he had authority without understanding. How frustrating. [[Moses]] [[Understand]] [[Authorize]]
<<Bbl Ex 2:12 abbr >> Perhaps Moses' years in the Pharoah's court have instructed him in deciet and murder. In any case he is fulfilling the most base and hateful human tendencies with perfect ease. "How to Do Things the Way the World Does."
Jesus was tempted in just this way. In fact this incident could be viewed as a cognate to the temptation in the wilderness -- this one, of course, a failure.
2:13 Moses has got this idea that Egyptians and Israelites are on different sides in a conflict. But he does not yet really know why. Perhaps he's approaching it on purely political terms.
Nothing is going to remain hidden.
2:14 see 18:13-16. Moses learns that he does not have credentials. This is a first lesson for all God's children.
Note presence of Pharoah is a hebriasm meaning Pharoah's soveriegn authority. <<Bbl Jonah 1:3 >> must use the same words. Cf <<Bbl H 11:24 >>-27
<<Bbl Ex 2:19 abbr >> Had Moses ever before served? Another first lesson.
{{rf{22}}} And Pharaoh commanded all his people, saying, "Every son who is born you will throw into the Nile, and every daughter you will let live." {{rf big{1}}} And a man from the family of Levi went, and he took a descendent of Levi. {{rf{2}}} And the woman conceived, and she gave birth to a son, and she saw him, that he was a fine baby, and she hid him three months. {{rf{3}}} But when she could no longer hide him, she got a papyrus basket for him, and she coated it with tar and with pitch, and she placed the boy in it, and she placed it among the reeds on the bank of the Nile. {{rf{4}}} And his sister stood at a distance to know what would be done to him. {{rf{5}}} And the daughter of Pharaoh went down to wash at the Nile, while her maidservants were walking alongside the Nile, and she saw the basket in the midst of the reeds, and she sent her slave woman for it and took it {{rf{6}}} and opened it and saw him -- the boy -- and it was a lad weeping, and she had compassion for him and said, "This must be from the boys of the Hebrews." {{rf{7}}} And his sister said to the daughter of Pharaoh, "Shall I go and call for you a woman from the Hebrews who is nursing so that she will nurse the boy for you?" {{rf{8}}} And the daughter of Pharaoh said to her, "Go." And the girl went, and she called the mother of the boy. {{rf{9}}} And the daughter of Pharaoh said, "Take this boy and nurse him for me, and I myself will give you wages, and the woman took the boy, and she nursed him. {{rf{10}}} And the boy grew, and she brought him to the daughter of Pharaoh, and he became her son, and she called his name Moses, and she said, "Because I drew him out from the water." {{rf{11}}} And then in those days when Moses had grown up, he went out to his brothers, and he saw their forced labor, and he saw an Egyptian man striking a Hebrew man, one of his brothers. {{rf{12}}} And he turned here and there, and he saw no one, and he struck the Egyptian, and he hid him in the sand. {{rf{13}}} And he went out on the second day, and there were two Hebrew men fighting, and he said to the guilty one, "Why do you strike your neighbor?" {{rf{14}}} And he said, "Who appointed you as a commander and a judge over us? Are you intending to kill me like you killed the Egyptian?" And Moses was afraid, and he said, "Surely the matter has become known." {{rf{15}}} And Pharaoh heard this matter, and he sought to kill Moses, and Moses fled from Pharaoh, and he lived in the land of Midian, and he lived at a certain well. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Exodus-01-22]] }}}
{{rf{16}}} Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters, and they came and drew water and filled the troughs to water their father's flock. {{rf{17}}} And the shepherds came and drove them away, but Moses stood up and came to their rescue and watered their flock. {{rf{18}}} And they came to Reuel, their father, and he said, "Why have you come so quickly today?" {{rf{19}}} And they said, "An Egyptian man delivered us from the hand of the shepherds, and he even drew water for us and watered the flock." {{rf{20}}} And he said to his daughters, "Where is he? Why then have you left the man? Call him so that he can eat some food." {{rf{21}}} And Moses agreed to stay with the man, and he gave Zipporah his daughter to Moses. {{rf{22}}} And she bore a son, and he called his name Gershom because he said, "I am an alien in a foreign land." {{rf{23}}} And then during those many days, the king of Egypt died, and the Israelites groaned because of the work, and they cried out, and their cry for help because of the work went up to God. {{rf{24}}} And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob, {{rf{25}}} and God saw the Israelites, and God took notice. {{rf big{1}}} And Moses was a shepherd with the flock of Jethro, his father-in-law, the priest of Midian, and he led the flock to the west of the desert, and he came to the mountain of God, to Horeb. {{rf{2}}} And the angel of Yahweh appeared to him in a flame of fire from the midst of a bush, and he looked, and there was the bush burning with fire, but the bush was not being consumed. {{rf{3}}} And Moses said, "Let me turn aside and see this great sight. Why does the bush not burn up?" {{rf{4}}} And Yahweh saw that he turned aside to see, and God called to him from the midst of the bush, and he said, "Moses, Moses." And he said, "Here I am." {{rf{5}}} And he said, "You must not come near to here. Take off your sandals from on your feet, because the place on which you are standing, it is holy ground." {{rf{6}}} And he said, "I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob." And Moses hid his face because he was afraid of looking at God. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Exodus-02-16]] }}}
2:23 Their oppression does not come from a person, but from a system which cannot simply die. People in the world are tossed from affliction to affliction like dispossessed people are tossed under royal generations.
If God heard their groaning, we know that their groaning was directed towards him. Perhaps it was in a way like our first prayers -- tentative, testing, offered only from complete helplessness.
2:24-25 He heard and remembered ; He saw and took notice (lit., knew). This is the second time God has noticed in Exodus. He recognizes two humble women, and then a humbled nation.
3:1 KJV, the backside of the desert.
<<Bbl Ex 3:2 abbr >> [[Thorns]]. Moses stopped and looked; compare <<Bbl Rev 1:12 >>-13.
3:5 This sign of hallowing also in <<Bbl Josh 5:15 >>.
<<Bbl Ex 3:6 abbr >> Jesus cites this verse with special reference to the tense.
[[Ex-03-08-chiasmus]]
<<Bbl Ex 3:6 abbr >>: I am the God of your father. Moses may never have known his father, but he knew his father's God!
3:7 Affliction – this includes that long-ago trial in Moses own history. //I know their sufferings… Crying out…// As did Moses! Moses learns he is not alone. [[IdentifyWith]];
<<Bbl Ex 3:7>>-9. Images of the Messiah.
3:7-9 A chiasmus with //milk and honey// at the center.
3:11ff A second lesson. [[Moses]] can learn about true credentials, because he has fully given up false ones.
3:12 Now this is an unusual sort of sign: you shall worship God at this mountain. Our worship of God is itself an attesting miracle.
3:13 Behold = "let's pretend." Okay, Lord, let's pretend for a moment that I really am going to stand up to the devil and encourage my brethren. Now what exactly shall I give as my excuse for being so bold?
3:15 But the covenant Name is not unknown; see <<Bbl Ex 6:20 0 note>>.
3:14-15 How can this be reconciled with <<Bbl H 11:27 >> ??
3:21-22 Within the type, how does this figure (get it?) with <<Bbl R 6:21 >>?
{{rf{7}}} And Yahweh said, "Surely I have seen the misery of my people who are in Egypt, and I have heard their cry of distress because of their oppressors, for I know their sufferings. {{rf{8}}} And I have come down to deliver them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up from this land to a good and wide land, to a land flowing with milk and honey, to the place of the Canaanites and the Hittites and the Amorites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites. {{rf{9}}} And now, look, the cry of distress of the Israelites has come to me, and also I see the oppression with which the Egyptians are oppressing them. {{rf{10}}} And now come, and I will send you to Pharaoh, and you must bring my people, the Israelites, out from Egypt." {{rf{11}}} But Moses said to God, "Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh and that I should bring the Israelites out from Egypt?" {{rf{12}}} And he said, "Because I am with you, and this will be the sign for you that I myself have sent you: When you bring the people out from Egypt, you will serve God on this mountain." {{rf{13}}} But Moses said to God, "Look, if I go to the Israelites and I say to them, 'The God of your ancestors has sent me to you,' and they say to me, 'What is his name?' then what shall I say to them?" {{rf{14}}} And God said to Moses, "I am that I am." And he said, "So you must say to the Israelites, 'I am sent me to you.'" {{rf{15}}} And God said again to Moses, "So you must say to the Israelites, 'Yahweh, the God of your ancestors, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you. This is my name forever, and this is my remembrance from generation to generation.' {{rf{16}}} Go and gather the elders of Israel and say to them, 'Yahweh, the God of your ancestors, appeared to me, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, saying, "I have carefully attended to you and what has been done to you in Egypt." {{rf{17}}} And I said, "I will bring you up from the misery of Egypt to the land of the Canaanites and the Hittites and the Amorites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites, to a land flowing with milk and honey." ' {{rf{18}}} And they will listen to your voice, and you will go, you and the elders of Israel, to the king of Egypt, and you will say to him, 'Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews has met with us, and now let us please go on a journey of three days into the desert, and let us sacrifice to Yahweh our God.' {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Exodus-03-07]] }}}
{{rf{19}}} But I myself know that the king of Egypt will not allow you to go unless compelled by a strong hand. {{rf{20}}} And I will stretch out my hand, and I will strike Egypt with all of my wonders that I will do in its midst, and afterward he will release you. {{rf{21}}} And I will give this people favor in the eyes of the Egyptians, and then when you go, you will not go empty-handed. {{rf{22}}} And a woman will ask from her neighbor and from the woman dwelling as an alien in her house for objects of silver and objects of gold and garments, and you will put them on your sons and on your daughters; and you will plunder Egypt." {{rf big{1}}} And Moses answered, and he said, "And if they do not believe me and they do not listen to my voice, but they say, 'Yahweh did not appear to you?'" {{rf{2}}} And Yahweh said to him, "What is this in your hand?" And he said, "A staff." {{rf{3}}} And he said, "Throw it onto the ground." And he threw it onto the ground, and it became a snake, and Moses fled from it. {{rf{4}}} And Yahweh said to Moses, "Reach out your hand and grasp it by its tail" -- " (And he reached out his hand and grabbed it, and it became a staff in his palm.) -- {{rf{5}}} "so that they may believe that Yahweh, the God of their ancestors, appeared to you, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob." {{rf{6}}} And Yahweh said to him again, "Put your hand into the fold of your garment." And he put his hand into the fold of his garment, and he took it out, and, to his surprise, his hand was afflicted with a skin disease, like snow. {{rf{7}}} And he said, "Return your hand to the fold of your garment." And he returned his hand to the fold of his garment, and he took it out from the fold of his garment, and, to his surprise, it was restored like the rest of his body. {{rf{8}}} "And if they do not believe you and they will not listen to the voice of the former sign, then they will believe the voice of the latter sign. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Exodus-03-19]] }}}
4:1 Moses is recalling his last debut, 2:14.
4:2-6 The staff can be seen as representing personal power; as a snake, the satanic nature of our own control is revealed. The leprosy also is a revelation of the fallen human nature. Fount Shultz.
4:7 Moses was given an authority somewhat like that Jesus declares in <<Bbl J 10:18 >>.
4:13 Later Moses will at this same place receive this same protest from others.
<<Bbl J 4:14 abbr >> God appoints a sign, fulfilled in vs. 27. We learn that God is angry; maybe this indicates the future trouble caused by Aaron's persuasive words.
4:17, 20 The staff is the token of God's Spirit and a type of the NT believer's precious possession.
<<Bbl Ex 4:19 abbr >>-20 correlates with <<Bbl Mt 2:19>> to 21. The staff is like Jesus. Archelaus is like Pharaoh. Aaron is like the Nazarenes (I think).
4:24 Who was it the Lord sought to kill? Our translations indicate Moses (and the NIV makes it explicit with a footnote), but Gershom makes more sense in the context of v 23.
V 20 tells us both sons were present. Maybe only Gerson in circumcised as the firstborn; I prefer to think the singular serves for both as the firstborn represents all.
<<Bbl Ex 4:27>> Aaron's first act is one of obedience and ministry -- the start to a long and faithful career, with failings as well.
''The plagues'' (expand) +++
The plagues (1) exposed Pharaoh's stubbornness of folly, (2) exposed and judged the idols, and (3) judged the oppression of the land.
They progress from the Nile and Pharaoh's territory and expand to all Egypt except Goshen.
Pharaoh's replies:
* miracles -- no reply
# Nile to blood -- no reply
# frogs -- "Entreat the LORD, -- and I will let the people go."
# gnats -- no reply
# insects -- "Go, sacrifice within the land." "I will let you go to the wilderness, but not very far. Make supplication for me."
# death of cattle -- no reply
# boils -- no reply
# hail -- "I have sinned, and my people; the LORD is righteous. Make supplication for me; go, stay no longer."
# locusts -- momentarily distracted from wise counsel, Pharaoh tries haggling: "Go serve the LORD your God! - the men among you only." After the plague, he pleads for pardon.
# darkness -- "Go, even your little ones; only let your flocks and herds remain."
# death of the first-born -- full capitulation, but not really, for in 14:5 they all repent of this too.
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<<Bbl Ex 5:2 abbr>> See <<Bbl R 1:28 >>. Discredit the people, discredit their God.
5:3 This may be a unique title for the Lord.
5:5 Satan's very fear. What follows is a remarkable description of Satan's tactics.
5:6-14 This is the failed "wisdom" of <<Bbl Ex 1:10 abbr>>-11, writ ever larger. Satan shares with Egypt's king a single-minded, self-destroying obduracy.
In 1835 Lord Prudhoe presented to the British Museum, where it is still on display, a brick made of Nile mud with chopped straw as a binder stamped with a seal bearing a cartouche containing hieroglyphics. The seal has the name of Ramses II, who was quite possibly the pharaoh of the Exodus.
5:6 The malice against God's mandate couldn't be expressed more brutally. It's a snap for Pharaoh to order twenty cartloads daily of dry hay from the countryside; it's impossible for Hebrew workers to forage it from their own work area. The Egyptian slave teamsters must have hated their duty.
5:7 A human amplification of the curse on the ground (Gn 3).
<<Bbl Ex 5:19 abbr >> see NAS margin for a curious idiom.
<<Bbl Ex 5:20 abbr>>-23 The first complaining of the Israelites in his leadership.
<<Bbl Ex 6:1 abbr>> A terrible place for a chapter division.
<<Bbl Ex 6:20 abbr>> Jochebed means, "Yahweh is my glory" -- apparently the covenant name was in use in Israel just before Moses' birth.
7:14 See <<Bbl I 14:17 >>.
<<Bbl Ex 7:17 abbr>> Well should the Nile turn into blood, after all the babies murdered in its waters.
{{rf{9}}} And if they also do not believe the second of these signs and they will not listen to your voice, then you must take water from the Nile and pour it onto the dry ground, and the water that you take from the Nile will become blood on the dry ground." {{rf{10}}} And Moses said to Yahweh, "Please, Lord, I am not a man of words, neither recently nor in the past nor since your speaking to your servant, because I am heavy of mouth and of tongue." {{rf{11}}} And Yahweh said to him, "Who gave a mouth to humankind, or who makes mute or deaf or sighted or blind? Is it not I, Yahweh? {{rf{12}}} So then go, and I myself will be with your mouth, and I will teach you what you must speak." {{rf{13}}} And he said, "Please, Lord, do send anyone else whom you wish to send." {{rf{14}}} And Yahweh was angry with Moses and said, "Is there not Aaron your brother the Levite? I know that he certainly can speak, and also there he is coming out to meet you, and when he sees you, he will rejoice in his heart. {{rf{15}}} And you will speak to him, and you will put words in his mouth, and I myself will be with your mouth and with his mouth, and I will teach you what you must do. {{rf{16}}} And he will speak for you to the people, and then he will be to you as a mouth, and you will be to him as a god. {{rf{17}}} And you must take this staff in your hand, with which you will do the signs." {{rf{18}}} And Moses went, and he returned to Jethro his father-in-law, and he said to him, "Please let me go, and let me return to my brothers who are in Egypt, and let me see whether they are yet alive. And Jethro said to Moses, "Go in peace." {{rf{19}}} And Yahweh said to Moses in Midian, "Go, return to Egypt because all the men have died who were seeking your life." {{rf{20}}} And Moses took his wife and his sons and had them ride on the donkey, and he returned to the land of Egypt, and Moses took the staff of God in his hand. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Exodus-04-09]] }}}
{{rf{21}}} And Yahweh said to Moses, "When you go to return to Egypt, see all of the wonders that I have put in your hand, and do them before Pharaoh, and I myself will harden his heart, and he will not release the people. {{rf{22}}} And you must say to Pharaoh, 'Thus says Yahweh, "Israel is my son, my firstborn." {{rf{23}}} And I said to you, "Release my son and let him serve me," but you refused to release him. Look, I am about to kill your son, your firstborn.'" {{rf{24}}} And on the way, at the place of overnight lodging, Yahweh encountered him and sought to kill him. {{rf{25}}} But Zipporah took a flint knife, and she cut off the foreskin of her son, and she touched his feet, and she said, "Yes, you are a bridegroom of blood to me." {{rf{26}}} And he left him alone. At that time she said, "A bridegroom of blood," because of the circumcision.
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{{rf{27}}} And Yahweh said to Aaron, "Go to the desert to meet Moses." And he went and encountered him at the mountain of God and kissed him. {{rf{28}}} And Moses told Aaron all the words of Yahweh, who had sent him -- and all the signs that he had commanded him. {{rf{29}}} And Moses and Aaron went, and they gathered all of the elders of the Israelites. {{rf{30}}} And Aaron spoke all the words that Yahweh had spoken to Moses, and he did the signs before the eyes of the people. {{rf{31}}} And the people believed when they heard that Yahweh had attended to the Israelites and that he had seen their misery, and they knelt down and they worshiped. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Exodus-04-21]] }}}
And afterward, Moses and Aaron went, and they said to Pharaoh, "Thus says Yahweh the God of Israel, 'Release my people so that they may hold a festival for me in the desert.'" {{rf{2}}} And Pharaoh said, "Who is Yahweh that I should listen to his voice to release Israel? I do not know Yahweh, and also I will not release Israel." {{rf{3}}} And they said, "The God of the Hebrews has met with us. Please let us go on a three-day journey into the desert, and let us sacrifice to Yahweh our God, lest he strike us with plague or with sword." {{rf{4}}} And the king of Egypt said, "Why, Moses and Aaron, do you take the people from their work? Go to your forced labor!" {{rf{5}}} And Pharaoh said, "Look, the people of the land are now many, and you want to stop them from their forced labor." {{rf{6}}} And on that day Pharaoh commanded the slave drivers over the people and his foremen, saying, {{rf{7}}} "You must no longer give straw to the people to make the bricks like before. Let them go and gather straw for themselves. {{rf{8}}} But the quota of the bricks that they were making before you must require of them. You must not reduce from it, because they are lazy. Therefore they are crying out, saying, 'Let us go and sacrifice to our God.' {{rf{9}}} Let the work be heavier on the men so that they will do it and not pay attention to words of deception." {{rf{10}}} And the slave drivers of the people and their foremen went out, and they spoke to the people, saying, "Thus says Pharaoh, 'I am not giving you straw. {{rf{11}}} You go, get straw for yourselves from whatever you find because not a thing is being reduced from your work.'" {{rf{12}}} And the people spread out in all the land of Egypt to gather stubble for the straw. {{rf{13}}} And the slave drivers were insisting, saying, "Finish your work for each day on its day, as when there was straw." {{rf{14}}} And the foremen of the Israelites, whom Pharaoh's slave drivers had appointed over them, were beaten by men who were saying, "Why have you not completed your portion of brickmaking as before, both yesterday and today?" {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Exodus-05-01]] }}}
{{rf{15}}} And the foremen of the Israelites came and cried out to Pharaoh, saying, "Why do you treat your servants like this? {{rf{16}}} Straw is not being given to your servants, but they are saying to us, 'Make bricks!' and, look, your servants are being beaten, but it is the fault of your people." {{rf{17}}} And he said, "You are lazy, lazy! Therefore you are saying, 'Let us go; let us sacrifice to Yahweh.' {{rf{18}}} And now go, work, but straw will not be given to you, and you must give the full quota of bricks." {{rf{19}}} And the foremen of the Israelites saw they were in trouble with the saying, "You will not reduce from your bricks for each day on its day." {{rf{20}}} And they met Moses and Aaron, who were waiting to meet them when they were going out from Pharaoh. {{rf{21}}} And they said to them, "May Yahweh look upon you and judge because you have caused our fragrance to stink in the eyes of Pharaoh and in the eyes of his servants so as to put a sword into their hand to kill us." {{rf{22}}} And Moses returned to Yahweh and said, "Lord, why have you brought trouble to this people? Why ever did you send me? {{rf{23}}} And from the time I came to Pharaoh to speak in your name, he has brought trouble to this people, and you have certainly not delivered your people." {{rf big{1}}} And Yahweh said to Moses, "Now you will see what I will do to Pharaoh, because with a strong hand he will release them, and with a strong hand he will drive them out from his land."
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{{rf{2}}} And God spoke to Moses, and he said to him, "I am Yahweh. {{rf{3}}} And I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob as God Shaddai, but by my name Yahweh I was not known to them. {{rf{4}}} And I not only established my covenant with them to give to them the land of Canaan, the land of their sojournings, in which they dwelt as aliens, {{rf{5}}} but also I myself heard the groaning of the Israelites, whom the Egyptians are making to work, and I remembered my covenant. {{rf{6}}} Therefore say to the Israelites, 'I am Yahweh, and I will bring you out from under the forced labor of Egypt, and I will deliver you from their slavery, and I will redeem you with an outstretched arm and with great punishments. {{rf{7}}} And I will take you as my people, and I will be your God, and you will know that I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out from under the forced labor of Egypt. {{rf{8}}} And I will bring you to the land that I swore to give to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, and I will give it to you as a possession. I am Yahweh." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Exodus-05-15]] }}}
{{rf{9}}} And Moses spoke thus to the Israelites, but they did not listen to Moses, because of discouragement and because of hard work. {{rf{10}}} And Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, {{rf{11}}} "Go, speak to Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, and let him release the Israelites from his land." {{rf{12}}} And Moses spoke before Yahweh, saying, "Look, the Israelites do not listen to me, and how will Pharaoh listen to me, since I am a poor speaker?" {{rf{13}}} And Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, and he commanded them to go to the Israelites and to Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, to bring the Israelites out from the land of Egypt.
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{{rf{14}}} These are the heads of their families. The sons of Reuben, the firstborn of Israel, are Enoch and Pallu, Hezron and Carmi. These are the clans of Reuben. {{rf{15}}} And the sons of Simeon are Jemuel and Jamin and Ohad and Jakin and Zohar and Shaul the son of the Canaanitess. These are the clans of Simeon. {{rf{16}}} And these are the names of the sons of Levi according to their genealogies: Gershon and Kohath and Merari, and the years of the life of Levi were one hundred and thirty-seven years. {{rf{17}}} The sons of Gershon are Libni and Shimei according to their clans. {{rf{18}}} And the sons of Kohath are Amram and Izhar and Hebron and Uzziel, and the years of the life of Kohath were one hundred and thirty-three years. {{rf{19}}} And the sons of Merari are Mahli and Mushi. These are clans of the Levites according to their genealogies. {{rf{20}}} And Amram took Jochebed his aunt for himself as a wife, and she bore for him Aaron and Moses, and the years of the life of Amram were one hundred and thirty-seven years. {{rf{21}}} And the sons of Izhar are Korah and Nepheg and Zikri. {{rf{22}}} And the sons of Uzziel are Mishael and Elzaphan and Sithri. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Exodus-06-09]] }}}
{{rf{23}}} And Aaron took Elisheba the daughter of Amminadab, the sister of Nahshon, for himself as a wife, and she bore for him Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar. {{rf{24}}} And the sons of Korah are Assir and Elkanah and Abiasaph. These are the clans of the Korahites. {{rf{25}}} And Eleazar the son of Aaron took for himself one from the daughters of Putiel as a wife, and she bore for him Phinehas. These are the heads of the families of the Levites according to their clans. {{rf{26}}} It was that Aaron and Moses to whom Yahweh said, "Bring the Israelites out from the land of Egypt according to their divisions." {{rf{27}}} They were those who spoke to Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, in order to bring the Israelites out from Egypt. It was that Moses and Aaron.
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{{rf{28}}} And so it was on a certain day Yahweh spoke to Moses in the land of Egypt. {{rf{29}}} And Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, "I am Yahweh. Speak to Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, all that I am speaking to you." {{rf{30}}} And Moses said before Yahweh, "Look, I am a poor speaker. And how will Pharaoh listen to me?" {{rf big{1}}} And Yahweh said to Moses, "See, I have made you as a god to Pharaoh, and Aaron your brother will be your prophet. {{rf{2}}} You will speak all that I will command you, and Aaron your brother will speak to Pharaoh, and he will release the Israelites from his land. {{rf{3}}} And I myself will harden the heart of Pharaoh, and I will make my signs and my wonders numerous in the land of Egypt. {{rf{4}}} And Pharaoh will not listen to you, and I will put my hand into Egypt and bring out my divisions, my people, the Israelites, from the land of Egypt with great punishments. {{rf{5}}} And the Egyptians will know that I am Yahweh when I stretch out my hand over Egypt and bring the Israelites out from their midst." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Exodus-06-23]] }}}
{{rf{6}}} And Moses and Aaron did it; as Yahweh commanded them, so they did. {{rf{7}}} (And Moses was eighty years old, and Aaron was eighty-three years old when they spoke to Pharaoh.) {{rf{8}}} And Yahweh said to Moses and to Aaron, saying, {{rf{9}}} "When Pharaoh speaks to you, saying, 'Do a wonder for yourselves,' you will say to Aaron, 'Take your staff and throw it before Pharaoh, and it will become a snake.'" {{rf{10}}} And Moses and Aaron came to Pharaoh, and they did so, as Yahweh had commanded. And Aaron threw his staff before Pharaoh and before his servants, and it became a snake. {{rf{11}}} And Pharaoh also called the wise men and the sorcerers, and they also, the magicians of Egypt, did likewise with their secret arts. {{rf{12}}} Each threw down his staff, and they became snakes, and Aaron's staff swallowed up their staffs. {{rf{13}}} And Pharaoh's heart was hard, and he did not listen to them, as Yahweh had said.
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{{rf{14}}} And Yahweh said to Moses, "Pharaoh's heart is insensitive; he refuses to release the people. {{rf{15}}} Go to Pharaoh in the morning. Look, he is going out to the water, and you must wait to meet him on the bank of the Nile, and you must take in your hand the staff that was changed into a snake. {{rf{16}}} And you must say to him, 'Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, has sent me to you, saying, "Release my people that they may serve me in the desert, and, look, you have not listened until now." {{rf{17}}} Thus says Yahweh, "By this you will know that I am Yahweh. Look, I am about to strike with the staff that is in my hand the water that is in the Nile, and it will be changed to blood. {{rf{18}}} And the fish that are in the Nile will die, and the Nile will stink, and the Egyptians will be unable to drink water from the Nile." '" {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Exodus-07-06]] }}}
{{rf{19}}} And Yahweh said to Moses, "Say to Aaron, 'Take your staff and stretch your hand out over the waters of Egypt and over their rivers, over their canals, and over their pools and over all of their reservoirs of water, so that they become blood,' and blood will be in all the land of Egypt and in vessels of wood and of stone." {{rf{20}}} And Moses and Aaron did so, as Yahweh had commanded, and he raised the staff and struck the water that was in the Nile before the eyes of Pharaoh and before the eyes of his servants, and all of the water that was in the Nile was changed to blood. {{rf{21}}} And the fish that were in the Nile died, and the Nile stank, and the Egyptians were not able to drink water from the Nile, and the blood was in all the land of Egypt. {{rf{22}}} And the magicians of Egypt did likewise with their secret arts, and Pharaoh's heart was hard, and he did not listen to them, as Yahweh had spoken. {{rf{23}}} And Pharaoh turned and went to his house, and he did not take also this to heart. {{rf{24}}} And all of the Egyptians dug around the Nile for water to drink, because they were unable to drink from the water of the Nile. {{rf{25}}} And seven days passed after Yahweh struck the Nile. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Exodus-07-19]] }}}
And Yahweh said to Moses, "Go to Pharaoh, and say to him, 'Thus says Yahweh, "Release my people so that they may serve me." {{rf{2}}} And if you are refusing to release, look, I am going to plague all of your territory with frogs. {{rf{3}}} And the Nile will swarm with frogs, and they will go up and come into your house and into your bedroom and onto your bed and into the house of your servants and among your people and into your ovens and into your kneading troughs. {{rf{4}}} And the frogs will go up against you and against your people and against all of your servants.'" {{rf{5}}} And Yahweh said to Moses, "Say to Aaron, 'Stretch out your hand with your staff over the rivers, over the canals, and over the pools, and bring up the frogs on the land of Egypt.'" {{rf{6}}} And Aaron stretched out his hand over the waters of Egypt, and the frogs went up and covered the land of Egypt. {{rf{7}}} And the magicians did likewise with their secret arts, and they brought up frogs over the land of Egypt. {{rf{8}}} And Pharaoh called Moses and Aaron and said, "Pray to Yahweh, and let him remove the frogs from me and from my people, and let me release the people so that they can sacrifice to Yahweh." {{rf{9}}} And Moses said to Pharaoh, "I leave to you the honor over me. When shall I pray for you and for your servants and for your people to cut off the frogs from you and from your houses? They will be left only in the Nile." {{rf{10}}} And he said, "Tomorrow." And he said, "Let it be according to your word so that you will know that there is no one like Yahweh our God. {{rf{11}}} And the frogs will depart from you and from your house and from your servants. They will be left only in the Nile." {{rf{12}}} And Moses and Aaron went out from Pharaoh, and Moses cried out to Yahweh over the matter of the frogs that he had brought on Pharaoh. {{rf{13}}} And Yahweh did according to the word of Moses, and the frogs died from the houses, from the courtyards, and from the fields. {{rf{14}}} And they piled them in countless heaps, and the land stank. {{rf{15}}} And Pharaoh saw that there was relief, and he made his heart insensitive, and he did not listen to them, as Yahweh had spoken. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Exodus-08-01]] }}}
<<Bbl Ex 8:7 abbr >> They only add to the problem.
8:9 Silly pride; he could have said, -- now. --
8:9 The prophecy set for a future time is falsifiable. A later plague is even more precise: about this time tomorrow.
8:9 By this time Moses is known to have the only reliable weather report, so his morning visitations will have a following; <<Bbl Ex 9:20 abbr>>.
8:15 See <<Bbl I 57:10 >>.
<<Bbl Ex 8:23 abbr >> Note NAS margin.
8:26 cf <<Bbl Gn 46:34 >>.
<<Bbl Ex 9:6 abbr >> How were cattle left for 9:20, 12:29? There is no def. article for the word cattle, and we can infer that it means all kinds of cattle died.
9:8 Could it have been a kiln for bricks? Later references to Egypt as "the furnace" -- as if the Israelites were bricks baked in affliction. This then is a judgment for Pharaoh's many smoky factories.
9:16 //...in order to proclaim my name in all the earth// - for Christ is coming, our Emancipator.
<<Bbl Ex 9:30 abbr>> Pharaoh knows the little plan, because it is explained when Moses comes to encounter him. Moses, however, knows the Master plan, for it was explained to him before he returned to Egypt.
<<Bbl Ex 10:9 abbr>>,25,26 Moses is not trying to provoke Pharaoh. But Pharaoh is trying to provoke the Lord. Moses unswervingly demands the full demand of God.
10:14 A similar statement is made about the waters of the flood.
<<Bbl Ex 10:29 abbr>> see <<Bbl Ex 14:13 abbr>>. How is this reconciled with <<Bbl Ex 11:8 abbr>>? Possibly this interview with Pharaoh continues through chapter 11; this would easily make sense of Moses' retort.
<<Bbl Ex 11:4 abbr>>-6 A blow to a spiritual hierarchy based on lineage, in which the first-born was the link with the ancestral past.
<<Bbl Ex 11:36 abbr>> see <<Bbl Gn 15:14 >>
<<Bbl Ex 12:41 abbr >> Moses great-grandfather entered Egypt. This doesn't square with a 430-year sojourn. Lancaster makes an attempt based on the rabbis and concludes from <<Bbl Ex 12:41 >> and <<Bbl Gn 15:14 >> that the binding of Isaac and the covenant of Genesis 15 both occurred on the date of the Passover. This proposes that the 430 years of <<Bbl Ex 12:41 >> starts from Isaac's birth, but the verse is specific in citing the stay in Egypt.
<<Bbl Ex 12:42 abbr>>-48 ; <<Bbl Gn 13:9 >> see the [[LordsSupper]].
<<Bbl Ex 12:49 abbr>> One law: you are only allowed to eat the Passover if you are circumcised. Conversely, only if you are circumcised are you required to eat the Passover.
''Chapter 12'' -- See [[Gold]].
<<Bbl Ex 13:14 abbr>> Robert Morris develops this powerfully as a family scene.
13:17 Even so, God is gracious to keep His very young children from strife.
13:18 But don't we feel soldierly anyway! NKJV says, in orderly ranks.
<<Bbl Ex 13:19 abbr>> Anyway the bones of Joseph are the only material link with their heritage.
<<Bbl Ex 14:2 abbr >> <<Bbl I 11:16 >>
<<Bbl Ex 14:13 abbr >> b <<Bbl Ex 10:29 >>
{{rf{16}}} And Yahweh said to Moses, "Say to Aaron, 'Stretch out your staff and strike the dust of the land, and it will become gnats in all the land of Egypt.'" {{rf{17}}} And he did so, and Aaron stretched out his hand with his staff, and he struck the dust of the land, and it became gnats on the humans and on the animals; all of the dust of the land became gnats in all the land of Egypt. {{rf{18}}} And the magicians did so with their secret arts to bring out the gnats, but they were not able, and the gnats were on the humans and on the animals. {{rf{19}}} And the magicians said to Pharaoh, "It is the finger of God." But the heart of Pharaoh was hard, and he did not listen to them, as Yahweh had spoken. {{rf{20}}} And Yahweh said to Moses, "Start early in the morning and stand before Pharaoh. Look, he is going out to the water, and you must say to him, 'Thus says Yahweh, "Release my people so that they may serve me." {{rf{21}}} But if you are not about to release my people, look, I am about to send out flies among you and among your servants and among your people and in your houses; and the houses of Egypt will fill up with the flies and also the ground that they are on. {{rf{22}}} But on that day I will distinguish the land of Goshen, where my people are staying, by there not being flies there, so that you will know that I am Yahweh in the midst of the land. {{rf{23}}} And I will put a distinction between my people and your people; this sign will be tomorrow.'" {{rf{24}}} And Yahweh did so, and a severe swarm of flies came to the house of Pharaoh and the house of his servants and in all the land of Egypt; the land was ruined because of the flies. {{rf{25}}} And Pharaoh called Moses and Aaron, and he said, "Go, sacrifice to your God in the land." {{rf{26}}} And Moses said, "To do so is not right, because we will sacrifice to Yahweh our God a thing detestable to the Egyptians. Look, if we sacrifice before their eyes the thing detestable to the Egyptians, will they not stone us? {{rf{27}}} We will go a journey of three days into the desert, and we will sacrifice to Yahweh our God according to what he says to us." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Exodus-08-16]] }}}
{{rf{28}}} And Pharaoh said, "I myself will release you, and you will sacrifice to Yahweh your God in the desert. Only surely you must not go far. Pray for me." {{rf{29}}} And Moses said, "Look, I am going out from you, and I will pray to Yahweh so that the flies depart from Pharaoh, from his servants, and from his people tomorrow. Only let not Pharaoh again deceive us by not releasing the people to sacrifice to Yahweh." {{rf{30}}} And Moses went out from Pharaoh and prayed to Yahweh. {{rf{31}}} And Yahweh did according to the word of Moses and removed the flies from Pharaoh, from his servants, and from his people; not one was left. {{rf{32}}} And Pharaoh made his heart insensitive also this time, and he did not release the people. {{rf big{1}}} And Yahweh said to Moses, "Go to Pharaoh and say to him, 'Thus says Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, "Release my people so that they may serve me." {{rf{2}}} But if you are refusing to release and you still are keeping hold of them, {{rf{3}}} look, the hand of Yahweh is about to be present with a very severe plague on your livestock that are in the field, on the horses, on the donkeys, on the camels, on the cattle, and on the sheep and goats. {{rf{4}}} But Yahweh will make a distinction between the livestock of Israel and the livestock of Egypt, and not a thing will die from all that belongs to the Israelites.'" {{rf{5}}} And Yahweh set an appointed time, saying, "Tomorrow Yahweh will do this thing in the land." {{rf{6}}} And Yahweh did this thing the next day; all the livestock of Egypt died, but from the livestock of the Israelites not one died. {{rf{7}}} And Pharaoh sent to check, and it turned out not even one from the livestock of Israel had died, but Pharaoh's heart was insensitive, and he did not release the people. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Exodus-08-28]] }}}
{{rf{8}}} And Yahweh said to Moses and to Aaron, "Take for yourselves full handfuls of soot from a smelting furnace, and let Moses sprinkle it toward the heavens before the eyes of Pharaoh. {{rf{9}}} And it will become fine dust over all the land of Egypt, and it will become on humans and on animals a skin sore sprouting blisters in all the land of Egypt." {{rf{10}}} And they took the soot of the smelting furnace, and they stood before Pharaoh, and Moses sprinkled it toward the heavens, and it became skin sores sprouting blisters on humans and on animals. {{rf{11}}} And the magicians were not able to stand before Moses because of the skin sores, for the skin sores were on the magicians and on all the Egyptians. {{rf{12}}} And Yahweh hardened Pharaoh's heart, and he did not listen to them, as Yahweh had spoken to Moses. {{rf{13}}} And Yahweh said to Moses, "Start early in the morning and stand before Pharaoh. Look, he is going out to the water, and you must say to him, 'Thus says Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, "Release my people so that they may serve me. {{rf{14}}} For at this time I am sending all of my plagues to you personally and among your servants and among your people so that you will know that there is no one like me in all the earth. {{rf{15}}} For now I could have stretched out my hand, and I could have struck you and your people with the plague, and you would have perished from the earth. {{rf{16}}} But for the sake of this I have caused you to stand -- for the sake of showing you my strength and in order to proclaim my name in all the earth. {{rf{17}}} Still you are behaving haughtily to my people by not releasing them. {{rf{18}}} Look, about this time tomorrow, I am going to cause very severe hail to rain, the like of which has not been in Egypt from the day it was founded until now. {{rf{19}}} And now send word; bring into safety your livestock and all that belongs to you in the field. The hail will come down on every human and animal that is found in the field and not gathered into the house, and they will die." '" {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Exodus-09-08]] }}}
{{rf{20}}} Anyone from the servants of Pharaoh who feared the word of Yahweh caused his servants and livestock to flee to the houses. {{rf{21}}} But whoever did not give regard to the word of Yahweh abandoned his servants and his livestock in the field. {{rf{22}}} And Yahweh said to Moses, "Stretch out your hand to the heavens, and let there be hail in all the land of Egypt, on human and on animal and on all the vegetation of the field in the land of Egypt." {{rf{23}}} And Moses stretched out his staff to the heavens, and Yahweh gave thunder and hail, and fire went to the earth, and Yahweh caused hail to rain on the land of Egypt. {{rf{24}}} And there was hail, and fire was flashing back and forth in the midst of the very severe hail, the like of which was not in all the land of Egypt since it had become a nation. {{rf{25}}} And the hail struck in all the land of Egypt all that was in the field, from human to animal, and the hail struck all the vegetation of the field and smashed every tree of the field. {{rf{26}}} Only in the land of Goshen, where the Israelites were, there was no hail. {{rf{27}}} And Pharaoh sent and called Moses and Aaron and said to them, "I have sinned this time. Yahweh is the righteous one, and I and my people are the wicked ones. {{rf{28}}} Pray to Yahweh. The thunder of God and hail are enough, and I will release you, and you will no longer have to stay." {{rf{29}}} And Moses said to him, "At my leaving the city, I will spread out my hands to Yahweh. The thunder will stop, and the hail will be no more, so that you will know that the earth belongs to Yahweh. {{rf{30}}} But as for you and your servants, I know that you do not yet fear the presence of Yahweh God." {{rf{31}}} And the flax and the barley were struck, because the barley was in the ear and the flax was in bud. {{rf{32}}} But the wheat and the spelt were not struck, because they are late-ripening. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Exodus-09-20]] }}}
{{rf{33}}} And Moses went from Pharaoh out of the city, and he spread his hands to Yahweh, and the thunder and the hail stopped, and rain did not pour on the earth. {{rf{34}}} And Pharaoh saw that the rain and the hail and the thunder stopped, and he again sinned and made his heart insensitive, he and his servants. {{rf{35}}} And Pharaoh's heart was hard, and he did not release the Israelites, as Yahweh had said by the agency of Moses. {{rf big{1}}} And Yahweh said to Moses, "Go to Pharaoh, for I have made his heart insensitive and the heart of his servants in order to put these signs of mine in his midst, {{rf{2}}} so that you will tell in the ears of your child and your grandchild that I dealt harshly with the Egyptians and so that you will tell about my signs that I have done among them, and so you will know that I am Yahweh." {{rf{3}}} And Moses and Aaron came to Pharaoh, and they said to him, "Thus says Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, 'Until when will you refuse to submit before me? Release my people so that they may serve me. {{rf{4}}} But if you are refusing to release my people, look, I am about to bring locusts into your territory tomorrow. {{rf{5}}} And they will cover the surface of the land, and no one will be able to see the land, and they will eat the remainder of what is left -- what is left over for you from the hail -- and they will eat every sprouting tree belonging to you from the field. {{rf{6}}} And your houses will be full, and the houses of all your servants and the houses of all Egypt, something that your fathers and your grandfathers never saw from the day they were on the earth until this day.'" And he turned and went out from Pharaoh. {{rf{7}}} And the servants of Pharaoh said to him, "Until when will this be a snare for us? Release the men so that they may serve Yahweh their God. Do you not yet know that Egypt is destroyed?" {{rf{8}}} And Moses and Aaron were brought back to Pharaoh, and he said to them, "Serve Yahweh your God. Who are the ones going? {{rf{9}}} And Moses said, "With our young and with our old we will go; with our sons and with our daughters, with our sheep and goats and with our cattle we will go because it is the feast of Yahweh for us." {{rf{10}}} And he said to them, "Let Yahweh be thus with you as soon as I release you and your dependents. See that evil is before your faces. {{rf{11}}} No indeed; just the men go and serve Yahweh, since this is what you are seeking." And he drove them out from the presence of Pharaoh. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Exodus-09-33]] }}}
{{rf{12}}} And Yahweh said to Moses, "Stretch out your hand over the land of Egypt with the locusts so that they may come up over the land of Egypt, and let them eat all the vegetation of the land, all that the hail left behind." {{rf{13}}} And Moses stretched out his staff over the land of Egypt, and Yahweh drove an east wind into the land all that day and all night. The morning came, and the east wind had brought the locusts. {{rf{14}}} And the locusts went up over all the land of Egypt, and they settled in all the territory of Egypt, very severe. Before it there were not locusts like them, nor will there be after it. {{rf{15}}} And they covered the surface of all the land, and the land was dark with them, and they ate all the vegetation of the land and all the fruit of the trees that the hail had left, and no green was left in the trees nor in the vegetation of the field in all the land of Egypt. {{rf{16}}} And Pharaoh hurried to call Moses and Aaron, and he said, "I have sinned against Yahweh your God and against you. {{rf{17}}} And now forgive my sin surely this time, and pray to Yahweh your God so that he may only remove from me this death." {{rf{18}}} And he went out from Pharaoh, and he prayed to Yahweh. {{rf{19}}} And Yahweh turned a very strong west wind and lifted up the locusts and thrust them into the Red Sea, and not one locust remained in all the territory of Egypt. {{rf{20}}} And Yahweh hardened Pharaoh's heart, and he did not release the Israelites. {{rf{21}}} And Yahweh said to Moses, "Stretch out your hand toward the heavens so that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt and so that a person can feel darkness." {{rf{22}}} And Moses stretched out his hand toward the heavens, and there was darkness of night in all the land of Egypt for three days. {{rf{23}}} No one could see his brother, and because of it no one could move from where they were for three days, but there was light for the Israelites in their dwellings. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Exodus-10-12]] }}}
{{rf{24}}} And Pharaoh called Moses and said, "Go, serve Yahweh. Only your sheep and goats and your cattle must be left behind. Your dependents may also go with you." {{rf{25}}} And Moses said, "Even if you yourself put into our hand sacrifices and burnt offerings and we offer them to Yahweh our God, {{rf{26}}} our livestock must also go with us. Not a hoof can be left because we must take from them to serve Yahweh our God. And we will not know with what we are to serve Yahweh until we come there." {{rf{27}}} And Yahweh hardened Pharaoh's heart, and he was not willing to release them. {{rf{28}}} And Pharaoh said to him, "Go from me. Be careful not to see my face again, because on the day of your seeing my face you will die." {{rf{29}}} And Moses said, "That is right. I will not again see your face." {{rf big{1}}} And Yahweh said to Moses, "Still one plague I will bring upon Pharaoh and upon Egypt; afterward he will release you from here. At the moment of his releasing, he will certainly drive you completely out from here. {{rf{2}}} Speak in the ears of the people, and let them ask, a man from his neighbor and a woman from her neighbor, for objects of silver and objects of gold." {{rf{3}}} And Yahweh gave the people favor in the eyes of Egypt. Also the man Moses was very great in the land of Egypt, in the eyes of the servants of Pharaoh and in the eyes of the people. {{rf{4}}} And Moses said, "Thus says Yahweh, 'About the middle of the night I will go out through the midst of Egypt, {{rf{5}}} and every firstborn in the land of Egypt will die, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sits on his throne to the firstborn of the slave woman who is behind the pair of millstones and every firstborn animal. {{rf{6}}} And there will be a great cry of distress in all the land of Egypt, the like of which has not been nor will be again. {{rf{7}}} But against all the Israelites, from a man to an animal, a dog will not even bark, so that you will know that Yahweh makes a distinction between Egypt and Israel.' {{rf{8}}} And all of these your servants will come down to me and bow to me, saying, 'Go out, you and all the people who are at your feet.' And afterward I will go out." And he went out from Pharaoh in great anger. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Exodus-10-24]] }}}
{{rf{9}}} And Yahweh said to Moses, "Pharaoh will not listen to you, so that my wonders may multiply in the land of Egypt." {{rf{10}}} And Moses and Aaron did all these wonders before Pharaoh, and Yahweh hardened Pharaoh's heart, and he did not release the Israelites from his land. {{rf big{1}}} And Yahweh said to Moses and to Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying, {{rf{2}}} "This month will be the beginning of months; it will be for you the first of the months of the year. {{rf{3}}} Speak to all the community of Israel, saying, 'On the tenth of this month, they will each take for themselves a lamb for the family, a lamb for the household. {{rf{4}}} And if the household is too small for a lamb, he and the neighbor nearest to his house will take one according to the number of persons; you will count out portions of the lamb according to how much each one can eat. {{rf{5}}} The lamb for you must be a male, without defect, in its first year; you will take it from the sheep or from the goats. {{rf{6}}} "You will keep it until the fourteenth day of this month, and all the assembly of the community of Israel will slaughter it at twilight. {{rf{7}}} And they will take some of the blood and put it on the two doorposts and on the lintel on the houses in which they eat it. {{rf{8}}} And they will eat the meat on this night; they will eat it fire-roasted and with unleavened bread on bitter herbs. {{rf{9}}} You must not eat any of it raw or boiled, boiled in the water, but rather roasted with fire, its head with its legs and with its inner parts. {{rf{10}}} And you must not leave any of it until morning; anything left from it until morning you must burn in the fire. {{rf{11}}} And this is how you will eat it -- with your waists fastened, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand, and you will eat it in haste. It is Yahweh's Passover. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Exodus-11-09]] }}}
{{rf{12}}} "And I will go through the land of Egypt during this night, and I will strike all of the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from human to animal, and I will do punishments among all of the gods of Egypt. I am Yahweh. {{rf{13}}} And the blood will be a sign for you on the houses where you are, and I will see the blood, and I will pass over you, and there will not be a destructive plague among you when I strike the land of Egypt. {{rf{14}}} "And this day will become a memorial for you, and you will celebrate it as a religious feast for Yahweh throughout your generations; you will celebrate it as a lasting statute. {{rf{15}}} You will eat unleavened bread for seven days. Surely on the first day you shall remove yeast from your houses, because anyone who eats food with yeast from the first day until the seventh day -- that person will be cut off from Israel. {{rf{16}}} It will be for you on the first day a holy assembly and on the seventh day a holy assembly; no work will be done on them; only what is eaten by every person, it alone will be prepared for you. {{rf{17}}} "And you will keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread, because on this very day I brought out your divisions from the land of Egypt, and you will keep this day for your generations as a lasting statute. {{rf{18}}} On the first day, on the fourteenth day of the month, in the evening, you will eat unleavened bread until the evening of the twenty-first day of the month. {{rf{19}}} For seven days yeast must not be found in your houses, because anyone eating food with yeast will be cut off from the community of Israel -- whether an alien or a native of the land. {{rf{20}}} You will eat no food with yeast; in all of your dwellings you will eat unleavened bread." {{rf{21}}} And Moses called all the elders of Israel, and he said to them, "Select and take for yourselves sheep for your clans and slaughter the Passover sacrifice. {{rf{22}}} And take a bunch of hyssop and dip it into the blood that is in the basin and apply some of the blood that is in the basin to the lintel and the two doorposts. And you will not go out, anyone from the doorway of his house, until morning. {{rf{23}}} And Yahweh will go through to strike Egypt, and he will see the blood on the lintel and on the two doorposts, and Yahweh will pass over the doorway and will not allow the destroyer to come to your houses to strike you. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Exodus-12-12]] }}}
{{rf{24}}} "And you will keep this event as a rule for you and for your children forever. {{rf{25}}} And when you come into the land that Yahweh will give to you, as he said, you will keep this religious custom. {{rf{26}}} And when your children say to you, 'What is this religious custom for you?' {{rf{27}}} you will say, 'It is a Passover sacrifice for Yahweh, who passed over the houses of the Israelites in Egypt when he struck Egypt; and he delivered our houses.'" And the people knelt down and they worshiped. {{rf{28}}} And the Israelites went, and they did as Yahweh had commanded Moses and Aaron; so they did. {{rf{29}}} And in the middle of the night, Yahweh struck all of the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh sitting on his throne to the firstborn of the captive who was in the prison house and every firstborn of an animal. {{rf{30}}} And Pharaoh got up at night, he and all his servants and all Egypt, and a great cry of distress was in Egypt because there was not a house where there was no one dead. {{rf{31}}} And he called Moses and Aaron at night, and he said, "Get up, go out from the midst of my people, both you as well as the Israelites, and go, serve Yahweh, as you have said. {{rf{32}}} Take both your sheep and goats as well as your cattle, and go, and bless also me." {{rf{33}}} And the Egyptians urged the people in order to hurry their release from the land, because they said, "All of us will die!" {{rf{34}}} And the people lifted up their dough before it had yeast; their kneading troughs were wrapped up in their cloaks on their shoulder. {{rf{35}}} And the Israelites did according to the word of Moses, and they asked from the Egyptians for objects of silver and objects of gold and for clothing. {{rf{36}}} And Yahweh gave the people favor in the eyes of the Egyptians, and they granted their requests, and they plundered the Egyptians. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Exodus-12-24]] }}}
{{rf{37}}} And the Israelites set out from Rameses to Succoth; the men were about six hundred thousand on foot, besides dependents. {{rf{38}}} And also a mixed multitude went up with them and sheep and goats and cattle, very numerous livestock. {{rf{39}}} And they baked the dough that they had brought out from Egypt as cakes, unleavened bread, because it had no yeast when they were driven out from Egypt, and they were not able to delay, and also they had not made provisions for themselves. {{rf{40}}} And the period of dwelling of the Israelites that they dwelled in Egypt was four hundred and thirty years. {{rf{41}}} And at the end of four hundred and thirty years, on this exact day, all of Yahweh's divisions went out from the land of Egypt. {{rf{42}}} It is a night of vigils belonging to Yahweh for bringing them out from the land of Egypt; it is this night belonging to Yahweh with vigils for all of the Israelites throughout their generations. {{rf{43}}} And Yahweh said to Moses and Aaron, "This is the statute of the Passover: No foreigner may eat it. {{rf{44}}} But any slave of a man, an acquisition by money, and you have circumcised him, then he may eat it. {{rf{45}}} A temporary resident and a hired worker may not eat it. {{rf{46}}} It will be eaten in one house; you will not bring part of the meat out from the house to the outside; and you will not break a bone of it. {{rf{47}}} All of the community of Israel will prepare it. {{rf{48}}} And when an alien dwells with you and he wants to prepare the Passover for Yahweh, every male belonging to him must be circumcised, and then he may come near to prepare it, and he will be as the native of the land, but any uncircumcised man may not eat it. {{rf{49}}} One law will be for the native and for the alien who is dwelling in your midst." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Exodus-12-37]] }}}
{{rf{50}}} And all the Israelites did as Yahweh had commanded Moses and Aaron; so they did. {{rf{51}}} And it was on exactly this day Yahweh brought the Israelites out from the land of Egypt by their divisions. {{rf big{1}}} And Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, {{rf{2}}} "Consecrate to me every firstborn, the first offspring of every womb among the Israelites, among humans and among domestic animals; it belongs to me." {{rf{3}}} And Moses said to the people, "Remember this day when you went out from Egypt, from a house of slaves, because with strength of hand Yahweh brought you out from here, and food with yeast will not be eaten. {{rf{4}}} Today you are going out in the month of Abib. {{rf{5}}} And when Yahweh brings you to the land of the Canaanites and the Hittites and the Amorites and the Hivites and the Jebusites -- which he swore to your ancestors to give to you, a land flowing with milk and honey -- you will perform this service in this month. {{rf{6}}} Seven days you will eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh day will be a feast for Yahweh. {{rf{7}}} Unleavened bread will be eaten the seven days; food with yeast will not be seen for you; and yeast will not be seen for you in all your territory. {{rf{8}}} And you shall tell your son on that day, saying, 'This is because of what Yahweh did for me when I came out from Egypt.' {{rf{9}}} And it will be as a sign on your hand and as a memorial between your eyes so that the law of Yahweh will be in your mouth, that with a strong hand Yahweh brought you out from Egypt. {{rf{10}}} And you will keep this statute at its appointed time from year to year. {{rf{11}}} "And when Yahweh brings you to the land of the Canaanite, as he swore to you and to your ancestors, and he gives it to you, {{rf{12}}} you will hand over every first offspring of a womb to Yahweh, and every first offspring dropped by a domestic animal that will belong to you, the males will be for Yahweh. {{rf{13}}} And every first offspring of a donkey you will redeem with small livestock, and if you will not redeem it, then you will break its neck, and every firstborn human among your sons you will redeem. {{rf{14}}} And when your son asks you in the future, saying, 'What is this?' you will say to him, 'With strength of hand Yahweh brought us out from Egypt, from a house of slaves. {{rf{15}}} And when Pharaoh was stubborn to release us, Yahweh killed every firstborn in the land of Egypt, from firstborn human to firstborn domestic animal. Therefore I am sacrificing to Yahweh every first offspring of a womb, the males, and every firstborn of my sons I redeem.' {{rf{16}}} And it will be as a sign on your hand and as symbolic ornaments between your eyes that with strength of hand Yahweh brought us out from Egypt." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Exodus-12-50]] }}}
{{rf{17}}} And when Pharaoh released the people, God did not lead them the way of the land of the Philistines, though it was nearer, because God said, "Lest the people change their mind when they see war and return to Egypt." {{rf{18}}} So God led the people around by the way of the desert to the Red Sea, and the Israelites went up in battle array from the land of Egypt. {{rf{19}}} And Moses took the bones of Joseph with him because Joseph had made the Israelites solemnly swear an oath, saying, "God will surely attend to you, and you will take up my bones from here with you." {{rf{20}}} And they set out from Succoth, and they encamped at Etham on the edge of the desert. {{rf{21}}} And Yahweh was going before them by day in a column of cloud to lead them on the way and by night in a column of fire to give light to them to go by day and night. {{rf{22}}} The column of cloud by day and the column of fire by night did not depart from before the people.
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{{rf big{1}}} And Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, {{rf{2}}} "Speak to the Israelites so that they turn and encamp before Pi-hahiroth, between Migdol and the sea; before Baal Zephon, which is opposite it, you will camp by the sea. {{rf{3}}} And Pharaoh will say of the Israelites, 'They are wandering around in the land. The desert has closed in on them.' {{rf{4}}} And I will harden the heart of Pharaoh, and he will chase after them, and I will be glorified through Pharaoh and through all his army, and the Egyptians will know that I am Yahweh." And they did so. {{rf{5}}} And it was told to the king of Egypt that the people fled, and the heart of Pharaoh was changed and that of his servants toward the people, and they said, "What is this we have done, that we have released Israel from serving us!" {{rf{6}}} And he harnessed his chariot and took with him his people. {{rf{7}}} And he took six hundred select chariots and all the chariots of Egypt and officers over all of them. {{rf{8}}} And Yahweh hardened the heart of Pharaoh the king of Egypt, and he chased after the Israelites. (Now the Israelites were going out boldly.) {{rf{9}}} And the Egyptians chased after them, and they overtook them encamped at the sea -- all the horses of the chariots of Pharaoh and his charioteers and his army -- at Pi-hahiroth before Baal Zephon. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Exodus-13-17]] }}}
{{rf{10}}} And Pharaoh approached, and the Israelites lifted their eyes, and there were the Egyptians traveling after them! And they were very afraid, and the Israelites cried out to Yahweh. {{rf{11}}} And they said to Moses, "Because there are no graves in Egypt? Is that why you have taken us to die in the desert? What is this you have done to us by bringing us out from Egypt! {{rf{12}}} Isn't this the word we spoke to you in Egypt, saying, 'Leave us alone so that we can serve Egypt!' because serving Egypt is better for us than our dying in the desert." {{rf{13}}} And Moses said to the people, "You must not be afraid. Stand still and see the salvation of Yahweh, which he will accomplish for you today, because the Egyptians whom you see today you will see never again. {{rf{14}}} Yahweh will fight for you, and you must be quiet." {{rf{15}}} And Yahweh said to Moses, "Why do you cry out to me? Speak to the Israelites so that they set out. {{rf{16}}} And you, lift up your staff and stretch out your hand over the sea and divide it so that the Israelites can go in the middle of the sea on the dry land. {{rf{17}}} And as for me, look, I am about to harden the heart of the Egyptians so that they come after them, and I will display my glory through Pharaoh and through all of his army, through his chariots and through his charioteers. {{rf{18}}} And the Egyptians will know that I am Yahweh when I display my glory through Pharaoh, through his chariots, and through his charioteers." {{rf{19}}} And the angel of God who was going before the camp of Israel set out and went behind them. And the column of cloud set out ahead of them, and it stood still behind them, {{rf{20}}} so that it came between the camp of Egypt and the camp of Israel. And it was a dark cloud, but it gave light to the night, so that neither approached the other all night. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Exodus-14-10]] }}}
{{rf{21}}} And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and Yahweh moved the sea with a strong east wind all night, and he made the sea become dry ground, and the waters were divided. {{rf{22}}} And the Israelites entered the middle of the sea on the dry land. The waters were a wall for them on their right and on their left. {{rf{23}}} And the Egyptians gave chase and entered after them -- all the horses of Pharaoh, his chariots, and his charioteers -- into the middle of the sea. {{rf{24}}} And during the morning watch, Yahweh looked down to the Egyptian camp from in the column of fire and cloud, and he threw the Egyptian camp into a panic. {{rf{25}}} And he removed the wheels of their chariots so that they drove them with difficulty, and the Egyptians said, "We must flee away from Israel because Yahweh is fighting for them against Egypt." {{rf{26}}} And Yahweh said to Moses, "Stretch out your hand over the sea, and let the waters return over the Egyptians, over their chariots, and over their charioteers." {{rf{27}}} And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and the sea returned at daybreak to its normal level, and the Egyptians were fleeing because of it, and Yahweh swept the Egyptians into the middle of the sea. {{rf{28}}} And the waters returned and covered the chariots and the charioteers -- all the army of Pharaoh coming after them into the sea. Not even one survived among them. {{rf{29}}} But the Israelites walked on the dry land in the middle of the sea. The waters were a wall for them on their right and on their left. {{rf{30}}} And Yahweh saved Israel on that day from the hand of Egypt, and Israel saw the Egyptians dead on the shore of the sea. {{rf{31}}} And Israel saw the great hand that Yahweh displayed against Egypt, and the people feared Yahweh, and they believed in Yahweh and in Moses his servant. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Exodus-14-21]] }}}
Then Moses and the Israelites sang this song to Yahweh, and they said, "Let me sing to Yahweh because he is highly exalted; the horse and its rider he hurled into the sea. {{rf{2}}} Yah is my strength and song, and he has become my salvation; this is my God, and I will praise him -- the God of my father -- and I will exalt him. {{rf{3}}} Yahweh is a man of war; Yahweh is his name. {{rf{4}}} The chariots of Pharaoh and his army he cast into the sea, and his choice adjutants were sunk in the Red Sea. {{rf{5}}} The deep waters covered them; they went down into the depths like a stone. {{rf{6}}} Yahweh, your right hand is glorious in power; Yahweh, your right hand destroyed the enemy. {{rf{7}}} And in the greatness of your majesty you overthrew those standing up to you; you released your fierce anger, and it consumed them like stubble. {{rf{8}}} And by the breath of your nostrils waters were piled up; waves stood like a heap; deep waters in the middle of the sea congealed. {{rf{9}}} The enemy said, 'I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide plunder, my desire will be full of them, I will draw my sword, my hand will destroy them.' {{rf{10}}} You blew with your breath; the sea covered them; they dropped like lead in the mighty waters. {{rf{11}}} Who is like you among the gods, Yahweh? Who is like you -- glorious in holiness, awesome in praiseworthy actions, doing wonders? {{rf{12}}} You stretched out your right hand; the earth swallowed them. {{rf{13}}} In your loyal love you led the people whom you redeemed; in your strength you guided them to the abode of your holiness. {{rf{14}}} Peoples heard; they trembled; anguish seized the inhabitants of Philistia. {{rf{15}}} Then the chiefs of Edom were horrified; great distress seized the leaders of Moab; all of the inhabitants of Canaan melted away. {{rf{16}}} Terror and dread fell on them; at the greatness of your arm they became silent like the stone, until your people passed by, Yahweh, until the people whom you bought passed by. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Exodus-15-01]] }}}
<<Bbl Ex 15:21 >> begins the new narrative of freedom.
16:4 What is the Lord's motive? Not to provide food, but to test them.
16:8 see <<Bbl A 5:4 >>
<<Bbl Ex 16:17 abbr >>-30 This is one of the great statements about works and grace in the OT.
<<Bbl Ex 16:23 abbr>>-30 First mention of the Sabbath after creation. Here it is presented as a challenge to the faith of the Israelites, a challenge which they fail to meet. The same challenge is given in <<Bbl Lv 25:20 >>-22 .
* The manna bread is a miracle replete with miracles. In no aspect is it normal..
* As they gather manna, do they not think of gathering straw in Egypt (<<Bbl Ex 5:12 >>)? This is a people used to work, used to gathering under compulsion, and completely unaccustomed to resting in provision. So <<Bbl Dt 5:15 >> tells them that in observing the Sabbaths they are to reflect on their former slavery.
16:27 see <<Bbl Lv 25:20 >>-22
<<Bbl Ex 16:29 abbr >> They are being trained to Be Like God.
17:12 see <<Bbl Josh 8:26 >>
<<Bbl Ex 18:13 abbr >> see <<Bbl Ex 18:13 >>
<<Bbl Ex 18:21 abbr >> This reads like a virtue list from Paul, such as <<Bbl 1Tim 3:8 >>. The only qualifier in <<Bbl Num 11:16>> is //elders...and known to be elders//.
<<Bbl Ex 19:21 abbr >> break, see following vs, also <<Bbl 2S 5:20 >> -- same Hebrew verb?
{{rf{17}}} You brought them and planted them on the mountain of your inheritance, a place you made for yourself to inhabit, Yahweh, a sanctuary, Lord, that your hands established. {{rf{18}}} Yahweh will reign as king forever and ever." {{rf{19}}} When the horses of Pharaoh came into the sea with his chariots and with his charioteers, Yahweh brought back upon them the waters of the sea, and the Israelites traveled on dry ground through the middle of the sea. {{rf{20}}} And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took her tambourine in her hand, and all of the women went out after her with tambourines and with dances. {{rf{21}}} And Miriam answered, "Sing to Yahweh because he is highly exalted; the horse and its rider he hurled into the sea." {{rf{22}}} And Moses caused Israel to set out from the Red Sea, and they went out into the desert of Shur, and they traveled three days in the desert, and they did not find water. {{rf{23}}} And they came to Marah, and they were not able to drink water from Marah because it was bitter. Therefore it was named Marah. {{rf{24}}} And the people grumbled against Moses, saying, "What shall we drink?" {{rf{25}}} And he cried out to Yahweh, and Yahweh showed him a piece of wood, and he threw it into the water, and the water became sweet. There he made a rule and regulation for them, and there he tested them. {{rf{26}}} And he said, "If you carefully listen to the voice of Yahweh your God and you do what is right in his eyes and give heed to his commands and you keep all his rules, then I will not bring about on you any of the diseases that I brought about on Egypt, because I am Yahweh your healer. {{rf{27}}} And they came to Elim, and twelve springs of water and seventy palm trees were there, and they encamped there at the water. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Exodus-15-17]] }}}
And they set out from Elim, and all the community of the Israelites came to the desert of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, in the fifteenth day of the second month of their going out from the land of Egypt. {{rf{2}}} And all the community of the Israelites grumbled against Moses and against Aaron in the desert. {{rf{3}}} And the Israelites said to them, "If only we had died by the hand of Yahweh in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the pots of meat, when we ate bread until we were full, because you have brought us out to this desert to kill all of this assembly with hunger." {{rf{4}}} And Yahweh said to Moses, "Look, I am going to rain down for you bread from the heavens, and the people will go out and gather enough for the day on its day; in that way I will test them: Will they go according to my law or not? {{rf{5}}} And then on the sixth day, they will prepare what they bring, and it will be twice over what they will gather every other day." {{rf{6}}} And Moses and Aaron said to all the Israelites, "In the evening, you will know that Yahweh has brought you out from the land of Egypt, {{rf{7}}} and in the morning, you will see the glory of Yahweh, for he hears your grumblings against Yahweh, and what are we that you grumble against us?" {{rf{8}}} And Moses said, "When in the evening Yahweh gives you meat to eat and bread in the morning to fill up on, for he hears your grumblings that you grumble against him -- and what are we? Your grumblings are not against us but against Yahweh." {{rf{9}}} And Moses said to Aaron, "Say to all the community of the Israelites, 'Come near before Yahweh because he has heard your grumblings.'" {{rf{10}}} And at the moment of Aaron's speaking to all the community of the Israelites, they turned to the desert, and just then the glory of Yahweh appeared in the cloud. {{rf{11}}} And Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, {{rf{12}}} "I have heard the grumblings of the Israelites. Speak to them, saying, 'At twilight you will eat meat, and in the morning you will be full with bread, and you will know that I am Yahweh your God.'" {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Exodus-16-01]] }}}
{{rf{13}}} And so it was, in the evening, the quail came up and covered the camp, and in the morning, a layer of dew was all around the camp. {{rf{14}}} And the layer of dew came up, and there on the face of the desert was a fine granular substance, fine like frost on the ground. {{rf{15}}} And the Israelites saw, and they said to each other, "What is this?" because they did not know what it was. And Moses said to them, "That is the bread that Yahweh has given to you as food. {{rf{16}}} This is the word that Yahweh commanded, 'Gather from it, each according to what he can eat, an omer per person according to the number of you. You each shall take enough for whoever is in his tent.'" {{rf{17}}} And the Israelites did so, and they gathered, some more and some less. {{rf{18}}} And when they measured with the omer, the one gathering more had no surplus, and the one gathering less had no lack; they gathered each according to what he could eat. {{rf{19}}} And Moses said to them, "Let no one leave any of it until morning." {{rf{20}}} But they did not listen to Moses. Some people left some of it until morning, and it bred worms and stank. And Moses was angry with them. {{rf{21}}} And they gathered it morning by morning, each according to what he could eat, and it melted when the sun was hot. {{rf{22}}} And when it was the sixth day, they gathered twice as much bread, two omers for one person, and all the leaders of the community came and told Moses. {{rf{23}}} And he said to them, "This is what Yahweh has said. Tomorrow is a rest period, a holy Sabbath for Yahweh. Bake what you want to bake, and boil what you want to boil. Put aside all the surplus for yourselves for safekeeping until the morning." {{rf{24}}} And they put it aside until the morning, as Moses had commanded, and it did not make a stench, and not a maggot was in it. {{rf{25}}} And Moses said, "Eat it today, because today is a Sabbath for Yahweh. Today you will not find it in the field. {{rf{26}}} Six days you will gather it, but on the seventh day, the Sabbath, it will not be present on it." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Exodus-16-13]] }}}
{{rf{27}}} And on the seventh day some of the people went out to gather, and they did not find any. {{rf{28}}} And Yahweh said to Moses, "How long do you refuse to keep my commands and my laws? {{rf{29}}} See, because Yahweh has given to you the Sabbath, therefore he is giving to you on the sixth day bread for two days. Stay, each in his location; let no one go from his place on the seventh day." {{rf{30}}} And the people rested on the seventh day. {{rf{31}}} And the house of Israel called its name "manna." And it was like coriander seed, white, and its taste was like a wafer with honey. {{rf{32}}} And Moses said, "This is the word that Yahweh has commanded. 'A full omer of it is for safekeeping for your generations so that they will see the bread that I fed you in the desert when I brought you from the land of Egypt.'" {{rf{33}}} And Moses said to Aaron, "Take one jar and put there a full omer of manna. Leave it before Yahweh for safekeeping for your generations." {{rf{34}}} As Yahweh had commanded Moses, so Aaron left it before the testimony for safekeeping. {{rf{35}}} And the Israelites ate the manna forty years, until their coming to an inhabited land; they ate the manna until their coming to the border of the land of Canaan. {{rf{36}}} (And an omer is a tenth of an ephah.) {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Exodus-16-27]] }}}
And all the community of the Israelites set out from the desert of Sin for their journeys according to the command of Yahweh, and they camped in Rephidim, and there was no water for the people to drink. {{rf{2}}} And the people quarreled with Moses, and they said, "Give us water so that we can drink." And Moses said to them, "Why do you quarrel with me? Why do you test Yahweh?" {{rf{3}}} And the people thirsted for water, and the people grumbled against Moses and said, "Why ever did you bring us up from Egypt to kill me and my sons and my cattle with thirst?" {{rf{4}}} And Moses cried out to Yahweh, saying, "What will I do with this people? A little longer and they will stone me." {{rf{5}}} And Yahweh said to Moses, "Go on before the people and take with you some from the elders of Israel, and the staff with which you struck the Nile take in your hand, and go. {{rf{6}}} Look, I will be standing before you there on the rock in Horeb, and you will strike the rock, and water will come out from it, and the people will drink." And Moses did so before the eyes of the elders of Israel. {{rf{7}}} And he called the name of the place Massah and Meribah because of the quarrel of the Israelites and because of their testing Yahweh by saying, "Is Yahweh in our midst or not?" {{rf{8}}} And Amalek came and fought with Israel at Rephidim. {{rf{9}}} And Moses said to Joshua, "Choose men for us, and go out, fight against Amalek tomorrow. I will be standing on the top of the hill, and the staff of God will be in my hand." {{rf{10}}} And Joshua did as Moses had said to him to fight with Amalek. And Moses, Aaron, and Hur went up to the top of the hill. {{rf{11}}} And when Moses raised his hand, Israel would prevail, but when he rested his hand, Amalek would prevail. {{rf{12}}} But the hands of Moses were heavy, and they took a stone and placed it under him, and he sat on it; Aaron and Hur supported his hands, one on each side, and his hands were steady until sundown. {{rf{13}}} And Joshua defeated Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Exodus-17-01]] }}}
{{rf{14}}} And Yahweh said to Moses, "Write this as a memorial in the scroll and recite it in the hearing of Joshua, because I will utterly blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under the heavens." {{rf{15}}} And Moses built an altar, and he called its name Yahweh Is My Banner. {{rf{16}}} And he said, "Because a hand was against the throne of Yah, a war will be for Yahweh with Amalek from generation to generation." {{rf big{1}}} And Jethro, the priest of Midian, the father-in-law of Moses, heard all that God had done for Moses and for Israel, his people, that Yahweh had brought Israel out from Egypt. {{rf{2}}} And Jethro, the father-in-law of Moses, took Zipporah the wife of Moses after her sending away, {{rf{3}}} and her two sons -- the one whose name was Gershom, for he had said, "I have been an alien in a foreign land," {{rf{4}}} and the one whose name was Eliezer, for "the God of my father was my help, and he delivered me from the sword of Pharaoh." {{rf{5}}} And Jethro, the father-in-law of Moses, came and his sons and his wife to Moses, to the desert where he was camping there at the mountain of God. {{rf{6}}} And he said to Moses, "I, your father-in-law Jethro, am coming to you and your wife and her two sons with her." {{rf{7}}} And Moses went out to meet his father-in-law, and he bowed, and he kissed him, and they each asked about the other's welfare, and they came into the tent. {{rf{8}}} And Moses told his father-in-law all that Yahweh had done to Pharaoh and to Egypt on account of Israel, all the hardship that had found them on the way, and how Yahweh delivered them. {{rf{9}}} And Jethro rejoiced over all the good that Yahweh had done for Israel when he delivered them from the hand of Egypt. {{rf{10}}} And Jethro said, "Blessed be Yahweh, who has delivered you from the hand of Egypt and from the hand of Pharaoh -- who has delivered the people from under the hand of Egypt. {{rf{11}}} Now I know that Yahweh is greater than all the gods, even in the matter where they the Egyptians dealt arrogantly against the Israelites." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Exodus-17-14]] }}}
{{rf{12}}} And Jethro, the father-in-law of Moses, took a burnt offering and sacrifices for God, and Aaron and all the elders of Israel came to eat bread with the father-in-law of Moses before God. {{rf{13}}} And the next day, Moses sat to judge the people, and the people stood before Moses from the morning until the evening. {{rf{14}}} And the father-in-law of Moses saw all that he was doing for the people, and he said, "What is this thing that you are doing for the people? Why are you sitting alone and all the people are standing by you from morning until evening?" {{rf{15}}} And Moses said to his father-in-law, "Because the people come to me to seek God. {{rf{16}}} When they have an issue, it comes to me, and I judge between a man and his neighbor, and I make known God's rule and his instructions." {{rf{17}}} And the father-in-law of Moses said to him, "The thing that you are doing is not good. {{rf{18}}} Surely you will wear out, both you and this people who are with you, because the thing is too difficult for you. You are not able to do it alone. {{rf{19}}} Now listen to my voice; I will advise you, and may God be with you. You be for the people before God, and you bring the issues to God. {{rf{20}}} And you warn them of the rules and the instructions, and you make known to them the way in which they must walk and the work that they must do. {{rf{21}}} And you will select from all the people men of ability, fearers of God, trustworthy men, haters of dishonest gain, and you will appoint such men over them as commanders of thousands, commanders of hundreds, commanders of fifties, and commanders of tens. {{rf{22}}} And let them judge the people all the time, and every major issue they will bring to you, and every minor issue they will judge themselves. And so lighten it for yourself, and they will bear it with you. {{rf{23}}} If you will do this thing and God will command you, then you will be able to endure, and also each of the people will go to his home in peace." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Exodus-18-12]] }}}
{{rf{24}}} And Moses listened to the voice of his father-in-law, and he did all that he had said. {{rf{25}}} And Moses chose men of ability from all Israel, and he appointed them as heads over the people, as commanders of thousands, commanders of hundreds, commanders of fifties, and commanders of tens. {{rf{26}}} And they judged the people all the time; the difficult issues they would bring to Moses, and every minor issue they would judge themselves. {{rf{27}}} And Moses let his father-in-law go, and he went to his land. {{rf big{1}}} In the third month after the Israelites went out from the land of Egypt, on this day they came to the Sinai desert. {{rf{2}}} They set out from Rephidim, and they came to the desert of Sinai, and they camped in the desert, and Israel camped there in front of the mountain. {{rf{3}}} And Moses went up to God, and Yahweh called to him from the mountain, saying, "Thus you will say to the house of Jacob and you will tell the Israelites, {{rf{4}}} 'You yourselves have seen what I did to Egypt and how I bore you on eagles' wings and I brought you to me. {{rf{5}}} And now if you will carefully listen to my voice and keep my covenant, you will be a treasured possession for me out of all the peoples, for all the earth is mine, {{rf{6}}} but you, you will belong to me as a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.' These are the words that you will speak to the Israelites." {{rf{7}}} And Moses came and called the elders of the people, and he placed before them all these words that Yahweh had commanded him. {{rf{8}}} And all the people together answered and said, "All that Yahweh has spoken we will do." And Moses brought back the words of the people to Yahweh. {{rf{9}}} And Yahweh said to Moses, "Look, I am going to come to you in a thick cloud in order that the people will hear when I speak with you and will also trust in you forever." And Moses told the words of the people to Yahweh. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Exodus-18-24]] }}}
{{rf{10}}} And Yahweh said to Moses, "Go to the people and consecrate them today and tomorrow. They must wash their clothes, {{rf{11}}} and they must be prepared for the third day, because on the third day, Yahweh will go down on Mount Sinai before the eyes of all the people. {{rf{12}}} And you must set limits for the people all around, saying, 'Guard yourselves against going up to the mountain and touching its edge. Anyone touching the mountain will certainly be put to death. {{rf{13}}} Not a hand will touch it, because he will certainly be stoned or certainly be shot; whether an animal or a man, he will not live.' At the blowing of the ram's horn they may go up to the mountain." {{rf{14}}} And Moses went down from the mountain to the people, and he consecrated the people, and they washed their clothes. {{rf{15}}} And he said to the people, "Be ready for the third day. Do not go near to a woman." {{rf{16}}} And on the third day, when it was morning, there was thunder and lightning, and a heavy cloud over the mountain and a very loud ram's horn sound, and all the people who were in the camp trembled. {{rf{17}}} And Moses brought the people out from the camp to meet God, and they took their stand at the foot of the mountain. {{rf{18}}} And Mount Sinai was all wrapped in smoke because Yahweh went down on it in the fire, and its smoke went up like the smoke of a smelting furnace, and the whole mountain trembled greatly. {{rf{19}}} And the sound of the ram's horn became louder and louder, and Moses would speak, and God would answer him with a voice. {{rf{20}}} And Yahweh went down on Mount Sinai, to the top of the mountain, and Yahweh called Moses to the top of the mountain, and Moses went up. {{rf{21}}} And Yahweh said to Moses, "Go down, warn the people, lest they break through to Yahweh to see and many from them fall. {{rf{22}}} And even the priests who come near Yahweh must consecrate themselves, lest Yahweh break out against them." {{rf{23}}} And Moses said to Yahweh, "The people are not able to go up to Mount Sinai, because you yourself warned us, saying, 'Set limits around the mountain and consecrate it.'" {{rf{24}}} And Yahweh said to him, "Go, go down, and come up, you and Aaron with you and the priests, but the people must not break through to go up to Yahweh, lest he break out against them." {{rf{25}}} And Moses went down to the people, and he told them. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Exodus-19-10]] }}}
And God spoke all these words, saying, {{rf{2}}} "I am Yahweh, your God, who brought you out from the land of Egypt, from the house of slaves. {{rf{3}}} "There shall be for you no other gods before me. {{rf{4}}} "You shall not make for yourself a divine image with any form that is in the heavens above or that is in the earth below or that is in the water below the earth. {{rf{5}}} You will not bow down to them, and you will not serve them, because I am Yahweh your God, a jealous God, punishing the guilt of the parents on the children on the third and on the fourth generations of those hating me, {{rf{6}}} and showing loyal love to thousands of generations of those loving me and of those keeping my commandments. {{rf{7}}} "You shall not misuse the name of Yahweh your God, because Yahweh will not leave unpunished anyone who misuses his name. {{rf{8}}} "Remember the day of the Sabbath, to consecrate it. {{rf{9}}} Six days you will work, and you will do all your work. {{rf{10}}} But the seventh day is a Sabbath for Yahweh your God; you will not do any work -- you or your son or your daughter, your male slave or your female slave, or your animal, or your alien who is in your gates -- {{rf{11}}} because in six days Yahweh made the heavens and the earth, the sea and all that is in them, and on the seventh day he rested. Therefore Yahweh blessed the seventh day and consecrated it. {{rf{12}}} "Honor your father and your mother, so that your days can be long on the land that Yahweh your God is giving you. {{rf{13}}} "You shall not murder. {{rf{14}}} "You shall not commit adultery. {{rf{15}}} "You shall not steal. {{rf{16}}} "You shall not testify against your neighbor with a false witness. {{rf{17}}} "You shall not covet the house of your neighbor; you will not covet the wife of your neighbor or his male servant or his female servant or his ox or his donkey or anything that is your neighbor's." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Exodus-20-01]] }}}
20:7 see <<Bbl Mt 12:36 >>
<<Bbl Ex 20:8 abbr >>-11 Second mention of the Sabbath after creation.
20:25 Your attempt to hallow it can only profane it. If you use a chisel, you "have your own reward."
20:26 In pagan ceremonies, commentators agree, the priest was exposed as he (or she) ascended the steps of the altar.
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The laws that follow make sense. They are grounded in the Ten Words; they appeal to "right reason". They are statutes with hints for case application, so they provide a circuit or regional judge (<<Bbl Ex 20:22 abbr >>) with what he needs to settle local affairs. Above all, they indicate reliance on God for discernment and wisdom (<<Bbl Ex 22:7 abbr >>).
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21:2 The slave does not need to purchase his freedom.
21:11 The female slave does not need to purchase her freedom in this circumstance. At least that interpretation is what I would prefer.
21:14 He is not allowed to take refuge by grasping the altar. Solomon's enforcer Beniah dealt with this.
<<Bbl Ex 21:22 abbr >> she has a miscarriage -- this is translated, "her fruit depart," in "The Holy Scriptures, a New Translation (Jewish)".
<<Bbl Ex 21:24 abbr >> Islam violates God's law by prescribing the loss of a hand for the crime of theft.
22:16-17 The dowry must be paid, whether or not the girl's father agrees to a marriage. The seducing man has an incentive to urge for marriage.
22:26 see <<Bbl Amos 2:8 >>
<<Bbl Ex 23:7 abbr >> Indeed!
23:9 see <<Bbl Titus 3:1 >>-8
23:13 see <<Bbl Eph 5:3 >>
<<Bbl Ex 23:20 abbr >>-33 The basic mandate, given by the Lord through Moses, by which the Israelites were to make their conquest.
23:28-33 a glorious picture of sanctification. Fount Schultz likens the enemies to Satan and the wild beasts to the flesh.
23:28 see <<Bbl Josh 24:12 >>
<<Bbl Ex 23:30 abbr >> see <<Bbl Ps 80:9 >>; <<Bbl I 26:15 >>
<<Bbl Ex 24:11 abbr >> eating: covenant seal. The only other OT passage that talks about sitting down to a meal table with the ever-living God is <<Bbl I 25:6 >>-9 . There it seals a union not with the Israelites but with the nations.
24:17 But to Moses it perhaps did not seem like a consuming fire; he recognized it as the fire that did not consume the bush.
<<Bbl Ex 25:9 abbr >>
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<<Bbl Ex 25:9 >> , <<Bbl Ex 25:40 abbr >> and <<Bbl Ex 26:39 abbr >> , <<Bbl Ex 27:8 abbr >> command Moses to "stick with the plan". The written description we have recorded did not make the full instruction -- <<Bbl H 8:4>>. One might say "you had to be there."
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{{rf{18}}} And all the people were seeing the thunder and the lightning and the sound of the ram's horn and the mountain smoking, and the people saw, and they trembled, and they stood at a distance. {{rf{19}}} And they said to Moses, "You speak with us, and we will listen, but let not God speak with us, lest we die." {{rf{20}}} And Moses said to the people, "Do not be afraid. God has come to test you so that his fear will be before you so that you do not sin." {{rf{21}}} And the people stood at a distance, and Moses approached the very thick cloud where God was. {{rf{22}}} And Yahweh said to Moses, "Thus you will say to the Israelites, 'You yourselves have seen that I have spoken to you from the heavens. {{rf{23}}} You will not make alongside me gods of silver, and gods of gold you will not make for yourselves. {{rf{24}}} An altar of earth you will make for me, and you will sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and your fellowship offerings, your sheep and your cattle. In every place where I cause my name to be remembered, I will come to you, and I will bless you. {{rf{25}}} And if you make an altar of stones for me, you will not build them as hewn stone, because if you use your chisel on it, you have defiled it. {{rf{26}}} You will not go up with steps onto my altar, that your nakedness not be exposed on it.' {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Exodus-20-18]] }}}
"And these are the regulations that you will set before them. {{rf{2}}} 'If you buy a Hebrew slave, he will serve six years, and in the seventh he will go out as free for nothing. {{rf{3}}} If he comes in single, he will go out single. If he is the husband of a wife, his wife will go out with him. {{rf{4}}} If his master gives him a wife and she bears for him sons or daughters, the wife and her children will belong to her master, and the slave will go out single. {{rf{5}}} But if the slave explicitly says, "I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free," {{rf{6}}} his master will present him to God and bring him to the door or to the doorpost, and his master will pierce his ear with an awl, and he will serve him forever. {{rf{7}}} " 'And if a man sells his daughter as a slave woman, she will not go out as male slaves go out. {{rf{8}}} If she does not please her master who selected her, he will allow her to be redeemed; he has no authority to sell her to foreign people, since he has dealt treacherously with her. {{rf{9}}} And if he selects her for his son, he shall do for her according to the regulations for daughters. {{rf{10}}} If he takes for himself another, he will not reduce her food, her clothing, or her right of cohabitation. {{rf{11}}} And if he does not do for her these three, she shall go out for nothing; there will not be silver paid for her. {{rf{12}}} " 'Whoever strikes someone and he dies will surely be put to death. {{rf{13}}} But if he did not lie in wait and it was an accident, I will appoint for you a place to which he may flee. {{rf{14}}} But if a man schemes against his neighbor to kill him by treachery, you will take him from my altar to die. {{rf{15}}} And whoever strikes his father or his mother will surely be put to death. {{rf{16}}} " 'And whoever kidnaps someone and sells him, or he is found in his possession, he will surely be put to death. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Exodus-21-01]] }}}
{{rf{17}}} " 'And one who curses his father or his mother will surely be put to death. {{rf{18}}} " 'And if men quarrel and a man strikes his neighbor with a stone or with a fist and he does not die, but he is confined to bed, {{rf{19}}} if he stands and walks about in the outside on his staff, the striker will be unpunished; he will only pay for his inactivity toward his full recovery." {{rf{20}}} And if a man strikes his male slave or his female slave with the rod and he dies under his hand, he will surely be avenged. {{rf{21}}} Yet if he survives a day or two days, he will not be avenged, because he is his money. {{rf{22}}} " 'And if men fight and they injure a pregnant woman, and her children go out and there is not serious injury, he will surely be fined as the woman's husband demands concerning him and as the judges determine. {{rf{23}}} And if there is serious injury, you will give life in place of life, {{rf{24}}} eye in place of eye, tooth in place of tooth, hand in place of hand, foot in place of foot, {{rf{25}}} burn in place of burn, wound in place of wound, bruise in place of bruise. {{rf{26}}} " 'And if a man strikes the eye of his male slave or the eye of his female slave and destroys it, he shall release him as free in place of his eye. {{rf{27}}} And if he causes the tooth of his male slave or the tooth of his female slave to fall out, he will release him as free in place of his tooth. {{rf{28}}} " 'And if an ox gores a man or a woman and he dies, the ox will surely be stoned, and its meat will not be eaten, and the owner of the ox is innocent. {{rf{29}}} But if it was a goring ox before and its owner was warned and did not restrain it and it kills a man or a woman, the ox will be stoned, and the owner also will be put to death. {{rf{30}}} If a ransom is set on him, he will pay the redemption money for his life according to all that is set on him. {{rf{31}}} If it gores a son or it gores a daughter, according to this regulation it shall be done to him. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Exodus-21-17]] }}}
{{rf{32}}} If the ox gores a male slave or a female slave, he will give thirty shekels of silver to his master, and the ox will be stoned. {{rf{33}}} " 'If a man opens a pit or if a man digs a pit and he does not cover it and an ox or a donkey falls into it, {{rf{34}}} the owner of the pit will pay restitution; he will pay silver to its owner, but the dead animal will be for him. {{rf{35}}} And if a man's ox injures the ox of his neighbor and it dies, they will sell the living ox and divide the money, and they will also divide the dead one. {{rf{36}}} Or if it was known that it was a goring ox before and its owner did not restrain it, he will surely make restitution, an ox in place of the ox, and the dead one will be for him. {{rf big{1}}} " 'If a man steals an ox or small livestock and slaughters it or sells it, he will make restitution with five cattle in place of the ox and with four sheep or goats in place of the small livestock. {{rf{2}}} " 'If a thief is found in the act of breaking in and he is struck and he dies, there is not bloodguilt for him. {{rf{3}}} (If the sun has risen over him, there is bloodguilt for him. He will make full restitution. If he does not have enough, he will be sold for his theft. {{rf{4}}} If indeed the stolen item is found in his possession alive, from ox to donkey to small livestock, he will make double restitution. {{rf{5}}} " 'If a man grazes his livestock in a field or a vineyard and he releases his livestock and it grazes in the field of another, he will make restitution from the best of his field and the best of his vineyard. {{rf{6}}} " 'If a fire is started and finds thorn bushes and a stack of sheaves or the standing grain or the field is consumed, the one who started the fire will surely make restitution. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Exodus-21-32]] }}}
{{rf{7}}} " 'If a man gives to his neighbor money or objects to watch over and it is stolen from the house of the man, if the thief is found, he will make double restitution. {{rf{8}}} If the thief is not found, the owner of the house will be brought to the sanctuary to learn whether or not he reached out his hand to his neighbor's possession. {{rf{9}}} Concerning every account of transgression -- concerning an ox, concerning a donkey, concerning small livestock, concerning clothing, concerning all lost property -- where someone says, "This belongs to me," the matter of the two of them will come to God; whomever God declares guilty will make double restitution to his neighbor. {{rf{10}}} " 'If a man gives to his neighbor a donkey or an ox or small livestock or any beast to watch over and it dies or is injured or is captured when there is no one who sees, {{rf{11}}} the oath of Yahweh will be between the two of them concerning whether or not he has reached out his hand to his neighbor's possession, and its owner will accept this, and he will not make restitution. {{rf{12}}} But if indeed it was stolen from him, he will make restitution to its owner. {{rf{13}}} If indeed it was torn to pieces, he will bring it as evidence -- the mangled carcass; he will not make restitution. {{rf{14}}} " 'If a man borrows from his neighbor and it is injured or dies while its owner is not with it, he will make restitution. {{rf{15}}} If its owner was with it, he will not make restitution; if it was hired, it came with its hiring fee. {{rf{16}}} " 'If a man seduces a virgin who is not engaged and he lies with her, he surely will give her bride price to have her as his wife. {{rf{17}}} If her father absolutely refuses to give her to him, he will weigh out money according to the bride price for the virgin. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Exodus-22-07]] }}}
{{rf{18}}} " 'You will not let a witch live. {{rf{19}}} " 'Anyone lying with an animal will surely be put to death. {{rf{20}}} " 'Whoever sacrifices to the gods -- not to Yahweh, to him alone -- will be destroyed. {{rf{21}}} " 'You will not mistreat an alien, and you will not oppress him, because you were aliens in the land of Egypt. {{rf{22}}} " 'You will not afflict any widow or orphan. {{rf{23}}} If you indeed afflict him, yes, if he cries out at all to me, I will certainly hear his cry of distress. {{rf{24}}} And I will become angry, and I will kill you with the sword, and your wives will be widows and your children orphans. {{rf{25}}} " 'If you lend money to my people, to the needy with you, you will not be to him as a creditor; you will not charge him interest. {{rf{26}}} If indeed you require the cloak of your neighbor as a pledge, you will return it to him at sundown, {{rf{27}}} because it is his only garment; it is his cloak for his skin. In what will he sleep? And when he cries out to me, I will hear, because I am gracious. {{rf{28}}} " 'You will not curse God, and you will not curse a leader among your people. {{rf{29}}} " 'You will not delay the fullness of your harvest and the juice from your press; you will give me the firstborn of your sons. {{rf{30}}} You will do likewise for your ox and for your sheep and goats; seven days it will be with its mother; on the eighth, you will give it to me. {{rf{31}}} And you will be men of holiness for me; and you will not eat meat from a carcass mangled in the field; you will throw it to the dog. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Exodus-22-18]] }}}
" 'You will not spread a false report. Do not lift your hand with the wicked to be a malicious witness. {{rf{2}}} You will not follow a majority for evil, and you will not testify concerning a legal dispute to turn aside after a majority to pervert justice. {{rf{3}}} You will not be partial to a powerless person in his legal dispute. {{rf{4}}} " 'If you come upon the ox of your enemy or his donkey going astray, you will certainly bring it back to him. {{rf{5}}} If you see the donkey of your enemy lying down under its burden, you will refrain from abandoning him. You will surely arrange it with him. {{rf{6}}} " 'You will not pervert the justice of your poor in his legal dispute. {{rf{7}}} You will stay far from a false charge, and do not kill the innocent and the righteous, because I will not declare the wicked righteous. {{rf{8}}} And you will not take a bribe, because the bribe makes the sighted blind and ruins the words of the righteous. {{rf{9}}} And you will not oppress an alien; you yourselves know the feelings of the alien, because you were aliens in the land of Egypt. {{rf{10}}} " 'And six years you will sow your land and gather its yield. {{rf{11}}} But the seventh you will let it rest and leave it fallow, and the poor of your people will eat, and their remainder the animals of the field will eat. You will do likewise for your vineyard and for your olive trees. {{rf{12}}} " 'Six days you will do your work, but on the seventh day you will stop so that your ox and your donkey will rest and the son of your slave woman and the alien will be refreshed. {{rf{13}}} " 'And you will be attentive to all that I have said to you, and you will not profess the name of other gods; it will not be heard in your mouth. {{rf{14}}} " 'Three times in the year you will hold a festival for me. {{rf{15}}} You will keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread; for seven days you will eat unleavened bread, as I commanded you at the appointed time, the month of Abib, because in it you came out from Egypt, and no one will appear before me empty-handed. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Exodus-23-01]] }}}
{{rf{16}}} And you will keep the Feast of Harvest, with the firstfruits of your work, what you sow in the field. And you will keep the Feast of Harvest Gathering when the year goes out, when you gather your work from the field. {{rf{17}}} Three times in the year all your men will appear before the Lord Yahweh. {{rf{18}}} " 'You will not sacrifice the blood of my sacrifice together with food with yeast, and you will not leave the fat of my feast overnight until morning. {{rf{19}}} " 'The best of the firstfruits of your land you will bring to the house of Yahweh your God. " 'You will not boil a young goat in its mother's milk. {{rf{20}}} " 'Look, I am about to send an angel before you to guard you on the way and to bring you to the place that I have prepared. {{rf{21}}} Be attentive to him and listen to his voice; do not rebel against him, because he will not forgive your transgression, for my name is in him. {{rf{22}}} But if you listen attentively to his voice and do all that I say, I will be an enemy to your enemies and a foe to your foes. {{rf{23}}} When my angel goes before you and brings you to the Amorites and the Hittites and the Perizzites and the Canaanites and the Hivites and the Jebusites, I will wipe them out. {{rf{24}}} " 'You will not bow to their gods, and you will not serve them, and you will not act according to their actions, because you will utterly demolish them, and you will utterly break their stone pillars. {{rf{25}}} And you will serve Yahweh your God, and he will bless your bread and your water, and I will remove sickness from among you. {{rf{26}}} There will be no one suffering miscarriage or infertile in your land. I will make full the number of your days. {{rf{27}}} " 'I will release my terror before you, and I will throw into confusion all the people against whom you come, and I will make all your enemies turn their back to you. {{rf{28}}} And I will send the hornet before you, and it will drive out the Hivites, the Canaanites, and the Hittites from before you. {{rf{29}}} I will not drive them out from before you in one year, lest the land become a desolation and the wild animals multiply against you. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Exodus-23-16]] }}}
{{rf{30}}} Little by little I will drive them out from before you until you are fruitful and take possession of the land. {{rf{31}}} " 'And I will set your boundary from the Red Sea and up to the sea of the Philistines and from the desert up to the river, because I will give the inhabitants of the land into your hand, and you will drive them out from before you. {{rf{32}}} You will not make a covenant with them and with their gods. {{rf{33}}} They will not live in your land, lest they cause you to sin against me when you serve their gods, for it will be a snare to you.'" {{rf big{1}}} And to Moses he said, "Go up to Yahweh -- you and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and seventy from the elders of Israel -- and you will worship at a distance. {{rf{2}}} And Moses alone will come near to Yahweh, and they will not come near, and the people will not go up with him." {{rf{3}}} And Moses came, and he told the people all the words of Yahweh and all the regulations. And all the people answered with one voice, and they said, "All the words that Yahweh has spoken we will do." {{rf{4}}} And Moses wrote all the words of Yahweh, and he rose early in the morning, and he built an altar at the base of the mountain and set up twelve memorial stones for the twelve tribes of Israel. {{rf{5}}} And he sent young men from the Israelites, and they offered burnt offerings, and they sacrificed sacrifices as fellowship offerings to Yahweh using bulls. {{rf{6}}} And Moses took half of the blood, and he put it in bowls, and half of the blood he sprinkled on the altar. {{rf{7}}} And he took the scroll of the covenant and read it in the hearing of the people, and they said, "All that Yahweh has spoken we will do, and we will listen." {{rf{8}}} And Moses took the blood and sprinkled it on the people, and he said, "Look, the blood of the covenant that Yahweh has made with you in accordance with all these words." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Exodus-23-30]] }}}
{{rf{9}}} And Moses and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and seventy from the elders of Israel went up. {{rf{10}}} And they saw the God of Israel, and what was under his feet was like sapphire tile work and like the very heavens for clearness. {{rf{11}}} And toward the leaders of the Israelites he did not stretch out his hand, and they beheld God, and they ate, and they drank. {{rf{12}}} And Yahweh said to Moses, "Come up to me on the mountain, and be there, and I will give you the tablets of stone and the law and the commandments that I have written to instruct them." {{rf{13}}} And Moses got up, and Joshua, his assistant, and Moses went up to the mountain of God. {{rf{14}}} And to the elders he said, "Wait for us here until we return to you. And look, Aaron and Hur are with you. Whoever has a dispute will bring it to you." {{rf{15}}} And Moses went up to the mountain, and the cloud covered the mountain. {{rf{16}}} And the glory of Yahweh settled on Mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it for six days, and he called to Moses on the seventh day from the midst of the cloud. {{rf{17}}} And the appearance of the glory of Yahweh was like a consuming fire on the top of the mountain to the eyes of the Israelites. {{rf{18}}} And Moses went into the midst of the cloud, and he went up the mountain, and Moses was on the mountain forty days and forty nights. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Exodus-24-09]] }}}
And Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, {{rf{2}}} "Speak to the Israelites, and let them bring to me a contribution. You will receive my contribution from every man whose heart prompts him. {{rf{3}}} And this is the contribution that you will receive from them -- gold and silver and bronze, {{rf{4}}} blue, purple, and crimson yarns, and fine linen and goat hair, {{rf{5}}} and red-dyed ram skins, and fine leather, and acacia wood, {{rf{6}}} oil for the lamp, balsam oils for the anointing oil and for the fragrant incense, {{rf{7}}} onyx stones and stones for mountings on the ephod and the breast piece. {{rf{8}}} And make a sanctuary for me, and I will dwell in the midst of them, {{rf{9}}} according to all that I show you -- the pattern of the tabernacle and the pattern of all its equipment -- and so you will do. {{rf{10}}} "And they will make an ark of acacia wood, two and a half cubits its length and a cubit and a half its width and a cubit and a half its height. {{rf{11}}} And you will overlay it with pure gold, inside and outside you will overlay it, and you will make on it a gold molding all around. {{rf{12}}} And you will cast for it four gold rings, and you will put them on its four feet, with two rings on its one side and two rings on its second side. {{rf{13}}} And you will make poles of acacia wood, and you will overlay them with gold. {{rf{14}}} And you will put the poles into the rings on the sides of the ark to carry the ark with them. {{rf{15}}} In the rings of the ark will be the poles; they will not be removed from it. {{rf{16}}} And you will put into the ark the testimony that I will give to you. {{rf{17}}} "And you will make an atonement cover of pure gold, two and a half cubits its length and a cubit and a half its width. {{rf{18}}} And you will make two cherubim of gold; you will make them of hammered work at the two ends of the atonement cover. {{rf{19}}} And make one cherub at one end and one cherub at the other end of the atonement cover; you will make the cherubim on its two ends. {{rf{20}}} And the cherubim will be with outspread wings above, covering with their wings over the atonement cover and facing each other; the faces of the cherubim will be toward the atonement cover. {{rf{21}}} And you will put the atonement cover above onto the ark, and into the ark you will put the testimony that I will give you. {{rf{22}}} And I will meet you there, and I will speak with you from over the atonement cover, from between the two cherubim that are to be on the ark of the testimony -- all that I will command you to the Israelites. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Exodus-25-01]] }}}
{{rf{23}}} "And you will make a table of acacia wood, two cubits its length and a cubit its width and a cubit and a half its height. {{rf{24}}} And you will overlay it with pure gold, and you will make for it a gold molding all around. {{rf{25}}} And you will make for it a handbreadth rim all around, and you will make a gold molding for its rim all around. {{rf{26}}} And you will make four gold rings for it, and you will put the rings on the four corners where its four legs are. {{rf{27}}} The rings will be near the rim as holders for poles to carry the table. {{rf{28}}} And you will make the poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold, and the table will be carried with them. {{rf{29}}} And you will make its plates and its ladles and its pitchers and its bowls with which libations will be poured; of pure gold you will make them. {{rf{30}}} And you will put on the table the bread of presence to be before me continually. {{rf{31}}} "And you will make a lampstand of pure gold; the lampstand will be made of hammered work -- its base and its branch, its cups, its buds, and its blossoms will be from it. {{rf{32}}} And six branches will be going out from its sides, three branches of the lampstand from its one side and three branches of the lampstand from its second side. {{rf{33}}} Three almond-flower cups will be on the one branch with a bud and a blossom, and three almond-flower cups will be on the one branch with a bud and a blossom -- likewise for the six branches going out from the lampstand. {{rf{34}}} And on the lampstand will be four almond-flower cups, with its buds and its blossoms. {{rf{35}}} And a bud will be under the two branches that come from it, and a bud under the two branches from it, and a bud under the two branches from it, likewise for the six branches coming out from the lampstand. {{rf{36}}} Their buds and their branches will be from it, all of it one piece of pure gold hammered work. {{rf{37}}} And you will make its seven lamps, and its lamps will be set up, and it will give light in the space in front of it. {{rf{38}}} And its snuffers and its fire pans will be pure gold. {{rf{39}}} It will be made from a talent of pure gold, with all these pieces of equipment. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Exodus-25-23]] }}}
{{rf{40}}} And see and make all according to their pattern, which you were shown in the mountain. {{rf big{1}}} "And the tabernacle you will make with ten curtains; you will make them of finely twisted linen and blue and purple and crimson yarns, with cherubim, the work of a skilled craftsman. {{rf{2}}} The length of the one curtain will be twenty-eight cubits, and the width will be four cubits for the one curtain; one measure will be for all the curtains. {{rf{3}}} Five curtains will be joined to one another, and five curtains joined to one another. {{rf{4}}} And you will make loops of blue on the edge of the one curtain, at the end in the set; and you will do so on the edge of the end curtain in the second set. {{rf{5}}} You will make fifty loops on the one curtain, and you will make fifty loops on the end of the curtain that is in the second set; the loops are to be opposite to one another. {{rf{6}}} And you will make fifty gold clasps and join the curtains to one another with the clasps, so that the tabernacle will be one. {{rf{7}}} "And you will make curtains of goat hair for a tent over the tabernacle; you will make them eleven curtains. {{rf{8}}} The length of the one curtain will be thirty cubits, and the width will be four cubits for the one curtain; one measure will be for the eleven curtains. {{rf{9}}} And you will join five curtains together and six curtains together, and you will fold double the sixth curtain at the front of the tent. {{rf{10}}} And you will make fifty loops on the edge of the one curtain at the end of the first set and fifty loops on the edge of the curtain in the second set. {{rf{11}}} And you will make fifty bronze clasps, and you will put the clasps in the loops and join the tent, so that it will be one. {{rf{12}}} "And the surplus in the curtains of the tent will be an overhang; the surplus half curtain will hang over the back of the tabernacle. {{rf{13}}} And a cubit from one side and a cubit from the other side in the surplus in the length of the curtains of the tent will be hung over the sides of the tabernacle equally to cover it. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Exodus-25-40]] }}}
{{rf{14}}} "And you will make a covering for the tent of red-dyed ram skins and a covering of fine leather to go above. {{rf{15}}} "And you will make the frames for the tabernacle of acacia wood as uprights. {{rf{16}}} The length of the frame will be ten cubits, and the width of the one frame will be one and a half cubits. {{rf{17}}} You will make two pegs for the one frame for joining each to another and likewise for all the frames of the tabernacle. {{rf{18}}} And you will make the frames for the tabernacle with twenty frames for the south side. {{rf{19}}} And you will make forty silver bases under the twenty frames, with two bases under the one frame for its two pegs and two bases under the next frame for its two pegs. {{rf{20}}} And for the second side of the tabernacle, the north side, there will be twenty frames {{rf{21}}} and their forty silver bases, with two bases under the one frame and two bases under the next frame. {{rf{22}}} "And for the rear of the tabernacle on the west you will make six frames. {{rf{23}}} And you will make two frames for the tabernacle corners at the rear. {{rf{24}}} They will be double at the bottom, and they will be completely together on its top to the one ring; it will be likewise for the two of them; they will be for the two corners. {{rf{25}}} And there will be eight frames and their silver bases, sixteen bases, with two bases under the one frame and two bases under the next frame. {{rf{26}}} "You will make five bars of acacia wood for the frames on the one side of the tabernacle, {{rf{27}}} and five bars for the frames on the second side of the tabernacle, and five bars for the frames on the side of the tabernacle at the rear on the west. {{rf{28}}} And the bar in the middle, in the midst of the frames will run from end to end. {{rf{29}}} And you will overlay the frames with gold, and you will make their rings of gold as holders for the bars, and you will overlay the bars with gold. {{rf{30}}} And you will erect the tabernacle according to its plan, which you have been shown on the mountain. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Exodus-26-14]] }}}
{{rf{31}}} "And you will make a curtain of blue and purple and crimson yarns and finely twisted linen, the work of a skilled craftsman; he will make it with cherubim. {{rf{32}}} And you will put it on four acacia pillars overlaid with gold with their gold hooks on four silver bases. {{rf{33}}} And you will put the curtain under the clasps, and you will bring the ark of the testimony there inside the curtain, and the curtain will separate for you between the holy and the most holy place. {{rf{34}}} And you will put the atonement cover on the ark of the testimony in the most holy place. {{rf{35}}} And you will place the table outside the curtain and the lampstand opposite the table on the south side of the tabernacle, and you will put the table on the north side. {{rf{36}}} "And you will make for the entrance of the tent a screen of blue and purple and crimson yarns and finely twisted linen, the work of an embroiderer. {{rf{37}}} And you will make for the screen five acacia pillars, and you will overlay them with gold with their gold hooks, and you will cast for them five bronze bases. {{rf big{1}}} "And you will make the altar of acacia wood, five cubits long and five cubits wide; the altar will be square, and its height will be three cubits. {{rf{2}}} And you will make its horns on its four corners; its horns will be of one piece with it, and you will overlay it with bronze. {{rf{3}}} And you will make its pots for removing its fat-soaked ashes and its shovels and its sprinkling bowls and its forks and its fire pans; you will make all its equipment with bronze. {{rf{4}}} And you will make for it a grating, a work of bronze network, and you will make on the network four bronze rings on its four ends. {{rf{5}}} And you will put it under the ledge of the altar, below, and the network will be up to the middle of the altar. {{rf{6}}} And you will make poles for the altar, poles of acacia wood, and you will overlay them with bronze. {{rf{7}}} And the poles will be put into the rings, and the poles will be on the two sides of the altar when carrying it. {{rf{8}}} You will make it hollow with boards. As it was shown you on the mountain, so they will do. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Exodus-26-31]] }}}
{{rf{9}}} "You will make the courtyard of the tabernacle; for the south side will be hangings for the courtyard of finely twisted linen, one hundred cubits long for the one side. {{rf{10}}} And its twenty pillars and their twenty bases will be bronze; the hooks of the pillars and their bands will be silver. {{rf{11}}} And likewise for the north side along the length will be hangings one hundred cubits long; and its twenty pillars and their bases will be bronze; the hooks of the pillars and their bands will be silver. {{rf{12}}} And the width of the courtyard for the west side will be hangings of fifty cubits, their ten pillars and their ten bases. {{rf{13}}} And the width of the courtyard for the east side, toward sunrise, will be fifty cubits. {{rf{14}}} And hangings for the shoulder will be fifteen cubits with their three pillars and their three bases. {{rf{15}}} And fifteen cubits of hangings will be for the second shoulder with their three pillars and their three bases. {{rf{16}}} And for the gate of the courtyard there will be a screen of twenty cubits of blue and purple and crimson yarns and finely twisted linen, the work of an embroiderer; with their four pillars and their four bases. {{rf{17}}} "All the pillars of the courtyard all around will be banded with silver, and their hooks will be silver, and their bases will be bronze. {{rf{18}}} The length of the courtyard will be one hundred cubits and the width fifty cubits and the height five cubits, of finely twisted linen, with their bronze bases. {{rf{19}}} Bronze will be for all the equipment of the tabernacle in all its service and all its pegs and all the pegs of the courtyard. {{rf{20}}} "And you will command the Israelites, and they will bring to you pure, beaten olive oil for the light, to cause a lamp to burn continually. {{rf{21}}} In the tent of assembly outside the curtain that is before the testimony, Aaron and his sons will arrange it, from evening until morning, before Yahweh as a lasting statute throughout their generations from the Israelites. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Exodus-27-09]] }}}
"And bring near to you Aaron, your brother, and his sons with him from the midst of the Israelites to serve as priests for me -- Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar, the sons of Aaron. {{rf{2}}} And you will make holy garments for Aaron, your brother, for glory and for splendor. {{rf{3}}} And you will speak to all the skilled of heart, whom I have given a gift of skill, and they will make the garments of Aaron to consecrate him for his serving as my priest. {{rf{4}}} And these are the garments that they will make: A breast piece and an ephod and a robe and a tunic of specially woven fabric, a turban and a sash. And they will make holy garments for Aaron your brother, and for his sons to serve as priests for me. {{rf{5}}} "And they will take the gold and the blue and the purple and the crimson yarns and the fine linen, {{rf{6}}} and they will make the ephod of gold, blue and purple, and crimson yarns, and finely twisted linen, the work of a skilled craftsman. {{rf{7}}} It will have two joining shoulder pieces at its two edges, so that it can be fastened. {{rf{8}}} And the waistband of his ephod, which is on it, will be of like work to it -- gold, blue, and purple and crimson yarns and finely twisted linen. {{rf{9}}} "And you will take two onyx stones and engrave on them the names of the Israelites, {{rf{10}}} with six of their names on the one stone and the remaining six on the second, according to their genealogies. {{rf{11}}} As the work of a skilled stone craftsman, with seal engravings you will engrave on the two stones the names of the Israelites; you will make them mounted in gold filigree settings. {{rf{12}}} And you will set the two stones on the ephod's shoulder pieces as stones of remembrance for the Israelites, and Aaron will bear their names before Yahweh on his two shoulder pieces for remembrance. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Exodus-28-01]] }}}
{{rf{13}}} "And you will make gold filigree settings. {{rf{14}}} And you will make two braided chains of pure gold ornamental cord work, and you will put the chains of the ornamental cords on the filigree settings. {{rf{15}}} And you will make a breast piece of judgment, a work of a skilled craftsman; you will make it like the work of the ephod; you will make it of gold, blue and purple and crimson yarns, and finely twisted linen. {{rf{16}}} It will be squared, doubled, a span its length and a span its width. {{rf{17}}} And you will fill it with stone mounting, four rows of stone, a row of carnelian, topaz, and emerald is the first row; {{rf{18}}} and the second row is a malachite, a sapphire, and a moonstone; {{rf{19}}} and the third row is a jacinth, an agate, and an amethyst; {{rf{20}}} and the fourth row is a turquoise and an onyx and a jasper. Their settings will be woven with gold. {{rf{21}}} The stones will be according to the names of the Israelites, twelve according to their names, with seal engravings, each according to its name they will be for the twelve tribes. {{rf{22}}} "And you will make on the breast piece braided chains, a work of pure gold ornamental cord. {{rf{23}}} And you will make on the breast piece two gold rings, and you will put the two rings on the two edges of the breast piece. {{rf{24}}} And you will put the two gold ornamental cords on the two rings on the edges of the breast piece. {{rf{25}}} And you will put the two ends of the two ornamental cords on the two filigree settings, and you will put them on the shoulder pieces of the ephod at the front of it. {{rf{26}}} And you will make two gold rings, and you will place them on the two ends of the breast piece, on its edge that is on the other side of the ephod, to the inside. {{rf{27}}} And you will make two rings and put them on the two shoulder pieces of the ephod below at its front near its seam above the waistband of the ephod. {{rf{28}}} And they will tie the breast piece by its rings to the rings of the ephod with a blue cord to be on the waistband of the ephod, and the breast piece will not come loose from the ephod. {{rf{29}}} And Aaron will bear the names of the Israelites in the breast piece of judgment on his heart, when he comes to the sanctuary, for a remembrance before Yahweh continually. {{rf{30}}} And you will put the Urim and the Thummim on the breast piece of judgment, and they will be on the heart of Aaron when he comes before Yahweh, and Aaron will bear the judgment of the Israelites on his heart before Yahweh continually. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Exodus-28-13]] }}}
{{rf{31}}} "And you will make the robe of the ephod totally of blue yarn. {{rf{32}}} And the opening for his head will be in the middle of it; its opening will have an edge all around, the work of a weaver; it will be like the opening of a sturdy garment for it, so that it will not be torn. {{rf{33}}} And you will make on its hem pomegranates of blue and purple and crimson yarns on its hem all around and bells of gold in the midst of them all around, {{rf{34}}} a gold bell and a pomegranate, a gold bell and a pomegranate, on the hem of the robe all around. {{rf{35}}} And it will be on Aaron for serving, and its sound will be heard at his coming into the sanctuary before Yahweh and at his going out, so that he will not die. {{rf{36}}} "And you will make a pure gold rosette, and you will engrave on it with seal engravings: "A holy object for Yahweh." {{rf{37}}} And you will place it on a blue cord, and it will be on the turban, at the front of the turban it will be. {{rf{38}}} And it will be on the forehead of Aaron, and Aaron will bear the guilt of the holy objects that the Israelites will consecrate for all their holy gifts, and it will be on his forehead continually for acceptance for them before Yahweh. {{rf{39}}} "And you will weave the tunic of fine linen, and you will make a turban of fine linen, and you will make a sash, the work of an embroiderer. {{rf{40}}} And for the sons of Aaron you will make tunics, and you will make for them sashes and headdresses; you will make them for glory and for splendor. {{rf{41}}} And you will clothe them -- Aaron, your brother, and his sons with him -- and you will anoint them and ordain them and consecrate them, and they will serve as priests for me. {{rf{42}}} And make for them undergarments of linen to cover naked flesh; they will be from loins to thigh. {{rf{43}}} And they will be on Aaron and on his sons when they come to the tent of assembly or when they approach the altar to serve in the sanctuary, so that they will not bear guilt and die. It is a lasting statute for him and for his offspring after him. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Exodus-28-31]] }}}
"And this is the thing that you will do for them to consecrate them to serve as a priest for me: Take one young bull and two rams without defect {{rf{2}}} and unleavened bread and unleavened, ring-shaped bread cakes mixed with oil, and wafers of unleavened breads smeared with oil. You will make them with finely milled wheat flour, {{rf{3}}} and you will put them on one basket, and you will bring them on the basket and bring the bull and the two rams. {{rf{4}}} And you will bring Aaron and his sons to the entrance of the tent of assembly, and you will wash them with water. {{rf{5}}} And you will take the garments and clothe Aaron with the tunic and the robe of the ephod, and you will fasten to him the ephod and the breast piece with the waistband of the ephod. {{rf{6}}} And you will set the turban on his head, and you will put the holy diadem on the turban. {{rf{7}}} And you will take the anointing oil and pour it on his head and anoint him. {{rf{8}}} And you will bring his sons and clothe them with tunics. {{rf{9}}} And you will gird Aaron and his sons with sashes and wrap headdresses on them. And priesthood will be theirs as a lasting rule, and you will ordain Aaron and his sons. {{rf{10}}} "And you will bring the bull before the tent of assembly, and Aaron and his sons will lay their hands on the head of the bull. {{rf{11}}} And you will slaughter the bull before Yahweh at the entrance of the tent of assembly. {{rf{12}}} And you will take some of the blood of the bull and with your finger put it on the horns of the altar, and you will pour out all the blood at the base of the altar. {{rf{13}}} And you will take and turn into smoke on the altar all the fat covering the inner parts and the lobe on the liver and the two kidneys and the fat that is on them. {{rf{14}}} And the flesh of the bull and its skin and its offal you will burn with fire outside the camp; it is a sin offering. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Exodus-29-01]] }}}
{{rf{15}}} "And you will take the one ram, and Aaron and his sons will lay their hands on the head of the ram. {{rf{16}}} And you will slaughter the ram and take its blood and sprinkle it on the altar all around. {{rf{17}}} And you will cut the ram into pieces and wash its inner parts, and you will put its legs with its pieces and with its head. {{rf{18}}} And you will turn into smoke on the altar all of the ram; it is a burnt offering for Yahweh; it is a smell of appeasement, an offering by fire for Yahweh. {{rf{19}}} "And you will take the second ram, and Aaron and his sons will lay their hands on the head of the ram. {{rf{20}}} And you will slaughter the ram and take some of its blood and put it on Aaron's right earlobe and on the right earlobe of his sons and on the thumb of their right hand and on the big toe of their right foot, and you will sprinkle the blood at the base of the altar all around. {{rf{21}}} And you will take some of the blood that is on the altar and some of the anointing oil, and you will spatter it on Aaron and on his garments and on his sons and on his sons' garments with him, and he will be sacred, and his garments and his sons and his sons' garments with him. {{rf{22}}} And you will take from the ram the fat and the fat tail and the fat covering the inner parts and the lobe of the liver and the two kidneys and the fat that is on them and the right thigh, because it is the ram of ordination. {{rf{23}}} "And one loaf of bread and one ring-shaped bread cake of oiled bread and one wafer from the basket of unleavened bread that is before Yahweh -- {{rf{24}}} you will put them all on the palms of Aaron and on the palms of his sons, and you will wave them as a wave offering before Yahweh. {{rf{25}}} And you will take them from their hand and turn them to smoke on the altar beside the burnt offering as a fragrance of appeasement before Yahweh; it is an offering made by fire before Yahweh. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Exodus-29-15]] }}}
{{rf{26}}} "And you will take the breast section from the ram of ordination that is for Aaron, and you will wave it as a wave offering before Yahweh. It will be your portion. {{rf{27}}} And you will consecrate the wave offering breast section and the thigh of the contribution that was waved and that was presented from the ram of the ordination that is for Aaron and for his sons. {{rf{28}}} And it will be for Aaron and for his sons as a lasting rule from the Israelites, because it is a contribution, and it will be a contribution from the Israelites from their sacrifices of fellowship, their contribution to Yahweh. {{rf{29}}} "And the holy garments that are for Aaron will be for his sons after him in which to anoint them and to ordain them. {{rf{30}}} Seven days the priest who replaces him from among his sons will wear them, who comes to the tent of assembly to serve in the sanctuary. {{rf{31}}} And you will take the ram of ordination and boil its meat in a holy place. {{rf{32}}} And Aaron and his sons will eat the meat of the ram and the bread that is in the basket at the entrance of the tent of assembly. {{rf{33}}} And they will eat them -- the things by which atonement was made for them to ordain them to consecrate them -- and a stranger will not eat them because they are holy objects. {{rf{34}}} If any remains until morning from the ordination meat or from the bread, you will burn the remainder in fire; it will not be eaten, because it is a holy object. {{rf{35}}} And you will do so for Aaron and for his sons, according to all that I have commanded you; seven days you will ordain them. {{rf{36}}} "And you will offer a bull for a sin offering every day for the atonement; and you will offer a sin offering on the altar when you make atonement for it, and you will anoint it to consecrate it. {{rf{37}}} Seven days you will make atonement for the altar, and you will consecrate it, and the altar will be a most holy thing. Anyone who touches the altar will be holy. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Exodus-29-26]] }}}
{{rf{38}}} "And this is what you shall offer on the altar: Two one-year-old male lambs every day continually. {{rf{39}}} The first lamb you will offer in the morning, and the second lamb you will offer at twilight. {{rf{40}}} And a tenth of finely milled flour mixed with a fourth of a hin of beaten oil, and a fourth of a hin of wine as a libation with the first lamb. {{rf{41}}} And the second lamb you will offer at twilight; you will offer a grain offering and its libation like that of the morning for a fragrance of appeasement, an offering made by fire for Yahweh. {{rf{42}}} It will be a burnt offering of continuity throughout your generations at the entrance of the tent of assembly before Yahweh, where I will meet with you to speak to you there. {{rf{43}}} "And I will meet with the Israelites there, and it will be consecrated by my glory. {{rf{44}}} And I will consecrate the tent of assembly and the altar, and Aaron and his sons I will consecrate to serve as priests for me. {{rf{45}}} And I will dwell in the midst of the Israelites, and I will be their God. {{rf{46}}} And they will know that I am Yahweh, their God, who brought them out from the land of Egypt in order to dwell in their midst. I am Yahweh their God. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Exodus-29-38]] }}}
"And you will make an altar for burning incense; you will make it of acacia wood, {{rf{2}}} a cubit its length and a cubit its width -- it will be square -- and two cubits its height, its horns of one piece with it. {{rf{3}}} And you will overlay it with pure gold, its top and its sides all around and its horns, and you will make for it a gold molding all around. {{rf{4}}} And you will make two gold rings for it; under its molding on two opposite sides you will make them as holders for poles to carry it with them. {{rf{5}}} You will make the poles of acacia wood, and you will overlay them with gold. {{rf{6}}} And you will put it before the curtain that is upon the ark of the testimony, before the atonement cover, which is on the testimony, there where I will meet with you. {{rf{7}}} "And on it Aaron will turn fragrant incense into smoke; each morning when he tends the lamps, he will turn it into smoke. {{rf{8}}} And when Aaron sets up the lamps at twilight, he will turn it into smoke -- incense of continuity -- before Yahweh throughout your generations. {{rf{9}}} You will not offer on it strange incense or a burnt offering or a grain offering, and you will not pour a libation on it. {{rf{10}}} And Aaron will make atonement on its horns one time in the year from the blood of the sin offering of the atonement; one time in the year he will make atonement on it throughout your generations; it is a most holy thing for Yahweh." {{rf{11}}} And Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, {{rf{12}}} "When you take a census of the Israelites to count them, they will each give the ransom of his life for Yahweh when counting them, and a plague will not be among them when counting them. {{rf{13}}} This they will give, everyone who is counted, the half shekel, according to the sanctuary shekel, which is twenty gerahs per shekel. The half shekel is a contribution for Yahweh. {{rf{14}}} Everyone who is counted from twenty years old and above will give the contribution of Yahweh. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Exodus-30-01]] }}}
{{rf{15}}} The rich will not give more, and the poor will not give less than the half shekel to give the contribution of Yahweh to make atonement for their lives. {{rf{16}}} And you will take the atonement money from the Israelites and give it to the service of the tent of assembly, and it will be as a memorial for the Israelites before Yahweh to make atonement for your lives." {{rf{17}}} And Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, {{rf{18}}} "And you will make a basin of bronze and its bronze stand for washing, and you will put it between the tent of assembly and the altar, and you will put water there. {{rf{19}}} And Aaron and his sons will wash their hands and their feet with it. {{rf{20}}} When they come to the tent of assembly, they will wash with water so that they do not die, or when they approach the altar to serve by turning to smoke an offering made by fire to Yahweh. {{rf{21}}} And they will wash their hands and their feet so that they do not die, and it will be a lasting rule for them -- to him and to his offspring throughout their generations. {{rf{22}}} And Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, {{rf{23}}} "And take for yourself top quality balsam oils, five hundred shekels of flowing myrrh, half as much -- two hundred and fifty shekels of fragrant cinnamon, and two hundred and fifty shekels of fragrant reed, {{rf{24}}} and five hundred shekels of cassia, according to the sanctuary shekel, and a hin of olive oil. {{rf{25}}} And you will make it into holy anointing oil, a spice blend of a fragrant ointment the work of a perfumer; it will be holy anointing oil. {{rf{26}}} And you will anoint with it the tent of assembly and the ark of the testimony, {{rf{27}}} and the table and all its equipment and the lampstand and its equipment and the incense altar, {{rf{28}}} and the altar of burnt offering and all its equipment and the basin and its stand. {{rf{29}}} And you will consecrate them, and they will be most holy things; anyone who touches them will be holy. {{rf{30}}} And you will anoint Aaron and his sons, and you will consecrate them to serve as priests for me. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Exodus-30-15]] }}}
{{rf{31}}} "And you will speak to the Israelites, saying, 'This will be my holy anointing oil throughout your generations. {{rf{32}}} It will not be poured on human flesh, and with its measurements you will not make any like it; it is holy; it will be holy to you. {{rf{33}}} Anyone who compounds perfume like it and who puts it on a stranger will be cut off from his people.'" {{rf{34}}} And Yahweh said to Moses, "Take for yourself fragrant perfumes -- stacte resin and onycha and galbanum -- fragrant perfumes and pure frankincense, an equal part of each, {{rf{35}}} and make it into a compound of incense, the work of a perfumer, salted, pure, holy. {{rf{36}}} And you will grind part of it to powder, and you will put part of it before the testimony in the tent of assembly where I will meet with you; it will be a most holy thing to you. {{rf{37}}} And the incense that you will make with its measurements you will not make for yourselves; it will be holy to you for Yahweh. {{rf{38}}} Anyone who makes any like it to smell it will be cut off from his people." {{rf big{1}}} And Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, {{rf{2}}} "See, I have called by name Bezalel the son of Uri the son of Hur, from the tribe of Judah. {{rf{3}}} And I have filled him with the Spirit of God, with wisdom and with skill and with knowledge and with every kind of craftsmanship, {{rf{4}}} to devise designs, to work with gold and with silver and with bronze, {{rf{5}}} and in stonecutting for setting and in cutting wood, for doing every kind of craftsmanship. {{rf{6}}} And, look, I have given with him Oholiab the son of Ahisamach, from the tribe of Dan, and I have put skill in the heart of all the skilled of heart, and they will make all that I have commanded you -- {{rf{7}}} the tent of assembly and the ark of the testimony and the atonement cover that is on it and all the equipment of the tent, {{rf{8}}} and the table and all its equipment, and the pure gold lampstand and all its equipment, and the incense altar, {{rf{9}}} and the altar of burnt offering and all its equipment, and the basin and its stand, {{rf{10}}} and the garments of woven material, and the garments of the sanctuary for Aaron the priest and the garments of his sons to serve as priests, {{rf{11}}} and the anointing oil and the fragrant incense for the sanctuary. According to all that I have commanded you, they will make it. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Exodus-30-31]] }}}
31:2 Bezalel means, "In the shadow of God."
<<Bbl Ex 31:6 abbr >> Oholiab means, "Father's Tent." see <<Bbl Mt 25:29 >>
<<Bbl Ex 31:12 abbr >>-17 A covenant sign. It is left implicit that faith is in operation; sabbath signifies faith, and faith is really the sign underneath all.
32:1 the man -- a problem of understanding is evident. God had brought them up.
32:3 see <<Bbl Gn 35:4 >>
<<Bbl Ex 32:4 abbr >>-5 What a study in idolatry. These are your Elohim, O Israel. Feast to Yahweh.
32:6 to play -- this is the word from which Isaac's name is derived.
32:10 It is hard to imagine the heart of God at this moment.
The righteous man automatically condemns the world to death, <<Bbl H 11:7 >>. Jesus condemned the world to death, and God "made of Him a great nation."
32:11-13 Moses is pleading on the basis of God's promises. That is a faith God listens to.
32:15 Which to some means that it was set up as a bilateral contract, in duplicate.
32:19 see <<Bbl Dt 9:19 >>
<<Bbl Ex 32:20 abbr >> see <<Bbl Num 12:3 >>
<<Bbl Ex 32:22 abbr >> Aaron, the man of smooth words earlier in Exodus, is being conciliatory.
32:25 naked, KJV.
32:29 ?? I would like to understand this better.
32:30 No room for self-righteousness arising from the massacre of sinners.
32:32 An ultimate statement of intercession.
32:33 An ultimate statement of sovereign righteousness.
{{rf{12}}} And Yahweh spoke to Moses and said, {{rf{13}}} "And you, speak to the Israelites, saying, 'Surely you must keep my Sabbaths, because it is a sign between me and you throughout your generations, in order to know that I am Yahweh, who consecrates you. {{rf{14}}} And you must keep the Sabbath, because it is holy for you; defilers of it will surely be put to death, because anyone who does work on it -- that person will be cut off from among his people. {{rf{15}}} On six days work can be done, and on the seventh is a Sabbath of complete rest, a holy day for Yahweh; anyone doing work on the Sabbath day will surely be put to death. {{rf{16}}} The Israelites will pay attention to the Sabbath in order to fulfill the Sabbath throughout their generations as a lasting covenant. {{rf{17}}} It is a sign between me and the Israelites forever, because in six days Yahweh made the heavens and the earth, and on the seventh he ceased and recovered." {{rf{18}}} And when he finished speaking with him on Mount Sinai, he gave to Moses the two tablets of the testimony, stone tablets, written with the finger of God. {{rf big{1}}} And the people saw that Moses delayed to come down from the mountain, and the people gathered opposite Aaron, and they said to him, "Come, make for us gods who will go before us, because this Moses, the man who brought us up from the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him." {{rf{2}}} And Aaron said to them, "Take off the rings of gold that are on the ears of your wives, your sons, and your daughters, and bring it to me." {{rf{3}}} And all the people took off the rings of gold that were on their ears and brought it to Aaron. {{rf{4}}} And he took from their hand, and he shaped it with a tool, and he made it a cast-image bull calf, and they said, "These are your gods, Israel, who brought you up from the land of Egypt." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Exodus-31-12]] }}}
{{rf{5}}} And Aaron saw, and he built an altar before it, and Aaron called, and he said, "A feast for Yahweh tomorrow." {{rf{6}}} And they started early the next day, and they offered burnt offerings, and they presented fellowship offerings, and the people sat to eat and drink, and they rose up to revel. {{rf{7}}} And Yahweh spoke to Moses, "Go, go down because your people behave corruptly, whom you brought up from the land of Egypt. {{rf{8}}} They have turned aside quickly from the way that I commanded them; they have made for themselves a cast-image bull calf, and they bowed to it, and they sacrificed to it, and they said, 'These are your gods, Israel, who brought you up from the land of Egypt.'" {{rf{9}}} And Yahweh said to Moses, "I have seen this people, and, indeed, they are a stiff-necked people. {{rf{10}}} And now leave me alone so that my anger may blaze against them, and let me destroy them, and I will make you into a great nation." {{rf{11}}} And Moses implored Yahweh his God, and he said, "Why, Yahweh, should your anger blaze against your people whom you brought up from the land of Egypt with great power and with a strong hand? {{rf{12}}} Why should the Egyptians say, 'With evil intent he brought them out to kill them in the mountains and wipe them from the face of the earth'? Turn from your fierce anger and relent concerning the disaster for your people. {{rf{13}}} Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, your servants, to whom you swore by yourself, and you told them, 'I will multiply your offspring like the stars of the heavens, and all this land that I promised I will give to your offspring, and they will inherit it forever.'" {{rf{14}}} And Yahweh relented concerning the disaster that he had threatened to do to his people. {{rf{15}}} And Moses turned and went down from the mountain, and the two tablets of the testimony were in his hand, tablets written on their two sides; on the front and on the back they were written. {{rf{16}}} And the tablets, they were the work of God; and the writing, it was the writing of God engraved on the tablets. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Exodus-32-05]] }}}
{{rf{17}}} And Joshua heard the sound of the people in their shouting, and he said to Moses, "A sound of war is in the camp." {{rf{18}}} But he said, "There is not a sound of shouting of victory, and there is not a sound of shouting of defeat. I hear a sound of singing." {{rf{19}}} And as he came near to the camp, he saw the bull calf and dancing, and Moses became angry, and he threw the tablets from his hand, and he broke them under the mountain. {{rf{20}}} And he took the bull calf that they had made, and he burned it with the fire, and he crushed it until it became fine, and he scattered it on the surface of the water, and he made the Israelites drink. {{rf{21}}} And Moses said to Aaron, "What did this people do to you that you brought on them such a great sin?" {{rf{22}}} And Aaron said, "Let not my lord become angry. You yourself know the people, that they are intent on evil. {{rf{23}}} And they said to me, 'Make for us gods who will go before us, because this Moses, the man who brought us up from the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.' {{rf{24}}} And I said to them, 'Whoever has gold, take it off.' And they gave it to me, and I threw it in the fire, and out came this bull calf." {{rf{25}}} And Moses saw the people, that they were running wild because Aaron had allowed them to run wild, for a laughingstock among their enemies. {{rf{26}}} And Moses stood at the entrance of the camp, and he said, "Whoever is for Yahweh, to me." And all the sons of Levi were gathered to him. {{rf{27}}} And he said to them, "Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, 'Put each his sword on his side. Go back and forth from gate to gate in the camp, and kill, each his brother and each his friend and each his close relative.'" {{rf{28}}} And the sons of Levi did according to the word of Moses, and from the people on that day about three thousand persons fell. {{rf{29}}} And Moses said, "You are ordained today for Yahweh, because each has been against his son and against his brother and so bringing on you today a blessing." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Exodus-32-17]] }}}
{{rf{30}}} And the next day Moses said to the people, "You have sinned a great sin. And now I will go up to Yahweh. Perhaps I can make atonement for your sin." {{rf{31}}} And Moses returned to Yahweh, and he said, "Alas, this people has sinned a great sin and made for themselves gods of gold. {{rf{32}}} And now if you will forgive their sin -- and if not, please blot me from your scroll that you have written." {{rf{33}}} And Yahweh said to Moses, "Whoever has sinned against me I will blot him from my scroll. {{rf{34}}} And now go, lead the people to where I spoke to you. Look, my angel will go before you, and on the day when I punish I will punish them for their sin." {{rf{35}}} And Yahweh afflicted the people because they had made the bull calf that Aaron had made.
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{{rf big{1}}} And Yahweh spoke to Moses, "Go, go up from here, you and the people whom you have brought up from the land of Egypt, to the land that I swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, saying, 'I will give it to your offspring.' {{rf{2}}} And I will send an angel before you, and I will drive out the Canaanites, the Amorites, and the Hittites and the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, {{rf{3}}} Go to a land flowing with milk and honey, but I will not go up among you, because you are a stiff-necked people, lest I destroy you on the way." {{rf{4}}} And the people heard this troubling word, and they mourned, and they each did not put their ornaments on themselves. {{rf{5}}} And Yahweh said to Moses, "Say to the Israelites, 'You are a stiff-necked people; if one moment I were to go up among you, I would destroy you. And now take down your ornaments from on you, and I will decide what I will do to you." {{rf{6}}} And the Israelites stripped themselves of their ornaments from Mount Horeb onward. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Exodus-32-30]] }}}
<<Bbl Ex 33:5 abbr >> see <<Bbl Zech 2:13>>
33:7-11 A portrait of our various postures towards the Lord: fear or love, alienation or intimacy, self-centeredness or God-centeredness.
<<Bbl Ex 33:7 abbr >> "Meeting" is juxtaposed with "distance... outside". Separation is the message of this entire verse. //a good distance from the camp// - in respect of verse 5.
33:14-17 The ten lepers of <<Bbl L 10:20 >> provide a powerful parallel.
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"If your presence doesn't go with me, don't carry us up from here. {{rf{33.16}}} For how would people know that I have found favor in your sight, I and your people? Isn't it in that you go with us, so that we are separated, I and your people, from all the people who are on the surface of the earth?"
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33:16 More incredible faith. Preach it!!
<<Bbl Ex 33:18 abbr >> Lord, if it is you, command me to come to you on the water.
<<Bbl Ex 33:22 abbr >>-23 Christ's Godhood veiled. There will come a time when Moses can stand more close to the glory of God! <<Bbl L 9:30 >>
34:1 see 31:18, 34:28. This time Moses must himself cut the stones -- can they have been as perfect as the ones God gave him?
34:6-7 see <<Bbl Num 14:18 >>.
<<Bbl Ex 34:9 abbr >> More incredible faith. List out the prayers of [[Moses]] sometime.
34:28 see vs. 1. Apparent contradiction, also <<Bbl Dt 10:4 >>. ?? This is probably easily reconciled exegetically.
The account of <<Bbl Dt 9:9 >> records two consecutive forty-day fasts.
35:4-9 How dull money has made us.
39:3 Interesting note on production.
39:23 Another interesting note on production. A coat of mail.
39:43 Moses is acting as a steward.
40:7 Perhaps for us a picture of water baptism.
40:35 The glory, just as it was to appear in the temple. Also see <<Bbl Rev 15:8 >>
{{rf{7}}} And Moses took the tent and pitched it outside the camp far from the camp, and he called it the tent of assembly, and all seeking Yahweh would go out to the tent of assembly, which was outside the camp. {{rf{8}}} And at the going out of Moses to the tent, all the people would rise and stand, each at the opening of his tent, and gaze after Moses until his entering the tent. {{rf{9}}} And at the entering of Moses into the tent the column of cloud would descend and stand at the opening of the tent, and he would speak with Moses. {{rf{10}}} And all the people would see the column of cloud standing at the opening of the tent, and all the people would rise and bow in worship, each at the opening of his tent. {{rf{11}}} And Yahweh would speak to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his neighbor. And he would return to the camp, and his assistant Joshua the son of Nun, a young man, did not leave the middle of the tent. {{rf{12}}} And Moses said to Yahweh, "See, you are saying to me, 'Take this people up.' But you have not let me know whom you will send with me, and you yourself have said, 'I know you by name, and you also have found favor in my eyes.' {{rf{13}}} And now if I have found favor in your eyes, make known to me, please, your way, and so I may know you so that I can find favor in your eyes. And see that this nation is your people." {{rf{14}}} And he said, "My presence will go, and I will give you rest." {{rf{15}}} And he said to him, "If your presence is not going, do not bring us up from here. {{rf{16}}} And by what will it be known then that I have found favor in your eyes, I and your people? Is it not by your going with us? And so we will be distinguished, I and your people, from all the people who are on the face of the ground." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Exodus-33-07]] }}}
{{rf{17}}} And Yahweh said to Moses, "Also I will do this thing that you have spoken, because you have found favor in my eyes and I have known you by name." {{rf{18}}} And he said, "Please show me your glory." {{rf{19}}} And he said, "I myself will cause all my goodness to pass over before you, and I will proclaim the name of Yahweh before you, and I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and I will show compassion to whom I will show compassion." {{rf{20}}} But he said, "You are not able to see my face, because a human will not see me and live." {{rf{21}}} And Yahweh said, "There is a place with me, and you will stand on the rock. {{rf{22}}} And when my glory passes over, I will put you in the rock's crevice, and I will cover you with my hand until I pass over. {{rf{23}}} And I will remove my hand, and you will see my back, but my face will not be visible." {{rf big{1}}} And Yahweh said to Moses, "Cut for yourself two stone tablets like the first ones, and I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke. {{rf{2}}} And be ready for the morning, and go up in the morning to Mount Sinai and present yourself to me there on the top of the mountain. {{rf{3}}} And no one will go up with you, and neither let anyone be seen on all the mountain, nor let the sheep and goats and the cattle graze opposite that mountain." {{rf{4}}} And Moses cut two stone tablets like the first ones, and he started early in the morning, and he went up to Mount Sinai, as Yahweh had commanded him, and he took in his hand the two stone tablets. {{rf{5}}} And Yahweh descended in the cloud, and he stood with him there, and he proclaimed the name of Yahweh. {{rf{6}}} And Yahweh passed over before him, and he proclaimed, "Yahweh, Yahweh, God, who is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding with loyal love and faithfulness, {{rf{7}}} keeping loyal love to the thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and he does not leave utterly unpunished, punishing the guilt of fathers on sons and on sons of sons on third and fourth generations." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Exodus-33-17]] }}}
{{rf{8}}} And Moses hurried and knelt down to the earth and worshiped. {{rf{9}}} And he said, "Please, if I have found favor in your eyes, Lord, let my Lord, please, go among us -- indeed it is a stiff-necked people -- and forgive our iniquity and our sin and take us as your possession." {{rf{10}}} And he said, "Look, I am about to make a covenant. In front of all your people I will do wonders that have not been created on all the earth and among all the nations, and all the people among whom you are will see Yahweh's work, because what I am about to do with you will be awesome. {{rf{11}}} "Keep for yourself what I myself have commanded you today. Look, I am about to drive from before you the Amorites and the Canaanites and the Hittites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites. {{rf{12}}} Be careful for yourself, lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land to which you are going, lest it be a snare among you. {{rf{13}}} Rather, you will tear down their altars, and you will break their stone pillars, and you will cut off their Asherah poles. {{rf{14}}} For you will not bow in worship to another god, for 'Yahweh Is Jealous' is his name, he is a jealous God, {{rf{15}}} lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they prostitute themselves after their gods, and they sacrifice to their gods, and they invite you, and you eat their sacrifice, {{rf{16}}} and you take from their daughters for your sons, and their daughters prostitute themselves after their gods, and they cause your sons to prostitute themselves after their gods. {{rf{17}}} You will not make gods of cast metal for yourself. {{rf{18}}} "You will keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread. Seven days you will eat unleavened bread, which I commanded you, at the appointed time of the month of Abib, for in the month of Abib you came out from Egypt. {{rf{19}}} Every first offspring of a womb is for me -- all of your male livestock, the first offspring of cattle and small livestock. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Exodus-34-08]] }}}
{{rf{20}}} But the first offspring of a donkey you will redeem with small livestock, and if you will not redeem it, you will break its neck. Every firstborn of your sons you will redeem, and you will not appear before me empty-handed. {{rf{21}}} Six days you will work, and on the seventh day you will rest; in the time of plowing and in the time of harvest you will rest. {{rf{22}}} And you yourself will observe the Feast of Weeks -- the firstfruits of the wheat harvest -- and the Feast of Harvest Gathering at the turn of the year. {{rf{23}}} Three times in the year all your males will appear before the Lord, Yahweh, the God of Israel, {{rf{24}}} because I will evict nations before you, and I will enlarge your territory, and no one will covet your land when you go up to appear before Yahweh your God three times in the year. {{rf{25}}} "You will not slaughter the blood of my sacrifice on food with yeast, and the sacrifice of the Feast of the Passover will not stay overnight to the morning. {{rf{26}}} The beginning of the firstfruits of your land you will bring to the house of Yahweh your God. You will not boil a young goat in its mother's milk." {{rf{27}}} And Yahweh said to Moses, "Write for yourself these words, because according to these words I have made a covenant with you and with Israel." {{rf{28}}} And he was there with Yahweh forty days and forty nights. He ate no food and drank no water. And he wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the ten words. {{rf{29}}} And when Moses came down from Mount Sinai, the two tablets of the testimony were in the hand of Moses at his coming down from the mountain; and Moses did not know that the skin of his face shone because of his speaking with him. {{rf{30}}} And Aaron and all the Israelites saw Moses, and, to their amazement, the skin of his face shone, and they were afraid of coming near to him. {{rf{31}}} And Moses called to them, and Aaron and all the leaders of the community returned to him, and Moses spoke to them. {{rf{32}}} And afterward all the Israelites came near, and he commanded them all that Yahweh had spoken with him on Mount Sinai. {{rf{33}}} And Moses finished speaking with them, and he put a veil on his face. {{rf{34}}} And when Moses came before Yahweh to speak with him, he would remove the veil until he went out, and he would go out and would speak to the Israelites what he had been commanded. {{rf{35}}} And the Israelites would see the face of Moses, that the skin of the face of Moses shone, and Moses would put back the veil on his face until his coming to speak with him. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Exodus-34-20]] }}}
And Moses assembled all the community of the Israelites, and he said to them, "These are the words that Yahweh has commanded for us to do them. {{rf{2}}} On six days work can be done, and on the seventh there will be for you a holy day, a Sabbath of complete rest, for Yahweh; anyone doing work on it will be put to death. {{rf{3}}} You will not kindle a fire in any of your dwellings on the day of the Sabbath." {{rf{4}}} And Moses said to all the community of the Israelites, saying, "This is the word that Yahweh has commanded, saying, {{rf{5}}} 'Take from among you a contribution for Yahweh, anyone willing of heart, let him bring Yahweh's contribution -- gold and silver and bronze, {{rf{6}}} and blue and purple and crimson yarns, and fine linen and goat hair, {{rf{7}}} and red-dyed ram skins, and fine leather, and acacia wood, {{rf{8}}} and oil for the lamp, balsam oils for the anointing oil and for the fragrant incense, {{rf{9}}} onyx stones and stones for mountings on the ephod and the breast piece. {{rf{10}}} "And let all the skilled of heart among you come and make all that Yahweh has commanded: {{rf{11}}} The tabernacle, its tent, and its covering; its clasps and its frames; its bars, its pillars, and its bases; {{rf{12}}} the ark and its poles; the atonement cover and the curtain of the screen; {{rf{13}}} the table and its poles and all its equipment; and the bread of the presence; {{rf{14}}} and lampstand of the light and its equipment and its lamps and the oil for the light; {{rf{15}}} and the altar of incense and its poles; and the anointing oil and the fragrant incense and the entrance curtain for the entrance of the tabernacle; {{rf{16}}} the altar of the burnt offering and the bronze grating that is for it, its poles and all its equipment; the basin and its stand; {{rf{17}}} the hangings of the courtyard, its pillars, and its bases, and the screen for the courtyard gate; {{rf{18}}} the pegs of the tabernacle and the pegs of the courtyard and their cords; {{rf{19}}} the woven garments for serving in the sanctuary -- the holy garments for Aaron the priest and the garments of his sons to serve as priests." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Exodus-35-01]] }}}
{{rf{20}}} And all the community of the Israelites went out from before Moses. {{rf{21}}} And they came -- every man whose heart lifted him and every man whose spirit impelled him -- they brought Yahweh's contribution for the work of the tent of assembly and for all its service and for the holy garments. {{rf{22}}} And they came, the men in addition to the women, all who were willing of heart; they brought brooches and jewelry rings and signet rings and ornaments -- every variety of gold object -- every man who waved a wave offering of gold for Yahweh, {{rf{23}}} and every man with whom was found blue and purple and crimson yarns and fine linen and goat hair and red-dyed ram skins and fine leather brought it. {{rf{24}}} All who were presenting a contribution of silver and bronze brought Yahweh's contribution, and all with whom was found acacia wood for all the work of service brought it. {{rf{25}}} And every woman who was skilled of heart with her hands they spun, and they brought yarn -- the blue and the purple, the crimson and the fine linen. {{rf{26}}} And all the women whose heart lifted them with skill spun the goat hair. {{rf{27}}} And the leaders brought the onyx stones and stones for mountings for the ephod and for the breast piece {{rf{28}}} and the balsam oils and the oil for light and for the anointing oil and for the fragrant incense. {{rf{29}}} Every man and woman whose heart impelled them to bring for all the work to be done that Yahweh had commanded by the agency of Moses -- the Israelites brought freely to Yahweh. {{rf{30}}} And Moses said to the Israelites, "See, Yahweh has called by name Bezalel the son of Uri the son of Hur, from the tribe of Judah. {{rf{31}}} And he has filled him with the Spirit of God, with wisdom and with skill and with knowledge and with every kind of craftsmanship, {{rf{32}}} and to devise designs, to work with the gold and with the silver and with the bronze, {{rf{33}}} and in stonecutting for setting and in cutting wood, for doing every kind of design craftsmanship. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Exodus-35-20]] }}}
{{rf{34}}} And he has put it in his heart to teach -- he and Oholiab the son of Ahisamach, from the tribe of Dan. {{rf{35}}} He has filled them with skill of heart to do every work of a craftsman and a designer and an embroiderer with the blue and with the purple, with the crimson yarns and with the fine linen and a weaver; they are doers of every kind of craftsmanship and devisers of designs. {{rf big{1}}} And Bezalel and Oholiab and everyone who is skilled of heart in whom Yahweh has put wisdom and skill to know and to do all the work for the service of the sanctuary -- they will do it, according to all that Yahweh has commanded." {{rf{2}}} And Moses called Bezalel and Oholiab and everyone skilled of heart, in whose heart Yahweh had put skill, all whose heart lifted him to come near to the work in order to do it. {{rf{3}}} And they took from Moses all the contributions that the Israelites had brought for the work of the service for the sanctuary in order to do it, and they still brought to him voluntary offerings every morning. {{rf{4}}} And all the skilled workers who were doing all the work for the sanctuary came, each from his work that they were doing. {{rf{5}}} And they said to Moses, saying, "The people are bringing more than enough for the service of the work that Yahweh has commanded to be done." {{rf{6}}} And Moses commanded, and they proclaimed the message in the camp, saying, "Let no man or woman again make anything for the sanctuary contribution." And so the people were restrained from bringing. {{rf{7}}} And the material was enough for doing all the work, and it was left over. {{rf{8}}} And all who were skilled of heart among the doers of the work made the tabernacle with ten curtains of finely twisted linen and blue and purple and crimson yarns, with cherubim; he made them, the work of a skilled craftsman. {{rf{9}}} The length of the one curtain was twenty-eight cubits, and the width was four cubits for the one curtain; one measurement was for all the curtains. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Exodus-35-34]] }}}
{{rf{10}}} And he joined five of the curtains one to another, and five curtains he joined one to another. {{rf{11}}} And he made loops of blue on the edge of the one curtain, at the end in the set; so he did on the edge of the end curtain in the second set. {{rf{12}}} He made fifty loops on the one curtain, and he made fifty loops on the end of the curtain that was in the second set; the loops were opposite one to another. {{rf{13}}} And he made fifty gold clasps and joined the curtains one to another with the clasps, so that the tabernacle was one. {{rf{14}}} And he made curtains of goat hair for a tent over the tabernacle; he made them eleven curtains. {{rf{15}}} The length of the one curtain was thirty cubits, and the width was four cubits for the one curtain; one measure was for the eleven curtains. {{rf{16}}} And he joined five curtains together and six curtains together. {{rf{17}}} And he made fifty loops on the edge of the end curtain in the set, and he made fifty loops on the edge of the curtain in the second set. {{rf{18}}} And he made fifty bronze clasps for joining the tent to become one. {{rf{19}}} And he made a covering for the tent of red-dyed ram skin and a covering of fine leather to go above. {{rf{20}}} And he made the frames for the tabernacle of acacia wood as uprights. {{rf{21}}} The length of the frame was ten cubits, and the width of the one frame was one and a half cubits. {{rf{22}}} He made two pegs for the one frame for joining one to another and likewise for all the frames of the tabernacle. {{rf{23}}} And he made the frames for the tabernacle with twenty frames for the south side. {{rf{24}}} And he made forty silver bases under the twenty frames, with two bases under the one frame for its two pegs and two bases under the next frame for its two pegs. {{rf{25}}} And for the second side of the tabernacle, the north side, he made twenty frames {{rf{26}}} and their forty silver bases, with two bases under the one frame and two bases under the next frame. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Exodus-36-10]] }}}
{{rf{27}}} And for the rear of the tabernacle on the west he made six frames. {{rf{28}}} And he made two frames for the tabernacle corners at the rear. {{rf{29}}} And they were double at the bottom, and they were completely together on its top to the one ring; he did likewise for the two of them, for the two corners. {{rf{30}}} And there were eight frames and their sixteen silver bases, two bases, two bases under the one frame. {{rf{31}}} And he made five bars of acacia wood for the frames on the one side of the tabernacle, {{rf{32}}} and five bars for the frames on the second side of the tabernacle, and five bars for the frames at the rear on the west. {{rf{33}}} And he made the middle bar to run in the midst of the frames from end to end. {{rf{34}}} And he overlaid the frames with gold, and he made their rings of gold as holders for the bars, and he overlaid the bars with gold. {{rf{35}}} And he made the curtain of blue and purple and crimson yarns and finely twisted linen, the work of a craftsman; he made it with cherubim. {{rf{36}}} And he made for it four acacia pillars, and he overlaid them with gold, with their gold hooks, and he cast for them four silver bases. {{rf{37}}} And he made for the entrance of the tent a screen of blue and purple and crimson yarns and finely twisted linen, the work of an embroiderer, {{rf{38}}} and the five pillars and their hooks, and he overlaid their tops and their connections with gold, and their five bases were bronze. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Exodus-36-27]] }}}
And Bezalel made the ark of acacia wood, two and a half cubits its length and a cubit and a half its width and a cubit and a half its height. {{rf{2}}} And he overlaid it with pure gold inside and outside, and he made for it a gold molding all around. {{rf{3}}} And he cast for it four gold rings on its four feet; and two rings were on its one side, and two rings were on its second side. {{rf{4}}} And he made poles of acacia wood, and he overlaid them with gold. {{rf{5}}} And he put the poles into the rings on the sides of the ark to carry the ark. {{rf{6}}} And he made an atonement cover of pure gold, two and a half cubits its length and a cubit and a half its width. {{rf{7}}} And he made two cherubim of gold; he made them of hammered work at the two ends of the atonement cover. {{rf{8}}} One cherub was at one end, and one cherub was at the other end of the atonement cover; he made the cherubim at its two ends. {{rf{9}}} And the cherubim were with outspread wings above, covering with their wings over the atonement cover and facing each other; the faces of the cherubim were toward the atonement cover. {{rf{10}}} And he made the table of acacia wood, two cubits its length and a cubit its width and a cubit and a half its height. {{rf{11}}} And he overlaid it with pure gold, and he made for it a gold molding all around. {{rf{12}}} And he made for it a handbreadth rim all around, and he made a gold molding for its rim all around. {{rf{13}}} And he cast for it four gold rings, and he put the rings on the four corners where its four legs were. {{rf{14}}} The rings were near the rim as holders for the poles to carry the table. {{rf{15}}} And he made the poles of acacia wood, and he overlaid them with gold to carry the table. {{rf{16}}} And he made the vessels that were on the table -- its plates and its ladles, and its bowls and its pitchers with which libations were poured -- of pure gold. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Exodus-37-01]] }}}
{{rf{17}}} And he made the lampstand of pure gold; he made the lampstand of hammered work -- its base and its branch, its cups, its buds, and its blossoms were all part of it. {{rf{18}}} And six branches were going out from its sides, three branches of the lampstand from its one side and three branches of the lampstand from its second side. {{rf{19}}} Three almond-flower cups were on the one branch with a bud and a blossom, and three almond-flower cups were on the one branch with a bud and a blossom -- likewise for the six branches going out from the lampstand. {{rf{20}}} And on the lampstand were four almond-flower cups, with its buds and its blossoms. {{rf{21}}} And a bud was under the two branches that came from it, and a bud under the two branches from it, and a bud under the two branches from it, likewise for the six branches coming out from the lampstand. {{rf{22}}} Their buds and their branches were from it, all of it one piece of pure gold, hammered work. {{rf{23}}} And he made its seven lamps and its snuffers and its fire pans of pure gold. {{rf{24}}} He made it from a talent of pure gold and all its pieces of equipment. {{rf{25}}} And he made the incense altar of acacia wood, a cubit its length and a cubit its width -- a square -- and two cubits its height; its horns were of one piece with it. {{rf{26}}} And he overlaid it with pure gold -- its top and its sides all around and its horns -- and he made for it a gold molding all around. {{rf{27}}} And he made for it two gold rings under its molding on two opposite sides as holders for poles to carry it with them. {{rf{28}}} And he made the poles of acacia wood, and he overlaid them with gold. {{rf{29}}} And he made the holy anointing oil and the pure fragrant incense -- work of a perfumer. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Exodus-37-17]] }}}
And he made the burnt-offering altar of acacia wood; its length was five cubits, and its width was five cubits -- it was square -- and its height was three cubits. {{rf{2}}} And he made its horns on its four corners; its horns were of one piece with it; and he overlaid it with bronze. {{rf{3}}} And he made all the equipment of the altar -- the pots and the shovels and the sprinkling bowls and the forks and the fire pans -- all its equipment he made with bronze. {{rf{4}}} And he made for the altar a grating, a work of bronze network under its ledge, below, up to its middle. {{rf{5}}} And he cast four rings on the four ends of the bronze grating as holders for the poles. {{rf{6}}} And he made the poles of acacia wood, and he overlaid them with bronze. {{rf{7}}} And he put the poles into the rings on the sides of the altar to carry it with them. He made it hollow with boards. {{rf{8}}} And he made the basin of bronze and its stand of bronze from the mirrors of the serving women who served at the entrance of the tent of assembly. {{rf{9}}} And he made the courtyard; for the south side were the hangings of the court of finely twisted linen, one hundred cubits, {{rf{10}}} with their twenty pillars and their twenty bases of bronze and with the hooks of the pillars and their bands of silver. {{rf{11}}} And for the north side the hangings were one hundred cubits with their twenty pillars and their twenty bases of bronze and with the hooks of the pillars and their bands of silver. {{rf{12}}} And for the west side fifty cubits of hangings with their ten pillars and their ten bases and with the hooks of the pillars and their bands of silver. {{rf{13}}} And for the eastward side, toward sunrise, fifty cubits; {{rf{14}}} fifteen cubits of hangings were to the shoulder, with their three pillars and their three bases, {{rf{15}}} and for the second shoulder on each side of the gate of the courtyard were fifteen cubits of hangings, with their three pillars and their three bases. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Exodus-38-01]] }}}
{{rf{16}}} All the hangings of the courtyard all around were finely twisted linen, {{rf{17}}} and the bases for the pillars were bronze, the hooks of the pillars and their bands were silver, and the overlay of their tops was silver, and all the pillars of the courtyard were banded with silver. {{rf{18}}} And the screen of the gate of the courtyard was the work of an embroiderer, with blue and purple and crimson yarns and finely twisted linen; it was twenty cubits long and five cubits high, like the hangings of the courtyard, {{rf{19}}} and with their four pillars and their four bases of bronze, with their silver hooks and with their tops and their bands of silver. {{rf{20}}} And all the pegs for the tabernacle and for the courtyard all around were bronze. {{rf{21}}} These are the records of the tabernacle, the tabernacle of the testimony, which were recorded at the command of Moses, the work of the Levites, in the hand of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest. {{rf{22}}} And Bezalel the son of Uri the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah, did all that Yahweh commanded Moses. {{rf{23}}} And with him was Oholiab the son of Ahisamach of the tribe of Dan, a skilled craftsman and a designer and an embroiderer with the blue and with the purple and with the crimson yarns and with the linen. {{rf{24}}} And all the gold used for the work, in the work of the sanctuary, it was the gold of the wave offering -- twenty-nine talents and seven hundred and thirty shekels, according to the sanctuary shekel. {{rf{25}}} And the silver recorded from the community was a hundred talents and a thousand seven hundred and seventy-five shekels, according to the sanctuary shekel. {{rf{26}}} It was a bekah for the individual, the half shekel according to the sanctuary shekel, for everyone who was counted, from twenty years old and above, for six hundred and three thousand five hundred and fifty. {{rf{27}}} And it was one hundred talents of the silver to cast the bases of the sanctuary and the bases of the curtain -- one hundred bases for one hundred talents of silver, a talent for each base. {{rf{28}}} And from the thousand seven hundred and seventy-five shekels he made hooks for the pillars, and he overlaid their tops, and he made bands for them. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Exodus-38-16]] }}}
{{rf{29}}} And the bronze of the wave offering was seventy talents and two thousand four hundred shekels. {{rf{30}}} And he made with it the bases of the entrance of the tent of assembly and the bronze altar and the bronze grating that belonged to it and all the equipment of the alta {{rf{31}}} and the bases of the courtyard all around and the bases of the gate of the courtyard and all the pegs of the tabernacle and all the pegs of the courtyard all around. {{rf big{1}}} And from the blue and the purple and the crimson yarns they made woven garments for serving in the sanctuary, and they made the holy garments that were for Aaron, as Yahweh had commanded Moses. {{rf{2}}} And he made the ephod of gold, blue, and purple and crimson yarns, and finely twisted linen. {{rf{3}}} And he hammered out the leaves of gold, and he cut off cords to weave in the midst of the blue and in the midst of the purple and in the midst of the crimson and in the midst of the linen -- the work of a skilled craftsman. {{rf{4}}} They made joined shoulder pieces for it; it was joined on its two edges. {{rf{5}}} And the waistband of his ephod, which was of one piece with it, was of like work, gold, blue, and purple and crimson yarns, and finely twisted linen, as Yahweh had commanded Moses. {{rf{6}}} And they made onyx stones mounted in gold filigree settings, engraved with seal engravings according to the names of the Israelites. {{rf{7}}} And he set them on the ephod's shoulder pieces as stones of remembrance for the Israelites, as Yahweh had commanded Moses. {{rf{8}}} And he made the breast piece, the work of a skilled craftsman, like the work of the ephod, of gold, blue, and purple and crimson yarns, and finely twisted linen. {{rf{9}}} It was squared; they made the breast piece doubled; its length was a span, and its width was a span when doubled. {{rf{10}}} And they filled it with four rows of stone; a row of carnelian, topaz, and emerald was the first row; {{rf{11}}} and the second row was a malachite, a sapphire, and a moonstone; {{rf{12}}} and the third row was a jacinth, an agate, and an amethyst; {{rf{13}}} and the fourth row was a turquoise, an onyx, and a jasper. They were set with gold filigree settings in their mountings. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Exodus-38-29]] }}}
{{rf{14}}} And the stones were according to the names of the Israelites; they were twelve according to their names, with seal engravings, each according to its name for the twelve tribes. {{rf{15}}} And they made on the breast piece braided chains, a work of pure gold ornamental cord. {{rf{16}}} And they made two gold filigree settings and two gold rings, and they put the two rings on the two edges of the breast piece. {{rf{17}}} And they put the two gold ornamental cords on the two rings on the edges of the breast piece. {{rf{18}}} And they put the two ends of the two ornamental cords on the two filigree settings, and they put them on the shoulder pieces of the ephod at the front of it. {{rf{19}}} And they made two gold rings, and they placed them on the two edges of the breast piece, on its lip that is on the other side of the ephod, to the inside. {{rf{20}}} And they made two gold rings and put them on the ephod's two shoulder pieces below, at its front near its seam above the waistband of the ephod. {{rf{21}}} And they tied the breast piece by its rings to the rings of the ephod with a blue cord so that the breast piece would be on the waistband of the ephod and not come loose from the ephod, as Yahweh had commanded Moses. {{rf{22}}} And he made the robe of the ephod, weaver's work, totally of blue yarn. {{rf{23}}} And the opening of the robe in the middle of it was like the opening of a sturdy garment, with an edge for its opening all around so that it would not be torn. {{rf{24}}} And they made on the hem of the robe pomegranates of finely twisted blue and purple and crimson. {{rf{25}}} And they made pure gold bells and put the bells in the midst of the pomegranates on the hem of the robe all around in the midst of the pomegranates, {{rf{26}}} a bell and a pomegranate, a bell and a pomegranate on the hem of the robe all around for serving, as Yahweh had commanded Moses. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Exodus-39-14]] }}}
{{rf{27}}} And they made the tunics of fine linen, a weaver's work, for Aaron and for his sons, {{rf{28}}} and the turban of fine linen and the headdresses of the headbands of fine linen and undergarments of the linen cloth, finely twisted, {{rf{29}}} and the sash of finely twisted linen and blue and purple and crimson yarns, the work of an embroiderer, as Yahweh had commanded Moses. {{rf{30}}} And they made the rosette of the holy diadem of pure gold, and they wrote on it with the writing of seal engravings: "A holy object for Yahweh." {{rf{31}}} And they put a blue cord on it to put it above on the turban, as Yahweh had commanded Moses. {{rf{32}}} And all the work of the tabernacle of the tent of assembly was finished, and the Israelites had done according to all that Yahweh had commanded Moses; so they did. {{rf{33}}} And they brought the tabernacle to Moses, the tent and all its equipment, its hooks, its frames, its bars, and its pillars and its bases; {{rf{34}}} and the covering of the red-dyed ram skins and the covering of fine leather and the curtain of the screen; {{rf{35}}} the ark of the testimony and its poles and the atonement cover; {{rf{36}}} the table, all its equipment, and the bread of the presence; {{rf{37}}} the pure gold lampstand, its lamps -- the lamps of the row -- and all its equipment and the oil of the light; {{rf{38}}} the gold altar, the anointing oil, the fragrant incense, and the screen of the entrance of the tent; {{rf{39}}} the bronze altar, and the bronze grating that is for it, its poles, and all its equipment, the basin and its stand, {{rf{40}}} the hangings of the courtyard, its pillars, and its bases; and the screen for the courtyard gate, its tent cords and its pegs; and all the equipment of the service of the tabernacle for the tent of assembly, {{rf{41}}} the woven garments for serving in the sanctuary -- the holy garments for Aaron the priest and the garments for his sons to serve as priests. {{rf{42}}} According to all that Yahweh had commanded Moses, so the Israelites did all the work. {{rf{43}}} And Moses saw all the work, and, indeed, they had done it as Yahweh had commanded; so they did, and Moses blessed them. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Exodus-39-27]] }}}
And Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, {{rf{2}}} "On the first day of the month, you will set up the tabernacle of the tent of assembly. {{rf{3}}} And you will put there the ark of the testimony, and you will cover over the ark with the curtain. {{rf{4}}} And you will bring the table, and you will arrange its setting, and you will bring the lampstand, and you will set up its lamps. {{rf{5}}} And you will put the gold altar for incense before the ark of the testimony, and you will set up the entrance screen for the tabernacle. {{rf{6}}} And you will put the altar of the burnt offering before the entrance of the tabernacle of the tent of assembly. {{rf{7}}} And you will put the basin between the tent of assembly and the altar, and you will put water in it. {{rf{8}}} And you will set up the courtyard all around, and you will put up the screen of the gate of the courtyard. {{rf{9}}} "And you will take the anointing oil, and you will anoint the tabernacle and all that is in it, and you will consecrate all of its equipment, and it will be holy. {{rf{10}}} And you will anoint the altar of the burnt offering and all of its equipment, and you will consecrate the altar, and the altar will be a most holy thing. {{rf{11}}} And you will anoint the basin and its stand, and you will consecrate it. {{rf{12}}} And you will bring Aaron and his sons to the entrance of the tent of assembly, and you will wash them with the water. {{rf{13}}} And you will clothe Aaron with the holy garments, and you will anoint him, and you will consecrate him, and he will serve as a priest for me. {{rf{14}}} And you will bring his sons, and you will clothe them with tunics. {{rf{15}}} And you will anoint them as you anointed their father, and they will serve as priests for me. And their anointing will be for them to be a lasting priesthood throughout their generations." {{rf{16}}} And Moses did according to all that Yahweh had commanded him; so he did. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Exodus-40-01]] }}}
{{rf{17}}} In the first month of the second year, on the first of the month, the tabernacle was set up. {{rf{18}}} And Moses raised the tabernacle, and he placed its bases, and he set up its frames, and he placed its bars, and he raised its pillars. {{rf{19}}} And he spread the tent over the tabernacle; he placed the covering of the tent over it, above it, as Yahweh had commanded Moses. {{rf{20}}} And he took and he put the testimony into the ark, and he placed the poles on the ark, and he put the atonement cover on the ark, above it. {{rf{21}}} And he brought the ark into the tabernacle, and he set up the curtain of the screening, and he shielded the ark of the testimony, as Yahweh had commanded Moses. {{rf{22}}} And he put the table in the tent of assembly on the north side of the tabernacle outside the curtain. {{rf{23}}} And he arranged on it an arrangement of bread before Yahweh, as Yahweh had commanded Moses. {{rf{24}}} And he placed the lampstand in the tent of assembly opposite the table on the south side of the tabernacle. {{rf{25}}} And he set up the lamps before Yahweh, as Yahweh had commanded Moses. {{rf{26}}} And he placed the gold altar in the tent of assembly before the curtain. {{rf{27}}} And he turned fragrant incense into smoke on it, as Yahweh had commanded Moses. {{rf{28}}} And he set up the entrance screen for the tabernacle. {{rf{29}}} And the altar of burnt offering he placed at the entrance of the tabernacle of the tent of assembly, and he offered on it the burnt offering and the grain offering, as Yahweh had commanded Moses. {{rf{30}}} And he placed the basin between the tent of assembly and the altar, and he put there water for washing. {{rf{31}}} And Moses and Aaron and his sons washed their hands and their feet from it. {{rf{32}}} At their going into the tent of assembly and at their approaching the altar, they washed, as Yahweh had commanded Moses. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Exodus-40-17]] }}}
{{rf{33}}} And he set up the courtyard all around the tabernacle and the altar, and he put up the screen of the gate of the courtyard, and Moses completed the work. {{rf{34}}} And the cloud covered the tent of assembly, and the glory of Yahweh filled the tabernacle. {{rf{35}}} And Moses was unable to go into the tent of assembly because the cloud settled on it and the glory of Yahweh filled the tabernacle. {{rf{36}}} And when the cloud was lifted from the tabernacle, the Israelites set out on all their journeys. {{rf{37}}} But if the cloud was not lifted, they did not set out until the day of its being lifted. {{rf{38}}} For the cloud of Yahweh was on the tabernacle by day, and fire was on it by night before the eyes of all the house of Israel throughout all their journeys. LENGTH SHORT {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Exodus-40-33]] }}}
* Sometimes [[Believe]] requires us to expect fully the [[Provide]] to come.
* An //expectorant// solves a problem by allowing you to //expect// some results when you cough. The oil of God's Spirit acts as an expectorant.
* Does not [[Oil]] somehow suggest expectancy?
* Elisha (<<Bbl 2K 4:30 >>) encourages the widow to collect vessels, "not a few" -- and to that measure she receives. Elisha is angry when King Joash strikes the ground with his arrows only three times.
* The Lord Jesus tells us that "believing, you shall receive."
* Yet too, God is intent on exceeding the measure of our faith, <<Bbl Eph 3:20 >>.
* Luke presents huge expectancy especially in the opening chapters. [[Luke-01-01-note]] -- 1:21, 2:25-26, 2:38, 3:15.
/***
|Name|ExportTiddlersPluginInfo|
|Source|http://www.TiddlyTools.com/#ExportTiddlersPlugin|
|Documentation|http://www.TiddlyTools.com/#ExportTiddlersPluginInfo|
|Version|2.9.5|
|Author|Eric Shulman|
|License|http://www.TiddlyTools.com/#LegalStatements|
|~CoreVersion|2.1|
|Type|documentation|
|Description|Documentation for ExportTiddlersPlugin|
interactively select and extract tiddlers from your ~TiddlyWiki document, and write them into another file, using one of several different file formats:
* ~TiddlyWiki - a complete, stand-alone, standard TiddlyWiki HTML document
* ~PureStore - a small HTML archive file containing tiddler data only (no core code)
* ~PlainText - a simple TXT text file with tiddler source listings
* Comma - a "Comma Separated Value" data/spreadsheet file
* ~NewsFeed - an XML-format file that can be published for RSS syndication.
!!!!!Usage
<<<
{{{
<<exportTiddlers>> (sidebar menu item)
<<exportTiddlers inline>> (embedded control panel)
}}}
Inline control panel (live):
<<exportTiddlers inline>>
Optional "special tiddlers" used by this plugin:
* SiteUrl<br>URL for official server-published version of document being viewed (used in XML export). Default: //none//
<<<
!!!!!Revisions
<<<
2010.02.25 2.9.5 added merge checkbox option and improved 'merge' status message
2009.09.12 2.9.4 fixed 'return false' to prevent IE page transitions
2009.07.06 2.9.3 moved HTML to section for size reduction
2009.07.03 2.9.2 TW252 fixup: don't call convertUTF8ToUnicode() for local loadFile() I/O
2009.04.30 2.9.1 custom fields in CSV output
2009.04.19 2.9.0 added CSV format
2009.02.26 2.8.5 use macro-specific definition of $() function abbreviation (avoids conflict with JQuery)
2008.09.29 2.8.4 in getData(), convert existing TW file from UTF8 to Unicode before merging to correct handling of international characters and symbols.
2008.09.26 2.8.3 in go(), if rewriting *current* file and chkSaveBackups and/or chkGenerateAnRssFeed is enabled, then write a backup file or RSS feed, respectively.
2008.09.24 2.8.2 in assembleFile(), make sure that markup block is updated if corresponding Markup* tiddler is exported.
2008.09.19 2.8.1 in formatItem(), removed unnecessary convertUnicodeToUTF8() (was causing double-conversion!)
2008.09.11 2.8.0 extensive code cleanup: moved all global functions inside macro object. Re-wrote file generator and I/O to support TiddlyWiki, PlainText, PureStore, and NewsFeed file formats. Replaced inline 'match tags' code with use of getMatchingTiddlers() from [[MatchTagsPlugin]] (if installed), with fallback to core getTaggedTiddlers() otherwise.
2008.05.27 2.7.0 added ability to 'merge' with existing export file. Also, revised 'matchTags' functionality to be more robust and more efficient
2008.05.12 2.6.1 automatically add 'export' task to backstage (moved from BackstageTweaks)
2008.03.10 2.6.0 added "delete tiddlers" button
2007.12.04 *.*.* update for TW2.3.0: replaced deprecated core functions, regexps, and macros
2007.11.10 2.5.1 removed debugging alert messages from promptForExportFilename()
2007.10.31 2.5.0 code reduction: removed incomplete/unused interface and supporting functions for exporting directly to http, https or ftp servers. Plugin now supports exporting to local file only. Also, updated TW document output to generate TW2.2 compatible file format.
2007.10.30 2.4.2 added automatic shadow tiddler definition for [[ExportTiddlers]]
2007.07.16 2.4.1 in exportTWHeader(), reset HTML source 'markup' so installed markup is NOT copied to new file.
2007.06.30 2.4.0 added "select related tiddlers" feature. Recursively scans the tiddler links[] info to find all tiddlers referenced by any of the currently selected tiddler, and then selects them all (including the original tiddlers).
2007.04.19 2.3.0 in exportData(), pass SiteURL value as param to saveToRss(). Fixes 'undefined' appearing in tiddler link in XML output. Also, in refreshExportList(), added 'sort by tags'. Also, added 'group select'... selecting a heading (date,author,tag) auto-selects all tiddlers in that group.
2007.03.02 2.2.6 in onClickExportButton(), when selecting open tiddlers for TW2.2, look for "storyDisplay" with fallback to "tiddlerDisplay" for TW2.1 or earlier
2007.03.01 2.2.5 removed hijack of store.saveChanges()
2006.11.08 2.2.4 added promptForExportFilename() and replaced type="file" control with edit field + browse button ("...").
2006.10.12 2.2.3 in exportDIVFooter(), write POST-BODY-START/END markers for compatibility with TW2.1 core file format.
2006.05.11 2.2.2 in createExportPanel, removed call to addNotification() to reduce unneeded feedback messages and increase overall document performance.
2006.05.02 2.2.1 Use displayMessage() to show number of selected tiddlers instead of updating listbox 'header' item after each selection. Prevents awkward 'scroll-to-top' behavior that made multi-select via ctrl-click nearly impossible.
2006.04.29 2.2.0 New features: free-form "Notes" text inserted in the header of PureStore files.
2006.03.29 2.1.3 added calls to convertUnicodeToUTF8() for generated output, so it better handles international characters.
2006.02.12 2.1.2 more FF1501 bug fixes.
2006.02.04 2.1.1 added var to unintended globals to avoids FireFox1501 crash bug
2006.02.02 2.1.0 Added support for output of complete TiddlyWiki documents
2006.01.21 2.0.1 Defer initial panel creation and only register a notification function when panel first is created
in saveChanges 'hijack', create panel as needed. Note: if window.event is not available to identify the click location, the export panel is positioned relative to the 'tiddlerDisplay' element of the TW document.
2005.12.27 2.0.0 Update for TW2.0.
2005.12.24 0.9.5 Minor adjustments to CSS to force correct link colors regardless of TW stylesheet selection
2005.12.16 0.9.4 Dynamically create/remove exportPanel so only one instance exists at a time
2005.11.15 0.9.2 added non-Ajax post to bypass cross-domain security restrictions.
2005.11.08 0.9.1 moved HTML, CSS and control initialization into exportInit() function and call from macro handler instead of at load time.
2005.10.28 0.9.0 added 'select opened tiddlers' feature. Based on a suggestion by Geoff Slocock
2005.10.24 0.8.3 Corrected hijack of 'save changes' when using http:
2005.10.18 0.8.2 added AJAX functions
2005.10.18 0.8.1 Corrected timezone handling and error checking/reporting when filtering tiddlers. More style tweaks, minor text changes and some assorted layout cleanup.
2005.10.17 0.8.0 First pre-release.
2005.10.16 0.7.0 filter by tags
2005.10.15 0.6.0 filter by title/text
2005.10.14 0.5.0 export to local file (DIV or XML)
2005.10.14 0.4.0 filter by start/end date
2005.10.13 0.3.0 panel interaction
2005.10.11 0.2.0 panel layout
2005.10.10 0.1.0 code framework
2005.10.09 0.0.0 development started
<<<
''Perception, usually outward but sometimes from the outside in. Insight, understanding. Interest, care.''
* [[See]]
* [[Invisible-Visible]]
* Eyes, expression of -- <<Bbl Pr 6:25 >>, <<Bbl Son 4:9 >>, <<Bbl Son 6:5 >>
* Eyes of the Lord -- giving [[Grace]] -- <<Bbl 2Ch 16:9 >>; <<Bbl Ps 33:18 >>,<<Bbl Ps 34:15 >>, <<Bbl Ps 94:9 >>; <<Bbl I 1:15 >>; <<Bbl I 49:5 >>c; <<Bbl 1P 3:12 >>
* [[Lamp]]
** <<Bbl Mt 6:22 >>ff
!!! Sin
* [[Samson]]
* Gene Getz says the momentary [[Lust]] of the eyes is not tantamount to adultery; rather the sin of following it, investing in it. He says Jimmy Carter didn't help when he said "I commit adultery with my eyes every day."
* (confirm) Only from Ezekiel do we learn anything about Ezekiel.
And it was in the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, on the fifth day of the month, and I was in the midst of the exiles by the Kebar River. The heavens were opened, and I saw visions of God. {{rf{2}}} On the fifth day of the month -- it was the fifth year of the exile of the king Jehoiachin -- {{rf{3}}} the word of Yahweh came clearly to Ezekiel the son of Buzi, the priest, in the land of the Chaldeans at the Kebar River, and the hand of Yahweh was on him there. {{rf{4}}} And I looked, and look! A storm wind was coming from the north, a great cloud, and fire flashing back and forth, and brightness around and within it, and from its midst it was like the outward appearance of amber stone from the midst of the fire. {{rf{5}}} And from its midst was the likeness of four living creatures, and this was their appearance: a human form, {{rf{6}}} and each had four faces, and each of them had four wings. {{rf{7}}} And their legs were straight legs, and the sole of their feet was like the sole of the foot of a calf, and they were sparkling like the outward appearance of polished bronze. {{rf{8}}} And under their wings were human hands on their four sides. And their faces and their wings for the four of them were as follows: {{rf{9}}} their wings were touching one another; each of them went straight forward, without turning right or left. {{rf{10}}} The likeness of their faces was the face of a human in front, and the face of a lion on the right of each of them, and the face of an ox on the left of each of them, and the face of an eagle for each of them. {{rf{11}}} So were their faces; their wings were spread out upward; each had two touching one another and two covering their bodies. {{rf{12}}} And each went straight forward; wherever the spirit went they went, and they did not turn as they went. {{rf{13}}} As for the likeness of the living creatures, their appearance was like burning coals of fire, like the appearance of torches. It was moving to and fro between the living creatures, and the fire was very bright and lightning was going out from the fire. {{rf{14}}} And the living creatures were speeding to and fro like the appearance of lightning. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Ezekiel-01-01]] }}}
1:26 The most clearly transcendant picture of God in the Bible has an its apex - a man.
<<Bbl Ez 1:11 abbr >> Mobile throne chariot... God will have him know the Temple is not indispensible.
<<Bbl Ez 1:28 abbr>> But what we are shown is not God; rather the glory of God, with distancing qualifiers.
<<Bbl Ez 1:28 abbr>> see <<Bbl Rev 1:15>>
<<Bbl Ez 2:1 abbr >>-02. The name Ezekiel means God gives strength. And this is concretely displayed in Also in later verses where God hardens. Also <<Bbl Ez 3:8 >>-9. And <<Bbl Ez 3:14 abbr >> .
<<Bbl Ez 2:4 abbr >> // brick// is translated tile in the King James Version and it refers to a writing surface. So Ezekiel is creating a memento of Jerusalem which would quicken the affections and imaginations of all his fellow exiles. He would then deface this memento, which would be like a child drawing a cute picture of the family (think '50s) and then showing death and the debasement. It would be like desecrating the American flag although that can't match the level of shock.
* Ezekiel is given the place of God, and God the aggressor, in the placement of the iron plate.
*b 430 = Egypt
* Ezekiel bread, a fad? Ha
* <<Bbl I 7:20 >> I will hire a razor.
* Shaved head is defilement. It is concentration camp
* the diorama which begins in 0401 continues in 0501 and following. To preach this, one can talk about bricking a piece of electronics. God tells Jerusalem, you have bricked yourselves by your Rebellion.
* Cut hair is worthless. This the remnant. But declared valuable by sewing into the hem just as done by refugees the boat people. "Can you imagine a situation in which you would sew something into the hem of your garment?"
* Burnt hair is foul and this foulness will rest on the Jerusalem depicted by Ezekiel. [[Shame]]
* To preach Ezekiel, use diorama as your outline. It presents topics which allow exploration for the rest of the book. This diorama is also a portrayal of Christ on the cross. He is the hidden lock of hair, tested by fire. <<Bbl Ez 6:5 abbr >> Points to b chapter 37.
Ez 2:5 See Ez 33:33
<<Bbl Ez 2:1 abbr >> bad division for chapter.
2:8 God doesn't trust him without the word of truth in his insides.
<<Bbl Ez 3:1 abbr >> bad division for chapter.
3:5-6 Irony in that the word of the Lord should not be unintelligible to Israel.
3:18-21 see 33:1-20
3:20 see 18:24; also <<Bbl Gn 4:24 >>; also <<Bbl I 57:12 >>
<<Bbl Ez 4:1 abbr >>-3 A diorama. The third verse intensifies everything. It is a picture of Christ on the cross in [[Solitude]].
<<Bbl Ez 4:2 abbr >> vs 2 seems to depict earthly siege, vs 3 divine siege.
4:5 I have a note that the date could refer to the division of the kingdom (931 BC).
4:14-15 I don't see the meaning of Ezekiel's plea, or of the Lord's response.
5:2 see vs 12
5:3-4 A very rich image proceeds from this. The hem of a garment was intended by God as a reminder, <<Bbl Num 15:38 >>-40 . The remnant of God's people is going to be a reminder of God's holiness to all they meet; 6:8, 12:16. (I suppose this makes it a cloth remnant, har har.)
<<Bbl Ez 6:1 abbr >> (vs?) can be likened to <<Bbl 2Co 10:5 >>.
6:9 see Daniel's repentance and others who "loathed themselves."
<<Bbl Ez 6:10 abbr >> explains that the remnant will know that not in vain did God inflict This Disaster. They will see that it led them to their repentance which is described in verse 9. Like the younger son who looks back on his misery and discovers the purpose for it.
<<Bbl Ez 7:10 abbr >> and b verse 11 would seem to refer to the asherah pole.
<<Bbl Ez 7:12 abbr >> It's silly to say oh I got a great deal today. It's all going to burn! This rejoicing of the buyer and the seller is based on the assumption that there will be a next round of Commerce. But Ezekiel says it's the end. see vs. 19
7:13 Even where the seller would have had consolation, that is gone, for the jubilee will no longer be fulfilled ??
<<Bbl Ez 7:15 abbr >> b and 16 reiterates the triad: in the city, outside the city, and in the outer world.
7:26 In times of rebellion we prefer "a vision" to law or godly counsel. But in this time, neither will be available.
<<Bbl Ez 8:1 abbr >> the perception is that no one will get the mark for preservation. But the man appears to say he has been faithful. The mark itself is a T. (Legge says the Hebrew character Tau is used as the word for the mark.) D Legge says this correlates to Chi (Christ) but I would think not.
<<Bbl Ez 8:1 abbr >>ff shows that the worship of idols has included both men and women as well as a great panoply of false gods from different cultures and categories.
<<Bbl Ez 8:3 abbr >> can be linked to other historical events such as the idle you acted by King Manasseh.
<<Bbl Ez 8:9 abbr >> and following is a portrait of pornography.
9 A reversal of the Passover!
9:8 Ezekiel had that mark of vs. 4; one thousand fell at his right hand, and ten thousand at his left.
<<Bbl Ez 8:12 abbr >> They say the Lord does not see us. This is similar to the statement of the Israel lights, as for Moses we do not know what has become of him. But topic the Lord sees. And the Lord is leading Ezekiel about and telling him to see this and see that. And this fulfilled a function of the chariot revealed and chapter 1, for it squeals have eyes all around it. And it is transporting Ezekiel in <<Bbl Ez 8:3 >> and showing him everything. David leg says chapter 8 has a progression from the outside of the temple to the inner most.
<<Bbl Ez 9:2 abbr >> evokes the creation, except this is destruction. David legge counts the man with the ink horn as one of the six, but I am invited to consider him a 7th ma'am.
<<Bbl Ez 9:4 abbr >> invokes the passover.
<<Bbl Ez 10:6 abbr >> fire as judgment
<<Bbl Ez 11:1 abbr >> f these scenes correlate with the rejection of Jeremiah's warnings
<<Bbl Ez 11:3 abbr >> flesh meaning the choice parts - in effect, we are the remnant.
<<Bbl Ez 11:10 abbr >> <<Bbl 2K 25:21 >> .
<<Bbl Ez 11:13 abbr >> the name means God preserves a remnant.
<<Bbl Ez 11:14 abbr >> ff SANCTUARY
<<Bbl Ez 11:15 abbr >> the exiles are under God judgment. We are the good people saved by God. b Verse 16,b 17 vindicate the exiles. In fact God informs that the exiles ARE the stock from which the remnant will be found. And this account s for why Ezekiel see s the Chariot of God's glory at the river of the exiles.
12:12 see <<Bbl Jer 52:7 >>
<<Bbl Ez 12:13 abbr >> Zedekiah ??
12:14 see <<Bbl Jer 52:8 >>
<<Bbl Ez 12:16 >>a -- diaspora ; I wonder if the LLX uses this term.
{{rf{15}}} And I saw the living creatures, and look! A wheel was on the earth beside each of the living creatures that had four faces. {{rf{16}}} The appearance of the wheels and their construction was like the appearance of beryl, and they all looked alike, and their appearance and their construction was like a wheel within a wheel. {{rf{17}}} When they moved, they went toward their four sides; they did not veer at all as they went. {{rf{18}}} And their rims were high and awesome, and all four of their rims were full of eyes all around. {{rf{19}}} And at the going of the living creatures, the wheels next to them also went, and when the creatures were lifted from the ground the wheels also rose. {{rf{20}}} Wherever the spirit went they would go there, and the wheels rose, for the spirit of the living creatures was in the wheels. {{rf{21}}} At their going, they go, and at their standing, they stood, and at their being lifted up from on the earth, the wheels rose, for the spirit of the living creatures was in the wheels. {{rf{22}}} Now the likeness above the heads of the living creatures was an expanse like the outward appearance of awesome ice spread out above their heads upward. {{rf{23}}} And under the expanse their wings were stretched out straight one toward the other; each had two wings covering them, and each had two wings covering their bodies. {{rf{24}}} And I heard the sound of their wings like the sound of many waters, like the voice of Shaddai, and when they moved there was a sound of tumult like the sound of an army; when they stood still they lowered their wings. {{rf{25}}} And there was a sound from above the expanse that was above their heads, and when they stood they lowered their wings. {{rf{26}}} And from above the expanse that was above their heads there was the likeness of a throne, looking like a sapphire, and above the likeness of the throne was a likeness similar to the appearance of a human on it, but above it. {{rf{27}}} And I saw something like the outward appearance of amber, something like the appearance of fire, with a covering around it, from the likeness of his loins and upward. And from the likeness of his loins and downward I saw something like the appearance of fire, and it was radiant all around. {{rf{28}}} Like the appearance of a bow that is in the cloud on a rainy day, such was the radiance around it; thus was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of Yahweh. And I saw, and I fell on my face, and I heard a voice speaking. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Ezekiel-01-15]] }}}
And he said to me, "Son of man, stand on your feet, so that I can speak with you." {{rf{2}}} And the Spirit came into me as he was speaking to me, and it set me on my feet, and I heard the one speaking to me. {{rf{3}}} And he said to me, "Son of man, I am sending you to the Israelites, to nations who are rebelling, who rebelled against me, they and their ancestors, they transgressed against me until this very day. {{rf{4}}} And the children are impudent and stubborn, and so I am sending you to them, and you must say to them, 'Thus says the Lord Yahweh!' {{rf{5}}} And they, whether they listen or whether they fail to listen, for they are a rebellious house, they will know that a prophet was in their midst. {{rf{6}}} And you, son of man, you must not be afraid of them, and you must not be afraid of their words, because briers and thorns are with you, and you are sitting among scorpions. You must not be afraid of their words, and you must not be dismayed because of their looks, for they are a rebellious house. {{rf{7}}} And you must speak my words to them whether they listen or whether they fail to listen, for they are rebellious. {{rf{8}}} And you, son of man, hear what I am speaking to you: you must not be rebellious like the house of rebellion. Open your mouth and eat what I am giving to you." {{rf{9}}} And I looked, and look! There was a hand stretched out to me, and look! In it was a scroll with writing. {{rf{10}}} And he rolled it out before me, and it was written on the front and back, and there were written on it laments and mourning and wailing. {{rf big{1}}} And he said to me, "Son of man, what you find, eat! Eat this scroll, and go, speak to the house of Israel." {{rf{2}}} And I opened my mouth, and he gave me this scroll to eat, {{rf{3}}} and he said to me, "Son of man, you must give your stomach this to eat, and you must fill your belly with this scroll that I am giving to you." And I ate, and it became like sweet honey in my mouth. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Ezekiel-02-01]] }}}
{{rf{4}}} And he said to me, "Son of man, come! Go to the house of Israel, and you must speak to them with my words. {{rf{5}}} For you are sent to the house of Israel, not to a people of obscure speech and of a difficult language, {{rf{6}}} and not to many nations of obscure speech and a difficult language whose words you do not understand, for if I had sent you to them they would have listened to you. {{rf{7}}} And the house of Israel, they are not willing to listen to you, for they are not willing to listen to me, for all of the house of Israel is hard of forehead, and they are hard of heart. {{rf{8}}} But look, I have made your face hard against their faces and your forehead hard against their forehead. {{rf{9}}} Like a diamond harder than flint I have made your forehead; you must not fear them, and you must not be dismayed on account of them, for they are a rebellious house. {{rf{10}}} And he said to me, "Son of man, all of my words that I shall speak to you, receive into your heart and hear with your ears. {{rf{11}}} And come, go to the exiles, to the children of your people, and you must speak to them, and say to them, 'Thus says the Lord Yahweh!' whether they listen or whether they fail to listen." {{rf{12}}} And the Spirit lifted me up, and I heard behind me the sound of a great earthquake when the glory of Yahweh rose from its place. {{rf{13}}} And it was the sound of the wings of the living creatures touching lightly one against the other, and the sound of the wheels beside them and the sound of a great earthquake. {{rf{14}}} And the Spirit lifted me and took me, and I went in bitterness in the heat of my spirit, and the hand of Yahweh was strong on me. {{rf{15}}} And I went to the exiles at Tel Abib, who were dwelling near the Kebar River, and I sat where they were dwelling. I sat there seven days in the midst of them, stunned. {{rf{16}}} And then it happened at the end of seven days, the word of Yahweh came to me, saying, {{rf{17}}} "Son of man, I have appointed you as a watchman for the house of Israel. When you hear a word from my mouth, then you must warn them from me. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Ezekiel-03-04]] }}}
{{rf{18}}} When I say to the wicked, 'Surely you will die,' and you do not warn him and you do not speak to warn the wicked from his wicked way so that he may live, that wicked person will die because of his guilt, and from your hand I will seek his blood. {{rf{19}}} And you, if you do warn the wicked and he does not turn from his wickedness and from his wicked way, on account of his guilt he will die, and you yourself will have saved your life. {{rf{20}}} And when the righteous turns from his righteousness and does injustice, and I place a stumbling block before him, he will die, for you did not warn him. Because of his sin he will die, and his righteousness that he did will not be remembered, and his blood I shall seek from your hand. {{rf{21}}} And if you warn him, the righteous, not to sin, and the righteous does not sin, surely he will live, for he heeded a warning. And you will have saved your life." {{rf{22}}} And the hand of Yahweh was on me there, and he said to me, "Rise up, go out to the valley, and there I will speak with you." {{rf{23}}} And I rose up, and I went to the valley, and, look, there the glory of Yahweh was standing, like the glory that I saw near the Kebar River, and I fell on my face. {{rf{24}}} And the Spirit came into me, and it made me stand on my feet, and he spoke with me and said to me, "Come, shut yourself inside your house, {{rf{25}}} and you, son of man, look, they will place cords on you, and they will tie you up with them. Then you will not go out into the midst of them. {{rf{26}}} And I will make your tongue cling to the roof of your mouth, and you will be silenced, and you will not be a reproving man for them, for they are a rebellious house. {{rf{27}}} And when I speak with you, I will open your mouth, and you must say to them, 'Thus says the Lord Yahweh: "The one hearing him, let him hear, and the one failing to hear, let him fail," ' for they are a rebellious house. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Ezekiel-03-18]] }}}
"Now, son of man, take for yourself a brick, and you must put it before you, and you must portray on it a city, Jerusalem. {{rf{2}}} And you must build against it siege works, and you must build against it a bulwark, and you must heap against it a siege ramp, and you must set up against it camps and put against it a battering ram all around. {{rf{3}}} And take for yourself a plate of iron, and you must place it as a wall of iron between you and the city, and you must set your face against it, and it must be under siege, and you must lay the siege against it; it is a sign for the house of Israel. {{rf{4}}} And you, lie down on your left side, and you must put the guilt of the house of Israel on it. You will carry their guilt the number of days that you will lie on it. {{rf{5}}} And I will give to you the years of their guilt according to the number of the days, three hundred and ninety days, and you must bear the guilt of the house of Israel. {{rf{6}}} When you have completed these, then you must lie a second time on your right side; and you must bear the guilt of the house of Judah forty days, a day for each year, a day for each year I give it to you. {{rf{7}}} And toward the siege of Jerusalem you must set your face and your bared arm; then you must prophesy against it. {{rf{8}}} Now look! I will put on you cords, and you may not turn yourself from one side to your other side until you complete the days of your siege. {{rf{9}}} "And you, take for yourself wheat and barley and beans and lentils and millet and spelt, and you must put them in one vessel, and you must make them for yourself into a food during the number of days that you are lying on your side; three hundred and ninety days you shall eat it. {{rf{10}}} And your food that you will eat will be according to weight; twenty shekels for each day at fixed times you shall eat it. {{rf{11}}} And an amount of water you shall drink, a sixth of a hin; at fixed times you shall drink it. {{rf{12}}} And as a bread-cake of barley you shall eat it, and with human excrement you shall bake it before their eyes." {{rf{13}}} And Yahweh said, "Thus shall the Israelites eat their unclean food among the nations where I will scatter them." {{rf{14}}} And I said, "Ah, Lord Yahweh! Look! I have not been defiling myself, and a dead body and mangled carcass I have not eaten from my childhood until now, and unclean meat has not come into my mouth!" {{rf{15}}} And he said to me, "See I will give you cattle manure in the place of the feces of a human, and you may prepare your food on it." {{rf{16}}} And he said to me, "Son of man, look, I am going to break the supply of bread in Jerusalem, and they will eat bread by weight, anxiously, and rationed water, and they will drink with horror, {{rf{17}}} so that they will lack food and water, and they will be appalled with one another, and they will waste away because of their guilt. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Ezekiel-04-01]] }}}
"And you, son of man, take for yourself a sword, sharp as a barber's razor. Take it for yourself, and you must cause it to pass over your head and over your beard, and you must take for yourself a set of scales for weighing, and you must divide them. {{rf{2}}} A third you must burn with fire in the midst of the city at the completion of the days of the siege, and you must take a third, and you must strike it with the sword around it, and a third you must scatter to the wind, and I will draw a sword behind them. {{rf{3}}} And you must take from these a few in number, and you must tuck them in your hem. {{rf{4}}} And from them again you shall take some, and you must throw them in the middle of the fire, and you must burn them with fire; from it a fire will go out to all of the house of Israel. {{rf{5}}} Thus says the Lord Yahweh: This is Jerusalem in the midst of the nations where I have put her, and countries are around her. {{rf{6}}} But she has rebelled against my regulations to the point of wickedness more than the nations, and my statutes more than the countries that are around her; for they rejected my regulations, and as for my statutes, they did not walk in them. {{rf{7}}} Therefore, thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because of your commotion more than the nations that are around you -- you did not walk in my statutes, and you did not do my regulations, and according to the regulations of the nations that are around you, you did not do. {{rf{8}}} Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Look! I, even I, am against you, and I will execute judgment in the midst of you before the eyes of the nations, {{rf{9}}} and I will do with you that which I have not done, and which I will not do again, because of all of your detestable things. {{rf{10}}} Therefore parents will eat children in the midst of you, and children will eat their parents, and I will execute judgment in you, and I will scatter your entire remnant to every wind. {{rf{11}}} Therefore as surely as I live, declares the Lord Yahweh, Surely because you have defiled my sanctuary with all of your vile idols and with all of your detestable things, now indeed I will reduce, and my eye will not take pity, and surely I will show no compassion. {{rf{12}}} A third of you will die because of the plague, and because of the famine they will perish in the midst of you, and a third will fall through the sword around you, and a third I will scatter to every direction of the wind, and I will draw the sword behind them. {{rf{13}}} And my anger will come to an end, and I will place my rage on them, and I will relent, and they will know that I, Yahweh, have spoken in my passion when I fully vent my rage against them. {{rf{14}}} And I will make you into a desolate place and into a disgrace among the nations that surround you before the eyes of every one who passes by. {{rf{15}}} And it will be an object of taunting and an object of mockery, a warning and a horror to the nations that are around you whenever I execute judgments against you in anger and in wrath and in furious punishments! I, Yahweh, have spoken! {{rf{16}}} When I send my arrows of deadly famine against them, which will be as destruction that I will send in order to destroy you, I will increase famine against you, and I will break the supply of food for you. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Ezekiel-05-01]] }}}
{{rf{17}}} And I will send against you famine and fierce animals, and they will make you childless; and plague and blood will pass through you, and I will bring the sword upon you. I, Yahweh, I have spoken!" {{rf big{1}}} And the word of Yahweh came to me, saying, {{rf{2}}} "Son of man, set your face to the mountains of Israel and prophesy against them, {{rf{3}}} and you must say, 'Mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord Yahweh, thus says the Lord Yahweh to the mountains and to the hills, to the ravines and to the valleys: "Look, I am bringing upon you the sword, and I will destroy your high places, {{rf{4}}} and your altars will be desolate, and your incense altars will be broken, and I will throw down your slain ones before your idols, {{rf{5}}} and I will place the corpses of the children of Israel before their idols, and I will scatter your bones around your altars. {{rf{6}}} In all of your dwellings, the cities will be desolate and the high places will be ruined, so that your altars will be desolate and will suffer punishment. Your idols will be broken and will come to an end, and your incense altars will be cut down, and your works will be destroyed, {{rf{7}}} and the slain one will fall in the midst of you, and then you will know that I am Yahweh. {{rf{8}}} But I will spare some, so there will be for you fugitives from the sword among the nations when you are scattered in the countries. {{rf{9}}} And your fugitives will remember me among the nations to which they were taken captive, that I was shattered by their adulterous heart which departed from me, and by their adulterous eyes which went after their idols, and they will feel loathing for themselves, for the evil that they did, for all of their detestable things. {{rf{10}}} And they will know that I am Yahweh; not in vain I spoke to bring to them this evil." ' {{rf{11}}} Thus says the Lord Yahweh: 'Clap your hand and stamp with your foot, and say, "Alas, for all of the detestable things of the evil of the house of Israel, because of which they will fall with the sword, with the famine, and with the plague. {{rf{12}}} The one who is far away will die by the plague, and the one who is near will fall by the sword, and the one who is being left behind and being spared will die by the famine, and I will complete my rage on them. {{rf{13}}} And you will know that I am Yahweh when their slain ones are in the midst of their idols around their altars at every high hill, on the tops of all the mountains and under every green tree and under every leafy oak -- the place at which they gave a pleasing scent for all of their idols. {{rf{14}}} And I will stretch out my hand against them, and I will make the land a desolation and a wasteland from the desert to Riblah in all of their dwellings, and they will know that I am Yahweh." '" {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Ezekiel-05-17]] }}}
And the word of Yahweh came to me, saying, {{rf{2}}} "And you, son of man, thus says the Lord Yahweh to the land of Israel: 'The end comes, the end on the four corners of the land. {{rf{3}}} Now the end is on you, and I will send my anger on you, and I will judge you according to your ways, and I will bring on you all your detestable things. {{rf{4}}} And my eye will not take pity on you, and I will not show compassion for your ways; on you I will bring your detestable things; they will be in the midst of you, and you will know that I am Yahweh.' {{rf{5}}} Thus says the Lord Yahweh: 'Look! Disaster after disaster is coming! {{rf{6}}} The end comes, comes the end! It has awakened against you! Look! It comes! {{rf{7}}} Doom is coming against you, the dweller of the land; the time comes, the day is near, panic and not joy is on the mountains. {{rf{8}}} Soon I will pour out my rage on you, and I will fully vent my anger on you, and I will judge you according to your ways, and I will bring on you all of your detestable things. {{rf{9}}} And my eye will not take pity, and I will not show compassion. According to your ways I will deal with you, and your detestable things will be in the midst of you, and you will know that I am Yahweh who strikes. {{rf{10}}} Look! The day is coming; doom goes out, the staff blossoms, pride sprouts. {{rf{11}}} Violence has grown to become a staff of wickedness; none from them will remain, and none from their abundance nor from their wealth; and prominence will not be among them. {{rf{12}}} The time has come, the day has arrived; let not the buyer rejoice, and let the seller not mourn, for anger is on all their multitude. {{rf{13}}} For the seller will not return to the merchandise while they are still alive, for the vision is about all of its multitude; it will not change, and a man because of his guilt will not be able to hold onto his life. {{rf{14}}} They shall blow on the trumpet and prepare everything, but there is no one going to the battle, for my anger is on all of their multitude. {{rf{15}}} The sword is outside, and the plague and the famine are inside; the one who is in the field will die by the sword, and the one who is in the city, famine and plague will devour him. {{rf{16}}} And if their survivors will escape, they will be on the mountains, like the doves of the valley, all of them groaning, each because of his guilt. {{rf{17}}} All of the hands will hang limp, and all of the knees will be wet with urine. {{rf{18}}} And they will wear sackcloth, and horror will cover them, and on all of the faces will be shame, and baldness on all of their heads. {{rf{19}}} Their silver they will discard on the streets, and filth will be their gold; their silver and their gold will not be able to rescue them on the day of the wrath of Yahweh. They will not satisfy their hunger and their stomachs they will not fill, for their guilt will be their stumbling block. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Ezekiel-07-01]] }}}
{{rf{20}}} " 'And the beauty of its ornament he made into a prideful thing and made with it their detestable things and their vile idols; therefore I will make it into an impure thing for them. {{rf{21}}} And I will give it into the hand of strangers as plunder and to the wicked people of the earth as spoil, and they will defile it. {{rf{22}}} And I will turn my face from them, and they will defile my treasured place, and violent ones will enter and defile it. {{rf{23}}} Make a chain for the land; it is full of bloody crimes and the city is full of violence. {{rf{24}}} And I will bring the worst of the nations, and they will take possession of their houses, and I will put to an end the pride of the mighty ones, and their sanctuaries will be defiled. {{rf{25}}} Anguish comes, and they will seek peace, and there will be none. {{rf{26}}} Calamity upon calamity will come, and rumor will be upon rumor. And they will seek a vision from a prophet, but instruction will perish from the priest and counsel from the elders. {{rf{27}}} The king will mourn, and the prince will be dressed with despair, and the hands of the people of the land will tremble. According to their way I will do to them, and according to their judgments I will judge them, and they will know that I am Yahweh.'" {{rf big{1}}} And then in the sixth year, in the sixth month, on the fifth day of the month, I was sitting in my house, and the elders of Judah were sitting before me. And the hand of the Lord Yahweh fell on me there, {{rf{2}}} and I saw, and look! A figure like the appearance of a man; from the appearance of his waist and below was fire, and from his waist and upward was like the appearance of brightness, like the outward appearance of amber. {{rf{3}}} And he sent out the form of a hand, and he took me by a lock of hair of my head, and the Spirit lifted me between earth and heaven, and it brought me to Jerusalem in visions of God to the doorway of the inner gate that faced north, at which there was the seat of the image of jealousy, which was making jealous. {{rf{4}}} And look! There was the glory of the God of Israel like the vision that I saw in the valley. {{rf{5}}} And he said to me, "Son of man, lift up now your eyes toward the north." And I lifted up my eyes toward the north, and, look, there was to the north of the gate of the altar this image of jealousy at the entrance. {{rf{6}}} And he said to me, "Son of man, "Do you see what they are doing -- great detestable things that the house of Israel is committing here so as to drive me from my sanctuary, and yet you will see again greater detestable things." {{rf{7}}} And he brought me to the doorway of the courtyard, and I saw, and look! A hole in the wall. {{rf{8}}} And he said to me, "Son of man, dig now through the wall." And I dug through the wall, and look! There was a doorway. {{rf{9}}} And he said to me, "Come and see the detestable things, the evil that they are doing here. {{rf{10}}} And I came, and I saw, and look, all kinds of creatures and detestable beasts; and all of the idols of the house of Israel were carved on the wall all around. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Ezekiel-07-20]] }}}
{{rf{11}}} And seventy men from the elders of the house of Israel, and Jaazaniah, the son of Shaphan, was standing in the midst of them, and they were standing before them. Each one had his censer in his hand, and the fragrance of the cloud of the incense was going up. {{rf{12}}} And he said to me, "Have you seen, son of man, what the elders of the house of Israel are doing in the dark, each in the inner rooms of his idol, for they are saying, 'Yahweh is not seeing us; Yahweh has abandoned the land.'" {{rf{13}}} And he said to me, "Still you will see again greater detestable things that they are doing." {{rf{14}}} And he brought me to the doorway of the gate of the house of Yahweh that is toward the north, and look! There were the women sitting weeping for Tammuz. {{rf{15}}} And he said to me, "Have you seen, son of man? Still you will see again greater detestable things than these." {{rf{16}}} And he brought me to the inner courtyard of the house of Yahweh, and look, at the doorway of the temple of Yahweh, between the portico and the altar, there were about twenty-five men with their backs to the temple of Yahweh and their faces toward the east, and they were bowing down toward the east before the sun. {{rf{17}}} And he said to me, "Have you seen, son of man? Was it too small a thing for the house of Judah to do the detestable things that they did here? For they filled up the land with violence, and they provoked me to anger again, and look! They are putting the branch to their nose. {{rf{18}}} And so I will act in rage, and my eye will not take pity, and I will not have compassion, and they will cry in my ear with a loud voice, and I will not hear them." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Ezekiel-08-11]] }}}
And he called in my ears with a loud voice, saying, "They have come near, the punishers of the city, and each with his weapon of destruction in his hand. {{rf{2}}} And look! Six men coming from the way of the upper gate that faced northward, and each with his weapon for shattering in his hand; and one man was in the midst of them, dressed in linen, and the writing case of the scribe was at his side. And they came and stood beside the bronze altar. {{rf{3}}} And the glory of the God of Israel lifted itself up from upon the cherub that he was on and went to the threshold of the house, and he called to the man who was clothed in linen with a scribal writing case at his side. {{rf{4}}} And Yahweh said to him, "Go through in the midst of the city, in the midst of Jerusalem, and you must place a mark on the foreheads of the men who are groaning and lamenting about all of the detestable things that are being done in the midst of her." {{rf{5}}} And to the others he said in my hearing, "Go through the city behind him and kill! Your eyes shall not take pity, and you shall not have compassion. {{rf{6}}} You must kill totally old man, young man and young woman, and little children and women, but concerning every man with the mark on him you must not approach; and from my sanctuary you must begin." And they began with the old men who were before the house. {{rf{7}}} And he said to them, "Defile the house and fill the courtyards with the dead; go out! And they went out, and they killed in the city. {{rf{8}}} And then as they were striking, and I was left behind, I fell on my face, and I cried out, and I said, "Ah, Lord Yahweh! "Will you be destroying all of the remnant of Israel while you pour out your rage on Jerusalem?" {{rf{9}}} And he said to me, "The guilt of the house of Israel and Judah is exceedingly great, and the land is filled with bloodguilt, and the city is full of injustice. For they say Yahweh abandoned the land, and Yahweh does not see. {{rf{10}}} And I, my eye will not take pity, and I will not have compassion; their way I will bring on their head." {{rf{11}}} And look! The man clothed in linen and with a writing case at his side was bringing back a word, saying, "I have done all that you commanded me." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Ezekiel-09-01]] }}}
And I looked, and look! On the expanse that was above the head of the cherubim something like a stone of sapphire, and like the appearance of the shape of a throne it appeared above them. {{rf{2}}} And he spoke to the man clothed in linen and said, "Go in among the wheel area under the cherubim and fill the hollow of your hands with coals of fire from among the cherubim, and toss them on the city." And he went right before my eyes. {{rf{3}}} Now the cherubim were standing on the south of the temple when the man went, and the cloud filled the inner courtyard. {{rf{4}}} And the glory of Yahweh rose up from on the cherub toward the threshold of the house, and the house was filled with the cloud, and the courtyard was filled with the brightness of the glory of Yahweh. {{rf{5}}} And the sound of the wings of the cherubim was heard as far as the outer courtyard; it was like the voice of God Shaddai when he speaks. {{rf{6}}} And then at his command to the man clothed in linen, saying, "Take fire from among the wheel area from among the cherubim," he went and stood beside the wheel. {{rf{7}}} Then the cherub stretched out his hand from among the cherubim toward the fire that was among the cherubim, and he lifted up and gave it into the hollow of the hand of the man clothed with linen, and he took it, and he went out. {{rf{8}}} And there appeared for the cherubim the form of a human hand under their wings. {{rf{9}}} And I saw, and look, four wheels beside the cherubim, one wheel beside each cherub, and the appearance of the wheels was like the outward appearance of turquoise stone. {{rf{10}}} Their appearance was the same for each of the four of them, as if the wheel was in the midst of a wheel. {{rf{11}}} When they went to the four of their directions that they went, they did not change direction when they went, for the place to which the head turned, they went behind him; they did not change direction at their going. {{rf{12}}} And their whole body, and their rims, and their spokes, and their wings, and the wheels were full of eyes all around -- the wheels for the four of them. {{rf{13}}} Concerning the wheels, he was calling them "the wheelwork" in my hearing. {{rf{14}}} And each one had four faces; the face of the one was the face of a cherub, and the face of the second was the face of a human, and the face of the third was the face of a lion, and the fourth was the face of an eagle. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Ezekiel-10-01]] }}}
{{rf{15}}} And the cherubim rose; that is, the living creatures that I saw at the Kebar River. {{rf{16}}} And when the cherubim went, the wheels beside them went; and when the cherubim lifted their wings to rise up from the earth, the wheels also did not turn aside from beside them. {{rf{17}}} When they stood, they stood, and at their rising, they rose with them, for the spirit of the living creatures was in them. {{rf{18}}} And the glory of Yahweh went out from the threshold of the temple, and it stood above the cherubim. {{rf{19}}} And the cherubim lifted up their wings, and they rose from the earth before my eyes. At their going out, the wheels were beside them. And he stood at the doorway of the eastern gate of the temple of Yahweh, and the glory of the God of Israel was over them. {{rf{20}}} This was the living creature that I saw under the God of Israel at the Kebar River, and I knew that they were cherubim. {{rf{21}}} Each one had four faces, and there were four wings for each, and the likeness of human hands was under their wings. {{rf{22}}} And the likeness of their faces, they were the faces that I saw at the Kebar River; thus was their appearance, and they each went straight ahead. {{rf big{1}}} And the Spirit lifted me up, and it brought me to the eastern gate, the one facing east, of the temple of Yahweh. And look, there were twenty-five men in the doorway of the gate, and I saw Jaazaniah the son of Azzur in the midst of them, and Pelatiah the son of Benaiah, the commanders of the people. {{rf{2}}} And he said to me, "Son of man, these are the men who devise mischief, and who are offering bad counsel in this city, {{rf{3}}} who are saying, "The building of houses is not near; the city is the pot, and we are the flesh. {{rf{4}}} Therefore prophesy against them! Prophesy, son of man!" {{rf{5}}} And the Spirit of Yahweh fell on me, and he said to me, "Say, 'thus says Yahweh: "This is what you think, house of Israel, and I myself know them, the thoughts of your spirit. {{rf{6}}} You made your slain ones numerous in this city, and you have filled its streets with slain ones." ' {{rf{7}}} Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: "Your slain ones whom you put in its midst, they are the flesh, and it is the pot, and I will bring you out from its midst. {{rf{8}}} The sword you have feared, and the sword I will bring against you!" declares the Lord Yahweh. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Ezekiel-10-15]] }}}
{{rf{9}}} "And I will bring you out from its midst, and I will give you into the hand of strangers, and I will execute judgments against you. {{rf{10}}} By the sword you will fall at the border of Israel; I will judge you, and you will know that I am Yahweh. {{rf{11}}} It will not be as a pot to you, and so you would be in the midst of it as flesh, for at the border of Israel I will judge you. {{rf{12}}} And you will know that I am Yahweh, whose rules you did not follow, and whose regulations you did not do, but according to the regulations of the nations that are around you, you acted." ' {{rf{13}}} And it happened that as I was prophesying, Pelatiahu the son of Benaiahu died! And I fell on my face, and I cried with a loud voice, and I said, "Ah, Lord Yahweh, you are making a complete destruction of the remnant of Israel!" {{rf{14}}} And the word of Yahweh came to me, saying, {{rf{15}}} "Son of man, your brothers, your brothers, the men of your redemption, and all of the house of Israel, all of it, who said concerning the inhabitants of Jerusalem, 'They are far from Yahweh, therefore to us this land was given as a possession.' {{rf{16}}} Therefore say, 'Thus says the Lord Yahweh: "Though I have removed them far away among the nations and though I have scattered them among the countries, yet I was a sanctuary to them for a little while in the countries to which they have gone.'" {{rf{17}}} Therefore say, 'Thus says the Lord Yahweh: "And I will assemble you from the peoples, and I will gather you from the countries to which you were scattered among them, and I will give the land of Israel to you. {{rf{18}}} And when they come there, then they will remove all of its vile idols and all of its detestable things from it. {{rf{19}}} And I will give to them one heart, and a new spirit I will give in their inner parts. And I will remove their heart of stone from their body, and I will give to them a heart of flesh, {{rf{20}}} so that they may walk in my statutes, and they will keep my regulations, and they will do them, and they will be to me a people, and I myself will be to them as God. {{rf{21}}} But to the heart of their abominations and the detestable things their heart is going. I will bring their way on their head," declares the Lord Yahweh.'" {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Ezekiel-11-09]] }}}
{{rf{22}}} Then the cherubim lifted up their wings, and their wheels were beside them, and the glory of the God of Israel was over them. {{rf{23}}} And the glory of Yahweh went up from the midst of the city, and it stood still on the mountain that is to the east of the city. {{rf{24}}} And the Spirit lifted me up, and it brought me to Chaldea, to the exiles, in the vision by the spirit of God; and the vision that I had seen left me. {{rf{25}}} And I spoke to the exiles all of the words of Yahweh that he had shown me. {{rf big{1}}} And the word of Yahweh came to me, saying, {{rf{2}}} "Son of man, you are dwelling in the midst of the house of rebellion who has eyes to see and they do not see; they have ears to hear, and they do not hear, for they are a house of rebellion. {{rf{3}}} And you, son of man, prepare for yourself the baggage of an exile, and go into exile by day before their eyes. And you must go into exile from your place to another place before their eyes; perhaps they will see that they are a house of rebellion. {{rf{4}}} And you must bring out your baggage like the baggage of an exile by day before their eyes, and you must go out in the evening before their eyes like those who go into exile. {{rf{5}}} Before their eyes dig through for yourself, through the wall, and you must bring the baggage out through it. {{rf{6}}} Before their eyes, on your shoulder, you must lift up the baggage in the dusk, and your face you must cover, so that you may not see the land, for I make you as a sign to the house of Israel." {{rf{7}}} And I did just as I was commanded; my baggage, like the baggage of an exile, I brought out by day, and in the evening I dug through for myself into the wall with my hand in the dusk; I brought the baggage on my shoulder; I carried it before their eyes. {{rf{8}}} And the word of Yahweh came to me in the morning, saying, {{rf{9}}} "Son of man, did not they, the house of Israel, the house of rebellion, say to you, 'What are you doing?' {{rf{10}}} Say to them, 'Thus says the Lord Yahweh: "This oracle is about the prince in Jerusalem and the entire house of Israel who are among them." ' {{rf{11}}} Say, 'I am your sign, and just as I did, so will it be done to them in the exile; into captivity they will go.' {{rf{12}}} And the prince who is in the midst of them, on his shoulder he will carry the baggage in the dusk, and he will go out; the wall will be dug through to bring him through it; and he will cover his face so that he will not see the land with his eye. {{rf{13}}} And I will spread out my net on him, and he will be captured in my hunting snare, and I will bring him to Babylon, the land of the Chaldeans, but he will not see it, and there he will die. {{rf{14}}} And all who are around him, his help and all of his troops I will scatter in every direction, and I will draw the sword behind them. {{rf{15}}} And they will know that I am Yahweh when I scatter them among the nations and I scatter them in the countries. {{rf{16}}} But I will spare from them a few men from the sword, from the famine and from the plague, so that they may tell of all their abominations among the nations to which they will go, and they will know that I am Yahweh." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Ezekiel-11-22]] }}}
{{rf{17}}} And the word of Yahweh came to me, saying, {{rf{18}}} "Son of man, you must eat your food with trembling, and your water with shuddering, and with anxiety you must drink. {{rf{19}}} And you must say to the people of the land, 'Thus says the Lord Yahweh to the inhabitants of Jerusalem about the land of Israel: "They will eat their food with anxiety and their water they will drink with horror, because their land will be desolate from its fullness because of all the violence of those who are dwelling in it. {{rf{20}}} And the inhabited cites will be desolate, and the land will be a desolation, and you will know that I am Yahweh." '" {{rf{21}}} And the word of Yahweh came to me, saying, {{rf{22}}} "Son of man, what is this proverb you people have about the land of Israel, saying, 'The days are prolonged, and every vision has come to nothing.' {{rf{23}}} Therefore say to them, 'Thus says the Lord Yahweh: "I will put an end to this proverb, and they will not quote it as a proverb again in Israel." ' But say to them, 'The days are near, and also the word of every vision.' {{rf{24}}} For there will not be any longer any false vision or flattering divination in the midst of the house of Israel. {{rf{25}}} For I, Yahweh, I will speak what I will speak as a word, and it will be done. It will not prolong itself any longer, for in your days, house of rebellion, I will speak a word and I will fulfill it!" declares the Lord Yahweh. {{rf{26}}} And the word of Yahweh came to me, saying, {{rf{27}}} "Son of man, look! The house of Israel is saying, 'The vision that he is seeing is for many days from now, and for distant times he is prophesying.' {{rf{28}}} Therefore say to them, 'Thus says the Lord Yahweh: "None of my words will be prolonged any longer that I speak as a word, and it will be fulfilled!" '" declares the Lord Yahweh. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Ezekiel-12-17]] }}}
And the word of Yahweh came to me, saying, {{rf{2}}} "Son of man, prophesy to the prophets of Israel who are prophesying, and you must say to those who are prophets out of their own imagination, 'Hear the word of Yahweh!' {{rf{3}}} Thus says the Lord Yahweh: 'Alas, for the foolish prophets who are going after their own spirit, and they did not see anything! {{rf{4}}} Your prophets have been like foxes among ruins. {{rf{5}}} You did not go up into the breaches and repair a wall for the house of Israel to stand firm in the battle on the day of Yahweh. {{rf{6}}} They saw falseness and a lying divination, the ones saying, 'Declaration of Yahweh!' and Yahweh did not send them, and they wait for the confirmation of their word. {{rf{7}}} Have you not seen a false vision and spoken a lying divination, and you said, 'Declaration of Yahweh!' but I myself did not speak. {{rf{8}}} Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: 'Because of your speaking falseness and because you envisioned a lie, therefore, look! I am against you!" declares the Lord Yahweh. {{rf{9}}} "And it will be my hand against the prophets who are seeing falseness and who are practicing lying divination. They will not be in the council of my people, and they will not be written down in the record book of the house of Israel, and into the land of Israel they will not come, and then you will know that I am the Lord Yahweh. {{rf{10}}} Because, yes, because they led my people astray, saying 'Peace!' And there is not peace. And when anyone builds a flimsy wall, look, they coat it with whitewash. {{rf{11}}} Say to those covering it with whitewash that it will fall; there will be a torrent of rain, and I will give stones of hail; they will fall! And a windstorm will burst forth! {{rf{12}}} And look! When the wall falls, will it not be said to you, 'Where is the whitewash with which you covered it?' {{rf{13}}} Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: 'And so I will let burst forth a windstorm in my rage, and there will be a torrent of rain in my anger, and hailstones in my rage for complete destruction. {{rf{14}}} And I will break down the wall that you covered with whitewash, and I will knock it to the ground, and its foundation will be revealed, and it will fall, and you will come to an end in the midst of it, and you will know that I am Yahweh! {{rf{15}}} And I will fully vent my rage against the wall and against those covering it with whitewash, and I will say to you, "The wall is no more, and the people covering it are no more, {{rf{16}}} that is, the prophets of Israel, the ones prophesying concerning Jerusalem and the ones seeing visions of peace, and there is not peace!'" " declares the Lord Yahweh. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Ezekiel-13-01]] }}}
13:4-5 Seems like a direct allusion to Nehemiah ??
13:9 Three bans which preach to the situation of hypocrites and unbelievers.
13:10 see <<Bbl A 23:3 >>; <<Bbl Mt 23:27 >>
<<Bbl Ez 14:3 abbr >> difference: the exiles' rulers are covert.
<<Bbl Ez 14:3 abbr >> hypocrisy. The elders in Jerusalem were not hypocrites; they were open.
<<Bbl Ez 14:3 abbr >> in front of their faces, meaning not even trying to resist.
<<Bbl Ez 14:7 abbr >> God will himself speak... What the Lord spared the people at Sinai. [[Confront]]
<<Bbl Ez 14:10 abbr >> see <<Bbl Mt 10:41 >>
<<Bbl Ez 14:14 abbr >> see <<Bbl Jer 15:1 >>
<<Bbl Ez 14:20 abbr >> see 18:20
14:22-23 apparently addressing the prophet himself.
15:2 Notably, a dead vine does not bear fruit.
16 see <<Bbl Dt.32 >> original sin, "born in iniquity"
16:4 Salt, the covenant; what other, more immediate purpose ??
16:8 Arrival of God's people
16:9 She even grew up in this blood.
16:10-13 The kingdom and temple established
16:14 Climax in Solomon's reign
16:15 harlotry: <<Bbl I 23:9 >>; <<Bbl I 58:7 >>
<<Bbl Ez 16:27 abbr >> see <<Bbl 1C 5:1 >>
<<Bbl Ez 16:33 abbr >>-34 Israel's storehouses of sacred gold now empty
16:37 There is a worldly standard of "pleasure" which has nothing to do with love. Cf <<Bbl 2S 13:15 >>
<<Bbl Ez 16:43 abbr >> If she has forgotten the days of her youth, He also will do the same. But see vs. 60
<<Bbl Ez 16:49 abbr >>-50 this is a strange comment on Sodom, given the context in Ezekiel of idolatry (not social justice).
16:52 Recognized in college as "lowering the curve." Cf <<Bbl Mt 11:20 >>-24 , <<Bbl Mt 12:38 >>-42
<<Bbl Ez 16:56 abbr >>-57 Hypocrisy. The refusal to mention a transgressor is the very reproach which will be returned to them. Cf vs. 59
16:59-63 see 11:19
{{rf{17}}} "And you, son of man, place your face toward the daughters of your people who prophesy from their imagination, and prophesy against them! {{rf{18}}} And you must say, 'Thus says the Lord Yahweh: "Woe to those who sew magic charm bands on all the wrists of the hands of my people and those who make the veils that are on the head of people of every height, to ensnare people's lives! Will you ensnare the lives of my people and keep yourselves alive? {{rf{19}}} And you defiled me among my people for a handful of barley and for morsels of bread to kill persons who should not die and to keep alive persons who should not live by means of your lies to my people who are listening to your lies." ' {{rf{20}}} Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: 'Look! I am against your magic charm bands with which you are ensnaring persons as birds; I will tear them from your arms, and I will release the persons that you are ensnaring, treating persons as birds. {{rf{21}}} And I will tear off your veils, and I will deliver my people from your hand, and they will not any longer be in your hand as prey, and you will know that I am Yahweh. {{rf{22}}} Because you disheartened the heart of the righteous by deception, and I have not caused him pain, and strengthened the hands of the wicked so that he did not turn from his wicked way to save his life. {{rf{23}}} Therefore falseness you will not see, and divination you will not practice any longer, and I will rescue my people from your hand, and you will know that I am Yahweh!'" {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Ezekiel-13-17]] }}}
And men from the elders of Israel came to me, and they sat before me. {{rf{2}}} And the word of Yahweh came to me, saying, {{rf{3}}} "Son of man, these men took up their idols into their heart and they placed before themselves a stumbling block of their guilt. Should I really let myself be consulted by them? {{rf{4}}} Therefore speak with them, and you must say to them, 'Thus says the Lord Yahweh: "Every person from the house of Israel who brings up his idols into his heart and places before himself a stumbling block of his guilt and yet he comes to the prophet, I Yahweh, I will respond to him through this act with respect to the multitude of his idols, {{rf{5}}} so that I may take hold of the house of Israel by their heart, those who are estranged from me, all of them, through their idols.' {{rf{6}}} Therefore say to the house of Israel, 'Thus says the Lord Yahweh: "Return, and turn away from your idols and from all of your detestable things! Turn away your faces!" ' {{rf{7}}} For each person from the house of Israel, and from the alien who dwells as an alien in Israel, who separates himself from following me and brings up his idols into his heart and places before himself a stumbling block of his guilt, and yet he comes to the prophet to consult him concerning me, I Yahweh will answer him myself. {{rf{8}}} And I will set my face against that person, and I will make him to be a sign and make him into the subject of proverbs; and I will cut him off from the midst of my people, and you will know I am Yahweh. {{rf{9}}} And the prophet, if he is deceived and he speaks a word, I Yahweh, I have deceived that prophet, and I will stretch out my hand against him, and I will destroy him from the midst of my people Israel. {{rf{10}}} And they will bear their guilt, like the guilt of the inquirer so the guilt of the prophet will be, {{rf{11}}} so that the house of Israel will not go astray again from me, and they will not make themselves unclean again with all of their transgressions, and they will be for me a people, and I will be for them as God," declares the Lord Yahweh. {{rf{12}}} And the word of Yahweh came to me, saying, {{rf{13}}} "Son of man, when a land sins against me by acting very unfaithfully, then I will stretch out my hand against it, and I will break for it the supply of food, and I will send against it famine, and I will cut it off, both human and animal. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Ezekiel-14-01]] }}}
{{rf{14}}} And if even the three of these men were in the midst of it -- Noah, Daniel, and Job -- they, through their righteousness, would save only themselves!" declares the Lord Yahweh. {{rf{15}}} "If a fierce animal I should let cross through the land, and it should make it childless and it will be a desolation, so that there will not be one crossing over the land due to the presence of the animal, {{rf{16}}} even if these three men were in the midst of it, as surely as I live," declares the Lord Yahweh, "surely they will not save sons and daughters; they themselves alone, they will be saved, but the land will be a desolation. {{rf{17}}} Or, if I bring a sword over that land, and I say, 'Sword, let it cross over into the land!' And I will cut off from it both human and animal. {{rf{18}}} And if these three men were in the midst of it, as surely as I live," declares the Lord Yahweh, "they will not save sons and daughters, but they alone will be saved. {{rf{19}}} And if I were to send a plague to that land, and I pour out my rage on it with blood to cut it off, both human and animal, {{rf{20}}} and if Noah, Daniel, and Job were in the midst of her, as surely as I live," declares the Lord Yahweh, "surely not a son, surely not a daughter will they save by their righteousness; they would save themselves." {{rf{21}}} For thus says the Lord Yahweh: "How much more when I send my four punishments -- the evil sword, and famine, and a fierce animal, and a plague -- to Jerusalem to cut it off, both human and animal! {{rf{22}}} But look! A remnant will be left over in it, sons and daughters who will be brought out. Look! They are coming out to you, and you will see their way, and with their deeds you will be consoled with respect to the evil that I brought over Jerusalem, all of it that I brought over it. {{rf{23}}} And they will console you when you see their way and their deeds, and you will know that not for nothing I did all that I did in it," declares the Lord Yahweh. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Ezekiel-14-14]] }}}
And the word of Yahweh came to me, saying, {{rf{2}}} "Son of man, how will the wood of the vine be better than any of the wood of the branch which is among the trees of the forest? {{rf{3}}} Can wood be taken from it to make anything, or can they take a tent peg from it to hang on it any object? {{rf{4}}} Look! It is given to the fire as fuel. The fire will consume two of its ends, and its middle will be charred. Is it useful for anything? {{rf{5}}} Look! When it is in perfect condition, it will not be used for anything, how much less when the fire has consumed it and it is charred; and then can it be used again for anything? {{rf{6}}} Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Just like the wood of the vine among the trees of the forest which I gave to the fire for fuel, so I have given the inhabitants of Jerusalem. {{rf{7}}} And I will set my face against them. From the fire they mayescape, but the fire will yet consume them, and they will know that I am Yahweh when I set my face against them. {{rf{8}}} And I will make the land a desolation because they acted very unfaithfully!" declares the Lord Yahweh. {{rf big{1}}} And the word of Yahweh came to me, saying, {{rf{2}}} "Son of man, make known to Jerusalem its detestable things, {{rf{3}}} and you must say, 'Thus says the Lord Yahweh to Jerusalem: Your origin and your birth were from the land of the Canaanites, your father was an Amorite, and your mother was a Hittite. {{rf{4}}} And as for your birth, on the day you were born your umbilical cord was not cut, and you were not thoroughly washed clean with water, and you were not thoroughly rubbed with salt, and you were not carefully wrapped in strips of cloth. {{rf{5}}} No eye took pity on you to do to you one of these things to show compassion for you, and you were thrown into the open field in their despising of you on the day you were born. {{rf{6}}} " 'And I passed by you, and I saw you kicking about in your blood, and I said to you in your blood, "Live! {{rf{7}}} Grow up; I will make you like a plant of the field." And you grew up, and you became tall and reached full womanhood. Your breasts were formed, and your hair had grown, but you were naked and bare. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Ezekiel-15-01]] }}}
{{rf{8}}} " 'And I passed by you, and I saw you, and look, your time of lovemaking had come, and so I spread out my hem over you, and I covered your nakedness, and I swore to you, and I entered into a covenant with you,' declares the Lord Yahweh, 'and you became mine. {{rf{9}}} And I washed you with water, and I rinsed off your blood from on you, and I anointed you with oil. {{rf{10}}} And I clothed you with beautiful finished cloth, and I put sandals on you of fine leather, and I bound you in fine linen, and I covered you with costly fabric. {{rf{11}}} And I adorned you with ornaments, and I put a bracelet on your arms and a necklace on your neck. {{rf{12}}} And I put an ornamental ring on your nose and earrings on your ears and a beautiful crown on your head. {{rf{13}}} And you adorned yourself with gold and silver, and your clothing was fine linen and costly fabric and beautiful finished cloth; you ate finely milled flour and honey and olive oil, and you became exceedingly beautiful; you were fit to be a queen. {{rf{14}}} And a name went out for you among the nations because of your beauty, for it was perfect because of my majesty that I bestowed on you,' declares the Lord Yahweh. {{rf{15}}} 'And you trusted in your beauty, and you prostituted on account of your name, and you poured out your fornication on every one passing by, saying, "Let it be his." {{rf{16}}} And you took from your clothes and you made for yourself colorful shrines, and you prostituted on them; this had not happened before, and it will not continue to happen. {{rf{17}}} And you took your beautiful jewelry made from my gold and from my silver that I had given to you, and you made for yourself male images, and you prostituted with them. {{rf{18}}} And you took the clothes of your beautiful finished cloth, and you covered them and my oil and my incense you set before them. {{rf{19}}} And my bread that I gave to you, finely milled flour and oil and honey with which I fed you, then you set it before them as a pleasing odor, and so it was,' declares the Lord Yahweh. {{rf{20}}} 'And you took your sons and your daughters whom you had borne for me, and you sacrificed them to them to be eaten, as if your whorings were not enough. {{rf{21}}} And you slaughtered my children, and you gave them to be sacrificed to them. {{rf{22}}} And in all of your detestable things and your fornication you did not remember the days of your childhood when you were naked and bare, when you were kicking about in your blood. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Ezekiel-16-08]] }}}
{{rf{23}}} " 'And then after all of your evil! Woe, woe, to you!' declares the Lord Yahweh. {{rf{24}}} 'And then you built for yourself a mound, and you made for yourself a high place in every public square. {{rf{25}}} At the head of every street you built your high place and you disgraced your beauty and you spread your feet for every passerby, and you increased your whoring. {{rf{26}}} And you prostituted with the Egyptians, your neighbors who were sexually aroused, and you increased your fornication to provoke me. {{rf{27}}} And look! I stretched out my hand against you, and I reduced your portion, and I gave you into the desire of your haters, the daughters of the Philistines, who were ashamed because of your lewd conduct. {{rf{28}}} And you prostituted with the Assyrians on account of your insatiable lust, and you prostituted with them, and still you were not satisfied. {{rf{29}}} And you increased your fornication to the land of traders, to Chaldea, and even with this you were not satisfied. {{rf{30}}} How hot with fever was your heart!' declares the Lord Yahweh. 'When you did all of these actions of a headstrong female prostitute, {{rf{31}}} when you built your mound at the head of every street and your high place you made on every street, yet you were not like a prostitute, as you were scorning your harlot's wages. {{rf{32}}} O, adulterous woman! In the place of her husband she received strangers. {{rf{33}}} To all prostitutes they give a fee, but you, you gave your gifts to all of your lovers, and you bribed them to come to you from all around in your whorings! {{rf{34}}} And it was the opposite with you from the other women in your whorings; no one solicited you as a prostitute. You gave a harlot's wages, and a harlot's wages were not given to you, and so it was just the opposite. {{rf{35}}} " 'Therefore, prostitute, hear the word of Yahweh. {{rf{36}}} Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because of the pouring out of your shame and because your nakedness was revealed in your whoring with your lovers, and on account of all of the idols of your detestable things, and according to the blood of your children whom you gave to them, {{rf{37}}} therefore, look! I am gathering all of your lovers whom you were pleased about, and all of whom you loved in addition to all of whom you hated, and I will gather them against you from everywhere, and I will uncover your nakedness to them, and they will see all of your nakedness. {{rf{38}}} And I will judge you with the judgment of women committing adultery and shedding blood, and I will give you the blood of rage and jealousy. {{rf{39}}} And I will give you into their hand, and they will demolish your mound, and they will break down your high places, and they will strip you of your clothes, and they will take your beautiful jewelry, and they will leave you naked and bare. {{rf{40}}} And they will bring up against you a crowd, and they will stone you with stones, and they will cut you to pieces with their swords. {{rf{41}}} And they will burn your houses with fire, and they will execute against you judgments before many women, and I will stop you from prostitution, and also a harlot's wages you will not give again. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Ezekiel-16-23]] }}}
{{rf{42}}} And I will satisfy my rage on you, and my jealousy will turn away from you, and I will be calm, and I will not be angry any longer. {{rf{43}}} Because you did not remember the days of your childhood and you made me angry with all of these. And in turn I, look, I will return your way upon your head,' declares the Lord Yahweh, 'and did you not do wickedness in addition to all of your detestable things? {{rf{44}}} Look! Everyone quoting a proverb against you, he will quote, saying, 'Like her mother is her daughter!' {{rf{45}}} You are a daughter of your mother who abhorred her husband and her children, and you are a sister of your sisters who abhorred their husbands and their children. Your mother was a Hittite, and your father was an Amorite. {{rf{46}}} And your elder sister, she is Samaria, and her daughters, who are dwelling on your north, and your younger sister is the one dwelling on your south; she is Sodom and her daughters. {{rf{47}}} And you have not only gone in their ways, but you also did according to their detestable things. In such a short time you behaved more corruptly than they in all of your ways. {{rf{48}}} As surely as I live,' declares the Lord Yahweh, 'surely your sister Sodom and her daughters did not do as you and your daughters did. {{rf{49}}} Look! This was the iniquity of Sodom, your sister: Pride, abundance of food, and prosperous ease was to her and to her daughters, and she did not sustain the needy and the poor. {{rf{50}}} And they were proud, and they did a detestable thing before me, and I removed them because I saw it. {{rf{51}}} And Samaria did not sin according to even half of your sins, and you caused your detestable things to increase more than they, and you made your sister righteous in comparison with all of your detestable things that you did. {{rf{52}}} Also, you bear your disgrace, by which you furnished justification to your sisters through your sins by which you acted more abominably than they; they were more righteous than you, and also, you be ashamed and bear your disgrace through your making your sister righteous. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Ezekiel-16-42]] }}}
{{rf{53}}} And I will restore their fortune, the fortunes of Sodom and her daughters, and the fortunes of Samaria and her daughters, and even the fortunes of your captivity in the midst of them, {{rf{54}}} in order that you may bear your disgrace and you may be put to shame because of all that you did at your consoling them. {{rf{55}}} And as for your sisters, Sodom and her daughters, they will return to their former state, and Samaria and her daughters, they will return to their former state, and you and your daughters will return to your former state. {{rf{56}}} And was not Sodom, your sister, a byword in your mouth in the day of your pride {{rf{57}}} before your evil was uncovered? It was like the time of the scorn of the daughters of Aram and all those around her, and of the daughters of the Philistines, those all around who are despising you. {{rf{58}}} Your wickedness and your detestable things, you, you must bear them,' declares Yahweh. {{rf{59}}} 'For thus says the Lord Yahweh: And I will do it to you according to what you have done, who despised the oath to break covenant. {{rf{60}}} And I, I will remember my covenant with you in the days of your youth, and I will establish with you an everlasting covenant. {{rf{61}}} And you will remember your ways, and you will be ashamed when you take your sisters, both the older and the younger, and I give them to you as daughters, but not on account of your covenant. {{rf{62}}} And I, I will establish my covenant with you, and you will know that I am Yahweh, {{rf{63}}} in order that you will remember, and you will be ashamed, and you will not open your mouth again because of your disgrace when I forgive you for all that you have done!'" declares the Lord Yahweh. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Ezekiel-16-53]] }}}
And the word of Yahweh came to me, saying, {{rf{2}}} "Son of man, tell a riddle and quote a proverb to the house of Israel, {{rf{3}}} and you must say, 'Thus says the Lord Yahweh: "The great eagle with great wings and long feathers and full of variegated plumage came to Lebanon and he took the treetop of the cedar. {{rf{4}}} He plucked the top of its new plant shoot, and he brought it to the land of Canaan and put it in a city of merchants, {{rf{5}}} and he took from the seed of the land and placed it in fertile soil on many waters; like a willow he planted it. {{rf{6}}} And it sprouted, and it became a vine spreading out, low of height, turning its branches to him, and its roots were under it, and it became a vine, and it made branches, and it sent out foliage. {{rf{7}}} " '"And there was another great eagle, great of wings and with abundant plumage, and look! This vine stretched out its roots toward him and extended its branches to him to water it from the garden bed where it was planted. {{rf{8}}} It was planted in a good field by many waters to produce branches and to bear fruit to become a beautiful vine." ' {{rf{9}}} Say, 'Thus says the Lord Yahweh: "Will it prosper? Will he not tear out its roots, and will he not make its fruit scaly, and it will wither, and all of the freshness of its vegetation will dry up? And to lift it from its roots will not require great strength or many people. {{rf{10}}} And look! Though it is planted, will it prosper? When the east wind strikes it, will it not dry up completely? On the garden bed of its vegetation it will dry up!" '" {{rf{11}}} And the word of Yahweh came to me, saying, {{rf{12}}} "Say now to the rebellious house of Israel, 'Do you not know what these are?' Say, 'Look! The king of Babylon will come to Jerusalem, and he will take its king and its officials, and he will bring them to himself, to Babylon. {{rf{13}}} And he took from the seed of the kingship, and he made with him a covenant, and he brought him under oath, and he took the rulers of the land, {{rf{14}}} so that they would be a humble kingdom and not lift itself up to keep his covenant in order for it to stand. {{rf{15}}} But he rebelled against him by sending his messengers to Egypt to give to him horses and a large army. Will he succeed? Will he escape doing these things, and can he break the covenant and escape? {{rf{16}}} As I live,' declares the Lord Yahweh, 'surely in the place of the king who made him king, who despised his oath and who broke his covenant with him -- in the midst of Babylon he will die. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Ezekiel-17-01]] }}}
17:6-7 Fresh water from a salt well! A plant does not grow like this.
Next to another eagle my notes say "Tammuz?" ??
17:9 "All the king's horses and all the king's men..."
17:15 see <<Bbl Jer.42 >> see <<Bbl Mt 13:32 >>
<<Bbl Ez 18:3 abbr >> Noah Daniel and Job : individual versus group. A righteous remant in the group will not cause God to spare.
<<Bbl Ez 18:6 abbr >> Ezekiel cites the righteous man who does not lift up his eyes to the idols of the House of Israel.
<<Bbl Ez 18:7 abbr >> Pledge: This simply means he doesn't keep the deposit.
<<Bbl Ez 18:13 abbr >> see <<Bbl Mt 27:25 >>
<<Bbl Ez 18:23 abbr >> see <<Bbl 2P 3:9 >>
<<Bbl Ez 18:30 abbr >> see Pet 1:17
20:25 <<Bbl R 7:13 >>
<<Bbl Ez 20:45 abbr >> div. NASB notes the Hebrew Bible divides here.
<<Bbl Ez 20:49 abbr >> [[reception]]
<<Bbl Ez 21:1 abbr >> f more direct language in response
<<Bbl Ez 24:1 abbr >> a prophetic knowledge that is tantamount to foreknowledge.
<<Bbl Ez 24:15 abbr >> the date is not noted. Perhaps to reinforce the prohibition on mourning.
<<Bbl Ez 24:22 abbr >> perhaps the thought is that the people would mourn if they knew, and if they believed the prophecy just delivered than they would know. But they neither know nor believe so this is no day of mourning for them.
<<Bbl Ez 24:27 abbr >> fulfilled, 33:22
<<Bbl Ez 26:4 abbr >>-5 David Legge says history confirms this in the conquest of Alexander the great.
{{rf{17}}} And not with a great army and with a great crowd will Pharaoh work with him in the war, at the pouring out of a siege ramp and the building of siege works to destroy many lives. {{rf{18}}} And he despised the oath to break covenant. And, look, he gave his hand in pledge, and yet he did all of these things. He will not escape.' {{rf{19}}} Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: 'As I live, surely my oath that he despised and my covenant that he broke I will return upon his head. {{rf{20}}} And I will spread my net over him, and he will be caught in my hunting net, and I will bring him to Babylon, and I will enter into judgment with him there about his infidelity that he displayed against me. {{rf{21}}} And all of his choice troops, among all of his troops, they will fall by the sword, and those who are remaining, they will be scattered to all the directions of the wind, and you will know that I, Yahweh, I have spoken.' {{rf{22}}} Thus says the Lord Yahweh: 'And I will take, even I, from the treetop of the high cedar, and I will plant it, from the head of its new plant shoot I will pluck a tender one, and I will plant it, even I, on a high and lofty mountain. {{rf{23}}} On the height of the mountain of Israel I will plant it, and it will carry branches, and it will bear fruit, and it will become a noble cedar, and all of the birds of all wings will dwell under it in the shade of its branches. {{rf{24}}} And all of the trees of the field will know that I, Yahweh, I will bring low a high tree, and I will exalt a low, fresh tree, and I will make a dry tree flourish. I, Yahweh, I have spoken, and I will do it.'" {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Ezekiel-17-17]] }}}
And the word of Yahweh came to me, saying, {{rf{2}}} "What do you mean by quoting this proverb about the land of Israel, saying, 'The fathers, they ate unripe fruit, and the teeth of the child became blunt.' {{rf{3}}} As I live, declares the Lord Yahweh, it will surely not any longer be appropriate for you to quote this proverb in Israel! {{rf{4}}} Look! All lives are mine. The lives of father and son alike are mine. The person sinning will die. {{rf{5}}} And if a man is righteous and does justice and righteousness, {{rf{6}}} and on the mountains he does not eat and he does not lift up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, and the wife of his neighbor he does not defile and he does not approach a woman of menstruation, {{rf{7}}} and he oppresses no one and he returns a pledge for his loan and he commits no robbery and he gives his bread to the hungry and he covers a naked person with a garment, {{rf{8}}} and he does not charge interest and he takes no usury, and he holds back his hand from injustice and he executes a judgment of fairness between persons, {{rf{9}}} and in my statutes he goes about and my regulations he keeps, performing faithfully -- then he is righteous, and certainly he will live," declares the Lord Yahweh. {{rf{10}}} "And now he has a son, a violent one, who sheds blood and does any of these things {{rf{11}}} (though he did not do all of these things), for the son also eats on the mountains and he defiles the wife of his neighbor. {{rf{12}}} He oppresses the needy and the poor, and he commits robbery, and he does not return a pledge for a loan, and he lifts his eyes to the idols so he does a detestable thing. {{rf{13}}} He charges interest and takes usury. Then, shall he live? He shall not live, for he did all of these detestable things. Surely he will die! His blood will be on him. {{rf{14}}} "And look! He has a son, and he sees all of the sin of his father that he did, and he sees it, but he does not do it. {{rf{15}}} On the mountains he does not eat, and he does not lift up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, and the wife of his neighbor he does not defile. {{rf{16}}} And he oppresses no one; he requires no pledge for a loan, and he does not commit robbery; he gives his bread to the hungry, and he covers the naked person with a garment. {{rf{17}}} He brings back his hand from iniquity; he does not take interest and usury; he does my regulations; he goes in my statutes. He will not die because of the guilt of his father; he will surely live! {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Ezekiel-18-01]] }}}
{{rf{18}}} Because his father oppressed severely; he stole from his brother; that which is not good he did in the midst of his people, and look! He will die through his guilt. {{rf{19}}} "Yet you say, 'Why does the son not bear the guilt of the father?' And since the son does justice and righteousness and he keeps all of my statutes and does them, he shall surely live! {{rf{20}}} The person, the one sinning, will die. A son shall not bear the guilt of the father, and a father shall not bear the guilt of the son. The righteousness of the righteous shall be on him; the wickedness of the wicked shall be on him. {{rf{21}}} But if the wicked returns from all of his sins that he has done and he keeps all of my statutes and he does justice and righteousness, he shall surely live; he shall not die! {{rf{22}}} All of his transgressions that he committed will not be remembered against him. Through his righteousness that he has done he shall live. {{rf{23}}} Have I delight by any means in the death of the wicked, declares the Lord Yahweh, and not at his turning from his way, so that he lives? {{rf{24}}} And when the righteous turns from his righteousness, so that he does injustice, and does all of the detestable things that the wicked do, then will he live because of all of his righteousness that he did? Those things will not be remembered because of his infidelity that he displayed, and because of his sin that he committed. Through them he shall die. {{rf{25}}} "Yet you say, 'The way of the Lord is not fair!' Listen, now, house of Israel, is my way not fair? Is it not your ways that are not fair? {{rf{26}}} When the righteous turns from his righteousness, and he does injustice, then he will die because of them; because of his injustice that he did he will die! {{rf{27}}} And when the wicked turns from his wickedness that he did and he does justice and righteousness, he will preserve his life. {{rf{28}}} And if he sees and he returns from all of his transgressions that he did, surely he will live; he will not die! {{rf{29}}} And yet they, the house of Israel, say, 'The way of the Lord is not fair!' Are not my ways fair, house of Israel? Are not your ways unfair? {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Ezekiel-18-18]] }}}
{{rf{30}}} "Therefore I will judge you, house of Israel, each one according to his ways," declares the Lord Yahweh. "Repent and turn around from all of your transgression, and it will not be as a stumbling block of iniquity to you. {{rf{31}}} Throw away from yourselves all of your transgressions that you committed, and make for yourselves a new heart and new spirit, and so why will you die, house of Israel? {{rf{32}}} For I have no pleasure in the death of the dying," declares the Lord Yahweh. "And so repent and live!" {{rf big{1}}} "And you, raise a lament about the leaders of Israel, {{rf{2}}} and you must say, 'What a lioness was your mother among the lions. She lay down in the midst of young lions, and she reared her lion cubs. {{rf{3}}} And she raised up one from her cubs; he became a fierce lion, and he learned to tear prey; he ate humans. {{rf{4}}} And nations heard about him; in their pit he was caught, and they brought him with hooks to the land of Egypt. {{rf{5}}} And she saw that she was waiting in vain; her hope was destroyed, and she took one from her cubs, and she made him a fierce lion. {{rf{6}}} And he walked about in the midst of lions; he became a fierce lion, and he learned to tear prey; he ate humans. {{rf{7}}} And he knew their widows, and he devastated their cities, and the land was appalled, and everyone in it at the sound of his roar. {{rf{8}}} And nations set out against him from the surrounding provinces, and they spread their net over him, and he was caught in their pit. {{rf{9}}} And they put him in a collar with hooks, and they brought him to the king of Babylon; they brought him into a prison, so that his voice would not be heard any longer on the mountains of Israel. {{rf{10}}} Your mother was like the vine in your vineyard; planted fruitfully beside water, and it was full of branches from many waters. {{rf{11}}} And she produced branches of strength to scepters of rulers; its height became tall between thick foliage, and it was seen because of its tallness among the abundance of its branches. {{rf{12}}} But it was uprooted in rage; it was thrown to the earth, and the east wind dried up its fruit; they were stripped off, and its strong branch dried up; fire consumed it. {{rf{13}}} And now it is planted in the desert, in a dry and thirsty land. {{rf{14}}} And so fire has gone out from the stem of its branches; its fruit it has consumed, and there was not in it a strong branch, a scepter for ruling.'" This is a lament, and it will be used as a lament. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Ezekiel-18-30]] }}}
And then in the seventh year, in the fifth month, on the tenth day of the month, men from the elders of Israel came to consult Yahweh, and they sat before me. {{rf{2}}} And the word of Yahweh came to me, saying, {{rf{3}}} "Son of man, speak with the elders of Israel, and you must say to them, 'Thus says the Lord Yahweh: "Are you coming to consult me? As I live, I will surely not allow myself to be consulted by you!" ' declares the Lord Yahweh. {{rf{4}}} Will you judge them? Will you judge them, son of man? Make known to them the detestable things of their ancestors. {{rf{5}}} And you must say to them, 'Thus says the Lord Yahweh: "On the day of my choosing Israel I swore to the offspring of the house of Jacob, and I made myself known to them in the land of Egypt, and I swore to them, saying, 'I am Yahweh your God.' {{rf{6}}} On that day I swore to them to bring them out from the land of Egypt to the land that I had searched out for them, flowing with milk and honey -- it is the most beautiful of all of the lands. {{rf{7}}} Then I said to them, 'Let each one throw away the detestable things of his eyes, and you must not make yourselves unclean with the idols of Egypt! I am Yahweh your God.' {{rf{8}}} But they rebelled against me, and they were not willing to listen to me; each one did not throw away the detestable things of their eyes; and they did not abandon the idols of Egypt, and I decided to pour out my rage on them, to fully vent my anger against them in the midst of the land of Egypt. {{rf{9}}} "But I acted for the sake of my name to keep it from being profaned before the eyes of the nations among whom they lived, where I made known to them before their eyes, to bring them out from the land of Egypt. {{rf{10}}} And I brought them out from the land of Egypt, and I brought them to the desert, {{rf{11}}} and I gave my statutes to them, and my regulations I made known to them, which, if a person does them, then he will live by them. {{rf{12}}} And also my Sabbaths I gave to them to be a sign between me and between them so they would know that I, Yahweh, am the one sanctifying them. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Ezekiel-20-01]] }}}
{{rf{13}}} "But in the desert the house of Israel rebelled against me; they did not walk in my statutes, and they rejected my regulations, which, if a person does them, he will live by them, and they greatly profaned my Sabbaths, and I decided to pour out my rage on them in the desert to destroy them, {{rf{14}}} and I acted for the sake of my name, that it not be profaned before the eyes of the nations before whom I brought them out. {{rf{15}}} And also I myself swore to them in the desert not to bring them into the land that I had given to them, flowing with milk and honey -- it is the most beautiful of all of the lands -- {{rf{16}}} because they despised my judgments, and they did not walk in my statutes, and my Sabbaths they profaned, for their heart was going after their idols. {{rf{17}}} But my eye took pity on them by not destroying them, and I did not completely destroy them in the desert. {{rf{18}}} "And I said to their children in the desert, 'You must not go in the statutes of your parents; you must not keep their regulations, and you must not make yourself unclean with their idols. {{rf{19}}} I, Yahweh, am your God, so go in my statutes and keep my regulations and do them. {{rf{20}}} And treat my Sabbaths as holy, and they will be a sign between me and between you that you may know that I, Yahweh, am your God.' {{rf{21}}} But the children rebelled against me; they did not walk in my statutes, and they did not observe my regulations, which if a person does them, then he will live by them. My Sabbaths they desecrated, and I decided to pour out my rage on them, to finish my anger against them in the desert. {{rf{22}}} But I withheld my hand, and I acted for the sake of my name not to be profaned before the eyes of the nations before whom I had brought them out before their eyes. {{rf{23}}} What is more, I swore to them in the desert to scatter them among the nations and to disperse them in the lands, {{rf{24}}} because they did not do my regulations, and my statutes they despised, and my Sabbaths they profaned, and their eyes were after the idols of their ancestors. {{rf{25}}} And in turn I gave to them rules that were not good and regulations by which they will not live. {{rf{26}}} And I defiled them through their gifts in sacrificing all of the first offspring of the womb, in order that I will cause them to be stunned, so that they will know that I am Yahweh. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Ezekiel-20-13]] }}}
{{rf{27}}} "Therefore speak to the house of Israel, son of man, and you must say to them, 'Thus says the Lord Yahweh: "Again in this your ancestors blasphemed me at their display of infidelity toward me." ' {{rf{28}}} And I brought them to the land that I swore to give to them, and they saw every high hill and every leafy tree, and they offered their sacrifices, and they presented there the provocation of their offering, and they gave there their fragrant incense offering, and they poured out their libations there. {{rf{29}}} And I said to them, 'What is the high place to which you are going?' And it is called Bamah until this day. {{rf{30}}} Therefore thus say to the house of Israel, 'Thus says the Lord Yahweh: "In the way of your ancestors will you defile yourself, and after their vile idols will you prostitute yourselves? {{rf{31}}} And when you lift up your gifts, sacrificing your children through the fire, you are defiling yourself through all of your idols until today, and will I let myself be consulted by you, house of Israel?" ' As I live," declares the Lord Yahweh, "I will not let myself be consulted by you! {{rf{32}}} And what you are planning, surely it will not be -- that you are saying, 'Let us be like the nations, like the clans of the lands, serving wood and stone!' {{rf{33}}} "As I live," declares the Lord Yahweh, "surely with a strong hand and with an outstretched arm and with rage pouring forth I will reign as king over you! {{rf{34}}} And I will bring you from the peoples, and I will gather you from the countries to which you were scattered with a strong hand and with an outstretched arm and with rage poured out. {{rf{35}}} Then I will bring you to the desert of the peoples, and I will execute justice on you there face to face. {{rf{36}}} Just as I executed justice on your ancestors in the desert of the land of Egypt, likewise I will execute justice on you!" declares the Lord Yahweh. {{rf{37}}} "And I will make you pass under the rod, and I will bring you into the bond of the covenant. {{rf{38}}} And I will purge the rebels from among you and the ones transgressing against me; I will bring them out from the land where they are living as aliens, but into the land of Israel they will not come, and then you will know that I am Yahweh. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Ezekiel-20-27]] }}}
{{rf{39}}} And you, house of Israel, thus says the Lord Yahweh: "Let each one go serve his idols now and after, if you are not listening to me, but my holy name you will not profane any longer with your gifts and with your idols. {{rf{40}}} "For on my holy mountain, on the mountain of the height of Israel," declares the Lord Yahweh, "there all of the house of Israel will serve me, all of them, in the land. I will take pleasure in them, and there I will accept your contributions and the best of your portions with all of your holy objects. {{rf{41}}} I will accept you as a fragrant incense offering when I bring you out from the peoples and I gather you from the lands to which you were scattered, and I will show myself holy among you before the eyes of the nations. {{rf{42}}} And you will know that I am Yahweh when I bring you to the land of Israel, to the land that I swore to give to your ancestors. {{rf{43}}} And you will remember there your ways, and all of your deeds by which you were made unclean, and you will feel a loathing for yourself for all of your evils that you have done. {{rf{44}}} And you will know that I am Yahweh when I deal with you for the sake of my name and not according to your evil ways or according to your corrupted deeds, house of Israel," declares the Lord Yahweh. {{rf{45}}} And the word of Yahweh came to me, saying, {{rf{46}}} "Son of man, set your face toward the way of the south, and preach to the south, and prophesy against the forest of the territory of the Negev. {{rf{47}}} And you must say to the forest of the Negev, 'Hear the word of Yahweh, thus says the Lord Yahweh: "Look! I am kindling against you a fire, and it will devour in you every fresh tree and every dry tree; the blaze of the flame will not be quenched, and all the surfaces from the south to the north will be scorched by it. {{rf{48}}} And all creatures will see that I, Yahweh, I kindled it -- it will not be quenched!" '" {{rf{49}}} Then I said, "Ah, Lord Yahweh, they are saying about me, 'Is he not posing a parable?'" {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Ezekiel-20-39]] }}}
And the word of Yahweh came to me, saying, {{rf{2}}} "Son of man, set your face toward Jerusalem, and preach to the sanctuaries, and prophesy to the land of Israel. {{rf{3}}} And you must say to the land of Israel, 'Thus says Yahweh: "Look! I am against you, and I will draw out my sword from its sheath, and I will cut off from you the righteous and the wicked. {{rf{4}}} Because I will cut off from you both righteous and wicked, therefore my sword will go out from its sheath to all creatures from south to north. {{rf{5}}} And they will know, all creatures, that I, Yahweh, I will bring out my sword from its sheath; it will not return again!" ' {{rf{6}}} And you, son of man, groan with shaking hips, and you must groan with bitterness before their eyes. {{rf{7}}} And then when they say to you, 'On account of what are you groaning?' then you must say, 'On account of the report, for it is coming, and every heart will be weak and all hands will hang limp and every spirit will be disheartened, and all knees will go like water.' Look! It is coming, and it will happen!" declares the Lord Yahweh. {{rf{8}}} And the word of Yahweh came to me, saying, {{rf{9}}} "Son of man, prophesy, and you must say, 'Thus says the Lord,' say, 'A sword, a sword is sharpened and is also polished. {{rf{10}}} It is sharpened to slaughter a slaughter, polished to flash like lightning! Or will we rejoice? A rod, my son, is despising every tree. {{rf{11}}} And he gives it to be polished, to be seized by the hand. It is sharpened -- a sword -- and it is polished to give it into the hand of the killer. {{rf{12}}} Cry and wail, son of man, for it is against my people; it is against all of the princes of Israel. They are thrown to the sword with my people; therefore strike your thigh. {{rf{13}}} For examine! And what if also the rod will not be despising?' declares the Lord Yahweh. {{rf{14}}} And you, son of man, prophesy and clap your hands. And the sword will strike twice; let it happen a third time. It is a sword of the dead, the sword of the great dead that is surrounding them, {{rf{15}}} so that a heart melts, and the fallen multiply at all of their gates. I gave a sword for slaughter, and alas! It is made for flashing, it is grasped for slaughtering. {{rf{16}}} Gather together, strike to the right; cause to go to the left, where your edge is directed. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Ezekiel-21-01]] }}}
{{rf{17}}} And also I myself will clap my hands, and I will satisfy my rage! I, Yahweh, I have spoken." {{rf{18}}} And the word of Yahweh came to me, saying, {{rf{19}}} "And you, son of man, mark out for yourself two roads for the coming of the sword of the king of Babylon; they must both go out from the same land. And hew out a signpost; hew it at the head of the road of the city. {{rf{20}}} You must mark a road for the coming of the sword to Rabbah of the Ammonites and to Judah, in Jerusalem the fortified. {{rf{21}}} For the king of Babylon stands at the fork of the road at the head of the two roads to practice divination. He shakes the arrows, he inquires with the teraphim, he examines the liver. {{rf{22}}} In his right hand is the divination for Jerusalem, to put up battering rams, to open a mouth for slaughter, to raise the battle cry, to put up battering rams against gates, to build a siege ramp, to build siege works. {{rf{23}}} And it will be to them like practicing divination falsely in their eyes; they have sworn oaths for themselves. But he will bring their guilt to remembrance so as to seize them. {{rf{24}}} "Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: 'Because you have brought to remembrance your guilt by the uncovering of your transgressions, so that your sins in all of your deeds appear -- because of your being remembered, you will be captured in the hand.' {{rf{25}}} And as for you, profane one, wicked prince of Israel, whose day has come with the time of the punishment of the end, {{rf{26}}} thus says the Lord Yahweh: 'Remove the turban and lift off the crown; things are no longer the same. Exalt the low and bring low the high. {{rf{27}}} A ruin, a ruin, a ruin I will make it! Also this has not ever happened; it will remain until the coming of the one to whom the judgment belongs and I have given it to him.' {{rf{28}}} And you, son of man, prophesy, and you must say, 'Thus says the Lord Yahweh to the Ammonites and concerning their disgrace,' and you must say, 'A sword, a sword is drawn for slaughtering; it is polished for holding, for flashing like lightning, {{rf{29}}} when seeing a false vision for you in vain, when practicing divination for you falsely, to give you on the neck of the profane ones of the wicked, whose day has come, the time of final punishment. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Ezekiel-21-17]] }}}
{{rf{30}}} Return it to its sheath in the place where you were created. In the land of your origin I will judge you! {{rf{31}}} And I will pour out my anger on you; I will blow on you with the fire of my wrath, and I will give you into the hand of brutal men, skilled craftsmen of destruction. {{rf{32}}} You will be as fuel for the fire; your blood will be in the midst of the earth. You will not be remembered, for I, Yahweh, I have spoken.'" {{rf big{1}}} And the word of Yahweh came to me, saying, {{rf{2}}} "And you, son of man, will you judge? Will you judge the bloody city? Then you must make known to her all of her detestable things! {{rf{3}}} And you must say, 'Thus says the Lord Yahweh: "A city pouring out blood in the midst of her; its time has come, and it made idols for itself, becoming unclean. {{rf{4}}} By your blood that you poured out you have become guilty, and by your idols that you made you have become unclean, and you have brought your days near, and your appointed years have come. Therefore I have made you a disgrace for the nations and a laughingstock to all of the countries. {{rf{5}}} The people near and the people far from you will make fun of you, the unclean and the terrified. {{rf{6}}} Look! The princes of Israel, each one according to his strength, they are in you for the shedding of blood. {{rf{7}}} They have treated father and mother with contempt in you; they violated the alien with extortion; in the midst of you they mistreated the orphan and widow. {{rf{8}}} You despised my holy objects; my Sabbaths you profaned. {{rf{9}}} Slanderous men are among you to shed blood, and they, among you, eat upon the mountains; they do wickedness in the midst of you. {{rf{10}}} They uncover the nakedness of a father among you; they violate a woman unclean of menstruation among you. {{rf{11}}} And a man does a detestable thing with the wife of his neighbor, and a man defiles his daughter-in-law in wickedness, and a man sexually violates among you his sister, the daughter of his father. {{rf{12}}} They take a bribe among you in order to shed blood; and you take usury, and you make gain from your neighbors by extortion, and so you have forgotten me, declares the Lord Yahweh. {{rf{13}}} And look! I strike my hand for your ill-gotten gain that you have made and at your blood that was in the midst of you. {{rf{14}}} Can your heart endure, or can your hands be strong at the days in which I am dealing with you? I, Yahweh, I have spoken, and I will act! {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Ezekiel-21-30]] }}}
{{rf{15}}} I will scatter you among the nations, and I will disperse you through the countries, and I will purge your uncleanness from you. {{rf{16}}} And I will be profaned by you before the eyes of the nations, and you will know that I am Yahweh." '" {{rf{17}}} And the word of Yahweh came to me, saying, {{rf{18}}} "Son of man, the house of Israel has become as silver dross to me; all of them are as bronze and tin and iron and lead in the midst of a furnace, even as silver dross, silver dross they became! {{rf{19}}} Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: 'Because all of you have become as silver dross, therefore look! I am gathering you to the midst of Jerusalem, {{rf{20}}} like the gathering of silver and bronze and iron and lead and tin to the middle of a furnace to blow fire on it for melting. Thus I will gather in my anger and in my rage, and I will deposit you, and I will melt you. {{rf{21}}} And I will gather you, and I will blow on you with the fire of my wrath, and so I will melt you in the midst of her. {{rf{22}}} Thus you will be melted like the melting of silver in the midst of a furnace, and you will know that I, Yahweh, I have poured out my rage on you.'" {{rf{23}}} And the word of Yahweh came to me, saying, {{rf{24}}} "Son of man, say to her, 'You are a land not cleansed; it is not rained upon in the day of indignation.' {{rf{25}}} The conspiracy of its prophets in the midst of her is like a roaring lion that is tearing prey. They devour people, and they take wealth and treasure; they make its widows numerous in the midst of her. {{rf{26}}} Its priests treat my law violently, and they profane my holy objects; they do not distinguish between a holy object and what is unholy, or between the clean and the unclean. They do not teach the difference, and they hide their eyes from my Sabbaths, and so I am profaned in the midst of them. {{rf{27}}} Its officials are like wolves tearing prey in its midst, to pour out blood, to destroy people, to make dishonest gain. {{rf{28}}} And for them its prophets plaster whitewash; they are seeing falseness and are practicing divination for them by lying, saying, 'Thus says the Lord Yahweh,' and Yahweh has not spoken. {{rf{29}}} They severely oppress the people of the land, and they committed robbery, and they mistreated the needy and the poor, and they oppressed the alien without justice. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Ezekiel-22-15]] }}}
{{rf{30}}} And so I sought for them somebody, one repairing the wall and standing in the breach before me on behalf of the land not to destroy it, but I did not find anyone, {{rf{31}}} and so I poured out my indignation on them. With the fire of my wrath I destroyed them; I returned their way upon their head," declares the Lord Yahweh. {{rf big{1}}} And the word of Yahweh came to me, saying, {{rf{2}}} "Son of man, there were two women, the daughters of one mother, {{rf{3}}} and they prostituted themselves in Egypt in their childhood; they were prostituting themselves there, and their breasts were fondled, and there they caressed the bosoms of their virginity. {{rf{4}}} Now as for their names, the older was Oholah, and Oholibah was her sister. And they became mine, and they bore sons and daughters, and their names are Samaria for Oholah, and Jerusalem for Oholibah. {{rf{5}}} And Oholah prostituted herself while she was still mine, and she lusted for her lovers, for Assyria who was nearby, {{rf{6}}} clothed in blue cloth, governors and prefects, handsome young men and all of them horsemen, experts on horseback. {{rf{7}}} And she bestowed her fornication on them, on the choice ones of the Assyrians, all of them, and with every one after which she lusted; with all of their idols she defiled herself. {{rf{8}}} And her whorings from the time of Egypt she did not abandon, for they slept with her in her childhood, and they caressed the bosoms of her virginity, and they poured out their fornication on her. {{rf{9}}} Therefore I gave her into the hand of her lovers, into the hand of the Assyrians after whom she lusted. {{rf{10}}} They uncovered her nakedness; they took her sons and her daughters, and they killed her with the sword. And she became a name for the women, and they executed judgments against her. {{rf{11}}} "And though Oholibah her sister saw, yet in her lust she behaved more corruptly than her, and her whoring was more than the prostitution of her sister. {{rf{12}}} She lusted after the Assyrians, governors and prefects, warriors clothed in perfection, expert horsemen, all of them handsome young men. {{rf{13}}} And I saw that she was defiled; they had both taken the same path! {{rf{14}}} And she increased her whorings, and she saw men carved on the wall, images of Chaldeans carved in red, {{rf{15}}} belted with a belt at their waist with turbans on their heads, all of them giving the appearance of adjutants, the image of the Babylonians; Chaldea was the land of their birth. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Ezekiel-22-30]] }}}
{{rf{16}}} And she lusted for them when her eyes saw them, and she sent messengers to them at Chaldea. {{rf{17}}} And so the Babylonians came to her for the bed of lovemaking; and they defiled her with their fornication, and she was defiled by them, and she turned from them. {{rf{18}}} And she revealed her whorings, and she revealed her nakedness, and so I turned from her just as I turned from her sister. {{rf{19}}} Yet she increased her whorings, recalling the days of her childhood when she was prostituted in the land of Egypt. {{rf{20}}} And she lusted after her male lovers whose genitalia were the genitalia of male donkeys and their seminal emission was the seminal emission of horses. {{rf{21}}} And you longed after the obscene conduct of your youth when your bosom was caressed by Egypt, fondling your young breasts. {{rf{22}}} "Therefore, Oholibah, thus says the Lord Yahweh: 'Look! I am stirring up your lovers against you concerning whom you turned away, and I will bring them against you from all around: {{rf{23}}} the Babylonians and all of the Chaldeans, Pekod and Shoa and Koa, all of the Assyrians along with them, handsome young men, governors and prefects, all of them adjutants and excellent horsemen. {{rf{24}}} And they will come against you with an army chariot and wagon and with a crowd of peoples; they will set themselves against you from all around with large shield and small shield and helmet. And I will give before them judgment, and they will judge you with their judgments. {{rf{25}}} And I will direct my zeal against you, and they will deal with you in anger; your nose and your ears they will remove, and those who are left, they will fall by the sword, and they will take your sons and your daughters, and your remnant will be consumed by fire. {{rf{26}}} And they will strip you of your clothes, and they will take your splendid jewelry. {{rf{27}}} And I will put an end to your obscene conduct coming from you and your fornication from the land of Egypt, and you will not lift your eyes to them; and you will not remember Egypt again.' {{rf{28}}} For thus says the Lord Yahweh: 'Look! I am giving you into the hand of those you hated, into the hand of those from whom you turned away. {{rf{29}}} And they will deal with you in hatred, and they will take all of your acquisitions, and they will leave you naked and in bareness; and the nakedness of your fornication and your obscene conduct and your whorings will be exposed. {{rf{30}}} These things are accomplished against you since you prostituted yourself after the nations, and on account of that, you defiled yourself by their idols. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Ezekiel-23-16]] }}}
{{rf{31}}} You went in the same way of your sister, and I will give her cup into your hand." ' {{rf{32}}} Thus says the Lord Yahweh: "You will drink the deep and wide cup of your sister; you will be as laughter and as scorn; the cup holds so much! {{rf{33}}} You will be filled with drunkenness and sorrow, for a cup of horror and desolation is the cup of your sister, Samaria. {{rf{34}}} And you will drink it, and you will drain it, and its potsherds you will gnaw, and you will tear out your breasts, for I myself spoke," declares the Lord Yahweh. {{rf{35}}} Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: "Because you have forgotten me, and you threw me behind your back, now in turn you bear your obscene conduct and your whorings." {{rf{36}}} And Yahweh said to me, "Son of man, will you judge Oholah and Oholibah and declare their abominable deeds to them? {{rf{37}}} For they committed adultery, and blood is on their hands, and they committed adultery with their idols, and even their children that they had borne for me -- they sacrificed them as food! {{rf{38}}} Also they did this to me: they defiled my sanctuary on that day, and they profaned my Sabbaths, {{rf{39}}} and when they slaughtered their children for their idols, they came to my sanctuary on that day to profane it. And look, this is what they did in my house! {{rf{40}}} What is worse, they sent for men who come from a distant place, to whom a messenger was sent to them, and look! They came! Men for whom you bathed and painted your eyes, and you adorned yourself with an ornament. {{rf{41}}} And you sat on a magnificent couch and a table prepared before her, and my incense and my olive oil you put on her. {{rf{42}}} And a sound of a carefree crowd was with it, and in addition to these men, a crowd of drunken men was brought in from the desert, and they put bracelets on their arms and a crown of splendor on their heads. {{rf{43}}} And I said to the one worn out with adulteries, 'Now they will prostitute her concerning her fornication, even her.' {{rf{44}}} And so they went to her like going to a female prostitute; and thus they went to Oholah and to Oholibah, the women of obscene conduct. {{rf{45}}} But righteous men, they will judge them with the judgment of committing adultery, and with the judgment of shedding blood; for they were committing adultery, and blood was on their hands." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Ezekiel-23-31]] }}}
{{rf{46}}} For thus says the Lord Yahweh: "Bring up against them an assembly, and make them as a thing of horror and as plunder. {{rf{47}}} And an assembly must stone them with stones, and they must cut them down. With their swords they shall kill their sons and their daughters, and with fire they shall burn their houses. {{rf{48}}} And I will cause obscene conduct to cease from the land, and all of the women will be warned, and they will not do according to your wickedness. {{rf{49}}} And they will repay your obscene conduct upon you, and the guilt of your idols you will bear, and you will know that I am the Lord Yahweh. {{rf big{1}}} And the word of Yahweh came to me in the ninth year, in the tenth month, on the tenth day of the month, saying, {{rf{2}}} "Son of man, write for yourself the name of the day, this very day. The king of Babylon laid siege to Jerusalem on exactly this day! {{rf{3}}} And deliver a proverb to the rebellious house, and you must say to them, 'Thus says the Lord Yahweh: "Place the pot! Place it and also pour water into it. {{rf{4}}} Gather its pieces to it, every good piece, thigh and shoulder, fill it with choice bones; {{rf{5}}} take the choicest of the flock, and also pile the bones under it; boil it vigorously; indeed, its bones boiled in the midst of it." '" {{rf{6}}} Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: "Woe to the city of bloodguilt! A pot that has its rust in it; its rust did not go out from it. Bring it out piece by piece; one is as good as another. {{rf{7}}} For her blood was in the midst of her; she put it on a bare rock; she did not pour it on the ground to cover it with dust. {{rf{8}}} To stir up rage, to avenge myself through vengeance, I placed its blood on the barrenness of a rock, so that it may not be covered." {{rf{9}}} Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: "Woe to the city of bloodguilt! I, even I, will make the pile of wood great! {{rf{10}}} Pile up the logs; kindle the fire; finish cooking the meat, and mix in the spices, and let the bones be burned. {{rf{11}}} And make it stand empty upon its burning coals so that it may become hot, and its copper may become molten and be melted in the midst of it, so that its uncleanness and its rust be consumed. {{rf{12}}} Through effort she has caused weariness; its thick rust went not out of it. Its rust! Into the fire with its rust! {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Ezekiel-23-46]] }}}
{{rf{13}}} In your uncleanness is obscene conduct, because I cleansed you, but you were not clean from your uncleanness; you will not be clean again until I fully vent my rage on you. {{rf{14}}} I, Yahweh, I have spoken. It is coming, and I did it; I will not disregard, and I will not take pity, and I will not reconsider. According to your ways and according to your deeds they will judge you!" declares the Lord Yahweh. {{rf{15}}} And the word of Yahweh came to me, saying, {{rf{16}}} "Son of man, look! I am taking from you what is pleasing to your eyes with a plague, but you shall not mourn, and you shall not weep, and your tears shall not run down. {{rf{17}}} Sigh in silence for the dead; you shall not make a mourning ceremony. Bind your turban on you, and you must put your sandals on your feet. You must not cover your upper lip, and the bread of mourners you shall not eat." {{rf{18}}} And I spoke to the people in the morning, and my wife died in the evening, and I did in the morning just as I was commanded. {{rf{19}}} And the people said to me, "Will you not make known to us what these things that you are doing mean for us?" {{rf{20}}} And I said to them that the word of Yahweh came to me, saying, {{rf{21}}} "Say to the house of Israel, 'Thus says the Lord Yahweh: "Look! I will be profaning my sanctuary, the pride of your strength and the delight of your eyes and the object of your own affection; and your sons and your daughters whom you left behind will fall by the sword, {{rf{22}}} and you shall do just as I did: You shall not cover your upper lip, and you shall not eat the bread of mourners. {{rf{23}}} And your turban must be on your heads, and your sandals must be on your feet. You shall not mourn, and you shall not weep, but you shall waste away because of your iniquities, and you shall groan to one another. {{rf{24}}} And Ezekiel will be to you as a sign; everything that he did you shall do; and when it comes you will know that I am the Lord Yahweh. {{rf{25}}} "And you, son of man, will it not be that on the day when I take from them their stronghold, the joy of their glory, the delight of their eyes, and the longing of their inner self, their sons and daughters -- {{rf{26}}} on that day a survivor will come to you with the news. {{rf{27}}} On that day your mouth shall be opened at the arrival of the fugitive, and you shall speak, and you shall not be silent any longer, and you shall be to them as a sign, and they will know that I am Yahweh." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Ezekiel-24-13]] }}}
And the word of Yahweh came to me, saying, {{rf{2}}} "Son of man, set your face toward the Ammonites and prophesy against them, {{rf{3}}} and you must say to the Ammonites, 'Hear the word of the Lord Yahweh! Thus says the Lord Yahweh: "Because of your saying, 'Ah!' to my sanctuary when it was profaned, and to the land of Israel when it was desolate, and to the house of Judah when they went into the exile, {{rf{4}}} therefore look! I am giving you to the people of the East as a possession, and they will set up their encampments in you, and they will make in you their dwelling places; they themselves will eat your fruit and they themselves will drink your milk. {{rf{5}}} And I will make Rabbah as a pasture of camels and the Ammonites as a haunt of flocks, and they will know that I am Yahweh." '" {{rf{6}}} For thus says the Lord Yahweh: "Because of clapping your hand and stamping with your foot, and because you rejoiced in yourself with all of your malice over the land of Israel, {{rf{7}}} therefore look! I stretched out my hand against you, and I will give you as plunder to the nations, and I will cut you off from the peoples, and I will destroy you from the countries, and I will wipe you out, and you will know that I am Yahweh." {{rf{8}}} Thus says the Lord Yahweh: "Because of Moab and Seir saying, 'The house of Judah is like all of the nations,' {{rf{9}}} therefore, look! I am opening the side of Moab from the cities on its frontier, the glory of the land: Beth Jeshimoth, Baal Meon, and Kiriathaim. {{rf{10}}} I will give it to the people of the East in addition to the Ammonites as a possession, so that the Ammonites will not be remembered among the nations. {{rf{11}}} And on Moab I will execute punishments, and they will know that I am Yahweh." {{rf{12}}} Thus says the Lord Yahweh: "Because of the doings of Edom in avenging himself with vengeance for the house of Judah, and so they became very guilty and they avenged themselves on them," {{rf{13}}} therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: "so I will stretch out my hand against Edom and I will cut off from it both human and animal, and I will make it a ruin from Teman and Dedan; they will fall by the sword. {{rf{14}}} And I will exact my vengeance on Edom by the hand of my people Israel, and they will do in Edom according to my anger and according to my rage, and they will know my vengeance," declares the Lord Yahweh. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Ezekiel-25-01]] }}}
{{rf{15}}} Thus says the Lord Yahweh: "Because of the acting of the Philistines in vengeance, so that they avenged themselves relentlessly with malice in themselves for destruction with everlasting hostility, {{rf{16}}} therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: 'Look! I am stretching out my hand against the Philistines, and I will cut off the Kerethites, and I will destroy the remainder of the seacoast. {{rf{17}}} And I will execute on them great vengeance with punishments of rage, and they will know that I am Yahweh when I exact my vengeance on them!" {{rf big{1}}} And it was in the eleventh year, on the first day of the month, the word of Yahweh came to me, saying, {{rf{2}}} "Son of man, because Tyre said concerning Jerusalem, 'Ah! The gates of the peoples are broken; it has swung open to me; I shall be filled, for it lies in ruins!' {{rf{3}}} Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: 'Look! I am against you, Tyre, and I will bring up against you many nations like the stirring up of the sea stirring up its waves. {{rf{4}}} And I will destroy the walls of Tyre, and they will demolish its towers, and I will scrape away its earthen dirt from it, and I will make it into a bare rock. {{rf{5}}} It will become a place for spreading out dragnets in the midst of the sea; for I have spoken,' declares the Lord Yahweh. 'And it will become as plunder for the nations, {{rf{6}}} and its daughters who are in the field with the sword, they will be killed; and they will know that I am Yahweh.'" {{rf{7}}} For thus says the Lord Yahweh: "Look! I am bringing to Tyre Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, from the north, the king of kings, with horse and with chariot and with horsemen and his assembly and many people. {{rf{8}}} Your daughters he will kill in the field with the sword, and he will place against you siege works, and he will build against you a siege ramp, and he will raise against you a shield, {{rf{9}}} and the thrust of his battering ram he will direct against your walls, and your towers he will break down with his weapons. {{rf{10}}} From the abundance of his horses he will cover you with their fine dust; at the sound of horseman and wheel and chariot your walls will shake, at his coming into your gates like the entrance of a city that is being broken through. {{rf{11}}} With the hooves of his horses he will trample all of your streets. He will kill your people with the sword, and your strong stone pillars will tumble down to the earth. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Ezekiel-25-15]] }}}
{{rf{12}}} And they will plunder your wealth, and they will loot your merchandise, and they will break down your walls, and the houses of your delight they will break down, and your stones and your timbers and your earthen dirt they will cast into the midst of the water. {{rf{13}}} And, I will put an end to the noise of your songs, and the sound of your lyres will not be heard any longer. {{rf{14}}} And I will make you into a bare rock, a place for the spreading out of dragnets. You will not be built again, for I, Yahweh, I have spoken," declares the Lord Yahweh. {{rf{15}}} Thus says the Lord Yahweh to Tyre, "Will not the coastlands shake from the sound of your downfall, at the groaning of the wounded, at people being killed in the midst of you? {{rf{16}}} And all the princes of the sea will go down from their thrones, and they will remove their robes, and their beautiful garments of finished cloth they will take off. With terror they will be clothed, and on the ground they will sit, and they will tremble continually, and they will be appalled over you. {{rf{17}}} And they will raise a lament over you, and they will say to you, 'How you have been lost who was inhabited from the seas; the city that was praised, that was strong. It is located on the sea, and its inhabitants imposed their terror on all of its inhabitants. {{rf{18}}} Now the coastlands will tremble at the day of your downfall, and the islands that are in the sea will be horrified because of your departure.'" {{rf{19}}} For thus says the Lord Yahweh: "When I make you a desolate city, like the cities that are not inhabited, when bringing up over you the deep, the great surging waters will cover you. {{rf{20}}} And I will bring you down with those who are going down to the grave, an ancient people, and I will cause you to dwell in the world of the depths, in the ruins from of old with those who are going down to the grave, so that you will not be inhabited and have a place in the land of the living. {{rf{21}}} Sudden terrors I will bring on you, and you shall no longer exist; and you will be sought, and you will not be found again forever," declares the Lord Yahweh. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Ezekiel-26-12]] }}}
And the word of Yahweh came to me, saying, {{rf{2}}} "And you, son of man, raise a lament against Tyre. {{rf{3}}} And you must say to Tyre, the one who sits at the entrance of the sea as the merchant of the peoples to the many coastlands, 'Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Tyre, you yourself said "I am perfect in beauty!" {{rf{4}}} In the heart of the seas are your boundaries; your builders perfected your beauty. {{rf{5}}} They built with pine trees from Senir all of your boards for you; they took cedars from Lebanon to make a sailing mast for you. {{rf{6}}} They made your oars with oaks from Bashan; your deck they made with inlaid ivory, with cypress trees from the coastlands of Cyprus. {{rf{7}}} Your sail was fine linen with colorful weaving from Egypt to serve as a banner for you; blue and purple cloth from the coastlands of Cyprus was your awning. {{rf{8}}} The inhabitants of Sidon and Arvan were your rowers; your skilled men, O Tyre, were from your own people, and they were your seamen. {{rf{9}}} The elders of Gebal and its skilled men were among you as the repairers of the seam of your boat; all of the ships of the sea and their mariners were among you to barter your wares. {{rf{10}}} Persia and Lud and Put were among your soldiers; small shield and helmet hung among you and gave to you your adornment. {{rf{11}}} The people of Arvan and Helech were on your walls all around, and Gammadites were in your towers. They hung their quivers on your walls all around; they perfected your beauty. {{rf{12}}} " 'Tarshish was your trader; from the abundance of all of their wealth, with silver, iron, tin, and lead they exchanged for your merchandise. {{rf{13}}} Javan, Tubal, and Meshech were your traders; in exchange for people and an object of bronze they gave you your wares. {{rf{14}}} From Beth Togarmah they exchanged horses and war horses and mules for your wares. {{rf{15}}} The people of Dedan were trading with you, many coastlands composed the region of your influence; they brought back horns of ivory and ebony as your payment. {{rf{16}}} Edom was trading with you because of the abundance of your products, trading with malachite, purple wool yarn and colorful weaving, and fine white fabric and black corals and rubies; all these they exchange for your merchandise. {{rf{17}}} Judah and the land of Israel were trading with you with wheat from Minnith and millet and honey and olive oil and balm; all these they gave for your wares. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Ezekiel-27-01]] }}}
{{rf{18}}} Damascus was trading with you because of the abundance of your products, because of the abundance of all of your wealth, trading with the wine of Helbon and white wool. {{rf{19}}} Vedan and Javan from Uzal, they exchanged wrought iron, cinnamon, and reed spice for your merchandise; all this was for your wares. {{rf{20}}} Dedan was trading with you, with garments of woven material for riding. {{rf{21}}} Arabia and all of the leaders of Kedar were your customers; with young rams and adult rams and goats they were trading with them with you. {{rf{22}}} The traders of Sheba and Raamah were trading with you, with the finest of every spice and with every precious stone and gold; they exchanged all these for your merchandise. {{rf{23}}} Haran and Canneh and Eden, the traders of Sheba, Assyria, and Kilmad were trading with you. {{rf{24}}} They were trading with you in finery, in mantles of blue cloth and colorful embroidered work and with rugs of variegated cloth in twisted cords and knotted tightly; these were among your merchandise. {{rf{25}}} The ships of Tarshish were carrying for you your wares, and you were filled, and you became very heavy in the heart of the seas. {{rf{26}}} " 'Into many waters the rowers brought you; but the east wind wrecked you in the heart of the seas. {{rf{27}}} Your wealth and your merchandise, your wares, your mariners, and your seamen, your shipwrights and the barterers of your wares and all of your soldiers who are in you, along with all of your crew who are in the midst of you, they will fall in the heart of the seas on the day of your downfall. {{rf{28}}} At the sound of the shout of your seamen, the pasturelands will shake. {{rf{29}}} And they will go down from their ships, all of those holding an oar, mariners, all of the seamen of the sea will stand on the land, {{rf{30}}} and they will lament over you with their voice, and they will cry out bitterly, and they will throw dust on their heads, and they will roll in the dust. {{rf{31}}} They will shave themselves bald for your sake, and they will dress themselves in sackcloth, and they will weep over you with a bitterness of soul and with bitter wailing. {{rf{32}}} And they will raise over you with their wailing a lament, and they will chant a lament over you: 'Who is like Tyre, like this destruction in the midst of the sea?' {{rf{33}}} When your merchandise went out from the seas, you satisfied many peoples with the abundance of your wealth, and by your wares you made rich the kings of the world. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Ezekiel-27-18]] }}}
{{rf{34}}} Now you are broken by seas in the depths of waters; your wares and all of your crew in the midst of you have sunk. {{rf{35}}} All of the inhabitants of the coastlands are appalled over you, and their kings shudder in horror; they distort their faces! {{rf{36}}} The traders among the peoples hiss over you; you have become a horror, and you shall be no more forever!'" {{rf big{1}}} And the word of Yahweh came to me, saying, {{rf{2}}} "Son of man, say to the leader of Tyre, 'Thus says the Lord Yahweh: "Because your heart was haughty, and you said, 'I am a god; I sit in the seat of the gods, I sit in the heart of the seas!' But you are a human, not a god, and you gave your heart to be like the heart of a god. {{rf{3}}} Look, are you wiser than Daniel, so that no secret is hidden from you? {{rf{4}}} By your wisdom and by your understanding you have gained for yourself wealth, and you have amassed gold and silver in your treasuries. {{rf{5}}} By the abundance of your wisdom in your trading you have increased your wealth and your heart was proud in your wealth." '" {{rf{6}}} Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: "Because of your regarding your mind like the mind of a god, {{rf{7}}} therefore look! I am bringing strangers over you, the most ruthless of the peoples, and they will draw their swords against the beauty of your wisdom, and they will defile your splendor. {{rf{8}}} They will thrust you down to the pit, and you will die a violent death in the heart of the seas. {{rf{9}}} Will you indeed still say "I am a god!" before the face of your killers? And in fact you are a human and not a god in the hand of those who pierce you. {{rf{10}}} You will die the death of the uncircumcised by the hand of strangers, for I myself have spoken!" declares the Lord Yahweh. {{rf{11}}} And the word of Yahweh came to me, saying, {{rf{12}}} "Son of man, raise a lament over the king of Tyre, and you must say to him, 'thus says the Lord Yahweh: "You were a perfect model of an example, full of wisdom and perfect of beauty. {{rf{13}}} You were in Eden, the garden of God, and every precious stone was your adornment: carnelian, topaz and moonstone, turquoise, onyx and jasper, sapphire, malachite and emerald. And gold was the craftsmanship of your settings and your mountings in you; on the day when you were created they were prepared. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Ezekiel-27-34]] }}}
{{rf{14}}} You were an anointed guardian cherub, and I placed you on God's holy mountain; you walked in the midst of stones of fire. {{rf{15}}} You were blameless in your ways from the day when you were created, until wickedness was found in you. {{rf{16}}} In the abundance of your trading, they filled the midst of you with violence, and you sinned; and I cast you as a profane thing from the mountain of God, and I expelled you, the guardian cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire. {{rf{17}}} Your heart was proud because of your beauty; you ruined your wisdom because of your splendor. I threw you on the ground before kings; I have exposed you for viewing. {{rf{18}}} From the abundance of your iniquities in the dishonesty of your trading, I profaned your sanctuaries and I brought fire from your midst; it consumed you, and I have turned you to ashes on the earth before the eyes of everyone who sees you. {{rf{19}}} All who know you among the peoples are appalled over you; you have become as horrors, and you shall cease to exist forever." '" {{rf{20}}} And the word of Yahweh came to me, saying, {{rf{21}}} "Son of man, set your face toward Sidon and prophesy against it, {{rf{22}}} and you must say, 'Thus says the Lord Yahweh: "Look! I am against you, Sidon, and I display my glory in the midst of you, and they will know that I am Yahweh when I execute my judgments, and I will show myself holy within it. {{rf{23}}} And I will send into it a plague, and blood will be in its streets. And the dead will fall in the midst of her by the sword that is against it from all around; and they will know that I am Yahweh. {{rf{24}}} And there will not be any longer a painful thorn and a sharp thornbush for the house of Israel from anywhere around them from those who are despising them, and they will know that I am the Lord Yahweh." '" {{rf{25}}} Thus says the Lord Yahweh: "When I gather the house of Israel from the peoples to which they were scattered about in them, and I show myself holy in them before the eyes of the nations, then they will live on their soil, which I gave to my servant Jacob. {{rf{26}}} And they will live on it in safety, and they will build houses, and they will plant vineyards, and they will live in safety when I execute my judgments on all those who despise them from all around them, and then they will know that I am Yahweh their God." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Ezekiel-28-14]] }}}
In the tenth year, in the tenth month, on the twelfth day of the month, the word of Yahweh came to me, saying, {{rf{2}}} "Son of man, set your face against Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, and prophesy against him and against Egypt, all of it. {{rf{3}}} Speak, and you must say, 'thus says the Lord Yahweh: "Look! I am against you, Pharaoh, king of Egypt, the great sea monster, the one lying down in the midst of his Nile streams, who says to me, "It is my Nile, and I made it for myself." {{rf{4}}} And so I will put hooks in your jawbones, and I will make the fish of your Nile streams stick to your scales, and I will bring you up from the midst of your Nile streams, and all of the fish of your Nile streams which cling to your scales. {{rf{5}}} And I will fling you to the desert, you and all the fish of your Nile streams. On the surface of the field you will fall; you will not be gathered, and you will not be assembled. To the animals of the field and to the birds of the heavens I will give you as food. {{rf{6}}} And all of the inhabitants of Egypt will know that I am Yahweh, because of their being a staff of reed for the house of Israel. {{rf{7}}} When they took hold of you with the hand, you snapped, and you split their every shoulder. And when they leaned on you, you broke, and you caused all of their loins to wobble." {{rf{8}}} Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: "Look! I am bringing on you a sword, and I will cut off from you human and animal. {{rf{9}}} And the land of Egypt will become a desolation and ruins, and they will know that I am Yahweh because he said, 'The Nile is mine! And I, I made it!' {{rf{10}}} Therefore look! I am against you and against your Nile streams, and I will make the land of Egypt into ruins, a pile of rubble, a desolation from Migdol to Syene and up to the boundary of Cush. {{rf{11}}} A foot of a human will not pass over it, and a foot of an animal will not pass over it, and so it will not be inhabited for forty years. {{rf{12}}} And I will make the land of Egypt a desolation in the midst of desolated countries, and its cities to be in the midst of ruined cities. They will be a desolation for forty years, and I will scatter Egypt among the nations, and I will disperse them among the countries." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Ezekiel-29-01]] }}}
<<Bbl Ez 29:18 abbr >> wearing armor
<<Bbl Ez 33:32 abbr >> Comparable to our pleasant view of "the Bible as (ordinary) literature."
34:16 see <<Bbl Mt 18:11 >>; <<Bbl L 19:10 >>.
<<Bbl Ez 37:16 abbr >>-20 see <<Bbl Zech 11:14>>. This verse once preached to me of the unsearchable mysteries of God. Human moral agency and His predestination, for example, are one in His hand.
<<Bbl Ez 40:1 abbr >> is precise. Others use different bases, a few add a second date reckoning as a qualifier.
<<Bbl Ez 40:1 abbr >> the day for preparation of the Passover.
<<Bbl Ez 40:2 abbr >> mount Zion is said to overlook the city.
<<Bbl Ez 44:15 abbr >> [[Remnant]]
<<Bbl Ez 44:15 abbr >> ff [[Holiness]]
<<Bbl Ez 44:17 abbr >> [[Clothing]]. righteousness for which atonement is complete.
<<Bbl Ez 44:23 abbr >> [[Levirate]]
<<Bbl Ez 44:25 abbr >> [[Gender]]
46:6 I wonder why this differs from <<Bbl Num 28:11 >> ??
47:12 see <<Bbl Rev 22:1 >>-2
{{rf{13}}} For thus says the Lord Yahweh: "At the end of forty years I will gather Egypt from the peoples among whom they were scattered. {{rf{14}}} And I will restore the fortunes of Egypt, and I will bring them back to the land of Pathros, to the land of their origin, and they will be a lowly kingdom there. {{rf{15}}} Of all the kingdoms it will be the most lowly, and it will not exalt itself again over the nations, and I will make them small so as not to rule over the nations. {{rf{16}}} And it will not be again for the house of Israel an object of trust, bringing to remembrance their guilt when they turned back to them, and they will know that I am the Lord Yahweh." {{rf{17}}} And then in the twenty-seventh year, in the first month, on the first day of the month, the word of Yahweh came to me, saying, {{rf{18}}} "Son of man, Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, he made his army labor hard against Tyre. Every head was rubbed bare, and every shoulder was rubbed raw, but a wage was not paid for him and for his army from Tyre for the labor that he did against it." {{rf{19}}} Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: "Look! I am giving to Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon the land of Egypt, and he will carry its wealth away, and he will plunder its plunder, and he will loot its loot, and it will be a wage for his army. {{rf{20}}} As his wages that he worked for, I will give to him the land of Egypt, because they worked for me," declares the Lord Yahweh. {{rf{21}}} "On that day I will cause power to grow up for the house of Israel, and for you I will give an opening of your mouth in the midst of them, and they will know that I am Yahweh." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Ezekiel-29-13]] }}}
And the word of Yahweh came to me, saying, {{rf{2}}} "Son of man, prophesy, and you must say, 'thus says the Lord Yahweh: "Wail, alas! For the day! {{rf{3}}} For a day is near; indeed, a day is near for Yahweh. A day of cloud, a time of the nations it will be. {{rf{4}}} And a sword will come in Egypt, and anguish will be in Cush, at the falling of the slain in Egypt. And they will take its wealth, and its foundation will be demolished. {{rf{5}}} Cush and Put and Lud and all of Arabia and Kub and the people of the land of the treaty with them -- by the sword they will fall." {{rf{6}}} Thus says Yahweh: "And the supporters of Egypt will fall, and the majesty of its strength will go down from Migdol to Syene; by the sword they will fall in it," declares the Lord Yahweh. {{rf{7}}} "And they will be desolate in the midst of desolate countries, and its cities will be in the midst of ruined cities. {{rf{8}}} And they will know that I am Yahweh when I put my fire in Egypt, and all of its helpers are broken. {{rf{9}}} On that day messengers will go down from before me in the ships to terrify unsuspecting Cush, and anguish will be in them on the day of Egypt; for look, it is coming!" {{rf{10}}} Thus says the Lord Yahweh: "And I will put an end to the crowds of Egypt by the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon. {{rf{11}}} He and his people with him, the most ruthless of nations, will be brought to destroy the land. And they will draw their swords against Egypt, and they will fill the land with the slain, {{rf{12}}} and I will make the Nile streams dry land, and I will sell the land into the hand of bad people, and I will lay waste the land and its fullness by the hand of strangers. I, Yahweh, I have spoken." {{rf{13}}} Thus says the Lord Yahweh: "And I will destroy the idols, and I will put an end to the worthless idols from Memphis. And there will no longer be a prince from the land of Egypt, and I will put fear in the land of Egypt. {{rf{14}}} And I will lay waste Pathros, and I will set fire in Zoan, and I will execute judgments in No. {{rf{15}}} I will pour out my rage over Sin, the stronghold of Egypt, and I will cut off the crowd of No. {{rf{16}}} And I will set fire in Egypt, certainly Sin will writhe, and No will be breached, and Memphis will face enemies daily. {{rf{17}}} The young men of On and Pi Beseth will fall by the sword, and they will go into captivity. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Ezekiel-30-01]] }}}
{{rf{18}}} And at Tahpanhes the day will become dark when I break the yoke of Egypt, and in it the majesty of its strength will come to an end. A cloud will cover it, and its daughters will go into captivity. {{rf{19}}} And I will execute judgments in Egypt, and they will know that I am Yahweh." {{rf{20}}} And then in the eleventh year, in the first month, on the seventh day of the month, the word of Yahweh came to me, saying, {{rf{21}}} "Son of man, the arm of Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, I have broken. And look, it has not been bound up for giving of a remedy, or for the placing of a splint to bind it up to make it strong to take hold of the sword." {{rf{22}}} Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: "Look! I am against Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, and I will break his strong arm and the broken arm, and I will let the sword fall from his hand. {{rf{23}}} And I will scatter Egypt among the nations, and I will disperse them among the countries. {{rf{24}}} And I will strengthen the arm of the king of Babylon, and I will give my sword into his hand, and I will break the arms of Pharaoh, and he will groan with the groaning of the mortally wounded before him. {{rf{25}}} And I will strengthen the arm of the king of Babylon, and the arms of Pharaoh will fall. And they will know that I am Yahweh when I give my sword into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he will stretch it out to the land of Egypt. {{rf{26}}} And I will scatter Egypt among the nations, and I will disperse them into the countries, and they will know that I am Yahweh." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Ezekiel-30-18]] }}}
And then in the eleventh year, in the third month, on the first day of the month, the word of Yahweh came to me, saying, {{rf{2}}} "Son of man, say to Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, and to his crowd, 'To whom are you like in your greatness? {{rf{3}}} Look! Assyria was a cedar in Lebanon, with beautiful branches and a forest giving shade, and very high, and its treetop was between the clouds. {{rf{4}}} Waters made it great, the deep made it grow high; its rivers were going all around its planting area, and its channels it sent out to all of the trees of the field. {{rf{5}}} Therefore it became tall, with its height more than all of the trees of the field, and its branches became numerous, and its branches became long from its sending its shoots from abundant water. {{rf{6}}} In its branches all the birds of the heaven made their nest, and under its branches all the animals of the field gave birth, and in its shadow all the many nations lived. {{rf{7}}} And it was beautiful in its greatness, in the length of its branches, for its root was toward much water. {{rf{8}}} Cedars in the garden of God could not be equal to it; fir trees could not resemble its branches, and plane trees were not even like its branches; any tree even in the garden of God could not resemble it in its beauty. {{rf{9}}} I made it beautiful with the abundance of its branches, and all of the trees of Eden that were in the garden of God envied it.'" {{rf{10}}} Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: "Because it was tall in height and it set its treetop between thick clouds, and he took pride in his tallness, {{rf{11}}} then I gave it into the hand of the leader of nations; he dealt thoroughly with it according to its wickedness. I drove it out. {{rf{12}}} And strangers cut it off, the most ruthless of nations, and they abandoned it. On the mountains and in all of the valleys its branches fell, and its branches were broken in all the river channels of the land, and all the peoples of the world went out from its shadow, and they abandoned it. {{rf{13}}} On its fallen trunk all the birds of the heaven now dwell, and all the animals of the field were on its branches. {{rf{14}}} This occurred so that all of the trees with abundant water will not become tall, and they will not set their treetop between their thick foliage, and so thatall of the trees that are abundantly watered will not stand up to them in their tallness, for all of them, they have been given over to death, to the world below in the midst of mortals, to the people going down to the grave." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Ezekiel-31-01]] }}}
{{rf{15}}} Thus says the Lord Yahweh: "On the day of its going down to Sheol, I caused mourning; I covered over it with the deep, and I withheld its rivers, and many waters were restrained, and I brought gloom over it; Lebanon and all of the trees of the field, they had fainted because of it. {{rf{16}}} From the sound of its downfall I caused nations to shake when I made it go down to Sheol, with the people going down to the grave, and so in the world below all of the trees of Eden, the choice and the best of Lebanon, all the well-watered trees were comforted! {{rf{17}}} They also went down with it to Sheol to those who died by the sword, and its army who had lived in its shadow in the midst of nations. {{rf{18}}} To whom could you be compared, whether in glory or in majesty among the trees of Eden? And yet you will be brought down with the trees of Eden to the world below; in the midst of the uncircumcised you will lie with those who died by the sword. That is Pharaoh and his entire crowd!" declares the Lord Yahweh. {{rf big{1}}} And then in the twelfth year, in the twelfth month, on the first day of the month, the word of Yahweh came to me, saying, {{rf{2}}} "Son of man, raise a lament over Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, and you must say to him, 'With a fierce, strong lion among nations you compared yourself, and you are like the sea monster in the seas, and you thrash about in your rivers, and you make water turbid with your feet, and you make your rivers muddy. {{rf{3}}} Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Now I will spread my net over you in the assembly of many peoples, and I will bring you up in my dragnet. {{rf{4}}} And I will throw you on the ground; on the surface of the open field I will hurl you, and I will cause every bird of the heaven to dwell on you, and I will satisfy the animals of all of the world from you. {{rf{5}}} And I will put your flesh on the mountains, and I will fill the valleys with your carcass. {{rf{6}}} And I will water the land with your discharge from your blood on the mountains, and valleys will be filled from you. {{rf{7}}} And I will cover you at extinguishing your heavens, and I will make dark their stars, and I will cover the sun with the cloud, and the moon will not give its light. {{rf{8}}} All sources of light in the heavens, I will make them dark over you, and I will put darkness on your land,'" declares the Lord Yahweh. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Ezekiel-31-15]] }}}
{{rf{9}}} "And I will disturb the hearts of many peoples at my bringing about your captivity among the nations, to countries that you do not know. {{rf{10}}} And I will cause many peoples to be awestruck over you, and their kings will shudder over you in horror, at my brandishing my sword before their faces, and they will tremble continually, each person for his life, on the day of your downfall." {{rf{11}}} For thus says the Lord Yahweh: "The sword of the king of Babylon, it will come to you. {{rf{12}}} By the swords of warriors I will cause to fall your hordes by the most ruthless of the nations, all of them, and they will devastate the majesty of Egypt, and all of its hordes will be destroyed. {{rf{13}}} And I will destroy all her domestic livestock beside many waters. The feet of humans will not make them turbid again, and the hooves of domestic livestock will not make them turbid. {{rf{14}}} Then I will make their waters settle, and their rivers as the olive oil I will let flow," declares the Lord Yahweh. {{rf{15}}} "Then I make the land of Egypt a desolation, so that the land will be stripped from its fullness when I strike all of those dwelling in it, and they will know that I am Yahweh. {{rf{16}}} This is a lament, and they will chant it as a lament; the daughters of the nations will chant it as a lament over Egypt, and over all of its hordes they will chant it as a lament," declares the Lord Yahweh. {{rf{17}}} And then in the twelfth year, on the fifteenth day of the month, the word of Yahweh came to me, saying, {{rf{18}}} "Son of man, mourn over the hordes of Egypt, and make her go down, and with her the daughters of mighty nations, down to the deep underworld with the people going down to the grave. {{rf{19}}} You are more lovely than whom? Go down and be laid in rest with the uncircumcised. {{rf{20}}} In the midst of the people slain by the sword it is given they will fall to a sword; they carried her off and all of her hordes. {{rf{21}}} The chiefs of the warriors will speak to him from the middle of Sheol; with his helpers they have gone down; the uncircumcised lie still, those slain by the sword. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Ezekiel-32-09]] }}}
{{rf{22}}} Assyria is there and all of its assembly; all around it are its graves, all of them killed, those fallen by the sword, {{rf{23}}} who will be given its graves in the remote areas of the pit, and its assembly will be all around its grave, all of them killed, fallen by the sword, those who spread terror in the land of the living. {{rf{24}}} Elam is there and all of its hordes, all around its grave, all of them dead who fell by the sword, those who went down uncircumcised to the depths of the underworld, those who spread their terror to the land of the living, and now they bear their disgrace with the people going down to the grave. {{rf{25}}} In the midst of the slain they made a bed for her with all of her hordes all around its graves, all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword, for their terror was spread in the land of the living, and they now bear their disgrace with the people going down to the grave; in the midst of the slain it was placed. {{rf{26}}} Meshech and Tubal are there and all of its hordes, all around him its graves, all of them uncircumcised and killed by the sword, for they gave their terror in the land of the living. {{rf{27}}} And they do not lie with warriors fallen from long ago, who went down to Sheol with their weapons of war, and they placed their sword under their heads, and their shields were on their bones, for the terror of the warriors was in the land of the living. {{rf{28}}} And you too in the midst of uncircumcised people will be broken, and you will lie with those slain by the sword. {{rf{29}}} There is Edom, its kings and all of its leaders who are laid along with their might with those killed by the sword; they will lie with the uncircumcised and with the people going down to the grave. {{rf{30}}} There are also the princes of the north, all of them, all of the Sidonians who have gone down, being ashamed to lie with the slain because of their terror that they caused from their might, and they lie uncircumcised with those killed by the sword, and they bear their disgrace along with the people going down to the grave. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Ezekiel-32-22]] }}}
{{rf{31}}} Pharaoh will see them, and he will be comforted over all of his hordes killed by the sword, Pharaoh and all of his army," declares the Lord Yahweh. {{rf{32}}} "For he spread my terror in the land of the living, and so he will be laid down in the midst of the uncircumcised with those killed by the sword: Pharaoh and all of his hordes,"declares the Lord Yahweh. {{rf big{1}}} And the word of Yahweh came to me, saying, {{rf{2}}} "Son of man, speak to your people, and you must say to them, 'A land, if I bring over it a sword and the people of the land take a man, one from their number, and they appoint him for them as a watchman, {{rf{3}}} and he sees the sword coming against the land, and he blows on the horn and he warns the people, {{rf{4}}} and anyone who listens hears the sound of the horn and he does not take warning and the sword comes and it takes him, his blood will be on his own head. {{rf{5}}} For he heard the sound of the horn and he did not take warning; his blood will be on him. But if he took warning, he saved his life. {{rf{6}}} And as for the watchman, if he sees the sword coming and he does not blow the horn, and the people are not warned, and the sword comes and it takes their lives, he will be taken through his guilt, but his blood from the hand of the watchman I will seek.' {{rf{7}}} "And you, son of man, I have made you a watchman for the house of Israel; if you hear a word from my mouth, then you must warn them from me. {{rf{8}}} When I say to the wicked, 'Wicked one, you will certainly die,' and you did not speak to warn the wicked from his way, he, the wicked, will die by his guilt, but his blood I will seek from your hand. {{rf{9}}} But, you, if you warn the wicked from his way, to turn from it, and he does not turn from his way, he will die by his guilt, and you will have saved your life. {{rf{10}}} "And you, son of man, say to the house of Israel, saying, 'So you said, saying, "Indeed, our transgressions and our sins are on us, and because of them we are rotting, and how can we live?" ' {{rf{11}}} Say to them, 'As I live,' declares the Lord Yahweh, 'Surely I have no delight in the death of the wicked, except in the wicked returning from his way, and he lives. Turn back! Turn back from your ways, O evil ones, for why should you die, house of Israel?' {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Ezekiel-32-31]] }}}
{{rf{12}}} "So you, son of man, say to your people that the righteousness of the righteous shall not save him in the day of his transgression, and the wickedness of the wicked will not cause him to stumble on the day of his returning from his wickedness; and the righteous will not be able to live by it on the day when he returns to his sin. {{rf{13}}} When I say to the righteous, 'Certainly he will live,' and he trusted in his righteousness, and he turns and he does injustice, all of his righteousness will not be remembered, and because of his injustice that he did, because of it he will die. {{rf{14}}} And when I say to the wicked, 'Certainly you will die,' but he returns from his sin and he does justice and righteousness -- {{rf{15}}} for example, the wicked returns a pledge for a loan, he restores stolen property, he goes in the statutes of life so as not to do injustice -- certainly he will live; he will not die. {{rf{16}}} All of his sins that he committed, they will not be remembered against him, and he did justice and righteousness; certainly he will live. {{rf{17}}} "Yet your people say, 'The way of the Lord is not fair!' yet their way is not fair. {{rf{18}}} When the righteous turns from his righteousness and does injustice, then he will die because of it. {{rf{19}}} And when the wicked turns from his wickedness, and he does justice and righteousness, because of it he will certainly live! {{rf{20}}} Yet you said, 'The way of the Lord is not fair!' I will judge you, house of Israel, each person according to his ways." {{rf{21}}} And then it was in the twelfth year, in the tenth month, on the fifth day of the month of our exile, a survivor from Jerusalem came to me, saying, "The city was destroyed!" {{rf{22}}} And the hand of Yahweh was on me on the evening before the coming of the survivor, and he opened my mouth before the survivor came to me in the morning, and my mouth was opened, and I was no longer dumb. {{rf{23}}} And the word of Yahweh came to me, saying, {{rf{24}}} "Son of man, the inhabitants of these ruins on the soil of Israel are saying, 'Abraham was one man, and he took possession of the land, and we are many; the land has been given for us as a possession.' {{rf{25}}} Therefore say to them, 'Thus says the Lord Yahweh: "You eat blood in your meat, and you raise your eyes to your idols and you pour out blood, and yet you want to take possession of the land? {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Ezekiel-33-12]] }}}
{{rf{26}}} You rely on your sword, you do a detestable thing, and each man defiles the wife of his neighbor, and yet you want to take possession of the land?" ' {{rf{27}}} "Thus you must say to them, 'Thus says the Lord Yahweh: "As I live, surely whoever is in the ruins, by the sword they will fall, and whoever is on the surface of the open field, I will give him to the animals to eat him, and whoever is in the stronghold and in the cave, they will die by the plague. {{rf{28}}} And I will make the land a desolation and a wasteland, and the pride of its strength will come to an end, and the mountains of Israel will be desolate with no one traveling through them." ' {{rf{29}}} And they will know that I am Yahweh when I make my land a desolation and a wasteland, because of all of their detestable things that they have done. {{rf{30}}} "And you, son of man, your people, the ones talking together concerning you beside the walls and in the doorways of the houses, each one with his brother saying, 'Please come and hear what is the word that is going out from Yahweh.' {{rf{31}}} And they come to you as people do, and they sit before you, and my people hear your words, and they do not do them, for they are showing passion in their mouth, but their heart is going after ill-gotten gain. {{rf{32}}} Now, look! You are to them like a sensual song, beautiful of voice and played well on an instrument, and they hear your words, but they are not doing them. {{rf{33}}} So when it comes, look! It is coming! And then they will know that a prophet was in the midst of them." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Ezekiel-33-26]] }}}
And the word of Yahweh came to me, saying, {{rf{2}}} "Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel, prophesy, and you must say to them, to the shepherds, 'Thus says the Lord Yahweh: "Woe to the shepherds of Israel who were feeding themselves! Must not the shepherds feed the flock? {{rf{3}}} The fat you eat, and you clothe yourself with the wool; the well-nourished animals you slaughter, but you do not feed the flock. {{rf{4}}} The weak you have not strengthened, and the sick you have not healed, and with respect to the hurt you have not bound them up, and you have not brought back the scattered, and you have not sought the lost, but rather you ruled over them with force and with ruthlessness. {{rf{5}}} And they were scattered without a shepherd, and they were as food for all the animals of the field when they were scattered. {{rf{6}}} My flock went astray upon all of the mountains and on every high hill, and so upon all the surface of the world my flock were scattered, and there was no one seeking them, and there was no one searching for them." {{rf{7}}} Therefore, hear, O shepherds, the word of Yahweh: {{rf{8}}} "As I live," declares the Lord Yahweh, "Surely because my flock have become as plunder, and my flock became as food to all the animals of the field, since there was not a shepherd, since my shepherds have not sought my flock, but the shepherds fed themselves, and they fed not my flock,'" {{rf{9}}} therefore, O shepherds, hear the word of Yahweh, {{rf{10}}} 'Thus says the Lord Yahweh: "Look! I am against the shepherds, and I will seek my flock from their hand, and I will put an end to them from shepherding flocks, and the shepherds will no longer feed themselves, and I will deliver my flocks from their mouth, so that they will not be as food for them." {{rf{11}}} " 'For thus says the Lord Yahweh: "Look! I, even I, will seek my flock, and I will look after them, {{rf{12}}} just like the caring of a shepherd for his herd on the day when he is in the midst of his scattered flock. Thus I will look after my flock, and I will deliver them from all the places to which they were scattered on the day of storm and stress. {{rf{13}}} And I will bring them out from the peoples, and I will gather them from the countries, and I will bring them to their soil, and I will feed them on the mountains of Israel, in the valleys, and in all of the settlements of the land. {{rf{14}}} I will feed them in good pasture, and their pasture will be on the mountains of the heights of Israel; there they will lie down in good pasture, and on lush pasture they will feed on the mountains of Israel. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Ezekiel-34-01]] }}}
{{rf{15}}} I myself will feed my flock and I myself will allow them to lie down," declares the Lord Yahweh. {{rf{16}}} "I will seek the lost, and I will bring back the scattered, and I will bind up the one hurt, and I will strengthen the sick; and the fat and the strong I will destroy. I will feed her with justice." {{rf{17}}} " 'And you, my flock, thus says the Lord Yahweh: "Look! I am judging between one sheep and another, between the rams and between the he-goats. {{rf{18}}} Is it not enough for you that you feed on the good pasture? And still you must trample the remainder of your pasture with your feet, and clear water you drink, and the leftover water you must make muddy with your feet. {{rf{19}}} And my flock must graze the pasture treaded upon by your feet, and must drink the mud puddle stirred up by your feet." {{rf{20}}} " 'Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh to them: "Look! I, even I will judge between fat sheep and between lean sheep, {{rf{21}}} because with your flank and with your shoulder you shoved, and with your horns you pushed all of the sick animals until you scattered it to the outside. {{rf{22}}} And so I will save my flock, and they will no longer be for plunder, and I will judge between one sheep and another. {{rf{23}}} And I will set up over them one shepherd, and he will feed them; that is, my servant David. He will feed them, and he will be for them as a shepherd. {{rf{24}}} And I, Yahweh, I will be for them as God, and my servant David will be a leader in the midst of them. I, Yahweh, I have spoken. {{rf{25}}} And I will make them a covenant of peace, and I will put an end to wild animals from the land, and they will dwell in the desert safely, and they will sleep in the forest. {{rf{26}}} And I will make them and the area all around my hill a blessing, and I will let the rain go down at its appointed time; they will be rains of blessing. {{rf{27}}} And the tree of the field will give its fruit, and the land will give its produce, and they will be on their land safely, and they will know that I am Yahweh when I break their yoke, and I will deliver them from the hand of the ones enslaving them. {{rf{28}}} And they will not be any longer plunder to the nations, and the animals of the land will not eat them, and they will dwell in safety, and there will not be anyone frightening them. {{rf{29}}} And I will raise for them a garden plot of renown, and they will no longer be victims of famine in the land, and they will not bear any more the insult of the nations. {{rf{30}}} And they will know that I, Yahweh their God, am with them and they are my people, the house of Israel," declares the Lord Yahweh, {{rf{31}}} "and you are my flock, the flock of my pasture. You are my people; I am your God," declares the Lord Yahweh.'" {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Ezekiel-34-15]] }}}
And the word of Yahweh came to me, saying, {{rf{2}}} "Son of man, set your face against the mountain of Seir and prophesy against it, {{rf{3}}} and you must say to it, 'Thus says the Lord Yahweh: "Look! I am against you, mountain of Seir, and I will stretch out my hand against you, and I will make you a desolation and a wasteland. {{rf{4}}} Your cities I will make ruins, and you will be a desolation, and then you will know that I am Yahweh, {{rf{5}}} because there has been to you an ancient hostility, and you handed over the Israelites to the power of the sword at the time of their disaster, at the time of their final punishment. {{rf{6}}} Therefore as I live," declares the Lord Yahweh, "Certainly to blood guilt I will prepare you and blood will pursue; since you did not hate blood, it will pursue you. {{rf{7}}} And I will make the mountain of Seir into a desolation and ruin, and I will cut off from it both he who is crossing over and he who is returning. {{rf{8}}} And I will fill its mountains with its slain; your hills and your valleys and all of your watercourses, the slain by the sword will fall in them. {{rf{9}}} An everlasting desolation I will make you, and your cities will not return, and you will know that I am Yahweh. {{rf{10}}} I do this because of your saying, 'The two nations and the two lands, they will be mine, and we will take possession of it,' and yet Yahweh was there. {{rf{11}}} Therefore, as I live," declares the Lord Yahweh, "so I will deal with you according to your anger and according to your jealousy that you did, because of your hatred against them, and I will make myself known among them when I judge you. {{rf{12}}} And you will know that I, Yahweh, I have heard all of your contemptible words that you said against the mountains of Israel, saying, 'They will be desolate; they are given to us as food.' {{rf{13}}} And you magnified yourself against me with your insolent speech, and you spoke voluminously against me with your words -- I heard! {{rf{14}}} Thus the Lord Yahweh says, 'As the whole world rejoices, I will make you a desolation. {{rf{15}}} Like your rejoicing over the inheritance of the house of Israel because it was desolate, I will do to you; you will be a desolation, mountain of Seir and all of Edom, indeed all of it; and they will know that I am Yahweh.'" ' {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Ezekiel-35-01]] }}}
"And you, son of man, prophesy to the mountains of Israel; and so you must say, 'Mountains of Israel, hear the word of Yahweh; {{rf{2}}} thus says the Lord Yahweh: "Because the enemy said concerning you, 'Ah, and the ancient high places will be to us as a possession!'" ' {{rf{3}}} Therefore prophesy, and you must say, 'Thus says the Lord Yahweh: "Because indeed when you were desolate, then they crushed you from all around, so that you became a possession to the remainder of the nations, and you became a byword and object of slander for the people." {{rf{4}}} Therefore, mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord Yahweh; thus says the Lord Yahweh to the mountains and to the hills, to the river channels and to the valleys and to the ruins that are desolate and to the cities that are abandoned and that have become as plunder and as scorn for the remainder of the nations that are from all around. {{rf{5}}} Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: "Certainly in the fire of my passion I spoke against the rest of the nations and against all Edom, who made my land as a possession, because of its pastureland for plunder, for themselves in all of the joy of their whole heart and in their inner disdain." {{rf{6}}} Therefore prophesy against the land of Israel, and you must say to the mountains and to the hills, to the river channels and to the valleys, thus says the Lord Yahweh: "Look! I spoke in my passion and in my anger the insult of the peoples you have endured." {{rf{7}}} Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: "I swear certainly that the nations that are all around you, they indeed will endure their disgrace. {{rf{8}}} " '"But you, mountains of Israel, your branch you will shoot, and your fruit you will carry for my people Israel, for they are soon to come. {{rf{9}}} For look! I am for you, and I will turn you, and you will be tilled, and you will be planted. {{rf{10}}} And I will cause your population to increase for you, all of the house of Israel, all of it, and the towns will be inhabited, and the ruins will be built. {{rf{11}}} And I will cause your population to increase for you, and domestic animals, even they will be numerous, and they will be fruitful, and I will cause you to be inhabited like your ancient times, and I will do good things more than in your former times, and you will know that I am Yahweh. {{rf{12}}} And I will send over you my people Israel, and they will take possession of you, and you will be for them as an inheritance, and you will no longer bereave them of their children." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Ezekiel-36-01]] }}}
{{rf{13}}} " 'Thus says the Lord Yahweh, because they are saying to you, "You are an eater of humans, and you are one who makes childless your people." {{rf{14}}} Therefore humans you will not eat any longer, and your nation you will not make childless any longer," declares the Lord Yahweh. {{rf{15}}} "And I will not let you hear any longer the insult of the nations, and the disgrace of the peoples you will not bear any longer; you yourself will not cause your nation to stumble," declares the Lord Yahweh.'" {{rf{16}}} And the word of Yahweh came to me, saying, {{rf{17}}} "Son of man, the house of Israel, they were dwelling on their soil, and they defiled it with their way and with their deeds; like the uncleanness of menstruation was their way before me. {{rf{18}}} And I poured out my rage on them for the blood that they poured on the land and for their idols with which they defiled it. {{rf{19}}} And I scattered them among the nations, and I dispersed them in the countries according to their way, and according to their deeds I judged them. {{rf{20}}} And they came into the nations to which they went, and they profaned my holy name when they said to them, 'These are the people of Yahweh, and from his land they went out.' {{rf{21}}} And I was concerned for my holy name, which, the house of Israel defiled among the nations to which they went. {{rf{22}}} "Therefore thus say to the house of Israel, 'Thus says the Lord Yahweh: "Not for your sake am I about to act, house of Israel, but for my holy name, which you defiled among the nations to which you went. {{rf{23}}} And I will consecrate my great name, which was profaned among the nations and which you have profaned in the midst of them, and the nations will know that I am Yahweh!" ' a declaration of the Lord Yahweh, when I show myself holy before their eyes. {{rf{24}}} " 'And I will take you from the nations, and I will gather you from all of the lands, and I will bring you to your land. {{rf{25}}} And I will sprinkle on you pure water, and you will be clean from all of your uncleanness, and I will cleanse you from all of your idols. ''{{rf{26}}} And I will give a new heart to you, and a new spirit I will give into your inner parts, and I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh, and I will give to you a heart of flesh. {{rf{27}}} And I will give my spirit into your inner parts, and I will make it so that you will go in my rules, and my regulations you will remember, and you will do them.'' {{rf{28}}} And you will dwell in the land that I gave to your ancestors, and you will be to me as a people, and I will be to you as God. {{rf{29}}} And I will save you from all of your uncleanness, and I will call to the grain, and I will cause it to increase, and I will not bring famine upon you. {{rf{30}}} And I will cause the fruit of the tree and the crop of the field to increase, so that you will not suffer again the disgrace of famine among the nations. {{rf{31}}} And you will remember your evil ways and your deeds that were not good, and you will loathe yourself over your iniquities and over your detestable things. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Ezekiel-36-13]] }}}
{{rf{32}}} But not for your sake am I acting," declares the Lord Yahweh. "Let it be known to you, be ashamed, and be put to shame because of your ways, house of Israel. {{rf{33}}} "Thus says the Lord Yahweh: 'On the day when I cleanse you from all of your iniquities, I will cause the cities to be inhabited, and the ruins will be rebuilt. {{rf{34}}} And the land that was desolate will be cultivated in the very place that it was desolate before the eyes of all of the persons crossing over. {{rf{35}}} And they will say, "This desolate land has become like the garden of Eden, and the wasted and desolate and destroyed cities, now being refortified, are inhabited." {{rf{36}}} And the nations who are left all around, you will know that I, Yahweh, I built that which was destroyed; I planted the desolate land; I, Yahweh, I have spoken, and I will act.' {{rf{37}}} "Thus says the Lord Yahweh: 'Again this time I will let myself be inquired of by the house of Israel, to do something for them; I will cause them to increase their population like a flock. {{rf{38}}} Like the flock of the sanctuary, like the flock of Jerusalem at its festival, so the desolate cities will be filled with flocks of people; and they will know that I am Yahweh.'" {{rf big{1}}} The hand of Yahweh was upon me, and he brought me by the Spirit of Yahweh, and he let me rest in the midst of the valley, and it was full of bones. {{rf{2}}} And he led me all around over them, and look, very many on the surface of the valley, and look, very dry. {{rf{3}}} And he said to me, "Son of man, can these bones live?" And I said, "Lord Yahweh, you know." {{rf{4}}} And he said to me, "Prophesy to these bones, and you must say to them, to the dry bones, 'Hear the word of Yahweh! {{rf{5}}} Thus says the Lord Yahweh to these bones: "Look! I am bringing into you breath, and you will live! {{rf{6}}} And I will lay on you sinews, and I will let flesh come upon you, and I will cover you over with skin, and I will put breath into you, and you will live, and you will know that I am Yahweh." '" {{rf{7}}} And I prophesied just as I had been commanded, and there was a sound at my prophesying, and look! A rattling, and they came together -- the bones! Bone to its bone! {{rf{8}}} And I looked, and indeed, sinews were on them, and flesh went up, and skin covered over them upward, but breath was not in them. {{rf{9}}} And he said to me, "Prophesy to the breath; prophesy, son of man, and you must say to the breath, 'Thus says the Lord Yahweh from the four winds, "Come, O spirit and breath, on these dead ones, so that they may live!" '" {{rf{10}}} And I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they became alive, and they stood on their feet, a very, very large group. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Ezekiel-36-32]] }}}
{{rf{11}}} And he said to me, "Son of man, these bones are all of the house of Israel; look! they are saying, 'Our bones are dried up, and our hope is destroyed; we are cut off as far as we are concerned.' {{rf{12}}} Therefore prophesy, and you must say to them, 'Thus says the Lord Yahweh: "Look! I am opening your graves, and I will bring you up from your graves, my people, and I will bring you to the land of Israel! {{rf{13}}} And you will know that I am Yahweh when I open your graves when I bring you up from your graves, my people! {{rf{14}}} And I will put my breath into you so that you may live, and I will cause you to rest on your soil, and you will know that I, Yahweh, I have spoken, and I will act!" ' declares Yahweh." {{rf{15}}} And the word of Yahweh came to me, saying, {{rf{16}}} "And you, son of man, take for yourself a piece of wood, and write on it, 'For Judah and for the Israelites his associates,' and take another piece of wood, and write on it, 'For Joseph, the piece of wood of Ephraim and all of the house of Israel his associates.' {{rf{17}}} And join them one to the other with respect to you as one piece of wood, so that they may become one in your hand. {{rf{18}}} When your people say to you, saying, 'Will you not inform us as to what these actions mean for you?' {{rf{19}}} Then speak to them, 'Thus says the Lord Yahweh: "Look! I am taking the piece of wood for Joseph that is in the hand of Ephraim and the tribes of Israel its associates, and I will put them on it, the piece of wood of Judah, and I will make them into one piece of wood, so that they be one in my hand.'" {{rf{20}}} And the pieces of wood on which you wrote will be in your hand before their eyes. {{rf{21}}} And speak to them, 'Thus says the Lord Yahweh: "Look! I am taking the Israelites from among the nations to which they went, and I will gather them from everywhere, and I will bring them to their own soil. {{rf{22}}} And I will make them into one nation in the land on the mountains of Israel, and they will all have one king as their king, and they will not again be two nations and will not again divide into two kingdoms again. {{rf{23}}} And they will not defile themselves again with their idols and with vile idols and with all of their transgressions, and I will save them from all of their apostasy by which they sinned, and I will cleanse them and they will be for me as a people and I, I will be for them as God. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Ezekiel-37-11]] }}}
{{rf{24}}} " '"And my servant David will be king over them, and one shepherd will be for all of them, and in my regulations they will go, and my statutes they will observe, and they will do them. {{rf{25}}} And they will dwell on the land that I gave to my servant, to Jacob, in which your ancestors dwelled, and they will dwell on it, they and their children and the children of their children forever, and my servant David will be a leader for them forever. {{rf{26}}} And I will make with them a covenant of peace; an everlasting covenant it will be with them. And I will establish them, and I will cause them to increase, and I will put my sanctuary in the midst of them forever. {{rf{27}}} And my tabernacle will be with them, and I will be for them as God, and they will be to me as a nation. {{rf{28}}} And the nations will know that I, Yahweh, am consecrating Israel when my sanctuary is in the midst of them forever." '" {{rf big{1}}} And the word of Yahweh came to me, saying, {{rf{2}}} "Son of man, set your face toward Gog of the land of Magog, the head leader of Meshech and Tubal, and prophesy against him. {{rf{3}}} And you must say, 'Thus says the Lord Yahweh: "Look! I am against you, Gog, the head leader of Meshach and Tubal, {{rf{4}}} and I will turn you around, and I will place hooks in your cheeks, and I will bring you out and all of your horses and horsemen fully armed, all of them, a great crowd, holding a shield, and small shield, and holding swords, all of them. {{rf{5}}} Persia, Cush, and Put are with them, all of them, with a small shield and helmet. {{rf{6}}} Gomer and all of its troops, Beth Togarmah, the remote areas of the north, and with all of its troops and many peoples with them. {{rf{7}}} Be ready, and prepare yourselves, you and all of your assembly, the assembling around you, and you must be for them as a guard. {{rf{8}}} After many days you will be mustered; in the last years you will come to a restored land from the sword, gathered from many peoples on the mountains of Israel which were as permanent ruins but from peoples it was brought out, and they will dwell in safety, all of them. {{rf{9}}} And you will advance like a storm; you will come, and you will be like a cloud covering the land, and all of your troops and many nations along with you." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Ezekiel-37-24]] }}}
{{rf{10}}} " 'Thus says the Lord Yahweh: "And then on that day, things will come up on your mind, and you will devise evil plans. {{rf{11}}} And you will say, 'I will go up against a land of open country; I will come to the people being at rest in safety, all of them dwelling without a wall and crossbars and without doors, {{rf{12}}} to loot loot, and to plunder plunder, to assail inhabited ruins and a people gathered together from various peoples and who are acquiring livestock and goods and dwelling at the center of the world. {{rf{13}}} Sheba and Dedan and traders of Tarshish and all its strong lions, they will ask you, 'To loot loot are you coming? To plunder plunder have you summoned your assembly, to take away silver and gold, to take livestock and goods, to loot great amounts of loot?" ' {{rf{14}}} "Therefore prophesy, son of man, and you must say to Gog, 'Thus says the Lord Yahweh: "Will you not realize on that day when my people Israel are dwelling in safety, {{rf{15}}} and so you will come from your place, from the remote areas of the north, you and many people with you, horsemen all of them, a great crowd and a vast army, {{rf{16}}} and you will advance against my people Israel like a cloud covering the land; it will be in the last days, and I will bring you against my land, so that the nations know me, when I show myself holy through you before their eyes, O Gog!" ' {{rf{17}}} "Thus says the Lord Yahweh, 'Are you he of whom I spoke in former days by the hand of my servants the prophets of Israel who were prophesying in those days for years that I would bring you against them? {{rf{18}}} And so then in that day, on the day of the coming of God against the land of Israel,' declares the Lord Yahweh, 'my rage will come up in my anger. {{rf{19}}} And in my passion, in the fire of my wrath, I spoke that certainly on that day a great earthquake will be on the land of Israel. {{rf{20}}} And the fish of the sea and the birds of the heaven and the animals of the field and all of the creeping things that creep on the earth and all of the humans who are on the surface of the earth will shake at my presence; and the mountains will be demolished, and the steep mountain sides will fall, and every wall on the earth will fall. {{rf{21}}} And I will call against him in all of my mountains a sword,' declares the Lord Yahweh, 'And the sword of each person will be against his brother. {{rf{22}}} And I will execute justice with him with a plague and with blood and torrents of rain, and hailstones; fire and sulfur I will cause to fall on him and on his troops and on many peoples who are with him. {{rf{23}}} And so I will exalt myself, and I will show myself holy, and I will make myself known before the eyes of many nations, and they will know that I am Yahweh.'" {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Ezekiel-38-10]] }}}
"And you, son of man, prophesy against Gog, and you must say, 'Thus says the Lord Yahweh: "Look! I am against you Gog, the head leader of Meshech and Tubal, {{rf{2}}} and I will turn you around, and I will drag you along, and I will bring you up from the remote areas of the north, and I will bring you against the mountains of Israel, {{rf{3}}} and I will strike your bow from your left hand, and your arrows from your right hand I will cause to fall. {{rf{4}}} On the mountains of Israel you will fall, you and all of your troops, and the peoples who are with you, to birds of prey, birds of every wing, and animals of the field I will give you as food. {{rf{5}}} On the surface of the field you will fall, for I myself have spoken," declares the Lord Yahweh. {{rf{6}}} "And I will send fire against Magog and among the people inhabiting the coastlands in safety, and they will know that I am Yahweh. {{rf{7}}} And my holy name I will make known in the midst of my people Israel, and I will not let the name of my holiness be profaned anymore, and the nations will know that I am Yahweh, the holy one in Israel. {{rf{8}}} Look! it is coming, and it will happen," declares the Lord Yahweh. "It is the day about which I have spoken. {{rf{9}}} "'"And the inhabitants of the towns of Israel will go out, and they will set ablaze, and they will kindle a fire with a weapon and a small shield and a shield, with a bow and with arrows, and with hand clubs and with spears, and so they will light a fire with them, a fire lasting seven years. {{rf{10}}} And they will not carry trees from the field, and they will not chop wood from the forests, for with the weapons they will light a fire; and they will plunder those plundering them, and they will plunder those plundering them," ' declares the Lord Yahweh. {{rf{11}}} " '"And then on that day I will give to Gog a grave there in Israel, The Valley of the Travelers, east of the sea, and it will block the travelers and Gog and all of his hordes they will bury there, and they will call it the Valley of Hamon-Gog. {{rf{12}}} And the house of Israel will bury them for seven months to cleanse the land. {{rf{13}}} All of the people of the land will bury them, and it will be an honor for them on the day when I appear," ' declares the Lord Yahweh. {{rf{14}}} '"And they will set apart men to continually go through the land burying the travelers, the ones left over on the surface of the land to cleanse it; for the whole of seven months they will explore it. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Ezekiel-39-01]] }}}
{{rf{15}}} And the ones going through, they will go through within the land, and if anyone sees the bones of a person, then he will build beside it a sign to remain until the buriers have buried him in the Valley of Hamon-Gog. {{rf{16}}} And furthermore the name of the city there is Hamonah, and thus they will cleanse the land." ' {{rf{17}}} "And you, son of man, thus says the Lord Yahweh: 'Say to all kinds of birds and animals of the field, "Be gathered, come be gathered from everywhere to my sacrifice that I am sacrificing for you, a great sacrifice on the mountains of Israel, and you will eat flesh, and you will drink blood. {{rf{18}}} Flesh of warriors you will eat, and the blood of leaders of the land you will drink; rams, young rams and goats, bulls, and the fattened animals of Bashan -- all of them! {{rf{19}}} And you will eat fat until you are satiated, and you will drink blood until you are drunk from my sacrifice that I sacrifice for you, {{rf{20}}} and you will be satisfied at my table with horse and horsemen and warriors and every man of war," ' declares the Lord Yahweh. {{rf{21}}} "And I will display my glory among the nations, and all of the nations will see my judgment that I have executed and my hand that I have laid upon them. {{rf{22}}} "And the house of Israel will know that I am Yahweh their God from that day and beyond, {{rf{23}}} and the nations will know that because of their guilt the house of Israel went into exile, because they acted unfaithfully against me, and I hid my face from them, and I gave them into the hand of their foes, and they fell by the sword, all of them. {{rf{24}}} According to their uncleanness and according to their transgression I dealt with them, and I hid my face from them. {{rf{25}}} Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: "Now I will restore the fortunes of Jacob, and I will have compassion on all of the house of Israel, and I will be jealous for my holy name. {{rf{26}}} And they will forget their disgrace and all of their infidelity that they displayed against me when they dwelt on their soil in safety with nobody making them afraid. {{rf{27}}} When I restore them from the nations and I gather them from the countries of their enemies, then I will show myself holy through them before the eyes of many nations. {{rf{28}}} And they will know that I am Yahweh their God, because of when I deported them into the nations, and I reassembled them to their soil, and I will not let any of them remain there any longer. {{rf{29}}} And I will not hide my face again from them when I pour out my Spirit over the house of Israel," declares the Lord Yahweh. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Ezekiel-39-15]] }}}
In the twenty-fifth year of our exile, at the beginning of the year, on the tenth day of the month, in the fourteenth year after the city was destroyed, in this day exactly, the hand of Yahweh was on me, and he brought me there {{rf{2}}} in visions from God. He brought me to the land of Israel and put me on a very high mountain, and on it was something like a structure of a city to the south. {{rf{3}}} And he brought me there, and look, there was a man whose appearance was like the appearance of bronze, and a cord of linen was in his hand and a reed for measurement; he was standing in the gate. {{rf{4}}} And the man spoke to me, "Son of man, look with your eyes and listen with your ears and apply your heart to all that I am showing you, for you were brought here in order to show you this; tell all that you are seeing to the house of Israel." {{rf{5}}} And there was a wall on the outside of the temple all the way around it, and in the hand of the man the reed for measurement was six long cubits, according to the cubit and a handbreadth, and he measured the width of the outer wall as one reed, and the height as one reed. {{rf{6}}} And then he went toward the gate whose face was to the east. And he went up by its steps, and he measured the threshold of the gate, one reed wide. {{rf{7}}} And the alcove was one reed long and one reed wide, and between the alcoves was five cubits, and the threshold of the gate along the side of the portico of the gate on the inside was one reed. {{rf{8}}} And then he measured the portico of the gate on the inside as one reed. {{rf{9}}} And he measured the portico of the gate as eight cubits, and its pilaster was two cubits thick, and he measured the portico of the gate on the inside. {{rf{10}}} And the alcoves of the gate toward the way eastward were three on each side; the same measurements applied to all three of them; and the same measurement applied to the pilaster on each side. {{rf{11}}} And he measured the width of the doorway of the gate as ten cubits and the length of the gateway was thirteen cubits. {{rf{12}}} And a wall was before the alcoves; one cubit on either side was the wall from here. And the alcove was six cubits on each side. {{rf{13}}} And he measured the gate from the top slab of the alcove to its opposite top slab as twenty-five cubits in width, from one entrance to the other one opposite it. {{rf{14}}} And he made the pilasters sixty cubits, and to the pilaster of the courtyard all the way around the gate. {{rf{15}}} And from the front of the gate at the entrance to the front of the portico of the inner gate was fifty cubits. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Ezekiel-40-01]] }}}
{{rf{16}}} And there were narrow windows for the alcoves and for their pilasters to the inside of the gate all the way around it. And likewise with respect to the porticos and windows were all the way around to the inside, and on a pilaster there were images of palm trees. {{rf{17}}} And he brought me to the outer courtyard, and there were chambers and a pavement made for the courtyard all around it, and thirty chambers were facing to the pavement. {{rf{18}}} And the pavement flanked the side of the gates and all along the gates; this describes the lower pavement. {{rf{19}}} And he measured the width from the front of the lower gate to the front of the outside of the inner courtyard as a hundred cubits to the east and to the north. {{rf{20}}} And as for the gate that had its face toward the north of the outer courtyard, he measured its length and its width. {{rf{21}}} And its alcoves were three on each side, and its pilasters and its porticos had the same measurement as the first gate: its length was fifty cubits, and its width was twenty-five cubits. {{rf{22}}} And its windows and its porticos and its palm tree images were like the measurement of the gate that was facing toward the east; and it had seven steps that go up it, and there were porticos before them. {{rf{23}}} And a gate led to the inner courtyard, opposite the gate to the north and to the east, and he measured from gate to gate as a hundred cubits. {{rf{24}}} And then he took me toward the south, and look, a gate toward the south, and he measured its pilasters and its porticos; they had measurements just like the others. {{rf{25}}} And there were for it windows and for its porticos all the way around it like these windows; fifty cubits long and twenty-five cubits wide. {{rf{26}}} And seven steps were going up to it and its porticos before them. And it had palm tree images all along its pilasters. {{rf{27}}} And there was to the way of the south a gate for the inner courtyard, and he measured from gate to the gate on the way of the south, a hundred cubits. {{rf{28}}} And he brought me to the inner courtyard through the gate of the south, and he measured the south gate, and it had measurements like the others. {{rf{29}}} And its alcoves and its pilasters and its porticos were just like these measurements. And it had windows for it and for its porticos all the way around, fifty cubits along its length, and twenty-five cubits wide. {{rf{30}}} And there were porticos all the way around its length, twenty-five cubits; and its width was five cubits. {{rf{31}}} And its porticos were to the outer courtyard, and palm tree images were on its pilasters, and eight steps were for its stairs. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Ezekiel-40-16]] }}}
{{rf{32}}} And he brought me to the inner courtyard by way of the east gate, and he measured the gate as just like the other measurements. {{rf{33}}} And its alcoves and its pilasters and its porticos were also like these measurements, and windows were for it and for its porticos all around; its length was fifty cubits, and it was twenty-five cubits wide. {{rf{34}}} And its porticos were toward the outer courtyard, and palm tree images were on its pilasters one each side, and eight steps served as it stairs. {{rf{35}}} And he brought me to the gate of the north, and he measured it; and he measured the same measurements as these others, {{rf{36}}} its alcoves, its pilasters and porticos, and its windows all the way around, and a length of fifty cubits and twenty-five cubits wide. {{rf{37}}} And its pilasters faced the outer courtyard, and it had palm tree images on its pilasters on each side; and eight steps served as its stairs. {{rf{38}}} And a chamber with its doorway was in the pilasters at the gates, and there they rinsed off the burnt offering. {{rf{39}}} And in the portico of the gate were two tables on each side to slaughter the burnt offering on them and the sin offering and the guilt offering. {{rf{40}}} And on the outer side as one goes up to the doorway of the gate to the north were two tables, and on the other side, which is toward the portico of the gate, were two tables. {{rf{41}}} On each side of the gate were four tables, eight tables in all, and on them they slaughtered sacrifices. {{rf{42}}} And four tables were for the burnt offering, and made of dressed stones, one cubit and a half long and one cubit and a half wide and one cubit high was their measurements, and they placed the objects with which they slaughtered the burnt offering on them and the sacrifice. {{rf{43}}} And there were double-pronged hooks, one handbreadth in width, put in place in the house all around, and on the tables was the flesh of the offering. {{rf{44}}} And on the outside of the inner gate, there were chambers for singers in the inner courtyard, which was to the side of the north gate, and their faces were to the south with respect to one, and on the side of the east gate one facing to the north. {{rf{45}}} And he said to me, "This chamber with its face toward the south is for the priests who are taking care of the responsibility of the temple. {{rf{46}}} And the chamber with its face to the north is for the priests who are taking care of the responsibility of the altar. They are the descendants of Zadok, the ones who approach from among the descendants of Levi to Yahweh to serve him." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Ezekiel-40-32]] }}}
{{rf{47}}} And he measured the courtyard as to its length, a hundred cubits, and a hundred cubits wide, squared, and the altar is in front of the temple. {{rf{48}}} And he brought me to the portico of the temple, and he measured the pilaster of the portico, five cubits on each side, and the width of the gate was three cubits on each side. {{rf{49}}} The length of the portico was twenty cubits and its width eleven cubits, and with ten steps they went up to it, and the pilasters had pillars, one on each side. {{rf big{1}}} And he brought me to the temple sanctuary, and he measured the pilasters, six cubits wide on each side; this was the width of the tent. {{rf{2}}} And the width of the doorway was ten cubits, and the sidewall of the doorway was five cubits on each side, and he measured its length as forty cubits, and its width was twenty cubits. {{rf{3}}} And he went into the inner room, and he measured the pilaster of the doorway as two cubits and the doorway as six cubits and the width of the doorway seven cubits. {{rf{4}}} And he measured its length as twenty cubits and its width as twenty cubits to the front of the temple, and he said to me, "This is the most holy place. {{rf{5}}} And he measured the wall of the temple as six cubits, and the width of the side room as four cubits all along the outside wall for the temple all around the wall. {{rf{6}}} And the side rooms were side by side in three stories and a total of thirty rooms, and there were offsets in the wall, which was for the temple for the side rooms, all the way around to be supports, and so they were not supports extending into the wall of the temple. {{rf{7}}} And each level widened, and it went around upward to the side rooms for the structure that surrounds the temple upward all the way around, therefore the width increased to the temple upward, and thus the lower level goes up to the upper level by means of the middle story. {{rf{8}}} And I saw for the temple a platform all the way around the foundations of the side rooms; it was the length of a full reed, six cubits long. {{rf{9}}} The width of the outside wall, which was for the side room to the outside, was five cubits, and a space that was set between the side rooms, which was for the temple {{rf{10}}} and between the chambers was the width of twenty cubits all around the temple, all the way around it. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Ezekiel-40-47]] }}}
{{rf{11}}} And the doorway of the side room faced the open area; one doorway faced the north, and one doorway was to the south, and the width of the place of the open area was five cubits all around. {{rf{12}}} And the building that faced the courtyard was toward the west, and its width was seventy cubits, and the wall of the building was five cubits wide all the way around, and its length was ninety cubits. {{rf{13}}} And he measured the temple, and its length was a hundred cubits, and the courtyard and the building and its walls, their length was a hundred cubits. {{rf{14}}} And the width of the front of the temple and the courtyard to the east was a hundred cubits. {{rf{15}}} And he measured the length of the building facing the courtyard at the rear and its galleries, a hundred cubits on each side, and also the temple, the court, and the porticos of the courtyard, {{rf{16}}} the thresholds and the framed windows and the galleries around the three of them. Before the threshold was a covering of wood all around, and from the ground up to the windows, and all around the windows, they were covered. {{rf{17}}} Above the doorway and up to the inner temple and on the outside, and on all of the wall all the way around in the inner and in the outer areas were patterns, {{rf{18}}} and it was made of cherubim and palm tree images; a palm tree image between cherub and cherub, and the cherub had two faces. {{rf{19}}} And the face of a human was toward the palm tree image on the one side, and the face of a fierce strong lion faced the palm tree image on the other side; this work was executed for the entire temple all the way around. {{rf{20}}} From the ground up to above the doorway, the cherubim and the palm tree images were made, and also the outer wall of the temple. {{rf{21}}} As far as the temple is concerned its doorframe was squared, and before the sanctuary was the appearance as it were the appearance of {{rf{22}}} a wooden altar that was three cubits high, and its length was two cubits, and its corners for it and its length and its walls were of wood. And he spoke to me, "This is the table that is before Yahweh." {{rf{23}}} And the two doors were for the temple and for the sanctuary. {{rf{24}}} And two leaves of a door were for each of the doors, two hinged leaves of a door: two were for the first door, and two leaves of a door were for the other door. {{rf{25}}} And cherubim were made on them, that is, on the doors of the temple and palm tree images like the ones prepared for the walls; and an overhang of wood was on the surface of the porticos on the outside. {{rf{26}}} And narrow windows and palm tree images were on either side, and on the side walls of the portico, and the side rooms of the temple and their overhang. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Ezekiel-41-11]] }}}
And he brought me out to the outer courtyard to the north, and he brought me to the chamber which was opposite the courtyard and which is opposite the building to the north. {{rf{2}}} As to the face of the length of the building with the doorway to the north, it was a hundred cubits, and its width was fifty cubits. {{rf{3}}} Opposite the twenty cubits of the inner courtyard, and opposite the pavement that was to the outer courtyard was a gallery facing a gallery in the three stories. {{rf{4}}} And in front of the chambers was a passageway ten cubits in width toward the inside, a walkway of one cubit, and their doorways were to the north. {{rf{5}}} And the upper chambers narrowed, for the galleries took away space from them more than they took from the lower levels and more than they took from the middle level in the building. {{rf{6}}} For they were three stories and they had no pillars like the pillars of the courtyards; therefore they were smaller than the lower stories and than the middle stories from the ground up. {{rf{7}}} And there was a wall that was to the outside alongside the chambers on the walkway to the outer courtyard in front of the chambers; its length was fifty cubits. {{rf{8}}} For the length of the chambers which were to the outer courtyard was fifty cubits, and look! The chambers on the front of the temple were a hundred cubits. {{rf{9}}} And from under these chambers was the entrance from the east for them when one enters from the outer courtyard. {{rf{10}}} All along the width of the wall of the courtyard eastward in front of the courtyard to the front of the building were chambers. {{rf{11}}} And a walkway was before them like the appearance of the chambers which were on the north, just like them in their length, and so was their width and all their exits, and they were built like their arrangements and like their doorways, {{rf{12}}} and like the doorways of the chambers which were on the way of the south was a doorway at the head of the way before the stone wall, projecting on the way of the east at their coming. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Ezekiel-42-01]] }}}
{{rf{13}}} And he said to me, "The chambers of the north and the chambers of the south which are before the courtyard, they are the holy chambers in which the priests, who are near to Yahweh, will eat the most holy objects. There they shall put the most holy objects, and the grain offering and the sin offering and the guilt offering, for the place is holy. {{rf{14}}} When the priests enter, then they shall not go out from the sanctuary to the outer courtyard; and there they must put their garments in which they serve because they are holy. They must put on other garments and then they may approach the area that is for the people. {{rf{15}}} And he completed the measurements of the inner temple, and he brought me to the walkway of the gate that faces toward the east and he measured it all the way around. {{rf{16}}} He measured the east side with the reed for measuring, five hundred cubits, with respect to reeds with the reed for measurement, he measured it all around. {{rf{17}}} He measured the north side as five hundred cubits, with respect to reeds with the reed for measurement all around. {{rf{18}}} Then he measured the south side as five hundred cubits, with respect to reeds with the reed for measurement. {{rf{19}}} He went around the west side and he measured five hundred cubits, with respect to reeds with the reed for measurement. {{rf{20}}} Toward the four sides he measured it; there was a wall for it all the way around. Its length was five hundred cubits and its width was five hundred cubits, in order to make a separation between what is holy and what is common. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Ezekiel-42-13]] }}}
And he brought me to the gate which was facing east. {{rf{2}}} And, look! The glory of the God of Israel, it came from the way of the east, and its sound was like the sound of many waters and the land radiated due to his glory! {{rf{3}}} And the appearance of the vision which I saw was as the vision which I saw at his coming to destroy the city, and these visions were also as the vision which I saw by the Kebar River, and I fell on my face. {{rf{4}}} And then the glory of Yahweh came to the temple by the way of the gate facing east. {{rf{5}}} And the Spirit lifted me and it brought me to the inner courtyard and, look! The glory of Yahweh filled the temple! {{rf{6}}} And I heard someone speaking to me from the house, and a man was standing beside me. {{rf{7}}} And he said to me, "Son of man, this is the place of my throne and the place for the soles of my feet where I will dwell in the midst of the Israelites to eternity, and they, the house of Israel, they and their kings, will not again defile my holy name with their fornication and with their offerings for the dead of their kings on their high places. {{rf{8}}} When they placed their threshold with my threshold, their doorframe beside my doorframe and the wall was between me and between them, then they defiled my holy name, with their detestable things that they did, and so I consumed them in my anger. {{rf{9}}} Now let them send their fornication far away and the offerings for the dead of their kings away from me, and I will dwell in the midst of them forever. {{rf{10}}} You, son of man, describe to the house of Israel the temple and let them be ashamed of their iniquities and let them measure the pattern. {{rf{11}}} And if they are ashamed of all that they did, then the plan of the temple and its arrangement and its exits and its entrances and all of its plans and all of its statutes. And all of its plans and all of its laws make known to them and write them before their eyes, so that they may remember all of its plans and all of its statutes, so that they do them! {{rf{12}}} This is the law of the temple: On the top of the mountain, all of its territory, all the way around it, will be most holy. Look, this is the law of the temple. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Ezekiel-43-01]] }}}
{{rf{13}}} And these are the measurements of the altar in the cubits (a cubit is a cubit and a handbreadth): now its gutter is a cubit in depth by a cubit in width and its rim along its edge all around is one span, and this is also the height of the altar. {{rf{14}}} And from the gutter at the ground up to the lower ledge is two cubits, and its width is one cubit, and from the small ledge up to the large ledge is four cubits, and its width is one cubit. {{rf{15}}} And the altar hearth was four cubits, and from the altar hearth and upwards were the four horns of the altar. {{rf{16}}} And the altar hearth was twelve cubits in length and twelve cubits in width; it was squared on its four sides. {{rf{17}}} And the ledge was fourteen cubits in length with fourteen cubits its width to all four of its sides, and a rim was all around it of one-half cubit. And the gutter for it was a cubit all around, and its steps were facing east." {{rf{18}}} And he said to me, "Son of man, thus says the Lord Yahweh: 'These are the statutes of the altar on the day when it is made, to sacrifice a burnt offering on it and to sprinkle blood on it. {{rf{19}}} And you must give to the Levitical priests who are from the offspring of Zadok, the ones coming near me," declares the Lord Yahweh, "to serve me, a bull, a calf as a sin offering. {{rf{20}}} You must take some of its blood and put it on the four horns of the altar, and the four corners of the ledge, and on the rim all around; thus you must purify it and make atonement for it. {{rf{21}}} And you must take the bull, the sin offering, and you must burn it in the designated place of the temple outside of the holy place. {{rf{22}}} And on the second day you must offer a he-goat without defect as a sin offering, and they must purify the altar like they purified with the bull. {{rf{23}}} When you are finished from purifying, you must offer a bull, a calf, without defect, and a ram from the flock without defect. {{rf{24}}} And you must bring them near before Yahweh, and the priests must throw salt on them, and they must offer them as a burnt offering to Yahweh. {{rf{25}}} For seven days you must provide a goat of sin offering for the day and a bull, a calf, and a ram from the flock without defect; you must provide them. {{rf{26}}} Seven days they must purify the altar and they must cleanse it and so they will consecrate it. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Ezekiel-43-13]] }}}
{{rf{27}}} And they will finish the days, and then on the eighth day and beyond that the priests will offer on the altar your burnt offerings and your fellowship offerings, and then I will be pleased with you," declares the Lord Yahweh. {{rf big{1}}} And he brought me back by the way of the outer gate of the sanctuary that is facing east, and it was shut. {{rf{2}}} And Yahweh said to me, "This gate will be shut. It shall not be opened, and no one will go through it, for Yahweh, the God of Israel, has entered it, and it will be shut. {{rf{3}}} The prince, he may sit in it to eat food before Yahweh; he will come from the way of the portico of the gate and by means of its way he will also go out." {{rf{4}}} Then he brought me by the way of the gate of the north to the front of the temple, and I looked, and look! The glory of Yahweh filled the temple of Yahweh, and I fell on my face. {{rf{5}}} And Yahweh said, "Son of man, set your heart and look with your eyes and with your ears hear everything I am saying to you concerning all the statutes of the temple of Yahweh and concerning all its laws, and you must listen with your heart concerning the entrance of the temple with all of the exits of the sanctuary. {{rf{6}}} And you must say to the rebellious, to the house of Israel, 'Thus says the Lord Yahweh: "Enough for you, house of Israel, of all of your detestable things! {{rf{7}}} At your bringing foreigners who are uncircumcised of heart and uncircumcised of flesh to be in my sanctuary to profane it, my temple, as you offered my food, fat, and blood, so you broke my covenant by all of your detestable things. {{rf{8}}} And you did not observe the responsibility of my sanctuary, but you appointed them as the keepers of my responsibility in my sanctuary for you." {{rf{9}}} Thus says the Lord Yahweh: "Every foreigner uncircumcised of heart and uncircumcised of flesh shall not come into my sanctuary -- not any of the foreigners who are in the midst of the Israelites. {{rf{10}}} But the Levites who removed themselves from me at the going astray of Israel, who went astray from me and went after their idols, as a result they will bear their guilt. {{rf{11}}} Then they will be in my sanctuary, those serving in my sanctuary, as sentries at the gates of the temple and as those serving the temple; they will slaughter the burnt offering and the sacrifice for the people, and they will stand before them to serve them, {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Ezekiel-43-27]] }}}
{{rf{12}}} because they used to serve them before their idols and they were for the house of Israel like a stumbling block of iniquity. Therefore I swore concerning them," declares the Lord Yahweh, "that they will bear their iniquity. {{rf{13}}} And they shall not approach me to serve as a priest for me and to come near to all of my holy objects, to the most holy objects, and they will bear their disgrace and the results of their detestable things they have done. {{rf{14}}} And I will appoint them as the keepers of the responsibility of the temple, for all of its work and everything which will be done in it. {{rf{15}}} But the Levitical priests, the descendants of Zadok, who cared for the responsibility of my sanctuary when the Israelites went astray from me, they will approach me to serve me, and they will stand before me to offer to me fat and blood," declares the Lord Yahweh. {{rf{16}}} "They shall come to my sanctuary, and they shall approach my table to serve me, and they will observe my requirement. {{rf{17}}} And then when they come to the gates of the inner courtyards, they shall put on their inner linen garments and not wear wool garments when they serve in the gates of the inner courtyard and inside the temple. {{rf{18}}} Linen turbans shall be on their head and linen undergarments shall be on their waists; they shall not gird themselves with material causing perspiration. {{rf{19}}} When they go out to the outer courtyard to the people, they must take off their garment in which they were serving, and they must place them in the holy chambers, and they must put on other garments, so that they will not make the people holy with their garments. {{rf{20}}} And their head they shall not shave, or long hair they shall not let grow; short they shall clip their heads. {{rf{21}}} And no priest shall drink wine when they come into the inner courtyard. {{rf{22}}} And a widow or divorced woman they shall not take for themselves as wives, but only a virgin from the offspring of the house of Israel, or the widow who is a widow for a priest they may take. {{rf{23}}} And they will teach my people the difference between what is holy and what is unholy, and the difference between unclean and clean they must show them. {{rf{24}}} And at a legal dispute they themselves shall stand to judge; employing my judgments they shall judge it, and with respect to my laws and my statutes. All my festivals they shall keep and my Sabbaths they shall consecrate. {{rf{25}}} And near a dead person he shall not come to be defiled, but only for a father and for a mother and for a son and for a daughter, for a brother and for a sister who was not married may they defile themselves. {{rf{26}}} And, after his cleansing, they shall count for him seven days, {{rf{27}}} and then on the day of his coming into the sanctuary to the inner courtyard to serve in the sanctuary, he shall offer his sin offering," declares the Lord Yahweh. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Ezekiel-44-12]] }}}
{{rf{28}}} And thus it will be to them as regards inheritance, that I am their inheritance, and so you shall not give to them property in Israel; I am their property. {{rf{29}}} The grain offering and the sin offering and the guilt offering, they themselves may eat them, and also all the consecrated possessions in Israel will be theirs. {{rf{30}}} And also what is first of all of the firstfruits of everything, and of all of the contribution of everything from all of your contributions, to the priest it belongs, and what is first of your dough you shall give to the priest, so that a blessing may rest on your house. {{rf{31}}} Any dead body or mangled carcass from the birds or from the animals, the priests shall not eat." {{rf big{1}}} And when you allocate the land as an inheritance, you shall provide a contribution for Yahweh as a holy portion from the land, its length being twenty-five thousand cubits and its width ten thousand cubits; it is holy in all its territory, all around. {{rf{2}}} And there shall be from this area five hundred cubits by five hundred cubits, squared all around, for the sanctuary; and fifty cubits of open space shall be for it all around it. {{rf{3}}} And from this measured area you shall measure a length of twenty-five thousand cubits and a width of ten thousand cubits, and in it will be the sanctuary, the most holy place. {{rf{4}}} It is a holy portion from the land; it will be for the priests, the servants of the sanctuary who approach to serve Yahweh, and it will be for them a place for houses and a holy place for the sanctuary. {{rf{5}}} And an area twenty-five thousand cubits in length and ten thousand cubits in width will be for the Levites, the servants of the temple. It will serve as property for them as cities to dwell in. {{rf{6}}} And as property of the city, you must set apart alongside the contribution of the sanctuary a portion five thousand cubits in width and twenty-five thousand cubits in length, and it shall be for the entire house of Israel. {{rf{7}}} And a portion will be for the prince on both sides of the holy district, and both sides of the property of the city, and alongside the property of the city on the west, and alongside the property on the east. And also its length corresponds to one of the tribal portions to the west running to the eastern border. {{rf{8}}} This shall be to him with respect to the land as property in Israel; and so my princes shall not again oppress my people, but they shall give the land to the house of Israel according to their tribes." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Ezekiel-44-28]] }}}
{{rf{9}}} Thus says the Lord Yahweh, "Enough of this for you, the princes of Israel; put away violence and destruction and do justice and righteousness; revoke your acts of dispossession from upon my people!" declares the Lord Yahweh. {{rf{10}}} There shall be for you an honest set of scales and an honest ephah and an honest bath. {{rf{11}}} The ephah and the bath shall be one unit of measurement; the tenth part of the homer is the bath, and the tenth of the homer is the ephah; so the homer shall be its unit of measurement. {{rf{12}}} And the shekel shall weigh twenty gerahs, twenty shekels and five and twenty shekels and ten and five shekels, that shall make the mina for you. {{rf{13}}} This is the contribution offering which you shall present: a sixth of the ephah from a homer of wheat, and a sixth of the ephah from a homer of barley. {{rf{14}}} And the quota of the olive oil, the bath of the olive oil, is the tenth part of a bath from a kor, which is ten baths, or a homer -- for ten baths are equal to a homer. {{rf{15}}} And one sheep from the flock from among two hundred from the pastures of Israel will be taken as a grain offering and as a burnt offering and as a fellowship offering to make atonement for them," declares the Lord Yahweh. {{rf{16}}} "All of the people of the land shall join in to this contribution with the prince in Israel. {{rf{17}}} "But on the prince shall be the responsibility for the burnt offerings, and the grain offering, and the libation at the feasts, and at the New Moon festivals, and at the Sabbaths at all of the assemblies of the house of Israel; he shall provide the sin offering, and the grain offering, and the burnt offering, and the fellowship offering to make atonement for the house of Israel. {{rf{18}}} Thus says the Lord Yahweh: 'On the first month on the first day of the month, you shall take a bull, a calf without defect, and you shall purify the sanctuary. {{rf{19}}} And the priest shall take from the blood of the sin offering, and he shall put it on the doorframe of the temple and on the four corners of the ledge of the altar and on the doorframe of the gate of the inner courtyard. {{rf{20}}} And so you shall do on the seventh day in the month for anyone doing wrong inadvertently or due to ignorance, and so you must make atonement for the temple. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Ezekiel-45-09]] }}}
{{rf{21}}} In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, you shall have the Passover, a feast lasting for seven days, when you shall eat unleavened breads. {{rf{22}}} And the prince shall provide on that day for himself and for all of the people of the land a bull as a sin offering. {{rf{23}}} And during the seven days of the religious feast he shall provide as a burnt offering to Yahweh seven bulls and seven rams without defect for each of the seven days, and as a sin offering a he-goat for each day. {{rf{24}}} And as a grain offering, an ephah for the bull and an ephah for the ram he must provide, and a hin of olive oil for each ephah. {{rf{25}}} In the seventh month, on the fifteenth day of the month, during the feast, he shall provide just as he has for these seven days, as he did for the sin offering, as he did for the burnt offering, and as he did for the grain offering, and as he did for the olive oil.'" {{rf big{1}}} Thus says the Lord Yahweh: "The gate of the inner courtyard facing east must be shut on the six of the days for work, but on the day of the Sabbath it must be opened and on the day of the new moon it must be opened. {{rf{2}}} And the prince shall come by way of the portico of the gate from the outside, and he shall stand at the doorframe of the gate and the priests shall prepare his burnt offering and his fellowship offerings, and he shall bow down at the threshold of the gate. Then he shall go out, but the gate shall not be closed until the evening. {{rf{3}}} And the people of the land will bow down at the doorway of that gate on the Sabbaths and on the new moons before Yahweh. {{rf{4}}} And the burnt offering which the prince will offer to Yahweh on the Sabbath day must be six male lambs without defect and a ram without defect. {{rf{5}}} And the grain offering he will give shall be an ephah for each ram, and for the male lambs the grain offering shall be as much as he wants to give and a hin of olive oil for each ephah. {{rf{6}}} And on the day of the new moon he will offer a bull, a calf without defect and six male lambs and a ram; they must be without defect. {{rf{7}}} And an ephah for each bull and an ephah for the ram he must provide as a grain offering, and also for the male lambs as much as he can afford and a hin of olive oil for each ephah. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Ezekiel-45-21]] }}}
{{rf{8}}} And when the prince comes, on the way of the portico of the gate he shall come and by this way he shall go out. {{rf{9}}} And when the people of the land come before Yahweh at the festivals, the one coming by way of the gate of the north to bow down must go out by the way of the gate of the south, and the one coming by way of the gate of the south must go out by the way of the gate of the north, so he must not return by the way of the gate by which he came, but before it he shall go out opposite it. {{rf{10}}} And the prince will be in the midst of them; he will come in when they come in, and when they go out he will go out. {{rf{11}}} And at the festivals and at the appointed times, the grain offering will be an ephah with a bull and an ephah with the ram and with the male lambs, as much as he wants to give, and a hin of olive oil for each ephah. {{rf{12}}} And when the prince makes a freewill offering, a burnt offering, or a fellowship offering as a freewill offering to Yahweh, the gate facing east will be open for him. And he must offer his burnt offering and his fellowship offering just as he does on the day of the Sabbath, and then he must go out and the gate will shut after he goes out. {{rf{13}}} And a male lamb, a yearling without defect, he must provide as a burnt offering daily for Yahweh; every morning he must provide it. {{rf{14}}} And a grain offering he must provide in addition to it every morning, a sixth of an ephah and a third of a hin of olive oil to moisten the finely milled flour as a grain offering to Yahweh as a perpetual statute. {{rf{15}}} So they must provide the male lamb and the grain offering and the olive oil every morning as a regular burnt offering." {{rf{16}}} Thus says the Lord Yahweh: "If the prince gives a gift to any one from among his sons, it is his inheritance and it will belong to his sons; it is their possession as an inheritance. {{rf{17}}} And if he give a gift from his inheritance to one from among his servants, then it will belong to him until the year of release, and then it will return to the prince. His inheritance with respect to his sons will be only for them. {{rf{18}}} But the prince shall not take from the inheritance of the people to rob them, separating them from their property; from his own property he shall bestow an inheritance on his sons, so that my people will not be driven away, any one, from his property." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Ezekiel-46-08]] }}}
{{rf{19}}} Then he brought me through the entrance which was on the side of the gate to the holy chambers to the priests; the chambers were facing northwards and, look, there was a place at the extreme end westwards. {{rf{20}}} And he said to me, "This is the place where the priests will boil the guilt offering and the sin offering, and where they shall bake the grain offering in order not to bring them out to the outer courtyard to make the people holy. {{rf{21}}} And he brought me to the outer courtyard and led me past the four corners of the courtyard; and look, there was a courtyard in each corner of the courtyard. {{rf{22}}} In the four corners of the courtyard were small courtyards forty cubits in length and thirty cubits in width, each with the same measurements for the four of them with corners. {{rf{23}}} And a row was all around inside them, and cooking-places were made under the rows of stones all around. {{rf{24}}} And he said to me, "These are the houses for cooking, where the ones serving the temple shall cook the sacrifices of the people." {{rf big{1}}} And he brought me back to the doorway of the temple and, look! There was water coming out from under the threshold of the temple eastward, because the face of the temple was eastwards; and the water was coming down from under the south side of the temple, from south of the altar. {{rf{2}}} And he brought me out by the way of the north gate and he led me around by the way leading to the outside of the outer gate by way of the gate facing east, and look, there was water trickling from the south side. {{rf{3}}} As the man went eastward a measuring line was in his hand, and he measured a thousand cubits. And he led me through on into the water; it was ankle deep. {{rf{4}}} And he measured a thousand cubits, and he brought me over into the waters and it was knee deep. And he measured a thousand cubits, and he brought me over into the waters and it was waist deep. {{rf{5}}} And he measured a thousand cubits, and it became a stream that I was not able to cross, because the water rose, waters a person could swim in, and became a stream that could not be crossed. {{rf{6}}} And he asked me, "Son of man, did you see this?" And he made me go, and he brought me back along the bank of the stream. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Ezekiel-46-19]] }}}
{{rf{7}}} When I returned, then look! On the bank of the river were many trees on both sides. {{rf{8}}} And he said to me, "These waters are going out to the eastern region, and they go down to the Jordan Valley, and they come to the sea and flow into the sea where they issue out, and the waters in the sea will be healed. {{rf{9}}} And then every living creature with which it teems, to every place the waters come it will live; and very many fish will live because these waters came there, and so the water will be healed and everything will be alive everywhere that the stream will come. {{rf{10}}} And then fishers from En Gedi and on up to En Eglaim will stand beside it, a sea-girt drying yard for nets; their fish for the dragnets will be of every kind, like the fish of the great sea, and very many. {{rf{11}}} But its marshes and its swamps will not be cured, for they were given for salt. {{rf{12}}} And along the stream will go up on its banks from both sides every tree producing food; its leaf will not wither and it will not cease producing its fruit. Every month it will bear early fruit, for its waters are going out from the sanctuary, and its fruit will be as food, and its leaf for healing." {{rf{13}}} Thus says the Lord Yahweh: "This is the boundary by which you shall distribute the land for the twelve tribes of Israel: Two shares shall be for Joseph. {{rf{14}}} And you must take possession of it, each one a share like his brother, of this land which I swore to give it to your fathers, and so this land shall fall to you as an inheritance. {{rf{15}}} And this is the boundary of the land: On the north side, from the great sea by the way of Hethlon until you come to Zedad, {{rf{16}}} Hamath to Berothath to Sibraim, which is between the boundary of Damascus and the boundary of Hamath, on to Hazer Hatticon, which is on the boundary of Hauran. {{rf{17}}} And so the boundary will be from the sea to Hazar Enan at the boundary of Damascus northwards and the boundary of Hamath to the north, and this is the boundary on the side of the north. {{rf{18}}} And the eastern boundary will be between Hauran and Damascus, and from between Gilead and the land of Israel along the Jordan River from the boundary on the eastern sea to Tamar. And this is the border on the east. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Ezekiel-47-07]] }}}
{{rf{19}}} And on the south side the border will run from Tamar up to the waters of Meribot Kadesh and along the wadi to the Great Sea. And this is the boundary to the south. {{rf{20}}} And on the west side the Great Sea shall be the boundary up to opposite Lebo-Hamath. This is the western boundary. {{rf{21}}} You shall divide this land for yourselves according to the tribes of Israel. {{rf{22}}} And then you shall allocate it as an inheritance for yourselves and for the aliens dwelling as aliens in the midst of you who have children in the midst of you, and so they shall be to you just like full citizens among the Israelites. With you they shall be allotted with an inheritance in the midst of the tribes of Israel. {{rf{23}}} And then in the tribe in which an alien who is with you dwells, there you shall give his inheritance," declares the Lord Yahweh. {{rf big{1}}} And these are the names of the tribes: At the end of the north, along the way to Hethlon from Lebo-hamath to Hazar Enan on the boundary of Damascus beside Hamath northward, there will be one portion for Dan from the eastern border to the west. {{rf{2}}} And next to the territory of Dan, from the eastern border up to the western border, one portion for Asher. {{rf{3}}} And next to the territory of Asher, from the eastern border and up to the western border, one portion for Naphtali. {{rf{4}}} And next to the territory of Naphtali, from the eastern border up to the western border, one portion for Manasseh. {{rf{5}}} And next to the territory of Manasseh, from the eastern border up to the western border, one portion for Ephraim. {{rf{6}}} And next to the territory of Ephraim, from the eastern border and up to the western border, one portion for Reuben. {{rf{7}}} And next to the territory of Reuben, from the eastern border up to the western border, one portion for Judah. {{rf{8}}} And next to the territory of Judah, from the eastern border up to the western border, shall be located the contribution that you set apart, twenty-five thousand cubits in width, and its length just like one of the portions from the eastern border up to the western border, and the sanctuary shall be in the midst of it. {{rf{9}}} The contribution that you shall set apart for Yahweh, its length shall be twenty-five thousand cubits, and its width ten thousand cubits. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Ezekiel-47-19]] }}}
{{rf{10}}} And to these shall be the holy district: to the priests northwards twenty-five thousand cubits, and westwards its width ten thousand cubits, and eastwards its width ten thousand cubits, and southwards its length twenty-five thousand cubits, and the sanctuary of Yahweh shall be in the midst of it. {{rf{11}}} To the priests, the ones being consecrated from the descendants of Zadok, who took care of my service and who did not go astray when the Israelites went astray, just as the Levites went astray. {{rf{12}}} And it will be for them a special gift from the contribution of the land as a most holy object next to the territory of the Levites. {{rf{13}}} And the Levites alongside the territory of the priests shall have twenty-five thousand cubits in length and in width ten thousand cubits, its full length, twenty-five thousand cubits and its full width, ten thousand cubits. {{rf{14}}} And they shall not sell any part from it, and shall not exchange, and shall not transfer the best of the land, for it is holy to Yahweh. {{rf{15}}} And the remaining part of five thousand cubits in the width by twenty-five thousand cubits, is unholy; it is for the city as dwelling and as pastureland; and the city will be located in the middle of it. {{rf{16}}} And these shall be its measurements: on its side to the north, four thousand five hundred cubits; and on its side to the south, four thousand five hundred cubits; and on the eastern side, four thousand five hundred cubits; and on the western side, four thousand five hundred cubits. {{rf{17}}} And a pastureland shall be for the city northwards, two hundred and fifty cubits, southwards two hundred and fifty cubits, and eastwards two hundred and fifty cubits, and westwards two hundred and fifty cubits. {{rf{18}}} And the rest in its length alongside the holy district, ten thousand cubits eastwards and ten thousand westwards; and it shall be alongside the holy district and its yield shall be as food for the workers of the city. {{rf{19}}} And the workers of the city from all the tribes of Israel shall cultivate it. {{rf{20}}} All of the contribution, twenty-five thousand by twenty five thousand cubits square, you shall set apart as the holy district along with the property of the city. {{rf{21}}} And the rest shall be to the prince, on both sides of the holy district and of the property of the city extending from twenty-five thousand cubits of the contribution up to the boundary of the east, and westwards extending twenty-five thousand cubits to the boundary of the sea alongside the tribal portions. They shall be for the prince, and it shall be the holy district, and the sanctuary of the temple will be in its middle. {{rf{22}}} And also the property of the Levites and the property of the city will be in the midst of the property which is for the prince; between the territory of Judah and between the territory of Benjamin the land will be for the prince. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Ezekiel-48-10]] }}}
{{rf{23}}} And for the remainder of the tribes: From the side on the east up to the side on the west, Benjamin one portion; {{rf{24}}} and next to the territory of Benjamin, from the side on the east up to the side of the sea, Simeon one portion; {{rf{25}}} and next to the territory of Simeon, from the side of the east up to the side of the sea, Issachar one portion; {{rf{26}}} and next to the territory of Issachar, from the side of the east up to the side of the sea, Zebulun one portion; {{rf{27}}} and next to the territory of Zebulun, from the side of the east up to the side of the sea, Gad one portion; {{rf{28}}} and next to the territory of Gad, to the side of the south, southward; and the territory will be from Tamar to the waters of Meribath Kadesh, toward the wadi, on to the Great Sea. {{rf{29}}} This is the land that you shall allot as an inheritance to the tribes of Israel, and these are their portions," declares the Lord Yahweh. {{rf{30}}} And these shall be the exits of the city: From the north side, four thousand and five hundred cubits by measurement. {{rf{31}}} And the gates of the city shall be according to the names of the tribes of Israel: three gates to the north, the gate of Reuben, one; the gate of Judah, one; the gate of Levi, one. {{rf{32}}} And on the east side, four thousand five hundred cubits, and three gates, and so the gate of Joseph, one; the gate of Benjamin, one; the gate of Dan, one. {{rf{33}}} And on the south side, four thousand five hundred cubits by measurement, and so three gates, the gate of Simeon, one; the gate of Issachar, one; the gate of Zebulun, one. {{rf{34}}} And on the west side, four thousand five hundred cubits, and their gates three, the gate of Gad, one; the gate of Asher, one; the gate of Naphtali, one. {{rf{35}}} All around the city is eighteen thousand cubits, and the name of the city from that day is "Yahweh Is There"! {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Ezekiel-48-23]] }}}
In the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, in order to accomplish the word of Yahweh by the mouth of Jeremiah, Yahweh stirred the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia and he sent a message to all of his kingdom and also put the message in writing: {{rf{2}}} "Thus says Cyrus king of Persia: Yahweh, the God of the heavens, has given me all the kingdoms of the earth. And he himself has appointed me to build a house for him in Jerusalem, which is in Judah. {{rf{3}}} Whoever among you who is from all of his people, may his God be with him and may he go up to Jerusalem, which is in Judah, and may he build the house of Yahweh, the God of Israel. He is the God who is in Jerusalem. {{rf{4}}} And let every survivor, from wherever he resides be assisted by the men of that place with silver and gold, with possessions and domestic animals, and with the freewill offering for the house of God which is in Jerusalem." {{rf{5}}} So the heads of the families for Judah and Benjamin, and the priests and the Levites -- to all whose spirit God had stirred -- prepared to go up and build the house of Yahweh which is in Jerusalem. {{rf{6}}} And all of their neighbors helped them with objects of silver, gold, possessions, domestic animals, and with valuable gifts -- besides all of the freewill offering. {{rf{7}}} And Cyrus the king brought out the objects of the house of Yahweh that Nebuchadnezzar had brought from Jerusalem and placed in the house of his gods. {{rf{8}}} Cyrus the king of Persia let them go out by the hand of Mithredath the treasurer, and he counted them out to Sheshbazzar the prince of Judah. {{rf{9}}} Now these were the inventories: thirty gold metal dishes, one thousand silver metal dishes, twenty-nine vessels, {{rf{10}}} thirty bowls of gold, four hundred and ten matching silver metal bowls, and one thousand other objects. {{rf{11}}} All of the objects of gold and silver metal were five thousand four hundred. All this Sheshbazzar brought up along with the exiles from Babylonia to Jerusalem. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Ezra-01-01]] }}}
<<Bbl Ezra 4:15 abbr>> Such a search it must have been -- a practiced, organized corp of scholars surveying many rooms.
<<Bbl Ezra 5:1 abbr>>, <<Bbl Ezra 6:14 abbr>> The prophets are the key.
<<Bbl Ezra 7:10 abbr >> -- In which we learn about the character of Ezra and find an outline of conduct for our own lives.
<<Bbl Ezra 8:21 abbr>>-23 A statement of faith -- especially the last words. A striking contrast with Nehemiah's sense of providence, wisdom and faith; how people of God can differ!
<<Bbl Ezra 8:24 abbr>>-30 So we are charged with the faithful carriage of God's glory in the Gospel until we deposit it finally in the New Jerusalem.
<<Bbl Ezra 9:3 abbr >> - //Arise!//
Now these were the people of the province who came up from the captivity of the exile whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon carried captive to Babylonia. They returned to Jerusalem and Judah, each to his own city. {{rf{2}}} They came with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Seraiah, Reelaiah, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispar, Bigvai, Rehum, and Baanah. The number of the men of the people of Israel: {{rf{3}}} the descendants of Parosh, two thousand one hundred and seventy-two; {{rf{4}}} the descendants of Shephatiah, three hundred and seventy-two; {{rf{5}}} the descendants of Arah, seven hundred and seventy-five; {{rf{6}}} the descendants of Pahath-moab, particularly the descendants of Jeshua and Joab, two thousand eight hundred and twelve; {{rf{7}}} the descendants of Elam, one thousand two hundred and fifty-four; {{rf{8}}} the descendants of Zattu, nine hundred and forty-five; {{rf{9}}} the descendants of Zaccai, seven hundred and sixty; {{rf{10}}} the descendants of Bani, six hundred and forty-two; {{rf{11}}} the descendants of Bebai, six hundred and twenty-three; {{rf{12}}} the descendants of Azgad, one thousand two hundred and twenty-two; {{rf{13}}} the descendants of Adonikam, six hundred and sixty-six; {{rf{14}}} the descendants of Bigvai, two thousand fifty-six; {{rf{15}}} the descendants of Adin, four hundred and fifty-four; {{rf{16}}} the descendants of Ater, particularly of Hezekiah, ninety-eight; {{rf{17}}} the descendants of Bezai, three hundred and twenty-three; {{rf{18}}} the descendants of Jorah, one hundred and twelve; {{rf{19}}} the descendants of Hashum, two hundred and twenty-three; {{rf{20}}} the descendants of Gibbar, ninety-five; {{rf{21}}} the people of Bethlehem, one hundred and twenty-three; {{rf{22}}} the men of Netophah, fifty-six; {{rf{23}}} the men of Anathoth, one hundred and twenty-eight; {{rf{24}}} the people of Azmaveth, forty-two; {{rf{25}}} the people of Kiriath Αrim, Kephirah, and Beeroth, seven hundred and forty-three; {{rf{26}}} the people of Ramah and Geba, six hundred and twenty-one; {{rf{27}}} the men of Micmash, one hundred and twenty-two; {{rf{28}}} the men of Bethel and Ai, two hundred and twenty-three; {{rf{29}}} the people of Nebo, fifty-two; {{rf{30}}} the people of Magbish, one hundred and fifty-six; {{rf{31}}} the people of the other Elam, one thousand two hundred and fifty-four; {{rf{32}}} the people of Harim, three hundred and twenty; {{rf{33}}} the people of Lod, Hadid, and Ono, seven hundred and twenty-five; {{rf{34}}} the people of Jericho, three hundred and forty-five; {{rf{35}}} the people of Senaah, three thousand six hundred and thirty. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Ezra-02-01]] }}}
{{rf{36}}} The priests: the descendants of Jedaiah, of the house of Jeshua, nine hundred and seventy-three; {{rf{37}}} the descendants of Immer, one thousand fifty-two; {{rf{38}}} the descendants of Pashhur, one thousand two hundred and forty-seven; {{rf{39}}} the descendants of Harim, one thousand seventeen. {{rf{40}}} The Levites: the descendants of Jeshua and Kadmiel, of the descendants of Hodaviah, seventy-four. {{rf{41}}} The singers: the descendants of Asaph, one hundred and twenty-eight. {{rf{42}}} The descendants of the gatekeepers: the descendants of Shallum, the descendants of Ater, the descendants of Talmon, the descendants of Akkub, the descendants of Hatita, and the descendants of Shobai; in total one hundred and thirty-nine. {{rf{43}}} The temple servants: the descendants of Ziha, the descendants of Hasupha, the descendants of Tabbaoth, {{rf{44}}} the descendants of Keros, the descendants of Siaha, the descendants of Padon, {{rf{45}}} the descendants of Lebanah, the descendants of Hagabah, the descendants of Akkub, {{rf{46}}} the descendants of Hagab, the descendants of Shamlai, the descendants of Hanan, {{rf{47}}} the descendants of Giddel, the descendants of Gahar, the descendants of Reaiah, {{rf{48}}} the descendants of Rezin, the descendants of Nekoda, the descendants of Gazzam, {{rf{49}}} the descendants of Uzza, the descendants of Paseah, the descendants of Besai, {{rf{50}}} the descendants of Asnah, the descendants of Meunim, the descendants of Nephisim, {{rf{51}}} the descendants of Bakbuk, the descendants of Hakupha, the descendants of Harhur, {{rf{52}}} the descendants of Bazluth, the descendants of Mehida, the descendants of Harsha, {{rf{53}}} the descendants of Barkos, the descendants of Sisera, the descendants of Temah, {{rf{54}}} the descendants of Neziah, and the descendants of Hatipha. {{rf{55}}} The descendants of Solomon's servants: the descendants of Sotai, the descendants of Hassophereth, the descendants of Peruda, {{rf{56}}} the descendants of Jaalah, the descendants of Darkon, the descendants of Giddel, {{rf{57}}} the descendants of Shephatiah, the descendants of Hattil, the descendants of Pochereth-hazzebaim, and the descendants of Ami. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Ezra-02-36]] }}}
{{rf{58}}} All the temple servants and the descendants of Solomon's servants were three hundred and ninety-two. {{rf{59}}} Now these were the ones who came up from Tel-melah, Tel-harsha, Cherub, Addan, and Immer, but they were not able to prove their fathers' household and their descent, if they were from Israel: {{rf{60}}} the descendants of Delaiah, the descendants of Tobiah, and the descendants of Nekoda, six hundred and fifty-two. {{rf{61}}} And from the descendants of the priests: the descendants of Habaiah, the descendants of Hakkoz, and the descendants of Barzillai (who took a wife from the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite, and was called by their name). {{rf{62}}} These sought their record in the genealogy records, but they were not found, and were excluded from the priesthood as unclean. {{rf{63}}} The governor said to them that they could not eat from the holy food of the sanctuary until there was present a priest for the Urim and Thummim. {{rf{64}}} The whole assembly together was forty-two thousand three hundred and sixty, {{rf{65}}} apart from their male and female servants, of whom were seven thousand three hundred and thirty-seven; and they had two hundred male and female singers. {{rf{66}}} Their horses numbered seven hundred and thirty-six, their mules numbered two hundred and forty-five, {{rf{67}}} their camels numbered four hundred and thirty-five, their donkeys numbered six thousand seven hundred and twenty. {{rf{68}}} When some of the heads of families came to the house of Yahweh that is in Jerusalem, they gave freewill offerings for the house of God to erect it on its place. {{rf{69}}} According to their ability they gave to the treasury room for the work sixty-one thousand darics of gold, five thousand minas of silver, and one hundred priestly tunics. {{rf{70}}} The priests, the Levites, and some of the people lived in Jerusalem, and the singers, the gatekeepers, and the temple servants lived in their cities, and all Israel in their cities. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Ezra-02-58]] }}}
Now the seventh month drew near and the Israelites were in the cities, so the people gathered as one in Jerusalem. {{rf{2}}} And Jeshua son of Jehozadak and his brothers the priests stood up, and Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel and his brothers built the altar of the God of Israel, in order to offer burnt offerings on it, as it is written in the law of Moses, the man of God. {{rf{3}}} They set up the altar on its foundations, because they were in terror because of the peoples of the lands. And they offered burnt offerings on it for Yahweh, burnt offerings for the morning and the evening. {{rf{4}}} And they kept the feast of booths, as it is written, and offered burnt offerings day by day in number according to the ordinance as described for each day. {{rf{5}}} After this, they presented the daily sacrifice of burnt offerings, the offerings for the New Moon Festival, and for all of the appointed times consecrated for Yahweh and for all who gave a freewill offering to Yahweh. {{rf{6}}} From the first day of the seventh month they began to offer burnt offerings to Yahweh. But the temple of Yahweh was not yet founded. {{rf{7}}} So they gave money to the stone craftsmen and skilled craftsmen, and food, drink, and olive oil to the Sidonians and Tyrians, to bring cedar trees from Lebanon to the sea of Joppa, according to the authorization over them of Cyrus king of Persia. {{rf{8}}} In the second year after their coming to the house of God at Jerusalem, in the second month, Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel and Jeshua son of Jehozadak began their work, and the remainder of their brothers the priests and the Levites and all who came from the captivity to Jerusalem. They appointed the Levites from twenty years and older to direct the work of the house of Yahweh. {{rf{9}}} And Jeshua with his sons and brothers, and Kadmiel and his sons -- the sons of Judah -- together directed the workers in the house of God, along with the sons of Henadad and their sons and brothers the Levites. {{rf{10}}} And the builders laid the foundation of the temple of Yahweh, and the priests in their apparel with the trumpets, and the Levites, the sons of Asaph, with the cymbals, were positioned to praise Yahweh, as described by King David of Israel. {{rf{11}}} And they sang responsively, with praising and thanksgiving to Yahweh saying, "For he is good, for his loyal love is everlasting for Israel." And all of the people responded with a great shout of joyful acclaim in praise to Yahweh because the house of Yahweh was laid. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Ezra-03-01]] }}}
{{rf{12}}} But many of the elderly priests, Levites, and heads of the families who had seen the first temple, wept with a loud voice when they saw the foundation of this house, but many shouted aloud with joy. {{rf{13}}} No person could distinguish the sound of joyful acclaim from the sound of people weeping, for the people shouted with great joyful acclaim and the sound was heard from afar. {{rf big{1}}} Now the enemies of Judah and Benjamin heard that the returned exiles were building a temple for Yahweh the God of Israel. {{rf{2}}} And they approached Zerubbabel and the heads of the families, and they said to them, "Let us build with you. Like you, we seek your God and have been sacrificing to him from the days of Esarhaddon the king of Assyria who brought us up here. {{rf{3}}} But Zerubbabel, Jeshua, and the rest of the heads of the families of Israel said to them, "It is not for you but for us to build a house for our God. For we ourselves alone will build it for Yahweh the God of Israel, just as Cyrus the king of Persia has commanded us." {{rf{4}}} Then the people of the land discouraged the people of Judah and made them afraid to build {{rf{5}}} and bribed officials against them to frustrate their plan for all the days of Cyrus king of Persia until the reign of Darius king of Persia. {{rf{6}}} In the reign of Ahasuerus, at the beginning of his reign, they wrote an accusation against the inhabitants of Judah and Jerusalem. {{rf{7}}} And in the days of Artaxerxes, Bishlam, Mithredath, Tabeel, and the rest of their colleagues wrote to Artaxerxes king of Persia. The letter was written in Aramaic and translated from Aramaic. {{rf{8}}} Rehum the royal officer and Shimshai the scribe wrote a letter against Jerusalem to King Artaxerxes as follows {{rf{9}}} (then Rehum the royal officer, Shimshai the scribe, and the rest of their associates, the judges, the envoys, the officials, the Persians, the Erechs, the Babylonians, the Susians (that is the Elamites) {{rf{10}}} and the rest of the nations whom the great and noble Osnappar deported and settled in the cities of Samaria and the rest of the province Beyond the River) and now {{rf{11}}} this is the copy of the letter which they sent to him: "To King Artaxerxes from your servants, the men of the province Beyond the River. And now, {{rf{12}}} be it known to the king that the Jews who have come up from near you to us have gone to Jerusalem. They are building the rebellious and wicked city. They are finishing the wall and repairing the foundation. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Ezra-03-12]] }}}
{{rf{13}}} Now be it known to the king that if this city is built and the walls are finished, they will not pay tribute and toll, and the royal revenue will be reduced. {{rf{14}}} Now since we eat the salt of the palace and the dishonor of the king is not proper for us to see, we send and make this known to the king, {{rf{15}}} so that it may be investigated in the book of records of your ancestors. You will find in the book of records and learn that this city is a rebellious city, hurtful to kings and provinces, and they have rebelled in its midst from ancient times. Because of that this city was destroyed. {{rf{16}}} We make known to the king that if this city is built and the walls are finished, you will have nothing in the province Beyond the River." {{rf{17}}} The king sent a reply: "To Rehum the royal officer, Shimshai the scribe, and the rest of their associates who live in Samaria and the rest of the province Beyond the River, greetings. And now {{rf{18}}} the letter that you sent to us has been translated and read before me. {{rf{19}}} And I issued a decree, and they searched and found that this city from ancient days revolted against kings, and rebellion and sedition has been made in it. {{rf{20}}} Mighty kings have ruled over Jerusalem, governing all the province Beyond the River, to whom tribute, duty, and tax has been given. {{rf{21}}} So now, issue forth a decree that these men stop and this city not be built, until a decree is issued from me. {{rf{22}}} And be careful not to be negligent on this matter. Why should damage grow to hurt kings?" {{rf{23}}} Then when a copy of the letter of King Artaxerxes was read before Rehum, Shimshai the scribe, and their associates they returned in a hurry to Jerusalem against the Jews and they stopped them by force and power. {{rf{24}}} Then the work on the house of God in Jerusalem stopped, and was discontinued until the second year of the reign of Darius king of Persia. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Ezra-04-13]] }}}
Now the prophets, Haggai and Zechariah the son of Iddo, prophesied to the Jews who were in Judah and in Jerusalem, in the name of the God of Israel who was over them. {{rf{2}}} Then Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel and Jeshua the son of Jozadak set out and began to build the house of God that is in Jerusalem. And with them the prophets of God were helping them. {{rf{3}}} At the same time Tattenai, governor of the province Beyond the River, and Shethar-bozenai, and their associates came to them and spoke to them thus: "Who issued you all a decree to build this house and to finish this structure?" {{rf{4}}} Then we asked them this: "What are the names of the men who are building this building?" {{rf{5}}} And the eye of their God was on the elders of the Jews, and they did not stop them until the report came to Darius, and then answer was received. {{rf{6}}} The copy of the letter that Tattenai, the governor of the province Beyond the River, and Shethar-bozenai and his associates the envoys who were in the province Beyond the River sent to Darius the king. {{rf{7}}} They sent to him the report in which was written as follows: "To Darius the king, all peace. {{rf{8}}} May it be known to the king that we went to the province of Judah, the house of the great God. It is being built with stone blocks and timber is being put in the walls. This work is being done with diligence and is making progress in their hands. {{rf{9}}} Then we asked those elders and said this to them, 'Who issued forth to you a decree to build this house and to finish this structure?' {{rf{10}}} We also asked them their names to make them known to you, that we might write down the name of their leaders. {{rf{11}}} And this is the answer they returned to us: 'We are servants of the God of heaven and earth, and we are building the house that was built formerly many years ago, which a great king of Israel had built and finished. {{rf{12}}} But because our ancestors angered the God of heaven, he gave them into the hand of the Chaldean King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon. He destroyed this house and carried away the people to Babylonia. {{rf{13}}} But in the first year of King Cyrus of Babylon's reign he issued forth a decree to build this house of God. {{rf{14}}} Also, the gold and silver vessels of the house of God, which Nebuchadnezzar took away from the temple in Jerusalem and brought to the temple in Babylonia, King Cyrus removed them from the temple in Babylonia and they were given to Sheshbazzar, whom he appointed governor. {{rf{15}}} He said to him, 'Take these vessels. Go put them in the temple in Jerusalem and let the house of God be built on its site.' {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Ezra-05-01]] }}}
{{rf{16}}} Then this Sheshbazzar came and laid the foundation of the house of God in Jerusalem. And from that time until now it is being built, but not yet finished.' {{rf{17}}} And now, if it seems good for the king, let it be investigated in the house of the treasury of the king in Babylonia to see if a decree was issued forth from King Cyrus to build this house of God in Jerusalem. And let the king send to us his desire on this matter." {{rf big{1}}} Then King Darius issued forth a decree, and they searched the house of the treasury of scrolls being stored in Babylonia. {{rf{2}}} But it was in Ecbatana in the province of Media, in the citadel, that a certain scroll had written on it, "A record. {{rf{3}}} In the first year of King Cyrus, he issued forth a decree concerning the house of God in Jerusalem. Let the house be built, the place where sacrifices are offered and let its foundations be raised. Its height shall be sixty cubits and its width sixty cubits, {{rf{4}}} with three layers of great stones and a layer of timber. Let the new expenses be paid from the house of the king. {{rf{5}}} Also, let the gold and silver vessels of the house of God, which Nebuchadnezzar took from the temple in Jerusalem and brought to Babylonia, be returned and brought to the temple in Jerusalem to its place. Put them in the house of God." {{rf{6}}} "Now then, Tattenai governor of the province Beyond the River, Shethar-bozenai, and your associates, the envoys who are in the province Beyond the River -- keep far away from there. {{rf{7}}} Leave this work of the house of God alone. Let the governor of the Jews and the elders of the Jews build this house of God on its site. {{rf{8}}} And I issue forth a decree for what you should do for these elders of the Jews to build this house of God. The full expense will be paid to these men from the riches of the king from the taxes of the province Beyond the River, without delay. {{rf{9}}} Whatever may be needed -- young bulls, young rams, sheep for burnt offerings to the God of heaven, wheat, salt, wine, and oil for the priests in Jerusalem -- let it be given to them day by day with no negligence, {{rf{10}}} that they may offer incense offerings to the God of heaven, and pray for the life of the king and his children. {{rf{11}}} Furthermore, I issue forth a decree that if any person violates this decree, let a beam be pulled out from his house and let him be impaled on it. And let his house be made a pile of rubble on account of this. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Ezra-05-16]] }}}
{{rf{12}}} May the God who has set his name there overthrow any king or people who sets his hand to alter or to destroy this house of God in Jerusalem. I, Darius, issue forth a decree. Let it be done with diligence." {{rf{13}}} Then Tattenai the governor of the province Beyond the River, Shethar-bozenai, and their associates consequently did with diligence what Darius the king ordered. {{rf{14}}} So the elders of the Jews were building and prospering, through the prophecy of Haggai the prophet and Zechariah son of Iddo. They finished building by the command of the God of Israel and by the decree of Cyrus, Darius, and King Artaxerxes of Persia. {{rf{15}}} This house was completed on the third day of the month of Adar, which was in the sixth year of the reign of King Darius. {{rf{16}}} And the Israelites, the priests, the Levites, and the rest of the returned exiles celebrated the dedication of this house of God with joy. {{rf{17}}} And they offered during the dedication of this house of God one hundred young bulls, two hundred young rams, four hundred lambs, and twelve male goats as a sin offering for Israel according to the number of the tribes of Israel. {{rf{18}}} Then they set the priests in their divisions and the Levites in their sections for the work of God in Jerusalem, as it is written in the book of Moses. {{rf{19}}} On the fourteenth day of the first month the returned exiles observed the Passover feast. {{rf{20}}} For the priests and Levites together had consecrated themselves; all of them were clean. And they slaughtered the Passover sacrifice for all of the returned exiles, for their brothers the priests, and for themselves. {{rf{21}}} The Israelites who returned from the exile and all those who separated themselves from the uncleanness of the nations of the earth to seek Yahweh the God of Israel, ate. {{rf{22}}} With joy they celebrated the festival of unleavened bread for seven days, because Yahweh had made them joyful and had turned the heart of the king of Assyria toward them in order to help them with the work of their hands on the house of the God of Israel. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Ezra-06-12]] }}}
After these things during the reign of King Artaxerxes of Persia, Ezra the son of Seraiah, son of Azariah, son of Hilkiah, {{rf{2}}} son of Shallum, son of Zadok, son of Ahitub, {{rf{3}}} son of Amariah, son of Azariah, son of Meraioth, {{rf{4}}} , son of Zerahiah, son of Uzzi, son of Bukki, {{rf{5}}} son of Abishua, son of Phinehas, son of Eleazar, son of Aaron the chief priest -- {{rf{6}}} this Ezra went up from Babylonia. He was a scribe skilled in the law of Moses, which Yahweh the God of Israel gave. The king granted him all his requests, for the hand of Yahweh was upon him. {{rf{7}}} Some of the Israelites, some priests and Levites, the singers, the gatekeepers, and the temple servants went up to Jerusalem in the seventh year of King Artaxerxes. {{rf{8}}} He came to Jerusalem in the fifth month, which was in the seventh year of the king. {{rf{9}}} For on the first day of the first month he began the journey from Babylonia; and on the first day of the fifth month he came to Jerusalem, for the good hand of his God was on him. {{rf{10}}} For Ezra had set his heart to seek the law of Yahweh, to do it, and to teach the regulations and judgments in Israel. {{rf{11}}} This is the copy of the letter that King Artaxerxes gave to Ezra the priest, the scribe of the scroll of the words of the commands of Yahweh and his statutes for Israel: {{rf{12}}} "Artaxerxes, the king of kings, to Ezra the priest, the scribe of the law of the God of the heavens. Peace. And now {{rf{13}}} I issue forth a decree that any of the people of Israel, their priests, or their Levites in my kingdom who are willing to go to Jerusalem may go with you. {{rf{14}}} For you are sent from the king and his seven counselors to enquire about Judah and Jerusalem concerning the law of your God, which is in your hand. {{rf{15}}} Also, bring the silver and gold that the king and his advisors have freely offered to the God of Israel whose dwelling is in Jerusalem, {{rf{16}}} and all of the silver and gold that you will find in the whole province of Babylonia, with the freewill offerings of the people and the priests giving willingly for the house of their God in Jerusalem. {{rf{17}}} With this money, then, with diligence you must buy young bulls, young rams, lambs, and their offerings and libations. You must offer them on the altar that is in the house of your God in Jerusalem. {{rf{18}}} You may do whatever seems best to you and your brothers to do with the remainder of the silver and gold according to the desire of your God. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Ezra-07-01]] }}}
{{rf{19}}} And the vessels that were given to you for the service of the house of your God you shall deliver before the God of Jerusalem. {{rf{20}}} And the remainder of the needs for the house of your God that falls to you to provide, you may provide from the house of the king's treasury." {{rf{21}}} "I, even I, King Artaxerxes, issue forth a decree to all the treasurers who are in the province Beyond the River. Whatever the priest Ezra, the scribe of the law of the God of heaven, may ask of you, let it be done with diligence, {{rf{22}}} up to one hundred talents of silver, one hundred measures of wheat, one hundred baths of wine, one hundred baths of oil, and unlimited salt. {{rf{23}}} All that is commanded by the God of heaven, let it be done with diligence for the house of the God of heaven, otherwise wrath will come on the kingdom of the king and his sons. {{rf{24}}} You also should be aware that it is not permitted to place tax, tribute, or duty upon all of the priests, the Levites, the singers, the doorkeepers, the temple servants, and other servants of the house of God. {{rf{25}}} "You, Ezra, according to the wisdom of your God that you possess, appoint magistrates and judges who can judge all of the people in the province Beyond the River who know the laws of your God. And you will teach those who do not know. {{rf{26}}} All who do not obey the law of your God and the law of the king, let judgment be executed on him with diligence, whether for death or for banishment or for confiscation of goods and for imprisonment." {{rf{27}}} Blessed be Yahweh the God of our ancestors, who put this in the heart of the king to glorify the house of Yahweh in Jerusalem {{rf{28}}} and who extended to me loyal love before the king and his counselors, and before all of the mighty officials of the king. I took courage, for the hand of Yahweh my God was upon me, and I gathered leaders from Israel to go up with me. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Ezra-07-19]] }}}
These were the heads of their families and the register of those returnees from Babylonia who came up with me in the reign of King Artaxerxes: {{rf{2}}} From the descendants of Phinehas: Gershom. From the descendants of Ithamar: Daniel. From the descendants of David: Hattush. {{rf{3}}} From the descendants of Shecaniah, from the descendants of Parosh: Zechariah and with him one hundred and fifty registered males. {{rf{4}}} From the descendants of Pahath-Moab: Eliehoenai son of Zerahiah and with him two hundred males. {{rf{5}}} From the descendants of Zattu: Shecaniah son of Jahaziel, and with him three hundred males. {{rf{6}}} From the descendants of Adin: Ebed son of Jehonathan, and with him fifty males. {{rf{7}}} From the descendants of Elam: Jeshaiah son of Athaliah, and with him seventy males. {{rf{8}}} From the descendants of Shephatiah: Zebadiah son of Michael, and with him eighty males. {{rf{9}}} From the descendants of Joab: Obadiah son of Jehiel, and with him two hundred and eighteen males. {{rf{10}}} From the descendants of Bani: Shelomith son of Josiphiah, and with him one hundred and sixty males. {{rf{11}}} From the descendants of Bebai: Zechariah son of Bebai, and with him twenty-eight males. {{rf{12}}} From the descendants of Azgad: Jehohanan son of Haqqatan, and with him one hundred and ten males. {{rf{13}}} From the descendants of Adonikam, those who came last, these were their names: Eliphelet, Jeiel, Shemaiah, and with them sixty males. {{rf{14}}} From the descendants of Bigvai: Uthai son of Zabud, and with him seventy males. {{rf{15}}} I gathered them by the river that goes to Ahava and we camped there for three days. And I looked at the people and the priests, I found no one there from the sons of Levi. {{rf{16}}} And I sent for Eliezer, Ariel, Shemaiah, Elnathan, Jarib, Elnathan, Nathan, Zechariah, and Meshullam, who were family heads, and for Jehoiarib and Elnathan who were wise. {{rf{17}}} I sent them to Iddo, the head of the place called Casiphia, and I placed in their mouths what words to say to Iddo and his brothers the temple servants in Casiphia, to send to us ministers for the house of our God. {{rf{18}}} With the good hand of our God before us, they brought us a man of understanding from the sons of Mahli, son of Levi, son of Israel -- Sherebiah and his sons and brothers, eighteen in total. {{rf{19}}} Also Hashabiah and with him Jeshaiah, the sons of Merari, with his brothers and their sons, twenty in total. {{rf{20}}} And from the temple servants, whom David and his officials had set up to serve the Levites, two hundred and twenty in total. All of them were registered by name. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Ezra-08-01]] }}}
{{rf{21}}} I proclaimed a fast there at the river Ahava to humble ourselves before our God in order to seek from him a safe journey for us, our children, and our possessions. {{rf{22}}} For I was ashamed to ask the king for troops and horses to protect us from enemies on the way because we said to the king, "the hand of our God is favorable to all who seek him, but his strength and anger are against all who forsake them." {{rf{23}}} So we fasted and sought our God for this and he responded to our prayer. {{rf{24}}} I set apart twelve of the official priests: Sherebiah, Hashabiah, and ten of their brothers with them. {{rf{25}}} Then I weighed out to them silver and gold and the vessels, the offering of the house of our God that the king, his counselors, his commanders, and all of Israel who was present offered. {{rf{26}}} I weighed out into their hand six hundred and fifty talents of silver, one hundred vessels of silver, one hundred talents of gold, {{rf{27}}} twenty gold bowls worth one thousand darics, and two vessels of good polished bronze as precious as gold. {{rf{28}}} And I said to them, "You are holy to Yahweh and the vessels are holy. The silver and gold are a freewill offering to Yahweh, God of your ancestors. {{rf{29}}} Guard and look after them until you weigh them before the chief priests, the Levites, and the heads of the families of Israel in Jerusalem, in the chamber of the house of Yahweh." {{rf{30}}} So the priests and Levites took over the weighed silver, gold, and the vessels to bring to Jerusalem for the house of our God. {{rf{31}}} On the twelfth day of the first month we set out from the river of Ahava to go to Jerusalem. The hand of our God was on us and he delivered us from the hand of the enemy and from ambushing on the way. {{rf{32}}} We came to Jerusalem and remained there three days. {{rf{33}}} On the fourth day, the silver, gold, and vessels were weighed in the house of our God into the hand of priest Meremoth, the son of Uriah, and with him Eleazar son of Phinehas. With them were the Levites, Jehozabad son of Jeshua and Noadiah son of Binnui. {{rf{34}}} The amount and weight of all the weighed items was recorded at that time. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Ezra-08-21]] }}}
{{rf{35}}} The exiles that returned from captivity offered burnt offerings to the God of Israel; twelve bulls for all Israel, ninety-six rams, seventy-seven lambs, and twelve goats as a sin offering. All was a burnt offering to Yahweh. {{rf{36}}} They delivered the customs of the king to the king's satraps and to the governor of the province Beyond the River. And they supported the people of the house of God. {{rf big{1}}} After finishing these things the officials approached me saying, "The people of Israel, the priests, and the Levites have not separated from the people of the lands with their detestable things, and from the Canaanites, Hittites, Perizzites, Jebusites, Ammonites, Moabites, Egyptians, and Amorites. {{rf{2}}} For they have taken from their daughters for themselves and their sons. So the holy seed has mixed itself with the peoples of the lands, and the hand of the officials and prefects were foremost in this sin. {{rf{3}}} When I heard this I tore my garment and my robe, and I pulled the hair out from my head and beard, and I sat appalled. {{rf{4}}} Then all who trembled at the words of the God of Israel because of the sin of the returned exiles were gathered around me and I sat appalled until the evening offering. {{rf{5}}} At the evening offering I got up from my mourning posture and, with my garment and robe torn, I fell down on my knees and I spread out my palms to Yahweh my God {{rf{6}}} and said, "My God, I am ashamed and embarrassed to lift my face to you, my God. For our sins have risen above our heads and our guilt has grown up to the heavens. {{rf{7}}} From the days of our ancestors until this day we have been in great guilt, and because of our sins we ourselves, our kings, and our priests have been handed into the hand of the kings of the lands, to the sword, to captivity, to plunder, and to utter shame, as it is this day. {{rf{8}}} But now for a brief moment mercy has been shown by Yahweh our God, who left behind for us a remnant, and given us security in his holy place -- for our God to brighten our eyes and to give us brief relief in our bondage. {{rf{9}}} For we are slaves and in our bondage our God did not forsake us, and he has extended to us loyal love in the presence of the kings of Persia, to give to us deliverance and to set up the house of our God, to repair its ruins, and to give us a wall in Judea and Jerusalem. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Ezra-08-35]] }}}
{{rf{10}}} "And now our God what shall we say after this? For we have forsaken your commandments, {{rf{11}}} which you commanded by the hand of your servants the prophets saying, 'The land that you are entering to possess is a land of impurity with the impurity of the peoples of the lands, with their detestable things which they have filled from end to end with their uncleanness. {{rf{12}}} Therefore, do not give your daughters to their sons, and do not take their daughters for your sons. Do not seek their peace and prosperity so that forever you may be strong and eat the good of the land and may give it as an inheritance to your sons.' {{rf{13}}} After all that has come upon us for our evil practices and for our great guilt -- you, our God, have held back less than our guilt deserved and you have given us a remainder such as this. {{rf{14}}} Shall we again break your commandments and intermarry with the peoples who practice these detestable things? Would you not be angry with us until you destroy us with no remnant or remainder? {{rf{15}}} Yahweh, God of Israel, you are righteous, for we have been left this day as a remnant. Here we are before you in our guilt, for none can stand before you because of this." {{rf big{1}}} While Ezra was praying and confessing, weeping and throwing himself down before the house of God, a very great assembly of men, women, and children from Israel gathered to him. And the people wept bitterly. {{rf{2}}} Shecaniah son of Jehiel, of the sons of Elam, answered and said to Ezra, "We ourselves have broken faith with our God and have married foreign women from the peoples of the land, and even now there is hope for Israel in spite of this. {{rf{3}}} So now let us make a covenant with our God to send away all of these women and their offspring, according to the advice of my lord and those who tremble at the commandment of our God. Let it be done according to the law. {{rf{4}}} Arise, for it is your task and we are with you. Be strong and do it." {{rf{5}}} Then Ezra stood up and made the chief priests, Levites, and all of Israel swear to do according to what was said. So they swore this oath. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Ezra-09-10]] }}}
{{rf{6}}} Ezra rose from before the house of God and went to the chamber of Jehohanan son of Eliashib. He did not eat food nor drink water because he was mourning over the sin of the exiles. {{rf{7}}} And they sent a proclamation through Judah and Jerusalem to all the returned exiles to assemble in Jerusalem. {{rf{8}}} Anyone who did not come within three days, by decision of the officials and elders, all of his possessions would be devoted to God, and he himself would be excluded from the assembly of exiles. {{rf{9}}} Then all the men of Judah and Benjamin assembled in Jerusalem within the three days. It was the ninth month on the twentieth day of the month. All the people sat in the public square of the house of God trembling because of this matter and from the rains. {{rf{10}}} Then Ezra the priest stood up and said to them, "You have broke faith and married foreign women, increasing the guilt of Israel. {{rf{11}}} Now make a confession to Yahweh the God of your ancestors and do his will. Separate yourselves from the peoples of the land and from the foreign women." {{rf{12}}} Then all the assembly answered with a great voice and said, "It is so. We must do according to your words. {{rf{13}}} But the people are many, and it is the time of rain; we are unable to stand outside. The task is not for one day or two, for we greatly rebelled in this matter. {{rf{14}}} Please let our leaders stand for the whole assembly, and let all that are in our cities who have married foreign women come at set times, and with them the elders of and judges of each city, until the fierce wrath of our God because of this matter is averted from us." {{rf{15}}} Only Jehonathan son of Asahel and Jahzeiah son of Tikvah stood against this, and the Levites Meshullam and Shabbethai supported them. {{rf{16}}} The returned exiles did so. Ezra the priest selected men, the heads of the families according to the house of their fathers, all of them by name. They sat down to examine the matter on the first day of the tenth month. {{rf{17}}} They finished investigating all the men who married foreign women by the first day of the first month. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Ezra-10-06]] }}}
{{rf{18}}} There was found from the sons of the priests those who had married foreign women, from the sons of Jeshua son of Jehozadak and his brothers: Maaseiah, Eliezer, Jarib, and Gedaliah. {{rf{19}}} They pledged themselves to put away their wives, and their guilt offering was a ram of the flock for their guilt. {{rf{20}}} From the sons of Immer: Hanani and Zebadiah. {{rf{21}}} From the sons of Harim: Maaseiah, Elijah, Shemaiah, Jehiel, and Uzziah. {{rf{22}}} From the sons of Pashhur: Elioenai, Maaseiah, Ishmael, Nethanel, Jozabad, and Eleasah. {{rf{23}}} From the Levites: Jozabad, Shimei, Kelaiah (that is, Kelita), Pethahiah, Judah, and Eliezer. {{rf{24}}} From the singers: Eliashib. From the gatekeepers: Shallum, Telem, and Uri. {{rf{25}}} And from Israel, the sons of Parosh: Ramiah, Izziah, Malkijah, Mijamin, Eleazar, Malkijah, and Benaiah. {{rf{26}}} From the sons of Elam: Mattaniah, Zechariah, Jehiel, Abdi, Jeremoth, and Elijah. {{rf{27}}} From the sons of Zattu: Elioenai, Eliashib, Mattaniah, Jeremoth, Zabad, and Aziza. {{rf{28}}} From the sons of Bebai: Jehohanan, Hananiah, Zabbai, and Athlai. {{rf{29}}} From the sons of Bani: Meshullam, Malluch, Adaiah, Jashub, Sheal, and Jeremoth. {{rf{30}}} From the sons of Pahath-Moab: Adna, Kelal, Benaiah, Maaseiah, Mattaniah, Bezalel, Binnui, and Manasseh. {{rf{31}}} From the sons of Harim: Eliezer, Isshiah, Malkijah, Shemaiah, Simeon, {{rf{32}}} Benjamin, Malluch, and Shemariah. {{rf{33}}} From the sons of Hashum: Mattenai, Mattattah, Zabad, Eliphelet, Jeremai, Manasseh, and Shimei. {{rf{34}}} From the sons of Bani: Maadai, Amram, Uel, {{rf{35}}} Benaiah, Bedeiah, Keluhi, {{rf{36}}} Vaniah, Meremoth, Eliashib, {{rf{37}}} Mattaniah, Mattenai, Jaasu, {{rf{38}}} Bani, Binnui, Shimei, {{rf{39}}} Shelemiah, Nathan, Adaiah, {{rf{40}}} Macnadebai, Shashai, Sharai, {{rf{41}}} Azarel, Shelemiah, Shemariah, {{rf{42}}} Shallum, Amariah, and Joseph. {{rf{43}}} From the sons of Nebo: Jeiel, Mattithiah, Zabad, Zebina, Iddo, Joel, and Benaiah. {{rf{44}}} All of these had married foreign wives, and some from among the wives bore children. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Ezra-10-18]] }}}
* [[FaithfulnessOfJesus]]
* Trust cannot be separated from [[obedience|Obey]] (D. Bonhoeffer //Cost of Discipleship//).
* @@color:indigo;Faith [or Trust] is a Divine work within us which changes and renews us in God according to <<Bbl J 1:13 >>, `who were born not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.' This destroys the old Adam and makes new creatures of us in heart, will, disposition, and all our powers. Oh, faith is a living, active, jealous, mighty thing, inasmuch as it cannot possibly remain unproductive of good works.@@ // -- Martin Luther, preface to Romans // [[source|http://refbible.com/j/justification.htm]]
* You have red hair if you have the gene that produces red hair. The genetic disposition can be likened to faith; it cannot but produce the result of red hair. Neither can you have red hair without the gene. And we can't make ourselves have saving faith, any more than we can tweak our hair color genetically. (But red hair dye can certainly be likened to dead works!)
* Salvation is by faith; it overflows in good works.
* <<Bbl H 5:9-12 >>; related to hope, vss <<Bbl H 5:18>>b-19
* <<Bbl Eph 2:8>>-9 describe the root-source of faith, while <<Bbl James 2:17>>-26 describes the full condition. There may seem a conflict, but the scope of salvation is different in these passages. Edward Goodrick's __~Do-It-Yourself Hebrew and Greek__ provides insight into James' view of faith (p 10:1).
* <<Bbl Eph 2:8 "" note >> for Lancaster's opinion.
* @@color:brown;...when Paul says that a person is justified by faith without works (<<Bbl R 3:28>>), his context makes it clear that he defines faith as something more than passive assent to a viewpoint; he defines it as a conviction that Christ is our salvation, a conviction on which one actively stakes one’s life (<<Bbl R 1:5 abbr>>). James declares that one cannot be justified by faith without works (<<Bbl James 2:14>>)—because he uses the word “faith” to mean mere assent that something is true (<<Bbl James 2:19 abbr>>), he demands that such assent be actively demonstrated by obedience to show that it is genuine (<<Bbl James 2:18 abbr>>).@@ // - Dr. Craig Keener//
** <<Bbl James 2:24>>: justification by works, and not by faith. Faith = mental assent
** <<Bbl R 3:28>>: justification by faith apart from works. Faith = [[Trust]] in Jesus
* See W.E. Vine, p. 286.
* //Work out your salvation with fear and trembling//
* [[Justification|Justify]] is by faith alone; but the faith that justifies is not alone. (Attr. to F.F. Bruce)
!!! Heresy
* The Council of Carthage was called to censure Pelagius and vindicate Augustine. The former denied human [[Depravity]] by asserting that we have a capacity for righteousness that allows us to make our own contribution in the work of grace.
* ''Humanism'' says "works only". ''Antinomianism'' says "faith only". ''Legalism'' says "faith and works" (Galations, //having started by faith will you finish by works?//). (Attr. to John Kirstner)
>You know that the power that spoke the world into being lives in you, right? The Word says "death and life are in the power of the tongue, and by your words you are justified and by your words you are condemned. That same Power spoke into the being the things that were not. Therefore what you say has power to create what you say. That being said, you said you love your sin. Don't give power to that. Renounce that statement. I love you brother
>>Of course the root problem in William's analysis is his imputation of God's power to His children in Christ.
[[Confess]]. According to some faith "experts", making a so-called negative confession is not of faith. But do they think of it as sin? They should to be consistent, for //whatever is not done from faith is sin//. But then Paul could not have written <<Bbl R 7:14>>ff.
* <<Bbl Ps 50:10 "" note >>
* @@color:darkgreen; It is a great relief to know that there is a higher explanation for my pain or my pleasure than whether I have enough faith.@@ // - J. Piper//
''Faithfulness'' is the basis of [[Trust]].
* The ubiquitous NT phrase //faith in Jesus Christ// should in most places better be translated [[FaithfulnessOfJesus]], says D. Thomas Lancaster.
* <<Bbl Dan 6:3 >>-4 , <<Bbl Hos 4:1 >>; <<Bbl L 16:10 >>-11 ; <<Bbl L 19:17 >>
* Unto [[death|Die]] -- <<Bbl H 11:35 >>-38 , <<Bbl Mt 23:34 >>-35 , <<Bbl Rev 6:9 >>-11 . //Martyr//
** No [[Leaders]], no chopping blocks. No Christians, no martyrs.
* Endurance? -- <<Bbl Jer 12:5 >>; <<Bbl Mt 10:22 >>; <<Bbl Gal 6:9 >>
* The basis for [[Trust]], [[Believe]]
* <<Bbl Pr 30:25 >>b
* Claire Boothe Luce said, "Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount." No. Courage is merely a rung, like humility and integrity. The ladder is called faithfulness.
* Faithfulness is consecration in overalls. ~Evelyn Underhill
* <<Bbl 1C 10:13>>. God is faithful when we are tempted.
* <<Bbl 2Tim 2:2 >> These entrust to faithful men
* [[Persevere]]
* [[Stability]]
* [[Fruit]]
* [[Believe]]
!!! Examples
* [[Soldier]]
* [[Remnant]]
* [[Have]] -- //He who has...//
The ubiquitous NT phrase "faith in Jesus Christ" should better be translated //faithfulness of Jesus//, says D. Thomas Lancaster.
* "Faith in Jesus Christ" is not supported by the Greek.
* Therefore we place ourselves in Jesus in much the way NT Jews place themselves in Abraham.
* Lancaster, Galatians, audio lecture 9 min 24.
* Placing credence in Christ is the fundamental response. <<Bbl A 10:43 >>. <<Bbl E 1:15 >>. <<Bbl A 16:31 >>. But a reinterpretation of this phrase still changes the cast of many passages.
* Necessary for those who would learn to [[Walk]].
* <<Bbl Mt 7:24>> //great was its fall//
* As for Genesis, I prefer Betrayal and Eviction over the usual term.
* [[Hypocrisy]], [[Counterfeit]]
* [[Pride]]
* Proverbs about posing
* Isaiah's derision of those who say "I am holier than thou".
* At the gym. One person is at the weights, another only visits the sauna.
* A mousetrap makes the most noise when it fails to catch the mouse.
* Lost your car in the lot? Don't look unconfident!
!! False honor
* Haman
* James and John (and their mother)
* Seating at the banquet table
* Cult that says theare the [[Remnant]]
* <<Bbl Eph 4:14 >>
[[Marry]]
[[Brother]]
[[Son]]
* OT laws of [[Redeem]]
* //royal dynasty//
* <<Bbl L 15:14 "" note >>
!! The Time of Scarcity
* Talmud's name for crisis in AD 44.
* <<Bbl Acts 11:28 >>, <<Bbl Gal 2:2 >>.
* Josephus records the King of Abiedine (whose motives are disclosed in a speech of stunning spiritual clarity).
The farmer is an agent -- indispensible for without him there is no cultivation and no [[Harvest]], yet life and growth happen completely independent of his work. <<Bbl Mk 4:26 >>
* <<Bbl 1C 3:7 >> //but God causes the growth//
* <<Bbl 2C 9:10 >> //seed// and //bread// -- every farmer knows must not eat your seed, and you must not plant your food. This is a critical and well-understood reality. Wisdom teaches you the difference; Paul says God will enlarge both.
* Jesus tells us there is a reward from the Father //when// (not if) you fast.
* <<Bbl Mt 9:15 >> [[ThisAge]]
* 1c 7, in marriage
* //This kind... only by fasting and prayer. //
*[[SelfControl]], [[Asceticism]]
* <<Bbl Ezr 8:21 >>; <<Bbl I 58:3 >>-8 ; <<Bbl Zech 7:5 >>; <<Bbl Mt 6:16 >>-18 ; <<Bbl Mk 2:18 >>-20 ; <<Bbl L 18:12 >>
* Trading in our earthly sustainance for heavenly.
* Enjoining oneself to humility.
* Jesus referred to God as "Father" (Patēr; <<Bbl Mt 6:9 >>), as did the apostles (<<Bbl 1C 1:3 >>).
* And "Abba"! (Sorry, Jehovah's Witnesses.)
* <<Bbl Ps 103:013 "" note >>
* God is Father before He is Creator. His love for me precedes all.
* In Christ's redemptive mission, He did not reverse the disposition of His Father. He acted in accord with it. If God the Father were utterly estranged with His creation, with all original interest abolished, there would be no reason to commission His Son to save it. As the Son is always obeying the Father, there is no way He could have been forced into it.
* [[Family]]
* [[Discipline]]
* [[Inherit]]
* <<Bbl Mal 2:10>>
* <<Bbl Mt 8:22 >>; <<Bbl Mt 10:33 >>-34 ; <<Bbl Mt 12:46 >>-50 ; <<Bbl Mk 3:21 >>
* <<Bbl L 15:28 >>-32 the parable of the sons
* <<Bbl Gn 20:1 "" note>>
!!! Jesus declared God's Son
* [[SonOfGod]]
* <<Bbl Ps 2:1>>ff; quoted:
** <<Bbl A 13:33>>
** <<Bbl H 1:5>>, <<Bbl H 5:5 abbr>>
* Does Jesus ever pray or refer to prayer or teach about prayer without reference to the Father?
!!! As earthly relationship
* @@color:darkgreen;There may be among my readers - alas for such! - to whom the word Father brings no cheer, no dawn, in whose heart it rouses no tremble of even a vanished emotion. It is hardly likely to be their fault. For though as children we seldom love up to the mark of reason; though we often offend; and although the conduct of some children is inexplicable to the parent who loves them; yet, if the parent has been but ordinarily kind, even the son who has grown up a worthless man, will now and then feel, in his better moments, some dim reflex of child-ship, some faintly pleasant, some slightly sorrowful remembrance of the father around whose neck his arms had sometimes clung. In my own childhood and boyhood my father was the refuge from all the ills of life, even sharp pain itself. Therefore I say to son or daughter who has no pleasure in the name Father, "You must interpret the word by all that you have missed in life. Every time a man might have been to you a refuge from the wind, a covert from the tempest, the shadow of a great rock in a weary land, that was a time when a father might have been a father indeed. Happy you are yet, if you have found man or woman such a refuge; so far have you known a shadow of the perfect, seen the back of the only man, the perfect Son of the perfect Father. All that human tenderness can give or desire in the nearness and readiness of love, all and infinitely more must be true of the perfect Father - of the maker of fatherhood, the Father of all the fathers of the earth, specially the Father of those who have specially shown a father-heart."@@ // - George MacDonald// (quoted in __Wild at Heart__)
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* [[Son]]
* <<Bbl Pr 30:4 >>; <<Bbl Dan 3:25 >>
* <<Bbl Dan 7:9 >>-14 One like a son of man
* <<Bbl Gn 48:15 "" note >>-16
* <<Bbl I 48:16 >>
* <<Bbl Mt 3:16 >>-17
* <<Bbl Mt 28:19 >>
* <<Bbl Mk 1:9 >>-11
* <<Bbl L 1:35 >>
* <<Bbl L 3:21 >>-22
* <<Bbl L 23:46 >>
* <<Bbl J 1:1 >>-3
* <<Bbl J 1:32 >>-34
* <<Bbl J 6:27 >>
* <<Bbl J 14:16 >>-17
* <<Bbl J 14:26 >>
* <<Bbl J 15:26 >>
* <<Bbl 2C 13:14 >> //God// as the Father would seem to be implied.
* <<Bbl Gal 4:4 >>-6
* <<Bbl Eph 1:1 >>ff
* <<Bbl Eph 2:18 >>
* <<Bbl 1P 1:2 >> specifically in our salvation
* <<Bbl 1J 5:7>> //The Word// is that Word of John's Gospel
* <<Bbl 1Ch 29:10 >>-12
* Relates to Righteousness in <<Bbl Gn 6:8 >>-9.
* What is first reference to favor?
* <<Bbl 2S 3:36 >> -- [[David]] the leader of the hearts of his people
* God's high value on us
** //I have inscribed you on the palms of my hands.//
** <<Bbl L 15:1>>ff -- Parables of missing items.
** Illustrate using a favorite candy bar. How likely am I to leave it half-finished, and forget about it somewhere? Not very. And that's with ADHD.
!!! from God, conditional
* <<Bbl Dt 7:7 >>-11; <<Bbl 1J 4:19 >>
!!! from God, unmerited
* [[Depravity]]
* A modern worship song says, "You thought I was worth saving... worth keeping ...You thought I was to die for." You can perhaps say God deemed me worthy, thus giving me value; you cannot say God assessed me and found worth.
* {{anti{[[Courage]], [[Fear-No]]}}}
* //Worry//.
** The worried person cannot pray, but recites his worries with prayer-language attached.
** @@color:brown;Worry is carrying tomorrow's load with today's strength... It doesn't empty tomorrow of its sorrow: it empties today of its strength. @@ // - Corrie Ten Boom//
* Ungodly fear is the converse of {{anti{[[Believe]]}}}, of trusting in God.
* Anxiety <<Bbl Gn 4:13 "" note >>
!! of man:
* <<Bbl Ex 2:14 >>
* <<Bbl Dt 1:28 >>
* <<Bbl Dt 7:17 >>-21
* <<Bbl Jud 10:18 >>
* <<Bbl Pr 29:25 >>
* <<Bbl I 51:7 >>
* <<Bbl I 51:12 >>
* <<Bbl I 8:12 >>-13
* <<Bbl Jer 26:21 >>
* <<Bbl Ez 2:6 >>, <<Bbl Ez 3:9 >>
* <<Bbl J 9:22 >>; <<Bbl 1P 3:14 >>
* <<Bbl 1S 15:24 >>
* <<Bbl Neh 6:1 >>-19
* <<Bbl Mt 10:28 >>.
* <<Bbl J 12:42>>-43 //... many even among the leaders believed in him. But because of the Pharisees they would not confess their faith for fear they would be put out of the synagogue; for they loved praise from men more than praise from God.//
* [[Man]]
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* feeding on itself: <<Bbl Num 13:33 >>; <<Bbl Pr 28:1 >>; <<Bbl Jer 1:8 >>; <<Bbl Ez 11:8 >>
* of [[Die]]: <<Bbl H 2:14 >>
* of the godly, on the part of the ungodly: <<Bbl 1S 18:12 >>-15
* {{anti{[[Courage]]}}}
* {{anti{[[FearOfGod]]}}}
* [[Servitude]]
* To fear is to respect the power thereof. Fear, love, suffer, misery, hope - words degraded from fact to feeling - terror, infatuation, pain, unhappiness, optimism. The shift isn't a sin, but it holds clues about depravity.
The exhortation ''Do not fear'' is found frequently in God's word. Sometimes it is delivered unmistakably as a command. Though we usually read it as intending reassurance, it is essentially a command or injunction, enforced with a warning on a few occasions.
* {{anti{[[Fear]]}}}
* [[Courage]], [[Believe]]
* "Be of good cheer" <<Bbl Mt 9:2 >>; <<Bbl Mk 5:36 >> ??, 6:50, 10:49; <<Bbl L 12:32 >>
* Tim C. exhorts his children to be not scaredy-cats but boldy-dogs.
* exhortations: <<Bbl Dt 1:17 >>; <<Bbl Josh 1:7 >>, <<Bbl Josh 10:24 >>-25 ; <<Bbl 1P 3:14 >>
* Statement about rumors by Warre.
* Worrying makes trouble, like a car driver distracted by the dashboard lights and failing to look UP at the road.
A "wholesome dread" of violating God's will. It is simply a matter of properly regarding His power. Very often presented as the opposite of a //{{anti{[[Fear]]}}} of man.//
* Based not in the emotion but in the [[Volition]] (like love, like jealousy).
* How our culture hates the "fear and trembling" which Paul says is integral to salvation.
* <<Bbl Ex 20:20 >> uses the term in two different aspects and shows the difference -- indeed, their mutually exclusion.
* <<Bbl Ex 9:20 >>-21; <<Bbl Jos 24:14 >>; <<Bbl 1S 11:7 >>, <<Bbl 1S 12:18 >>; <<Bbl Ps 34:9 >>,<<Bbl Ps 36:1 >>-2; <<Bbl Pr 19:23 >>; <<Bbl I 8:13 >>, <<Bbl I 33:6 >>; <<Bbl L 12:5 >>; <<Bbl Mt 10:28 >>
* [[Wisdom]]: <<Bbl Job 28:28 >>, <<Bbl Job 31:23 >>; many proverbs; <<Bbl Col 3:22 >>
* [[PersonalRelations]]
* [[Church-Local]]
* [[Support-Mutual]]
* <<Bbl Pr 12:25 "" note >>
* [[Belong]]
* The Jerusalem church may not have been communistic, but it was communalistic. It doesn't appear other cities took on the same mindset.
* Comparing the church to the Ark of Noah -- //It smelled bad inside, but still much better than being in the rain outside.//
* [[Food]]
* Iron sharpen Iron. A sword must be sharpened.
* @@color:indigo;You cannot have God for your father unless you have the church for your mother.@@ // Cyprian//
* <<Bbl L 11:20>>, <<Bbl Ex 8:19 >> (though <<Bbl Ps 8:3 >> has some relevance). Tim points out that there is much to think about here.
* God's writing the Law on the stones.
* So perhaps Jesus did write the command when he wrote with his finger in the dust!
* [[God-Encountered]]
* [[SpiritOfChrist]]
* Used to destroy limestone walls, as Jerusalem
* [[Refine]]
* [[Test]] -- <<Bbl 1C 3:11 >>-15
* [[Sacrifice]]
* [[Rescue]]
* [[Judge]]
** <<Bbl Mk 9:44 1 >>
** <<Bbl 2P 3:7 >>
** <<Bbl L 12:49 "" note>>
* <<Bbl Ex 24:17 >> //bush//
!!! as hazard from which escape is needed
* <<Bbl 1C 3:13>>
* <<Bbl Jude 1:23>>
The [[Tithe]] is to be taken from firstfruits.
* <<Bbl Gn 4:4>> - first mention
* The grapes brought back from Canaan.
* This signals [[God-Preeminent]]
* Jesus is God's Firstfruits
----
#Redemption b Ex 32:2 says that a firstborn animal which is clean (a lamb) is to be sacrificed; b Ex 32:22-13 says that which is unclean (donkey) is to be redeemed by sacrifice. Christ is God's first-born, the Lamb of God; by His sacrifice we are redeemed.
* The old nature is nothing to fool with.
* The flesh does not obey. If I could, I wouldn't want to; and if I wanted to, I wouldn't be able to.
* F.F. Bruce discusses the term in all its senses in Romans, pp. 40-44.
* The Greek terms //sarks// and //soma// are not differentiated in the NT. Paul at times uses them interchangeably. Either term can be used in a negative or positive sense.
** [[Frailty]]
** [[Sin]], [[Weakness]]
* He came //in the likeness of sinful flesh.// [[Christ-DualNature]]
* We are called to //mortify//, not //mollify// the flesh. [[Death-unto-Life]]
* <<Bbl Jms 1:14 >> .
* [[Clothing]]
* Some things just make my //flesh boil//. So I go to a weekly meeting about that...
* The flood of water was precipitated by a flood of dissipation.
* [[Water]]
* //Imitate// -- The same Greek verb is rendered Follow and Imitate.
* Mt 4:19
* 1Th 1:6
* H 11:1 -3
* H 13:7
* H 13:12 -13
''//Foolishness// is refusing to act responsibly with the wisdom you have.''
* The neglect of knowledge.
* Life is full of feedback. What is your [[response|Respond]] to [[Discipline]]?
** Common grace.
** The fool requires an hundred blows.
* To be //perverse// requires that you know better and do otherwise. The man who built on sand knew better.
* Romans Ch 1.
!!! In learning, one may appear a fool
* In contrast, a Russian man in America was no fool. Learning to make tea, the first surprise was that the tea leaves must remain in the packet; the second was that the sugar must not so remain.
* The jar of green beans shows green beans. The jar of baby food shows a baby.
* {{anti{[[Wisdom]]}}}
* Parables including meals: <<Bbl Mt 8:11 >>-12 (<<Bbl L 13:28 >>-30 ), "Many shall come from east and west and recline..."; <<Bbl Mt 22:1 >>-14 , the [[wedding]] //feast// which the invited do not attend, but others take their place (there is a [[dress|Clothing]] code in the [[Kingdom of Heaven|KingdomOfGod]]) (<<Bbl L 14:16 >>-24 ), <<Bbl L 22:27 >>, "But I am among you as one who serves."
* <<Bbl Pr 4:17 >>, bread of wickedness and wine of violence; 23:1-3,6-8, rules for dining with a ruler or a selfish man; 30:20, the way of an adulteress;
* Eating with others entails trust and vulnerability. Illnesses are easily passed around the dinner table. Travellers in Colombia are warned against accepting food proffered by strangers along the bus route, as it may be drugged. <<Bbl Dan 11:26 >>.
* A funeral meal is mentioned in <<Bbl Jer 16:5 >>.
* (I am referred also to Pseudep. Enoch 62:14, Syr. Apocal. Bar 29:5-8.)
* <<Bbl Ps 78:18 >>, <<Bbl Ps 81:10 >>
* Our [[Need]], God's [[Provide]]: <<Bbl Mt 6:11 >>, <<Bbl Pr 6:30 >>, <<Bbl Pr 28:21 >>, <<Bbl Pr 30:9 >>
* [[Harvest]], [[Living-Plant]]
* Psalm 23
* <<Bbl I 24:7 >>-11 contrasts with <<Bbl I 25:6 >>ff.
* <<Bbl I 55:1 >>-12; <<Bbl Rev 19:9 >>
!!! as unity and covenant
* A form of [[Fellowship]], "breaking [[bread]]," which is so basic as to naturally connote the idea of covenant in every culture ("companion", with-bread). In fact it is often a direct symbol of [[Covenant]] throughout the Bible.
* Luke, a gentile, mentions //banquets// often.
* <<Bbl Ruth 2:14 >>
* <<Bbl Gn 14:18 >>, [[Bread]] and [[Wine]] served by [[Melchizedek]]; 26:30-31, Abimelech and Phicol with Isaac; <<Bbl Ex 24:11 >>, meal with Yahweh; 32:6, before the golden calf; <<Bbl Num 25:2 >>, covenant with Baal of Peor; <<Bbl Jos 9:9 >>:9,14-16 with the Gibeonites (possibly, but Kiel and Delitzsch differ); <<Bbl 2S 9:10 >>-13 , Mephibosheth with King David; <<Bbl Pr 9:2 >>-5 , Wisdom's invitation; <<Bbl I 25:6 >>, a final banquet; <<Bbl Dan 1:8 >>, Daniel in Babylon (in which the act of disobedience, whether or not it instituted a new and pagan covenant, would have violated the true one); <<Bbl Mt 8:11 >>, "many shall come from east and west" (<<Bbl L 13:29 >>); <<Bbl L 14:15 >>, "Blessed is everyone..."; 22:30, "I grant you to eat and drink in My kingdom"; <<Bbl Rev 3:20 >> "dine with him, and he with Me",19:9, "Blessed are those who are invited..."
!!! with God
* Ex 24:11
* Is 25
* Eating outside of God's favor is a daily denial of covenant with Him, and thus a daily signal of the Judgment of God. Judas "partook unworthily" and instantly "the devil entered into him".
* Every meal with Jesus is an expression of eternal covenant and a prelude to Paradise. <<Bbl Mt 9:10 >>-11 , <<Bbl Mt 11:19 >>, <<Bbl Mt 14:13 >>-21 , <<Bbl Mt 15:32 >>-38 , <<Bbl Mt 26:26 >>-30 ; <<Bbl Mk 2:15 >>-17 , <<Bbl Mk 3:20 >>, <<Bbl Mk 6:31 >>-44 , <<Bbl Mk 8:1 >>-9 , <<Bbl Mk 14:3 >>; <<Bbl J 21:12 >>; <<Bbl Rev 3:20 >>
* <<Bbl R 14:23 >>, <<Bbl 1C 11:26 >>:34, eating without faith.
* [[LordsSupper]]
!!! relationship!
* <<Bbl Dt 25:7 >>-10
* <<Bbl Ruth 4:7 >>
* <<Bbl L 15:22 >> //sandals for his feet//
* John the Baptist, //not worthy//
* Eph 6 //preparation of the Gospel of peace// -- [[Readiness]]
----
* [[Clothing]], //shoe//*
/***
|''Name:''|ForEachTiddlerPlugin|
|''Version:''|1.0.8 (2007-04-12)|
|''Source:''|http://tiddlywiki.abego-software.de/#ForEachTiddlerPlugin|
|''Author:''|UdoBorkowski (ub [at] abego-software [dot] de)|
|''Licence:''|[[BSD open source license (abego Software)|http://www.abego-software.de/legal/apl-v10.html]]|
|''Copyright:''|© 2005-2007 [[abego Software|http://www.abego-software.de]]|
|''TiddlyWiki:''|1.2.38+, 2.0|
|''Browser:''|Firefox 1.0.4+; Firefox 1.5; InternetExplorer 6.0|
!Description
Create customizable lists, tables etc. for your selections of tiddlers. Specify the tiddlers to include and their order through a powerful language.
''Syntax:''
|>|{{{<<}}}''forEachTiddler'' [''in'' //tiddlyWikiPath//] [''where'' //whereCondition//] [''sortBy'' //sortExpression// [''ascending'' //or// ''descending'']] [''script'' //scriptText//] [//action// [//actionParameters//]]{{{>>}}}|
|//tiddlyWikiPath//|The filepath to the TiddlyWiki the macro should work on. When missing the current TiddlyWiki is used.|
|//whereCondition//|(quoted) JavaScript boolean expression. May refer to the build-in variables {{{tiddler}}} and {{{context}}}.|
|//sortExpression//|(quoted) JavaScript expression returning "comparable" objects (using '{{{<}}}','{{{>}}}','{{{==}}}'. May refer to the build-in variables {{{tiddler}}} and {{{context}}}.|
|//scriptText//|(quoted) JavaScript text. Typically defines JavaScript functions that are called by the various JavaScript expressions (whereClause, sortClause, action arguments,...)|
|//action//|The action that should be performed on every selected tiddler, in the given order. By default the actions [[addToList|AddToListAction]] and [[write|WriteAction]] are supported. When no action is specified [[addToList|AddToListAction]] is used.|
|//actionParameters//|(action specific) parameters the action may refer while processing the tiddlers (see action descriptions for details). <<tiddler [[JavaScript in actionParameters]]>>|
|>|~~Syntax formatting: Keywords in ''bold'', optional parts in [...]. 'or' means that exactly one of the two alternatives must exist.~~|
See details see [[ForEachTiddlerMacro]] and [[ForEachTiddlerExamples]].
!Revision history
* v1.0.8 (2007-04-12)
** Adapted to latest TiddlyWiki 2.2 Beta importTiddlyWiki API (introduced with changeset 2004). TiddlyWiki 2.2 Beta builds prior to changeset 2004 are no longer supported (but TiddlyWiki 2.1 and earlier, of cause)
* v1.0.7 (2007-03-28)
** Also support "pre" formatted TiddlyWikis (introduced with TW 2.2) (when using "in" clause to work on external tiddlers)
* v1.0.6 (2006-09-16)
** Context provides "viewerTiddler", i.e. the tiddler used to view the macro. Most times this is equal to the "inTiddler", but when using the "tiddler" macro both may be different.
** Support "begin", "end" and "none" expressions in "write" action
* v1.0.5 (2006-02-05)
** Pass tiddler containing the macro with wikify, context object also holds reference to tiddler containing the macro ("inTiddler"). Thanks to SimonBaird.
** Support Firefox 1.5.0.1
** Internal
*** Make "JSLint" conform
*** "Only install once"
* v1.0.4 (2006-01-06)
** Support TiddlyWiki 2.0
* v1.0.3 (2005-12-22)
** Features:
*** Write output to a file supports multi-byte environments (Thanks to Bram Chen)
*** Provide API to access the forEachTiddler functionality directly through JavaScript (see getTiddlers and performMacro)
** Enhancements:
*** Improved error messages on InternetExplorer.
* v1.0.2 (2005-12-10)
** Features:
*** context object also holds reference to store (TiddlyWiki)
** Fixed Bugs:
*** ForEachTiddler 1.0.1 has broken support on win32 Opera 8.51 (Thanks to BrunoSabin for reporting)
* v1.0.1 (2005-12-08)
** Features:
*** Access tiddlers stored in separated TiddlyWikis through the "in" option. I.e. you are no longer limited to only work on the "current TiddlyWiki".
*** Write output to an external file using the "toFile" option of the "write" action. With this option you may write your customized tiddler exports.
*** Use the "script" section to define "helper" JavaScript functions etc. to be used in the various JavaScript expressions (whereClause, sortClause, action arguments,...).
*** Access and store context information for the current forEachTiddler invocation (through the build-in "context" object) .
*** Improved script evaluation (for where/sort clause and write scripts).
* v1.0.0 (2005-11-20)
** initial version
!Code
***/
//{{{
//============================================================================
//============================================================================
// ForEachTiddlerPlugin
//============================================================================
//============================================================================
// Only install once
if (!version.extensions.ForEachTiddlerPlugin) {
if (!window.abego) window.abego = {};
version.extensions.ForEachTiddlerPlugin = {
major: 1, minor: 0, revision: 8,
date: new Date(2007,3,12),
source: "http://tiddlywiki.abego-software.de/#ForEachTiddlerPlugin",
licence: "[[BSD open source license (abego Software)|http://www.abego-software.de/legal/apl-v10.html]]",
copyright: "Copyright (c) abego Software GmbH, 2005-2007 (www.abego-software.de)"
};
// For backward compatibility with TW 1.2.x
//
if (!TiddlyWiki.prototype.forEachTiddler) {
TiddlyWiki.prototype.forEachTiddler = function(callback) {
for(var t in this.tiddlers) {
callback.call(this,t,this.tiddlers[t]);
}
};
}
//============================================================================
// forEachTiddler Macro
//============================================================================
version.extensions.forEachTiddler = {
major: 1, minor: 0, revision: 8, date: new Date(2007,3,12), provider: "http://tiddlywiki.abego-software.de"};
// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
// Configurations and constants
// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
config.macros.forEachTiddler = {
// Standard Properties
label: "forEachTiddler",
prompt: "Perform actions on a (sorted) selection of tiddlers",
// actions
actions: {
addToList: {},
write: {}
}
};
// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
// The forEachTiddler Macro Handler
// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
config.macros.forEachTiddler.getContainingTiddler = function(e) {
while(e && !hasClass(e,"tiddler"))
e = e.parentNode;
var title = e ? e.getAttribute("tiddler") : null;
return title ? store.getTiddler(title) : null;
};
config.macros.forEachTiddler.handler = function(place,macroName,params,wikifier,paramString,tiddler) {
// config.macros.forEachTiddler.traceMacroCall(place,macroName,params,wikifier,paramString,tiddler);
if (!tiddler) tiddler = config.macros.forEachTiddler.getContainingTiddler(place);
// --- Parsing ------------------------------------------
var i = 0; // index running over the params
// Parse the "in" clause
var tiddlyWikiPath = undefined;
if ((i < params.length) && params[i] == "in") {
i++;
if (i >= params.length) {
this.handleError(place, "TiddlyWiki path expected behind 'in'.");
return;
}
tiddlyWikiPath = this.paramEncode((i < params.length) ? params[i] : "");
i++;
}
// Parse the where clause
var whereClause ="true";
if ((i < params.length) && params[i] == "where") {
i++;
whereClause = this.paramEncode((i < params.length) ? params[i] : "");
i++;
}
// Parse the sort stuff
var sortClause = null;
var sortAscending = true;
if ((i < params.length) && params[i] == "sortBy") {
i++;
if (i >= params.length) {
this.handleError(place, "sortClause missing behind 'sortBy'.");
return;
}
sortClause = this.paramEncode(params[i]);
i++;
if ((i < params.length) && (params[i] == "ascending" || params[i] == "descending")) {
sortAscending = params[i] == "ascending";
i++;
}
}
// Parse the script
var scriptText = null;
if ((i < params.length) && params[i] == "script") {
i++;
scriptText = this.paramEncode((i < params.length) ? params[i] : "");
i++;
}
// Parse the action.
// When we are already at the end use the default action
var actionName = "addToList";
if (i < params.length) {
if (!config.macros.forEachTiddler.actions[params[i]]) {
this.handleError(place, "Unknown action '"+params[i]+"'.");
return;
} else {
actionName = params[i];
i++;
}
}
// Get the action parameter
// (the parsing is done inside the individual action implementation.)
var actionParameter = params.slice(i);
// --- Processing ------------------------------------------
try {
this.performMacro({
place: place,
inTiddler: tiddler,
whereClause: whereClause,
sortClause: sortClause,
sortAscending: sortAscending,
actionName: actionName,
actionParameter: actionParameter,
scriptText: scriptText,
tiddlyWikiPath: tiddlyWikiPath});
} catch (e) {
this.handleError(place, e);
}
};
// Returns an object with properties "tiddlers" and "context".
// tiddlers holds the (sorted) tiddlers selected by the parameter,
// context the context of the execution of the macro.
//
// The action is not yet performed.
//
// @parameter see performMacro
//
config.macros.forEachTiddler.getTiddlersAndContext = function(parameter) {
var context = config.macros.forEachTiddler.createContext(parameter.place, parameter.whereClause, parameter.sortClause, parameter.sortAscending, parameter.actionName, parameter.actionParameter, parameter.scriptText, parameter.tiddlyWikiPath, parameter.inTiddler);
var tiddlyWiki = parameter.tiddlyWikiPath ? this.loadTiddlyWiki(parameter.tiddlyWikiPath) : store;
context["tiddlyWiki"] = tiddlyWiki;
// Get the tiddlers, as defined by the whereClause
var tiddlers = this.findTiddlers(parameter.whereClause, context, tiddlyWiki);
context["tiddlers"] = tiddlers;
// Sort the tiddlers, when sorting is required.
if (parameter.sortClause) {
this.sortTiddlers(tiddlers, parameter.sortClause, parameter.sortAscending, context);
}
return {tiddlers: tiddlers, context: context};
};
// Returns the (sorted) tiddlers selected by the parameter.
//
// The action is not yet performed.
//
// @parameter see performMacro
//
config.macros.forEachTiddler.getTiddlers = function(parameter) {
return this.getTiddlersAndContext(parameter).tiddlers;
};
// Performs the macros with the given parameter.
//
// @param parameter holds the parameter of the macro as separate properties.
// The following properties are supported:
//
// place
// whereClause
// sortClause
// sortAscending
// actionName
// actionParameter
// scriptText
// tiddlyWikiPath
//
// All properties are optional.
// For most actions the place property must be defined.
//
config.macros.forEachTiddler.performMacro = function(parameter) {
var tiddlersAndContext = this.getTiddlersAndContext(parameter);
// Perform the action
var actionName = parameter.actionName ? parameter.actionName : "addToList";
var action = config.macros.forEachTiddler.actions[actionName];
if (!action) {
this.handleError(parameter.place, "Unknown action '"+actionName+"'.");
return;
}
var actionHandler = action.handler;
actionHandler(parameter.place, tiddlersAndContext.tiddlers, parameter.actionParameter, tiddlersAndContext.context);
};
// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
// The actions
// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
// Internal.
//
// --- The addToList Action -----------------------------------------------
//
config.macros.forEachTiddler.actions.addToList.handler = function(place, tiddlers, parameter, context) {
// Parse the parameter
var p = 0;
// Check for extra parameters
if (parameter.length > p) {
config.macros.forEachTiddler.createExtraParameterErrorElement(place, "addToList", parameter, p);
return;
}
// Perform the action.
var list = document.createElement("ul");
place.appendChild(list);
for (var i = 0; i < tiddlers.length; i++) {
var tiddler = tiddlers[i];
var listItem = document.createElement("li");
list.appendChild(listItem);
createTiddlyLink(listItem, tiddler.title, true);
}
};
abego.parseNamedParameter = function(name, parameter, i) {
var beginExpression = null;
if ((i < parameter.length) && parameter[i] == name) {
i++;
if (i >= parameter.length) {
throw "Missing text behind '%0'".format([name]);
}
return config.macros.forEachTiddler.paramEncode(parameter[i]);
}
return null;
}
// Internal.
//
// --- The write Action ---------------------------------------------------
//
config.macros.forEachTiddler.actions.write.handler = function(place, tiddlers, parameter, context) {
// Parse the parameter
var p = 0;
if (p >= parameter.length) {
this.handleError(place, "Missing expression behind 'write'.");
return;
}
var textExpression = config.macros.forEachTiddler.paramEncode(parameter[p]);
p++;
// Parse the "begin" option
var beginExpression = abego.parseNamedParameter("begin", parameter, p);
if (beginExpression !== null)
p += 2;
var endExpression = abego.parseNamedParameter("end", parameter, p);
if (endExpression !== null)
p += 2;
var noneExpression = abego.parseNamedParameter("none", parameter, p);
if (noneExpression !== null)
p += 2;
// Parse the "toFile" option
var filename = null;
var lineSeparator = undefined;
if ((p < parameter.length) && parameter[p] == "toFile") {
p++;
if (p >= parameter.length) {
this.handleError(place, "Filename expected behind 'toFile' of 'write' action.");
return;
}
filename = config.macros.forEachTiddler.getLocalPath(config.macros.forEachTiddler.paramEncode(parameter[p]));
p++;
if ((p < parameter.length) && parameter[p] == "withLineSeparator") {
p++;
if (p >= parameter.length) {
this.handleError(place, "Line separator text expected behind 'withLineSeparator' of 'write' action.");
return;
}
lineSeparator = config.macros.forEachTiddler.paramEncode(parameter[p]);
p++;
}
}
// Check for extra parameters
if (parameter.length > p) {
config.macros.forEachTiddler.createExtraParameterErrorElement(place, "write", parameter, p);
return;
}
// Perform the action.
var func = config.macros.forEachTiddler.getEvalTiddlerFunction(textExpression, context);
var count = tiddlers.length;
var text = "";
if (count > 0 && beginExpression)
text += config.macros.forEachTiddler.getEvalTiddlerFunction(beginExpression, context)(undefined, context, count, undefined);
for (var i = 0; i < count; i++) {
var tiddler = tiddlers[i];
text += func(tiddler, context, count, i);
}
if (count > 0 && endExpression)
text += config.macros.forEachTiddler.getEvalTiddlerFunction(endExpression, context)(undefined, context, count, undefined);
if (count == 0 && noneExpression)
text += config.macros.forEachTiddler.getEvalTiddlerFunction(noneExpression, context)(undefined, context, count, undefined);
if (filename) {
if (lineSeparator !== undefined) {
lineSeparator = lineSeparator.replace(/\\n/mg, "\n").replace(/\\r/mg, "\r");
text = text.replace(/\n/mg,lineSeparator);
}
saveFile(filename, convertUnicodeToUTF8(text));
} else {
var wrapper = createTiddlyElement(place, "span");
wikify(text, wrapper, null/* highlightRegExp */, context.inTiddler);
}
};
// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
// Helpers
// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
// Internal.
//
config.macros.forEachTiddler.createContext = function(placeParam, whereClauseParam, sortClauseParam, sortAscendingParam, actionNameParam, actionParameterParam, scriptText, tiddlyWikiPathParam, inTiddlerParam) {
return {
place : placeParam,
whereClause : whereClauseParam,
sortClause : sortClauseParam,
sortAscending : sortAscendingParam,
script : scriptText,
actionName : actionNameParam,
actionParameter : actionParameterParam,
tiddlyWikiPath : tiddlyWikiPathParam,
inTiddler : inTiddlerParam, // the tiddler containing the <<forEachTiddler ...>> macro call.
viewerTiddler : config.macros.forEachTiddler.getContainingTiddler(placeParam) // the tiddler showing the forEachTiddler result
};
};
// Internal.
//
// Returns a TiddlyWiki with the tiddlers loaded from the TiddlyWiki of
// the given path.
//
config.macros.forEachTiddler.loadTiddlyWiki = function(path, idPrefix) {
if (!idPrefix) {
idPrefix = "store";
}
var lenPrefix = idPrefix.length;
// Read the content of the given file
var content = loadFile(this.getLocalPath(path));
if(content === null) {
throw "TiddlyWiki '"+path+"' not found.";
}
var tiddlyWiki = new TiddlyWiki();
// Starting with TW 2.2 there is a helper function to import the tiddlers
if (tiddlyWiki.importTiddlyWiki) {
if (!tiddlyWiki.importTiddlyWiki(content))
throw "File '"+path+"' is not a TiddlyWiki.";
tiddlyWiki.dirty = false;
return tiddlyWiki;
}
// The legacy code, for TW < 2.2
// Locate the storeArea div's
var posOpeningDiv = content.indexOf(startSaveArea);
var posClosingDiv = content.lastIndexOf(endSaveArea);
if((posOpeningDiv == -1) || (posClosingDiv == -1)) {
throw "File '"+path+"' is not a TiddlyWiki.";
}
var storageText = content.substr(posOpeningDiv + startSaveArea.length, posClosingDiv);
// Create a "div" element that contains the storage text
var myStorageDiv = document.createElement("div");
myStorageDiv.innerHTML = storageText;
myStorageDiv.normalize();
// Create all tiddlers in a new TiddlyWiki
// (following code is modified copy of TiddlyWiki.prototype.loadFromDiv)
var store = myStorageDiv.childNodes;
for(var t = 0; t < store.length; t++) {
var e = store[t];
var title = null;
if(e.getAttribute)
title = e.getAttribute("tiddler");
if(!title && e.id && e.id.substr(0,lenPrefix) == idPrefix)
title = e.id.substr(lenPrefix);
if(title && title !== "") {
var tiddler = tiddlyWiki.createTiddler(title);
tiddler.loadFromDiv(e,title);
}
}
tiddlyWiki.dirty = false;
return tiddlyWiki;
};
// Internal.
//
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When we understand the sovereignty of God, we can see the limits of earthly government. This means that differences in opinion about current state-based policies and events become much less important.
* [[Patience]]
* //All things to all men.//
!! of God
* <<Bbl 2Pet 3:8>>-9, <<Bbl 2Pet 3:15 abbr>>
* <<Bbl Gn 4:7 "" note>>
The sin of neglecting to {{anti{[[Remember]]}}}.
* <<Bbl Jud 2:10 >>, <<Bbl Jud 3:7 >>, <<Bbl Ez 16:22 >>, <<Bbl Mt 18:21 >>-35 , <<Bbl Eph 5:11 >>, <<Bbl 2Pe 1:9 >>.
* Dt chapters 7-9. Your parents' 40-year mistake is your blessing. Faith in the land of plenty won't come so readily. <<Bbl Dt 6:12 >>, <<Bbl Dt 8:1 >>-20
* I wonder what is the etymology of this //forget//?
* The butler after his release from prison.
* Egypt after Joseph was dead long enough.
* Because it chaffed a tiny injury to my finger (a fire ant bite), I removed my wedding ring and latched it onto my key-ring. All fine, except five days later I realized I'd never put it back where it belongs. Habitual custom delivers me from too great a neglect. But the instance of small neglect reminds me how fragile remembrance can be.
* {{anti{[[Witness]], [[Thank]]}}}
* <<Bbl I 44:22 >>; <<Bbl Ez 16:53 >> (see similar verses in Jer); <<Bbl Mt 6:14 >>-15 ; <<Bbl Mt 18:21 >>a; <<Bbl Eph 4:32 >>; <<Bbl 1J 1:9 >>, <<Bbl 1J 2:12 >>.
* If you know Jesus you can forgive anyone. He forgave His foes even while they were torturing and murdering Him.
* Unforgiveness is so often linked to {{opposite[[Fear]]}}}.
* [[Reconcile]]
* //Establish, foundation//
* <<Bbl Ps 11:3 >>-4; <<Bbl Pr 10:25 >>, <<Bbl Mt 7:24 >>-27.
* <<Bbl 1C 3:9 >>-17
* [[House]]
* {{anti{[[Shake]]}}}
* //Vulnerability//, [[Weakness]]
* //The spirit is willing, but the [[Flesh]] is weak//
* [[Gentleness]]
* Franklin D. Roosevelt said "In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved." But in the truest sense, freedom cannot be achieved. It must be bestowed. [[Grace]]
* We cherish //freedom of worship// as a political tenet. But we know it as spiritual liberation. Once it has come by God's Spirit, no despot can take it away. This proves it was granted by no government but God's.
* @@color:brown;Love Jesus and do what you want.@@ // - Rice Brooks//
* [[Deliver]]
* //Liberty//
* <<Bbl Lev 26:13 >>
* <<Bbl J 8:31 abbr >>-36
* <<Bbl R 6:18 >>, <<Bbl R 7:6 >>, <<Bbl R 8:2 >>
* <<Bbl 2C 3:17 >>
* <<Bbl Gal 5:1 >>
* {{anti{[[Prison]], [[Bondage]]}}}
* Tim Keller explains that friendship is comprised of ''transparency'' or honesty, ''constancy'' and a ''shared passion''. He explores Christian fellowship as an extension of friendship, and marriage as a yet deeper instance.
* <<Bbl Eph 2:19 >> is the basis for friendship in fellowship. You need only to discover a bond that already exists. Conflict resolution shows in a new light.
* [[Companion]]
* <<Bbl Pr 22:11 >> //He who loves a pure heart and whose speech is gracious will have the king for his friend.//
* <<Bbl Pr 22:24 >>-25 -- //Do not make friends with a hot-tempered man, do not associate with one easily angered, or you may learn his ways and get yourself ensnared.//
* <<Bbl Pr 27:6 >> //Wounds from a friend can be trusted, but an enemy multiplies kisses.//
* <<Bbl Pr 27:9 >> //Perfume and incense bring joy to the heart, and the pleasantness of one's friend springs from his earnest counsel.// [[Intimacy]]
* <<Bbl Pr 27:10 >> //Do not forsake your friend and the friend of your father, and do not go to your brother's house when disaster strikes you-- better a neighbor nearby than a brother far away.//
* <<Bbl Pr 28:7 >> //He who keeps the law is a discerning son, but a companion of gluttons disgraces his father.//
* <<Bbl Pr 29:3 >> //A man who loves wisdom brings joy to his father, but a companion of prostitutes squanders his wealth.//
* <<Bbl Pr 12:26 >> //A righteous man is cautious in friendship, but the way of the wicked leads them astray.// [[Debauchery]]
* <<Bbl Pr 13:20 >> //He who walks with the wise grows wise, but a companion of fools suffers harm.//
* <<Bbl Pr 17:17 >> //A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for [[Adversity]].//
* <<Bbl Pr 18:24 >> //A man of many companions may come to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.//
* [[Living-Plant]]
* <<Bbl Ps 90:17 >>; <<Bbl I 11:1 >>; <<Bbl J 15:1 >>-8 ; <<Bbl R 7:4 >>; <<Bbl E 5:9 >>; <<Bbl Php 1:11 >>
* //of the Spirit//, <<Bbl Gal 5:22>>.
* [[Love]], [[Joy]], [[Peace]], [[Patience]], [[Kindness]], [[Good]]ness, [[Faithfulness]], [[Gentleness]], [[SelfControl]].
* Gifts indicate God's power; fruit, His character.
!!! First fruits
* //of the Spirit//, <<Bbl R 8:23>>.
* <<Bbl 1C 15:20>>, 23
* <<Bbl 1Thes 2:13>>
* Rahab
* The grapes of Canaan, Numbers 14
* <<Bbl Jer 2:3 >>
!!! False fruits, barren plants
* <<Bbl Mt 15:13 >> The Pharisees
* <<Bbl Mt 13:30 >>
* <<Bbl Mt 13:41 >>
* [[Thorns]]
* <<Bbl 1K 11:31 >> - God's small, unsatisfying promise made to a small man.
!!! Creation subject to futility
* The star attraction in North Korea's Pyongpang zoo is a gorilla that can smoke cigarettes. (2016-10).
!!! Gentiles
* //Do not pray with many repetitions as the gentiles do...//
* <<Bbl Eph 4:17 >> //as the Gentiles...in the futility of their mind//.
* <<Bbl I 65:11 >>, <<Bbl I 56:12 >>, <<Bbl I 47:7 >>, <<Bbl I 22:13 >>, <<Bbl Jer 12:4 >>, <<Bbl Ps 10:4 >>-6 , <<Bbl Ps 49:11 >>-12 , <<Bbl Pr 31:25 >>, <<Bbl L 12:19 >>-20 , <<Bbl 2Pe 3:4 >>.
* <<Bbl Jms 4:13 >>-16, <<Bbl Pr 27:1 >> //You do not know what tomorrow will bring//
* [[SanctifiedProgressive]], //fate//
* The initial witness to the Galatians (miracles, persecution) is in Acts 13 and 14.
* Galatians is hard to understand because we approach it with a different question then Paul faced. Paul was speaking to the Gentile who wonders, do I need to become Jewish? Today the reader typically is wondering, do I need to obey God's fundamental rules? Or if Jewish, should I continue to observe the Torah? (D. Thomas Lancaster)
* Galatians is likely written before the council of Acts 15, seeing as that most relevant event is not mentioned.. Topic [[PeopleOfGod]].
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Peter to the Jews, Paul to the gentiles. Wow, that's power.
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0101 ***0*** greet
0106 **1** intro to problem
0111 **2** Paul's credentials. A, initiation. B, acceptance. C, vindication before Peter.
0301 **3** Galatians' experience and biblical theology.
B, Abraham and faith. A, Galatians early experience. D Abraham's wives and sons. C recent loss of joy.
0501 **5** practical exhortation
A living responsibly in grace, freedom and holiness. B, the power of the holy Spirit. C, God's judgment.
0611 **6** closing,
Paul, an apostle not from men nor by men but through Jesus Christ and God the Father who raised him from the dead, {{rf{2}}} and all the brothers with me, to the churches of Galatia. {{rf{3}}} Grace to you and peace from God the Father and our Lord Jesus Christ, {{rf{4}}} who gave himself for our sins in order to rescue us from the present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father, {{rf{5}}} to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen. {{rf{6}}} I am astonished that you are turning away so quickly from the one who called you by the grace of Christ to a different gospel, {{rf{7}}} not that there is a different gospel, except there are some who are disturbing you and wanting to distort the gospel of Christ. {{rf{8}}} But even if we or an angel from heaven should proclaim a gospel to you contrary to what we proclaimed to you, let him be accursed! {{rf{9}}} As we said before, and now I say again, if anyone is proclaiming a gospel to you contrary to what you have received, let him be accursed! {{rf{10}}} For am I now making an appeal to people or to God? Or am I seeking to please people? If I were still trying to please people, I would not be a slave of Christ. {{rf{11}}} For I make known to you, brothers, the gospel that has been proclaimed by me, that it is not of human origin. {{rf{12}}} For neither did I receive it from man, nor was I taught it, but I received it through a revelation of Jesus Christ. {{rf{13}}} For you have heard about my former way of life in Judaism, that to an extraordinary degree I was persecuting the church of God, and trying to destroy it, {{rf{14}}} and was progressing in Judaism beyond many contemporaries in my nation, because I was a far more zealous adherent of the traditions handed down by my forefathers. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Gal-01-01]] }}}
{{rf{15}}} But when the one who set me apart from my mother's womb and called me by his grace was pleased {{rf{16}}} to reveal his Son in me in order that I would proclaim the gospel about him among the Gentiles, immediately I did not consult with flesh and blood, {{rf{17}}} nor did I go up to Jerusalem to those who were apostles before me, but I went away to Arabia and I returned again to Damascus. {{rf{18}}} Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to become acquainted with Cephas, and I stayed with him fifteen days, {{rf{19}}} but I did not see any others of the apostles except James, the brother of the Lord. {{rf{20}}} (Now the things which I am writing to you, behold, I assure you before God that I am not lying.) {{rf{21}}} Then I came to the regions of Syria and of Cilicia, {{rf{22}}} but I was unknown in person to the churches of Judea that are in Christ, {{rf{23}}} and they were only hearing, "The one formerly persecuting us is now proclaiming the faith that formerly he was attempting to destroy," {{rf{24}}} and they were glorifying God because of me. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Gal-01-15]] }}}
Then after fourteen years I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, taking along Titus also. {{rf{2}}} Now I went up there because of a revelation and laid out to them the gospel that I preach among the Gentiles, but in private to the influential people, lest somehow I was running, or had run, in vain. {{rf{3}}} But not even Titus who was with me, although he was a Greek, was compelled to be circumcised. {{rf{4}}} Now this was because of the false brothers secretly brought in, who slipped in to spy out our freedom that we have in Christ Jesus, in order that they might enslave us, {{rf{5}}} to whom not even for an hour did we yield in subjection, in order that the truth of the gospel might remain continually with you. {{rf{6}}} But from those who were influential (whatever they were, it makes no difference to me, God does not show partiality) -- for those who were influential added nothing to me. {{rf{7}}} But these, when they saw that I had been entrusted with the gospel to the uncircumcision, just as Peter to the circumcisio {{rf{8}}} (for the one who was at work through Peter for his apostleship to the circumcision was at work also through me for the Gentiles), {{rf{9}}} and when James and Cephas and John -- those thought to be pillars -- acknowledged the grace given to me, they gave to me and Barnabas the right hand of fellowship, in order that we should go to the Gentiles and they to the circumcision. {{rf{10}}} They asked only that we should remember the poor, the very thing I was also eager to do. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Gal-02-01]] }}}
2:1 Titus served as "Exhibit A."
<<Bbl Gal 2:2 abbr >> <<Bbl Acts 11:30 >>
<<Bbl Gal 2:6 abbr >> to //run in vain// is used, significantly, in an exhortation from <<Bbl Phil 2:16 >>. That's the place where on arrival Paul found no Jews, only some gentile women (<<Bbl Acts 16:13 >>-15).
2:6 //those men ''added nothing'' to my message// -- no extra burden
<<Bbl Gal 2:9 abbr >> Paul had the anointing for the Gentiles; Peter for the Jews.
2:10 Conceivably this refers to the Jerusalem church; [[Poverty]]
<<Bbl Gal 2:14 abbr >> The support for this is clearly presented in 0326-29
<<Bbl Gal 2:15 abbr >> The ESV closes the quotation with v 14. But this would seem to belong with Paul's speech to Peter, for //we ourselves are Jews// not apply to the Galatians. What about the words that follow? There is no clearly discernable break until 0301.
<<Bbl Gal 2:14 abbr >> The Antioch Incident. //Judaize// is an unusual word, found in <<Bbl Esther 8:17 >> Septu, where it means to become a Jew rather than to enforce Jewishness, as in Gentiles. Lancaster: The debate in Galatians and Acts is not over soteriology but propriety. And Peter is not returning to observance of Law after a time of flouting. Rather he is waffling on the issue of whether and how the Jewish character of church fellowship should be preserved (a matter of controversy today in Messianic congregations that attract non-Jewish believers). Paul sees the danger: separate sects based on cultural heritage, which he says is //not in step with the Gospel//.
<<Bbl Gal 2:15 abbr >> Lancaster lecture 9 min 24.
<<Bbl Gal 2:19 abbr >> refers not to observance of the law, but reliance on Jewishness.
<<Bbl Gal 2:20 abbr >>a A dead person doesn't revolt, isn't offended, doesn't have any buttons to push.
<<Bbl Gal 2:20 abbr >>b Paul says, "Yes: He'd have died just for you." //In the flesh// means as a Jew.
2:20 Compare the KJV. There is a sequel in <<Bbl Gal 5:24 abbr>>.
{{rf{11}}} But when Cephas came to Antioch, I opposed him to his face, because he was condemned. {{rf{12}}} For before certain people came from James, he used to eat with the Gentiles, but when they came, he withdrew and separated himself, because he was afraid of those who were of the circumcision, {{rf{13}}} and the rest of the Jews also joined in this hypocrisy with him, so that even Barnabas was carried away with them in their hypocrisy. {{rf{14}}} But when I saw that they were not being straightforward with the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas in the presence of them all, "If you, although you are a Jew, live like a Gentile and not like a Jew, how can you try to compel the Gentiles to live like Jews?" {{rf{15}}} We are Jews by nature and not sinners from among the Gentiles, {{rf{16}}} but knowing that a person is not justified by the works of the law, if not by faith in Jesus Christ, and we have believed in Christ Jesus so that we may be justified by faith in Christ and not by the works of the law, because by the works of the law no human being will be justified. {{rf{17}}} But if while seeking to be justified by Christ, we ourselves also have been found to be sinners, then is Christ an agent of sin? May it never be! {{rf{18}}} For if I build up again these things which I destroyed, I show myself to be a transgressor. {{rf{19}}} For through the law I died to the law, in order that I might live to God. I have been crucified with Christ, {{rf{20}}} and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me, and that life I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Gal-02-11]] }}}
{{rf{21}}} I do not declare invalid the grace of God, for if righteousness is through the law, then Christ died to no purpose. {{rf big{1}}} O foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was publicly portrayed as having been crucified? {{rf{2}}} I want only to learn this from you: Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith? {{rf{3}}} Are you so foolish? Having begun by the Spirit, are you now trying to be made complete by the flesh? {{rf{4}}} Have you suffered so many things for nothing -- if indeed also it was for nothing? {{rf{5}}} Therefore does the one who gives you the Spirit and who works miracles among you do so by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith? {{rf{6}}} Just as Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him for righteousness, {{rf{7}}} then understand that the ones who have faith, these are sons of Abraham. {{rf{8}}} And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, proclaimed the good news in advance to Abraham: "In you all the nations will be blessed." {{rf{9}}} So then, the ones who have faith are blessed together with Abraham who believed. {{rf{10}}} For as many as are of the works of the law are under a curse, for it is written, "Cursed is everyone who does not abide by all the things that are written in the book of the law to do them." {{rf{11}}} Now it is clear that no one is justified in the sight of God by the law, because "the one who is righteous will live by faith." {{rf{12}}} But the law is not from faith, but "the one who does these things will live by them." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Gal-02-21]] }}}
<<Bbl Gal 3:1 abbr >>a Brainwashed, we would say.
<<Bbl Gal 3:1 abbr >>b The //portrayal// raises our intrigue. Certainly Ps 22 and Is 53 could be the references.
<<Bbl Gal 3:2 abbr >> Lancaster asserts that //works of the law// refers to distinguishing marks of Judaism.
3:3 [[Reveal]] here is apocalypse; and both those terms, from the Latin and the Greek respectively, mean an unveiling (see [[Veil]]). This finds a connection in <<Bbl I 25:7 >>, also about the bringing in of the gentiles.
<<Bbl Gal 3:3 abbr >>ff. The argument goes like this. God made Abraham the father of a promise, or promises which would include many nations. Later, God gave the law, which did not interfere with the earlier promises but which would act as a guide and a preservative for his people. Do become an heir of the promise, you had to submit to the Law. But at the appointed time God sent his son. At that point the law ceased in this function (though not other functions!). Now there is no reason for a Gentile to come under the Law.
<<Bbl Gal 3:4 abbr >> What did the Galatians suffer? On one hand, possibly the censure of the circumcisers. On the other, possibly the censure of fellow Gentiles with whom they did not join in obeisance to the employer (such were called athiests) - for Jews were sanctioned and exempt, but not these who had not converted. Possibly both. Even today a person with active interest in the Law can be regarded as "neither fish nor fowl".
<<Bbl Gal 3:5 abbr >> Miracles are normative. Paul cites them as evidence (which is not so available for us).
<<Bbl Gal 3:7 abbr >> //Sons of Abraham// is a formulaic reference to proselytes.
<<Bbl Gal 3:8 abbr >> //Many nations// - in their diversity.
<<Bbl Gal 3:8 abbr >>-14 Blessing, cursing. Like Moses: I set before you...Midrashic device of sewing together passages by theme or common words: live, blessed curse.
<<Bbl Gal 3:10 abbr >> KJV //of the works of the law// is literal. ESV says //who rely on//, which is good and helpful. This verse has been used as the basis for antinomianism and antisemitism. But it is reliance on, not faithful observance of the law that brings a curse. And this curse is not a NT imprecation, but from Deuteronomy. Rom 2. The Judiazers salvation not so much by works as status. As a proselyte, you have signed on. Yet says the adversaries themselves do not keep the law (ref?). The curse can be seen as resting on those why claim membership but ignore its stipulations. This describes the potential hypocrisy of institutionalized religion in general.
3:10 Quoting <<Bbl Dt 27:26 >>. //All who rely on observing the law are under a curse// -- the picture again of a burden.
<<Bbl Gal 3:11 abbr >> The conjunctive can be rendered //and// or //but//, which in the context is critical.
<<Bbl Gal 3:12 abbr >> <<Bbl Dt 21:22 >>. A proof text perhaps (likely) used by Paul. <<Bbl 1C 12:3 >>. <<Bbl Gal 3:13 >>.
{{rf{13}}} Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us, because it is written, "Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree," {{rf{14}}} in order that the blessing of Abraham might come to the Gentiles in Christ Jesus, so that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith. {{rf{15}}} Brothers, I am speaking according to a human perspective. Nevertheless, when the covenant of a man has been ratified, no one declares it invalid or adds additional provisions to it. {{rf{16}}} Now to Abraham and to his descendant the promises were spoken. It does not say, "and to descendants," as concerning many, but as concerning one, "and to your descendant," who is Christ. {{rf{17}}} Now I am saying this: the law, that came after four hundred and thirty years, does not revoke a covenant previously ratified by God, in order to nullify the promise. {{rf{18}}} For if the inheritance is from the law, it is no longer from the promise, but God graciously gave it to Abraham through the promise. {{rf{19}}} Why then the law? It was added on account of transgressions, until the descendant should come to whom it had been promised, having been ordered through angels by the hand of a mediator. {{rf{20}}} Now the mediator is not for one, but God is one. {{rf{21}}} Therefore is the law opposed to the promises of God? May it never be! For if a law had been given that was able to give life, certainly righteousness would have been from the law. {{rf{22}}} But the scripture imprisoned all under sin, in order that the promise could be given by faith in Jesus Christ to those who believe. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Gal-03-13]] }}}
{{holyquote{
<<Bbl Gal 3:13 >>: Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us, for it is written: Cursed is everyone who is hung on a tree.
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See [[AtoningSubstitute]]
<<Bbl Gal 3:15 abbr >> The opening phrase refers to what follows (the wording is confusing).
<<Bbl Gal 3:19 abbr >>b The //promise//, that blessing of the nations in Abraham and his singular seed, will be adduced again in chapter 4.
<<Bbl Gal 3:21 abbr >> Unmerited. Merit not from from my faith but from the faithfulness of Messiah.
<<Bbl Gal 3:22 abbr >> The Law includes, encompasses all.
<<Bbl Gal 3:24 abbr >>-25 Pedagogue, child conductor or warden. Words like imprisoned better rendered protected. A lad graduated from pedagogue to teachers: Jewishness is the guardian, Messiah is the teacher. The singular point of the metaphor is that if you've known the Master, that which had served a guide in the past of not needed. To suggest the Law is not needed is to over extend the idea, for Paul is discussing only one purpose of the Law.
<<Bbl Gal 3:26 abbr >>-29 Parenthetical
<<Bbl Gal 4:3 abbr >> We means the Jews. //in bondage to// may be amenable to a less negative interpretation such as indicating protection.
<<Bbl Gal 4:3 abbr >>-05 Under the Law means Jewish. Do not read this as making the Law obsolete.
4:3-5 <<Bbl H 2:14 >>-15 presents the same idea: Christ redeemed us by virtue of His Humanity. //born ''under'' law, to redeem those ''under'' law...//
<<Bbl Gal 4:4 abbr >> //Born under the Law// simply means born Jewish.
<<Bbl Gal 4:5 abbr >> NKJV and others say //who were born under the Law//, but the past tense can be misleading
<<Bbl Gal 4:6 abbr >> Similar to <<Bbl J 20:16 >> - the immediacy of recall.
<<Bbl Gal 4:6 abbr >> There are few appealing explanations for why the Aramaic is presented here. One concludes this is how Jesus prayed.
4:9 "You did not chose me, but I chose you." Here is further reason to express our role in the passive.
<<Bbl Gal 4:15 abbr >>b "If godliness at that time had been measured by fleshly commitment, you would have stopped at nothing." Maybe removal of eyes is a reference to extreme asceticism.
{{rf{23}}} But before faith came, we were detained under the law, imprisoned until the coming faith was revealed. {{rf{24}}} So then, the law became our guardian until Christ, in order that we could be justified by faith. {{rf{25}}} But after faith has come, we are no longer under a guardian. {{rf{26}}} For you are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus, {{rf{27}}} for as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ. {{rf{28}}} There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. {{rf{29}}} And if you are Christ's, then you are descendants of Abraham, heirs according to the promise. {{rf big{1}}} Now I say, for as long a time as the heir is a child, he is no different from a slave, although he is master of everything, {{rf{2}}} but he is under guardians and managers until the time set by his father. {{rf{3}}} So also we, when we were children, we were enslaved under the elemental spirits of the world. {{rf{4}}} But when the fullness of time came, God sent out his Son, born of a woman, born under the law, {{rf{5}}} in order that he might redeem those under the law, in order that we might receive the adoption. {{rf{6}}} And because you are sons, God sent out the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying out, "Abba! (Father!)," {{rf{7}}} so that you are no longer a slave but a son, and if a son, also an heir through God. {{rf{8}}} But at that time when you did not know God, you were enslaved to the things which by nature are not gods. {{rf{9}}} But now, because you have come to know God, or rather have come to be known by God, how can you turn back again to the weak and miserable elemental spirits? Do you want to be enslaved to them all over again? {{rf{10}}} You carefully observe days and months and seasons and years. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Gal-03-23]] }}}
{{rf{11}}} I am afraid for you, lest perhaps I have labored for you in vain! {{rf{12}}} I ask you, brothers, become like me, because I also have become like you. You have done me no wrong! {{rf{13}}} But you know that because of an illness of the flesh I proclaimed the gospel to you the first time. {{rf{14}}} And you did not despise or disdain what was a trial for you in my flesh, but you welcomed me like an angel of God, like Christ Jesus. {{rf{15}}} So where is your blessing? For I testify to you that, if possible, you would have torn out your eyes and given them to me! {{rf{16}}} So then, have I become your enemy by being truthful to you?
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{{rf{17}}} They zealously seek you, not commendably, but they want to exclude you, in order that you may seek them zealously. {{rf{18}}} But it is good to be sought zealously in good at all times, and not only when I am present with you. {{rf{19}}} My children, for whom I am having birth pains again, until Christ is formed in you! {{rf{20}}} But I could wish to be present with you now, and to change my tone because I am perplexed about you. {{rf{21}}} Tell me, you who are wanting to be under the law, do you not understand the law? {{rf{22}}} For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by the female slave and one by the free woman. {{rf{23}}} But the one by the female slave was born according to human descent, and the one by the free woman through the promise, {{rf{24}}} which things are spoken allegorically, for these women are two covenants, one from Mount Sinai, bearing children for slavery, who is Hagar. {{rf{25}}} Now Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia, and corresponds to the present Jerusalem, for she is a slave with her children. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Gal-04-11]] }}}
<<Bbl Gal 4:17 abbr >> they want you to become dependent on them.
<<Bbl Gal 4:19 abbr >> What an agony of labor, as the child is yet not fully formed.
<<Bbl Gal 4:23 abbr >> the //promise// refers back to <<Bbl Gal 3:8 abbr >>, <<Bbl Gal 3:16 abbr >>. Paul is not contrasting Jews and Gentiles or Jews and unbelievers, but Gentiles and Gentiles.
<<Bbl Gal 4:27 abbr >> Placement in <<Bbl Is 54:1 >>. Is 53 is the most important OT passage for the apostles.
<<Bbl Gal 4:28 abbr >> By converting, you are logically transferred out of the promise.
<<Bbl Gal 4:29 abbr >>-30 Can be seen as strongly supporting the theory that the troublemakers are Gentiles who have believed in Christ and insist on conversion to Judaism. It doesn't at all support Palle Flyger's application (cherishing Muslims).
<<Bbl Gal 4:30 abbr >> Sarah is the model; as she rejected Hagar and son, the Galatians should reject the false teaching as a mockery of faith.
<<Bbl Gal 5:1 abbr >> <<Bbl and 5:13 >>. Different ways in which freedom may be mishandled. [[misuse]]. [[Free]] Galatians it is for large scale freedom that Christ has set you free on the small scale. Looking at women is license. It feels like freedom. But freedom from lustful looking yields freedom from a lust-filled mind, which is a substantial token of the freedom to come.
<<Bbl Gal 5:3 abbr >> Circumcision is a symbol of the curse of the Law. It is itself a curse. Anyone who fell under the sway of the judiaisers is abjured by Paul to recant on pain of damnation.
<<Bbl Gal 5:6 abbr >> Circumcision counts for nothing; recognizing this as the truth counts for everything; deny it at your peril.
<<Bbl Gal 5:6 abbr >> see <<Bbl Gal 6:15 abbr >>
<<Bbl Gal 5:13 abbr >> is a shift to prevent an error contemplated by 0501. You are free from law - but freedom, far from justifying fleshly license, is the means of (a greater theme) love.
<<Bbl Gal 5:15 abbr >> is enlarged with 0526.
<<Bbl Gal 5:19 abbr >> Others said the //deeds of the flesh// are helpful for righteousness. Paul establishes their real "value".
<<Bbl Gal 5:24 abbr >> the choices are crucifixion of the "flesh", meaning the sinful nature, or circumcision of the literal flesh. You can't do both, and only one brings life.
<<Bbl Gal 5:25 abbr >> @@division@@
<<Bbl Gal 6:1 abbr >> [[Reprove]]. I understood this as awareness that you could fall into the same transgression. Paul is actually warning against the pride that can arise from correcting somebody (v 4), the hardness (v 1b) and self-deceit (v 3) displayed by the local heretics.
<<Bbl Gal 6:17 abbr >> in contrast to the marks of men. Vs 12.
5:1 Probably a bad place for a chapter division.
// do not let yourselves be burdened again by a ''yoke'' of slavery//
5:24 This statement is preceded by 2:20.
<<Bbl Gal 6:1 >> He calls them spiritual , then qualifies what kind of spirit they is. <<Bbl L 9:55 >>, "You do not know what kind of spirit you are of."
Restore is the word used for mending (e.g., nets); consider also the parable of the unshrunk cloth.
6:2 //Carry each other's ''burdens'', and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ. //
6:5 //for each one should carry his own ''load.'' // The greek word is the source of our word //portion.//
6:11 An example of the general injunction of 6:10.
{{rf{26}}} But the Jerusalem above is free, which is our mother. {{rf{27}}} For it is written, "Rejoice, O barren woman, who does not give birth to children; burst out and shout, you who do not have birth pains, because many are the children of the desolate woman, even more than those of the one who has a husband." {{rf{28}}} But you, brothers, are children of the promise, just as Isaac. {{rf{29}}} But just as at that time the child born according to human descent persecuted the child born according to the Spirit, so also now. {{rf{30}}} But what does the scripture say? "Drive out the female slave and her son, for the son of the female slave will never inherit with the son" of the free woman. {{rf{31}}} Therefore, brothers, we are not children of the female slave but of the free woman. {{rf big{1}}} For freedom Christ has set us free. Stand firm, therefore, and do not be subject again to a yoke of slavery. {{rf{2}}} Look! I, Paul, tell you that if you become circumcised, Christ will profit you nothing! {{rf{3}}} And again I testify to every man who becomes circumcised, that he is under obligation to keep the whole law. {{rf{4}}} You are estranged from Christ, you who are attempting to be justified by the law; you have fallen from grace. {{rf{5}}} For through the Spirit by faith we eagerly await the hope of righteousness. {{rf{6}}} For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision counts for anything nor uncircumcision, but faith working through love. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Gal-04-26]] }}}
{{rf{7}}} You were running well. Who hindered you from obeying the truth? {{rf{8}}} This persuasion is not from the one who calls you! {{rf{9}}} A little leaven leavens the whole batch of dough. {{rf{10}}} I have confidence in you in the Lord that you will think nothing different, but the one who is confusing you will pay the penalty, whoever he may be. {{rf{11}}} Now, brothers, if I am still preaching circumcision, why am I still being persecuted? In that case the stumbling block of the cross has been abolished. {{rf{12}}} I wish that the ones who are disturbing you would also castrate themselves! {{rf{13}}} For you were called to freedom, brothers. Only do not let your freedom become an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another. {{rf{14}}} For the whole law is fulfilled in one statement, namely, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself." {{rf{15}}} But if you bite and devour one another, watch out that you are not consumed by one another. {{rf{16}}} But I say, live by the Spirit, and you will never carry out the desire of the flesh. {{rf{17}}} For the flesh desires against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh, for these are in opposition to one another, so that whatever you want, you may not do these things. {{rf{18}}} But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law. {{rf{19}}} Now the deeds of the flesh are evident, which are sexual immorality, impurity, licentiousness, {{rf{20}}} idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, selfish ambition, dissension, factions, {{rf{21}}} envy, drunkenness, carousing, and things like these, things which I am telling you in advance, just as I said before, that the ones who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God. {{rf{22}}} But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, {{rf{23}}} gentleness, self control. Against such things there is no law. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Gal-05-07]] }}}
{{rf{24}}} Now those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh together with its feelings and its desires. {{rf{25}}} If we live by the Spirit, we must also follow the Spirit. {{rf{26}}} We must not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another. {{rf big{1}}} Brothers, even if a person is caught in some trespass, you who are spiritual restore such a person in a spirit of humility, looking out for yourself, lest you also be tempted. {{rf{2}}} Carry the burdens of one another, and so fulfill the law of Christ. {{rf{3}}} For if anyone thinks he is something although he is nothing, he is deceiving himself. {{rf{4}}} But let each one examine his own work, and then he will have a reason for boasting in himself alone, and not in someone else. {{rf{5}}} For each one will carry his own burden. {{rf{6}}} Now the one who is taught the word must share in all good things with the one who teaches. ''{{rf{7}}} Do not be deceived: God is not to be mocked, for whatever a person sows, this he will also reap, {{rf{8}}} because the one who sows to his own flesh will reap corruption from the flesh, but the one who sows to the Spirit will reap eternal life from the Spirit. {{rf{9}}} And let us not grow weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap, if we do not give up.'' {{rf{10}}} So then, as we have opportunity, let us do good to all people, and especially to those who belong to the household of faith. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Gal-05-24]] }}}
{{rf{11}}} See with what large letters I am writing to you with my own hand. {{rf{12}}} As many as are wanting to make a good showing in the flesh, these are attempting to compel you to be circumcised, only so that they will not be persecuted for the cross of Christ. {{rf{13}}} For not even those who are circumcised observe the law themselves, but they want you to be circumcised in order that they may boast in your flesh. {{rf{14}}} But as for me, may it never be that I boast, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world. {{rf{15}}} For neither is circumcision anything nor uncircumcision, but a new creation. {{rf{16}}} And all those who follow this rule, peace and mercy be on them and on the Israel of God. {{rf{17}}} Finally, let no one cause me trouble, for I carry on my body the marks of Jesus. {{rf{18}}} The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit, brothers. Amen. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Gal-06-11]] }}}
Used for counsel and for courts of law. <<Bbl Mt 16:18 >>
* [[Door]], [[Wall]], [[City]]
* An important motif in Esther.
* <<Bbl I 45:1>>ff
* Nehemiah records the walls are built, then the gates. It could hardly be the converse and this itself is worth meditation. A wall with no doors is better than a wall with no doors. See [[Door]] for more.
To [[See]] with comprehension or concentration.
* //Behold, focus//
* [[Witness]], [[Nearness]]
* //Fixing or setting one's eyes on//
* The painting which changed Count Nicholas von Zinzendorf's life, and his Life which changed history .
* The countless eyes of the Cherubim in Ezekiel.
* Adam's first sight.
* The focal length of an infant's vision. Imprinting.
Gehazi served [[Elisha]] in menial ways, I imagine, but had a prominent role as fore-runner and sidekick. <<Bbl 2K 8:4>> tells us he served as a recorder, a historian. Perhaps we would know little of Elijah without Gehazi's record.
I think he was also probably a business agent and secretary. Elisha was too preoccupied with God to tend to some practical mundane issues, and he could be perhaps absent-minded, or worse, whimsical. When Naaman's gift was declined, I can see Gehzi's thinking:
>Naaman has come straight from the palace, weighed down with gifts. God has provided a stupendous healing. The only thing missing from this arrangement is my master's unwillingness to accept what is offered. It is, frankly, an insult to refuse the payment. And here we are, a band of prophets living "on support' as it were, by faith.
Gehazi's disobedience is direct, and so is his deceit to Naaman (//my master has sent me// -- with decorative elaboration) and Elisha. He is bitterly snared by avarice of Ananias and Saphira, of Achan, of Judas. The judgment of leprosy is apparently something short of the ultimate, since later we find Gehazi in the king's court. It's possible it was even scabies -- brought in on the clothing requested by Gehazi from Naaman!
<<Bbl Gn 31:1>>
[[Gen-32-09-chiasmus]]
{{{
A The angels of God encounter Jacob -- location is renamed (32:1-2)
B Jacob sends envoy to Esau (32:3-8)
X Jacob's prayer to the LORD (32:9-12)
Note chiasmus within this passage as well,
centering on the River Jordan as change/contrast
B' Jacob sends envoy to Esau (32:13-21)
A' God encounters Jacob -- location is renamed (32:22-31)
}}}
<<Bbl Gn 32:9>>-12
{{{
" * O God * of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac,
O Yahweh, who * said to me * , 'Return to your land and to your family,
and I will deal well with you.'
10 I am not worthy of all the loyal love and all the faithfulness
that you have shown your servant,
for with only my staff
I crossed this Jordan,
and now I have become two camps.
11 Please rescue me from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau,
for I fear him, lest he come and attack mother and children alike.
12 Now * you yourself * said, 'I will surely deal well with you
and make your offspring as the sand of the sea that cannot be counted for abundance.'"
}}}
* Gender is intrinsic. It doesn't slough off on the way to eternity.
* Complementarity.
* <<Bbl Gn 5:2 >>
* <<Bbl A 8:20 >>
* [[Clothing]]
* [[Marry]]
* [[Immorality-No]]
* Charles Spurgeon said, giving is truly having.
* For most of us, critical to [[Stewardship]].
* [[Riches]]
* ... ditto [[Provide]].
* <<Bbl L 6:38>>
* <<Bbl L 7:36 >>-50.
* //Alms//
** <<Bbl A 10.4>> Cornelius commended by an angel
* Generosity is the end of selfishness. Born selfish; born again generous.
* [[David]] gives every Israelite a cake of break, a cake of dates and a cake of raisins.
!! General notes
* @@color:darkgreen;... the Bible begins with the universe, not with the planet earth; then with the earth, not with Palestine; then with Adam the father of the human race, not with Abraham the father of the chosen race -- we must never demote Him to the status of a tribal deity or petty godling@@ // -- John Stott//
* The book divides at chapter twelve. In the first half, the Judgment on sin finds three culminations: the eviction from the garden, the flood, and the division of languages. In the second half, as Ralph Winter puts it, "the Kingdom strikes back."
* Sections
** 1:1 - 2:3
** 2:4 - 6:8
** 6:9 - 11:9
* Genealogies as sectional
** "These are the generations of..."
** Matthew opens with a direct allusion to this phraseology, and names the heir of David.
* The six days of creation are structured 1-4, 2-5, 3-6.
* The animals //teemed//. Yet sin's outcome is often extinction.
* So much early naming God does.
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth -- {{rf{2}}} Now the earth was formless and empty, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the surface of the waters. {{rf{3}}} And God said, "Let there be light!" And there was light. {{rf{4}}} And God saw the light, that it was good, and God caused there to be a separation between the light and between the darkness. {{rf{5}}} And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day. {{rf{6}}} And God said, "Let there be a vaulted dome in the midst of the waters, and let it cause a separation between the waters." {{rf{7}}} So God made the vaulted dome, and he caused a separation between the waters which were under the vaulted dome and between the waters which were over the vaulted dome. And it was so. {{rf{8}}} And God called the vaulted dome "heaven." And there was evening, and there was morning, a second day. {{rf{9}}} And God said, "Let the waters under heaven be gathered to one place, and let the dry ground appear." And it was so. {{rf{10}}} And God called the dry ground "earth," and he called the collection of the waters "seas." And God saw that it was good. {{rf{11}}} And God said, "Let the earth produce green plants that will bear seed -- fruit trees bearing fruit in which there is seed -- according to its kind, on the earth." And it was so. {{rf{12}}} And the earth brought forth green plants bearing seed according to its kind, and trees bearing fruit in which there was seed according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. {{rf{13}}} And there was evening and there was morning, a third day. {{rf{14}}} And God said, "Let there be lights in the vaulted dome of heaven to separate day from night, and let them be as signs and for appointed times, and for days and years, {{rf{15}}} and they shall be as lights in the vaulted dome of heaven to give light on the earth." And it was so. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Genesis-01-01]] }}}
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Does Genesis chapter 1 emphasize //Adam//, chapter 2 //Ish//?
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!!! Creation and Life
<<Bbl Gn 1:1 abbr>>-19 <<Bbl Ps 33:6 >>-9 describes the creation.
<<Bbl Gn 1:1 abbr >>. In Christ He reiterates this work. He displays His unprompted [[sovereignty]].
<<Bbl Gn 1:2 abbr >>. Without purpose. And/But God...
<<Bbl Gn 1:3 abbr >>. <<Bbl 2Co 4:6 >>.
<<Bbl Gn 1:3 abbr>> <<Bbl 2C 4:6 >> states that the power of this original creation is the same as that of the regeneration of souls. See also <<Bbl J 1:4 >>-9 , <<Bbl J 8:12 >>, <<Bbl J 9:5 >>, <<Bbl J 12:46 >>. Before light was created on the earth, light and life were manifest in the nature of the Son. See also <<Bbl Ps 33:6 >>.
<<Bbl Gn 1:4 abbr >>. [[Holiness]].
<<Bbl Gn 1:5 abbr >> Reveals gnostic dualism as false, especially 5b which indicates integrity.
<<Bbl Gn 1:6 abbr >>. [[Boundary]]
<<Bbl Gn 1:11 abbr >> [[Fruit]].
<<Bbl Gn 1:14 abbr >>ff. [[Light]] [[Guide]]. Signs -- like the sort followed by the wise men? Seasons are mentioned in 8:22.
<<Bbl Gn 1:26 abbr >>-27 <<Bbl Gn 5:1 >>abbr >>-02
<<Bbl Gn 1:27 abbr >> <<Bbl J 2:23 >>-25
<<Bbl Gn 1:28 abbr >>. The mature man, or, the church in Christ.
1:26 man -- them -- the wording in the NAS seems grammatically paradoxical. But the plurality is reflected in <<Bbl 1P 3:7 >>, "Heirs together."
<<Bbl Gn 1:27 abbr>> As in 5:1-2, there is a pristine unity of the sexes here. Paul's words in <<Bbl 2C 11:7 >> seem to be based in the chapter 2 account, though his wording points to this passage.
<<Bbl Gn 1:28 abbr>> The covenant of dominion. Contrast <<Bbl Jms 3:7 >> about the tongue.
1:29-30 Here man is classed with the animal kingdom as having a living soul, and the plants are food for all.
<<Bbl Gn 2:2 abbr>> The first unhelpful chapter division of the Bible.
2:2 God rested. Hebrews offers the same rest to us, <<Bbl H 4:9 >>-10 . //Did God rest because now, for the first time, it was possible to anthropomorphize? smile.//
{{rf{16}}} And God made two lights, the greater light to rule the day and the smaller light to rule the night, and the stars. {{rf{17}}} And God placed them in the vaulted dome of heaven to give light on the earth {{rf{18}}} and to rule over the day and over the night, and to separate light from darkness. And God saw that it was good. {{rf{19}}} And there was evening and there was morning, a fourth day. {{rf{20}}} And God said, "Let the waters swarm with swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly over the earth across the face of the vaulted dome of heaven. {{rf{21}}} So God created the great sea creatures and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarm, according to their kind, and every bird with wings according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. {{rf{22}}} And God blessed them, saying, "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let the birds multiply on the earth." {{rf{23}}} And there was evening, and there was morning, a fifth day. {{rf{24}}} And God said, "Let the earth bring forth living creatures according to their kind: cattle and moving things, and wild animals according to their kind." And it was so. {{rf{25}}} So God made wild animals according to their kind and the cattle according to their kind, and every creeping thing of the earth according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Genesis-01-16]] }}}
And God said, "Let us make humankind in our image and according to our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of heaven, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every moving thing that moves upon the earth." {{rf{27}}} So God created humankind in his image, in the likeness of God he created him, male and female he created them. {{rf{28}}} And God blessed them, and God said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it, and rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of heaven, and over every animal that moves upon the earth." {{rf{29}}} And God said, "Look -- I am giving to you every plant that bears seed which is on the face of the whole earth, and every kind of tree that bears fruit. They shall be yours as food." {{rf{30}}} And to every kind of animal of the earth and to every bird of heaven, and to everything that moves upon the earth in which there is life I am giving every green plant as food." And it was so. {{rf{31}}} And God saw everything that he had made and, behold, it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning, a sixth day. {{rf big{1}}} And heaven and earth and all their array were finished. {{rf{2}}} And on the seventh day God finished his work that he had done, and he rested on the seventh day from all his work that he had done. {{rf{3}}} And God blessed the seventh day, and he sanctified it, because on it he rested from all his work of creating that there was to do. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Genesis-01-26]] }}}
{{rf{4}}} These are the generations of heaven and earth when they were created, in the day that Yahweh God made earth and heaven -- {{rf{5}}} before any plant of the field was on earth, and before any plant of the field had sprung up, because Yahweh God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was no human being to cultivate the ground, {{rf{6}}} but a stream would rise from the earth and water the whole face of the ground -- {{rf{7}}} when Yahweh God formed the man of dust from the ground, and he blew into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature. {{rf{8}}} And Yahweh God planted a garden in Eden in the east, and there he put the man whom he had formed. {{rf{9}}} And Yahweh God caused to grow every tree that was pleasing to the sight and good for food. And the tree of life was in the midst of the garden, along with the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. {{rf{10}}} Now a river flowed out from Eden that watered the garden, and from there it diverged and became four branches. {{rf{11}}} The name of the first is the Pishon. It went around all the land of Havilah, where there is gold. {{rf{12}}} (The gold of that land is good; bdellium and onyx stones are there.) {{rf{13}}} And the name of the second is Gihon. It went around all the land of Cush. {{rf{14}}} And the name of the third is Tigris. It flows east of Assyria. And the fourth river is the Euphrates. {{rf{15}}} And Yahweh God took the man and set him in the garden of Eden to cultivate it and to keep it. {{rf{16}}} And Yahweh God commanded the man, saying, "From every tree of the garden you may freely eat, {{rf{17}}} but from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat from it you shall surely die."
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{{rf{18}}} Then Yahweh God said, "it is not good that the man is alone. I will make for him a helper as his counterpart." {{rf{19}}} And out of the ground Yahweh God formed every beast of the field and every bird of the sky, and he brought each to the man to see what he would call it. And whatever the man called that living creature was its name. {{rf{20}}} And the man gave names to every domesticated animal and to the birds of heaven and to all the wild animals. But for the man there was not found a helper as his counterpart. {{rf{21}}} And Yahweh God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man. While he slept, he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh where it had been. {{rf{22}}} And Yahweh God fashioned the rib which he had taken from the man into a woman and brought her to the man. {{rf{23}}} And the man said, "She is now bone from my bones and flesh from my flesh; she shall be called 'Woman,' for she was taken from man." {{rf{24}}} Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and shall cling to his wife, and they shall be as one flesh. {{rf{25}}} And the man and his wife, both of them, were naked, and they were not ashamed. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Genesis-02-04]] }}}
<<Bbl Gn 2:4 abbr >> This is the proper start to the chapter. @@Division@@
God's creation continues in stream with the beginning. The Garden is an implementation of all that preceded, each stage bulding on the last. The trend is specificity, shown in the use of names starting with //Eden//. The trees are distinguished, designated. The Garden is the setting and antecedent for man, and man is bifurcated in the creation of woman.
2:7 The basis for anthropology. There are two components: dust and God's breath. //Formed// is the potter's term.
Compare <<Bbl J 20:22 >>
<<Bbl Gn 2:8 abbr>> The garden was not created, but //planted//. Special purposes are evident.
<<Bbl Gn 2:9 abbr >> Creation was complete and man's authority was complete. Without the two trees mentioned by made, it with not have been so. If man was viceroy over an incomplete creation, he would be no image of God.
<<Bbl Gen 2:15 abbr>>-17 Man in his setting. See <<Bbl Eph 2:10>>. The covenant of works, and the only such. God "wanted to demonstrate whether man would glorify his Creator by obeying him." (C.K. Cummings).
** [[GoodAndEvil]]
** //you shall die// - after the fall, man was no longer eligible for salvation by works.
2:19-20 Thus is science born, as taxonomy.
*** Newton said that the task of science is to think God's thoughts after Him.
*** The wording emphasizes the plenary authority of Adam's role.
*** See this also as the first age of language. The next ages are found in Babel and Pentecost.
<<Bbl Gn 2:21 abbr >> Rib or side, a term related to sacral architecture. <<Bbl 1C 6:19 >>-20.
<<Bbl Gn 2:22 abbr >> In three verses, //of/from// emphasised 4 times. Extraction. Man is now missing a part... It is found in the woman. So in marriage, reconstitution. Same-sex relationships do not satisfy this.
<<Bbl Gn 2:22 abbr >> //He brought her to him// - The first wedding, and the first Father to give away His daughter in marriage.
!!! The Betrayal
* God chose not to warn them about the serpent. But Adam named the serpent; Adam knew he was the //most subtle. //
2:23-24 <<Bbl Eph 5:30 >>-32 ; <<Bbl Mt 19:4 >>-5 .
Now the serpent was more crafty than any other wild animal which Yahweh God had made. He said to the woman, "Did God indeed say, 'You shall not eat from any tree in the garden'?" {{rf{2}}} The woman said to the serpent, "From the fruit of the trees of the garden we may eat, {{rf{3}}} but from the tree that is in the midst of the garden, God said, 'You shall not eat from it, nor shall you touch it, lest you die'." {{rf{4}}} But the serpent said to the woman, "You shall not surely die. {{rf{5}}} For God knows that on the day you both eat from it, then your eyes will be opened and you both shall be like gods, knowing good and evil." {{rf{6}}} When the woman saw that the tree was good for food and that it was a delight to the eyes, and the tree was desirable to make one wise, then she took from its fruit and she ate. And she gave it also to her husband with her, and he ate. {{rf{7}}} Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew that they were naked. And they sewed together fig leaves and they made for themselves coverings. {{rf{8}}} Then they heard the sound of Yahweh God walking in the garden at the windy time of day. And the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of Yahweh God among the trees of the garden. {{rf{9}}} And Yahweh God called to the man and said to him, "Where are you?" {{rf{10}}} And he replied, "I heard the sound of you in the garden, and I was afraid because I am naked, so I hid myself." {{rf{11}}} Then he asked, "Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree from which I forbade you to eat?" {{rf{12}}} And the man replied, "The woman whom you gave to be with me -- she gave to me from the tree and I ate." {{rf{13}}} Then Yahweh God said to the woman, "What is this you have done?" And the woman said, "The serpent deceived me, and I ate." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Genesis-03-01]] }}}
{{hilite{
* Between creation and Abraham, Genesis 3-11 can be viewed as a series of acts in judgment:
## the Eviction (following the betrayal)
## the Exile (Cain)
## the Flood
## the Confusion (Babel)
}}}
<<Bbl Gn 3:1 abbr >> The serpent started out more good than shrewd - in chapter 2. Or was his shrewd created as good?
<<Bbl Gn 3:1 abbr >> History's first question.
<<Bbl Gn 3:1 abbr >>, 14. First crafty, first cursed. //Most crafty... most cursed.//
<<Bbl Gn 3:1 abbr >>-11 The reality of visible/invisible and revelation are reversed. Humans are working on coverings, secrets and partial disclosures.
3:5 is resolved with 3:22; within this passage, chiastic structure points to the curse on the serpent. And intertwined with this:
{{{
a 3:6 She ate the fruit from the tree and then gave it to her husband.
b 3:7 They realized they were naked.
c 3:8 Adam and Eve hid themselves.
d 3:9 Then the LORD God called to Adam and said to him,
-- Where are you? --
c 3:10 -- I hid myself. --
b 3:11a -- Who told you that you were naked? --
a 3:11b -- Have you eaten from the tree? --
}}}
<<Bbl Gn 3:5 abbr >> Actually it is in holiness and obedience that they would be more like God.
<<Bbl Gn 3:6 abbr >> Self-actualization.
3:6 It would have been the first ever "No." See <<Bbl R 5:12 >>-19 ; <<Bbl 1Tim 2:14 >>.
M.R. ~DeHaan (Portraits From Genesis) presents Adam as righteous; W.A. Criswell (The Scarlet Thread of Redemption, Open Bible) as chivalrous!
But Tim presents to me the idea (2/91) that Adam did indeed die for Eve's sake. He was not deceived into thinking he would be "like God." He chose a form of suicide, being unwilling to suffer for righteousness' sake. In that he died for his bride he fulfilled his picture of the Second Adam.
!!! The Shame
The word for //shame// is only used once in Genesis -- not here. See [[Shame]].
3:7 An image of all man-made religion. We need not assume the garment was crudely constructed. This is the first handiwork in history; this is the origin of Hobby Lobby.
3:8 The cool is the word //Ruah//.
This is how many people react when you bring up Christ in a conversation.
3:9 What if God, instead of calling, had simply turned around and left? This is grace.
The improvisation of clothing was immediately understood by Adam and Eve to be inadequate. They hid.
*Overtures of [[Grace]] -- largely hidden as [[Need]]:
** God promises to make them enemies of [[Satan]] -- which must push them towards Himself!
** The Seed of the woman will win.
** There will be extra pain -- which is often a remedy for danger, and they could use some help there.
** There will be extra work -- which means less time for idleness, which now must lead to wickedness.
* 3:15 //[[Seed]] of the woman// is a hint of the virgin birth.
This is the first hour in which [[Redeem]] is needed. If redemption were an old clock, and the Messiah were the main-spring, this would be the first turn of the winding knob.
* 3:21 -- 2 kinds of [[Clothing]] (see 3:7); [[Sacrifice]].
3:11 The great quest of fallen man is to be unregenerately clothed -- religious endeavor directed towards God -- or to be unashamedly naked -- religious endeavor directed away from God.
3:14-19 God does __not__ curse the man and woman.
3:15 <<Bbl Gal 4:4 >> presents this as prophetic of the virgin birth.
3:16 Before, covenant had sufficed. Now, desire and domination mark our relationships in the fallen world. But does redemption restore the pristine order exactly, or somehow sublimate these elements? Even paradise apparently does not return us to nakedness, but presents us clothed (see Clothing).
3:17-19 Work now has a new function as compensation for the curse. <<Bbl 2The 3:10 >>, Paul develops this natural law into a commandment.
<<Bbl Gn 3:16 abbr >>b ESV changed rendering drastically in 2016. Demonstrates the uncertainty of translation.
3:17 See <<Bbl Dt 13:6 >>.
<<Bbl Gn 3:21 abbr >>. God clothed Adam and Eve with the skin of an animal which he killed. Imagine the absolute shock on the faces of Adam and Eve as this was done. It would be like standing before the cross and seeing God's son put to death. It would be that stunning. He did not require Adam or Eve to kill the animal (even more traumatizing). This is a condescension on his part.
<<Bbl Gn 3:21 abbr >> Salvation is all God's work. Blood is shed. An innocent substitute incurs the just penalty (2:17). ~DeHaan presents this as fulfilling three rules for sacrifice.
3:23 Interesting that the mandate of 2:15 is unchanged. But now the soil, Adam's source and sphere of activity and his very nature, typifies his fallen estate. 4:12 is an expansion of the curse in relation to soil.
!!! The Eviction
3:24 High-voltage cherubim.
{{rf{14}}} Then Yahweh God said to the serpent, "Because you have done this, you will be cursed more than any domesticated animal and more than any wild animal. On your belly you shall go and dust you shall eat all the days of your life. {{rf{15}}} And I will put hostility between you and between the woman, and between your offspring and between her offspring; he will strike you on the head, and you will strike him on the heel." {{rf{16}}} To the woman he said, "I will greatly increase your pain in childbearing; in pain you shall bear children. And to your husband shall be your desire. And he shall rule over you." {{rf{17}}} And to Adam he said, "Because you listened to the voice of your wife and you ate from the tree from which I forbade you to eat, the ground shall be cursed on your account. In pain you shall eat from it all the days of your life. {{rf{18}}} And thorns and thistles shall sprout for you, and you shall eat the plants of the field. {{rf{19}}} By the sweat of your brow you shall eat bread, until your return to the ground. For from it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you shall return." {{rf{20}}} And the man named his wife Eve, because she was the mother of all life. {{rf{21}}} And Yahweh God made for Adam and for his wife garments of skin, and he clothed them. {{rf{22}}} And Yahweh God said, "Look -- the man has become as one of us, to know good and evil. What if he stretches out his hand and takes also from the tree of life and eats, and lives forever?" {{rf{23}}} And Yahweh God sent him out from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from which he was taken. {{rf{24}}} So he drove the man out, and placed cherubim east of the garden of Eden, and a flaming, turning sword to guard the way to the tree of life. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Genesis-03-14]] }}}
Now Adam knew Eve his wife, and she conceived and bore Cain. And she said, "I have given birth to a man with the help of Yahweh." {{rf{2}}} Then she bore his brother Abel. And Abel became a keeper of sheep, and Cain became a tiller of the ground. {{rf{3}}} And in the course of time Cain brought an offering from the fruit of the ground to Yahweh, {{rf{4}}} and Abel also brought an offering from the choicest firstlings of his flock. And Yahweh looked with favor to Abel and to his offering, {{rf{5}}} but to Cain and to his offering he did not look with favor. And Cain became very angry, and his face fell. {{rf{6}}} And Yahweh said to Cain, "Why are you angry, and why is your face fallen? {{rf{7}}} If you do well will I not accept you? But if you do not do well, sin is crouching at the door. And its desire is for you, but you must rule over it." {{rf{8}}} Then Cain said to his brother Abel, "Let us go out into the field." And when they were in the field, Cain rose up against his brother Abel and killed him. {{rf{9}}} Then Yahweh said to Cain, "Where is Abel your brother?" And he said, "I do not know; am I my brother's keeper?" {{rf{10}}} And he said, "What have you done? The voice of your brother's blood is crying out to me from the ground. {{rf{11}}} So now you are cursed from the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive the blood of your brother from your hand. {{rf{12}}} When you till the ground it shall no longer yield its strength to you. You shall be a wanderer and a fugitive on the earth." {{rf{13}}} And Cain said to Yahweh, "My punishment is greater than I can bear. {{rf{14}}} Look, you have driven me out today from the face of the ground, and from your face I must hide. I will be a wanderer and a fugitive on the earth, and it will happen that whoever finds me will kill me." {{rf{15}}} Then Yahweh said to him, "Therefore, whoever kills Cain will be avenged sevenfold." Then Yahweh put a sign on Cain so that whoever found him would not kill him. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Genesis-04-01]] }}}
* This time of history is characterized by [[acts of Judgment|Judgment]].
!!! The First Murder
<<Bbl Gn 4:1 abbr >> Delitzsch asserts that Eve did not utter the name Yahweh. Goldworthy considers it possible she did: the Name was known, but its meaning not yet revealed as it was fully to Moses.
4:1 Is it possible Eve had a faith response and Adam did not?
4:2 Cain and Abel find mention in <<Bbl H 11:4 >>, <<Bbl H 12:24 >>; <<Bbl 1J 3:12 >>.
* The antithesis of the two brothers seems to represent the two basic strains in the human race -- those who acknowledge God on His terms and those who do not. This is the seed of the woman and of the serpent (3:15). There are two religions. Cain is the first son of the devil.
* His brother -- the first instance of the phrase which marks this passage.
* Keil says that the two occupations were both passed on from Adam. Sheep do not thrive without human care.
4:3 Cain brings the fruit of his own labors. He is working within the curse (3:19); no atoning substitute for his own life, but only his own effort. Abel brings an atoning substitute. The difference between these acts is already evident from 3:7, 21.
However, Keil says it was rather the heart attitude expressed in Abel's presentation of the first fruits. The quality of his offering is emphasized.
F.F. Bruce agrees that "sacrifice is acceptable to God not for its material content, but in so far as it is the outward expression of a devoted and obedient heart." And blood was not the salient feature, since "it is nowhere suggested -- that it was a sin-offering" but rather a first-fruits. This engaging discussion is found in Hebrews, 11:4.
<<Bbl Gn 4:4 abbr>> -- Why did God favor Abel? Possibilities:
## He brought a sacrificed animal, which presaged God's perfect sacrifice. This reminds me of the [[Clothing]] God provided at the Eviction.
## He brought a better quality offering. This is implied by the extra positive descriptors, compared with Cain's.
## <<Bbl H 11:4 >> says Abel had [[Believe]]. This simply is the difference, revealed by God to the NT author (and possibly expressed by Jesus in His post-resurrection teaching).
## Cain's offering is from the land, and the [[Land]] is cursed.
## Abel offered his choice [[Firstfruits]]. The phrase //in the course of time// is thus significant as showing Cain did not give God preeminence.
<<Bbl Gn 4:4 abbr>>-5 The man's standing before God is based on the quality of sacrifice. Respect for the man's sacrifice equals respect for the man.
4:4 There was one precedent for this act, and Abel may have been thinking about it; the killing of the animal to clothe Adam and Eve, 3:21.
Of their fat portions -- Delitzsch says, the fattest of the sheep. Others say, the fattest joints, the best eating.
<<Bbl Gn 4:5 abbr >> <<Bbl Mt 5:22 >>.
<<Bbl Gn 4:7 abbr>> Whatever the reason for God's immediate judgment, we are fully assured that Cain has a path open to him. This is a forbearance.
4:7 an acceptance, a lifting. This is in antithesis to the fallen countenance of vs. 6. "You will smile." Or, it could refer to a lifting up of the sacrifice and thus of the person.
Your countenance be lifted up -- grace.
Sin is crouching at the door -- the serpent; or the lion of <<Bbl 1P 5:8 >>. If part A of this verse represents grace, part B is the works of the law and fleshly struggle.
4:8 There is something here of Israel's rejection of the Messiah. Envy and blood are found in <<Bbl Mt 27:18 >>. The Pharisees fit Cain's description of self-wrought justification. The sentence of wandering, too, is found (<<Bbl Lv 26:32 >>-33 ); Also the grace offered to Cain might be likened to <<Bbl R 1:25 >>-26 .
Of the devil, Jesus says (<<Bbl J 8:4 >>) that "he was a murderer from the beginning."
4:9 Compare the question of the lawyer, <<Bbl L 10:29 >>.
<<Bbl Gn 4:10 abbr >> Abel is a symbol of martyrs, <<Bbl Mt 23:35 >>. Also <<Bbl Ps 116:15 >>.
<<Bbl Gn 4:10 abbr>>-12 //Your brother's blood cries out to me from the ground.// The third curse in history is spoken, and the first one for a person. <<Bbl H 12:24 >> compares what Christ's blood says to what Abel's says. Abel's spoke for vengeance; Christ's for mercy. God does not reply to Cain's deflective defense, but He does assert Himself as a Abel's Keeper. And Cain immediately cries out his need for a Keeper. So Cain's rejoinder is exposed as a rejection of what is God's image in man.
<<Bbl Gn 4:12 abbr >> Amplifies or compounds 3:17-19.
4:14 Cain's fear of death may be based on <<Bbl Gn 9:6 >>.
<<Bbl Gn 4:15 abbr >> -- the mark was perhaps not on Cain, but for him. This could have been a reassuring sign; <<Bbl Jud 6:36 >>-40 , <<Bbl 2K 2:6 >>-12 . Floyd Jones says he was made a giant -- hence the Nephilim.
4:16 Nod -- wandering
<<Bbl Gn 4:24 abbr >> P. Jensen calls Lamech @@color:navy;a thoroughly nasty piece of work.@@
{{rf{16}}} And Cain went out from the presence of Yahweh, and he settled in the land of Nod, east of Eden. {{rf{17}}} And Cain knew his wife, and she conceived and gave birth to Enoch. And when he built a city he named the city after his son, Enoch. {{rf{18}}} And to Enoch was born Irad, and Irad fathered Mehujael, and Mehujael fathered Methushael, and Methushael fathered Lamech. {{rf{19}}} And Lamech took to himself two wives. The name of the first was Adah, and the name of the second was Zillah. {{rf{20}}} And Adah gave birth to Jabal; he was the father of those who live in tents and those who have livestock. {{rf{21}}} And the name of his brother was Jubal; he was the father of all who play stringed instruments and wind instruments. {{rf{22}}} Then Zillah also gave birth to Tubal-Cain who forged all kinds of tools of bronze and iron. And the sister of Tubal-Cain was Naamah. {{rf{23}}} Then Lamech said to his wives, "Adah and Zillah, listen to my voice; O wives of Lamech, hear my words. I have killed a man for wounding me, Even a young man for injuring me. {{rf{24}}} If Cain is avenged sevenfold, Then Lamech will be avenged seventy and seven times. {{rf{25}}} Then Adam knew his wife again, and she gave birth to a son. And she called his name Seth, for she said "God has appointed to me another child in the place of Abel, because Cain killed him." {{rf{26}}} And as for Seth, he also fathered a son, and he called his name Enosh. At that time he began to call on the name of Yahweh. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Genesis-04-16]] }}}
This is the record of the generations of Adam. When God created Adam, he made him in the likeness of God. {{rf{2}}} Male and female he created them. And he blessed them. And he called their name "Humankind" when they were created. {{rf{3}}} And when Adam had lived one hundred and thirty years, he fathered a child in his likeness, according to his image. And he called his name Seth. {{rf{4}}} And the days of Adam after he fathered Seth were eight hundred years. And he fathered sons and daughters. {{rf{5}}} And all the days of Adam which he lived were nine hundred and thirty years, and he died. {{rf{6}}} When Seth had lived one hundred and five years, he fathered Enosh. {{rf{7}}} And after Seth had fathered Enosh he lived eight hundred and seven years, and fathered sons and daughters. {{rf{8}}} And all the days of Seth were nine hundred and twelve years, and he died. {{rf{9}}} When Enosh lived ninety years, he fathered Kenan. {{rf{10}}} And after Enosh fathered Kenan he lived eight hundred and fifteen years, and fathered sons and daughters. {{rf{11}}} And all the days of Enosh were nine hundred and five years, and he died. {{rf{12}}} When Kenan had lived seventy years, he fathered Mahalalel. {{rf{13}}} And after Kenan had fathered Mahalalel, he lived eight hundred and forty years, and fathered sons and daughters. {{rf{14}}} And all the days of Kenan were nine hundred and ten years, and he died. {{rf{15}}} When Mahalalel had lived sixty-five years, he fathered Jared. {{rf{16}}} And after Mahalalel had fathered Jared, he lived eight hundred and thirty years, and fathered sons and daughters. {{rf{17}}} And all the days of Mahalalel were eight hundred and ninety-five years, and he died. {{rf{18}}} When Jared had lived one hundred and sixty-two years, he fathered Enoch. {{rf{19}}} And after Jared had fathered Enoch, he lived eight hundred years, and fathered sons and daughters. {{rf{20}}} And all the days of Jared were nine hundred and sixty-two years, and he died. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Genesis-05-01]] }}}
<<Bbl Gn 5:1 abbr >>-02 summarizes and adds to <<Bbl Gn 1:26 >>abbr >>-27.
<<Bbl Gn 5:3 abbr >> uses both terms, image and likeness. <<Bbl Gn 1:26 abbr >>, <<Bbl Gn 5:1 abbr >>.
5:29 Lamech was probably looking back to the promise of 3:15. Ironically, Noah did bring a form of rest.
<<Bbl Gn 6:1 abbr >>-5 parallelism: The evidence and God's verdict in two cycles that escalate.
6:2 Some (Criswell) said these are the children of Seth and Cain, respectively.
!!! The Flood
<<Bbl Gn 6:3 abbr >> the time appointed for the flood, say some.
<<Bbl Gn 6:8 abbr >> [[Remnant]].
6:9 <<Bbl 2P 2:15 >> calls him a //preacher of righteousness//; the NASB provides //herald// as an alternate.
6:11-13 God has already repented of creating man (vs. 7). Here He contemplates the corruption of all flesh (7:21).
<<Bbl Gn 6:13 abbr >>-14. On the face of it, a rank contradiction. Yet corresponds with <<Bbl Gn 6:6 abbr >>-08.
6:14 "Ark" comes from the Vulgate arca , chest or coffer, something closed up; or the verb acere , to close or shut up (according to one note of mine, probably related to the Spanish //cerrar//).
6:15 About 450' by 75' by 45'.
6:16 Note the total lack of safety features.
6:17 The word used here for flood is archaic and has one express use (<<Bbl Ps 29:10 >>; <<Bbl I 54:9 >>).
<<Bbl Gn 6:18 abbr >> God made man relational; it was //not good for him to be alone.// Therefore Noah's family is saved.
<<Bbl Gn 6:18 abbr >> This may refer to <<Bbl Gn 9:1 abbr >>ff.
6:19-20 As in the flood account, the water creatures are not mentioned.
6:22 An obedience based in faith, as <<Bbl H 11:7 >> states. "As it was in the days of Noah," <<Bbl Mt 24:37 >>-39 ; <<Bbl L 17:26 >>-27.
{{rf{21}}} When Enoch had lived sixty-five years, he fathered Methuselah. {{rf{22}}} And Enoch walked with God after he fathered Methuselah three hundred years, and fathered sons and daughters. {{rf{23}}} And all the days of Enoch were three hundred and sixty-five years. {{rf{24}}} And Enoch walked with God, and he was no more, for God took him. {{rf{25}}} When Methuselah had lived one hundred and eighty-seven years, he fathered Lamech. {{rf{26}}} And after Methuselah had fathered Lamech, he lived seven hundred and eighty-two years, and fathered sons and daughters. {{rf{27}}} And all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred and sixty-nine years, and he died. {{rf{28}}} When Lamech had lived one hundred and eighty-two years, he fathered a son. {{rf{29}}} And he called his name Noah, saying, "This one shall relieve us from our work, and from the hard labor of our hands, from the ground which Yahweh had cursed. {{rf{30}}} And after Lamech had fathered Noah he lived five hundred and ninety-five years, and he fathered sons and daughters. {{rf{31}}} All the days of Lamech were seven hundred and seventy-seven years, and he died. {{rf{32}}} When Noah was five hundred years old, Noah fathered Shem, Ham, and Japheth. {{rf big{1}}} And it happened that, when humankind began to multiply on the face of the ground, daughters were born to them. {{rf{2}}} Then the sons of God saw the daughters of humankind, that they were beautiful. And they took for themselves wives from all that they chose. {{rf{3}}} And Yahweh said, "My Spirit shall not abide with humankind forever in that he is also flesh. And his days shall be one hundred and twenty years." {{rf{4}}} The Nephilim were upon the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God went into the daughters of humankind, and they bore children to them. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Genesis-05-21]] }}}
{{rf{5}}} And Yahweh saw that the evil of humankind was great upon the earth, and every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was always only evil. {{rf{6}}} And Yahweh regretted that he had made humankind on the earth, and he was grieved in his heart. {{rf{7}}} And Yahweh said, "I will destroy humankind whom I created from upon the face of the earth, from humankind, to animals, to creeping things, and to the birds of heaven, for I regret that I have made them." {{rf{8}}} But Noah found favor in the eyes of Yahweh. {{rf{9}}} These are the generations of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, without defect in his generations. Noah walked with God. {{rf{10}}} And Noah fathered three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth. {{rf{11}}} And the earth was corrupted before God, and the earth was filled with violence. {{rf{12}}} And God saw the earth, and behold, it was corrupt, for all flesh had corrupted its way upon the earth. {{rf{13}}} And God said to Noah, "The end of all flesh has come before me, for the earth was filled with violence because of them. Now, look, I am going to destroy them along with the earth. {{rf{14}}} Make for yourself an ark of cypress wood; you must make the ark with rooms, then you must cover it with pitch, inside and outside. {{rf{15}}} And this is how you must make it: the length of the ark, three hundred cubits; its width fifty cubits; its height, thirty cubits. {{rf{16}}} You must make a roof for the ark, and finish it to a cubit above. And as for the door of the ark, you must put it in its side. You must make it with a lower, second, and a third deck. {{rf{17}}} And I, behold, I am about to bring the flood waters over the earth to destroy all flesh in which is the breath of life from under the heaven; everything that is on the earth shall perish. {{rf{18}}} And I will establish my covenant with you, and you must go into the ark -- you, and your sons, and your wife, and the wives of your sons with you. {{rf{19}}} And of every living thing, from all flesh, you must bring two from every kind into the ark to keep them alive with you; they shall be male and female. {{rf{20}}} From the birds according to their kind, and from the animals according to their kind, from every creeping thing on the ground according to its kind -- two from every kind shall come to you to keep them alive. {{rf{21}}} And as for you, take for yourself from every kind of food that is eaten. And you must gather it to yourself. And it shall be for you and for them for food." {{rf{22}}} And Noah did according to all that God commanded him; thus he did. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Genesis-06-05]] }}}
Then Yahweh said to Noah, "Go -- you and all your household -- into the ark, for I have seen you are righteous before me in this generation. {{rf{2}}} From all the clean animals you must take for yourself seven pairs, a male and its mate. And from the animals that are not clean you must take two, a male and its mate, {{rf{3}}} as well as from the birds of heaven seven pairs, male and female, to keep their kind alive on the face of the earth. {{rf{4}}} For within seven days I will send rain upon the earth for forty days and forty nights. And I will blot out all the living creatures that I have made from upon the face of the ground." {{rf{5}}} And Noah did according to all that Yahweh commanded him. {{rf{6}}} Noah was six hundred years old when the flood waters came upon the earth. {{rf{7}}} And Noah and his sons and his wife, and the wives of his sons with him, went into the ark because of the waters of the flood. {{rf{8}}} Of clean animals, and of animals which are not clean, and of the birds, and everything that creeps upon the ground, {{rf{9}}} two of each went to Noah, into the ark, male and female, as God had commanded Noah. {{rf{10}}} And it happened that after seven days the waters of the flood came over the earth. {{rf{11}}} In the six hundredth year of the life of Noah, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month -- on that day all the springs of the great deep were split open, and the windows of heaven were opened. {{rf{12}}} And the rain came upon the earth forty days and forty nights. {{rf{13}}} On this same day, Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and the wife of Noah and the three wives of his sons with them, went into the ark, {{rf{14}}} they and all the living creatures according to their kind, and all the domesticated animals according to their kind, and all the creatures that creep upon the earth according to their kind, all the birds according to their kind, every winged creature. {{rf{15}}} And they came to Noah to the ark, two of each, from every living thing in which was the breath of life. {{rf{16}}} And those that came, male and female, of every living thing, came as God had commanded him. And Yahweh shut the door behind him. {{rf{17}}} And the flood came forty days and forty nights upon the earth. And the waters increased, and lifted the ark, and it rose up from the earth. {{rf{18}}} And the waters prevailed and increased greatly upon the earth. And the ark went upon the surface of the waters. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Genesis-07-01]] }}}
<<Bbl Gn 7:11 abbr >> <<Bbl Ps 33:7 >> speaks of the storehouses of the deep .
7:12 Apparently, by <<Bbl Gn 2:5 >>-6 , this is the first advent of rain.
7:13 <<Bbl Rev 3:7 >>. What God closes will remain closed.
There is only one Ark, and it has only one door.
7:15 The breath of life -- this phrase repeated in vs. 22. Breath or spirit can be applied to the Spirit of Christ which brings eternal life; thus this is a picture of the Church.
7:17-20 The creation is subjected to futility, in Paul's words, and this is the greatest instance ever. The garden of Eden is destroyed -- those angels are released from their post.
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8:19 A symbol of the perseverance of the saints; <<Bbl J 10:27 >>-29 .
<<Bbl Gn 8:20 abbr >> "Why this waste?" Not an easy sacrifice.
<<Bbl Gn 8:21 abbr >> The distress of God concerning sin is unchanged. Yet He seemingly has a realization: the [[Depravity]] of humans.
All people and animals receive the promises of 8:21-22 and <<Bbl Gn 9:1 >>-17. (Although the divisions in this section are intriguing.) But something special is reserved for Shem. Possibly it is the early promise of <<Bbl Gn 9:26 >>.
<<Bbl Gn 8:22 abbr >> The first hint of Earth's limited destiny. No one can claim the earth is necessarily eternal.
8:22 Seasons are foreshadowed in 1:14.
''Is the curse on the ground removed?''
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<<Bbl Gn 9:1 abbr >> The covenant of Noah ensures stability for this purpose.
9:12-17 cf <<Bbl I 54:9 >>-10 , which links this to the Christ. About the rainbow, see [[Promise]]. Iridescence, see [[Oil]].
<<Bbl Gn 9:18 abbr >> This is the first mention of alcohol; which underscores the prohibition against drunkenness.
Is it possible Noah encountered in wine a yet-unidentified threat? (I have wondered if the serpent's blasphemy was this way - yet unidentified and unimaginable.)
<<Bbl Gn 9:20 abbr >> Vocation, another echo of the garden.
<<Bbl Gn 9:23 abbr >> As in the original garden, nakedness and shame. This time it is the fruit of the vine that undoes the man. A difference is that the man (not God) declares the reckoning.
!!! The Confusion
10 see analysis in The Moody Atlas of Bible Lands, pp. 76-79. Note also the seventy messengers of <<Bbl L 10:1 >>; here we see seventy nations.
{{rf{19}}} And the waters prevailed overwhelmingly upon the earth, and they covered all the high mountains which were under the entire heaven. {{rf{20}}} The waters swelled fifteen cubits above the mountains, covering them. {{rf{21}}} And every living thing that moved on the earth perished -- the birds, and the domesticated animals, and the wild animals, and everything that swarmed on the earth, and all humankind. {{rf{22}}} Everything in whose nostrils was the breath of life, among all that was on dry land, died. {{rf{23}}} And he blotted out every living thing upon the surface of the ground, from humankind, to animals, to creeping things, and to the birds of heaven; they were blotted out from the earth. Only Noah and those who were with him in the ark remained. {{rf{24}}} And the waters prevailed over the earth one hundred and fifty days. {{rf big{1}}} And God remembered Noah and all the wild animals, and all the domesticated animals that were with him in the ark. And God caused a wind to blow over the earth, and the waters subsided. {{rf{2}}} And the fountains of the deep and the windows of the heavens were closed, and the rain from the heavens was restrained. {{rf{3}}} And the waters receded from the earth gradually, and the waters abated at the end of one hundred and fifty days. {{rf{4}}} And the ark came to rest in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on the mountains of Ararat. {{rf{5}}} And the waters continued to recede to the tenth month; in the tenth month, on the first of the month, the tops of the mountains appeared. {{rf{6}}} And it happened that at the end of forty days Noah opened the window of the ark that he had made. {{rf{7}}} And he sent out a raven; it went to and fro until the waters were dried up from upon the earth. {{rf{8}}} And he sent out a dove to see whether the waters had subsided from upon the ground. {{rf{9}}} But the dove did not find a resting place for the sole of her foot, and she returned to him into the ark, for the waters were still on the face of the earth. And he stretched out his hand and took her, and brought her to himself into the ark. {{rf{10}}} And he waited another seven days, and again he sent out the dove from the ark. {{rf{11}}} And the dove came to him in the evening, and behold, a freshly-picked olive tree leaf was in her mouth. And Noah knew that the waters had subsided from upon the earth. {{rf{12}}} And he waited seven more days, and he sent out the dove. But it did not return again to him. {{rf{13}}} And it happened that, in the six hundred and first year, in the first month, on the first day of the month, the waters dried up from upon the earth. And Noah removed the covering of the ark and looked. And behold, the face of the ground was dried up. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Genesis-07-19]] }}}
{{rf{14}}} And in the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth was dry. {{rf{15}}} And God spoke to Noah, saying: {{rf{16}}} "Go out from the ark, you and your wife, and your sons, and your sons' wives with you. {{rf{17}}} Bring out with you all the living things which are with you, from all the living creatures -- birds, and animals, and everything that creeps on the earth, and let them swarm on the earth and be fruitful and multiply on the earth." {{rf{18}}} So Noah went out, with his sons and his wife, and the wives of his sons with him. {{rf{19}}} Every animal, every creeping thing, and every bird, and everything that moves upon the earth, according to its families, went out from the ark. {{rf{20}}} And Noah built an altar to Yahweh, and he took from all the clean animals and from all the clean birds, and offered burnt offerings on the altar. {{rf{21}}} And Yahweh smelled the soothing fragrance, and Yahweh said to himself, "Never again will I curse the ground for the sake of humankind, because the inclination of the heart of humankind is evil from his youth. Nor will I ever again destroy all life as I have done. {{rf{22}}} As long as the earth endures, seed and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night will not cease. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Genesis-08-14]] }}}
And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth. {{rf{2}}} And fear of you and dread of you shall be upon every animal of the earth, and on every bird of heaven, and on everything that moves upon the ground, and on all the fish of the sea. Into your hand they shall be given. {{rf{3}}} Every moving thing that lives shall be for you as food. As I gave the green plants to you, I have now given you everything. {{rf{4}}} Only you shall not eat raw flesh with blood in it. {{rf{5}}} And your lifeblood I will require; from every animal I will require it. And from the hand of humankind, from the hand of each man to his brother I will require the life of humankind. {{rf{6}}} "As for the one shedding the blood of humankind, by humankind his blood shall be shed, for God made humankind in his own image. {{rf{7}}} "And you, be fruitful and multiply, swarm on the earth and multiply in it." {{rf{8}}} And God said to Noah and to his sons with him, {{rf{9}}} "As for me, behold, I am establishing my covenant with you and with your seed after you, {{rf{10}}} and with every living creature that is with you -- the birds, the animals, and every animal of the earth with you, from all that came out of the ark to all the animals of the earth. {{rf{11}}} I am establishing my covenant with you, that never again will all flesh be cut off by the waters of a flood, nor will there ever be a flood that destroys the earth." {{rf{12}}} And God said, "This is the sign of the covenant that I am making between me and you, and between every living creature that is with you for future generations. {{rf{13}}} My bow I have set in the clouds, and it shall be for a sign of the covenant between me and between the earth. {{rf{14}}} And when I make clouds appear over the earth the bow shall be seen in the clouds. {{rf{15}}} Then I will remember my covenant that is between me and you, and between every living creature, with all flesh. And the waters of a flood will never again cause the destruction of all flesh. {{rf{16}}} The bow shall be in the clouds, and I will see it, so as to remember the everlasting covenant between God and between every living creature, with all flesh that is upon the earth." {{rf{17}}} And God said to Noah, "This is the sign of the covenant which I am establishing between me and all flesh that is upon the earth. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Genesis-09-01]] }}}
{{rf{18}}} Now the sons of Noah who came out of the ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. (Ham was the father of Canaan.) {{rf{19}}} These three were the sons of Noah, and from these the whole earth was populated. {{rf{20}}} And Noah began to be a man of the ground, and he planted a vineyard. {{rf{21}}} And he drank some of the wine and became drunk, and he exposed himself in the midst of his tent. {{rf{22}}} And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and he told his two brothers outside. {{rf{23}}} Then Shem and Japheth took a garment, and the two of them put it on their shoulders and, walking backward, they covered the nakedness of their father. And their faces were turned backward, so that they did not see the nakedness of their father. {{rf{24}}} Then Noah awoke from his drunkenness, and he knew what his youngest son had done to him. {{rf{25}}} And he said, "Cursed be Canaan, a slave of slaves he shall be to his brothers." {{rf{26}}} Then he said, "Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Shem, and let Canaan be a slave to them. {{rf{27}}} May God make space for Japheth, and let him dwell in the tents of Shem, and let Canaan be a slave for him." {{rf{28}}} And Noah lived three hundred and fifty years after the flood. {{rf{29}}} And all the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years, and he died. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Genesis-09-18]] }}}
These are the generations of the sons of Noah -- Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Children were born to them after the flood. {{rf{2}}} The sons of Japheth: Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras. {{rf{3}}} And the sons of Gomer: Ashkenaz, Riphath, and Togarmah. {{rf{4}}} And the sons of Javan: Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim. {{rf{5}}} From these the coastland peoples spread out through their lands, each according to his own language by their own families, in their nations. {{rf{6}}} And the sons of Ham: Cush, Egypt, Put, and Canaan. {{rf{7}}} And the sons of Cush: Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, and Sabteca. The sons of Raamah: Sheba and Dedan. {{rf{8}}} And Cush fathered Nimrod. He was the first on earth to be a mighty warrior. {{rf{9}}} He was a mighty hunter before Yahweh. Therefore it was said, "Like Nimrod a mighty hunter before Yahweh." {{rf{10}}} Now, the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, Erech, Akkad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar. {{rf{11}}} From that land he went out to Assyria, and he built Nineveh, Rehoboth-Ir, Calah, {{rf{12}}} Resen between Nineveh and Calah; that is the great city. {{rf{13}}} And Egypt fathered Ludim, Anamim, Lehabim, Naphtuhim, {{rf{14}}} Pathrusim, and Casluhim (from whom the Philistines came), and Caphtorim. {{rf{15}}} Canaan fathered Sidon, his firstborn, and Heth, {{rf{16}}} and the Jebusites, the Amorites, the Girgashites, {{rf{17}}} the Hivites, the Arkites, the Sinites, {{rf{18}}} the Arvadites, the Zemarites, and the Hamathites. Afterward the families of the Canaanites were spread abroad. {{rf{19}}} And the territory of the Canaanites was from Sidon in the direction of Gerar as far as Gaza, and in the direction of Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, as far as Lasha. {{rf{20}}} These are the descendants of Ham, according to their families and their languages, in their lands, and in their nations. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Genesis-10-01]] }}}
{{rf{21}}} And to Shem, the father of all the children of Eber, the older brother of Japheth, children were also born. {{rf{22}}} The sons of Shem: Elam, Asshur, Arphaxad, Lud, and Aram. {{rf{23}}} And the sons of Aram: Uz, Hul, Gether, and Mash. {{rf{24}}} And Arphaxad fathered Shelah, and Shelah fathered Eber. {{rf{25}}} And to Eber two sons were born. The name of the one was Peleg, for in his days the earth was divided, and the name of his brother was Joktan. {{rf{26}}} And Joktan fathered Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah, {{rf{27}}} Hadoram, Uzal, Diklah, {{rf{28}}} Obal, Abimael, Sheba, {{rf{29}}} Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab. All these were the sons of Joktan. {{rf{30}}} And their dwelling place extended from Mesha in the direction of Sephar to the hill country of the east. {{rf{31}}} These are the sons of Shem, according to their families, according to their languages, in their lands, and according to their nations. {{rf{32}}} These are the families of the sons of Noah, according to their generations and in their nations. And from these the nations spread abroad on the earth after the flood.
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{{rf big{1}}} Now the whole earth had one language and the same words. {{rf{2}}} And as people migrated from the east they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there. {{rf{3}}} And they said to each other, "Come, let us make bricks and burn them thoroughly." And they had brick for stone and they had tar for mortar. {{rf{4}}} And they said, "Come, let us build ourselves a city and a tower whose top reaches to the heavens. And let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered over the face of the whole earth." {{rf{5}}} Then Yahweh came down to see the city and the tower that humankind was building. {{rf{6}}} And Yahweh said, "Behold, they are one people with one language, and this is only the beginning of what they will do. So now nothing that they intend to do will be impossible for them. {{rf{7}}} Come, let us go down and confuse their language there, so that they will not understand each other's language." {{rf{8}}} So Yahweh scattered them from there over the face of the whole earth, and they stopped building the city. {{rf{9}}} Therefore its name was called Babel, for there Yahweh confused the language of the whole earth, and there Yahweh scattered them over the face of the whole earth. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Genesis-10-21]] }}}
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chap 11 You can count nineteen consecutive generations from Adam to Abram in which it is the firstborn who carries the line. No wonder the order of blessing figures so heavily in later events.}}}
11:1-9 This event finds its NT sequel in the day of Pentecost.
11:3-4 These two verses are integral to each other. Advanced building methods enables them to build higher through structural, architectural unity; this inspires and shapes the call to social unity.
Both verses begin with the proposal Come, let us. . . God's response is introduced with the same words.
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11:28 Apparently Lot may have grown up fatherless.
11:31 It was Abraham's father who initiated the southward movement. Perhaps the place Haran is named after the son; perhaps he died and was buried there. The migration was begun prior to God's command; thus God makes our steps to continue our fathers. But what deterred Terah from continuing? Was it his death?
These are the generations of Shem. When Shem was one hundred years old, he fathered Arphaxad, two years after the flood. {{rf{11}}} And Shem lived five hundred years after he fathered Arphaxad, and he fathered other sons and daughters. {{rf{12}}} When Arphaxad had lived thirty-five years, he fathered Shelah. {{rf{13}}} And Arphaxad lived four hundred and three years after he fathered Shelah, and he fathered other sons and daughters. {{rf{14}}} When Shelah had lived thirty years, he fathered Eber. {{rf{15}}} And Shelah lived four hundred and three years after he fathered Eber, and he fathered other sons and daughters. {{rf{16}}} When Eber had lived thirty-four years, he fathered Peleg. {{rf{17}}} And Eber lived four hundred and thirty years after he fathered Peleg, and he fathered other sons and daughters. {{rf{18}}} When Peleg had lived thirty years, he fathered Reu. {{rf{19}}} And Peleg lived two hundred and nine years after he fathered Reu, and he fathered other sons and daughters. {{rf{20}}} When Reu had lived thirty-two years, he fathered Serug. {{rf{21}}} And Reu lived two hundred and seven years after he fathered Serug, and he fathered other sons and daughters. {{rf{22}}} When Serug had lived thirty years, he fathered Nahor. {{rf{23}}} And Serug lived two hundred years after he fathered Nahor, and he fathered other sons and daughters. {{rf{24}}} When Nahor had lived twenty-nine years, he fathered Terah. {{rf{25}}} And Nahor lived one hundred and nineteen years after he fathered Terah, and he fathered other sons and daughters. {{rf{26}}} When Terah had lived seventy years, he fathered Abram, Nahor, and Haran. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Genesis-11-10]] }}}
{{rf{27}}} Now these are the generations of Terah. Terah fathered Abram, Nahor, and Haran, and Haran fathered Lot. {{rf{28}}} And Haran died in the presence of Terah his father in the land of his birth, in Ur of the Chaldeans. {{rf{29}}} And Abram and Nahor took wives for themselves. The name of the wife of Abram was Sarai, and the name of the wife of Nahor was Milcah, the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah and Iscah. {{rf{30}}} And Sarai was barren; she had no child. {{rf{31}}} And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot, the son of Haran, his grandson, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, the wife of Abram his son, and went out with them from Ur of the Chaldeans to go to the land of Canaan. And they went to Haran, and they settled there. {{rf{32}}} And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years, and Terah died in Haran.
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{{rf big{1}}} And Yahweh said to Abram, "Go out from your land and from your relatives, and from the house of your father, to the land that I will show you. {{rf{2}}} And I will make you a great nation, and I will bless you, and I will make your name great. And you will be a blessing. {{rf{3}}} And I will bless those who bless you, and those who curse you I will curse. And all families of the earth will be blessed in you." {{rf{4}}} And Abram went out as Yahweh had told him, and Lot went with him. Now Abram was seventy-five years old when he went out from Haran. {{rf{5}}} And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his nephew, and all their possessions that they had gathered, and all the persons that they had acquired in Haran, and they went out to go to the land of Canaan. And they went to the land of Canaan. {{rf{6}}} And Abram traveled through the land up to the place of Shechem, to the Oak of Moreh. Now the Canaanites were in the land at that time. {{rf{7}}} And Yahweh appeared to Abram and said, "To your offspring I will give this land." And he built an altar there to Yahweh, who had appeared to him. {{rf{8}}} And he moved on from there to the hill country, east of Bethel. And he pitched his tent at Bethel on the west, and at Ai on the east. And he built an altar there to Yahweh. And he called on the name of Yahweh. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Genesis-11-27]] }}}
! The Kingdom Strikes Back!
<<Bbl Gn 12:1 abbr>>-3 [[Abraham]]'s entrance is the hinge of the book of Genesis and, aside from a few hints, the initial revelation of the Gospel. To examine the NT treatment of these words is to find the gospel more than merely foreshadowed.
John Stott: <<Bbl Rev 7:9 >>-17 fulfills this blessing in its components of posterity, land, and the blessing of a relationship with the Savior God.
The theme of a departure from one's heritage resulting in a blessing is opened. See <<Bbl H 11:8 >>.
Jesus, in assuming His humanity, obeyed this command and consequently fits the description of vs. 3.
This covenant is reviewed in 13:14-17, 15:5-21, 17:1-19, 22:16-18. It is the Promise to the Galatians in <<Bbl Gal 3:6 >>-9 .
<<Bbl Gn 12:3 abbr >> The last clause is "the Great Commission of the OT." Don Richardson calls it the "part B" of a covenant. Steven Hawthorne protests that this puts a stamp of legalistic mandate on our works.
<<Bbl Gn 12:7 abbr>> A first altar of promise
<<Bbl Gn 12:7 abbr >> Seems to fulfill v 1. Yet Abram marks the spot and keeps moving. This is vindicated in <<Bbl Gn 13:17 abbr >>.
12:8 A second altar which is an advance on the promise. An invocation. <<Bbl Gn 13:4 abbr>>
<<Bbl Gn 12:10 abbr>>ff presages the Exodus. Check out the details.
12:10-20 An "Egyptian interlude" which recurs in <<Bbl Gn 20:1 abbr>>-18, <<Bbl Gn 26:1 abbr>>-11.
<<Bbl Gn 12:16 abbr >> This and <<Bbl Gn 20:14 abbr>> point to Israel's plunder of the Egyptians.
<<Bbl Gn 12:17 abbr >> The two parties have made a deal. God also throws in; he is representing the lost wife. This episode presages the Exodus. Israel is My first-born, so let My first-born go. <<Bbl Gn 20:18 abbr >>
And Abram kept moving on, toward the Negev. {{rf{10}}} And there was a famine in the land. And Abram went down to Egypt to dwell as an alien there, for the famine was severe in the land. {{rf{11}}} And it happened that as he drew near to enter into Egypt, he said to Sarai his wife, "Look now, I know that you are a woman beautiful of appearance, {{rf{12}}} and it shall happen that, if the Egyptians see you, then they will say, 'This is his wife,' then they will kill me but let you live. {{rf{13}}} Please say you are my sister so that it will go well for me on your account. Then I will live on account of you." {{rf{14}}} And it happened that as Abram came into Egypt, the Egyptians saw the woman, that she was very beautiful. {{rf{15}}} And the officials of Pharaoh saw her, and they praised her beauty to Pharaoh. And the woman was taken to the house of Pharaoh. {{rf{16}}} And he dealt well with Abram on account of her, and he had sheep, cattle, male donkeys, male servants, female servants, female donkeys, and camels. {{rf{17}}} Then Yahweh afflicted Pharaoh and his household with severe plagues on account of the matter of Sarai the wife of Abram. {{rf{18}}} Then Pharaoh called for Abram and said, "What is this you have done to me? Why did you not tell me that she was your wife? {{rf{19}}} Why did you say 'She is my sister,' so that I took her to myself as a wife? Now then, here is your wife. Take her and go." {{rf{20}}} And Pharaoh commanded his men concerning him, and then sent him and his wife and all that was with him away. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Genesis-12-09]] }}}
Then Abram went up from Egypt, he and his wife and all that was with him. And Lot went with him to the Negev. {{rf{2}}} Now Abram was very wealthy in livestock, in silver, and in gold. {{rf{3}}} And he went according to his journey from the Negev, then to Bethel, to the place where his tent was at the beginning, between Bethel and Ai, {{rf{4}}} to the place where he had made an altar at the beginning. And Abram called on the name of Yahweh there. {{rf{5}}} And Lot, who went with Abram, also had herds and tents. {{rf{6}}} And the land could not support them so as to live together, because their possessions were so many that they were not able to live together. {{rf{7}}} And there was a quarrel between the herdsmen of the livestock of Abram and the herdsmen of the livestock of Lot. Now at that time the Canaanites and the Perizzites were living in the land. {{rf{8}}} Then Abram said to Lot, "Please, let there not be quarreling between me and you, and between my shepherds and your shepherds, for we men are brothers. {{rf{9}}} Is not the whole land before you? Separate yourself from me. If you want what is on the left, then I will go right; if you want what is on the right, I will go left." {{rf{10}}} And Lot lifted up his eyes and saw the whole plain of the Jordan, that all of it was well-watered land -- this was before Yahweh destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah -- like the garden of Yahweh, like the land of Egypt in the direction of Zoar. {{rf{11}}} So Lot chose for himself all the plain of the Jordan. And Lot journeyed from the east, and so they separated from each other. {{rf{12}}} Abram settled in the land of Canaan, and Lot settled in the cities of the plain. And he pitched his tent toward Sodom. {{rf{13}}} Now the men of Sodom were extremely wicked sinners against Yahweh. {{rf{14}}} And Yahweh said to Abram after Lot had separated from him, "Now, lift up your eyes and look from the place where you are to the north, and to the south, and to the east and to the west, {{rf{15}}} for all the land which you see I will give to you, and to your descendants, forever. {{rf{16}}} I will make your descendants like the dust of the earth which, if anyone were able to count the dust of the earth, your descendants would be so counted. {{rf{17}}} Arise, go through the length of the land and through its breadth, for I will give it to you." {{rf{18}}} So Abram pitched his tent, and he came and settled at the oaks of Mamre, which were at Hebron. And there he built an altar to Yahweh. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Genesis-13-01]] }}}
13:1-3 //Up from Egypt// contrasts with the down to Egypt of vs. 10. The next verses lay great stress on his return to an earlier place. He must resume his walk with God from the place where he had departed from it. <<Bbl Jer 31:21 >>.
* Genesis 13 is a compact spiritual biography. [[Altar]]
<<Bbl Gn 13:10 abbr>> can be compared with <<Bbl Gn 3:6>>. We walk by faith, not by sight.
<<Bbl Gn 13:10 abbr >>-12 Zoar is the small town to which he will long to flee in his obstinacy, 19:17-29.
Abraham is the sojourner, Lot the city-dweller; 14:12, chap. 19.
Amazingly, Lot returns to Sodom, 14:12.
<<Bbl Gn 13:11 abbr >>-12. Lot copies Cain (and Nimrod?) by heading east and going urban.
<<Bbl Gn 13:14 abbr>> //Lift up your eyes//, as in <<Bbl Gn 13:10 abbr>>.
* The promise from God comes after Abram's separation from Lot.
13:17 This is a type of the Holy Spirit as a down-payment. Compare <<Bbl H 11:9 >>-16 .
<<Bbl Gn 13:17 abbr >> God's promise is comprehensive - even explorable.
<<Bbl Gn 14:12 abbr >>-13 Lot living in the town, Abraham lodging by the oaks.
14:19 In v. 22 possessor refers to Yahweh. Does it refer to him in this verse, or to Abram?
<<Bbl Gn 14:22 abbr >>-23. No man must be able to claim he made Abraham rich, because he says only God, //Possessor of heaven and Earth// may have that claim.
14:23 [[Melchizedek]]
14:23 Abraham is willing to receive from the king of Salem, but not of Sodom. <<Bbl 3J 1:7 >> -- believed. This finds reference in <<Bbl Gal 3:6 >>; <<Bbl R 4:4 >>; <<Bbl Jms 2:23 >>.
And it happened that in the days of Amraphel, the king of Shinar, Arioch, the king of Ellasar, Kedorlaomer, the king of Elam, and Tidal, the king of Goiim, {{rf{2}}} made war with Bera, the king of Sodom, and Birsha, the king of Gomorrah, Shinab, the king of Admah, and Shemeber, the king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (that is, Zoar). {{rf{3}}} All these joined forces at the valley of Siddim (that is, the sea of the salt). {{rf{4}}} Twelve years they had served Kedorlaomer, but in the thirteenth year they rebelled. {{rf{5}}} In the fourteenth year Kedorlaomer and the kings who were with him came and defeated the Rephaim in Ashteroth-Karnaim, and the Zuzim in Ham, and the Emim in Shaveh-Kiriathaim, {{rf{6}}} And the Horites in their hill country of Seir, as far as El-Paran, which is at the wilderness. {{rf{7}}} Then they turned back and came to En-Mishpat (that is, Kadesh). And they defeated the whole territory of the Amalekites, and also the Amorites who were living in Hazazon-Tamar. {{rf{8}}} Then the king of Sodom, the king of Gomorrah, the king of Admah, the king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (that is, Zoar) went out, and they took up battle position in the Valley of Siddim {{rf{9}}} with Kedorlaomer, king of Elam, and Tidal, king of Goiim, and Amraphel, king of Shinar, and Arioch, king of Ellasar, four kings against five. {{rf{10}}} Now the Valley of Siddim was full of tar pits. And the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled and fell into them, but the rest fled to the mountains. {{rf{11}}} So they took all the possessions of Sodom and Gomorrah and all their provisions, and they left. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Genesis-14-01]] }}}
{{rf{12}}} And they took Lot, the son of the brother of Abram, and his possessions, and left. (Now he had been living in Sodom.) {{rf{13}}} Then one who escaped came and told Abram the Hebrew. And he was living at the oaks of Mamre the Amorite, brother of Eshcol and brother of Aner. They were allies with Abram. {{rf{14}}} When Abram heard that his relative was taken captive, he summoned his trained men, born in his house, three hundred and eighteen of them, and he went in pursuit up to Dan. {{rf{15}}} And he divided his trained men against them at night, he and his servants. And he defeated them and pursued them to Hobah, which is north of Damascus. {{rf{16}}} And he brought back all the possessions. And he also brought back Lot, his relative, and his possessions, and the women and the people as well. {{rf{17}}} After his return from defeating Kedorlaomer and the kings who were with him, the king of Sodom went out to meet him at the Valley of Shaveh (that is, the Valley of the King). {{rf{18}}} And Melchizedek, the king of Salem, brought out bread and wine. (He was the priest of God Most High). {{rf{19}}} And he blessed him and said, "Blessed be Abram by God Most High, Maker of heaven and earth. {{rf{20}}} And blessed be God Most High who delivered your enemies into your hand." And he gave to him a tenth of everything. {{rf{21}}} And the king of Sodom said to Abram, "Give me the people, but the possessions take for yourself." {{rf{22}}} And Abram said to the king of Sodom, "I have raised my hand to Yahweh, God Most High, Maker of heaven and earth, {{rf{23}}} that neither a thread nor a thong of a sandal would I take from all that belongs to you, that you might not say, 'I made Abram rich.' {{rf{24}}} Nothing besides what the servants have eaten and the share of the men who went out with me will I take. Let Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre take their share." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Genesis-14-12]] }}}
After these things the word of Yahweh came to Abram in a vision, saying: "Do not be afraid, Abram; I am your shield, and your reward shall be very great." {{rf{2}}} Then Abram said, "O Yahweh, my Lord, what will you give me? I continue to be childless, and my heir is Eliezer of Damascus." {{rf{3}}} And Abram said, "Look, you have not given me a descendant, and here, a member of my household is my heir." {{rf{4}}} And behold, the word of Yahweh came to him saying, "This person will not be your heir, but your own son will be your heir." {{rf{5}}} And he brought him outside and said, "Look toward the heavens and count the stars if you are able to count them." And he said to him, "So shall your offspring be." {{rf{6}}} And he believed in Yahweh, and he reckoned it to him as righteousness. {{rf{7}}} And he said to him, "I am Yahweh, who brought you out from Ur of the Chaldeans to give this land to you, to possess it." {{rf{8}}} And he said, "O Yahweh God, how shall I know that I will possess it?" {{rf{9}}} And he said to him, "Take for me a three-year-old heifer, and a three-year-old female goat, and a three-year-old ram, and a turtledove and a young pigeon." {{rf{10}}} And he took for him all these and cut them in pieces down the middle. And he put each piece opposite the other, but the birds he did not cut. {{rf{11}}} And the birds of prey came down on the carcasses, but Abram drove them away. {{rf{12}}} And it happened, as the sun went down, then a deep sleep fell upon Abram and, behold, a great terrifying darkness fell upon him. {{rf{13}}} And he said to Abram, "You must surely know that your descendants shall be as aliens in a land not their own. And they shall serve them and they shall oppress them four hundred years. {{rf{14}}} And also the nation that they serve I will judge. Then afterward they shall go out with great possessions. {{rf{15}}} And as for you, you shall go to your ancestors in peace; you shall be buried in a good old age. {{rf{16}}} And the fourth generation shall return here, for the guilt of the Amorites is not yet complete." {{rf{17}}} And after the sun had gone down and it was dusk, behold, a smoking firepot and a flaming torch passed between those half pieces. {{rf{18}}} On that day Yahweh made a covenant with Abram saying, "To your offspring I will give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the Euphrates river, {{rf{19}}} the land of the Kenites, the Kenizzites, the Kadmonites, {{rf{20}}} the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Rephaim, {{rf{21}}} the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Girgashites, and the Jebusites." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Genesis-15-01]] }}}
<<Bbl Gn 15:1 abbr >> God's promise of //great reward// follows Abraham's vow to accept no spoils from the earthly battle.
<<Bbl Gn 15:1 abbr >>-6 God appears in a vision. He presents the great, original promise. Two more promises immedately follow: Abram will have an heir from his own body, and his offspring will be astronomically numerous. These promises are merely corollary support for verse 1. Abram says //Show me the money,// and God responds by "upping the ante" twice.
{{fyi{
The promise of God's own personal favor is greater than the promise of myriad progeny for a man in his nineties. Objectively this is true; but the bestowal of a child is not falsifiable. Jesus challenged his audience: //Which is greater, to say your sins are forgiven, or to say rise up and walk?// The answer is forgiveness of sins; but the restoration of a body is stronger in forcing recognition and credence. }}}
<<Bbl Gn 15:2 abbr >> Abram is recalling God to His promises of <<Bbl Gn 12:7 abbr >> and <<Bbl Gn 13:16 abbr >>.
<<Bbl Gn 15:4 abbr >> see [[Child]].
<<Bbl Gn 15:5 abbr >> With verse 5, we are forced to imagine a vividly personal interaction: God studies his friend for an indication of receptivity, finds it wanting, and makes the decision to give Abram a visual reinforcement.
* God in effect offers the stars as a down-payment. That Abram accepts this is called faith ... and faith is then called as righteousness.
* So Abram emerges as a truly wealthy man -- a man righteous in God's sight.
* //As the stars// offers a hint of the universal nature of Abraham's progeny.
* How to imagine the composition of this written passage? Abram obviously has related the tale and it is preserved orally, but who adds the assertion about faith and righteousness? Abram himself, in later reflection? Or was it realized and evinced in that very moment, spoken or revealed by God? Or is the insight provided by a later generation, presumably Moses?
<<Bbl Gn 15:9 abbr >> Time also seems to be running out on the promise of land.
<<Bbl Gn 15:11 abbr >> see <<Bbl Lv 6:8 >>-9 . David Ravenhill likens the birds to demonic forces, and points out that a commitment made easily during a meeting often will not last through the night season.
15:16 The Canaanites had to be killed lest their sexual diseases drown the world.
15:10, <<Bbl Gn 15:17 abbr >>
* The is a vow of mutual and utter commitment. See <<Bbl Jer 34:19 >> for an ordinary pagan version of this kind of ritual.
* God in effect takes a vow of fatal commitment. Furthermore, in walking the corridor alone He spares Abram that fatality.
* The whole scene is like a diorama of the Exodus.
* The smoking pot and the torch remind me of God's directive presence in the wilderness of Sinai.
Now Sarai, the wife of Abram, had borne him no children. And she had a female Egyptian servant, and her name was Hagar. {{rf{2}}} And Sarai said to Abram, "Look, please, Yahweh has prevented me from bearing children. Please go in to my servant; perhaps I will have children by her." And Abram listened to the voice of Sarai. {{rf{3}}} Then Sarai, the wife of Abram, took Hagar, her Egyptian servant, after Abram had lived ten years in the land of Canaan, and gave her to Abram her husband as his wife. {{rf{4}}} And he went in to Hagar, and she conceived. And when she saw that she had conceived, then her mistress grew small in her eyes. {{rf{5}}} And Sarai said to Abram, "may my harm be upon you. I had my servant sleep with you, and when she saw that she had conceived, she no longer respected me. May Yahweh judge between me and you!" {{rf{6}}} And Abram said to Sarai, "Look, your servant is under your authority. Do to her that which is good in your eyes." And Sarai mistreated her, and she fled from her presence. {{rf{7}}} And the angel of Yahweh found her at a spring of water in the wilderness, at the spring by the road of Shur. {{rf{8}}} And he said to Hagar, the servant of Sarai, "From where have you come, and where are you going?" And she said, "I am fleeing from the presence of Sarai my mistress." {{rf{9}}} Then the angel of Yahweh said to her, "Return to your mistress and submit yourself under her authority." {{rf{10}}} And the angel of Yahweh said to her, "I will greatly multiply your offspring, so that they cannot be counted for their abundance." {{rf{11}}} And the angel of Yahweh said to her: "Behold, you are pregnant and shall have a son. And you shall call his name Ishmael, for Yahweh has listened to your suffering. {{rf{12}}} And he shall be a wild donkey of a man, his hand will be against everyone, and the hand of everyone will be against him, and he will live in hostility with all his brothers." {{rf{13}}} So she called the name of Yahweh who spoke to her, "You are El-Roi," for she said, "Here I have seen after he who sees me." {{rf{14}}} Therefore the well was called Beer-Lahai-Roi; behold, it is between Kadesh and Bered. {{rf{15}}} And Hagar had a child for Abram, a son. And Abram called the name of his son whom Hagar bore to him, Ishmael. {{rf{16}}} And Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar bore Ishmael to Abram. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Genesis-16-01]] }}}
<<Bbl Gn 16:1 abbr >> See <<Bbl Gn 12:16 abbr >> for how Hagar very likely came to be part of the household. Dysfunction does tend to go on and on!
<<Bbl Gn 16:5 abbr>> The KJV differs from other translations.
<<Bbl Gn 16:13 abbr >>-14 Not only that He sees her, but she says that she has seen him. The communion is mutual. "The Well of the Living One who Sees Me."
16:15 (or 16?) should commence the chapter, in keeping with the structure noted next.
<<Bbl Gn 17:1 abbr >> Latin says //omnipotent//?
<<Bbl Gn 17:1 abbr >>-25 -- [[Chiasmus]] //([[source|http://www.inthebeginning.org/chiasmus/introduction/chiasmus_intro.htm]])//
{{{
A Ishmael (16:5-16) and Abram's age (1a)
B The LORD appears to Abram (1b)
C God's 1st speech (1b-2)
D Abram falls on his face (3)
E God's 2nd speech (Abram's name, kings; 4-8)
X God's 3rd Speech (circumcision; 9-14)
E' God's 4th speech (Sari's name, kings; 15-16)
D' Abraham falls on his face (17-18)
C' God's 5th speech (19-21)
B' God "goes up" from Abraham (22)
A' Abraham's age (24-25) and Ishmael (26-27)
}}}
17:5 From "Exalted Father" to "Father of a Multitude."
<<Bbl Gn 17:17 abbr >> The verb is related to "Isaac" -- to play, jest, make sport (BNB 850); see 18:12-15, 26:8.
17:25-26 Why does Ishmael receive the sign of the covenant? I suppose because he is a member of the family.
When Abram was ninety-nine years old Yahweh appeared to Abram. And he said to him, "I am El-Shaddai; walk before me and be blameless {{rf{2}}} so that I may make my covenant between me and you, and may multiply you exceedingly." {{rf{3}}} Then Abram fell upon his face and God spoke with him, saying, {{rf{4}}} "As for me, behold, my covenant shall be with you, and you shall be the father of a multitude of nations. {{rf{5}}} Your name shall no longer be called Abram, but your name shall be Abraham, for I will make you the father of a multitude of nations. {{rf{6}}} And I will make you exceedingly fruitful. I will make you a nation, and kings shall go out from you. {{rf{7}}} And I will establish my covenant between me and you, and between your offspring after you, throughout their generations as an everlasting covenant to be as God for you and to your offspring after you. {{rf{8}}} And I will give to you and to your offspring after you the land in which you are living as an alien, all the land of Canaan, as an everlasting property. And I will be to them as God." {{rf{9}}} And God said to Abraham, "Now as for you, you must keep my covenant, you and your offspring after you, throughout their generations. {{rf{10}}} This is my covenant which you shall keep, between me and you, and also with your offspring after you: Every male among you shall be circumcised. {{rf{11}}} And you shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin, and it shall be a sign of the covenant between me and you. {{rf{12}}} And at eight days of age you shall yourselves circumcise every male belonging to your generations and the servant born in your house and the one bought from any foreigner who is not from your offspring. {{rf{13}}} You must certainly circumcise the servant born in your house and the one bought from any foreigner. And my covenant shall be with your flesh as an everlasting covenant. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Genesis-17-01]] }}}
{{rf{14}}} And as for any uncircumcised male who has not circumcised the flesh of his foreskin, that person shall be cut off from his people. He has broken my covenant. {{rf{15}}} And God said to Abraham, "as for Sarai your wife, you shall not call her name Sarai, for Sarah shall be her name. {{rf{16}}} And I will bless her; moreover, I give to you from her a son. And I will bless her, and she shall give rise to nations. Kings of peoples shall come from her." {{rf{17}}} And Abraham fell upon his face and laughed. And he said in his heart, "Can a child be born to a man a hundred years old, or can Sarah bear a child at ninety?" {{rf{18}}} And Abraham said to God, "Oh that Ishmael might live before you!" {{rf{19}}} And God said, "No, but Sarah your wife shall bear a son for you, and you shall call his name Isaac. And I will establish my covenant with him as an everlasting covenant to his offspring after him. {{rf{20}}} And as for Ishmael, I have heard you. Behold, I will bless him and I will make him fruitful, and I will multiply him exceedingly. He shall father twelve princes, and I will make him a great nation. {{rf{21}}} But my covenant I will establish with Isaac, whom Sarah shall bear to you at this appointed time next year." {{rf{22}}} When he finished speaking with him, God went up from Abraham. {{rf{23}}} And Abraham took Ishmael his son and all who were born of his house, and all those acquired by his money, every male among the men of Abraham's house, and he circumcised the flesh of their foreskin on the same day that God spoke with him. {{rf{24}}} Abraham was ninety-nine years old when he circumcised the flesh of his foreskin. {{rf{25}}} And Ishmael his son was thirteen years old when he circumcised the flesh of his foreskin. {{rf{26}}} Abraham and his son Ishmael were circumcised on the same day. {{rf{27}}} And all the men of his house, those born in the house, and those acquired by money from a foreigner, were circumcised with him. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Genesis-17-14]] }}}
And Yahweh appeared to him by the oaks of Mamre. And he was sitting in the doorway of the tent at the heat of the day. {{rf{2}}} And he lifted up his eyes and saw, and behold, three men were standing near him. And he saw them and ran from the doorway of the tent to meet them. And he bowed down to the ground. {{rf{3}}} And he said, "My lord, if I have found favor in your eyes do not pass by your servant. {{rf{4}}} Let a little water be brought and wash your feet, and rest under the tree. {{rf{5}}} And let me bring a piece of bread, then refresh yourselves. Afterward you can pass on, once you have passed by with your servant." Then they said, "Do so as you have said." {{rf{6}}} Then Abraham hastened into the tent to Sarah, and he said, "Quickly -- make three seahs of fine flour for kneading and make bread cakes!" {{rf{7}}} And Abraham ran to the cattle and took a calf, tender and good, and gave it to the servant, and he made haste to prepare it. {{rf{8}}} Then he took curds and milk, and the calf which he prepared, and set it before them. And he was standing by them under the tree while they ate. {{rf{9}}} And they said to him, "Where is Sarah your wife?" And he said, "Here, in the tent." {{rf{10}}} And he said, "I will certainly return to you in the spring, and look, Sarah your wife will have a son." Now Sarah was listening at the doorway of the tent, and which was behind him. {{rf{11}}} Now Abraham and Sarah were old, advanced in age; the way of women had ceased to be for Sarah. {{rf{12}}} So Sarah laughed to herself saying, "After I am worn out and my husband is old, shall this pleasure be to me?" {{rf{13}}} Then Yahweh said to Abraham, "What is this that Sarah laughed, saying, 'Is it indeed true that I will bear a child, now that I have grown old?' {{rf{14}}} Is anything too difficult for Yahweh? At the appointed time I will return to you in the spring and Sarah shall have a son." {{rf{15}}} But Sarah denied it, saying, "I did not laugh," because she was afraid. He said, "No, but you did laugh." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Genesis-18-01]] }}}
<<Bbl Gn 18:1 abbr >> A subtle change toward the vivid and pictorial. Before this we've not sat with someone in the heat of day. We've not been grateful for the shelter of these oaks from the sun (vss 4, 8).
18:1 Look into Word-Lord.
18:11 Sarah thinks something like: //I'm pretty old. Pretty. Old. The pretty is staying about the same, but the old is getting older!//
18:14 See Mary's remark, <<Bbl L 1:37 >>.
18:16 Another scene placed (like <<Bbl Gn 15:5 abbr >>) with vivid detail -- they walk to the vantage-point and look down on Sodom.
<<Bbl Gn 18:19 abbr >> You may insert your own name. Jesus gives the same mark of intimacy in <<Bbl J 15:15 >>.
<<Bbl Gn 18:22 abbr >>-33 Boldness like this is hard to comprehend, as is the patience on God's part. Perhaps the portrait here painted of the Lord is anthropomorphic; after all, Abraham convinces Him of nothing. God knows that only Lot and his family will qualify. And God lets Himself be "haggled down," in stages, just as the Lord Christ was haggled down by the Canaanite woman with the possessed daughter.
His answer to Abraham's plea is creative, in that he does not spare the city but does deliver the righteous. And that describes God's [[Judge]] in a nutshell.
18:23 There is tension here between the Semitic perception of group versus God's deliverance of the [[Individual]].
18:25 Abraham exalts God by calling Him //the Judge of all the earth.//
{{holyquote{
Far be it from You to do such a thing as this, to kill the righteous with the wicked, that the righteous would be as the wicked! Far be it from You! Will not the Judge of all the earth do justice?
}}}
{{rf{16}}} Then the men set out from there, and they looked down upon Sodom. And Abraham went with them to send them on their way. {{rf{17}}} Then Yahweh said, "Shall I conceal from Abraham what I am going to do? {{rf{18}}} Abraham will surely become a great and strong nation, and all the nations of the earth will be blessed on account of him. {{rf{19}}} For I have chosen him, that he will command his children and his household after him that they will keep the way of Yahweh, to do righteousness and justice, so that Yahweh may bring upon Abraham that which he said to him." {{rf{20}}} Then Yahweh said, "Because the outcry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great and because their sin is very serious, {{rf{21}}} I will go down and I will see. Have they done altogether according to its cry of distress which has come to me? If not, I will know." {{rf{22}}} And the men turned from there and went toward Sodom. And Abraham was still standing before Yahweh. {{rf{23}}} And Abraham drew near to Yahweh and said, "Will you also sweep away the righteous with the wicked? {{rf{24}}} If perhaps there are fifty righteous in the midst of the city, will you also sweep them away and not forgive the place on account of the fifty righteous in her midst? {{rf{25}}} Far be it from you to do such a thing as this, to kill the righteous with the wicked, that the righteous would be as the wicked! Far be it from you! Will not the Judge of all the earth do justice?" {{rf{26}}} And Yahweh said, "If I find fifty righteous in Sodom, in the midst of the city, then I will forgive the whole place for their sake." {{rf{27}}} Then Abraham answered and said, "Look, please, I was bold to speak to my Lord, but I am dust and ashes. {{rf{28}}} Perhaps the fifty righteous are lacking five -- will you destroy the whole city on account of the five?" And he answered, "I will not destroy it if I find forty-five there." {{rf{29}}} And once again he spoke to him and said, "What if forty are found there?" And he answered, "I will not do it on account of the forty." {{rf{30}}} And he said, "Please, let not my Lord be angry, and I will speak. What if thirty be found there?" And he answered, "I will not do it if I find thirty there." {{rf{31}}} And he said, "Please, now, I was bold to speak to my Lord. What if twenty be found there?" And he answered, "I will not destroy it for the sake of the twenty." {{rf{32}}} And he said, "Please, let not my Lord be angry, and I will speak only once more. What if ten are found there?" And he answered, "I will not destroy it for the sake of the ten." {{rf{33}}} Then Yahweh left, as he finished speaking to Abraham, and Abraham returned to his place. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Genesis-18-16]] }}}
And the two angels came to Sodom in the evening. And Lot was sitting in the gateway of Sodom. Then Lot saw them and stood up to meet them. And he bowed down with his face to the ground. {{rf{2}}} And he said, "Behold, my lords, please turn aside into the house of your servant and spend the night and wash your feet. Then you can rise early and go on your way." And they said, "No, but we will spend the night in the square." {{rf{3}}} But he urged them strongly, and they turned aside with him and came into his house. And he made a meal for them and baked unleavened bread, and they ate. {{rf{4}}} Before they laid down, the men of the city, the men of Sodom, both young and old, all the people to the last man, surrounded the house. {{rf{5}}} And they called to Lot and said to him, "Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us so that we may know them." {{rf{6}}} But Lot went out to them at the entrance, and he shut the door behind him. {{rf{7}}} And he said, "No, my brothers, please do not do such a wrong thing. {{rf{8}}} Behold, I have two daughters who have not known a man. Please, let me bring them out to you; then do to them as it seems good in your eyes. Only to these men do not do this thing, since they came under my roof for protection." {{rf{9}}} But they said, "Step aside!" Then they said, "This fellow came to dwell as a foreigner and he acts as a judge! Now we shall do worse to you than them!" And they pressed very hard against the man, against Lot, and they drew near to break the door. {{rf{10}}} Then the men reached out with their hands and brought Lot in to them, into the house, and they shut the door. {{rf{11}}} And the men who were at the entrance of the house they struck with blindness, both small and great, and they were unable to find the entrance. {{rf{12}}} Then the men said to Lot, "Who is here with you? Bring out from the place your sons-in-law, and your sons and your daughters, and all who are with you in the city. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Genesis-19-01]] }}}
<<Bbl Gn 19:1 abbr >>ff Prefigures the Exodus.
19:1 A city councilman. Yet he was never fully conformed to the spirit of the city, as events reveal. Peter makes much of this in <<Bbl 2P 2:7 "" note>>
19:11 Only their weariness brought an end to sin. As North says, the limitations brought about under the curse are a boundary for the wicked and thus a blessing for the righteous.
19:14 Lot's warning was not heeded. Either jesting was Lot's habit, and his sons-in-law were used to hearing him "cry wolf," or they had so little capacity to take heed that they could only laugh. the latter is attractive, for it makes Lot like Noah who was unheeded in his generation (so Volume Two implies about Noah).
<<Bbl Gn 19:15 abbr >> There were not so much as ten - only four. Yet no one considers Abraham's intercession misplaced - <<Bbl Gn 19:29 abbr >>.
19:15-17 see <<Bbl Num 16:26 >>.
<<Bbl Gn 19:20 abbr >> In Genesis, men not secure in the Lord tend to seek cities. 4:17, 10:11, 11:1-9, 19:20.
19:21 Abraham's effectual fervent prayer yet at work. <<Bbl Gn 20:7 >>.
<<Bbl Gn 19:30 abbr >> Lot repents of the request of v. 20.
<<Bbl Gn 19:30 abbr >>-38 Few people in the Biblical record are dishonored in their lineage as Lot. It echoes the debasement of Noah with its consequences.
{{rf{13}}} For we are about to destroy this place, because their cry has become great before Yahweh. Yahweh sent us to destroy it." {{rf{14}}} Then Lot went out and spoke to his sons-in-law who were taking his daughters and said, "Get up! Go out from this place, because Yahweh is going to destroy the city!" But it seemed like a joke in the eyes of his sons-in-law. {{rf{15}}} And as the dawn came up the angels urged Lot saying, "Get up, take your wife and your two daughters who are staying with you, lest you be destroyed with the punishment of the city." {{rf{16}}} But when he lingered, the men seized him by his hand and his wife's hand, and his two daughters by hand, on account of the mercy of Yahweh upon him. And they brought him out and set him outside of the city. {{rf{17}}} And after bringing them outside one said, "Flee for your life; do not look behind you, and do not stand anywhere in the plain. Flee to the mountains lest you be destroyed." {{rf{18}}} And Lot said to them, "No, please, my lords. {{rf{19}}} Behold, your servant has found favor in your eyes and you have shown me great kindness in saving my life. But I cannot flee to the mountains, lest the disaster overtake me and I die. {{rf{20}}} Behold, this city is near enough to flee there, and it is a little one. Please, let me flee there. Is it not a little one? Then my life shall be saved." {{rf{21}}} And he said to him, "Behold, I will grant this favor as well; that I will not overthrow the city of which you have spoken. {{rf{22}}} Escape there quickly, for I cannot do this thing until you get there." Therefore, there name of the city was called Zoar. {{rf{23}}} After the sun had risen upon the earth and Lot had entered Zoar, {{rf{24}}} Yahweh rained down from heaven upon Sodom and Gomorrah brimstone and fire from Yahweh. {{rf{25}}} And he overthrew those cities and the whole plain, and the inhabitants of the cities and the vegetation of the ground. {{rf{26}}} But his wife looked back, and she became a pillar of salt. {{rf{27}}} And Abraham arose early in the morning and went to the place where he had stood before Yahweh. {{rf{28}}} And he looked down upon the surface of Sodom and Gomorrah, and upon the whole surface of the land, the plain. And he saw that, behold, the smoke of the land went up like the smoke of a smelting furnace. {{rf{29}}} So it was, when God destroyed the cities of the plain that God remembered Abraham and sent Lot out from the midst of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in which Lot lived. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Genesis-19-13]] }}}
{{rf{30}}} And Lot went out from Zoar and settled in the hill country with his two daughters, for he was afraid to stay in Zoar. So he lived in a cave, he and his two daughters. {{rf{31}}} And the firstborn daughter said to the younger one, "Our father is old, and there is no man in the land to come in to us according to the manner of all the land. {{rf{32}}} Come, let us give our father wine to drink and let us lie with him that we may secure descendants through our father." {{rf{33}}} And they gave their father wine to drink that night, and the firstborn went and lay with her father, but he did not know when she lay down or when she got up. {{rf{34}}} And it happened that, the next day the firstborn said to the younger one, "Look, I laid with my father last night. Let us give him wine to drink also tonight, then go and lie with him that we may secure descendants through our father." {{rf{35}}} And they gave their father wine to drink again that night, and the younger got up and lay with him, but he did not know when she lay down or when she got up. {{rf{36}}} And the two daughters of Lot became pregnant by their father. {{rf{37}}} The firstborn gave birth to a son, and she called his name Moab. He is the father of Moab until this day. {{rf{38}}} And the younger, she also gave birth to a son, and she called his name Ben-Ammi. He is the father of the Ammonites until this day. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Genesis-19-30]] }}}
And Abraham journeyed from there to the land of the Negev, and he settled between Kadesh and Shur. And he dwelled as an alien in Gerar. {{rf{2}}} And Abraham said about Sarah his wife, "She is my sister." And Abimelech king of Gerar sent and took Sarah. {{rf{3}}} And God came to Abimelech in a dream at night. And he said to him, "Look, you are a dead man on account of the woman you have taken. For she is a married woman." {{rf{4}}} Now Abimelech had not approached her, so he said, "my Lord, will you even kill a righteous people?" {{rf{5}}} Did not he himself say to me, 'She is my sister'? And she herself said, 'He is my brother.' With integrity of my heart and with cleanness of my hands I did this." {{rf{6}}} Then God said to him in the dream, "Yes, I know that in the integrity of your heart you did this, and I also kept you from sinning against me. Therefore, I did not allow you to touch her. {{rf{7}}} So now, return the wife of the man, for he is a prophet, so that he will pray for you and you will live. And if you do not return her, know that you will certainly die, and all that are yours." {{rf{8}}} So Abimelech rose early in the morning. And he called all his servants and told them all these things, and the men were very afraid. {{rf{9}}} And Abimelech called for Abraham and said to him, "What have you done to us? And how have I sinned against you that you brought upon me and upon my kingdom a great sin? You have done things to me that should not be done." {{rf{10}}} And Abimelech said to Abraham, "What were you thinking that you did this thing?" {{rf{11}}} And Abraham said, "Because I thought, surely there is no fear of God in this place; they will kill me on account of the matter of my wife. {{rf{12}}} Besides, she is my sister, the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother. And she became my wife. {{rf{13}}} And it happened that as God caused me to wander from the house of my father I said to her, 'This is your loyal kindness that you must do for me at every place where we come: say concerning me, "He is my brother." '" {{rf{14}}} And Abimelech took sheep and cattle and male slaves and female slaves, and he gave them to Abraham. And he returned Sarah his wife to him. {{rf{15}}} And Abimelech said, "Here is my land before you; settle where it pleases you." {{rf{16}}} And to Sarah he said, "Look, I have given a thousand pieces of silver to your brother. It shall be an exoneration. You are vindicated before all who are with you." {{rf{17}}} And Abraham prayed to God, and God healed Abimelech and his wife and his female servants so that they could bear children again. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Genesis-20-01]] }}}
<<Bbl Gn 20:1 abbr>>ff Abraham has repeated an appalling folly. But this time he must deal with a profoundly righteous and wise admonishment. Sarah is //vindicated//, and one senses Abraham has turned the corner this time. But his obduracy has a great price, for Isaac will repeat the sin.
<<Bbl Gn 20:3 abbr>> From death to life; see vss. 17-18.
<<Bbl Gn 20:5 abbr >> //In the integrity of my heart I have done this// conveys an awareness of potential sin. It denies the charge but does not revile or scoff; it suggests self-examination.
<<Bbl Gn 20:9 abbr >> Contrary to God's calling in <<Bbl Gn 18:19 >>.
20:11 How many opportunities have been lost through an assumption that God had no people in some place or time! Elijah at the cave, Jonah in the boat. But there is no excuse for lying, and God can strike fear into the heathens' heart.
20:12 Why this statement? It does not seem that Abraham would have further reason to lie, so is its direct meaning the truth?
<<Bbl Gn 20:16 abbr >> Interesting he still says //brother//, perhaps saving face for Abraham.
<<Bbl Gn 20:16 abbr>>
{{holyquote{
"Look, I have given a thousand pieces of silver to your brother. It shall be an exoneration. You are vindicated before all who are with you."
}}}
** But see <<Bbl I 7:23>>.
<<Bbl Gn 20:18 abbr >> <<Bbl Gn 12:17 abbr >>
<<Bbl Gn 21:1 abbr >>-3 Heavy reiteration on Sarah.
<<Bbl Gn 21:2 abbr >> one year, <<Bbl Gn 17:21 abbr >>
<<Bbl Gn 21:9 abbr >> ~TAB <<Bbl Gal 4:29 0 note >>.
<<Bbl Gn 21:17 abbr >> Weep she may, but it is the child God notices. The descendent of Abraham needs care, so God addresses the mother.
{{rf{18}}} For Yahweh had completely closed up all the wombs of the house of Abimelech because of the matter of Sarah, the wife of Abraham. {{rf big{1}}} And Yahweh visited Sarah as he had said. And Yahweh did to Sarah as he had promised. {{rf{2}}} And she conceived, and Sarah bore to Abraham a son in his old age at the appointed time that God had told him. {{rf{3}}} And Abraham called the name of his son who was born to him, whom Sarah bore to him, Isaac. {{rf{4}}} And Abraham circumcised Isaac his son when he was eight days old, as God had commanded him. {{rf{5}}} And Abraham was one hundred years old when Isaac his son was born to him. {{rf{6}}} And Sarah said, "God has made laughter for me; all who hear will laugh for me." {{rf{7}}} And she said, "Who would announce to Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? Yet I have borne a son to Abraham in his old age." {{rf{8}}} And the child grew and was weaned. And Abraham made a great feast on the day Isaac was weaned. {{rf{9}}} And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne Abraham, mocking. {{rf{10}}} Then she said to Abraham, "Drive out this slave woman and her son, for the son of this slave woman will not be heir with my son, with Isaac." {{rf{11}}} And the matter displeased Abraham very much on account of his son. {{rf{12}}} Then God said to Abraham, "Do not be displeased on account of the boy and on account of the slave woman. Listen to everything that Sarah said to you, for through Isaac your offspring will be named. {{rf{13}}} And I will also make the son of the slave woman into a nation, for he is your offspring." {{rf{14}}} Then Abraham rose up early in the morning and took bread and a skin of water and gave it to Hagar, putting it on her shoulder. And he sent her away with the child, and she went, wandering about in the wilderness, in Beersheba. {{rf{15}}} And when the water was finished from the skin, she put the child under one of the bushes. {{rf{16}}} And she went and she sat a good distance away, for she said, "Let me not see the child's death." So she sat away from him and lifted up her voice and wept. {{rf{17}}} And God heard the cry of the boy and the angel of God called to Hagar from the heavens and said to her, "What is the matter Hagar? Do not be afraid, for God has heard the cry of the boy from where he is. {{rf{18}}} Get up, take up the boy and take him with your hand, for I will make him a great nation." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Genesis-20-18]] }}}
{{rf{19}}} And God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water. And she went and filled the skin with water and gave a drink to the boy. {{rf{20}}} And God was with the boy, and he grew and lived in the wilderness. And he became an expert with a bow. {{rf{21}}} And he lived in the wilderness of Paran. And his mother took a wife for him from the land of Egypt. {{rf{22}}} And it happened that at that time, Abimelech and Phicol, the commander of his army, said to Abraham, "God is with you, in all that you do. {{rf{23}}} So now, swear to me here by God that you will not deal with me falsely, or with my descendants, or my posterity. According to the kindness that I have done to you, you shall pledge to do with me and with the land where you have dwelled as an alien." {{rf{24}}} And Abraham said, "I swear." {{rf{25}}} Then Abraham complained to Abimelech on account of the well of water that servants of Abimelech had seized. {{rf{26}}} And Abimelech said, "I do not know who did this thing, neither did you tell me, nor have I heard of it except for today." {{rf{27}}} And Abraham took sheep and cattle and gave them to Abimelech. And the two of them made a covenant. {{rf{28}}} Then Abraham set off seven ewe-lambs of the flock by themselves. {{rf{29}}} And Abimelech said to Abraham, "What is the meaning of these seven ewe-lambs that you have set off by themselves?" {{rf{30}}} And he said, "You shall take the seven ewe-lambs from my hand as proof on my behalf that I dug this well." {{rf{31}}} Therefore that place is called Beersheba, because there the two of them swore an oath. {{rf{32}}} And they made a covenant at Beersheba. And Abimelech, and Phicol his army commander stood and returned to the land of the Philistines. {{rf{33}}} And he planted a tamarisk tree in Beersheba, and there he called on the name of Yahweh, the everlasting God. {{rf{34}}} And Abraham dwelled as an alien in the land of the Philistines many days. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Genesis-21-19]] }}}
And it happened that after these things, God tested Abraham. And he said to him, "Abraham!" And he said, "Here I am." {{rf{2}}} And he said, "Take your son, your only child, Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains where I will tell you." {{rf{3}}} And Abraham rose up early in the morning and saddled his donkey. And he took two of his servants with him, and Isaac his son. And he chopped wood for a burnt offering. And he got up and went to the place which God had told him. {{rf{4}}} On the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes, and he saw the place at a distance. {{rf{5}}} And Abraham said to his servants, "You stay here with the donkey, and I and the boy will go up there. We will worship, then we will return to you." {{rf{6}}} And Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering and placed it on Isaac his son. And he took the fire in his hand and the knife, and the two of them went together. {{rf{7}}} And Isaac said to Abraham his father, "My father!" And he said, "Here I am, my son." And he said, "Here is the fire and the wood, but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?" {{rf{8}}} And Abraham said, "God will provide the lamb for a burnt offering, my son." And the two of them went together. {{rf{9}}} And they came to the place that God had told him. And Abraham built an altar there and arranged the wood. Then he bound Isaac his son and placed him on the altar atop the wood. {{rf{10}}} And Abraham stretched out his hand and took the knife to slaughter his son. {{rf{11}}} And the angel of Yahweh called to him from heaven and said, "Abraham! Abraham!" And he said, "Here I am." {{rf{12}}} And he said, "Do not stretch out your hand against the boy; do not do anything to him. For now I know that you are one who fears God, since you have not withheld your son, your only child, from me." {{rf{13}}} And Abraham lifted up his eyes and looked. And behold, a ram was caught in the thicket by his horns. And Abraham went and took the ram, and offered it as a burnt offering in place of his son. {{rf{14}}} And Abraham called the name of that place "Yahweh will provide," for which reason it is said today, "on the mountain of Yahweh it shall be provided." {{rf{15}}} And the angel of Yahweh called to Abraham a second time from heaven. {{rf{16}}} And he said, "I swear by myself, declares Yahweh, that because you have done this thing and have not withheld your son, your only child, {{rf{17}}} that I will certainly bless you and greatly multiply your offspring as the stars of heaven, and as the sand that is by the shore of the sea. And your offspring will take possession of the gate of his enemies. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Genesis-22-01]] }}}
Chiastic Structure of <<Bbl Gn 22:1 >>-11:
{{{
1) Some time later God tested Abraham.
He said to him, "Abraham!" "Here I am," he replied.
2) Then God said, "Take your son... Sacrifice him there ...
3) Early the next morning Abraham got up ...
6) Abraham took the wood ... on Issac)
As the two of them went on together,
8) Isaac asked, "Where?" ...
Abraham replies "God himself will provide..."
And the two of them went on together.
9) Abraham built the altar ... laid on Isaac) the wood
Abraham stretched out his hand ...
11) "Abraham! Abraham!" "Here I am," he replied.
"Do not lay a hand on the boy..."
12) Now I know that you fear God..."
}}}
* Binding = //Akedah//, h6123. The //saddling// the donkey corresponds with //binding// Joseph. (It's not without interest from a human point of view that //Akedah// won't pass a spell check, and what is offered as correction is "naked.")
22:2 Don Richardson, among others, believes that this may be the site of Golgotha. See <<Bbl 2Ch 3:1 >>. George Murray places the Temple on this same mountain and notes that this is not the only costly sacrifice offered, nor even only death of Christ; it was here that David refused to accept the land as a gift, <<Bbl 2S 24:24 >>.
22:2 The first occurrence of the word love in the Scriptures (//ahavah//) (Gen 22:2) refers to a father's love for his "only" son who was offered as a sacrifice on Moriah (the very place of the crucifixion of Yeshua), a clear reference to the gospel message (John 3:16). (source|http://www.hebrew4christians.com/Prayers/Daily_Prayers/Akedah/akedah.html)))
<<Bbl Gn 22:4 abbr >> Abraham's challenges do not include worrying over whether he knows God's will!
<<Bbl Gn 22:5 abbr >> This is the first occurrence of the word "worship" in scripture. It proves that true worship is related to sacrifice, to personal cost, and to obedience.
22:6-9 Richardson points out a striking image of Christ here: first the wood rests upon the man, and then the man is placed upon the wood.
22:9-10 A sequence of seven //ands// emphasizes exigency.
22:10 At this point Abraham effectively is believing in the resurrection. On what basis? There's no precedent. Jackie ~Perry-Hill says there is a precedent, as taught by Paul in in <<Bbl R 4:19>> - Abraham's own body, //as good as dead//, bringing forth a son.
22:13 As the ram was in the thorn-bush, so Christ was placed in a human frame -- one that would even be framed in thorns.
22:14 This is the only use of the name Yahweh-Jireh. We apply it to petty needs, but it answers the question //Where is the lamb//, so it refers to the full provision of Christ Himself!
* He is the fulfillment of our needs, <<Bbl Mt 6:33 >>.
* An animal sacrifice cannot actually atone for us (Hebrews 11).
22:16 See <<Bbl H 6:13 >>.
* If redemption is a watch, this is the spring. (pocket watch as visual aid)
* vs 18 -- offspring or Seed))
{{rf{18}}} All the nations of the earth will be blessed through your offspring, because you have listened to my voice." {{rf{19}}} And Abraham returned to his servants, and they got up and went together to Beersheba. And Abraham lived in Beersheba.
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{{rf{20}}} And it happened that after these things, it was told to Abraham, "Look, Milcah has also borne children to your brother Nahor: {{rf{21}}} Uz his firstborn and Buz his brother, and Kemuel the father of Aram, {{rf{22}}} and Kesed, Hazo, Pildash, Jidlaph, and Bethuel." {{rf{23}}} (Now, Bethuel fathered Rebekah). These eight Milcah bore to Nahor, the brother of Abraham. {{rf{24}}} And his concubine, whose name was Reumah, also bore Tebah, Gaham, Tahash, and Maacah. {{rf big{1}}} And Sarah lived one hundred and twenty-seven years; these were the years of the life of Sarah. {{rf{2}}} And Sarah died in Kiriath Arba; that is Hebron, in the land of Canaan. {{rf{3}}} And Abraham went to mourn for Sarah and to weep for her. And Abraham rose up from his dead, and he spoke to the Hittites and said, {{rf{4}}} "I am a stranger and an alien among you; give to me my own burial site among you so that I may bury my dead from before me." {{rf{5}}} And the Hittites answered Abraham and said to him, {{rf{6}}} "Hear us, my lord, you are a mighty prince in our midst. Bury your dead in the choicest of our burial sites. None of us will withhold his burial site from you for burying your dead." {{rf{7}}} And Abraham rose up and bowed to the people of the land, to the Hittites. {{rf{8}}} And he spoke with them, saying, "If you are willing that I bury my dead from before me, hear me and intercede for me with Ephron the son of Zohar, {{rf{9}}} that he may sell to me the cave of Machpelah which belongs to him, which is at the end of his field. At full value let him sell it to me in your midst as a burial site." {{rf{10}}} Now Ephron was sitting among the Hittites. And Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham in the hearing of the Hittites with respect to all who were entering the gate of his city, and said, {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Genesis-22-18]] }}}
<<Bbl Gn 22:2 abbr>> Don Richardson, among others, believes that this may be the site of Golgotha. See <<Bbl 2Ch 3:1 >>.
George Murray places the Temple on this same mountain and notes that this is not the only costly sacrifice offered, nor even only death of Christ; it was here that David refused to accept the land as a gift, <<Bbl 2S 24:24 >>.
<<Bbl Gn 22:5 abbr >> This is the first occurrence of the word "worship" in scripture. It proves that true worship is related to sacrifice, to personal cost, and to obedience.
22:6-9 Richardson points out a striking image of Christ here: first the wood rests upon the man, and then the man is placed upon the wood.
22:14 This is the only use of the name Yahweh-Jireh. We apply it to petty needs, but it answers the question //Where is the lamb//, so it refers to the full provision of Christ Himself!
22:16 See <<Bbl H 7:13 >>.
* If redemption is a watch, this is the spring. (pocket watch as visual aid)
* vs 18 -- offspring or [[Seed]]
<<Bbl Ge 22:22 abbr>> See <<Bbl Ge 26:29 abbr>>.
22:33 @@color:darkgreen;The planting of this long-lived tree, with its hard wood, and its long, narrow, thickly clustered, evergreen leaves, was to be a type of the ever-enduring grace of the faithful covenant God.@@ // -- Keil and Delitzsch//
<<Bbl Gn 23:4 abbr >>ff He addresses the local men in a respectful way; they reply alike, but with the difference of calling him "lord".
<<Bbl Gn 23:17 abbr >>-20 This is Abraham's only ownership of land in the land God promised He would own, and this is part of the cause for emphasis. How often is our only purchase on eternal inheritance in this world marked by grief?
<<Bbl Gn 23:17 abbr >> Again trees are important.
<<Bbl Gn 24:7 abbr >> -- God took an oath, which authorizes Abraham to adjure his servant. [[Seed]]
24:17-30 Run is used four times, along with hastened (compare 29:12-13).
24:21 //And the man was gazing at her silently to know if Yahweh had made his journey successful or not.// What a profound moment.
<<Bbl Gn 24:60 abbr>> This echoes 22:17; in Christ it is all fulfilled. But what a marvelously long-term blessing.
24:62 Beer-lehoi-roi, the important well. Also 25:11.
<<Bbl Gn 24:67 abbr >>
{{holyquote{
And Isaac brought her to the tent of Sarah his mother. And he took Rebekah, and she became his wife. And Isaac loved her and was comforted after the death of his mother.
}}}
{{rf{11}}} "No, my lord, hear me. I give you the field and the cave which is in it, I also give it to you in the sight of the children of my people I give it to you. Bury your dead." {{rf{12}}} And Abraham bowed before the people of the land. {{rf{13}}} And he spoke to Ephron in the hearing of the people of the land, saying, "If only you will hear me -- I give the price of the field. Take it from me that I may bury my dead there." {{rf{14}}} And Ephron answered Abraham, saying to him, {{rf{15}}} "My lord, hear me. A piece of land worth four hundred shekels of silver -- what is that between me and you? Bury your dead." {{rf{16}}} Then Abraham listened to Ephron, and Abraham weighed for Ephron the silver that he had named in the hearing of the Hittites: four hundred shekels of silver at the merchants' current rate. {{rf{17}}} So the field of Ephron which was in the Machpelah, which was near Mamre -- the field and the cave which was in it, with all the trees that were in the field, which were within all its surrounding boundaries -- passed {{rf{18}}} to Abraham as a property in the presence of the Hittites, with respect to all who were entering the gate of his city. {{rf{19}}} And thus afterward Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah near Mamre; that is Hebron, in the land of Canaan. {{rf{20}}} And the field and the cave which was in it passed to Abraham as a burial site from the Hittites. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Genesis-23-11]] }}}
Now Abraham was old, advanced in age, and Yahweh had blessed Abraham in everything. {{rf{2}}} And Abraham said to his servant, the oldest of his house, who had charge of all he had, "Please put your hand under my thigh {{rf{3}}} that I may make you swear by Yahweh, the God of heaven and the God of earth, that you will not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites in whose midst I am dwelling, {{rf{4}}} but that you will go to my land and to my family, and take a wife for my son, for Isaac." {{rf{5}}} And the servant said to him, "Perhaps the woman will not be willing to follow me to this land -- must I then return your son to the land from whence you came?" {{rf{6}}} Abraham said to him, "You must take care that you do not return my son there. {{rf{7}}} Yahweh, the God of heaven who took me from the house of my father and from the land of my family, and who spoke to me and swore to me, saying, 'to your offspring I will give this land,' he will send his angel before you, and you shall take a wife for my son from there. {{rf{8}}} And if the woman is not willing to follow you, then you shall be released from this oath of mine -- only you must not return my son there." {{rf{9}}} Then the servant put his hand under the thigh of Abraham his master, and he swore to him concerning this matter. {{rf{10}}} And the servant took ten camels from his master's camels, and he went with all kinds of his master's good things in his hand. And he arose and went to Aram-Naharaim, to the city of Nahor. {{rf{11}}} And he made the camels kneel outside the city at the well of water, at the time of evening, toward the time the women went out to draw water. {{rf{12}}} And he said, "O Yahweh, God of my master Abraham, please grant me success today and show loyal love to my master Abraham. {{rf{13}}} Behold, I am standing by the spring of water, and the daughters of the men of the city are going out to draw water. {{rf{14}}} And let it be that the girl to whom I shall say, 'Please, offer your jar that I may drink' and who says, 'Drink -- and I will also water your camels,' she is the one you have chosen for your servant, for Isaac. By her I will know that you have shown loyal love to my master." {{rf{15}}} And it happened that before he had finished speaking, behold, Rebekah -- who was born to Bethuel, son of Milcah, the wife of Nahor, the brother of Abraham -- came out, and her jar was on her shoulder. {{rf{16}}} Now the girl was very pleasing in appearance. She was a virgin; no man had known her. And she went down to the spring, filled her jar, and came up. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Genesis-24-01]] }}}
{{rf{17}}} And the servant ran to meet her. And he said, "Please, let me drink a little of the water from your jar." {{rf{18}}} And she said, "Drink, my lord." And she quickly lowered her jar in her hand and gave him a drink. {{rf{19}}} When she finished giving him a drink she said, "I will also draw water for your camels until they finish drinking." {{rf{20}}} And she quickly emptied her jar into the trough and ran again to the well to draw water. And she drew water for all his camels. {{rf{21}}} And the man was gazing at her silently to know if Yahweh had made his journey successful or not. {{rf{22}}} And it happened that as the camels finished drinking the man took a gold ring of a half shekel in weight and two bracelets for her arms, ten shekels in weight, {{rf{23}}} and said, "Please tell me, whose daughter are you? Is there a place at the house of your father for us to spend the night?" {{rf{24}}} And she said to him, "I am the daughter of Bethuel, son of Milcah, whom she bore to Nahor." {{rf{25}}} Then she said to him, "We have both straw and fodder in abundance, as well as a place to spend the night." {{rf{26}}} And the man knelt down and worshiped Yahweh. {{rf{27}}} And he said, "Blessed be Yahweh, God of my master Abraham, who has not withheld his loyal love and his faithfulness from my master. I was on the way and Yahweh led me to the house of my master's brother." {{rf{28}}} Then the girl ran and reported these things to the household of her mother. {{rf{29}}} Now Rebekah had a brother, and his name was Laban. And Laban ran out to the man toward the spring. {{rf{30}}} And when he saw the ring and the bracelets on the arms of his sister and heard the words of Rebekah his sister, who said, "Thus the man spoke to me," he went to the man. And behold, he was standing with the camels at the spring. {{rf{31}}} And he said, "Come, O blessed one of Yahweh. Why do you stand outside? Now I have prepared the house and a place for the camels." {{rf{32}}} And the man came to the house and unloaded the camels. And he gave straw and fodder to the camels, and water to wash his feet and the feet of the men who were with him. {{rf{33}}} And food was placed before him to eat. And he said, "I will not eat until I have told my errand." And he said, "Speak." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Genesis-24-17]] }}}
{{rf{34}}} And he said, "I am the servant of Abraham. {{rf{35}}} Now Yahweh has blessed my master exceedingly, and he has become great. He has given to him sheep and cattle, silver and gold, male slaves and female slaves, and camels and donkeys. {{rf{36}}} And Sarah, the wife of my master, has borne a son to my master after her old age. And he has given to him all that he has. {{rf{37}}} And my master made me swear, saying, 'Do not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites in whose land I am living. {{rf{38}}} But you shall go to the house of my father, and to my family, and you shall take a wife for my son.' {{rf{39}}} And I said to my master, 'Perhaps the woman will not follow me.' {{rf{40}}} And he said to me, 'Yahweh, before whom I have walked, shall send his angel with you and will make your journey successful. And you shall take a wife for my son from my family, and from the house of my father. {{rf{41}}} Then you shall be released from my oath, when you come to my family. And if they will not give a woman to you, then you will be released from my oath.' {{rf{42}}} Then today I came to the spring, and I said, 'O Yahweh, God of my master Abraham, if you would please make my journey successful, upon which I am going. {{rf{43}}} Behold, I am standing by the spring of water. Let it be that the young woman who comes out to draw water and to whom I say, "Please give me a little water to drink from your jar," {{rf{44}}} let her say to me, "Drink; I will also draw water for your camels," she is the woman whom Yahweh has appointed for the son of my master.' {{rf{45}}} I had not yet finished speaking to myself when, behold, Rebekah was coming out with her jar on her shoulder. And she went down to the spring and drew water. And I said to her, 'Please give me a drink.' {{rf{46}}} And she hastened and let down her jar from her shoulder and said, 'Drink, and I will give a drink to your camels also.' Then I drank and she gave a drink to the camels also. {{rf{47}}} Then I asked her and said, 'Whose daughter are you?' And she said, 'The daughter of Bethuel, son of Nahor, whom Milcah bore to him.' And I put the ring on her nose and the bracelets on her arms. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Genesis-24-34]] }}}
{{rf{48}}} And I knelt down and worshiped Yahweh, and I praised Yahweh, the God of my master Abraham, who led me on the right way, to take the daughter of the brother of my master for his son. {{rf{49}}} So now, if you are going to deal loyally and truly with my master, tell me. And if not, tell me, so that I may turn to the right or to the left." {{rf{50}}} Then Laban and Bethuel answered, and they said, "The matter has gone out from Yahweh; we are not able to speak bad or good to you. {{rf{51}}} Here is Rebekah before you. Take her and go; let her be a wife for the son of your master as Yahweh has spoken." {{rf{52}}} And it happened that when the servant of Abraham heard their words he bowed down to the ground to Yahweh. {{rf{53}}} And the servant brought out silver jewelry and gold jewelry, and garments, and he gave them to Rebekah. And he gave precious gifts to her brother and to her mother. {{rf{54}}} And he and the men who were with him ate and drank, and they spent the night. And they got up in the morning, and he said, "Let me go to my master." {{rf{55}}} And her brother and her mother said, "Let the girl remain with us ten days or so; after that she may go." {{rf{56}}} And he said to them, "Do not delay me. Now, Yahweh has made my journey successful. Let me go. I must go to my master." {{rf{57}}} And they said, "Let us call the girl and ask her opinion." {{rf{58}}} And they called Rebekah and said to her, "Will you go with this man?" And she said, "I will go." {{rf{59}}} So they sent away Rebekah their sister, and her nurse, and the servant of Abraham and his men. {{rf{60}}} And they blessed Rebekah and said to her, "You are our sister; may you become countless thousands; and may your offspring take possession of the gate of his enemies." {{rf{61}}} And Rebekah and her maidservants arose, and they mounted the camels and followed the man. And the servant took Rebekah and left. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Genesis-24-48]] }}}
{{rf{62}}} Now Isaac was coming from the direction of Beer-Lahai-Roi. And he was living in the land of the Negev. {{rf{63}}} And Isaac went out to meditate in the field early in the evening, and he lifted up his eyes and saw -- behold, camels were coming. {{rf{64}}} And Rebekah lifted up her eyes and saw Isaac. And she got down from the camel. {{rf{65}}} And she said to the servant, "Who is this man walking around in the field to meet us?" And the servant said, "That is my master." And she took her veil and covered herself. {{rf{66}}} And the servant told Isaac all the things that he had done. {{rf{67}}} And Isaac brought her to the tent of Sarah his mother. And he took Rebekah, and she became his wife. And Isaac loved her and was comforted after the death of his mother. {{rf big{1}}} Now Abraham again took a wife, and her name was Keturah. {{rf{2}}} And she bore to him Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, and Shuah. {{rf{3}}} And Jokshan fathered Sheba and Dedan. And the sons of Dedan were Asshurim and Letushim and Leummim. {{rf{4}}} And the sons of Midian were Ephah, Epher, Hanoch, Abidah, and Eldaah. All of these were the children of Keturah. {{rf{5}}} And Abraham gave all he had to Isaac. {{rf{6}}} But to the sons of Abraham's concubines Abraham gave gifts. And while he was still living he sent them away eastward, away from his son Isaac, to the land of the east. {{rf{7}}} Now these are the days of the years of the life of Abraham: one hundred and seventy-five years. {{rf{8}}} And Abraham passed away and died in a good old age, old and full of years. And he was gathered to his people. {{rf{9}}} And Isaac and Ishmael his sons buried him in the cave of Machpelah, in the field of Ephron, son of Zohar the Hittite, that was east of Mamre, {{rf{10}}} the field that Abraham had bought from the Hittites. There Abraham was buried and Sarah his wife. {{rf{11}}} And it happened that after the death of Abraham God blessed Isaac his son, and Isaac settled at Beer-Lahai-Roi. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Genesis-24-62]] }}}
<<Bbl Gn 25:22 abbr>> Trial and supplication, concise. Rebekah could not know she was bearing twins until God told her.
25:23 Finds one fulfillment in <<Bbl 2S 8:14 >>. Also it finds reference in such passages as <<Bbl Jer 49:7 >>-8 ; Obediah 18; <<Bbl Gn 1:2 >>-5 ; <<Bbl R 9:10 >>-13 .
<<Bbl Gn 25:23 abbr >> Ultimately fulfilled in Christ's lordship. <<Bbl Amos 9:12 >>.
<<Bbl Gn 25:25 abbr >> Esau means hairy; red is related to the term Edom; see also vs. 30.
25:25 D. Kidner reserves some distain for Jacob, point out <<Bbl Jer 9:4 "" note>>. Gary North dismantles the argument of anyone who would side with Esau in a few pages of typically disordered prose (__The Dominion Covenant__).
25:27 A fascinating parallel construction; Esau is skilful, Jacob peaceful. Esau trusted in his skill, and sold his birthright.
<<Bbl Gn 25:27 abbr>> //Living in tents// conveys stability in contrast with that //man of the field//.
25:28 Esau and Jacob had much in common in their lust for food; what the other two had in common is left implied.
25:30 The verb for swallow is important; BDB 542.
Just as idolators become what they worship, Esau came to be known by the object of his downfall; and his name served as a reminder to God's people.
25:31 Esau was not ignorant of the significance of the birthright: Isaac would have rehearsed it many times.
What is the birthright? We can look to <<Bbl Gn 49:3 >>; <<Bbl Dt 21:17 >>; <<Bbl Gn 27:29 >>. Also, in terms of land inheritance, Jacob/Israel indeed possessed more ground than Esau/Edom.
25:32 A rationalization both superficial and untrue.
<<Bbl Gn 25:33 abbr >> The subject of <<Bbl H 12:16 >>-17
<<Bbl Gn 26:11 abbr >> A provision against the envy of v 14b.
<<Bbl Gn 26:12 abbr >>ff This passage has elements in common with Gn 31:1ff.
<<Bbl Gn 27:5 abbr >> He hears the sound of his own distinctive voice. The salutation sticks in his throat and then proceeds awkwardly - compare the real article (v 31b).
<<Bbl Gn 27:5 abbr >>ff How Jacob learned from Rebekah. Or did she learn from him?
<<Bbl Gn 27:21 abbr >>-27 Isaac has five spies with which to know the enemy's trap. One is disabled. Three are deceived. One is disbelieved.
<<Bbl Gn 27:36 abbr >>b Maybe Esau's wishful thinking here explains his careless action at other times.
<<Bbl Gn 27:41 abbr >> Esau despises his father's blessing though it also is a prophecy; more evidence he cannot be trusted with God's mission.
<<Bbl Gn 27:46 abbr >> Esau's wives share his grudge
{{rf{12}}} Now these are the generations of Ishmael, the son of Abraham, that Hagar the Egyptian, the maidservant of Sarah, bore to Abraham. {{rf{13}}} And these are the names of the sons of Ishmael, by their names according to their family records. The firstborn of Ishmael was Nebaioth, then Kedar, Adbeel, Mibsam, {{rf{14}}} Mishma, Dumah, Massa, {{rf{15}}} Hadad, Tema, Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah. {{rf{16}}} These are the sons of Ishmael, and these are their names by their villages and by their encampments -- {{rf{12}}} leaders according to their tribes.
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{{rf{17}}} Now these are the years of the life of Ishmael: 137 years. And he passed away and died, and was gathered to his people. {{rf{18}}} They settled from Havilah to Shur, which was opposite Egypt, going toward Asshur, opposite; he settled opposite all his brothers. {{rf{19}}} Now these are the generations of Isaac, the son of Abraham. Abraham fathered Isaac, {{rf{20}}} And Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Aramean of Paddan-Aram, the sister of Laban the Aramean, as his wife. {{rf{21}}} And Isaac prayed to Yahweh on behalf of his wife, for she was barren. And Yahweh responded to his prayer, and Rebekah his wife conceived. {{rf{22}}} And the children in her womb jostled each other, and she said, "If it is going to be like this, why be pregnant?" And she went to inquire of Yahweh. {{rf{23}}} And Yahweh said to her, "Two nations are in your womb, and two peoples from birth shall be divided. And one people shall be stronger than the other. And the elder shall serve the younger." {{rf{24}}} And when her days to give birth were completed, then -- behold -- twins were in her womb. {{rf{25}}} And the first came out red, all his body was like a hairy coat, so they called his name Esau. {{rf{26}}} And afterward his brother came out, and his hand grasped the heel of Esau, so his name was called Jacob. And Isaac was sixty years old at their birth. {{rf{27}}} And the boys grew up. And Esau was a skilled hunter, a man of the field, but Jacob was a peaceful man, living in tents. {{rf{28}}} And Isaac loved Esau because he could eat of his game, but Rebekah loved Jacob. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Genesis-25-12]] }}}
{{rf{29}}} Once Jacob cooked a thick stew, and Esau came in from the field, and he was exhausted. {{rf{30}}} And Esau said to Jacob, "Give me some of that red stuff to gulp down, for I am exhausted!" (Therefore his name was called Edom). {{rf{31}}} Then Jacob said, "Sell me your birthright first." {{rf{32}}} And Esau said, "Look, I am going to die; now what is this birthright to me?" {{rf{33}}} Then Jacob said, "Swear to me first." And he swore to him, and sold his birthright to Jacob. {{rf{34}}} Then Jacob gave Esau bread, and thick lentil stew, and he ate and drank. Then he got up and went away. So Esau despised his birthright. {{rf big{1}}} And there was a famine in the land, besides the former famine which was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went to Abimelech, king of the Philistines, to Gerar. {{rf{2}}} And Yahweh appeared to him and said, "Do not go down to Egypt; dwell in the land which I will show to you. {{rf{3}}} Dwell as an alien in this land, and I will be with you, and will bless you, for I will give all these lands to you and to your descendants, and I will establish the oath that I swore to Abraham you father. {{rf{4}}} And I will multiply your descendants like the stars of heaven, and I will give to your descendants all these lands. And all nations of the earth will be blessed through your offspring, {{rf{5}}} because Abraham listened to my voice and kept my charge: my commandments, my statutes, and my laws." {{rf{6}}} So Isaac settled in Gerar. {{rf{7}}} When the men of the place asked concerning his wife, he said, "She is my sister," for he was afraid to say, "my wife," thinking "the men of the place will kill me on account of Rebekah, for she was beautiful." {{rf{8}}} And it happened that, when he had been there a long time, Abimelech the king of the Philistines looked through the window, and saw -- behold -- Isaac was fondling Rebekah his wife. {{rf{9}}} And Abimelech called Isaac and said, "Surely she is your wife. Now why did you say 'She is my sister'?" And Isaac said to him, "Because I thought I would die on account of her." {{rf{10}}} And Abimelech said, "What is this you have done to us? One of the people might easily have slept with your wife! Then you would have brought guilt upon us!" {{rf{11}}} Then Abimelech instructed all the people, saying, "The one who touches this man or his wife shall certainly die." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Genesis-25-29]] }}}
{{rf{12}}} And Isaac sowed in that land and reaped in that same year a hundredfold, and Yahweh blessed him. {{rf{13}}} And the man became wealthier and wealthier until he was exceedingly wealthy. {{rf{14}}} And he possessed sheep and cattle and many servants, so that the Philistines envied him. {{rf{15}}} And the Philistines stopped up all the wells that the servants of his father had dug in the days of Abraham his father. They filled them with earth. {{rf{16}}} And Abimelech said to Isaac, "Go away from us, for you have become much too powerful for us." {{rf{17}}} So Isaac departed from there and camped in the valley of Gerar, and settled there. {{rf{18}}} And Isaac dug again the wells of water which they had dug in the days of his father Abraham, which the Philistines had stopped up after the death of Abraham. And he gave to them the same names which his father had given them. {{rf{19}}} And when the servants of Isaac dug in the valley, they found a well of fresh water there. {{rf{20}}} Then the herdsmen of Gerar quarreled with the herdsmen of Isaac, saying, "The water is ours." And he called the name of the well Esek, because they contended with him. {{rf{21}}} And they dug another well, and they quarreled over it also. And he called its name Sitnah. {{rf{22}}} Then he moved from there and dug another well, and they did not quarrel over it. And he called its name Rehoboth, and said, "Now Yahweh has made room for us, and we shall be fruitful in the land." {{rf{23}}} And from there he went up to Beersheba. {{rf{24}}} And Yahweh appeared to him that night and said, "I am the God of your father Abraham. Do not be afraid, for I am with you, and I will bless you and make your descendants numerous for the sake of my servant Abraham." {{rf{25}}} And he built an altar there and called on the name of Yahweh. And he pitched his tent there, and the servants of Isaac dug a well there. {{rf{26}}} Then Abimelech went to him from Gerar with Ahuzzath his friend and Phicol his army commander. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Genesis-26-12]] }}}
{{rf{27}}} And Isaac said to them, "Why have you come to me? You hate me and sent me away from you." {{rf{28}}} And they said, "We see clearly that Yahweh has been with you, so we thought let there be an oath between us -- between us and you -- and let us make a covenant with you {{rf{29}}} that you may not do us harm just as we have not touched you, but have only done good to you and sent you away in peace. You are now blessed by Yahweh." {{rf{30}}} So he made a meal for them, and they ate and drank. {{rf{31}}} And they arose early in the morning and each one swore to the other, and Isaac sent them away. And they left him in peace. {{rf{32}}} And it happened that on that same day the servants of Isaac came and told him about the well that they had dug. And they said, "We have found water!" {{rf{33}}} And he called it Sheba. Therefore the name of the city is Beersheba unto this day. {{rf{34}}} And when Esau was forty years old he took as wife Judith, daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basemath, daughter of Elon the Hittite. {{rf{35}}} And they made life bitter for Isaac and Rebekah. {{rf big{1}}} And it happened that when Isaac was old and his eyesight was weak, he called Esau his older son and said to him, "My son." And he said to him, "Here I am." {{rf{2}}} And he said, "Look, I am old; I do not know the day of my death. {{rf{3}}} So now, take your weapons, your quiver and your bow, and go out to the field and hunt food for me. {{rf{4}}} Then make for me tasty food like I love, and bring it to me. And I will eat it so that I can bless you before I die. {{rf{5}}} Now Rebekah was listening as Isaac spoke to Esau his son, and when Esau went to the field to hunt wild game to bring back, {{rf{6}}} Rebekah said to Jacob her son, "Look, I heard your father speaking to Esau your brother saying, {{rf{7}}} 'Bring wild game to me and prepare tasty food so I can eat it and bless you before Yahweh before my death.' {{rf{8}}} So now, my son, listen to my voice, to what I command you. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Genesis-26-27]] }}}
{{rf{9}}} Go to the flock and take two good young goats from it for me, and I will prepare them as tasty food for your father, just as he likes. {{rf{10}}} Then you must take it to your father and he will eat it so that he may bless you before his death." {{rf{11}}} Then Jacob said to his mother, "Behold, Esau my brother is a hairy man, but I am a smooth man. {{rf{12}}} Perhaps my father will feel me and I will be in his eyes as a mocker, and he will bring upon me a curse and not a blessing." {{rf{13}}} Then his mother said to him, "Your curse be upon me, my son, only listen to my voice -- go and get them for me." {{rf{14}}} So he went and took them, and brought them to his mother, and his mother prepared tasty food as his father liked. {{rf{15}}} Then Rebekah took some of her older son Esau's best garments that were with her in the house, and she put them on Jacob her younger son. {{rf{16}}} And she put the skins of the young goats over his hands and over the smooth part of his neck. {{rf{17}}} And she put the tasty food and the bread that she had made into the hand of Jacob, her son. {{rf{18}}} And he went to his father and said, "My father." And he said, "Here I am. Who are you, my son?" {{rf{19}}} And Jacob said to his father, "I am Esau, your firstborn. I have done as you told me. Please get up, sit up and eat from my wild game so that you may bless me." {{rf{20}}} Then Isaac said to his son, "How did you find it so quickly, my son?" And he said, "Because Yahweh your God caused me to find it." {{rf{21}}} Then Isaac said to Jacob, "Please, come near and let me feel you, my son. Are you really my son Esau or not?" {{rf{22}}} And Jacob drew near to Isaac his father. And he felt him and said, "The voice is the voice of Jacob, but the hands are the hands of Esau." {{rf{23}}} And he did not recognize him because his hands were hairy like the hands of Esau his brother. And he blessed him. {{rf{24}}} And he said, "Are you really my son Esau?" And he said, "I am." {{rf{25}}} Then he said, "Bring it near to me that I may eat from the game of my son, so that I may bless you." And he brought it to him, and he ate. And he brought wine to him, and he drank. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Genesis-27-09]] }}}
{{rf{26}}} Then his father Isaac said to him, "Come near and kiss me, my son." {{rf{27}}} And he drew near and kissed him. And he smelled the smell of his garments, and he blessed him and said, "Look, the smell of my son is like the smell of a field that Yahweh has blessed! {{rf{28}}} May God give you of the dew of heaven and of the fatness of the earth, and abundance of grain and new wine. {{rf{29}}} Let peoples serve you, and nations bow down to you; Be lord of your brothers, and may the sons of your mother bow down to you. Cursed be those cursing you, and blessed be those blessing you." {{rf{30}}} And as soon as Isaac had finished blessing Jacob, immediately after Jacob had gone out from the presence of Isaac his father, Esau his brother came back from his hunting. {{rf{31}}} He too prepared tasty food and brought it to his father. And he said to his father, "Let my father arise and eat from the wild game of his son, that you may bless me." {{rf{32}}} And Isaac his father said to him, "Who are you?" And he said, "I am your son, your firstborn, Esau." {{rf{33}}} Then Isaac trembled violently. Then he said, "Who then was he that hunted wild game and brought it to me, and I ate it all before you came, and I blessed him? Moreover, he will be blessed!" {{rf{34}}} When Esau heard the words of his father he cried out with a great and exceedingly bitter cry of distress. And he said to his father, "Bless me as well, my father!" {{rf{35}}} And he said, "Your brother came in deceit and took your blessing." {{rf{36}}} Then he said, "Isn't that why he is named Jacob? He has deceived me these two times. He took my birthright and, look, now he has taken my blessing!" Then he said, "Have you not reserved a blessing for me?" {{rf{37}}} Then Isaac answered and said to Esau, "Behold, I have made him lord over you and I have given him all his brothers as servants, and with grain and wine I have sustained him. Now what can I do for you, my son?" {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Genesis-27-26]] }}}
{{rf{38}}} And Esau said to his father, "Have you only one blessing, my father? Bless me also, my father!" And Esau lifted up his voice and wept. {{rf{39}}} Then Isaac his father answered and said to him, "Your home shall be from the fatness of the land, and from the dew of heaven above. {{rf{40}}} But by your sword you shall live, and you shall serve your brother. But it shall be that when free yourself you shall tear off his yoke from your neck. {{rf{41}}} Then Esau held a grudge against Jacob on account of the blessing with which his father had blessed him. And Esau said in his heart, "The days of mourning for my father are coming, then I will kill Jacob my brother." {{rf{42}}} But the words of Esau her older son were told to Rebekah. And she sent and called for her younger son Jacob. And she said to him, "Look, Esau your brother is consoling himself concerning you, intending to kill you. {{rf{43}}} Now then, my son, listen to my voice; arise and flee to Haran to Laban my brother. {{rf{44}}} Stay with him a few days until the wrath of your brother has turned -- {{rf{45}}} until the anger of your brother turns from you and he has forgotten what you have done to him. Then I will send and bring you from there. Why should I lose the two of you in one day?" {{rf{46}}} Then Rebekah said to Isaac, "I loathe my life because of the Hittite women. If Jacob takes a wife from Hittite women like these, from the native women, what am I living for?" {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Genesis-27-38]] }}}
Then Isaac called Jacob and blessed him. And he instructed him and said to him, "You must not take a wife from the daughters of Canaan. {{rf{2}}} Arise, go to Paddan-Aram, to the house of Bethuel, your mother's father, and take for yourself a wife from there, from the daughters of Laban your mother's brother. {{rf{3}}} Now, may El-Shaddai bless you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, so that you become an assembly of peoples. {{rf{4}}} And may he give you the blessing of Abraham, to you and to your descendants with you, that you may take possession of the land of your sojourning, which God gave to Abraham." {{rf{5}}} Then Isaac sent Jacob away, and he went to Paddan-Aram, to Laban the son of Bethuel the Aramean, the brother of Rebekah, the mother of Jacob and Esau. {{rf{6}}} Now Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him away to Paddan-Aram, to take for himself a wife from there, and he blessed him and instructed him, saying, "You must not take a wife from the daughters of Canaan," {{rf{7}}} and that Jacob listened to his father and to his mother and went to Paddan-Aram. {{rf{8}}} Then Esau saw that the daughters of Canaan were evil in the eyes of Isaac his father, {{rf{9}}} then Esau went to Ishmael and took Mahalath, the daughter of Ishmael, son of Abraham, sister of Nebaioth, as a wife, in addition to the wives he had. {{rf{10}}} Then Jacob went out from Beersheba and went to Haran. {{rf{11}}} And he arrived at a certain place and spent the night there, because the sun had set. And he took one of the stones of the place and put it under his head and slept at that place. {{rf{12}}} And he dreamed, and behold, a stairway was set on the earth, and its top touched the heavens. And behold, angels of God were going up and going down on it. {{rf{13}}} And behold, Yahweh was standing beside him, and he said, "I am Yahweh, the God of Abraham your father, and the God of Isaac. The ground on which you were sleeping I will give to you and to your descendants. {{rf{14}}} Your descendants shall be like the dust of the earth, and you will spread out to the west, and to the east, and to the north and to the south. And all the families of the earth will be blessed through you and through your descendants. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Genesis-28-01]] }}}
<<Bbl Gn 28:1 abbr >> Isaac blesses Jabob. Whatever their episodes, this remains.
<<Bbl Gn 28:4 abbr >> God immediately adds His confirmation, v 13.
<<Bbl Gn 28:9 abbr >> A remarkable retrenchment in rebellion on Esau's part (which follows <<Bbl Gn 26:34 abbr >>). One wonders if he ever regretted it; over time his foreign wives may have become odious to him as they did for Rebekah (<<Bbl Gn 27:46 abbr >>) Now they provide the excuse for sending Jacob out of his reach.
<<Bbl Gn 28:13 abbr>> For the staircase (or ladder) df <<Bbl J 1:51>>
<<Bbl Gn 28:15 abbr >>b A new and amazing kind of promise: to never leave him.
<<Bbl Gn 28:20 abbr >> cf <<Bbl 1Tim 6:8 >>
<<Bbl Gn 28:22 abbr >> I don't know any record of Jacob fulfilling this promise.
29:11 Jacob breaks down over the realization of //bone of my bone, flesh of my flesh// (as Laban will say shortly); obvously it's also love at first sight. He also may be having a release of emotions accumulated from his hasty flight and his encounter with God. Being a home-based person, maybe the journey has been a strain and he is aware of being close to some kind of home. Whatever the stimulus, he gives himself away. A trap begins to close on him as Laban becomes instantly aware of an opportunity.
<<Bbl Gn 29:12 abbr >>-13 More running here (<<Bbl Gn 24:17 abbr >>-30).
29:16 //they seemed but a few days -- // I think not as a perception of time, but as a price to pay.
29:25 Takes us back to Jacob's deception; here he is repaid, and gets seven years to think about it. The question //Why did you deceive me?// seems to go unanswered. Jacob's answer is insupportable (but invoking local custom is a crafty angle). The truth appears simply that he wants more of Jacob's labor. That labor must be visibly blessed. He had launched his career among shepherds by moving the stone.
<<Bbl Gn 28:15 abbr >>b A new and amazing kind of promise: to never leave him.
<<Bbl Gn 28:22 abbr >> I don't know any record of Jacob fulfilling this promise.
<<Bbl Gn 30:9 abbr >> Strange that Jacob gave into that one.
<<Bbl Gn 30:14 abbr >> Presumably they are both taking the mandrakes. But they don't avail for Rachel! She has yet to conceive in her own.
<<Bbl Gn 30:35 abbr >>-36 This is not a cheat on Laban's part; apparently it is in step with v 32.
{{rf{15}}} Now behold, I am with you, and I will keep you wherever you go. And I will bring you to this land, for I will not leave you until I have done what I have promised to you." {{rf{16}}} Then Jacob awoke from his sleep and said, "Surely Yahweh is indeed in this place and I did not know!" {{rf{17}}} Then he was afraid and said, "How awesome is this place! This is nothing else than the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven!"
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{{rf{18}}} And Jacob rose early in the morning, and he took the stone that he had put under his head and set it up as a stone pillar, and poured oil on top of it. {{rf{19}}} And he called the name of that place Bethel; however, the name of the city was formerly Luz. {{rf{20}}} And Jacob made a vow saying, "If God will be with me and protect me on this way that I am going, and gives me food to eat and clothing to wear, {{rf{21}}} and if I return in peace to the house of my father, then Yahweh will become my God. {{rf{22}}} And this stone that I have set up as a pillar shall be the house of God, and of all that you give to me I will certainly give a tenth to you."
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{{rf big{1}}} And Jacob continued his journey and went to the land of the Easterners. {{rf{2}}} And he looked, and behold, there was a well in the field, and behold, there were three flocks of sheep lying beside it, for out of that well the flocks were watered. And the stone on the mouth of the well was large. {{rf{3}}} And when all the flocks were gathered there, they rolled away the stone from the mouth of the well. And they watered the sheep and returned the stone upon the mouth of the well to its place. {{rf{4}}} And Jacob said to them, "My brothers, where are you from?" And they said, "We are from Haran." {{rf{5}}} And he said to them, "Do you know Laban, son of Nahor?" And they said, "We know him." {{rf{6}}} And he said to them, "Is he well?" And they said, "He is well. Now look, Rachel his daughter is coming with the sheep." {{rf{7}}} And he said, "Look, it is still broad daylight; it is not the time for the livestock to be gathered. Give water to the sheep and go, pasture them." {{rf{8}}} And they said, "We are not able, until all the flocks are gathered. Then the stone is rolled away from the mouth of the well, and we water the sheep." {{rf{9}}} While he was speaking with them, Rachel came with the sheep which belonged to her father, for she was pasturing them. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Genesis-28-15]] }}}
{{rf{10}}} And it happened that, when Jacob saw Rachel, the daughter of Laban, his mother's brother, and the sheep of Laban, his mother's brother, Jacob drew near and rolled away the stone from the mouth of the well and watered the sheep of Laban, his mother's brother. {{rf{11}}} And Jacob kissed Rachel, and lifted up his voice and wept. {{rf{12}}} And Jacob told Rachel that he was the relative of her father, and that he was the son of Rebekah. And she ran and told her father. {{rf{13}}} And it happened that when Laban heard the message about Jacob, the son of his sister, he ran to meet him. And he embraced him and kissed him, and brought him to his house. And he told Laban all these things. {{rf{14}}} And Laban said to him, "Surely you are my flesh and my bone!" And he stayed with him a month. {{rf{15}}} Then Laban said to Jacob, "Just because you are my brother should you work for me for nothing? Tell me what your wage should be." {{rf{16}}} Now Laban had two daughters. The name of the older was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel. {{rf{17}}} Now the eyes of Leah were dull, but Rachel was beautiful in form and appearance. {{rf{18}}} And Jacob loved Rachel and said, "I will serve you seven years for Rachel your younger daughter." {{rf{19}}} Then Laban said, "Better that I give her to you than I give her to another man. Stay with me." {{rf{20}}} And Jacob worked for Rachel seven years, but they were as a few days in his eyes because he loved her. {{rf{21}}} And Jacob said to Laban, "Give me my wife, that I may go in to her, for my time is completed." {{rf{22}}} So Laban gathered all the men of the place and prepared a feast. {{rf{23}}} And it happened that in the evening he took Leah his daughter and brought her to him, and he went in to her. {{rf{24}}} And Laban gave Zilpah his female servant to her, to Leah his daughter as a female servant. {{rf{25}}} And it happened that in the morning, behold, it was Leah! And he said to Laban, "What is this you have done to me? Did I not serve with you for Rachel? Now why did you deceive me?" {{rf{26}}} Then Laban said, "It is not the custom in our country to give the younger before the firstborn. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Genesis-29-10]] }}}
{{rf{27}}} Complete the week of this one, then I will also give you the other, on the condition that you will work for me another seven years." {{rf{28}}} And Jacob did so. So he completed the week of this one, then he gave Rachel his daughter to him as a wife. {{rf{29}}} And Laban gave Bilhah his female servant to Rachel his daughter as a female servant. {{rf{30}}} Then he also went in to Rachel, and he loved Rachel more than Leah. And he served with him yet another seven years. {{rf{31}}} When Yahweh saw that Leah was unloved he opened her womb, but Rachel was barren. {{rf{32}}} Then Leah conceived and gave birth to a son, and she called his name Reuben, for she said, "Because Yahweh has noticed my misery, that I am unloved. Now my husband will love me." {{rf{33}}} And she conceived again and gave birth to a son. And she said, "It is because Yahweh has heard that I am unloved that he gave me this son also." And she called his name Simeon. {{rf{34}}} And she conceived again and gave birth to a son. Then she said, "Now this time my husband will be joined to me, for I have borne him three sons." Therefore, she called his name Levi. {{rf{35}}} And she conceived again and gave birth to a son. And she said, "This time I will praise Yahweh." Therefore she called his name Judah. And she ceased bearing children. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Genesis-29-27]] }}}
When Rachel saw that she could not bear children to Jacob, Rachel envied her sister. And she said to Jacob, "Give me children -- if not, I will die!" {{rf{2}}} And Jacob became angry with Rachel. And he said, "Am I in the place of God, who has withheld from you the fruit of the womb?" {{rf{3}}} Then she said, "Here is my servant girl Bilhah; go in to her that she may bear children as my surrogate. Then I will even have children by her." {{rf{4}}} Then she gave him Bilhah, her female servant, as a wife, and Jacob went in to he {{rf{5}}} And Bilhah conceived and gave birth to a son for Jacob. {{rf{6}}} Then Rachel said, "God has judged me, and has also heard my voice, and has given me a son." Therefore she called his name Dan. {{rf{7}}} And Bilhah, Rachel's servant, conceived again and bore a second son to Jacob. {{rf{8}}} And Rachel said, "I have struggled a mighty struggle with my sister and have prevailed." And she called his name Naphtali. {{rf{9}}} When Leah saw that she had ceased bearing children, she took Zilpah her female servant and gave her to Jacob as a wife. {{rf{10}}} And Zilpah, the female slave of Leah, bore a son to Jacob. {{rf{11}}} Then Leah said, "Good fortune!" And she called his name Gad. {{rf{12}}} And Zilpah, Leah's female servant, bore a second son to Jacob. {{rf{13}}} Then Leah said, "How happy am I! For women have called me happy." So she called his name Asher. {{rf{14}}} And in the days of the wheat harvest, Reuben went and found mandrakes in the field and he brought them to Leah his mother. And Rachel said to Leah, "Please give me some of your son's mandrakes." {{rf{15}}} And she said to her, "Is your taking my husband such a small thing that you will also take the mandrakes of my son?" Then Rachel said, "Then he may sleep with you tonight in exchange for your son's mandrakes." {{rf{16}}} When Jacob came in from the field in the evening, Leah went out to meet him. And she said, "Come in to me, for I have hired you with my son's mandrakes." And he slept with her that night. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Genesis-30-01]] }}}
{{rf{17}}} And God listened to Leah and she conceived and gave birth to a fifth son for Jacob. {{rf{18}}} Then Leah said, "God has given me my wage since I gave my servant girl to my husband." And she called his name Issachar. {{rf{19}}} And Leah conceived again and gave birth to a sixth son for Jacob. {{rf{20}}} And Leah said, "God has endowed me with a good gift. This time my husband will acknowledge me, because I bore him six sons." And she called his name Zebulun. {{rf{21}}} And afterward she gave birth to a daughter. And she called her name Dinah. {{rf{22}}} Then God remembered Rachel and listened to her, and God opened her womb. {{rf{23}}} And she conceived and gave birth to a son. And she said, "God has taken away my disgrace." {{rf{24}}} And she called his name Joseph, saying, "Yahweh has added to me another son."
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{{rf{25}}} And it happened that as soon as Rachel had given birth to Joseph, Jacob said to Laban, "Send me away that I may go to my place and my land. {{rf{26}}} Give me my wives and my children for which I have served you, and let me go. For you yourself know my service that I have rendered to you." {{rf{27}}} But Laban said to him, "Please, if I have found favor in your eyes, I have learned by divination that Yahweh has blessed me because of you." {{rf{28}}} And he said, "Name your wage to me and I will give it." {{rf{29}}} Then he said to him, "You yourself know how I have served you and how your livestock have been with me. {{rf{30}}} For you had little before me, and it has increased abundantly. And Yahweh has blessed you wherever I turned. So then, when shall I provide for my own family also?" {{rf{31}}} And he said, "What shall I give you?" And Jacob said, "Do not give me anything. If you will do this thing for me, I will again feed your flocks and keep them. {{rf{32}}} Let me pass through all your flocks today, removing all the speckled and spotted sheep from them, along with every dark-colored sheep among the sheep, and the spotted and speckled among the goats. That shall be my wages. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Genesis-30-17]] }}}
{{rf{33}}} And my righteousness will answer for me later when you come concerning my wages before you. Every one that is not speckled or spotted among the goats, or dark-colored among the sheep shall be stolen if it is with me." {{rf{34}}} Then Laban said, "Look! Very well. It shall be according to your word." {{rf{35}}} But that day he removed the streaked and spotted male goats and all the speckled and spotted female goats, all that had white on it, and every dark-colored ram, and put them in the charge of his sons. {{rf{36}}} And he put a journey of three days between him and Jacob, and Jacob pastured the remainder of Laban's flock. {{rf{37}}} Then Jacob took fresh branches of poplar, almond, and plane trees and peeled white strips on them, exposing the white which was on the branches. {{rf{38}}} And he set the branches that he had peeled in front of the flocks, in the troughs and in the water containers. And they were in heat when they came to drink. {{rf{39}}} And the flocks mated by the branches, so the flocks bore streaked, speckled, and spotted. {{rf{40}}} And Jacob separated the lambs and turned the faces of the flocks toward the streaked and all the dark-colored in Laban's flocks. And he put his own herds apart, and did not put them with the flocks of Laban. {{rf{41}}} And whenever any of the stronger of the flocks were in heat, Jacob put the branches in full view of the flock in the troughs that they might mate among the branches. {{rf{42}}} But with the more feeble of the flock he would not put them there. So the feebler were Laban's and the stronger were Jacob's. {{rf{43}}} And the man became exceedingly rich and had large flocks, female slaves, male slaves, camels, and donkeys. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Genesis-30-33]] }}}
Now he heard the words of the sons of Laban, saying, "Jacob has taken all that our father has," and "From that which was our father's he has gained all this wealth." {{rf{2}}} Then Jacob saw the face of Laban and, behold, it was not like it had been in the past. {{rf{3}}} And Yahweh said to Jacob, "Return to the land of your ancestors and to your family, and I will be with you." {{rf{4}}} So Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah to the field, to his flocks, {{rf{5}}} and he said to them, "Look, I see the face of your father, that it is not like it has been toward me in the past. But the God of my father is with me. {{rf{6}}} Now you yourselves know that I have served your father with all my strength, {{rf{7}}} and your father has cheated me and changed my wages ten times, but God has not allowed him to harm me. {{rf{8}}} If thus he said, 'Speckled shall be your wage,' then all the flock bore speckled. And if he said, 'Streaked shall be your wage,' then all the flock bore streaked. {{rf{9}}} God has taken away your father's livestock and given them to me. {{rf{10}}} Now it happened that at the time of the mating of the flock I lifted up my eyes and saw in a dream, and behold, the rams mounting the flock were streaked, speckled, and dappled. {{rf{11}}} Then the angel of God said to me in the dream, 'Jacob,' and I said, 'Here I am.' {{rf{12}}} And he said, 'Lift up your eyes and see -- all the rams mounting the flock are streaked, speckled, and dappled, for I have seen all that Laban is doing to you. {{rf{13}}} I am the God of Bethel where you anointed a stone pillar, where you made a vow to me. Now get up, go out from this land and return to the land of your birth.'" {{rf{14}}} Then Rachel and Leah answered and said to him, "Is there yet a portion for us, and an inheritance in the house of our father? {{rf{15}}} Are we not regarded as foreigners by him, because he has sold us and completely consumed our money? {{rf{16}}} For all the wealth that God has taken away from our father, it belongs to us and to our sons. So now, all that God has said to you, do." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Genesis-31-01]] }}}
[[Gen-31-01-chiasmus]]
<<Bbl Gn 31:1 abbr >>ff This passage has elements in common with Gn 26:12ff.
<<Bbl Gn 31:1 abbr>>-3 [[Jacob]] learns God's will through circumstances and God's direct counsel.
<<Bbl Gn 31:32 abbr>> This vow is like one made by Jacob's son in 44:9. Rachel later has an untimely death.
<<Bbl Gn 31:36 abbr >>ff If the idols were discovered, Jacob would be utterly wrong and disqualified from speaking.
<<Bbl Gn 31:42 abbr >> Is //judgment rendered// on Laban's idols?
<<Bbl Gn 31:43 abbr >> "I can't hurt you without hurting my own daughters." So Laban sues for peace.
<<Bbl Gn 32:1 abbr >> Jacob has received God's angels with guidance while with Laban, but now he is back to their numbers, //God's Camp//.
<<Bbl Gn 32:2 abbr >> Jacob has got the hang of recognizing God's presence at this point.
32:18 Jacob is in effect returning the birthright to his brother. But not the blessing!
<<Bbl Gn 32:28 abbr >> <<Bbl J 1:47 >>
<<Bbl Gn 33:17 abbr >> Plausibly Jacob dug a well, the well mentioned in <<Bbl J 4:12 >>. Authorities agree either these are the same location or only a mile separated.
<<Bbl Gn 33:18 abbr >> //Jacob arrived safely// can be rendered //came in peace.//
** A safe arrival is the obvious meaning.
** But note //peace// in 34:5 has no good light, so is this a hint of tragic acquiescence?
** Yet another possibility relates to his injury: J.D. Hertz comments: @@color:brown;Since the word also has the meaning ‘complete, whole’ we have various Midrashic interpretations; such as, recovered from his lameness…@@ (The Pentateuch and Haftorahs, 1965, p. 126.)
{{rf{17}}} Then Jacob got up and put his children and his wives on the camels. {{rf{18}}} And he drove all his livestock and his possessions that he had acquired, the livestock of his possession that he had acquired in Paddan-Aram, in order to go to Isaac his father, to the land of Canaan. {{rf{19}}} Now Laban had gone to shear his sheep, and Rachel stole the idols that belonged to her father. {{rf{20}}} And Jacob tricked Laban the Aramean by not telling him that he intended to flee. {{rf{21}}} Then he fled with all that he had, and arose and crossed the Euphrates and set his face toward the hill country of Gilead. {{rf{22}}} And on the third day it was told to Laban that Jacob had fled. {{rf{23}}} Then he took his kinsmen with him and pursued after him, a seven-day journey, and he caught up with him in the hill country of Gilead. {{rf{24}}} And God came to Laban the Aramean in a dream at night and said to him, "Take care that you not speak with Jacob, whether good or evil." {{rf{25}}} And Laban overtook Jacob. Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the hill country, and Laban and his kinsmen pitched their tents in the hill country of Gilead. {{rf{26}}} Then Laban said to Jacob, "What have you done that you tricked me and have carried off my daughters like captives of the sword? {{rf{27}}} Why did you hide your intention to flee and trick me, and did not tell me so that I would have sent you away with joy and song and tambourine and lyre? {{rf{28}}} And why did you not give me opportunity to kiss my grandsons and my daughters goodbye? Now you have behaved foolishly by doing this. {{rf{29}}} It is in my power to do harm to you, but the God of your father spoke to me last night saying, 'Take care from speaking with Jacob, whether good or evil.' {{rf{30}}} Now, you have surely gone because you desperately longed for the house of your father, but why did you steal my gods?" {{rf{31}}} Then Jacob answered and said to Laban, "Because I was afraid, for I thought, 'Lest you take your daughters from me by force.' {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Genesis-31-17]] }}}
{{rf{32}}} But with whomever you find your gods, he shall not live. In the presence of your kinsmen now identify what is with me that is yours and take it." Now Jacob did not know that Rachel had stolen them. {{rf{33}}} Then Laban went into Jacob's tent and Leah's tent and the tent of the two female servants and did not find his gods. And he came out of Leah's tent and went into Rachel's tent. {{rf{34}}} Now Rachel had taken the idols and put them in the saddle bag of the camel and sat on them. And Jacob searched the whole tent thoroughly but did not find them. {{rf{35}}} And she said to her father, "Let there not be anger in the eyes of my lord, for I am not able to rise before you, for the way of women is with me. And he searched carefully and did not find the idols. {{rf{36}}} Then Jacob became angry and quarreled with Laban. Jacob answered and said to Laban, "What is my offense? What is my sin that you pursued after me? {{rf{37}}} For you have searched all my possessions and what did you find among all the possessions of my household? Set it before my kinsmen and your kinsmen that they may decide between the two of us! {{rf{38}}} These twenty years I was with you; your ewes and your female goats did not miscarry, and the rams of your flocks I did not eat. {{rf{39}}} I brought no mangled carcass to you -- I bore its loss. From my hand you sought it, whether stolen by day or stolen by night. {{rf{40}}} There I was, during the day the heat consumed me, and the cold by night, and my sleep fled from my eyes. {{rf{41}}} These twenty years I have been in your house. I served you fourteen years for your two daughters and six years for your flock, and you have changed my wages ten times. {{rf{42}}} If the God of my father, the God of Abraham and the Fear of Isaac had not been with me, indeed now you would have sent me away empty-handed. God saw my misery and the labor of my hands and rebuked you last night." {{rf{43}}} Then Laban answered and said to Jacob, "The daughters are my daughters and the grandsons are my grandsons, and the flocks are my flocks, and all that you see, it is mine. Now, what can I do for these my daughters today, or for their children whom they have borne? {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Genesis-31-32]] }}}
{{rf{44}}} So now, come, let us make a covenant, you and I, and let it be a witness between me and you." {{rf{45}}} And Jacob took a stone and set it up as a stone pillar. {{rf{46}}} And Jacob said to his kinsmen, "Gather stones." And they took stones and made a pile of stones, and they ate there by the pile of stones. {{rf{47}}} And Laban called it Jegar Sahadutha, but Jacob called it Galeed. {{rf{48}}} Then Laban said, "This pile of stones is a witness between me and you today." Therefore its name is called Galeed, {{rf{49}}} and Mizpah, because he said, "Yahweh watch between me and you when we are out of sight of each other. {{rf{50}}} If you mistreat my daughters, and if you take wives besides my daughters, when there is no man with us, see -- God is a witness between me and you." {{rf{51}}} And Laban said to Jacob, "See, this pile of stones, and see the pillar that I have set up between me and you. {{rf{52}}} This pile of stones is a witness, and the pillar is a witness, that I will not pass beyond this pile of stones to you, and that you will not pass beyond this pile of stones and this pillar to me intending harm. {{rf{53}}} May the God of Abraham and the God of Nahor, the God of their father judge between us." Then Jacob swore by the Fear of his father Isaac. {{rf{54}}} And Jacob sacrificed a sacrifice on the hill, and he called his kinsmen to eat the meal. And they ate the meal and spent the night on the hill. {{rf{55}}} And Laban arose early in the morning and kissed his grandsons and his daughters, and blessed them. Then Laban departed and returned to his homeland. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Genesis-31-44]] }}}
And Jacob went on his way, and angels of God met him. {{rf{2}}} And when he saw them, Jacob said, "This is the camp of God!" And he called the name of that place Mahanaim. {{rf{3}}} Then Jacob sent messengers before him to Esau his brother, to the land of Seir, the territory of Edom. {{rf{4}}} And he instructed them, saying, "Thus you must say to my lord, to Esau, 'Thus says your servant Jacob, I have dwelled as an alien with Laban, and I have remained there until now. {{rf{5}}} And I have acquired cattle, male donkeys, flocks, and male and female slaves, and I have sent to tell my lord, to find favor in your eyes.'" {{rf{6}}} And the messengers returned to Jacob and said, "We came to your brother, to Esau, and he is coming to meet you, and four hundred men are with him." {{rf{7}}} Then Jacob was very frightened and distressed. So he divided the people, flocks, cattle, and camels that were with him into two companies. {{rf{8}}} And he thought, "If Esau comes to one company and destroys it, the remaining company will be able to escape."
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{{rf{9}}} Then Jacob said, "O God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, O Yahweh, who said to me, 'Return to your land and to your family, and I will deal well with you.' {{rf{10}}} I am not worthy of all the loyal love and all the faithfulness that you have shown your servant, for with only my staff I crossed this Jordan, and now I have become two camps. {{rf{11}}} Please rescue me from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau, for I fear him, lest he come and attack mother and children alike. {{rf{12}}} Now you yourself said, 'I will surely deal well with you and make your offspring as the sand of the sea that cannot be counted for abundance.'"
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{{rf{13}}} And he lodged there that night. Then he took from what he had with him a gift for Esau his brother: {{rf{14}}} two hundred female goats, twenty male goats, two hundred ewes, twenty rams, {{rf{15}}} thirty milk camels with their young, forty cows, ten bulls, twenty female donkeys, and ten male donkeys. {{rf{16}}} And he put them under the hand of his servants, herd by herd, and said to his servants, "Cross on ahead before me, and put some distance between herds. {{rf{17}}} And he instructed the foremost, saying, "When Esau my brother comes upon you and asks you, saying, 'Whose are you and where are you going? To whom do these animals belong ahead of you?' {{rf{18}}} Then you must say, 'To your servant, to Jacob. It is a gift sent to my lord, to Esau. Now behold, he is also coming after us.'" {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Genesis-32-01]] }}}
{{rf{19}}} And he also instructed the second servant and the third, and everyone else who was behind the herds, saying, "You must speak to Esau according to this word when you find him. {{rf{20}}} And moreover, you shall say, 'Look, your servant Jacob is behind us.'" For he thought, "Let me appease him with the gift going before me, and afterward I will see his face. Perhaps he will show me favor."
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{{rf{21}}} So the gift passed on before him, but he himself spent that night in the camp. {{rf{22}}} That night he arose and took his two wives, his two female servants, and his eleven children and crossed the ford of the Jabbok. {{rf{23}}} And he took them and sent them across the stream. Then he sent across all his possessions. {{rf{24}}} And Jacob remained alone, and a man wrestled with him until the breaking of the dawn. {{rf{25}}} And when he saw that he could not prevail against him, he struck his hip socket, so that Jacob's hip socket was sprained as he wrestled with him. {{rf{26}}} Then he said, "Let me go, for dawn is breaking." But he answered, "I will not let you go unless you bless me." {{rf{27}}} Then he said to him, "What is your name?" And he said, "Jacob." {{rf{28}}} And he said, "Your name shall no longer be called Jacob, but Israel, for you have struggled with God and with men and have prevailed." {{rf{29}}} Then Jacob asked and said, "Please tell me your name." And he said, "Why do you ask this -- for my name?" And he blessed him there. {{rf{30}}} Then Jacob called the name of the place Peniel which means "I have seen God face to face and my life was spared." {{rf{31}}} Then the sun rose upon him as he passed Penuel, and he was limping because of his hip. {{rf{32}}} Therefore the Israelites do not eat the sinew of the sciatic nerve that is upon the socket of the hip unto this day, because he struck the socket of the thigh of Jacob at the sinew of the sciatic nerve. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Genesis-32-19]] }}}
And Jacob lifted up his eyes and looked. And behold, Esau was coming and four hundred men were with him. And he divided the children among Leah and among Rachel, and among the two of his female servants. {{rf{2}}} And he put the female slaves and their children first, then Leah and her children next, then Rachel with Joseph last. {{rf{3}}} And he himself passed on before them and bowed down to the ground seven times until he came to his brother. {{rf{4}}} But Esau ran to meet him, and embraced him, and fell upon his neck and kissed him, and they wept. {{rf{5}}} Then Esau lifted up his eyes and saw the women and the children and said, "Who are these with you?" And he said, "The children whom God has graciously given your servant." {{rf{6}}} Then the female servants drew near, they and their children, and they bowed down. {{rf{7}}} Then Leah and her children drew near and bowed down, and afterward Joseph and Rachel drew near and they bowed down. {{rf{8}}} And he said, "What do you mean by all this company that I have met?" Then he said, "To find favor in the eyes of my lord." {{rf{9}}} Then Esau said, "I have enough my brother; keep what you have." {{rf{10}}} And Jacob said, "No, please, if I have found favor in your eyes, you must take my gift from my hand, for then I have seen your face which is like seeing the face of God, and you have received me. {{rf{11}}} Please take my gift which has been brought to you, for God has dealt graciously with me, and because I have enough." And he urged him, so he took it. {{rf{12}}} Then he said, "Let us journey and go on, and I will go ahead of you." {{rf{13}}} But he said to him, "My lord knows that the children are frail, and the flocks and the cattle which are nursing are a concern to me. Now if they drove them hard for a day all the flocks would die. {{rf{14}}} Let my lord pass on before his servant and I will move along slowly at the pace of the livestock that are ahead of me, and at the pace of the children until I come to my lord in Seir." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Genesis-33-01]] }}}
{{rf{15}}} And Esau said, "Let me leave some of my people with you." But he said, "What need is there? Let me find favor in the eyes of my lord." {{rf{16}}} So Esau turned that day on his way to Seir. {{rf{17}}} But Jacob traveled on to Succoth, and he built for himself a house, and he made shelters for his livestock. Therefore he called the name of the place Succoth.
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{{rf{18}}} And Jacob came safely to the city of Shechem which is in the land of Canaan, on his way from Paddan-Aram. And he camped before the city. {{rf{19}}} And he bought a piece of land where he pitched his tent for one hundred pieces of money from the hand of the sons of Hamor, father of Shechem. {{rf{20}}} And there he erected an altar and called it "El Elohe Israel." {{rf big{1}}} Now Dinah the daughter of Leah, whom she had borne to Jacob, went out to see the daughters of the land. {{rf{2}}} And Shechem, the son of Hamor the Hivite, the prince of the land, saw her. And he took her and lay with her and raped her. {{rf{3}}} And his soul clung to Dinah, the daughter of Jacob, and he loved the girl and spoke tenderly to the girl. {{rf{4}}} So Shechem said to Hamor his father, saying, "Get this girl for me as a wife." {{rf{5}}} And Jacob heard that Dinah his daughter had been defiled, but his sons were with his flocks in the field. And Jacob kept silent until they came. {{rf{6}}} And Hamor, father of Shechem, went out to Jacob to speak with him. {{rf{7}}} And the sons of Jacob came in from the field when they heard it. And the men were distressed and very angry because he had done a disgraceful thing in Israel by having sexual relations with the daughter of Jacob -- something that should not be done. {{rf{8}}} And Hamor spoke with them saying, "Shechem my son is in love with your daughter. Please give her to him for a wife. {{rf{9}}} Make marriages with us. Give us your daughters and take our daughters for yourselves. {{rf{10}}} You shall dwell with us and the land shall be before you; settle and trade in it, and acquire property in it." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Genesis-33-15]] }}}
<<Bbl Gn 33:18 abbr >> //Jacob arrived safely// can be rendered //came in peace.//
** A safe arrival is the obvious meaning.
** But note //peace// in 34:5 has no good light, so is this a hint of tragic acquiescence?
** Yet another possibility relates to his injury: J.D. Hertz comments: @@color:brown;Since the word also has the meaning ‘complete, whole’ we have various Midrashic interpretations; such as, recovered from his lameness…@@ (The Pentateuch and Haftorahs, 1965, p. 126.)
<<Bbl Gn 33:18 abbr >> Jacob purchases land! Kidner repudiates this as utter disobedience:
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Shechem offered Jacob the attractions of a compromise. His summons was to Beth-el; but Shechem, about a day's journey short of it, stood attractively at the crossroads of trade. He was called to be a stranger and pilgrim; but while buying his own plot of land there he could argue that it was within his promised borders. It was disobedience nonetheless, and his pious act of rearing an altar and claiming his new name of Israel could not disguise the fact.
Chapter 34 shows the cost of it, paid in rape, treachery and massacre, a chain of evil that proceeded naturally enough from the unequal partnership with the Canaanaite community. There would still be echoes of it in the days of the Judges (<<Bbl Jud 9:28>>). Its very fierceness, as it turned out, saved Jacob, in his mood of appeasement (5,30), from re-enacting the story of Lot; only fear for his life opened his ears again to God's call to Beth-el.
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** Hertz (p 126) comes to a different but unsatisfying verdict.
//__Role__// becomes important and is subtly seen in how people are referred to:
** As Jacob becomes passive, his name is omitted from v. 11. But this is the point when Shechem's family is becoming relational; //his soul clung to Dinah, the daughter of Jacob.//
** Dinah is a //sister//, but in negotiations the sons present her as as //our daughter// which is a measure of Jacob's abdication.
<<Bbl Gn 34:1 abbr >>-3 She //went out to see the daughters of the land// - @@color:brown;without this, there would be no story.@@ Dinah made herself vulnerable; the occasion was made.
34:3 Shechem's commitment is a converse with Amnon and Tamar <<Bbl 2S 13:13 >>-14. His tenderness stands in contrast with the treachery to follow. @@color:brown;Without Shechem's love, there would be no story.@@ Presumably vengeance would have followed, but not a city-wide ambush.
34:11 Shechem and his father make no expression of regret. Neither are they enjoined to do so.
34:13ff @@color:indigo;The honor of their family consisted in having the sign of the covenant. Circumcision was the external rite by which persons were admitted members of the ancient Church. But that outward rite could not make the Shechemites true Israelites; and yet it does not appear that Jacob's sons required anything more. Nothing is said of their teaching the people to worship the true God, but only of their insisting on their being circumcised; and it is evident that they did not seek to convert Shechem, but only made a show of religion - a cloak to cover their diabolical design. Hypocrisy and deceit, in all cases vicious, are infinitely more so when accompanied with a show of religion; and here the sons of Jacob, under the pretense of conscientious scruples, conceal a scheme of treachery as cruel and diabolical as was, perhaps, ever perpetrated.@@ // - R. Jamieson in Jamieson, Fausset and Brown.//
** The sons of Israel do not require Dinah be returned to them.
*** This might muddy the waters, morally, for their plan; they want a polarized situation and a culpable enemy.
*** Shechem //spoke tenderly to her//, so we could gather she considers herself a form of a bride. Plausibly she loves Shechem.
** The sons of Israel explain the cost of allegiance, but not the life that is in God. It is a workable picture of false religion, abuse through religion (especially given the outcome). They are quite like the Pharisees.
** There is no covenant meal, as for the Gibeonites. For there is no covenant at the heart of it.
<<Bbl Gn 34:30 abbr >> Jacob's methods are diplomacy and deception. His sons have used deception without diplomacy. They have destroyed the margins of safety. It is yet another betrayal by his close kin. It is perhaps a permanent mar on all the relationships, though he reserves affection for and confidence in the sons of Rachel.
34:31 The question for which Jacob has no answer. But God gives an answer in the verse that follows - a call to consecration, which Jacob significantly takes as a prompt to rid the family of idols.
{{rf{11}}} Then Shechem said to her father and to her brothers, "Let me find favor in your eyes, and whatever you say to me I will do. {{rf{12}}} Make the bride price and gift as high as you like; I will give what you say to me. But give me the girl as a wife." {{rf{13}}} Then the sons of Jacob answered Shechem and his father Hamor speaking deceitfully, because he had defiled Dinah their sister. {{rf{14}}} And they said to them, "We cannot do this thing, to give our sister to a man who is uncircumcised, for that is a disgrace for us. {{rf{15}}} Only on this condition will we give consent to you; if you will become like us -- every male among you to be circumcised. {{rf{16}}} Then we will give our daughters to you, and we will take for ourselves your daughters, and we will live with you and become one family. {{rf{17}}} But if you will not listen to us, to be circumcised, then we will take our daughters and we will go." {{rf{18}}} And their words were good in the eyes of Hamor and in the eyes of Shechem, the son of Hamor. {{rf{19}}} And the young man did not delay to do the thing, for he wanted the daughter of Jacob. Now he was the most honored of his father's house. {{rf{20}}} Then Hamor and his son Shechem came to the gate of their city, and they spoke to the men of their city, saying, {{rf{21}}} "These men are at peace with us. Let them dwell in the land and let them trade in it. Now, behold, the land is broad enough for them. Let us take their daughters as wives, and let us give our daughters to them. {{rf{22}}} Only on this condition will they give consent to us, to live with us and to become one family -- when every male among us is circumcised as they are circumcised. {{rf{23}}} Will not their livestock and their property and all their animals be ours? Only let us give consent to them so they will live among us." {{rf{24}}} And all those who went out of the gate of his city listened to Hamor and Shechem. Every male was circumcised, all those who went out of the gate of his city. {{rf{25}}} And it happened that on the third day, while they were in pain, two of the sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, the brothers of Dinah, each took his sword and came against the unsuspecting city and killed all the males. {{rf{26}}} They killed Hamor and his son Shechem with the edge of the sword, and they took Dinah from the house of Shechem and went out. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Genesis-34-11]] }}}
{{rf{27}}} The other sons of Jacob came upon the slain and plundered the city, because they had defiled their sister. {{rf{28}}} They took their flocks and their cattle and their donkeys, and whatever was in the field. {{rf{29}}} They captured and plundered all that was in the houses -- all their wealth, their little ones, and their women. {{rf{30}}} Then Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, "You have brought trouble on me, making me stink among the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites! I am few in number! If they gather against me and attack me, I will be destroyed -- I and my household!" {{rf{31}}} But they said, "Shall he treat our sister like a prostitute?" {{rf big{1}}} And God said to Jacob, "Arise, go up to Bethel and dwell there, and make an altar to the God who appeared to you when you fled from before Esau your brother." {{rf{2}}} Then Jacob said to his household and to all who were with him, "Get rid of the foreign gods that are in your midst and purify yourselves and change your garments. {{rf{3}}} Then let us make ready and let us go up to Bethel, so that I can make an altar there to the God who answered me in the day of my trouble, and who has been with me on the way that I have gone." {{rf{4}}} So they gave to Jacob all the foreign gods that were in their hands, and the ornamental rings that were in their ears. And Jacob buried them under the oak which was near Shechem. {{rf{5}}} Then they set out on their journey, and the terror of God was upon the cities that were all around them, so that they did not pursue after the sons of Jacob. {{rf{6}}} And Jacob came to Luz which was in the land of Canaan (that is Bethel), he and all the people that were with him. {{rf{7}}} And he built an altar there and called the place El-Bethel, for there God had appeared to him when he fled before his brother. {{rf{8}}} And Deborah, the nurse of Rebekah, died. And she was buried below Bethel, under the oak. And its name was called Allon-Bacuth. {{rf{9}}} And God appeared to Jacob again when he came from Paddan-Aram, and he blessed him. {{rf{10}}} And God said to him, "Your name is Jacob. Your name shall no longer be called Jacob, but Israel shall be your name." Then his name was called Israel. {{rf{11}}} And God said to him, "I am El-Shaddai. Be fruitful and multiply. A nation and an assemblage of nations shall be from you, and kings shall go out from your loins. {{rf{12}}} And as for the land that I gave to Abraham and to Isaac, I will give it to you. And to your descendants after you I will give the land. {{rf{13}}} And God went up from him at the place where he spoke with him. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Genesis-34-27]] }}}
<<Bbl Gn 35:1 abbr>> God repeats His gracious command and Jacob is ready to obey.
35:2-4 One of the very few passages in Genesis refering to idols (and again in Jacob's camp). Many of these idols would have been fresh from the plunder of Hamor, but some from Laban's trove. Jacob's neglect leading to this point is clearly implied. Idolatry is adultery; Simeon and Levi's brutality under cover of the covenant is faithless; the question of <<Bbl Gn 34:31 abbr>> is still hanging in the air.
<<Bbl Gn 35:5 abbr>> The fearful anguish of Jacob in <<Bbl Gn 34:30 abbr>> is answered by God's express protection. The family is being evacuated.
<<Bbl Gn 35:22 abbr>> The sequel is given in <<Bbl Gn 49:4 abbr>>.
<<Bbl Gn 37:1 abbr >> The contrast in verbs seems to be the point.
<<Bbl Gn 37:1 abbr >>-24 Many themes of Messiah, pictures of Christ.
<<Bbl Gn 37:2 abbr >> Judah is the titular head of this narrative epoch.
37:3 Since the reason for love is being //the son of his old age//, why isn't Benjamin the most loved? Of course they are both born late, and Joseph is the first-born from the beloved wife. But Benjamin's birth deprived Jacob of that wife. Was he rejected by Jacob? Was Joseph was saddened by this treatment, making his grand treatment of Benjamin an act of restitution?
37:11 Like Mary. How much time between the dreams and Joseph's exile? Did Judah's pondering continued through the years of grief that followed? Did he wonder if the dreams were from God and therefore must be consummated? That would be a call to faith like Abraham showed in offering the life of Isaac.
<<Bbl Gn 37:13 abbr >> Verse 2 explains a precedent for this which foreshadows the malice ahead.
37:14 Piquantly, it is in Shechem that Joseph's bones come to rest some centuries later.
37:17-18 The brothers' move to Dothan will already become the basis for a bad report to Jacob.
{{rf{14}}} And Jacob set up a pillar at the place where God had spoken with him, a pillar of stone. And he poured out a drink offering upon it, and poured oil on it. {{rf{15}}} And Jacob called the name of the place where God had spoken with him Bethel. {{rf{16}}} Then they journeyed from Bethel. And when they were still some distance from Ephrath, Rachel went into labor. And she had hard labor. {{rf{17}}} And when her labor was the most difficult the midwife said to her, "Do not be afraid for you have another son." {{rf{18}}} And it happened that when her life was departing (for she was dying), she called his name Ben-Oni. But his father called him Benjamin. {{rf{19}}} And Rachel died and she was buried on the way to Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem). {{rf{20}}} And Jacob erected a pillar at her burial site. That is the pillar of the burial site of Rachel unto this day. {{rf{21}}} And Israel journeyed on and pitched his tent beyond the tower of Eder. {{rf{22}}} And while Israel was living in that land Reuben went and had sexual relations with Bilhah, his father's concubine. And Israel heard about it. {{rf{23}}} The sons of Leah: The firstborn of Jacob was Reuben. Then Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun. {{rf{24}}} The sons of Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin. {{rf{25}}} The sons of Bilhah, the female servant of Rachel: Dan and Naphtali. {{rf{26}}} The sons of Zilpah, the female servant of Leah: Gad and Asher. These were the sons of Jacob who were born to him in Paddan-Aram. {{rf{27}}} And Jacob came to Isaac his father at Mamre, or Kiriath-Arba (that is, Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac dwelled as aliens. {{rf{28}}} Now the days of Isaac were one hundred and eighty years. {{rf{29}}} And Isaac passed away and died, and was gathered to his people, old and full of days. And his sons Esau and Jacob buried him. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Genesis-35-14]] }}}
Now these are the descendants of Esau (that is, Edom). {{rf{2}}} Esau took his wives from the daughters of Canaan: Adah, daughter of Elon, the Hittite, and Oholibamah, daughter of Anah, the daughter of Zibeon, the Hivite, {{rf{3}}} and Basemath, the daughter of Ishmael, the sister of Nebaioth. {{rf{4}}} And Adah bore to Esau Eliphaz; and Basemath bore Reuel; {{rf{5}}} and Oholibamah bore Jeush and Jalam, and Korah. These are the sons of Esau who were born to him in the land of Canaan. {{rf{6}}} And Esau took his wives and his sons and his daughters, and all the persons of his household, and his sheep and goats, and all his cattle, and all the goods that he had acquired in the land of Canaan, and went to a land away from his brother Jacob. {{rf{7}}} For their possessions were too many to live together, so that the land of their sojourning was not able to support them on account of their livestock. {{rf{8}}} So Esau dwelled in the hill country of Seir (Esau, that is Edom). {{rf{9}}} Now these are the descendants of Esau, the father of Edom, in the hill country of Seir. {{rf{10}}} These are the names of the sons of Esau: Eliphaz, the son of Adah, the wife of Esau; Reuel, the son of Basemath, the wife of Esau. {{rf{11}}} The sons of Eliphaz were Teman, Omar, Zepho, Gatam, and Kenaz. {{rf{12}}} (Now Timnah was the concubine of Eliphaz, the son of Esau. And she bore Amalek to Eliphaz.) These are the sons of Adah, the wife of Esau. {{rf{13}}} Now these are the sons of Reuel: Nahath, Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah. These are the sons of Basemath, the wife of Esau. {{rf{14}}} Now these are the sons of Oholibamah, the daughter of Anah, daughter of Zibeon, the wife of Esau: She bore to Esau Jeush, Jalam, and Korah. {{rf{15}}} These are the chiefs of the sons of Esau. The sons of Eliphaz, the firstborn of Esau: the chiefs of Teman, Omar, Zepho, Kenaz, {{rf{16}}} Korah, Gatam, and Amalek. These are the chiefs of Eliphaz in the land of Edom. These are the sons of Adah. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Genesis-36-01]] }}}
{{rf{17}}} Now these are the sons Reuel, the son of Esau: the chiefs Nahath, Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah. These are the chiefs of Reuel in the land of Edom. These are the sons of Basemath, the wife of Esau. {{rf{18}}} Now these are the sons of Oholibamah, the wife of Esau: the chiefs Jeush, Jalam, and Korah. These are the chiefs born of Oholibamah, the daughter of Anah, the wife of Esau. {{rf{19}}} These are the sons of Esau, and these are their chiefs (that is, Edom). {{rf{20}}} These are the sons of Seir, the Horite, the inhabitants of the land: Lotan, Shobal, Zibeon, Anah, {{rf{21}}} Dishon, Ezer, and Dishan. These are the chiefs of the Horites, the sons of Seir in the land of Edom. {{rf{22}}} And the sons of Lotan were Hori and Hemam. And Lotan's sister was Timna. {{rf{23}}} Now these are the sons of Shobal: Alvan, Manahath, Ebal, Shepho, and Onam. {{rf{24}}} Now these are the sons of Zibeon: Aiah and Anah -- he is Anah who found the hot springs in the desert while he pastured the donkeys of Zibeon his father. {{rf{25}}} Now these are the sons of Anah: Dishon and Oholibamah, the daughter of Anah. {{rf{26}}} Now these are the sons of Dishon: Hemdan, Eshban, Ithran, and Keran. {{rf{27}}} These are the sons of Ezer: Bilhan, Zaavan, and Akan. {{rf{28}}} These are the sons of Dishan: Uz and Aran. {{rf{29}}} These are the chiefs of the Horites: the chiefs Lotan, Shobal, Zibeon, Anah, {{rf{30}}} Dishon, Ezer, and Dishan. These are the chiefs of the Horites, according to their chiefs in the land of Seir. {{rf{31}}} Now these are the kings who reigned in the land of Edom before any king ruled over the Israelites. {{rf{32}}} Bela the son of Beor reigned in Edom. And the name of his city was Dinhabah. {{rf{33}}} And Bela died, and Jobab, the son of Zerah from Bozrah, reigned in his place. {{rf{34}}} And Jobab died, and Husham from the land of the Temanites reigned in his place. {{rf{35}}} And Husham died, and Hadad, son of Bedad, who defeated Midian in the field of Moab reigned in his place. And the name of his city was Avith. {{rf{36}}} And Hadad died, and Samlah from Masrekah reigned in his place. {{rf{37}}} And Samlah died, and Shaul from Rehoboth on the Euphrates reigned in his place. {{rf{38}}} And Shaul died, and Baal-Hanan, the son of Acbor, reigned in his place. {{rf{39}}} And Baal-Hanan the son of Acbor died, and Hadar reigned in his place. And the name of his city was Pau, and the name of his wife was Mehetabel, the daughter of Matred, daughter of Mezahab. {{rf{40}}} Now these are the names of the chiefs of Esau according to their families, according to their dwelling places, by their names: the chiefs Timna, Alvah, Jetheth, {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Genesis-36-17]] }}}
{{rf{41}}} Oholibamah, Elah, Pinon, {{rf{42}}} Kenaz, Teman, Mibzar, {{rf{43}}} Magdiel, and Iram. These are the chiefs of Edom (that is, Esau, the father of Edom) according to their settlements in the land of their possession. {{rf big{1}}} And Jacob settled in the land of the sojourning of his father, in the land of Canaan.
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{{rf{2}}} These are the generations of Jacob. Joseph, being seventeen years old, was shepherding the flock with his brothers. Now he was a helper with the sons of Bilhah and the sons of Zilpah, the wives of his father. And Joseph brought a bad report of them to his father. {{rf{3}}} Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his sons, for he was a son of his old age. And he made a robe with long sleeves for him. {{rf{4}}} When his brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, they hated him and were not able to speak peaceably to him. {{rf{5}}} And Joseph dreamed a dream, and he told it to his brothers. And they hated him even more. {{rf{6}}} And he said to them, "Listen now to this dream that I dreamed. {{rf{7}}} Now behold, we were binding sheaves in the midst of the field and, behold, my sheaf stood up and it remained standing. Then behold, your sheaves gathered around and bowed down to my sheaf." {{rf{8}}} Then his brothers said to him, "Will you really rule over us?" And they hated him even more on account of his dream and because of his words. {{rf{9}}} Then he dreamed yet another dream and told it to his brothers. And he said, "Behold, I dreamed a dream again, and behold, the sun and the moon and eleven stars were bowing down to me." {{rf{10}}} And he told it to his father and to his brothers. And his father rebuked him and said to him, "What is this dream that you have dreamed? Will I and your mother and your brothers indeed come to bow down to the ground to you?" {{rf{11}}} And his brothers were jealous of him, but his father kept the matter in mind. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Genesis-36-41]] }}}
{{rf{12}}} Now his brothers went to pasture the flock of their father in Shechem. {{rf{13}}} And Israel said to Joseph, "Are not your brothers pasturing in Shechem? Come, let me send you to them." And he said, "Here I am." {{rf{14}}} Then he said to him, "Go now, see if it goes well for your brothers and for the flock, then return word to me." And he sent him from the valley of Hebron, and he arrived at Shechem. {{rf{15}}} And a man found him, and behold, he was wandering about in a field. And the man asked him, "What do you seek?" {{rf{16}}} And he said, "I am seeking my brothers. Tell me, please, where they are pasturing." {{rf{17}}} And the man said, "They have moved on from here, for I heard them saying, 'Let us go to Dothan.'" Then Joseph went after his brothers and found them in Dothan. {{rf{18}}} And they saw him from a distance. And before he drew near to them, they conspired against him to kill him. {{rf{19}}} And each said to his brothers, "Look, this master of dreams is coming. {{rf{20}}} Now then, come, let us kill him and throw him in one of the pits. Then we will say a wild animal devoured him. Then we will see what his dreams become." {{rf{21}}} And Reuben heard it and delivered him from their hand and said, "We must not take his life." {{rf{22}}} And Reuben said to them, "You must not shed blood. Throw him into this pit that is in the desert, but do not lay a hand on him" -- so that he might rescue him from their hand to return him to his father. {{rf{23}}} And it happened that as Joseph came to his brothers they stripped Joseph of his robe, the robe with long sleeves, that was upon him. {{rf{24}}} And they took him and threw him into the pit (the pit was empty; there was no water in it). {{rf{25}}} Then they sat down to eat some food. And they lifted up their eyes and looked, and behold, a caravan of Ishmaelites was coming from Gilead. And their camels were carrying aromatic gum and balm and spices on the way to Egypt. {{rf{26}}} Then Judah said to his brothers, "What profit is there if we kill our brother and conceal his blood? {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Genesis-37-12]] }}}
{{rf{27}}} Come, let us sell him to the Ishmaelites, but our hand shall not be against him, for he is our brother, our own flesh." And his brothers agreed. {{rf{28}}} Then Midianite traders passed by. And they drew Joseph up and brought him up from the pit, and they sold Joseph to the Ishmaelites for twenty pieces of silver. And they brought Joseph to Egypt. {{rf{29}}} Then Reuben returned to the pit and, behold, Joseph was not in the pit. And he tore his clothes. {{rf{30}}} And he returned to his brothers and said, "The boy is gone! Now I, what can I do?" {{rf{31}}} Then they took the robe of Joseph and slaughtered a goat, and dipped the robe in the blood. {{rf{32}}} Then they sent the robe with long sleeves and they brought it to their father and said, "We found this; please examine it. Is it the robe of your son or not?" {{rf{33}}} And he recognized it and said, "The robe of my son! A wild animal has devoured him! Joseph is surely torn to pieces!" {{rf{34}}} And Jacob tore his clothes and put sackcloth on his loins and mourned for his son many days. {{rf{35}}} And all his sons and daughters tried to console him, but he refused to be consoled. And he said, "No, I shall go down to my son, to Sheol, mourning." And his father wept for him. {{rf{36}}} And the Midianites sold him in Egypt to Potiphar, a court official of Pharaoh, a commander of the imperial guard. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Genesis-37-27]] }}}
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<<Bbl Gn 37:2 abbr>> makes [[Judah]] the titular head of this section of narrative.
!! The line of Messiah (as prophesied by Jacob)
''Judah and his progeny make a darkly entertaining tale.''
* The sons must have been born before Joseph was sold into slavery, for the mass migration from Canaan is only fourteen years later and Judah's youngest was old enough to marry before that.
* The generation directly from Judah is lost (though Shelah did have sons). In contrast, Joseph's sons are elevated to level of the twelve Fathers.
* Yet the lineage is preserved. There is a contrast here too with Joseph, for his
!! The contrast with Joseph.
The chapter offers a comprehensive foil for the surrounding narrative about [[Joseph]]. ''The result is a study in good and bad character.''
* While fumbling away his sons, Judah fumbles away his [[Seal]]. So like Esau - humiliated by his own [[Complacency]]! At the same time, Joseph is being entrusted with a signet.
* The narrative doesn't directly censure Judah's use of a prostitute, but it does present the stark contrast of Joseph's refusal to fall into bed with another's wife.
** This includes Joseph's denunciation of sexual sin.
** Tim Keller (endnote in __Marriage__) dismantles the idea that Judah's conduct is found to be excusable.
* Joseph's sons end up being elevated as full patriarchs, but Judah's progeny is an achievement of God's providence overcoming selfishness, complacency, bad company and bad parenting.
* Judah's carnality seems to refer back to Esau. The reader knows additionally that the line of Messiah is at stake! }}}
And it happened that at that time Judah went down from his brothers and pitched his tent near a certain Adullamite, whose name was Hirah. {{rf{2}}} And Judah saw the daughter of a certain Canaanite there whose name was Shua. And he took her and went in to her. {{rf{3}}} And she conceived and bore a son, and he called his name Er. {{rf{4}}} And she conceived again and bore a son, and he called his name Onan. {{rf{5}}} And once again she bore a son, and she called his name Shelah. And he was in Chezib when she bore him. {{rf{6}}} And Judah took a wife for Er his firstborn, and her name was Tamar. {{rf{7}}} And Er, the firstborn of Judah, was evil in the eyes of Yahweh, and Yahweh killed him. {{rf{8}}} Then Judah said to Onan, "Go in to the wife of your brother and perform the duty of a brother-in-law to her, and raise up offspring for your brother." {{rf{9}}} But Onan knew that the offspring would not be for him, so whenever he went in to the wife of his brother he would waste it on the ground so as not to give offspring to his brother. {{rf{10}}} And what he did was evil in the sight of Yahweh, so he killed him also. {{rf{11}}} Then Judah said to Tamar, his daughter-in-law, "Stay a widow in your father's house until Shelah my son grows up," for he feared he would also die like his brother. So Tamar went and stayed in the house of her father. {{rf{12}}} And in the course of time the daughter of Shua, the wife of Judah, died. When Judah was consoled he went up to his sheepshearers, he and his friend Hirah the Adullamite, to Timnah. {{rf{13}}} And it was told to Tamar, saying, "Look, your father-in-law is going up to Timnah to shear his sheep." {{rf{14}}} So she removed the clothes of her widowhood and covered herself with the veil and disguised herself. And she sat at the entrance to Eynayim, which is on the way to Timnah, for she saw that Shelah was grown but she had not been given to him as a wife. {{rf{15}}} And Judah saw her and reckoned her to be a prostitute, for she had covered her face. {{rf{16}}} And he turned aside to her at the roadside and said, "Please come, let me come in to you," for he did not know that she was his daughter-in-law. And she said, "What will you give to me that you may come in to me?" {{rf{17}}} And he said, "I will send a kid from the goats of the flock." And she said, "Only if you give a pledge until you send it." {{rf{18}}} And he said, "What is the pledge that I must give to you?" And she said, "your seal, your cord, and your staff that is in your hand." And he gave them to her and went in to her. And she conceived by him. {{rf{19}}} And she arose and left, and she removed her veil from herself and put on the garments of her widowhood. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Genesis-38-01]] }}}
[[Genesis-38-00-note]]
<<Bbl Gn 38:1 abbr >> Hirah is a large and revolting figure, vss 12 and 21. He is Judah's hunting buddy, his home boy, his support in debauchery.
<<Bbl Gn 38:2 abbr >> Judah is committed to his wife, vs. 12; but the relationship has a decidedly casual start.
Allen Browne: Judah marries a Canaanite (38:2). Be shocked! Jacob was commanded, Do not marry a Canaanite (28:6). Esau realized how displeasing the Canaanite women were to his father Isaac (28:8). Abraham made his servant swear that you will not get a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites (24:3). Judah’s tribe is compromised from the start.
<<Bbl Gn 38:2 abbr >> We know not if the third son is wicked. But we can easily presume he was, from Judah's apprehension that he will share the fate of his brothers.
<<Bbl Gn 38:6 abbr >> About Tamar, we know very little; her name makes her presumably a Hebrew.
<<Bbl Gn 38:7 abbr >> God strikes down a wicked man, individually. A first.
<<Bbl Gn 38:9 abbr >> Onan commits theft and betrayal.
<<Bbl Gn 38:14 abbr >> We see the root of Onan's sinful approach is in the character of Judah.
<<Bbl Gn 38:18 abbr >> What a transaction - Judah's ID for an hour or two of sex. [[Judah]] resembles Esau; yet in blessing him at the close of life (<<Bbl Gn 49:10 abbr >>), Jacob guarantees the staff (representing his seed) will not again be misplaced.
<<Bbl Gn 38:19 abbr >> If Judah is like Esau, Tamar is like Jacob. The narrative at this point emphasizes her craft and duplicity. And so often the clothes of a whore are indeed the clothes of an abused and mourning woman, as a widow.
<<Bbl Gn 38:23 abbr >> Judah must choose between two risks, and he makes the wrong decision. But Tamar was prepared for any eventually, I expect.
<<Bbl Gn 38:24 abbr >> How does the community learn about Tamar's supposed sin? The report is dire and precise, and it must almost have been Tamar who instigated it. As a forlorn wife, she can plausibly represent herself as a desperate sexual renegade. Judah is Tamar's putative (?) husband; it is his to mete out the judgment. The convenience is inescapable; he can be rid of this obligation, and let his sons look perhaps less bad in light of her badness.
<<Bbl Gn 38:25 abbr >> //Judah acknowledged them.// Most likely by the time he even saw them, his identity was exposed by their being carried out publicly. It's the equivalent of a DNA test. At this point Judah does the first right thing: he makes a statement to vindicate Tamar. Having judged her as whore, he says //she is more righteous than I.// The second right thing follows: He //does not go into her again.// Judah is covered with shame, at root because none of his sons could handle a wife (nor he on their behalf). And these are the heirs of Abraham's promise. His final and deepest abasement, however, will not come until <<Bbl Gn 42:20 abbr >>.
{{rf{20}}} And Judah sent the kid from the goats by the hand of his friend the Adullamite to take back the pledge from the hand of the woman, but he could not find her. {{rf{21}}} So he asked the men of her place, saying, "Where is that cult prostitute that was at Eynayim by the roadside?" And they said, "There is no cult prostitute here." {{rf{22}}} Then he returned to Judah and said, "I could not find her. Morever, the men of the place said, 'There is no cult prostitute here.'" {{rf{23}}} And Judah said, "Let her take them for herself, lest we be laughed at. Behold, I sent this kid, but you could not find her." {{rf{24}}} And about three months later it was told to Judah, "Tamar your daughter-in-law has played the whore, and now, behold, she has conceived by prostitution." And Judah said, "Bring her out and let her be burned." {{rf{25}}} She was brought out, but she sent to her father-in-law saying, "By the man to whom these belong I have conceived." And she said, "Now discern to whom these belong: the seal and cord and the staff." {{rf{26}}} Then Judah recognized them and said, "She is more righteous than I, since I did not give her to my son Shelah." And he did not know her again. {{rf{27}}} And it happened that at the time she gave birth that, behold, twins were in her womb. {{rf{28}}} And it happened that at her labor one child put out a hand. And the midwife took it and tied a crimson thread on his hand saying, "This one came out first." {{rf{29}}} Then his hand drew back and, behold, his brother came out, and she said, "What a breach you have made for yourself!" And she called his name Perez. {{rf{30}}} And afterward his brother who had the crimson thread on his hand came out. And his name was called Zerah. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Genesis-38-20]] }}}
Now Joseph had been brought down to Egypt, and Potiphar, a court official of Pharaoh, commander of the guard, an Egyptian, bought him from the hand of the Ishmaelites who had brought him down there. {{rf{2}}} And Yahweh was with Joseph, and he became a successful man. And he was in the house of his master, the Egyptian. {{rf{3}}} And his master observed that Yahweh was with him, and everything that was in his hand to do Yahweh made successful. {{rf{4}}} And Joseph found favor in his eyes and he served him. Then he appointed him over his house and all that he owned he put into his hand. {{rf{5}}} And it happened that from the time he appointed him over his house and over all that he had, Yahweh blessed the house of the Egyptian on account of Joseph. And the blessing of Yahweh was upon all that he had in the house and in the field. {{rf{6}}} And he left all that he had in the hand of Joseph, and he did not worry about anything except the food that he ate. Now Joseph was well built and handsome. {{rf{7}}} And it happened that after these things his master's wife cast her eyes on Joseph, and she said, "Lie with me." {{rf{8}}} But he refused and said to his master's wife, "Look, my master does not worry about what is in the house, and everything he owns he has put in my hand. {{rf{9}}} He has no greater authority in this house than me, and he has not withheld anything from me except you, since you are his wife. Now how could I do this great wickedness and sin against God?" {{rf{10}}} And it happened that as she spoke to Joseph day after day, he did not heed her to lie beside her or to be with her. {{rf{11}}} But one particular day he came into the house to do his work and none of the men of the house were there in the house, {{rf{12}}} she seized him by his garment and said, "Lie with me!" And he left his garment in her hand and fled, and he went outside. {{rf{13}}} And it happened that when she saw that he left his garment in her hand and fled outside, {{rf{14}}} she called to the men of her house and said to them, "Look! He brought a Hebrew man to us to mock us! He came to me to lie with me, and I cried out with a loud voice. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Genesis-39-01]] }}}
<<Bbl Gn 39:3 abbr >> We needn't think of Potiphar as some spiritual giant.
39:7 "Lie with me, or I'll //lie// concerning you."
<<Bbl Gn 39:12 abbr >> <<Bbl Php 2:6 >>, //grasped//
<<Bbl Gn 39:20 abbr >> Joseph is not killed, and he's given the royal version of incarceration. I bet Potaphar misses him.
<<Bbl Gn 39:20 abbr >>-23 Uses lower nomenclature.
<<Bbl Gn 40:1 abbr >>-4 Uses higher, official nomenclature. This introduces the king whose court will now host the drama.
<<Bbl Gn 40:15 abbr >> Yet only through this imprisonment could Joseph touch the palace; and only because it was a long imprisonment could he win its trust.
<<Bbl Gn 40:6 abbr >> [[Joseph]] is sensitive. And he's such a good trustee that he expects his charges to look happy!
40:8 As palace officials they had free access to the royal dream interpretation service. Note Joseph's optimism and faith in God.
40:15 Note he could as easily have stated his earlier status in terms more important to the court officials: -- I was Potiphar's chief steward. --
40:20 Lifted up the heads -- clearly there must be a word play here with the next two verses ??
41:8 How was their inadequacy revealed? Pray that the counsel of the ungodly can be revealed by God as futile. See vs. 38.
41:30b This detail is from vs. 21.
41:50-52 The order of his sons' names seems significant.
{{rf{15}}} And when he heard me, that I raised my voice and called out, he left his garment beside me and fled, and he went outside." {{rf{16}}} Then she put his garment beside her until his master came to his house. {{rf{17}}} Then she spoke to him according to these words, saying, "The Hebrew slave that you brought to us came to me to make fun of me. {{rf{18}}} And it happened that as I raised my voice and called out, he left his garment beside me and fled outside." {{rf{19}}} And when his master heard the words of his wife that she spoke to him, "This is what your servant did to me," he became very angry. {{rf{20}}} And Joseph's master took him and put him into prison, the place that the king's prisoners were confined. And he was there in prison. {{rf{21}}} And Yahweh was with Joseph, and showed loyal love to him, and gave him favor in the eyes of the chief of the prison. {{rf{22}}} And the chief of the prison put all the prisoners that were in the prison into the hand of Joseph. And everything that was done there, he was the one who did it. {{rf{23}}} The chief of the prison did not worry about anything in his hand, since Yahweh was with him. And whatever he did Yahweh made it successful. {{rf big{1}}} And it happened that after these things the cupbearer of the king of Egypt and his baker did wrong against their lord, against the king of Egypt. {{rf{2}}} And Pharaoh was angry with his two officials, with the chief cupbearer and chief baker. {{rf{3}}} And he put them in custody in the house of the chief of the guard, into the prison where Joseph was confined. {{rf{4}}} And the chief of the guard appointed Joseph to be with them, and he attended them. And they were in custody many days. {{rf{5}}} And the two of them, the cupbearer and the baker of the king of Egypt, who were confined in the prison, dreamed a dream, each his own dream, with its own interpretation. {{rf{6}}} When Joseph came to them in the morning he looked at them, and behold, they were troubled. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Genesis-39-15]] }}}
{{rf{7}}} And he asked the court officials of Pharaoh that were with him in the custody of his master's house, "Why are your faces sad today?" {{rf{8}}} And they said to him, "We each dreamed a dream, but there is no one to interpret it." And Joseph said to them, "Do not interpretations belong to God? Please tell them to me." {{rf{9}}} Then the chief cupbearer told his dream to Joseph, and he said to him, "In my dream, now behold, there was a vine before me, {{rf{10}}} and on the vine were three branches. And as it budded, its blossoms came up, and its clusters of grapes grew ripe. {{rf{11}}} And the cup of Pharaoh was in my hand, and I took the grapes and squeezed them into the cup of Pharaoh. Then I placed the cup into the hand of Pharaoh." {{rf{12}}} Then Joseph said to him, "This is its interpretation: The three branches, they are three days. {{rf{13}}} In three days Pharaoh will lift up your head and will restore you to your office. And you shall put the cup of Pharaoh into his hand as was formerly the custom, when you were his cupbearer. {{rf{14}}} But remember me when it goes well with you, and please may you show kindness with respect to me, and mention me to Pharaoh, and bring me out of this house. {{rf{15}}} For I was surely kidnapped from the land of the Hebrews, and here also I have done nothing that they should put me in this pit." {{rf{16}}} And when the chief baker saw that the interpretation was good he said to Joseph, "I also dreamed. In my dream, now behold, there were three baskets of bread upon my head. {{rf{17}}} And in the upper basket were all sorts of baked foods for Pharaoh, but the birds were eating them out of the basket upon my head." {{rf{18}}} Then Joseph answered and said, "This is its interpretation: The three baskets, they are three days. {{rf{19}}} In three days Pharaoh will lift your head from you and hang you on a pole, and the birds will eat your flesh from you." {{rf{20}}} And it happened that on the third day, which was Pharaoh's birthday, he made a feast for all his servants. And he lifted up the head of the chief cupbearer and the head of the chief baker in the midst of his servants. {{rf{21}}} And he restored the chief cupbearer to his cupbearing position. And he placed the cup in the hand of Pharaoh. {{rf{22}}} But the chief baker he hanged as Joseph had interpreted to them. {{rf{23}}} But the chief cupbearer did not remember Joseph, but forgot him. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Genesis-40-07]] }}}
And it happened that after two full years Pharaoh dreamed, and behold, he was standing by the Nile. {{rf{2}}} And behold, seven cows, well built and fat, were coming up from the Nile, and they grazed among the reeds. {{rf{3}}} And behold, seven other cows came up after them from the Nile, ugly and gaunt, and they stood beside those cows on the bank of the Nile. {{rf{4}}} And the ugly and gaunt cows ate the seven well built and fat cows. Then Pharaoh awoke. {{rf{5}}} And he fell asleep and dreamed a second time, and behold, seven ears of grain, plump and good, were coming out of one stalk. {{rf{6}}} And behold, seven thin ears of grain, scorched by the east wind, sprouted up after them. {{rf{7}}} And the thin ears of grain swallowed up the seven plump and full ears of grain. Then Pharaoh awoke, and behold, it was a dream. {{rf{8}}} And it happened that in the morning his spirit was troubled, and he sent and called all of the magicians of Egypt, and all its wise men, and Pharaoh told his dream to them. But they had no interpretation for Pharaoh. {{rf{9}}} Then the chief of the cupbearers spoke with Pharaoh, saying, "I remember my sins today. {{rf{10}}} Pharaoh was angry with his servants, and he put me and the chief baker in the custody of the house of the chief of the guard. {{rf{11}}} And we dreamed a dream one night, I and he, each with a dream that had a meaning. {{rf{12}}} And there with us was a young man, a Hebrew servant of the chief of the guard, and we told him the dream, and he interpreted our dreams for us, each according to his dream he interpreted. {{rf{13}}} And it happened just as he interpreted to us, so it was. He restored me to my office, and him he hanged." {{rf{14}}} Then Pharaoh sent and called for Joseph, and they brought him quickly from the prison. And he shaved and changed his clothing, and came to Pharaoh. {{rf{15}}} Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, "I dreamed a dream, but there is none to interpret it. Now, I have heard concerning you that when you hear a dream you can interpret it." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Genesis-41-01]] }}}
{{rf{16}}} Then Joseph answered Pharaoh saying, "It is not in my power; God will answer concerning the well-being of Pharaoh." {{rf{17}}} And Pharaoh said to Joseph, "Now in my dream, behold, I was standing on the bank of the Nile, {{rf{18}}} and behold, seven cows, well built and fat, were coming up from the Nile, and they grazed among the reeds. {{rf{19}}} And behold, seven other cows came up after them from the Nile, very ugly and gaunt -- never have I seen any as them in all the land of Egypt for ugliness. {{rf{20}}} And the thin and ugly cows ate the former seven healthy cows. {{rf{21}}} But when they went into their bellies it could not be known that they went into their bellies, for their appearance was as ugly as at the beginning. Then I awoke. {{rf{22}}} Then I saw in my dream and behold, seven ears of grain were coming out of one stalk, full and good. {{rf{23}}} And behold, seven withered ears of grain, thin and scorched by the east wind, sprouted up after them. {{rf{24}}} And the thin ears of grain swallowed up the seven good ears of grain. And I told the magicians, but there was none to explain it to me." {{rf{25}}} Then Joseph said to Pharaoh, "The dreams of Pharaoh are one. God has revealed to Pharaoh what he is about to do. {{rf{26}}} The seven good cows, they are seven years, and the seven good ears of grain, they are seven years. The dreams are one. {{rf{27}}} And the seven thin and ugly cows coming up after them, they are seven years, and the seven empty ears of grain, scorched by the east wind, they are also seven years of famine. {{rf{28}}} This is the word that I have spoken to Pharaoh; God has shown Pharaoh what he is about to do. {{rf{29}}} Behold, seven years of great abundance are coming throughout the whole land of Egypt. {{rf{30}}} Then seven years of famine will arise after them, and all the abundance in the land of Egypt will be forgotten. The famine will consume the land. {{rf{31}}} Abundance in the land will not be known because of the famine that follows, for it will be very heavy. {{rf{32}}} Now concerning the repetition of the dream twice to Pharaoh, it is because the matter is established by God, and God will do it quickly. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Genesis-41-16]] }}}
{{rf{33}}} Now then, let Pharaoh select a man who is discerning and wise, and let him set him over the land of Egypt. {{rf{34}}} Let Pharaoh do this, and let him appoint supervisors over the land, and let him take one-fifth from the land of Egypt in the seven years of abundance. {{rf{35}}} Then let them gather all the food of these coming good years and let them pile up grain under the hand of Pharaoh for food in the cities, and let them keep it. {{rf{36}}} Then the food shall be as a deposit for the land for the seven years of the famine that will be in the land of Egypt, that the land will not perish on account of the famine." {{rf{37}}} And the plan was good in the eyes of Pharaoh and in the eyes of all his servants. {{rf{38}}} Then Pharaoh said to his servants, "Can we find a man like this in whom is the spirit of God?" {{rf{39}}} Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, "Since God has made all of this known to you there is no one as discerning and wise as you. {{rf{40}}} You shall be over my house, and to your word all my people shall submit. Only with respect to the throne will I be greater than you." {{rf{41}}} Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, "See, I have set you over all the land of Egypt." {{rf{42}}} Then Pharaoh removed his signet ring from his finger and put it on the finger of Joseph. And he clothed him with garments of fine linen, and he put a chain of gold around his neck. {{rf{43}}} And he had him ride in his second chariot. And they cried out before him, "Kneel!" And Pharaoh set him over all the land of Egypt. {{rf{44}}} Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, "I am Pharaoh, but without your consent no one will lift his hand or his foot in all the land of Egypt." {{rf{45}}} And Pharaoh called the name of Joseph Zaphenath-paneah and gave him Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera, priest of On, as a wife. And Joseph went out over the land of Egypt. {{rf{46}}} Now Joseph was thirty years old when he stood before Pharaoh, the king of Egypt. And Joseph went out from the presence of Pharaoh and traveled through the whole land of Egypt. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Genesis-41-33]] }}}
{{rf{47}}} And the land produced a plenty in the seven years of abundance. {{rf{48}}} And he gathered all the food of the seven years which occurred in the land of Egypt. And he stored the food in the cities. The food of the field that surrounded each city he stored in its midst. {{rf{49}}} And Joseph piled up grain like the sand of the sea in great abundance until he stopped counting it, for it could not be counted. {{rf{50}}} Before the years of famine came, Asenath, daughter of Potiphera priest of On, bore two sons to him. {{rf{51}}} And Joseph called the name of the firstborn Manasseh, for he said, "God has caused me to forget all my hardship and all my father's house." {{rf{52}}} And the name of the second he called Ephraim, for he said, "God has made me fruitful in the land of my misfortune." {{rf{53}}} And the seven years of abundance which were in the land of Egypt came to an end. {{rf{54}}} And the seven years of famine began to come as Joseph had said. And there was famine in all of the countries, but in the land of Egypt there was food. {{rf{55}}} And when all the land of Egypt was hungry the people cried out to Pharaoh for food. And Pharaoh said to all the land of Egypt, "Go to Joseph; what he says to you, you must do." {{rf{56}}} And the famine was over the whole land, and Joseph opened all the storehouses and sold food to the Egyptians. And the famine was severe in the land of Egypt. {{rf{57}}} And every land came to Egypt to Joseph to buy grain, for the famine was severe in every land. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Genesis-41-47]] }}}
When Jacob realized that there was grain in Egypt, Jacob said to his sons, "Why do you look at one another?" {{rf{2}}} Then he said, "Look, I have heard that there is grain in Egypt. Go down there and buy grain for us there that we may live and not die." {{rf{3}}} And the ten brothers of Joseph went down to buy grain from Egypt. {{rf{4}}} But Jacob did not send Benjamin, the brother of Joseph, for he feared harm would come to him. {{rf{5}}} Then the sons of Israel went to buy grain amid those other people who went as well, for there was famine in the land of Canaan. {{rf{6}}} Now Joseph was the governor over the land. He was the one who sold food to all the people of the land. And the brothers of Joseph came and bowed down to him with their faces to the ground. {{rf{7}}} And Joseph saw his brothers and recognized them, but he pretended to be a stranger to them. And he spoke with them harshly and said to them, "From where have you come?" And they said, "From the land of Canaan to buy food." {{rf{8}}} And Joseph recognized his brothers, but they did not recognize him. {{rf{9}}} And Joseph remembered the dreams which he had dreamed concerning them, and he said to them, "You are spies! You have come to see the nakedness of the land!" {{rf{10}}} And they said to him, "No, my lord, but your servants have come to buy food. {{rf{11}}} We all are sons of one man. We are honest men. We, your servants, are not spies." {{rf{12}}} Then he said to them, "No, but you have come to see the nakedness of the land." {{rf{13}}} Then they said, "We, your servants, are twelve brothers, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan, but behold, the youngest is with our father today, and one is no more." {{rf{14}}} But Joseph said to them, "It is what I said to you -- you are spies. {{rf{15}}} By this you shall be tested. By the life of Pharaoh you will not go out from here unless your youngest brother comes here. {{rf{16}}} Send one of you, and let him bring your brother, but you will be kept in prison so that your words might be tested to see if there is truth with you. And if not, by the life of Pharaoh surely you are spies." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Genesis-42-01]] }}}
<<Bbl Gn 42:1 abbr >> This is still in the first two of the seven years, 45:6.
42:2 There is a doting quality to Jacob's statement. His affection becomes a point of testing for everyone - Joseph, the brothers, even himself. In 28:20 he entrusted his own safe return to the Lord; now he cannot entrust his child in the same way.
<<Bbl Gn 42:6 abbr >> Why is Joseph acting as the official assigned to sort out supplicants from Canaan? Isn't that menial for Egypt's second-in-command? The answer is he wants to see his brothers. It is even likely someone - a spy on the road - is assigned to notify him when men arrive matching a certain description. Joseph has in mind his old dreams. There is no reason to think his responses were made up on the spot.
42:8 Being clean-shaven as the Egyptians, 41:14, he was hard to recognize. (By the way, Alexander the Great did NOT invent shaving.)
42:9a Here the act of bowing, as Joseph had dreamed.
<<Bbl Gn 42:18 abbr >> Joseph plays the part of a formidable, strange yet God-fearing host, last seen in <<Bbl Gn 26:26 >>f.
42:18-19 Joseph doesn't really need a hostage. They'll be coming back for food. So why does he take Simeon? To let the others start meditating on the loss of a son, the loss of freedom in their early cruelty. And to prove he's a harsh man, which will play well in the drama to follow with Benjamin's frame-up.
42:34b They play up the advantages gained.
42:36 The accusation as it relates to Joseph hits a raw spot.
42:7-13 To this exchange more is recorded in 43:7.
<<Bbl Gn 43:11 abbr >>-14 Jacob is down to scant resources. His two finest sons are gone, the firstborn is vulnerable. And he has some some pistachios. But God knows he has all his sons and riches to spare.
43:18 They contemplate the idea of malice resulting in bondage.
<<Bbl Gn 43:29 abbr >>-31. A picture of Christ, who knew all and loved all and withheld these things from immediate view.
43:32 Joseph is revealed as a divided man, a lonely man.
Gn 43:33 Anecdote of when Irene bought a Joni Mitchell album and I named the first four tracks in order.
{{rf{17}}} Then he gathered them into the prison for three days. {{rf{18}}} On the third day Joseph said to them, "Do this and you will live; I fear God. {{rf{19}}} If you are honest, let one of your brothers be kept in prison where you are now being kept, but the rest of you go, carry grain for the famine for your households. {{rf{20}}} You must bring your youngest brother to me, and then your words will be confirmed and you will not die." And they did so. {{rf{21}}} Then each said to his brother, "Surely we are guilty on account of our brother when we saw the anguish of his soul when he pleaded for mercy to us and we would not listen. Therefore this trouble has come to us." {{rf{22}}} Then Reuben answered them, saying, "Did I not say to you, do not sin against the boy? But you did not listen, and now, behold, his blood has been sought." {{rf{23}}} Now they did not know that Joseph understood, for the interpreter was between them. {{rf{24}}} And he turned away from them and wept. Then he returned to them and spoke to them, and took Simeon from them and tied him up in front of them. {{rf{25}}} Then Joseph gave orders to fill their bags with grain and to return their money to each sack, and to give them provisions for the journey. Thus he did for them. {{rf{26}}} Then they loaded their grain upon their donkeys and went away from there. {{rf{27}}} And one of them later opened his sack to give fodder to his donkey at the lodging place and saw his money -- behold, it was in the mouth of his sack. {{rf{28}}} And he said to his brothers, "My money was returned and moreover, behold, it is in my sack!" Then their hearts failed them and each of them trembled and said, "What is this God has done to us?" {{rf{29}}} And when they came to Jacob their father in the land of Canaan they told him everything that had happened to them, saying, {{rf{30}}} "The man, the lord of the land, spoke harshly to us and treated us as if we were spying out the land. {{rf{31}}} But we said to him, 'We are honest; we are not spies. {{rf{32}}} We are twelve brothers, the sons of our father. One is no more and the youngest is with our father now in the land of Canaan.' {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Genesis-42-17]] }}}
{{rf{33}}} Then the man, the lord of the land, said to us, 'By this I will know that you are honest. Leave one brother with me, and take food for the famine in your households and go. {{rf{34}}} And bring your youngest brother to me. Then I will know that you are not spies but you are honest. And I will give your brother back to you, and you will trade in the land.'" {{rf{35}}} And it happened that when they emptied their sacks, behold, each one's pouch of money was in his sack. And when they and their father saw the pouches of their money, they were greatly distressed. {{rf{36}}} And Jacob their father said to them, "You have bereaved me -- Joseph is no more and Simeon is no more, and Benjamin you would take! All of this is against me! {{rf{37}}} Then Reuben said to his father, "You may kill my two sons if I do not bring him back to you. Put him in my hand and I myself will return him to you." {{rf{38}}} But he said, "My son shall not go down with you, for his brother is dead and he alone remains. If harm meets him on the journey that you would take, you would bring down my gray head in sorrow to Sheol." {{rf big{1}}} Now the famine in the land was severe. {{rf{2}}} And it happened that as they finished eating the grain which they had brought from Egypt their father said to them, "Return and buy a little food for us." {{rf{3}}} Then Judah said to him, "The man solemnly admonished us, saying, 'You shall not see my face unless your brother is with you.' {{rf{4}}} If you will send our brother with us, we will go down and buy food for you, {{rf{5}}} but if you will not send him, we will not go down, for the man said to us, 'You shall not see my face unless your brother is with you.'" {{rf{6}}} Then Israel said, "Why did you bring trouble to me by telling the man you still had a brother?" {{rf{7}}} And they said, "The man asked explicitly about us and about our family, saying, 'Is your father still alive? Do you have a brother?' And we answered him according to these words. How could we know that he would say, 'Bring down your brother'?" {{rf{8}}} Then Judah said to his father Israel, "Send the boy with me, and let us arise and go, so that we will live and not die -- you, we, and our children. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Genesis-42-33]] }}}
{{rf{9}}} I myself will be surety for him. You may seek him from my hand. If I do not bring him back to you and present him before you, then I will stand guilty before you forever. {{rf{10}}} Surely if we had not hesitated by this time we would have returned twice." {{rf{11}}} Then their father Israel said to them, "If it must be so then do this. Take some of the best products of the land in your bags and take them down to the man as a gift -- a little balm and honey, aromatic gum and myrrh, and pistachios and almonds. {{rf{12}}} And take double the money in your hands. Take back the money that was returned in the mouth of your sacks. Perhaps it was a mistake. {{rf{13}}} And take your brother. Now arise and return to the man. {{rf{14}}} And may El-Shaddai grant you compassion before the man that he may release your other brother to you and Benjamin. As for me, if I am bereaved, I am bereaved." {{rf{15}}} So the men took this gift, and they took double money in their hands, and Benjamin, and they rose up and went down to Egypt and stood before Joseph. {{rf{16}}} When Joseph saw Benjamin with them he said to the one who was over his household, "Bring the men into the house and slaughter and prepare an animal, for the men shall eat with me at noon." {{rf{17}}} And the man did as Joseph had said, and the man brought the men into the house of Joseph. {{rf{18}}} And the men were afraid when they were brought into the house of Joseph. And they said "We were brought here on account of the money that was returned to our sacks the first time, that he might attack us and fall upon us to take us as slaves with our donkeys." {{rf{19}}} So they approached the man who was over Joseph's house and spoke to him at the doorway of the house. {{rf{20}}} And they said, "Please, my lord, we surely came down once before to buy food, {{rf{21}}} but when we came to the place of lodging and we opened our sacks, then behold, each one's money was in the mouth of his sack -- our money in its full weight -- so we have returned with it in our hands. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Genesis-43-09]] }}}
{{rf{22}}} Now, other money we have brought down in our hand to buy food. We do not know who put our money in our sacks." {{rf{23}}} And he said, "Peace to you; do not be afraid. Your God and the God of your father must have given you a treasure in your sacks; your money came to me." And he brought Simeon out to them. {{rf{24}}} Then the man brought the men into Joseph's house and he gave them water and washed their feet, and gave fodder to their donkeys. {{rf{25}}} Then they laid out the gift until Joseph came at noon, for they had heard that they were to eat food there. {{rf{26}}} And when Joseph came into the house they brought the gift that was in their hand into the house to him, and they bowed down before him to the ground. {{rf{27}}} And he greeted them and said, "Is your father well, the old man of whom you spoke? Is he still alive?" {{rf{28}}} And they said, "Your servant our father is well; he is still alive." And they knelt and bowed down. {{rf{29}}} Then he lifted up his eyes and saw Benjamin his brother, the son of his mother, and said, "Is this your youngest brother of whom you told me?" And he continued, "God be gracious to you, my son." {{rf{30}}} Then Joseph hurried away, being overcome with emotion toward his brother, and sought for a place to cry. Then he went into a room and wept there. {{rf{31}}} Then he washed his face and went out, now controlling himself, and said, "Serve the food." {{rf{32}}} And they served him by himself, and them by themselves, and the Egyptians who were eating with him by themselves, for Egyptians could not dine with Hebrews, because that was a detestable thing to Egyptians. {{rf{33}}} And they were seated before him from the firstborn according to his birthright to the youngest according to his youth. And the men looked at one another amazed. {{rf{34}}} And portions were served to them from his table, and the portion of Benjamin was five times greater than the portion of any of them. And they drank and became drunk with him. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Genesis-43-22]] }}}
Then he commanded the one who was over his household, saying, "Fill the sacks of the men with food as much as they are able to carry, and put each one's money in the mouth of his sack. {{rf{2}}} And my cup -- the cup of silver -- you shall put into the mouth of the sack of the youngest, and the money for his grain. And he did according to the word of Joseph that he had commanded. {{rf{3}}} When the morning light came the men were sent away, they and their donkeys. {{rf{4}}} They went out of the city, and had not gone far when Joseph said to the one who was over his house, "Arise! Pursue after the men and overtake them. Then you shall say to them, 'Why have you repaid evil for good? {{rf{5}}} Is this not that from which my master drinks? Now he himself certainly practices divination with it. You have done evil in what you have done.'" {{rf{6}}} When he overtook them he spoke these words to them. {{rf{7}}} And they said to him, "Why has my lord spoken according to these words? Far be it from your servants to do such a thing! {{rf{8}}} Behold, the money that we found in the mouth of our sacks we returned to you from the land of Canaan. Now why would we steal silver or gold from the house of my lord? {{rf{9}}} Whoever is found with it from among your servants shall die. And moreover, we will become slaves to my lord." {{rf{10}}} Then he said, "Now also according to your words, thus will it be. He who is found with it shall be my slave, but you shall be innocent." {{rf{11}}} Then each man quickly brought down his sack to the ground, and each one opened his sack. {{rf{12}}} And he searched, beginning with the oldest and finishing with the youngest. And the cup was found in the sack of Benjamin. {{rf{13}}} Then they tore their clothes, and each one loaded his donkey and they returned to the city. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Genesis-44-01]] }}}
<<Bbl Gn 44:4 abbr >> Joseph's instructions went further, v 10-12.
44:9 Jacob made a very similar vow to Laban, 31:32.
44:12 The order of birth is again rehearsed, by Joseph's pre-arrangement.
<<Bbl Gn 44:16 abbr >>. Judah has no plea option of "no contest".
<<Bbl Gn 44:17 abbr >> The Crux. The command to //go up in peace to your father// is impossible to fulfill.
44:33 This is the absolute climax of Joseph's story. It flashes back to the original betrayal. Judah and the others are showing a self-sacrificial love, having been humbled by the years of their father's grief, his special fondness for Benjamin, the weight of conscience, the cruelties of famine, and the intensity of their dealings with this leader second only to Pharoah. They are also resigned to accepting full blame for Benjamin's demise -- a blame they had evaded with Joseph. Now Joseph can no longer conceal his love for his father, Benjamin and all his brothers; he gives up.
<<Bbl Gn 45:1 abbr >> a picture of Christ who secretly discloses himself to his followers.
<<Bbl Gn 45:7 abbr >> A great deliverance in that the dire conditions in Egypt (<<Bbl Gn 47:20-26 abbr >>) would only have been worse in Canaan. Vs 11 enlarges this.
45:12 Compare the walk to Emmaus!
45:23 The gender of the donkeys carries direct symbolism.
<<Bbl Gn 45:24 abbr >> For there is too much at stake.
<<Bbl Gn 45:27 abbr >> It could be taken as a reflection on Jacob's character, since he has been //grasping//, that the appearance of material provision is what //revives his soul//. But that is too small a view, for he has been waiting on God's covenant initiated in <<Bbl Gn 28:13 >>ff. And that is tied to the promises made to Abraham. Therefore more than his own self has been at stake during these years of deprivation threatening death.
<<Bbl Gn 46:3 abbr >>,4. Jerusalem is the high place (//up to//) even if Egypt is the empire. Also <<Bbl Gn 45:13 >>.
<<Bbl Gn 46:15 abbr >>, 18. Problem: the math seems wrong.
{{rf{14}}} And Judah and his brothers came to the house of Joseph -- now he was still there -- they fell before him to the ground. {{rf{15}}} Then Joseph said to them, "What is this deed that you have done? Did you not know that a man who is like me surely practices divination?" {{rf{16}}} And Judah said, "What can we say to my lord? What can we speak? Now how can we show ourselves innocent? God has found the guilt of your servants! Behold, we are slaves to my lord, both we and also he in whose hand the cup was found." {{rf{17}}} But he said, "Far be it from me to do this! The man in whose hand the cup was found, he will become my slave. But as for you, go up in peace to your father." {{rf{18}}} But Judah drew near to him and said, "Please my lord, let your servant speak a word in the ears of my lord, and let not your anger burn against your servant, for you are like Pharaoh himself. {{rf{19}}} My lord had asked his servants, saying, 'Do you have a father or a brother?' {{rf{20}}} And we said to my lord, 'We have an aged father, and a younger brother, the child of his old age, and his brother died, and he alone remains from his mother, and his father loves him.' {{rf{21}}} Then you said to your servants, 'Bring him down to me that I may set my eyes upon him.' {{rf{22}}} Then we said to my lord, 'The boy cannot leave his father; if he should leave his father, then he would die.' {{rf{23}}} Then you said to your servants, 'Unless your youngest brother comes down with you, you shall not again see my face.' {{rf{24}}} And it happened that we went up to your servant, my father, and told him the words of my lord. {{rf{25}}} And when our father said, 'Buy a little food for us,' {{rf{26}}} then we said, 'We cannot go down. If our youngest brother is with us, then we shall go down. For we will not be able to see the face of the man unless our youngest brother is with us.' {{rf{27}}} Then your servant, my father, said to us, 'You yourselves know that my wife bore two sons to me. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Genesis-44-14]] }}}
{{rf{28}}} One went out from me, and I said, "Surely he must have been torn to pieces," and I have never seen him since. {{rf{29}}} And if you take this one also from me, and he encounters harm, you will bring down my gray head in sorrow to Sheol.' {{rf{30}}} So now, when I come to your servant, my father, and the boy is not with us -- now his life is bound up with his life -- {{rf{31}}} it shall happen that when he sees that the boy is gone, he will die. And your servants will bring down the gray head of your servant, our father, to Sheol with sorrow. {{rf{32}}} For your servant is pledged as surety for the boy by my father, saying, If I do not bring him to you, then I shall be culpable to my father forever. {{rf{33}}} So then, please let your servant remain in place of the boy as a slave to my lord, and let the boy go up with his brothers. {{rf{34}}} For how can I go up to my father if the boy is not with me? I do not want to see the misery which will find my father." {{rf big{1}}} Then Joseph was not able to control himself before all who were standing by him. And he cried out, "Make every man go out from me!" So no one stood with him when Joseph made himself known to his brothers. {{rf{2}}} And he wept loudly, so that the Egyptians heard it and the household of Pharaoh heard it. {{rf{3}}} Then Joseph said to his brothers, "I am Joseph! Is my father still alive?" And his brothers were unable to answer him, for they were dismayed at his presence. {{rf{4}}} So Joseph said to his brothers, "Come near to me, please." And they drew near. And he said, "I am Joseph, your brother, whom you sold into Egypt. {{rf{5}}} So now, do not be distressed and do not be angry with yourselves that you sold me here, for God sent me as deliverance before you. {{rf{6}}} For these two years the famine has been in the midst of the land, but there will be five more years where there is no plowing or harvest. {{rf{7}}} And God sent me before you all to preserve for you a remnant in the land and to keep alive among you many survivors. {{rf{8}}} So now, you yourselves did not send me here, but God put me here as father to Pharaoh and as master of all his household, and a ruler over all the land of Egypt. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Genesis-44-28]] }}}
{{rf{9}}} Hurry, and go up to my father and say to him, 'Thus says your son Joseph, God has made me lord of all Egypt. Come down to me and do not delay. {{rf{10}}} You shall settle in the land of Goshen so that you will be near me, you and your children and your grandchildren, and your flocks and your herds and all that you have. {{rf{11}}} And I will provide for you there, because there are still five years of famine -- lest you and your household and all that you have become destitute.' {{rf{12}}} Now behold, your eyes see, and the eyes of my brother Benjamin see, that it is I who am speaking to you. {{rf{13}}} And you must tell my father of all my honor in Egypt and all that you have seen. Now hurry and bring my father here." {{rf{14}}} Then he fell upon the neck of his brother Benjamin and wept, and Benjamin wept upon his neck. {{rf{15}}} And he kissed all his brothers and wept upon them. And afterward his brothers spoke with him. {{rf{16}}} Then the report was heard in the house of Pharaoh, saying, "Joseph's brothers have come." And it pleased Pharaoh and his servants. {{rf{17}}} Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, "Say to your brothers: 'Do this -- load your donkeys and go back to the land of Canaan, {{rf{18}}} and take your father and your households and come to me, and I will give you the best of the land of Egypt, and you shall eat the fat of the land.' {{rf{19}}} And you Joseph, are commanded to say this: 'Do this! Take wagons from the land of Egypt for your little ones and your wives, and bring your father and come! {{rf{20}}} Do not worry about your possessions, for the best of all the land of Egypt is yours.'" {{rf{21}}} And the sons of Israel did so. And Joseph gave them wagons at the word of Pharaoh, and gave them provisions for the journey. {{rf{22}}} To each and to all of them he gave sets of clothing, but to Benjamin he gave three hundred pieces of silver and five sets of clothing. {{rf{23}}} And to his father he sent as follows: ten donkeys carrying the best of Egypt, and ten donkeys carrying grain and food and provisions for his father for the journey. {{rf{24}}} Then he sent his brothers away, and when they departed he said to them, "Do not be agitated on the journey." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Genesis-45-09]] }}}
{{rf{25}}} So they went up from Egypt and came to the land of Canaan to Jacob their father. {{rf{26}}} And they spoke to him, saying, "Joseph is still alive, and he is ruler over all the land of Egypt." And his heart went numb, because he did not believe him. {{rf{27}}} Then they told him all the words of Joseph that he had spoken to them. And when he saw the wagons that Joseph had sent to carry him, then the spirit of Jacob their father revived. {{rf{28}}} And Israel said, "It is enough. Joseph my son is still alive. I will go and see him before I die." {{rf big{1}}} So Israel journeyed with all that he had, and he came to Beersheba and offered sacrifices to the God of his father, Isaac. {{rf{2}}} And God spoke to Israel in visions of the night and said, "Jacob, Jacob." And he said, "Here I am." {{rf{3}}} Then he said, "I am the God of your father. Do not be afraid to go down to Egypt, for I will make you a great nation there. {{rf{4}}} I myself will go down with you to Egypt, and I myself will also bring you up. And Joseph will place his hand over your eyes." {{rf{5}}} So Jacob arose from Beersheba. And the sons of Israel carried their father Jacob, and their little ones and their wives in the wagons Pharaoh had sent to transport him. {{rf{6}}} And they took their livestock and their possessions that they had acquired in the land of Canaan. And they came to Egypt, Jacob and all his offspring with him, {{rf{7}}} his sons and his sons' sons with him, his daughters and his daughters' daughters with him, into Egypt. {{rf{8}}} Now these are the names of the sons of Israel, who came into Egypt, Jacob and his sons. Reuben, the firstborn of Jacob {{rf{9}}} and the sons of Reuben: Enoch, Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi. {{rf{10}}} The sons of Simeon: Jemuel, Jamin, Ohad, Jakin, Zohar, and Shaul, the son of a Canaanite woman. {{rf{11}}} The sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari. {{rf{12}}} The sons of Judah: Er, Onan, Shelah, Perez, and Zerah (but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan). And the sons of Perez were Hezron and Hamul. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Genesis-45-25]] }}}
{{rf{13}}} The sons of Issachar: Tolah, Puvah, Iob, and Shimron. {{rf{14}}} The sons of Zebulun: Sered, Elon, and Jahleel. {{rf{15}}} These are the sons of Leah that she bore to Jacob in Paddan-Aram, and Dinah his daughter. His sons and daughters were thirty-three persons in all. {{rf{16}}} The sons of Gad: Ziphion, Haggi, Shuni, Ezbon, Eri, Arodi, and Areli. {{rf{17}}} The sons of Asher: Imnah, Ishvah, Ishvi, and Beriah, and their sister Serah. And the sons of Beriah: Heber and Malkiel. {{rf{18}}} There are the sons of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to Leah his daughter, and she bore these to Jacob -- sixteen persons. {{rf{19}}} The sons of Rachel, Jacob's wife: Joseph and Benjamin. {{rf{20}}} And Ephraim and Manasseh, whom Asenath, daughter of Potiphera, priest of On bore to him, were born to Joseph in the land of Egypt. {{rf{21}}} The sons of Benjamin: Bela, Beker, Ashbel, Gera, Naaman, Ehi, Rosh, Muppim, Huppim, and Ard. {{rf{22}}} These are the sons of Rachel who were born to Jacob -- fourteen persons in all. {{rf{23}}} The sons of Dan: Hushim. {{rf{24}}} The sons of Naphtali: Jahzeel, Guni, Jezer, and Shillem. {{rf{25}}} These are the sons of Bilhah whom Laban gave to Rachel his daughter, and she bore these to Jacob -- seven persons in all. {{rf{26}}} All the persons belonging to Jacob who came to Egypt who were his descendants, not including the wives of the sons of Jacob were sixty-six persons in all. {{rf{27}}} And the sons of Joseph who were born to him in Egypt were two persons. All the persons of the house of Jacob who came to Egypt were seventy. {{rf{28}}} He had sent Judah ahead of him to Joseph to appear before him in Goshen. And they came to the land of Goshen. {{rf{29}}} Then Joseph harnessed his chariot and went up to meet Israel his father in Goshen. He presented himself to him and fell upon his neck and wept upon his neck a long time. {{rf{30}}} Then Israel said to Joseph, "Now let me die since I have seen your face, for you are still alive." {{rf{31}}} Then Joseph said to his brothers and to his father's household, "I will go up and report to Pharaoh, and I will say to him, 'My brothers and my father's household who were in the land of Canaan have come to me. {{rf{32}}} And the men are shepherds, for they are men of livestock, and they have brought their flocks and their cattle and all that they have.' {{rf{33}}} And it shall be that when Pharaoh calls you he will say, 'What is your occupation?' {{rf{34}}} Then you must say, 'You servants are men of livestock from our childhood until now, both we and also our ancestors,' so that you may dwell in the land of Goshen, for every shepherd is a detestable thing to Egyptians." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Genesis-46-13]] }}}
<<Bbl Gn 46:30 abbr >> Compare <<Bbl L 2:29 >>-30 .
<<Bbl Gn 47:6 abbr >>c This could bring a suppressed snicker.
<<Bbl Gn 47:13 abbr >>-26 This is not exactly the welfare state.
<<Bbl Gn 47:19 abbr >>-26 This contributes to the despotism to follow. Ex <<Bbl Gn 1:11 >> n.
<<Bbl Gn 47:30 abbr >> To fulfill God's promise, <<Bbl Gn 28:15 >> and <<Bbl Gn 46:4 >>. The point is Jacob has never forgotten. Also he is willing to accept a post-humous fulfillment.
<<Bbl Gn 47:33 abbr >> //... gathered to his people// may mean spiritually, since his speech just before is about how he is far from the graves of his fathers.
<<Bbl Gn 48:7 abbr >> Her grave was misplaced; maybe this is on his mind, see <<Bbl Gn 49:31 >>.
<<Bbl Gn 48:10 abbr >>-20. This scene closely evokes the blessing of father Isaac.
48:14 Takes us back to Jacob's early guile.
48:15 [[Sheep]]
<<Bbl Gn 48:15 abbr >>-16 -- Evocation of God as [[One-In-Three]]:
# ''Father'' -- The God before whom my fathers ... walked,
# ''Spirit'' -- the God who has been my shepherd all my life long to this day,
# ''Son'' -- the angel who has redeemed me from all evil...
<<Bbl Gn 48:21 abbr >>-22 His blessing includes a promise which is based, in faith, on God's promise to Abraham. It is to fulfill the blessing that Joseph gives command concerning his bones (Heb 11).
<<Bbl Gn 48:21 abbr >> Joseph receives the inheritance of the first-born; Rueben can hardly begrudge him this. There's no record of Jacob seizing land from anyone
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Commentators agree that this land is Shechem (Hebrew //shekem// for "mountain slope" alludes to the personal name). That land was Hamor's, and Dr M Heiser [[teaches|https://drmsh.com/the-errancy-and-inerrancy-problem-illustrated-the-case-of-genesis-4821-22]] that Hamor is "the Amorite".
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So Joseph went and reported to Pharaoh. And he said, "My father and my brothers, with their flocks and their herds, and all that they have, have come from the land of Canaan. Now they are here in the land of Goshen." {{rf{2}}} And from among his brothers he took five men and presented them before Pharaoh. {{rf{3}}} And Pharaoh said to his brothers, "What is your occupation?" And they said to Pharaoh, "Your servants are keepers of sheep, both we and also our ancestors." {{rf{4}}} And they said to Pharaoh, "We have come to sojourn in the land, for there is no pasture for your servant's flocks, for the famine is severe in the land of Canaan. So now, please let your servants dwell in the land of Goshen." {{rf{5}}} Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, "Your father and your brothers have come to you. {{rf{6}}} The land of Egypt is before you. Settle your father and your brothers in the best of the land. Let them live in the land of Goshen, and if you know there is among them men of ability, then appoint them overseers of my own livestock." {{rf{7}}} Then Joseph brought his father Jacob and presented him before Pharaoh. And Jacob blessed Pharaoh. {{rf{8}}} Then Pharaoh said to Jacob, "How old are you?" {{rf{9}}} And Jacob said to Pharaoh, "The days of the years of my sojourning are one hundred and thirty years. Few and hard have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not reached the days of the years of the lives of my ancestors in the days of their sojourning." {{rf{10}}} And Jacob blessed Pharaoh, and he went out from the presence of Pharaoh. {{rf{11}}} And Joseph settled his father and his brothers, and he gave them property in the land of Egypt in the best part of the land, in the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh had instructed. {{rf{12}}} And Joseph provided his father and his brothers and all the household of his father with food, according to the number of their children. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Genesis-47-01]] }}}
{{rf{13}}} Now there was no food in all the land, for the famine was very severe. And the land of Egypt languished, with the land of Canaan, on account of the famine. {{rf{14}}} And Joseph collected all the money found in the land of Egypt and in the land of Canaan in exchange for the grain that they were buying. And Joseph brought the money into the house of Pharaoh. {{rf{15}}} And when the money was spent in the land of Egypt and from the land of Canaan, all of Egypt came to Joseph, saying, "Give us food! Why should we die before you? For the money is used up." {{rf{16}}} And Joseph said, "Give your livestock and I will give you food in exchange for your livestock if your money is used up." {{rf{17}}} So they brought their herds to Joseph, and Joseph gave food to them in exchange for horses, their flocks, and their cattle and donkeys. And he provided them with food in exchange for all their livestock that year. {{rf{18}}} When that year ended, they came to him in the following year and said to him, "We cannot hide from my lord that our money and livestock belong to my lord. Nothing remains before my lord except our bodies and our land. {{rf{19}}} Why should we die in front of you, both we and our land? Buy us and our land in exchange for food, then we and our land will be servants to Pharaoh. Then give us seed and we shall live and not die, and the land will not become desolate." {{rf{20}}} So Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh, for each Egyptian sold his field, for the famine was severe upon them. And the land became Pharaoh's. {{rf{21}}} As for the people, he transferred them to the cities, from one end of the territory of Egypt to the other. {{rf{22}}} Only the land of the priests he did not buy, for there was an allotment for the priests from Pharaoh, and they lived on the allotment that Pharaoh gave to them. Therefore they did not sell their land. {{rf{23}}} And Joseph said to the people, "Look, I have bought you and your land this day for Pharaoh. Here is seed for you so you can sow the land. {{rf{24}}} And it shall happen that at the harvest, you must give a fifth to Pharaoh and four-fifths shall be yours, as seed for the field and for your food and for those who are in your households, and as food for your little ones." {{rf{25}}} And they said, "You have saved our lives. If we have found favor in the eyes of my lord, we will be servants to Pharaoh." {{rf{26}}} So Joseph made it a statute unto this day concerning the land of Egypt: one fifth to Pharaoh. Only the land of the priests alone did not belong to Pharaoh. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Genesis-47-13]] }}}
{{rf{27}}} So Israel settled in the land of Egypt, in the land of Goshen. And they acquired possessions in it and were fruitful and multiplied greatly. {{rf{28}}} And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years. And the days of Jacob, the years of his life, were one hundred and forty-seven years. {{rf{29}}} When the time of Israel's death drew near, he called to his son, to Joseph. And he said to him, "If I have found favor in your eyes, please put your hand under my thigh, that you might vow to deal kindly and faithfully with me. Please do not bury me in Egypt, {{rf{30}}} but let me lie with my ancestors. Carry me out of Egypt and bury me in their burial site." And he said, "I will do according to your word." {{rf{31}}} Then he said, "Swear to me." And he swore to him. Then Israel bowed himself on the head of the bed. {{rf big{1}}} And it happened that after these things, it was said to Joseph, "Behold, your father is ill." And he took his two sons with him, Ephraim and Manasseh. {{rf{2}}} And it was told to Jacob, "Behold, your son Joseph has come to you." Then Israel strengthened himself and he sat up in the bed. {{rf{3}}} Then Jacob said to Joseph, "El-Shaddai appeared to me in Luz, in the land of Canaan, and blessed me, {{rf{4}}} and said to me, 'Behold, I will make you fruitful and make you numerous, and will make you a company of nations. And I will give this land to your offspring after you as an everlasting possession.' {{rf{5}}} And now, your two sons who were born to you in the land of Egypt before my coming to you in Egypt, are mine. Ephraim and Manasseh shall be mine as Reuben and Simeon are. {{rf{6}}} And your children whom you father after them shall be yours. By the name of their brothers they shall be called, with respect to their inheritance. {{rf{7}}} As for me, when I came to Paddan-Aram Rachel died to my sorrow in the land of Canaan on the way when there was still some distance to go to Ephrath. And I buried her there on the way to Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem)." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Genesis-47-27]] }}}
When Israel saw the sons of Joseph he said, "Who are these?" {{rf{9}}} Then Joseph said to his father, "They are my sons whom God has given me here." And he said, "Please bring them to me that I may bless them." {{rf{10}}} Now the eyes of Israel were dim on account of old age; he was not able to see. So he brought them near to him, and he kissed them and embraced them. {{rf{11}}} And Israel said to Joseph, "I did not expect to see your face and behold, God has also shown me your offspring." {{rf{12}}} Then Joseph removed them from his knees and bowed down with his face to the ground. {{rf{13}}} And Joseph took the two of them, Ephraim at his right to the left of Israel, and Manasseh at his left to the right of Israel. And he brought them near to him. {{rf{14}}} And Israel stretched out his right hand and put it on the head of Ephraim (now he was the younger), and his left hand on the head of Manasseh, crossing his hands, for Manasseh was the firstborn. {{rf{15}}} And he blessed Joseph and said, "The God before whom my fathers, Abraham and Isaac, walked, The God who shepherded me all my life unto this day, {{rf{16}}} The angel who redeemed me from all evil, may he bless the boys. And through them let my name be perpetuated, and the name of my fathers, Abraham and Isaac. And let them multiply into many in the midst of the earth. {{rf{17}}} When Joseph saw that his father put his right hand on the head of Ephraim, he was displeased. And he took hold of his father's hand to remove it from the head of Ephraim over to the head of Manasseh. {{rf{18}}} And Joseph said to his father, "Not so, my father; because this one is the firstborn. Put your right hand upon his head." {{rf{19}}} But his father refused and said, "I know, my son; I know. He also shall become a people, and he also shall be great, but his younger brother shall be greater than him, and his offspring shall become a multitude of nations." {{rf{20}}} So he blessed them that day, saying, Through you Israel shall pronounce blessing, saying, 'May God make you like Ephraim and like Manasseh.'" So he put Ephraim before Manasseh. {{rf{21}}} And Israel said to Joseph, "Behold, I am about to die, but God will be with you and will bring you back to the land of your ancestors. {{rf{22}}} And I have given to you one slope of land rather than your brothers, which I took from the hand of the Amorites by my sword and with my bow." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Genesis-48-08]] }}}
Then Jacob called his sons and said, "Gather together so that I can tell you what will happen with you in days to come. {{rf{2}}} Assemble and hear, O sons of Jacob! Listen to Israel your father! {{rf{3}}} Reuben, you are my firstborn, my strength, and the firstfruit of my vigor, excelling in rank and excelling in power. {{rf{4}}} Unstable as water, you shall not excel any longer, for you went up upon the bed of your father, then defiled it. You went up upon my couch! {{rf{5}}} Simeon and Levi are brothers; weapons of violence are their swords. Let me not come into their council. {{rf{6}}} Let not my person be joined to their company. For in their anger they killed men, and at their pleasure they hamstrung cattle. {{rf{7}}} Cursed be their anger, for it is fierce, and their wrath, for it is cruel. I will divide them in Jacob, and I will scatter them in Israel. {{rf{8}}} Judah, as for you, your brothers shall praise you. Your hand shall be on the neck of your enemies. The sons of your father shall bow down to you. {{rf{9}}} Judah is a lion's cub. From the prey, my son, you have gone up. He bowed down; he crouched like a lion and as a lioness. Who shall rouse him? {{rf{10}}} The scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor the ruler's staff between his feet, until Shiloh comes. And to him shall be the obedience of nations. {{rf{11}}} Binding his donkey to the vine and his donkey's colt to the choice vine, he washes his clothing in the wine and his garment in the blood of grapes. {{rf{12}}} The eyes are darker than wine, and the teeth whiter than milk. {{rf{13}}} Zebulun shall settle by the shore of the sea. He shall become a haven for ships, and his border shall be at Sidon. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Genesis-49-01]] }}}
49:4 Refers back to Rueben's disgrace in 35:22.
49:7 The motive is not related, but it's interesting that Levi is to be scattered -- as indeed the priesthood was throughout Israel.
<<Bbl Gn 49:10 abbr >> The very token of authority he misplaced in <<Bbl Gn 38:18 abbr>>.
<<Bbl Gn 49:11 abbr >> Sturdy vines.
<<Bbl Gn 49:33 abbr >> The bed has been in view since <<Bbl Gn 47:31 >>, <<Bbl Gn 48:2 >>.
<<Bbl Gn 50:5 abbr >> //my grace which I dug for myself// - this a pharaoh would understand.
50:11 //Abel Mizraim// -- as in modern Arabic.
50:14 Joseph outlived Israel by 54 years.
<<Bbl Gn 50:17 abbr >> Esau planned revenge as soon as the father died, and the brothers are worried. So this final piece of Jacob's legacy of scheming. But it's benign, even redeemed, and it's unnecessary.
<<Bbl Gn 50:17 abbr >> A picture of Christ. The best remorse; "they shall look upon him whom they pierced."
<<Bbl Gn 50:20 abbr >> A summary of the longer exposition of <<Bbl Gn 45:5 >>-8. //Many lives// - indeed the world.
<<Bbl Gn 50:20 abbr >> This culminates the picture of Christ. But it does not complete it - [[Joseph]]'s burial in Egypt foreshadows the intercession of Christ now.
50:24-26 see <<Bbl H 11:22 >> and [[Joseph]].
{{rf{14}}} Issachar is a strong donkey, crouching between the sheepfolds. {{rf{15}}} He saw a resting place that was good, and land that was pleasant. So he bowed his shoulder to the burden and became a servant of forced labor. {{rf{16}}} Dan shall judge his people as one of the tribes of Israel. {{rf{17}}} Dan shall be a serpent on the way, a viper on the road that bites the heels of a horse, so that its rider falls backward. {{rf{18}}} I wait for your salvation, O Yahweh. {{rf{19}}} Bandits shall attack Gad, but he shall attack their heels. {{rf{20}}} Asher's food is delicious, and he shall provide from the king's delicacies. {{rf{21}}} Naphtali is a doe running free that puts forth beautiful words. {{rf{22}}} Joseph is the bough of a fruitful vine, a fruitful bough by a spring. His branches climb over the wall. {{rf{23}}} The archers fiercely attacked him. They shot arrows at him and were hostile to him. {{rf{24}}} But his bow remained in a steady position; his arms were made agile by the hands of the Mighty One of Jacob. From there is the Shepherd, the Rock of Israel. {{rf{25}}} Because of the God of your father he will help you and by Shaddai he will bless you with the blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that crouches beneath, blessings of the breasts and the womb. {{rf{26}}} The blessings of your father are superior to the blessings of my ancestors, to the bounty of the everlasting hills. May they be on the head of Joseph, and on the forehead of the prince of his brothers. {{rf{27}}} Benjamin is a devouring wolf, devouring the prey in the morning, and dividing the plunder in the evening. {{rf{28}}} All these are the twelve tribes of Israel, and this is what their father said to them when he blessed them, each according to their blessing. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Genesis-49-14]] }}}
Then he instructed them and said to them, "I am about to be gathered to my people. Bury me among my ancestors in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite, {{rf{30}}} in the cave that is in the field of Machpelah that is before Mamre in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field from Ephron the Hittite as a burial site. {{rf{31}}} There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife. There they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife. And there I buried Leah -- {{rf{32}}} the purchase of the field and the cave which was in it from the Hittites." {{rf{33}}} When Jacob finished instructing his sons he drew his feet up to the bed. Then he took his last breath and was gathered to his people. {{rf big{1}}} Then Joseph fell on the face of his father and wept upon him and kissed him. {{rf{2}}} And Joseph instructed his servants the physicians to embalm his father. So the physicians embalmed Israel. {{rf{3}}} Forty days were required for it, for thus are the days required for embalming. And the Egyptians wept for him seventy days.
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{{rf{4}}} When the days of his weeping had passed, Joseph spoke to the household of Pharaoh, saying, "If I have found favor in your eyes, please speak in the hearing of Pharaoh, saying, {{rf{5}}} 'My father made me swear, saying, "Behold, I am about to die. In the tomb that I have hewed out for myself in the land of Canaan -- there you must bury me." So then, please let me go up and let me bury my father; then I will return.'" {{rf{6}}} Then Pharaoh said, "Go up and bury your father as he made you swear." {{rf{7}}} So Joseph went up to bury his father. And all the servants of Pharaoh, the elders of his household, and all the elders of the land of Egypt, went up with him, {{rf{8}}} with all the household of Joseph, his brothers, and the household of his father. They left only their little children and their flocks and their herds in the land of Goshen. {{rf{9}}} And there also went up with him chariots and horsemen. The company was very great. {{rf{10}}} When they came to the threshing floor of Atad, which was beyond the Jordan, they lamented there with a very great and sorrowful wailing. And he made a mourning ceremony for his father seven days. {{rf{11}}} And when the Canaanites, the inhabitants of the land, saw the mourning ceremony at the threshing floor of Atad they said, "This is a severe mourning for the Egyptians." Therefore its name was called Abel-Mizraim, which is beyond the Jordan. {{rf{12}}} Thus his sons did to him just as he had instructed them. {{rf{13}}} And his sons carried him to the land of Canaan and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, which field Abraham had bought as a burial site from Ephron the Hittite before Mamre. {{rf{14}}} {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Genesis-49-29]] }}}
And after burying his father, Joseph returned to Egypt, he and his brothers and all who had gone up with him to bury his father. {{rf{15}}} And when the brothers of Joseph saw that their father was dead, they said, "It may be that Joseph will hold a grudge against us and pay us back dearly for all the evil that we did to him." {{rf{16}}} So they sent word to Joseph saying, "Your father commanded us before his death, saying, {{rf{17}}} "Thus you must say to Joseph, 'O, please now forgive the transgression of your brothers and their sin, for they did evil to you.' So now, please forgive the transgression of the servants of the God of your father." And Joseph wept when they spoke to him. {{rf{18}}} Then his brothers went also and fell before him and said, "Behold, we are your servants." {{rf{19}}} Then Joseph said to them, "Do not be afraid, for am I in the place of God? {{rf{20}}} As for you, you planned evil against me, but God planned it for good, in order to do this -- to keep many people alive -- as it is today. {{rf{21}}} So then, do not be afraid. I myself will provide for you and your little ones. And he consoled them and spoke kindly to them.
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{{rf{22}}} So Joseph remained in Egypt, he and the house of his father. And Joseph lived one hundred and ten years. {{rf{23}}} And Joseph saw Ephraim's children to the third generation. Moreover, the children of Makir, son of Manasseh, were born on the knees of Joseph. {{rf{24}}} And Joseph said to his brothers, "I am about to die, but God will certainly visit you and bring you up from this land to the land that he swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob." {{rf{25}}} Then Joseph made the sons of Israel swear an oath, saying, "God will surely visit you, and you shall bring up my bones from here." {{rf{26}}} So Joseph died, being one hundred and ten years old. They embalmed him and he was placed in a coffin in Egypt. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Genesis-50-14]] }}}
!!! Gospel.
* <<Bbl J 10:16 >> //I have other sheep that do not come from this sheepfold... there will be one flock and one shepherd.//
* <<Bbl Acts 11:18 >>-19. The twelve apostles continued to assume conversion from the status of "God-fearing gentile" to proselyte Jew must follow in due time.
* Gal 1:0 note.
* One reason to not convert that may have been on Paul's mind: you'll be that much more under potential control, certainly to the legacy of Jewish rulings but even to the Sanhedrin. A //slave//, <<Bbl Gal 4:25 >>.
* When Jesus //opened... scriptures// apparently this remained a secret.
!!! OT conversion.
* <<Bbl Gn 17:12 >> to 13.
* <<Bbl Exodus 12:48 >>-49. Hebrew term //ger.//
* [[Abraham]].
* [[Frailty]]
* //Your gentleness has made me great// -- a favorite statement (from the Psalms I think )for Mike Reed.
* Jesus clearing the temple.
* Paul, //I was gentle among you.//
* //A smoldering wick He will not extinguish//
* Boaz, a perfect gentleman in his great gentleness toward Ruth.
* Jacob anticipating Esau
* Abigail anticipating David
* //Kiss the Son, lest He be angry.//
* [[Humility]], [[Submit]], [[Compliance]]
Idea for a theological atlas of the Bible. This could present as a map but with theme as the focus, maybe like that cover from the New Yorker.
* //East// is associated with rebellion or shame. <<Bbl Gn 3:24>> (the direction apparently is westward), <<Bbl Gn 4:16 abbr>>, <<Bbl Gn 11:2 abbr>> (translations vary on //to// versus //from//). While east as a destination is sometimes unclear, or the opposite is indicated, I presume the word-reference itself matters.
* //East// connotes disruption or evil; a storm-wind, commonly.
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* <<Bbl Lv 19:9 >>, <<Bbl Lv 23:22 >> command gleaning privileges for the poor and foreigners.
* Ruth exemplifies the finest use of this privilege. (Conceivably the Canaanite woman who entreats Jesus <<Bbl Mt 15:27 >> could be alluding to it; the allusion is at least available from our vantage point).
* [[Harvest]]
* <<Bbl Ex 16:17 "" note >>-30
* God-Glory
* [[Honor]], prestige
* [[King]], [[Army]]
* //Glorification//, promotion, exaltation
* //Chabod, Shekinah//; weight.
* <<Bbl 2C 4:17 >>.
* [[Refine]] produces the pure metal with its weight.
* //Splendor, beauty//
* ''Solomon in all his glory...''
** Of course Solomon could appreciate a flower.
** Solomon's array is contrived. It seeks to imitate self-existence. As if the flower is self-existent!
!!! David and Solomon are different
* [[David]] exulted in the presence of God.
** This made him comfortable with simplicity in worship.
** It influenced his lifestyle in general. David's respect for God constrained the impulse to accouter himself in glory.
** [[Tabernacle-of-David]]
* [[Solomon]]'s Temple was possibly more ornate than David would have built.
** As for palaces, there is no doubt that Solomon's was the more luxurious and awe-inspiring.
** Solomon's Temple was designed to be more glorious than the palace, but one doesn't sense the constraint we find in David.
* <<Bbl Mt 10:29 >>
* <<Bbl Mk 6:48>>
* <<Bbl Job 16:18 >>-20
* <<Bbl Jer 12:3 >>
* <<Bbl H 4:13>> //There is no creature that is hidden from His sight, but all things are naked and laid open before the eyes of Him with whom we have to do. //
* Google tracks your searches. God tracks your searches, and He also tracks ~DuckDuckGo. There is no anonymizer; any such hope is an illusion.
* The Pharisees wash the outside of the cup but not the inside. This is because they care not about God's opinion. But the purpose of a cup is wonderfully obviated if it's //inside// is not considered. So this is a killer metaphor.
* [[Truth]] and [[Justice]]
* [[Judgment-ofGod]]
* [[Invisible-Visible]]
* [[Secrecy]]
* Ezekiel's theme: God indeed sees, and makes known, and the image of the likeness of His Glory has many eyes.
* <<Bbl John 1:48 >> - Nathaniel under the fig tree
* <<Bbl John 2:25 >>
* <<Bbl L 21:1 0 note >>-4
* <<Bbl H 4:13 >>
* Ac 4 -- Ananias
* <<Bbl 1S 16:7 >>
* <<Bbl Pr 5:21 >>
* <<Bbl Ps 113:6 >>
!!! Particularly His children
* <<Bbl R 4:17 >>
* //His eyes rove//
* <<Bbl Ps 34:15 >>, <<Bbl Pr 15:3 >>c
!!! and the needy
* [[Poverty]]
!! God {{anti{won't notice}}}
* <<Bbl Ez 12:28 >>
!!! Illustration from a prison
Suppose you were invited to a large prison to review every prisoner and determine the rightness and justice of their incarceration. "That sounds difficult", you say; and you are told, "It is! That's why we'll pay you $100 an hour." So it's your first day and you ask to see the first dozen files, and then //hmm, let's have the court records//, and there are a few facts you need to get straight so you schedule a personal interview, and now you'd like to talk to some family members, and it goes on from there. But here's a kicker: you can put in a lifetime of effort, but there's no 100% assurance of justice (at least for some cases) at the end of it. In fact you might conclude that the more you know, the less you know. (It's a problem in epistemology that an increase in learning and insight has the effect of making the determination more difficult and not less. Imagine you've worked through a hundred cases; now you're like, I need to review that first one again, I've had some new thoughts and perspectives.) Man's judgment makes it very hard to understand God's judgment. But of course with Him, it's not a case of "the more you know the less you know". Suppose you received the same assignment, but with a difference: each of the prisoners is a person you know intimately. For this exercise, if you are a woman, imagine the prison only holds females; if you are a man, only males. (If you are still choosing, you can have a prison full of those; we'll do our best to accommodate you.) You grew up with him or her, you knew his family, you have never been apart from him and at every phase of life you had regular, intimate conversations. (In reality you'd be pretty tired not even counting how many actual criminals were in the bunch; this is hypothetical.) And by the way, you weren't ''too'' mixed up with any of them. Now the files are brought to you and you wave them away. "Jimmy? Oh yes, keep him here and don't let him out. Oscar is just as bad. Malik is different, he needs another chance. In fact he needs to get out of here. I have a funny story about him, but let's keep moving." You can finish ''this'' assignment in a day or two. That's an easy grand. Now imagine you are God: even the review phase is handled instantly. And you don't even care about the pay. And another plus of being God is there are no factors like sinfulness, frailty and human affections to get in the way.
!!! Illustration from the maquiladora
Francisco at SHP related to me this story. (See other wiki also.) The Nielson company was spending much money for post-processing of newspaper and magazine coupons. The value of these for a manufacturer was first to stimulate interest in a product, and second to identify whose interest was stimulated through intelligent publication of the coupon by demographic. Once redeemed, coupons were routed back to Nielson whose task was to assess demographic participation and report to the manufacturer. The chore was actually sorting the bits of paper. Women in Indiana would dump a box on the table and, amidst chatter, turn them all right-side up. Then each one was inspected for its fine print so it could be placed in a pile with its fellows. The Mexicans offered a much lower price for this labor, and upon objection to the language difference they pointed out that comparing the fine print did not require literacy or comprehension. So coupons were rerouted. Women just south of the border would dump a box on the table and, amidst chatter, turn them all upside-side down. Now it was easy and fast to sort them! It probably took those women ten minutes to figure this out. The good people of Indiana never saw it - it was their ability to read that kept them from seeing! ("Look, I can read ... squint, squint") God, of course, always sees our underside.
''Self-existent; underived from anything else; existentially independent.''
* From Latin, //a// "from" and //se// "self", plus //-ity//.
* A word so cool your spell-check doesn't know it, and a word that is not replaceable.
* Creation from nothing ("ex nihilo" if you're pompous).
* <<Bbl Job 30:1>> though 41
* <<Bbl Ps 50:10>>-12
* <<Bbl A 17:24 >>-25
@@color:darkgreen;No far seeing telescope can bring into visibility the coastline of the shore of His supplies. No barriers can hinder Him from pouring out His blessing.@@ // - S M Lockridge//
!!! Mother and child, braiding hair.
# Love
# care
# urgency
# efficiency
# control
So God guided the family of the child Jesus.
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* [[God-Touch]]
* <<Bbl J 3:16 >>
* <<Bbl Ps 23:4>> //for His Name's sake// indicates God Himself as our final destination, goal and reward.
* <<Bbl R 11:36>>
* We seek to have God at work in our core. The expressed desire "to put God //first"// could be a cheapened Western concept. [[Transform]]
* Anatoly Liberman explains that //theos// and //Deus// are not related; the latter is related to //Zeus//.
* [[God-Preeminent]]
* <<Bbl J 15:15>>
* <<Bbl Ps 25:15>>
* <<Bbl Dt 4:33 >>
* Gn //shall i hide from Abraham//
* [[God-Encounted]]
* Voice from the cloud.
* Specific [[Reveal]].
''Condescension'' (condescend), the kindness of God. He is transcendent, yet makes Himself immanent.
* God is personal. In Jesus, He becomes up-close and personal.
* [[Questions-FromGod]]
* [[God-Disclosing]]
* <<Bbl Gn 3:9>>
* [[Moses]] provides striking instances.
* Burning bush
* <<Bbl J 6:18 >>-21. A man-measured miracle. Otherwise, why not just appear? Why not just go to v. 21b?
* <<Bbl Gal 5:23 >>.
* <<Bbl Gn 16:13 >>-14 ; <<Bbl Ex 20:18 >>-19 ,<<Bbl Ex 24:9 >>-11 ; <<Bbl Ex 33:19 >>-23; <<Bbl Num 17:12 >>-13 , <<Bbl Num 24:15 >>-16
* <<Bbl Dt 4:33 >>
* <<Bbl 2S 5:7>>ff
* <<Bbl Jud 6:22 >>-23 , <<Bbl Jud 13:22 >>; <<Bbl 1S 6:19 >>-21
* <<Bbl Job 42:5 >>-6
* <<Bbl I 6:1 >>-5 , <<Bbl I 33:14 >>
* <<Bbl Ez 2:1 >>-2 , <<Bbl Ez 3:23 >>-24 , <<Bbl Ez 8:1 >>-4 , <<Bbl Ez 43:3 >>
* <<Bbl Dan 10:7 >>-11
* <<Bbl Mt 17:5 >>-7 ; <<Bbl L 5:8 >>; <<Bbl J 18:6 >>; <<Bbl A 9:3 >>-4 ; <<Bbl Mk 9:26 >>-27 ;
* [[God-Touch]]
* [[God-Presence]]
!!!! Christophany
the "Angel of the LORD."
* Appearing to Hagar, <<Bbl Gn 16:7 >>-14
* to Abraham, 22:11,12,15-18
* to Abraham's servant, 24:7,40
* Jacob at Bethel, <<Bbl Gn 28:13 "" note>> -- //This is the [[Gate]] of Heaven.//
* Jacob at Peniel -- Since Jacob seems to have fixated on the geographical spot of Bethel, perhaps it is highly significant his other encounter happens elsewhere.
* to Jacob, 31:11-13
* as a cloud of smoke and pillar of fire, 14:19
* to Joshua, <<Bbl Jos 5:13 >>-15
* to Gideon, <<Bbl Jud 6:11 >>-24
* to Samson's mother, <<Bbl Jud 13:3 >>-21
* <<Bbl 2S 24:16 abbr >>, <<Bbl 1Ch 21:15 >>-20
* the Emmaus road.
* existence of, evidence: <<Bbl Ps 94:8 >>-11 ,<<Bbl Ps 145:15 >>; <<Bbl Jer 14:22 >>; <<Bbl R 1:18 >>ff.
* Romans 1 says all know that God exists. [[Subvert]]. [[atheism]].
* God is glorified by your enjoyment of Him, just as He is anti-glorified (disrespected, despised, blasphemed) by your enjoyment of anti-Him. It's right to receive normal, incidental pleasures as good (tasty food, a colorful sunset). But besides enjoying such pleasures, you learn that every good thing is appreciated only in His goodness. Our first moment of pleasure is a product of His grace. Our final appreciation is a product of our worship to the Giver of all good gifts. At that point your concept of "enjoyment" and your interest in enjoyment is transcendent, sanctified. And in God's heaven, He is the sole object. This is not His only glory, but it is the one appointed to us.
* God is a [[Drama]] king.
* [[Glory]]
* Piper says @@color:navy;God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in Him.@@ Thus, the cross of Christ is paramount in bringing glory to God because precisely there our need is met or satisfied. To my alarm in 2017, some reformed theologians see this as covert self-justification.!!! Departed
* Ichabod - Related to shekinah?
* <<Bbl Jud 16:20 >> //He wist not//
* Ez 10
The terms //God// and //good// are not related in origin, although it is a popular belief since at least the 16th century. @@color:navy;Good has transparent etymology: //gather// and //-gether// are related to it. Their root means //fit, suitable.// This circumstance is borne out by numerous cognates in and outside Germanic. That is //good// which has been //fixed, assembled, put together// in a proper way.@@ -- // Anatoly Liberman, 2009//
* //God saw that it was good.//
* <<Bbl Mk 7:37 >>. Nahum 17, context of devastation. Ps 103.
* <<Bbl Ex 31:18 >>
* <<Bbl Ex 32:16 >>
* <<Bbl Ex 24:12 >>
* <<Bbl Dt 9:10>>
* The //finger of God// elsewhere: <<Bbl Ex 8:19>>, <<Bbl Ps 8:3>>, <<Bbl L 11:20>>
Unique and eternal is the moment God wrote with His finger the law on tablets of stone for [[Moses]]. Unique, as a mode of revelation - for God at times commanded his servant to take dictation, but only this time did He do the writing.
God's revelation can generally by viewed as either //word// or //act//. But here are both.
If we miss this we lose the significance of Jer 31 and those who quoted him in Hebrews and elsewhere.
* <<Bbl Jer 31:33>>
* <<Bbl 2C 3:3 >>
God is immutable because He is perfect forever. So how could He change?
* [[Perfection]]
* God knows all. So He cannot think like us.
* God knows all on an [[Individual]] basis.
* His foreknowledge can never be understood as pre-knowledge. <<Bbl A 2:23 >>, <<Bbl A 4:28 >>.
* Nothing ever "occurs" to him. He never says "Oh my self" (R. Morris).
* God's foresight never resorts to inductive reasoning. Today does not determine tomorrow.
!! Jesus
* He perceived their cunning (Luke 20:23); Jesus, aware of their plots, withdrew (Matt. 12:15); Jesus, knowing what they discussed 8:17); Jesus knew their malice (Matt. 22:18); knowing their hypocrisy (Mark 12:15); he knew what was in man (John 2:25); see a man who told me all the things I have done (John 4:29); he told me all the things I have done (John 4:39); Jesus saw him and knew he had been lying there a long time (John 5:6); I know that you do not have the love of God within you (John 5:42); Jesus, perceiving that they were going to make him king by force (John 6:15); Jesus, knowing in himself that his disciples grumbled at this (John 6:61); I know that you are descendants of Abraham (John 8:37); Jesus knew that they wanted to ask him (John 16:19); you know that I love you (John 21:15); (John 21:16); I know your deeds and your toil and perseverance (Rev. 2:2); I know your tribulation and poverty (Rev. 2:9); I know where you dwell (Rev. 2:13); I know your deeds (Rev. 2:19); (Rev. 3:1); (Rev. 3:8); (Rev. 3:15); Jesus knew their thoughts (Matt. 9:4); (Matt. 12:25); (Luke 5:22); (Luke 6:8); (Luke 9:47); (Luke 11:17); Jesus, knowing this (Matt. 16:8); (Matt. 26:10); (Mark 2:8); Jesus knew who did not believe (John 6:64); he knew who was going to betray him (John 13:11); if he were a prophet he would know what kind of woman she is (Luke 7:39).
* when the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard of his baptisms (John 4:1); ... As in, He heard about it from other? Consider too the news of Lazarus' death.
* (Gn rather?) <<Bbl Mt 17:25 >>; <<Bbl J 1:47 >>; <<Bbl L 21:3 >> n.
* [[Wickedness]]
* The parable of the wheat and the weeds.
!!! Until Christ's first arrival
* Paul and Peter talk about God's forbearance.
!!! Until Christ's second arrival
''Always first.'' God can never be second.
* Thus the [[Firstfruits]].
* The preeminence of Christ is the basis for exclusivity of His Gospel.
** Roman rulers did not care if Christians worshipped Christ. They objected utterly to the demand by Christians that Christ will be worshipped exclusively.
** And so the autocrats of today.
* [[Worship]]
* [[Gospel-Exclusive]]
* [[Idolatry]], [[Jealousy]]
!!! His presence is preferred over His power.
* <<Bbl Ex 33:14 abbr >>-23 ; <<Bbl Josh 1:9 >>; <<Bbl Dt 6:15 >>; <<Bbl Ps 16:11 >>, <<Bbl Ps 31:20 >>, <<Bbl Ps 46:10 >>; <<Bbl Mt 28:20 >>; <<Bbl L 10:20 >>, <<Bbl L 17:11 >>-19 ; <<Bbl A 3:19 >>
* <<Bbl 2S 21:18 >> explains a concern that doesn't apply to King Jesus. Also see chap 12, summons from Joab.
* __Redemption__ chapter 8.
* <<Bbl Ex 31:2 abbr >>, 6 Bezalel means, "In the shadow of God." Oholiab means, "Father's Tent."
* <<Bbl Ex 17:7>>
* Immanuel: //God with us//.
----
My little dog knows the command stay. Sometimes I get tired of her following me around the house from room to room. She seems to be fixated on me. Of course the correct word is bonded. This is an opportunity to practice the stay command. If I am leaving my desk to get a glass of water and I know I'll be right back, then I will tell her to stay. It sort of bothers me that she follows me all the time, and anyway it's good re-enforcement. She obeys but always with a look of real pain on her face. What if my interest in God was so high? Then any realization of his absence would give me that sense of pain. The very same sense. But I would have to be fixated on him before that could ever happen. If someone seems to be unaware when God leaves the scene, most likely it means that he or she was never so interested in his presence.
----
!!! Sort of a dispensationalist view
First, <<Bbl Gn 2:1 >>-2 (or <<Bbl Gn 1:1 >>-2). Second, <<Bbl Gn 3:8 >>. 3rd, The Tabernacle. A fearful bloodying. Fourth, the temple, ditto. Fifth Emmanuel. 6th, <<Bbl 1C 3:16 >>-17. 7th, <<Bbl 1C 16:19 >>. <<Bbl Rev 21:3 >>-4.
----
* [[Nearness]], //proximity//
* [[Tabernacle-of-David]]
* [[God-Encountered]]
* see list in SoF above
* [[Seek]], [[Call]]
* [[God-Will]]
* [[God-Touch]]
* [[God-Patience]]
* [[Sovereignty]]
* [[Kingdom-ofGod]]
* [[Judgment-ofGod]]
* [[Closure]]
* <<Bbl Judges 14:4 >>
* <<Bbl L 2:49 >>.
* [[God-Care]]
* <<Bbl 2Tim 1:9>>
* <<Bbl Eph 3:9>>-11
* <<Bbl Ps 33:11>>
* <<Bbl Dt 6:23 >>, <<Bbl Dt 8:18 >>.
* <<Bbl I 43:7 >>
* <<Bbl I 62:7 >>
* Isaiah 66?
!!! of Christ's Coming:
* Ge 3:15
* <<Bbl Mt 10:34 >>-36
* <<Bbl Mt 18:11 >>
* <<Bbl Mt 20:28 >>
* <<Bbl Mk 2:17 >>
* <<Bbl L 4:18 >>-19
* <<Bbl L 12:49 >>
* <<Bbl L 19:10 >>
* <<Bbl J 1:29 >>
* <<Bbl J 3:16 >>-17
* <<Bbl J 9:39 >>
* <<Bbl J 10:10 >>
* <<Bbl J 12:27 >>
* <<Bbl J 18:37 >>
* <<Bbl A 13:36 >>
* <<Bbl R 14:9 >>
* <<Bbl Gal 2:21 >>
* <<Bbl Gal 4:3 >>-5
* <<Bbl H 2:14 >>-15
* <<Bbl H 9:26 >>
* <<Bbl 1Tim 1:15 >>
* <<Bbl 1P 2:21 >> (poss.)
* <<Bbl 1J 3:5 >>
* <<Bbl 1J 4:9 >>
!!! of His Second Coming
* (stub)
!!! of us, His redeemed, the Church:
* <<Bbl 2C 5:15 >>
!!! for His own sake
* <<Bbl 2S 7:21 >>; <<Bbl Ps 23:3 >>; <<Bbl I 43:25 >>
----
* <<Bbl J 17:19 >> //for their sake I sanctify Myself//
In <<Bbl Gn 15:7 >>, God discloses to Abram the name of Yahweh, the I AM God; in <<Bbl Gn 17:1 abbr >>, He discloses the name of El Shaddai, our Provider. This title, given as God is promising a son to the 99 year old man, speaks specially of His provision.
* "... As possessing the power to realize His promises, even when the order of nature presented no prospect of their fulfillment, and the powers of nature were insufficient to secure it."
* Used mainly in the Pentateuch, then 31 times in Job, then a bit in the prophets -- and with wrenching irony in <<Bbl Ruth 1:21>>.
* [[Authorize]]
* [[Determinism]]
* Omnipotence
* Who does the choosing? <<Bbl J 15:16 >>. See [[Atone]]
* God is unaccountable.
* @@color:brown; Sovereignty is an attribute of God. According to Don Fortner it means ruling "all things, everywhere, at all times absolutely." If, by becoming man, [[Christ|Christ-DualNature]] gave up the use of His divine attributes in any way, then He was not sovereign. If Jesus was not sovereign during His earthly ministry, then He was not God. If He was not God, the Word that was God (<<Bbl J 1:1>>) never became flesh - only part of the Word did. And the name "Immanuel," meaning "God with us" (<<Bbl Mt 1:23>> NASB), is a lie, and God's Word is not true.@@ ([[D. Musick |http://kenosis.info/index.shtml#KenoticistsChristian]])
!! King of kings
* <<Bbl Esther 1:12 "" note>>
* <<Bbl Pr 21:1>>
* God removes kings and sets up kings (Dan. 2:21); by me princes rule (Prov. 8:16); I gave you a king and took him away (Hos. 13:11); the God of heaven has given you the kingdom (Dan. 2:37); the Most High decides who should rule (Dan. 4:17); (Dan. 4:25); (Dan. 4:32); (Dan. 5:21); you would have no authority unless you were given it from above (John 19:11); there is no authority except from God, the authorities which exist have been instituted by God (Rom. 13:1); God gave Nebuchadnezzar sovereignty (Dan. 5:18)
* Cleansing -- <<Bbl Mt 8:1 >>-3
* Reassuring -- <<Bbl Mt 17:5 >>-7
* for Children -- <<Bbl Mk 10:13 >>-15
* [[Heal]] -- <<Bbl L 22:50 >>-51
* ... <<Bbl J 12:49 >>-50
* [[God-Encounted]]
''Only God is holy, as the Creator is distinct from creation.''
* <<Bbl 1C 15:50 >>
* The ultimate manifestation of [[Holiness]].
* <<Bbl I 55:9 >>. God's transcendence we usually associate with His justice, but here it supports our understanding of His mercy.
* Mystery, He also makes Himself //immanent//.
!! Aspects (somebody's theory in 4 parts)
!!!! PURPOSED
* God’s eternal decree.
* It encompasses all of the other “wills.”
* [[God-Sovereign]]
!!!! PREFERENTIAL
* God’s desire.
* that which gives God pleasure or displeasure. Our Lord’s prayer in the Garden of Gethsemane reveals that the cross of Calvary was not our Lord’s desire, but it was His purpose. //God is not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance// (<<Bbl 2P 3:9>>). He //desires all men to be saved// (<<Bbl 1Tim 2:4>>). In spite of this desire, God has purposed that some will be eternally saved, while others will be eternally damned (Romans 9). Just as we may spank a disobedient child when it is not our desire or delight, God’s decree includes some things in which he does not delight, like the punishment of the wicked.
!!!! PRESCRIPTIVE
* God’s will set down in the Scriptures as commands, standards, or principles which govern what we do or do not do. It is God’s prescriptive will that we do not steal, lie, or worship idols. It is likewise His (prescriptive) will that we love Him and love our neighbor.
!!!! PERMISSIVE
* God’s treatment of all that contradicts His desires and standards...
* Sin is contrary to God’s preference and to His prescriptive will. Nevertheless God uses sinful deeds to accomplish His will.
!! Discerning of
* <<Bbl Gn 22:4 "" note >>.
!!! Decisions & Sympathies of God
* <<Bbl Ex 32:14 >>; <<Bbl Josh 10:12 >>-14 ; <<Bbl Jud 10:16 >>; <<Bbl 1S 10:9 >>; <<Bbl 2S 24:16 >> <<Bbl 2K 20:1>>-6; <<Bbl 1Ch 21:15 >>; <<Bbl Jer 18:7 >>-10 , <<Bbl Jer 26:3 >>, <<Bbl Jer 31:20 >>, <<Bbl Jer 35:17 >>, <<Bbl Jer 36:3 >>, <<Bbl Jer 44:21 >>-22 ; <<Bbl Lam 3:33 >>; <<Bbl Ez 6:9 >>, <<Bbl Ez 12:3 >>, <<Bbl Ez 24:14 >>; <<Bbl Dan 4:27 >>; <<Bbl Amo 7:1 >>-9 ; <<Bbl 2P 3:12 >>
!!! Absolute yet Accessible
* I may know the will of God in a matter, but never as well as He knows it.
* awful: <<Bbl Amo 6:11 >>; <<Bbl Jer 4:10 >>
* in Judgment: <<Bbl Ex 9:16 >>, <<Bbl 1S 2:25 >>
* loving and emotive: Hosea; <<Bbl Jer 31:20 >>; <<Bbl Lam 3:30 >>; <<Bbl Ez 6:9 >>, <<Bbl Ez 7:9 >>, <<Bbl Ez 12:13 >>, <<Bbl Ez 24:14 >>; <<Bbl Jud 10:16 >>; <<Bbl Mt 15:32 >>, <<Bbl Mt 23:37 >>
* immutable: This obviously deserves more references! <<Bbl 1S 15:29 >>, <<Bbl Mal 3:6>>
!!! Presented as Changeable
* Often in Jeremiah, Micah, Amos and Jonah (the right to show mercy) - all present this as God reveals the direst consequences of sin at the most crucial moment of decision. Jeremiah is not a prophet of doom but of consequences.
* <<Bbl Jud 10:10 >>-16 ; <<Bbl Jer 18:7 >>-10 , <<Bbl Jer 26:3 >>, <<Bbl Jer 35:17 >>, <<Bbl Jer 36:3 >>; <<Bbl Dan 4:27 >>; <<Bbl Jon 2:9 >>-10 ; <<Bbl Ex 32:14 >>; <<Bbl 2P 3:12 >>; <<Bbl Jos 10:12 >>-14 ; <<Bbl 1S 10:9 >>; <<Bbl 2S 14:14 >>, <<Bbl 2S 24:16 >> = <<Bbl 1Ch 21:15 >>Kng 20:1-6; <<Bbl Ez 12:3 >>
----
One might distinguish between "God's will on earth" and "God's will in heaven." God's intent, expressed through Elisha, is that Naaman shall be healed without being charged any fee. But Gehazi interferes. Always such a mystery how life's realities point us to God, while He reveals His sovereignty through (and despite) an awkwardly broken and disrupted reality.
* [[Create]]
* [[Reveal]]
* [[Speak]]
* 2 senses. One created, one uncreated. <<Bbl H 5:13 >>
* not to change the written word, <<Bbl Dt 4:2 >>; <<Bbl Pr 30:6 >>; <<Bbl Rev 22:18 >>-19 .
* <<Bbl Dt 8:3 >>, <<Bbl Dt 4:10 >>-14, <<Bbl Dt 4:33 >>-36, <<Bbl Dt 5:4 >>-05
* <<Bbl Jer 23:29 >>, <<Bbl I 40:8 >>, <<Bbl I 66:10 >>; <<Bbl Pr 13:13 >>; Zch 1:4-6; <<Bbl Mt 22:24 >>; <<Bbl R 15:4 >>; <<Bbl Col 1:25 >>-26 ; <<Bbl 2Tim 3:15 >>-17 .
* <<Bbl Php 2:16 >>.
!! God's word as effectual
His speech and His power are integral.
* <<Bbl J 20:21>>
* <<Bbl Ez 37:7>>-10
* <<Bbl 1Th 2:13>>
* <<Bbl I 55:11>> //My word does not return without any results//
* <<Bbl H 4:12 >> //Active// means //effectual//.
* @@color:#63C;There is only one way of reading that is congruent with our Holy Scriptures, writing that trusts in the power of words to penetrate our lives and create truth and beauty and goodness, writing that requires a reader who, in the words of Rainer Maria Rilke, "does not always remain bent over his pages; he often leans back and closes his eyes over a line he has been reading again, and its meaning spreads through his blood." This is the kind of reading named by our ancestors as ''//lectio divina//'', often translated "spiritual reading," reading that enters our souls as food enters our stomachs, spreads through our blood, and becomes holiness and love and wisdom.@@ //— Eugene Peterson//
!!! "The Word of God in Seven Editions" (Thompson Chain Ref. Bible):
# written on nature <<Bbl Ps 19:1 >>
# written on the natural conscience <<Bbl R 2:15 >>.
# written on tablets of stone <<Bbl Ex 24:12 >>.
# the Scriptures <<Bbl R 15:4 >>.
# Christ, the Word made flesh, " Edition" <<Bbl J 1:14 >>.
# written on the heart <<Bbl H 8:10 >>.
# outward Christian life (living epistles) <<Bbl 2C 3:2 >>-3
Godliness, the sum of all virtues; the fullest emulation of God in our created sphere, and the utmost expression of His original image.
| Psalms | [[Righteousness]] |
| Proverbs | [[Wisdom]] |
| New Testament | Believing |
* [[God]], [[Virtue]], //character//
* [[Integrity]], [[Discretion]], [[Faithfulness]], [[Purity]], [[Nobility]], [[Patience]], [[Humility]], [[SelfControl]], [[Compassion]], [[Revere]]
* [[Fruit]], [[SanctifiedProgressive]]
* //Orderliness// (not to be confused with tidiness)
* In [[Refine]], Gold becomes pliable. So the [[Heart]].
* [[Purity]]
* [[Glory]]
* <<Bbl 2Ch 9:13 >>-14
A type of sanctification is found in Exodus in the figure of gold. It can stand for the experience of our old life as it is redeemed for the new.
(collapse) ++++
* <<Bbl Ex 12:21>>-22; 11:2: God commanded them not to borrow but to take.
* 12:35-36: Thus they plundered the Egyptians.
** The ultimate purpose was for the building of the Tabernacle.
** The gold itself was redeemed from the pagan jewelry of the Egyptians, commonly found in the form of scarabs.
** I wonder if the gold, as it was handed from the humbled Egyptian to the Hebrew, was a vindication as when Abimelech gave silver to Abraham's wife Sarah.
* 32:2-4: Anything tends to be more important to you if you've paid for it, as the director of my grade-school newspaper knew.
* Highest holiness is subverted to achieve lowest corruption.
* 32:20: The gold that was dedicated to sin is lost, destroyed; worse, it is direct Judgment against the sin to which it had been dedicated.
* 33:4-6: Note that the people did not throw the rest of the gold away. Even so for us, a gift that has been misused should not be thrown away. Perhaps, however, it should be packed away for awhile. For some pastors, systematic theology has become a snare. Books of theology are not themselves evil, but they may have become the calf of idolatry. The Israelites misused the true value of the gold.
* 35:21-22: Here at last the gold is used for its original purpose. Gold is a burden when it merely hangs around its neck. It was never intended for your own glory. See <<Bbl Job 22:24 >>-25 .
* According to the Student Bible, a ton of gold went into the ark and tabernacle as well as four tons of silver.
* <<Bbl Dt 7:25 >>
===
''Imagine the positions were replaced.''
* Most principles of conduct and leadership can be understood in this light.
* The category of "others" includes everyone, and this is the very point. Christ blessed His enemies, including you.
* Love your brother as yourself. <<Bbl Lv 19:18 >>
* <<Bbl L 6:31 >> //Treat others as you yourself would like to be treated.//
** [[Reciprocate]] - the Rule of Reciprocity.
** This can be confounding to someone who is compulsively self-abusive.
** Or to a narcissist.
** Indeed we are forced to index our own desires for self.
* Humility toward others is preceded by humility toward God. This is what delivers from a distorted or selfish sense of what you would like in treatment by others.
* Karma enshrines this truth as inevitable nature (collective unconsciousness). As you have done to others, so...
* <<Bbl R 12:8 >>-10. <<Bbl R 13:9>>.
* <<Bbl James 2:8 >> //the total law//, <<Bbl Gal 5:14 >>.
* <<Bbl Mt 22:37 >>-37
* <<Bbl Mt 7:12 >>, <<Bbl Mk 12:31 >>
* <<Bbl R 13:9 >>, @@10@@
* Texas State "holiday message" includes enlightening quotes from the so-called great world religions. <<Bbl L 6:31 >> is attributed to "Christianity". Keeping Jesus anonymous is a form of blasphemy.
* Other passages reinforce this principle of [[Love]]:
** Husbands to wives -- //No man ever hated __his own__ flesh ...// <<Bbl Eph 5:28 >>-29
** <<Bbl Mt 19:18 >> //You shall love your neighbor as yourself.//
** <<Bbl R 13:9 >>
* <<Bbl R 12:10 >>. <<Bbl 1C 7:3 >>-5, 32-34 (a double bind)
* [[IdentifyWith]]. BB <<Bbl Job 31:13 >>-15.
* The second commandment cited as greatest.
* <<Bbl R 12:16 >>.
* All exhortations to unity such as <<Bbl R 12:10 >>-18.
* If the roles were reversed. Specifically enemies, <<Bbl L 6:31 >>.
* <<Bbl Lev 19:18 >>.
* <<Bbl Mt 7:12 "" note >> .
* <<Bbl R 12:10 >>-18.
* "Pay it forward"
** You have learned something from an act of kindness; so the scope of
** //Insofar as you do it the least of these, you have done it to Me.//
!!!Disobeyed
* <<Bbl Lev 19:14 >>
* <<Bbl Pr 17:5 >>
* <<Bbl I 58:7 >>
* The rich man and Lazarus
* [[Selfish]]
!!! Case studies
* <<Bbl L 16:19 >>
Vos renders the idiom "good-and-evil;" good and evil as mutually conditioned, as revealed in contrast to each other.
* <<Bbl Gn 2:17 >>
* <<Bbl 1K 3:9 >>
* <<Bbl H 5:14 >>
* Free. <<Bbl R 3:5 >> , God owed us nothing.
* <<Bbl R 1:1>>
* The narrow gate may well be compared to a turnstile.
* The "good news" is a phrase presented strongly by Isaiah (How lovely on the mountains... He has anointed me to preach).
* All the virtues and benefits of the Gospel exist to remove barriers to our rejoicing in God (J. Piper).
* <<Bbl 1C 15:1 >> The passage offers these truths about the work of Christ: 1, According to plan. 2, Historically proven. 3, Effectual and purposeful (believe, recieve; "for our sins"). 4, Freely proferred (alliteration) (appropriated by faith). 5, Personal in application. 6, Preparatory (Gospel is good news).
* Our definition cannot leave out [[Repent]].
* The Gospel is not a philosophy of life, a system of ethics, good advice, a list of do's and don'ts, or even an anointed teaching on the Christian life. <<Bbl R 1:16 >> says it is //the power of God unto salvation to those who believe.//
* What was Jesus' vocation while on earth? Evangelism.
* //The gospel of Jesus is what we launch from and what we land on.// – so says pastor Peter.
* A context is found in the announcements made by Roman rulers following their conquests.
* [[Christianity]] -- A word not found in the Scriptures. Called "the Way" occasionally (see [[Road]]). The title given at Antioch was perhaps not self-nominated or spoken in a term of respect. <<Bbl A 9:2 >>; <<Bbl A 22:4 >>; <<Bbl A 22:22 >>. <<Bbl A 24:14 >> gives a special contrast.
* Concept of //gossip//. Would be effective to use a puppet-mouth gesture whenever saying the word.
* //Good news, evangel//
* [[Judah]]
* @@color:brown;Since the light which the Devil wants to prevent people seeing and which God shines into them is the gospel, we had better preach it! It is the God-appointed means by which the prince of darkness is defeated and the light comes streaming into people's hearts.@@ // -- John Stott //
* <<Bbl 2C 4:4 "" note>>-6
!! Highlights from Volume One
The Bible always speaks life and gives life, and always through the Gospel -– that Gospel which was preached to Abraham.
* <<Bbl I 40:9 >>, <<Bbl I 52:7 "" note>>, <<Bbl I 60:6 abbr >>, <<Bbl I 61:1 abbr >>
* Psalm 32, where iniquities are not counted.
* Specific [[Atone]].
* The [[Gospel]] must be exclusive, else the cruelty of the cross is incomprehensible. [[Exclude]]
* <<Bbl Gn 12:3 "" note>>
Gossip is sharing information about other people with the goal of seeming more important.
* Many people take gossip as motivated by ill will or sedition. They don't feel they have sinned because those negative emotions seem to be absent. Gossip with ill will is covered under <<Bbl Pr 18:8 "" note>>.
/***
|Name|GotoPlugin|
|Source|http://www.TiddlyTools.com/#GotoPlugin|
|Documentation|http://www.TiddlyTools.com/#GotoPluginInfo|
|Version|1.9.2|
|Author|Eric Shulman|
|License|http://www.TiddlyTools.com/#LegalStatements|
|~CoreVersion|2.1|
|Type|plugin|
|Requires||
|Overrides||
|Description|view any tiddler by entering it's title - displays list of possible matches|
''View a tiddler by typing its title and pressing //enter//.'' As you type, a list of possible matches is displayed. You can scroll-and-click (or use arrows+enter) to select/view a tiddler, or press escape to close the listbox to resume typing. When the listbox is not displayed, pressing //escape// clears the current input.
!!!Documentation
>see [[GotoPluginInfo]]
!!!Configuration
<<<
*Match titles only after {{twochar{<<option txtIncrementalSearchMin>>}}} or more characters are entered.<br>Use down-arrow to start matching with shorter input. //Note: This option value is also set/used by [[SearchOptionsPlugin]]//.
*To set the maximum height of the listbox, you can create a tiddler tagged with <<tag systemConfig>>, containing:
//{{{
config.macros.gotoTiddler.listMaxSize=10; // change this number
//}}}
<<<
!!!Revisions
<<<
2009.05.22 [1.9.2] use reverseLookup() for IncludePlugin
|please see [[GotoPluginInfo]] for additional revision details|
2006.05.05 [0.0.0] started
<<<
!!!Code
***/
//{{{
version.extensions.GotoPlugin= {major: 1, minor: 9, revision: 2, date: new Date(2009,5,22)};
// automatically tweak shadow SideBarOptions to add <<gotoTiddler>> macro above <<search>>
config.shadowTiddlers.SideBarOptions=config.shadowTiddlers.SideBarOptions.replace(/<<search>>/,"{{button{goto}}}\n<<gotoTiddler>><<search>>");
if (config.options.txtIncrementalSearchMin===undefined) config.options.txtIncrementalSearchMin=3;
config.macros.gotoTiddler= {
listMaxSize: 10,
listHeading: 'Found %0 matching title%1...',
searchItem: "Search for '%0'...",
handler:
function(place,macroName,params,wikifier,paramString,tiddler) {
var quiet =params.contains("quiet");
var showlist =params.contains("showlist");
var search =params.contains("search");
params = paramString.parseParams("anon",null,true,false,false);
var instyle =getParam(params,"inputstyle","");
var liststyle =getParam(params,"liststyle","");
var filter =getParam(params,"filter","");
var html=this.html;
var keyevent=window.event?"onkeydown":"onkeypress"; // IE event fixup for ESC handling
html=html.replace(/%keyevent%/g,keyevent);
html=html.replace(/%search%/g,search);
html=html.replace(/%quiet%/g,quiet);
html=html.replace(/%showlist%/g,showlist);
html=html.replace(/%display%/g,showlist?'block':'none');
html=html.replace(/%position%/g,showlist?'static':'absolute');
html=html.replace(/%instyle%/g,instyle);
html=html.replace(/%liststyle%/g,liststyle);
html=html.replace(/%filter%/g,filter);
if (config.browser.isIE) html=this.IEtableFixup.format([html]);
var span=createTiddlyElement(place,'span');
span.innerHTML=html; var form=span.getElementsByTagName("form")[0];
if (showlist) this.fillList(form.list,'',filter,search,0);
},
html:
'<form onsubmit="return false" style="display:inline;margin:0;padding:0">\
<input name=gotoTiddler type=text autocomplete="off" accesskey="G" style="%instyle%"\
title="Enter title text... ENTER=goto, SHIFT-ENTER=search for text, DOWN=select from list"\
onfocus="this.select(); this.setAttribute(\'accesskey\',\'G\');"\
%keyevent%="return config.macros.gotoTiddler.inputEscKeyHandler(event,this,this.form.list,%search%,%showlist%);"\
onkeyup="return config.macros.gotoTiddler.inputKeyHandler(event,this,%quiet%,%search%,%showlist%);">\
<select name=list style="display:%display%;position:%position%;%liststyle%"\
onchange="if (!this.selectedIndex) this.selectedIndex=1;"\
onblur="this.style.display=%showlist%?\'block\':\'none\';"\
%keyevent%="return config.macros.gotoTiddler.selectKeyHandler(event,this,this.form.gotoTiddler,%showlist%);"\
onclick="return config.macros.gotoTiddler.processItem(this.value,this.form.gotoTiddler,this,%showlist%);">\
</select><input name="filter" type="hidden" value="%filter%">\
</form>',
IEtableFixup:
"<table style='width:100%;display:inline;padding:0;margin:0;border:0;'>\
<tr style='padding:0;margin:0;border:0;'><td style='padding:0;margin:0;border:0;'>\
%0</td></tr></table>",
getItems:
function(list,val,filter) {
if (!list.cache || !list.cache.length || val.length<=config.options.txtIncrementalSearchMin) {
// starting new search, fetch and cache list of tiddlers/shadows/tags
list.cache=new Array();
if (filter.length) {
var fn=store.getMatchingTiddlers||store.getTaggedTiddlers;
var tiddlers=store.sortTiddlers(fn.apply(store,[filter]),'title');
} else
var tiddlers=store.reverseLookup('tags','excludeLists');
for(var t=0; t<tiddlers.length; t++) list.cache.push(tiddlers[t].title);
if (!filter.length) {
for (var t in config.shadowTiddlers) list.cache.pushUnique(t);
var tags=store.getTags();
for(var t=0; t<tags.length; t++) list.cache.pushUnique(tags[t][0]);
}
}
var found = [];
var match=val.toLowerCase();
for(var i=0; i<list.cache.length; i++)
if (list.cache[i].toLowerCase().indexOf(match)!=-1) found.push(list.cache[i]);
return found;
},
getItemSuffix:
function(t) {
if (store.tiddlerExists(t)) return ""; // tiddler
if (store.isShadowTiddler(t)) return " (shadow)"; // shadow
return " (tag)"; // tag
},
fillList:
function(list,val,filter,search,key) {
if (list.style.display=="none") return; // not visible... do nothing!
var indent='\xa0\xa0\xa0';
var found = this.getItems(list,val,filter); // find matching items...
found.sort(); // alpha by title
while (list.length > 0) list.options[0]=null; // clear list
var hdr=this.listHeading.format([found.length,found.length==1?"":"s"]);
list.options[0]=new Option(hdr,"",false,false);
for (var t=0; t<found.length; t++) list.options[list.length]=
new Option(indent+found[t]+this.getItemSuffix(found[t]),found[t],false,false);
if (search)
list.options[list.length]=new Option(this.searchItem.format([val]),"*",false,false);
list.size=(list.length<this.listMaxSize?list.length:this.listMaxSize); // resize list...
list.selectedIndex=key==38?list.length-1:key==40?1:0;
},
keyProcessed:
function(ev) { // utility function
ev.cancelBubble=true; // IE4+
try{event.keyCode=0;}catch(e){}; // IE5
if (window.event) ev.returnValue=false; // IE6
if (ev.preventDefault) ev.preventDefault(); // moz/opera/konqueror
if (ev.stopPropagation) ev.stopPropagation(); // all
return false;
},
inputEscKeyHandler:
function(event,here,list,search,showlist) {
if (event.keyCode==27) {
if (showlist) { // clear input, reset list
here.value=here.defaultValue;
this.fillList(list,'',here.form.filter.value,search,0);
}
else if (list.style.display=="none") // clear input
here.value=here.defaultValue;
else list.style.display="none"; // hide list
return this.keyProcessed(event);
}
return true; // key bubbles up
},
inputKeyHandler:
function(event,here,quiet,search,showlist) {
var key=event.keyCode;
var list=here.form.list;
var filter=here.form.filter;
// non-printing chars bubble up, except for a few:
if (key<48) switch(key) {
// backspace=8, enter=13, space=32, up=38, down=40, delete=46
case 8: case 13: case 32: case 38: case 40: case 46: break; default: return true;
}
// blank input... if down/enter... fall through (list all)... else, and hide or reset list
if (!here.value.length && !(key==40 || key==13)) {
if (showlist) this.fillList(here.form.list,'',here.form.filter.value,search,0);
else list.style.display="none";
return this.keyProcessed(event);
}
// hide list if quiet, or below input minimum (and not showlist)
list.style.display=(!showlist&&(quiet||here.value.length<config.options.txtIncrementalSearchMin))?'none':'block';
// non-blank input... enter=show/create tiddler, SHIFT-enter=search for text
if (key==13 && here.value.length) return this.processItem(event.shiftKey?'*':here.value,here,list,showlist);
// up or down key, or enter with blank input... shows and moves to list...
if (key==38 || key==40 || key==13) { list.style.display="block"; list.focus(); }
this.fillList(list,here.value,filter.value,search,key);
return true; // key bubbles up
},
selectKeyHandler:
function(event,list,editfield,showlist) {
if (event.keyCode==27) // escape... hide list, move to edit field
{ editfield.focus(); list.style.display=showlist?'block':'none'; return this.keyProcessed(event); }
if (event.keyCode==13 && list.value.length) // enter... view selected item
{ this.processItem(list.value,editfield,list,showlist); return this.keyProcessed(event); }
return true; // key bubbles up
},
processItem:
function(title,here,list,showlist) {
if (!title.length) return;
list.style.display=showlist?'block':'none';
if (title=="*") { story.search(here.value); return false; } // do full-text search
if (!showlist) here.value=title;
story.displayTiddler(null,title); // show selected tiddler
return false;
}
}
//}}}
/***
|Name|GotoPluginInfo|
|Source|http://www.TiddlyTools.com/#GotoPlugin|
|Documentation|http://www.TiddlyTools.com/#GotoPluginInfo|
|Version|1.9.2|
|Author|Eric Shulman|
|License|http://www.TiddlyTools.com/#LegalStatements|
|~CoreVersion|2.1|
|Type|documentation|
|Description|Documentation for GotoPlugin|
''View a tiddler by typing its title and pressing //enter//.'' As you type, a list of possible matches is displayed. You can scroll-and-click (or use arrows+enter) to select/view a tiddler, or press escape to close the listbox to resume typing. When the listbox is not displayed, pressing //escape// clears the current input.
!!!!!Usage/Examples
<<<
syntax: {{{<<gotoTiddler quiet search inputstyle:... liststyle:... filter:...>>}}}
All parameters are optional.
* ''quiet'' (//keyword//)<br>list will not be automatically display as each character is typed. Use //down// or //enter// to view the list.
* ''showlist'' (//keyword//)<br>list will always be displayed, inline, directly below the input field.
* ''search'' (//keyword//)<br>adds an extra 'command item' to the list that can be used to invoke a full-text search using the entered value. This can be especially useful when no matching tiddler titles have been found.
* ''inputstyle:'' and ''liststyle:''<br>are CSS declarations that modify the default input and listbox styles, respectively. Note: the CSS styles must be surrounded by ({{{"..."}}} or {{{'...'}}}) or ({{{[[...]]}}}) (e.g., {{{liststyle:"border:1px dotted blue;color:green;..."}}}.
* ''filter:''<br>is a single tag value (or a boolean tag expression if MatchTagsPlugin is installed), and is used to limit the search to only those tiddlers matching the indicated tag or tag expression (e.g., {{{<<gotoTiddler filter:"faq or help">>}}})
{{{<<gotoTiddler>>}}}
<<gotoTiddler>>
{{{<<gotoTiddler search>>}}}
<<gotoTiddler search>>
{{{<<gotoTiddler showlist filter:"pluginInfo" liststyle:"height:10em;width:auto;">>}}}
<<gotoTiddler showlist filter:"pluginInfo" liststyle:"height:10em;width:auto;">>
<<<
!!!!!Configuration
<<<
*Match titles only after {{twochar{<<option txtIncrementalSearchMin>>}}} or more characters are entered.<br>Use down-arrow to start matching with shorter input. //Note: This option value is also set/used by [[SearchOptionsPlugin]]//.
*To set the maximum height of the listbox, you can create a tiddler tagged with <<tag systemConfig>>, containing:
//{{{
config.macros.gotoTiddler.listMaxSize=10; // change this number
//}}}
<<<
!!!!!Revisions
<<<
2009.05.22 1.9.2 use reverseLookup() for IncludePlugin
2009.04.12 1.9.1 support multiple instances with different filters by using per-element tiddler cache instead of shared static cache
2009.04.05 1.9.0 added 'showlist' parameter for inline display with listbox always visible.
2009.03.23 1.8.0 added txtIncrementalSearchMin (default=3). Avoids fetching long lists. Use down arrow to force search with short input.
2008.12.15 1.7.1 up arrow from input field now moves to end of droplist (search for input). Also, shift+enter cam now be used to quickly invoke search for text.
2008.10.16 1.7.0 in macro handler(), changed to use //named// params instead of positional params, and added optional "filter:" param for tag filtering. Removed 'insert' handling (now provided by [[QuickEditPlugin]]).
2008.10.02 1.6.1 for IE, wrap controls in a table. Corrects placement of listbox so it is below input field.
2008.10.02 1.6.0 added 'search' param for optional "Search for:" item that invokes full text search (especially useful when no title matches are found)
2008.02.17 1.5.0 ENTER key always displays tiddler based on current input regardless of whether input matches any existing tiddler
2007.10.31 1.4.3 removed extra trailing comma on last property of config.macros.gotoTiddler object. This fixes an error under InternetExplorer that was introduced 6 days ago... sure, I should have found it sooner, but... WHY DON'T PEOPLE TELL ME WHEN THINGS ARE BROKEN!!!!
2007.10.25 1.4.2 added onclick handler for input field, so that clicking in field hides the listbox.
2007.10.25 1.4.1 re-wrote getItems() to cache list of tiddlers/shadows/tags and use case-folded simple text match instead of regular expression to find matching tiddlers. This *vastly* reduces processing overhead between keystrokes, especially for documents with many (>1000) tiddlers. Also, removed local definition of replaceSelection(), now supported directly by the TW2.2+ core, as well as via backward-compatible plugin
2007.04.25 1.4.0 renamed macro from "goto" to "gotoTiddler". This was necessary to avoid a fatal syntax error in Opera (and other browsers) that require strict adherence to ECMAScript 1.5 standards which defines the identifier "goto" as "reserved for FUTURE USE"... *sigh*
2007.04.21 1.3.2 in html definition, removed DIV around droplist (see 1.2.6 below). It created more layout problems then it solved. :-(
2007.04.01 1.3.1 in processItem(), ensure that correct textarea field is found by checking for edit=="text" attribute
2007.03.30 1.3.0 tweak SideBarOptions shadow to automatically add {{{<<goto>>}}} when using default sidebar content
2007.03.30 1.2.6 in html definition, added DIV around droplist to fix IE problem where list appears next to input field instead of below it.
2007.03.28 1.2.5 in processItem(), set focus to text area before setting selection (needed for IE to get correct selection 'range')
2007.03.28 1.2.4 added prompt for 'pretty text' when inserting a link into tiddler content
2007.03.28 1.2.3 added local copy of core replaceSelection() and modified for different replace logic
2007.03.27 1.2.2 in processItem(), use story.getTiddlerField() to retrieve textarea control
2007.03.26 1.2.1 in html, use either 'onkeydown' (IE) or 'onkeypress' (Moz) event to process <esc> key sooner, to prevent <esc> from 'bubbling up' to the tiddler (which will close the current editor).
2007.03.26 1.2.0 added support for optional "insert" keyword param.
2006.05.10 1.1.2 when filling listbox, set selection to 'heading' item... auto-select first tiddler title when down/enter moves focus into listbox
2006.05.08 1.1.1 added accesskey ("G") to input field html (also set when field gets focus). Also, inputKeyHandler() skips non-printing/non-editing keys.
2006.05.08 1.1.0 added heading to listbox for better feedback (also avoids problems with 1-line droplist)
2006.05.07 1.0.0 list matches against tiddlers/shadows/tags. input field auto-completion... 1st enter=complete matching input (or show list)... 2nd enter=view tiddler. "quiet" param controls when listbox appears. handling for enter (13), escape(27), and down(40) keys. Change 'ondblclick' to 'onclick' to avoid unintended triggering of tiddler editor). Shadow titles inserted into list instead of appended to the end.
2006.05.05 0.0.0 started
<<<
* We use it as an abbreviation for //federal// government, and tend to miss the fuller more basic sense.
* <<Bbl 1C 7:20 "" note >>
!!! Control
''Control'' is a synonym. I've tried hard to think of a difference. I think there is a connotative difference in that //government// indicates personal relationship.
* [[Sovereignty]], [[King]], [[Authorize]]
* [[Leader]]
!!! Virtues
* [[Love]]
* [[Bless]], [[Affirmation]], [[Vindicate]], [[Free]]
* [[Information]], [[Benefits]], [[Mercy]], [[Provide]]
* Accommodates and nourishes values, needs, visions, dreams and wishes.
* Supports [[Frailty]]s. Empowers.
* [[Order]]s relationships with others (respecting them as well)
!!!! Constraints:
* [[Resources]]
* [[Circumstances]]
* [[Justice]]
* [[Discipline]]
* Free: because God is not under any obligation in offering it. <<Bbl R 3:24>>, <<Bbl R 4:4 >>
* Conditional: I'll pay for your college if you graduate from high school. And I'll provide tutoring through high school!
* <<Bbl Micah 7:18 >>-20.
* <<Bbl Dt 6:10 "" note >>-11
* [[Promise]]
* <<Bbl 2Pe 1:3>>-4
* <<Bbl 2C 8:1 >>-7
* @@color:brown;One thing we have to keep in mind as we talk about truthfulness is that Christ does not receive us on the basis of how well we tell the truth. God forgives us because of what Jesus did. This means that there is unlimited grace from God. In other words, after the one-hundredth lie, God does not say, "Enough, no more forgiveness." Since Jesus lives as our defense attorney (Heb. 7), grace is never exhausted. But the fact that Jesus died to forgive sins also means that he died to break the pattern of lies. By God's grace we are headed to a place where we don't have to keep confessing the same thing.@@ // -- E.T. Welch, __Addictions__ p. 190//
* Entry in Scott Wiki about Mike Reed.
* The Holy Spirit is represented by oil; grace might be likened to grease.
* Grace is only revealed in the context of [[brokenness|Break]] and the realization of [[Depravity]].
* @@color:indigo; I am afraid that my people will believe that Christ died for their righteousness and not for their sins.@@ // -- M. Luther, as I recorded it; but I can't find any source for this statement//
* @@color:brown; Run, John, run, the law commands, but gives us neither feet nor hands. Far better news the Gospel brings; it bids us fly and gives us wings.@@ // - John Bunyon //
* @@color:indigo;'Grace' is one of the great Christian words, and it is a minor mystery that John uses it three times in the Prologue and not again throughout his Gospel.@@ // - Leon Morris//
* [[Free]]
!!! Irresistible grace for the [[elect|Election]]
* @@color:darkgreen;The result of God's //irresistible grace// is the certain response by the elect to the inward call of the Holy Spirit, when the outward call is given by the evangelist or minister of the Word of God. Christ, himself, teaches that all whom God has elected will come to a knowledge of him (<<Bbl J 6:37>>). Men come to Christ in salvation when the Father calls them (<<Bbl J 6:44>>), and the very Spirit of God leads God's beloved to repentance (<<Bbl Rom 8:14>>). What a comfort it is to know that the gospel of Christ will penetrate our hard, sinful hearts and wondrously save us through the gracious inward call of the Holy Spirit (<<Bbl IP 5:10>>)! @@ [[Source|http://www.reformed.org/calvinism/]]
* [[Grace-Prevenient]]
!!! Modern confusion of grace and works
@@color:brown;The ''neonomian'' [model of Daniel Fuller (__The Unity of the Bible__) and John Piper] of conditional grace is as follows:
There never was a covenant of works that offered life on the basis of perfect obedience to God’s law. Faith and obedience have always been required under the one conditional covenant of grace. It has always been required of all, including Adam, Christ, and us. Faith plus personal obedience is always the main condition. Christ did bear our punishment for sin. He lived the perfect life to be the perfect sacrifice for sin. His righteousness is imputed for initial justification, but final salvation is determined by the sufficiency of our fruits and perseverance in maintaining our justification. Piper calls this maintaining the conditions of the conditional covenant of grace. He says this is grace because God supplies the ability to keep the conditions of we have the prerequisites of faith that God will give us this ability and love. Works are another condition of keeping the conditional covenant of grace. Piper argues that though this may seem legalistic, it is still of grace since we are relying on God to enable us to meet the conditions. He insists, that though this salvation can be forfeited, we should trust that God will enable us to fulfill the conditions. @@
[[Source|https://heidelblog.net/2017/11/one-of-the-root-causes-of-the-current-controversy-over-salvation-sola-fide/#comment-487182]]
Common grace, <<Bbl Ps 136:25 >>, <<Bbl Ps 145:9 >>; <<Bbl Mt 5:45 >>; <<Bbl J 1:9 >>, <<Bbl J 5:3 >>-4 ; <<Bbl L 6:35 >>;<<Bbl 1C 12:3 >>b. As opposed to special [[Reveal]].
----
Witness of natural world
The universe is moral. <<Bbl Lv 18:25 >>; <<Bbl Job 8:18 >>; <<Bbl Mt 3:9 >>
against sin: <<Bbl Job 32:38 >>; <<Bbl Hab 2:11 >>; <<Bbl Jms 5:4 >>
for righteousness: <<Bbl Job 5:23 >>
for God's existance: <<Bbl R 1:18 >>-20
for Jesus as the Christ: <<Bbl L 19:4 >>
the poor and the oppressor have this in common: <<Bbl Pr 29:13 >>
!!! Apportioned grace:
* <<Bbl R 12:3>>-6
* <<Bbl 1C 3:10>>
* //...brought forth fruit - some thirty, some sixty and some one hundred-fold.//
* //Prevenient// grace is resistible; to God's elect, His saints, is given irresistible grace.
* It could also be described as //invitational// or //probatory//.
* <<Bbl Mk 12:34>> - //You are not far from the Kingdom of God.// Sermon by Finney https://www.gospeltruth.net/1849-51Penny_Pulpit/500909pp_not_far_frm_kngdm.htm
* According to DA Carson, the Puritans were quite reconciled to the reality that attendees were not all in Christ. Like us, they regarded church participation as no indicator of saving trust; perhaps unlike us, as the most natural path to salvation.
* <<Bbl Mt 6:4>>-6
* <<Bbl Mt 7:22>>-23
* <<Bbl Mt 22:10>>-11
* <<Bbl Mt 25:11>>-12
* <<Bbl H 10:26>>-31
----
We meet many people in life who are interested in Jesus for a little while and then fall away. They aren't really His sheep. This doesn't mean God wasn't at work. My belief is that God moves people toward salvation, and even gives them a taste of His goodness in the Spirit. Then He lets them decide whether to follow. Some people quickly make a commitment to life. Others don't, and they may be given a season to think about it. They may see miracles, even through their own hands. But in the end, they either stick and become saints, or they don't and remain sinners. Consider the parable of the seeds and the different soils. Except for the ones by the pathway, all the plants lived. They didn't all make it to the harvest, but they had life.
Grace for ministry and life.
* Gideon "Go with what you've got" - later the army is pared to 300.
* Fishes n loaves.
* [[Contentment]]
* //but will provide a way of escape//
!!! Grace after [[testing|Test]]
* Job
* Abraham after the Akedah
* <<Bbl Mt 4:11 "" note >>//And angels came and ministered to Him//
* <<Bbl 1P 5:10 >>
* <<Bbl L 22:31 >>
* The seven churches faced different tests. Yet Jesus was the intimate pioneer for each of them.
* Paul's struggle. "Made perfect in weakness."
* [[Levirate|Brother]]
* Grafting is creative redemption.
From them we have the "market place of ideas."
/***
|Name|GridPluginInfo|
|Source|http://www.TiddlyTools.com/#GridPlugin|
|Documentation|http://www.TiddlyTools.com/#GridPluginInfo|
|Version|2.0.7|
|Author|Eric Shulman|
|License|http://www.TiddlyTools.com/#LegalStatements|
|~CoreVersion|2.1.3|
|Type|documentation|
|Description|documentation for GridPlugin|
!!!!!Usage
<<<
The {{{<<grid>>}}} macro generates a table, where ''rows are tiddlers, columns are any combination of slices, sections or field names'', and grid cells display individual values (or colored boxes with mouseover 'tooltips' to view values).
*Use tag filtering to select and display specific subsets of tiddlers.
*Grid column headings can be shown/hidden by clicking the {{{>>>}}} symbol in the upper-left corner
*Optionally, clicking on a cell allows you to edit the value in that cell. Pressing enter (or moving away from the input field) saves the changed value. Pressing escape cancels the changes (after confirming)
{{{
<<grid columns:[[name name name...]]
tags:[[tag tag...]]
filter:...
clip:...
inline wikify edit all>>
}}}
//all parameters are optional//
*''columns:...'' (list) default=use all slices defined in the document<br>display columns using the specified names, which refer to any combination of slices, sections and fields.
**If a column name begins with '=' (equal sign), then it is a tiddler field reference.
**If a column name begins with '!' (exclamation), then it is a tiddler section reference.
**Column names without either prefix are tiddler slice references.
**''{{{+TiddlerName}}}'' uses a space-separated list of column names stored in another tiddler.
**''{{{@TiddlerName}}}'' uses the slices from a given tiddler as column names.
**''{{{@!TiddlerName}}}'' uses the sections from a given tiddler.
**''{{{@=TiddlerName}}}'' uses the fields from a given tiddler.
**A special read-only 'fake' slice name, ''~TiddlerSize'', can be used to automatically compute and show the tiddler's size in bytes.
*''tags:...'' (list) default=show all tiddlers<br>display tiddlers that match at least ONE of the specified tags.
**''{{{+TiddlerName}}}'' uses a space-separated list of tags stored in another tiddler.
**''{{{@TiddlerName}}}'' uses the tags assigned to the indicated tiddler.
*''filter:...'' (filter syntax) default=none<br>enhanced tiddler selection by tags, using core filter syntax (e.g., {{{"[tag[tag1]][tag[tag2]]"}}}) or MatchTagsPlugin's compound //Boolean tag expressions// (e.g., {{{"tag1 or (tag2 and tag3) and not tag4)"}}})
*''clip:...'' (number) default=no clip length limit<br>maximum # of characters to show in a grid cell when using 'inline' keyword. Text values are truncated with '...'
*''inline'' (keyword)<br>displays column values directly in grid cells. Default=use a colored block if a value is defined, with mouseover 'tooltip' to show the actual value
*''wikify'' (keyword)<br>parses and formats wiki-syntax contained in values. Default=show values ''as-is'', without wiki formatting
*''edit'' (keyword)<br>enables click-to-edit to change values. Default=read-only display of values.
*''all'' (keyword)<br>displays a row for each tiddler, even tiddlers that have NO non-blank values. Default=show only tiddlers that have at least one defined value.
Note: this plugin uses a modified version of slices pattern:
{{{
slicesRE = /(?:^\|[\'\/]*~?(\w+)\:?[\'\/]*\|\s*(.*?)\s*\|$)/gm;
}}}
* eliminates TONS of spurious slices caused by over-eager 'description' format pattern matches
* enforces beginning-of-line and end-of-line sequences. (Allows slice values to contain |, such as in pretty links)
<<<
!!!!!Examples
<<<
*{{block{
View 'mouseover' summary of slices
for tiddlers matching at least one tag from a list of tags
using slices from this tiddler as columns
<<<
{{{
<<grid tags:[[systemConfig pluginInfo script]] columns:@GridPluginInfo>>
}}}
+++[show results...]...
<<grid tags:[[systemConfig pluginInfo script]] columns:@GridPluginInfo>>
===
<<<
}}}
*{{block{
Edit slices (Description, Version), fields (changecount) and sections (Revisions)
for tiddlers using TW core filter syntax:
<<<
{{{
<<grid filter:[tag[systemConfig]][tag[pluginInfo]][tag[script]]
columns:[[Description Version =changecount !Revisions]] inline wikify edit>>
}}}
+++[show results...]...
<<grid filter:[tag[systemConfig]][tag[pluginInfo]][tag[script]]
columns:[[Description Version =changecount !Revisions]] inline wikify edit>>
===
<<<
}}}
*{{block{
Edit slices (Description, Version), fields (changecount) and sections (Revisions)
for tiddlers using enhanced boolean filter syntax (requires [[MatchTagsPlugin]])
<<<
{{{
<<grid filter:[[systemConfig or pluginInfo or script]]
columns:[[Description Version =changecount !Revisions]] inline wikify edit>>
}}}
+++[show results...]...
<<grid filter:[[systemConfig or pluginInfo or script]]
columns:[[Description Version =changecount !Revisions]] inline wikify edit>>
===
<<<
}}}
<<<
!!!!!Revisions
<<<
2010.03.06 2.0.7 fixed setSection()
2009.09.26 2.0.6 fixed setSlice() for existing slices with empty values
2009.09.25 2.0.5 fixed cell redraw after edit-in-place
2009.09.25 2.0.4 fixed ({{{@!name}}} ) and {{{@=name}}} handling
2009.09.24 2.0.3 added handling for getting columns from tiddler sections ({{{@!name}}} ) or fields {{{@=name}}}
2009.09.23 2.0.2 fixed handling for {{{@TiddlerName/+TiddlerName}}}
2009.09.21 2.0.1 split keydown() and blur() functions from editInPlace() and added confirmation for escape key (discard changes)
2009.09.20 2.0.0 Complete re-write. Renamed [[GridPlugin]]. View and/or edit any tiddler section, slice or field. Renamed 'slices:...' param to 'columns:...'
2009.09.17 1.1.1 added textarea handling for multi-line fields (e.g., 'text')
2009.09.17 1.1.0 added '=fieldname' syntax for 'field grid'
2008.08.15 1.0.3 add brackets around row headings when wikifying so that non-wikiword tiddler titles are linked
2008.08.13 1.0.2 wikify row headings (in addition to slice value cells) whenever 'wikify' param is used
2008.05.01 1.0.1 in editSlice(), corrected fixup for titles containing double-quotes
2007.09.18 1.0.0 added 'wikify' param and handling to format wiki-syntax contained in slice values
2008.05.01 1.0.1 in editSlice(), corrected fixup for titles containing double-quotes
2007.09.18 1.0.0 added 'wikify' param and handling to format wiki-syntax contained in slice values
2007.08.02 0.9.8 when generating HTML, replace double-quotes in tiddler titles with {{{"}}} to avoid ambiguity with quotes used as HTML attribute syntax delimiters.
2007.07.22 0.9.7 removed hard-coded 99% 'width bias' and wordwrap from Description cells, default to autosize (equal size for all columns). Added width:xxxx param to easily stretch table to fit containing space
2007.06.08 0.9.6 fixed generated code for row headings and edit_slice() handlers, so titles with single-quotes will work
2007.04.24 0.9.5 added 'fake' slicename: 'TiddlerSize', to display # of bytes in tiddler as a grid column.
2007.04.13 0.9.4 honor 'excludeLists' tag so that 'hidden' tiddlers aren't displayed in the grid
2007.04.08 0.9.3 fixed cell bgcolor (non-inline grid 'blocks') after edit-in-place adds/clears a slice value
2007.04.07 0.9.2 support edit in place for non-inline grids (color 'blocks'). Also create new slices in tiddlers if slice not already present
2007.04.07 0.9.1 use locally-defined slicesRE (and getSlice() method) instead of re-defining core slicesRE. Avoids breaking use of shadow ColorPalette slices.
2007.04.05 0.9.0 Added functioning 'set slice' handler and 'edit-in-place' feature. Eliminated mouseover popups (use tooltips instead). Added ''tags:'', ''slices:'' and ''edit'' params. Lots of code cleanup.
2007.04.04 0.8.1 in info() and popup() functions, instead of creating popup display, use element tooltip to show mouseover details.
2007.03.25 0.8.0 change to BETA status and added support for 'tags:tag tag tag tag' filtering param
2007.02.03 0.0.2 change display of slices from 'tiddler[slidename]' to 'tiddler:slicename' to match TW slice syntax
2007.01.30 0.0.1 started (adapted from TagGridPlugin)
<<<
A loss.
A complex of negative emotions following loss.
''Learning to experience grief, to worship in loss, is essential.''
* Ecclesiastes
* Feeling your failures (Steve Cervantes, 2004?)
!! Weeping
* <<Bbl Mt 26:75 >>
* <<Bbl H 12:17 >>
* [[Comfort]]
* [[Transform]], [[SanctifiedProgressive]].
* [[Mature]].
* God causes growth -- <<Bbl Col 2:16>>, <<Bbl 1C 3:6>>-7 //Neither I who planted nor Apollos who watered//
* Requires [[Submit]] to [[Guide]] and [[Reveal]]
* Produces [[Conflict]] and [[Stress]] as we break into unfamiliar territory.
* [[Prune]]
* Leads to [[Live]].
!! Growing in obedience
* <<Bbl Eph 4:21 >>-24.
* Rom 1
* Rom 6
* [[Promise]]
* [[Seal]]
* [[SpiritOfChrist]]
* When started on a wood-working project, my grandfather would usually devote some time to finishing out one corner or detail. Sanding, finishing, and oil. Then as the substantial work was underway, he could enjoy a good sense of final result. [[Firstfruits]].
* <<Bbl Jud 6:36 >>
* <<Bbl Ps 78:51 >>-53
* <<Bbl L 4:1 >>
* <<Bbl A 16:9 >>-10
* <<Bbl Joshua 9:14 >> (neglected)
* Goldsworthy b pp 239-40.
* [[Prune]]
* <<Bbl Eph 4:13 >>-15
* //Leading//
* __Comfort for Christians__, chap 10 part 2.
!!! provided by leaders
* <<Bbl Ep 4:11 >>
* If you're seeking his guidance, first know it comes readily to the obedient heart. Most of us make only a shallow consideration. Second, distinguish between a sense of God's guidance and guidance itself. We must be content with the latter; to seek a mere sense of guidance is self-deception. Hospitality and service to the needy are wonderfully unguided obedience, in which we may host angels or Christ Himself unawares.
* //Advice, direction,// [[See]], [[Reveal]], [[Counsel]]
* <<Bbl I 30:21>> //this is the path//
* <<Bbl I 49:10 >>
* God our [[Teacher]] appeals to our reason through our [[Intellect]].
!!!! Dramatic and supernatural guidance from God
* the cloud and fire
* the star leading to Bethlehem's stable
* the cows leading the cart on which rested the Ark
* Ac 15 (?) -- on the way to Macedonia
* And of course, there is always bodily translation...
* __According To Plan__, note observation (near the end) about the scope of God's guidance.
!!!! Ignored or resisted
* Obtuse.
* 100 blows.
* Bit and bridle.
* Balaam's donkey.
* Moses, when Zipporah intervened.
* Eli.
* Saul.
* Nabal.
!!!! Word Pictures
* John Glenn in flight, low on fuel, during an exercise in which the carrier was blacked out. Below he sees the wake in phosphorescent glow and this guides him to safety. //The Right Stuff// probably.
* @@color:brown;We carry His nails in our pocket.@@ // -- Martin Luther//
* <<Bbl 1K 2:44 >>; <<Bbl Ezr 9:5 >>-7 ; <<Bbl J 15:22 >>-25 ; <<Bbl Jms 4:17 >>; <<Bbl 2P 2:20 >>-21 .
* See [[Responsibility]], [[Shame]], [[Sin]].
* Related in English to word //guile//?
The oracle that Habakkuk the prophet saw. {{rf{2}}} O Yahweh, how long shall I cry for help and you will not listen? How long will I cry out to you, "Violence!" and you will not save? {{rf{3}}} Why do you cause me to see evil while you look at trouble? Destruction and violence happen before me; contention and strife arise. {{rf{4}}} Therefore the law is paralyzed, and justice does not go forth perpetually. For the wicked surround the righteous; therefore justice goes forth perverted. {{rf{5}}} "Look among the nations and see; be astonished and astounded. For a work is about to be done in your days that you will not believe if it is told. {{rf{6}}} For look! I am raising up the Chaldeans, the bitter and impetuous nation, the one who walks through the spacious places of earth to take possession of dwellings not belonging to it. {{rf{7}}} They are dreadful and awesome; their justice and their dignity proceed from themselves. {{rf{8}}} Their horses are more swift than leopards; they are more menacing than wolves at dusk. Their horsemen gallop; their horsemen come from afar; they fly like an eagle that is swift to devour. {{rf{9}}} All of them come for violence, their faces pressing forward. They gather captives like the sand. {{rf{10}}} And they themselves scoff at kings and rulers are a joke to them. They laugh at every fortification, and they heap up earth and take it. {{rf{11}}} Then they sweep like the wind and pass on; they become guilty, whose might is their god!" {{rf{12}}} Are you not from of old, O Yahweh my God, my Holy One? You shall not die. O Yahweh, you have marked them for judgment; O Rock, you have established them for reproof. {{rf{13}}} Your eyes are too pure to see evil, and you are not able to look at wrongdoing. Why do you look at the treacherous? Why are you silent when the wicked swallows up someone more righteous than him? {{rf{14}}} You make humankind like fish of the sea, like crawling creatures that have no ruler among them. {{rf{15}}} He brings up all of them with a fishhook; he drags them up with a fishnet; he gathers them in his dragnet. Therefore, he rejoices and exults. {{rf{16}}} Therefore he sacrifices to his fishnet and makes offerings to his dragnet, for by them he makes a good living and his food is rich. {{rf{17}}} Will he therefore empty his fishnet and continually kill nations without showing mercy? {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Habakkuk-01-01]] }}}
* <<Bbl Hab 1:7 abbr >> see <<Bbl Dan 7:4 >>-6
* <<Bbl Hab 2:4 abbr >> Cited in <<Bbl R 1:17 >>; <<Bbl Gal 3:11 >>; <<Bbl H 10:38 >>
* <<Bbl Hab 2:19 abbr >> no breath -- or spirit. 19b and 20 form a complete contrast.
I will stand at my post, and station myself on the rampart. And I will keep watch to see what he will say to me, and what he will answer concerning my complaint. {{rf{2}}} Then Yahweh answered me and said, "Write the vision and make it plain on the tablet so that it might be read quickly. {{rf{3}}} For there is yet a vision for the appointed time; it will give witness to the end, and it will not lie. If it tarries, wait for it, for it will surely come and not delay. {{rf{4}}} Look! His spirit within him is puffed up; it is not upright. ''But the righteous shall live by his faithfulness.'' {{rf{5}}} How much less the defiant; the arrogant, treacherous man? He who broadens his throat like Sheol, and who, like death, is not satisfied, and who gathers to himself all the nations, and harvested for himself all the peoples, will not succeed. {{rf{6}}} Shall not all of these take up a taunt against him, with ridicule and riddles against him, saying, 'Woe to him who heaps up what is not his'? For how long? And, 'Woe to him who makes himself heavy with pledges'? {{rf{7}}} Will not your creditors suddenly rise up and awaken those who make you tremble? Then you shall be as plunder for them. {{rf{8}}} Because you plundered many nations, all the remaining nations will plunder you on account of the blood of humanity and violence against the land, and against cities and all who live in them. {{rf{9}}} Woe to him who obtains profit from evil gain for his house, to set his nest on high, to be saved from the hand of misfortune! {{rf{10}}} You have plotted shame for your house, cutting off many peoples and sinning against your life. {{rf{11}}} For the stone will cry out from the wall, and the plaster from the wood will answer it. {{rf{12}}} Woe to him who builds a city by bloodguilt, and who founds a city by wickedness! {{rf{13}}} Look! Is it not from Yahweh of hosts that people labor for mere fire, and nations exhaust themselves for mere vanity? {{rf{14}}} For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of Yahweh, like the waters covering the sea. {{rf{15}}} Woe to him who gives a drink to his neighbors, pouring out your wrath and also making them drunk in order to see their nakedness! {{rf{16}}} You will be sated with shame rather than glory. Drink also yourself, and expose yourself! The cup of the right hand of Yahweh will come around upon you and disgrace upon your glory. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Habakkuk-02-01]] }}}
{{rf{17}}} For the violence of Lebanon will cover you, and the destruction of wild animals will shatter them on account of the blood of humanity, and the violence against the land, against a city and all the inhabitants in it. {{rf{18}}} What value is an idol when its carver has fashioned it, a molten idol, a teacher of lies? For he who fashioned his creation trusts in it, though making mute idols! {{rf{19}}} Woe to him who says to the wood, 'Wake up!' And to a lifeless stone, 'Arise!' Can he teach? Look, it is covered with gold and silver, and there is no breath within it. {{rf{20}}} But Yahweh is in his holy temple. Let all the earth be silent before him." {{rf big{1}}} A prayer of Habakkuk the prophet, according to Shigionoth. {{rf{2}}} O Yahweh, I have heard the report of you; O Yahweh, I stand in awe of your works. In the midst of the years, revive it! In the midst of the years, make it known! In wrath, may you remember to show compassion. {{rf{3}}} God came from Teman; the Holy One from Mount Paran. Selah His splendor covers the heavens, and his praise fills the earth. {{rf{4}}} And his brightness was like the light; flashing rays came from his hand for him; And there is the covering of his strength. {{rf{5}}} Before him went Disease, and Pestilence went out at his feet. {{rf{6}}} He stood and measured the earth; he looked and made the nations tremble. Then the mountains of old were shattered; the hills of old collapsed. The ways of old belong to him. {{rf{7}}} Under affliction I saw the tents of Cushan; the tent curtains of the land of Midian trembled. {{rf{8}}} Was the anger of Yahweh against the rivers? Was your wrath against the rivers, or your fury against the sea, when you mounted upon your horses, upon your victory chariot? {{rf{9}}} You laid bare the nakedness of your bow, swearing oaths with the arrows of your word. You split the earth with rivers. {{rf{10}}} When the mountains saw you they writhed; a torrent of waters swept by; the deep gave its voice; it raised its hands on high. {{rf{11}}} Sun and moon stood still in their place; at the light of your arrows they moved about; at the gleam of the flashing of your spear. {{rf{12}}} In fury you marched through the earth; in anger you trampled the nations. {{rf{13}}} You went forth for the salvation of your people, for the salvation of your anointed. You crushed the head of the house of wickedness, laying bare from the foundation to the top. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Habakkuk-02-17]] }}}
{{rf{14}}} You pierced the head of his warriors with his own arrows; they came like a whirlwind to scatter me, their exultation like one who devours the afflicted in ambush. {{rf{15}}} You trampled upon the sea with your horses, the churning of many waters. {{rf{16}}} I hear and my stomach shakes; my lips quiver at the sound; infection enters my bones; that which is beneath me trembles; I wait quietly for the day of trouble to come upon the people attacking us. {{rf{17}}} Though the fig tree does not blossom, nor there be fruit on the vines; the yield of the olive tree fails, and the cultivated fields do not yield food; the flock is cut off from the animal pen, and there is no cattle in the stalls, {{rf{18}}} Yet I will rejoice in Yahweh; I will exult in the God of my salvation. {{rf{19}}} Yahweh, my Lord, is my strength; he makes my feet like the deer; he causes me to walk on my high places. To the choirmaster with stringed instruments. LENGTH SHORT {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Habakkuk-03-14]] }}}
Hygiene, in the old sense, connotes healthy self-care; this is largely formed in habits. Good habits can work as a lifeline, a safety rail of protection; when good character fails and bad impulses rise, self-control may hold the line against sin or dissipation of the {{anti{[[Flesh]]}}}. Consider the practiced discipline of a soldier.
In the second year of King Darius, in the sixth month, on the first day, the word of Yahweh came through Haggai the prophet to Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, saying, {{rf{2}}} "Thus says Yahweh of hosts: 'This people says, "The time has not come to rebuild the temple of Yahweh.'" {{rf{3}}} And the word of Yahweh came through Haggai the prophet, saying, {{rf{4}}} "Is it a time for you yourselves to dwell in your houses that have been paneled while this house is desolate?" {{rf{5}}} And so then, thus says Yahweh of hosts: 'Consider your ways! {{rf{6}}} You have sown much but have harvested little. You have eaten without being satisfied; you have drunk without being satiated; you have worn clothes without being warm; the one who earns wages puts it in a pouch with holes.' {{rf{7}}} Thus says Yahweh of hosts: 'Consider your ways! {{rf{8}}} Go up the mountain and bring wood and build the house so that I may be pleased with it and honored,' says Yahweh. {{rf{9}}} 'You have looked for much, and look! It came to little; and when you brought it home, I blew it away. Why?' declares Yahweh of hosts. 'Because my house is desolate and you are running each to your own house! {{rf{10}}} Therefore, because of you the heavens have withheld the dew and the earth has withheld its produce. {{rf{11}}} I have called for a drought on the land and the hills, on the grain, the new wine, the olive oil, on what the soil produces, on human beings and wild animals, and on all their labor.'" {{rf{12}}} Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, Joshua son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and all the remnant of the people gave heed to the voice of Yahweh their God and to the words of Haggai the prophet, as Yahweh their God had sent him, and the people feared Yahweh. {{rf{13}}} And Haggai the messenger of Yahweh spoke to the people with the message of Yahweh, saying, " 'I am with you' declares Yahweh." {{rf{14}}} And Yahweh stirred up the spirit of Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and the spirit of all the remnant of the people. And they came and did the work on the house of Yahweh of hosts, their God, {{rf{15}}} on the twenty-fourth day of the sixth month in the second year of King Darius. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Haggai-01-01]] }}}
<<Bbl Haggai 1:4 abbr >> @@color:brown;Throughout the monarchy period, an entailment of construction on even a modest scale was the securing of hardwoods from outside sources. As part of Cyrus' decree to permit the Jews to return to their native land, the Persian granted a sum of money with which they were to secure timber and rebuild their temple (<<Bbl Ezra 3:7 >> Esdras 4:48, 5:54). It is suspected, however, that when the timber arrived in Israel, it was squandered instead for use on private dwellings. Later, Nehemiah requested Artaxerxes for letters to secure timber for the reconstruction of the city wall (<<Bbl Neh 2:4 >>-8 ).@@ // - Barry Beitzel, Moody Atlas of Bible Lands, p. 54 //
<<Bbl Haggai 2:6 abbr>> quoted in <<Bbl H 12:27>>
<<Bbl Haggai 2:9 abbr >> For our marriage, 2019-04-01
In the seventh month on the twenty-first day, the word of Yahweh came through Haggai the prophet, saying, {{rf{2}}} "Speak now to Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and to the remnant of the people, saying, {{rf{3}}} 'Who among you is left that saw this house in its former glory? And how do you see it now? Does it seem like nothing to you? {{rf{4}}} 'But now take courage, Zerubbabel,' declares Yahweh. 'Take courage, Joshua son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and take courage, all the people of the land,' declares Yahweh. 'Do the work, because I am with you,' declares Yahweh of hosts, {{rf{5}}} 'according to the promise that I covenanted with you when you came out of Egypt. My spirit is with you; do not be afraid.' {{rf{6}}} For thus says Yahweh of hosts: 'Once again, in a little while, I will shake the heavens and the earth and the sea and dry land. {{rf{7}}} I will shake all the nations so that the treasure of all the nations will come, and I will fill this house with glory,' says Yahweh of hosts. {{rf{8}}} 'The silver is mine and the gold is mine,' declares Yahweh of hosts. {{rf{9}}} '' 'The latter glory of this house will be greater than the former,' says Yahweh of hosts, 'and in this place I will give peace' declares Yahweh of hosts.'" '' {{rf{10}}} On the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, in the second year of Darius, the word of Yahweh came to the prophet Haggai, saying, {{rf{11}}} "Thus says Yahweh of hosts: 'Ask now the priests for a ruling: {{rf{12}}} If a man carries consecrated meat in the hem of his garment, and his hem touches bread, or stew, or wine, or olive oil, or any kind of food, will it become holy?'" The priests answered, "No." {{rf{13}}} Then Haggai said, "If one who is unclean from contact with a corpse touches any of these, will it become unclean?" The priests answered, "Yes, it will be become unclean." {{rf{14}}} And Haggai answered and said, " 'So it is with this people, and with this nation before me,' declares Yahweh, 'and so it is with every kind of work of their hands; and what they offer there is unclean. {{rf{15}}} But now, please consider from this day forward, before one stone was placed on another in the temple of Yahweh, {{rf{16}}} from that time when one came to a heap of twenty measures, there were only ten, and when one came to the wine vat to draw out fifty measures, there were only twenty. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Haggai-02-01]] }}}
{{rf{17}}} I struck you with blight, and with plant mildew, and hail, all the work of your hands. But you did not come back to me,' declares Yahweh. {{rf{18}}} 'Please consider from this day forward, from the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, from the day that the foundation of Yahweh's temple was laid, consider: {{rf{19}}} Is there still seed in the store chamber? Do the vine, the fig tree, the pomegranate, and the olive tree still produce nothing? From this day forward I will bless you.'" {{rf{20}}} And the word of Yahweh came to Haggai a second time on the twenty-fourth day of the month saying, {{rf{21}}} "Say to Zerubbabel, governor of Judah: I am going to shake the heavens and the earth, {{rf{22}}} and I will overthrow the thrones of kingdoms and destroy the military strength of the kingdoms of the nations. I will overthrow chariots and their drivers; horses and their riders will fall, every one by the sword of another! {{rf{23}}} 'On that day,' declares Yahweh of hosts, 'I will take you, Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, my servant,' declares Yahweh, 'and I will make you a signet ring, for I have chosen you,' declares Yahweh of hosts." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Haggai-02-17]] }}}
<<Bbl Job 38:22 >>-23 , <<Bbl Ex 9:18 >>-26 , <<Bbl Rev 18:7 >>Sm 12:17, <<Bbl Josh 10:11 >>.
* [[Heart]]
* //stone, stony//
* Hardened: <<Bbl H 3:13>>. Like gold that is alloyed, no longer pure or pliable (//Bait of Satan//).
* [[Samuel]] Eli and his sons
* [[Reprobacy]]
* [[Respond]]
* <<Bbl H 3:13 >>
Hardship is that university which bestows the diploma of [[Humility]].
* <<Bbl 2Tim 2:3 >>, <<Bbl 2Tim 2:9 >>, <<Bbl 2Tim 4:5 >>.
* [[Displace]]
* [[Minister]] -- //accept hardship as a minister... // -- Paul
* @@color:indigo;...Accepting hardship as a pathway to peace...@@ // -- the serenity prayer//
* {{anti{[[Ease]]}}}, //Affliction//
* <<Bbl Jer 10:18 >>
* <<Bbl 2Tim 2:3 >>-4
* @@color:brown;The spiritual saint never believes circumstances to be haphazard, or thinks of his life as secular and sacred; he sees everything he is dumped down in as the means of securing the knowledge of Jesus Christ.@@ // - Oswald Chambers//
!! Iterated
{{fyi{
You are forced awake by a loud "pank". Just one is bearable; you slide back toward sleep. Then, another "pank". Your eyes snap open and you think, I hope that's it. A pair of panks is all I want to put up with. But it didn't sound like something that comes in pairs... and there it is: "pank". That's enough! You get up on your feet and you go find that pankatrator. And what if you can't find any pankatrator? And what if the panks keep on coming?}}}
!! Self-inflicted
* <<Bbl 2Tim 6:17 abbr>>c through greed.
* <<Bbl 2Tim 6:21 abbr>> through neglecting good doctrine.
* I want to find a way to develop the topic of self-inflicted trouble, this doesn't seem quite the place. [[Ensnare]]
* [[Food]]
* Work is done for a purpose. This point is constantly emphasized in the parables.
* "New grain, wine, oil" refers to seasons: Passover, summer, fall.
!!! Tiddlers tagged with //Harvest//
<<matchTags %0 "\n" Harvest >>
* //He who has...//
* The //Haves// and the //Have-Nots//.
* <<Bbl Pr 9:9>>
* [[Faithfulness]]
* [[Authorize]]
* <<Bbl Eph 4:15 >> ; <<Bbl Col 2:19 >> .
* //Head// carries overtones of nurture, but authority remains at the center.
* <<Bbl 1C 11:4 abbr >>ff - word play. There is no away around a statement about heirarchy. But as Christ is not less than the Father, so the woman is not inferior to the man.
* <<Bbl Ex 15:26 >> -- bitter waters
* <<Bbl Ex 23:25 >>
* <<Bbl Num 21 4>>-9 -- the serpent lifted up (points to Christ as Healer)
* A sort of progression found in <<Bbl Mk 5:28 >>, <<Bbl Mk 6:56 >>; <<Bbl A 5:15 >>.
| Healing | Provision |h
| help for a wound | help for an unmet need |
| crisis event | process |
* [[Restore]]
* "In Hebrew the heart is the seat of mind, intellect, and purpose" (J. Hertz, Pentateuch and Haftorahs, p. 16).
* divided: <<Bbl 1K 11:4 >> (<<Bbl 1C 7:32 >>-35 ), 18:21, <<Bbl Ps 119:69>>-70, <<Bbl I 1:22 >>, <<Bbl Jer 3:10 >>, <<Bbl James 1:6 >>-8 , <<Bbl Mt 6:24 >>.
* pure: <<Bbl Mt 5:8>>
* whole, undivided: (see [[Unity]], [[Integrity]]) <<Bbl 1Chron 12:33 >>, <<Bbl 1Chron 29:9 >>, <<Bbl 2Chron 31:21 >>, <<Bbl Ps 86:11 >>, <<Bbl Ps 119:2 >>; <<Bbl Ps 119:10 >>; <<Bbl Jer 32:40 >>
* sinful: <<Bbl Jer 17:9 >>
* as a wilderness, indirect poetic allusion <<Bbl Mk 1:3 "" note >>
* [[Harden]]
* God "is greater than": <<Bbl 1J 3:20 >>
* and will enlarge: <<Bbl Ps 119:32 >>
* <<Bbl R 5:5 >> //God's love has been poured out into our hearts//
* love from: <<Bbl 1P 1:22 >>
* of flesh, not stone: <<Bbl Ez 11:19 >>, <<Bbl Ez 36:26 >>
* new: <<Bbl Ez 18:31 >>
* <<Bbl Ez 14:3 >>-5
* misc: <<Bbl Ps 119:36 >>.
* <<Bbl Jud 16:15>>-17 Giving away the heart
* [[Attitude]]
* <<Bbl Dt 6:6 >>
* [[Commitment]].
* Means control center, not merely emotional center. "Eat to your heart's delight" presents both, the stomach having neither control nor emotion.
!!! Heart compliance in the Law
* <<Bbl Dt 15:9 >>-10 //Be careful not to harbor this wicked thought: "The seventh year, the year for canceling debts, is near," so that you do not show ill will toward your needy brother and give him nothing. He may then appeal to the Lord against you... Give generously to him and do so without a grudging heart; then because of this the Lord your God will bless you ...//
* <<Bbl Lv 19:16 >>-18 //Do not go about spreading slander among your people ... Do not hate your brother in your heart. Rebuke your neighbor frankly so you will not share in his guilt. ... Do not seek revenge or bear a grudge against one of your people, but love your neighbor as yourself. I am the Lord.//
* Coveting!
* //Uncircumcised!// - <<Bbl Lev 26:41>>.
!! Adultery first in the heart
* <<Bbl Mt 5:27 >>-28, <<Bbl Pr 6:25 >>, <<Bbl Ps 51:10 >>.
Worship of natural entities tolorated by God: <<Bbl Dt 4:19 >>, <<Bbl Mal 1:11 >>, <<Bbl A 17:30 >>. Hertz explains this anchors the tolerance also of the Jews toward heathen (p. 759).
!!! The Doctrine about the Peoples Who Haven't Heard Yet
# God is just
# God is loving
# Everyone has sinned
# Jesus is the Unique Savior
# The Church is responsible to carry the truth to every people
!!!!! 2nd take
# God is just.
# God is loving.
# We are commanded to go.
# If you know these things,
## Skeptic, you will see this is no reason to reject the Gospel.
## Believer, you will obey your commission.
<<Bbl 1C 2:9 >>; <<Bbl 2C 5:6 >>-8; <<Bbl Php 1:21 >>-23; <<Bbl Rev 7:17 >>; 21:4.
* A heavenly destiny awaits all who believe in Christ (<<Bbl J 14:1 >>-3; 17:24; <<Bbl 2C 5:1 >>; <<Bbl Php 3:20 >>; <<Bbl Col 1:5 >>; <<Bbl 1Th 4:17 >>; <<Bbl Heb 3:1 >>), and these same people will also dwell on the new earth (<<Bbl 2P 3:13 >>; <<Bbl Rev 21:1 >>-4).
* __Heaven, A World Of Love__ by J Edwards
* I wonder if in Heaven every morning we're going to come out and say //We're all on our faces in bright shining places!//
* [[Eschatology]]
* But Jehovah’s Witnesses believe there are two peoples of God: the Anointed Class (144,000) will live in heaven and rule with Christ, and the “other sheep” (all other believers) will live forever on a paradise earth.
Although God spoke long ago in many parts and in many ways to the fathers by the prophets, {{rf{2}}} in these last days he has spoken to us by a Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, through whom also he made the world, {{rf{3}}} who is the radiance of his glory and the representation of his essence, sustaining all things by the word of power. When he had made purification for sins through him, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high, {{rf{4}}} having become by so much better than the angels, by as much as he has inherited a more excellent name than theirs. {{rf{5}}} For to which of the angels did he ever say, "You are my son, today I have begotten you," and again, "I will be his father, and he will be my son"? {{rf{6}}} And again, when he brings the firstborn into the world, he says, "And let all the angels of God worship him." {{rf{7}}} And concerning the angels he says, "The one who makes his angels winds, and his servants a flame of fire," {{rf{8}}} but concerning the Son, "Your throne, O God, is forever and ever, and the scepter of righteous is the scepter of your kingdom. {{rf{9}}} You have loved righteousness and hated lawlessness; because of this God, your God, has anointed you with the olive oil of joy more than your companions. {{rf{10}}} And, "You, Lord, laid the foundation of the earth in the beginning, and the heavens are the works of your hands; {{rf{11}}} they will perish, but you continue, and they will all become old like a garment, {{rf{12}}} and like a robe you will roll them up, and like a garment they will be changed; but you are the same, and your years will not run out." {{rf{13}}} But to which of the angels has he ever said, "Sit down at my right hand, until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet." {{rf{14}}} Are they not all spirits engaged in special service, sent on assignment for the sake of those who are going to inherit salvation? {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Hebrews-01-01]] }}}
''Our High Priest, His true sacrifice, our complete salvation.''
Look for the theme of [[waiting|Wait]].
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<<Bbl H 1:1 abbr >>-2 identity and distinction are both communicated in the two doxological descriptions. This is similar to John's intro; also the element of creatorship. The phrase "in his son" suggests He __is__ the word (D.A. Carson bases this on the (lack of) definite article).
<<Bbl H 1:1 abbr >>-<<Bbl H 2:8 abbr >> Prophet, Priest and King.
<<Bbl H 1:3 abbr >>c //He made purification for sins// - the only reference to His work on earth incarnate.
<<Bbl H 1:3 abbr >>d His work is fully accepted. <<Bbl Ps 2:6 >>.
<<Bbl H 1:4 abbr >> He //was// and //He became//. Implied is an in-between point in which he was "made a little lower than the angels".
<<Bbl H 1:5 abbr >>-<<Bbl H 2:18 abbr >> God and Man.
2:8b His deity is established; the discourse now pivots to His humanity.
<<Bbl H 2:11 abbr >> This word for [[Shame]] is used also in <<Bbl R 1:16 >> and <<Bbl H 11:16 >>. All three use a double negative with hyperbole (//litotes//).
<<Bbl H 2:14 abbr >>-15 presents a sequence of four necessities. The efficacy of His death, which is the third, is elucidated in <<Bbl Col 2:13 >>-14. Anxiety is rooted in fear and fears are rooted in the ultimate fear, which is the fear of death. Hebrews does not suppose we are each precisely conscious of this ultimate fear, but regardless it is the source of slavery. Addiction is rooted in fear; addiction is slavery.
<<Bbl H 2:14 abbr >>. Fleshly humanity was a requirement for tasting death, and tasting death was a requirement for perfecting the Author of our salvation (vs 10).
<<Bbl H 2:14 abbr >>-15 Vs.15 presents the language of redemption. We are slaves, and slaves to what? Sin, says Paul says in <<Bbl R 7:14 >>. Sin introduces death, and the devil too implicated, as 14c relates. This says He delivered us from that. And what, according to the preceding verse, is the basis of Christ's ability to redeem? His participation in our humanity. <<Bbl Gal 4:3 >>-5 takes the same theme precisely.
{{rf{1}}} Because of this, it is all the more necessary that we pay attention to the things we have heard, lest we drift away. {{rf{2}}} For if the word spoken through angels was binding and every transgression and act of disobedience received a just penalty, {{rf{3}}} how will we escape if we neglect so great a salvation which had its beginning when it was spoken through the Lord and was confirmed to us by those who heard, {{rf{4}}} while God was testifying at the same time by signs and wonders and various miracles and distributions of the Holy Spirit according to his will. {{rf{5}}} For he did not subject to angels the world to come, about which we are speaking. {{rf{6}}} But someone testified somewhere, saying, "What is man, that you remember him, or the son of man, that you care for him? {{rf{7}}} You made him for a short time lower than the angels; you crowned him with glory and honor; {{rf{8}}} you subjected all things under his feet. For in subjecting all things, he left nothing that was not subject to him. But now we do not yet see all things subjected to him, {{rf{9}}} but we see Jesus, for a short time made lower than the angels, because of the suffering of death crowned with glory and honor, so that apart from God he might taste death on behalf of everyone. {{rf{10}}} For it was fitting for him for whom are all things and through whom are all things in bringing many sons to glory to perfect the originator of their salvation through sufferings. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Hebrews-02-01]] }}}
{{rf{11}}} For both the one who sanctifies and the ones who are sanctified are all from one, for which reason he is not ashamed to call them brothers, {{rf{12}}} saying, "I will proclaim your name to my brothers; in the midst of the assembly I will sing in praise of you." {{rf{13}}} And again, "I will trust in him." And again, "Behold, I and the children God has given me." {{rf{14}}} Therefore, since the children share in blood and flesh, he also in like manner shared in these same things, in order that through death he could destroy the one who has the power of death, that is, the devil, {{rf{15}}} and could set free these who through fear of death were subject to slavery throughout all their lives. {{rf{16}}} For surely he is not concerned with angels, but he is concerned with the descendants of Abraham. {{rf{17}}} Therefore he was obligated to be made like his brothers in all respects, in order that he could become a merciful and faithful high priest in the things relating to God, in order to make atonement for the sins of the people. {{rf{18}}} For in that which he himself suffered when he was tempted, he is able to help those who are tempted. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Hebrews-02-11]] }}}
Therefore, holy brothers, sharers in a heavenly calling, consider Jesus, the apostle and high priest of our confession, {{rf{2}}} who was faithful to the one who appointed him, as Moses also was in his household. {{rf{3}}} For this one is considered worthy of greater glory than Moses, inasmuch as the one who builds it has greater honor than the house. {{rf{4}}} For every house is built by someone, but the one who built all things is God. {{rf{5}}} And Moses was faithful in all his house as a servant, for a testimony to the things that would be spoken, {{rf{6}}} but Christ was faithful as a son over his house, whose house we are, if we hold fast to our confidence and the hope we can be proud of. {{rf{7}}} Therefore, just as the Holy Spirit says, "Today, if you hear his voice, {{rf{8}}} do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, in the day of testing in the wilderness, {{rf{9}}} where your fathers tested me by trial and saw my works {{rf{10}}} for forty years. Therefore I was angry with this generation, and I said, 'They always go astray in their heart, and they do not know my ways.' {{rf{11}}} As I swore in my anger, 'They will never enter into my rest.'" {{rf{12}}} Watch out, brothers, lest there be in some of you an evil, unbelieving heart, with the result that you fall away from the living God. {{rf{13}}} But encourage one another day by day, as long as it is called "today," so that none of you become hardened by the deception of sin. {{rf{14}}} For we have become partners of Christ, if indeed we hold fast the beginning of our commitment steadfast until the end, {{rf{15}}} while it is said, "Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Hebrews-03-01]] }}}
<<Bbl Heb 3:1 abbr >> //Therefore consider Jesus// - this has been introduced by an analysis of Jesus as Prophet, Priest and King and as God and Man.
<<Bbl H 3:1 abbr >>-6 The [[House]] is the Church.
3:4 see <<Bbl Ps 127:1 >>
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For we have become partners of Christ, if indeed we hold fast the beginning of our commitment steadfast until the end...
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<<Bbl H 3:18 abbr >> The relationship between rest and faith is evinced. These are both integral to the [[Sabbath|Rest]].
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Chapter 3 presents <<Bbl Ps 105:1>>ff as moral; Chapter 4 presents it as theology.
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<<Bbl H 4:2 abbr >> with the exception of the two faithful spies. This seems to present a challenge to the argument of 4 5-6 which says that because none went in we are assured the promise of rest was not fulfilled. I think the answer is that Psalm 95 makes the generalization on which Hebrews is based. And the assessment can be suitably made for the generation.
<<Bbl H 4:5 abbr>> <<Bbl Ps 95:7 "" note>>
<<Bbl H 4:12 abbr >> Generally applied to the Bible. But is that correct?
<<Bbl H 4:10 abbr >> is a creative extension to our view of works in salvation. It is not developed further. It probably should not keep us from understanding rest as referring basically to our final blessedness with the Lord.
4:12 Tony Evans says we aren't able to separate in ourselves the fleshly impulses from spiritual directives. We need the Word to intervene, to divide the soul and spirit. //...thoughts and intentions of the heart// -- our thoughts, and the thoughts behind the thoughts.
{{rf{16}}} For who, when they heard it, were disobedient? Surely it was not all who went out from Egypt through Moses? {{rf{17}}} And with whom was he angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose dead bodies fell in the wilderness? {{rf{18}}} And to whom did he swear they would not enter into his rest, except those who were disobedient? {{rf{19}}} And so we see that they were not able to enter because of unbelief. {{rf big{1}}} Therefore let us fear, while there remains a promise of entering into his rest, that none of you appear to fall short of it. {{rf{2}}} For we also have had the good news proclaimed to us, just as those also did, but the message they heard did not benefit them, because they were not united with those who heard it in faith. {{rf{3}}} For we who have believed enter into rest, just as he has said, "As I swore in my anger, 'They will never enter into my rest.'" And yet these works have been accomplished from the foundation of the world. {{rf{4}}} For he has spoken somewhere about the seventh day in this way: "And God rested on the seventh day from all his works," {{rf{5}}} and in this passage again, 'They will never enter into my rest.'" {{rf{6}}} Since therefore it remains for some to enter into it, and the ones to whom the good news was proclaimed previously did not enter because of disobedience, {{rf{7}}} again he ordains a certain day, today, speaking by David after so long a time, just as had been said before, "Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Hebrews-03-16]] }}}
{{rf{8}}} For if Joshua had caused them to rest, he would not have spoken about another day after these things. {{rf{9}}} Consequently a sabbath rest remains for the people of God. {{rf{10}}} For the one who has entered into his rest has also himself rested from his works, just as God did from his own works. {{rf{11}}} Therefore, let us make every effort to enter into that rest, in order that no one may fall in the same pattern of disobedience. {{rf{12}}} For the word of God is living and active and sharper than any double-edged sword, and piercing as far as the division of soul and spirit, both joints and marrow, and able to judge the reflections and thoughts of the heart. {{rf{13}}} And no creature is hidden in the sight of him, but all things are naked and laid bare to the eyes of him to whom we must give our account. {{rf{14}}} Therefore, because we have a great high priest who has gone through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast to our confession. {{rf{15}}} For we do not have a high priest who is not able to sympathize with our weaknesses, but who has been tempted in all things in the same way, without sin. {{rf{16}}} Therefore let us approach with confidence to the throne of grace, in order that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Hebrews-04-08]] }}}
''4:14 to 7:28: The Priest after the order of [[Melchizedek]]''
<<Bbl H 4:15 abbr>> Jesus was tempted with fear, unbelief, rational pride, disillusionment, abdication of godliness. These sins, rather than the ones that come more immediately to mind, fit into the context.
<<Bbl H 4:16 abbr >> Bold access is taken up in <<Bbl Eph 3:12 >>.
<<Bbl H 4:14 abbr >>-16, <<Bbl H 5:7 abbr >>-8 "Where High the Heavenly Temple Stands" by Michael Bruce (c. 1764)
<<Bbl H 5:3 abbr >> <<Bbl H 7:27 >>
<<Bbl H 5:4 abbr>> [[Regenerate]]
<<Bbl H 5:7 abbr>>-9 [[Christ-DualNature]] These prayers are divinely forecast in the Psalms.
<<Bbl H 5:11 abbr >> The writer puts his topic on hold to strongly admonish his readers. He seems to be venting frustration, and in particular the teaching of Christ's priesthood will be taxing due to the dullness of the audience. This continues until 6:12.
<<Bbl H 5:12 abbr >> J. Edwards' sermon //Christian Knowledge//.
<<Bbl H 6:12 abbr >>-19 This is a pivot back to the forestalled launch of 5:10, and provides some more background for the teaching on Melchizedek.
<<Bbl H 6:16 abbr >> See <<Bbl Mt 23:17 >>-19 on swearing; [[Vow]].
<<Bbl H 6:20 abbr >> This phrase is reiterated, or components: 5:6, 5:10, 6:20, 7:17. The point of eternal life finds reiteration in 7:3, 7:16, 7:21, 7:25, 7:28.
<<Bbl H 7:1 abbr >> Melchizedek //resembles// Christ, which wording does not indicate a pre-incarnate appearance of Christ. (Later Christ is described as //like// Melchizedek.)
<<Bbl H 7:1 abbr >> No genealogy. The author makes an argument from silence - for we surely would have expected a genealogical frame. (D.A. Carson)
<<Bbl H 7:13 abbr >> - see <<Bbl H 13:10 abbr>>
<<Bbl H 7:21 abbr >> intrigues anew as a clue to <<Bbl H 6:17 >>.
<<Bbl H 7:27 abbr >> see <<Bbl H 5:3 >>.
<<Bbl H 7:8 abbr >> directly implies that our tithes go to Jesus.
For every high priest taken from among men is appointed on behalf of people in the things relating to God, in order that he can offer both gifts and sacrifices on behalf of sins, {{rf{2}}} being able to deal gently with those who are ignorant and led astray, since he himself also is surrounded by weakness, {{rf{3}}} and because of it he is obligated to offer sacrifices for sins for himself also, as well as for the people. {{rf{4}}} And someone does not take for himself the honor, but is called by God, just as Aaron also was. {{rf{5}}} Thus also Christ did not glorify himself to become high priest, but the one who said to him, "You are my Son, today I have begotten you," {{rf{6}}} just as also in another place he says, "You are a priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek," {{rf{7}}} who in the days of his flesh offered up both prayers and supplications, with loud crying and tears, to the one who was able to save him from death, and he was heard as a result of his reverence. {{rf{8}}} Although he was a son, he learned obedience from what he suffered, {{rf{9}}} and being perfected, he became the source of eternal salvation to all those who obey him, {{rf{10}}} being designated by God a high priest according to the order of Melchizedek. {{rf{11}}} Concerning this we have much to say and it is difficult to explain, since you have become sluggish in hearing. {{rf{12}}} For indeed, although you ought to be teachers by this time, you have need of someone to teach you again the beginning elements of the oracles of God, and you have need of milk, not solid food. {{rf{13}}} For everyone who partakes of milk is unacquainted with the message of righteousness, because he is an infant. {{rf{14}}} But solid food is for the mature, who because of practice have trained their faculties for the distinguishing of both good and evil. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Hebrews-05-01]] }}}
{{rf big{1}}} Therefore, leaving behind the elementary message about Christ, let us move on to maturity, not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works and faith in God, {{rf{2}}} teaching about baptisms and laying on of hands, and resurrection of the dead and eternal judgment. {{rf{3}}} And this we will do, if God permits. {{rf{4}}} For it is impossible concerning those who have once been enlightened, and have tasted the heavenly gift, and become sharers of the Holy Spirit, {{rf{5}}} and have tasted the good word of God and the powers of the coming age, {{rf{6}}} and having fallen away, to renew them again to repentance, because they have crucified again for themselves the Son of God and held him up to contempt. {{rf{7}}} For ground that drinks the rain that comes often upon it, and brings forth vegetation usable to those people for whose sake it is also cultivated, shares a blessing from God. {{rf{8}}} But if it produces thorns and thistles, it is worthless and near to a curse, whose end is for burning. {{rf{9}}} But even if we are speaking in this way, dear friends, we are convinced of better things concerning you, and belonging to salvation. {{rf{10}}} For God is not unjust, so as to forget your work and the love which you demonstrated for his name by having served the saints, and continuing to serve them. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Hebrews-06-01]] }}}
{{rf{11}}} And we desire each one of you to demonstrate the same diligence for the full assurance of your hope until the end, {{rf{12}}} in order that you may not be sluggish, but imitators of those who inherit the promises through faith and patience. {{rf{13}}} For when God made a promise to Abraham, since he had no one greater to swear by, he swore by himself, {{rf{14}}} saying, "Surely I will greatly bless you, and I will greatly multiply you." {{rf{15}}} And so, by persevering, he obtained the promise. {{rf{16}}} For people swear by what is greater than themselves, and the oath for confirmation is the end of all dispute for them. {{rf{17}}} In the same way God, because he wanted to show even more to the heirs of the promise the unchangeableness of his resolve, guaranteed it with an oath, {{rf{18}}} in order that through two unchangeable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have taken refuge may have powerful encouragement to hold fast to the hope set before us, {{rf{19}}} which we have like an anchor of the soul, both firm and steadfast, and entering into the inside of the curtain, {{rf{20}}} where Jesus, the forerunner for us, entered, because he became a high priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Hebrews-06-11]] }}}
For this Melchizedek, king of Salem, priest of the most high God, who met Abraham as he was returning from the slaughter of the kings and blessed him, {{rf{2}}} to whom also Abraham apportioned a tenth of everything -- in the first place, his name is translated "king of righteousness," and then also "king of Salem," that is, "king of peace"; {{rf{3}}} without father, without mother, without genealogy, having neither beginning of days nor end of life, but resembling the Son of God -- he remains a priest for all time. {{rf{4}}} But see how great this man was, to whom Abraham the patriarch gave a tenth from the spoils! {{rf{5}}} And indeed those of the sons of Levi who receive the priesthood have a commandment to collect a tenth from the people according to the law, that is, from their brothers, although they are descended from Abraham. {{rf{6}}} But the one who did not trace his descent from them collected tithes from Abraham and blessed the one who had the promises. {{rf{7}}} Now without any dispute the inferior is blessed by the more prominent. {{rf{8}}} And in this case mortal men receive tithes, but in that case it is testified that he lives. {{rf{9}}} And, so to speak, even Levi, the one who receives tithes, has paid tithes through Abraham. {{rf{10}}} For he was still in the loins of his father when Melchizedek met him. {{rf{11}}} Thus if perfection was through the Levitical priesthood, for on the basis of it the people received the law, what further need is there for another priest to arise according to the order of Melchizedek and not said to be according to the order of Aaron? {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Hebrews-07-01]] }}}
{{rf{12}}} For when the priesthood changes, of necessity there is a change of the law also. {{rf{13}}} For the one about whom these things are spoken belongs to another tribe from which no one has officiated at the altar. {{rf{14}}} For it is evident that our Lord is a descendant of Judah, a tribe with reference to which Moses said nothing concerning priests. {{rf{15}}} And it is still more clear, if another priest according to the likeness of Melchizedek arises, {{rf{16}}} who has become a priest not according to a law of physical requirement, but according to the power of an indestructible life. {{rf{17}}} For it is testified, "You are a priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek." {{rf{18}}} For on the one hand a preceding commandment is set aside because of its weakness and uselessness {{rf{19}}} (for the law made nothing perfect), but on the other hand there is the introduction of a better hope through which we draw near to God. {{rf{20}}} And by as much as this was not without an oath (for these on the one hand have become priests without an oath, {{rf{21}}} but he with an oath by the one who said to him, "The Lord has sworn and will not change his mind, 'You are a priest forever'"), {{rf{22}}} by so much more Jesus has become the guarantee of a better covenant. {{rf{23}}} And indeed many have become priests, because they were prevented by death from continuing in office, {{rf{24}}} but he, because he continues forever, holds the priesthood permanently. {{rf{25}}} Therefore also he is able to save completely those who draw near to God through him, because he always lives in order to intercede on their behalf. {{rf{26}}} For a high priest such as this indeed is fitting for us, holy, innocent, undefiled, separated from sinners, and having become exalted above the heavens, {{rf{27}}} who does not need every day like the former high priests to offer up sacrifices for his own sins and then for the sins of the people, because he did this once for all when he offered up himself. {{rf{28}}} For the law appoints men as high priests who have weakness, but the statement of the oath, after the law, appoints a Son, who is made perfect forever. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Hebrews-07-12]] }}}
{{rf{1}}} Now this is the main point in what has been said: we have a high priest such as this, who sat down at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in heaven, {{rf{2}}} a minister of the sanctuary and of the true tabernacle which the Lord set up, not man. {{rf{3}}} For every high priest is appointed in order to offer both gifts and sacrifices; therefore it was necessary for this one also to have something that he offers. {{rf{4}}} Now if he were on earth, he would not even be a priest, because there are those who offer the gifts according to the law, {{rf{5}}} who serve a sketch and shadow of the heavenly things, just as Moses was warned when he was about to complete the tabernacle, for he says, "See to it that you make everything according to the pattern which was shown to you on the mountain." {{rf{6}}} But now he has attained a more excellent ministry, by as much as he is also mediator of a better covenant which has been enacted upon better promises. {{rf{7}}} For if that first covenant had been faultless, occasion would not have been sought for a second. {{rf{8}}} For in finding fault with them he says, "Behold, days are coming, says the Lord, when I will complete a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah, {{rf{9}}} not like the covenant which I made with their fathers on the day I took hold of them by my hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt, because they did not continue in my covenant and I disregarded them, says the Lord. {{rf{10}}} For this is the covenant that I will decree with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I am putting my laws in their minds and I will write them on their hearts, and I will be their God and they will be my people. {{rf{11}}} And they will not teach each one his fellow citizen and each one his brother, saying, 'Know the Lord,' because they will all know me, from the least of them to the greatest. {{rf{12}}} For I will be merciful toward their wrongdoings, and I will not remember their sins any longer." {{rf{13}}} In calling it new, he has declared the former to be old. Now what is becoming obsolete and growing old is near to disappearing. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Hebrews-08-01]] }}}
<<Bbl H 8:1 abbr >> This is easily taken as a summary statement of what preceded. But it is also a grand pivot to the nature of Christ's role priest.
<<Bbl H 8:4 abbr >> He wouldn't be a priest because he is not from the tribe of Levi.
<<Bbl H 8:5 abbr >> The Message (very helpful this whole chapter) says //These priest provide only a hint of what goes on in the true sanctuary of heaven, which Moses caught a glimpse of as he was about to set up the tent-shrine. It was then that God said, "Be careful to do it exactly as you saw it on the mountain." // <<Bbl Ex 25:9 "" note>>. Understanding the //pattern// or instance on the mount as the real thing puts a very different slant on <<Bbl H 9:1 >>.
8:7 elucidated by verses 9-12.
<<Bbl H 8:10 abbr >> gains significance in the unique event of God writing with His own finger. [[God-Handwriting]]
Chap 9 the [[Mediator|Mediate]]
The arguments of chapters 9 and 10 could be diagramed as thesis, synthesis, antithesis?
<<Bbl H 9:1 abbr >> "first covenant" refers to the Mosaic tent, and it doesn't refer to the heavenly original shown to Moses (<<Bbl H 8:5 abbr>>).
9:2 The lampstand seems to be misplaced. But the term can also be for a censor, which would fit. (Septuagint issue?)
<<Bbl H 9:7 abbr>> Sins committed //with a high hand//, meaning in arrogance. (NIV renders this "ignorant", which is wrong (Carson).) This is important also in <<Bbl H 10:26 abbr>>. The Law does not commend any sacrifice for outright rebellion against God. This is important also in <<Bbl H 10:26 abbr>>.
9:8 Tabernacle's first or outer section symbolizes the old way, which is termed 'the present age'.
Now the first covenant had regulations for worship and the earthly sanctuary. {{rf{2}}} For a tent was prepared, the first one, in which were the lampstand and the table and the presentation of the loaves, which is called the holy place. {{rf{3}}} And after the second curtain was a tent called the holy of holies, {{rf{4}}} containing the golden incense altar and the ark of the covenant covered on all sides with gold, in which were a golden jar containing the manna and the rod of Aaron that budded and the tablets of the covenant. {{rf{5}}} And above it were the cherubim of glory overshadowing the mercy seat, about which it is not now possible to speak in detail. {{rf{6}}} Now these things having been prepared in this way, the priests enter into the first tent continually as they accomplish their service, {{rf{7}}} but only the high priest enters into the second tent once a year, not without blood, which he offers on behalf of himself and the sins of the people committed in ignorance. {{rf{8}}} The Holy Spirit was making this clear, that the way into the holy place was not yet revealed, while the first tent was still in existence, {{rf{9}}} which was a symbol for the present time, in which both the gifts and sacrifices which were offered were not able to perfect the worshiper with respect to the conscience, {{rf{10}}} concerning instead only food and drink and different washings, regulations of outward things imposed until the time of setting things right. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Hebrews-09-01]] }}}
{{rf{11}}} But Christ has arrived as a high priest of the good things to come. Through the greater and more perfect tent not made by hands, that is, not of this creation, {{rf{12}}} and not by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood, he entered once for all into the most holy place, obtaining eternal redemption. {{rf{13}}} For if the blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a young cow sprinkled on those who are defiled sanctify them for the ritual purity of the flesh, {{rf{14}}} how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, cleanse our consciences from dead works to serve the living God? {{rf{15}}} And because of this, he is the mediator of a new covenant, in order that, because a death has taken place for the redemption of transgressions committed during the first covenant, those who are the called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance. {{rf{16}}} For where there is a will, it is a necessity for the death of the one who made the will to be established. {{rf{17}}} For a will is in force concerning those who are dead, since it is never in force when the one who made the will is alive. {{rf{18}}} Therefore not even the first covenant was ratified without blood. {{rf{19}}} For when every commandment had been spoken by Moses to all the people according to the law, he took the blood of calves with water and scarlet wool and hyssop and sprinkled both the scroll itself and all the people, {{rf{20}}} saying, "This is the blood of the covenant that God has commanded for you." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Hebrews-09-11]] }}}
{{rf{21}}} And likewise he sprinkled both the tabernacle and all the utensils of service with the blood. {{rf{22}}} Indeed, nearly everything is purified with blood according to the law, and apart from the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness. {{rf{23}}} Therefore it was necessary for the sketches of the things in heaven to be purified with these sacrifices, but the heavenly things themselves to be purified with better sacrifices than these. {{rf{24}}} For Christ did not enter into a sanctuary made by hands, a mere copy of the true one, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God on our behalf, {{rf{25}}} and not in order that he can offer himself many times, as the high priest enters into the sanctuary year by year with blood not his own, {{rf{26}}} since it would have been necessary for him to suffer many times from the foundation of the world, but now he has appeared once at the end of the ages for the removal of sin by the sacrifice of himself. {{rf{27}}} And just as it is destined for people to die once, and after this, judgment, {{rf{28}}} thus also Christ, having been offered once in order to bear the sins of many, will appear for the second time without reference to sin to those who eagerly await him for salvation. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Hebrews-09-21]] }}}
For the law, possessing a shadow of the good things that are about to come, not the form of things itself, is never able year by year by means of the same sacrifices which they offer without interruption to make perfect those who draw near. {{rf{2}}} For otherwise, would they not have ceased to be offered, because the ones who worship, having been purified once and for all, would no longer have any consciousness of sins? {{rf{3}}} But in them there is a reminder of sins year by year. {{rf{4}}} For it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins. {{rf{5}}} Therefore, when he came into the world, he said, "Sacrifice and offering you did not want, but a body you prepared for me; {{rf{6}}} you did not delight in whole burnt offerings and offerings for sins. {{rf{7}}} Then I said, 'Behold, I have come -- in the roll of the book it is written about me -- to do your will, O God.' {{rf{8}}} When he says above, "Sacrifices and offerings and whole burnt offerings and offerings for sin you did not want, nor did you delight in," which are offered according to the law, {{rf{9}}} then he has said, "Behold, I have come to do your will." He takes away the first in order to establish the second, {{rf{10}}} by which will we are made holy through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. {{rf{11}}} And every priest stands every day serving and offering the same sacrifices many times, which are never able to take away sins. {{rf{12}}} But this one, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for all time, sat down at the right hand of God, {{rf{13}}} from now on waiting until his enemies are made a footstool for his feet. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Hebrews-10-01]] }}}
<<Bbl H 10:2 abbr>> dates the letter before 70. Also 9:8.
<<Bbl H 10:3 abbr>> if the sacrifices are not effective in taking away soon, then what is their purpose? Hebrews says it is to create a constant reminder. Thus the temple rituals serve to demonstrate our distance from God, not our closeness.
<<Bbl H 10:5 abbr >> See <<Bbl Ps 40:6 >>-8 ; but part B is quite different (my ears you have opened).
10:7 a bull or goat does not offer himself. There is no will involved. (In fact you might construe the only sacrifice as being on the part of the owner.) Different from Christ.
<<Bbl H 10:7 abbr>> in connection with the negative example of Saul in <<Bbl 1S 15:22>>. <<Bbl Ps 20:7>>
<<Bbl H 10:11-12 abbr >> Note the contrast between standing and sitting - there was no chair in the Tabernacle. Also the one-time and the once-for-all events.
10:19-25 Seems to include all the ingredients of the [[Gospel]].
<<Bbl H 10:19 abbr >> See [[Veil]]
<<Bbl H 10:20 abbr>> I think only here is the curtain (<<Bbl H 9:3 abbr>>) presented as removed or passed through by Christ.
{{rf{14}}} For by one offering he has perfected for all time those who are made holy. {{rf{15}}} And the Holy Spirit also testifies to us, for after saying, {{rf{16}}} "This is the covenant that I will decree for them after those days, says the Lord: I am putting my laws on their hearts, and I will write them on their minds." {{rf{17}}} He also says, "Their sins and their lawless deeds I will never remember again." {{rf{18}}} Now where there is forgiveness of these, there is no longer an offering for sin. {{rf{19}}} Therefore, brothers, since we have confidence for the entrance into the sanctuary by the blood of Jesus, {{rf{20}}} by the new and living way which he inaugurated for us through the curtain, that is, his flesh, {{rf{21}}} and since we have a great priest over the house of God, {{rf{22}}} let us approach with a true heart in the full assurance of faith, our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water. {{rf{23}}} Let us hold fast to the confession of our hope without wavering, for the one who promised is faithful. {{rf{24}}} And let us think about how to stir one another up to love and good works, {{rf{25}}} not abandoning our meeting together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging each other, and by so much more as you see the day drawing near. {{rf{26}}} For if we keep on sinning deliberately after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, {{rf{27}}} but a certain fearful expectation of judgment and a fury of fire that is about to consume the adversaries. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Hebrews-10-14]] }}}
{{rf{28}}} Anyone who rejected the law of Moses dies without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses. {{rf{29}}} How much worse punishment do you think the person will be considered worthy of who treats with disdain the Son of God and who considers ordinary the blood of the covenant by which he was made holy and who insults the Spirit of grace? {{rf{30}}} For we know the one who said, "Vengeance is mine, I will repay," and again, "The Lord will judge his people." {{rf{31}}} It is a terrifying thing to fall into the hands of the living God. {{rf{32}}} But remember the former days in which, after you were enlightened, you endured a great struggle with sufferings, {{rf{33}}} sometimes being publicly exposed both to insults and to afflictions, and sometimes becoming sharers with those who were treated in this way. {{rf{34}}} For you both sympathized with the prisoners and put up with the seizure of your belongings with joy because you knew that you yourselves had a better and permanent possession. {{rf{35}}} Therefore do not throw away your confidence, which has great reward. {{rf{36}}} For you have need of endurance, in order that after you have done the will of God, you may receive what was promised. {{rf{37}}} For yet "a very, very little while, and the one who is coming will come and will not delay. {{rf{38}}} But my righteous one will live by faith, and if he shrinks back, my soul is not well pleased with him." {{rf{39}}} But we are not among those who shrink back to destruction, but among those who have faith to the preservation of our souls. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Hebrews-10-28]] }}}
{{rf big{1}}} Now faith is the realization of what is hoped for, the proof of things not seen. {{rf{2}}} For by this the people of old were approved. {{rf{3}}} By faith we understand the worlds were created by the word of God, in order that what is seen did not come into existence from what is visible. {{rf{4}}} By faith Abel offered to God a greater sacrifice than Cain, by which he was approved that he was righteous, because God approved him for his gifts, and through it he still speaks, although he is dead. {{rf{5}}} By faith Enoch was taken up, so that he did not experience death, and he was not found, because God took him up. For before his removal, he had been approved as having been pleasing to God. {{rf{6}}} Now without faith it is impossible to please him, for the one who approaches God must believe that he exists and is a rewarder of those who seek him. {{rf{7}}} By faith Noah, having been warned about things not yet seen, out of reverence constructed an ark for the deliverance of his family, by which he pronounced sentence on the world and became an heir of the righteousness that comes by faith. {{rf{8}}} By faith Abraham, when he was called, obeyed to go out to a place that he was going to receive for an inheritance, and he went out, not knowing where he was going. {{rf{9}}} By faith he lived in the land of promise as a stranger, living in tents with Isaac and Jacob, the fellow heirs of the same promise. {{rf{10}}} For he was expecting the city that has foundations, whose architect and builder is God. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Hebrews-11-01]] }}}
''Hebrews 11 might better be named the Hall of Perseverance than Faith.''
* [[Abraham]] was never looking for the merely earthly blessings.
* Abel first obtained the victory of faith. Vss. 4-22 have Genesis; 23-29 Exodus; 30-31 Joshua; and 32 Judges and on.
* [[Hebrews-11-chiasmus]]
<<Bbl H 11:1 abbr >> [[Invisible-Visible]]
11:2 Here is a clear statement of how [[Salvation]] came to the OT saints.
<<Bbl H 11:3 abbr >> <<Bbl Gn 22:4 >>
11:4 Abel's present speech is mentioned in 12:24.
11:5 The author's wording here, both in direct quotation and allusion, is palpably based on the Septuagint.
11:6 Not that He is as opposed to atheism, but that He is the one described in Hebrews' opening words.
<<Bbl H 11:13 abbr >> -- <<Bbl H 11:39 abbr >> -- [[Promise]]
11:16 For //not ashamed//, see <<Bbl H 2:11 note>>.
11:21-22 Faith is remarkable here because of hte context of geography and time -- these men are looking to the promises from a long way off.
11:23-29 Moses is also "a sojourner in strange land," <<Bbl Ex 2:22 >>
<<Bbl H 11:33 abbr >> <<Bbl Pr 16:32 >>, <<Bbl Pr 25:28 >>. Pastor Sam relates these to the text and cites David, who for all his military victories achieved a greater one yet when he refrained from killing Saul.
11:33,39 The promises of vs. 33 must be distinguished from the [[Promise]] of vs. 39.
<<Bbl H 11:33 abbr >>, 39 - experiential vs positional. Simeon. As the Cajun said while giving his testimony at a meeting in Victoria, "I knew I was onto something and I was as excited as a blind dog in a smokehouse!"
11:34 The three Hebrew men quenched fire. See also <<Bbl I 43:2 >>.
<<Bbl H 11:35 abbr >> see <<Bbl Php 3:10 >>-11 ; <<Bbl H 12:2 >>; <<Bbl Rev 12:11 >>
* Important break in thought from vs. 35a to 35b. Verse should be divided there. Shift is from present deliverance to future and eternal.
* Theme of those tested by persecution, enduring loss.
<<Bbl H 11:39 abbr >> -- <<Bbl H 11:13 abbr >>
{{rf{11}}} By faith also, with Sarah, he received the ability to procreate even past the normal age, because he regarded the one who had promised to be faithful. {{rf{12}}} And therefore these were fathered from one man, and he being as good as dead, as the stars of heaven in number and like the innumerable sand by the shore of the sea. {{rf{13}}} These all died in faith without receiving the promises, but seeing them from a distance and welcoming them, and admitting that they were strangers and temporary residents on the earth. {{rf{14}}} For those who say such things make clear that they are seeking a homeland. {{rf{15}}} And if they remember that land from which they went out, they would have had opportunity to return. {{rf{16}}} But now they aspire to a better land, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed of them, to be called their God, for he has prepared for them a city. {{rf{17}}} By faith Abraham, when he was tested, offered Isaac, and the one who received the promises was ready to offer his one and only son, {{rf{18}}} with reference to whom it was said, "In Isaac your descendants will be named," {{rf{19}}} having reasoned that God was able even to raise him from the dead, from which he received him back also as a symbol. {{rf{20}}} By faith also Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau concerning things that were going to happen. {{rf{21}}} By faith Jacob, as he was dying, blessed each of the sons of Joseph and worshiped, leaning on the top of his staff. {{rf{22}}} By faith Joseph, as he was dying, mentioned about the exodus of the sons of Israel and gave instructions about his bones. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Hebrews-11-11]] }}}
{{rf{23}}} By faith Moses, when he was born, was hidden for three months by his parents, because they saw the child was handsome, and they were not afraid of the edict of the king. {{rf{24}}} By faith Moses, when he was grown up, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter, {{rf{25}}} choosing instead to be mistreated with the people of God rather than to experience the transitory enjoyment of sin, {{rf{26}}} considering reproach endured for the sake of Christ greater wealth than the treasures of Egypt, for he was looking to the reward. {{rf{27}}} By faith he left Egypt, not fearing the anger of the king, for he persevered as if he saw the invisible one. {{rf{28}}} By faith he kept the Passover and the sprinkling of blood, in order that the one who destroyed the firstborn would not touch them. {{rf{29}}} By faith they crossed the Red Sea as if on dry land; the Egyptians, when they made the attempt, were drowned. {{rf{30}}} By faith the walls of Jericho fell down after they had been marched around for seven days. {{rf{31}}} By faith Rahab the prostitute did not perish with those who were disobedient, because she welcomed the spies in peace. {{rf{32}}} And what more shall I say? For time would fail me to tell about Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, David, and Samuel and the prophets, {{rf{33}}} who through faith conquered kingdoms, accomplished justice, obtained what was promised, shut the mouths of lions, {{rf{34}}} extinguished the effectiveness of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, were made strong from weakness, became mighty in battle, put to flight enemy battle lines. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Hebrews-11-23]] }}}
{{rf{35}}} Women received back their dead by resurrection. But others were tortured, not accepting release, in order that they might gain a better resurrection. {{rf{36}}} And others experienced mocking and flogging, and in addition bonds and imprisonment. {{rf{37}}} They were stoned, they were sawed in two, they died by murder with a sword, they wandered about in sheepskins, in goatskins, impoverished, afflicted, mistreated, {{rf{38}}} of whom the world was not worthy, wandering about on deserts and mountains and in caves and in holes in the ground. {{rf{39}}} And although they all were approved through their faith, they did not receive what was promised, {{rf{40}}} because God had provided something better for us, so that they would not be made perfect without us. {{rf big{1}}} Therefore, since we also have such a great cloud of witnesses surrounding us, putting aside every weight and the sin that so easily ensnares us, let us run with patient endurance the race that has been set before us, {{rf{2}}} fixing our eyes on Jesus, the originator and perfecter of faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, disregarding the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. {{rf{3}}} For consider the one who endured such hostility by sinners against himself, so that you will not grow weary in your souls and give up. {{rf{4}}} You have not yet resisted to the point of shedding your blood as you struggle against sin. {{rf{5}}} And have you completely forgotten the exhortation which instructs you as sons? "My son, do not make light of the Lord's discipline, or give up when you are corrected by him. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Hebrews-11-35]] }}}
https://www.academia.edu/9686371/Chiastic_Structures_in_Hebrews_A_Study_of_Form_and_Function_in_Biblical_Discourse
A Introduction: the ancients commended for their faith vv1-3 ἐν ταύτῃ γὰρ ἐμαρτυρήθησαν οἱ πρεσβύτεροι
B Πίστει (6x)… Exemplars of faith from Abel to Abraham vv4-12
C Κατὰ πίστιν: Reflective summary of faith that sees beyond death vv13-16
B’ Πίστει (11x)… Exemplars of faith from Abraham to Maccabean revolt vv17-38
A’ Conclusion: The faithful were commended for their faith vv39-40 Καὶ οὗτοι πάντες μαρτυρηθέντες διὰ τῆς πίστεως
* [[Persevere]]
<<Bbl H 12:1 abbr>> //every weight (or hindrance)//, all casual weaknesses; //sin//, outright rebellion; //let us run with perseverance//, robust godliness. These correspond with the "Three Rooms" (or Circles) exercise - slippery slope, acting out, healthful.
<<Bbl H 12:1 abbr>> [[Ensnare]]
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12:2 [[Despising]] has two definitions. It is important to apply the classic definition here. Consider in what way David was despised by Goliath.
<<Bbl H 12:5 abbr>> quoting <<Bbl Pr 3:11>>-12
<<Bbl H 12:17 abbr >> A sharp contrast with the "hall of faith" that precedes.
12.18 'touched' continues the theme of 'seen'.
12.27 shaken, unshaken is a slight transfer.
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12:2 see 11:35; also Adams, Counselor's Manual, p.166.
<<Bbl H 12:12 abbr >> Would I spank my neighbor's child?
<<Bbl H 12:12 abbr >>-13 @@color: brown;Cheer the heart when the limbs are weak. Tell the doubting that God is faithful. Tell those that feel the burden of sin that it was for sinners Christ died. Tell the backsliders that God never does cast away His people. Tell the desponding that the Lord delights in mercy. Tell the distracted that the Lord does devise means to bring back His banished. Covet the character of Barnabas. He was a son of encouragement. Study the sacred art of speaking a word in season. Apprentice yourself to the Comforter. Acquaint yourself with the sacred art of comforting the sad. Let your own troubles and trials qualify you to sympathize and relieve. You will be of great value in the Church of God if you acquire the art of compassion, and are able to help those that are bowed down.@@ // - Spurgeon//
<<Bbl H 12:12 abbr >>-13 Quoted from <<Bbl I 35:3 >>-04. Not to strengthen your own self (as some translations would support), but others near you.
<<Bbl H 12:15 abbr>> [[Motivation]]
<<Bbl H 12:16 abbr>>-17 Esau's early folly had a sequel that was greater. Perhaps this reflects the //root of bitterness// (v 15).
<<Bbl H 12:18 abbr>>-24 Vss 18-21 has seven elements of the Old Covenant; vss 22-24 has eight elements; all these are separated by a conjunction //and//. If we take together the last two elements of the latter, Jesus and the sprinkled Blood, a general parallelism emerges:
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12:18 //mountain that may be touched// - contrast with the spiritual Mt. Zion. This continues the strong theme of ''visible VS invisible.''
12:24 good things, i.e., of mercy, as compared the Judgment for which Abel's blood cried from the ground (<<Bbl Jms 2:13 >>?.
** Bruce renders the words here as //speaks more graciously than the blood of Abel.// The tense is present because the full Judgment has not yet come; compare the cry of the martyrs in <<Bbl Rev 6:9 >>-11 .
** Wuest, however, takes it as the blood of Abel's sacrifice (Vol II, p. 228-29).
<<Bbl H 12:27 abbr>> Alludes to <<Bbl Haggai 2:6>>, 21.
13.09 the Message connects this with vs 8.
<<Bbl H 13:10 abbr >> - see <<Bbl H 7:13 abbr>>
<<Bbl H 13:11 abbr>> //outside the camp// - <<Bbl Lv 4:12>>, 21 and other passages from the Law.
13.13 is not well applied as justification for new church schisms. A.W. Pink is caustic.
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So we must go out to Him outside the camp, bearing His reproach. For here we do not have a permanent city, but we seek the city that is to come. (vss 13-14)
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<<Bbl H 13:13 abbr>>ff The command to //go outside the camp// must not be construed as going out from a bad-quality church fellowship. A.W. Pink is caustic on this point.
{{rf{6}}} For the Lord disciplines the one whom he loves, and punishes every son whom he accepts." {{rf{7}}} Endure it for discipline. God is dealing with you as sons. For what son is there whom a father does not discipline? {{rf{8}}} But if you are without discipline, in which all legitimate sons have become participants, then you are illegitimate and not sons. {{rf{9}}} Furthermore, we have had our earthly fathers who disciplined us, and we respected them. Will we not much rather subject ourselves to the Father of spirits and live? {{rf{10}}} For they disciplined us for a few days according to what seemed appropriate to them, but he does so for our benefit, in order that we can have a share in his holiness. {{rf{11}}} Now all discipline seems for the moment not to be joyful but painful, but later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness for those who are trained by it. {{rf{12}}} Therefore strengthen your slackened hands and your weakened knees, {{rf{13}}} and make straight paths for your feet, so that what is lame will not be dislocated, but rather be healed. {{rf{14}}} Pursue peace with everyone, and holiness, without which no one will see the Lord. {{rf{15}}} Take care that no one falls short of the grace of God; that no one growing up like a root of bitterness causes trouble, and by it many become defiled; {{rf{16}}} that no one be a sexually immoral or totally worldly person like Esau, who for one meal traded his own birthright. {{rf{17}}} For you know that also afterwards, when he wanted to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, because he did not find an occasion for repentance, although he sought it with tears. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Hebrews-12-06]] }}}
{{rf{18}}} For you have not come to something that can be touched, and to a burning fire, and to darkness, and to gloom, and to a whirlwind, {{rf{19}}} and to the noise of a trumpet, and to the sound of words which those who heard begged that not another word be spoken to them. {{rf{20}}} For they could not endure what was commanded: "If even an animal touches the mountain, it must be stoned." {{rf{21}}} And the spectacle was so terrifying that Moses said, "I am terrified and trembling." {{rf{22}}} But you have come to Mount Zion, and to the city of the living God, to the heavenly Jerusalem, and to tens of thousands of angels, to the festal gathering {{rf{23}}} and assembly of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, and to God the judge of all, and to the spirits of righteous people made perfect, {{rf{24}}} and to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks better than Abel's does. {{rf{25}}} Watch out that you do not refuse the one who is speaking! For if those did not escape when they refused the one who warned them on earth, much less will we escape, if we reject the one who warns from heaven, {{rf{26}}} whose voice shook the earth at that time, but now he has promised, saying, "Yet once more I will shake not only the earth but also heaven." {{rf{27}}} Now the phrase "yet once more" indicates the removal of what is shaken, namely, things that have been created, in order that the things that are not shaken may remain. {{rf{28}}} Therefore, since we are receiving an unshakable kingdom, let us be thankful, through which let us serve God acceptably, with awe and reverence. {{rf{29}}} For indeed our God is a consuming fire. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Hebrews-12-18]] }}}
{{rf big{1}}} Brotherly love must continue. {{rf{2}}} Do not neglect hospitality, because through this some have received angels as guests without knowing it. {{rf{3}}} Remember the prisoners, as though you were fellow-prisoners; remember the mistreated, as though you yourselves also are being mistreated in the body. {{rf{4}}} Marriage must be held in honor by all, and the marriage bed be undefiled, because God will judge sexually immoral people and adulterers. {{rf{5}}} Your lifestyle must be free from the love of money, being content with what you have. For he himself has said, "I will never desert you, and I will never abandon you." {{rf{6}}} So then, we can say with confidence, "The Lord is my helper, I will not be afraid. What will man do to me?" {{rf{7}}} Remember your leaders, who spoke the word of God to you; considering the outcome of their way of life, imitate their faith.
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{{rf{8}}} Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever. {{rf{9}}} Do not be carried away by various and strange teachings, for it is good for the heart to be strengthened by grace, not by foods by which those who participate have not benefited. {{rf{10}}} We have an altar from which those who serve in the tabernacle do not have the right to eat. {{rf{11}}} For the bodies of those animals whose blood is brought into the sanctuary by the high priest for sins are burned up outside the camp. {{rf{12}}} Therefore Jesus also suffered outside the gate, in order that he might sanctify the people by his own blood. {{rf{13}}} So we must go out to him outside the camp, bearing his reproach. {{rf{14}}} For here we do not have a permanent city, but we seek the city that is to come. {{rf{15}}} Therefore through him let us offer up a sacrifice of praise continually to God, that is, the fruit of lips that confess his name. {{rf{16}}} And do not neglect doing good and generosity, for God is pleased with such sacrifices. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Hebrews-13-01]] }}}
{{rf{17}}} Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they keep watch over your souls as those who will give an account, so that they can do this with joy and not with groaning, for this would be unprofitable for you. {{rf{18}}} Pray for us, for we are convinced that we have a good conscience, and want to conduct ourselves commendably in every way. {{rf{19}}} And I especially urge you to do this, so that I may be restored to you more quickly. {{rf{20}}} Now may the God of peace, who brought up from the dead our Lord Jesus, the great shepherd of the sheep, by the blood of the eternal covenant, {{rf{21}}} equip you with every good thing to do his will, carrying out in us what is pleasing before him through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory forever. Amen. {{rf{22}}} Now I urge you, brothers, bear with my word of exhortation, for indeed I have written to you briefly. {{rf{23}}} Know that our brother Timothy has been released, with whom I will see you, if he comes quickly enough. {{rf{24}}} Greet all your leaders and all the saints. Those from Italy greet you. {{rf{25}}} Grace be with all of you. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Hebrews-13-17]] }}}
* Jesus taught more about Hell, far more than had previously been known.
* A real place of conscious, eternal suffering (<<Bbl Mt 5:22 >>; <<Bbl Mt 13:42 >>; <<Bbl Mt 25:41 >>, 46; <<Bbl L 16:22 >>-24; <<Bbl Jude 1:7 >>; <<Bbl Rev 14:11 >>; <<Bbl Rev 20:10 >>, 14).
* We like to talk about //going through Hell.// It's clear we don't mean actual Hell, for a person doesn't go //through// Hell -- that implies coming out eventually.
* Does not appear to have been created for its value as a deterrent.
* @@color:navy;Of all the doctrines in Christianity, hell is probably the most difficult to defend, the most burdensome to believe, and the first to be abandoned.@@ // - unattributed quotation from David Legge//
* Jesus is the only hell fire preacher in the Bible. Invented the term when he appropriated the local team //Gehenna//. Described it using monstrous hyperboles, which are also used for the need to avoid it.
* Jehovah’s Witnesses believe hell is not a place of eternal suffering but is rather the common grave of humankind. The wicked are annihilated — snuffed out of conscious existence forever.
!!! Levels of severity (I don't believe this)
* He who knows his master's will and does not do it will receive many stripes.
* Cities compared
** <<Bbl Mt 11:24>>, Capernaum to descend lower than Sodom.
** <<Bbl Mt 12:41 >>-42.
** But I take this as rhetoric. Maybe similar to <<Bbl Ez 16:51>>-51 and <<Bbl Jer 3:11>>.
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* //a very ready help in times of trouble//
* Eve, help-meet.
* The Holy Spirit our Helper.
* //Available// = ''avail'' (help) ''+ able''
* [[Rescue]]
* <<Bbl Ps 66:16 >>
* We understand //minimizing// as an unhelpful response from someone listening to your troubles or fears. But if God //minimizes// those challenges, that's different!
A good statement for understanding the scope of heresy from [[D. Musick|https://danmusicktheology.com/kenosis/#KenoticistsChristian]]:
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* <<Bbl 2J 1:9 >> //those who run ahead//
* [[Syncretism]]
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* [[Kenosis]]
* Idea for a diagram. A time line which has swim lanes for doctrinal truth, and lists those who strayed.
* With his insecurity is a dependence on entertainment which invites flattery from self and others. In this he sometimes found to be disappointed.
* There were lots of them... seven?
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* [[Revelation-GeoHistorical]]
(Note fuller context of these -- "Therefore...")
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* <<Bbl Dt 1:1>>-4 We are informed by 1:3 that Moses' account was directed specifically by God, and by v. 5 that this account was tantamount to an exposition of the Torah. Moses is reminding the people of his authority and their support of his leadership, and of God's authority and their obedience and disobedience. The circling of Mt. Seir is recorded. 2:10-12 and 20-3 record the displacements of specific families of giants. The conquests over Sihon and Og are pivotal: after these victories, the dread of Israel falls upon the heathen. After the overview of chapters 1-3, Moses focuses sternly on the encounter at Horeb in chap. 4 and exhorts Israel to obey God's commands.
* <<Bbl Dt 33:1>> See Keil & Delitzsche, vol.7, pp. 74f.
* <<Bbl Jos 24:2 >>-13 : In recounting the election of Abraham, the deliverance from Pharaoh's oppression and Balaam's curse, the expulsion of the heathen "not by your sword or your bow," and the bestowal of lands "on which you had not labored," Joshua thoroughly emphasizes God's great grace towards His people. Halfway through this narrative, Joshua dramatically shifts from "the fathers" to the people themselves: "Your own eyes saw what I did in Egypt." This is followed in v.14 by the command to fear and serve the Lord and put away idols, the threat of His sovereign Judgment, and the setting up of a stone of witness.
* <<Bbl Ps 78:1 >>ff God's faithfulness is the brilliant theme of this psalm.
* <<Bbl Ps 105:1>>ff
* <<Bbl Ps 106:1>>ff Each stanza recalls Israel's sin and God's fierce Judgment, except the five beginning and five ending verses, which declare and request His mercy. (V.15 clearly recalls <<Bbl Ps 78:29 >>-31.)
* <<Bbl Ez 16:1>>ff The first of two strongly poetic and even brutal accounts in Ezekiel (which in addition to these contains many less comprehensive recountings). Israel is compared to a forsaken infant who by God's mercy becomes a beautiful woman, yet turns aside to the most obscene harlotry.
* <<Bbl Ez 23:1 >>-21 : The account of Oholah and Oholibah.
* <<Bbl Neh 9:1>>ff: A terse description of God's faithfulness and Israel's disobedience in exalted language, which forms the prologue to a covenant restoring the right worship of God.
* <<Bbl A 7:2 >>-53 : Stephen's recounting of the period from Abraham's election to the building of Solomon's temple, abruptly followed by an indictment against the Jews before him and his stoning. It is precise and consists largely of direct O.T. quotes.
* <<Bbl 1C 10:1 >>-11 : Paul's concise application of the history of Israel to our daily walk.
* "Holy" shares the same ~Anglo-Saxon root with "whole."
* [[Separate]] from the [[World]].
* [[Holiness-Discussion]]
! Of God
* [[God-Transcendent]]
* God is the only source and judge of holiness. Only He can declare what within His creation is holy.
* <<Bbl Ps 99:3 >>,5, 9.
! Of man
* [[Abraham]]
* [[Temple]]
* [[PeopleOfGod]]
* The OT rituals of atonement evoke distance. <<Bbl Ex 33:7 "" note >>.
* Then cut it (hand) off and throw it away... Why? Because it is not doing you any good!
* Redeemed man is holy because of creation in God's Image.
* Idolatry makes holy what is not holy; a "categories problem".
* <<Bbl Ps 93:5 >>, <<Bbl Zech 14:20 >>-21 , <<Bbl 2Cor 7:1 >>, <<Bbl Dt 6:1 >>-25.
* [[Revere]]
* [[Integrity]]
* [[SpiritOfChrist]]
* //Consecration, purposefulness//
* [[SanctifiedProgressive]]
* [[SanctifiedPositional]]
* //Pursue holiness, without which no one will see the Lord.//
* {{anti{[[Desecration]]}}}
<<Bbl Ps 4:2 >>; <<Bbl 2Tim 2:4 >>; <<Bbl 1Cor 7:29>>-31; <<Bbl 2Tim 4:10 >>, <<Bbl 1Jo 2:15 >>-17 ; <<Bbl Jms 4:4 >>; <<Bbl R 12:2 >>, <<Bbl 2Cor 6:14 >>-18
!!! Provided by Christ
* <<Bbl Ps 119:32 >>
* <<Bbl 2Peter 1:3 >>-4
* Initial work: raising the standard of {{medium{[[Righteousness]]}}}.
!! Paul
These three together are constructive.
* <<Bbl Eph 2:3 >>-11
* <<Bbl R 7:14 >>-25
* <<Bbl Php 3:8 >>-14
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* Experiential: //...Who became for us...// (<<Bbl 1C 1:30 >> ). Positional: //,,,without which no one will see the Lord.// (<<Bbl H 12:4 >> , written to Christians.)
* "Grieving the Spirit" equates to unholiness. See b Kendall 88ff. <<Bbl Eph 4:30 >>-32, <<Bbl Eph 5:1 >>-7.
* See those two cups? God and I are the only two people who know which cup is dirty.
* And you and God are the only two people who know what's happening on the inside of you.
* <<Bbl Mt 23:2 >>-4
!!! The Clean Cup
* <<Bbl Mt 23:25>> //First clean the inside of the cup and the dish, so that the outside of it may become clean also//
* <<Bbl L 11:39>>-40 The cup has inside and outside. Jesus said God made both of them. Note the ontological ramifications.
* God is equally interested in the inside and outside. He created both. And they are both equally visible to him.
* <<Bbl Zech 14:20 >>-21 And the cooking pots in the house of Yahweh will be holy like the sacrificial basins before the altar. 21 And every cooking pot in Jerusalem and in Judah will be holy to Yahweh of hosts, and all those who sacrifice will come and will take from them, and will cook in them, and there will be no longer a trader in the house of Yahweh of hosts on that day.
* <<Bbl Ps 86:11 >>, <<Bbl Ps 119:2 >>; <<Bbl Ps 119:10 >> //Unite my heart to fear Your Name.//
* The united [[Heart]] is a single heart. It is like the inside and outside of the cup.
* <<Bbl Pr 20:27 >> The Spirit of God is a lamp that shines into the inner most parts of the body.
* Image management. God confronts this.
* <<Bbl 2Cor 7:1 >>
!! Measuring
* Holiness is not something you can measure in another person. However, you can detect holiness.
* When it comes to your own self, again, you cannot measure holiness. But you can detect it. However, when it comes to your own self you have great advantages in detection.
* Let us imagine measuring holiness.
** How convenient it would be to take out a little scorecard, and put it on a little clipboard, and look someone up and down, and say "Aha! Today you are 3.6 on a scale of 4,000. Yesterday you were only 2.1, so that is a wonderful increase."
** But how would you know what is the top of the scale?
** And since holiness consists of many decisions which are internal (and the requirements of courage and humility are internal); and growth in holiness can only be known by prior condition (internal)...
''Our deep desire.''
* //[[House]], dwelling, residence, domicile, nest, palace//.
!! The seat of family
* //Each to his own home// is a common idiom.
** <<Bbl J 16:32>>
* <<Bbl J 14:2>>-3 Jesus' promise
!!!! ...or of identity
* Nebuchadnezzar before the crisis
!! The seat of hospitality
* <<Bbl Job 1:4 >>
!! Refuge
* <<Bbl Pr 27:8>>
!! Attacks from our culture
take 3 approaches. ''Exploitation'' marred the concept, ex paederasty; ''orientation'' which was not considered by Paul; ''mysogeny'' and the status quo (where the male is literally on top). Those closest to the Bible tend to take the 3rd as the others are easier to disprove.
* <<Bbl R :1 >> Chap 1 relies greatly on Gn 1.
* All people sin in deliberate suppression of the knowledge of God. This is Romans 1 thru 3, over against the mere existence of sin. So this is the argument from nature. <<Bbl R 1:20 >>. You cannot be saved on the basis of general revelation; but you can gain knowledge whereby you are culpable.
* @@color:brown;Homosexuality isn’t causal, it’s consequential. From God’s point of view, homosexuality is an identity-rooted ethical outworking of a worldview transgression inherited by all through original sin. It’s so original to the identity of she who bears it that it feels like it precedes you; and as a vestige of original sin, it does. We are born this way. ...homosexuality, whether it feels natural or not, is a sin. God’s challenge was clear: do I accept his verdict of my sin at the cross of Christ, or do I argue with him? Do I repent, even of a sin that doesn’t feel like a sin but normal, not-bothering-another-soul kind of life, or do I take up Satan’s question to Eve (//Did God really say?//) and hurl it back in the face of God?@@ //- Rosaria Butterfield on Romons 1//
!!!! Exploitation as a disqualifier
* <<Bbl R 1:26 >> is a blow to the exploitation argument, because Paul indicts female Homosexuality which was not viewed as exploitation in his time. And we see the desire and gratification are mutual. Furthermore much ancient literature extols gay marriage, so there is no cultural context pressing this view. Mutual commitment did not commend it so that Paul and others could not condemn it.
* <<Bbl Lev 18:22 >>, 2013.
* <<Bbl Lev 20:13 >> is referred in 1C 06?
!!!! Orientation as a disqualifier
* The ancient world was very interested in "born that way" determinism. So it's historically wrong to say Paul's thinking was inadequate because he wasn't aware of a preset orientation. Paul could have subscribed to this and still made the same declarations.
* <<Bbl R 1:24 >> "" note
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* <<Bbl Lv 18:22 >>
* <<Bbl 1K 22:46 >> -- I imagine doubtful this refers to homosexuality
* <<Bbl 1Tim 1:10 >>
* In Morocco guests arriving in a home as honored guests or joining a wedding procession are sprinkled with perfume; no permission is asked. Rosewater is pleasant, strong cheap perfume is not. The better the fragrance, the greater the honor - which brings a significant conclusion, that The giver must have both something very good to give and a high esteem of the recipient. (On one occasion in Oulfa either one or both was missing. We visited a family that was poor and also dishonorable and were greeted with splashes of offensive strength.) In <<Bbl Mt 26:7 >> the disciples have an understandable confusion. There is no doubt on the quality of the perfume - one guesses the indignation is not their first emotional response. And they have gotten used to the idea that Jesus is not interested in social protocol or flattery. But they aren't able to study Jesus's response and let their Spirit agree with his. And they have in mind this financial transaction. What follows is another financial transaction. Judas settles for 30 pieces of silver. <<Bbl J 11:6 >> tells us he was a thief as well as the treasurer. (Jesus allowed him to have his own reward.) The disciples seem to have sensed something was wrong with the books. But we learn further that Judas used to turn the finances by inviting donations. So it's easy to imagine that he is the instigator of discontent at this time. One wonders what other discord began with him.
* [[Glory]]
* {{anti{[[Shame]]}}}
* <<Bbl Mal 1:9>>
* //Respect// is earned; honor comes with the office.
* Haman's delusion
* <<Bbl Esther 8:16 >> -- the Jews vindicated against Haman.
!!! Things that honor God
* Psa 50 -- thankfulness
* Prov 3 generosity?
* Prov 14 generosity to the poor
* Isa 29 sincerity of heart
!!!! HonorTheSon
* <<Bbl Mt 3:17 >>
* <<Bbl J 8:23 >>
* <<Bbl Ps 1:13 >>
* An absolute certainty that happens to be in the future. <<Bbl Heb 1:2 >>b.
* Not a wish but an expectation. Isaiah, the Psalms and Romans 15.
* <<Bbl R 5:2 >>. Hope that supports joy - that is distinguishing.
* A present hope is a pleasant hope.
* A confident hope (subjective).
* A grounded hope (objective).
* <<Bbl R 8:24 >>-25
* <<Bbl R 14:4 >>
* Describes much of our motivation even at momentary and mundane levels.
* What does it mean that [[Christ]] is our Hope?
> Suppose you are alone, swimming in the middle of the ocean. You are hopeless. But if a Coast Guard helicopter arrives overhead, you feel hope. Now a rescue swimmer is dropped into the water with you. There is no way you can be saved from drowning without this man. So we say he is your hope. You //felt// hope, you //have// hope where you did not before, and the [[Rescue]] swimmer //is himself// your hope.
* <<Bbl Ruth 3:1 "" note>>
* <<Bbl Ps 3:22 >> (?)
* <<Bbl Pr 13:12 >>
* <<Bbl Pr 23:18 >>
* <<Bbl 2K 19:30 >>
* <<Bbl Ez 12:23 >>
* <<Bbl Jer 29:11 >>-14
* <<Bbl Zech 9:12 >> -- a hopeful word to //prisoners of hope//.
* <<Bbl R 15:1 >>-5
* <<Bbl R 15:13 >>
* <<Bbl R 8:24 >>-25
* <<Bbl Col 1:23 >>
* <<Bbl H 6:18 >>-19
* <<Bbl Titus 2:13>>
* [[Believe]], [[Security]], [[Salvation-Savior]]
* [[Heaven]]
* Hope of [[Resurrect]]
* [[Encourage]]
* @@color:navy;Don't count your chickens before they're hatched.@@ @@color:brown; Unless they're God's chickens, given to you under His promise. If that's the case, then don't let them go - count them!@@
!! Disappointed
* <<Bbl L 24:21>>
'' Weapon ''
* The offensive weapon in ancient [[War]].
* <<Bbl Dt 17:16 >>; <<Bbl Josh 11:6 >>; <<Bbl 2K 23:11>> <<Bbl I 2:7 >>, <<Bbl I 30:16 >>, <<Bbl I 36:8 >>; <<Bbl Amos 4:10 >>; <<Bbl Ps 147:10 >>.
* <<Bbl Zech 14:20>> Their bells shall say "Holy".
''Symbol of [[Pride]]''
* I have recorded that the Greek word for //humility// is rooted in the idea of a horse made tame.
* The [[Donkey]] suggests humility.
* @@color:brown;Just don't let them put me on a horse.@@ // -- Eisenhower, when asked in his old age how he wanted to be memorialized.//
The word of Yahweh that came to Hosea son of Beeri, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, the kings of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash, king of Israel. {{rf{2}}} At the beginning when Yahweh spoke through Hosea, Yahweh said to Hosea, "Go, take for yourself a wife and children of whoredom, because the land commits great whoredom forsaking Yahweh." {{rf{3}}} So he went and took Gomer daughter of Diblaim, and she conceived and bore him a son. {{rf{4}}} And Yahweh said to him, "Name him Jezreel; because in a little while I will punish the house of Jehu for the blood of Jezreel, and I will put an end to the kingdom of the house of Israel. {{rf{5}}} On that day I will break the bow of Israel in the Valley of Jezreel." {{rf{6}}} And she conceived again and bore a daughter, and he said to him, "Name her Lo-ruhamah, for I will no longer have pity on the house of Israel or forgive them. {{rf{7}}} But I will have pity on the house of Judah and I will save them by Yahweh their God, and will not deliver them by bow, sword, war, horses, or horsemen. {{rf{8}}} And when she had weaned Lo-ruhamah, she conceived and bore a son. {{rf{9}}} And he said, "Name him Lo-ammi, for you are not my people and I am not your God. {{rf{10}}} The number of the children of Israel will be like the sand of the sea that cannot be measured or counted; and in the place where it is said to them, "You are not my people," it will be said to them, "Children of the living God." {{rf{11}}} Then the children of Judah and Israel will be gathered together, and they will appoint for themselves one head; and they will take possession of the land, for great is the day of Jezreel. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Hosea-01-01]] }}}
!! Hosea
* Sowing and reaping is a main theme.
* It's misguided to use Hosea's actions as a guide for marriage recovery. They are provocative, not normative.
** Hosea is more or less flouting the law of God in restoring his wife.
** It is like the the story of the lost son who returns to the "prodigal love" of his father. The older son wanted reasons and a procedure (for his own self-guided sense of protection).
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<<Bbl Hosea 1:2 abbr >>. John Bright, p 74, says Hosea the first to use the metaphor of marriage. He proposes he married in good faith; the adulteries followed, and later the revelation of a likeness with Israel. Seems to me to go against the plain reading.
<<Bbl Hosea 1:3 abbr >> The woman and her forebear are name. Irony.
<<Bbl Hosea 1:4 abbr >> [[Jezreel]]. 2Kg 9 and 10. John Bright p 54ff. Shalum kills and is killed. <<Bbl Hosea 4:2 abbr >>.
1:8 Fertility resumes after weaning, the natural biological order.
1:10 This passage is interpreted by the Spirit in Peter to include the Gentiles; <<Bbl 1P 2:9 >>-10 . Paul also cites it, <<Bbl R 9:25 >>-26 .
<<Bbl Hosea 2:1 abbr >> Errant chapter division; this verse concludes the promise of hope.
<<Bbl Hosea 2:5 abbr >> She gratifies her own desires. False "benefits" of porn.
2:7 Compare 1Chrn 12:8.
<<Bbl Hosea 2:11 abbr >> The decorated double-life of addiction.
<<Bbl Hosea 2:15 abbr >> [[Achor]].
<<Bbl Hosea 2:17 abbr >> The mental vocabulary of porn can be removed.
<<Bbl Hosea 2:21 abbr >>-22 Jezreel, //God sows.// By the NASB, the repeated verb //respond// forces one to read from bottom to top: God will sow, the fruits of harvest will respond, the earth to those fruits, the heavens to the earth, God to the heavens. It's a mysterious poem that announces the [[Agency]] of God from Alpha to Omega and back.
<<Bbl Hosea 3:1 abbr >>ff. Bright, p 75, identifies this woman as Gomer.
Say to your brother, "Ammi," and to your sister, "Ruhamah." {{rf{2}}} Plead with your mother, plead -- because she is not my wife, and I am not her husband. Let her put away her whoring from before her, and her adultery from between her breasts. {{rf{3}}} Lest I strip her naked and expose her like the day when she was born; I will make her like the desert and turn her into parched land; I will kill her with thirst. {{rf{4}}} And I will not have pity on her children, because they are children of whoredom. {{rf{5}}} Because their mother was unfaithful; she who conceived them has acted shamefully, for she said: "I will go after my lovers, the ones who give me my bread, my water, my wool, and my flax, my oil, and my drink." {{rf{6}}} Therefore, Look! I am going to hedge her path with thorns, and I will build a stone wall, a stone wall against her, and she will not find her paths. {{rf{7}}} Then she will pursue her lovers, but she will not overtake them; she will seek them and not find them; and she will say, "I will go and return to my first husband because it was better for me then than now." {{rf{8}}} But she did not know that it was I who gave her grain, new wine, and oil, and who gave her silver in abundance, and gold which they made into a Baal. {{rf{9}}} Therefore I will take again my grain in its time, and my wine in its season; and I will take away my wool and my flax, which were to cover her nakedness. {{rf{10}}} And now I will uncover her nakedness before the eyes of her lovers, and no one will rescue her from my hand. {{rf{11}}} And I will put an end to all her mirth, her festivals, her new moons, and her Sabbaths, and all her appointed festivals; {{rf{12}}} and I will lay waste to her vines and her fig trees, of which she said, "They are my payment for prostitution, which my lovers gave to me." I will make them a forest, and the wild animals of the field will devour them. {{rf{13}}} I will punish her for the days of the Baals, to whom she burns incense, and she decked herself with her ornamental ring and jewelry, and she went after her lovers, and forgot me -- a declaration of Yahweh. {{rf{14}}} Therefore, Look! I am going to allure her and bring her into the desert, and I will speak tenderly to her. {{rf{15}}} From there I will give her her vineyards, and the Valley of Achor as a doorway of hope. And there she will respond, as in the days of her youth, just as in the day of her coming out of the land of Egypt. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Hosea-02-01]] }}}
{{rf{16}}} And on that day -- a declaration of Yahweh -- you will call me, "My husband;" you will no longer call me, "My Baal." {{rf{17}}} I will remove the names of the Baals from her mouth, and they will no longer be mentioned by their name. {{rf{18}}} I will make a covenant for them on that day, with the animals of the field, with the birds of the heaven, and with the creeping things of the ground; the bow, the sword, and the war I will abolish from the land, and I will let them lie down in safety. {{rf{19}}} And I will take you as my wife forever; I will take you as a wife for myself in righteousness and in justice, in steadfast love and in mercy. {{rf{20}}} I will take you as my wife in faithfulness, and you will know Yahweh. {{rf{21}}} On that day I will answer, declares Yahweh, I will answer the heavens, and they will answer the earth. {{rf{22}}} And the earth will answer the grain, the wine, and the oil, and they will answer Jezreel. {{rf{23}}} I will sow her for myself in the land; I will have pity on Lo-ruhama; I will say to Lo-ammi, "You are my people," and he himself will say, "you are my God." {{rf big{1}}} And Yahweh said to me again, "Go, love a woman who has a lover and is committing adultery, just like the love of Yahweh for the children of Israel, but they are turning to other gods and love raisin cakes." {{rf{2}}} So I bought her for fifteen shekels of silver and a homer of barely and a measure of wine. {{rf{3}}} And I said to her, "You must remain as mine for many days, and you will not play the whore; you will not belong to a man, and I will belong to you." {{rf{4}}} The children of Israel will remain for many days without a king and prince, without sacrifice and stone pillar, ephod and teraphim. {{rf{5}}} Afterward the children of Israel will return and seek Yahweh their God and David their king. They will come in fear to Yahweh and to his goodness at the end of days. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Hosea-02-16]] }}}
Hear the word of Yahweh, O children of Israel, for Yahweh has an indictment against the inhabitants of the land. There is no faithfulness or loyalty, there is no knowledge of God in the land. {{rf{2}}} Swearing and lying, murdering and stealing, and adultery break out, and bloodshed follows bloodshed. {{rf{3}}} Therefore the land mourns, and all those living in it languish with the animals of the field, and the birds of the heaven, and even the fish of the sea are being swept away. {{rf{4}}} Yet, let no one contend, and let no one accuse, for with you, O priest, is my contention. {{rf{5}}} You will stumble by day, and the priest also will stumble with you at night. And I will destroy your mother; {{rf{6}}} My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge; because you have rejected knowledge, I reject you from acting as a priest for me. And since you have forgotten the law of your God, I will also forget your children. {{rf{7}}} When they became many, their sin increased against me; they changed their glory into shame. {{rf{8}}} They feed on the sin of my people, they are greedy for their iniquity. {{rf{9}}} And it will be like people, like priest; I will punish them for their ways, and I will requite them for their deeds. {{rf{10}}} They will eat and not be satisfied; they will play the whore and not multiply, because they have forsaken Yahweh to devote themselves to {{rf{11}}} whoredom. Wine and new wine take away the understanding. {{rf{12}}} My people, consult their wooden idols, and their divining rod gives them oracles; because a spirit of whoredom led them astray, and they played the whore from under their God. {{rf{13}}} On the tops of the mountains they sacrifice, and on the hills they make offerings, under oak, poplar, and terebinth, because their shade is good. Therefore your daughters play the whore, and all your daughters-in-law commit adultery. {{rf{14}}} I will not punish your daughters when they play the whore, or your daughters-in-law when they commit adultery; because they go aside with whores, and they sacrifice with temple prostitutes, a people that does not understand comes to ruin. {{rf{15}}} Even though you, O Israel, are playing the whore, do not let Judah become guilty; do not enter Gilgal, or go up to Beth-aven; and do not swear, "As Yahweh lives!" {{rf{16}}} Indeed, like a stubborn heifer, Israel is stubborn; Now Yahweh will feed them, like a lamb in broad pasture. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Hosea-04-01]] }}}
<<Bbl Hosea 4:6 abbr >>a Dying //for lack of knowledge// refers to Torah, in context.<<Bbl Pr 5:23 >>.
<<Bbl Hosea 4:14 abbr >> As Judah discovered, you can't call down judgment on immorality when you've been yourself immoral.
<<Bbl Hosea 4:15 abbr >>-17 Let not Judah be contaminated. Therefore let Israel be contained. So a man's ministry, if compromised by sin, is suppressed by God.
<<Bbl Hosea 4:15 abbr >> Beth-aven means //house of vanity//, a tart allusion to Bethel.
<<Bbl Hosea 6:1 abbr >> //Torn//, <<Bbl Hosea 5:14 abbr >> //Bandage//, <<Bbl Hosea 5:13 abbr >>.
<<Bbl Hosea 6:2 abbr >> The closing phrase resounds of <<Bbl R 6:10 >>.
<<Bbl Hosea 6:3 abbr >>-4 The consistency of God is contrasted with the inconsistency of man.
6:3 see <<Bbl Mic 5:2 >>, <<Bbl Jms 5:7 >>.
<<Bbl Hosea 7:7 abbr >> <<Bbl Pr 28:2 >>.
<<Bbl Hosea 7:8 abbr >> ie, half cooked, like a pancake?
7:16 A decietful bow -- see <<Bbl Ps 78:57 >>.
<<Bbl Hosea 9:3 abbr >> Daniel was the exception.
<<Bbl Hosea 9:4 abbr >> God will leave you in loneliness as the consequence of your sin.
<<Bbl Hosea 9:5 abbr >> The sinking depressing fear when you realize this church service will have the Lord's Supper and you are trapped in sin.
<<Bbl Hosea 9:11 abbr >>-14,16 the fertility cult is defeated.
<<Bbl Hosea 10:4 abbr >> the fertility cult is defeated.
{{holyquote{
Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap according to kindness. Break up your fallow ground; for it is time to seek Yahweh, until he comes and rains righteousness on you. -- <<Bbl Hos 10:12 abbr >>
}}}
<<Bbl Hosea 11:3 abbr >> see <<Bbl Dt 1:31>>
{{rf{17}}} Ephraim is joined to idols; let him alone. {{rf{18}}} When their drinking has ended, they surely indulge in sexual orgies. They love lewdness more than their glory. {{rf{19}}} A wind has wrapped them in its wings, and they will be ashamed because of their altars. {{rf big{1}}} Hear this, O priests! Give heed, O house of Israel! Listen, O house of the king! Because the judgment applies to you; because you have been a snare for Mizpah, and a net spread out on Tabor; {{rf{2}}} they dug a deep pit in Shittim, but I am a punishment for all of them. {{rf{3}}} I myself know Ephraim, and Israel is not hidden from me; because now you have played the whore, O Ephraim -- Israel is defiled. {{rf{4}}} Their deeds do not permit them to return them to God. Because a spirit of whoredom is in their midst, they do not know Yahweh. {{rf{5}}} The pride of Israel testifies against him, and Israel and Ephraim stumble in their guilt, and Judah stumbles with them. {{rf{6}}} With their flocks and herds they will go to seek Yahweh, but they will not find him; he has withdrawn from them. {{rf{7}}} They have dealt faithlessly with Yahweh because they have borne illegitimate children. Now the new moon will devour them with their fields. {{rf{8}}} Blow the horn in Gibeah, the trumpet in Ramah. Sound the alarm in Beth-aven; look behind you, Benjamin. {{rf{9}}} Ephraim will be a desolation in the day of punishment; among the tribes of Israel I will reveal what is true. {{rf{10}}} The princes of Judah have become like those who remove a landmark; on them I will pour out my wrath like water. {{rf{11}}} Ephraim is oppressed, crushed in judgment, because he was determined to go after filth. {{rf{12}}} But I am like a maggot to Ephraim and like rottenness to the house of Judah. {{rf{13}}} And when Ephraim saw his illness, and Judah his wound, Ephraim went to Assyria, he sent to the great king. But he was unable to cure you and heal your wound. {{rf{14}}} Because I will be like a lion to Ephraim and like a fierce strong lion to the house of Judah. I myself will tear and I will go; I will carry off, and there is no one who delivers. {{rf{15}}} I will return again to my place until they acknowledge their guilt and seek my face; in their distress they will search me. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Hosea-04-17]] }}}
Come, let us return to Yahweh; because it is he who has torn, and he will heal us; he has struck us down and will bind us up. {{rf{2}}} He will revive us after two days; on the third day he will raise us up, that we may live in his presence. {{rf{3}}} Let us know, let us press on to know Yahweh; his rising is sure like the dawn. He will come like the showers to us, like the spring rain that waters the earth. {{rf{4}}} What will I do with you, O Ephraim? What will I do with you, O Judah? Your love is like a morning cloud, like the dew that goes away early in the morning. {{rf{5}}} Therefore, I have hewn them by the prophets; I have killed them by the words of my mouth, and my judgment goes forth like the light. {{rf{6}}} Because I desire steadfast love and not sacrifice, and knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings. {{rf{7}}} But like Adam, they transgressed the covenant; there they dealt faithlessly with me. {{rf{8}}} Gilead is a city of evil, a cunning city because of blood. {{rf{9}}} Like bandits lying in wait, so is a band of priests; they murder on the road to Shechem; indeed, they commit a monstrous crime. {{rf{10}}} In the house of Israel I have seen something horrible; Ephraim's unfaithfulness is there. Israel is defiled. {{rf{11}}} For you also, O Judah, a harvest is appointed, when I restore the fortunes of my people, {{rf big{1}}} when I would heal Israel, and the corruption of Ephraim is revealed, and the wicked deeds of Samaria; because they deal in falsehood, the thief breaks in, and the bandit raids the outside. {{rf{2}}} But they did not consider that I remember all their wickedness. Now their deeds surround them; they are before my face. {{rf{3}}} By their wickedness they make the king glad, and the officials by their treacheries. {{rf{4}}} All of them commit adultery, like a burning oven whose baker has stopped from stirring the fire, and from kneading the dough until it is leavened. {{rf{5}}} On the day of our king, the princes became sick with the heat of wine; he stretched out his hand with mockers. {{rf{6}}} Because they are kindled like an oven, their heart burns within them; all night their anger smolders, in the morning it blazes like a flaming fire. {{rf{7}}} All of them are hot as an oven, and they devour their rulers. All their kings have fallen; there is none who calls to me amongst them. {{rf{8}}} Ephraim mixes himself with the nations; Ephraim is a bread cake not turned over. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Hosea-06-01]] }}}
{{rf{9}}} Foreigners devour his strength, and he does not know it; mold is also sprinkled upon him, and he does not know it. {{rf{10}}} The pride of Israel testifies against him -- they do not return to Yahweh their God; they do not seek him for all of this. {{rf{11}}} Ephraim was like a dove, silly, without sense; they call to Egypt, they go to Assyria. {{rf{12}}} Just as they go, I will cast my net over them; I will bring them down like the birds of the heavens; I will discipline them according to a report to their assembly. {{rf{13}}} Woe to them, because they have strayed from me! Destruction to them, because they have rebelled against me! I myself would redeem them, but they speak lies against me. {{rf{14}}} They do not cry out to me from their heart, but they wail on their beds; because of grain and new wine they lacerate themselves; they depart from me. {{rf{15}}} And I myself trained and strengthened their arms; but they plan evil against me. {{rf{16}}} They turn, not to the Most High, like a slack bow; their officials will fall by the sword because of the anger of their tongue. This is their scorn in the land of Egypt. {{rf big{1}}} Put to your lips the trumpet like a vulture over the house of Yahweh, because they have broken my covenant and rebelled against my law. {{rf{2}}} They cry out to me, "My God! We, Israel, know you!" {{rf{3}}} Israel has spurned the good; the enemy will pursue him. {{rf{4}}} They appointed kings, but not through me; they made officials, but without my knowledge. With their silver and gold they made idols for themselves for their own destruction. {{rf{5}}} Your calf is rejected, O Samaria; my anger burns against them. How long will they be incapable of innocence? {{rf{6}}} Because it is from Israel, an artisan made it, it is not a god; for the calf of Samaria will be broken to pieces. {{rf{7}}} Because they sow the wind, they will reap the whirlwind. The standing grain does not have heads; it will not yield flour. And if it would yield, strangers would devour it. {{rf{8}}} Israel is swallowed up; now they are among the nations, like an object that no one desires. {{rf{9}}} For they have gone up to Assyria, a wild donkey alone to itself; Ephraim has sold itself for lovers. {{rf{10}}} Even though they have sold themselves to the nations, now I will gather them. They will soon writhe from the burden of kings and princes. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Hosea-07-09]] }}}
{{rf{11}}} When Ephraim multiplied altars to expiate sins, they became to him altars to sin on. {{rf{12}}} I write for him myriads of my instruction; they are regarded as a strange thing. {{rf{13}}} They offer sacrifices of my choice and they eat flesh; Yahweh does not accept them. Now he will remember their iniquity and punish their sins; they will return to Egypt. {{rf{14}}} Israel has forgotten his maker and built palaces, and Judah has multiplied fortified cities; but I will send fire on his cities and it will devour her strongholds. {{rf big{1}}} Do not rejoice, O Israel, do not exult like the nations! For you played the whore, departing from your God; you loved a harlot's wage on all the threshing floors of grain. {{rf{2}}} Threshing floor and wine vat will not feed them, and new wine will fail her. {{rf{3}}} They will not remain in the land of Yahweh. But Ephraim will return to Egypt, and in Assyria they will eat unclean food. {{rf{4}}} They will not pour drink offerings of wine to Yahweh, and their sacrifices will not please him. They are like mourners' bread for them; all those who eat it will be defiled. For their bread will be for their hunger; it will not come to the house of Yahweh. {{rf{5}}} What will you do on the day of the appointed time, and on the day of the festival of Yahweh? {{rf{6}}} For look! If they flee from the destruction, Egypt will gather them; Memphis will bury them. Nettles will possess their precious things of silver; thorns will be in their tents. {{rf{7}}} The days of punishment have come; the days of retribution have come; Israel knows! The prophet is a fool, the man of the spirit is acting like a madman. Because of the greatness of your sin, your hostility is great. {{rf{8}}} The prophet keeps watch over Ephraim for my God; the snare of a fowler is on all his ways, and hostility in the house of his God. {{rf{9}}} They deeply corrupted themselves as in the days of Gibeah; he will remember their sin, he will punish their sins. {{rf{10}}} Like the grapes in the wilderness, I found Israel. Like early ripened fruit on the fig tree in the first season, I saw your ancestors. They themselves came to Baal Peor, and they consecrated themselves to shame. And they became detestable things, like the thing they love. {{rf{11}}} Ephraim's glory is like a bird; it will fly away -- no birth, no pregnancy, and no conception. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Hosea-08-11]] }}}
{{rf{12}}} Even though they bring up their children, I will bereave them before maturity. Woe to them indeed, when I depart from them! {{rf{13}}} Ephraim, as I see it, is like a palm in a meadow; but Ephraim must bring out his children to the slayer. {{rf{14}}} Give them, O Yahweh -- what will you give them? Give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts. {{rf{15}}} Every evil of theirs began at Gilgal, so I began to hate them there; because of the evil of their deeds I will drive them out from my house. I will love them no more; all their officials are rebels. {{rf{16}}} Ephraim is stricken, their root is dried up, they shall not bear fruit. Even if they give birth, I will kill the cherished offspring of their womb. {{rf{17}}} My God will reject them because they did not listen to him, and they will be wanderers among the nations. {{rf big{1}}} Israel is a luxuriant vine; he yields fruit for himself. The more his fruit increased, the more he made numerous altars. The more his land prospered, the more he improved his stone pillars. {{rf{2}}} Their heart is false; now they must bear their guilt. He himself will break down their altars; he will destroy their stone pillars. {{rf{3}}} For now they will say, "We have no king; indeed, we did not fear Yahweh, and what can a king do for us?" {{rf{4}}} They utter words of vain oaths when making covenants, and judgment blossoms like a poisonous plant on the furrows of the field. {{rf{5}}} The inhabitants of Samaria tremble for the calf of Beth-aven. Indeed, his people will mourn for it, and his idolatrous priests will wail over it -- over its glory because it has departed from it. {{rf{6}}} It will also be brought to Assyria, as tribute to the great king. Ephraim will obtain disgrace and Israel will be ashamed from his advice. {{rf{7}}} Samaria will be destroyed; her king is like a chip on the surface of the water. {{rf{8}}} The high places of Aven, the sin of Israel, will be destroyed. Thorn and thistle will grow on their altars. They will say to the mountains, "Cover us," and to the hills, "Fall on us." {{rf{9}}} From the days of Gibeah you have sinned, O Israel; there they have remained. Will not war in Gibeah overtake them against the children of evil? {{rf{10}}} In my desire I will punish them; nations will be gathered against them when they are punished for their double iniquities. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Hosea-09-12]] }}}
{{rf{11}}} Ephraim was a trained heifer, that loved to thresh grain, and I myself spared the fairness of her neck; I will make Ephraim break the ground, Judah will plow, Jacob must till for himself. {{rf{12}}} Sow for yourselves righteousness; reap loyal love. Break up for yourself fallow ground; it is time to seek Yahweh so he will come and rain righteousness upon you. {{rf{13}}} You have plowed wickedness, you have reaped injustice, you have eaten the fruit of lies, because you have trusted in your strength, in the multitude of your warriors. {{rf{14}}} The tumult of war will rise up against your people, and all your fortresses will be destroyed, as Shalman destroyed Beth-arbel; on the day of war mothers were dashed to pieces with their children. {{rf{15}}} So it will be done to you, O Bethel, because of the evil of your wickedness; at dawn, the king of Israel will be utterly destroyed. {{rf big{1}}} When Israel was a child, I loved him, and out of Egypt I called my son. {{rf{2}}} When I called them, they went from my face. They sacrificed to the Baals, and they sacrificed to idols. {{rf{3}}} And I myself taught Ephraim to walk; I took them in my arms, but they did not know that I healed them. {{rf{4}}} I drew them with human ties, with the bands of love. I was to them like one who lifted up a yoke on their jaws, though I bent down to them and let them eat. {{rf{5}}} He will return to the land of Egypt, and Assyria will be his king, because they refused to return. {{rf{6}}} The sword rages in his cities; it consumes his false prophets and devours because of their plans. {{rf{7}}} My people are bent on backsliding from me. To the Most High they call, he does not raise them at all. {{rf{8}}} How can I give you up, O Ephraim? How can I hand you over, O Israel? How can I make you like Admah? How can I treat you like Zeboiim? My heart is disturbed within me; all my compassions are aroused. {{rf{9}}} I will not execute my fierce anger, I will not again destroy Ephraim; because I am God and not a mortal, the Holy One in your midst; and I will not come in wrath. {{rf{10}}} They will go after Yahweh; he roars like a lion. When he roars, his children will come trembling from the sea. {{rf{11}}} They will tremble like birds from Egypt, and like doves from the land of Assyria; and I will let them return to their homes -- a declaration of Yahweh. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Hosea-10-11]] }}}
{{rf{12}}} Ephraim has surrounded me with lies, and the house of Israel with deceit; and Judah is still wandering with God and is faithful to the Holy One. {{rf big{1}}} Ephraim herds the wind and is pursuing the east wind all day long; he multiplies deception and violence and he makes a treaty with Assyria, and oil is brought to Egypt. {{rf{2}}} Yahweh has a quarrel with Judah and will punish Jacob according to his ways and repay him according to his deeds. {{rf{3}}} In the womb he deceived his brother, and in his manhood he struggled with God. {{rf{4}}} He struggled with the angel and prevailed; he pleaded for his mercy. He met him at Bethel, and there he spoke with him. {{rf{5}}} Yahweh the God of hosts, Yahweh is his renowned name! {{rf{6}}} But you, you must return to your God; keep love and justice, and wait continually for your God. {{rf{7}}} The trader, in his hand are scales of deceit; he loves to oppress. {{rf{8}}} And Ephraim said, "Surely, I am rich, I gained wealth for myself; in all my toil they have not found guilt in me that is sin. {{rf{9}}} But I am Yahweh your God since the land of Egypt; I will make you live in tents again, like the days of the appointed festival. {{rf{10}}} I spoke to the prophets; I myself multiplied revelations and through the hand of the prophets I will destroy. {{rf{11}}} If in Gilead there is evil, surely they will come to nothing. In Gilgal they sacrifice bulls, also their altars will be like stone heaps on furrows of the field. {{rf{12}}} Jacob fled to the open field of Aram, and Israel served for a wife, and for a wife he watched over sheep. {{rf{13}}} And by a prophet Yahweh brought Israel up from Egypt, and by a prophet he was watched over. {{rf{14}}} Ephraim has caused bitter provocation, and his Lord will hold him responsible for his crimes and pay back to him his insults. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Hosea-11-12]] }}}
When Ephraim spoke, there was terror; he was exalted in Israel, but he incurred guilt through Baal and died. {{rf{2}}} And now they sin again, and they make for themselves a molten idol, idols from their silver metal according to their understanding, all of them the work of skilled craftsmen. To these they say, "Sacrifice!" People are kissing bull calves. {{rf{3}}} Therefore, they will be like the morning cloud, and like the dew of early morning going away, like chaff swirling from the threshing floor, or like smoke from a window. {{rf{4}}} I am Yahweh your God since the land of Egypt; you know no god except me, and no one saves besides me. {{rf{5}}} I fed you in the desert, in the land of drought. {{rf{6}}} When I fed them, they were satisfied; they were satisfied and their heart was lifted up; therefore they forgot me. {{rf{7}}} And I will be like a lion to them; I lie in wait beside the way, like a leopard. {{rf{8}}} I will attack them like a bear robbed of her offspring, and I will tear open the covering of their heart; there I will devour them like a lion, like an animal of the field would mutilate them. {{rf{9}}} I will destroy you, O Israel; who will help you? {{rf{10}}} Where now is your king that he may save you? Where in all your cities are your judges, of whom you said, "Give to me a king and rulers?" {{rf{11}}} I gave you a king in my anger, and I took him in my wrath. {{rf{12}}} The sin of Ephraim is wrapped up; his sin is concealed. {{rf{13}}} The labor pains of childbirth come for him; he is an unwise son because at the proper time, he does not present himself at the mouth of the womb. {{rf{14}}} Should I redeem them from the power of Sheol? Should I deliver them from death? Where are your plagues, O Death? Where is your destruction, O Sheol? Compassion is hidden from my eyes. {{rf{15}}} Although he may flourish among reeds, the east wind will come, a wind of Yahweh rising from the desert; his fountain will dry up, his spring will be parched. It will plunder his treasury, every object of desire. {{rf{16}}} Samaria will be guilty, because she has rebelled against her God; they will fall by the sword, their children will be dashed to pieces, and their pregnant women will be ripped open. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Hosea-13-01]] }}}
Return to Yahweh your God, O Israel, for you have stumbled because of your sin. {{rf{2}}} Take words with you, and return to Yahweh. Say to him, "Take away all guilt; accept good, and we will offer the fruit of our lips. {{rf{3}}} Assyria will not save us; we will not ride on horses, and we will say no more, "Our God," to the work of our hands because in you the fatherless child finds mercy. {{rf{4}}} I will heal their disloyalty; I will love them freely because my anger has turned back from them. {{rf{5}}} I will be like the dew to Israel; he will blossom like the lily plant, and he will strike his roots like the trees of Lebanon. {{rf{6}}} His new plant shoots will spread out; his splendor will be like the olive tree, and his scent like the trees of Lebanon. {{rf{7}}} They will again dwell in my shadow; they will grow grain and they will blossom like the plant vine; his fame will be like the wine of Lebanon. {{rf{8}}} O Ephraim, what have I to do with idols? I myself have answered and looked after you. I am like a luxuriant cypress; your fruit comes from me. {{rf{9}}} Who is wise that he can understand these things? Who is discerning that he knows them? The ways of Yahweh are right, and the righteous walk in them; but transgressors stumble in them. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Hosea-14-01]] }}}
<<Bbl 2Kngs 4:8 >>-10 ; <<Bbl 1P 4:9 >> (NAS marginal note).
* Not alone!
* [[Remnant]]
* The //Lord of Hosts//.
* <<Bbl 1K 19:18>> //Yet 4,000 who have not bowed the knee//
* Obadiah hiding the prophets in the caves
* Hebrews: //These trials are suffered also by others//
* Josaph: //Who is with me? Anyone?//
* //Fall in behind me//
* The retinue of a (wanna-be) [[King]]
* <<Bbl 1P 5:9 >>
* {{anti{ [[Solitude]], [[Loneliness]]}}}
* [[Temple]], [[Build]], //edifice, edify; dwelling, roof//
* [[Tabernacle]], //booth, fortress, stronghold,// [[Prison]]
* [[Encourage-AsBuild]]; //Deconstructionism, tearing down//
* [[Home]]; [[Security]] in [[Trial]]
* Proverbs -- //the wise woman builds ...//
* <<Bbl 2S 7:1 "" note >>ff
* <<Bbl Mt 7:24 >>ff -- I will liken him to a wise man, who built his house on a rock. The rain came down, the floods came ...
* <<Bbl H 3:1>>-6 -- For [Jesus] has been counted worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch as he who built the house has more honor than the house. For every house is built by someone; but he who built all things is God. ... Christ is faithful as a Son over his house; whose house we are, if we hold fast our confidence and the glorying of our hope firm to the end.
* <<Bbl Pr 10:25 >> -- When the whirlwind passes, the wicked is no more; but the righteous stand firm forever.
* <<Bbl 1P 2:4>>-5 -- As you come to him, the living Stone -- rejected by men but chosen by God and precious to him -- you also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
* <<Bbl 1C 3:9>>-17 -- You are ... God's building. According to the grace of God which was given to me, as a wise master builder I laid a foundation, and another builds on it. But let each man be careful how he builds on it. For no one can lay any other foundation than that which has been laid, which is Jesus Christ. But if anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver, costly stones, wood, hay, or stubble; each man's work will be revealed. For the Day will declare it, because it is revealed in fire; and the fire itself will test what sort of work each man's work is. If any man's work remains which he built on it, he will receive a reward. If any man's work is burned, he will suffer loss, but he himself will be saved, but as through fire. Don't you know that you are a temple of God, and that God's Spirit lives in you? If anyone destroys the temple of God, God will destroy him; for God's temple is holy, which you are.
!!!! Tiddlers tagged with //House//
<<matchTags '* %0' '\n' House >>
<<top>>
<<closeAll>><<renameButton c 'Close all tiddlers'>><<toggleSideBar '' '' hide>><<renameButton '>' >>
<<jump j '' top>>
<<saveChanges>><<renameButton s 'Save TiddlyWiki'>>
<<newTiddler>><<renameButton n>>
[[b|Bible-Index]]
[[q|A-Buffer]]
/***
Start ToggleSideBarMacro code
***/
//{{{
config.macros.toggleSideBar={};
config.macros.toggleSideBar.settings={
styleHide : "#sidebar { display: none;}\n"+"#contentWrapper #displayArea { margin-right: 1em;}\n"+"",
styleShow : " ",
arrow1: " -- ",
arrow2: " -- "
};
config.macros.toggleSideBar.handler=function (place,macroName,params,wikifier,paramString,tiddler)
{
var tooltip= params[1]||'toggle sidebar';
var mode = (params[2] && params[2]=="hide")? "hide":"show";
var arrow = (mode == "hide")? this.settings.arrow1:this.settings.arrow2;
var label= (params[0]&¶ms[0]!='.')?params[0]+" "+arrow:arrow;
var theBtn = createTiddlyButton(place,label,tooltip,this.onToggleSideBar,"button HideSideBarButton");
if (mode == "hide")
{
(document.getElementById("sidebar")).setAttribute("toggle","hide");
setStylesheet(this.settings.styleHide,"ToggleSideBarStyles");
}
};
config.macros.toggleSideBar.onToggleSideBar = function(){
var sidebar = document.getElementById("sidebar");
var settings = config.macros.toggleSideBar.settings;
if (sidebar.getAttribute("toggle")=='hide')
{
setStylesheet(settings.styleShow,"ToggleSideBarStyles");
sidebar.setAttribute("toggle","show");
this.firstChild.data= (this.firstChild.data).replace(settings.arrow1,settings.arrow2);
}
else
{
setStylesheet(settings.styleHide,"ToggleSideBarStyles");
sidebar.setAttribute("toggle","hide");
this.firstChild.data= (this.firstChild.data).replace(settings.arrow2,settings.arrow1);
}
return false;
}
setStylesheet(".HideSideBarButton .button {font-weight:bold; padding: 0 5px;}\n","ToggleSideBarButtonStyles");
//}}}
//end ToggleSideBarMacro code
//start JumpToTopMacro code
//{{{
config.macros.top={};
config.macros.top.handler=function(place,macroName)
{
createTiddlyButton(place,"^","jump to top",this.onclick);
}
config.macros.top.onclick=function()
{
window.scrollTo(0,0);
};
config.commands.top =
{
text:" ^ ",
tooltip:"jump to top"
};
config.commands.top.handler = function(event,src,title)
{
window.scrollTo(0,0);
}
//}}}
//end JumpToStartMacro code
//start JumpMacro code
//{{{
config.macros.jump= {};
config.macros.jump.handler = function (place,macroName,params,wikifier,paramString,tiddler)
{
var label = (params[0] && params[0]!=".")? params[0]: 'jump';
var tooltip = (params[1] && params[1]!=".")? params[1]: 'jump to an open tiddler';
var top = (params[2] && params[2]=='top') ? true: false;
var btn =createTiddlyButton(place,label,tooltip,this.onclick);
if (top==true)
btn.setAttribute("top","true")
}
config.macros.jump.onclick = function(e)
{
if (!e) var e = window.event;
var theTarget = resolveTarget(e);
var top = theTarget.getAttribute("top");
var popup = Popup.create(this);
if(popup)
{
if(top=="true")
{createTiddlyButton(createTiddlyElement(popup,"li"),'Top ?','Top of TW',config.macros.jump.top);
createTiddlyElement(popup,"hr");}
story.forEachTiddler(function(title,element) {
createTiddlyLink(createTiddlyElement(popup,"li"),title,true);
});
}
Popup.show(popup,false);
e.cancelBubble = true;
if (e.stopPropagation) e.stopPropagation();
return false;
}
config.macros.jump.top = function()
{
window.scrollTo(0,0);
}
//}}}
//end JumpMacro code
//utility functions
//{{{
Popup.show = function(unused,slowly)
{
var curr = Popup.stack[Popup.stack.length-1];
var rootLeft = findPosX(curr.root);
var rootTop = findPosY(curr.root);
var rootHeight = curr.root.offsetHeight;
var popupLeft = rootLeft;
var popupTop = rootTop + rootHeight;
var popupWidth = curr.popup.offsetWidth;
var winWidth = findWindowWidth();
if (isChild(curr.root,'hoverMenu'))
var x = config.hoverMenu.settings.x;
else
var x = 0;
if(popupLeft + popupWidth+x > winWidth)
popupLeft = winWidth - popupWidth -x;
if (isChild(curr.root,'hoverMenu'))
{curr.popup.style.right = x + "px";}
else
curr.popup.style.left = popupLeft + "px";
curr.popup.style.top = popupTop + "px";
curr.popup.style.display = "block";
addClass(curr.root,"highlight");
if(config.options.chkAnimate)
anim.startAnimating(new Scroller(curr.popup,slowly));
else
window.scrollTo(0,ensureVisible(curr.popup));
}
window.isChild = function(e,parentId) {
while (e != null) {
var parent = document.getElementById(parentId);
if (parent == e) return true;
e = e.parentNode;
}
return false;
};
config.macros.renameButton={};
config.macros.renameButton.handler = function(place,macroName,params,wikifier,paramString,tiddler)
{
if (place.lastChild.tagName!="BR")
{
place.lastChild.firstChild.data = params[0];
if (params[1]) {place.lastChild.title = params[1];}
}
};
//}}}
/***
|Name|HoverMenuPlugin|
|Created by|SaqImtiaz|
|Location|http://tw.lewcid.org/#HoverMenuPlugin|
|Version|1.11|
|Requires|~TW2.x|
!Description:
Provides a hovering menu on the edge of the screen for commonly used commands, that scrolls with the page.
!Demo:
Observe the hovering menu on the right edge of the screen.
!Installation:
Copy the contents of this tiddler to your TW, tag with systemConfig, save and reload your TW.
To customize your HoverMenu, edit the HoverMenu shadow tiddler.
To customize whether the menu sticks to the right or left edge of the screen, and its start position, edit the HoverMenu configuration settings part of the code below. It's well documented, so don't be scared!
The menu has an id of hoverMenu, in case you want to style the buttons in it using css.
!Notes:
Since the default HoverMenu contains buttons for toggling the side bar and jumping to the top of the screen and to open tiddlers, the ToggleSideBarMacro, JumpMacro and the JumpToTopMacro are included in this tiddler, so you dont need to install them separately. Having them installed separately as well could lead to complications.
If you dont intend to use these three macros at all, feel free to remove those sections of code in this tiddler.
!To Do:
* rework code to allow multiple hovering menus in different positions, horizontal etc.
* incorporate code for keyboard shortcuts that correspond to the buttons in the hovermenu
!History:
*03-08-06, ver 1.1.2: compatibility fix with SelectThemePlugin
*03-08-06, ver 1.11: fixed error with button tooltips
*27-07-06, ver 1.1 : added JumpMacro to hoverMenu
*23-07-06
!Code
***/
/***
start HoverMenu plugin code
***/
//{{{
config.hoverMenu={};
//}}}
/***
HoverMenu configuration settings
***/
//{{{
config.hoverMenu.settings={
align: 'right', //align menu to right or left side of screen, possible values are 'right' and 'left'
x: 1, // horizontal distance of menu from side of screen, increase to your liking.
y: 158 //vertical distance of menu from top of screen at start, increase or decrease to your liking
};
//}}}
//{{{
//continue HoverMenu plugin code
config.hoverMenu.handler=function()
{
if (!document.getElementById("hoverMenu"))
{
var theMenu = createTiddlyElement(document.getElementById("contentWrapper"), "div","hoverMenu");
theMenu.setAttribute("refresh","content");
theMenu.setAttribute("tiddler","HoverMenu");
var menuContent = store.getTiddlerText("HoverMenu");
wikify(menuContent,theMenu);
}
var Xloc = this.settings.x;
Yloc =this.settings.y;
var ns = (navigator.appName.indexOf("Netscape") != -1);
function SetMenu(id)
{
var GetElements=document.getElementById?document.getElementById(id):document.all?document.all[id]:document.layers[id];
if(document.layers)GetElements.style=GetElements;
GetElements.sP=function(x,y){this.style[config.hoverMenu.settings.align]=x +"px";this.style.top=y +"px";};
GetElements.x = Xloc;
GetElements.y = findScrollY();
GetElements.y += Yloc;
return GetElements;
}
window.LoCate_XY=function()
{
var pY = findScrollY();
ftlObj.y += (pY + Yloc - ftlObj.y)/15;
ftlObj.sP(ftlObj.x, ftlObj.y);
setTimeout("LoCate_XY()", 10);
}
ftlObj = SetMenu("hoverMenu");
LoCate_XY();
};
window.old_lewcid_hovermenu_restart = restart;
restart = function()
{
window.old_lewcid_hovermenu_restart();
config.hoverMenu.handler();
};
setStylesheet(
"#hoverMenu .imgLink, #hoverMenu .imgLink:hover {border:none; padding:0px; float:right; margin-bottom:2px; margin-top:0px;}\n"+
"#hoverMenu .button, #hoverMenu .tiddlyLink {border:none; font-weight:bold; background:#18f; color:#FFF; padding:0 5px; float:right; margin-bottom:4px;}\n"+
"#hoverMenu .button:hover, #hoverMenu .tiddlyLink:hover {font-weight:bold; border:none; color:#fff; background:#000; padding:0 5px; float:right; margin-bottom:4px;}\n"+
"#hoverMenu .button {width:100%; text-align:center}"+
"#hoverMenu { position:absolute; width:7px;}\n"+
"\n","hoverMenuStyles");
config.macros.renameButton={};
config.macros.renameButton.handler = function(place,macroName,params,wikifier,paramString,tiddler)
{
if (place.lastChild.tagName!="BR")
{
place.lastChild.firstChild.data = params[0];
if (params[1]) {place.lastChild.title = params[1];}
}
};
config.shadowTiddlers["HoverMenu"]="<<top>>\n<<closeAll>><<renameButton c 'Close all tiddlers'>><<toggleSideBar '' '' hide>><<renameButton '>' >>\n<<jump j '' top>>\n<<saveChanges>><<renameButton s 'Save TiddlyWiki'>>\n<<newTiddler>><<renameButton n>>\n";
//}}}
//end HoverMenu plugin code
//Start ToggleSideBarMacro code
//{{{
config.macros.toggleSideBar={};
config.macros.toggleSideBar.settings={
styleHide : "#sidebar { display: none;}\n"+"#contentWrapper #displayArea { margin-right: 1em;}\n"+"",
styleShow : " ",
arrow1: " ",
arrow2: " "
};
config.macros.toggleSideBar.handler=function (place,macroName,params,wikifier,paramString,tiddler)
{
var tooltip= params[1]||'toggle sidebar';
var mode = (params[2] && params[2]=="hide")? "hide":"show";
var arrow = (mode == "hide")? this.settings.arrow1:this.settings.arrow2;
var label= (params[0]&¶ms[0]!='.')?params[0]+" "+arrow:arrow;
var theBtn = createTiddlyButton(place,label,tooltip,this.onToggleSideBar,"button HideSideBarButton");
if (mode == "hide")
{
(document.getElementById("sidebar")).setAttribute("toggle","hide");
setStylesheet(this.settings.styleHide,"ToggleSideBarStyles");
}
};
config.macros.toggleSideBar.onToggleSideBar = function(){
var sidebar = document.getElementById("sidebar");
var settings = config.macros.toggleSideBar.settings;
if (sidebar.getAttribute("toggle")=='hide')
{
setStylesheet(settings.styleShow,"ToggleSideBarStyles");
sidebar.setAttribute("toggle","show");
this.firstChild.data= (this.firstChild.data).replace(settings.arrow1,settings.arrow2);
}
else
{
setStylesheet(settings.styleHide,"ToggleSideBarStyles");
sidebar.setAttribute("toggle","hide");
this.firstChild.data= (this.firstChild.data).replace(settings.arrow2,settings.arrow1);
}
return false;
}
setStylesheet(".HideSideBarButton .button {font-weight:bold; padding: 0 5px;}\n","ToggleSideBarButtonStyles");
//}}}
//end ToggleSideBarMacro code
//start JumpToTopMacro code
//{{{
config.macros.top={};
config.macros.top.handler=function(place,macroName)
{
createTiddlyButton(place,"^","jump to top",this.onclick);
}
config.macros.top.onclick=function()
{
window.scrollTo(0,0);
};
config.commands.top =
{
text:" ^ ",
tooltip:"jump to top"
};
config.commands.top.handler = function(event,src,title)
{
window.scrollTo(0,0);
}
//}}}
//end JumpToStartMacro code
//start JumpMacro code
//{{{
config.macros.jump= {};
config.macros.jump.handler = function (place,macroName,params,wikifier,paramString,tiddler)
{
var label = (params[0] && params[0]!=".")? params[0]: 'jump';
var tooltip = (params[1] && params[1]!=".")? params[1]: 'jump to an open tiddler';
var top = (params[2] && params[2]=='top') ? true: false;
var btn =createTiddlyButton(place,label,tooltip,this.onclick);
if (top==true)
btn.setAttribute("top","true")
}
config.macros.jump.onclick = function(e)
{
if (!e) var e = window.event;
var theTarget = resolveTarget(e);
var top = theTarget.getAttribute("top");
var popup = Popup.create(this);
if(popup)
{
if(top=="true")
{createTiddlyButton(createTiddlyElement(popup,"li"),'Top ?','Top of TW',config.macros.jump.top);
createTiddlyElement(popup,"hr");}
story.forEachTiddler(function(title,element) {
createTiddlyLink(createTiddlyElement(popup,"li"),title,true);
});
}
Popup.show(popup,false);
e.cancelBubble = true;
if (e.stopPropagation) e.stopPropagation();
return false;
}
config.macros.jump.top = function()
{
window.scrollTo(0,0);
}
//}}}
//end JumpMacro code
//utility functions
//{{{
Popup.show = function(unused,slowly)
{
var curr = Popup.stack[Popup.stack.length-1];
var rootLeft = findPosX(curr.root);
var rootTop = findPosY(curr.root);
var rootHeight = curr.root.offsetHeight;
var popupLeft = rootLeft;
var popupTop = rootTop + rootHeight;
var popupWidth = curr.popup.offsetWidth;
var winWidth = findWindowWidth();
if (isChild(curr.root,'hoverMenu'))
var x = config.hoverMenu.settings.x;
else
var x = 0;
if(popupLeft + popupWidth+x > winWidth)
popupLeft = winWidth - popupWidth -x;
if (isChild(curr.root,'hoverMenu'))
{curr.popup.style.right = x + "px";}
else
curr.popup.style.left = popupLeft + "px";
curr.popup.style.top = popupTop + "px";
curr.popup.style.display = "block";
addClass(curr.root,"highlight");
if(config.options.chkAnimate)
anim.startAnimating(new Scroller(curr.popup,slowly));
else
window.scrollTo(0,ensureVisible(curr.popup));
}
window.isChild = function(e,parentId) {
while (e != null) {
var parent = document.getElementById(parentId);
if (parent == e) return true;
e = e.parentNode;
}
return false;
};
//}}}
* In <<Bbl Dt 8:3 >> the word can be translated as [[Affliction]].
* //Humiliation// is humility rejected by the one upon whom it is imposed.
* [[Fast]]
* [[Obey]], [[Humble]].
* Why would we ever expect to identify God's greatest among those who are widely known?
* <<Bbl Mt 7:14 >> The narrow gate, the small path are like the humble seat at the banquet.
* Jesus did not engineer His (briefly) triumphal entry; it was the crowd demanding the broad path, while He knew that just ahead lay the tightest, lowest path of all.
* {{anti{[[Pride]]}}}
* [[Donkey]]
* [[Sheep]]
* [[Teachable]]
* Moses: <<Bbl Num 12:3 >>, <<Bbl Ex 32:20 >>.
* Daniel: <<Bbl Dan 2:30 >>, <<Bbl Dan 2:2 >> , <<Bbl Dan 4:9 >> , <<Bbl Dan 5:11 >>-12. Always an afterthought. No place for security.
* <<Bbl L 16:19 >> Poor Lazarus exemplifies the Beatitudes. The rich man was religious.
* Jesus: <<Bbl Mt 11:29 >>, <<Bbl Php 2:5 >>-8
!!! Intrinsic
* [[Lowliness]]
* [[Reject]]
* [[Need]], [[Limitations]]
!!! In conduct
* Paul & Peter: ("as if by our own power or piety...")
* at the banquet table: <<Bbl Pr 25:6 >>-7 ; <<Bbl L 14:7 >>-11
* <<Bbl Tit 3:2 >>
* [[Genuflect]]
* [[Relinquish]]
* [[Forbear]]
* <<Bbl R 12:16>>-20
* <<Bbl R 14:13>>
!!!! Feigned
* <<Bbl 2K 6:30 >>
* The Gibeonites
!!! Inner heart (verses here not sorted thoroughly)
* in knowing one's weakness: <<Bbl 1C 10:12 >>; <<Bbl Gal 6:1 >>
* as a child: <<Bbl Ps 127:3 >>-5 , <<Bbl Ps 128:3 >>
* failure in this: <<Bbl Job 12:5 >>. See [[Moses]].
* [[Attitude]]
!!! God cherishes
* God upholds: <<Bbl Mt 12:20 >>
* A tax collector: <<Bbl L 18:14>>
* Ruth
* misc.: <<Bbl Ps 131:1-2 >>, <<Bbl Dan 4:37 >>; <<Bbl Php 2:3 >>
* Humbling, by God <<Bbl 2K 1:9 >>-15 , <<Bbl 2K 5:8 >>-14 , <<Bbl Dan 4:37 >>, <<Bbl 2K 17:25 >>.
* <<Bbl Pr 25:27>> //...not good to eat too much honey, nor is it honorable to seek one's own honor//
* <<Bbl J 12:19 >>
* <<Bbl Judges 20:16 >>
* <<Bbl J 4:39 >>
* <<Bbl Mk 1:4 >>-05
* <<Bbl L 10:4 >>
* <<Bbl 2Ch 1:15 >>
* <<Bbl R 9:2 >>
* Our English word shares the same root as the Greek word for "theater". The Greek equivalent of "sincerity" adds a negative prefix to that word.
* //Actors on the stage of life//, translates K. Wuest.
* When we learn what Jesus thinks of the Pharisees' religion, we stop being surprised when He declares our righteousness must surpass theirs.
* Rabbis with donkeys. <<Bbl L 13:15>>, <<Bbl L 14:5 abbr>>
* Always entails [[Deceive]].
* {{anti{[[Integrity]]}}}
* The word is often flung out rashly; but inconsistency does not always rise to hypocrisy.
* Of course, [[Deny]] is always a danger.
* Ananias and Sapphira did not even rise to a significant level of external obedience. Their actions merely displayed the heart, for they did not choose to make God their resource. //Where your heart is, there will your treasure be also.//
* Judas was a betrayer, and he used to filch from the benevolence purse. Perhaps Peter thought of Judas when lying Ananias appeared before him.
* [[Counterfeit]]
* [[False-Claim]], [[Falsity]]
* <<Bbl Pr 26:23>>
* <<Bbl Ez 14:3>> The elders of Jerusalem acted flagrantly (example <<Bbl Ez 8:16>>), but these secretly.
* Theory of mind
* [[Solidarity]]
* [[Represent]]
* [[Compassion]]
!! God with man
* //Passion// -- They say we shouldn't "take it personally". In His passion, this is what Christ did.
* <<Bbl Jer 31:33>>, <<Bbl I 63:9 >>; <<Bbl 1S 8:7 >>-8 ; <<Bbl Mk 9:37 >>; <<Bbl L 10:16 >>; <<Bbl Ex 4:15 >>
!! Man with God
* <<Bbl Ps 69:9 >>
* <<Bbl Ez 2:7 >>
* <<Bbl Mt 10:24 >>-25
* <<Bbl J 13:20 >>,
* <<Bbl J 15:15 >>
* <<Bbl J 16:22 "" note >>
* <<Bbl J 20:17 >>;
* <<Bbl A 9:5 >>.
* <<Bbl H 2:9 >>-18; <<Bbl H 4:14 >>-16
!! Man with his kin
* [[GoldenRule]]
* [[Levirate|Brother]] <<Bbl Dt 25:6 >> //to stand in his place//.
* OT law of [[Redeem]]
* <Bbl Ruth 1:15 >>-18
* <<Bbl 1S 18:3 >>
* <<Bbl 1K 19:19>>-21 and <<Bbl 2K 2:2>>-12. To follow Elijah, Elisha must break ties with his up-till-now life.
* <<Bbl I 58:7 >>; <<Bbl Eph 5:29 >>; <<Bbl 1S 18:3 >>; James 1? //your own flesh//
!! Woman and man
* Genesis 2:23 //bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man//
* Matthew 19:5 //and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh//
* <<Bbl Eph 5:28>>-29, 33b
!! Man with the stranger
The principle of reciprocation is not radical. What's radical is the extension to everyone else, however different.
* //Do not even sinners do the ordinary quid pro quo?//
* The man fallen on the Jericho road is isolated from all who see him. Then arrives one who should be the most removed, the least available, and that man removes the isolation.
Two things to know - not in this order:
# How do you identify yourself? (Psst: how does the world classify you?)
# How does God identify you?
## Lost
## His (in which there is no distinction
*** [[Diversity]]).
*** <<Bbl James 1:24 "" note >>
But part of discernment toward others is to know that not all those who gather on Sunday are His.
And part of discernment in evangelism is to know that worldly classifications are not so important - certainly not under the calling of God in Christ.
The Lord we serve to His [[Glory]], an idol to our own. But "He will not give His glory to another."
* disrupts, violates the categories of Creator and creation. Only the Creator is worthy. Nothing else is distinctive enough. Ascribing worth elsewhere is a category problem.
* (Need reference early in Genesis. // You didn't see a form. Frogs? Give me a break.//
* <<Bbl Dt 7:26 >>
* <<Bbl Gal 5:1 >>, <<Bbl E 5:5 >>
* Take a donut from the box and eat it (no apology or explanation). Realize the box is empty. Use scissors to cut out the photo of the donut. Eat the cardboard.
* Israel's idolatry was usually syncretistic, invoking the name of the Lord.
* The classical expression is a physical image. We understand it to extend to ideology; <<Bbl E 5:5 >>.
* [[Counterfeit]], [[Syncretism]]
* [[Worship]]
* [[Jealousy]], [[God-Preeminent]]
* At lunch two women at a nearby table are sharing their delight over shopping at Dollar Tree. Sounds like "idolatry" which happens to be the topic of the book I am reading at the moment.
* <<Bbl Gn 35: "" note>>-4
* <<Bbl Ex 18:11 >>, <<Bbl Ex 20:25 >>-26
* <<Bbl Num 33:4 >>.
* <<Bbl Dt 4:15 >>-19 , <<Bbl Dt 32:16 >>-17 .
* <<Bbl Jud 8:24 >>-27 , <<Bbl Jud 10:14 >>
* <<Bbl 1S 4:3 >>, <<Bbl 1S 5:1 >>-5 Striking instance of idolatrous use of the Ark.
* <<Bbl 1S 12:21>>
* <<Bbl 2K 16:10>>-18, 17:7-12,27-41, 18:4,33-35.
* <<Bbl Ps 69:5 >>, <<Bbl Ps 97:7 >>, <<Bbl Ps 115:1 >>ff
* <<Bbl I 2:8 >>, <<Bbl I 10:10 >>-11 , <<Bbl I 17:7 >>-10 , <<Bbl I 37:19 >>, <<Bbl I 40:18 >>-20 , <<Bbl I 41:7 >>, <<Bbl I 42:17 >>, <<Bbl I 46:5 >>-7 , <<Bbl I 48:5 >>, <<Bbl I 44:12 >>-20
* <<Bbl Jer 2:9 >>-13 , <<Bbl Jer 3:9 >>, <<Bbl Jer 10:11 >>, <<Bbl Jer 16:20 >>.
* <<Bbl Ez 7:8 >>,<<Bbl Ez 8:1 >>f ''image of jealousy'',<<Bbl Ez 14:3 >>-7 , <<Bbl Ez 16:16 >>-21 ; <<Bbl Ez 20:27 >>-32 .
* <<Bbl Dan 5:4 >>, <<Bbl Dan 3:6 >> (power of Judgment).
* <<Bbl Hos 2:8 >>, <<Bbl Hos 3:4 >>, <<Bbl Hos 4:12 >>, <<Bbl Hos 9:10 >>, <<Bbl Hos 8:4 >>-7 , <<Bbl Hos 13:10 >>-11 .
* <<Bbl Amo 5:25 >>-26 .
* <<Bbl Hab 1:11 >>, <<Bbl Hab 2:18 >>-22 .
* <<Bbl Zep 2:11 >>, <<Bbl Zep 1:4 >>-6 .
* [[Greed]] <<Bbl Col 3:5 >>, <<Bbl Eph 5:5 >>
* <<Bbl 1C 10:20 >>, <<Bbl Rev 9:20 >>.
* Goat [[Demon]] -- <<Bbl Lv 17:7 >>, <<Bbl 2Ch 11:15 >>.
----
* The idol is for submitting to. Otherwise it can hardly be a god. The practical wrinkles are first that one can hardly submit to one's own construction (ref Isaiah), and second that one's submission must metastasize into abject [[Bondage]].
* @@color:indigo;The heart of man is an idol-making factory.@@
Some image-ideas pervade the entire Bible:
* [[River]], [[Water]]
* [[Tree]]
* [[Wine]] -- man's innovation, a contrast
* [[Family]], [[Son]]
* [[Clothing]]/nakedness -- man's innovation, a contrast
* [[Light]]/dark
* [[Rock]] (foundation)
* [[Living-Animal]]
* [[Living-Plant]]
!! Other interesting image-ideas
* [[Gold]]
* [[House]]
* [[Sea]]
* and, gosh, all the other topics...
----
* It's easier to get off an elephant than a analogy.
* Principle for [[Parable]] and metaphor: only one point! Example, widow and unjust judge.
!!! An attack on the truth of God's Word
* <<Bbl E 5:32 >>-33 The symbol is the reality, one does not detract from the other.
* Yet a tenet of liberal theology is that you can't have the symbol and keep the reality. So revelation was made non-historical.
** "It's a metaphor, so it couldn't be literally true. By taking the Bible as literally true, you destroy its actual value as metaphor." As if God cannot achieve both!
** Dick Proescher tossed off this argument in 1981. I couldn't frame up a counter-argument but it wasn't persuasive. A few months later I said to Mike Reed, "I was told..." He replied with a smile, "Somebody lied to you, brother."
* Harry Emerson Fosdick popularized this hermeneutic. In response, Princeton downgraded in 1929 and Fosdick's challenger J. Gresham Machen helped found Westminster Theological Seminary. @@color:darkgreen;Men like Norman Vincent Peale, Robert Schuller, and John Shelby Spong [followed in his footsteps]. Martin Luther King Jr., a theological liberal in his own right, regarded Fosdick as the greatest preacher of the century and in 1958, inscribed a copy of Stride Toward Freedom for Fosdick with these words: "If I were called upon to select the foremost prophets of our generation, I would choose you to head the list."@@ // - Tim Challies https://www.challies.com/articles/the-false-teachers-harry-emerson-fosdick //
----
* //type, symbol, typograph (is that a word?), [[Typology]], metaphor, word picture, analogy//
* {{anti{[[InterpretationFalse]]
* It seems harmless until someone puts Rudolph in the manger.
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGtpGwjMHbk (min 01:09) @@color:#63F;
Your children will learn the true meaning of Christmas year after year through the beauty of the Christ child, and by reading in this nativity setting the Gospel according to Saint Luke. ''Ideal'', under the guidance of church authorities and religious leaders, has created the most wonderful story for your Christmas giving. It is available now at all fine stores.@@ //The Most Wonderful Story; price: $7.98//
* <<Bbl 1Tim 3:2>> //...of one wife // -- In Roman culture a wealthy man customarily had a wife, a Grecian slave girl, and a temple prostitute on retainer.
* {{anti{[[Immorality-No]], [[Chastity]]}}}
* {{anti{[[Immorality]]}}}
* [[Minister]]
* [[AddictionPorn]]
!!! Inner danger
* [[Marry]]
* [[Chastity]]
* [[Purity]]
* [[Heart]]
* <<Bbl 2Tim 2:22 >>
* <<Bbl 1Thes 4:3 >>-8
!!! Outside danger -- reputation
* [[Ethics]]
* The greatest builder of one's [[Reputation]] is to remain morally pure. //Gene Getz. //
* If you can t trust a man morally, you can't trust him. //Gene Getz, as heard from a business leader//
* By the way, there are cameras everywhere.
* See entry on Billy Graham in Scott Wiki.
* [[Openness]] is achieved by avoiding {{anti{[[Secrecy]]}}}.
!!! Examples in History
* Phineas.
''Most essentially: to give.''
! To give, communicate or bestow.
!!! Simple, material
* <<Bbl L 3:11>> (KJV)
!!! Profound, personally substantive.
* <<Bbl A 10:44>>, <<Bbl A 15:8 abbr>>, <<Bbl A 8:18 abbr>>-20.
* <<Bbl R 1:11>> shows Paul's hope of bestowing something precious to a community.
* <<Bbl Gal 3:21>> (NASB)
* <<Bbl 1C 2:7>>, <<Bbl 1C 2:13>> (ESV)
* <<Bbl 1Th 2:8>> (NASB)
* @@color:brown;How silently, how silently The wondrous gift is given!
So God ''imparts'' to human hearts the blessings of his heaven.
No ear may hear his coming; but in this world of sin,
Where meek souls will receive him still, the dear Christ enters in.@@
* Negative: Paul Barker says on the Day of Atonement, the sins of Israel are imparted to the
!!! Apostolic empowerment by laying on of hands
* To empower, grant or transfer authority in the Spirit.
* <<Bbl 1Tim 4:14>>, <<Bbl 2Tim 1:6>>.
* For a specific mission: Paul and Barnabas.
! To tell, make known or teach
* <<Bbl Pr 1:1>>-4
* To ''inculcate'' means to teach persistently, as a mentor or coach; to implant by example as well as teaching.
** It suggests modeling virtues in combination with teaching; the two ingredients work like epoxy.
** An internship allows one to coach the person while fulfilling a project.
* <<Bbl 1Th 2:8>>-12, <<Bbl 2Th 3:7>>-9
* [[Scripture-Transforming]], [[Teach]]
Individual versus Collective orientation.
Peter and Paul's use of building, made of stones
* <<Bbl Mt 25:31 "" note >>.
!!!! Group
* //... to a thousand generations//
* [[Seed]]
* Original [[Sin]]
* NT still has some of group orientation - //and your household.//
* Jesus refers to the nations as if they were individuals.
* //Son of _____ // -- ex, <<Bbl Eph 2:3>>
* [[Authorize]] -- Authority through identification (husband is //head=source//)
* <<Bbl L 9:12 "" note>>
!!!! Individual
* <<Bbl G 18:23>>
* <<Bbl 2Ch 6:28>>-31 Solomon's prayer for the temple, //each knowing his own heart.// <<Bbl 1K 8:38>>.
* <<Bbl Jer 31:29 >>
* <<Bbl Ez.18 >> //The soul that sins, it shall [[die|Death]]// -- [[Responsibility]]
* //your Father who sees you in secret will reward you in secret//
* [[Name]] -- //a white stone with a name no one else knows//
* Volume 2 has not much time for generations, which increases a focus on the individual; see [[Parent]].
* [[God-Knowledge]]
!!!! Tension
* [[Abraham]] haggling
* The fathers eat grapes ...
* The woman who says "even the dogs"
----
* Gender-neutral language presents as an extension of the individualistic trend: a feminist says, //I refuse to be lumped in with the man.// Of course, it is a severing of the self.
* The word "synecdoche" is derived from the Greek word συνεκδοχή, from the prepositions συν- + εκ- and the verb δέχομαι (= "I accept"), originally meaning accepting a part as responsible for the whole, or vice versa.
* <<Bbl R 15:13 >>
* <<Bbl Eph 3:19 >>
* <<Bbl Eph 5:17 >>
* [[Father-Son]]
* From my Opi I have a handkerchief, and I wish I had a dozen. Often the memento we wished to have isn't ours. This is not a problem with Jesus.
* <<Bbl 1S 2:8 >>; <<Bbl Ps 37:9 >>; <<Bbl Ez 44:28 >>; <<Bbl L 12:32 >>; <<Bbl Eph 1:14 >>,<<Bbl Eph 5:5 >>; <<Bbl H 9:15 >>. Only the son of the king can inherit the kingdom.
* <<Bbl Rev 21:7 >>
* <<Bbl L 15:12 >>
* <<Bbl Ps 16:6 "" note >>
* //heir, heritage, legacy, birthright, lot, portion//
* <<Bbl Pr 6:7 >>ff
* David envisions the Temple.
* Haggai urges toward the later Temple.
* We must be intentional if churches are to see God's work in the body and outside in the world. The cause of stagnation is passivity, and the cause of passivity is usually self-service.
/***
|Name|InlineJavascriptPlugin|
|Source|http://www.TiddlyTools.com/#InlineJavascriptPlugin|
|Documentation|http://www.TiddlyTools.com/#InlineJavascriptPluginInfo|
|Version|1.9.5|
|Author|Eric Shulman|
|License|http://www.TiddlyTools.com/#LegalStatements|
|~CoreVersion|2.1|
|Type|plugin|
|Requires||
|Overrides||
|Description|Insert Javascript executable code directly into your tiddler content.|
''Call directly into TW core utility routines, define new functions, calculate values, add dynamically-generated TiddlyWiki-formatted output'' into tiddler content, or perform any other programmatic actions each time the tiddler is rendered.
!!!!!Documentation
>see [[InlineJavascriptPluginInfo]]
!!!!!Revisions
<<<
2009.04.11 [1.9.5] pass current tiddler object into wrapper code so it can be referenced from within 'onclick' scripts
2009.02.26 [1.9.4] in $(), handle leading '#' on ID for compatibility with JQuery syntax
|please see [[InlineJavascriptPluginInfo]] for additional revision details|
2005.11.08 [1.0.0] initial release
<<<
!!!!!Code
***/
//{{{
version.extensions.InlineJavascriptPlugin= {major: 1, minor: 9, revision: 5, date: new Date(2009,4,11)};
config.formatters.push( {
name: "inlineJavascript",
match: "\\<script",
lookahead: "\\<script(?: src=\\\"((?:.|\\n)*?)\\\")?(?: label=\\\"((?:.|\\n)*?)\\\")?(?: title=\\\"((?:.|\\n)*?)\\\")?(?: key=\\\"((?:.|\\n)*?)\\\")?( show)?\\>((?:.|\\n)*?)\\</script\\>",
handler: function(w) {
var lookaheadRegExp = new RegExp(this.lookahead,"mg");
lookaheadRegExp.lastIndex = w.matchStart;
var lookaheadMatch = lookaheadRegExp.exec(w.source)
if(lookaheadMatch && lookaheadMatch.index == w.matchStart) {
var src=lookaheadMatch[1];
var label=lookaheadMatch[2];
var tip=lookaheadMatch[3];
var key=lookaheadMatch[4];
var show=lookaheadMatch[5];
var code=lookaheadMatch[6];
if (src) { // external script library
var script = document.createElement("script"); script.src = src;
document.body.appendChild(script); document.body.removeChild(script);
}
if (code) { // inline code
if (show) // display source in tiddler
wikify("{{{\n"+lookaheadMatch[0]+"\n}}}\n",w.output);
if (label) { // create 'onclick' command link
var link=createTiddlyElement(w.output,"a",null,"tiddlyLinkExisting",wikifyPlainText(label));
var fixup=code.replace(/document.write\s*\(/gi,'place.bufferedHTML+=(');
link.code="function _out(place,tiddler){"+fixup+"\n};_out(this,this.tiddler);"
link.tiddler=w.tiddler;
link.onclick=function(){
this.bufferedHTML="";
try{ var r=eval(this.code);
if(this.bufferedHTML.length || (typeof(r)==="string")&&r.length)
var s=this.parentNode.insertBefore(document.createElement("span"),this.nextSibling);
if(this.bufferedHTML.length)
s.innerHTML=this.bufferedHTML;
if((typeof(r)==="string")&&r.length) {
wikify(r,s,null,this.tiddler);
return false;
} else return r!==undefined?r:false;
} catch(e){alert(e.description||e.toString());return false;}
};
link.setAttribute("title",tip||"");
var URIcode='javascript:void(eval(decodeURIComponent(%22(function(){try{';
URIcode+=encodeURIComponent(encodeURIComponent(code.replace(/\n/g,' ')));
URIcode+='}catch(e){alert(e.description||e.toString())}})()%22)))';
link.setAttribute("href",URIcode);
link.style.cursor="pointer";
if (key) link.accessKey=key.substr(0,1); // single character only
}
else { // run script immediately
var fixup=code.replace(/document.write\s*\(/gi,'place.innerHTML+=(');
var c="function _out(place,tiddler){"+fixup+"\n};_out(w.output,w.tiddler);";
try { var out=eval(c); }
catch(e) { out=e.description?e.description:e.toString(); }
if (out && out.length) wikify(out,w.output,w.highlightRegExp,w.tiddler);
}
}
w.nextMatch = lookaheadMatch.index + lookaheadMatch[0].length;
}
}
} )
//}}}
// // Backward-compatibility for TW2.1.x and earlier
//{{{
if (typeof(wikifyPlainText)=="undefined") window.wikifyPlainText=function(text,limit,tiddler) {
if(limit > 0) text = text.substr(0,limit);
var wikifier = new Wikifier(text,formatter,null,tiddler);
return wikifier.wikifyPlain();
}
//}}}
// // GLOBAL FUNCTION: $(...) -- 'shorthand' convenience syntax for document.getElementById()
//{{{
if (typeof($)=='undefined') { function $(id) { return document.getElementById(id.replace(/^#/,'')); } }
//}}}
/***
|Name|InlineJavascriptPluginInfo|
|Source|http://www.TiddlyTools.com/#InlineJavascriptPlugin|
|Documentation|http://www.TiddlyTools.com/#InlineJavascriptPluginInfo|
|Version|1.9.6|
|Author|Eric Shulman|
|License|http://www.TiddlyTools.com/#LegalStatements|
|~CoreVersion|2.1|
|Type|documentation|
|Description|Documentation for InlineJavascriptPlugin|
''Call directly into TW core utility routines, define new functions, calculate values, add dynamically-generated TiddlyWiki-formatted output'' into tiddler content, or perform any other programmatic actions each time the tiddler is rendered.
!!!!!Usage
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This plugin adds wiki syntax for surrounding tiddler content with {{{<script>}}} and {{{</script>}}} markers, so that it can be recognized as embedded javascript code. When a tiddler is rendered, the plugin automatically invokes any embedded scripts, which can be used to construct and return dynamically-generated output that is inserted into the tiddler content.
{{{
<script type="..." src="..." label="..." title="..." key="..." show>
/* javascript code goes here... */
</script>
}}}
All parameters are //optional//. When the ''show'' keyword is used, the plugin will also include the script source code in the output that it displays in the tiddler. This is helpful when creating examples for documentation purposes (such as used in this tiddler!)
__''Deferred execution from an 'onClick' link''__
<script label="click here" title="mouseover tooltip text" key="X" show>
/* javascript code goes here... */
alert('you clicked on the link!');
</script>
By including a {{{label="..."}}} parameter in the initial {{{<script>}}} marker, the plugin will create a link to an 'onclick' script that will only be executed when that specific link is clicked, rather than running the script each time the tiddler is rendered. You may also include a {{{title="..."}}} parameter to specify the 'tooltip' text that will appear whenever the mouse is moved over the onClick link text, and a {{{key="X"}}} parameter to specify an //access key// (which must be a //single// letter or numeric digit only).
__''Loading scripts from external source files''__
<script src="URL" show>
/* optional javascript code goes here... */
</script>You can also load javascript directly from an external source URL, by including a src="..." parameter in the initial {{{<script>}}} marker (e.g., {{{<script src="demo.js"></script>}}}). This is particularly useful when incorporating third-party javascript libraries for use in custom extensions and plugins. The 'foreign' javascript code remains isolated in a separate file that can be easily replaced whenever an updated library file becomes available.
In addition to loading the javascript from the external file, you can also use this feature to invoke javascript code contained within the {{{<script>...</script>}}} markers. This code is invoked //after// the external script file has been processed, and can make immediate use of the functions and/or global variables defined by the external script file.
>Note: To ensure that your javascript functions are always available when needed, you should load the libraries from a tiddler that is rendered as soon as your TiddlyWiki document is opened, such as MainMenu. For example: put your {{{<script src="..."></script>}}} syntax into a separate 'library' tiddler (e.g., LoadScripts), and then add {{{<<tiddler LoadScripts>>}}} to MainMenu so that the library is loaded before any other tiddlers that rely upon the functions it defines.
>
>Normally, loading external javascript in this way does not produce any direct output, and should not have any impact on the appearance of your MainMenu. However, if your LoadScripts tiddler contains notes or other visible content, you can suppress this output by using 'inline CSS' in the MainMenu, like this: {{{@@display:none;<<tiddler LoadScripts>>@@}}}
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!!!!!Creating dynamic tiddler content and accessing the ~TiddlyWiki DOM
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An important difference between TiddlyWiki inline scripting and conventional embedded javascript techniques for web pages is the method used to produce output that is dynamically inserted into the document: in a typical web document, you use the {{{document.write()}}} (or {{{document.writeln()}}}) function to output text sequences (often containing HTML tags) that are then rendered when the entire document is first loaded into the browser window.
However, in a ~TiddlyWiki document, tiddlers (and other DOM elements) are created, deleted, and rendered "on-the-fly", so writing directly to the global 'document' object does not produce the results you want (i.e., replacing the embedded script within the tiddler content), and instead will //completely replace the entire ~TiddlyWiki document in your browser window (which is clearly not a good thing!)//. In order to allow scripts to use {{{document.write()}}}, the plugin automatically converts and buffers all HTML output so it can be safely inserted into your tiddler content, immediately following the script.
''Note that {{{document.write()}}} can only be used to output "pure HTML" syntax. To produce //wiki-formatted// output, your script should instead return a text value containing the desired wiki-syntax content'', which will then be automatically rendered immediately following the script. If returning a text value is not sufficient for your needs, the plugin also provides an automatically-defined variable, 'place', that gives the script code ''direct access to the //containing DOM element//'' into which the tiddler output is being rendered. You can use this variable to ''perform direct DOM manipulations'' that can, for example:
* generate wiki-formatted output using {{{wikify("...content...",place)}}}
* vary the script's actions based upon the DOM element in which it is embedded
* access 'tiddler-relative' DOM information using {{{story.findContainingTiddler(place)}}}
Note:
''When using an 'onclick' script, the 'place' element actually refers to the onclick //link text// itself, instead of the containing DOM element.'' This permits you to directly reference or modify the link text to reflect any 'stateful' conditions that might set by the script. To refer to the containing DOM element from within an 'onclick' script, you can use "place.parentNode" instead.
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!!!!!Instant "bookmarklets"
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You can also use an 'onclick' link to define a "bookmarklet": a small piece of javascript that can be ''invoked directly from the browser without having to be defined within the current document.'' This allows you to create 'stand-alone' commands that can be applied to virtually ANY TiddlyWiki document... even remotely-hosted documents that have been written by others!! To create a bookmarklet, simply define an 'onclick' script and then grab the resulting link text and drag-and-drop it onto your browser's toolbar (or right-click and use the 'bookmark this link' command to add it to the browser's menu).
Notes:
*When writing scripts intended for use as bookmarklets, due to the ~URI-encoding required by the browser, ''you cannot not use ANY double-quotes (") within the bookmarklet script code.''
*All comments embedded in the bookmarklet script must ''use the fully-delimited {{{/* ... */}}} comment syntax,'' rather than the shorter {{{//}}} comment syntax.
*Most importantly, because bookmarklets are invoked directly from the browser interface and are not embedded within the TiddlyWiki document, there is NO containing 'place' DOM element surrounding the script. As a result, ''you cannot use a bookmarklet to generate dynamic output in your document,'' and using {{{document.write()}}} or returning wiki-syntax text or making reference to the 'place' DOM element will halt the script and report a "Reference Error" when that bookmarklet is invoked.
Please see [[InstantBookmarklets]] for many examples of 'onclick' scripts that can also be used as bookmarklets.
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!!!!!Special reserved function name
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The plugin 'wraps' all inline javascript code inside a function, {{{_out()}}}, so that any return value you provide can be correctly handled by the plugin and inserted into the tiddler. To avoid unpredictable results (and possibly fatal execution errors), this function should never be redefined or called from ''within'' your script code.
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!!!!!$(...) 'shorthand' function
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As described by Dustin Diaz [[here|http://www.dustindiaz.com/top-ten-javascript/]], the plugin defines a 'shorthand' function that allows you to write:
{{{
$(id)
}}}
in place of the normal standard javascript syntax:
{{{
document.getElementById(id)
}}}
This function is provided merely as a convenience for javascript coders that may be familiar with this abbreviation, in order to allow them to save a few bytes when writing their own inline script code.
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!!!!!Examples
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simple dynamic output:
><script show>
document.write("The current date/time is: "+(new Date())+"<br>");
return "link to current user: [["+config.options.txtUserName+"]]\n";
</script>
dynamic output using 'place' to get size information for current tiddler:
><script show>
if (!window.story) window.story=window;
var title=story.findContainingTiddler(place).getAttribute("tiddler");
var size=store.getTiddlerText(title).length;
return title+" is using "+size+" bytes";
</script>
dynamic output from an 'onclick' script, using {{{document.write()}}} and/or {{{return "..."}}}
><script label="click here" show>
document.write("<br>The current date/time is: "+(new Date())+"<br>");
return "link to current user: [["+config.options.txtUserName+"]]\n";
</script>
creating an 'onclick' button/link that accesses the link text AND the containing tiddler:
><script label="click here" title="clicking this link will show an 'alert' box" key="H" show>
if (!window.story) window.story=window;
var txt=place.firstChild.data;
var tid=story.findContainingTiddler(place).getAttribute('tiddler');
alert('Hello World!\nlinktext='+txt+'\ntiddler='+tid);
</script>
dynamically setting onclick link text based on stateful information:
>{{block{
{{{
<script label="click here">
/* toggle "txtSomething" value */
var on=(config.txtSomething=="ON");
place.innerHTML=on?"enable":"disable";
config.txtSomething=on?"OFF":"ON";
return "\nThe current value is: "+config.txtSomething;
</script><script>
/* initialize onclick link text based on current "txtSomething" value */
var on=(config.txtSomething=="ON");
place.lastChild.previousSibling.innerHTML=on?"disable":"enable";
</script>
}}}
<script label="click here">
/* toggle "txtSomething" value */
var on=(config.txtSomething=="ON");
place.innerHTML=on?"enable":"disable";
config.txtSomething=on?"OFF":"ON";
return "\nThe current value is: "+config.txtSomething;
</script><script>
/* initialize onclick link text based on current "txtSomething" value */
var on=(config.txtSomething=="ON");
place.lastChild.innerHTML=on?"enable":"disable";
</script>
}}}
loading a script from a source url:
>http://www.TiddlyTools.com/demo.js contains:
>>{{{function inlineJavascriptDemo() { alert('Hello from demo.js!!') } }}}
>>{{{displayMessage('InlineJavascriptPlugin: demo.js has been loaded');}}}
>note: When using this example on your local system, you will need to download the external script file from the above URL and install it into the same directory as your document.
>
><script src="demo.js" show>
return "inlineJavascriptDemo() function has been defined"
</script>
><script label="click to invoke inlineJavascriptDemo()" key="D" show>
inlineJavascriptDemo();
</script>
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!!!!!Revisions
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2010.12.15 1.9.6 allow (but ignore) type="..." syntax
2009.04.11 1.9.5 pass current tiddler object into wrapper code so it can be referenced from within 'onclick' scripts
2009.02.26 1.9.4 in $(), handle leading '#' on ID for compatibility with JQuery syntax
2008.06.11 1.9.3 added $(...) function as 'shorthand' for document.getElementById()
2008.03.03 1.9.2 corrected fallback declaration of wikifyPlainText() (fixes Safari "parse error")
2008.02.23 1.9.1 in onclick function, use string instead of array for 'bufferedHTML' (fixes IE errors)
2008.02.21 1.9.0 output from 'onclick' scripts (return value or document.write() calls) are now buffered and rendered into into a span following the script. Also, added default 'return false' handling if no return value provided (prevents HREF from being triggered -- return TRUE to allow HREF to be processed). Thanks to Xavier Verges for suggestion and preliminary code.
2008.02.14 1.8.1 added backward-compatibility for use of wikifyPlainText() in TW2.1.3 and earlier
2008.01.08 [*.*.*] plugin size reduction: documentation moved to ...Info tiddler
2007.12.28 1.8.0 added support for key="X" syntax to specify custom access key definitions
2007.12.15 1.7.0 autogenerate URI encoded HREF on links for onclick scripts. Drag links to browser toolbar to create bookmarklets. IMPORTANT NOTE: place is NOT defined when scripts are used as bookmarklets. In addition, double-quotes will cause syntax errors. Thanks to PaulReiber for debugging and brainstorming.
2007.11.26 1.6.2 when converting "document.write()" function calls in inline code, allow whitespace between "write" and "(" so that "document.write ( foobar )" is properly converted.
2007.11.16 1.6.1 when rendering "onclick scripts", pass label text through wikifyPlainText() to parse any embedded wiki-syntax to enable use of HTML entities or even TW macros to generate dynamic label text.
2007.02.19 1.6.0 added support for title="..." to specify mouseover tooltip when using an onclick (label="...") script
2006.10.16 1.5.2 add newline before closing '}' in 'function out_' wrapper. Fixes error caused when last line of script is a comment.
2006.06.01 1.5.1 when calling wikify() on script return value, pass hightlightRegExp and tiddler params so macros that rely on these values can render properly
2006.04.19 1.5.0 added 'show' parameter to force display of javascript source code in tiddler output
2006.01.05 1.4.0 added support 'onclick' scripts. When label="..." param is present, a button/link is created using the indicated label text, and the script is only executed when the button/link is clicked. 'place' value is set to match the clicked button/link element.
2005.12.13 1.3.1 when catching eval error in IE, e.description contains the error text, instead of e.toString(). Fixed error reporting so IE shows the correct response text. Based on a suggestion by UdoBorkowski
2005.11.09 1.3.0 for 'inline' scripts (i.e., not scripts loaded with src="..."), automatically replace calls to 'document.write()' with 'place.innerHTML+=' so script output is directed into tiddler content. Based on a suggestion by BradleyMeck
2005.11.08 1.2.0 handle loading of javascript from an external URL via src="..." syntax
2005.11.08 1.1.0 pass 'place' param into scripts to provide direct DOM access
2005.11.08 1.0.0 initial release
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* Root of the English word is related to "integer". From the Latin, //in// (negation) + //tangere// (touch). Literally untouched or intact (the latter is a word of parallel development).
* @@color:brown;Worship practice is no good if it isn't worship-practicing.@@ // - Bill Avery (of Every Nation).// See note on public [[Pray]].
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Trendy apps come with a boss button feature. Do you keep one of those handy? Is that how you treat God also?
!!! The Clean Cup
* <<Bbl Mt 23:25>> //First clean the inside of the cup and the dish, so that the outside of it may become clean also//
* <<Bbl L 11:39>>-40
* In metaphysical sense, contrasts with [[Divide]]. So, [[Holiness]].
* {{anti{[[Compromise]]}}}
* The requirement for a free conscience.
* [[Openness]], //honesty//, //Authenticity//, [[Truth]]
* //Sincerity//, which in the Latin meant "without wax", the sculpter's cheat.
* {{anti{[[Hypocrisy]]}}}
* The requirement for authority; see [[Reputation]].
* [[Heart]] and [[Unity]] -- as related to //single//. Note Paul says being //single// promotes //undivided// attention to ministry.
* <<Bbl Num 16:15 >>; <<Bbl I 32:8 >>, <<Bbl Ps 86:11 >>; <<Bbl Pr 11:13 >>,<<Bbl Pr 20:6 >>-7 , <<Bbl Pr 21:8 >>; <<Bbl Mt 6:22>>-23
* [[Conduct]] -- <<Bbl Pr 20:11 >>
* Samuel: <<Bbl 1S 12:3 >>:19,12:1-5,16:4
* Paul: <<Bbl A 20:18 >>-21 ; <<Bbl 1C 4:2 >>-5 ; <<Bbl 2C 1:12 >>,<<Bbl 2C 7:2 >>
* Pharisees, lacking: <<Bbl Mt 23:2 >>-4
* //inte-gritty//
!! Re-integration
* John Stott (sermon on the mind) says the human condition before God can be summarized as Integrity, dis-integration, and re-integration. Christ gives wholeness.
* <<Bbl Gn 2:22 "" note >>
* //Mind, epistemology//, [[Know]]
* [[ThoughtLife]], [[Reason]], [[Teachableness]]
* [[Meditation]] builds faith.
* Some people view faith as @@color:brown;a convenient alternative to human thought...a device for saving us the bother of thinking. So they expect God to flash answers to the questions onto the screen of their mind. Or they expect Him to flash solutions to their problems without their needing to think about it. Now I don't doubt of course that God is free and sovereign, and sometimes condescends to our weakness and sometimes guides in irrational ways. But God's normal guidance, I have no hesitation in affirming, from Scripture, is through the mental processes that He has established.@@ // -- John Stott//
* <<Bbl Ps 32:8>>-9 -- instruct you, teach you, guide us -- but followed with a warning to not be as a horse or mule.
* <<Bbl Ps 9:10>> proposes knowledge.
* <<Bbl 1C 13:8>> - Knowledge will cease.
* //I persuade men//
* Paul tells Festus all he has been saying is true and //reasonable.//
!! Limits
What if we have [[Limitations]]? How would we know if we do?
* We may //apprehend// while we do not //comprehend.// V. Poythress says the Bible is incomprehensible, by which he does not mean unintelligible.
* Birds can count. Sort of. British hunters have tricks based on the theory that that birds can count to three.
* Or take Lydia. She can sniff a fire hydrant and know every other dog that's been by, but she can only count to one. So there she is, avidly sniffing -- //One, one, one... one...//
* Abraham, Moses, Amos, Micah, Jonah in reverse.
!!! of Christ on our behalf
* <<Bbl J 14:5 "" note >> //Many rooms// – Hospitality in a grand way, both general and individual. It is general in that there are many rooms; it is specific and that Christ is personally reassuring each of his disciples.
* The [[Priest]] does not only slay the animal. What an inadequate view of his work that would be! No, he must //''apply''// the blood. The tasks of the slaying and the presentation are always distinct. The application by Christ of His blood followed His sacrifice. First the Cross, then the Holy of Holies.
* That application of His blood is not only once-for-all, but also ongoing. This mystery is described to us as His intercession. It is what keeps us in this daily life. Christ //interceding for us// cannot be confused with the idea of you or me going over a list of prayer-needs before God, no matter our fervor. His intercession is a continual rescue and upholding. Our prayer is a humble and mysterious participation.
* [[Persevere]]
!!! [[Joseph]]
* //by faith gave orders concerning his bones.//
Hermeneutics.
* Distinct from application
** Application is...
** Application can easily deviate from the core meaning, perhaps through careless generalizing. Sometimes we need to remember there's usually only one point being made.
* Distinct from speculation
** Speculation is the heart of inquiry. It should not be taken as a bad thing.
** Speculation can sometimes be identified as unsound; then it raises the hazard of [[InterpretationFalse]].
[[Interpretation]]
!!! Skewed context
* <<Bbl 1C 12:20 "" note >>
!!! Stripped context
* <<Bbl Is 28:13>> These words are routinely borrowed by those who want to assert the integrity of their teaching on the Bible. Oh, the irony!
** Austin Bible Church, according to the web site in 2020, teaches @@color:brown;the whole counsel of God’s word, line upon line and precept upon precept. We study to show ourselves approved, accurately handling the word of truth.@@
** Kay Arthur's "Precept" ministry says, @@color:navy;When you’re ready to intimately understand the whole counsel of God, chapter by chapter, verse by verse, you’re ready for Precept Upon Precept.@@
** Ellen G. White of the Seventh Day Adventists (post William Miller) favored this application.
!!! Speculative Allegory
* //Milk// could be a good example of an image that should ''not'' be pressed on too hard (churned, as it were). -- <<Bbl 1P 2:2 >>, <<Bbl H 5:11>>-12
!!! Misplaced Metaphor
The passage offers a truism as a point of comparison. The teacher seems to take it as the main point.
* <<Bbl Amos 3:3 "" note >> People who disagree can't walk together, "so that means the Bible says we shouldn't disagree."
* <<Bbl 1C 13:11 "" note >>
!!! A utilitarian approach
* Eugene Peterson statement: "The Bible is not a fact-book or a religious encyclopedia" (probably from __Eat This Book__).
* "Introduction to Poetry" by Billy Collins
!!! Liberalism and Neo-Orthodoxy
* @@color:brown;What then should we make of Bonhoeffer? While recognizing his many admirable traits - compassion, courage, commitment, and integrity - we should be wary of many elements of his theology. He imbibed large doses of Continental philosophy, including Kant, Hegel, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, and Heidegger. [These] profoundly influenced his worldview. His theology reflected Barth’s neo-orthodox theology, which called Christians to get back to Scripture as the source for religious truth, but without believing that Scripture is historically true. Bonhoeffer always considered himself a follower of Barth, though most Bonhoeffer scholars rightly consider Bonhoeffer more liberal than Barth. Stephen Haynes and Lori Hale, for instance, accurately present Bonhoeffer as a theologian "charting his own course in the charged space between liberalism and dialectical theology."@@ Source: [[Equip.org|https://www.equip.org/articles/troubling-truth-bonhoeffers-theology/]] (Bonhoeffer's neo-orthodoxy is most evident in __Letters and Papers from Prison__.)
* God loves to "party" -- the Red Sea, the Veil of the Temple, and many other partings.
[[Rescue]]
* //Hid, Hidden//
* [[God-AllSeeing]]
* [[Manifest]]
* [[Christ-DualNature]]
* <<Bbl Gn 3:1 "" note >>-11
* Ps 78:2
* <<Bbl Pr 25:2>>
* <<Bbl Job 1:6 >>-12 and <<Bbl Job 2:1 >>-7. Contrast the entire rest of the book (visible). We know, and Job doesn't, that (first) God has announced His care and control, and (second) there's a book project. These are our reality too.
* <<Bbl Mt 6:1 >>-6
* <<Bbl Col 1:15 >>-16
* <<Bbl H 11:1 >>-3
* <<Bbl R 8:24 >>-25
* <<Bbl 1Tim 4:16 >>
* <<Bbl L 23:43 "" note>>
* <<Bbl J 1:18 "" note >>
* <<Bbl J 7:33 >>-34
* <<Bbl J 17:25 >>-26
* <<Bbl J 14:19 >>
* <<Bbl Col 3:3 >>-4
* <<Bbl Mt 13:44 >>
* <<Bbl Ruth 3:9 "" note >>
* <<Bbl 2K 6:16 >> -- Elisha on the city wall
* [[Believe]], [[Hope]]
* [[Veil]] vs [[Reveal]]
* [[Eye]]
* Parables, Mt 13:10ff, <<Bbl Mt 13:35 '' note>>
* Hidden [[Treasure]]
* [[Samson]]
!! Holiness
* Moses in the Rock
* The Ark holding its secrets
* The Holy of Holies behind the veil
* Our Lord Christ in His vulnerable body
* treasure in earthen vessels
!! Secrecy, secret (positive)
* <<Bbl Dt 29:29 >>
* God can de-activate at any time our ability to //recognize// Him. Thus Christ passed through the crowd. He didn't "change shape"; he just foiled their ability to recognize Him.
Outline from the Wycliffe Ency.:
# Introduction, Chapters 1-6
# The Book of Immanuel, 7-12
# Oracles Concerning the Nations, 13-23
# The Little Apocalypse, 24-27
# The Book of Woes, 28-35
# The Book of Hezekiah, 36-39
# The Book of Consolation, 40-66
## Deliverance from sin and captivity, 40-48
## The Deliverer, Servant of Yahweh, 49-57
## The Delivered people and their future glory, 58-66
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* Some possible bad chapter divisions are 53:1, 57:1, 60:1, 64:1
* Hezekiah's sickness and healing (chapter 38) is a microcosm of God's judgment deferred for a little while.
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!!! The Suffering Servant songs
These passages...
* enlarge our vocabulary of redemption.
* confirm God's reliable witness, the truth of his word.
* contribute to the doctrine of substitutionary atonement.
* Also the doctrine of the Gospel for the gentiles.
* portray what could only be an enigma for the original readers and all who followed until the work of Christ, which fulfilled and vindicated that portrayal.
* teach a set of paradoxical truths that are at the heart of our redemption.
The vision of Isaiah son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah. {{rf{2}}} Hear, heavens, and listen, earth, for Yahweh has spoken: "I reared children and I brought them up, but they rebelled against me. {{rf{3}}} An ox knows its owner and a donkey the manger of its master. Israel does not know; my people do not understand. {{rf{4}}} Ah, sinful nation, a people heavy with iniquity, offspring of evildoers, children who deal corruptly. They have forsaken Yahweh; they have despised the holy one of Israel. They are estranged and gone backward. {{rf{5}}} Why do you want to be beaten again? You continue in rebellion. The whole of the head is sick, and the whole of the heart is faint. {{rf{6}}} From the sole of the foot and up to the head there is no health in it; bruise and sore and bleeding wound have not been cleansed, and they have not been bound up and not softened with the oil. {{rf{7}}} Your country is desolate, your cities are burned with fire; As for your land, aliens are devouring it in your presence, and it is desolate, like devastation by foreigners. {{rf{8}}} And the daughter of Zion is left like a booth in a vineyard, like a shelter in a cucumber field, like a city that is besieged. {{rf{9}}} If Yahweh of hosts had not left us survivors, we would have been as few as Sodom, we would have become like Gomorrah. {{rf{10}}} Hear the word of Yahweh, rulers of Sodom! Listen to the teaching of our God, people of Gomorrah! {{rf{11}}} What is the abundance of your sacrifices to me? says Yahweh. I have had enough of burnt offerings of rams and the fat of fattened animals and I do not delight in the blood of bulls and ram-lambs and goats. {{rf{12}}} When you come to appear before me, who asked for this from your hand: you trampling my courts? {{rf{13}}} You must not continue to bring offerings of futility, incense -- it is an abomination to me; new moon and Sabbath, the calling of a convocation -- I cannot endure iniquity with solemn assembly. {{rf{14}}} Your new moons and your appointed festivals my soul hates; they have become to me like a burden, I am not able to bear them. {{rf{15}}} And when you stretch out your hands, I will hide my eyes from you; even though you make many prayers, I will not be listening. Your hands are full of blood. {{rf{16}}} Wash! Make yourselves clean! Remove the evil of your doings from before my eyes! Cease to do evil! {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Isaiah-01-01]] }}}
1:5 Describing what Jesus took on.
1:11-15 see <<Bbl Mt 21:28 >>-32 . Because of our knowledge we are responsible. But woe to those who refuse knowledge, who spurn instruction! We, after Israel, have been "entrusted with the oracles of God."
1:17 Cf <<Bbl Jms 1:27 >>. Learn to do good -- sanctification is learning.
1:18-20 This seems to me to contrast a live lamb and a dead lamb.
1:27 God's covenant would not be compromised in receiving His people back to Himself. How could this be? Through the fulfillment of the curses in Leviticus. Even so, Christ fulfilled these curses, "becoming a curse for us," thus to fulfill God's law while purchasing His grace, see <<Bbl J 1:17 >>.
<<Bbl I 1:29 >> A reference to Lot 13:10-11.
1:30 Well describes the futility of trying to continue without the Lord. Both images of a great strength and beauty which might well persist in pride, except that a most basic provision -- in the first case, foliage, in the second, Water -- has been removed. Van Til declares all the fruits of modern technology a brief profit made on "borrowed capital." Even so, the oak and the garden are enjoying a very brief glory.
1:31 Dead works. They are in themselves an agent of Judgment. In my life I have known many "strong men," many whom I have come to respect . . .
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2:3 But for now the word <<Bbl I 8:16 >>, "Seal up the Law..."
2:5 Light is followed in 50:10-11.
2:6-8 Filled with is the alliterative theme here -- eastern influences, silver and gold, horses which symbolize military pride, and idols.
2:6 Occult influence is discussed in 8:16.
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3:1 This image is a metaphor for the topic of false leadership.
3:7 Note literal meaning of healer , "binder of wounds" -- see 1:6.
4:1 This apparently belongs with the previous verses in chapter 3.
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5:1-7 Cf Christ's parable of the vineyard. Destruction simply means the end of provision. see 1:30, 64:8.
5:18-23 Four woes.
6:6 The coal symbolizing atonement is brought from the altar.
6:13 Subject to burning may simply mean that it will again have enough substance to be substantial. We can rejoice perhaps that after God's discipline, there will be enough left of our lives to be disciplined again.
{{rf{17}}} Learn to do good! Seek justice! Rescue the oppressed! Defend the orphan! Plead for the widow! {{rf{18}}} "Come now, and let us argue," says Yahweh. "Even though your sins are like scarlet, they will be white like snow; even though they are red like crimson, they shall become like wool. {{rf{19}}} If you are willing and you are obedient, you shall eat the good of the land. {{rf{20}}} But if you refuse and you rebel, you shall be devoured by the sword. For the mouth of Yahweh has spoken." {{rf{21}}} How has a faithful city become like a whore? Full of justice, righteousness lodged in her, but now murderers. {{rf{22}}} Your silver has become as dross; Your wine is diluted with waters. {{rf{23}}} Your princes are rebels and companions of thieves. Every one loves a bribe and runs after gifts. They do not defend the orphan and the legal dispute of the widow does not come before them. {{rf{24}}} Therefore, the declaration of the Lord Yahweh of hosts, the Mighty One of Israel: "Ah, I will be relieved of my enemies, and I will avenge myself on my foes. {{rf{25}}} And I will turn my hand against you; I will purify your dross like lye, and I will remove all of your tin. {{rf{26}}} And I will restore your judges, as at the first, and your counselors, as at the beginning. After this you will be called the city of righteousness, faithful city. {{rf{27}}} Zion will be redeemed by justice, and those of her who repent, by righteousness. {{rf{28}}} But the destruction of rebels and sinners shall be together, and those who forsake Yahweh will perish. {{rf{29}}} For you will be ashamed of the oaks in which you delighted, and you will be disgraced because of the gardens that you have chosen. {{rf{30}}} For you shall be like an oak withering its leaves, and like a garden where there is no water for her. {{rf{31}}} And the strong man shall become like tinder, and his work like a spark. And both of them shall burn together, and there is not one to quench them." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Isaiah-01-17]] }}}
The word that Isaiah son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem: {{rf{2}}} And it shall happen in the future of the days the mountain of the house of Yahweh shall be established; it will be among the highest of the mountains, and it shall be raised from the hills. All of the nations shall travel to him; {{rf{3}}} many peoples shall come. And they shall say, "Come, let us go up to the mountain of Yahweh, to the house of the God of Jacob, and may he teach us part of his ways, and let us walk in his paths." For instruction shall go out from Zion, and the word of Yahweh from Jerusalem. {{rf{4}}} He shall judge between the nations and he shall arbitrate for many peoples. They shall beat their swords into ploughshares and their spears into pruning hooks. A nation shall not lift up a sword against a nation, and they shall not learn war again. {{rf{5}}} House of Jacob, come and let us walk in the light of Yahweh. {{rf{6}}} For you have forsaken your people, house of Jacob, because they are full from the east, and of soothsayers like the Philistines, and they make alliances with the offspring of foreigners. {{rf{7}}} And its land is filled with silver and gold, and there is no end to its treasures; and its land is filled with horses, and there is no end to its chariots. {{rf{8}}} Its land is filled with idols; they bow down to the work of their hands, to what they made with their fingers. {{rf{9}}} So humanity is humbled; everyone is humbled, and you must not forgive them. {{rf{10}}} Enter into the rock and hide yourself in the dust from the presence of the terror of Yahweh and from the glory of his majesty. {{rf{11}}} The haughty eyes of humanity will be brought low, and the pride of everyone will be humbled, and Yahweh alone will be exalted on that day. {{rf{12}}} For there is a day for Yahweh of hosts against all of the proud and the lofty and against all that is lifted up and humble, {{rf{13}}} and against all the lofty and lifted up cedars of Lebanon, and against all the large trees of Bashan, {{rf{14}}} and against all the high mountains, and against all the lofty hills, {{rf{15}}} and against every kind of high tower, and against every kind of fortified wall, {{rf{16}}} and against all the ships of Tarshish, and against all the ships of desire. {{rf{17}}} And the haughtiness of the people shall be humbled, and the pride of everyone shall be brought low, and Yahweh alone will be exalted on that day. {{rf{18}}} And the idols shall pass away entirely, {{rf{19}}} and they will enter into the caves of the rocks and into the holes of the ground from the presence of the terror of Yahweh and from the glory of his majesty when he rises to terrify the earth. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Isaiah-02-01]] }}}
{{rf{20}}} On that day humanity will throw away its idols of silver and its idols of gold, which they made for it to worship, to the rodents and to the bats -- {{rf{21}}} to enter into the crevices of the rocks and into the clefts of the crags from the presence of the terror of Yahweh and from the glory of his majesty, when he rises to terrify the earth. {{rf{22}}} Turn away from humanity, who has breath in its nostrils, for by what is it esteemed? {{rf big{1}}} For look, the Lord Yahweh of hosts is removing every source of support from Jerusalem and from Judah: all of the supplies of bread and all of the supplies of water, {{rf{2}}} mighty warrior and man of war, judge and prophet, and diviner and elder, {{rf{3}}} captain of fifty and the honorable men of rank, and counselor and skillful magicians and skillful enchanter. {{rf{4}}} And I will make boys their princes, and children shall rule over them. {{rf{5}}} And the people will be oppressed by each other and a man by his neighbor. The boy will act arrogantly toward the elder, and the dishonorable toward the honorable. {{rf{6}}} Indeed, a man will seize his brother in the house of his father: "You have a cloak; you shall be a leader for us, and this heap of ruins shall be under your hand!" {{rf{7}}} He will lift up his voice on that day, saying, "I will not be a healer; in my house there is no bread and there is no cloak. You shall not make me the leader of the people!" {{rf{8}}} For Jerusalem has stumbled, and Judah has fallen because their speech and their deeds are against Yahweh, defying the eyes of his glory. {{rf{9}}} The look on their faces testifies against them and they declare their sin like Sodom; they do not hide it. Woe to their soul! For they have dealt out evil to themselves. {{rf{10}}} Tell the innocent that it is good for they shall eat the fruit of their deeds. {{rf{11}}} Woe to the wicked! It is bad! For what is done by his hands will be done to him. {{rf{12}}} My people -- children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. My people, your leaders are misleading you, and they confuse the course of your paths. {{rf{13}}} Yahweh takes his stand to conduct a legal case and takes his stand to judge the peoples. {{rf{14}}} Yahweh enters into judgment with the elders of his people and its princes. "And you! You have devoured the vineyard; the spoil of the poor is in your houses! {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Isaiah-02-20]] }}}
{{rf{15}}} Why do you crush my people and grind the face of the poor?" declares the Lord Yahweh of hosts. {{rf{16}}} And Yahweh said: "Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and they walk with outstretched neck, and they give flirting glances with their eyes, mincing along as they go, and with their feet they rattle their bangles, {{rf{17}}} the Lord will make the heads of the daughters of Zion scabby, and Yahweh will lay their foreheads bare." {{rf{18}}} In that day the Lord will take away the finery of the anklets and the headbands and the crescent necklaces, {{rf{19}}} the pendants and the bracelets and the veils, {{rf{20}}} the headdresses and the armlets and the sashes, and the perfume boxes and the amulets, {{rf{21}}} the signet rings and the nose rings, {{rf{22}}} the festal robes and the mantles, and the cloaks and the handbags, {{rf{23}}} and the mirrors and the linen garments, and the turbans and the wraps. {{rf{24}}} And this shall happen: There will be a stench instead of perfume, and a rope instead of a sash, and baldness instead of a well-set hairdo, and a clothing wrap of sackcloth instead of a rich robe, branding instead of beauty. {{rf{25}}} Your men shall fall by the sword, and your warriors in battle. {{rf{26}}} And her gates shall lament and mourn, and she shall be banished; she shall sit upon the ground. {{rf big{1}}} And seven women shall grasp at one man on that day, saying, "We will eat our own bread, and we will wear our own clothing; only let us be called by your name! Take away our disgrace!" {{rf{2}}} On that day the branch of Yahweh shall become beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the land shall become the pride and glory of the survivors of Israel. ''{{rf{3}}} And this shall happen: He who is left in Zion and he who remains in Jerusalem will be called holy, everyone written for life in Jerusalem, {{rf{4}}} when the Lord has washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion and cleansed the blood of Jerusalem from her midst by a spirit of judgment and by a spirit of burning.'' {{rf{5}}} Then Yahweh will create over all of the site of Mount Zion and over her assembly a cloud by day and smoke and the brightness of flaming fire by night. Indeed, over all the glory there will be a canopy, {{rf{6}}} and it will be a shelter for shade from the heat by day, and a refuge and a hiding place from rainstorm and from rain. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Isaiah-03-15]] }}}
Let me sing for my beloved a song of my love concerning his vineyard: My beloved had a vineyard on a fertile hill. {{rf{2}}} And he dug it and cleared it of stones, and he planted it with choice vines, and he built a watchtower in the middle of it, and he even hewed out a wine vat in it, and he waited for it to yield grapes -- but it yielded wild grapes. {{rf{3}}} And now, inhabitants of Jerusalem and men of Judah, judge between me and my vineyard. {{rf{4}}} What more was there to do for my vineyard that I have not done in it? Why did I hope for it to yield grapes, and it yielded wild grapes? {{rf{5}}} And now let me tell you what I myself am about to do to my vineyard. I will remove its hedge, and it shall become a devastation. I will break down its wall, and it shall become a trampling. {{rf{6}}} And I will make it a wasteland; it shall not be pruned and hoed, and it shall be overgrown with briers and thornbushes. And concerning the clouds, I will command them not to send rain down upon it. {{rf{7}}} For the vineyard of Yahweh of hosts is the house of Israel, and the man of Judah is the plantation of his delight. And he waited for justice, but look! Bloodshed! For righteousness, but look! A cry of distress! {{rf{8}}} Ah! Those who join house with house, they join field together with field until there is no place and you are caused to dwell alone in the midst of the land. {{rf{9}}} Yahweh of hosts said in my ears: Surely many houses shall become a desolation, large and beautiful ones without inhabitant. {{rf{10}}} For ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and the seed of a homer will yield an ephah. {{rf{11}}} Ah! Those who rise early in the morning, they pursue strong drink. Those who linger in the evening, wine inflames them. {{rf{12}}} And there will be lyre and harp, tambourine and flute, and wine at their feasts, but they do not look at the deeds of Yahweh, and they do not see the work of his hands. {{rf{13}}} Therefore my people will go into exile without knowledge, and their nobles will be men of hunger, and their multitude is parched with thirst. {{rf{14}}} Therefore Sheol has enlarged its throat, and it has opened wide its mouth without limit, and her nobles will go down, and her multitude, her tumult and those who revel in her. {{rf{15}}} And humankind is bowed down, and man is brought low, and the eyes of the haughty are humiliated. {{rf{16}}} But Yahweh of hosts is exalted by justice, and the holy God shows himself holy by righteousness. {{rf{17}}} And then the lambs will graze as in their pasture, and fatlings, kids will eat among the sites of ruins. {{rf{18}}} Ah! Those who drag iniquity along with the cords of falsehood and sin as with rope of the cart, {{rf{19}}} those who say, "Let him make haste; let him hurry his work so that we may see it and let it draw near and let the plan of the holy one of Israel come so that we may know it!" {{rf{20}}} Ah! Those who call evil good and good evil, those who put darkness for light and light for darkness, those who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter! {{rf{21}}} Ah! Those who are wise in their own eyes and have understanding in their view! {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Isaiah-05-01]] }}}
{{rf{22}}} Ah! Heroes at drinking wine, and men of capability at mixing strong drink! {{rf{23}}} Those who acquit the guilty because of a bribe and remove the justice of the innocent from him. {{rf{24}}} Therefore as the tongue of fire devours the stubble, and dry grass sinks down in the flame, so their root will become like the stench, and their blossom will go up like the dust. For they have rejected the instruction of Yahweh of hosts, and they have treated the word of the holy one of Israel with contempt. {{rf{25}}} Therefore Yahweh's wrath was kindled against his people, and he stretched out his hand against them and struck them, and the mountains quaked, and their corpses were like refuse in the middle of the streets. {{rf{26}}} And he will raise a signal for a nation from afar, and he will whistle for it from the end of the earth. And look! It comes quickly, swiftly! {{rf{27}}} None is weary, and none among him stumbles; none slumbers and none sleeps. And no loincloth on his waist is opened, and no thong of his sandals is drawn away. {{rf{28}}} Whose arrows are sharp, and all of his bows are bent. The hoofs of his horses are reckoned like flint, and his wheels like the storm wind. {{rf{29}}} His roaring is like the lion, and he roars like young lions. And he growls and seizes his prey, and he carries it off, and not one can rescue it. {{rf{30}}} And he will roar over him on that day like the roaring of the sea, and if one looks to the land, look! Darkness! Distress! And the light grows dark with its clouds. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Isaiah-05-22]] }}}
In the year of the death of Uzziah the king, I saw the Lord sitting on a high and raised throne, and the hem of his robe was filling the temple. {{rf{2}}} Seraphs were standing above him. Each had six wings: with two he covered his face, and with two he covered his feet, and with two he flew. {{rf{3}}} And the one called to the other and said, "Holy, holy, holy is Yahweh of hosts! The whole earth is full of his glory." {{rf{4}}} And the pivots of the thresholds shook from the sound of those who called, and the house was filled with smoke. {{rf{5}}} And I said, "Woe to me! For I am destroyed! For I am a man of unclean lips, and I am living among a people of unclean lips, for my eyes have seen the king, Yahweh of hosts!" {{rf{6}}} Then one of the seraphs flew to me, and in his hand was a hot coal he had taken from the altar with tongs. {{rf{7}}} And he touched my mouth, and he said, "Look! This has touched your lips and has removed your guilt, and your sin is annulled." {{rf{8}}} Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, "Whom shall I send? And who will go for us?" And I said, "I am here! Send me!" {{rf{9}}} And he said, "Go and say to this people, 'Keep on listening and do not comprehend! And keep on looking and do not understand!' {{rf{10}}} Make the heart of this people insensitive, and make its ears unresponsive, and shut its eyes so that it may not look with its eyes and listen with its ears and comprehend with its mind and turn back, and it may be healed for him." {{rf{11}}} Then I said, "Until when, Lord?" And he said, "Until the cities lie wasted without inhabitant, and houses without people, and the land is ruined and a waste, {{rf{12}}} and Yahweh sends the people far away, and the abandonment is great in the midst of the land. {{rf{13}}} And even if only a tenth part remain, again she will be destroyed like a terebinth or like an oak, which although felled, a tree stump remains in them. The seed of holiness will be her tree stump." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Isaiah-06-01]] }}}
This happened in the days of Ahaz, son of Jotham, son of Uzziah, king of Judah. Rezin, king of Aram, and Pekah, son of Remaliah, king of Israel, went up to Jerusalem for warfare against it, but he was not able to fight against it. {{rf{2}}} When it was reported to the house of David, saying "Aram stands by Ephraim," his heart and the heart of his people shook like the shaking of the trees of the forest because of the wind. {{rf{3}}} Then Yahweh said to Isaiah, "Go out to meet Ahaz, you and Shear-Jashub your son, at the end of the conduit of the upper pool on the highway of the washer's field. {{rf{4}}} And you must say to him, 'Take heed and be quiet! You must not fear, and your heart must not be faint because of these two stumps of smoldering firebrands, because of the fierce anger of Rezin and Aram and the son of Remaliah. {{rf{5}}} Because Aram has plotted evil against you with Ephraim and the son of Remaliah, saying, {{rf{6}}} "Let us go up against Judah and let us tear her apart, and let us lay it open and so bring it unto ourselves, and let us install the son of Tabeel as king in her midst." {{rf{7}}} Thus says the Lord Yahweh, "It shall not stand, and it shall not come to pass. {{rf{8}}} For the head of Aram is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin, and in sixty-five years from now Ephraim will be too shattered to be a people. {{rf{9}}} And the head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is the son of Remaliah. If you do not believe then you will not endure." '" {{rf{10}}} And Yahweh continued to speak to Ahaz, saying, {{rf{11}}} "Ask for a sign for yourself from Yahweh God; make it deep as Sheol or make it high as above." {{rf{12}}} But Ahaz said, "I will not ask, and I will not put Yahweh to the test." {{rf{13}}} Then he said, "Hear, house of David! Is it too little for you to make men weary, that you should also make my God weary? {{rf{14}}} Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Look! the virgin is with child and she is about to give birth to a son, and she shall call his name 'God with us.' {{rf{15}}} He shall eat curds and honey until he knows to reject the evil and to choose the good. {{rf{16}}} For before the boy knows to reject the evil and to choose the good, the land whose two kings you dread will be abandoned. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Isaiah-07-01]] }}}
<<Bbl I 7:1 abbr>> See <<Bbl 2K 15:5>>
7:2 Preparations for a second assault. Aram has settled down upon (joined military forces with) Ephraim . Ephraim is the leading tribe of Israel and the term here signifies Israel's whole military force (Keil & Delitzsch, VII, 207). His refers to Ahaz.
<<Bbl I 7:10 abbr >>-14 Ahaz tests God by not testing God.
<<Bbl I 7:14 abbr >> a the Lord Himself, double meaning, He specifies the sign and fulfills it. Of course this is true of every sign!
<<Bbl I 7:14 abbr >> b [[mylife]] Kinza.
<<Bbl I 7:14 abbr >> b cf <<Bbl Rev 12:2 >>-5.
7:12-14 The marvelousness of the sign -- deep as Sheol. High as Heaven -- is intensified by the fact that God himself designs it to fit that requirement.
This is a spectacular instance of dual fulfillment.
7:14-20 Isaiah presents the boy as growing up under the oppressions of Assyria; this is true in that, as Delitzsch says, "the Holy Land, deprived of its previous abundance, was under the dominion of the imperial power, and in a condition whose primary cause was to be traced to the unbelief of Ahaz."
<<Bbl I 7:23 abbr>> Sarah's vindication (<<Bbl Gn 20:16>>) removed.
7:21-22 Delitzsch says that verse 21 points out that not much livestock will be left, while the next verse adds that even fewer people will be left, and furthermore that the land once useful for growing crops (vss 22-25) will now only serve as pasturage. Curds and honey refers not to a luxurious diet but to a monotonous one. Cf 36:15.
<<Bbl I 7:23 abbr >>-25 Thorns, but worse - escalated.
8:8 Apparently Immanuel is here a title for Israel!
8:12-13 Close to Christ's words, <<Bbl Mt 10:28 >>.
<<Bbl I 8:16 >> The d'nouement <<Bbl I 2:3 >>.
<<Bbl I 8:18 abbr>> The signs of Isaiah are people - his own sons and the Christ.
<<Bbl I 8:20 abbr>>
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9:7 An increase of both the government and peace - clearly no worldly work! Thaddeus Brown cites gentrification as a typical government initiative: superficially good, but in fact greedy and harmful -- but Christ came to be Himself marginalized, so the city would be not gentrified but redeemed (2022).
9:10 The Bionic Land - "We can rebuild it; make it better."
<<Bbl I 9:4>>b God's victory will reverse a fully fallen position, as happened in the leadership of Gideon <<Bbl Jud 6:25>>-26>>.
9:14 The plants refer to the high and the low.
{{rf{17}}} "Yahweh will bring on you and on your people and on the house of your ancestor days that have not come since the day Ephraim departed from Judah: the king of Assyria." {{rf{18}}} And this shall happen: On that day, Yahweh will whistle for the fly that is at the end of the stream of Egypt and the bee that is in the land of Assyria. {{rf{19}}} And all of them will come and settle in the rivers of the cliffs and in the clefts of the rocks and on all of the thornbushes and watering places. {{rf{20}}} On that day, the Lord will shave the head and the hair of the feet with a razor of the one hired from beyond the river -- with the king of Assyria -- and it will even take off the beard. {{rf{21}}} And this shall happen: on that day, a young man will keep a young cow of the herd and two sheep alive. {{rf{22}}} And this shall happen: because of the abundance of milk production, he will eat curds, for every one that is left in the midst of the land will eat curds and honey. {{rf{23}}} And this shall happen on that day: Every place where there are a thousand vines for a thousand silver pieces will become briers, and it will be thornbushes. {{rf{24}}} One will go there with arrows and bow, for all of the land will be briers and thornbushes. {{rf{25}}} And as for all of the hills that they hoed with the hoe, you will not go there, for fear of briers and thornbushes. And it will become like pastureland for cattle and overtrodden land for sheep. {{rf big{1}}} Then Yahweh said to me, "Take yourself a large tablet and write on it with a common stylus pen: Maher-Halal-Hash-Baz. {{rf{2}}} And I will require reliable witnesses as a witness for me: Uriah the priest and Zechariah son of Jeberekiah." {{rf{3}}} And I approached the prophetess, and she conceived, and she gave birth to a son. And Yahweh said to me, "Call his name Maher-Halal-Hash-Baz. {{rf{4}}} For before the boy knows to call 'my father' and 'my mother,' one will carry away the wealth of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria in the presence of the king of Assyria." {{rf{5}}} And Yahweh continued to speak to me again, saying, {{rf{6}}} "Because this people has refused the gently flowing waters of Shiloah and rejoices over Rezin and the son of Remaliah, {{rf{7}}} therefore look! The Lord is bringing up the waters of the great and mighty river against them, the king of Assyria and all his glory. And he will rise above all his channels, and he will flow over all his banks. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Isaiah-07-17]] }}}
{{rf{8}}} And he will sweep into Judah; he will overflow and he will flood up to the neck. He will reach, and he will spread his wings out over your entire land, God with us." {{rf{9}}} Be broken, you peoples, and be dismayed. And listen, all distant parts of the earth; gird yourselves and be dismayed; gird yourselves and be dismayed! {{rf{10}}} Make a plan, but it will be frustrated! Speak a word, but it will not stand, for God is with us! {{rf{11}}} For Yahweh said this to me while his hand weighed heavily on me, and he warned me not to walk in the way of this people, saying, {{rf{12}}} "You must not call conspiracy everything that this people calls conspiracy, and you must not share its fear, and you must not be in dread. {{rf{13}}} You shall regard Yahweh of hosts as holy, and he is your fear, and he is your dread. {{rf{14}}} And he will become like a sanctuary and a stumbling-stone, and like a stumbling-rock for the two houses of Israel, like a trap and a snare for the inhabitants of Jerusalem. {{rf{15}}} And many shall stumble among them, and they shall fall and they shall be broken, and they shall be ensnared and they shall be caught." {{rf{16}}} Bind up the testimony; seal the teaching among my disciples. {{rf{17}}} And I will wait for Yahweh, who hides his face from the house of Jacob, and I will await him. {{rf{18}}} Look! I and the children whom Yahweh has given to me are like signs and portents in Israel from Yahweh of hosts, the one who dwells on the mountain of Zion. {{rf{19}}} Now if they tell you, "Consult the ghosts and the spirits, those who chirp and those who mutter. Should not a people consult its gods, the dead on behalf of the living, {{rf{20}}} for teaching and for testimony?" surely they who speak like this have no dawn. {{rf{21}}} And it will pass through it distressed and hungry, and this shall happen: when it is hungry, it will be enraged, and it will curse its king and its gods, and it will face upward {{rf{22}}} or look to the earth. But look! Distress and darkness, the gloom of affliction! And it will be thrust into darkness! {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Isaiah-08-08]] }}}
But there will be no gloom for those who were in distress. In former times he treated the land of Zebulun and Naphtali with contempt, but in the future he will honor the way of the sea beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the nations. {{rf{2}}} The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light; light has shined on those who lived in a land of darkness. {{rf{3}}} You have made the nation numerous; you have not made the joy great. They rejoice in your presence as with joy at the harvest, as they rejoice when they divide plunder. {{rf{4}}} For you have shattered the yoke of its burden and the stick of its shoulder, the rod of its oppressor, on the day of Midian. {{rf{5}}} For every boot that marches and shakes the earth and garment rolled in blood will be for burning -- fire fuel. {{rf{6}}} For a child has been born for us; a son has been given to us. And the dominion will be on his shoulder, and his name is called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. {{rf{7}}} His dominion will grow continually, and to peace there will be no end on the throne of David and over his kingdom, to establish it and sustain it with justice and righteousness now and forever. The zeal of Yahweh of hosts will do this. {{rf{8}}} The Lord has sent out a word against Jacob, and it fell on Israel. {{rf{9}}} And all of the people knew it, Ephraim and the inhabitants of Samaria in pride and arrogance of heart, saying, {{rf{10}}} "The bricks have fallen, but we will build with dressed stone. The sycamore-fig trees were felled, but we will replace them with cedars." {{rf{11}}} So Yahweh strengthened the adversaries of Rezin against him, and he provoked his enemies -- {{rf{12}}} Aram from the east and Philistines from the west -- and they devoured Israel with the whole mouth. He has not turned away his anger in all of this, and his hand is still stretched out. {{rf{13}}} And the people did not turn to the one who struck it, and they did not seek Yahweh of hosts. {{rf{14}}} So Yahweh cut off head and tail from Israel, palm branch and reed in one day. {{rf{15}}} Elders and the respectable are the head, and prophets who teach lies are the tail. {{rf{16}}} And the leaders of this people were misleading them, and those who were led were confused. {{rf{17}}} Therefore the Lord did not rejoice over its young men, and he did not have compassion on its orphans and widows, for everyone was godless and an evildoer, and every mouth was speaking folly. In all of this his anger did not turn away, and still his hand is stretched out. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Isaiah-09-01]] }}}
{{rf{18}}} For wickedness burned like fire; it consumed brier and thorn. And it kindled the thickets of the forest, and they swirled upward in a column of smoke. {{rf{19}}} The land was burned through the wrath of Yahweh of hosts, and the people became like fire fuel. People had no compassion toward each other. {{rf{20}}} They devoured on the right but still were hungry and devoured on the left but they were not satisfied. Each one devoured the flesh of his arm, {{rf{21}}} Manasseh devoured Ephraim, and Ephraim Manasseh; together they were against Judah. In all of this his anger has not turned away, and still his hand is stretched out. {{rf big{1}}} Ah! Those who decree decrees of evil, and writers who have written harm, {{rf{2}}} to guide the needy away from legal claims, and to rob the justice from the poor of my people, to make widows their spoil; and they plunder orphans. {{rf{3}}} And what will you do at the day of punishment, and at calamity? It comes from afar! To whom will you flee for help, and where will you leave your wealth, {{rf{4}}} save that they bow down under the prisoners and fall under the slain? In all of this his anger has not turned away, and still his hand is stretched out. {{rf{5}}} Ah! Assyria, the rod of my anger, and a staff is in their hand: my wrath! {{rf{6}}} I send him against a godless nation, and I command him against the people of my wrath, to capture spoil and to carry off plunder, and to make them a trampling place, like the clay of the streets. {{rf{7}}} But he does not think this, and his heart does not plan this. For it is in his heart to destroy and to cut off not a few nations. {{rf{8}}} For he says, "Are not my commanders altogether kings? {{rf{9}}} Is not Calno like Carchemish? Is not Hamath like Arpad? Is not Samaria like Damascus? {{rf{10}}} As my hand has reached to the kingdoms of the idols -- and their images were greater than those of Jerusalem and Samaria -- {{rf{11}}} shall I not do to Jerusalem and its idols what I have done to Samaria and her idols?" {{rf{12}}} And this shall happen: when the Lord has finished all his work against Mount Zion and Jerusalem, "I will punish the arrogance of the king of Assyria and his haughtiness." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Isaiah-09-18]] }}}
10:3c Jesus asks the same question, <<Bbl L 12:20 >>.
<<Bbl I 10:10 abbr >> Hezekiah reflects back on this in <<Bbl 2Kngs 19:17 >>-18 .
<<Bbl I 10:14 abbr >> Hitler made a similar statement in comparing the Jews to sheep.
<<Bbl I 10:27 abbr>> Jay Green's marginal translation says, "...the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing (fatness).
<<Bbl I 11:1 abbr >>-3
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But a shoot shall sprout from the stump of Jesse, and from his roots a bud shall blossom. The spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him: a spirit of wisdom and understanding, a spirit of counsel and strength, a spirit of knowledge and fear of the Lord.
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<<Bbl I 11:2 abbr>> <<Bbl Rev 3:1 >> and <<Bbl Rev 5:6 >> refer to "the seven Spirits of God". >
<<Bbl I 11:3 abbr>> see <<Bbl 1S 16:7 >>; <<Bbl J 7:24 >>, <<Bbl J 8:15 >>
<<Bbl I 11:7 abbr >> The new earth is (symbolically at least) vegetarian.
<<Bbl I 11:16 abbr>> <<Bbl Ex 14:2 >>. Chapters 10 & 11 refer to Egypt several times; this precious promise is a culmination.
12:3 see <<Bbl J 4:10 >>3 This chapter commences the oracles concerning the nations.
<<Bbl I 12:4 abbr >> Verse 4 divides the passage.
<<Bbl I 13:11 abbr >> Israel was to be an ornament. The ornament is ruined. [[God-Purposes]] So he will ruin the waistbands of their pride.
14:12 This is the verse which, through the Vulgate, Satan has come to be called "Lucifer".
<<Bbl I 14:13 abbr >> North, Ez chap 1
14:13-14 Five "I wills".
<<Bbl I 17:12 abbr>> Similar to the description of the nations in <<Bbl Ps.2 >> Whose land the rivers divide -- that it, a land so large that the rivers do form its boundaries, as is the case with most nations.
<<Bbl I 19:18 abbr>>-23 This astounding prophecy of redemption to Egypt echoes the <<Bbl Ex 19:24 >>-25 Here Israel is very deliberately mentioned as a peer among other nations!
{{rf{13}}} For he says, "I have done it by the strength of my hand and by my wisdom, for I have understanding, and I have removed the boundaries of peoples, and I have plundered their stores, and like a bull I have brought down the inhabitants. {{rf{14}}} And my hand has found, like a nest, the wealth of the peoples, and like the gathering of forsaken eggs, I myself have gathered all the earth. And there was no fluttering wing or open mouth or chirp." {{rf{15}}} Does the ax boast against the one who cuts with it, or the saw magnify itself against the one who moves it to and fro? As if a rod should move the one who lifts it! As if a staff should lift up that which is not wood! {{rf{16}}} Therefore the Lord, Yahweh of hosts, will send leanness among his sturdy warriors, and a burning like the burning of fire will burn under his glory. {{rf{17}}} And the light of Israel will become like a fire, and his holy one like a flame, and it will burn and devour his thorns and briers in one day. {{rf{18}}} And he will destroy the glory of his forest and orchard completely, and it will be like the wasting away of one who is sick. {{rf{19}}} And the rest of the trees of his forest will be a small number, and a boy can write them down. {{rf{20}}} And this shall happen: on that day, the remnant of Israel and the survivors of the house of Jacob will not continue to lean on the one who struck it but will lean on Yahweh, the holy one of Israel, in truth. {{rf{21}}} A remnant will return -- the remnant of Jacob -- to the mighty God. {{rf{22}}} For though your people Israel was like the sand of the sea, only a remnant of it will return. Annihilation is determined, overflowing with righteousness. {{rf{23}}} For the Lord Yahweh of hosts is about to make a complete destruction and a determined end in the midst of all the earth. {{rf{24}}} Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh of hosts: "My people who live in Zion, you must not be afraid of Assyria. It beats you with the rod, and it lifts up its staff against you as the Egyptians did. {{rf{25}}} My indignation will come to an end in just a very little while, and my anger will be directed to their destruction." {{rf{26}}} And Yahweh of hosts is going to swing a whip against him, as when Midian was defeated at the rock of Oreb; and his staff will be over the sea, and he will lift him up as he did in Egypt. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Isaiah-10-13]] }}}
{{rf{27}}} And this shall happen: on that day, he will remove his burden from your shoulder and his yoke from your neck, and a yoke will be destroyed because of fat. {{rf{28}}} He has come to Aiath, he has passed through Migron; at Micmash he deposited his baggage. {{rf{29}}} They crossed over the pass; Geba is a place of overnight lodging for us. Ramah trembles; Gibeah of Saul has fled. {{rf{30}}} Daughter of Gallim, cry out with your voice; Laishah, listen! Anathoth is poor. {{rf{31}}} Madmenah flees! The inhabitants of Gebim bring themselves into safety! {{rf{32}}} This day taking a stand at Nob, he will shake his fist at the mountain of the daughter of Zion, at the hill of Jerusalem. {{rf{33}}} Look! The Lord Yahweh of hosts is about to lop off the branches with great power, and the towering trees will be felled, and the tall trees will be brought low. {{rf{34}}} And he will cut down the thickets of the forest with the axe, and Lebanon will fall by the mighty one. {{rf big{1}}} And a shoot will come out from the stump of Jesse, and a branch from its roots will bear fruit. {{rf{2}}} And the spirit of Yahweh shall rest on him -- a spirit of wisdom and understanding, a spirit of counsel and might, a spirit of knowledge and the fear of Yahweh. {{rf{3}}} And his breath is in the fear of Yahweh. And he shall judge not by his eyesight, and he shall rebuke not by what he hears with his ears. {{rf{4}}} But he shall judge the poor with righteousness, and he shall decide for the needy of the earth with rectitude. And he shall strike the earth with the rod of his mouth, and he shall kill the wicked person with the breath of his lips. {{rf{5}}} And righteousness shall be the belt around his waist, and faithfulness the belt around his loins. {{rf{6}}} And a wolf shall stay with a lamb, and a leopard shall lie down with a kid, and a calf and a lion and a fatling together as a small boy leads them. {{rf{7}}} And a cow and a bear shall graze; their young shall lie down together. And a lion shall eat straw like the cattle. {{rf{8}}} And an infant shall play over a serpent's hole, and a toddler shall put his hand on a viper's hole. {{rf{9}}} They will not injure and they will not destroy on all of my holy mountain, for the earth will be full of the knowledge of Yahweh, as the waters cover the sea. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Isaiah-10-27]] }}}
{{rf{10}}} And this shall happen on that day: the nations shall inquire of the root of Jesse, which shall be standing as a signal to the peoples, and his resting place shall be glorious. {{rf{11}}} And this shall happen on that day: The Lord will again extend his hand a second time to acquire the remnant of his people that is left, from Assyria, Egypt, Pathros, Cush, Elam, Shinar, Hamath, and the coastlands of the sea, {{rf{12}}} and he will raise a signal for the nations. And he will gather the outcasts of Israel, and he will gather the scattered ones of Judah together from the four corners of the earth. {{rf{13}}} And the jealousy of Ephraim shall depart, and the enemies of Judah shall be cut off. Ephraim shall not be jealous of Judah, and Judah shall not be an enemy of Ephraim. {{rf{14}}} But they shall swoop upon the Philistine shoulder, westward. Together they shall plunder the sons of the east. Edom and Moab will be under their command, and the sons of Ammon will be their subjugated people. {{rf{15}}} And Yahweh will divide the tongue of the sea of Egypt, and he will wave his hand over the river with his scorching wind; and he will strike it into seven streams, and he will make it passable by foot. {{rf{16}}} So there shall be a highway from Assyria for the remnant of his people that remains, as there was for Israel when it went up from the land of Egypt. {{rf big{1}}} And you will say on that day, "I will give you thanks, Yahweh, for though you were angry with me, your anger turned away, and you comforted me. {{rf{2}}} Look! God is my salvation; I will trust, and I will not be afraid, for my strength and might is Yah, Yahweh; and he has become salvation for me." {{rf{3}}} And you will draw water from the wells of salvation in joy. {{rf{4}}} And you will say on that day, "Give thanks to Yahweh; call on his name. Make his deeds known among the peoples; bring to remembrance that his name is exalted. {{rf{5}}} Sing praises to Yahweh, for he has done a glorious thing; this is known in all the earth. {{rf{6}}} Inhabitant of Zion, shout out and sing for joy, for the holy one of Israel is great in your midst." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Isaiah-11-10]] }}}
The oracle of Babylon that Isaiah son of Amoz saw: {{rf{2}}} Raise a signal on a bare hill, lift up your voice to them; wave the hand and may they enter the gateways of the noblemen. {{rf{3}}} I myself I have commanded my consecrated ones, I have also summoned my mighty warriors concerning my anger, the ones who exalt over my majesty. {{rf{4}}} A sound, a noise is on the mountains, the likeness of many people! A sound of the roar of the kingdoms, of nations gathering! Yahweh of hosts is mustering an army for battle. {{rf{5}}} They are coming from a distant land, from the end of the heavens, Yahweh and the weapons of his indignation, to destroy the whole earth. {{rf{6}}} Wail, for the day of Yahweh is near; it will come like destruction from Shaddai! {{rf{7}}} Therefore all hands will grow slack, and every human heart will melt, {{rf{8}}} and they will be dismayed. Pangs and labor pains will seize them; they will tremble like a woman giving birth. They will stare at one another, their faces flushing. {{rf{9}}} Look! The day of Yahweh is coming, cruel and wrath and the burning of anger, to make the earth a desolation, and he will destroy its sinners from it. {{rf{10}}} For the stars of the heavens and their constellations will not flash forth their light; the sun will keep back when it comes out, and the moon will not cause its light to shine. {{rf{11}}} And I will punish the world for its evil and the wicked for their iniquity. And I will put an end to the pride of the arrogant, and I will bring the haughtiness of tyrants low. {{rf{12}}} I will make humanity more rare than gold and humankind more than the gold of Ophir. {{rf{13}}} Therefore I will make the heavens tremble, and the earth will quake from its place because of the wrath of Yahweh of hosts, and in the day his anger burns. {{rf{14}}} And this shall happen: like a hunted gazelle or sheep with none to gather them, they will each turn to his own people, and they will each flee to his own land. {{rf{15}}} Everyone who is found will be pierced through, and everyone who is carried away will fall by the sword. {{rf{16}}} And their children will be dashed into pieces before their eyes; their houses will be plundered, and their wives will be raped. {{rf{17}}} Look! I am stirring the Medes up against them, who do not value silver and do not delight in gold. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Isaiah-13-01]] }}}
{{rf{18}}} And their bows will shatter young men. And they will not show mercy on the fruit of the womb; their eyes will not look compassionately on children. {{rf{19}}} And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the splendor of the Chaldeans' pride, will be like when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. {{rf{20}}} It will not be inhabited forever, and it will not be dwelled in forever; and no Arab will pitch a tent there, and shepherds will not allow their flocks to lie down there. {{rf{21}}} But wild animals will lie down there, and their houses will be full of howling creatures, and the daughters of ostriches will live there, and goats will dance there. {{rf{22}}} And hyenas will answer in its palaces, and jackals in the pleasure palaces; and its time is coming soon, and its days will not be prolonged. {{rf big{1}}} But Yahweh will have compassion on Jacob, and he will again choose Israel and set them on their land, and the immigrant will join himself to them, and they will attach themselves to the house of Jacob. {{rf{2}}} And the nations will take them and bring them to their place, and the house of Israel will take possession of them in the land of Yahweh as slaves and female slaves. And this will happen: they will take their captors captive and rule over their oppressors. {{rf{3}}} And it shall happen on the day Yahweh gives you rest from your pain and turmoil and hard labor which you had to perform, {{rf{4}}} that you will take this taunt against the king of Babylon, and you will say: "How the oppressor has ceased! his insolence has ceased. {{rf{5}}} Yahweh has broken the staff of the wicked, the scepter of rulers, {{rf{6}}} that struck the peoples in wrath, a blow without ceasing, that ruled the nations in anger with unrestrained persecution. {{rf{7}}} All of the earth rests and is quiet; they break forth into singing. {{rf{8}}} Even the cypresses rejoice over you, the cedars of Lebanon: 'Since you were laid down, no wood cutter comes up against us.' {{rf{9}}} Sheol below is getting excited over you, to meet you when you come; it arouses the dead spirits for you, all of the leaders of the earth. It raises all of the kings of the nations from their thrones. {{rf{10}}} All of them will respond and say to you, 'You yourself also were made weak like us! You have become the same as us!' {{rf{11}}} Your pride is brought down to Sheol, and the sound of your harps; maggots are spread out beneath you like a bed, and your covering is worms. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Isaiah-13-18]] }}}
{{rf{12}}} How you have fallen from heaven, morning star, son of dawn! You are cut down to the ground, conqueror of nations! {{rf{13}}} And you yourself said in your heart, 'I will ascend to heaven; I will raise up my throne above the stars of God; and I will sit on the mountain of assembly on the summit of Zaphon; {{rf{14}}} I will ascend to the high places of the clouds, I will make myself like the Most High.' {{rf{15}}} But you are brought down to Sheol, to the depths of the pit. {{rf{16}}} Those who see you will stare at you, they will look closely at you: 'Is this the man who made the earth tremble, who caused kingdoms to shake, {{rf{17}}} who made the world like the desert and destroyed its cities, who would not let his prisoners go home?' {{rf{18}}} All the kings of the nations, all of them, lie in glory, each one in his house. {{rf{19}}} But as for you, you are thrown away from your grave, like an abhorrent shoot, clothed with the slain, those pierced by the sword, those who go down to the stones of the pit, like a corpse that is trodden down. {{rf{20}}} You will not be united with them in burial because you have destroyed your land, you have killed your people. The descendants of evildoers will not be mentioned for eternity! {{rf{21}}} Prepare a place of slaughter for his sons because of the sin of their ancestors. Let them not rise and take possession of the earth or fill up the face of the world with cities." {{rf{22}}} "And I will rise up against them," declares Yahweh of hosts, "and I will cut off name and a remnant from Babylon, and offspring and posterity," declares Yahweh. {{rf{23}}} "And I will make her a possession of the hedgehog, and pools of water, and I will sweep her away with the broom of destruction," declares Yahweh of hosts. {{rf{24}}} Yahweh of hosts has sworn, saying, "Surely just as I have intended, so it shall be. And just as I have planned, it shall stand: {{rf{25}}} to break Assyria in my land, and I will trample him down on my mountains; and he shall remove his yoke from them, and he shall remove his burden from his shoulders." {{rf{26}}} This is the plan that is planned concerning all of the earth; and this is the hand that is stretched out over all of the nations. {{rf{27}}} For Yahweh of hosts has planned, and who will frustrate it? And his hand is stretched out, and who will turn it back? {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Isaiah-14-12]] }}}
{{rf{28}}} In the year of the death of king Ahaz there was this oracle: {{rf{29}}} You must not rejoice, all you Philistines, that the rod that struck you is broken, for a viper will come forth from the root of the snake, and its fruit will be a flying serpent. {{rf{30}}} And the firstborn of the poor will graze, and the needy will lie down in security; but I will cause your root to die in famine, and it will kill your remnant. {{rf{31}}} Wail, gate! Cry, city! Melt, Philistia, all of you! For smoke is coming from the north, and there is no straggler in his ranks. {{rf{32}}} And what will one answer the messengers of the nation? That Yahweh has founded Zion, and the needy of his people will take refuge in it. {{rf big{1}}} An oracle of Moab: Because Ar is devastated in a night, Moab is destroyed; because Kir of Moab is devastated in a night, it is destroyed. {{rf{2}}} It has gone up to the house, and Dibon to the high places for weeping over Nebo, and Moab wails over Medeba. Every head is bald, every beard is shaved. {{rf{3}}} They gird themselves with sackcloth in its streets; on its roofs and public squares everyone wails, going down in weeping. {{rf{4}}} And Heshbon and Elealeh cry out, their voice is heard as far as Jahaz; therefore the armed ones of Moab cry out; its soul quivers for him. {{rf{5}}} My heart cries out for Moab; its fugitives flee up to Zoar, to Eglath-shelishiyah. For at the ascent of Luhith it goes up it with weeping; for on the road of Horonaim they raise up a cry of destruction. {{rf{6}}} For the waters of Nimrim are wastelands; for the grass has withered, the vegetation has vanished, there is no greenness. {{rf{7}}} Therefore they carry the abundance it has made and their store of goods over the river of the poplars. {{rf{8}}} For a cry for help has encircled the territory of Moab, her wailing is heard as far as Eglaim, and her wailing as far as Beer Elim. {{rf{9}}} For the waters of Dimon are full of blood; but I will place added things upon Dimon: a lion for the survivors of Moab and for the remnant of the land. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Isaiah-14-28]] }}}
Send a ram to the ruler of the land, from Sela across the desert to the mountain of daughter Zion. {{rf{2}}} And this shall be: like a bird fleeing from a thrust away nest shall be the daughters of Moab at the fords of Arnon. {{rf{3}}} "Bring counsel, make a decision; make your shade like the night in the middle of noonday. Hide the outcasts; you must not betray the fugitive. {{rf{4}}} Let my outcasts of Moab dwell as aliens among you; be a hiding place for them from the presence of the destroyer." When the oppressor is no more, destruction has stopped, the one who tramples has disappeared from the land, {{rf{5}}} then a throne shall be established in steadfast love, and one shall sit on it in faithfulness, in the tent of David, judging and seeking justice and zealous for righteousness. {{rf{6}}} We have heard of the pride of Moab -- exceedingly proud -- of his arrogance, pride, and insolence; his boasting is not true. {{rf{7}}} Therefore Moab wails; all of it wails for Moab, for the raisin cakes of Kir-hareseth you moan, utterly devastated. {{rf{8}}} For Heshbon withers the fields, the vine of Sibmah; rulers of nations have broken down her tendrils, they reached up to Jazer, they wandered to the desert; her shoots spread abroad, they crossed over the sea. {{rf{9}}} Therefore I weep with the weeping of Jazer for the vine of Sibmah. I drench you with my tears, Heshbon and Elealeh, for a jubilant shout has fallen over your summer fruit and harvest. {{rf{10}}} And joy and gladness are taken away from the fruitful land, and in the vineyards no one exults, no one shouts for joy; no treader treads wine in the presses; I have put to an end to the jubilant shout. {{rf{11}}} Therefore my heart moans like a harp for Moab and my inner parts for Kir-heres. {{rf{12}}} And this shall happen: when Moab appears, when it is weary upon the high place and it comes to its sanctuary to pray, it will not prevail. {{rf{13}}} This was the word that Yahweh spoke to Moab in the past. {{rf{14}}} But now Yahweh speaks, saying, "In three years, like the years of a hired worker, the glory of Moab will become contemptible, with all of the great multitude, and the remnant will be a few, small, not strong. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Isaiah-16-01]] }}}
An oracle of Damascus: "Look! Damascus will cease being a city and will become a heap of ruins. {{rf{2}}} The cities of Aroer will be deserted; they will be for the flocks, and they will lie down and no one will frighten them. {{rf{3}}} And the fortified city will disappear from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus; and the remnant of Aram will be like the glory of the children of Israel," declares Yahweh of hosts. {{rf{4}}} "And this shall happen: On that day, the glory of Jacob will be brought low, and the fat of his flesh will become lean. {{rf{5}}} And it shall be as when a reaper gathers standing grain and he reaps grain with his arm, and it shall be like one who gathers ears of grain in the valley of Rephaim. {{rf{6}}} And gleanings will be left over in it, as when an olive tree is beaten, two or three ripe olive berries in the top of a branch, four or five on its fruitful branches," declares Yahweh, the God of Israel. {{rf{7}}} On that day, mankind will look to its maker, and its eyes will look to the holy one of Israel; {{rf{8}}} it will not look to the altars, the work of its hands, and it will not see what its fingers made and the poles of Asherah worship and the incense altars. {{rf{9}}} On that day, its fortified cities will be like the abandonment of the wooded place and the summit, which they deserted because of the children of Israel; and there will be desolation. {{rf{10}}} For you have forgotten the God of your salvation, and you have not remembered the rock of your refuge; therefore you plant plants of pleasantness, and you plant a vine of a foreigner. {{rf{11}}} On your planting day you make them grow, and in the morning of your sowing you bring them into bloom, yet the harvest will flee in a day of sickness and incurable pain. {{rf{12}}} Ah! The noise of many peoples, they make a noise like the noise of the seas! And the roar of nations, they roar like the roar of mighty waters! {{rf{13}}} The nations roar like the roar of many waters, but he will rebuke him, and he will flee far away. And they are chased like chaff of the mountains before the wind and like tumbleweed before the storm. {{rf{14}}} At the time of evening, and look, terror! Before morning he is no more. This is the fate of those who plunder us and the lot of those who plunder us. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Isaiah-17-01]] }}}
Ah! land of the whirring of wings, which is beyond the rivers of Cush, {{rf{2}}} that sends messengers by the sea and in vessels of papyrus on the surface of the waters! Go, swift messengers, to a tall and smooth nation, to a people feared near and far, a mighty, mighty and trampling nation, whose land rivers divide. {{rf{3}}} All you inhabitants of the world and dwellers of the earth, when a signal is raised on the mountains, you must look, and when a trumpet is blown, you must listen! {{rf{4}}} For Yahweh said this to me: "I will be quiet, and I will look from my dwelling place like clear heat because of light, like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest." {{rf{5}}} For before the harvest, when the blossom is complete and a blossom becomes ripening fruit, and one cuts off the shoots with pruning hooks, and one removes, tears away the tendrils. {{rf{6}}} They shall all be left for birds of prey of the mountains and for the animals of the earth. And the birds of prey will pass the summer on it, and every animal of the earth will winter on it. {{rf{7}}} At that time, a gift will be brought to Yahweh of hosts from a tall and smooth people, and from a people feared near and far, a mighty, mighty and trampling nation, whose land the rivers divide, to the place of the name of Yahweh of hosts, the mountain of Zion. {{rf big{1}}} An oracle of Egypt: Look! Yahweh is riding on a swift cloud and is coming to Egypt. And the idols of Egypt will tremble in front of him, and the heart of Egypt melts in his inner parts. {{rf{2}}} "And I will stir up Egyptians against Egyptians, and each one will fight against his brother and each one against his neighbor, city against city, kingdom against kingdom. {{rf{3}}} And the spirit of the Egyptians will be disturbed in his midst, and I will confuse his plans, and they will consult the idols and the spirits of the dead, and the ghosts and the spiritists. {{rf{4}}} And I will hand over the Egyptians into the hand of a hard master, and a powerful king will rule over them," declares the Lord Yahweh of hosts. {{rf{5}}} And the waters will be dried up from the sea, and the river will be parched and dry. {{rf{6}}} And the rivers will become foul-smelling; the branches of the Nile of Egypt will become little and dry up; reed and rush will wither. {{rf{7}}} Bare places by the Nile will be dried up, by the edge of the Nile and all the sown land of the Nile; it will be driven about, and it will be no more. {{rf{8}}} And the fishers will mourn, and all of those who cast fishhooks in the Nile will lament, and those who spread out fishing nets on the surface of the water will languish. {{rf{9}}} And the workers of combed flax will be ashamed, and those who weave white linen. {{rf{10}}} And her weavers will be crushed; all the hired workers will be grieved of heart. {{rf{11}}} Surely the princes of Zoan are foolish; the wise of the counselors of Pharaoh give senseless counsel. How can you say to Pharaoh, "I myself am a son of sages, a descendant of ancient kings"? {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Isaiah-18-01]] }}}
{{rf{12}}} Where are your sages then? Now, let them tell you, and let them know what Yahweh of hosts has planned against Egypt. {{rf{13}}} The princes of Zoan have become foolish; the princes of Memphis are deceived; the leaders of her tribes have led Egypt astray. {{rf{14}}} Yahweh has mixed a spirit of confusion into her midst, and they have caused Egypt to stagger in all of its doings, as when a drunkard staggers in his vomit. {{rf{15}}} And there will be nothing for Egypt to do, head or tail, palm branch or reed. {{rf{16}}} On that day, Egypt will be like women, and will tremble and be afraid before the waving hand of Yahweh of hosts that he is waving against it. {{rf{17}}} And the land of Judah will become a terror to Egypt, everyone to whom one mentions it will be afraid in himself because of the plan of Yahweh of hosts that he is planning against him. {{rf{18}}} On that day, there will be five cities in the land of Egypt that speak the language of Canaan and swear an oath to Yahweh of hosts. One will be called "City of the Sun." {{rf{19}}} On that day, there will be an altar for Yahweh in in the middle of the land of Egypt, and a stone pillar for Yahweh at her border. {{rf{20}}} And it will be a sign and a witness to Yahweh of hosts in the land of Egypt; when they cry out to Yahweh because of oppressors, he will send them a savior and a defender, and he will deliver them. {{rf{21}}} And Yahweh will make himself known to Egypt, and Egypt will know Yahweh on that day, and they will worship with sacrifice and offering, and they will make vows to Yahweh, and they will fulfill them. {{rf{22}}} And Yahweh will strike Egypt, striking and healing; and they will return to Yahweh, and he will respond to their prayer, and he will heal them. {{rf{23}}} On that day, there will be a highway from Egypt to Assyria, and Assyria will come into Egypt, and Egypt into Assyria, and Egypt will worship together with Assyria. {{rf{24}}} On that day, Israel will be the third with Egypt and Assyria, a blessing in the midst of the earth, {{rf{25}}} whom Yahweh of hosts blessed, saying, "May Egypt my people be blessed, and Assyria, the work of my hands, and my inheritance, Israel." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Isaiah-19-12]] }}}
In the year the commander-in-chief came to Ashdod, when Sargon the king of Assyria sent him, and he fought against Ashdod and he took it, {{rf{2}}} at that time, Yahweh had spoken by the hand of Isaiah son of Amoz, saying, "Go and loosen the sackcloth from your loins, and take off your sandals from your feet," and he had done so, walking naked and barefoot. {{rf{3}}} Then Yahweh said, "Just as my servant Isaiah has walked naked and barefoot three years as a sign and a portent against Egypt and Cush, {{rf{4}}} so shall the king of Assyria lead the captives of Egypt and the exiles of Cush, young and old, naked and barefoot, with bared buttocks, the shame of Egypt. {{rf{5}}} And they shall be dismayed, and they shall be ashamed because of Cush, their hope, and because of Egypt, their pride. {{rf{6}}} And the inhabitant of the coastland will say this on that day: 'Look! This is our hope to whom we fled for help, to be delivered from the king of Assyria, and how shall we escape?'" {{rf big{1}}} The oracle of the wilderness of the sea: As storm winds passing over in the Negev, it comes from the desert, from a frightful land. {{rf{2}}} A hard revelation is told to me; the treacherous deals treacherously, and the destroyer destroys. Go up, Elam; lay siege, Media! I put an end to all of her sighing. {{rf{3}}} Therefore my loins are filled with anguish; pangs have seized me, like the pangs of a woman giving birth. I am too bent to hear, I am too dismayed to see. {{rf{4}}} My mind staggers; fear terrifies me; the twilight I desired brought me fear. {{rf{5}}} Set out the table in order! Spread out the rugs! Eat! drink! Rise up, commanders; smear the shield! {{rf{6}}} For the Lord said this to me: "Go, set a watchman in position. He must announce what he sees. {{rf{7}}} When he sees riders, a pair of horsemen, riders of donkeys, riders of camels, then he must listen attentively, paying attention, paying special attention." {{rf{8}}} Then the watchman called, "Lord, I am standing on the watchtower continually by day, and I am standing at my post throughout the night. {{rf{9}}} And look at this! A man's a chariot is coming, a pair of horsemen!" Then he responded and said, "It has fallen! Babylon has fallen! And all the images of her gods are smashed on the ground!" {{rf{10}}} My downtrodden people and the son of my threshing floor, I will announce to you what I have heard from Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Isaiah-20-01]] }}}
20:3-4 Isaiah is portraying a captive. That in a way was Jesus' portrayal, too.
22:1-11 Delitzsch (Isaiah, p.389ff) proposes that this prophecy describes Sannacherib's siege of Jerusalem (2Chrn 32, <<Bbl I 38:39>>) and explains the passage more or less as follows: Jerusalem does not perceive a true military threat from Assyria, and everyone is on their housetop eagerly awaiting a glimpse of the arriving army. But vs. 2b-3 states the truth that even the honor of death in battle is to be denied them. The armies of Assyria fill the valleys and face the gates of the city, ready for the breach. In vs. 8 Jerusalem's true exigency has become clear and prudent measures are taken, yet without God's help. Examine the verbs in vss. 8-11. John Bright says this passage describes the celebration of deliverance from Sennacherib, which did not glorify God.
22:8 The NAS defense is rendered "covering" by Delitzsch and signifies how blind the nation was to Assyria's threat. Could it not also refer to the cloud in the wilderness (compare <<Bbl Ps 105:39 >>)? The forest-house is part of Solomon's work (<<Bbl 1Kngs 7:2 >>-5 ).
22:9,11 The efforts to store up water are not the same as Hezekiah's work as described in 2Chrn 32:2-5, but the two descriptions do not preclude each other.
22:11b An antithesis is found in 26:1.
22:22 The key of the house of David -- see <<Bbl Rev 3:2 >>. Outside of this specific reference, this does not seem to refer to Christ.
<<Bbl I 23:18 abbr >> As in <<Bbl Pr 13:22 >>
23:9 See <<Bbl Ez 16:15 >>.
<<Bbl I 24:2 abbr >> It is distinctions that make our world what it
<<Bbl I 24:16 abbr >>. Division middle of verse.
<<Bbl I 25:6 abbr >>-9 Compare <<Bbl Rev 21:4 >> - 22:3.
<<Bbl I 25:6 abbr >> The NIV says, with excellent simplicity, "the best of meats and the finest of wines."
<<Bbl I 25:6 abbr >>-8 might be the center of a chiasmus. Note all the used of //all, every//.
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And on this mountain he will destroy the face of the shroud, the shroud over all peoples, and the woven covering over all nations. He will destroy death forever, and the Lord Yahweh will wipe off the tears from all faces, and he will remove the disgrace of his people from all the earth, for Yahweh has spoken.
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25:7 The shroud probably symbolizes death; this shade is brought out in the NIV. Also it may refer to mourning and shame. Also it may well refer to secrecy, solitude, mystery; indeed, that is what Paul calls the inclusion of the gentiles in <<Bbl Eph 3:2 >>-11 . In fact Paul uses the term apocalypsis, lit., unveiling (or, in its Latin form, revelation, with the same literal derivation); and that is precisely what Isaiah is presenting here!
26:1 Israel can now make the confession it forgot in 22:11.
<<Bbl I 26:5 abbr>> <<Bbl Php 4:6 "" note >>-9
26:13 see <<Bbl Col 3:17 >>; <<Bbl 1C 12:3 >>.
<<Bbl I 26:16 abbr >> Whispering is mentioned in 29:4.
26:18 Hezekiah draws the same portrait in 37:3.
26:20-21 Refers to Passover deliverance.
27:2 This all seems foundational to the first part of <<Bbl John.15 >> Jesus makes that offer in <<Bbl L 14:32 >>.
{{rf{11}}} The oracle of Dumah: One is calling to me from Seir, "Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night?" {{rf{12}}} The watchman says, "Morning comes, and also the night. If you will inquire, inquire; come back again." {{rf{13}}} An oracle concerning Arabia: You will spend the night in the thicket in a desert-plateau, caravans of Dedanites. {{rf{14}}} When you happen to meet the thirsty, bring water. Inhabitants of the land of Tema came to meet the fugitive with his bread. {{rf{15}}} For they have fled from the swords, from the drawn sword and the bent bow, and from the heaviness of the battle. {{rf{16}}} For the Lord said this to me: "In one more year, like the years of a hired worker, all the glory of Kedar will come to an end. {{rf{17}}} And the remainder of the number of the bows of the warriors of the sons of Kedar will be few." For Yahweh, the God of Israel, has spoken. {{rf big{1}}} The oracle of the valley of vision: What business do you have going up, all of you, to the roofs, {{rf{2}}} noisy, tumultuous city, exultant town? Your slain are not slain by the sword, nor are they dead from battle. {{rf{3}}} All of your rulers have fled together without a bow; all of you who were found were captured. They were captured together; they had fled far away. {{rf{4}}} Therefore I said, "Look away from me, let me weep bitterly; you must not insist on comforting me for the destruction of the daughter of my people." {{rf{5}}} For the Lord Yahweh of hosts has a day of tumult and trampling and confusion in the valley of vision, a tearing down of walls and a cry for help to the mountains. {{rf{6}}} And Elam lifted up the quiver, with chariots of men and cavalry. And Kir uncovered the shield. {{rf{7}}} And this happened: the choicest of your valleys were full of chariots, and the cavalry confidently stood at the gate. {{rf{8}}} And he uncovered the covering of Judah. And you looked, on that day, to the weapons of the House of the Forest, {{rf{9}}} and you saw that the breaches in the walls of the city of David were many, and you gathered the waters of the lower pool. {{rf{10}}} And you counted the houses of Jerusalem, and you broke down the houses to fortify the wall. {{rf{11}}} And you made a reservoir between the walls for the waters of the old pool, but you did not look to its maker, and you did not see the one who created it long ago. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Isaiah-21-11]] }}}
{{rf{12}}} And the Lord, Yahweh of hosts, called on that day for weeping and mourning, and for baldness and girding with sackcloth. {{rf{13}}} But look! Joy and gladness, the killing of oxen and the slaughtering of sheep, the eating of meat and the drinking of wine! "Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die!" {{rf{14}}} And it was revealed in my ears by Yahweh of hosts: "Surely this sin will not be atoned for you until you die!" says the Lord, Yahweh of hosts. {{rf{15}}} The Lord, Yahweh of hosts, says this: "Go! Go to this steward, to Shebna, who is over the house: {{rf{16}}} 'What business do you have here, and who do you have here, that you have cut a grave cutting here for yourself, carving his grave on the height, a dwelling place for him in the rock? {{rf{17}}} Look! Yahweh is about to really hurl you, man! And he is about to grasp you firmly; {{rf{18}}} he will wind a winding tightly around you like a ball, to a wide land. There you shall die, and there the chariots of your splendor will be, disgrace to your master's house! {{rf{19}}} And I will push you from your office, and he will throw you down from your position. {{rf{20}}} And this shall happen: On that day I will call to my servant, Eliakim son of Hilkiah, {{rf{21}}} and I will clothe him with your tunic, and I will bind your sash firmly about him, and I will put your authority into his hand, and he shall be like a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem and to the house of Judah. {{rf{22}}} And I will put the key of the house of David on his shoulder, and he shall open and no one will be able to shut; and he shall shut and no one will be able to open. {{rf{23}}} And I will drive him in like a peg into a secure place, and he will become like a throne of glory to the house of his father. {{rf{24}}} And they will hang all of the heaviness of his father's house on him, the offspring and the offshoot, all of the small vessels, from the bowls to the jars. {{rf{25}}} On that day, declares Yahweh of hosts, the peg that was driven will move away into a secure place, and it will be cut down and fall, and the load that was on her will be cut off. For Yahweh has spoken.'" {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Isaiah-22-12]] }}}
The oracle of Tyre: Wail, ships of Tarshish, for the house is destroyed so that no one can enter; it is announced to them from the land of Cyprus. {{rf{2}}} Be still, inhabitants of the coast, merchant of Sidon, who travels over the sea, they filled you. {{rf{3}}} And on the great waters is the seed of Shihor, the harvest of the Nile is its produce, and she was the merchandise of the nations. {{rf{4}}} Be ashamed, Sidon, for the sea, the fortress of the sea said, saying, "I was not in labor, and I have not given birth, and I have not reared young men, brought up young women." {{rf{5}}} When the report comes to Egypt, they will be in anguish at the report about Tyre. {{rf{6}}} Cross over to Tarshish! Wail, inhabitants of the coast! {{rf{7}}} Is this your exultant one, her origin from the days of long ago? Her feet brought her to dwell afar as an alien. {{rf{8}}} Who has planned this against Tyre, the bestower of crowns, whose merchants were princes, her traders the honored ones of the earth? {{rf{9}}} Yahweh of hosts has planned it: to defile the pride of all glory, to humble all the honored ones of the earth. {{rf{10}}} Cross over your own land like the Nile, daughter of Tarshish; there is no longer a harbor. {{rf{11}}} He has stretched his hand out over the sea; he has made kingdoms shake. Yahweh has commanded concerning Canaan to destroy her fortresses. {{rf{12}}} And he said, "You will not continue to exult, crushed one, virgin daughter of Sidon. Arise, cross over to Cyprus! There will be no rest for you even there." {{rf{13}}} Look at the land of the Chaldeans! This people no longer exists. Assyria destined it for wild animals. They erected its siege towers; they demolished its citadel fortresses. It made her like a ruin. {{rf{14}}} Wail, ships of Tarshish! For your fortress is destroyed. {{rf{15}}} And this will happen on that day: And Tyre will be forgotten seventy years, like the days of one king. At the end of seventy years, it will be for Tyre like the song of the prostitute: {{rf{16}}} "Take a harp, go around the city, forgotten prostitute! Do it well, playing a stringed instrument! Make numerous songs, that you may be remembered." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Isaiah-23-01]] }}}
{{rf{17}}} And this shall happen: at the end of seventy years, Yahweh will visit Tyre, and she will return to her harlot's wages, and she will commit fornication with all the kingdoms of the world on the face of the earth. {{rf{18}}} And this shall happen: her merchandise and her harlot's wages will be set apart for Yahweh; it will not be stored up, and it will not be hoarded, but her merchandise will be for those who live before the presence of Yahweh, for eating to satiation and for fine clothing. {{rf big{1}}} Look! Yahweh is about to lay the earth waste and is about to devastate it, and he will twist her surface, and he will scatter her inhabitants. {{rf{2}}} And it shall be as with the people, so with the priest; as with the slave, so with his master; as with the female slave, so with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the lender, so with the borrower; as with the creditor, so with the one to whom he lends. {{rf{3}}} The earth shall be utterly laid waste, and it shall be utterly plundered, for Yahweh has spoken this word. {{rf{4}}} The earth dries up, it withers; the world languishes, it withers. The elevated of the people of the earth languish, {{rf{5}}} and the earth is defiled beneath its inhabitants. For they have transgressed laws; they have passed by statutes; they have broken the everlasting covenant. {{rf{6}}} Therefore a curse devours the earth, and the inhabitants in it suffer for their guilt. Therefore the inhabitants of the earth burn, and few men are left. {{rf{7}}} The new wine dries up; the vine languishes. All the merry of heart sigh; {{rf{8}}} the joy of the tambourine has stopped. The noise of the jubilant has ceased; the joy of the lyre has stopped. {{rf{9}}} They do not drink wine with song; strong drink is bitter to those who drink it. {{rf{10}}} The city of emptiness is broken; every house is shut so that no one can enter; {{rf{11}}} there is an outcry over the wine in the streets. All joy turns into darkness; the joy of the earth disappears. {{rf{12}}} Desolation is left in the city; the gate is crushed into a state of ruin. {{rf{13}}} For it shall be like this in the midst of the earth, among the nations, like the beating of an olive tree, like gleanings when a grape harvest is at an end. {{rf{14}}} They lift up their voices; they sing for joy; they shout out from the west over the majesty of Yahweh. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Isaiah-23-17]] }}}
{{rf{15}}} Therefore glorify Yahweh in the east, the name of Yahweh the God of Israel in the coastlands of the sea. {{rf{16}}} We hear songs from the edge of the earth: "Glory to the righteous one!" But I say, "Ruin to me! Ruin to me! Woe to me! The treacherous ones deal treacherously, and the treacherous ones deal treacherously with treachery!" {{rf{17}}} Terror and the pit and the snare are upon you, inhabitants of the earth! {{rf{18}}} And this shall happen: The one who flees from the sound of the terror shall fall into the pit, and the one who goes up from inside the pit shall be caught in the snare, for the windows from heaven are opened, and the foundations of the earth tremble. {{rf{19}}} The earth is utterly broken; the earth is torn asunder; the earth is shaken violently. {{rf{20}}} The earth staggers to and fro like the drunkard, and it sways like a hut, and its transgression is heavy upon it, and it falls and does not rise again. {{rf{21}}} And this shall happen on that day: Yahweh will punish the host of heaven in heaven, and the kings of the earth on the earth. {{rf{22}}} And they will be gathered in a gathering, like a prisoner in a pit. And they will be shut in a prison and be punished after many days. {{rf{23}}} And the full moon will be ashamed and the sun will be ashamed, for Yahweh of hosts will rule on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem, and before his elders in glory.
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{{rf big{1}}} Yahweh, you are my God; I will exalt you. I will praise your name, for you have done wonderful things, plans of old, in faithfulness, trustworthiness. {{rf{2}}} For you have made the city a heap, the fortified city a ruin, the palace of foreigners is no longer a city; it will never be rebuilt. {{rf{3}}} Therefore strong peoples will glorify you; a city of ruthless nations, they will fear you. {{rf{4}}} For you have been a refuge to the poor, a refuge to the needy in his distress, a shelter from the rainstorm, a shade from the heat. For the breath of the ruthless was like a rainstorm against a wall, {{rf{5}}} the noise of foreigners like heat in a dry land. You subdued the heat with the shade of a cloud; the song of the ruthless was silenced. {{rf{6}}} And on this mountain Yahweh of hosts will make for all peoples a rich feast, a feast of aged wines, fat filled with marrow, filtered aged wine. {{rf{7}}} And on this mountain he will destroy the face of the shroud, the shroud over all peoples, and the woven covering over all nations. {{rf{8}}} He will destroy death forever, and the Lord Yahweh will wipe off the tears from all faces, and he will remove the disgrace of his people from all the earth, for Yahweh has spoken. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Isaiah-24-15]] }}}
{{rf{9}}} And one will say, on that day, "Look! This is our God! We have waited for him and he saved us! This is Yahweh; we waited for him! Let us be glad, and let us rejoice in his salvation." {{rf{10}}} For the hand of Yahweh will rest on this mountain, and Moab shall be trampled down under him as a heap of straw is trampled down in waters of a dung heap. {{rf{11}}} And it will spread out its hands in the midst of it, just as the swimmer spreads out to swim, and its pride will be brought low with the movement of its hands. {{rf{12}}} And he will throw down the fortification of the high point of your walls; he will bring it low; he will send it to the ground, to the dust. {{rf big{1}}} On that day, this song will be sung in the land of Judah: "We have a strong city; he sets up victory like walls and ramparts! {{rf{2}}} Open the gates so that the righteous nation who keeps faithfulness may enter! {{rf{3}}} You will protect a firm inclination in peace, in peace because he trusts in you. {{rf{4}}} Trust in Yahweh forever, for in Yah, Yahweh you have an everlasting rock. {{rf{5}}} For he has thrown down the inhabitants of the height, he lays low the lofty city. He lays it low to the ground; he throws her to the dust. {{rf{6}}} The foot tramples it, the feet of the poor, the steps of the needy." {{rf{7}}} The way of the righteous is a straight path; you clear the level path of the righteous. {{rf{8}}} Surely we wait for you in the path of your judgments, Yahweh, for your name and renown are the desire of the soul. {{rf{9}}} I desire you with all my soul in the night; also I seek you with my spirit within me, for when your judgments are upon the earth, the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness. {{rf{10}}} Though the wicked person is shown compassion, he does not learn righteousness; he acts unjustly in the land of uprightness, and he does not see the majesty of Yahweh. {{rf{11}}} Yahweh, though your hand reaches high, they do not see it. Let them see, and let them be ashamed of the zeal of people. Indeed, let the fire of your enemies consume them. {{rf{12}}} Yahweh, you will establish peace for us, for you have done even all of our works for us. {{rf{13}}} Yahweh, our God, lords besides you ruled over us, but we praise your name alone. {{rf{14}}} The dead do not live; dead spirits do not rise because you have punished and destroyed them, and you have destroyed all memory of them. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Isaiah-25-09]] }}}
{{rf{15}}} You have added to the nation, Yahweh. You have added to the nation; you are honored. You have extended all the ends of the land. {{rf{16}}} Yahweh, in distress they have visited you; they poured out an incantation; your discipline was on them. {{rf{17}}} Like a pregnant woman on the point of giving birth, she writhes; she cries in her labor pains. So we were because of your presence, Yahweh. {{rf{18}}} We became pregnant, we writhed; we gave birth to wind. We cannot bring about deliverance on the earth, and no inhabitants of the world are born. {{rf{19}}} Your dead shall live; their corpses shall rise. Wake up and sing for joy, dwellers of the dust, for your dew is celestial dew, and the earth will give birth to dead spirits. {{rf{20}}} Go, my people, enter into your chambers and shut your doors behind you; hide for a very little while, until the wrath has passed over. {{rf{21}}} For look! Yahweh is about to come out from his place to punish the iniquity of the inhabitants of the earth against him, and the earth will disclose her blood and will no longer cover her slain. {{rf big{1}}} On that day, Yahweh will punish with his cruel, great and strong sword Leviathan, the fleeing serpent, and Leviathan, the twisting serpent, and he will kill the sea monster that is in the sea. {{rf{2}}} On that day: "A vineyard of beauty! Sing in praise of it! {{rf{3}}} I, Yahweh, am her keeper; I water it again and again. Lest one afflict harm on it, I guard it night and day; {{rf{4}}} I have no wrath. Whatever gives me thorns and briers, I will step forth against in battle. I will set it on fire altogether. {{rf{5}}} Or let it grasp at my protection; let it make peace with me; peace let it make with me." {{rf{6}}} Days are coming, let Jacob take root; Israel will blossom and send out shoots, and they will fill the face of the world with fruit. {{rf{7}}} Does he strike him as he struck down those who struck him? Or is he killed as those who killed him were killed? {{rf{8}}} By expelling her, by her sending away, you argue with her. He removed them with his strong wind, in the day of the east wind. {{rf{9}}} Therefore by this he will make atonement for the guilt of Jacob, and this will be all of the fruit of the removal of his sin: when he makes all the stones of the altar like crushed stones of chalk, no poles of Asherah worship or incense altars will stand. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Isaiah-26-15]] }}}
{{rf{10}}} For the fortified city is solitary, a settlement deserted and forsaken, like the wilderness; the calf grazes there, lies down there and destroys its branches. {{rf{11}}} When its branches are dry, they are broken; women are coming and setting light to it. For it is not a people of understanding; therefore his maker will not have compassion on him, and his creator will not show him favor. {{rf{12}}} And this shall happen: on that day, Yahweh will thresh from the floodwaters of the Euphrates to the wadi of Egypt, and as for you, you will be gathered one by one, sons of Israel. {{rf{13}}} And this shall happen: on that day, a great trumpet will be blown, and those who were lost in the land of Assyria will come, and those who were scattered in the land of Egypt, and they will bow down to Yahweh on the holy mountain at Jerusalem. {{rf big{1}}} Ah! The garland of the pride of the drunkards of Ephraim and the withering flower of the glory of his beauty, which is at the head of the rich valley, ones overcome with wine! {{rf{2}}} Look! The Lord has a mighty and strong one, like a rainstorm of hail, a wind storm of destruction, like a rainstorm of mighty overflowing waters, he will put them to the earth with his hand. {{rf{3}}} The garland of the pride of the drunkards of Ephraim will be trampled by feet, {{rf{4}}} and the withering flower of the glory of its beauty which is at the head of the rich valley will be like its early fig before summer, which the one who sees it swallows while it is still in his hand. {{rf{5}}} In that day, Yahweh of hosts will become a garland of glory and a diadem of beauty to the remnant of his people, {{rf{6}}} and a spirit of justice to the one who sits over judgment, and strength to those who turn back the battle at the gate. {{rf{7}}} And these also stagger because of wine and stagger because of strong drink; priest and prophet stagger because of strong drink; they are confused because of wine. They stagger because of strong drink; they err in vision. They stagger in the rendering of a decision, {{rf{8}}} for all the tables are full of disgusting vomit, with no place left. {{rf{9}}} To whom will he teach knowledge, and to whom will he explain the message? Those who are weaned from milk, those taken from the breast? {{rf{10}}} For it is blah-blah upon blah-blah, blah-blah upon blah-blah, gah-gah upon gah-gah, gah-gah upon gah-gah, a little here, a little there. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Isaiah-27-10]] }}}
[[Isaiah-28-14-18-chiasmus]]
<<Bbl Is 28:13 abbr>> A parody of religious pride, and a hair-raising indictment. For today's misuse of this passage, see [[InterpretationFalse]].
<<Bbl I 28:21 abbr >> unusual task (or strange task ) -- F.F. Bruce (Romans, p. 79) says that Isaiah means that wrath does not "come naturally" to God. Paul expresses a similar sentiment in <<Bbl 2C 13:10 >>.
<<Bbl Is 28:23 abbr>>-26 is the true and righteous reply to vss 9-13.
<<Bbl I 29:4 abbr >> Whispering is mentioned in 26:16.
29:8 A careful reading of this will reveal much about the world, sin, Judgment.
29:14 See 19:11.
29:24 Such a good promise.
30:8 As indeed it is doing.
30:9 Does //false sons// mean they are illegitimate children?
30:18-33 This is so confusing! Switches such as vss 28,29 are difficult.
30:20 Delitzch stresses that the Hebrew for teacher is plural here (against the NASB) and suggests that teachers of the Law were in hiding and had been since Ahaz.
32:17 All too often the work of righteousness has been war.
33:14 See <<Bbl Mal 3:2 >>.
<<Bbl I 33:22 abbr >> This verse coincides oddly with our three branches of government.
36:1 -- 38:6 A parallel narrative commences at <<Bbl 2Kngs 18:13 >>.
<<Bbl I 36:17 abbr >> This is Satan's counterfeit of the promised land.
37:3 Isaiah prophecies with the same image in 26:18.
38:10-20 There is a firm symmetry to this poem, the climax at vs 16.
{{rf{11}}} For he will speak with stammering and another tongue to this people, {{rf{12}}} to whom he has said, "This is rest; give rest to the weary; and this is repose"; yet they were not willing to hear. {{rf{13}}} And to them the word of Yahweh will be blah-blah upon blah-blah blah-blah upon blah-blah gah-gah upon gah-gah gah-gah upon gah-gah, a little here, a little there, so that they may go and stumble backward and be broken and ensnared and captured. {{rf{14}}} Therefore hear the word of Yahweh, men of mockery, rulers of these people in Jerusalem: {{rf{15}}} Because you have said, "We have made a covenant with death, and we have made an agreement with Sheol. The overwhelming flood, when it passes through, will not come to us, for we have made lies our refuge, and we have hidden ourselves in falsehood." {{rf{16}}} Therefore the Lord Yahweh says this: "Look! I am laying a stone in Zion, a tested stone, a precious cornerstone, a founded foundation: 'The one who trusts will not panic.' {{rf{17}}} And I will make justice the measuring line, and righteousness the plumb line; and hail will sweep away the refuge of lies, and waters will flood over the hiding place. {{rf{18}}} And your covenant with death will be annulled, and your agreement with Sheol will not stand; you will become a trampling place for the overwhelming flood when it passes through. {{rf{19}}} As often as it passes through, it will take you, for morning by morning it will pass through, in the day and in the night, and understanding the message will be only terror." {{rf{20}}} For the bed is too short to stretch out on, and the covering is too narrow when wrapping oneself. {{rf{21}}} For Yahweh will rise up as at Mount Perazim; he will rave as in the valley at Gibeon to do his deed -- his deed is strange -- and to work his work -- his work is alien! {{rf{22}}} And now you must not scoff, or your bonds will be strong, for I have heard from the Lord, Yahweh of hosts: complete destruction decreed upon all the land. {{rf{23}}} Listen, and hear my voice! Listen attentively, and hear my word! {{rf{24}}} Is it all day that the plowman plows, opens to sow seed, harrows his ground? {{rf{25}}} When he has leveled its surface, does he not scatter dill, and sow cumin seed, and plant wheat in planted rows, and barley in an appointed place, and spelt grain as its border? {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Isaiah-28-11]] }}}
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14 Therefore hear the word of Yahweh, men of mockery, rulers of these people in Jerusalem:
15 Because you have said, "We have made a ''covenant with death'', and we have made an ''agreement with Sheol''. The ''overwhelming flood, when it passes through'', will not come to us, for we have made ''lies our refuge'', and we have ''hidden'' ourselves in falsehood."
16 Therefore the Lord Yahweh says this: "Look! I am laying a stone in Zion, a tested stone, a precious cornerstone, a founded foundation: 'The one who trusts will not panic.'
17 And I will make justice the measuring line, and righteousness the plumb line; and hail will sweep away the ''refuge of lies'', and ''waters will flood'' over the ''hiding'' place.
18 And your ''covenant with death'' will be annulled, and your ''agreement with Sheol'' will not stand; you will become a trampling place for the ''overwhelming flood when it passes through''.
{{rf{26}}} And his God instructs him about the prescription; he teaches him. {{rf{27}}} For dill is not threshed with a threshing sledge, nor is a wheel of a utility cart rolled over cumin, but dill is beaten out with a stick, and cumin with a rod. {{rf{28}}} Grain is crushed fine, but certainly one does not thresh it forever; and one drives the wheel of his cart, but his horses do not crush it. {{rf{29}}} This also comes forth from Yahweh of hosts. He is wonderful in advice; he makes great wisdom. {{rf big{1}}} Ah! Ariel, Ariel, the city where David encamped! Add year to year, let festivals recur. {{rf{2}}} Yet I will inflict Ariel, and there shall be mourning and lamentation, and it shall be to me like an altar hearth. {{rf{3}}} And I will encamp in a circle against you, and I will lay siege to you with towers and I will raise up siegeworks against you. {{rf{4}}} Then you shall be low; you shall speak from the earth, and your words will be low, from dust. And your voice will be from the earth, like a ghost, and your word will whisper from the dust. {{rf{5}}} But the multitude of your strangers shall be like fine dust, and the multitude of tyrants like chaff that passes by. And it will happen in an instant, suddenly. {{rf{6}}} You will be punished by Yahweh of hosts with thunder and earthquake and great sound, storm wind and tempest and the flame of a devouring fire. {{rf{7}}} And the multitude of all the nations who fight against Ariel, all those who fight against her and her stronghold, and those who inflict her shall be like a dream, a vision of the night. {{rf{8}}} And it shall be as when the hungry person dreams -- look, he is eating! And he wakes up and his inner self is empty. Or as when the thirsty person dreams -- look, he is drinking! And he wakes up and look, he is faint, and his inner self is longing for water. So shall be the multitude of all the nations who fight against Mount Zion. {{rf{9}}} Be astonished and be amazed! Blind yourselves and be blinded! They are drunk but not from wine; they stagger but not from strong drink. {{rf{10}}} For Yahweh has poured out upon you a spirit of deep sleep, and he has shut your eyes, the prophets, and he has covered your heads, the seers. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Isaiah-28-26]] }}}
{{rf{11}}} And the vision of all this has become for you like the words of a sealed document. When they give it to one who knows the document, saying, "Read this now!" He says, "I am not able, for it is sealed." {{rf{12}}} And if the document is given to one who does not know how to read, saying, "Read this now!" he says, "I do not know how to read." {{rf{13}}} And the Lord said, "Because this people draw near with its mouth, and with its lips it honors me, and its heart is far from me, and their fear of me is a commandment of men that has been taught, {{rf{14}}} therefore look, I am again doing something spectacular and a spectacle with this spectacular people. And the wisdom of its wise men shall perish, and the discernment of its discerning ones shall keep itself hidden." {{rf{15}}} Ah! Those who make a plan deep, to hide it from Yahweh, and their deeds are in a dark place. And they say, "Who sees us? And who knows us?" {{rf{16}}} Your perversity! As if a potter shall be regarded as the clay! That the product of its maker says, "He did not make me," and the thing made into shape says of its potter, "He has no understanding." {{rf{17}}} In a very little while shall not Lebanon change into a fruitful land, and the fruitful land be regarded as a forest? {{rf{18}}} And on that day, the deaf shall hear the words of a scroll, and the eyes of the blind shall see out of gloom and darkness. {{rf{19}}} And the meek have joy after joy in Yahweh, and the needy of the people shall rejoice in the holy one of Israel. {{rf{20}}} For the tyrant shall be no more, and the scoffer shall come to an end. And all those lying in wait for evil shall be cut off; {{rf{21}}} those who mislead a person into sin with a word and set a trap for the arbitrator in the gate and guide away the righteous by emptiness. {{rf{22}}} Therefore Yahweh, who redeemed Abraham, says this to the house of Jacob: "Jacob will no longer be ashamed, and his face will no longer grow pale. {{rf{23}}} For when he sees his children, the work of my hands, in his midst, they will treat my name as holy, and they will treat the holy one of Jacob as holy, and they will stand in awe of the God of Israel. {{rf{24}}} And those who err in spirit will acquire understanding, and those who grumble will learn instruction. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Isaiah-29-11]] }}}
"Oh rebellious children!" declares Yahweh, "to make a plan, but not from me, and pour out a libation, but not from my Spirit, so as to add sin to sin. {{rf{2}}} Who go to go down to Egypt, but they do not ask of my mouth, to take refuge in the protection of Pharaoh and to take refuge in the shadow of Egypt. {{rf{3}}} And the protection of Pharaoh shall be shame to you, and the refuge in the shadow of Egypt, humiliation. {{rf{4}}} For his officials are at Zoan, and his envoys reach to Hanes. {{rf{5}}} Everyone will start to stink because of a people that cannot profit them, not for help and not for profiting, but for shame and also for disgrace." {{rf{6}}} An oracle of the animals of the Negev: Through a land of trouble and distress, of lioness and lion, among them are snake and flying serpent; they carry their wealth on the backs of male donkeys and their treasures on the humps of camels, to a people that cannot profit them. {{rf{7}}} For Egyptians help with vanity and emptiness, therefore I have called this one "Rahab, they are sitting." {{rf{8}}} Now go, write it on a tablet with them, and inscribe it on a scroll, that it may be for the time to come, forever, forever. {{rf{9}}} For it is a people of rebellion, deceitful children, children who are not willing to hear the instruction of Yahweh, {{rf{10}}} who say to those who do see, "You must not see!" and to the seers, "You must not see truth for us; speak smooth things to us, see illusions, {{rf{11}}} turn aside from the way, turn aside from the path, put an end to the holy one of Israel from our face." {{rf{12}}} Therefore the holy one of Israel says this: "Because you are rejecting this word and you trust in oppression and cunning and you rely on it, {{rf{13}}} therefore this iniquity shall come for you like a breach about to fall, bulging out on a high wall that breaks suddenly, in an instant. {{rf{14}}} And he breaks it like a vessel of a potter breaks, that is crushed; he has no compassion, and no potsherd is found among its fragments to take fire from the hearth, or to skim water from the cistern." {{rf{15}}} For the Lord Yahweh, the holy one of Israel, said this: "In returning and rest you shall be saved; your strength shall be in quietness and in trust." But you were not willing, {{rf{16}}} and you said, "No! For we will flee on horses!" Therefore you shall flee! And, "We will ride on swift horses!" Therefore your pursuers shall be swift! {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Isaiah-30-01]] }}}
{{rf{17}}} One thousand because of a threat of one, because of a threat of five you shall flee, until you are left like a flagstaff on top of a mountain, and like a signal on a hill. {{rf{18}}} Therefore Yahweh waits to be gracious to you, and therefore he will rise up to show you mercy, for Yahweh is a God of justice; blessed are all those who wait for him. {{rf{19}}} For people will live in Zion; in Jerusalem, you will surely not weep. Surely he will be gracious to you; when he hears the sound of your cry, he will answer you. {{rf{20}}} And the Lord will give you the bread of distress and the water of oppression, but your teachers will not hide themselves any longer. And your eyes shall see your teachers. {{rf{21}}} And your ears shall hear a word from behind you, saying, "this is the way; walk in it," when you go to your right and when you go to your left. {{rf{22}}} And you will defile the plating of your silver idols and the covering of your gold image. You will scatter them like contaminated things; you will say to it, "Filth!" {{rf{23}}} And he will give rain for your seed with which you sow the ground, and grain, the produce of the ground, and it will be rich and fertile. On that day, your cattle will graze in broad pastures; {{rf{24}}} and the oxen and the donkeys that till the ground will eat fodder, sorrel that has been winnowed with shovel and pitchfork. {{rf{25}}} And there will be streams on every high mountain and elevated hill, watercourses of water, on a day of great slaughter, when towers fall. {{rf{26}}} And the light of the full moon will be like the light of the sun, and the light of the sun will be sevenfold, like the light of seven days, on the day when Yahweh binds up the breakage of his people, and he heals the wound of his blow. {{rf{27}}} Look! The name of Yahweh comes from afar, burning with his anger and heaviness of cloud. His lips are full of indignation, and his tongue is like a devouring fire. {{rf{28}}} And his breath is like an overflowing river; it reaches up to the neck to shake the nations with the sieve of worthlessness; and a bridle that leads astray is on the jawbones of the peoples. {{rf{29}}} You shall have a song as in the night when a holy festival is kept, and a gladness of heart like one who goes with the flute, to go to the mountain of Yahweh, to the rock of Israel. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Isaiah-30-17]] }}}
{{rf{30}}} And Yahweh will cause the majesty of his voice to be heard, and he will cause the descent of his arm to be seen, in furious anger and a flame of devouring fire, with a cloudburst and a rainstorm and stones of hail. {{rf{31}}} Indeed, Assyria will be shattered by the voice of Yahweh; he strikes with the rod. {{rf{32}}} And every stroke of the staff of foundation that Yahweh lays will be on it with timbrels and lyres, and he will fight against it with battles of brandishing. {{rf{33}}} For Topheth has been prepared from yesterday; indeed, it is made ready for the king. He makes its pile of wood deep and wide; he makes fire and wood abundant. The breath of Yahweh burns in it like a stream of sulfur. {{rf big{1}}} Ah! Those who go down to Egypt for help! They rely on horses and trust in chariots because they are many, and in horsemen because they are very numerous, and they do not look to the holy one of Israel, and they do not consult Yahweh. {{rf{2}}} And indeed, he is wise, and he brings disaster, and he does not remove his words, and he will rise against the house of evildoers and against the help of workers of iniquity. {{rf{3}}} And the Egyptians are human and not God, and their horses are flesh and not spirit. And Yahweh stretches out his hand, and the helper will stumble, and the one being helped will fall, and together all of them will come to an end. {{rf{4}}} For Yahweh said this to me: "As which a lion growls and a young lion over its prey when a full group of shepherds is called against him, it is not terrified by their voice, and to their noise it does not respond, so Yahweh of hosts will come down to fight upon Mount Zion and upon its hill. {{rf{5}}} Like birds flying overhead, so Yahweh of hosts will protect Jerusalem; he will protect and deliver it; he will pass over and rescue it. {{rf{6}}} Turn back to the one against whom the sons of Israel have made deep rebellion. {{rf{7}}} For on that day, each one will reject his idols of silver and his idols of gold which your hands have made in sin for you. {{rf{8}}} And Assyria shall fall by a sword not of a man, and a sword not of a human shall devour him; and he shall flee from the sword, and his young men shall be put to forced labor. {{rf{9}}} And his rock will pass over because of terror, and his officers will be terrified because of the flag," declares Yahweh, who has a fire in Zion and has a furnace in Jerusalem. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Isaiah-30-30]] }}}
See, a king will rule according to righteousness, and princes will rule according to justice. {{rf{2}}} And each one will be like a hiding place from the wind and a covering from the rainstorm, like streams of water in a dry region, like the shade of a large rock in a weary land. {{rf{3}}} And the eyes of those who see will not gaze, and the ears of those who hear will listen. {{rf{4}}} And the minds of the rash will understand knowledge, and the tongues of stammerers will hasten to speak clearly. {{rf{5}}} A fool will no longer be called noble, and a scoundrel will not be said to be eminent. {{rf{6}}} For a fool speaks folly, and his mind does iniquity: to behave wickedly, and to speak error concerning Yahweh, to leave the throat of the hungry empty, and he deprives the thirsty of drink. {{rf{7}}} And a scoundrel, his weapons are evil; he plans evil devices to ruin the poor with words of deception even when the speech of the needy is right. {{rf{8}}} But the nobleman plans noble things, and he stands upon noble things. {{rf{9}}} Women who are at ease, rise up; hear my voice! Carefree daughters, listen to my word! {{rf{10}}} In a year you will tremble, carefree ones, for the vintage will come to an end; the harvest will not come. {{rf{11}}} Tremble, you who are at ease; tremble, carefree ones; strip, and strip yourself, and gird yourself on your loins, {{rf{12}}} mourning over breasts, over fields of delight, over the fruitful vine, {{rf{13}}} over the soil of my people. It goes up in thorns and briers, indeed over all of the houses of joy in the jubilant city. {{rf{14}}} For the palace will be forsaken, the crowded city deserted; the hill and the watchtower will become a cave forever, the joy of wild asses, a pasture for flocks. {{rf{15}}} Until a spirit is poured out on us from on high, and the wilderness becomes a fruitful field, and the fruitful field is reckoned as the forest. {{rf{16}}} Then justice will dwell in the wilderness, and righteousness will live in the fruitful field. {{rf{17}}} And the work of righteousness will be peace, and the work of righteousness, quietness and security forever. {{rf{18}}} And my people will dwell in a settlement of peace and in a dwelling place of security and in undisturbed resting places. {{rf{19}}} And it hails when the forest comes down, and the city will become low in humiliation. {{rf{20}}} Happy are you who sow by all waters, who let the foot of the ox and the donkey go free. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Isaiah-32-01]] }}}
Ah, destroyer, and yourself not destroyed! And treacherous one, and no one has dealt treacherously with him! When you cease destroying, you will be destroyed. When you stop dealing treacherously, one will deal treacherously with you. {{rf{2}}} Yahweh, be gracious to us, we wait for you. Be our arm in the mornings, indeed our salvation in the time of trouble. {{rf{3}}} At the sound of tumult, peoples fled; because of your exaltation, nations scattered. {{rf{4}}} And your spoil is gathered, as the gathering of the locust, as a swarm of locusts storming on it. {{rf{5}}} Yahweh is exalted, for he dwells on high; he filled Zion with justice and righteousness, {{rf{6}}} and he will be the security of your times, an abundance of salvation, wisdom, and knowledge. The fear of Yahweh is his treasure. {{rf{7}}} Look! Their heroes cry out in the street; the messengers of peace weep bitterly. {{rf{8}}} Highways are deserted; the traveler on the road ceases. One breaks a treaty, he rejects the cities, he does not hold man in high regard. {{rf{9}}} The land mourns; it languishes. Lebanon feels abashed; it withers. Sharon is like the desert, and Bashan and Carmel are losing their leaves. {{rf{10}}} "Now I will arise," says Yahweh. "Now I will lift myself up proudly; now I will raise myself. {{rf{11}}} You conceive dry grass, you bring forth stubble; your breath is a fire; it will consume you. {{rf{12}}} And the peoples will be burning to lime -- they are burned like thorns that have been cut down in the fire. {{rf{13}}} You who are far away, hear what I have done; and you who are near, know my might!" {{rf{14}}} Sinners are afraid in Zion; trembling has seized the godless: "Who of us can live with devouring fire? Who of us can live with everlasting consuming hearths?" {{rf{15}}} He who walks in righteousness and speaks uprightness, who rejects the gain of extortion, who refuses a bribe, who stops up his ears from hearing bloodshed and shuts his eyes from seeing evil. {{rf{16}}} That one will live on the heights; the fortresses of rocks will be his refuge. His food will be given; his waters will endure. {{rf{17}}} Your eyes will see the king in his beauty; they will see a distant land. {{rf{18}}} Your mind will meditate on the terror: "Where is the one who counted? Where is the one who weighed out? Where is the one who counted the towers?" {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Isaiah-33-01]] }}}
{{rf{19}}} You will not see the insolent people, the people whose language is too obscure to understand, whose stammering of tongue cannot be understood. {{rf{20}}} Look on Zion, the city of our appointed festivals! Your eyes will see Jerusalem, an undisturbed settlement, a tent that is not moved. No one will ever pull out its tent pegs, and none of its ropes will be torn in two. {{rf{21}}} Rather, there Yahweh will be mighty for us, a place of rivers and broad streams, a galley ship with oars cannot go in it, and a mighty ship cannot pass through it. {{rf{22}}} For Yahweh is our judge; Yahweh is our lawgiver. Yahweh is our king; he is the one who will save us. {{rf{23}}} Your riggings hang slack; they do not hold the base of their mast firm, they do not spread out the sail. Then the prey of spoil in abundance will be divided; the lame will take plunder. {{rf{24}}} And no inhabitant will say, "I am sick"; the people who live in it, their iniquity will be taken away. {{rf big{1}}} Come near, nations, to hear; and peoples, listen attentively! Let the earth hear, and that which fills it; the world and all its offspring. {{rf{2}}} For the anger of Yahweh is against all the nations, and his wrath is against all their armies; he has put them under a ban, he has given them up for slaughter. {{rf{3}}} And their slain shall be cast out; as for their corpses, their stench shall go up. And the mountains shall melt with their blood, {{rf{4}}} and all the host of heaven shall rot. And the skies shall roll up like a scroll, and all their host shall wither like the withering of a leaf from a vine, or like the withering from a fig tree. {{rf{5}}} When my sword is drenched in the heavens, look! It will descend upon Edom, and upon the people of my ban, for judgment. {{rf{6}}} Yahweh has a sword; it is full of blood. It is covered with fat, with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams, for Yahweh has a sacrifice in Bozrah and a great slaughter in the land of Edom. {{rf{7}}} And wild oxen shall go down with them, and steers with strong bulls. And their land shall be drenched with blood, and their soil shall be fattened with fat. {{rf{8}}} For Yahweh has a day of vengeance, a year of retribution for the strife of Zion. {{rf{9}}} And its streams shall be changed to pitch and its soil to sulfur, and its land shall become like burning pitch. {{rf{10}}} Night and day it shall not be quenched; its smoke shall go up forever. From generation to generation it shall be in ruins; forever and ever there will be no one who passes through her. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Isaiah-33-19]] }}}
{{rf{11}}} But the large bird and the hedgehog shall take possession of it, and the owl and the raven shall live in it. And he shall stretch the measuring line of confusion out over it, and the plumb line of emptiness. {{rf{12}}} Its nobles -- but no kingdom is there -- shall call, and all its princes shall be nothing. {{rf{13}}} And thorns shall go up her citadel fortress, weeds and thistle plants in her fortresses; and it shall be the settlement of jackals, green grass for the daughters of an ostrich. {{rf{14}}} And desert creatures shall meet with hyenas, and a goat-demon shall call to his neighbor; surely there Lilith shall repose, and she shall find a resting place for herself. {{rf{15}}} There the owl shall nest and lay and hatch and care for her chicks in her shadow; surely there the birds of prey shall be gathered, each one with her mate. {{rf{16}}} Seek from the book of Yahweh and read; none of these shall be missing; none shall miss her mate. For my mouth is the one that has commanded, and his spirit is the one that has gathered them. {{rf{17}}} And he is the one that has cast the lot for them, and his hand has apportioned it to them with the measuring line; they shall take possession of it forever, they shall live in it from generation to generation. {{rf big{1}}} Wilderness and dry land shall be glad, and desert shall rejoice and blossom like the crocus. {{rf{2}}} It shall blossom abundantly, and it shall rejoice indeed with rejoicing and exulting. The glory of Lebanon shall be given to it, the majesty of Carmel and Sharon. They are the ones who shall see the glory of Yahweh, the majesty of our God. {{rf{3}}} Strengthen the weak hands and make the staggering knees firm. {{rf{4}}} Say to those who are hasty of heart, "Be strong; you must not fear! Look! your God will come with vengeance, with divine retribution. He is the one who will come and save you." {{rf{5}}} Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be opened. {{rf{6}}} Then the lame shall leap like the deer, and the tongue of the dumb shall sing for joy, for waters shall break forth in the wilderness and streams in the desert. {{rf{7}}} And the parched ground shall become a pool, and the thirsty ground springs of water. Her resting place is in a settlement of jackals; the grass shall become like reeds and rushes. {{rf{8}}} And a highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called the way of holiness. The unclean shall not travel through it, but it is for them, he who walks on the way; and fools shall not wander about. {{rf{9}}} No lion shall be there, and no ferocious wild beast shall go up it. It shall not be found there, but the redeemed shall walk there. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Isaiah-34-11]] }}}
{{rf{10}}} And the ransomed of Yahweh shall return, and they shall come to Zion with rejoicing. And everlasting joy shall be on their head; joy and gladness shall overtake them, and sorrow and sighing shall flee. {{rf big{1}}} And this happened: In the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah, Sennacherib king of Assyria went up against all the fortified cities of Judah, and he captured them. {{rf{2}}} And the king of Assyria sent Rabshakeh from Lachish to Jerusalem, to King Hezekiah, with a large army, and he stood by the conduit of the upper pool on the highway of the field of the washer. {{rf{3}}} And Eliakim son of Hilkiah, who was in charge of the palace, came out to him, and Shebna the secretary, and Joah son of Asaph, the reminder. {{rf{4}}} And Rabshakeh said to them, "Now say to Hezekiah, 'Thus says the great king, the king of Assyria: "What is this confidence in which you trust? {{rf{5}}} I said, 'Only a word of lips! War has power and a plan!' Now, in whom do you trust, that you have rebelled against me? {{rf{6}}} Look, you trust in the staff of this broken reed, on Egypt, which if a man leans on it, goes into his hand and bores through it! Such is Pharaoh, king of Egypt, to all those who trust in him. {{rf{7}}} And if you say to me, 'We trust in Yahweh our God,' was it not he whose high places and altars Hezekiah removed? And he said to Judah and to Jerusalem, 'You shall bow down in the presence of this altar.'" {{rf{8}}} And now please make a wager with my master the king of Assyria, and I will give you two thousand horses, that is, if you are able put riders for yourself on them! {{rf{9}}} But how can you drive back one governor among the least of my master's servants, when you trust in Egypt for chariots and horsemen? {{rf{10}}} And now was it without Yahweh that I have come up against this land to destroy it? Yahweh said to me, "Go up against this land and destroy it!" '" {{rf{11}}} And Eliakim, Shebna, and Joah said to Rabshakeh, "Please speak to your servants in Aramaic, for we can understand it, and you must not speak to us in Judean in the hearing of the people who are on the wall." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Isaiah-35-10]] }}}
{{rf{12}}} But Rabshakeh said, "Has my master sent me to speak these words to your masters and you? Was it not for the people who sit on the wall, to eat their dung and drink their urine with you?" {{rf{13}}} Then Rabshakeh stood and called in a great voice in Judean and said, "Hear the words of the great king, the king of Assyria. {{rf{14}}} Thus says the king: 'Do not let Hezekiah deceive you, for he will not be able to deliver you! {{rf{15}}} And do not let Hezekiah make you rely on Yahweh, saying, "Surely Yahweh will deliver us; this city will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria!" {{rf{16}}} You must not listen to Hezekiah, for thus says the king of Assyria: "Make a blessing with me, and come out to me, and each one will eat from his vine and from his fig tree and drink water from his cistern, {{rf{17}}} until I come and take you to a land like your land, a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards, {{rf{18}}} lest Hezekiah mislead you, saying, 'Yahweh will save us!' Did the gods of the nations each save his land from the hand of the king of Assyria? {{rf{19}}} Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim? Indeed, have they delivered Samaria from my hand? {{rf{20}}} Who are there among all the gods of these countries who have saved their land from my hand, that Yahweh should save Jerusalem from my hand?" '" {{rf{21}}} But they were silent and did not answer him a word, for the command of the king was, "You must not answer him." {{rf{22}}} Then Eliakim son of Hilkiah, who was over the palace, Shebna the secretary, and Joah son of Asaph, the reminder, came to Hezekiah with torn garments and told him the words of Rabshakeh. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Isaiah-36-12]] }}}
And this happened: When King Hezekiah heard, he tore his garments, covered himself with sackcloth, and entered the temple of Yahweh. {{rf{2}}} And he sent Eliakim, who was in charge of the palace, and Shebna the secretary, and the elders of the priests covered with sackcloth to Isaiah son of Amoz, the prophet. {{rf{3}}} And they said to him, "Thus says Hezekiah: 'This day is a day of distress, rebuke, and disgrace, for children have come to the cervical opening, and there is no strength to give birth. {{rf{4}}} Maybe Yahweh your God heard the words of Rabshakeh whom the king of Assyria, his master, has sent to taunt the living God, and he will rebuke the words that Yahweh your God hears. And you must lift up a prayer for the benefit of the remnant that is found.'" {{rf{5}}} When the servants of King Hezekiah came to Isaiah, {{rf{6}}} Isaiah said to them, "You must say this to your master: 'Thus says Yahweh: "You must not be afraid because of the words that you have heard, with which the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me. {{rf{7}}} Look! I am about to put a spirit in him so that he shall hear a rumor and he shall return to his land, and I will cause him to fall by the sword in his land." '" {{rf{8}}} And Rabshakeh returned and found the king of Assyria fighting against Libnah, for he had heard that he had left from Lachish. {{rf{9}}} Now he heard concerning Tirhakah the king of Cush, saying, "He has set out to fight against you." When he heard it, he sent messengers to Hezekiah, saying, {{rf{10}}} "You shall say this to Hezekiah, king of Judah: 'Do not let your God in whom you trust in him deceive you by saying, "Jerusalem will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria." {{rf{11}}} Look! you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands to destroy them, and you -- shall you be delivered? {{rf{12}}} Did the gods of the nations that my predecessors destroyed deliver them -- Gozan, Haran, Rezeph, and the sons of Eden who were in Telassar? {{rf{13}}} Where is the king of Hamath, the king of Arpad, the king of the city of Sepharvaim, Hena, or Ivvah?'" {{rf{14}}} And Hezekiah took the letter from the hand of the messengers, and he read it. Then he went up to the temple of Yahweh, and Hezekiah spread it out before the presence of Yahweh. {{rf{15}}} And Hezekiah prayed to Yahweh, saying, {{rf{16}}} "Yahweh of hosts, God of Israel who is enthroned on the cherubim, you are the one, God by yourself, of all the kingdoms of the earth; you are the one who made the heavens and the earth. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Isaiah-37-01]] }}}
{{rf{17}}} Yahweh, extend your ear and hear! Yahweh, open your eyes and see, and hear all the words of Sennacherib that he has sent to taunt the living God! {{rf{18}}} Truly, Yahweh, the kings of Assyria have laid waste all the lands and their land, {{rf{19}}} to set their gods in the fire, for they were not gods, but the work of human hands, wood and stone, and they destroyed them. {{rf{20}}} So now, Yahweh, our God, save us from his hand so that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that you are Yahweh, you alone!" {{rf{21}}} And Isaiah son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, "Thus says Yahweh the God of Israel: 'Because you have prayed to me concerning Sennacherib, king of Assyria, {{rf{22}}} this is the word that Yahweh has spoken concerning him: She shows contempt for you; she derides you, virgin daughter of Zion; she shakes her head behind you, daughter of Jerusalem. {{rf{23}}} Whom have you taunted and blasphemed, and against whom have you raised up your voice and lifted your eyes upward? To the holy one of Israel! {{rf{24}}} By the hand of your servants you have taunted the Lord, and you have said, "With my many chariots, I myself have gone up the height of the mountains, to the remote areas of Lebanon. And I cut off its tall cedars, the choicest of its junipers. And I came to the height of its limit, the forest of its orchard. {{rf{25}}} I myself dug and drank waters, and I caused all the streams of Egypt to dry up by the sole of my feet." {{rf{26}}} Have you not heard from a long time ago? I have made it from days of primeval time, and I formed it. Now I have brought it about, and it is for fortified cities to collapse into heaps of destroyed stones. {{rf{27}}} And their inhabitants are weak; they are dismayed, and they are ashamed; they have become like plants of the field, and like greens of grass, like grass on the roofs and a cultivated field before the standing grain. {{rf{28}}} And I know your sitting down and your going out, and your coming in, and your raging against me. {{rf{29}}} Because you were enraged against me, and your noise has come up to my ears, I will put my hook in your nose and my bridle on your lips, and I will turn you back on the way by which you came. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Isaiah-37-17]] }}}
{{rf{30}}} And this shall be the sign for you: the eating of volunteer plants this year, and in the second year self-seeded plants, and in the third year sow, reap, plant vineyards, and eat their fruit. {{rf{31}}} And the remnant of the house of Judah that remain shall grow roots downwards and make fruit upwards. {{rf{32}}} For a remnant shall go out from Jerusalem and survivors from mountain Zion. The zeal of Yahweh of hosts will do this.' {{rf{33}}} Therefore thus says Yahweh concerning the king of Assyria: 'He shall not come to this city, and he shall not shoot an arrow there, and he shall not meet it with a shield, and he shall not heap a siege ramp up against her. {{rf{34}}} He shall return by the way that he came, and he shall not come to this city,' declares Yahweh. {{rf{35}}} 'And I will defend this city, to save it for my sake and for the sake of David, my servant.'" {{rf{36}}} And the angel of Yahweh set out and struck one hundred and eighty-five thousand in the camp of the Assyrians. When they rose in the morning, look! All of them were dead corpses. {{rf{37}}} Then Sennacherib king of Assyria left, went, and returned and lived at Nineveh. {{rf{38}}} And this happened: he was bowing in worship in the house of Nisroch his god, and Adrammelech and Sharezer, his sons, struck him with the sword. And they themselves escaped to the land of Ararat, and Esar-haddon his son reigned as king in his place. {{rf big{1}}} In those days, Hezekiah became sick to death, and Isaiah son of Amoz, the prophet, came to him and said to him, "Thus says Yahweh: 'Order your house, for you are about to die, and you shall not recover.'" {{rf{2}}} Then Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and prayed to Yahweh, {{rf{3}}} and he said, "O Yahweh, please remember how I have walked before your presence in faithfulness with a whole heart, and I have done the good in your eyes!" And Hezekiah wept with great weeping. {{rf{4}}} Then the word of Yahweh came to Isaiah, saying, {{rf{5}}} "Go and say to Hezekiah, 'Thus says Yahweh, the God of David your ancestor: "I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears. Look, I am going to add fifteen years to your days. {{rf{6}}} And I will deliver you and this city from the hand of the king of Assyria, and I will defend this city." ' {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Isaiah-37-30]] }}}
{{rf{7}}} And this is the sign to you from Yahweh, that Yahweh will do this thing that he has spoken: {{rf{8}}} Look! I will cause the shadow of the steps, which it had gone down on the steps of Ahaz with the sun, to turn backwards ten steps." And the sun turned back ten steps on the steps which it had gone down. {{rf{9}}} A writing of Hezekiah, king of Judah, when he was sick and had recovered from his sickness: {{rf{10}}} I was the one who said, "I must go in the quiet of my days; I am summoned through the gates of Sheol for the rest of my years." {{rf{11}}} I said, "I shall not see Yah! Yah in the land of the living! I shall no more look at humankind among the inhabitants of the world. {{rf{12}}} My dwelling place is pulled up and removed from me like the tent of my shepherd; I have rolled up my life like a weaver. He cuts me off from the thrum; from day to night you bring me to an end. {{rf{13}}} I lie down until morning; like a lion, so he breaks all my bones; from day to night you bring me to an end. {{rf{14}}} Like a horse or a crane, so I chirp; I moan like a dove. My eyes are weak toward the height. Lord, I have oppression; lend me support! {{rf{15}}} What can I say? For he has spoken to me, and he himself has done it. I will walk slowly all my years because of the bitterness of my soul. {{rf{16}}} Lord, they live by them, and the life of my spirit belongs to all among them. And restore me to health and keep me alive! {{rf{17}}} Look! Bitterness was bitter to me for peace. And you were the one who loved my life from the pit of destruction, for you have cast all my sins behind your back. {{rf{18}}} For Sheol cannot praise you; death cannot praise you. Those who go down to the pit cannot hope for your faithfulness. {{rf{19}}} The living, the living one praises you like me today; a father will make your faithfulness known to children. {{rf{20}}} Yahweh, save me, and we will play my music on stringed instruments all the days of our lives at the temple of Yahweh." {{rf{21}}} And Isaiah said, "Let them take a lump of figs, and let them rub it on the boil so that he may recover." {{rf{22}}} And Hezekiah said, "What is the sign that I shall go up to the temple of Yahweh?" {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Isaiah-38-07]] }}}
At that time, Merodach-Baladan, son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters and a present to Hezekiah, for he heard that he had been sick and recovered. {{rf{2}}} And Hezekiah rejoiced over them and showed them his house of aromatic gum, the silver, gold, spices, good oil, all the house of his weapons, and all that was found in his storehouses. There was nothing that Hezekiah had not shown them in his house or in all his dominion. {{rf{3}}} And Isaiah the prophet came to King Hezekiah and said to him, "What did these men say, and from where did they come to you?" And Hezekiah answered, "They came to me from a distant country, from Babylon." {{rf{4}}} And he said, "What have they seen in your house?" And Hezekiah answered, "They have seen all that is in my house. There is nothing that I have not shown them in my storehouses." {{rf{5}}} And Isaiah said to Hezekiah, "Hear the word of Yahweh of hosts: {{rf{6}}} 'Look! days are coming, and all that is in your house and that which your ancestors have stored up to this day shall be carried off to Babylon. Nothing shall be left,' says Yahweh. {{rf{7}}} 'And some of your sons who go out from you, whom you fathered, shall be taken, and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.'" {{rf{8}}} And Hezekiah said to Isaiah, "The word of Yahweh that you have spoken is good," for he thought, "Surely there will be peace and security in my days."
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{{rf big{1}}} "Comfort; comfort my people," says your God. {{rf{2}}} "Speak to the heart of Jerusalem, and call to her, that her compulsory labor is fulfilled, that her sin is paid for, that she has received from the hand of Yahweh double for all her sins." {{rf{3}}} A voice is calling in the wilderness, "Clear the way of Yahweh! Make a highway smooth in the desert for our God! {{rf{4}}} Every valley shall be lifted up, and every mountain and hill shall become low, And the rough ground shall be like a plain, and the rugged ground like a valley-plain. {{rf{5}}} And the glory of Yahweh shall be revealed, and all humankind together shall see it, for the mouth of Yahweh has spoken." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Isaiah-39-01]] }}}
40 The watershed. Vss. 1,9 have a new charge.
<<Bbl I 40:2 abbr>> Double in the sense of benefit, as of redemption, or in the sense of punishment ??
<<Bbl I 40:3 abbr>>-5
* For many years I thought of this as a broad-scale leveling of the landscape. Context reveals not a landscape, but a road.
* The road is made level through repentance -- John the Baptist's ministry. The "Highway of Holiness" is set forth in <<Bbl I 35:8 abbr>>-10.
40:12 We can easily picture each of these descriptions.
<<Bbl I 40:27 abbr>>-31 The prophet begins by saying that far from being ignorant of Israel's plight, or impotent, the Creator God is infinitely powerful. He goes on to state that that very power is itself Israel's provision.
<<Bbl I 41:2 abbr>>-4 Abraham, or Cyrus'or a dual fulfillment. Recalled in <<Bbl I 46:11 abbr>>.
<<Bbl I 42:1 abbr>> In a sense, the nations have been bringing Judgment to Israel for some time now.
<<Bbl I 42:8 abbr>> I am Yahweh ("I am that I am")
<<Bbl I 43:28 abbr>>
<<Bbl I 44:11 abbr >> like Babel.
<<Bbl I 45:18 abbr>> Seems to hearken to <<Bbl Gn 1:2 >>.
<<Bbl I 46:3 abbr >>-4 Check verbs for parallel structure ??
<<Bbl I 48:5 abbr>> Jesus makes a similar, albeit less reproachful, statement in <<Bbl J 13:19 >>.
<<Bbl I 48:16 abbr >> What an exciting portrait of the One-In-Three, here spoken by the Son.
* Not spoken in secret , <<Bbl J 18:20 >>;
* I was there , <<Bbl I 1:1 >>-3 ;
* has sent Me , <<Bbl L 4:18 >>.
{{rf{6}}} A voice is saying, "Call!" And he said, "What shall I call?" All humankind are grass, and all his loyalty is like the flowers of the field. {{rf{7}}} Grass withers; the flower withers when the breath of Yahweh blows on it. Surely the people are grass. {{rf{8}}} Grass withers; the flower withers, but the word of our God will stand forever. {{rf{9}}} Get yourself up to a high mountain, Zion, bringer of good news! Lift up your voice with strength, Jerusalem, bringer of good news! Lift it up; you must not fear! Say to the cities of Judah, "Here is your God!" {{rf{10}}} Look! The Lord Yahweh comes with strength, and his arm rules for him. Look! His reward is with him, and his recompense in his presence. {{rf{11}}} He will feed his flock like a shepherd; he will gather the lambs in his arm, and he will carry them in his bosom; he will lead those who nurse. {{rf{12}}} Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand and marked off the heavens with a span, comprehended the dust of the earth in a third of a measure and weighed out the mountains in the scales, and the hills in a balance? {{rf{13}}} Who has measured up the spirit of Yahweh or informed him as his counselor? {{rf{14}}} With whom has he consulted, that he enlightened him and taught him the path of justice, and taught him knowledge, and made the way of understanding known to him? {{rf{15}}} Look! The nations are like a drop from a bucket, and they are counted like dust of the balances! Look! He weighs the islands like a thin covering. {{rf{16}}} And Lebanon is not enough to light a fire, and its animals not enough for a burnt offering. {{rf{17}}} All the nations are like nothing before him; they are counted by him as nothing and emptiness. {{rf{18}}} And to whom will you liken God? And to what likeness will you compare him? {{rf{19}}} A craftsman pours out the idol, and a goldsmith overlays it with gold, and he smelts chains of silver. {{rf{20}}} The one who is too impoverished for a gift chooses wood that will not rot; he seeks a skillful artisan for himself to set up an image that will not be knocked over. {{rf{21}}} Have you not known? Have you not heard? Has it not been told to you from the beginning? Have you not understood from the foundation of the earth? {{rf{22}}} He is the one who sits above the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers; the one who stretches out the heavens like a veil and spreads them out like a tent to live in, {{rf{23}}} the one who brings princes to nothing; he makes rulers of the earth like nothing. {{rf{24}}} Indeed, hardly are they planted; indeed, hardly are they sown; indeed, hardly has their shoot taken root in the earth when he blows on them and they wither, and the tempest carries them like stubble. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Isaiah-40-06]] }}}
{{rf{25}}} "And to whom you will compare me, and am I equal?" says the holy one. {{rf{26}}} Lift your eyes up on high, and see! Who created these? The one who brings out their host by number. He calls all them by name. Because he is great of power and mighty of power, no man is missing. {{rf{27}}} Why do you say, Jacob, and you speak, Israel, "My way is hidden from Yahweh, and my judgment is passed over by my God?" {{rf{28}}} Have you not known, or have you not heard? Yahweh is the God of eternity, the creator of the ends of the earth! He is not faint, and he does not grow weary! There is no searching his understanding. {{rf{29}}} He gives power to the weary, and he increases power for the powerless. {{rf{30}}} Even young people will be faint and grow weary, and the young will stumble, exhausted. {{rf{31}}} But those who wait for Yahweh shall renew their strength. They shall go up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not grow weary; they shall walk and not be faint. {{rf big{1}}} Listen to me in silence, coastlands, and let nations renew their strength. Let them approach, then let them speak; let us draw near together for judgment. {{rf{2}}} Who has roused salvation from the east, summoned him to his foot, gives nations in his presence, and subjugates kings? He makes them like the dust with his sword, like scattered stubble with his bow. {{rf{3}}} He pursues them and passes on in peace; he does not enter the path with his feet. {{rf{4}}} Who has accomplished and done this, calling the generations from the beginning? I, Yahweh, am first; and I am the one with the last. {{rf{5}}} The coastlands have seen and are afraid; the ends of the earth tremble. They have drawn near, and they have come. {{rf{6}}} Each one helps his neighbor; he says to his brother, "Take courage!" {{rf{7}}} And the artisan encourages the goldsmith, the one who makes smooth with the hammer encourages the one who strikes the anvil, saying of the soldering, "It is good!" And they strengthen it with nails so it cannot be knocked over. {{rf{8}}} But you, Israel, my servant, Jacob, whom I have chosen, you, the offspring of Abraham my friend, {{rf{9}}} you whom I grasped from the ends of the earth and called from its remotest parts and told, "You are my servant; I have chosen you and I have not rejected you." {{rf{10}}} You must not fear, for I am with you; you must not be afraid, for I am your God. I will strengthen you, indeed I will help you, indeed I will take hold of you with the right hand of my salvation. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Isaiah-40-25]] }}}
{{rf{11}}} Look! All those who are angry with you shall be ashamed and humiliated; your opponents shall be like nothing and shall become lost. {{rf{12}}} You shall seek them, but you shall not find them; your opponents shall be like nothing, and the men of your war like nothing. {{rf{13}}} For I, Yahweh your God, am grasping your right hand; it is I who say to you, "You must not fear; I myself, I will help you. {{rf{14}}} You must not fear, O worm of Jacob; people of Israel, I myself, I will help you," declares Yahweh, "and your redeemer is the holy one of Israel. {{rf{15}}} Look! I will make you into a new sharp threshing sledge, with sharp edges. You shall thresh and crush the mountains, and you shall make the hills like chaff. {{rf{16}}} You shall winnow them and the wind shall carry them, and the tempest shall scatter them. And you yourself shall rejoice in Yahweh; you shall boast in the holy one of Israel. {{rf{17}}} The poor and the needy are seeking water and there is none; their tongue is dried up with thirst. I, Yahweh, will answer them; I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them. {{rf{18}}} I will open rivers on the barren heights and fountains in the midst of the valleys. I will make the wilderness like a pool of water and the land of dryness like springs of water. {{rf{19}}} I will put the cedar, acacia, myrtle, and olive oil tree in the wilderness; I will set the cypress, elm, and box tree together in the desert {{rf{20}}} so that they may see and know, and take to heart and understand together that the hand of Yahweh has done this, and the holy one of Israel has created it." {{rf{21}}} "Present your legal case," says Yahweh. "Bring your evidence," says the king of Jacob. {{rf{22}}} Let them bring them, and let them tell us what will happen. Tell us what the former things are so that we may take them to our heart and know their outcome. Declare to us the things to come; {{rf{23}}} tell us the things coming hereafter, that we may know that you are gods. Indeed, do good or do evil, that we may be afraid and see together. {{rf{24}}} Look! you are nothing, and your work is something worthless; whoever chooses you is an abomination. {{rf{25}}} I stirred up one from the north, and he has come from the rising of the sun. He shall call on my name, and he shall come on officials as on mortar, and as the potter treads clay. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Isaiah-41-11]] }}}
{{rf{26}}} Who declared it from the beginning so that we might know, and beforehand so that we might say, "He is right!" Indeed, there was no one who declared it; Indeed, there was no one who proclaimed it. Indeed there was no one who heard your words. {{rf{27}}} First to Zion, look! Look at them! And I give a herald of good tidings to Jerusalem. {{rf{28}}} But I look and there is no man, and I look among these and there is no counselor, that I might ask them and they might answer a word. {{rf{29}}} Look! All of them are deception; their works are nothing; their images are wind and emptiness. {{rf big{1}}} Look! here is my servant; I hold him, my chosen one, in whom my soul delights. I have put my spirit on him; he will bring justice forth to the nations. {{rf{2}}} He will not cry out and lift up and make his voice heard in the street. {{rf{3}}} He will not break a broken reed, and he not will extinguish a dim wick. He will bring justice forth in faithfulness. {{rf{4}}} He will not grow faint, and he will not be broken until he has established justice in the earth. And the coastlands wait for his teaching. {{rf{5}}} Thus says the God, Yahweh, who created the heavens and stretched them out, who spread out the earth and its offspring, who gives breath to the people upon it and spirit to those who walk in it. {{rf{6}}} "I am Yahweh; I have called you in righteousness, and I have grasped your hand and watched over you; and I have given you as a covenant of the people, as a light of the nations, {{rf{7}}} to open the blind eyes, to bring the prisoner out from the dungeon, those who sit in darkness from the house of imprisonment. {{rf{8}}} I am Yahweh; that is my name, and I do not give my glory to another, nor my praise to the idols. {{rf{9}}} Look! the former things have come, and I declare new things. I announce them to you before they sprout up." {{rf{10}}} Sing a new song to Yahweh; praise him from the end of the earth, you who go down to the sea and that which fills it, the coastlands and their inhabitants. {{rf{11}}} Let the desert and its towns lift up their voice, the villages that Kedar inhabits. Let the inhabitants of Sela sing for joy; let them shout loudly from the top of the mountains. {{rf{12}}} Let them give glory to Yahweh and declare his praise in the coastlands. {{rf{13}}} Yahweh goes forth like a mighty warrior; he stirs up zeal like a man of war. He raises the war cry, indeed he raises the battle shout; he prevails against his foes. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Isaiah-41-26]] }}}
{{rf{14}}} I have been silent for a long time; I have kept silent; I have restrained myself like one giving birth; I will moan, pant, and gasp together. {{rf{15}}} I will cause mountains and hills to dry up, and I will cause all their herbage to wither; and I will make rivers like islands, and I will cause pools to dry up. {{rf{16}}} And I will lead the blind by a road they do not know; I will cause them to tread on paths they have not known. I will make darkness in their presence into light and rough places into level ground. These are the things I will do, and I will not forsake them. {{rf{17}}} They shall turn back; they shall be greatly ashamed, those who trust in an image, who say to a cast image, "You are our gods." {{rf{18}}} Deaf people, listen! And blind people, look to see! {{rf{19}}} Who is blind but my servant or deaf like my messenger whom I sent? Who is blind like the one who is repaid or blind like the servant of Yahweh? {{rf{20}}} You see many things, but you do not observe. His ears are open, but he does not hear. {{rf{21}}} Yahweh was willing for the sake of his righteousness; he showed his teaching to be great and proved it to be glorious. {{rf{22}}} But this is a people plundered and looted; all of them are trapped in holes, and they are kept hidden in houses of imprisonment. They have become like plunder, and there is no one who saves; like booty, and there is no one who says, "Restore!" {{rf{23}}} Who among you will heed this, will listen attentively and listen, for the time to come? {{rf{24}}} Who gave Jacob to a plunderer and Israel to those who plunder? Was it not Yahweh, against whom we have sinned? And they were not willing to walk in his ways, and they would not obey his law. {{rf{25}}} So he poured the wrath of his anger upon him and the strength of war. And it set him afire all around, but he did not understand; and it burned him, but he did not take it to heart. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Isaiah-42-14]] }}}
But now thus says Yahweh, he who created you, Jacob, and he who formed you, Israel: "You must not fear, for I have redeemed you. I have called you by your name; you are mine. {{rf{2}}} When you pass through the waters, I will be with you, and through the rivers, they shall not flow over you. When you walk through fire, you shall not be burned, and the flame shall not scorch you. {{rf{3}}} For I am Yahweh, your God, the holy one of Israel, your savior. I give you Egypt as ransom, Cush and Seba in place of you. {{rf{4}}} Because you are precious in my eyes, you are honored, and I myself love you, and I give people in place of you, and nations in place of your life. {{rf{5}}} You must not fear, for I am with you. I will bring your offspring from the east, and I will gather you from the west. {{rf{6}}} I will say to the north, 'Give!' and to the south, 'You must not withhold!' Bring my sons from far away, and my daughters from the end of the earth -- {{rf{7}}} everyone who is called by my name, and whom I created for my glory, whom I formed, indeed whom I made." {{rf{8}}} Bring out the people blind yet with eyes, and deaf, though they have ears. {{rf{9}}} Let all the nations gather together, and let the peoples assemble. Who among them has declared this, and declared the former things to us? Let them bring their witnesses, that they may be in the right, and let them hear and say, "It is true!" {{rf{10}}} "You are my witnesses," declares Yahweh, "and my servant whom I have chosen so that you may know and believe in me and understand that I am he. No god was formed before me, and none shall be after me. {{rf{11}}} I myself am Yahweh, and there is no savior besides me! {{rf{12}}} I myself declared and saved, and I proclaimed. And there was no strange god among you. And you are my witnesses," declares Yahweh, "and I am God. {{rf{13}}} Indeed, from this day I am the one, and no one can deliver from my hand. I perform, and who can cancel it?" {{rf{14}}} Thus says Yahweh, your redeemer, the holy one of Israel: "For your sake I will send to Babylon, and I will cause all of them to fall down as fugitives, and the Chaldeans, their rejoicing on the ships. {{rf{15}}} I am Yahweh, your holy one, the creator of Israel, your king." {{rf{16}}} Thus says Yahweh, who makes a way in the sea and a path in the mighty waters, {{rf{17}}} who brings out chariot and horse, army and mighty one. Together they lie down; they cannot rise. They are extinguished, quenched like a wick. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Isaiah-43-01]] }}}
<<Bbl I 44:22 abbr >> Fog shortly to be dispelled, in the imagery of v. 23.
<<Bbl I 48:10 abbr >> Suspense builds to the word AFFLICTION.
<<Bbl I 49:1 abbr >>-3 Contrasts - including (?) v 3. Christ's dual nature.
<<Bbl I 50:4 abbr >> see <<Bbl Ps 16:7 >>
<<Bbl I 53:1 abbr>> See <<Bbl I 52:10 abbr>>, <<Bbl I 63:9 abbr>>.
<<Bbl I 53:4 abbr >> [[IdentifyWith]]
53:5 Quoted in <<Bbl 1C 15:3 >>, <<Bbl 1P 2:24 >> (where //servants// are exhorted to entrust themselves to God in suffering and to remember Christ the source of healing).
<<Bbl I 53:6 abbr >>, the John three-sixteen of the OT.
<<Bbl I 53:9 abbr>> <<Bbl 1P 2:22 >>
<<Bbl I 54:5 abbr >> Ruth attests to the closeness of husband and redeemer.
54:9 See <<Bbl R 6:9 >>.
God alludes to the rainbow and links it with Christ's eternal redemption.
<<Bbl I 54:16 abbr>>-17 Since 16a and 17a form a couplet, it would seem 16b and 17b do as well.
<<Bbl I 54:17 abbr >> //Formed [[Weapon]]//
<<Bbl I 55:5 abbr >> He has "splendorized" me.
<<Bbl I 55:8 abbr >>-9 <<Bbl Ps 103:11 >>
<<Bbl I 55:1 abbr >>-2 Two something-for-nothing deals. The first, you receive; the second, you give away.
<<Bbl I 55:11 abbr >> reflects back to v3-6. God's covenant with David will not fail.
<<Bbl I 55:12 abbr >>-13 displays the results of rain in v10.
<<Bbl I 55:2 abbr>> See <<Bbl I 29:8 abbr>>.
55:8 See <<Bbl 1C 2:6 >>-16 .
{{rf{18}}} "You must not remember the former things, and you not must consider the former things. {{rf{19}}} Look! I am about to do a new thing! Now it sprouts! Do you not perceive it? Indeed, I will make a way in the wilderness, rivers in the desert. {{rf{20}}} The animals of the field will honor me, jackals and daughters of the ostrich, for I give water in the wilderness, rivers in the desert, to give a drink to my chosen people, {{rf{21}}} this people whom I formed for myself, so they might make known my praise. {{rf{22}}} But you did not call me, Jacob; for you have become weary of me, Israel. {{rf{23}}} You have not brought me your sheep for a burnt offering nor honored me with your sacrifice. I have not made you serve with offerings, nor have I made you weary with frankincense. {{rf{24}}} You have not bought me spice reed with money or satisfied me with the fat of sacrifices. But you have burdened me with your sins; you have made me weary with your iniquities. {{rf{25}}} I, I am the one who blots out your transgressions for my sake, and I will not remember your sins. {{rf{26}}} Take me to court; let us enter into judgment together. You, make an account so that you may be in the right. {{rf{27}}} Your first ancestor sinned, and your representatives transgressed against me. {{rf{28}}} And I profaned the princes of the sanctuary, and I gave Jacob to destruction, and Israel to reviling. {{rf big{1}}} "But now hear, Jacob my servant, and Israel, whom I have chosen. {{rf{2}}} Thus says Yahweh, who made you, and who formed you in the womb and will help you: you must not fear, my servant Jacob, and Jeshurun whom I have chosen. {{rf{3}}} For I will pour out water on a thirsty land and streams on dry ground. I will pour my spirit out on your descendants and my blessing on your offspring. {{rf{4}}} And they shall sprout among the grass like willows by a watercourse of water. {{rf{5}}} This one will say, 'I belong to Yahweh!' And that one will be called by the name of Jacob, and another will write on his hand 'Yahweh's' and take the name of Israel." {{rf{6}}} Thus says Yahweh, the king of Israel, and its redeemer, Yahweh of hosts: "I am the first, and I am the last, and there is no god besides me. {{rf{7}}} And who is like me? Let him proclaim it! And let him declare it and set it in order for me since I established an eternal people and things that are to come, and let them tell them the things that are coming. {{rf{8}}} You must not tremble, and you must not be paralyzed with fear. Have I not made you hear from of old and declared it, and you are my witnesses? Is there a god besides me? And there is no rock! I know none!" {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Isaiah-43-18]] }}}
{{rf{9}}} All those who form an idol are nothing, and their delightful things do not profit. And their witnesses do not see or know, so they will be ashamed. {{rf{10}}} Who would form a god and cast an image of which he cannot profit? {{rf{11}}} Look! all his companions shall be ashamed, and the artisans are human! Let all of them assemble; let them stand up. They shall tremble; they shall be ashamed together. {{rf{12}}} The ironsmith works in the coals with his tool and forms it with hammers. And he makes it with his strong arm; indeed, he becomes hungry, and he lacks strength; he does not drink water, and he is faint. {{rf{13}}} The woodworker stretches out a line; he makes an outline of it with a marker. He makes it with a knife and makes an outline of it with a compass. He makes it like the image of a man, like the beauty of a human, to dwell in a temple. {{rf{14}}} Cutting down cedars for himself, he chooses a holm tree and an oak, and he lets it grow strong for him among the trees of the forest. He plants a cedar, and the rain makes it grow. {{rf{15}}} And it becomes fuel for a human, and he takes some of it and grows warm; also, he kindles a fire and bakes bread. Also, he makes a god and bows in worship; he makes himself an image and bows down to it! {{rf{16}}} He burns half of it in the fire; he eats meat over half of it; he roasts a roast and is satisfied. Also he grows warm and says, "Ah! I am warm! I see the fire!" {{rf{17}}} And he makes the remainder of it into a god! He bows down to his idol, and he bows in worship and prays to him, and he says, "Save me, for you are my god!" {{rf{18}}} They do not know, and they do not understand, for their eyes are besmeared so that they cannot see, their minds so that they have no insight. {{rf{19}}} And no one takes it to heart, and there is no knowledge and no understanding to say, "I burned half of it in the fire and also I baked bread on its coals; I roasted meat, and I have eaten. And I shall make the rest of it into an abomination! I shall bow down to a block of wood!" {{rf{20}}} He feeds on ashes; a deceived mind misleads him. And he cannot save himself, and he cannot say, "Is this not an illusion in my right hand?" {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Isaiah-44-09]] }}}
{{rf{21}}} "Remember these things, Jacob, and Israel, for you are my servant: I formed you; you are my servant; Israel, you will not be forgotten by me! {{rf{22}}} I have wiped your transgressions out like a cloud and your sins like mist. Return to me, for I have redeemed you!" {{rf{23}}} Sing for joy, heavens, for Yahweh has done it! Shout, depths of the earth! Break forth, mountains, in rejoicing, forest and every tree in it, for Yahweh has redeemed Jacob, and he will show his glory in Israel! {{rf{24}}} Thus says Yahweh, your redeemer, and he who formed you in the womb: "I am Yahweh, who made everything, who stretched out the heavens alone, who spread out the earth -- who was with me? -- {{rf{25}}} who frustrates the signs of oracle priests and makes a fool of diviners, who drives the wise men back and makes their knowledge foolish, {{rf{26}}} who keeps the word of his servant and carries out the plan of his messengers, who says of Jerusalem, 'It shall be inhabited,' and of the cities of Judah, 'They shall be rebuilt, and I will restore its ruins'; {{rf{27}}} who says to the deep, 'Dry up! And I will cause your rivers to dry up'; {{rf{28}}} who says of Cyrus, 'My shepherd,' and he shall carry out all my wishes; and saying of Jerusalem, 'It shall be rebuilt,' and the temple, 'It shall be founded.'" {{rf big{1}}} Thus says Yahweh to his anointed one, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have grasped to subjugate nations before him, and I uncover the loins of kings to open doors before him, and the gates shall not be shut: {{rf{2}}} "I myself will go before you, and I will level the mountains. I will break the doors of bronze and cut throughthe bars of iron. {{rf{3}}} And I will give you the treasures of darkness and treasures of secret places so that you may know that I am Yahweh, the one who calls you by your name, the God of Israel, {{rf{4}}} for the sake of my servant Jacob, and Israel my chosen one. And I call you by your name; I give you a name of honor, though you do not know me. {{rf{5}}} I am Yahweh, and there is none besides me; besides me there is no god. I gird you though you do not know me, {{rf{6}}} so that they may know from the rising of the sun and from the west that there is none besides me; I am Yahweh and there is none besides me. {{rf{7}}} I form light and I create darkness; I make peace and I create evil; I am Yahweh; I do all these things. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Isaiah-44-21]] }}}
{{rf{8}}} Trickle, O heavens, from above, and let clouds trickle with righteousness; let the earth open so that salvation may be fruitful, and let it cause righteousness to sprout along with it. I myself, Yahweh, have created it. {{rf{9}}} Woe to the one who strives with his maker, a potsherd among potsherds of earth! Does the clay say to the one who fashions it, 'What are you making?' and 'Your work has no hands'? {{rf{10}}} Woe to the one who says to a father, 'What you are begetting?' or to a woman, 'With what are you in labor?'" {{rf{11}}} Thus says Yahweh, the holy one of Israel, and its maker: "Ask me of the things to come about my children, and you command me about the work of my hands. {{rf{12}}} I myself made the earth, and I created humankind upon it. I, my hands, stretched out the heavens, and I commanded all their host. {{rf{13}}} I myself have stirred him up in righteousness, and I will make all his paths smooth. He himself shall build my city, and he shall set my exiles free, not for price or a gift," says Yahweh of hosts. {{rf{14}}} Thus says Yahweh: "The acquisition of Egypt and the merchandise of Cush and the Sabeans, tall men, shall pass over to you; they shall be yours, and they shall walk behind you. They shall pass over in chains, and they shall bow down to you; they will pray to you: 'Surely God is with you, and there is no other. Besides him there is no God.'" {{rf{15}}} Surely you are a God who keeps yourself hidden, God of Israel, the savior. {{rf{16}}} All of them are ashamed and indeed humiliated; the craftsmen of idols go together in insult. {{rf{17}}} Israel is saved by Yahweh with everlasting salvation; you shall not be ashamed, and you shall not be humiliated to all eternity. {{rf{18}}} For thus says Yahweh, who created the heavens, he is God, who formed the earth and who made it. He himself established it; he did not create it as emptiness -- he formed it for inhabiting. "I am Yahweh and there is none besides me. {{rf{19}}} I have spoken not in secrecy, in a place, a land, of darkness, I have not said to the descendants of Jacob, 'Seek me in vain!' I, Yahweh, am speaking righteousness, declaring uprightness. {{rf{20}}} Assemble and come; draw near together, survivors of the nations! They do not know, those who carry their wooden idols and pray to a god who cannot save. {{rf{21}}} Declare and present your case, also let them consult together! Who made this known from former times, declared it from of old? Was it not I, Yahweh? And there is no other god besides me, a righteous God besides me, and no savior besides me. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Isaiah-45-08]] }}}
{{rf{22}}} Turn to me and be saved, all the ends of the earth, for I am God and there is none besides me. {{rf{23}}} I have sworn by myself; a word that shall not return has gone forth from my mouth in righteousness: 'Every knee shall kneel down to me; every tongue shall swear.' {{rf{24}}} 'Only in Yahweh,' one shall say to me, 'are righteousness and strength.' He shall come to him, and all those who were angry with him shall be ashamed. {{rf{25}}} In Yahweh all the offspring of Israel shall be in the right, and they shall boast." {{rf big{1}}} Bel bows down; Nebo is stooping. Their idols are on animals and on cattle; your cargo is carried as a burden on weary animals. {{rf{2}}} They stoop; they bow down together. They are not able to save the burden, but they themselves go in captivity. {{rf{3}}} "Listen to me, house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house of Israel who have been carried from the belly, who have been carried from the womb: {{rf{4}}} Even to your old age I am he; even to your advanced age I myself will support you. I myself have made you, and I myself will carry you, and I myself will support you, and I will save you. {{rf{5}}} To whom will you liken me, and count as equal, and compare with me, as though we were alike? {{rf{6}}} Those who lavish gold from the purse and weigh out silver in the balance scales; hire a goldsmith and he makes him a god; they bow down, indeed they bow in worship. {{rf{7}}} They carry it on their shoulder; they support it and they set it in its place, and it stands in position. It cannot be removed from its place; even when he cries out to it, it does not answer. It does not save him from his trouble. {{rf{8}}} Remember this and pluck up courage! Call to mind, you transgressors! {{rf{9}}} Remember the former things from a long time ago, for I am God and there is none besides me, God and there is none like me, {{rf{10}}} who from the beginning declares the end, and from before, things that have not been done, who says, 'My plan shall stand,' and, 'I will accomplish all my wishes,' {{rf{11}}} who calls a bird of prey from the east, the man of his plan from a country from afar. Indeed I have spoken; indeed I will bring it to being. I have formed it; indeed I will do it. {{rf{12}}} Listen to me, strong of heart, far from righteousness! {{rf{13}}} I bring my righteousness near; it is not far. And my salvation will not delay; and I will put salvation in Zion, for Israel my glory." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Isaiah-45-22]] }}}
Come down and sit on the dust, virgin daughter of Babylon! Sit on the ground without a throne, daughter of Chaldea! For they shall no longer call you tender and delicate. {{rf{2}}} Take the pair of mill stones and grind flour! Uncover your veil, strip off your skirt, uncover your thigh, pass through the rivers! {{rf{3}}} Your nakedness shall be exposed; indeed, your shame shall become visible. I will take vengeance and I will not spare a person. {{rf{4}}} Our redeemer, Yahweh of hosts is his name, the holy one of Israel. {{rf{5}}} Sit silently and go into the darkness, daughter of Chaldea, for they shall no longer call you mistress of kingdoms. {{rf{6}}} I was angry with my people; I profaned my inheritance, and I gave them into your hand. You did not give them mercy; on the aged you made your yoke very heavy. {{rf{7}}} And you said, "I shall be an eternal mistress forever!" You did not set these things upon your heart; you did not remember its end. {{rf{8}}} Therefore now hear this, luxuriant one who sits in security, who says in her heart, "I am, and besides me there is no one. I shall not sit as a widow, and I shall not know the loss of children." {{rf{9}}} And these two shall come to you in a moment, in one day: the loss of children and widowhood shall come on you completely, in spite of your many sorceries, in spite of the power of your great enchantments. {{rf{10}}} And you felt secure in your wickedness; you said, "No one sees me." Your wisdom and your knowledge led you astray, and you said in your heart, "I am, and besides me there is no one." {{rf{11}}} And evil shall come upon you, you will not know; it will be on the lookout for her. And disaster shall fall upon you; you will not be able to avert it. And ruin shall come on you suddenly; you do not know. {{rf{12}}} Stand, now, in your enchantments, and in your many sorceries with which you have labored from your youth. Perhaps you may be able to benefit; perhaps you may scare away. {{rf{13}}} You struggle with your many consultations; let them stand, now, and save you -- those who see the stars, divide the celestial sphere, who inform by new moons -- from those things that are coming upon you. {{rf{14}}} Look! They are like stubble; the fire burns them completely. They cannot deliver themselves from the power of the flame; there is no coal for warming oneself, no fire before which to sit. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Isaiah-47-01]] }}}
{{rf{15}}} So are to you those with whom you have labored, your traders from your youth. They wander, each to his side; there is no one who can save you. {{rf big{1}}} Hear this, house of Jacob, who are called by the name of Israel and came out from the waters of Judah, who swear by the name of Yahweh, and invoke the God of Israel, but not in truth and not in righteousness. {{rf{2}}} For they call themselves after the holy city, and they lean on the God of Israel -- Yahweh of hosts is his name. {{rf{3}}} "I declared the former things from of old, and they went out from my mouth. And I announced them suddenly; I acted, and they came to pass, {{rf{4}}} because I know that you are obstinate, and your neck an iron sinew, and your forehead bronze. {{rf{5}}} And I declared them to you from of old; I announced them to you before they came to pass so that you would not say, 'My idol did them, and my image and my cast image commanded them.' {{rf{6}}} You have heard; see it all. And will you not declare it? I announce new things to you from this time and hidden things that you have not known. {{rf{7}}} Now they are created, and not from of old, and before today, and you have not heard them so that you could not say, "Look! I knew them." {{rf{8}}} Neither have you heard, nor have you known, nor from of old has your ear been opened. For I knew you would deal treacherously, very treacherously, and you are called a rebel from the womb. {{rf{9}}} For the sake of my name I refrain from my anger, and for my praise I restrain it for you so as not to cut you off. {{rf{10}}} ''Look! I have refined you, but not like silver; I have chosen you in the furnace of misery.'' {{rf{11}}} For my own sake, for my own sake I do it; for why should it be defiled? And I will not give my glory to another." {{rf{12}}} "Listen to me, Jacob, and Israel, whom I called: I am he. I am the first; also I am the last. {{rf{13}}} Indeed, my hand founded the earth, and my right hand spread out the heavens; when I summon them, they stand in position together. {{rf{14}}} Assemble, all of you, and hear! Who among them declared these things? Yahweh loves him; he shall perform his wish against Babylon and his arm against the Chaldeans. {{rf{15}}} I, I myself, I have spoken! Indeed, I have called him. I have brought him, and he will be successful in his way. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Isaiah-47-15]] }}}
{{rf{16}}} Draw near to me; hear this! I have not spoken in secrecy from the beginning; from the time it came to be, there I have been; And now the Lord Yahweh has sent me and his Spirit." {{rf{17}}} Thus says Yahweh, your redeemer, the holy one of Israel: "I am Yahweh your God, who teaches you to profit, leads you in the way you should go. {{rf{18}}} O that you had listened attentively to my commandments! Then your prosperity would have been like a river, and your righteousness like the waves of the sea. {{rf{19}}} And your offspring would have been like the sand, and the descendants of your body like its grains. It would not be cut off, and its name would not be destroyed from my presence." {{rf{20}}} Go out from Babylon! Flee from Chaldea! Proclaim it with a shout of rejoicing; proclaim this! Send it forth to the end of the earth; say, "Yahweh has redeemed his servant Jacob!" {{rf{21}}} And when he led them through the deserts, they were not thirsty; he made water flow from the rock for them, and he split the rock, and the water gushed out. {{rf{22}}} "There is no peace," says Yahweh, "for the wicked." {{rf big{1}}} Listen to me, coastlands, and listen attentively, peoples from far away! Yahweh called me from the womb; from the body of my mother he made my name known. {{rf{2}}} And he made my mouth like a sharp sword; he hid me in the shadow of his hand, and he made me like an sharpened arrow; he hid me in his quiver. {{rf{3}}} And he said to me, "You are my servant, Israel, in whom I will show my glory." {{rf{4}}} But I myself said, "I have labored in vain; I have used up my strength for nothing and vanity! Nevertheless, my justice is with Yahweh, and my reward is with my God." {{rf{5}}} And now Yahweh says, who formed me from the womb as a servant for him, to bring Jacob back to him, and that Israel might not be gathered, for I am honored in the eyes of Yahweh, and my God has become my strength. {{rf{6}}} And he says, "It is trivial for you to be a servant for me, to raise up the tribes of Jacob and to bring back the preserved of Israel. I will give you as a light to the nations, to be my salvation to the end of the earth." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Isaiah-48-16]] }}}
<<Bbl I 49:2 abbr >> An arrow reserved among the others for one crucial shot. The parallelism that takes up all of verse 2 is interesting.
49:8 Compare <<Bbl Gn 2:15 >>.
<<Bbl I 49:21 abbr >> Compare <<Bbl Jer 31:15 >>-17 .
<<Bbl I 50:1 abbr >> Some legal grounds explained. Compare <<Bbl Col 2:14 >>.
<<Bbl I 50:4 abbr >> Compare <<Bbl Eph 4:29 >>.
{{holyquote{
The Lord Yahweh has given me the tongue of a pupil, to know how to help the weary with a word. He awakens morning by morning, awakens an ear for me to listen as do the pupils. (Is 50:4)
}}}
<<Bbl I 50:8 abbr >>-10 see <<Bbl R 8:31 >>-37
<<Bbl I 50:10 abbr >> Amplified says, "yet who walks in darkness -- "
{{holyquote{
How delightful on the mountains are the feet of him who brings good news, who announces peace, who brings good news, who announces salvation, who says to Zion, "Your God reigns as a king." (Is 52:7)
}}}
<<Bbl I 52:7 abbr >> //brings good news// (repeated) uses the verb //basar// (Arabic //bashar//, to preach). This is translated in the Septuagint by //evangelizo//. <<Bbl R 10:15>> confirms this is fulfilled in the world-wide preaching of the Gospel. <<Bbl Eph 6:15>> connects the Gospel with //peace//, and <<Bbl Eph 1:13>> with //salvation//.
<<Bbl I 52:14 abbr >> People conclude from this that Christ was destroyed beyond recognition. But then He would be unidentifiable, which is clearly out of line with His mission.
52:15 //Sprinkle// -- some versions say //startle//.
<<Bbl I 54:13 abbr>> Given to Melisa in about 1998-04 by Claudia Doncov as a prophecy concerning our children.
<<Bbl I 55:10 abbr >>-11 He compares His effective word to the water cycle.
{{rf{7}}} Thus says Yahweh, the redeemer of Israel, his holy one, to the one who despises life, to the one who abhors the nation, to the slave of rulers: "Kings shall see and stand up; princes, and they shall bow down, for the sake of Yahweh, who is faithful, the holy one of Israel, and he has chosen you." {{rf{8}}} Thus says Yahweh: "I have answered you in a time of favor, and helped you on a day of salvation, and watched over you, and given you as a covenant of the people, to raise up the land, to give the desolate hereditary property as an inheritance, {{rf{9}}} saying to the prisoners, "Come out!" to those who are in darkness, "Show yourselves!" they shall feed along the ways, and their pasturage shall be on all the barren heights. {{rf{10}}} They shall not be hungry or thirsty, and heat and sun shall not strike them, for he who takes pity on them will lead them, and he will guide them to springs of water. {{rf{11}}} And I will make all my mountains like a road, and my highways shall lead up. {{rf{12}}} Look! These shall come from afar, And look! These from the north and from the west and these from the land of Sinim." {{rf{13}}} Sing for joy, heavens, and rejoice, earth! Mountains must break forth in rejoicing! For Yahweh has comforted his people, and he will take pity on his afflicted ones. {{rf{14}}} But Zion said, "Yahweh has forsaken me, and the Lord has forgotten me!" {{rf{15}}} Can a woman forget her suckling, refrain from having compassion on the child of her womb? Indeed, these may forget, but I, I will not forget you! {{rf{16}}} Look, I have inscribed you on the palms of my hands; your walls are continually before me. {{rf{17}}} Your children hasten; your destroyers and those who laid you waste depart from you. {{rf{18}}} Lift your eyes up all around and see; all of them gather; they come to you. As surely as I live, declares Yahweh, surely you shall put on all of them like an ornament, and you shall bind them on like a bride. {{rf{19}}} Surely your sites of ruins and desolate places and land of ruins, surely now you will be too cramped for your inhabitants, and those who engulfed you will be far away. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Isaiah-49-07]] }}}
{{{
Isa 49:8-13
Thus says the *LORD* ...in a day of salvation I have helped You;
To ... make them inherit the desolate heritages;
...Along the roads they will feed...on all bare heights.
"They will not hunger or thirst...
For He who has compassion on them will lead them
And will guide them to springs of water.
"I will make all My mountains a road...
"Behold, these will come from afar...
...For the *LORD* has comforted His people...
}}}
{{rf{20}}} Yet the children born when you were bereaved will say in your hearing, "The place is too cramped for me; make room for me so that I can dwell." {{rf{21}}} Then you will say in your heart, "Who has borne me these?" And, "I was bereaved and barren, exiled and thrust away; so who raised these? Look at me! I was left alone; where have these come from?" {{rf{22}}} Thus says the Lord Yahweh: "Look! I will lift my hand up to the nations, and I will raise my signal to the peoples, and they shall bring your sons in their bosom, and your daughters shall be carried on their shoulders. {{rf{23}}} And kings shall be your guardians, and their queens your nurses. They shall bow down, faces to the ground, to you, and they will lick up the dust of your feet. Then you will know that I am Yahweh; those who await me shall not be ashamed. {{rf{24}}} Can war-booty be taken from the mighty? or can a captive of a righteous person be rescued? {{rf{25}}} But thus says Yahweh: "Indeed a captive of the mighty shall be taken, and the war-booty of the tyrant shall be rescued, for I myself will dispute with your opponent, and I myself will save your children. {{rf{26}}} And I will feed your oppressors their own flesh, and they shall be drunk with their blood as with wine. Then all flesh shall know that I am Yahweh, your savior and redeemer, the strong one of Jacob."
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{{rf big{1}}} Thus says Yahweh: "Where is this divorce document of your mother's divorce, with which I dismissed her? or to whom of my creditors did I sell you? Look! you were sold because of your sin, and your mother was dismissed because of your transgressions. {{rf{2}}} Why was there no man when I came, no one who answered when I called? Do I lack the strength to save? Or is there no power in me to deliver? Look! by my rebuke I dry up the sea; I make the rivers a desert; their fish stink because there is no water, and they die because of thirst. {{rf{3}}} I clothe the heavens with darkness, and I make their covering sackcloth." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Isaiah-49-20]] }}}
{{rf{4}}} The Lord Yahweh has given me the tongue of a pupil, to know how to help the weary with a word. He awakens morning by morning, awakens an ear for me to listen as do the pupils. {{rf{5}}} The Lord Yahweh has opened an ear for me, and I, I was not rebellious. I did not turn backwards; {{rf{6}}} I gave my back to those who struck me, and my cheeks to those who pulled out my beard; I did not hide my face from insults and spittle. {{rf{7}}} And the Lord Yahweh helps me, therefore I have not been put to shame; therefore I have set my face like flint. And I know that I shall not be ashamed; {{rf{8}}} he who obtains rights for me is near. Who will contend with me? Let us stand together. Who is the master of my judgment? Let him approach me. {{rf{9}}} Look! The Lord Yahweh helps me. Who is the one who will declare me guilty? Look! All of them will be worn out like a garment; the moth will eat them. {{rf{10}}} Who among you is in fear of Yahweh, obeys the voice of his servant? Who walks in darkness and has no light, trusts in the name of Yahweh and depends on his God? {{rf{11}}} Look! All of you are kindlers of fire, who gird yourselves with flaming arrows. Walk in the light of your fire, and among the flaming arrows you have kindled! You shall have this from my hand: you shall lie down in a place of torment.
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{{rf big{1}}} "Listen to me, you who pursue righteousness, who seek Yahweh. Look to the rock from which you were hewn, and to the excavation of the pit from which you were quarried. {{rf{2}}} Look to Abraham your father, and to Sarah; she brought you forth. For I called him alone, but I blessed him and made him numerous." {{rf{3}}} For Yahweh will comfort Zion; he will comfort all its sites of ruins. And he will make its wilderness like Eden, and its desert like the garden of Yahweh. Joy and gladness will be found in it, thanksgiving and the sound of song. {{rf{4}}} "Listen attentively to me, my people, and my nation, listen to me! For a teaching will go out from me, and I will cause my justice to rest for a light to the peoples. {{rf{5}}} My righteousness is near; my salvation has gone out, and my arms will judge the peoples. The coastlands wait for me, and for my arm they wait. {{rf{6}}} Lift up your eyes to the heavens and look to the earth beneath, for the heavens will be torn to pieces like smoke, and the earth will be worn out like a garment, and those who inhabit her will die like gnats. But my salvation will be forever, and my righteousness will not be broken to pieces. {{rf{7}}} Listen to me, you who know righteousness, people who have my teaching in their heart; you must not fear the reproach of men, or be terrified because of their abuse. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Isaiah-50-04]] }}}
{{rf{8}}} For a moth will eat them like garments; a moth will devour them like wool, but my righteousness will be forever, and my salvation for generation after generation." {{rf{9}}} Awake! Awake; put on strength, O arm of Yahweh! Awake as in days of long ago, the generations of a long time back! Are you not the one who cut Rahab in pieces, the one who pierced the sea-dragon? {{rf{10}}} Are you not the one who dried up the sea, the waters of the great deep, the one who made the depths of the sea a way for those who are redeemed to cross over? {{rf{11}}} So the redeemed ones of Yahweh shall return, and they shall come to Zion with singing, and everlasting joy shall be on their heads. Joy and gladness shall appear; sorrow and sighing shall flee away! {{rf{12}}} "I, I am he who comforts you; who are you that you are afraid of man? He dies! And of the son of humankind? He is sacrificed as grass! {{rf{13}}} And you have forgotten Yahweh, your maker, who stretched out the heavens, and founded the earth. And you tremble continually, all day, because of the wrath of the oppressor when he takes aim to destroy. But where is the wrath of the oppressor? {{rf{14}}} The fettered one shall make haste to be freed. And he shall not die in the pit, and he shall not lack his bread. {{rf{15}}} For I am Yahweh, your God, who stirs up the sea, so that its waves roar; Yahweh of hosts is his name. {{rf{16}}} And I have put my words in your mouth, and I have covered you in the shadow of my hand, to plant the heavens and to found the earth, saying to Zion, 'You are my people.'" {{rf{17}}} Rouse yourself! Rouse yourself! Stand up, Jerusalem, who have drunk from the hand of Yahweh the cup of his wrath; you have drunk the goblet, the cup of staggering; you have drained it out. {{rf{18}}} There is no one who guides her among all the children she has borne, and there is no one who grasps her by the hand among all the children she raised. {{rf{19}}} Two things here have happened to you -- who will show sympathy for you? -- devastation and destruction, famine and sword -- who will comfort you? {{rf{20}}} Your children have fainted; they lie at the head of all the streets, like an antelope in a snare, those who are full of the wrath of Yahweh, the rebuke of your God. {{rf{21}}} Therefore hear now this afflicted one and drunken one but not from wine. {{rf{22}}} Thus says your Lord, Yahweh, and your God pleads the cause of his people: "Look! I have taken from your hand the cup of staggering. You shall not continue to drink the goblet, the cup of my wrath, any longer. {{rf{23}}} And I will put it in the hand of your tormenters, who have said to you, 'Bow down that we may pass over you!' And you have made your back like the ground, and like the street for those who pass over you." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Isaiah-51-08]] }}}
{{rf{13}}} Look, my servant shall achieve success; he shall be exalted, and he shall be lifted up, and he shall be very high. {{rf{14}}} Just as many were appalled at you -- such was his appearance beyond human disfigurement, and his form beyond the sons of mankind -- {{rf{15}}} so he shall sprinkle many nations; because of him, kings shall shut their mouths. For they shall see what has not been told them, and they shall consider with full attention what they have not heard.
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{{rf big{1}}} Who has believed our message, and to whom has the arm of Yahweh been revealed? {{rf{2}}} For he went up like a shoot before him, and like a root from dry ground. He had no form and no majesty that we should see him, and no appearance that we should take pleasure in him. {{rf{3}}} He was despised and rejected by men, a man of suffering, and acquainted with sickness, and like one from whom others hide their faces, he was despised, and we did not hold him in high regard. {{rf{4}}} However, he was the one who lifted up our sicknesses, and he carried our pain, yet we ourselves assumed him stricken, struck down by God and afflicted. {{rf{5}}} But he was pierced because of our transgressions, crushed because of our iniquities; the chastisement for our peace was upon him, and by his wounds we were healed. {{rf{6}}} All of us have wandered about like sheep; we each have turned to his own way; and Yahweh let fall on him the iniquity of us all. {{rf{7}}} He was oppressed and afflicted, yet he did not open his mouth; he was brought like a lamb to the slaughter, and like a sheep is dumb before its shearers, so he did not open his mouth. {{rf{8}}} He was taken by restraint of justice, and who concerned himself with his generation? For he was cut off from the land of the living; he received a blow because of the transgression of my people. {{rf{9}}} He made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death, although he had done no violence, and there was no deceit in his mouth. {{rf{10}}} Yet Yahweh was pleased to crush him; he made him sick. If she places his life a guilt offering, he will see offspring. He will prolong days, and the will of Yahweh will succeed in his hand. {{rf{11}}} From the trouble of his life he will see; he will be satisfied. In his knowledge, the righteous one, my servant, shall declare many righteous, and he is the one who will bear their iniquities. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Isaiah-52-13]] }}}
{{rf big{1}}} Awake! Awake; put on your strength, Zion! Put on the garments of your beauty, Jerusalem, holy city! For the uncircumcised and the unclean shall not continue to enter you any longer. {{rf{2}}} Shake yourself free from the dust! Rise up; sit, Jerusalem! Free yourselves from the bonds of your neck, captive daughter of Zion! {{rf{3}}} For thus says Yahweh: "You were sold for nothing, and you shall be redeemed without money." {{rf{4}}} For thus says the Lord Yahweh: "My people went down to Egypt in the beginning, to dwell as aliens there, and Assyria oppressed him without cause. {{rf{5}}} And now what do I have here?"declares Yahweh, "for my people is taken without cause. Its rulers howl," declares Yahweh -- "and my name is reviled continually, all day. {{rf{6}}} Therefore my people shall know my name, therefore in that day, that I am the one who speaks. Here am I." {{rf{7}}} How delightful on the mountains are the feet of him who brings good news, who announces peace, who brings good news, who announces salvation, who says to Zion, "Your God reigns as a king." {{rf{8}}} The voices of your watchmen! They lift up their voices; together they sing for joy; for they clearly see Yahweh's return to Zion. {{rf{9}}} Break forth, sing for joy together, ruins of Jerusalem, for Yahweh has comforted his people; he has redeemed Jerusalem. {{rf{10}}} Yahweh has bared his holy arm to the eyes of all the nations, and all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God. {{rf{11}}} Depart, depart, go out from there! You must not touch any unclean thing. Go out from the midst of it, keep clean, you who carry the vessels of Yahweh. {{rf{12}}} For you shall not go out in haste, and you shall not go in flight, for Yahweh is going before you, and your rear guard is the God of Israel. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Isaiah-53-01]] }}}
{{rf{12}}} Therefore, I will divide to him a portion among the many, and with the strong ones he will divide bounty, because he poured his life out to death and was counted with the transgressors; and he was the one who bore the sin of many and will intercede for the transgressors. {{rf big{1}}} "Sing for joy, barren woman; who has not borne! Burst forth into rejoicing and rejoice, she who has not been in labor! For the children of the desolate woman are more than the children of the married woman," says Yahweh. {{rf{2}}} "Enlarge the site of your tent, and let them stretch out the tent curtains of your dwelling place. You must not spare; make your tent cords long and strengthen your pegs, {{rf{3}}} for you will spread out to the right and to the left. And your descendants will be heir to the nations, and they will inhabit desolate towns. {{rf{4}}} You must not fear, for you will not be ashamed, and you must not be confounded, for you will not feel abashed, for you will forget the shame of your youth, and you will no longer remember the disgrace of your widowhood. {{rf{5}}} For your husband is your maker, his name is Yahweh of hosts; and your redeemer is the holy one of Israel, he is called the God of all of the earth. {{rf{6}}} For Yahweh has called you like a wife forsaken and hurt of spirit, like the wife of childhood when she is rejected, says your God. {{rf{7}}} I abandoned you for a short moment, but I will gather you with great compassion. {{rf{8}}} I hid my face from you for a moment, in the flowing of anger, but I will have compassion on you with everlasting faithfulness" says your redeemer, Yahweh. {{rf{9}}} "For this is like the waters of Noah to me, when I swore that the waters of Noah would never again pass over the earth, so I swore that I would not be angry at you and rebuke you. {{rf{10}}} For the mountains may depart, and the hills may sway, but my faithfulness shall not depart from you, and my covenant of peace shall not sway," says Yahweh, who has compassion on you, {{rf{11}}} "O afflicted one, driven away, who is not consoled. Look! I am about to set your stones in hard mortar, and I will lay your foundation with sapphires. {{rf{12}}} And I will make your battlements of ruby, and your gates of stones of beryl, and all your wall of precious stones. {{rf{13}}} And all your children shall be pupils of Yahweh, and the peace of your children shall be great. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Isaiah-53-12]] }}}
{{rf{14}}} In righteousness you shall be established. Be far from oppression, for you shall not fear, and from terror, for it shall not come near you. {{rf{15}}} If indeed one attacks, it is not from me; whoever attacks you shall fall because of you. {{rf{16}}} Look! I myself have created the craftsman who blows the fire of coals, and who produces a weapon for his work; also I myself have created the destroyer to destroy. {{rf{17}}} Every weapon formed against you shall not succeed, and you shall declare guilty every tongue that rises against you for judgment. This is the inheritance of the servants of Yahweh, and their legal right from me," declares Yahweh. {{rf big{1}}} "Ho! Everyone thirsty, come to the waters! And whoever has no money, come, buy and eat, and come, buy without money, wine and milk without price! {{rf{2}}} Why do you weigh out money for what is not food, and your labor for what cannot satisfy? Listen carefully to me, and eat what is good, and let your soul take pleasure in rich food. {{rf{3}}} Extend your ear, and come to me! Listen so that your soul may live, and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, the enduring proofs of the mercies shown to David. {{rf{4}}} Look! I made him a witness to the peoples, a leader and a commander for the peoples. {{rf{5}}} Look! You shall call a nation that you do not know, and a nation that does not know you shall run to you, because of Yahweh your God, and the holy one of Israel, for he has glorified you." {{rf{6}}} Seek Yahweh while he lets himself be found; call him while he is near. {{rf{7}}} Let the wicked forsake his way, and the man of sin his thoughts. And let him return to Yahweh, that he may take pity on him, and to our God, for he will forgive manifold. {{rf{8}}} "For my thoughts are not your thoughts, and your ways are not my ways," declares Yahweh. {{rf{9}}} "For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so my ways are higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts. {{rf{10}}} For just as the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and they do not return there except they have watered the earth thoroughly and cause it to bring forth and sprout, and give seed to the sower and bread to the eater, {{rf{11}}} so shall be my word that goes out from my mouth. It shall not return to me without success, but shall accomplish what I desire and be successful in the thing for which I sent it. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Isaiah-54-14]] }}}
{{rf{12}}} For you shall go out in joy, and you shall be led in peace. The mountains and the hills shall break forth before you, rejoicing and all the trees of the field shall clap hands. {{rf{13}}} Instead of the thorn bush, the juniper shall go up; instead of the brier, the myrtle shall go up, and it shall serve as a memorial to Yahweh, for an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off." {{rf big{1}}} Thus says Yahweh: "Observe justice and do righteousness, for my salvation is close to coming, and my justice to being revealed. {{rf{2}}} Happy is the man who does this, and the son of humankind who keeps hold of it, who keeps the Sabbath so as not to profane it, and who keeps his hand from doing any evil." {{rf{3}}} And do not let the foreigner who joins himself to Yahweh say, "Surely Yahweh will separate me from his people." And do not let the eunuch say, "Look! I am a dry tree!" {{rf{4}}} For thus says Yahweh, "To the eunuchs who keep my Sabbaths, and choose that in which I delight, and who keep hold of my covenant. {{rf{5}}} And I will give them a monument and a name in my house and within my walls, better than sons and daughters; I will give him an everlasting name that shall not be cut off. {{rf{6}}} And the foreigners who join themselves to Yahweh to serve him and to love the name of Yahweh, to become his servants, every one who keeps the Sabbath, so as not to profane it, and those who keep hold of my covenant, {{rf{7}}} I will bring them to my holy mountain; I will make them merry in my house of prayer. their burnt offerings and their sacrifices will be accepted on my altar, for my house shall be called a house of prayer for all peoples," {{rf{8}}} declares the Lord Yahweh, who gathers the scattered ones of Israel (still I will gather to him, to his gathered ones). {{rf{9}}} All wild animals in the field, come, to devour, all wild animals in the forest! {{rf{10}}} His watchmen are blind, none of them know. They are all dumb dogs; they are unable to bark, panting, lying down, loving to slumber. {{rf{11}}} And the dogs have a greedy appetite; they are never satisfied. And they are the shepherds! They do not have understanding. They all turn to their own way, each one for his own gain, every one of them. {{rf{12}}} "Come, let me take wine, and let us carouse with intoxicating drink, and tomorrow will be like today, very great indeed." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Isaiah-55-12]] }}}
<<Bbl I 56:4 abbr >>-5 Under "Adoption", the Wycliffe Bible Ency. lists vs. 5; in context, however, name seems to refer to the legacy of progeny. The NT parallel is <<Bbl Mt 19:12 >>.
<<Bbl I 57:1 abbr >>-2 According to Bro. Dave, Methuselah died in the year of the Flood -- i.e., in the Flood.
57:8 <<Bbl Dt 6:9 >> for the significance of the [[doorpost|Door]]. But this is behind the doorpost, like an illicit announcement, barely concealed.
57:10 Compare with Pharaoh's reprobation, <<Bbl Ex 8:15 >> etc.
57:12 Compare <<Bbl Ez 3:20 >>.
<<Bbl I 58:7 abbr >> From your own flesh -- i.e., fellow Israelites.
59:4b-6 A convoluted arrangement is found in the two images here (perhaps chiastic), eggs of a snake and spider's web.
* conceive mischief
* bring forth iniquity
* hatch adders' eggs
* weave spiders' webs
** death from eating the eggs
** from what is crushed, a snake
** webs do not clothe a man
** works are not a covering
59:15 See <<Bbl Amos 5:13 >>.
The righteous one perishes, and there is no one who takes it to heart. And men of faithfulness are gathered, while there is no one who understands, for the righteous is gathered from the presence of wickedness. {{rf{2}}} he enters into peace; they will rest on their beds, walking straight ahead of him. {{rf{3}}} "But you, come near here, you children of a soothsayer, offspring of an adulterer and she who commits fornication. {{rf{4}}} At whom do you make fun? At whom do you open your mouth and stick out your tongue? Are you not children of transgression, offspring of deception, {{rf{5}}} who burn with lust among the oaks, under every leafy tree, who slaughter children in the valleys, under the clefts of the rocks? {{rf{6}}} Your portion is among the smooth stones of the valley; they, they are your lot; indeed, to them you have poured out a drink offering, you have brought a food offering. Shall I relent concerning these things? {{rf{7}}} You have set your bed upon a high and lofty mountain; indeed, you went up there to slaughter sacrifice. {{rf{8}}} And you have set your symbol behind the door and the doorpost; for you depart from me, and you go up; you make your bed wide, and you make a deal with them, you have loved their bed; you have seen their genitals. {{rf{9}}} And you climbed down to the king with oil, and you made your perfumes numerous, and you sent your envoys far away, and you sent down deep to Sheol. {{rf{10}}} You grow weary by the greatness of your way, but you did not say, 'Despairing!' You found the renewal of your strength, therefore you do not grow weak. {{rf{11}}} And of whom were you afraid and feared, that you deceived and did not remember me? Did you not place it on your heart? Have I not been silent, even from long ago, and so you do not fear me? {{rf{12}}} I myself will declare your righteousness and your works, but they will not benefit you. {{rf{13}}} When you cry, let your collection deliver you, and the wind will carry all of them away; a breath will take them away. But he who takes refuge in me shall take possession of the land, and he shall inherit my holy mountain." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Isaiah-57-01]] }}}
{{rf{14}}} And one shall say, "Build up, build up! Clear the way! Remove the obstacles from the way of my people!" {{rf{15}}} For thus says the high and lofty one who resides forever, and whose name is holy: "I reside in a high and holy place, and with the contrite and humble of spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite. {{rf{16}}} For I will not attack forever, and I will not be angry forever, for the spirit will grow faint before me, and the breaths that I myself I have made. {{rf{17}}} I was angry because of his sin of gain, and I struck him; I hid and I was angry, but he walked apostate, in the ways of his heart. {{rf{18}}} I have seen his ways, but I will heal him; and I will lead him and give him and his mourners comfort as a recompense, {{rf{19}}} creating fruit of lips. Peace, peace to the far and near," says Yahweh, "and I will heal him. {{rf{20}}} But the wicked are like the churning sea, that is not able to keep quiet, and its waters toss up mire and mud. {{rf{21}}} There is no peace," says my God, "for the wicked." {{rf big{1}}} "Call with the throat; you must not keep back! lift up your voice like a trumpet, and declare to my people their rebellion, and to the house of Jacob their sins. {{rf{2}}} Yet they seek me day by day, and they desire the knowledge of my ways like a nation that practiced righteousness, and had not forsaken the judgment of its God; they ask me for righteous judgments, they desire the closeness of God. {{rf{3}}} 'Why do we fast, and you do not see it? We humiliate our soul, and you do not notice it?' Look! You find delight on the day of your fast, and you oppress all your workers! {{rf{4}}} Look! You fast to quarrel and strife, and to strike with a wicked fist. You shall not fast as you do today, to make your voice heard on the height. {{rf{5}}} Is the fast I choose like this, a day for humankind to humiliate himself? To bow his head like a reed, and make his bed on sackcloth and ashes; you call this a fast and a day of pleasure to Yahweh? {{rf{6}}} Is this not the fast I choose: to release the bonds of injustice, to untie the ropes of the yoke, and to let the oppressed go free, and tear every yoke to pieces? {{rf{7}}} Is it not to break your bread for the hungry? You must bring home the poor, the homeless. When you see the naked, you must cover him, and you must not hide yourself from your relatives. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Isaiah-57-14]] }}}
{{rf{8}}} Then your light shall break forth like the dawn, and your healing shall grow quickly. And your salvation shall go before you; the glory of Yahweh will be your rear guard. {{rf{9}}} Then you shall call, and Yahweh himself will answer. You shall cry for help, and he will say, 'Here I am!' If you remove from among you the yoke, the finger-pointing and evil speech, {{rf{10}}} if you offer your soul to the hungry, and you satisfy the appetite of the afflicted, then your light shall rise in the darkness, and your darkness will be like noon. {{rf{11}}} And Yahweh will lead you continually, and satisfy your soul in a barren land, and he will strengthen your bones, and you shall be like a well-watered garden, and like a spring of water whose water does not fail. {{rf{12}}} And they shall rebuild ancient ruins from you; you shall erect the foundations of many generations, and you shall be called the bricklayer of the breach, the restorer of paths to live in. {{rf{13}}} If you hold your foot back from the Sabbath, from doing your affairs on my holy day, if you call the Sabbath a pleasure, the holy day of Yahweh honorable, if you honor him more than doing your ways, than finding your affairs and speaking a word, {{rf{14}}} then you shall take your pleasure in Yahweh, and I will make you ride upon the heights of the earth, and I will feed you the heritage of Jacob your ancestor, for the mouth of Yahweh has spoken." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Isaiah-58-08]] }}}
Look! The hand of Yahweh is not too short to save, and his ear is not too dull to hear. {{rf{2}}} Rather, your iniquities have been barriers between you and your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you, from hearing. {{rf{3}}} For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity. Your lips have spoken lies, your tongue speaks wickedness. {{rf{4}}} There is nobody who pleads with justice, and there is nobody who judges with honesty. They rely on nothing and speak vanity. They conceive trouble and beget iniquity; {{rf{5}}} they hatch viper eggs, and they weave a spider web. One who eats their eggs dies, and that which is pressed is hatched as a serpent. {{rf{6}}} Their webs cannot become clothing, and they cannot cover themselves with their works. Their works are works of iniquity, and deeds of violence are in their hands. {{rf{7}}} Their feet run to evil, and they hasten to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; devastation and destruction are in their highways. {{rf{8}}} They do not know the way of peace, and there is no justice in their firm paths. They have made their paths crooked for themselves; everyone who walks in it knows no peace. {{rf{9}}} Therefore justice is far from us, and righteousness does not reach us. We wait for light, but look! there is darkness; for brightness, but we walk in darkness. {{rf{10}}} We grope like the blind along a wall, and we grope as without eyes. We stumble at noon as in the twilight; among the strong we are like the dead. {{rf{11}}} We all groan like bears, and we coo mutteringly like doves. We wait for justice, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far from us. {{rf{12}}} For our transgressions are numerous before you, and our sins testify against us. Indeed, our transgressions are with us, and we know our iniquities: {{rf{13}}} transgressing and denying Yahweh, and turning away from following our God; speaking oppression and falsehood, conceiving and uttering words of deception from the heart. {{rf{14}}} And justice is pushed back, and righteousness stands afar; for truth stumbles in the public square, and straightforwardness is unable to enter, {{rf{15}}} and truth is missing, and he who turns aside from evil is plundered. And Yahweh saw, and it was displeasing in his eyes that there was no justice {{rf{16}}} And he saw that there was no man, and he was appalled that there was no one who intercedes, so his arm came to assist him, and his righteousness was what sustained him. {{rf{17}}} And he put on righteousness like a breastplate, and a helmet of salvation on his head, and he put on garments of vengeance for clothing, and he wrapped himself in zeal as in a robe. {{rf{18}}} According to deeds, so he will repay; wrath to his enemies, requital to those who are his enemies. He will repay requital to the coastlands. {{rf{19}}} So they shall fear the name of Yahweh from the west, and his glory from the sunrise, for he will come like a narrow stream; the wind of Yahweh drives it on. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Isaiah-59-01]] }}}
{{rf{20}}} "And a redeemer will come to Zion, to those in Jacob who turn away from transgression," declares Yahweh. {{rf{21}}} "And as for me, this is my covenant with them, says Yahweh: my spirit that is upon you, and my words that I have placed in your mouth shall not depart from your mouth, or from the mouths of your children, or from the mouths of your children's children," says Yahweh, "from now on and forever." {{rf big{1}}} "Arise, shine! For your light has come, and the glory of Yahweh has risen on you. {{rf{2}}} For look! darkness shall cover the earth, and thick darkness the peoples, but Yahweh will rise on you, and his glory will appear over you. {{rf{3}}} And nations shall come to your light, and kings to the bright light of your sunrise. {{rf{4}}} Lift up your eyes all around and see! All of them gather; they come to you. Your sons shall come from afar, and your daughters shall be looked after on the hip. {{rf{5}}} Then you shall see and you shall be radiant; and your heart shall tremble and open itself wide, because the abundance of the sea shall fall upon you; the wealth of the nations shall come to you. {{rf{6}}} A multitude of camels shall cover you, the young male camels of Midian and Ephah. All those from Sheba shall come; they shall bring gold and frankincense, and they shall proclaim the praise of Yahweh. {{rf{7}}} All the flocks of Kedar shall be gathered to you; the rams of Nebaioth shall serve you. They shall present a sacrifice for favor on my altar, and I will glorify my honorable house. {{rf{8}}} Who are these? They fly like a cloud, and like doves to their coops. {{rf{9}}} Because the coastlands wait for me, and the ships of Tarshish are first to bring your children from afar, their silver and gold with them, for the name of Yahweh your God, and for the holy one of Israel, because he has glorified you. {{rf{10}}} And foreigners shall build your walls, and their kings shall serve you, for in my anger I struck you, but in my favor I have taken pity on you. {{rf{11}}} And your gates shall continually be open, day and night they shall not be shut, to bring you the wealth of nations, and their kings shall be led. {{rf{12}}} For the nation and the kingdom that will not serve you shall perish, and the nations shall be utterly devastated. {{rf{13}}} The glory of Lebanon shall come to you; the cypress, the plane, and the pine together, to glorify the place of my sanctuary, and I will do honor to the place of my feet. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Isaiah-59-20]] }}}
<<Bbl I 60:1 abbr >> Go on to vss. 19-20.
60:2 Like Egypt's plague of darkness. <<Bbl Mt 5:4 >>
<<Bbl I 60:18 abbr >> The image here shows the role of praise in entering.
<<Bbl I 60:13 abbr >> <<Bbl Rev 21:26 >>
61:3 See <<Bbl Ps 29:11 >>.
<<Bbl I 61:6 abbr >> <<Bbl Rev 21:1 >>
<<Bbl I 62:2 abbr >>-3 See <<Bbl Rev 2:17 >>,<<Bbl Rev 19:13 >>.
<<Bbl I 63:9 abbr >> Angel of His Presence identifies the [[Suffer]] Servant with the Lord.
<<Bbl I 64:3 abbr >>-4 Try <<Bbl Eph 3:20 >>.
<<Bbl I 65:8 abbr >> see 5:1-6; <<Bbl L 13:6 >>-9
<<Bbl I 65:16 abbr >> the God of Truth , a title which seems to correspond to <<Bbl Rev 3:14 >>.
<<Bbl Is 66:8 abbr>> Widely held to be be fufilled in the Balfour Declaration of 1948. But if a [[Nation]] is an //ethnos//, it's a faulty conclusion.
<<Bbl I 66:24 abbr >> Among the Jews the penultimate verse is repeated to form a less terrifying conclusion to the book. See <<Bbl Rev 14:10 >>.
{{rf{14}}} And the children of those who oppressed you shall come to you bending low, and all those who treated you disrespectfully shall bow down at the soles of your feet. And they shall call you the city of Yahweh, Zion of the holy one of Israel. {{rf{15}}} Instead of you being forsaken and hated with no one passing through, I will make you an everlasting object of pride, a joy of coming generations. {{rf{16}}} And you shall suck the milk of nations, and suck the breast of kings, and you shall know that I am Yahweh your Savior, and your Redeemer, the Strong One of Jacob. {{rf{17}}} Instead of bronze I will bring gold, and instead of iron I will bring silver, and instead of wood, bronze, and instead of stones, iron. And I will appoint peace as your overseer, and righteousness as your ruling body. {{rf{18}}} Violence shall no longer be heard in your land; devastation or destruction on your borders. And you shall call your walls Salvation, and your gates, Praise. {{rf{19}}} The sun shall no longer be your light by day, and for bright light the moon shall not give you light, but Yahweh will be your everlasting light, and your God your glory. {{rf{20}}} Your sun shall no longer go down, and your moon shall not wane, for Yahweh himself will be your everlasting light, and your days of mourning shall come to an end. {{rf{21}}} And all your people shall be righteous; they shall take possession of the land forever, the shoot of his planting, the work of my hands, to show my glory. {{rf{22}}} The small one shall become a tribe, and the smallest one a mighty nation. I am Yahweh; I will hasten it in its time." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Isaiah-60-14]] }}}
The Spirit of the Lord Yahweh is upon me, because Yahweh has anointed me, he has sent me to bring good news to the oppressed, to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim release to the captives and liberation to those who are bound, {{rf{2}}} to proclaim the year of Yahweh's favor, and our God's day of vengeance, to comfort all those in mourning, {{rf{3}}} to give for those in mourning in Zion, to give them a head wrap instead of ashes, the oil of joy instead of mourning, a garment of praise instead of a faint spirit. And they will be called oaks of righteousness, the planting of Yahweh, to show his glory. {{rf{4}}} And they shall build the ancient ruins, they shall erect the former deserted places. And they shall restore the devastated cities, the deserted places of many generations. {{rf{5}}} And strangers shall stand and feed your flocks, and foreigners shall be your farmers and vinedressers. {{rf{6}}} But you shall be called the priests of Yahweh, you will be called servers of our God. You shall eat the wealth of the nations, and you shall boast in their riches. {{rf{7}}} Instead of your shame, a double portion, and instead of insult, they will rejoice over their portion. Therefore they will take a double portion in their land; they shall possess everlasting joy. {{rf{8}}} For I, Yahweh, love justice, hate robbery and injustice, and I will faithfully give their reward, and I will make an everlasting covenant with them. {{rf{9}}} And their descendants will be known among the nations, and their offspring in the midst of the peoples. All those who see them shall recognize them, that they are descendants whom Yahweh has blessed. {{rf{10}}} I will rejoice greatly in Yahweh; my being shall shout in exultation in my God. For he has clothed me with garments of salvation, he has covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom adorns himself with a head wrap like a priest, and as a bride adorns herself with her jewelry. {{rf{11}}} For as the earth produces its sprout, and as a garden makes its plants sprout, so the Lord Yahweh will make righteousness sprout, and praise before all the nations. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Isaiah-61-01]] }}}
For the sake of Zion I will not be silent, and for the sake of Jerusalem I will not maintain a quiet attitude, until her righteousness goes out like the bright light, and her salvation burns like a torch. {{rf{2}}} And the nations shall see your righteousness, and all the kings your glory, and you will be called a new name that the mouth of Yahweh will designate. {{rf{3}}} And you shall be a crown of beauty in the hand of Yahweh, and a headband of royalty in the hand of your God. {{rf{4}}} It shall no longer be said of you, "Forsaken," and it shall no longer be said of your land, "Desolation!" but you will be called "My Delight Is In Her," and your land, "Married," for Yahweh delights in you, and your land shall be married. {{rf{5}}} For as a young man marries a virgin, so shall your sons marry you, and as is the joy of the bridegroom over the bride, so shall your God rejoice over you. {{rf{6}}} I have appointed watchmen upon your walls, Jerusalem; all day and all night they shall never be silent. You who profess Yahweh have no rest. {{rf{7}}} And you must not give him rest until he establishes, and until he makes Jerusalem an object of praise in the earth. {{rf{8}}} Yahweh has sworn by his right hand, and by his mighty arm, "Surely I will never again give your grain as food to your enemies, and surely foreigners shall not drink your new wine at which you have labored." {{rf{9}}} But those who gather it shall eat it, and they shall praise Yahweh, and those who gather it shall drink it in my holy courts. {{rf{10}}} Pass through, pass through the gates! Make the way clear for the people! Pile up, pile up the highway; clear it of stones! Lift up an ensign over the peoples! {{rf{11}}} Look! Yahweh has proclaimed to the end of the earth: Say to daughter Zion, "Look, your salvation is coming! Look, his reward is with him, and his reward before him. {{rf{12}}} And they shall call them "The Holy People, The Redeemed Of Yahweh," and you shall be called "Sought After, A City Is Not Forsaken." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Isaiah-62-01]] }}}
Who is this, coming from Edom, from Bozrah in bright red garments? Who is this honored in his garment, lying down in his great strength? "It is I, speaking in justice, mighty to save!" {{rf{2}}} Why are your garments red, and your garments like he who treads in the winepress? {{rf{3}}} "I have trodden the winepress alone, and there was no man from the peoples with me. And I trod them in my anger, and I trampled them in my wrath, and spattered their juice on my garments, and stained all my clothing, {{rf{4}}} for the day of vengeance was in my heart, and the year of my blood-vengeance has come! {{rf{5}}} And I looked, but there was no helper, and I was appalled, but there was no one who sustains, so my arm came to assist me, and my wrath was what sustained me. {{rf{6}}} And I trampled peoples in my anger, and I made them drunk in my wrath, and I brought their juice down to the earth." {{rf{7}}} I will mention the loyal love of Yahweh, the praises of Yahweh, according to all that Yahweh has done for us, and the greatness of goodness to the house of Israel that he has done to them according to his mercy and the abundance of his loyal love. {{rf{8}}} And he said, "Surely my people are children; they will not break faith." And he became a Savior to them. {{rf{9}}} In all their distress, there was no distress, and the messenger of his presence saved them, in his love and compassion he himself redeemed them, and he lifted them up, and he supported them all the days of old. {{rf{10}}} But they were the ones who rebelled, and they grieved his Holy Spirit, so he became an enemy to them; he himself fought against them. {{rf{11}}} Then his people remembered the days of old, of Moses. Where is the one who led up them from the sea with the shepherds of his flock? Where is the one who puts his Holy Spirit inside him, {{rf{12}}} who made his magnificent arm move at the right hand of Moses, who divided the waters before them, to make an everlasting name for himself, {{rf{13}}} who led them through the depths? They did not stumble like a horse in the desert; {{rf{14}}} like cattle in the valley that goes down, the Spirit of Yahweh gave him rest, so you lead your people to make a magnificent name for yourself. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Isaiah-63-01]] }}}
{{rf{15}}} Look from heaven, and see from the lofty residence of your holiness and glory. Where are your zeal and strength? Your compassion and mercy to me hold themselves back. {{rf{16}}} For you are our father, although Abraham does not know us, and Israel does not acknowledge us. You, Yahweh are our father, Our Redeemer from of old is your name. {{rf{17}}} Why do you make us wander, Yahweh? You harden our heart from your ways so that we do not fear you. Turn back for the sake of your servants, the tribes of your inheritance. {{rf{18}}} Your holy people took possession for a little while; our adversaries have trampled down your sanctuary. {{rf{19}}} We have been since antiquity; you did not rule them; they were not called by your name. {{rf big{1}}} Would that you would tear the heavens and come down; the mountains would quake before you, {{rf{2}}} as fire kindles brushwood, the fire causes water to boil, to make your name known to your adversaries, that the nations might tremble from your presence. {{rf{3}}} When you did terrible deeds which we did not expect, you came down; the mountains quaked because of your presence. {{rf{4}}} And since ancient times they have not heard, have not listened, no eye has seen a God except you; he acts for the one who waits for him. {{rf{5}}} You meet with the one who rejoices, one who does righteousness. In your ways they remember you. Look! You were angry and we sinned against them in ancient times and we were saved. {{rf{6}}} And we all have become like the unclean, and all our deeds of justice like a menstrual cloth, And we all wither like a leaf, and our iniquities take us away like the wind. {{rf{7}}} And there is no one who calls on your name, who pulls himself up to keep hold of you, for you have hidden your face from us, and melted us into the hand of our iniquity. {{rf{8}}} Yet now Yahweh, you are our father; we are the clay and you are our potter, and we all are the work of your hand. {{rf{9}}} You must not be exceedingly angry, Yahweh, and you must not remember iniquity forever! Look! Behold, now! We all are your people! {{rf{10}}} Your holy cities have become a wilderness; Zion has become a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation. {{rf{11}}} Our holy and beautiful temple, where our ancestors praised you has been burned by fire, and all our precious objects have become ruins. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Isaiah-63-15]] }}}
{{rf{12}}} Will you control yourself because of these, Yahweh? Will you be silent? And will you oppress us exceedingly? {{rf big{1}}} "I let myself be sought by those who did not ask; I let myself be found by those who did not seek me. I said, 'Here I am; here I am!' to a nation that did not call on my name; {{rf{2}}} I spread out my hands all day to a stubborn people, those who walk after their thoughts in the way that is not good, {{rf{3}}} the people who provoke me to anger continually to my face, slaughtering for sacrifices in the garden, and making smoke offerings on bricks, {{rf{4}}} who sit in graves and spend the night in secret places, who eat the flesh of swine with a fragment of impurity in their vessels, {{rf{5}}} who say, "Keep to yourself! You must not come near me, for I am too holy for you!" These are a smoke in my nostrils, a fire burning all day. {{rf{6}}} Look! It is written before me: I will not be silent, but I will repay; and I will repay in the fold of their garment {{rf{7}}} your iniquities and the iniquities of your ancestors together, says Yahweh, because they made smoke offerings on the mountains and they taunted me on the hills, I will measure their punishment from the beginning into the fold of their garment." {{rf{8}}} Thus says Yahweh: "Just as the new wine is found in the cluster, and they say 'You must not destroy it, for there is a blessing in it,' so I will do for the sake of my servants by not destroying everyone. {{rf{9}}} And I will bring descendant s out from Jacob, and a people from Judah to take possession of my mountain, and my chosen ones shall inherit it, and my servants shall settle there. {{rf{10}}} And Sharon shall become a pasture for flocks, and the valley of Achor a resting place for herds for my people who have sought me. {{rf{11}}} But you who forsake Yahweh, forgetting my holy mountain, who set a table for Fortune, and who pour out a jug of mixed wine for Destiny, {{rf{12}}} and I will remit you to the sword, and all of you shall bow down to the slaughter, because I called, but you did not answer; I spoke, but you did not listen, but you did the evil in my eyes, and you chose that in which I do not delight." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Isaiah-64-12]] }}}
{{rf{13}}} Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: "Look! My servants shall eat but you, you shall be hungry. Look! My servants shall drink but you, you shall be thirsty. Look! My servants shall rejoice but you, you shall be ashamed. {{rf{14}}} Look! My servants shall shout for joy, but you, you shall cry out for pain and howl for sadness. {{rf{15}}} And you shall leave your name to my chosen ones as a curse, and the Lord Yahweh will kill you, and he will give his servants another name. {{rf{16}}} Whoever blesses himself in the land shall bless himself by the God of trustworthiness, and the one who swears an oath in the land shall swear by the God of trustworthiness, because the former troubles are forgotten, and they are hidden from my eyes. {{rf{17}}} For look! I am about to create new heavens and a new earth, and the former things shall not be remembered, and they shall not come to mind. {{rf{18}}} But rejoice and shout in exultation forever and ever over what I am about to create! For look! I am about to create Jerusalem as a source of rejoicing, and her people as a source of joy. {{rf{19}}} And I will shout in exultation over Jerusalem, and I will rejoice over my people, and the sound of weeping shall no longer be heard in it, or the sound of a cry for help. {{rf{20}}} There will no longer be a nursing infant who lives only a few days, or an old man who does not fill his days, for the boy will die a hundred years old, and the one who fails to reach a hundred years will be considered accursed. {{rf{21}}} And they shall build houses and inhabit them, and they shall plant vineyards and eat their fruit. {{rf{22}}} They shall not build and another inhabit; they shall not plant and another eat. For the days of my people shall be like the days of a tree, and my chosen ones shall enjoy the work of their hands. {{rf{23}}} They shall not labor for nothing, and they shall not give birth to horror, for they shall be offspring blessed by Yahweh, and their descendants with them. {{rf{24}}} And this will happen: before they call, I myself will answer; while still they are speaking, I myself will hear. {{rf{25}}} The wolf and the lamb shall feed like one, and the lion shall eat straw like the ox, but dust shall be the serpent's food. They shall do no evil, and they shall not destroy on all my holy mountain," says Yahweh. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Isaiah-65-13]] }}}
Thus says Yahweh: "Heaven is my throne, and the earth is the footstool for my feet. Where is this house that you would build for me? And where is this resting place for me? {{rf{2}}} And my hand has made all these things, and all these came to be," declares Yahweh, "but I look to this one: to the humble and the contrite of spirit and the one frightened at my word. {{rf{3}}} The one who slaughters a bull strikes a man; the one who slaughters a lamb for sacrifice breaks the neck of a dog. The one who offers an offering, the blood of swine; the one who offers frankincense blesses an idol. Indeed, they themselves have chosen their ways, and their soul delights in their abhorrence. {{rf{4}}} Indeed, I myself I will choose their ill treatment, and I will bring them objects of their dread, because I called, and no one answered; I spoke and they did not listen, but they did the evil in my eyes, and they chose that in which I do not delight." {{rf{5}}} Hear the word of Yahweh, you who are frightened at his word: Your brothers who hate you, who exclude you for my name's sake have said, "Let Yahweh be honored so that we may see your joy!" But they themselves shall be ashamed. {{rf{6}}} A voice, an uproar from the city! A voice from the temple! The voice of Yahweh paying back his enemies! {{rf{7}}} Before she was in labor she gave birth; before labor pains came to her, she gave birth to a son. {{rf{8}}} Who has heard anything like this? Who has seen anything like these things? Can a land be born in one day? Or can a nation be born in a moment? Yet when she was in labor, Zion indeed gave birth to her children. {{rf{9}}} Shall I myself I break open and not deliver?" says Yahweh, "or I who delivers lock up the womb?" says your God. {{rf{10}}} "Rejoice with Jerusalem and shout in exultation with her, all those who love her! Rejoice with her in joy, all those who mourn over her, {{rf{11}}} so that you may suck and be satisfied from her consoling breast, so that you may drink deeply and refresh yourselves from her heavy breast." {{rf{12}}} For thus says Yahweh: "Look! I am about to spread prosperity out to her like a river, and the wealth of the nations like an overflowing stream, and you shall suck and be carried on the hip; and you shall you shall be played with on the knees. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Isaiah-66-01]] }}}
{{rf{13}}} As a man whose mother comforts him, so I myself will comfort you, and you shall be comforted in Jerusalem. {{rf{14}}} And you shall see and your heart shall rejoice, and your bones shall flourish like the grass, and the hand of Yahweh shall make itself known to his servants, and he shall curse his enemies. {{rf{15}}} For look! Yahweh will come in fire, and his chariots like the storm wind, to give back his anger in wrath, and his rebuke in flames of fire. {{rf{16}}} For Yahweh enters into judgment on all flesh with fire and his sword, and those slain by Yahweh shall be many. {{rf{17}}} Those who sanctify themselves and those who cleanse themselves to go into the gardens after the one in the middle, eating the flesh of swine and detestable things and rodents togethe shall come to an end!" declares Yahweh. {{rf{18}}} "And I -- their works and thoughts! -- am about to come to gather all nations and tongues, and they shall come and see my glory. {{rf{19}}} And I will set a sign among them, and I will send survivors from them to the nations: Tarshish, Pul, and Lud, who draw the bow; Tubal and Javan, the faraway coastlands that have not heard of my fame, and have not seen my glory. And they shall declare my glory among the nations, {{rf{20}}} and bring all your countrymen from all the nations as an offering to Yahweh on horses and chariots and in litters and on mules and camels, to my holy mountain, Jerusalem," says Yahweh, "just as the sons of Israel bring an offering in a clean vessel to the house of Yahweh. {{rf{21}}} And indeed, I will take some of them as priests and the Levites," says Yahweh. {{rf{22}}} "For just as the new heavens and earth that I am about to make shall stand before me," declares Yahweh, "so shall your descendants and your name stand. {{rf{23}}} And this shall happen: From new moon to new moon and from Sabbath to Sabbath all flesh shall come to bow in worship before me," says Yahweh. {{rf{24}}} "And they shall go out and look at the corpses of the people who have rebelled against me, for their worm shall not die, and their fire shall not be quenched, and they shall be an abhorrence to all flesh." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Isaiah-66-13]] }}}
Concerning the division of the tribes, see E.C. Wine's The Hebrew Republic, pp. 119-120.
! Early stages
* At root, the original demand for a king.
* Saul is from the north.
* <<Bbl 2S 2:8>>-11
!!! Forces causing the division
* At root, the original demand for a king.
* Saul is from the north.
* Saul delivers ~Jabesh-Gilead. They pay the special honor of retrieving his body from its shameful display.
* Abner's insurrection.
** Maybe he wondered if David would suffer him (he is from the north?)
** Maybe he wanted traditional succession to the son -- but what godless ignorance!
** Maybe the prince bribed him, bought him; or he was bound by some early rash promise.
* Absalom's character combines brutality, craftiness, deceit, vanity and charisma.
** Absalom is sly in currying favor with the north (<<Bbl 2S 15:2>>-6).
** David prays for God to thwart the counsel of Ahithophel. This results in a deep irony, for the counsel is to violate David's concubines, which is deeply injurious and also results in the fulfillment of Nathan's prophecy.
** Jonadab has a key role because of his subversive scheming.
* The Benjamites -- for examples, Shimei son of Gera (<<Bbl 2S 19:16>>) and Sheba son of Bichri (<<Bbl 2S 20:1>>).
!!!! The Sons of Zuruiah:
* <<Bbl 2S 2:13 >>
* <<Bbl 2S 3:26 >>-30
* <<Bbl 2S 8:16 >>
* <<Bbl 2S 16:6 >>-10
* <<Bbl 2S 18:2 >>
* <<Bbl 2S 19:21 >>-23
* <<Bbl 2S 20:6 >>-23
* <<Bbl 2S 21:17 >>
* <<Bbl 2S 23:18 >>-19
* <<Bbl 2S 24:2 >>-9
* <<Bbl 1K 1:7 >>
* <<Bbl 1K 2:5 >>
!!! David's remedies
* The friendship of David and Jonathan is recorded as a tragic loss of potential, a vision and a future hope. It is one of many exculpatory notes in the long story of David and the impending division.
* Refusing to kill Saul. It would have amounted to assassination, for example, in the cave; it would have been operating as Joab and Abishai and it would have brought the same results.
* Honoring the men of ~Jabesh-Gilead for returning the body of Saul.
* Honoring [[Mephibosheth]] and Ziba.
* It's pivotal that his people persuade him to stay home instead of going to the final battle against Absalom; is his acquiesence yet another one of his fatal points of passivity? For the narrative intends to convey that this decision was a factor in Absalom's lynching.
* When David mourns for Absalom, he is again also working on internacine issues.
* 2 Samuel emphasises frequently how David worked to heal the rupture. But it carefully preserves those points where David erred in passivity or judgement.
* From here on we have to read //Israel, Bejamin// and //Judah// in this political and military context. For example, //Israel fled each to his own house// after Absalom is killed, and some verses later //Judah// slinks back from the battle, burdened by the murder of Absalom. And our modern term //Jew// technically refers to the southern kingdom or even more precisely to the tribe of Judah.
* The erratic drift into estrangent of the two regions is such agony.
* Amasa apparently is suspected of abetting the northern rebellion, one reads Joab's murder of Amasa as retribution. It was Abner who played a key role for the north.
* <<Bbl 2S 19:40 "" note>> narrates the precious moment of potential peace that is brutally marred.
* [[Riches]] - note about doctrine of so-called prosperity
* <<Bbl Mal 1:2 "" note>> offers trenchant summary of the relationship between the brothers. Paul puts it to use in <<Bbl R 1:9>>.
* Thus he is an existentialist figure. How much a Jew is Jacob.
* For the Jews -- as //Israelites// -- are even named after him! How curious after him, and not Abraham. And how interesting the namesake is his early self, for //Jacob have I loved// (<<Bbl Mal 1:2>>).
* Jacob's life is chock-full of conflict. It is said his name may derive from a wrestling trick.
** His life is a struggle for survival from before birth. Esau was not just trying to give him a wedgie.
** The conflict for the birthright.
** and for the Blessing.
** Laban
** God, ultimately. Could He be the center of a grand chiasmus?
** The fight for water wells.
** The destruction done by Simeon and Levi. See <<Bbl Gn 34:30 "" note>>.
** The witness (from Joseph) of his other sons' poor stewardship of the flocks.
** The sending away of [[Joseph]].
** The imprisonment of Simeon (though this of course is not what it seems).
* But his relationships with women are harmonious.
* <<Bbl Ruth 4:11 "" note >>
* See the different levers God used to keep him moving and maturing -- circumstances, resources, adversaries, allies, lovers. (See my thematic genogram.)
* It is possible he didn't limp forever after the touch by God. See <<Bbl Gn 33:18 "" note>>.
* His stupendous themes of exile and exodus continue through epochs. Jacob left Canaan with little and returned with much, which is like the Israelites entering Egypt as a small group (or flock!) and leaving as a big group.
* <<Bbl Gn 48:15 "" note>>
* The Dinah story makes sense in this context of conflict and survival. His sons may destroy the margins of safety. Jacob's method is diplomacy and deception; his sons use all the deception and no diplomacy. It is yet another betrayal by his close kin. (But maybe they had had enough of daughter-as-pawn; maybe Dinah didn't have feelings for Haman, we aren't told; maybe the sons were overcompensating for a wrong done by Jacob to Dinah in this affair. Where IS Jacob in this account, anyway?) It is perhaps a permanent mar on all the relationships, though he reserves affection for and confidence in the sons of Rachel.
* I have sympathy for his underdog position. His badness is striped and streaked and mottled in ways that make it fascinating and might in the end show God at work.
* Even godly people who think hard and write much seem to feel they must simplify him.
* He was a shepherd
** <<Bbl Gn 30:37 >>. In that he separates the sheep from the goats, Jacob is exercising a manly sovereignty (taxonomy). But one with a distinctly pagan cast.
** * The sheep owned by Jacob were blessed: a wise caring master and the land of promise to come (although to be sure they faced a long journey, and shared their master's danger in the outcome). Not blessed were the sheep that ended up in Laban's care.
* He viewed himself as a [[Sheep]].
** The Hebrews commendation -- in faith he blessed his sons. His life hadn't primed him for the role of blessing, certainly not blessing based on God's promises.
* //He that keepeth Israel neither slumbers nor sleeps.// <<Bbl Gn 28:10 >>-22, <<Bbl I 26:13 >>
* His predicted domination of Esau is a Messianic prediction.
** It had a fulfillment during his life, but at the end of life Esau is not subjugated.
** <<Bbl Amos 9:12 >> note
!! Scheming
* <<Bbl Gn 46:34 >> n
* A sojourner in a foreign land and not feeling as confident about this as his father.
* The faithless steward of Jesus' parable seems relevant.
James, a slave of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes in the dispersion. Greetings! {{rf{2}}} Consider it all joy, my brothers, whenever you encounter various trials, {{rf{3}}} because you know that the testing of your faith produces endurance. {{rf{4}}} And let endurance have its perfect effect, so that you may be mature and complete, lacking in nothing. {{rf{5}}} Now if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask for it from God, who gives to all without reservation and not reproaching, and it will be given to him. {{rf{6}}} But let him ask for it in faith, without any doubting, for the one who doubts is like the surf of the sea, driven by the wind and tossed about. {{rf{7}}} For that person must not suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord; {{rf{8}}} he is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways. {{rf{9}}} Now let the brother of humble circumstances boast in his high position, {{rf{10}}} but the rich person in his humiliation, because he will pass away like a flower of the grass. {{rf{11}}} For the sun rises with its burning heat and dries up the grass, and its flower falls off, and the beauty of its appearance is lost. So also the rich person in his pursuits will wither away.
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{{rf{12}}} Blessed is the person who endures testing, because when he is approved he will receive the crown of life that he has promised to those who love him. {{rf{13}}} No one who is being tempted should say, "I am being tempted by God," for God cannot be tempted by evil, and he himself tempts no one. {{rf{14}}} But each one is tempted when he is dragged away and enticed by his own desires. {{rf{15}}} Then desire, after it has conceived, gives birth to sin, and sin, when it is brought to completion, gives birth to death. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|James-01-01]] }}}
As the half-brother of Jesus, absorbed through all of his youth the words and personality of the Lord. The commentary has an interesting character sketch.
* ''Let Peter study the Letter of James.''
* The name of James refers to Jacob, and it's interesting that the opening passages of James fit neatly with the person of Jacob.
* Condemns any attempt to mix bad with good. <<Bbl James 1:8 abbr >>, <<Bbl James 1:13 abbr >>, <<Bbl James 1:20 abbr >>, <<Bbl James 1:24 abbr >>, <<Bbl James 1:26 abbr >>, <<Bbl James 2:1 abbr >>, <<Bbl James 2:4 abbr >>, <<Bbl James 2:10 abbr >>, <<Bbl James 2:16 abbr >>, <<Bbl James 3:10 abbr >>-12, <<Bbl James 3:11 abbr >>-14. <<Bbl James 3:16 abbr >> calls this //disorder// and the metaphor escalates to //war// in James <<Bbl James 4:1 abbr >>.
* While addressing sin and judgment, James switches from believers to unbelievers in a way that seems arbitrary. He removes comfort from sinners without pausing to verify their confession of Christ. <<Bbl James 5:19 >> may provide closure for this.
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<<Bbl James 1:1 abbr >>-2 Trials vary, and the pressure points vary; but the test of our faith is intrinsic: if your faith is not tested, it can hardly be considered a trial. We are to focus not on the pressure point but on the aspect of faith. Not "How is my health/money/relationship?" but "How is my faith?"
<<Bbl James 1:4 abbr >> When you lack nothing, you have no trial, <<Bbl Ps 23:1 >>.
<<Bbl James 1:4 abbr >> Pray not just for patience, but that patience will have its perfect result.
<<Bbl James 1:5 abbr >> Wisdom is a need. Some needs require patience in trial (v 4) but wisdom is supplied specially - just ask! Solomon asked and found God to be //generous//.
1:5 Without reproach -- see <<Bbl Pr 10:22 >>.
<<Bbl James 1:6 abbr >> In the KJV, the words //wave// and //waver// are placed close, probably as variants of the same word. (Webster's also cites as related: waive, waiver, waif, vibrate, probably weave.)
<<Bbl James 1:6 abbr >> exhorts us to faith; let us use the definition of <<Bbl James 2:14 >>-26 so that we will have that wisdom which is obedient.
<<Bbl James 1:6 abbr >>-10. Trust produces peace.
<<Bbl James 1:9 abbr >>-11 A sound self-appraisal is a component of trust (v 6). Illusions about self-worth make you //unstable//. Prayer is about reality; the labels of //rich// and //poor// have to be discarded.
<<Bbl James 1:11 abbr >> Amplified in <<Bbl James 4:14 abbr >>.
<<Bbl James 1:11 abbr >> Spending will cease. "Shop till you drop" will happen sooner than you could guess. //guard... greed...not even//
<<Bbl James 1:12 abbr >> Perseverance equates to loving God.
<<Bbl James 1:12 abbr >>, 15. Life or death.
1:12 This is something the Lord said, not recorded elsewhere. (Confirm this.)
<<Bbl James 1:13 abbr >> Bluntly contradicts the view we promote, that God is in charge of our trial.
<<Bbl James 1:13 abbr >> The instruction on how to regard a trial is in theme with vv 2, 5 (against foolish thinking), v 6 (confusion)
1:15 This can be traced, down to subtle analogy, in <<Bbl 2S 11:1 >>ff.
<<Bbl James 1:17 abbr >> May serve well as the organizing keynote and true introduction of chapter one.
<<Bbl James 1:18 abbr >> A sort of climax, and utter contrast to the //dispersion// of v 1: from dispersed and hard-tried to ordered, cherished and nourished.
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''Study for James 1:12-18:''
* Who's your favorite "odd couple"? (mutual perturbation as a trial)
* Verse 12 talks about the person who is blessed and the person who loves God. Are these the same person?
* James sees overcoming temptation as a matter of life and death. How is this expressed in the passage?
* Verse 17 talks about God's gifts. What gifts is James thinking about? (hint, the reward of v 12.)
* Have you had a trial that can be viewed as a gift from God?
* Have you undergoing a trial that is very difficult to view as a gift from God?
* Are you willing to take the perspective commended by James?
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<<Bbl James 1:21 abbr >> KJV says "superfluity of naughtiness". (We debase the word "naughty", leaving out wickedness and adding in cuteness.)
<<Bbl James 1:24 abbr >> Christ is who would look back at me through the mirror. May I never forget the counsel of the //word implanted// (v 21) which shows me who I am. Cognitive dissonance.
<<Bbl James 1:27 abbr >> In contrast to mere talk (v 26). To be like this is to reflect the character of God - to be like God.
<<Bbl James 2:6 abbr >> James details //oppression// in <<Bbl James 5:4 abbr >>, 6.
<<Bbl James 2:9 abbr >>-10 <<Bbl Pr 22:2 >>: "The rich and the poor have this in common, -- "
<<Bbl James 2:17 abbr>>-26 [[Faith-And-Works]]
<<Bbl James 2:18 abbr >> Can this not be taken as James' own rebuttal to v 14?
<<Bbl James 2:26 abbr >> Dichotomous view of man; halves, not thirds, very James.
{{rf{16}}} Do not be deceived, my dear brothers. {{rf{17}}} Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow of change. {{rf{18}}} By his will he gave birth to us through the message of truth, so that we should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures. {{rf{19}}} Understand this, my dear brothers: every person must be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger, {{rf{20}}} for human anger does not accomplish the righteousness of God. {{rf{21}}} Therefore, putting aside all moral uncleanness and wicked excess, welcome with humility the implanted message which is able to save your souls. {{rf{22}}} But be doers of the message and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves, {{rf{23}}} because if anyone is a hearer of the message and not a doer, this one is like someone staring at his own face in a mirror, {{rf{24}}} for he looks at himself and goes away and immediately forgets what sort of person he was. {{rf{25}}} But the one who looks into the perfect law of liberty and continues to do it, not being a forgetful hearer but a doer who acts, this one will be blessed in what he does. {{rf{26}}} If anyone thinks he is religious, although he does not bridle his tongue but deceives his heart, this person's religion is worthless. {{rf{27}}} Pure and undefiled religion in the sight of our God and Father is this: to look after orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|James-01-16]] }}}
My brothers, do not hold your faith in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ with partiality. {{rf{2}}} For if someone enters into your assembly in fine clothing with a gold ring on his finger, and a poor person in filthy clothing also enters, {{rf{3}}} and you look favorably on the one wearing the fine clothing and you say, "Be seated here in a good place," and to the poor person you say, "You stand or be seated there by my footstool," {{rf{4}}} have you not made distinctions among yourselves and become judges with evil thoughts? {{rf{5}}} Listen, my dear brothers! Did not God choose the poor of the world to be rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom that he has promised to those who love him? {{rf{6}}} But you have dishonored the poor! Are not the rich exploiting you and they themselves dragging you into the courts? {{rf{7}}} Do they themselves not blaspheme the good name of the one to whom you belong? {{rf{8}}} However, if you carry out the royal law according to the scripture, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself," you are doing well. {{rf{9}}} But if you show partiality, you commit sin, and thus are convicted by the law as transgressors. {{rf{10}}} For whoever keeps the whole law but stumbles in one point only has become guilty of all of it. {{rf{11}}} For the one who said "Do not commit adultery" also said "Do not murder." Now if you do not commit adultery but you do murder, you have become a transgressor of the law. {{rf{12}}} Thus speak and thus act as those who are going to be judged by the law of liberty. {{rf{13}}} For judgment is merciless to the one who has not practiced mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|James-02-01]] }}}
{{rf{14}}} What is the benefit, my brothers, if someone says that he has faith but does not have works? That faith is not able to save him, is it? {{rf{15}}} If a brother or a sister is poorly clothed and lacking food for the day, {{rf{16}}} and one of you should say to them, "Go in peace, keep warm and eat well," but does not give them what is necessary for the body, what is the benefit? {{rf{17}}} Thus also faith, if it does not have works, is dead by itself. {{rf{18}}} But someone will say, "You have faith and I have works." Show me your faith apart from your works, and I will show you my faith by my works. {{rf{19}}} You believe that God is one; you do well. Even the demons believe, and shudder! {{rf{20}}} But do you want to know, O foolish person, that faith apart from works is useless? {{rf{21}}} Was not Abraham our father justified by works when he offered up his son Isaac on the altar? {{rf{22}}} You see that faith was working together with his works, and by the works the faith was perfected. {{rf{23}}} And the scripture was fulfilled that says, "And Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him for righteousness," and he was called God's friend. {{rf{24}}} You see that a person is justified by works and not by faith alone. {{rf{25}}} And likewise was not Rahab the prostitute also justified by works when she welcomed the messengers and sent them out by a different route? {{rf{26}}} For just as the body without the spirit is dead, so also faith without works is dead. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|James-02-14]] }}}
Not many should become teachers, my brothers, because you know that we will receive a greater judgment. {{rf{2}}} For we all stumble in many ways. If anyone does not stumble in what he says, he is a perfect individual, able to hold in check his whole body also. {{rf{3}}} And if we put bits in the mouths of horses so that they obey us, we also guide their whole bodies. {{rf{4}}} Behold also ships: although they are so large and are driven by strong winds, they are guided by a very small rudder wherever the inclination of the pilot wishes. {{rf{5}}} So also the tongue is a small member of the body and boasts great things. Behold how small a fire sets ablaze how great a forest! {{rf{6}}} And the tongue is a fire! The world of unrighteousness, the tongue, is set among our members, defiling the whole body and setting on fire the course of human existence, being set on fire by hell. {{rf{7}}} For every species of animals and birds, of reptiles and sea creatures, is being tamed and has been tamed by the human species, {{rf{8}}} but no human being is able to tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison. {{rf{9}}} With it we bless the Lord and Father, and with it we curse people who are made in the likeness of God. {{rf{10}}} From the same mouth come blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things ought not to be so! {{rf{11}}} A spring does not pour forth from the same opening fresh and bitter water, does it? {{rf{12}}} A fig tree is not able, my brothers, to produce olives, or a grapevine figs. Neither can a saltwater spring produce fresh water. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|James-03-01]] }}}
<<Bbl James 3:1 abbr >> A teacher is at risk because he talks.
3:1 The KJV says //masters//.
3:3-4 In both pictures there are three elements: the guided vessel, the item which gives control, and the guiding agent. The last item, in our speech, should be the Holy Spirit.
3:5 Only __you__ can prevent forest fires.
<<Bbl James 3:6 abbr >>-8 ref <<Bbl Mk 7:21 >>. //A// world/, meaning a varied and comprehensive set; compare the vice list of <<Bbl Mk 07:21 >>. James would almost seem to say that without speech there is no sin.
<<Bbl James 3:8 abbr >> Craig Corley memorably lectured us in an Aussie accent while brandishing a cow tongue (2010?).
<<Bbl James 3:18 abbr >> . Better +division than <<Bbl James 4:1 >>.
3:6 <<Bbl Pr 17:20 >> has another strong word about the tongue.
3:7 See <<Bbl Gn 1:26 >>; <<Bbl Gn 9:2 >>.
<<Bbl James 3:11 abbr >>-12; an evil spirit must be cast out. The image of tree pertains to nature; an evil nature must be cast down. "Spirits feed on flesh."
3:15-18 These verses are best read as an extension of Vss. 10-11.
3:15 Van Gill (5/6/91) calls the influence of this anti-wisdom "passive demonization." The three characteristics, he amplifies with three others: worldly, non-spiritual, and having its source in Satan. It springs from an inner philosophy; it is not itself an imp, but it is an imp's idea.
<<Bbl James 4:1 abbr >> . //war// contrasts with //peace// in <<Bbl James 3:18 >>.
<<Bbl James 4:2 abbr >>c <<Bbl James 5:13 abbr >>
<<Bbl James 4:3 abbr >> A trenchant summary of Larry Crabb's main theme.
<<Bbl James 4:3 abbr>>-4 @@color:darkgreen;Why are we called "adulteresses" in praying for something to spend on our pleasures? Because God is our husband and the "world" is a prostitute luring us to give affections to her that belong only to God. This is how subtle the sin of worldliness can be. It can emerge not against prayer, but in prayer - and fasting. We begin to pray and fast - even intensely - not for God as our all-satisfying husband, but only for his gifts in the world so that we can make love with them.@@ // - John Piper//
4:4 See <<Bbl 1J 2:15 >>.
<<Bbl James 4:5 abbr >> This actual verse is not found in the Bible. The likely explanation is that James is making no attempt to quote a specific verse, but alluding to the tenor of Scripture.
4:8 For sinners, salvation; for the doubting saints, sanctification.
4:13 This is the first of two "Come now"s; the second is <<Bbl James 5:1 abbr >>.
<<Bbl James 4:13 abbr >>ff gives application to <<Bbl James 4:2 >>-4. Worldly planning is //friendship// with the world.
<<Bbl James 4:14 abbr >> Builds on <<Bbl James 1:11 >>
<<Bbl James 4:14 abbr >> The phrase this or that does not mean "nothing at all". It may mean, all the plans you may have been making, including the sort of plans in v. 13. We shall seems to be the "arrogant boasting" reproved by James. What is at stake here is the motivating attitude. Slivell, the young man who stopped by Blake and Carter's selling magazines, declared that his goal was to come and go exactly whenever and to wherever he pleased.
<<Bbl James 5:1 abbr >>-3 Builds on <<Bbl James 1:11 >>
5:2 Compare Jesus' words in <<Bbl Mt 6:19 >>.
<<Bbl James 5:7 abbr >> See <<Bbl Hos 6:3 >>, Php 4:5. Rain is mentioned again in vss. 17-18.
<<Bbl James 5:4 abbr >> . Builds on <<Bbl James 2:6 >>.
<<Bbl James 5:4 abbr >> . ref <<Bbl Ex 3:9 >>
<<Bbl James 5:5 abbr >> Gives application to <<Bbl James 4:3 >>.
<<Bbl James 5:5 abbr >> [[Last]] day. <<Bbl James 5:7 >>-9.
<<Bbl James 5:13 abbr >> ref <<Bbl James 4:2 abbr >>c.
<<Bbl James 5:13 abbr >> These instructions are not meaninglessly generic (although I have felt that way for many years). There are after all alternate ways to deal with life's up and downs; James is in spirit with the Psalms, which similarly are for every situation.
5:14 In <<Bbl Mk 6:13 >>, the disciples are anointing with oil.
<<Bbl James 5:15 abbr >> Sin brings sickness; 2ff
{{rf{13}}} Who is wise and understanding among you? Let him show by his good behavior his works, with the humility of wisdom. {{rf{14}}} But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast and tell lies against the truth. {{rf{15}}} This is not the wisdom that comes down from above, but is earthly, unspiritual, demonic. {{rf{16}}} For where there is jealousy and selfish ambition, there is disorder and every evil practice. {{rf{17}}} But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceful, gentle, obedient, full of mercy and good fruits, nonjudgmental, without hypocrisy, {{rf{18}}} And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace among those who make peace. {{rf big{1}}} From where are conflicts and from where are quarrels among you? Is it not from this, from your pleasures that wage war among your members? {{rf{2}}} You desire and do not have; you murder and are filled with envy, and are not able to obtain; you fight and quarrel. You do not have because you do not ask. {{rf{3}}} You ask and do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, in order that you may spend it on your pleasures. {{rf{4}}} Adulterous people! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God. {{rf{5}}} Or do you think that in vain the scripture says, "The spirit which he caused to dwell in us desires jealously"? {{rf{6}}} But he gives greater grace. Therefore it says, "God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|James-03-13]] }}}
{{rf{7}}} Therefore subject yourselves to God. But resist the devil, and he will flee from you. {{rf{8}}} Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded! {{rf{9}}} Lament and mourn and weep! Let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to gloominess. {{rf{10}}} Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will exalt you. {{rf{11}}} Do not speak evil of one another, brothers. The one who speaks evil of a brother or judges his brother speaks evil of the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge of the law. {{rf{12}}} There is one lawgiver and judge who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge your neighbor? {{rf{13}}} Come now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we will travel to such and such a city and spend a year there, and carry on business and make a profit," {{rf{14}}} you who do not know what will happen tomorrow, what your life will be like. For you are a smoky vapor that appears for a short time and then disappears. {{rf{15}}} Instead you should say, "If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that." {{rf{16}}} But now you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil. {{rf{17}}} Therefore, to the one who knows to do good and does not do it, to him it is sin. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|James-04-07]] }}}
Come now, you rich people, weep and cry aloud over the miseries that are coming upon you! {{rf{2}}} Your wealth has rotted, and your clothing has become moth-eaten. {{rf{3}}} Your gold and silver have become corroded, and their corrosion will be a witness against you, and it will consume your flesh like fire. You have stored up treasure in the last days. {{rf{4}}} Behold, the wages that were held back by you from the workers who reap your fields cry out, and the cries of the reapers have come to the ears of the Lord of hosts. {{rf{5}}} You have lived self-indulgently on the earth and have lived luxuriously. You have fattened your hearts in the day of slaughter. {{rf{6}}} You have condemned, you have murdered the righteous person; he does not resist you. {{rf{7}}} Therefore be patient, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the soil, being patient concerning it until it receives the early and late rains. {{rf{8}}} You also be patient. Strengthen your hearts, because the coming of the Lord is near. {{rf{9}}} Brothers, do not complain against one another, in order that you may not be judged. Behold, the judge stands before the doors! {{rf{10}}} Brothers, take as an example of perseverance and endurance the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord. {{rf{11}}} Behold, we consider blessed those who have endured. You have heard about the patient endurance of Job, and you saw the outcome from the Lord, that the Lord is compassionate and merciful. {{rf{12}}} Now above all, my brothers, do not swear either by heaven or by earth or by any other oath, but let your yes be yes and your no, no, in order that you may not fall under judgment. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|James-05-01]] }}}
{{rf{13}}} Is anyone among you suffering misfortune? He should pray. Is anyone cheerful? He should sing praise. {{rf{14}}} Is anyone among you sick? He should summon the elders of the church and they should pray over him, anointing him with olive oil in the name of the Lord. {{rf{15}}} And the prayer of faith will save the one who is sick, and the Lord will raise him up, and if he has committed sins he will be forgiven. {{rf{16}}} Therefore confess your sins to one another, and pray for one another, so that you may be healed. The effective prayer of a righteous person accomplishes much. {{rf{17}}} Elijah was a human being with the same nature as us, and he prayed fervently for it not to rain, and it did not rain on the land for three years and six months. {{rf{18}}} And he prayed again, and the sky gave rain and the earth produced its fruit. {{rf{19}}} My brothers, if anyone among you should wander away from the truth and someone turns him back, {{rf{20}}} he should know that the one who turns a sinner back from the error of his way will save that person's soul from death, and will cover over a great number of sins. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|James-05-13]] }}}
* [[Gospel-Exclusive]]
* [[God-Preeminent]]
* Shai Lynn's track
* Jealousy is //the conscious claim//.
** My Webster's fails to confirm this excellant fact.
** Check Weekley's, the O.E.D. and the KJV)
* Frequently confused with the word envy, which has to do with coveting.
* In English, it is related to the word [[Zeal]].
* <<Bbl Song 8:6 >>.
* [[Exclude]]. Corinthians, you cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons. If you try to make all God's happy, you will discover you have a problem with the one God who says worship is exclusively mine.
!! [[Idolatry]]
* God's: <<Bbl Num 25:11 >>, <<Bbl Dt 4:24 >>, <<Bbl Ez 8:1 >>f ''image of jealousy''
The words of Jeremiah, the son of Hilkiah, among the priests who were in Anathoth, in the land of Benjamin, {{rf{2}}} to whom the word of Yahweh came in the days of Josiah the son of Amon, the king of Judah, in the thirteenth year of his reign. {{rf{3}}} It came also in the days of Jehoiakim, the son of Josiah, the king of Judah, until the end of the eleventh year of Zedekiah, the son of Josiah, the king of Judah, until the exile of Jerusalem in the fifth month. {{rf{4}}} And the word of Yahweh came to me, saying, {{rf{5}}} "Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you came out from the womb I consecrated you; I appointed you as a prophet to the nations." {{rf{6}}} Then I said, "Ah, Lord Yahweh! Look, I do not know how to speak, for I am a youth." {{rf{7}}} But Yahweh said to me, "You must not say, 'I am a youth,' for to whomever I send you, you will go, and whatever I command you, you will speak. {{rf{8}}} Do not be afraid of them, for I am with you to deliver you," declares Yahweh. {{rf{9}}} Then Yahweh stretched out his hand and he touched my mouth, and Yahweh said to me, "Look, I have put my words in your mouth. {{rf{10}}} See, I appoint you this day over the nations and over the kingdoms, to pluck up and to pull down, and to destroy and to tear down, to build and to plant." {{rf{11}}} And the word of Yahweh came to me, saying, "What are you seeing, Jeremiah?" And I said, "I am seeing a branch of an almond tree." {{rf{12}}} Then Yahweh said to me, "You did well to see, for I am watching over my word to perform it." {{rf{13}}} And the word of Yahweh came to me a second time, saying, "What are you seeing?" And I said, "I am seeing a boiling pot, and its face is from the face of the north." {{rf{14}}} Then Yahweh said to me, "From the north disaster will be unleashed on all the inhabitants of the land. {{rf{15}}} For, look, I am calling to all the clans of the kingdoms of the north," declares Yahweh, "and they will come and set each one his throne at the entrance of the gates of Jerusalem, and against all its surrounding walls, and against all the cities of Judah. {{rf{16}}} And I will pass my judgments on them because of all their wickedness in that they have forsaken me, and they made sacrifices to other gods, and they bowed in worship to the works of their hands. {{rf{17}}} But you, you must gird your loins, and stand, and speak to them all that I command you. Do not be afraid of them, or I will shatter you before them. {{rf{18}}} Now look, I have made you today as a fortified city and as an iron pillar and a bronze wall against all the land, against the kings of Judah, against its princes, against its priests, and against the people of the land. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Jeremiah-01-01]] }}}
!!! General Notes
* He is not a prophet of doom but of consequences.
* The book is a collection of documents which are not in chronological order.
* Jeremiah is identified with Jesus, <<Bbl Jer 15:15 >>-21 :
** <<Bbl Jer 13:17 abbr >> Look 19:42-44, <<Bbl Mt 25:37 >>
** <<Bbl Mt 15:1 >> ("Ninevah repented..." )
** 26:10-15 His trial
** 40:2,3 Identification with sin's punishment
** 36:26 His several escapes
** 38:4-28
** <<Bbl Jer 1:16 abbr >>, ch. 3 "Eli, Eli, lamach sabathoni?"
** 3:53 The tomb as well as the cistern
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1:4-8 Jesus knew this passage well, knew it directly.
2 [[Water]] (13) is the symbol of God's presence; drought (6,25), of His absence; and false waters (13), of idolatry.
<<Bbl Jer 2:3 abbr >> Poaching was punished.
2:5 Idolatry!
<<Bbl Jer 3:1 abbr>> a principle of mutual jealousy.
<<Bbl Jer 5:16 abbr >> . Each arrow delivers a corpse, is a token of a dead man. See <<Bbl Jer 50:9 >>.
<<Bbl Jer 7:12 abbr >> Shiloh is mentioned in <<Bbl Judg 18:31 >>.
<<Bbl Jer 9:4 abbr >> NAS footnote //deceiver like Jacob//. This is important as denigrating Jacob's craftiness; there seems little else in Scripture of this negative opinion.
<<Bbl Jer 11:1 abbr >>
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Chapters 11 and 12 can be taken together and have their contents re-ordered. (Except the wonderful redemption forecast which remains as the close.) Jeremiah's betrayers are his home folks. They are also priests (<<Bbl Jer 1:1 >>) which gives context to //house// and //inheritance//(<<Bbl Jer 12:7 >>).
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<<Bbl Jer 11:9 abbr >> @@Division@@
<<Bbl Jer 11:9 abbr >> The conspiracy is against God but falls on Jeremiah. The initiative of v 10 becomes the imperative of v 21. //They hate you because they first hated Me.//
<<Bbl Jer 11:17 abbr >> ref <<Bbl Jer 12:14 >>
<<Bbl Jer 11:17 abbr >> ref <<Bbl Jer 12:2 >>
<<Bbl Jer 11:19 abbr >>b ref <<Bbl Jer 12:4 >>.
<<Bbl Jer 11:21 abbr >> ref <<Bbl Jer 12:6 >>.
<<Bbl Jer 12:5 abbr >> V 6 would seem to be the worst of situations, and one which has just now developed. Then how to understand v 5? Maybe God is explaining why trials up to this point have been so difficult.
<<Bbl Jer 12:6 abbr >> ref <<Bbl Jer 1:1 >>.
{{rf{19}}} And they will fight against you but they will not prevail against you, for I am with you," declares Yahweh, "to deliver you." {{rf big{1}}} And the word of Yahweh came to me, saying, {{rf{2}}} "Go and proclaim in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, 'Thus says Yahweh, "I remember concerning you the loyal love of your childhood, the love of your betrothal-time, your going after me in the desert, in the land not sown. {{rf{3}}} Israel was holy to Yahweh, the first fruit of his produce. All those who ate it were held guilty; disaster came to them," declares Yahweh.'" {{rf{4}}} Hear the word of Yahweh, O house of Jacob, and all the clans of the house of Israel. {{rf{5}}} Thus says Yahweh: "What injustice did your ancestors find in me that they were far from me, and they went after the vanity, and they became vain? {{rf{6}}} And they did not say, 'Where is Yahweh, the one who brought us up from the land of Egypt, the one who led us in the desert, in a land of desert plains and gorges, in a land of dryness and deep darkness, in a land that no one passes through, and no human lives there?' {{rf{7}}} And I brought you to the land of the orchard, to eat its fruit, and its good things. But you entered and defiled my land, and my inheritance you made a detestable thing. {{rf{8}}} The priests did not say, 'Where is Yahweh?' and those who handle the law did not know me, and the shepherds have rebelled against me, and the prophets prophesied by Baal, and they went after things which do not profit. {{rf{9}}} Therefore I again bring a lawsuit against you," declares Yahweh, "and with your children I bring a lawsuit. {{rf{10}}} For go over to the coasts of Cyprus and look, and send to Kedar and consider very closely, and see if there has been a thing like this: {{rf{11}}} Has a nation exchanged gods? And they are not gods! But my people have exchanged their glory for that which does not profit. {{rf{12}}} Be appalled, O heavens, at this, and shudder; be utterly desolate," declares Yahweh. {{rf{13}}} "For my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the source of living water, to hew out for themselves cisterns, cracked cisterns that can hold no water. {{rf{14}}} Is Israel a slave? Or a slave born in a house? Why has he become plunder? {{rf{15}}} The young lions have roared against him, they have raised their voices. And they have made his land as horror; his cities are destroyed, without an inhabitant. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Jeremiah-01-19]] }}}
{{rf{16}}} Moreover, people of Memphis and Tahpanhes will shave your skull. {{rf{17}}} Did you not do this to yourself, by forsaking Yahweh, your God, at the time of your leading in the way? {{rf{18}}} And now why do you go the way of Egypt to drink the waters of the Shihor? And why do you go the way of Assyria to drink the waters of the Euphrates? {{rf{19}}} Your wickedness will chastise you, and your apostasies will reprove you. Therefore know and see that it is evil and bitter, your forsaking of Yahweh, your God, and fear of me is not in you," declares the Lord, Yahweh of hosts. {{rf{20}}} "For from long ago you have broken your yoke, you tore to pieces your bonds. And you said, 'I will not serve!' But on every high hill and under every leafy tree you were lying down as a prostitute. {{rf{21}}} Yet I planted you as a choice vine, all of it a seed of trustworthiness. How then have you altered before me into something that is degenerate, the foreign vine? {{rf{22}}} For if you wash with natron, and you use much soap, your guilt is sticking as a stain before me," declares the Lord Yahweh. {{rf{23}}} "How can you say, 'I have not defiled myself, I have not gone after the Baals?' Look at your way in the valley, know what you have done. You are a young she-camel, interweaving her ways. {{rf{24}}} A wild ass accustomed to the desert, in the desire of her soul. She gasps for wind in her rutting time. Who can quell her lust? All those who seek her will not grow weary, in her month they will find her. {{rf{25}}} Restrain your foot from being barefoot, and your throat from thirst. But you said, 'It is hopeless. No! For I have loved strangers, and after them I will go.' {{rf{26}}} As the shame of a thief when he is caught in the act, so the house of Israel will be ashamed. They, their kings, their officials, and their priests, and their prophets. {{rf{27}}} Those who say to the tree, 'You are my father,' and to the stone, 'You gave birth to me.' For they have turned their backs to me, and not their faces. But in the time of their trouble they say, 'Arise and save us.' {{rf{28}}} But where are your gods that you made for yourself? Let them arise if they can save you in the time of your trouble. For according to the number of your towns are your gods, O Judah. {{rf{29}}} Why do you complain to me? All of you have rebelled against me," declares Yahweh. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Jeremiah-02-16]] }}}
{{rf{30}}} "For in vain I have struck your children. They accepted no discipline. Your sword devoured your prophets, like a ravening lion. {{rf{31}}} O generation, you see the word of Yahweh. Have I been a desert to Israel? Or a land of great darkness? Why do my people say, 'We roam about freely, we will not come again to you'? {{rf{32}}} Can a young woman forget her ornaments? Or a bride her sashes? Yet my people have forgotten me days without number. {{rf{33}}} How well you do on your way to seek love! Therefore even to the wicked woman you can teach your ways. {{rf{34}}} Also on your skirts is found the blood of the life of the innocent, the poor. You did not find them in the act of breaking into a house. But in spite of all these things, {{rf{35}}} yet you say, 'But I am innocent, surely his anger has turned away from me.' Look, I am entering into judgment with you because of your saying, 'I have not sinned.' {{rf{36}}} How you go about so much changing your way! Also by Egypt you will be put to shame, just as you were put to shame by Assyria. {{rf{37}}} Also from there you will come out with your hands on your head, for Yahweh has rejected those in whom you trust, and you will not prosper through them. {{rf big{1}}} A saying: 'Look, if a man divorces his wife, and she goes from him and she becomes another man's wife, will he return to her again?' Will not that land be greatly defiled? And you have prostituted yourself with many lovers, would you now return to me?" declares Yahweh. {{rf{2}}} "Lift up your eyes at the barren heights, and see where you have not been ravished. Beside the roads you sat for them like an Arab in the desert, and you have defiled the land with your fornication and with your wickedness. {{rf{3}}} Therefore rain showers have been withheld, and the spring rain has not come. Yet you have the forehead of a woman prostitute, you refuse to be ashamed. {{rf{4}}} Have you not just now called to me, 'My father, you are the close friend of my youth? {{rf{5}}} Will he be angry forever? Will he maintain it always'? Look, you have spoken, but you have done all the evil that you could." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Jeremiah-02-30]] }}}
{{rf{6}}} Then Yahweh said to me in the days of Josiah, the king, "Have you seen what apostate Israel has done? She has gone on every high hill and under every leafy tree and she has prostituted herself there. {{rf{7}}} And I thought, 'After her doing all these things to me she will return,' but she did not return. And her treacherous sister Judah saw it. {{rf{8}}} And I saw that for this very reason, that on account of apostate Israel committing adultery I divorced her and gave the letter of divorce to her. Yet her treacherous sister Judah was not afraid and she went and prostituted herself also. {{rf{9}}} And it was because of the frivolity of her fornication that she defiled the land and committed adultery with the stone and with the tree. {{rf{10}}} Yet even in all this her treacherous sister Judah did not return to me with all her heart, but only in pretense," declares Yahweh. {{rf{11}}} Then Yahweh said to me, "Apostate Israel has proved herself more upright than treacherous Judah. {{rf{12}}} Go, and proclaim these words toward the north, and say, 'Return, apostate Israel,' declares Yahweh. 'I will not cause my anger to fall on you. For I am loyal,' declares Yahweh. 'I will not be angry forever. {{rf{13}}} Only acknowledge your guilt, that against Yahweh your God you have rebelled, and have scattered your ways to the strangers under every leafy tree, and you have not obeyed my voice,' declares Yahweh." {{rf{14}}} "Return, apostate children," declares Yahweh. "For I am your master, and I will take you one from a city and two from a clan, and I will bring you to Zion. {{rf{15}}} Then I will give you shepherds after my own heart and they will feed you knowledge and insight. {{rf{16}}} And it will be when you have multiplied and become fruitful in the land in those days," declares Yahweh, "they will no longer say, 'The ark of the covenant of Yahweh.' And it will not come to mind, nor will they remember it, nor will they miss it, nor will it be made again. {{rf{17}}} At that time they will call Jerusalem 'The Throne of Yahweh,' and all the nations will be gathered to it, to the name of Yahweh, to Jerusalem, and they will no longer go after the stubbornness of their evil heart. {{rf{18}}} In those days the house of Judah will walk along with the house of Israel and they will come together from the land of the north to the land that I gave as an inheritance to your ancestors. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Jeremiah-03-06]] }}}
{{rf{19}}} Then I thought, 'How I would set you among the children, and I would give you a land of desire, an inheritance of the glory of the hosts of nations.' And I thought, 'You would call me, "My father," and you would not turn back from behind me.' {{rf{20}}} However, as a wife departs treacherously from her lover, so you have dealt treacherously with me, O house of Israel," declares Yahweh. {{rf{21}}} "A voice is heard on the barren heights, the weeping of the pleas for mercy of the children of Israel, because they have perverted their way, they have forgotten Yahweh their God. {{rf{22}}} Return, O apostate children, I will heal your backsliding. 'Look, we come to you, for you are Yahweh our God. {{rf{23}}} Surely, an illusion comes from the hills, the turmoil on the mountains. Surely, in Yahweh our God is the salvation of Israel. {{rf{24}}} But the shameful thing has devoured the labor of our ancestors from our youth, their flocks, and their cattle, their sons and their daughters. {{rf{25}}} Let us lie down in our shame, and let our disgrace cover us. For against Yahweh our God we have sinned, we and our ancestors, from our youth and until this day. and we have not obeyed the voice of Yahweh our God.'
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{{rf big{1}}} If you return, O Israel," declares Yahweh, "you return to me. And if you remove your abominations from my presence, and you do not wander, {{rf{2}}} and you swear, 'As Yahweh lives,' in truth, in justice, and in righteousness, then nations will be blessed by him, and in him they will boast." {{rf{3}}} For thus says Yahweh to the men of Judah and to Jerusalem, "Break up for yourselves prepared virgin soil, and you must not sow among thornbushes. {{rf{4}}} Circumcise yourselves to Yahweh, and remove the foreskins of your hearts, men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem, lest my wrath goes forth like the fire and burns, and there is no one who extinguishes it, because of the evil of your deeds." {{rf{5}}} Declare in Judah and proclaim in Jerusalem and say, "Blow a horn through the land, call with a loud voice and say, 'Be gathered and let us go into the fortified cities.' {{rf{6}}} Lift up a signal toward Zion, bring yourselves to safety; you must not remain standing, for I am bringing evil from the north, and a great destruction. {{rf{7}}} A lion has gone up from his thicket, and a destroyer of nations has set out. He has gone out from his place to make your land as a horror, your cities will go to ruin without inhabitant. {{rf{8}}} Because of this gird yourselves with sackcloth, lament and wail, for the burning anger of Yahweh has not turned back from us. {{rf{9}}} And then on that day," declares Yahweh, "the heart of the king and the heart of the officials will be destroyed, and the priests will be appalled, and the prophets will be astonished." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Jeremiah-03-19]] }}}
{{rf{10}}} Then I said, "Ah, Lord Yahweh, surely you have utterly deceived this people and Jerusalem, saying, 'It will be peace for you,' while the sword reaches up to the throat." {{rf{11}}} At that time it will be said to this people and to Jerusalem, "A hot wind from the barren heights in the desert, in the direction of the daughter of my people, not to winnow and not to cleanse, {{rf{12}}} a wind too strong for these will come for me, now also I speak judgments against them." {{rf{13}}} Look, he comes up like the clouds, and his chariots are like the whirlwind, his horses are swifter than eagles, woe to us, for we are devastated. {{rf{14}}} Cleanse your heart from wickedness, O Jerusalem, so that you may be saved. How long will your thoughts of mischief dwell in your inner part? {{rf{15}}} For a voice is declaring from Dan, and is proclaiming disaster from the mountain of Ephraim. {{rf{16}}} "Report to the nations, 'Here they are!' Proclaim against Jerusalem, 'Besiegers are coming from a distant land, and they raise their voice against the cities of Judah.' {{rf{17}}} Like watchers of a field they were against her from all around, because she has rebelled against me," declares Yahweh. {{rf{18}}} "You obtained this for yourself because of your way and your deeds. This is your doom, for it is bitter, yes, it has reached up to your heart." {{rf{19}}} My bowels, my bowels! I writhe! The walls of my heart! My heart is restless within me, I cannot keep silent, for I hear in my inner self the sound of a horn, the alarm of war. {{rf{20}}} Destruction on destruction is proclaimed, for all of the land is devastated. Suddenly my tents are devastated, my tent curtains in a moment. {{rf{21}}} How long must I see the banner, and hear the sound of a horn? {{rf{22}}} "For my people are foolish, they have not known me. They are foolish children, and they do not have insight. They are skillful at doing evil, and they do not know how to do good." {{rf{23}}} I looked at the earth, and behold, it was wasteland and emptiness, and to the heavens, and they were without their light. {{rf{24}}} I looked at the mountains, and behold, they were quaking, and all of the hills were jolted to and fro. {{rf{25}}} I looked and behold, there was no person, and all of the birds of the sky had fled. {{rf{26}}} I looked and behold, the fruitful land was a desert, and all of its cities were ruined before Yahweh, before the face of his burning anger. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Jeremiah-04-10]] }}}
{{rf{27}}} For thus says Yahweh, "All of the land will be a desolation, yet I will not make a complete desolation. {{rf{28}}} Because of this the earth will mourn, and the heavens above will become dark. Because I have spoken, I have planned, and I have not relented, and I will not turn back from it." {{rf{29}}} From the sound of a horseman and an archer every town flees, they enter in the thickets and among the rocks they climb. Every town is forsaken, and there is no person who lives in them. {{rf{30}}} And you, O devastated one, what do you do, that you put on crimson, that you adorn yourself with ornaments of gold, that you make your eyes look bigger with the eye make-up? In vain you beautify yourself. Your lovers reject you; they seek your life. {{rf{31}}} For I heard a voice like an ill woman, anxiety like a woman who bears her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion. She is gasping for breath, she is spreading out her hands: "Woe is me, for I am becoming tired before killers." {{rf big{1}}} "Roam about through the streets of Jerusalem, and look please, and take note, and search at its public squares, if you can find a person who does justice, who seeks honesty, so that I may forgive it. {{rf{2}}} And though they say, 'As Yahweh lives,' therefore they swear falsely." {{rf{3}}} O Yahweh, do not your eyes look for honesty? You have struck them, but they felt no pain, you have destroyed them, they refused to take discipline. They have hardened their faces more than rock, they have refused to turn back. {{rf{4}}} Then I said, "They are just simple people, they are foolish, for they know not the way of Yahweh, the law of their God. {{rf{5}}} Let me go to the great, and let me speak with them, for they know the way of Yahweh, the law of their God." However, they together have broken the yoke, they have torn to pieces the bonds. {{rf{6}}} Therefore a lion from the forest will kill them, A wolf from the desert plains will devastate them. A leopard is watching their cities, everyone who goes out from there will be torn, because their transgressions are many, their apostasies are numerous. {{rf{7}}} "How can I forgive you? Your children have forsaken me, and they have sworn by those who are not gods. But I fed them to the full, and they committed adultery, and flocked to the house of a prostitute. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Jeremiah-04-27]] }}}
{{rf{8}}} They were well-fed lusty horses, they neighed each to the wife of his neighbor. {{rf{9}}} Because of these things shall I not punish?" declares Yahweh, "and on a nation who is like this, shall I not take revenge? {{rf{10}}} Go up through her vineyards and destroy, but you must not make complete destruction. Remove her branches, for they are not to Yahweh. {{rf{11}}} For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have dealt utterly treacherously with me," declares Yahweh. {{rf{12}}} "They have denied Yahweh, and have said, 'Not he, for evil will not come on us, we will see neither sword nor famine. {{rf{13}}} And the prophets are like wind, and the word is not in them.' Thus it will be done to them." {{rf{14}}} Therefore thus says Yahweh, the God of hosts, "Because you have spoken this word, look, I am making my words in your mouth like a fire, and this people wood, and it will devour them. {{rf{15}}} Look, I am about to bring on you a nation from afar, O house of Israel," declares Yahweh. "It is an enduring nation, it is an ancient nation. A nation whose language you do not know, and you cannot understand what they speak. {{rf{16}}} Their quiver is like an open tomb, all of them are warriors. {{rf{17}}} And they will eat your harvest and your food, they will eat your sons and your daughters, they will eat your flock and your herd, they will eat your vine and your fig tree, they will smash with the sword your fortified cities, in which you trust. {{rf{18}}} "But even in those days," declares Yahweh, "I will not make you a complete destruction. {{rf{19}}} And then, when you people say, 'Why has Yahweh our God done all of these things to us?' Then you will say to them, 'As you have forsaken me and have served gods of a foreign land in your land, so will you serve strangers in a land that does not belong to you.' {{rf{20}}} "Declare this in the house of Jacob, and proclaim it in Judah, saying, {{rf{21}}} 'Hear this please, O foolish and senseless people, who have eyes but do not see, who have ears but do not hear.' {{rf{22}}} Do you not revere me?" declares Yahweh, "Do you not tremble before me? For I have placed the sand as a boundary for the sea, as an everlasting limit, and it cannot pass over it, and they rise and fall loudly, but they cannot prevail, and its waves roar, but they cannot pass over it. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Jeremiah-05-08]] }}}
{{rf{23}}} But for this people is a stubborn and rebellious heart, they have turned aside and have gone away. {{rf{24}}} And they do not say in their hearts, 'Let us fear please Yahweh our God, the one who gives the autumn rain and the spring rain in its season, the set times of the harvest he keeps for us.' {{rf{25}}} Your iniquities have disturbed these, and your sins have kept away the good from you. {{rf{26}}} For wicked people are found among my people, they lie in wait like the hiding of fowlers, they set up a trap, they catch humans. {{rf{27}}} Like a cage full of birds, so their houses are full of fraud. Therefore they have become great, and they have become rich. {{rf{28}}} They have grown fat, they have grown sleek, also, their evil deeds have no limit. They do not judge with justice, the legal cause of the orphan, or allow it to succeed, and the legal case of the poor, they do not defend. {{rf{29}}} Because of these things shall I not punish?" declares Yahweh, "and on a nation who is like this, shall I not take revenge? {{rf{30}}} A horrific event and something horrible has happened in the land. {{rf{31}}} The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests rule by their own authority, and my people love it so much. But what will you do when the end comes? {{rf big{1}}} Flee for safety, O children of Benjamin, from the midst of Jerusalem. And in Tekoa blow a horn, and on Beth-haccherem lift up a signal, for evil looks down from the north, and a great destruction. {{rf{2}}} The lovely and the delicate, the daughter of Jerusalem, I will destroy. {{rf{3}}} Shepherds and their flocks will come against her, they will pitch their tents against her all around, they will pasture, each his portion. {{rf{4}}} Sanctify war against her. Arise, and let us attack at noon. Woe to us, for the day turns, for the shadows of evening are lengthened. {{rf{5}}} Arise, and let us attack by night, and let us destroy her citadel fortresses." {{rf{6}}} For thus says Yahweh of hosts, "Cut down trees and heap up a siege ramp against Jerusalem. This is the city that must be punished, its oppression is in its midst. {{rf{7}}} As a water well keeps its water cool, so she keeps cool her wickedness. Violence and destruction are heard within her, sickness and wounds are continually before me. {{rf{8}}} Be warned, O Jerusalem, lest I turn away from you in disgust, lest I make you a desolation, a land that is not inhabited." {{rf{9}}} Thus says Yahweh of hosts: "They will thoroughly glean the remnant of Israel as a vine, turn back your hand over the branches like a grape-gatherer. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Jeremiah-05-23]] }}}
{{rf{10}}} To whom shall I speak and admonish, that they may hear? Look, their ears are closed, and they are not able to listen attentively. Look, the word of Yahweh is to them an object of scorn, they do not delight in it. {{rf{11}}} But I am full with the wrath of Yahweh, I struggle to hold it in. Pour it out on the children in the street, and on the assemblies of young men at the same time. For even husband with wife will get trapped, the old with him who is full of days. {{rf{12}}} And their houses will be turned over to others, their fields and their wives together. For I will stretch out my hand against the inhabitants of the land," declares Yahweh. {{rf{13}}} "For from the smallest of them to the greatest of them, everyone makes profit for unlawful gain. And from the prophet to the priest, everyone practices deceit. {{rf{14}}} And they have treated the wound of my people lightly, saying, 'Peace, peace,' but there is no peace. {{rf{15}}} Have they acted ashamed, for they have committed a detestable thing? Not at all, nor were they ashamed; they did not know to feel humiliated. Therefore they will fall among those who fall at the time I punish them, they will stumble," says Yahweh. {{rf{16}}} Thus says Yahweh: "Stand at the roads and look, and ask for the ancient paths, where the way of the good is, and walk in it, and find rest for your inner selves. But they said, 'We will not walk in it.' {{rf{17}}} And I raised up watchmen over you: 'Listen attentively to the sound of a horn.' But they said, 'We will not listen attentively.' {{rf{18}}} Therefore hear, O nations, and know, O community, what will happen to them. {{rf{19}}} Hear, O earth, look, I am about to bring disaster to this people, the fruit of their plans, because they have not listened attentively to my words, and my teaching, they have rejected it also. {{rf{20}}} What is this to me? Frankincense comes from Sheba, and the precious spice reed from a distant land. Your burnt offerings are not acceptable, your sacrifices are not pleasing to me." {{rf{21}}} Therefore thus says Yahweh: "Look, I am about to put before this people stumbling blocks, and they will stumble against them, fathers and children together, neighbor and his friend will perish." {{rf{22}}} Thus says Yahweh: "Look, a people is coming from the land of the north, a great nation is woken up from the farthest part of the earth. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Jeremiah-06-10]] }}}
{{rf{23}}} The bow and the short sword they grasp are cruel, and they show no mercy. Their sound roars like the sea, and on horses they ride, drawn up like a man for battle against you, O daughter of Zion." {{rf{24}}} We have heard news of it, our hands grow slack, anxiety has grasped us, pain as a woman who gives birth. {{rf{25}}} You must not go out into the field, and you must not walk on the road, for the enemy has a sword, terror is all around. {{rf{26}}} O daughter of my people, gird yourself with sackcloth, and roll about in the ashes in mourning, a mourning ceremony as for an only child. Make for yourself wailing of bitterness, for suddenly the destroyer will come upon us. {{rf{27}}} "I have made you an assayer among my people, a fortification, so that you may know and put to the test their ways. {{rf{28}}} All of them are stubborn rebels, going about talking slander. They are bronze and iron, they are all behaving corruptly. {{rf{29}}} The bellows are burned up, lead is consumed by fire. In vain he keeps on refining, but the wicked are not torn apart. {{rf{30}}} They are called rejected silver, For Yahweh has rejected them." {{rf big{1}}} The word that came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, saying, {{rf{2}}} "Stand in the gate of the house of Yahweh and proclaim there this word, and say, 'Hear the word of Yahweh, all of Judah, those who enter through these gates to bow in worship to Yahweh. {{rf{3}}} Thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, "Make your ways and your deeds good and let me dwell with you in this place. {{rf{4}}} Do not trust in the deceitful words, saying, 'The temple of Yahweh, the temple of Yahweh, they are the temple of Yahweh.' {{rf{5}}} For if you truly make your ways and your deeds good, if you truly do justice between a man and his neighbor, {{rf{6}}} you do not oppress the alien, the orphan, and the widow, you do not shed innocent blood in this place, and you do not go after other gods to your harm, {{rf{7}}} then I will let you dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your ancestors forever and ever. {{rf{8}}} Look, you are relying for yourselves on deceitful words without benefiting. {{rf{9}}} Will you steal? Will you murder? And will you commit adultery? And will you swear falsely? And will you make a smoke offering to the Baal? And will you go after other gods whom you have not known? {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Jeremiah-06-23]] }}}
{{rf{10}}} And then you come and you stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and you say, 'we are safe to go on doing all of these detestable things.' {{rf{11}}} Has this house, which is called by my name, become a cave of robbers in your eyes? Look, I, even I, have seen it," declares Yahweh. {{rf{12}}} "For go now to my place that was in Shiloh, where I caused my name to dwell in the beginning, and see what I did to it because of the wickedness of my people Israel. {{rf{13}}} And now, because of your doing all these things," declares Yahweh, "and I have spoken to you over and over again, and you have not listened, and I called you, and you have not answered, {{rf{14}}} therefore I will do to the house that is called by my name, in which you are trusting, and to the place that I gave to you and to your ancestors what I did to Shiloh. {{rf{15}}} And I will cast you out of my sight just as I cast out all of your blood relatives, all of the offspring of Ephraim." ' {{rf{16}}} "And you, you must not pray for this people, and you must not lift up for them a cry of entreaty or a prayer, and you must not plead with me, for I will not hear you. {{rf{17}}} Do you not see what they are doing in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem? {{rf{18}}} The children are gathering wood, and the fathers are kindling the fire, and the women are kneading dough to make sacrificial cakes for the queen of heaven, and they pour out libations to other gods for the sake of provoking me to anger. {{rf{19}}} Are they provoking me to anger? " declares Yahweh, "Is it not themselves they hurt, for the sake of the shame of their faces?" {{rf{20}}} Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh, "Look, my anger and my wrath will be poured out on this place, on the humankind, and on the animal, and on the tree of the field, and on the fruit of the ground, and it will not be extinguished." {{rf{21}}} Thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, "Add your burnt offerings to your sacrifices, and eat the flesh. {{rf{22}}} For I did not speak with your ancestors, nor did I command them in the day of bringing them out from the land of Egypt, concerning the matter of burnt offering and sacrifice. {{rf{23}}} But I only commanded them this word, saying, 'Obey my voice, and I will be to you God, and you will be to me people, and you must walk in all of the way that I command you, so that it goes well with you.' {{rf{24}}} Yet they did not obey, and they did not incline their ear, but they walked in their own plans, in the stubbornness of their evil heart, and they became worse instead of better. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Jeremiah-07-10]] }}}
{{rf{25}}} From the day that your ancestors came out from the land of Egypt until this day I have sent to you all my servants the prophets, day after day, sending again and again. {{rf{26}}} Yet they have not listened to me and they have not inclined their ear, but they have hardened their neck, they did more evil than their ancestors. {{rf{27}}} So you shall speak to them all these words, but they will not listen to you, and you shall call to them, but they will not answer you. {{rf{28}}} "And you shall say to them, 'This is the nation that has not obeyed the voice of Yahweh their God, and they have not accepted discipline. The truth has perished, and it is cut off from their mouths. {{rf{29}}} Shear your hair and throw it away, and lift up a lament on the barren heights, for Yahweh has rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath.' {{rf{30}}} For the people of Judah have done evil in my eyes," declares Yahweh, "They have set their abominations in the house that is called by my name, to defile it. {{rf{31}}} And they built the high place of Topheth, which is in the Valley of Ben Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire, which I have not commanded, and it did not come into my mind. {{rf{32}}} Therefore look, days are about to come," declares Yahweh, "and it will no longer be called Topheth or the Valley of Ben Hinnom, but the Valley of the Slaughter, and they will bury in Topheth until there is no more place. {{rf{33}}} And the dead bodies of this people will be as food for the birds of the heavens, and for the animals of the earth, without anyone to scare them away. {{rf{34}}} And I will cause to disappear from the towns of Judah and from the streets of Jerusalem the sound of jubilation, and the sound of joy, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, for the land will become a site of ruins. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Jeremiah-07-25]] }}}
"At that time," declares Yahweh, "they shall bring out the bones of the kings of Judah, and the bones of its officials, and the bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the inhabitants of Judah from their graves. {{rf{2}}} And they shall spread them out before the sun, and before the moon, and before all the host of heaven, which they have loved, and which they have served, and which they have gone after, and which they have inquired about, and to which they have bowed in worship. They shall not be gathered, and they shall not be buried; they will be like dung on the surface of the ground. {{rf{3}}} And death will be preferred to life by all the remaining of this evil clan in all the remaining places where I have driven them away," declares Yahweh. {{rf{4}}} "And you shall say to them, 'Thus asks Yahweh: "Do men fall and not stand up? If one turns away does he not return? {{rf{5}}} Why has this people, Jerusalem, turned away in enduring apostasy? They have kept hold of deceit, they have refused to return. {{rf{6}}} I have listened attentively, and I have listened. They do not speak honestly, there is no man who regrets his wickedness, saying, 'What have I done?' All of them are turning to their ways of running, like a horse plunging into battle. {{rf{7}}} Even the stork in heaven knows its appointed time, and the turtledove, and the swallow, and the song bird, they observe the time of their coming. But my people do not know the ordinance of Yahweh. {{rf{8}}} How can you say, 'We are wise and the law of Yahweh is with us'? Look, surely the lying stylus of the scribes has made it a lie. {{rf{9}}} The wise will be put to shame, they will be dismayed, and they will get taken. Look, they have rejected the word of Yahweh, and what is wisdom to them? {{rf{10}}} Therefore I will give their wives to others, their fields to conquerors, because from the smallest to the greatest, all of them make profit for unlawful gain, from prophet to priest, all of them practice deceit. {{rf{11}}} And they have treated the wound of the daughter of my people lightly, saying, 'Peace, peace,' but there is no peace. {{rf{12}}} Were they ashamed, for they had committed a detestable thing? What's worse, they were not ashamed at all, and they did not know to feel humiliated. Therefore they will fall among those who fall; at the time of their punishment they will stumble," says Yahweh. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Jeremiah-08-01]] }}}
{{rf{13}}} "I will take away their harvest," declares Yahweh. "There are no grapes on the vine, and there are no figs on the fig tree, and the leaves wither, and what I gave to them passed over them." '" {{rf{14}}} Why are we sitting? Gather, and let us go into the fortified cities, and let us perish there, for Yahweh our God has caused us to perish, and has provided drink for us, water of poison, because we have sinned against Yahweh. {{rf{15}}} We hope for peace, but there is no good, for a time of healing, but there is terror. {{rf{16}}} "From Dan is heard the snorting of their horses, from the sound of the neighing of their stallions all the land quakes, for they come and devour the land, and that which fills the city, and those who live in it. {{rf{17}}} For look, I am letting loose among you snakes, adders for which there is no incantation, and they will bite you," declares Yahweh. {{rf{18}}} "My comfort is gone from me, sorrow is on me, my heart is sick. {{rf{19}}} Look, the sound of the cry for help of the daughter of my people from a distant land, 'Is Yahweh not in Zion? Is her king not in her?' Why have they provoked me to anger with their images, with idols of a foreign land?" {{rf{20}}} The harvest has passed, the summer has come to an end, and we have not received help. {{rf{21}}} "Because of the wound of the daughter of my people I am broken down, I mourn, horror has seized me. {{rf{22}}} Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no healer there? Why, then, has the healing of the daughter of my people not been restored? {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Jeremiah-08-13]] }}}
Oh that my head were waters, and my eyes a fountain of tears, so that I might weep day and night, for the slain of the daughter of my people. {{rf{2}}} Oh that I had in the desert a place of overnight lodging for travelers, that I may leave my people and go from them, for all of them are adulterers, a band of traitors. {{rf{3}}} And they bend their tongue like their bow, for falsehood and not truth is superior in the land, for they go forth from evil to evil, and they do not know me," declares Yahweh. {{rf{4}}} "Let everyone be on your guard against his neighbor, and you must not trust in any brother, for everyone surely betrays, and every neighbor goes about with slander. {{rf{5}}} And everyone deceives his neighbor, and they do not speak the truth, they have taught their tongues to speak lies, they are tired from going astray. {{rf{6}}} Your dwelling is in the midst of deceit, upon deceit they refuse to know me," declares Yahweh. {{rf{7}}} Therefore, thus says Yahweh of hosts: "Look, I am about to refine them, and I will test them, for what else can I do, because of the presence of the daughter of my people? {{rf{8}}} Their tongue is a murderous arrow, it speaks deceit. With his mouth he speaks peace with his neighbor, but in his inner parts he sets up his ambush. {{rf{9}}} Because of these things shall I not punish them?" declares Yahweh, "On a nation that is like this shall I not take revenge? {{rf{10}}} For the mountains I lift up weeping and wailing, and for the pastures of the desert a lament, because they are laid waste so that no man passes through. And the sounds of cattle are not heard, from the birds of heaven to the animals they have fled, they are gone. {{rf{11}}} And I will make Jerusalem as heaps of ruins, a lair of jackals, and the towns of Judah I will make a desolation, without inhabitants. {{rf{12}}} Who is the wise man that can understand this? And to whom has the mouth of Yahweh spoken, so that he may declare it? Why is the land destroyed? It is laid waste like the desert so that no one passes through." {{rf{13}}} And Yahweh said, "Because of their forsaking my law that I set before them, and they have not obeyed my voice, and have not walked in it, {{rf{14}}} but they went after the stubbornness of their heart, and after the Baals, which their ancestors taught them." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Jeremiah-09-01]] }}}
{{rf{15}}} Therefore thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, "Look, I am feeding this people wormwood, and providing drink for them, water of poison, {{rf{16}}} and I will scatter them among the nations that they have not known, they and their ancestors, and I will send the sword after them until I bring them to an end." {{rf{17}}} Thus says Yahweh of hosts: "Consider closely, and call for the wailing women, so that they come, and for the skillful women, so that they come. {{rf{18}}} And let them hasten, and let them lift up wailing over us, so that our eyes may melt with tears, and our eyelids may flow with water. {{rf{19}}} For a sound of wailing is heard from Zion, 'How we are devastated! We are very ashamed because we have left the land, because they have overthrown our dwelling places.' {{rf{20}}} For hear, O women, the word of Yahweh, and let your ear receive the word of his mouth, and teach your daughters a lamentation, and each woman her neighbor a lament. {{rf{21}}} For death has come into our windows, it has entered into our fortresses, to cut off the children from the streets, the young men from the public squares. {{rf{22}}} Speak, 'thus declares Yahweh: "The dead body of the human will fall like dung upon the surface of the field, and like cut grain behind the reaper, and there is no one who gathers." '" {{rf{23}}} Thus says Yahweh, "The wise man must not boast in his wisdom, and the warrior must not boast in his might, the wealthy man must not boast in his wealth. {{rf{24}}} But only in this must the one who boasts boast, that he has insight, and that he knows me, that I am Yahweh, showing loyal love, justice, and righteousness on the earth, for in these things I delight," declares Yahweh. {{rf{25}}} "Look, days are coming," declares Yahweh, "and I will call into account all those who are circumcised in the foreskin: {{rf{26}}} Egypt, Judah, and Edom, and the Ammonites, and Moab, and all those who are trimmed to the side, those who live in the desert, for all the nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised of heart." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Jeremiah-09-15]] }}}
Hear the word that Yahweh speaks to you, O house of Israel. {{rf{2}}} Thus says Yahweh: "You must not learn the way of the nations, and you must not be dismayed by the signs of the heavens, for the nations are dismayed by them. {{rf{3}}} For the statutes of the peoples are vanity, for it is a tree cut down from the forest, the work of the hands of a craftsman with the tool. {{rf{4}}} He decorates it with silver and gold, they strengthen it with nails and hammers, so that it does not stagger. {{rf{5}}} They are like scarecrows in a cucumber field, they cannot speak. Indeed, they must be carried, for they cannot march. You must not be afraid of them, for they cannot do evil; furthermore, to do good is not in them." {{rf{6}}} There is none like you, O Yahweh, you are great and your name is great in might. {{rf{7}}} Who would not revere you, O king of the nations? For you it is fitting. For among all the wise men of the nations, and in all their kingdoms, there is none like you. {{rf{8}}} At the same time they are stupid and foolish, in the instruction of idols, it is wood. {{rf{9}}} Silver beaten from Tarshish is brought, and gold from Uphaz, the work of the craftsman and the hands of the goldsmith. Blue and purple are their clothing, all of them are the work of skillful people. {{rf{10}}} But Yahweh is the true God, he is the living God, and an everlasting king. Because of his wrath the earth quakes, and the nations cannot endure his anger. {{rf{11}}} "Thus you shall say to them, 'Gods who did not make the heavens and the earth will perish from the earth and from under these heavens. {{rf{12}}} He is the maker of the earth by his power, who created the world by his wisdom, and by his understanding he stretched out heaven. {{rf{13}}} When he utters his voice there is a noise of water in the heavens, and he causes the mist to rise from the ends of the earth. He makes lightning for the rain, and he causes the wind to go out from his storehouses. {{rf{14}}} Everyone is stupid, without knowledge, every goldsmith is ashamed by his divine image, for his cast image is an illusion, and there is no breath in them. {{rf{15}}} They are vanity, a work of mockery, at the time of their punishment, they will perish. {{rf{16}}} The portion of Jacob is not like these, for he is the creator of everything, and Israel is the tribe of his inheritance, Yahweh of hosts is his name. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Jeremiah-10-01]] }}}
{{rf{17}}} Gather your bundle from the ground, you who live under the siege.'" {{rf{18}}} For thus says Yahweh, "Look, I am about to sling out the inhabitants of the land at this time, and I will bring distress to them, so that they may feel it." {{rf{19}}} Woe to me, because of my wound. My wound is incurable. But I said, "Surely this is my sickness, and I must bear it." {{rf{20}}} My tent is devastated, and all my tent cords are torn. My children have gone out from me, and they are not. There is no one who pitches my tent again, or one who puts up my tent curtains. {{rf{21}}} For the shepherds have become stupid, they do not seek Yahweh. Therefore they do not have insight, and all of their flock are scattered. {{rf{22}}} Listen, news: Look, it is coming, a great roar from the land of the north, to make the cities of Judah a desolation, a lair of jackals. {{rf{23}}} I know, O Yahweh, that to the human is not his own way, nor to a person is the walking and the directing of his own step. {{rf{24}}} Chastise me, O Yahweh, but in moderation, not in your anger, lest you eradicate me. {{rf{25}}} Pour out your wrath on the nations that do not know you, and on the peoples that do not call on your name, for they have devoured Jacob, they have devoured and consumed him, and they have caused his settlement to be desolate.
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{{rf big{1}}} The word that came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, saying, {{rf{2}}} "Hear the words of this covenant, and speak to the people of Judah and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, {{rf{3}}} and say to them, 'Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel: "The man is cursed who does not obey the words of this covenant, {{rf{4}}} which I commanded your ancestors in the day of my bringing them from the land of Egypt, from the furnace of iron, saying, 'Listen to my voice and do according to all that I command you, so will you be my people, and I will be your God.' {{rf{5}}} in order to keep the oath that I swore to your ancestors, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey, as it is this day." '" Then I answered and said, "Let it be so, O Yahweh." {{rf{6}}} And Yahweh said to me, "Proclaim all these words in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem, saying, 'Hear the words of this covenant and do them, {{rf{7}}} for I solemnly admonished your ancestors in the day of my leading them out from the land of Egypt and up to this day, admonishing persistently, saying, "Obey my voice." {{rf{8}}} But they did not obey and they did not incline their ear. Instead each one walked in the stubbornness of his evil heart. Therefore, I brought on them all the words of this covenant which I commanded them to do, and they did not do it.'" {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Jeremiah-10-17]] }}}
{{rf{9}}} And Yahweh said to me, "A conspiracy is found among the people of Judah and among the inhabitants of Jerusalem. {{rf{10}}} They have turned back to the iniquities of their former ancestors, who refused to obey my words, and they have gone after other gods, to serve them. The house of Israel and the house of Judah have broken my covenant that I made with their ancestors." {{rf{11}}} Therefore thus says Yahweh, "I am about to bring on them disaster from which they will not be able to escape. Though they cry out to me, yet I will not listen to them. {{rf{12}}} Then the cities of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem will go and cry out to the gods to whom they are making smoke offerings, but they will certainly not save them in the time of their trouble. {{rf{13}}} For the number of your towns are your gods, O Judah, and the number of the streets of Jerusalem are the altars you have set up to the shameful things, to make smoke offerings to Baal. {{rf{14}}} Therefore you must not pray for this people, and you must not lift up for them a cry of entreaty, or a prayer, for I will not listen in the time of their calling to me, in the time of their trouble. {{rf{15}}} What rights has my beloved in my house when she has done many wicked things? Can the flesh of holiness pass over you? For you engage in your wickedness, then you exult. {{rf{16}}} Yahweh called your name, 'A leafy olive tree, beautiful with fine fruit.' With the sound of a great storm he will set fire to it, and its branches will be good for nothing. {{rf{17}}} And Yahweh of hosts, the one who planted you, has spoken evil against you, because of the evil of the house of Israel and the house of Judah, that they have done to themselves, to provoke me to anger by making smoke offerings to Baal." {{rf{18}}} Moreover, Yahweh let it be made known to me, and I knew. Then you showed me their deeds. {{rf{19}}} And I was like a gentle ram-lamb that is brought to slaughter, and I did not know that they planned plans against me, saying, "Let us destroy the tree with its fruit, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, so that his name will no longer be remembered." {{rf{20}}} But O Yahweh of hosts, who judges in righteousness, who tests the inmost being, and the mind, let me see your retribution upon them, for to you I have revealed my legal case. {{rf{21}}} Therefore thus says Yahweh concerning the people of Anathoth who seek your life, saying, "You shall not prophesy in the name of Yahweh or you will die by our hand." {{rf{22}}} Therefore thus says Yahweh of hosts: "Look, I am about to punish them. The young men will die by the sword. Their sons and their daughters will die by the famine. {{rf{23}}} And a remnant will not be left for them, for I will bring disaster to the people of Anathoth, the year of their punishment." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Jeremiah-11-09]] }}}
{{rf big{1}}} You will be in the right, O Yahweh, when I complain to you. Even so, let me speak my claims with you. Why does the way of the wicked succeed? All those who deal treacherously with treachery are at ease. {{rf{2}}} Not only do you plant them, they take root. They grow, but also they produce fruit. You are near in their mouths, but far from their inmost beings. {{rf{3}}} But you, O Yahweh, you know me, you see me, and you test that my heart is with you. Tear them apart like sheep for the slaughtering, and set them apart for the day of slaughter. {{rf{4}}} How long will the land mourn, and the vegetation of every field dry up, because of the wickedness of those who live in it? The animals and the birds are swept away, because they have said, "He does not see our future." {{rf{5}}} "If you run with foot soldiers and they have made you weary, then how will you compete with horses? If you have fallen in a peaceful land, then how will you do in the thickets of the Jordan? {{rf{6}}} For even your relatives, and the house of your father, even they have dealt treacherously with you, even they call loudly after you. You must not trust in them, though they speak kindly to you. {{rf{7}}} I have forsaken my house, I have abandoned my inheritance. I have given the beloved one of my heart into the hand of her enemies. {{rf{8}}} My inheritance has become to me like a lion in the forest. She has lifted up against me her voice; therefore I hate her. {{rf{9}}} The lair of the hyena is my inheritance to me, the birds of prey are all around her. Go, gather all of the animals of the field, bring them to come and devour. {{rf{10}}} Many shepherds have destroyed my vineyard, they have trampled down my plot of land. They have made my pleasant field like the desert of desolation. {{rf{11}}} They have made it a desolation. Desolate, it mourns to me. All the land is made desolate, but there is no person taking it to heart. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Jeremiah-12-01]] }}}
{{rf{12}}} Upon all the barren heights in the desert destroyers have come, for the sword of Yahweh devours, from one end of the land to the other end of the land, there is no peace for all flesh. {{rf{13}}} They have sown wheat and they have reaped thorns. They are exhausted, they do not profit. And they will be ashamed of your produce, because of the burning anger of Yahweh." {{rf{14}}} Thus says Yahweh concerning all of the evil neighbors who touch the inheritance that I gave as an inheritance to my people Israel: "Look, I am about to drive them out from their land, and the house of Judah I will drive out from among them. {{rf{15}}} And then after my driving them out, I will once again have compassion on them, and I will bring them back, each one to his inheritance, and each one to his land. {{rf{16}}} And then, if they diligently learn the ways of my people, to swear by my name, 'as Yahweh lives,' even as they taught my people to swear by Baal, then they will live in the midst of my people. {{rf{17}}} But if they do not listen, then I will completely uproot and destroy that nation." declares Yahweh. {{rf big{1}}} Thus Yahweh said to me: "Go and buy for yourself a loincloth of linen and put it on your loins, but you must not place it in water." {{rf{2}}} So I bought the loincloth according to the word of Yahweh and I put it on my loins. {{rf{3}}} Now the word of Yahweh came to me a second time, saying, {{rf{4}}} "Take the loincloth that you bought, that is on your loins, and stand up, go to the Euphrates and hide it there in the cleft of the rock." {{rf{5}}} So I went and hid it by the Euphrates just as Yahweh had commanded me. {{rf{6}}} And then, after a long time, then Yahweh said to me, "Stand up, go to the Euphrates and take from there the loincloth that I commanded you to hide there." {{rf{7}}} Then I went to the Euphrates and I dug, and I took the loincloth from the place where I had hidden it, and look, the loincloth was ruined; it was not good for anything. {{rf{8}}} And then the word of Yahweh came to me, saying, {{rf{9}}} "Thus says Yahweh: 'So I will ruin the pride of Judah and the great pride of Jerusalem. {{rf{10}}} This evil people, who refuse to listen to my words, who go in the stubbornness of their hearts, and have gone after other gods, to serve them, and to bow in worship to them, let them be like this loincloth which is not good for anything. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Jeremiah-12-12]] }}}
You will be in the right, O Yahweh, when I complain to you. Even so, let me speak my claims with you. Why does the way of the wicked succeed? All those who deal treacherously with treachery are at ease. {{rf{2}}} Not only do you plant them, they take root. They grow, but also they produce fruit. You are near in their mouths, but far from their inmost beings. {{rf{3}}} But you, O Yahweh, you know me, you see me, and you test that my heart is with you. Tear them apart like sheep for the slaughtering, and set them apart for the day of slaughter. {{rf{4}}} How long will the land mourn, and the vegetation of every field dry up, because of the wickedness of those who live in it? The animals and the birds are swept away, because they have said, "He does not see our future." {{rf{5}}} "If you run with foot soldiers and they have made you weary, then how will you compete with horses? If you have fallen in a peaceful land, then how will you do in the thickets of the Jordan? {{rf{6}}} For even your relatives, and the house of your father, even they have dealt treacherously with you, even they call loudly after you. You must not trust in them, though they speak kindly to you. {{rf{7}}} I have forsaken my house, I have abandoned my inheritance. I have given the beloved one of my heart into the hand of her enemies. {{rf{8}}} My inheritance has become to me like a lion in the forest. She has lifted up against me her voice; therefore I hate her. {{rf{9}}} The lair of the hyena is my inheritance to me, the birds of prey are all around her. Go, gather all of the animals of the field, bring them to come and devour. {{rf{10}}} Many shepherds have destroyed my vineyard, they have trampled down my plot of land. They have made my pleasant field like the desert of desolation. {{rf{11}}} They have made it a desolation. Desolate, it mourns to me. All the land is made desolate, but there is no person taking it to heart. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Jeremiah-13-01]] }}}
<<Bbl Jer 13:7 abbr >> unclean doesn't survive
<<Bbl Jer 15:1 abbr >> Moses and Samuel are relevant because of the wickedness of those whom they pastored.
<<Bbl Jer 16:7 abbr >> In a sense the communion cup is for us a cup of consolation.
<<Bbl Jer 18:4 abbr >> The picture is not of a variety of vessels, but of masterful hands shaping a work in progress.
<<Bbl Jer 18:5 abbr >> This is the dung gate and //Hinnon// identifies it with the NT Gehenna (confirm).
<<Bbl Jer 18:12 abbr >> This is a different metaphor than <<Bbl R 9:20 >>ff, which speaks of finished pots in their variety. In contrast to the fluid execution of the Potter, the clay is saying "I'm rigid". See also <<Bbl Jer 19:10 >>.
<<Bbl Jer 19:10 abbr >> It's tempting to look for a thematic connection with the preceding. Maybe there is a theme. However the episodes of this chapter and the preceding may not be chronological (a general difficulty with the book). it might be that a perceived theme caused these texts to be placed together when they were collated.
<<Bbl Jer 20:14 abbr >>-18 So much for "having it all together." @@color:indigo;Had we but the words he uttered in public, and the record of his deeds, we would never have guessed that such a struggle took place. It is safe to say that few of his foes did; there was nothing in his actions to betray it. @@ //- J Bright//
<<Bbl Jer 21:2 abbr >> Rich irony, for //His wonderful acts// are indeed at work. First, God's guidance is indeed available through the prophet. Second, this guidance is to be preserved for all ages as we are reading it today. Third, the guidance is precise in v 9. Fourth, that verse refers to God's holy remnant (despised by those who were left in the city, as witnessed by Ezekiel) through which His master plan will eventually be consummated. Fifth, Jeremiah was allowed to reveal a great deal more about God's master plan, His //wonderful acts//, and this was available to anyone with a godly interest. What a picture of the worst side of the American charismatic movement.
22:23 The NIV offers the insight that Lebanon refers to the "house of Lebanon," that is, of cedars (<<Bbl 1K 7:2 >>).
22:30 As I recall, Pastor Kenneth Parker used this verse to help harmonize Luke and Matthew's genealogies of the Lord. Thomas and Gundry (Harmony) favor a different theory.
<<Bbl Jer 23:7 abbr >>-08 Two Exodus-acts are described, but they differ from each other.
<<Bbl Jer 23:8 abbr >> . This reverses the curse of <<Bbl Jer 22:10 >>. But this prophecy is for the descendants, and it is linked to Messiah.
<<Bbl Jer 23:24 abbr >> A child's hubris, a parent's discernment.
23:28 The image of straw and grain reveals what true prophecy is to do: feed a person. See <<Bbl 1C 14:3 >>.
<<Bbl Jer 24:8 abbr >> Yet Jeremiah must be carried off with the rotten figs.
<<Bbl Jer 24:9 abbr >> The worldwide ostracization of the Jews.
25:29 Compare 49:12.
<<Bbl Jer 27:3 abbr >> Maybe these prophecies are recorded in chapters 48 and 49.
<<Bbl Jer 27:19 abbr >>-22 The last prophetic prediction would seem to be as yet unfulfilled.
28:11 Interesting that Jeremiah does not have a ready reply at that moment.
30:21 This could be applied to Christ's ministry. Also it could be applied as a blessed desire for any church body.
31:31 -- a new [[Covenant]] of [[Grace]]
<<Bbl Jer 31:6 abbr >> Precisely what the northern tribes did not do (confirm, Ephraim is from the north?).
<<Bbl Jer 31:9 abbr >> The rebellion of the Northern Kingdom will have ended, and Jeroboam's bulls will hold no more attraction.
<<Bbl Jer 31:16 abbr >> The work of child-bearing.
<<Bbl Jer 31:18 abbr >>-20. xref //but it was I who taught Ephraim how to walk//
<<Bbl Jer 31:26 abbr >> fulfills the preceding verse.
<<Bbl Jer 31:29 abbr >> Judgment over a population, even over generations, will be no more. Is there a dispensational shift to individualism in the Heavenlies, not a mere cultural distinction?
{{rf{11}}} For as the loincloth clings to the loins of a person, so I caused to cling to me all the house of Israel and all the house of Judah,' declares Yahweh, 'to be for me a people, and a name, and a praise, and a glory, but they would not listen.' {{rf{12}}} "Therefore, you shall say to them this word, 'Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel: "Every jar must be filled with wine." ' And they will say to you, 'Do we not certainly know that every jar should be filled with wine?' {{rf{13}}} Then you shall say to them, 'Thus says Yahweh: "Look, I am about to fill all the inhabitants of this land, and the kings who sit on David's throne, and the priests, and the prophets, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem with drunkenness. {{rf{14}}} And I will smash them, each one against his brother, and the fathers and the sons together," declares Yahweh. "I will not have compassion, and I will not take pity, and I will not show compassion from destroying them." '" {{rf{15}}} Listen, and pay attention, you must not be haughty, for Yahweh has spoken. {{rf{16}}} Give glory to Yahweh your God before he brings darkness, and before your feet stumble on the mountains at twilight. And you will hope for light, but he makes it as gloom, he makes it as thick darkness. {{rf{17}}} But if you will not listen to it, my inner self will weep in secret places, because of the presence of your pride. And my eyes will weep bitterly, and they will melt in tears, because the flock of Yahweh has been taken captive. {{rf{18}}} "Say to the king and to the queen mother, 'Take a lower seat, for your beautiful crown has come down from your head.' {{rf{19}}} The towns of the Negev are shut up, and there is no one who opens them. All of Judah is deported; it is deported in completeness. {{rf{20}}} Lift up your eyes and see those coming from the north. Where is the flock that was given to you, your magnificent flock? {{rf{21}}} What will you say when he sets over you -- and you have taught them -- allies as head over you? Will not labor pains take hold of you, like a woman giving birth? {{rf{22}}} And if you say in your heart, 'Why have these things happened to me?' Because of the greatness of your iniquity your skirts are uncovered; your heels have endured violence. {{rf{23}}} Can a Cushite change his skin, or a leopard his spots? Then you also will be able to do good, who are accustomed to doing evil. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Jeremiah-13-11]] }}}
{{rf{24}}} And I will scatter them like stubble scattered by the wind of the desert. {{rf{25}}} This is your lot, the portion of your measure from me," declares Yahweh, "because you have forgotten me, and you have trusted in the lie. {{rf{26}}} So in turn I will bare your skirts over your face, and your shame will become visible. {{rf{27}}} Your adulteries, and your neighings, the shameful behavior of your fornications on the hills in the countryside, I have seen your abominations. Woe to you, O Jerusalem! How long will you continue to be unclean?" {{rf big{1}}} That which came as the word of Yahweh to Jeremiah concerning the matter of the severe drought. {{rf{2}}} "Judah mourns, and her gates languish, they are in mourning on the ground, and the cry of lament of Jerusalem goes up. {{rf{3}}} And their nobles send their servants for water. They come to the pits, they find no water. They return with their vessels empty. They are ashamed, and they are confounded, and they cover their heads. {{rf{4}}} Because of the ground, which is cracked because there was no rain on the ground. The farmers are ashamed, they cover their heads. {{rf{5}}} For even the doe in the field gives birth and forsakes her young, because there is no green growth. {{rf{6}}} And wild asses stand on the barren heights, they gasp for breath like the jackals. Their eyes fail because there is no vegetation." {{rf{7}}} Although our iniquities testify against us, O Yahweh, act for the sake of your name. Yes, our apostasies are many; we have sinned against you. {{rf{8}}} You are the hope of Israel, its savior in time of distress. Why should you be like an alien in the land, or like a traveler who spreads out his tent to spend the night? {{rf{9}}} Why should you be like a confused man, like a warrior who is not able to help? Yet you are in our midst, O Yahweh, and your name is called upon us. You must not leave us! {{rf{10}}} Thus says Yahweh concerning this people: "They have loved so much to wander, they have not spared their feet. Therefore Yahweh is not favorable to them, now he will remember their iniquity and punish their sins." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Jeremiah-13-24]] }}}
{{rf{11}}} So Yahweh said to me, "You must not pray for this people, for their happiness. {{rf{12}}} Although they fast, I am not listening to their cry of entreaty. And although they present burnt offering and grain offering, I am not favorable to them. But by the sword, and by the famine, and by the plague, I am about to destroy them." {{rf{13}}} Then I said, "Ah, Lord Yahweh, look, the prophets are saying to them, 'You will not see the sword, and famine will not be yours, but reliable peace I will give to you in this place.'" {{rf{14}}} And Yahweh said to me, "The prophets are prophesying lies in my name. I have not sent them, and I have not commanded them, and I have not spoken to them. They are prophesying to you a lying vision, and a divination, worthless, and the deceitfulness of their minds." {{rf{15}}} Therefore thus says Yahweh concerning the prophets who prophecy in my name though I have not sent them, yet they are saying, "Sword and famine will not be in this land." "By the sword and by the famine those prophets will perish. {{rf{16}}} And the people to whom they are prophesying will be cast out into the streets of Jerusalem because of the famine and the sword. And there will be no one who buries them, their wives, or their sons, or their daughters. And I will pour out on them their wickedness. {{rf{17}}} "And you shall say to them this word, 'Let my eyes melt with tears night and day, and let them not cease, for with a great wound the virgin daughter of my people is broken, with a very incurable wound. {{rf{18}}} If I go out into the field, then look, those slain by the sword. And if I enter the city, then look, the sickness of the famine. For both prophet and priest wander around through the land, they do not know what is going on.'" {{rf{19}}} Have you completely rejected Judah? Or has your soul loathed Zion? Why have you struck us so that there is no healing for us? We hope for peace, but there is no good, and for a time of healing, but look, there is terror. {{rf{20}}} We know, O Yahweh, our wickedness, the iniquity of our ancestors, for we have sinned against you. {{rf{21}}} You must not spurn us for the sake of your name, you must not dishonor your glorious throne. Remember us! You must not break your covenant with us. {{rf{22}}} Are there any among the idols of the nation who cause rain to pour? Or can the heavens give showers? Is it not you, O Yahweh our God? Therefore, we hope in you, for you do all these things. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Jeremiah-14-11]] }}}
Then Yahweh said to me, "Even if Moses and Samuel stood before me, my heart would not be to this people. Send them away from my sight, and let them go out. {{rf{2}}} And then if they say to you, 'Where shall we go?' Then you shall say to them, 'Thus says Yahweh, "Those who are destined for the plague, to the plague, and those who are destined for the sword, to the sword, and those who are destined for the famine, to the famine, and those who are destined for the captivity, to the captivity." ' {{rf{3}}} "And I will summon over them four types of calamity," declares Yahweh, "the sword to kill, and the dogs to drag away, and the birds of the air and the wild animals of the earth to devour and to destroy. {{rf{4}}} And I will make them a terror to all of the kingdoms of the earth because of Manasseh, the son of Hezekiah, the king of Judah, because of what he did in Jerusalem. {{rf{5}}} "For who will have compassion on you, O Jerusalem, or who will show sympathy to you, or who will turn aside to ask about your welfare? {{rf{6}}} You have forsaken me," declares Yahweh. "You go backward, so I have stretched my hand against you, and I have destroyed you. I am tired of becoming remorseful. {{rf{7}}} And I have winnowed them with a winnowing fork in the gates of the land. I am bereaved. I have destroyed my people. They did not turn back from their ways. {{rf{8}}} Their widows will be more numerous before me than the sand of the seas. I have brought to them, against the mothers of young men, a destroyer at noon. I will suddenly drop on her anguish and horror. {{rf{9}}} She who gave birth to seven has withered away. She gasps her breath. Her sun set while still day. She has been put to shame and disgraced. And the remainder of them I will give to the sword before their enemies," declares Yahweh. {{rf{10}}} Woe to me, O my mother, that you gave birth to me, a man of contention and quarreling to the whole land. I have not lent out and I have not borrowed. All of them are cursing me. {{rf{11}}} Yahweh said, "Surely I will set you free to be good for you, surely I will cause the enemy to intercede with you in a time of trouble, and in a time of distress. {{rf{12}}} Can anyone break iron, iron from the north, or bronze? {{rf{13}}} I will give your wealth and your treasures as plunder without price, even because of all your sins, and throughout all your territories. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Jeremiah-15-01]] }}}
{{rf{14}}} And I will make you serve your enemies in a land that you do not know, for a fire will kindle in my anger. Upon you it will be kindled." {{rf{15}}} You who know, O Yahweh, remember me, and attend to me, and take revenge for me against my persecutors in your forbearance. You must take me away. Know that I am carrying disgrace because of you. {{rf{16}}} Your words were found and I ate them, and your words became to me as jubilation, even as the joy of my heart, for your name is called on me, O Yahweh God of hosts. {{rf{17}}} I sat not in the assembly of jokers, nor did I exult. Because of the presence of your hand I sat alone, for you filled me with indignation. {{rf{18}}} Why is my pain endless, and my wound incurable? It refuses to become healed. Truly you are to me like a deceitful brook, waters that are not trustworthy. {{rf{19}}} Therefore thus says Yahweh, "If you turn back, then I will take you back. You will stand before me. And if you utter what is precious and not what is worthless, you will be as my mouth. They will turn back to you, and you will not turn back to them. {{rf{20}}} And I will make you to this people a wall of fortified bronze, and they will fight against you, but they will not prevail over you, for I am with you, to save you, and to deliver you," declares Yahweh. {{rf{21}}} "And I will deliver you from the hand of the wicked, and I will redeem you from the hand of the tyrant." {{rf big{1}}} And the word of Yahweh came to me, saying, {{rf{2}}} "You shall not take for yourself a wife, there shall not be for you sons and daughters in this place." {{rf{3}}} For thus says Yahweh concerning the sons and concerning the daughters born in this place, and concerning their mothers who gave birth to them, and concerning their fathers who fathered them in this land: {{rf{4}}} "They will die by diseases, they will not be mourned, and they will not be buried. They will be as dung on the face of the earth. And they will perish by the sword and they will perish by the famine. And their dead bodies will become food for the birds of the air, and for the wild animals of the earth." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Jeremiah-15-14]] }}}
{{rf{5}}} For thus says Yahweh, "You must not enter the house of the funeral meal, and you must not go to lament, and you must not show sympathy for them, for I have taken away my peace from this people," declares Yahweh, "the loyal love and the compassion. {{rf{6}}} Both the great and small will die in this land. They will not be buried, and they will not mourn for them, and no one will cut himself with a blade, and no one will shave himself for them. {{rf{7}}} And they will not break bread for the mourning ceremony for them, to comfort him because of the dead. And they will not give drink to them, the cup of desolation, for their fathers, or for their mothers. {{rf{8}}} And you shall not enter the house of the banquet, to sit with them, to eat and drink." {{rf{9}}} For thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, "Look, I am about to cause to disappear from this place, before your eyes and in your days, the voice of jubilation, and the voice of joy, and the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride. {{rf{10}}} And then when you tell this people all these words and they ask you, 'Why has Yahweh pronounced against us all this great evil, and what is our iniquity, and what is our sin that we have sinned against Yahweh our God?' {{rf{11}}} Then you shall say to them, 'Because your ancestors have forsaken me,' declares Yahweh, 'and they have gone after other gods, and they have served them, and they have bowed down in worship to them, and they have forsaken me, and they have not kept my laws. {{rf{12}}} And you have behaved badly more than your ancestors, and look, you are going each one after the stubbornness of his evil heart, without listening to me. {{rf{13}}} So I will throw you from this land to the land that you have not known, you or your ancestors, and there you will serve other gods day and night, for I will not show you favor. {{rf{14}}} Therefore look, days are coming,' declares Yahweh, 'and it will no longer be said, "As Yahweh lives, who led up the Israelites from the land of Egypt," {{rf{15}}} but only "As Yahweh lives, who led up the Israelites from the land of the north, and from all the lands where he had driven them," for I will bring them back to their ground that I gave to their ancestors. {{rf{16}}} Look, I am sending for many fishermen,' declares Yahweh, 'and they will fish them out, and afterward I will send for many hunters, and they will hunt them from every mountain, and from every hill, and from the clefts of the cliffs. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Jeremiah-16-05]] }}}
{{rf{17}}} For my eyes are on all their ways, they are not hidden from before me, and their iniquity is not concealed from before my eyes. {{rf{18}}} And I will first doubly repay their iniquity and their sin because of their profaning my land with the dead bodies of their abhorrences, and with their abominations they have filled up my inheritance.'" {{rf{19}}} O Yahweh, my strength, and my stronghold, and my refuge in the day of distress, to you the nations will come from the ends of the earth, and they will say, "Our ancestors have inherited only lies, vanity, and there is no profit in them. {{rf{20}}} Can a human make for himself gods? Yet they are not gods!" {{rf{21}}} "Therefore look, I am about to let them know, this time I am going to let them know my power and my might, and they will know that my name is Yahweh." {{rf big{1}}} "The sin of Judah is written with an iron stylus, with a point of diamond it is engraved on the tablet of their heart, and on the horns of their altars. {{rf{2}}} As the remembering of their children, so is the remembering of their altars and their poles of Asherah worship beside the leafy trees on the high hills. {{rf{3}}} O my mountain in the open country, I will give your wealth, all your treasures, for spoil, your high places, because of your sin, throughout all your territories. {{rf{4}}} And you will let go your hand from your inheritance that I gave to you, and I will make you serve your enemies in the land that you do not know, for you kindled a fire in my anger, until eternity it will be kindled." {{rf{5}}} Thus says Yahweh, "Cursed is the person who trusts in humankind and makes flesh his strength, and turns aside his heart from Yahweh. {{rf{6}}} And he will be like a juniper in the wilderness, and he will not see when good comes, and he will dwell in the parched places in the desert, in a land of salt flats, where no one lives. {{rf{7}}} Blessed be the person who trusts in Yahweh, and Yahweh is his trust. {{rf{8}}} For he will be like a tree planted by water, and to the stream it sends its roots, and it will not fear when heat comes, and its leaves will be luxuriant, and in the year of drought it will not be anxious, and it will not cease from the bearing of fruit. {{rf{9}}} The heart is deceitful more than anything else, and it is disastrous. Who can understand it? {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Jeremiah-16-17]] }}}
{{rf{10}}} I, Yahweh, examine the mind, I test the heart, and give to each one according to his way, according to the fruit of his deeds. {{rf{11}}} Like a partridge that hatches eggs it did not lay is one who amasses wealth without justice. In the middle of his days it will leave him, and at his end he will prove to be a fool." {{rf{12}}} A lofty throne of glory from the beginning is the place of our sanctuary. {{rf{13}}} O Yahweh, the hope of Israel, all those who forsake you will be put to shame, and those who turn aside from you in the earth will be recorded, for they have forsaken the fountain of living water, Yahweh. {{rf{14}}} Heal me, O Yahweh, and I will be healed, save me, and I will be saved, for you are my praise. {{rf{15}}} Look, they are saying to me, "Where is the word of Yahweh? Please let it come." {{rf{16}}} But I, I have not run away from being a shepherd who follows you, and I have not desired the disastrous day. You, you know the pronouncement of my lips, it was before your face. {{rf{17}}} You must not become to me a terror, you are my refuge in the day of disaster. {{rf{18}}} Let my persecutors be put to shame, but as for me, do not let me be put to shame. Let them be dismayed, but as for me, do not let me be dismayed. Bring on them the day of disaster, and with double destruction, destroy them. {{rf{19}}} Thus said Yahweh to me, "Go, and you must stand in the People's Gate through which the kings of Judah enter, and through which they go out, and in all the gates of Jerusalem. {{rf{20}}} And you must say to them, 'Hear the word of Yahweh, kings of Judah, and all Judah, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem who enter through these gates. {{rf{21}}} Thus says Yahweh, "Be on your guard for the sake of yourselves, that you must not carry a burden on the day of the Sabbath, and you must not bring it through the gates of Jerusalem. {{rf{22}}} And you must not carry a burden from your houses on the day of the Sabbath, and you must not do any work. But you must declare holy the day of Sabbath, just as I commanded your ancestors. {{rf{23}}} Yet they did not listen, and they did not incline their ear, and they hardened their neck so as to not hear, nor to receive discipline. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Jeremiah-17-10]] }}}
{{rf{24}}} "And it will happen, if you carefully listen to me," declares Yahweh, "to bring no burden through the gates of this city on the day of the Sabbath, but to declare holy the day of Sabbath, not to do on it any work, {{rf{25}}} then kings and officials who sit on the throne of David will enter through the gates of this city riding in chariots and on horses, they, and their officials, the people of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and this city will be inhabited forever. {{rf{26}}} And they will come from the towns of Judah, and from all around Jerusalem, and from the land of Benjamin, and from the Shephelah, and from the hill country, and from the Negev, bringing burnt offerings, and sacrifices, and grain offerings, and frankincense, and bringing thank offerings to the house of Yahweh. {{rf{27}}} But if you do not listen to me, to declare holy the day of the Sabbath, and to not carry a burden and enter through the gates of Jerusalem on the day of the Sabbath, then I will kindle a fire in its gates, and it will devour the palaces of Jerusalem, and it will not be quenched." '" {{rf big{1}}} The word that came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, saying, {{rf{2}}} "Stand up and go down to the house of the potter, and there I will let you hear my words." {{rf{3}}} So I went down to the house of the potter and look, there he was doing work at the potter's wheels. {{rf{4}}} And the vessel that he was making with the clay was spoiled in the hand of the potter, so he made again another vessel, as it was right in the eyes of the potter to make. {{rf{5}}} And the word of Yahweh came to me, saying, {{rf{6}}} "Like this potter, am I not able to do to you, O house of Israel?" declares Yahweh. "Look, like the clay in the hand of the potter, so are you in my hand, O house of Israel. {{rf{7}}} One moment I speak concerning a nation or concerning a kingdom, to uproot, and to tear down, and to destroy it. {{rf{8}}} But if that nation turns back from its evil that I have threatened against it, then I will relent concerning the disaster that I planned to do to it. {{rf{9}}} And the next moment I speak concerning a nation or concerning a kingdom, to build, and to plant it. {{rf{10}}} But if it does evil in my sight, to not listen to my voice, then I will relent concerning the good that I said I would do to it. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Jeremiah-17-24]] }}}
{{rf{11}}} "So now then, say, please, to the people of Judah and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, 'Thus says Yahweh, "Look, I am preparing evil against you, and I am planning a plan against you. Please turn back, each one from his evil way, and walk rightly in your ways and your deeds." ' {{rf{12}}} But they will say, 'It is hopeless, for we will go after our own plans, and each one of us will act according to the stubbornness of his evil heart.' {{rf{13}}} "Therefore thus says Yahweh, 'Please ask among the nations, "Who has heard the like of this?" The virgin of Israel has done something very horrible. {{rf{14}}} Does the snow of Lebanon leave from the crags of Sirion? Or are the cold waters flowing from distant mountains dried up? {{rf{15}}} But my people have forgotten me. They make smoke offerings to the idols, and they caused them to stumble in their ways, the ancient ways, to go into bypaths, not one that is built up. {{rf{16}}} To make their land a horror, an object of whistling for eternity. All who pass by it will be appalled, and he will shake his head. {{rf{17}}} Like the wind from the east I will scatter them before the enemy. I will show them my back and not my face in the day of their disaster.'" {{rf{18}}} Then they said, "Come and let us plan plans against Jeremiah, for instruction will not be lost from the priest, nor advice from the wise man, nor the word from the prophet. Come and let us bring charges against him, and let us not listen attentively to any of his words." {{rf{19}}} Listen attentively to me, O Yahweh, and listen to the voice of my opponents. {{rf{20}}} Should good be repaid in place of evil? Yet they have dug a pit for me. Remember my standing before you to speak good for them, to avert your wrath from them. {{rf{21}}} Therefore give their children to the famine, and hand them over to the power of the sword, and let their wives be bereaved and widows, and let their men be killed by death, their young men struck dead by the sword in the battle. {{rf{22}}} Let a cry for help be heard from their houses when you suddenly bring upon them the raiding band, for they have dug a pit to catch me, and they have fixed secretly a trap for my feet. {{rf{23}}} But you, O Yahweh, you know all their plans of assassination against me. You must not make atonement for their iniquity, and you must not cause their sin to be blotted out from before you. But let them be overthrown before you. Deal with them in the time of your anger. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Jeremiah-18-11]] }}}
Thus said Yahweh, "Go and buy a potter's earthenware jar, and take some of the elders of the people, and some of the leaders of the priests, {{rf{2}}} and go out to the Valley of Ben Hinnom, which is at the entrance of the Gate of the Potsherd, and proclaim there the words that I speak to you. {{rf{3}}} And you shall say, 'Hear the word of Yahweh, O kings of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem. Thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel: "Look, I am about to bring disaster upon this place so that everyone who hears it, his ears will ring. {{rf{4}}} Because they have forsaken me, and they have defaced this place, and they have made smoke offerings in it to other gods whom they have not known, they, nor their ancestors, nor the kings of Judah, and they have filled up this place with the blood of the innocent, {{rf{5}}} and they have built the high places of Baal, to burn their children in the fire, burnt offerings to Baal, which I commanded not, and I ordered not, and it did not come to my mind. {{rf{6}}} "Therefore look, days are about to come," declares Yahweh, "when this place will no longer be called Topheth or the Valley of Ben Hinnom, but the Valley of the Slaughter. {{rf{7}}} And I will lay waste the plans of Judah and Jerusalem in this place, and I will bring them to ruin by the sword before their enemies, and by the hand of those who seek their life, and I will give their dead bodies as food to the birds of heaven and to the animals of the earth. {{rf{8}}} And I will make this city a horror, and an object of hissing, everyone who passes by it will be appalled, and will hiss because of all its wounds. {{rf{9}}} And I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons, and the flesh of their daughters, and each one will eat the flesh of his neighbor in the siege and in the distress which their enemies and those who seek their life inflict on them." ' {{rf{10}}} "Then you shall break the jar before the eyes of the men who go with you. {{rf{11}}} And you shall say to them, 'Thus says Yahweh of hosts: "So I will break this people and this city as one breaks the vessel of the potter, so that it is not able to be repaired again. And in Topheth they will bury until there is no room to bury. {{rf{12}}} Thus will I do to this place," declares Yahweh, "and to its inhabitants, to make this city like Topheth. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Jeremiah-19-01]] }}}
{{rf{13}}} And the houses of Jerusalem and the houses of the kings of Judah will be unclean like the place of Topheth, all the houses where they made smoke offerings upon their roofs to all the host of heaven, and where they poured out libations to other gods." '" {{rf{14}}} Then Jeremiah came from Topheth, where Yahweh had sent him to prophesy, and he stood in the courtyard of the house of Yahweh and said to all the people, {{rf{15}}} "Thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, 'Look, I am about to bring to this city and upon all its towns all the disaster that I have pronounced against it, because they have hardened their neck to not hear my words.'" {{rf big{1}}} Now Pashhur, the son of Immer, the priest who was officer in charge in the temple of Yahweh, heard Jeremiah prophesying these things. {{rf{2}}} Then Pashhur struck Jeremiah the prophet and put him in the stocks that were in the upper Gate of Benjamin, which was by the temple of Yahweh. {{rf{3}}} And then on the next day, when Pashhur brought Jeremiah out from the stocks, Jeremiah said to him, "Yahweh will not call your name Pashhur, but Terror From All Around. {{rf{4}}} For thus says Yahweh, 'Look, I am making you a terror to yourself and to all your friends, and they will fall by the sword of their enemies, and your eyes will be seeing it. And all Judah I will give into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he will deport them to Babylon, and he will strike them with the sword. {{rf{5}}} And I will give all the wealth of this city, and all its acquisitions, and all its precious items, and all of the treasures of the kings of Judah I will give into the hand of their enemies, and they will plunder them, and they will seize them, and they will bring them to Babylon. {{rf{6}}} And you, Pashhur, and all those who live in your house will go into captivity, and you will go to Babylon, and there you will die, and there you will be buried, you, and all your friends to whom you have prophesied falsely.'" {{rf{7}}} You have persuaded me, O Yahweh, and I was persuaded. You have overpowered me, and you have prevailed. I have become a laughingstock all day long. Everyone is mocking me. {{rf{8}}} For as often as I speak, I must cry out violence and destruction. I must shout, for the word of Yahweh has become for me a disgrace and derision all day long. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Jeremiah-19-13]] }}}
{{rf{9}}} But if I say, "I will not mention him and I will no longer speak in his name," then it becomes in my heart like a fire burning, locked up in my bones, and I struggle to contain it, and I am not able. {{rf{10}}} For I hear the rumor of many, "Terror is from all around, denounce him, yes, let us denounce him!" All my close friends are watchers of my stumbling, saying, "perhaps he can be persuaded, and we can prevail over him, and we can take our revenge on him." {{rf{11}}} But Yahweh is with me like a powerful warrior. Therefore my persecutors will stumble and will not prevail. They will be very ashamed, for they will not achieve success. Their everlasting insult will not be forgotten. {{rf{12}}} Yet, O Yahweh of hosts, who tests the righteous, who sees the heart and the mind, let me see your retribution upon them, for to you I have revealed my legal case. {{rf{13}}} Sing to Yahweh, praise Yahweh, for he has delivered the life of the poor from the hand of evildoers. {{rf{14}}} Cursed be the day on which I was born, let not the day on which my mother gave birth to me be blessed. {{rf{15}}} Cursed be the man who brought the news to my father, saying, "A child is born to you, a son!" and he made him very glad. {{rf{16}}} And let that man be like the cities that Yahweh demolished without regret, and let him hear a cry for help in the morning, and an alarm at the time of noon. {{rf{17}}} Because he did not kill me in the womb, so that my mother would have been for me my grave, and her womb would be pregnant forever. {{rf{18}}} Why did I come out from the womb, to see toil, and sorrow, and to end my days in shame? {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Jeremiah-20-09]] }}}
The word that came to Jeremiah from Yahweh when King Zedekiah sent to him Pashhur, the son of Malchiah, and Zephaniah, the son of Maaseiah, the priest, saying, {{rf{2}}} "Please inquire of Yahweh on behalf of us, for Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon is fighting against us. Perhaps Yahweh will do with us according to all his miraculous acts, so that he may go up from against us." {{rf{3}}} Then Jeremiah said to them, "Thus you shall say to Zedekiah: {{rf{4}}} 'Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel: "Look, I am about to turn back the weapons of war that are in your hands, with which you are fighting against them, the king of Babylon and the Chaldeans who are laying siege to you from outside the wall, and I will gather them into the center of this city. {{rf{5}}} And I myself will fight against you with outstretched hand, and with strong arm, and in anger, and in fury, and in great wrath. {{rf{6}}} And I will strike the inhabitants of this city, both humankind and animal; by a great plague they will die. {{rf{7}}} And afterward," declares Yahweh, "I will give Zedekiah, the king of Judah, and his servants, and the people, and those who remain in this city from the plague, from the sword, and from the famine, into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, and into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of those who seek their lives, and he will strike them with the edge of the sword. He will not take pity on them, and he will not have compassion, nor will he show compassion." ' {{rf{8}}} "And to this people you shall say, 'Thus says Yahweh, "Look, I am setting before you the way of life and the way of death. {{rf{9}}} He who stays in this city will die by the sword, or by the famine, or by the plague. And he who goes out and goes over to the Chaldeans who are laying siege to you will live, and his life will be to him as booty. {{rf{10}}} For I have set my face against this city for evil and not for good," declares Yahweh. It will be given into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he will burn it with fire." ' {{rf{11}}} "And to the house of the king of Judah, 'Hear the word of Yahweh, {{rf{12}}} O house of David, thus says Yahweh, "Execute judgment in the morning, justice, and deliver the one who has been seized from the hand of the oppressor, lest my wrath goes forth like the fire and it burns, and there is no one who quenches it because of the evil of your deeds. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Jeremiah-21-01]] }}}
{{rf{13}}} Look, I am against you, O inhabitants of the valley, O rock of the plain," declares Yahweh; "you who say, 'Who can descend against us, or who can enter into our hiding place?' {{rf{14}}} And I will punish you according to the fruit of your deeds," declares Yahweh, "And I will kindle a fire in its forest, and it will devour all its surroundings." '" {{rf big{1}}} Thus says Yahweh: "Go down to the house of the king of Judah and you must speak this word there. {{rf{2}}} And you must say, 'Hear the word of Yahweh, O king of Judah, who sits on the throne of David, you, and your servants, and your people who enter through these gates. {{rf{3}}} Thus says Yahweh, "Ac with justice and righteousness, and deliver the one who has been seized from the hand of the oppressor. And you must not oppress the immigrant, the orphan, and the widow. And you must not shed innocent blood in this place. {{rf{4}}} And if you indeed obey this word, then kings who sit for David on his throne will enter through the gates of this house, riding in chariots and on horses, he, and his servants, and his people. {{rf{5}}} But if you do not obey these words, I swear by myself," declares Yahweh, "that this house will become a site of ruins." '" {{rf{6}}} For thus says Yahweh concerning the house of the king of Judah, "You are like Gilead to me, like the head of the Lebanon. Surely I will make you a desert, like cities that are not inhabited. {{rf{7}}} And I will consecrate against you destroyers, everyone with his weapons, and they will cut down your choicest cedars, and cast them on the fire. {{rf{8}}} And many nations will pass by this city and they will say each one to his neighbor, 'Why has Yahweh done in this manner to this great city?' {{rf{9}}} Then they will answer, 'Because they abandoned the covenant of Yahweh their God, and bowed down in worship to other gods, and served them.'" {{rf{10}}} You must not weep for the dead person, and you must not show sympathy for him. Weep bitterly for the one who goes away, for he will not return, or see the land of his birth again. {{rf{11}}} For thus says Yahweh concerning Shallum, the son of Josiah, the king of Judah, who reigned as king in place of Josiah his father, who went out from this place: "He will not return here again. {{rf{12}}} But in the place where they have deported him, there he will die, and he will not see this land again. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Jeremiah-21-13]] }}}
{{rf{13}}} Woe to the one who builds his house without righteousness, and his upper rooms without justice. His fellow countryman, he works for nothing, and he does not give to him his wages. {{rf{14}}} Who says 'I will build for myself a spacious house with large upper rooms,' and he cuts windows for it, and it is paneled with cedar, and he paints it with vermilion. {{rf{15}}} Do you reign as king because you are competing in cedar? Did not your father eat and drink, and he did justice and righteousness, then it was well with him? {{rf{16}}} He judged the legal cause of the needy and the poor, and then it was well. Is that not what it means to know me?" declares Yahweh. {{rf{17}}} "But there is nothing in your eyes and your heart except your unlawful gain, and on shedding the blood of the innocent, and on committing oppression and extortion." {{rf{18}}} Therefore thus says Yahweh concerning Jehoiakim, the son of Josiah, the king of Judah: "They will not lament for him, 'Alas, my brother,' or 'Alas, sister.' They will not lament for him, 'Alas, lord,' or 'alas, his majesty.' {{rf{19}}} He will be buried with the burial of a donkey. He will be dragged away and thrown outside the gates of Jerusalem. {{rf{20}}} Go up to Lebanon and cry out, and in Bashan lift up your voice, and cry out from Abarim, for all your lovers are shattered. {{rf{21}}} I spoke to you in the times you were secure, and you said, 'I will not listen!' This was your way from your youth, for you have not obeyed my voice. {{rf{22}}} All your shepherds will shepherd the wind, and your lovers will go into captivity. Yes, then you will be ashamed and humiliated because of all your wickedness. {{rf{23}}} Inhabitants of Lebanon, nestled among the cedars, how you will groan when labor pains come to you, fear and pain as the woman who gives birth. {{rf{24}}} "As I live," declares Yahweh, "surely if Coniah, the son of Jehoiakim, the king of Judah, were the seal on my right hand, surely from there I would wrench you off. {{rf{25}}} And I would give you into the hand of those who seek your life, and into the hand of those from whom you are frightened by their presence, and into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, and into the hand of the Chaldeans. {{rf{26}}} And I will throw you and your mother who gave birth to you to another country where you were not born, and there you will die. {{rf{27}}} As for the land to which they are longing to return, they will not return. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Jeremiah-22-13]] }}}
{{rf{28}}} Is this man Coniah a despised, shattered vessel? Or a vessel in which there is no delight? Why are he and his offspring thrown far, and cast away to the land that they do not know?" {{rf{29}}} O land, land, land, hear the word of Yahweh. {{rf{30}}} Thus says Yahweh: "Record this man as childless, a man who will not succeed in his days, for no man from his offspring will succeed him, sitting on the throne of David and ruling again in Judah." {{rf big{1}}} "Woe to the shepherds who destroy and scatter the flock of my pasture," declares Yahweh. {{rf{2}}} Therefore thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel concerning the shepherds who shepherd my people, "You yourselves have scattered my flock, and you have driven them away, and you do not attend to them. Look, I will punish you for the evil of your deeds," declares Yahweh. {{rf{3}}} "Then I myself will gather together the remnant of my flock from all the lands where I have driven them, and I will bring them back to their grazing place, and they will be fruitful, and they will become numerous. {{rf{4}}} And I will raise up over them shepherds, and they will shepherd them, and they will no longer fear, and they will not be dismayed, and they will not be missing," declares Yahweh. {{rf{5}}} "Look, days are coming," declares Yahweh, "when I will raise up for David a righteous branch, and he will reign as king, and he will achieve success, and he will do justice and righteousness in the land. {{rf{6}}} In his days Judah will be saved, and Israel will dwell in safety, and this is his name by which he will be called: 'Yahweh is our righteousness.' {{rf{7}}} "Therefore look, days are coming," declares Yahweh, "when they will no longer say, 'As Yahweh lives, who led up the Israelites from the land of Egypt,' {{rf{8}}} but 'As Yahweh lives, who led up, and who brought the offspring of the house of Israel from the land of the north and from all the lands where he had driven them.' Then they will live in their land." {{rf{9}}} Concerning the prophets: My heart is broken in my midst. All my bones tremble. I have become like a drunken man, even like a man over whom wine has passed, because of Yahweh, and because of his holy words. {{rf{10}}} For the land is full of adulterers; for the land mourns because of a curse. The pastures of the desert are dry, and their evil has been their way of running, and their power is not right. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Jeremiah-22-28]] }}}
{{rf{11}}} "For both prophet as well as priest are godless, even in my temple I have found their wickedness," declares Yahweh. {{rf{12}}} "Therefore their way will be to them like the slippery places, they will be pushed in the darkness, and they will fall into it, for I will bring disaster on them in the year of their punishment," declares Yahweh. {{rf{13}}} "Now in the prophets of Samaria I saw a disgusting thing. They prophesied by Baal and they caused my people Israel to err. {{rf{14}}} And in the prophets of Jerusalem I have seen something horrible. They commit adultery, and they walk in lies, and they make strong the hands of evildoers, so that they have not turned back each from his wickedness. All of them have become to me like Sodom, and its inhabitants like Gomorrah." {{rf{15}}} Therefore thus says Yahweh concerning the prophets, "Look, I am going to let them eat wormwood and I will give them water of poison to drink, for from the prophets of Jerusalem went out ungodliness to all the land." {{rf{16}}} Thus says Yahweh of hosts, "You must not listen to the words of the prophets who prophesy to you. They are deluding you with visions of their mind, They do not speak from the mouth of Yahweh. {{rf{17}}} They are continually saying to those who disregard the word of Yahweh, 'Peace it will be to you,' and to each one who walks in the stubbornness of his heart they say, 'Calamity will not come upon you.' {{rf{18}}} For who has stood in the council of Yahweh, that he has seen and heard his word? Who has listened attentively to his word and heard it? {{rf{19}}} Look, the storm of Yahweh has gone forth in wrath, even a whirling tempest. It will whirl upon the head of the wicked. {{rf{20}}} The anger of Yahweh will not turn back until his doing and until his keeping the plans of his mind. In latter days you will look closely at it with understanding. {{rf{21}}} I have not sent the prophets, yet they ran. I have not spoken to them, yet they prophesied. {{rf{22}}} But if they had stood in my council, then they would have proclaimed my words to my people, and they would have caused them to turn from their evil way, and from the evil of their deeds. {{rf{23}}} Am I a God from near," declares Yahweh, "and not a God from far? {{rf{24}}} Or can a person hide himself in secret places and I cannot see him?" declares Yahweh. "Do I not fill up the heaven and the earth?" declares Yahweh. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Jeremiah-23-11]] }}}
{{rf{25}}} "I have heard what the prophets who prophesy lies have said in my name, saying, 'I have dreamed! I have dreamed!' {{rf{26}}} How long will this be in the hearts of the prophets who prophesy lies, even the prophets of the deceitfulness of their hearts, {{rf{27}}} who plan to make my people forget my name by their dreams that they tell each one to his neighbor, just as their ancestors forgot my name through Baal? {{rf{28}}} The prophet who has with him a dream, let him tell the dream. But the prophet who has my word with him, let him speak my word faithfully. What is straw compared to wheat?" declares Yahweh. {{rf{29}}} ''"Is not my word like fire?" declares Yahweh, "and like a blacksmith's hammer that breaks a rock into pieces?'' {{rf{30}}} "Therefore look, I am against the prophets," declares Yahweh, "who steal my words each one from his neighbor. {{rf{31}}} Look, I am against the prophets," declares Yahweh, "who take their tongues and declare as prophets, 'Yahweh declares.' {{rf{32}}} Look, I am against those who prophesy dreams of lies," declares Yahweh, "and tell them, and they caused my people to err through their lies, and in their recklessness, when I myself have not sent them nor commanded them, so they profit not this people at all," declares Yahweh. {{rf{33}}} "Now when this people, or a prophet, or a priest, ask you, saying, 'What is the burden of Yahweh?' then you shall say to them, 'You are the burden, and I will forsake you,'" declares Yahweh. {{rf{34}}} "And the prophet, and the priest, and the people who say, 'The burden of Yahweh,' I will punish that man and his house. {{rf{35}}} Thus you shall say, each one to his neighbor and each one to his brother: 'What has Yahweh answered?' or, 'What has Yahweh spoken?' {{rf{36}}} But you shall not mention the burden of Yahweh, for the burden is to each one his word, and so you twist the words of the living God, Yahweh of hosts, our God. {{rf{37}}} Thus you shall say to that prophet, 'What has Yahweh answered you?' or, 'What has Yahweh spoken?' {{rf{38}}} But if you say, 'The burden of Yahweh,' therefore thus says Yahweh, 'because of your saying these words, "The burden of Yahweh," then I will send to you, saying, "You shall not say, 'The burden of Yahweh.'" ' {{rf{39}}} Therefore look, here I am, and I will surely lift you up and forsake you and the city that I gave to you and to your ancestors from my presence, {{rf{40}}} and I will bring upon you an everlasting disgrace and an everlasting shame that will not be forgotten." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Jeremiah-23-25]] }}}
Yahweh showed me, and look, there were two baskets of figs placed before the temple of Yahweh -- after Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had deported Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, the king of Judah, with the officials of Judah, and the craftsmen, and the smiths, from Jerusalem and had brought them to Babylon. {{rf{2}}} The one basket had very good figs, like early figs, and the other basket had very bad figs that could not be eaten because of their bad quality. {{rf{3}}} And Yahweh asked me, "What are you seeing, Jeremiah?" And I said, "Figs -- the good figs, very good, and the bad figs, very bad, that cannot be eaten because of their bad quality." {{rf{4}}} Then the word of Yahweh came to me, saying, {{rf{5}}} "Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, 'Like these good figs, so I will regard as good the exiles of Judah whom I have sent away from this place to the land of the Chaldeans. {{rf{6}}} For I will set my eyes on them for good, and I will bring them back to this land. And I will build them and not annihilate them, and I will plant them and not uproot them. {{rf{7}}} And I will give to them a heart to know me, that I am Yahweh, and they will be my people, and I will be their God, for they will return to me with the whole of their heart. {{rf{8}}} But like the bad figs that cannot be eaten because of their bad quality -- for thus says Yahweh -- so I will treat Zedekiah the king of Judah, and his officials, and the remnant of Jerusalem who remain in this land, and those who live in the land of Egypt. {{rf{9}}} And I will make them as a terror, an evil to all the kingdoms of the earth, as a disgrace and a proverb, as a taunt and a curse, in all the places where I will drive them. {{rf{10}}} And I will send among them the sword, the famine, and the plague, until they perish from the land that I gave to them and their ancestors.'" {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Jeremiah-24-01]] }}}
The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the people of Judah in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, the king of Judah, that was the first year of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, {{rf{2}}} which Jeremiah the prophet spoke to all the people of Judah and to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, {{rf{3}}} "From the thirteenth year of Josiah, the son of Amon, the king of Judah, even up to this day, these twenty-three years the word of Yahweh has come to me, and I have spoken to you over and over again, but you have not listened. {{rf{4}}} And though Yahweh has sent all his servants the prophets to you over and over again you have not listened, and you have not inclined your ear to hear, {{rf{5}}} saying, 'Turn back please, each one from his evil way, and from the evil of your deeds, and live on the land that Yahweh has given to you and to your ancestors from a long time back and until forever, {{rf{6}}} and you must not go after other gods to serve them, and to bow in worship to them, and you must not provoke me to anger with the work of your hands, then I will not do something bad to you.' {{rf{7}}} 'Yet you have not listened to me,' declares Yahweh, 'so that you have provoked me to anger with the work of your hands for your own harm.' {{rf{8}}} Therefore thus says Yahweh of hosts, 'Because you have not obeyed my words, {{rf{9}}} look, I am going to send and take all the clans of the north,' declares Yahweh, 'and I will send to Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and I will bring them against this land, and against its inhabitants, and against all these nations all around, and I will destroy them, and I will make them a horror, and an object of hissing, and everlasting ruins. {{rf{10}}} And I will exterminate from them the sound of jubilation, and the sound of joy, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, the sound of the millstones, and the light of the lamp. {{rf{11}}} And all this land will become a site of ruins, a desolation, and these nations will serve the king of Babylon seventy years. {{rf{12}}} And then when the seventy years are fulfilled, I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation,' declares Yahweh, 'for their iniquity, and the land of the Chaldeans, and I will make it an everlasting waste. {{rf{13}}} And I will bring upon that land all my words that I have spoken against it, everything that is written in this scroll which Jeremiah prophesied against all the nations. {{rf{14}}} For many nations and great kings will let them work, even them, and I will repay them according to their deeds, and according to the work of their hands.'" {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Jeremiah-25-01]] }}}
{{rf{15}}} For thus said Yahweh, the God of Israel, to me, "Take this cup of the wine of wrath from my hand, and you must give it to all the nations to whom I am sending you to drink. {{rf{16}}} And they will drink, and they will stagger, and they will act like madmen because of the presence of the sword that I am sending among them." {{rf{17}}} So I took the cup from the hand of Yahweh and I gave it to all the nations to whom Yahweh sent me to drink: {{rf{18}}} Jerusalem and the towns of Judah, and its kings, and its officials, to make them a site of ruins, a horror, an object of hissing, and a curse, as it is this day; {{rf{19}}} Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, and his servants, and his officials, and all his people; {{rf{20}}} and all the other people; and all the kings of the land of Uz; and all the kings of the land of the Philistines -- Ashkelon, and Gaza, and Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod; {{rf{21}}} Edom, and Moab, and the Ammonites; {{rf{22}}} and all the kings of Tyre, and all the kings of Sidon, and the kings of the coastland that is across the sea; {{rf{23}}} and Dedan, and Tema, and Buz, and all those who are trimmed to the side; {{rf{24}}} and all the kings of Arabia, and all the kings of the other people who dwell in the desert; {{rf{25}}} and all the kings of Zimri, and all the kings of Elam, and all the kings of Media; {{rf{26}}} and all the kings of the north, near and far, each one to his brother, and all the kingdoms of the world that are on the face of the earth; and the king of Sheshach, he will drink after them. {{rf{27}}} "And you shall say to them, 'Thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, "Drink and become drunk, and vomit, and fall, and you must not rise because of the presence of the sword that I am sending among you." ' {{rf{28}}} And it will happen, if they refuse to take the cup from your hand to drink, then you shall say to them, 'Thus says Yahweh of hosts, "You must certainly drink! {{rf{29}}} For look, on the city that is called by my name I am beginning to inflict harm, and you indeed, will you go unpunished? You will not go unpunished, for I am summoning a sword against all the inhabitants of the earth," declares Yahweh of hosts.' {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Jeremiah-25-15]] }}}
{{rf{30}}} And you yourself shall prophesy against them all these words, and you shall say to them: 'Yahweh will roar from on high, and from his holy dwelling place he will give his voice. He will roar mightily against his settlement, a jubilant shout like those who tread grapes, he will answer against all the inhabitants of the earth. {{rf{31}}} The rage of battle will resound to the end of the earth, for there is a lawsuit of Yahweh against the nations. He is entering into judgment with all wicked flesh, he will give them to the sword,' declares Yahweh." {{rf{32}}} Thus says Yahweh of hosts, "Look, disaster is going out from nation to nation, and a great tempest is stirred up from the farthest parts of the earth. {{rf{33}}} And the slain ones of Yahweh will be on that day from one end of the earth to the other end of the earth, and they will not be mourned, and they will not be gathered, and they will not be buried. They will become like dung on the surface of the ground. {{rf{34}}} Wail, you shepherds, and cry out. And roll about in mourning in the dust, O leaders of the flock. For your days of slaughter and your dispersions have arrived, and you will fall like a vessel of desire. {{rf{35}}} And flight will perish from the shepherds, and escape from the leaders of the flock. {{rf{36}}} A sound, the cry of distress of the shepherds and the wailing of the leaders of the flock, for Yahweh is despoiling their pasture. {{rf{37}}} And the peaceful settlements are devastated because of the burning anger of Yahweh. {{rf{38}}} He has left his den like a lion, for their land has become a horror, because of the anger of the oppressors, and because of his burning anger." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Jeremiah-25-30]] }}}
At the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, the king of Judah, this word came from Yahweh, saying, {{rf{2}}} "Thus says Yahweh: 'Stand in the courtyard of the house of Yahweh, and you must speak to all the cities of Judah that come to bow in worship in the house of Yahweh all the words that I command you to speak to them. You must not omit a word. {{rf{3}}} Perhaps they will listen and turn back each from his evil way, and I will relent of the disaster that I am planning to do to them because of their evil deeds. {{rf{4}}} And you shall say to them, "Thus says Yahweh: 'If you will not listen to me, to walk in my law that I have set before you, {{rf{5}}} to listen to the words of my servants the prophets whom I have sent to you, over and over again, though you have not listened, {{rf{6}}} then I will make this house like Shiloh, and this city I will make a curse for all the nations of the earth.'" '" {{rf{7}}} And the priests and the prophets and all the people heard Jeremiah speaking these words in the temple of Yahweh. {{rf{8}}} And then as Jeremiah finished speaking all that Yahweh had commanded him to speak to all the people, then the priests and the prophets and all the people laid hold of him, saying, "You will die! {{rf{9}}} Why have you prophesied in the name of Yahweh, saying, 'This house will be like Shiloh, and this city will be in ruins, without inhabitant'?" And all the people gathered around Jeremiah in the temple of Yahweh. {{rf{10}}} When the officials of Judah heard these things, they came up from the house of the king to the temple of Yahweh, and they sat in the entrance of the New Gate of Yahweh's temple. {{rf{11}}} Then the priests and the prophets said to the officials and to all the people, saying, "This man deserves the death sentence, because he has prophesied against this city as that which you have heard with your ears." {{rf{12}}} Then Jeremiah said to all the officials and to all the people, saying, "Yahweh sent me to prophesy against this house and against this city all the words that you have heard. {{rf{13}}} Now therefore amend your ways and your deeds, and obey the voice of Yahweh your God, and Yahweh will relent of the disaster that he has spoken over you. {{rf{14}}} But as for me, look, I am in your hand, do to me what is good and right in your eyes. {{rf{15}}} Only you must certainly know that if you put me to death, you will bring on yourselves innocent blood, and on this city and on its inhabitants, for truly Yahweh sent me to you to speak all these words in your ears." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Jeremiah-26-01]] }}}
{{rf{16}}} Then the officials and all the people said to the priests and to the prophets, "This man does not deserve a sentence of death, for in the name of Yahweh our God, he has spoken to us." {{rf{17}}} Then men from the elders of the land arose and said to all the assembly of the people, saying, {{rf{18}}} "Micah the Morashtite was prophesying in the days of Hezekiah, the king of Judah, and he said to all the people of Judah, saying: 'Thus says Yahweh of hosts, "Zion will be plowed, and Jerusalem will become a heap of ruins, and the mountain of the temple as high places of wood." ' {{rf{19}}} Did Hezekiah, the king of Judah, and all Judah actually put him to death? Was he not in fear of Yahweh? And he entreated the face of Yahweh, and Yahweh relented of the disaster that he had spoken against them. But we are about to do great disaster to ourselves." {{rf{20}}} Indeed, there also was a man prophesying in the name of Yahweh, Uriah, the son of Shemaiah, from Kiriath-Jearim, and he prophesied against this city and against this land like all the words of Jeremiah. {{rf{21}}} And when King Jehoiakim, and all his warriors, and all the officials heard his words, then the king sought to put him to death. But Uriah heard, and he was afraid, and he fled and went to Egypt. {{rf{22}}} Then King Jehoiakim sent men to Egypt. Elnathan, the son of Achbor, and men with him went to Egypt. {{rf{23}}} And they brought out Uriah from Egypt and they brought him to King Jehoiakim, and he struck him down with the sword, and he threw his dead body into the burial sites of the sons of the people. {{rf{24}}} However, the hand of Ahikam the son of Shaphan was with Jeremiah, so that he was not given into the hand of the people to put him to death. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Jeremiah-26-16]] }}}
In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim, the son of Josiah, the king of Judah, this word came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, saying -- {{rf{2}}} thus said Yahweh to me -- "Make for yourself fetters and yokes and put them on your neck, {{rf{3}}} and send them to the king of Edom, and to the king of Moab, and to the king of the Ammonites, and to the king of Tyre, and to the king of Sidon in the hand of the envoys who have come to Jerusalem, to Zedekiah, the king of Judah. {{rf{4}}} And you must command them for their masters, saying, 'Thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, this you shall say to your masters: {{rf{5}}} "I have made the earth with humankind and animals that are on the face of the earth by my great power and by my outstretched arm, and I give it to whomever is right in my eyes. {{rf{6}}} And now I myself have given all these lands into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and also the animals of the field I have given to him to serve him. {{rf{7}}} And all the nations will serve him, and his son, and his grandson, until the coming of the time of his own land. Then many nations and great kings will let him work. {{rf{8}}} "But it will be that the nation or kingdom that will not serve him, Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, and that will not put his neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, I will punish that nation with the sword, and with the famine, and with the plague," declares Yahweh, "until I have destroyed it with my hand. {{rf{9}}} And you, you must not listen to your prophets, and to your diviners, and to your dreamers, and to your interpreters of signs, and to your sorcerers who are saying, 'You will not serve the king of Babylon.' {{rf{10}}} For they are prophesying to you a lie, so that you will be removed from your land, and I will drive you away, and you will perish. {{rf{11}}} But the nation that will bring its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon and will serve him, yet will I leave it on its land," declares Yahweh, "and they will till it, and they will live in it." '" {{rf{12}}} And I spoke words like these to Zedekiah, the king of Judah, saying, "Bring your necks under the yoke of the king of Babylon, and serve him and his people, and live. {{rf{13}}} Why should you die -- you and your people -- by the sword, by the famine, and by the plague, as Yahweh has spoken concerning the nation that will not serve the king of Babylon? {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Jeremiah-27-01]] }}}
{{rf{14}}} And you must not listen to the words of the prophets who are speaking to you, saying, 'You must not serve the king of Babylon,' for they are prophesying a lie to you. {{rf{15}}} For I have not sent them," declares Yahweh, "but they are prophesying in my name falsely, so that I will drive them away. And you will perish -- you and the prophets who are prophesying to you." {{rf{16}}} Then I spoke to the priests and to all this people, saying, "Thus says Yahweh, 'You must not listen to the words of your prophets who are prophesying to you, saying, "Look, the vessels of the house of Yahweh are about to be quickly brought back from Babylon", for they are prophesying a lie to you. {{rf{17}}} And you must not listen to them; serve the king of Babylon and live. Why should this city become a site of ruins? {{rf{18}}} But if they are prophets, and if there is with them the word of Yahweh, let them please plead with Yahweh of hosts, that the vessels that are left over in the temple of Yahweh, and the house of the king of Judah, and in Jerusalem, must not go to Babylon.' {{rf{19}}} For thus says Yahweh of hosts concerning the pillars, and concerning the sea, and concerning the stands, and concerning the rest of the vessels that are left in this city, {{rf{20}}} which Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, did not take when he deported Jeconiah, the son of Jehoiakim, the king of Judah, from Jerusalem to Babylon, along with all the nobles of Judah and Jerusalem. {{rf{21}}} For thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, concerning the vessels that are left in the house of Yahweh, and in the house of the king of Judah, and in Jerusalem: {{rf{22}}} 'They will be brought to Babylon, and there they will stay until the day of my attending to them,' declares Yahweh. 'Then I will bring them up and restore them to this place.'" {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Jeremiah-27-14]] }}}
And it was in that same year, at the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah, the king of Judah, in the fourth year, in the fifth month, that Hananiah, the son of Azzur, the prophet who was from Gibeon, said to me in the house of Yahweh before the eyes of the priests and all the people, saying, {{rf{2}}} "Thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, saying, 'I have broken the yoke of the king of Babylon. {{rf{3}}} Within two years I will bring back to this place all the vessels of the house of Yahweh which Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon took away from this place and brought to Babylon. {{rf{4}}} And Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, the king of Judah, and all the exiles from Judah who went to Babylon, I will bring back to this place,' declares Yahweh, 'For I will break the yoke of the king of Babylon.'" {{rf{5}}} Then Jeremiah the prophet said to Hananiah the prophet before the eyes of the priests and before the eyes of all the people who were standing in the house of Yahweh, {{rf{6}}} and Jeremiah the prophet said, "Amen! May Yahweh do so; may Yahweh fulfill your words that you have prophesied, to bring back the vessels of the house of Yahweh and all the exiles from Babylon to this place. {{rf{7}}} Nevertheless listen please to this word that I am speaking in your hearing and in the hearing of all the people, {{rf{8}}} The prophets who were before me and before you from ancient times prophesied against many countries and against great kingdoms of war, and of disaster, and of plague. {{rf{9}}} The prophet who prophesies peace, at the coming of the word of the prophet, will become known as the prophet that Yahweh has truly sent." {{rf{10}}} Then Hananiah the prophet took the yoke from the neck of Jeremiah the prophet and broke it. {{rf{11}}} Then Hananiah said before the eyes of all the people, saying, "Thus says Yahweh, 'This is how I will break the yoke of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, within two years, from the neck of all the nations.'" And Jeremiah the prophet went on his way. {{rf{12}}} And the word of Yahweh came to Jeremiah after Hananiah the prophet broke the yoke from the neck of Jeremiah the prophet, saying, {{rf{13}}} "Go, and you must say to Hananiah, saying, 'Thus says Yahweh, "You have broken yoke bars of wood, but you have made in place of them yoke bars of iron." {{rf{14}}} For thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, "I have put a yoke of iron on the neck of all these nations, to serve Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, and they will serve him, and I have even given the animals of the open field to him." '" {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Jeremiah-28-01]] }}}
{{rf{15}}} Then Jeremiah the prophet said to Hananiah the prophet, "Please listen, Hananiah, Yahweh has not sent you, and you have made this people trust in a lie. {{rf{16}}} Therefore thus says Yahweh, 'Look, I am going to send you from the face of the earth. This year you will die because you have spoken rebellion against Yahweh.'" {{rf{17}}} And Hananiah the prophet died in that same year in the seventh month. {{rf big{1}}} And these are the words of the letter that Jeremiah the prophet sent from Jerusalem to the remainder of the exiles, and to the priests, and to the prophets, and to all the people whom Nebuchadnezzar had deported from Jerusalem to Babylon, {{rf{2}}} after the going out of Jeconiah the king, and the queen mother, and the court officials, the leaders of Judah and Jerusalem, and the artisans, and the smiths from Jerusalem, {{rf{3}}} by the hand of Elasah, the son of Shaphan, and Gemariah, the son of Hilkiah, whom Zedekiah, the king of Judah, sent to Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, to Babylon, saying, {{rf{4}}} "Thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, to all the exiles whom I have deported from Jerusalem to Babylon, {{rf{5}}} 'Build houses and live in them, and plant gardens and eat their fruit. {{rf{6}}} Take wives and father sons and daughters, and take for your sons wives, and give your daughters to men that they may bear sons and daughters, and multiply there, and you must not be few. {{rf{7}}} And seek the prosperity of the city where I have deported you, and pray on behalf of it to Yahweh, for in its prosperity you will have prosperity.' {{rf{8}}} For thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, 'Do not let your prophets who are in your midst, and your diviners, deceive you, and you must not listen to your dreams that you are causing them to dream. {{rf{9}}} For they are prophesying falsely to you in my name; I have not sent them,' declares Yahweh. {{rf{10}}} For thus says Yahweh, 'As soon as the time has passed, seventy years for Babylon, I will attend to you, and I will fulfill my good word to you, to bring you back to this place. {{rf{11}}} For I know the plans that I am planning concerning you,' declares Yahweh, 'plans for prosperity and not for harm, to give to you a future and a hope. {{rf{12}}} Then when you call me, and you come and pray to me, then I will listen to you. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Jeremiah-28-15]] }}}
{{rf{13}}} When you search for me, then you will find me, if you seek me with all your heart. {{rf{14}}} And I will let myself be found by you,' declares Yahweh, 'and I will restore your fortunes, and I will gather you from all the nations and from all the places to which I have driven you,' declares Yahweh, 'and I will bring you back to the place from which I deported you.' {{rf{15}}} Because you have said, 'Yahweh has raised up prophets for us in Babylon' -- {{rf{16}}} for thus says Yahweh concerning the king who sits on the throne of David and concerning all the people who live in this city, your fellow kinsmen who did not go with you into the exile -- {{rf{17}}} thus says Yahweh of hosts, 'Look, I am going to send among them the sword, the famine, and the plague, and I will make them like rotten figs that cannot be eaten because of their bad quality. {{rf{18}}} And I will pursue them with the sword, with the famine, and with the plague, and I will make them a terror to all the kingdoms of the earth, a curse, and a horror, and an object of hissing, and a disgrace among all the nations to which I have driven them, {{rf{19}}} because they did not listen to my words,' declares Yahweh, 'when I sent to them my servants the prophets, sending over and over again, and they would not listen,' declares Yahweh. {{rf{20}}} And you, hear the word of Yahweh, all you exiles whom I sent away from Jerusalem to Babylon. {{rf{21}}} Thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, concerning Ahab, the son of Kolaiah, and concerning Zedekiah, the son of Maaseiah, who are prophesying to you in my name a lie, 'Look, I am going to give them into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, and he will strike them before your eyes. {{rf{22}}} And a curse will be taken up because of them by all the exiles of Judah who are in Babylon, saying, "May Yahweh make you like Zedekiah and like Ahab, whom the king of Babylon roasted in the fire," {{rf{23}}} because they have done a disgraceful thing in Israel, and they have committed adultery with the wives of their neighbors, and they have spoken words in my name, lies that I have not commanded them, and I am he who knows, and I am a witness,' declares Yahweh." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Jeremiah-29-13]] }}}
{{rf{24}}} And to Shemaiah the Nehelamite you shall say, saying, {{rf{25}}} "Thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, saying, 'Because you yourself sent a letter in your name to all the people who are in Jerusalem, and to Zephaniah, the son of Maaseiah, the priest, and to all the priests, saying, {{rf{26}}} "Yahweh made you priest instead of Jehoiada the priest, so that there are overseers in the house of Yahweh over any mad man who exhibits the behavior of a prophet, and you must put him into the stocks and into the neck iron, {{rf{27}}} and so then why have you not rebuked Jeremiah the Anathothite who exhibits the behavior of a prophet for you? {{rf{28}}} Because he has sent to us in Babylon, saying, 'It will be a long time, build houses and live in them, and plant gardens and eat their fruit.'" '" {{rf{29}}} And Zephaniah the priest read this letter in the hearing of Jeremiah the prophet. {{rf{30}}} And the word of Yahweh came to Jeremiah, saying, {{rf{31}}} "Send to all the exiles, saying, 'Thus says Yahweh concerning Shemaiah the Nehelamite: "Because Shemaiah prophesied to you, though I have not sent him, and he has made you trust in a lie," {{rf{32}}} therefore thus says Yahweh, "Look, I am going to punish Shemaiah the Nehelamite and his offspring. There will not be for him a man who lives in the midst of this people, and he will not see the good that I am going to do to my people," declares Yahweh, "For he has spoken rebellion against Yahweh." '" {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Jeremiah-29-24]] }}}
The word that came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, saying, {{rf{2}}} "Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, saying, 'Write for yourself all the words that I have spoken to you in a scroll. {{rf{3}}} For look, days are coming,' declares Yahweh, 'when I will restore the fortunes of my people Israel and Judah,' says Yahweh, 'and I will bring them back to the land that I gave to their ancestors and they will take possession of it.'" {{rf{4}}} Now these are the words that Yahweh spoke concerning Israel and concerning Judah. {{rf{5}}} "For thus says Yahweh: 'We have heard a sound of trembling, terror, and there is no peace. {{rf{6}}} Ask please and see whether a male can bear a child. Why do I see every strong man with his hands on his loins like a woman giving birth? And why are all their faces changed to paleness? {{rf{7}}} Alas! For that day is great, there is none like it. And it is a time of distress for Jacob, yet from it he will be delivered. {{rf{8}}} And it will happen on that day,' declares Yahweh of hosts, 'I will break his yoke from your neck and your bonds I will tear to pieces. And strangers will no longer let him work as a slave. {{rf{9}}} But they will serve Yahweh their God, and David their king, whom I will raise up for them. {{rf{10}}} But you must not fear, my servant Jacob,' declares Yahweh, 'and you must not be dismayed, Israel, for look, I am going to save you from far, and your offspring from the land of their captivity. And Jacob will return, and he will be at rest, and he will be at ease, and there will be no one who makes him afraid. {{rf{11}}} For I am with you,' declares Yahweh, 'to save you. For I will make a complete destruction of all the nations to which I scattered you, but you I will not make a complete destruction. And I will chastise you to the measure, and I will not leave you entirely unpunished.' {{rf{12}}} For thus says Yahweh, 'Your injury is incurable, your wound is overcome by sickness. {{rf{13}}} There is no one who pleads your cause, for your boil there is no healing for you. {{rf{14}}} All your lovers have forgotten you, they do not care for you. I have struck you with the blow of an enemy, the punishment of the cruel, because of the greatness of your guilt, your sins are numerous. {{rf{15}}} Why do you cry because of your wound? Your pain is incurable. Because of the greatness of your guilt -- your sins are vast -- I have done these things to you. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Jeremiah-30-01]] }}}
{{rf{16}}} Therefore all those who devour you will be devoured, and all your foes, all of them will go into captivity, and those who plunder you will be as plunder, and all those who plunder you I will make as plunder. {{rf{17}}} For I will present healing to you, and I will heal you of your wounds,' declares Yahweh. 'Because they have called you an outcast, saying, "It is Zion, there is no one who cares for her." ' {{rf{18}}} Thus says Yahweh: 'Look, I will restore the fortunes of the tents of Jacob, and I will have compassion on his dwellings, and the city will be rebuilt upon its mound, and the citadel fortress will stand on its rightful site. {{rf{19}}} And thanksgiving and the sound of merrymakers will come out from them, and I will make them numerous, and they will not be few. And I will make them honored, and they will not be lowly. {{rf{20}}} And their children will be as of old, and their community will be established before me. And I will punish all their oppressors. {{rf{21}}} And their noble will be from them, and their ruler will come out from their midst. And I will bring him near and he will approach me. For who is he that would pledge his heart to approach me?' declares Yahweh. {{rf{22}}} 'And you will be to me a people, and I will be to you God.'" {{rf{23}}} Look, the storm of Yahweh! Wrath has gone forth, a whirling tempest. It will whirl upon the head of the wicked. {{rf{24}}} The burning anger of Yahweh will not turn back until his doing, and until his accomplishing the plans of his mind. In the last of the days you will understand it. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Jeremiah-30-16]] }}}
"At that time," declares Yahweh, "I will be the God of all the clans of Israel, and they will be to me a people." {{rf{2}}} Thus says Yahweh: "The people of the survivors of the sword found grace in the desert; Israel going to find their rest." {{rf{3}}} From afar Yahweh appeared to me, saying, "I have loved you with an everlasting love. Therefore I have drawn you with loyal love. {{rf{4}}} I will again build you, and you will be built, O virgin Israel. You will again adorn yourself with your tambourines, and you will go forth in the dancing in a ring of the merrymakers. {{rf{5}}} You will again plant vineyards on the mountains of Samaria. The planters will plant, and they will enjoy it. {{rf{6}}} For there will be a day when watchmen will call in the hill country of Ephraim, 'Stand up, and let us go up to Zion, to Yahweh our God.'" {{rf{7}}} For thus says Yahweh, "Sing for joy for Jacob with gladness, and shout out for the head of the nations. Proclaim, praise, and say, 'Save, O Yahweh, your people, the remnant of Israel.' {{rf{8}}} Look, I am going to bring them from the land of the north, and I will gather them from the remotest part of the earth. Among them the blind, and the lame, those who are pregnant, and those who give birth, together, a great assembly, they will return here. {{rf{9}}} With weeping they will come, and with pleas for mercy I will bring them; I will let them walk by streams of water in a straight path. They will not stumble in it, for I have become to Israel a father, and Ephraim, he is my firstborn." {{rf{10}}} Hear the word of Yahweh, O nations, and declare in the coastlands from afar, and say, "The scatterer of Israel will gather him, and he will keep him as a shepherd his flock. {{rf{11}}} For Yahweh has ransomed Jacob, and he has redeemed him from the hand of the person stronger than he. {{rf{12}}} And they will come, and they will sing for joy on the height of Zion, and they will be radiant over the goodness of Yahweh, over the grain, and over the wine, and over the olive oil, and over the young ones of the flock, and over the cattle. And their life will become like a well-watered garden, and they will never languish again." {{rf{13}}} "Then the young woman will rejoice in the dancing in a ring, and the young men and the old men together. And I will turn their mourning to jubilation, and I will comfort them, and I will gladden them from their sorrow. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Jeremiah-31-01]] }}}
{{rf{14}}} And I will saturate the appetite of the priests with fatness, and my people will be satisfied with my goodness," declares Yahweh. {{rf{15}}} Thus says Yahweh, "A voice is heard in Ramah, lamentation, the weeping of bitterness. Rachel is weeping for her children; she refuses to be comforted because of her children, for they are no more." {{rf{16}}} Thus says Yahweh: "Restrain your voice from weeping, and your eyes from tears, for there is a reward for your work," declares Yahweh, "and they will return from the land of the enemy. {{rf{17}}} And there is hope for your future," declares Yahweh, "and your children will return to their territory. {{rf{18}}} Indeed I heard Ephraim pitying themselves, 'You disciplined me, and I was disciplined, like a calf that is not trained. Bring me back and let me return, for you are Yahweh my God. {{rf{19}}} For after my turning back I repented, and after coming to understand I struck my thigh. I was ashamed and also humiliated, because I bore the disgrace of my youth.' {{rf{20}}} Is Ephraim my dear son, or the child of my delight? For as often as I have earnestly spoken against him, I still remember him. Therefore my bowels are turbulent for him, surely I will have compassion on him," declares Yahweh. {{rf{21}}} "Set up for yourself road markers, make for yourself signposts, set your mind to the main road, the road by which you went. Return, O virgin of Israel, return to these your cities. {{rf{22}}} How long will you waver, O unfaithful daughter? For Yahweh has created a new thing on the earth, a woman, she shelters a man." {{rf{23}}} Thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, "They will again say these words in the land of Judah and in its towns at my restoring their fortunes, 'Yahweh bless you, O settlement of righteousness, O hill of holiness.' {{rf{24}}} And Judah and all of its towns together will live in it, farmers and those who travel with the flocks. {{rf{25}}} For I will saturate the thirst of the weary, and every person who languishes I will replenish." {{rf{26}}} At this I awoke and looked, and my sleep was pleasant to me. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Jeremiah-31-14]] }}}
{{rf{27}}} "Look, the days are coming," declares Yahweh, "and I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of humankind, and with the seed of animals. {{rf{28}}} And then as I have watched over them to pull up, and to tear down, and to annihilate, and to destroy, and to do evil, so I will watch over them to build and to plant," declares Yahweh. {{rf{29}}} "In those days they will say no longer, 'Parents have eaten unripe fruit, and the teeth of the children are set on edge.' {{rf{30}}} But each will die because of his iniquity, everyone who eats the unripe fruit, their teeth will be set on edge. {{rf{31}}} Look, the days are coming," declares Yahweh, "and I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah, {{rf{32}}} not like the covenant that I made with their ancestors on the day of my grasping them by their hand, bringing them out from the land of Egypt, my covenant that they themselves broke, though I myself was a master over them," declares Yahweh. {{rf{33}}} "But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days," declares Yahweh: "I will put my law in their inward parts and on their hearts I will write it, and I will be to them God, and they themselves will be to me people. {{rf{34}}} And they will no longer teach each one his neighbor, or each one his brother, saying, 'Know Yahweh,' for all of them will know me, from their smallest and up to their greatest," declares Yahweh, "for I will forgive their iniquity and their sin I will no longer remember." {{rf{35}}} Thus says Yahweh, who gives the sun for light by day, the regulations of the moon and the stars for light by night, who stirs up the sea and its waves roar -- Yahweh of hosts is his name. {{rf{36}}} "If these rules would cease from before me," declares Yahweh, "also the offspring of Israel would cease from being a nation before me forever." {{rf{37}}} Thus says Yahweh, "If the heavens above can be measured, and the foundations of the earth below can be explored, also I will reject all the offspring of Israel because of all that they have done," declares Yahweh. {{rf{38}}} "Look, days are coming," declares Yahweh, "and the city will be rebuilt for Yahweh, from the Tower of Hananel to the Corner Gate. {{rf{39}}} And the measuring line will still go out immediately in front of it to the hill of Gareb, and it will turn to Goah. {{rf{40}}} And the whole of the valley of the corpses, and the ashes, and all the cultivated fields up to the wadi of Kidron, up to the corner of the Gate of the Horses toward the east will be holy to Yahweh. It will not be uprooted, and it will not be overthrown again forever." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Jeremiah-31-27]] }}}
The word that came to Jeremiah from Yahweh in the tenth year of Zedekiah the king of Judah, that was the eighteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar. {{rf{2}}} Now at that time the army of the king of Babylon was laying siege to Jerusalem and Jeremiah the prophet was confined in the courtyard of the guard that was in the palace of the king of Judah, {{rf{3}}} where Zedekiah, the king of Judah, had confined him, saying, "Why are you prophesying, saying, 'Thus says Yahweh, "Look, I am going to give this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he will capture it, {{rf{4}}} and Zedekiah, the king of Judah, will not escape from the hand of the Chaldeans, but surely he will be given into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he will speak face to face with him and he will see him eye to eye, {{rf{5}}} and to Babylon he will bring Zedekiah, and there he will be until my attending to him," declares Yahweh. "If you fight against the Chaldeans, you will not be successful" '?" {{rf{6}}} And Jeremiah said, "The word of Yahweh came to me, saying, {{rf{7}}} 'Look, Hanamel, the son of Shallum, your uncle, is going to come to you, saying, "Buy for yourself my field that is at Anathoth, for you have the right of redemption to buy it." ' {{rf{8}}} Then Hanamel, the son of my uncle, came to me, to the courtyard of the guard according to the word of Yahweh, and he said to me, 'Please buy my field that is at Anathoth, that is in the land of Benjamin, for to you is the claim of possession, and to you the redemption; buy it for yourself.' Then I knew that this was the word of Yahweh. {{rf{9}}} And I bought the field from Hanamel, the son of my uncle, that was at Anathoth. And I weighed out to him the money, seventeen silver shekels. {{rf{10}}} And I signed on the letter and sealed it, and I called witnesses as witness, and I weighed out the money on a set of scales. {{rf{11}}} Then I took the deed of the purchase, the sealed copy containing the commandments and the rules, together with the one that was open. {{rf{12}}} And I gave the deed of the purchase to Baruch the son of Neriah, the son of Mahseiah, in the presence of Hanamel, the son of my uncle, and in the presence of the witnesses who signed the deed of the purchase, in the presence of the Judeans who were sitting in the courtyard of the guard. {{rf{13}}} And I commanded Baruch in their presence, saying, {{rf{14}}} 'Thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, "Take these deeds, this deed of the purchase, the sealed one, and this opened deed, and you must put them in an earthenware jar so that they may be kept preserved many days." {{rf{15}}} For thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel: "Houses and fields and vineyards will again be bought in this land." ' {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Jeremiah-32-01]] }}}
<<Bbl Jer 32:6 abbr>>-9 Jeremiah emphasizes the veracity of his communication with the Lord; also the extreme contrasts presented by the immediate situation.
32:7-8 Like Peter's vision on the rooftop, the action of God painfully provokes Jeremiah. The more so since it invests him further in the familial fet treacherous network of Anathoth!
32:15 After the protracted confusion brought on by God's direction to go buy land, the explanation seems calculated to push Jeremiah right over the edge. Now the dire predictions which have cost him so much are apparently being upended.
32:17-25 "Lord, everything makes sense except the last part." This reminds me of the disciples of Jesus asking Him to explain a parable; and vs. 27 is like one of His replies, "Have you been with Me so long? Are you also so hard of hearing?"
<<Bbl Jer 32:36 abbr>> "Because of that history of exhaustive rebellion (v 30-35), //''Therefore''// (v 36) I the Lord will utterly redeem my people (v 37ff)."
32:36 Here and throughout the extended passage, God's account relentlessly presses the irony: //this city about which you are now saying [disaster]...//
<<Bbl Jer 33:6 abbr>>ff See <<Bbl Ps 132:1>>ff. Compare <<Bbl Jer 33:17 abbr>> with <<Bbl Ps 132:16>>.
{{rf{16}}} And I prayed to Yahweh -- after giving my deed of the purchase to Baruch the son of Neriah -- saying, {{rf{17}}} 'Ah Lord Yahweh! Look, you made the heavens and the earth by your great power and by your outstretched arm. Nothing is too difficult for you, {{rf{18}}} showing loyal love to the thousands, and repaying the guilt of parents into the laps of their children after them. Powerful, great, mighty, his name is Yahweh of hosts, {{rf{19}}} great in counsel and great in deed, whose eyes are opened to all the ways of the children of humankind, to give to each one according to his ways and according to the fruit of his deeds, {{rf{20}}} who accomplished signs and wonders in the land of Egypt, up to this day, and in Israel, and among humankind, and you have made for yourself a name, as it is this day. {{rf{21}}} And you brought out your people Israel from the land of Egypt with signs, and with wonders, and with a strong hand, and with an arm stretched out, and with great terror. {{rf{22}}} And you gave to them this land, which you swore to their ancestors to give to them, a land flowing with milk and honey. {{rf{23}}} And they entered and took possession of it, but they did not listen to your voice, and they did not follow your law. They did nothing of all that you commanded to them to do, and you caused to happen to them all this disaster. {{rf{24}}} Look, the siege ramps have come up to the city to capture it, and the city has been given into the hand of the Chaldeans who are fighting against it, because of the sword, the famine, and the plague, and what you spoke happened, and look, you are seeing it. {{rf{25}}} Yet you have said to me, Lord Yahweh, "Buy for yourself the field with the money, and call witnesses as witness," though the city has been given into the hand of the Chaldeans.'" {{rf{26}}} And the word of Yahweh came to Jeremiah, saying, {{rf{27}}} "Look, I am Yahweh, the God of all flesh; is anything too difficult for me?" {{rf{28}}} Therefore thus says Yahweh: "Look, I am going to give this city into the hand of the Chaldeans, and into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, and he will capture it. {{rf{29}}} And the Chaldeans, who are fighting against this city, will come and set this city on fire, and they will burn it, and the houses where they have made smoke offerings on their roofs to Baal, and where they have devoted libations to other gods, in order to provoke me to anger. {{rf{30}}} For the people of Israel and the people of Judah were doing only evil in my eyes from their youth, for the people of Israel were only provoking me to anger by the work of their hands," declares Yahweh. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Jeremiah-32-16]] }}}
{{rf{31}}} "For this city has been for me a cause of my anger and of my wrath from the day that they built it even until this day, so I will remove it from my sight, {{rf{32}}} because of all the evil of the people of Israel and the people of Judah that they did to provoke me to anger -- they, their kings, their officials, their priests, and their prophets, and the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem. {{rf{33}}} And they have turned to me their backs and not their faces, though I have taught them over and over again, but they were not listening to accept discipline. {{rf{34}}} And they set up their abominations in the house that is called by my name, to defile it. {{rf{35}}} And they built the high places of Baal that are in the Valley of Ben Hinnom to present as offerings their sons and their daughters to Molech, which I had not commanded them, and it had not come to my mind to do this detestable thing in order to cause Judah to sin." {{rf{36}}} "So now therefore, thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, concerning this city, of which you are saying, 'It will be given into the hand of the king of Babylon by the sword, and by the famine, and by the plague': {{rf{37}}} Look, I am going to gather them from all the lands to which I driven them in my anger, and in my fury, and in great wrath, and I will bring them back to this place, and I will cause them to dwell in safety. {{rf{38}}} And they will be for me a people, and I will be for them God. {{rf{39}}} And I will give to them one heart and one way, to revere me forever, for good to them, and to their children after them. {{rf{40}}} And I will make with them an everlasting covenant that I will not turn away from them, my doing good to them, and my reverence I will put in their hearts so that they will not turn aside from me. {{rf{41}}} And I will rejoice over them to do good to them, and I will plant them in this land in faithfulness with all my heart, and with all my inner self." {{rf{42}}} "For thus says Yahweh, 'Just as I have brought to this people all this great disaster, so I will bring upon them all the good that I promise to them. {{rf{43}}} And the fields will be bought in this land of which you are saying, "It is a desolation, without humankind or animals. It has been given into the hand of the Chaldeans." {{rf{44}}} They will buy fields with money, and they will sign the deeds, and they will seal them, and they will call witnesses as witness in the land of Benjamin, and in the surroundings of Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, and in the cities of the hill country, and in the cities of the Shephelah, and in the cities of the Negev, for I will restore their fortunes,' declares Yahweh." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Jeremiah-32-31]] }}}
And the word of Yahweh came to Jeremiah a second time while he was still held back in the courtyard of the guard, saying, {{rf{2}}} "Thus says Yahweh who made the earth, Yahweh who formed it to establish it, Yahweh is his name: {{rf{3}}} 'Call to me, and I will answer you, and I will tell you great things and inaccessible things that you have not known.' {{rf{4}}} For thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, concerning the houses of this city and concerning the houses of the kings of Judah, that were torn down to make a defense against the siege ramps and against the sword: {{rf{5}}} 'They are coming to fight against the Chaldeans, and to fill them with the corpses of the people whom I will strike in my anger and in my wrath, for whom I have hidden my face from this city because of all their wickedness. {{rf{6}}} Look, I am going to bring healing and health to it, and I will heal them, and I will reveal to them abundance of peace and reliability. {{rf{7}}} And I will restore the fortunes of Judah and the fortunes of Israel, and I will rebuild them as in the beginning. {{rf{8}}} And I will cleanse them from all their guilt that they sinned against me, and I will forgive all their iniquities that they sinned against me, and that they rebelled against me. {{rf{9}}} And it will be to me a name of jubilation, a praise, and a glory before all the nations of the earth, who will hear all the good that I will do for them, and they will fear, and they will tremble because of all the good, and because of all the prosperity that I will provide for it.' {{rf{10}}} "Thus says Yahweh: 'Again will be heard in this place, of which you are saying, "It is a waste, without people and without animals," in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem that are desolate, without people and without inhabitants and without animals, {{rf{11}}} the voice of jubilation, and the voice of joy, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, the voices of those who say, "Praise Yahweh of hosts, for Yahweh is good, for his loyal love is forever," the voices of those who bring thank offerings to the house of Yahweh, for I will restore the fortunes of the land as in the beginning,' says Yahweh. {{rf{12}}} Thus says Yahweh of hosts: 'Again there will be in this waste place, without people and animals, and in all its towns, pasture for shepherds allowing their flock to lie down. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Jeremiah-33-01]] }}}
{{rf{13}}} In the towns of the hill country, in the towns of the Shephelah, and in the towns of the Negev, and in the land of Benjamin, and in the surroundings of Jerusalem, and in the towns of Judah, flocks will again pass under the hands of the counter,' says Yahweh. {{rf{14}}} 'Look, days are coming,' declares Yahweh, 'and I will fulfill the good promise that I promised to the house of Israel and to the house of Judah. {{rf{15}}} In those days and in that time I will make a branch of righteousness sprout for David, and he will execute justice and righteousness in the land. {{rf{16}}} In those days Judah will be saved, and Jerusalem will dwell safely, and this is what they shall call it: "Yahweh is our righteousness." ' {{rf{17}}} For thus says Yahweh: 'A man who sits on the throne of the house of Israel will not be cut off for David. {{rf{18}}} And for the priests, a man from the Levites who offers burnt offerings and who burns grain offerings and who brings sacrifices will not be cut off before me forever.'" {{rf{19}}} And the word of Yahweh came to Jeremiah, saying, {{rf{20}}} "Thus says Yahweh: 'If you could break my covenant with the day, and my covenant with the night, so that day and night would not come at their time, {{rf{21}}} then my covenant could be broken with David my servant, from having a son who could rule on his throne, and with the Levites, the priests, my ministers. {{rf{22}}} As the host of heaven cannot be counted, and the sand of the sea cannot be measured, so I will make numerous the offspring of David my servant and the Levites who minister to me.'" {{rf{23}}} And the word of Yahweh came to Jeremiah, saying, {{rf{24}}} "Have you not seen how these people speak, saying, 'The two clans whom Yahweh chose, he has also rejected them'? Thus they spurn my people from being a nation before them any longer. {{rf{25}}} Thus says Yahweh: 'If my covenant with day and with night, the regulations of heaven and earth, I had not established, {{rf{26}}} then the offspring of Jacob and David my servant I would reject, from choosing rulers from his offspring over the offspring of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; for I will restore their fortunes and I will have compassion on them.'" {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Jeremiah-33-13]] }}}
The word that came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, when Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, and all his army, with all the kingdoms of the earth under the dominion of his hand, and all the peoples were fighting against Jerusalem and against all its cities, saying, {{rf{2}}} "Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel: 'Go and say to Zedekiah the king of Judah, now you must say to him, "Thus says Yahweh: 'Look, I am going to give this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he will burn it with fire. {{rf{3}}} And you will not escape from his hand, but surely you will be captured, and into his hand you will be given, and you will see the king of Babylon eye to eye, and you will speak face to face with him, and to Babylon you will go.' {{rf{4}}} However, hear the word of Yahweh, O Zedekiah, the king of Judah. Thus says Yahweh concerning you: 'You will not die by the sword. {{rf{5}}} In peace you will die, and as there was burning for your ancestors, the former kings who were before you, so they will burn for you, and they will lament for you, "Alas, lord!" For the word I have spoken,' declares Yahweh." '" {{rf{6}}} Then Jeremiah the prophet spoke to Zedekiah the king of Judah all these words in Jerusalem {{rf{7}}} when the army of the king of Babylon was fighting against Jerusalem and against all the cities of Judah that were left over -- Lachish and Azekah, for these remained among the cities of Judah, the cities of fortification. {{rf{8}}} The word that came to Jeremiah from Yahweh after king Zedekiah made a covenant with all the people who were in Jerusalem to proclaim release to them, {{rf{9}}} to let go each one his male slave and each one his female slave, the Hebrew and the free Hebrew, so that no one among the Judeans should enslave his fellow countryman. {{rf{10}}} And all the officials and all the people obeyed, who had entered into the covenant to let go each one his male slave and each one his female slave, not enslaving them again, and they obeyed and they let them go. {{rf{11}}} But afterward they turned back and they brought back the male slaves and the female slaves whom they had let go free, and they subdued them as male slaves and female slaves. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Jeremiah-34-01]] }}}
<<Bbl Jer 34:3 abbr >> //Eye to eye// is grimly ironic given Zedekiah's imminent fate.
<<Bbl Jer 35:7 abbr >> . Jonadab's envisioned result is confirmed by God in <<Bbl Jer 35:19 >>.
<<Bbl Jer 36:3 abbr>>,7 These statements represent God's will for the people in their response to Him. The officials of vss. 11-12 seem to have a measure of the fear of God (16,19,25), but their response does not correspond to God's idea -- they prefer to go to the king instead of God Himself.
<<Bbl Jer 37:13 abbr >> . This seems to be a gate of Jerusalem that faces Benjamin; <<Bbl Jer 38:7 >>.
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<<Bbl Jer 38:7 abbr>> This man receives his reward, Jer 39:15-18.
38:17 Not my back, but thy back.
38:12 If I were pulled out of mud like that, I'd appreciate the padding.
<<Bbl Jer 38:24 abbr>>-27 Jeremiah is willing to lie at the king's command. The larger context of Zedekiah's disobedience makes this the more interesting.
<<Bbl Jer 39:12 abbr>> The vilest of heathen are doing better than Zedekiah!
{{rf{12}}} And the word of Yahweh came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, saying, {{rf{13}}} "Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel: 'I made a covenant with your ancestors on the day of my bringing them out from the land of Egypt, from the house of slaves, saying, {{rf{14}}} "At the end of seven years you must let go each one his fellow countryman, the Hebrew who has been sold to you and who has served you six years, and you must let him go free from you." But your ancestors did not listen to me, and they did not incline their ears. {{rf{15}}} And you turned back recently and you did right in my eyes, to proclaim release each one to his neighbor, and you made a covenant before me in the house that is called by my name. {{rf{16}}} But you turned back and you profaned my name when you brought back each one his male slave and each one his female slave, whom you had let go free according to their desire, and you subdued them to be to you as male slaves and as female slaves.' {{rf{17}}} "Therefore thus says Yahweh, 'You have not listened to me to proclaim release each one to his fellow countryman and each one to his neighbor. Look, I am going to proclaim to you a release,' declares Yahweh, 'to the sword, to the plague, and to the famine, and I will make you a terror to all the kingdoms of the earth. {{rf{18}}} And I will make the men who transgressed my covenant, who have not kept the words of the covenant that they made before me, like the calf which they cut in two and they passed between its parts -- {{rf{19}}} the officials of Judah, and the officials of Jerusalem, the eunuchs, and the priests, and all the people of the land who passed between the parts of the calf -- {{rf{20}}} and I will give them into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of the seekers of their lives, and their dead bodies will become as food for the birds of the heavens and for the animals of the earth. {{rf{21}}} And Zedekiah the king of Judah and his officials I will give into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of the seekers of their lives, and into the hand of the army of the king of Babylon, who retreated from you. {{rf{22}}} Look, I am going to command,' declares Yahweh, 'and I will bring them back to this city, and they will fight against it, and they will capture it, and they will burn it with fire, and the towns of Judah I will make a desolation without an inhabitant.'" {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Jeremiah-34-12]] }}}
The word that came to Jeremiah from Yahweh in the days of Jehoiakim, the son of Josiah, the king of Judah, saying, {{rf{2}}} "Go to the house of the Rechabites, and speak with them, and bring them to the house of Yahweh into one of the chambers, and give them wine to drink." {{rf{3}}} So I took Jaazaniah, the son of Jeremiah, the son of Habazziniah, and his brothers, and all his sons, and the whole of the house of the Rechabites, {{rf{4}}} and I brought them to the house of Yahweh, into the chamber of the sons of Hanan, the son of Igdaliah, the man of God, which was beside the chamber of the officials, which was above the chamber of Maaseiah, the son of Shallum, the keeper of the threshold. {{rf{5}}} Then I set before the house of the Rechabites bowls full of wine and cups, and I said to them, "Drink wine." {{rf{6}}} But they answered, "We will not drink wine, for Jonadab, the son of Rechab, our ancestor, commanded us, saying, 'You shall not drink wine, you or your children, forever. {{rf{7}}} And you shall not build a house, and you shall not sow seed, and you shall not plant a vineyard, and it shall not be for you, but in tents you shall live all your days, so that you may live many days on the surface of the land where you are dwelling as aliens.' {{rf{8}}} And we obeyed the voice of Jonadab, the son of Rechab, our ancestor, in all that he commanded us, not to drink wine all our days, ourselves, our wives, our sons, or our daughters, {{rf{9}}} and not to build houses for our living, and there is not vineyard, or field, or seed for us. {{rf{10}}} But we have lived in tents, and we have obeyed, and we have done all that Jehonadab, our ancestor, commanded us. {{rf{11}}} But then at the coming up against the land of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, then we said, 'Come and let us go to Jerusalem before the army of the Chaldeans, and before the army of the Arameans.' That is why we are living in Jerusalem." {{rf{12}}} And the word of Yahweh came to Jeremiah, saying, {{rf{13}}} "Thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel: 'Go and say to the people of Judah and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, "Can you not learn a lesson to listen to my words?" declares Yahweh. {{rf{14}}} "The words of Jonadab, the son of Rechab, that he commanded his descendants to not drink, have been carried out, and they have not drunk until this day, for they have obeyed the command of their ancestor. But I have spoken to you over and over again, and you have not listened to me. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Jeremiah-35-01]] }}}
{{rf{15}}} And I have sent to you all my servants the prophets, I have sent them over and over again, saying, 'Turn back please each one from his evil way, and amend your deeds, and you must not go after other gods to serve them, so that you may live on the land that I gave to you and to your ancestors.' But you did not incline your ear and you did not listen to me. {{rf{16}}} For the descendants of Jonadab, the son of Rechab, have carried out the command of their ancestor that he commanded them, but this people did not listen to me." {{rf{17}}} Therefore thus says Yahweh, the God of hosts, the God of Israel, "Look, I am going to bring to Judah and to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem every disaster that I have spoken against them, because I have spoken to them and they have not listened, and I have called to them and they have not answered." '" {{rf{18}}} But to the house of the Rechabites Jeremiah said, "Thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, 'Because you have listened to the command of Jonadab your ancestor, and you have kept all his commands, and you have done all that he commanded you,' {{rf{19}}} therefore thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel: 'A man will not be cut off for Jonadab, the son of Rechab, to stand before me always.'" {{rf big{1}}} And then in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, the king of Judah, this word came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, saying, {{rf{2}}} "Take for yourself a scroll and you must write on it all the words that I have spoken to you against Israel, and against Judah, and against all the nations, from the day that I spoke to you, from the days of Josiah, and until this day. {{rf{3}}} Perhaps when the house of Judah hears all the disasters that I am planning to do to them, then they may turn back each one from his evil way, and I will forgive their guilt and their sin." {{rf{4}}} Then Jeremiah called Baruch the son of Neriah, and Baruch wrote from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of Yahweh that he had spoken to him on a scroll. {{rf{5}}} And Jeremiah instructed Baruch, saying, "I am held back, I am not able to enter the temple of Yahweh. {{rf{6}}} So you must go and you shall read aloud from the scroll that you have written from my mouth the words of Yahweh in the hearing of the people in the temple of Yahweh on a day of fast, and also you shall read aloud in the hearing of all those of Judah who came from their towns. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Jeremiah-35-15]] }}}
{{rf{7}}} Perhaps their plea will fall before Yahweh and each one will turn away from his evil way, for great is the anger and wrath that Yahweh pronounced against this people." {{rf{8}}} And Baruch the son of Neriah did all that Jeremiah the prophet instructed him, to read aloud from the scroll the words of Yahweh in the temple of Yahweh. {{rf{9}}} And then in the fifth year of Jehoiakim, the son of Josiah, the king of Judah, in the ninth month, all the people in Jerusalem and all the people who came from the towns of Judah to Jerusalem proclaimed a fast before Yahweh. {{rf{10}}} Then Baruch read aloud from the scroll the words of Jeremiah in the temple of Yahweh, in the chamber of Gemariah, the son of Shaphan, the secretary, in the upper courtyard at the entrance of the New Gate of the temple of Yahweh in the hearing of all the people. {{rf{11}}} When Micaiah, the son of Gemariah, the son of Shaphan, heard all the words of Yahweh from the scroll, {{rf{12}}} he went down to the house of the king, to the chamber of the secretary, and look, all the officials were sitting there: Elishama the secretary, and Delaiah, the son of Shemaiah, and Elnathan, the son of Achbor, and Gemariah, the son of Shaphan, and Zedekiah, the son of Hananiah, and all the other officials. {{rf{13}}} And Micaiah told them all the words that he had heard at the reading aloud of Baruch from the scroll in the hearing of the people. {{rf{14}}} Then all the officials sent Jehudi, the son of Nethaniah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Cushi, to Baruch, saying, "The scroll that you read aloud from in the hearing of the people, take it in your hand and come." And Baruch the son of Neriah took the scroll in his hand and he came to them. {{rf{15}}} And they said to him, "Sit please and read it aloud in our hearing." So Baruch read aloud in their hearing. {{rf{16}}} And then, the moment of their hearing all the words, they turned to one another in alarm and they said to Baruch, "We must certainly report all these words to the king!" {{rf{17}}} Then they asked Baruch, saying, "Tell us please, how did you write all these words, from his mouth?" {{rf{18}}} And Baruch said to them, "From his mouth. He dictated to me all these words and I was writing on the scroll with the ink." {{rf{19}}} Then the officials said to Baruch, "Go, hide yourself, you and Jeremiah, and let not a man know where you are." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Jeremiah-36-07]] }}}
{{rf{20}}} And they went to the king, to the courtyard, and they put the scroll for safe-keeping in the chamber of Elishama the secretary, and they reported all the words in the hearing of the king. {{rf{21}}} Then the king sent Jehudi to take the scroll, and he took it from the chamber of Elishama the secretary, and Jehudi read it aloud in the hearing of the king, and in the hearing of all the officials who stood next to the king. {{rf{22}}} Now the king was sitting in the quarters of the winter in the ninth month, and a fire-pot was burning before him. {{rf{23}}} And then, as Jehudi read three or four columns, he would cut it up in pieces with the knife of the scribe, and he would throw it into the fire that was in the fire-pot until the whole of the scroll was consumed in the fire that was in the fire-pot. {{rf{24}}} And the king and any of his servants who heard all these words were not startled, and they did not tear their garments. {{rf{25}}} And even when Elnathan, and Delaiah, and Gemariah urged the king not to burn the scroll, he would not listen to them. {{rf{26}}} And the king commanded Jerahmeel, the son of the king, and Seraiah, the son of Azriel, and Shelemiah, the son of Abdeel, to arrest Baruch the secretary and Jeremiah the prophet, but Yahweh hid them. {{rf{27}}} And the word of Yahweh came to Jeremiah after the king burned the scroll and the words that Baruch wrote from the mouth of Jeremiah, saying, {{rf{28}}} "Take again for yourself another scroll and write on it all the former words that were in the first scroll which Jehoiakim, the king of Judah, has burned. {{rf{29}}} And concerning Jehoiakim, the king of Judah, you shall say, 'Thus says Yahweh, "You have burned this scroll, saying, 'Why have you written in it, saying, "The king of Babylon will certainly come and he will destroy this land, and he will cause to disappear from it humankind and animals"?'" {{rf{30}}} Therefore thus says Yahweh concerning Jehoiakim, the king of Judah, "There will not be for him one who sits on the throne of David. And his dead body will be thrown out to the heat in the day and to the frost in the night. {{rf{31}}} And I will punish him, and his offspring, and his servants for their guilt, and I will bring on them, and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and on the people of Judah all the disaster with which I have threatened them, but they would not listen." '" {{rf{32}}} Then Jeremiah took another scroll and gave it to Baruch the son of Neriah, the secretary, and he wrote on it from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of the scroll that Jehoiakim, the king of Judah, had burned in the fire, and furthermore was added to them many words like these. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Jeremiah-36-20]] }}}
And king Zedekiah, the son of Josiah, whom Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, had made king, reigned as king in the land of Judah in place of Coniah, the son of Jehoiakim. {{rf{2}}} But he and his servants and the people of the land did not listen to the words of Yahweh that he spoke by the hand of Jeremiah the prophet. {{rf{3}}} And king Zedekiah sent Jehucal the son of Shelemiah, and Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah, the priest, to Jeremiah the prophet, saying, "Please pray for us to Yahweh our God." {{rf{4}}} Now Jeremiah was coming and going out in the midst of the people and they had not put him in the house of imprisonment. {{rf{5}}} And the army of Pharaoh had come out from Egypt, and the Chaldeans, who were laying siege to Jerusalem, heard their report and they withdrew from Jerusalem. {{rf{6}}} And the word of Yahweh came to Jeremiah the prophet, saying, {{rf{7}}} "Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, 'This is what you shall say to the king of Judah, who sent you to me to inquire of me, "Look, the army of Pharaoh, which set out to help you, is going to return to his land Egypt. {{rf{8}}} And the Chaldeans will return, and they will fight against this city, and they will capture it, and they will burn it with fire." ' {{rf{9}}} Thus says Yahweh: 'You must not deceive yourselves, saying, "Surely the Chaldeans will go from us," for they will not go. {{rf{10}}} For even if you struck the whole army of the Chaldeans who are fighting against you, and only men pierced through remained among them, each one in his tent, they would rise up and they would burn this city with fire.'" {{rf{11}}} And then, at the withdrawing of the army of the Chaldeans from Jerusalem before the army of Pharaoh, {{rf{12}}} Jeremiah set out from Jerusalem to go to the land of Benjamin to receive a portion from there in the midst of the people. {{rf{13}}} And when he was at the Gate of Benjamin, there was a sentry on duty whose name was Irijah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Hananiah, and he seized Jeremiah the prophet, saying, "You are deserting to the Chaldeans!" {{rf{14}}} And Jeremiah said, "That is a lie! I am not deserting to the Chaldeans." But he would not listen to him. So Irijah seized Jeremiah and brought him to the officials. {{rf{15}}} And the officials were angry at Jeremiah and they struck him. And they put him in prison, in the house of Jonathan the secretary, for they had converted it to the prison. {{rf{16}}} So Jeremiah came to the dungeon, even to the vaulted cells, and Jeremiah stayed there many days. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Jeremiah-37-01]] }}}
{{rf{17}}} Then King Zedekiah sent and fetched him. And the king questioned him in secrecy in his house, and he said, "Is there a word from Yahweh?" And Jeremiah said, "There is." And he said, "You will be given into the hand of the king of Babylon." {{rf{18}}} Then Jeremiah said to King Zedekiah, "What did I do wrong to you, or to your servants, or to this people, that you have put me in prison? {{rf{19}}} And where are your prophets who prophesied to you, saying, 'The king of Babylon will not come against you and against this land'? {{rf{20}}} Now then, my lord the king, please let my plea fall before you. You must not send me back to the house of Jonathan the secretary, so that I will not die there." {{rf{21}}} So King Zedekiah commanded, and they handed Jeremiah over in the courtyard of the guard, and they gave to him a round loaf of bread from the street of the bakers every day until the finishing of all the bread from the city. And Jeremiah stayed in the courtyard of the guard. {{rf big{1}}} Now Shephatiah the son of Mattan, and Gedaliah the son of Pashhur, and Jehucal the son of Shelemiah, and Pashhur the son of Malchiah heard the words that Jeremiah was saying to all the people, saying, {{rf{2}}} "Thus says Yahweh, 'The one who stays in this city will die by the sword, by the famine, and by the plague. But the one who goes out to the Chaldeans will live. And his life will be for him as booty, and he will live.' {{rf{3}}} Thus says Yahweh, 'Surely this city will be given into the hand of the army of the king of Babylon, and he will capture it.'" {{rf{4}}} Then the officials said to the king, "Please, this man must be killed, because he is making slack the hands of the soldiers who are left in this city, and the hands of all the people, by speaking to them words like these, for this man is not seeking for welfare to this people, but only for harm." {{rf{5}}} And Zedekiah the king said, "Look, he is in your hand, for the king is not able to do a thing against you." {{rf{6}}} So they took Jeremiah and threw him into the pit of Malchiah, the son of the king, which was in the courtyard of the guard. And they let Jeremiah down by ropes. Now in the pit there was no water, but only mud, and Jeremiah sank in the mud. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Jeremiah-37-17]] }}}
{{rf{7}}} When Ebed-melech the Cushite, a eunuch who was in the house of the king, heard that they had put Jeremiah into the pit -- now the king was sitting at the Gate of Benjamin -- {{rf{8}}} Ebed-melech went out from the house of the king and spoke to the king, saying, {{rf{9}}} "My lord the king, these men have done evil in all that they have done to Jeremiah the prophet, in that they have thrown him into the pit, and he will die there because of starvation, for there is no longer any bread in the city." {{rf{10}}} Then the king commanded Ebed-melech the Cushite, saying, "Take with you these thirty men and pull Jeremiah the prophet up from the pit before he dies." {{rf{11}}} So Ebed-melech took the men with him and went to the palace of the king, to a place beneath the storehouse, and he took from there rags and worn-out clothes. And he let them down into the pit by ropes to Jeremiah. {{rf{12}}} Then Ebed-melech the Cushite said to Jeremiah, "Please put the rags and worn-out clothes under the joints of your arms under the ropes," and Jeremiah did so. {{rf{13}}} And they pulled Jeremiah by the ropes and brought him up from the pit. And Jeremiah stayed in the courtyard of the guard. {{rf{14}}} And Zedekiah the king sent and made someone bring Jeremiah the prophet to him, to the third entrance that was at the temple of Yahweh. And the king said to Jeremiah, "I am asking you something, you must not hide anything from me." {{rf{15}}} And Jeremiah said to Zedekiah, "If I tell you, will you not surely kill me? Besides, if I advise you, you will not listen to me. {{rf{16}}} So Zedekiah the king swore to Jeremiah in secret, saying, "As Yahweh lives, who has made for us this life, I will not kill you and I will not give you into the hand of these men who are seeking your life." {{rf{17}}} Then Jeremiah said to Zedekiah, "Thus says Yahweh, the God of hosts, the God of Israel, 'If only you will go surrender to the officials of the king of Babylon, then you will live, and this city will not be burned with fire, and you will live, you and your house. {{rf{18}}} But if you do not go surrender to the officials of the king of Babylon, then this city will be given into the hand of the Chaldeans, and they will burn it with fire, and you will not escape from their hand.'" {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Jeremiah-38-07]] }}}
{{rf{19}}} And Zedekiah the king said to Jeremiah, "I am afraid of the Judeans who have deserted to the Chaldeans, lest they give me into their hand and they abuse me." {{rf{20}}} And Jeremiah said, "They will not give you over. Please obey the voice of Yahweh with regard to what I am saying to you, and it will go well with you, and you will live. {{rf{21}}} But if you are refusing to surrender, this is the thing that Yahweh has shown me. {{rf{22}}} Now look, all the women who remain in the house of the king of Judah are being led out to the officials of the king of Babylon. And look, they are saying, 'Your trusted friends have misled you, and they have prevailed against you. Your feet are stuck in the mud, so they turned backward.' {{rf{23}}} And all your wives and your children will be led out to the Chaldeans, and you will not escape from their hand, but by the hand of the king of Babylon you will be seized, and this city will burn with fire." {{rf{24}}} And Zedekiah said to Jeremiah, "No man must know about these words so that you will not die. {{rf{25}}} And if the officials hear that I have spoken with you, and they come to you and say to you, 'Please tell us what you said to the king. You must not conceal it from us so that we will not kill you. And what did the king say to you?' {{rf{26}}} Then you shall say to them, 'I was presenting my plea before the king, to not cause me to return to the house of Jonathan to die there.'" {{rf{27}}} And all the officials came to Jeremiah and questioned him, and he informed them like all these words that the king commanded. So they fell silent, for the conversation was not heard. {{rf{28}}} And Jeremiah stayed in the courtyard of the guard until the day that Jerusalem was captured. And it happened that Jerusalem was captured. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Jeremiah-38-19]] }}}
In the ninth year of Zedekiah, the king of Judah, in the tenth month, Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon and all his army came against Jerusalem and laid siege to it. {{rf{2}}} In the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, on the ninth day of the month, the city was taken by assault. {{rf{3}}} And all the officials of the king of Babylon came and sat in the Middle Gate: Nergal-sharezer, Samgar-nebo, Sarsechim the chief officer, Nergal-sharezer the high official, with all the rest of the officials of the king of Babylon. {{rf{4}}} And then when Zedekiah the king of Judah saw them, and all the soldiers with him, they fled and went out at night from the city by the way of the garden of the king through the gate between the walls. And they went out toward the Jordan Valley. {{rf{5}}} But the army of the Chaldeans pursued after them and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho. And they took him and brought him up to Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon at Riblah in the land of Hamath. And he pronounced sentence on him. {{rf{6}}} And the king of Babylon slaughtered the sons of Zedekiah at Riblah before his eyes. The king of Babylon also slaughtered all the nobles of Judah. {{rf{7}}} Then he blinded the eyes of Zedekiah and tied him up with bronze fetters to bring him to Babylon. {{rf{8}}} And the Chaldeans burned the palace of the king and the houses of the people with fire and broke down the walls of Jerusalem. {{rf{9}}} Then the rest of the people who were left in the city, and those deserting who had deserted to him, and the rest of the people who remained, Nebuzaradan, the captain of the guard, deported to Babylon. {{rf{10}}} And some of the poor people, who had nothing, Nebuzaradan, the captain of the guard, left in the land of Judah. And he gave them vineyards and fields on that day. {{rf{11}}} And Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon commanded concerning Jeremiah through Nebuzaradan, the captain of the guard, saying, {{rf{12}}} "Take him and set your eyes on him. And you must not do something bad to him, but only that which he speaks to you, so do with him." {{rf{13}}} So Nebuzaradan, the captain of the guard, sent word, along with Nebushazban the chief officer, and Nergal-sharezer the high official, and all the chief officers of the king of Babylon. {{rf{14}}} And they sent and took Jeremiah from the courtyard of the guard and gave him to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, to take him to the house, so he stayed in the midst of the people. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Jeremiah-39-01]] }}}
{{rf{15}}} And the word of Yahweh came to Jeremiah at his confinement in the courtyard of the guard, saying, {{rf{16}}} "Go and say to Ebed-melech the Cushite, saying, 'Thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel: "Look, I am about to bring my words to pass against this city for evil and not for good. And they will be before you on that day. {{rf{17}}} But I will rescue you on that day," declares Yahweh, "and you will not be given into the hand of the men of whom you are frightened. {{rf{18}}} For surely I will save you, and you will not fall by the sword. But your life will be for you as booty because you have trusted in me," declares Yahweh.'" {{rf big{1}}} The word that came to Jeremiah from Yahweh after Nebuzaradan, the captain of the guard, had let him go from Ramah, where he had been taken bound in chains in the midst of all the exiles of Jerusalem and Judah who were being deported to Babylon. {{rf{2}}} And the captain of the guard took Jeremiah and said to him, "Yahweh your God threatened this disaster to this place, {{rf{3}}} and now he has brought it about, and Yahweh has done just as he threatened. Because you sinned against Yahweh and did not listen to his voice, so this thing has happened to you. {{rf{4}}} And so then look, I have released you today from the chains that were on your hands. If it is good in your eyes to come with me to Babylon, then come, and I will take care of you. But if it is bad in your eyes to come with me to Babylon, then refrain. Look, the whole land is before you. To wherever it is good and right in your eyes to go, then go there." {{rf{5}}} While he still had not turned back, Nebuzaradan added, "Return to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, whom the king of Babylon has appointed in an official position over the towns of Judah, and stay with him in the midst of the people. Or to wherever it is right in your eyes to go, then go there." Then the captain of the guard gave him an allowance of provisions and a present, and let him go. {{rf{6}}} So Jeremiah went to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, at Mizpah and stayed with him in the midst of the people who were left in the land. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Jeremiah-39-15]] }}}
{{rf{7}}} When all the commanders of the armies who were in the open country and their men heard that the king of Babylon had appointed Gedaliah the son of Ahikam in an official position in the land, and that he had put him in charge of men, and women, and little children, and of the poor of the land, of all those who had not been deported to Babylon, {{rf{8}}} then they went to Gedaliah at Mizpah -- Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and Johanan, and Jehonathan the son of Kareah, and Seraiah the son of Tanhumeth, and the sons of Ephai the Netophathite, and Jezaniah the son of the Maacathite, they and their men. {{rf{9}}} And Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, swore to them and to their men, saying, "You must not be afraid of serving the Chaldeans. Stay in the land and serve the king of Babylon, and it will go well with you. {{rf{10}}} As for me, look, I am staying at Mizpah to represent you before the Chaldeans who come to us. But you, gather wine and summer fruit and oil, and put them in your vessels, and live in your towns that you have seized." {{rf{11}}} And also all the Judeans who were in Moab, and among the Ammonites, and in Edom, and who were in all the lands, when they heard that the king of Babylon had given a remnant to Judah and that he had appointed Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, in an official position over them, {{rf{12}}} then all the Judeans returned from all the places to which they were scattered. And they came to the land of Judah, to Gedaliah at Mizpah, and they gathered wine and summer fruit that yielded in great abundance. {{rf{13}}} And Johanan the son of Kareah and all the commanders of the armies who were in the open country came to Gedaliah at Mizpah {{rf{14}}} and said to him, "Are you at all aware that Baalis, the king of the Ammonites, has sent Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, to kill you?" But Gedaliah the son of Ahikam would not believe them. {{rf{15}}} Then Johanan the son of Kareah said to Gedaliah in secrecy at Mizpah, saying, "Please let me go and kill Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and nobody will know. Why should he kill you, so that all of Judah who are gathered to you will be scattered, and the remnant of Judah will perish?" {{rf{16}}} But Gedaliah the son of Ahikam said to Johanan the son of Kareah, "You must not do this thing, for you are telling a lie about Ishmael." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Jeremiah-40-07]] }}}
And then in the seventh month Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, from the offspring of the kingship, and one of the chief officers of the king, came to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam at Mizpah, along with ten men. And they ate bread together there at Mizpah. {{rf{2}}} And Ishmael the son of Nethaniah got up, along with the ten men who were with him, and they struck Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, with the sword and killed him whom the king of Babylon had appointed in an official position over the land. {{rf{3}}} Then Ishmael killed all the Judeans who were with Gedaliah at Mizpah, along with the Chaldeans who were found there, the soldiers. {{rf{4}}} And then on the second day of the killing of Gedaliah -- and no one knew -- {{rf{5}}} then men came from Shechem, from Shiloh, and from Samaria, eighty men with shaven beards and torn garments, who had cut themselves with blades, having grain offerings and frankincense in their hands to bring to the temple of Yahweh. {{rf{6}}} And Ishmael the son of Nethaniah came out to meet them from Mizpah, weeping as he came. And then as he was meeting them, he said to them, "Come to Gedaliah, the son of Ahikam." {{rf{7}}} And then, the moment of their coming to the middle of the city, then Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, along with the men who were with him, slaughtered them and threw them to the middle of the pit. {{rf{8}}} But ten men were found among them, and they said to Ishmael, "You must not kill us, for we have hidden treasures in the field, wheat, and barley, and oil, and honey. So he refrained and he did not kill them in the midst of their fellow countrymen. {{rf{9}}} Now the pit into which Ishmael threw all the corpses of the men whom he had killed along with Gedaliah was the same one that King Asa had made because of Baasha the king of Israel, who was against him. Ishmael the son of Nethaniah filled it with the slain ones. {{rf{10}}} Then Ishmael took captive all the rest of the people who were in Mizpah, the daughters of the king and all the people who were left at Mizpah, over whom Nebuzaradan, the captain of the guard, had appointed Gedaliah the son of Ahikam. And Ishmael took them captive and set out to cross over to the Ammonites. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Jeremiah-41-01]] }}}
{{rf{11}}} When Johanan the son of Kareah and all the commanders of the armies who were with him, heard all the evil that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah had done, {{rf{12}}} then they took all the men and went to fight against Ishmael the son of Nethaniah. And they met him at the great pool that is in Gibeon. {{rf{13}}} And then, the moment that all the people who were with Ishmael saw Johanan the son of Kareah and all the commanders of the armies who were with him, they were glad. {{rf{14}}} So all the people whom Ishmael had taken captive from Mizpah turned around and returned and went to Johanan the son of Kareah. {{rf{15}}} But Ishmael the son of Nethaniah escaped with eight men from Johanan, and they went to the Ammonites. {{rf{16}}} Then Johanan the son of Kareah and all the commanders of the armies who were with him took from Mizpah all the rest of the people whom he had recovered from Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, after he had killed Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, strong men, soldiers, and women, and little children, and eunuchs whom he brought back from Gibeon. {{rf{17}}} And they set out and stayed at the lodging place of Chimham that is near Bethlehem, intending to go to Egypt {{rf{18}}} because of the Chaldeans. For they were afraid of them, because Ishmael the son of Nethaniah had killed Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, whom the king of Babylon had appointed in an official position over the land. {{rf big{1}}} Then all the commanders of the armies, and Johanan the son of Kareah, and Jezaniah the son of Hoshaiah, and all the people from the smallest to the greatest, approached {{rf{2}}} and said to Jeremiah the prophet, "May our plea please fall before you, and pray for us to Yahweh your God, for all this remnant, for we are left but a few of many, as your eyes are seeing us. {{rf{3}}} And let Yahweh your God inform us the way in which we should go and the thing that we should do." {{rf{4}}} And Jeremiah the prophet said to them, "I have heard. Look, I am going to pray to Yahweh your God according to your words, and then all the words that Yahweh answers you I will tell you; I will not withhold from you a word." {{rf{5}}} Then they said to Jeremiah, "May Yahweh be against us as a true and faithful witness if we do not do according to all the words that Yahweh sends you for us. {{rf{6}}} Whether good or bad, we will listen to the voice of Yahweh our God, to whom we are sending you, so that it may go well with us when we listen to the voice of Yahweh our God." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Jeremiah-41-11]] }}}
{{rf{7}}} And then at the end of ten days the word of Yahweh came to Jeremiah. {{rf{8}}} And he summoned Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the commanders of the armies who were with him, and all the people from the smallest to the greatest, {{rf{9}}} and said to them, "Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, to whom you sent me to cause your plea to fall before him: {{rf{10}}} 'If only you will stay in this land, then I will build you and I will not tear you down, and I will plant you and I will not pluck you up, for I relent of the disaster that I have brought to you. {{rf{11}}} You must not be afraid of the king of Babylon whom you are afraid of. You must not be afraid of him,' declares Yahweh, 'for I am with you to save you and to deliver you from his hand. {{rf{12}}} And I will show you compassion, and he will have compassion on you and will restore you to your soil. {{rf{13}}} But if you are saying, "We will not stay in this land," so as to not listen to the voice of Yahweh your God, {{rf{14}}} saying, "No, for we will go to the land of Egypt where we will not see war, and we will not hear the sound of a horn, and we will not be hungry for bread, and there we will stay," {{rf{15}}} then therefore hear the word of Yahweh, O remnant of Judah. Thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel: "If you are determined to go to Egypt, and you go to dwell as aliens there, {{rf{16}}} then it will be that the sword that you are in fear of will overtake you there in the land of Egypt, and the famine that you are anxious of will pursue after you there into Egypt, and there you will die. {{rf{17}}} So all the people who are determined to go to Egypt to dwell as aliens there will die by the sword, by the famine, and by the plague, and there will not be for them an escapee or a survivor from the disaster that I am bringing upon them." {{rf{18}}} For thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel: "As my anger and my wrath were poured out on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so my wrath will pour out on you at your going to Egypt, and you will become a curse, and a horror, and a curse formula, and a disgrace, and you will no longer see this place." ' {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Jeremiah-42-07]] }}}
{{rf{19}}} Yahweh has spoken to you, O remnant of Judah, 'You must not go to Egypt.' You must certainly know that I have warned you today {{rf{20}}} that you have made a fatal mistake, for you sent me to Yahweh your God, saying, 'Pray for us to Yahweh our God, and all that Yahweh our God says, so tell us and we will do it.' {{rf{21}}} So I have told you today, and you have not listened to the voice of Yahweh your God, or of anything that he sent me for you. {{rf{22}}} Now then, certainly you must know that by the sword, by the famine, and by the plague you will die in the place where you desire to go, to dwell as aliens there." {{rf big{1}}} And then, when Jeremiah had finished speaking to all the people all the words of Yahweh their God, for which Yahweh their God had sent him to them with all these words, {{rf{2}}} Azariah the son of Hoshaiah, and Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the insolent men spoke, saying to Jeremiah, "You are telling a lie! Yahweh our God did not send you, saying, 'You must not go to Egypt to dwell as aliens there.' {{rf{3}}} But Baruch the son of Neriah is inciting you against us in order to give us into the hand of the Chaldeans, to kill us and to deport us to Babylon." {{rf{4}}} So Johanan the son of Kareah and all the commanders of the armies, and all the people did not listen to the voice of Yahweh to stay in the land of Judah. {{rf{5}}} But Johanan the son of Kareah and all the commanders of the armies took all the remnant of Judah who had returned from all the nations to which they had been scattered to dwell as aliens in the land of Judah -- {{rf{6}}} the men, and the women, and the little children, and the daughters of the king, and everyone whom Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard had left with Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, and Jeremiah the prophet, and Baruch the son of Neriah -- {{rf{7}}} and they came into the land of Egypt, for they did not listen to the voice of Yahweh. And they came up to Tahpanhes. {{rf{8}}} And the word of Yahweh came to Jeremiah in Tahpanhes, saying, {{rf{9}}} "Take in your hands large stones and bury them in the mortar in the clay floor that is at the entrance of the palace of Pharaoh in Tahpanhes before the eyes of the people of the Judeans, {{rf{10}}} and say to them, 'Thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel: "Look, I am going to send and take Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and I will set his throne above these stones that I have hidden. And he will spread out his canopy over them. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Jeremiah-42-19]] }}}
{{rf{11}}} And he will come and ravage the land of Egypt, and deliver those who are appointed for the plague, to the plague, and those who are appointed for the captivity, to the captivity, and those who are appointed for the sword, to the sword. {{rf{12}}} Then he will kindle a fire in the temples of the gods of Egypt, and he will burn them and take them captive. And he will wrap up the land of Egypt just as the shepherd wraps up his cloak. And he will go forth from there in peace. {{rf{13}}} And he will break the stone pillars of Heliopolis, which is in the land of Egypt. And he will burn the temples of the gods of Egypt with fire." '"
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{{rf big{1}}} The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the Judeans who were living in the land of Egypt, who were living at Migdol, and Tahpanhes, and Memphis, and in the land of Pathros, saying, {{rf{2}}} "Thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel: 'You yourselves have seen all the disaster that I have brought on Jerusalem, and on all the towns of Judah. And look, they are a site of ruins this day, and there is not in them an inhabitant, {{rf{3}}} because of their wickedness that they committed to provoke me to anger by going to make smoke offerings, serving other gods whom they had not known, neither they, you, or your ancestors. {{rf{4}}} And I sent to you all my servants the prophets, sending over and over again, saying, "Please, you must not do this detestable thing that I hate." {{rf{5}}} But they did not listen and they did not incline their ears to turn back from their wickedness, to not make smoke offerings to other gods. {{rf{6}}} So my wrath and my anger were poured out and burned in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem, and they became as a site of ruins, as a desolation, as they are this day.' {{rf{7}}} So then, thus says Yahweh, the God of hosts, the God of Israel, 'Why are you doing great harm to yourselves, to cut off for yourselves man and woman, child and suckling, from the midst of Judah, to not leave over for yourselves a remnant, {{rf{8}}} provoking me to anger with the works of your hands, to make smoke offerings to other gods in the land of Egypt where you have come to dwell as aliens, so as to cut off yourselves, and so that you are becoming as a curse, and as a disgrace among all the nations of the earth? {{rf{9}}} Have you forgotten the wicked things of your ancestors, and the wicked things of the kings of Judah, and the wicked things of their wives, and your wicked things, and the wicked things of your wives, which they committed in the land of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem? {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Jeremiah-43-11]] }}}
<<Bbl Jer 44:26 abbr>> "I have a [[Vow]] of my own," says the Lord.
<<Bbl Jer 45:1 abbr>>-5
{{holyquote{
"Do not seek great things, for look, I am about to bring disaster upon all flesh," declares Yahweh, "but to you I will give your life as booty in all the places where you may go."
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The description in Baruch's complaint can't be equated with "booty"; therefore God is including in His promises to Baruch a different perspective. A two-fold oasis: Baruch will have life, as a desert traveler who finds a shaded spring; the reader is given a respite, a seventh-inning stretch. The subjective evaluation used by Baruch to assess his own life will change radically. He will be more like his master Jeremiah; Baruch is a mini-Jeremiah.
<<Bbl Jer 49:12 abbr>> <<Bbl Jer 25:29 abbr >>; <<Bbl Lam 4:21 >>
<<Bbl Jer 51:6 abbr >>-10 ref <<Bbl Jer 50:28 >>
<<Bbl Jer 51:7 abbr >> Similar to <<Bbl Rev 17:4 >>,<<Bbl Rev 18:6 >>.
! Lamentations
<<Bbl Lamentations 4:21 >> Compare <<Bbl Jer 25:29 >>, <<Bbl Jer 49:12 >>.
{{rf{10}}} They have not shown contrition up to this day, and they have not shown reverence, and they have not walked in my law and in my statutes that I set before you and before your ancestors.' {{rf{11}}} Therefore thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel: 'Look, I am determined to bring disaster on you, even to exterminate all Judah. {{rf{12}}} And I will take away the remnant of Judah who are determined to come to the land of Egypt to dwell as aliens there, and everyone will perish. They will fall in the land of Egypt by the sword; they will perish by the famine, from the smallest to the greatest. By the sword and by the famine they will die and become as a curse, as a horror, and as a curse, and as a disgrace. {{rf{13}}} So I will punish those who live in the land of Egypt just as I have punished Jerusalem, with the sword, with the famine, and with the plague. {{rf{14}}} And there will not be a survivor or an escapee of the remnant of Judah, those who have come to dwell as an alien there in the land of Egypt, to return to the land of Judah where they are longing to return to dwell there, for they will not turn back, but only some survivors.'" {{rf{15}}} Then all the men who knew that their wives were making smoke offerings to other gods, and all the women who stood by, a great assembly, and all the people who lived in the land of Egypt in Pathros, answered Jeremiah, saying, {{rf{16}}} "Concerning the word that you have spoken to us in the name of Yahweh, we are not going to listen to you! {{rf{17}}} But certainly we will do everything that went out from our mouths, to make smoke offerings to the queen of heaven and to pour out to her libations just as we did, we, and our ancestors, our kings, and our officials, in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem, for then we had enough to eat, and we were well-off, and we did not see disaster. {{rf{18}}} But since we stopped making smoke offerings to the queen of heaven and pouring out libations to her, we have lacked everything, and by the sword and by the famine we have perished. {{rf{19}}} And indeed, when we were making smoke offerings to the queen of heaven and pouring out to her libations, was it not with the consent of our husbands that we made for her sacrificial cakes marked with her image, and we poured out to her libations?" {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Jeremiah-44-10]] }}}
{{rf{20}}} Then Jeremiah said to all the people, to the men and to the women, and to all the people who answered him a word, saying, {{rf{21}}} "The offering that you made, smoke offerings in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem, you, and your ancestors, your kings, and your officials, and the people of the land, did not Yahweh remember them, and did it not come to his mind? {{rf{22}}} And Yahweh was no longer able to bear it, because of the evil of your deeds, because of the detestable things that you committed. Thus your land became as a site of ruins, and as a horror, and as a curse, without inhabitants, as it is this day. {{rf{23}}} Because of the fact that you made smoke offerings, and that you sinned against Yahweh, and you did not listen to the voice of Yahweh, and you have not walked in his law, and in his statute, and in his legal provisions, therefore this disaster has happened to you, as it is this day." {{rf{24}}} Then Jeremiah said to all the people and to all the women, "Hear the word of Yahweh, all Judah who are in the land of Egypt. {{rf{25}}} Thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, saying, 'You and your wives have promised with your mouths and with your hands you have fulfilled, saying, "We certainly will carry out our vows that we vowed, to make smoke offerings to the queen of the heavens, and to pour out to her libations." You must certainly keep your vows and you must certainly carry out your vows.' {{rf{26}}} Therefore hear the word of Yahweh, all Judah, those who live in the land of Egypt: 'Look, I hereby swear by my great name,' says Yahweh, 'surely my name will no longer be called in the mouth of any man of Judah, saying, "as the Lord Yahweh lives," in all the land of Egypt. {{rf{27}}} Look, I am going to watch over them for harm and not for good, and all people of Judah who are in the land of Egypt will perish by the sword and by the famine until their perishing. {{rf{28}}} And the survivors of the sword will return from the land of Egypt to the land of Judah few in number. And all the remnant of Judah who have come to the land of Egypt to dwell as aliens there will know whose word will endure, from me or from them. {{rf{29}}} And this will be to you the sign,' declares Yahweh, 'that I am going to punish you in this place, so that you may know that surely my words will endure against you for evil.' {{rf{30}}} Thus says Yahweh: 'Look, I am going to give Pharaoh Hophra, the king of Egypt, into the hand of his enemies, and into the hand of those who seek his life, just as I gave Zedekiah the king of Judah into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, his enemy and the one who sought his life.'" {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Jeremiah-44-20]] }}}
The word that Jeremiah the prophet spoke to Baruch, the son of Neriah, at his writing these words on a scroll from the mouth of Jeremiah, in the fourth year of Jehoiakim, the son of Josiah, the king of Judah, saying, {{rf{2}}} "Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, to you, O Baruch: {{rf{3}}} 'You said, "Woe please to me, for Yahweh has added sorrow to my pain. I am weary in my groaning and I do not find rest." ' {{rf{4}}} Thus you will say to him: 'Thus says Yahweh, "Look, what I have built I am about to tear down, and what I have planted I am about to pluck up, it is all the land. {{rf{5}}} And you, do you seek great things for yourself? Do not seek great things, for look, I am about to bring disaster upon all flesh," declares Yahweh, "but to you I will give your life as booty in all the places where you may go." '"
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{{rf big{1}}} The word of Yahweh that came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning the nations. {{rf{2}}} Concerning Egypt: Concerning the army of Pharaoh Neco, the king of Egypt, which was by the Euphrates River at Carchemish, which Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon defeated in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, the king of Judah. {{rf{3}}} "Prepare small shield and shield, and approach for the battle! {{rf{4}}} Harness the horses and mount the steeds! And take your stand with helmets! Polish the spears! Put on the body armor! {{rf{5}}} Why do I see them terrified? They are turning back and their warriors are beaten down. And they have fled to a place of refuge and they do not turn back. Terror is from all around," declares Yahweh. {{rf{6}}} The swift cannot flee, and the warrior cannot escape. They have stumbled and they have fallen, by the bank of the Euphrates River. {{rf{7}}} Who is this that rises like the Nile, like the rivers whose waters surge? {{rf{8}}} Egypt rises like the Nile, even like the rivers whose waters surge. And he says, "Let me rise, let me cover the earth, let me destroy cities, and the inhabitants in them." {{rf{9}}} Go up, O horses, and drive madly, O chariots, and let the warriors go forth; Cush and Put, who wield the small shield, and Lud, who wield and bend the bow. {{rf{10}}} For that day is to the Lord Yahweh of hosts a day of retribution, to take revenge on his foes. And the sword will devour and be satisfied, and it will drink its fill of their blood, for a sacrifice is for the Lord Yahweh of hosts in the land of the north by the Euphrates River. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Jeremiah-45-01]] }}}
{{rf{11}}} Go up to Gilead and take balm, O virgin of the daughter of Egypt. In vain you make use of many medicines; there is no healing for you. {{rf{12}}} The nations have heard your shame, and your cry of lament fills the earth. For warrior has stumbled against warrior, together they have fallen, the two of them. {{rf{13}}} The word that Yahweh spoke to Jeremiah the prophet about the coming of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon to attack the land of Egypt: {{rf{14}}} "Declare in Egypt, and proclaim in Migdol, and proclaim in Memphis and in Tahpanhes, say, 'Take your stand and be prepared, for the sword will devour those all around you.' {{rf{15}}} Why are your bulls defeated? He did not stand because Yahweh thrust him down. {{rf{16}}} He multiplied the ones stumbling. Furthermore, each one fell to his neighbor, and said, 'Stand up, and let us return to our people and to the land of our birth, because of the presence of the sword of the oppressor.' {{rf{17}}} They will call there, 'Pharaoh, the king of Egypt is but a roar, he missed the opportunity.' {{rf{18}}} As I live," declares the king, Yahweh of hosts is his name, "one will come like Tabor among the mountains and like Carmel by the sea. {{rf{19}}} Pack your baggage for exile, O inhabitants of the daughter of Egypt, for Memphis will become as a horror, and it will be destroyed, without inhabitant. {{rf{20}}} Egypt is a beautiful heifer, but a gadfly from the north will come against her. {{rf{21}}} Even her mercenaries in her midst are like calves of fattening, for they also have turned away, they have fled together. They stand not, for the day of their calamity has come, the time of their punishment. {{rf{22}}} Her sound is like a snake that glides away, for they march in force. And with axes they come to her like those who chop trees. {{rf{23}}} They will cut down her forest," declares Yahweh, "for it is impenetrable. Yes, they are more numerous than locusts, and they are without number. {{rf{24}}} The daughter of Egypt will be ashamed, she will be given into the hand of the people of the north." {{rf{25}}} Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, said, "Look, I am going to punish Amon of Thebes, and Pharaoh, and Egypt, and her gods, and her kings, even Pharaoh and those who trust in him. {{rf{26}}} And I will give them into the hand of the seekers of their lives, and into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, and into the hand of his troops. But afterward it will be inhabited, as in days of old," declares Yahweh. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Jeremiah-46-11]] }}}
{{rf{27}}} "But as for you, my servant Jacob, you must not be afraid, and Israel, you must not be dismayed, for look, I am going to save you from far, and your offspring from the land of their captivity. And Jacob will return, and he will be quiet, and he will be at ease, and without one who makes him afraid. {{rf{28}}} You must not be afraid, my servant Jacob," declares Yahweh, "for I am with you. For I will make a complete destruction in all the nations where I scattered you, but you I will not make a complete destruction, though I will chastise you to the measure, and I will certainly not leave you unpunished." {{rf big{1}}} The word of Yahweh that came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning the Philistines before Pharaoh attacked Gaza. {{rf{2}}} Thus says Yahweh: "Look, waters are rising from the north, and they will become as a raging torrent, and they will overflow the land, and that which fills it, the city and those who live in it. And the people will cry out, and every inhabitant of the land will wail, {{rf{3}}} from the sound of the stamping of the hoofs of his stallions, from the clattering of his chariots, the noise of their wheels. Fathers do not turn to their children because of the slackness of their hands. {{rf{4}}} Because of the day that is coming to destroy all the Philistines, to cut off from Tyre and from Sidon every survivor who could help, for Yahweh is destroying the Philistines, the remnant of the coastland of Caphtor. {{rf{5}}} Baldness has come upon Gaza, Ashkelon is destroyed. O remnant of their valley, how long will you cut yourself with a blade? {{rf{6}}} Ah, sword of Yahweh, how long will you not be quiet? Gather to your sheath, keep quiet and stand still. {{rf{7}}} How can you be quiet when Yahweh has given an order to it? Against Ashkelon and against the shore of the sea, there he has appointed it." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Jeremiah-46-27]] }}}
Concerning Moab, thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel: "Woe to Nebo, for it is devastated. It is ashamed, Kiriathaim is captured. Misgab is ashamed, and it is filled with terror. {{rf{2}}} The glory of Moab is no longer. In Heshbon they planned evil against her. Come and let us cut her off from being a nation. Also, Madmen, you will be silent. After you will go the sword. {{rf{3}}} The sound of a cry of distress arises from Horonaim, devastation and great destruction. {{rf{4}}} Moab is broken, her little ones make heard a cry for help. {{rf{5}}} For the ascent of Luhith, in weeping they go weeping, For on the slope of Horonaim they have heard the distresses of the cry of distress of the destruction. {{rf{6}}} Flee! Save your life! For you must not be like the juniper tree in the desert. {{rf{7}}} For because of your trusting in your works and in your treasures, even you yourselves will be taken, and Chemosh will go out into the exile, his priests and his officials together. {{rf{8}}} And the destroyer will come to every town, and a town will not escape. And the valley will be destroyed, and the plain will be destroyed, as Yahweh has spoken. {{rf{9}}} Give salt for Moab, for certainly she will go to ruin, and her towns will become as a desolation, without an inhabitant in them. {{rf{10}}} The one who does the work of Yahweh with slackness is cursed, and the one who keeps away blood from his sword is cursed. {{rf{11}}} Moab has been at ease from his youth, and he has been quiet on his dregs, and he has not been poured out from vessel to vessel, and he has not gone into exile. Therefore his taste has remained unchanged, and his fragrance has not changed. {{rf{12}}} Therefore look, days are coming," declares Yahweh, "and I will send to him decanters, and they will decant him, and his vessels they will empty out, and their jars they will smash. {{rf{13}}} Then Moab will be ashamed of Chemosh, just as the house of Israel were ashamed of Bethel, their trust. {{rf{14}}} How can you say, 'we are warriors, and men of might for the battle.' {{rf{15}}} Moab is destroyed, and his towns have gone up, and the choice of his young men have gone down to the slaughtering," declares the King, Yahweh of hosts is his name. {{rf{16}}} "The disaster of Moab is near to come, and his disaster approaches very quickly. {{rf{17}}} Mourn for him, all his surroundings, and all those who knew his name. Say, 'How the staff of might is broken, the staff of glory.' {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Jeremiah-48-01]] }}}
{{rf{18}}} Come down from glory and sit on the parched ground, O inhabitant, daughter of Dibon, for the destroyer of Moab has come up against you, he has destroyed your fortifications. {{rf{19}}} Stand by the road and watch, O inhabitant of Aroer. Ask the man who is fleeing and the woman who is escaping, say, 'What has happened?' {{rf{20}}} Moab is ashamed, for it is filled with terror. Wail and cry out, tell it by Arnon that Moab is devastated. {{rf{21}}} Judgment has also come to the land of the plain, to Holon, and to Jahaz, and on Mephaath, {{rf{22}}} and on Dibon, and on Nebo, and on Beth-diblathaim, {{rf{23}}} and on Kiriathaim, and on Beth-gamul, and on Beth-meon, {{rf{24}}} and on Kerioth, and on Bozrah, and on all the towns of the land of Moab, the far and the near. {{rf{25}}} The horn of Moab is cut off and his arm is broken," declares Yahweh. {{rf{26}}} "Make him drunk, because he magnified himself against Yahweh, and let Moab wallow in his vomit. And he also will become a laughingstock. {{rf{27}}} Now was not Israel the laughingstock to you? Or was he found among thieves? For as often as you spoke over him you shook your head. {{rf{28}}} Leave the towns and dwell on the rock, O inhabitants of Moab, and be like the dove, it nests on the sides of the mouth of a ravine. {{rf{29}}} We have heard of the pride of Moab -- he is very proud -- his height, and his pride, and his arrogance, and the haughtiness of his heart. {{rf{30}}} I know his insolence," declares Yahweh, "and his boastings are false; they act falsely. {{rf{31}}} Therefore over Moab I wail, and for all of Moab I cry out, for the people of Kir-heres I moan. {{rf{32}}} More than the weeping of Jazer I weep for you, O vine Sibmah. Your branches cross over the sea, up to the sea of Jazer they reach. Upon your summer fruit and upon your vintage the destroyer has fallen. {{rf{33}}} And joy and rejoicing have been taken away from the fruitful land, even from the land of Moab. And the wine from the wine presses I have caused to disappear. He will not tread with exuberant shouts. Exuberant shouts will not be exuberant shouts. {{rf{34}}} From the cry for help of Heshbon, up to Elealeh, up to Jahaz, they give their voice, from Zoar up to Horonaim, up to Eglath-shelishiyah, for even the waters of Nimrim have become as a desolation. {{rf{35}}} And I will cause to disappear for Moab," declares Yahweh, "the one who presents a sacrifice at a high place, and the one who burns a smoke offering to his gods. {{rf{36}}} Therefore my heart moans for Moab like the flute. It moans for the people of Kir-heres like the flute. Therefore the wealth they gained has perished. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Jeremiah-48-18]] }}}
{{rf{37}}} For on every head is baldness, and every beard is trimmed. On all the hands, slashes, and on the loins, sackcloth. {{rf{38}}} On all the roofs of Moab, and in its public squares, there is wailing everywhere. For I have broken Moab like a vessel, there is no delight in it," declares Yahweh. {{rf{39}}} "How it is filled with terror! How they wail! How Moab has turned his back! He is disgraced! So Moab has become as a derision, and as a terror for all his surrounding peoples." {{rf{40}}} For thus says Yahweh, "Look, like an eagle he will swoop down, and he will spread out his wings against Moab. {{rf{41}}} Kerioth will be taken, and the strongholds will be conquered, and the hearts of the warriors of Moab will be on that day like the heart of a woman who is in labor. {{rf{42}}} And Moab will be destroyed from being a people, because against Yahweh he magnified himself. {{rf{43}}} Dread, and pit, and a trapping net are against you, O inhabitant of Moab," declares Yahweh. {{rf{44}}} "He who flees before the dread will fall into the pit, and the one who climbs up from the pit will be caught in the trapping net, for I will bring on Moab the year of their punishment," declares Yahweh. {{rf{45}}} "In the shadow of Heshbon fugitives stand without strength, for a fire has gone out from Heshbon, and a flame from Sihon. And it has eaten the forehead of Moab, and the skulls of the people of tumult. {{rf{46}}} Woe to you, Moab! The people of Chemosh have perished. For your sons have been taken into captivity, and your daughters into captivity. {{rf{47}}} Yet I will restore the fortunes of Moab in the last of the days," declares Yahweh. Thus far is the judgment of Moab. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Jeremiah-48-37]] }}}
Concerning the Ammonites: Thus says Yahweh, "Are there no sons for Israel? Or is there no heir for him? Why has Milcom taken possession of Gad, and his people dwelled in its towns? {{rf{2}}} Therefore look, days are coming," declares Yahweh, "and I will sound against Rabbah, the Ammonites, the alarm of the war, and it will become as a mound of desolation, and its daughters will burn in the fire. Then Israel will dispossess his dispossessors," says Yahweh. {{rf{3}}} "Wail, Heshbon, for Ai is devastated. Cry out, O daughters of Rabbah, put on sackcloth. Lament and run back and forth among the walls. For Milcom will go into exile, his priests and his officials together. {{rf{4}}} Why do you boast in your valleys? Your valleys are ebbing. O unfaithful daughter, who trusted in her treasures, who said, 'Who will come against me?' {{rf{5}}} Look, I am going to bring dread on you," declares Lord Yahweh of hosts, "from all your surrounding neighbors. And you will be scattered, each one before it, and there is no one who gathers the fugitives. {{rf{6}}} Yet afterward I will restore the fortunes of the Ammonites," declares Yahweh. {{rf{7}}} Concerning Edom, thus says Yahweh of hosts: "Is there no longer wisdom in Teman? Has counsel become lost from those who understand? Is their wisdom rotting? {{rf{8}}} Flee! Turn back! Get down low! O inhabitants of Dedan. For I will bring upon him the disaster of Esau at the time when I will punish him. {{rf{9}}} If grape-gatherers come to you, would they not leave gleanings? If thieves in the night, they destroy only enough for them. {{rf{10}}} But I have stripped Esau bare. I have uncovered his hiding places, and he is not able to hide himself. His offspring are devastated, along with his brothers, and his neighbors, and he is no more. {{rf{11}}} Leave your orphans. I will let them live. And your widows, let them trust in me." {{rf{12}}} For thus says Yahweh, "Look, those who are not condemned to drink the cup must certainly drink it. And are you the one who will go entirely unpunished? You will not go unpunished, for you must certainly drink it. {{rf{13}}} For I have sworn by myself," declares Yahweh, "that Bozrah will become as a horror, as a disgrace, as a waste, and as a curse. And all her towns will be everlasting sites of ruins." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Jeremiah-49-01]] }}}
{{rf{14}}} I have heard a message from Yahweh, and a messenger has been sent among the nations. "Gather and come against her, and rise for the battle." {{rf{15}}} "For look, I will make you small among the nations, despised by the humankind. {{rf{16}}} Your terror has deceived you, the pride of your heart, O you who dwell in the clefts of the rock, you who seize the height of the hill. Though you make your nest high like the eagle, from there I will bring you down," declares Yahweh. {{rf{17}}} "And Edom will become as a horror, everyone who passes by it will be appalled, and will hiss because of all its blows. {{rf{18}}} As the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah and their neighbors," says Yahweh, "no one will live there, and the son of humankind will not dwell as an alien in it. {{rf{19}}} Look, like a lion he comes up from the thickets of the Jordan to a pastureland by a constantly flowing stream. So I will chase him away hurriedly from it. And whoever is chosen I will appoint over it. For who is like me, and who can summon me? And who is this, the shepherd who can stand before me?" {{rf{20}}} Therefore hear the plan of Yahweh that he has planned against Edom, and his plans that he has planned against the inhabitants of Teman. Surely they will drag them away, the little ones of the flock. Surely he will cause to be desolated over them their grazing place. {{rf{21}}} The earth will quake from the sound of their falling. A cry of distress! Their voice will be heard at the Red Sea. {{rf{22}}} Look, like an eagle he will go up and he will swoop down, and he will spread out his wings against Bozrah. And the heart of the warriors of Edom will be in that day like the heart of a woman who is in labor. {{rf{23}}} Concerning Damascus: "Hamath and Arpad are ashamed, for they have heard bad news; they melt. There is concern in the sea. It is not able to keep quiet. {{rf{24}}} Damascus has grown slack. She has turned away to flee and panic. Anxiety has seized her, and labor pains have grasped her, like a woman in labor. {{rf{25}}} How the city of praise has not been abandoned! The city of my joy! {{rf{26}}} Therefore her young men will fall in her public squares, and all the soldiers will perish in that day," declares Yahweh of hosts. {{rf{27}}} "And I will kindle a fire at the wall of Damascus, and it will devour the citadel fortresses of Ben-hadad." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Jeremiah-49-14]] }}}
{{rf{28}}} Concerning Kedar and concerning the kingdoms of Hazor that Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon defeated. Thus says Yahweh: "Rise up, go up against Kedar and destroy the people of the east. {{rf{29}}} They will take their tents, and their flocks, their tent curtains, and all their equipment, and their camels they will carry away for themselves, and they will call to them, 'Terror is from all around.' {{rf{30}}} Flee! Wander far away! Get down low! O inhabitants of Hazor," declares Yahweh. "For Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, has planned a plan against you. And he has schemed a scheme against you. {{rf{31}}} Rise up, go up against a nation which is at ease, living securely," declares Yahweh. "There are no gates and there are no bars for them, they dwell alone. {{rf{32}}} And their camels will become as plunder, and the multitude of their livestock as spoil. And I will scatter to every wind those who are trimmed to the side, and from every side I will bring their disaster," declares Yahweh. {{rf{33}}} "And Hazor will become as a lair of jackals, a waste forever; no one will live there, and no son of humankind will dwell as an alien in it." {{rf{34}}} The word of Yahweh that came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning Elam at the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah the king of Judah, saying, {{rf{35}}} "Thus says Yahweh of hosts: 'Look, I am going to break the bow of Elam, the first and best of their might. {{rf{36}}} And I will bring to Elam four winds, from the four corners of heaven, and I will scatter them to all these winds, and there will not be a nation where the scattered people of Elam will not go. {{rf{37}}} So I will shatter Elam before their enemies, and before the seekers of their life. And I will bring disaster upon them, my burning anger,' declares Yahweh. 'And I will send after them the sword until I have destroyed them. {{rf{38}}} And I will set my throne in Elam and I will destroy from there king and officials,' declares Yahweh. {{rf{39}}} 'And then in the last of the days I will restore the fortunes of Elam,' declares Yahweh." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Jeremiah-49-28]] }}}
The word that Yahweh spoke concerning Babylon, concerning the land of the Chaldeans, by the hand of Jeremiah the prophet: {{rf{2}}} "Declare among the nations and proclaim, and lift up a banner. Proclaim, you must not conceal it. Say, 'Babylon is captured, Bel is ashamed, Merodach is filled with terror, her idols are ashamed, her idols are filled with terror. {{rf{3}}} For a nation will come up against her from the north. It will make her land as a horror, and an inhabitant will not be in her. From humans to animals they all will wander off. They will go away. {{rf{4}}} In those days and in that time,'" declares Yahweh, "the people of Israel will come, they and the people of Judah together. Weeping as they go, they will go, and Yahweh their God they will seek. {{rf{5}}} They will ask the way to Zion, turning their faces there. They will come and join themselves to Yahweh by an everlasting covenant that will not be forgotten. {{rf{6}}} My people have become lost sheep, their shepherds have caused them to go astray. They led them away to the mountains. From mountain to hill they have gone, they have forgotten their resting place. {{rf{7}}} All those who found them have devoured them. And their foes have said, 'We are not guilty, because they have sinned against Yahweh, the true pasture, even Yahweh, the hope of their ancestors.' {{rf{8}}} Flee from the midst of Babylon, and from the land of the Chaldeans. Go out and be like he-goats before the flock. {{rf{9}}} For look, I am going to stir up, and I am going to bring against Babylon a contingent of great nations from the land of the north. And they will draw up a battle formation against her, from there she will be captured. Their arrows are like a warrior who has achieved success, he does not return without success. {{rf{10}}} And Chaldea will be as booty, all those who plunder her will be satisfied," declares Yahweh. {{rf{11}}} "Though you rejoice, though you exult, O plunderers of my inheritance, though you frisk about like a heifer on the grass, and you neigh like the powerful stallions, {{rf{12}}} your mother will be very ashamed. She who gave birth to you will be humiliated. Look, she will be the least of the nations, a desert, dry land, and wilderness. {{rf{13}}} Because of the anger of Yahweh she will not be inhabited, but she will be a wasteland, all of her. Everyone who passes by Babylon will be appalled and will hiss because of all her wounds. {{rf{14}}} Draw up a battle formation at Babylon all around, all those who bend the bow, shoot at her. You must not spare arrows, for she has sinned against Yahweh. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Jeremiah-50-01]] }}}
{{rf{15}}} Raise a war cry against her on all sides. She has surrendered. Her towers have fallen, her walls are ruined. For this is the vengeance of Yahweh. Take revenge on her. As she has done to others, so do to her. {{rf{16}}} Cut off the sower from Babylon, and the one who uses the sickle in the time of harvest. Because of the sword of the oppressor each one will turn to their people, and each one will flee to their land. {{rf{17}}} Israel is a sheep scattered, lions drove them away. The first who devoured it was the king of Assyria, and now at the end Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, gnawed its bones." {{rf{18}}} Therefore thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, "Look, I am going to punish the king of Babylon and his land just as I punished the king of Assyria. {{rf{19}}} And I will restore Israel to its pasture, and it will feed on Carmel, and in Bashan, and on the hills of Ephraim, and in Gilead its hunger will be satisfied. {{rf{20}}} In those days and at that time," declares Yahweh, "the guilt of Israel will be sought, but there is none, and the sins of Judah, but they will not be found, for I will forgive those I left behind. {{rf{21}}} To the land of Merathaim, go up against her, and against the inhabitants of Pekod, massacre and destroy them," declares Yahweh, "and do according to all that I have commanded you. {{rf{22}}} The sound of battle is in the land, and great destruction. {{rf{23}}} How the blacksmith's hammer of all the earth is cut down and broken! How Babylon has become as a horror among the nations! {{rf{24}}} I laid a bird snare for you, and you were caught, O Babylon. But you yourself did not know. You were discovered and seized, because with Yahweh you measured yourself. {{rf{25}}} Yahweh has opened his armory, and he has brought out the weapons of his wrath, for it is a word for my Lord Yahweh of hosts in the land of the Chaldeans. {{rf{26}}} Come against her from the end, open her granaries. Pile her up like heaps and destroy her. Let there be no remnant for her. {{rf{27}}} Massacre all her bulls, let them go down to the slaughtering. Woe to them, for their day has come, the time of their punishment. {{rf{28}}} There is the sound of fugitives and survivors from the land of Babylon, to declare in Zion the vengeance of Yahweh our God, the vengeance for his temple. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Jeremiah-50-15]] }}}
{{rf{29}}} Summon archers against Babylon, all those who bend the bow. Encamp all around her, there must not be for her an escape. Take revenge on her according to her deeds. According to all that she has done, so do to her. For against Yahweh she has behaved insolently, against the Holy One of Israel. {{rf{30}}} Therefore her young men will fall in her public squares, and all her soldiers will perish on that day," declares Yahweh. {{rf{31}}} "Look, I am against you, O arrogant one," declares Lord Yahweh of hosts, "for your day has come, the time when I will punish you. {{rf{32}}} And the arrogant one will stumble and fall, and there is no one who raises him up. And I will kindle a fire in his cities, and it will devour everything around him." {{rf{33}}} Thus says Yahweh of hosts: "The people of Israel are oppressed, and the people of Judah likewise, for all their captors have seized them, they refuse to let them go free. {{rf{34}}} Their redeemer is strong, his name is Yahweh of hosts. Surely he will plead their case, in order to make peace for the earth, but to cause unrest to the inhabitants of Babylon. {{rf{35}}} A sword against the Chaldeans," declares Yahweh, "and against the inhabitants of Babylon, and against her officials, and against her wise men. {{rf{36}}} A sword against the oracle priests, and they will become foolish. A sword against her warriors, and they will be filled with terror. {{rf{37}}} A sword against his horses, and against his chariots, and against all the foreign troops who are in the midst of her, so that they may become as women. A sword against her treasures, so that they may be plundered. {{rf{38}}} A drought will come against her waters, and they will dry up, for it is a land of images, and because of the frightful objects, they act like madmen. {{rf{39}}} Therefore desert creatures will live there with jackals, and daughters of ostriches will inhabit her. And she will not be inhabited again forever, and she will not be dwelt in for all generations. {{rf{40}}} As when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and their neighbors," declares Yahweh, "no one will live there, and the son of humankind will not dwell as an alien in her. {{rf{41}}} Look, a people is about to come from the north, and a great nation and many kings are woken up from the remotest part of the earth. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Jeremiah-50-29]] }}}
{{rf{42}}} They keep hold of bow and short sword. They are cruel and they have no mercy. Their sound is like the sea, it roars, and upon horses they ride. Drawn up for battle as a man for the battle, against you, O daughter of Babylon. {{rf{43}}} The king of Babylon heard their report and his hands grew slack. Anxiety has seized him, fear and pain like the woman who gives birth. {{rf{44}}} Look, like a lion he comes up from the thickets of the Jordan against a pastureland by a constantly flowing stream, so I will chase them away quickly from her, and I will appoint whoever is chosen over her. For who is like me, and who can summon me, and who is this shepherd who can stand before me? {{rf{45}}} Therefore hear the plan of Yahweh that he has planned against Babylon, and his plans that he has planned against the land of the Chaldeans. Surely they will drag them away, the little ones of the flock. Surely he will cause their grazing place to be desolate over them. {{rf{46}}} At the sound, 'Babylon has been captured,' the earth will quake, and a cry for help among the nations will be heard." {{rf big{1}}} Thus says Yahweh: "Look, I am going to stir up against Babylon and against the inhabitants of Leb-qamai a destructive wind. {{rf{2}}} And I will send winnowers to Babylon, and they will winnow her, and they will lay waste her land, for they will be against her from all sides on the day of disaster. {{rf{3}}} Let not him who bends the bow shoot his bow, and let him not rise high in his body armor. And you must not spare her young men; destroy her whole army. {{rf{4}}} And they will fall slain in the land of the Chaldeans, and pierced through in her streets. {{rf{5}}} For neither Israel nor Judah is a widower from their God, from Yahweh of hosts, though their land is full of guilt against the Holy One of Israel." {{rf{6}}} Flee from the midst of Babylon and save each one his life. You must not perish because of her guilt. For this is the time of vengeance for Yahweh, he will repay her what is deserved. {{rf{7}}} Babylon was a cup of gold in the hand of Yahweh, making drunk all the earth. The nations drank of her wine. Therefore the nations acted like madmen. {{rf{8}}} Suddenly Babylon has fallen and she is shattered. Wail over her! Take balm for her wounds, perhaps she may be healed. {{rf{9}}} We tried to heal Babylon, and she was not healed. Forsake her and let us go each one to his country, for her judgment has reached to the heavens, and it has been lifted up to the skies. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Jeremiah-50-42]] }}}
{{rf{10}}} Yahweh has brought forth our vindication. Come and let us make known in Zion the work of Yahweh our God. {{rf{11}}} Sharpen the arrows, fill the quivers! Yahweh has stirred up the spirit of the kings of the Medes. Because his plan concerning Babylon is to destroy it, for that is the vengeance of Yahweh, the vengeance for his temple. {{rf{12}}} Against the walls of Babylon raise a banner; post a strong watch, post watchmen, prepare the ambushes, for Yahweh has both planned as well as performed what he has spoken concerning the inhabitants of Babylon. {{rf{13}}} O you who live by mighty waters, rich in treasures, your end has come, the measure of your life. {{rf{14}}} Yahweh of hosts has sworn by himself, "Surely I will fill you with troops like the creeping locusts, and they will sing over you a war cry." {{rf{15}}} He is the one who made the earth by his power, the one who created the world by his wisdom, and by his understanding he stretched out the heavens. {{rf{16}}} At the giving of his voice there is a roar of waters in the heavens, and he causes the patches of mist to go up from the end of the earth. He makes lightning for the rain, and he brings out the wind from his storehouses. {{rf{17}}} All humankind turns out to be stupid, without knowledge. Every goldsmith is put to shame by the divine image. For his cast image is a lie, and there is no breath in them. {{rf{18}}} They are worthless, a work of mockery. At the time of their punishment, they will perish. {{rf{19}}} The portion of Jacob is not like these, for he is the creator of everything, and the tribe of his inheritance. Yahweh of hosts is his name. {{rf{20}}} He says, "You are a war club for me, a weapon of battle, and I smash nations with you, and I destroy kingdoms with you. {{rf{21}}} And I smash the horse with you, and its rider, and I smash the chariot with you, and its rider. {{rf{22}}} And I smash man and woman with you, and I smash the old man and the boy with you, and I smash the young man and the young woman with you. {{rf{23}}} And I smash the shepherd and his flock with you, and I smash the farmer and his team with you, and I smash the governors and the officials with you. {{rf{24}}} And I will repay Babylon, and all the inhabitants of Chaldea, all their wickedness that they have done in Zion before your eyes," declares Yahweh. {{rf{25}}} "Look, I am against you, O mountain of the destruction," declares Yahweh, "the one that destroys the whole earth. And I will stretch out my hand against you, and I will roll you down from the cliffs, and I will make you as a mountain burned away. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Jeremiah-51-10]] }}}
{{rf{26}}} They will not take from you a stone for a corner, and a stone for a foundation, for you will be an everlasting desolation," declares Yahweh. {{rf{27}}} Raise a banner in the land; blow a horn among the nations; prepare for holy war against her; summon the nations against her, the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz; summon against her an official; bring up horses like bristling creeping locusts. {{rf{28}}} Prepare the nations for holy war against her, the kings of the Medes, with their governors and all their officials, and every land of their dominion. {{rf{29}}} And the land quakes and writhes, for the plans of Yahweh against Babylon stand, to make the land of Babylon as a horror, without inhabitant. {{rf{30}}} The warriors of Babylon have ceased to fight, they remain in the strongholds, their power has dried up, they have become as women. Her dwelling places are set on fire, her bars are broken. {{rf{31}}} one runner runs to meet another runner, and one messenger to meet another messenger, to tell the king of Babylon that his city has been captured, from end to end. {{rf{32}}} And the fords have been seized, and the reed marshes have been burned with fire, and the soldiers are horrified. {{rf{33}}} For thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, "The daughter of Babylon is like a threshing floor at the time it is trodden down, just a little while and the time of the harvest will come for her." {{rf{34}}} Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon has devoured me and sucked me dry; he has made me an empty vessel; he has swallowed me like the sea monster; he has filled his belly with my delicacies; he has rinsed me. {{rf{35}}} "May the violence done to me and to my flesh be on Babylon," the inhabitants of Zion will say; and "My blood be upon the inhabitants of Chaldea," Jerusalem will say. {{rf{36}}} Therefore thus says Yahweh, "Look, I am going to contend your case, and I will avenge your vengeance, and I will cause her sea to dry up, and I will cause her fountain to dry up. {{rf{37}}} And Babylon will become as a heap of stones, a lair of jackals, an object of horror, and an object of hissing, without inhabitants. {{rf{38}}} They will roar together like the young lions, they will growl like the cubs of lions. {{rf{39}}} At their becoming hot I will set their banquets, and I will make them drunk, so that they will fall into a swoon, and they will sleep an everlasting sleep, and they will not wake up," declares Yahweh. {{rf{40}}} "I will bring them down like young rams to slaughter, like rams and goats. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Jeremiah-51-26]] }}}
{{rf{41}}} How Sheshach is captured, and the glory of all the earth is seized! How Babylon has become as an object of horror among the nations! {{rf{42}}} The sea has risen over Babylon, she has been covered by the roar of its waves. {{rf{43}}} Her cities have become as an object of horror, a dry land and a wilderness, a land in which no person lives, nor does a son of humankind pass through it. {{rf{44}}} And I will punish Bel in Babylon, and I will wrench out from his mouth what he has swallowed. And the nations will not stream towards him any longer what's worse, the wall of Babylon has fallen. {{rf{45}}} Come out from her midst, my people, and save each one his life from the burning anger of Yahweh. {{rf{46}}} Now so that you are not fainthearted, and you are afraid at the rumors that are heard in the land -- and in the year the rumor comes, and in the year after it the rumor, and violence is in the land, with ruler against ruler -- {{rf{47}}} therefore look, days are coming, and I will punish the images of Babylon, and all her land will be put to shame, and all her slain ones will fall in the midst of her. {{rf{48}}} Then the heaven and the earth and all that is in them will shout for joy over Babylon, for from the north the destroyers will come to it," declares Yahweh. {{rf{49}}} Babylon must fall not only because of the slain ones of Israel, but also because of Babylon the slain ones of all the earth have fallen. {{rf{50}}} Survivors of the sword, go! You must not linger! Remember Yahweh from far away, and let Jerusalem come to your mind. {{rf{51}}} We are ashamed, for we have heard taunts, disgrace covers our faces, for strangers have come to the holy places of the house of Yahweh. {{rf{52}}} "Therefore look, days are coming," declares Yahweh, "and I will punish her images, and the fatally wounded will sigh through all her land. {{rf{53}}} Though Babylon goes up to the heavens, and though she fortifies the high place of her strength, from me destroyers will come to her," declares Yahweh. {{rf{54}}} The sound of a cry for help from Babylon, and a great collapse from the land of the Chaldeans. {{rf{55}}} For Yahweh is devastating Babylon, and he obliterates her loud noise from her. Their waves roar like mighty waters, the roar of their voices resounds. {{rf{56}}} For a destroyer is coming against her, against Babylon, and her warriors are captured. Their bows are broken; for Yahweh is a God of recompense, certainly he will repay. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Jeremiah-51-41]] }}}
{{rf{57}}} "And I will make drunk her officials, and her wise men, her governors, and her officials, and her warriors, and they will sleep an everlasting sleep, and they will not wake up," declares the King, Yahweh of hosts is his name. {{rf{58}}} Thus says Yahweh of hosts: "The broad walls of Babylon will be utterly demolished, and her high gates will burn with fire, and the peoples will labor for nothing, and the nations for fire, and they will grow weary." {{rf{59}}} The word that Jeremiah the prophet commanded Seraiah, the son of Neriah, the son of Mahseiah, at his going with Zedekiah, the king of Judah, to Babylon in the fourth year of his reign. Now Seraiah was the quartermaster. {{rf{60}}} And Jeremiah wrote all the disasters that would come on Babylon in one scroll, all these words that are written concerning Babylon. {{rf{61}}} And Jeremiah said to Seraiah, "At your coming to Babylon, then you must see that you read aloud all these words. {{rf{62}}} And you must say, 'Yahweh, you yourself spoke against this place, to destroy it, so that there will not be in it anything living, from humankind to animals, for it will be an everlasting desolation.' {{rf{63}}} And then when you finish reading aloud this scroll, you must tie a stone on it, and you must throw it into the middle of the Euphrates. {{rf{64}}} And you must say, 'Babylon will sink, and she will not rise, because of the face of the disasters that I am bringing on her, and they will grow weary.'" Thus far the words of Jeremiah. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Jeremiah-51-57]] }}}
Zedekiah was twenty-one years old at his beginning to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. And the name of his mother was Hamutal, the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah. {{rf{2}}} And he did evil in the eyes of Yahweh like all that Jehoiakim had done. {{rf{3}}} For because of the anger of Yahweh this happened in Jerusalem and Judah until his casting them from his presence. And Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon. {{rf{4}}} And then in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, on the tenth day of the month, Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon came against Jerusalem, he and all his army. And they laid siege to it, and built siege works against it all around. {{rf{5}}} So the city came under siege until the eleventh year of King Zedekiah. {{rf{6}}} In the fourth month, on the ninth day of the month, the famine in the city became severe and there was no food for the people of the land. {{rf{7}}} Then the city was breached, and all the soldiers fled and went out from the city by night by the way of the gate between the two walls that are at the garden of the king, though the Chaldeans were all around the city. And they went in the direction of the Jordan Valley. {{rf{8}}} But the army of the Chaldeans pursued after the king and they overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho, and all his army was scattered from him. {{rf{9}}} Then they captured the king and brought him up to the king of Babylon at Riblah in the land of Hamath, and he passed sentence on him. {{rf{10}}} And the king of Babylon slaughtered the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and he also slaughtered all the officials of Judah at Riblah. {{rf{11}}} Then he made blind the eyes of Zedekiah, and they tied him up with bronze fetters, and the king of Babylon brought him to Babylon. And he put him in prison until the day of his death. {{rf{12}}} Now in the fifth month, on the tenth day of the month, which was the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard, who stood before the king of Babylon, entered into Jerusalem. {{rf{13}}} And he burned the temple of Yahweh, and the palace of the king, and all the houses of Jerusalem, even every great house he burned with fire. {{rf{14}}} And all the army of the Chaldeans who were with the captain of the guard broke down all the walls of Jerusalem all around. {{rf{15}}} And Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard deported some of the poor of the people, and the rest of the people who were left in the city, and the deserters who deserted to the king of Babylon, along with the rest of the craftsmen. {{rf{16}}} But Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left some of the poor of the land to serve as vinedressers and farmers. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Jeremiah-52-01]] }}}
{{rf{17}}} And the Chaldeans broke the pillars of bronze that were in the temple of Yahweh, and the kettle stands and the sea of bronze that were in the temple of Yahweh, and they carried all their bronze to Babylon. {{rf{18}}} And they took with them the pots, and the shovels, and the snuffers, and the sprinkling bowls, and the pans, and all the vessels of bronze which were used in temple service. {{rf{19}}} And the captain of the guard took the bowls, and the firepans, and the sprinkling bowls, and the pots, and the lampstands, and the pans, and the libation bowls, those made of solid gold and those made of solid silver. {{rf{20}}} The two pillars, the one sea, and the twelve bronze oxen that were under the kettle stands which King Solomon had made for the temple of Yahweh -- there was not a weight for the bronze of all these vessels! {{rf{21}}} Now the pillars, the height of one pillar was eighteen cubits, and a thread of twelve cubits surrounded it, and its thickness was four fingers, hollowed out. {{rf{22}}} And a capital upon it was bronze and the height of the one capital was five cubits, and latticework and pomegranates were on the capital on all sides, all of bronze. And like these was the second pillar with pomegranates. {{rf{23}}} And there were ninety-six pomegranates on the sides; all the pomegranates on the latticework on all sides were a hundred. {{rf{24}}} Then the captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest, and Zephaniah the second priest, and three keepers of the threshold. {{rf{25}}} And from the city he took one high official who was chief officer over the soldiers, and seven men of the king's advisors who were found in the city, and the secretary of the commander of the army who levied for military service the people of the land, and sixty men of the people of the land who were found in the midst of the city. {{rf{26}}} Then Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took them and brought them to the king of Babylon at Riblah. {{rf{27}}} And the king of Babylon struck them down and killed them at Riblah in the land of Hamath. So Judah left from its land. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Jeremiah-52-17]] }}}
{{rf{28}}} This is the number of the people whom Nebuchadnezzar deported: in the seventh year, three thousand twenty-three Judeans; {{rf{29}}} in the eighteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar, eight hundred and thirty-two persons from Jerusalem; {{rf{30}}} in the twenty-third year of Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuzaradan, the captain of the guard, deported seven hundred and forty-five Judean persons; there were four thousand six hundred persons in all. {{rf{31}}} And then in the thirty-seventh year of the exile of Jehoiachin, the king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the twenty-fifth day of the month, Evil-merodach, the king of Babylon, in the first year of his reign, lifted up the head of Jehoiachin, the king of Judah, and brought him out from prison. {{rf{32}}} Then he spoke with him kindly and gave his seat above the seats of the kings who were with him in Babylon. {{rf{33}}} So he changed the garments of his imprisonment and he ate food before him continually all the days of his life. {{rf{34}}} And his allowance, a continual allowance was given to him by the king of Babylon on a daily basis all the days of his life up to the day of his death. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Jeremiah-52-28]] }}}
* God chose it outside of any recommending qualities, Ez 16, <<Bbl Zech 3:2>> (applies to both Joshua and Jerusalem).
* Promised by Moses in the Law. <<Bbl Dt 12:5>>-14
* God personally built and protected Jerusalem (<<Bbl Ps 46:4>>; <<Bbl Ps 87:5>>; <<Bbl Ps 127:1>>)
* until his people rejected him and were exiled, and the city was destroyed (2 Kings 25).
* <<Bbl Dan 9:2>>, 16, 18, 20
* We can hardly appreciate its importance for the NT era.
** Imagine the Vatican for a Catholic (non-American).
** Like the Sanhedrin. James the brother of the Lord. "What you bind or loose on Earth..."
* In Revelation it appears as a cube to reflect the original Holy of Holies.
* [[Wall]] - <<Bbl Zech 2:4>>-5 looks for day it won't be needed.
I've decided to let tiddlers with the title {{{Christ}}} look more at His office and role, and use this for His mundane story (so to speak).
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* //Jesus// is an English transliteration of the Greek //Iesoun//. And this in turn is a Greek transliteration of the Hebrew //Joshua//. And Joshua is a combination of //Yah// and “salvation” or “save.” It means //Yahweh saves.// So...Jesus is Yahweh with a human nature coming to save his people from sin. Paul confirms this in <<Bbl Php 2:11>>... a quote from <<Bbl I 45:23>> where Yahweh is the one to whom every knee shall bow and every tongue confess. Paul is saying that, in the end, the whole world will acknowledge that Jesus is in fact Yahweh incarnate. (Piper)
* His advent has the sniff of public scandal, for the godless and skeptical. Hear the snide subtone in <<Bbl L 4:22 >>.
* <<Bbl L 2:24 >> They are not wealthy.
* <<Bbl A 7:45 >>.
* People conclude from <<Bbl I 52:14>> that Christ was destroyed beyond recognition. But then He would be unidentifiable, which is clearly out of line with His mission.
* <<Bbl A 20:35>> - a quote not seen in the Gospels!
* [[Mary-HisMother]]
* [[Questions-FromJesus]]
!!! His demeanor
* For His tone of voice we must use imagination. Our choices can reveal how we regard Him. A good exercise is no read <<Bbl J 6:10 >>a in a variety of emotions.
!!! His prayers.
* <<Bbl Gal 4:3 >>
* <<Bbl Heb 5:7 >>
!!! His love
* <<Bbl J 11:3 >>, <<Bbl J 11:36 >>
<<Bbl 1K 16:31>>
<<Bbl 1K 21:25>>
<<Bbl 2K 9:7>>, 30
<<Bbl Rev 2:20 >>-23
* //God sows.//
* <<Bbl 1K 20:1 >> Stands before the palace of the northern kingdom.
* The place of Naboth's birth and murder. The ground cries out for his blood.
* 1K 12 and 2K 9 and 10.
* <<Bbl Hosea 2:21 >>-22 note.
* Let's call him ''"Yob"''. It's got to be closer.
* Yob begins as a man replete with both piety and prosperity.
* Concerning the structure, see [[Chiasmus]]
! Narrative structure
!!! The setup
* In the form of a wager, God is tested by Satan: Is He glorious? Will Yob give glory God?
!!! The test
* By what means does [[Satan]] test Yob? Irene offered a stunning insight (c. 2004, 10 years old) when she asked at dinnertime conversation, "I wonder if Yob's friends were sent by Satan?" Yes, and one must go further: ''The three friends are the test itself; the opening calamities are just the staging.''
** Satan asks permission first to strike Yob's worldly resources and his bodily health, but he doesn't ask permission to send the friends.
*** Maybe Satan gets a pass when it comes to using fellow believers!
*** Maybe God was letting him sneak one through, showing His final [[Sovereignty]] even over wicked subtlety.
** ''Why is this so little recognized? Is not that Satan is so devious he hides himself even in this narrative?''
!!! The crisis
* <<Bbl Job 34:7 >>-9
* The arrival of a fourth man depicts one entering the storm at personal peril.
* Maybe God's own appearance is a rescue on instant notice.
!!! The resolution
* Yob's plight contains much drama; His confession of God, much more.
* See [[notes|Job-38-01-note]] for the close of the book.
* "...God appeared to Yob and taught him that his greatest need was trust in God, not the assurance of justice in this life or vindication before some heavenly court." // - NAS "Student Bible" notes//
! Wisdom, limited
* Wisdom is not found where there is no love or no fear of God.
** In the "wisdom" of the friends there is a lot of truth (comparable to ''Proverbs''), but at times they overreach truth to become fatuous (<<Bbl Job 20:14 abbr >>) and cruel (chapter 18).
** Correspondingly, Yob's pleas to God are honest but veer easily into accusation and even slander. Perhaps they are like the ''Psalms'' (even in slander?).
* This ambiguity raises the question of whether the good-sounding exhortations retain any value.
** We are less afraid to make use of Ecclesiastes than Yob.
** An interesting study will look for nuggets of truth expressed only in the pages of Yob.)
* Yob and his friends ask, //Why all this suffering?// We are given the answer. That answer is beyond our understanding; clearly this book is not intended to make sense of suffering on a philosophical level.
* Did Satan ask permission to tempt Eve?
! Origin
* Written either before Genesis or after Amos. Or conceivably with the Song, as it shares characteristics.
! Opinions and Theories on Yob
!!!! Sound
* The test consists of stripping away all earthly support and then providing ''one single earthly support in the form of three //"sympathetic"// counselors.''
* Again and again the argument is reduced to a proposition that Yob's trial must be a result of his sin.
** The apparent alternative -- that God is unjust -- can't be countenanced.
** But if Yob agrees to this, he betrays the truth and God's righteousness. This is he refuses to do (however tenuous his stance may appear at times).
* The relationship of piety to prosperity.
* Yet a man can lose all worldly goods and remain in God's blessing.
!!!! Shallow
* The test consists of stripping away all earthly support. Then arrive three sympathetic counselors, and together they try to account for God's dealings. But they are unable and the counselors are, it seems, a bit glib at some point in their attempts. Yob comes out the better man, somehow. Commentary of F.I. Anderson follows this line.
!!!! Simpleminded
* Prosperity teaching tries to repeal Yob by making him the agent of his own woe. (Lynn Wilson, 1985; a preacher in San Marcos, 2015; a friend, 2018.)
** For this they lean on <<Bbl Job 3:25 abbr>> (//that which I feared has come upon me//) and his "anxious diligence" making sacrifice for his sons in the intro.
** So an erroneous view of God's grace leads to dishonest exegesis.
* ''If Yob is not righteous'', the basic arguments are destroyed. The book doesn't support this idea.
!!! History or Fable?
* Fictional.
** Problem: Yob is referenced as historical by later writers. then they either believe in his historicity or not.
*** If he was made-up and later commentators thought he was historical, plenary authority is challenged.
*** If he was made-up and later commentators thought of him as made-up ... (seems plausible as literary device) (but it raises the question of how they know he wasn't historical; does inspiration require this?)...
* ~Non-Fictional.
** Problems: the historical setting as presented is not attested elsewhere. The characters' names are emblematic (are the 3 friends foreign and Elihu Jewish?. The biography is fable-like. Oral tradition can explain much. But how much can a history be reshaped by the story-teller?
''What to make of the utter absence of Jewish religion?'' (This is true of other poetic writings, most notably the Song of Songs.)
* It can mean it's ancient.
* It can mean the writer aims for transcendence.
There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job. That man was blameless and upright and God-fearing and turning away from evil. {{rf{2}}} And seven sons and three daughters were born to him. {{rf{3}}} Then his livestock came to be seven thousand sheep and goats and three thousand camels and five hundred pairs of oxen and five hundred female donkeys, and he had very many slaves, and that man was greater than all the people of the east. {{rf{4}}} And his sons used to go and hold a feast at each other's house on his day, and they would send, and they would invite their three sisters to eat and to drink with them. {{rf{5}}} Then when the days of the feast had run their course, Job would send, and he would sanctify them. Thus he would arise early in the morning and offer burnt offerings according to the number of all of them, because Job thought, "Perhaps my children have sinned and cursed God in their heart." This is what Job used to do all the time. {{rf{6}}} And it happened one day that the sons of God came to present themselves before Yahweh, and Satan also came into their midst. {{rf{7}}} So Yahweh said to Satan, "From where have you come?" Then Satan answered Yahweh and said, "From roaming on the earth and from walking about in it." {{rf{8}}} So Yahweh said to Satan, "Have you considered my servant Job? Indeed, there is no one like him on the earth -- a blameless man and upright and God-fearing and turning away from evil." {{rf{9}}} Then Satan answered Yahweh and said, "Does Job fear God for nothing? {{rf{10}}} Have you not put a fence around him and his household and around all that belongs to him on every side? You have blessed the work of his hands, and his livestock has increased in the land. {{rf{11}}} But, on the other hand, stretch out your hand and touch all that belongs to him and see whether he will curse you to your face." {{rf{12}}} So Yahweh said to Satan, "Look, all that belongs to him is in your power. Only do not stretch out your hand against him." So Satan went out from Yahweh's presence. {{rf{13}}} And then there was one day when his sons and his daughters were eating and drinking wine in their firstborn brother's house. {{rf{14}}} And a messenger came to Job and said, "The oxen were plowing, and the female donkeys were feeding beside them. {{rf{15}}} Then the Sabeans attacked, and they took them, and they slew the servants by the edge of the sword. But I escaped, even I alone, to tell you." {{rf{16}}} While this one was still speaking, another came and said, "The fire of God fell from the heavens, and it blazed up against the sheep and goats and against the servants, and it consumed them. But I escaped, even I alone, to tell you." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Job-01-01]] }}}
<<Bbl Job 1:8 abbr >> The phrase //none like him in all the earth// is most often used for God (<<Bbl Ps 86:8 >>); only one other time in the OT does it refer to a human being (1 <<Bbl Sam 10:24 >>).
<<Bbl Job 1:4 abbr >> What a heavenly vision of fellowship!
<<Bbl Job 1:8 abbr >> See <<Bbl Pr 27:11 >>
<<Bbl Job 1:9 abbr >> Key: highlight. Satan is tempting God just as he did Eve.
<<Bbl Job 1:9 abbr >> This is indeed the crux - //for nothing?//
<<Bbl Job 1:11 abbr >> Put forth THY hand. The characters all attribute Job's trials to God. Satan is no secondary cause. The Lord then permits Satan's "hand" (v 12).
<<Bbl Job 2:1 abbr >> We like to say it can't get any worse. How foolish.
<<Bbl Job 2:9 abbr>> Let's not be too hard on her -- she and Job are both past their limit. Yet Job persists where she does not.
<<Bbl Job 2:9 abbr>> //Curse God and die// -- suicide, like the yellow and black handles of an ejection seat. Our culture screams continually at us like Job's wife. <<Bbl Jonah 4:6>>.
<<Bbl Job 3:13 abbr>>-19 A clear exposition of death in the OT; Rest In Peace.
3:23 //hedged// - same as <<Bbl Job 1:10 abbr>>?
3:24 Water is in parallel with food.
Job 3:25 Not the disasters, but to his immediate calamity of continued daily life.
<<Bbl Job 3:25 abbr >> To cite this as Satan's warrant is to descend to the false reasoning of his false friends. It contradicts <<Bbl Mt 1:8 >>, 12
4:12-21 Is verse 17 at the climax of this passage?
<<Bbl Job 4:18 abbr >> It is claimed that God puts no trust in His servants. Yet God has done just that in committing His reputation to the integrity of Job (who is //God's servant//, <<Bbl Job 1:8 >>). See <<Bbl Job 25:4 >>–6.
<<Bbl Job 4:18 abbr>> see <<Bbl Job 15:15 abbr>>
4:18 see <<Bbl Job 15:15 abbr>> (also Eliphaz)
4:20, <<Bbl Job 5:2 abbr>> These seem cruelly pointed.
{{rf{17}}} While this one was still speaking, another came and said, "The Chaldeans formed three divisions, and they made a raid on the camels, and they carried them away, and they struck your servants by the edge of the sword, but I escaped, even I alone, to tell you." {{rf{18}}} At the time this one was speaking, another came and said, "Your sons and your daughters were eating and drinking wine in their firstborn brother's house. {{rf{19}}} And behold, a great wind came from across the desert, and it struck the four corners of the house so that it fell upon the young people, and they died. But I escaped, even I alone, to tell you." {{rf{20}}} Then Job arose and tore his outer garment and shaved his head; then he fell upon the ground and he worshiped. {{rf{21}}} Then he said, "Naked I came out from my mother's womb, and naked I will return there. Yahweh gives, and Yahweh takes. Let Yahweh's name be blessed." {{rf{22}}} In all this, Job did not sin and did not charge God with wrongdoing. {{rf big{1}}} And then one day the sons of God came to present themselves before Yahweh, and Satan also came into their midst to present himself before Yahweh. {{rf{2}}} So Yahweh asked Satan, "From where have you come?" And Satan answered Yahweh and said, "From roaming on the earth and from walking about in it." {{rf{3}}} So Yahweh asked Satan, "Have you considered my servant Job? Indeed, there is no one like him on the earth -- a blameless man and upright and God-fearing and turning away from evil. And still he persists in his blamelessness even though you incited me against him to destroy him for nothing." {{rf{4}}} Then Satan answered him and said, "Skin for skin! All that that man has he will give for his life. {{rf{5}}} But stretch out your hand and touch his bones and his flesh, and see whether he will curse you to your face." {{rf{6}}} So Yahweh said to Satan, "All right, he is in your power. Only spare his life." {{rf{7}}} So Satan went out from Yahweh's presence, and he inflicted Job with loathsome skin sores from the sole of his foot up to the crown of his head. {{rf{8}}} So he took for himself a potsherd with which to scrape himself, and he sat in the midst of the ashes. {{rf{9}}} Then his wife said to him, "Are you still persisting in your blamelessness? Curse God and die." {{rf{10}}} So he said to her, "You speak like one of the foolish women speaks. Indeed, should we receive the good from God, but not receive the evil?" In all this, Job did not sin with his lips. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Job-01-17]] }}}
{{rf{11}}} Thus Job's three friends heard of this calamity that had come upon him. So each set out from his own place: Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite. And they met together to come to console him and to comfort him. {{rf{12}}} Thus they lifted up their eyes from afar, but they did not recognize him, so they raised their voice, and they wept, and each man tore his outer garment and threw dust on their heads toward the sky. {{rf{13}}} Then they sat with him on the ground for seven days and seven nights, but no one spoke a word to him because they saw that his suffering was very great. {{rf big{1}}} Afterward Job opened his mouth and cursed his day. {{rf{2}}} Thus Job spoke up and said, {{rf{3}}} "Let the day perish on which I was born, and the night that said, 'A man-child is conceived.' {{rf{4}}} Let that day become darkness; may God not seek it from above, nor may daylight shine on it. {{rf{5}}} Let darkness and deep shadow claim it; let clouds settle on it; let them terrify it with the blackness of day. {{rf{6}}} Let darkness seize that night; let it not rejoice among the days of the year; let it not enter among the number of the months. {{rf{7}}} Look, let that night become barren; let a joyful song not enter it. {{rf{8}}} Let those who curse the day curse it, those who are skilled at rousing Leviathan. {{rf{9}}} Let the stars of its dawn be dark; let it hope for light but there be none, and let it not see the eyelids of daw {{rf{10}}} because it did not shut the doors of my mother's womb, nor did it hide trouble from my eyes. {{rf{11}}} "Why did I not die at birth? Why did I not come forth from the womb and expire? {{rf{12}}} Why did the knees receive me and the breasts, that I could suck? {{rf{13}}} For now I would lie down, and I would be at peace; I would be asleep; then I would be at rest {{rf{14}}} with kings and counselors of the earth, who rebuild ruins for themselves, {{rf{15}}} or with high officials who have gold, who fill up their houses with silver. {{rf{16}}} Or why was I not hidden like a miscarriage, like infants who did not see the light? {{rf{17}}} There the wicked cease from troubling, and there the weary are at rest; {{rf{18}}} the prisoners are at ease together; they do not hear the oppressor's voice. {{rf{19}}} The small and the great are there, and the slave is free from his masters. {{rf{20}}} "Why does he give light to one in misery and life to those bitter of soul, {{rf{21}}} who wait for death, but it does not come, and search for it more than for treasures, {{rf{22}}} who rejoice exceedingly, and they are glad when they find the grave? {{rf{23}}} Why does he give light to a man whose way is hidden, and God has fenced him in all around? {{rf{24}}} For my sighing comes before my bread, and my groanings gush forth like wate {{rf{25}}} because the dread that I feel has come upon me, and what I feared befalls me. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Job-02-11]] }}}
{{rf{26}}} I am not at ease, and I am not at peace, and I do not have rest, thus turmoil has come." {{rf big{1}}} Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said, {{rf{2}}} "If someone would test a word with you, would you be offended? But who can refrain from speaking? {{rf{3}}} Look, you have instructed many, and you have strengthened weak hands. {{rf{4}}} Your words have raised up the one who stumbles, and you have strengthened knees giving way. {{rf{5}}} But now it has come to you, and you are worn out; it touches you, and you are horrified. {{rf{6}}} Is not your fear in God your confidence? Is not your hope even the integrity of your ways? {{rf{7}}} "Think now, who has perished who is innocent? Or where are the upright destroyed? {{rf{8}}} Just as I have seen, plowers of mischief and sowers of trouble will reap it. {{rf{9}}} By the breath of God they perish, and by the blast of his anger they come to an end. {{rf{10}}} The roar of the lion and the voice of a lion in its prime, and the teeth of the young lions are broken. {{rf{11}}} The lion is perishing without prey, and the lion's whelps are scattered. {{rf{12}}} "And a word came stealing to me, and my ear received the whisper from it. {{rf{13}}} Amid troubling thoughts from night visions, at the falling of deep sleep on men, {{rf{14}}} dread met me, and trembling, and it made many of my bones shake. {{rf{15}}} And a spirit glided before my face; the hair of my flesh bristled. {{rf{16}}} It stood still, but I could not recognize its appearance; a form was before my eyes; there was a hush, and I heard a voice: {{rf{17}}} 'Can a human being be more righteous than God, or can a man be more pure than his Maker? {{rf{18}}} Look, he does not trust in his servants and he charges his angels with error. {{rf{19}}} How much more dwellers in clay houses, whose foundation is in the dust? They are crushed like a moth. {{rf{20}}} Between morning and evening they are destroyed; without anyone regarding it they perish forever. {{rf{21}}} Is not their tent cord pulled up within them? They die, but not in wisdom.' {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Job-03-26]] }}}
"Call now, is there anyone answering you? And to which of the holy ones will you turn? {{rf{2}}} For vexation will slay the fool, and jealousy will kill the simple. {{rf{3}}} I have seen a fool taking root, but suddenly I cursed his dwelling. {{rf{4}}} His children are far from deliverance, and they are crushed in the gate, and there is no deliverer -- {{rf{5}}} whose harvest the hungry eats, and he takes it from behind the thorns; and the thirsty pants after their wealth. {{rf{6}}} Indeed, mischief does not come from the dust, and trouble does not sprout from the earth. {{rf{7}}} But a human being is born to trouble, and they soar aloft like sparks. {{rf{8}}} "But I myself will seek God, and to God I would commit my cause. {{rf{9}}} He is doing great and unsearchable things, marvelous things without number -- {{rf{10}}} the one who is giving rain on the surface of the earth and is sending water on the surface of the fields, {{rf{11}}} to set the lowly on high, and those mourning are lifted to safety. {{rf{12}}} He is frustrating the devices of the crafty, and their hands do not achieve success. {{rf{13}}} He is capturing the wise in their craftiness, and the schemes of the wily are rushed. {{rf{14}}} In the daytime they meet with darkness, and they grope at noon as in the night. {{rf{15}}} And he saves from the sword of their mouth, even the poor from the hand of the strong. {{rf{16}}} So there is hope for the powerless, and wickedness shuts its mouth. {{rf{17}}} "Look, happy is the human being whom God reproves; and you must not despise the discipline of Shaddai, {{rf{18}}} for he himself wounds, but he binds up; he strikes, but his hands heal. {{rf{19}}} From six troubles he will deliver you, and in seven evil shall not touch you. {{rf{20}}} In famine he will redeem you from death, and in war from the power of the sword. {{rf{21}}} From the scourge of the tongue you shall be hidden, and you shall not be afraid of destruction when it comes. {{rf{22}}} At destruction and famine you shall laugh, and you shall not fear the wild animals of the earth. {{rf{23}}} For your covenant will be with the stones of the field, and the wild animals of the field will be at peace with you. {{rf{24}}} And you shall know that your tent is safe, and you will inspect your fold, and you shall not be missing anything. {{rf{25}}} And you shall know that your offspring are many, and your descendants like the vegetation of the earth. {{rf{26}}} You shall come in maturity to the grave, as the raising up of a stack of sheaves in its season. {{rf{27}}} "Look, we have searched this out -- it is true; hear it and know it yourself." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Job-05-01]] }}}
<<Bbl Job 5:7 abbr>> I finally see (2/7/89) what a simple proverb he's making. Still it's disquieting.
<<Bbl Job 6:26 abbr>> Because of the preceding, I spoke in cursing. A translation says //words in the wind//; John Piper presents them as the plea of a distressed man: //Don't pick at my language! If I speak untruthfully or unacceptably, just let it pass.//
7:1-2 See 14:6
7:14 Is this another aspect of Satan's oppression? And yet Job ascribes these dreams to God, and it has been pointed out to me that the Bible ascribes no dreams to Satan.
<<Bbl Job 7:16 abbr >>-17 <<Bbl Mt 13:20 >>-21
7:17-18 The continued attention of God may be a source of comfort (<<Bbl Ps 139:1>> or 2) or of terror.
<<Bbl Job 7:21 abbr >> Not self-loathing but humility.
8:6-7 Are these false words? Hard to say, especially as they come true in the end.
8:16-17 Compare the parable of the sower.
8, 9 Bildad and Job seem to switch arguments in these passages.
<<Bbl Job 9:16 abbr >>-17 Not true, as will be seen. But the reference to a storm is interesting.
<<Bbl Job 9:18 abbr >> <<Bbl Job 10:15 abbr >>; Repletion, negative.
9:27 Positive confession.
10:10-11 see <<Bbl Ps 139:13 >>-15 ; <<Bbl Ecc 5:11 >>
<<Bbl Job 10:15 abbr >> ref <<Bbl Job 9:18 abbr >>. Repletion, negative.
<<Bbl Job 11:6 abbr >> the source of J.I. Packer's article title.
12:4 Poignant!
13:5 The plea of one in mourning.
14:6 see 7:1-2 and similar passages from <<Bbl Ecc 14:18 >>-2 3 The climax is vs. 19c. Entropy, erosion, decay.
15:15 see 4:18 (also Eliphaz)
15:29 i.e., heavy for harvest.
16:2 The same in the KJV ??
16:3 How many charges of windy words are made in Job, anyway?
<<Bbl Job 16:5 abbr >> He, Job, would be a help. This would seen to be sarcasm as Job prolly would see his actual self as beyond human consolation.
16:17 How is Job's prayer pure?
16:21 The "Rock that is higher than I". This prayer will be answered in a greater measure than Job can reckon.
<<Bbl Job 17:8 abbr >>-9 The correct response to the situation: perturbation, godliness, sanctification.
17:8 Not against God, apparently, but against his friends.
<<Bbl Job 17:12 abbr >> The false friends offer false hope.
<<Bbl Job 19:1 abbr >> Job reaches pinnacles of assurance and revelation.
<<Bbl Job 19:1 abbr >>-4 <<Bbl Rom 14:4 >>
<<Bbl Job 19:3 abbr >> Possibly Bildad's preceding excoriation has ten clauses.
<<Bbl Job 19:13 abbr >>-19 I have been "ghosted".
<<Bbl Job 19:24 abbr >> Job has good reason to wish this sublime passage preserved. And scripture is more perfect than even Job's iron and stone.
19:25 Vine's, under "Kinsman (OT)", has a corrective note; see my own notes.
<<Bbl Job 20:3 abbr >> "I feel disrespected."
Then Job answered and said, {{rf{2}}} "If only my vexation could be well weighed, and my calamity could be lifted up together with it in the balances, {{rf{3}}} for then it would be heavier than the sand of the seas; therefore my words have been rash, {{rf{4}}} for the arrows of Shaddai are in me; my spirit drinks their poison; the terrors of God are arrayed against me. {{rf{5}}} Does the wild ass bray over grass, or the ox bellow over its fodder? {{rf{6}}} Can tasteless food be eaten without salt, or is there taste in the white of a marshmallow plant? {{rf{7}}} I refused to touch them; they are like food that will make me ill. {{rf{8}}} "O that my request may come, and that God may grant my hope, {{rf{9}}} that God would decide that he would crush me, that he would let loose his hand and kill me. {{rf{10}}} But it will still be my consolation, and I would recoil in unrelenting pain, for I have not denied the words of the Holy One. {{rf{11}}} What is my strength, that I should wait? And what is my end, that I should hold out? {{rf{12}}} Or is my strength like the strength of stones? Or is my flesh bronze? {{rf{13}}} Indeed, my help is not in me, and any success is driven from me. {{rf{14}}} "Loyal love should come for the afflicted from his friend, even if he forsakes the fear of Shaddai. {{rf{15}}} My companions are treacherous like a torrent-bed; like a streambed of wadis they flow away, {{rf{16}}} which are growing dark because of ice upon them, it will pile up snow. {{rf{17}}} In time they dry up, they disappear; when it is hot, they vanish from their place. {{rf{18}}} The paths of their way wind around; they go up into the wasteland, and they perish. {{rf{19}}} The caravans of Tema looked; the traveling merchants of Sheba hope for them. {{rf{20}}} They are disappointed, because they trusted; they came here and they are confounded. {{rf{21}}} "For now you have become such; you see terrors, and you fear. {{rf{22}}} Is it because I have said, 'Give to me,' or, 'Offer a bribe for me from your wealth'? {{rf{23}}} or, 'Save me from the foe's hand,' or, 'Ransom me from the tyrants' hand'? {{rf{24}}} Teach me, and I myself will be silent; and make me understand how I have gone astray. {{rf{25}}} How painful are upright words! But what does your reproof reprove? {{rf{26}}} Do you intend to reprove my words and consider the words of a desperate man as wind? {{rf{27}}} Even over the orphan you would cast the lot, and you would bargain over your friend. {{rf{28}}} "Therefore be prepared, turn to me, and I surely will not lie to your face. {{rf{29}}} Please turn, let no injustice happen; indeed, turn, my righteousness is still intact. {{rf{30}}} Is there injustice on my tongue? Or can my palate not discern calamity? {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Job-06-01]] }}}
"Does not a human being have hard service on earth? And are not his days like the days of a laborer? {{rf{2}}} Like a slave he longs for the shadow, and like a laborer he waits for his wages. {{rf{3}}} So I had to inherit months of worthlessness, and nights of misery are apportioned to me. {{rf{4}}} When I lie down, I say, 'When shall I rise?' But the night is long, and I have my fill of tossing until dawn. {{rf{5}}} My body is clothed with maggots and clods of dust; my skin hardens, then it gives way again. {{rf{6}}} "My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and they come to an end without hope. {{rf{7}}} Remember that my life is a breath; my eye will not return to see good. {{rf{8}}} The eye of the one seeing me will not see me; your eyes are upon me, but I will be gone. {{rf{9}}} A cloud vanishes, and it goes away, so he who goes down to Sheol will not come up. {{rf{10}}} He does not return again to his house, and his place does not recognize him again. {{rf{11}}} "Even I will not restrain my mouth; I will speak in my spirit's anguish; I will complain in my inner self's bitterness. {{rf{12}}} Am I the sea, or a sea monster, that you set a guard over me? {{rf{13}}} When I say, 'My bed will comfort me, and my couch will ease my complaint,' {{rf{14}}} then you terrify me with dreams, and with visions you terrify me. {{rf{15}}} So my inner self will choose strangling -- death more than my existence. {{rf{16}}} I loathe my life; I would not live forever; depart from me, for my days are a breath. {{rf{17}}} "What is a human being that you make him great and that you fix your mind on him, {{rf{18}}} so that you visit him every morning, you test him every moment? {{rf{19}}} How long will you not turn away from me? Or not leave me alone until I swallow my spit? {{rf{20}}} If I have sinned, what have I done to you, watcher of humanity? Why have you made me as a target for yourself, so that I have become a burden to myself? {{rf{21}}} And why do you not pardon my transgression and take away my guilt? For now I shall lie in the dust, and you will seek me, but I will be no more." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Job-07-01]] }}}
Then Bildad the Shuhite answered and said, {{rf{2}}} "How long will you say these things, and the words of your mouth be a mighty wind? {{rf{3}}} Does God pervert justice, or Shaddai pervert righteousness? {{rf{4}}} If your children sinned against him, then he sent them into the power of their transgression. {{rf{5}}} If you yourself would seek God, then you would plead to Shaddai for grace. {{rf{6}}} If you are pure and upright, indeed, now he will rouse himself for you, and he will restore your righteous abode. {{rf{7}}} Though your beginning was small, your end will be very great. {{rf{8}}} "Indeed, please inquire of former generations, and consider what their ancestors have found, {{rf{9}}} for we are of yesterday, and we do not know, for our days on earth are a shadow. {{rf{10}}} Will they themselves not teach you and tell you and utter words from their heart? {{rf{11}}} Can papyrus grow tall where there is not a marsh? Will reeds flourish without water? {{rf{12}}} While it is in its flower and is not plucked, yet it withers before all grass. {{rf{13}}} So are the paths of all who forget God; and the hope of the godless will perish, {{rf{14}}} whose confidence is cut off and whose trust is a spider's house. {{rf{15}}} He will lean himself against his house, but it will not stand; he will take hold of it, but it will not endure. {{rf{16}}} He is thriving before the sun, and his plant shoots spread over his garden. {{rf{17}}} His roots twine over a stone heap; he sees a house of stone. {{rf{18}}} If he destroys him from his place, then it deceives him, saying, 'I have never seen you.' {{rf{19}}} Look, this is the joy of his way, and from dust others will spring up. {{rf{20}}} "Look, God will not reject the blameless, and he will not uphold the hand of evildoers. {{rf{21}}} Yet he will fill your mouth with laughter and your lips with a shout of joy. {{rf{22}}} Those who hate you will be clothed with shame, and the tent of the wicked will be no more." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Job-08-01]] }}}
Then Job answered and said, {{rf{2}}} "Truly I know that it is so, but how can a human being be just before God? {{rf{3}}} If he wants to contend with him, he cannot answer him one time in a thousand. {{rf{4}}} He is wise in heart and mighty in strength; who has resisted him and succeeded? {{rf{5}}} "He is the one who moves mountains, and they do not know how, who overturns them in his anger. {{rf{6}}} He is the one who shakes the earth from its place, and its pillars tremble. {{rf{7}}} He is the one who commands the sun, and it does not rise, and he seals up the stars. {{rf{8}}} He is the one who alone stretches out the heavens and who tramples on the waves of the sea. {{rf{9}}} He is the one who made the Bear and Orion, the Pleiades and the constellations of the south. {{rf{10}}} He is the one who does great things beyond understanding and marvelous things beyond number. {{rf{11}}} "If he passes by me, I would not see him; and if he should move on, I would not recognize him. {{rf{12}}} If he would snatch away, who could turn him? Who could say to him, 'What are you doing?' {{rf{13}}} God will not turn back his anger; beneath him the helpers of Rahab bow. {{rf{14}}} How much less can I myself answer him? How can I choose my words with him, {{rf{15}}} whom I cannot answer, even though I am righteous? From my judge I must implore grace. {{rf{16}}} If I summon him, and he should answer me, I do not believe that he will listen to my voice -- {{rf{17}}} who crushes me with a tempest and multiplies my wounds without cause. {{rf{18}}} He will not allow me to catch my breath; rather, he will fill me with bitterness. {{rf{19}}} If it is a matter of strength, look, he is mighty. But if it is a matter of justice, who can summon me? {{rf{20}}} Even though I am righteous, my mouth will condemn me; even though I am blameless, yet it would pronounce me guilty. {{rf{21}}} "I am blameless; I do not care about myself; I loathe my life. {{rf{22}}} It is all one; therefore I say, 'He destroys both the blameless and the wicked.' {{rf{23}}} When the whip kills suddenly, he mocks at the despair of the innocent. {{rf{24}}} The earth is given into the hand of the wicked; he covers the face of its judge -- if it is not he, then who is it? {{rf{25}}} "And my days are swifter than a runner; they flee away; they do not see good. {{rf{26}}} They go by like papyrus skiffs, like an eagle swoops down on its prey. {{rf{27}}} Though I say, 'I will forget my complaint; I will change my expression, and I will rejoice,' {{rf{28}}} I become afraid of all my sufferings; I know that you do not consider me innocent. {{rf{29}}} If I shall be declared guilty, why then should I labor in vain? {{rf{30}}} If I wash myself with soap, and I cleanse my hands with lye, {{rf{31}}} then you plunge me into the slime pit, and my clothes abhor me. {{rf{32}}} "For he is not a mortal like me that I can answer him, that we can come to trial together. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Job-09-01]] }}}
{{rf{33}}} There is no arbiter between us that he might lay his hand on both of us. {{rf{34}}} May he remove his rod from me, and let his dread not terrify me; {{rf{35}}} then I would speak and not fear him, for in myself I am not fearful. {{rf big{1}}} "My inner self loathes my life; I want to give vent to my complaint; I want to speak out of the bitterness of my inner self. {{rf{2}}} I will say to God, 'You should not condemn me; let me know why you contend against me. {{rf{3}}} Is it good for you that you oppress, that you despise the labor of your hands, and you smile over the schemes of the wicked? {{rf{4}}} Do you have eyes of flesh? Or do you see as human beings see? {{rf{5}}} Are your days as the days of human beings, or your years as the days of man, {{rf{6}}} that you seek out my iniquity, and you search for my si {{rf{7}}} because of your knowledge that I am not guilty, and there is no escaping from your hand? {{rf{8}}} Your hands fashioned me and made me altogether, then you destroyed me. {{rf{9}}} Please remember that you made me like clay, but you turn me into dust again? {{rf{10}}} Did you not pour me out like milk and curdle me like cheese? {{rf{11}}} You clothed me with skin and flesh, and you knit me together with bones and sinews. {{rf{12}}} You have granted me life and loyal love, and your care has preserved my spirit. {{rf{13}}} " 'Yet you hid these things in your heart; I know that this was your purpose. {{rf{14}}} If I had sinned, then you would be watching me, and you would not acquit me of my guilt. {{rf{15}}} If I am guilty, woe to me! But if I am righteous, I dare not lift my head; I am filled with shame, and just look at my misery! {{rf{16}}} And if my head grows bold, you would hunt me as the lion in its prime; and you repeat your exploits against me. {{rf{17}}} You renew your witnesses against me, and you increase your vexation against me; relief forces are against me. {{rf{18}}} So why did you bring me forth from the womb? I should have passed away, and no eye should have seen me. {{rf{19}}} I should have been as though I had not been; I should have been brought from the womb to the grave. {{rf{20}}} Are not my days few? Let him leave me alone; let him turn from me, and let me rejoice a little. {{rf{21}}} Before I go -- and I will not return -- to the land of darkness and deep shadow, {{rf{22}}} to the land of darkness, like the darkness of a deep shadow and chaos, so that it shines forth like darkness.'" {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Job-09-33]] }}}
Then Zophar the Naamathite answered and said, {{rf{2}}} "Should an abundance of words go unanswered, or a man full of talk be vindicated? {{rf{3}}} Should your loose talk put people to silence? And when you mock, shall no one put you to shame? {{rf{4}}} For you say, 'My teaching is pure, and I am clean in your sight.' {{rf{5}}} But, O that God might speak, and that he would open his lips to you, {{rf{6}}} and that he would tell you the secrets of wisdom, for insight has many sides. And know that God on your behalf has forgotten some of your guilt. {{rf{7}}} "Can you find out the essence of God, or can you find out the ultimate limits of Shaddai? {{rf{8}}} It is higher than the heaven; what can you do? It is deeper than Sheol; what can you know? {{rf{9}}} Its measure is longer than the earth and broader than the sea. {{rf{10}}} "If he passes through and imprisons someone and summons the assembly, then who can hinder him? {{rf{11}}} For he knows those who are worthless; when he sees iniquity, he will not consider it. {{rf{12}}} But an empty-headed person will get understanding when a wild donkey's colt is born as a human being. {{rf{13}}} "If you yourself direct your heart and stretch out your hands to him -- {{rf{14}}} if iniquity is in your hand, put it far away, and you must not let wickedness reside in your tents -- {{rf{15}}} surely then you will lift up your face without blemish, and you will be firmly established and will not fear. {{rf{16}}} For you yourself will forget your misery; you will remember it as water that has flowed past. {{rf{17}}} "And your life will be brighter than noon; its darkness will be like the morning. {{rf{18}}} And you will have confidence because there is hope; and you will be well protected -- you will sleep in safety. {{rf{19}}} And you will lie down, and no one will make you afraid; and many will entreat your favor. {{rf{20}}} But the eyes of the wicked will fail; and refuge will be lost to them, and their hope is to breathe their last breath." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Job-11-01]] }}}
Then Job answered and said, {{rf{2}}} "Truly indeed you are the people, and wisdom will die with you. {{rf{3}}} I also have insight like you; I am not more inferior than you. And who does not know things like these? {{rf{4}}} I am a laughingstock to my friends: 'He calls on God, and he answers him.' A righteous, blameless man is a laughingstock. {{rf{5}}} Those at ease have contempt for the thought of disaster, but it is ready for those unstable of foot. {{rf{6}}} The tents of the destroyers are at peace, and there is security for those who provoke God, for those whom God brings into his hand. {{rf{7}}} "But ask the animals, and they will teach you, and the birds of the heaven, and they will tell you; {{rf{8}}} or ask the earth, and it will teach you, and the fishes of the sea will declare to you. {{rf{9}}} Who among all of these does not know that Yahweh's hand has done this? {{rf{10}}} In whose hand is the life of all living things and the breath of every human being? {{rf{11}}} Does not the ear test words and the palate taste food for itself? {{rf{12}}} Wisdom is with the aged, and understanding is in length of days. {{rf{13}}} "With him are wisdom and powerful deeds, and to him belong counsel and understanding. {{rf{14}}} If he tears down, then it will not be rebuilt; if he shuts a man in, then he cannot be freed. {{rf{15}}} Look, if he withholds the water, then they dry up; and if he sends them out, then they overwhelm the land. {{rf{16}}} "Strength and sound wisdom are with him; the deceived and the deceiver are his. {{rf{17}}} He leads counselors away stripped, and he makes fools of judges. {{rf{18}}} He loosens the fetters of kings, and he binds a loincloth on their loins. {{rf{19}}} He leads priests away stripped, and he overthrows the members of ancient families. {{rf{20}}} He deprives the trustworthy of speech, and he takes away the discretion of elders. {{rf{21}}} He pours contempt on noblemen, and he loosens the girdle of the mighty. {{rf{22}}} "He uncovers mysteries out of darkness, and he brings deep shadow to the light. {{rf{23}}} He makes the nations great, then he destroys them; he expands the nations, then he guides them. {{rf{24}}} He strips away the insight of the heads of the earth's people, and he makes them wander in a pathless wasteland. {{rf{25}}} They grope in the dark without light, and he makes them stagger like a drunkard. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Job-12-01]] }}}
"Look, my eye has seen everything; my ear has heard and has understood it. {{rf{2}}} What you know, I myself also know -- I am not more inferior than you. {{rf{3}}} But I would speak to Shaddai, and I desire to argue with God. {{rf{4}}} "But you whitewash with lies; all of you are worthless healers. {{rf{5}}} O that you would keep completely silent, and that it would become wisdom for you. {{rf{6}}} Please hear my argument, and listen attentively to the pleadings of my lips. {{rf{7}}} "Will you speak falsely for God? And will you speak deceitfully for him? {{rf{8}}} Will you show partiality for him? Or do you want to plead God's case? {{rf{9}}} Will it be well, if he examines you? Or can you deceive him like deceiving a human being? {{rf{10}}} "Surely he will rebuke you if you show partiality in secret. {{rf{11}}} Will not his majesty terrify you, and his dread fall upon you? {{rf{12}}} Your maxims are proverbs of ashes; your defenses are defenses of clay. {{rf{13}}} "Let me have silence, and I myself will speak, and let come over me whatever may. {{rf{14}}} Why should I take my flesh in my teeth and put my life in my hand? {{rf{15}}} Look, though he kill me, I will hope in him; however, I will defend my ways before him. {{rf{16}}} Moreover, this is salvation to me, that the godless would not come before him. {{rf{17}}} "Listen carefully to my words, and let my exposition be in your ears. {{rf{18}}} Please look, I have prepared my case; I know that I myself will be vindicated. {{rf{19}}} Who is he who will contend with me? For then I would be silent, and I would pass away. {{rf{20}}} "Only you must not do these two things to me; then I will not hide from your face: {{rf{21}}} withdraw your hand from me, and let not your dread terrify me. {{rf{22}}} Then call, and I myself will answer; or let me speak, then reply to me. {{rf{23}}} "How many are my iniquities and sins? Make known to me my transgression and my sin. {{rf{24}}} Why do you hide your face and count me as your enemy? {{rf{25}}} Will you terrify a blown leaf? And will you pursue dry stubble? {{rf{26}}} "Indeed, you write bitter things against me, and you make me reap the iniquities of my childhood. {{rf{27}}} And you put my feet in the block, and you watch all my paths; you carve a mark on the soles of my feet. {{rf{28}}} And he himself wastes away like something rotten, like a garment that the moth has eaten. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Job-13-01]] }}}
"A human being born of a woman is short of days and full of troubles. {{rf{2}}} Like a flower he comes up, and he withers away; and he flees like a shadow, but he does not last. {{rf{3}}} Even on such a one you fix your eyes, and you bring me into judgment with you. {{rf{4}}} "Who can bring a clean thing from an unclean thing? No one! {{rf{5}}} If his days are determined, the number of his months is with you; you have appointed his boundaries, and he cannot cross them. {{rf{6}}} Look away from him, and let him desist until he enjoys his days like a laborer. {{rf{7}}} "Indeed, there is hope for a tree: if it is cut down, then it will sprout again, and its new shoots will not cease; {{rf{8}}} though its root grows old in the earth, and its stump dies in the dust, {{rf{9}}} at the scent of water it will bud, and it will put forth branches like a young plant. {{rf{10}}} "But a man dies, and he dwindles away; thus a human being passes away, and where is he? {{rf{11}}} As water disappears from a lake, and a river withers away and dries up, {{rf{12}}} so a man lies down, and he does not arise. Until the heavens are no more, they will not awaken, and they will not be roused out of their sleep. {{rf{13}}} "O that you would conceal me in Sheol, that you would hide me until your wrath is past, that you would appoint a set time for me and remember me. {{rf{14}}} If a man dies, will he live again? All the days of my compulsory service I will wait, until the coming of my relief. {{rf{15}}} You would call, and I myself would answer you; you would long for the work of your hand. {{rf{16}}} For then you would count my steps, but you would not keep watch over my sin. {{rf{17}}} My transgression would be sealed in a bag, and you would cover over my guilt. {{rf{18}}} "But a mountain falls; it crumbles away, and a rock moves away from its place. {{rf{19}}} Water wears away stones; its torrents wash away the soil of the earth; so you destroy the hope of human beings. {{rf{20}}} You overpower him forever, and he passes away; you change his countenance, then you send him away. {{rf{21}}} His children may come to honor, but he does not know it; or they may become lowly, but he does not realize it. {{rf{22}}} He feels only the pain of his own body, and his inner self mourns for him." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Job-14-01]] }}}
Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said, {{rf{2}}} "Should the wise answer with windy knowledge, and should he fill his stomach with the east wind? {{rf{3}}} Should he argue in talk that is not profitable or in words with which he cannot do good? {{rf{4}}} "What is worse, you yourself are doing away with fear, and you are lessening meditation before God. {{rf{5}}} For your iniquity teaches your mouth, and you choose the tongue of the crafty. {{rf{6}}} Your mouth condemns you, and not I; and your lips testify against you. {{rf{7}}} "Were you born the firstborn of the human race? And were you brought forth before the hills? {{rf{8}}} Have you listened in God's confidential discussion? And do you limit wisdom to yourself? {{rf{9}}} What do you know that we do not know? What do you understand that is not clear to us? {{rf{10}}} Both the gray-haired and the old are among us -- those older than your father. {{rf{11}}} "Are the consolations of God too small for you, a word spoken gently with you? {{rf{12}}} Why does your heart carry you away? And why do your eyes flash, {{rf{13}}} that you turn your spirit against God, and you let such words go out of your mouth? {{rf{14}}} "What is a human being, that he can be clean, or that one born of a woman can be righteous? {{rf{15}}} Look, he does not trust his holy ones, and the heavens are not clean in his eyes. {{rf{16}}} How much less he who is abominable and corrupt, a man drinking wickedness like water. {{rf{17}}} "I will show you, listen to me; and what I have seen, I will tell -- {{rf{18}}} what wise men have told, and they have not hidden that which is from their ancestors, {{rf{19}}} to whom alone the land was given, and no stranger passed through their midst. {{rf{20}}} "All of the wicked one's days he is writhing, even through the number of years that are laid up for the tyrant. {{rf{21}}} Sounds of terror are in his ears; in prosperity the destroyer will come against him. {{rf{22}}} He cannot trust that he will return from darkness, and he himself is destined for the sword. {{rf{23}}} "He is wandering for bread, saying, 'Where is it?' He knows that a day of darkness is ready at hand. {{rf{24}}} Anguish and distress terrify him; they overpower him like a king ready for the battle. {{rf{25}}} Because he stretched out his hand against God, and he was arrogant to Shaddai; {{rf{26}}} he stubbornly runs against him with his thick-bossed shield. {{rf{27}}} "Because he has covered his face with his fat and has gathered fat upon his loins, {{rf{28}}} he will dwell in desolate cities, in houses that they should not inhabit, which are destined for rubble. {{rf{29}}} He will not become rich, and his wealth will not endure, and their possessions will not stretch across the earth. {{rf{30}}} "He will not escape from darkness; a flame will dry up his new shoot, and by the wind of his mouth he shall be removed. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Job-15-01]] }}}
{{rf{31}}} Let him not trust in emptiness -- he will be deceiving himself -- for worthlessness will be his recompense. {{rf{32}}} It will be paid in full before his time, and his branch will not flourish. {{rf{33}}} "He will shake off his unripe fruit like the vine, and he will cast off his blossom like the olive tree; {{rf{34}}} for the company of the godless is barren, and fire consumes the tents of those who accept bribes. {{rf{35}}} They conceive trouble and bring forth mischief, and their womb prepares deceit." {{rf big{1}}} Then Job answered and said, {{rf{2}}} "I have heard many things like these; all of you are miserable comforters. {{rf{3}}} Is there a limit to windy words? What provokes you that you answer? {{rf{4}}} I myself also could talk as you, if you were in my place; I could join against you with words, and I could shake at you with my head. {{rf{5}}} I could encourage you with my mouth, and the solace of my lips would ease the pain. {{rf{6}}} If I speak, my pain is not relieved; and if I cease, how much will leave me? {{rf{7}}} "Surely now he has worn me out; you have devastated all my company. {{rf{8}}} Thus you shriveled me up; it became a witness. And my leanness has risen up against me; it testifies to my face. {{rf{9}}} His wrath has torn, and he has been hostile toward me; he gnashed at me with his teeth. My foe sharpens his eyes against me. {{rf{10}}} They gaped at me with their mouth; they struck my cheeks with disgrace; they have massed themselves together against me. {{rf{11}}} God delivers me to an evil one, and he casts me into the hands of the wicked. {{rf{12}}} "I was at ease, then he broke me in two, and he seized me by my neck; then he shattered me and set me up as a target for him. {{rf{13}}} His archers surround me; he slashes open my kidneys, and he does not have compassion; he pours out my gall on the ground. {{rf{14}}} He breached me breach upon breach; he rushes at me like a warrior. {{rf{15}}} "I have sewed sackcloth on my skin, and I have inserted my pride in the dust. {{rf{16}}} My face is red because of weeping, and deep shadows are on my eyelids, {{rf{17}}} although violence is not on my hands, and my prayer is pure. {{rf{18}}} "O earth, you should not cover my blood, and let there be no place for my cry for help. {{rf{19}}} So now look, my witness is in the heavens, and he who vouches for me is in the heights. {{rf{20}}} My friends scorn me; my eye pours out tears to God, {{rf{21}}} and it argues for a mortal with God, and as a human for his friend. {{rf{22}}} Indeed, after a few years have come, then I will go the way from which I will not return. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Job-15-31]] }}}
"My spirit is pulled down; my days are extinguished; the graveyard is for me. {{rf{2}}} Surely mockery is with me, and my eye rests on their provocation. {{rf{3}}} Please lay down a pledge for me with yourself; who is he who will give security for my hand? {{rf{4}}} Indeed, you have closed their mind from understanding; therefore, you will not let them triumph. {{rf{5}}} He denounces friends for reward, so his children's eyes will fail. {{rf{6}}} "And he has made me a proverb for the peoples, and I am one before whom people spit. {{rf{7}}} And my eye has grown dim from grief, and the limbs of my body are all like a shadow. {{rf{8}}} The upright are appalled at this, and the innocent excites himself over the godless. {{rf{9}}} But the righteous holds on to his way, and he who has clean hands increases in strength. {{rf{10}}} But all of you must return -- please come! But I shall not find a wise person among you. {{rf{11}}} "My days are past; my plans are broken down -- even the desires of my heart. {{rf{12}}} They make night into day, saying, 'Light is near to darkness.' {{rf{13}}} If I hope for Sheol as my house, if I spread my couch in the darkness, {{rf{14}}} if I call to the pit, 'You are my father,' to the maggot, 'You are my mother or my sister,' {{rf{15}}} where then is my hope? And who will see my hope? {{rf{16}}} Will they go down to the bars of Sheol? Or shall we descend together into the dust?" {{rf big{1}}} Then Bildad the Shuhite answered and said, {{rf{2}}} "How long will you hunt for words? Consider, and afterward we shall speak. {{rf{3}}} Why are we considered as animals? Why are we taken as stupid in your eyes? {{rf{4}}} "You who are tearing yourself in your anger, will the earth be forsaken because of you? Or will the rock be removed from its place? {{rf{5}}} Furthermore, the light of the wicked is put out, and the flame of his fire will not shine. {{rf{6}}} The light becomes dark in his tent, and his lamp above him is put out. {{rf{7}}} "His strong steps are shortened, and his own schemes throw him down, {{rf{8}}} for he is thrust into a net by his feet, and he walks into a pitfall. {{rf{9}}} A trap seizes him by the heel; a snare takes hold of him. {{rf{10}}} His rope is hidden in the ground, and his trap on the path. {{rf{11}}} "Sudden terrors terrify him all around, and they chase him at his heels. {{rf{12}}} His wealth will become hunger, and disaster is ready for his stumbling. {{rf{13}}} It consumes parts of his skin; the firstborn of death consumes his limbs. {{rf{14}}} He is torn from his tent in which he trusted, and it brought him to the king of terrors. {{rf{15}}} "Nothing remains for him in his tent; sulfur is scattered upon his dwelling place. {{rf{16}}} His roots dry up below, and its branches wither away above. {{rf{17}}} His remembrance perishes from the earth, and there is not a name for him on the street. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Job-17-01]] }}}
{{rf{18}}} "They thrust him from light into darkness, and they drive him out from the world. {{rf{19}}} There is no offspring for him nor a descendant among his people, and there is not a survivor in his abode. {{rf{20}}} Those of the west are appalled over his fate, and those of the east are seized with horror. {{rf{21}}} Surely these are the dwellings of the godless, and this is the dwelling place of him who knows not God." {{rf big{1}}} Then Job answered and said, {{rf{2}}} "How long will you torment me and crush me with words? {{rf{3}}} These ten times you have disgraced me; you are not ashamed that you have attacked me. {{rf{4}}} And what is more, if I have truly erred, my error remains with me. {{rf{5}}} If indeed you must magnify yourselves against me, and you must let my disgrace argue against me, {{rf{6}}} know then that God has wronged me and has surrounded me with his net. {{rf{7}}} "Look, I cry out, 'Violence!' but I am not answered; I cry out, but there is no justice. {{rf{8}}} He has walled up my way so that I cannot pass; and he has set darkness upon my paths. {{rf{9}}} He has taken my glory from me, and he has removed the crown of my head. {{rf{10}}} He has broken me down all around, and I am gone. And he has uprooted my hope like a tree, {{rf{11}}} and he has kindled his wrath against me, and he has counted me as one of his foes. {{rf{12}}} His troops have come together and have thrown up their rampart against me and have encamped around my tent. {{rf{13}}} "He has removed my kinsfolk from me, and my acquaintances have only turned aside from me. {{rf{14}}} My relatives have failed, and my close friends have forgotten me. {{rf{15}}} The sojourners in my house and my slave women count me as a stranger; I have become a foreigner in their eyes. {{rf{16}}} I call to my servant, but he does not answer; I must personally plead with him. {{rf{17}}} My breath is repulsive to my wife, and I am loathsome to my own family. {{rf{18}}} Little boys also despise me; when I rise, then they talk against me. {{rf{19}}} All my intimate friends abhor me, and these whom I have loved have turned against me. {{rf{20}}} My bones cling to my skin and to my flesh, and I have escaped by the skin of my teeth. {{rf{21}}} "Pity me, pity me, you my friends, for God's hand has touched me. {{rf{22}}} Why do you pursue me like God? And are not satisfied with my flesh? {{rf{23}}} "O that my words could be written down! O that they could be inscribed in a scroll! {{rf{24}}} That with a pen of iron and with lead they might be engraved on a rock forever! {{rf{25}}} But I myself know that my redeemer is alive, and at the last he will stand up upon the earth. {{rf{26}}} And after my skin has been thus destroyed, but from my flesh I will see God, {{rf{27}}} whom I will see for myself, and whom my eyes will see and not a stranger. My heart faints within me. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Job-18-18]] }}}
{{rf{28}}} "If you say, 'How will we persecute him?' And 'The root of the trouble is found' in me, {{rf{29}}} be afraid for yourselves because of the sword, for wrath brings punishment by the sword, so that you may know that there is judgment." {{rf big{1}}} Then Zophar the Naamathite answered and said, {{rf{2}}} "Therefore my disquieting thoughts bring me back for the sake of my inward excitement. {{rf{3}}} I hear discipline that insults me, and a spirit beyond my understanding answers me. {{rf{4}}} "Did you know this from of old, since the setting of the human being on earth, {{rf{5}}} that the rejoicing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the godless lasts only a moment? {{rf{6}}} Even though his stature mounts up to the heaven, and his head reaches to the clouds, {{rf{7}}} he will perish forever like his dung; those who have seen him will say, 'Where is he?' {{rf{8}}} He will fly away like a dream, and they will not find him, and he will be chased away like a vision of the night. {{rf{9}}} The eye that saw him will not see him again, and his place will no longer behold him. {{rf{10}}} His children will seek favors from the poor, and his hands will return his wealth. {{rf{11}}} His bones were full of his vigor, but it will lie down with him on the dust. {{rf{12}}} "Though wickedness tastes sweet in his mouth, and he hides it under his tongue, {{rf{13}}} though he spares it and does not let it go and holds it back in the midst of his palate, {{rf{14}}} in his bowels his food is turned, the venom of horned vipers is within him. {{rf{15}}} He swallows riches, but he vomits them up; God drives them out from his stomach. {{rf{16}}} He will suck the poison of horned vipers; the viper's tongue will kill him. {{rf{17}}} He will not enjoy the streams, the torrents of honey and curds. {{rf{18}}} Returning the products of his toil, he will not swallow; according to the profit of his trade, he will not enjoy, {{rf{19}}} for he has oppressed; he has abandoned the poor; he has seized a house but did not build it. {{rf{20}}} Because he has not known satisfaction in his stomach, he lets nothing escape that he desires. {{rf{21}}} There is nothing left after he has eaten; therefore his prosperity will not endure. {{rf{22}}} In the fullness of his excess he will be in distress; all of misery's power will come upon him. {{rf{23}}} When his stomach fills up, God will send his burning anger upon him, and he will let it rain down upon him as his food. {{rf{24}}} "He will flee from an iron weapon, but an arrow of bronze will pierce him. {{rf{25}}} He draws it forth, and it comes out from his body, and the glittering point comes from his gall-bladder; terrors come upon him. {{rf{26}}} Total darkness is hidden for his treasures; an unfanned fire will devour him; the remnant will be consumed in his tent. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Job-19-28]] }}}
{{rf{27}}} The heavens will reveal his guilt, and the earth will rise up against him. {{rf{28}}} The products of his house will be carried away like gushing waters on the day of his wrath. {{rf{29}}} This is a wicked human being's portion from God and the inheritance of his decree from God." {{rf big{1}}} Then Job answered and said, {{rf{2}}} "Listen carefully to my words, and let this be your consolation. {{rf{3}}} Bear with me, and I myself will speak; then after my speaking you can mock. {{rf{4}}} As for me, is my complaint for human beings? And if so, why cannot I be impatient? {{rf{5}}} Turn to me and be appalled, and place your hand on your mouth. {{rf{6}}} And when I think of it, I am horrified, and shuddering seizes my flesh. {{rf{7}}} "Why do the wicked live, grow old, even grow mighty in power? {{rf{8}}} With them their offspring are established before them, and their descendants before their eyes. {{rf{9}}} Their houses are safe without fear, and the rod of God is not upon them. {{rf{10}}} His bull breeds and does not fail; his cow calves and does not miscarry. {{rf{11}}} They send out their little ones like the flock, and their children dance around. {{rf{12}}} They sing to the tambourine and lyre, and they rejoice to the sound of the long flute. {{rf{13}}} They spend their days in prosperity, and in peace they go down to Sheol. {{rf{14}}} And they say to God, 'Turn away from us, for we do not desire to know your ways. {{rf{15}}} Who is Shaddai that we should serve him, or what would we benefit when we plead with him?' {{rf{16}}} Look, their prosperity is not in their hands; the schemes of the wicked are repugnant to me. {{rf{17}}} "How often is the lamp of the wicked put out, and their disaster comes upon them? He distributes pains in his anger. {{rf{18}}} How often are they like straw before the wind, and like chaff that the storm carries away? {{rf{19}}} 'God stores up his iniquity for his children'? Then let him repay it to him that he may know. {{rf{20}}} Let his eyes see his decay, and let him drink from the wrath of Shaddai, {{rf{21}}} for what does he care for his house after him, when the number of his months is cut off? {{rf{22}}} Can anyone teach knowledge to God, since he himself judges high ones? {{rf{23}}} This one dies in full prosperity, completely at ease and secure. {{rf{24}}} His vats are full with milk and the marrow of his bones is moist. {{rf{25}}} Yet another dies with a bitter inner self and has not tasted prosperity. {{rf{26}}} They lie down together in the dust, and maggots cover them. {{rf{27}}} "Look, I know your thoughts and the schemes you devise against me. {{rf{28}}} For you say, 'Where is the nobleman's house, and where are the tents in which the wicked dwell?' {{rf{29}}} Do you not ask those traveling the roads, and do you not take notice of their accounts? {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Job-20-27]] }}}
21:13 i.e., no lingering death.
23:7 An irony.
23:12 see <<Bbl Mt 4:4 >>
<<Bbl Job 27:2 abbr >> Job swears a terrible oath by the Almighty Who has ruined him.
<<Bbl Job 27:5 abbr >> He refuses to sin by agreeing with the lies of the accuser.
<<Bbl Job 27:18 abbr >> Watchman's Hut -- for a night's shelter only, or is this similar to the towers placed in vineyards ??
28:7 path -- the vein of ore?
30:18 A strong image.
<<Bbl Job 31:1 abbr >>-40. Final defense includes several dramatic self-imprecatory oaths. Many IF's , but one seems missing: If I have been demanding justice from the Lord on my own terms, let it not be granted (<<Bbl Job 34:36 abbr >>).
{{rf{30}}} Indeed, the wicked is spared from the day of disaster; he is delivered from the day of wrath. {{rf{31}}} Who denounces his way to his face? And who repays him for what he has done? {{rf{32}}} When he is brought to the grave, then someone stands guard over the tomb. {{rf{33}}} The clods of the valley are sweet to him; everyone will follow after him, and before him they are innumerable. {{rf{34}}} So how will you comfort me with emptiness, when fraud is left in your answers?" {{rf big{1}}} Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said, {{rf{2}}} "Can a man be of use to God? Yes, can the wise be of use to him? {{rf{3}}} Is it a pleasure to Shaddai if you are righteous, or a gain if you make your ways blameless? {{rf{4}}} Does he reprove you because of your reverence or enter into judgment with you? {{rf{5}}} Is not your wickedness great, and there is no end to your iniquities? {{rf{6}}} "Indeed, you have required a pledge from your family for nothing, and you have stripped off the clothes of the naked. {{rf{7}}} You have given no water for the weary to drink, and you withheld food from the hungry. {{rf{8}}} And the land belongs to the man of power, and the favored lives in it. {{rf{9}}} You have sent widows away empty-handed, and the arms of orphans were crushed. {{rf{10}}} Therefore trapping nets are all around you, and panic suddenly terrifies you, {{rf{11}}} or it is so dark you cannot see, and a flood of water covers you. {{rf{12}}} "Is not God in the height of the heavens? But see how lofty are the highest stars. {{rf{13}}} And you ask, 'What does God know? Can he judge through deep gloom? {{rf{14}}} Thick clouds are a covering for him, so that he does not see; and he walks about on the dome of heaven.' {{rf{15}}} Will you keep to the way of old that the people of mischief have trod, {{rf{16}}} who were snatched away before their time, whose foundation was washed away by a current? {{rf{17}}} Those who said to God, 'Turn away from us,' and 'What can Shaddai do to us?' {{rf{18}}} Yet he himself filled up their houses with good things, but the schemes of the wicked are repugnant to me. {{rf{19}}} The righteous see, and they rejoice, but the innocent one mocks at them. {{rf{20}}} Surely our foe perishes, and fire has consumed their remainder. {{rf{21}}} "Please reconcile yourself with him, and be at peace; in this way, good will come to you. {{rf{22}}} Please receive instruction from his mouth, and place his words in your heart. {{rf{23}}} If you return to Shaddai, you will be restored; if you remove wickedness from your tent, {{rf{24}}} and if you put gold ore in the dust, and the gold of Ophir in the rock of wadis, {{rf{25}}} then Shaddai will be your gold ore and your precious silver. {{rf{26}}} Indeed, then you will delight yourself in Shaddai, and you will expect that God will be good to you. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Job-21-30]] }}}
{{rf{27}}} You will pray to him, and he will hear you, and you will pay your vows. {{rf{28}}} And you will decide on a matter, and it will be established for you, and light will shine on your ways. {{rf{29}}} When they are humiliated, you say, 'It is pride,' for he saves the humble. {{rf{30}}} He will deliver the guilty, and he will escape because of the cleanness of your hands."
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{{rf big{1}}} Then Job answered and said, {{rf{2}}} "Even today my complaint is bitter; my hand is heavy in addition to my groaning. {{rf{3}}} O that I knew and that I might find him; O that I might come to his dwelling. {{rf{4}}} I would lay my case before him, and I would fill my mouth with arguments. {{rf{5}}} I want to know the words with which he would answer me, and I want to understand what he would say to me. {{rf{6}}} Would he contend with me in the greatness of his strength? No, but he himself would give heed to me. {{rf{7}}} There an upright person could reason with him, and I would be acquitted forever by my judge. {{rf{8}}} "When I go forward, he is not there, or backward, I cannot see him. {{rf{9}}} When he works on the left, I cannot perceive him; he turns to the right, but I cannot see him. {{rf{10}}} But he knows the way that I take; he tests me -- I shall come out like gold. {{rf{11}}} My foot has held on to his steps; I have kept his way, and I have not turned aside. {{rf{12}}} From the commandment of his lips, indeed I have not departed; I have treasured the words of his mouth more than my daily food. {{rf{13}}} "But he is alone, and who can dissuade him? And whatever he desires, indeed, he does it. {{rf{14}}} For he will carry out what he appoints for me, and many things like these are with him. {{rf{15}}} Therefore, I am horrified because of his presence; when I consider, I tremble because of him. {{rf{16}}} Indeed, God has made my heart faint, and Shaddai has terrified me. {{rf{17}}} Indeed, I have not been silenced because of darkness, and because of me he conceals thick darkness. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Job-22-27]] }}}
"Why are not times kept by Shaddai, and why do not those who know him see his days? {{rf{2}}} They remove border stones; they seize flocks, and they pasture them. {{rf{3}}} They drive away the donkey of orphans; they take the widow's ox as a pledge. {{rf{4}}} They thrust the poor off the road; the needy of the earth hide themselves together. {{rf{5}}} "Look, like wild donkeys in the desert they go out to their labor as searchers for the prey; the wilderness is their food for the young. {{rf{6}}} They reap their fodder in the field, and they glean in the vineyard of the wicked. {{rf{7}}} They spend the night naked, without clothing, and they have no garment in the cold. {{rf{8}}} They are wet from the rainstorm of the mountains, and they cling to the rock without refuge. {{rf{9}}} "They snatch the orphan from the breast, and they take a pledge against the needy. {{rf{10}}} They go about naked, without clothing, and hungry, they carry the sheaves. {{rf{11}}} Between their terraces they press out oil; they tread the presses, but they are thirsty. {{rf{12}}} From the city people groan, and the throat of the wounded cries for help; yet God does not regard it as unseemly. {{rf{13}}} "Those are among the ones rebelling against the light; they do not recognize his ways, and they do not stay in his paths. {{rf{14}}} At dusk the murderer rises; he kills the needy and the poor, and in the night he is like a thief. {{rf{15}}} And the eye of the adulterer waits for dusk, saying, 'No eye will see me,' and he places a covering on his face. {{rf{16}}} He digs through houses in the darkness; by day they shut themselves in -- they do not know the light {{rf{17}}} because morning likewise is to them deep darkness; indeed, they know about the terrors of deep darkness. {{rf{18}}} "He himself is swift on the water's surface; their portion is cursed in the land. No one turns toward the path of their vineyards. {{rf{19}}} Drought and heat snatch away the snow waters, like Sheol snatches away those who have sinned. {{rf{20}}} The womb forgets him. The maggot feasts on him until he is no longer remembered, and wickedness is broken like a tree. {{rf{21}}} He feeds on the barren, who does not have a child, and does no good to the widow. {{rf{22}}} Yet he carries off the tyrants by his strength; if he rises up, then he cannot be certain of life. {{rf{23}}} He gives security to him, and he is supported, but his eyes are upon their ways. {{rf{24}}} They are exalted a little while, then they are gone. And they are brought low; they are cut off like all others, and like the heads of grain they wither away. {{rf{25}}} "And if it is not so, then who can prove me a liar and reduce my word to nothing?" {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Job-24-01]] }}}
Then Bildad the Shuhite answered and said, {{rf{2}}} "Domination and dread are with him who makes peace in his high heavens. {{rf{3}}} Is there a number to his troops? And upon whom does his light not rise? {{rf{4}}} "Indeed, how can a human being be righteous before God? And how will he who is born of a woman be pure? {{rf{5}}} Look, even the moon is not bright, and the stars are not pure in his sight. {{rf{6}}} How much less for a human being who is a maggot, and a human who is a worm?" {{rf big{1}}} Then Job answered and said, {{rf{2}}} "How you have helped one who has no power! How you have assisted the arm that has no strength! {{rf{3}}} How you have advised one who has no wisdom! And what sound wisdom you have made known in abundance! {{rf{4}}} With whose help have you uttered words, and whose breath has come forth from you? {{rf{5}}} "The spirits of the dead tremble below the waters and their inhabitants. {{rf{6}}} Sheol is naked before him, and there is no covering for Abaddon. {{rf{7}}} He stretches out the north over emptiness; he hangs the earth over nothing. {{rf{8}}} He ties up the water in its clouds, and the cloud is not torn open beneath it. {{rf{9}}} He covers the face of the full moon; he spreads his cloud over it. {{rf{10}}} He has described a circle on the face of the water between light and darkness. {{rf{11}}} "The pillars of heaven tremble, and they are astounded at his rebuke. {{rf{12}}} By his power he stilled the sea, and by his understanding he struck down Rahab. {{rf{13}}} By his breath the heavens were made clear; his hand pierced the fleeing snake. {{rf{14}}} Look, these are the outer fringes of his ways, and how faint is the word that we hear of him! But who can understand the thunder of his power?" {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Job-25-01]] }}}
Then Job again took up his discourse and said, {{rf{2}}} "As God lives, he has removed my justice, and Shaddai has made my inner self bitter. {{rf{3}}} For as long as my breath is in me, and the spirit of God is in my nose, {{rf{4}}} my lips surely will not speak falseness, and my tongue surely will not utter deceit. {{rf{5}}} Far be it from me that I would say that you are right; until I pass away, I will not put away from me my blamelessness. {{rf{6}}} I hold fast to my righteousness, and I will not let it go; my heart will not blame any of my days. {{rf{7}}} "Let my enemy be like the wicked and my opponent like the unrighteous, {{rf{8}}} for what is the hope of the godless when he cuts them off, when God takes away his life? {{rf{9}}} Will God hear his cry of distress when distress comes upon him? {{rf{10}}} Or, in Shaddai will he find delight? Will he call upon God at all times? {{rf{11}}} "I will teach you about God's hand; I will not conceal that which is with Shaddai. {{rf{12}}} Look, you all have seen, and why in the world have you become altogether vain? {{rf{13}}} "This is the portion of the wicked human being with God, and they receive from Shaddai the inheritance of the ruthless. {{rf{14}}} If their children multiply, it is for the sword, and his offspring do not have enough to eat. {{rf{15}}} Their survivors are buried through the plague, and their widows do not weep. {{rf{16}}} If he heaps up silver like the dust and fashions clothing like the clay, {{rf{17}}} he makes it ready, and the righteous will wear it, and the innocent will divide the silver. {{rf{18}}} "He builds his house like the moth, and like a booth that a watchman has made. {{rf{19}}} He goes to bed with wealth, but he will do so no more; he opens his eyes, and it is gone. {{rf{20}}} Terrors overtake him like the water; a storm wind carries him off in the night. {{rf{21}}} The east wind lifts him up, and he is gone, and it sweeps him away from his place. {{rf{22}}} And it hurls at him, and it has no compassion; he will quickly flee from its power. {{rf{23}}} It claps its hands over him, and it hisses at him from its place. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Job-27-01]] }}}
"Indeed, there is a mine for silver and a place for gold to be refined. {{rf{2}}} Iron is taken from dust, and he pours out copper from ore. {{rf{3}}} He puts an end to darkness, and he searches out the farthest limits for the ore in gloom and deep shadow. {{rf{4}}} He breaks open a mine shaft away from where people dwell; those who are forgotten by travelers, they dangle, they sway far away from human beings. {{rf{5}}} As for the earth, from it comes food, but underneath it, it is turned up as by fire. {{rf{6}}} Its stones are the place of sapphire, and the earthen dirt has gold. {{rf{7}}} "It is a path a bird of prey does not know and the black kite's eye has not seen. {{rf{8}}} Proud wild animals have not trodden it; the lion in its prime has not prowled over it. {{rf{9}}} He puts his hand on the hard rock; he overturns mountains by the roots. {{rf{10}}} He cuts out tunnels in the rocks, and his eye sees every treasure. {{rf{11}}} He dams up rivers from their sources, and he brings secret things to the light. {{rf{12}}} "But from where will wisdom be found? And where in the world is the place of understanding? {{rf{13}}} A human being does not know its proper value, and it is not found in the land of the living. {{rf{14}}} The deep says, 'It is not in me,' and the sea says, 'It is not with me.' {{rf{15}}} "Refined gold cannot be gotten in its place, and silver cannot be weighed out as its price. {{rf{16}}} It cannot be bought for the gold of Ophir, for precious onyx or sapphire. {{rf{17}}} Gold and glass cannot be compared with it, and its substitution cannot be an ornament of refined gold. {{rf{18}}} Black corals and crystal will not be mentioned, and wisdom's price is more than red corals. {{rf{19}}} The topaz of Cush cannot be compared with it; it cannot be bought for pure gold. {{rf{20}}} Indeed, from where does wisdom come? And where in the world is the place of understanding? {{rf{21}}} It is hidden from the eyes of all living, and it is concealed from the birds of the heaven. {{rf{22}}} Abaddon and Death say, 'We heard its rumor with our ears.' {{rf{23}}} "God understands its way, and he knows its place, {{rf{24}}} for he himself looks to the end of the earth; he sees under all the heaven. {{rf{25}}} When he gave weight to the wind and he apportioned the waters by measure, {{rf{26}}} when he made a rule for the rain and a way for the thunder's lightning bolt, {{rf{27}}} then he saw it and talked about it; he established it, and moreover, he explored it. {{rf{28}}} And to the human beings he said, 'Look, the fear of the Lord is wisdom, and to depart from evil is understanding.'" {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Job-28-01]] }}}
Then Job again took up his discourse and said, {{rf{2}}} "O that I were as in the months before, as in the days when God watched over me, {{rf{3}}} when his shining lamp was over my head -- by his light I walked through darkness -- {{rf{4}}} as when I was in the days of my prime, when God's confiding was over my house, {{rf{5}}} when Shaddai was still with me, my children were all around me, {{rf{6}}} when my paths were washed in sour milk, and the rock poured out streams of oil for me. {{rf{7}}} "At my going out the gate to the city, I secured my seat in the square. {{rf{8}}} Young men saw me and stepped aside, and the aged rose up and stood. {{rf{9}}} Officials refrained from talking, and they laid their hand on their mouth. {{rf{10}}} The voices of nobles were hushed, and their tongue stuck to their palate. {{rf{11}}} "When the ear heard and commended me, and the eye saw and testified in support of me {{rf{12}}} because I saved the needy who cried for help, and I saved the orphan for whom there was no helper. {{rf{13}}} The blessing of the wretched came upon me, and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy. {{rf{14}}} I put on righteousness, and it clothed me; my justice was like a robe and a headband. {{rf{15}}} "I was eyes to the blind, and I was feet to the lame. {{rf{16}}} I was a father to the poor, and I investigated the stranger's legal dispute. {{rf{17}}} And I broke the evil one's jaw bones, and I made his prey drop from his teeth. {{rf{18}}} "And I thought, 'I will pass away in my nest, and like the phoenix I shall multiply my days. {{rf{19}}} My roots were open to water, and dew spent the night on my branches; {{rf{20}}} My glory was new with me, and I was revitalized regularly.' {{rf{21}}} "They listened to me and waited, and they kept silent for my counsel. {{rf{22}}} After my word, they did not speak again, and my word dropped down like dew upon them. {{rf{23}}} And they waited for me as for the rain, and they opened their mouth wide as for the spring rain. {{rf{24}}} I smiled for them when they had no confidence in anything, and they did not extinguish the light of my face. {{rf{25}}} I chose their way, and I sat as head, and I dwelled like a king among the troops, like one who comforts mourners. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Job-29-01]] }}}
"But now those younger than I, as far as days, laugh at me, whose fathers I rejected for setting with the dogs of my sheep and goats. {{rf{2}}} Moreover, what use to me is the strength of their hands? With them, vigor is destroyed. {{rf{3}}} Through want and through barren hunger they are gnawing in the dry region in the darkness of desolation and waste. {{rf{4}}} They are picking salt herbs, the leaves of bushes, and the roots of broom trees to warm themselves. {{rf{5}}} They were driven out from fellow people; they shout at them as at a thief, {{rf{6}}} so that they dwell in holes of the ground and in the rocks. {{rf{7}}} They bray among the bushes; they are gathered under the nettles. {{rf{8}}} A senseless crowd, yes, a disreputable brood, they were cast out from the land. {{rf{9}}} "But now I am their mocking song, and I have become a byword for them. {{rf{10}}} They abhor me; they keep aloof from me, and they do not withhold spit from my face {{rf{11}}} because he has loosened his bowstring and humbled me, and they have thrown off restraint in my presence. {{rf{12}}} On the right hand the brood rises up; they put me to flight, and they build up their siege ramps against me. {{rf{13}}} They destroy my path; they promote my destruction; they have no helper. {{rf{14}}} As through a wide breach they come; amid a crash they rush on. {{rf{15}}} Terrors are turned upon me; my honor is pursued as by the wind, and my hope of deliverance passed by like a cloud. {{rf{16}}} "And now my life is poured out onto me; days of misery have taken hold of me. {{rf{17}}} At night I am in great pain; my pains do not take a rest. {{rf{18}}} He seizes my clothing with great power; he grasps me by my tunic's collar. {{rf{19}}} He has cast me into the dirt, and I have become like dust and ashes. {{rf{20}}} I cry to you for help, but you do not answer me; I stand, and you merely look at me. {{rf{21}}} You have turned cruel to me; you persecute me with your hand's might. {{rf{22}}} You lift me up to the wind -- you make me ride it, and you toss me about in the storm. {{rf{23}}} Indeed, I know that you will bring me to death and to the house of assembly for all the living. {{rf{24}}} "Surely someone must not send a hand against the needy when, in his misfortune, there is a cry of help for them. {{rf{25}}} Have I not wept for the unfortunate, and grieved myself over the poor? {{rf{26}}} Indeed, I hoped for good, but evil came, and I waited for light, but darkness came. {{rf{27}}} My bowels are in turmoil, and they are not still; days of misery come to confront me. {{rf{28}}} I go about in mourning garb, but not in sunlight; I stand up in the assembly, and I cry for help. {{rf{29}}} I am a companion for the jackals and a companion for ostriches. {{rf{30}}} My skin turns black on me, and my bones burn with heat. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Job-30-01]] }}}
{{rf{31}}} So my lyre came to be used for mourning, and my flute for the voice of those who weep. {{rf big{1}}} "I made a covenant with my eyes, so how could I look closely upon a virgin? {{rf{2}}} And what is the portion of God from above or the heritage of Shaddai from on high? {{rf{3}}} Is not disaster for the evil one and ruin for the workers of mischief? {{rf{4}}} Does he not see my ways and count all my steps? {{rf{5}}} "If I have walked with falseness, and my foot has hastened to deceit, {{rf{6}}} let him weigh me in the balance of justice, and let God know my blamelessness. {{rf{7}}} If my steps have turned aside from the way, and my heart has walked after my eyes, and my hand has clung to a spot, {{rf{8}}} let me sow, and let another eat, and let my crops be rooted out. {{rf{9}}} "If my heart has been enticed by a woman, and at my neighbor's doorway I have lain in wait, {{rf{10}}} let my wife grind for another, and let other men kneel over her, {{rf{11}}} for that is a shameful act, and that is a criminal offense. {{rf{12}}} Indeed, that is a fire that will consume up to Abaddon, and it would uproot all my crop. {{rf{13}}} "If I have rejected my male or female slave's case when their complaint was against me, {{rf{14}}} then what shall I do when God rises up? And when he enquires, how shall I answer him? {{rf{15}}} Did not he who made me in the womb make them? And did not one fashion us in the womb? {{rf{16}}} "If I have withheld the desire of the poor from them, or I have caused the widow's eyes to fail, {{rf{17}}} or I have eaten my morsel alone, and the orphan has not eaten from it {{rf{18}}} (for from my childhood he grew up with me like a father, and from my mother's womb I guided her), {{rf{19}}} if I have seen the one who perishes because of no clothing or that there is no covering for the poor, {{rf{20}}} if his loins have not blessed me, or by means of my sheep's fleece he has warmed himself, {{rf{21}}} if I have raised my hand against an orphan because I saw my supporters at the gate, {{rf{22}}} then let my shoulder blade fall from my shoulder, and let my arm be broken from its socket. {{rf{23}}} Indeed, the disaster from God was a dread for me, and I was powerless because of his majesty. {{rf{24}}} "If I have made gold my trust, or I have called fine gold my security, {{rf{25}}} if I have rejoiced because my wealth was great or because my hand found a fortune, {{rf{26}}} if I looked at the sun when it shone or at the moon moving in splendor, {{rf{27}}} and I was secretly enticed, and my hand threw them a kiss, {{rf{28}}} this also is an iniquity to be judged, for I have deceived God above. {{rf{29}}} "If I have rejoiced at the ruin of the one who hated me or have exulted when evil overtook him -- {{rf{30}}} no, I have not allowed my mouth to sin, to ask his life with a curse. {{rf{31}}} Have the people of my tent not said, 'O that someone had not been satisfied with his meat'? {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Job-30-31]] }}}
{{rf{32}}} An alien has not lodged in the street; I have opened my door to the traveler. {{rf{33}}} Have I concealed my transgressions as other human beings to hide my iniquity in my bosom {{rf{34}}} because I dreaded the great multitude, and the contempt of clans terrified me, so that I kept quiet, I did not go out of the doorway? {{rf{35}}} O that I had someone hearing me! Here is my signature; let Shaddai answer me! As for the written communication that my adversary has written, {{rf{36}}} I would surely carry it on my shoulder; I would bind it on me like a crown. {{rf{37}}} I would give him an account of my steps; I would approach him like a noble. {{rf{38}}} If my land has cried out against me, and its furrows have wept together, {{rf{39}}} if I have eaten its yield without payment, or I have caused the breath of its owners to die, {{rf{40}}} let thorns grow in place of wheat and noxious weeds in place of barley." The words of Job are ended.
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{{rf big{1}}} Then these three men ceased from answering Job because he was righteous in his own eyes. {{rf{2}}} So Elihu the son of Barakel the Buzite, from the clan of Ram, became angry. He became angry at Job because he justified himself rather than God, {{rf{3}}} and he became angry at his three friends because they had not found an answer, and they had declared Job guilty. {{rf{4}}} Thus Elihu had waited for Job to speak because they were older than he. {{rf{5}}} When Elihu saw that there was no answer in the mouth of the three men, he became angry. {{rf{6}}} Then Elihu the son of Barakel the Buzite spoke up and said, "I am young, but you are old; therefore I feared and became afraid of explaining my knowledge to you. {{rf{7}}} I thought, 'Let days speak, and let many years teach wisdom.' {{rf{8}}} "Truly, it is a spirit in a human being, and the breath of Shaddai teaches them. {{rf{9}}} It is not the aged who are wise, or it is not the elders who understand justice. {{rf{10}}} Therefore I say, 'Listen to me; let me also declare my knowledge myself.' {{rf{11}}} "Look, I waited for your words; I listened for your insight, until you searched out what to say. {{rf{12}}} And I directed my attention to you; and, look, there is no one for Job who refuted, answering his words among you. {{rf{13}}} So do not say, 'We have found wisdom; let God refute him, not a man.' {{rf{14}}} But he did not direct his words to me, and I will not answer him with your words. {{rf{15}}} "They are dismayed; they no longer answer; they have nothing to say. {{rf{16}}} And I have waited because they do not speak, because they stand there and no longer answer. {{rf{17}}} I myself will answer my share also; I myself will declare my knowledge also, {{rf{18}}} for I am full of words; the spirit within me urges me. {{rf{19}}} "Look, my internal organs are like unopened wine, like new wineskins it is ready to burst open. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Job-31-32]] }}}
<<Bbl Job 32:1 abbr >>-2 The assessment of Job is enigmatic. Is he self-assured or self-righteous? Is Elihu right to view Job negatively? It must be so. But how is he going to be better than the others? Does his earnest attempt serve to summon God?
<<Bbl Job 32:1 abbr >>-5 This intro is a great dramatic hinge. Arranged sequentially, it would go 4,2,3,1,5.
32:19 see <<Bbl Mt 9:17 >>
<<Bbl Job 33:6 abbr >>-7 A poignant exhortation; "I'm human too".
33:23-30 This is a great description of salvation, with Jesus at vs. 23.
<<Bbl Job 34:7 abbr >>-8 indictment for suffering these subversive false friends.
34:17 Both parts apparently referring to God.
<<Bbl Job 34:21 abbr >> ref BB <<Bbl J 2:24 >>-25
34:26 Jesus!
35:8 One can only assess his life in his own humanly terms.
36:13 A crucial indictment?
{{rf{20}}} Let me speak that I may find relief; let me open my lips, and let me answer. {{rf{21}}} Please let me not show partiality to anyone, and let me not show flattery to human beings, {{rf{22}}} for I do not know how to flatter, else my Maker would soon put an end to me.
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{{rf big{1}}} "But now, please hear my speeches, Job, and hear all my words. {{rf{2}}} Please look, I open my mouth; my tongue in my mouth speaks. {{rf{3}}} My words declare my heart's uprightness, and my lips sincerely speak what my lips know. {{rf{4}}} The Spirit of God has made me, and the breath of Shaddai gives life to me. {{rf{5}}} "If you are able, answer me. Present your argument before me; take your stand. {{rf{6}}} Look, before God I am like you; I myself was also formed from clay. {{rf{7}}} Look, dread of me should not terrify you, and my hand will not be heavy upon you. {{rf{8}}} "Surely you have spoken in my ears, and I have heard the sound of your words: {{rf{9}}} 'I am clean, without transgression; I am pure, and there is no guilt in me. {{rf{10}}} Look, he finds fault against me; he reckons me as his enemy; {{rf{11}}} he puts my feet in the block; he watches all my paths.' {{rf{12}}} "Look, in this you are not right -- I will answer you: Indeed, God is greater than a human being. {{rf{13}}} Why do you contend against him, that he will not answer all a person's words? {{rf{14}}} Indeed, God speaks in one way, even in two, yet someone does not perceive it. {{rf{15}}} "In a dream, a vision of the night, when a deep sleep falls on men slumbering on their bed, {{rf{16}}} then he opens the ear of men, and he frightens them with a warning {{rf{17}}} to turn human beings aside from their deeds, and he keeps man from pride. {{rf{18}}} He spares his life from the pit and his life from passing over the river of death. {{rf{19}}} "And he is reproved with pain on his bed, even with the strife of his bones continually, {{rf{20}}} so that his life loathes bread, and his inner self loathes appetizing food. {{rf{21}}} His flesh is wasted away from sight, and his bones, which are invisible, are bared. {{rf{22}}} And he draws near to the pit and his life to the killers. {{rf{23}}} "If there is a messenger beside him, a mediator, one of a thousand, to declare to a human being his uprightness {{rf{24}}} so that he is gracious to him, and he says, 'Deliver him from descending into the pit; I have found a ransom.' {{rf{25}}} His flesh is renewed with his youth; he returns to the days of his youthful strength. {{rf{26}}} He prays to God, then he accepts him, and he sees his face with a shout of joy, and he repays to the human being his righteousness. {{rf{27}}} "He will sing to men, and he will say, 'I have sinned and have perverted what is right, and it was not paid back to me. {{rf{28}}} He redeemed my life from going down into the pit, so I will enjoy the light.' {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Job-32-20]] }}}
{{rf{29}}} Look, God does all these things twice, three times with a perso {{rf{30}}} to bring his life back from the pit so that he may enjoy the light of life. {{rf{31}}} "Listen attentively, Job; listen to me; be silent, and I will speak. {{rf{32}}} If you have anything to say, answer me; speak, for I desire to justify you. {{rf{33}}} If not, you listen to me; be silent, and I will teach you wisdom."
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{{rf big{1}}} Thus Elihu spoke up and said, {{rf{2}}} "Hear my words, you wise men, and listen to me, you who know, {{rf{3}}} for the ear tests words, and the palate tastes food. {{rf{4}}} Let us choose justice for ourselves; let us determine among ourselves what is good -- {{rf{5}}} for Job has said, 'I am righteous, but God has taken away my justice. {{rf{6}}} Should I lie concerning my justice? Though I am without transgression, my wound caused by an arrow is incurable.' {{rf{7}}} What man is like Job, who drinks scorn like water? {{rf{8}}} And he goes on the road in company with instigators of mischief, and walks with men of wickedness. {{rf{9}}} Indeed, he says, 'A man does not profit when he takes delight in God.' {{rf{10}}} "Therefore, listen to me, people who have sense: far be it from God that he should commit wickedness and that Shaddai should do wrong. {{rf{11}}} Indeed, he will repay according to a human being's deeds, and according to a man's way he will let it happen to him. {{rf{12}}} What's more, God truly does not act wickedly, and Shaddai does not pervert justice. {{rf{13}}} Who gave him charge over the earth? Or who laid on him the whole world? {{rf{14}}} If he should set his heart to it, and he should gather his spirit and his breath to himself, {{rf{15}}} all flesh would perish together, and humankind would return to dust. {{rf{16}}} "But if you have understanding, hear this; listen to what I say. {{rf{17}}} Shall he who hates justice really govern? Or will you declare the Righteous One, the Mighty, guilty? -- {{rf{18}}} the one who says to a king, 'You worthless man,' to noblemen, 'You wicked man,' {{rf{19}}} who shows no partiality to officials and who does not take note of the noble more than of the insignificant, for all of them are the work of his hands? {{rf{20}}} In a moment they die, and in the middle of the night the people are shaken, and they pass away, and they take away the mighty effortlessly. {{rf{21}}} "Indeed, his eyes are upon the ways of man, and he sees all his steps. {{rf{22}}} There is no darkness, and there is no deep shadow where instigators of mischief might hide themselves. {{rf{23}}} Indeed, he has not yet appointed a time for man to go to God in the judgment. {{rf{24}}} He shatters the mighty without investigation, and he sets others in their place. {{rf{25}}} Therefore he knows their works, and he overturns them in the night so that they are crushed. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Job-33-29]] }}}
{{rf{26}}} He strikes them where the wicked stood, where there are onlookers, {{rf{27}}} because they have turned aside from him and have not understood any of his ways, {{rf{28}}} so that they cause the cry of distress from the helpless to come to him, and he hears the cry of distress from the needy, {{rf{29}}} but he remains quiet, and who can condemn? And he hides his face, and who can behold him? Yet he is over a nation and over a person alike, {{rf{30}}} so that godless human beings should not reign, nor those who ensnare the people. {{rf{31}}} "Indeed, does anyone say to God, 'I have endured chastisement; I will not act corruptly again; {{rf{32}}} teach me yourself what I cannot see; if I have done wrong, I will not repeat it'? {{rf{33}}} According to your judgment, must he repay it because you rejected this? Indeed, you must choose, and not I, so declare what you know. {{rf{34}}} Those who have sense say to me, and the wise man hearing me says: {{rf{35}}} 'Job speaks without knowledge, and his words are without insight. {{rf{36}}} Would that Job were tested up to the end because his answers are like those from men of mischief, {{rf{37}}} for he adds transgression to his sin; he claps hands among us, and he multiplies his words against God.'"
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{{rf big{1}}} Moreover, Elihu spoke up and said, {{rf{2}}} "Do you think this is justice when you say, 'I am right before God'? {{rf{3}}} If you ask what it profits you: 'How do I benefit by refraining from my sin?' {{rf{4}}} I myself will give answer to you and to your friends with you. {{rf{5}}} "Look at the heavens, and see; and observe the clouds that are higher than you. {{rf{6}}} If you have sinned, what do you accomplish against him? And if your transgressions are multiplied, what do you do to him? {{rf{7}}} If you are righteous, what do you give to him, or what does he receive from your hand? {{rf{8}}} Your wickedness affects a person like yourself, and your righteousness affects humans. {{rf{9}}} "Because of the multitude of oppressions, they cry out; they cry for help because of the arm of the mighty. {{rf{10}}} But no one says, 'Where is God my Maker, who gives songs in the night, {{rf{11}}} who teaches us more than the animals of the earth and makes us wiser than the birds of the heavens?' {{rf{12}}} There they cry out, but he does not answer because of the pride of evildoers. {{rf{13}}} "Surely God does not hear an empty plea, and Shaddai does not regard it. {{rf{14}}} How much less when you say that you do not see him, that the case is before him, and you are waiting for him! {{rf{15}}} But now, because his anger does not punish, and he does not acknowledge the transgression at all, {{rf{16}}} therefore Job opens his mouth in empty talk -- without knowledge he multiplies words." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Job-34-26]] }}}
Then Elihu continued and said, {{rf{2}}} "Bear with me a little longer, and I will explain, for I still have something to say on God's behalf. {{rf{3}}} I will bring my knowledge from far away, and I will ascribe righteousness to my maker, {{rf{4}}} for truly my words are not falsehood; one who has perfect knowledge is with you. {{rf{5}}} Look, God is mighty but does not despise anyone; he is mighty and good in understanding. {{rf{6}}} He does not keep the wicked alive but grants justice to the afflicted. {{rf{7}}} He does not withdraw his eyes from the righteous, but he sets them forever with kings on the throne, and they are exalted. {{rf{8}}} "And if they are tied up with fetters, if they are caught in the cords of misery, {{rf{9}}} then he declares their work to them, and their transgressions, that they are behaving arrogantly. {{rf{10}}} So he opens their ear to the discipline, and he commands that they return from mischief. {{rf{11}}} If they listen and serve him, they complete their days in prosperity and their years in pleasantness. {{rf{12}}} But if they do not listen, they perish by the sword, and they pass away without knowledge. {{rf{13}}} And the godless of heart cherish anger; they do not cry for help when he binds them. {{rf{14}}} They die in their youth, and their life ends among the male shrine prostitutes. {{rf{15}}} He delivers the afflicted by his misery, and he opens their ears by the adversity. {{rf{16}}} And what's more, he allured you out of distress into a broad place, where in place of it was no constraint; and what was set on your table is full of fatness. {{rf{17}}} But you are obsessed with the judgment of the wicked; judgment and justice take hold of you. {{rf{18}}} Yes, it is wrath, so that it will not incite you into mockery; and do not let the ransom's greatness turn you aside. {{rf{19}}} Will your cry for help sustain you without distress, or all the efforts of your strength? {{rf{20}}} You must not long for the night, to cut off people in their place. {{rf{21}}} Take care, you must not turn to mischief, for because of this you have been tried by misery. {{rf{22}}} "Look, God is exalted in his power; who is a teacher like him? {{rf{23}}} Who has prescribed his way for him? Or who says, 'You have done wrong'? {{rf{24}}} Remember that you should extol his work, of which people have sung. {{rf{25}}} All human beings have looked on it; everyone watches from afar. {{rf{26}}} "Look, God is exalted, and we do not know him; the number of his years is unsearchable. {{rf{27}}} Indeed, he draws up the drops of water; he distills the rain into its mist, {{rf{28}}} which the clouds pour down; they shower abundantly on human beings. {{rf{29}}} "Moreover, can anyone understand the spreading of clouds, the thundering of his dwelling place? {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Job-36-01]] }}}
{{rf{30}}} Look, he scatters his lightning around him, and he covers the roots of the sea. {{rf{31}}} Indeed, he judges people by them; he gives food in abundance. {{rf{32}}} He covers his hands with lightning, and he commands it the place at which to strike. {{rf{33}}} His thundering tells about him; the livestock also tell concerning what rises. {{rf big{1}}} "About this also my heart trembles, and it leaps from its place. {{rf{2}}} Listen carefully to his voice's thunder and the rumbling that goes out from his mouth. {{rf{3}}} He lets it loose under all the heavens, and his lightning to the earth's corners. {{rf{4}}} After it, his voice roars; it thunders with his majestic voice, and he does not restrain it when his voice is heard. {{rf{5}}} "God thunders with his voice in marvelous ways; he does great things, and we cannot comprehend. {{rf{6}}} For to the snow he says, 'Fall on the earth'; and the shower of rain, his heavy shower of rain -- {{rf{7}}} he stops all human beings from working so that everyone whom he has made may know it. {{rf{8}}} Then the animal goes into its den, and it remains in its den. {{rf{9}}} "The storm wind comes from its chamber and cold from the north wind. {{rf{10}}} By God's breath, ice is given, and the broad waters are frozen. {{rf{11}}} Also, he loads down thick clouds with moisture; his lightning scatters the clouds. {{rf{12}}} And they turn around by his guidance to accomplish all that he has commanded them on the face of the habitable world. {{rf{13}}} Whether as correction or for his land, or as loyal love, he lets it happen. {{rf{14}}} "Hear this, Job; stand still and consider carefully God's wondrous works. {{rf{15}}} Do you know how God commands them and how he causes his cloud's lightning to shine? {{rf{16}}} Do you know about the hovering of the clouds, the marvelous works of the one with perfect knowledge? {{rf{17}}} You whose garments are hot, when the earth is being still because of the south wind, {{rf{18}}} with him can you spread out the skies, hard as a molten mirror? {{rf{19}}} "Teach us what we should say to him; we cannot draw up our case because of the presence of darkness. {{rf{20}}} Should he be told that I want to speak? Or did a man say that he would be communicated with? {{rf{21}}} So then, they do not look at the light when it is bright in the skies, when the wind has passed and has cleansed them. {{rf{22}}} From the north comes gold -- awesome majesty is around God. {{rf{23}}} As for Shaddai, we cannot attain him; he is exalted in power, and he does not oppress justice and abundant righteousness. {{rf{24}}} Therefore people revered him; he does not regard any who think that they are wise." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Job-36-30]] }}}
Then Yahweh answered Job from the storm, and he said, {{rf{2}}} "Who is this darkening counsel by words without knowledge? {{rf{3}}} Prepare yourself for a difficult task like a man, and I will question you, and you shall declare to me. {{rf{4}}} "Where were you at my laying the foundation of the earth? Tell me, if you possess understanding. {{rf{5}}} Who determined its measurement? Yes, you do know. Or who stretched the measuring line upon it? {{rf{6}}} On what were its bases sunk? Or who laid its cornerstone, {{rf{7}}} when the morning stars were singing together and all the sons of God shouted for joy? {{rf{8}}} "Or who shut the sea in with doors at its bursting, when it went out of the womb, {{rf{9}}} at my making the clouds its garment and thick darkness its swaddling band, {{rf{10}}} and I prescribed my rule for it, and I set bars and doors, {{rf{11}}} and I said, 'You shall come up to here, but you shall not go further, and here it will set a boundary for your proud surging waves'? {{rf{12}}} "Have you ever in your life commanded the morning? Have you made the dawn know its place, {{rf{13}}} to take hold of the earth's skirts so that the wicked might be shaken off from it? {{rf{14}}} It is changed like clay under a seal, and they appear like a garment. {{rf{15}}} And their light is withheld from the wicked, and their uplifted arm is broken. {{rf{16}}} "Have you entered into the sea's sources? Or have you walked around in the recesses of the deep? {{rf{17}}} Have the gates of death been revealed to you? Or have you seen the gates of deep shadow? {{rf{18}}} Have you considered closely the earth's vast expanse? Declare it, if you know all of it. {{rf{19}}} "Where then is the way where the light dwells? And where then is its place, {{rf{20}}} that you may take it to its territory, and that you might discern the paths to its home? {{rf{21}}} You know, for you were born then, and the number of your days is great. {{rf{22}}} Have you entered into the storehouses of the snow, or have you seen the storehouses of the hail, {{rf{23}}} which I have reserved for the time of trouble, for the day of battle and war? {{rf{24}}} Where then is the way where the light is distributed, where he scatters the east wind upon the earth? {{rf{25}}} "Who has cut open a channel for the torrents and a way for the thunder bolts, {{rf{26}}} to bring rain on a land where no one lives, a desert where no humans live, {{rf{27}}} to satisfy desert and wasteland, and to cause the ground to put forth the rising of grass? {{rf{28}}} Is there a father for the rain, or who fathered the drops of dew? {{rf{29}}} From whose womb did the ice come forth, and who fathered the frost of heaven? {{rf{30}}} Like stone the waters become hard, and the faces of the deep freeze. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Job-38-01]] }}}
<<Bbl Job 38:26 abbr >>-27 "If a tree fell in the forest..."
<<Bbl Job 39:1 abbr >>ff The focus shifts to animals, particularly their unaccountability.
<<Bbl Job 41:1 abbr >>ff The focus remains on animals, now the most mighty, yet still emphasizing their unaccountability. The approach to God is through this presentation of the biggest and fiercest.
<<Bbl Job 41:33 abbr >> See <<Bbl Job 1:8 abbr >>.
<<Bbl Job 42:8 abbr >>-9 They must receive his prayer while his condition is still ignoble. Picture it. God has said Job is accepted (his face is lifted) but there is no outward sign. "Already and not yet."
<<Bbl Job 42:10 abbr >> his open heart heralds his recovery.
!! Closure in the book of Yob:
The ''heavenly wager'' is presented as introduction. But the resolution to this seemingly central theme is not depicted!
* Maybe in the final outcome Satan has no place; he has already been cast out.
* Maybe the closure is in God's self-dis//''closure''//.
* In His pronouncement on Yob's character, God answers Satan's original charge.
* Note the similar statements by God in <<Bbl Job 1:8 abbr >>/<<Bbl Job 2:3 abbr >> and <<Bbl Job 41:33 abbr >>. At the outset, God points out Yob as extraordinary and Satan does not hesitate to challenge the claim. By contrast, at the end God points out Leviathan and Yob does not hesitate to surrender. Maybe this is a parallelism to indicate the sequel. (However, the phrases in Hebrew use different words, so they may be less alike than our translations indicate.)
{{rf{31}}} "Can you bind the chains of the Pleiades, or can you loosen the cords of Orion? {{rf{32}}} Can you lead forth the southern constellations at their appointed time, or can you lead the Bear with its children? {{rf{33}}} Do you know heaven's statutes, or can you establish their rule on the earth? {{rf{34}}} Can you lift up your voice to the clouds so that a flood of water may cover you? {{rf{35}}} Can you send forth lightnings, that they may go? And will they say to you, 'Here we are'? {{rf{36}}} Who has put wisdom in the ibis, or who has given understanding to the rooster? {{rf{37}}} Who can number the clouds with wisdom? Or who can tilt heaven's jars, {{rf{38}}} at the flowing of the dust into a cast and the clods cling together? {{rf{39}}} "Can you hunt prey for the lion? And can you satisfy the hunger of strong lions {{rf{40}}} when they are crouched in the dens, when they lie in the thicket in an ambush? {{rf{41}}} Who prepares for the crow its prey, when its young ones cry to God for help, and they wander around for lack of food? {{rf big{1}}} "Do you know the time when the goats of the rocks give birth? Do you observe the doe deer's giving birth? {{rf{2}}} Can you number the months they fulfill, and do you know the time of its giving birth? {{rf{3}}} When they crouch, they bring forth their young ones; they get rid of their labor pains. {{rf{4}}} Their young ones grow strong; they grow up in the open; they go forth and do not return to them. {{rf{5}}} "Who has sent forth the wild ass free? And who has released the wild donkey's bonds, {{rf{6}}} to which I have given the wilderness as its house and the salt flat as its dwelling place? {{rf{7}}} It scorns the city's turmoil; it does not hear the driver's shouts. {{rf{8}}} It explores the mountains as its pasture and searches after every kind of green plant. {{rf{9}}} "Is the wild ox willing to serve you, or will he spend the night at your feeding trough? {{rf{10}}} Can you tie the wild ox with its rope to a furrow, or will it harrow the valleys after you? {{rf{11}}} Can you trust it because its strength is great, or will you hand your labor over to it? {{rf{12}}} Can you rely on it that it will return your grain and that it will gather it to your threshing floor? {{rf{13}}} "The wings of the female ostrich flap -- are they the pinions of the stork or the falcon? {{rf{14}}} Indeed, it leaves its eggs to the earth, and it lets them be warmed on the ground, {{rf{15}}} and it forgets that a foot might crush an egg, and a wild animal might trample it. {{rf{16}}} It deals cruelly with its young ones, as if they were not its own, as if without fear that its labor were in vain, {{rf{17}}} because God made it forget wisdom, and he did not give it a share in understanding. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Job-38-31]] }}}
{{rf{18}}} When it spreads its wings aloft, it laughs at the horse and its rider. {{rf{19}}} "Do you give power to the horse? Do you clothe its neck with a mane? {{rf{20}}} Do you make it leap like the locust? The majesty of its snorting is terrifying. {{rf{21}}} They paw in the valley, and it exults with strength; it goes out to meet the battle. {{rf{22}}} It laughs at danger and is not dismayed, and it does not turn back from before the sword. {{rf{23}}} Upon it the quiver rattles along with the flash of the spear and the short sword. {{rf{24}}} With roar and rage it races over the ground, and it cannot stand still at the sound of the horn. {{rf{25}}} Whenever a horn sounds, it says, 'Aha!' And it smells the battle from a distance -- the thunder of the commanders and the war cry. {{rf{26}}} "Does the hawk soar by your wisdom? Does it spread its wings to the south? {{rf{27}}} Or does the eagle fly high at your command and construct its nest high? {{rf{28}}} It lives on the rock and spends the night on the rock point and the mountain stronghold. {{rf{29}}} From there it spies out the prey; its eyes look from far away. {{rf{30}}} And its young ones lick blood greedily, and where the dead carcasses are, there they are."
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{{rf big{1}}} Then Yahweh answered Job and said, {{rf{2}}} "Shall a faultfinder contend with Shaddai? Anyone who argues with God must answer it." {{rf{3}}} So Job answered Yahweh and said, {{rf{4}}} "Look, I am insignificant. What shall I answer you? I lay my hand on my mouth. {{rf{5}}} Once I have spoken, and I will not answer; even twice, but I will not proceed."
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{{rf{6}}} Then Yahweh answered Job from the storm, and he said, {{rf{7}}} "Prepare yourself for a difficult task like a man, and I will question you, and you shall declare to me. {{rf{8}}} "Indeed, would you annul my justice? Would you condemn me, so that you might be righteous? {{rf{9}}} Or do you have an arm like God, and can you thunder with a voice like his? {{rf{10}}} Adorn yourself with pride and dignity, and clothe yourself with splendor. {{rf{11}}} Pour out the overflowing of your anger, and look at all the proud, and humble them. {{rf{12}}} Look at all the proud, humble them, and tread down the wicked where they stand. {{rf{13}}} Hide them in the dust together; bind their faces in the grave. {{rf{14}}} And I will also praise you, that your own right hand can save you. {{rf{15}}} "Look, Behemoth, which I have made just as I made you; it eats grass like the ox. {{rf{16}}} Look, its strength is in its loins and its power in the muscles of its stomach. {{rf{17}}} It keeps its tail straight like a cedar; the sinews of its thighs are tightly wound. {{rf{18}}} Its bones are tubes of copper, its limbs like rods of iron. {{rf{19}}} "It is the first of God's actions; the one who made him furnishes it with his sword. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Job-39-18]] }}}
{{rf{20}}} Yes, the mountains yield produce for it, and all wild animals play there. {{rf{21}}} Under the lotus tree it lies, in the hiding place of the reeds and in the marsh. {{rf{22}}} The lotus trees cover it with their shade; the wadi's poplar trees surround it. {{rf{23}}} Look, if the river is turbulent, it is not frightened; it is confident even though the Jordan rushes against its mouth. {{rf{24}}} Can anyone take it by its eyes? Can he pierce its nose with a snare? {{rf big{1}}} "Can you draw out Leviathan with a fishhook? Or can you tie down its mouth with a cord? {{rf{2}}} Can you put a rope in its nose? Or can you pierce its jawbone with a hook? {{rf{3}}} Will it make numerous pleas for mercy to you? Or will it speak gentle words to you? {{rf{4}}} Will it make a covenant with you? Will you take it as a slave forever? {{rf{5}}} Will you play with it as with birds and put it on a leash for your girls? {{rf{6}}} Will guildsmen bargain over it? Will they divide it between tradesmen? {{rf{7}}} Can you fill its kin with harpoons or its head with fish spears? {{rf{8}}} Lay your hands on it; think about the battle -- you will not do it again! {{rf{9}}} "Look, the hope of capturing it is false. Will one be hurled down even at its sight? {{rf{10}}} Is it not fierce when somebody stirs it? Who then is he who would stand before it? {{rf{11}}} Who has come to confront me, that I should repay him? Under all the heavens, it belongs to me. {{rf{12}}} "I will not keep quiet concerning its limbs or concerning the extent of its might and the gracefulness of its frame. {{rf{13}}} Who can strip off its outer covering? Who can penetrate its double harness? {{rf{14}}} Who can open the doors of its face? Its teeth all around are fearsome. {{rf{15}}} Its back has scales of shields; it is shut up closely as with a seal. {{rf{16}}} They are close to one another -- even the air cannot come between them. {{rf{17}}} They are joined one to another; they cling together and cannot be separated. {{rf{18}}} "Its snorting flashes forth light, and its eyes are red like dawn. {{rf{19}}} Torches go from its mouth; sparks of fire shoot out. {{rf{20}}} Smoke comes from its nostrils as from a kettle boiling and burning bulrushes. {{rf{21}}} Its breath kindles charcoal, and a flame comes from its mouth. {{rf{22}}} "Strength abides in its neck, and dismay dances before it. {{rf{23}}} Its flesh's folds of skin cling together; it is cast on it -- it will not be moved. {{rf{24}}} Its heart is cast as stone; yes, it is cast as the lower millstone. {{rf{25}}} When it raises itself, the mighty ones are terrified; they retreat because of its thrashing. {{rf{26}}} Reaching it with the sword does not avail, nor with the spear, the dart, or the javelin. {{rf{27}}} It regards iron as straw, bronze as rotten wood. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Job-40-20]] }}}
{{rf{28}}} An arrow will not make it flee; sling stones are turned to stubble for it. {{rf{29}}} Clubs are regarded as stubble, and it laughs at the short sword's rattle. {{rf{30}}} "Its underparts are shards of a potsherd; it moves over mud like a threshing sledge. {{rf{31}}} It makes the deep boil like a cooking pot; it makes the sea like a pot of ointment. {{rf{32}}} Behind it, it leaves a glistening wake; one would think that the deep has gray hair. {{rf{33}}} "On the ground it has no equal -- a creature without fear. {{rf{34}}} It observes all the lofty; it is king over all that are proud." {{rf big{1}}} Then Job answered Yahweh and said, {{rf{2}}} "I know that you can do all things, and any scheme from you will not be thwarted. {{rf{3}}} 'Who is this darkening counsel without knowledge?' Therefore I uttered, but I did not understand; things too wonderful for me, but I did not know. {{rf{4}}} 'Hear and I will speak; I will question you, then inform me.' {{rf{5}}} By the ear's hearing I heard of you, but now my eye has seen you. {{rf{6}}} Therefore I despise myself and repent in dust and ashes." {{rf{7}}} And then after Yahweh spoke these words to Job, Yahweh said to Eliphaz the Temanite, "My wrath has been kindled against you and against the two of your friends, for you have not spoken to me what is right as my servant Job has. {{rf{8}}} So then, take for yourselves seven bulls and seven rams, and go to my servant Job and offer a burnt offering for yourselves. And my servant Job will pray for you, for I will certainly accept his prayer, so that it will not be done with you according to your folly, for you have not spoken to me what is right as my servant Job has." {{rf{9}}} So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite went and did just as Yahweh had told them, and Yahweh accepted Job's prayer. {{rf{10}}} Then Yahweh returned Job's fortune when he prayed to him on behalf of his friends. Thus Yahweh increased all that Job had twice as much as before. {{rf{11}}} So all his brothers and all his sisters and all those who had known him before came to him, and they ate bread with him in his house and showed sympathy to him and comforted him for all the disaster that Yahweh had brought upon him. Then each one gave to him one piece of money, and each one gave to him one ornamental ring of gold. {{rf{12}}} So Yahweh blessed Job's latter days more than his beginning. Thus he had fourteen thousand sheep and goats and six thousand camels and a thousand pair of oxen and a thousand female donkeys. {{rf{13}}} And he had seven sons and three daughters. {{rf{14}}} And he called the name of the first Jemimah and the name of the second Keziah and the name of the third Qeren-Happuk. {{rf{15}}} And beautiful women were not found in all the land like Job's daughters, and their father gave to them an inheritance in the midst of their brothers. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Job-41-28]] }}}
{{rf{16}}} And Job lived after this one hundred and forty years, and he saw his sons and his grandsons for four generations. {{rf{17}}} Then Job died old and full of days. LENGTH SHORT {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Job-42-16]] }}}
The word of Yahweh that came to Joel son of Pethuel. {{rf{2}}} Hear this, O elders, and give ear, all the inhabitants of the land. Has this happened in your days? Or the days of your ancestors? {{rf{3}}} Tell it to your children, and your children to their children, and their children to the following generation. {{rf{4}}} What the cutting locust left, the swarming locust has eaten. What the swarming locust left, the hopping locust has eaten. And what the hopping locust left, the destroying locust has eaten. {{rf{5}}} Wake up, drunkards, and weep! Wail, all drinkers of wine, over the new wine, for it is cut off from your mouth. {{rf{6}}} Because a nation has invaded my land, strong and beyond counting. Its teeth are the teeth of a lion, and its fangs are those of a lioness. {{rf{7}}} It has made my vine a desolation, and my fig tree a completely splintered stump. It has stripped them bare and thrown them down; their branches have turned white. {{rf{8}}} Lament like a virgin girded in sackcloth for the husband of her youth. {{rf{9}}} The offering and libation are withheld from the house of Yahweh. The priests mourn, the ministers of Yahweh. {{rf{10}}} The field is destroyed; the earth mourns because the grain is destroyed, the new wine dries up, the olive oil languishes. {{rf{11}}} Be ashamed, farmers; Wail, vinedressers, over the wheat and over the barley, because the harvest of the field is ruined. {{rf{12}}} The vine withers and the fig tree droops. The pomegranate tree, and also the palm tree, the apple tree -- all the trees of the field -- are dried up. Indeed, joy is dried up among the sons of men. {{rf{13}}} Gird yourselves and lament, O priests! Wail, O ministers of the altar! Come spend the night in sackcloth, O ministers of my God, because offering and libation are withheld from the house of your God. {{rf{14}}} Solemnize a fast! Call an assembly! Gather the elders, all of the inhabitants of the land in the house of Yahweh your God, and cry out to Yahweh. {{rf{15}}} Ah! For the day! For the day of Yahweh is near. It will come like destruction from Shaddai. {{rf{16}}} Is not food cut off before our eyes, from the house of our God, joy and gladness? {{rf{17}}} The seeds shrivel under their clods; the storehouses are desolate. The grain storage places are destroyed because grain has dried out. {{rf{18}}} How the beasts groan; the herds of cattle wander around because there is no pasture for them; the flocks of sheep are in distress. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Joel-01-01]] }}}
The book is a brief biography of redemption.
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<<Bbl Joel 2:28 >>-29 A comprehensive catalog: male, female, young, old, high, low.
{{rf{19}}} To you, O Yahweh, I cry out, because fire has devoured the pastures of the desert, and flames burned all the trees of the field. {{rf{20}}} Also, the beasts of the field long for you, because the courses of water are dried up, and fire has devoured the pastures of the desert. {{rf big{1}}} Blow the trumpet in Zion, and sound the alarm on my holy mountain! Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble, for the day of Yahweh is coming -- it is indeed near. {{rf{2}}} A day of darkness and gloom, a day of cloud and thick darkness, like the dawn spreads on the mountains, a great and strong army! There has been nothing like it from old, and after it nothing will be again for generations to come. {{rf{3}}} Before them a fire devours, and behind them a flame burns. Like the garden of Eden is the land before them, and after them it is like a desolate desert, and nothing can escape them. {{rf{4}}} Like the appearance of horses is their appearance, and like horsemen they run; {{rf{5}}} like the sound of chariots on the tops of the mountains, they leap about; like the sound of a flame of fire devouring stubble; like a strong army arranged in rows for battle. {{rf{6}}} From before them nations writhe, all faces turn pale. {{rf{7}}} They run like mighty warriors, they scale the wall like men of war; each goes on its own way, and they do not swerve from their paths. {{rf{8}}} They do not jostle one another; each goes on its own trail; and through the falling weapons, they are not halted. {{rf{9}}} In the city they rush forth; on the walls they run. Into the houses they climb up; through the windows they enter like a thief. {{rf{10}}} Before them the earth quakes; the heavens tremble; the sun and the moon grow dark, and the stars have withheld their splendo {{rf{11}}} And Yahweh utters his voice before his army, because his encampment is very large; strong is the one who carries out his decree, for great is the day of Yahweh and exceedingly fearful. Who can endure it? {{rf{12}}} "And even now," declares Yahweh, "return to me with all your heart, with fasting, and weeping, and wailing." {{rf{13}}} Rend your hearts and not your garments, and return to Yahweh your God, because he is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and great in loyal love, and relenting from harm. {{rf{14}}} Who knows whether he will turn and relent, and leave a blessing behind him, an offering and a libation, for Yahweh your God? {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Joel-01-19]] }}}
{{rf{15}}} Blow the trumpet in Zion, sanctify a fast, call an assembly; {{rf{16}}} gather the people, consecrate the assembly; assemble the elders, gather the children, even those who are breast-feeding; let the bridegroom come out from his private room, and the bride from her canopy. {{rf{17}}} Between the colonnade and the altar, let the priests, the ministers of Yahweh, weep. And let them say, "Take pity, Yahweh, on your people. Do not make your inheritance a reproach, a byword among the nations. Why should they say among the nations, 'Where is their God?'" {{rf{18}}} Then Yahweh became jealous for his land and took pity on his people. {{rf{19}}} And Yahweh answered and said to his people, "Look at me, I am sending to you grain, new wine, and olive oil, and you will be satisfied by it. I will not give you over any more as a disgrace among the nations. {{rf{20}}} The northerners I will remove from you; I will drive them to a desert and desolate land, its front to the eastern sea, and its rear into the western sea; its stench and odor will rise up because he has done great things. {{rf{21}}} Do not fear, O land, rejoice and be glad, because Yahweh has done great things. {{rf{22}}} Do not fear, wild animals of the field, because the pastures of the desert have put forth new green shoots, because the tree has produced its fruit, the fig tree and the vine have yielded their produce. {{rf{23}}} Be glad, O children of Zion, be glad and rejoice in Yahweh your God, because he has given for you the autumn rains for your righteousness, and he has poured down for you rainwater, the autumn and spring rains, as before. {{rf{24}}} The threshing floors will be full with grain, and the vats will overflow with new wine and olive oil. {{rf{25}}} I will repay you the years that the locust has eaten, the hopper, the destroyer, and the cutter, my mighty troops that I sent against you. {{rf{26}}} And you will eat abundantly and be satisfied, and praise the name of Yahweh your God, who has dealt with you wondrously. My people will never be ashamed. {{rf{27}}} And you will know that I am in the midst of Israel, and I am Yahweh, your God, and there is no other. My people will never be ashamed again. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Joel-02-15]] }}}
{{rf{28}}} And it will happen afterward thus: I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh, and your sons and your daughters will prophesy, and your elders will dream dreams; your young men shall see visions. {{rf{29}}} And also on the male slaves and on the female slaves, I will pour out my Spirit in those days. {{rf{30}}} And I will set wonders in the heavens, and on earth, blood and fire and columns of smoke. {{rf{31}}} The sun will be changed to darkness, and the moon to blood, before the coming of the great and awesome day of Yahweh. {{rf{32}}} And it will happen -- everyone who calls on the name of Yahweh will be rescued, because on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there will be those who escape, as Yahweh said, and among the survivors whom Yahweh is calling. {{rf big{1}}} For look! In those days, and in that time, when I will return the fortunes of Judah and Jerusalem, {{rf{2}}} I will gather all the nations, and I will bring them down to the valley of Jehoshaphat, and I will argue a case against them there concerning my people and my inheritance Israel whom they have scattered among the nations, and my land that they have divided. {{rf{3}}} For my people they cast lots, and they traded the male child for the prostitute, and the female child they sold for wine and they drank it. {{rf{4}}} What are you to me, O Tyre and O Sidon, and all of the regions of Philistia? Are you repaying to me what is deserved? If you are recompensing me, I will return swiftly and quickly what you deserve on your head! {{rf{5}}} For you have taken my silver and my gold, and my beautiful treasures you have carried into your temples. {{rf{6}}} And the sons of Judah and Jerusalem you sold to the sons of the Greeks, in order to remove them from their border. {{rf{7}}} Look! I am rousing them from the place where you have sold them, and I will return what you deserve on your head! {{rf{8}}} I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of the children of Judah, and they will sell them to the Sabeans and to a nation far away, for Yahweh has spoken. {{rf{9}}} Proclaim this among the nations: Prepare for war! Stir up the mighty warriors; let them approach and come up; let all the men of war approach. {{rf{10}}} Beat your cutting tools of iron into swords and your pruning hooks into spears; let the weakling say, 'I am a mighty warrior!' {{rf{11}}} Hurry and come, all the nations, from all around, and gather yourselves there. Bring down your mighty warriors, O Yahweh! {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Joel-02-28]] }}}
{{rf{12}}} Let the nations be roused and let them come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat, for there I will sit to judge all the nations from all around. {{rf{13}}} Send forth the sickle, for the harvest is ripe! Go tread, for the winepress is full! The vats overflow, because their evil is great! {{rf{14}}} Commotion, commotion in the valley of decision! For the day of Yahweh is near in the valley of decision! {{rf{15}}} The sun and the moon grow dark, and the stars have withheld their splendor. {{rf{16}}} And Yahweh roars from Zion; from Jerusalem he utters his voice, and the heavens and the earth shake. But Yahweh is a refuge for his people, and a protection for the children of Israel. {{rf{17}}} And you will know that I, Yahweh your God, am dwelling in Zion, my holy mountain. And Jerusalem will be a place of holiness, and strangers will pass through it no longer. {{rf{18}}} And it will happen on that day; the mountains will drip new wine, and the hills will flow with milk, and all the channels of Judah will flow with water. A spring from the house of Yahweh will come forth, and it will water the valley of Acacia Trees. {{rf{19}}} Egypt will become a desolation, and Edom will become a desolate desert, because of the violence they did against the children of Judah, in whose land they have shed innocent blood. {{rf{20}}} But Judah will be inhabited forever, and Jerusalem for all generations. {{rf{21}}} I will cleanse their bloodguilt that I did not cleanse, for Yahweh is dwelling in Zion. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Joel-03-12]] }}}
!!! General Notes
[[John 16:8-11|./Bbl/John.htm#C16V8]]
[[Eph 3:16|http://www.blueletterbible.org/Bible.cfm?b=Eph&c=3&v=16&t=ESV#16]]
* John's intention is to reveal Jesus as the Messiah and Son of God. Morris, p. 133n.
** In the synoptics, Jesus is taken as a man and -- surprise! -- as God. But John introduces Him as God, and the humanity -- the incarnation, and frailties like hunger and grief -- are the surprise.
* The big question is "How can I live?"
* //Thank You, Lord, that John was there...// -- Gene Getz, reflecting on the precious episodes recounted by John.
* Irony and misunderstanding by [[Dave Gifford|http://www.giffmex.org/nsdb.html]]
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. {{rf{2}}} This one was in the beginning with God. {{rf{3}}} All things came into being through him, and apart from him not one thing came into being that has come into being. {{rf{4}}} In him was life, and the life was the light of humanity. {{rf{5}}} And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not overcome it. {{rf{6}}} A man came, sent from God, whose name was John. {{rf{7}}} This one came for a witness, in order that he could testify about the light, so that all would believe through him. {{rf{8}}} That one was not the light, but came in order that he could testify about the light. {{rf{9}}} The true light, who gives light to every person, was coming into the world. {{rf{10}}} He was in the world, and the world came into being through him, and the world did not recognize him. {{rf{11}}} He came to his own things, and his own people did not receive him. {{rf{12}}} But as many as received him -- to those who believe in his name -- he gave to them authority to become children of God, {{rf{13}}} who were born not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of a husband, but of God. {{rf{14}}} And the Word became flesh and took up residence among us, and we saw his glory, glory as of the one and only from the Father, full of grace and truth. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|John-01-01]] }}}
<<Bbl J 1:1 abbr >>ff Chapter one has ten titles for Jesus (at least).
<<Bbl J 1:1 abbr >> Greeks stumble here because of platonism (Logos)
<<Bbl J 1:1 abbr >> //was//, yet also //was with.//
<<Bbl J 1:1 abbr >>-18 Imagery builds like a music chord that grows in complexity, outstripping the capacity of a chord (like the Toccata in D Minor).
<<Bbl J 1:2 abbr >>-3 //was with// and //was// respectively.
1:1-18 Christ's deity -- <<Bbl Col 1:1 >>.
//Comprehend// -- the same Greek term is used in 12:35. "Overcome" is better here.
<<Bbl J 1:8 abbr >> John was the lamp, 5:35, but not the Light.
1:11 This idea finds a place in the parables of the man who "goes to a distant land to receive a kingdom." For unto His own, see Morris, p. 97.
<<Bbl J 1:11 abbr >> <<Bbl A 7:39 >>
<<Bbl J 1:12 abbr >> In <<Bbl 1J 3:1 >> our status as //children of God// is presented as settled.
1:12 This opens John's theme of individualism.
1:13 Morris takes the three negative expressions as signifying human activity in general, and thus denying the Jewish pride of ancestry.
<<Bbl J 1:14 abbr >> Jews stumble here.
1:14 <<Bbl Ps 78:60 >>; see Morris for "points of contact."
" 'Grace' is one of the great Christian words, and it is a minor mystery that John uses it three times in the Prologue and not again throughout his Gospel (Morris)."
<<Bbl J 1:15 abbr >> Just as in <<Bbl J 8:58 abbr >>.
<<Bbl J 1:17 abbr >> Christ is the fulfillment both of God's grace and of His Judgment of sin. Moses and Law are followed by grace and truth - no need need to conjoin these with a "but" - better "and".
1:18 He has explained Him -- Unfolded in teaching, declared by making known (Vine). See <<Bbl H 1:3 >>.
only begotten God is the reading defended by Morris, most strongly by the point that no one would make a transcription error in this direction.
1:21 John's answers grow more and more terse. Morris: "It appears to stem from a dislike for answering questions about himself. He had come to bear witness to another."
{{rf{15}}} John testified about him and cried out, saying, "This one was he about whom I said, 'The one who comes after me is ahead of me, because he existed before me.'" {{rf{16}}} For from his fullness we have all received, and grace after grace. {{rf{17}}} For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came about through Jesus Christ. {{rf{18}}} No one has seen God at any time; the one and only, God, the one who is in the bosom of the Father -- that one has made him known. {{rf{19}}} And this is the testimony of John, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem so that they could ask him, "Who are you?" {{rf{20}}} And he confessed -- and he did not deny, and confessed -- "I am not the Christ!" {{rf{21}}} And they asked him, "Then who are you? Are you Elijah?" And he said, "I am not!" "Are you the Prophet?" And he answered, "No!" {{rf{22}}} Then they said to him, "Who are you, so that we can give an answer to those who sent us? What do you say about yourself?" {{rf{23}}} He said, "I am 'the voice of one crying out in the wilderness, "Make straight the way of the Lord," ' just as Isaiah the prophet said." {{rf{24}}} (And they had been sent from the Pharisees.) {{rf{25}}} And they asked him and said to him, "Why then are you baptizing, if you are not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the Prophet?" {{rf{26}}} John answered them, saying, "I baptize with water. In your midst stands one whom you do not know -- {{rf{27}}} the one who comes after me, of whom I am not worthy to untie the strap of his sandal!" {{rf{28}}} These things took place in Bethany on the other side of the Jordan, where John was baptizing. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|John-01-15]] }}}
1:26 Seems to allude to 1:10c.
1:30 <<Bbl Mt 22:41 >>-46 [<<Bbl Mk 12:35 >>-37 , <<Bbl L 20:41 >>-11 ] presents the question of Christ's Lordship over King David; this verse aptly provides the answer, left implied by Jesus.
1:32-33 C. Williams gives "resting" for "remaining". This alludes to the dove sent out by Noah; in Jesus of Nazareth, the Holy Spirit sent out by God found for the first time a place to "rest the sole of His foot."
<<Bbl J 1:34 abbr >> //Son of God// in the OT understanding of David's lineage.
1:35-40 One disciple is named, the other not. It might be John, especially since the eyewitness' details are present.
1:42 Wuest says simply "Rock" for Peter. To give a literal translation into English better fulfills John's purpose.
{{rf{29}}} On the next day he saw Jesus coming to him and said, "Look! The Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world! {{rf{30}}} This one is the one about whom I said, 'After me is coming a man who is ahead of me, because he existed before me.' {{rf{31}}} And I did not know him, but in order that he could be revealed to Israel, because of this I came baptizing with water." {{rf{32}}} And John testified, saying, "I have seen the Spirit descending like a dove from heaven and remaining upon him. {{rf{33}}} And I did not know him, but the one who sent me to baptize with water, that one said to me, 'The one upon whom you see the Spirit descending and remaining upon him -- this one is the one who baptizes with the Holy Spirit.' {{rf{34}}} And I have seen and testify that this one is the Chosen One of God.
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{{rf{35}}} On the next day again John was standing there, and two of his disciples, {{rf{36}}} and looking at Jesus as he was walking by, he said, "Look! The Lamb of God!" {{rf{37}}} And the two disciples heard him speaking, and they followed Jesus. {{rf{38}}} And Jesus, turning around and seeing them following him, said to them, "What do you seek?" And they said to him, "Rabbi" (which means when translated "Teacher"), "where are you staying?" {{rf{39}}} He said to them, "Come and you will see!" So they came and saw where he was staying, and they stayed with him that day (it was about the tenth hour). {{rf{40}}} Andrew, the brother of Simon Peter, was one of the two who heard John and followed him. {{rf{41}}} This one first found his own brother Simon and said to him, "We have found the Messiah!" (which is translated "Christ"). {{rf{42}}} He brought him to Jesus. Looking at him, Jesus said, "You are Simon the son of John. You will be called Cephas" (which is interpreted "Peter"). {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|John-01-29]] }}}
{{rf{43}}} On the next day he wanted to depart for Galilee, and he found Philip. And Jesus said to him, "Follow me!" {{rf{44}}} (Now Philip was from Bethsaida, the town of Andrew and Peter.) {{rf{45}}} Philip found Nathanael and said to him, "We have found the one whom Moses wrote about in the law, and the prophets wrote about -- Jesus son of Joseph from Nazareth!" {{rf{46}}} And Nathanael said to him, "Can anything good come out of Nazareth?" Philip said to him, "Come and see!" {{rf{47}}} Jesus saw Nathanael coming toward him and said about him, "Look! A true Israelite in whom is no deceit!" {{rf{48}}} Nathanael said to him, "From where do you know me?" Jesus answered and said to him, "Before Philip called you, when you were under the fig tree, I saw you." {{rf{49}}} Nathanael answered him, "Rabbi, you are the Son of God! You are the king of Israel!" {{rf{50}}} Jesus answered and said to him, "Because I said to you that I saw you under the fig tree, do you believe? You will see greater things than these!" {{rf{51}}} And he said to him, "Truly, truly I say to all of you, you will see heaven opened and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of Man." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|John-01-43]] }}}
<<Bbl J 1:43 abbr >>-44 Reiteration of verbs. //We have found...// - but who found whom?
<<Bbl J 1:45 abbr >> Philip is already the evangelist, already the one able to explain the Scriptures (though Morris finds him a little slow and ordinary, p. 162). He has got Jesus' origin all wrong: He's not the son of Joseph.
1:46 In <<Bbl 1K 9:13 >>, Hiram the King of Tyre gives the ten cities of Galilee the name, "As good as nothing." Nathanael may have the Tyrian denigration in mind.
<<Bbl J 1:46 abbr >>c The disciple's version of the Master's call of <<Bbl J 01:43 abbr >>b. (To usurp the Master's call is religious abuse.)
<<Bbl J 1:47 abbr >>
* //He sees him approaching...// - thus the miracle is evident. So some OT prophets displayed their insight.
* Could Jesus be reflecting on Nathanael's last negative statement?
* Given this momentous introduction, it's surprising we don't go on to learn more about this disciple.
<<Bbl J 1:47 abbr >> See <<Bbl Gn 32:28 >>
1:47 See <<Bbl Ps 32:2 >>.
"An Israelite," some propose, "in whom there is no Jacob." Morris says the word for guile means "bait" and is used in the Bible (the LXX, we presume) of Jacob.
1:48 "A more guileful man would have 'modestly' asserted his unworthiness (Morris, 166)."
<<Bbl J 1:49 abbr >>b //Son of God// in the OT understanding of David's lineage.
1:49 Jesus calls Nathanael an Israelite; he calls Him the King of Israel, thus his own King.
"The opening of the narrative proper (1:19ff) might well be understood as the account of the happenings of one momentous week." Morris, p. 129.
The events in this chapter can be compared to the Temptation accounts (Morris, p. 207).
And on the third day, there was a wedding at Cana in Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there. {{rf{2}}} And both Jesus and his disciples were invited to the wedding. {{rf{3}}} And when the wine ran out, the mother of Jesus said to him, "They have no wine!" {{rf{4}}} And Jesus said to her, "What does your concern have to do with me, woman? My hour has not yet come." {{rf{5}}} His mother said to the servants, "Whatever he says to you, do it!" {{rf{6}}} Now six stone water jars were set there, in accordance with the ceremonial cleansing of the Jews, each holding two or three measures. {{rf{7}}} Jesus said to them, "Fill the water jars with water." And they filled them to the brim. {{rf{8}}} And he said to them, "Now draw some out and take it to the head steward. So they took it. {{rf{9}}} Now when the head steward tasted the water which had become wine and did not know where it was from -- but the servants who had drawn the water knew -- the head steward summoned the bridegroom {{rf{10}}} and said to him, "Everyone serves the good wine first, and whenever they are drunk, the inferior. You have kept the good wine until now!" {{rf{11}}} This beginning of signs Jesus performed at Cana in Galilee, and revealed his glory, and his disciples believed in him. {{rf{12}}} After this he went down to Capernaum, and his mother and brothers and his disciples, and they stayed there a few days. {{rf{13}}} And the Passover of the Jews was near, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|John-02-01]] }}}
<<Bbl J 2:1 >>-11 compared with <<Bbl J 19:25 >>-30 -- structurally significant to John's narrative, as the placement indicates chiastic form.
|>| //''Dear woman ...''// to Mary |h
|>|Shift in the relationship with Mary His mother |
|>|Shift in the nature of His ministry |
|>| Glory turned to [[Shame]] ... and back to glory ...<br> but the glory is hidden! |
|>|Foreshadowing of the glorious Resurrection |
| A celebration | An execution |
| [[Wine]] unavailable | Vinegar as a substitute |
| //My hour not yet come// | //It is finished!// |
* @@color:brown;Christ's changing of the water of Jewish purification into the wine of the new age.@@ // -- F.F. Bruce //
<<Bbl J 2:2 abbr >> God is invited, and His followers - and His power displayed!
2:3 Mary's initiative indicates that she had a role as a friend of the family.
<<Bbl J 2:4 abbr >> Mary signals her awareness and Jesus responds in kind. Mary is remarkably directive. I bet she didn't sleep that night.
2:7-8 @@color:darkgreen;Duties are ours. Events are God's. It is ours to fill the water-pots. It is Christ's to make the water wine.@@ // -- J.C. Ryle //
* No one here is responding by faith except Mary. The servants are following her instruction to obey Jesus, but (we presume) not as to God.
* How did Mary feel after a cup of that wine? See <<Bbl Amos 9:13 >>.
* Consider the servant in vs. 8, on his way to the headwaiter with a cup and not even comprehending the glory within. Furthermore he has to wonder if the jar's function hasn't been abused, and perhaps he to blame. (Also the teaching that merely to fill the jars with unconsecrated water would be a violation ... not sure that is supportable.)
* As with the shepherds in Luke, the humble people are the only ones in the know.
* The wine is a treasure in an earthy vessel -- a joyous celebration just ahead.
2:11 An 'Elisha miracle' -- pragmatic, earthly provision that points to an abundant life. John records no Transfiguration; signs like these, and the entire scope and essence of Christ's life, are His glory.
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<<Bbl J 2:14 >>-16 -- There seems no doubt among expositors that the court of the Gentiles is the site.
-- Note something very sweet and curious (6/15/91), that Jesus did not treat all the transgressors the same way but took consideration on the special circumstances of each. In particular, He had mercy on the pigeons. Would a lesser man have done so?
2:17 Why did this verse come to the disciples' minds? Was it a distinctive prompting of God's Spirit? Or was there some contextual aspect we don't see today?
<<Bbl Ps 119:53 >> would also apply.
{{rf{14}}} And he found in the temple courts those who were selling oxen and sheep and doves, and the money changers seated. {{rf{15}}} And he made a whip of cords and drove them all out of the temple courts, both the sheep and the oxen, and he poured out the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables. {{rf{16}}} And to the ones selling the doves he said, "Take these things away from here! Do not make my Father's house a marketplace!" {{rf{17}}} His disciples remembered that it is written, "Zeal for your house will consume me." {{rf{18}}} So the Jews answered and said to him, "What sign do you show to us, because you are doing these things?" {{rf{19}}} Jesus answered and said to them, "Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up!" {{rf{20}}} Then the Jews said, "This temple has been under construction forty-six years, and will you raise it up in three days?" {{rf{21}}} But he was speaking about the temple of his body. {{rf{22}}} So when he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this, and they believed the scripture and the saying that Jesus had spoken. {{rf{23}}} Now while he was in Jerusalem at the Passover, during the feast, many believed in his name because they saw his signs which he was doing. {{rf{24}}} But Jesus himself did not entrust himself to them, because he knew all people, {{rf{25}}} and because he did not need anyone to testify about man, for he himself knew what was in man. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|John-02-14]] }}}
<<Bbl J 2:18 abbr >> For the Jews this disruption of the status quo was a very serious irreverence. Zeal propelled by a regard for the Scripture was not a sufficient justification, in their eyes, for Jesus' action.
-- They demand a sign and are given a word -- which they reject as impossible or irrelevant, and in any case not demonstrated to their satisfaction. Of course this word contains the only and mightiest sign, and in refusing it these Jews settle themselves in rejection of the Messiah. They forfeit opportunity to recognize the many very manifest signs. For the true disciples, who have not made fleshly demands, the word becomes their sign (vs 22).
<<Bbl J 2:22 abbr >>. Which scripture is in mind?
2:22 -- The disciples believed the Scripture, that is, the general testimony of the Messiah, including that quoted in vs. 17.
<<Bbl J 2:23 abbr >>-25 <<Bbl Gn 01:27 >>
2:23-24 The people, acting on external evidence, believed that He is good. But He, needing no such external evidence, knew they were not to be trusted. The verb trust/believe is the same!
2:25 The bearing of witness was something the people had needed from John the forerunner. Wuest says, "was knowing experientially."
<<Bbl J 3:2 abbr>> The scorning Pharisees never give this grounds for validation; they pretend the signs have no sign-ificance, and only want to discuss points of law.
3:2-3 The phrases are reversed, but Jesus gives a perfect and parallel answer to the opening query of Nicodemus. Nicodemus is concerned with the sanction of God and performing signs; Jesus with knowing God and being born again. The difference is poignantly found in the verbs knowing and seeing. Compare 2:18, 10:38, 14:11.
<<Bbl J 3:3 abbr>> ἄνωθεν can mean //again// or //from above//.
3:4 Why is the rabbi so dense? Morris offers two options; either hurt dignity is making him obtuse, or his question is rhetorical and wistful: can human nature be changed?
3:5 @@color:darkgreen;The mystery religions make use of the terminology of rebirth. But any connection between them and this Gospel is purely verbal. In them the worshipper may be brought more surely into relationship with his god [or, for the new agers, himself], but there is no idea of a transformation of his whole nature such as the Christian conception signifies.@@ // - Morris, p. 216//
"In its own way this chapter does away with "works of the law" every bit as thoroughly as anything in Paul." Morris p. 209.
3:8 Did they hear a gust of wind at this point?
3:12 Contrast with His statement to Nathanael, <<Bbl J 1:50 abbr >>-51. These are spiritual things, but they are also //earthly things// -- how God deals with man in this life (so v 14).
<<Bbl J 3:14 abbr >> This follows from v 12: Moses is the //earthly//.
3:14-15 -- Later Nicodemus assists Joseph of Arimathea. Was he emboldened by the memory of this conversation?
-- <<Bbl Num 21:4>>-9 //Lifted up//
<<Bbl J 3:16 abbr >> Being //born// puts me in an utterly passive role. Like <<Bbl R 5:8 >>, the atonement proceeds from God's love and not the other way around. The Greek emphasizes this.
<<Bbl J 3:16 abbr >> This mercy of God is famously memorized, but it only has meaning in the context given up through <<Bbl J 03:21 abbr >>.
3:18 see <<Bbl A 13:46 >>.
As the sun incidentally creates a shadow, Christ brings Judgment.
3:19 "The word translated Judgment here denotes the process of judging, not the sentence of condemnation." Morris p. 233.
3:20 Paul uses the same imagery and theme in <<Bbl Eph 5:12 >>.
<<Bbl J 3:21 abbr >> The challenge is set before Christ's visitor. Note that Nicodemus has come secretly, in darkness.
Now there was a man of the Pharisees whose name was Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. {{rf{2}}} This man came to him at night and said to him, "Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher who has come from God, for no one is able to perform these signs that you are performing unless God were with him." {{rf{3}}} Jesus answered and said to him, "Truly, truly I say to you, unless someone is born from above, he is not able to see the kingdom of God." {{rf{4}}} Nicodemus said to him, "How can a man be born when he is an old man? He is not able to enter into his mother's womb for the second time and be born, can he?" {{rf{5}}} Jesus answered, "Truly, truly I say to you, unless someone is born of water and spirit, he is not able to enter into the kingdom of God. {{rf{6}}} What is born of the flesh is flesh, and what is born of the Spirit is spirit. {{rf{7}}} Do not be astonished that I said to you, 'It is necessary for you to be born from above.' {{rf{8}}} The wind blows wherever it wishes, and you hear the sound of it, but you do not know where it comes from and where it is going. So is everyone who is born of the Spirit." {{rf{9}}} Nicodemus answered and said to him, "How can these things be?" {{rf{10}}} Jesus answered and said to him, "Are you the teacher of Israel, and you do not understand these things? {{rf{11}}} Truly, truly I say to you, we speak what we know, and we testify about what we have seen, and you do not accept our testimony! {{rf{12}}} If I tell you earthly things and you do not believe, how will you believe if I tell you heavenly things? {{rf{13}}} And no one has ascended into heaven except the one who descended from heaven -- the Son of Man. {{rf{14}}} And just as Moses lifted up the snake in the wilderness, thus it is necessary that the Son of Man be lifted up, {{rf{15}}} so that everyone who believes in him will have eternal life." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|John-03-01]] }}}
{{rf{16}}} For in this way God loved the world, so that he gave his one and only Son, in order that everyone who believes in him will not perish, but will have eternal life. {{rf{17}}} For God did not send his Son into the world in order that he should judge the world, but in order that the world should be saved through him. {{rf{18}}} The one who believes in him is not judged, but the one who does not believe has already been judged, because he has not believed in the name of the one and only Son of God. {{rf{19}}} And this is the judgment: that the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light, because their deeds were evil. {{rf{20}}} For everyone who practices evil hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his deeds be exposed. {{rf{21}}} But the one who practices the truth comes to the light, in order that his deeds may be revealed, that they are done in God. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|John-03-16]] }}}
{{rf{22}}} After these things Jesus and his disciples came into Judean territory, and there he spent time with them and was baptizing. {{rf{23}}} Now John was also baptizing at Aenon near Salim, because water was plentiful there, and they were coming and were being baptized. {{rf{24}}} (For John had not yet been thrown into prison.) {{rf{25}}} So a dispute occurred on the part of John's disciples with a Jew concerning purification. {{rf{26}}} And they came to John and said to him, "Rabbi, he who was with you on the other side of the Jordan, about whom you testified -- look, this one is baptizing, and all are coming to him!" {{rf{27}}} John answered and said, "A man can receive not one thing unless it is granted to him from heaven! {{rf{28}}} You yourselves testify about me that I said, 'I am not the Christ, but I am sent before that one.' {{rf{29}}} The one who has the bride is the bridegroom. But the friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him, rejoices greatly because of the bridegroom's voice. So this joy of mine is complete. {{rf{30}}} It is necessary for that one to increase, but for me to decrease." {{rf{31}}} The one who comes from above is over all. The one who is from the earth is from the earth and speaks from the earth; the one who comes from heaven is over all. {{rf{32}}} What he has seen and heard, this he testifies, and no one accepts his testimony. {{rf{33}}} The one who accepts his testimony has attested that God is true. {{rf{34}}} For the one whom God sent speaks the words of God, for he does not give the Spirit by measure. {{rf{35}}} The Father loves the Son and has given all things into his hand. {{rf{36}}} The one who believes in the Son has eternal life, but the one who disobeys the Son will not see life -- but the wrath of God remains on him. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|John-03-22]] }}}
3:25-26 Inferred: Jews are ocming to John's disciples and asking if this other baptism is also for purification from sins.
3:29 Compare <<Bbl Mt 11:11 >>.
<<Bbl J 3:30 abbr >> Michaelangelo is reported to have said, "As the marble wastes, the sculpture grows."
3:32 Compare <<Bbl Mt 16:17 >> on the Agent of revelation.
Now when Jesus knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than Joh {{rf{2}}} (although Jesus himself was not baptizing, but his disciples), {{rf{3}}} he left Judea and departed again for Galilee. {{rf{4}}} And it was necessary for him to go through Samaria. {{rf{5}}} Now he came to a town of Samaria called Sychar, near the piece of land that Jacob had given to his son Joseph. {{rf{6}}} And Jacob's well was there, so Jesus, because he had become tired from the journey, simply sat down at the well. It was about the sixth hour. {{rf{7}}} A woman of Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, "Give me water to drink." {{rf{8}}} (For his disciples had gone away into the town so that they could buy food.) {{rf{9}}} So the Samaritan woman said to him, "How do you, being a Jew, ask from me water to drink, since I am a Samaritan woman?" (For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.) {{rf{10}}} Jesus answered and said to her, "If you had known the gift of God and who it is who says to you, 'Give me water to drink,' you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water." {{rf{11}}} The woman said to him, "Sir, you have no bucket and the well is deep! From where then do you get this living water? {{rf{12}}} You are not greater than our father Jacob, are you, who gave us the well and drank from it himself, and his sons and his livestock?" {{rf{13}}} Jesus answered and said to her, "Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again. {{rf{14}}} But whoever drinks of this water which I will give to him will never be thirsty for eternity, but the water which I will give to him will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life." {{rf{15}}} The woman said to him, "Sir, give me this water, so that I will not be thirsty or come here to draw water!" {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|John-04-01]] }}}
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4:7 see <<Bbl Mk 6:37 >> and meditate.
* God challenges the woman to give him a drink. The opening of communion with God is in His request for communion (in one parable, a sample of the vineyard which He has planted).
* We can't meet this. It is when we realize the futility of our own resources that we learn to draw upon His.
* The contrast between the two waters is complete: one is a temporal and temporary relief brought up only by heavy toil, the other a free and unstoppable fountain of true refreshment.
* Later (9:28) He thirsts again. Morris points out more parallels (p. 255).
* Note the contrast with the end of the account, <<Bbl J 4:31 abbr >>-32. It seems that to a perishing gentile He presents his human side, to those already on the road to realization His divine side.
<<Bbl J 4:7 abbr >> We see a messed-up, broken-down person from a despicable region who is working hard to meet an essential need, albeit only temporarily.
<<Bbl J 4:8 abbr >> She has had five husbands and another man. Enter Jesus as the Seventh.
4:8 Besides the natural hardships of the third-world, while in Samaria, the disciples must maintain purity by going to the kosher food booth. This requires a trip to the city. But later, the trip is proved needless (vss. 31-34).
<<Bbl J 4:9 abbr >>, <<Bbl J 4:40 >> from one, guarded surprise; from the many, urgent receptivity.
<<Bbl J 4:10 >> This proposed reply rhymes with the protests of John the Baptist (<<Bbl Mt 3:14 >>) and Peter (<<Bbl J 13:6 >>).
4:10 In other words, the woman's reply should have sounded like the Baptist's reply in <<Bbl Mt 3:14 >>, or Peter's reply in <<Bbl J 13:6 >>.
see <<Bbl I 12:3 >>, <<Bbl Pr 24:27 >>. I wonder if living water is an idiom for artesian waters.
<<Bbl J 4:12 abbr>>
* Very likely the site of Dinah's rape, see <<Bbl Gn 33:17 "" note>>. @@color:navy;It is one of the few Biblical sites about which there is no dispute, and probably the only place on earth where one can draw a circle of a few feet, and say confidently that the feet of Christ have stood within the circumference. @@// -- [[source|http://www.biblestudytools.com]]//
* //...and [Jacob's] sons// - Local pride suggests they have the wellspring of the twelve tribes.
4:13-14 Jesus makes a succinct statement in three parts. The world leaves you thirsty; water from me will end your thirst; I will become in you a fountain. See <<Bbl L 15:11 "" note>>-32 . This woman is obsessed with mundane details.
<<Bbl J 4:18 abbr >> now he has identified her thirst. First mere water was the topic; then better water, water *for you*; then water from God, with promises, and finally water which we may infer will satisfy __her__ thirst.
4:21, 23 //Neither __in__ the city nor the mountain... but __in__ Spirit and truth.//
<<Bbl J 4:22 abbr >> That is, the tribe of Judah.
4:23 This verse finds a fulfillment in context in vs. 42.
4:26 The syntax places //I am// at the head of the statement. Jesus' persuasive assertion is like that of <<Bbl J 11:25 abbr >>.
4:27 The dramatic treatment by Acts Of Recovery gives this special significance: far from being in danger of molestation, the woman is treated with dignity by not being challenged with questions.
<<Bbl J 4:27 abbr >> Legalism is risk-averse; the disciples are reflecting the depraved religion of their culture. John underscores the sovereign initiative of the Lord; perhaps this is also a disclaimer that says, "None of us thought this was normal behavior."
{{rf{16}}} He said to her, "Go, call your husband and come here." {{rf{17}}} The woman answered and said to him, "I do not have a husband." Jesus said to her, "You have said rightly, 'I do not have a husband,' {{rf{18}}} for you have had five husbands, and the one whom you have now is not your husband; this you have said truthfully!" {{rf{19}}} The woman said to him, "Sir, I see that you are a prophet. {{rf{20}}} Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, and you people say that in Jerusalem is the place where it is necessary to worship." {{rf{21}}} Jesus said to her, "Believe me, woman, that an hour is coming when neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father. {{rf{22}}} You worship what you do not know. We worship what we know, because salvation is from the Jews. {{rf{23}}} But an hour is coming -- and now is here -- when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for indeed the Father seeks such people to be his worshipers. {{rf{24}}} God is spirit, and the ones who worship him must worship in spirit and truth." {{rf{25}}} The woman said to him, "I know that Messiah is coming" (the one called Christ); "whenever that one comes, he will proclaim all things to us." {{rf{26}}} Jesus said to her, "I, the one speaking to you, am he. {{rf{27}}} And at this point his disciples came, and they were astonished that he was speaking with a woman. However, no one said, "What do you seek?" or "Why are you speaking with her?" {{rf{28}}} So the woman left her water jar and went away into the town and said to the people, {{rf{29}}} "Come, see a man who told me everything I have ever done! Perhaps this one is the Christ?" {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|John-04-16]] }}}
4:34 Inferred: The disciples are wondering how He sustains Himself and one has said, //There's no wheat on the stalk, as it's still four months until harvest..//4:39 After all, she had done a lot.
4:42
* An ingathering among the gentiles! The Lord is just traveling through; they are just dogs joyfully scarfing up the crumbs.
* How fitting the majestic title here, Savior of the world.
* The men of Samaria come to tell her of their joy - suddenly she as an approachable woman!
<<Bbl J 4:46 abbr >> a royal official: a gentile? Or a colluding Jew?
<<Bbl J 4:48 abbr >> Jesus teaches the man's faith, while real in its own sphere, is not faith unto salvation. The man has 3 stages of faith: Christ //can// heal, Christ //has// healed, and Christ //is Messiah//. The specificity of his inquiry is thus critical. He is making sure there was an actual miracle, not a coincidence.
4:48 Possible Jesus was stating a truth and not making one of those hard-seeming challenges? Possible He was saying //Yes, I do miracles, and let me remind you why//?
<<Bbl J 4:50 abbr >>,53 <<Bbl J 04:48 abbr >>
{{rf{30}}} They went out from the town and were coming to him. {{rf{31}}} In the meanwhile the disciples were asking him, saying, "Rabbi, eat something!" {{rf{32}}} But he said to them, "I have food to eat that you do not know about." {{rf{33}}} So the disciples began to say to one another, "No one brought him anything to eat, did they?" {{rf{34}}} Jesus said to them, "My food is that I do the will of the one who sent me and complete his work. {{rf{35}}} Do you not say, 'There are yet four months and the harvest comes'? Behold, I say to you, lift up your eyes and look at the fields, that they are white for harvest already. {{rf{36}}} The one who reaps receives wages and gathers fruit for eternal life, in order that the one who sows and the one who reaps can rejoice together. {{rf{37}}} For in this instance the saying is true, 'It is one who sows and another who reaps.' {{rf{38}}} I sent you to reap what you did not work for; others have worked, and you have entered into their work." {{rf{39}}} Now from that town many of the Samaritans believed in him because of the word of the woman who testified, "He told me everything that I have done." {{rf{40}}} So when the Samaritans came to him, they began asking him to stay with them. And he stayed there two days. {{rf{41}}} And many more believed because of his word, {{rf{42}}} And they were saying to the woman, "No longer because of what you said do we believe, for we ourselves have heard, and we know that this one is truly the Savior of the world!" {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|John-04-30]] }}}
{{rf{43}}} And after the two days he departed from there into Galilee. {{rf{44}}} For Jesus himself testified that a prophet has no honor in his own homeland. {{rf{45}}} So when he came to Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him, because they had seen all the things he had done in Jerusalem at the feast (for they themselves had also come to the feast). {{rf{46}}} Now he came again to Cana in Galilee, where he had made the water wine. And there was at Capernaum a certain royal official whose son was sick. {{rf{47}}} This man, when he heard that Jesus had come from Judea into Galilee, went to him and asked that he come down and heal his son, for he was about to die. {{rf{48}}} So Jesus said to him, "Unless you people see signs and wonders, you will never believe!" {{rf{49}}} The royal official said to him, "Sir, come down before my child dies!" {{rf{50}}} Jesus said to him, "Go, your son will live." The man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him, and he departed. {{rf{51}}} Now as he was going down, his slaves met him, saying that his child was alive. {{rf{52}}} So he inquired from them the hour at which he had gotten better. Then they said to him, "Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him." {{rf{53}}} So the father knew that it was that same hour at which Jesus said to him, "Your son will live," and he himself believed, and his whole household. {{rf{54}}} Now this is again a second sign Jesus performed when he came from Judea into Galilee. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|John-04-43]] }}}
After these things there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. {{rf{2}}} Now there is in Jerusalem near the Sheep Gate a pool called in Aramaic Bethzatha, which has five porticoes. {{rf{3}}} In these were lying a large number of those who were sick, blind, lame, paralyzed. {{rf{5}}} And a certain man was there who had been thirty-eight years in his sickness. {{rf{6}}} Jesus, when he saw this one lying there and knew that he had been sick a long time already, said to him, "Do you want to become well?" {{rf{7}}} The one who was sick answered him, "Sir, I do not have anyone that, whenever the water is stirred up, could put me into the pool. But while I am coming, another goes down before me." {{rf{8}}} Jesus said to him, "Get up! Pick up your mat and walk!" {{rf{9}}} And immediately the man became well and picked up his mat and began to walk. (Now it was the Sabbath on that day.) {{rf{10}}} So the Jews were saying to the one who had been healed, "It is the Sabbath, and it is not permitted for you to pick up the mat!" {{rf{11}}} But he answered them, "The one who made me well -- that one said to me, 'Pick up your mat and walk!'" {{rf{12}}} So they asked him, "Who is the man who said to you, 'Pick up your mat and walk?'" {{rf{13}}} But the one who was healed did not know who it was, for Jesus had withdrawn while a crowd was in the place. {{rf{14}}} After these things Jesus found him at the temple and said to him, "Look, you have become well! Sin no longer, lest something worse happen to you." {{rf{15}}} The man went and reported to the Jews that Jesus was the one who made him well. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|John-05-01]] }}}
<<Bbl J 5:2 abbr >> Surely someone has made out the five to represent the Torah.
5:4
** ESV Bible skips from verse 3 to 5. "The statement in the ESV footnote about an angel of the Lord stirring the water and the first person who stepped in being healed is found in some early manuscripts, but not the earliest. Therefore the omitted verse 4 should not be considered part of Scripture, although v.7 (which is in all manuscripts) shows that people believed something like what this statement reports."
** I hear this applied as "a word of faith for our fellowship. We've got to step in while the waters are stirring." Actually this verse describes a profoundly truncated kind of grace. In fact it seems a perverse sort of athletic competition, or a lottery. This should be ''contrasted'' with grace.
5:10 Good news, bad news!
5:11 The command to walk was an opportunity for instant decision and obedience.
5:17 What about the sabbath of the Creator? I suppose Jesus does not have that original Rest in mind.
** The NEB is strong.
5:18 His own Father -- this is what enraged the Pharisees. "The deity of Christ is pivotal to all the objections to both basic doctrine and consecrated life."
5:40 See <<Bbl Ps 119:38 >>.
<<Bbl J 5:46 abbr >> Moses' prophecy is in <<Bbl Dt 18:15 >>-19.
{{rf{16}}} And on account of this the Jews began to persecute Jesus, because he was doing these things on the Sabbath. {{rf{17}}} But he answered them, "My Father is working until now, and I am working." {{rf{18}}} So on account of this the Jews were seeking even more to kill him, because he not only was breaking the Sabbath, but also was calling God his own Father, thus making himself equal with God. {{rf{19}}} So Jesus answered and said to them, "Truly, truly I say to you, the Son can do nothing from himself except what he sees the Father doing. For whatever that one does, these things also the Son does likewise. {{rf{20}}} For the Father loves the Son and shows him everything that he himself is doing. And greater works than these he will show him, so that you will be astonished. {{rf{21}}} For just as the Father raises the dead and makes them alive, thus also the Son makes alive whomever he wishes. {{rf{22}}} For the Father does not judge anyone, but he has given all judgment to the Son, {{rf{23}}} in order that all people will honor the Son, just as they honor the Father. The one who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent him. {{rf{24}}} Truly, truly I say to you that the one who hears my word and who believes the one who sent me has eternal life, and does not come into judgment, but has passed from death into life. {{rf{25}}} "Truly, truly I say to you, that an hour is coming -- and now is here -- when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and the ones who hear will live. {{rf{26}}} For just as the Father has life in himself, thus also he has granted to the Son to have life in himself. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|John-05-16]] }}}
{{rf{27}}} And he has granted him authority to carry out judgment, because he is the Son of Man. {{rf{28}}} "Do not be astonished at this, because an hour is coming in which all those in the tombs will hear his voice {{rf{29}}} and they will come out -- those who have done good things to a resurrection of life, but those who have practiced evil things to a resurrection of judgment. {{rf{30}}} I am able to do nothing from myself. Just as I hear, I judge, and my judgment is just, because I do not seek my own will, but the will of the one who sent me. {{rf{31}}} "If I testify about myself, my testimony is not true. {{rf{32}}} There is another who testifies about me, and I know that the testimony which he testifies about me is true. {{rf{33}}} You have sent to John and he has testified to the truth. {{rf{34}}} (And I do not receive testimony from people, but I say these things in order that you may be saved.) {{rf{35}}} That one was the lamp which was burning and shining, and you wanted to rejoice for an hour in his light. {{rf{36}}} "But I have a testimony greater than John's, for the works which the Father has given to me that I should complete them -- the very works which I am doing -- these testify about me, that the Father has sent me. {{rf{37}}} And the Father who sent me, that one has testified about me. You have neither heard his voice at any time nor seen his form. {{rf{38}}} And you do not have his word residing in yourselves, because the one whom that one sent, in this one you do not believe. {{rf{39}}} You search the scriptures because you think that you have eternal life in them, and it is these that testify about me. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|John-05-27]] }}}
{{rf{40}}} And you are not willing to come to me so that you may have life. {{rf{41}}} "I do not accept glory from people, {{rf{42}}} but I know you, that you do not have the love of God in yourselves. {{rf{43}}} I have come in my Father's name, and you do not accept me. If another should come in his own name, you would accept that one! {{rf{44}}} How are you able to believe, if you accept glory from one another, and do not seek the glory which is from the only God? {{rf{45}}} Do not think that I will accuse you before the Father! The one who accuses you is Moses, in whom you have put your hope! {{rf{46}}} For if you had believed Moses, you would believe me, for that one wrote about me. {{rf{47}}} But if you do not believe that one's writings, how will you believe my words?" {{rf big{1}}} After these things Jesus went away to the other side of the sea of Galilee (that is, Tiberias). {{rf{2}}} And a large crowd was following him because they were observing the signs that he was doing on those who were sick. {{rf{3}}} So Jesus went up on the mountain and sat down there with his disciples. {{rf{4}}} (Now the Passover, the feast of the Jews, was near.) {{rf{5}}} Then Jesus, when he looked up and saw that a large crowd was coming to him, said to Philip, "Where can we buy bread so that these people can eat?" {{rf{6}}} (Now he said this to test him, because he knew what he was going to do.) {{rf{7}}} Philip replied to him, "Two hundred denarii worth of bread would not be enough for them, in order that each one could receive a little." {{rf{8}}} One of his disciples, Andrew the brother of Simon Peter, said to him, {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|John-05-40]] }}}
<<Bbl J 6:1 >>-9 The multitude's zeal seems very promising; in their haste they have forgotten food.
6:2 see 6:15-26
6:7 <<Bbl Num 11:22 >> presents a like situation.
<<Bbl J 6:9 abbr >>. Examine as supply and demand which determines value.
6:9 "The LORD is not restrained -- many or few." <<Bbl 1S 14:6 >>. But you can easily guess Andrew's sense of embarrassment for bringing up this bit of irrelevance.
<<Bbl J 6:10 abbr>>a [[Jesus]], His demeanor.
6:10 What an irony -- plenty of grass! Plenty of room to rest, relax in God's provision.
6:14 the Prophet refers, as in <<Bbl J 1:21 abbr>> and <<Bbl J 1:45 abbr>>, to He of whom Moses prophesied. The people instantly recalled the manna in the wilderness. This fact illuminates Jesus' answers of 6:26-58.
6:17 <<Bbl Mt 14.22>> and <<Bbl Mk 6.48>> explain they left the shore on the command of Jesus.
<<Bbl J 6:18 abbr >>-21 [[God-Encountered]]
<<Bbl J 6:22 abbr>>-25 This is like the action of a stirred-up ants' nest.
6:26-27 These echo His words to the Samaritan woman, 4:14-15.
6:29 See <<Bbl 1J 3:23 >>.
<<Bbl J 6:36 abbr >> They had seen the miracle of vs. 11, but the questions of vss. 30-31 reflect the hardness of their hearts.
<<Bbl J 6:64 abbr >> Betrayal not only by Judas but thousands of others.
<<Bbl J 6:68 abbr >>-69 This is the sequel to v 64b.
<<Bbl J 6:70 abbr >> an early and astounding hint, and a resounding complication to Jesus teaching of the moment.
{{rf{9}}} "Here is a boy who has five barley loaves and two fish, but what are these for so many people?" {{rf{10}}} Jesus said, "Make the people recline." (Now there was a lot of grass in the place.) So the men reclined, approximately five thousand in number. {{rf{11}}} Then Jesus took the bread, and after he had given thanks, he distributed it to those who were reclining -- likewise also of the fish, as much as they wanted. {{rf{12}}} And when they were satisfied, he said to his disciples, "Gather the remaining fragments so that nothing is lost." {{rf{13}}} So they gathered them, and filled twelve baskets with fragments from the five barley loaves which were left over by those who had eaten. {{rf{14}}} Now when the people saw the sign that he performed, they began to say, "This one is truly the Prophet who is to come into the world!" {{rf{15}}} Then Jesus, because he knew that they were about to come and seize him in order to make him king, withdrew again up the mountain by himself alone. {{rf{16}}} Now when evening came, his disciples went down to the sea. {{rf{17}}} And getting into a boat, they began to go to the other side of the sea, to Capernaum. And it had already become dark, and Jesus had not yet come to them. {{rf{18}}} And the sea began to be stirred up because a strong wind was blowing. {{rf{19}}} Then when they had rowed about twenty-five or thirty stadia, they saw Jesus walking on the sea and coming near the boat, and they were afraid. {{rf{20}}} But he said to them, "It is I! Do not be afraid!" {{rf{21}}} So they were wanting to take him into the boat, and immediately the boat came to the land to which they were going. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|John-06-09]] }}}
{{rf{22}}} On the next day, the crowd that was on the other side of the sea saw that other boats were not there (except one), and that Jesus had not entered with his disciples into the boat, but his disciples had departed alone. {{rf{23}}} Other boats from Tiberias came near the place where they had eaten the bread after the Lord had given thanks. {{rf{24}}} So when the crowd saw that Jesus was not there, nor his disciples, they themselves got into the boats and came to Capernaum seeking Jesus. {{rf{25}}} And when they found him on the other side of the sea, they said to him, "Rabbi, when did you get here?" {{rf{26}}} Jesus replied to them and said, "Truly, truly I say to you, you seek me not because you saw signs, but because you ate of the loaves and were satisfied! {{rf{27}}} Do not work for the food that perishes, but the food that remains to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you. For God the Father has set his seal on this one." {{rf{28}}} So they said to him, "What shall we do that we can accomplish the works of God?" {{rf{29}}} Jesus answered and said to them, "This is the work of God: that you believe in the one whom that one sent." {{rf{30}}} So they said to him, "Then what sign will you perform, so that we can see it and believe you? What will you do? {{rf{31}}} Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, just as it is written, 'He gave them bread from heaven to eat.' {{rf{32}}} Then Jesus said to them, "Truly, truly I say to you, Moses did not give you bread from heaven, but my Father is giving you the true bread from heaven! {{rf{33}}} For the bread of God is the one who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|John-06-22]] }}}
{{rf{34}}} So they said to him, "Sir, always give us this bread!" {{rf{35}}} Jesus said to them, "I am the bread of life. The one who comes to me will never be hungry, and the one who believes in me will never be thirsty again. {{rf{36}}} But I said to you that you have seen me and do not believe. {{rf{37}}} Everyone whom the Father gives to me will come to me, and the one who comes to me I will never throw out, {{rf{38}}} because I have come down from heaven not that I should do my will, but the will of the one who sent me. {{rf{39}}} Now this is the will of the one who sent me: that everyone whom he has given me, I would not lose any of them, but raise them up on the last day. {{rf{40}}} For this is the will of my Father, that everyone who looks at the Son and believes in him would have eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day." {{rf{41}}} Now the Jews began to grumble about him because he said, "I am the bread that came down from heaven," {{rf{42}}} and they were saying, "Is this one not Jesus the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How does he now say, 'I have come down from heaven'?" {{rf{43}}} Jesus answered and said to them, "Do not grumble among yourselves! {{rf{44}}} No one is able to come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him, and I will raise him up on the last day. {{rf{45}}} It is written in the prophets, 'And they will all be taught by God.' Everyone who hears from the Father and learns comes to me. {{rf{46}}} (Not that anyone has seen the Father except the one who is from God -- this one has seen the Father.) {{rf{47}}} Truly, truly I say to you, the one who believes has eternal life. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|John-06-34]] }}}
{{rf{48}}} I am the bread of life. {{rf{49}}} Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness and they died. {{rf{50}}} This is the bread that comes down from heaven so that someone may eat from it and not die. {{rf{51}}} I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats from this bread, he will live forever. And the bread that I will give for the life of the world is my flesh." {{rf{52}}} So the Jews began to quarrel among themselves, saying, "How can this man give us his flesh to eat?" {{rf{53}}} Then Jesus said to them, "Truly, truly I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you do not have life in yourselves! {{rf{54}}} The one who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day. {{rf{55}}} For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink. {{rf{56}}} The one who eats my flesh and drinks my blood resides in me and I in him. {{rf{57}}} Just as the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, so also the one who eats me -- that one will live because of me. {{rf{58}}} This is the bread that came down from heaven, not as the fathers ate and died. The one who eats this bread will live forever." {{rf{59}}} He said these things while teaching in the synagogue in Capernaum. {{rf{60}}} Thus many of his disciples, when they heard it, said, "This saying is hard! Who can understand it?" {{rf{61}}} But Jesus, because he knew within himself that his disciples were grumbling about this, said to them, "Does this cause you to be offended? {{rf{62}}} Then what if you see the Son of Man ascending where he was before? {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|John-06-48]] }}}
{{rf{63}}} The Spirit is the one who gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and are life. {{rf{64}}} But there are some of you who do not believe." (For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were who did not believe, and who it was who would betray him.) {{rf{65}}} And he said, "Because of this I said to you that no one can come to me unless it has been granted to him by the Father." {{rf{66}}} For this reason many of his disciples drew back and were not walking with him any longer. {{rf{67}}} So Jesus said to the twelve, "You do not want to go away also, do you?" {{rf{68}}} Simon Peter answered him, "Lord, to whom would we go? You have the words of eternal life. {{rf{69}}} And we have believed, and have come to know, that you are the Holy One of God." {{rf{70}}} Jesus replied to them, "Did I not choose you, the twelve, and one of you is the devil?" {{rf{71}}} (Now he was speaking about Judas son of Simon Iscariot, because this one -- one of the twelve -- was going to betray him.) {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|John-06-63]] }}}
And after these things Jesus was going about in Galilee. For he did not want to go about in Judea, because the Jews were seeking to kill him. {{rf{2}}} Now the feast of the Jews -- the feast of Tabernacles -- was near. {{rf{3}}} So his brothers said to him, "Depart from here and go to Judea, so that your disciples also can see your works that you are doing. {{rf{4}}} For no one does anything in secret and yet he himself desires to be publicly recognized. If you are doing these things, reveal yourself to the world!" {{rf{5}}} (For not even his brothers believed in him.) {{rf{6}}} So Jesus said to them, "My time has not yet come, but your time is always ready. {{rf{7}}} The world cannot hate you, but it hates me, because I am testifying about it, that its deeds are evil. {{rf{8}}} You go up to the feast. I am not going up to this feast, because my time is not yet completed. {{rf{9}}} And when he had said these things, he remained in Galilee. {{rf{10}}} But when his brothers had gone up to the feast, then he also went up, not openly, but (as it were) in secret. {{rf{11}}} So the Jews were looking for him at the feast, and were saying, "Where is he?" {{rf{12}}} And there was a lot of grumbling concerning him among the crowds; some were saying, "He is a good man," but others were saying, "No, but he deceives the crowd." {{rf{13}}} However, no one was speaking openly about him for fear of the Jews. {{rf{14}}} Now when the feast was already half over, Jesus went to the temple courts and began to teach. {{rf{15}}} Then the Jews were astonished, saying, "How does this man possess knowledge, because he has not been taught?" {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|John-07-01]] }}}
7:6 See <<Bbl 1J 4:5 >>.
<<Bbl J 7:7 abbr >> Compare 15:18-19, also <<Bbl Esther 3:8 >>.
<<Bbl J 7:10 abbr >> not publicly takes up the "manifest thyself" of vs 4 and rejects it.
7:15 At age twelve Jesus had made a surprise appearance in that same Temple - sitting in the same spot, one can imagine! - and elicited the same amazement as He explained the scriptures. <<Bbl Lk 2:43>>-47 and <<Bbl J 7:10 >>; note also the consternation of his family in both episodes.
7:24 see 8:15; <<Bbl 1S 16:7 >>; <<Bbl I 11:3 >>
<<Bbl J 7:35 abbr >> "Notice that they speak of going to the Dispersion, but not of teaching the Greeks. This would seem to mean going to the Jewish synagogues and making them the springboard for a mission onward to the Greeks. It is, of course, the method that according to Acts the first Christian preachers actually employed. These Jews, however, dismiss the method as too fantastic to be considered a proper activity of the Messiah." (Morris, p 418)
{{rf{16}}} So Jesus answered them and said, "My teaching is not mine, but is from the one who sent me. {{rf{17}}} If anyone wants to do his will, he will know about my teaching, whether it is from God or I am speaking from myself. {{rf{18}}} The one who speaks from himself seeks his own glory. But the one who seeks the glory of the one who sent him -- this one is true, and there is no unrighteousness in him. {{rf{19}}} Has not Moses given you the law, and none of you carries out the law? Why do you seek to kill me?" {{rf{20}}} The crowd replied, "You have a demon! Who is seeking to kill you?" {{rf{21}}} Jesus answered and said to them, "I performed one work, and you are all astonished. {{rf{22}}} Because of this Moses has given you circumcision (not that it is from Moses, but from the fathers), and you circumcise a man on the Sabbath. {{rf{23}}} If a man receives circumcision on the Sabbath so that the law of Moses would not be broken, are you angry with me because I made a whole man well on the Sabbath? {{rf{24}}} Do not judge according to outward appearance, but judge according to righteous judgment!" {{rf{25}}} Then some of the inhabitants of Jerusalem began to say, "Is this not the one whom they are seeking to kill? {{rf{26}}} And behold, he is speaking openly and they are saying nothing to him! Can it be that the rulers truly know that this man is the Christ? {{rf{27}}} Yet we know where this man is from, but the Christ, whenever he comes -- no one knows where he is from!" {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|John-07-16]] }}}
{{rf{28}}} Then Jesus cried out in the temple courts, teaching and saying, "You both know me and you know where I am from! And I have not come from myself, but the one who sent me is true, whom you do not know. {{rf{29}}} I know him, because I am from him and he sent me." {{rf{30}}} So they were seeking to seize him, and no one laid a hand on him, because his hour had not yet come. {{rf{31}}} But from the crowd many believed in him and were saying, "Whenever the Christ comes, he will not perform more signs than this man has done, will he?" {{rf{32}}} The Pharisees heard the crowd murmuring these things about him, and the chief priests and the Pharisees sent officers in order to take him into custody . {{rf{33}}} Then Jesus said, "Yet a little time I am with you, and I am going to the one who sent me. {{rf{34}}} You will seek me and will not find me, and where I am, you cannot come." {{rf{35}}} So the Jews said to one another, "Where is this one going to go, that we will not find him? He is not going to go to the Dispersion among the Greeks and teach the Greeks, is he? {{rf{36}}} What is this saying that he said, 'You will seek me and will not find me, and where I am, you cannot come'?" {{rf{37}}} Now on the last day of the feast -- the great day -- Jesus stood and cried out, saying, "If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me, and let him drink, {{rf{38}}} the one who believes in me. Just as the scripture said, 'Out of his belly will flow rivers of living water.'" {{rf{39}}} Now he said this concerning the Spirit, whom those who believed in him were about to receive. For the Spirit was not yet given, because Jesus had not yet been glorified.) {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|John-07-28]] }}}
{{rf{40}}} Then, when they heard these words, some from the crowd began to say, "This man is truly the Prophet!" {{rf{41}}} Others were saying, "This man is the Christ!" But others were saying, "No, for the Christ does not come from Galilee, does he? {{rf{42}}} Has not the scripture said that the Christ comes from the descendants of David, and from Bethlehem, the village where David was?" {{rf{43}}} So there was a division in the crowd because of him. {{rf{44}}} And some of them were wanting to seize him, but no one laid hands on him. {{rf{45}}} So the officers came to the chief priests and Pharisees. And they said to them, "Why did you not bring him?" {{rf{46}}} The officers replied, "Never has a man spoken like this!" {{rf{47}}} Then the Pharisees replied to them, "You have not also been deceived, have you? {{rf{48}}} None of the rulers or of the Pharisees have believed in him, have they? {{rf{49}}} But this crowd who does not know the law is accursed!" {{rf{50}}} Nicodemus, the one who came to him previously -- who was one of them -- said to them, {{rf{51}}} "Our law does not condemn a man unless it first hears from him and knows what he is doing, does it?" {{rf{52}}} They answered and said to him, "You are not also from Galilee, are you? Investigate and see that a prophet does not arise from Galilee!" {{rf{53}}} And each one went to his own house. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|John-07-40]] }}}
But Jesus went to the Mount of Olives. {{rf{2}}} Now early in the morning he came again to the temple courts. And all the people were coming, and he sat down and began to teach them. {{rf{3}}} Now the scribes and the Pharisees brought to him a woman caught in adultery. And standing her in their midst, {{rf{4}}} they said to him, testing him, "Teacher, this woman was caught in the very act of committing adultery! {{rf{5}}} Now in the law, Moses commanded us to stone such women. So what do you say?" {{rf{6}}} (Now they were saying this to test him, so that they would have an occasion to bring charges against him.) But Jesus, bending down, began to write with his finger on the ground, taking no notice. {{rf{7}}} And when they persisted in asking him, straightening up he said to them, "The one of you without sin, let him throw the first stone at her!" {{rf{8}}} And bending down again, he wrote on the ground. {{rf{9}}} Now when they heard it, being convicted by their conscience, they began to depart, one by one, beginning with the older ones, and Jesus was left alone -- and the woman who was in their midst. {{rf{10}}} So Jesus, straightening up and seeing no one except the woman, said to her, "Where are those accusers of yours? Does no one condemn you?" {{rf{11}}} And she said, "No one, Lord." So Jesus said, "Neither do I condemn you. Go, and sin no more." {{rf{12}}} Then Jesus spoke to them again, saying, "I am the light of the world! The one who follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life." {{rf{13}}} So the Pharisees said to him, "You testify concerning yourself! Your testimony is not true." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|John-08-01]] }}}
8:3 Did the opening of Lamentations, Jerusalem as a ruined woman, cross the mind of Christ? <<Bbl Ez 16:1 >>?
<<Bbl J 8:4 abbr >> Morris believes that a trap had been deliberately set. Also a special vindictiveness is evident. Also a lynching was in consideration.
8:5 While the Law orders death for the man and women, these Jews use the feminine pronoun.
8:6 David Holford says it probably wasn't the sign of the fish.
8:7 Morris has a stunningly clear analysis of Christ's reply.
<<Bbl J 8:9 abbr>> Some fled the Light, one remained. The former wanted to conceal their sins, the latter acknowledged them. And all in accord with 3:20-21. Fount Schultz.
8:11 There is nothing about forgiveness. The guilty woman has shown no sign of repentance or of faith. Jesus simply shows mercy and makes a call to righteousness. "Here then the mercy of God and His truth meet. For only in the mouth of the sinless Jesus can the full condemnation of sin, and the full demand for the righteousness of God, march with the authoritative pronouncement of His mercy and charity." (Morris p 891)
8:12 Fount Schultz sees this verse as naturally following the story.
<<Bbl J 8:28 abbr >> obedience
8:43 "Everything in this verse depends upon the contrast between speech and word . The former term will denote the form of expression, the latter signifies rather its content. If there is a lack of sympathy and comprehension of the basic position then all manner of details will inevitably be misunderstood." (Morris p 463)
<<Bbl J 8:56 abbr>> -- Abraham's faith
{{rf{14}}} Jesus answered and said to them, "Even if I testify concerning myself, my testimony is true, because I know where I have come from and where I am going. But you do not know where I have come from or where I am going. {{rf{15}}} You judge according to externals; I do not judge anyone. {{rf{16}}} But even if I judge, my judgment is true, because I am not alone, but I and the Father who sent me. {{rf{17}}} And even in your law it is written that the testimony of two men is true. {{rf{18}}} I am the one who testifies concerning myself, and the Father who sent me testifies concerning me." {{rf{19}}} So they were saying to him, "Where is your father?" Jesus replied, "You know neither me nor my Father! If you had known me, you would have known my Father also." {{rf{20}}} He spoke these words by the treasury while teaching in the temple courts, and no one seized him, because his hour had not yet come. {{rf{21}}} So he said to them again, "I am going away, and you will seek me and will die in your sin. Where I am going you cannot come!" {{rf{22}}} Then the Jews began to say, "Perhaps he will kill himself, because he is saying, 'Where I am going you cannot come.'" {{rf{23}}} And he said to them, "You are from below; I am from above. You are from this world; I am not from this world. {{rf{24}}} Thus I said to you that you will die in your sins. For if you do not believe that I am he, you will die in your sins." {{rf{25}}} So they began to say to him, "Who are you?" Jesus said to them, "What I have been saying to you from the beginning. {{rf{26}}} I have many things to say and to judge concerning you, but the one who sent me is true, and the things which I heard from him, these things I say to the world." {{rf{27}}} (They did not know that he was speaking to them about the Father.) {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|John-08-14]] }}}
{{rf{28}}} Then Jesus said, "When you lift up the Son of Man, then you will recognize that I am he, and I do nothing from myself, but just as the Father taught me, I say these things. {{rf{29}}} And the one who sent me is with me. He has not left me alone, because I always do the things that are pleasing to him." {{rf{30}}} While he was saying these things, many believed in him. {{rf{31}}} Then Jesus said to those Jews who had believed him, "If you continue in my word you are truly my disciples, {{rf{32}}} and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free." {{rf{33}}} They replied to him, "We are descendants of Abraham and have not been enslaved to anyone at any time. How do you say, 'You will become free'?" {{rf{34}}} Jesus replied to them, "Truly, truly I say to you, that everyone who commits sin is a slave of sin. {{rf{35}}} And the slave does not remain in the household forever; the son remains forever. {{rf{36}}} So if the son sets you free, you will be truly free. {{rf{37}}} I know that you are descendants of Abraham. But you are seeking to kill me, because my word makes no progress among you. {{rf{38}}} I speak the things that I have seen with the Father; so also you do the things that you have heard from the Father." {{rf{39}}} They answered and said to him, "Abraham is our father!" Jesus said to them, "If you are children of Abraham, do the deeds of Abraham! {{rf{40}}} But now you are seeking to kill me, a man who spoke to you the truth which I heard from God. This Abraham did not do. {{rf{41}}} You are doing the deeds of your father!" They said to him, "We were not born from sexual immorality! We have one father, God!" {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|John-08-28]] }}}
{{rf{42}}} Jesus said to them, "If God were your father, you would love me, for I have come forth from God and have come. For I have not come from myself, but that one sent me. {{rf{43}}} Why do you not understand my way of speaking? Because you are not able to listen to my message. {{rf{44}}} You are of your father the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father! That one was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand firm in the truth, because truth is not in him. Whenever he speaks the lie, he speaks from his own nature, because he is a liar and the father of lies. {{rf{45}}} But because I am telling the truth, you do not believe me. {{rf{46}}} Who among you convicts me concerning sin? If I am telling the truth, why do you not believe me? {{rf{47}}} The one who is from God listens to the words of God. Because of this you do not listen -- because you are not of God." {{rf{48}}} The Jews answered and said to him, "Do we not correctly say that you are a Samaritan and have a demon?" {{rf{49}}} Jesus replied, "I do not have a demon, but I honor my Father, and you dishonor me! {{rf{50}}} But I do not seek my own glory. There is one who seeks and judges! {{rf{51}}} Truly, truly I say to you, if anyone keeps my word, he will never experience death forever." {{rf{52}}} The Jews said to him, "Now we know that you have a demon! Abraham and the prophets died, and you say, 'If anyone keeps my word, he will never taste death forever.' {{rf{53}}} You are not greater than our father Abraham who died, are you? And the prophets died! Who do you make yourself to be?" {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|John-08-42]] }}}
<<Bbl J 9:3 abbr>> Is Christ then a superlapsarianist?
9:4 You can't work during the night because you are effectively blind.
9:6 Floyd McClung says spitting on the ground was a Sabbath violation because the spittle pushed the soil, representative of farming.
9:6 The spit is made of two parts, like God's original creation of man.
9:7 Perhaps John provides the translation of the pool's name to note an irony: Jesus "sends" him to "Sent." Here, direction and purpose from the Guide lead to vision. Morris notes that the name will originally have had to do with the channel which fed the pool.
9:11 The man that is called Jesus -- but note how his understanding of who Christ is grows through the account. Vss 27f, 33, 35-38. The Pharisees follow a converse path of anti-revelation 9 24-33 "Far from shaking him, their arguments caused him to clarify his position, and he finished the interrogation with a deeper appreciation of Jesus than he had had at the beginning. We should not miss this further example of John's irony." (Morris 490)
<<Bbl J 9:25 abbr>> The simplest apologetic -- our new life.
9:28 see 4:7
9:34 The man's state of sin, and its supposed consequences, was occasion for the disciples' ignorant wonder, for Jesus' love, for the Pharisees' arrogance.
10:1 continues the confrontation with the Pharisees.
<<Bbl J 10:10 abbr>> We take this as the devil but it is an indictment of local religious abuse.
10:11-13 see <<Bbl 1S 17:34 >>-35 -- He could almost have been alluding to David.
10:19-21 But both sides share in the description of vs. 6.
10:33 "Jesus, they affirm, is a man, yet makes Himself God; in reality He, being God, had become man (<<Bbl Php 2:5 >>-8 )." (Morris 525)
10:35 "This means, of course, that in the Saviour's view the indefectible authority of Scripture attaches to the very form of expression of its most casual clauses. It belongs to Scripture through and through, down to its most minute particulars, that it is of indefectible authority." (Morris p 526)
10:39 Hand contrasts with the hand of the Father, vs 29.
{{rf{54}}} Jesus replied, "If I glorify myself, my glory is nothing. The one who glorifies me is my Father, about whom you say, 'He is our God.' {{rf{55}}} And you have not known him, but I know him. And if I were to say that I do not know him, I would be a liar like you! But I know him and I keep his word. {{rf{56}}} Abraham your father rejoiced that he would see my day, and he saw it and was glad." {{rf{57}}} So the Jews said to him, "You are not yet fifty years old, and have you seen Abraham?" {{rf{58}}} Jesus said to them, "Truly, truly I say to you, before Abraham was, I am!" {{rf{59}}} Then they picked up stones in order to throw them at him. But Jesus was hidden and went out of the temple courts. {{rf big{1}}} And as he went away, he saw a man blind from birth. {{rf{2}}} And his disciples asked him, saying, "Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he should be born blind?" {{rf{3}}} Jesus replied, "Neither this man sinned nor his parents, but it happened so that the works of God could be revealed in him. {{rf{4}}} It is necessary for us to do the deeds of the one who sent me while it is day; night is coming, when no one can work! {{rf{5}}} While I am in the world, I am the light of the world." {{rf{6}}} When he had said these things, he spat on the ground and made clay with the saliva, and smeared the clay on his eyes. {{rf{7}}} And he said to him, "Go, wash in the pool of Siloam" (which is translated "sent"). So he went and washed and came back seeing. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|John-08-54]] }}}
{{rf{8}}} Then the neighbors and those who saw him previously (because he was a beggar) began to say, "Is this man not the one who used to sit and beg?" {{rf{9}}} Others were saying, "It is this man"; others were saying, "No, but he is like him." That one was saying, "I am he!" {{rf{10}}} So they began to say to him, "How were your eyes opened?" {{rf{11}}} He replied, "The man who is called Jesus made clay and smeared it on my eyes and said to me, 'Go to Siloam and wash!' So I went, and I washed, and I received sight." {{rf{12}}} And they said to him, "Where is that man?" He said, "I do not know." {{rf{13}}} They brought him -- the one formerly blind -- to the Pharisees. {{rf{14}}} (Now the day on which Jesus made the clay and opened his eyes was the Sabbath.) {{rf{15}}} So the Pharisees also were asking him again how he received sight. And he said to them, "He put clay on my eyes, and I washed, and I see." {{rf{16}}} So some of the Pharisees were saying, "This man is not from God, because he does not observe the Sabbath!" Others were saying, "How can a man who is a sinner perform such signs?" And there was a division among them. {{rf{17}}} So they said to the blind man again, "What do you say about him, because he opened your eyes?" And he said, "He is a prophet." {{rf{18}}} So the Jews did not believe concerning him that he had been blind and received sight, until they summoned the parents of the one who received sight. {{rf{19}}} And they asked them, saying, "Is this man your son, whom you say was born blind? Then how does he now see?" {{rf{20}}} So his parents answered and said, "We know that this man is our son, and that he was born blind. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|John-09-08]] }}}
{{rf{21}}} But how he now sees we do not know, or who opened his eyes we do not know. Ask him! He is a mature adult; he will speak for himself!" {{rf{22}}} (His parents said these things because they were afraid of the Jews, for the Jews had already decided that if anyone should confess him to be Christ, he would be expelled from the synagogue. {{rf{23}}} Because of this his parents said, "He is a mature adult; ask him.") {{rf{24}}} So they summoned the man who had been blind for the second time and said to him, "Give glory to God! We know that this man is a sinner!" {{rf{25}}} Then that man replied, "Whether he is a sinner I do not know. One thing I know -- that although I was blind, now I see!" {{rf{26}}} So they said to him, "What did he do to you? How did he open your eyes?" {{rf{27}}} He replied to them, "I told you already and you did not listen! Why do you want to hear it again? You do not want to become his disciples also, do you?" {{rf{28}}} They reviled him and said, "You are his disciple! But we are disciples of Moses! {{rf{29}}} We know that God has spoken to Moses, but we do not know where this man is from." {{rf{30}}} The man answered and said to them, "For the remarkable thing is this, that you do not know where he is from, and he opened my eyes! {{rf{31}}} We know that God does not listen to sinners, but if someone is devout and does his will, he listens to this one. {{rf{32}}} From time immemorial it has not been heard that someone opened the eyes of one born blind. {{rf{33}}} If this man were not from God, he would not be able to do anything!" {{rf{34}}} They answered and said to him, "You were born completely in sin, and are you attempting to teach us?" And they threw him out. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|John-09-21]] }}}
{{rf{35}}} Jesus heard that they had thrown him out, and finding him, he said, "Do you believe in the Son of Man?" {{rf{36}}} He answered and said, "And who is he, sir, that I may believe in him?" {{rf{37}}} Jesus said to him, "You have both seen him, and he is the one who is speaking with you." {{rf{38}}} And he said, "I believe, Lord!" and he worshiped him. {{rf{39}}} And Jesus said, "For judgment I have come into this world, so that those who do not see may see, and those who see may become blind!" {{rf{40}}} Some of the Pharisees who were with him heard these things and said to him, "We are not also blind, are we?" {{rf{41}}} Jesus said to them, "If you were blind, you would not have sin. But now you say, 'We see,' your sin remains. {{rf big{1}}} "Truly, truly I say to you, the one who does not enter through the door into the fold of the sheep, but climbs up at some other place -- that one is a thief and a robber. {{rf{2}}} But the one who enters through the door is the shepherd of the sheep. {{rf{3}}} For this one the doorkeeper opens, and the sheep hear his voice, and he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out. {{rf{4}}} Whenever he sends out all his own, he goes before them, and the sheep follow him because they know his voice. {{rf{5}}} And they will never follow a stranger, but will flee from him, because they do not know the voice of strangers." {{rf{6}}} Jesus told them this parable, but they did not understand what it was that he was saying to them. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|John-09-35]] }}}
{{rf{7}}} Then Jesus said to them again, "Truly, truly, I say to you, I am the door of the sheep. {{rf{8}}} All those who came before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep do not listen to them. {{rf{9}}} I am the door. If anyone enters through me, he will be saved, and will come in and will go out and will find pasture. {{rf{10}}} The thief comes only so that he can steal and kill and destroy; I have come so that they may have life, and have it abundantly. {{rf{11}}} "I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep. {{rf{12}}} The hired hand, who is not the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, sees the wolf approaching and abandons the sheep and runs away -- and the wolf seizes them and scatters them -- {{rf{13}}} because he is a hired hand and he is not concerned about the sheep. {{rf{14}}} "I am the good shepherd, and I know my own, and my own know me, {{rf{15}}} just as the Father knows me and I know the Father, and I lay down my life for the sheep. {{rf{16}}} And I have other sheep which are not from this fold. I must bring these also, and they will hear my voice, and they will become one flock -- one shepherd. {{rf{17}}} Because of this the Father loves me, because I lay down my life so that I may take possession of it again. {{rf{18}}} No one takes it from me, but I lay it down voluntarily. I have authority to lay it down, and I have authority to take possession of it again. This commandment I received from my Father." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|John-10-07]] }}}
{{rf{19}}} Again there was a division among the Jews because of these words. {{rf{20}}} And many of them were saying, "He has a demon and is out of his mind! Why do you listen to him?" {{rf{21}}} Others were saying, "These are not the words of one who is possessed by a demon! A demon is not able to open the eyes of the blind, is it?" {{rf{22}}} Then the feast of the Dedication took place in Jerusalem. It was winter, {{rf{23}}} and Jesus was walking in the temple in the Portico of Solomon. {{rf{24}}} So the Jews surrounded him and began to say to him, "How long will you keep us in suspense? If you are the Christ, tell us plainly!" {{rf{25}}} Jesus answered them, "I told you and you do not believe! The deeds that I do in the name of my Father, these testify about me. {{rf{26}}} But you do not believe, because you are not of my sheep! {{rf{27}}} My sheep listen to my voice, and I know them, and they follow me. {{rf{28}}} And I give them eternal life, and they will never perish forever, and no one will seize them out of my hand. {{rf{29}}} My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all, and no one can seize them from the Father's hand. {{rf{30}}} The Father and I are one." {{rf{31}}} Then the Jews picked up stones again so that they could stone him. {{rf{32}}} Jesus answered them, "I have shown you many good deeds from the Father. For which one of them are you going to stone me?" {{rf{33}}} The Jews answered him, "We are not going to stone you concerning a good deed, but concerning blasphemy, and because you, although you are a man, make yourself to be God!" {{rf{34}}} Jesus answered them, "Is it not written in your law, 'I said, "You are gods" '? {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|John-10-19]] }}}
{{rf{35}}} If he called them 'gods' to whom the word of God came -- and the scripture cannot be broken -- {{rf{36}}} do you say about he whom the Father set apart and sent into the world, 'You are blaspheming,' because I said, 'I am the Son of God'? {{rf{37}}} If I do not do the deeds of my Father, do not believe me. {{rf{38}}} But if I am doing them, even if you do not believe me, believe the deeds, so that you may know and understand that the Father is in me and I am in the Father." {{rf{39}}} So they were seeking again to seize him, and he departed out of their hand. {{rf{40}}} And he went away again on the other side of the Jordan, to the place where John was baptizing at an earlier time, and he stayed there. {{rf{41}}} And many came to him and began to say, "John performed no sign, but everything John said about this man was true!" {{rf{42}}} And many believed in him there. {{rf big{1}}} Now a certain man was sick, Lazarus from Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha. {{rf{2}}} (Now it was Mary who anointed the Lord with perfumed oil and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.) {{rf{3}}} So the sisters sent word to him, saying, "Lord, behold, the one whom you love is sick." {{rf{4}}} And when he heard it, Jesus said, "This sickness is not to death, but for the glory of God, in order that the Son of God may be glorified through it." {{rf{5}}} (Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus.) {{rf{6}}} So when he heard that he was sick, then he remained in the place where he was two days. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|John-10-35]] }}}
11:1-37 In which God displays His foolishness.
The raising of Lazarus is a great turning point in John's Gospel. It considerably thickens the plot. Morris has a cogent discussion of why this story is absent from the Synoptics; it is likely Peter, the eyewitness of the Synoptics, was not part of this scene.
Just see how Jesus flouts the "magic minute", the starky obvious principle that //time is of the essence// when death has struck yet hope still lives. Did our brother Shadrick //delay// when it was time to pray over the body? Certainly not! His command to open the tomb seems to be the final and most hurtfully ironic stroke.
<<Bbl J 11:5 abbr >>-6 The NEB changes the meaning somewhat: though He loved them, he remained two days longer. If the "though" belongs, it is given from a thoroughly human perspective, unlikely it seems to me to come from <<Bbl J 11:9 abbr >>-10 See 12:35-36, 13:10b.
11:3 //the one You love// -- it seems John, the //beloved// disciple, is making a special point here -- however that epithet was known, it was not for John alone.
<<Bbl J 11:6 abbr >> See <<Bbl Mt 26:14 >> note.
11:16 For His disciples, all is doubt and all is confusion. But Thomas displays the height of commitment, as well as his infamous unbelief - for this version of faith is not anything like what Jesus alludes to in v 15.
<<Bbl J 11:21 abbr >>-22 Martha has thought through this statement of faith, and wonderful we would think it if not for the context. "You weren't here, but I know he would have lived if you had been." See also v 32, 37. Jesus' delay is what elicits this confession. And this faith does not glorify the Son of God (v 4). Nor does the faith of v 24. These are risk-averse commitments, not falsifiable.
<<Bbl J 11:27 abbr >> //Son of God// is not a confession of His Godhood.
11:27 "Martha should be known to us from this moving declaration rather than from her worst moment of criticism and fretfulness." Morris p 552.
<<Bbl J 11:33 abbr >>, 38 //In himself// is the same as //in his spirit//. So to pray in the Spirit of Christ is to pray in Him.
11:34 Morris, p 558, cites a remarkable comment by Lightfoot associating this come and see with that of chap. 1.
<<Bbl J 11:40 abbr >> "All there, believing or not, would see the miracle. But Jesus is promising Martha a sight of the glory." Morris p 560. "Martha, allow me to redefine faith. The glory of God you are not seeing."
<<Bbl J 11:42 abbr >> He wants them to believe that His Father always hears Him. This is another expression of His being sent by the Father.
<<Bbl J 11:44 abbr >> Either the decayed flesh was reconstituted, or Christ worked earlier -- resurrecting the body, but in dormancy.
<<Bbl J 11:44 abbr >> Contrast the burial cloths of our risen Lord in <<Bbl J 20:07 abbr >>.
<<Bbl J 11:46 abbr >>a "And" is better than "but".
11:51 God is working sovereignly through the office. The next verse expands.
<<Bbl J 11:52 abbr >> Adumbration.
<<Bbl J 11:53 abbr >> Thomas's concern is vindicated, partially. But this too is in God's purposes - the resolve to silence Jesus by killing Him is set in motion by the decision in <<Bbl J 11:6 >> to delay.
{{rf{7}}} Then after this he said to the disciples, "Let us go to Judea again." {{rf{8}}} The disciples said to him, "Rabbi, the Jews were seeking just now to stone you, and are you going there again?" {{rf{9}}} Jesus replied, Are there not twelve hours in the day? If anyone walks around in the daylight, he does not stumble, because he sees the light of this world. {{rf{10}}} But if anyone walks around in the night, he stumbles, because the light is not in him. {{rf{11}}} He said these things, and after this he said to them, "Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep, but I am going so that I can awaken him." {{rf{12}}} So the disciples said to him, "Lord, if he has fallen asleep, he will get well." {{rf{13}}} (Now Jesus had been speaking about his death, but they thought that he was speaking about real sleep.) {{rf{14}}} So Jesus then said to them plainly, "Lazarus has died, {{rf{15}}} and I am glad for your sake that I was not there, so that you may believe. But let us go to him." {{rf{16}}} Then Thomas (the one who is called Didymus) said to his fellow disciples, "Let us go also, so that we may die with him." {{rf{17}}} So when he arrived, Jesus found he had already been four days in the tomb. {{rf{18}}} (Now Bethany was near Jerusalem, about fifteen stadia. {{rf{19}}} So many of the Jews came to Martha and Mary in order to console them concerning their brother.) {{rf{20}}} Now Martha, when she heard that Jesus was coming, went to meet him, but Mary was sitting in the house. {{rf{21}}} So Martha said to Jesus, "Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died. {{rf{22}}} Even now I know that whatever you ask God, God will grant you." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|John-11-07]] }}}
{{rf{23}}} Jesus said to her, "Your brother will rise again." {{rf{24}}} Martha said to him, "I know that he will rise again in the resurrection at the last day." {{rf{25}}} Jesus said to her, "I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me, even if he dies, will live, {{rf{26}}} and everyone who lives and believes in me will never die forever. Do you believe this?" {{rf{27}}} She said to him, "Yes, Lord, I have believed that you are the Christ, the Son of God, who comes into the world." {{rf{28}}} And when she had said this, she went and called her sister Mary privately, saying, "The Teacher is here and is calling for you." {{rf{29}}} So that one, when she heard it, got up quickly and went to him. {{rf{30}}} (Now Jesus has not yet come into the village, but was still in the place where Martha went to meet him.) {{rf{31}}} So the Jews who were with her in the house and were consoling her, when they saw Mary -- that she stood up quickly and went out -- followed her, because they thought that she was going to the tomb in order to weep there. {{rf{32}}} Then Mary, when she came where Jesus was and saw him, fell at his feet, saying to him, "Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died." {{rf{33}}} Then Jesus, when he saw her weeping and the Jews who came with her weeping, was deeply moved in spirit and was troubled within himself. {{rf{34}}} And he said, "Where have you laid him?" They said to him, "Lord, come and see." {{rf{35}}} Jesus wept. {{rf{36}}} So the Jews were saying, "See how he loved him!" {{rf{37}}} But some of them said, "Was not this man who opened the eyes of the blind able to do something so that this man also would not have died?" {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|John-11-23]] }}}
{{rf{38}}} Then Jesus, deeply moved within himself again, came to the tomb. Now it was a cave, and a stone was lying on it. {{rf{39}}} Jesus said, "Take away the stone." Martha, the sister of the one who had died, said to him, "Lord, he is stinking already, because it has been four days." {{rf{40}}} Jesus said to her, "Did I not say to you that if you believed, you would see the glory of God?" {{rf{41}}} So they took away the stone. And Jesus lifted up his eyes above and said, "Father, I give thanks to you that you hear me. {{rf{42}}} And I know that you always hear me, but for the sake of the crowd standing around I said it, so that they may believe that you sent me." {{rf{43}}} And when he had said these things, he cried out with a loud voice, "Lazarus, come out!" {{rf{44}}} The one who had died came out, his feet and his hands bound with strips of cloth, and his face wrapped with a facecloth. Jesus said to them, "Untie him and let him go." {{rf{45}}} Then many of the Jews who had come with Mary and saw the things which he did believed in him. {{rf{46}}} But some of them went to the Pharisees and told them the things which Jesus had done. {{rf{47}}} So the chief priests and the Pharisees called together the Sanhedrin and said, "What are we doing? For this man is performing many signs! {{rf{48}}} If we allow him to go on in this way, everyone will believe in him, and the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|John-11-38]] }}}
{{rf{49}}} But a certain one of them, Caiaphas (who was high priest in that year), said to them, "You do not know anything at all! {{rf{50}}} Nor do you consider that it is profitable for you that one man should die for the people, and the whole nation not perish." {{rf{51}}} (Now he did not say this from himself, but being high priest in that year, he prophesied that Jesus was going to die for the nation, {{rf{52}}} and not for the nation only, but also that the children of God who are scattered would be gathered into one.) {{rf{53}}} So from that day they resolved that they should kill him. {{rf{54}}} So Jesus was no longer walking openly among the Jews, but went away from there to the region near the wilderness, to a city called Ephraim, and there he stayed with the disciples. {{rf{55}}} Now the Passover of the Jews was near, and many went up to Jerusalem from the surrounding country before the Passover, so that they could purify themselves. {{rf{56}}} So they were looking for Jesus, and were speaking with one another while standing in the temple courts, "What do you think? That he will not come to the feast?" {{rf{57}}} (Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had given orders that if anyone knew where he was, they should report it, in order that they could arrest him.) {{ref big{1}}} Then, six days before the Passover, Jesus came to Bethany, where Lazarus was, whom Jesus had raised from the dead. {{rf{2}}} So they made him a dinner there, and Martha was serving, but Lazarus was one of the ones reclining at table with him. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|John-11-49]] }}}
{{rf{3}}} Then Mary took a pound of ointment of very valuable genuine nard and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair. And the house was filled with the fragrance of the ointment. {{rf{4}}} But Judas Iscariot, one of his disciples (the one who was going to betray him) said, {{rf{5}}} "Why was this ointment not sold for three hundred denarii and given to the poor?" {{rf{6}}} (Now he said this not because he was concerned about the poor, but because he was a thief, and having the money box, he used to steal what was put into it.) {{rf{7}}} So Jesus said, "Leave her alone, so that she may keep it for the day of my preparation for burial. {{rf{8}}} For you have the poor with you always, but you do not always have me." {{rf{9}}} Now a large crowd of Jews found out that he was there, and they came, not only because of Jesus, but so that they could see Lazarus also, whom he raised from the dead. {{rf{10}}} So the chief priests decided that they would kill Lazarus also, {{rf{11}}} because on account of him many of the Jews were going and believing in Jesus. {{rf{12}}} On the next day the large crowd who had come to the feast, when they heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem, {{rf{13}}} took the branches of palm trees and went out to meet him, and began crying out, "Hosanna! Blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord, even the king of Israel!" {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|John-12-03]] }}}
<<Bbl J 12:6 abbr >>. Judas and the social gospel.
12:1-8 In this scene everyone is doing just what they do best.
<<Bbl J 12:10 abbr >> "If they hated Me..."
12:21 Morris thoroughly agrees that this signaled for Jesus the precipitation of His final work.
12:24 A seed carries within it the entire blueprint, so to speak, of the plant which comes forth. Even so, Jesus' life contained the glory of the death unto resurrection; it was repeated over and over in the miracles of the Gospels. Also this seed was to bring forth "plants after its own kind" -- resurrection in the lives of all who believe. See E.M. Blaiklock, The World of the New Testament.
12:27 "John does not record the agony in Gethsemane, and this is his equivalent of the Synoptic prayer in the Garden, 'not what I will, but what Thou wilt.' " Morris p 595.
<<Bbl J 12:32 abbr >> The church chorus //Lift Jesus higher// seems to fail in comprehension.
12:34 This is important; it seems to indicate that the crowd understood "lifted up" to mean "allowed to die."
12:35-36 This theme also found in 11:9-10, 13:30b. See Morris, 600 n, for a stunning observation.
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13:3-11 More than a lesson in humility, it betokens the atonement just ahead.
13:2 The "opportune time" of <<Bbl L 4:13 >>.
<<Bbl J 13:3 abbr >> Do we share this confidence that Jesus had? The next verse presents its natural consequence.
13:11 See <<Bbl J 15:3 1 t>>. Jesus seems to be referring to several things: the cleansing of the group from Judas, and the need of the regenerate man for occasional restoration -- but not radical renewal.
13:23 Imagine leaning against His breast. Imagine taking in His cachet.
13:26 Morris regards it as obvious that Jesus designs His signal for John only. But Matthew and Mark do not indicate any privacy in Jesus' identification of the traitor, and Morris doesn't deal with this difficulty at all. However, one can read Matthew and Mark's words as simply a reiteration of the fact that it is one of the intimate group that will betray the Lord.
13:27 see <<Bbl Ex 12:11 >>
{{rf{14}}} So Jesus found a young donkey and sat on it, just as it is written, {{rf{15}}} "Do not be afraid, daughter of Zion! Behold, your king is coming, seated on the foal of a donkey!" {{rf{16}}} (His disciples did not understand these things at first, but when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these things had been written about him and they did these things to him.) {{rf{17}}} So the crowd who was with him when he called Lazarus out of the tomb and raised him from the dead were continuing to testify. {{rf{18}}} Because of this also the crowd went to meet him, for they had heard that he had performed this sign. {{rf{19}}} So the Pharisees said to one another, "You see that you are accomplishing nothing! Behold, the world has gone after him." {{rf{20}}} Now some Greeks were among those who had gone up in order to worship at the feast. {{rf{21}}} So these approached Philip, who was from Bethsaida in Galilee, and began asking him saying, "Sir, we want to see Jesus." {{rf{22}}} Philip went and told Andrew. Andrew and Philip went and told Jesus. {{rf{23}}} And Jesus answered them, saying, "The hour has come that the Son of Man will be glorified. {{rf{24}}} Truly, truly I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains by itself alone. But if it dies, it bears much fruit. {{rf{25}}} The one who loves his life loses it, and the one who hates his life in this world preserves it for eternal life. {{rf{26}}} If anyone serves me, he must follow me, and where I am, there my servant will be also. If anyone serves me, the Father will honor him. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|John-12-14]] }}}
{{rf{27}}} "Now my soul is troubled, and what shall I say? 'Father, deliver me from this hour'? But for this reason I have come to this hour! {{rf{28}}} Father, glorify your name!" Then a voice came from heaven, "I have both glorified it, and I will glorify it again." {{rf{29}}} Now the crowd that stood there and heard it said it had thundered. Others were saying, "An angel has spoken to him!" {{rf{30}}} Jesus answered and said, "This voice has not happened for my sake, but for your sake. {{rf{31}}} Now is the judgment of this world! Now the ruler of this world will be thrown out! {{rf{32}}} And I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all people to myself." {{rf{33}}} (Now he said this to indicate by what sort of death he was going to die.) {{rf{34}}} Then the crowd replied to him, "We have heard from the law that the Christ remains forever! And how do you say that the Son of Man must be lifted up? Who is this Son of Man?" {{rf{35}}} So Jesus said to them, "Yet a little time the light is with you! Walk while you have the light, so that the darkness does not overtake you! And the one who walks in the darkness does not know where he is going. {{rf{36}}} While you have the light, believe in the light, in order that you may become sons of light." Jesus said these things, and then he went away and was hidden from them. {{rf{37}}} But as many signs as he had performed before them, they did not believe in him, {{rf{38}}} in order that the word of the prophet Isaiah would be fulfilled, who said, "Lord, who has believed our message? And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?" {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|John-12-27]] }}}
{{rf{39}}} For this reason they were not able to believe, because again Isaiah said, {{rf{40}}} "He has blinded their eyes and hardened their hearts, lest they see with their eyes and understand with their hearts and turn, and I heal them." {{rf{41}}} Isaiah said these things because he saw his glory, and he spoke about him. {{rf{42}}} Yet despite that, even many of the rulers believed in him, but because of the Pharisees they did not confess it, so that they would not be expelled from the synagogue. {{rf{43}}} For they loved the praise of men more than praise from God. {{rf{44}}} But Jesus cried out and said, "The one who believes in me does not believe in me, but in the one who sent me, {{rf{45}}} and the one who sees me sees the one who sent me. {{rf{46}}} I have come as a light into the world, in order that everyone who believes in me will not remain in the darkness. {{rf{47}}} And if anyone hears my words and does not observe them, I will not judge him. For I have not come to judge the world, but to save the world. {{rf{48}}} The one who rejects me and does not accept my words has one who judges him; the word that I have spoken will judge him on the last day. {{rf{49}}} For I have not spoken from myself, but the Father himself who sent me has commanded me what I should say and what I should speak. {{rf{50}}} And I know that his commandment is eternal life. So the things that I say, just as the Father said to me, thus I say." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|John-12-39]] }}}
Now before the feast of Passover, Jesus, knowing that his hour had come that he would depart from this world to the Father, and having loved his own in the world, loved them to the end. {{rf{2}}} And as a dinner was taking place, when the devil had already put into the heart of Judas son of Simon Iscariot that he should betray him, {{rf{3}}} because he knew that the Father had given him all things into his hands, and that he had come forth from God and was going away to God, {{rf{4}}} he got up from the dinner and took off his outer clothing, and taking a towel, tied it around himself. {{rf{5}}} Then he poured water into the washbasin and began to wash the feet of the disciples, and to wipe them dry with the towel which he had tied around himself. {{rf{6}}} Then he came to Simon Peter. He said to him, "Lord, are you going to wash my feet?" {{rf{7}}} Jesus answered and said to him, "What I am doing you do not understand now, but you will understand after these things." {{rf{8}}} Peter said to him, "You will never wash my feet forever!" Jesus replied to him, "Unless I wash you, you do not have a share with me." {{rf{9}}} Simon Peter said to him, "Lord, not my feet only, but also my hands and my head!" {{rf{10}}} Jesus said to him, "The one who has bathed only needs to wash his feet, but is completely clean. And you are clean, but not all of you." {{rf{11}}} (For he knew the one who would betray him; because of this he said, "Not all of you are clean.") {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|John-13-01]] }}}
{{rf{12}}} So when he had washed their feet and taken his outer clothing and reclined at table again, he said to them, "Do you understand what I have done for you? {{rf{13}}} You call me 'Teacher' and 'Lord,' and you speak correctly, for I am. {{rf{14}}} If then I -- your Lord and Teacher -- wash your feet, you also ought to wash one another's feet. {{rf{15}}} For I have given you an example, that just as I have done for you, you also do. {{rf{16}}} Truly, truly I say to you, a slave is not greater than his master, nor a messenger greater than the one who sent him. {{rf{17}}} If you understand these things, you are blessed if you do them. {{rf{18}}} "I am not speaking about all of you. I know whom I have chosen, but in order that the scripture would be fulfilled, 'The one who eats my bread has lifted up his heel against me.' {{rf{19}}} From now on I am telling you before it happens, in order that when it happens you may believe that I am he. {{rf{20}}} Truly, truly I say to you, the one who receives anyone I send receives me, and the one who receives me receives the one who sent me." {{rf{21}}} When he had said these things, Jesus was troubled in spirit and testified and said, "Truly, truly I say to you that one of you will betray me." {{rf{22}}} The disciples began looking at one another, uncertain about whom he was speaking. {{rf{23}}} One of his disciples -- the one whom Jesus loved -- was reclining close beside Jesus. {{rf{24}}} So Simon Peter gestured for this one to inquire who it was about whom he was speaking. {{rf{25}}} He leaned back accordingly against Jesus' chest and said to him, "Lord, who is it?" {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|John-13-12]] }}}
{{rf{26}}} Jesus replied, "It is he to whom I dip the piece of bread and give it to him." Then after dipping the piece of bread, he gave it to Judas son of Simon Iscariot. {{rf{27}}} And after the piece of bread, then Satan entered into him. Then Jesus said to him, "What you are doing, do quickly!" {{rf{28}}} (Now no one of those reclining at table knew for what reason he said this to him. {{rf{29}}} For some were thinking because Judas had the money box, Jesus was telling him, "Purchase what we need for the feast," or that he should give something to the poor.) {{rf{30}}} So after he had taken the piece of bread, he went out immediately. And it was night.
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{{rf{31}}} Then, when he had gone out, Jesus said, "Now the Son of Man is glorified, and God is glorified in him. {{rf{32}}} If God is glorified in him, God will also glorify him in himself, and will glorify him immediately. {{rf{33}}} Children, yet a little time I am with you. You will seek me and just as I said to the Jews, "Where I am going you cannot come," now I say also to you. {{rf{34}}} "A new commandment I give to you: that you love one another -- just as I have loved you, that you also love one another. {{rf{35}}} By this everyone will know that you are my disciples -- if you have love for one another." {{rf{36}}} Simon Peter said to him, "Lord, where are you going?" Jesus replied, "Where I am going you cannot follow me now, but you will follow later." {{rf{37}}} Peter said to him, "Lord, why am I not able to follow you now? I will lay down my life for you!" {{rf{38}}} Jesus replied, "Will you lay down your life for me? Truly, truly I say to you, the rooster will not crow until you have denied me three times! {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|John-13-26]] }}}
<<Bbl J 13:31 abbr >> seems a division from the preceding verse.
<<Bbl J 13:31 abbr >> But to any natural eye, however discerning, this could not be true.
13:36 To where do we follow? First, into the true will of God. Second, into a blessed eternity. Third, into His sufferings, as Jesus in <<Bbl J 21:18 abbr>>.
<<Bbl J 14:2 abbr >> ''//Would I lie to you?//''
* Unusual words from Jesus. He sounds like a man who has seen a tear on the cheek of his true love.
* //To prepare a place for you//... that is bridegroom talk. I want Him to carry me over that threshold!
* But don't consign this to a heavenly after-life - Jesus is talking about life in Him.
* Who else went out to "prepare a place"? Joseph when he set up the tribal reservation in Goshen.
<<Bbl J 14:5 abbr >> //Many rooms// – Hospitality in a grand way, both general and individual. It is general in that there are many rooms; it is specific in that Christ is personally reassuring each of his disciples. //Prepare a place// is His work of [[Intercede]].
14:6 @@color:brown;We should not overlook the faith involved both in the utterance and in the acceptance of those words, spoken as they were on the eve of the crucifixion... @@ // - Morris p 641//
<<Bbl J 14:6 abbr >> //Way, truth, life// = Prophet, Priest, King
<<Bbl J 14:12 abbr>> @@color:darkgreen;On the day of Pentecost alone more believers were added to the little band of believers than throughout Christ's entire earthy life.@@ Morris p 646.
<<Bbl J 14:16 abbr >> //another// counselor. Jesus is the ''original'' //Paraclete//; we err in ascribing the title to the [[SpiritOfChrist]] exclusively.
<<Bbl J 14:21 abbr>> @@color:indigo;It might be possible to understand from this that the Father's love is thus merited. But this is not the thought of the passage. Jesus is saying in the first place that love to Him is not a thing of words. If it is real it is shown in deeds. The lover keeps the commandments of the loved one. He is also saying that the Father is not indifferent to the attitude men take to the Son. This does not mean that He hands out rewards on the basis of merit. It means rather that love calls to love.@@ - Morris.
<<Bbl J 14:26 abbr >> <<Bbl 1J 02:27 abbr >>. R.T. Kendall exhorts is to learn Scripture, and its meaning, so the Spirit can //bring it to our remembrance//.
"Do not let your hearts be troubled. You believe in God; believe also in me. {{rf{2}}} In my Father's house there are many dwelling places; but if not, I would have told you, because I am going away to prepare a place for you. {{rf{3}}} And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to myself, so that where I am, you may be also. {{rf{4}}} And you know the way where I am going." {{rf{5}}} Thomas said to him, "Lord, we do not know where you are going. How are we able to know the way?" {{rf{6}}} Jesus said to him, "I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. {{rf{7}}} If you had known me, you would have known my Father also. From now on you know him and have seen him." {{rf{8}}} Philip said to him, "Lord, show us the Father, and it is enough for us." {{rf{9}}} Jesus said to him, "Am I with you so long a time and you have not known me, Philip? The one who has seen me has seen the Father! How can you say, 'Show us the Father?' {{rf{10}}} Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words that I say to you I do not speak from myself, but the Father residing in me does his works. {{rf{11}}} Believe me that I am in the Father and the Father is in me; but if not, believe because of the works themselves. {{rf{12}}} Truly, truly I say to you, the one who believes in me, the works that I am doing he will do also, and he will do greater works than these because I am going to the Father. {{rf{13}}} And whatever you ask in my name, I will do this, in order that the Father may be glorified in the Son. {{rf{14}}} If you ask me anything in my name, I will do it. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|John-14-01]] }}}
{{rf{15}}} "If you love me, you will keep my commandments. {{rf{16}}} And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Advocate, in order that he may be with you forever -- {{rf{17}}} the Spirit of truth, whom the world is not able to receive, because it does not see him or know him. You know him, because he resides with you and will be in you. {{rf{18}}} "I will not leave you as orphans; I am coming to you. {{rf{19}}} Yet a little time and the world will see me no longer, but you will see me; because I live, you also will live. {{rf{20}}} On that day you will know that I am in my Father, and you are in me, and I am in you. {{rf{21}}} The one who has my commandments and keeps them -- that one is the one who loves me. And the one who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and will reveal myself to him." {{rf{22}}} Judas (not Iscariot) said to him, "Lord, why is it that you are going to reveal yourself to us and not to the world?" {{rf{23}}} Jesus answered and said to him, "If anyone loves me he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and will take up residence with him. {{rf{24}}} The one who does not love me does not keep my words, and the word that you hear is not mine, but the Father's who sent me. {{rf{25}}} These things I have spoken to you while residing with you. {{rf{26}}} But the Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name -- that one will teach you all things, and will remind you of everything that I said to you. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|John-14-15]] }}}
{{rf{27}}} "Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you -- not as the world gives, I give to you. Do not let your hearts be troubled, and do not let them be afraid. {{rf{28}}} You have heard that I said to you, 'I am going away, and I am coming to you.' If you loved me, you would have rejoiced that I am going to the Father, because the Father is greater than I am. {{rf{29}}} And now I have told you before it happens, so that when it happens, you may believe. {{rf{30}}} I will no longer speak much with you, for the ruler of the world is coming, and he has no power over me. {{rf{31}}} But so that the world may know that I love the Father, and just as the Father has commanded me, thus I am doing. Get up, let us go from here!
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{{rf big{1}}} "I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinedresser. {{rf{2}}} Every branch that does not bear fruit in me, he removes it, and every branch that bears fruit, he prunes it in order that it may bear more fruit. {{rf{3}}} You are already clean because of the word that I have spoken to you. {{rf{4}}} Remain in me, and I in you. Just as the branch is not able to bear fruit from itself unless it remains in the vine, so neither can you, unless you remain in me. {{rf{5}}} "I am the vine; you are the branches. The one who remains in me and I in him -- this one bears much fruit, for apart from me you are not able to do anything. {{rf{6}}} If anyone does not remain in me, he is thrown out as a branch, and dries up, and they gather them and throw them into the fire, and they are burned. {{rf{7}}} If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you want and it will be done for you. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|John-14-27]] }}}
{{fyi{
John chapters 15-17 seem to be placed independent of the narrative. <<Bbl J 14:31 abbr>> proceeds to <<Bbl J 18:1>> is entirely natural. Yet Thomas/Gundry are at pains to harmonize them within the narrative (footnote to section 2049). I wonder why. }}}
<<Bbl J 15:1 abbr >>-8 -- [[Vineyard]]
15:2 -- Morris relates this to 13:10 with strong import.
15:3 -- clean, purged, [[Prune]]. John uses the term one other time, <<Bbl J 13:11 >>. Between these two passages, Judas defects.
<<Bbl J 15:15 abbr >> -- <<Bbl Gn 18:17 >> -19 1 presents Yahweh's counsel with [[Abraham]].
<<Bbl J 15:18 abbr >>,25 Without cause, without a reason - debate can never win the day or any heart.
<<Bbl J 15:24 abbr >> -- See L. Morris
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<<Bbl J 16:8 abbr >> -- The NEB is good here.
<<Bbl J 16:10 abbr >> -- Peter addresses this theme in <<Bbl A 2:32 >>-36 .
<<Bbl J 16:13 abbr >>-15 Addressed to the Twelve, or to every believer? Tim Ward leaves out the position that God speaks to all his people. I think he misrepresents anabaptist doctrine (1st segment, minute 15). He chooses to insert a practical outworking that is not inescapable, and he may be leaving out the true interpretation. However later on (3rd segment, minute 14) he seems to rectify this somewhat. What about <<Bbl Mt 10:19 >>-20 - is it for all saints?
<<Bbl J 16:20 abbr >> -- <<Bbl Ps 126:5 >>-6, anguish followed by joy ([[Birth]]).
<<Bbl J 16:22 abbr >> He comforts His friends; but the words could apply to no one more than Himself.
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17 -- Perhaps the prayer can best be imagined as prayed when Christ entered the true Holy Place, <<Bbl H 9:24 >>.
<<Bbl J 17:19 abbr >> -- Christ sanctified Himself (NEB, consecrated) for our sake.
<<Bbl J 17:20 abbr >>-23 -- He is simply describing the [[One-In-Three]]! But He never names the Spirit directly -- rather He names the Spirit's special realm, the hearts of believers.
{{rf{8}}} My Father is glorified by this: that you bear much fruit, and prove to be my disciples. {{rf{9}}} "Just as the Father has loved me, I also have loved you. Remain in my love. {{rf{10}}} If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father's commandments and remain in his love. {{rf{11}}} I have spoken these things to you in order that my joy may be in you, and your joy may be made complete. {{rf{12}}} This is my commandment: that you love one another just as I have loved you. {{rf{13}}} No one has greater love than this: that someone lay down his life for his friends. {{rf{14}}} You are my friends if you do what I command you. {{rf{15}}} No longer do I call you slaves, because the slave does not know what his master is doing. But I have called you friends, because everything that I have heard from my Father I have revealed to you. {{rf{16}}} You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit, and your fruit should remain, in order that whatever you ask the Father in my name he will give you. {{rf{17}}} These things I command you: that you love one another. {{rf{18}}} If the world hates you, you know that it has hated me before it hated you. {{rf{19}}} If you were of the world, the world would love its own. But because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, for this reason the world hates you. {{rf{20}}} Remember the word that I said to you: 'A slave is not greater than his master.' If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, they will keep yours also. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|John-15-08]] }}}
{{rf{21}}} But they will do all these things to you on account of my name, because they do not know the one who sent me. {{rf{22}}} If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have sin. But now they do not have a valid excuse for their sin. {{rf{23}}} The one who hates me hates my Father also. {{rf{24}}} If I had not done among them the works that no one else did, they would not have sin. But now they have both seen and hated both me and my Father. {{rf{25}}} But this happened so that the word that is written in their law would be fulfilled, 'They hated me without a reason.' {{rf{26}}} "When the Advocate comes, whom I will send to you from the Father -- the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father -- that one will testify about me. {{rf{27}}} And you also will testify, because you have been with me from the beginning. {{rf big{1}}} "I have said these things to you so that you will not fall away. {{rf{2}}} They will expel you from the synagogue, but an hour is coming that everyone who kills you will think they are offering service to God. {{rf{3}}} And they will do these things because they do not know the Father or me. {{rf{4}}} But I have said these things to you so that when their hour comes, you may remember that I told you about them. {{rf{5}}} But now I am going away to the one who sent me, and none of you is asking me, 'Where are you going?' {{rf{6}}} But because I have said these things to you, sorrow has filled your hearts. {{rf{7}}} But I tell you the truth, it is better for you that I go away. For if I do not go away, the Advocate will not come to you; but if I go, I will send him to you. {{rf{8}}} And when he comes, he will convict the world concerning sin and concerning righteousness and concerning judgment: {{rf{9}}} concerning sin, because they do not believe in me, {{rf{10}}} and concerning righteousness, because I am going away to the Father and you will see me no more, {{rf{11}}} and concerning judgment, because the ruler of this world has been condemned. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|John-15-21]] }}}
{{rf{12}}} I still have many things to say to you, but you are not able to bear them now. {{rf{13}}} But when he -- the Spirit of truth -- comes, he will guide you into all the truth. For he will not speak from himself, but whatever he hears he will speak, and he will proclaim to you the things to come. {{rf{14}}} He will glorify me, because he will take from what is mine and will proclaim it to you. {{rf{15}}} Everything that the Father has is mine. For this reason I said that he takes from what is mine and will proclaim it to you. {{rf{16}}} "A little while and you will see me no more, and again a little while and you will see me. {{rf{17}}} So some of his disciples said to one another, "What is this that he is saying to us, 'A little while and you will not see me, and again a little while and you will see me,' and 'Because I am going away to the Father'?" {{rf{18}}} So they kept on saying, "What is this that he is saying, 'A little while'? We do not understand what he is speaking about!" {{rf{19}}} Jesus knew that they were wanting to ask him, and he said to them, "Are you deliberating with one another about this -- that I said, 'A little while, and you will not see me, and again a little while and you will see me'? {{rf{20}}} Truly, truly I say to you, that you will weep and lament, but the world will rejoice; you will become sorrowful, but your sorrow will change to joy. {{rf{21}}} A woman, when she gives birth, experiences pain because her hour has come. But when her child is born, she no longer remembers the affliction, on account of the joy that a human being has been born into the world. {{rf{22}}} So you also are experiencing sorrow now, but I will see you again, and your hearts will rejoice, and no one will take away your joy from you. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|John-16-12]] }}}
{{rf{23}}} And on that day you will ask me nothing. Truly, truly I say to you, whatever you ask the Father in my name, he will give you. {{rf{24}}} Until now you have asked nothing in my name. Ask and you will receive, so that your joy may be complete. {{rf{25}}} "I have said these things to you in figurative sayings. An hour is coming when I will speak to you in figurative sayings no longer, but I will tell you plainly about the Father. {{rf{26}}} On that day you will ask in my name, and I do not say to you that I will ask the Father on your behalf. {{rf{27}}} For the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me and have believed that I came from God. {{rf{28}}} I have gone out from the Father and have come into the world; again, I am leaving the world and am going to the Father." {{rf{29}}} His disciples said, "Behold, now you are speaking plainly and are telling us no figurative saying! {{rf{30}}} Now we know that you know everything and do not need for anyone to ask you questions. By this we believe that you have come from God." {{rf{31}}} Jesus replied to them, "Now do you believe? {{rf{32}}} Behold, an hour is coming -- and has come -- that you will be scattered each one to his own home, and you will leave me alone. And I am not alone, because the Father is with me. {{rf{33}}} I have said these things to you so that in me you may have peace. In the world you have affliction, but have courage! I have conquered the world." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|John-16-23]] }}}
Jesus said these things, and lifting up his eyes to heaven he said, "Father, the hour has come! Glorify your Son, in order that your Son may glorify you -- {{rf{2}}} just as you have given him authority over all flesh, in order that he would give eternal life to them -- everyone whom you have given him. {{rf{3}}} Now this is eternal life: that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent. {{rf{4}}} I have glorified you on earth by completing the work that you have given me to do. {{rf{5}}} And now, Father, you glorify me at your side with the glory that I had at your side before the world existed. {{rf{6}}} "I have revealed your name to the men whom you gave me out of the world. They were yours, and you have given them to me, and they have kept your word. {{rf{7}}} Now they understand that all the things that you have given me are from you, {{rf{8}}} because the words that you gave to me I have given to them, and they received them and know truly that I have come from you, and they have believed that you have sent me. {{rf{9}}} I am asking on behalf of them. I am not asking on behalf of the world, but on behalf of those whom you have given me, because they are yours, {{rf{10}}} and all my things are yours, and your things are mine, and I have been glorified in them. {{rf{11}}} And I am no longer in the world, and they are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them in your name, which you have given to me, so that they may be one, just as we are. {{rf{12}}} When I was with them, I kept them in your name, which you have given to me, and guarded them, and none of them has perished except the son of destruction, in order that the scripture would be fulfilled. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|John-17-01]] }}}
{{rf{13}}} And now I am coming to you, and I am saying these things in the world so that they may have my joy completed in themselves. {{rf{14}}} I have given them your word, and the world has hated them, because they are not of the world just as I am not of the world. {{rf{15}}} I do not ask that you take them out of the world, but that you protect them from the evil one. {{rf{16}}} They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. {{rf{17}}} Sanctify them in the truth -- your word is truth. {{rf{18}}} Just as you sent me into the world, I also have sent them into the world. {{rf{19}}} And for them I sanctify myself, so that they themselves also may be sanctified in the truth. {{rf{20}}} "And I do not ask on behalf of these only, but also on behalf of those who believe in me through their word, {{rf{21}}} that they all may be one, just as you, Father, are in me and I am in you, that they also may be in us, in order that the world may believe that you sent me. {{rf{22}}} And the glory that you have given to me, I have given to them, in order that they may be one, just as we are one -- {{rf{23}}} I in them, and you in me, in order that they may be completed in one, so that the world may know that you sent me, and you have loved them just as you have loved me. {{rf{24}}} "Father, those whom you have given to me -- I want that those also may be with me where I am, in order that they may see my glory that you have given me because you loved me before the foundation of the world. {{rf{25}}} Righteous Father, although the world does not know you, yet I have known you, and these men have come to know that you sent me. {{rf{26}}} And I made known to them your name, and will make it known, in order that the love with which you loved me may be in them, and I may be in them." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|John-17-13]] }}}
{{rf big{1}}} When Jesus had said these things, he went out with his disciples to the other side of the ravine of the Kidron, where there was a garden into which he and his disciples entered. {{rf{2}}} (Now Judas, the one who betrayed him, also knew about the place, because Jesus often gathered there with his disciples.) {{rf{3}}} So Judas, taking the cohort and officers from the chief priests and from the Pharisees, came there with lanterns and torches and weapons. {{rf{4}}} Then Jesus, because he knew all the things that were coming upon him, went out and said to them, "Who are you looking for?" {{rf{5}}} They replied to him, "Jesus the Nazarene." He said to them, "I am he." (Now Judas, the one who betrayed him, was also standing with them.) {{rf{6}}} So when he said to them, "I am he," they drew back and fell to the ground. {{rf{7}}} Then he asked them again, "Who are you looking for?" And they said, "Jesus the Nazarene." {{rf{8}}} Jesus replied, "I said to you that I am he! So if you are looking for me, let these men go," {{rf{9}}} in order that the word that he had spoken would be fulfilled: "Those whom you have given to me -- I have not lost anyone of them." {{rf{10}}} Then Simon Peter, who had a sword, drew it and struck the slave of the high priest and cut off his right ear. (Now the name of the slave was Malchus.) {{rf{11}}} So Jesus said to Peter, "Put the sword into its sheath! The cup that the Father has given me -- shall I not drink it?" {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|John-18-01]] }}}
18:17 Peter is very concerned about being identified as the man who cut off the ear of the high priest's servant. The high priest! -- and Peter has been known to respect offices. When Peter made that assault, he set himself up for the betrayal of his Friend that was to follow.
18:21-23 Did Jesus fail to "turn the other cheek?" Of course not; He was crucified in turning the other cheek. He also gave the word of truth in faithfulness and humility, which is always our right, and our obligation.
<<Bbl J 2:1 >>-11 seems to be a structural opener for <<Bbl J 19:25 >>-30. See <<Bbl J 2:1 "" note >>.
<<Bbl J 19:5 abbr >> I've heard it stated, and can't disbelieve it, that Pilate says something close to "Will you look at this guy!" - as in, this pathetic loser.
<<Bbl J 19:15 abbr >>b Amazing self-revelation, using words that would be unimaginable in other settings. But the success of their plan now depends on threatening Pilate with indictment before Caesar. Possibly John's Gospel explains in depth the mutual contempt and complicity of the Pharisees and the Sadducees, and the crucible their complicity created for Pilate.
<<Bbl J 19:35 abbr >> See <<Bbl 1J 5:13 >>.
<<Bbl J 19:38 abbr >> Fulfils <<Bbl Dt 21:33 >>
{{rf{12}}} Then the cohort and the military tribune and the officers of the Jews seized Jesus and tied him up, {{rf{13}}} and brought him to Annas first, for he was the father-in-law of Caiaphas, who was high priest that year. {{rf{14}}} (Now it was Caiaphas who had advised the Jews that it was better that one man die for the people.) {{rf{15}}} So Simon Peter and another disciple followed Jesus. (Now that disciple was known to the high priest, and entered with Jesus into the courtyard of the high priest.) {{rf{16}}} But Peter was standing by the door outside. So the other disciple who was known to the high priest went out and spoke to the doorkeeper and brought Peter in. {{rf{17}}} Then the female slave who was the doorkeeper said to Peter, "You are not also one of the disciples of this man, are you?" He said, "I am not!" {{rf{18}}} (Now the slaves and the officers were standing there, having made a charcoal fire because it was cold, and they were warming themselves. And Peter was also standing there with them and warming himself.) {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|John-18-12]] }}}
{{rf{19}}} So the high priest questioned Jesus about his disciples and about his teaching. {{rf{20}}} Jesus replied to him, "I have spoken openly to the world. I always taught in the synagogue and in the temple courts where all the Jews assemble, and I have said nothing in secret. {{rf{21}}} Why are you asking me? Ask those who heard what I have said to them! Behold, these people know what I said." {{rf{22}}} Now when he had said these things, one of the officers who was standing by gave a slap in the face to Jesus, saying, "Do you reply to the high priest in this way?" {{rf{23}}} Jesus replied to him, "If I have spoken wrongly, testify about what is wrong! But if I have spoken correctly, why do you strike me?" {{rf{24}}} Then Annas sent him, tied up, to Caiaphas the high priest.
{{rf{25}}} Now Simon Peter was standing there and warming himself. So they said to him, "You are not also one of his disciples, are you?" He denied it and said, "I am not!" {{rf{26}}} One of the slaves of the high priest, who was related to the one whose ear Peter had cut off, said, "Did I not see you in the garden with him?" {{rf{27}}} So Peter denied it again, and immediately a rooster crowed.
{{rf{28}}} Then they brought Jesus from Caiaphas to the governor's residence. Now it was early, and they did not enter into the governor's residence so that they would not be defiled, but could eat the Passover. {{rf{29}}} So Pilate came outside to them and said, "What accusation do you bring against this man?" {{rf{30}}} They answered and said to him, "If this man were not doing evil, we would not have handed him over to you!" {{rf{31}}} So Pilate said to them, "You take him and judge him according to your law!" The Jews said to him, "It is not permitted for us to kill anyone," {{rf{32}}} in order that the word of Jesus would be fulfilled that he had spoken, indicating by what sort of death he was going to die. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|John-18-`19]] }}}
{{rf{33}}} Then Pilate entered again into the governor's residence and summoned Jesus and said to him, "Are you the king of the Jews?" {{rf{34}}} Jesus replied, "Do you say this from yourself, or have others said this to you about me?" {{rf{35}}} Pilate replied, "I am not a Jew, am I? Your people and the chief priests handed you over to me! What have you done?" {{rf{36}}} Jesus replied, "My kingdom is not of this world. If my kingdom were of this world, my servants would be fighting so that I would not be handed over to the Jews. But now my kingdom is not from here." {{rf{37}}} Then Pilate said to him, "So then you are a king!" Jesus replied, "You say that I am a king. For this reason I was born, and for this reason I have come into the world: in order that I can testify to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth hears my voice." {{rf{38}}} Pilate said to him, "What is truth?" And when he had said this, he went out again to the Jews and said to them, "I find no basis for an accusation against him. {{rf{39}}} But it is your custom that I release for you one prisoner at the Passover. So do you want me to release for you the king of the Jews?" {{rf{40}}} Then they shouted again, saying, "Not this man, but Barabbas!" (Now Barabbas was a revolutionary.)
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{{rf big{1}}} So then Pilate took Jesus and had him flogged. {{rf{2}}} And the soldiers wove a crown of thorns and placed it on his head, and put a purple robe on him, {{rf{3}}} and were coming up to him and saying, "Hail, king of the Jews!" and were giving him slaps in the face. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|John-18-33]] }}}
{{rf{4}}} And Pilate came outside again and said to them, "Behold, I am bringing him outside to you, so that you will know that I find no basis for an accusation against him." {{rf{5}}} Then Jesus came outside wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe, and he said to them, "Behold the man!" {{rf{6}}} So when they saw him, the chief priests and the officers shouted, saying, "Crucify! Crucify!" Pilate said to them, "You take him and crucify him! For I do not find a basis for an accusation against him." {{rf{7}}} The Jews replied to him, "We have a law, and according to the law he ought to die, because he made himself out to be the Son of God!" {{rf{8}}} So when Pilate heard this statement, he was even more afraid, {{rf{9}}} and he entered into the governor's residence again and said to Jesus, "Where are you from?" But Jesus did not give him an answer. {{rf{10}}} So Pilate said to him, "Will you not speak to me? Do you not know that I have authority to release you, and I have authority to crucify you?" {{rf{11}}} Jesus replied to him, "You would not have any authority over me unless it was given to you from above. For this reason the one who handed me over to you has greater sin."
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{{rf{12}}} From this point on Pilate was seeking to release him, but the Jews shouted, saying, "If you release this man, you are not a friend of Caesar! Everyone who makes himself out to be a king opposes Caesar!" {{rf{13}}} So Pilate, when he heard these words, brought Jesus outside and sat down on the judgment seat, in the place called The Stone Pavement (but Gabbatha in Aramaic). {{rf{14}}} (Now it was the day of preparation of the Passover; it was about the sixth hour.) And he said to the Jews, "Behold your king!" {{rf{15}}} Then those shouted, "Away with him! Away with him! Crucify him!" Pilate said to them, "Shall I crucify your king?" The chief priests replied, "We do not have a king except Caesar!" {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|John-19-04]] }}}
{{rf{16}}} So then he handed him over to them in order that he could be crucified. {{rf{17}}} and carrying for himself the cross, he went out to the place called The Place of a Skull (which is called Golgotha in Aramaic), {{rf{18}}} where they crucified him, and with him two others, one on each side, and Jesus in the middle. {{rf{19}}} And Pilate also wrote a notice and placed it on the cross, and it was written: "Jesus the Nazarene, the king of the Jews." {{rf{20}}} So many of the Jews read this notice, because the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city. And it was written in Aramaic, in Latin, and in Greek. {{rf{21}}} Then the chief priests of the Jews said to Pilate, "Do not write 'The king of the Jews,' but, 'He said, I am king of the Jews.'" {{rf{22}}} Pilate replied, "What I have written, I have written." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|John-19-16]] }}}
{{rf{23}}} Then the soldiers, when they had crucified Jesus, took his clothing and made four shares -- for each soldier a share -- and the tunic. (Now the tunic was seamless, woven from the top in a single piece.) {{rf{24}}} So they said to one another, "Let us not tear it apart, but cast lots for it, to see whose it will be," so that the scripture would be fulfilled that says, "They divided my garments among themselves, and for my clothing they cast lots." Thus the soldiers did these things. {{rf{25}}} Now his mother and the sister of his mother, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene were standing near the cross of Jesus. {{rf{26}}} So Jesus, seeing his mother and the disciple whom he loved standing there, said to his mother, "Woman, behold your son!" {{rf{27}}} Then he said to the disciple, "Behold your mother!" And from that hour the disciple took her into his own home.
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{{rf{28}}} After this, Jesus, knowing that now at last everything was completed, in order that the scripture would be fulfilled, said, "I am thirsty." {{rf{29}}} A jar full of sour wine was standing there, so they put a sponge full of the sour wine on a branch of hyssop and brought it to his mouth. {{rf{30}}} Then when he had received the sour wine, Jesus said, "It is completed," and bowing his head, he gave up his spirit. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|John-19-23]] }}}
{{rf{31}}} Then the Jews, because it was the day of preparation, so that the bodies would not remain on the cross on the Sabbath (for that Sabbath was an important day), asked Pilate that their legs could be broken and they could be taken away. {{rf{32}}} So the soldiers came and broke the legs of the first and of the other who had been crucified with him. {{rf{33}}} But when they came to Jesus, after they saw he was already dead, they did not break his legs. {{rf{34}}} But one of the soldiers pierced his side with a spear, and blood and water came out immediately. {{rf{35}}} And the one who has seen it has testified, and his testimony is true, and that person knows that he is telling the truth, so that you also may believe. {{rf{36}}} For these things happened in order that the scripture would be fulfilled: "Not a bone of his will be broken." {{rf{37}}} And again another scripture says, "They will look on the one whom they have pierced."
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{{rf{38}}} And after these things, Joseph who was from Arimathea, who was a disciple of Jesus (but a secret one for fear of the Jews), asked Pilate that he might take away the body of Jesus. And Pilate allowed it, so he came and took away his body. {{rf{39}}} And Nicodemus -- the one who had come to him formerly at night -- also came, bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes weighing about a hundred pounds. {{rf{40}}} So they took the body of Jesus and wrapped it in strips of linen cloth with the fragrant spices, as is the Jews' custom to prepare for burial. {{rf{41}}} Now there was a garden at the place where he was crucified, and in the garden a new tomb in which no one was yet buried. {{rf{42}}} So there, on account of the day of preparation of the Jews, because the tomb was close by, they buried Jesus. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|John-19-31]] }}}
Now on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene came to the tomb early, while it was still dark, and saw the stone had been taken away from the tomb. {{rf{2}}} So she ran and came to Simon Peter and to the other disciple whom Jesus loved and said to them, "They have taken away the Lord from the tomb and we do not know where they have put him!" {{rf{3}}} Then Peter and the other disciple went out and were going to the tomb. {{rf{4}}} And the two were running together, and the other disciple ran ahead, faster than Peter, and came to the tomb first. {{rf{5}}} And bending over to look, he saw the strips of linen cloth lying there, though he did not go in. {{rf{6}}} Then Simon Peter also came following him, and he went into the tomb and saw the strips of linen cloth lying there, {{rf{7}}} and the facecloth that was on his head -- not lying with the strips of linen cloth, but folded up separately in one place. {{rf{8}}} So then the other disciple who had come to the tomb first also went in, and he saw and believed. {{rf{9}}} (For they did not yet know the scripture that it was necessary for him to rise from the dead.) {{rf{10}}} Then the disciples went away again to their own homes. {{rf{11}}} But Mary stood outside at the tomb, weeping. Then, while she was weeping, she bent over to look into the tomb, {{rf{12}}} and she saw two angels in white, seated one at the head and one at the feet where the body of Jesus had been lying. {{rf{13}}} And they said to her, "Woman, why are you weeping?" She said to them, "They have taken away my Lord, and I do not know where they have put him!" {{rf{14}}} When she had said these things, she turned around and saw Jesus standing there, and she did not know that it was Jesus. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|John-20-01]] }}}
<<Bbl J 20:1 abbr >>-15 Even within this passage, different perspectives are recorded.
<<Bbl J 20:4 abbr >>-18 Contrast Mary and the two men in terms of the evidence at hand. Three kinds of experience: <<Bbl J 20:08 abbr >>, <<Bbl J 20:09 abbr >> (note v 10), <<Bbl J 20:18 abbr >>.
<<Bbl J 20:7 abbr >> Contrast <<Bbl J 11:44 abbr >>: For Lazarus, the burial cloths were material.
<<Bbl J 20:8 abbr >>-09 How is this reconciled these two, and <<Bbl J 20:10 abbr >>? What did John //believe//?
<<Bbl J 20:11 abbr >> //the net was not torn// -- the perseverance of the saints; "no one will snatch them out of my hand."
<<Bbl J 20:15 abbr >> I think she presumes mistreatment, the procedures which would be normal for a despised criminal. "Let's get that to the common yard (maybe even the gehenna) before it gets uglier." She has no plan but will do anything to prevent this.
<<Bbl J 20:17 abbr >>a A subtle exhortation for us to always cling to Him.
<<Bbl J 20:18 abbr >> Her second announcement - better than the first! Imagine her transformation!
<<Bbl J 20:19 abbr >>-20 //but some doubted// - this has been taken as signalling the difference between the Spirit's indwelling (when Christ //breathes// on the disciples) and His in-filling (Acts 2).
<<Bbl J 20:22 abbr >> Just as the Lord breathed His breath into the man, <<Bbl Gn 2:7 >>.
<<Bbl J 20:23 abbr >> <<Bbl Mt 16:19 >>
<<Bbl J 20:25 abbr >> Jesus was fully healed from the atrocities, but retained these scars as a kind of token. This is like the testimony of a Christian's past before knowing Christ; it has no significance for his current station, but remains as a demonstration for all who would see and touch.
20:27-28 The command of Jesus to be not unbelieving but believing is fulfilled in Thomas, as he makes the strongest confession of faith yet in history -- my God.
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<<Bbl J 21:6 abbr >> If a fisherman said this, it would be a sardonic jab - "Hey, did you try the other side of the boat?" This story can be vividly told from Peter's point of view.
J 21:7 //"John's not going to get there first this time!"//
<<Bbl J 21:15>> -- cf <<Bbl Jonah 4:9 >>, which has //vine// in the place of //fish//.
<<Bbl J 21:17 abbr >> //Feed my sheep// is preceded by //You feed them!// (The versification has made vs 17 unhandily long.)
21:25 John declares there is much that wasn't recorded. There is an implied warning against valuing the written accounts over the Christ Himself. (Perhaps an idolatry of the NT scriptures was already beginning to appear; a feature of gnosticism?) There is a larger implied statement that Jesus is beyond books because He is God. John's qualifier //I suppose that// suggests he is conscious of making a hyperbolic statement; but if the statement were taken literally as applying to a person, it could be (and would have to be) the Person of God. The things Jesus does are indeed contining, most dramatically in Paul's conversion.
{{rf{15}}} Jesus said to her, "Woman, why are you weeping? Who are you looking for?" She thought that it was the gardener, and said to him, "Sir, if you have carried him away, tell me where you have put him, and I will take him." {{rf{16}}} Jesus said to her, "Mary." She turned around and said to him in Aramaic, "Rabboni" (which means "Teacher"). {{rf{17}}} Jesus said to her, "Do not touch me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father. But go to my brothers and tell them, 'I am ascending to my Father and your Father, and my God and your God.'" {{rf{18}}} Mary Magdalene came and announced to the disciples, "I have seen the Lord," and he had said these things to her. {{rf{19}}} Now when it was evening on that day -- the first day of the week -- and the doors had been shut where the disciples were because of fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in their midst and said to them, "Peace to you." {{rf{20}}} And when he had said this, he showed his hands and his side to them. Then the disciples rejoiced when they saw the Lord. {{rf{21}}} So Jesus said to them again, "Peace to you. As the Father has sent me, I also send you." {{rf{22}}} And when he had said this, he breathed on them and said to them, "Receive the Holy Spirit. {{rf{23}}} If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven them. If you retain the sins of any, they are retained." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|John-20-15]] }}} {{rf{26}}}
{{rf{24}}} Now Thomas, one of the twelve, who was called Didymus, was not with them when Jesus came. {{rf{25}}} So the other disciples said to him, "We have seen the Lord!" But he said to them, "Unless I see in his hands the mark of the nails, and put my finger into the mark of the nails, and put my hand into his side, I will never believe!" And after eight days his disciples were again inside, and Thomas with them. Although the doors had been shut, Jesus came and stood in their midst and said, "Peace to you." {{rf{27}}} Then he said to Thomas, "Place your finger here and see my hands, and place your hand and put it into my side. And do not be unbelieving, but believing!" {{rf{28}}} Thomas answered and said to him, "My Lord and my God!" {{rf{29}}} Jesus said to him, "Because you have seen me, have you believed? Blessed are those who have not seen and have believed." {{rf{30}}} Now Jesus also performed many other signs in the presence of the disciples which are not recorded in this book, {{rf{31}}} but these things are recorded in order that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name. {{rf big{1}}} After these things Jesus revealed himself again to the disciples by the Sea of Tiberias. Now he revealed himself in this way: {{rf{2}}} Simon Peter and Thomas (who was called Didymus) and Nathanael from Cana in Galilee and the sons of Zebedee and two others of his disciples were together. {{rf{3}}} Simon Peter said to them, "I am going fishing!" They said to him, "We also are coming with you." They went out and got into the boat, and during that night they caught nothing. {{rf{4}}} Now when it was already early morning, Jesus stood on the beach. However, the disciples did not know that it was Jesus. {{rf{5}}} So Jesus said to them, "Children, you do not have any fish to eat, do you? They answered him, "No." {{rf{6}}} And he said to them, "Throw the net on the right side of the boat, and you will find some." So they threw it, and were no longer able to haul it in from the large number of the fish. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|John-20-26]] }}}
{{rf{7}}} Then that disciple whom Jesus loved said to Peter, "It is the Lord!" So Simon Peter, when he heard that it was the Lord, tied around himself his outer garment (for he was naked) and threw himself into the sea. {{rf{8}}} But the other disciples came in the boat, dragging the net of fish, because they were not far from the land, but about two hundred cubits away. {{rf{9}}} So when they got out on the land, they saw a charcoal fire laid there, and a fish lying on it, and bread. {{rf{10}}} Jesus said to them, "Bring some of the fish that you have just now caught." {{rf{11}}} So Simon Peter got into the boat and hauled the net to the land, full of large fish -- one hundred fifty-three -- and although there were so many, the net was not torn. {{rf{12}}} Jesus said to them, "Come, eat breakfast!" But none of the disciples dared to ask him, "Who are you?" because they knew that it was the Lord. {{rf{13}}} Jesus came and took the bread and gave it to them, and the fish likewise. {{rf{14}}} This was now the third time Jesus was revealed to the disciples after he had been raised from the dead. {{rf{15}}} Now when they had eaten breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, "Simon son of John, do you love me more than these?" He said to him, "Yes, Lord, you know that I love you." He said to him, "Feed my lambs!" {{rf{16}}} He said to him again a second time, "Simon son of John, do you love me?" He said to him, "Yes, Lord, you know that I love you." He said to him, "Shepherd my sheep!" {{rf{17}}} He said to him a third time, "Simon son of John, do you love me?" Peter was distressed because he said to him a third time, "Do you love me?" and he said to him, "Lord, you know everything! You know that I love you!" Jesus said to him, "Feed my sheep! {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|John-21-07]] }}}
{{rf{18}}} Truly, truly I say to you, when you were young, you tied your clothes around yourself and walked wherever you wanted. But when you grow old, you will stretch out your hands, and someone else will tie you up and carry you where you do not want to go. {{rf{19}}} (Now he said this to indicate by what kind of death he would glorify God.) And after he had said this, he said to him, "Follow me!" {{rf{20}}} Peter turned and saw the disciple whom Jesus loved following them (who also leaned back on his chest at the dinner and said, "Lord, who is the one betraying you?") {{rf{21}}} So when he saw this one, Peter said to Jesus, "Lord, but what about this one?" {{rf{22}}} Jesus said to him, "If I want him to remain until I come, what is that to you? You follow me!" {{rf{23}}} So this saying went out to the brothers that that disciple would not die. But Jesus did not say to him that he would not die, but "If I want him to remain until I come, what is that to you?" {{rf{24}}} This is the disciple who is testifying about these things, and who has written down these things. And we know that his testimony is true. {{rf{25}}} Now there are also many other things that Jesus did, which -- if they were written down one after the other -- I suppose not even the world itself could contain the books that would be written. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|John-21-18]] }}}
* //Baptist, Baptizer//
* He may not have known fully what was meant by //the lamb who takes away the sin of the world//.
** It could be a man speaking more than he knows, which is common of course in John's gospel. It could express an apocalyptic world conquest.
** John did not see the day of Resurrection, did not see the unveiling of God's plan in Messiah. A Christian of 6 weeks understands this better than John, for "Least in the Kingdom of Heaven is greater than John."
* The same course of popular acceptance, confrontation and rejection by authorities is followed by Jesus. But Jesus shifts to parables.
* J Piper, on John's Gospel: If there were any label we would attach to John in this Gospel, it would be "John the Witness." Starting in <<Bbl J 1:6 >>–7, the word witness (martureo, martus, martureia) is connected with John fourteen times.
* Jesus initiated an epoch wherein a person can be //indwelt// with His Spirit. The prophets before Him did not have this gift. But in the prophecy to his father, John was declared to be filled with the Spirit. Again, this invites us to consider him as a transitional figure.
!!! Jesus confirms John
** He is more than a prophet, because he is himself the subject of Prophecy.
** And he is greater than those who came before Jesus. because he can point to Jesus with the greatest immediacy. This virtue is ours to an even greater degree. So he is greater than Moses, Abraham or Isaiah.
* After John expresses his misgivings Jesus hastens to commend him before those gathered.
* <<Bbl L 7:25>> -- //You did not go to see a man in soft clothing, did you?// -- Jesus
* Jesus says, did you go to see a reed swayed by the wind, this is to dispel the impression we might have of John as one who waivers.
* John is greater than all who came before.
* Jesus confirms the ministry of John for a very particular purpose: because it confirms the ministry of Jesus. D.A. Carson says during his sermon, what if the fellow who introduced me added such a confirmation? "Douglas is the greatest man ever born of woman, because he just introduced me."
!!! John confirms Jesus
* John is like the Pathfinder planes of WWII.
* John is like the booster rocket.
* John came as Elijah, who also confronted a weak and wicked king and a strong and wicked queen. Christ perhaps has parallels on the protege Elisha.
* Verse 11 teaches that it is the proclamation that is the [virtue?]. Should we not measure ourselves by this standard? Yes, and we should consider our wimpy presentation of Him as more deplorable than some mere social gaffe that we review red-faced.
* John was acclaimed by the people. This was true of at least some other OT prophets, but the Gospels offer narrative substance.
* John's protest is like Peter's: //Lord, this will never happen to you//. And the reply to John would have been fitly given to Peter: //Permit it at this time for it is good for us to fulfill all righteousness//.
* In his baptism the ministries of John and the Christ are mutually confirmed, which is critical for what follows.
** The baptism and subsequent glorification present a diorama of the Christ's passion and resurrection.
** No one expected the arrival of the Spirit, any more than the resurrection. And like the resurrection, the presence of the Spirit was not observed by many -- only by one, in this case.
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Full text for these saved in ''~John_the_Witness_scripture_collection.txt''
* <<Bbl I 4:3-5 >>
* <<Bbl M 4:5-6 >>
* <<Bbl J 1:6-36 >>
* <<Bbl L 1:41 >>
* <<Bbl L 3:4 >>
* <<Bbl Mk 1:1 >>
* <<Bbl Mt 3:1 >>
* <<Bbl J 3:22 >>
* <<Bbl Mt 9:14 >>
* <<Bbl Mt 11:2 >>
* <<Bbl L 7:18 >>
* <<Bbl Mk 6:14 >>
* <<Bbl Mt 14:1 >>
* <<Bbl Mt 17:9 >>
* <<Bbl Mk 11:27 >>
* <<Bbl J 10:35 >>
* <<Bbl Mt 21:33 >>
* <<Bbl Mt 26:3 >>
* The //word of the Lord// opens and closes the book.
* God is the main character, Jonah is His foil. (This and some other insights from Jim Pye, July 2012.)
* Simple obedience on Jonah's part would make for an extremely short book. Am I adding extra chapters for myself?
* God shows His sovereignty over all the world through numerous interventions which are supernatural, subtle, and sometimes both. He influences men, nations, plants, animals, insects and the natural elements of sun, wind and sea.
* The narrative is striking for zooming continuously and compellingly from large to small, abstract to concrete.
* Jesus in the boat likewise is traveling from Jew to gentile territory.
* Many ironies.
** Everyone's always going to die, no one does.
** Repentance of gentiles is a theme. The sailors dread to kill... Unlike Jonah in relation to the Ninevites.
** Reluctant like every prophet, but for perverse motives.
** The biggest: the cruelty of ninevah was inflicted on Israel a generation later, yet the model of repentance by Ninevah was not followed by Israel.
* Jonah is a narrative, oddly.
* Ninevah was only later to be the capital. But it remains the great city as in Genesis.
* The first declaration is presented formalistically, the last one intimately.
* <<Bbl 2K 14:25>> apparently gives us the substance of Jonah's message from an earlier season. It even informs us Jonah must have been celebrated, the subject of accolades for such a gratifying (and fulfilled!) vision.
* <<Bbl Jonah 4:2 abbr >> tells us Jonah had protested his mission from the very beginning (though the beginning did not report it). The effect is of a man who is more closely reviewing his actions, his faults.
* Our Lord Jesus confirms the real historicity of Jonah in <<Bbl Mt 12:40 >>.
* For years I've wondered how to make work a landfall at Nineveh, but that actually doesn't seem to be declared. <<Bbl Jonah 2:10 abbr >>
* The existence of the book is our best indicator of Jonah's final state, a good resolution.
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!!!"The sign of Jonah"
# God's servant is put to death, one for the many.
# He is raised after three days -- this Jesus cites particularly.
# His message reproves the smug hardheartedness of religious leaders -- this Jesus presents most vividly.
# He hints at the inclusion of the gentiles.
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And the word of Yahweh came to Jonah the son of Amittai, saying, {{rf{2}}} "Get up! Go to the great city Nineveh and cry out against her, because their evil has come up before me." {{rf{3}}} But Jonah set out to flee toward Tarshish from the presence of Yahweh. And he went down to Joppa and found a merchant ship going to Tarshish, and paid her fare, and went on board her to go with them toward Tarshish from the presence of Yahweh. {{rf{4}}} And Yahweh hurled a great wind upon the sea, and it was a great storm on the sea, and the merchant ship was in danger of breaking up. {{rf{5}}} And the mariners were afraid, and each cried out to his god. And they threw the contents that were in the merchant ship into the sea to lighten it for them. And meanwhile Jonah went down into the hold of the vessel and lay down and fell asleep. {{rf{6}}} And the captain of the ship approached him and said to him, "Why are you sound asleep? Get up! Call on your god! Perhaps your god will take notice of us and we won't perish!" {{rf{7}}} And they said to one another, "Come, let us cast lots so that we may know on whose account this disaster has come on us!" And they cast lots, and the lot fell on Jonah. {{rf{8}}} So they said to him, "Please tell us whoever is responsible that this disaster has come upon us! What is your occupation? And from where do you come? What is your country? And from which people are you?" {{rf{9}}} And he said to them, "I am a Hebrew, and I fear Yahweh, the God of heaven, who made the sea and the dry land." {{rf{10}}} Then the men were greatly afraid, and they said to him, "What is this you have done?" because they knew that he was fleeing from the presence of Yahweh (because he had told them). {{rf{11}}} So they said to him, "What shall we do to you so that the sea may quiet down for us?" because the sea was growing more and more tempestuous. {{rf{12}}} And he said to them, "Pick me up and hurl me into the sea so that the sea may quiet down for you, because I know that on account of me this great storm has come upon you all." {{rf{13}}} But the men rowed hard to bring the ship back to the dry land, and they could not do so because the sea was growing more and more tempestuous against them. {{rf{14}}} So they cried out to Yahweh, and they said, "O Yahweh! Please do not let us perish because of this man's life, and do not make us guilty of innocent blood, because you, O Yahweh, did what you wanted." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Jonah-01-01]] }}}
!!! Chapter 1
* The boat on the sea is a microcosm of the great city, containing the same object lessons.
** Jonah is perverse, uncomfortable, perturbed to the point of wishing for death.
** By contrast, the pagans are obedient; whereupon they are rescued and redeemed.
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<<Bbl Jonah 1:3 abbr >> Jonah "goes with them from the presence of the Lord." He pays money to join the heathens in their flight from God. Fool's money! Herman Melville gives this delicious treatment in __Moby Dick__.
1:3 Contrast the Lord Jesus facing Jerusalem in Lk 9:41. Jerusalem was Nineveh to Jesus -- a strange, hostile, deadly, wicked metropolis upon whom God was declaring His mercy, while one could have preferred His wrath.
1:4 //The Lord sent...// -- later the verb //prepared// rings again and again.
1:5 //to lighten the ship// foreshadows Jonah's immediate fate. They were reminded of his presence while rummaging the hold.
<<Bbl Jonah 1:10 abbr >> <<Bbl Gn 26:10 >>.
<<Bbl Jonah 1:16 abbr >> [[Vow]]
* <<Bbl Mk 4:31 >>-38 Tim Keller finds a deliberate allusion.
* The author of the book relates the outcome of the sailors. This is a challenge to the historicity of the story.
<<Bbl Jonah 1:17 abbr >> The great fish is God's agent of doom, but truly of salvation. It is an object lesson in calamity, as well as the realization of God's preserving power. [[Miracle]]
!!! Chapter 2
<<Bbl Jonah 2:3 abbr >> The word //heart// connects this verse vividly to <<Bbl Mt 12:40 >>.
<<Bbl Jonah 2:6 abbr >> The leader is the last to know.
<<Bbl Jonah 2:9 abbr >> [[Vow]]
!!! Chapter 4
* Present chapter four //a la// "Mister Bob", using a petri dish, a heat lamp, a hair-dryer and a miniature umbrella (as for a daiquiri). After demonstrating how great God's control, confront people on their readiness to trust God's love.
* <<Bbl Jonah 4:1 abbr >> "Nineveh Day 41, Base Camp East."
* I imagine Jonah laying down his pen at the end; perhaps overcome, unable to continue; or perhaps well satisfied with the narrative tension.
<<Bbl Jonah 4:2 abbr >> Here is the prophet's secret knowledge, the inner core. And this is the key verse of the book.
<<Bbl Jonah 4:6 abbr >>-8 A wrestling match like Jacob's.
<<Bbl Jonah 4:9 abbr >> Cf. <<Bbl J 21:15 >>, //Do you love Me more than these?// God's compassion perhaps also extends to the deprivation of the fast; their ignorance has prompted an overly stringent prostration.
{{rf{15}}} And they picked Jonah up and hurled him into the sea, and the sea ceased from its raging. {{rf{16}}} So the men feared Yahweh greatly, and they offered a sacrifice to Yahweh and made vows. {{rf{17}}} And Yahweh provided a large fish to swallow up Jonah, and Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights. {{rf big{1}}} And Jonah prayed to Yahweh his God from the belly of the fish {{rf{2}}} and said, "I called from my distress to Yahweh, and he answered me; from the belly of Sheol I cried for help -- you heard my voice. {{rf{3}}} And you threw me into the deep, into the heart of the seas, and the sea currents surrounded me; all your breakers and your surging waves passed over me. {{rf{4}}} And I said, 'I am banished from your sight; how will I continue to look on your holy temple?' {{rf{5}}} The waters encompassed me up to my neck; the deep surrounded me; seaweed was wrapped around my head. {{rf{6}}} I went down to the foundations of the mountains; the Underworld -- its bars were around me forever. But you brought up my life from the pit, Yahweh my God. {{rf{7}}} When my life was ebbing away from me, I remembered Yahweh, and my prayer came to you, to your holy temple. {{rf{8}}} Those who worship vain idols forsake their loyal love. {{rf{9}}} But I, with a voice of thanksgiving, will sacrifice to you; I will fulfill what I have vowed. Deliverance belongs to Yahweh!" {{rf{10}}} And Yahweh spoke to the fish, and it vomited Jonah out on the dry land. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Jonah-01-15]] }}}
And the word of Yahweh came to Jonah a second time, saying, {{rf{2}}} "Get up! Go to Nineveh, the great city, and proclaim to it the message that I am telling you." {{rf{3}}} So Jonah got up and went to Nineveh according to the word of Yahweh. Now Nineveh was an extraordinarily great city -- a journey of three days across. {{rf{4}}} And Jonah began to go into the city a journey of one day, and he cried out and said, "Forty more days and Nineveh will be demolished!" {{rf{5}}} And the people of Nineveh believed in God, and they proclaimed a fast and put on sackcloth -- from the greatest of them to the least important. {{rf{6}}} And the news reached the king of Nineveh, and he rose from his throne and removed his royal robe, put on sackcloth, and sat in the ashes. {{rf{7}}} And he had a proclamation made, and said, "In Nineveh, by a decree of the king and his nobles: "No human being or animal, no herd or flock, shall taste anything! They must not eat, and they must not drink water! {{rf{8}}} And the human beings and the animals must be covered with sackcloth! And they must call forcefully to God, and each must turn from his evil way and from the violence that is in his hands. {{rf{9}}} Who knows? God may relent and change his mind and turn from his blazing anger so that we will not perish." {{rf{10}}} And God saw their deeds -- that they turned from their evil ways -- and God changed his mind about the evil that he had said he would bring upon them, and he did not do it. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Jonah-03-01]] }}}
And this was greatly displeasing to Jonah, and he became furious. {{rf{2}}} And he prayed to Yahweh and said, "O Yahweh, was this not what I said while I was in my homeland? Therefore I originally fled to Tarshish, because I knew that you are a gracious and compassionate God, slow to anger and having great steadfast love, and one who relents concerning calamity. {{rf{3}}} And so then, Yahweh, please take my life from me, because for me death is better than life!" {{rf{4}}} And Yahweh said, "Is it right for you to be angry?" {{rf{5}}} And Jonah went out from the city and sat down east of the city, and he made for himself a shelter there. And he sat under it in the shade, waiting to see what would happen with the city. {{rf{6}}} And Yahweh God appointed a plant, and he made it grow up over Jonah to be a shade over his head, to save him from his discomfort. And Jonah was very glad about the plant. {{rf{7}}} So God appointed a worm at daybreak the next day, and it attacked the plant, and it withered. {{rf{8}}} And when the sun rose, God appointed a scorching east wind, and the sun beat down on Jonah's head and he grew faint. And he asked that he could die and said, "My death is better than my life!" {{rf{9}}} So God said to Jonah, "Is it right for you to be angry about the plant?" And he said, "It is right for me to be angry enough to die!" {{rf{10}}} But Yahweh said, "You are troubled about the plant, for which you did not labor nor cause it to grow. It grew up in a night and it perished in a night! {{rf{11}}} And should I not be concerned about Nineveh, the great city, in which there are more than one hundred and twenty thousand people who do not know right from left, plus many animals?" {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Jonah-04-01]] }}}
* "Was no more": <<Bbl Gn 37:30 >>, <<Bbl Gn 42:13 >>, <<Bbl Gn 42:32 >>, <<Bbl Gn 44:20 >>. And it was all a lie! A lie heard concerning himself with his own ears! [[Deceive]]
* The stolen [[Cup]] is a picture of his own exile. It is important for divination, thus it betokens him. And as a thing supposed to be stolen, and then supposed to be detected and reclaimed, it resembles him. The cup, being for divination, was bound to find itself and that to the condemnation of its takers.
* Joseph is my favorite OT person. My son is named after him.
* Eleven chapters of Genesis give the details of his life, but few references occur in NT.
* Joseph entered the prison with his dreams large in his mind and, we can imagine, the promises of God small. But he emerged with the promises magnified, the dreams diminished. A clue to this is found in 40:15 (see note).
* We must give him full due for his ability to enter the foreign culture: 39:1-6, 21-23; note especially 41:14 in which he shaves. (Thus his brothers did not recognize him.)
* ''The eleven brothers are bound together by their guile and their guilt.'' A strong picture of the collective guilt of humans before the murdered Christ. Judah in particular must be forced out of his sedition and complacency.
* Jacob the father is altered, too: ground to the dust by famine and down to a few pistachios and almonds (says 43:11); out of stratagems and trustworthy agents, and "all these things are against me!" So little does he know! Eventually he emerges as a man who worships according to Gen 48:15-16, calling God "my Shepherd", and declaring in Gen 49:10 "The scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor the ruler's staff from between his feet." So he announces a future Messiah who will never, in his travels, be deterred from obeying the Father. That is the prophecy that interests Hebrews 11:21, and I think those physical tokens of authority allude to the sorry adventure of 38:18.
* Joseph endured temptations in the strongest sense offered by the Lord Jesus' model prayer, for he was pressed repeatedly by his difficult decisions, and pressed into the most difficult bondage.
** His dreams. Should he reveal them or not?
** The garment. How can he wear it and not bring a provocation?
** His appointment as auditor over his brothers. Must he bring the bad report?
** His betrayal by the person who most held the trust of his master Potiphar.
* There is much more to say about this. Would he not have been tempted to withhold the interpretations of dreams, both in the prison and the palace? Would not alternate schemes have occurred to him? The more I consider him, the less I accept the theory that arrogance or immaturity were failings.
* The life of [[Judah]] provides a counterpoint.
** The handling of a signet ring is a pointed contrast. Joseph is faithful with his master's, while Judah is not faithful with his own.
<<Bbl Gn 39:8 abbr >> It is easy to infer a boastful, provocative tone in Joseph's words here, just as when he divulged his dreams to his family. In fact there may be no such implication.
The wife would have been perhaps the one to lose most in Joseph's rise to authority within the household.
39:12 We are commanded //flee fornication.// Note he was snagged by his garment, ''just as when in years earlier his garment signified so much.''
Jesus had often to deal with Potiphar's wife: the Jews who wanted to make a king out of Him. In vs. 17, the Hebrew slave seems to echo this, since Jesus came as a servant. To posit Potiphar as the Father Godhead is probably too far towards allegory, but there is a bit of profit.
<<Bbl Gn 49:29 abbr >>-32 Note Jacob's sojournings -- first north, fleeing Esau, then south fleeing the famine. Note that his commitment to God at Bethel was based on his returning to the land. Jacob's faith is found in his commitment to the promised land: -- Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God. -- But note that his strongest confession comes at the end of his life, when he is in exile that second time. When at home in Canaan he may have tended to forget the promises of God; this neglect was manifest in his sons' deficient vision. In <<Bbl Gn 50:1 >> (uncertain how precise this reference) he seems to have much firmer faith and understanding than before.
* What is the faith to which Hebrews refers? Great acts of faith come from exigency; so what was the need Joseph faced? Possibly the need for his enbalmed corpse (<<Bbl Gn 50:26>>) to remain on display in Egypt so that his people would remain in favor. The Egyptians would regard Joseph's tomb as the man himself, to be honored and respected -- for a while. Joseph had enough faith to endure a deferred return.
** Otherwise the sequel of <<Bbl Ex 1:8 >> would have happened earlier.
** See <<Bbl 43:32 >>; <<Bbl 46:31 >>-34.
* Joseph offers a momentous picture of [[Intercede]] in his decision to have his remains preserved in Egypt as a token to stave off the forgetfulness that eventually would come. I believe this explains the remark about Joseph in Hebrews 11.
** Like Nimitz in America, cherished in Fredericksburg; a vulnerable small and alien population takes shelter under his reputation - in life and even in memory.
* Joseph's bones are found again in <<Bbl Ex 13:19 >>; <<Bbl Josh 24:32 >>.
<<Bbl Gn 50:15>>-20 Examine the occasions where Joseph weeps. How do they tell us of God's weepings?
* Joseph's puzzle is Jesus' puzzle: how do you make approach to those who have made you their enemy? How do you overcome [[Enmity]]?
* <<Bbl Gn 42:6 "" note >> for Joseph's covert interception of the band of brothers.
* When Moses blesses Joseph as a tribe, he refers to the burning [[Thorns]]Bush.
* Rahab VS Achan. Both betrayed their people, defied their god/God, had the complicity of their family, and so exchanged places in both family and self.
After the death of Moses the servant of Yahweh, Yahweh said to Joshua son of Nun, the assistant of Moses, saying, {{rf{2}}} "My servant Moses is dead. Get up and cross the Jordan, you and all this people, into the land that I am giving to them, to the Israelites. {{rf{3}}} Every place that the soles of your feet will tread, I have given it to you, as I promised to Moses. {{rf{4}}} From the wilderness and the Lebanon, up to the great river, the river Euphrates, all of the land of the Hittites, and up to the great sea in the west, will be your territory. {{rf{5}}} No one will stand before you all the days of your life. Just as I was with Moses, so will I be with you; I will not fail you, and I will not forsake you. {{rf{6}}} Be strong and courageous, for you will give the people this land as an inheritance that I swore to their ancestors to give them. {{rf{7}}} Only be strong and very courageous to observe diligently the whole law that Moses my servant commanded you. Do not turn aside from it, to the right or left, so that you may succeed wherever you go. {{rf{8}}} The scroll of this law will not depart from your mouth; you will meditate on it day and night so that you may observe diligently all that is written in it. For then you will succeed in your ways and prosper. {{rf{9}}} Did I not command you? Be strong and courageous! Do not fear or be dismayed, for Yahweh your God is with you wherever you go." {{rf{10}}} Then Joshua commanded the officers of the people, saying, {{rf{11}}} "Pass through the midst of the camp and command the people: 'Prepare your provisions; in three days you are to cross the Jordan to go possess the land that Yahweh your God is giving you to possess.'" {{rf{12}}} To the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh Joshua said, {{rf{13}}} "Remember the word that Moses Yahweh's servant commanded you, saying, 'Yahweh your God is giving rest to you, and he is giving you this land.' {{rf{14}}} Your wives, your little children, and your livestock, they will remain in the land that Moses gave to you beyond the Jordan. All of the best fighting men will cross armed in front of your families; they will help you {{rf{15}}} until Yahweh gives rest to your families as well as to you. They will take possession of the land that Yahweh your God is giving to them. Then you will return to your own land and take possession of it, the land that Moses the servant of Yahweh gave you beyond the Jordan to the east." {{rf{16}}} And they answered Joshua, saying, "All that you have commanded us we will do, and wherever you will send us we will go. {{rf{17}}} Just as we obeyed Moses, so will we obey you. Only may Yahweh your God be with you, as he was with Moses. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Joshua-01-01]] }}}
!!!Joshua 1:5-9 chiasmus
http://www.preceptaustin.org/joshua_18_commentary.htm
{{{
I (the LORD) will be with you 5
Be strong and courageous 6-7
That you may have success 7
This book of the law 8
Then you will have success 8
Be strong and courageous 9
The Lord your God is with you 9
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<<Bbl Josh 1:8 abbr >> The Book of the Law had previously been placed in the ark, <<Bbl Dt 31:24 >>-26 .
<<Bbl Josh 1:9 abbr >> Inverted structure A,B,B,A, as found in <<Bbl Mt 28:8 >>-20 -- and so very similar in tone and prospect.
1:11 I wonder how this relates to the cessation of the manna, 5:12.
<<Bbl Josh 1:15 abbr >> Till you have given your brothers [[Rest]]. Eden, land, good, possession. Hebrews.
1:17 The first part of this statement may have given Joshua no great comfort.
<<Bbl Josh 2:1 abbr>>a Like the spies sent out by Moses, the assignment is to apprehend the favor of God concerning a difficult venture. Joshua, Caleb and the nation were betrayed by the other ten. So he sends out two, matching the earlier two faithful ones, and he sends them in secret.
<<Bbl Josh 2:1 abbr >>b A harlot's house, performing some functions of an inn and a bit of a cover.
2:3-5 Rahab lies to the king. Thus she stakes her life on the victorious invasion force..
2:7 //They shut the gate//, which is an urgent security measure, but one Rahab can circumvent.
2:9 Rahab says everybody is terrified, and the king's actions are what we could expect from a frightened man. Rahab prefers full and immediate capitulation - with the marvelous expectation of mercy.
2:10-11 A statement of faith in God based in solid evidence of His power. Rahab is using the title //Elohim.//
2:12-13 Fear provides a sufficient motivation for Rahab's salvation.
* Observe that everyone is convinced, everyone terrified -- but most are pushed toward hardened resistance (see <<Bbl James 2:19>>) instead of capitulation.
* Like Noah, [[Rahab]] acts alone in her faith and commits everything.
* Rahab is in a strong bargaining position ... and she has strong faith ... so she takes rather for granted the family will be saved as well.
2:15 One can wonder if this rope has been used this way in the past.
<<Bbl Josh 2:17 abbr >>-19 The signal they offer is precisely similar to the sign of the Passover in <<Bbl Ex 12:21>>-23. Thus they extend the covenant; the angel of death will pass over her.
3:3 Apparently this is replacing the smoke and fire.
3:4 The white line at the front of the bus. The Levites are not to be confused by human counsel. The counsel of God, as well as His presence, is holy.
Or is it possible that we see the opening of an ecclesiocracy here? First, they're going beyond the measures of sanctification prescribed by God. Second, the manifest presence of God is evidently being replaced by a token of His presence (albeit a very direct token). Would this passage be classed as "Priestly" by those deceived scholars?
<<Bbl Josh 3:15 abbr >>-17 An entirely new generation, minus two, witnesses the miracle. See 4:23. Also perhaps this is the baptism of <<Bbl 1C 10:2 >> for the new generation.
4:10 Fulfillment of <<Bbl Dt 27:1 >> (or somewhere in that chapter -- but I'm confused about 9:30-35 ??
{{rf{18}}} Whoever rebels against your orders and does not obey your words according to what you commanded us will be put to death. Only be strong and courageous." {{rf big{1}}} Then Joshua son of Nun secretly sent two men from Acacia Grove as spies, saying, "Go, view the land, especially Jericho." So they went, and entered the house of a prostitute whose name was Rahab, and spent the night there. {{rf{2}}} The king of Jericho was told, "Look, some men from the Israelites have come here tonight to search out the land." {{rf{3}}} And the king of Jericho sent for Rahab, saying, "Bring out the men who came to you, the ones who have entered your house, for they have come to search out the whole land." {{rf{4}}} But the woman took the two men and hid them. And she said, "Yes, the men came to me, but I did not know where they were from. {{rf{5}}} And when it was time to shut the gate for the night, the men left, and I do not know where they went. Chase after them quickly, for you may catch up to them." {{rf{6}}} (But she had taken them to the roof and had hidden them in the stalks of flax that she had spread out on the roof.) {{rf{7}}} So the men chased after them on the way to the Jordan at the fords; and they shut the gate behind the pursuers that had gone out after them. {{rf{8}}} Before they went to sleep, she came up to them on the roof {{rf{9}}} and said to the men, "I know that Yahweh has given you the land, and that dread of you has fallen on us, and that all the inhabitants of the land melt away in fear because of your presence. {{rf{10}}} For we have heard how Yahweh dried up the waters of the Red Sea before you when you went out from Egypt, and what you did to the two kings of the Amorites that were beyond the Jordan, Sihon and Og, whom you utterly destroyed. {{rf{11}}} We heard this, and our hearts melted, and no courage was left in anyone because of your presence. For Yahweh your God is God in the heavens above and on the earth below. {{rf{12}}} So then please swear to me by Yahweh, because I have shown loyalty to you, and you will also show loyalty to my family. You must give me a sign of good faith, {{rf{13}}} and you will spare my father and mother, my brothers and sisters, and all that belongs to them; you will deliver our lives from death." {{rf{14}}} And the men said to her, "Our lives for yours. If you do not report this business of ours, we will show you loyalty and faithfulness when Yahweh gives us the land." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Joshua-01-18]] }}}
{{rf{15}}} Then she lowered them with a rope through the window, as her house was on the outer side of the wall, and she was residing in the wall. {{rf{16}}} And she said to them, "Go to the mountain, so that the pursuers will not find you, and hide yourselves there three days until the pursuers return, and afterward you may go on your way." {{rf{17}}} The men said to her, "We will be released from this oath of yours that you made us swear. {{rf{18}}} When we come to the land, you must tie this scarlet cord in the window through which you let us down, and you must gather your father and mother, and your brothers, and your whole family to your house. {{rf{19}}} If anyone goes outside the doors of your house, they will be responsible for their own death, and we will be innocent. Anyone who will be with you in the house, we will be responsible for their death if a hand is laid on them. {{rf{20}}} But if you report this business of ours, we will be released from your oath that you made us swear." {{rf{21}}} And she said, "According to your word it will be." Then she sent them away, and they went, and she tied the scarlet cord in the window. {{rf{22}}} They departed and came to the mountain, and they stayed there three days until the pursuers returned. The pursuers searched all along the way but did not find them. {{rf{23}}} The two men returned and went down from the mountain, and they crossed over and came to Joshua son of Nun, and they told him everything that happened to them. {{rf{24}}} They said to Joshua, "Surely Yahweh has given all the land into our hand; also, all the inhabitants of the land melt away in fear because of our presence." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Joshua-02-15]] }}}
Joshua rose early in the morning, and they set out from Acacia Grove. And they came up to the Jordan, he and all the Israelites, and they spent the night there before they crossed over. {{rf{2}}} At the end of the three days the officers passed through the midst of the camp, {{rf{3}}} and they commanded the people: "When you see the Levitical priests carrying the ark of the covenant of Yahweh your God you must set out from your place and go after it. {{rf{4}}} But there will be a distance between you and it of about two thousand cubits in measurement. Do not come near it, so that you may know the way that you must go, for you have not passed on this way before." {{rf{5}}} And Joshua said to the people, "Sanctify yourselves, because tomorrow Yahweh will do wonders in your midst." {{rf{6}}} And Joshua said to the priests, "Take up the ark of the covenant and cross over ahead of the people." And they took up the ark of the covenant and went ahead of the people. {{rf{7}}} Then Yahweh said to Joshua, "This day I will begin exalting you in the sight of all Israel, that they may know that I was with Moses, and I will be with you. {{rf{8}}} You will command the priests carrying the ark of the covenant, saying, 'At the moment that you come to the edge of the waters of the Jordan, you will stand still in the Jordan.'" {{rf{9}}} And Joshua said to the Israelites, "Come here, and hear the words of Yahweh your God." {{rf{10}}} Joshua said, "By this you will know that the living God is in your midst, and he will certainly drive out the Canaanites from before you, and the Hittites, Hivites, the Perizzites, the Girgashites, the Amorites, and the Jebusites. {{rf{11}}} Look! The ark of the covenant of the Lord of all the earth is about to cross over ahead of you into the Jordan. {{rf{12}}} So then, take twelve men from the tribes of Israel, one from each tribe. {{rf{13}}} When the soles of the feet of the priests carrying the ark of Yahweh, Lord of all the earth, rest in the waters of the Jordan, the waters of the Jordan will be cut off upstream, and they will stand still in one heap. {{rf{14}}} And it happened, when the people set out from their tents to cross over the Jordan, the priests carrying the ark of the covenant were ahead of the people. {{rf{15}}} When those carrying the ark came up to the Jordan, and the priests carrying the ark dipped their feet in the edge of the water (the Jordan was flowing over its banks during all the days of harvest), {{rf{16}}} the waters flowing down from above stood still; they stood up in one heap very far from Adam, the city that is beside Zarethan, while the waters flowing down to the sea of the Arabah, the Salt Sea, were completely cut off; and the people crossed over opposite Jericho. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Joshua-03-01]] }}}
{{rf{17}}} And the priests carrying the ark of the covenant of Yahweh stood firmly on the dry land in the middle of the Jordan while all Israel crossed on dry ground, until all the nation finished crossing the Jordan. {{rf big{1}}} After all the nation finished crossing the Jordan, Yahweh said to Joshua, {{rf{2}}} "Take twelve men from the people, one man from each tribe, {{rf{3}}} and command them, saying, 'Take for yourselves twelve stones from the middle of the Jordan where the priests' feet stood firmly, and bring them over with you, and set them up in the place where you will camp tonight.'" {{rf{4}}} So Joshua summoned the twelve men whom he had appointed from the Israelites, one from each tribe. {{rf{5}}} And Joshua said to them, "Cross over before the ark of Yahweh your God to the middle of the Jordan, and each one of you lift up a stone on your shoulder, according to the number of the tribes of the Israelites, {{rf{6}}} so that this may be a reminder among you. When your children ask in the future, saying, 'What do these stones mean to you?' {{rf{7}}} you will say to them that the waters of the Jordan were cut off from before the ark of the covenant of Yahweh. When it crossed the Jordan, the waters of the Jordan were cut off. These stones will be as a memorial for the Israelites for eternity." {{rf{8}}} Thus the Israelites did as Joshua commanded. They took twelve stones from the middle of the Jordan as Yahweh told Joshua, according to the number of the tribes of the Israelites, and they carried them over with them to the camp, and they put them there. {{rf{9}}} Then Joshua set up twelve stones in the middle of the Jordan, in the place where the feet of the priests carrying the ark of the covenant stood, and they are there to this day. {{rf{10}}} The priests carrying the ark remained standing in the middle of the Jordan until everything that Yahweh commanded Joshua to tell the people was finished, according to all that Moses commanded Joshua. And the people hastily crossed over. {{rf{11}}} And it happened, when all the people had finished crossing, the ark of Yahweh and the priests crossed over in front of the people. {{rf{12}}} The children of Reuben, Gad, and the half-tribe of Manasseh crossed over armed before the Israelites, as Moses told them. {{rf{13}}} About forty thousand armed for fighting crossed over before the presence of Yahweh to the plains of Jericho for battle. {{rf{14}}} On that day Yahweh exalted Joshua in the sight of all Israel, and they respected him as they respected Moses all the days of his life. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Joshua-03-17]] }}}
{{rf{15}}} Then Yahweh said to Joshua, saying, {{rf{16}}} "Command the priests carrying the ark of the testimony to come up from the Jordan." {{rf{17}}} So Joshua commanded the priests, saying, "Come up from the Jordan." {{rf{18}}} And it happened that when the priests carrying the ark came up from the middle of the Jordan, and the soles of the priests' feet touched dry land, the waters of the Jordan returned to their place and flowed over all its banks as before. {{rf{19}}} And the people came up from the Jordan on the tenth day of the first month, and they camped in Gilgal on the eastern edge of Jericho. {{rf{20}}} And those twelve stones that they took from the Jordan, Joshua set up in Gilgal. {{rf{21}}} And he said to the Israelites, "When your children ask in the future their parents, 'What is the meaning of these stones?' {{rf{22}}} you will let your children know by saying, 'Israel crossed this Jordan on dry ground.' {{rf{23}}} For Yahweh your God dried up the waters of the Jordan before you, until you had crossed, just as Yahweh your God did to the Red Sea, which he dried up before us until we had crossed over, {{rf{24}}} so that all the peoples of the earth may know that the hand of Yahweh is strong, so that you may fear Yahweh your God forever." {{rf big{1}}} And it happened, when all the kings of the Amorites who were beyond the Jordan to the west, and all the kings of the Canaanites who were by the sea heard that Yahweh dried up the waters of the Jordan in front of the Israelites until they crossed over, their hearts melted, and there was no courage left in them because of the presence of the Israelites. {{rf{2}}} At that time Yahweh said to Joshua, "Make for yourself knives of flint, and circumcise the Israelites a second time." {{rf{3}}} So Joshua made knives of flint, and he circumcised the Israelites at the hill of the foreskins. {{rf{4}}} This is the reason why Joshua circumcised all the people: all the males who went out from Egypt, all the warriors, died in the wilderness as they went out from Egypt on the journey. {{rf{5}}} For all the people who left were circumcised, but all the people born in the wilderness on the journey after they left from Egypt were not circumcised. {{rf{6}}} For forty years the Israelites traveled in the wilderness until all the nation, the warriors that left Egypt, perished, because they did not listen to the voice of Yahweh. To them Yahweh swore that they would not see the land that he swore to their ancestors to give to us, a land flowing with milk and honey. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Joshua-04-15]] }}}
# Joshua 5:1-10, [[Consecration]]
# Joshua 5:11-12, [[Provide]]
# Joshua 5:13ff, [[Power]]
<<Bbl Josh 5:8 abbr >> Gilgal. Circumcision. Bad idea, worldly speaking.
5:9 Rolling -- does this foreshadow the rolling away of the stone over the tomb? See <<Bbl Ps 119:22 >>.
<<Bbl Josh 5:11 abbr >>-12 Manna was a down-payment of the bounty of the promised land. Thus it is a symbol of the Spirit.
5:13-15 This is Joshua's "burning bush", and in his dealings with the mysterious Captain Joshua demonstrates courage followed by submission, obedience, and consecration.
5:13 See <<Bbl 1J 4:1 >>
<<Bbl Josh 5:14 abbr >> The question is implicitly turned back on Joshua: Who is Joshua for?
5:15 Joshua expects a command of activity, but receives a command of passivity.
<<Bbl Josh 6:1 abbr >> //The city was shut tight because of the people of Israel; no one went out or came in.// A Berlin Wall that not only prevented God's people to have access, but also the Jericho people from coming to God. So like the //strongholds// cited in <<Bbl 2C 10:5>>. But the critical entry had already happened, when the spies were admitted by [[Rahab]]; and later they had gone out. Now God's power was ready to make every wall into a door and to open the path to freedom for Rahab and her family.
6:5 It is not written that the common people of Israel knew precisely what to expect -- except for victory.
<<Bbl Josh 6:16 abbr>>-18 these instructions would seem by necessity to have preceded the command to shout.
6:20 Evidently Rahab's family was under special providence, since the wall fell to the ground, and that's where they lived. Spurgeon believes the wall fell except for their little section, which was left as a sort of tower.
<<Bbl Josh 6:23 abbr >> the first fruits of the Promised Land. [[Rahab]] believed big and received a big salvation. A bit later the Gibeonites ask for a kind of amnesty -- small faith, a small amnesty.
6:25 to this day -- this reveals the book of Joshua as a contemporary account.
6:26 Fulfilled in <<Bbl 1K 16:34 >>
<<Bbl Josh 7:7 abbr>>-9 Josh inherited the mantle of Moses in <<Bbl Josh 3:7 abbr>>. Now he gets to pray the prayer of Moses.
<<Bbl Josh 7:10 abbr>> I always read this as a tone of rebuke. What if it is a tone of comfort?
<<Bbl Josh 7:20 abbr>> The eyewitness detail helps seal the case. No risky judgment.
Josh 7:21 Achan uses the same verbs as did Eve regarding her fatal course: I saw, I coveted, I took. And this is echoed today in a ubiquitous theme of unholy rap: I see it, I want it, I get it.
<<Bbl Josh 7:26 abbr>> [[Achor]]. Achan is the converse of Rahab; he is doomed with the nations under God's curse.
{{rf{7}}} And it was their children whom he raised in their place that Joshua circumcised, for they were uncircumcised, because they had not been circumcised on the journey. {{rf{8}}} And it happened, when all the nation had finished circumcising, they remained where they were in the camp until they recovered. {{rf{9}}} And Yahweh said to Joshua, "Today I have rolled away the disgrace of Egypt from you." Therefore, the name of that place is called Gilgal to this day. {{rf{10}}} And the Israelites camped at Gilgal, and they kept the Passover on the fourteenth day of the month, in the evening, on the plains of Jericho. {{rf{11}}} On the next day after the Passover, on that very day, they ate from the produce of the land, unleavened cakes and roasted corn. {{rf{12}}} And the manna ceased the day after, when they started eating the produce of the land, and there was no longer manna for the Israelites. They ate from the crop of the land of Canaan in that year. {{rf{13}}} And it happened, when Joshua was by Jericho, he looked up, and he saw a man standing opposite him with his sword drawn in his hand. And Joshua went to him and said, "Are you with us, or with our adversaries?" {{rf{14}}} And he said, "Neither. I have come now as the commander of Yahweh's army." And Joshua fell on his face to the earth, and he bowed down and said to him, "What is my lord commanding his servant?" {{rf{15}}} The commander of Yahweh's army said to Joshua, "Take off your sandals from your feet, for the place where you are standing is holy." And Joshua did so. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Joshua-05-07]] }}}
Now Jericho was shut up inside and out because of the presence of the Israelites; no one was going out or coming in. {{rf{2}}} And Yahweh said to Joshua, "Look, I am giving Jericho into your hand, its king and the soldiers of the army. {{rf{3}}} You will march around the city, all the warriors circling the city once; you will do so for six days. {{rf{4}}} And seven priests will bear seven trumpets of rams' horns before the ark. On the seventh day you will march around the city seven times, and the priests will blow on the trumpets. {{rf{5}}} And when they blow long on the horn of the ram, when you hear the sound of the trumpet, all the people will shout with a great war cry, and the wall of the city will fall flat, and the people will charge, each one straight ahead." {{rf{6}}} So Joshua son of Nun summoned the priests and said to them, "Take up the ark of the covenant, and let seven priests carry the trumpets of the rams' horns before the ark of Yahweh." {{rf{7}}} And he said to the people, "Go forward and march around the city, and let the armed men pass before the ark of Yahweh. {{rf{8}}} And when Joshua spoke to the people, the seven priests carrying the seven trumpets of rams' horns before the presence of Yahweh went forward and they blew the trumpets; and the ark of the covenant of Yahweh followed behind them. {{rf{9}}} And the armed men went before the priests who blew the trumpets, and the rear guard came after the ark, while they were blowing the trumpets. {{rf{10}}} But Joshua commanded the people, saying, "You will not shout, and you will not let your voice be heard; a word will not go out from your mouth until the day I say to you 'Shout!' Then you will shout." {{rf{11}}} And the ark of Yahweh went around the city, circling once, and they came into the camp and spent the night in the camp. {{rf{12}}} Then Joshua got up early in the morning, and the priests took up the ark of Yahweh. {{rf{13}}} The seven priests carrying the seven trumpets of the rams' horns before the ark of Yahweh went on continually, and they blew on the trumpets. And the armed men went before them, and the rear guard came after the ark of Yahweh, while the trumpets blew continually. {{rf{14}}} And they marched around the city once on the second day, and they returned to the camp. They did this for six days. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Joshua-06-01]] }}}
{{rf{15}}} Then on the seventh day they rose early at dawn, and they marched around the city in this manner seven times. It was only on that day that they marched around the city seven times. {{rf{16}}} And at the seventh time the priests blew on the trumpets, and Joshua said to the people, "Shout! For Yahweh has given you the city. {{rf{17}}} The city and all that is in it will be devoted to Yahweh; only Rahab the prostitute and all who are with her in the house will live, because she hid the messengers whom we sent. {{rf{18}}} As for you, keep away from the things devoted to destruction so that you do not take them and bring about your own destruction, making the camp of Israel an object for destruction, bringing trouble upon it. {{rf{19}}} But all of the silver and gold, and the items of bronze and iron, are holy to Yahweh, and they must go to Yahweh's treasury." {{rf{20}}} So the people shouted, and they blew on the trumpets. And when the people heard the sound of the trumpet, they raised a great shout, and the wall fell flat. The people charged, each one straight ahead into the city, and they captured it. {{rf{21}}} And they utterly destroyed by the edge of the sword all who were in the city, both men and women, young and old, ox, sheep, and donkey. {{rf{22}}} Then Joshua said to the two men who spied on the land, "Go to the prostitute's house and bring out from there the woman and all who belong to her, just as you swore to her." {{rf{23}}} So the young men who were spies went and brought Rahab and her father and mother, her brothers, and all who were with her. And they brought all her family out and set them outside the camp of Israel. {{rf{24}}} And they burned the city and all that was in it with fire; they put only the silver and gold, and the items of copper and iron, into the treasury of the house of Yahweh. {{rf{25}}} But Joshua spared Rahab the prostitute and her family and all who were with her, and she has lived in the midst of Israel until this day, because she hid the messengers whom Joshua sent to spy out Jericho. {{rf{26}}} And Joshua swore at that time, saying, "Cursed is anyone before Yahweh who gets up and builds Jericho, this city. At the cost of his firstborn he will lay its foundation, and at the cost of his youngest he will set up its gates." {{rf{27}}} So Yahweh was with Joshua, and his fame was in all the land. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Joshua-06-15]] }}}
But the Israelites broke faith concerning the devoted things. Achan son of Carmi son of Zabdi son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, took from the devoted things; and Yahweh's anger was kindled against the Israelites. {{rf{2}}} Now Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai, which is near Beth Aven, east of Bethel, and he said to them, "Go up and spy out Ai." And the men went up and spied out Ai. {{rf{3}}} And they returned to Joshua and said to him, "Do not let all the people go up and attack Ai; only two or three thousand men should go up because they are few. Do not make all the people weary up there." {{rf{4}}} So about three thousand from the people went up there, and they fled before the men of Ai. {{rf{5}}} The men of Ai killed about thirty-six of them, and they chased them from the gate up to Shebarim and killed them on the slope. And the hearts of the people melted and became like water. {{rf{6}}} And Joshua tore his clothes and fell to the ground on his face before the ark of Yahweh until the evening, he and the elders of Israel; and they put dust on their heads. {{rf{7}}} And Joshua said, "Ah, my Lord! Why did you bring this people across the Jordan to give us into the hand of the Amorites to destroy us? If only we had been content and stayed beyond the Jordan. {{rf{8}}} Please, my Lord! What can I say after Israel has fled from its enemies? {{rf{9}}} The Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land will hear of this, and they will surround us and cut off our name from the land. What will you do, for your great name?" {{rf{10}}} And Yahweh said to Joshua, "Stand up! Why have you fallen on your face? {{rf{11}}} Israel has sinned and transgressed my covenant that I commanded them. They have taken from the devoted things; they have stolen and acted deceitfully, and they have put them among their belongings. {{rf{12}}} The Israelites were unable to stand before their enemies; they fled from their enemies because they have become a thing devoted for destruction. I will be with you no more unless you destroy the devoted things from among you. {{rf{13}}} Get up, sanctify the people, and say, 'Sanctify yourselves for tomorrow. Thus says Yahweh the God of Israel: "There are devoted things in your midst, O Israel. You will be unable to stand before you enemies until you remove the devoted things from your midst." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Joshua-07-01]] }}}
{{rf{14}}} In the morning you will come forward, tribe by tribe, and the tribe that Yahweh will select by lot will come forward by clans, and the clan that Yahweh selects by lot will come forward by families, and the family that Yahweh selects by lot will come forward one by one. {{rf{15}}} The one caught with the devoted things will be burned with fire, he and all that belongs to him, because he transgressed the covenant of Yahweh, and because he did a disgraceful thing in Israel." '" {{rf{16}}} So Joshua rose early in the morning and brought forward Israel, tribe by tribe, and the tribe of Judah was selected by lot. {{rf{17}}} And he brought forward the clans of Judah and selected the clan of the Zerahites by lot. Then he brought forward the clan of the Zerahites, one by one, and Zabdi was selected by lot. {{rf{18}}} He brought forward his family, one by one, and Achan son of Carmi son of Zabdi son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, was selected by lot. {{rf{19}}} And Joshua said to Achan, "My son, please, give glory to Yahweh the God of Israel, and give him a doxology in court. Tell me, please, what you have done; do not hide it from me." {{rf{20}}} And Achan answered Joshua and said, "It is true. I have sinned against Yahweh the God of Israel, and this is what I did: {{rf{21}}} I saw among the spoil a beautiful robe from Shinar, two hundred shekels of silver, and one bar of gold that weighed fifty shekels; I coveted them and took them. They are hidden in the ground inside my tent, and the silver is under it." {{rf{22}}} Joshua sent messengers, and they ran to the tent; and there they were, hidden in his tent, and the silver was under it. {{rf{23}}} And they took them from the tent and brought them to Joshua and all the Israelites. And they spread them out before the presence of Yahweh. {{rf{24}}} Then Joshua, and all Israel with him, took Achan son of Zerah, the silver, the robe, the bar of gold, his sons and daughters, his cattle and donkeys, his sheep, his tent, and everything that was his, and they brought them to the valley of Achor. {{rf{25}}} And Joshua said, "Why did you bring us trouble? Yahweh will bring you trouble on this day." And all Israel stoned them with stones; and they burned them with fire after they stoned them with stones. {{rf{26}}} Then they placed on top of him a great pile of stones that remains to this day. And Yahweh turned from his burning anger, and thus the name of that place to this day is called the valley of Achor. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Joshua-07-14]] }}}
Then Yahweh said to Joshua, "Do not fear or be dismayed. Take all the fighting men with you and go up immediately to Ai. Look, I am giving into your hand the king of Ai, his city, and his land. {{rf{2}}} You will do to Ai and its king that which you did to Jericho and its king; you may take only its spoils and livestock as booty for yourself. Set for yourself an ambush against the city from behind it." {{rf{3}}} So Joshua and all the fighting men went up immediately to Ai. Joshua chose thirty thousand of the best fighting men and sent them by night. {{rf{4}}} And he commanded them, saying, "Look, you are to lay an ambush against the city from behind. Do not go very far from the city and be ready. {{rf{5}}} Then I and all of the people who are with me will approach the city. And when they go out to meet us as before, we will flee from them. {{rf{6}}} They will come out after us until we draw them away from the city, because they will think, 'They are fleeing from us as before.' So we will flee from them. {{rf{7}}} Then you will rise up from the ambush and take possession of the city, for Yahweh your God will give it into your hand. {{rf{8}}} And when you capture the city you will set it on fire as Yahweh commanded. Look, I have commanded you." {{rf{9}}} So Joshua sent them out, and they went to the place of the ambush, and they sat between Bethel and Ai, to the west of Ai; but Joshua spent the night with the people. {{rf{10}}} Joshua rose early in the morning and mustered the people, and he went up with the elders of Israel before the people of Ai. {{rf{11}}} All the fighting men who were with him went up and drew near before the city and camped north of Ai; there was a valley between him and Ai. {{rf{12}}} And he took about five thousand men and set them in ambush between Bethel and Ai, to the west of the city. {{rf{13}}} So they stationed the forces; all the army was north of the city while the rear guard was west. But Joshua went that night to the middle of the valley. {{rf{14}}} When the king of Ai saw this, the men of the city hurried and rose early and went out to meet Israel for battle -- he and all his army -- to the meeting place before the Arabah. He did not know that there was an ambush for him behind the city. {{rf{15}}} Then Joshua and all Israel acted like they were beaten before them, and they fled in the direction of the wilderness. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Joshua-08-01]] }}}
<<Bbl Josh 8:28 abbr >> Ai means "ruin." Ai is a symbol of the fallen nature, which must be crucified.
8:30-35 This is the fulfillment (belated?) of <<Bbl Dt.27 >> See <<Bbl L 14:31 >>-32 . See also <<Bbl 2S 21:1 >>-2 , Saul's betrayal.
<<Bbl Josh 9:9 abbr>> – flattery is essential to the scheme. The Hebrews pride and receiving a humble submissive distance delegation. Quote we really are and nation – and a world power!
The Gibeonites honored God, only in a dysfunctional way. They were like a bad day with Jesus' disciples.
<<Bbl Josh 10:1 abbr >>-5 This alliance of kings for war is a formidable threat, motivated by hatred and fear.
10:4 //...let us strike Gibeon; for it has made peace with Joshua and with the children of Israel.// The king of Jerusalem seems to be offering a //causus belli//.
<<Bbl Josh 10:17 abbr>>-13 – it's a good thing Israel didn't decide to let misfortune fall on the Gibeonites. Now they have the solidarity of God.
<<Bbl Josh 10:24>>-25 – a special dominating cruelty was required to disillusion other nations of any idea of softness, and the Israelites as well, for that matter, after the Gibeonites saga.
11:6 hamstring -- cut the tendon in back of the hock.
11:23 A manifest destiny that is no politician's slogan, but revealed from God.
15:63 This probably speaks for the excellent situation of Jerusalem. Another instance of to this day (6:25), and no indication that Jerusalem is going to be specially chosen. See <<Bbl Ez 16:3 >>. The conquest is found in <<Bbl Judg 1:8 >>
<<Bbl Josh 17:1 abbr >> See <<Bbl Ps 22:12 >>; <<Bbl Amos 4:1 >>
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24:12 See <<Bbl Ex 23:28 >>
<<Bbl Josh 24:13 abbr >> see <<Bbl Pr 13:22 >>
<<Bbl Josh 24:15 abbr>> – a misunderstood verse. If you want to follow God, choose God. If not, then choose between your historical idols and the new indigenous idols. Choose, you might say, between the Republican and Democratic parties.
<<Bbl Josh 24:32 abbr>>-33 – from Jacob to Phineas is 6 generations.
{{rf{16}}} All of the people who were in the city were called to pursue after them. As they pursued after Joshua, they were drawn away from the city. {{rf{17}}} Not a man remained in Ai or Bethel who had not gone out after Israel; they left the city open and pursued after Israel. {{rf{18}}} And Yahweh said to Joshua, "Stretch out the sword that is in your hand to Ai, because I will give it into your hand." And Joshua stretched out the sword that was in his hand to the city. {{rf{19}}} The moment he stretched out his hand, those in the ambush stood up quickly from their place and ran. And they went into the city and captured it, quickly setting the city ablaze with fire. {{rf{20}}} Then the men of Ai looked behind them, and they saw smoke from the city rising to the sky; they had no power to flee this way or that, and the people fleeing the wilderness turned around to the pursuers. {{rf{21}}} And Joshua and all Israel saw that the ambush had captured the city and that the smoke of the city was rising; they returned and struck down the men of Ai. {{rf{22}}} Then the others from the city came out to meet them, and they found themselves surrounded by Israel, some on one side, and others on the other side. And they struck them down until no survivor or fugitive was left. {{rf{23}}} But they captured the king of Ai alive, and they brought him to Joshua. {{rf{24}}} When Israel finished slaughtering all the inhabitants of Ai in the open field, in the wilderness where they pursued them, and when all of them had fallen by the edge of the sword until they all had perished, all Israel returned to Ai and attacked it with the edge of the sword. {{rf{25}}} All the people that fell on that day, both men and women, were twelve thousand -- all the inhabitants of Ai. {{rf{26}}} For Joshua did not draw back his hand that was stretched out with the sword until he had utterly destroyed all the inhabitants of Ai. {{rf{27}}} Only the livestock and the spoil of that city Israel took as booty for themselves, according to the word of Yahweh that Joshua commanded. {{rf{28}}} So Joshua burned Ai and made it an everlasting heap of rubbish, a desolate place until this day. {{rf{29}}} The king of Ai he hanged on a tree until the time of evening, and as the sun went down Joshua commanded them, and they brought down his dead body from the tree. Then they threw it at the entrance of the gate of the city, and they raised over it a great heap of stones that remains to this day. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Joshua-08-16]] }}}
{{rf{30}}} Then Joshua built an altar on Mount Ebal for Yahweh the God of Israel, {{rf{31}}} as Moses Yahweh's servant commanded the Israelites, as it is written in the scroll of the law of Moses: "an altar of unhewn stones on which no one has wielded an iron implement." And they offered burnt offerings on it and sacrificed fellowship offerings. {{rf{32}}} And there Joshua wrote on the stones a copy of the law of Moses, which he had written, in the presence of the Israelites. {{rf{33}}} Then all Israel, foreigner as well as native, with the elders, officials, and judges stood on either side of the ark before the priests and the Levites, who carried the ark of the covenant of Yahweh. Half of them stood in front of Mount Gerizim, and the other half in front of Mount Ebal, as Moses Yahweh's servant had commanded before to bless the people of Israel. {{rf{34}}} And afterward he read all the words of the law, the blessings and the curses, according to all that was written in the scroll of the law. {{rf{35}}} There was not a word from all that Moses commanded that Joshua did not read before the assembly of all Israel, and the women, the little children, and the traveling foreigners among them. {{rf big{1}}} Now when all the kings who were beyond the Jordan in the hill country and in the Shephelah, and on all the coast of the great sea toward Lebanon -- the Hittites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites -- heard of this, {{rf{2}}} they gathered themselves together to fight with one accord against Joshua and Israel. {{rf{3}}} But the inhabitants of Gibeon heard what Joshua did to Jericho and Ai, {{rf{4}}} and they acted on their part with cunning: they went and prepared provisions, and took worn-out sacks for their donkeys and old wineskins that were torn and mended. {{rf{5}}} The sandals on their feet were patched and old, their clothes were old, and their food was dry and crumbled. {{rf{6}}} And they went to Joshua at the camp at Gilgal and said to him and to the men of Israel, "We have come from a far land; so then make a covenant with us." {{rf{7}}} And the men of Israel said to the Hivites, "Perhaps you are living among us; how can we make a covenant with you?" {{rf{8}}} They said to Joshua, "We are your servants." And Joshua said to them, "Who are you, and from where do you come?" {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Joshua-08-30]] }}}
{{rf{9}}} And they said to him, "Your servants have come from a very far land because of the name of Yahweh your God; we have heard of his reputation, of all that he did in Egypt, {{rf{10}}} and of all that he did to the two kings of the Amorites who were beyond the Jordan -- to Sihon king of Heshbon and to Og king of Bashan, who was in Ashtaroth. {{rf{11}}} So our elders said to us and all the inhabitants of our land, 'Take in your hand provisions for the journey, and go to meet them, and say to them, "We are your servants; so then make a covenant with us." ' {{rf{12}}} This is our bread; it was hot when we took it from our houses as provisions on the day we set out to come to you. But now, look, it is dry and crumbled. {{rf{13}}} These are the wineskins that we filled new, but look, they have burst; and these are our clothes and sandals that have worn out from the very long journey." {{rf{14}}} So the leaders took from their provisions, but they did not ask direction from Yahweh. {{rf{15}}} And Joshua made peace with them, and he made a covenant with them to allow them to live happily, and the leaders of the congregation swore an oath to them. {{rf{16}}} And it happened that at the end of three days, after they made a covenant with them, they heard that they were their neighbors and living among them. {{rf{17}}} And the Israelites set out and went to their cities on the third day (their cities were Gibeon, Kephirah, Beeroth, and Kiriath Jearim). {{rf{18}}} But the Israelites did not attack them, because the leaders of the congregation had sworn to them by Yahweh the God of Israel. And all the congregation murmured against their leaders. {{rf{19}}} But all the leaders of the congregation said, "We have sworn to them by Yahweh the God of Israel, and so we cannot touch them. {{rf{20}}} This we will do to them: we will let them live so that wrath will not be on us because of the oath we swore to them." {{rf{21}}} And the leaders said to them, "Let them live." So they became woodcutters and water carriers for all the congregation, just as the leaders had said to them. {{rf{22}}} And Joshua summoned them and said, "Why have you deceived us saying, 'We are very far from you' when you are living among us? {{rf{23}}} Therefore you are cursed; some of you will always be slaves as woodcutters and water carriers for the house of my God." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Joshua-09-09]] }}}
{{rf{24}}} And they answered Joshua and said, "Because it was told with certainty to your servants that Yahweh your God commanded Moses his servant to give to you all the land and to destroy all the inhabitants of the land before you, so we were very afraid for our lives because of you, and so we did this thing. {{rf{25}}} So then, look, we are in your hand; do with us whatever seems good and right in your eyes." {{rf{26}}} So he did this to them: he saved them from the hand of the Israelites, and they did not kill them. {{rf{27}}} And that day Joshua made them woodcutters and water carriers for the congregation and for the altar of Yahweh, to this day, in the place that he should choose. {{rf big{1}}} And it happened that when Adoni-Zedek king of Jerusalem heard that Joshua captured Ai and had utterly destroyed it (just as he had done to Jericho and its king, so he did to Ai and its king) and that the inhabitants of Gibeon had made peace with Israel and were among them, {{rf{2}}} he became very afraid because Gibeon was a very large city, like one of the royal cities, and because it was larger than Ai, and all its men were mighty warriors. {{rf{3}}} So Adoni-Zedek king of Jerusalem sent word to Hohman king of Hebron, to Piram king of Jarmuth, to Japhia king of Lachish, and to Debir king of Eglon, saying, {{rf{4}}} "Come up and help me, and let us attack Gibeon, because it has made peace with Joshua and the Israelites." {{rf{5}}} And the five kings of the Amorites, the king of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of Jarmuth, the king of Lachish, and the king of Eglon, gathered together and went up, they and all their forces, and they laid siege to Gibeon and made war against it. {{rf{6}}} And the men of Gibeon sent word to Joshua at the camp at Gilgal, saying, "Do not abandon your servant. Come up to us quickly and save us! Help us, for all the kings of the Amorites who dwell in the hill country have gathered against us." {{rf{7}}} So Joshua went up from Gilgal, he and all the fighting men with him, all the best warriors. {{rf{8}}} And Yahweh said to Joshua, "Do not be afraid of them, for I have given them into your hand; no one will withstand you. {{rf{9}}} Joshua came upon them suddenly by marching up all night from Gilgal. {{rf{10}}} And Yahweh threw them into panic before Israel, who struck them with a great blow at Gibeon and pursued them by the way of the ascent of Beth-horon and struck them as far as Azekah and Makkedah. {{rf{11}}} And as they were fleeing from Israel, they were on the slope of Beth-horon, and Yahweh threw huge stones from the heavens on them as far as Azekah; and more died by the hail stones than those whom the Israelites killed by the sword. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Joshua-09-24]] }}}
{{rf{12}}} Then Joshua spoke to Yahweh, on the day Yahweh gave the Amorites over to the Israelites, and he said in the sight of Israel, "Sun in Gibeon, stand still, and moon, in the valley of Aijalon." {{rf{13}}} And the sun stood still, and the moon stopped, until the nation took vengeance on its enemies. Is it not written in the scroll of Jashar? The sun stood still in the middle of the heaven and was not in haste to set for about a full day. {{rf{14}}} There has not been a day like this before it or after, that Yahweh listened to the voice of a man; for Yahweh fought for Israel. {{rf{15}}} And Joshua returned and all Israel with him to the camp at Gilgal. {{rf{16}}} But these five kings fled and hid themselves in the cave at Makkedah. {{rf{17}}} And it was told to Joshua, saying, "The five kings were found hidden in the cave at Makkedah." {{rf{18}}} And Joshua said, "Roll large stones against the mouth of the cave, and set men in front of it to guard them. {{rf{19}}} But do not stay there; pursue after your enemies and attack them from the rear. Do not allow them to go into their cities, for Yahweh your God has given them into your hand." {{rf{20}}} When Joshua and the Israelites had finished striking them with a very great blow, until they perished, those of them who survived went into the fortified cities, {{rf{21}}} and all the people returned to the camp safely to Joshua at Makkedah. No one spoke against the Israelites. {{rf{22}}} And Joshua said, "Open the mouth of the cave, and bring to me those five kings from the cave." {{rf{23}}} And they did so, and brought him these five kings from the cave, the king of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of Jarmuth, the king of Lachish, and the king of Eglon. {{rf{24}}} And when they brought these kings to Joshua, Joshua called all the men of Israel and said to the commanders of the fighting men who had gone with him, "Come near, put your feet on the necks of these kings." So they came near and put their feet on their necks. {{rf{25}}} And Joshua said to them, "Do not be afraid or dismayed! Be strong and bold, for thus Yahweh will do to all your enemies whom you are about to fight. {{rf{26}}} And after this Joshua struck them down and killed them, and he hanged them on five trees. And they were hanging on the trees until the evening. {{rf{27}}} And it happened at the time of sunset, Joshua commanded, and they took them down from the trees and threw them into the cave where they had hidden themselves, and they put large stones against the mouth of the cave, which are there to this very day. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Joshua-10-12]] }}}
{{rf{28}}} Joshua captured Makkedah on that day, and he struck it and its king with the edge of the sword; he utterly destroyed it and everyone that was in it. He did not leave behind a survivor. So he did to the king of Makkedah just as he did to the king of Jericho. {{rf{29}}} And Joshua passed on, and all of Israel with him, from Makkedah to Libnah, and he fought against Libnah. {{rf{30}}} And Yahweh also gave it into the hand of Israel, and its king and all the people in it he struck with the edge of the sword. He left in it no survivor. He did to its king just as he did to the king of Jericho. {{rf{31}}} And Joshua passed on, and all of Israel with him, from Libnah to Lachish, and he laid siege to it and fought against it. {{rf{32}}} And Yahweh gave Lachish into the hand of Israel, and he captured it on the second day. He struck it with the edge of the sword, and everyone in it, just as he did to Libnah. {{rf{33}}} Then Horam king of Gezer came up to help Lachish, and Joshua struck him and his people until he left no survivor behind. {{rf{34}}} And Joshua passed on, and all of Israel with him, from Lachish to Eglon, and they laid siege to it and fought against it. {{rf{35}}} And they captured it on that day, and he struck it with the edge of the sword, and all the people that were in it on that day he utterly destroyed as he had done to Lachish. {{rf{36}}} And Joshua went up, and all Israel with him, from Eglon to Hebron, and they fought against it {{rf{37}}} and captured it, and they struck it with the edge of the sword, its king and all its cities, and all the people that were in it; he left behind no survivor, as he had done to Eglon, and he utterly destroyed it and all the people that were in it. {{rf{38}}} Then Joshua returned to Debir, and all of Israel with him, and they fought against it, {{rf{39}}} and he captured it and its king and all its cities, and they struck them with the the edge of the sword, and they utterly destroyed all the people that were in it; he left behind no survivor, just as he had done to Hebron. Thus he did to Debir and its king what he had done to Libnah and its king. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Joshua-10-28]] }}}
{{rf{40}}} So Joshua struck all the land -- the hill country, the Negev, the Shephelah, and the slopes -- and all their kings; he left behind no survivor, and all that breathed he utterly destroyed as Yahweh the God of Israel commanded. {{rf{41}}} Joshua struck them from Kadesh Barnea to Gaza, and all the land of Goshen up to Gibeon; {{rf{42}}} all of these kings and their land Joshua captured at one time, because Yahweh the God of Israel fought for Israel. {{rf{43}}} And Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, to the camp at Gilgal. {{rf big{1}}} And it happened, when Jabin king of Hazor heard this, he sent to Jobab king of Madon, to the king of Shimron, to the king of Acshaph, {{rf{2}}} and to the kings who were in the north in the hill country, in the Arabah south of Kinnereth, in the Shephelah, and in Naphoth Dor in the west, {{rf{3}}} to the Canaanites in the east and west, the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, and the Jebusites in the hill country, and the Hivites at the foot of Hermon in the land of Mizpah. {{rf{4}}} They came out, they and all their armies with them, as a great army like the sand on the seashore, with very many horses and chariots. {{rf{5}}} And all these kings joined forces, and they came and camped together by the waters of Merom to fight with Israel. {{rf{6}}} And Yahweh said to Joshua, "Do not be afraid because of their presence, for tomorrow at this time I will hand them over slain to Israel; you will hamstring their horses and burn their chariots with fire." {{rf{7}}} So Joshua, and all the fighting men with him, came against them suddenly at the waters of Merom, and they attacked them. {{rf{8}}} And Yahweh gave them into the hand of Israel, and they struck them and pursued them up to Great Sidon and Misrephoth Maim, and eastward up to the valley of Mizpeh. And they struck them until they left behind no survivor. {{rf{9}}} And Joshua did to them as Yahweh commanded him; he hamstrung their horses and burned their chariots with fire. {{rf{10}}} Then Joshua turned back at that time, and he captured Hazor and struck its king with the sword, because Hazor formerly was the head of all these kingdoms. {{rf{11}}} He struck all the people that were in it with the edge of the sword, utterly destroying them. There was no one left who breathed, and he burned Hazor with fire. {{rf{12}}} And Joshua captured all the cities of these kings, and all their kings, and he utterly destroyed them with the edge of the sword, as Moses the servant of Yahweh commanded. {{rf{13}}} Israel did not burn the cities standing on their mounds, except Hazor alone, which Joshua burned. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Joshua-10-40]] }}}
{{rf{14}}} And all the spoil and livestock of these cities the Israelites took as booty; they struck the people with the edge of the sword, until they had destroyed them -- they left behind no one who breathed. {{rf{15}}} Just as Yahweh commanded Moses his servant, so Moses commanded Joshua, and Joshua did; he left nothing undone that Yahweh had commanded Moses. {{rf{16}}} So Joshua took all this land: the hill country, all the Negev, all the land of Goshen, the Shephelah, the Arabah, and the hill country of Israel and its Shephelah, {{rf{17}}} from Mount Halak that rises to Seir and to Baal Gad in the valley of Lebanon at the foot of Mount Hermon; he captured all their kings, struck them, and killed them. {{rf{18}}} For many days Joshua made war with all these kings. {{rf{19}}} There was not a city that made peace with the Israelites besides the Hivites and the inhabitants of Gibeon -- all were taken in battle. {{rf{20}}} For it was Yahweh that hardened their hearts, to meet Israel in war in order to utterly destroy them without mercy, that they would destroy them just as Yahweh commanded Moses. {{rf{21}}} At that time Joshua came and exterminated the Anakites from the hill country, from Hebron, Debir, Anab, and from all the hill country of Judah, and from all the hill country of Israel; Joshua utterly destroyed them with their cities. {{rf{22}}} None of the Anakites were left in the land of the Israelites; some remained only in Gaza, Gath, and Ashdod. {{rf{23}}} Joshua took all the land according to all that Yahweh had spoken to Moses; and Joshua gave it as an inheritance to Israel, according to their tribal divisions, and the land rested from war. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Joshua-11-14]] }}}
These are the kings of the land whom the Israelites defeated, and of whose land they took possession beyond the Jordon to the east, from the wadi of Arnon up to Mount Hermon, and all the Arabah to the east: {{rf{2}}} Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon, and ruled from Aroer, which is on the edge of the wadi of Arnon, from the middle of the valley and half of Gilead, up to the Jabbok River, which marks the border of the Ammonites; {{rf{3}}} and the Arabah up to the Kinnereth Sea to the east, and as far as the sea of Arabah, the Salt Sea to the east, in the direction of Beth Jeshimoth, and to the area southward, at the foot of the slopes of Pisgah; {{rf{4}}} the territory of Og king of Bashan, one of the last of the Rephaites, who lived at Ashtaroth and Edrei {{rf{5}}} and ruled over Mount Hermon and Salecah and over all Bashan up to the border of the Geshurites and the Maacathites, and half of Gilead, as far as the border of Sihon king of Heshbon. {{rf{6}}} Moses Yahweh's servant and the Israelites defeated them; and Moses Yahweh's servant gave it as a possession to the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh. {{rf{7}}} These are the kings of the land whom Joshua and the Israelites defeated beyond to the Jordan to the west, from Baal Gad in the valley of Lebanon, and up to Mount Halak, which rises to Seir. And Joshua gave it as a possession to the tribes of Israel according to their allotments, {{rf{8}}} in the hill country, the Shephelah, the Arabah, on the slopes, in the wilderness, and in the Negev; the Hittites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites: {{rf{9}}} the king of Jericho, one; the king of Ai, which is beside Bethel, one; {{rf{10}}} the king of Jerusalem, one; the king of Hebron, one; {{rf{11}}} the king of Jarmuth, one; the king of Lachish, one; {{rf{12}}} the king of Eglon, one; the king of Gezer, one; {{rf{13}}} the king of Debir, one; the king of Geder, one; {{rf{14}}} the king of Hormah, one; the king of Arad, one; {{rf{15}}} the king of Libnah, one; the king of Adullam, one; {{rf{16}}} the king of Makkedah, one; the king of Bethel, one; {{rf{17}}} the king of Tappuah, one; the king of Hepher, one; {{rf{18}}} the king of Aphek, one; the king of Lasharon, one; {{rf{19}}} the king of Madon, one; the king of Hazor, one; {{rf{20}}} the king of Shimron-meron, one; the king of Acshaph, one; {{rf{21}}} the king of Taanach, one; the king of Megiddo, one; {{rf{22}}} the king of Kedesh, one; the king of Jokneam in Carmel, one; {{rf{23}}} the king of Dor in Naphath Dor, one; the king of Goiim for Gilgal, one; {{rf{24}}} the king of Tirzah, one; all the kings, thirty-one. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Joshua-12-01]] }}}
Now Joshua was old and advanced in years, and Yahweh said to him, "You are old and advanced in years, and very much of the land remains to be possessed. {{rf{2}}} This is the remaining land: all the regions of the Philistines, and all of the Geshurites, {{rf{3}}} from the Shihor, which is east of Egypt, up to the border of Ekron to the north, which is reckoned as Canaanite; there are five Philistine rulers: the Gazites, Ashdodites, Ashkelonites, Gittites, Ekronites, and the Avvim. {{rf{4}}} In the south; all the land of the Canaanites, and Mearah, which belongs to the Sidonians up to Aphek, to the border of the Amorites, {{rf{5}}} and the land of the Gebalites, and all the Lebanon, toward the east, from Baal Gad at the foot of Mount Hermon up to Lebo-Hamath; {{rf{6}}} all the inhabitants of the hill country, from the Lebanon up to Misrephoth Maim, and all the Sidonians. I will drive them out from before the Israelites; only allocate it to Israel as an inheritance just as I have commanded you. {{rf{7}}} Therefore, divide this land as an inheritance to the nine tribes and the half-tribe of Manasseh." {{rf{8}}} With it the Reubenites, and the Gadites received their inheritance, which Moses gave them beyond the Jordan to the east, just as Moses Yahweh's servant gave to them: {{rf{9}}} from Aroer, which is on the edge of the wadi of Arnon, and the city which is in the middle of the wadi, and all the plateau from Medeba up to Dibon; {{rf{10}}} and all the cities of Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon up to the border of the Ammonites; {{rf{11}}} and Gilead, and the border of the Geshurite and the Maacathites, all of Mount Hermon, and Bashan up to Salecah; {{rf{12}}} all the kingdom of Og in Bashan, who reigned in Ashtaroth and Edrei -- he was left over from the survivors of the Rephaim; these Moses had defeated and driven out. {{rf{13}}} But the Israelites did not drive out the Geshurites or the Maacathites; Geshur and Maacah live among Israel to this day. {{rf{14}}} Only the tribe of Levites Moses did not give an inheritance; the offerings made by fire to Yahweh the God of Israel are their inheritance, just as he promised to them. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Joshua-13-01]] }}}
{{rf{15}}} Moses gave an inheritance to the tribe of the descendants of Reuben according to their families. {{rf{16}}} Their territory was from Aroer, which was on the edge of the wadi of Arnon, and the city that is in the middle of the valley, and all the plateau by Medeba; {{rf{17}}} Heshbon and its cities that are on the plateau; Dibon, Bamoth Baal, Beth Baal Meon, {{rf{18}}} Jahaz, Kedemoth, Mephaath, {{rf{19}}} Kiriathaim, Sibmah, and Zereth Shahar on the hill of the valley; {{rf{20}}} Beth Peor, the slopes of Pisgah, and Beth Jeshimoth; {{rf{21}}} all of the cities of the plateau, and all the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon and whom Moses defeated with the leaders of Midian, Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba, the princes of Sihon who dwelled in the land. {{rf{22}}} In addition to their slain, the Israelites killed with the sword Balaam son of Beor, who practiced divination. {{rf{23}}} And the border of the descendants of Reuben was the Jordan and its banks. This was the inheritance of the descendants of Reuben according to their families, the cities, and their villages. {{rf{24}}} Moses gave an inheritance to the tribe of Gad, to the descendants of Gad, according to their families. {{rf{25}}} Their territory was Jazer and all the cities of Gilead, and half the land of the Ammonites up to Aroer, which is east of Rabbah; {{rf{26}}} and from Heshbon up to Ramah-Mizpeh and Betonim, and from Mahanaim up to the territory to Debir; {{rf{27}}} in the valley of Beth Haram, Beth Nimrah, Succoth, Zaphon, and the rest of the kingdom of Sihon king of Heshbon, the Jordan and its banks, up to the lower end of the Kinnereth Sea beyond the Jordan to the east. {{rf{28}}} This is the inheritance of the Gadites according to their families, the cities, and their villages. {{rf{29}}} Moses gave an inheritance to the half-tribe of Manasseh; it was for the half-tribe of the descendants of Manasseh according to their families. {{rf{30}}} Their territory was from Mahanaim, all Bashan, all the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, and all the settlements of Jair, which are in Bashan, sixty cities, {{rf{31}}} and half of Gilead, with Ashtaroth, Edrei, and the cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan; these were allotted to the children of Makir son of Manasseh, for half of the children of Makir according to their families. {{rf{32}}} These are the territories that Moses gave as an inheritance on the desert-plateau of Moab, beyond the Jordan, east of Jericho. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Joshua-13-15]] }}}
{{rf{33}}} But to the tribe of Levi Moses did not give an inheritance; Yahweh the God of Israel, he is their inheritance, just as he promised them. {{rf big{1}}} These are the territories that the Israelites inherited in the land of Canaan, which Eleazar the priest, Joshua son of Nun, and the heads of the families of the tribes of the Israelites gave as an inheritance to them. {{rf{2}}} Their inheritance was by lot, just as Yahweh commanded through the hand of Moses, for the nine tribes and the half-tribe. {{rf{3}}} For Moses had given an inheritance of the two tribes and the half-tribe beyond the Jordan, but to the Levites he gave no inheritance among them. {{rf{4}}} For the descendants of Joseph were two tribes, Manasseh and Ephraim, and they did not give a plot of ground to the Levites in the land, only cities to live in, with their pastureland for their flocks and for their goods. {{rf{5}}} Just as Yahweh commanded Moses, so the Israelites did; and they allotted the land. {{rf{6}}} Then the descendants of Judah came to Joshua at Gilgal; and Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite said to him, "You know the word that Yahweh said to Moses the man of God at Kadesh Barnea concerning you and me. {{rf{7}}} I was forty years old when Moses Yahweh's servant sent me from Kadesh Barnea to spy out the land, and I returned with an honest report. {{rf{8}}} My companions who went up with me made the hearts of the people melt, but I remained true to Yahweh my God. {{rf{9}}} And Moses swore on that day, saying, 'Surely the land that your foot has trodden on will be an inheritance to you and your sons forever, because you remained true to Yahweh my God.' {{rf{10}}} So then, look, Yahweh has kept me alive just as he promised these forty-five years, from the time that Yahweh spoke this word to Moses while Israel wandered in the wilderness. Now look, today I am eighty-five years old. {{rf{11}}} Today I am still strong, just as on the day that Moses sent me; as my strength was then, so now also is my strength for war and for daily activities. {{rf{12}}} So now give me this hill country that Yahweh spoke of on that day, for you heard on that day that the Anakites were there, with great and fortified cities. Perhaps Yahweh is with me, and I will drive them out just as Yahweh promised." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Joshua-13-33]] }}}
{{rf{13}}} And Joshua blessed him and gave Hebron to Caleb son of Jephunneh as an inheritance. {{rf{14}}} Thus Hebron became the inheritance of Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite to this day, because he remained true to Yahweh the God of Israel. {{rf{15}}} And the name of Hebron formerly was Kiriath Arba; Arba was the greatest person among the Anakites. And the land rested from war. {{rf big{1}}} The allotment for the tribe of the descendants of Judah according to their families reached to the border of Edom, to the wilderness of Zin, to the far south. {{rf{2}}} Their southern border was from the end of the Salt Sea, from the bay facing southward; {{rf{3}}} it continues to the south to the ascent of Akrabbim, passes along to Zin, it goes up south of Kadesh Barnea, passes along Hezron, goes up to Addar, and makes a turn to Karka; {{rf{4}}} it passes on to Azmon, continues by the wadi of Egypt, and it ends at the sea. This will be your southern border. {{rf{5}}} The eastern border is the Salt Sea up to the mouth of the Jordan. The border on the northern side runs from the bay of the sea at the mouth of the Jordan; {{rf{6}}} the border goes up to Beth-hoglah and passes along north of Beth Arabah; and the border goes up the stone of Bohan son of Reuben; {{rf{7}}} and the border goes up to Debir from the valley of Achor, and to the north, turning to Gilgal, which is opposite the ascent of Adummim, which is south of the wadi; and the border passes on to the waters of En Shemesh, and it ends at En Rogel. {{rf{8}}} Then the border goes up by the Valley of Ben Hinnom to the slope of the Jebusites from the south (that is, Jerusalem); and the border goes up to the top of the mountain that lies opposite the valley of Hinnom to the west, which is at the end of the valley of Rephaim to the north; {{rf{9}}} then the border turns from the top of the mountain to the spring of the waters of Nephtoah, and continues from there to the cities of Mount Ephron; the border then turns to Baalah (that is, Kiriath Jearim); {{rf{10}}} and the border goes around from Baalah to the west, to Mount Seir, and passes on to the slope of Mount Jearim from the north (that is, Kesalon), and goes down to Beth Shemesh, and passes along by Timnah. {{rf{11}}} The border continues to the slope of Ekron to the north, then bends around to Shikkeron, it passes on to Mount Baalah and continues to Jabneel; and the border ends at the sea. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Joshua-14-13]] }}}
{{rf{12}}} And the western border is to the Great Sea and its coast. This is the border surrounding the descendants of Judah according to their families. {{rf{13}}} According to the commandment of Yahweh to Joshua, he gave to Caleb son of Jephunneh a plot of ground among the descendants of Judah, Kiriath Arba, which is Hebron (Arba was Anak's father). {{rf{14}}} Caleb drove out from there three of Anak's sons, Sheshai, Ahiman, and Talmai, the descendants of Anak. {{rf{15}}} And from there he went up against the inhabitants of Debir (the former name of Debir was Kiriath Sepher). {{rf{16}}} And Caleb said, "Whoever attacks Kiriath Sepher and captures it, I will give to him my daughter Acsah as a wife." {{rf{17}}} Othniel son of Kenaz, the brother of Caleb, captured it, and he gave to him Acsah his daughter as a wife. {{rf{18}}} When she came to him she urged him to ask her father for a field. So she dismounted from the donkey, and Caleb said to her, "What do you want?" {{rf{19}}} And she said to him, "Give to me a gift; you have given me the land of the Negev, and you must give to me a spring of water." And he gave to her the upper and lower spring. {{rf{20}}} This is the inheritance of the tribe of the descendants of Judah according to their families: {{rf{21}}} the cities belonging to the tribe of the descendants of Judah to the far south, to the border of Edom to the south, were Kabzeel, Eder, Jagur, {{rf{22}}} Kinah, Dimonah, Adadah, {{rf{23}}} Kedesh, Hazor, Ithnan, {{rf{24}}} Ziph, Telem, Bealoth, {{rf{25}}} Hazor Hadattah, Kerioth Hezron (that is, Hazor), {{rf{26}}} Amam, Shema, Moladah, {{rf{27}}} Hazar Gaddah, Heshmon, Beth Pelet, {{rf{28}}} Hazar Shual, Beersheba, Biziothiah, {{rf{29}}} Baalah, Iim, Ezem, {{rf{30}}} Eltolad, Kesil, Hormah, {{rf{31}}} Ziklag, Madmannah, Sansannah, {{rf{32}}} Lebaoth, Shilhim, Ain, and Rimmon; in all, twenty-nine cities and their villages. {{rf{33}}} In the Shephelah: Eshtaol, Zorah, Ashnah, {{rf{34}}} Zanoah, En Gannim, Tappuah, Enam, {{rf{35}}} Jarmuth, Adullam, Socoh, Azekah, {{rf{36}}} Shaaraim, Adithaim, Gederah, and Gederothaim; fourteen cities and their villages. {{rf{37}}} Zenan, Hadashah, Migdal Gad, {{rf{38}}} Dilean, Mizpah, Joktheel, {{rf{39}}} Lachish, Bozkath, Eglon, {{rf{40}}} Cabbon, Lahma, Kitlish, {{rf{41}}} Gederoth, Beth Dagon, Naamah, and Makkedah; sixteen cities and their villages. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Joshua-15-12]] }}}
{{rf{42}}} Libnah, Ether, Ashan, {{rf{43}}} Jephthah, Ashnah, Nezib, {{rf{44}}} Keilah, Aczib, and Mareshah; nine cities and their villages. {{rf{45}}} Ekron, its towns and villages; {{rf{46}}} from Ekron to the sea, and all that were near Ashdod and their villages. {{rf{47}}} Ashdod, its towns and villages; Gaza, its towns and villages, up to the wadi of Egypt and the Great Sea and its coast. {{rf{48}}} And in the hill country: Shamir, Jattir, Socoh, {{rf{49}}} Dannah, Kiriath Sanna (that is, Debir), {{rf{50}}} Anab, Eshtemoh, Anim, {{rf{51}}} Goshen, Holon, and Giloh; eleven cities and their villages. {{rf{52}}} Arab, Dumah, Eshan, {{rf{53}}} Janim, Beth-tappuah, Aphekah, {{rf{54}}} Humtah, Kiriath Arba (that is, Hebron), and Zior; nine cities and their villages. {{rf{55}}} Moan, Carmel, Ziph, Juttah, {{rf{56}}} Jezreel, Jokdeam, Zanoah, {{rf{57}}} Kain, Gibeah, and Timnah; ten cities and their villages. {{rf{58}}} Halhul, Beth Zur, Gedor, {{rf{59}}} Maarath, Beth Anoth, and Eltekon; six cities and their villages. {{rf{60}}} Kiriath Baal (that is, Kiriath Jearim) and Rabbah; two cities and their villages. {{rf{61}}} In the wilderness: Beth Arabah, Middin, Secacah, {{rf{62}}} Nibshan, the city of Salt, and En Gedi; six cities and their villages. {{rf{63}}} But the descendants of Judah were unable to drive out the Jebusites, the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so the Jebusites live with the descendants of Judah in Jerusalem to this day. {{rf big{1}}} The allotment of the descendants of Joseph went from the Jordan by Jericho, at the waters of Jericho to the east, into the wilderness, going up from Jericho into the hill country to Bethel; {{rf{2}}} it continues from Bethel to Luz, and it passes along to the territory of the Arkites at Ataroth. {{rf{3}}} Then it goes down, to the west, to the territory of the Japhletites, up to the territory of Lower Beth-horon, then to Gezer, and it ends at the sea. {{rf{4}}} And the descendants of Joseph, Manasseh and Ephraim, received their inheritance. {{rf{5}}} This was the border of the descendants of Ephraim according to their families: the border of their inheritance to the east was Ataroth Addar, up to Upper Beth-horon. {{rf{6}}} The border continues to the sea; from Micmethath to the north, the border turns to the east to Taanath Shiloh, and it passes along it from the east to Janoah. {{rf{7}}} Then it goes down from Janoah to Ataroth and to Naarah; it touches Jericho and ends at the Jordan; {{rf{8}}} from Tappuah the border goes to the west, to the wadi of Kanah, and it ends at the sea. This is the inheritance of the tribe of the descendants of Ephraim according to their families, {{rf{9}}} with the cities that were set apart for the descendants of Ephraim in the midst of the inheritance of the descendants of Manasseh, all the cities and their villages. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Joshua-15-42]] }}}
{{rf{10}}} But they did not drive out the Canananites who were dwelling in Gezer, and so the Canaanites live in the midst of Ephraim to this day, but they became forced laborers. {{rf big{1}}} Then the allotment was made for the tribe of Manasseh, because he was the firstborn of Joseph. To Makir, the firstborn of Manasseh, the father of Gilead, were allotted Gilead and Bashan, because he was a warrior. {{rf{2}}} An allotment was made for the remaining descendants of Manasseh, according to their families: For the children of Abiezer, Helek, Asriel, Shechem, Hepher, and Shemida -- these were the male descendants of Manasseh son of Joseph according to their families. {{rf{3}}} But Zelophehad son of Hepher, son of Gilead, son of Makir, son of Manasseh, had no sons, only daughters. These are the names of his daughters: Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah. {{rf{4}}} They came before Eleazar the priest, Joshua son of Nun, and the leaders, saying, "Yahweh commanded Moses to give an inheritance to us among our kinsmen." Therefore, according to the command of Yahweh he gave them an inheritance among the kinsmen of their father. {{rf{5}}} Thus ten shares fell to Manasseh, besides the land of Gilead and Bashan, which is beyond the Jordan, {{rf{6}}} because the daughters of Manasseh received an inheritance among his sons. And the land of Gilead was allotted to the remaining descendants of Manasseh. {{rf{7}}} The border of Manasseh was from Asher to Micmethath, which is opposite Shechem; then the border goes to the south, to the inhabitants of En Tappuah. {{rf{8}}} The land of Tappuah belonged to Manasseh, but Tuppuah on the border of Manasseh belonged to the descendants of Ephraim. {{rf{9}}} Then the border goes down to the wadi of Kanah to the south of the wadi. These cities belong to Ephraim among the cities of Manasseh. The border of Manasseh is north of the wadi, and it ends at the sea. {{rf{10}}} The south is Ephraim's, and the north is Manasseh's; the sea is their border; Asher touches the north and on the east Issachar. {{rf{11}}} In Issachar and Asher, Manasseh had Beth-shean and its villages, Ibleam and its villages, the inhabitants of Dor and its villages, the inhabitants of En-dor and its villages, the inhabitants of Taanach and its villages, the inhabitants of Megiddo and its villages; the third is Napheth. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Joshua-16-10]] }}}
{{rf{12}}} But the descendants of Manasseh were not able to take possession of these towns; the Canaanites were determined to live in this land. {{rf{13}}} And it happened, when the Israelites grew strong, they put the Canaanites to forced labor but never drove them out completely. {{rf{14}}} The descendants of Joseph spoke with Joshua, saying, "Why have you given us one allotment and one share as an inheritance? We are many people, which Yahweh has blessed." {{rf{15}}} And Joshua said to them, "If you are many people, go up to the forest and clear a place there for yourselves in the land of the Perizzites and Rephaim, since the hill country of Ephraim is too narrow for you." {{rf{16}}} And the descendants of Joseph said, "The hill country is not enough for us, and all of the Canaanites living in the land of the valley have chariots of iron, those in Beth-shean and its villages, and those in the Jezreel Valley." {{rf{17}}} And Joshua said to the house of Joseph, to Ephraim and Manasseh, "You are many people and have great power; you will not have one allotment only; {{rf{18}}} the hill country will be yours. Even though it is a forest, you will clear it, and it will be yours to its farthest borders. You will drive out the Canaanites, even though they have iron chariots and are strong." {{rf big{1}}} The entire congregation of the Israelites assembled at Shiloh, and they set up there the tent of meeting, and the land was subdued before them. {{rf{2}}} And seven tribes remained among the Israelites who had not been apportioned their inheritance. {{rf{3}}} And Joshua said to the Israelites, "How long will you be slack about going to take possession of the land that Yahweh, the God of your ancestors, has given you? {{rf{4}}} Provide three men from each tribe, and I will send them so that they may begin to go through the land and write a description of it according to their inheritance, and let them come to me. {{rf{5}}} They will divide it among themselves into seven portions; Judah will maintain its border from the south, and the house of Joseph will maintain its border from the north. {{rf{6}}} Describe the land in seven divisions, and bring it to me here; I will cast lots for you here before Yahweh our God. {{rf{7}}} The Levites among you have no portion, for their inheritance is the priesthood of Yahweh; Gad, Reuben, and the half-tribe of Manasseh received their inheritance beyond the Jordan to the east, which Moses Yahweh's servant gave to them." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Joshua-17-12]] }}}
{{rf{8}}} And the men went immediately, and Joshua commanded the ones going to describe the land, saying, "Go and walk about through the land, write a description, and return to me, and here I will cast a lot for you before Yahweh at Shiloh." {{rf{9}}} And the men went and passed through the land, and they described the cities in seven divisions in a book; and they came to Joshua to the camp at Shiloh, {{rf{10}}} and Joshua cast a lot for them at Shiloh before Yahweh, and there he divided the land for the Israelites, to each a portion. {{rf{11}}} And the allotment of the tribe of Benjamin came up according to their families, and the border of their allotment fell between the descendants of Judah and the descendants of Joseph. {{rf{12}}} Their northern border began at the Jordan and went up to the slope of Jericho on the north and continued into the hill country to the west; it ends at the wilderness of Beth Aven. {{rf{13}}} The border passes on from there to Luz, to the slope of Luz to the south (that is, Bethel); then the border goes down to Ataroth Addar to the mountain that is south of Lower Beth-Horon. {{rf{14}}} Then the border changes direction and turns to the western side southward, from the mountain that is opposite Beth-Horon to the south. It ends at Kiriath Baal (that is, Kiriath Jearim), a town belonging to the descendants of Judah. This is the western side. {{rf{15}}} The southern side begins on the outskirts of Kiriath Jearim, and the border continues to the west to the spring of the waters of Nephtoah; {{rf{16}}} the border goes down to the foot of the mountain, which is opposite the Valley of Ben Hinnom, which is in the valley of Rephaim to the north; then it does down the valley of Hinnom to the slope of the Jebusites to the south, and then it goes down to En Rogel. {{rf{17}}} It changes direction from the north, and it continues to En Shemesh; it goes out to Geliloth, which is opposite the ascent of Adummim, and it goes down to the stone of Bohan, son of Reuben. {{rf{18}}} It passes on to the slope opposite the Arabah to the north, and it goes down to the Arabah. {{rf{19}}} The border passes on to the slope of Beth-hoglah to the north and ends at the north bay of the Salt Sea at the south end of the Jordan. This is the southern border. {{rf{20}}} The Jordan forms its border on the eastern side. This is the inheritance of the tribe of Benjamin, its borders that surrounds them, according to their families. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Joshua-18-08]] }}}
{{rf{21}}} Now the towns of the tribes of the descendants of Benjamin, according to their families, were Jericho, Beth-hoglah, Emek Keziz, {{rf{22}}} Beth Arabah, Zemaraim, Bethel, {{rf{23}}} Avvim, Parah, Ophrah, {{rf{24}}} Kephar Ammoni, Ophni, and Geba; twelve cities and their villages. {{rf{25}}} Gibeon, Ramah, Beeroth, {{rf{26}}} Mizpeh, Kephirah, Mozah, {{rf{27}}} Rekem, Irpeel, Taralah, {{rf{28}}} Zela, Haeleph, Jebus (that is, Jerusalem), Gibeah, and Kiriath; fourteen cities and their villages. This is the inheritance of the descendants of Benjamin according to their families. {{rf big{1}}} The second allotment fell for Simeon, for the tribe of the descendants of Simeon, according to their families. And their inheritance was in the midst of the inheritance of the descendants of Judah. {{rf{2}}} And they had as their inheritance Beersheba, Sheba, Moladah, {{rf{3}}} Hazar Shual, Balah, Ezem, {{rf{4}}} Eltolad, Bethul, Hormah, {{rf{5}}} Ziklag, Beth Marcaboth, Hazar Susah, {{rf{6}}} Beth Lebaoth, and Sharuhen; thirteen cities and their villages. {{rf{7}}} Ain, Rimmon, Ether, and Ashan; four cities and their villages, {{rf{8}}} and all the villages that were around these towns up to Baalat-Beor, Ramath of the Negev. This was the inheritance of the tribe of the descendants of Simeon according to their families. {{rf{9}}} Part of the portion allotted to the descendants of Judah became the inheritance of the descendants of Simeon because the portion for the descendants of Judah was too large for them, so the descendants of Simeon inherited from their inheritance. {{rf{10}}} The third allotment came up for the descendants of Zebulun according to their families. The border of their inheritance went up to Sarid. {{rf{11}}} Their border goes up to the west, to Maralah; it touches Dabbesheth, then the wadi that is opposite Jokneam. {{rf{12}}} It turns from Sarid to the east to the sunrise, to the border of Kislot-Tabor; it continues to Daberath and goes up to Japhia. {{rf{13}}} From there it passes along to the east toward the sunrise, to Gath Hepher and to Eth Kazin, and continuing to Rimmon, it turns to Neah; {{rf{14}}} it changes direction from the north of Hannathon, and it ends at the valley of Yiptah-El; {{rf{15}}} Kattath, Nahalal, Shimron, Idalah, and Bethlehem; twelve cities and their villages. {{rf{16}}} This is the inheritance of the descendants of Zebulun according to their families, these cities and their villages. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Joshua-18-21]] }}}
{{rf{17}}} The fourth allotment fell for Issachar, for the descendants of Issachar, according to their families. {{rf{18}}} Their border went to Jezreel, Chesulloth, Shunem, {{rf{19}}} Hapharaim, Shion, Anaharath, {{rf{20}}} Rabbith, Kishion, Ebez, {{rf{21}}} Remeth, En Gannim, En Haddah, and Beth Pazzez; {{rf{22}}} and the border touches Tabor, Shahazumah, and Beth Shemesh. Its border ends at the Jordan; sixteen cities and their villages. {{rf{23}}} This is the inheritance of the tribe of the descendants of Issachar according to their families, the cities and their villages. {{rf{24}}} The fifth allotment fell for the tribe of the descendants of Asher according to their families. {{rf{25}}} Their border was Helkath, Hali, Beten, Acshaph, {{rf{26}}} Allamelech, Amad, and Mishal; it touches Carmel to the west, and Shihor-Libnat. {{rf{27}}} Then it turns eastward to Beth-dagon and touches Zebulun and the valley of Yiptah-El to the north to Beth Emeck and Neiel; it continues to Cabul from the north, {{rf{28}}} and Ebron, Rehob, Hammon, and Kanah up to Great Sidon; {{rf{29}}} then the border turns to Ramah, and up to the fortified city of Tyre, where the border turns to Hosah; it ends at the sea, from Hebel to Aczib. {{rf{30}}} Included were Ummah, Aphek, and Rehob; twenty-two cities and their villages. {{rf{31}}} This is the inheritance of the tribe of the descendants of Asher according to their families, these cities and their villages. {{rf{32}}} The sixth allotment fell for the children of Naphtali, for the children of Naphtali according to their families. {{rf{33}}} Their border was from Heleph, from the oak in Zaanannim, Adami Nekeb, Jabneel, up to Lakkum; it ends at the Jordan; {{rf{34}}} then the border turns to the west, to Aznoth Tabor, and continues from there to Hukok, and it touches Zebulun on the south, Asher on the west, and Judah on the east at the Jordan. {{rf{35}}} The fortified cities are Ziddim, Zer, Hammath, Rakkath, Kinnereth, {{rf{36}}} Adamah, Ramah, Hazor, {{rf{37}}} Kedesh, Edrei, En Hazor, {{rf{38}}} Yiron, Migdal El, Horem, Beth-anath, Beth Shemesh; nineteen cities and their villages. {{rf{39}}} This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Naphtali according to their families, the cities and their villages. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Joshua-19-17]] }}}
{{rf{40}}} The seventh lot fell for the tribe of the descendants of Dan according to their families. {{rf{41}}} The border of their inheritance was Zorah, Eshtaol, Ir Shemesh, {{rf{42}}} Shaalabbin, Aijalon, Ithlah, {{rf{43}}} Elon, Timnah, Ekron, {{rf{44}}} Eltekeh, Gibbethon, Baalath, {{rf{45}}} Jehud, Bene Berak, Gath Rimmon, {{rf{46}}} Me Jarkon, Rakkon, with the border opposite Joppa. {{rf{47}}} The border of the descendants of Dan continued beyond them, because the descendants of Dan went up and fought with Lesham, and they captured and struck it with the edge of the sword, and they took possession of it and settled in it; and they called Leshem Dan, after the name of Dan their ancestor. {{rf{48}}} This is the inheritance of the tribe of the descendants of Dan according to their families, these cities and their villages. {{rf{49}}} They finished assigning the land according to its borders, and the Israelites gave an inheritance from among them to Joshua son of Nun. {{rf{50}}} According to the commandment of Yahweh, they gave him the city that he requested, Timnath Serah, in the hill country of Ephraim, and he rebuilt the city and settled in it. {{rf{51}}} These are the inheritances that Eleazar the priest, Joshua son of Nun, and the heads of the families of the tribes, distributed by allotment to the Israelites, at Shiloh before Yahweh at the entrance of the tent of meeting. And they finished dividing the land. {{rf big{1}}} And Yahweh spoke to Joshua, saying, {{rf{2}}} "Speak to the Israelites, saying, 'Appoint for yourselves cities of refuge, of which I spoke to you through the hand of Moses. {{rf{3}}} Anyone who kills a person by accident or unintentionally may flee there; they will be for yourselves a refuge from the avenger of blood. {{rf{4}}} The killer will flee to one of these cities, stand at the entrance of the gate of the city, and state his case to the elders of that city; and they will take him into the city and give him a place, and he will dwell among them. {{rf{5}}} And if the avenger of blood pursues after him, they will not hand over the killer into his hand, because he killed his neighbor unintentionally, and he did not hate him previously. {{rf{6}}} The killer will stay in that city until he stands before the congregation for the trial, until the death of the one who is the high priest in those days. Then the killer will return to his city and to his house, to the city from which he fled.'" {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Joshua-19-40]] }}}
{{rf{7}}} So they set apart Kedesh in Galilee in the hill country of Naphtali, Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim, and Kiriath Arba (that is, Hebron) in the hill country of Judah. {{rf{8}}} Beyond the Jordan east of Jericho, they appointed Bezer in the wilderness on the plateau, from the tribe of Reuben, Ramoth in Gilead, from the tribe of Gad, and Golan in the Bashan, from the tribe of Manasseh. {{rf{9}}} These were the cities designated for all the Israelites, and for the foreigners dwelling among them, for anyone that kills a person unintentionally to flee there, and not die by the hand of the avenger of blood, until there is a trial before the congregation. {{rf big{1}}} Then the heads of the families of the Levites came to Eleazar the priest, to Joshua son of Nun, and to the heads of the families of the tribes of the Israelites. {{rf{2}}} And they spoke to them at Shiloh in the land of Canaan, saying, "Yahweh commanded through the hand of Moses to give us cities to live in, with their pasturelands for our livestock." {{rf{3}}} So, by command of Yahweh, the Israelites gave the Levites these cities and their pasturelands from their inheritance. {{rf{4}}} The allotment fell for the families of the Kohathites. The descendants of Aaron the priest, who were of the Levites, received by lot thirteen towns from the tribes of Judah, Simeon, and Benjamin. {{rf{5}}} The remaining descendants of Kohath received by lot ten cities from the families of the tribes of Ephraim, Dan, and the half-tribe of Manasseh. {{rf{6}}} The descendants of Gershon received by lot thirteen cities from the families of the tribes of Issachar, Asher, and Naphtali and from the half-tribe of Manasseh in Bashan. {{rf{7}}} The descendants of the Merarites according to their families received twelve cities from the tribes of Reuben, Gad, and Zebulun. {{rf{8}}} The Israelites gave to the Levites these cities and their pastureland by lot, just as Yahweh commanded through the hand of Moses. {{rf{9}}} They gave these cities, which are here mentioned by name, from the tribe of the families of Judah and from the tribe of the families of Simeon; {{rf{10}}} and they were for the descendants of Aaron, from the families of the Kohathites, from the descendants of Levi, because the first lot was theirs. {{rf{11}}} And they gave to them Kiriath Arba, Arba being the father of Anak (that is, Hebron), in the hill country of Judah and the pasturelands surrounding it. {{rf{12}}} But the field of the city and its villages they gave to Caleb son of Jephunneh as his property. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Joshua-20-07]] }}}
{{rf{13}}} To the descendants of Aaron the priest they gave Hebron, the city of refuge for the killer, and its pasturelands, Libnah and its pasturelands, {{rf{14}}} Jattir and its pasturelands, Eshtemoa and its pasturelands, {{rf{15}}} Holon and its pasturelands, Debir and its pasturelands, {{rf{16}}} Ain and its pasturelands, Juttah and its pasturelands, and Beth Shemesh and its pasturelands; nine cities from these two tribes. {{rf{17}}} From the tribe of Benjamin, Gibeon and its pasturelands, Geba and its pasturelands, {{rf{18}}} Anathoth and its pasturelands, Almon and its pasturelands; four cities. {{rf{19}}} All the cities of the descendants of Aaron the priests, thirteen cities and their pasturelands. {{rf{20}}} For the families of the descendants of Kohath, the remaining Levites of the descendants of Kohath, they received the cities of their lot from the tribe of Ephraim. {{rf{21}}} They gave them Shechem, the city of refuge for the killer, and its pasturelands in the hill country of Ephraim, Gezer and its pasturelands, {{rf{22}}} Kibzaim and its pasturelands, and Beth-horon and its pasturelands; four cities. {{rf{23}}} From the tribe of Dan, Eltekeh and its pasturelands, Gibbethon and its pasturelands, {{rf{24}}} Aijalon and its pasturelands, and Gath Rimmon and its pasturelands; four cities. {{rf{25}}} From the half-tribe of Manasseh, Taanach and its pasturelands and Gath Rimmon with its pasturelands; two cities. {{rf{26}}} All the cities and their pasturelands for the remaining families of the descendants of Kohath were ten. {{rf{27}}} To the descendants of Gershon, one of the families of the Levites, from the half-tribe of Manasseh, Golan in Bashan, a city of refuge for the killer, and its pasturelands, and Eshtarah and its pasturelands; two cities. {{rf{28}}} From the tribe of Issachar, Kishion and its pasturelands, Daberath and its pasturelands, {{rf{29}}} Jarmuth and its pasturelands, En Gannim and its pasturelands; four cities. {{rf{30}}} From the tribe of Asher, Mishal and its pasturelands, Abdon and its pasturelands, {{rf{31}}} Helkath and its pasturelands, Rehob and its pasturelands; four cities. {{rf{32}}} From the tribe of Naphtali, Kedesh in Galilee, the city of refuge for the killer, and its pasturelands, Hammoth Dor and its pasturelands, and Kartan and its pasturelands; three cities. {{rf{33}}} All the cities of the Gershonites according to their families were thirteen cities and their pasturelands. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Joshua-21-13]] }}}
{{rf{34}}} To the families of the descendants of Merarite, the remaining Levites, from the tribe of Zebulun, Jokneam and its pasturelands, Kartah and its pasturelands, {{rf{35}}} Dimnah and its pasturelands, and Nahalal and its pasturelands; four cities. {{rf{36}}} From the tribe of Reuben, Bezer and its pasturelands, Jahaz and its pasturelands, {{rf{37}}} Kedemoth and its pasturelands, and Mephaath and its pasturelands; four cities. {{rf{38}}} From the tribe of Gad, Ramoth in Gilead, the city of refuge for the killer, and its pasturelands, Mahanaim and its pasturelands, {{rf{39}}} Heshbon and its pasturelands, and Jazer and its pasturelands; four cities in all. {{rf{40}}} All these were the cities of the descendants of Merarite according to their families, the remaining families of the Levites; their allotment was twelve cities. {{rf{41}}} All the cities of the Levites among the property of the Israelites were forty-eight cities and their pasturelands. {{rf{42}}} Each of these cities had pasturelands surrounding them; so it was for all of these cities. {{rf{43}}} And Yahweh gave to Israel all the land that he swore to give to their ancestors, and they took possession of it and settled in it. {{rf{44}}} Yahweh gave them rest on every side, according to all that he had sworn to their ancestors, and nobody from all their enemies withstood them, for Yahweh had given all their enemies into their hand. {{rf{45}}} And nothing failed from all the good things that Yahweh promised to the house of Israel; everything came to pass. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Joshua-21-34]] }}}
Then Joshua summoned the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh, {{rf{2}}} and he said to them, "You have observed all that Moses Yahweh's servant commanded you, and you have listened to my voice in all that I have commanded you; {{rf{3}}} you have not forsaken your kinsmen these many days, up to this day, and you have observed the obligation of the command of Yahweh your God. {{rf{4}}} So then, Yahweh your God has given rest to your kinsmen, just as he promised them; so then, turn and go to your tents to the land of your possession, which Moses Yahweh's servant gave to you beyond the Jordan. {{rf{5}}} Only be very careful to observe the commandment and law that Moses Yahweh's servant commanded you, to love Yahweh your God, to walk in all his ways, to keep his commandments, to hold fast to him, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul." {{rf{6}}} And Joshua blessed them and sent them away, and they went to their tents. {{rf{7}}} And to the half-tribe of Manasseh Moses had given a possession in Bashan, but to the other half Joshua had given a possession with their kinsmen beyond the Jordan to the west; and when Joshua sent them to their tents and blessed them, {{rf{8}}} he said to them, "Return to your tents with much wealth, and with very much livestock, with silver, gold, copper, iron, and with very much clothing; divide the war-booty of your enemies with your kinsmen." {{rf{9}}} So the descendants of Reuben, Gad, and the half-tribe of Manasseh returned home and departed with the Israelites at Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan, to go to the land of Gilead to the land of their possession, which they had acquired according to the command of Yahweh through the hand of Moses. {{rf{10}}} And they came to the region of the Jordan that is in the land of Canaan, and the descendants of Reuben, Gad, and the half-tribe of Manasseh built there an altar on the Jordan, a large and imposing altar. {{rf{11}}} And the Israelites heard it said that the descendants of Reuben, Gad, and the half-tribe of Manasseh had built an altar next to the land of Canaan, in the region of the Jordan, on the side belonging to the Israelites. {{rf{12}}} When the Israelites heard of it, the whole congregation of the Israelites gathered at Shiloh to go up against them for battle. {{rf{13}}} And the Israelites sent to the descendants of Reuben, Gad, and the half-tribe of Manasseh, to the land of Gilead, Phinehas the priest son of Eleazar, {{rf{14}}} and ten leaders with him, one leader for each family from each of the tribes of Israel; and each one was the head of his family among the clans of Israel. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Joshua-22-01]] }}}
{{rf{15}}} They came to the descendants of Reuben, Gad, and the half-tribe of Manasseh, to the land of Gilead, and they spoke with them, saying, {{rf{16}}} "Thus says all the congregation of Yahweh: 'What is this treachery that you have committed against the God of Israel by turning away today from following Yahweh, by building for yourselves an altar to rebel today against Yahweh? {{rf{17}}} Is not the sin of Peor enough for us, from which we have not cleansed ourselves today, and for which a plague came to the congregation of Yahweh, {{rf{18}}} that you must turn today from following Yahweh? If you rebel today against Yahweh, tomorrow he will be angry with all of the congregation of Israel; {{rf{19}}} if, however, the land of your property is unclean, cross over to the land of Yahweh's property, where Yahweh's tabernacle resides, and take possession among us. But you must not rebel against Yahweh or against us by building for yourselves an altar other than the altar of Yahweh our God. {{rf{20}}} Did not Achan son of Zerah commit treachery with devoted things, and wrath fell on all the congregation of Israel? And he alone did not perish because of his iniquity.'" {{rf{21}}} And the descendants of Reuben, Gad, and the half-tribe of Manasseh spoke with the heads of the clans of Israel, {{rf{22}}} "Yahweh, God of gods! Yahweh, God of gods knows. And let Israel itself know, if it was in rebellion or treachery against Yahweh, do not spare us this day {{rf{23}}} for building for ourselves an altar to turn away from Yahweh, or if it was to offer burnt offerings, grain offerings, or fellowship offerings on it, may Yahweh himself take vengeance. {{rf{24}}} But in fact, we have done this because of anxiety, because of a reason, saying, 'In the future your children may say to our children, 'What is the relationship between you and Yahweh the God of Israel? {{rf{25}}} Yahweh has made the Jordan a border between us and you, the descendants of Reuben and Gad; you have no portion in Yahweh.' So your children may put an end to our children worshiping Yahweh. {{rf{26}}} So we said, 'Let us build immediately for ourselves an altar, not for burnt offerings or for sacrifices; {{rf{27}}} instead, it is a witness between us and you, and between our generations after us for performing the serving of Yahweh in his presence with our burnt offerings, sacrifices, and fellowship offerings; so that your children may not say in the future to our children, "You have no portion in Yahweh." ' {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Joshua-22-15]] }}}
{{rf{28}}} And we thought, if they say to us and to our children in the future, we can say, 'Look at this replica of the altar of Yahweh, which our ancestors made, not for burnt offerings or sacrifices; rather, it is a witness between us and you.' {{rf{29}}} Far be it from us to rebel against Yahweh, to turn today from following Yahweh, to build an altar for burnt offerings, grain offerings, or sacrifices, instead of the altar of Yahweh our God that is before his tabernacle." {{rf{30}}} Phinehas the priest, the leaders of the congregation, and the heads of the clans of Israel who were with him heard the words that the descendants of Reuben, Gad, and Manasseh spoke, and they were satisfied. {{rf{31}}} Phinehas the priest, son of Eleazar, said to the descendants of Reuben, Gad, and Manasseh, "Today we know that Yahweh is among us, because you have not committed this treachery against Yahweh. Therefore you have rescued the Israelites from the hand of Yahweh." {{rf{32}}} And Phinehas the priest, son of Eleazar, and the leaders returned from the descendants of Reuben and Gad, from the land of Gilead, to the land of Canaan to the Israelites, and they gave them their report. {{rf{33}}} The report satisfied the Israelites; they blessed God, and they did not speak of going up for battle against them to destroy the land in which the descendants of Reuben and Gad were living. {{rf{34}}} The descendants of Reuben and Gad called the altar Witness, "Because," they said, "it is a witness between us that Yahweh is God." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Joshua-22-28]] }}}
And it happened, after a long time, after Yahweh had given rest to Israel from all their surrounding enemies, and after Joshua was old and well-advanced in years, {{rf{2}}} Joshua summoned all Israel, their elders, heads, judges, and officials, and he said to them, "I am old and well-advanced in years, {{rf{3}}} and you have seen all that Yahweh your God has done to all these nations for your sake, for Yahweh your God is fighting for you. {{rf{4}}} Look! I have allotted to you these remaining nations as an inheritance for your tribes, from the Jordan, with all the nations that I have cut off, to the Great Sea in the west. {{rf{5}}} And Yahweh your God will push them back before you and drive them out of your sight, and you will possess their land, just as Yahweh your God promised to you. {{rf{6}}} Be very strong to observe carefully all that is written in the scroll of the law of Moses so as not to turn aside from it, to the right or left, {{rf{7}}} so as not to go among these remaining nations with you; do not profess the name of their gods, and do not swear by them, serve them, or bow down to them. {{rf{8}}} But hold fast to Yahweh your God, just as you have done up to this day. {{rf{9}}} Yahweh has driven out before you great and strong nations; and as for you, nobody has withstood you to this day. {{rf{10}}} One of your men put to flight a thousand, for Yahweh your God is fighting for you, just as he promised you. {{rf{11}}} Take utmost care for the sake of your life to love Yahweh your God, {{rf{12}}} for if indeed you turn back and join these remaining nations among you, and you intermarry with them, marrying their women and they yours, {{rf{13}}} know for certain that Yahweh your God will not continue to drive out these nations from before you; they will be for you a snare and a trap, a whip on your sides and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from this good land that Yahweh your God has given to you. {{rf{14}}} Look! I am about to die, and you know in all your hearts and souls that not one thing failed from all the good things that Yahweh your God promised concerning you; everything has been fulfilled; not one thing failed. {{rf{15}}} But just as all the good things came to you that Yahweh your God promised, so will Yahweh bring to you all the bad things until he has destroyed you from this good land that Yahweh your God has given to you. {{rf{16}}} If you transgress the covenant of Yahweh your God, which he commanded to you, and you go and serve other gods and bow down to them, Yahweh's anger will be kindled against you, and you will perish quickly from the good land that he has given to you." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Joshua-23-01]] }}}
And Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel to Shechem; he summoned the elders of Israel, their heads, their judges, and their officials, and they presented themselves before God. {{rf{2}}} And Joshua said to all the people, "Thus says Yahweh the God of Israel: 'Long ago your ancestors -- Terah the father of Abraham and the father of Nahor -- lived beyond the river, and they served other gods. {{rf{3}}} I took your ancestor Abraham from beyond the river and led him through all the land of Canaan, and I increased his offspring; I gave him Isaac, {{rf{4}}} and to Isaac I gave Jacob and Esau. To Esau I gave the hill country of Seir to possess, but Jacob and his children went down to Egypt. {{rf{5}}} And I sent Moses and Aaron, and I plagued Egypt with what I did in its midst; and afterward I brought you out. {{rf{6}}} When I brought out your ancestors from Egypt, you came to the sea, and the Egyptians pursued after your ancestors with chariots and horsemen to the Red Sea. {{rf{7}}} They cried out to Yahweh, and he put darkness between you and the Egyptians, and he brought the sea over them and covered them; your own eyes saw what I did in Egypt. Then you lived in the wilderness for many days. {{rf{8}}} And I brought you to the land of the Amorites who lived beyond the Jordan; they fought you, and I gave them into your hand; you took possession of their land, and I destroyed them before you. {{rf{9}}} Then Balak son of Zippor, king of Moab, set out and fought against Israel, and he sent and summoned Balaam son of Beor to curse you, {{rf{10}}} but I was not willing to listen to Balaam, and he richly blessed you. So I rescued you from his hand, {{rf{11}}} and you crossed the Jordan and came to Jericho. And the citizens of Jericho, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Girgashites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, fought against you, and I gave them into your hand. {{rf{12}}} I sent before you the hornet and they drove out before you two kings of the Amorites; but not by your sword or bow. {{rf{13}}} I gave to you a land that you have not labored on, and cities that you have not built, and you live in them; you eat from vineyards and olive groves that you have not planted.' {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Joshua-24-01]] }}}
{{rf{14}}} "So now, revere Yahweh and serve him in sincerity and faithfulness; remove the gods that your ancestors served beyond the river and in Egypt, and serve Yahweh. {{rf{15}}} But if it is bad in your eyes to serve Yahweh, choose for yourselves today whom you want to serve, whether it is the gods that your ancestors served beyond the river, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are living; but as for me and my household, we will serve Yahweh." {{rf{16}}} And the people answered and said, "Far be it from us that we would forsake Yahweh to serve other gods, {{rf{17}}} for Yahweh our God brought us and our ancestors from the land of Egypt, from the house of slavery, and did these great signs before our eyes. He protected us along the entire way that we went, and among all the peoples through whose midst we passed. {{rf{18}}} And Yahweh drove out all the people before us, the Amorites who live in the land. We will serve Yahweh, for he is our God." {{rf{19}}} But Joshua said to the people, "You cannot serve Yahweh, for he is a holy and jealous God; he will not forgive your transgressions or your sins. {{rf{20}}} If you forsake Yahweh and serve foreign gods, he will turn and bring disaster to you; he will destroy you after he has done good to you." {{rf{21}}} And the people said to Joshua, "No, we will serve Yahweh." {{rf{22}}} And Joshua said to the people, "You are witnesses against yourselves that you have chosen for yourselves to serve Yahweh." And they said, "We are witnesses." {{rf{23}}} He said, "Remove the foreign gods that are in your midst, and incline your hearts to Yahweh the God of Israel." {{rf{24}}} And the people said to Joshua, "We will serve Yahweh our God, and we will listen to his voice." {{rf{25}}} So Joshua made a covenant with the people on that day, and he established for them a statute and a judgment at Shechem. {{rf{26}}} Then Joshua wrote these words in a scroll of the law of God, and he took a large stone and set it up there under a large tree, which is at the shrine of Yahweh. {{rf{27}}} And Joshua said to all the people, "Look, this stone will be a witness against us, for it has heard all the words of Yahweh that he spoke with us. It will be as a witness against you, so that you do not deny your God." {{rf{28}}} Then Joshua sent the people away to their inheritance. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Joshua-24-14]] }}}
{{rf{29}}} After these things Joshua son of Nun servant of Yahweh died; he was one hundred and ten years old. {{rf{30}}} They buried him in the territory of his inheritance, at Timnath-Serah, which is in the hill country of Ephraim, north of Mount Gaash. {{rf{31}}} Israel served Yahweh all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders who lived long after Joshua, and who had known all the work that Yahweh did for Israel. {{rf{32}}} The bones of Jacob, which the Israelites had brought out from Egypt, they buried at Shechem, in a piece of land that Jacob had bought from the children of Hamor, the father of Shechem, for one hundred pieces of money; it became an inheritance for the descendants of Joseph. {{rf{33}}} And Eleazar son of Aaron died; and they buried him in Gibeah in the hill country of Ephraim, which had been given to his son Phinehas. LENGTH SHORT {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Joshua-24-29]] }}}
''Abiding happiness.''
* [[Enjoy]]
* <<Bbl Neh 8:12 >>, <<Bbl Neh 08:17 abbr>>, N<<Bbl eh 12:27 abbr>>, <<Bbl Neh 12:43 abbr>>.
* Ps 20
* <<Bbl Ps 30:5 "" note >>
* //...the joy of the Lord is your strength// -- D. Legge points out the //joy// in <<Bbl Neh 8:10 >> should probably not be taken to mean __your__ joy (which you have from the Lord), but the joy that is the Lord's. In this respect it would be precisely the same as //the joy of your Master// as propounded by Jesus.
!! God's
* Zech 3:17
* Jesus, //that You revealed these to babes.//
!! Joy killers (Kay Warren)
* [[Legalism]] (vs [[Grace]])
* [[Worry]] ( vs [[Trust]])
* [[Workaholism|Workaholics]] (vs balance)
* [[Perfectionism]] (vs [[Accept]])
An "emo chart" of Judah's life is fascinating. His personal fortunes can be traced in these events:
{{{
xxxxxxxxxx feckless youth
xxxx Dinah episode (his sister)
xxxxxxx
xxxxxx Rachel's death
xxxxxxx
xxxxx Joseph's bad report
xxxxxx
xxxxx Joseph's dreams
xxxx
xxx
xx plot
x counsel not obeyed
x cover-up
x Isaac's grief
x
xx
xxx
xxxxxxx shua
xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx sons
xxxxxxxxxxx er
xxxxxxx onan
xxxx death of shua
xx tamar
x exposure, shame
x
x famine
x
x
xx
xxxx relief from Egypt
xxx
xx
x tested (gen 37)
x
xxxxx
xxxxxxxxxxx banquet
xxxxxx
x tested (gen 44)
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx revelation of Joseph
xxxxxxxxxx doubts
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx settlement in Goshen
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Isaac's blessing
}}}
This sequence seems unfathomable in its scope exaltation and humiliation:
# The merry banquet of <<Bbl Gn 43:34 abbr>>.
# The utter prostration of <<Bbl Gn 44:16 abbr>>.
# The climactic //revelation// and //elevation// of <<Bbl Gn 45:1 abbr>>.
But this is the sequence of [[Gospel]]!
Because (not counting Joseph) we have so much more of his life recorded that the other ten brothers, he is a foil for [[Joseph]] and he is sometimes representative of his brothers.
How Jacob did dread family meetings with his father.
How he did suffer when Simeon was taken as a hostage -- a guarantee, just as his personal tokens had once been taken, and that situation had not turned out well.
His is the line of Messiah. Jacob's blessing conveys the rule of Messiah. It has a startling reference to Joseph's dreams of preeminence -- perhaps this is a conclusive shift that harmonizes Joseph's temporary ascendancy with the ultimate majesty of Messiah.
But first, David will inherit Judah’s character flaws; see similar situations in Gen 38 and 2 Sam.
!!! Allen Browne
Have you been struggling with the patriarchal setting? The males have all the power. Daughters don’t count. Marriages are arranged as if the young ones are pawns on a family chessboard. Widows with no means to support themselves are vulnerable to neglect.
Anyone who uses these texts to promote male dominance has failed to understand Scripture. It’s reporting — not promoting — these values. The world has sunk a long way below God’s creational ideal of male and female caring for his creation jointly and equally (Genesis 1:27-28). We have a long way to go before equality is restored to all humans — regardless of gender, ethnicity, or economic status — in King Jesus (Galatians 3:28).
And even while we’re living under oppressive power structures, Scripture regularly challenges them. That’s Tamar’s role here.
She sees that Judah has no heart to care for a widow. Her life is on hold, trapped in no man’s land for years like an asylum seeker in Australia. She takes matters into her own hands, forcing Judah to face his responsibility.
Putting aside the clothes that define her as a widow, Tamar dresses as a single, setting out to meet Judah where he was reported to be (38:13-14). The disguise is the only way to meet him: he would never willingly hear her grievance. It’s a dangerous choice: he may react badly to being tricked like this.
Judah ... propositions her. Tamar knows he’d give nothing for a widow. She asks what he’d give for a prostitute (38:15-16).
He hands over his ID: his seal with its cord, and staff. Whether Tamar intended things to turn out like this or not, she now has enough to shame him.
Three months later, the shameful event is far from Judah’s mind when he receives the news that Tamar is pregnant. Now he has a reason to be rid of her for good! Pronouncing her guilt, Judah barely masks his relief to be rid of his own guilt — his failure to care for the widow in his family. "Bring her out and have her burned to death" (38:24). //Bring her out// is followed by //brought out// -- for shame.
But Judah has just condemned himself. Tamar is pregnant with the only offspring to continue his family line. If he kills her, he destroys his own tribe.
Releasing Tamar from his judgement and taking responsibility for his own failure marks the beginning of a transformation in Judah. Joseph will test Judah’s character (42:15-16). Judah will begin to take responsibility for the family (43:8). The one who sold Joseph into slavery becomes a prisoner until Joseph releases him (44:14 – 45:15). Ultimately, Jacob can speak of the ruler to come from the tribe of Judah (49:9-10).
Victor P. Hamilton, The Book of Genesis, Chapters 18–50, NICOT:
In many ways the development of this story is similar to the ~David-Bathsheba liaison (2 Sam. 11). Both focus on an illicit sexual relationship from which a child is born. Both have a period of quietness (3 months here, an unspecified time in 2 Sam. 11) in which the man involved doubtless hopes that the incident is forgotten (Judah) or covered up (David). Both men express righteous indignation when informed of the misconduct of another: Take her out and let her be burned; “the man who has done this deserves to die” (2 Sam. 12:5). Both Judah and David are trapped into admitting their culpability. Finally, when confronted with the truth, both men made public acknowledgments: She is in the right, not I (v. 25); “I have sinned against the Lord” (2 Sam. 12:13).
Walter Brueggemann, Genesis, Interpretation, a Bible Commentary for Teaching and Preaching:
The narrative contains a radical critique of morality for those who will pursue it. The text makes a judgment about relative guilts. Tamar has committed the kind of sin the “good people” prefer to condemn — engaging in deception and illicit sex and bringing damage to a good family. For a moment, until aware of his own involvement, Judah reacts on the basis of that sort of “morality” (v. 24). In ways apparently congruent with popular morality, Judah has spurned the claims of his daughter-in-law. By his indifference, he has violated her right to well-being and dignity in the community (v. 11). The narrative juxtaposes his prudent but self-serving withholding and her deceptive harlotry. In that context, a new insight about righteousness comes out of the mouth of Judah (v. 26). He draws an unexpected conclusion. In the midst of this sordid story of sexuality, there is a new understanding of righteousness. The story may give us pause about the usual bourgeois dimensions of sin. What is taken most seriously is not a violation of sexual convention, but damage to the community which includes a poor, diminished female.
In the Gospels, the Roman occupation uses //Judah// to refer to the entire Jewish homeland. The Jews call this //Israel//, reserving //Judah// for the royal heartland and Messiah's line. This informs <<Bbl Mt 2:21>>-22.
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For many centuries the Jewish community has considered the terms "Jew," "Hebrew" and "Israelite" (or "Israeli") to be synonymous. The New Testament affirms this understanding, since it uses all three terms interchangeably. At first the term "Jew" referred exclusively to those who were from the tribe of Judah, but eventually it was applied to people from all twelve tribes. That is why Paul could say that he was a Hebrew of the Hebrews (<<Bbl Php 3:5>>), an Israeli (<<Bbl R 11:1>>), and a Jew from Tarsus, even though he was from the tribe of Benjamin (<<Bbl A 21:39>>). To this day the three terms may still be used to refer to anyone who is part of the Jewish people. (Loren Jacobs, [[source|http://www.messianicassociation.org/questions.htm]])
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* Judaism as we know it has been characterized as Talmudism.
* Edward Goodrick is scathing; Judaism since the time of Christ has no connection with the OT, and he avoids "Jew" as a reference to godly believers from any epoch.
* ''Antisemitism'' in our theological tradition owes much to German culture.
** Luther viewed his position in relation to the degenerate papacy as analogous to the position of Paul (or Jesus?) to Judaism. This seems a cogent analogy, and I suspect it doesn't inform us of Luther's actual and pernicious distain of Jews.
** Kittel was convicted of Nazi war crimes (?!).
* ''Bible and history questions:''
** Was Judaism more grace-oriented than we think? Did it promote grace in principle but fail in practice? (Similar to many evangelical churches today.)
** The Pharisees were self-serving hypocrites, but was the doctrinal foundation less pernicious than we imagine? (A good foundation on which had been added travesties such as the "Corban".) Keener is certain that Jesus is at times reproving the Pharisees on their practices which betray true principles of their understanding (making them hypocrites).
** When Paul decries reliance on the Law, is he arguing from inherent principles or from its customary misuse? Usually it seems the former, as when he elevates the faith of Abraham which preceded the Law.
** Or, in the NT era, is "Judaism" to be viewed simply as a foil to the doctrines of Grace?
After <<Bbl Acts 1:20>>, the name of Judas Iscariot is not mentioned. His deed and his fate were unspeakable.
{{ref{1:1}}} Jude, a slave of Jesus Christ and brother of James, to those who are called, loved in God the Father and kept for Jesus Christ. {{ref{1:2}}} May mercy and peace and love be multiplied to you.
{{ref{1:3}}} Dear friends, although I was making every effort to write to you concerning our common salvation, I considered it a necessity to write to you to encourage you to contend for the faith delivered once and for all to the saints. {{ref{1:4}}} For certain men have slipped in stealthily, who were designated long ago for this condemnation, ungodly ones, who change the grace of our God into licentiousness and who deny our only Master and Lord Jesus Christ.
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{{ref{1:5}}} Now I want to remind you, although you know everything once and for all, that Jesus, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, the second time destroyed those who did not believe. {{ref{1:6}}} And the angels who did not keep to their own domain but deserted their proper dwelling place, he has kept in eternal bonds under deep gloom for the judgment of the great day, {{ref{1:7}}} as Sodom and Gomorrah and the towns around them indulged in sexual immorality and pursued unnatural desire in the same way as these, are exhibited as an example by undergoing the punishment of eternal fire.
{{ref{1:8}}} Despite that, in the same way also these men, because of their dreams, defile the flesh and reject authority and blaspheme majestic beings. {{ref{1:9}}} But Michael the archangel, when he argued with the devil, disputing concerning the body of Moses, did not dare to pronounce a blasphemous judgment, but said, "The Lord rebuke you!"
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{{ref{1:10}}} But these persons blaspheme all that they do not understand, and all that they understand by instinct like the irrational animals, by these things they are being destroyed. {{ref{1:11}}} Woe to them! For they have traveled in the way of Cain, and have given themselves up to the error of Balaam for gain, and have perished in the rebellion of Korah. {{ref{1:12}}} These are the ones feasting together without reverence, hidden reefs at your love feasts, caring for themselves, waterless clouds carried away by winds, late autumn trees without fruit, twice dead, uprooted, {{ref{1:13}}} wild waves of the sea foaming up their own shameful deeds, wandering stars, for whom the deep gloom of darkness has been reserved for eternity.
{{ref{1:14}}} And Enoch, the seventh from Adam, also prophesied about these people, saying, "Behold, the Lord came with tens of thousands of his holy ones {{ref{1:15}}} to execute judgment against all, and to convict all the ungodly concerning all their ungodly deeds that they have committed in an ungodly way, and concerning all the harsh things that ungodly sinners have spoken against him. {{ref{1:16}}} These people are grumblers, discontented, proceeding according to their desires, and their mouths speaking pompous words, showing partiality to gain an advantage.
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{{ref{1:17}}} But you, dear friends, remember the words proclaimed beforehand by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ, {{ref{1:18}}} for they said to you, "In the end time there will be scoffers following according to their own ungodly desires." {{ref{1:19}}} These are the ones who cause divisions, worldly, not having the Spirit. {{ref{1:20}}} But you, dear friends, by building yourselves up in your most holy faith, by praying in the Holy Spirit, {{ref{1:21}}} keep yourselves in the love of God, looking forward to the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to eternal life. {{ref{1:22}}} And have mercy on those who doubt, {{ref{1:23}}} and save others by snatching them from the fire, and have mercy on others with fear, hating even the tunic stained by the flesh.
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{{ref{1:24}}} Now to the one who is able to protect you from stumbling and make you to stand before his glory blameless with exultation, {{ref{1:25}}} to the only God our Savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, power, and authority before all time and now and for all eternity. Amen. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Jude-01-01]] }}}
Jude packs hot truth in a small space. He is mad as Hell about this pack of infiltrators. Jude explains how nefarious is the world's agenda against Christ. At the same time, he calls for evangelism and mercy (vss 22-23) - so ministry among wolves is based on both reality and mercy, just as it was for our Lord.
* Secret subversion: <<Bbl Jude 1:4 abbr >>, <<Bbl Jude 1:12 abbr >>, <<Bbl Jude 1:16 abbr >>.
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<<Bbl Jude 1:3 abbr >> Jude's command to //contend for the faith// places a wide scope on the word. The conflict he describes is hardly limited to correct dogma, and in fact that seems far from his concern. Except perhaps in verse 4, Jude doesn't represent these adversaries as debaters. Their outstanding characteristic is worship of the flesh, and it seems the riposte will be godliness in life. Jude expresses [[faith|Believe]] in its widest scope (similar to James).
<<Bbl Jude 1:15 abbr >> You don't need to have an answer ready to go for every lie. God will provide all the answer that is needed one day.
<<Bbl Jude 1:22 abbr >>-23 Without this statement, the letter would read as a call to action: "Purge these scum. Use a cattle prod, use a flamethrower - whatever it takes, be gone with them." But now "contending for the faith" means more than just refuting the enemies of God. It also means showing mercy, evangelizing, sacrificing yourself for Christ's sake - in the hope that some may be won from their delusion (//saved but as with loss//). With this statement, confrontation includes love and patience.
<<Bbl Jude 1:23 abbr >> A high ministry calling, one that requires confrontation.
* @@Disambiguate@@
** [[Assess]]
** [[Punish]]
** ''Judge:'' Pronounce guilt or innocence. <<Bbl Ex 23:7 >>, <<Bbl Dt 25:1 >>
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* <<Bbl Dan 9:1 >> small context, 9.2 big
* <<Bbl L 2:34 >>
* Extravagance defined: they have more than you.
* "Don't judge me," scolded the homeless begger in order to coerce me. What irony, his declaration of judgment against me! Initially he had asked for a ride to the school for the blind. I had told him I would be happy to give him a ride. But he stopped talking about this need and switched to his need for money.
* True judgment is a prime responsibility of God's man. Therefore {{anti{[[Judgmentalism]]}}} is a prime defect.
* [[Judgment-ofGod]]
* [[FearOfGod]]
* <<Bbl 1Cor 10:15>>
* @@color:brown;When a man is getting better, he understands more and more clearly the evil that is still left in him. When a man is getting worse, he understands his own badness less and less. A moderately bad man knows he is not very good: a thoroughly bad man thinks he is all right. This is common sense, really. You understand sleep when you are awake, not while you are sleeping. You can see mistakes in arithmetic when your mind is working properly: while you are making them you cannot see them. You can understand the nature of drunkenness when you are sober, not when you are drunk. Good people know about both good and evil: bad people do not know about either.@@ // -- C.S. Lewis //
* <<Bbl 1Cor 5:12>>-13
* <<Bbl 1Cor 6:1>>-6
* <<Bbl 2Ch 19:7>> //Consider carefully what you do, because you are not judging for man but for the LORD, who is with you whenever you give a verdict. Now let the fear of the LORD be upon you. Judge carefully, for with the LORD our God there is no injustice or partiality or bribery.//
* man's, natural: <<Bbl Jer 8:9>>
* <<Bbl Pr 31:4>>-9
* [[Destroy]], [[Wrath]]
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In Great Britain and elsewhere, 'judgement' is the correct spelling; but Americans since Noah Webster have omitted it.
!! General notes
The book of Judges presents the first three hundred years, approximately, of the Jewish settlement. God's basic mandate for taking the land is presented in Eco 23:20-33 (also see <<Bbl Num 33:51 >>-56 ). <<Bbl Jud 1:27 >>-36 (note vs. 3 especially) mark the violation of this mandate. Like Joshua, this book has much to do with war; but while the fighting in the first book is increasingly more effectual, the fighting here is increasingly more futile.
* <<Bbl 1S 4:18 abbr >> presents Eli as a judge over Israel.
* See <<Bbl 2S 7:10 >>-11 . See also <<Bbl 2C 11:31 >>-32.
!!! Relevance
We must study the atrocities of this history if only to understand our own recent history, just as we turn to Job for despair and Ecclesiastes for ennui. The depths of depravity seem overwhelming, we would rather avoid them - but spend an hour reading the news, you'll feel the same kind of yuck. Judges, in its larger context, is part of God's reply.
After the death of Joshua, the Israelites inquired of Yahweh, saying, "Who will go up first for us against the Canaanites to fight against them?" {{rf{2}}} And Yahweh said, "Judah will go up. I hereby give the land into his hand." {{rf{3}}} And Judah said to Simeon his brother, "Go up with me into my allotment, and let us fight against the Canaanites; then I too will go with you into your allotment." And Simeon went with him. {{rf{4}}} And Judah went up, and Yahweh gave the Canaanites and the Perizzites into their hand, and they defeated ten thousand men at Bezek. {{rf{5}}} At Bezek they came upon Adoni-bezek, and they fought against him and defeated the Canaanites and the Perizzites. {{rf{6}}} And Adoni-bezek fled, but they pursued after him; they caught him and cut off his thumbs and big toes. {{rf{7}}} Adoni-bezek said, "Seventy kings with their thumbs and big toes cut off used to pick up scraps under my table; just as I have done, so God has repaid to me. And they brought him to Jerusalem, and he died there. {{rf{8}}} The descendants of Judah fought against Jerusalem, and they captured it, put it to the sword, and set the city on fire. {{rf{9}}} Afterward the descendants of Judah pursued to fight against the Canaanites who were living in the hill country, the Negev, and the Shephelah. {{rf{10}}} And Judah went against the Canaanites living in Hebron (the former name of Hebron was Kiriath Arba). And they defeated Sheshai, Ahiman, and Talmai. {{rf{11}}} And from there they went to the inhabitants of Debir (the former name of Debir was Kiriath Sepher). {{rf{12}}} And Caleb said, "Whoever attacks Kiriath Sepher and captures it, I will give to him Acsah my daughter as a wife." {{rf{13}}} Othniel son of Kenaz, the younger brother of Caleb, captured it, and he gave to him Acsah his daughter as a wife. {{rf{14}}} When she came to him, she urged him to ask her father for a field. As she dismounted from the donkey, Caleb said to her, "What do you want?" {{rf{15}}} And she said to him, "Give me a gift; you have given me the land of the Negev, and give me also a spring of water." And Caleb gave to her the upper and lower spring. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Judges-01-01]] }}}
<<Bbl Jud 2:1 abbr >>-5 Areas of past sin that are not rooted (or routed) out upon conversion may become lasting snares. Look at how much trouble comes from vs. 3. If they had known, they might have wept a lot harder.
2:1 From Gilgal, "Rolling," the place where the reproach was removed in <<Bbl Josh.5 >> See vss. 20-23
2:10 Such ignorance could only come from neglecting God's commands to remember His power. It is universally human, and universally fallen, to forget.
2:20-23 See the opening of the chapter. Somehow that uncrucified flesh becomes our own special area of testing from the Lord.
3:1-2 A strange piece of redemption. By now the Israelites could have obtained peace. The author seems to present it as a nice idea, but we step back and realize that having to learn war is not a very nice idea. I have so much unnecessary striving in my life.
3:4 In addition to teaching God's people about war, the nations are to test them in their obedience to God. This has the same strange logic to it as vss.1-2. They're already clearly disobedience, otherwise the nations would have been vanquished.
3:13 the city of the palm trees -- ?? Whichever this city is, it would be the then-capital of the Israelites.
3:17 See <<Bbl Ps 73:4 >>
<<Bbl Jud 3:19 abbr >> Interesting references to Ehud's treatment of the idols.
<<Bbl Judges 4:4 abbr >> Female leadership
5 The Gloat of Deborah. What low satire. Compare with "The Battle of New Orleans."
5:14-18 I'll bet this is rife with puns. Possibly vss. 14-17 are derogatory of the ten tribes, while vs.18 lauds only the two that were called to fight.
5:14 Interesting use of the name Ephraim, which later will denote rebellious Israel. See 12:15.
{{rf{16}}} The descendants of Hobab the Kenite, Moses' father-in-law, went up with the descendants of Judah from the city of palms into the wilderness of Judah, which is in the Negev near Arad. And they went and settled with the people. {{rf{17}}} And Judah went with his brother Simeon, and they defeated the Canaanites inhabiting Zephath; they utterly destroyed it, so he called the name of the city Hormah. {{rf{18}}} Judah captured Gaza and its territory, Ashkelon and its territory, and Ekron and its territory. {{rf{19}}} And Yahweh was with Judah, and he took possession of the hill country, but they could not drive out the inhabitants of the plain because they had chariots of iron. {{rf{20}}} They gave Hebron to Caleb just as Moses said, and he drove out the three sons of Anak from there. {{rf{21}}} But the descendants of Benjamin did not drive out the Jebusites who lived in Jerusalem, so the Jebusites have lived among the descendants of Benjamin in Jerusalem to this day. {{rf{22}}} Likewise, the house of Joseph went up against Bethel, and Yahweh was with them. {{rf{23}}} And the house of Joseph spied out Bethel (the former name of the city was Luz). {{rf{24}}} And when the spies saw a man leaving the city, they said to him, "Please show us the entrance of the city, and we will deal kindly with you." {{rf{25}}} So he showed them the entrance of the city, and they struck the city with the edge of the sword, but they let go the man and all his family. {{rf{26}}} And the man went to the land of the Hittites, and he built a city and named it Luz; this is its name to this day. {{rf{27}}} Manasseh did not drive out Beth-Sean and its towns, or Taanach and its towns, or the inhabitants of Dor and its towns, or the inhabitants of Ibleam and its towns, or the inhabitants of Megiddo and its towns; the Canaanites were determined to live in this land. {{rf{28}}} And it happened, when Israel grew strong, they put the Canaanites to forced labor, but they never totally drove them out. {{rf{29}}} Ephraim did not drive out the Canaanites living in Gezer, so the Canaanites lived in their midst in Gezer. {{rf{30}}} Zebulun did not drive out the inhabitants of Kitron or Nahalol, so the Canaanites lived in their midst and became subjected to forced labor. {{rf{31}}} Asher did not drive out the inhabitants of Acco, Sidon, Ahlab, Aczib, Helbah, Aphik, or Rehob, {{rf{32}}} so the Asherites lived in the midst of the Canaanites, the inhabitants of the land, for they did not drive them out. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Judges-01-16]] }}}
{{rf{33}}} Naphtali did not drive out the inhabitants of Beth Shemesh or Beth-anath, but lived in the midst of the Canaanites, the inhabitants of the land; the inhabitants of Beth Shemesh and Beth-anath became forced labor for them. {{rf{34}}} The Amorites pressed the descendants of Dan to the hill country, and they did not allow them to come down to the plain; {{rf{35}}} the Amorites were determined to live in Har-heres, in Aijalon, and in Shaalbim, but the hand of the house of Joseph was heavy on them, and they became subjected to forced labor. {{rf{36}}} The border of the Amorites ran from the ascent of Akrabbim from Sela and upward. {{rf big{1}}} And the angel of Yahweh went up from Gilgal to Bokim and said, "I brought you up from Egypt, and I brought you to the land that I had promised to your ancestors. I said, 'I will never break my covenant with you. {{rf{2}}} And as for you, do not make a covenant with the inhabitants of this land; break down their altars.' But you did not listen to my voice. Why would you do such a thing? {{rf{3}}} Now I say, I will not drive them out from before you; they will become as thorns for you, and their gods will be a trap for you." {{rf{4}}} And as the angel of Yahweh spoke these words to all the Israelites, the people wept bitterly. {{rf{5}}} And they called the name of this place Bokim, and there they sacrificed to Yahweh. {{rf{6}}} And Joshua sent the people away, and the Israelites went each to their own inheritance to take possession of the land. {{rf{7}}} And the people served Yahweh all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders who outlived Joshua, who saw all the great work Yahweh had done for Israel. {{rf{8}}} And Joshua son of Nun, servant of Yahweh, died at the age of one hundred and ten years. {{rf{9}}} They buried him within the border of his inheritance in Timnah-heres, in the hill country of Ephraim north of Mount Gaash. {{rf{10}}} Moreover, that entire generation was gathered to their ancestors, and another generation grew up after them who did not know Yahweh or the work he had done for Israel. {{rf{11}}} The Israelites did evil in the eyes of Yahweh, and they served the Baals. {{rf{12}}} They abandoned Yahweh the God of their ancestors, who brought them out from the land of Egypt. They followed other gods from the gods of the people who were around them; and they bowed down to them, and they provoked the anger of Yahweh. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Judges-01-33]] }}}
{{rf{13}}} They abandoned Yahweh, and they served Baal and the Ashtaroth. {{rf{14}}} So the anger of Yahweh was kindled against Israel, and he gave them into the hand of plunderers; and they plundered them, and he sold them into the hand of their enemies from all sides. They were unable to withstand their enemies any longer. {{rf{15}}} Whenever they went out, the hand of Yahweh was against them to harm them, just as Yahweh warned, and just as Yahweh had sworn to them. And they were very distressed. {{rf{16}}} Then Yahweh raised up leaders, and they delivered them from the hand of their plunderers. {{rf{17}}} But they did not listen to their leaders, but lusted after other gods and bowed down to them. They turned away quickly from the way that their ancestors went, who had obeyed the commandment of Yahweh; they did not do as their ancestors. {{rf{18}}} And when Yahweh raised leaders for them, Yahweh was with the leader, and he delivered them from the hand of their enemies all the days of the leader, for Yahweh was moved by their groaning because of their persecutors and oppressors. {{rf{19}}} But when the leader died they relapsed and acted corruptly, more than their ancestors, following other gods, serving them, and bowing down to them. They would not give up their deeds or their stubborn ways. {{rf{20}}} So the anger of Yahweh burned against Israel, and he said, "Because this people transgressed my covenant that I commanded their ancestors, and have not obeyed my voice, {{rf{21}}} I will not again drive out anyone from before them from the nations that Joshua left when he died, {{rf{22}}} in order to test Israel whether or not they would observe the way of Yahweh, to walk in it just as their ancestors did." {{rf{23}}} So Yahweh left those nations; he did not drive them out at once, and he did not give them into the hand of Joshua. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Judges-02-13]] }}}
These are the nations that Yahweh left, to test Israel by them (that is, to test all those who had not experienced any of the wars of Canaan, {{rf{2}}} in order that the generations of Israel would know war, to teach those who had not experienced it before): {{rf{3}}} the five rulers of the Philistines, all the Canaanites, the Sidonians, and the Hivites living on Mount Lebanon, from Mount Baal Hermon up to Lebo-Hamath. {{rf{4}}} They were left for testing Israel, to know whether they would keep the commands of Yahweh that he commanded their ancestors through the hand of Moses. {{rf{5}}} And the Israelites lived in the midst of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites. {{rf{6}}} And they took their daughters as wives for themselves, and they gave their daughters to their sons, and they served their gods. {{rf{7}}} The Israelites did evil in the eyes of Yahweh. They forgot Yahweh their God, and they served the Baals and the Asheroth. {{rf{8}}} And the anger of Yahweh was kindled against Israel, and he sold them into the hand of Cushan-Rishathaim, the king of Aram Naharaim; and the Israelites served Cushan-Rishathaim eight years. {{rf{9}}} The Israelites cried out to Yahweh, and Yahweh raised up a deliverer for the Israelites who delivered them, Othniel son of Kenaz, Caleb's younger brother. {{rf{10}}} And the spirit of Yahweh came upon him, and he judged Israel. He went out to war, and Yahweh gave Cushan-Rishathaim king of Aram into his hand, and he prevailed over Cushan-Rishathaim. {{rf{11}}} So the land rested forty years. Then Othniel son of Kenaz died. {{rf{12}}} And again the Israelites did evil in the eyes of Yahweh. So Yahweh strengthened Eglon king of Moab against Israel, because they did evil in the eyes of Yahweh. {{rf{13}}} He gathered to himself the Ammonites and Amalekites, and he went and defeated Israel, and they took possession of the city of palms. {{rf{14}}} And the Israelites served Eglon king of Moab eighteen years. {{rf{15}}} And the Israelites cried out to Yahweh, and Yahweh raised up for them a deliverer, Ehud son of Gera, a Benjaminite and a left-handed man. And the Israelites sent a tribute to Eglon king of Moab through him. {{rf{16}}} Ehud made for himself a short, two-edged sword (a cubit in length), and he fastened it under his clothes on his right thigh. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Judges-03-01]] }}}
{{rf{17}}} Then he presented the tribute to Eglon king of Moab. Now Eglon was a very fat man. {{rf{18}}} When Ehud had finished presenting the tribute, he sent away the people who carried the tribute. {{rf{19}}} But he turned back from the sculptured stones that were near Gilgal, and he said, "I have a secret message for you, O king." And he said, "Silence!" So all those standing in his presence went out, {{rf{20}}} and Ehud came to him while he was sitting alone in his cool upper room. And Ehud said, "I have a message from God for you." So he got up from his seat. {{rf{21}}} Then Ehud reached with his left hand for the sword on his right thigh, and he thrust it into his stomach. {{rf{22}}} And the handle also went in after the blade, and the fat closed over the blade because he did not draw back the sword from his stomach; and it went protruding out the back. {{rf{23}}} And Ehud went out the vestibule, and he closed the doors of the upper room and locked them behind him. {{rf{24}}} After he left, his servants returned. When they saw that the doors of the upper room were locked, they thought, "Surely he is relieving himself in the cool inner room." {{rf{25}}} And they waited so long they became embarrassed because he did not open the doors of the upper room. So they took the key and opened the doors, and there their lord was lying on the ground dead. {{rf{26}}} And Ehud escaped while they delayed. He passed by the sculptured stones and escaped to Seirah. {{rf{27}}} And when he arrived he sounded the trumpet in the hill country of Ephraim, and the Israelites went down from the hill country with him leading them. {{rf{28}}} And he said to them, "Follow after me! Yahweh has given Moab your enemies into your hand." So they went down after him, and they captured the fords of the Jordan toward Moab; and they did not allow anyone to cross over. {{rf{29}}} And they struck Moab at that time, about ten thousand men, all strong and able men; no one escaped. {{rf{30}}} And Moab was subdued on that day under the hand of Israel. And the land rested eighty years. {{rf{31}}} And Shamgar son of Anath came after him, and he killed six hundred Philistines with the goad of an ox; he also delivered Israel. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Judges-03-17]] }}}
And again the Israelites did evil in the eyes of Yahweh, and Ehud died. {{rf{2}}} So Yahweh sold them into the hand of Jabin king of Canaan, who reigned in Hazor. The commander of his army was Sisera, and he was living in Harosheth Haggoyim. {{rf{3}}} And the Israelites cried to Yahweh, as he had nine hundred iron chariots, and he oppressed the Israelites cruelly for twenty years. {{rf{4}}} Now at that time Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lappidoth, was judging Israel. {{rf{5}}} And she used to sit under the palm tree of Deborah between Ramah and Bethel in the hill country of Ephraim; and the Israelites went up to her for judgment. {{rf{6}}} She sent and called for Barak son of Abinoam from Kedesh Naphtali and said to him, "Has not Yahweh the God of Israel commanded you? 'Go, march to Mount Tabor, and take ten thousand men from the descendants of Naphtali and Zebulun. {{rf{7}}} I will draw out Sisera, the commander of Jabin's army, with his chariots and troops, to the wadi of Kishon, and I will give him into your hand.'" {{rf{8}}} Barak said to her, "If you go with me, I will go; but if you do not go with me, I will not go." {{rf{9}}} She said, "Surely I will go with you; however, there will be no glory for you in the path you are taking, for Yahweh will sell Sisera into the hand of a woman." And Deborah stood up and went with Barak to Kedesh. {{rf{10}}} Barak summoned Zebulun and Naphtali to Kedesh; and they went up behind him, ten thousand men, and Deborah went up with him. {{rf{11}}} And Heber the Kenite was separated from the other Kenites, that is, from the descendants of Hobab the father-in-law of Moses. And he was encamped at Elon-bezaanannim, which is near Kedesh. {{rf{12}}} When they reported to Sisera that Barak son of Abinoam had gone up to Mount Tabor, {{rf{13}}} Sisera summoned all his chariots -- all nine hundred chariots of iron -- and the entire army that was with him from Harosheth Haggoyim to the wadi of Kishon. {{rf{14}}} And Deborah said to Barak, "Get up! This is the day that Yahweh has given Sisera into your hand. Has Yahweh not gone out before you?" So Barak went out from Mount Tabor with ten thousand men following him. {{rf{15}}} And Yahweh threw Sisera and all his chariots and army into confusion before the edge of Barak's sword; and Sisera dismounted from his chariot and fled on foot. {{rf{16}}} But Barak pursued after the chariots and army as far as Harosheth Haggoyim, and all of Sisera's army fell to the edge of the sword; no one was left. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Judges-04-01]] }}}
{{rf{17}}} Sisera fled on foot to the tent of Jael, the wife of Heber the Kenite, because there was peace between Jabin king of Hazor and the house of Heber the Kenite. {{rf{18}}} And Jael came out to meet Sisera, and she said to him, "Turn aside, my lord; turn aside to me and do not be afraid." So he turned aside into her tent, and she covered him with a blanket. {{rf{19}}} And he said to her, "Please, give me a drink of water, because I am thirsty." So she opened a skin vessel of milk and gave him a drink and covered him. {{rf{20}}} And he said to her, "Stand at the doorway of the tent, and if anyone comes and asks you, and says, 'Is there anyone here?' You must answer, 'No.'" {{rf{21}}} But Jael, the wife of Heber the Kenite, took in her hand a tent peg and a hammer, and she went softly to him and drove the peg into his temple, and it went through into the ground; he was fast asleep since he was exhausted, and he died. {{rf{22}}} And behold, Barak was pursuing Sisera, and Jael went out to meet him, and she said to him, "Come, and I will show you the man whom you are seeking." And he came with her and saw that Sisera was lying dead with the peg in his temple. {{rf{23}}} On that day God subdued Jabin king of Canaan before the Israelites. {{rf{24}}} And the hand of the Israelites pressed harder and harder on Jabin king of Canaan, until they destroyed Jabin king of Canaan. {{rf big{1}}} And Deborah and Barak son of Abinoam sang on that day: {{rf{2}}} "When long hair hangs loosely in Israel, when the people willingly offer themselves, bless Yahweh! {{rf{3}}} Hear, O kings! Give ear, O princes! I will sing to Yahweh; I will sing praise to Yahweh, the God of Israel. {{rf{4}}} Yahweh, when you went down from Seir, when you marched from the region of Edom, the earth trembled, the heavens poured down, the clouds poured down water. {{rf{5}}} The mountains trembled before Yahweh, this Sinai, at the presence of Yahweh, the God of Israel. {{rf{6}}} "In the days of Shamgar son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the caravans had ceased, the travelers, they kept to the byways. {{rf{7}}} The warriors ceased; they failed to appear in Israel, until I, Deborah, arose; I arose as a mother in Israel. {{rf{8}}} God chose new leaders, then war was at the gates; a small shield or a spear was not seen among forty thousand in Israel. {{rf{9}}} My heart goes out to the commanders of Israel, those offering themselves willingly among the people; bless Yahweh! {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Judges-04-17]] }}}
{{rf{10}}} The riders of white female donkeys, those sitting on saddle blankets, and those going on the way, talk about it! {{rf{11}}} At the sound of those dividing the sheep among the watering places, there they will recount the righteous deeds of Yahweh, the righteous deeds for his warriors in Israel. Then the people of Yahweh went down to the gates. {{rf{12}}} "Wake up, wake up, Deborah! Wake up, wake up, sing a song! Get up, Barak! Take captive your captives, O son of Abinoam. {{rf{13}}} Then the remnant went down to the nobles; the people of Yahweh went down for him against the mighty. {{rf{14}}} From Ephraim is their root into Amalek, after you, Benjamin, with your family; from Makir the commanders went down, and from Zebulun those carrying the scepter of the military commander. {{rf{15}}} And the chiefs in Issachar were with Deborah; and Issachar likewise was with Barak; into the valley he was sent to get him from behind. Among the clans of Reuben were great decisions of the heart. {{rf{16}}} Why do you sit among the sheepfolds, to hear the calling sounds of the herds? For the clans of Reuben, there were great searchings of the heart. {{rf{17}}} Gilead has remained beyond the Jordan. Why did Dan dwell as a foreigner with ships? Asher sat at the coast of the waters, and by his coves he has been settling down. {{rf{18}}} Zebulun is a people who scorned death, and Naphtali, on the heights of the field. {{rf{19}}} "The kings came, they fought; then the kings of Canaan fought; at Taanach by the waters of Megiddo, they got no plunder in silver. {{rf{20}}} The stars fought from heaven; from their courses they fought against Sisera. {{rf{21}}} The wadi torrent of Kishon swept them away, the raging wadi torrent, the wadi torrent of Kishon. March on, my soul, with strength! {{rf{22}}} "Then the hooves of the horse beat loudly, because of galloping, galloping of his stallions. {{rf{23}}} 'Curse Meroz,' says the angel of Yahweh; 'curse bitterly its inhabitants, because they did not come to the help of Yahweh, to the help of Yahweh against the mighty.' {{rf{24}}} "Most blessed of women is Jael, the wife of Heber the Kenite; most blessed is she of women among tent dwellers. {{rf{25}}} He asked for water, and she gave milk; in a drinking bowl for nobles, she brought curds. {{rf{26}}} She reached out her hand to the peg, and her right hand for the workman's hammer; and she struck Sisera, crushed his head, and she shattered and pierced his temple. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Judges-05-10]] }}}
{{rf{27}}} Between her feet he sank, he fell, he lay. Between her feet he sank down, he fell; Where he sank down, there he fell -- dead. {{rf{28}}} "Through the window she looked down; the mother of Sisera cried out through the lattice, 'Why is his chariot delayed in coming? Why do the hoof beats of his chariot tarry?' {{rf{29}}} The wisest of her ladies answer her; she also answers the question herself: {{rf{30}}} 'Are they not finding and dividing the plunder? A bedmate or two bedmates for every man; colorful garments for Sisera, plunder of colorful garments, beautifully finished colorful garments, on the neck of the plunderer?' {{rf{31}}} So may all your enemies perish, O Yahweh, but those who love him are like the rising sun at its brightest." And the land had rest for forty years. {{rf big{1}}} The Israelites did evil in the eyes of Yahweh, and Yahweh gave them into the hand of the Midianites for seven years. {{rf{2}}} The hand of the Midianites prevailed over Israel; because of the presence of the Midianites, the Israelites made for themselves hiding places that were in the mountains, caves, and strongholds. {{rf{3}}} And whenever Israel sowed seed, the Midianites, Amalekites, and the people of the east would come up against them. {{rf{4}}} They would camp against them and destroy the produce of the land as far as Gaza; they left no produce in Israel, or sheep, ox, or donkey. {{rf{5}}} For they, their livestock, and their tents would come up like a great number of locusts; they and their camels could not be counted; they came into the land and devoured it. {{rf{6}}} Israel was very poor because of the presence of the Midianites, and the Israelites cried out to Yahweh. {{rf{7}}} When the Israelites cried out to Yahweh on account of the Midianites, {{rf{8}}} Yahweh sent a prophet to the Israelites, and he said to them, "Thus says Yahweh the God of Israel: 'I brought you up from Egypt; I brought you from the house of slavery. {{rf{9}}} I delivered you from the hand of Egypt and from the hand of all your oppressors, and drove them out from before you; and I gave you their land. {{rf{10}}} And I said to you, 'I am Yahweh your God; do not fear the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you are living.' But you have not listened to my voice." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Judges-05-27]] }}}
<<Bbl Jud 6:5 abbr >> Each solder must also act in faith, affirming Gideon as they trust in the Lord. They each joined an army of prayer as they waited for news of the battle.
<<Bbl Jud 6:10 abbr>> A quotation mark after the sentence at the end of the passage is misplaced. It should be before that sentence.
6:13 The tone of the whole passage suggests that Gideon, far from complaining or mocking God, is making a serious inquiry. See <<Bbl Gn 25:22 >>.
<<Bbl Jud 6:16 abbr >> Presumably as if they, Midian, were one man.
6:19-21 The bread reappears in 7:13.
6:25-27 Before using Gideon to defeat Gideon, God must use him to defeat idolatry. From the outset He must demonstrate to Israel the source of Gideon's strength. Love of the Father is hatred of the world; thus, "Let Baal contend against him," which Tim Clemens points out that this is a direct satanic curse.
6:31 See <<Bbl A 19:35 >>-36 .
<<Bbl Jud 6:32 abbr >> A potential curse - and a provocation to the living God. A converse of <<Bbl 1C 5:5 >>.
<<Bbl Jud 6:33 abbr >> This is like a screenplay; as a western, we imagine that just as the noose is dropped over a tree limb and secured, fifty Comanche Indians on horseback come charging over the ridge.
6:35 Naphtali and Zebulun, the warriors of chap. 4.
<<Bbl Jud 6:35 abbr >>-40 The miracle is forceful, indisputable. Gideon may proceed with no misgivings, always able to look back on it.
<<Bbl Jud 6:36 abbr >> Gideon does not doubt it is God speaking to him (contrary to Robert Morris in __Frequency__). But he doubts he "really has the go-ahead from God" to defeat Midian (Goldsworth).
<<Bbl Jud 7:1 abbr>> A name of war, from 6:32. But his original name is the one by which he is remembered.
7:3 This is in accord with the Law. Ironically, Gideon himself is still fearful, as vs.10 shows.
<<Bbl Jud 7:5 abbr >>-7 "Gideon, I have a fleece for __you__.
7:13 From the mind of the Midianite, the symbols are clear. His people are nomads, well represented by a tent; his prey are farmers, producers of bread. Note that the bread offered in sacrifice by Gideon in 6:19-21 is now the agent of victory.
<<Bbl Jud 7:19 abbr>> What a sound as the jars were all broken -- a unique sound and very loud. (Compare good-natured applause when a busboy drops a tray full of dishes.) Imagine the discomfiture of Hebrew wives. Imagine the mischievous delight of the men telling them after the battle.
{{rf{11}}} The angel of Yahweh came and sat under the oak that was at Ophrah that belonged to Jehoash the Abiezrite; and Gideon his son was threshing wheat in the winepress to hide it from the Midianites. {{rf{12}}} The angel of Yahweh appeared to him and said to him, "Yahweh is with you, you mighty warrior." {{rf{13}}} Gideon said to him, "Excuse me, my lord. If Yahweh is with us, why then has all this happened to us? Where are all his wonderful deeds that our ancestors recounted to us, saying, 'Did not Yahweh bring us up from Egypt?' But now Yahweh has forsaken us; he has given us into the palm of Midian." {{rf{14}}} And Yahweh turned to him and said, "Go in this your strength, and you will deliver Israel from the palm of Midian. Did I not send you?" {{rf{15}}} He said to him, "Excuse me, my lord. How will I deliver Israel? Look, my clan is the weakest in Manasseh, and I am the youngest in my father's house." {{rf{16}}} And Yahweh said to him, "But I will be with you, and you will defeat Midian as if they are one man." {{rf{17}}} And he said to him, "Please, if I have found favor in your eyes, show me a sign that you are speaking with me. {{rf{18}}} Please, do not depart from here until I come back to you and bring out my gift and set it out before you." And he said, "I will stay until you return." {{rf{19}}} And Gideon went and prepared a young goat and unleavened cakes from an ephah of flour; he put meat in a basket, and the broth he put in a pot, and he brought them to him under the oak and presented them. {{rf{20}}} The angel of God said to him, "Take the meat and the unleavened cakes and put them on this rock; pour the broth over it." And he did so. {{rf{21}}} Then the angel of Yahweh reached out the tip of the staff that was in his hand, and he touched the meat and the unleavened cakes; and fire went up from the rock and consumed the meat and the unleavened cakes. And the angel of Yahweh went from his sight. {{rf{22}}} And Gideon realized that he was the angel of Yahweh; and Gideon said, "Oh, my lord Yahweh! For now I have seen the angel of Yahweh face to face." {{rf{23}}} And Yahweh said to him, "Peace be with you. Do not fear; you will not die." {{rf{24}}} And Gideon built there an altar to Yahweh, and he called it "Yahweh is peace." To this day it is still in Ophrah of the Abiezrites. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Judges-06-11]] }}}
{{rf{25}}} Now on that same night Yahweh said to him, "Take the bull of the cattle that belongs to your father, and a second bull seven years old, and pull down the altar of Baal that belongs to your father, and cut down the Asherah that is beside it; {{rf{26}}} and build an altar to Yahweh your God on the top of this stronghold in the proper arrangement, and take a second bull and offer it as a burnt offering with the wood of the Asherah that you will cut down. {{rf{27}}} Gideon took ten men from his servants, and he did just as Yahweh told him; and because he was too afraid of his father's family and the men of the city to do it during the day, he did it during night. {{rf{28}}} When the men of the city got up early in the morning, look, the altar of Baal and the Asherah that was beside it were cut down, and the second bull was offered on the altar that had been built. {{rf{29}}} And they said to one another, "Who did this thing?" So they searched and inquired, and they said, "Gideon son of Jehoash did this thing." {{rf{30}}} And the men of the city said to Jehoash, "Bring out your son so that he may die, for he has pulled down the altar of Baal and cut down the Asherah that was beside it." {{rf{31}}} But Jehoash said to all who stood against him, "Will you contend for Baal? Will you rescue him? Whoever contends for him will be put to death by the morning. If he is a god, let him contend for himself because his altar has been pulled down." {{rf{32}}} Thus, on that day he was called Jerub-Baal, which means, "Let Baal contend against him," because he had pulled down his altar. {{rf{33}}} Then all the Midianites, Amalekites, and the people of the east gathered together and crossed the Jordan; and they camped in the valley of Jezreel. {{rf{34}}} So the Spirit of Yahweh took possession of Gideon, and he blew on the trumpet, and the Abiezrites were called to follow him. {{rf{35}}} He sent messengers throughout all Manasseh, and they were also called to follow him; and he sent messengers throughout Asher, Zebulun, and Naphtali, and they went up to meet them. {{rf{36}}} Then Gideon said to God, "In order to see that you will deliver Israel by my hand, just as you have said, {{rf{37}}} I will place a fleece of wool on the threshing floor. If there is dew on the fleece only, and all of the ground is dry, I will know that you will deliver Israel by my hand, just as you have said." {{rf{38}}} And it was so. He arose early the next day and squeezed the fleece, and he wrung out dew from the fleece, a full drinking bowl of water. {{rf{39}}} And Gideon said to God, "Do not let your anger burn against me; let me speak once more. Please let me test once more with the fleece; let the fleece be dry, and let there be dew on the ground." {{rf{40}}} And God did so that night; only the fleece was dry, and dew was on all the ground. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Judges-06-25]] }}}
{{rf big{1}}} Then Jerub-Baal (that is, Gideon) rose early, and all the army that was with him. They were camped beside the spring of Harod; the camp of Midian was north of the hill of Moreh, in the valley. {{rf{2}}} And Yahweh said to Gideon, "The troops that are with you are too many for me to give Midian into their hands; Israel will boast, saying, 'My hand has delivered me.' {{rf{3}}} So then, please proclaim in the hearing of the troops, saying, 'Whoever is fearful and trembling, let him return and depart from the Mount of Gilead.'" About twenty-two thousand troops returned, and ten thousand remained. {{rf{4}}} And Yahweh said to Gideon, "There are still too many troops; bring them down to the water, and I will sift through them for you there. For whomever I say to you, 'This one will go with you,' he will go with you; and for all whom I say to you, 'This one will not go with you,' he will not go." {{rf{5}}} So he brought down the troops to the water, and Yahweh said to Gideon, "You must separate everyone who laps up the water to drink with his tongue like a dog from those who kneel." {{rf{6}}} The number of those lapping up the water with their hand to their mouth was three hundred men; all the rest of the troops kneeled to drink the water. {{rf{7}}} And Yahweh said to Gideon, "I will deliver you with the three hundred men lapping up the water; I will give Midian into your hand, so let the other troops go, each to his own place. {{rf{8}}} So they took their provisions and their trumpets into their hand, and he sent all the men of Israel, each one, to his tent; but three hundred of the men he kept; the camp of Midian was below him in the valley. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Judges-07-01]] }}}
{{rf{9}}} And that night Yahweh said to him, "Get up; go down against the camp, for I have given it into your hand. {{rf{10}}} But if you are afraid, go down to the camp with Purah your servant, {{rf{11}}} and you will hear what they say; and afterward you will have courage, and you will go down against the camp." Then he went down with Purah his servant to the outpost of the armed men that were in the camp. {{rf{12}}} Now the Midianites, Amalekites, and all the people of the east were lying in the valley, like a great multitude of locusts; their camels were without number, as numerous as the sand that is on the shore of the sea. {{rf{13}}} When Gideon came, a man was recounting a dream to his friend, and he said, "Behold, I had a dream; a round loaf of barley bread was tumbling into the camp of Midian, and it came up to the tent, it struck it, and it fell and turned it upside down so that the tent fell." {{rf{14}}} His friend answered him and said, "This cannot be anything except the sword of Gideon son of Jehoash, a man of Israel; God has given Midian and the entire camp into his hand." {{rf{15}}} When Gideon heard the recounting of the dream and its interpretation, he bowed down and returned to the camp of Israel; and he said, "Get up, for Yahweh has given the camp of Midian into your hand." {{rf{16}}} He divided the three hundred men into three companies, and he put trumpets and empty jars in everyone's hand, with torches inside the jars. {{rf{17}}} And he said to them, "Watch me and do the same. When I come to the edge of the camp, do just as I do. {{rf{18}}} When I and all who are with me blow on the trumpet, you must also blow on the trumpets and surround the camp, and you must say, 'To Yahweh and to Gideon!'" {{rf{19}}} So Gideon and the hundred men who were with him came to the edge of the camp at the beginning of the middle night-watch, when they had just finished setting up the guards, and they blew on the trumpets and smashed the jars that were in their hands. {{rf{20}}} When three companies blew on the trumpets and broke the jars, they held in their left hand the torches and in their right hand the trumpets for blowing, and they cried, "A sword for Yahweh and for Gideon!" {{rf{21}}} And each stood in his place all around the camp, and all the camp ran, and they cried out as they fled. {{rf{22}}} When they blew the three hundred trumpets, Yahweh set the sword of each one against his neighbor throughout the whole camp, and the camp fled as far as Beth Shittah toward Zererah, up to Abel Meholah, the border by Tabbath. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Judges-07-09]] }}}
{{rf{23}}} And the men of Israel were called from Naphtali, from Asher, and from all of Manasseh, and they pursued after Midian. {{rf{24}}} And Gideon sent messengers throughout all the hill country of Ephraim, saying, "Come down to oppose Midian, and capture from them the waters up to Beth Barah and the Jordan." He called out all the men of Ephraim, and they captured the waters up to Beth Barah and the Jordan. {{rf{25}}} And they captured the two commanders of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb, and they killed Oreb at the rock of Oreb, and they killed Zeeb at the wine press of Zeeb, while they chased Midian; and they brought the heads of Oreb and Zeeb to Gideon from beyond the Jordan. {{rf big{1}}} The men of Ephraim said to him, "What is this thing you have done to us, not calling us when you went to fight against the Midianites?" And they quarreled with him severely. {{rf{2}}} And he said to them, "What I have done now in comparison with you? Are not the gleanings of Ephraim better than the grape harvest of Abiezer? {{rf{3}}} God has given into your hand the commanders of Midian, Oreb, and Zeeb. What have I been able to do in comparison with you?" And their anger against him subsided when he said that. {{rf{4}}} Then Gideon came to the Jordan, crossing it with the three hundred men who were with him, weary and pursuing. {{rf{5}}} He said to the men of Succoth, "Please give loaves of bread to the people who are following me, for they are weary, and I am pursuing Zebah and Zalmunna, the kings of Midian." {{rf{6}}} The officials of Succoth said, "Is the hand of Zebah and Zalmunna in your hand now, that we should give bread to your army?" {{rf{7}}} Gideon said, "Well then, when Yahweh gives Zebah and Zalmunna into my hand, I will trample your flesh with the thorns and briers of the wilderness." {{rf{8}}} He went from there to Penuel, and he spoke similarly to them; and the men of Penuel answered him just as the men of Succoth answered. {{rf{9}}} And he said also to the men of Penuel, saying, "When I return safely, I will tear down this tower." {{rf{10}}} Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor, and their armies with them, about fifteen thousand men remained from the entire army of the people of the east; those that fell in battle were one hundred and twenty thousand swordsmen. {{rf{11}}} And Gideon went up the route of those who dwell in tents on the east of Nobah and Jogbehah, and he attacked the army when it was off its guard. {{rf{12}}} And Zebah and Zalmunna fled, and he pursued them and captured the two kings of Midian, Zebah and Zalmunna, and he routed the entire army. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Judges-07-23]] }}}
<<Bbl Jud 8:2 abbr >> Deprecation as in <<Bbl Jud 6:11 >>.
8:16 David does worse in <<Bbl 2S 12:31 >>.
<<Bbl Jud 8:24 abbr >> One of Gideon's intended statements in making the ephod concerned the unity forged in Israel during the crisis. He had fought hard himself for that unity.
8:33 berith -- covenant.
<<Bbl Jud 9:1 abbr>> [[Samson-Parents]]
<<Bbl Jud 9:5 abbr>> The remnant.
<<Bbl Jud 10:17 abbr >> Gideon is displaced.
<<Bbl Jud 11:1 abbr >>-3 Is this a flashback? A long occupation. <<Bbl Mk 6:17 >>-30
<<Bbl Jud 11:3 abbr >> Jephthah has a resource: an army. Mercenaries who later come up with the massacre Ephriamites at the river ford (<<Bbl Jud 12:1 >>ff)).
<<Bbl Jud 11:9 abbr >>-11 Only Jephthat acknowledges God. Leadership in verse 10. <<Bbl Jud 11:30 >>
<<Bbl Jud 11:11 abbr >> Firstborn; illegitimate, rejected.
11:12-28 Quite a study 0n the basis of territorial rights. Ammon accuses Israel of taking his land; Jephthah uses a tightly-reasoned theological argument to respond, "So what?"
Heshbon was possessed in <<Bbl Num 21:25 >>
<<Bbl Jud 11:24 abbr >> (fix reference) Jephthah's vow was made without regard for <<Bbl Dt 18:10 >>,12 and <<Bbl Dt 12:31 >>.
<<Bbl Jud 11:24 abbr >> A startling challenge.
<<Bbl Jud 11:31 abbr>> Epic Fail of a [[Vow]].
<<Bbl Jud 12:5 abbr >>-6 * [[Exclusivism]]
{{rf{13}}} Then Gideon son of Jehoash returned from the battle by way of the ascent of Heres. {{rf{14}}} He captured a young man from Succoth and questioned him. The young man listed for him the commanders of Succoth and its elders, seventy-seven men. {{rf{15}}} He came to the men of Succoth, and he said, "Here is Zebah and Zalmunna, about whom you taunted me, saying, 'Is the palm of Zebah and Zalmunna in your hand now, that we should give food to your weary men?'" {{rf{16}}} He took the elders of the city and the thorn bushes and briers of the wilderness, and he trampled the men of Succoth with them. {{rf{17}}} He broke down the tower of Penuel, and he killed the men of the city. {{rf{18}}} And he said to Zebah and Zalmunna, "What type were the men whom you killed at Tabor?" And they said, "They were like you; each one of them had the appearance of the sons of the king." {{rf{19}}} He said, "They were my brothers, the sons of my mother. As Yahweh lives, if you had kept them alive I would not kill you." {{rf{20}}} And he said to Jether, his firstborn, "Get up, kill them." But the boy did not draw his sword, for he was afraid because he was still a boy. {{rf{21}}} Zebah and Zalmunna said, "Get up yourself, and strike us, for as is the man, so is his power." So Gideon got up and killed Zebah and Zalmunna, and he took the crescent ornaments that were on the necks of their camels. {{rf{22}}} The men of Israel said to Gideon, "Rule over us, both you and your sons, and your sons' son, for you have delivered us from the hand of Midian. {{rf{23}}} But Gideon said to them, "I will not rule over you, and my son will not rule over you; Yahweh will rule over you." {{rf{24}}} And Gideon said to them, "Let me make a request of you, that each of you give to me an ornamental ring from his plunder." (They had ornamental rings of gold, because they were Ishmaelites.) {{rf{25}}} They said, "We will gladly give them," and they spread out a garment, and everyone threw there an ornamental ring of his plunder. {{rf{26}}} The weight of the ornamental rings of gold that he requested was one thousand seven hundred shekels of gold, apart from the crescents, pendants, and purple garments that were on the kings of Midian, and apart from the pendants that were on the necks of their camels. {{rf{27}}} Gideon made an ephod out of it, and he put it in his town in Ophrah, and all Israel prostituted themselves to it there, and it became a snare to Gideon and his family. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Judges-08-13]] }}}
{{rf{28}}} And Midian was subdued before the Israelites, and they did not again lift up their head, and the land rested for forty years in the days of Gideon. {{rf{29}}} Jerub-Baal son of Joash lived in his own house. {{rf{30}}} Now Gideon had seventy sons, his own offspring, for he had many wives. {{rf{31}}} His concubine who was in Shechem also bore for him a son, and he named him Abimelech. {{rf{32}}} And Gideon son of Joash died at a good old age, and he was buried in the tomb of Jehoash his father, in Ophrah of the Abiezrites. {{rf{33}}} And it happened, as soon as Gideon died, the Israelites returned and prostituted themselves after the Baals, and they made for themselves Baal-Berith as god. {{rf{34}}} The Israelites did not remember Yahweh their God, who had delivered them from the hand of their enemies from all around, {{rf{35}}} nor did they show favor to the house of Jerub-Baal (that is, Gideon) in accordance with all the good that he did for Israel. {{rf big{1}}} And Abimelech son of Jerub-Baal went to Shechem, to the relatives of his mother, and he said to them and to the house of his mother's father, {{rf{2}}} "Speak to the lords of Shechem, 'What is better for you, that seventy men all from the sons of Jerub-Baal rule over you, or that one man rules over you?' Remember that I am your bone and your flesh." {{rf{3}}} And his mother's relatives spoke all these words concerning him to all the lords of Shechem; and they supported Abimelech, for they said, "He is our relative." {{rf{4}}} And they gave to him seventy pieces of silver from the temple of Baal-Berith, and Abimelech hired with them worthless and reckless men, and they followed him. {{rf{5}}} And he went to his father's house at Ophrah, and he killed his brothers, the sons of Jerub-Baal, seventy men, on one stone. But Jotham the youngest son of Jerub-Baal survived, because he hid himself. {{rf{6}}} All the lords of Shechem and Beth-Millo gathered, and they went and made Abimelech as king, near the oak of the pillar that is at Shechem. {{rf{7}}} And they told Jotham, and he went up and stood on the top of Mount Gerizim, and he cried out loud and said to them, "Listen to me, lords of Shechem, so that God may listen to you. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Judges-08-28]] }}}
{{rf{8}}} "The trees went certainly, to anoint a king over themselves. And they said to the olive tree, 'Rule over us.' {{rf{9}}} And the olive tree replied, 'Should I stop producing my oil, which by me gods and men are honored, to go sway over the trees?' {{rf{10}}} Then the trees said to the fig tree, 'You, come rule over us.' {{rf{11}}} But the fig tree said to them, 'Should I stop producing my sweetness, and my good crop, to go sway over the trees?' {{rf{12}}} And the trees said to the vine, 'You, come rule over us.' {{rf{13}}} But the vine said to them, 'Should I stop producing my wine that makes the gods and men happy, to go sway over the trees?' {{rf{14}}} So all the trees said to the thornbush, 'You, come rule over us.' {{rf{15}}} And the thornbush said to the trees, 'If in good faith you are anointing me as king over you, then come and take refuge in my shade; if not, may fire go out from the thornbush and devour the cedars of Lebanon.' {{rf{16}}} "So then, if you have acted in good faith and sincerity in making Abimelech king, and if you have dealt well with Jerub-Baal and his house, and have dealt with him according to his accomplishments -- {{rf{17}}} for my father fought and risked his life for you and delivered you from the hand of Midian; {{rf{18}}} but today you have risen against the house of my father and killed his sons, seventy men on one stone, and you have made Abimelech, the son of his slave woman, a king over the lords of Shechem, because he is your relative -- {{rf{19}}} if you have acted in good faith and sincerity with Jerub-Baal and his house this day, then rejoice in Abimelech, and let him also rejoice in you. {{rf{20}}} But if not, let a fire come out from Abimelech and let it devour the lords of Shechem and Beth-Millo; and let a fire come out from the lords of Shechem, and from Beth-Millo, and let it devour Abimelech." {{rf{21}}} And Jotham escaped and fled, and went to Beer; he remained there because of Abimelech his brother. {{rf{22}}} Abimelech ruled over Israel three years. {{rf{23}}} And God sent an evil spirit between Abimelech and the lords of Shechem, and the lords of Shechem dealt treacherously with Abimelech, {{rf{24}}} so that the violence done to the seventy brothers of Abimelech would be avenged and their blood be placed on Abimelech their brother, who killed them, and on the lords of Shechem, who helped to kill his brothers. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Judges-09-08]] }}}
{{rf{25}}} And the lords of Shechem set for him ambushes on the top of the mountains, and they robbed all who passed by them along the road; and it was reported to Abimelech. {{rf{26}}} And Gaal son of Ebel and his relatives came, and they crossed over into Shechem, and the lords of Shechem gave him confidence. {{rf{27}}} They went out into the field and harvested their vineyards and trod them, and they held a festival. And they went into the temple of their god, and they ate and drank and cursed Abimelech. {{rf{28}}} Then Gaal son of Ebed said, "Who is Abimelech, and who are we of Shechem that we should serve him? Is he not the son of Jerub-Baal, and is not Zebul his chief officer? Serve the men of Hamor the father of Shechem. Why should we serve him? {{rf{29}}} If only this people were in my command! Then I would remove Abimelech, and I would have said, 'Increase your army and come out!'" {{rf{30}}} When Zebul the commander of the city heard the words of Gaal son of Ebed, he became angry, {{rf{31}}} and he sent messengers to Abimelech in Tormah, saying, "Look, Gaal son of Ebed and his relatives are coming to Shechem, and they are stirring up the city against you. {{rf{32}}} So then, get up by night, you and the army that is with you, and lie in ambush in the field. {{rf{33}}} And in the morning at sunrise, get up and rush the city; and look, when he and the troops who are with him come out to you, you must act according to whatever opportunity offers itself. {{rf{34}}} So Abimelech and all the army that was with him got up by night, and they lay in ambush against Shechem in four divisions. {{rf{35}}} Gaal son of Ebed went out and stood at the entrance of the city gate, and Abimelech and the army that was with him got up from the ambush. {{rf{36}}} When Gaal saw the army, he said to Zebul, "Look, people are coming down from the top of the mountains!" And Zebul said to him, "The shadows of the mountains look like people to you." {{rf{37}}} And Gaal spoke again and said, "Look, people are coming down from Tabbur-erez, and one division is coming from the direction of Elon-meonenim." {{rf{38}}} And Zebul said to him, "Where then is your boast, you who said, 'Who is Abimelech that we should serve him?' Is this not the army that you rejected? Please, go out now and fight against them." {{rf{39}}} So Gaal went out before the lords of Shechem and fought against Abimelech. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Judges-09-25]] }}}
{{rf{40}}} And Abimelech chased him, and he fled before him; many fell slain up to the entrance of the gate. {{rf{41}}} So Abimelech resided at Arumah, and Zebul drove out Gaal and his relatives from living in Shechem. {{rf{42}}} On the next day the people went out to the field; and it was reported to Abimelech, {{rf{43}}} so he took the army and divided them into three divisions, and he laid an ambush in the field. And he saw the people were coming out from the city, and he arose against them and killed them. {{rf{44}}} Then Abimelech and the divisions that were with him dashed out and stood at the entrance of the city gate, and the two divisions dashed out against all who were in the field, and they killed them. {{rf{45}}} Abimelech fought against the city all that day, and he captured the city and killed the people that were in it; then he broke down the city and sowed it with salt. {{rf{46}}} When all the lords of the tower of Shechem heard, they went to the vault of the temple of El-Berith. {{rf{47}}} It was told to Abimelech that all the lords of the tower of Shechem had gathered. {{rf{48}}} So Abimelech went up Mount Zalmon, he and all his army that were with him, and Abimelech took the ax in his hand and cut down a bundle of brushwood, and he lifted it and put it on his shoulder. And he said to the army that was with him, "What you have seen me do, quickly do also." {{rf{49}}} So the whole army cut down each one branch for himself and followed Abimelech, and they put them against the vault and set the vault ablaze with fire on those inside, so that all the men of the tower of Shechem died, about a thousand men and women. {{rf{50}}} Then Abimelech went to Thebez, and he encamped against Thebez and captured it. {{rf{51}}} But there was a strong tower in the middle of the city, and all the men, women, and lords of the city fled there and shut themselves in; and they went up to the roof of the tower. {{rf{52}}} Abimelech came up to the tower and fought against it, and he came near the entrance of the tower to burn it with fire. {{rf{53}}} But a certain woman threw an upper millstone on Abimelech's head and cracked open his skull. {{rf{54}}} He called quickly to the young man carrying his weapons, and he said to him, "Draw your sword and kill me, so that they will not say of me, 'A woman killed him.'" So the young man stabbed him, and he died. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Judges-09-40]] }}}
{{rf{55}}} When the men of Israel saw that Abimelech was dead, each one went to his home. {{rf{56}}} So God repaid the wickedness that Abimelech committed against his father by killing his seventy brothers. {{rf{57}}} And God also repaid all the wickedness of the men of Shechem on their heads, and the curse of Jotham son of Jerub-Baal fell on them. {{rf big{1}}} After Abimelech, Tola son of Puah son of Dod, a man of Issachar, rose up to deliver Israel; and he was living at Shamir in the hill country of Ephraim. {{rf{2}}} And he judged Israel twenty-three years. And he died and was buried in Shamir. {{rf{3}}} After him Jair the Gileadite rose up, and he judged Israel twenty-two years. {{rf{4}}} And he had thirty sons who would ride on thirty donkeys, and they had thirty towns that are in the land of Gilead that they called Havvoth Jair until this day. {{rf{5}}} And Jair died and was buried in Kamon. {{rf{6}}} And again, the Israelites did evil in the eyes of Yahweh. They served the Baals, the Ashtaroth, the gods of Aram, Sidon, Moab, and the gods of the Ammonites and Philistines; they abandoned Yahweh and did not serve him. {{rf{7}}} And the anger of Yahweh burned against Israel, and he sold them into the hand of the Philistines and the Ammonites. {{rf{8}}} They crushed and oppressed the Israelites in that year; for eighteen years they crushed all the Israelites who were beyond the Jordan, in the land of the Amorites, which is in Gilead. {{rf{9}}} The Ammonites crossed the Jordan to fight also against Judah, Benjamin, and the house of Ephraim; and Israel was very distressed. {{rf{10}}} Then the Israelites cried out to Yahweh, saying, "We have sinned against you; we have abandoned our God and served the Baals." {{rf{11}}} And Yahweh said to the Israelites, "Did I not deliver you from the Egyptians, the Amorites, from the Ammonites, and from the Philistines? {{rf{12}}} And when the Sidonians, the Amalekites, and the Maonites oppressed you, you cried out to me, and I delivered you from their hand. {{rf{13}}} Yet you have abandoned me and served other gods. Therefore I will no longer deliver you. {{rf{14}}} Go and cry out to the gods whom you have chosen; let them deliver you in the time of your trouble." {{rf{15}}} And the Israelites said to Yahweh, "We have sinned; do to us accordingly as you see fit; only please deliver us this day." {{rf{16}}} So they removed the foreign gods from their midst and served Yahweh; and he could no longer bear the misery of Israel. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Judges-09-55]] }}}
{{rf{17}}} And the Ammonites were summoned, and they camped in Gilead. And the Israelites gathered and camped at Mizpah. {{rf{18}}} The people, the ones commanding Gilead, said to each other, "Who is the man that will begin to fight against the Ammonites? He will be as head over all the inhabitants of Gilead." {{rf big{1}}} Jephthah the Gileadite was a mighty warrior; he was the son of a prostitute, and Gilead was his father. {{rf{2}}} Gilead's wife also bore for him sons; and the sons of his wife grew up and drove Jephthah away, and they said to him, "You will not inherit the house of our father because you are the son of another woman." {{rf{3}}} So Jephthah fled from the presence of his brothers, and he lived in the land of Tob. And outlaws gathered around Jephthah and went with him. {{rf{4}}} After a time the Ammonites made war with Israel. {{rf{5}}} When the Ammonites made war with Israel, the elders of Gilead went to bring Jephthah from the land of Tob. {{rf{6}}} And they said to Jephthah, "Come and be our commander, so that we may make war against the Ammonites." {{rf{7}}} Jephthah said to the elders, "Did you not shun me and drive me out from the house of my father? Why do you come to me now when you have trouble?" {{rf{8}}} And the elders of Gilead said to Jephthah, "That being so, we have now returned to you, that you may go with us to fight against the Ammonites and become for us as head of all the inhabitants of Gilead." {{rf{9}}} So Jephthah said to the elders of Gilead, "If you bring me back to fight against the Ammonites, and Yahweh gives them over to me, will I be your head?" {{rf{10}}} And the elders of Gilead said to Jephthah, "Yahweh will be a witness between us; we will act according to your word." {{rf{11}}} So Jephthah went with the elders of Gilead, and the people made him head and commander over them. And Jephthah spoke all his words before Yahweh at Mizpah. {{rf{12}}} And Jephthah sent messengers to the king of the Ammonites, saying, "What is between you and me that you have come to me to make war against my land?" {{rf{13}}} And the king of the Ammonites said to Jephthah's messengers, "Because Israel took my land from the Arnon up to the Jabbok and the Jordan when they came up from Egypt; so then, restore it peacefully." {{rf{14}}} Once again Jephthah sent messengers to the king of the Ammonites, {{rf{15}}} and he said to him, "Thus says Jephthah, 'Israel did not take the land of Moab or the land of the Ammonites, {{rf{16}}} because when they came up from Egypt, Israel went through the wilderness to the Red Sea and went to Kadesh. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Judges-10-17]] }}}
{{rf{17}}} Israel sent messengers to the king of Edom, saying, "Please let us cross through your land," but the king of Edom would not listen. And they also sent messengers to the king of Moab, but he was not willing. So Israel stayed in Kadesh. {{rf{18}}} Then they traveled through the wilderness, went around the land of Edom and Moab, and came to the east side of the land of Moab, and they encamped beyond the Arnon; and they did not go into the territory of Moab because the Arnon was the border of Moab. {{rf{19}}} Israel sent messengers to Sihon king of the Amorites, king of Heshbon; and Israel said to him, 'Please let us cross through your land to our country.' {{rf{20}}} But Sihon did not trust Israel to cross through his territory, so Sihon gathered all his people and then encamped at Jahaz; and he made war with Israel. {{rf{21}}} And Yahweh, the God of Israel, gave Sihon and all his people into the hand of Israel, and they defeated them; and Israel occupied all the land of the Amorites inhabiting that land. {{rf{22}}} They occupied all the territory of the Amorites from the Arnon up to the Jabbok, and from the wilderness up to the Jordan. {{rf{23}}} So then Yahweh, the God of Israel, has driven out the Amorites from before his people Israel, and you want to possess it? {{rf{24}}} Do you not possess what Chemosh your god gave you to possess? Whoever Yahweh our God has driven out before us, we will possess it. {{rf{25}}} So then, are you any better than Balak son of Zippor, king of Moab? Did he ever quarrel with Israel, or did he ever make war against them? {{rf{26}}} When Israel lived in Heshbon and its villages, and in Aroer and its villages, and in all the towns that are along the Arnon, for three hundred years, why did you not recover them at that time? {{rf{27}}} I have not sinned against you; but you are the one who is doing wrong by making war against me. Let Yahweh judge today between the Israelites and the Ammonites." {{rf{28}}} But the king of the Ammonites did not listen to the message that Jephthah sent to him. {{rf{29}}} And the Spirit of Yahweh came upon Jephthah, and he passed through Gilead and Manasseh. He passed through Mizpah of Gilead, and from Mizpah of Gilead he passed through to the Ammonites. {{rf{30}}} And Jephthah made a vow to Yahweh, and he said, "If indeed you will give the Ammonites into my hand, {{rf{31}}} whatever comes out from the doors of my house to meet me when I return safely from the Ammonites will be Yahweh's, and I will offer it as a burnt offering." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Judges-11-17]] }}}
{{rf{32}}} And Jephthah crossed over to the Ammonites to make war against them; and Yahweh gave them into his hand. {{rf{33}}} And he defeated them with a very great blow, from Aroer as far as Minnith, twenty towns, up to Abel Keramim. And the Ammonites were subdued before the Israelites. {{rf{34}}} Jephthah came to Mizpah, to his house, and behold his daughter came out to meet him with tambourines and dancing. She was his only child; he did not have a son or daughter except her. {{rf{35}}} And the moment he saw her, he tore his clothes and said, "Ah! My daughter, you have caused me to bow down, and you have become my trouble. I made an oath to Yahweh, and I cannot take it back." {{rf{36}}} She said to him, "My father, you made an oath to Yahweh. Do to me according to what has gone out from your mouth, since Yahweh gave vengeance to you against your enemies, the Ammonites." {{rf{37}}} And she said to her father, "Let this thing be done for me: grant me two months so that I may go wander on the mountains and lament over my virginity, I and my companions. {{rf{38}}} And he said, "Go." He sent her away for two months, and she went with her friends, and she lamented over her virginity on the mountains. {{rf{39}}} At the end of the two months she returned to her father, and he did to her according to his vow; and she did not sleep with a man. And it became an annual custom in Israel {{rf{40}}} for the daughters of Israel to go and lament the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite for forty days of the year. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Judges-11-32]] }}}
The men of Ephraim were called to arms, and they crossed over to Zaphon and said to Jephthah, "Why did you cross over and make war against the Ammonites, and why did you not call us to go with you? We will burn down your house over you with fire." {{rf{2}}} And Jephthah said to them, "I and my people were engaged in great conflict with the Ammonites; I called you, but you did not deliver me from their hand. {{rf{3}}} I saw that you would not deliver us; I risked my own life, and I crossed over to the Ammonites, and Yahweh gave them into my hand. Why have you come up to me this day to fight against me?" {{rf{4}}} Jephthah gathered all the men of Gilead, and he made war with Ephraim; and the men of Gilead defeated Ephraim because they said, "You are fugitives of Ephraim, you Gileadites, in the midst of Ephraim and Manasseh." {{rf{5}}} Then Gilead captured the fords of the Jordan from Ephraim, and whenever a fugitive of Ephraim said, "Let me cross over," the men of Gilead said to him, "Are you an Ephraimite?" When he said, "No," {{rf{6}}} they said to him, "Please say Shibboleth," and if he said, "Sibboleth" -- because he could not pronounce it correctly -- they grabbed him and executed him at the fords of Jordan. At that time forty-two thousand from Ephraim fell. {{rf{7}}} Jephthah judged Israel six years. Then Jephthah the Gileadite died, and he was buried in one of the cities of Gilead. {{rf{8}}} After him Ibzan from Bethlehem judged Israel. {{rf{9}}} He had thirty sons. He gave his thirty daughters away in marriage outside his clan and brought in from outside thirty young women for his sons. He judged Israel for seven years. {{rf{10}}} Then Ibzan died and was buried in Bethlehem. {{rf{11}}} After him Elon the Zebulunite judged Israel, and he judged Israel ten years. {{rf{12}}} Then Elon the Zebulunite died and was buried in Aijalon in the land of Zebulun. {{rf{13}}} After him Abdon the son of Hillel the Pirathonite judged Israel. {{rf{14}}} He had forty sons and thirty grandsons that rode on seventy male donkeys. He judged Israel for eight years. {{rf{15}}} Then Abdon the son of Hillel the Pirathonite died and was buried in Pirathon, in the land of Ephraim in the hill country of the Amalekites. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Judges-12-01]] }}}
And again, the Israelites did evil in the eyes of Yahweh, and Yahweh gave them into the hand of the Philistines forty years. {{rf{2}}} There was a certain man from Zorah, from the tribe of the Danites, and his name was Manoah; his wife was infertile and did not bear children. {{rf{3}}} And an angel of Yahweh appeared to the woman, and he said to her, "Behold, you are infertile and have not borne children, but you will conceive and bear a son. {{rf{4}}} So then, be careful and do not drink wine or strong drink, and do not eat anything unclean, {{rf{5}}} because you will conceive and bear a son. No razor will touch his head, because the boy will be a Nazirite of God from birth. And it is he who will begin to deliver Israel from the hand of the Philistines." {{rf{6}}} And the woman came and told her husband, saying, "A man of God came to me, and his appearance was like the appearance of an angel of God, very awesome. I did not ask him from where he came, and he did not tell me his name. {{rf{7}}} And he said to me, 'Look, you will conceive and bear a son, so then, do not drink wine or strong drink, and do not eat anything unclean, for the boy will be a Nazirite of God from birth until the day of his death.'" {{rf{8}}} Then Manoah prayed to Yahweh and said, "Excuse me, my Lord, please let the man of God whom you sent again come to us and teach us what we should do concerning the boy who will be born." {{rf{9}}} And God listened to the voice of Manoah, and an angel of God came again to the woman; she was sitting in the field, but Manoah her husband was not with her. {{rf{10}}} The woman quickly ran and told her husband, and she said to him, "Look! The man who came to me the other day appeared to me." {{rf{11}}} So Manoah got up and went after his wife, and he came to the man and said to him, "Are you the man that spoke to the woman?" And he said, "I am." {{rf{12}}} And Manoah said to him, "Now when your words come true, what will be the boy's manner of life and work?" {{rf{13}}} And the angel of Yahweh said to Manoah, "Let the woman be attentive to all that I said. {{rf{14}}} She should not eat of anything that comes from the vine, or drink wine or strong drink, or eat anything unclean; she should keep all that I commanded." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Judges-13-01]] }}}
[[Samson-Parents]]
13:8-9 see <<Bbl Jms 1:5 >>
<<Bbl Jud 13:11 abbr >> -- I am
<<Bbl Jud 13:23 abbr >> -- wonderful statement of faith.
13:24 //Samson// can be rendered "Sun-man" (cognate with Arabic word for sun).
<<Bbl Jud 14:4 abbr >> Samson's parents were vexed because he had fixed his desire on a philistine woman.
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However, his father and mother did not know that it was of the LORD, for He was seeking an occasion against the Philistines. Now at that time the Philistines were ruling over Israel.
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13:25 Samson's seasons are marked and known by geography, not the calendar.
13:25 14:4
14:3 It seems they refuse, so, vs. 7.
14:5 We can begin by questioning why Samson is visiting a vineyard.
14:9 Violation of <<Bbl Lv 11:27 >>. Further, he defiles his parents.
14:14 The lion carcass is a picture of Samson. And thus a picture of Christ - rather a perfect one.
Samson tells the woman //I have not even told my mother and father.// A consequence of her betrayal is that his father, in attendence at the feast, learns he has been defiled in the deception of his son. And the mother is not found at this point or hereafter.
<<Bbl Jud 15:18 abbr >> The same tenet of faith offered by his mother in 13:18.
There is a sort of progression in Samson's answers. They have to do with holiness, and then with his hair, but finally he mentions holiness and hair and the specific commands of God, and it's all over but the vengeance.
<<Bbl Jud 16:3 abbr >> <<Bbl Mt 16:18>>.
16:4 This is the third of Samson's Philistine women and another breach of his parents' wishes and a violation of their vows on his behalf.
<<Bbl Jud 16:17>>,19 [[Samson]]
16:18 There they go, plowing with his heifer again (14:18).
16:19 How is it that she "began to afflict him" ??
<<Bbl Judges 16:20 abbr >>c Contrast the discernment of his enemies: <<Bbl Judges 16:5 abbr >>, <<Bbl Judges 16:18 abbr >>
<<Bbl Judges 16:21 abbr >> A simple inpatient procedure that takes less than a minute to perform.
16:21 This may be the central point of a chiasmus which is extensive and disproportional in its approach and descent.
<<Bbl Judges 16:23 abbr >>-24 heavy irony, for in fact God has given them into Samson's hand, and they are the many to be killed. Note Romans when quoting OT, on your account the heathen blaspheme.
<<Bbl Jud 16:30 abbr >> <<Bbl J 11:49>>-52. Samson accomplished more with his *death* than his life.
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{{rf{15}}} And Manoah said to the angel of Yahweh, "Please stay, and let us prepare a young goat for you." {{rf{16}}} The angel of Yahweh said to Manoah, "If you keep me, I will not eat your food, but if you prepare a burnt offering for Yahweh, you can offer it (for Manoah did not know that he was an angel of Yahweh)." {{rf{17}}} And Manoah said to the angel of Yahweh, "What is your name so that when your words come true we may honor you?" {{rf{18}}} But the angel of Yahweh said to him, "Why do you ask my name? It is too wonderful." {{rf{19}}} And Manoah took the young goat and the grain offering, and he offered it to Yahweh on the rock, to the one who performs miracles. And Manoah and his wife were watching. {{rf{20}}} And when the flame went up toward the heaven from the altar, the angel of Yahweh went up in the flame of the altar to heaven while Manoah and his wife were watching. And they fell on their faces to the ground. {{rf{21}}} The angel of Yahweh did not appear again to Manoah and his wife, and then Manoah knew that he was a messenger of Yahweh. {{rf{22}}} And Manoah said to his wife, "We will certainly die because we have seen God." {{rf{23}}} But his wife said to him, "If Yahweh wanted to kill us he would not have taken from our hand the burnt offering and the grain offering, or shown us all these things, or now announced to us things such as these." {{rf{24}}} The woman bore a son, and she called him Samson; the boy grew big, and Yahweh blessed him. {{rf{25}}} And the Spirit of Yahweh began to stir him in the camp of Dan, between Zorah and Eshtaol. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Judges-13-15]] }}}
And Samson went down to Timnah, and he saw a woman in Timnah from the daughters of the Philistines. {{rf{2}}} He went up and told his father and mother, and he said, "I saw a woman in Timnah from the daughters of the Philistines; so then, take her for me as a wife." {{rf{3}}} But his father and mother said to him, "Is there not a wife among the daughters of your relatives, or among all our people, that you must take a wife from the uncircumcised Philistines?" But Samson said to his father, "Take her for me because she pleases me." {{rf{4}}} His father and mother did not know that this was from Yahweh; he was seeking for an occasion against the Philistines. Now at that time the Philistines were ruling in Israel. {{rf{5}}} And Samson and his father and mother went down to Timnah, and they came to the vineyards of Timnah, and suddenly a young lion came roaring to meet him. {{rf{6}}} And the Spirit of Yahweh rushed upon him, and he tore the lion apart as one might tear apart a male kid goat (he was bare-handed). But he did not tell his father and mother what he had done. {{rf{7}}} Then he went down and talked to the woman, and she pleased Samson. {{rf{8}}} And he returned after awhile to marry her, and he turned aside to see the carcass of the lion, and there was a swarm of wild honey bees in the body of the lion, and honey. {{rf{9}}} He scraped it out into his hands, and he went on, eating it as he went. And he went to his father and mother and gave some to them, and they ate it. But he did not tell them that he had scraped the honey from the body of the lion. {{rf{10}}} His father went down to the woman, and Samson prepared there a feast, as young men were accustomed to doing this. {{rf{11}}} When they saw him, they took thirty companions, and they were with him. {{rf{12}}} And Samson said to them, "Let me tell you a riddle. If you can fully explain it to me within the seven days of the feast, and find it out, I will give to you thirty linen garments and thirty festal garments. {{rf{13}}} But if you are unable to explain it to me, you must give me thirty linen garments and thirty festal garments." So they said to him, "Tell your riddle; let us hear it." {{rf{14}}} He said to them, "From the eater came out food, From the strong came out sweet." But they were unable to explain the riddle for three days. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Judges-14-01]] }}}
{{rf{15}}} When it was the fourth day, they said to Samson's wife, "Entice your husband and tell us the riddle, or we will burn you and your father's house with fire. Have you invited us to rob us?" {{rf{16}}} And Samson's wife wept before him, and she said, "You must hate me; you do not love me. You told the riddle to my people, but you have not explained it to me." He said to her, "I have not explained it to my father and mother. Why should I explain it to you?" {{rf{17}}} She wept before him the seven days of their feast; and it happened, because she nagged him, on the seventh day he explained it to her, and she told the riddle to her people. {{rf{18}}} The men of the city said to him on the seventh day before the sun went down, "What is sweeter than honey? What is stronger than a lion?" And he said to them, "If you had not plowed with my heifer, you would not have found out my riddle." {{rf{19}}} And the Spirit of Yahweh rushed on him, and he went down to Ashkelon. He killed thirty men from them, and he took their belongings, and he gave festal garments to the ones that explained the riddle. He was angry, and he went up to his father's house. {{rf{20}}} And Samson's wife was given to his companion who was his best man. {{rf big{1}}} After a while, at the time of the wheat harvest, Samson visited his wife with a young goat. He said, "I want to go to my wife's private room." But her father would not allow him to enter. {{rf{2}}} Her father said, "I really thought that you hated her, so I gave her to your companion. Is not her younger sister more beautiful than she? Please, take her instead." {{rf{3}}} And Samson said to them, "This time, as far as the Philistines are concerned, when I do something evil I am without blame." {{rf{4}}} And Samson went and captured three hundred foxes, and he took torches. He turned them tail to tail, and he put one torch between two tails. {{rf{5}}} He set fire to the torches and let the foxes go into the standing grain of the Philistines, and he burned both the stacks of sheaves and the standing grain, up to the vineyards of olive groves. {{rf{6}}} And the Philistines said, "Who has done this?" And they said, "Samson the son-in-law of the Timnite, because he took his wife and gave her to his companion." And the Philistines went up and burned her and her father with fire. {{rf{7}}} Samson said to them, "If you want to behave like this, I swear I will not rest unless I have taken revenge on you." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Judges-14-15]] }}}
{{rf{8}}} And he gave them a thorough beating, and he went down and stayed in the cleft of the rock of Etam. {{rf{9}}} Then the Philistines came up and encamped in Judah, and they overran Lehi. {{rf{10}}} And the men of Judah said, "Why have you come up against us?" And they said, "To bind Samson; to do to him just as he did to us." {{rf{11}}} Then three thousand men from Judah went down to the cleft of the rock of Etam, and they said to Samson, "Do you not know that the Philistines are ruling over us? What is this that you have done to us?" And he said to them, "Just as they did to me, so I have done to them." {{rf{12}}} They said to him, "We have come down to bind you and give you over into the hand of the Philistines." And Samson said to them, "Swear to me that you will not attack me yourselves." {{rf{13}}} They said to him, "No, we will only bind you and give you into their hand; we will certainly not kill you." So they bound him with two new ropes, and they brought him up from the rock. {{rf{14}}} As he came up to Lehi, the Philistines came shouting to meet him; and the Spirit of Yahweh rushed on him, and the ropes that were on his arms became like flax that has burned with fire, and his bindings melted from his hands. {{rf{15}}} And he found a fresh jawbone of a donkey; he reached down and took it and killed one thousand men with it. {{rf{16}}} And Samson said, "With the jawbone of the donkey, heap upon heap; with the jawbone of the donkey, I struck dead one thousand men." {{rf{17}}} And it happened, when he finished speaking he threw the jawbone from his hand; and he called that place Ramath Lehi. {{rf{18}}} And he was very thirsty, and he called to Yahweh and said, "You gave this great victory into the hand of your servant, but now I must die of thirst and fall into the hand of the uncircumcised?" {{rf{19}}} So God split the hollow place that is at Lehi, and water came out from it; and he drank, and his spirit returned, and he was revived. Thus he called its name The Spring of Ha-Qore, which is at Lehi to this day. {{rf{20}}} And he judged Israel in the days of the Philistines twenty years. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Judges-15-08]] }}}
Samson went down to Gaza; there he saw a prostitute and had sex with her. {{rf{2}}} The Gazites were told, "Samson has come here," so they surrounded the place and lay in ambush for him all night at the city gate. They kept silent all night, saying, "We will wait until the morning light, and then we will kill him." {{rf{3}}} But Samson lay until the middle of the night; he got up in the middle of the night and took hold of the doors of the city gate and the two door posts, tore them loose with the bar, put them on his shoulders, and carried them up to the top of the hill that is in front of Hebron. {{rf{4}}} After this he fell in love with a woman in the wadi of Sorek, and her name was Delilah. {{rf{5}}} And the rulers of the Philistines came up to her and said, "Entice him and find out what makes his strength so great, and how we can overpower him, so that we may bind him up in order to subdue him; each of us will give you eleven hundred pieces of silver. {{rf{6}}} So Delilah said to Samson, "Please tell me what makes your strength so great, and with what can you be tied up to subdue you?" {{rf{7}}} Samson said to her, "If you tie me up with seven fresh bowstrings that are not dried up, I will become weak like everyone else." {{rf{8}}} So the rulers of the Philistines brought up to her seven fresh bowstrings that were not dried up, and she tied him up with them. {{rf{9}}} The ambush was sitting in wait for her in an inner room. And she said to him, "The Philistines are upon you Samson!" And he snapped the bowstrings just as flax fiber snaps when it comes close to fire. And the secret of his strength remained unknown. {{rf{10}}} Delilah said to Samson, "Look, you have mocked me and told me lies. Please tell me how you can be bound." {{rf{11}}} He said to her, "If they tie me tightly with new ropes that have not been used, I will become weak and be like everyone else." {{rf{12}}} So Delilah took new ropes and tied him up with them, and she said to him, "The Philistines are upon you, Samson!" (The ambush was sitting in an inner room.) But he snapped them from his arms like thread. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Judges-16-01]] }}}
{{rf{13}}} And Delilah said to Samson, "Until now you have mocked me and told lies to me. Tell me how you can be bound." And he said to her, "If you weave seven locks of my head with warp-threads." {{rf{14}}} She fastened it with the pin and said to him, "The Philistines are upon you, Samson!" And Samson woke up from his sleep and tore loose the loom pin of the web and the warp-threads. {{rf{15}}} And she said to him, "How can you say, 'I love you,' when your heart is not with me? You have mocked me these three times, and you have not told me how your strength is so great." {{rf{16}}} And because she nagged him day after day with her words, and pestered him, his soul grew impatient to the point of death. {{rf{17}}} So he confided everything to her, and he said to her, "A razor has never touched my head, for I am a Nazirite of God from birth. If I am shaved my strength will leave me, and I will become weak, like everyone else. {{rf{18}}} Delilah realized that he had confided in her, so she sent and called the rulers of the Philistines, saying, "Come up one more time, for he has confided in me." And the rulers of the Philistines came up, and they brought the money with them. {{rf{19}}} And she put him to sleep on her lap; then she called the men and shaved off seven locks of his head. Then she began to subdue him, and his strength went away from him. {{rf{20}}} And she said to him, "The Philistines are upon you, Samson!" And he woke up from his sleep and said, "I will go out just like every other time and shake myself free," but he did not know that Yahweh had left him. {{rf{21}}} And the Philistines seized him, gouged his eyes, and brought him to Gaza. They tied him up with bronze shackles, and he became a grinder in the prison. {{rf{22}}} But the hair of his head began to grow back after it had been shaved off. {{rf{23}}} The rulers of the Philistines had gathered to sacrifice a great sacrifice to Dagon their god and to rejoice. And they said, "Our god has given Samson our enemy into our hand." {{rf{24}}} And the people saw him, and they praised their god, for they said, "Our god has given into our hand those who hate us, devastate our land, and have killed many of us." {{rf{25}}} After awhile, when their hearts were merry, they said, "Call Samson and let him entertain us." And they called Samson from the prison, and he entertained them. And they made him stand between the pillars. {{rf{26}}} Then Samson said to the servant who was holding him by his hand, "Position me so that I can touch the pillars on which the house rests, so I can lean on them." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Judges-16-13]] }}}
{{rf{27}}} And the house was full of men and women, and all of the rulers of the Philistines were there -- about three thousand men and women were on the roof watching the performance of Samson. {{rf{28}}} And Samson called to Yahweh and said, "My Lord Yahweh, remember me! Please give me strength this one time, O God, so that I can repay with one act of revenge to the Philistines for my eyes." {{rf{29}}} And Samson reached out and held two of the middle pillars on which the house was resting, and he leaned on them, one on his right and one on his left. {{rf{30}}} And Samson said, "Let me die with the Philistines." And he pushed with all his strength, and the house fell on the rulers and all of the people who were with him. And the dead whom he killed in his death were more than those he killed in his life. {{rf{31}}} His brothers and his whole family came down and picked him up; and they brought him up and buried him between Zorah and Eshtaol in the tomb of Manoah his father; he judged Israel twenty years.
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{{rf big{1}}} There was a man from the hill country of Ephraim; his name was Micah. {{rf{2}}} And he said to his mother, "The eleven hundred pieces of silver that were taken from you, and about which you also pronounced a curse in my hearing, are with me; I took it." And his mother said, "Blessed be my son by Yahweh." {{rf{3}}} He returned the eleven hundred pieces of silver to his mother, and his mother thought, "I will certainly consecrate to Yahweh the pieces of silver from my hand for my son to make an idol of cast metal; now then, I will return them to you." {{rf{4}}} When he returned the pieces of silver to his mother, his mother took two hundred pieces of silver, and she gave it to the smith, and he made it into an idol of cast metal; and it was in the house of Micah. {{rf{5}}} The man Micah had for himself a shrine, and he made an ephod and teraphim, and he appointed one of his sons who became a priest for him. {{rf{6}}} In those days there was no king in Israel, and each one did what was right in his own eyes. {{rf{7}}} There was a young man from Bethlehem in Judah, from the clan of Judah; he was a Levite and was dwelling as a foreigner there. {{rf{8}}} And the man went from the town of Bethlehem in Judah to live as a foreigner wherever he could find a place. And he came to the hill country of Ephraim, to the house of Micah, to continue his journey. {{rf{9}}} And Micah said to him, "From where do you come?" And he said to him, "I am a Levite from Bethlehem in Judah; I am going to dwell as a foreigner wherever I can find a place." {{rf{10}}} And Micah said to him, "Stay with me and be to me a father and a priest, and I will give to you ten pieces of silver a year, a set of clothes, and your food." So the Levite went with him. {{rf{11}}} The Levite agreed to stay with the man; and the young man became as one of his sons. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Judges-16-27]] }}}
<<Bbl Jud 17:2 abbr >> From the upshot we see the curse was not lifted, whatever the young man and his mother may have wished. For Israel was liable to a [[Curse]]. Given the atrocities to follow, it was an effective imprecation.
<<Bbl Judges 17:2 abbr >> //1,100 of silver// oddly coincides with <<Bbl Judges 16:5 >>.
17:6 The first instance of this proverb (also 19:1). See <<Bbl Dt 12:8 >>. Note too, that with this chapter the events of Judges take on a new horrible and cursed quality.
18:19 An early description of priest as father.
18:27-28 A sympathetic tone to this passage.
18:31 concerning Shiloh, see <<Bbl Jer 7:12 >>
<<Bbl Jud 19:22 abbr >> Like Sodom.
20,21 Benjamin is decimated. Later, in the histories, it is counted with Judah. <<Bbl 1S 9:21 >> calls it the smallest of the tribes.
21:1-7 Many presumptuous, illicit oaths.
{{rf{12}}} So Micah appointed the Levite, and the young man became a priest for him; and he was in the house of Micah. {{rf{13}}} And Micah said, "Now I know Yahweh will make me prosperous, because the Levite has become my priest." {{rf big{1}}} In those days there was no king in Israel. And in those days the tribe of the Danites was seeking territory for itself to live in, because until that day it had not been allotted territory among the tribes of Israel. {{rf{2}}} The descendants of Dan sent from the whole number of their clan five capable men from Zorah and Eshtaol to spy out the land and to explore it. And they said to them, "Go, explore the land." And they went to the hill country of Ephraim, to the house of Micah, and they spent the night there. {{rf{3}}} While they were with the house of Micah, they recognized the voice of the young Levite, and they turned aside there and said to him, "Who brought you here? What are you doing in this place, and what is your business here?" {{rf{4}}} And he said to them, "Micah did such and such for me and hired me, and I became his priest." {{rf{5}}} And they said to him, "Please inquire of God that we may know whether our journey that we are going on will be successful." {{rf{6}}} And the priest said to them, "Go in peace. Yahweh is in front of you on the journey you want to go on." {{rf{7}}} And the five men went and came to Laish, and they observed the people who were living according to the customs of the Sidonians, quiet and unsuspecting, and lacking nothing in the land, and possessing restraint. And they were far from the Sidonians and had no word with anyone. {{rf{8}}} They came to their relatives at Zorah and Eshtaol, and their relatives said to them, "What do you report?" {{rf{9}}} And they said to them, "Come, let us go up against them; for we have seen the land, and it is very good. Will you do nothing? Do not hesitate to go, to enter, to possess the land. {{rf{10}}} When you go you will come to an unsuspecting people, and the land is spread out on all sides; God has given a place into your hands where there is no lack of anything that is on the earth." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Judges-17-12]] }}}
{{rf{11}}} Six hundred men from the clan of the Danites from Zorah and Eshtaol, armed with weapons of war, set out from there. {{rf{12}}} They went up and encamped at Kiriath Jearim in Judah. Therefore they called this place Camp of Dan to this day; it is west of Kiriath Jearim. {{rf{13}}} From there they crossed over to the hill country of Ephraim, and they came to the house of Micah. {{rf{14}}} And the five men that went out to spy out the land (that is, Laish) responded and said to their relatives, "Do you know that there are in these houses an ephod, teraphim, and an idol of cast metal? So then, consider what you must do." {{rf{15}}} So they turned to that direction, and they came to the house of the young Levite, the house of Micah, and they greeted him. {{rf{16}}} And six hundred men from the descendants of Dan, armed with their weapons of war, were standing at the entrance of the gate. {{rf{17}}} And the five men that went to spy out the land went up, and they entered there and took the carved divine image, ephod, teraphim, and the molten image. The priest was standing at the entrance of the gate with the six hundred men armed with the weapons of war. {{rf{18}}} When these went to Micah's house, they took the divine carved image, ephod, the teraphim, and the molten image, and the priest asked them, "What are you doing?" {{rf{19}}} And they said to him, "Keep quiet! Put your hand on your mouth and come with us and be for us a father and a priest. Is it better being a priest for a house of one man or being a priest for a tribe and clan in Israel?" {{rf{20}}} The priest accepted the offer, and he took the ephod, teraphim, and molten image and went along with the people. {{rf{21}}} And they turned and went and put the little children, the livestock, and the valuable property in front of them. {{rf{22}}} When they were at a distance from the house, Micah and the men who were in the houses that were near the house of Micah cried out, and they overtook the descendants of Dan. {{rf{23}}} And they called to the descendants of Dan, who turned around to face them, and they said to Micah, "What is the matter with you that you assembled together?" {{rf{24}}} He said, "You took away my gods that I had made, and the priest, and then you go away. What is now left for me? How can you say to me, 'What is the matter?'" {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Judges-18-11]] }}}
{{rf{25}}} And the descendants of Dan said to him, "You should not let your voice be heard among us, so that ill-tempered men will not attack you, and take your life and the lives of your household." {{rf{26}}} And the descendants of Dan went their way. When Micah saw that they were stronger than him, he turned to return to his house. {{rf{27}}} And they took what Micah had made, and his priest, and they came to Laish, to a quiet and unsuspecting people, and they put them to the sword and burned the city with fire. {{rf{28}}} There was no deliverer, because it was far from Sidon, and they had had no dealings with anyone. It was in the valley that belonged to Beth-rehob, and they rebuilt the city and lived in it. {{rf{29}}} And they called the name of the city Dan, after Dan their ancestor, who was born to Israel; but the former name of the city was Laish. {{rf{30}}} And the descendants of Dan set up for themselves the carved divine image, and Jonathan son of Gershom, son of Manasseh, he and his sons were priests for the tribe of the Danites until the time of the captivity of the land. {{rf{31}}} So they set up for themselves the carved divine image that Micah had made, all the days that the house of God was in Shiloh. {{rf big{1}}} In those days there was no king in Israel; there was a man, a Levite, who dwelled as a foreigner in the remote areas of the hill country of Ephraim. And he took for himself a concubine from Bethlehem in Judah. {{rf{2}}} But his concubine felt repugnance toward him, and she left him and went to her father's house, to Bethlehem in Judah; she was there some four months. {{rf{3}}} So her husband set out, and he went after her to speak tenderly to her, to bring her back. He took with him his servant and a pair of donkeys. And she brought him to her father's house, and the father of the young woman saw him and was glad to meet him. {{rf{4}}} His father-in-law, the young woman's father, urged him to stay with him three days; and they ate and drank, and they spent the night there. {{rf{5}}} On the fourth day, they rose early in the morning, and he prepared to go, but the father of the young woman said to his son-in-law, "Refresh yourself with a bit of food, and afterward you may go." {{rf{6}}} So the two of them sat and ate and drank together, and the father of the young woman said to the man, "Please, agree to spend the night and enjoy yourself." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Judges-18-25]] }}}
{{rf{7}}} The man got up to go, but his father-in-law urged him, and he returned and spent the night there. {{rf{8}}} On the fifth day he rose early in the morning to go, and the father of the young woman said, "Please, enjoy yourself," and they lingered until the day declined, and the two of them ate. {{rf{9}}} And the man got up to go -- he, his concubine, and his servant -- but his father-in-law, the father of the young woman, said to him, "Please, the day has worn on to evening; please, spend the night, the day has drawn to a close. Spend the night here and enjoy yourself. You can rise early tomorrow for your journey and go to your home." {{rf{10}}} But the man was not willing to spend the night, and he got up and went; and he arrived opposite Jebus (that is, Jerusalem). He had with him a pair of saddled donkeys and his concubine. {{rf{11}}} They were near Jebus, and the day was far spent, and the servant said to his master, "Please, come, let us turn aside to this city of the Jebusites, and let us spend the night in it." {{rf{12}}} But his master said to him, "We will not turn aside to the city of foreigners, who are not from the Israelites; we will cross over up to Gibeah." {{rf{13}}} And he said to his servant, "Come, let us approach one of these places; we will spend the night in Gibeah or in Ramah." {{rf{14}}} So they crossed over and went their way, and the sun went down on them beside Gibeah, which belongs to Benjamin. {{rf{15}}} And they turned aside there to enter and to spend the night at Gibeah. And they went and sat in the open square of the city, but no one took them in to spend the night. {{rf{16}}} Then behold, an old man was coming from his work from the field in the evening, and the man was from the hill country of Ephraim, and he was dwelling as a foreigner in Gibeah. (The people of the place were descendants of Benjamin.) {{rf{17}}} And the old man raised his eyes and saw the traveler in the open square of the city, and he said, "Where are you going, and from where do you come?" {{rf{18}}} And he said to him, "We are crossing over from Bethlehem in Judah up to the remote areas of the hill country of Ephraim, where I am from. I went to Bethlehem in Judah, but now I am going to Yahweh's house, but no one took me in to spend the night. {{rf{19}}} There is both straw and fodder for our donkeys, and also bread and wine for me, for your servant, and for the young man who is with your servant; there is no lack of anything." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Judges-19-07]] }}}
{{rf{20}}} And the old man said, "Peace to you. I will take care of your needs; however, you must not spend the night in the open square." {{rf{21}}} So he brought him to his house, and he fed the donkeys; they washed their feet, ate, and drank. {{rf{22}}} While they were enjoying themselves, behold, the men of the city, the perverse lot, surrounded the house, pounding on the door. And they said to the old man, the owner of the house, "Bring out the man who came to your house so that we may have sex with him." {{rf{23}}} So the man, the owner of the house, went out to them and said to them, "No, my brothers, do not act wickedly; since this man has come into my house, do not do this disgraceful thing. {{rf{24}}} Here is my virgin daughter and his concubine. Please, let me bring them out; do violence to them, and do to them whatever you please. Do not do this disgraceful thing to this man." {{rf{25}}} But the men were not willing to listen to him, and the man seized his concubine and brought her out to them; and they had intercourse with her, and they abused her all night until the morning; they let her go at the approach of dawn. {{rf{26}}} And the woman came as the morning appeared, and she fell at the entrance of the man's house where her master was, until daylight. {{rf{27}}} In the morning her master got up, and he opened the doors of the house and went out to go on his journey, and behold, his concubine was falling at the entrance of the house, with her hand on the threshold. {{rf{28}}} And he said to her, "Get up, let us go," but there was no answer. So he put her on the donkey, and the man got up and went to his place. {{rf{29}}} When he entered his house he took a knife, and he grasped his concubine and cut her into twelve pieces; and he sent her throughout the whole territory of Israel. {{rf{30}}} All who saw it said, "Nothing like this has ever been since the Israelites went up from the land of Egypt until this day. Take note of it, consider it, and speak up." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Judges-19-20]] }}}
All the Israelites went out, from Dan to Beersheba, including the land of Gilead, and they gathered as one body to Yahweh at Mizpah. {{rf{2}}} And the leaders of all the people, all the tribes of Israel, presented themselves in the assembly of the people of God, four hundred thousand sword-bearing infantry. {{rf{3}}} (The descendants of Benjamin heard that the Israelites had gone up to Mizpah.) And the Israelites said, "Tell us, how did this evil act occur?" {{rf{4}}} The Levite, the husband of the murdered woman, answered and said, "I came to Gibeah, which belongs to Benjamin, I and my concubine, to spend the night. {{rf{5}}} The lords of Gibeah rose up against me and surrounded the house at night. They intended to kill me, and they raped my concubine, and she died. {{rf{6}}} Then I grabbed my concubine and cut her into pieces, and I sent her throughout all the territory of Israel's inheritance; for they committed a shameful and disgraceful thing in Israel. {{rf{7}}} Look, all you Israelites! Make your decision and advice here." {{rf{8}}} All the people got up as one body, saying, "Not one of us will go to his tent, or will any of us return to his house. {{rf{9}}} So then, this is what we will do to Gibeah: we will go up against her by lot. {{rf{10}}} We will take ten men of one hundred from all the tribes of Israel, and one hundred of one thousand, and one thousand of ten thousand, to bring provisions to the troops, to repay them when they come to Gibeah of Benjamin for all the disgraceful things they did in Israel." {{rf{11}}} And all the men of Israel were gathered to the city as one body united. {{rf{12}}} Then the tribes of Israel sent men throughout all the tribes of Benjamin, saying, "What is this wickedness that happened among you? {{rf{13}}} So then, hand over the men, the perverse lot, who are in Gibeah, so that we may kill them and purge this wickedness from Israel." But the descendants of Benjamin were not willing to listen to the voice of their relatives, the Israelites. {{rf{14}}} And the descendants of Benjamin were gathered from the cities to Gibeah to go out for battle against the Israelites. {{rf{15}}} From the cities the descendants of Benjamin were counted on that day twenty-six thousand sword-wielding men, besides the inhabitants of Gibeah, who were counted seven hundred well-trained men. {{rf{16}}} From all these troops were seven hundred well-trained men who were left-handed; each one could sling with a stone at a hair and not miss. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Judges-20-01]] }}}
{{rf{17}}} And the men of Israel besides Benjamin were counted four hundred thousand sword-wielding men; all were warriors. {{rf{18}}} Then the Israelites got up and went up to Bethel, and they inquired of God, saying, "Who will go up first for the battle against the descendants of Benjamin?" And Yahweh said, "Judah will go first." {{rf{19}}} And the Israelites got up in the morning, and they encamped against Gibeah. {{rf{20}}} Then the men of Israel marched out for the battle against Benjamin, and the men of Israel took up positions against them for battle at Gibeah. {{rf{21}}} The descendants of Benjamin went out from Gibeah, and they struck down on that day twenty-two thousand men of Israel to the ground. {{rf{22}}} But the troops, the men of Israel, encouraged themselves, and again they arranged their battle lines in the place where they had arranged themselves the first day. {{rf{23}}} The Israelites went up and wept before Yahweh until evening and inquired of Yahweh, saying, "Should we again draw near from the battle against the descendants of Benjamin, our relatives?" And Yahweh said, "Go up against them." {{rf{24}}} And the Israelites drew near to the descendants of Benjamin on the second day. {{rf{25}}} And Benjamin went out from Gibeah to meet them on the second day, and they struck down the Israelites again, eighteen thousand men to the ground; all of these were sword-wielding. {{rf{26}}} And all the Israelites and all the troops went up and came to Bethel and wept; and they sat there before Yahweh and fasted on that day until evening; and they offered burnt offerings and fellowship offerings before Yahweh. {{rf{27}}} And the Israelites inquired of Yahweh (In those days the ark of the covenant of God was there, {{rf{28}}} and Phinehas son of Eleazar, son of Aaron, was standing before it to minister in those days), saying, "Should we go out once more to battle against the descendants of Benjamin our relatives, or should we stop?" And Yahweh said, "Go up tomorrow; I will give them into your hand." {{rf{29}}} So Israel stationed an ambush all around Gibeah. {{rf{30}}} And the Israelites went up against the descendants of Benjamin on the third day, and they took up positions against Gibeah as before. {{rf{31}}} The descendants of Benjamin went out to meet the troops, and they lured them away from the city and began to inflict casualties on the troops as before, on the main road, one of which goes up to Bethel, the other to Gibeah; and in the field there were about thirty men of Israel. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Judges-20-17]] }}}
{{rf{32}}} And the descendants of Benjamin thought, "They are being defeated before us as previously," and the Israelites said, "Let us flee and lure them away from the city to the main roads." {{rf{33}}} And all the men of Israel got up from their places and took up positions in Baal Tamar; and the ambush of Israel charged from their places, from the vicinity of Gibeah. {{rf{34}}} Then ten thousand well-trained men from all Israel came out against Gibeah, and the battle became fierce; they did not know that disaster was about to close in on them. {{rf{35}}} And Yahweh defeated Benjamin in the presence of Israel, and the Israelites destroyed on that day twenty-five thousand one hundred men of Benjamin, all of them sword-wielding. {{rf{36}}} The descendants of Benjamin saw that they were defeated, and the men of Israel gave ground to Benjamin because they trusted the ambush that they had set against Gibeah. {{rf{37}}} And the ambush came quickly and advanced against Gibeah, and it put the whole city to the sword. {{rf{38}}} Now the appointed time for the men of Israel with the ambush was that they sent up for them a great amount of smoke from the city. {{rf{39}}} And the men of Israel turned in the battle, and Benjamin began to inflict casualties on about thirty men of Israel because they thought, "They will be completely defeated before us as in the first battle." {{rf{40}}} And the cloud of smoke began to go up from the city in a column of smoke, and Benjamin turned backward, and behold, the whole city was going up in smoke! {{rf{41}}} And the men of Israel turned, and the men of Benjamin were dismayed because they saw that disaster was closing in on them. {{rf{42}}} And they retreated from before the men of Israel to the way of the wilderness, but the battle caught up to them, and those who came from the cities destroyed them in the midst of them. {{rf{43}}} They surrounded Benjamin; they pursued them without rest and trod them down opposite Gibeah to the east. {{rf{44}}} And eighteen thousand men from Benjamin fell, all of them able men. {{rf{45}}} And they turned and fled toward the wilderness, to the rock of Rimmon, but they cut down on the main roads five thousand men; and they pursued after them up to Gidom, and they struck down two thousand men. {{rf{46}}} So all of Benjamin who fell on that day were twenty-five thousand sword-wielding men; all of these were able men. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Judges-20-32]] }}}
{{rf{47}}} But six hundred turned and fled toward the wilderness, to the rock of Rimmon, and they remained at the rock of Rimmon for four months. {{rf{48}}} And the men of Israel returned to the descendants of Benjamin, and they put them to the edge of the sword, both the inhabitants of city and the animals that were found; they also set on fire all the cities that they found. {{rf big{1}}} The men of Israel had sworn at Mizpah, saying, "None of us will give his daughter to Benjamin as a wife." {{rf{2}}} And the people of Bethel came and sat there until evening before God, and they lifted their voices and wept bitterly. {{rf{3}}} And they said, "Why, Yahweh, God of Israel, has it happened today in Israel that one tribe is lacking from Israel?" {{rf{4}}} On the next day the people rose early, and they built there an altar and sacrificed burnt offerings and fellowship offerings. {{rf{5}}} And the Israelites said, "Who in the assembly has not come up from all the tribes of Israel to Yahweh?" For a solemn oath was taken concerning whoever did not come up to Yahweh at Mizpah, saying, "He will certainly be put to death." {{rf{6}}} But the Israelites had compassion for Benjamin, their relatives, and they said, "Today one tribe is cut off from Israel. {{rf{7}}} What will we do for them -- for the ones being left over -- for wives? For we have sworn by Yahweh not to give to them our daughters as wives." {{rf{8}}} They asked, "Which one is there from the tribes of Israel who did not come up to Yahweh at Mizpah?" And behold, no one came from Jabesh-gilead to the camp, to the assembly. {{rf{9}}} The people were counted, and no one was there from the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead. {{rf{10}}} And the congregation sent there twelve thousand men from the troops, and they commanded them, saying, "Go, strike the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead with the edge of the sword, and the women and children. {{rf{11}}} This is the thing you will do: you will destroy every man and every woman who had sex with a man." {{rf{12}}} And they found among the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead four hundred young virgins who had not had sex with a man, and they brought them to the camp at Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Judges-20-47]] }}}
{{rf{13}}} Then the congregation sent and spoke all this to the descendants of Benjamin who were at the rock of Rimmon, and they assured them they would not be hurt. {{rf{14}}} And Benjamin returned at that time, and they gave to them the women whom they kept alive from Jabesh-gilead; but they were not enough for them. {{rf{15}}} And the people felt sorry for Benjamin because Yahweh weakened the tribes of Israel. {{rf{16}}} So the elders of the congregation said, "What should we do for the remaining ones for wives, since the women from Benjamin have been destroyed?" {{rf{17}}} And they said, "There must be a remnant for Benjamin, so that a tribe will not be blotted out from Israel. {{rf{18}}} But we cannot give them wives from our daughters." (For the Israelites swore, saying, "Cursed be anyone who gives a wife to Benjamin.") {{rf{19}}} And they said, "Look, the annual feast of Yahweh is in Shiloh, which is to the north of Bethel, east of the main road that goes up from Bethel to Shechem, and south of Lebonah. {{rf{20}}} They instructed the descendants of Benjamin, saying, "Go, lie in ambush in the vineyards, {{rf{21}}} and watch and look; when the daughters of Shiloh dance in the dances, come out from the vineyards and seize for yourselves a wife from the daughters of Shiloh, and go to the land of Benjamin. {{rf{22}}} And if their fathers or their brothers complain to us, we will say to them, 'Allow us to have them, because we did not capture a wife for each man in the battle, and because you did not give them to them, or else you would have been guilty.'" {{rf{23}}} The descendants of Benjamin did likewise, and they took wives for each of them from the dancers whom they seized, and they went and returned to their territory, and they rebuilt the cities and they lived in them. {{rf{24}}} So the Israelites dispersed from there at that time according to tribe and family; and they went out from there, each one to their own territory. {{rf{25}}} In those days there was no king in Israel; each one did what was right in his own eyes. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Judges-21-13]] }}}
* Based on His perfection. The man reaches for a standard outside himself, perhaps imperfectly.
* [[God-AllSeeing]]
* [[Hell]]
* <<Bbl Gn 3:1 "" note>>
* <<Bbl Ex 12:12 >>
* <<Bbl Dt 7:26 >>
* <<Bbl Josh 11:20 >>
* <<Bbl 1S 16:7 >>
* <<Bbl 2K 21:13 >> //...I will make you squeaky-clean!// And what do we polish, but something that is precious and deserving of utter cleanness?
* <<Bbl Job 19:4 >>,36:17;
* <<Bbl I 11:1 >> -5, 49:26;
* <<Bbl Lam 3:39 >>
* <<Bbl Ez 12:22 >> -28; 13:14;
* [[Storm]]
* <<Bbl J 5:27 >> , 5:7-11,14-16;
* <<Bbl Jms 2:13 >>
* Gn 18:22-33: The Lord knows that only Lot and his family will qualify. His answer to Abraham's plea is creative, in that He does not spare the city, but He does deliver the righteous. And that describes God's judgment in a nutshell.
* Is 5:6 [[Prune]]
* [[Vineyard]]
* comparative, Mat 11:20-24, 12:38-42, Ez 16:51-52
* Exposes for the purpose of deliverance, like a doctor who wouldn't withhold a grave diagnosis.
* severity of: Ez 21:14-17 -- Let us realize to how great a judgment Christ was subjected. God's heart has not changed, but His wrath for me has been fully satisfied in Christ. ISam 25.
* on Israel, final: first announced, 2K 21:10-15, 23:27; Is 1:28-31; Hos 2:2, Amo 3:2, 9:8. See [[Cup]].
* man's attempt to usurp: Dan 3:6 - to the idol is attributed the power more or less to judge. (Daniel, //God is Judge//)
* [[Judgmentalism]]
* against worldly intelligence and beauty: Is 23:9; Lk 10:21; 1C 1:17-31 -- 2:16, 3:18-20; Jn 9:39-41. See [[Pride]].
* God is our Judge: Jud 11:27; Is 33:22
* built into sin as automatic penalty: <<Bbl Job 8:4 >>; <<Bbl Jer 2:19 >>; <<Bbl Ps 94:23 >>; <<Bbl I 65:7 >>.
* <<Bbl Rev 16:5 >>-7
!!! of believers
* <<Bbl 1C 3:13 >>-14; <<Bbl 2C 5:10 >>; <<Bbl Eph 6:8 >>
* of the elders first: <<Bbl Ez 9:6>>, "Judgment begins in the house of God."
* <<Bbl Amo 3:1>>,2
!!! Stored up or delayed
* Filling up. <<Bbl Gn 15:16 >>.
* [[Ark-Covenant]] The Ark is abused just long enough for Eli and Phineas to be killed as promised. After that, God begins to address irreverence in its finer forms.
* [[Temple]] as holiness which is consummated in God's judgment.
* [[Outcome]]
* [[Scruples]]
* @@color:brown;Men do not differ much about what things they will call evils; they differ enormously about what evils they will call excusable.@@ // -- G. K. Chesterton//
* @@color:darkgreen;Judging a person does not define who they are. It defines who //you// are.@@
* Not by appearance, but rightly <<Bbl I 11:1 >>-3, <<Bbl J 7:24>, <<Bbl J 8:15>>
* <<Bbl Ez 7:27>>, <<Bbl 1C 3:5>>
* <<Bbl Mt 7:1 >> -2;
* <<Bbl L 6:36 >> -38; 12:57;
* [[Judge]] (Some references found there belong here)
* Justice, Social -- <<Bbl I 28:6 >>, <<Bbl I 30:10 >>-21 , <<Bbl I 56:1 >>, <<Bbl Jer 21:12 >>, <<Bbl Hab 1:4 >>, <<Bbl Pr 28:5 >>, <<Bbl Pr 29:26 >>, <<Bbl 1S 12:12 >>-13 ).
* [[King]]
* [[Equality]]
!! Statute of Limitations
* Necessary for human courts because
## evidence decays, thus guilt becomes harder to establish
## a perverse person could wait to bring a charge (ex, for blackmail)
## a perverse person could bring a false charge, banking on the first principle above
## anything that reduces the docket is potentially a good thing; and the other complex of issues described above can by this statute be reduced to an administrative trifle
* Unnecessary for God
## He knows everything in the realm of evidence - [[God-AllSeeing]]
## He knows every human motive and plan
## His docket is never over-loaded; there's never any queue
## He does not resort to //let bygones be bygones// - [[Judgment-ofGod]]
''Outside of Christ, [[Justice]] and [[Mercy]] are irreconciliable.''
* //Justice and mercy have kissed ...//
* Melchizedek, King of Salem
* <<Bbl J 8:11 "" note >>
* <<Bbl Eph 4:15 "" note >>
* <<Bbl Dan 9:16 >>
* <<Bbl R 5:1 >>
* @@color:navy;Justification is a judicial act of God, in which He declares, on the basis of the righteousness of Jesus Christ, that all the claims of the law are satisfied with respect to the sinner.@@ // - Berkoff //
** Judicial is the same as forensic. (What a funny word that is.)
** //While it has respect to the sinner, it does not change his inner life. It does not affect his condition, but his state, and in that respect differs from all the other principal parts of the order of salvation. It involves the forgiveness of sins, and restoration to divine favor.//
* F.F. Bruce, __Romans vol 1__, Appendix A for a survey of both OT and NT.
* צדק - zadok, Zedekiah.
* It's //just-if-I'd// never sinned.
* J. Piper seems to be confused; see [[Grace]].
* <<Bbl Gn 44:16 >>, <<Bbl I 43:9 >>, <<Bbl Ezek 44:24 >>.
* Inseparable from [[Regenerate]].
* [[Justify-Self]]
| Religion | Gospel |h
|I obey, so I'm accepted. |I am accepted, so I obey |
|I'm good so God loves me. |God loves me despite having sin |
|People are good or bad. |People are repentent or not. |
|All depends on what I do. |All depends on what Jesus has done. |
|I feel proud. |I feel humble |
|I feel hopeless. |I feel confident. |
|I am controlled by fear. |I am controlled by love. |
* [[Legalism]]
* [[Justify]]
* //Neonomism//. http://www.lectionarystudies.com/justification.html
*
* [[Christ-DualNature]]
* [[Relinquish]]
* Much better the introduce this as "How to make sense of the NT" rather than "How to avoid the heresy".
* @@color:brown;He added to his divinity, humanity.@@ // -- Augustine//
* <<Bbl Php 2:7 >> -- //Although He was God, He did not regard equality with God as a thing to be ''grasped...''// @@color:darkgreen;Neither Christ's divinity, nor His Divine attributes, nor the use of those attributes, nor His glory, was in any way emptied. Rather, these were concealed under a veil of flesh. @@// -- Dan Musick //
* ''Emptied'' is vastly different from ''concealed.'' Illustration:
## //My wallet is concealed.// Bring it out from pocket.
## //But it is NOT empty!// Display some cash.
## //If I'm going to San Antonio, do I want my wallet empty, or full yet concealed?//
* @@color:indigo;In order to exhort us to submission by His example, he shows, that when as God he might have displayed to the world the brightness of His glory, he gave up His right, and voluntarily emptied Himself; that he assumed the form of a servant, and, contented with that humble condition, suffered His divinity to be concealed under a [[Veil]] of flesh.@@ // -- John Calvin //
* @@color:brown;Veiled in flesh the Godhead see. Hail, the incarnate Diety!@@
* @@color:darkgreen;You laid aside Your majesty, gave up everything for me...@@
* Dave Davidson was trying to wrap our heads around the correct doctrine. But that was 1984, and it is perhaps the case that he hadn't wrapped his own head around it.
!!! Distortions of //Kenosis//
* Bill Johnson, Charisma Magazine, 2012: //While Jesus is eternally God, He emptied Himself of His divinity and became a man (see Php. 2:7). It's vital to note that He did all His miracles as a man, not as God. If He did them as God, I would still be impressed. But because He did them as a man yielded to God, I am not unsatisfied with my life, being compelled to follow the example He has given us. Jesus is the only model for us to follow. // Melisa's protest of this statement caused me to understand the truth, really for the first time.
* Other common formulations:
** //stripped himself of his divinity//
** //left his place in heaven to become an ordinary man//
A good statement for understanding the scope of heresy from [[D. Musick|http://kenosis.info/index.shtml#KenoticistsChristian]]:
<<<
Most kenotic theology is neo-Arian or neo-Nestorian; it destroys the efficacy of Christ's atoning blood. It either diminishes Christ's deity into something less than God and recreates God into three gods, or it separates the divine nature from the human nature, thus splitting the Person of Christ. Therefore, to the true, consistent kenoticist, Christ's blood has no intrinsic power to save us from sin. The true, consistent kenoticist is thus not a Christian. However, many kenoticists are inconsistent ... (see [[Heresy]])
<<<
* More [[here|http://kenosis.info/index.shtml#KenoticTheology]].
!!! of [[David]]
* <<Bbl I 22:22 >>
* <<Bbl Rev 3:7 >>-8
!!! [[Peter]]
* [[Authorize]], [[Seal]], //scepter//
* [[Govern]]
* [[Palace]]
* [[Leader]]
* [[Sovereignty]], [[Dominate]]
* [[Kingdom-ofGod]]
* <<Bbl Dt 17:14 >>-16
* <<Bbl Pr 16:12>>-15
* {{anti{[[Usurp]]}}}
! King Jesus
* The Davidic title
** Mt 1:1 Unmistakably alludes to the chapter headings of Genesis -- and declares the heir of David.
** Mt 3:17 "This is my beloved Son"
* Royal ascription
** Mt 2:2 "Where is He who is born King of the Jews?"
** Mt 3:2 "Repent, for the ''Kingdom'' of Heaven is at hand!"
** Likewise Mt 4:8, 17, 23, etc.
** Acts 2 - Peter's
! The King as Conqueror
!!! Volume 1 before David
* Why did the people believe a monarchy would be better? Why did they not realize a king on a throne could be just as wicked as any other ruler? Because they chose to invest in the magic thinking of the neighboring nations -- //like all the nations//, they repeat. They chose to invest in the idolatry of [[Statism]].
* <<Bbl 1S 8:19>>, <<Bbl 1S 12:12>>-13 - The people demand an earthly king.
** The request was justified by public dissatisfaction with Samuel's sons, who were acting as leaders for their own evil profit.
** The refrain of the Book of Judges is a harbinger: //There was no king in Israel...//
* God knew one day they would try to subject Jesus to an earthly kingdom.
!!! Volume 1 after [[David]]
* [[SonOfGod]], [[David-RoyalDestiny]]
!!! His first advent: popular disappointment
* Given the weight of prophecy signaling God's wrath in martial guise, the expectation of a military revolutionary was inevitable. No one foresaw the coming of a suffering servant which would only presage a final judgment over God's enemies. In fact, this misplaced expectation is ''according to plan'', allowing Jesus to thread the circumstances and create the setting for His sacrifice.
* [[John_Immerser]] "stumbled" over the Messiah who confronted hearts and souls, not swords and spears.
!!! His second advent: judgment and universal reign
* Maranatha!
''God's purposes, plans and actions in the world of men.''
@@color:brown; God's people in God's place, under God's rule and blessing.@@ // -- Alistair Begg//
''God's work in the community of the faithful.''
* Precious glimpses.
** Breaking bread on a sinking ship (Acts 27).
** Snoring with 1,000 animals.
** Slavery under the blessed Joseph.
** Prison with the blessed Joseph.
** Harvest and famine with the blessed Joseph.
* [[God-Purposes]]
* [[King]], [[Throne]]
* [[DayOfTheLord]]
* [[LastDays]] for notes about "Already and Not Yet"
* <<Bbl Col 1:13 >>.
* Of Heaven and of God, synonymous, <<Bbl Mt 19:23 >>-24 .
* [[Heaven]]
* <<Bbl Ex 19:5 >> -- //Kingdom of priests//
!! God as King
* <<Bbl Num 23:21>> - Balaam
* <<Bbl Dt 31:5 >>
* <<Bbl Jud 8:23 >> - Gideon
* <<Bbl Ps 29:10>> - the Lord sits enthroned on the flood
!! In the Prophets
They disclose God's view of a situation that otherwise seems increasingly, and eventually completely, negative.
!! Jesus
* //One greater than Solomon is here//
Jesus arrives at yet another new low point in the trajectory -- domination of the Hebrews (now so dissolute as a people they can hardly still bear that title) by the Romans. Jesus arrives with the same startling message -- God is still on His Throne, and everyone will bow! He inaugurates the hidden nature of God's rule through the Church. He discloses this reality and its future consummation to His followers.
* <<Bbl J 18:36 >>-37 The King of Truth
* <<Bbl L 19:12 >>-15
* <<Bbl Mt 4:8 >>-10, <<Bbl L 4:5 >>-8 - Satan's attack
* <<Bbl Mt 17:25 >>
!!!! Misplaced hopes, ironic accustations
* <<Bbl L 19:11 >>, <<Bbl L 23:2 >>, <<Bbl J 6:15 >>, <<Bbl J 7:4 >>, <<Bbl J 19:12 >>-15
!! [[Peace]]
* The "Peaceable Kingdom".
* Isaiah's prophecy.
* //Humble and mounted on a donkey//
* [[Learn]], [[Wisdom]], [[Understand]]
* Paul believes that right knowledge leads to right behavior. <<Bbl 1C 15:33 >>-34 ; also see F.F. Bruce's list, Colossians, p. 186.
* //Milk// -- <<Bbl 1P 2:2 >>, <<Bbl H 5:11>>-12
* God's knowledge might be said (humorously) to consist of four parts:
## Everything that you know.
## Everything that you think you know, but are wrong about, unbeknownst to you.
## Everything you don't know, and you know that you don't know it.
## Everything you don't know, but you don't know that you don't know it.
!! False Knowledge
* You can //know// but not //grow//.
* <<Bbl Pr 1:2 "" note >>
* <<Bbl 2Tim 3:7 >> //always learning...//
!! Knowledge of God's will
* <<Bbl Col 1:9>>
* <<Bbl R 12:2>>
* <<Bbl J 15:15 >>-16
* <<Bbl H 5:14>>
* __Colossians 1:9__ (Simpson and Bruce) (footnote) for list of Paul's teachings that right knowledge leads to right behavior.
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J. Edwards' sermon //Christian Knowledge// explores the relationship between intellectual understanding (speculative, natural) and holiness (practical, supernatural). When Robert Morris encourages "hearing from God" without saying much about Bible study, he seems to reverse the order proposed by Edwards. In contrast, E.T. Kenton is supportive.
How desolate the city sits that was full of people! She has become like a widow, once great among the nations! Like a woman of nobility in the provinces, she has become a forced laborer. {{rf{2}}} She weeps bitterly in the night, her tears are on her cheeks; she has no comforter among all her lovers. All her friends have been unfaithful to her; they have become her enemies. {{rf{3}}} Judah has gone into exile with misery and under hard servitude; she lives among the nations, she has not found a resting place; all her pursuers have overtaken her amidst her distress. {{rf{4}}} The roads of Zion are mourning because no one comes to the festival. All her gates are desolate, her priests groan; her young women are worried, and she herself suffers bitterly. {{rf{5}}} Her foes have become her master, her enemies are at ease; Yahweh has made her suffer because of the greatness of her transgressions. Her children have gone away, captive before the foe. {{rf{6}}} All her majesty has gone away from the daughter of Zion; her princes have become like young stags that have not found pasture; they have gone away without strength, before the pursuer. {{rf{7}}} Jerusalem remembers the days of her misery and wanderings, all her treasures that were from the days of long ago. When her people fell into the hand of the enemy, there was no one helping her; the enemies saw her, they mocked at her destruction. {{rf{8}}} Jerusalem sinned grievously, thus she became an objection of derision; all those who honored her despise her because they have seen her nakedness. She herself groans and turns away. {{rf{9}}} Her uncleanness was in her skirts; she did not remember her future, she has descended beyond understanding, there is no comforter for her. See, O Yahweh, my persecution! My enemy has been made great! {{rf{10}}} The enemy has stretched out his hand over all her treasures; for she has seen the nations, they entered her sanctuary, those whom you commanded not to enter in your assembly. {{rf{11}}} All her people groan, they are searching for bread. They give their treasures for food, to bring back life. See, O Yahweh, and look, how I am despised. {{rf{12}}} Is it nothing to you, all who pass by? Look and see if there is sorrow like my sorrow, which was dealt to me, which Yahweh inflicted on the day of his wrath. {{rf{13}}} From heaven he sent fire, into my bones he let it descend. He spread out a net for my feet; he turned me back, he gave me devastation, fainting all day. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Lament-01-01]] }}}
* <<Bbl Lament 1:12>> Enshrined in song by Don and Susie Gruber on the record album __Twice Chosen__.
{{rf{14}}} My rebellion was bound as a yoke, with his hand it was fastened together; it was put on my neck and caused my strength to fail. The Lord gave me into the hands of those whom I cannot withstand. {{rf{15}}} The Lord has rejected all my mighty ones in my midst. He called an assembly against me, to crush my young men; like in a wine press, the Lord has trodden on the virgin daughter of Judah. {{rf{16}}} For these things, I am weeping, my eyes flow with tears; because a comforter is far from me, one to restore my life. My sons are desolate because the enemy has prevailed. {{rf{17}}} Zion stretches out her hands; there is no one to comfort her. Yahweh has commanded against Jacob, that those surrounding him should be his enemies; Jerusalem has become a defilement among them. {{rf{18}}} Yahweh is righteous; I have rebelled against his word. Please hear, all the nations, And see my pain; My young women and young men went into captivity. {{rf{19}}} I have called to my lovers, they themselves deceived me; my priests and elders perished in the city when they sought food for themselves to revive their life. {{rf{20}}} See, O Yahweh, that I am in distress; my stomach is in torment, my heart has turned inside me because I have certainly rebelled. From outside a sword brings bereavement, inside the house it is like death. {{rf{21}}} They hear that I was groaning; there is no comforter for me. All my enemies have heard my misery, they are pleased that you have done it. Bring that day that you have proclaimed, And let them be like me. {{rf{22}}} Let all their evil come before you; and deal with them just as you have dealt with me because of all my crimes; for my groaning is much and my heart is faint. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Lament-01-14]] }}}
How, in his anger, the Lord has covered the daughter of Zion in a cloud! He has thrown down from heavens to earth the splendor of Israel, and he has not remembered his footstool in the day of his anger. {{rf{2}}} The Lord has devoured; he has not shown mercy to all the dwellings of Jacob; he has broken down in his wrath the fortifications of the daughter of Judah; he has leveled to the ground, he has dishonored the kingdom and its commanders. {{rf{3}}} He has cut down in fierce anger all the might of Israel; he has withdrawn his right hand from the faces of the enemy, and he has burned in Jacob like a flaming fire, it has consumed all around. {{rf{4}}} He has bent his bow like an enemy; he has set his right hand like a foe, and he has slain all the treasures of the eye; in the tent of the daughter of Zion, he has poured out his anger like fire. {{rf{5}}} The Lord has become like an enemy; he has destroyed Israel; he has destroyed all its citadel fortresses; he has ruined all its fortifications and multiplied lamentation and mourning in the daughter of Judah. {{rf{6}}} He has broken down his dwelling place like the garden; he has ruined his appointed feasts; Yahweh has made them forget in Zion festival and Sabbath, and he has despised in his anger king and priest. {{rf{7}}} The Lord has rejected his altar; he has rejected his sanctuary; he has delivered into the hands of the enemy the walls of its citadel fortresses. They have cried out in the house of Yahweh like a day of an appointed feast. {{rf{8}}} Yahweh has planned to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion. He measured with a line; he has not restrained his hand from destroying; he caused rampart and wall to mourn; together they have languished away. {{rf{9}}} Her gates have sunk into the earth; he has ruined and broken her bars, her kings and its princes are among the nations; there is no more law. Also, her prophets have not found a revelation from Yahweh. {{rf{10}}} They sit on the ground, the elders of the daughter of Zion are silent. They cast dust on their head, they have put on sackcloth; the young women of Jerusalem have bowed their head down to the ground. {{rf{11}}} My eyes have spent all their tears; my stomach is in torment, my heart is poured out on the earth because of the destruction of the daughter of my people, because child and babe faint in the public squares of a city. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Lament-02-01]] }}}
{{rf{12}}} To their mothers they say, "Where is the bread and wine?" as they faint like the wounded in the public squares of a city, as their life is being poured out onto the bosom of their mothers. {{rf{13}}} What can I say for you? What can I compare to you, O daughter of Jerusalem? To what can I liken you so that I can comfort you, O virgin daughter of Zion? For your destruction is as vast as the sea; who can heal you? {{rf{14}}} Your prophets had a vision for you, false and worthless; they have not exposed your sin, to restore your fortune; they have seen oracles for you, false and misleading. {{rf{15}}} They clap hands over you, all who pass along the way; they hiss and they shake their head, at the daughter of Jerusalem. Is this the city of which it is said, "A perfection of beauty, a joy for all the earth?" {{rf{16}}} They have opened their mouths against you, all your enemies. They hiss and gnash a tooth, and they say, "We have destroyed her! Surely this is the day we have hoped for; we have found it, we have seen it!" {{rf{17}}} Yahweh has done what he has planned; he has fulfilled his promise that he ordained from the days of old; he has demolished and not shown mercy; he has made an enemy rejoice over you, he has exalted the might of your foes. {{rf{18}}} Their heart cried to the Lord, "O wall of the daughter of Zion, let tears stream down like a river; day and night, do not give yourself relief, do not give your eyes rest. {{rf{19}}} "Arise, cry out in the night, at the beginning of the night watches; pour out your heart like water, before the face of the Lord. Lift to him your hands, for the life of your children, who faint in starvation, at the head of all streets." {{rf{20}}} See, Yahweh, and take note! With whom have you dealt thus? Should women eat their young children of tender care? Should priest and prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord? {{rf{21}}} They lie in the soil of the streets, young and old; my young women and young men, they have fallen by the sword; you have slain on the day of your anger, you have slaughtered and not shown mercy. {{rf{22}}} You have summoned my horror from all around, as if for a feast day; no one on the day of Yahweh's anger is a fugitive and a survivor; whoever I have cared for and reared, my enemy has destroyed. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Lament-02-12]] }}}
I am a man who has seen misery, under the rod of his wrath. {{rf{2}}} He has driven me along, he brought darkness and not light. {{rf{3}}} Surely he has turned his hand against me, all day long. {{rf{4}}} He has worn out my flesh and skin, he has broken my bones. {{rf{5}}} He has besieged and engulfed me with bitterness and hardship. {{rf{6}}} In darkness he has let me dwell like the dead of long ago. {{rf{7}}} He has built a wall around me, I cannot go out; he has made my bronze fetters heavy. {{rf{8}}} Though I cry out for help, he shuts out my prayers. {{rf{9}}} He has blocked my ways with dressed stones; he has made my paths crooked. {{rf{10}}} To me he is like a bear lying in wait, a lion in hiding. {{rf{11}}} He has forsaken my way and torn me to pieces; he has caused me desolation. {{rf{12}}} He has bent his bow and set me as the target for the arrow. {{rf{13}}} He shot the arrows of his quiver into my kidneys. {{rf{14}}} I have become a laughingstock for all the people, their mocking song all day long. {{rf{15}}} He has filled me with bitterness, he has drenched me with wormwood. {{rf{16}}} He has broken my teeth on grit, he has trampled me down in ash. {{rf{17}}} My life has been removed from peace, I have forgotten goodness. {{rf{18}}} And I have said, "My glory is ruined, my expectation from Yahweh." {{rf{19}}} Remember my misery and bitterness, the wormwood and venom! {{rf{20}}} Surely my soul remembers and bows down within me. {{rf{21}}} This I have reminded myself, therefore I will hope. {{rf{22}}} The loyal love of Yahweh does not cease; his compassions do not come to an end. {{rf{23}}} They are new in the morning, great is your faithfulness. {{rf{24}}} "Yahweh is my portion," says my soul, "Thus I will hope on him." {{rf{25}}} Yahweh is good to those who wait on him, to the person that seeks him. {{rf{26}}} It is good to wait in silence for the salvation of Yahweh. {{rf{27}}} It is good for a man who carries the yoke of his childhood. {{rf{28}}} Let him sit alone and be silent when he has laid it on him. {{rf{29}}} Let him put his mouth in the dust; perhaps there is hope. {{rf{30}}} Let him give a cheek to his smiter, let him be filled with disgrace. {{rf{31}}} For the Lord will not reject forever. {{rf{32}}} For even though he causes grief he has compassion according to the greatness of his royal love. {{rf{33}}} He does not afflict willingly, or grieve anyone. {{rf{34}}} To crush under his feet all the prisoners of the earth; {{rf{35}}} to deprive one of justice before the face of the Most High; {{rf{36}}} to subvert a person in a legal dispute -- the Lord has not found delight in these things. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Lament-03-01]] }}}
{{rf{37}}} Who can speak and it will happen if the Lord has not commanded it? {{rf{38}}} Is it not from the mouth of the Most High that disaster and good will come? {{rf{39}}} Why should any living person complain about his sin? {{rf{40}}} Let us test and examine our ways; let us return to Yahweh. {{rf{41}}} Let us lift up our hearts with our hands to God in the heavens. {{rf{42}}} We ourselves have transgressed and rebelled, you have not forgiven. {{rf{43}}} You have covered yourself in anger and pursued us, you have slain and not shown mercy. {{rf{44}}} You have covered yourself in a cloud so that prayer cannot pass through. {{rf{45}}} You have made us scum and refuse in the midst of the nations. {{rf{46}}} All our enemies have opened their mouth against us. {{rf{47}}} Fear and a pit have come upon us, desolation and destruction. {{rf{48}}} Channels of water run down my eyes because of the destruction of the daughter of my people. {{rf{49}}} My eyes have poured down unceasingly without respite, {{rf{50}}} until Yahweh looks down and sees from heaven. {{rf{51}}} My eyes inflict my soul because of all the daughters of my city. {{rf{52}}} My enemies hunt me without cause, like a bird. {{rf{53}}} They have silenced me in a pit, they have thrown a stone at me. {{rf{54}}} Water has flown over my head, I said, "I am cut off." {{rf{55}}} I have called your name, O Yahweh, from the depths of the pit. {{rf{56}}} You have heard my cry, "Do not shut your ear to my cry for help, for my relief!" {{rf{57}}} You came near on a day when I called you, you said, "Do not fear!" {{rf{58}}} O Lord, you have pleaded for my cause, you have redeemed my life. {{rf{59}}} You have seen my injustice, O Yahweh; judge my case. {{rf{60}}} You have seen all their vengeance, all there plans against me. {{rf{61}}} You have heard their disgrace, O Yahweh, all their plans against me. {{rf{62}}} The lips and meditation of my assailants are against me all day long. {{rf{63}}} Look at their sitting and their standing, I am their mocking song. {{rf{64}}} Return to them what is deserved, O Yahweh, according to the work of their hands. {{rf{65}}} Give them a stubborn heart; curse them! {{rf{66}}} Pursue them in anger and destroy them from under the heavens of Yahweh. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Lament-03-37]] }}}
How the gold has grown dim, the pure gold has changed. The stones of holiness are scattered at the head of every street. {{rf{2}}} The precious sons of Zion weighed against fine gold, how they are thought of as earthen vessels of clay, the work of the potter's hands. {{rf{3}}} Even the jackal bears the beast and nurses their cubs; but the daughter of my people has become ruthless, like ostriches in the wilderness. {{rf{4}}} The tongue of the nursling cleaves to its palate in thirst. Children beg for food, no one lays it out before them. {{rf{5}}} The ones who eat delicacies, they are ruined in the streets; the ones nurtured in purple lie on piles of trash. {{rf{6}}} The iniquity of the daughter of my people is greater than the sin of Sodom; it was overthrown in a moment and no hands were laid on her. {{rf{7}}} Her princes were purer than snow, they were whiter than milk; their bodies were more ruddy than rubies, sapphire their appearance. {{rf{8}}} Now their appearance is blacker than soot, they are not recognized in the streets; their skin has shriveled on their bones, it has become dry like wood. {{rf{9}}} Happier were the victims of the sword than the victims of famine; they have pined away, very hungry for the crops of my field. {{rf{10}}} The hands of compassionate women, have cooked their children; they became as something to eat in the destruction of the daughter of my people. {{rf{11}}} Yahweh has completed his anger, he has poured out his fierce anger; he has kindled a fire in Zion, it consumed her foundations. {{rf{12}}} The kings of the earth did not believe, and all the inhabitants of the world, that a foe and an enemy could enter into the gates of Jerusalem. {{rf{13}}} Because of the sins of her prophets, the guilt of her priests, who shed blood in her midst, of righteous people. {{rf{14}}} They wander blindly in the streets; they were defiled with the blood, their clothes could not be touched. {{rf{15}}} "Go away! Defiled!" they shout to them. "Go away! Go away! Do not touch!" so they left, they left; it was said among the nations, "They will no longer dwell with us." {{rf{16}}} The presence of Yahweh has scattered them, he will no longer watch over them; they did not honor the priests, they did not show mercy to elders. {{rf{17}}} Still our eyes failed, looking for our help in vain; in our watchtower, we kept watch for a nation that could not save. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Lament-04-01]] }}}
{{rf{18}}} They hunted our steps, from walking in our streets; our end has come near, our days are finished, our end has come. {{rf{19}}} Our pursuers were swifter than the eagles of the heavens; they chased us on the mountains, they have set an ambush for us in the desert. {{rf{20}}} The breath of our nostrils, the anointed one of Yahweh, was captured in their pits; of whom we said, "In his shadow we will live among the nations." {{rf{21}}} Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom, you who dwell in the land of Uz; but to you also the cup will pass, you will become drunk and strip yourself bare. {{rf{22}}} The punishment of your iniquity is completed, O daughter of Zion, your exile will not continue; but he will punish your iniquity, O daughter of Edom, he will reveal your sins. {{rf big{1}}} Remember, O Yahweh, what has become of us; take note, and see our disgrace! {{rf{2}}} Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our houses, to foreigners. {{rf{3}}} We have become orphans, fatherless, our mothers are like widows. {{rf{4}}} We pay for water with money, our wood comes to us at a price. {{rf{5}}} We are driven on our necks; we are weary, there is no rest for us. {{rf{6}}} We have made a deal with Egypt and Assyria to be satisfied with food. {{rf{7}}} Our fathers have sinned, they are no more; we bear their iniquity. {{rf{8}}} Slaves rule over us; there is no one to deliver us from their hand. {{rf{9}}} We risk our life for food because of the sword of the desert. {{rf{10}}} Our skin is hot like an oven because of the scorching famine. {{rf{11}}} They raped women in Zion, young women in the cities of Judah. {{rf{12}}} They hang princes by their hand; they do not show respect before elders. {{rf{13}}} Young men must carry a hand-mill and boys stumble under the wood. {{rf{14}}} Elders are no longer at the gate, young men no longer play stringed instruments. {{rf{15}}} The joy of our hearts has stopped; our circle-dancing has changed to a mourning ceremony. {{rf{16}}} The crown has fallen from our head; woe to us, for we have sinned! {{rf{17}}} Because of this, our heart has become faint, because of these, our eyes have become dim. {{rf{18}}} Because of Mount Zion, which lies desolate, foxes tread on it. {{rf{19}}} You, O Yahweh, will sit forever on your throne for generation to generation. {{rf{20}}} Why have you forgotten us forever? Why have you forsaken us for so long? {{rf{21}}} Restore us to you, O Yahweh, that we will be restored; renew our days as of old. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Lament-04-18]] }}}
{{rf{22}}} Unless you have utterly rejected us, unless you are angry with us beyond measure. LENGTH SHORT {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Lament-05-22]] }}}
* [[Light]]
* [[Oil]]-lit, it symbolizes [[Holiness]].
* [[Word]] of God
* <<Bbl 1S 3:3 >> The boy Samuel in the Temple.
* <<Bbl Pr 20:27 >>
* <<Bbl Mt 6:22 >>ff is written for inquirers, the incipient church. (?)
* <<Bbl L 11:35 "" note>>-36 is written in reproof to the Pharisees who want a sign. This makes a remarkable contrast with Matthew 6. Jesus has no difficulty giving the metaphor its distinct meanings.
* Scene in "Becket" when the hero is excommunciated - the monks reverse and upend their massive handles and crush the flame out on the floor.
* Gn <<Bbl Gn 3:23 abbr >>, 4, <<Bbl Gn 5:29 abbr >>, 9
** Curse laid on the land
** May explain the rejection of Cain's sacrifice
* the sabbath for the land
* //ground, earth, field//
* [[Living-Animal]], [[Living-Plant]] -- a good addition might be [[Living-Land]] (this entry would still be valid as there is such a breadth of information). See <<Bbl Mk 1:3 "" note >>
!! Farming
* <<Bbl Hosea 10:12>> //It is time to break up your fallow ground//
* <<Bbl Mt 13:10>> The seeds and the soils
!! Real estate
* <<Bbl Pr 31:16 >>
* Sarah's tomb
* Joseph of Arimethea's tomb
* Naboth's vineyard
* Joshua and Judges
* Boaz -- see [[Treasure]]
* <<Bbl Mt 13:44 >>
* //The lines have fallen to me in pleasant places//
* //Do not move the ancient boundary stone//
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* [[Land-Promised]]
* Promised to Abraham - but never ceded to him.
* Marched upon by the delivered Israelites - but not entered by the generation that died.
* Gazed upon by Moses - but never to set his foot there.
* Invaded by Joshua - but not secured.
* Inhabited by Israel - but never in holiness, nor security.
* Devastated and desecrated by Assyria and Babylon.
* Re-entered by a remnant - but not in substance.
* Tenanted by the Jews - but only as vassals.
* Devastated and desecrated by Rome.
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* //I go to prepare a place for you.//
* //Eschaton//, [[Eschatology]]
* [[DayOfTheLord]]
* [[Kingdom-ofGod]]
* Dan 9 refers to 7 weeks; see Lev 26 or 29
! New Testament view
* The "Great Reset"
* Already and Not Yet
* <<Bbl Mt 13:35 '' note>>
* A.K.A //Last days, hour, time, times//: A 2:17, 2Tim 3:1, H 1:2, James 5:3, 1J 2:18, Jude 1:18; 1P 1:20.
* [[Revelation-GeoHistorical]]
* The NT offers few glimpses into parent-child relationships; see [[Parent]].
* Jesus revealed this was a phased or unfolding event. This was in stark contrast to accepted views. Its provocation shows on every page of the NT.
!!! 1. Inauguration
* First advent.
* [[Donkey]]
!!! 2. Continuation
* [[ThisAge]]
* Christ's [[Intercede]]
* <<Bbl L 22:17>>ff
!!! 3. Consummation
* Second advent
* //the age to come, the last day//
* [[Harvest]]
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* Judaizers worked from an under-realized eschatology, a view that diminished the significance of Christ's first coming.
*<<Bbl H 1:1>>-2
* 2Tim 3
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@@color:brown;My dear brother, we must not mind a little suffering for Christ's sake. When I am getting through a hedge, if my head and shoulders are safely through, I can bear the pricking of my legs. Let us rejoice in the remembrance that our holy Head has surmounted all His suffering and triumphed over death. Let us follow Him patiently; we shall soon be partakers of His victory@@ // -- Charles Simeon, 1831//
* Link 10 commands to topics. Each command connected to the image of God. The law defines and explains good works which will be enacted by ordinary people living in the power of the holy Spirit. And where there is no such power, it enables us to discover our sinfulness. This is precisely the quality of the Sermon. It is not enough to say it reveals Holiness as unattainable; it also reveals what has been attained through Christ and what are the marks of a believer.
@@color:indigo;No one is going to arrive in Heaven thinking he got there by keeping the Law. No one is going to experience the torment of Hell and think they deserve something else.@@ Expressed by Mike Reed in a class at ECI in 1984.
@@color:brown;The Sermon on the Mount is not, as many people fondly imagine nowadays, the fulfillment or essence of the Gospel, but it is the fulfillment of the Law.@@ // -- A.R. Vidler, Quoted in F.F. Bruce, Romans, p. 55//
F.F. Bruce thoroughly discusses the term as found in the book of Romans, in Romans, pp. 50-56.
* Antinomianism -- see [[Lawlessness]]
* [[Self-Justification]]
* [[Legalism]]
* [[Command]] for the Ten Commands.
!!! The rightness of the Law
* <<Bbl Hos 14:9 >>, <<Bbl Mic 2:7 >>, <<Bbl Dt 4:6 >>-8 , <<Bbl Pr 28:4 >>, <<Bbl I 42:21 >>, <<Bbl Mt 5:17 >>-20
* The Law, read at face value, does say: must be kept in order to live. Paradox.
* The commandments are not a ladder by which we ascend to Heaven; rather they are a mirror by which we see our true condition.
* @@color:brown;the law of the Holy God is not a ladder of merit whereby sinners seek to come to God to win His favor and climb "into His good books;" His holy law is rather His appointed and required pattern of life for those who by redemption have been brought to Him already who already belong to Him, and are already "in His good books." The Law of God is the lifestyle of the redeemed.@@ // -- Alec Motyer (__Look to The Rock__)//
!!! Uses of the Law
# to convict of sin and drive the repentant sinner to the Lord Jesus Christ;
# to present Messiah;
# to restrain lawlessness in society;
# to function as the rule of life for the believer. One of the most famous statements of this comes from the Puritan Samuel Bolton in his The True Bounds of Christian Freedom - 'The law sends us to the gospel for our justification; the gospel sends us to the law to frame our way of life'.
** But Lancaster teaches this guidance is given distinctly to Jews, and to Gentiles in their own sphere.
!!! Promises for the Nations
* <<Bbl Mic 4:1 >>-4 , <<Bbl Dt 4:6 >>-8
!!!! Linked to [[Sin]]
* Galatians
* <<Bbl 1C 15:56 >>, <<Bbl 1J 3:4 >>
!!! Superficial compliance
* <<Bbl Php 3:6 >> //righteousness of ''my own'' ... faultless//
* <<Bbl Mt 5:17 >> //unless your righteousness surpasses ... Pharisees//
| Command | Superficial | Heart response |h
| Murder | literal | hate, harshness, grudges |
| Adultery | flagrant | lust of the eyes; divorce |
!!! Heart compliance
* <<Bbl Dt 15:9 >>-10 //Be careful not to harbor this wicked thought: "The seventh year, the year for canceling debts, is near," so that you do not show ill will toward your needy brother and give him nothing. He may then appeal to the Lord against you... Give generously to him and do so without a grudging heart; then because of this the Lord your God will bless you ...//
* <<Bbl Lv 19:16 >>-18 //Do not go about spreading slander among your people ... Do not hate your brother in your heart. Rebuke your neighbor frankly so you will not share in his guilt. ... Do not seek revenge or bear a grudge against one of your people, but love your neighbor as yourself. I am the Lord.//
* Coveting!
!!! Freedom from
* <<Bbl 1C 15:56 >>,
!!! and Vision
* <<Bbl Ez 7:26 >>, <<Bbl Lam 2:9 >>, <<Bbl Pr 29:18 >>. The terms are the same, '' torah'' and ''chazon''.
* <<Bbl I 8:20 >> //they have no dawn//
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* and Righteousness: <<Bbl Php 3:6 >>-9 , <<Bbl Dt 6:2 >>,<<Bbl Dt 7:12 >>,<<Bbl Dt 30:11 >>-14 , <<Bbl Lv 18:5 >>, <<Bbl Gal 3:10 >>-12
* Christ "born under": <<Bbl Gal 4:4 >>
* fulfilled by believers: <<Bbl 1J 2:3 >>-7 ; <<Bbl 1J 3:4 >>.
* Prophetic function: <<Bbl Mt 11:13 >>, <<Bbl J 5:39 >>
* the Ten Commandments: <<Bbl Dt 4:13 >>,<<Bbl Dt 5:22 >> -- apparently only the Ten were inscribed by God on the stones.
!! NT concepts
* To make sense of some NT writings, we must remember that //law// primarily means teaching.
* There is a great deal about the sacrificial system, and there is much that is an illustration of what will come.
* When we read that the law or the old covenant is gone, we can understand that the illustrations have been fullfilled or consummated. The problem is when we assume that what is referred to is the moral law.
* In dealing with the Old Covenant and the New Covenant, we must recognize points of continuity and points of discontinuity. An imbalance will lead to problems, such as ritualistic worship based on a preoccupation with the Old Testament, or on the other hand antinomianism.
!!! Jews with Gentiles.
* Paul in no way deprecates law-keeping. He thinks Jews should be distinguished by it and Gentiles shouldn't, and it has no bearing on justification and salvation (<<Bbl Phil 3:5 >> note). Lancaster says Paul still considers himself a Pharisee.
** He believes Paul kept the dietary laws but only as prescribed by the Law, using what most Pharisees would surely condemn as a loose construction (so pork would remain off-limits). Vegetarianism was the usual recourse.
** But I wonder if Paul didn't go for the Law as understood by the Jesus and learned by His disciples.
* Christ "declared all foods clean". But for Jews? Or was the meaning that Gentiles are not made unclean by eating what is unclean for the Jews?
* <<Bbl Pr 28:9 >>, //prayers are detestable//
* <<Bbl 2Thes 2:3 >>-12 //man of lawlessness//
* <<Bbl 1J 3:4 >> //[[Sin]] is lawlessness//
* <<Bbl Mt 7:21>>-23 //Depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!// The [[Law]] entails kindness, as in <<Bbl Mt 22:38>>-40.
* [[Mock]]
!!! Antinomianism
* Important Greek term: ἀνομία (anomia). Best translated //lawlessness,// it is often rendered less clearly as //[[Wickedness]], unrighteousness,// etc. Found in <<Bbl Mt 7:23>>, <<Bbl Mt 13:41>>, <<Bbl Mt 23:28>>, <<Bbl Mt 24:12>>, <<Bbl R 4:7>>, <<Bbl R 6:19>>, <<Bbl 2C 6:14>>, <<Bbl 2Thes 2:3>>, <<Bbl 2Thes 2:7>>, <<Bbl Titus 2:14>>, <<Bbl H 1:9>>, <<Bbl H 10:17>>, <<Bbl 1J 3:4>>.
* @@color:darkgreen;Fundamental Christianity in our times is deeply influenced by that ancient enemy of righteousness, Antinomianism. The creed of the Antinomian is easily stated: We are saved by faith alone; works have no place in salvation; conduct is works, and is therefore of no importance. What we do cannot matter as long as we believe rightly. The divorce between creed and conduct is absolute and final. The question of sin is settled by the Cross; conduct is outside the circle of faith and cannot come between the believer and God. Such in brief, is the teaching of the Antinomian. And so fully has it permeated the Fundamental element in modern Christianity that it is accepted by the religious masses as the very truth of God. Antinomianism is the doctrine of grace carried by uncorrected logic to the point of absurdity. It takes the teaching of justification by faith and twists it into deformity.@@ // -- A.W. Tozer, __Paths to Power__//
* http://www.banneroftruth.org/pages/articles/article_detail.php?748
* In truth, //The [[Law]] sends us to the gospel for our justification; the gospel sends us to the law to frame our way of life.//
* Striking instance of this error found in VonVanderen, __Tired of Trying to Measure Up.__
* //Sloth, indolence, dissipation//.
* <<Bbl Pr 22:13 >>
* [[Leadership-Church]]
* [[King]], [[Authorize]]
{{fyi{
The ''sword-and-trowel'', or the ''basin-and-towel''. (But of course we always need both.)
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* <<Bbl 2K 2:16 "" note>> -- The test of one's leadership may give way to confidence in one's leadership.
* Famous people are often grieved by the presumed familiarity of others.
!!! As shepherd
* Ez 34
* Jer 23
* John 10
!!! Bad
* <<Bbl 3J 9:10 >>
* [[Church-Local]]
* [[Minister]]
* [[Leader]]
* [[Shepherd|Sheep]]
* [[Discipline-Church]]
!!! Kinds
* Leadership seems to divide into //shepherding// and //administrative//. I doubt these are helpful terms, as they suggest overly narrow categories. John Bower, for one, referred to //people// and //project// orientation.
!!! Response to
* <<Bbl Heb 13:17>>
* <<Bbl 1C 16:18 >>b. //Acknowledge such// is a command for both leaders and the flock.
!!! The Springs Church, ~2017
{{fyi{
...We are pastor-led, in that the lead Pastor is singularly appointed and anointed to carry forth the vision of the church. We are board governed, and the Board of Oversight, made up largely of Every Nation leaders outside of our church, protects the pastor by approving budgets, bylaws, senior leadership compensation, and other corporate obligations.
...''OUCH!''
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<<Bbl Pr 9:9>>, <<Bbl Pr 10:14>>, <<Bbl Pr 18:15>>, <<Bbl Pr 23:12>>, <<Bbl A 17:11>>, <<Bbl A 18:26>>
* [[Know]]
<<Bbl Ps 12:18 >>, <<Bbl 2Tim 2:2 >>
* [[Circumcise]]
* [[Justify-Self]]
* [[Asceticism]]
* It asserts that God loves those who are [[Scrupulous|Scruples]] and hates the others.
* //Neonomism// - Need info.
* Gnosticism can be viewed as legalism -- the legal requirement is "sacred" knowledge.
* Legalism can affect our view of salvation //OR// sanctification. The latter is insidious and leads to many rash indictments among Christians, especially if they are envious and self-willed.
* @@color:brown; Jehovah’s Witnesses believe that salvation requires faith in Christ, association with God’s organization (i.e., their religion), and obedience to its rules. Biblically, however, viewing obedience to rules as a requirement for salvation nullifies the gospel (<<Bbl Gal 2:16 >>-21; <<Bbl Col 2:20 >>-23). Salvation is based wholly on God’s unmerited favor (grace), not on the believer’s performance. Good works are the fruit or result, not the basis, of salvation (<<Bbl Eph 2:8 >>-10; <<Bbl Tit 3:4 >>-8).@@ //source: [[Gospel Coalition|https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/justin-taylor/the-11-beliefs-you-should-know-about-jehovahs-witnesses-when-they-knock-at-the-door/]]//
!!! A sharp pencil.
* Cross the t's, dot the i's, but the point goes through the paper! And then your lead breaks.
* And then you have to run the sharpener. But your pencil gets short in a hurry. [[Performance]].
Then Yahweh called to Moses and spoke to him from the tent of assembly, saying, {{rf{2}}} "Speak to the Israelites, and say to them, 'When a person from you presents an offering to Yahweh, you shall present your offering from domestic animals, from the cattle or from the flock. {{rf{3}}} If his offering is a burnt offering from the cattle, then he must present an unblemished male; he must present it at the door of the tent of assembly for his acceptance before Yahweh. {{rf{4}}} " 'He must lay his hand on the head of the burnt offering and it will be accepted for him in order to make atonement for him. {{rf{5}}} He must slaughter the young bull before Yahweh, then Aaron's sons, the priests, will present the blood and sprinkle the blood all around the altar that is at the door of the tent of assembly. {{rf{6}}} Then he must remove the skin of the burnt offering and cut it into its pieces. {{rf{7}}} The sons of Aaron the priest will put fire on the altar and arrange the wood on the fire. {{rf{8}}} Then Aaron's sons, the priests, will arrange the pieces of meat, the head, and the suet on the wood that is on the fire that is on the altar. {{rf{9}}} Then he must wash its inner parts and its lower leg bones with water, and the priest will turn into smoke the whole animal on the altar as a burnt offering by fire, as an appeasing fragrance for Yahweh. {{rf{10}}} " 'But if his offering is from the flock, from the sheep or from the goats for a burnt offering, he must present an unblemished male. {{rf{11}}} He must slaughter it on the north side of the altar before Yahweh; then Aaron's sons, the priests, will sprinkle its blood all around the altar. {{rf{12}}} Then he must cut it into pieces along with its head and its suet; and the priest will arrange them on the wood that is on the fire that is on the altar. {{rf{13}}} Then he must wash the inner parts and the lower leg bones with water and the priest shall present the whole animal and will turn it into smoke on the altar; it is a burnt offering by fire as an appeasing fragrance for Yahweh. {{rf{14}}} " 'But if his offering for Yahweh is a burnt offering from the birds, then he must present his offering from the turtledoves or from the young doves. {{rf{15}}} The priest will present it at the altar and must wring off its head and turn it into smoke on the altar, and its blood will be drained out on the wall of the altar. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Lev-01-01]] }}}
<<Bbl Lev 1:1 abbr >> Much of this preaches to me richly of Christ.
The death itself does not sooth God, but the aroma of burning, which is perhaps a symbol of Judgment and consummation, does.
3:13 The offering of Christ was seasoned with the salt of the covenant.
4:2 Seems to be an introduction to the whole chapter, and a sentence on its own.
5:1 This was invoked in <<Bbl Mt 26:63 >>
<<Bbl Lv 6:8 abbr >>-9 see <<Bbl Gn 15:11 >>
<<Bbl Lv 10:1 abbr >>-6 The sin of these two, at the very onset of God's establishment of His people, seems to correspond with Ananias and Sapphira in <<Bbl A 10:6 >>.
10:19-20 //this very day// -- referring to his deceased sons. Aaron has improved in his answers to Moses since the calf incident.
{{rf{16}}} He must remove its crop with its plumage and throw it to the east beside the altar on the place of the fatty ashes. {{rf{17}}} Then he must tear it apart by its wings but must not sever it; then the priest will turn it into smoke on the altar. It is a burnt offering by fire as an appeasing fragrance for Yahweh.'" {{rf big{1}}} " 'When a person brings a grain offering to Yahweh, his offering must be finely milled flour, and he must pour out oil on it and place frankincense on it. {{rf{2}}} And he shall bring it to the sons of Aaron, the priests, and he shall take his handful from its finely milled flour and from its oil in addition to all its frankincense. The priest shall turn its token portion into smoke on the altar as an offering made by fire, as an appeasing fragrance for Yahweh. {{rf{3}}} The remainder of the grain offering belongs to Aaron and to his sons -- it is a most holy thing from the offerings made by fire for Yahweh. {{rf{4}}} " 'But if you bring a grain offering of something oven-baked, it must be of finely milled flour as ring-shaped unleavened bread mixed with oil or wafers of unleavened bread smeared with oil. {{rf{5}}} If your offering is a grain offering baked on a flat baking pan, it must be finely milled flour, unleavened bread mixed with oil; {{rf{6}}} break it into pieces and pour out oil on it; it is a grain offering. {{rf{7}}} " 'If your offering is a grain offering prepared in a cooking pan, it must be with finely milled flour in oil. {{rf{8}}} And you shall bring the grain offering that is made from these things to Yahweh, and the offerer shall bring it to the priest, and he shall bring it to the altar. {{rf{9}}} And the priest shall take away from the grain offering its token portion, and he shall turn it into smoke on the altar as an offering made by fire, as an appeasing fragrance for Yahweh. {{rf{10}}} And the remainder of the grain offering belongs to Aaron and to his sons -- it is a most holy thing from the offerings made by fire for Yahweh. {{rf{11}}} " 'Every grain offering you bring to Yahweh must not be made of yeasted food, because you must not turn into smoke any yeast or any honey from an offering made by fire for Yahweh. {{rf{12}}} As an offering of the choicest portion, you may bring them to Yahweh, but they must not be offered on the altar as an appeasing fragrance. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Lev-01-16]] }}}
{{rf{13}}} Also all of your grain offerings you must season with salt; you must not omit the salt of your God's covenant from your offering. {{rf{14}}} " 'And if you bring to Yahweh a grain offering of firstfruits, you must bring an ear of new grain roasted by fire, coarsely crushed ripe grain, as the grain offering of your firstfruits. {{rf{15}}} And you shall put oil on it and place frankincense on it; it is a grain offering. {{rf{16}}} The priest shall turn into smoke its token portion from its coarsely crushed grain together with all of its frankincense -- it is an offering made by fire for Yahweh.'" {{rf big{1}}} " 'Now if his offering is a sacrifice of fellowship offering, if he brings it from the cattle, whether male or female, he must bring it without defect before Yahweh. {{rf{2}}} He must lay his hand on the head of his offering and slaughter it at the entrance of the tent of assembly, and Aaron's sons shall sprinkle the blood on the altar all around. {{rf{3}}} He shall present from the sacrifice of the fellowship offering an offering made by fire for Yahweh consisting of the fat covering the inner parts and all the fat that is on the inner parts, {{rf{4}}} the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them, which is on the loins, and he must remove the lobe on the liver in addition to the kidneys. {{rf{5}}} Aaron's sons shall turn it to smoke on the altar in addition to the burnt offering that is on the wood, which is on the fire; it is an offering made by fire as an appeasing fragrance for Yahweh. {{rf{6}}} " 'But if his offering for a sacrifice of fellowship offering for Yahweh is from the flock, he must bring a male or a female without defect. {{rf{7}}} If he brings a sheep as his offering, then he shall present it before Yahweh, {{rf{8}}} and he shall lay his hand on the head of his offering, and he shall slaughter it before the tent of assembly, and Aaron's sons shall sprinkle its blood on the altar all around. {{rf{9}}} He shall present from the sacrifice of the fellowship offering an offering made by fire for Yahweh: he must remove its fat, the entire fat tail near the tailbone, and the fat covering the inner parts and all the fat that is on the inner parts, {{rf{10}}} the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them, which is on the loins, and he must remove the lobe on the liver in addition to the kidneys. {{rf{11}}} The priest shall turn it into smoke on the altar as a food offering made by fire for Yahweh. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Lev-02-13]] }}}
{{rf{12}}} " 'And if his offering is a goat, then he shall bring it before Yahweh, {{rf{13}}} and he shall lay his hand on the head of his offering, and he shall slaughter it before the tent of assembly, and Aaron's sons shall sprinkle its blood on the altar all around. {{rf{14}}} He shall present his offering from it as an offering made by fire for Yahweh: the fat covering the inner parts and all the fat that is on the inner parts, {{rf{15}}} the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them, which is on the loins, and he must remove the lobe on the liver in addition to the kidneys. {{rf{16}}} The priest shall turn them into smoke on the altar as a food offering; all the fat is an offering made by fire as an appeasing fragrance for Yahweh. {{rf{17}}} This is a lasting statute for your generations in all your dwellings: you must not eat any fat or any blood.'" {{rf big{1}}} Then Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, {{rf{2}}} "Speak to the Israelites, saying, 'If a person sins by an unintentional wrong from any of Yahweh's commands that should not be violated, and he violates any of them -- {{rf{3}}} if the anointed priest sins, bringing guilt on the people, then, concerning the sin that he has committed, he shall bring a young bull without defect for Yahweh as a sin offering. {{rf{4}}} He shall bring the bull to the tent of assembly's entrance before Yahweh, place his hand on the bull's head, and slaughter the bull before Yahweh. {{rf{5}}} The anointed priest shall take some of the bull's blood and shall bring it to the tent of assembly, {{rf{6}}} and the priest shall dip his finger in the blood and shall spatter some of the blood seven times before Yahweh in front of the sanctuary's curtain. {{rf{7}}} The priest shall put some of the blood on the horns of the altar of fragrant incense before Yahweh, which is in the tent of assembly, and all the rest of the bull's blood he must pour out on the base of the altar of the burnt offering, which is at the entrance of the tent of assembly. {{rf{8}}} " 'He must remove all the fat from the bull of the sin offering: the fat that covers the inner parts and all of the fat that is on the inner parts, {{rf{9}}} the two kidneys and the fat that is on them, and the liver's lobe that he must remove in addition to the kidneys -- {{rf{10}}} just as it is removed from the ox of the fellowship offerings' sacrifice -- and the priest shall turn them into smoke on the altar of the burnt offering. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Lev-03-12]] }}}
{{rf{11}}} But the bull's skin and its meat, in addition to its head, its lower leg bones, its inner parts, and its offal -- {{rf{12}}} he shall carry all of the bull outside the camp to a ceremonially clean place, to the fatty ashes' dump, and he shall burn it on wood in the fire; it must be burned up on the fatty ashes' dump. {{rf{13}}} " 'If Israel's whole assembly did wrong unintentionally and the matter was concealed from the assembly's eyes, and they acted against any of Yahweh's commands that should not be violated, so that they incur guilt, {{rf{14}}} when the sin that they have committed against that command becomes known, the assembly shall present a young bull as a sin offering, and they shall bring it before the tent of assembly. {{rf{15}}} And the elders of the community shall place their hands on the bull's head before Yahweh, and he shall slaughter the bull before Yahweh. {{rf{16}}} Then the anointed priest shall bring some of the bull's blood to the tent of assembly, {{rf{17}}} and the priest shall dip his finger in the blood and shall spatter it seven times before Yahweh in front of the curtain. {{rf{18}}} He must put some of the blood on the altar's horns before Yahweh in the tent of assembly, and all the rest of the blood he must pour out on the base of the altar of the burnt offering, which is at the tent of assembly's entrance. {{rf{19}}} He must remove all its fat from it, and he shall turn it into smoke on the altar. {{rf{20}}} He shall do to the bull just as he did to the sin offering's bull, so he must do to it. The priest shall make atonement for them, and they will be forgiven. {{rf{21}}} He shall bring the rest of the bull outside the camp, and he shall burn it just as he burned the first bull; it is the sin offering for the assembly. {{rf{22}}} " 'When a leader sins and commits an unintentional wrong against any of the commands of Yahweh his God that should not be violated, so that he incurs guilt, {{rf{23}}} or his sin he has committed is made known to him, he shall bring a male goat without defect as his offering. {{rf{24}}} He shall place his hand on the he-goat's head and slaughter it in the place where he slaughtered the burnt offering before Yahweh; it is a sin offering. {{rf{25}}} The priest shall take some of the sin offering's blood with his finger, and he shall put it on the horns of the altar of the burnt offering, and he must pour out the rest of its blood on the base of the altar of the burnt offering. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Lev-04-11]] }}}
{{rf{26}}} He must turn all of its fat into smoke on the altar like the fat of the fellowship offerings' sacrifice, and the priest shall make atonement for him because of his sin, and he will be forgiven. {{rf{27}}} " 'If anyone of the people of the land sins by an unintentional wrong by violating one of Yahweh's commands that should not be violated, so that he incurs guilt, {{rf{28}}} or his sin he has committed is made known to him, he shall bring as his offering a female goat without defect as his offering for his sin that he committed. {{rf{29}}} He shall place his hand on the sin offering's head and slaughter the sin offering in the place of the burnt offering. {{rf{30}}} The priest shall take some of its blood with his finger, and he shall put it on the horns of the altar of the burnt offering, and he must pour out all the rest of its blood on the altar's base. {{rf{31}}} He must remove all of its fat just as the fat was removed from the fellowship offerings' sacrifice, and the priest shall turn it into smoke on the altar as an appeasing fragrance for Yahweh. The priest shall make atonement for him, and he will be forgiven. {{rf{32}}} " 'But if he brings a lamb as his offering for a sin offering, he must bring a female without defect. {{rf{33}}} He shall place his hand on the sin offering's head, and he shall slaughter it as a sin offering in the place where he slaughtered the burnt offering. {{rf{34}}} The priest shall take some of the sin offering's blood with his finger, and he shall put it on the horns of the altar of the burnt offering, and he must pour out all the rest of its blood on the altar's base. {{rf{35}}} He must remove all of its fat just as the lamb's fat from the fellowship offerings' sacrifice was removed, and the priest shall turn them into smoke on the altar upon Yahweh's offerings made by fire; and the priest shall make atonement for him because of his sin that he committed, and he will be forgiven.'" {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Lev-04-26]] }}}
" 'When a person sins in that he hears the utterance of a curse and he is a witness or he sees or he knows, if he does not make it known, then he shall bear his guilt. {{rf{2}}} Or if a person touches anything unclean, whether an unclean wild animal's dead body or an unclean domestic animal's dead body or an unclean swarmer's dead body, but he is unaware of it, he is unclean and he is guilty. {{rf{3}}} Or when he touches human uncleanness, namely any uncleanness of his by which he might become unclean, but he is unaware of it, and he himself finds out, then he will be guilty. {{rf{4}}} Or when a person swears, speaking thoughtlessly with his lips, to do evil or to do good with regard to anything that the person in a sworn oath speaks thoughtlessly, but he is unaware of it, he will be guilty in any of these. {{rf{5}}} When he becomes guilty in any of these, he shall confess what he has sinned regarding it, {{rf{6}}} and he shall bring his guilt offering to Yahweh for his sin that he has committed: a female from the flock, a ewe-lamb or a she-goat, as a sin offering, and the priest shall make atonement for him for his sin. {{rf{7}}} " 'If he cannot afford a sheep, he shall bring as his guilt offering for what he sinned two turtledoves or two young doves for Yahweh, one for a sin offering and one for a burnt offering. {{rf{8}}} He shall bring them to the priest, and he shall present that which is for the sin offering first, and the priest shall wring its head off at the back of its neck, but he must not sever it, {{rf{9}}} and he shall spatter some of the sin offering's blood on the altar's side, and the leftover blood must be drained out on the altar's base; it is a sin offering. {{rf{10}}} The second bird he must prepare as a burnt offering according to the regulation, and the priest shall make atonement for him for his sin that he has committed, and he shall be forgiven. {{rf{11}}} " 'But if he cannot afford two turtledoves or two young doves, then, because he has sinned, he shall bring as his offering a tenth of an ephah of finely milled flour as a sin offering. He must not put oil on it, nor should he put frankincense on it, because it is a sin offering. {{rf{12}}} He shall bring it to the priest, and the priest shall take a handful of it for its token portion, and he shall turn it to smoke on the altar in addition to the offerings made by fire to Yahweh; it is a sin offering. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Lev-05-01]] }}}
{{rf{13}}} Thus the priest shall make atonement for him because of the sin that he has committed in any of these, and he shall be forgiven. It shall be for the priest, like the grain offering.'" {{rf{14}}} Then Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, {{rf{15}}} "When a person displays infidelity and he sins in an unintentional wrong in any of Yahweh's holy things, then he shall bring his guilt offering to Yahweh: a ram without defect from the flock as a guilt offering by your valuation in silver shekels according to the sanctuary shekel. {{rf{16}}} And he shall make restitution for what he sinned because of a holy thing and shall add one-fifth of its value onto it and shall give it to the priest. The priest shall make atonement for him with the ram of the guilt offering, and he will be forgiven. {{rf{17}}} "If a person when he sins violates one from all of Yahweh's commands that should not be violated, but he did not know, then he is guilty and he shall bear his guilt. {{rf{18}}} He shall bring to the priest a ram without defect from the flock as a guilt offering by your valuation, and the priest shall make atonement for him because of his unintentional wrong (although he himself did not know), and he will be forgiven. {{rf{19}}} It is a guilt offering; he certainly was guilty before Yahweh." {{rf big{1}}} Then Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, {{rf{2}}} "When a person displays infidelity against Yahweh and he deceives his fellow citizen regarding something entrusted or a pledge or stealing or he exploits his fellow citizen, {{rf{3}}} or he finds lost property and lies about it and swears falsely in regard to any one of these things by which a person might commit sin, {{rf{4}}} and when he sins and is guilty, then he shall bring back the things he had stolen or what he had extorted or something with which he had been entrusted or the lost property that he had found, {{rf{5}}} or regarding anything about which he has sworn falsely, then he shall repay it according to its value and shall add one-fifth of its value to it -- he must give it to whom it belongs on the day of his guilt offering. {{rf{6}}} And he must bring as his guilt offering to Yahweh a ram without defect from the flock by your valuation as a guilt offering to the priest, {{rf{7}}} and the priest shall make atonement for him before Yahweh, and he shall be forgiven anything from all that he might do by which he might incur guilt." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Lev-05-13]] }}}
{{rf{8}}} Then Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, {{rf{9}}} "Command Aaron and his sons, saying, 'This is the regulation of the burnt offering: The burnt offering must remain on the hearth on the altar all night until the morning, and the altar's fire must be kept burning on it. {{rf{10}}} And the priest shall put on his linen robe, and he must put his linen undergarments on his body, and he shall take away the fatty ashes of the burnt offering that the fire has consumed on the altar, and he shall place them beside the altar. {{rf{11}}} And he shall take off his garments and put on other garments, and he shall bring out the fatty ashes outside the camp to a ceremonially clean place, {{rf{12}}} but the fire on the altar must be kept burning on it; it must not be quenched. And the priest must burn wood every morning on it, and he shall arrange the burnt offering on it, and he shall turn into smoke the fat portions of the fellowship offerings on it. {{rf{13}}} A perpetual fire must be kept burning on the altar; it must not be quenched. {{rf{14}}} " 'And this is the regulation of the grain offering. Aaron's sons shall present it before Yahweh in front of the altar, {{rf{15}}} and he in his fist shall take away from it some of the grain offering's finely milled flour, and some of its oil and all of the frankincense that is on the grain offering, and he shall turn into smoke its token portion on the altar as an appeasing fragrance to Yahweh. {{rf{16}}} And Aaron and his sons must eat the remainder of it; they must eat it as unleavened bread in a holy place -- in the tent of assembly's courtyard they must eat it. {{rf{17}}} It must not be baked with yeast. I have given it as their share from my offerings made by fire. It is a most holy thing, like the sin offering and like the guilt offering. {{rf{18}}} Every male among Aaron's sons may eat it as a lasting rule among your generations from the offerings made by fire belonging to Yahweh. Anything that touches them will become holy.'" {{rf{19}}} Then Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, {{rf{20}}} "This is the offering of Aaron and his sons that they shall present to Yahweh on the day of his being anointed: a tenth of an ephah of finely milled flour as a perpetual grain offering, half of it in the morning and half of it in the evening. {{rf{21}}} It must be made in oil on a flat baking pan; you must bring it well-mixed; you must present pieces of a grain offering's baked goods as an appeasing fragrance to Yahweh. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Lev-06-08]] }}}
{{rf{22}}} And the anointed priest taking his place from among his sons must do it. As a lasting rule, it must be turned into smoke totally for Yahweh. {{rf{23}}} And every grain offering of a priest must be a whole burnt offering; it must not be eaten." {{rf{24}}} Then Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, {{rf{25}}} "Speak to Aaron and his sons, saying, 'This is the regulation of the sin offering: In the place where the sin offering is slaughtered, the sin offering must be slaughtered before Yahweh; it is a most holy thing. {{rf{26}}} The priest who offers the sin offering must eat it in a holy place -- in the tent of assembly's courtyard. {{rf{27}}} Anything that touches its flesh will become holy, and when some of its blood spatters on a garment, what was spattered on it you shall wash in a holy place. {{rf{28}}} And a clay vessel in which it was boiled must be broken, but if it was boiled in a bronze vessel, then it shall be thoroughly scoured and rinsed with water. {{rf{29}}} Any male among the priests may eat it; it is a most holy thing. {{rf{30}}} But any sin offering from which some of its blood is brought to the tent of assembly to make atonement in the sanctuary must not be eaten; it must be burned in the fire.'" {{rf big{1}}} " 'And this is the regulation of the guilt offering; it is a most holy thing. {{rf{2}}} In the place where they slaughter the burnt offering, they must slaughter the guilt offering, and he must sprinkle its blood upon the altar all around. {{rf{3}}} And he must present all of its fat: the fat tail and the fat that covers the inner parts, {{rf{4}}} and the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them, which is on the loins, and he must remove the lobe on the liver in addition to the kidneys. {{rf{5}}} And the priest shall turn it into smoke it on the altar as a food offering made by fire for Yahweh; it is a guilt offering. {{rf{6}}} Every male among the priests may eat it; it must be eaten in a holy place; it is a most holy thing. {{rf{7}}} The instruction is the same for the guilt offering as for the sin offering; it belongs to the priest, who makes atonement with it. {{rf{8}}} " 'And the priest who presents a person's burnt offering, to that priest belongs the skin of the burnt offering that he presented. {{rf{9}}} And every grain offering that is baked in the oven and all that is prepared in a cooking pan or on a flat baking pan belongs to the priest who presented it. {{rf{10}}} And every grain offering, whether mixed with oil or dry, shall be for all of Aaron's sons equally. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Lev-06-22]] }}}
{{rf{11}}} " 'And this is the regulation of the fellowship offerings that he must present to Yahweh: {{rf{12}}} If he presents it for thanksgiving, in addition to the thanksgiving sacrifice he shall present ring-shaped unleavened bread mixed with oil and unleavened bread wafers smeared with oil and well-mixed ring-shaped bread cakes of finely milled flour mixed with oil. {{rf{13}}} In addition to ring-shaped cakes of bread with yeast, he must present his grain offering together with his sacrifice of thanksgiving peace offerings. {{rf{14}}} And he shall present one of each kind of grain offering as a contribution for Yahweh; it belongs to the priest who sprinkles the fellowship offerings' blood. {{rf{15}}} And the meat of the sacrifice of his thanksgiving fellowship offerings must be eaten on the day of his offering; he must not leave it until morning. {{rf{16}}} " 'But if his sacrifice is for a vow or as a freewill offering, it must be eaten on the day of his presenting his sacrifice, and on the next day the remainder from it may be eaten, {{rf{17}}} but the remainder from the sacrifice's meat must be burned up in the fire on the third day. {{rf{18}}} And if indeed some of the meat of his fellowship offerings' sacrifice is eaten on the third day, it will not be accepted; it will not be considered of benefit for the one who presented it -- it shall be unclean meat, and the person who eats it shall bear his guilt. {{rf{19}}} And the meat that touches anything unclean must not be eaten; it must be burned with fire, and as for the clean meat, anyone who is clean may eat the meat. {{rf{20}}} And the person who eats meat from the fellowship offerings' sacrifice, which is for Yahweh, and whose uncleanness is upon him -- that person shall be cut off from his people. {{rf{21}}} And when a person touches anything unclean, whether human uncleanness or an unclean animal or any unclean detestable thing, and he eats from the meat of the fellowship offerings' sacrifice, which is for Yahweh, then that person shall be cut off from his people.'" {{rf{22}}} Then Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, {{rf{23}}} "Speak to the Israelites, saying, 'You must not eat any fat of ox, or sheep, or goat; {{rf{24}}} and a dead body's fat or mangled carcass's fat may be used for any purpose, but you certainly must not eat it. {{rf{25}}} When anyone eats fat from the domestic animal from which he presented an offering made by fire for Yahweh, then that person who ate shall be cut off from his people. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Lev-07-11]] }}}
{{rf{26}}} And in any of your dwellings, you must not eat any blood belonging to birds or domestic animals. {{rf{27}}} Any person who eats any blood, that person shall be cut off from his people.'" {{rf{28}}} Then Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, {{rf{29}}} "Speak to the Israelites, saying, 'The one who presents his fellowship offerings' sacrifice for Yahweh shall bring his offering to Yahweh from his fellowship offerings' sacrifice. {{rf{30}}} His own hands must bring Yahweh's offerings made by fire. He must bring the fat in addition to the breast section to wave the breast section as a wave offering before Yahweh, {{rf{31}}} and the priest shall turn the fat into smoke on the altar, and the breast section shall be for Aaron and his sons. {{rf{32}}} And the right upper thigh you must give as a contribution for the priest from your fellowship offerings' sacrifice. {{rf{33}}} As for the one from Aaron's sons who presents the blood of the fellowship offerings and the fat, the right upper thigh shall belong to him as his share, {{rf{34}}} because I have taken the wave offering's breast section and the contribution offering's upper thigh from the Israelites out of their fellowship offerings' sacrifices, and I have given them to Aaron the priest and his sons from the Israelites as a lasting rule.'" {{rf{35}}} This is Aaron's allotted portion and his sons' allotted portion from Yahweh's offerings made by fire when he brought them forward to serve as priests for Yahweh. {{rf{36}}} This is what Yahweh commanded to give them from the Israelites on the day of his anointing them; it is a lasting statute for their generations. {{rf{37}}} This is the regulation for the burnt offering, for the grain offering and for the sin offering and for the guilt offering and for the consecration offering and for the fellowship offerings' sacrifice, {{rf{38}}} which Yahweh commanded Moses on Mount Sinai on the day of his commanding the Israelites to present their offerings to Yahweh in the desert of Sinai. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Lev-07-26]] }}}
Then Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, {{rf{2}}} "Take Aaron and his sons with him, and the garments and the anointing oil and the bull of the sin offering and the two rams and the basket of the unleavened bread, {{rf{3}}} and summon all of the community to the entrance to the tent of assembly." {{rf{4}}} So Moses did just as Yahweh commanded him, and the community gathered by the entrance to the tent of assembly. {{rf{5}}} Then Moses said to the community, "This is the word that Yahweh has commanded to be done." {{rf{6}}} So Moses brought Aaron and his sons near, and he washed them with water. {{rf{7}}} Then he put the tunic on him and tied the sash around him; then he clothed him with the robe and put the ephod on him; then he tied the ephod's waistband around him and fastened the ephod to him with it. {{rf{8}}} Then he placed the breastpiece on him and put the Urim and the Thummim into the breastpiece; {{rf{9}}} and he placed the turban on his head, and on the front of the turban he placed the gold rosette, the holy diadem, just as Yahweh had commanded Moses. {{rf{10}}} Then Moses took the anointing oil and anointed the tabernacle and all that was in it, and he consecrated them. {{rf{11}}} And he spattered part of it on the altar seven times -- thus he anointed the altar and all of its utensils, and the basin and its stand, to consecrate them. {{rf{12}}} Then he poured out part of the anointing oil on Aaron's head -- thus he anointed him in order to consecrate him. {{rf{13}}} Then Moses brought Aaron's sons near and clothed them with tunics and tied a sash around each one, and he bound headbands on them, just as Yahweh had commanded Moses. {{rf{14}}} Then he brought forth the bull of the sin offering, and Aaron and his sons placed their hands on the head of the bull of the sin offering, {{rf{15}}} and he slaughtered it, and Moses took the blood and put it with his finger on the altar's horns all around and purified the altar; then he poured the blood out on the altar's base -- thus he consecrated it in order to make atonement for it. {{rf{16}}} Then he took all the fat that was on the inner parts and the lobe on the liver and the two kidneys and their fat, and Moses turned them into smoke on the altar, {{rf{17}}} but he burned the bull and its skin and its meat and its offal in the fire outside the camp, just as Yahweh had commanded Moses. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Lev-08-01]] }}}
{{rf{18}}} Then he brought the ram of the burnt offering near, and Aaron and his sons placed their hands on the ram's head, {{rf{19}}} and he slaughtered it. Then Moses sprinkled the blood on the altar all around. {{rf{20}}} Then he cut the ram into pieces, and Moses turned into smoke the head and the pieces and the suet, {{rf{21}}} but he washed the inner parts and the lower leg bones with water, and Moses turned into smoke all of the ram on the altar; it was a burnt offering as an appeasing fragrance, an offering made by fire for Yahweh, just as Yahweh had commanded Moses. {{rf{22}}} Then he brought the second ram near, the ram of the consecration, and Aaron and his sons placed their hands on the ram's head, {{rf{23}}} and he slaughtered it. Then Moses took some of its blood and put it on Aaron's right ear lobe and on his right hand's thumb and on his right foot's big toe. {{rf{24}}} Then he brought Aaron's sons near, and Moses put some of the blood on their right ear lobe and on their right hand's thumb and on their right foot's big toe, and Moses sprinkled the blood on the altar all around. {{rf{25}}} Then he took the fat and the fat tail and all of the fat that was on the inner parts and the lobe of the liver and the two kidneys and their fat and the right upper thigh; {{rf{26}}} and from the basket of the unleavened bread that was before Yahweh he took one ring-shaped unleavened bread and one ring-shaped bread with oil and one wafer, and he placed them on the fat parts and on the right upper thigh. {{rf{27}}} Then he put all of these on Aaron's palms and on his sons' palms, and he waved them as a wave offering before Yahweh. {{rf{28}}} Then Moses took them from upon their palms, and he turned them into smoke upon the burnt offering on the altar; they were a consecration offering as an appeasing fragrance -- it was an offering made by fire for Yahweh. {{rf{29}}} Then Moses took the breast section, and he waved it as a wave offering before Yahweh from the ram of the consecration offering; it was Moses' share, just as Yahweh had commanded Moses. {{rf{30}}} Then Moses took some of the anointing oil and some of the blood that was on the altar, and he spattered them on Aaron, on his garments, and on Aaron's sons and on his sons' garments with him -- thus he consecrated Aaron, his garments, and his sons and his sons' garments with him. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Lev-08-18]] }}}
{{rf{31}}} Then Moses said to Aaron and to his sons, "Boil the meat in the entrance to the tent of assembly, and there you must eat it and the bread that is in the basket of the consecration offering, just as I have commanded, saying, 'Aaron and his sons must eat it,' {{rf{32}}} but the remainder of the meat and the bread you must burn in the fire. {{rf{33}}} And you must not go out from the entrance to the tent of assembly for seven days, until the day of fulfilling the days of your consecration, because it will take seven days to ordain you. {{rf{34}}} Just as was done on this day, Yahweh commanded to be done in order to make atonement for you. {{rf{35}}} And you must stay at the entrance to the tent of assembly day and night for seven days, and you shall keep the obligation from Yahweh, so you might not die, for thus I have been commanded." {{rf{36}}} So Aaron and his sons did all the things that Yahweh had commanded through Moses. {{rf big{1}}} Then on the eighth day Moses summoned Aaron and his sons and Israel's elders, {{rf{2}}} and he said to Aaron, "Take for yourself a bull calf as a sin offering and a ram as a burnt offering, without defect, and present them before Yahweh. {{rf{3}}} Then you must speak to the Israelites, saying, 'Take a he-goat as a sin offering and a bull calf and a male sheep, yearlings without defect, as a burnt offering, {{rf{4}}} and an ox and a ram as fellowship offerings to sacrifice before Yahweh, and a grain offering mixed with oil, because today Yahweh will appear to you." {{rf{5}}} So they took what Moses had commanded to the front of the tent of assembly, and the whole community presented themselves, and they stood before Yahweh. {{rf{6}}} Then Moses said, "This is the word that Yahweh commanded you to do so that the glory of Yahweh might appear to you." {{rf{7}}} Then Moses said to Aaron, "Approach the altar and sacrifice your sin offering and your burnt offering, and make atonement for yourself and for the people. And sacrifice the people's offering and make atonement for them, just as Yahweh has commanded." {{rf{8}}} Then Aaron approached the altar, and he slaughtered the bull calf of the sin offering, which was for himself. {{rf{9}}} Then Aaron's sons presented the blood to him, and he dipped his finger in the blood, and he put it on the altar's horns, and he poured out the blood on the altar's base. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Lev-08-31]] }}}
{{rf{10}}} And the fat and the kidneys and the lobe from the sin offering's liver he turned into smoke on the altar, just as Yahweh had commanded Moses, {{rf{11}}} but the meat and the skin he burned with fire outside the camp. {{rf{12}}} Then he slaughtered the burnt offering, and Aaron's sons brought the blood to him, and he sprinkled it on the altar all around; {{rf{13}}} and they brought the burnt offering to him by its pieces, as well as the head, and he turned them into smoke on the altar; {{rf{14}}} and he washed the inner parts and the lower leg bones, then he turned them into smoke upon the burnt offering on the altar. {{rf{15}}} Then he presented the people's offering, and he took the goat of the sin offering, which was for the people, and he slaughtered it and offered it as a sin offering like the first one. {{rf{16}}} Then he presented the burnt offering, and he sacrificed it according to the regulation. {{rf{17}}} Then he presented the grain offering, and he filled his palm with some of it, and he turned it into smoke on the altar besides the morning's burnt offering. {{rf{18}}} Then he slaughtered the ox and the ram, the fellowship offerings that are for the people, and Aaron's sons brought the blood to him, and he sprinkled it on the altar all around. {{rf{19}}} And as for the fat portions from the ox and from the ram (the fat tail and the layer of fat and the kidneys and the lobe of the liver), {{rf{20}}} they placed the fat portions on the breast sections, and he turned the fat portions into smoke on the altar. {{rf{21}}} Then Aaron waved the breast sections and the right upper thigh as a wave offering before Yahweh, just as Moses had commanded. {{rf{22}}} Then Aaron lifted his hand toward the people, and he blessed them, and he came down after sacrificing the sin offering and the burnt offering and the fellowship offerings. {{rf{23}}} Then Moses and Aaron entered the tent of assembly. When they came out, they blessed the people, and Yahweh's glory appeared to all the people. {{rf{24}}} Then a fire went out from before Yahweh, and it consumed the burnt offering and the fat portions on the altar. And all the people saw it, so they shouted for joy, and they fell on their faces. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Lev-09-10]] }}}
And Aaron's sons Nadab and Abihu each took his censer, and they put fire in them and placed incense on it; then they presented before Yahweh illegitimate fire, which he had not commanded them. {{rf{2}}} So fire went out from before Yahweh, and it consumed them so that they died before Yahweh. {{rf{3}}} Therefore Moses said to Aaron, "This is what Yahweh spoke, saying, 'Among those who are close to me I will show myself holy, and in the presence of all the people I will display my glory.'" So Aaron was silent. {{rf{4}}} Then Moses summoned Mishael and Elzaphan the sons of Uzziel, Aaron's uncle, and he said to them, "Come forward. Carry your brothers from the front of the sanctuary to outside the camp." {{rf{5}}} So they came forward, and they carried them outside the camp in their tunics, just as Moses had ordered. {{rf{6}}} Then Moses said to Aaron and to his sons Eleazar and Ithamar, "You must not let your hair hang loosely, and you must not tear your garments, so that you will not die and he will be angry with all the community. But your brothers, all the house of Israel, may weep because of the burning that Yahweh caused, {{rf{7}}} but you must not go out from the entrance to the tent of assembly lest you die, because Yahweh's anointing oil is on you." So they did according to Moses' word. {{rf{8}}} Then Yahweh spoke to Aaron, saying, {{rf{9}}} "You and your sons with you may not drink wine or strong drink when you come to the tent of assembly, so that you will not die -- it is a lasting statute for your generations -- {{rf{10}}} and to distinguish between the holy and the unholy, as well as between the unclean and the clean, {{rf{11}}} and to teach the Israelites all the rules that Yahweh has spoken to them through Moses." {{rf{12}}} Then Moses spoke to Aaron and to his sons Eleazar and Ithamar, "As for the remaining parts, take the remainder of the grain offering from Yahweh's offerings made by fire and eat it, the unleavened bread, beside the altar, because it is a most holy thing. {{rf{13}}} And you shall eat it in a holy place, because it is your allotted portion and the allotted portion of your sons from Yahweh's offerings made by fire, for so I have been commanded. {{rf{14}}} And the wave offering's breast section and the upper thigh of the contribution offering you must eat in a clean place, you and your sons and your daughters with you, because they are given as your allotted portion and your sons' allotted portion from the sacrifices of the Israelites' fellowship offerings. {{rf{15}}} They must bring the thigh of the contribution offering and the breast section of the wave offering in addition to the offerings made by fire, consisting of the fat portions, to wave as a wave offering before Yahweh; and it will be for you and for your sons with you as a lasting rule, just as Yahweh had commanded." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Lev-10-01]] }}}
{{rf{16}}} Then Moses sought all over for the goat of the sin offering and behold, it was burned up. So he was angry with Aaron's remaining sons Eleazar and Ithamar, saying, {{rf{17}}} "Why did you not eat the sin offering on the sanctuary's site, because it is a most holy thing? And he gave it to you to remove the community's guilt, to make atonement for them before Yahweh. {{rf{18}}} Look, its blood was not brought inside the sanctuary. Certainly you should have eaten it in the sanctuary, as I commanded." {{rf{19}}} So Aaron said to Moses, "Look, today they presented their sin offering and their burnt offering before Yahweh, and things such as these have happened to me, and if I were to eat a sin offering today, would it have been good in Yahweh's eyes?" {{rf{20}}} When Moses heard, it was good in his eyes. {{rf big{1}}} Then Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying to them, {{rf{2}}} "Speak to the Israelites, saying, 'These are the animals that you may eat from all the animals that are on the land: {{rf{3}}} Any among the animals that has a divided hoof and has a split cleft in the hoof, such you may eat. {{rf{4}}} However, these you may not eat from those that chew the cud and from those that have a divided hoof: the camel, because it is a chewer of cud but it does not have a hoof that is divided -- it is unclean for you; {{rf{5}}} and the coney, because it is a chewer of cud but it does not have a hoof that is divided -- it is unclean for you; {{rf{6}}} and the hare, because it is a chewer of cud but it does not have a hoof that is divided -- it is unclean for you; {{rf{7}}} and the pig, because it has a divided hoof and has a split cleft in the hoof but it does not chew cud -- it is unclean for you. {{rf{8}}} You must not eat from their meat, and you must not touch their dead body -- they are unclean for you. {{rf{9}}} " 'These you may eat from all that are in the water: any in the water that has a fin and scales, whether in the seas or in the streams -- such you may eat. {{rf{10}}} But any that does not have a fin and scales, whether in the seas or in the streams, among all the water's swarmers among all the living creatures that are in the water -- they are a detestable thing to you. {{rf{11}}} And they shall be detestable to you; you must not eat from their meat, and you must detest their dead body. {{rf{12}}} Any that does not have a fin and scales in the water -- it is a detestable thing to you. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Lev-10-16]] }}}
11:27 Samson broke this regulation, <<Bbl Jud 14:9 >>.
<<Bbl Lv 13:13 abbr >> But is he not also dead?
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He shall kill one of the birds in an earthen vessel over running water... but he shall let the living bird go out of the city into the open field. So shall he make atonement for the house; and it shall be clean.
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<<Bbl Lv 14:1 abbr >>-7 The breath-taking picture of Christ's sacrifice; similar sacrifices are described later in the chapter. Commanded in <<Bbl Mk 1:44 >>. My Bible titles this the "Law of Cleansing a Leper," but the priest apparently only declares him clean. Hyssop is basically an applicator and symbolizes cleansing: <<Bbl Ex 12:21 >> (24:8); <<Bbl Ps 51:5 >>; <<Bbl H 9:19 >>-22 . Scarlet is a color of vibrancy, thus of life. Geno says the water and the blood are mixed in the jar, and takes us to <<Bbl J 19:31 >>-34 , <<Bbl 1J 5:6 >>.
Leprosy is painless.
14:5 Running water is actually living water.
<<Bbl Lv 16:7 abbr >>-22 The scapegoat contains the same metaphor of vicarious Judgment as the dove.
<<Bbl Lv 16:8 abbr >> This can be viewed as a practical provision against omenic superstition or subjectivist intervention; for example, someone's attempt to choose which animal is more worthy of the appointment to life. The deeper point is election. This however must be pointed out to the modern mindset, which assumes the cast lot is an exercise in randomness.
<<Bbl Lv 18:5 abbr>> Paul makes allusion in <<Bbl R 10:5>>. This presents a puzzle which is explored by F.F. Bruce, __Romans vol 2__, Appendix B.
{{rf{13}}} " 'And these you must detest from the birds; they must not be eaten -- they are detestable: the eagle and the vulture and the short-toed eagle, {{rf{14}}} and the red kite and the black kite according to its kind, {{rf{15}}} every crow according to its kind, {{rf{16}}} and the ostrich and the short-eared owl and the seagull and the hawk according to its kind, {{rf{17}}} and the little owl and the cormorant and the great owl, {{rf{18}}} and the barn owl and the desert owl and the carrion vulture, {{rf{19}}} and the stork, the heron according to its kind and the hoopoe and the bat. {{rf{20}}} " 'Any winged insect that walks on all fours is detestable to you. {{rf{21}}} Only this may you eat from any of the winged insects that walk on all fours -- that which has jointed legs above its feet for leaping upon the land. {{rf{22}}} From these you may eat the locust according to its kind and the bald locust according to its kind and the cricket according to its kind and the grasshopper according to its kind. {{rf{23}}} But any other winged insect that has four legs is detestable to you. {{rf{24}}} And by these you shall become unclean -- anyone who touches their dead body shall become unclean until the evening, {{rf{25}}} and anyone who carries their dead body must wash his garments, and he shall be unclean until the evening. {{rf{26}}} " 'With regard to any animal that has a divided hoof but does not split the hoof, or does not have a cud for chewing -- they are unclean for you; anyone who touches them shall become unclean. {{rf{27}}} And anything that walks upon its paws among any of the animals that walks on all fours -- they are unclean for you; anyone who touches their dead body shall become unclean until the evening, {{rf{28}}} and the one who carries their dead body must wash his garments, and he shall be unclean until the evening -- they are unclean for you. {{rf{29}}} " 'And these are the unclean for you among the swarmers that swarm on the land: the weasel and the mouse and the thorn-tailed lizard according to its kind, {{rf{30}}} and the gecko and the land crocodile and the lizard and the sand lizard and the chameleon. {{rf{31}}} These are the unclean for you among all the swarmers; anyone who touches them at their death shall become unclean until the evening. {{rf{32}}} And anything on which one of them falls at their death shall become unclean: any object of wood or garment or skin or sackcloth -- any object that has performed work -- must be placed in water, and it shall be unclean until the evening, and then it shall be clean. {{rf{33}}} And any clay vessel into which it falls shall become unclean, and you must break it. {{rf{34}}} Any of the food that could be eaten on which water from such a vessel comes shall become unclean, and any liquid that could be drunk in any such vessel shall become unclean. {{rf{35}}} And anything on which one of their dead bodies falls shall become unclean: an oven or a stove must be broken -- they are unclean and shall be unclean for you. {{rf{36}}} Surely a spring or a cistern collecting water shall be clean, but that which touches their dead body shall become unclean. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Lev-11-13]] }}}
{{rf{37}}} And when one of their dead bodies falls on any seed for sowing, it is clean. {{rf{38}}} But when water is put on the seed and one of their dead bodies falls on it, it is unclean for you. {{rf{39}}} " 'And when one of the animals dies that is for you to eat, the one who touches its dead body shall become unclean until the evening. {{rf{40}}} And the one who eats some of its dead body must wash his garments, and he shall be unclean until the evening; and the one who carries its dead body must wash his garments, and he shall be unclean until the evening. {{rf{41}}} " 'And any swarmer that swarms on the land is detestable; it must not be eaten. {{rf{42}}} You must not eat anything that moves upon its belly or that walks on all fours, even any with numerous feet belonging to any swarmer that swarms on the land, because they are detestable. {{rf{43}}} You must not defile yourselves with any swarmer that swarms, and you must not make yourselves unclean by them and so be made unclean by them, {{rf{44}}} because I am Yahweh your God, and you must keep yourselves sanctified, so that you shall be holy, because I am holy. And you must not make yourselves unclean with any swarmer that moves along on the land, {{rf{45}}} because I am Yahweh, who brought you up from the land of Egypt to be for you as God. Thus you shall be holy, because I am holy. {{rf{46}}} " 'This is the regulation of the animals and the birds and all living creatures that move along in the water and concerning all the creatures that swarm on the land, {{rf{47}}} to distinguish between the unclean and the clean and between the animal that is to be eaten and the animal that must not be eaten.'" {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Lev-11-37]] }}}
Then Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, {{rf{2}}} "Speak to the Israelites, saying, 'When a woman becomes pregnant and she gives birth to a male, then she shall be unclean seven days -- as in the time of her menstrual bleeding, she shall become unclean. {{rf{3}}} And on the eighth day his foreskin's flesh shall be circumcised. {{rf{4}}} And for thirty-three days she shall stay in the blood of her cleansing; she must not touch any holy object, and she may not come to the sanctuary until the fulfilling of the days of her cleansing. {{rf{5}}} But if she gives birth to a female, then she shall be unclean for two weeks as in her menstruation, and for sixty-six days she shall stay through the blood of her cleansing. {{rf{6}}} And at the fulfilling of the days of her cleansing, whether for a son or for a daughter, she must bring to the priest at the tent of assembly's entrance a yearling male lamb as a burnt offering and young dove or a turtledove as a sin offering. {{rf{7}}} And the priest shall present it before Yahweh, and he shall make atonement for her, so that she shall be clean from the flow of her blood. This is the regulation of childbearing for the male or for the female. {{rf{8}}} And if she cannot afford a sheep, then she shall take two turtledoves or two young doves -- one as a burnt offering and one as a sin offering -- and the priest shall make atonement for her, so that she shall be clean.'" {{rf big{1}}} Then Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying, {{rf{2}}} "When a person has on his body's skin a swelling or an epidermal eruption or a spot and it becomes an infectious skin disease on his body's skin, then he shall be brought to Aaron the priest or to one of his sons the priests. {{rf{3}}} And the priest shall examine the infection on his body's skin, and if the hair in the infection turns white and the appearance of the infection is deeper than his body's skin, it is an infectious skin disease, and the priest shall examine it, and he shall declare him unclean. {{rf{4}}} But if a spot is white on his body's skin and its appearance is not deeper than the skin and its hair does not turn white, then the priest shall confine the afflicted person for seven days. {{rf{5}}} And the priest shall examine it on the seventh day, and if, in his eyes, the infection has stayed unchanged, the infection has not spread on the skin, then the priest shall confine him for seven days a second time. {{rf{6}}} And the priest shall examine him on the seventh day for a second time, and if the infection has faded and the infection has not spread on the skin, then the priest shall declare him clean -- it is an epidermal eruption; and he shall wash his garments, and so he shall be clean. {{rf{7}}} But if the epidermal eruption spreads further on the skin after showing himself to the priest for his cleansing, then he shall appear a second time to the priest. {{rf{8}}} And the priest shall examine it, and if the epidermal eruption has spread on the skin, then the priest shall declare him unclean -- it is an infectious skin disease. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Lev-12-01]] }}}
{{rf{9}}} "When an infectious skin disease is on a person and he is brought to the priest, {{rf{10}}} the priest shall examine it, and if a white swelling is on the skin and it turns the hair white and raw flesh is in the swelling, {{rf{11}}} it is a chronic infectious skin disease on his body's skin, and the priest shall declare him unclean; he shall not confine him, because he is unclean. {{rf{12}}} And if the infectious skin disease breaks out all over on the skin and the infectious skin disease covers all of the afflicted person's skin from his head to his feed, so far as the priest can see, {{rf{13}}} then the priest shall examine it, and if the infectious skin disease covers his whole body, then he shall pronounce the afflicted person clean -- all of it has turned white; he is clean. {{rf{14}}} But whenever raw flesh appears on him, he shall become unclean. {{rf{15}}} And the priest shall examine the raw flesh, and he shall pronounce him unclean -- the raw flesh is unclean; it is an infectious skin disease. {{rf{16}}} Or, when the raw flesh returns and it has changed to white, then he shall come to the priest, {{rf{17}}} and the priest shall examine him, and if the infection has changed to white, then the priest shall pronounce the afflicted person clean -- he is clean. {{rf{18}}} "And when someone's body has a skin sore on his skin and it is healed {{rf{19}}} and a white swelling or a pinkish spot appears in the skin sore's place, then he shall show himself to the priest. {{rf{20}}} And the priest shall examine it, and if its appearance is deeper than the skin and its hair has changed to white, then the priest shall declare him unclean -- it is an infectious skin disease; it has broken out in the skin sore. {{rf{21}}} And if the priest examines it and if there is no white hair in it and it is not deeper than the skin and it is faded, then the priest shall confine him for seven days. {{rf{22}}} But if it has spread further on the skin, then the priest shall declare him unclean -- it is an infection. {{rf{23}}} But if the spot has stayed unchanged, it has not spread, it is the skin sore's scar, so the priest shall declare him clean. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Lev-13-09]] }}}
{{rf{24}}} "Or when a body has a burn-spot from fire on its skin and the raw flesh of the burn-spot is pinkish or white, {{rf{25}}} then the priest shall examine it, and if the hair turns white in the spot and its appearance is deeper than the skin, it is an infectious skin disease -- it has broken out in the burn-spot; so the priest shall declare him unclean -- it is an infectious skin disease. {{rf{26}}} But if the priest examines it and if there is not white hair in the spot and it is not deeper than the skin and it is faded, then the priest shall confine him for seven days. {{rf{27}}} And the priest shall examine him on the seventh day; if it has spread further on the skin, then the priest shall declare him unclean -- it is an infectious skin disease. {{rf{28}}} But if it the spot has stayed unchanged in its place, it has not spread on the skin and it is faded, then it is the burn-spot's swelling, so the priest shall declare him clean, because it is the burn-spot's scar. {{rf{29}}} "And when a man or a woman has an infection on the head or in the beard, {{rf{30}}} then the priest shall examine the infection, and if its appearance is deeper than the skin and in it is thin bright red hair, then the priest shall declare it unclean -- it is a diseased area of skin; it is an infectious skin disease of the head or the beard. {{rf{31}}} But if the priest examines the diseased area of the skin's infection and if its appearance is not deeper than the skin and there is no black hair in it, then the priest shall confine the afflicted person with the diseased area of skin for seven days. {{rf{32}}} And the priest shall examine the infection on the seventh day, and if the diseased area of skin has not spread and it does not have bright red hair in it and the diseased area of the skin's appearance is not deeper than the skin, {{rf{33}}} then he shall shave himself, but he shall not shave the diseased area of skin, and the priest shall confine the person with the diseased area of skin a second time for seven days. {{rf{34}}} And the priest shall examine the diseased area of skin on the seventh day, and if the diseased area has not spread on the skin and its appearance is not deeper than the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him clean, and he shall wash his garments, and he shall be clean. {{rf{35}}} But if the diseased area of skin has not spread further on the skin after his cleansing, {{rf{36}}} then the priest shall examine him, and if the diseased area of skin has spread on the skin, the priest shall not inspect for bright red hair -- he is unclean. {{rf{37}}} But if, in his eyes, the diseased area of skin has stayed unchanged and black hair has grown in it, the diseased area of skin is healed -- he is clean, and the priest shall pronounce him clean. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Lev-13-24]] }}}
{{rf{38}}} "And when a man or a woman has spots on their body's skin, white spots, {{rf{39}}} then the priest shall examine them, and if the spots on their body's skin are a faded white, it is a skin rash; it has broken out on the skin -- it is clean. {{rf{40}}} "And if a man becomes bald, his head is bald, he is clean. {{rf{41}}} And if he becomes bald from his forehead, his head is bald, he is clean. {{rf{42}}} But if a pinkish infection occurs on the bald spot or on the bald forehead, it is an infectious skin disease that sprouts on his bald spot or on his bald forehead. {{rf{43}}} So the priest shall examine him, and if the infection's swelling is pinkish on his bald spot or on his bald forehead, like the appearance of an infectious skin disease on the body, {{rf{44}}} he is a man afflicted with a skin disease -- he is unclean; the priest certainly shall declare him unclean -- his infection is on his head. {{rf{45}}} "As for the person who is afflicted with a skin disease, his garments must be torn and his hair must be allowed to hang loosely, and he must cover his upper lip, and he must call out, 'Unclean! Unclean!' {{rf{46}}} For all the days during which the infection is on him, he shall be unclean; he must live alone; his dwelling must be outside the camp." {{rf{47}}} "And when the garment has an infectious skin disease on it, on a wool garment or on a linen garment, {{rf{48}}} or on woven material or on a linen fabric, or on wool or on leather or on any work of leather, {{rf{49}}} and if the infection is yellowish green or reddish on the garment or on the leather or on the woven material or on the fabric or on any leather object, it is an infectious skin disease and it shall be shown to the priest. {{rf{50}}} And the priest shall examine the infection, and he shall confine the infected article for seven days. {{rf{51}}} And he shall examine the infection on the seventh day; if the infection has spread on the garment or on the woven material or on the fabric or on the leather, for any work for which the leather is used, the infection is a destructive skin disease -- it is unclean. {{rf{52}}} And he shall burn the garment or the woven material or the fabric, whether wool or linen, or any leather object that has the infection, because it is an infectious skin disease, which is destructive -- it must be burned in the fire. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Lev-13-38]] }}}
{{rf{53}}} "But if the priest examines it and if the infection has not spread on the garment or on the woven material or on the fabric or on any leather object, {{rf{54}}} then the priest shall command, and someone shall wash that on which the infection is, and he shall confine it a second time for seven days. {{rf{55}}} And the priest shall examine it after the infection has been washed off, and if the infection has not changed its outward appearance and the infection has not spread, it is unclean; he must burn it in the fire; it is a fungus on its back or on its front. {{rf{56}}} But if the priest examines it and if the infection is faded after it has been washed off, then he shall tear it from the garment or from the leather or from the woven material or from the fabric. {{rf{57}}} And if it appears again on the garment or on the woven material or on the fabric or on any leather object, it is spreading; you must burn in the fire that which has the infection in it. {{rf{58}}} And the garment or the woven material or the fabric or any leather object that he might wash and the infection is removed from them then shall be washed a second time, and it shall be clean." {{rf{59}}} This is the regulation of the infectious skin disease in the wool garment or the linen or the woven material or the fabric or any leather object to declare it clean or to declare it unclean. {{rf big{1}}} Then Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, {{rf{2}}} "This is the regulation of the person afflicted with a skin disease at the time of his cleansing. And he shall be brought to the priest, {{rf{3}}} and the priest shall go outside the camp, and the priest shall examine him, and if the skin disease's infection is healed on the afflicted person, {{rf{4}}} then the priest shall command, and he shall take two living, clean birds and cedar wood and a crimson thread and hyssop for the one who presents himself for cleansing. {{rf{5}}} Then the priest shall command someone to slaughter one bird over fresh water in a clay vessel. {{rf{6}}} He must take the living bird and the cedar wood and the crimson thread and the hyssop, and he shall dip them and the living bird in the bird's blood slaughtered over the fresh water. {{rf{7}}} And he shall spatter the blood seven times on the one who presents himself for cleansing from the infectious skin disease, and he shall declare him clean, and he shall send the living bird into the open field. {{rf{8}}} Then the one who presents himself for cleansing shall wash his garments, and he shall shave off all his hair, and he shall wash himself in the water; thus he shall be clean, and afterward he shall enter the camp, but he shall stay outside his tent for seven days. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Lev-13-53]] }}}
{{rf{9}}} And then on the seventh day he must shave off all his hair -- he must shave his head and his beard and his eyebrows and all the rest of his hair -- and he shall wash his garments, and he shall wash his body in the water; thus he shall be clean. {{rf{10}}} "And on the eighth day he must take two male lambs without defect and one ewe-lamb in its first year without defect and three-tenths of an ephah of finely milled flour mixed with oil as a grain offering and one log of oil. {{rf{11}}} And the priest who cleanses him shall present the man who presents himself for cleansing and these things before the tent of assembly's entrance. {{rf{12}}} Then the priest shall take the one male lamb, and he shall present it as a guilt offering, and the log of oil, and he shall wave them as a wave offering before Yahweh. {{rf{13}}} And he shall slaughter the male lamb in the place where he slaughters the sin offering and the burnt offering in the sanctuary's space, because as the sin offering belongs to the priest, so also the guilt offering -- it is a most holy thing. {{rf{14}}} And the priest shall take some of the guilt offering's blood, and the priest shall put it on the right ear's lobe of the one who presents himself for cleansing and on his right hand's thumb and on his right foot's big toe. {{rf{15}}} And the priest shall take some of the log of oil, and he shall pour it on his left palm; {{rf{16}}} and the priest shall dip his right finger in the oil that is on his left palm, and he shall spatter some of the oil with his finger seven times before Yahweh. {{rf{17}}} Then the priest shall put some of the remaining oil, which is on his palm, on the right ear's lobe of the one to be cleansed and on his right hand's thumb and on his right foot's big toe, on top of the guilt offering's blood. {{rf{18}}} And the remaining oil that is on the priest's palm he shall put on the head of the one who presents himself for cleansing, and the priest shall make atonement for him before Yahweh. {{rf{19}}} Thus the priest shall sacrifice the sin offering, and he shall make atonement for the one who presents himself for cleansing from his uncleanness, and afterward he shall slaughter the burnt offering. {{rf{20}}} Then the priest shall offer the burnt offering and the grain offering on the altar, and the priest shall make atonement for him, and so he shall be clean. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Lev-14-09]] }}}
{{rf{21}}} "But if he is poor and he cannot afford it, then he shall take one male lamb for a guilt offering as a wave offering to make atonement for himself and one-tenth of an ephah of finely milled flour mixed with oil for a grain offering, and a log of oil, {{rf{22}}} and two turtledoves or two young doves that he can afford, and one shall be a sin offering and the other a burnt offering. {{rf{23}}} And he shall bring them to the priest at the tent of assembly's entrance before Yahweh on the eighth day for his cleansing. {{rf{24}}} And the priest shall take the male lamb for the guilt offering and the log of oil, and the priest shall wave them as a wave offering before Yahweh; {{rf{25}}} and he shall slaughter the male lamb of the guilt offering, and the priest shall take some of the guilt offering's blood, and he shall put it on the right ear's lobe of the one who presents himself for cleansing and on his right hand's thumb and on his right foot's big toe. {{rf{26}}} Then the priest shall pour out some of the oil on his own left palm, {{rf{27}}} and with his right finger the priest shall spatter some of the oil that is on his left palm seven times before Yahweh. {{rf{28}}} Then the priest shall put some of the oil that is on his palm on the right ear's lobe of the one who presents himself for cleansing and on his right hand's thumb and on his right foot's big toe on the place of the guilt offering's blood. {{rf{29}}} And the remaining oil that is on the priest's palm he shall put on the head of the one who presents himself for cleansing to make atonement for him before Yahweh. {{rf{30}}} And he shall sacrifice one of the turtledoves or the young doves that he can afford, {{rf{31}}} even what he can afford, the one as a sin offering and the other as a burnt offering in addition to the grain offering, and the priest shall make atonement for the one who presents himself for cleansing before Yahweh. {{rf{32}}} This is the regulation of the one on whom is an infectious skin disease who cannot afford the cost for his cleansing." {{rf{33}}} Then Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying, {{rf{34}}} "When you come into the land of Canaan, which I am about to give to you as your possession, and I put mildew in a house in the land of your possession, {{rf{35}}} then the one who owns the house shall come and tell the priest, saying, 'It appears to me that an infection is in the house.' {{rf{36}}} And the priest shall issue a command, and they shall clear out the house before the priest comes to examine the infection, so that all that is in the house might not become unclean; and afterward the priest shall go to examine the house. {{rf{37}}} And he shall examine the infection, and if the infection on the house's wall has yellowish-green or reddish spots and its appearance is deeper than the surface of the wall, {{rf{38}}} then the priest shall go out from the house to the house's entrance, and he shall confine the house for seven days. {{rf{39}}} And the priest shall return on the seventh day, and he shall examine the infection, and if the infection has spread on the house's wall, {{rf{40}}} the priest shall issue a command and they shall remove the stones on which is the infection, and they shall throw them outside the city on an unclean place. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Lev-14-21]] }}}
{{rf{41}}} Then they shall scrape off the plaster from all around the house, and they shall pour out the plaster, which they scraped off, outside the city on an unclean place. {{rf{42}}} And they shall take other stones, and they shall put them in place of those stones, and they shall take other plaster, and they shall replaster the house. {{rf{43}}} "But if the infection should return and it breaks out in the house after they have removed the stones and after scraping off the plaster of the house and after it has been replastered, {{rf{44}}} then the priest shall come, and he shall examine the infection, and if the infection has spread in the house, it is a destructive mildew in the house -- it is unclean. {{rf{45}}} So he shall break down the house, its stones and its wood and all of the house's plaster, and he shall bring it all outside the city to an unclean place. {{rf{46}}} And the person who enters into the house during all the days that he confined it shall become unclean until the evening. {{rf{47}}} And the person who sleeps in the house must wash his garments, and the person who eats in the house shall wash his garments. {{rf{48}}} "And if the priest comes again and examines the house and if the infection has not spread in the house after being replastered, then the priest shall pronounce the house clean, because the infection is healed. {{rf{49}}} And he shall take two birds and cedar wood and a crimson thread and hyssop to cleanse the house; {{rf{50}}} and he shall slaughter the first bird over fresh water on a clay vessel. {{rf{51}}} Then he shall take the cedar wood and the hyssop and the crimson thread and the living bird, and he shall dip them in the slaughtered bird's blood and in the fresh water, and he shall spatter them on the house seven times. {{rf{52}}} Thus he shall purify the house with the bird's blood and with the fresh water and with the living bird and with the cedar wood and with the hyssop and with the crimson thread. {{rf{53}}} And he shall send the living bird outside the city into the open field; and so he shall make atonement for the house, and it shall be clean. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Lev-14-41]] }}}
{{rf{54}}} "This is the instruction for any infectious skin disease and for the diseased area of skin, {{rf{55}}} and for a mildew of the garment and for the house, {{rf{56}}} and for the swelling and for the epidermal eruption and for the spot, {{rf{57}}} to teach when something is unclean and when something is clean. This is the regulation of the infectious skin disease." {{rf big{1}}} Then Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying, {{rf{2}}} "Speak to the Israelites, and you shall say to them, 'Any man when a fluid discharge occurs from his body, his fluid discharge is unclean. {{rf{3}}} And this becomes his uncleanness in his fluid discharge: whether his body secretes his fluid discharge or his body blocks his fluid discharge, it is his uncleanness. {{rf{4}}} Any bed upon which the person who discharges lies down becomes unclean, and any object upon which he sits becomes unclean. {{rf{5}}} And anyone who touches his bed must wash his garments and shall wash himself with water, and he shall be unclean until evening. {{rf{6}}} And the person who sits on the object upon which the person who discharges has sat must wash his garments, and he shall wash himself with water, and he shall be unclean until the evening. {{rf{7}}} And the person who touches the body of the person who discharges must wash his garments, and he shall wash himself with water, and he shall be unclean until the evening. {{rf{8}}} And if the person who discharges spits on one who is clean, then that one shall wash is garments, and he shall wash himself with water, and he shall be unclean until the evening. {{rf{9}}} And any saddle upon which the person who discharges rides becomes unclean. {{rf{10}}} And any person who touches anything that happened to be under him becomes unclean until the evening, and the person who carries them must wash his garments, and he shall wash himself with water, and he shall be unclean until the evening. {{rf{11}}} And anyone whom the person who discharges might touch without rinsing off his hands with water shall wash his garments, and he shall wash himself with water, and he shall be unclean until the evening. {{rf{12}}} But a clay vessel that the person who discharges touches must be broken, and any wood object must be rinsed with water. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Lev-14-54]] }}}
{{rf{13}}} " 'And when the person who discharges becomes clean from his body fluid discharge, he shall count for himself seven days for his cleansing; then he shall wash his garments, and he shall wash his body with fresh water, and he shall be clean. {{rf{14}}} Then on the eighth day he shall take for himself two turtledoves or two young doves, and he shall come before Yahweh at the tent of assembly's entrance, and he shall give them to the priest. {{rf{15}}} And the priest shall sacrifice one as a sin offering and the other as a burnt offering, and so the priest shall make atonement for him before Yahweh from his body fluid discharge. {{rf{16}}} " 'And if an emission of semen goes out from anyone, then he shall wash all of his body with water, and he shall be unclean until the evening. {{rf{17}}} And any garment and anything leather on which is an emission of semen shall be washed with water, and it shall be unclean until the evening. {{rf{18}}} If there is a woman with whom a man lies down and there is an emission of semen, then they shall wash themselves with water, and they shall be unclean until the evening. {{rf{19}}} " 'And when a woman is menstruating, her body fluid discharge occurs in her body; for seven days she shall be in her menstruation, and any person who touches her shall become unclean until the evening. {{rf{20}}} And anything upon which she lies down during her menstruation shall become unclean, and anything upon which she sits shall become unclean. {{rf{21}}} And any person who touches her bed must wash his garments, and he shall wash himself with water, and he shall be unclean until the evening. {{rf{22}}} And any person who touches any object on which she sat must wash his garments, and he shall wash himself with water, and he shall be unclean until the evening. {{rf{23}}} And if it is on the bed or on the object on which she sits, at his touching it he becomes unclean until the evening. {{rf{24}}} And if a man indeed lies with her and her menstruation occurs on him, then he shall be unclean for seven days, and any bed on which he lies down becomes unclean. {{rf{25}}} " 'And when a woman discharges a body fluid consisting of her blood for many days, but not at the time of her menstruation, or when she discharges in addition to her menstruation, all the days of her unclean body fluid discharge she shall become unclean as in the days of her menstruation. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Lev-15-13]] }}}
{{rf{26}}} Any bed on which she lies during all the days of her body fluid discharge shall become for her as her bed of menstruation, and any object on which she sits becomes unclean as her menstruation's uncleanness. {{rf{27}}} And any person who touches them becomes unclean, and he shall wash his garments, and he shall wash himself with water, and he shall be unclean until the evening. {{rf{28}}} " 'And if she is clean from her body fluid discharge, then she shall count for herself seven days, and afterward she becomes clean. {{rf{29}}} And on the eighth day she shall take for herself two turtledoves or two young doves, and she shall bring them to the priest at the tent of assembly's entrance. {{rf{30}}} And the priest shall sacrifice the one as a sin offering and the other as a burnt offering, and so the priest shall make atonement for her before Yahweh from her unclean body fluid discharge.' {{rf{31}}} "And you shall keep the Israelites separate from their uncleanness so that they might not die because of their uncleanness by their making my tabernacle, which is in their midst, unclean. {{rf{32}}} "This is the regulation of the one with the body fluid discharge and the one from whom an emission of semen goes out so that he becomes unclean by it {{rf{33}}} and concerning the menstruating woman in her bleeding and the person who discharges his body fluid, for the male and for the female and for a man who lies with an unclean woman." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Lev-15-26]] }}}
Then Yahweh spoke to Moses after the death of Aaron's two sons, when they had come near before Yahweh and they died. {{rf{2}}} And Yahweh said to Moses, "Tell your brother Aaron that he should not enter at any time into the sanctuary behind the curtain in front of the atonement cover that is on the ark, so that he might not die, because I appear in the cloud over the atonement cover. {{rf{3}}} "Aaron must enter the sanctuary with this: a young bull as a sin offering and a ram as a burnt offering. {{rf{4}}} He must put on a holy linen tunic, and linen undergarments must be on his body, and he must fasten himself with a linen sash, and he must wrap a linen turban around his head -- they are holy garments, and he shall wash his body with water, then he shall put them on. {{rf{5}}} And he must take from the Israelites' community two he-goats as a sin offering and one ram as a burnt offering. {{rf{6}}} "And Aaron shall present the sin offering's bull, which is for himself, and so he shall make atonement for himself and for his family. {{rf{7}}} And he shall take the two goats, and he shall present them before Yahweh at the tent of assembly's entrance. {{rf{8}}} Then Aaron shall cast lots for the two goats: one lot for Yahweh and one for Azazel. {{rf{9}}} And Aaron shall present the goat on which the lot for Yahweh fell, and he shall sacrifice it as a sin offering. {{rf{10}}} But he must present alive before Yahweh the goat on which the lot for Azazel fell to make atonement for himself, to send it away into the desert to Azazel. {{rf{11}}} "And Aaron shall present the sin offering's bull, which is for himself, and so he shall make atonement for himself and for his family; then he shall slaughter the sin offering's bull, which is for himself. {{rf{12}}} And he shall take a censer full of burning charcoal from upon the altar from before Yahweh and two handfuls of incense of powdered fragrant perfumes, and he shall bring it from behind the curtain, {{rf{13}}} and he shall put the incense on the fire before Yahweh so that the cloud of incense might cover the atonement cover, which is on the covenant text, so that he might not die. {{rf{14}}} And he shall take some of the bull's blood, and he shall spatter it with his finger on the atonement cover's surface on the eastern side, and before the atonement cover he shall spatter some of the blood with his finger seven times. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Lev-16-01]] }}}
{{rf{15}}} "And he shall slaughter the sin offering's goat, which is for the people, and he shall bring its blood from behind the curtain, and he shall do with its blood as that which he did with the bull's blood, and he shall spatter it on the atonement cover and before the atonement cover. {{rf{16}}} Thus he shall make atonement for the sanctuary from the Israelites' impurities and from their transgressions for all their sins; and so he must do for the tent of assembly, which dwells with them in the midst of their impurities. {{rf{17}}} And no person shall be in the tent of assembly when he enters to make atonement in the sanctuary until he comes out, and so he shall make atonement for himself and for his family and for all of Israel's assembly. {{rf{18}}} "Then he shall go out to the altar that is before Yahweh, and he shall make atonement for it; and he shall take some of the bull's blood and some of the goat's blood, and he shall put it all around on the altar's horns. {{rf{19}}} And he shall spatter some of the blood on it seven times with his finger, and he shall cleanse it and consecrate it from the Israelites' impurities. {{rf{20}}} "And he shall finish making atonement for the sanctuary and the tent of assembly and the altar; then he shall present the living goat. {{rf{21}}} And Aaron shall place his two hands on the living goat's head, and he shall confess over it all the Israelites' iniquities and all their transgressions for all their sins, and he shall put them on the goat's head, and he shall send it away into the desert with a man standing ready. {{rf{22}}} Thus the goat shall bear on it to a barren region all their guilt, and he shall send the goat away into the desert. {{rf{23}}} "And Aaron shall enter the tent of assembly, and he shall take off the linen garments that he put on at his coming to the sanctuary, and he shall leave them there. {{rf{24}}} And he shall wash his body with water in a holy place, and he shall put on his garments and go out and sacrifice his burnt offering and the people's burnt offering, and so he shall make atonement for himself and for people. {{rf{25}}} And he must turn into smoke the sin offering's fat on the altar. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Lev-16-15]] }}}
{{rf{26}}} "And the person who sends out the goat for Azazel shall wash his garments, and he shall wash his body with water, and afterward he shall come to the camp. {{rf{27}}} And the sin offering's bull and the sin offering's goat, whose blood was brought to make atonement in the sanctuary, shall be brought outside the camp, and they shall burn their hide and their flesh and their offal in the fire. {{rf{28}}} And the person who burns them shall wash his garments, and he shall wash his body with water, and afterward he must come to the camp. {{rf{29}}} "And this shall be a lasting statute for you: in the seventh month, on the tenth of the month, you must deny yourselves and you must not do any work, whether the native or the alien who is dwelling in your midst, {{rf{30}}} because on this day he shall make atonement for you to cleanse you; you must be clean from all your sins before Yahweh. {{rf{31}}} It is a Sabbath of complete rest for you, and you shall deny yourselves -- it is a lasting statute. {{rf{32}}} And the priest who is anointed and who is ordained to serve as a priest in place of his father shall make atonement; thus he shall put on the linen garments, the holy garments, {{rf{33}}} and he shall make atonement for the sanctuary's holy place, and he shall make atonement for the tent of assembly and the altar, and he shall make atonement for the priests and for all of the assembly's people. {{rf{34}}} And this shall be a lasting statute for you to make atonement for the Israelites one time in a year from all their sins." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Lev-16-26]] }}}
Then Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, {{rf{2}}} "Speak to Aaron and to his sons and to all the Israelites, and you shall say to them, 'This is the word that Yahweh has commanded, saying, {{rf{3}}} "Any man from the house of Israel who slaughters an ox or a sheep or a goat in the camp or who slaughters it outside the camp {{rf{4}}} and he does not bring it to the tent of assembly's entrance to present an offering to Yahweh before Yahweh's tabernacle, then that man shall be accounted bloodguilty -- he has poured out blood, and that man shall be cut off from the midst of his people. {{rf{5}}} This is so that the Israelites may bring their sacrifices that they are sacrificing in the open field and bring them for Yahweh to the tent of assembly's entrance to the priest, and they shall sacrifice fellowship offerings for Yahweh with them. {{rf{6}}} And the priest shall sprinkle the blood on Yahweh's altar at the tent of assembly's entrance, and he shall burn the fat as an appeasing fragrance for Yahweh. {{rf{7}}} And they may no longer sacrifice their sacrifices to the goat-idols after which they were prostituting. This is a lasting statute for them throughout their generations." ' {{rf{8}}} "And you shall say to them, 'if there is anyone from the house of Israel or from the alien who dwells in their midst who offers a burnt offering or a sacrifice {{rf{9}}} and he does not bring it to the tent of assembly's entrance to sacrifice it for Yahweh, then that man shall be cut off from his people. {{rf{10}}} And if there is anyone from the house of Israel or from the alien who is dwelling in their midst who eats any blood, then I will set my face against the person who eats the blood, and I will cut him off from among his people. {{rf{11}}} Indeed the flesh's life is in the blood, and I have given it to you on the altar to make atonement for your lives, because it is the blood with the life that makes atonement. {{rf{12}}} Therefore I said to the Israelites, 'None of you may eat blood, nor may the alien who is dwelling in your midst eat blood.' {{rf{13}}} "And if there is anyone from the Israelites or from the alien who is dwelling in their midst who hunts a wild game animal or a bird that may be eaten, then he shall pour out its blood, and he shall cover it with the soil. {{rf{14}}} Indeed, the life of all flesh, its blood, is in its life, so I said to the Israelites, 'You may not eat the blood of any flesh, because the life of all flesh is its blood; anyone who eats it must be cut off.' {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Lev-17-01]] }}}
{{rf{15}}} "And if there is any person who eats a dead body or a mangled carcass, whether among the native or among the alien, then he shall wash his garments, and he shall wash himself with water, and he shall be unclean until the evening, and he shall be clean. {{rf{16}}} But if he does not wash his garments and he does not wash his body, then he shall bear his guilt." {{rf big{1}}} Then Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, {{rf{2}}} "Speak to the Israelites, and say to them, 'I am Yahweh your God. {{rf{3}}} You must not carry out the practices of the land of Egypt, in which you lived, and you must not carry out the practices of the land of Canaan, to which I am bringing you; and you must not follow their statutes. {{rf{4}}} You must carry out my regulations, and you must observe my statutes by following them; I am Yahweh your God. {{rf{5}}} And you shall observe my statutes and my regulations by which the person doing them shall live; I am Yahweh. {{rf{6}}} " 'None of you shall approach anyone who is his close relative to expose nakedness; I am Yahweh. {{rf{7}}} You must not expose your father's nakedness or your mother's nakedness -- she is your mother; you must not expose her nakedness. {{rf{8}}} You must not expose the nakedness of your father's wife -- it is your father's nakedness. {{rf{9}}} As for your sister's nakedness, whether your father's daughter or your mother's daughter, whether born at home or born abroad, you must not expose their nakedness. {{rf{10}}} As for the nakedness of your son's daughter or your daughter's daughter, you must not expose their nakedness, because they are your nakedness. {{rf{11}}} As for the nakedness of the daughter of your father's wife, she is your sister, a relative of your father; you must not expose her nakedness. {{rf{12}}} You must not expose the nakedness of your father's sister; she is your father's close relative. {{rf{13}}} You must not expose the nakedness of your mother's sister, because she is your mother's close relative. {{rf{14}}} You must not expose the nakedness of your father's brother; you must not have sex with his wife -- she is your aunt. {{rf{15}}} You must not expose your daughter-in-law's nakedness; she is your son's wife; you must not expose her nakedness. {{rf{16}}} You must not expose the nakedness of your brother's wife; she is your brother's nakedness. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Lev-17-15]] }}}
{{rf{17}}} You must not expose the nakedness of a woman and her daughter, or her son's daughter, or her daughter's daughter; you must not take her as wife to expose her nakedness; they are close relatives -- that is wickedness. {{rf{18}}} And you must not take as wife a woman with her sister, to be a rival-wife, to expose her nakedness before her during her life. {{rf{19}}} " 'And you must not have sex with a woman to expose her nakedness during her menstrual uncleanness. {{rf{20}}} And you must not have sex with your fellow citizen's wife, becoming unclean with her. {{rf{21}}} " 'And you shall not give any of your offspring in order to sacrifice them to Molech, nor shall you profane the name of your God; I am Yahweh. {{rf{22}}} And you shall not lie with a male as lying with a woman; that is a detestable thing. {{rf{23}}} And you shall not have sexual relations with any animal, becoming unclean with it; and a woman shall not stand before an animal to copulate with it -- that is a perversion. {{rf{24}}} " 'You must not make yourself unclean in any of these things, because the nations whom I am driving out from your presence were made unclean by all of these. {{rf{25}}} So the land became unclean, and I have brought the punishment of its guilt upon it, and the land has vomited out its inhabitants. {{rf{26}}} But you (neither the native nor the alien who is dwelling in your midst) shall keep my statutes and my regulations, and you shall not practice any of these detestable things {{rf{27}}} (because the people of the land, who were before you, did all these detestable things, so the land became unclean), {{rf{28}}} so that the land will not vomit you out when you make it unclean just as it vomited out the nation that was before you. {{rf{29}}} Indeed, anyone who does any of these detestable things, even those persons who do so shall be cut off from the midst of their people. {{rf{30}}} Thus you shall keep my obligation to not do any of the statutes regarding the detestable things that they did before you, so that you will not make yourselves unclean by them; I am Yahweh your God.'" {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Lev-18-17]] }}}
Then Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, {{rf{2}}} "Speak to all the community of the Israelites, and say to them, 'You must be holy, because I, Yahweh your God, am holy. {{rf{3}}} Each of you must revere your mother and your father, and you must keep my Sabbaths; I am Yahweh your God. {{rf{4}}} You must not turn to idols, and you must not make for yourselves gods of cast metal; I am Yahweh your God. {{rf{5}}} " 'And when you sacrifice a sacrifice of fellowship offerings to Yahweh, you must sacrifice it for your acceptance. {{rf{6}}} It must be eaten on the day of your sacrifice and the next day; but the remainder must be burned up in the fire by the third day. {{rf{7}}} And if it is indeed eaten on the third day, it is unclean meat; it shall not be regarded as accepted. {{rf{8}}} And the one who eats it shall bear his guilt, because he has profaned Yahweh's holiness, and that person shall be cut off from his people. {{rf{9}}} " 'And at your reaping the harvest of your land you must not finish reaping the edge of your field, and you must not glean the remnants of your harvest. {{rf{10}}} And you must not glean your vineyard, and you must not gather your vineyard's fallen grapes; you must leave them behind for the needy and for the alien; I am Yahweh your God. {{rf{11}}} " 'You shall not steal, and you shall not deceive, and you shall not lie to one another; {{rf{12}}} and you shall not swear falsely in my name, and so one of you profane the name of your God; I am Yahweh. {{rf{13}}} " 'You shall not exploit your neighbor, and you shall not rob him; a hired worker's wage you shall not withhold overnight until morning. ''{{rf{14}}} You shall not curse the deaf, and you shall not put a stumbling block before a blind person, but you shall revere your God; I am Yahweh.'' {{rf{15}}} " 'You shall not do injustice in judgment; you shall not show partiality to the powerless; you shall not give preference to the powerful; you shall judge your fellow citizen with justice. {{rf{16}}} You shall not go about with slander among your people; you shall not endanger your neighbor's life; I am Yahweh. ''{{rf{17}}} " 'You shall not hate your brother in your heart; you shall surely rebuke your fellow citizen, so that you do not incur sin along with him. {{rf{18}}} You shall not seek vengeance, and you shall not harbor a grudge against your fellow citizens; and you shall love your neighbor like yourself; I am Yahweh.'' {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Lev-19-01]] }}}
19:14 curse i.e., verbally, a man who cannot hear.
{{holyquote{
Do not go about spreading slander among your people ... Do not hate your brother in your heart. Rebuke your neighbor frankly so you will not share in his guilt. Do not seek revenge or bear a grudge against one of your people, but love your neighbor as yourself. I am the Lord. 19:16-18}}}
<<Bbl Lv 19:17 abbr >>,18 Here is a glorious proof that the Mosaic law addressed the heart.
19:17 God commands open rebuke instead of silent censure, which delivers me from (1) a spirit of hatred, (2) passivity which makes me complicit to the other's sin, and (3) slander (v 16). The implication is that withholding reproof is itself a form of hatred.
20:11 This was the sin reported in <<Bbl 1C 5:1 >>
<<Bbl Lv 21:4 abbr >> This is difficult. Maybe it means not to show mourning for in-laws.
21:11 Compare <<Bbl 1The 4:13 >>.
<<Bbl Lv 22:1 abbr >>-7 This could perhaps be applied to the sort of starvation that sin produces in the soul.
25:9 I have noted Rushdoony, Institutes, pg. 141.
25:21-22 The precedent is in the provision of manna, <<Bbl Ex 16:22 >>-30 , where rest likewise required faith.
25:42 This seems to allude directly to (data lost).
{{holyquote{
{{rf{26.13}}} I am Yahweh your God, who brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, that you should not be their slaves; and I have broken the bars of your yoke, and made you go upright.
}}}
<<Bbl Lv 26:13 >> uprightness, right-standing, rectitude -- the true //homo erectus//
26:29 The fulfillment is declared in <<Bbl Jer 19:9 >>.
{{rf{19}}} " 'You must keep my statutes: as for your domestic animals, you shall not cause two differing kinds to breed; as for your field, you shall not sow two differing kinds of seed; and, a garment of two differing kinds of woven material should not be worn on you. {{rf{20}}} " 'And when a man lies with a woman and there is an emission of semen and she is a female slave promised to a man, but she indeed has not been ransomed or freedom has not be given to her, there shall be an obligation to compensate; they shall not be put to death, because she has not been freed. {{rf{21}}} And he shall bring his guilt offering to Yahweh at the tent of assembly's entrance: a ram for a guilt offering. {{rf{22}}} And the priest shall make atonement for him before Yahweh with the ram of the guilt offering for his sin that he committed, and so his sin that he committed shall be forgiven him. {{rf{23}}} " 'And when you have come into the land and you plant any tree for food, you shall regard its fruit as unharvestable; for three years it shall be forbidden for you; it shall not be eaten. {{rf{24}}} But in the fourth year all its fruit shall be holy, offerings of praise for Yahweh. {{rf{25}}} And in the fifth year you shall eat its fruit to increase its yield for you; I am Yahweh your God. {{rf{26}}} " 'You must not eat anything with the blood; you shall not practice divination, nor shall you interpret signs. {{rf{27}}} You shall not round off the corner hair of your head, and you shall not trim the corner of your beard. {{rf{28}}} And you shall not make a slash in your body for a dead person, nor shall you make on yourselves a tattoo's mark; I am Yahweh. {{rf{29}}} " 'You shall not profane your daughter by making her a prostitute, lest the land be prostituted and the land fill up with depravity. {{rf{30}}} You shall keep my Sabbaths, and you shall revere my sanctuary; I am Yahweh. {{rf{31}}} " 'You shall not turn to the mediums and to the soothsayers; you shall not seek them to become unclean with them; I am Yahweh your God. {{rf{32}}} " 'Before old age you shall get up, and you shall show respect for an old person; and you shall revere your God; I am Yahweh. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Lev-19-19]] }}}
{{rf{33}}} " 'And when an alien dwells with you in your land, you shall not oppress him. {{rf{34}}} The alien who is dwelling with you shall be like a native among you, and you shall love him like yourself, because you were aliens in the land of Egypt; I am Yahweh your God. {{rf{35}}} " 'You shall not commit injustice in regulation, in measurement, in weight, or volume. {{rf{36}}} You must have honest balances, honest weights, an honest ephah, and an honest hin; I am Yahweh your God who brought you out from the land of Egypt. {{rf{37}}} " 'Thus you shall keep all my statutes and all my regulations, and you shall do them; I am Yahweh.'" {{rf big{1}}} Then Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, {{rf{2}}} "And to the Israelites you shall say, 'If there is anyone from the Israelites or from the alien who is dwelling in Israel, who gives any of his offspring to Molech, he must surely be put to death; the people of the land must stone him with stones. {{rf{3}}} And I myself will set my face against that man, and I will cut him off from the midst of his people, because he has given some of his offspring to Molech, so that he makes my sanctuary unclean and profanes my holy name. {{rf{4}}} And if the people of the land ever shut their eyes from that man at his giving some of his offspring to Molech, not putting him to death, {{rf{5}}} then I myself will set my face against that man and against his clan, and I will cut him off and all those from the midst of their people who prostitute after Molech. {{rf{6}}} As for the person who turns to the mediums and the soothsayers to prostitute after them, I will set my face against that person, and I will cut him off from the midst of his people. {{rf{7}}} " 'And you shall consecrate yourselves, and you shall be holy, because I am Yahweh your God. {{rf{8}}} And you shall keep my statutes, and you shall do them; I am Yahweh who consecrates you. {{rf{9}}} " 'If there is anyone who curses his father or his mother, he shall surely be put to death; he has cursed his father and his mother -- his blood is upon him. {{rf{10}}} " 'As for a man who commits adultery with a man's wife, who commits adultery with his neighbor's wife, both the man who commits adultery and the woman who commits adultery shall surely be put to death. {{rf{11}}} As for a man who lies with his father's wife, he has exposed his father's nakedness; both of them shall be put to death -- their blood is on them. {{rf{12}}} As for a man who lies with his daughter-in-law, both of them shall be put to death; they have committed a perversion -- their blood is on them. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Lev-19-33]] }}}
{{rf{13}}} " 'As for the man who lies with a male as lying with a woman, they have committed a detestable thing; they shall surely be put to death -- their blood is on them. {{rf{14}}} " 'As for a man who marries a woman and her mother, that is depravity; they shall burn him and them, so that it shall not become depravity in the midst of you all. {{rf{15}}} " 'As for a man who has sexual relations with an animal, he shall surely be put to death, and you must kill the animal. {{rf{16}}} As for a woman who approaches any animal to copulate with it, you shall kill the woman and the animal; they shall surely be put to death -- their blood is on them. {{rf{17}}} " 'As for a man who takes his sister, his father's daughter or his mother's daughter, and he sees her nakedness and she herself sees his nakedness, it is a disgrace, and they shall be cut off before the eyes of their people; he has exposed his sister's nakedness -- he must bear his guilt. {{rf{18}}} As for a man who lies with a menstruating woman, he exposes her nakedness -- her source he exposes and she herself reveals her blood's source -- both of them shall be cut off from the midst of their people. {{rf{19}}} And you shall not expose the nakedness of your mother's sister, and you shall not expose your father's sister, because such a person has dishonored his close relative -- they must bear their guilt. {{rf{20}}} As for a man who lies with his aunt, he has exposed his uncle's nakedness -- they shall bear their sin; they shall die childless. {{rf{21}}} As for a man who marries his brother's wife, it is an abomination; he has exposed his brother's nakedness -- they shall be childless. {{rf{22}}} " 'And you shall keep all my statutes and all my regulations, and you shall do them, so that the land, to which I am bringing you to inhabit it, shall not vomit you out. {{rf{23}}} And you shall not follow the statutes of the nation that I am driving out from before you, because they did all these things, and I detested them. {{rf{24}}} So I said to you, "You yourselves shall take possession of their land, and I myself shall give it to you to possess it -- a land flowing with milk and honey"; I am Yahweh your God, who has set you apart from the nations. {{rf{25}}} And you shall distinguish between the clean and the unclean animal and between the unclean and the clean bird; and you shall not defile yourselves with the animal or with the bird or with anything that moves along the ground that I have set apart for you as unclean. {{rf{26}}} And you shall be holy for me, because I, Yahweh, am holy, and I have singled you out from the nations to be mine. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Lev-20-13]] }}}
{{rf{27}}} " 'And a man or a woman, if a spirit of the dead or a spirit of divination is in them, they shall surely be put to death; they shall stone them with stones -- their blood is on them.'" {{rf big{1}}} Then Yahweh said to Moses, "Speak to the priests, Aaron's sons, and say to them, 'One must not make himself unclean for a dead person among his own people, {{rf{2}}} except for his direct relative closest to him: his mother and his father, and his son and his daughter, and his brother, {{rf{3}}} and for his sister, a virgin, who is closest to him, who has not had a husband -- for her he may defile himself. {{rf{4}}} He must not make himself unclean as a kinsman by marriage, defiling himself. {{rf{5}}} " 'And they shall not shave bald patches on their head, and they shall not shave off the corner of their beard, and they shall not make a cut in their body. {{rf{6}}} They shall be holy to their God, and they shall not profane the name of their God, because they are bringing near the offerings made by fire to Yahweh -- their God's food -- and they shall be holy. {{rf{7}}} " 'They shall not marry a woman who is a prostitute and defiled, nor shall they marry a woman divorced from her husband, because each priest is holy for his God. {{rf{8}}} And you shall consecrate him, because he is bringing near your God's food; he shall be holy to you, since I, Yahweh, who consecrates you, am holy. {{rf{9}}} " 'As for the daughter of any priest, if she is defiled by prostituting, she is disgracing her father -- she shall be burned in the fire. {{rf{10}}} " 'As for the priest who is higher than his brothers, on whose head the oil of anointment is poured and he was ordained to wear the garments, he shall not dishevel his head, and he shall not tear his garments. {{rf{11}}} And he shall not go near any dead person, nor shall he make himself unclean for his father or for his mother. {{rf{12}}} And he shall not go out from the sanctuary, and he shall not profane his God's sanctuary, because the dedication of his God's oil of anointment is on him; I am Yahweh. {{rf{13}}} " 'And he himself must take a wife in her virginity. {{rf{14}}} A widow or a divorced woman or a defiled woman, a prostitute -- these he must not take; he shall take only a virgin from his people as wife. {{rf{15}}} And he shall not profane his offspring among his people, because I am Yahweh, who consecrates him.'" {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Lev-20-27]] }}}
{{rf{16}}} Then Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, {{rf{17}}} "Speak to Aaron, saying, 'A man from your offspring throughout their generations, in whom is a physical defect, shall not come near to present your God's food. {{rf{18}}} Indeed, any man in whom is a physical defect shall not come near: a blind man or lame or disfigured or deformed, {{rf{19}}} or a man in whom is a broken foot or a broken hand, {{rf{20}}} or a hunchback or a dwarf, or a spot in his eye or a skin disorder or a skin eruption or a crushed testicle. {{rf{21}}} Any man from Aaron the priest's offspring in whom is a physical defect shall not come near to present offerings made by fire to Yahweh; a physical defect is in him; he shall not come near to present his God's food. {{rf{22}}} He may eat his God's food, from the most holy things and from the holy things. {{rf{23}}} But he must not enter the curtain, and he must not come near to the altar, because a physical defect is in him, and he must not profane my sanctuary, because I am Yahweh, who consecrates them.'" {{rf{24}}} Thus Moses spoke to Aaron and to his sons and to all the Israelites. {{rf big{1}}} Then Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, {{rf{2}}} "Tell Aaron and his sons that they must deal respectfully with the Israelites' votive offerings, and they must not profane my holy name, which they are consecrating to me; I am Yahweh. {{rf{3}}} "Say to them, 'Throughout your generations, any man from any of your offspring who comes near the votive offerings that the Israelites consecrate to Yahweh with his uncleanness on him, that person shall be cut off from before me; I am Yahweh. {{rf{4}}} " 'Anyone from Aaron's offspring, if he is afflicted with a skin disease or a fluid discharge, shall not eat in the sanctuary until he is clean; and the one who touches any unclean person or a man from whom an emission of semen goes out, {{rf{5}}} or a man who touches any swarmer that is unclean for him or who touches a person who is unclean for him due to whatever his uncleanness, {{rf{6}}} a person who touches such a thing shall be unclean until the evening, and he shall not eat from the votive offerings, except when he washes his body with wate {{rf{7}}} and the sun sets, and he shall be clean; then afterward he may eat from the votive offerings, because it is his food. {{rf{8}}} He shall not eat a naturally dead body or a mangled carcass, so that he becomes unclean by it; I am Yahweh. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Lev-21-16]] }}}
{{rf{9}}} " 'And they shall keep my obligation, and they shall not incur guilt because of it, so that they die through it, because they have profaned it; I am Yahweh who consecrates them. {{rf{10}}} " 'No stranger shall eat the votive offering; nor shall a temporary resident with a priest or a hired worker eat the votive offering. {{rf{11}}} But a priest, if with his money he buys a person as his possession, that one may eat it, and the descendants of his house themselves may eat his food. {{rf{12}}} And a priest's daughter, when she marries a layman, she herself may not eat the votive offering. {{rf{13}}} But a priest's daughter, when she becomes a widow or divorced or there is no offspring for her, and she returns to her father's house as in her childhood, she may eat from her father's food, but no layman may eat it. {{rf{14}}} And if a man eats the votive offering unintentionally, then he shall add to it a fifth of it, and he shall give the votive offering to the priest. {{rf{15}}} And they shall not profane the Israelites' votive offerings that they present to Yahweh, {{rf{16}}} and so cause them, by their eating their votive offerings, to bear guilt requiring a guilt offering, because I am Yahweh, who consecrates them.'" {{rf{17}}} Then Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, {{rf{18}}} "Speak to Aaron and to his sons and to all the Israelites, and say to them, 'Anyone from the house of Israel or from the alien in Israel who presents his offering for any of their vows or for any of their freewill offerings that they present to Yahweh as a burnt offering, {{rf{19}}} it must be without defect to be acceptable for you: a male among the cattle, among the sheep, or among the goats. {{rf{20}}} You shall not present any animal in which is a physical defect, because it shall not be acceptable for you. {{rf{21}}} And if anyone brings a sacrifice of fellowship offerings for Yahweh to fulfill a vow or as a freewill offering from the cattle or from the flock, it must be without defect to be acceptable; there must not be any physical defect in it. {{rf{22}}} The blind or the injured or the maimed or the seeping or one with a skin disorder or one with a skin eruption -- these you shall not present to Yahweh, nor shall you give from them an offering made by fire on the altar for Yahweh. {{rf{23}}} As for an ox or sheep that is deformed or that is stunted, you may present it as a freewill offering, but for a vow it will not be accepted. {{rf{24}}} And you shall not present anything for Yahweh with bruised or shattered or torn or cut-off testicles, and you shall not sacrifice such in your land. {{rf{25}}} And you shall not present your God's food from any of these by the hand of a foreigner, because their deformity is in them; a physical defect is in them; they shall not be accepted for you.'" {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Lev-22-09]] }}}
{{rf{26}}} Then Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, {{rf{27}}} "When an ox or a sheep or a goat is born, then it shall be under its mother for seven days, and from the eighth day and beyond it is acceptable as an offering made by fire for Yahweh. {{rf{28}}} And you shall not slaughter an ox or a sheep and its young on the same day. {{rf{29}}} And when you sacrifice a sacrifice of thanksgiving to Yahweh, you must sacrifice it to be acceptable for you. {{rf{30}}} It must be eaten on that day; you must not leave over anything from it until morning; I am Yahweh. {{rf{31}}} "Thus you shall keep my commands, and you shall do them; I am Yahweh. {{rf{32}}} "And you shall not profane my holy name, so that I may be consecrated in the midst of the Israelites; I am Yahweh, who consecrates you, {{rf{33}}} the one who brought you out from the land of Egypt to be as God for you; I am Yahweh." {{rf big{1}}} Then Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, {{rf{2}}} "Speak to the Israelites, and say to them, 'The festivals of Yahweh that you shall proclaim are holy assemblies; these are my appointed times. {{rf{3}}} " 'For six days work is to be done, and on the seventh day shall be a Sabbath of complete rest, a holy assembly; you shall not do any work; it shall be a Sabbath for Yahweh in all your dwellings. {{rf{4}}} " 'These are Yahweh's appointed times, holy assemblies, which you shall proclaim at their appointed time. {{rf{5}}} In the first month, on the fourteenth of the month at the evening is Yahweh's Passover. {{rf{6}}} And on the fifteenth day of this month is Yahweh's Feast of Unleavened Bread; for seven days you shall eat unleavened bread. {{rf{7}}} On the first day there shall be a holy assembly for you; you shall not do any regular work. {{rf{8}}} And you shall present an offering for Yahweh made by fire for seven days; on the seventh day there shall be a holy assembly; you shall not do any regular work.'" {{rf{9}}} Then Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, {{rf{10}}} "Speak to the Israelites, and say to them, 'When you come to the land that I am about to give to you and you reap its harvest, then you shall bring a sheaf of the firstfruit of your harvest to the priest. {{rf{11}}} And he shall wave the sheaf before Yahweh for your acceptance; the priest shall wave it on the day after the Sabbath. {{rf{12}}} And on the day of your waving the sheaf you shall offer a yearling male lamb without defect as a burnt offering to Yahweh. {{rf{13}}} And its grain offering shall be two-tenths of an ephah of finely milled flour mixed with oil, an offering made by fire for Yahweh, an appeasing fragrance; and its libation shall be a fourth of a hin of wine. {{rf{14}}} And you shall not eat bread or roasted grain or ripe grain until this very same day, until you present your God's offering. This must be a lasting statute for your generations in all your dwellings. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Lev-22-26]] }}}
{{rf{15}}} " 'And you shall count for yourselves from the day after the Sabbath, from the day of your bringing the wave offering's sheaf -- there shall be seven full weeks. {{rf{16}}} Until the day after the seventh Sabbath you shall count fifty days; then you shall present a new grain offering for Yahweh. {{rf{17}}} You shall bring from your dwellings for a wave offering two loaves of bread made with two-tenths of an ephah of finely milled flour; they must be baked with leaven -- the firstfruits belonging to Yahweh. {{rf{18}}} And, in addition to the bread, you shall present seven yearling male lambs without defects and one young bull and two rams -- they shall be a burnt offering for Yahweh with their grain offering and their libations, an offering made by fire, an appeasing fragrance for Yahweh. {{rf{19}}} And you shall offer one he-goat as a sin offering and two yearling male lambs as a sacrifice of fellowship offerings. {{rf{20}}} And the priest shall wave them with the bread of the firstfruits as a wave offering before Yahweh; in addition to the two male lambs, they shall be holy for Yahweh for the priest. {{rf{21}}} And you shall make a proclamation on this very same day; it shall be a holy assembly for you; you shall not do any regular work; this is a lasting statute in all your dwellings throughout your generations. {{rf{22}}} And when you reap the harvest of your land, you must not finish the edge of your field at your reaping, and you must not glean the remnants of your harvest -- you shall leave them behind for the needy and for the alien; I am Yahweh your God.'" {{rf{23}}} Then Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, {{rf{24}}} "Speak to the Israelites, saying, 'In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, you must have a rest period, a remembrance of the trumpet blast, a holy assembly. {{rf{25}}} You must not do any regular work, and you shall present an offering made by fire to Yahweh.'" {{rf{26}}} Then Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, {{rf{27}}} "Surely the Day of Atonement is on the tenth day of the seventh month; it shall be a holy assembly for you, and you shall deny yourselves, and you shall present an offering made by fire to Yahweh. {{rf{28}}} And you must not do any regular work on this very same day, because it is the Day of Atonement to make atonement for you before Yahweh your God. {{rf{29}}} If there is any person who does not deny himself on this very same day, then he shall be cut off from his people. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Lev-23-15]] }}}
{{rf{30}}} As for any person who does any work on this very same day, I will exterminate that person from the midst of his people. {{rf{31}}} You must not do any work; it is a lasting statute throughout your generations in all your dwellings. {{rf{32}}} It is a Sabbath of complete rest for you, and you shall deny yourselves on the ninth day of the month in the evening -- from evening to evening you must observe your extraordinary Sabbath." {{rf{33}}} Then Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, {{rf{34}}} "Speak to the Israelites, saying, 'On the fifteenth day of the seventh month, this shall be the Feast of Booths for seven days for Yahweh. {{rf{35}}} On the first day there shall be a holy assembly; you must not do any regular work. {{rf{36}}} For seven days you must present an offering made by fire to Yahweh. On the eighth day it shall be a holy assembly for you, and you shall present an offering made by fire to Yahweh; it is a celebration; you must not do any regular work. {{rf{37}}} " 'These are Yahweh's festivals, which you must proclaim, holy assemblies to present an offering made by fire to Yahweh -- burnt offering and grain offering, sacrifice and libations, each on its proper day -- {{rf{38}}} besides Yahweh's Sabbaths and besides your gifts and besides your vows and besides all your freewill offerings that you give to Yahweh. {{rf{39}}} " 'Surely on the fifteenth day of the seventh month, at your gathering the land's produce, you shall hold Yahweh's festival for seven days; on the first day there shall be a rest period and on the eighth day a rest period. {{rf{40}}} And on the first day you shall take for yourselves the first fruit of majestic trees, branches of palm trees and branches of a leafy tree and of a brook's poplar trees, and you shall rejoice before Yahweh your God for seven days. {{rf{41}}} And you must hold it as a festival for Yahweh for seven days in the year; it shall be a lasting statute throughout your generations; in the seventh month you must hold it. {{rf{42}}} You must live in the booths for seven days; all the natives in Israel must live in the booths, {{rf{43}}} so that your generations shall know that I made the Israelites live in booths when I brought them from the land of Egypt; I am Yahweh your God.'" {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Lev-23-30]] }}}
{{rf{44}}} Thus Moses announced to the Israelites Yahweh's appointed times. {{rf big{1}}} Then Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, {{rf{2}}} "Command the Israelites that they should bring pure olive oil from beaten olives for the light to present a lamp continually. {{rf{3}}} Aaron shall arrange for it outside the curtain of the testimony in the tent of assembly from evening until morning before Yahweh continually; it shall be a lasting statute throughout your generations. {{rf{4}}} On the pure golden lampstand he shall arrange for the lamps before Yahweh continually. {{rf{5}}} "And you shall take finely milled flour, and you shall bake with it twelve ring-shaped bread cakes: each one shall be two-tenths of an ephah. {{rf{6}}} And you shall place them in two rows, six to the row, on the pure gold table before Yahweh. {{rf{7}}} And you shall put pure frankincense on each row so that it shall be for the bread as a memorial offering, an offering made by fire for Yahweh. {{rf{8}}} On every Sabbath he shall arrange it in rows before Yahweh continually; they are from the Israelites as an everlasting covenant. {{rf{9}}} And it shall be for Aaron and for his sons, and they shall eat it in a holy place, because it is a most holy thing for him from Yahweh's offerings made by fire -- a lasting rule." {{rf{10}}} And an Israelite woman's son, and he was an Egyptian man's son, went out in the midst of the Israelites; and the Israelite woman's son and an Israelite man fought in the camp. {{rf{11}}} Then the Israelite woman's son blasphemed the name, and he cursed, so they brought him to Moses -- and the name of his mother was Shelomith the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan. {{rf{12}}} Then they put him in custody so that the matter might be made clear to them in accordance with the mouth of Yahweh. {{rf{13}}} Then Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, {{rf{14}}} "Bring the curser outside the camp, and all the hearers shall place their hands on his head, and the whole community shall stone him. {{rf{15}}} And you shall speak to the Israelites, saying, 'Any man when he curses his God shall bear his sin. {{rf{16}}} And he who blasphemes Yahweh's name certainly shall be put to death; the whole community certainly shall stone him. As the alien, so the native shall be put to death at blaspheming his name. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Lev-23-44]] }}}
{{rf{17}}} " 'And when a man kills any human being, he certainly shall be put to death. {{rf{18}}} And he who kills a domestic animal must repay for it life in place of life. {{rf{19}}} And when a man causes a physical defect in his fellow citizen according to what he has done, so it shall be done to him: {{rf{20}}} fracture in place of fracture, eye in place of eye, tooth in place of tooth -- according to the physical defect he causes to the person, likewise it shall be caused to him. {{rf{21}}} And a killer of a domestic animal must repay for it, and a killer of a human shall be put to death. {{rf{22}}} You must have one norm; as for the alien, so it must be for the native, because I am Yahweh your God.'" {{rf{23}}} Thus Moses spoke to the Israelites, and they brought the curser outside the camp, and they stoned him with stones, and the Israelites did just as Yahweh had commanded Moses. {{rf big{1}}} Then Yahweh spoke to Moses on Mount Sinai, saying, {{rf{2}}} "Speak to the Israelites, and say to them, 'When you come into the land that I am about to give to you, then the land shall observe a Sabbath for Yahweh. {{rf{3}}} Six years you shall sow your field, and six years you shall prune your vineyard, and you shall gather its yield. {{rf{4}}} But in the seventh year it shall be a Sabbath of complete rest for the land -- a Sabbath for Yahweh; you must not sow your field, and you must not prune your vineyard. {{rf{5}}} You must not reap your harvest's aftergrowth, and you must not harvest the grapes of your unpruned vines -- it shall be a year of complete rest for the land. {{rf{6}}} And a Sabbath of the land shall be for food for you: for you and for your slave and for your slave woman and for your hired worker and for your temporary residents who are dwelling as aliens with you; {{rf{7}}} and all its yield shall be for your domestic animal and for the wild animal, which are in your land to eat. {{rf{8}}} " 'And you shall count for yourself seven Sabbaths of years, seven times seven years, and they shall be for you time periods of years: forty-nine years. {{rf{9}}} And you shall cause a loud horn blast to be heard on the seventh month on the tenth of the month; on the Day of Atonement you shall cause a ram's horn to be heard in all your land. {{rf{10}}} And you shall consecrate the fiftieth year, and you shall proclaim a release in the land for all its inhabitants. It is a Jubilee; it shall be for you, and you shall return. You must return -- everyone to his property and everyone to his clan. {{rf{11}}} You shall have the fiftieth year as a Jubilee; you must not reap its aftergrowth, and you must not harvest its unpruned vines. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Lev-24-17]] }}}
{{rf{12}}} Because it is a Jubilee, it shall be holy to you. You must eat its produce from the field. {{rf{13}}} " 'In this Year of Jubilee each of you shall return to his property. {{rf{14}}} And when you sell something to your fellow citizen or you buy from your neighbor's hand, you must not oppress one another. {{rf{15}}} You must buy from your fellow citizen according to the number of years after the Jubilee; he must sell to you according to the number of years of yield. {{rf{16}}} You must increase its price according to a greater number of years, but you must decrease its price according to a lesser number of years, because he is selling its yields to you. {{rf{17}}} And you must not oppress one another, but you shall revere your God, because I am Yahweh, your God. {{rf{18}}} " 'And you shall do my statutes, and you must keep my regulations, and you shall do them, so that you shall live securely on the land. {{rf{19}}} And the land shall give its fruit, and you shall eat your fill, and you shall live securely on it. {{rf{20}}} And if you should say, "What shall we eat in the seventh year, if we do not sow and we do not gather its yield?" {{rf{21}}} then I will command my blessing for you in the sixth year, so that it will make the yield for three years. {{rf{22}}} And you will sow in the eighth year, and you shall eat from the old yield; until the ninth year, until the coming of its yield, you shall eat the old yield. {{rf{23}}} " 'But the land must not be sold in perpetuity, because the land is mine, because you are aliens and temporary residents with me. {{rf{24}}} And in all your property's land you must provide redemption for the land. {{rf{25}}} " 'When your brother becomes poor and he sells part of his property, then his nearest redeemer shall come, and he shall redeem the thing sold by his brother. {{rf{26}}} But if a man does not have a redeemer, then he prospers and he finds enough for his redemption, {{rf{27}}} then he shall calculate the years of its selling, and he shall refund the balance to the man to whom he sold it, and he shall return to his property. {{rf{28}}} But if his hand does not find enough to refund to him, then what he has sold shall be in the buyer's hand until the Year of Jubilee; and it shall go out of the buyer's hand in the Jubilee, and he shall return to his property. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Lev-25-12]] }}}
{{rf{29}}} " 'And if a man sells a residential house in a walled city, then it shall be his redemption until completing a year after his selling; its redemption shall last a year. {{rf{30}}} But if it is not redeemed before a full year has passed, then the house that is in the walled city shall belong to the buyer in perpetuity throughout his generations; it shall not go out of the buyer's hand in the Jubilee. {{rf{31}}} However, village houses that have no surrounding wall shall be considered open country; there is redemption for it, and in the Jubilee it shall go out of the buyer's hand. {{rf{32}}} " 'As for the cities of the Levites, that is, the houses in their property's cities, it shall be a lasting redemption for the Levites. {{rf{33}}} And whatever anyone redeems from the Levites then must go out of the buyer's hand in the Jubilee, including a house's selling in his city's property, because the houses in the cities of the Levites are their property in the midst of the Israelites. {{rf{34}}} But a field of their cities' pastureland must not be sold, because it is their property for all time. {{rf{35}}} " 'And if your countryman becomes poor and if he becomes dependent on you, then you shall support him like an alien and like a temporary resident, and he shall live with you. {{rf{36}}} You must not take interest or usury from him, but you shall revere your God, and your countryman shall live with you. {{rf{37}}} You must not give your money to him with interest or give your food for profit. {{rf{38}}} I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out from the land of Egypt to give you the land of Canaan, to be as God for you. {{rf{39}}} " 'And if your countryman who is with you becomes poor, and he is sold to you, you shall not treat him as a slave. {{rf{40}}} He shall be with you like a hired worker, like a temporary resident; he shall work with you until the Year of Jubilee. {{rf{41}}} And he and his sons with him shall go out from you, and he shall return to his clan, and to the property of his ancestors he shall return. {{rf{42}}} Because they are my servants whom I brought out from the land of Egypt, they shall not be sold as a slave. {{rf{43}}} You shall not rule over him with ruthlessness, but you shall revere your God. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Lev-25-29]] }}}
{{rf{44}}} " 'As for your slave and your slave woman who are yours, from the nations that are all around you, from them you may buy a slave or a slave woman. {{rf{45}}} And you may buy also from the children of the temporary residents who are dwelling with you as aliens and from their clan who are with you, who have children in your land; indeed, they may be as property for you. {{rf{46}}} And you may pass them on as an inheritance to your sons after you to take possession of as property for all time -- you may let them work. But as for your countrymen, the Israelites, you shall not rule with ruthlessness over one another. {{rf{47}}} " 'And if the alien or the temporary resident who are with you prosper, but your countryman who is with him becomes poor and he is sold to an alien, a temporary resident who is with you, or to a descendant of an alien's clan, {{rf{48}}} after he is sold redemption shall be for him; one of his brothers may redeem him, {{rf{49}}} or his uncle or his uncle's son may redeem him, or one of his close relatives from his clan may redeem him; or if he prospers, he may redeem himself. {{rf{50}}} And he shall calculate with his buyer from the year of his selling himself until the Jubilee; and the value of his selling shall be according to the number of years -- it shall be with him like a hired worker's days. {{rf{51}}} If there are still many years, in keeping with them he shall restore his redemption in proportion to his purchase price. {{rf{52}}} And if there are a few years left until the Year of Jubilee, then he shall calculate for himself; he shall restore his redemption according to the number of his years. {{rf{53}}} He shall be with him as a yearly hired worker; he shall not rule over him with ruthlessness in your sight. {{rf{54}}} And if he is not redeemed by any of these ways, then he and his sons with him shall go out in the Year of Jubilee. {{rf{55}}} Indeed, the Israelites are servants for me; they are my servants whom I brought out from the land of Egypt. I am Yahweh your God.'" {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Lev-25-44]] }}}
" 'You shall not make for yourselves idols and divine images, and you shall not raise up stone pillars for yourselves, and you shall not put a sculptured stone in your land in order to worship before it, because I am Yahweh your God. {{rf{2}}} " 'You shall keep my Sabbaths, and you shall revere my sanctuary; I am Yahweh. {{rf{3}}} " 'If you walk in my statutes and you keep my commands and you do them, {{rf{4}}} then I will give you rains in their time, and the land shall give its produce, and the trees of the field shall give their fruit. {{rf{5}}} And for you the threshing season shall overtake the grape harvest, and the grape harvest shall overtake the sowing, and you shall eat your food to your fill and you shall live securely in your land. {{rf{6}}} And I will give peace in the land, and you shall lie down, and there shall not be anybody who makes you afraid, and I will remove harmful animals from the land, and no sword shall pass through your land. {{rf{7}}} And you shall pursue your enemies, and they shall fall by the sword before you. {{rf{8}}} And five of you shall pursue a hundred, and a hundred of you shall pursue a myriad; and your enemies shall fall by the sword before you. {{rf{9}}} And I will turn to you, and I will make you fruitful, and I will make you numerous; and I will keep my covenant with you. {{rf{10}}} And you shall eat old grain, and you shall clear away the old before the new. {{rf{11}}} And I will put my dwelling place in your midst, and my inner self shall not abhor you. {{rf{12}}} And I will walk about in your midst, and I shall be your God, and you shall be my people. {{rf{13}}} I am Yahweh, your God who brought you out from the land of Egypt, from being their slaves; and I broke the bars of your yoke, and I caused you to walk erectly. {{rf{14}}} " 'But if you do not listen to me and you do not carry out all these commands, {{rf{15}}} and if you reject my statutes and if your inner self abhors my regulations, to not carry out all my commands by your breaking my covenant, {{rf{16}}} I in turn will do this to you: then I will summon onto you horror, the wasting disease, and the fever that wastes eyes and that drains away life; and you shall sow your seed in vain, and your enemies shall eat it. {{rf{17}}} And I will set my face against you, and you shall be defeated before your enemies; and your haters shall rule over you, and you shall flee away, but there shall not be anybody who is pursuing you. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Lev-26-01]] }}}
{{rf{18}}} " 'And if in spite of these things you do not listen to me, then I will continue to discipline you seven times for your sins. {{rf{19}}} And I will break the pride of your strength; and I will make your heaven like iron and your land like copper. {{rf{20}}} And your strength shall be consumed in vain; and your land shall not give its produce, and the land's trees shall not give their fruit. {{rf{21}}} " 'And if you go against me in hostility and you are not willing to listen to me, then I will add a plague onto you seven times according to your sins. {{rf{22}}} And I will send wild animals out among you, and they shall make you childless, and they shall cut down your domestic animals, and they shall make you fewer; and your roads shall be desolate. {{rf{23}}} " 'And if you do not accept correction from me through these things, but you go against me in hostility, {{rf{24}}} then I myself will also go against you in hostility, and I myself also will strike you seven times for your sins. {{rf{25}}} And I will bring upon you a sword that seeks vengeance for the covenant, and you shall be gathered to your cities; and I will send a plague in your midst, and you shall be given into the hand of an enemy. {{rf{26}}} At my breaking the supply of bread for you, then ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall return your bread by weight; and you shall eat it, and you shall not be satisfied. {{rf{27}}} " 'And if through this you do not listen to me and you go against me in hostility, {{rf{28}}} then I will go against you in hostile anger, and also I myself will discipline you seven times for your sins. {{rf{29}}} And you shall eat the flesh of your sons; and the flesh of your daughters you shall eat. {{rf{30}}} And I will destroy your high places, and I will cut down your incense altars, and I will place your corpses on your idols' corpses; and my inner self shall abhor you. {{rf{31}}} And I will lay your cities in ruins, and I will lay waste your sanctuaries; and I shall not smell your sacrifices' appeasing fragrance. {{rf{32}}} And I myself will lay waste the land, and your enemies who are living in it shall be appalled over it. {{rf{33}}} And I will scatter you among the nations, and I will draw a sword behind you; and your land shall be a desolation, and your cities shall be a ruin. {{rf{34}}} Then the land shall enjoy its Sabbaths all the days of its lying desolate, and you shall be in the land of your enemies; then the land shall rest, and it shall enjoy its Sabbaths. {{rf{35}}} All the days of its lying desolate it shall rest for the time that it had not rested during your Sabbaths while you were living on it. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Lev-26-18]] }}}
{{rf{36}}} As for the ones who remain among you, I will bring fearfulness in their hearts in the land of their enemies; and a sound of a windblown leaf shall pursue them, and they shall flee like flight before a sword, and they shall fall, but there shall not be a pursuer. {{rf{37}}} And they shall stumble over one another as from before a sword, but there shall not be a pursuer; and you shall have no resistance before your enemies. {{rf{38}}} And you shall perish among the nations, and the land of your enemies shall eat you. {{rf{39}}} And because of their guilt, the ones among you who remain shall decay in the land of their enemies; and also because of the iniquities of their ancestors, they shall decay with them. {{rf{40}}} " 'But when they confess their guilt and the guilt of their ancestors in their infidelity that they displayed against me, and moreover that they went against me in hostility -- {{rf{41}}} I myself also went against them in hostility, and I brought them into the land of their enemies -- or if then their uncircumcised heart is humbled and then they pay for their guilt, {{rf{42}}} I will remember my covenant with Jacob; and I will remember also my covenant with Isaac and also my covenant with Abraham, and I will remember the land. {{rf{43}}} And the land shall be deserted by them, and it shall enjoy its Sabbaths in its being desolate from them, and they themselves must pay for their guilt, simply because they rejected my regulations, and their inner self abhorred my statutes. {{rf{44}}} And in spite of this, when they are in the land of their enemies I will not reject them, and I will not abhor them to destroy them, to break my covenant with them, because I am Yahweh their God. {{rf{45}}} And I will remember the first covenant for them -- whom I brought out from the land of Egypt in the sight of the nations to be their God. I am Yahweh.'" {{rf{46}}} These are the rules and the regulations and the laws that Yahweh gave between himself and the Israelites on Mount Sinai through Moses. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Lev-26-36]] }}}
Then Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, {{rf{2}}} "Speak to the Israelites, and say to them, 'When a man makes a vow according to your proper value of persons to Yahweh, {{rf{3}}} if your proper value is for a male from twenty years of age up to sixty years of age, then your proper value shall be fifty shekels of money according to the sanctuary's shekel. {{rf{4}}} But if it is for a female, then your proper value shall be thirty shekels. {{rf{5}}} And if from five years of age up to twenty years of age, then your proper value shall be twenty shekels for the male and ten shekels for the female. {{rf{6}}} And if from a month of age up to five years of age, then your proper value shall be five shekels of money for the male, and your proper value for the female shall be three shekels of money. {{rf{7}}} And if from sixty years of age and above: if a male, then your proper value shall be fifteen shekels; and for the female, ten shekels. {{rf{8}}} But if he is poorer than your proper value, then he shall present himself before the priest, and the priest shall set a value on him; the priest shall value him according to what the person who made a vow can afford. {{rf{9}}} " 'And if it is a domestic animal from which they present an offering for Yahweh, all that he gives from it for Yahweh shall be a holy object. {{rf{10}}} He shall not replace it, nor shall he exchange it, either good with bad or bad with good; and if he indeed exchanges a domestic animal with a domestic animal, then it and its substitution shall be a holy object. {{rf{11}}} But if it is any unclean animal from which they may not present an offering for Yahweh, then he shall present the animal before the priest. {{rf{12}}} And the priest shall set a value on it, either good or bad; as the priest sets your proper value, so it shall be. {{rf{13}}} And if he indeed wants to redeem it, then he shall add a fifth of it onto your proper value. {{rf{14}}} " 'And if a man consecrates his house as a holy object for Yahweh, then the priest shall set a value on it, either good or bad; just as the priest sets a value on it, so it shall remain. {{rf{15}}} But if the one who consecrates it wants to redeem his house, then he shall add a fifth of your proper value's money onto it, and it shall be his. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Lev-27-01]] }}}
{{rf{16}}} " 'And if a man consecrates some of his property's fields for Yahweh, then your proper value shall be in accordance with its seed requirements: a homer of barley seed for fifty shekels of money. {{rf{17}}} If he consecrates his field from the Year of Jubilee, it shall stand as your proper value. {{rf{18}}} But if he consecrates his field after the Jubilee, then the priest shall calculate the money for him according to the number of years that are left over until the Year of Jubilee; and it shall be deducted from your proper value. {{rf{19}}} And if he indeed redeems the field that is consecrated, then he shall add a fifth of your proper value's money onto it, and it shall stand for him. {{rf{20}}} And if he does not redeem the field and if he sells the field to another man, it may not be redeemed again, {{rf{21}}} and the field shall be a holy object for Yahweh when it goes out in the Jubilee, like a devoted field; it shall be the priest's property. {{rf{22}}} " 'And if he consecrates for Yahweh his acquired field that is not the field of his inherited possession, {{rf{23}}} then the priest shall calculate for him the amount of your proper value until the year of the Jubilee, and he shall give your proper value on that day as a holy object for Yahweh. {{rf{24}}} In the Year of the Jubilee the field shall return to the one who bought it from him, to the one whose property the land is. {{rf{25}}} And every proper value of yours shall be in the sanctuary's shekel -- the shekel shall be twenty gerahs. {{rf{26}}} " 'However, a man shall not consecrate a firstborn among livestock, which belongs as firstborn to Yahweh; whether an ox or small livestock, it is for Yahweh. {{rf{27}}} And if it is among the unclean animals, then he shall ransom it according to your proper value, and he shall add a fifth of its value onto it; and if it is not redeemed, then it shall be sold according to your proper value. {{rf{28}}} However, anything devoted that a man has devoted to Yahweh from all that he has, from human or animal, or from the field of his property, may not be sold, and it may not be redeemed; anything devoted is a most holy thing for Yahweh. {{rf{29}}} Anyone devoted who is devoted from human beings cannot be ransomed -- he shall surely be put to death. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Lev-27-16]] }}}
{{rf{30}}} " 'And any tithe of the land from the land's seed or from the fruit of the trees is for Yahweh; it is a holy object for Yahweh. {{rf{31}}} And if a man indeed redeems from his tithe, he shall add a fifth of its value onto it. {{rf{32}}} As for every tithe of cattle or of the flock, all which crosses under the rod, the tenth shall be a holy object for Yahweh. {{rf{33}}} He shall not inspect between the good and the bad, and he shall not exchange it; but if he indeed exchanges it, then it and its substitution shall be a holy object -- it shall not be redeemed.'" {{rf{34}}} These are the commands that Yahweh commanded Moses for the Israelites on Mount Sinai. LENGTH SHORT {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Lev-27-30]] }}}
# accept our natural desires.
# accept the guilt of our sin.
# accept God's forgiveness.
# accept the new course of life which is different.
----
* [[FaithfulnessOfJesus]]
* The claim that we should all be able to identify the day and hour of our [[Regenerate]] does not square well with <<Bbl J 3:8>>.
!!! Dying yet alive
* <<Bbl 2Tim 2:11 >>
* <<Bbl 2C 4:10 >>
* <<Bbl R 6:8 >>
''Pattern for living.''
* <<Bbl 1Pe 1:14>>-18 contrasts our //futile, inherited// way of life, which was based in //ignorance//, with new live in Christ which is marked by [[Holiness]].
* <<Bbl 1Tim 6:16 >>.
* The sun is not the source of light. <<Bbl Gn 1:3 >>, <<Bbl Rev 22:5 >>
* False light: Satan.
* Always active. A one-way operation. Creates [[Security]].
* [[Eye]]
* [[Reveal]]
* {{anti{[[Darkness]]}}} can never penetrate light, because light is a presence, but darkness is only light's absence. Darkness flees to precisely the degree that light is present. Light "more than overcomes" (it would make a good pulpit demonstration). [[Separate]]
* See {{anti{[[Darkness]]}}} for verses that directly contrast the two.
* God's tactical provisions of <<Bbl Ex 14:19 >>-20
* When you check a plank for straightness, it is light -- the absence of shadow -- that lets you make the assessment. Light is as straight as straight can be.
* Mile Wilkerson, __Redemption__: When a spotlight is shown on a person, pointing a flashlight at some facial blemish does not cause the person to appear blemished.
* <<Bbl Ex 10:23 >>
* <<Bbl Esther 8:16 >>
* <<Bbl Job 24:13 >>-17
* <<Bbl Ps 36:9 >>
* <<Bbl Ps 97:11 >>
* <<Bbl I 50:10 >>-11
* <<Bbl I 60:1 >>-2
* <<Bbl Ez 8:12 >>
* <<Bbl Mt 5:14 >>-16
* <<Bbl J 3:2 >>
* <<Bbl J 8:12 >>
* <<Bbl J 12:35 >>-36
* <<Bbl A 13:47 >>
* <<Bbl R 13:12 >>
* <<Bbl 2C 4:6 >>
* <<Bbl 2C 6:14 >>
* <<Bbl Eph 5:8 >>
* <<Bbl Col 1:12>>-13
* <<Bbl 1P 2:9 >>
* <<Bbl 1J 1:5 >>-7
* <<Bbl 1J 2:8 >>-11
* [[Unity]]
* Doctrinal. Agreeing on what is the list of essentials.
* <<Bbl Php 2:21 >>
* [[Humility]], [[Boundary]]
* [[Resources-Personal]]. Your smart phone wants you to "buy minutes", but that's something none of us can actually do.
* <<Bbl Gn 19:11>> -- the men of Sodom
* The son who left home and wound up hungry.
* Nebuchednezzer, who learned that God is //able to humble the proud.//
* <<Bbl Pr 16:9 >> - The mind of man plans his way, but the LORD directs his steps.
* <<Bbl Pr 30:4 >> - Who has ascended into heaven and descended? Who has gathered the wind in His fists? Who has wrapped the waters in His garment? Who has established all the ends of the earth? What is His name or His son's name? Surely you know!
* @@color:navy;Stay positive; Work hard; Make it happen.@@ Worldly encouragement (seen on a motivational poster). But you can do only the first two.
/***
|''Name''|LineBreakHack|
|''Description''|formatter modifying TiddlyWiki's handling of line breaks, before and after headings, lists and quots|
|''Author:''|Piesch Mario|
|''Version''|0.2.1|
|''Status''|@@beta@@|
|''Source''|http://apm-plugins.tiddlyspot.com/#LineBreakHack|
|''License''|[[Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 License|http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/]]|
!Description
This formatter modifies the way line breaks in ~TiddlyWiki markup are rendered;
A linebreak at the end of the line and all following empty lines are replaced by: one {{{<br>}}}
One linebreak in front of a heading will be removed.
!!Examples
{{{
<<<
!Heading 1 at the beginning
Some distance also in editmode possible. As many lines as you wish.
!!Heading 2
Some text
Some more text<br>
Break the line with {{{<br>}}} <br>
forced linebreak and "new Line" produce an empty line
<<<
<<<
# numbered list
# one empty line <br> a line after a < br>
## doesn't break the list
# two empty lines do <br><br><br>
# br in front: does never break the list
<<<
<<<
>Quote by Line
>one empty line
>two empty lines
<<<
}}}
<<<
!Heading 1 at the beginning
Some distance also in editmode possible. As many lines as you wish.
!!Heading 2
Some text
Some more text<br>
Break the line with {{{<br>}}} <br>
forced linebreak and "new Line" produce an empty line
<<<
<<<
# numbered list
# one empty line <br>a line after a < br>
## doesn't break the list
# two empty lines do <br><br><br>
# br in front: does never break the list
<<<
<<<
>Quote by Line
>one empty line
>two empty lines
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!Revision History
!!V0.2.1 (2010-02-24)
*Little changes in the description.
!!V0.2 (2010-01-01)
* removes all linebreaks after headings
* deals with lists
* changes blockqoute and linequote
!!V0.1 (2009-12-20)
* initial release
!Code
***/
//{{{
(function(formatters) { //# set up alias
// modify line-break formatter to find more than one \n
var lineBreak = formatters[formatters.findByField("name", "lineBreak")];
lineBreak.match = "\\n+|<br ?/?>";
// lineBreak.match = "\\n{1,2}|<br ?/?>";
//remove one line break before heading.
var heading = formatters[formatters.findByField("name", "heading")];
merge( heading, {termRegExp: /(\n+)/mg});
heading.match = "^\n?!{1,6}";
heading.handler = function(w) {
if (w.matchText[0]=='\n') w.matchLength = w.matchLength - 1;
w.subWikifyTerm(createTiddlyElement(w.output,"h" + w.matchLength), this.termRegExp);
};
for (var i=0; i<formatters.length; i++) {
if (formatters[i].name == "list") {
merge( formatters[i], {termRegExp: /(\n{1,2})/mg});
}
if (formatters[i].name == "quoteByBlock") {
merge( formatters[i], {termRegExp: /(^<<<(\n{1,2}|$))/mg});
}
if (formatters[i].name == "quoteByLine") {
merge( formatters[i], {termRegExp: /(\n{1,2})/mg});
break;
} // if ..
} // for ..
})(config.formatters); //# end of alias
//}}}
* //Hear//, //ear//
* [[Teachable]]
* <<Bbl I 50:4 >>
* God's gift: <<Bbl 2S 14:14 >>; <<Bbl Ez 16:6 >>; <<Bbl J 10:10 >>
* God of the living: <<Bbl Mk 12:27 >>
* <<Bbl Pr 14:30 >> The life of the body is a heart at peace, but envy rots the bones.
* Sam Cooksey says: "Keepers, weepers; Losers, finders!"
* [[Hidden|Invisible-Visible]] in Christ: <<Bbl Col 3:3 >>-4
* by the [[Spirit]]: <<Bbl R 8:4 >>-10
* by the Son: <<Bbl J 3:36 >>
* Color GREEN: <<Bbl Job 33:29 >>-33; <<Bbl 1K 3:26 >> or <<Bbl 2K 3:26 >> -27; <<Bbl R 4:17 >>; <<Bbl 2C 4:10 >>-14
* brevity: <<Bbl Ps 39:4 >>-6
* [[Book]] of life
* [[Resurrect]], [[Death-unto-Life]]
* [[Living-Plant]], [[Living-Animal]], [[Grow]]
* {{anti{[[Die]]}}}
!!!Immortal
* [[Melchizedek]]
!!! a fountain
* Pro 4:23 - Above all else, guard your heart, for it is the wellspring of life.
* Pro 10:11 - The mouth of the righteous is a fountain of life, but violence overwhelms the mouth of the wicked.
* Pro 13:14 - The teaching of the wise is a fountain of life, turning a man from the snares of death.
* Pro 14:27 - The fear of the Lord is a fountain of life, turning a man from the snares of death.
* Pro 16:22 - Understanding is a fountain of life to those who have it, but folly brings punishment to fools.
!!! a tree
* Pro 3:18 - She is a tree of life to those who embrace her; those who lay hold of her will be blessed.
* Pro 15:4 - The tongue that brings healing is a tree of life, but a deceitful tongue crushes the spirit.
* Pro 11:30 - The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life, and he who wins souls is wise.
* Pro 13:12 - Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a longing fulfilled is a tree of life.
|[[Fruit]] |[[Harvest]], [[Seed]], //flower, blossom, fruitlessness// |
|Leaf |//wither// |
|[[Branch]] |[[Break]], [[Prune]], [[Graft]] |
|[[Tree]]|//Trunk, stump// |
|[[Root]] | |
|[[Water]] |[[River]] |
|Earth |[[Land]] |
|[[Seed]] | |
* //Aaron's rod that blossomed.//
* //The holy seed is in its root.//
* Olive tree: God's people in Covenant with him.
* Fig tree.: The Jews (Benjamin and Judah) (the post-exilic remnant in NT Jerusalem).
* [[Thorns]]: Israel out of God's favor.
* Vine: God's people in His care. Spiritual connection. Fruit is all it offers of value.
** Ez 15
** Is 5.
!!! Hazards
* Wind-burn. The death is effected on the trailer-ride, but noticed three days after the crew has left.
* Drought. See [[Exigency]].
* [[Living-Things]]
Tiddlers tagged with //Live//:
<<matchTags %0 "\n" Live >>
[[Food]], [[Covenant]], Meals with Jesus.
* @@color:brown;the Lord's Supper (<<Bbl Mt 26:26 >>-29 ; <<Bbl Mk 14:22 >>-25 ; <<Bbl L 22:15 >>-20 ; <<Bbl 1C 11:23 >>-26 )@@
* Called the ''Eucharist'' because "giving [[Thank]]" is found in all the Synoptics (Harmony 217) and <<Bbl 1C 11:24 >>, etc.
* [[Passover]]
!!! The Cup
[[Cup]], [[Blood]]
!!! The Bread
Jesus' body was broken on the cross. You cannot share [[Bread]] without breaking it, and Jesus knew that in order for Him to be shared (<<Bbl J 16:7 >>) He would have to be [[broken|Break]].
//communion, supper, incarnation//
!!! Practical Ministry
* Communion must be given to the home-bound.
!!! Service, July 2015
<<<
We're going to join together, and join close with our friend Jesus as we take the Lord's supper.
Like every person who is scheduled for execution, Jesus had a last night, and He had a last meal.
This meal was a ceremonial event, because it was the night of Passover. Every year on that night Israel remembers the time God told each family to kill an innocent lamb and put its blood on the doorway of the house, so that when the angel of death visited Egypt, they would be marked for safety.
For this Passover meal, Jesus was at the head of the table. He gave thanks and gave each person bread, saying "Take eat; this is My body." And for the wine, He told them -- after they had each had a drink -- "This is My blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many."
It's Passover language, but Jesus is giving new information for He is the true Lamb of God.
Every Jew knows the phrase "on this night we remember"; this phrase is linked with the Passover. To seal the deal, Jesus tells His friends "Do this in //remembrance// of Me."
Remember: He was scheduled for execution. But He is the Son of God. He was in charge of the schedule, and death was not His final destiny. This was His final meal in a humble earthly body, but not final after all. Early the next week He invited His good friends over for breakfast on the beach.
Jesus rose again. Then He went to Heaven. His friends remembered what He said during that last meal: "I will not drink of this fruit of the vine from now on until that day when I drink it new with you in My father's kingdom."
Remember. A piece of bread, a swallow of wine is now their connection with Jesus.
Jesus wants us to connect with Him today. If you have put your trust in Him, turned your life over to Him, if you have life in His Name, then come to this little table.
Walk down the middle to take the wafer and a little cup of grape juice. You can return to your place along the sides. Eat and drink at whatever moment you choose during this next worship song. You can do it alone, or with someone else. Do it in full appreciation of His love and His faithfulness. This is the only requirement, so we have made a little time for you to consider the gift of His sacrifice.
<<<
* <<Bbl Gn 22:2 "" note>>
* <<Bbl Mt 24:12 >>; <<Bbl 1C 8:1 >>, chap.13;
* as an [[Emotion]]: <<Bbl Mk 10:21 >>
* and wisdom: <<Bbl Php 1:9 >>; <<Bbl Col 3:14 >>
* God's, in us: <<Bbl R 5:5 >>, <<Bbl Eph 3:19 >>; <<Bbl 1J 3:1 >>
* [[GoldenRule],
!!! Of the brethren:
* <<Bbl A 20:18 >>-38
* <<Bbl A 2:44 >>-45
* <<Bbl A 4:32 >>-35
* <<Bbl A 14:28 >>
* <<Bbl A 28:14 >>-15
* <<Bbl 1Thes 3:12 >>
* <<Bbl 1Thes 4:9 >>
* <<Bbl 1J 4:7 >> - 5.3
!!! {{anti{hatred}}}
* <<Bbl 2S 13:15 >> Amnon towards Tamar
* <<Bbl Lv 19:17 '' note>>; [[Passivity]]
* <<Bbl 1P 5:6 >>-7
* Joseph
* Boaz
* [[Humility]], [[Break]], [[Reject]]
* [[Ashes]]
* [[Attitude]]
* <<Bbl Dt 7:7 >> //...not because you were numerous...//
* <<Bbl 1C 1:26 >>-29 //...not many wise, not many noble ...//
His presentation of Paul's social status is precise and believable. He doesn't inflate (ex, level of citizen), nor gloss over the probably humble basis. Paul confirms he was a Pharisee, this is not made up by Luke.
!! General Notes
* Luke is the Bible's only known gentile writer.
* For both his books, the opening theme is "Infancy".
* Even in his choice of O.T. quotes, Luke the physician often refers to healing, by several different terms. (In referring to the work of //many physicians//, <<Bbl L 8:43>> is less deprecating than <<Bbl Mk 5:26>>.)
* Bob Summers counts seven instances in Luke where Jesus prays.
* Also twenty-five hopeless situations, making it in his eyes the gospel of hope. Two early instances are 1:7 (Elizabeth's barreness) and 1:34 (a promise that seems impossible).
* There are numerous banquets, perhaps a way of emphasizing unity (the meal table being a notable place of exclusion).
* [[Expect]] in Luke has an early crescendo as Zachariah speaks with an angel in the most Holy Place -- the crowd outside, waiting, and he rendered speechless. This is within the immediate local context of Simeon's life promise, and the immanent arrival of Elijah in the person of John. <<Bbl L 1:14 >>, <<Bbl L 1:63 abbr >>-64
* Some themes are preludes to Luke's sequel: <<Bbl A 5:41 >>, <<Bbl A 8:3 >>,
!!!! Introductory chapters
* In the opening passages, Luke alludes to or draws from Abraham, Jacob, the Passover (2:41), the Law of Moses, Elijah, King David's throne, Isaiah and Malachi.
* <<Bbl L 1:5 abbr >>, 26 – contrasted introductions. Luke one is written for the Jews.
* <<Bbl L 2:14>> is a hinge. Chapters 2 and 3 are directed to the Gentiles.
Since many have attempted to compile an account concerning the events that have been fulfilled among us, {{rf{2}}} just as those who were eyewitnesses and servants of the word from the beginning passed on to us, {{rf{3}}} it seemed best to me also -- because I have followed all things carefully from the beginning -- to write them down in orderly sequence for you, most excellent Theophilus, {{rf{4}}} so that you may know the certainty concerning the things about which you were taught. {{rf{5}}} It happened that in the days of Herod, king of Judea, there was a certain priest, Zechariah by name, of the division of Abijah. And he had a wife from the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elizabeth. {{rf{6}}} And they were both righteous in the sight of God, living blamelessly in all the commandments and regulations of the Lord. {{rf{7}}} And they did not have a child, because Elizabeth was barren. And they were both advanced in years. {{rf{8}}} And it happened that while he was serving as priest before God in the order of his division, {{rf{9}}} according to the custom of the priesthood he was chosen by lot to enter into the temple of the Lord to burn incense. {{rf{10}}} And the whole crowd of the people were praying outside at the hour of the incense offering. {{rf{11}}} And an angel of the Lord appeared to him, standing at the right side of the altar of incense. {{rf{12}}} And Zechariah was terrified when he saw the angel, and fear fell upon him. {{rf{13}}} But the angel said to him, "Do not be afraid, Zechariah, because your prayer has been heard, and your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son, and you will call his name John. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Luke-01-01]] }}}
<<Bbl L 1:1 abbr >>-4 Inasmuch as ... the opening sentence, indeed the NAS' first words, indicate Luke's elevated style. Just look at the verb tenses!
1:2 Luke's colophon. //Just as// - exactly as.
1:16 Quotes Malachi. This is an early piece of what will become Luke's enormous theme for the early writing of the Gospel.
1:17 Early news that John the Baptizer will in fact be the representative of Elijah.
1:18-20 Zacharias seeks a sign and receives one, albeit one that seems to carry a reproof. The miracle of this sign of silence is reinforced by its removal when "these things" are "fulfilled in their time". Vs.45 presents (pointedly, it almost seems) a contrast in Mary; she asks //How can this be//, while Zechariah asks //How can I be sure//. Zechariah had even prayed around this (v 13).
1:21 Zechariah would have the rope tied around his ankle?
1:25 OT phraseology.
{{rf{14}}} And you will experience joy and exultation, and many will rejoice at his birth. {{rf{15}}} For he will be great in the sight of the Lord, and he must never drink wine or beer, and he will be filled with the Holy Spirit while he is still in his mother's womb. {{rf{16}}} And he will turn many of the sons of Israel to the Lord their God. {{rf{17}}} And he will go on before him in the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the disobedient to the wisdom of the righteous, to prepare for the Lord a people made ready." {{rf{18}}} And Zechariah said to the angel, "By what will I know this? For I am an old man, and my wife is advanced in years!" {{rf{19}}} And the angel answered and said to him, "I am Gabriel, who stands in the presence of God, and I was sent to speak to you and to announce to you this good news. {{rf{20}}} And behold, you will be silent and not able to speak until the day these things take place, because you did not believe my words, which will be fulfilled in their time." {{rf{21}}} And the people were waiting for Zechariah, and began to wonder when he was delayed in the temple. {{rf{22}}} And when he came out he was not able to speak to them, and they realized that he had seen a vision in the temple. And he kept making signs to them, and remained unable to speak. {{rf{23}}} And it happened that when the days of his service came to an end, he went away to his home. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Luke-01-14]] }}}
{{rf{24}}} Now after these days, his wife Elizabeth conceived, and she kept herself in seclusion for five months, saying, {{rf{25}}} "Thus the Lord has done for me in the days in which he has concerned himself with me, to take away my disgrace among people." {{rf{26}}} Now in the sixth month, the angel Gabriel was sent from God to a town of Galilee named Nazareth, {{rf{27}}} to a virgin legally promised in marriage to a man named Joseph of the house of David. And the name of the virgin was Mary. {{rf{28}}} And he came to her and said, "Greetings, favored one! The Lord is with you." {{rf{29}}} But she was greatly perplexed at the statement, and was pondering what sort of greeting this might be. {{rf{30}}} And the angel said to her, "Do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with God. {{rf{31}}} And behold, you will conceive in the womb and will give birth to a son, and you will call his name Jesus. {{rf{32}}} This one will be great, and he will be called the Son of the Most High, and the Lord God will give him the throne of his father David. {{rf{33}}} And he will reign over the house of Jacob forever, and of his kingdom there will be no end. {{rf{34}}} And Mary said to the angel, "How will this be, since I have not had sexual relations with a man?" {{rf{35}}} And the angel answered and said to her, "The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. Therefore also the one to be born will be called holy, the Son of God. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Luke-01-24]] }}}
<<Bbl L 1:26 abbr >> A new chronology for the world - based on the John the Immerser's birth.
1:34 Luke's narrative does not record the conversation with total precision. From Mary's astonishment, we infer the angel has told her about the miracle just ahead ... or now present.
{{holyquote{
The Holy Spirit will come on you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. Therefore also the holy one who is born from you will be called the Son of God. //1:35//
}}}
1:35 This verse presents God in three Persons. It stunned Rita when Melisa presented it to her.
<<Bbl L 1:36 abbr >> John the forerunner. Here he serves as a sign. (Revelation in action and word.) <<Bbl J 10:41 >>.
1:37 <<Bbl Gn 18:14 >>
1:38 One can't imagine a more complete giving of the entire self, nor a fuller expression of acceptance.
<<Bbl L 1:46 abbr >>-55 The Magnificat, a NT sequel to Hannah's song in <<Bbl 1S 2:1 >>-10. This speech is not Mary's own - she is in the Spirit, as the Spirit is in her! The verbs are in aorist past; this is the Hebrew idiomatic "prophetic perfect."
{{holyquote{
His mercy is for generations of generations on those who fear him. //1:50//
}}}
1:59 Naming him after his father probably seemed appropriate, since the man's faculties had disappeared when the son was conceived.
1:62 //They made signs// -- but Zacharias was not deaf. Possibly this should be read as //they gestured to//?
1:63 Why were they astonished? Either the name of John continues to seem strange to them, or the momentary order of events is not quite straightforward and they are reacting to his regaining the ability to speak.
1:69-77 Three covenants are noted here (Davidic, Abrahamic, New).
{{rf{36}}} And behold, your relative Elizabeth -- she also has conceived a son in her old age, and this is the sixth month for her who was called barren. {{rf{37}}} For nothing will be impossible with God." {{rf{38}}} So Mary said, "Behold, the Lord's female slave! May it happen to me according to your word." And the angel departed from her. {{rf{39}}} Now in those days Mary set out and traveled with haste into the hill country, to a town of Judah, {{rf{40}}} and entered into the house of Zechariah, and greeted Elizabeth. {{rf{41}}} And it happened that when Elizabeth heard the greeting of Mary, the baby in her womb leaped and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit. {{rf{42}}} And she cried out with a loud shout and said, "Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb! {{rf{43}}} And why is this granted to me, that the mother of my Lord should come to me? {{rf{44}}} For behold, when the sound of your greeting came to my ears, the baby in my womb leaped for joy! {{rf{45}}} And blessed is she who believed that there will be a fulfillment to what was spoken to her from the Lord!" {{rf{46}}} And Mary said, "My soul exalts the Lord, {{rf{47}}} and my spirit has rejoiced greatly in God my Savior, {{rf{48}}} because he has looked upon the humble state of his female slave, for behold, from now on all generations will consider me blessed, {{rf{49}}} because the Mighty One has done great things for me, and holy is his name. {{rf{50}}} And his mercy is for generation after generation to those who fear him. {{rf{51}}} He has done a mighty deed with his arm; he has dispersed the proud in the thoughts of their hearts. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Luke-01-36]] }}}
{{rf{52}}} He has brought down rulers from their thrones, and has exalted the lowly. {{rf{53}}} He has filled those who are hungry with good things, and those who are rich he has sent away empty-handed. {{rf{54}}} He has helped Israel his servant, remembering his mercy, {{rf{55}}} just as he spoke to our fathers, to Abraham and to his descendants forever." {{rf{56}}} And Mary stayed with her about three months, and returned to her home. {{rf{57}}} Now the time came for Elizabeth that she should give birth, and she gave birth to a son. {{rf{58}}} And her neighbors and relatives heard that the Lord had shown his great mercy to her, and they rejoiced with her. {{rf{59}}} And it happened that on the eighth day they came to circumcise the child, and they were wanting to name him after his father Zechariah. {{rf{60}}} And his mother answered and said, "No, but he will be named John." {{rf{61}}} And they said to her, "There is no one of your relatives who is called by this name." {{rf{62}}} So they made signs to his father asking what he wanted him to be named, {{rf{63}}} and he asked for a writing tablet and wrote, saying, "John is his name." And they were all astonished. {{rf{64}}} And his mouth and his tongue were opened immediately, and he began to speak, praising God. {{rf{65}}} And fear came on all those who lived near them, and in all the hill country of Judea all these events were discussed. {{rf{66}}} And all those who heard kept these things in their hearts, saying, "What then will this child be? For indeed the hand of the Lord was with him!" {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Luke-01-52]] }}}
{{rf{67}}} And his father Zechariah was filled with the Holy Spirit and prophesied, saying, {{rf{68}}} "Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, because he has visited to help and has redeemed his people, {{rf{69}}} and has raised up a horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant David, {{rf{70}}} just as he spoke through the mouth of his holy prophets from earliest times -- {{rf{71}}} salvation from our enemies and from the hand of all those who hate us, {{rf{72}}} to show mercy to our fathers and to remember his holy covenant, {{rf{73}}} the oath that he swore to Abraham our father, to grant us {{rf{74}}} that we, being rescued from the hand of our enemies, could serve him without fea {{rf{75}}} in holiness and righteousness before him all our days. {{rf{76}}} And so you, child, will be called the prophet of the Most High, for you will go on before the Lord to prepare his ways, {{rf{77}}} to give knowledge of salvation to his people by the forgiveness of their sins, {{rf{78}}} because of the merciful compassion of our God by which the dawn will visit to help us from on high, {{rf{79}}} to give light to those who sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to direct our feet into the way of peace." {{rf{80}}} And the child kept growing and becoming strong in spirit, and was in the wilderness until the day of his public appearance to Israel. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Luke-01-67]] }}}
Now it happened that in those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus to register all the empire. {{rf{2}}} (This first registration took place when Quirinius was governor of Syria.) {{rf{3}}} And everyone went to be registered, each one to his own town. {{rf{4}}} So Joseph also went up from Galilee, from the town of Nazareth, to Judea, to the city of David which is called Bethlehem, because he was of the house and family line of David, {{rf{5}}} to be registered together with Mary, who was legally promised in marriage to him and was pregnant. {{rf{6}}} And it happened that while they were there, the time came for her to give birth. {{rf{7}}} And she gave birth to her firstborn son, and wrapped him in strips of cloth and laid him in a manger, because there was no place for them in the inn. {{rf{8}}} And there were shepherds in the same region, living out of doors and keeping watch, guarding over their flock by night. {{rf{9}}} And an angel of the Lord stood near them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were terribly frightened. {{rf{10}}} And the angel said to them, "Do not be afraid, for behold, I bring good news to you of great joy which will be for all the people: {{rf{11}}} that today a Savior, who is Christ the Lord, was born for you in the city of David. {{rf{12}}} And this will be the sign for you: you will find the baby wrapped in strips of cloth and lying in a manger." {{rf{13}}} And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly army, praising God and saying, {{rf{14}}} "Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace among people with whom he is pleased!" {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Luke-02-01]] }}}
<<Bbl L 2:1 abbr >> God moves the pieces to fulfill the geographical promises. This is in order to fulfill v 11.
<<Bbl L 2:6 abbr>> It seems Luke is recording a lot of detail with the manger, etc., and he is. But in fact his purpose is to explain the sign that was given to the shepherds. Without this need, it might not have been mentioned //there was no room at the inn.//
<<Bbl L 2:7 abbr >> Vss 12,16 relate the fulfillment. The //swaddling clothes// are just ordinary - "a plain old onesie", as Melisa says. The manger is humble - yet extraordinary and unmistakable as a circumstance, so it serves as a sign.
<<Bbl L 2:7 abbr >> We can suppose a midwife was present. (If Joseph attended the birth, what a strange experience to have with a virgin wife!)
<<Bbl L 2:11 abbr >> //Christ//, Messiah, [[Child]]
<<Bbl L 2:13 abbr >> We readily insert the idea of singing (Bob Bennett), supported by the words from a host of carols.
<<Bbl L 2:16 abbr >>-20 The basis for door-to-door singing. Mary and Joseph don't witness the spectacular display, for they don't need it.
<<Bbl L 2:19 abbr>> Also vs 51. Compare with Jacob, <<Bbl Gn 37:11 >>.
<<Bbl L 2:19 abbr >> A clue indicating that Luke interviewed Mary. The NAS wrongly uses //But//.
<<Bbl L 2:20 abbr >> Act and word revelation.
<<Bbl L 2:25 abbr >> <<Bbl L 2:38 >>
<<Bbl L 2:25 abbr>>ff Simeon is the beatific consummation of all OT faith. He personifies Hebrews 11. Standing at the brink of the Kingdom, he holds the baby - yet withheld from him still is the new understanding of God's redemptive plan.
<<Bbl L 2:29 abbr >> This is often construed to mean that God had spoken to him; I don't see where it necessarily follows. Compare <<Bbl Gn 46:30 >>.
<<Bbl L 2:35 abbr >> What piercings? Aspects of sword. The heart-pierce of salvation is one. Dividing a family, as Jesus said.
<<Bbl L 2:38 abbr >> <<Bbl L 2:25 >>
<<Bbl L 2:38 abbr >> b [[Remnant]]
<<Bbl L 2:46 abbr >> //Your Father - My Father// - an assertion of His own Deity.
2:49 "Why was it so hard to figure out where I must be?"
<<Bbl L 2:51 abbr >> b Mary's //treasure// includes all the preceding.
<<Bbl L 3:1 abbr >> Suddenly the viewpoint zooms out.
<<Bbl L 3:1 abbr>>-2 This is reminiscent of the formulas that open Jeremiah, Ezekiel, etc. Surprising that Luke, a gentile, should use them.
3:10-14 Close to <<Bbl Zech 8:16 >>-17 . Also, the queries are echoed by the Philippian jailor later.
<<Bbl L 3:16 abbr>>-17 Following 3:15 as it does, John's sense of the dramatic is manifest.
** Don Richardson says that John refers to two baptisms, one for the saved and another for the lost.
** Strong parallel images: //Spirit// or wind as a threshing fan, and fire
3:18 John preached the good news, which is important to note. But in the context of vss 18-22, this might not pre-date the Lord's own preaching.
<<Bbl L 3:36 abbr>> Cainan may want research.
<<Bbl L 3:23 abbr >> The viewpoint zooms out more.
{{rf{15}}} And it happened that when the angels had departed from them into heaven, the shepherds began to say to one another, "Let us go now to Bethlehem and see this thing that has happened, which the Lord has revealed to us!" {{rf{16}}} And they went hurrying and found both Mary and Joseph, and the baby who was lying in the manger. {{rf{17}}} And when they saw it, they made known the statement that had been told to them about this child. {{rf{18}}} And all who heard it were astonished concerning what had been said to them by the shepherds. {{rf{19}}} But Mary treasured up all these words, pondering them in her heart. {{rf{20}}} And the shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all that they had heard and seen, just as it had been told to them. {{rf{21}}} And when eight days were completed so that he could be circumcised, he was named Jesus, his name that he was called by the angel before he was conceived in the womb. {{rf{22}}} And when the days of their purification were completed according to the law of Moses, they brought him up to Jerusalem to present him to the Lord {{rf{23}}} (just as it is written in the law of the Lord, "Every male that opens the womb will be called holy to the Lord") {{rf{24}}} and to offer a sacrifice according to what was stated in the law of the Lord, "a pair of turtledoves or two young pigeons." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Luke-02-15]] }}}
{{rf{25}}} And behold, there was a man in Jerusalem whose name was Simeon, and this man was righteous and devout, looking forward to the consolation of Israel, and the Holy Spirit was upon him. {{rf{26}}} And it had been revealed to him by the Holy Spirit that he would not see death before he would see the Lord's Christ. {{rf{27}}} And he came in the Spirit into the temple, and when the parents brought in the child Jesus so that they could do for him according to what was customary under the law, {{rf{28}}} he took him in his arms and praised God and said, {{rf{29}}} "Now dismiss your slave in peace, Lord, according to your word. {{rf{30}}} For my eyes have seen your salvatio {{rf{31}}} that you have prepared in the presence of all the peoples, {{rf{32}}} a light for revelation to the Gentiles, and glory to your people Israel." {{rf{33}}} And his father and mother were astonished at what was said about him. {{rf{34}}} And Simeon blessed them and said to his mother Mary, "Behold, this child is appointed for the fall and rise of many in Israel, and for a sign that is opposed -- {{rf{35}}} and a sword will pierce your own soul also, so that the thoughts of many hearts will be revealed!" {{rf{36}}} And there was a prophetess, Anna the daughter of Phanuel of the tribe of Asher (she was advanced in years, having lived with her husband seven years after her marriage, {{rf{37}}} and herself as a widow up to eighty-four years) who did not depart from the temple with fastings and prayers, serving night and day. {{rf{38}}} And at that same hour she approached and began to give thanks to God, and to speak about him to all those who were waiting for the redemption of Jerusalem. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Luke-02-25]] }}}
{{rf{39}}} And when they had completed everything according to the law of the Lord, they returned to Galilee, to their own town of Nazareth. {{rf{40}}} And the child was growing and becoming strong, filled with wisdom, and the favor of God was upon him. {{rf{41}}} And his parents went every year to Jerusalem for the feast of the Passover. {{rf{42}}} And when he was twelve years old, they went up according to the custom of the feast. {{rf{43}}} And after the days were completed, while they were returning, the boy Jesus stayed behind in Jerusalem. And his parents did not know it, {{rf{44}}} but believing him to be in the group of travelers, they went a day's journey. And they began searching for him among their relatives and their acquaintances, {{rf{45}}} and when they did not find him, they returned to Jerusalem to search for him. {{rf{46}}} And it happened that after three days they found him in the temple courts, sitting in the midst of the teachers and listening to them and asking them questions. {{rf{47}}} And all who heard him were amazed at his insight and his answers. {{rf{48}}} And when they saw him, they were astounded and his mother said to him, "Child, why have you done this to us? Look, your father and I have been searching for you anxiously!" {{rf{49}}} And he said to them, "Why were you searching for me? Did you not know that it was necessary for me to be in the house of my Father?" {{rf{50}}} And they did not understand the statement that he spoke to them. {{rf{51}}} And he went down with them and came to Nazareth, and was submitting to them. And his mother treasured all these things in her heart. {{rf{52}}} And Jesus was advancing in wisdom and stature and in favor with God and with people. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Luke-02-39]] }}}
Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, when Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea, and Herod was tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip was tetrarch of the region of Iturea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias was tetrarch of Abilene, {{rf{2}}} in the time of the high priest Annas and Caiaphas, the word of God came to John the son of Zechariah in the wilderness. {{rf{3}}} And he went into all the surrounding region of the Jordan, preaching a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins, {{rf{4}}} as it is written in the book of the words of the prophet Isaiah, "The voice of one crying out in the wilderness, 'Prepare the way of the Lord, make his paths straight! {{rf{5}}} Every valley will be filled, and every mountain and hill will be leveled, and the crooked will become straight, and the rough road will become smooth, {{rf{6}}} and all flesh will see the salvation of God.'" {{rf{7}}} Therefore he was saying to the crowds that came out to be baptized by him, "Offspring of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the coming wrath? {{rf{8}}} Therefore produce fruit worthy of repentance! And do not begin to say to yourselves, 'We have Abraham as father.' For I say to you that God is able to raise up children for Abraham from these stones! {{rf{9}}} And even now the ax is positioned at the root of the trees; therefore every tree not producing good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Luke-03-01]] }}}
{{rf{10}}} And the crowds were asking him, saying, "What then should we do?" {{rf{11}}} And he answered and said to them, "The one who has two tunics must share with the one who does not have one, and the one who has food must do likewise." {{rf{12}}} And tax collectors also came to be baptized, and they said to him, "Teacher, what should we do?" {{rf{13}}} And he said to them, "Collect no more than what you are ordered to." {{rf{14}}} And those who served in the army were also asking him, saying, "What should we also do?" And he said to them, "Extort from no one, and do not blackmail anyone, and be content with your pay." {{rf{15}}} And while the people were waiting expectantly and all were pondering in their hearts concerning John, whether perhaps he might be the Christ, {{rf{16}}} John answered them all, saying, "I baptize you with water, but the one who is more powerful than I am is coming, of whom I am not worthy to untie the strap of his sandals. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire. {{rf{17}}} His winnowing shovel is in his hand, to clean out his threshing floor and to gather the wheat into his storehouse, but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire." {{rf{18}}} So with many other exhortations also he proclaimed good news to the people. {{rf{19}}} But Herod the tetrarch, who had been reproved by him concerning Herodias, his brother's wife, and concerning all the evil deeds that Herod had done, {{rf{20}}} added this also to them all: he also locked up John in prison. {{rf{21}}} Now it happened that when all the people were baptized, Jesus also was baptized, and while he was praying, heaven was opened, {{rf{22}}} and the Holy Spirit descended on him in bodily form like a dove, and a voice came from heaven, "You are my beloved Son; with you I am well pleased." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Luke-03-10]] }}}
{{rf{23}}} And Jesus, when he began his ministry, was himself about thirty years old, being the son (as it was believed) of Joseph the son of Eli, {{rf{24}}} the son of Matthat, the son of Levi, the son of Melchi, the son of Jannai, the son of Joseph, {{rf{25}}} the son of Mattathias, the son of Amos, the son of Nahum, the son of Esli, the son of Naggai, {{rf{26}}} the son of Maath, the son of Mattathias, the son of Semein, the son of Josech, the son of Joda, {{rf{27}}} the son of Joanan, the son of Rhesa, the son of Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, the son of Neri, {{rf{28}}} the son of Melchi, the son of Addi, the son of Cosam, the son of Elmadam, the son of Er, {{rf{29}}} the son of Joshua, the son of Eliezer, the son of Jorim, the son of Matthat, the son of Levi, {{rf{30}}} the son of Simeon, the son of Judah, the son of Joseph, the son of Jonam, the son of Eliakim, {{rf{31}}} the son of Melea, the son of Menna, the son of Mattatha, the son of Nathan, the son of David, {{rf{32}}} the son of Jesse, the son of Obed, the son of Boaz, the son of Sala, the son of Nahshon, {{rf{33}}} the son of Amminadab, the son of Admin, the son of Arni, the son of Hezron, the son of Perez, the son of Judah, {{rf{34}}} the son of Jacob, the son of Isaac, the son of Abraham, the son of Terah, the son of Nahor, {{rf{35}}} the son of Serug, the son of Reu, the son of Peleg, the son of Eber, the son of Shelah, {{rf{36}}} the son of Cainan, the son of Arphaxad, the son of Shem, the son of Noah, the son of Lamech, {{rf{37}}} the son of Methuselah, the son of Enoch, the son of Jared, the son of Mahalaleel, the son of Cainan, {{rf{38}}} the son of Enosh, the son of Seth, the son of Adam, the son of God. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Luke-03-23]] }}}
And Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit in the wilderness {{rf{2}}} forty days, being tempted by the devil. And he ate nothing during those days, and when they were completed, he was hungry. {{rf{3}}} So the devil said to him, "If you are the Son of God, order this stone that it become bread!" {{rf{4}}} And Jesus replied to him, "It is written, 'Man will not live on bread alone.'" {{rf{5}}} And he led him up and showed him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time. {{rf{6}}} And the devil said to him, "I will give you all this domain and their glory, because it has been handed over to me, and I can give it to whomever I want. {{rf{7}}} So if you will worship before me, all this will be yours." {{rf{8}}} And Jesus answered and said to him, "It is written, 'You shall worship the Lord your God, and serve only him.'" {{rf{9}}} And he brought him to Jerusalem, and had him stand on the highest point of the temple and said to him, "If you are the Son of God, throw yourself down from here, {{rf{10}}} for it is written, 'He will command his angels concerning you, to protect you,' {{rf{11}}} and 'on their hands they will lift you up, lest you strike your foot against a stone.'" {{rf{12}}} And Jesus answered and said to him, "It is said, 'You are not to put to the test the Lord your God.'" {{rf{13}}} And when the devil had completed every temptation, he departed from him until a favorable time. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Luke-04-01]] }}}
Chapter 4 After the tempting, the receptions given Jesus first by two synagogues, then in Peter's home, are recorded. Unbelief, hostility were at the first; amazement and attention, yet without understanding, at the second; understanding and love at the third. But the last verse of the chapter records His persistance within the synagogues.
4:4-12 Common in the three temptations is the proposal to be God -- or rather, to demonstrate His Godhood (as Wuest points out, Satan does not express doubt about that issue). Jesus always answers the answer of a righteous man.
4:4 see <<Bbl Mt 4:4 >>
<<Bbl L 4:6 abbr >> <<Bbl Mt 28:18 >> uses the same Greek phrase, all authority , for what Jesus has been given.
Dave Davidson and the Reconstructionists propose that Satan was lying, since "The earth is the Lord's and the fulness thereof." But I wonder, knowing of course that God is over all, if authority was not passed from man to the devil after the Fall. And Jesus did not deny Satan's statement.
According to Darnell, handed to me can be rendered, betrayed over to me.
<<Bbl L 4:14 abbr >>-22 a Positive reception which will dramatically reverse.
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{{rf{18}}} "The Spirit of the Lord //is// upon me, because of which he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim release to the captives, and recovery of sight to the blind, to send out in freedom those who are oppressed, {{rf{19}}} to proclaim the favorable year of the Lord."
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4:19 Jesus stops in the middle of a sentence.
<<Bbl L 4:22 abbr >>b-4:24 Sudden and deadly disfavor. The reference in v 22b to "our local boy" has something more sinister than amazement. It is Satan's first blow of vengeance for the earlier rejection by Jesus (<<Bbl L 4:13 abbr >>). "So you won't fix the game? The boss will have something to say about that!"
4:24 Compare <<Bbl J 1:11 >>.
<<Bbl L 4:26 abbr >>-27 Note Jesus is referring very deliberately to gentiles.
<<Bbl L 4:29 abbr >>-30 -29 The crucifixion processional, but premature. Echoes the temptation that just preceded. He uses a sublimely humble escape, the opposite of calculated glory enjoined on Him by Satan.
4:35 without doing him any harm -- as a modern physician would say, no side effects.
{{rf{14}}} And Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit to Galilee, and news about him went out throughout all the surrounding region. {{rf{15}}} And he began to teach in their synagogues, and was praised by all. {{rf{16}}} And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up, and according to his custom he entered into the synagogue on the day of the Sabbath and stood up to read. {{rf{17}}} And the scroll of the prophet Isaiah was given to him, and unrolling the scroll he found the place where it was written, {{rf{18}}} "The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because of which he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim release to the captives, and recovery of sight to the blind, to send out in freedom those who are oppressed, {{rf{19}}} to proclaim the favorable year of the Lord." {{rf{20}}} And he rolled up the scroll and gave it back to the attendant and sat down. And the eyes of everyone in the synagogue were looking intently at him. {{rf{21}}} And he began to say to them, "Today this scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing." {{rf{22}}} And they were all speaking well of him, and were astonished at the gracious words that were coming out of his mouth. And they were saying, "Is this man not the son of Joseph?" {{rf{23}}} And he said to them, "Doubtless you will tell me this parable: 'Physician, heal yourself!' Whatever we have heard that took place in Capernaum, do here in your hometown also!" {{rf{24}}} And he said, "Truly I say to you that no prophet is acceptable in his own hometown. {{rf{25}}} But in truth I say to you, there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the sky was shut for three years and six months while a great famine took place over all the land. {{rf{26}}} And Elijah was sent to none of them, but only to Zarephath in the region of Sidon, to a woman who was a widow. {{rf{27}}} And there were many lepers in Israel in the time of the prophet Elisha, and none of them was made clean except Naaman the Syrian." {{rf{28}}} And all those in the synagogue were filled with anger when they heard these things. {{rf{29}}} And they stood up and forced him out of the town and brought him up to the edge of the hill on which their town was built, so that they could throw him down the cliff. {{rf{30}}} But he passed through their midst and went on his way. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Luke-04-14]] }}}
{{rf{31}}} And he came down to Capernaum, a town of Galilee, and was teaching them on the Sabbath. {{rf{32}}} And they were astounded at his teaching, because he spoke with authority. {{rf{33}}} And in the synagogue there was a man who had the spirit of an unclean demon, and he cried out with a loud voice, {{rf{34}}} "Ha! Leave us alone, Jesus the Nazarene! Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are -- the Holy One of God!" {{rf{35}}} And Jesus rebuked him, saying, "Be silent and come out of him!" And after throwing him down in their midst, the demon came out of him without hurting him at all. {{rf{36}}} And amazement came upon them all, and they began to talk with one another, saying, "What word is this? For he commands the unclean spirits with authority and power, and they come out!" {{rf{37}}} And news about him went out into every place of the surrounding region.
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{{rf{38}}} And after he set out from the synagogue, he went into Simon's house. And Simon's mother-in-law was afflicted with a high fever, and they asked him on behalf of her. {{rf{39}}} And he stood over her and rebuked the fever, and it left her. And immediately she got up and began to serve them. {{rf{40}}} Now as the sun was setting, all who had those who were sick with various diseases brought them to him, and placing his hands on every one of them, he healed them. {{rf{41}}} And demons also were coming out of many, crying out and saying, "You are the Son of God!" And he rebuked them and did not permit them to speak, because they knew that he was the Christ. {{rf{42}}} And when it was day, he departed and went to an isolated place. And the crowds were seeking him, and came to him and were trying to prevent him from departing from them. {{rf{43}}} But he said to them, "It is necessary for me to proclaim the good news of the kingdom of God to the other towns also, because I was sent for this purpose. {{rf{44}}} And he was preaching in the synagogues of Judea. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Luke-04-31]] }}}
{{rf big{1}}} Now it happened that while the crowd was pressing around him and hearing the word of God, he was standing beside the lake of Gennesaret, {{rf{2}}} and he saw two boats there beside the lake, but the fishermen had gotten out of them and were washing their nets. {{rf{3}}} And he got into one of the boats, which was Simon's, and asked him to put out from the land a little. And he sat down and began to teach the crowds from the boat. {{rf{4}}} And when he stopped speaking, he said to Simon, "Put out into the deep water and let down your nets for a catch." {{rf{5}}} And Simon answered and said, "Master, although we worked hard through the whole night, we caught nothing. But at your word I will let down the nets." {{rf{6}}} And when they did this, they caught a very large number of fish, and their nets began to tear. {{rf{7}}} And they signaled to their partners in the other boat to come and help them, and they came and filled both the boats so that they began to sink. {{rf{8}}} And when he saw it, Simon Peter fell down at Jesus' knees, saying, "Depart from me, Lord, because I am a sinful man!" {{rf{9}}} For amazement had seized him and all those who were with him at the catch of fish that they had caught, {{rf{10}}} and so also were James and John, the sons of Zebedee, who were business partners with Simon. And Jesus said to Simon, "Do not be afraid! From now on you will be catching people!" {{rf{11}}} And after they brought their boats to the land, they left everything and followed him. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Luke-05-01]] }}}
5:6-7 New wine in old vessels.
5:8 see <<Bbl Mt 8:34 >>
<<Bbl Mt 5:10 abbr >> Not the image of fly-fishing or tournament bass fishing, but of fishing with nets. Note that that Peter, James and John were originally a business concern (the term koinonia is used).
5:11 everything, including the miraculous catch. Sometimes we leave God's wonders to follow God Himself. His ways, not His acts,
<<Bbl L 5:14 abbr >> A testimony of God's rightousness, power and mercy.
5:15-17 //hear Him and to be healed// foreshadows the two-fold character of the Lord's ministry that is emphasized in chaps 9, 10.
5:18-19 The paralytic brought in through the roof
* Men having faith, compassion, strength, unity, creativity, faithfulness -- a lack of any one of these qualities would have kept the paralytic from healing. One wonders, did they look back on this and say //We really didn't need to do that//?
* Vulnerability for the man in need.
* And what shall we say of the host of this event?
* The converse of a prisoner breaking out though a wall -- this man finds freedom by breaking in.
* Potential rich picture of Christ in me. I am the house, and the guys on the roof relate to my soul life. In dealing with my need, God may dislodge my roof.
5:20 Forgiveness is the man's first need.
5:23 The answer being that as far as humans are concerned, they are equally difficult.
5:24 This announces that Jesus came to do more than heal physically.
5:32 And the class of sinners includes everyone.
<<Bbl L 5:27 abbr >>-32 see <<Bbl L 19:1 >>-10.
{{rf{12}}} And it happened that while he was in one of the towns, there was a man covered with leprosy. And when he saw Jesus, he fell down on his face and begged him, saying, "Lord, if you are willing, you are able to make me clean." {{rf{13}}} And extending his hand he touched him, saying, "I am willing; be clean." And immediately the leprosy went away from him. {{rf{14}}} And he ordered him, "Tell no one, but go and show yourself to the priest and bring the offering for your cleansing just as Moses commanded, for a testimony to them. {{rf{15}}} But the report about him spread even more, and large crowds were gathering to hear him and to be healed of their illnesses. {{rf{16}}} But he himself was withdrawing in the wilderness and praying. {{rf{17}}} And it happened that on one of the days as he was teaching, Pharisees and teachers of the law were sitting there who had come from every village of Galilee and Judea and from Jerusalem, and the power of the Lord was there in order for him to heal. {{rf{18}}} And behold, men came carrying on a stretcher a man who was paralyzed, and they were seeking to bring him in and place him before him. {{rf{19}}} And when they did not find a way to bring him in because of the crowd, they went up on the roof and let him down through the roof tiles with the stretcher into the midst of them, in front of Jesus. {{rf{20}}} And when he saw their faith, he said, "Friend, your sins are forgiven you." {{rf{21}}} And the scribes and the Pharisees began to reason, saying, "Who is this man who speaks blasphemies? Who is able to forgive sins except God alone?" {{rf{22}}} But Jesus, perceiving their thoughts, answered and said to them, "Why are you reasoning in your hearts? {{rf{23}}} Which is easier to say, 'Your sins are forgiven you,' or to say, 'Get up and walk?' {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Luke-05-12]] }}}
{{rf{24}}} But in order that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins," he said to the one who was paralyzed, "I say to you, 'Get up and pick up your stretcher and go to your home.'" {{rf{25}}} And immediately he stood up before them, picked up what he had been lying on, and went away to his home, glorifying God. {{rf{26}}} And amazement seized them all, and they began to glorify God. And they were filled with fear, saying, "We have seen wonderful things today!" {{rf{27}}} And after these things, he went out and saw a tax collector named Levi sitting at the tax booth, and he said to him, "Follow me!" {{rf{28}}} And leaving everything behind, he got up and began to follow him. {{rf{29}}} And Levi gave a great banquet for him in his house, and there was a large crowd of tax collectors and others who were reclining for the meal with them. {{rf{30}}} And the Pharisees and their scribes began to complain to his disciples, saying, "Why do you eat and drink with the tax collectors and sinners?" {{rf{31}}} And Jesus answered and said to them, "Those who are healthy do not have need of a physician, but those who are sick. {{rf{32}}} I have not come to call the righteous but sinners to repentance." {{rf{33}}} And they said to him, "The disciples of John fast often and make prayers -- likewise also the disciples of the Pharisees -- but yours are eating and drinking!" {{rf{34}}} So he said to them, "You are not able to make the bridegroom's attendants fast as long as the bridegroom is with them, are you? {{rf{35}}} But days will come, and when the bridegroom is taken away from them, then they will fast in those days." {{rf{36}}} And he also told a parable to them: "No one tears a patch from a new garment and puts it on an old garment. Otherwise, he will have torn the new also, and the old will not match the patch that is from the new. {{rf{37}}} And no one pours new wine into old wineskins. Otherwise, the new wine will burst the wineskins, and it will be spilled and the wineskins will be destroyed. {{rf{38}}} But new wine must be put into new wineskins. {{rf{39}}} And no one after drinking old wine wants new, because he says, 'The old is just fine!'" {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Luke-05-24]] }}}
Now it happened that on a Sabbath he went through the grain fields, and his disciples were picking and eating the heads of grain, rubbing them in their hands. {{rf{2}}} But some of the Pharisees said, "Why are you doing what is not permitted on the Sabbath? {{rf{3}}} And Jesus answered and said to them, "Have you not read this, what David did when he and those who were with him were hungry -- {{rf{4}}} how he entered into the house of God and took the bread of the presentation, which it is not permitted to eat (except the priests alone), and ate it and gave it to those with him?" {{rf{5}}} And he said to them, "The Son of Man is Lord of the Sabbath." {{rf{6}}} Now it happened that on another Sabbath he entered into the synagogue and was teaching, and a man was there, and his right hand was withered. {{rf{7}}} So the scribes and the Pharisees were watching closely to see if he would heal on the Sabbath, in order that they could find a reason to accuse him. {{rf{8}}} But he knew their thoughts and said to the man who had the withered hand, "Get up and stand in the middle," and he got up and stood there. {{rf{9}}} And Jesus said to them, "I ask you whether it is permitted on the Sabbath to do good or to do evil, to save a life or to destroy it?" {{rf{10}}} And after looking around at them all, he said to him, "Stretch out your hand," and he did, and his hand was restored. {{rf{11}}} But they were filled with fury, and began discussing with one another what they might do to Jesus. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Luke-06-01]] }}}
6:1 I imagine the sense of freedom, of true sabbath, that must have filled the disciples as they walked with the Lord.
6:2 It's hard to imagine the disciples' action as a violation (but then, even gathering manna on the Sabbath was a sin). Either everyone fasted, or perhaps the Pharisees saw this as a sort of harvest work ??
6:9 In other words, is the law of the Sabbath inconsistant with the goodness of God?
6:10 By doing no action, and only speaking the word, Jesus emphasizes the sin of his sabbatarian accusers.
<<Bbl L 9:12 abbr >> Why were men counted? In order to count families. [[GroupVsIndividual]]. Link that to [[Representative]]. Possibly the largest gathering He addressed. Precedent in life of Elisha, and that was [[Firstfruits]]. Multiplication requires Blessing and Giving-Away. Good thing the disciples didn't give away the food before His blessing. Or eat it themselves.
<<Bbl L 6:16 abbr >>. it's like the wedding at Cana. [[Agency]]. The miracle happened not in the hands of the Master but of the disciples.
6:22 spurn your name as evil -- compare <<Bbl Ps 102:8 >>.
<<Bbl L 6:23 abbr >> These instructions followed in <<Bbl A 5:41 >>.
<<Bbl L 6:26 abbr >> Does <<Bbl Pr 27:21 >> apply?
6:31 He authors the idea that one man's beneficent action initiates an improvement for the world. A Texas State "holiday message" includes enlightening quotes from the so-called great world religions; Luke 6:31 is attributed only to "Christianity". Keeping Jesus anonymous is a form of blasphemy.
<<Bbl L 6:35 abbr >> you will be sons of the Most High - you will partake of God's character. Compare <<Bbl Mt 5:45 >>, <<Bbl Dt 15:10 >>.
<<Bbl L 6:37 abbr >>-38 Compare <<Bbl Mt 7:1 >>-2 . By your standard of measure -- this is one of C.S. Lewis' themes, and Chesterton's.
6:38 Compare with <<Bbl Ruth 3:16 >>; but it seems more likely that, rather than a direct allusion to Ruth, Jesus is drawing on a Hebrew idiom: <<Bbl Ps 79:12 >>; <<Bbl I 65:6 >>-7 ; <<Bbl Jer 32:18 >>. The idiom may have the image of using one's garment to carry grain, etc.
<<Bbl L 6:38 abbr >> God's gifts are sanctified. In receiving them, we are given maturity also.
6:40 As in <<Bbl 1J 3:2 >>.
{{rf{12}}} Now it happened that in these days he went away to the mountain to pray, and was spending the whole night in prayer to God. {{rf{13}}} And when day came, he summoned his disciples and chose from them twelve, whom he also named apostles: {{rf{14}}} Simon (whom he also named Peter) and his brother Andrew, and James, and John, and Philip, and Bartholomew, {{rf{15}}} and Matthew, and Thomas, and James the son of Alphaeus, and Simon who was called the Zealot, {{rf{16}}} and Judas the son of James, and Judas Iscariot, who became a traitor. {{rf{17}}} And he came down with them and stood on a level place, and a large crowd of his disciples and a great multitude of people from all of Judea and Jerusalem and the seacoast district of Tyre and Sidon, {{rf{18}}} who came to hear him and to be healed of their diseases, and those who were troubled by unclean spirits were cured. {{rf{19}}} And the whole crowd was seeking to touch him, because power was going out from him and healing them all. {{rf{20}}} And he lifted up his eyes to his disciples and said, "Blessed are the poor, because yours is the kingdom of God. {{rf{21}}} Blessed are those who are hungry now, because you will be satisfied. Blessed are those who weep now, Because you will laugh. {{rf{22}}} Blessed are you when people hate you, and when they exclude you and revile you and spurn your name as evil on account of the Son of Man. {{rf{23}}} Rejoice in that day, and leap for joy, for behold, your reward is great in heaven. For their fathers used to do the same things to the prophets. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Luke-06-12]] }}}
{{rf{24}}} "But woe to you who are rich, because you have received your comfort. {{rf{25}}} Woe to you who are satisfied now, because you will be hungry. Woe, you who laugh now, because you will mourn and weep. {{rf{26}}} Woe whenever all people speak well of you, for their fathers used to do the same things to the false prophets. {{rf{27}}} "But to you who are listening I say: Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, {{rf{28}}} bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you. {{rf{29}}} To the one who strikes you on the cheek, offer the other also, and from the one who takes away your cloak, do not withhold your tunic also. {{rf{30}}} Give to everyone who asks you, and from the one who takes away your things, do not ask for them back. {{rf{31}}} And just as you want people to do to you, do the same to them. {{rf{32}}} "And if you love those who love you, what kind of credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them! {{rf{33}}} And if you do good to those who do good to you, what kind of credit is that to you? Even the sinners do the same! {{rf{34}}} And if you lend to those from whom you expect to receive back, what kind of credit is that to you? Even sinners lend to sinners, so that they may get back an equal amount! {{rf{35}}} But love your enemies, and do good, and lend expecting back nothing, and your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High, because he is kind to the ungrateful and wicked. {{rf{36}}} Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful! {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Luke-06-24]] }}}
{{rf{37}}} "And do not judge, and you will never be judged. And do not condemn, and you will never be condemned. Pardon, and you will be pardoned. {{rf{38}}} Give, and it will be given to you, a good measure -- pressed down, shaken, overflowing -- they will pour out into your lap. For with the measure by which you measure out, it will be measured out to you in return." {{rf{39}}} And he also told them a parable: "Surely a blind person cannot lead the blind, can he? Will they not both fall into a pit? {{rf{40}}} A disciple is not superior to his teacher, but everyone, when he is fully trained, will be like his teacher. {{rf{41}}} And why do you see the speck that is in your brother's eye, but do not notice the beam of wood that is in your own eye? {{rf{42}}} How are you able to say to your brother, "Brother, allow me to remove the speck that is in your eye," while you yourself do not see the beam of wood in your own eye? Hypocrite! First remove the beam of wood from your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck that is in your brother's eye! {{rf{43}}} "For there is no good tree that produces bad fruit, nor on the other hand a bad tree that produces good fruit, {{rf{44}}} for each tree is known by its own fruit. For figs are not gathered from thorn plants, nor are grapes harvested from thorn bushes. {{rf{45}}} The good person out of the good treasury of his heart brings forth good, and the evil person out of his evil treasury brings forth evil. For out of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaks. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Luke-06-37]] }}}
{{rf{46}}} "And why do you call me 'Lord, Lord,' and do not do what I tell you? {{rf{47}}} "Everyone who comes to me and listens to my words and does them -- I will show you what he is like: {{rf{48}}} he is like a man building a house, who dug and went down deep and laid the foundation on the rock. And when a flood came, the river burst against that house and was not able to shake it, because it had been built well. {{rf{49}}} But the one who hears my words and does not do them is like a man who built a house on the ground without a foundation, which the river burst against, and immediately it collapsed -- and the collapse of that house was great!" {{rf big{1}}} After he had finished all his statements in the hearing of the people, he entered into Capernaum. {{rf{2}}} Now a certain centurion's slave, who was esteemed by him, was sick and was about to die. {{rf{3}}} So when he heard about Jesus, he sent Jewish elders to him, asking him that he would come and cure his slave. {{rf{4}}} And when they came to Jesus, they began imploring him earnestly, saying, "He is worthy that you grant this for him, {{rf{5}}} because he loves our nation and he himself built the synagogue for us." {{rf{6}}} So Jesus went with them. Now by this time he was not far away from the house, and the centurion sent friends, saying to him, "Lord, do not trouble yourself, for I am not worthy that you should come in under my roof. {{rf{7}}} For this reason neither did I consider myself worthy to come to you. But say the word and my slave must be healed. {{rf{8}}} For I also am a man placed under authority, who has soldiers under me, and I say to this one, 'Go!' and he goes, and to another one, 'Come!' and he comes, and to my slave, 'Do this!' and he does it." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Luke-06-46]] }}}
Chapter 7 Here is the end of the nationalistic hope (vss 18-23 are pivotal) and the vindication of the repentant sinful and poor.
<<Bbl L 7:1 "" abbr>>-10
* <<Bbl Mt 8:5 >>-13 //A man's reputation precedes him// -- this proverb was true for both the centurion and the Christ.
* The centurion declares that he is part of a chain of command; his authority proceeds from a higher source and exerts itself downward in the form of spoken commands: "Come, Go, Do this." In effect, the centurion is saying that if he had to run around doing it all himself, and in the process entering places unworthy of him, it would be no kind of authority. Thus his request for Christ to merely say the word.
* This and <<Bbl L 7:1 >>-10 are the only places where Jesus is recorded as being amazed.
* There's a rich contrast between the centurion and the harlot in vss 37-38. The one deals in authority, the other in intimacy; in worship they are peers.
7:18-23 //You, John, have ears to hear and eyes to see (it was you who testified about me at the river); or are you so sold on Jewish state sovereignty that you cannot see My power? Base your report on the revelation I can grant. As I have done for the physically blind, I can do for you in your spirit. Be like Joshua and Caleb.//
<<Bbl L 7:30 "" abbr>> Their past actions gave them something to prove. But God's purpose was for their righteousness in Christ, and repentance is crucial to this. A case study follows with the harlot and the Pharisee.
7:35 The verb for justify is //edikaio//, and the same verb is used in v29. Here, however, it is passive (also in <<Bbl R 3:4 >>), giving us a parallel of:
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This verse is found in <<Bbl Mt 11:19 >>, but without the other use of the verb.
7:38 The material accessories of her sin, the very physical members, are turned to worship. There is no self-consciousness.
<<Bbl L 7:39 abbr >> //If this man knew who and what sort of...// -- irony.
<<Bbl L 7:43 abbr >> He closes the trap like Nathan in <<Bbl 2S 12:7 >>.
{{rf{9}}} And when Jesus heard these things, he marveled at him, and turning around to the crowd that was following him, he said, "I tell you, not even in Israel have I found such great faith!" {{rf{10}}} And when they returned to the house, those who had been sent found the slave healthy. {{rf{11}}} And it happened that on the next day he went to a town called Nain, and his disciples and a large crowd went with him. {{rf{12}}} And as he approached the gate of the town, behold, a man who had died was being carried out, his mother's only son, and she was a widow. And a large crowd from the town was with her. {{rf{13}}} And when the Lord saw her, he had compassion for her and said to her, "Do not weep!" {{rf{14}}} And he came up and touched the bier, and those who were carrying it stopped. And he said, "Young man, I say to you, get up!" {{rf{15}}} And the dead man sat up and began to speak, and he gave him to his mother. {{rf{16}}} And fear seized them all, and they began to glorify God, saying, "A great prophet has appeared among us!" and "God has visited to help his people!"
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{{rf{17}}} And this report about him went out in the whole of Judea and in all the surrounding region. {{rf{18}}} And his disciples reported to John about all these things. And summoning a certain two of his disciples, John {{rf{19}}} sent them to the Lord, saying, "Are you the one who is to come, or should we look for another?" {{rf{20}}} And when the men came to him, they said, "John the Baptist sent us to you, saying, 'Are you the one who is to come, or should we look for another?'" {{rf{21}}} In that hour he healed many people of diseases and suffering and evil spirits, and he granted sight to many blind people. {{rf{22}}} And he answered and said to them, "Go and tell John what you have seen and heard: the blind receive sight, the lame walk, lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear; the dead are raised, the poor have good news announced to them. {{rf{23}}} And whoever is not offended by me is blessed." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Luke-07-09]] }}}
{{rf{24}}} And when the messengers of John had departed, he began to speak to the crowds concerning John: "What did you go out into the wilderness to see? A reed shaken by the wind? {{rf{25}}} But what did you go out to see? A man dressed in soft clothing? Behold, those who are in splendid clothing and luxury are in the royal palaces. {{rf{26}}} But what did you go out to see? A prophet? Yes, I tell you, and even more than a prophet! {{rf{27}}} It is this man about whom it is written: 'Behold, I am sending my messenger before your face, who will prepare your way before you.' {{rf{28}}} I tell you, there is no one greater among those born of women than John, but the one who is least in the kingdom of God is greater than he. {{rf{29}}} (And all the people, when they heard this -- even the tax collectors -- affirmed the righteousness of God, because they had been baptized with the baptism of John, {{rf{30}}} but the Pharisees and the legal experts rejected the purpose of God for themselves, because they had not been baptized by him.) {{rf{31}}} "To what then shall I compare the people of this generation, and what are they like? {{rf{32}}} They are like children sitting in the marketplace and calling out to one another, who say, 'We played the flute for you and you did not dance; we sang a lament and you did not weep.' {{rf{33}}} For John the Baptist has come not eating bread or drinking wine, and you say, 'He has a demon!' {{rf{34}}} The Son of Man has come eating and drinking, and you say, 'Behold, a man who is a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!' {{rf{35}}} And wisdom is vindicated by all her children." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Luke-07-24]] }}}
{{rf{36}}} Now one of the Pharisees asked him to eat with him, and he entered into the house of the Pharisee and reclined at the table. {{rf{37}}} And behold, a woman in the town who was a sinner, when she learned that he was dining in the Pharisee's house, brought an alabaster flask of perfumed oil, {{rf{38}}} and standing behind him at his feet weeping, she began to wet his feet with her tears and was wiping them with the hair of her head and was kissing his feet and anointing them with the perfumed oil. {{rf{39}}} Now when the Pharisee who invited him saw this, he spoke to himself, saying, "If this man were a prophet, he would have known who and what kind of woman this is who is touching him, that she is a sinner." {{rf{40}}} And Jesus answered and said to him, "Simon, I have something to say to you." And he said, "Teacher, say it." {{rf{41}}} "There were two debtors who owed a certain creditor. One owed five hundred denarii and the other fifty. {{rf{42}}} When they were not able to repay him, he forgave the debts of both. Now which of them will love him more?" {{rf{43}}} Simon answered and said, "I suppose that it is the one to whom he forgave more." And he said to him, "You have judged correctly." {{rf{44}}} And turning toward the woman, he said to Simon, "Do you see this woman? I entered into your house. You did not give me water for my feet, but she wet my feet with her tears and wiped them with her hair. {{rf{45}}} You did not give me a kiss, but from the time I entered, she has not stopped kissing my feet. {{rf{46}}} You did not anoint my head with olive oil, but she anointed my feet with perfumed oil. {{rf{47}}} For this reason I tell you, her sins -- which were many -- have been forgiven, for she loved much. But the one to whom little is forgiven loves little." {{rf{48}}} And he said to her, "Your sins are forgiven." {{rf{49}}} And those who were reclining at the table with him began to say among themselves, "Who is this who even forgives sins?" {{rf{50}}} And he said to the woman, "Your faith has saved you. Go in peace." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Luke-07-36]] }}}
And it happened that afterward also he was going about from one town and village to another preaching and proclaiming the good news concerning the kingdom of God, and the twelve were with him, {{rf{2}}} and some women who had been healed of evil spirits and diseases: Mary (who was called Magdalene), from whom seven demons had gone out, {{rf{3}}} and Joanna the wife of Chuza (Herod's household manager), and Susanna, and many others who were helping to support them from their possessions. {{rf{4}}} And while a large crowd was gathering and they were going to him from town after town, he spoke by means of a parable: {{rf{5}}} "The sower went out to sow his seed, and while he was sowing, some seed fell on the side of the path and was trampled under foot, and the birds of the sky devoured it. {{rf{6}}} And other seed fell on the rock, and when it came up, it withered, because it did not have moisture. {{rf{7}}} And other seed fell in the midst of the thorn plants, and the thorn plants grew up with it and choked it. {{rf{8}}} And other seed fell on the good soil, and when it came up, it produced a hundred times as much grain." As he said these things, he called out, "The one who has ears to hear, let him hear!" {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Luke-08-01]] }}}
<<Bbl L 8:3 abbr >> First instance in the NT of itinerent team with mention of financial support. It's also a prelude to the Book of Acts (also Luke), the early church in general. Who knows what petty squabbles arose each day? but who can describe the joy of the women who were buying bread for the Messiah?
8:4-15 The Lord is so generous with His explanation of this parable and I suppose it's encouraged us a lot as to all His others.
The parable teaches God's soveriegnty, as a soil is passive. Since it's a matter, apparently, of random chance where the seeds land, this soveriegnty is implied. But over all is the fact that the sower is intelligently invested in the work; he has prepared the soil that is good. At the same time, and with no conflict, the parable teaches man's responsibility. Each of the soils presents a lesson on how to live and receive God's grace. (And how God readied my heart, gave me a craving for Scripture! I weep over this in joy and wonder.) Intense multiplication is the final result.
By comparing vss 12 and 15 we see that if your heart is ill prepared, satanic interference is likely. Thus the devil can be resisted. 'Retain the Seed' would be a good theme for a Kenitra Camp.
8:16-18 Follows from vs 10; a comment on the in-depth teaching just vouchsafed to the disciples. Thus 18b can be applied to Judas.
8:17 Could we read the last words as -- see by means of the light -- ?? Thus the latter part of vs 16 would be in reference. Jesus would be stating his apostolic purposes for the disciples.
<<Bbl L 8:25 abbr >> The disciples' question //What manner of man?// is answered outright by the legion of demons very soon.
8:29 Just as Jesus had been driven by the Spirit. Same verb??
8:47 she had not escaped notice ! See <<Bbl H 4:13 >>
<<Bbl L 8:49 abbr >>-50 Like the woman, Jairus doesn't escape notice. Did the Lord overhear the arriving news, or did Jairus relate it to him?
Luke is interested in whether there was enough of Jesus' power to go around. Thus his appreciation of the Spirit's work in <<Bbl A 8:52 >>-53 see <<Bbl 1Thes 4:13 >>, <<Bbl 1C 15:18 >>-19 . Also <<Bbl Mt 9:23 >>, <<Bbl Mk 5:38 >> fill out the picture. The parents themselves would probably have had too genuine a grief to join in the ridicule.
{{rf{9}}} And his disciples asked him what this parable meant. {{rf{10}}} And he said, "To you it has been given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God, but to the rest they are in parables, so that 'Seeing they may not see, and hearing they may not understand.' {{rf{11}}} Now the parable means this: the seed is the word of God, {{rf{12}}} and those beside the path are the ones who have heard. Then the devil comes and takes away the word from their heart, so that they may not believe and be saved. {{rf{13}}} And those on the rock are those who receive the word with joy when they hear it, and these do not have enough root, who believe for a time and in a time of testing fall away. {{rf{14}}} And the seed that fell into the thorn plants -- these are the ones who hear and as they go along are choked by the worries and riches and pleasures of life, and they do not bear fruit to maturity. {{rf{15}}} But the seed on the good soil -- these are the ones who, after hearing the word, hold fast to it with a noble and good heart, and bear fruit with patient endurance. {{rf{16}}} "And no one, after lighting a lamp, covers it with a jar or puts it under a bed, but puts it on a lampstand, so that those who come in can see the light. {{rf{17}}} For nothing is secret that will not become evident, and nothing hidden that will never be known and come to light. {{rf{18}}} Therefore consider how you listen, for whoever has, to him more will be given, and whoever does not have, even what he thinks that he has will be taken away from him." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Luke-08-09]] }}}
{{rf{19}}} Now his mother and brothers came to him, and they were not able to meet with him because of the crowd. {{rf{20}}} And it was reported to him, "Your mother and your brothers are standing outside wanting to see you." {{rf{21}}} But he answered and said to them, "These are my mother and my brothers -- the ones who hear the word of God and do it. {{rf{22}}} Now it happened that on one of the days both he and his disciples got into a boat, and he said to them, "Let us cross over to the other side of the lake." And they set sail, {{rf{23}}} and as they were sailing, he fell asleep. And a storm of wind came down on the lake, and they were being swamped and were in danger. {{rf{24}}} And they came and woke him up, saying, "Master, master! We are perishing!" So he got up and rebuked the wind and the billowing waves of water and they ceased, and it became calm. {{rf{25}}} And he said to them, "Where is your faith?" But they were afraid and were astonished, saying to one another, "Who then is this, that he commands even the winds and the water and they obey him?" {{rf{26}}} And they sailed to the region of the Gerasenes, which is opposite Galilee. {{rf{27}}} And as he got out on the land, a certain man from the town met him who had demons and for a considerable time had not worn clothes and did not live in a house, but among the tombs. {{rf{28}}} And when he saw Jesus, he cried out, fell down before him, and said with a loud voice, "What do I have to do with you, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I beg you, do not torment me!" {{rf{29}}} For he had commanded the unclean spirit to come out of the man. (For it had seized him many times, and he was bound with chains and shackles and was guarded, and breaking the bonds he would be driven by the demon into the deserted places.) {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Luke-08-19]] }}}
{{rf{30}}} So Jesus asked him, "What is your name?" And he said, "Legion," because many demons had entered into him. {{rf{31}}} And they began imploring him that he would not order them to depart into the abyss. {{rf{32}}} Now there was a large herd of pigs feeding there on the hill, and they implored him that he would permit them to enter into those pigs. And he permitted them. {{rf{33}}} So the demons came out of the man and entered into the pigs, and the herd rushed headlong down the steep slope into the lake and were drowned. {{rf{34}}} And when the herdsmen saw what had happened, they fled and reported it in the town and in the countryside. {{rf{35}}} So they went out to see what had happened, and they came to Jesus and found the man from whom the demons had gone out sitting there clothed and in his right mind, at the feet of Jesus, and they were afraid. {{rf{36}}} And those who had seen it reported to them how the man who had been demon-possessed had been healed. {{rf{37}}} And all the people of the surrounding region of the Gerasenes asked him to depart from them, because they had been seized with great fear. So he got into the boat and returned. {{rf{38}}} And the man from who the demons had gone out was begging him to stay with him, but he sent him away, saying, {{rf{39}}} "Return to your home and tell all that God has done for you." And he went away, proclaiming throughout the whole town all that Jesus had done for him. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Luke-08-30]] }}}
{{rf{40}}} Now when Jesus returned, the crowd welcomed him, because they were all waiting for him. {{rf{41}}} And behold, a man who was named Jairus came, and this man was a ruler of the synagogue. And he fell down at the feet of Jesus and began imploring him to come to his house, {{rf{42}}} because he had an only daughter, about twelve years old, and she was dying. Now as he was going, the crowds were pressing against him. {{rf{43}}} And a woman who was suffering from hemorrhages for twelve years (who, although she had spent all her assets on physicians, was not able to be healed by anyone) {{rf{44}}} came up behind him and touched the edge of his cloak, and immediately her hemorrhaging stopped. {{rf{45}}} And Jesus said, "Who is the one who touched me?" And when they all denied it, Peter said, "Master, the crowds are pressing you hard and crowding you!" {{rf{46}}} But Jesus said, "Someone touched me, because I know power has gone out from me." {{rf{47}}} And when the woman saw that she did not escape notice, she came trembling and falling down before him. In the presence of all the people, she told for what reason she had touched him, and that she was healed immediately. {{rf{48}}} And he said to her, "Daughter, your faith has saved you. Go in peace." {{rf{49}}} While he was still speaking, someone came from the synagogue ruler's house, saying, "Your daughter is dead! Trouble the Teacher no longer!" {{rf{50}}} But Jesus, when he heard this, replied to him, "Do not be afraid! Only believe, and she will be healed." {{rf{51}}} Now when he came to the house, he did not allow anyone to enter with him except Peter and John and James and the father and mother of the child. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Luke-08-40]] }}}
{{rf{52}}} And they were all weeping and mourning for her, but he said, "Do not weep! For she is not dead, but is sleeping." {{rf{53}}} And they began laughing at him, because they knew that she was dead. {{rf{54}}} But he took her hand and called, saying, "Child, get up." {{rf{55}}} And her spirit returned, and she got up immediately, and he ordered something to be given to her to eat. {{rf{56}}} And her parents were astonished, but he ordered them to tell no one what had happened. {{rf big{1}}} And summoning the twelve, he gave them power and authority over all the demons and to cure diseases, {{rf{2}}} and he sent them out to proclaim the kingdom of God and to heal the sick. {{rf{3}}} And he said to them, "Take along nothing for the journey -- neither a staff, nor a traveler's bag, nor bread, nor money, nor to have two tunics apiece. {{rf{4}}} And into whatever house you enter, stay there and depart from there. {{rf{5}}} And as for all those who do not welcome you -- when you depart from that town, shake off the dust from your feet for a testimony against them." {{rf{6}}} So they departed and went throughout the villages, proclaiming the good news and healing everywhere. {{rf{7}}} Now Herod the tetrarch heard about all that was happening, and he was greatly perplexed, because it was said by some that John has been raised from the dead, {{rf{8}}} and by some that Elijah had appeared, and others that some prophet of ancient times had risen. {{rf{9}}} And Herod said, "John I beheaded, but who is this about whom I hear such things?" And he was wanting to see him. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Luke-08-52]] }}}
9:1 Twelve are sent out, which can be likened to the tribes of Israel; compare the seventy in 10:1, corresponding to the nations.
A parallel construction is found which continues through vss 2, 6 and 10:9. The first aspect is proclaiming the Kingdom of God, which is described also in power to cast out demons ("Jesus is Lord!") and to preach the gospel. The second aspect is healing, which in vs 2 seems to have as its purpose the confirmation of the preaching, but otherwise stands on its own as wonderful. Note also 5:15-17, <<Bbl Mt 9:35 >>.
<<Bbl L 9:28 abbr >> Clearly, by its introduction, this verse fulfills the preceding.
<<Bbl L 9:30 abbr>> Once upon a mountain (<<Bbl Ex 33:22 >>), Moses needed to be hidden in the cleft of the rock. Not now. And Eric Gross adds his insight that now Moses was standing in the land of promise, despite God's refusal so long ago.
<<Bbl L 9:31 abbr>> KJV -- decease, -- which may explain its euphemistic value. //Exodus// (in the Septuagint?)
9:41-42 Divided or single heart.
9:45-46 Note the qualities absent: wisdom, understanding, courage, peacableness, unity, humility.
<<Bbl L 9:48 abbr >> //In Your name// -- see vs 50.
9:49-50 John gives some hint of his interest in abiding and obeying, authority and purity. But to Jesus, //in Your name// apparently indicates the other fellow is for Him. Authority and purity are found in His name, and an attitude of immediate suspicion should be avoided. This is a key to unity. John is admonished to lighten up again in vss 54-56.
Vs 50 is -- the test by which others are to be tried. In 11:23 is a test by which one tries oneself (unk.) -- Note also <<Bbl Php 1:17 >>-18 .
//In Your name// ties this in with the story of vss 46-48.
9:51-56 Note the ironies: the Samaritans refuse to give a service related to their salvation, and the disciples need rebuke because they would see their Master vindicated on the spot instead of enduring humiliation, a humiliation which only hints at what is to come. These ironies underscore Jesus' solitude. No one understands.
<<Bbl L 9:57 abbr >>-58 Maybe Jesus is saying, //Would you care to have Me over to your home, as did Zaccheus, as did Levi? Let Me follow YOU a bit.//
9:59,61 The word first , appearing in vss. 59 and 61, is crucial. As Bonhoeffer says, first permit me is the man's essential statement.
9:59 Barclay tells of a brilliant young Arab man offered a scholarship at a prestigious British university. He replied, "I'll take it after I've buried my father." At that time his father was about forty, in good health. Besides filial obligation, the security of an inheritance might be at stake.
9:62 An interesting comparison with <<Bbl 1K 19:19 >>-21 .
{{rf{10}}} And when they returned, the apostles described to him all that they had done. And he took them along and withdrew privately to a town called Bethsaida. {{rf{11}}} But when the crowds found out, they followed him, and welcoming them, he began to speak to them about the kingdom of God, and he cured those who had need of healing. {{rf{12}}} Now the day began to be far spent, and the twelve came up and said to him, "Send away the crowd so that they can go into the surrounding villages and farms to obtain lodging and find provisions, because we are here in a desolate place. {{rf{13}}} But he said to them, "You give them something to eat!" And they said, "We have no more than five loaves and two fish, unless perhaps we go and purchase food for all these people." {{rf{14}}} (For there were about five thousand men.) So he said to his disciples, "Have them sit down in groups of about fifty each." {{rf{15}}} And they did so, and had them all sit down. {{rf{16}}} And taking the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up to heaven, he gave thanks and broke them and began giving them to the disciples to set before the crowd. {{rf{17}}} And they all ate and were satisfied, and what was left over was picked up by them -- twelve baskets of broken pieces. {{rf{18}}} And it happened that while he was praying alone, the disciples were with him. And he asked them, saying, "Who do the crowds say that I am?" {{rf{19}}} And they answered and said, "John the Baptist, but others, Elijah, and others, that one of the ancient prophets has risen." {{rf{20}}} And he said to them, "But who do you say that I am?" And Peter answered and said, "The Christ of God." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Luke-09-10]] }}}
{{rf{21}}} But he warned and commanded them to tell this to no one, {{rf{22}}} saying, "It is necessary for the Son of Man to suffer many things and to be rejected by the elders and chief priests and scribes, and to be killed, and to be raised on the third day. {{rf{23}}} And he said to them all, "If anyone wants to come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross every day and follow me. {{rf{24}}} For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life on account of me, this person will save it. {{rf{25}}} For what is a person benefited if he gains the whole world but loses or forfeits himself? {{rf{26}}} For whoever is ashamed of me and my words, the Son of Man will be ashamed of this person when he comes in his glory and the glory of the Father and of the holy angels. {{rf{27}}} But I tell you truly, there are some of those standing here who will never experience death until they see the kingdom of God." {{rf{28}}} Now it happened that about eight days after these words, he took along Peter and John and James and went up on the mountain to pray. {{rf{29}}} And as he was praying, the appearance of his face became different, and his clothing became white, gleaming like lightning. {{rf{30}}} And behold, two men were talking with him, who were Moses and Elijah, {{rf{31}}} who appeared in glory and were speaking about his departure which he was about to fulfill in Jerusalem. {{rf{32}}} Now Peter and those with him were very sleepy, but when they became fully awake, they saw his glory and the two men who were standing with him. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Luke-09-21]] }}}
{{rf{33}}} And it happened that as they were going away from him, Peter said to Jesus, "Master, it is good for us to be here. And let us make three shelters, one for you and one for Moses and one for Elijah," not knowing what he was saying. {{rf{34}}} And while he was saying these things, a cloud came and overshadowed them, and they were afraid as they entered into the cloud. {{rf{35}}} And a voice came from the cloud, saying, "This is my Son, my Chosen One. Listen to him!" {{rf{36}}} And after the voice had occurred, Jesus was found alone. And they kept silent and told no one in those days anything of what they had seen. {{rf{37}}} Now it happened that on the next day, when they had come down from the mountain, a large crowd met him. {{rf{38}}} And behold, a man from the crowd cried out, saying, "Teacher, I beg you to look with concern on my son, because he is my only son! {{rf{39}}} And behold, a spirit seizes him and suddenly he screams, and it convulses him with foam and rarely withdraws from him, battering him severely. {{rf{40}}} And I begged your disciples that they would expel it, and they were not able to do so." {{rf{41}}} So Jesus answered and said, "O unbelieving and perverted generation! How long will I be with you and put up with you? Bring your son here!" {{rf{42}}} And while he was still approaching, the demon threw him down and convulsed him. But Jesus rebuked the unclean spirit and healed the boy, and gave him back to his father. {{rf{43}}} And they were all astounded at the impressiveness of God. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Luke-09-33]] }}}
{{rf{44}}} "You take these words to heart, for the Son of Man is about to be betrayed into the hands of men." {{rf{45}}} But they did not understand this statement, and it was concealed from them so that they could not understand it. And they were afraid to ask him about this statement. {{rf{46}}} And an argument developed among them as to who of them might be greatest. {{rf{47}}} But Jesus, because he knew the thoughts of their hearts, took hold of a child and had him stand beside him {{rf{48}}} and said to them, "Whoever welcomes this child in my name welcomes me, and whoever welcomes me welcomes the one who sent me. For the one who is least among you all -- this one is great." {{rf{49}}} And John answered and said, "Master, we saw someone expelling demons in your name, and we tried to prevent him, because he does not follow in company with us." {{rf{50}}} But Jesus said to him, "Do not prevent him, because whoever is not against you is for you." {{rf{51}}} Now it happened that when the days were approaching for him to be taken up, he set his face to go to Jerusalem. {{rf{52}}} And he sent messengers before him, and they went and entered into a village of the Samaritans in order to prepare for him. {{rf{53}}} And they did not welcome him because he was determined to go to Jerusalem. {{rf{54}}} Now when the disciples James and John saw it, they said, "Lord, do you want us to call fire to come down from heaven and consume them?" {{rf{55}}} But he turned around and rebuked them, {{rf{56}}} and they proceeded to another village. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Luke-09-44]] }}}
{{rf{57}}} And as they were traveling on the road, someone said to him, "I will follow you wherever you go!" {{rf{58}}} And Jesus said to him, "Foxes have dens and birds of the sky have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay his head." {{rf{59}}} And he said to another, "Follow me!" But he said, "Lord, first allow me to go and bury my father." {{rf{60}}} But he said to him, "Leave the dead to bury their own dead! But you go and proclaim the kingdom of God." {{rf{61}}} And another person also said, "I will follow you, Lord, but first allow me to say farewell to those in my house." {{rf{62}}} But Jesus said, "No one who puts his hand on the plow and looks back is fit for the kingdom of God!"
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{{rf big{1}}} And after these things, the Lord also appointed seventy-two others and sent them out two by two before him into every town and place where he was about to go. {{rf{2}}} And he said to them, "The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. Therefore ask the Lord of the harvest that he send out workers into his harvest. {{rf{3}}} Go! Behold, I am sending you out like lambs in the midst of wolves! {{rf{4}}} Do not carry a money bag or a traveler's bag or sandals, and greet no one along the road. {{rf{5}}} And into whatever house you enter, first say, "Peace be to this household!" {{rf{6}}} And if a son of peace is there, your peace will rest on him. But if not, it will return to you. {{rf{7}}} And remain in the same house, eating and drinking whatever they provide, for the worker is worthy of his pay. Do not move from house to house. {{rf{8}}} And into whatever town you enter and they welcome you, eat whatever is set before you, {{rf{9}}} and heal the sick in it, and say to them, "The kingdom of God has come near to you." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Luke-09-57]] }}}
<<Bbl L 10:1 abbr >> And so we are.
10:1 Gn. 10 lists an additional two nations, added as an update by the translators of that work.
The number of cities is not specified. If some of the pairs went together it could have been less than thirty-five; or more, if they all went out in separate pairs and itinerated.
10:2 Compare this with the parables about workers. God can obtain laborers by any means He chooses, and in any number. Note too that it is His harvest , and so incumbant upon Him to see it ultimately gathered in. And that they themselves are answer to this prayer they are to pray.
<<Bbl L 10:3 abbr >> What a sense of adventure they must have felt. Good that they were going in pairs, to encourage each other.
To what degree do these commands of Christ apply to us, as His messengers? Could they have been largely specific to this mission? Vs. 4 seems especially specific.
10:4 They were missionaries with specific destinations, acting as forerunners for Jesus Himself. Greet no one along the way -- there's an O.T. prophet given this injunction, and while it probably can be understood as hyperbole, the disciples probably took it very seriously. It implies singleness of purpose. Greetings could be time-consuming. Also, in line with the rest of the verse, to greet a friend could contain the hope of a bit of earthly provision.
10:5-6 We can bless indiscriminately; for just as "a curse without a cause does not alight," so neither does this blessing. Therefore it's impossible to overstep in this area. David has a greeting of peace for Nabal, <<Bbl 1S 25:6 >>. (Laying on of hands comes with a warning, for it has to do with granting specific authority.)
<<Bbl L 10:7 abbr>> laborer makes sense only if we refer to vs 2.
** In <<Bbl 1Tim 5:18>> Paul asserts as Scripture the statement that //the laborer is worthy of his wages//. This is only found in Luke -- which means Paul regards Luke's account as Scripture.
** If you are a paid worker, in context that can only mean that God is your payor and the hospitality is actually from Him. So one is not to worry about recompense to the hosts. Neither should one be finicky (see "lickerish" in Weekley's etymological dictionary).
10:8 Instructions which parallel v5, with the same wording.
The import of vss 7-8 seems to be, receive with complete freedom whatever hospitality is given, and on those terms in which it is given.
<<Bbl L 10:11 abbr>>-16 see <<Bbl Mt 16:19 >>.
{{rf{10}}} But into whatever town you enter and they do not welcome you, go out into its streets and say, {{rf{11}}} "Even the dust of your town that clings to our feet we wipe off against you! Nevertheless know this: that the kingdom of God has come near!" {{rf{12}}} I tell you that it will be more bearable on that day for Sodom than for that town! {{rf{13}}} Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the miracles that were done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago, sitting in sackcloth and ashes! {{rf{14}}} But it will be more bearable for Tyre and for Sidon in the judgment than for you! {{rf{15}}} And you, Capernaum, will you be exalted to heaven? No! You will be brought down to Hades! {{rf{16}}} The one who listens to you listens to me, and the one who rejects you rejects me. But the one who rejects me rejects the one who sent me." {{rf{17}}} And the seventy-two returned with joy, saying, "Lord, even the demons are subject to us in your name!" {{rf{18}}} So he said to them, "I saw Satan falling like lightning from heaven. {{rf{19}}} Behold, I have given you the authority to tread on snakes and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing will ever harm you. {{rf{20}}} Nevertheless, do not rejoice in this, that the spirits are subject to you, but rejoice that your names are inscribed in heaven." {{rf{21}}} At that same time he rejoiced in the Holy Spirit and said, "I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you have hidden these things from the wise and intelligent and have revealed them to young children. Yes, Father, for this was pleasing before you. {{rf{22}}} All things have been handed over to me by my Father, and no one knows who the Son is except the Father and who the Father is except the Son, and anyone to whom the Son wants to reveal him." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Luke-10-10]] }}}
<<Bbl L 10:19 abbr >> Barefoot, no less (vs. 4). If not for <<Bbl Mk 16:18 >>, it would perhaps be possible to take this promise figuratively as referring to the demons, which would fit the context fully. There seems to be some connection between Satan and snakes which is more than poetically metaphorical (see [[Satan]]).
10:20 See <<Bbl Ex 33:14 >>-17 for a powerful comparison.
10:29-37 Instead of responding to the question, -- Who is the proper recipient of my love? -- , Jesus addresses the issue of compassion, love's substance. If you have real love, who could fall outside its tender scope? Love is patient, kind, merciful, impartial, generous, unselfish -- and often not found in the professionally religious. Jesus is not content to give a description of the rescued but focuses on the rescuer.
<<Bbl L 10:29 abbr >> //my neighbor// -- is who? For starters: not you! (J. Piper). Your neighbor is anyone in your path who is needy and destitute. It begins with our family and extends to the whole lost world.
10:30 left for dead. Street smarts - maim, brutalize, incapacitate, but don't kill. If you do, law enforcement is required to kick in, if only because now it's going to appear in the stats...) The passers-by weren't required to care. Adam says the '3 men are in a boat' joke was std formula.
<<Bbl L 10:40 abbr >> Martha is //cumbered// in the KJV. Give her the benefit of the doubt: it's not that she didn't have any desire to sit and listen to Jesus. Her challenge was more subtle than a simple lack of interest.
<<Bbl L 10:40 abbr >> The Martha Hustle or the Mary Listen.
{{rf{23}}} And turning to the disciples, he said privately, "Blessed are the eyes that see the things which you see! {{rf{24}}} For I tell you that many prophets and kings desired to see the things which you see, and did not see them, and to hear the things which you hear, and did not hear them." {{rf{25}}} And behold, a certain legal expert stood up to test him, saying, "Teacher, what must I do so that I will inherit eternal life?" {{rf{26}}} And he said to him, "What is written in the law? How do you read it?" {{rf{27}}} And he answered and said, "You shall love the Lord your God from all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength, and with all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself." {{rf{28}}} And he said to him, "You have answered correctly. Do this and you will live." {{rf{29}}} But he, wanting to justify himself, said to Jesus, "And who is my neighbor?" {{rf{30}}} And Jesus replied and said, "A certain man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell into the hands of robbers, who both stripped him and beat him. After inflicting blows on him, they went away, leaving him half dead. {{rf{31}}} Now by coincidence a certain priest was going down on that road, and when he saw him, he passed by on the opposite side. {{rf{32}}} And in the same way also a Levite, when he came down to the place and saw him, passed by on the opposite side. {{rf{33}}} But a certain Samaritan who was traveling came up to him and, when he saw him, had compassion. {{rf{34}}} And he came up and bandaged his wounds, pouring on olive oil and wine, and he put him on his own animal and brought him to an inn and took care of him. {{rf{35}}} And on the next day, he took out two denarii and gave them to the innkeeper, and said, "Take care of him, and whatever you spend in addition, I will repay to you when I return. {{rf{36}}} Which of these three do you suppose became a neighbor of the man who fell among the robbers?" {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Luke-10-23]] }}}
{{rf{37}}} So he said, "The one who showed mercy to him." And Jesus said to him, "You go and do likewise." {{rf{38}}} Now as they traveled along, he entered into a certain village. And a certain woman named Martha welcomed him. {{rf{39}}} And she had a sister named Mary, who also sat at the feet of Jesus and was listening to his teaching. {{rf{40}}} But Martha was distracted with much preparation, so she approached and said, "Lord, is it not a concern to you that my sister has left me alone to make preparations? Then tell her that she should help me!" {{rf{41}}} But the Lord answered and said to her, "Martha, Martha, you are anxious and troubled about many things! {{rf{42}}} But few things are necessary, or only one thing, for Mary has chosen the better part, which will not be taken away from her." {{rf big{1}}} And it happened that while he was in a certain place praying, when he stopped a certain one of his disciples said to him, "Lord, teach us to pray, just as John also taught his disciples." {{rf{2}}} And he said to them, "When you pray, say, "Father, may your name be treated as holy. May your kingdom come. {{rf{3}}} Give us each day our daily bread. {{rf{4}}} And forgive us our sins, for we ourselves also forgive everyone who is indebted to us. And do not lead us into temptation." {{rf{5}}} And he said to them, "Who of you will have a friend, and will go to him at midnight and say to him, 'Friend, lend me three loaves, {{rf{6}}} because a friend of mine has come to me on a journey, and I do not have anything to set before him.' {{rf{7}}} And that one will answer from inside and say, 'Do not cause me trouble! The door has already been shut and my children are with me in bed! I am not able to get up to give you anything.' {{rf{8}}} I tell you, even if he does not give him anything after he gets up because he is his friend, at any rate because of his impudence he will get up and give him whatever he needs. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Luke-10-37]] }}}
<<Bbl L 11:5 >>-10 In a wonderful sermon (12/4/88) Bob Summers points out that vs. 7 has a picture of our security in God. He evinces all the drama of this parable and reminds us that God, after all, is a knocker and a seeker and an asker.
11:15-18 Satan is not strong enough to act with as much subtlety as is proposed by the Pharisees. His small-time strategems are not equal what vs 15 theorizes to be the case.
<<Bbl L 11:16 abbr >> See <<Bbl L 11:29 abbr >>.
<<Bbl L 11:19 abbr >> Tim Clemens says, and the commentators agree, that your sons here means the disciples of the Pharisees. Geldenhuys (Luke, pg. 329f.) gives a good explanation. However, I always read it to mean that the generation of their children would include believers operating in Spirit-filled ministry.
11:20 Finger of God occurs only one other time in Scripture, <<Bbl Ex 8:19 >> (though <<Bbl Ps 8:3 >> has some relevance). Tim points out that there is much to think about here.
11:21-23 Utterly serious confidence in the war against Satan.
11:24 Perhaps a description of ordinary jewish demonology which after all did not change a man's heart.
<<Bbl Lk 11:30 abbr >> //Just as Jonah became a sign to the people of Nineveh, so the Son of Man will be...// How are these the same? It may be in the announcement of impending catastrophic judgment to the city, or the pattern of "burial" and resurrection which makes the prophet a walking miracle. See <<Bbl Mt 16:4 >>. ("Three days and three nights" can be discounted, as it isn't mentioned here; see <<Bbl Mt 12:40 "" note >>.)
<<Bbl L 11:33 abbr >> The foolish Jews have asked for a sign. Jesus affirms that God shall provide verification, for //no one hides a light under a bushel.//
<<Bbl L 11:34 abbr >>-36 The [[eye as a lamp|Lamp]] is cited with these same words (but a wholly different context) in <<Bbl Mt 6:22 >>-23. Here Jesus tells the Pharisees that while they claim to ask for verification, they can never recognize His credential so there is no way He can satisfy the request. It doesn't matter how bright the day to someone who is blind.
<<Bbl L 11:47 abbr >> So the very act they use to rectify their fathers' deeds only reveals their solidarity.
11:48 Precise language for a notary.
11:51 The reference to Zechariah is from <<Bbl 2Ch 24:21 >>. The Chronicles once stood at the end of the O.T., so Jesus was using the canonical order of the Scriptures to refer to all the murders of all the prophets.
12:1-12 Strong words of comfort to those crushed under religious oppression. Vs. 1 cements this passage to 11:37-54.
12:2-3 see <<Bbl 2S 12:12 >>.
<<Bbl L 12:11 abbr >> See <<Bbl Mt 10:17 >>-18 .
<<Bbl L 12:14 abbr >>-15 The Holy God cannot judge between greedy people. Faced with a Solomonic problem, the Lord issues a super-Solomonic solution. Both brothers must receive this word.
12:16-21 Vs. 19 introduces the first and only problem. Cf. <<Bbl James 4:13 >>-16 , which has a different moral.
12:18 Compare <<Bbl Ez 16:49 >>.
<<Bbl L 12:20 abbr >> Compare <<Bbl I 10:3 >>; <<Bbl Ecc 2:18 >>.
<<Bbl L 12:37 abbr >> This presents the idea that Jesus will serve at the marriage feast of the Lamb! Is this found anywhere else? This is before last Passover.
<<Bbl L 12:49 abbr >> [[Fire]] is judgment - note context. //Calling down//, like Elijah. //undergo//, <<Bbl Mt 3:11 >>.
<<Bbl L 12:50 abbr >> <<Bbl Mk 10:38 >>
12:51-53 Where the sword cuts, it cuts the elect to life.
{{rf{9}}} And I tell you, ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and it will be opened for you. {{rf{10}}} For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened. {{rf{11}}} But what father from among you, if his son will ask for a fish, instead of a fish will give him a snake? {{rf{12}}} Or also, if he will ask for an egg, will give him a scorpion? {{rf{13}}} Therefore if you, although you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the Father from heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him?" {{rf{14}}} And he was expelling a mute demon. Now it happened that when the demon came out, the man who had been mute spoke, and the crowds were astonished. {{rf{15}}} But some of them said, "By Beelzebul the ruler of demons he expels demons!" {{rf{16}}} And others, in order to test him, were demanding from him a sign from heaven. {{rf{17}}} But he, knowing their thoughts, said to them, "Every kingdom divided against itself is laid waste, and a divided household falls. {{rf{18}}} So if Satan also is divided against himself, how will his kingdom stand? For you say that I expel demons by Beelzebul. {{rf{19}}} But if I expel demons by Beelzebul, by whom do your sons expel them? For this reason they will be your judges! {{rf{20}}} But if I expel demons by the finger of God, then the kingdom of God has come upon you! {{rf{21}}} When a strong man, fully armed, guards his own palace, his possessions are safe. {{rf{22}}} But when a stronger man attacks him and conquers him, he takes away his full armor in which he trusted and distributes his plunder. {{rf{23}}} The one who is not with me is against me, and the one who does not gather with me scatters. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Luke-11-09]] }}}
{{rf{24}}} "Whenever an unclean spirit has gone out of a person, it travels through waterless places searching for rest, and does not find it. It says, 'I will return to my house from which I came out.' {{rf{25}}} And when it arrives it finds the house swept and put in order. {{rf{26}}} Then it goes and brings along seven other spirits more evil than itself, and they go in and live there. And the last state of that person becomes worse than the first!" {{rf{27}}} Now it happened that as he said these things, a certain woman from the crowd raised her voice and said to him, "Blessed is the womb that bore you, and the breasts at which you nursed!" {{rf{28}}} But he said, "On the contrary, blessed are those who hear the word of God and follow it!" {{rf{29}}} And as the crowds were increasing, he began to say, "This generation is an evil generation! It demands a sign, and no sign will be given to it except the sign of Jonah! {{rf{30}}} For just as Jonah became a sign to the Ninevites, so also the Son of Man will be to this generation. {{rf{31}}} The queen of the south will rise up at the judgment with the people of this generation and condemn them, because she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon, and behold, something greater than Solomon is here! {{rf{32}}} The people of Nineveh will stand up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it, because they repented at the proclamation of Jonah, and behold, something greater than Jonah is here! {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Luke-11-24]] }}}
{{rf{33}}} "No one after lighting a lamp puts it in a cellar or under a bushel basket, but on a lampstand, so that those who come in can see the light. {{rf{34}}} Your eye is the lamp of the body. When your eye is sincere, your whole body is full of light also. But when it is evil, your body is dark also. {{rf{35}}} Therefore pay careful attention that the light in you is not darkness! {{rf{36}}} If therefore your whole body is full of light, not having any part dark, it will be completely full of light, as when the lamp with its light gives light to you."
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{{rf{37}}} And as he was speaking, a Pharisee asked him to have a meal with him, and he went in and reclined at table. {{rf{38}}} And the Pharisee, when he saw it, was astonished that he did not first wash before the meal. {{rf{39}}} But the Lord said to him, "Now you Pharisees cleanse the outside of the cup and of the dish, but your inside is full of greediness and wickedness. {{rf{40}}} Fools! Did not the one who made the outside make the inside also? {{rf{41}}} But give as charitable giving the things that are within, and behold, everything is clean for you. {{rf{42}}} "But woe to you, Pharisees, because you pay a tenth of mint and rue and every garden herb, and neglect justice and love for God! But it was necessary to do these things without neglecting those things also. {{rf{43}}} Woe to you, Pharisees, because you love the best seat in the synagogues and the greetings in the marketplaces! {{rf{44}}} Woe to you, because you are like unmarked graves, and the people who walk over them do not know it! {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Luke-11-33]] }}}
{{rf{45}}} And one of the legal experts answered and said to him, "Teacher, when you say these things, you insult us also!" {{rf{46}}} So he said, "Woe to you also, legal experts, because you load people with burdens hard to bear, and you yourselves do not touch the burdens with one of your fingers! {{rf{47}}} Woe to you, because you build the tombs of the prophets, and your fathers killed them! {{rf{48}}} As a result you are witnesses, and you approve of the deeds of your fathers, because they killed them and you build their tombs! {{rf{49}}} For this reason also the wisdom of God said, 'I will send to them prophets and apostles, and some of them they will kill and persecute,' {{rf{50}}} so that the blood of all the prophets that has been shed from the foundation of the world may be required of this generation, {{rf{51}}} from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zechariah, who perished between the altar and the temple building. Yes, I tell you, it will be required of this generation! {{rf{52}}} Woe to you, legal experts, because you have taken away the key to knowledge! You did not enter yourselves, and you hindered those who were entering!" {{rf{53}}} And when he departed from there, the scribes and the Pharisees began to be terribly hostile, and to question him closely about many things, {{rf{54}}} plotting to catch him with reference to something he might say. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Luke-11-45]] }}}
During this time when a crowd of many thousands had gathered together, so that they were trampling one another, he began to say to his disciples first, "Beware for yourselves of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy. {{rf{2}}} But nothing is concealed that will not be revealed, and secret that will not be made known. {{rf{3}}} Therefore everything that you have said in the dark will be heard in the light, and what you have whispered in the inner rooms will be proclaimed on the housetops. {{rf{4}}} "And I tell you, my friends, do not be afraid of those who kill the body, and after these things do not have anything more to do. {{rf{5}}} But I will show you whom you should fear: fear the one who has authority, after the killing, to throw you into hell! Yes, I tell you, fear this one! {{rf{6}}} Are not five sparrows sold for two pennies? And not one of them is forgotten in the sight of God. {{rf{7}}} But even the hairs of your head are all numbered! Do not be afraid; you are worth more than many sparrows. {{rf{8}}} "And I tell you, everyone who acknowledges me before people, the Son of Man also will acknowledge him before the angels of God, {{rf{9}}} but the one who denies me before people will be denied before the angels of God. {{rf{10}}} And everyone who speaks a word against the Son of Man, it will be forgiven him, but to the one who blasphemes against the Holy Spirit, it will not be forgiven. {{rf{11}}} But when they bring you before the synagogues and the rulers and the authorities, do not be anxious how or what you should speak in your own defense or what you should say, {{rf{12}}} for the Holy Spirit will teach you in that same hour what it is necessary to say." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Luke-12-01]] }}}
{{rf{13}}} Now someone from the crowd said to him, "Teacher, tell my brother to divide the inheritance with me!" {{rf{14}}} But he said to him, "Man, who made me a judge or an arbitrator over you?" {{rf{15}}} And he said to them, "Watch out and guard yourselves from all greediness, because not even when someone has an abundance does his life consist of his possessions." {{rf{16}}} And he told a parable to them, saying, "The land of a certain rich man yielded an abundant harvest. {{rf{17}}} And he reasoned to himself, saying, 'What should I do? For I do not have anywhere I can gather in my crops.' {{rf{18}}} And he said, 'I will do this: I will tear down my barns and build larger ones, and I will gather in there all my grain and possessions. {{rf{19}}} And I will say to my soul, "Soul, you have many possessions stored up for many years. Relax, eat, drink, celebrate!" ' {{rf{20}}} But God said to him, 'Fool! This night your life is demanded from you, and the things which you have prepared -- whose will they be?' {{rf{21}}} So is the one who stores up treasure for himself, and who is not rich toward God!" {{rf{22}}} And he said to his disciples, "For this reason I tell you, do not be anxious for your life, what you will eat, or for your body, what you will wear. {{rf{23}}} For life is more than food, and the body more than clothing. {{rf{24}}} Consider the ravens, that they neither sow nor reap; to them there is neither storeroom nor barn, and God feeds them. How much more are you worth than the birds? {{rf{25}}} And which of you by being anxious is able to add an hour to his life span? {{rf{26}}} If then you are not even able to do a very little thing, why are you anxious about the rest? {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Luke-12-13]] }}}
{{rf{27}}} Consider the lilies, how they grow: they do not toil or spin, but I say to you, not even Solomon in all his glory was dressed like one of these. {{rf{28}}} But if God clothes the grass in the field in this way, although it is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, how much more will he do so for you, you of little faith? {{rf{29}}} And you, do not consider what you will eat and what you will drink, and do not be anxious. {{rf{30}}} For all the nations of the world seek after these things, and your Father knows that you need these things. {{rf{31}}} But seek his kingdom and these things will be added to you. {{rf{32}}} "Do not be afraid, little flock, because your Father is well pleased to give you the kingdom. {{rf{33}}} Sell your possessions and give charitable gifts. Make for yourselves money bags that do not wear out, an inexhaustible treasure in heaven where thief does not approach or moth destroy. {{rf{34}}} For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. {{rf{35}}} "You must be prepared for action and your lamps burning. {{rf{36}}} And you, be like people who are waiting for their master when he returns from the wedding feast, so that when he comes back and knocks, they can open the door for him immediately. {{rf{37}}} Blessed are those slaves whom the master will find on the alert when he returns! Truly I say to you that he will dress himself for service and have them recline at the table and will come by and serve them. {{rf{38}}} Even if he should come back in the second or in the third watch of the night and find them like this, blessed are they! {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Luke-12-27]] }}}
{{rf{39}}} But understand this, that if the master of the house had known what hour the thief was coming, he would not have left his house to be broken into. {{rf{40}}} You also must be ready, because the Son of Man is coming at an hour that you do not think he will come." {{rf{41}}} And Peter said, "Lord, are you telling this parable for us, or also for everyone?" {{rf{42}}} And the Lord said, "Who then is the faithful wise manager whom the master will put in charge over his servants to give them their food allowance at the right time? {{rf{43}}} Blessed is that slave whom his master will find so doing when he comes back. {{rf{44}}} Truly I say to you that he will put him in charge of all his possessions. {{rf{45}}} But if that slave should say to himself, 'My master is taking a long time to return,' and he begins to beat the male slaves and the female slaves and to eat and drink and get drunk, {{rf{46}}} the master of that slave will come on a day that he does not expect and at an hour that he does not know, and will cut him in two and assign his place with the unbelievers. {{rf{47}}} And that slave who knew the will of his master and did not prepare or do according to his will will be given a severe beating. {{rf{48}}} But the one who did not know and did things deserving blows will be given a light beating. And from everyone to whom much has been given, much will be demanded, and from him to whom they entrusted much, they will ask him for even more. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Luke-12-39]] }}}
{{rf{49}}} "I have come to bring fire on the earth, and how I wish that it had been kindled already! {{rf{50}}} But I have a baptism to be baptized with, and how I am distressed until it is accomplished! {{rf{51}}} Do you think that I have come to grant peace on the earth? No, I tell you, but rather division! {{rf{52}}} For from now on there will be five in one household, divided three against two and two against three. {{rf{53}}} They will be divided, father against son and son against father, mother against daughter and daughter against mother, mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law against mother-in-law." {{rf{54}}} And he also said to the crowds, "When you see a cloud coming up in the west, you say at once, 'A rainstorm is coming,' and so it happens. {{rf{55}}} And when you see the south wind blowing, you say, 'There will be burning heat,' and it happens. {{rf{56}}} Hypocrites! You know how to evaluate the appearance of the earth and the sky, but how is it you do not know how to evaluate this present time? {{rf{57}}} And why do you not also judge for yourselves what is right? {{rf{58}}} For as you are going with your accuser before the magistrate, make an effort to come to a settlement with him on the way, so that he will not drag you to the judge, and the judge will hand you over to the bailiff, and the bailiff will throw you into prison. {{rf{59}}} I tell you, you will never get out of there until you have paid back even the last cent!" {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Luke-12-49]] }}}
Now at the same time some had come to tell him about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mixed with their sacrifices. {{rf{2}}} And he answered and said to them, "Do you think that these Galileans were sinners worse than all the Galileans, because they suffered these things? {{rf{3}}} No, I tell you, but unless you repent you will all perish as well! {{rf{4}}} Or those eighteen on whom the tower in Siloam fell and killed them -- do you think that they were sinners worse than all the people who live in Jerusalem? {{rf{5}}} No, I tell you, but unless you repent, you will all perish as well!" {{rf{6}}} And he told this parable: "A certain man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard, and he came looking for fruit on it and did not find any. {{rf{7}}} So he said to the gardener, 'Behold, for three years I have come looking for fruit on this fig tree and did not find any. Cut it down! Why should it even exhaust the soil?' {{rf{8}}} But he answered and said to him, 'Sir, leave it alone this year also, until I dig around it and put manure on it. {{rf{9}}} And if indeed it produces fruit in the coming year, so much the better, but if not, you can cut it down.'"
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{{rf{10}}} Now he was teaching in one of the synagogues on the Sabbath. {{rf{11}}} And behold, a woman was there who had a spirit that had disabled her for eighteen years, and she was bent over and not able to straighten herself up completely. {{rf{12}}} And when he saw her, Jesus summoned her and said to her, "Woman, you are freed from your disability!" {{rf{13}}} And he placed his hands on her, and immediately she straightened up and glorified God. {{rf{14}}} But the ruler of the synagogue, indignant because Jesus had healed on the Sabbath, answered and said to the crowd, "There are six days on which it is necessary to work. Therefore come and be healed on them, and not on the day of the Sabbath!" {{rf{15}}} But the Lord answered and said to him, "Hypocrites! Does not each one of you untie his ox or his donkey from the feeding trough on the Sabbath and lead it away to water it? {{rf{16}}} And this woman, who is a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan bound eighteen long years -- is it not necessary that she be released from this bond on the day of the Sabbath?" {{rf{17}}} And when he said these things, all those who opposed him were humiliated, and the whole crowd was rejoicing at all the splendid things that were being done by him. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Luke-13-01]] }}}
13:2-5 There is no way to compare our sins with those of our neighbor.
13:6-9 see <<Bbl I 64:8 >>
<<Bbl L 13:10 abbr >>-11 Note the sick people sought him even on the Sabbath. No doubt this was close to the root of the Pharisees' objections. All sorts of restless yearnings were fouling up the system.
13:13-14 As a country preacher says, when the bent woman stood up straight, the straight people got all bent out of shape.
13:15 the Lord -- interesting (and unusual ?? ) reference in a dialogue like this.
<<Bbl L 13:18 abbr>>ff <<Bbl Mt 13:31>> has a parallel account. Luke adds interest by providing a larger context; but the reason for the 'Therefore' isn't clear to me.
<<Bbl L 13:33 abbr>> Strong cold sarcasm.
14 First the natural event of the feast; then the declaration; then the parable.
<<Bbl J 14:1 abbr >>-6 A continuation of 13:10-17, with the same denouement of humiliation for the opponents of Jesus.
14:4 As teachers and leaders, their inability to discern, answer and guide was embarrassing them publicly. Cf. <<Bbl J 7:26 >>.
14:7-11 see <<Bbl Pr 25:6 >>-7 .
<<Bbl L 14:18 abbr >>-19 These people can attend to their worldly interests because they do not fit the description of vss 13 and 21: the man who goes out and looks is neither lame nor blind, and the man who has bought oxen and needs to try them is neither poor nor crippled.
14:24 God rejects man only after man has rejected God. And who feels the loss the greatest?
14:23 A man of no mild hospitality. As Elisha told the widow, "Do not collect a few!"
{{rf{18}}} Therefore he said, "What is the kingdom of God like, and to what shall I compare it? {{rf{19}}} It is like a mustard seed that a man took and sowed in his own garden, and it grew and became a tree, and the birds of the sky nested in its branches." {{rf{20}}} And again he said, "To what shall I compare the kingdom of God? {{rf{21}}} It is like yeast that a woman took and hid in three measures of wheat flour until the whole batch was leavened."
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{{rf{22}}} And he was going throughout towns and villages, teaching and making his journey toward Jerusalem. {{rf{23}}} And someone said to him, "Lord, are there only a few who are saved?" And he said to them, {{rf{24}}} "Make every effort to enter through the narrow door, because many, I tell you, will seek to enter and will not be able to, {{rf{25}}} when once the master of the house has gotten up and shut the door, and you begin to stand outside and knock on the door, saying, 'Lord, open the door for us!' And he will answer and say to you, 'I do not know where you are from!' {{rf{26}}} Then you will begin to say, 'We ate and drank in your presence, and you taught in our streets!' {{rf{27}}} And he will reply, saying to you, 'I do not know where you are from! Go away from me, all you evildoers!' {{rf{28}}} In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when you see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets in the kingdom of God, but yourselves thrown outside! {{rf{29}}} And they will come from east and west, and from north and south, and will recline at the table in the kingdom of God. {{rf{30}}} And behold, some are last who will be first, and some are first who will be last." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Luke-13-18]] }}}
{{rf{31}}} At that same hour some Pharisees came up and said to him, "Go out and depart from here, because Herod wants to kill you!" {{rf{32}}} And he said to them, "Go and tell that fox, 'Behold, I am expelling demons and performing healings today and tomorrow, and on the third day I will complete my work.' {{rf{33}}} Nevertheless, it is necessary for me to be on the way today and tomorrow and on the next day, because it is not possible for a prophet to perish outside Jerusalem. {{rf{34}}} "Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the one who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her! How many times I wanted to gather your children together the way a hen gathers her own brood under her wings, and you were not willing! {{rf{35}}} Behold, your house has been left to you! And I tell you, you will never see me until the time will come when you say, 'Blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord!'" {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Luke-13-31]] }}}
And it happened that when he came to the house of a certain one of the leaders of the Pharisees on a Sabbath to eat a meal, they were watching him closely. {{rf{2}}} And behold, a certain man was in front of him, suffering from edema. {{rf{3}}} And Jesus answered and said to the legal experts and Pharisees, saying, "Is it permitted to heal on the Sabbath, or not?" {{rf{4}}} But they remained silent. And he took hold of him and healed him, and sent him away. {{rf{5}}} And he said to them, "Who among you, if your son or your ox falls into a well on the day of the Sabbath, will not immediately pull him out?" {{rf{6}}} And they were not able to make a reply to these things. {{rf{7}}} Now he told a parable to those who had been invited when he noticed how they were choosing for themselves the places of honor, saying to them, {{rf{8}}} "When you are invited by someone to a wedding feast, do not recline at the table in the place of honor, lest someone more distinguished than you has been invited by him, {{rf{9}}} and the one who invited you both will come and say to you, 'Give the place to this person,' and then with shame you will begin to take the last place. {{rf{10}}} But when you are invited, go and recline at the table in the last place, so that when the one who invited you comes, he will say to you, 'Friend, move up higher.' Then it will be an honor to you in the presence of all those who are reclining at the table with you. {{rf{11}}} For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and the one who humbles himself will be exalted." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Luke-14-01]] }}}
{{rf{12}}} And he also said to the one who had invited him, "When you give a dinner or a banquet, do not invite your friends or your brothers or your relatives or wealthy neighbors, lest they also invite you in return, and repayment come to you. {{rf{13}}} But whenever you give a banquet, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind, {{rf{14}}} and you will be blessed, because they are not able to repay you. For it will be paid back to you at the resurrection of the righteous." {{rf{15}}} Now when one of those reclining at the table with him heard these things, he said to him, "Blessed is everyone who will eat bread in the kingdom of God!" {{rf{16}}} But he said to him, "A certain man was giving a large banquet and invited many. {{rf{17}}} And he sent his slave at the hour of the banquet to say to those who have been invited, 'Come, because now it is ready!' {{rf{18}}} And they all alike began to excuse themselves. The first said to him, 'I have purchased a field, and I must go out to look at it. I ask you, consider me excused.' {{rf{19}}} And another said, 'I have purchased five yoke of oxen, and I am going to examine them. I ask you, consider me excused.' {{rf{20}}} And another said, 'I have married a wife, and for this reason I am not able to come.' {{rf{21}}} And the slave came and reported these things to his master. Then the master of the house became angry and said to his slave, 'Go out quickly into the streets and alleys of the city and bring in here the poor and crippled and blind and lame!' {{rf{22}}} And the slave said, 'Sir, what you ordered has been done, and there is still room.' {{rf{23}}} And the master said to the slave, 'Go out into the highways and hedges and press them to come in, so that my house will be filled! {{rf{24}}} For I say to you that none of those persons who were invited will taste my banquet!'" {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Luke-14-12]] }}}
{{rf{25}}} Now large crowds were going along with him, and he turned around and said to them, {{rf{26}}} "If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, and furthermore, even his own life, he cannot be my disciple. {{rf{27}}} Whoever does not carry his own cross and follow me cannot be my disciple. {{rf{28}}} For which of you, wanting to build a tower, does not first sit down and calculate the cost to see if he has enough to complete it? {{rf{29}}} Otherwise after he has laid the foundation and is not able to finish it, all who see it will begin to ridicule him, {{rf{30}}} saying, 'This man began to build and was not able to finish!' {{rf{31}}} Or what king, going out to engage another king in battle, does not sit down first and deliberate whether he is able with ten thousand to oppose the one coming against him with twenty thousand. {{rf{32}}} But if not, while the other is still far away, he sends an ambassador and asks for terms of peace. {{rf{33}}} In the same way, therefore, every one of you who does not renounce all his own possessions cannot be my disciple. {{rf{34}}} "Now salt is good, but if salt becomes tasteless, with what will it be made salty? {{rf{35}}} It is usable neither for the soil nor for the manure pile; they throw it out. The one who has ears to hear, let him hear!" {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Luke-14-25]] }}}
14:25 The setting is paramount; at this moment they are literally following Him.
14:26-32 Both these parables portray prudence, but they have opposite outcomes. One shows perhaps the reward of full commitment, the other the cost of full surrender. Are they paradoxical to each other? Or is the failure of the tower-builder a foregone conclusion?
14:26 Wuest adds, in the event that they become hindrances to his love for Me. Compare <<Bbl Dt 13:6 >>-11.
<<Bbl L 14:27 abbr >>-30 As He speaks this, Jesus is even now counting the cost of his own cross. Later, in the garden, He is to finish his reckoning. Or, He is saying: I have what is required for this.
Could this not be applied to God's undertaking of salvation? It seems unnecessary for Jesus to mention ridicule; but that is reminiscent of Moses' prayers, calling upon God to not destroy His people in the wilderness, lest the nations mock. And Christ himself on the cross.
14:32 See <<Bbl I 27:4 >>-5 . Recalls the Gibeonites. He says: I am not asking for terms of peace.
14:34-35 Contrary to all those sermonic inventories of the uses of salt, this parable asserts that it's valuable for only one aspect: its taste. (Of course it's usually <<Bbl Mt 5:13 >> that elicits such lists; this might be a good example of the importance of context.)
Now all the tax collectors and the sinners were drawing near to hear him. {{rf{2}}} And both the Pharisees and the scribes were complaining, saying, "This man welcomes sinners and eats with them!" {{rf{3}}} So he told them this parable, saying, {{rf{4}}} "What man of you, having a hundred sheep and losing one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the grassland and go after the one that was lost until he finds it? {{rf{5}}} And when he has found it, he places it on his shoulders, rejoicing. {{rf{6}}} And when he returns to his home, he calls together his friends and neighbors, saying to them, 'Rejoice with me, because I have found my sheep that was lost!' {{rf{7}}} I tell you that in the same way, there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous people who have no need of repentance. {{rf{8}}} Or what woman who has ten drachmas, if she loses one drachma, does not light a lamp and sweep the house and search carefully until she finds it? {{rf{9}}} And when she has found it, she calls together her friends and neighbors, saying, 'Rejoice with me, because I have found the drachma that I had lost!' {{rf{10}}} In the same way, I tell you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner who repents." {{rf{11}}} And he said, "A certain man had two sons. {{rf{12}}} And the younger of them said to his father, 'Father, give me the share of the property that is coming to me.' So he divided his assets between them. {{rf{13}}} And after not many days, the younger son gathered everything and went on a journey to a distant country, and there he squandered his wealth by living wastefully. {{rf{14}}} And after he had spent everything, there was a severe famine throughout that country, and he began to be in need. {{rf{15}}} And he went and hired himself out to one of the citizens of that country, and he sent him into his fields to tend pigs. {{rf{16}}} And he was longing to fill his stomach with the carob pods that the pigs were eating, and no one was giving anything to him. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Luke-15-01]] }}}
<<Bbl L 15:2 abbr >> //Sinners// in this context refers to flagrant sinners, self-identified sinners. We can assume with certainty that Jesus was surrounded at this moment by people who were responding to His message, coming into the light of His grace. His parables say that Heaven is //right now// overjoyed.
15:4-7 It is clear each sheep is worth the same as the others. How this grated on the Pharisees, who dealt in superiority. Like a coin in the story that follows, a sheep is truly valuable.
<<Bbl L 15:7 abbr >> Joy not over the act but over the person.
15:8 When you can't find that coin, you examine the floor, you bring in a lamp -- and when you are serious, out comes the broom!
''The Lonely Father; Or, Lost and Found Son''
* Read this as following the parables that precede.
* One son in a distant field, the other in a local field. The father alone in the house.
* It is an illustration of value - specifically the value of a son.
* The contrasts between love and greed, fellowship and solitude are pursued in their eternal aspects in the story of Lazarus and the rich man.
* The pilgrim's progress roughly traces Jesus' statement of <<Bbl J 4:13 >>-14 .
## "Shall thirst again" is shown in the lad's destitution.
## "Shall never thirst again" is shown in his resolve to present himself as a servant, who after all do not lack food.
## "Shall become in him a fountain" is shown in his restitution to son-hood.
* The sordid journey of the wayward son is placed to reveal
## the painful solitude and famine resulting from sin.
## the painful journey through repentance.
## how insuppressible is the love of the father.
{{fyi{
''License'' lies by saying "it's not enough to make me happy".
''Legalism'' lies by saying "it's not freely available".
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!!! The younger son's departure:
** Discontent in the face of love and wealth
** Presumptuous in license - "consummate my claim at the timing I want"
!!! The younger son's trial:
* Needy - I have no resources (hit bottom) and no claim (Step One)
* His longings from before have been replaced by truer ones
* His presentation story. Which is true?
## Is he unworthy, in his own sight, to be treated as a son?
## Or, is this more about how he thinks his father looks at things, and he is giving this as a kind of cover?
## Perhaps he is giving his father an opportunity to save face. His father has no interest in that.
!!! The younger son's discovery:
* Loved, filled and content
!!! The older son's aggrievement:
* Discontent in the face of love and wealth
* Presumptuous in legalism - "consummate my claim on my (hateful) terms"
** A need for autonomy and protection is show in the assertion of rules and procedures
** This leads to the judgmentalism expressed in v 30
* Deceitful - arrogance is cloaked by a superficial obedience
* //Fatted// - the irreplaceable King James. The older son sees that fatted calf and thinks: "That calf belongs to me, and it was fatted on my resources."
* //I have always obeyed you// - yet now he shows only sullen
* //You are always with me - // but that was obviously not a source of satisfaction to the older son.
!!! The father's love:
* His house rules: (1)
# We love each other. There is no place for selfish division.
# You may make requests; I may say "yes".
# Sometimes things may not seem fair (see rule 1).
* He simply wants a son. This demands reclamation. The stated agenda of the wayward son is based on restitution, which cannot meet this father's desire.
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15:12 Assuming the brothers were getting equal shares, he literally divided it. Perhaps certain OT laws weren't applied at that time.
The son says "I'm ready for a test," and the father replies "A test you shall have." Ultimately that wayward son passes the test - at which point the older son faces his own test.
<<Bbl L 15:14 abbr >> //He began to be in need.// The first part of the verse explains a cause, which is two-fold. An American ascribes the privation of the younger son to his having //spent everything//. A Russian ascribes it to the famine.
<<Bbl L 15:13 abbr >>,30 Such a lurid description! Provocative - and brings to mind <<Bbl Dt 20:20 >>. Can be likened also to the Fall.
<<Bbl L 15:19 abbr >>, 29. The theme of chosen role of slave.
<<Bbl L 15:16 abbr>> Disillusioned youth! They weren't giving him anything.
15:17-19 His confession is forthright. In rehearsing his words, he strengthens his eloquence and his resolve. Of course it's all self-justification in the end, and the father isn't listening.
{{rf{17}}} "But when he came to himself, he said, 'How many of my father's hired workers have an abundance of food, and I am dying here from hunger! {{rf{18}}} I will set out and go to my father and will say to him, 'Father, I have sinned against heaven and in your sight! {{rf{19}}} I am no longer worthy to be called your son! Make me like one of your hired workers.' {{rf{20}}} And he set out and came to his own father. But while he was still a long way away, his father saw him and had compassion, and ran and embraced him and kissed him. {{rf{21}}} And his son said to him, 'Father, I have sinned against heaven and in your sight! I am no longer worthy to be called your son!' {{rf{22}}} But his father said to his slaves, 'Quickly bring out the best robe and put it on him, and put a ring on his finger and sandals on his feet! {{rf{23}}} And bring the fattened calf -- kill it and let us eat and celebrate, {{rf{24}}} because this son of mine was dead, and is alive again! He was lost and is found!' And they began to celebrate. {{rf{25}}} "Now his older son was in the field, and when he came and approached the house, he heard music and dancing. {{rf{26}}} And he summoned one of the slaves and asked what these things meant. {{rf{27}}} And he said to him, 'Your brother has come, and your father has killed the fattened calf because he has gotten him back healthy.' {{rf{28}}} But he became angry and did not want to go in. So his father came out and began to implore him. {{rf{29}}} But he answered and said to his father, 'Behold, so many years I have served you, and have never disobeyed your command! And you never gave me a young goat so that I could celebrate with my friends! {{rf{30}}} But when this son of yours returned -- who has consumed your assets with prostitutes -- you killed the fattened calf for him!' {{rf{31}}} But he said to him, 'Child, you are always with me, and everything I have belongs to you. {{rf{32}}} But it was necessary to celebrate and to rejoice, because this brother of yours was dead, and is alive, and was lost, and is found!'" {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Luke-15-17]] }}}
His father intercepts him on his way to attempted a works-based recovery to announce grace.
15:21 Servants are NOT given sandals. The robe and all simply mean he is being not received as a servant, but claimed as a son. His mean-spirited little maneuvering has been totally outflanked. His sense of pamperedness at this moment is beyond anything he had procured for himself in Vegas. Undoubtedly he is astounded and must regroup before going through his speech.
15:24, 30, 32 son of mine. . .son of yours. . .brother of yours. . .
Vss 24 and 32 allude to the earlier stories about sheep and coins.
<<Bbl L 15:21 abbr >> We might imagine the father isn't even listening to the son's speech - but surely he looked into the son's eyes and listened carefully.
15:25-26 He may have guessed.
15:28 The younger son is never entreated. But this older son is, and it provides a sharp counterpoint to the son's complaint //I kept all your commands// - for the father is in no way commanding. John Piper points out that in Philemon, Paul says he could command but instead he will entreat.
15:29 His misunderstanding of both heart-service and reward have resulted in a long-time discontentment.
//you never gave me// -- this echoes vs. 16. The older son didn't ask, he had a slave mentality. The father was taking from the older son's substance to throw the party, but they were still the father's to give out of a motive of pure grace. Elsewhere Jesus directly confronts the Pharisee's outright love of money -- here it receives sly treatment.
<<Bbl L 15:29 abbr >> <<Bbl Mt 25:24 >>
15:29-30 The scornful son delivers three portraits:
# The younger has thrown his riches at whores.
# The older restrained from throwing his riches at his friends.
# The father has thrown his riches at the younger son.
The older son perceives his father as a version of the wayward son - and he perceives that man as in a class with whores. This is Jesus' response to the offended Pharisees (<<Bbl L 15:1 abbr>>)
15:31 By inheritance (v 12). (Could there be an application to "already and not yet", and negatively, to the arrogance Paul confronted in the Corinthians?)
And he also said to the disciples, "A certain man was rich, who had a manager. And charges were brought to him that this person was squandering his possessions. {{rf{2}}} And he summoned him and said to him, 'What is this I hear about you? Give the account of your management, because you can no longer manage.' {{rf{3}}} And the manager said to himself, 'What should I do, because my master is taking away the management from me? I am not strong enough to dig; I am ashamed to beg. {{rf{4}}} I know what I should do, so that when I am removed from the management they will welcome me into their homes!' {{rf{5}}} And he summoned each one of his own master's debtors and said to the first, 'How much do you owe my master?' {{rf{6}}} And he said, 'A hundred measures of olive oil.' So he said to him, 'Take your promissory note and sit down quickly and write fifty.' {{rf{7}}} Then he said to another, 'And how much do you owe?' And he said, 'A hundred measures of wheat.' He said to him, 'Take your promissory note and write eighty.' {{rf{8}}} And the master praised the dishonest manager, because he had acted shrewdly. For the sons of this age are shrewder than the sons of light with regard to their own generation. {{rf{9}}} And I tell you, make friends for yourselves by means of unrighteous wealth, so that when it runs out they will welcome you into the eternal dwellings. {{rf{10}}} "The one who is faithful in very little is also faithful in much, and the one who is dishonest in very little is also dishonest in much. {{rf{11}}} If then you have not been faithful with unrighteous wealth, who will entrust to you the true riches? {{rf{12}}} And if you have not been faithful with what belongs to another, who will give you your own? {{rf{13}}} No domestic slave is able to serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to one and will despise the other. You are not able to serve God and money." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Luke-16-01]] }}}
<<Bbl L 16:8 abbr>> [[Riches]] R. Morris says that nowhere else does Jesus draw such a strong contrast with God's Kingdom.
16:10-12 Steve Murrell incorrectly presents this as three points that qualify one for ministry leadership (Leadership 215, "Identification").
<<Bbl L 16:19 abbr >> From Hell the rich man requests so small a thing - a touch of water to cool his tongue. It seems disproportionate to his actual need, yet he would count it a relief. So Lazarus desired any measure of support, however small. [[GoldenRule]].
<<Bbl L 16:19 abbr >> See Wycliffe Ency., "Bosom of Abraham". Mark the comfort given to slaves from Africa as they sung this phrase.
17:3-5 Matthew inserts the query from Peter about how many times forgiveness should be granted. Vs. 5 follows naturally from the rest!
17:6 Our faith is not like a mustard seed in that it is small; that is a false view. Great faith does great things, whereas the disciples were reproved for the littleness of their faith. Rather our faith has a capacity for growth; <<Bbl Mt 13:31 >>-32 completes the teaching. See also <<Bbl 2Thes 1:3 >>.
<<Bbl L 17:11 abbr >>-19 This story is formed like a parable; it graphically pictures the alienation of sin, the ingratitude of most people who receive from God, and the blessedness of a few.
<<Bbl L 17:14 abbr >> The sequence reverses the natural order. This is faith.
17:21 Compare <<Bbl Dt 30:11 >>-14 ; <<Bbl R 10:8 >>.
<<Bbl L 17:26 abbr>> ff The [[Remnant]] is the implied focus.
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<<Bbl L 18:3 abbr >> Compare <<Bbl Ps 55:17 >>.
<<Bbl L 18:9 abbr >> Compare <<Bbl Ez 33:13 >>.
<<Bbl L 18:11 abbr >> //praying thus to himself//, As David Ravenhill points out, in more than one sense; the language conveniently reflects his spiritual attentions. Ravenhill rebukes our attempts to continually get glory, even in those "giving their testimony." (We go on about the things we had to give up; Paul dismisses them as dung.) The Pharisee is even comparing the nearby tax-collector //to himself//.
18:34 A highly emphatic statement -- the same proposition is stated three times.
18:35-43 The story of Bartimaeus is paralleled in <<Bbl Mk 10:46 >>-52 . This account indicates that this was a reverent procession. Perhaps the Teacher was speaking as they walked.
<<Bbl L 19:1 abbr >>-10 see <<Bbl L 5:27 >>-32
<<Bbl L 19:1 abbr >> //Sinner// categorically includes the tax gatherer, who //received Him joyfully//. This is surely the case in other scenes such as <<Bbl L 5:31 >>.
19:7 they all -- this struck everybody, both high and low, as scandalous.
<<Bbl L 19:8 abbr >> Zechariah's offer vindicates him in this sense: he can't be a complete thief, or it could not be supported. {{{ ( [Wealth] / 2 ) > ( [past fraud] x 4 ) }}} -- the order of the clauses is critical.
19:8 Wuest renders the word if as since .
<<Bbl L 19:9 abbr >> Thus Jesus rebuts vs 7. As in <<Bbl L 7:43 >>, He vindicates the lowly who trust in Him.
19:12 I recently heard that to receive a kingdom means to gain the right of rule over the local territory. The immediate precedent was Herod the Great, who had done this thing some decades earlier.
19:14 A subplot, which is resolved in vs 27.
19:10 see <<Bbl Mt 18:11 >>; <<Bbl Ez 34:16 >>
19:25 But on what is the image of God placed? That is the next question.
{{rf{14}}} Now the Pharisees, who were lovers of money, heard all these things, and they ridiculed him. {{rf{15}}} And he said to them, "You are the ones who justify themselves in the sight of men, but God knows your hearts! For what is considered exalted among men is an abomination in the sight of God. {{rf{16}}} "The law and the prophets were until John; from that time on the kingdom of God has been proclaimed, and everyone is urgently pressed into it. {{rf{17}}} But it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away than for one stroke of a letter of the law to become invalid. {{rf{18}}} "Everyone who divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery, and the one who marries a woman divorced from her husband commits adultery. {{rf{19}}} "Now a certain man was rich, and dressed in purple cloth and fine linen, feasting sumptuously every day. {{rf{20}}} And a certain poor man named Lazarus, covered with sores, lay at his gate, {{rf{21}}} and was longing to be filled with what fell from the table of the rich man. But even the dogs came and licked his sores. {{rf{22}}} Now it happened that the poor man died, and he was carried away by the angels to Abraham's side. And the rich man also died and was buried. {{rf{23}}} And in Hades he lifted up his eyes as he was in torment and saw Abraham from a distance, and Lazarus at his side. {{rf{24}}} And he called out and said, 'Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus so that he could dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue, because I am suffering pain in this flame!' {{rf{25}}} But Abraham said, 'Child, remember that you received your good things during your life, and Lazarus likewise bad things. But now he is comforted here, but you are suffering pain. {{rf{26}}} And in addition to all these things, a great chasm has been established between us and you, so that those who want to cross over from here to you are not able to do so, nor can they cross over from there to us.' {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Luke-16-14]] }}}
{{rf{27}}} So he said, 'Then I ask you, father, that you send him to my father's house, {{rf{28}}} for I have five brothers, so that he could warn them, in order that they also should not come to this place of torment!' {{rf{29}}} But Abraham said, 'They have Moses and the prophets; they must listen to them.' {{rf{30}}} And he said, 'No, father Abraham, but if someone from the dead goes to them, they will repent!' {{rf{31}}} But he said to him, 'If they do not listen to Moses and the prophets, neither will they be convinced if someone rises from the dead.'" {{rf big{1}}} And he said to his disciples, "It is impossible for causes for stumbling not to come, but woe to him through whom they come! {{rf{2}}} It would be better for him if a millstone is placed around his neck and he is thrown into the sea than that he causes one of these little ones to sin. {{rf{3}}} "Be concerned about yourselves! If your brother sins, rebuke him, and if he repents, forgive him. {{rf{4}}} And if he sins against you seven times in a day, and seven times he returns to you saying, 'I repent,' you must forgive him." {{rf{5}}} And the apostles said to the Lord, "Increase our faith!" {{rf{6}}} So the Lord said, "If you have faith like a mustard seed, you could say to this mulberry tree, 'Be uprooted and planted in the sea,' and it would obey you. {{rf{7}}} "And which of you who has a slave plowing or shepherding sheep who comes in from the field will say to him, 'Come here at once and recline at the table'? {{rf{8}}} Will he not rather say to him, 'Prepare something that I may eat, and dress yourself to serve me while I eat and drink, and after these things you will eat and drink.' {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Luke-16-27]] }}}
{{rf{9}}} He will not be grateful to the slave because he did what was ordered, will he? {{rf{10}}} Thus you also, when you have done all the things you were ordered to do, say, 'We are unworthy slaves; we have done what we were obligated to do.'" {{rf{11}}} And it happened that while traveling toward Jerusalem, he was passing through the region between Samaria and Galilee. {{rf{12}}} And as he was entering into a certain village, ten men met him -- lepers, who stood at a distance. {{rf{13}}} And they raised their voices, saying, "Jesus, Master, have mercy on us!" {{rf{14}}} And when he saw them he said to them, "Go and show yourselves to the priests." And it happened that as they were going, they were cleansed. {{rf{15}}} But one of them, when he saw that he was healed, turned back, praising God with a loud voice. {{rf{16}}} And he fell on his face at his feet, giving thanks to him. And he was a Samaritan. {{rf{17}}} So Jesus answered and said, "Were not ten cleansed? And where are the nine? {{rf{18}}} Was no one found to turn back and give praise to God except this foreigner?" {{rf{19}}} And he said to him, "Get up and go your way. Your faith has saved you." {{rf{20}}} Now when he was asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God would come, he answered them and said, "The kingdom of God does not come with things that can be observed, {{rf{21}}} nor will they say, 'Behold, here it is!' or 'There!' For behold, the kingdom of God is in your midst." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Luke-17-09]] }}}
{{rf{22}}} And he said to the disciples, "Days will come when you will desire to see one of the days of the Son of Man, and you will not see it. {{rf{23}}} And they will say to you, 'Behold, there!' 'Behold, here!' Do not go out or run after them! {{rf{24}}} For just as the lightning shines forth, flashing from one place under heaven to another place under heaven, so the Son of Man will be in his day. {{rf{25}}} But first it is necessary for him to suffer many things, and to be rejected by this generation. {{rf{26}}} And just as it was in the days of Noah, so also it will be in the days of the Son of Man -- {{rf{27}}} they were eating, they were drinking, they were marrying, they were being given in marriage, until the day Noah entered into the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all. {{rf{28}}} Likewise, just as it was in the days of Lot -- they were eating, they were drinking, they were buying, they were selling, they were planting, they were building. {{rf{29}}} But on the day that Lot went out from Sodom, it rained fire and sulphur from heaven and destroyed them all. {{rf{30}}} It will be just the same on the day that the Son of Man is revealed. {{rf{31}}} On that day, whoever is on the housetop and his goods are in the house must not come down to take them away. And likewise the one who is in the field must not turn back {{rf{32}}} Remember Lot's wife! {{rf{33}}} Whoever seeks to preserve his life will lose it, but whoever loses it will keep it. {{rf{34}}} I tell you that in that night there will be two in one bed; one will be taken and the other will be left. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Luke-17-22]] }}}
{{rf{35}}} There will be two women grinding at the same place; one will be taken and the other will be left." {{rf{37}}} And they answered and said to him, "Where, Lord?" So he said to them, "Where the dead body is, there also the vultures will be gathered."
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{{rf big{1}}} And he told them a parable to show that they must always pray and not be discouraged, {{rf{2}}} saying, "There was a certain judge in a certain town who did not fear God and did not respect people. {{rf{3}}} And there was a widow in that town, and she kept coming to him, saying, 'Grant me justice against my adversary!' {{rf{4}}} And he was not willing for a time, but after these things he said to himself, 'Even if I do not fear God or respect people, {{rf{5}}} yet because this widow is causing trouble for me, I will grant her justice, so that she does not wear me down in the end by her coming back!'" {{rf{6}}} And the Lord said, "Listen to what the unrighteous judge is saying! {{rf{7}}} And will not God surely see to it that justice is done to his chosen ones who cry out to him day and night, and will he delay toward them? {{rf{8}}} I tell you that he will see to it that justice is done for them soon! Nevertheless, when the Son of Man comes, then will he find faith on earth?"
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{{rf{9}}} And he also told this parable to some who trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and looked down on everyone else: {{rf{10}}} "Two men went up to the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. {{rf{11}}} The Pharisee stood and prayed these things with reference to himself: 'God, I give thanks to you that I am not like other people -- swindlers, unrighteous people, adulterers, or even like this tax collector! {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Luke-17-35]] }}}
{{rf{12}}} I fast twice a week; I give a tenth of all that I get.' {{rf{13}}} But the tax collector, standing far away, did not want even to raise his eyes to heaven, but was beating his breast, saying, 'God, be merciful to me, a sinner!' {{rf{14}}} I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than that one! For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but the one who humbles himself will be exalted."
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{{rf{15}}} Now they were bringing even their babies to him so that he could touch them. But when the disciples saw it, they rebuked them. {{rf{16}}} But Jesus called them to himself, saying, "Allow the children to come to me, and do not forbid them, for to such belongs the kingdom of God. {{rf{17}}} Truly I say to you, whoever does not welcome the kingdom of God like a young child will never enter into it."
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{{rf{18}}} And a certain ruler asked him, saying, "Good Teacher, by doing what will I inherit eternal life?" {{rf{19}}} And Jesus said to him, "Why do you call me good? No one is good except God alone. {{rf{20}}} You know the commandments: 'Do not commit adultery, do not murder, do not steal, do not give false testimony, honor your father and mother.'" {{rf{21}}} And he said, "All these I have observed from my youth." {{rf{22}}} And when he heard this, Jesus said to him, "You still lack one thing: Sell all that you have, and distribute the proceeds to the poor -- and you will have treasure in heaven -- and come, follow me." {{rf{23}}} But when he heard these things he became very sad, because he was extremely wealthy. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Luke-18-12]] }}}
{{rf{24}}} And Jesus took notice of him and said, "How difficult it is for those who possess wealth to enter into the kingdom of God! {{rf{25}}} For it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter into the kingdom of God. {{rf{26}}} So those who heard this said, "And who can be saved?" {{rf{27}}} But he said, "What is impossible with men is possible with God." {{rf{28}}} And Peter said, "Behold, we have left all that is ours and followed you." {{rf{29}}} And he said to them, "Truly I say to you that there is no one who has left house or wife or brothers or parents or children on account of the kingdom of God, {{rf{30}}} who will not receive many times more in this time and in the age to come, eternal life." {{rf{31}}} And taking aside the twelve, he said to them, "Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem, and all the things that are written by the prophets with reference to the Son of Man will be accomplished. {{rf{32}}} For he will be handed over to the Gentiles and will be mocked and mistreated and spit on, {{rf{33}}} and after flogging him they will kill him, and on the third day he will rise." {{rf{34}}} And they understood none of these things, and this saying was concealed from them, and they did not comprehend the things that were said. {{rf{35}}} Now it happened that as he drew near to Jericho, a certain blind man was sitting on the side of the road begging. {{rf{36}}} And when he heard a crowd going by, he inquired what this meant. {{rf{37}}} And they told him, "Jesus the Nazarene is passing by." {{rf{38}}} And he called out, saying, "Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me!" {{rf{39}}} And those who were in front rebuked him, that he should be silent, but he cried out even more loudly, "Son of David, have mercy on me!" {{rf{40}}} So Jesus stopped and ordered him to be brought to him. And when he approached, he asked him, {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Luke-18-24]] }}}
{{rf{41}}} "What do you want me to do for you?" And he said, "Lord, that I may regain my sight. {{rf{42}}} And Jesus said to him, "Regain your sight! Your faith has saved you." {{rf{43}}} And immediately he regained his sight and began to follow him, glorifying God. And all the people, when they saw it, gave praise to God. {{rf big{1}}} And he entered and traveled through Jericho. {{rf{2}}} And there was a man named Zacchaeus, and he was a chief tax collector, and he was rich. {{rf{3}}} And he was seeking to see Jesus -- who he was -- and he was not able to as a result of the crowd, because he was short in stature. {{rf{4}}} And he ran on ahead and climbed up into a sycamore tree so that he could see him, because he was going to go through that way. {{rf{5}}} And when he came to the place, Jesus looked up and said to him, "Zacchaeus, come down quickly, because it is necessary for me to stay at your house today!" {{rf{6}}} And he came down quickly and welcomed him joyfully. {{rf{7}}} And when they saw it, they all began to complain, saying, "He has gone in to find lodging with a man who is a sinner!" {{rf{8}}} And Zacchaeus stopped and said to the Lord, "Behold, half of my possessions, Lord, I am giving to the poor, and if I have extorted anything from anyone, I am paying it back four times as much!" {{rf{9}}} And Jesus said to him, "Today salvation has come to this house, because he too is a son of Abraham. {{rf{10}}} For the Son of Man came to seek and to save those who are lost." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Luke-18-41]] }}}
{{rf{11}}} Now while they were listening to these things, he went on and told a parable, because he was near Jerusalem and they thought that the kingdom of God was going to appear immediately. {{rf{12}}} Therefore he said, "A certain nobleman traveled to a distant country to receive for himself a kingdom and to return. {{rf{13}}} And summoning ten of his own slaves, he gave them ten minas and said to them, 'Do business until I come back.' {{rf{14}}} But his citizens hated him, and sent a delegation after him, saying, 'We do not want this man to be king over us!' {{rf{15}}} And it happened that when he returned after receiving the kingdom, he ordered these slaves to whom he had given the money to be summoned to him, so that he could know what they had gained by trading. {{rf{16}}} So the first arrived, saying, 'Sir, your mina has made ten minas more!' {{rf{17}}} And he said to him, 'Well done, good slave! Because you have been faithful in a very small thing, have authority over ten cities.' {{rf{18}}} And the second came, saying, 'Sir, your mina has made five minas.' {{rf{19}}} So he said to this one also, 'And you be over five cities.' {{rf{20}}} And another came, saying, 'Sir, behold your mina, which I had put away for safekeeping in a piece of cloth. {{rf{21}}} For I was afraid of you, because you are a severe man -- you withdraw what you did not deposit, and you reap what you did not sow!' {{rf{22}}} He said to him, 'By your own words I will judge you, wicked slave! You knew that I am a severe man, withdrawing what I did not deposit and reaping what I did not sow. {{rf{23}}} And why did you not give my money to the bank, and I, when I returned, would have collected it with interest?' {{rf{24}}} And to the bystanders he said, 'Take away from him the mina and give it to the one who has the ten minas!' {{rf{25}}} And they said to him, 'Sir, he has ten minas.' {{rf{26}}} 'I tell you that to everyone who has, more will be given. But from the one who does not have, even what he has will be taken away. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Luke-19-11]] }}}
{{rf{27}}} But these enemies of mine who did not want me to be king over them -- bring them here and slaughter them in my presence!'" {{rf{28}}} And after he had said these things, he traveled on ahead, going up to Jerusalem. {{rf{29}}} And it happened that when he drew near to Bethphage and Bethany, to the hill called the Mount of Olives, he sent two of the disciples, {{rf{30}}} saying, 'Go into the village in front of you, in which as you enter you will find a colt tied, on which no person has ever sat, and untie it and bring it. {{rf{31}}} And if anyone asks you, 'Why are you untying it?' you will say this: 'The Lord has need of it.'" {{rf{32}}} So those who were sent went and found it just as he had told them. {{rf{33}}} And as they were untying the colt, its owners said to them, 'Why are you untying the colt?' {{rf{34}}} So they said, 'The Lord has need of it.' {{rf{35}}} And they brought it to Jesus, and throwing their cloaks on the colt, they put Jesus on it. {{rf{36}}} And as he was going along, they were spreading out their cloaks on the road. {{rf{37}}} Now as he was drawing near by this time to the descent from the Mount of Olives, the whole crowd of the disciples began rejoicing to praise God with a loud voice for all the miracles that they had seen, {{rf{38}}} saying, "Blessed is the king, the one who comes in the name of the Lord! Peace in heaven and glory in the highest!" {{rf{39}}} And some of the Pharisees from the crowd said to him, "Teacher, rebuke your disciples!" {{rf{40}}} And he answered and said, "I tell you that if these keep silent, the stones will cry out!" {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Luke-19-27]] }}}
20:5 See John's statement concerning the Christ, 3:16. To answer "heaven" would have itself answered the question of vs 2.
20:20 This was a constant tactic, seen in 23:2.
20:25 We try to make this reply our answer to the question of vs 22 -- but it was calculated by the Lord to answer that question with some ambiguity, as the next verse shows.
20:41-44 Is Christ thus abjuring the title? Or provoking His listeners to thought?
<<Bbl L 21:1 abbr >>-4
* It would read perfectly well as a parable; it's remarkable for serving up reality as truth, almost as symbol.
* Note //widows// preceding passage and the //temple// in the following. This account is not about a poor woman demonstrating her piety. It is about religious frauds making a prey of the pious poor.
* (Poor widow! Swindled, then used as a misguided example of spiritual exellance!)
* What a comparison with the woman who gave her oil as anointing! <<Bbl J 10:10>>.
* It is also about the observing eye of God. God sees the widow's gift, as the crowds see the Pharisee's. Jesus declares: God sees everything, and I am God.
* The standard assumption is that the disciples were amazed at the widow's devotion while accepting the Lord's knowledge as a matter of course. Seems unsupportable.
* See [[Preach]]
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<<Bbl L 21:1 abbr >> @@division@@ //And looking up//
<<Bbl L 21:14 abbr>>-15 Prepare not to prepare! And this was Jesus' own tactic.
{{rf{41}}} And when he approached and saw the city, he wept over it, {{rf{42}}} saying, "If you had known on this day -- even you -- the things that make for peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes. {{rf{43}}} For days will come upon you and your enemies will put up an embankment against you, and will surround you and press you hard from all directions. {{rf{44}}} And they will raze you to the ground, you and your children within you, and will not leave a stone upon a stone within you, because you did not recognize the time of your visitation." {{rf{45}}} And he entered into the temple courts and began to drive out those who were selling, {{rf{46}}} saying to them, "It is written, 'And my house will be a house of prayer,' but you have made it a cave of robbers!" {{rf{47}}} And he was teaching every day in the temple courts, and the chief priests and the scribes and the most prominent men of the people were seeking to destroy him. {{rf{48}}} And they did not find anything they could do, because all the people were paying close attention to what they were hearing from him. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Luke-19-41]] }}}
And it happened that on one of the days while he was teaching the people in the temple courts and proclaiming the gospel, the chief priests and the scribes approached together with the elders {{rf{2}}} and said, saying to him, "Tell us, by what authority you are doing these things, or who is the one who gave you this authority? {{rf{3}}} And he answered and said to them, "I also will ask you a question, and you tell me: {{rf{4}}} The baptism of John -- was it from heaven or from men? {{rf{5}}} And they discussed this with one another, saying, "If we say 'From heaven,' he will say, 'Why did you not believe him?' {{rf{6}}} But if we say, 'From men,' all the people will stone us to death, because they are convinced that John was a prophet." {{rf{7}}} And they replied that they did not know where it was from. {{rf{8}}} And Jesus said to them, "Neither will I tell you by what authority I am doing these things." {{rf{9}}} And he began to tell the people this parable: "A man planted a vineyard, and leased it to tenant farmers, and went on a journey for a long time. {{rf{10}}} And at the proper time he sent a slave to the tenant farmers, so that they would give him some of the fruit of the vineyard. But the tenant farmers sent him away empty-handed after beating him. {{rf{11}}} And he proceeded to send another slave, but they beat and dishonored that one also, and sent him away empty-handed. {{rf{12}}} And he proceeded to send a third, but they wounded and threw out this one also. {{rf{13}}} So the owner of the vineyard said, 'What should I do? I will send my beloved son; perhaps they will respect him.' {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Luke-20-01]] }}}
{{rf{14}}} But when the tenant farmers saw him, they began to reason with one another, saying, 'This is the heir. Let us kill him so that the inheritance will become ours!' {{rf{15}}} And they threw him out of the vineyard and killed him. What then will the owner of the vineyard do to them? {{rf{16}}} He will come and destroy those tenant farmers and give the vineyard to others." And when they heard this, they said, "May this never happen!" {{rf{17}}} But he looked intently at them and said, "What then is this that is written: 'The stone which the builders rejected, this has become the cornerstone.' {{rf{18}}} Everyone who falls on that stone will be broken to pieces, and the one on whom it falls -- it will crush him!" {{rf{19}}} And the scribes and the chief priests sought to lay their hands on him at that same hour, and they were afraid of the people, for they knew that he had told this parable with reference to them. {{rf{20}}} And they watched him closely and sent spies who pretended they were upright, in order that they could catch him in a statement, so that they could hand him over to the authority and the jurisdiction of the governor. {{rf{21}}} And they asked him, saying, "Teacher, we know that you speak and teach rightly, and do not show partiality, but teach the way of God in truth. {{rf{22}}} Is it permitted for us to pay taxes to Caesar or not?" {{rf{23}}} But seeing through their craftiness, he said to them, {{rf{24}}} "Show me a denarius! Whose image and inscription does it have?" And they answered and said, "Caesar's." {{rf{25}}} So he said to them, "Well then, give to Caesar the things of Caesar, and to God the things of God!" {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Luke-20-14]] }}}
{{rf{26}}} And they were not able to catch him in a statement in the sight of the people, and astonished at his answer, they became silent. {{rf{27}}} Now some of the Sadducees -- who deny that there is a resurrection -- came up and asked him, {{rf{28}}} saying, "Teacher, Moses wrote for us if someone's brother dies having a wife, and this man is childless, that his brother should take the wife and father descendants for his brother. {{rf{29}}} Now there were seven brothers, and the first took a wife and died childless, {{rf{30}}} and the second, {{rf{31}}} and the third took her, and likewise also the seven did not leave children and died. {{rf{32}}} Finally the woman also died. {{rf{33}}} Therefore in the resurrection, the woman -- whose wife will she be? For the seven had her as wife." {{rf{34}}} And Jesus said to them, "The sons of this age marry and are given in marriage, {{rf{35}}} but those who are considered worthy to attain to that age and to the resurrection from the dead neither marry nor are given in marriage, {{rf{36}}} for they are not even able to die any longer, because they are like the angels and are sons of God, because they are sons of the resurrection. {{rf{37}}} But that the dead are raised, even Moses revealed in the passage about the bush, when he calls the Lord the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob. {{rf{38}}} Now he is not God of the dead, but of the living, for all live to him!" {{rf{39}}} And some of the scribes answered and said, "Teacher, you have spoken well." {{rf{40}}} For they no longer dared to ask him anything. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Luke-20-26]] }}}
{{rf{41}}} But he said to them, "In what sense do they say that the Christ is David's son? {{rf{42}}} For David himself says in the book of Psalms, 'The Lord said to my Lord, "Sit at my right hand, {{rf{43}}} until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet." ' {{rf{44}}} David therefore calls him 'Lord,' and how is he his son?" {{rf{45}}} And while all the people were listening, he said to the disciples, {{rf{46}}} "Beware of the scribes, who like walking around in long robes and who love greetings in the marketplaces and the best seats in the synagogues and the places of honor at banquets, {{rf{47}}} who devour the houses of widows and pray lengthy prayers for the sake of appearance. These will receive more severe condemnation!" {{rf big{1}}} And he looked up and saw the rich putting their gifts into the contribution box, {{rf{2}}} and he saw a certain poor widow putting in there two small copper coins. {{rf{3}}} And he said, "Truly I say to you that this poor widow put in more than all of them. {{rf{4}}} For these all put gifts into the offering out of their abundance, but this woman out of her poverty put in all the means of subsistence that she had." {{rf{5}}} And while some were speaking about the temple, that it was adorned with precious stones and votive offerings, he said, {{rf{6}}} "As for these things that you see -- days will come in which not one stone will be left on another stone that will not be thrown down!" {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Luke-20-41]] }}}
{{rf{7}}} And they asked him, saying, "Teacher, when therefore will these things happen, and what will be the sign when these things are about to take place?" {{rf{8}}} And he said, Watch out that you are not deceived! For many will come in my name, saying, 'I am he,' and 'The time is near!' Do not go after them! {{rf{9}}} And when you hear about wars and insurrections, do not be terrified, for these things must happen first, but the end will not be at once." {{rf{10}}} Then he said to them, "nation will rise up against nation and kingdom against kingdom. {{rf{11}}} There will be great earthquakes and famines and plagues in various places. There will be terrible sights and great signs from heaven. {{rf{12}}} "But before all these things, they will lay their hands on you and will persecute you, handing you over to the synagogues and prisons. You will be brought before kings and governors because of my name. {{rf{13}}} This will turn out to you for a time of witness. {{rf{14}}} Therefore make up your minds not to prepare in advance to speak in your own defense, {{rf{15}}} for I will give you a mouth and wisdom that all your opponents will not be able to resist or contradict. {{rf{16}}} And you will be handed over even by parents and brothers and relatives and friends, and they will put to death some of you. {{rf{17}}} And you will be hated by all because of my name. {{rf{18}}} Even a hair of your head will never perish! {{rf{19}}} By your patient endurance you will gain your lives. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Luke-21-07]] }}}
{{rf{20}}} "But when you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, then know that its desolation has come near. {{rf{21}}} Then those in Judea must flee to the mountains, and those inside it must depart, and those in the fields must not enter into it, {{rf{22}}} because these are days of vengeance, so that all the things that are written can be fulfilled. {{rf{23}}} Woe to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing their babies in those days! For there will be great distress on the earth and wrath against this people, {{rf{24}}} and they will fall by the edge of the sword, and will be led captive into all the nations, and Jerusalem will be trampled down by the Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled. {{rf{25}}} "And there will be signs in the sun and moon and stars, and on the earth distress of nations in perplexity from the noise of the sea and its surging, {{rf{26}}} people fainting from fear and expectation of what is coming on the inhabited earth, for the powers of the heavens will be shaken. {{rf{27}}} And then they will see the Son of Man arriving in a cloud with power and great glory. {{rf{28}}} But when these things begin to happen, stand up straight and raise your heads, because your redemption is drawing near!" {{rf{29}}} And he told them a parable: "Look at the fig tree and all the trees. {{rf{30}}} When they put out foliage, now you see for yourselves and know that by this time the summer is near. {{rf{31}}} So also you, when you see these things happening, know that the kingdom of God is near. {{rf{32}}} Truly I say to you that this generation will never pass away until all things take place! {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Luke-21-20]] }}}
{{rf{33}}} Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away. {{rf{34}}} "But take care for yourselves, lest your hearts are weighed down with dissipation and drunkenness and the worries of daily life, and that day come upon you suddenly {{rf{35}}} like a trap. For it will come upon all who reside on the face of the whole earth. {{rf{36}}} But be alert at all times, praying that you may have strength to escape all these things that are going to happen, and to stand before the Son of Man." {{rf{37}}} So throughout the days he was teaching in the temple courts, and throughout the nights he was going out and spending the night on the hill that is called the Mount of Olives. {{rf{38}}} And all the people were getting up very early in the morning to come to him in the temple courts to listen to him. {{rf big{1}}} Now the feast of Unleavened Bread (which is called Passover) was drawing near. {{rf{2}}} And the chief priests and the scribes were seeking how they could destroy him, because they were afraid of the people. {{rf{3}}} And Satan entered into Judas, the one called Iscariot, who was of the number of the twelve. {{rf{4}}} And he went away and discussed with the chief priests and officers of the temple guard how he could betray him to them. {{rf{5}}} And they were delighted, and came to an agreement with him to give him money. {{rf{6}}} And he agreed, and began looking for a favorable opportunity to betray him to them apart from the crowd. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Luke-21-33]] }}}
22:20 To say someone's blood was poured out meant that someone had died by violence (<<Bbl Mt 23:35 >>, Gk. verb).
22:28 Samuel was among those stood by God in His trials, and Moses was. Have you known rejection for the sake of God?
22:31 see <<Bbl 1P 5:10 >>.
<<Bbl L 22:32 abbr >> See <<Bbl 2C 1:4 >>.
<<Bbl L 22:33 abbr >> He was not ready; but later, he would do all of that.
22:43 //an angel came...//
** Mysterious. See [[Christ-DualNature]].
** In fact, vss 43-44 are "not in the earliest manuscripts".
22:44 //great drops of blood// -- forewarning the Christ of the crown of thorns.
22:46 The answer to Christ's question is in vs 45: from sorrow. But what does that mean? Was it a temptation to be avoided through prayer?
<<Bbl L 22:61 abbr >> A look of mercy.
{{rf{7}}} And the day of the feast of Unleavened Bread came, on which it was necessary for the Passover lamb to be sacrificed. {{rf{8}}} And he sent Peter and John, saying, "Go and prepare the Passover for us, so that we may eat it. {{rf{9}}} So they said to him, "Where do you want us to prepare it?" {{rf{10}}} And he said to them, "Behold, when you have entered into the city, a man carrying a jar of water will meet you. Follow him into the house which he enters. {{rf{11}}} And you will say to the master of the house, 'The Teacher says to you, "Where is the guest room where I may eat the Passover with my disciples?" ' {{rf{12}}} And he will show you a large furnished upstairs room. Make preparations there." {{rf{13}}} So they went and found everything just as he had told them, and they prepared the Passover. {{rf{14}}} And when the hour came, he reclined at the table, and the apostles with him. {{rf{15}}} And he said to them, "I have earnestly desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer. {{rf{16}}} For I tell you that I will not eat it until it is fulfilled in the kingdom of God." {{rf{17}}} And he took in hand a cup, and after giving thanks he said, "Take this and share it among yourselves. {{rf{18}}} For I tell you, from now on I will not drink of the product of the vine until the kingdom of God comes." {{rf{19}}} And he took bread, and after giving thanks, he broke it and gave it to them, saying, "This is my body which is given for you. Do this in remembrance of me." {{rf{20}}} And in the same way the cup after they had eaten, saying, "This cup is the new covenant in my blood which is poured out for you. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Luke-22-07]] }}}
{{rf{21}}} "But behold, the hand of the one who is betraying me is with me on the table! {{rf{22}}} For the Son of Man is going according to what has been determined, but woe to that man by whom he is betrayed!" {{rf{23}}} And they began to debate with one another who then of them it could be who was going to do this. {{rf{24}}} And a dispute also occurred among them as to which of them was recognized as being greatest. {{rf{25}}} So he said to them, "The kings of the Gentiles lord it over them, and those who have authority over them are called benefactors. {{rf{26}}} But you are not to be like this! But the one who is greatest among you must become like the youngest, and the one who leads like the one who serves. {{rf{27}}} For who is greater, the one who reclines at the table or the one who serves? Is it not the one who reclines at the table? But I am in your midst as the one who serves. {{rf{28}}} "And you are the ones who have remained with me in my trials, {{rf{29}}} and I confer on you a kingdom, just as my Father conferred on me, {{rf{30}}} that you may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom, and you will sit on thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel. {{rf{31}}} "Simon, Simon, behold, Satan has demanded to sift you like wheat, {{rf{32}}} but I have prayed for you, that your faith may not fail. And you, when once you have turned back, strengthen your brothers." {{rf{33}}} But he said to him, "Lord, I am ready to go with you both to prison and to death!" {{rf{34}}} And he said, "I tell you, Peter, the rooster will not crow today until you have denied three times that you know me!" {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Luke-22-21]] }}}
{{rf{35}}} And he said to them, "When I sent you out without a money bag and a traveler's bag and sandals, you did not lack anything, did you?" And they said, "Nothing." {{rf{36}}} And he said to them, "But now the one who has a money bag must take it, and likewise a traveler's bag. And the one who does not have a sword must sell his cloak and buy one. {{rf{37}}} For I tell you that this that is written must be fulfilled in me: 'And he was counted with the criminals.' For indeed, what is written about me is being fulfilled." {{rf{38}}} So they said, "Lord, behold, here are two swords!" And he said to them, "It is adequate." {{rf{39}}} And he went away and proceeded, according to his custom, to the Mount of Olives, and the disciples also followed him. {{rf{40}}} And when he came to the place, he said to them, "Pray that you will not enter into temptation." {{rf{41}}} And he withdrew from them about a stone's throw and knelt down and began to pray, {{rf{42}}} saying, "Father, if you are willing, take away this cup from me. Nevertheless, not my will but yours be done." {{rf{43}}} And an angel from heaven appeared to him, strengthening him. {{rf{44}}} And being in anguish, he began praying more fervently and his sweat became like drops of blood falling down to the ground. {{rf{45}}} And when he got up from the prayer and came to the disciples, he found them sleeping from sorrow, {{rf{46}}} and he said to them, "Why are you sleeping? Get up and pray that you will not enter into temptation!" {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Luke-22-35]] }}}
{{rf{47}}} While he was still speaking, behold, there came a crowd, and the one named Judas, one of the twelve, leading them. And he approached Jesus to kiss him. {{rf{48}}} But Jesus said to him, "Judas, are you betraying the Son of Man with a kiss?" {{rf{49}}} And when those around him saw what was about to happen, they said, "Lord, should we strike with the sword?" {{rf{50}}} And a certain one of them struck the slave of the high priest and cut off his right ear. {{rf{51}}} But Jesus answered and said, "Stop! No more of this!" And he touched his ear and healed him. {{rf{52}}} And Jesus said to the chief priests and officers of the temple and elders who had come out against him, "Have you come out with swords and clubs, as against a robber? {{rf{53}}} Every day when I was with you in the temple courts, you did not stretch out your hands against me! But this is your hour and the domain of darkness!" {{rf{54}}} And they arrested him and led him away and brought him into the house of the high priest. But Peter was following at a distance. {{rf{55}}} And when they had kindled a fire in the middle of the courtyard and sat down together, Peter sat down among them. {{rf{56}}} And a certain female slave, seeing him sitting in the light and looking intently at him, said, "This man also was with him!" {{rf{57}}} But he denied it, saying, "Woman, I do not know him!" {{rf{58}}} And after a short time another person saw him and said, "You also are one of them!" But Peter said, "Man, I am not!" {{rf{59}}} And after about one hour had passed, someone else was insisting, saying, "In truth this man also was with him, because he is also a Galilean!" {{rf{60}}} But Peter said, "Man, I do not know what you are talking about!" And immediately, while he was still speaking, a rooster crowed. {{rf{61}}} And the Lord turned around and looked intently at Peter. And Peter remembered the word of the Lord, how he said to him, "Before the rooster crows today, you will deny me three times." {{rf{62}}} And he went outside and wept bitterly. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Luke-22-47]] }}}
{{rf{63}}} And the men who were guarding him began to mock him while they beat him, {{rf{64}}} and after blindfolding him they repeatedly asked him, saying, "Prophesy! Who is the one who struck you?" {{rf{65}}} And they were saying many other things against him, reviling him. {{rf{66}}} And when day came, the council of elders of the people gathered, both chief priests and scribes, and they led him away to their Sanhedrin, {{rf{67}}} saying, "If you are the Christ, tell us!" But he said to them, "If I tell you, you will never believe, {{rf{68}}} and if I ask you, you will never answer! {{rf{69}}} But from now on the Son of Man will be seated at the right hand of the power of God." {{rf{70}}} So they all said, "Are you then the Son of God?" And he said to them, "You say that I am." {{rf{71}}} And they said, "Why do we have need of further testimony? For we ourselves have heard it from his mouth!" {{rf big{1}}} And the whole assembly of them rose up and brought him before Pilate. {{rf{2}}} And they began to accuse him, saying, "We have found this man misleading our nation and forbidding us to pay taxes to Caesar, and saying he himself is Christ, a king!" {{rf{3}}} And Pilate asked him, saying, "Are you the king of the Jews?" And he answered him and said, "You say so." {{rf{4}}} So Pilate said to the chief priests and the crowds, "I find no basis for an accusation against this man." {{rf{5}}} But they insisted, saying, "He incites the people, teaching throughout the whole of Judea and beginning from Galilee as far as here." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Luke-22-63]] }}}
23:8 Satan's puppet and protégé, showing Satan's character. What great tests the Lord had already withstood; how petty this Herod.
23:12 The basis of friendship between sinners is found in sin; between politicians, complicity.
23:22 see <<Bbl 1S 20:32 >>
<<Bbl L 23:24 abbr >> see <<Bbl A 3:17 >>
<<Bbl L 23:27 abbr >> Were these followers, or mourners who followed all such processions?
<<Bbl L 23:42 abbr >> Jesus is the only man on earth who knows this criminal is now completely free and alive.
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23:43 It is proposed (and this seems likely true) that the translation can as well be //Truly I say to you today, you will be with me in paradise//.
{{rf{6}}} Now when Pilate heard this, he asked if the man was a Galilean. {{rf{7}}} And when he found out that he was from the jurisdiction of Herod, he sent him over to Herod, who was also in Jerusalem in those days. {{rf{8}}} And when Herod saw Jesus, he was very glad, for he had been wanting to see him for a long time, because he had heard about him and was hoping to see some miracle performed by him. {{rf{9}}} So he questioned him at considerable length, but he answered nothing to him. {{rf{10}}} And the chief priests and the scribes were standing there vehemently accusing him. {{rf{11}}} And Herod with his soldiers also treated him with contempt, and after mocking him and dressing him in glistening clothing, he sent him back to Pilate. {{rf{12}}} And both Herod and Pilate became friends with one another on that same day, for they had previously been enemies of one another. {{rf{13}}} So Pilate called together the chief priests and the rulers and the people {{rf{14}}} and said to them, "You brought me this man as one who was misleading the people, and behold, when I examined him before you, I found nothing in this man as basis for the accusation which you are making against him. {{rf{15}}} But neither did Herod, because he sent him back to us. And behold, nothing deserving death has been done by him. {{rf{16}}} Therefore I will punish him and release him." {{rf{18}}} But they all cried out in unison, saying, "Take this man away, and release for us Barabbas!" {{rf{19}}} (who had been thrown in prison because of a certain insurrection that had taken place in the city, and for murder). {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Luke-23-06]] }}}
{{rf{20}}} And Pilate, wanting to release Jesus, addressed them again, {{rf{21}}} but they kept crying out, saying, "Crucify! Crucify him!" {{rf{22}}} So he said to them a third time, "Why? What wrong has this man done? I found no basis for an accusation deserving death in him. Therefore I will punish him and release him." {{rf{23}}} But they were urgent, demanding with loud cries that he be crucified. And their cries prevailed. {{rf{24}}} And Pilate decided that their demand should be granted. {{rf{25}}} And he released the one who had been thrown into prison because of insurrection and murder, whom they were asking for, but Jesus he handed over to their will. {{rf{26}}} And as they led him away, they seized Simon, a certain man of Cyrene, who was coming from the country, and placed the cross on him, to carry it behind Jesus. {{rf{27}}} And a great crowd of the people were following him, and of women who were mourning and lamenting him. {{rf{28}}} But turning to them, Jesus said, "Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for me, but weep for yourselves and for your children! {{rf{29}}} For behold, days are coming in which they will say, 'Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that did not give birth, and the breasts that did not nurse!' {{rf{30}}} Then they will begin to say to the mountains, 'Fall on us!' and to the hills, 'Cover us!' {{rf{31}}} For if they do these things when the wood is green, what will happen when it is dry?" {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Luke-23-20]] }}}
{{rf{32}}} And two other criminals were also led away to be executed with him. {{rf{33}}} And when they came to the place that is called "The Skull," there they crucified him, and the criminals, the one on his right and the other on his left. {{rf{34}}} But Jesus said, "Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing." And they cast lots to divide his clothes. {{rf{35}}} And the people stood there watching, but the rulers also ridiculed him, saying, "He saved others; let him save himself, if this man is the Christ of God, the Chosen One!" {{rf{36}}} And the soldiers also mocked him, coming up and offering him sour wine {{rf{37}}} and saying, "If you are the king of the Jews, save yourself!" {{rf{38}}} And there was also an inscription over him, "This is the king of the Jews." {{rf{39}}} And one of the criminals who were hanged there reviled him, saying, "Are you not the Christ? Save yourself -- and us!" {{rf{40}}} But the other answered and rebuked him, saying, "Do you not even fear God, because you are undergoing the same condemnation? {{rf{41}}} And we indeed justly, for we are receiving what we deserve for what we have done. But this man has done nothing wrong!" {{rf{42}}} And he said, "Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom!" {{rf{43}}} And he said to him, "Truly I say to you, today you will be with me in paradise." {{rf{44}}} And by this time it was about the sixth hour, and darkness came over the whole land until the ninth hou {{rf{45}}} because the light of the sun failed. And the curtain of the temple was torn apart down the middle. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Luke-23-32]] }}}
{{rf{46}}} And Jesus, calling out with a loud voice, said, "Father, into your hands I entrust my spirit!" And after he said this, he expired. {{rf{47}}} Now when the centurion saw what had happened, he began to praise God, saying, "Certainly this man was righteous!" {{rf{48}}} And all the crowds that had come together for this spectacle, when they saw the things that had happened, returned home beating their breasts. {{rf{49}}} And all his acquaintances, and the women who had followed him from Galilee who saw these things, stood at a distance. {{rf{50}}} And behold, a man named Joseph, who was a member of the council, a good and righteous ma {{rf{51}}} (this man was not consenting to their plan and deed), from Arimathea, a Judean town, who was looking forward to the kingdom of God. {{rf{52}}} This man approached Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus. {{rf{53}}} And he took it down and wrapped it in a linen cloth and placed him in a tomb cut into the rock where no one had ever been placed. {{rf{54}}} And it was the day of preparation, and the Sabbath was drawing near. {{rf{55}}} And the women who had been accompanying him from Galilee followed and saw the tomb and how his body was placed. {{rf{56}}} And they returned and prepared fragrant spices and perfumes, and on the Sabbath they rested according to the commandment. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Luke-23-46]] }}}
Now on the first day of the week, at very early dawn, they came back to the tomb bringing the fragrant spices which they had prepared. {{rf{2}}} And they found the stone had been rolled away from the tomb, {{rf{3}}} but when they went in, they did not find the body. {{rf{4}}} And it happened that while they were perplexed about this, behold, two men in gleaming clothing stood near them. {{rf{5}}} And as they were terrified and bowed their faces to the ground, they said to them, "Why are you looking for the living among the dead? {{rf{6}}} He is not here, but has been raised! Remember how he spoke to you while he was still in Galilee, {{rf{7}}} saying that the Son of Man must be delivered into the hands of men who are sinners, and be crucified, and on the third day rise?" {{rf{8}}} And they remembered his words, {{rf{9}}} and when they returned from the tomb, they reported all these things to the eleven and to all the rest. {{rf{10}}} Now Mary Magdalene and Joanna and Mary the mother of James and the others with them were telling these things to the apostles. {{rf{11}}} And these words appeared to them as nonsense, and they refused to believe them. {{rf{12}}} But Peter got up and ran to the tomb, and bending over to look, he saw only the strips of linen cloth, and he went away to his home wondering what had happened. {{rf{13}}} And behold, on that same day, two of them were traveling to a village named Emmaus that was sixty stadia distant from Jerusalem, {{rf{14}}} and they were conversing with one another about all these things that had happened. {{rf{15}}} And it happened that while they were conversing, and discussing, Jesus himself also approached and began to go along with them, {{rf{16}}} but their eyes were prevented from recognizing him. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Luke-24-01]] }}}
24:11 At this point, these three women are the sole repository on earth of the good news that Christ is raised from the dead. We sense God's delight in unveiling the central fact of saving faith, as of a father who has arranged an Easter-egg hunt.
24:12 Peter didn't share the unbelief of the others. But neither can it rightly be said that he believed. What, then? He willingly suspended his disbelief. That term is not taken from theology but from my high-school English class, where I learned that we practice the willing suspension of disbelief whenever we read a fiction story.
24:25,27,44-45 Following the resurrection, Christ was in a preaching mood. The Scriptures is His theme.
24:13-32 A rich picture of God's counsel and comfort.
24:30 We could call this "the First Supper." It comes after the "Last Supper."
<<Bbl L 24:44 abbr >> b 48 is another great commission.
{{rf{17}}} And he said to them, "What are these matters that you are discussing with one another as you are walking along?" And they stood still, looking sad. {{rf{18}}} And one of them, named Cleopas, answered and said to him, "Are you the only one living near Jerusalem and not knowing the things that have happened in it in these days?" {{rf{19}}} And he said to them, "What things?" So they said to him, "The things concerning Jesus the Nazarene, a man who was a prophet, powerful in deed and word before God and all the people, {{rf{20}}} and how our chief priests and rulers handed him over to a sentence of death, and crucified him. {{rf{21}}} But we were hoping that he was the one who was going to redeem Israel. But in addition to all these things, this is the third day since these things took place. {{rf{22}}} But also some women from among us astonished us, who were at the tomb early in the morning, {{rf{23}}} and when they did not find his body, they came back saying they had seen even a vision of angels, who said that he was alive! {{rf{24}}} And some of those with us went out to the tomb and found it like this, just as the women had also said, but him they did not see." {{rf{25}}} And he said to them, "O foolish and slow in heart to believe in all that the prophets have spoken! {{rf{26}}} Was it not necessary that the Christ suffer these things and enter into his glory?" {{rf{27}}} And beginning from Moses and from all the prophets, he interpreted to them the things concerning himself in all the scriptures. {{rf{28}}} And they drew near to the village where they were going, and he acted as though he was going farther. {{rf{29}}} And they urged him strongly, saying, "Stay with us, because it is getting toward evening, and by this time the day is far spent." And he went in to stay with them. {{rf{30}}} And it happened that when he reclined at the table with them, he took the bread and gave thanks, and after breaking it, he gave it to them. {{rf{31}}} And their eyes were opened, and they recognized him, and he became invisible to them. {{rf{32}}} And they said to one another, "Were not our hearts burning within us while he was speaking with us on the road, while he was explaining the scriptures to us?" {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Luke-24-17]] }}}
{{rf{33}}} And they got up that same hour and returned to Jerusalem and found the eleven and those with them assembled, {{rf{34}}} saying, "The Lord has really been raised, and has appeared to Simon!" {{rf{35}}} And they began describing what happened on the road, and how he was recognized by them in the breaking of the bread. {{rf{36}}} And while they were saying these things, he himself stood there among them. {{rf{37}}} But they were startled and became terrified, and thought they had seen a ghost. {{rf{38}}} And he said to them, "Why are you frightened? And for what reason do doubts arise in your hearts? {{rf{39}}} Look at my hands and my feet, that I am I myself! Touch me and see, because a ghost does not have flesh and bones, as you see that I have." {{rf{40}}} And when he had said this, he showed them his hands and his feet. {{rf{41}}} And while they were still disbelieving because of joy and were marveling, he said to them, "Do you have anything to eat here?" {{rf{42}}} So they gave him a piece of broiled fish, {{rf{43}}} and he took it and ate it in front of them. {{rf{44}}} And he said to them, "These are my words that I spoke to you while I was still with you, that everything that is written about me in the law of Moses and the prophets and psalms must be fulfilled." {{rf{45}}} Then he opened their minds to understand the scriptures, {{rf{46}}} and said to them, "Thus it is written that the Christ would suffer and would rise from the dead on the third day, {{rf{47}}} and repentance and the forgiveness of sins would be proclaimed in his name to all the nations, beginning from Jerusalem. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Luke-24-33]] }}}
{{rf{48}}} You are witnesses of these things. {{rf{49}}} And behold, I am sending out what was promised by my Father upon you, but you stay in the city until you are clothed with power from on high." {{rf{50}}} And he led them out as far as Bethany, and lifting up his hands, he blessed them. {{rf{51}}} And it happened that while he was blessing them, he parted from them and was taken up into heaven. {{rf{52}}} And they worshiped him and returned to Jerusalem with great joy. {{rf{53}}} And they were continually in the temple courts praising God. LENGTH SHORT {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Luke-24-48]] }}}
* @@color:brown;Natural human desire becomes an evil desire when the desire has the objective of self-interest.@@ // -- Harry Schaumburg, p. 63//
* //sexual addiction//
* [[Samson]]
* [[David]] with Bathsheba
* [[Covet]]
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* <<Bbl James 4:1 >>-4
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An oracle. The word of Yahweh to Israel through Malachi. {{rf{2}}} "I have loved you," says Yahweh, but you say, "How have you loved us?" "Is Esau not Jacob's brother?" declares Yahweh. "I have loved Jacob, {{rf{3}}} but Esau I have hated. I have made his mountain ranges a desolation, and given his inheritance to the jackals of the desert." {{rf{4}}} If Edom says, "We are shattered, but we will return and rebuild the ruins," Yahweh of hosts says this: "They may build, but I will tear down; and they will be called a territory of wickedness, and the people with whom Yahweh is angry forever." {{rf{5}}} Your eyes will see this, and you will say, "Yahweh is great beyond the borders of Israel." {{rf{6}}} "A son honors his father, and a slave his master; but if I am a father, where is my honor, and if I am a master, where is my reverence?" says Yahweh of hosts to you, O priests, who despise my name. "But you say, 'How have we despised your name?' {{rf{7}}} You are presenting defiled food on my altar! But you ask, 'How have we defiled you?' By saying that the table of Yahweh is despised! {{rf{8}}} When you offer a blind animal for sacrifice, is that not wrong? And when you offer the lame and the one who is ill, is that not wrong? Present it, please, to your governor! Will he be pleased with you? Will he show you favor?" says Yahweh of hosts. {{rf{9}}} So then, implore the favor of God so that he will be gracious to us. "This is what you have done. Will he show favor to any of you?" says Yahweh of hosts. {{rf{10}}} "Who also among you will shut the temple doors so that you will not kindle fire in vain on my altar? I take no pleasure in you," says Yahweh of hosts, "and I will not accept an offering from your hand. {{rf{11}}} From the rising of the sun to its setting, my name is great among the nations, and in every place incense is being presented to my name, and a pure offering. For my name is great among the nations," says Yahweh of hosts. {{rf{12}}} "But you are profaning it by saying the table of the Lord is defiled, and its fruit -- its food -- is despised! {{rf{13}}} And you say, 'Look! This is a weariness,' and you sniff with disdain at it," says Yahweh of hosts. "And you bring the stolen, the lame, and the one that is sick -- this you bring as the offering! Should I accept it from your hand?" says Yahweh. {{rf{14}}} "Cursed is the one who cheats, who has in his flock a male and vows it, but instead sacrifices a blemished one to the Lord! For I am a great king," says Yahweh of hosts, "and my name is awesome among the nations." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Malachi-01-01]] }}}
<<Bbl Mal 1:2 abbr>> Like when the Israelites had manna but craved meat (Num 11), God admonishes them by pointing out the neighboring Philistines are faring much worse in the aftermath of foreign occupation. //It could be much worse for you,// He points out.
<<Bbl Mal 2:16 abbr>> this verse has differing translations in the NIV.
<<Bbl Mal 3:6 abbr>> //to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children// -- <<Bbl L 1:17 >>
<<Bbl Mal 3:17 abbr>> see <<Bbl Ps 103:13 >>
"And so then, O priests, this command is for you: {{rf{2}}} If you will not listen, and if you will not take it to heart to give glory to my name," says Yahweh of hosts, "then I will send the curse on you, and I will curse your blessings; moreover I have already cursed them because you are not taking it to heart. {{rf{3}}} Look! I am going to rebuke your offspring, and I will scatter offal on your faces, the offal of your religious feasts, and you will be carried to it. {{rf{4}}} "Then you will know that I have sent to you this command, that my covenant with Levi continues," says Yahweh of hosts. {{rf{5}}} "My covenant with him was one of life and peace, and I gave them to him. This required reverence, and he revered me and stood in awe before my name. {{rf{6}}} The instruction of truth was in his mouth, and wickedness was not found on his lips. In peace and in uprightness he walked with me, and he brought back many from sin. {{rf{7}}} For the lips of the priest should guard knowledge, and they should seek instruction from his mouth, for he is the messenger of Yahweh of hosts. {{rf{8}}} But you, you have turned from the way; you have caused many to stumble by your instruction; you have ruined the covenant of Levi," says Yahweh of hosts. {{rf{9}}} "And in turn I have made you despised and humbled before all the people, inasmuch as you are not keeping my way, but are favoring your own instruction." {{rf{10}}} Do we not all have one father? Has not one God created us? Why then are we unfaithful to one another, profaning the covenant of our ancestors? {{rf{11}}} Judah has been faithless, and a detestable thing has been done in Israel and in Jerusalem. Judah has profaned the sanctuary of Yahweh which he loves, and has married the daughter of a foreign god. {{rf{12}}} May Yahweh cut off from the tents of Jacob the man who does this, the one who is awake and who answers, and the one who brings an offering to Yahweh of hosts! {{rf{13}}} And this you do as well: you cover the altar of Yahweh with tears, with weeping and with groaning, because he no longer regards the offering or accepts it with favor from your hand. {{rf{14}}} But you ask, "For what reason?" Because Yahweh stands as a witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have been unfaithful, even though she is your marriage partner and your wife by covenant. {{rf{15}}} Did not one God make them? But a remnant of the spirit is his. And what does the one God desire? An offspring of God. You must be attentive to your spirit, and you must not be unfaithful to the wife of your youth. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Malachi-02-01]] }}}
{{rf{16}}} "For I hate divorce," says Yahweh, the God of Israel, "and he who covers his clothing with violence," says Yahweh of hosts. "You must be attentive to your spirit and you must not be unfaithful." {{rf{17}}} You have wearied Yahweh with your words, but you ask, "With what have we wearied him?" You have done so when you say, "Everyone who does evil is good in the sight of Yahweh, and in them he delights," or "Where is the God of justice?" {{rf big{1}}} "Look! I am going to send my messenger, and he will prepare the way before me. And the Lord whom you are seeking will come suddenly to his temple, and the messenger of the covenant, in whom you are taking pleasure -- look! -- he is about to come," says Yahweh of hosts. {{rf{2}}} And who can endure the day of his coming? And who is the one who can stand when he appears? For he is like a refiner's fire, like launderers' alkali. {{rf{3}}} He will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver; he will purify the children of Levi, and he will refine them like gold and like silver, and they will present to Yahweh offerings in righteousness. {{rf{4}}} And the offering of Judah and Jerusalem will be pleasing to Yahweh, like in the days of old and like in former years. {{rf{5}}} "Then I will approach you for judgment, and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers and against the adulterers, and against those who swear falsely, and against the oppressors of the hired worker with his wages, the widow and the orphan, and the abusers of the alien, and yet do not fear me," says Yahweh of hosts. {{rf{6}}} "For I, Yahweh, have not changed, and you, O children of Jacob, have not perished. {{rf{7}}} From the days of your ancestors you have turned aside from my rules, and have not kept them! Return to me and I will return to you," says Yahweh of hosts, "but you say, 'How shall we return?' {{rf{8}}} Will a human dare to rob God? Yet you are robbing me! And you say, 'How have we robbed you?' In the tithes and the contributions! {{rf{9}}} You are being cursed with a curse, for you are robbing me, the whole nation of you! {{rf{10}}} Bring the whole tithe to the storehouse, so that there will be food in my house, and test me please in this," says Yahweh of hosts, "if I will not open for you the windows of heaven, and pour forth for you an overflowing blessing. {{rf{11}}} I will rebuke the devourer for you; it will not destroy the fruit of your soil; your vine in the field will not be unfruitful," says Yahweh of hosts. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Malachi-02-16]] }}}
{{rf{12}}} "And all the nations will call you blessed, because you will be a land in which one takes joy," says Yahweh of hosts. {{rf{13}}} "Your words have been harsh against me," says Yahweh. "But you say, 'How have we spoken together against you?' {{rf{14}}} You have said, 'It is useless to serve God! What is the gain if we keep his requirements, and if we walk as mourners before Yahweh of hosts? {{rf{15}}} And now we are calling the arrogant blessed! Not only do those who do wickedness prosper; they also test God and they escape!'" {{rf{16}}} Then those who revered Yahweh spoke with one another. And Yahweh listened attentively and heard, and a scroll of remembrance was written before him of those who revere Yahweh and ponder his name. {{rf{17}}} "They will be mine," says Yahweh of hosts, "on the day that I am acting, my treasured possession. I will have compassion on them as a man has compassion on his son who serves him. {{rf{18}}} You will return and see the difference between the righteous and the wicked, between the one who serves God and the one who does not serve him. {{rf big{1}}} "For look! The day is about to come, burning like an oven, and all the arrogant and every evildoer will be stubble. The coming day will consume them," says Yahweh of hosts. "It will not leave behind for them root or branch. {{rf{2}}} But for you who revere my name, the sun of righteousness will rise, with healing in its wings, and you will go out and leap like fattened calves. {{rf{3}}} You will trample down the wicked, for they will be ashes under the soles of your feet on the day that I am going to act," says Yahweh of hosts. {{rf{4}}} "Remember the instruction of my servant Moses, which I commanded him at Horeb to all Israel, the rules and regulations. {{rf{5}}} Look! I am going to send to you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and awesome day of Yahweh! {{rf{6}}} And he will bring back the hearts of the fathers to the sons, and the hearts of the sons to their fathers, so that I will not come and strike the land with a ban." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Malachi-03-12]] }}}
* [[Man_ImageOfGod]]
* made of [[dust|Land]] + [[Spirit]]: <<Bbl Job 19:25 >> (Vine's, under "Kinsman (OT)", has a corrective note; see my own notes).
* ''Tripartate'' view includes [[Soul]].
* "Cease from": <<Bbl I 2:22 >>, <<Bbl I 31:3 >>, <<Bbl I 51:12 >>, <<Bbl Jer 17:5 >>, <<Bbl Mk 7:7 >>, <<Bbl 2Ch 32:8 >>, <<Bbl Hos 5:11 >>, <<Bbl Ps 9:20 >>, <<Bbl Ps 136:3 >>-4 , <<Bbl J 5:41 >>-44 ; <<Bbl J 12:42 >>-43
* mortal: <<Bbl 1P 1:24 >>, <<Bbl Ps 82:6 >>-7
* weak: <<Bbl Ps 9:20 >>
* glorious: <<Bbl Ps 82:6 >>-7 , <<Bbl Ps 115:16 >>. [[Worth]].
* Animals, men to be treated as <<Bbl 2S 23:7 >>; <<Bbl 2K 19:28>>; <<Bbl I 30:28>>; <<Bbl Ps 32:9 >>; <<Bbl 2P 2:12 >>
* see study in files, also old subject index notebook. <<Bbl Ex 20:25 >>-26 ; <<Bbl Pr 20:27 >>
* Linguists confirm that any person can make all the phonetics of every language; the distinction is cultural and not racial (SIL '88).
!!! Masculinity
* [[Circumcise]]
* [[Worth]]
* [[Man]]
* [[Son]]
* Adam begot a son in his image - Gn 4
* <<Bbl L 20:25 "" note>>
* <<Bbl Mt 18:7 >>
* <<Bbl L 17:1 >>
* <<Bbl 1Ti 4:1 >>
* <<Bbl 2P 2:1 >>
* <<Bbl 1Co 11:19 >>
* <<Bbl I 6:2 >>
* <<Bbl 1Co 15:4 >>
* Mark was not one of the apostles. But he was (we infer) a witness to our Lord's last earthly day on earth (<<Bbl Mk 14:51>>-52).
* James Edwards (1989) analyzes the writer's "convention of breaking up a story or pericope by inserting a second, seemingly unrelated, story into the middle of it." I have the article in PDF. Also see <<Bbl Mt 6:9 "" note>>.
* Mark's famous use of //immediately// can be compared to our interjection "Bam!" in colloquial English. His use of the journalistic present is similar to our use of "like".
The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ. {{rf{2}}} Just as it is written in the prophet Isaiah, "Behold, I am sending my messenger before your face, who will prepare your way, {{rf{3}}} the voice of one shouting in the wilderness, 'Prepare the way of the Lord, make straight his paths!'" {{rf{4}}} John was there baptizing in the wilderness, proclaiming a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins. {{rf{5}}} And all the Judean region and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem went out to him and were being baptized by him in the Jordan River, confessing their sins. {{rf{6}}} And John was dressed in camel's hair and a belt made of leather around his waist, and he ate locusts and wild honey. {{rf{7}}} And he was preaching, saying, "One who is more powerful than I is coming after me, of whom I am not worthy to bend down and untie the strap of his sandals. {{rf{8}}} I baptized you with water, but he will baptize you with the Holy Spirit." {{rf{9}}} And it happened that in those days Jesus came from Nazareth in Galilee and was baptized in the Jordan by John. {{rf{10}}} And immediately as he was coming up out of the water, he saw the heavens being split apart and the Spirit descending like a dove on him. {{rf{11}}} And a voice came from heaven, "You are my beloved Son; with you I am well pleased." {{rf{12}}} And immediately the Spirit drove him out into the wilderness. {{rf{13}}} And he was in the wilderness forty days being tempted by Satan. And he was with the wild animals, and the angels were ministering to him. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Mark-01-01]] }}}
<<Bbl Mk 1:3 abbr >>-4 //In the wilderness// appears John. David Legge points out Isaiah uses //wilderness// to refer to the barren, unregenerate heart.
<<Bbl Mk 1:11 abbr >> [[Affirm]]
<<Bbl Mk 1:12 abbr >> //Into the wilderness// Jesus is driven by Satan - but first came the Son's obedience to the Father in leaving Heaven to enter this barren, unregenerate world.
<<Bbl Mk 1:13 abbr >> <<Bbl Ps 63:1 >>-2 makes for our Lord a suitable prayer.
* Delitzch translates //wild animals// using the Hebrew //chi-ot//, living beings. Apparently he sees a connection with with <<Bbl Ez 1:5 >>. If this is in the original thought, the wilderness trial is understood differently.
* //Lions and angels// also appear in <<Bbl Dan 6:22 >>.
<<Bbl Mk 1:20 abbr >> They leave their father there in the boat!
<<Bbl Mk 1:25 abbr >> The confession of demons is perceptive (v 34) but satanically motivated. Jesus has no discussion with them. His enemies later accuse Him of being in league with them; no wonder His response is a warning against unforgiveable sin.
<<Bbl Mk 1:31 abbr >> Service rendered from simple readiness and gratitude. "The Chosen" aptly presents her as energetic, even unstoppable, and too disoriented to be consciously grateful.
1:34 The demons give a dramatic affirmation, but possibly dishonest; //holy one of God// can refer to the promised Messiah (<<Bbl Ps 16:9 >> while leaving out the truth of Deity.
<<Bbl Mk 1:38 abbr >> Perhaps the public interest reported by Simon means Jesus' work in this locale is complete for now.
1:41 J.B. Phillips: //I want to.//
<<Bbl Mk 1:44 abbr>>-45 <<Bbl Lv 14:1>>ff. Jesus wants to see the Law fulfilled in this prophetic detail. This would give priests and the community a chance to consider the advent and character of Messiah.
<<Bbl Mk 1:45 abbr>>b This description of public interest is enlarges on v. 33.
{{rf{14}}} And after John had been taken into custody, Jesus went into Galilee proclaiming the gospel of God {{rf{15}}} and saying, "The time is fulfilled and the kingdom of God has come near. Repent and believe in the gospel!" {{rf{16}}} And as he was passing by along the Sea of Galilee, he saw Simon and Andrew, Simon's brother, casting a net into the sea (for they were fishermen). {{rf{17}}} And Jesus said to them, "Follow me and I will make you become fishers of people." {{rf{18}}} And immediately they left their nets and followed him. {{rf{19}}} And going on a little farther, he saw James the son of Zebedee and his brother John, and they were in the boat mending the nets. {{rf{20}}} And immediately he called them, and they left their father Zebedee in the boat with the hired men and went away after him. {{rf{21}}} And they went into Capernaum and immediately on the Sabbath he began to teach in the synagogue. {{rf{22}}} And they were amazed at his teaching, because he was teaching them like one who had authority, and not like the scribes. {{rf{23}}} And so then there was a man in their synagogue with an unclean spirit, and he cried out, {{rf{24}}} saying, "Leave us alone, Jesus the Nazarene! Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are -- the Holy One of God!" {{rf{25}}} And Jesus rebuked him, saying, "Be silent, and come out of him!" {{rf{26}}} And after convulsing him and crying out with a loud voice, the unclean spirit came out of him. {{rf{27}}} And they were all amazed, so that they began to discuss with one another, saying, "What is this? A new teaching with authority! He even commands the unclean spirits and they obey him." {{rf{28}}} And the report about him then went out everywhere in the whole surrounding region of Galilee. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Mark-01-14]] }}}
{{rf{29}}} And so then he departed from the synagogue and came into the house of Simon and Andrew with James and John. {{rf{30}}} Now Simon's mother-in-law was lying down, suffering with a fever, and at once they told him about her. {{rf{31}}} And he came and raised her up by taking hold of her hand, and the fever left her, and she began to serve them. {{rf{32}}} Now when it was evening, when the sun had set, they began bringing to him all those who were sick and those who were demon-possessed. {{rf{33}}} And the whole town was gathered together at the door. {{rf{34}}} And he healed many who were sick with various diseases and expelled many demons. And he did not permit the demons to speak, because they knew him. {{rf{35}}} And getting up early in the morning while it was very dark, he departed and went to a deserted place, and there he was praying. {{rf{36}}} And Simon and those who were with him searched diligently for him. {{rf{37}}} And they found him and said to him, "Everyone is looking for you!" {{rf{38}}} And he said to them, "Let us go elsewhere, into the neighboring rural towns, so that I can preach there also, because I have come out for this very reason." {{rf{39}}} And he went into all Galilee preaching in their synagogues and expelling demons. {{rf{40}}} And a leper came to him, entreating him and kneeling down, saying to him, "If you are willing, you are able to make me clean." {{rf{41}}} And becoming angry, he stretched out his hand and touched him, and said to him, "I am willing; be made clean." {{rf{42}}} And immediately the leprosy went away from him and he was made clean. {{rf{43}}} And warning him sternly, he sent him away at once. {{rf{44}}} And he said to him, "See to it that you say nothing to anyone, but go, show yourself to the priest and bring for your cleansing the things which Moses commanded, for a testimony to them. {{rf{45}}} But he went out and began to proclaim it freely and to spread abroad the account, so that he was no longer able to enter publicly into a town. But he was staying outside in deserted places, and they were coming to him from all directions. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Mark-01-29]] }}}
And when he entered again into Capernaum after some days, it became known that he was at home. {{rf{2}}} And many had gathered, so that there was no longer room, not even at the door, and he was speaking the word to them. {{rf{3}}} And they came bringing to him a paralytic, carried by four of them. {{rf{4}}} And when they were not able to bring him to him because of the crowd, they removed the roof where he was. And after digging through, they lowered the stretcher on which the paralytic was lying. {{rf{5}}} And when Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralytic, "Child, your sins are forgiven." {{rf{6}}} Now some of the scribes were sitting there and reasoning in their hearts, {{rf{7}}} "Why does this man speak like this? He is blaspheming! Who is able to forgive sins except God alone?" {{rf{8}}} And immediately Jesus, perceiving in his spirit that they were reasoning like this within themselves, said to them, "Why are you considering these things in your hearts? {{rf{9}}} Which is easier to say to the paralytic, 'Your sins are forgiven,' or to say 'Get up and pick up your stretcher and walk'? {{rf{10}}} But so that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins," -- he said to the paralytic -- {{rf{11}}} "I say to you, get up, pick up your stretcher, and go to your home." {{rf{12}}} And he got up and immediately picked up his stretcher and went out in front of them all, so that they were all amazed and glorified God, saying, "We have never seen anything like this!" {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Mark-02-01]] }}}
{{rf{13}}} And he went out again beside the sea, and all the crowd was coming to him, and he began to teach them. {{rf{14}}} And as he was passing by, he saw Levi the son of Alphaeus sitting at the tax booth, and he said to him, "Follow me!" And he stood up and followed him. {{rf{15}}} And it happened that he was dining in his house, and many tax collectors and sinners were dining with Jesus and his disciples, for there were many and they were following him. {{rf{16}}} And the scribes of the Pharisees, when they saw that he was eating with sinners and tax collectors, began to say to his disciples, "Why does he eat with tax collectors and sinners?" {{rf{17}}} And when Jesus heard it, he said to them, "Those who are healthy do not have need of a physician, but those who are sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners." {{rf{18}}} And John's disciples and the Pharisees were fasting, and they came and said to him, "Why do the disciples of John and the disciples of the Pharisees fast, but your disciples do not fast?" {{rf{19}}} And Jesus said to them, "The bridegroom's attendants are not able to fast while the bridegroom is with them, are they? As long a time as they have the bridegroom with them, they are not able to fast. {{rf{20}}} But days will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and then they will fast in that day. {{rf{21}}} No one sews a patch of unshrunken cloth on an old garment. Otherwise the patch pulls away from it -- the new from the old -- and the tear becomes worse. {{rf{22}}} And no one puts new wine into old wineskins. Otherwise the wine will burst the wineskins and the wine is destroyed and the wineskins too. But new wine is put into new wineskins." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Mark-02-13]] }}}
2:13 By the KJV, Jesus might be imagined as operating a seaside resort.
2:15 Apparently some from the scribes and Pharisees are following Him; but they are about to depart.
<<Bbl Mk 2:21 abbr >> i.e., a patch of unwashed cloth.
** Alistair Begg points out that it is the Pharisaical mindset and theology that is the //old wineskin// and //shrunk cloth//. He is explaining that His truth and the standing views are not reconcilable.
** This could be well presented in preaching. On a Sunday, have some one stitch the cloths together. This visibly on stage during song worship. Then at start of sermon, put it in to soak. At the end, wring out cloth; explain the illustration; hang cloth up to dry. The related sermon comes a week later -- demonstrate the tearing. (Test all this out in advance, of course>)
** We expect even our thread to be pre-shrunk; I think the term is //sized.//
2:23 Gleaning on the Sabbath
** The Pharisees have construed as applicable the law against reaping. But Dt 23 distinguishes between hand-gathering and //putting in the sickle//. In fact the disciples are unmistakably free from sin (A. Begg).
** Jesus vindicates them using David's example; see <<Bbl 1S 21:2 "" note>>.
** [[Sabbath|Rest]] is not a Jewish distinctive but a creation reality, and it is not to bind a man but to benefit him. The punitive consequences of gathering manna in the wilderness were only to train God's people in accepting the idea of rest.
** Already the disciples perceive a loosing of the Pharisaical interpretations and the grace announced in <<Bbl J 1:17 >>.
<<Bbl Mk 2:28 abbr >> <<Bbl Mt 12:1 >>-14 teaches on the Sabbath.
<<Bbl Mk 3:6 abbr >> Now the Pharisees are defiling the Sabbath by plotting murder. Note the "strange bedfellows"; we see this again when a friendship is sealed between Pilate and Herod.
3:12 Wuest says //charged under penalty.//
3:16-17 Why does Mark translate Kephas directly, but transliterate Boanerges? Melisa suggests that Peter was a common Greek name already (we use Rock or Rocky); certainly the name Peter was famous as the Gospel was written, so this explain.
3:22 Beelzebul Street would be a cool name for a music band. It would not do for the name of a street.
3:25 Is house here a physical building (He was a carpenter) or a household ??
<<Bbl Mk 3:31 abbr >> This is the mission from vs. 21.
4:1 This is the situation anticipated in 3:9.
4:10 During His ministry, //alone// was for Jesus a relative statement.
<<Bbl Mk 4:14 abbr >>-29 This is the only narrative in the Gospel which is not about Jesus.
4:21-23 These verse can almost be applied to the explanations given of parables: 4:10,4:34.
<<Bbl Mk 4:30 abbr >> The disciples return, a jarring return from the pericope about John's death; meaning, world missions and persecution are connected (J Edwards).
4:32 Quoting <<Bbl Ez 17:23 >>.
<<Bbl Mk 4:33 abbr >>-34 The central word is //WORD//. Hiding the Word in parables (riddles) is gracious treatment of the obtuse. The explanations to the disciples is another, inner, grace. William Lane's commentary has more.
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4:35ff A vivid and close enactment of <<Bbl Ps 107:23>>-32.
<<Bbl Mk 4:36 abbr >> What about those other little boats? Maybe they turned back. Maybe they were trapped in the storm and were also delivered.
4:36 //...just as He was// - weary, unprepared.
4:37 This could be applied as a picture of being overcome by sin.
4:38 Imagine this as sarcastic: "We're about to go down for good, and I thought you might like to wake up enough to witness the end."
<<Bbl Mk 4:41 abbr >> This is the sequel to v 36. //What manner of man is this?!// A just-as-he-is man, stupified by fatigue and unaware of peril? Or ruler of the natural crisis, including its arousal to begin with?
{{rf{23}}} And it happened that he was going through the grain fields on the Sabbath, and his disciples began to make their way while plucking off the heads of grain. {{rf{24}}} And the Pharisees began to say to him, "Behold, why are they doing what is not permitted on the Sabbath?" {{rf{25}}} And he said to them, "Have you never read what David did when he had need and he and those who were with him were hungry -- {{rf{26}}} how he entered into the house of God in the time of Abiathar the high priest and ate the bread of the presentation, which it is not permitted to eat (except the priests) and also gave it to those who were with him?" {{rf{27}}} And he said to them, "The Sabbath was established for people, and not people for the Sabbath. {{rf{28}}} So then, the Son of Man is lord even of the Sabbath." {{rf big{1}}} And he entered into the synagogue again, and a man who had a withered hand was there. {{rf{2}}} And they were watching him closely to see if he would heal him on the Sabbath, in order that they could accuse him. {{rf{3}}} And he said to the man who had the withered hand, "Come into the middle." {{rf{4}}} And he said to them, "Is it permitted on the Sabbath to do good or to do evil, to save life or to kill?" But they were silent. {{rf{5}}} And looking around at them with anger, grieved at the hardness of their hearts, he said to the man, "Stretch out your hand." And he stretched it out, and his hand was restored. {{rf{6}}} And the Pharisees went out immediately with the Herodians and began to conspire against him with regard to how they could destroy him. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Mark-02-23]] }}}
{{rf{7}}} And Jesus went away with his disciples to the sea, and a great crowd from Galilee followed him. And from Judea {{rf{8}}} and from Jerusalem and from Idumea and the other side of the Jordan and around Tyre and Sidon a great crowd came to him because they heard all that he was doing. {{rf{9}}} And he told his disciples that a small boat should stand ready for him because of the crowd, so that they would not press upon him. {{rf{10}}} For he had healed many, so that all those who were suffering from diseases pressed about him in order that they could touch him. {{rf{11}}} And the unclean spirits, whenever they saw him, were falling down before him and crying out, saying, "You are the Son of God!" {{rf{12}}} And he warned them strictly that they should not make him known. {{rf{13}}} And he went up on the mountain and summoned those whom he wanted, and they came to him. {{rf{14}}} And he appointed twelve, so that they would be with him and so that he could send them out to preach {{rf{15}}} and to have authority to expel demons. {{rf{16}}} And he appointed the twelve. And to Simon he gave the name Peter, {{rf{17}}} and James the son of Zebedee and John the brother of James (and he gave to them the name Boanerges, that is, "Sons of Thunder"), {{rf{18}}} and Andrew, and Philip, and Bartholomew, and Matthew, and Thomas, and James the son of Alphaeus, and Thaddaeus, and Simon the Zealot, {{rf{19}}} and Judas Iscariot, who also betrayed him. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Mark-03-07]] }}}
{{rf{20}}} And he went home, and the crowd gathered again, so that they were not even able to eat a meal. {{rf{21}}} And when his family heard this, they went out to restrain him, for they were saying, "He has lost his mind!" {{rf{22}}} And the scribes who had come down from Jerusalem were saying, "He is possessed by Beelzebul!" and "By the ruler of the demons he expels the demons!" {{rf{23}}} And he called them to himself and was speaking to them in parables, "How can Satan expel Satan? {{rf{24}}} And if a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom is not able to stand. {{rf{25}}} And if a house is divided against itself, that house will not be able to stand. {{rf{26}}} And if Satan has risen up against himself and is divided, he is not able to stand, but is at an end! {{rf{27}}} But no one is able to enter into the house of a strong man and plunder his property unless he first ties up the strong man, and then he can thoroughly plunder his house. {{rf{28}}} "Truly I say to you that all the sins and the blasphemies will be forgiven the sons of men, however much they blaspheme. {{rf{29}}} But whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit does not have forgiveness forever, but is guilty of an eternal sin" -- {{rf{30}}} because they were saying, "He has an unclean spirit." {{rf{31}}} And his mother and his brothers arrived, and standing outside, they sent word to him to summon him. {{rf{32}}} And a crowd was sitting around him, and they told him, "Behold, your mother and your brothers are outside looking for you." {{rf{33}}} And he answered them and said, "Who is my mother or my brothers?" {{rf{34}}} And looking around at those who were sitting around him in a circle, he said, "Behold, my mother and my brothers! {{rf{35}}} For whoever does the will of God, this person is my brother and sister and mother." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Mark-03-20]] }}}
And again he began to teach beside the sea, and a very large crowd was gathered to him, so that he got into a boat and sat on the sea, and the whole crowd was at the sea on the land. {{rf{2}}} And he began to teach them many things in parables, and was saying to them in his teaching, {{rf{3}}} "Listen! Behold, the sower went out to sow. {{rf{4}}} And it happened that while he was sowing, some seed fell on the side of the path, and the birds came and devoured it. {{rf{5}}} And other seed fell on the rocky ground where it did not have much soil, and it sprang up at once, because it did not have any depth of soil. {{rf{6}}} And when the sun rose it was scorched, and because it did not have enough root, it withered. {{rf{7}}} And other seed fell among the thorn plants, and the thorn plants came up and choked it, and it did not produce grain. {{rf{8}}} And other seed fell on the good soil, and produced grain, coming up and increasing, and it bore a crop -- one thirty and one sixty and one a hundred times as much. {{rf{9}}} And he said, "Whoever has ears to hear, let him hear!" {{rf{10}}} And when he was alone, those around him together with the twelve began asking him about the parables. {{rf{11}}} And he said to them, "To you has been granted the secret of the kingdom of God, but to those who are outside everything is in parables, {{rf{12}}} so that 'they may look closely and not perceive, and they may listen carefully and not understand, lest they turn and it be forgiven them.'" {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Mark-04-01]] }}}
{{rf{13}}} And he said to them, "Do you not understand this parable? And how will you understand all the parables? {{rf{14}}} The sower sows the word. {{rf{15}}} And these are the ones beside the path where the word is sown, and whenever they hear it, immediately Satan comes and takes away the word that was sown in them. {{rf{16}}} And these are like the ones sown on the rocky ground, who whenever they hear the word immediately receive it with joy. {{rf{17}}} And they have no root in themselves, but are temporary. Then when affliction or persecution comes because of the word, immediately they fall away. {{rf{18}}} And others are the ones sown among the thorn plants -- these are the ones who hear the word, {{rf{19}}} and the cares of the world and the deceitfulness of wealth and the desires for other things come in and choke the word and it becomes unproductive. {{rf{20}}} And those are the ones sown on the good soil, who hear the word and receive it and bear fruit -- one thirty and one sixty and one a hundred times as much." {{rf{21}}} And he said to them, "Surely a lamp is not brought so that it may be put under a bushel basket or under a bed, is it? Is it not so that it may be put on a lampstand? {{rf{22}}} For nothing is secret except so that it may be revealed, nor has become hidden except so that it will come to light. {{rf{23}}} If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear!" {{rf{24}}} And he said to them, "Take care what you hear! With the measure by which you measure out, it will be measured out to you, and will be added to you. {{rf{25}}} For whoever has, more will be given to him, and whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken away from him." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Mark-04-13]] }}}
{{rf{26}}} And he said, "The kingdom of God is like this: like a man scatters seed on the ground. {{rf{27}}} And he sleeps and gets up, night and day, and the seed sprouts and grows -- he does not know how. {{rf{28}}} By itself the soil produces a crop: first the grass, then the head of grain, then the full grain in the head. {{rf{29}}} But when the crop permits, he sends in the sickle right away, because the harvest has come." {{rf{30}}} And he said, "With what can we compare the kingdom of God, or by what parable can we present it? {{rf{31}}} It is like a mustard seed that when sown on the ground, although it is the smallest of all the seeds that are on the ground, {{rf{32}}} but when it is sown it grows up and becomes the largest of all the garden herbs, and sends out large branches so that the birds of the sky are able to nest in its shade." {{rf{33}}} And with many parables such as these he was speaking the word to them, as they were able to hear it. {{rf{34}}} And he did not speak to them without a parable, but in private he explained everything to his own disciples. {{rf{35}}} And on that day, when it was evening, he said to them, "Let us cross over to the other side." {{rf{36}}} And leaving the crowd, they took him along, as he was, in the boat. And other boats were with him. {{rf{37}}} And a great storm of wind developed, and the waves were breaking into the boat, so that the boat was already being filled with water. {{rf{38}}} And he was in the stern sleeping on the cushion, and they woke him up and said to him, "Teacher, is it not a concern to you that we are perishing?" {{rf{39}}} And he woke up and rebuked the wind, and said to the sea, "Be quiet! Be silent!" And the wind abated and there was a great calm. {{rf{40}}} And he said to them, "Why are you fearful? Do you not yet have faith?" {{rf{41}}} And they were terribly frightened and began to say to one another, "Who then is this, that even the wind and the sea obey him?" {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Mark-04-26]] }}}
And they came to the other side of the sea, to the region of the Gerasenes. {{rf{2}}} And as he was getting out of the boat, immediately from the tombs a man with an unclean spirit went to meet him, {{rf{3}}} who lived among the tombs. And no one was able to bind him any longer, not even with a chain, {{rf{4}}} because he had often been bound with shackles and chains, and the chains had been torn apart by him, and the shackles had been shattered. And no one was strong enough to subdue him. {{rf{5}}} And during every night and day among the tombs and on the mountains he was crying out and cutting himself with stones. {{rf{6}}} And when he saw Jesus from a distance, he ran and knelt down before him. {{rf{7}}} And crying out with a loud voice he said, "What have I to do with you, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I implore you by God, do not torment me!" {{rf{8}}} (For he was saying to him, "Come out of the man, unclean spirit!") {{rf{9}}} And he was asking him "What is your name?" And he said to him, "My name is Legion, because we are many." {{rf{10}}} And he was imploring him many times that he would not send them out of the region. {{rf{11}}} Now a large herd of pigs was there at the hill feeding, {{rf{12}}} and they implored him, saying, "Send us to the pigs so that we may enter into them." {{rf{13}}} And he permitted them. And the unclean spirits came out and entered into the pigs, and the herd -- about two thousand -- rushed headlong down the steep slope into the sea and were drowned in the sea. {{rf{14}}} And their herdsmen fled and reported it in the town and in the countryside, and they came to see what it was that had happened. {{rf{15}}} And they came to Jesus and saw the demon-possessed man sitting there clothed and in his right mind -- the one who had had the legion -- and they were afraid. {{rf{16}}} And those who had seen it described to them what had happened to the demon-possessed man, and about the pigs. {{rf{17}}} And they began to urge him to depart from their region. {{rf{18}}} And as he was getting into the boat, the man who had been demon-possessed began to implore him that he could go with him. {{rf{19}}} And he did not permit him, but said to him, "Go to your home to your people and tell them all that the Lord has done for you, and that he has had mercy on you." {{rf{20}}} And he went away and began to proclaim in the Decapolis all that Jesus had done for him, and they were all astonished. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Mark-05-01]] }}}
<<Bbl Mk 5:1 abbr >> The journey proposed by Jesus (<<Bbl Mk 4:35 abbr>>) has ended.
<<Bbl Mk 5:4 abbr >> Sporting attempts to do so had long ago ceased.
5:6-8 For He had been saying - hard to guess the sequence.
5:10,17,18 The region figures in these verses.
<<Bbl Mk 5:15 abbr >> This lovely portrait reveals the contrast with his former state, a contrast that has greatly shaken up all the observers.
** From his first-hand view, Mark offers two evidences (the change he saw, the discomfiture of others present) of both the validity and the impact of the miracle.
** We all need to know Jesus has this power, especially if we've worried our sanity was at risk (or if the spouse has worried).
5:19-20 The structure equates the Lord with Jesus.
<<Bbl Mk 5:21 abbr >>ff Jairus and the woman are both desperately looking to Jesus. @@color:indigo;Otherwise their stories diverge. Jairus has a name and holds an important position. He is a ruler of the synagogue and hence a respected member of the community... The woman has no position in society. Her only identification is her shame, a menstrual hemorrhage. Whereas Jairus approaches Jesus face-to-face, she approaches Jesus unaware and from behind. Jairus apparently holds a religious advantage. But with typical Markan irony, Jesus reverses their roles, for it is the woman who displays the greater faith.@@ //J Edwards//
5:24 Wuest emphasizes that the pressing was "almost to the point of suffocation."
5:30 How strange to us that He asks, //Who touched me?// He ought to say, //This is to inform you that everyone everywhere has been healed.//
5:31 God distributes common grace and election grace. He knows who has true faith.
<<Bbl Mk 5:36 abbr >> If only this one hour, which looms in the immediate future, could be skipped. It's what a student thinks about a final exam, or a crook thinks about a grand jury.
5:40 Six witnesses.
5:43 Lest she be mistaken for a spirit or too-wondrous-to-feed miracle.
{{rf{21}}} And after Jesus had crossed over again in the boat to the other side, a large crowd gathered to him, and he was beside the sea. {{rf{22}}} And one of the rulers of the synagogue came -- Jairus by name -- and when he saw him, he fell down at his feet. {{rf{23}}} And he was imploring him many times, saying, "My little daughter is at the point of death! Come, lay your hands on her, so that she will get well and will live." {{rf{24}}} And he went with him, and a large crowd was following him and pressing around him. {{rf{25}}} And there was a woman who was suffering from hemorrhages twelve years. {{rf{26}}} And she had endured many things under many physicians, and had spent all that she had and had received no help at all, but instead became worse. {{rf{27}}} When she heard about Jesus, she came up in the crowd behind him and touched his cloak, {{rf{28}}} for she was saying, "If I touch just his clothing, I will be healed!" {{rf{29}}} And immediately her hemorrhage stopped and she realized in her body that she was healed of her suffering. {{rf{30}}} And immediately Jesus, perceiving in himself that power had gone out from himself, turned around in the crowd and said, "Who touched my clothing?" {{rf{31}}} And his disciples said to him, "You see the crowd pressing upon you, and you say 'Who touched me?'" {{rf{32}}} And he was looking around to see the one who had done this. {{rf{33}}} So the woman, frightened and trembling, knowing what had happened to her, came and fell down before him and told him the whole truth. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Mark-05-19]] }}}
{{rf{34}}} But he said to her, "Daughter, your faith has healed you. Go in peace and be well from your suffering." {{rf{35}}} While he was still speaking, they came from the synagogue ruler's house saying, "Your daughter has died. Why trouble the Teacher further?" {{rf{36}}} But Jesus, ignoring what was said, told the ruler of the synagogue, "Do not be afraid -- only believe!" {{rf{37}}} And he did not allow anyone to follow along with him except Peter and James and John, the brother of James. {{rf{38}}} And they came to the house of the ruler of the synagogue and saw a commotion, and people weeping and wailing loudly. {{rf{39}}} And when he entered, he said to them, "Why are you agitated and weeping? The child is not dead, but is sleeping." {{rf{40}}} And they began laughing at him. But he sent them all out and took along the father and mother of the child, and those who were with him, and went in to where the child was. {{rf{41}}} And taking hold of the child's hand, he said to her, "Talitha koum!" (which is translated, "Little girl, I say to you, get up!"), {{rf{42}}} and immediately the girl stood up and began walking around (for she was twelve years old). And immediately they were utterly and completely astonished. {{rf{43}}} And he commanded them strictly that no one should learn of this, and said to give her something to eat. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Mark-05-34]] }}}
And he went out from there and came to his hometown, and his disciples followed him. {{rf{2}}} And when the Sabbath came, he began to teach in the synagogue, and many who heard him were amazed, saying, "Where did this man get these things? And what is this wisdom that has been granted to this man, and the miracles such as these performed through his hands? {{rf{3}}} Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary and brother of James and Joses and Judas and Simon? And are not his sisters here with us?" And they were offended by him. {{rf{4}}} And Jesus said to them, "A prophet is not without honor except in his hometown, and among his relatives, and in his own household." {{rf{5}}} And he was not able to do any miracle in that place except to lay his hands on a few sick people and heal them. {{rf{6}}} And he was astonished because of their unbelief. {{rf{7}}} And he summoned the twelve and began to send them out two by two, and gave them authority over the unclean spirits. {{rf{8}}} And he commanded them that they take along nothing for the journey except only a staff -- no bread, no traveler's bag, no money in their belts -- {{rf{9}}} but to put on sandals and not to wear two tunics. {{rf{10}}} And he said to them, "Whenever you enter into a house, stay there until you depart from there. {{rf{11}}} And whatever place does not welcome you or listen to you, as you go out from there, shake off the dust that is on your feet for a testimony against them." {{rf{12}}} And they went out and proclaimed that people should repent. {{rf{13}}} And they were expelling many demons and anointing many sick people with olive oil and healing them. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Mark-06-01]] }}}
6:1-6 [<<Bbl Mt 13:54 >>-58 ] The reaction of Gennesaret, vss. 53-56, stands in contrast. The only difference between these Israelites and those of other areas is their mundane knowledge of Jesus. When it says they were amazed, we see that it is the amazement not of belief but of unbelief. As for Jesus, He too is amazed; the only other time He is recorded as such is <<Bbl L 7:1 >>-10 , the story of the centurion and his servant.
6:3 Jesus did work as a carpenter. So the scars recieved at His Passion were not the first He had ever known.
This supports the possibility that he supported his own family financially, possibly after Joseph's death.
6:13 Wuest says they were massaging many with oil. Is this the only reference besides <<Bbl James 5:14 >> ??
<<Bbl Mk 6:17 abbr >>ff. ''A.'' The actual point of this story, in Mark at least (key structural points are not in Matthew), seems to be to support verse 16, which supports 14b and 28. This means Herod's lurid theory is fanning the crowds interest in Jesus through His connection with John - which further fulfills the purpose of John's life. And after all, his theory contains the essential truth.
''B.'' Count the pressures on Herod to kill John. ''PRO:'' He feels convicted, very disturbed. Herodias feels convicted, or merely censured; in any case, she wants him dead. Herod has sworn a mighty oath to the girl. Witnesses heard the oath; and they want John dead. Everything's happening quickly. He can't appear weak, or indecisive. ''CON:'' Personal sense of awe. Aware that God is righteous and holy. Fascination with what he says. Fear of consequences from God (v 16).
6:26 The others seated with him wanted John dead; Herodias probably counted on their support. Darius, Pilate, Zedekiah (<<Bbl Jer 38:5 >>) -- these are the men who "Like a polluted well or a trampled spring, give way before evil."
6:34 A teacher is a shepherd, a pastor. He is motivated by compassion.
6:31 The disciples were in need of rest after the tours. Higher altitudes afforded cooler temperatures. Of the many people coming and going, some may presumably have followed the disciples back from their cities of ministry.
6:37 Perhaps the disciples' reply is sarcastic. Or could this refer to the money-box tended by Judas Iscariot?
6:41 This miracle is reminiscent of Elisha. Like the miracle at Cana, it doesn't fit directly into the death-to-resurrection theme.
6:45-46 The limitations of His earthly ministry, thus the need for His departure and the gift of the Holy Spirit.
<<Bbl Mk 6:47 abbr>> A poignant set-piece. The background is that the disciples are doing as he directed, and He Himself is praying. Their salvation is already assured.
<<Bbl Mk 6:48 abbr>>, 49 Two visions.
6:52 Wuest calls it a "settled state of callousness."
6:53-56 Unlike Nazareth, vss. 1-6.
{{rf{14}}} And King Herod heard it, because his name had become known. And they were saying, "John, the one who baptizes, has been raised from the dead, and because of this these miraculous powers are at work in him." {{rf{15}}} But others were saying, "He is Elijah," and others were saying, "He is a prophet like one of the prophets." {{rf{16}}} But when Herod heard it, he said, "John whom I beheaded -- this one has been raised!" {{rf{17}}} For Herod himself had sent and arrested John and bound him in prison because of Herodias, the wife of Philip his brother, because he had married her. {{rf{18}}} For John had been saying to Herod, "It is not permitted for you to have your brother's wife." {{rf{19}}} So Herodias held a grudge against him and was wanting to kill him, and was not able to do so. {{rf{20}}} For Herod was afraid of John, because he knew him to be a righteous and holy man and protected him. And when he listened to him, he was greatly perplexed, and yet he listened to him gladly. {{rf{21}}} And a suitable day came when Herod, on his birthday, gave a banquet for his courtiers and military tribunes and the most prominent men of Galilee. {{rf{22}}} And when the daughter of Herodias herself came in and danced and pleased Herod and his dinner guests, the king said to the girl, "Ask me for whatever you want, and I will give it to you." {{rf{23}}} And he swore to her, "Anything whatever you ask me for I will give you, up to half my kingdom!" {{rf{24}}} And she went out and said to her mother, "What should I ask for?" And she said, "The head of John the baptizer." {{rf{25}}} And she came in immediately with haste to the king and asked, saying, "I want you to give me the head of John the Baptist on a platter immediately." {{rf{26}}} And although he was deeply grieved, the king, because of his oaths and dinner guests, did not want to refuse her. {{rf{27}}} And immediately the king sent an executioner and ordered him to bring his head. And he went and beheaded him in the prison. {{rf{28}}} And he brought his head on a platter and gave it to the girl, and the girl gave it to her mother. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Mark-06-14]] }}}
{{rf{29}}} And when his disciples heard this, they came and took away his corpse and placed it in a tomb. {{rf{30}}} And the apostles regathered to Jesus and reported to him everything that they had done and that they had taught. {{rf{31}}} And he said to them, "You yourselves come privately to an isolated place and rest for a short time." For those who were coming and going were many, and they did not even have time to eat. {{rf{32}}} And they went away in the boat to an isolated place by themselves. {{rf{33}}} And many people saw them leaving and recognized them, and ran there together by land from all the towns, and arrived ahead of them. {{rf{34}}} And getting out of the boat he saw the large crowd and had compassion on them, because they were like sheep without a shepherd, and he began to teach them many things. {{rf{35}}} And the hour had already become late when his disciples came up to him, saying, "The place is desolate and the hour is already late. {{rf{36}}} Send them away so that they can go into the surrounding farms and villages and purchase something to eat for themselves." {{rf{37}}} But he answered and said to them, "You give them something to eat." And they said to him, "Should we go and purchase bread for two hundred denarii and give it to them to eat?" {{rf{38}}} And he said to them, "How many loaves do you have? Go look!" And when they found out, they said, "Five, and two fish." {{rf{39}}} And he ordered them all to recline in groups on the green grass. {{rf{40}}} And they reclined in groups, by hundreds and by fifties. {{rf{41}}} And taking the five loaves and the two fish and looking up to heaven, he gave thanks and broke the loaves and gave them to his disciples so that they could set them before them. And he distributed the two fish to them all. {{rf{42}}} And they all ate and were satisfied. {{rf{43}}} And they picked up the broken pieces, twelve baskets full, and of the fish. {{rf{44}}} And those who ate the loaves were five thousand men. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Mark-06-29]] }}}
{{rf{45}}} And immediately he made his disciples get into the boat and go on ahead to the other side, to Bethsaida, while he himself dismissed the crowd. {{rf{46}}} And after he had said farewell to them, he went away to the mountain to pray. {{rf{47}}} And when evening came, the boat was in the middle of the sea and he was alone on the land. {{rf{48}}} And he saw them being beaten in their rowing because the wind was against them. Around the fourth watch of the night he came to them, walking on the sea, and he was wanting to pass by them. {{rf{49}}} But when they saw him walking on the sea, they thought that it was a ghost, and they cried out. {{rf{50}}} For they all saw him and were terrified. But immediately he spoke with them and said to them, "Have courage, I am he! Do not be afraid!" {{rf{51}}} And he went up with them into the boat, and the wind abated. And they were extraordinarily astounded within themselves, {{rf{52}}} because they did not understand concerning the loaves, but their hearts were hardened. {{rf{53}}} And after they had crossed over, they came to land at Gennesaret and anchored there. {{rf{54}}} And as they were getting out of the boat, people recognized him immediately. {{rf{55}}} They ran about through that whole region and began to carry around those who were sick on stretchers, wherever they heard that he was. {{rf{56}}} And wherever he would go, into villages or into towns or to farms, they would put those who were sick in the marketplaces and would implore him that if they could touch even the edge of his cloak. And all those who touched it were healed. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Mark-06-45]] }}}
And the Pharisees and some of the scribes who had come from Jerusalem gathered to him. {{rf{2}}} And they saw that some of his disciples were eating their bread with unclean -- that is, unwashed -- hands. {{rf{3}}} (For the Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat unless they wash their hands ritually, thus holding fast to the traditions of the elders. {{rf{4}}} And when they come from the marketplace, they do not eat unless they wash. And there are many other traditions which they have received and hold fast to -- for example, the washing of cups and pitchers and bronze kettles and dining couches.) {{rf{5}}} And the Pharisees and the scribes asked him, "Why do your disciples not live according to the tradition of the elders, but eat their bread with unclean hands?" {{rf{6}}} So he said to them, "Isaiah prophesied correctly about you hypocrites, as it is written, 'This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far, far away from me. {{rf{7}}} And they worship me in vain, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.' {{rf{8}}} Abandoning the commandment of God, you hold fast to the tradition of men." {{rf{9}}} And he said to them, "You splendidly ignore the commandment of God so that you can keep your tradition. {{rf{10}}} For Moses said, 'Honor your father and your mother,' and, 'The one who speaks evil of father or mother must certainly die.' {{rf{11}}} But you say, 'If a man says to his father or to his mother, "Whatever benefit you would have received from me is corban" (that is, a gift to God), {{rf{12}}} you no longer permit him to do anything for his father or his mother, {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Mark-07-01]] }}}
7:1-2 Apparently the observation had been made in Jerusalem; the delay implies that this is a more formal inquiry.
<<Bbl Mk 7:2 abbr >> KJV says //found fault.// [[Condemnation]]
7:9-13 He reproves a dichotomy of spirit and world. This is the error of ministers who neglect their family; they confuse a command with a calling. Jesus could have been quoting <<Bbl Pr 28:24 >>.
<<Bbl Mk 7:15 abbr >> ''(A).'' Adam ate, and was not defiled. The world is not dirty.
''(B).'' His excoriation complete, he turns away from the Pharisees and to the crowd and gives the direct answer to the question of verse 5. He pivots from direct confrontation to direct insult. He rejects "the yeast of the Pharisees" by denying their presumed authority.
<<Bbl Mk 7:28 abbr >> //even the dogs// -- see <<Bbl Mt 15:26 "" note >>-27 . The children at the table are representatives of our Redeemer, for they have the right, the means and the willingness to bless. [[Redeem]]
<<Bbl Mk 8:4 abbr >> No food ... no infrastructure, even.
8:11-12 Perhaps the sin of the Pharisees here was that they wanted to be the vindicating authority of the Christ, and He would not permit this.
8:17 see 6:52
8:19-20 Historical and material evidence does not persuade the hardened heart.
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Mark 8:29-31: He said to them, "But who do you say that I am?" Peter answered, "You are the Christ." He commanded them that they should tell no one about him. He began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things, and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests, and the scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise again.
}}}
<<Bbl Mk 8:29 abbr >>-31 This is the narrative centerpiece of Mark's account. Vss 27 (preceding) and 32 (following) deal with misconceptions about Jesus.
8:32 Peter perceives the threat to his own security immediately. No wonder God hasn't let me in on the entire plan for my life.
8:37 This is the origin of the old saw about bargaining with the devil.
8:38 A mirror opposition of setting and act is presented in one verse.
<<Bbl Mk 9:4 abbr>> Wuest calls it a "protracted conversation."
9:10-13 Note a parallel structure; Jesus interjects a comment about His own Passion that reflects the wonderings of the disciples.
9:10 Undoubtedly they thought of the political resurrection of Israel'what else? Note the NAS marginal note.
9:13 OT reference ??
{{rf{13}}} thus making void the word of God by your tradition that you have handed down, and you do many similar things such as this." {{rf{14}}} And summoning the crowd again, he said to them, "Listen to me, all of you, and understand: {{rf{15}}} There is nothing outside of a person that is able to defile him by going into him. But the things that go out of a person are the things that defile a person." {{rf{17}}} And when he entered into the house away from the crowd, his disciples asked him about the parable. {{rf{18}}} And he said to them, "So are you also without understanding? Do you not understand that everything that is outside that goes into a person is not able to defile him? {{rf{19}}} For it does not enter into his heart but into his stomach, and goes out into the latrine" -- thus declaring all foods clean. {{rf{20}}} And he said, "What comes out of a person, that defiles a person. {{rf{21}}} For from within, from the heart of people, come evil plans, sexual immoralities, thefts, murders, {{rf{22}}} adulteries, acts of greed, malicious deeds, deceit, licentiousness, envy, abusive speech, pride, foolishness. {{rf{23}}} All these evil things come from within and defile a person." {{rf{24}}} And from there he set out and went to the region of Tyre. And when he entered into a house, he wanted no one to know, and yet he was not able to escape notice. {{rf{25}}} But immediately a woman whose young daughter was possessed by an unclean spirit, when she heard about him, came and fell down at his feet, {{rf{26}}} Now the woman was a Greek -- a Syrophoenician by nationality -- and she was asking him that he would expel the demon from her daughter. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Mark-07-13]] }}}
{{rf{27}}} And he said to her, "Let the children be satisfied first, for it is not right to take the children's bread and throw it to the dogs!" {{rf{28}}} But she answered and said to him, "Lord, even the dogs under the table eat the children's crumbs." {{rf{29}}} And he said to her, "Because of this statement, go! The demon has gone out of your daughter." {{rf{30}}} And when she went to her home, she found the child lying on the bed and the demon gone. {{rf{31}}} And again he went away from the region of Tyre and came through Sidon to the Sea of Galilee, within the region of the Decapolis. {{rf{32}}} And they brought to him a man who was deaf and had difficulty speaking, and they were imploring him that he would place his hand on him. {{rf{33}}} And he took him away from the crowd by himself and put his fingers into his ears, and after spitting, he touched his tongue. {{rf{34}}} And looking up to heaven, he sighed and said to him, "Ephphatha!" (that is, "Be opened!"). {{rf{35}}} And his ears were opened and his difficulty in speaking was removed and he began to speak normally. {{rf{36}}} And he ordered them that they should say nothing, but as much as he ordered them not to, they proclaimed it even more instead. {{rf{37}}} And they were amazed beyond all measure, saying, "He has done all things well! He even makes the deaf hear and the mute speak!" {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Mark-07-27]] }}}
In those days there was again a large crowd, and they did not have anything they could eat. Summoning the disciples, he said to them, {{rf{2}}} "I have compassion on the crowd, because they have remained with me three days already and do not have anything to eat. {{rf{3}}} And if I send them away hungry to their homes they will give out on the way, and some of them have come from far away." {{rf{4}}} And his disciples answered him, "Where is anyone able to feed these people with bread here in the desert?" {{rf{5}}} And he asked them, "How many loaves do you have?" So they said, "Seven." {{rf{6}}} And he commanded the crowd to recline for a meal on the ground, and taking the seven loaves, after he had given thanks he broke them and began giving them to his disciples so that they could set them before them. And they set them before the crowd. {{rf{7}}} And they had a few small fish, and after giving thanks for them, he said to set these before them also. {{rf{8}}} And they ate and were satisfied, and they picked up the broken pieces that were left, seven baskets full. {{rf{9}}} Now there were about four thousand. And he sent them away. {{rf{10}}} And immediately he got into the boat with his disciples and went to the district of Dalmanutha. {{rf{11}}} And the Pharisees came and began to argue with him, demanding from him a sign from heaven in order to test him. {{rf{12}}} And sighing deeply in his spirit, he said, "Why does this generation demand a sign? Truly I say to you, no sign will be given to this generation!" {{rf{13}}} And he left them, got into the boat again, and went to the other side. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Mark-08-01]] }}}
{{rf{14}}} And they had forgotten to take bread, and except for one loaf, they did not have any with them in the boat. {{rf{15}}} And he ordered them, saying, "Watch out! Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and the leaven of Herod!" {{rf{16}}} And they began to discuss with one another that they had no bread. {{rf{17}}} And knowing this, he said to them, "Why are you discussing that you have no bread? Do you not yet perceive or understand? Have your hearts been hardened? {{rf{18}}} Although you have eyes, do you not see? And although you have ears, do you not hear? And do you not remember? {{rf{19}}} When I broke the five loaves for the five thousand how many baskets full of broken pieces did you pick up?" They said to him, "Twelve." {{rf{20}}} "When I also broke the seven loaves for the four thousand, how many baskets full of broken pieces did you pick up?" And they said to him, "Seven." {{rf{21}}} And he said to them, "Do you not yet understand?" {{rf{22}}} And they came to Bethsaida. And they brought to him a blind man and implored him that he would touch him. {{rf{23}}} And he took hold of the blind man's hand and led him outside the village, and after spitting in his eyes, he placed his hands on him and asked him, "Do you see anything?" {{rf{24}}} And looking up he said, "I see people, for I see them like trees walking around." {{rf{25}}} Then he placed his hands on his eyes again, and he opened his eyes and was cured, and could see everything clearly. {{rf{26}}} And he sent him to his home, saying, "Do not even go into the village." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Mark-08-14]] }}}
{{rf{27}}} And Jesus and his disciples went out to the villages of Caesarea Philippi, and on the way he asked his disciples, saying to them, "Who do people say that I am?" {{rf{28}}} And they told him, saying, "John the Baptist, and others Elijah, and others that you are one of the prophets." {{rf{29}}} And he asked them, "But who do you say that I am?" Peter answered and said to him, "You are the Christ!" {{rf{30}}} And he warned them that they should tell no one about him. {{rf{31}}} And he began to teach them that it was necessary for the Son of Man to suffer many things and to be rejected by the elders and the chief priests and the scribes, and to be killed, and after three days to rise. {{rf{32}}} And he was speaking openly about the subject, and Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him. {{rf{33}}} But turning around and seeing his disciples, he rebuked Peter and said, "Get behind me, Satan, because you are not setting your mind on the things of God, but the things of people!" {{rf{34}}} And summoning the crowd together with his disciples, he said to them, "If anyone wants to come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. {{rf{35}}} For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life on account of me and of the gospel will save it. {{rf{36}}} For what does it benefit a person to gain the whole world and forfeit his life? {{rf{37}}} For what can a person give in exchange for his life? {{rf{38}}} For whoever is ashamed of me and my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of Man will also be ashamed of him when he comes in the glory of his Father with the holy angels." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Mark-08-27]] }}}
And he said to them, "Truly I say to you, that there are some of those standing here who will never experience death until they see the kingdom of God having come with power." {{rf{2}}} And after six days, Jesus took along Peter and James and John, and led them to a high mountain by themselves alone. And he was transfigured before them, {{rf{3}}} and his clothing became radiant -- extremely white, like no cloth refiner on earth can make so white. {{rf{4}}} And Elijah appeared to them together with Moses, and they were talking with Jesus. {{rf{5}}} And Peter answered and said to Jesus, "Rabbi, it is good that we are here! And let us make three shelters, one for you and one for Moses and one for Elijah." {{rf{6}}} (For he did not know what he should answer, because they were terrified.) {{rf{7}}} And a cloud came, overshadowing them, and a voice came from the cloud, "This is my beloved Son. Listen to him!" {{rf{8}}} And suddenly, looking around, they no longer saw anyone with them but Jesus alone. {{rf{9}}} And as they were coming down from the mountain, he ordered them that they should tell no one the things that they had seen, except when the Son of Man had risen from the dead. {{rf{10}}} And they kept the matter to themselves, discussing what this rising from the dead meant. {{rf{11}}} And they asked him, saying, "Why do the scribes say that Elijah must come first?" {{rf{12}}} And he said to them, "Elijah indeed does come first and restores all things. And how is it written concerning the Son of Man that he should suffer many things and be treated with contempt? {{rf{13}}} But I tell you that indeed Elijah has come, and they did to him whatever they wanted, just as it is written about him." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Mark-09-01]] }}}
{{rf{14}}} And when they came to the disciples, they saw a large crowd around them and scribes arguing with them. {{rf{15}}} And immediately the whole crowd, when they saw him, were amazed, and ran up to him and greeted him. {{rf{16}}} And he asked them, "What are you arguing about with them?" {{rf{17}}} And one individual from the crowd answered him, "Teacher, I brought to you my son who has a spirit that makes him mute. {{rf{18}}} And whenever it seizes him, it throws him down and he foams at the mouth and grinds his teeth and becomes paralyzed. And I told your disciples that they should expel it, and they were not able to do so. {{rf{19}}} And he answered them and said, "O unbelieving generation! How long will I be with you? How long must I put up with you? Bring him to me!" {{rf{20}}} And they brought him to him. And when he saw him, the spirit immediately convulsed him, and falling on the ground, he began to roll around, foaming at the mouth. {{rf{21}}} And he asked his father how long it was since this had been happening to him. And he said, "From childhood. {{rf{22}}} And often it has thrown him both into fire and into water, in order that it could destroy him. But if you are able to do anything, have compassion on us and help us!" {{rf{23}}} But Jesus said to him, "If you are able! All things are possible for the one who believes!" {{rf{24}}} Immediately the father of the child cried out and said, "I believe! Help my unbelief!" {{rf{25}}} Now when Jesus saw that a crowd was running together, he rebuked the unclean spirit, saying to it, "Mute and deaf spirit, I command you, come out of him, and enter into him no more!" {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Mark-09-14]] }}}
9:19 Addressing possibly both the disciples and the multitude. <<Bbl Num 14:27 >>.
<<Bbl Mk 9:24 abbr >> His faith consists of believing Jesus can give him faith -- and certainly He does!
How many virtues can be substituted in for the word faith.
9:32 He percieves their fear perfectly (and is tempted Himself).
<<Bbl Mk 9:49 abbr>>-50 "For everyone will taste the extremes of Judgment. But what if someone fails to take heed? Be aware of Judgment."
<<Bbl Mk 9:39 abbr >>-50 Hell is [[Holiness]] in its negative aspect. Thus all are salted, and devotion (vs 49) is costly and utterly distinct (50).
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<<Bbl Mk 10:11 abbr >>-12 Jesus forbids breaking the covenant. Is it necessary to read these technically so as to build statues?
<<Bbl Mk 10:21 abbr >> First, liquify your assets. Second, distribute them.
10:13 Wuest says the reproofs were made "unjustly and without effect."
<<Bbl Mk 10:20 abbr>> The man understood that the law does not produce life! Or Jesus chooses not to reprove his self-deception.
10:21 Wuest translates it, "He fell in love with him"; humanity includes emotional love. Note that this young man recieved the same offer given to all the disciples.
10:30 Eternal life -- the topic raised by the young ruler.
<<Bbl Mk 10:35 abbr>> A request made without spiritual knowledge or desire (perhaps not without faith).
<<Bbl Mk 10:38 abbr >> <<Bbl L 12:50 >>
10:42-43 Perhaps nations would be better than Gentiles here ?? A study of the verbs here might reveal much.
<<Bbl Mk 10:45 abbr >> Quotes Isaiah?
10:46-52 The story of Bartimaeus is paralleled in <<Bbl L 18:35 >>-43 .
{{rf{26}}} And it came out, screaming and convulsing him greatly, and he became as if he were dead, so that most of them said, "He has died!" {{rf{27}}} But Jesus took hold of his hand and raised him up, and he stood up. {{rf{28}}} And after he had entered into the house, his disciples asked him privately, "Why were we not able to expel it?" {{rf{29}}} And he said to them, "This kind can come out by nothing except by prayer." {{rf{30}}} And from there they went out and passed through Galilee. And he did not want anyone to know, {{rf{31}}} for he was teaching his disciples and was telling them, "The Son of Man is being betrayed into the hands of men, and they will kill him. And when he is killed, after three days he will rise." {{rf{32}}} But they did not understand the statement, and they were afraid to ask him. {{rf{33}}} And they came to Capernaum. And after he was in the house, he asked them, "What were you discussing on the way?" {{rf{34}}} But they were silent, because they had argued with one another on the way about who was greatest. {{rf{35}}} And he sat down and called the twelve and said to them, "If anyone wants to be first, he will be last of all and servant of all." {{rf{36}}} And he took a young child and had him stand among them. And taking him in his arms, he said to them, {{rf{37}}} "Whoever welcomes one of the young children such as these in my name welcomes me, and whoever welcomes me does not welcome me, but the one who sent me." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Mark-09-26]] }}}
{{rf{38}}} John said to him, "Teacher, we saw someone expelling demons in your name, and we tried to prevent him because he was not following us." {{rf{39}}} But Jesus said, "Do not prevent him, because there is no one who does a miracle in my name and will be able soon afterward to speak evil of me. {{rf{40}}} For whoever is not against us is for us. {{rf{41}}} For whoever gives you a cup of water to drink in my name because you are Christ's, truly I say to you that he will never lose his reward. {{rf{42}}} "And whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it is better for him if instead a large millstone is placed around his neck and he is thrown into the sea. {{rf{43}}} And if your hand causes you to sin, cut it off! It is better for you to enter into life crippled than, having two hands, to go into hell -- into the unquenchable fire! {{rf{45}}} And if your foot causes you to sin, cut it off! It is better for you to enter into life lame than, having two feet, to be thrown into hell! {{rf{47}}} And if your eye causes you to sin, tear it out! It is better for you to enter into the kingdom of God with one eye than, having two eyes, to be thrown into hell, {{rf{48}}} 'where their worm does not die and the fire is not extinguished.' {{rf{49}}} For everyone will be salted with fire. {{rf{50}}} Salt is good, but if the salt becomes deprived of its salt content, by what can you make it salty? Have salt among yourselves, and be at peace with one another." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Mark-09-38]] }}}
And from there he set out and came to the region of Judea and the other side of the Jordan, and again crowds came together to him. And again, as he was accustomed to do, he began to teach them. {{rf{2}}} And they asked him if it was permitted for a man to divorce his wife, in order to test him. {{rf{3}}} And he answered and said to them, "What did Moses command you?" {{rf{4}}} So they said, "Moses permitted a man to write a certificate of divorce and to send her away." {{rf{5}}} But Jesus said to them, "He wrote this commandment for you because of your hardness of heart. {{rf{6}}} But from the beginning of creation 'he made them male and female. {{rf{7}}} Because of this a man will leave his father and mother and will be joined to his wife, {{rf{8}}} and the two will become one flesh,' so that they are no longer two but one flesh. {{rf{9}}} Therefore what God has joined together, man must not separate." {{rf{10}}} And in the house again the disciples began to ask him about this. {{rf{11}}} And he said to them, "Whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery against her. {{rf{12}}} And if she divorces her husband and marries another, she commits adultery." {{rf{13}}} And they were bringing young children to him so that he could touch them, but the disciples rebuked them. {{rf{14}}} But when Jesus saw it, he was indignant, and said to them, "Let the young children come to me. Do not forbid them, for to such belongs the kingdom of God. {{rf{15}}} Truly I say to you, whoever does not welcome the kingdom of God like a young child will never enter into it." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Mark-10-01]] }}}
{{rf{16}}} And after taking them into his arms, he blessed them, placing his hands on them. {{rf{17}}} And as he was setting out on his way, one individual ran up and knelt down before him and asked him, "Good Teacher, what must I do so that I will inherit eternal life?" {{rf{18}}} So Jesus said to him, "Why do you call me good? No one is good except God alone. {{rf{19}}} You know the commandments: 'Do not murder, do not commit adultery, do not steal, do not give false testimony, do not defraud, honor your father and mother.'" {{rf{20}}} And he said to him, "Teacher, all these I have observed from my youth." {{rf{21}}} And Jesus, looking at him, loved him, and said to him, "You lack one thing: Go, sell all that you have, and give the proceeds to the poor -- and you will have treasure in heaven -- and come, follow me." {{rf{22}}} But he looked gloomy at the statement and went away sorrowful, because he had many possessions. {{rf{23}}} And Jesus looked around and said to his disciples, "How difficult it is for those who possess wealth to enter into the kingdom of God!" {{rf{24}}} And the disciples were astounded at his words. But Jesus answered and said to them again, "Children, how difficult it is to enter into the kingdom of God! {{rf{25}}} It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter into the kingdom of God." {{rf{26}}} And they were very astounded, saying to one another, "And who can be saved?" {{rf{27}}} Jesus looked at them and said, "With human beings it is impossible, but not with God. For all things are possible with God." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Mark-10-16]] }}}
{{rf{28}}} Peter began to say to him, "Behold, we have left everything and followed you." {{rf{29}}} Jesus said, "Truly I say to you, there is no one who has left house or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or fields on account of me and on account of the gospel {{rf{30}}} who will not receive a hundred times as much now in this time -- houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and fields, together with persecutions -- and in the age to come, eternal life. {{rf{31}}} But many who are first will be last, and the last first." {{rf{32}}} Now they were on the road going up to Jerusalem, and Jesus was going on ahead of them. And they were astounded, but those who were following him were afraid. And taking aside the twelve again, he began to tell them the things that were about to happen to him: {{rf{33}}} "Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be handed over to the chief priests and the scribes, and they will condemn him to death and will hand him over to the Gentiles. {{rf{34}}} And they will mock him and spit on him and flog him and kill him, and after three days he will rise." {{rf{35}}} And James and John, the sons of Zebedee, came up to him and said to him, "Teacher, we want you to do for us whatever we ask you." {{rf{36}}} And he said to them, "What do you want that I do for you?" {{rf{37}}} So they said to him, "Grant to us that we may sit one at your right hand and one at your left in your glory." {{rf{38}}} But Jesus said to them, "You do not know what you are asking! Are you able to drink the cup that I drink, or to be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with?" {{rf{39}}} And they said to him, "We are able." So Jesus said to them, "You will drink the cup that I drink, and you will be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with, {{rf{40}}} but to sit at my right hand or at my left is not mine to grant, but is for those for whom it has been prepared." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Mark-10-28]] }}}
{{rf{41}}} And when they heard this, the ten began to be indignant about James and John. {{rf{42}}} And Jesus called them to himself and said to them, "You know that those who are considered to rule over the Gentiles lord it over them, and their people in high positions exercise authority over them. {{rf{43}}} But it is not like this among you! But whoever wants to become great among you must be your servant, {{rf{44}}} and whoever wants to be most prominent among you must be the slave of all. {{rf{45}}} For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many." {{rf{46}}} And they came to Jericho. And as he was setting out from Jericho along with his disciples and a large crowd, a blind beggar, Bartimaeus the son of Timaeus, was sitting beside the road. {{rf{47}}} And when he heard that it was Jesus the Nazarene, he began to cry out and say, "Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me!" {{rf{48}}} And many people warned him that he should be quiet. But he was crying out even more loudly, "Son of David, have mercy on me!" {{rf{49}}} And Jesus stopped and said, "Call him." And they called the blind man and said to him, "Have courage! Get up! He is calling you." {{rf{50}}} And he threw off his cloak, jumped up, and came to Jesus. {{rf{51}}} And Jesus answered him and said, "What do you want me to do for you?" And the blind man said to him, "Rabboni, that I may regain my sight." {{rf{52}}} And Jesus said to him, "Go, your faith has healed you." And immediately he regained his sight and began to follow him on the road. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Mark-10-41]] }}}
And when they came near to Jerusalem, to Bethphage and Bethany at the Mount of Olives, he sent two of his disciples {{rf{2}}} and said to them, "Go into the village before you, and right away as you enter into it you will find a colt tied, on which no one has ever sat. Untie it and bring it. {{rf{3}}} And if anyone says to you, 'Why are you doing this?' say 'The Lord has need of it, and will send it here again at once.'" {{rf{4}}} And they went away and found a colt tied at a door outside in the street, and they untied it. {{rf{5}}} And some of those who were standing there said to them, "What are you doing, untying the colt?" {{rf{6}}} So they told them, just as Jesus had said, and they allowed them to take it. {{rf{7}}} And they brought the colt to Jesus and threw their cloaks over it, and he sat on it. {{rf{8}}} And many people spread their cloaks on the road, and others spread leafy branches they had cut from the fields. {{rf{9}}} And those who went ahead and those who were following were shouting, "Hosanna! Blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord! {{rf{10}}} Blessed is the coming kingdom of our father David! Hosanna in the highest heaven!" {{rf{11}}} And he went into Jerusalem to the temple, and after looking around at everything, because the hour was already late, he went out to Bethany with the twelve. {{rf{12}}} And on the next day as they were departing from Bethany, he was hungry. {{rf{13}}} And when he saw from a distance a fig tree that had leaves, he went to see if perhaps he would find anything on it. And when he came up to it he found nothing except leaves, because it was not the season for figs. {{rf{14}}} And he responded and said to it, "Let no one eat fruit from you any more forever!" And his disciples heard it. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Mark-11-01]] }}}
<<Bbl Mk 11:7 abbr >> <<Bbl Zech 9:9 >>.
<<Bbl Mk 11:13 abbr >> [[Tree]]
<<Bbl Mk 11:14 abbr >> Tony Okeke says the taproot was at that moment severed.
<<Bbl Mk 11:15 abbr >> The Temple is not being cleansed, but condemned.
<<Bbl Mk 11:17 abbr >> Reportedly this trafficking took place in the Court of the Gentiles.
11:25 <<Bbl Mt 5:23 >>-24 .
<<Bbl Mk 11:28 abbr >>, //the crowd// is constantly in play as the tension increases. <<Bbl Mk 11:30 >>, <<Bbl Mk 11:32 >>, <<Bbl Mk 12:12 >>, <<Bbl Mk 12:15 >>, <<Bbl Mk 12:37 >>, <<Bbl Mk 14:2 >>, <<Bbl Mk 15:11 >>. The Pharisees sought to play the crowd; thus the public confrontation. Jesus counter-challenges, and the Pharisees are in no position to refuse. Their business is to answer questions, and this crowd is hanging on every word (as they intended).
11:31 They musn't be long in conferring; they can already sense smiles ready to form in the audience. The huddle is so brief that one terrible proposition is left unfinished. What indeed? The loss of their credibility. The campaign against John has consisted so far of innuendo and a studied, self-preserving distance. "You Pharisees are pressing me to see if I am afraid of the you and your gathered crowd. Let me press back in precisely the same way."
11:33 So they count themselves unworthy of the good news of eternal life. Since God does not deserve to hear their admission of His truthfulness, they do not deserve to hear more of His truth.
<<Bbl Mk 12:2 abbr >> Wine is the deliverable.
<<Bbl Mk 12:7 abbr >> Inheritance is worship. Usurpation.
<<Bbl Mk 12:17 abbr >> This would seem the basis of pietism. It places a severe limit on insurrection. Caesar has a real but limited claim. Imagine the sense of liberty for the poor and confused, who now conclude they can be followers of God while subject to civil oppression.
<<Bbl Mk 12:19 abbr >>-23 In effect the Sadduccees are saying, "The resurrection is just too complicated!"
<<Bbl Mk 12:35 abbr >> Christ does not often present an academic teaching about the Christ.
<<Bbl Mk 12:35 abbr >>-37 A further answer to support <<Bbl Mk 12:26 >>-27.
<<Bbl Mk 12:1 abbr >>ff First advent.
<<Bbl Mk 12:7 abbr >> The vineyard is itself the inheritance. These rebels, in their plan to kill the Son, failed to account for the living Father.
12:9 The last words foreshadow the opening of the Kingdom.
12:25 Like angels in heaven -- that is, in this detail. Perhaps a misapplication of this verse has given us the image of God's people treading clouds up above.
12:26 Jesus' argument is explained by W.L. Lane's commentary on Mark, p. 429f. He states that <<Bbl Ex 3:6 >> does evoke the doctrine of the resurrection, inasmuch as if the promises made to the patriarchs by an eternal Saviour and Protector end at death they are made useless. Here Jesus answers from the Pentateuch, with the word even emphasizing Moses' authority.
12:28 There is a spiritual recognition one of the other. This scribe is not testing him.
12:34 See <<Bbl Mt 22:46 >>.
<<Bbl Mt 12:35 abbr >>-37 Jesus is teaching about the Eternity of the Christ, and of His Dual Nature. Is there any other place where He could be said almost to be teasing His listeners -- offering no answer to the questions He presents, except His own Person? Maybe 10:18.
12:44 See <<Bbl 2C 8:12 >>.
{{rf{15}}} And they came to Jerusalem. And he entered into the temple courts and began to drive out those who were selling and those who were buying in the temple courts, and overturned the tables of the money changers and the chairs of those who were selling doves. {{rf{16}}} And he did not permit anyone to carry objects through the temple courts. {{rf{17}}} And he began to teach and was saying to them, "Is it not written, 'My house will be called a house of prayer for all the nations,' but you have made it a cave of robbers!" {{rf{18}}} And the chief priests and the scribes heard it, and began considering how they could destroy him. For they were afraid of him because the whole crowd was astounded by his teaching. {{rf{19}}} And when evening came they went out of the city. {{rf{20}}} And as they passed by early in the morning, they saw the fig tree withered from the roots. {{rf{21}}} And Peter remembered and said to him, "Rabbi, look! The fig tree that you cursed has withered!" {{rf{22}}} And Jesus answered and said to them, "Have faith in God! {{rf{23}}} Truly I say to you that whoever says to this mountain, 'Be lifted up and thrown into the sea!' and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says will happen, it will be done for him. {{rf{24}}} For this reason I say to you, whatever you pray and ask for, believe that you have received it, and it will be done for you. {{rf{25}}} And whenever you stand praying, if you have anything against anyone, forgive him, so that your Father who is in heaven will also forgive you your sins." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Mark-11-15]] }}}
{{rf{27}}} And they came again to Jerusalem. And as he was walking in the temple courts, the chief priests and the scribes and the elders came up to him {{rf{28}}} and said to him, "By what authority are you doing these things, or who gave you this authority that you do these things?" {{rf{29}}} So Jesus said to them, "I will ask you one question. Answer me and I will tell you by what authority I am doing these things. {{rf{30}}} The baptism of John -- was it from heaven or from men? Answer me!" {{rf{31}}} And they began to discuss this with one another, saying, "What should we say? If we say 'From heaven,' he will say, 'Why then did you not believe him?' {{rf{32}}} But if we say, 'From men'" -- they were afraid of the crowd, because they all looked upon John as truly a prophet. {{rf{33}}} And they replied to Jesus saying, "We do not know." And Jesus said to them, "Neither will I tell you by what authority I am doing these things." {{rf big{1}}} And he began to speak to them in parables: "A man planted a vineyard, and put a fence around it, and dug a trough for the winepress, and built a watchtower, and leased it to tenant farmers, and went on a journey. {{rf{2}}} And he sent a slave to the tenant farmers at the proper time, so that he could collect some of the fruit of the vineyard from the tenant farmers. {{rf{3}}} And they seized him and beat him and sent him away empty-handed. {{rf{4}}} And again he sent to them another slave, and that one they struck on the head and dishonored. {{rf{5}}} And he sent another, and that one they killed. And he sent many others, some of whom they beat and some of whom they killed. {{rf{6}}} He had one more, a beloved son. Last of all he sent him to them, saying, 'They will respect my son.' {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Mark-11-27]] }}}
{{rf{7}}} But those tenant farmers said to one another, 'This is the heir. Come, let us kill him and the inheritance will be ours!' {{rf{8}}} And they seized and killed him and threw him out of the vineyard. {{rf{9}}} What will the owner of the vineyard do? He will come and destroy the tenant farmers and give the vineyard to others. {{rf{10}}} Have you not read this scripture: 'The stone which the builders rejected, this has become the cornerstone. {{rf{11}}} This came about from the Lord, and it is marvelous in our eyes'?" {{rf{12}}} And they were seeking to arrest him, and they were afraid of the crowd, because they knew that he had told the parable with reference to them. And they left him and went away. {{rf{13}}} And they sent some of the Pharisees and the Herodians to him so that they could catch him unawares in a statement. {{rf{14}}} And when they came, they said to him, "Teacher, we know that you are truthful and you do not care what anyone thinks, because you do not regard the opinion of people but teach the way of God in truth. Is it permitted to pay taxes to Caesar or not? Should we pay or should we not pay?" {{rf{15}}} But because he knew their hypocrisy, he said to them, "Why are you testing me? Bring me a denarius so that I can look at it!" {{rf{16}}} So they brought one. And he said to them, "Whose image and inscription is this?" And they said to him, "Caesar's." {{rf{17}}} And Jesus said to them, "Give to Caesar the things of Caesar, and to God the things of God!" And they were utterly amazed at him. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Mark-12-07]] }}}
{{rf{18}}} And Sadducees -- who say there is no resurrection -- came up to him and began to ask him, saying, {{rf{19}}} "Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if someone's brother dies and he leaves behind a wife and does not leave a child, that his brother should take the wife and father descendants for his brother. {{rf{20}}} There were seven brothers, and the first took a wife. And when he died, he did not leave descendants. {{rf{21}}} And the second took her, and he died without leaving descendants. And the third likewise. {{rf{22}}} And the seven did not leave descendants. Last of all the woman also died. {{rf{23}}} In the resurrection, when they rise, whose wife will she be? For the seven had her as wife. {{rf{24}}} Jesus said to them, "Are you not deceived because of this, because you do not know the scriptures or the power of God? {{rf{25}}} For when they rise from the dead, they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven. {{rf{26}}} Now concerning the dead, that they are raised, have you not read in the book of Moses in the passage about the bush how God spoke to him, saying, 'I am the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob'? {{rf{27}}} He is not God of the dead, but of the living. You are very much mistaken!" {{rf{28}}} And one of the scribes came up and heard them debating. When he saw that he answered them well, he asked him, "Which commandment is the most important of all?" {{rf{29}}} Jesus answered, "The most important is, 'Listen, Israel! The Lord our God, the Lord is one. {{rf{30}}} And you shall love the Lord your God from your whole heart and from your whole soul and from your whole mind and from your whole strength.' {{rf{31}}} The second is this: 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.' There is no other commandment greater than these." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Mark-12-18]] }}}
{{rf{32}}} And the scribe said to him, "That is true, Teacher. You have said correctly that he is one and there is no other except him. {{rf{33}}} And to love him from your whole heart and from your whole understanding and from your whole strength, and to love your neighbor as yourself, is much more than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices." {{rf{34}}} And Jesus, when he saw that he had answered thoughtfully, said to him, "You are not far from the kingdom of God." And no one dared to put a question to him any longer. {{rf{35}}} And continuing, Jesus said while teaching in the temple courts, "How can the scribes say that the Christ is David's son? {{rf{36}}} David himself said by the Holy Spirit, 'The Lord said to my Lord, "Sit at my right hand, until I put your enemies under your feet." ' {{rf{37}}} David himself calls him 'Lord,' and how is he his son?" And the large crowd was listening to him gladly. {{rf{38}}} And in his teaching he said, "Beware of the scribes, who like walking around in long robes and greetings in the marketplaces {{rf{39}}} and the best seats in the synagogues and the places of honor at banquets, {{rf{40}}} who devour the houses of widows and pray lengthy prayers for the sake of appearance. These will receive more severe condemnation!" {{rf{41}}} And he sat down opposite the contribution box and was observing how the crowd was putting coins into the contribution box. And many rich people were putting in many coins. {{rf{42}}} And one poor widow came and put in two small copper coins (that is, a penny). {{rf{43}}} And summoning his disciples, he said to them, "Truly I say to you that this poor widow put in more than all those who put offerings into the contribution box. {{rf{44}}} For they all contributed out of their abundance, but she out of her poverty put in everything she had, her whole means of subsistence." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Mark-12-32]] }}}
And as he was going out of the temple courts, one of his disciples said to him, "Teacher, look! What great stones and what wonderful buildings!" {{rf{2}}} And Jesus said to him, "Do you see these great buildings? Not one stone will be left here on another stone that will not be thrown down!"
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{{rf{3}}} And as he was sitting on the Mount of Olives opposite the temple, Peter and James and John and Andrew asked him privately, {{rf{4}}} "Tell us, when will these things happen, and what will be the sign when all these things are about to be accomplished?" {{rf{5}}} So Jesus began to say to them, "Watch out that no one deceives you! {{rf{6}}} Many will come in my name, saying, 'I am he,' and they will deceive many. {{rf{7}}} And when you hear about wars and rumors of wars, do not be alarmed. This must happen, but the end is not yet. {{rf{8}}} For nation will rise up against nation and kingdom against kingdom. There will be earthquakes in various places. There will be famines. These things are the beginning of birth pains. {{rf{9}}} "But you, watch out for yourselves! They will hand you over to councils and you will be beaten in the synagogues and will have to stand before governors and kings because of me, for a witness to them. {{rf{10}}} And the gospel must first be proclaimed to all the nations. {{rf{11}}} And when they arrest you and hand you over, do not be anxious beforehand what you should say, but whatever is given to you at that hour, say this. For you are not the ones who are speaking, but the Holy Spirit. {{rf{12}}} And brother will hand over brother to death, and a father his child, and children will rise up against parents and have them put to death. {{rf{13}}} And you will be hated by all because of my name. But the one who endures to the end -- this one will be saved. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Mark-13-01]] }}}
<<Bbl Mk 13:9 abbr >> The real point and application of eschatology: //Be on your guard at all times.// Wuest says, "But as for you, be constantly taking heed to yourselves." Seek first His Kingdom and His righteousness.
13:14 The parenthetical statement obviously should not be in red.
<<Bbl Mk 13:34 abbr >> Second advent.
<<Bbl Mk 14:1 abbr >> In the Gospel of Mark the word //seek// (zêtein) occurs 10 times, always in pejorative contexts. "To seize" (kratein) occurs some 15 times and carries predominantly negative connotations. Coupled with "treachery" (dolos) and "killing" (apokteinein), the description seethes with deception and violence.
<<Bbl Mk 14:10 abbr >>-11 Steve Brown believes Judas doesn't anticipate that Jesus will die through his action. This would fit well with the remorse that follows.
14:11 i.e., for secrecy -- vs. 1.
14:13 Disciples does not denote that they were from the Twelve.
14:19 The disciples are not searching their souls for disobedience, but simply denying the charge as in <<Bbl Mk 14:31 abbr >>.
<<Bbl Mk 14:22 abbr>> The breaking of the bread holds a symbolism of his broken body. <<Bbl Mk 8:6 abbr>> also portrays Him breaking bread; indeed, at this Last Supper He fed the multitudes for all ages future and past.
14:24 In terms of vicarious sacrifice, <<Bbl Mk 10:45 abbr>> is recalled, as well as <<Bbl I 53:12 >> [[PourOut]]. The redness of the wine and Jesus' own words indicate a violent death. According to Lane, this was the third cup of the liturgy (this indicated, I believe, its place after the meal), signifying redemption. The next cup to follow would signify consummation - 14:25 - and it is this cup which Christ postpones. The postponement also "was to declare that his decision to submit to the will of God in vicarious suffering was irrevocable." The four cups are based on a four-fold promise of <<Bbl Ex 6:6 >>-7 . See the [[LordsSupper]].
<<Bbl Mk 14:31 abbr >> They all said it (and see <<Bbl Mk 14:19 >>), yet Peter is singled out.
<<Bbl Mk 14:35 abbr >> The hour toward which all eternity and all creation had pointed.
14:36 <<Bbl R 8:15 >>; <<Bbl Gal 4:6 >>. The theme of the cup as a symbol of Judgment begins in the Psalms and proceeds throughout the prophets. See Cup.
14:38 A condition for the fulfillment of: Lord, lead me not into temptation.
15:5 Pilate is desperate to give Jesus "an out". //Any defense will do!//
15:27 The thieves are a deliberate adornment, a touch of humiliation by the Romans'. They don't know this is really nothing in light of the deliberate condescension of God in coming to Earth as a man.
15:29 They mock Him with a prophecy ... a prophecy that is, at that moment, being fulfilled!
<<Bbl Mk 15:32 abbr >> But even their wildest satire cannot hint at the scope of God's plan.
15:36 The final craving for a sign, and the final denial.
15:39 As a loud testimony?
15:43 Could Judas have attended any of the "trial"?
15:51 They do not recognize true salvation, neither of the others nor of Himself.
<<Bbl Mk 16:20 abbr >> <<Bbl Rev 14:6 >>.
<<Bbl Mk 18:34 abbr >> The trouble with unforgiveness. May 2-0-1-8, tag my_life.
{{rf{14}}} "But when you see the abomination of desolation standing where it should not be" (let the one who reads understand), "then those in Judea must flee to the mountains! {{rf{15}}} The one who is on his housetop must not come down or go inside to take anything out of his house, {{rf{16}}} and the one who is in the field must not turn back to pick up his cloak. {{rf{17}}} And woe to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing their babies in those days! {{rf{18}}} But pray that it will not happen in winter. {{rf{19}}} For in those days there will be tribulation of such a kind as has not happened from the beginning of the creation that God created until now, and never will happen. {{rf{20}}} And if the Lord had not shortened the days, no human being would be saved. But for the sake of the elect, whom he chose, he has shortened the days. {{rf{21}}} "And at that time if anyone should say to you, "Behold, here is the Christ,' 'Behold, there he is,' do not believe him! {{rf{22}}} For false messiahs and false prophets will appear, and will produce signs and wonders in order to mislead, if possible, the elect. {{rf{23}}} But you, watch out! I have told you everything ahead of time! {{rf{24}}} "But in those days, after that tribulation, 'the sun will be darkened and the moon will not give its light, {{rf{25}}} and the stars will be falling from heaven, and the powers in the heavens will be shaken.' {{rf{26}}} And then they will see the Son of Man arriving in the clouds with great power and glory. {{rf{27}}} And then he will send out the angels, and will gather the elect together from the four winds, from the end of the earth to the end of heaven. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Mark-13-14]] }}}
{{rf{28}}} "Now learn the parable from the fig tree: Whenever its branch has already become tender and puts forth its leaves, you know that summer is near. {{rf{29}}} So also you, when you see these things happening, know that he is near, at the door. {{rf{30}}} Truly I say to you that this generation will never pass away until all these things take place! {{rf{31}}} Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away. {{rf{32}}} "But concerning that day or hour no one knows -- not even the angels in heaven nor the Son -- except the Father. {{rf{33}}} Watch out! Be alert, because you do not know when the time is! {{rf{34}}} It is like a man away on a journey, who left his house and gave his slaves authority -- to each one his work -- and to the doorkeeper he gave orders that he should be on the alert. {{rf{35}}} Therefore be on the alert, for you do not know when the master of the house is coming -- whether in the evening, or at midnight, or when the rooster crows, or early in the morning -- {{rf{36}}} lest he arrive suddenly and find you sleeping. {{rf{37}}} And what I say to you, I say to everyone: Be on the alert!" {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Mark-13-28]] }}}
Now after two days it was the Passover and the feast of Unleavened Bread, and the chief priests and the scribes were seeking how, after arresting him by stealth, they could kill him. {{rf{2}}} For they said, "Not at the feast, lest there be an uproar by the people." {{rf{3}}} And while he was at Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as he was reclining for a meal, a woman came holding an alabaster flask of very costly perfumed oil of genuine nard. After breaking the alabaster flask, she poured it out on his head. {{rf{4}}} But some were expressing indignation to one another: "Why has there been this waste of perfumed oil? {{rf{5}}} For this perfumed oil could have been sold for more than three hundred denarii and given to the poor!" And they began to scold her. {{rf{6}}} But Jesus said, "Leave her alone. Why do you cause trouble for her? She has done a good deed to me. {{rf{7}}} For the poor you always have with you, and you can do good for them whenever you want, but you do not always have me. {{rf{8}}} She has done what she could; she has anointed my body beforehand for burial. {{rf{9}}} And truly I say to you, wherever the gospel is proclaimed in the whole world, what she has done will also be told in memory of her. {{rf{10}}} And Judas Iscariot, who was one of the twelve, went to the chief priests in order to betray him to them. {{rf{11}}} And when they heard this, they were delighted, and promised to give him money. And he began seeking how he could betray him conveniently. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Mark-14-01]] }}}
{{rf{12}}} And on the first day of the feast of Unleavened Bread, when they sacrificed the Passover lamb, his disciples said to him, "Where do you want us to go and prepare, so that you can eat the Passover?" {{rf{13}}} And he sent two of his disciples and said to them, "Go into the city and a man carrying a jar of water will meet you. Follow him, {{rf{14}}} and wherever he enters, say to the master of the house, 'The Teacher says, "Where is my guest room where I may eat the Passover with my disciples?" ' {{rf{15}}} And he will show you a large upstairs room furnished and ready, and prepare for us there." {{rf{16}}} And the disciples went out and came into the city and found everything just as he had told them, and they prepared the Passover. {{rf{17}}} And when it was evening, he arrived with the twelve. {{rf{18}}} And while they were reclining at table and eating, Jesus said, "Truly I say to you, that one of you who is eating with me will betray me." {{rf{19}}} They began to be distressed and to say to him one by one, "Surely not I?" {{rf{20}}} But he said to them, "It is one of the twelve -- the one who is dipping bread into the bowl with me. {{rf{21}}} For the Son of Man is going just as it is written about him, but woe to that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would be better for him if that man had not been born." {{rf{22}}} And while they were eating, he took bread and, after giving thanks, he broke it and gave it to them and said, "Take it, this is my body." {{rf{23}}} And after taking the cup and giving thanks, he gave it to them, and they all drank from it. {{rf{24}}} And he said to them, "This is my blood of the covenant which is poured out for many. {{rf{25}}} Truly I say to you that I will never drink of the fruit of the vine any longer until that day when I drink it new in the kingdom of God." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Mark-14-12]] }}}
{{rf{26}}} And after they had sung the hymn, they went out to the Mount of Olives. {{rf{27}}} And Jesus said to them, "You will all fall away, because it is written, 'I will strike the shepherd and the sheep will be scattered.' {{rf{28}}} But after I am raised, I will go ahead of you into Galilee." {{rf{29}}} But Peter said to him, "Even if they all fall away, certainly I will not!" {{rf{30}}} And Jesus said to him, "Truly I say to you that today -- this night -- before the rooster crows twice, you will deny me three times!" {{rf{31}}} But he kept saying emphatically, "If it is necessary for me to die with you, I will never deny you!" And they all were saying the same thing also. {{rf{32}}} And they came to a place named Gethsemane, and he said to his disciples, "Sit here while I pray." {{rf{33}}} And he took along Peter and James and John with him, and he began to be distressed and troubled. {{rf{34}}} And he said to them, "My soul is deeply grieved, to the point of death. Remain here and stay awake." {{rf{35}}} And going forward a little he fell to the ground and began to pray that, if it were possible, the hour would pass from him. {{rf{36}}} And he said, "Abba, Father, all things are possible for you! Take away this cup from me! Yet not what I will, but what you will." {{rf{37}}} And he came and found them sleeping, and he said to Peter, "Simon, are you sleeping? Were you not able to stay awake one hour? {{rf{38}}} Stay awake and pray that you will not enter into temptation. The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak!" {{rf{39}}} And again he went away and prayed, saying the same thing. {{rf{40}}} And again he came and found them sleeping, for they could not keep their eyes open, and they did not know what to reply to him. {{rf{41}}} And he came the third time and said to them, "Are you still sleeping and resting? It is enough! The hour has come. Behold, the Son of Man is being betrayed into the hands of sinners. {{rf{42}}} Get up, let us go! Behold, the one who is betraying me is approaching!" {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Mark-14-26]] }}}
{{rf{43}}} And immediately, while he was still speaking, Judas -- one of the twelve -- arrived, and with him a crowd with swords and clubs, from the chief priests and the scribes and the elders. {{rf{44}}} Now the one who was betraying him had given them a sign, saying, "The one whom I kiss -- he is the one. Arrest him and lead him away under guard!" {{rf{45}}} And when he arrived, he came up to him immediately and said, "Rabbi," and kissed him. {{rf{46}}} So they laid hands on him and arrested him. {{rf{47}}} But a certain one of the bystanders, drawing his sword, struck the slave of the high priest and cut off his ear. {{rf{48}}} And Jesus answered and said to them, "Have you come out with swords and clubs, as against a robber, to arrest me? {{rf{49}}} Every day I was with you in the temple courts teaching, and you did not arrest me! But this has happened in order that the scriptures would be fulfilled. {{rf{50}}} And they all abandoned him and fled. {{rf{51}}} And a certain young man was following him, clothed only in a linen cloth on his naked body. And they attempted to seize him, {{rf{52}}} but he left behind the linen cloth and fled naked. {{rf{53}}} And they led Jesus away to the high priest, and all the chief priests and the elders and the scribes came together. {{rf{54}}} And Peter followed him from a distance, right inside, into the courtyard of the high priest. And he was sitting with the officers and warming himself by the fire. {{rf{55}}} Now the chief priests and the whole Sanhedrin were looking for testimony against Jesus in order to put him to death, and they did not find it. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Mark-14-43]] }}}
{{rf{56}}} For many gave false testimony against him, and their testimony was not consistent. {{rf{57}}} And some stood up and began to give false testimony against him, saying, {{rf{58}}} "We heard him saying, 'I will destroy this temple made by hands, and within three days I will build another not made by hands." {{rf{59}}} And their testimony was not even consistent about this. {{rf{60}}} And the high priest stood up in the midst of them and asked Jesus, saying, "Do you not reply anything? What are these people testifying against you?" {{rf{61}}} But he was silent and did not reply anything. Again the high priest asked him and said to him, "Are you the Christ, the Son of the Blessed One?" {{rf{62}}} And Jesus said, "I am, and you will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of the Power and coming with the clouds of heaven." {{rf{63}}} And the high priest tore his clothes and said, "What further need do we have of witnesses? {{rf{64}}} You have heard the blasphemy! What do you think?" And they all condemned him as deserving death. {{rf{65}}} And some began to spit on him and to cover his face and to strike him with their fists, and to say to him "Prophesy!" And the officers received him with slaps in the face. {{rf{66}}} And while Peter was below in the courtyard, one of the female slaves of the high priest came up {{rf{67}}} And when she saw Peter warming himself, she looked intently at him and said, "You also were with the Nazarene, Jesus." {{rf{68}}} But he denied it, saying, "I neither know nor understand what you mean!" And he went out into the gateway, and a rooster crowed. {{rf{69}}} And the female slave, when she saw him, began to say again to the bystanders, "This man is one of them!" {{rf{70}}} But he denied it again. And after a little while, again the bystanders began to say to Peter, "You really are one of them, because you also are a Galilean, and your accent shows it!" {{rf{71}}} And he began to curse and to swear with an oath, "I do not know this man whom you are talking about!" {{rf{72}}} And immediately a rooster crowed for the second time. And Peter remembered the statement, how Jesus had said to him, "Before the rooster crows twice, you will deny me three times," and throwing himself down, he began to weep. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Mark-14-56]] }}}
And as soon as morning came, after formulating a plan, the chief priests, with the elders and scribes and the whole Sanhedrin, tied up Jesus, led him away, and handed him over to Pilate. {{rf{2}}} And Pilate asked him, "Are you the king of the Jews?" And he answered him and said, "You say so." {{rf{3}}} And the chief priests began to accuse him of many things. {{rf{4}}} So Pilate asked him again, saying, "Do you not answer anything? See how many charges they are bringing against you!" {{rf{5}}} But Jesus did not answer anything further, so that Pilate was astonished. {{rf{6}}} Now at each feast he customarily released for them one prisoner whom they requested. {{rf{7}}} And the one named Barabbas was imprisoned with the rebels who had committed murder in the rebellion. {{rf{8}}} And the crowd came up and began to ask him to do as he customarily did for them. {{rf{9}}} So Pilate answered them, saying, "Do you want me to release for you the king of the Jews?" {{rf{10}}} (For he realized that the chief priests had handed him over because of envy.) {{rf{11}}} But the chief priests incited the crowd so that he would release for them Barabbas instead. {{rf{12}}} So Pilate answered and said to them again, "Then what do you want me to do with the one whom you call the king of the Jews?" {{rf{13}}} And they shouted again, "Crucify him!" {{rf{14}}} And Pilate said to them, "Why? What evil has he done?" But they shouted even louder, "Crucify him!" {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Mark-15-01]] }}}
{{rf{15}}} So Pilate, because he wanted to satisfy the crowd, released for them Barabbas. And after he had Jesus flogged, he handed him over so that he could be crucified. {{rf{16}}} So the soldiers led him away into the palace (that is, the governor's residence) and called together the whole cohort. {{rf{17}}} And they put a purple cloak on him, and after weaving a crown of thorns they placed it on him. {{rf{18}}} And they began to greet him, "Hail, king of the Jews!" {{rf{19}}} And they repeatedly struck him on the head with a reed, and were spitting on him, and they knelt down and did obeisance to him. {{rf{20}}} And when they had mocked him, they stripped him of the purple cloak and put his own clothes on him, and they led him out so that they could crucify him. {{rf{21}}} And they forced a certain man who was passing by, Simon of Cyrene (the father of Alexander and Rufus), who was coming from the country, to carry his cross. {{rf{22}}} And they brought him to the place Golgotha (which is translated "Place of a Skull"). {{rf{23}}} And they attempted to give him wine mixed with myrrh, but he did not take it. {{rf{24}}} And they crucified him and divided his clothes among themselves by casting lots for them to see who should take what. {{rf{25}}} Now it was the third hour when they crucified him. {{rf{26}}} And the inscription of the charge against him was written, "The king of the Jews." {{rf{27}}} And with him they crucified two robbers, one on his right and one on his left. {{rf{29}}} And those who passed by reviled him, shaking their heads and saying, "Aha! The one who would destroy the temple and rebuild it in three days, {{rf{30}}} save yourself by coming down from the cross!" {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Mark-15-15]] }}}
{{rf{31}}} In the same way also the chief priests, along with the scribes, were mocking him to one another, saying, "He saved others; he is not able to save himself! {{rf{32}}} Let the Christ, the king of Israel, come down now from the cross, so that we may see and believe! Even those who were crucified with him were reviling him. {{rf{33}}} And when the sixth hour came, darkness came over the whole land until the ninth hour. {{rf{34}}} And at the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a loud voice, "Eloi, Eloi, lema sabachthani?" (which is translated, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?") {{rf{35}}} And some of the bystanders, when they heard it, said, "Behold, he is summoning Elijah!" {{rf{36}}} And someone ran and filled a sponge with sour wine, put it on a reed, and gave it to him to drink, saying, "Leave him alone! Let us see if Elijah is coming to take him down." {{rf{37}}} But Jesus uttered a loud cry and expired. {{rf{38}}} And the curtain of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom. {{rf{39}}} And when the centurion who was standing opposite him saw that he expired like this, he said, "Truly this man was God's Son!" {{rf{40}}} And there were also women observing from a distance, among whom were Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James the younger and Joses, and Salome, {{rf{41}}} who used to follow him and serve him when he was in Galilee, and many other women who went up with him to Jerusalem. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Mark-15-31]] }}}
{{rf{42}}} And when it was already evening, since it was the day of preparation (that is, the day before the Sabbath), {{rf{43}}} Joseph of Arimathea, a prominent member of the council who was also himself looking forward to the kingdom of God, came acting courageously and went in to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus. {{rf{44}}} And Pilate was surprised that he was already dead, and summoning the centurion, asked him whether he had died already. {{rf{45}}} And when he learned of it from the centurion, he granted the corpse to Joseph. {{rf{46}}} And after purchasing a linen cloth and taking him down, he wrapped him in the linen cloth and placed him in a tomb that had been cut from the rock. And he rolled a stone over the entrance of the tomb. {{rf{47}}} Now Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of Joses saw where he was placed. {{rf big{1}}} And when the Sabbath was over, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome purchased fragrant spices so that they could go and anoint him. {{rf{2}}} And very early in the morning on the first day of the week they came to the tomb after the sun had risen. {{rf{3}}} And they were saying to one another, "Who will roll away the stone for us from the entrance of the tomb?" {{rf{4}}} And when they looked up, they saw that the stone had been rolled away (for it was very large). {{rf{5}}} And as they were going into the tomb, they saw a young man dressed in a white robe sitting on the right side, and they were alarmed. {{rf{6}}} But he said to them, "Do not be alarmed. You are looking for Jesus the Nazarene who was crucified. He has been raised, he is not here! See the place where they laid him! {{rf{7}}} But go, tell his disciples and Peter that he is going ahead of you to Galilee. You will see him there, just as he told you." {{rf{8}}} And they went out and fled from the tomb, because trembling and amazement had seized them. And they said nothing to anyone, because they were afraid. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Mark-15-42]] }}}
{{rf{9}}} Now early on the first day of the week, after he rose, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, from whom he had expelled seven demons. {{rf{10}}} She went out and announced it to those who were with him while they were mourning and weeping. {{rf{11}}} And those, when they heard that he was alive and had been seen by her, refused to believe it. {{rf{12}}} And after these things, he appeared in a different form to two of them as they were walking, while they were going out into the countryside. {{rf{13}}} And these went and reported it to the others, and they did not believe them. {{rf{14}}} And later, while they were reclining at table, he appeared to the eleven. And he reprimanded their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they did not believe those who had seen him after he had been raised. {{rf{15}}} And he said to them, "Go into all the world and preach the gospel to all creation. {{rf{16}}} The one who believes and is baptized will be saved, but the one who refuses to believe will be condemned. {{rf{17}}} And these signs will accompany those who believe: in my name they will expel demons, they will speak in new tongues, {{rf{18}}} they will pick up snakes. And if they drink any deadly poison it will never hurt them; they will lay hands on the sick and they will get well." {{rf{19}}} Then the Lord Jesus, after he had spoken to them, was taken up into heaven and sat down at the right hand of God. {{rf{20}}} And they went out and proclaimed everywhere, while the Lord was working together with them and confirming the message through the accompanying signs. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Mark-16-09]] }}}
* David Davidson gave the minimal definition of a marriage:
## the [[Wedding]], which is a public statement (thus before witnesses)
## sexual consummation, which is private.
* Biblically, the basis for marriage is presented somewhat through induction or inference.
** It is forced by the commandment against adultery.
* <<Bbl Gn 2:22 >> //He brought her to him// -- This was the first Father to give away His daughter in marriage.
* Remarkable essay discovered on the Internet in 2007: __Stumbling toward a theology of marriage__.
* //Courtship//, [[Purity]], [[Chastity]]
* //Mary// is a form of Miriam, which was far and away the most common woman's name in first-century Jewish culture.
* She may be presented as a second Eve.
* I believe her trials, while great, never led her to doubt. Next to her Son, she was the most informed about God's plan. She may have visited the rabbis with many questions.
* Banter between Joseph and Mary.
** Joseph, have you seen "our" son?
** Mary, I don't know where that son of yours has gone to.
/***
|Name|MatchTagsPlugin|
|Source|http://www.TiddlyTools.com/#MatchTagsPlugin|
|Documentation|http://www.TiddlyTools.com/#MatchTagsPluginInfo|
|Version|2.0.0|
|Author|Eric Shulman - ELS Design Studios|
|License|http://www.TiddlyTools.com/#LegalStatements <br>and [[Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 License|http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/]]|
|~CoreVersion|2.1|
|Type|plugin|
|Requires||
|Overrides||
|Description|'tag matching' with full boolean expressions (AND, OR, NOT, and nested parentheses)|
!!!!!Documentation
> see [[MatchTagsPluginInfo]]
!!!!!Revisions
<<<
2008.09.04 [2.0.0] added "report" and "panel" options to generate formatted results and store in a tiddler. Also, added config.macros.matchTags.formatList(place,fmt,sep) API to return formatted output for use with other plugins/scripts
| please see [[MatchTagsPluginInfo]] for additional revision details |
2008.02.28 [1.0.0] initial release
<<<
!!!!!Code
***/
//{{{
version.extensions.MatchTagsPlugin= {major: 2, minor: 0, revision: 0, date: new Date(2008,9,4)};
// store.getMatchingTiddlers() processes boolean expressions for tag matching
// sortfield (optional) sets sort order for tiddlers - default=title
// tiddlers (optional) use alternative set of tiddlers (instead of current store)
TiddlyWiki.prototype.getMatchingTiddlers = function(tagexpr,sortfield,tiddlers) {
var debug=config.options.chkDebug; // abbreviation
var cmm=config.macros.matchTags; // abbreviation
var r=[]; // results are an array of tiddlers
var tids=tiddlers||store.getTiddlers(sortfield||"title");
if (tiddlers && sortfield) store.sortTiddlers(tids,sortfield);
if (debug) displayMessage(cmm.msg1.format([tids.length]));
// try simple lookup to quickly find single tags or tags that
// contain boolean operators as literals, e.g. "foo and bar"
for (var t=0; t<tids.length; t++)
if (tids[t].isTagged(tagexpr)) r.pushUnique(tids[t]);
if (r.length) {
if (debug) displayMessage(cmm.msg4.format([r.length,tagexpr]));
return r;
}
// convert expression into javascript code with regexp tests,
// so that "tag1 AND ( tag2 OR NOT tag3 )" becomes
// "/\~tag1\~/.test(...) && ( /\~tag2\~/.test(...) || ! /\~tag3\~/.test(...) )"
// normalize whitespace, tokenize operators, delimit with "~"
var c=tagexpr.trim(); // remove leading/trailing spaces
c = c.replace(/\s+/ig," "); // reduce multiple spaces to single spaces
c = c.replace(/\(\s?/ig,"~(~"); // open parens
c = c.replace(/\s?\)/ig,"~)~"); // close parens
c = c.replace(/(\s|~)?&&(\s|~)?/ig,"~&&~"); // &&
c = c.replace(/(\s|~)AND(\s|~)/ig,"~&&~"); // AND
c = c.replace(/(\s|~)?\|\|(\s|~)?/ig,"~||~"); // ||
c = c.replace(/(\s|~)OR(\s|~)/ig,"~||~"); // OR
c = c.replace(/(\s|~)?!(\s|~)?/ig,"~!~"); // !
c = c.replace(/(^|~|\s)NOT(\s|~)/ig,"~!~"); // NOT
c = c.replace(/(^|~|\s)NOT~\(/ig,"~!~("); // NOT(
// change tag terms to regexp tests
var terms=c.split("~"); for (var i=0; i<terms.length; i++) { var t=terms[i];
if (/(&&)|(\|\|)|[!\(\)]/.test(t) || t=="") continue; // skip operators/parens/spaces
if (t==config.macros.matchTags.untaggedKeyword)
terms[i]="tiddlertags=='~~'"; // 'untagged' tiddlers
else
terms[i]="/\\~"+t+"\\~/.test(tiddlertags)";
}
c=terms.join(" ");
if (debug) { displayMessage(cmm.msg2.format([tagexpr])); displayMessage(cmm.msg3.format([c])); }
// scan tiddlers for matches
for (var t=0; t<tids.length; t++) {
// assemble tags from tiddler into string "~tag1~tag2~tag3~"
var tiddlertags = "~"+tids[t].tags.join("~")+"~";
try { if(eval(c)) r.push(tids[t]); } // test tags
catch(e) { // error in test
displayMessage(cmm.msg2.format([tagexpr]));
displayMessage(cmm.msg3.format([c]));
displayMessage(e.toString());
break; // skip remaining tiddlers
}
}
if (debug) displayMessage(cmm.msg4.format([r.length,tagexpr]));
return r;
}
//}}}
//{{{
config.macros.matchTags = {
msg1: "scanning %0 input tiddlers",
msg2: "looking for '%0'",
msg3: "using expression: '%0'",
msg4: "found %0 tiddlers matching '%1'",
noMatch: "no matching tiddlers",
untaggedKeyword: "-",
untaggedLabel: "no tags",
untaggedPrompt: "show tiddlers with no tags",
defTiddler: "MatchingTiddlers",
defFormat: "%0",
defSeparator: "\n",
reportHeading: "Found %0 tiddlers tagged with: '{{{%1}}}'\n----\n",
handler: function(place,macroName,params,wikifier,paramString,tiddler) {
var mode=params[0]?params[0].toLowerCase():'';
if (mode=="inline")
params.shift();
if (mode=="report" || mode=="panel") {
params.shift();
var target=params.shift()||this.defTiddler;
}
if (mode=="popup") {
params.shift();
if (params[0]&¶ms[0].substr(0,6)=="label:") var label=params.shift().substr(6);
if (params[0]&¶ms[0].substr(0,7)=="prompt:") var prompt=params.shift().substr(7);
} else {
var fmt=(params.shift()||this.defFormat).unescapeLineBreaks();
var sep=(params.shift()||this.defSeparator).unescapeLineBreaks();
}
var sortBy="+title";
if (params[0]&¶ms[0].substr(0,5)=="sort:") sortBy=params.shift().substr(5);
var expr = params.join(" ");
if (mode!="panel" && (!expr||!expr.trim().length)) return;
if (expr==this.untaggedKeyword)
{ var label=this.untaggedLabel; var prompt=this.untaggedPrompt };
switch (mode) {
case "popup": this.createPopup(place,label,expr,prompt,sortBy); break;
case "panel": this.createPanel(place,expr,fmt,sep,sortBy,target); break;
case "report": this.createReport(target,expr,fmt,sep,sortBy); break;
case "inline": default: this.createInline(place,expr,fmt,sep,sortBy); break;
}
},
formatList: function(tids,fmt,sep) {
var out=[];
for (var t=0; t<tids.length; t++) {
var title="[["+tids[t].title+"]]";
var who=tids[t].modifier;
var when=tids[t].modified.toLocaleString();
var text=tids[t].text;
var first=tids[t].text.split("\n")[0];
var desc=store.getTiddlerSlice(tids[t].title,"description");
desc=desc||store.getTiddlerSlice(tids[t].title,"Description");
desc=desc||store.getTiddlerText(tids[t].title+"##description");
desc=desc||store.getTiddlerText(tids[t].title+"##Description");
out.push(fmt.format([title,who,when,text,first,desc]));
}
return out.join(sep);
},
createInline: function(place,expr,fmt,sep,sortBy) {
wikify(this.formatList(store.sortTiddlers(store.getMatchingTiddlers(expr),sortBy),fmt,sep),place);
},
createPopup: function(place,label,expr,prompt,sortBy) {
var btn=createTiddlyButton(place,
(label||expr).format([expr]),
(prompt||config.views.wikified.tag.tooltip).format([expr]),
function(ev){ return config.macros.matchTags.showPopup(this,ev||window.event); });
btn.setAttribute("sortBy",sortBy);
btn.setAttribute("expr",expr);
},
showPopup: function(here,ev) {
var p=Popup.create(here); if (!p) return false;
var tids=store.getMatchingTiddlers(here.getAttribute("expr"));
store.sortTiddlers(tids,here.getAttribute("sortBy"));
var list=[]; for (var t=0; t<tids.length; t++) list.push(tids[t].title);
if (!list.length) createTiddlyText(p,this.noMatch);
else {
var b=createTiddlyButton(createTiddlyElement(p,"li"),
config.views.wikified.tag.openAllText,
config.views.wikified.tag.openAllTooltip,
function() {
var list=this.getAttribute("list").readBracketedList();
story.displayTiddlers(null,tids);
});
b.setAttribute("list","[["+list.join("]] [[")+"]]");
createTiddlyElement(p,"hr");
}
var out=this.formatList(tids," %0 ","\n"); wikify(out,p);
Popup.show(p,false);
ev.cancelBubble=true;
if(ev.stopPropagation) ev.stopPropagation();
return false;
},
createReport: function(target,expr,fmt,sep,sortBy) {
var tids=store.sortTiddlers(store.getMatchingTiddlers(expr),sortBy);
if (!tids.length) { displayMessage('no matches for: '+expr); return false; }
var msg=config.messages.overwriteWarning.format([target]);
if (store.tiddlerExists(target) && !confirm(msg)) return false;
var out=this.reportHeading.format([tids.length,expr])
out+=this.formatList(tids,fmt,sep);
store.saveTiddler(target,target,out,config.options.txtUserName,new Date(),[],{});
story.closeTiddler(target); story.displayTiddler(null,target);
},
createPanel: function(place,expr,fmt,sep,sortBy,tid) {
var html="<form style='display:inline'><!-- \
--><input type='text' name='expr' style='width:55%' title='tag expression'><!-- \
--><input type='text' name='fmt' style='width:10%' title='list item format'><!-- \
--><input type='text' name='sep' style='width:5%' title='list item separator'><!-- \
--><input type='text' name='tid' style='width:20%' title='target tiddler title'><!-- \
--><input type='button' name='go' style='width:8%' value='go' onclick=\" \
var expr=this.form.expr.value; \
if (!expr.length) { alert('Enter a boolean tag expression'); return false; } \
var fmt=this.form.fmt.value; \
if (!fmt.length) { alert('Enter the list item output format'); return false; } \
var sep=this.form.sep.value.unescapeLineBreaks(); \
var tid=this.form.tid.value; \
if (!tid.length) { alert('Enter a target tiddler title'); return false; } \
config.macros.matchTags.createReport(tid,expr,fmt,sep,'title'); \
return false;\"> \
</form>";
var s=createTiddlyElement(place,"span"); s.innerHTML=html;
var f=s.getElementsByTagName("form")[0];
f.expr.value=expr; f.fmt.value=fmt; f.sep.value=sep.escapeLineBreaks(); f.tid.value=tid;
}
};
//}}}
//{{{
// SHADOW TIDDLER for displaying default panel input form
config.shadowTiddlers.MatchTags="{{smallform{<<matchTags panel>>}}}";
//}}}
//{{{
// TWEAK core filterTiddlers() for enhanced boolean matching in [tag[...]] syntax:
// use getMatchingTiddlers instead getTaggedTiddlers
var fn=TiddlyWiki.prototype.filterTiddlers;
fn=fn.toString().replace(/getTaggedTiddlers/g,"getMatchingTiddlers");
eval("TiddlyWiki.prototype.filterTiddlers="+fn);
//}}}
//{{{
// REDEFINE core handler for enhanced boolean matching in tag:"..." paramifier
// use filterTiddlers() instead of getTaggedTiddlers() to get list of tiddlers.
config.paramifiers.tag = {
onstart: function(v) {
var tagged = store.filterTiddlers("[tag["+v+"]]");
story.displayTiddlers(null,tagged,null,false,null);
}
};
//}}}
/***
|Name|MatchTagsPluginInfo|
|Source|http://www.TiddlyTools.com/#MatchTagsPlugin|
|Documentation|http://www.TiddlyTools.com/#MatchTagsPluginInfo|
|Version|2.0.6|
|Author|Eric Shulman|
|License|http://www.TiddlyTools.com/#LegalStatements|
|~CoreVersion|2.1|
|Type|documentation|
|Description|documentation for MatchTagsPlugin|
!!!!!Usage
<<<
This plugin extends the {{{[tag[tagname]]}}} macro parameter syntax used by the TiddlyWiki core {{{<<list>>}}} macro so that, instead of a simple tagname value, you can specify a complex combination of tagname values using a //boolean expression// containing AND, OR, and NOT operators, enclosed in nested parentheses if needed.
{{{
<<list filter "[tag[expression]]">>
}}}
In addition, the plugin defines a new macro, {{{<<matchTags ...>>}}} that can be used instead of the core {{{<<list>>}}} macro to output a list of matching tiddlers //using a custom 'item format' and 'separator'//. You can also use this macro to create a command link that displays the matching tiddlers within a popup list, similar to the standard {{{<<tag tagName>>}}} macro, but matching a combination of tag values rather than a single tag value.
{{{
<<matchTags inline "format" "separator" sort:fieldname tag expression>>
<<matchTags popup "label:..." "prompt:..." sort:fieldname tag expression>>
<<matchTags report TiddlerName "format" "separator" sort:fieldname tag expression>>
<<matchTags panel Tiddlername "format" "separator" sort:fieldname tag expression>>
}}}
where:
* ''inline'', ''report'', ''panel'', and ''popup''<br>are keywords that indicate the type of output that the macro should produce:
** ''inline'' //(default)// - displays a list of matching tiddlers embedded directly in tiddler content
** ''popup'' - embeds a command button that, when clicked, lists matching tiddlers in a ~TiddlyWiki popup display
** ''report'' - generates a list of matching tiddler in a separate [[MatchingTiddlers]] report tiddler
** ''panel'' - displays an interactive form for generating a [[MatchingTiddlers]] report
* ''format''<br>defines the wiki-syntax for rendering list items. The following //substitution markers// can be used to insert tiddler-specific information for each matched tiddler:
** {{{%0}}} - title
** {{{%1}}} - modifier (author)
** {{{%2}}} - modified (date of last change)
** {{{%3}}} - text (all tiddler content)
** {{{%4}}} - firstline (tiddler content up to the first newline)
** {{{%5}}} - description (tiddler slice or section content named "description" or "Description")
** {{{%6}}} - tags (space-separated, bracketed list)
* ''separator''<br>defines the wiki-syntax to use //between// each matching title (e.g., ", " creates a comma-separated list, while "\n" displays one tiddler per line).
* ''sort:fieldname'' (optional)<br>specifies the sort order for the resulting list of tiddlers. You can specify any tiddler field name (standard or custom-defined). Standard tiddler fieldnames include: //title, created, modified, modifier//. If not specified, tiddlers are sorted by title. You can prefix the fieldname with "+" or "-" to indicate ascending or descending order, respectively.
* ''tag expression''<br>the remaining parameter(s) are joined together to define the boolean expression to be matched.
When using the ''popup'' option, there are two additional (and optional) parameters you can specify:
* ''"label:..."''(optional)<br> indicates the text for the popup command link. The default is to display the specified tag expression itself.
* ''"prompt:..."'' (optional)<br>indicates the mouseover 'tooltip' for the popup command link.
* note: you can apply custom CSS styles (e.g., font size) to the popup by adding a rule for ".matchTags .popup" to your [[StyleSheet]].
When using the ''report'' or ''panel'' option, an additional parameter may be provided:
* ''~TiddlerName''<br>specifies the target tiddler into which the output will be generated (default: [[MatchingTiddlers]])
Notes:
*A tag expression can use any combination of text operators: ''AND'', ''OR'', ''NOT'' (or their equivalent javascript operators: ''&&'', ''||'', ''!''), contained in nested parentheses as needed.
*Operators should be delimited by spaces or parentheses.
*Before matching, leading/trailing spaces are automatically trimmed and multiple spaces are reduced to single spaces.
*Tag values containing embedded spaces do //not// have to be enclosed in {{{[[...]]}}}.
*Tag values that contain boolean operators as ''literal text'' (e.g., {{{"foo and bar"}}} or {{{"foo && bar"}}} cannot be used within a compound boolean expression, but //can// be matched if specified by themselves, without any other tag values or operators.
*To match tiddlers that are untagged, use "-" as a special tag value within the expression.
*You can match "wildcard" tags by using //regular expression// (i.e., "text pattern") syntax within a tag value, e.g. {{{[Tt]agvalue.*}}}
<<<
!!!!!Examples:
<<<
display a popup list:
{{{
<<matchTags popup sample OR (settings AND systemConfig)>>
}}}
><<matchTags popup sample OR (settings AND systemConfig)>>
display a popup list with custom label:
{{{
<<matchTags popup "label:samples and settings" sample OR (settings AND systemConfig)>>
}}}
><<matchTags popup "label:samples and settings" sample OR (settings AND systemConfig)>>
display a popup list of untagged tiddlers:
{{{
<<matchTags popup ->>
}}}
><<matchTags popup ->>
generate a report using interactive form control panel
{{{
<<matchTags panel "MatchingTiddlers" "[[%0]]" "\n" sample OR (settings AND systemConfig)>>
}}}
>{{smallform{<<matchTags panel "MatchingTiddlers" "[[%0]]" "\n" sample OR (settings AND systemConfig)>>}}}
comma-separated list:
{{{
<<matchTags "[[%0]]" ", " sample OR (settings AND systemConfig)>>
}}}
><<matchTags "[[%0]]" ", " sample OR (settings AND systemConfig)>>
numbered list (sorted by modification date, most recent first):
{{{
<<matchTags "#[[%0]] (%2)<br>^^%5^^" "\n" sort:-modified sample OR (settings AND systemConfig)>>
}}}
><<matchTags "#[[%0]] (%2)<br>^^%5^^" "\n" sort:-modified sample OR (settings AND systemConfig)>>
bullet-item list (using the TiddlyWiki core {{{<<list filter ...>>}}} macro):
//(Note: when using the core {{{<<list>>}}} macro, you should always enclose the entire tag filter parameter within quotes)//
{{{
<<list filter "[tag[sample OR (settings AND systemConfig)]]">>
}}}
><<list filter "[tag[sample OR (settings AND systemConfig)]]">>
<<<
!!!!!Revisions
<<<
2011.10.28 2.0.6 added .matchTags CSS class to popups to enable custom styling via StyleSheet
2011.01.22 2.0.5 fix core tweak for TW262+: adjust code in config.filters['tag'] instead of filterTiddlers()
2010.08.11 2.0.4 in getMatchingTiddlers(), fixed sorting for descending order (e.g, "-created")
2010.03.02 2.0.3 added %6 format (tags)
2010.03.01 2.0.2 in formatList(), don't automatically put '[[' and ']]' around title (%0) in formatted output
2009.08.29 2.0.1 added support for {{{config.macros.matchTags.defTags}}} to auto-tag [[MatchingTiddlers]] output
2008.09.04 2.0.0 added "report" and "panel" options to generate formatted results and store in a tiddler. Also, added config.macros.matchTags.formatList(place,fmt,sep) API to return formatted output for use with other plugins/scripts
2008.09.01 1.9.2 fixed return value from popup button handler so IE doesn't attempt to leave the page
2008.08.31 1.9.1 improved expression conversion handling to permit use of regular expressions for "wildcard" matching within tag values
2008.06.12 1.9.0 added support for formatted output of: title, who, when, text, firstline, description (slice or section)
2008.06.05 1.8.0 in getMatchingTiddlers(), added optional sortfield and tiddlers params to support use of alternative set of tiddlers instead of using current store content (provides filtering support for ImportTiddlersPlugin)
2008.06.04 1.7.1 in getMatchingTiddlers(), reworked conversion of expression for more robust parsing of whitespace, parentheses and javascript operators and allow use of "-" (untagged) //within// expressions
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* Matthew first half, ''Who is He.''
* Second half, ''Why did He come and What does He require.''
** Peter's confession in chapter 16 is the hinge, //from that time on he began to teach//.
** At that point they have the right brand but the wrong product, the right book-title but the wrong plot.
** The cognitive dissonance prevents the disciples from asking questions about what he prophecies, such as "should we bury you?"
** Indeed they prolly misinterpret and dismiss the resurrection, for Hosea speaks of three days and a resurrection; it could be taken as "I will die and go to heaven."
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* Matthew is understandably the first book in Vol 2 because it most strongly connects with Vol 1 while presenting the historical Christ. (Revelation presents the transcendant Christ.)
* Biography, arranged topically. Example, order of weathered fig tree and cleansing of temple when compared with Mark.
* He not only adduces the OT prophecies but seeks to clear away potential objections about their application. Example, <<Bbl Mt 12:18 >> n.
* Keener's assertions are supported by Broadus p 264.
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[[Prophesy]]. The prophecies of Jesus have been contested either by saying he didn't really say them (but they pervade the accounts, especially Matthew after 15 and John after 11) or he didn't really mean them (but they are stated and defended directly).
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* I am told that with the Sadducees, Jesus only quoted from the Pentateuch.
!!! Back to Vol. 1
* Matthew's Biblical theology vindicated over skeptics.
** <<Bbl Mt 1:15 "" note >>: Hosea, //out of Egypt//
** <<Bbl Mt 1:23 "" note >>: Isaiah, //a virgin with child//
** <<Bbl Mt 2:17 "" note >>-18: Jeremiah, //Rachel weeping//
The book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham. {{rf{2}}} Abraham became the father of Isaac, and Isaac became the father of Jacob, and Jacob became the father of Judah and his brothers, {{rf{3}}} and Judah became the father of Perez and Zerah by Tamar, and Perez became the father of Hezron, and Hezron became the father of Aram, {{rf{4}}} and Aram became the father of Amminadab, and Amminadab became the father of Nahshon, and Nahshon became the father of Salmon, {{rf{5}}} and Salmon became the father of Boaz by Rahab, and Boaz became the father of Obed by Ruth, and Obed became the father of Jesse, {{rf{6}}} and Jesse became the father of David the king. And David became the father of Solomon by the wife of Uriah, {{rf{7}}} and Solomon became the father of Rehoboam, and Rehoboam became the father of Abijah, and Abijah became the father of Asa, {{rf{8}}} and Asa became the father of Jehoshaphat, and Jehoshaphat became the father of Joram, and Joram became the father of Uzziah, {{rf{9}}} and Uzziah became the father of Jotham, and Jotham became the father of Ahaz, and Ahaz became the father of Hezekiah, {{rf{10}}} and Hezekiah became the father of Manasseh, and Manasseh became the father of Amon, and Amon became the father of Josiah, {{rf{11}}} and Josiah became the father of Jechoniah and his brothers, at the time of the deportation to Babylon. {{rf{12}}} And after the deportation to Babylon, Jechoniah became the father of Shealtiel, and Shealtiel became the father of Zerubbabel, {{rf{13}}} and Zerubbabel became the father of Abiud, and Abiud became the father of Eliakim, and Eliakim became the father of Azor, {{rf{14}}} and Azor became the father of Zadok, and Zadok became the father of Achim, and Achim became the father of Eliud, {{rf{15}}} and Eliud became the father of Eleazar, and Eleazar became the father of Matthan, and Matthan became the father of Jacob, {{rf{16}}} and Jacob became the father of Joseph, the husband of Mary by whom was born Jesus, who is called Christ. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Matthew-01-01]] }}}
<<Bbl Mt 1:1 abbr >> breaks the 400 years of silence to announce the Son of David.
<<Bbl Mt 1:15 abbr>> Non-Christian scholars present this use of <<Bbl Hosea 11:1>> as a blatant misunderstanding, because Hosea is talking about God delivering Israel from Egypt, whereas Matthew applies the text to Jesus. But Matthew knows the passage; instead of depending on the standard Greek rendering, he makes his own more correct translation. In Matthew’s treatment, this is not the only place where he compares Jesus with Israel: as Israel was tested in the wilderness for forty years, Jesus was tested there forty days (<<Bbl Mt 4:1 abbr>>-2). Matthew also knows Hosea’s context: as God once called Israel from Egypt, he would bring about a new exodus and salvation for his people (<<Bbl Hosea 11:10>>-11). Jesus is the harbinger, the pioneer, of this new era of salvation for his people. (Craig Keener)
1:16 The virgin birth requires a change of wording.
<<Bbl Mt 1:18 abbr >> if Jesus were not so important, there would be no reason to assert the Virgin conception when the normal worldly explanation is so inescapably common. Neither would there be any reason to give it credence.
<<Bbl Mt 1:18 abbr>> God's timing is not ideal for their social and relational ease, and so begins a stressful yet wonder-filled marriage and parentage.
1:20 //Joseph, son of David// - glorious title. So much to consider in this.
<<Bbl Mt 1:19 abbr>> did Mary offer the explanation?
<<Bbl Mt 1:21 abbr>> Jesus is Joshua.
<<Bbl Mt 1:23 abbr>> Matthew knows well the context of <<Bbl I 7:14>> (contrary to skeptics). So he connects Jesus’ ministry with Israel’s history and the relevant promises. (Craig Keener)
{{rf{17}}} Therefore all the generations from Abraham to David are fourteen generations, and from David to the deportation to Babylon are fourteen generations, and from the deportation to Babylon to the Christ are fourteen generations. {{rf{18}}} Now the birth of Jesus Christ occurred in this way. His mother Mary had been betrothed to Joseph, but before they came together, she was found to be pregnant by the Holy Spirit. {{rf{19}}} So Joseph her husband, being righteous and not wanting to disgrace her, intended to divorce her secretly. {{rf{20}}} But as he was considering these things, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, "Joseph, son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary as your wife, for what has been conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit. {{rf{21}}} And she will give birth to a son, and you will call his name 'Jesus,' because he will save his people from their sins." {{rf{22}}} Now all this happened in order that what was spoken by the Lord through the prophet would be fulfilled, saying, {{rf{23}}} "Behold, the virgin will become pregnant and will give birth to a son, and they will call his name Emmanuel," which is translated, "God with us." {{rf{24}}} And Joseph, when he woke up from sleep, did as the angel of the Lord commanded him, and he took his wife {{rf{25}}} and did not have sexual relations with her until she gave birth to a son. And he called his name Jesus. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Matthew-01-17]] }}}
Now after Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king, behold, wise men from the east came to Jerusalem, {{rf{2}}} saying, "Where is the one who has been born king of the Jews? For we have seen his star at its rising and have come to worship him." {{rf{3}}} And when King Herod heard it, he was troubled, and all Jerusalem with him, {{rf{4}}} and after calling together all the chief priests and scribes of the people, he inquired from them where the Christ was to be born. {{rf{5}}} So they said to him, "In Bethlehem of Judea, for thus it is written by the prophet, {{rf{6}}} 'And you, Bethlehem, land of Judah, are by no means least among the rulers of Judah, for from you will go out a ruler who will shepherd my people Israel.'" {{rf{7}}} Then Herod secretly summoned the wise men and determined precisely from them the time when the star appeared. {{rf{8}}} And he sent them to Bethlehem and said, "Go, inquire carefully concerning the child, and when you have found him, report to me so that I also may come and worship him." {{rf{9}}} After they listened to the king, they went out, and behold, the star which they had seen at its rising led them until it came and stood above the place where the child was. {{rf{10}}} Now when they saw the star, they rejoiced with very great joy. {{rf{11}}} And when they came into the house, they saw the child with Mary his mother, and they fell down and worshiped him. And opening their treasure boxes, they offered him gifts of gold and frankincense and myrrh. {{rf{12}}} And being warned in a dream not to return to Herod, they went back to their own country by another route. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Matthew-02-01]] }}}
<<Bbl Mt 2:1 abbr>>-2 see <<Bbl I 60:3 >>. It is not that the wise men understand scripture better than the scribes and priests; it's that the latter don't care! This apparently comes as a surprise to the wise men. Also <<Bbl Gn 1:14>>.
<<Bbl Mt 2:3 abbr>> introduced to [[Herod]], we learn first of his fears. With Herod Antipas who kills John, the theme will grow. Well should the city tremble, they smell the danger both from him and the outside.
<<Bbl Mt 2:8 abbr >> Herod smells danger and finds precious few assets. The magi can't be bought by any means, and even the normal measure of assigning a man to shadow them may result in a curse. They stay only briefly and Herod is left to speculate and fret. <<Bbl Mt 21:10 abbr >>
<<Bbl Mt 2:9 abbr >> the Magi need not have made inquiries, for the star's guidance was precise (v 11). One infers they saw no need for secrecy. But Herod did, v 7.
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2:11 They prostate themselves; the verb "worship" in v 2 has the meaning of prostration.
* No gift is received by Mary.
* It may be good to consider two gifts: incense/spice for a priest (Frankincense <<Bbl Lv 2:1>>-2, Myrrh <<Bbl Ex 30:22>>), and gold for a king.
Mt 2:15 The reference to Hosea 11:1 has also in mind the promise of <<Bbl Hosea 11:10>>-11.
<<Bbl Mt 2:16 abbr >> //Tricked// or //outwitted// -- that is how Herod sees it. How base a king, to have received these true majesties.
<<Bbl Mt 2:16 abbr >> Prolly not more than 20.
<<Bbl Mt 2:17 abbr >> Matthew applies <<Bbl Jer 31:15>> to the slaughter of infants in Bethlehem, near which Rachel was buried (<<Bbl Gn 35:19>>). Matthew knows Jeremiah’s context: after announcing Israel’s tragedy, God promises restoration (<<Bbl Jer 31:16>>-17) and a new covenant (<<Bbl Jer 31:31 abbr>>-34). Matthew compares this tragedy in Jesus’ childhood to one in Israel’s history because he expects his readers to recognize that such tragedy formed the prelude to messianic salvation. (Craig Keener)
<<Bbl Mt 2:18 abbr >> Rachel's ultimate consolation is that not all were killed, comfort was still reserved for her. So //Blessed are they that mourn//.
2:18 see <<Bbl Gn 35:19 >>.
<<Bbl Mt 2:19 abbr >> Joseph gets the news ahead of the newspaper.
2:20 see <<Bbl Ex 4:19 >>
<<Bbl Mt 2:23 abbr >> This makes five dreams!
Nazareth is not mentioned in the canonical prophecies.
{{rf{13}}} Now after they had gone away, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph, saying, "Get up, take the child and his mother and flee to Egypt, and stay there until I tell you. For Herod is about to seek the child to destroy him." {{rf{14}}} So he got up and took the child and his mother during the night and went away to Egypt. {{rf{15}}} And he was there until the death of Herod, in order that what was said by the Lord through the prophet would be fulfilled, saying, "Out of Egypt I called my son." {{rf{16}}} Then Herod, when he saw that he had been deceived by the wise men, became very angry, and he sent soldiers and executed all the children in Bethlehem and in all the region around it from the age of two years old and under, according to the time which he had determined precisely from the wise men. {{rf{17}}} Then what was spoken by the prophet Jeremiah was fulfilled, saying, {{rf{18}}} "A voice was heard in Ramah, weeping and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children, and she did not want to be comforted, because they exist no longer." {{rf{19}}} Now after Herod had died, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt, {{rf{20}}} saying, "Get up, take the child and his mother and go to the land of Israel, for those who were seeking the life of the child are dead." {{rf{21}}} So he got up and took the child and his mother and entered the land of Israel. {{rf{22}}} But when he heard that Archelaus was reigning over Judea in place of his father Herod, he was afraid to go there, and being warned in a dream, he took refuge in the regions of Galilee. {{rf{23}}} And he came and lived in a town called Nazareth, in order that what was said by the prophets would be fulfilled: "He will be called a Nazarene." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Matthew-02-13]] }}}
Now in those days John the Baptist came preaching in the Judean wilderness {{rf{2}}} and saying, "Repent, for the kingdom of heaven has come near!" {{rf{3}}} For this is the one who was spoken about by the prophet Isaiah, saying, "The voice of one crying out in the wilderness, 'Prepare the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.'" {{rf{4}}} Now John himself had his clothing made from camel's hair and a belt made of leather around his waist, and his food was locusts and wild honey. {{rf{5}}} Then Jerusalem and all Judea and all the district around the Jordan were going out to him, {{rf{6}}} and they were being baptized by him in the Jordan River as they confessed their sins. {{rf{7}}} But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them, "Offspring of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the coming wrath? {{rf{8}}} Therefore produce fruit worthy of repentance! {{rf{9}}} And do not think to say to yourselves, 'We have Abraham as father.' For I say to you that God is able to raise up children for Abraham from these stones! {{rf{10}}} Already now the ax is positioned at the root of the trees; therefore every tree not producing good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. {{rf{11}}} I baptize you with water for repentance, but the one who comes after me is more powerful than I am, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire. {{rf{12}}} His winnowing shovel is in his hand, and he will clean out his threshing floor and will gather his wheat into the storehouse, but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire." {{rf{13}}} Then Jesus came from Galilee to the Jordan to John in order to be baptized by him. {{rf{14}}} But John tried to prevent him, saying, "I need to be baptized by you, and do you come to me?" {{rf{15}}} But Jesus answered and said to him, "Permit it now, for in this way it is right for us to fulfill all righteousness." Then he permitted him. {{rf{16}}} Now after he was baptized, Jesus immediately went up from the water, and behold, the heavens opened and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove coming upon him. {{rf{17}}} And behold, there was a voice from heaven saying, "This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Matthew-03-01]] }}}
3:1 [[Repent]]. Inference, the door to the Kingdom is repentance and there is no other.
3:3 see <<Bbl Ps 68:4 >>
<<Bbl Mt 3:4 abbr >> see <<Bbl 2K 1:8 >>, Elijah the Tishbite's garment. John is the last of the O.T. prophets, and his ministry of baptism should be regarded in the tradition of prophetic signs.
<<Bbl Mt 3:3 abbr >> Matthew quotes from Isaiah 40. Even the placement of this verse in Isaiah is significant, the way it divides the book.
<<Bbl Mt 3:7 abbr >> At John's baptism sins were confessed publically. This put the godless Jewish leaders in an impossible position. Jesus was less confrontational at the outset; he permitted Nicodemus.
<<Bbl Mt 3:7 abbr >> Wrath is not for this first Advent, this is the OT perspective on the day of the Lord.
<<Bbl Mt 3:7 abbr >> for other prophets it is recorded that they were spurned by the authorities but not that they were acclaimed by the masses. A unique historic circumstance for Messiah, or a difference in narrative?
<<Bbl Mt 3:7 abbr>> see <<Bbl Mt 12:34 abbr>> note.
<<Bbl Mt 3:9 abbr >> John's gospel records the Pharisees indeed saying //we have Abraham for our Father//.
<<Bbl Mt 3:9 abbr >> Johns records specific points when the Pharisees indeed said we have Abraham for our Father.
<<Bbl Mt 3:9 abbr >> The religious authorities have tremendous sins, and some are obvious to all yet never called out by none. They aren't interested in changing the arrangement, so John cannot obey God and baptize them. The elephant is no longer hidden in the livingroom.
<<Bbl Mt 3:10 abbr>> the ax is in place; it needs only to be picked up and used on the object of its energy.
<<Bbl Mt 3:12 abbr >> John is an all or nothing thinker. The Pharisees are the tree cut down and thrown into the fire, they are the ones who will be baptized with fire and who will Be chaff for burning.
<<Bbl Mt 3:12 abbr >> Winnowing is effected with wind; it is the Spirit of Holiness wha separates the righteous from the wicked.
3:14 John wishes to be baptized according to vs. 11.
3:11 See <<Bbl L 3:16 "" note >>. (Matthew leaves out the fire.)
3:15 Geerhardus Vos says Jesus is being baptized as the new Israel presented to God.
<<Bbl Mt 3:15 abbr >> The baptism and following glorification foreshadow the Christ's death and resurrection. John's protest is precisely like Peter's, //Lord this she'll never happened to you.// And the answer Jesus gave John he may well have given to Peter, permit at this time to fulfill all righteousness. No one could have expected the arrival of the Dove anymore than the final resurrection. In his baptism the ministries of John and the Christ were mutually confirmed, which was critical for what followed.
3:16 see <<Bbl J 1:32 >>-34.
<<Bbl Mt 3:17 abbr >> PS 2, Is 42. But how is Is 42 adduced from such a small phrase?
{{rf big{1}}} Then Jesus was led up into the wilderness by the Spirit to be tempted by the devil, {{rf{2}}} and after he had fasted forty days and forty nights, then he was hungry. {{rf{3}}} And the tempter approached and said to him, "If you are the Son of God, order that these stones become bread." {{rf{4}}} But he answered and said, "It is written, 'Man will not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes out of the mouth of God." {{rf{5}}} Then the devil took him to the holy city and placed him on the highest point of the temple {{rf{6}}} and said to him, "If you are the Son of God, throw yourself down! For it is written, 'He will command his angels concerning you,' and 'On their hands they will lift you up, lest you strike your foot against a stone.'" {{rf{7}}} Jesus said to him, "On the other hand it is written, 'You are not to put the Lord your God to the test.'" {{rf{8}}} Again the devil took him to a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory, {{rf{9}}} and he said to him, "I will give to you all these things, if you will fall down and worship me." {{rf{10}}} Then Jesus said to him, "Go away, Satan, for it is written, 'You shall worship the Lord your God and serve only him.'" {{rf{11}}} Then the devil left him, and behold, angels came and began ministering to him. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Matthew-04-01]] }}}
<<Bbl Mt 4:1 abbr>>-2 Has in mind the testing of Israel in the wilderness. Christ is the representative Israel, as in 2:15 and 18.
<<Bbl Mt 4:1 abbr >>-11 see <<Bbl Php 2:7 >>
<<Bbl Mt 4:3 abbr >> Harmony p 37
<<Bbl Mt 4:4 abbr >> see <<Bbl Dt 8:3 >>, <<Bbl Job 23:12 >>, <<Bbl L 4:4 >>
<<Bbl Mt 4:6 abbr>> God's truth follows in <<Bbl Mt 4:11 abbr>> so quickly following the lie.
<<Bbl Mt 4:7 abbr >> Wuest says all-out test
<<Bbl Mt 4:11 abbr >> //angels ministered to Him// -- See [[Christ-DualNature]].
<<Bbl Mt 4:16 abbr>> answering the horror of history, He begins where the northern invaders did their worst.
<<Bbl Mt 4:17 abbr>> <<Bbl Mt 4:19 abbr>> these commands have different words but are in essence the same.
<<Bbl Mt 4:19 abbr>> [[Evangelize]]. Once it hits the deck, a fish will flop around until it dies.
* Existentialism severs verse 17 from 19. Bonhoeffer was wrong. Anti-history.
* One teacher says this is the customary invitation given to a selected student.
4:22 The usual thing is for the disciple to seek out, to apply to the Master.
<<Bbl Mt 4:22 abbr>> the briefest of goodbyes. Does the father bless or curse? As I imagine it, Jesus pauses only long enough to register their acceptance and walks on; they catch up with Him before He is out of sight.
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{{rf{12}}} Now when he heard that John had been arrested, he withdrew into Galilee. {{rf{13}}} And leaving Nazareth, he went and lived in Capernaum by the sea, in the region of Zebulun and Naphtali, {{rf{14}}} in order that what was spoken by the prophet Isaiah would be fulfilled, who said, {{rf{15}}} "Land of Zebulun and land of Naphtali, toward the sea, on the other side of the Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles -- {{rf{16}}} the people who sit in darkness have seen a great light, and the ones who sit in the land and shadow of death, a light has dawned on them." {{rf{17}}} From that time on, Jesus began to preach and to say, "Repent, because the kingdom of heaven is near." {{rf{18}}} Now as he was walking beside the Sea of Galilee, he saw two brothers, Simon called Peter and his brother Andrew, throwing a casting net into the sea (for they were fishermen). {{rf{19}}} And he said to them, "Follow me and I will make you fishers of people." {{rf{20}}} And immediately they left their nets and followed him. {{rf{21}}} And going on from there, he saw two other brothers, James the son of Zebedee and his brother John, in the boat with their father Zebedee, mending their nets, and he called them. {{rf{22}}} And immediately they left the boat and their father and followed him. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Matthew-04-12]] }}}
{{rf{23}}} And he went around through all of Galilee, teaching in their synagogues and proclaiming the good news of the kingdom and healing every disease and every sickness among the people. {{rf{24}}} And a report about him went out throughout Syria, and they brought to him all those who were sick with various diseases and afflicted by torments, demon-possessed and epileptics and paralytics, and he healed them. {{rf{25}}} And large crowds followed him from Galilee, Decapolis, Jerusalem, Judea, and from the other side of the Jordan. {{rf big{1}}} Now when he saw the crowds, he went up the mountain and after he sat down, his disciples approached him. {{rf{2}}} And opening his mouth he began to teach them, saying, {{rf{3}}} "Blessed are the poor in spirit, because theirs is the kingdom of heaven. {{rf{4}}} Blessed are the ones who mourn, because they will be comforted. {{rf{5}}} Blessed are the meek, because they will inherit the earth. {{rf{6}}} Blessed are the ones who hunger and thirst for righteousness, because they will be satisfied. {{rf{7}}} Blessed are the merciful, because they will be shown mercy. {{rf{8}}} Blessed are the pure in heart, because they will see God. {{rf{9}}} Blessed are the peacemakers, because they will be called sons of God. {{rf{10}}} Blessed are those who are persecuted because of righteousness, because theirs is the kingdom of heaven. {{rf{11}}} Blessed are you when they insult you and persecute you and say all kinds of evil things against you, lying on account of me. {{rf{12}}} Rejoice and be glad, because your reward is great in heaven, for in the same way they persecuted the prophets before you. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Matthew-04-23]] }}}
<<Bbl Mt 4:15 abbr >>-16 Matthew knows well the context of <<Bbl I 9:1>>-2 (contrary to skeptics). So he connects Jesus’ ministry with Israel’s history and the relevant promises. (Craig Keener)
<<Bbl Mt 4:23 abbr >> John baptized. Jesus healed. You went to John. Jesus might come to you. Elijah, Elisha.
<<Bbl Mt 5:1 abbr >> Moses came down, Jesus went up. This was no mountain that can't be touched.
<<Bbl Mt 5:1 abbr >> ff. It is good to connect this with the preceding narrative. The teaching is for the disciples. The setting is the crowds for they offer the false and appealing prospect of popularity. The crowds are amazed, 7 28, but not converted, 7 29.
<<Bbl Mt 5:1 abbr >> he sees the crowds and deems it time to discuss the hazards of popularity. The sermon is for the disciples. The larger crowd is amazed but v28 hints they will return to //their scribes//.
<<Bbl Mt 5:3 abbr >> the marks of grace, even for the immature.
<<Bbl Mt 5:3 abbr >>-12 Note the different verb tenses.
5:3 see <<Bbl 1K 10:5 >>
Mt see <<Bbl I 61:2 >>; <<Bbl Zech 12:10 >> - 13:1.
<<Bbl Mt 5:5 abbr >> see <<Bbl Ps 37:9 >>
<<Bbl Mt 5:6 abbr >> see <<Bbl Ps 63:1 >>-5 -- who understand their utter lack of and need for righteousness.
5:7 see <<Bbl Pr 11:17 >>
<<Bbl Mt 5:8 abbr >> see <<Bbl Ps 24:3 >>, <<Bbl Ps 51:10 >>; <<Bbl H 11:27 >>, <<Bbl H 12:14 >>.
<<Bbl Mt 5:10 abbr >>-16 Best to read these as related in a paragraph.
5:10 see <<Bbl 1P 3:14 >>
<<Bbl Mt 5:11 abbr >> this forces John the Baptizer to mind.
<<Bbl Mt 5:11 abbr >> see <<Bbl 1P 2:12 >>.
<<Bbl Mt 5:12 abbr >> Every believer has a prophetic ministry.
5:13 If salt loses its flavor, what can you use to make //it// salty?
5:14-16 We make sure there is a light only where there would otherwise be darkness.
5:16 An old note, probably from Wuest, inserts //and they may glorify your Father.//
See <<Bbl 1P 2:11 >>
<<Bbl Mt 5:16 abbr >> Father is found again in <<Bbl Mt 5:48 abbr >>; these frame the discourse.
<<Bbl Mt 5:16 abbr >> not extra-extra-good deeds that make the man impressive, but God-ordained deeds that cannot be attributed to man. These are described through chapter six. It is not that you are a better person, but that your responses are different from both the pagan and the scrupulous.
{{rf{13}}} "You are the salt of the earth. But if salt becomes tasteless, by what will it be made salty? It is good for nothing any longer except to be thrown outside and trampled under foot by people. {{rf{14}}} You are the light of the world. A city located on top of a hill cannot be hidden, {{rf{15}}} nor do they light a lamp and place it under a basket, but on a lampstand, and it shines on all those in the house. {{rf{16}}} In the same way let your light shine before people, so that they can see your good works and glorify your Father who is in heaven. {{rf{17}}} "Do not think that I have come to destroy the law or the prophets. I have not come to destroy them but to fulfill them. {{rf{18}}} For truly I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not one tiny letter or one stroke of a letter will pass away from the law until all takes place. {{rf{19}}} Therefore whoever abolishes one of the least of these commandments and teaches people to do so will be called least in the kingdom of heaven, but whoever keeps them and teaches them, this person will be called great in the kingdom of heaven. {{rf{20}}} For I say to you that unless your righteousness greatly surpasses that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will never enter into the kingdom of heaven. {{rf{21}}} "You have heard that it was said to the people of old, 'Do not commit murder,' and 'whoever commits murder will be subject to judgment.' {{rf{22}}} But I say to you that everyone who is angry at his brother will be subject to judgment, and whoever says to his brother, 'Stupid fool!' will be subject to the council, and whoever says, 'Obstinate fool!' will be subject to fiery hell. {{rf{23}}} Therefore if you present your gift at the altar and there remember that your brother has something against you, {{rf{24}}} leave your gift there before the altar and first go be reconciled to your brother, and then come and present your gift. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Matthew-05-13]] }}}
<<Bbl Mt 5:17 abbr>> uses the phrase the law and the prophets to open a section that concludes at <<Bbl Mt 7:12 abbr>> with the same phrase.
<<Bbl Mt 5:19 abbr >> //annul// means to deprive of authority.
5:20 Only understood with the preceding 5:19.
As Christ reviews the more subtle aspects of sin, it is in the context of the Pharisees. Everyone present can recall just having seen one of these religious authorities call someone a fool, leer at a woman; and chapter six re-emphasizes this targeted denunciation.
5:21 court -- the local assembly.
<<Bbl Mt 5:22 abbr >> <<Bbl 1J 3:15 >>. Supreme Court -- the Sanhedrin. <<Bbl Gn 4:5 >>
<<Bbl Mt 5:23 abbr>> this is a sin offering, but no propitiation without reconciliation.
5:23 see <<Bbl Mk 11:25 >>
<<Bbl Mt 5:23 abbr >>-24 A violation of this is among those temptations that Christ has overcome in His own conduct.
5:25 a parallelism with the two preceding verses.
5:28 //Looks with lust// is perplexing as it means //gazes so as to incite lust.// Philip Jensen takes it merely as flirting. The word for //woman// does not denote a married woman. [[Lust]] Translations differ on the English verb for eye removal, but we think it doesn't matter much whether you go with //pluck// or //gouge//.
5:30 see <<Bbl Ecc 4:6 >> (pretty interesting, heh?)
The teaching on divorce should not be separated from adultery; I think it's not a heading of its own.
5:32 In the case of her unchastity, it could not be said that he makes her commit adultery.
<<Bbl Mt 5:37 abbr >> This does not mean to oversimplify. It means to let your outer person agree with your inner person.
5:38 <<Bbl Lv 24:17 >>-21: //Lex talionis// was intended to limit retribution, but by now had been reinterpreted to condone retribution. Jesus, however, declares that we must renounce a sense of personal rights. Retribution (but not self-defense) is disallowed.
<<Bbl Mt 5:39 abbr>> I say unto you... Are you dominating me? I'll show you how free I am.
5:43 The provision for hating your enemy is NOT found in the Law!
5:45 see <<Bbl Ps 136:25 >>, <<Bbl Ps 145:9 >>; <<Bbl L 6:35 >>
<<Bbl Mt 5:46 abbr >> This is the term agape.
<<Bbl Mt 5:48 abbr >> closes what <<Bbl Mt 5:16 abbr >> began.
5:48 Wuest translates perfect as "complete in character." You are to fulfill the purposes for which you were created. Cf <<Bbl Mt 19:21 >>
{{rf{25}}} Settle the case quickly with your accuser while you are with him on the way, lest your accuser hand you over to the judge, and the judge to the officer, and you be thrown into prison. {{rf{26}}} Truly I say to you, you will never come out of there until you have paid back the last penny! {{rf{27}}} "You have heard that it was said, 'Do not commit adultery.' {{rf{28}}} But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman to lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart. {{rf{29}}} And if your right eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it from you! For it is better for you that one of your members be destroyed than your whole body be thrown into hell. {{rf{30}}} And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it from you! For it is better for you that one of your limbs be destroyed than your whole body go into hell. {{rf{31}}} "And it was said, 'Whoever divorces his wife must give her a certificate of divorce.' {{rf{32}}} But I say to you that everyone who divorces his wife, except for a matter of sexual immorality, causes her to commit adultery, and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery. {{rf{33}}} "Again you have heard that it was said to the people of old, 'Do not swear falsely, but fulfill your oaths to the Lord.' {{rf{34}}} But I say to you, do not swear at all, either by heaven, because it is the throne of God, {{rf{35}}} or by the earth, because it is the footstool of his feet, or by Jerusalem, because it is the city of the great king. {{rf{36}}} And do not swear by your head, because you are not able to make one hair white or black. {{rf{37}}} But let your statement be 'Yes, yes; no, no,' and anything beyond these is from the evil one. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Matthew-05-25]] }}}
{{rf{38}}} "You have heard that it was said, 'An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.' {{rf{39}}} But I say to you, do not resist the evildoer, but whoever strikes you on the right cheek, turn the other to him also. {{rf{40}}} And the one who wants to go to court with you and take your tunic, let him have your outer garment also. {{rf{41}}} And whoever forces you to go one mile, go with him two. {{rf{42}}} Give to the one who asks you, and do not turn away from the one who wants to borrow from you. {{rf{43}}} "You have heard that it was said, 'Love your neighbor' and 'Hate your enemy.' {{rf{44}}} But I say to you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, {{rf{45}}} in order that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven, because he causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and he sends rain on the just and the unjust. {{rf{46}}} For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Do not the tax collectors also do the same? {{rf{47}}} And if you greet only your brothers, what are you doing that is remarkable? Do not the Gentiles also do the same? {{rf{48}}} Therefore you be perfect as your heavenly Father is perfect. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Matthew-05-38]] }}}
"And take care not to practice your righteousness before people to be seen by them; otherwise you have no reward from your Father who is in heaven. {{rf{2}}} Therefore whenever you practice charitable giving, do not sound a trumpet in front of you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, in order that they may be praised by people. Truly I say to you, they have received their reward in full! {{rf{3}}} But you, when you practice charitable giving, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, {{rf{4}}} in order that your charitable giving may be in secret, and your Father who sees in secret will reward you. {{rf{5}}}
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And whenever you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, because they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and on the corners of the streets, in order that they may be seen by people. Truly I say to you, they have received their reward in full! {{rf{6}}} But whenever you pray, enter into your inner room and shut your door and pray to your Father who is in secret, and your Father who sees in secret will reward you. {{rf{7}}} But when you pray, do not babble repetitiously like the pagans, for they think that because of their many words they will be heard. {{rf{8}}} Therefore do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask him. {{rf{9}}} Therefore you pray in this way:
. 'Our Father who is in heaven, may your name be treated as holy.
. 10 May your kingdom come, may your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
. 11 Give us today our daily bread, and forgive us our debts,
. as we also have forgiven our debtors.
. 13 And do not bring us into temptation,
. but deliver us from the evil one.'
{{rf{14}}} For if you forgive people their sins, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. {{rf{15}}} But if you do not forgive people, neither will your Father forgive your sins." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Matthew-06-01]] }}}
{{fyi{
In vss 6 through 14, Jesus begins with use the singular pronoun //you// to emphasize a personal, cherished relationship which precludes public posturing. His model for prayer uses the plural //our//. In sum, we learn that prayer is communal, both in typical practice ("Let us pray") and in spirit ("There I am with you"). As we pray corporately, God sees us together and also individually; both relationships are "seen in secret".
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<<Bbl Mt 6:3 abbr>> not meaning carelessness! But secrecy and a trust in God to keep true records without any help. "Love does not seek its own."
<<Bbl Mt 6:9 abbr>> "May Your name always be regarded as holy."
* Mike Reed says that the placement of the model prayer in the center of sermon discourse indicates its importance as central ("semitic inclusion", or chiasmus). (This may be related to an observation on Mark's style, <<Bbl Mk 01:00 "" note >>.)
* The prayer comes in two sets of three. The first set declares what must be, God's agenda on earth. The second petitions for my needs: which all signals that His mundane provision for me is a reflection of His cosmic program. Small I am, but in and by Christ's prayer I am held in solidarity by creation's King.
<<Bbl Mt 6:11 abbr >> The earthiness of //daily bread// is an arresting contrast; it confirms the earthiness of our Lord Jesus. In the history of modern understanding, this phrase is fascinating - see E. Peterson's __Eat This Book__. Peterson's interpretation of //daily// is "fresh-baked".
<<Bbl Mt 6:13 abbr >>a The //temptation// is to refuse the implied injunction of v 12b. This is shown first because it is the only injunction (implied) in the prayer. And second because v 14 is a sequel to v 12.
6:13 May I trust God to deliver me from evil. I think it is the hardest for me (2023).
<<Bbl Mt 6:17 abbr >> And be cheerful, implies v 16.
{{fyi{
//Their own reward// means the reward that fits their value system. The Pharisees want this reward and none other, and they receive it without delay.
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{{rf{16}}} "Whenever you fast, do not be sullen like the hypocrites, for they make their faces unrecognizable in order that they may be seen fasting by people. Truly I say to you, they have received their reward in full! {{rf{17}}} But when you are fasting, put olive oil on your head and wash your face {{rf{18}}} so that you will not be seen by people as fasting, but to your Father who is in secret, and your Father who sees in secret will reward you. {{rf{19}}} "Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and consuming insect destroy and where thieves break in and steal, {{rf{20}}} but store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor consuming insect destroy and where thieves do not break in or steal. {{rf{21}}} For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. {{rf{22}}} "The eye is the lamp of the body. Therefore if your eye is sincere, your whole body will be full of light. {{rf{23}}} But if your eye is evil, your whole body will be dark. Therefore if the light in you is darkness, how great is the darkness! {{rf{24}}} "No one is able to serve two masters. For either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You are not able to serve God and money. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Matthew-06-16]] }}}
<<Bbl Mt 6:19 abbr >> We think we are hearing advice about treasure. It turns out our definition of treasure - our value system - is the topic, and the stakes are higher than we assumed.
<<Bbl Mt 6:19 abbr >>-20. Descriptions of earth (moths, rust, thieves) and heaven.
<<Bbl Mt 6:19 abbr >>ff You do not want your heart to be subject to these hazards,: theft, decay.
6:20-21 -- where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. This seems to state the idea that money can be person's god -- that materialism can be religious in the theological sense. Cf <<Bbl Col 3:1 >>; <<Bbl Jms 5:2 >>-3 .
<<Bbl Mt 6:22 abbr >>-23 clear, bad -- the KJV says single and not single. Cf <<Bbl Ps 86:11 >>; <<Bbl Pr 20:27 >>; <<Bbl L 10:41 >>
<<Bbl Mt 6:22 abbr >> The eye is the assessor, the appraiser; the treasure of v 21, while the body corresponds with the heart.
<<Bbl Mt 6:23 abbr >> The strong dichotomy was introduced in v 19 (really the theme of the sermon), reinforced in 23b, and consummated in 24.
<<Bbl Mt 6:24 abbr >> Perhaps not best imagined as two competing contracts, but two bosses vying within the same household.
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A No one can serve two masters;
B for either he will hate the one
C and love the other,
C′ or he will be devoted to one
B′ and despise the other.
A′ You cannot serve God and wealth.
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<<Bbl Mt 6:25 abbr >>b How is //life more than food//? <<Bbl Dt 8:3 >>. How is //the body more than clothing//? <<Bbl Gn 2:25 >>.
6:25 If you worry about the things of the world, you are serving the world and the flesh. This is an antidote for discontent as well as worry.
6:26 see 12:12
<<Bbl Mt 6:32 abbr >> pagans indeed run after these things - take a look in any magazine.
6:33 see <<Bbl Pr 3:1 >>-2
<<Bbl Mt 6:34 abbr >> "If you can make it through the next twenty-four hours with me, that will be an accomplishment enough."
{{rf{25}}} "For this reason I say to you, do not be anxious for your life, what you will eat, and not for your body, what you will wear. Is your life not more than food and your body more than clothing? {{rf{26}}} Consider the birds of the sky, that they do not sow or reap or gather produce into barns, and your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not worth more than they are? {{rf{27}}} And who among you, by being anxious, is able to add one hour to his life span? {{rf{28}}} And why are you anxious about clothing? Observe the lilies of the field, how they grow: they do not toil or spin, {{rf{29}}} but I say to you that not even Solomon in all his glory was dressed like one of these. {{rf{30}}} But if God dresses the grass of the field in this way, although it is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will he not do so much more for you, you of little faith? {{rf{31}}} Therefore do not be anxious, saying, 'What will we eat?' or 'What will we drink?' or 'What will we wear?,' {{rf{32}}} for the pagans seek after all these things. For your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. {{rf{33}}} But seek first his kingdom and righteousness, and all these things will be added to you. {{rf{34}}} Therefore do not be anxious for tomorrow, because tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Matthew-06-25]] }}}
"Do not judge, so that you will not be judged. {{rf{2}}} For by what judgment you judge, you will be judged, and by what measure you measure out, it will be measured out to you. {{rf{3}}} And why do you see the speck that is in your brother's eye, but do not notice the beam of wood in your own eye? {{rf{4}}} Or how will you say to your brother, 'Allow me to remove the speck from your eye,' and behold, the beam of wood is in your own eye? {{rf{5}}} Hypocrite! First remove the beam of wood from your own eye and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother's eye! {{rf{6}}} "Do not give what is holy to dogs, or throw your pearls in front of pigs, lest they trample them with their feet, and turn around and tear you to pieces. {{rf{7}}} "Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and it will be opened for you. {{rf{8}}} For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened. {{rf{9}}} Or what man is there among you, if his son will ask him for bread, will give him a stone? {{rf{10}}} Or also if he will ask for a fish, will give him a snake? {{rf{11}}} Therefore if you, although you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him? {{rf{12}}} Therefore in all things, whatever you want that people should do to you, thus also you do to them. For this is the law and the prophets. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Matthew-07-01]] }}}
7:1 Judging in the wholesome sense is a prime responsibility of God's child; so this must be read as against judging //falsely.//
<<Bbl Mt 7:2 abbr>> See <<Bbl L 6:37 >>-38 .
7:2 If we assess rightly, we also will be assessed rightly ([[Judge]]). The Greek has a lovely alliteration.
7:5 The //hypocrite// seeks to aid his brother while he is in no better condition -- rather, much worse. But the warning isn't to make us withhold aid, for who wouldn't want help with a speck in one's eye. The idea of //felt need// seems important. We feel it when we have a speck in the eye; but this hypocrite doesn't feel the problem of his own problem.
<<Bbl Mt 7:6 abbr>> The principle is one of holiness. Yet Jesus speaks not of holiness but of danger.
<<Bbl Mt 7:6 abbr>> The two parts develop the warning along two different lines. (no chiasmus.)
<<Bbl Mt 7:7 abbr>> here is the comfort following such unfamiliar and demanding instruction.
7:9 My friend's puzzle is this: //I come from an abusive family. It doesn't seem to me that I got good gifts from my messed-up parents, so how can I expect differently from God?//
//More:// +++
//Furthermore, why would Jesus think I should expect differently -- am I not meeting His expectations? While we're on it, doesn't He know there are such messed up families out there?//
* Rationally, this doesn't seem to stand up. In literal terms, did you ask for a piece of bread and were you then given a rock? No. But the abused sees it that way. //Well, it wasn't enough.//
* Rationally, I think we can say Jesus didn't deny there are very abusive families. He says //you, being evil//; and we can imagine a very evil person indeed who is nonetheless capable of giving out some food on request. Again, the abused seems immune to this reasoning.
* This is an argument from the general.
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<<Bbl Mt 7:11 abbr >>-12 In earthly parenting there is a modicum of good; this indicates in God a consummate good; therefore in your own relationships, offer consummate good. The Golden Rule lets you determine what that is.
<<Bbl Mt 7:12 abbr >> //Therefore// -- the Divine motive and enablement for the Golden Rule.
<<Bbl Mt 7:13 abbr >> The first [[Road]] is the sort famously made by the Roman empire. Perhaps //gate// even refers to a triumphal arch. The second road is narrow, a trail in the hills. It is not unmarked or indecipherable; it is merely unpopular, so "few find it."
* God says, "It's My way or the highway" (Melisa)
* Countless Bible readers have been confused by the expression, "straight and narrow," which is a misreading of the KJV, "strait is the gate, and narrow is the way." (In geography, a //strait// is narrow and not necessarily "straight".) Jesus is not saying that His [[Path]] is a tightrope, hazardous, usable only by a skilled athlete.
<<Bbl Mt 7:13 abbr >>-27 is a unit and faintly chiastic. V 15 is resolved in v 23.
<<Bbl Mt 7:13 abbr>> to <<Bbl Mt 7:27 abbr>> must be read as a unit.
<<Bbl Mt 7:14 abbr >> Humility, Obedience
<<Bbl Mt 7:16 abbr >> The goal is to avoid the thorn. The means is to look for the wholesome fruit.
<<Bbl Mt 7:20 abbr >> God not only assesses the evil worker but He gives us the means of appraisal for ourselves. The fruit has already been described.
<<Bbl Mt 7:22 abbr >> is the sheep's clothing of v 15.
<<Bbl Mt 7:22 abbr>> requires the immediate context.
7:22 Using the Lord's name in vain?
<<Bbl Mt 7:24 abbr >> //acts// refers to v 21b.
7:24 see <<Bbl Pr 10:8 >>; <<Bbl 1C 3:11 >>
<<Bbl Mt 7:27 abbr >> Rain: roof. [[Wind]]: walls. floods: [[Found]]. The [[Storm]] brings [[Test]] in every aspect.
{{rf{13}}} "Enter through the narrow gate, because broad is the gate and spacious is the road that leads to destruction, and there are many who enter through it, {{rf{14}}} because narrow is the gate and constricted is the road that leads to life, and there are few who find it! {{rf{15}}} "Beware of false prophets who come to you in sheep's clothing, but inside are ravenous wolves. {{rf{16}}} You will recognize them by their fruits: they do not gather grapes from thorn bushes or figs from thistles, do they? {{rf{17}}} In the same way, every good tree produces good fruit, but a bad tree produces bad fruit. {{rf{18}}} A good tree is not able to produce bad fruit, nor a bad tree to produce good fruit. {{rf{19}}} Every tree that does not produce good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. {{rf{20}}} As a result, you will recognize them by their fruits. {{rf{21}}} "Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter into the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. {{rf{22}}} On that day many will say to me, 'Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and expel demons in your name, and perform many miracles in your name?' {{rf{23}}} And then I will say to them plainly, 'I never knew you. Depart from me, you who practice lawlessness!' {{rf{24}}} "Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and does them will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock. {{rf{25}}} And the rain came down and the rivers came and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it did not collapse, because its foundation was laid on the rock. {{rf{26}}} And everyone who hears these words of mine and does not do them will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand. {{rf{27}}} And the rain came down and the rivers came and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it collapsed, and its fall was great." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Matthew-07-13]] }}}
{{rf{28}}} And it happened when Jesus finished these words the crowds were amazed at his teaching, {{rf{29}}} because he was teaching them like one who had authority, and not like their scribes. {{rf big{1}}} And when he came down from the mountain, large crowds followed him. {{rf{2}}} And behold, a leper approached and worshiped him, saying, "Lord, if you are willing, you are able to make me clean." {{rf{3}}} And extending his hand he touched him, saying, "I am willing, be clean." And immediately his leprosy was cleansed. {{rf{4}}} And Jesus said to him, "See that you tell no one, but go, show yourself to the priest and offer the gift that Moses commanded, for a testimony to them." {{rf{5}}} Now when he entered Capernaum, a centurion approached him, appealing to him {{rf{6}}} and saying, "Lord, my slave is lying paralyzed in my house, terribly tormented!" {{rf{7}}} And he said to him, "I will come and heal him." {{rf{8}}} And the centurion answered and said, "Lord, I am not worthy that you should come in under my roof. But only say the word and my slave will be healed. {{rf{9}}} For I also am a man under authority who has soldiers under me, and I say to this one, 'Go!' and he goes, and to another one, 'Come!' and he comes, and to my slave, 'Do this!' and he does it." {{rf{10}}} Now when Jesus heard this, he was astonished, and said to those who were following him, "Truly I say to you, I have found such great faith with no one in Israel. {{rf{11}}} But I say to you that many will come from east and west and be seated at the banquet with Abraham and Isaac and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven. {{rf{12}}} But the sons of the kingdom will be thrown out into the outer darkness. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth!" {{rf{13}}} And Jesus said to the centurion, "Go, as you have believed it will be done for you." And the slave was healed at that hour. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Matthew-07-28]] }}}
<<Bbl Mt 7:28 abbr>> the crowds were amazed but not all were edified.
<<Bbl Mt 7:29 abbr>> //but I say to you//
<<Bbl Mt 8:9 abbr>> ref <<Bbl Mt 9:34 abbr>>
8:11 Why from east and west, and not north and south? Because only the wasteland and the sea are found elsewhere.
8:13 //done to you// includes the promise of vs. 11.
8:15 How Jesus obtains service without compulsion. Wuest says she served them a meal.
8:20 see 1Chrn 17:5; <<Bbl 2S 15:13 >>-21
<<Bbl Mt 8:21 abbr >> See <<Bbl L 9:59 "" note >>
<<Bbl Mt 8:25 abbr >> With God aboard, how likely were they to perish?
8:26-27 The weather was calmed, but were the men? Jesus presumably returned to His sleep.
8:34 I always had assumed that the Gadarenes hated God. A comparison with <<Bbl L 5:8 >> shows this may not be so. When Christ is reviled, it could be the early sign of God-given fear.
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9:2-6 Kingdom proclamation ''and'' healing power.
<<Bbl Mt 9:2 abbr >>-6 Which is more falsifiable? You choose; I'll do that one. This is the essence of Messiah's ministry: a heavenly intervention that will be contested, supported by sign-acts that cannot be denied, suppressed or controverted.
9:6 see vs. 8
9:8 see vs. 6 -- authority from God to heal and to forgive sins, the same authority that is now ours. Also <<Bbl Mt 10:1 abbr >>.
9:10 Description of a healthy church.
<<Bbl Mt 9:10 abbr >> Matthew needs the defense of Jesus. //Go and learn// - a scathing reproof
<<Bbl Mt 9:13 abbr >> How could he have come to call the righteous, since there were none? But He alone sees the irony, that the true word is self-righteous.
<<Bbl Mt 9:14 abbr >> Interesting that John's disciples class themselves with the Pharisees. Compare Luke's account. Maybe the point is even we-and-them agree on this point. Vss 16-17 also would seem to class the two different camps together - both must transform their understanding.
<<Bbl Mt 9:15 abbr >> A little hint: the path to world dominion is not straightforward.
<<Bbl Mt 9:16 abbr >>-17 see <<Bbl Job 32:19 >>; <<Bbl 2C 5:17 >>. A wineskin is made of leather, for which something dies.
<<Bbl Mt 9:16 abbr >> How about a whole new garment?
9:34 see <<Bbl Mt 12:24 abbr >>, <<Bbl Mt 8:9 abbr>>
<<Bbl Mt 9:35 abbr >> ref <<Bbl Mt 10:25 abbr >>.
<<Bbl Mt 9:36 abbr>> so also Satan (that prince of demons, v 34) viewed the people. The words used to describe the sheep are shepherding terms; harassed refers to wolves.
{{rf{14}}} And when Jesus came into Peter's house, he saw his mother-in-law lying down and suffering with a fever. {{rf{15}}} And he touched her hand and the fever left her, and she got up and began to serve him. {{rf{16}}} Now when it was evening, they brought to him many who were demon-possessed, and he expelled the spirits with a word. And he healed all those who were sick, {{rf{17}}} in order that what was spoken through the prophet Isaiah would be fulfilled, who said, "He himself took away our sicknesses, and carried away our diseases." {{rf{18}}} Now when Jesus saw many crowds around him, he gave orders to depart to the other side. {{rf{19}}} And a scribe approached and said to him, "Teacher, I will follow you wherever you go!" {{rf{20}}} And Jesus said to him, "Foxes have dens and birds of the sky have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay his head." {{rf{21}}} And another of the disciples said to him, "Lord, allow me first to go and bury my father." {{rf{22}}} But Jesus said to him, "Follow me, and leave the dead to bury their own dead!" {{rf{23}}} And as he got into the boat, his disciples followed him. {{rf{24}}} And behold, a great storm arose on the sea, so that the boat was being inundated by the waves, but he himself was asleep. {{rf{25}}} And they came and woke him, saying, "Lord, save us! We are perishing!" {{rf{26}}} And he said to them, "Why are you fearful, you of little faith?" Then he got up and rebuked the winds and the sea and there was a great calm. {{rf{27}}} And the men were astonished, saying, "What sort of man is this, that even the winds and the sea obey him?" {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Matthew-08-14]] }}}
{{rf{28}}} And when he came to the other side, to the region of the Gadarenes, two demon-possessed men coming from among the tombs met him, very violent, so that no one was able to pass by along that road. {{rf{29}}} And behold, they cried out, saying, "What do you have to do with us, Son of God? Have you come here to torment us before the time?" {{rf{30}}} Now a long way from them a large herd of pigs was feeding. {{rf{31}}} So the demons implored him, saying, "If you are going to expel us, send us into the herd of pigs." {{rf{32}}} And he said to them, "Go!" So they departed and went into the pigs, and behold, the whole herd rushed headlong down the steep slope into the sea and drowned in the water. {{rf{33}}} Now the herdsmen fled and went into the town and reported everything, including the things concerning the demon-possessed men. {{rf{34}}} And behold, the whole town came out to meet Jesus, and when they saw him, they implored him that he would depart from their region. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Matthew-08-28]] }}}
And getting into a boat, he crossed over and came to his own town. {{rf{2}}} And behold, they brought to him a paralytic lying on a stretcher, and when Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralytic, "Have courage, child, your sins are forgiven." {{rf{3}}} And behold, some of the scribes said to themselves, "This man is blaspheming!" {{rf{4}}} And knowing their thoughts, Jesus said, "Why do you think evil in your hearts? {{rf{5}}} For which is easier to say, 'Your sins are forgiven,' or to say, 'Get up and walk'? {{rf{6}}} But in order that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins," then he said to the paralytic, "Get up, pick up your stretcher and go to your home." {{rf{7}}} And he got up and went to his home. {{rf{8}}} But when the crowds saw this, they were afraid and glorified God who had given such authority to men. {{rf{9}}} And as Jesus was going away from there, he saw a man called Matthew sitting at the tax booth and said to him, "Follow me!" And he stood up and followed him. {{rf{10}}} And it happened as he was dining in the house, behold, many tax collectors and sinners were coming and dining with Jesus and his disciples. {{rf{11}}} And when they saw it, the Pharisees began to say to his disciples, "Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?" {{rf{12}}} And when he heard it, he said, "Those who are healthy do not have need of a physician, but those who are sick. {{rf{13}}} But go and learn what it means, "I want mercy and not sacrifice." For I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Matthew-09-01]] }}}
{{rf{14}}} Then the disciples of John approached him, saying, "Why do we and the Pharisees fast often, but your disciples do not fast?" {{rf{15}}} And Jesus said to them, "The bridegroom's attendants are not able to mourn as long as the bridegroom is with them. But days are coming when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and then they will fast. {{rf{16}}} But no one puts a patch of unshrunken cloth on an old garment, for its patch pulls away from the garment, and the tear becomes worse. {{rf{17}}} Nor do they put new wine into old wineskins. Otherwise the wineskins burst and the wine is spilled, and the wineskins are destroyed. But they put new wine into new wineskins and both are preserved." {{rf{18}}} As he was saying these things to them, behold, one of the rulers came and knelt down before him, saying, "My daughter has just now died, but come, place your hand on her and she will live!" {{rf{19}}} And Jesus and his disciples got up and followed him. {{rf{20}}} And behold, a woman who had been suffering with a hemorrhage twelve years approached from behind and touched the edge of his cloak, {{rf{21}}} for she said to herself, "If only I touch his cloak I will be healed." {{rf{22}}} But Jesus, turning around and seeing her, said, "Have courage, daughter! Your faith has healed you." And the woman was healed from that hour. {{rf{23}}} And when Jesus came into the ruler's house and saw the flute players and the disorderly crowd, {{rf{24}}} he said, "Go away, because the girl is not dead, but is sleeping." And they ridiculed him. {{rf{25}}} But when the crowd had been sent out, he entered and took her hand, and the girl got up. {{rf{26}}} And this report went out into that whole region. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Matthew-09-14]] }}}
{{rf{27}}} And as Jesus was going away from there, two blind men followed him, crying out and saying, "Have mercy on us, Son of David!" {{rf{28}}} And when he came into the house, the blind men approached him, and Jesus said to them, "Do you believe that I am able to do this?" They said to him, "Yes, Lord." {{rf{29}}} Then he touched their eyes, saying, "According to your faith let it be done for you." {{rf{30}}} And their eyes were opened, and Jesus sternly warned them, saying, "See that no one finds out." {{rf{31}}} But they went out and spread the report about him in that whole region. {{rf{32}}} Now as they were going away, behold, they brought to him a demon-possessed man who was unable to speak. {{rf{33}}} And after the demon had been expelled, the one who had been mute spoke, and the crowds were astonished, saying, "This has never been seen before in Israel!" {{rf{34}}} But the Pharisees were saying, "By the ruler of demons he expels the demons!" {{rf{35}}} And Jesus was going around all the towns and the villages, teaching in their synagogues and proclaiming the good news of the kingdom and healing every disease and every sickness. {{rf{36}}} And when he saw the crowds, he had compassion for them, because they were weary and dejected, like sheep that did not have a shepherd. {{rf{37}}} Then he said to his disciples, "The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. {{rf{38}}} Therefore ask the Lord of the harvest that he send out workers into his harvest." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Matthew-09-27]] }}}
And summoning his twelve disciples, he gave them authority over unclean spirits, so that they could expel them and could heal every disease and every sickness. {{rf{2}}} Now these are the names of the twelve apostles: first Simon who is called Peter, and Andrew his brother, James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother, {{rf{3}}} Philip, and Bartholomew, Thomas, and Matthew the tax collector, James the son of Alphaeus, and Thaddaeus, {{rf{4}}} Simon the Zealot, and Judas Iscariot -- the one who also betrayed him. {{rf{5}}} Jesus sent out these twelve, instructing them saying, "Do not go on the road to the Gentiles, and do not enter into a city of the Samaritans, {{rf{6}}} but go instead to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. {{rf{7}}} And as you are going, preach, saying, 'The kingdom of heaven has come near!' {{rf{8}}} Heal those who are sick, raise the dead, cleanse lepers, expel demons. Freely you have received; freely give. {{rf{9}}} Do not procure gold or silver or copper for your belts. {{rf{10}}} Do not take a traveler's bag for the road, or two tunics, or sandals, or a staff, for the worker is deserving of his provisions. {{rf{11}}} And into whatever town or village you enter, inquire who in it is worthy, and stay there until you depart. {{rf{12}}} And when you enter into the house, greet it. {{rf{13}}} And if the house is worthy, let your peace come upon it, but if it is not worthy, let your peace return to you. {{rf{14}}} And whoever does not welcome you or listen to your words, shake off the dust from your feet as you are going out of that house or that town. {{rf{15}}} Truly I say to you, it will be more bearable for the region of Sodom and Gomorrah on the day of judgment than for that town! {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Matthew-10-01]] }}}
<<Bbl Mt 10:1 abbr >> See <<Bbl Mt 9:8 abbr >>.
<<Bbl Mt 10:6 abbr >> Reference to Jews, and unlike <<Bbl L 10:3 >>.
<<Bbl Mt 10:6 abbr>> I wonder what how people understood His phrase //lost sheep of Israel//.
10:7-10 Supernatural proclamation, power, provision (the pay schedule won't be the usual).
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<<Bbl Mt 10:9 abbr >>-13a is amplified in <<Bbl Mt 10:39 abbr >>-42.
<<Bbl Mt 10:13 abbr >>b-14 is amplified in <<Bbl Mt 10:17 abbr >>-38.
<<Bbl Mt 10:13 abbr>>a finds a sequel in <<Bbl Mt 10:42 abbr >>.
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<<Bbl Mt 10:10 abbr >>-11 //Worthy// is repeated, as host meets guest. The reward of the guest's worth is the daily provision. The reward of the host is mentioned in <<Bbl Mt 10:42 >>. The basis for "support ministry." You are commissioned and therefore you will be enabled. Neither the commissioning nor the enabling resemble anything on earth.
<<Bbl Mt 10:14 abbr >>-15 What power and responsibility of Judgment.
<<Bbl Mt 10:14 abbr >>-15, 40. It's not an arbitrary or contrived test. No, it's as simple as Good had come to your door.
<<Bbl Mt 10:14 abbr >> To your own family home must this standard be applied.
<<Bbl Mt 10:15 abbr >> Rhetoric.
<<Bbl Mt 10:15 abbr >> Stages of judgment for Sodom. 1 the hardened spirit. 2 the rain of fire. 3 the day of [[Judge]]
<<Bbl Mt 10:17 abbr >> See <<Bbl Mt 10:28 abbr >>
<<Bbl Mt 10:17 abbr >>-18 You will witness to the Jews (v 5), who will contest you in the synagogue, and after time will hand you over to the court where you will witness to the Gentiles. Nowhere found in the gospels, but gloriously in Acts.
<<Bbl Mt 10:19 abbr >> Fear not: God is in charge of your testimony.
<<Bbl Mt 10:19 abbr >> Mothers have a "nesting instinct". Verses 16-18 present the loss of every nest.
<<Bbl Mt 10:19 abbr >>-20 See <<Bbl J 16:13 0 note >>
<<Bbl Mt 10:19 abbr >> see <<Bbl Mt 23:34 >>
10:20 See <<Bbl J 16:13 >>.
{{rf{16}}} "Behold, I am sending you out like sheep in the midst of wolves. Therefore be wise as serpents and innocent as doves. {{rf{17}}} But beware of people, because they will hand you over to councils, and they will flog you in their synagogues. {{rf{18}}} And you will be brought before both governors and kings because of me, for a witness to them and to the Gentiles. {{rf{19}}} But whenever they hand you over, do not be anxious how to speak or what you should say, for what you should say will be given to you at that hour. {{rf{20}}} For you are not the ones who are speaking, but the Spirit of your Father who is speaking through you. {{rf{21}}} "And brother will hand over brother to death, and a father his children, and children will rise up against parents and have them put to death, {{rf{22}}} and you will be hated by everyone because of my name. But the one who endures to the end -- this one will be saved. {{rf{23}}} And whenever they persecute you in this town, flee to another, for truly I say to you, you will never finish going through the towns of Israel until the Son of Man comes. {{rf{24}}} "A disciple is not superior to his teacher, nor a slave superior to his master. {{rf{25}}} It is enough for the disciple that he become like his teacher, and the slave like his master. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebul, how much more the members of his household? {{rf{26}}} "Therefore do not be afraid of them, because nothing is hidden that will not be revealed, and nothing secret that will not become known. {{rf{27}}} What I say to you in the dark, tell in the light, and what you hear in your ear, proclaim on the housetops. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Matthew-10-16]] }}}
10:24 see <<Bbl 1J 3:2 >>.
<<Bbl Mt 10:25 abbr >> insert exactly .
<<Bbl Mt 10:25 abbr >> See<<Bbl Mt 9:35 abbr >>
<<Bbl Mt 10:25 abbr >>b ref <<Bbl Lk 12:1 >> (context following)
<<Bbl Mt 10:26 abbr >> Fear not: the truth will out. This applies to the positive truth of the Gospel as well as discoveries of deceit and sin.
<<Bbl Mt 10:28 abbr >> See <<Bbl Mt 10:17 abbr >>
<<Bbl Mt 10:28 abbr >> Fear not: the power of your enemy is limited.
<<Bbl Mt 10:31 abbr >> Fear not: God sees and cares for you.
<<Bbl Mt 10:33 abbr >> This should not be applied to every bout of cowardice.
<<Bbl Mt 10:34 abbr >>-39 "I am worth having a conflict over - even to death.". Family division is early and painful, but a token of the larger division.
10:41
* <<Bbl Ez 14:10 >>.
* <<Bbl Mt 10:42 abbr >>
* <<Bbl Mt 10:13 abbr >>
* <<Bbl Mt 25:40 abbr >>
* Meaning, who receives one of these laborers (little ones) in the name of a disciple of the Lord (v 40) and serves him accordingly (v 11).
* About structure, <<Bbl Mt 10:9 "" note >>
* Similarly, <<Bbl Mt 18:5 >>. (Should this reference be to Genesis?)
* //Cold// water - a piquant description. Cold is distinct from tepid (<<Bbl Rev 3:16>>), so the idea must be an extra measure of hospitality. @@color:navy;To do the very smallest kindness to the very humblest disciple because he is a disciple, shall not fail of reward.@@ //Broadus//
{{rf{28}}} And do not be afraid of those who kill the body but are not able to kill the soul, but instead be afraid of the one who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. {{rf{29}}} Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? And one of them will not fall to the ground without the knowledge and consent of your Father. {{rf{30}}} And even the hairs of your head are all numbered! {{rf{31}}} Therefore do not be afraid; you are worth more than many sparrows. {{rf{32}}} "Therefore everyone who acknowledges me before people, I also will acknowledge him before my Father who is in heaven. {{rf{33}}} But whoever denies me before people, I also will deny him before my Father who is in heaven. {{rf{34}}} "Do not think that I have come to bring peace on the earth! I have not come to bring peace, but a sword. {{rf{35}}} For I have come to turn a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. {{rf{36}}} And the enemies of a man will be the members of his household. {{rf{37}}} The one who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and the one who loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me. {{rf{38}}} And whoever does not take up his cross and follow me is not worthy of me. {{rf{39}}} The one who finds his life will lose it, and the one who loses his life because of me will find it. {{rf{40}}} "The one who receives you receives me, and the one who receives me receives the one who sent me. {{rf{41}}} The one who receives a prophet in the name of a prophet will receive a prophet's reward, and the one who receives a righteous person in the name of a righteous person will receive a righteous person's reward. {{rf{42}}} And whoever gives one of these little ones only a cup of cold water to drink in the name of a disciple, truly I say to you, he will never lose his reward." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Matthew-10-28]] }}}
{{rf{1}}} And it happened that when Jesus had finished giving orders to his twelve disciples, he went on from there to teach and to preach in their towns. {{rf{2}}} Now when John heard in prison the deeds of Christ, he sent word by his disciples {{rf{3}}} and said to him, "Are you the one who is to come, or should we look for another?" {{rf{4}}} And Jesus answered and said to them, "Go and tell John what you hear and see: {{rf{5}}} the blind receive sight and the lame walk, lepers are cleansed and the deaf hear, and the dead are raised, and the poor have good news announced to them. {{rf{6}}} And whoever is not offended by me is blessed." {{rf{7}}} Now as these were going away, Jesus began to speak to the crowds concerning John: "What did you go out into the wilderness to see? A reed shaken by the wind? {{rf{8}}} But what did you go out to see? A man dressed in soft clothing? Behold, those who wear soft clothing are in the houses of kings. {{rf{9}}} But why did you go out? To see a prophet? Yes, I tell you, and even more than a prophet! {{rf{10}}} It is this man about whom it is written: 'Behold, I am sending my messenger before your face, who will prepare your way before you.' {{rf{11}}} Truly I say to you, among those born of women there has not arisen one greater than John the Baptist. But the one who is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he. {{rf{12}}} But from the days of John the Baptist until now, the kingdom of heaven is treated violently, and the violent claim it. {{rf{13}}} For all the prophets and the law prophesied until John, {{rf{14}}} and if you are willing to accept it, he is Elijah, the one who is going to come. {{rf{15}}} The one who has ears, let him hear! {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Matthew-11-01]] }}}
11:2 Consider the plight of John. "I'm a country boy, I don't belong in this prison. I came in the spirit of Elijah, who was always free -- even on the run, he could choose where to hide and when to confront."
<<Bbl Mt 11:4 abbr >> Jesus declares various needs are being met with their obvious respective remedies, but when it comes to the poor, the remedy of money is not given! For money is not the remedy for [[Poverty]]. But wisdom often is; and the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.
11:11 see <<Bbl J 3:29 >>.
<<Bbl Mt 11:12 abbr >> Q1, is verb active or passive? Q2, which people are the violent men?
<<Bbl Mt 11:14 abbr >> Just 12 chapters back, one might say.
<<Bbl Mt 11:14 abbr >> ref 12
<<Bbl Mt 11:14 abbr >> //if you care to accept it// may be a subtle reference to John's misgivings.
<<Bbl Mt 11:17 abbr >> @@color:brown;This is really putting your fingers in the eyes of the Americans, saying, "I'm not dancing to your flute," " a senior Israeli military official said.@@ - // speaking about missile testing by Syria's Bashir al-Assad; NY Times, 6/3/2005//.
Also see <<Bbl Eccl 3:4 >>.
<<Bbl Mt 11:16 abbr >>-17 Who is the inviter and who the invited?
<<Bbl Mt 11:18 abbr >>-19 Perhaps referring to vss 16-17
<<Bbl Mt 11:18 abbr >> Effectiveness without fatal fatigue. A yoke's purpose is not to be heavy but to be effective. What shall we do with those who are heavy-laden but not yet weary?
<<Bbl Mt 11:22 abbr >> violent men. Carson believes first the kingdom is advancing and second violent men oppose it. A consolation to John the persecuted.
11:24 see <<Bbl Mt 12:38 >>-42.
{{{
A Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden,
B and I will give you rest. Take My yoke upon you
X and learn from Me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart,
B′ and you will find rest for your souls. For My yoke is easy
A′ and My burden is light.
(Matthew 11:28-30)
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{{rf{16}}} "But to what shall I compare this generation? It is like children sitting in the marketplaces who call out to one another, {{rf{17}}} saying, 'We played the flute for you and you did not dance; we sang a lament and you did not mourn.' {{rf{18}}} For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, 'He has a demon!' {{rf{19}}} The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, 'Behold, a man who is a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!' But wisdom is vindicated by her deeds." {{rf{20}}} Then he began to reproach the towns in which the majority of his miracles had been done, because they did not repent: {{rf{21}}} "Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the miracles done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes. {{rf{22}}} Nevertheless I tell you, it will be more bearable for Tyre and for Sidon on the day of judgment than for you! {{rf{23}}} And you, Capernaum, will you be exalted to heaven? No, you will be brought down to Hades! For if the miracles done in you had been done in Sodom, it would have remained until today. {{rf{24}}} Nevertheless I tell you that it will be more bearable for the region of Sodom on the day of judgment than for you!" {{rf{25}}} At that time Jesus answered and said, "I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and intelligent, and have revealed them to young children. {{rf{26}}} Yes, Father, for to do so was your gracious will. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Matthew-11-16]] }}}
<<Bbl Mt 11:27 abbr >>-28 These statements, reminiscent of John, deal with election and human decision.
<<Bbl Mt 11:28 abbr >>-30 The invitation to //rest// is a pivot to the matter of Sabbath.
12:-34 see <<Bbl 1S 21:6 >>. As David covered his companions, so does Jesus. He vindicates David, in effect even covering him! So <<Bbl Mt 12:20 abbr>> is fulfilled.
<<Bbl Mt 12:5 abbr >>-7 <<Bbl Num 28:9 >>, double work. F.F. Bruce exposits this powerfully in The Hard Sayings
<<Bbl Mt 12:6 abbr >> by implication something greater also than David is here.
<<Bbl Mt 12:8 abbr >> A comprehensive claim. Not just an observance of Sabbath but the full reality. So our observance of the Sabbath is direct homage to Jesus. [[Sabbath]], [[Worship]].
12:10 About the sabbath, the question offered is whether one may heal. The question as taken up is whether one may //do good// (v 12).
<<Bbl Mt 12:11 abbr >> //Take, lift// are specific in violation (compare <<Bbl John 5:8>>).
* Jesus nicely pins them: they can't deny their public behavior and the hypocrisy of their self-serving policy; and they must deal with the conflict between //doing good// and complying with the tradition. This conflict threatens to discredit the latter.
* They had inwardly reasoned that "this sheep is an exceptional case" because it was to their worldly benefit; Jesus uses the motive of worldly profit, as in many parables, to make them think about the Father's interest in a man.
12:12 This is the great point: It is ''lawful to do good'', and the small case proves the large one. And this little man is that large case. The worth of a person also in <<Bbl Mt 6:26 abbr >>.
<<Bbl Mt 12:13 abbr >> The command is to //stretch forth// presumably gives no affront; the onus of violation is on Jesus alone. The man, now healed, is able in life to offer sabbath worship in a context of daily work (even sheep extrication).
<<Bbl Mt 12:16 abbr >> is given support from <<Bbl I 42:2 >>ff; the connection seems to be the hidden, humble spirit.
<<Bbl Mt 12:18 abbr >>ff This looks ahead to the Gospel announcement that Gentiles are welcome - perhaps precisely as not being under the Jewish Sabbath requirement.
<<Bbl Mt 12:19 abbr >> In self-removal and humility, Jesus embodies and fulfills this description.
<<Bbl Mt 12:20 abbr >> The Christ will not //sever//, for He is kind and not //severe//. So in chapter 12 He shields His subjects while he is heals them, delivering from both malady and enemy. Ref <<Bbl 2C 4:8 >>ff. <<Bbl Is 42:3 >> is uncertain on subject/object (or Septuagint is a variant), but all the possibilities will preach.
{{rf{27}}} All things have been handed over to me by my Father, and no one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and anyone to whom the Son wants to reveal him. {{rf{28}}} Come to me, all of you who labor and are burdened, and I will give you rest. {{rf{29}}} Take my yoke on you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. {{rf{30}}} For my yoke is easy to carry and my burden is light." {{rf big{1}}} At that time Jesus went through the grain fields on the Sabbath. And his disciples were hungry, and they began to pluck off heads of grain and eat them. {{rf{2}}} But when the Pharisees saw it, they said to him, "Behold, your disciples are doing what it is not permitted to do on the Sabbath!" {{rf{3}}} So he said to them, "Have you not read what David did when he was hungry, and those with him, {{rf{4}}} how he entered into the house of God and ate the bread of the presentation, which it was not permitted for him or for those with him to eat, but only for the priests? {{rf{5}}} Or have you not read in the law that on the Sabbath the priests in the temple violate the sanctity of the Sabbath and are guiltless? {{rf{6}}} But I tell you that something greater than the temple is here! {{rf{7}}} And if you had known what it means, 'I want mercy and not sacrifice,' you would not have condemned the guiltless. {{rf{8}}} For the Son of Man is lord of the Sabbath." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Matthew-11-27]] }}}
{{rf{9}}} And going on from there he came into their synagogue. {{rf{10}}} And behold, there was a man who had a withered hand, and they asked him, saying, "Is it permitted to heal on the Sabbath?" in order that they could accuse him. {{rf{11}}} But he said to them, "What man will there be among you who will have one sheep and if this one fell into a pit on the Sabbath, will not take hold of it and lift it out? {{rf{12}}} Then to what degree is a man worth more than a sheep? So then, it is permitted to do good on the Sabbath." {{rf{13}}} Then he said to the man, "Stretch out your hand," and he stretched it out, and it was restored as healthy as the other one. {{rf{14}}} But the Pharisees went out and plotted against him in order that they could destroy him. {{rf{15}}} Now Jesus, when he learned of it, withdrew from there, and many followed him, and he healed them all. {{rf{16}}} And he warned them that they should not reveal his identity, {{rf{17}}} in order that what was spoken through the prophet Isaiah would be fulfilled, who said, {{rf{18}}} "Behold my servant whom I have chosen, my beloved in whom my soul is well pleased. I will put my Spirit on him, and he will proclaim justice to the Gentiles. {{rf{19}}} He will not quarrel or cry out, nor will anyone hear his voice in the streets. {{rf{20}}} A crushed reed he will not break, and a smoldering wick he will not extinguish, until he brings justice to victory. {{rf{21}}} And in his name the Gentiles will hope. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Matthew-12-09]] }}}
{{rf{22}}} Then a demon-possessed man who was blind and mute was brought to him. And he healed him so that the man who was mute could speak and see. {{rf{23}}} And all the crowds were amazed and began saying, "Perhaps this one is the Son of David!" {{rf{24}}} But the Pharisees, when they heard it, said, "This man does not expel demons except by Beelzebul the ruler of demons!" {{rf{25}}} But knowing their thoughts, he said to them, "Every kingdom divided against itself is laid waste, and every city or household divided against itself will not stand. {{rf{26}}} And if Satan expels Satan, he is divided against himself. How then will his kingdom stand? {{rf{27}}} And if I expel demons by Beelzebul, by whom do your sons expel them? For this reason they will be your judges! {{rf{28}}} But if I expel demons by the Spirit of God, then the kingdom of God has come upon you! {{rf{29}}} Or how can someone enter into the house of a strong man and steal his property, unless he first ties up the strong man? And then he can thoroughly plunder his house. {{rf{30}}} The one who is not with me is against me, and the one who does not gather with me scatters. {{rf{31}}} For this reason I tell you, every sin and blasphemy will be forgiven people, but the blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven! {{rf{32}}} And whoever speaks a word against the Son of Man, it will be forgiven him. But whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit, it will not be forgiven him either in this age or in the coming one! {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Matthew-12-22]] }}}
<<Bbl Mt 12:24 abbr >> <<Bbl Mt 9:34 abbr >>
12:29 see <<Bbl 2S 22:18 >>; <<Bbl Ps 35:10 >>; <<Bbl Ps 76:5 >>
<<Bbl Mt 12:30 abbr >> A pivot: He refers to Satan who is not with Him and therefore is against Him, the same categories v 29; but this is a pivot from which He warns His slanderers.
<<Bbl Mt 12:31 abbr >> //any sin//, which is vindicated by 1123 (Sodom would have remained).
<<Bbl Mt 12:32 abbr >> Interesting that here Jesus used the term Son of Man. Since He is a Man, there will always be the possibility that "they know not what they do."
<<Bbl Mt 12:33 abbr >> Again context must guide us. The difference between demon's works and Jesus' wholesome deliverance is conclusive; to assert they are related is like claiming good fruit from a bad tree. As in v 30, this is turned back on His enemies: you are very bad and no one believes your words are different.
<<Bbl Mt 12:34 abbr >> sends them back to [[John]] B. in 0307. The image of the tree and its fruit likewise. The crowd thrills. We can be certain they had studied John's words, felt them burn into the soul at the time of their baptism. The mutual support and confirmation of Jesus and John was a power the Jewish leaders could not ignore or overcome. John fulfills 2 of Malachi's prophecies, <<Bbl Mal 4:5 >> and 0301.
12:36 Compare <<Bbl Lv 6:8 >>-9.
{{rf{33}}} "Either make the tree good and its fruit is good, or make the tree bad and its fruit is bad, for the tree is known by its fruit. {{rf{34}}} Offspring of vipers! How are you able to say good things when you are evil? For from the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. {{rf{35}}} The good person from his good treasury brings out good things, and the evil person from his evil treasury brings out evil things. {{rf{36}}} But I tell you that every worthless word that they speak, people will give an account for it on the day of judgment! {{rf{37}}} For by your words you will be vindicated, and by your words you will be condemned." {{rf{38}}} Then some of the scribes and Pharisees answered him saying, "Teacher, we want to see a sign from you!" {{rf{39}}} But he answered and said to them, "An evil and adulterous generation desires a sign, and no sign will be given to it except the sign of the prophet Jonah! {{rf{40}}} For just as Jonah was in the belly of the huge fish three days and three nights, so the Son of Man will be in the heart of the earth three days and three nights. {{rf{41}}} The people of Nineveh will stand up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it, because they repented at the proclamation of Jonah, and behold, something greater than Jonah is here! {{rf{42}}} The queen of the south will rise up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it, because she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon, and behold, something greater than Solomon is here! {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Matthew-12-33]] }}}
<<Bbl Mt 12:38 abbr >>-45 They ask for incontrovertible evidence; Jesus declares that it is abundantly available, but that they should not look to Him to test Him, but to their own sinful state. Like an adulterous woman, they compare the true husband to a usurper and say "There is nothing preferable about you."
12:39-42 see 11:21-24; <<Bbl Ez 16:51 >>-52
<<Bbl Mt 12:40 abbr >> The statement //three days and three nights in the heart of the earth// alludes to Jonah <<Bbl Jonah 1:17 abbr>> and <<Bbl Jonah 2:3 abbr>>. Jesus was not in the tomb three nights by our reckoning, so these words present a problem.
* Since the statement is found here and not <<Bbl Mt 16:4 >> or <<Bbl L 11:30 "" note>>, it may be a scribal addition (so says D.T. Lancaster at Beth Immanuel).
* Alternatively, support for Jesus' declaration come from the way time is reckoned in <<Bbl 1Sa 30:12>>-13 and <<Bbl Esther 4:18>>, 5:1. And we may allow Jesus to precisely quote Jonah in order to make the connection.
<<Bbl Mt 12:41 abbr >> the righteous sequel to 1123 (<<Bbl Mt 11:23 abbr >>?). But one is a //would have//, the other is a //will//.
12:42 Jesus is greater than Solomon, for He is wiser - and He is the Source and Answerer of Solomon's request for wisdom.
<<Bbl Mt 12:43 abbr >> Jesus has been cleansing the land starting with chapter 8. Maybe that immediate context is in mind for //this evil generation//.
<<Bbl Mt 12:45 abbr >>c jarring switch from singular and abstract to collective and concrete. And what is the connection between //wicked
spirits// and //evil generation// in vs 45?
<<Bbl Mt 12:45 abbr >> It could be stated that the Jewish people have been a lot worse off since Christ.
<<Bbl Mt 12:47 abbr >> He is not denigrating his earthly kin. He seems to be withholding deference, but perhaps not (we don't know the full context).
{{rf{43}}} "Now whenever an unclean spirit has gone out of a person, it travels through waterless places searching for rest, and does not find it. {{rf{44}}} Then it says, 'I will return to my house from which I came out.' And when it arrives it finds the house unoccupied and swept and put in order. {{rf{45}}} Then it goes and brings along with itself seven other spirits more evil than itself, and they go in and live there. And the last state of that person becomes worse than the first. So it will be for this evil generation also!" {{rf{46}}} And while he was still speaking to the crowds, behold, his mother and brothers were standing there outside, desiring to speak to him. {{rf{47}}} And someone told him, "Behold, your mother and your brothers are standing there outside desiring to speak to you." {{rf{48}}} But he answered and said to the one who told him, "Who is my mother, and who are my brothers?" {{rf{49}}} And stretching out his hand toward his disciples, he said, "Behold my mother and my brothers! {{rf{50}}} For whoever does the will of my Father who is in heaven, he is my brother and sister and mother." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Matthew-12-43]] }}}
On that day Jesus went out of the house and was sitting by the sea. {{rf{2}}} And large crowds gathered close around him, so that he got into a boat to sit down, and all the crowd was standing on the shore. {{rf{3}}} And he spoke many things to them in parables, saying, "Behold, the sower went out to sow, {{rf{4}}} and while he was sowing, some seed fell on the side of the path, and the birds came and devoured it. {{rf{5}}} And other seed fell on the rocky ground, where it did not have much soil, and it sprang up at once because it did not have any depth of soil. {{rf{6}}} But when the sun rose it was scorched, and because it did not have enough root, it withered. {{rf{7}}} And other seed fell among the thorn plants, and the thorn plants came up and choked it. {{rf{8}}} But other seed fell on the good soil and produced grain, this one a hundred times as much and this one sixty and this one thirty. {{rf{9}}} The one who has ears, let him hear!" {{rf{10}}} And the disciples came up and said to him, "Why do you speak to them in parables?" {{rf{11}}} And he answered and said to them, "To you it has been granted to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to those people it has not been granted. {{rf{12}}} For whoever has, to him more will be given, and he will have an abundance. But whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken away from him. {{rf{13}}} For this reason I speak to them in parables, because seeing they do not see, and hearing they do not hear, nor do they understand, {{rf{14}}} and with reference to them the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled that says, "You will listen carefully and will never understand, and you will look closely and will never perceive. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Matthew-13-01]] }}}
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<<Bbl Mt 13:1 abbr >> //On that day... outside...// contrasts pointedly with <<Bbl Mt 12:47 >>.
13:3-23 Malcolm Smith and others point out that we should title this, "the Parable of the Soils."
<<Bbl Mt 13:5 abbr >>b The plant makes a lunge for life, as when Augustine grass sends out tendrils when the ground is very dry. So in <<Bbl Mt 12:20 >> a person of little substance makes a desperate but ill-founded move to God. They appear briefly to even have an advantage.
<<Bbl Mt 13:8 abbr >> relates to <<Bbl Mt 12:50 >>; see <<Bbl Mt 13:1 >> n. The manifold return reminds us that the original seed is precious.
<<Bbl Mt 13:11 abbr >>-13 You are the better soil. Isaiah spoke of hard soil (v 14ff).
<<Bbl Mt 13:14 abbr >> ref <<Bbl Mt 15:14 abbr >>.
<<Bbl Mt 13:17 abbr >> The prophets of old longed for the sower (v 17,19). You have Him!
<<Bbl Mt 13:17 abbr >> for he explained it all to the disciples according to <<Bbl Mk 4:34 >>.
<<Bbl Mt 13:18 abbr >> What is not directly explained is the identity of the shower - but this is clarified in <<Bbl Mt 13:37 >>.
<<Bbl Mt 13:20 abbr >>-21 <<Bbl Job 8:16 >>-17
<<Bbl Mt 13:22 abbr >> see <<Bbl Jer 4:3 >>
13:21 Pulling weeds from ornamental coarse gravel, I begin by merely pulling at the root and perhaps nudging a stone to get a better grasp. Later I realize I can first use my foot to give the gravel a strong twist, which dislodges the root; the second pass, pulling with my fingers, is much less effort. So Satan can make easy work of the man who //has no root in himself//.
<<Bbl Mt 13:23 abbr >> The earlier hindrances were man-made. Now we have a responsive man, and the degree of harvest is up to God. I always thought the variety meant I should try to be the max, but in 2019 I see only a warning against making comparisons and judging by evident results. Broadman has a tempered view, inviting godly ambition. <<Bbl Mt 25:15 abbr >>-17
{{rf{15}}} For the heart of this people has become dull, and with their ears they hear with difficulty, and they have shut their eyes, so that they would not see with their eyes and hear with their ears and understand with their heart and turn, and I would heal them." {{rf{16}}} But your eyes are blessed because they see, and your ears because they hear. {{rf{17}}} For truly I say to you that many prophets and righteous people longed to see what you see, and did not see it, and to hear what you hear, and did not hear it! {{rf{18}}} "You, therefore, listen to the parable of the sower: {{rf{19}}} When anyone hears the word about the kingdom and does not understand it, the evil one comes and snatches away what was sown in his heart. This is what was sown on the side of the path. {{rf{20}}} And what was sown on the rocky ground -- this is the one who hears the word and immediately receives it with joy. {{rf{21}}} But he does not have a root in himself, but lasts only a little while, and when affliction or persecution happens because of the word, immediately he falls away. {{rf{22}}} And what was sown into the thorn plants -- this is the one who hears the word, and the anxiety of this world and the deceitfulness of wealth choke the word and it becomes unproductive. {{rf{23}}} But what was sown on the good soil -- this is the one who hears the word and understands it, who indeed bears fruit and produces, this one a hundred times as much, and this one sixty, and this one thirty." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Matthew-13-15]] }}}
{{rf{24}}} He put before them another parable, saying, "The kingdom of heaven may be compared to a man who sowed good seed in his field. {{rf{25}}} But while his people were sleeping, his enemy came and sowed darnel in the midst of the wheat and went away. {{rf{26}}} So when the wheat sprouted and yielded grain, then the darnel appeared also. {{rf{27}}} So the slaves of the master of the house came and said to him, 'Master, did you not sow good seed in your field? How then does it have darnel?' {{rf{28}}} And he said to them, 'An enemy has done this!' So the slaves said to him, 'Then do you want us to go and gather them?' {{rf{29}}} But he said, "No, lest when you gather the darnel you uproot the wheat together with it. {{rf{30}}} Let both grow together until the harvest, and at the season of the harvest I will tell the reapers, "First gather the darnel and tie it into bundles to burn them, but gather the wheat into my storehouse." '"
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{{rf{31}}} He put before them another parable, saying, "The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed that a man took and sowed in his field. {{rf{32}}} It is the smallest of all the seeds, but when it is grown it is larger than the garden herbs and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the sky come and nest in its branches." {{rf{33}}} He told them another parable: "The kingdom of heaven is like yeast that a woman took and put into three measures of wheat flour until the whole batch was leavened." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Matthew-13-24]] }}}
<<Bbl Mt 13:24 abbr >> The explanation of the parable (later) is different than one might expect. At face value it is a description of God's creation and the tragedy that ensued. But Jesus clarifies that He is the original agent, and it becomes a story about the Gospel at large in our epoch - much like the parable of the soils.
<<Bbl Mt 13:28 abbr >> The age-old question.
13:30 [[Election]]
<<Bbl Mt 13:30 abbr >> this is the reverse of accepted gardening. The plants can be distinguished when small (v 26), so weeding makes sense. Why is there danger to the wheat? It is uprooted either because of sheer proximity or because distinguishing the weeds is harder than it appears. We don't know which is the problem. As for the Master's remedy in v 30, it likewise doesn't match our reasoning. It isn't feasible to have in effect two harvests. But God says it is, so this parable teaches His sovereignty in contrast to our limitations (although there latter seems to be not precisely identified).
<<Bbl Mt 13:31 abbr>>ff <<Bbl L 13:18 '' note>>ff is a parallel account that includes context.
<<Bbl Mt 13:33 abbr >> intentionality with understanding. We watch the women at work; if ignorant about bread making, we wonder at her actions. She does not seem to have done anything, nothing's different! But she knows she has. So with the professional assessments of the treasure-seeker and the pearl dealer.
<<Bbl Mt 13:35 abbr>> On one hand, Jesus is announcing the Kingdom which up until now has been hidden; His teaching is the revelation which consummates the plan. On the other hand, He is using parables to keep His meaning veiled (<<Bbl Mt 13:10 abbr>>) because the consummation of the plan is yet an unfolding thing.
{{rf{34}}} Jesus spoke all these things to the crowds in parables, and he was saying nothing to them without a parable, {{rf{35}}} in order that what was spoken through the prophet would be fulfilled, who said, "I will open my mouth in parables; I will proclaim what has been hidden since the creation." {{rf{36}}} Then he left the crowds and came into the house, and his disciples came to him saying, "Explain the parable of the darnel in the field to us." {{rf{37}}} So he answered and said, "The one who sows the good seed is the Son of Man, {{rf{38}}} and the field is the world. And the good seed -- these are the sons of the kingdom, but the darnel are the sons of the evil one. {{rf{39}}} And the enemy who sowed them is the devil, and the harvest is the end of the age, and the reapers are angels. {{rf{40}}} Thus just as the darnel is gathered and burned with fire, so it will be at the end of the age. {{rf{41}}} The Son of Man will send out his angels and they will gather out of his kingdom all the causes of sin and those who do lawless deeds, {{rf{42}}} and throw them into the fiery furnace. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth! {{rf{43}}} Then the righteous will shine like the sun in the kingdom of their Father. The one who has ears, let him hear! {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Matthew-13-34]] }}}
{{rf{44}}} "The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field, that a man found and concealed, and in his joy he goes and sells everything that he has and buys that field {{rf{45}}} "Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant searching for fine pearls. {{rf{46}}} And when he found one very valuable pearl, he went and sold everything that he possessed and purchased it. {{rf{47}}} "Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a dragnet that was thrown into the sea and gathered fish of every kind, {{rf{48}}} which when it was filled they pulled to shore and sat down and collected the good fish into containers, but the bad they threw out. {{rf{49}}} Thus it will be at the end of the age. The angels will go out and separate the evil from among the righteous {{rf{50}}} and throw them into the fiery furnace. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth! {{rf{51}}} "Have you understood all these things?" They said to him, "Yes." {{rf{52}}} And he said to them, "For this reason every scribe who has been trained for the kingdom of heaven is like the master of the house who brings out of his storeroom new things and old things." {{rf{53}}} And it happened that when Jesus had finished these parables he went away from there. {{rf{54}}} And he came to his hometown and began to teach them in their synagogue, so that they were amazed and said, "From where did this man get this wisdom and these miracles? {{rf{55}}} Is not this one the son of the carpenter? Is not his mother called Mary and his brothers James and Joseph and Simon and Judas? {{rf{56}}} And are not all his sisters with us? From where then did this man get all these things?" {{rf{57}}} And they were offended by him. But Jesus said to them, "A prophet is not without honor except in his own hometown and in his own household." {{rf{58}}} And he did not perform many miracles in that place because of their unbelief. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Matthew-13-44]] }}}
<<Bbl Mt 13:44 abbr >>-46
* You might think of it as the mineral rights. [[Treasure]]
* How did the man go about his negotiating? Did he don a smug assurance, wink reassuringly at his friends? No, he kept his poker face in place; //Bad, bad, says the buyer,// for he was already in the position of giving //all he had.//
* Jesus makes us consider the misfortune of everyone who missed out. They were looking the wrong features. [[Invisible-Visible]], [[Wisdom]]
* What if Jesus is the purchaser and the hidden treasure is His church? (So claimed the eccentric pianist in Victoria.)
* See <<Bbl Ps 119:162 >>. He has "put all his eggs in one basket," made a full commitment by selling everything else.
<<Bbl Mt 13:52 abbr>>
* Jesus is the Master of the house, and its [[Treasure]].
** He is //greater than Solomon//, who won the admiration of Sheba's queen.
** He has brought forth //new things// as well as the old.
** In His Spirit we are //like the master//, bringing revelation to the world.
* @@color:navy;Imagine that. A homeowner who goes into his safe or a chest of valuables and counts out all the deeds, money, jewels, and other keepsakes he has owned through the years. But every time he does this, he finds new treasures. A pearl ring this time, a hundred dollar bill the next time, and so forth. He’d come often, wouldn’t he?@@ // - Joe McKeever (source: [[CrossWalk.com|https://www.crosswalk.com/devotionals/your-daily-bible-verse/become-a-devoted-student-of-the-word-bible-study-minute-january-31-2019.html]]) //
<<Bbl Mt 13:53 abbr >>-58 <<Bbl L 4:16 >>-30 enlarges the account.
13:55 No, actually -- He is not the carpenter's son. It's the old joke where a man asks, "Does your son bite?"
13:56 see vs. 52
13:58 They know Him "after the flesh." But even in the face of rejection, the grace of God provides some attesting signs. They get more than the Pharisees do.
At that time Herod the tetrarch heard the report about Jesus {{rf{2}}} and he said to his servants, "This is John the Baptist! He has been raised from the dead, and for this reason miraculous powers are at work in him." {{rf{3}}} For Herod, after arresting John, bound him and put him in prison on account of Herodias, the wife of his brother Philip, {{rf{4}}} because John had been saying to him, "It is not permitted for you to have her." {{rf{5}}} And although he wanted to kill him, he feared the crowd, because they looked upon him as a prophet. {{rf{6}}} But when Herod's birthday celebration took place, the daughter of Herodias danced in the midst of them and pleased Herod. {{rf{7}}} Therefore he promised with an oath to give her whatever she asked. {{rf{8}}} And coached by her mother, she said, "Give me the head of John the Baptist here on a platter!" {{rf{9}}} And although the king was distressed, because of his oaths and his dinner guests he commanded the request to be granted. {{rf{10}}} And he sent orders and had John beheaded in the prison, {{rf{11}}} and his head was brought on a platter and given to the girl, and she brought it to her mother. {{rf{12}}} And his disciples came and took away the corpse and buried it, and went and told Jesus. {{rf{13}}} Now when Jesus heard it, he withdrew from there in a boat to an isolated place by himself. And when the crowds heard it, they followed him by land from the towns. {{rf{14}}} And as he got out, he saw the large crowd and had compassion on them and healed their sick. {{rf{15}}} Now when it was evening, the disciples came to him saying, "The place is desolate and the hour is late. Release the crowds so that they can go away into the villages and purchase food for themselves." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Matthew-14-01]] }}}
<<Bbl Mt 14:2>> Herod seems a bit jumpy. "Each man easily believes what he most greatly fears or desires" -- La Fontaine.
14:6 Wuest calls it a rapid, leaping, lewd dance.
14:8 see 27:20
14:9 see <<Bbl Dan.6 >> Without a doubt the events of these preceding verses has got Jesus considering His own mission; there are some strong parallels, starting with Herod's superstitious fears in vs 1. See 17:12.
14:16 A command begets responsibility, a responsibility begets faith.
Note the first statement made by the Lord. He will never send us away; "He has given us all things pertaining to life and godliness," and no circumstance shall "separate us from the love of Christ."
14:18 Always the command of the Lord concerning our meager resources.
14:19 It has been pointed out that Jesus did not feed the multitude. The text says He blessed the food. The disciples fed the multitude.
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14:22 He literally compels them to get into the boat. He makes Himself absent, so that He can show Himself to them when they never could have imagined His appearing.
14:24 Jesus is never know to have run.
14:24-32 Three times wind is mentioned.
14:25 3:00 - 6:00 in the morning.
14:26
* The disciples see Jesus coming toward them on the sea. They are rowing, so they're facing backwards, looking forwards the land from whence they came, if they could see it. So they see Jesus as soon as it would be possible to see him.
* Their wonder increases, and then their fear. But Jesus only responds with reassurance when they grow so afraid that they cry out loud. It's a picture of how God responds to our prayers as we voice them.
14:27 It is I -- [ego emi]
<<Bbl Mt 14:28 abbr >>
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* Wuest renders it "Oh Lord, since it is you...", which is strikingly similar to Satan's propositions in the wilderness. So, is Peter "testing the Lord"?
* Fount Schultz' says Peter wants to determine if it is the Lord or not, and comes up with an excellent method.
* Peter is doing nothing supernatural. Peter's faith isn't holding him up. This is confirmed when he sinks. (Fount Schultz)
* On the other hand, in v 31 Jesus asks him "Why did you doubt?", which suggests faith waned momentarily.
14:31 In the context of wind, Jesus brings up ''wavering''.
14:32 One must wonder if Jesus hauled Peter in bodily.
14:33 //Church//. Cf 9:10; 15:36, could these preach?
{{rf{16}}} But Jesus said to them, "They do not need to go away. You give them something to eat." {{rf{17}}} And they said to him, "We do not have anything here except five loaves and two fish." {{rf{18}}} So he said, "Bring them here to me." {{rf{19}}} And he commanded the crowds to recline for a meal on the grass. Taking the five loaves and the two fish and looking up to heaven, he gave thanks. And after breaking them, he gave the loaves to the disciples, and the disciples gave them to the crowds. {{rf{20}}} And they all ate and were satisfied, and they picked up what was left over of the broken pieces, twelve baskets full. {{rf{21}}} Now those who ate were about five thousand men, in addition to women and children. {{rf{22}}} And immediately he made the disciples get into the boat and go ahead of him to the other side, while he sent away the crowds. {{rf{23}}} And after he sent away the crowds, he went up on the mountain by himself to pray. So when evening came, he was there alone. {{rf{24}}} But the boat was already many stadia distant from the land, being beaten by the waves, because the wind was against it. {{rf{25}}} And in the fourth watch of the night he came to them, walking on the sea. {{rf{26}}} But the disciples, when they saw him walking on the sea, were terrified, saying, "It is a ghost!" and they cried out in fear. {{rf{27}}} But immediately Jesus spoke to them, saying, "Have courage, I am he! Do not be afraid!" {{rf{28}}} And Peter answered him and said, "Lord, if it is you, command me to come to you on the water!" {{rf{29}}} So he said, "Come!" And getting out of the boat, Peter walked on the water and came toward Jesus. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Matthew-14-16]] }}}
{{rf{30}}} But when he saw the strong wind, he was afraid. And beginning to sink, he cried out, saying, "Lord, save me!" {{rf{31}}} And immediately Jesus extended his hand and caught him and said to him, "You of little faith! Why did you doubt?" {{rf{32}}} And when they got into the boat, the wind abated. {{rf{33}}} So those in the boat worshiped him, saying, "Truly you are the Son of God!" {{rf{34}}} And after they had crossed over, they came to land at Gennesaret. {{rf{35}}} And when the men of that place recognized him, they sent word into that whole surrounding region, and they brought to him all those who were sick. {{rf{36}}} And they were imploring him that they might only touch the edge of his cloak, and all those who touched it were cured. {{rf big{1}}} Then Pharisees and scribes came to Jesus from Jerusalem, saying, {{rf{2}}} "Why do your disciples break the tradition of the elders? For they do not wash their hands when they eat a meal." {{rf{3}}} So he answered and said to them, "Why do you also break the commandment of God because of your tradition? {{rf{4}}} For God said, 'Honor your father and your mother,' and 'The one who speaks evil of father or mother must certainly die.' {{rf{5}}} But you say, 'Whoever says to his father or his mother, "Whatever benefit you would have received from me is a gift to God," {{rf{6}}} need not honor his father,' and you make void the word of God for the sake of your tradition. {{rf{7}}} Hypocrites! Isaiah correctly prophesied about you saying, {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Matthew-14-30]] }}}
<<Bbl Mt 15:1 abbr >>-9 This puts in a direct form the parable of the two sons (<<Bbl Mt 21:28 abbr>>-31).
<<Bbl Mt 15:1 abbr >> The Pharisees clearly distinguish between the Law and tradition. No doubt they would say the Law is greater, but their practices say material gain is greater yet.
<<Bbl Mt 15:4 abbr >> The second citation serves to show the importance of the principle by its penalty of death. It also brings in the verb //speak// which is woven through verses 5, 6 (word of God), 8, 9, 11.
<<Bbl Mt 15:5 abbr >>-6 This formulation is designed to be persuasive. It's another way to rob the widow.
<<Bbl Mt 15:8 abbr >> The dishonor towards God is revealed in the dishonor rendered concretely to parents.
15:8-9 Jesus announces the fulfillment of <<Bbl I 29:13 >>; vs. 14, "I will deal wondrously with thus people, etc." is also fulfilled.
<<Bbl Mt 15:10 abbr >> Jesus gives the first answer scathingly and somewhat in private. The second answer is more pertinent, objectively. But the second answer has power because the Pharisees know just which defilement of the mouth is in Jesus' mind. Their offense is understandable.
<<Bbl Mt 15:13 abbr >> These are the weeds of <<Bbl Mt 13:30 abbr >>, <<Bbl Mt 13:41 abbr >>
<<Bbl Mt 15:16 abbr >> In v 10, Jesus speaks more literally than figuratively. But the words are shocking enough that Peter refers to them as a parable.
<<Bbl Mt 15:22 abbr >> the woman uses terms of allegiance and submission.
15:23-24 They want her sent away so she won't continue bothering them. Note repeated and habitual past tense (exegete this to make sure). Jesus repeats the verb send in his reply, which is possibly an aside to the disciples.
15:25-27 She understands the worldwide plan of redemption. She bypasses the disciples and goes straight to the top. Jesus presents a picture which the woman immediately appropriates to her own advantage.
* The dogs are gleaning; and foreigners had gleaning rights in Israel. She puts herself in Ruth's place as a humble gleaner.
* Jesus: Do you dare claim a place with God's covenant people in sharing His blessings? The Woman: Do You dare tell me You don't have the love and power to meet my need?
* And the benefit lapdogs gain is not the food itself, but a place in the household. They claim a table-covenant. This woman says, Yes, I'm seeking for covenant privileges. And there's enough of the Bread of Life for me to partake.
* Note her humility: for the soul that knows its need, any small piece of God's goodness is infinitely good.
<<Bbl Mt 15:28 abbr >> Her [[Trust]] honors Christ.
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15:32 This is God's reaction when He sees His people hungry in the wilderness.
15:33 The miracle is foreshadowed in the Wilderness; <<Bbl Num 11:22 >>-23 offers a particular echo.
<<Bbl Mt 15:34 abbr >>-37 Why doesn't He make it become a lot of little loaves? But he [[Break]]s it, and keeps breaking it; and later they collect the pieces.
<<Bbl Mt 15:31 abbr >> the phrase God of Israel identifies the multitudes as non-Jewish (P Jensen).
15:36 Church.
{{rf{8}}} 'This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far, far away from me, {{rf{9}}} and they worship me in vain, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.'" {{rf{10}}} And summoning the crowd, he said to them, "Hear and understand: {{rf{11}}} It is not what goes into the mouth that defiles a person, but what comes out of the mouth -- this defiles a person." {{rf{12}}} Then the disciples came and said to him, "Do you know that the Pharisees were offended when they heard this saying?" {{rf{13}}} And he answered and said, "Every plant that my heavenly Father did not plant will be uprooted. {{rf{14}}} Let them! They are blind guides of the blind. And if the blind guide the blind, both will fall into a pit." {{rf{15}}} But Peter answered and said to him, "Explain this parable to us." {{rf{16}}} But he said, "Are you also still without understanding? {{rf{17}}} Do you not understand that everything that enters into the mouth goes into the stomach and is evacuated into the latrine? {{rf{18}}} But the things that come out of the mouth come from the heart, and these defile the person. {{rf{19}}} For from the heart come evil plans, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false witness, abusive speech. {{rf{20}}} These are the things that defile a person. But eating with unwashed hands does not defile a person!"
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{{rf{21}}} And departing from there, Jesus went away to the region of Tyre and Sidon. {{rf{22}}} And behold, a Canaanite woman from that district came and cried out, saying, "Have mercy on me, Lord, Son of David! My daughter is severely possessed by a demon!" {{rf{23}}} But he did not answer her a word. And his disciples came up and asked him, saying, "Send her away, because she is crying out after us!" {{rf{24}}} But he answered and said, "I was not sent except to the lost sheep of the house of Israel." {{rf{25}}} But she came and knelt down before him, saying, "Lord, help me!" {{rf{26}}} And he answered and said, "It is not right to take the children's bread and throw it to the dogs!" {{rf{27}}} So she said, "Yes, Lord, for even the dogs eat the crumbs that fall from their master's table." {{rf{28}}} Then Jesus answered and said to her, "O woman, your faith is great! Let it be done for you as you want." And her daughter was healed from that hour. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Matthew-15-08]] }}}
{{rf{29}}} And departing from there, Jesus went along the Sea of Galilee, and he went up on the mountain and was sitting there. {{rf{30}}} And large crowds came to him, having with them the mute, blind, lame, crippled, and many others, and they put them down at his feet, and he healed them. {{rf{31}}} So then the crowd was astonished when they saw the mute speaking, the crippled healthy, and the lame walking, and the blind seeing, and they praised the God of Israel. {{rf{32}}} And Jesus summoned his disciples and said, "I have compassion on the crowd, because they have remained with me three days already and do not have anything to eat, and I do not want to send them away hungry lest they give out on the way." {{rf{33}}} And the disciples said to him, "Where in this desolate place can we get so much bread that such a great crowd could be satisfied?" {{rf{34}}} And Jesus said to them, "How many loaves do you have?" So they said, "Seven, and a few little fish." {{rf{35}}} And commanding the crowd to recline for a meal on the ground, {{rf{36}}} he took the seven loaves and the fish and after he had given thanks, he broke them and began giving them to the disciples, and the disciples gave them to the crowds. {{rf{37}}} And they all ate and were satisfied, and they picked up what was left over of the broken pieces, seven baskets full. {{rf{38}}} Now those who ate were four thousand men, in addition to women and children. {{rf{39}}} And after he sent away the crowds, he got into the boat and went to the region of Magadan. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Matthew-15-29]] }}}
{{rf big{1}}} And when the Pharisees and Sadducees came to test him, they asked him to show them a sign from heaven. {{rf{2}}} So he answered and said to them, "When evening comes you say, 'It will be fair weather because the sky is red,' {{rf{3}}} and early in the morning, 'Today it will be stormy weather, because the sky is red and darkening.' You know how to evaluate correctly the appearance of the sky, but you are not able to evaluate the signs of the times. {{rf{4}}} An evil and adulterous generation seeks for a sign, and a sign will not be given to it except the sign of Jonah!" And he left them and went away. {{rf{5}}} And when the disciples arrived at the other side, they had forgotten to take bread. {{rf{6}}} And Jesus said to them, "Watch out for and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees!" {{rf{7}}} So they were discussing this among themselves, saying, "It is because we did not take bread." {{rf{8}}} But knowing this, Jesus said, "Why are you discussing among yourselves that you did not take bread, you of little faith? {{rf{9}}} Do you not yet understand or do you not remember the five loaves for the five thousand, and how many baskets you took up? {{rf{10}}} Or the seven loaves for the four thousand and how many baskets you took up? {{rf{11}}} How do you not understand that I did not speak to you about bread? But beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees!" {{rf{12}}} Then they understood that he did not say to beware of the leaven of bread, but of the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Matthew-16-01]] }}}
{{rf{13}}} Now when Jesus came to the region of Caesarea Philippi, he began asking his disciples, saying, "Who do people say that the Son of Man is?" {{rf{14}}} And they said, Some say John the Baptist, but others Elijah, and others Jeremiah or one of the prophets." {{rf{15}}} He said to them, "But who do you say that I am?" {{rf{16}}} And Simon Peter answered and said, "You are the Christ, the Son of the living God!" {{rf{17}}} And Jesus answered and said to him, "Blessed are you, Simon son of Jonah, because flesh and blood did not reveal this to you, but my Father who is in heaven. {{rf{18}}} And I also say to you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of Hades will not overpower it! {{rf{19}}} I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you release on earth will be released in heaven." {{rf{20}}} Then he commanded the disciples that they should tell no one that he was the Christ. {{rf{21}}} From that time on Jesus began to show his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things from the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and be raised on the third day. {{rf{22}}} And Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him, saying, God forbid, Lord! This will never happen to you!" {{rf{23}}} But he turned around and said to Peter, "Get behind me, Satan! You are a cause for stumbling to me, because you are not intent on the things of God, but the things of people!" {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Matthew-16-13]] }}}
16:14 Concerning Jeremiah, I have a reference to 2 Maccabees 2:4ff.
16:18 See F.F. Bruce, The Books and the Parchments, p.242.
16:19 see <<Bbl J 20:23 >>
<<Bbl J 16:21 abbr >> began to show -- from the Scriptures, of course.
16:24 Follows from the preceding verse. Cf <<Bbl J 10:17 >>
<<Bbl Mt 16:28 abbr >> Seen by some as fulfilled in 17:2
<<Bbl Mt 16:26 abbr >> What price will you put on your own head? On your own soul?
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17:1-5 Several similarities to Moses on the mountain in <<Bbl Ex 17:10 >> see <<Bbl Mal 4:5 >>
<<Bbl Mt 17:4 abbr >> <<Bbl Gn 28:17 >>. Peter's view of Jesus is still limited to "Son of God" (Messiah, Heir of David); so Jesus is no more important than Moses. The message of the Letter to the Hebrews is not yet fully in view. But in overruling Peter's too-small concept, God offers him a look. @@color:brown;(A second sermon can deal with Peter's desire to physically enshrine the experience. The reproof that rends the heavens also could be seen as addressing that, and by extension our readiness to preserve our sense of God in a past episode rather than embracing His life today. From sermons I've attended, this is viewed as Peter's main problem, probably in the misplaced effort to get to a "devotional application".)@@
<<Bbl Mt 17:5 abbr >> PS 2, Isa 42. Echoes John's baptism of Jesus. But added: listen to him refers to <<Bbl Dt 18:15 >>, spoken by that same Moses now present.
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<<Bbl Mt 17:6 abbr >> Behold, a voice came out of the cloud, saying, "This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. Listen to him."
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<<Bbl Mt 17:7 abbr >> Jesus, of the three, is the one Who touches and reassures.
<<Bbl Mt 17:9 abbr >> We are not yet come to Matthew 28. The Cross must precede the Glory.
<<Bbl Mt 17:10 abbr >> The problem for the disciples is sequence. They have met Jesus, now they see Elijah. Jesus reconfirms what He explained in <<Bbl Mt 11:14 abbr >>.
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<<Bbl Mt 17:15 abbr >> [[Satan]] as a murderer.
17:20 //Nothing will be impossible to you// - see <<Bbl Gn 11:6 >>. [[Virtue]]
<<Bbl Mt 17:24 abbr >>-25 A note in NASB says it was a temple tax. The officials recognize Peter as "one of them" (<<Bbl Mt 26:73 >>). Peter doesn't deny but he does reach for an easy out. He must be thinking: Jesus is a decent guy, and decent guys all pay the temple tax.
<<Bbl Mt 17:25 abbr >>-27 Peter is given this logic: the stewards of the temple are representatives of God's kingdom; Jesus is the Son of David, heir of the kingdom (and Peter belongs with Jesus, v 27d), and therefore exempt from the temple tax; but the stewards don't understand this so they need to paid anyway -- which is no trouble.
17:26 see <<Bbl Gal 4:7 >>
<<Bbl Mt 17:27 abbr >> Since God will show His provision, let Him also do it in a way that is simultaneously labor-free and labor-intensive, magical and mundane. And let him make a spoof of the business of fishing!
<<Bbl Mt 17:27 abbr >> see <<Bbl 1P 2:13 >>
{{rf{24}}} Then Jesus said to his disciples, "If anyone wants to come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. {{rf{25}}} For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life on account of me will find it. {{rf{26}}} For what will a person be benefited if he gains the whole world but forfeits his life? Or what will a person give in exchange for his life? {{rf{27}}} For the Son of Man is going to come in the glory of his Father with his angels, and at that time he will reward each one according to what he has done. {{rf{28}}} Truly I say to you, that there are some of those standing here who will never experience death until they see the Son of Man coming in his kingdom." {{rf big{1}}} And after six days Jesus took along Peter and James and John his brother, and led them up on a high mountain by themselves. {{rf{2}}} And he was transfigured before them, and his face shone like the sun, and his clothing became bright as the light. {{rf{3}}} And behold, Moses and Elijah appeared to them, talking with him. {{rf{4}}} So Peter answered and said to Jesus, "Lord, it is good that we are here! If you want, I will make here three shelters, one for you and one for Moses and one for Elijah." {{rf{5}}} While he was still speaking, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them, and behold, a voice from the cloud said, "This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased. Listen to him!" {{rf{6}}} And when the disciples heard this, they fell down on their faces and were extremely frightened. {{rf{7}}} And Jesus came and touched them and said, "Get up and do not be afraid." {{rf{8}}} And when they lifted up their eyes they saw no one except him -- Jesus alone. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Matthew-16-24]] }}}
{{rf{9}}} And as they were coming down from the mountain, Jesus commanded them saying, "Tell no one the vision until the Son of Man is raised from the dead." {{rf{10}}} And the disciples asked him, saying, "Then why do the scribes say that Elijah must come first?" {{rf{11}}} And he answered and said, "Elijah indeed is coming, and will restore all things. {{rf{12}}} But I say to you that Elijah has already come, and they did not recognize him, but did with him whatever they wanted. In the same way also the Son of Man is going to suffer at their hands." {{rf{13}}} Then the disciples understood that he had spoken to them about John the Baptist. {{rf{14}}} And when they came to the crowd, a man approached him, kneeling down before him {{rf{15}}} and saying, "Lord, have mercy on my son, because he has seizures and suffers severely, for often he falls into the fire and often into the water. {{rf{16}}} And I brought him to your disciples, and they were not able to heal him." {{rf{17}}} And Jesus answered and said, "O unbelieving and perverse generation! How long will I be with you? How long must I put up with you? Bring him here to me!" {{rf{18}}} And Jesus rebuked him, and the demon came out of him and the boy was healed from that hour. {{rf{19}}} Then the disciples approached Jesus privately and said, Why were we not able to expel it?" {{rf{20}}} And he said to them, "Because of your little faith. For truly I say to you, if you have faith like a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, 'Move from here to there,' and it will move, and nothing will be impossible for you." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Matthew-17-09]] }}}
{{rf{22}}} Now as they were gathering in Galilee, Jesus said to them, "The Son of Man is going to be betrayed into the hands of men, {{rf{23}}} and they will kill him, and on the third day he will be raised." And they were extremely distressed. {{rf{24}}} Now when they arrived in Capernaum, the ones who collected the double drachma tax came up to Peter and said, "Does your teacher not pay the double drachma tax?" {{rf{25}}} He said, "Yes." And when he came into the house, Jesus spoke to him first, saying, "What do you think, Simon? From whom do the kings of the earth collect tolls or taxes -- from their own sons, or from foreigners?" {{rf{26}}} And when he said, "From foreigners," Jesus said to him, "Then the sons are free. {{rf{27}}} But so that we do not give offense to them, go out to the sea, cast a line with a hook, and take the first fish that comes up. And when you open its mouth, you will find a four-drachma coin. Take that and give it to them for me and you." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Matthew-17-22]] }}}
At that time the disciples came up to Jesus, saying, "Who then is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?" {{rf{2}}} And calling a child to himself, he had him stand in their midst {{rf{3}}} and said, "Truly I say to you, unless you turn around and become like young children, you will never enter into the kingdom of heaven! {{rf{4}}} Therefore whoever humbles himself like this child, this person is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven, {{rf{5}}} and whoever welcomes one child such as this in my name welcomes me. {{rf{6}}} But whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him that a large millstone be hung on his neck and he be drowned in the depths of the sea. {{rf{7}}} Woe to the world because of causes for stumbling, for it is a necessity that causes for stumbling come; nevertheless, woe to the person through whom the cause for stumbling comes. {{rf{8}}} And if your hand or your foot causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it from you! It is better for you to enter into life crippled or lame than, having two hands or two feet, to be thrown into the eternal fire! {{rf{9}}} And if your eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it from you! It is better for you to enter into life one-eyed than, having two eyes, to be thrown into fiery hell! {{rf{10}}} "See to it that you do not despise one of these little ones, for I tell you that their angels in heaven constantly see the face of my Father who is in heaven. {{rf{12}}} What do you think? If a certain man has a hundred sheep, and one of them wanders away, will he not leave the ninety-nine on the hills and go and look for the one that wandered away? {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Matthew-18-01]] }}}
<<Bbl Mt 18:3 abbr>>-4 are converted -- Wuest translates this, "reverse your present trend of thought."
** Comes at God's invitation. Child-like dependence and uncomplicated devotion.
** David Wilkerson sees Jesus as presenting the new believer. Millstone this refers to rules. This ultimate-stern warning is a new-testament sequel to the woes on the Pharisees.
** Philip Jensen says the point is not that a child is humble (they aren't), but that a child is powerless and to become like one is humble.
<<Bbl Mt 18:4 abbr >> This instruction is not about our surface demeanor or some emotional softness, but about divesting self of power. For children are usually not at all humble psychologically, but they are intrinsically.
<<Bbl Mt 18:5 abbr >>, 10, 14. As with <<Bbl Mt 10:42 >>, this is not about literal children but about those people who have taken the counsel of v 3.
18:11 see <<Bbl Ez 34:16 >>
<<Bbl Mt 18:15 abbr >>-16 The first step, one-to-one, speaks of reconciliation. The second doesn't, and I think that reflects our tendencies. //...every matter may be established by the testimony of two or three...// -- I've always read this as building evidence for a prosecution. Why not read it as giving the errant brother a consensus view -- a concerted testimony of what the problem is?
<<Bbl Mt 18:15 abbr >> Flows naturally from the preceding v 14 once we understand //little one// figuratively.
<<Bbl Mt 18:15 abbr >> //against you//, singular. Jensen says v17c is the same, therefore this is not instruction for the church.
<<Bbl Mt 18:16 abbr >> the witness may provide validation of what you are saying, or merely observe so as to validate the rightness of your approach.
<<Bbl Mt 18:16 abbr >> Not necessarily witnesses against the sinner, but in favor of the truth in admonishment.
<<Bbl Mt 18:17 abbr>> a person to whom love is required, but not friendship. __The Message__ says ~ //it's back to square one with giving the Gospel to that person.// Cf <<Bbl 1C 5:11 >>, <<Bbl 2Th 3:15>>, and the prayer of restoration from the Book of Common Prayer.
We read this to prohibit talking as a group to a person about his general character fault, but that is perhaps not what's in view. It says //against you.// One can propose that a group intervention for hurtful behavior against the community is okay. This is important because it means the community can find a consensus and then act on it; you don't have to each individually confront, then discover the consensus and act as a group. Maybe abusive behaviors can be addressed more directly than our usual reading seems to allow.
{{rf{13}}} And if he happens to find it, truly I say to you that he rejoices over it more than over the ninety-nine that did not wander away. {{rf{14}}} In the same way it is not the will of your Father who is in heaven that one of these little ones perish. {{rf{15}}} "Now if your brother sins against you, go correct him between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained your brother. {{rf{16}}} But if he does not listen, take with you in addition one or two others, so that by the testimony of two or three witnesses every matter may be established. {{rf{17}}} And if he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church. But if he refuses to listen to the church also, let him be to you as a Gentile and a tax collector. {{rf{18}}} "Truly I say to you, whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you release on earth will be released in heaven. {{rf{19}}} Again, truly I say to you that if two of you agree on earth about any matter that they ask, it will be done for them from my Father who is in heaven. {{rf{20}}} For where two or three are gathered in my name, I am there in the midst of them." {{rf{21}}} Then Peter came up to him and said, "Lord, how many times will my brother sin against me and I will forgive him? Up to seven times?" {{rf{22}}} Jesus said to him, "I do not say to you up to seven times, but up to seventy times seven! {{rf{23}}} "For this reason the kingdom of heaven may be compared to a man -- a king -- who wanted to settle accounts with his slaves. {{rf{24}}} And when he began to settle them, someone was brought to him who owed ten thousand talents. {{rf{25}}} And because he did not have enough to repay it, the master ordered him to be sold, and his wife and his children and everything that he had, and to be repaid. {{rf{26}}} Then the slave threw himself to the ground and began to do obeisance to him, saying, 'Be patient with me, and I will pay back everything to you!' {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Matthew-18-13]] }}}
<<Bbl Mt 18:27 abbr >> The slave promises restitution, but the master seems uninterested in this promise and forgives him the debt. Note three steps of pardon. The second step is release from the penalties described in vs. 25, analogous to the punishment for sin, whereas the third step would be release from the power of sin.
<<Bbl Mt 18:20 abbr >> can refer to vs 16.
<<Bbl Mt 18:20 abbr >> Why //tell or three//? Because He alludes to Dt 17, with precision that makes unmistakable. There is a shared context of holiness through assent which is enforced by the community.
<<Bbl Mt 18:22 abbr >> the sequel to Lamech in <<Bbl Gn 4:24 >>.
<<Bbl Mt 18:28 abbr >> is what he would have done to keep the promise of 1826.
18:29 see <<Bbl Pr 28:3 >>19:3 See exegesis at [[Divorce]].
See <<Bbl Pr 12:6 >>, which readily describes Jesus' encounters with the Pharisees. Could some feminists be accused of these abuses?
<<Bbl Mt 18:34 abbr >> Moved as in v 27, but this time with anger.
<<Bbl Mt 18:34 abbr >> In 2018, God impressed this on me in how I dealt with my wife, for I was prone to explicitly rebellious behavior when bitterly upset.
{{rf{27}}} So the master of that slave, because he had compassion, released him and forgave him the loan. {{rf{28}}} But that slave went out and found one of his fellow slaves who owed him a hundred denarii, and taking hold of him, he began to choke him, saying, 'Pay back everything that you owe!' {{rf{29}}} Then his fellow slave threw himself to the ground and began to implore him, saying, 'Be patient with me and I will repay you!' {{rf{30}}} But he did not want to, but rather he went and threw him into prison until he would repay what was owed. {{rf{31}}} So when his fellow slaves saw what had happened, they were extremely distressed, and went and reported to their master everything that had happened. {{rf{32}}} Then his master summoned him and said to him, 'Wicked slave! I forgave you all that debt because you implored me! {{rf{33}}} Should you not also have shown mercy to your fellow slave as I also showed mercy to you?' {{rf{34}}} And because he was angry, his master handed him over to the merciless jailers until he would repay everything that was owed. {{rf{35}}} So also my heavenly Father will do to you, unless each of you forgives his brother from your hearts!" {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Matthew-18-27]] }}}
And it happened that when Jesus had finished these statements, he went away from Galilee and came into the region of Judea on the other side of the Jordan. {{rf{2}}} And large crowds followed him, and he healed them there. {{rf{3}}} And Pharisees came up to him in order to test him, and asked if it was permitted for a man to divorce his wife for any cause. {{rf{4}}} And he answered and said, "Have you not read that the one who created them from the beginning made them male and female {{rf{5}}} and said, 'On account of this a man will leave his father and his mother and will be joined to his wife, and the two will become one flesh'? {{rf{6}}} So then, they are no longer two but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, man must not separate." {{rf{7}}} They said to him, "Why then did Moses command us to give a document -- a certificate of divorce -- and to divorce her?" {{rf{8}}} He said to them, "Moses, with reference to your hardness of heart, permitted you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it was not like this. {{rf{9}}} Now I say to you that whoever divorces his wife, except on the basis of sexual immorality, and marries another commits adultery, and whoever marries her who is divorced commits adultery." {{rf{10}}} The disciples said to him, "If this is the case of a man with his wife, it would be better not to marry!" {{rf{11}}} But he said to them, "Not everyone can accept this saying but those to whom it has been given. {{rf{12}}} For there are eunuchs who were born as such from their mother's womb, and there are eunuchs who were made eunuchs by people, and there are eunuchs who have made themselves eunuchs for the sake of the kingdom of heaven. The one who is able to accept this, let him accept it." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Matthew-19-01]] }}}
<<Bbl Mt 19:5 abbr >> They begin as one and join so again.
<<Bbl Mt 19:10 abbr >> God's standard reveals sin, and sin engenders despair. Cf vs. 25
19:12 see <<Bbl I 56:3 >>-5 . This verse used to justify a celibate priesthood.
19:13 see <<Bbl Mt 20:20 abbr >>-31
19:16-21
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"Why do you call me good? No one is good but one, that is, God." }}}
* Jesus very deliberately presents the challenge of relationship with a personal God.
## First, instead of the "good thing" inquired for, Jesus states that "there is only One who is good."
## Second, Jesus answers according to the young man's folly, telling him to "keep the commandments" -- which He says will lead to life, as if there really were good things apart from the One who is good. Then He even answers the question, which ones?, with commandments pertaining to earthly relationships. None of the first four commandments are included! <<Bbl Lv 19:18 >> is inserted, loving thy neighbor -- a law Jesus refers to often, but this time away from its complementary command of loving the Lord.
## Third, He closes with (a) the one earthly Ac over which the man is stumbling, and (b) the command to be in relationship. But in stumbling over (a), the young man has not even a hope or glimpse of (b).
* The young man arrives with a superficial awareness of his soul's dearth. He leaves with a supernatural awareness-- yet one that is grounded in a natural context.
19:24 ref. Quran 7:40 for the phrase.
19:25 They are more used to hearing about the damnation of the poor.
<<Bbl Mt 19:26 abbr >> We think He refers to rich people; considering the question asked, He in fact refers to all people.
<<Bbl Mt 19:30 abbr >> This //inclusio// ends with <<Bbl Mt 20:16 abbr >>.
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<<Bbl Mt 20:1 abbr >>-16 One of those businesses whose only purpose is to give people a blessing.
The life of Christ is our sufficient reward. The Levites, <<Bbl 2Kngs 5:26 >>.
"God's love cannot be portioned out in quantities nicely adjusted to the merits of individuals -- " -- T.W. Manson, quoted by F.F. Bruce, Message of the NT, p. 30.
20:22 Later the mother learns what is the meaning of this cup. She is present at the crucifixion, <<Bbl Mt 27:56 abbr >>, where she does indeed see two men placed the the right and to the left of Jesus.
This incident seems significant with the preceding parable, see vss. 2, 12-15. We all have an equal privilege -- that of drinking from the cup.
<<Bbl Mt 20:27 abbr >>-28 see <<Bbl 1C 4:9 >>-13 . How easily He could have come rather to be served! And how quickly we forget that He did not!
{{rf{13}}} Then children were brought to him so that he could lay his hands on them and pray, but the disciples rebuked them. {{rf{14}}} But Jesus said, "Allow the children, and do not forbid them to come to me, for to such belongs the kingdom of heaven." {{rf{15}}} And he laid his hands on them and traveled on from there. {{rf{16}}} And behold, someone came up to him and said, "Teacher, what good thing must I do so that I will have eternal life?" {{rf{17}}} And he said to him, "Why are you asking me about what is good? There is one who is good. But if you want to enter into life, keep the commandments!" {{rf{18}}} He said to him, "Which ones?" And Jesus said, "Do not commit murder, do not commit adultery, do not steal, do not give false testimony, {{rf{19}}} honor your father and your mother, and love your neighbor as yourself." {{rf{20}}} The young man said to him, "All these I have observed. What do I still lack?" {{rf{21}}} Jesus said to him, "If you want to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give the proceeds to the poor -- and you will have treasure in heaven -- and come, follow me." {{rf{22}}} But when the young man heard the statement, he went away sorrowful, because he was one who had many possessions. {{rf{23}}} And Jesus said to his disciples, "Truly I say to you that with difficulty a rich person will enter into the kingdom of heaven! {{rf{24}}} And again I say to you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than a rich person into the kingdom of God." {{rf{25}}} So when the disciples heard this, they were extremely amazed, saying, "Then who can be saved?" {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Matthew-19-13]] }}}
{{rf{26}}} But Jesus looked at them and said to them, "With human beings this is impossible, but with God all things are possible." {{rf{27}}} Then Peter answered and said to him, "Behold, we have left everything and followed you. What then will there be for us?" {{rf{28}}} And Jesus said to them, "Truly I say to you that in the renewal of the world, when the Son of Man sits on his glorious throne, you who have followed me -- you also will sit on twelve thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel. {{rf{29}}} And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or fields on account of my name will receive a hundred times as much, and will inherit eternal life. {{rf{30}}} But many who are first will be last, and the last first. {{rf big{1}}} "For the kingdom of heaven is like a man -- the master of the house -- who went out early in the morning to hire workers for his vineyard. {{rf{2}}} And after coming to an agreement with the workers for a denarius per day, he sent them into his vineyard. {{rf{3}}} And going out about the third hour, he saw others standing idle in the marketplace. {{rf{4}}} And to those people he said, 'You also go into the vineyard, and I will give you whatever is right.' {{rf{5}}} So they went. Going out again about the sixth and ninth hour he did the same thing. {{rf{6}}} And about the eleventh hour he went out and found others standing there and said to them, 'Why are you standing here the whole day unemployed?' {{rf{7}}} They said to him, 'Because no one hired us.' He said to them, 'You go also into the vineyard.' {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Matthew-19-26]] }}}
{{rf{8}}} And when evening came, the owner of the vineyard said to his manager, 'Call the workers and pay them their wages, beginning from the last up to the first.' {{rf{9}}} And when the ones hired about the eleventh hour came, they received a denarius apiece. {{rf{10}}} And when the first came, they thought that they would receive more, and they also received a denarius apiece. {{rf{11}}} And when they received it, they began to complain against the master of the house, {{rf{12}}} saying, 'These last people worked one hour and you made them equal to us who have endured the burden of the day and the burning heat!' {{rf{13}}} But he answered one of them and said, 'Friend, I am not doing you wrong. Did you not come to an agreement with me for a denarius? {{rf{14}}} Take what is yours and go! But I want to give to this last person the same as I gave to you also. {{rf{15}}} Is it not permitted for me to do whatever I want with what is mine? Or is your eye evil because I am generous?' {{rf{16}}} Thus the last will be first and the first last." {{rf{17}}} And as Jesus was going up to Jerusalem, he took the twelve disciples by themselves and said to them on the way, {{rf{18}}} "Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be handed over to the chief priests and scribes, and they will condemn him to death, {{rf{19}}} and will hand him over to the Gentiles to mock him and flog him and crucify him, and on the third day he will be raised." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Matthew-20-08]] }}}
{{rf{20}}} Then the mother of the sons of Zebedee came up to him with her sons, and kneeling down she asked something from him. {{rf{21}}} And he said to her, "What do you want?" She said to him, "Say that these two sons of mine may sit one at your right hand and one at your left in your kingdom." {{rf{22}}} But Jesus answered and said, "You do not know what you are asking! Are you able to drink the cup that I am about to drink?" They said to him, "We are able." {{rf{23}}} He said to them, "You will indeed drink my cup, but to sit at my right hand and at my left is not mine to grant, but is for those for whom it has been prepared by my Father." {{rf{24}}} And when the ten heard this, they were indignant concerning the two brothers. {{rf{25}}} But Jesus called them to himself and said, "You know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and those in high positions exercise authority over them. {{rf{26}}} It will not be like this among you! But whoever wants to become great among you must be your servant, {{rf{27}}} and whoever wants to be most prominent among you must be your slave -- {{rf{28}}} just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many." {{rf{29}}} And as they were going out of Jericho, a large crowd followed him. {{rf{30}}} And behold, there were two blind men sitting beside the road. When they heard that Jesus was passing by, they called out, saying, "Lord, have mercy on us, Son of David!" {{rf{31}}} And the crowd rebuked them so that they would be quiet. But they called out all the more, saying, "Lord, have mercy on us, Son of David!" {{rf{32}}} And Jesus stopped, called them, and said, "What do you want me to do for you?" {{rf{33}}} They said to him, "Lord, that our eyes be opened!" {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Matthew-20-20]] }}}
<<Bbl Mt 20:31 abbr >> see <<Bbl Mt 19:13 abbr >>
<<Bbl Mt 21:10 abbr >> <<Bbl Mt 2:3 abbr >>
<<Bbl Mt 21:12 abbr >> There was no guarantee that your own choice of a sheep or dove would pass the standards of the Pharisees; much easier to buy the animal (at an exorbitant price, of course). Likewise, the coinage in common use was unacceptable for offering.
<<Bbl Mt 21:13 abbr >> //robbers den// directly alludes to the strong judgment of <<Bbl Jer 7:11 >>.
<<Bbl Mt 21:15 abbr >> These are not silly children. They are worshipful children. Perhaps they hung on in hope over the next days.
<<Bbl Mt 21:25 abbr >> basically Jesus asks what is the source of authority for John. But not John himself; rather his prophetic act, the baptism that announced a new kingdom and confirmed Jesus' ministry. If they say 'from heaven', their question about Jesus is exposed as an act of rebellion. If 'from men', they are seen to flout God's two prophets - the first in ages. The forced reply leaves them in the latter category. This vindicates Jesus in refusing to entertain their question. But having parried the attack, he uses a parable and its explanation to denounce the priests for rejecting John. In confronting his enemies on John's authority, He has implicitly answered the original question. Everyone knows it, and the enemies are deprived of any tactical gain.
21:25 source = authority.
21:26 see vs. 46
21:28 see 15:1-3
21:30 regretted it and went -- the first item alone would not constitute repentance. Sam Hoerster defines repentance as realizing God's will and doing it.
21:34-36 see <<Bbl Jer 7:25 >>
<<Bbl Mt 21:41 abbr >> the priests answer eagerly, for they are blind to the meaning. The trap closes,z in 2145 they understand. Possibly the ones a step further from the action have an easier time discovering the conclusion. Now if they seize him, they fulfill v 39 before everyone. They must act secretly.
<<Bbl Mt 21:41 abbr >> They are the chief priests and elders, see vss. 23, 45.
21:46 see vs. 26.
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22:7 Jerusalem
<<Bbl Mt 22:8 abbr >> //Worthy... both good and evil// (v 10)
<<Bbl Mt 22:21 abbr >> And what is it that bears the image of God? Their hypocrisy is found in focusing on the little thing while secretly and selfishly misusing the big thing.
<<Bbl Mt 22:21 abbr >> render -- my old notes make this to read, "give back". Mike Birch comments that while Caesar's image is on the coin, "in the image of God He made [us]."
22:23 I would rather diagram this:
A who say there is no resurrection
B "Moses said..."
C the ostensible question
C' the answer
B' "which was spoken to you by God"
A' the true answer: "regarding the resurrection from the dead"
<<Bbl Mt 22:30 abbr >> You want to own the woman. Heaven doesn't have ownership of the woman.
<<Bbl Mt 22:32 abbr >>. Not //I was// but //I am//.
<<Bbl Mt 22:35 abbr >> why is this question important? How may it be a trap? Perhaps it lets them classify him by school of interpretation.
22:41-46 [Sec 198: <<Bbl Mk 12:35 >>-37 , <<Bbl L 20:41 >>-11 ]
As the Harmony points out, "by a single rhetorical question He (Jesus) proved from OT Scripture that the Messiah must be both God and man ('Lord' and 'Son')."
In <<Bbl J 1:30 >>, the Baptist aptly provides the answer left implied by Jesus.
<<Bbl Mt 22:45 abbr >> would seem to be evidence for resurrection, but Jesus is not addressing the Sadducees. What is at stake is the truth that Messiah is not human but divine. [[dual]] nature.
<<Bbl Mt 22:45 abbr >> Jesus establishes that Messiah must be divine. But why would the Jews not have examined this for the same conclusion? And why does Jesus bring it up at this point? (And why not with the Sadducees, with v 33?) And why is it received with such force? The obvious resolution is that vv 23-45 is a mixed crowd and v 45 is a return to the discussion of resurrection.
22:46 This verse seems pivotal: Jesus from this point attacks the Pharisees more directly.
{{rf{34}}} And having compassion, Jesus touched their eyes, and immediately they received their sight and followed him. {{rf big{1}}} And when they drew near to Jerusalem and came to Bethphage at the Mount of Olives, then Jesus sent two disciples, {{rf{2}}} saying to them, "Go into the village before you, and right away you will find a donkey tied and a colt with her. Untie them and bring them to me. {{rf{3}}} And if anyone says anything to you, you will say, 'The Lord needs them,' and he will send them at once." {{rf{4}}} Now this took place so that what was spoken through the prophet would be fulfilled, saying, {{rf{5}}} "Say to the daughter of Zion, 'Behold, your king is coming to you, humble and mounted on a donkey, and on a colt, the foal of a pack animal.'" {{rf{6}}} So the disciples went and did just as Jesus directed them, {{rf{7}}} and brought the donkey and the colt and put their cloaks on them, and he sat on them. {{rf{8}}} And a very large crowd spread their cloaks on the road, and others were cutting branches from the trees and spreading them on the road. {{rf{9}}} And the crowds who went ahead of him and the ones who followed were shouting, saying, "Hosanna to the Son of David! Blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord! Hosanna in the highest heaven!" {{rf{10}}} And when he entered into Jerusalem, the whole city was stirred up, saying, "Who is this?" {{rf{11}}} And the crowds were saying, "This is the prophet Jesus from Nazareth of Galilee!" {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Matthew-20-34]] }}}
{{rf{12}}} And Jesus entered the temple courts and drove out all those who were selling and buying in the temple, and overturned the tables of the money changers and the chairs of those who were selling doves. {{rf{13}}} And he said to them, "It is written, 'My house will be called a house of prayer,' but you have made it a cave of robbers!" {{rf{14}}} And the blind and the lame came up to him in the temple courts and he healed them. {{rf{15}}} But when the chief priests and the scribes saw the wonderful things that he did, and the children shouting in the temple courts and saying, "Hosanna to the Son of David!" they were indignant. {{rf{16}}} And they said to him, "Do you hear what these children are saying?" So Jesus said to them, "Yes, have you never read, 'Out of the mouths of children and nursing babies you have prepared for yourself praise'?" {{rf{17}}} And leaving them, he went outside of the city to Bethany and spent the night there. {{rf{18}}} Now early in the morning, as he was returning to the city, he was hungry. {{rf{19}}} And seeing a single fig tree by the road, he went to it and found nothing on it except leaves only. And he said to it, "May there be no more fruit from you forever, and the fig tree withered at once. {{rf{20}}} And when they saw it, the disciples were astonished, saying, "How did the fig tree wither at once?" {{rf{21}}} And Jesus answered and said to them, "Truly I say to you, if you have faith and do not doubt, you will do not only what was done to the fig tree, but even if you say to this mountain, 'Be lifted up and thrown into the sea," it will happen! {{rf{22}}} And whatever you ask in prayer, if you believe, you will receive." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Matthew-21-12]] }}}
{{rf{23}}} And after he arrived at the temple, the chief priests and the elders of the people came up to him while he was teaching, saying, "By what authority are you doing these things? And who gave you this authority?" {{rf{24}}} And Jesus answered and said to them, "I also will ask you one question. If you tell the answer to me, I also will tell you by what authority I am doing these things. {{rf{25}}} From where was the baptism of John -- from heaven or from men?" And they began to discuss this among themselves, saying, "If we say 'From heaven,' he will say to us, 'Why then did you not believe him?' {{rf{26}}} But if we say, 'From men,' we are afraid of the crowd, because they all look upon John as a prophet." {{rf{27}}} And they answered and said to Jesus, "We do not know." And he said to them, "Neither will I tell you by what authority I am doing these things. {{rf{28}}} "Now what do you think? A man had two sons. He approached the first and said, 'Son, go work in the vineyard today.' {{rf{29}}} And he answered and said, 'I do not want to!' But later he changed his mind and went. {{rf{30}}} And he approached the second and said the same thing. So he answered and said, 'I will, sir,' and he did not go. {{rf{31}}} Which of the two did the will of his father?" They said, "The first." Jesus said to them, "Truly I say to you that the tax collectors and the prostitutes are going ahead of you into the kingdom of God! {{rf{32}}} For John came to you in the way of righteousness and you did not believe him, but the tax collectors and the prostitutes did believe him. And when you saw it, you did not even change your minds later so as to believe in him. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Matthew-21-23]] }}}
{{rf{33}}} "Listen to another parable: There was a man -- a master of a house -- who planted a vineyard, and put a fence around it, and dug a winepress in it, and built a watchtower, and leased it to tenant farmers, and went on a journey. {{rf{34}}} And when the season of fruit drew near, he sent his slaves to the tenant farmers to collect his fruit. {{rf{35}}} And the tenant farmers seized his slaves, one of whom they beat, and one of whom they killed, and one of whom they stoned. {{rf{36}}} Again, he sent other slaves, more than the first ones, and they did the same thing to them. {{rf{37}}} So finally he sent his son to them, saying, 'They will respect my son.' {{rf{38}}} But when the tenant farmers saw the son, they said among themselves, 'This is the heir. Come, let us kill him and have his inheritance!' {{rf{39}}} And they seized him and threw him out of the vineyard and killed him. {{rf{40}}} Now when the master of the vineyard arrives, what will he do to those tenant farmers?" {{rf{41}}} They said to him, "He will destroy those evil men completely and lease the vineyard to other tenant farmers who will give him the fruits in their season." {{rf{42}}} Jesus said to them, "Have you never read in the scriptures, 'The stone which the builders rejected, this has become the cornerstone. This came about from the Lord, and it is marvelous in our eyes'? {{rf{43}}} For this reason, I tell you that the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and will be given to a people who produce its fruits. {{rf{44}}} And the one who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces, and the one on whom it falls -- it will crush him!" {{rf{45}}} And when the chief priests and the Pharisees heard his parables, they knew that he was speaking about them, {{rf{46}}} and although they wanted to arrest him, they were afraid of the crowds, because they looked upon him as a prophet. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Matthew-21-33]] }}}
And continuing, Jesus spoke to them again in parables, saying, {{rf{2}}} "The kingdom of heaven may be compared to a man -- a king -- who gave a wedding celebration for his son. {{rf{3}}} And he sent his slaves to summon those who had been invited to the wedding celebration, and they did not want to come. {{rf{4}}} Again he sent other slaves, saying, 'Tell those who have been invited, "Behold, I have prepared my dinner; my oxen and fattened cattle have been slaughtered, and everything is ready. Come to the wedding celebration!" ' {{rf{5}}} But they paid no attention and went away -- this one to his own field, that one to his business. {{rf{6}}} And the others, seizing his slaves, mistreated them and killed them. {{rf{7}}} And the king was angry and sent his troops and destroyed those murderers and burned their city. {{rf{8}}} Then he said to his slaves, 'The wedding celebration is ready, but those who had been invited were not worthy. {{rf{9}}} Therefore, go out to the places where the roads exit the city and invite to the wedding celebration as many people as you find.' {{rf{10}}} And those slaves went out into the roads and gathered everyone whom they found, both evil and good, and the wedding celebration was filled with dinner guests. {{rf{11}}} But when the king came in to see the dinner guests, he saw a man there not dressed in wedding clothes. {{rf{12}}} And he said to him, 'Friend, how did you come in here, not having wedding clothes?' But he could say nothing. {{rf{13}}} Then the king said to the servants, 'Tie him up hand and foot and throw him into the outer darkness. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth!' {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Matthew-22-01]] }}}
{{rf{14}}} For many are called but few are chosen." {{rf{15}}} Then the Pharisees went and consulted so that they could entrap him with a statement. {{rf{16}}} And they sent their disciples to him with the Herodians, saying, "Teacher, we know that you are truthful and teach the way of God in truth, and you do not care what anyone thinks, because you do not regard the opinion of people. {{rf{17}}} Therefore tell us what you think. Is it permitted to pay taxes to Caesar or not?" {{rf{18}}} But because he knew their maliciousness, Jesus said, "Hypocrites! Why are you testing me? {{rf{19}}} Show me the coin for the tax!" So they brought him a denarius. {{rf{20}}} And he said to them, "Whose image and inscription is this?" {{rf{21}}} They said to him, "Caesar's." Then he said to them, "Therefore give to Caesar the things of Caesar, and to God the things of God!" {{rf{22}}} And when they heard this, they were astonished, and they left him and went away. {{rf{23}}} On that day Sadducees -- who say there is no resurrection -- came up to him and asked him, {{rf{24}}} saying, "Teacher, Moses said if someone dies without having children, his brother is to marry his wife and father descendants for his brother. {{rf{25}}} Now there were seven brothers with us. And the first died after getting married, and because he did not have descendants, he left his wife to his brother. {{rf{26}}} So also the second and the third, up to the seventh. {{rf{27}}} And last of all the woman died. {{rf{28}}} In the resurrection, therefore, whose wife of the seven will she be? For they all had her as wife." {{rf{29}}} But Jesus answered and said to them, "You are mistaken, because you do not know the scriptures or the power of God! {{rf{30}}} For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels of God in heaven. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Matthew-22-14]] }}}
{{rf{31}}} Now concerning the resurrection of the dead, have you not read what was spoken to you by God, who said, {{rf{32}}} "I am the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob"? He is not the God of the dead, but of the living!" {{rf{33}}} And when the crowds heard this, they were amazed at his teaching. {{rf{34}}} Now when the Pharisees heard that he had silenced the Sadducees, they assembled at the same place. {{rf{35}}} And one of them, a legal expert, put a question to him to test him: {{rf{36}}} "Teacher, which commandment is greatest in the law?" {{rf{37}}} And he said to him, " 'You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.' {{rf{38}}} This is the greatest and first commandment. {{rf{39}}} And the second is like it: 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.' {{rf{40}}} On these two commandments depend all the law and the prophets." {{rf{41}}} Now while the Pharisees were assembled, Jesus asked them, {{rf{42}}} saying, "What do you think about the Christ? Whose son is he?" They said to him, "David's." {{rf{43}}} He said to them, "How then does David, by the Spirit, call him 'Lord,' saying, {{rf{44}}} 'The Lord said to my Lord, "Sit at my right hand until I put your enemies under your feet" '? {{rf{45}}} If then David calls him 'Lord,' how is he his son?" {{rf{46}}} And no one was able to answer him a word, nor did anyone dare from that day on to ask him any more questions. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Matthew-22-31]] }}}
Then Jesus spoke to the crowds and to his disciples, {{rf{2}}} saying, "The scribes and the Pharisees sit on the seat of Moses. {{rf{3}}} Therefore do and observe everything that they tell you, but do not do as they do, for they tell others to do something and do not do it themselves. {{rf{4}}} And they tie up heavy burdens and put them on people's shoulders, but they themselves are not willing with their finger to move them. {{rf{5}}} And they do all their deeds in order to be seen by people, for they make their phylacteries broad and make their tassels long. {{rf{6}}} And they love the place of honor at banquets and the best seats in the synagogues {{rf{7}}} and the greetings in the marketplaces and to be called 'Rabbi' by people. {{rf{8}}} But you are not to be called 'Rabbi,' because one is your teacher, and you are all brothers, {{rf{9}}} And do not call anyone your father on earth, for one is your heavenly Father. {{rf{10}}} And do not be called teachers, because one is your teacher, the Christ. {{rf{11}}} And the greatest among you will be your servant. {{rf{12}}} And whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted. {{rf{13}}} "But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees -- hypocrites! -- because you shut the kingdom of heaven before people! For you do not enter, nor permit those wanting to go in to enter. {{rf{15}}} "Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees -- hypocrites! -- because you travel around the sea and the dry land to make one convert, and when he becomes one, you make him twice as much a son of hell as you are! {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Matthew-23-01]] }}}
<<Bbl Mt 23:8 abbr >>-10 A vague evocation of the One-In-Three of God.
<<Bbl Mt 23:15 abbr >> sons of Gehenna, the smouldering filth-heap.
23:15 <<Bbl Mal 2:8 >>. The Pharisees are spreading the Law without the Grace, thus people are farther from the Lord than they were before being found by these wicked men.
23:16-23 This might be compared to the writings of scripture and the reference system by which we locate particular passages. Which is more important? By which does God speak?
<<Bbl Mt 23:16 abbr >>ff The Pharisees value what is phungible.
<<Bbl Mt 23:23 abbr >> Herbs were a topic of religious debate: which were foodstuffs? The Pharisee portrayed by Jesus is the most scrupulous.
23:17,19 Fools -- "impious godless men," according to Wuest. "You cannot serve God and mammon." Compare <<Bbl H 6:17 >>, swearing by the greater.
23:25 [[God-AllSeeing]]
23:27 see <<Bbl Ez 13:10 >>
<<Bbl Mt 23:34 abbr >> see <<Bbl Mt 10:19 >>
<<Bbl Mt 23:31 abbr >> The testimony is that their fathers said the same lie. If they said they were the same sort, they could escape the charge. "Your lying act of saying you are not the natural sons of your fathers is a confirmation that you are indeed the natural sons."
<<Bbl Mt 23:32 abbr >> And you will shortly seal this confirmation.
<<Bbl Mt 23:32 abbr >>-36 There are O.T. verses which speak of the measure of a sin being fulfilled; <<Bbl Gn 15:16 >>.
<<Bbl Mt 23:33 abbr >> Again //brood of vipers//, and an allusion to righteous John.
<<Bbl Mt 23:34 abbr >> The Christians.
23:35 There seems to be a reference to vss. 16-22 preceding.
23:37 God gathers. This verse can be given a personal application. See <<Bbl Ps 17:8 >>,<<Bbl Ps 91:4 >>.
<<Bbl Mt 23:38 abbr >> desolate -- Wuest says, "abandoned to its own resources."
<<Bbl Mt 23:39 abbr >> They have had the privilege of seeing Him whether or not they acknowledged His reign, but now they must acknowledge to Him or face //desolation// (v 38). "You have seen me but not acknowledged Me while you could easily do so. Now you will have to acknowledge Me before you can see Me at all."
{{rf{16}}} "Woe to you, blind guides, who say, 'Whoever swears by the temple, it is nothing! But whoever swears by the gold of the temple is bound by his oath.' {{rf{17}}} Fools and blind people! For which is greater, the gold or the temple that makes the gold holy? {{rf{18}}} And, 'Whoever swears by the altar, it is nothing! But whoever swears by the gift that is on it is bound by his oath.' {{rf{19}}} Blind people! For which is greater, the gift or the altar that makes the gift holy? {{rf{20}}} Therefore the one who swears by the altar swears by it and by everything that is on it. {{rf{21}}} And the one who swears by the temple swears by it and by the one who dwells in it. {{rf{22}}} And the one who swears by heaven swears by the throne of God and by the one who sits on it. {{rf{23}}} "Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees -- hypocrites! -- because you pay a tenth of mint and dill and cumin, and neglect the more important matters of the law -- justice and mercy and faithfulness! It was necessary to do these things while not neglecting those. {{rf{24}}} Blind guides who filter out a gnat and swallow a camel! {{rf{25}}} "Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees -- hypocrites! -- because you cleanse the outside of the cup and the dish, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence! {{rf{26}}} Blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of the cup and the dish, so that the outside of it may become clean also. {{rf{27}}} "Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees -- hypocrites! -- because you are like whitewashed tombs which on the outside appear beautiful, but on the inside are full of the bones of the dead and of everything unclean! {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Matthew-23-16]] }}}
{{rf{28}}} In the same way, on the outside you also appear righteous to people, but inside you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness. {{rf{29}}} "Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees -- hypocrites! -- because you build the tombs of the prophets and decorate the graves of the righteous, {{rf{30}}} and you say, 'If we had lived in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partners with them in the blood of the prophets!' {{rf{31}}} Thus you testify against yourselves that you are descendants of those who murdered the prophets! {{rf{32}}} And you -- fill up the measure of your fathers! {{rf{33}}} Serpents! Offspring of vipers! How will you escape from the condemnation to hell? {{rf{34}}} For this reason, behold, I am sending to you prophets and wise men and scribes. Some of them you will kill and crucify, and some of them you will flog in your synagogues and will pursue from town to town, {{rf{35}}} so that upon you will come all the righteous blood shed on the earth from the blood of righteous Abel up to the blood of Zechariah son of Barachiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar. {{rf{36}}} Truly I say to you, all these things will come upon this generation! {{rf{37}}} "Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her! How many times I wanted to gather your children together the way a hen gathers her young together under her wings, and you were not willing! {{rf{38}}} Behold, your house has been left to you desolate! {{rf{39}}} For I tell you, you will never see me from now on until you say, 'Blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord!'" {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Matthew-23-28]] }}}
And as Jesus went out of the temple courts he was going along, and his disciples came up to point out to him the buildings of the temple. {{rf{2}}} But he answered and said to them, "Do you not see all these things? Truly I say to you, not one stone will be left here on another stone that will not be thrown down!" {{rf{3}}} And as he was sitting on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came up to him privately, saying, "Tell us, when will these things happen, and what will be the sign of your coming and of the end of the age?" {{rf{4}}} And Jesus answered and said to them, "Watch out that no one deceives you! {{rf{5}}} For many will come in my name, saying, 'I am the Christ,' and they will deceive many. {{rf{6}}} And you are going to hear about wars and rumors of wars. See to it that you are not alarmed, for this must happen, but the end is not yet. {{rf{7}}} For nation will rise up against nation and kingdom against kingdom, and there will be famines and earthquakes in various places. {{rf{8}}} But all these things are the beginning of birth pains. {{rf{9}}} "Then they will hand you over to persecution and will kill you, and you will be hated by all the nations because of my name. {{rf{10}}} And then many will be led into sin and will betray one another and will hate one another, {{rf{11}}} and many false prophets will appear and will deceive many, {{rf{12}}} and because lawlessness will increase, the love of many will grow cold. {{rf{13}}} But the one who endures to the end -- this person will be saved. {{rf{14}}} And this gospel of the kingdom will be proclaimed in the whole inhabited earth for a testimony to all the nations, and then the end will come. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Matthew-24-01]] }}}
<<Bbl Mt 24:1 abbr >>-02 The true introduction to the end-times teaching.
<<Bbl Mt 24:1 abbr >> The glory of ''Herod's'' architecture impresses the disciples.
<<Bbl Mt 24:3 abbr >>ff FYI. Craig Keener takes vv 6-22 as answering the first question of v 3 and matches vv 15-22 to the cataclysm of AD 70. He believes the command to haste was a way to save many lives for those who believed Him - in particular v 16, because country folk who took refuge in Jerusalem were doomed. Concerning the second question of v 3, Jesus only brings up one //sign// and that is in v 30.
<<Bbl Mt 24:4 abbr >> The theme of perseverance builds and resolves in the parable of the ten virgins.
<<Bbl Mt 24:14 abbr>> the gospel is proclaimed through the entire world and it is a testimony to all nations. The first clause means that there will not be more Pentecost events to take care of everything; instead there will be sending. The second clause means the Gentiles – in exhaustive totality. The second clause also takes us to Ac 17:31 which has the words //all// and //everywhere//.
<<Bbl Mt 24:17 abbr >> Roof access was by an outside stair or ladder.
<<Bbl Mt 24:18 abbr >> A cloak was indispensable; we might say like a smart phone to us.
<<Bbl Mt 24:20 abbr >> Severe trials. Winter was difficult because rivers and steams became full. Sabbath presents a double bind.
<<Bbl Mt 24:31 abbr >> This is expanded in much that follows, particularly <<Bbl Mt 25:31 abbr >>ff.
<<Bbl Mt 24:32 abbr >> The last days will be discernable even though any forecast will be imprecise. This is a response to the question about a sign. A sign will appear only with the event itself (v 30).
<<Bbl Mt 24:42 abbr >> Private parables.
<<Bbl Mt 24:45 abbr >> through 25. Don Carson points out how these parables build on each other. We are first taught to be ready. Then we are taught to act as those who will give an account. Then we are taught to act as those who know it may be a long wait. A talent is a unit of weight. It is agnostic as to what is being weighed, so a talent of gold is worth much more than a talent of silver. The impressive amounts of money indicate that management will be a full-time job, especially as brokerages are not developed. The third servant claims that he was afraid. The master points out that a no-risk opportunity was available through the bank; the inference is that something other than fear motivated the servant, and that must be resentment or rebellion. These really are slaves: not free to hire, but bound to the will of their master. Jesus ends with two shockers. The master says you have done well with little, so I will entrust you with much. This means a momentous role is yet ahead - so our role in God's kingdom. Second, the command to //enter into the joy of your master// does not fit the traditional relationship.
24:45 see <<Bbl J 21:15 >>-17
<<Bbl Mt 24:49 abbr >> drink with drunkards -- this is against God's will.
24:51 see <<Bbl H 4:12 >>, the sword of the Spirit.
{{rf{15}}} "So when you see the abomination of desolation spoken about by the prophet Daniel standing in the holy place" (let the one who reads understand), {{rf{16}}} "then those in Judea must flee to the mountains! {{rf{17}}} The one who is on his housetop must not come down to take things out of his house, {{rf{18}}} and the one who is in the field must not turn back to pick up his cloak. {{rf{19}}} And woe to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing their babies in those days! {{rf{20}}} But pray that your flight may not happen in winter or on a Sabbath. {{rf{21}}} For at that time there will be great tribulation, such as has not happened from the beginning of the world until now, nor ever will happen. {{rf{22}}} And unless those days had been shortened, no human being would be saved. But for the sake of the elect, those days will be shortened. {{rf{23}}} "At that time if anyone should say to you, 'Behold, here is the Christ,' or 'Here he is,' do not believe him! {{rf{24}}} For false messiahs and false prophets will appear, and will produce great signs and wonders in order to deceive, if possible, even the elect. {{rf{25}}} Behold, I have told you ahead of time! {{rf{26}}} Therefore if they say to you, 'Behold, he is in the wilderness,' do not go out, or 'Behold, he is in the inner rooms,' do not believe it! {{rf{27}}} For just as the lightning comes from the east and flashes to the west, so the coming of the Son of Man will be. {{rf{28}}} Wherever the corpse is, there the vultures will gather. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Matthew-24-15]] }}}
{{rf{29}}} "And immediately after the tribulation of those days, 'the sun will be darkened and the moon will not give its light, and the stars will fall from heaven, and the powers of heaven will be shaken.' {{rf{30}}} And then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in heaven, and then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the Son of Man arriving on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. {{rf{31}}} And he will send out his angels with a loud trumpet call, and they will gather his elect together from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other end of it. {{rf{32}}} "Now learn the parable from the fig tree: Whenever its branch has already become tender and puts forth its leaves, you know that summer is near. {{rf{33}}} So also you, when you see all these things, know that he is near, at the door. {{rf{34}}} Truly I say to you that this generation will never pass away until all these things take place! {{rf{35}}} Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away. {{rf{36}}} "But concerning that day and hour no one knows -- not even the angels of heaven nor the Son -- except the Father alone. {{rf{37}}} For just as the days of Noah were, so the coming of the Son of Man will be. {{rf{38}}} For as in the days before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day Noah entered into the ark. {{rf{39}}} And they did not know anything until the deluge came and swept them all away. So also the coming of the Son of Man will be. {{rf{40}}} Then there will be two men in the field; one will be taken and one left. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Matthew-24-29]] }}}
{{rf{41}}} Two women will be grinding at the mill; one will be taken and one left. {{rf{42}}} Therefore be on the alert, because you do not know what day your Lord is coming! {{rf{43}}} But understand this: that if the master of the house had known what watch of the night the thief was coming, he would have stayed awake and would not have let his house be broken into. {{rf{44}}} For this reason you also must be ready, because the Son of Man is coming at an hour that you do not think he will come. {{rf{45}}} "Who then is the faithful and wise slave whom the master has put in charge of his household slaves to give them their food at the right time? {{rf{46}}} Blessed is that slave whom his master will find so doing when he comes back. {{rf{47}}} Truly I say to you that he will put him in charge of all his possessions. {{rf{48}}} But if that evil slave should say to himself, 'My master is staying away for a long time,' {{rf{49}}} and he begins to beat his fellow slaves and eats and drinks with drunkards, {{rf{50}}} the master of that slave will come on a day that he does not expect and at an hour that he does not know, {{rf{51}}} and will cut him in two and assign his place with the hypocrites. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth! {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Matthew-24-41]] }}}
"Then the kingdom of heaven may be compared to ten virgins who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom. {{rf{2}}} Now five of them were foolish and five were wise. {{rf{3}}} For when the foolish ones took their lamps, they did not take olive oil with them. {{rf{4}}} But the wise ones took olive oil in flasks with their lamps. {{rf{5}}} And when the bridegroom was delayed, they all became drowsy and fell asleep. {{rf{6}}} But in the middle of the night there was a shout, 'Behold, the bridegroom! Come out to meet him!' {{rf{7}}} Then all those virgins woke up and trimmed their lamps. {{rf{8}}} And the foolish ones said to the wise ones, 'Give us some of your olive oil, because our lamps are going out!' {{rf{9}}} But the wise ones answered saying, "Certainly there will never be enough for us and for you! Go instead to those who sell olive oil and buy some for yourselves.' {{rf{10}}} But while they had gone away to buy it the bridegroom arrived, and those who were ready went inside with him to the wedding celebration, and the door was shut. {{rf{11}}} And later the other virgins came also, saying, 'Lord, lord, open the door for us!' {{rf{12}}} But he answered and said, 'Truly I say to you, I do not know you!' {{rf{13}}} Therefore be on the alert, because you do not know the day or the hour! {{rf{14}}} For it is like a man going on a journey. He summoned his own slaves and handed over his property to them. {{rf{15}}} And to one he gave five talents, and to another two, and to another one, to each one according to his own ability, and he went on a journey immediately. {{rf{16}}} The one who had received the five talents went out and traded with them and gained five more. {{rf{17}}} In the same way the one who had the two gained two more. {{rf{18}}} But the one who had received the one went away and dug up the ground and hid his master's money. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Matthew-25-01]] }}}
<<Bbl Mt 25:1 abbr >>ff Carson describes the wedding procession as an informal parade that wends its way in the night from the small ceremony at the home of the bride to the main event at the home of the groom. The groom is the focus culturally, which is connected to the fact that he is paying for the event. (Just as today the bride's family is paying for everything and she is the center of attention.) The greater the wealth, the larger the ceremony, and the bigger the wedding processional. For a lavish event there will be all sorts of delays, and more people will be interested, and the more uncertain will be the time of its occurrence. So these lamps are not little night-lights for use in the hallway, but torches with an oil reservoir for navigating a dark but busy street.
<<Bbl Mt 25:12 abbr >> It won't even seen fair. It's a zero-sum game (25:9, 25:29). Consequences are simplified, 25:33, and so also the means of analysis, 26:45.
25:15 see <<Bbl 2C 8:12 >>
<<Bbl Mt 25:15 abbr >> We complain about our "small allotment", but the opportunity is the same. Interestingly, the allotment does reflect the outcome. And there is no inadequacy. [[Provide]].
<<Bbl Mt 25:15 abbr >>-17 ref <<Bbl Mt 13:23 abbr >>.
25:21 @@color:darkblue;''//Your boss is thrilled with you!//''@@
<<Bbl Mt 25:24 abbr >> The servant is wicked for rejecting God's gift. He does this by saying //where you did not sow.// <<Bbl L 15:29 >>
25:24 With the words //where you did not sow//, the wicked servant in effect says, "Master, you gave me nothing." He refuses to acknowledge God's gifts as well as God's right or authority to expect a return. In "R.A.A." terms, the servant claims he was given the responsibility and now the accountability, but never the authority (as resources). As with so many [[Parable]]s, we are invited to consider that things are not as they appear in God's perspective. The final judgment will reveal the laziness and selfishness we could not clearly perceive in others (or ourselves) while on earth.
<<Bbl Mt 25:30 abbr >> see <<Bbl Ex 31:6 >>. Contrary to the egalitarian philosophy, disproportions in this world are going to grow instead of diminish.
<<Bbl Mt 25:31 abbr >>ff. He separates the nations. But what follows (34-46), we apply as to individuals. See <<Bbl Ez 34:16 >>-17. [[Election]]
<<Bbl Mt 25:40 abbr >> see <<Bbl Pr 14:31 >>, <<Bbl Pr 19:17 >>, <<Bbl Mt 10:45>>
<<Bbl Mt 25:41 abbr >> see <<Bbl 2P 2:4 >>
{{rf{19}}} Now after a long time, the master of those slaves came and settled accounts with them. {{rf{20}}} And the one who had received the five talents came up and brought five more talents, saying, 'Master, you handed over to me five talents. See, I have gained five more talents!' {{rf{21}}} His master said to him, 'Well done, good and faithful slave! You were faithful over a few things; I will put you in charge over many things. Enter into the joy of your master!' {{rf{22}}} And the one who had the two talents also came up and said, 'Master, you handed over to me two talents. See, I have gained two talents more!' {{rf{23}}} His master said to him, 'Well done, good and faithful slave! You were faithful over a few things; I will put you in charge over many things. Enter into the joy of your master!' {{rf{24}}} And the one who had received the one talent came up also and said, 'Master, because I knew you, that you are a hard man, reaping where you did not sow and gathering from where you did not scatter seed. {{rf{25}}} And because I was afraid, I went away and hid your talent in the ground. See, you have what is yours!' {{rf{26}}} But his master answered and said to him, 'Evil and lazy slave! You knew that I reap where I did not sow and gather from where I did not scatter seed. {{rf{27}}} Then you ought to have deposited my money with the bankers, and when I returned I would have gotten back what was mine with interest! {{rf{28}}} Therefore take the talent from him and give it to the one who has the ten talents. {{rf{29}}} For to everyone who has, more will be given, and he will have an abundance. But from the one who does not have, even what he has will be taken away from him. {{rf{30}}} And throw the worthless slave into the outer darkness -- in that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth!' {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Matthew-25-19]] }}}
{{rf{31}}} Now when the Son of Man comes in his glory and all the angels with him, then he will sit on his glorious throne. {{rf{32}}} And all the nations will be gathered before him, and he will separate them from one another like a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. {{rf{33}}} And he will place the sheep on his right and the goats on the left. {{rf{34}}} Then the king will say to those on his right, 'Come, you who are blessed by my Father. Inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world! {{rf{35}}} For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me as a guest, {{rf{36}}} I was naked and you clothed me, I was sick and you cared for me, I was in prison and you came to me.' {{rf{37}}} Then the righteous will answer him, saying, 'Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you something to drink? {{rf{38}}} And when did we see you a stranger and welcome you as a guest, or naked and clothe you? {{rf{39}}} And when did we see you sick or in prison and come to you?' {{rf{40}}} And the king will answer and say to them, 'Truly I say to you, in as much as you did it to one of the least of these brothers of mine, you did it to me.' {{rf{41}}} Then he will also say to those on his left, 'Depart from me, you accursed ones, into the eternal fire that has been prepared for the devil and his angels! {{rf{42}}} For I was hungry and you did not give me anything to eat, I was thirsty and you did not give me anything to drink, {{rf{43}}} I was a stranger and you did not welcome me as a guest, naked and you did not clothe me, sick and in prison and you did not care for me.' {{rf{44}}} Then they will also answer, saying, 'Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison and not serve you?' {{rf{45}}} Then he will answer them, saying, 'Truly I say to you, in as much as you did not do it to one of the least of these, you did not do it to me.' {{rf{46}}} And these will depart into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Matthew-25-31]] }}}
{{rf big{1}}} And it happened that when Jesus had finished all these sayings, he said to his disciples, {{rf{2}}} "You know that after two days the Passover takes place, and the Son of Man will be handed over in order to be crucified." {{rf{3}}} Then the chief priests and the elders of the people assembled in the palace of the high priest, who was named Caiaphas, {{rf{4}}} and plotted in order that they could arrest Jesus by stealth and kill him. {{rf{5}}} But they were saying, "Not during the feast, so that there will not be an uproar among the people." {{rf{6}}} Now while Jesus was at Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, {{rf{7}}} a woman came up to him holding an alabaster flask of very expensive perfumed oil, and poured it out on his head while he was reclining at table. {{rf{8}}} And when the disciples saw it they were indignant, saying, "Why this waste? {{rf{9}}} For this could have been sold for a large sum and given to the poor!" {{rf{10}}} But Jesus, knowing this, said to them, "Why do you cause trouble for the woman? For she has done a good deed for me. {{rf{11}}} For the poor you always have with you, but you do not always have me. {{rf{12}}} For when this woman poured this ointment on my body, she did it in order to prepare me for burial. {{rf{13}}} Truly I say to you, wherever this gospel is proclaimed in the whole world, what this woman has done will also be told in memory of her." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Matthew-26-01]] }}}
<<Bbl Mt 26:7 abbr >>. This moment is incomprehensible in our culture (but clearly not in theirs). How does this not violate his personal space? How is the entry of the fragrance not itself a violation? What about environment allergies? We start by assuming the fragrance is delightful. And there is a social protocol for this. [[Honor]].
<<Bbl Mt 26:10 abbr >>-13 counter part to the widow's mite.
26:11 see <<Bbl Dt 15:11 >>
<<Bbl Mt 26:15 abbr >>. This is the kind of dealing he was deprived of in v 9.
<<Bbl Mt 26:16 abbr >>. Judas joins the quest of the Pharisees in 2624, which is the quest of Satan in <<Bbl L 4:13 >>.
<<Bbl Mt 26:23 abbr >> the term itself, betrayal, implies intimacy. Cf 26:49: kissing is the gesture we associate with intimacy, but for Jews, I suppose this verse would be far more significant.
26:27 all of you -- as if to stress the inclusion of Judas.
26:28 K.J.V. uses the term "new testament". (Oddly, this suddenly reminds me of taking communion at the Sargeant's home. Thank you, God for deliverence.)
Poured out refers idiomatically to violent death; compare the same verb in 23:35.
26:26 -- the Mediator
26:29 see 27:34
26:35 All the disciples agreed that none among them would deny Christ. But the Lord singles out Peter. All the more interesting, then, he made it further than anyone. He was willing to swing a sword and to enter the enemy's courtyard.
{{rf{14}}} Then one of the twelve, the one named Judas Iscariot, went to the chief priests {{rf{15}}} and said, "What are you willing to give me if I in turn deliver him to you?" So they set out for him thirty silver coins. {{rf{16}}} And from that time on, he began seeking a favorable opportunity in order that he could betray him. {{rf{17}}} Now on the first day of the feast of Unleavened Bread the disciples came up to Jesus, saying, "Where do you want us to prepare for you to eat the Passover?" {{rf{18}}} And he said, "Go into the city to a certain man and tell him, 'The Teacher says, "My time is near. I am celebrating the Passover with you with my disciples." ' {{rf{19}}} And the disciples did as Jesus directed them, and they prepared the Passover. {{rf{20}}} And when it was evening, he was reclining at table with the twelve disciples. {{rf{21}}} And while they were eating he said, "Truly I say to you, that one of you will betray me." {{rf{22}}} And greatly distressed, each one began to say to him, "Surely I am not he, am I, Lord?" {{rf{23}}} And he answered and said, "The one who dips his hand in the bowl with me -- this one will betray me. {{rf{24}}} The Son of Man is going just as it is written about him, but woe to that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would be better for him if that man had not been born." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Matthew-26-14]] }}}
{{rf{25}}} And Judas, the one who was betraying him, answered and said, "Surely I am not he, am I, Rabbi?" He said to him, "You have said it." {{rf{26}}} Now while they were eating Jesus took bread and, after giving thanks, he broke it, and giving it to the disciples, he said, "Take, eat, this is my body." {{rf{27}}} And after taking the cup and giving thanks he gave it to them, saying, "Drink from it, all of you, {{rf{28}}} for this is my blood of the covenant which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins. {{rf{29}}} But I tell you, from now on I will never drink of this fruit of the vine until that day when I drink it new with you in the kingdom of my Father." {{rf{30}}} And after they had sung the hymn, they went out to the Mount of Olives. {{rf{31}}} Then Jesus said to them, "You will all fall away because of me during this night, for it is written, 'I will strike the shepherd and the sheep of the flock will be scattered.' {{rf{32}}} But after I am raised, I will go ahead of you into Galilee." {{rf{33}}} But Peter answered and said to him, "If they all fall away because of you, I will never fall away!" {{rf{34}}} Jesus said to him, "Truly I say to you that during this night, before the rooster crows, you will deny me three times!" {{rf{35}}} Peter said to him, "Even if it is necessary for me to die with you, I will never deny you!" And all the disciples said the same thing. {{rf{36}}} Then Jesus went with them to a place called Gethsemane, and he said to the disciples, "Sit here while I go over there and pray." {{rf{37}}} And taking along Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, he began to be distressed and troubled. {{rf{38}}} Then he said to them, "My soul is deeply grieved, to the point of death. Remain here and stay awake with me." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Matthew-26-25]] }}}
26:36 I have read that //Gethsemane// means wine press. Our Lord was pressed and poured out, with //sweat like blood.//
<<Bbl Mt 26:39 abbr >> //Fell on his face// suggests an eyewitness. The recording of Christ's prayer in John 17 as well.
<<Bbl Mt 26:40 abbr >> implied correction to Peter's confidence of v 35. There is more: Peter boasted of his readiness for allegiance which is expressed superficially, and Jesus comments on his unreadiness for the deeper allegiance of companionship in trial.
<<Bbl Mt 26:41 abbr >>b. Is this irony? See v35. For Peter's ''spirit'' is wavering. Paul's self-description sees two laws at work, but Peter is not yet in that spiritual condition - there is only one law. Flesh may have two meanings in this statement.
26:41 Maria Trapp translated this as //The ghost is willing, but the meat is soft.// (2017-11, Odd note to find here; I suppose it refers to Maria Von Trapp?)
<<Bbl Mt 26:45 abbr >>-46. He anticipates the arrival of the persecutors. The last and greatest of these proleptic statements leading up to the passion. THIS VERSE IS MATTHEW'S KEYNOTE.
26:51 //Lead us not into temptation// -- Peter is in the heat of trial.
26:52 Jesus calms another storm.
<<Bbl Mt 26:53 abbr>> Possibly 432,000 angels. Jesus could have summoned the host not as an act of retaliation but simple self-defense. As a Man, to seek safety would have been lawful and justified, and as God He could have had it. But the situation was unique, as was His understanding of it. The demonstration of God's strength at this hour requires a taking up of weakness.
<<Bbl Mt 26:63 abbr >> The question does not refer to diety, but to David's throne ([[SonOfGod]]).
26:63 Jesus heeds the law of <<Bbl Lv 5:1 >>.
<<Bbl Mt 26:65 abbr >> see <<Bbl Ps 35:21 >>
<<Bbl Mt 26:68 abbr >>-69. His persecutors are allowed to go unidentified. Conversely, His supporter is forced to be identified.
<<Bbl Mt 26:73 abbr >>-74 //the way you talk// - so he alters his talk.
<<Bbl Mt 26:75 abbr >> Compare <<Bbl Mt 27:5 abbr>>.
{{rf{39}}} And going forward a little he fell down on his face, praying and saying, "My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from me. Nevertheless, not as I will, but as you will." {{rf{40}}} And he came to the disciples and found them sleeping, and he said to Peter, "So, were you not able to stay awake with me one hour? {{rf{41}}} Stay awake and pray that you will not enter into temptation. The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak!" {{rf{42}}} Again for the second time he went away and prayed, saying, "My Father, if this cannot pass unless I drink it, your will must be done." {{rf{43}}} And he came again and found them sleeping, for they could not keep their eyes open. {{rf{44}}} And leaving them again, he went away and prayed for the third time, saying the same thing again. {{rf{45}}} Then he came to the disciples and said to them, "Are you still sleeping and resting? Behold, the hour is near, and the Son of Man is being betrayed into the hands of sinners. {{rf{46}}} Get up, let us go! Behold, the one who is betraying me is approaching!" {{rf{47}}} And while he was still speaking, behold, Judas -- one of the twelve -- arrived, and with him a large crowd with swords and clubs, from the chief priests and elders of the people. {{rf{48}}} Now the one who was betraying him had given them a sign, saying, "The one whom I kiss -- he is the one. Arrest him!" {{rf{49}}} And he came up to Jesus immediately and said, "Greetings, Rabbi," and kissed him. {{rf{50}}} And Jesus said to him, "Friend, do that for which you have come." Then they came up and laid hands on Jesus and arrested him. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Matthew-26-39]] }}}
{{rf{51}}} And behold, one of those with Jesus extended his hand and drew his sword, and striking the slave of the high priest, cut off his ear. {{rf{52}}} Then Jesus said to him, "Put your sword back into its place! For all who take up the sword will die by the sword. {{rf{53}}} Or do you think that I cannot call upon my Father, and he would put at my disposal at once more than twelve legions of angels? {{rf{54}}} How then would the scriptures be fulfilled that it must happen in this way?" {{rf{55}}} At that time Jesus said to the crowds, "Have you come out with swords and clubs, as against a robber, to arrest me? Every day in the temple courts I sat teaching, and you did not arrest me! {{rf{56}}} But all this has happened in order that the scriptures of the prophets would be fulfilled." Then the disciples all abandoned him and fled. {{rf{57}}} Now those who had arrested Jesus led him away to Caiaphas the high priest, where the scribes and the elders had gathered. {{rf{58}}} But Peter was following him from a distance, as far as the courtyard of the high priest. And he went inside and was sitting with the officers to see the outcome. {{rf{59}}} Now the chief priests and the whole Sanhedrin were looking for false testimony against Jesus in order that they could put him to death. {{rf{60}}} And they did not find it, although many false witnesses came forward. And finally two came forward {{rf{61}}} and said, "This man said, 'I am able to destroy the temple of God and rebuild it within three days.'" {{rf{62}}} And the high priest stood up and said to him, "Do you reply nothing? What are these people testifying against you?" {{rf{63}}} But Jesus was silent. And the high priest said to him, "I put you under oath by the living God, that you tell us if you are the Christ, the Son of God!" {{rf{64}}} Jesus said to him, "You have said it. But I tell you, from now on you will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of the Power and coming on the clouds of heaven." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Matthew-26-51]] }}}
{{rf{65}}} Then the high priest tore his robes, saying, "He has blasphemed! What further need do we have of witnesses? Behold, you have just now heard the blasphemy! {{rf{66}}} What do you think?" And they answered and said, "He deserves death!" {{rf{67}}} Then they spat in his face and struck him with their fists, and they slapped him, {{rf{68}}} saying, "Prophesy for us, you Christ! Who is it who hit you?" {{rf{69}}} Now Peter was sitting outside in the courtyard, and a female slave came up to him and said, "You also were with Jesus the Galilean." {{rf{70}}} But he denied it in the presence of them all, saying, "I do not know what you mean!" {{rf{71}}} And when he went out to the gateway, another female slave saw him and said to those who were there, "This man was with Jesus the Nazarene." {{rf{72}}} And again he denied it with an oath, "I do not know the man!" {{rf{73}}} And after a little while those who were standing there came up and said to Peter, "You really are one of them also, because even your accent reveals who you are." {{rf{74}}} Then he began to curse and to swear with an oath, "I do not know the man!" And immediately a rooster crowed. {{rf{75}}} And Peter remembered the statement Jesus had said, "Before the rooster crows, you will deny me three times," and he went outside and wept bitterly. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Matthew-26-65]] }}}
Now when it was early morning, all the chief priests and the elders of the people took counsel against Jesus in order to put him to death. {{rf{2}}} And after tying him up, they led him away and handed him over to Pilate the governor. {{rf{3}}} Then when Judas, the one who had betrayed him, saw that he had been condemned, he regretted what he had done and returned the thirty silver coins to the chief priests and elders, {{rf{4}}} saying, "I have sinned by betraying innocent blood!" But they said, "What is that to us? You see to it!" {{rf{5}}} And throwing the silver coins into the temple he departed. And he went away and hanged himself. {{rf{6}}} But the chief priests took the silver coins and said, "It is not permitted to put them into the temple treasury, because it is blood money." {{rf{7}}} And after taking counsel, they purchased with them the Potter's Field, for a burial place for strangers. {{rf{8}}} (For this reason that field has been called the Field of Blood until today.) {{rf{9}}} Then what was spoken by the prophet Jeremiah was fulfilled, who said, "And they took the thirty silver coins, the price of the one who had been priced, on whom a price had been set by the sons of Israel, {{rf{10}}} and they gave them for the potter's field, just as the Lord directed me." {{rf{11}}} So Jesus stood before the governor, and the governor asked him, saying, "Are you the king of the Jews?" And Jesus said, "You say so." {{rf{12}}} And when he was being accused by the chief priests and elders he answered nothing. {{rf{13}}} Then Pilate said to him, "Do you not hear how many things they are testifying against you?" {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Matthew-27-01]] }}}
* King of Jews. Save others. Come down from the cross. These are compound ironies as Jesus is mocked. The mockers employ irony, and the final irony is how wrong they are and how true the words are if only the mistaken miscreant irony is removed. Come down and we'll believe. What if he had? They would have believed...something. He could not save others and also save himself.
27:4 Judas shows more of his character by going to the priests with a confession of sin. I wonder what is behind the priests' response?
27:9 This statement, which Matthew ascribes to Jeremiah, is actually Zach 11:12.
<<Bbl Mt 27:10 abbr >> and 28 record 2 vigils: the soldiers assigned to verify his death, and the women longing to vindicate his life. The women win, 28:8-11.
27:25 see <<Bbl Ez 18:13 >>
<<Bbl Mt 27:29 abbr >> //thorns// -- an injury made possible through original trespass, <<Bbl Gn 3:18 >>.
<<Bbl Mt 27:34 abbr >> see 26:29
27:45 see <<Bbl I 54:8 >>; <<Bbl Ex 15:26 >>. Three hours, three days.
<<Bbl Mt 27:46 abbr >> In the context of Psalm 22, this is more than a cry of despair: it is also an announcement of final utter triumph.
27:51-54 Indeed, no one in Jerusalem doubts that His death is significant. What is going on in God's heart at this point?
<<Bbl Mt 27:51 abbr >> Spurgeon for April 19 morning. As rending the garment in grief, or as decommissioning the sacred vestment. Our Lord's tunic was not torn, while the temple's inner garment was.
27:51 In a poetic sense, it seems the Lord is rending His clothing in the form of the Temple veil. I have always heard that God indicates in this that the Holy of Holies is now open to all. I've never been satisfied with this and now (2/91) it seems possible to me that perhaps He was just revealing the inadaquacy of, first, the old covenant, and second, the Pharisaic accretions.
27:56 see <<Bbl Mt 20:20 abbr >>
<<Bbl Mt 27:64 abbr >> Pilate refused them, it seems his subtle aggression is at work. The soldiers are of Rome, v 14. Perhaps they were also Jews.
27:66 see <<Bbl Dan 6:17 >>
{{holyquote{
All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. 19 Therefore, go and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 teaching them to observe everything I have commanded you, and behold, I am with you all the days until the end of the age.}}}
<<Bbl Mt 28:18 abbr >>-20 The Great Commission is a chiasmus that opens and closes with omnipresence.
** See four instances of //All// -- authority, nations, commands, days. These are all the same word: @@πᾶς@@.
** //All authority// is the same basic phrase found in <<Bbl L 4:6 >>. Christ rejected Satan's offer and secured the offer of the Father.
** The structure of //I, you; you, I// is also found in a strikingly similar commission, <<Bbl Josh 1:9 >>
** @@color:indigo;When Jesus said, 'Go, make disciples of all nations,' he announced in the simplest and least ostentatious way the most original, the broadest, the sublimest enterprise that ever human beings have been called upon to accomplish.@@ // - Wm. Hanna, quoted by J. Broadus.//
** [[Discipleship]] is commanded and even eludicated in the command.
{{rf{14}}} And he did not reply to him, not even with reference to one statement, so that the governor was very astonished. {{rf{15}}} Now at each feast, the governor was accustomed to release one prisoner to the crowd -- the one whom they wanted. {{rf{16}}} And at that time they had a notorious prisoner named Jesus Barabbas. {{rf{17}}} So after they had assembled, Pilate said to them, "Whom do you want me to release for you -- Jesus Barabbas or Jesus who is called Christ?" {{rf{18}}} (For he knew that they had handed him over because of envy. {{rf{19}}} And while he was sitting on the judgment seat, his wife sent a message to him, saying, "Have nothing to do with that righteous man, for I have suffered much as a result of a dream today because of him.") {{rf{20}}} But the chief priests and the elders persuaded the crowds that they should ask for Barabbas and put Jesus to death. {{rf{21}}} So the governor answered and said to them, "Which of the two do you want me to release for you?" And they said, "Barabbas!" {{rf{22}}} Pilate said to them, "What then should I do with Jesus, the one who is called Christ?" They all said, "Let him be crucified!" {{rf{23}}} And he said, "Why? What wrong has he done?" But they began to shout even louder, saying, "Let him be crucified!" {{rf{24}}} So Pilate, when he saw that he was accomplishing nothing, but instead an uproar was developing, took water and washed his hands before the crowd, saying, "I am innocent of the blood of this man. You see to it!" {{rf{25}}} And all the people answered and said, "His blood be on us and on our children!" {{rf{26}}} Then he released Barabbas for them, but after he had Jesus flogged, he handed him over so that he could be crucified. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Matthew-27-14]] }}}
{{rf{27}}} Then the soldiers of the governor took Jesus into the governor's residence and gathered the whole cohort to him. {{rf{28}}} And they stripped him and put a scarlet military cloak around him, {{rf{29}}} and weaving a crown of thorns, they put it on his head, and put a reed in his right hand. And kneeling down before him, they mocked him, saying, "Hail, king of the Jews!" {{rf{30}}} And they spat on him and took the reed and repeatedly struck him on his head. {{rf{31}}} And when they had mocked him, they stripped him of the military cloak and put his own clothes on him, and led him away in order to crucify him. {{rf{32}}} And as they were going out, they found a man of Cyrene named Simon. They forced this man to carry his cross. {{rf{33}}} And when they came to a place called Golgotha (which means Place of a Skull), {{rf{34}}} they gave him wine mixed with gall to drink, and when he tasted it he did not want to drink it. {{rf{35}}} And when they had crucified him, they divided his clothes among themselves by casting lots. {{rf{36}}} And they sat down and were watching over him there. {{rf{37}}} And they put above his head the charge against him in writing: "This is Jesus, the king of the Jews." {{rf{38}}} Then two robbers were crucified with him, one on his right and one on his left. {{rf{39}}} And those who passed by reviled him, shaking their heads {{rf{40}}} and saying, "The one who would destroy the temple and rebuild it in three days, save yourself! If you are the Son of God, come down from the cross!" {{rf{41}}} In the same way also the chief priests, along with the scribes and elders, were mocking him, saying, {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Matthew-27-27]] }}}
{{rf{42}}} "He saved others; he is not able to save himself! He is the king of Israel! Let him come down now from the cross, and we will believe in him! {{rf{43}}} He trusts in God; let him deliver him now if he wants to, because he said, 'I am the Son of God'!" {{rf{44}}} And in the same way even the robbers who were crucified with him were reviling him. {{rf{45}}} Now from the sixth hour, darkness came over all the land until the ninth hour. {{rf{46}}} And about the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a loud voice, saying, "Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?" (that is, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?") {{rf{47}}} And some of those who were standing there, when they heard it, said, "This man is summoning Elijah!" {{rf{48}}} And immediately one of them ran and took a sponge and filled it with sour wine and put it on a reed and gave it to him to drink. {{rf{49}}} But the others said, "Leave him alone! let us see if Elijah is coming to save him." {{rf{50}}} And Jesus cried out again with a loud voice and gave up his spirit. {{rf{51}}} And behold, the curtain of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom, and the earth shook and the rocks were split. {{rf{52}}} And the tombs were opened, and many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised, {{rf{53}}} and coming out of the tombs after his resurrection, they went into the holy city and appeared to many. {{rf{54}}} Now the centurion and those with him who were guarding Jesus, when they saw the earthquake and the things that took place, were extremely frightened, saying, "Truly this man was God's Son!" {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Matthew-27-42]] }}}
{{rf{55}}} And there were many women there, observing from a distance, who had followed Jesus from Galilee, serving him, {{rf{56}}} among whom were Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James and Joseph, and the mother of the sons of Zebedee. {{rf{57}}} Now when it was evening, a rich man from Arimathea named Joseph came, who also was a disciple of Jesus himself. {{rf{58}}} This man approached Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus. Then Pilate ordered it to be given to him. {{rf{59}}} And Joseph took the body and wrapped it in a clean linen cloth, {{rf{60}}} and placed it in his own new tomb that he had cut in the rock. And he rolled a large stone to the entrance of the tomb and went away. {{rf{61}}} Now Mary Magdalene and the other Mary were there, sitting opposite the tomb. {{rf{62}}} Now on the next day, which is after the day of preparation, the chief priests and the Pharisees assembled before Pilate, {{rf{63}}} saying, "Sir, we remember that while that deceiver was still alive he said, 'After three days I will rise.' {{rf{64}}} Therefore give orders that the tomb be made secure until the third day, lest his disciples come and steal him and tell the people, 'He has been raised from the dead,' and the last deception will be worse than the first." {{rf{65}}} Pilate said to them, "You have a guard of soldiers. Go, make it as secure as you know how." {{rf{66}}} So they went with the guard of soldiers and made the tomb secure by sealing the stone. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Matthew-27-55]] }}}
Now after the Sabbath, at the dawning on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary came to view the tomb. {{rf{2}}} And behold, there was a great earthquake, for an angel of the Lord descended from heaven and came up and rolled away the stone and sat down on it. {{rf{3}}} Now his appearance was like lightning and his clothing white as snow. {{rf{4}}} And the guards trembled from the fear of him and became like dead men. {{rf{5}}} But the angel answered and said to the women, "Do not be afraid, for I know that you are looking for Jesus, who was crucified. {{rf{6}}} He is not here, for he has been raised, just as he said. Come, see the place where he was lying. {{rf{7}}} And go quickly, tell his disciples, 'He has been raised from the dead, and behold, he is going ahead of you into Galilee. You will see him there.' Behold, I have told you." {{rf{8}}} And they departed quickly from the tomb with fear and great joy, and ran to tell his disciples. {{rf{9}}} And behold, Jesus met them, saying, "Greetings!" And they came up and took hold of his feet and worshiped him. {{rf{10}}} Then Jesus said to them, "Do not be afraid! Go tell my brothers that they should go to Galilee, and there they will see me." {{rf{11}}} And while they were going, behold, some of the guard of soldiers went into the city and reported to the chief priests everything that had happened. {{rf{12}}} And after they had assembled with the elders and had taken counsel, they gave a rather large sum of money to the soldiers, {{rf{13}}} telling them, "Say 'His disciples came during the night and stole him while we were sleeping.' {{rf{14}}} And if this matter is heard before the governor, we will satisfy him and keep you out of trouble." {{rf{15}}} So they took the money and did as they were told, and spread abroad this report among the Jews until this very day. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Matthew-28-01]] }}}
{{rf{16}}} So the eleven disciples proceeded to Galilee, to the mountain which Jesus had designated for them. {{rf{17}}} And when they saw him, they worshiped him, but some doubted. {{rf{18}}} And Jesus approached and spoke to them, saying, "All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. {{rf{19}}} Therefore, go and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, {{rf{20}}} teaching them to observe everything I have commanded you, and behold, I am with you all the days until the end of the age." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Matthew-28-16]] }}}
!! Immaturity
* Many young believers are remarkably superstitious -- especially those in charismatic churches.
/***
|''Name''|MediaWikiTableFormatterPlugin|
|''Description''|Allows MediaWiki style tables in TiddlyWiki|
|''Author''|Martin Budden (mjbudden (at) gmail (dot) com)|
|''Contributors''|FND|
|''Version''|0.1.2|
|''Status''|stable|
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|''License''|[[Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 License|http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/]]|
|''~CoreVersion:''|2.1.0|
!Description
Enables [[MediaWiki|http://www.mediawiki.org]]'s table markup in TiddlyWiki, allowing for multi-line contents within table cells.
(Note that all TiddlyWiki markup still applies.)
!Usage
Detailed documentation available at [[MediaWiki.org|http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Tables]].
!!Examples
{{{
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! Heading 3
|-
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| row 1, column 3
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| row 2, column 3
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}}}
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! Heading 3
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!Revision History
!!v0.1 (2008-10-31)
* initial release
!!v0.1.2 (2008-11-05)
* removed unnecessary code
!Code
***/
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alertAndThrow('MediaWikiTableFormatterPlugin requires TiddlyWiki 2.1 or later.');
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w.nextMatch = w.matchStart;
var table = MediaWikiTemplate.createElement(w.output,'table');
var tbody = MediaWikiTemplate.createElement(table,'tbody'); // required for IE
var mwt = new MediaWikiTemplate();
mwt.wikifyTable(tbody,w,pair);
}
}
});
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this.stack = [];
this.error = false;
this.tiddler = null;
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* <<Bbl I 26:13 >>
* <<Bbl I 39:16 >>
* <<Bbl Jer 30:21 >>
* <<Bbl Job 33:23 >>-24
* <<Bbl A 4:12 >>
* <<Bbl 1Tim 2:5 >>-6
* <<Bbl H 9:15 >>
* <<Bbl J 3:16 >>
* [[Covenant]]
* [[Priest]]
* [[Intercede]]
!!! Genesis 14: the Priest
* <<Bbl Gn 14:18 >>-20
* Abrupt insertion of Melchizedek. (Try reading with it omitted.)
* A startling omission of genealogy.
* A foil to Sodom.
!!! Psalm 110: Messiah the Priest
* <<Bbl Ps 110:4 >>
* The prophet says Elijah will return. But the psalmist says not that Melchizedek will return, but a priest //in the order of//.
!!! Hebrews 5-7: Jesus the Messiah
* <<Bbl H 5:6 >>-11 , <<Bbl H 6:20 0 >>, <<Bbl H 7:1>>-22
* These present a very full type of Christ as our High [[Priest]].
* The writer of Hebrews declares Melchizedek to be immortal on the basis of having no genealogy, and urgently presses the importance of this.
* Hebrews' use of //resemble// does not support a theophany.
!! Progressive revelation
* Each successive treatment seems audacious and thrilling. The Psalmist //must know// he is writing by God's inspiration; the writer to the Hebrews also //must know//.
* An arresting example of the [[Scripture]]'s plenary authority.
* see <<Bbl 1S 2:8 >>.
* His life is found in five passages: <<Bbl 2S 4:4 >>, <<Bbl 2S 9:1 >>-13 , <<Bbl 2S 16:1 >>-4 , <<Bbl 2S 19:24 >>-30 , <<Bbl 2S 21:7 >>.
* Is it true that a Queen of England, after hearing this story, commanded that it be preached to all men entering the armed services.
* Mephibosheth was:the fallen (lame) son of a fallen king -- even as we are in relation to Adam, born to rule everything, but now in everything unable to rule.
* He was not trying to seek royal favor -- rather hiding as an enemy, who must be actively sought out if fellowship is to be achieved, just as <<Bbl Romans.5 >>.
* <<Bbl James 2:13 >> About 2003, the Lord impressed this verse on me in dealing with my mother.
* <<Bbl I 55:9 >>. God's transcendence we usually associate with His justice, but here it supports our understanding of His mercy.
The word of Yahweh that came to Micah the Morashtite in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, the kings of Judah, that he saw concerning Samaria and Jerusalem: {{rf{2}}} Hear, all you peoples; give heed, O earth and its fullness. And let the Lord Yahweh be against you as a witness, the Lord from his holy temple. {{rf{3}}} For behold, Yahweh is coming out from his place, and he will come down and tread upon the high places of the earth. {{rf{4}}} The mountains will melt under him and the valleys will burst open, like wax before the fire, like water rushing down a slope. {{rf{5}}} All this is for the rebellion of Jacob, and for the sins of the house of Israel. What is the rebellion of Jacob? Is it not Samaria? And what are the high places of Judah? Are they not Jerusalem? {{rf{6}}} So I will make Samaria as a heap of rubble in the field, a place for planting a vineyard. And I will pour down her stones into the valley and uncover her foundations. {{rf{7}}} Then all her idols will be broken in pieces, and all her prostitution wages will be burned in the fire, and all her idols I will make a desolation, For from the wage of a prostitute she gathered them, and to the wage of a prostitute they will return. {{rf{8}}} On account of this I will lament and wail. I will go about barefoot and naked. I will make a lamentation like the jackals, and a mourning ceremony like the ostriches. {{rf{9}}} For her wounds are incurable, because it has come to Judah. It has reached to the gate of my people, to Jerusalem. {{rf{10}}} Do not tell it in Gath; you must not weep at all. In Beth-le-Aphrah roll yourself in dust. {{rf{11}}} Pass on, you inhabitants of Shaphir, in naked shame. The inhabitants of Zaanan do not come forth; the wailing of Beth-ha-Ezel will take its protection from you. {{rf{12}}} For the inhabitants of Maroth writhed for good, because disaster has come down from Yahweh to the gate of Jerusalem. {{rf{13}}} Harness the chariot to the team of horses, O inhabitants of Lachish; it is the beginning of sin for the daughter of Zion, for the transgressions of Israel were found in you. {{rf{14}}} Therefore you will give parting gifts to Moresheth-Gath; the houses of Achzib will be a deception to the kings of Israel. {{rf{15}}} I will again bring the conqueror upon you, O inhabitants of Mareshah; the glory of Israel will come to Adullam. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Micah-01-01]] }}}
Background: <<Bbl 2K 18:1 >>ff, <<Bbl Jer 26:1 >>ff. Instrumental in King Hezekiah's repentance which resulted in the salvation of Jerusalem when the rest of Judea had been conquered. 0409. Compare Huldah's reprieve for Josiah. Hezekiah is seemingly free to construe the Messianic references as to himself. Parts of Micah read extremely close to Isaiah.
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<<Bbl Micah 5:2 abbr >> see <<Bbl Hos 6:3 >>
<<Bbl Micah 5:5 abbr >> //Seven kings, even eight//. Possibly understood as seven kings to Zedekiah, then Jesus.
<<Bbl Micah 6:7 abbr >> relates to Redeemer who is qualified. Our own person is not eligible we need His vicarious sacrifice. It is the final clause that reveals the saving Gospel.
{{rf{16}}} Make yourselves bald and cut off your hair for the children of your pleasure. Expand your baldness as the eagle, for they will go into exile away from you. {{rf big{1}}} Woe to those who plan wickedness and evil deeds upon their beds! In the light of the morning they did it, because they have power in their hands. {{rf{2}}} They covet fields and seize them, and houses, and they take them away. They oppress a man and his house; a man and his inheritance. {{rf{3}}} Therefore, thus says Yahweh: Look! I am planning disaster against this family from which you will not be able to remove your necks. You will not walk proudly, for it is a time of disaster. {{rf{4}}} In that day they will raise a proverb against you, and will wail a bitter wailing, saying, "We are utterly ruined; he exchanges the portion of my people. How he removes it from me; he apportions our field to an apostate." {{rf{5}}} Therefore you will have no one casting a line by lot in the assembly of Yahweh. {{rf{6}}} "Do not preach!" they are preaching. They should not preach to these; disgrace will not overtake us. {{rf{7}}} Should this be said, O house of Jacob? Is the patience of Yahweh shortened? Are these his deeds? Are my words not pleasing to him who walks upright? {{rf{8}}} But recently my people have risen up as an enemy; from before the cloak you strip off the robe from those passing by in confidence, returning from war. {{rf{9}}} You have driven out the women of my people from the houses of their pleasure. From their children you have taken away my glory forever. {{rf{10}}} Arise and go, for this is no resting place, on account of uncleanness that destroys with painful destruction. {{rf{11}}} If a man walks about in a spirit of deception and lies, saying "I will preach to you of wine and strong drink," then he would be a preacher for this people! {{rf{12}}} I will surely gather all of you, O Jacob; I will surely gather together the remainder of Israel. I will set them like sheep of Bozrah. Like a herd in the midst of their pasture they will be in tumult from people. {{rf{13}}} The one who breaks out before them goes up; they break through and pass the gate, going out through it. Their king passes before them, Yahweh at their head. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Micah-01-16]] }}}
And I said, "Listen, O heads of Jacob and leaders of the house of Israel! Is it not for you to know justice? {{rf{2}}} Those of you who are haters of good and lovers of evil, who tear their skin from them and their flesh from their bones, {{rf{3}}} and who eat the flesh of my people, and strip their skin from them, and break their bones, and chop them like meat in the pot, and like flesh in the midst of a cooking pot." {{rf{4}}} Then they will cry to Yahweh, but he will not answer them. He will hide his face from them at that time, when they have made their deeds evil. {{rf{5}}} Thus says Yahweh concerning the prophets who are leading my people astray, who are biting with their teeth and proclaim, "Peace," but whoever puts nothing into their mouths they declare war against. {{rf{6}}} Therefore it will be as night to you, without vision, and darkness to you, without divination. And the sun will set on the prophets, and the day will grow dark over them. {{rf{7}}} Then the seers will be disgraced, and those practicing divination will be put to shame. All of them will cover their lips, for there is no reply from God. {{rf{8}}} But I, I am filled with power, with the Spirit of Yahweh, and with justice and might, to declare to Jacob his rebellion, and to Israel his sin. {{rf{9}}} Hear this, O rulers of the house of Jacob and leaders of the house of Israel, those detesting justice and perverting all that is right, {{rf{10}}} he who builds Zion with blood and Jerusalem with wickedness. {{rf{11}}} Its rulers judge for a bribe; its priests teach for a price; its prophets practice divination for money. But they lean on Yahweh, saying, "Is not Yahweh in our midst? Disaster will not come upon us." {{rf{12}}} Therefore on account of you Zion will be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem will be a heap of rubble, and the temple mount as a high place in a forest. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Micah-03-01]] }}}
And it will be that at the end of those days, the mountain of Yahweh will be established as the highest of the mountains, and it will be lifted up above the hills, and people will stream to it. {{rf{2}}} And many nations will come and say, "Come! Let us go up to the mountain of Yahweh, and to the temple of the God of Jacob, that he may teach us his ways, and that we may walk in his paths," for the law will go out from Zion, and the word of Yahweh from Jerusalem. {{rf{3}}} And he will judge between many peoples and will arbitrate for strong nations far away; and they will beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks; nation will not lift up a sword against a nation, and they will no longer learn war. {{rf{4}}} But they will sit, each under his vine and under his fig tree, and no one will make them afraid, for the mouth of Yahweh of hosts has spoken. {{rf{5}}} For all the nations walk, each in the name of its god, but we will walk in the name of Yahweh our God, forever and ever. {{rf{6}}} "In that day," declares Yahweh, "I will assemble the one who limps, and I will gather the one who has been scattered, and those whom I have mistreated. {{rf{7}}} And I will make the one who limps a remnant, and the one driven far away a strong nation, and Yahweh will reign over them on Mount Zion from now to forever. {{rf{8}}} And you, O Migdal-Eder, hill of the daughter of Zion, to you it will come, and the former dominion will come, the reign of the daughter of Jerusalem. {{rf{9}}} So then, why do you shout a loud shout? Is there no king in you? Has your counselor perished that pangs like a woman in labor have seized you? {{rf{10}}} Writhe and groan, O daughter of Zion, like a woman in labor. For now you will go forth from the city, and you will camp in the field; you will go to Babylon. There you will be rescued; there Yahweh will redeem you from the hand of your enemies. {{rf{11}}} And now, many nations are gathered against you who are saying, 'Let her be defiled, and let our eyes gaze upon Zion.' {{rf{12}}} But they do not know the thoughts of Yahweh, and they do not understand his plan, that he has gathered them as sheaves to his threshing floor. {{rf{13}}} Arise and thresh, O daughter of Zion, for your horn I will make as iron and your hooves as bronze. And you will break many peoples in pieces, and their gain you will devote to destruction to Yahweh, and their wealth to the Lord of the whole earth." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Micah-04-01]] }}}
Now muster troops, O daughter of troops; a siege he puts against us. They strike the ruler of Israel with a rod on the cheek. {{rf{2}}} But you, O Bethlehem Ephrathah, too small to be among the clans of Judah, from you one will go out for me, to be ruler in Israel; and his origins are from of old, from ancient days. {{rf{3}}} Therefore he will give them up until the time of she who is with child has given birth. And the rest of his brothers will return to the children of Israel. {{rf{4}}} And he will stand and shepherd his flock in the strength of Yahweh, in the majesty of the name of Yahweh his God. And they will live, for now he will be great unto the ends of the earth. {{rf{5}}} And this one will be peace. As for the Assyrian, when he comes into our land and when he treads on our fortresses, then we will raise up against him seven shepherds and eight leaders of men. {{rf{6}}} And they will shepherd the land of Assyria with the sword, and the land of Nimrod at its entrances. And he will rescue us from the Assyrian when he comes into our land, and when they tread upon our border. {{rf{7}}} And the remnant of Jacob will be in the midst of many nations, like dew from Yahweh, like showers upon the grass which does not wait for a man, nor delays for the children of humankind. {{rf{8}}} And the remnant of Jacob will be among the nations, in the midst of many peoples, like a lion among the wild animals of the forest, like a young lion among the herds of sheep which, when it passes through and treads down and tears in pieces, there is none who can deliver. {{rf{9}}} Your hand will be lifted high over your enemies, and all your foes will be cut off. {{rf{10}}} "And it will happen that in that day," declares Yahweh, "then I will cut off your horses from among you, and I will destroy your chariots. {{rf{11}}} And I will cut off the cities of your land, and I will demolish all your fortifications. {{rf{12}}} And I will cut off sorceries from your hand, and you will not have soothsayers. {{rf{13}}} And I will cut off your idols and your stone pillars from among you, and you will no longer bow down to the work of your hands. {{rf{14}}} And I will uproot your Asherahs from among you, and I will destroy your cities. {{rf{15}}} And in anger and in wrath I will execute vengeance on the nations who did not obey." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Micah-05-01]] }}}
Hear now what Yahweh says: "Arise! Plead your case with the mountains, and let the hills hear your voice." {{rf{2}}} Hear, O mountains, the indictment of Yahweh, and you eternal foundations of the earth, for Yahweh has an indictment against his people, and against Israel he contends. {{rf{3}}} "O my people, what have I done to you, and how have I wearied you? Answer me! {{rf{4}}} For I brought you up from the land of Egypt, and from the house of slavery I redeemed you. And I sent Moses, Aaron, and Miriam before you. {{rf{5}}} O my people, remember what Balak the king of Moab devised, and what Balaam the son of Beor answered him, and what happened from Shittim to Gilgal, so that you might know the righteous acts of Yahweh." {{rf{6}}} With what shall I approach Yahweh, and bow down to God on high? Shall I approach him with burnt offerings, with bull calves a year old? {{rf{7}}} Will Yahweh be pleased with thousands of rams, with myriads of rivers of oil? Shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul? {{rf{8}}} He has told you, O mortal, what is good, and what does Yahweh ask from you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God? {{rf{9}}} The voice of Yahweh calls to the city (it is sound judgment to fear your name): "Hear, O staff! Now who has appointed it? {{rf{10}}} Is there any longer a man in the house of the wicked treasures of wickedness, and the ephah of scarcity which is accursed? {{rf{11}}} Shall I regard as pure the one with scales of wickedness, and with a bag of deceitful weights? {{rf{12}}} Because her rich are full of violence, and her inhabitants speak lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth. {{rf{13}}} And I also have made you sick by striking you down, making you desolate because of your sins. {{rf{14}}} You yourself will eat but not be satisfied; your hunger will be in your midst, and you will put away, but you will not save, and what you save I will hand over to the sword. {{rf{15}}} You yourself will sow, but you will not reap; you will tread olives, but you will not anoint yourself with oil; you will tread grapes, but you will not drink wine. {{rf{16}}} For you have observed the regulations of Omri and all the works of the house of Ahab. And you have walked in their counsels, so that I am making you a desolation and your inhabitants an object of scorn. So you will bear the scorn of my people. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Micah-06-01]] }}}
Woe is me! For I have become like the gatherings of summer, like the gleanings of the grape harvest, when there is no cluster of grapes to eat or early ripened fruit that my soul desires. {{rf{2}}} The faithful person has perished from the land, and there is none who is upright among humankind. All of them lie in wait; each hunts his brother with a net. {{rf{3}}} Their hands are upon evil, to do it well; the official and the judge ask for the bribe, and the great man utters the evil desire of his soul; and they weave it together. {{rf{4}}} The best of them is like a brier; the most upright worse than a thorn hedge. The day of your watchman, your punishment, has come; now their confusion will come. {{rf{5}}} Do not put faith in a friend; put no trust in a close friend. Guard the doorways of your mouth from the one who lies in your lap. {{rf{6}}} For a son treats a father with contempt; a daughter rises up against her mother, a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; the enemies of a man are the men of his own house. {{rf{7}}} But as for me, I will look to Yahweh; I will wait for the God of my salvation. My God will hear me. {{rf{8}}} You should not rejoice over me, O my enemy! When I fall I will stand up; when I sit in darkness Yahweh will be a light for me. {{rf{9}}} I will bear the rage of Yahweh, for I have sinned against him, until he pleads my cause and executes my justice. He will bring me out to the light; I will see his righteousness. {{rf{10}}} Then my enemy will see, and shame will cover her who said to me, "Where is Yahweh your God?" My eyes will look upon her; now she will become a trampling place, like mud in the streets. {{rf{11}}} A day for building your walls; on that day he will extend your boundary. {{rf{12}}} On that day he will come to you from Assyria and the cities of Egypt, and from Egypt to the River, and from sea to sea and mountain to mountain. {{rf{13}}} But the earth will be a desolation because of its inhabitants, for the fruit of their deeds. {{rf{14}}} Shepherd your people with your staff, the flock of your inheritance, those dwelling alone in a forest in the midst of Carmel. Let them feed in Bashan and Gilead, as in the days of old. {{rf{15}}} As in the days when you came out from the land of Egypt I will show him wondrous things. {{rf{16}}} The nations will see and be ashamed because of all their might. They will lay the hand on the mouth; their ears will be deaf. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Micah-07-01]] }}}
{{rf{17}}} They will lick the dust like the serpent, like the crawling things of the earth. They will come trembling from their strongholds to Yahweh our God. Let them fear and be afraid of you. {{rf{18}}} Who is a God like you, forgiving sin and passing over rebellion for the remnant of his inheritance? He does not retain his anger forever, for he delights in loyal love. {{rf{19}}} He will again have compassion on us; he will trample our iniquities. And you will hurl all their sins in the depths of the sea. {{rf{20}}} You will show faithfulness to Jacob, and loyal love to Abraham, as you have sworn to our ancestors from the days of old. LENGTH SHORT {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Micah-07-17]] }}}
* [[Leader]]
* Don't undervalue the people to whom you minister. When you undervalue your ministry, it reveals you have undervalued the people to whom you minister.
* If I view my wife as God's treasure, I will treat my responsibilities in [[Marry]] as sacred and important.
<<tiddler [[MinorProphets-note - !! Joel]]>>
<<tiddler [[MinorProphets-note - !! [[Amos|Amos-01-01-note]]]]>>
<<tiddler [[MinorProphets-note - !! @@color:silver;Obadiah@@]]>>
<<tiddler [[MinorProphets-note - !! [[Jonah|Jonah-01-01-note]]]]>>
<<tiddler [[MinorProphets-note - !! Micah]]>>
<<tiddler [[MinorProphets-note - !! @@color:silver;Nahum@@]]>>
<<tiddler [[MinorProphets-note - !! Habakkuk]]>>
<<tiddler [[MinorProphets-note - !! @@color:silver;Zephaniah@@]]>>
<<tiddler [[MinorProphets-note - !! Haggai]]>>
<<tiddler [[MinorProphets-note - !! Zechariah]]>>
<<tiddler [[MinorProphets-note - !! Malachi]]>>
See Wuest, "Wonder". <<Bbl Ex 34:10 >>; <<Bbl J 3:2 >>-3 , <<Bbl J 2:18 >>, <<Bbl J 4:17 >>-19 , <<Bbl J 10:37 >>-38 , <<Bbl J 14:11 >>, <<Bbl J 4:48 >>, <<Bbl J 6:26 >>-36 , <<Bbl J 7:3 >>-5 , <<Bbl J 20:29 >>; <<Bbl Mt 16:1 >>; <<Bbl Mt 24:24 >>.
!! Private
* Jacob's encounters
* Gideon in <<Bbl Jud 6:35 >>-40
* Samson killing the lion
* Moses and the bush
* Paul's blindness
* Mary with Gabriel.
* A permanent, personal reference point.
* <<Bbl I 07:14 "" note >>
* <<Bbl Mt 9:5 >> n.
* Initiated by Jesus with precise advance instructions
** <<Bbl Mk 11:1 >>-3
** <<Bbl Mk 14:13 >>-15
** <<Bbl Mt 17:24 >>-17
** <<Bbl A 9:11 >>-12
** <<Bbl A 10:19 >>-20
!! The current diluted use of the term
* A few weeks ago, city street, big truck, wrong direction. We thought it was strange, but not TOO strange. Why? Answer: it was a fire truck.
** Like a miracle because it is against the normal and it is arresting - you have to deal with it.
** Unlike a miracle because the fire truck has a legal and logistical explanation while a miracle does not.
* Children's song: Your Mommy had a baby. It's a miracle! ... Mary had a baby. It's a miracle!
!! Resisted.
* deny <<Bbl J 9:18 >>
* suppress <<Bbl Mt 9:34 >>b
* [[Controvert]] <<Bbl J 9:16 >>
!! Explaining it away
Jonah was swallowed by a fish. The stories of men swallowed and rescued are unhelpful.
# They're untrue. Three days in a fish will kill anyone. A fake or spurious anecdote ("he lasted seven hours!" is spurious because inadequate) only asserts "it could happen", which is how we justify unlikely fictions. It discounts the true miracle and therefore God's power (this is blasphemy).
# the idea that such vindication is helpful is based on the elevation of human experience as the judge over God's revelation.
!! Not falsifiable
* <<Bbl Mk 2:9 >>-10. <<Bbl J 11:21 "" note >>.
* //abuse, mocking, insults, reproaches//
* [[Suffer]]
* [[Shame]]
* <<Bbl Ps 69:9 >> also covered in <<Bbl R 15:3 >>
* <<Bbl L 6:28 >> //bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you//
* //Lord, you keep humble and we'll keep him poor.// -- Tim Clemens
* <<Bbl James 4:4 >>, <<Bbl James 4:8 >>, <<Bbl James 4:11 >>, <<Bbl James 4:17 >>
* [[Syncretism]]
* [[Purity]], [[Heart]], [[Simplicity]]
* <<Bbl L 8:53 >>
* <<Bbl 2P 3:3 >>-4 ; <<Bbl 2Ch 32:19 >>; <<Bbl Gal 6:7 >>.
* <<Bbl Ps 1:1 >>-2, <<Bbl Lev 19:14 >>, <<Bbl Heb 11:36 >>, <<Bbl Pr 17:5 >>, <<Bbl Pr 30:17 >>.
* Righteousness mocked. <<Bbl 2K 2:23 >>, <<Bbl Jer 20:7 >>, <<Bbl Mt 27:27 >>-31, <<Bbl Heb 11:36 >>, <<Bbl L 8:53 >> (from ignorance).
* <<Bbl Pr 15:12 >> A mocker resents correction; he will not consult the wise.
* <<Bbl Pr 19:29 >> Penalties are prepared for mockers, and beatings for the backs of fools.
* <<Bbl Pr 21:24 >> The proud and arrogant man - "Mocker" is his name; he behaves with overweening pride.
* <<Bbl Pr 22:10 >> Drive out the mocker, and out goes strife; quarrels and insults are ended.
* <<Bbl Pr 9:7-9>> Whoever corrects a mocker invites insult; whoever rebukes a wicked man incurs abuse.
* <<Bbl Pr 14:6-9>> The mocker seeks wisdom and finds none... Fools mock at making amends for sin...
* [[Humility]] -- <Bbl Num 12:3 >>, <<Bbl Ex 32:20 >>. These statements make the portrayal by Charlton Heston absurd.
* Moses had two acts of sinful control. The first one sent him into the wilderness. The second one kept him from the Promised Land.
* There is perhaps a third occasion. The Bible doesn't declare it a sin, but should Moses have broken the stone tablets on which God had Himself [[written|God-HisWriting]]?
* Fascinating that Moses chooses the [[Thorns]]Bush as God's place of presence instead of the perhaps more obvious (certainly more public, more political) tabernacle.
* When he enter seeds for the rebellious people of Israel, he has a personal background which is taught him about God's mercy. This is given to us in <<Bbl Ex 3:11>>ff.
* <<Bbl L 9:30 "" note>>, Mk 9:4, Dt 34:4, Nu 20:12
* Condescension is particularly seen in <<Bbl Ex 34:29ff>>. [[God-Encounted]]
!! Moses has a vision for his people
<<Bbl Ex 2:11 abbr >>-14 However misguided his attempt, Moses is showing his heart.
<<Bbl Ex 19:4 abbr>>-6 own possession, kingdom of priests, holy nation .
<<Bbl Ex 32:31 abbr>>-11
<<Bbl Ex 33:15 abbr>>-17 - only his mediation preserves the people, like Christ.
<<Bbl Ex 34:8 abbr>>-9
<<Bbl Ex 35:30 abbr>>-35
<<Bbl Num 11:29 abbr >>
<<Bbl Dt 26:16 abbr >>-19
* [[Serve]]
* [[Attitude]]!! Motive
* <<Bbl Php 4:17 >> integrates the motives of Paul and of his supporters.
* [[Hypocrisy]]
!! Formative influence
I need a study to inspire hurting people to search for deep, inner or formative causes. Formative typically points to childhood, but <<Bbl H 12:15>> commands us to beware the late-breaking "bitter root".
* Absalom
* Joab (I believe)
* Esau
While David engendered such bitter roots by ignoring grievances in his household. But he also was valiant in fighting such roots within his own heart, as when he blessed and elevated Mephibosheth the scion of Saul.
* <<Bbl Jer 2:32 >> @@wrong ref.@@ -- homicide, not justifiable
* [[Die]], //Kill//
* [[Murder-Abortion]]
!!! the //power of death//
* //Do not fear him who...//
* Goliath threatened the Israelites with death and slavery, and they cowered.
** Perhaps this is the meaning of the phrase; he wielded the "power of death", and of evil as well (his blasphemies).
** David delivered his people from those powers.
!! personhood of infants in the womb
* <<Bbl Job 10:8>>ff
* <<Bbl Ps 139:13>>ff.
* <<Bbl Ex 21:22>>–25 (//lex talionis//) is concerned with the death or injury of the unborn baby.
* God did not design music to be mechanically or electronically recorded. That is one of man's "inventions" (Ecclesiastes).
!! As worship
* Miriam invented singing to the Lord.
!! As God's presence
* In <<Bbl Dan 3:4 >>-7 , music is Nabuchednezzer's approximation of the final trumpet of God's Judgment. <<Bbl Ps 137:4 >>-6 ; <<Bbl I 5:12 >>; <<Bbl Amos 6:5 >>
* <<Bbl Dt 29:29 >>
* [[One-In-Three]]
* [[Limitations]]
* The NT word would be better translated "secret".
The oracle concerning Nineveh -- the scroll of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite: {{rf{2}}} Yahweh is a jealous God and avenging; Yahweh is avenging and full of wrath. Yahweh takes vengeance against his enemies; he rages against his adversaries. {{rf{3}}} Yahweh is slow to anger but great in power; he will certainly not allow the guilty to go unpunished. He marches in storm wind and in gale; storm clouds are the dust of his feet. {{rf{4}}} He rebukes the sea and he dries up the rivers; he makes all the rivers run dry. Bashan and Carmel wither; the blossom of Lebanon languishes. {{rf{5}}} Mountains quake before him; the hills shake apart. The earth heaves before him -- the world and all her inhabitants. {{rf{6}}} His indignation -- who can stand before it? Who can endure his fierce anger? His wrath is poured out like fire; rocks are shattered before him. {{rf{7}}} Yahweh is good -- a refuge in the day of distress; he knows those who take refuge in him. {{rf{8}}} But with a rushing torrent he will bring Nineveh to an end; he will chase his enemies into darkness. {{rf{9}}} What do you plot against Yahweh? He will completely destroy it; trouble will not rise up a second time! {{rf{10}}} For like entangled thorns, and like their drink which is drunk, they will be consumed like fully dry chaff. {{rf{11}}} From you goes out one who plots evil against Yahweh, one who plans wickedness. {{rf{12}}} Yahweh says this: "Even though they are powerful and likewise many, even so they will be cut off and pass away. Though I have afflicted you, I will afflict you no longer. {{rf{13}}} And now, I will break his yoke from upon you; I will snap your bonds." {{rf{14}}} Yahweh has commanded concerning you: "Your name will no longer be sown. I will cut off the idols and images from the temple of your gods; I will send you to the grave because you are worthless." {{rf{15}}} Look! On the mountains! The feet of the one who brings good tidings, the one who proclaims peace! "Celebrate a festival, O Judah, Fulfill your vows! For he will not invade you again; the wicked one is cut off completely!" {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Nahum-01-01]] }}}
One who shatters has come up against you! Guard the fortification! Watch the road! Gird your loins! Muster all your strength! {{rf{2}}} For Yahweh will restore the majesty of Jacob like the majesty of Israel; for ravagers have ravaged them and ruined their branches. {{rf{3}}} The shields of his warriors are dyed red; The powerful men are dressed in scarlet. The metal of the chariots shines like fire on the day of battle, and their spears quiver. {{rf{4}}} The chariots race madly through the streets; they rush back and forth in the public squares. Their appearance like lightning bolts, they dart about like flashes of lightning. {{rf{5}}} He calls his officers; they stumble as they march; they rush to her wall; they set the covering in place. {{rf{6}}} The gates of the river are opened; the palace trembles. {{rf{7}}} Her goddess is taken out and taken into exile; her maidservants moan like doves; they beat on their breasts. {{rf{8}}} Nineveh is like a pool of water without its water. As they flee, she cries, "Stop! Stop!" But there is no one who turns back. {{rf{9}}} Plunder the silver! Plunder the gold! There is no end to the spoils, an abundance of everything one could want! {{rf{10}}} Emptiness and plundering and devastation! Their hearts faint and their knees tremble, All their loins shake and all their faces turn pale. {{rf{11}}} Where now is the den of the lions and the cave of the fierce lions? There the lioness, the cub, and the lion once prowled, and no one disturbed them. {{rf{12}}} The lion tore apart enough prey for his cubs, he strangled prey for his lioness; he filled his lair with prey and his den with mangled carcass. {{rf{13}}} "Look! I am against you!" declares Yahweh of hosts. "I will burn her chariots with fire; the sword will devour fierce lions. I will cut off your prey from the earth; the voice of your messengers will no longer be heard." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Nahum-02-01]] }}}
Woe to the city that has shed much blood! She is a deceiver, She is filled with plunder, She has hoarded her spoils of war. {{rf{2}}} The crack of the whip! The rumbling of the chariot wheel! The galloping of the horse! The racing of the chariot! {{rf{3}}} Chariots charge! Swords flash! Spears glitter! Many corpses are piled high! There is no end to the slain! They stumble over their dead! {{rf{4}}} "Because of the many idolatries of the prostitute, the beautiful charm of a mistress of witchcraft, she who enslaves nations by her harlotries, and peoples by her sorceries, {{rf{5}}} "Look! I am against you!" declaresYahweh. "I will strip up your skirts over your face; I will let nations look at your nakedness and your shame. {{rf{6}}} "I will throw filth upon you, I will treat you with contempt, I will make you a spectacle. {{rf{7}}} "And it will be that everyone who sees you will flee from you, And they will say, 'Nineveh is destroyed!' Who will mourn for her? From whence shall I seek comforters for you?" {{rf{8}}} Are you better than Thebes? She who sits at the Nile, surrounded by her waters, her rampart was the sea and water was her wall. {{rf{9}}} Cush was her strength, Egypt without end; Put and Libya were among your allies. {{rf{10}}} Yet she went into captivity as an exile; her children were dashed to pieces at the head of the streets; they cast lots for all of her nobles; all of her dignitaries were bound with chains. {{rf{11}}} You also will behave like a drunkard; You also will hide yourself; You also will seek refuge from the enemy. {{rf{12}}} All of your fortifications are like fig trees with ripe firstfruits -- if they are shaken, they will fall into the mouth of the eater. {{rf{13}}} Look! Your troops are like women in your midst. The gates of your land are wide open to your enemies; fire will consume the bars of your gates. {{rf{14}}} Draw water for a siege! Strengthen your fortifications! Go to the mud pit! Trample the clay! Grasp the brick mold! {{rf{15}}} There fire will consume you; the sword will cut you off. It will consume you like the locust. {{rf{16}}} You have increased your merchants more than the stars of heaven; like the locust they will shed their skin and fly away. {{rf{17}}} Your officials are like locusts; your commanders are like a swarm of locusts. They encamp on the walls on a cold day; when the sun rises, they fly away -- no one knows where they have gone. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Nahum-03-01]] }}}
{{rf{18}}} Your shepherds are sleeping, O king of Assyria! Your nobles slumber. Your people are scattered on the mountains; no one can gather them. {{rf{19}}} There is no healing for your wound; your injury is fatal. All who hear the report of you will clap their hands for joy concerning you, For who has not suffered at the hands of your endless cruelty? LENGTH SHORT {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Nahum-03-18]] }}}
* [[Call]]
!!! Name of God
* See Keil & Delitzsch, vol. 1, pp. 74-76. I'm interested when a reference to God's existence is also possibly an allusion to His name, i.e., <<Bbl H 11:6 >>.
* <<Bbl Ps 35:3 >>, a transliteration of the name, Jesus (Wycl. Bible Ency., "Joshua"); <<Bbl Ex 3:13 >>-15 ; <<Bbl Gn 4:1 >>; <<Bbl Mic 4:5 >> a strong tower: <<Bbl Pr 18:10 >>
* Associated with the Ark in <<Bbl 2S 6:2>>.
* denial of: <<Bbl Jer 5:12 >>, "He is not, Not He"
* <<Bbl Rev 3:12 >>
!!! Particular Names of God
* God (‘elohim; <<Bbl Gn 1:1 >>)
* God Almighty (‘El Shadday; <<Bbl Gn 17:1 >>)
* Lord (‘Adonay; <<Bbl Ps 8:1 >>)
* Lord of hosts (yhwh tseba’ot; <<Bbl 1S 1:3 >>)
* [[Father-Son]]
* Jehovah’s Witnesses believe that God’s one true name — the name by which he must be identified — is Jehovah.
!!! Taken in vain
* Do not refer to the Lord without a wholesome spirit of reverence.
* This cuts out //Jeez Louise.//
* [[Individual]].
* A name evokes an enduring characteristic.
* Vine's (under Lord, Lordship) points out that the disciples or Paul never called Him simply "Jesus."
* <<Bbl I 43:1 >>
* Billy Collins humorous poem "Oh, My God!"
!!! Profaned
* Hebrew phrase found in <<Bbl Lev 22:2 >>, <<Bbl Ez 20:9 >>, 2014, <<Bbl Amos 2:7 >>.
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* <<Bbl Rev 2:17 >>, <<Bbl Rev 3:5 >>
* other references: <<Bbl Jud 13:18 >>; <<Bbl I 52:6 >>; <<Bbl I 56:5 >>; <<Bbl Zph 2:15 >>; <<Bbl Ez 20:44 >>
* "Puritan families sometimes used names of Biblical characters seen as sinful as a reminder of man's fallen state." Thus Melville's Captain Ahab may be understood, I presume. Also Hawthorne's Ichabod Crane.
!!Naming as Authority
* <<Bbl 1K 4:33 "" note>>
* <<Bbl Gn 5:2 >>, <<Bbl Gn 2:23 >>, <<Bbl Gn 3:20 >> show the order of naming.
* Taxonomy.
* <<Bbl J 10:16 >>
* <<Bbl J 11:52 >>
* <<Bbl J 16:20 >>
* <<Bbl Ps 126:5 >>-6 -- image of sheaves, [[Harvest]]
* //Peoples, gentiles//
* <<Bbl Rev 5:9 >>
* <<Bbl Rev 21:24 >>-26.
* <<Bbl I 60:3>>-5, 60:11.
* //Proximity//, [[Intimacy]]
* [[God-Presence]]
* [[Food]], [[Covenant]], [[Gaze]], [[Touch]], [[Witness]]
* <<Bbl Esther 1:0 "" note>>
* We are never turned away from the [[Grace]] and [[Provide]] of God because of neediness.
* Lame, blind, etc.: <<Bbl I 29:18 >>-19, <<Bbl I 35:5 >>-6; <<Bbl Mic 4:6 >>-8, <<Bbl Zph 3:19 >>, <<Bbl Mt 11:5 >>, <<Bbl Mt 18:8 >>, <<Bbl L 5:17 >>ff, <<Bbl L 14:12 >>ff
* [[Break]], [[Prison]], [[Trial]]
* [[Exigency]], [[Poverty]]
* [[Humility]]
* <<Bbl Pr 13:25 >> (NASB) The righteous has enough to satisfy his appetite, But the stomach of the wicked is in need.
* <<Bbl Pr 31:9 >> (NASB) Open your mouth, judge righteously, And defend the rights of the afflicted and needy.
* [[Why-Lord]]
* The Psalmist says "God where are You?" He says, "I'm here. I'm making you search for Me and write this."
!! Is versus Ought
* //Tension, cognitive dissonance//
* Culture shock crisis - need it, can't find it.
* <<Bbl Ja 1:23 >>
* <<Bbl L 16:3>> The unrighteous steward who can neither beg nor dig ditches.
* Wish ([[Covet]] versus Reality ([[Truth]])
!! Felt need
* [[ThoughtLife]]
* <<Bbl L 15:14 0 note>>
!! Need in reality
* [[God-Will]]
* //Divine DIS-appointments//
* Prayer may go unanswered. Perhaps God wants to reveal more about my sin. Perhaps I lack faith, or insight into God's best will. How does one search into these powerful and subtle issues?
* Saul in search of his father's donkeys - he ends up in Samuel's house.
* Joseph in search of his brothers' flocks - he ends up in a pit.
* Jacob in a famine - he ends up in Joseph's house (<<Bbl Gn 42:1 >>).
* Jonah needs to see God's justice in chapter four. How wonderfully a need can be misplaced.
* Need must be determined individually! It is not just an algorithmic review of Maslow's pyramid.
* Need must be determined spiritually! A life of faith looks like Maslow's pyramid turned upside down. //Seek first the Kingdom of God, and all these things...//
* [[Vocation]]
* [[Test]] - <<Bbl Dt 8:3 "" note>>
!! False or unhealthy neediness
* <<Bbl Pr 30:15 "" note>>
The words of Nehemiah son of Hacaliah. It happened in the month of Kislev, in the twentieth year, that I myself was in the citadel in Susa, {{rf{2}}} and one of my brothers, Hanani, came with some men from Judah. I asked them about the Jews who had escaped the captivity and about Jerusalem. {{rf{3}}} They replied to me, "The survivors in the province who have survived the captivity are in great trouble and disgrace. The wall of Jerusalem is broken down, and its gates have been burned in the fire." {{rf{4}}} When I heard these words, I sat and wept and mourned for days, and I was fasting and praying before the God of the heavens. {{rf{5}}} I said, "O Yahweh God of the heavens, the great and awesome one who keeps the covenant and loyal love for the ones who love him and for those who keep his commands. {{rf{6}}} Please, let your ear be attentive and your eyes open to hear the prayer of your servant that I am praying before you by day and by night for your servants, the Israelites, and confessing the sins of the Israelites that we have sinned against you. I and my father's house have sinned. {{rf{7}}} We have certainly offended you and have not kept the commands, regulations, and judgments that you have commanded your servant Moses. {{rf{8}}} Please, remember the word that you have commanded to your servant Moses, saying, 'If you act unfaithfully I will scatter you all among the nations. {{rf{9}}} But if you return to me and keep my commandments and do them, even though all of your outcasts are at the furthest parts of heaven, I will gather them and bring them to the place which I have chosen to make my name dwell.' {{rf{10}}} They are your servants and your people whom you have redeemed by your great power and by your strong hand. {{rf{11}}} O Lord, please let your ear be attentive to the prayer of your servant and to the prayer of your servants who delight to revere in your name. Please, let your servant be successful this day and give him compassion before this man." I was cupbearer for the king. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Nehemiah-01-01]] }}}
* The book of Ezra originally included Nehemiah. Origen decided to separate them although he knew they were from one scroll.
* Nehemiah is dealing with the scene forecast in <<Bbl Lev 26:36>>ff.
* Examining the book in relation to one's self:
** The walls represent the saving and preserving grace of God (<<Bbl Pr 25:28>>); outside lies the world which is arrayed against the soul (<<Bbl 1P 2:11 >>).
** The gates are the centers of counsel, discernment, and encouragement.
** The temple is the heart; therein is found the activity of God and the activity of Satan (<<Bbl Neh 6:10 abbr>>; <<Bbl Neh 13:4 abbr>>-9).
** Nehemiah himself works like the Holy Spirit in the midst of the city, and perhaps Ezra is like an embodied written Bible.
* At the beginning, often paired:
** God's intervention and the king's favor.
** A broken wall and the people's disgrace.
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Neh 1:4 From his shock, we gather Nehemiah expected better news: A sustainable community with an intact wall to surround and protect.
<<Bbl Neh 1:9 abbr>> Refers directly to <<Bbl Dt 30:4>>.
<<Bbl Neh 2:4 abbr >>. The instant prayer is based in the sustained [[Pray]] Chapter 1. The great goal controls the immediate goal. "Help me not to be nervous during my interview" only makes sense if you have already prayed "guide me to the right job" - and even more: "be glorified in my [[Vocation]]."
<<Bbl Neh 2:13 abbr >> The //Dragon's Gate// probably referred to a serpentine course (W.E. Vine).
2:17 Nehemiah's natural gift of leadership causes him to gloss over many details of his organization - for example, how did he go about calling such a crucial meeting? And how did he set the divisions of work?
<<Bbl Neh 5:5 abbr >> Taking advantage of the crisis. Reminiscent in fact of Pharaoh in <<Bbl Gn 48:1 >>.
<<Bbl Neh 5:7 abbr >> A beautiful comment on Nehemiah's discretion - he consulted within himself.
<<Bbl Neh 5:17 abbr >> Nehemiah provided for representatives of the heathen.
It happened in the month of Nisan, in the twentieth year of King Artaxerxes, when wine was before him, I carried the wine and gave it to the king. And I had never been sad before the king. {{rf{2}}} So the king said to me, "Why is your face sad since you are not sick? This is nothing but sadness of the heart." And I was very much afraid. {{rf{3}}} I said to the king, "May the king live forever! Why should my face not be sad when the city of my ancestors' burial site is ruined and her gates are consumed by fire?" {{rf{4}}} Then the king said to me, "What is your request?" So I prayed to the God of the heavens. {{rf{5}}} Then I said to the king, "If it pleases the king, and if your servant has found favor in your presence, I ask that you send me to Judah, to the city of my ancestors' burial sites, so that I may rebuild it." {{rf{6}}} With the queen sitting beside him, the king said to me, "How long will your journey be and when will you return?" So it pleased the king and he sent me, and I set for him an appointed time. {{rf{7}}} Then I said to the king, "If it is good for the king, let letters be given to me for the governors in the province Beyond the River, that they may let me pass until I come to Judah. {{rf{8}}} Also, a letter to Asaph, keeper of the king's land reserve, that he should give me timber for laying the beams for the gates of the citadel of the house and for the walls of the city, and for the house which I will enter." And the king gave permission to me, according to the good hand of God on me. {{rf{9}}} I came to the governors of the province Beyond the River, and I gave them the letters of the king. Then the king sent troop commanders and horses with me. {{rf{10}}} But when Sanballat the Horonite and the Ammonite servant Tobiah heard this, they were greatly displeased that a person had come to seek the welfare of the Israelites. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Nehemiah-02-01]] }}}
{{rf{11}}} I came to Jerusalem and was there for three days. {{rf{12}}} I got up during the night, I and a few men with me. I did not tell anybody what my God put in my heart to do for Jerusalem. No animal was with me except the animal that I was riding on. {{rf{13}}} I went out during the night at the gate of the valley by the Dragon spring and to the Dung Gate. And I examined the walls in Jerusalem and its gates that had been destroyed by the fire. {{rf{14}}} I crossed over to the Fountain Gate and to the King's Pool, but there was no place for my mount to cross over. {{rf{15}}} So I went up by the valley during the night and was examining the wall. Then I returned and came to the Valley Gate and returned. {{rf{16}}} The prefects did not know where I had gone and what I was doing. I had not yet told the Jews, the priests, the nobles, the prefects, and the rest of the workers. {{rf{17}}} Then I said to them, "You see the misery that we are in, that Jerusalem is ruined and its gates burned by the fire. Come, build the walls of Jerusalem and we shall no longer be a disgrace." {{rf{18}}} I told them of the good hand of my God that was upon me and surely the words of the king that were spoken to me. And they said, "Let us arise and build!" And they strengthened their hands for this good work. {{rf{19}}} But Sanballat the Horonite, the Ammonite servant Tobiah, and Geshem the Arab heard it, and they mocked and despised us, saying, "What is this thing that you are doing? Are you rebelling against the king?" {{rf{20}}} Then I answered and said to them, "The God of the heavens himself will let us succeed, and we his servants shall arise and build. But for you there is no share, right, or memorial in Jerusalem." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Nehemiah-02-11]] }}}
Then Eliashib the high priest and his brothers the priests arose and rebuilt the Sheep Gate. They consecrated it and erected its doors. They consecrated it up to the Tower of the Hundred and up to the Tower of Hananel. {{rf{2}}} And next to him the men of Jericho built, and next to him Zaccur son of Imri built. {{rf{3}}} The sons of Hassenaah built the Fish Gate. They laid its beams and erected its doors, its bolts, and its bars. {{rf{4}}} Next to them Meremoth son of Uriah, son of Hakkoz, repaired. Next to them Meshullam son of Berekiah, son of Meshezabel, repaired. Next to them Zadok son of Baana repaired. {{rf{5}}} Next to them the Tekoites repaired, but their nobles did not put their neck to the work of their lord. {{rf{6}}} Jehoiada the son of Paseah and Meshullam repaired the old Yeshanah Gate. They laid its beams and erected its doors, its bolts, and its bars. {{rf{7}}} Next to them Melatiah the Gibeonite and Jadon the Meronothite, the men of Gibeon and Mizpah who were under the rule of the governor of the province Beyond the River, repaired. {{rf{8}}} Next to him Uzziel son of Harhaiah (goldsmiths) repaired. Next to him Hananiah son of the perfume-makers repaired. They restored Jerusalem up to the Broad Wall. {{rf{9}}} Next to them Rephaiah son of Hur, commander of half the district of Jerusalem, repaired. {{rf{10}}} Next to them Jedaiah son of Harumaph repaired opposite his house. Next to him Hattush son of Hashabneiah repaired. {{rf{11}}} Malkijah son of Harim and Hasshub son of Pahath-Moab repaired another section and the Tower of the Ovens. {{rf{12}}} Next to him Shallum son of Hallohesh, commander of half of the district of Jerusalem, repaired with his daughters. {{rf{13}}} Hanun and the inhabitants of Zanoah repaired the Valley Gate. They rebuilt it and erected its doors, its bolts, and its bars, and a thousand cubits of the wall up to the Dung Gate. {{rf{14}}} Malkijah son of Recab, commander of the district of Beth-haccherem, repaired the Dung Gate. He rebuilt it and erected its doors, its bolts, and its bars. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Nehemiah-03-01]] }}}
{{rf{15}}} Shallun son of Col-Hozeh, the commander of the district of Mizpah, repaired the Fountain Gate. He rebuilt it and covered it and erected its doors, its bolts, its bars, and he built the wall of the Pool of Shelah of the king's garden, right up to the steps going down from the city of David. {{rf{16}}} After him Nehemiah son of Azbuk, commander of half of the district of Beth Zur, repaired up to a point opposite the burial sites of David, and up to the artificial pool and to the house of the mighty warriors. {{rf{17}}} After him the Levites repaired; Rehum son of Bani, and next to him Hashabiah, commander of half of the district of Keilah, repaired his district. {{rf{18}}} After him their brothers repaired: Bavvai son of Henadad, commander of half of the district of Keilah, {{rf{19}}} next to him Ezer son of Jeshua, commander of Mizpah, repaired a second section of a wall opposite of the ascent of the armory at the angle. {{rf{20}}} After him Baruch son of Zabbai zealously repaired a second section of a wall from the angle up to the doorway of the house of Eliashib the high priest. {{rf{21}}} After him Meremoth son of Uriah, son of Hakkoz, repaired a second section of a wall from the doorway of the house of Eliashib up to the end of the house of Eliashib. {{rf{22}}} After him the priests, men from the vicinity, repaired. {{rf{23}}} After them Benjamin and Hasshub repaired opposite their house. After them Azariah son of Maaseiah, son of Ananiah, repaired beside his house. {{rf{24}}} After him Binnui son of Henadad repaired a second section of a wall from the house of Azariah up to the angle up to the corner. {{rf{25}}} Palal son of Uzai repaired opposite the Angle at the tower that juts out from the upper house of the king, at the courtyard of the guard. After him Pedaiah son of Parosh {{rf{26}}} and the temple servants who were living on Ophel repaired up to opposite the Water Gate on the east and the projecting tower. {{rf{27}}} After him the Tekoites repaired a second section of a wall opposite the projecting tower that goes out as far as the wall of Ophel. {{rf{28}}} Above the Horse Gate the priests repaired, each one opposite his house. {{rf{29}}} After them Zadok son of Immer repaired opposite his house. After him Shemaiah son of Shecaniah, keeper of the East Gate, repaired. {{rf{30}}} After him Hananiah son of Shelemiah and Hanun the sixth son of Zalaph repaired another section. After him Meshullam son of Berekiah repaired the wall opposite his room. {{rf{31}}} After him Malkijah, one of the goldsmiths, repaired up to the house of the temple servants and the merchants, opposite the Enrollment Gate and up to the upper room of the corner. {{rf{32}}} Between the upper room of the corner to the Sheep Gate the goldsmiths and merchants repaired. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Nehemiah-03-15]] }}}
Now it happened when Sanballat heard that we were building the wall, he became angry and greatly provoked, and he mocked the Jews. {{rf{2}}} Then he said before his brothers and the army of Samaria, "What are the feeble Jews doing? Will they restore these things for themselves? Will they sacrifice? Will they finish it in a day? Will they revive the stones from the piles of rubble -- even those burned up?" {{rf{3}}} Tobiah the Ammonite was beside him and said, "Their wall of stone that they are building would break down if a fox went on it!" {{rf{4}}} Hear, our God, for we are despised. Turn their scorn on their head and give them over to plunder in the land of captivity. {{rf{5}}} Do not cover their guilt, and do not let their sin be blotted out from before you. They have provoked the builders to anger. {{rf{6}}} So we rebuilt the wall, and all of the wall was joined up to half its height. For the people had a heart to do it.
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{{rf{7}}} Now when Sanballat, Tobiah, the Arabs, the Ammonites, and the Ashdodites heard that the restoration of the walls of Jerusalem were going forward and the gaps were being closed, they were very angry. {{rf{8}}} So all of them plotted together to come fight against Jerusalem and to make trouble for it. {{rf{9}}} So we prayed to our God and set up a guard against them day and night. {{rf{10}}} But Judah said, "The strength of the carriers is failing, and there is too much dirt, and we are not able to build at the wall." {{rf{11}}} Then our enemies said, "They will not know nor see until we come upon them and will kill them and stop the work." {{rf{12}}} When the Jews who lived beside them came, they said to us ten times, "From all of the places where they live, they will come up against us." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Nehemiah-04-01]] }}}
{{rf{13}}} I stationed the people behind the deepest part of the wall in the open places according to their families, with their swords, spears, and bows. {{rf{14}}} And I looked, got up, and said to the nobles, prefects, and the rest of the people, "Do not be afraid of them. Remember the Lord, who is great and awesome, and fight for your brothers, your sons, your daughters, your wives, and your houses." {{rf{15}}} It happened when our enemies heard that their plan was known to us, that God had frustrated it, and we all returned to the wall -- each to his work. {{rf{16}}} From that day, half of my servants were working on craftsmanship, half were holding spears, small shields, bows, and breastplates. The commanders were behind the whole house of Judah. {{rf{17}}} The ones who were building the wall and the ones who carried the materials were carrying in one hand while doing the task, and with the other hand were grasping a weapon. {{rf{18}}} Each of the builders had his sword tied to his side while building. And the man who sounded the trumpet was beside me. {{rf{19}}} I said to the nobles, to the prefects, and to the rest of the people, "The work is great and widespread, and we are spread out over the wall far from each other. {{rf{20}}} Wherever you hear the sound of the trumpet, come together to us there. Our God will fight for us." {{rf{21}}} So we labored at the work, and half of them were holding the spears from dawn until the stars came out. {{rf{22}}} At the time I also said to the people, "Let each man and his servant spend the night inside Jerusalem, so that they will be a guard for us in the night and work in the day." {{rf{23}}} So neither I nor my brothers nor my young men nor the men of the guard who were behind me took off our clothes. Each one kept his weapon even in the water. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Nehemiah-04-13]] }}}
Now there was a great cry of distress of the people and of their wives against their Jewish brothers. {{rf{2}}} There were those who were saying, "Our sons and daughters, we are many. We must get grain so that we may eat and live." {{rf{3}}} There were also those saying, "We have pledged our fields and our vineyards and our houses so that we can get grain in the famine." {{rf{4}}} And there were those who were saying, "We have borrowed money on our fields and our vineyards for the tax of the king. {{rf{5}}} Now our flesh is like the flesh of our brothers, our sons are like their sons. Look, we are subduing our sons and our daughters to be slaves, and there are some from our daughters being molested. We are powerless, and our fields and vineyards belong to others." {{rf{6}}} I was very angry when I heard their shouts and these words. {{rf{7}}} I thought over this in my heart, and then I quarreled with the nobles and the prefects. I said to them, "You yourselves are taking interest from your own brother!" So I called the great assembly against them, {{rf{8}}} and I said to them: "We ourselves have bought back our brothers the Jews who were sold to the nations as we were able. But now you yourselves have sold your brothers so they may be sold to us!" They were silent and could not find a word to say. {{rf{9}}} So I said, "The thing that you are doing is not good. Should you not walk in the fear of our God to prevent the disgrace from the nations, our enemies? {{rf{10}}} Also, I and my brothers and my servants are lending them money and grain. Please stop taking this interest. {{rf{11}}} Please restore to them this day their fields, their vineyards, their olive groves, their houses, and the interest on the money, the grain, the grape juice, and the olive oil that you have been taking from them." {{rf{12}}} So they said, "We will restore it and will not request anything more. So we will do as you say." Then I called the priests and made them take an oath to do this promise. {{rf{13}}} I also shook out my garment and said, "This is how God will shake out everyone from his house who will not keep this promise. So this is how his possessions will be shaken out and emptied." And all the assembly said, "Amen!" And they praised Yahweh, and the people kept this promise. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Nehemiah-05-01]] }}}
{{rf{14}}} Moreover, from the appointed day I was made their governor in the land of Judah, from the twentieth year until the thirty-second year of King Artaxerxes -- twelve years. My brothers and I did not eat the food allowance of the governor. {{rf{15}}} The former governors who were before me laid burdens on the people, and they took food and wine from them, besides forty shekels. Also, their servants controlled the people, but I did not do so because of the fear of God. {{rf{16}}} I also devoted myself to the work of this wall, and we did not buy land. All of my servants were gathered for the work. {{rf{17}}} One hundred and fifty men, prefects and Jews, and those who came to us from the nations around us, were at my table. {{rf{18}}} Now what was prepared each day for me was one ox, six choice sheep, and birds. And every ten days all kinds of wine were made. But for this I did not demand the food allowance of the governor because the slavery was too heavy on this people. {{rf{19}}} Remember me for good, my God, all that I have done for this people.
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{{rf big{1}}} Now when it was reported to Sanballat, Tobiah, Geshem the Arab, and to the rest of our enemies that I had built the wall and that no gap was left in it -- though up to that time I had not erected doors in the gates -- {{rf{2}}} Sanballat and Geshem sent to me, saying, "Come and let us meet together in one of the villages in the plain of Ono." But they planned to do evil to me. {{rf{3}}} So I sent messengers to them, saying, "I am doing a great work and I am not able to come down. Why should the work stop while I leave it and come down to you all?" {{rf{4}}} And they sent a message to me four times like this, and I returned an answer like this to them. {{rf{5}}} And Sanballat sent his servant with an open letter, another word like this to me a fifth time, in his hand. {{rf{6}}} In it was written, "It has been reported among the nations, and Gashmu also is saying it, that you and the Jews are considering rebellion. Therefore, truly you are building the wall and you are becoming their king, according to these words. {{rf{7}}} You have also set up prophets to proclaim in Jerusalem concerning you, saying, 'There is a king in Judah.' And now it will be proclaimed to the king according to these words. Now, come and we will plan together." {{rf{8}}} So I sent to him saying, "None of these words you have spoken has happened. You are indeed saying things created in your own mind" -- {{rf{9}}} for all of them sought to frighten us, saying, "their hands will not do the work." And now, God, strengthen my hands. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Nehemiah-05-14]] }}}
<<Bbl Neh 6:1 abbr>> It's been rage and derision since Nehemiah's arrival, but now the tone changes to parley.
<<Bbl Neh 6:10 abbr>>-11 Nehemiah sees the intent is to cause him //to sin//; See <<Bbl Ps 11:1>>-3.
<<Bbl Neh 6:16 abbr>> Rage and false alliance give way to overt fear of God. His glory is manifest through the frailty of His humble people. Paul's "jars of clay" can be likened to these walls of earth.
<<Bbl Neh 6:18 abbr>> This relationship results in the sorry situation of <<Bbl Neh 13:4 abbr>>.
<<Bbl Neh 8:1 abbr>>-3,5-8,12,14 The theme of explanation and understanding is foremost.
<<Bbl Neh 8:10 abbr >> [[Joy]].
<<Bbl Neh 8:10 abbr >> food, giving, consecration.
<<Bbl Neh 8:14 abbr >> feast of booths.
<<Bbl Neh 8:18 abbr >> feast of 7 days.
<<Bbl Neh 9:25 abbr >> see <<Bbl Dt 6:11 >>
<<Bbl Neh 10:30 abbr >>-39 A list of specific commitments that are later broken. See <<Bbl Neh 13:11 abbr>> for a reproof. Nehemiah is always interested in specific commitment and accountability.
13:4 The relationship is explained in <<Bbl Neh 6:14 abbr>>.
13:13 -- deacon role -- humble service directly for the "house of God." (or v1?)
{{rf{10}}} Now I went into the house of Shemaiah son of Delaiah, son of Mehetabel, who was confined at home, and he said, "Let us meet in the house of God, inside the temple, and let us close the doors of the temple; for they are coming to kill you -- during the night they are coming to kill you." {{rf{11}}} But I said, "Should a man like me run away? And would a man like me go into the temple so that he can save his life? I will not go in!" {{rf{12}}} Then I look and realized God had not sent him; rather, he had spoken the prophecy against me because Tobiah and Sanballat had hired him. {{rf{13}}} For this reason he was hired: to frighten me so that I would act and sin, so that they would have a bad report so they could taunt me. {{rf{14}}} Remember, O my God, Tobiah and Sanballat according to their works, and also Noadiah the prophetess, and the remainder of the prophets who were frightening me. {{rf{15}}} So the wall was finished on the twenty-fifth day of Elul, in fifty-two days. {{rf{16}}} When our enemies heard of this, all of the nations surrounding us were afraid and lost their confidence. They knew that this work had been done with the help of our God. {{rf{17}}} Also, in those days the nobles of Judah increasingly sent their letters to Tobiah, and letters from Tobiah returned to them. {{rf{18}}} For many in Judah were bound by oath to him because he was the son-in-law of Shecaniah son of Arah. His son Jehohanan took as a wife the daughter of Meshullam son of Berekiah. {{rf{19}}} They also were speaking of his good deeds in my presence, and they were sending my words out to him. Tobiah sent letters to intimidate me. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Nehemiah-06-10]] }}}
Now when the wall had been built and I had erected the doors and appointed the gatekeepers, singers, and the Levites, {{rf{2}}} I gave command over Jerusalem to my brother Hanani and Hananiah the commander of the citadel. For he was a faithful man and feared God more than many. {{rf{3}}} I said to them, "Do not open the gates of Jerusalem until the sun is hot. While they are standing guard let them shut and fasten the doors. And appoint guards from the inhabitants of Jerusalem, one at his post and another opposite his house." {{rf{4}}} The city was widespread and large, but the people in it were few and no houses were rebuilt. {{rf{5}}} Then my God put into my heart to assemble the nobles, the prefects, and the people to be enrolled. I found the book of the genealogy of those who first came back, and I found this written upon it: {{rf{6}}} These are the people of the province who came up from captivity of the exiles whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had carried into exile. They returned to Jerusalem and to Judah, each one to his city. {{rf{7}}} These came with Zerubbabel, Joshua, Nehemiah, Azariah, Raamiah, Nahamani, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispereth, Bigvai, Nehum, Baanah. The number of the men of the people of Israel: {{rf{8}}} the descendants of Parosh, two thousand one hundred and seventy-two. {{rf{9}}} The descendants of Shephatiah, three hundred and seventy-two. {{rf{10}}} The descendants of Arah, six hundred and fifty-two. {{rf{11}}} The descendants of Pahath-Moab, of the descendants of Jeshua and Joab, two thousand eight hundred and eighteen. {{rf{12}}} The descendants of Elam, one thousand two hundred and fifty-four. {{rf{13}}} The descendants of Zattu, eight hundred and forty-five. {{rf{14}}} The descendants of Zaccai, seven hundred and sixty. {{rf{15}}} The descendants of Binnui, six hundred and forty-eight. {{rf{16}}} The descendants of Bebai, six hundred and twenty-eight. {{rf{17}}} The descendants of Azgad, two thousand three hundred and twenty-two. {{rf{18}}} The descendants of Adonikam, six hundred and sixty-seven. {{rf{19}}} The descendants of Bigvai, two thousand and sixty-seven. {{rf{20}}} The descendants of Adin, six hundred and fifty-five. {{rf{21}}} The descendants of Ater, namely of Hezekiah, ninety-eight. {{rf{22}}} The descendants of Hashum, three hundred and twenty-eight. {{rf{23}}} The descendants of Bezai, three hundred and twenty-four. {{rf{24}}} The descendants of Hariph, one hundred and twelve. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Nehemiah-07-01]] }}}
{{rf{25}}} The descendants of Gibeon, ninety-five. {{rf{26}}} The men of Bethlehem and Netophah, one hundred and eighty-eight. {{rf{27}}} The men of Anathoth, one hundred and twenty-eight. {{rf{28}}} The men of Beth-azmaveth, forty-two. {{rf{29}}} The men of Kiriath-Jearim, Kephirah, and Beeroth, seven hundred and forty-three. {{rf{30}}} The men of Ramah and Geba, six hundred and twenty-one. {{rf{31}}} The men of Micmash, one hundred and twenty-two. {{rf{32}}} The men of Bethel and Ai, one hundred and twenty-three. {{rf{33}}} The men of the other Nebo, fifty-two. {{rf{34}}} The people of the other Elam, one thousand two hundred and fifty-four. {{rf{35}}} The people of Harim, three hundred and twenty. {{rf{36}}} The people of Jericho, three hundred and forty-five. {{rf{37}}} The people of Lod, Hadid, and Ono, seven hundred and twenty-one. {{rf{38}}} The people of Senaah, three thousand nine hundred and thirty. {{rf{39}}} The priests: The descendants of Jedaiah, of the house of Jeshua, nine hundred and seventy-three. {{rf{40}}} The descendants of Immer, one thousand and fifty-two. {{rf{41}}} The descendants of Pashhur, one thousand two hundred and forty-seven. {{rf{42}}} The descendants of Harim, one thousand and seventeen. {{rf{43}}} The Levites: the descendants of Jeshua, namely of Kadmiel of the descendants of Hodaviah, seventy-four. {{rf{44}}} The singers: the descendants of Asaph, one hundred and forty-eight. {{rf{45}}} The gatekeepers: the descendants of Shallum, the descendants of Ater, the descendants of Talmon, the descendants of Akkub, the descendants of Hatita, the descendants of Shobai, one hundred and thirty-eight. {{rf{46}}} The temple servants: the descendants of Ziha, the descendants of Hasupha, the descendants of Tabbaoth, {{rf{47}}} the descendants of Keros, the descendants of Siaha, the descendants of Padon, {{rf{48}}} the descendants of Lebanah, the descendants of Hagaba, the descendants of Shalmai, {{rf{49}}} the descendants of Hanan, the descendants of Giddel, the descendants of Gahar, {{rf{50}}} the descendants of Reaiah, the descendants of Rezin, the descendants of Nekoda, {{rf{51}}} the descendants of Gazzam, the descendants of Uzza, the descendants of Paseah, {{rf{52}}} the descendants of Besai, the descendants of Meunim, the descendants of Nephushesim, {{rf{53}}} the descendants of Bakbuk, the descendants of Hakupha, the descendants of Harhur, {{rf{54}}} the descendants of Bazlith, the descendants of Mehida, the descendants of Harsha, {{rf{55}}} the descendants of Barkos, the descendants of Sisera, the descendants of Temah, {{rf{56}}} the descendants of Neziah, the descendants of Hatipha. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Nehemiah-07-25]] }}}
{{rf{57}}} The descendants of Solomon's servants: the descendants of Sotai, the descendants of Sophereth, the descendants of Perida, {{rf{58}}} the descendants of Jaala, the descendants of Darkon, the descendants of Giddel, {{rf{59}}} the descendants of Shephatiah, the descendants of Hattil, the descendants of Pochereth-Hazzebaim, the descendants of Amon. {{rf{60}}} All the temple servants and the descendants of Solomon's servants were three hundred and ninety-two. {{rf{61}}} These were the ones who came up from Tel-melah, Tel-harsha, Cherub, Addon, and Immer, but they were not able to prove their ancestral houses or their descent, whether they were from Israel: {{rf{62}}} the descendants of Delaiah, the descendants of Tobiah, the descendants of Nekoda, six hundred and forty-two. {{rf{63}}} And from the priests: the descendants of Hobaiah, the descendants of Hakkoz, the descendants of Barzillai (who had taken as a wife from the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite and was called by their name). {{rf{64}}} These sought their record among those enrolled in the genealogy, but it was not found there, so they were excluded as unclean from the priesthood. {{rf{65}}} So the governor said to them that they could not eat the most holy food until a priest could come with Urim and Thummim. {{rf{66}}} All of the assembly together was forty-two thousand three hundred and sixty, {{rf{67}}} besides their servants and female slaves -- these were seven thousand three hundred and thirty-seven. And the male and female singers were two hundred and forty-five, {{rf{69}}} there were four hundred and thirty-five camels and six thousand seven hundred and twenty male donkeys. {{rf{70}}} Now some from the heads of the families gave to the work. The governor gave to the storehouse one thousand darics of gold, fifty basins, and five hundred and thirty priestly tunics. {{rf{71}}} Now some of the heads of the families gave to the storehouse of the work twenty thousand gold darics and two thousand two hundred silver minas. {{rf{72}}} And what the rest of the people gave was twenty thousand darics of gold, and two thousand silver minas, and sixty-seven priestly tunics. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Nehemiah-07-57]] }}}
{{rf{73}}} So the priests, the Levites, the gatekeepers, the singers, some of the people, the temple servants, and all Israel settled in their cities. When the seventh month came, the Israelites were in their cities. {{rf big{1}}} All of the people gathered as one to the public square before the Water Gate. They asked Ezra the scribe to bring the book of the law of Moses that Yahweh had commanded Israel. {{rf{2}}} So Ezra the priest brought the law before the assembly for each man and woman to hear with understanding, on the first day of the seventh month. {{rf{3}}} He read from it facing the public square before the Water Gate from dawn until noon that day, opposite the men, women, and those with understanding. The ears of all the people were attentive to the book of the law. {{rf{4}}} Then Ezra the scribe stood on a wooden podium that had been made for the occasion. And beside him stood Mattithiah, Shema, Anaiah, Uriah, Hilkiah, and Maaseiah on his right. On his left was Pedaiah, Mishael, Malkijah, Hashum, Hashbaddanah, Zechariah, and Meshullam. {{rf{5}}} Ezra opened the book in the sight of all the people, because he was above all of the people. When he opened it all the people stood up. {{rf{6}}} Then Ezra blessed Yahweh the great God, and all of the people answered, "Amen! Amen!" while lifting their hands. Then they bowed down and worshiped Yahweh with their noses to the ground. {{rf{7}}} And Jeshua, Bani, Sherebiah, Jamin, Akkub, Shabbethai, Hodiah, Maaseiah, Kelita, Azariah, Jozabad, Hanan, Pelaiah, and the Levites were teaching the people from the law while the people were in their places. {{rf{8}}} So they read the book from the law of God, making it clear and giving the meaning so that they could understand the reading. {{rf{9}}} Nehemiah the governor, Ezra the priest and scribe, and the Levites who taught the people said to all of the people, "This day is holy to Yahweh your God. Do not mourn nor weep." For all of the people wept when they heard the words of the law. {{rf{10}}} Then he said to them, "Go, eat festive food and drink sweet drinks, and send a share to those for whom nothing is prepared; for this day is holy to our lord. Do not be grieved because the joy of Yahweh is your refuge." {{rf{11}}} So the Levites silenced all of the people, saying, "Silence, for this day is holy. Do not be grieved." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Nehemiah-07-73]] }}}
{{rf{12}}} All of the people went to eat, to drink, to send a share, and to have great joy because they understood the words that they had made known to them. {{rf{13}}} On the second day the heads of the families of all the people, the priests, and the Levites gathered together to Ezra the scribe to study the words of the law. {{rf{14}}} They found written in the law, which Yahweh had commanded by the hand of Moses, that the Israelites should live in booths during the festival of the seventh month, {{rf{15}}} and that they should proclaim and give voice in all of their cities in Jerusalem, saying, "Go out to the hill and bring olive tree branches, olive oil wood branches, myrtle shrub branches, palm tree branches, and other leafy tree branches to make booths, as it is written." {{rf{16}}} So the people went out and brought them and made booths for themselves, each on his roof, in their courtyards, in the courtyards of the house of God, in the public square of the Water Gate, and in the public square of the Gate of Ephraim. {{rf{17}}} And all of the assembly of those who returned from captivity made booths and lived in the booths because the Israelites had not done it from the days of Jeshua son of Nun until that day. And there was very great joy. {{rf{18}}} And he read from the scroll of the law of God day by day from the first day up to the last day. They celebrated the festival for seven days, and on the eighth day there was an assembly according to the rule. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Nehemiah-08-12]] }}}
On the twenty-fourth day of this month the Israelites gathered in fasting, in sackcloths, and with soil on them. {{rf{2}}} Those of the seed of Israel separated themselves from all of the foreigners and stood and confessed their sins and the iniquities of their ancestors. {{rf{3}}} They stood up in their place and read from the book of the law of Yahweh their God for a fourth part of the day, and for a fourth they were confessing and worshiping Yahweh their God. {{rf{4}}} Then Jeshua, Bani, Kadmiel, Shebaniah, Bunni, Sherebiah, Bani, and Kenani stood on the platform of the Levites and cried out with a loud voice to Yahweh their God. {{rf{5}}} Then the Levites, Jeshua, Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabneiah, Sherebiah, Hodiah, Shebaniah, and Pethahiah said, "Stand up, bless Yahweh your God from everlasting until everlasting. Blessed be your glorious name that is being exalted above all blessing and praise! {{rf{6}}} "You alone are Yahweh. You alone have made the heavens, the heavens of the heavens, and all of their army, the earth and all that is in it, the waters and all that is in them. You give life to all of them, and the army of the heavens worship you. {{rf{7}}} You are Yahweh, the God who chose Abram and brought him from Ur of the Chaldeans and named him Abraham. {{rf{8}}} You found his heart faithful before you and made a covenant with him to give the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Jebusite and the Girgashite -- to give it to his seed. And you have kept your word because you are righteous. {{rf{9}}} "You saw the misery of our ancestors in Egypt, and you heard their shout at the Red Sea. {{rf{10}}} You gave signs and wonders against Pharaoh, all of his servants, and all of the people of his land because you knew that they acted arrogantly against them. You made a name for yourself, as it is this day. {{rf{11}}} And you divided the sea before them, and they passed through the sea on dry ground, but their pursuers you threw into the depths like a stone into mighty waters. {{rf{12}}} You led them by day with a column of cloud and with a column of fire by night, to give them light on the way that they were to go. {{rf{13}}} Then you came down on Mount Sinai and spoke with them from heaven and gave them right judgments and true teachings, good regulations and commandments. {{rf{14}}} You made known your holy Sabbath to them and gave them commandments, regulations, and law by the hand of your servant Moses. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Nehemiah-09-01]] }}}
{{rf{15}}} You gave them bread from heaven for their starvation, and you caused water to go out from a rock for their thirst. You told them to go in order to take into possession the land that you have sworn by your hand to give to them. {{rf{16}}} "But they and our ancestors acted arrogantly and stiffened their neck and did not listen to your commandments. {{rf{17}}} They refused to listen and did not remember your wonders that you did among them. They stiffened their neck and in their rebellion determined to return to their slavery. But you are a God of forgiveness, gracious and compassionate, slow to anger, abundant in loyal love, so you did not abandon them. {{rf{18}}} Even when they made for themselves a molten idol of a calf and said, 'This is your God who brought you out from Egypt,' and committed great blasphemies. {{rf{19}}} But you in your many mercies did not abandon them in the desert. The column of cloud that was over them in the day did not cease to leave them on the way, and the column of fire by night that gave light to them on the way that they went. {{rf{20}}} And you gave your good Spirit to instruct them and did not withhold your manna from their mouth and gave them water for their thirst. {{rf{21}}} Forty years you sustained them in the desert -- they were not in need. Their clothing did not wear out and their feet did not swell. {{rf{22}}} And you gave them kingdoms and nations and allotted them a portion. They took into possession the land of Sihon king of Heshbon and the land of Og king of Bashan. {{rf{23}}} You made their children numerous like the stars of the heavens and brought them to the land that you told their ancestors to enter in order to take possession. {{rf{24}}} So the children went in and took possession of the land. You subdued before them the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites; you gave them into their hand, and their kings and the nations of the land to do with them according to their pleasure. {{rf{25}}} And they captured fortified cities and a fertile land and took possession of houses filled with every good thing: hewn cisterns, vineyards, olive groves, and many fruit trees. They ate and became full, and they became fat and took delight in your great goodness. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Nehemiah-09-15]] }}}
{{rf{26}}} "But they rebelled and were rebellious against you and cast your law behind their back and killed your prophets, who had warned them to turn back to you, and they did great blasphemies. {{rf{27}}} Therefore you gave them into the hand of their enemy, and they brought trouble to them. Then in the time of their trouble they cried out to you, and you heard from the heavens, and according to your great compassions, you gave them saviors, and you saved them from the hand of their enemies. {{rf{28}}} But when they had rest they returned to doing evil before you, and you abandoned them in the hand of their enemies, and they ruled over them. Then they returned and cried out to you, and from the heavens you heard and many times rescued them according to your compassions. {{rf{29}}} You warned them so that they would return to your law. Yet they acted arrogantly and did not listen to your commandments but sinned against your judgments that a person must do so that they may live. They turned a stubborn shoulder and stiffened their neck and would not listen. {{rf{30}}} You were patient toward them for many years, and you have warned them by your spirit through the hand of your prophets, but they did not listen. So you gave them into the hand of the nations of the lands. {{rf{31}}} But in your great compassions you did not put an end to them, and you did not abandon them. For you are a gracious and compassionate God. {{rf{32}}} "And now our God, the great, mighty, and awesome God who keeps his covenant and loyal love, do not belittle in your presence all of the hardship that is found in us, our kings, our officials, our priests, our prophets, our ancestors, and all of our people, from the days of the kings of Assyria until this day. {{rf{33}}} You are righteous in everything that has come on us, for you dealt faithfully, and we have acted wickedly. {{rf{34}}} Our kings, our officials, our priests, and our ancestors did not keep your law and did not listen to your commandments and statutes that you declared to them. {{rf{35}}} And in their kingdom and in the greatness you gave to them, and in the wide and fertile land that you gave before them, they did not serve you and did not turn from their evil deeds. {{rf{36}}} Behold, we are slaves to this day, and the land that you have given to our ancestors to eat its fruits and enjoy its goodness -- behold, we are slaves in it! {{rf{37}}} Its rich yield goes to the kings whom you have given over us because of our sins, and they are ruling over our dead bodies and our livestock at their pleasure. We are in great trouble. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Nehemiah-09-26]] }}}
{{rf{38}}} "Now because of all of this we make a binding written agreement and are writing on the sealed documents the names of our commanders, our Levites, and our priests." {{rf big{1}}} Upon the sealed documents: Nehemiah the governor, son of Hacaliah and Zedekiah; {{rf{2}}} Seraiah, Azariah, Jeremiah, {{rf{3}}} Pashhur, Amariah, Malkijah, {{rf{4}}} Hattush, Shebaniah, Malluch, {{rf{5}}} Harim, Meremoth, Obadiah, {{rf{6}}} Daniel, Ginnethon, Baruch, {{rf{7}}} Meshullam, Abijah, Mijamin, {{rf{8}}} Maaziah, Bilgai, Shemaiah -- these are the priests. {{rf{9}}} And the Levites: Jeshua son of Azaniah, Binnui from the sons of Henadad, Kadmiel; {{rf{10}}} their brothers Shebaniah, Hodiah, Kelita, Pelaiah, Hanan, {{rf{11}}} Mica, Rehob, Hashabiah, {{rf{12}}} Zaccur, Shereiah, Shebanaih, {{rf{13}}} Hodiah, Bani, Beninu. {{rf{14}}} The heads of the people: Parosh, Pahath-Moab, Elam, Zattu, Bani, {{rf{15}}} Bunni, Azgad, Bebai, {{rf{16}}} Adonijah, Bigvai, Adin, {{rf{17}}} Ater, Hezekiah, Azzur, {{rf{18}}} Hodiah, Hashum, Bezai, {{rf{19}}} Hariph, Anathoth, Nobai, {{rf{20}}} Magpiash, Meshullam, Hezir, {{rf{21}}} Meshezabel, Zadok, Jaddua, {{rf{22}}} Pelatiah, Hanan, Anaiah, {{rf{23}}} Hoshea, Hananiah, Hasshub, {{rf{24}}} Hallohesh, Pilha, Shobek, {{rf{25}}} Rehum, Hashabnah, Maaseiah, {{rf{26}}} Ahijah, Hanan, Anan, {{rf{27}}} Malluch, Harim, Baanah. {{rf{28}}} "The rest of the people, the priests, the Levites, the gatekeepers, the singers, the temple servants, and all who separated themselves from the peoples of the lands to observe the law of God -- their wives, their sons, their daughters, and all who know and understand -- {{rf{29}}} are helping their brothers, their nobles, and entering into a solemn oath to walk in the law of God which was given by the hand of Moses the servant of God, and to observe and do all of the commandments of Yahweh our Lord and his judgments and regulations. {{rf{30}}} We will not give our daughters to the peoples of the land nor take their daughters for our sons. {{rf{31}}} And the peoples of the land who bring merchandise and any grain on the Sabbath day to sell, we will not accept it from them on the Sabbath or on a holy day. We will forego the crops of the seventh year and cancel every debt. {{rf{32}}} "We put on ourselves the commandment upon us to yearly give a third of a shekel for the service of the house of our God: {{rf{33}}} for the rows of bread, the offering of the daily sacrifice, the continual burnt sacrifice, the Sabbaths, the new moon festivals, the appointed festival times, the holy objects, the sin offerings that make atonement for Israel, and for all the work of the house of our God. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Nehemiah-09-38]] }}}
{{rf{34}}} And we have cast lots for the contributions of the wood offering of the priests, the Levites, and the people to bring it to the house of our God, by our fathers' houses, at designated times, year by year, to burn on the altar of Yahweh our God -- as it is written in the law. {{rf{35}}} We also bring the first fruits of our soil and the first fruits of all the fruit trees, year by year, for the house of Yahweh. {{rf{36}}} And the firstborn of our sons and beasts -- as it is written in the law -- and the firstborn of our cattle and sheep, to bring to the house of our God and to the priests serving in the house of our God. {{rf{37}}} And we bring the best of our dough, our offerings, the fruit of every tree, new wine, and olive oil to the priests, to the chambers of the house of our God; and to bring the tithe of our soil to the Levites, for the Levites receive the tithes in all of our rural towns. {{rf{38}}} And the priest, the descendant of Aaron, will be with the Levites during the tithe the Levites receive. The Levites will bring up a tithe of the tithes for the house of our God to the chambers of the storehouse. {{rf{39}}} For the Israelites and the Levites will bring to the storerooms the offering of grain, new wine, and olive oil. These are the objects of the sanctuary and the priests who minister and the gatekeepers and singers. We will not neglect the house of our God." {{rf big{1}}} Now the commanders of the people lived in Jerusalem, but the remainder of the people cast lots to bring one out of ten to live in the holy city of Jerusalem, the other nine's place was in the other cities. {{rf{2}}} And the people blessed all the men who willingly offered to live in Jerusalem. {{rf{3}}} These are the heads of the province who lived in Jerusalem, but in the cities of Judah each one lived on his property in their cities: Israel, the priests, the Levites, the temple servants, and the descendants of Solomon's servants. {{rf{4}}} And some from the descendants of Judah and Benjamin lived in Jerusalem. From the descendants of Judah: Athaiah son of Uzziah, son of Zechariah, son of Amariah, son of Shephatiah, son of Mahalalel, from the descendants of Perez; {{rf{5}}} and Maaseiah son of Baruch, son of Col-Hozeh, son of Hazaiah, son of Adaiah, son of Jehoiarib, son of Zechariah, son of the Shilonite. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Nehemiah-10-34]] }}}
{{rf{6}}} All of the descendants of Perez who were living in Jerusalem were four hundred and sixty-eight able-bodied men. {{rf{7}}} These are the descendants of Benjamin: Sallu son of Meshullam, son of Joed, son of Pedaiah, son of Kolaiah, son of Maaseiah, son of Ithiel, son of Jeshaiah. {{rf{8}}} And following after him Gabbai, Sallai, nine hundred and twenty-eight. {{rf{9}}} And Joel son of Zicri, their chief officer; and Judah son of Hassenuah, second in command over the city. {{rf{10}}} From the priests: Jedaiah son of Jehoiarib, Jakin, {{rf{11}}} Seraiah son of Hilkiah, son of Meshullam, son of Zadok, son of Meraioth, son of Ahitub -- the leader of the house of God -- {{rf{12}}} and their brothers who did the work of the house, eight hundred and twenty-two. And Adaiah son of Jeroham, son of Pelaliah, son of Amzi, son of Zechariah, son of Pashhur, son of Malkijah, {{rf{13}}} and his brothers, heads of the families, two hundred and forty-two. And Amashai son of Azarel, son of Ahzai, son of Meshillemoth, son of Immer, {{rf{14}}} and their brothers; mighty warriors of strength, one hundred and twenty-eight. The chief officer over them was Zabdiel son of Hagedolim. {{rf{15}}} Now from the Levites: Shemaiah son of Hasshub, son of Azrikam, son of Hashabiah, son of Bunni; {{rf{16}}} and Shabbethai and Jehozabad, leaders over the work of the Levites outside of the house of God; {{rf{17}}} Mattaniah son of Micah, son of Zabdi, son of Asaph, who was the leader to begin the thanksgiving prayer, and Bakbukiah the second of his brothers; Abda son of Shammua, son of Galal, son of Jeduthun. {{rf{18}}} All of the Levites in the holy city were two hundred and eighty-four. {{rf{19}}} The gatekeepers: Akkub, Talmon, and their brothers, the keepers of the gates, one hundred and seventy-two. {{rf{20}}} And the remainder of Israel, the priests and the Levites, in all of the cities of Judah, each in his inheritance. {{rf{21}}} But the temple servants were living on the Ophel; Ziha and Gishpa were over the temple servants. {{rf{22}}} The chief officer of the Levites in Jerusalem was Uzzi son of Bani, son of Hashabiah, son of Mattaniah, son of Mica, from the descendants of Asaph, the singers over the work of the house of God. {{rf{23}}} For there was a command of the king concerning them and a regulation concerning the singers, required day by day. {{rf{24}}} And Pethahiah son of Meshezabel, from the descendants of Zerah the son of Judah, was at the hand of the king in all matters concerning the people. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Nehemiah-11-06]] }}}
{{rf{25}}} As for the villages in their territories, some from the descendants of Judah lived in Kiriath-Arba and its settlements, Dibon and its settlements, Jekabzeel and its settlements, {{rf{26}}} Jeshua, Moladah, Beth Pelet, {{rf{27}}} Hazar Shual, Beersheba and its settlements, {{rf{28}}} Ziklad, Meconah and its settlements, {{rf{29}}} En-Rimmon, Zorah, Jarmuch, {{rf{30}}} Zanoah, Adullam and their settlements, Lachish and its fields, and Azekah and its settlements. So they camped from Beersheba up to the Valley of Hinnom. {{rf{31}}} The descendants of Benjamin from Geba, Micmash, Aija, Bethel and their settlements, {{rf{32}}} Anathoth, Nob, Ananiah, {{rf{33}}} Hazor, Ramah, Gittaim, {{rf{34}}} Hadid, Zeboim, Neballat, {{rf{35}}} Lod, and Ono the valley of the artisans. {{rf{36}}} And from the Levites the working groups of Judah were assigned to Benjamin. {{rf big{1}}} These are the priests and the Levites who came up with Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel and Jeshua: Seraiah, Jeremiah, Ezra, {{rf{2}}} Amariah, Malluch, Hattush, {{rf{3}}} Shecaniah, Rehum, Meremoth, {{rf{4}}} Iddo, Ginnethoi, Abijah, {{rf{5}}} Mijamin, Maadiah, Bilgah, {{rf{6}}} Shemaiah, Jehoiarib, Jedaiah, {{rf{7}}} Sallu, Amok, Hilkiah, Jedaiah. These are the heads of the priests and their brothers in the days of Jeshua. {{rf{8}}} And the Levites: Jeshua, Binnui, Kadmiel, Sherebiah, Judah, and Mattaniah and his brothers who were in charge of the songs of thanksgiving. {{rf{9}}} And Bakbukiah, Unno, their brothers stood opposite them during service. {{rf{10}}} Jeshua fathered Jehoiakim; Jehoiakim fathered Eliashib; Eliashib fathered Jehoiada; {{rf{11}}} Jehoiada fathered Jehonathan; Jehonathan fathered Jaddua. {{rf{12}}} Now in the days of Jehoiakim the priests and the heads of the families were: of Seraiah, Meraiah; of Jeremiah, Hananiah; {{rf{13}}} of Ezra, Meshullam; of Amariah, Jehohanan; {{rf{14}}} of Melichu, Jonathan; of Shebaniah, Joseph; {{rf{15}}} of Harim, Adna; of Meraioth, Helkai; {{rf{16}}} of Adaia, Zechariah; of Ginnethon, Meshullam; {{rf{17}}} of Abijah, Zicri; of Miniamin; of Moadiah, Piltai; {{rf{18}}} of Bilgah, Shammua; of Shemaiah, Jehonathan; {{rf{19}}} of Jehoiarib, Mattenai; of Jedaiah, Uzzi; {{rf{20}}} of Sallu, Kallai; of Amok, Eber; {{rf{21}}} of Hilkiah, Hashabiah; and of Jedaiah, Nethanel. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Nehemiah-11-25]] }}}
{{rf{22}}} In the days of Eliashib, Jehoiada, Jehohanan, and Jaddua the Levites were recorded as heads of the families. So these were the priests during the reign of Darius the Persian. {{rf{23}}} The descendants of Levi and the heads of the families were recorded in the scroll of the Annals until the days of Jehohanan son of Eliashib. {{rf{24}}} And the heads of the Levites: Hashabiah, Sherebiah, Jeshua son of Kadmiel, and their brothers opposite them, to praise and to give thanks by the command of David the man of God, section alongside section. {{rf{25}}} Mattaniah, Bakbukiah, Obadiah, Meshullam, Talmon, and Akkub were gatekeepers standing guard at the storerooms of the gates. {{rf{26}}} These were in the days of Jehoiakim son of Jeshua, son of Jehozadak, and in the days of Nehemiah the governor and Ezra the priest and scribe. {{rf{27}}} At the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem they sought the Levites from all of their places in order to bring them to Jerusalem to do the dedication with joy, thanksgivings, song and cymbals, stringed instruments and lyres. {{rf{28}}} The singers were gathered from the circuit all around Jerusalem and from the villages of Netophathite, {{rf{29}}} from Beth Gilgal, from the field of Geba and Azmaveth; for the singers built for themselves villages all around Jerusalem. {{rf{30}}} And the priests and the Levites purified themselves and purified the people, the gates, and the wall. {{rf{31}}} Then I brought the commanders of Judah up on to the wall. I appointed two great choirs; one went in a procession to the right on the wall to the Dung Gate. {{rf{32}}} After them went Hoshaiah, half of the commanders of Judah, {{rf{33}}} Azariah, Ezra, Meshullam, {{rf{34}}} Judah, Benjamin, Shemaiah, Jeremiah, {{rf{35}}} and the priests with trumpets; Zechariah son of Jehonathan, son of Shemaiah, son of Mattaniah, son of Micaiah, son of Zaccur, son of Asaph; {{rf{36}}} and his brothers Shemaiah, Azarel, Milalai, Gilalai, Maai, Nethanel, Judah, and Hanani with the instruments of the songs of David the man of God; and Ezra the scribe went before them. {{rf{37}}} At the Fountain Gate opposite them they went up the steps of the city of David, at the assent to the wall, over the house of David, and up to the Water Gate to the east. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Nehemiah-12-22]] }}}
{{rf{38}}} Then the second choir went the opposite way. I followed after them with half of the people on the wall, from over the Tower of the Ovens up to the Wide Wall {{rf{39}}} and over the Gate of Ephraim, at the Old Gate, at the Fish Gate, the Tower of Hananel and the Tower of the Hundred, and to the Sheep Gate. And they stopped and stood at the Gate of the Guard. {{rf{40}}} So the two choirs stood in the house of God, and I and half of the prefects with me; {{rf{41}}} and the priests Eliakim, Maaseiah, Miniamin, Micaiah, Elioenai, Zechariah, and Hananiah with the trumpets; {{rf{42}}} Maaseiah, Shemaiah, Eleazar, Uzzi, Jehohanan, Malkijah, Elam, and Ezer. And the singers sang with Jizrahiah the chief officer. {{rf{43}}} They offered on that day great sacrifices and rejoiced because God brought great joy to them. And the women and children also rejoiced. The joy of Jerusalem was heard from afar. {{rf{44}}} On that day men were appointed for the storehouse rooms, the offerings, the first fruits, and the tithes, in order to gather in them from the fields of the cities the requirements of the law for the priests and Levites; for the joy of Judah was upon the priests and Levites standing there. {{rf{45}}} They kept the responsibility of their God and the responsibility of cleansing, and the singers and gatekeepers, according to the command of David and his son Solomon. {{rf{46}}} For in the days of David and Asaph from ancient times there was the head of the singers and a song of praise and thanksgiving to God. {{rf{47}}} So all of Israel in the days of Zerubbabel and in the days of Nehemiah gave the daily food portions of the singers and gatekeepers. And they set apart that which was for the Levites, and the Levites set apart that which was for the descendants of Aaron. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Nehemiah-12-38]] }}}
On that day the book of Moses was read in the hearing of the people and it was found written in it that no Ammonite or Moabite should ever come into the assembly of God {{rf{2}}} because they did not come to meet the Israelites with bread and water, but hired Balaam against them in order to curse them -- but our God changed the curse into a blessing. {{rf{3}}} So it happened when they heard the law that they separated all of the foreign people from Israel. {{rf{4}}} Before this, Eliashib the priest who was appointed over the chambers of the house of our God -- the one related to Tobiah -- {{rf{5}}} prepared for Tobiah a large chamber where they had formerly put the grain offering, the frankincense, the temple objects, tithes of grain, wine, and oil commanded for the Levites, the singers, the gatekeepers, and the offerings of the priests. {{rf{6}}} During all of this, I was not in Jerusalem because in the thirty-second year of Artaxerxes king of Babylon I went to the king. At the end of some days I asked permission from the king to leave. {{rf{7}}} So I came to Jerusalem. And I came to learn of the wrong that Eliashib had done for Tobiah by making him a room in the courtyard of the house of God. {{rf{8}}} It was very displeasing for me, and I threw all of the objects from the house of Tobiah outside of the chamber. {{rf{9}}} And I spoke in order, and they cleansed the chambers. Then I returned the objects of the house of God -- the grain offering and the frankincense. {{rf{10}}} And then I came to learn that the food of the Levites had not been given to them, so that the Levites and the singers, the doers of the work, had gone back each to his field. {{rf{11}}} So I quarreled with the prefects, and I said, "Why is the house of God forsaken?" And I gathered them and set them at their station. {{rf{12}}} So all of Judah brought the tithe of grain, new wine, and olive oil into the storehouses. {{rf{13}}} I appointed as treasurer over the storehouses Shelemiah the priest, Zadok the scribe, Pedaiah from the Levites, and as their hand Hanan son of Zaccur, son of Mattaniah, for they were considered faithful. The responsibility given to them was to distribute to their brothers. {{rf{14}}} Remember me, my God, concerning this, and do not wipe out my loyal acts which I have done in the house of my God and in his service. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Nehemiah-13-01]] }}}
{{rf{15}}} In those days I saw in Judah people treading the wine press on the Sabbath, bringing in heaps of grain and loading them on donkeys along with wine, grapes and figs, and every kind of burden and bringing it all to Jerusalem on the day of the Sabbath. And I warned them at that time against selling food. {{rf{16}}} Tyrian men who lived in Jerusalem brought fish and every kind of merchandise and sold it on the Sabbath to the descendants of Judah and in Jerusalem. {{rf{17}}} So I quarreled with the nobles of Judah and said to them, "What is this evil thing that you are doing, profaning the day of the Sabbath? {{rf{18}}} Did not your ancestors do this also, and our God brought on us all of this disaster and on this city too? Now you are adding fierce wrath on Israel by profaning the Sabbath!" {{rf{19}}} So when it became dark at the gates of Jerusalem before the Sabbath, I commanded that the doors be shut and said that they should not be opened until after the Sabbath. And I appointed some of my young men over the gates to prevent any goods being brought in on the day of the Sabbath. {{rf{20}}} So the merchants and the sellers of merchandise spent the night outside of Jerusalem once or twice. {{rf{21}}} But I warned them and said to them, "Why are you spending the night opposite the wall? If you do it again, I will lay hands against you." From that time on they did not come on the Sabbath. {{rf{22}}} And then I told two Levites that they must purify themselves and come to guard the gates in order to consecrate the day of the Sabbath. Remember this also, my God, and take pity on me according to the greatness of your loyal love. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Nehemiah-13-15]] }}}
{{rf{23}}} Also in those days I saw Jews who had married women of Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab. {{rf{24}}} Half of their children spoke Ashdodite and could not speak Judean, but only the tongues of other nations. {{rf{25}}} So I quarreled with them and cursed them and beat some of their men and pulled out their hair. I made them take an oath by God: "Do not give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons or for yourselves. {{rf{26}}} Did not King Solomon of Israel sin in this way? And among the many nations there was no king like him, and he was beloved by his God, and God made him king over all Israel. Yet the foreign women made even him sin. {{rf{27}}} Should we listen to you all and do this great evil, acting unfaithfully against our God by marrying foreign women?" {{rf{28}}} One from the sons of Jehoiada, son of the high priest Eliashib, who was the son-in-law of Sanballat the Horonote was there. I chased him away from me. {{rf{29}}} Remember them, my God, because of their defilements of the priesthood and the covenant of the priesthood and the Levites. {{rf{30}}} So I cleansed them from everything foreign, and I established responsibilities for the priests and Levites, each in his own work, {{rf{31}}} a contribution of the wood offering at appointed times, and for the first fruits. Remember me, my God, for good. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Nehemiah-13-23]] }}}
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|Name|NestedSlidersPlugin|
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|Documentation|http://www.TiddlyTools.com/#NestedSlidersPluginInfo|
|Version|2.4.9|
|Author|Eric Shulman - ELS Design Studios|
|License|http://www.TiddlyTools.com/#LegalStatements <br>and [[Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 License|http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/]]|
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!!!!!Documentation
>see [[NestedSlidersPluginInfo]]
!!!!!Configuration
<<<
<<option chkFloatingSlidersAnimate>> allow floating sliders to animate when opening/closing
>Note: This setting can cause 'clipping' problems in some versions of InternetExplorer.
>In addition, for floating slider animation to occur you must also allow animation in general (see [[AdvancedOptions]]).
<<<
!!!!!Revisions
<<<
2008.11.15 - 2.4.9 in adjustNestedSlider(), don't make adjustments if panel is marked as 'undocked' (CSS class). In onClickNestedSlider(), SHIFT-CLICK docks panel (see [[MoveablePanelPlugin]])
|please see [[NestedSlidersPluginInfo]] for additional revision details|
2005.11.03 - 1.0.0 initial public release. Thanks to RodneyGomes, GeoffSlocock, and PaulPetterson for suggestions and experiments.
<<<
!!!!!Code
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}
// parse alternate label/tooltip: [label|tooltip]
if (openlabel) {
var parts=openlabel.trim().slice(1,-1).split("|");
openedtext=parts.shift();
if (parts.length) openedtip=parts.join("|");
else openedtip="hide "+openedtext;
}
var title=show=='block'?openedtext:closedtext;
var tooltip=show=='block'?openedtip:closedtip;
// create the button
if (header) { // use "Hn" header format instead of button/link
var lvl=(header.length>5)?5:header.length;
var btn = createTiddlyElement(createTiddlyElement(place,"h"+lvl,null,null,null),"a",null,buttonClass,title);
btn.onclick=onClickNestedSlider;
btn.setAttribute("href","javascript:;");
btn.setAttribute("title",tooltip);
}
else
var btn = createTiddlyButton(place,title,tooltip,onClickNestedSlider,buttonClass);
btn.innerHTML=title; // enables use of HTML entities in label
// set extra button attributes
btn.setAttribute("closedtext",closedtext);
btn.setAttribute("closedtip",closedtip);
btn.setAttribute("openedtext",openedtext);
btn.setAttribute("openedtip",openedtip);
btn.sliderCookie = cookie; // save the cookiename (if any) in the button object
btn.defOpen=defopen!=null; // save default open/closed state (boolean)
btn.keyparam=key; // save the access key letter ("" if none)
if (key.length) {
btn.setAttribute("accessKey",key); // init access key
btn.onfocus=function(){this.setAttribute("accessKey",this.keyparam);}; // **reclaim** access key on focus
}
btn.setAttribute("hover",hover?"true":"false");
btn.onmouseover=function(ev) {
// optional 'open on hover' handling
if (this.getAttribute("hover")=="true" && this.sliderPanel.style.display=='none') {
document.onclick.call(document,ev); // close transients
onClickNestedSlider(ev); // open this slider
}
// mouseover on button aligns floater position with button
if (window.adjustSliderPos) window.adjustSliderPos(this.parentNode,this,this.sliderPanel);
}
// create slider panel
var panelClass=panelwidth?"floatingPanel":"sliderPanel";
if (panelID) panelID=panelID.slice(1,-1); // trim off delimiters
var panel=createTiddlyElement(place,"div",panelID,panelClass,null);
panel.button = btn; // so the slider panel know which button it belongs to
btn.sliderPanel=panel; // so the button knows which slider panel it belongs to
panel.defaultPanelWidth=(panelwidth && panelwidth.length>2)?panelwidth.slice(1,-1):"";
panel.setAttribute("transient",transient=="*"?"true":"false");
panel.style.display = show;
panel.style.width=panel.defaultPanelWidth;
panel.onmouseover=function(event) // mouseover on panel aligns floater position with button
{ if (window.adjustSliderPos) window.adjustSliderPos(this.parentNode,this.button,this); }
// render slider (or defer until shown)
w.nextMatch = lookaheadMatch.index + lookaheadMatch[0].length;
if ((show=="block")||!deferred) {
// render now if panel is supposed to be shown or NOT deferred rendering
w.subWikify(blockquote?createTiddlyElement(panel,"blockquote"):panel,this.terminator);
// align floater position with button
if (window.adjustSliderPos) window.adjustSliderPos(place,btn,panel);
}
else {
var src = w.source.substr(w.nextMatch);
var endpos=findMatchingDelimiter(src,"+++","===");
panel.setAttribute("raw",src.substr(0,endpos));
panel.setAttribute("blockquote",blockquote?"true":"false");
panel.setAttribute("rendered","false");
w.nextMatch += endpos+3;
if (w.source.substr(w.nextMatch,1)=="\n") w.nextMatch++;
}
}
}
}
)
function findMatchingDelimiter(src,starttext,endtext) {
var startpos = 0;
var endpos = src.indexOf(endtext);
// check for nested delimiters
while (src.substring(startpos,endpos-1).indexOf(starttext)!=-1) {
// count number of nested 'starts'
var startcount=0;
var temp = src.substring(startpos,endpos-1);
var pos=temp.indexOf(starttext);
while (pos!=-1) { startcount++; pos=temp.indexOf(starttext,pos+starttext.length); }
// set up to check for additional 'starts' after adjusting endpos
startpos=endpos+endtext.length;
// find endpos for corresponding number of matching 'ends'
while (startcount && endpos!=-1) {
endpos = src.indexOf(endtext,endpos+endtext.length);
startcount--;
}
}
return (endpos==-1)?src.length:endpos;
}
//}}}
//{{{
window.onClickNestedSlider=function(e)
{
if (!e) var e = window.event;
var theTarget = resolveTarget(e);
while (theTarget && theTarget.sliderPanel==undefined) theTarget=theTarget.parentNode;
if (!theTarget) return false;
var theSlider = theTarget.sliderPanel;
var isOpen = theSlider.style.display!="none";
// if SHIFT-CLICK, dock panel first (see [[MoveablePanelPlugin]])
if (e.shiftKey && config.macros.moveablePanel) config.macros.moveablePanel.dock(theSlider,e);
// toggle label
theTarget.innerHTML=isOpen?theTarget.getAttribute("closedText"):theTarget.getAttribute("openedText");
// toggle tooltip
theTarget.setAttribute("title",isOpen?theTarget.getAttribute("closedTip"):theTarget.getAttribute("openedTip"));
// deferred rendering (if needed)
if (theSlider.getAttribute("rendered")=="false") {
var place=theSlider;
if (theSlider.getAttribute("blockquote")=="true")
place=createTiddlyElement(place,"blockquote");
wikify(theSlider.getAttribute("raw"),place);
theSlider.setAttribute("rendered","true");
}
// show/hide the slider
if(config.options.chkAnimate && (!hasClass(theSlider,'floatingPanel') || config.options.chkFloatingSlidersAnimate))
anim.startAnimating(new Slider(theSlider,!isOpen,e.shiftKey || e.altKey,"none"));
else
theSlider.style.display = isOpen ? "none" : "block";
// reset to default width (might have been changed via plugin code)
theSlider.style.width=theSlider.defaultPanelWidth;
// align floater panel position with target button
if (!isOpen && window.adjustSliderPos) window.adjustSliderPos(theSlider.parentNode,theTarget,theSlider);
// if showing panel, set focus to first 'focus-able' element in panel
if (theSlider.style.display!="none") {
var ctrls=theSlider.getElementsByTagName("*");
for (var c=0; c<ctrls.length; c++) {
var t=ctrls[c].tagName.toLowerCase();
if ((t=="input" && ctrls[c].type!="hidden") || t=="textarea" || t=="select")
{ try{ ctrls[c].focus(); } catch(err){;} break; }
}
}
var cookie=theTarget.sliderCookie;
if (cookie && cookie.length) {
config.options[cookie]=!isOpen;
if (config.options[cookie]!=theTarget.defOpen) window.saveOptionCookie(cookie);
else window.removeCookie(cookie); // remove cookie if slider is in default display state
}
// prevent SHIFT-CLICK from being processed by browser (opens blank window... yuck!)
// prevent clicks *within* a slider button from being processed by browser
// but allow plain click to bubble up to page background (to close transients, if any)
if (e.shiftKey || theTarget!=resolveTarget(e))
{ e.cancelBubble=true; if (e.stopPropagation) e.stopPropagation(); }
Popup.remove(); // close open popup (if any)
return false;
}
//}}}
//{{{
// click in document background closes transient panels
document.nestedSliders_savedOnClick=document.onclick;
document.onclick=function(ev) { if (!ev) var ev=window.event; var target=resolveTarget(ev);
if (document.nestedSliders_savedOnClick)
var retval=document.nestedSliders_savedOnClick.apply(this,arguments);
// if click was inside a popup... leave transient panels alone
var p=target; while (p) if (hasClass(p,"popup")) break; else p=p.parentNode;
if (p) return retval;
// if click was inside transient panel (or something contained by a transient panel), leave it alone
var p=target; while (p) {
if ((hasClass(p,"floatingPanel")||hasClass(p,"sliderPanel"))&&p.getAttribute("transient")=="true") break;
p=p.parentNode;
}
if (p) return retval;
// otherwise, find and close all transient panels...
var all=document.all?document.all:document.getElementsByTagName("DIV");
for (var i=0; i<all.length; i++) {
// if it is not a transient panel, or the click was on the button that opened this panel, don't close it.
if (all[i].getAttribute("transient")!="true" || all[i].button==target) continue;
// otherwise, if the panel is currently visible, close it by clicking it's button
if (all[i].style.display!="none") window.onClickNestedSlider({target:all[i].button})
if (!hasClass(all[i],"floatingPanel")&&!hasClass(all[i],"sliderPanel")) all[i].style.display="none";
}
return retval;
};
//}}}
//{{{
// adjust floating panel position based on button position
if (window.adjustSliderPos==undefined) window.adjustSliderPos=function(place,btn,panel) {
if (hasClass(panel,"floatingPanel") && !hasClass(panel,"undocked")) {
// see [[MoveablePanelPlugin]] for use of 'undocked'
var rightEdge=document.body.offsetWidth-1;
var panelWidth=panel.offsetWidth;
var left=0;
var top=btn.offsetHeight;
if (place.style.position=="relative" && findPosX(btn)+panelWidth>rightEdge) {
left-=findPosX(btn)+panelWidth-rightEdge; // shift panel relative to button
if (findPosX(btn)+left<0) left=-findPosX(btn); // stay within left edge
}
if (place.style.position!="relative") {
var left=findPosX(btn);
var top=findPosY(btn)+btn.offsetHeight;
var p=place; while (p && !hasClass(p,'floatingPanel')) p=p.parentNode;
if (p) { left-=findPosX(p); top-=findPosY(p); }
if (left+panelWidth>rightEdge) left=rightEdge-panelWidth;
if (left<0) left=0;
}
panel.style.left=left+"px"; panel.style.top=top+"px";
}
}
//}}}
//{{{
// TW2.1 and earlier:
// hijack Slider stop handler so overflow is visible after animation has completed
Slider.prototype.coreStop = Slider.prototype.stop;
Slider.prototype.stop = function()
{ this.coreStop.apply(this,arguments); this.element.style.overflow = "visible"; }
// TW2.2+
// hijack Morpher stop handler so sliderPanel/floatingPanel overflow is visible after animation has completed
if (version.major+.1*version.minor+.01*version.revision>=2.2) {
Morpher.prototype.coreStop = Morpher.prototype.stop;
Morpher.prototype.stop = function() {
this.coreStop.apply(this,arguments);
var e=this.element;
if (hasClass(e,"sliderPanel")||hasClass(e,"floatingPanel")) {
// adjust panel overflow and position after animation
e.style.overflow = "visible";
if (window.adjustSliderPos) window.adjustSliderPos(e.parentNode,e.button,e);
}
};
}
//}}}
/***
|Name:|NewHerePlugin|
|Description:|Creates the new here and new journal macros|
|Version:|3.0a|
|Date:|27-Jun-2011|
|Source:|http://mptw.tiddlyspot.com/#NewHerePlugin|
|Author:|Simon Baird <simon.baird@gmail.com>|
|License|http://mptw.tiddlyspot.com/#TheBSDLicense|
***/
//{{{
merge(config.macros, {
newHere: {
handler: function(place,macroName,params,wikifier,paramString,tiddler) {
wikify("<<newTiddler "+paramString+" tag:[["+tiddler.title+"]]>>",place,null,tiddler);
}
},
newJournalHere: {
handler: function(place,macroName,params,wikifier,paramString,tiddler) {
wikify("<<newJournal "+paramString+" tag:[["+tiddler.title+"]]>>",place,null,tiddler);
}
}
});
//}}}
/***
|Name:|NewMeansNewPlugin|
|Description:|If 'New Tiddler' already exists then create 'New Tiddler (1)' and so on|
|Version:|1.1.1a|
|Date:|27-Jun-2011|
|Source:|http://mptw.tiddlyspot.com/empty.html#NewMeansNewPlugin|
|Author:|Simon Baird <simon.baird@gmail.com>|
|License|http://mptw.tiddlyspot.com/#TheBSDLicense|
!!Note: I think this should be in the core
***/
//{{{
// change this or set config.newMeansNewForJournalsToo it in MptwUuserConfigPlugin
if (config.newMeansNewForJournalsToo == undefined) config.newMeansNewForJournalsToo = true;
String.prototype.getNextFreeName = function() {
numberRegExp = / \(([0-9]+)\)$/;
var match = numberRegExp.exec(this);
if (match) {
var num = parseInt(match[1]) + 1;
return this.replace(numberRegExp," ("+num+")");
}
else {
return this + " (1)";
}
}
config.macros.newTiddler.checkForUnsaved = function(newName) {
var r = false;
story.forEachTiddler(function(title,element) {
if (title == newName)
r = true;
});
return r;
}
config.macros.newTiddler.getName = function(newName) {
while (store.getTiddler(newName) || config.macros.newTiddler.checkForUnsaved(newName))
newName = newName.getNextFreeName();
return newName;
}
config.macros.newTiddler.onClickNewTiddler = function()
{
var title = this.getAttribute("newTitle");
if(this.getAttribute("isJournal") == "true") {
title = new Date().formatString(title.trim());
}
// ---- these three lines should be the only difference between this and the core onClickNewTiddler
if (config.newMeansNewForJournalsToo || this.getAttribute("isJournal") != "true")
title = config.macros.newTiddler.getName(title);
var params = this.getAttribute("params");
var tags = params ? params.split("|") : [];
var focus = this.getAttribute("newFocus");
var template = this.getAttribute("newTemplate");
var customFields = this.getAttribute("customFields");
if(!customFields && !store.isShadowTiddler(title))
customFields = String.encodeHashMap(config.defaultCustomFields);
story.displayTiddler(null,title,template,false,null,null);
var tiddlerElem = story.getTiddler(title);
if(customFields)
story.addCustomFields(tiddlerElem,customFields);
var text = this.getAttribute("newText");
if(typeof text == "string")
story.getTiddlerField(title,"text").value = text.format([title]);
for(var t=0;t<tags.length;t++)
story.setTiddlerTag(title,tags[t],+1);
story.focusTiddler(title,focus);
return false;
};
//}}}
/***
|''Name:''|NoCaseListPlugin|
|''Description:''|Adds a new command ''noCase'' to the core list macro|
|''Author:''|Mario Pietsch|
|''Version:''|0.2.0|
|''Date:''|2010.07.28|
|''Status:''|''beta''|
|''Source:''|http://apm-plugins.tiddlyspot.com/#NoCaseListPlugin|
|''License''|[[MIT License]]|
|''CoreVersion:''|2.5.0|
|''Requires:''||
|''Documentation:''|this file|
|''Keywords:''|list, sort, not case sensitive, filter|
!Description
This plugin performs a alphabetical sort for tiddlers, but it is not case sensitive. That means ab = AB = aB = Ab! And it does some little filtering using the RegExp syntax.
The RegExp Syntax can be a little bit tricky to read and configure. But the best description I have found is at [[regular-expressions.info]]. This plugin is aware of 'excludeLists', and does not display them.
!Example
{{{
<<list noCase title '[m]'>>
}}}
<<list noCase title '[m]'>>
!Default Format
{{{
<<list noCase>>
}}}
!Other Possibilities
<<<
!!!Reverse order
{{{
<<list noCase -title >>
}}}
!!!Some basic filtering
*Every tiddler title, that starts with a number from 0 to 9.
**Alphabetically sorted
{{{
<<list noCase -title '[0-9]'>>
}}}
*Every tiddler title, that starts with an ''"a"'' or ''"b"'' or ''"c"''.
{{{
<<list noCase title '[abc]'>>
}}}
*Every tiddler title, that starts with exactly ''abc''.
{{{
<<list noCase title 'abc'>>
}}}
I think this is enough power, for the beginning. See [[XCaseListPlugin|http://apm-plugins.tiddlyspot.com/#XCaseListPlugin]] for more.
<<<
!History
V 0.2.0 - 2010.07.28
*sorting can be done by custom field now
V 0.1.2 - 2010.03.04
*Fixed the source links
V 0.1.1 - 2010.02.24
*some minimum changes
*some more docu
V 0.1.0 - 2010.02.19
*Initial release
!Code
***/
/*{{{*/
if(!version.extensions.NoCaseListPlugin) { //# ensure that the plugin is only installed once
version.extensions.NoCaseListPlugin = { installed: true };
config.macros.list.noCase = {};
config.macros.list.noCase.handler = function(params)
{
var defaultField = "+title";
var lookupField = "tags";
var lookupValue = "excludeLists";
var lookupMatch = false;
var results = [];
var match = null;
var sortField = params[1] || defaultField;
// get the sorting order
var asc = 1;
switch (sortField.substr(0, 1)) {
case "-":
asc = -1;
case "+":
sortField = sortField.substr(1);
break;
default:;
}
// define regExp and add ^ .. start of string
var regSnip = params[2] || '.'
var regExp = new RegExp('^' + regSnip, 'im');
store.forEachTiddler(
function (title, tiddler) {
var f = !lookupMatch;
for (var lookup = 0; lookup < tiddler[lookupField].length; lookup++) {
if (tiddler[lookupField][lookup] == lookupValue) {
f = lookupMatch;
}
}
if (f) {
// check if tiddler sortField matches regExp
// match = tiddler[sortField].match(regExp);
match = tiddler.title.match(regExp);
if (match) results.push(tiddler);
}
}
);
// check, if sortField is a custom field
// sort and return the results.
//console.log('isStandard: ', TiddlyWiki.isStandardField(sortField), sortField, results);
if (TiddlyWiki.isStandardField(sortField)) {
results.sort(function (a,b) {
return a[sortField].toLowerCase() < b[sortField].toLowerCase() ? -asc : a[sortField].toLowerCase() == b[sortField].toLowerCase() ? 0 : asc;});
}
else {
results.sort(function (a, b) {
return a.fields[sortField].toLowerCase() < b.fields[sortField].toLowerCase() ? - asc : a.fields[sortField].toLowerCase() == b.fields[sortField].toLowerCase() ? 0 : + asc;});
}
return results;
} // handler
} //# end of "install only once"
/*}}}*/
<<Bbl I 32:8 >>; <<Bbl J 18:37 >>
* [[Satan]] wants to dupe me into a false sense of nostalgia. Maybe I'm actually doing as well as I ever have, or better.
Yahweh spoke to Moses in the desert of Sinai, in the tent of assembly, on the first of the month, in the second year after they came out of the land of Egypt, saying, {{rf{2}}} "Take a census of the entire community of the Israelites according to their clans and their families, according to the number of names, every male individually {{rf{3}}} from twenty years old and above, everyone in Israel who is able to go to war. You and Aaron must muster them for their wars. {{rf{4}}} A man from each tribe will be with you, each man the head of his family. {{rf{5}}} And these are the names of the men who will assist you: from Reuben, Elizur son of Shedeur; {{rf{6}}} from Simeon, Shelumiel son of Zurishaddai; {{rf{7}}} from Judah, Nahshon son of Amminadab; {{rf{8}}} from Issachar, Nethanel son of Zuar; {{rf{9}}} from Zebulun, Eliab son of Helon. {{rf{10}}} From the descendants of Joseph: from Ephraim, Elishama son of Ammihud; from Manasseh, Gamaliel son of Pedahzur. {{rf{11}}} From Benjamin, Abidan son of Gideoni; {{rf{12}}} from Dan, Ahiezer son of Ammishaddai; {{rf{13}}} from Asher, Pagiel son of Ocran; {{rf{14}}} from Gad, Eliasaph son of Deuel; {{rf{15}}} and from Naphtali, Ahira son of Enan." {{rf{16}}} These are the ones summoned from the community, the leaders of their ancestors' tribes; they are the heads of Israel's clans. {{rf{17}}} So Moses and Aaron took these men who had been designated by name, {{rf{18}}} and they summoned the entire community on the first day of the second month. And they registered themselves among their clans according to their families, according to the number of names from those twenty years old and above individually, {{rf{19}}} just as Yahweh commanded Moses. And he counted them in the desert of Sinai. {{rf{20}}} The descendants of Reuben, the firstborn of Israel, their genealogies according to their clans, according to their families, according to the number of names, every male individually from twenty years old and above, everyone who is able to go to war: {{rf{21}}} those who were counted from the tribe of Reuben were forty-six thousand five hundred. {{rf{22}}} From the descendants of Simeon, their genealogies according to their clans, according to their families, those who were counted according to the number of their names, every individual male from twenty years old and above, everyone who is able to go to war: {{rf{23}}} those who were counted from the tribe of Simeon were fifty-nine thousand three hundred. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Num-01-01]] }}}
* ''In the Wilderness'' is the Jewish title (fifth word, //bemidbar//); less commonly, ''He Spoke'' (first word //Vayedabbar//; note the vav-consecutive).
----
<<Bbl Num 1:53 abbr>> Holiness keeps away the wrath of God.
5:8-10 Who is the his ??
<<Bbl Num 8:5 abbr>>-22 Their consecration has nothing to do with personal volition or emotion.
9:10 on a distant journey -- though not solicited in the query, God says this doesn't obstruct the observance of the Passover. This is important in the priesthood of the believer and decentralization of the Church, and throughout the generations mentioned here there would be many Passovers observed from the ends of the earth.
9:17-23 We can pretty well figure that when the ark was moving, the children were wishing for rest, and that when it was at rest, the children were feeling restless. But still, in this they were faithful.
10:35-36 God is declaring that there are seasons of activity and rest.
11:1 Apparently we should take warning, and avoid being like those who complain of adversity in the hearing of the Lord. See vs. 20. Note that the outskirts of the camp were consumed; apparently it's somewhat safer in the middle.
11:4 Why weren't they eating from the livestock ??
11:10 Moses' displeasure is apparently misplaced. Instead of being displeased along with the Lord, he is displeased with or toward the Lord.
11:16 //Whom you know to be the elders.// Leaders make themselves known; selections for leadership should be natural.
11:17 God promises a distribution of leadership to relieve Moses' burden. But after the heartening closure of v 30, the only mention of these elders may be <<Bbl Num 16:26>>. They apparently do not pass the test of standing with Caleb and Joshua. (Joshua is not one of the seventy, v 28.) How do we account for the unfulfilment of God's plan?
11:22 See <<Bbl Mt 15:33 >>; this miracle foreshadows the Messiah.
11:26 This manifestation of God's election vindicates His knowledge and sovereignty. Tacitly overlooked is the apparent disobedience of these two remaining in the camp.
<<Bbl Num 11:29 abbr >> Misplaced jealousy.
{{rf{24}}} From the descendants of Gad, their genealogies according to their clans, according to their families, according to the number of names, from those twenty years old and above, everyone who is able to go to war: {{rf{25}}} those who were counted from the tribe of Gad were forty-five thousand six hundred and fifty. {{rf{26}}} From the descendants of Judah, their genealogies according to their clans, according to their families, according to the number of names, from those twenty years old and above, everyone who is able to go to war: {{rf{27}}} those who were counted from the tribe of Judah were seventy-four thousand six hundred. {{rf{28}}} From the descendants of Issachar, their genealogies according to their clans, according to their families, according to the number of names, from those twenty years old and above, everyone who is able to go to war: {{rf{29}}} those who were counted from the tribe of Issachar were fifty-four thousand four hundred. {{rf{30}}} From the descendants of Zebulun, their genealogies according to their clans, according to their families, according to the number of names, from those twenty years old and above, everyone who is able to go to war: {{rf{31}}} those who were counted from the tribe of Zebulun were fifty-seven thousand four hundred. {{rf{32}}} From the descendants of Joseph: from the descendants of Ephraim, their genealogies according to their clans, according to their families, according to the number of names, from those twenty years old and above, everyone who is able to go to war: {{rf{33}}} those who were counted from the tribe of Ephraim were forty thousand five hundred. {{rf{34}}} From the descendants of Manasseh, their genealogies according to their clans, according to their families, according to the number of names, from those twenty years old and above, everyone who is able to go to war: {{rf{35}}} those who were counted from the tribe of Manasseh were thirty-two thousand two hundred. {{rf{36}}} From the descendants of Benjamin, their genealogies according to their clans, according to their families, according to the number of names, from those twenty years old and above, everyone who is able to go to war: {{rf{37}}} those who were counted from the tribe of Benjamin were thirty-five thousand four hundred. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Num-01-24]] }}}
{{rf{38}}} From the descendants of Dan, their genealogies according to their clans, according to their families, according to the number of names, from those twenty years old and above, everyone who is able to go to war: {{rf{39}}} those who were counted from the tribe of Dan were sixty-two thousand seven hundred. {{rf{40}}} From the descendants of Asher, their genealogies according to their clans, according to their families, according to the number of names, from those twenty years old and above, everyone who is able to go to war: {{rf{41}}} those who were counted from the tribe of Asher were forty-one thousand five hundred. {{rf{42}}} From the descendants of Naphtali, their genealogies according to their clans, according to their families, according to the number of names, from those twenty years old and above, everyone who is able to go to war: {{rf{43}}} those who were counted from the tribe of Naphtali were fifty-three thousand four hundred. {{rf{44}}} These are the ones counted whom Moses and Aaron mustered, with the twelve leaders of Israel, each one from his family. {{rf{45}}} So all those who were counted from the Israelites according to their families, from those twenty years old and above, everyone in Israel who is able to go to war. {{rf{46}}} All of the ones counted were six hundred and three thousand, five hundred and fifty. {{rf{47}}} The Levites from their ancestors' tribe were not mustered in their midst. {{rf{48}}} And Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, {{rf{49}}} "You will not muster the tribe of Levi, and you will not take a census of them in the midst of the Israelites. {{rf{50}}} You will appoint them over the tabernacle of the testimony, over all its vessels, and over all that belongs to it. They will carry the tabernacle and all its vessels, and they will care for it; and they will camp around the tabernacle. {{rf{51}}} And when the tabernacle is set out, the Levites will take it down, and when encamping the tabernacle the Levites will set it up; the stranger that approaches it will be put to death. {{rf{52}}} The Israelites will encamp, each in their own camp, and each by their own banner according to their divisions. {{rf{53}}} But the Levites will encamp around the tabernacle of the testimony, and there will not be wrath on the community of the Israelites; and the Levites will keep the requirements of the tabernacle of the testimony." {{rf{54}}} And the Israelites did thus; they did everything that Yahweh commanded Moses. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Num-01-38]] }}}
Yahweh spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying, {{rf{2}}} "The Israelites will encamp each with his standard, with a banner according to their families; they will encamp around the tent of assembly. {{rf{3}}} The ones who encamp on the eastern side, toward the sunrise, will be of the standard of the camp of Judah according to their divisions; and the leader of the descendants of Judah will be Nahshon son of Amminadab, {{rf{4}}} and his division and the ones counted are seventy-four thousand six hundred. {{rf{5}}} And the ones who encamp next to him will be the tribe of Issachar. And the leader of the descendants of Issachar will be Nethanel son of Zuar, {{rf{6}}} and his division are fifty-four thousand four hundred. {{rf{7}}} For the tribe of Zebulun: the leader of the descendants of Zebulun will be Eliab son of Helon, {{rf{8}}} and his division and the ones counted are fifty-seven thousand four hundred. {{rf{9}}} All those counted from the camp of Judah are one hundred and eighty-six thousand four hundred. They will set out first according to their divisions. {{rf{10}}} "The standard of the camp of Reuben will be to the south according to their divisions. The leader of the descendants will be Elizur son of Shedeur. {{rf{11}}} And his division and the ones counted are forty-six thousand five hundred. {{rf{12}}} Those encamped next to him will be the tribe of Simeon. The leader of the descendants of Simeon will be Shelumiel son of Zurishaddai. {{rf{13}}} And his division and the ones counted are fifty-nine thousand three hundred. {{rf{14}}} For the tribe of Gad: the leader of the descendants of Gad will be Eliasaph son of Reuel. {{rf{15}}} And his division and the ones counted are forty-five thousand six hundred and fifty. {{rf{16}}} All those counted from the camp of Reuben are one hundred and fifty-one thousand four hundred and fifty. They will set out second according to their divisions. {{rf{17}}} "The tent of assembly the camp of the Levites will set out in the midst of the camps; they will set out just as they encamped, each according to their standards. {{rf{18}}} "The standard of the camp of Ephraim according to their divisions will be to the west. The leader of the descendants of Ephraim will be Elishama son of Ammihud. {{rf{19}}} And his division and the ones counted are forty thousand five hundred. {{rf{20}}} The tribe of Manasseh will be next to him. The leader of the descendants of the tribe of Manasseh will be Camaliel son of Pedahzur. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Num-02-01]] }}}
{{rf{21}}} And his division and the ones counted are thirty-two thousand two hundred. {{rf{22}}} For the tribe of Benjamin: the leader of the descendants of Benjamin will be Abidan son of Gideoni. {{rf{23}}} And his division and the ones counted are thirty-five thousand four hundred. {{rf{24}}} All those counted from the camp of Ephraim are one hundred and eighty thousand one hundred. They will set out third according to their divisions. {{rf{25}}} "The standard of the camp of Dan according to their divisions will be to the west. The leader of the descendants of Dan will be Ahiezer son of Ammishaddai. {{rf{26}}} And his division and the ones counted are sixty-two thousand seven hundred. {{rf{27}}} Those encamped next to him will be the tribe of Asher. The leader of the descendants of Asher will be Pagiel son of Ocran. {{rf{28}}} And his division and the ones counted are forty-one thousand five hundred. {{rf{29}}} For the tribe of Naphtali: the leader of the descendants of Naphtali will be Ahira son of Enan. {{rf{30}}} And his division and the ones counted are fifty-three thousand four hundred. {{rf{31}}} All the ones counted from the camp of Dan are one hundred and fifty-seven thousand six hundred. They will set out last according to their divisions." {{rf{32}}} These were the ones counted of the Israelites according to their families; all those counted from the camps according to their divisions were six hundred and three thousand five hundred. {{rf{33}}} The Levites were not counted in the midst of the Israelites, just as Yahweh commanded Moses. {{rf{34}}} And the Israelites did everything that Yahweh commanded Moses. They encamped according to their standards, and they set out each one according to their clans among their families. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Num-02-21]] }}}
These are the genealogies of Aaron and Moses at the time when Yahweh spoke to Moses on Mount Sinai. {{rf{2}}} These are the names of the descendants of Aaron: Nadab the firstborn, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar. {{rf{3}}} These are the names of the descendants of Aaron, the priests, the anointed ones whom he consecrated as priests. {{rf{4}}} Nadab and Abihu died before Yahweh when they presented a strange fire before Yahweh in the desert of Sinai, and they had no children. Eleazar and Ithamar served as priest during the presence of Aaron their father. {{rf{5}}} Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, {{rf{6}}} "Bring near the tribe of Levi, and set the tribe before Aaron the priest, and they will minister to him. {{rf{7}}} They shall observe his duties and the duties of the entire community before the tent of assembly, to do the work of the tabernacle. {{rf{8}}} And they will keep all the vessels of the tent of assembly and the responsibilities of the Israelites, to do the work of the tabernacle. {{rf{9}}} You will give the Levites to Aaron and to his descendants; they are surely assigned to him from among the Israelites. {{rf{10}}} But you will count Aaron and his descendants; they will keep their priesthood, and the stranger who approaches will be put to death." {{rf{11}}} Yahweh spoke to Moses saying, {{rf{12}}} "I myself receive the Levites from the midst of the Israelites in the place of all the firstborn of the offspring of the womb from the Israelites. The Levites will be mine {{rf{13}}} because all the firstborn are mine; on the day of my killing all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, I consecrated for myself all the firstborn in Israel, both humankind and animal; they will be mine. I am Yahweh." {{rf{14}}} Yahweh spoke to Moses in the desert of Sinai, saying, {{rf{15}}} "Muster the descendants of Levi according to their families, according to their clans. You will count every male from one month and above." {{rf{16}}} So Moses mustered them according to the command of Yahweh, just as he commanded. {{rf{17}}} These were the sons of Levi according to their names: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari. {{rf{18}}} And these are the names of the sons of Gershon according to their clans: Libni and Shimei. {{rf{19}}} And the sons of Kohath according to their clans: Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel. {{rf{20}}} The sons of Merari according to their tribes: Mahli and Mushi. These are the clans of the Levites according to their families. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Num-03-01]] }}}
{{rf{21}}} To Gershon belonged the clan of the Libnites and the clan of the Shimeites; these are the clans of the Gershonites. {{rf{22}}} The ones counted according to the number of every male from one month and above were seven thousand five hundred. {{rf{23}}} The clans of the Gershonites will camp behind the tabernacle to the west, {{rf{24}}} and the leader of the family of the Gershonites is Eliasaph son of Lael. {{rf{25}}} And the responsibility of the descendants of Gershon in the tent of assembly is the tabernacle, and the tent covering it and the curtain of the doorway of the tent of the assembly, {{rf{26}}} and the hangings of the courtyard and the curtain of the doorway of the courtyard that is around the tabernacle and the altar, and its ten cords, all of its use. {{rf{27}}} To Kohath belonged the clan of Amramites, the clan of the Izharites, the clan of the Hebronites, and the clan of the Uzzielites; these were the clans of the Kohathites. {{rf{28}}} According to the number of every male from one month and above there were eight thousand six hundred keeping the responsibility of the sanctuary. {{rf{29}}} The clan of the descendants of Kohath will encamp on the side of the tabernacle to the south. {{rf{30}}} The leader of his family according to the clans of the Kohathites is Elizaphan the son of Uzziel. {{rf{31}}} Their responsibility was the ark, the table, the lampstand, the altar, and the vessels of the sanctuary, with which they ministered, and the curtain, and all of its use. {{rf{32}}} The chief of the leaders of the Levites was Eleazar son of Aaron the priest who had oversight of those keeping the responsibility of the sanctuary. {{rf{33}}} To Merari belonged the clan of Mahlites and the clan of the Mushites: these are the clans of Merari. {{rf{34}}} The ones counted according to the number of every male from one month and above were six thousand two hundred. {{rf{35}}} The leader of the family according to the clans of Merari is Zuriel son of Abihail; they will encamp of the side of the tabernacle to the north. {{rf{36}}} The responsibility of the sons of Merari was the supervision of the frames of the tabernacle, its bars, pillars, bases, and all its vessels and all its service, {{rf{37}}} and the pillars around the courtyard, and their bases, pegs, and cords. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Num-03-21]] }}}
{{rf{38}}} Those encamped before the tabernacle to the east -- before the tent of assembly to the east -- were Moses and Aaron and his sons; they will keep the responsibility of the sanctuary for the Israelites; and the stranger who approaches will be put to death. {{rf{39}}} All those counted from the Levites whom Moses and Aaron mustered according to the word of Yahweh, according to their clans, every male from one month and above were twenty-two thousand. {{rf{40}}} And Yahweh said to Moses, "Muster every firstborn male from the Israelites from one month and above and count their names. {{rf{41}}} And you will receive the Levites for me -- I am Yahweh -- in the place of all the firstborn among the Israelites, and the animals of the Levites in the place of all the firstborn among the animals among the Israelites." {{rf{42}}} So Moses mustered all the firstborn among the Israelites just as Yahweh commanded him. {{rf{43}}} And all the firstborn males among the number of names from one month and above, the ones counted, were twenty-two thousand two hundred and seventy-three. {{rf{44}}} Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, {{rf{45}}} "Receive the Levites in the place of all the firstborn among the Israelites, and the animals of the Levites in the place of their animals; the Levites will be mine. I am Yahweh. {{rf{46}}} And the ransom of the two hundred and seventy-three of the firstborn of the Israelites who are excessive over the Levites, {{rf{47}}} you will receive five shekels a person, in the sanctuary shekel; you will collect twenty gerahs per shekel. {{rf{48}}} You will give the money to Aaron, and to his sons the ransom of the ones who are excessive among them." {{rf{49}}} And Moses received the money of the redemption from the ones who were excessive from those redeemed of the Levites. {{rf{50}}} From the firstborn of the Israelites he took the money, one thousand three hundred and sixty-five shekels, in the sanctuary shekel. {{rf{51}}} And Moses gave the money of the ransom to Aaron and to his sons according to the word of Yahweh just as Yahweh commanded Moses. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Num-03-38]] }}}
Yahweh spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying, {{rf{2}}} "Take a census of the descendants of Kohath from the midst of the descendants of Levi, according to their clans and their families, {{rf{3}}} from thirty years old and above, up to fifty years old, everyone who comes to the service to do the work in the tent of assembly. {{rf{4}}} This is the work of the descendants of Kohath in the tent of assembly, concerning the holiness of the sanctuary: {{rf{5}}} When setting out the camp, Aaron and his sons will go and lower the curtain of the covering and cover with it the ark of the testimony. {{rf{6}}} They will put on it a covering of fine leather, and they will spread a cloth of perfect blue over it, and they will place its poles. {{rf{7}}} And over the table of the presence they will spread out a blue cloth and put on it the plates, dishes, and libation bowls, and the pitchers of the libation; and the bread of continuity will be on it. {{rf{8}}} They will spread over it a scarlet cloth, and they will cover it with a covering of fine leather, and they will place its poles. {{rf{9}}} They will take a blue cloth and cover the lampstand for the light source, its lamps, a pair of its tongs, its small pans, and all the vessels of its oil with which they attend to it. {{rf{10}}} They will put it and all its vessels inside a covering of fine leather and put it on the carrying frame. {{rf{11}}} Over the altar of gold they will spread a blue cloth, and they will cover it with a covering of fine leather and place its poles. {{rf{12}}} They will take all the vessels of the cultic service with which they serve in the sanctuary and put them on a blue cloth, and they will cover them with a covering of fine leather; and they will put them on the carrying frame. {{rf{13}}} They will remove the fat-soaked ashes from the altar and spread a purple cloth over it; {{rf{14}}} they will put on it all the vessels with which they serve, the fire pans, forks, shovels, and bowls -- all the vessels of the altar. They will spread on it a covering of fine leather; and they will place its poles. {{rf{15}}} And when Aaron and his sons have finished covering the sanctuary and all the vessels of the sanctuary when the camp sets out, the descendants of Kohath will come after to carry these, but they must not touch the sanctuary, or they will die. These are the load of the descendants of Kohath in the tent of assembly. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Num-04-01]] }}}
{{rf{16}}} "Eleazar son of Aaron the priest is to supervise the oil of the light source, the incense, the regular grain offering, the oil of anointment, the supervision of all the tabernacle and all that is in it, in the sanctuary and in its vessels." {{rf{17}}} Yahweh spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying, {{rf{18}}} "You must not cut off the tribe of the clan of the Kohathites from the midst of the Levites. {{rf{19}}} Do this to them and they will live and not die when they come near the most holy things. Aaron and his sons will go and appoint them, each one to his task and burden. {{rf{20}}} But they must not go and look for a moment at the holy objects." {{rf{21}}} Yahweh spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying, {{rf{22}}} "Take a census of the descendants of Gershon also, according to their families and clans, {{rf{23}}} from those twenty years old and above until fifty years old; you will muster them, all who come to help to do the work of the tent of assembly. {{rf{24}}} This is the work of the clans of the Gershonites: to serve and to carry. {{rf{25}}} They will carry the curtains of the tabernacle and the tent of assembly and its covering and the covering of fine leather, which is on top of it, and the curtain of the doorway of the tent of assembly, {{rf{26}}} and the curtains of the courtyard, and the covering for the doorway of the gate of the courtyard, which is all around on the tabernacle and altar, and their cords and all the vessels of their work; and all that is done to them they will do. {{rf{27}}} And all the work of the descendants of the Gershonites will be at the command of Aaron and his sons, for all they are to carry and for all their work, and you will appoint to them responsibility for all they are to carry. {{rf{28}}} This is the work of the clan of the descendants of the Gershonites in the tent of assembly, and their responsibility lies under the direction of Ithamar son of Aaron the priest. {{rf{29}}} "For the descendants of Merari according to their clans, according to their families, you will muster them; {{rf{30}}} from those thirty years old and above until fifty years old; you will muster them, all who come to do the work of the tent of assembly. {{rf{31}}} And this is the responsibility of those who are to carry, all their work in the tent of assembly: the frames of the tabernacle and its bars, pillars, and bases, {{rf{32}}} and the pillars of the courtyard all around, and their bases, pegs, and cords, with all their vessels and for all their work. You will appoint by name the vessels that they are responsible to carry. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Num-04-16]] }}}
{{rf{33}}} This is the work of the clan of the descendants of Merari, for all their work in the tent of assembly under the direction of Ithamar son of Aaron the priest." {{rf{34}}} And Moses and Aaron mustered the leaders of the community according to the house of their families, {{rf{35}}} from those thirty years old and above until fifty years old; everyone who comes to the service to work in the tent of assembly, {{rf{36}}} the ones counted were two thousand seven hundred and fifty. {{rf{37}}} These were those counted of the clans of the Kohathites, everyone who served in the tent of assembly whom Moses and Aaron mustered according to the command of Yahweh by the hand of Moses. {{rf{38}}} And the descendants of Gershon counted according to their clans and according to their families, {{rf{39}}} from those thirty years old and above until fifty years old, everyone who comes to the service to work in the tent of assembly; {{rf{40}}} the ones counted, according to their clans, according to their families, were two thousand six hundred and thirty. {{rf{41}}} These were those counted of the clans of the descendants of Gershon, everyone who serves in the tent of assembly whom Moses and Aaron mustered according to the command of Yahweh. {{rf{42}}} Those counted of the clans of the descendants of Merari according to their clans, according to their families, {{rf{43}}} from those thirty years old and above until fifty years old, everyone who comes to the service to work in the tent of assembly, {{rf{44}}} the ones counted, according to their clans, were three thousand two hundred. {{rf{45}}} These were those counted of the clans of the descendants of Merari, whom Moses and Aaron mustered according to the command of Yahweh by the hand of Moses. {{rf{46}}} All those counted of the Levites whom Moses and Aaron and all the leaders of Israel mustered according to their clans, according to their families, {{rf{47}}} from those thirty years old and above until fifty years old, everyone who comes to the service to do the work of the service carrying in the tent of assembly, {{rf{48}}} the ones counted were eighty thousand five hundred and eighty. {{rf{49}}} According to the command of Yahweh by the hand of Moses they were mustered, each man according to his service and according to their service and according to their burden; and so they were counted by him just as Yahweh commanded Moses. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Num-04-33]] }}}
Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, {{rf{2}}} "Command the Israelites: they must send everyone from the camp who is afflicted with a rash, everyone with a fluid discharge, and everyone unclean through contact with a corpse. {{rf{3}}} You will send away both male and female; you will send them outside the camp. They must not make unclean their camps where I am dwelling in their midst." {{rf{4}}} So the Israelites did so. They sent them away outside the camp; just as Yahweh spoke to Moses, so did the Israelites. {{rf{5}}} Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, {{rf{6}}} "Speak to the Israelites: 'When a man or woman commits any of the sins of humankind by acting unfaithfully, it is a sin against Yahweh, and that person will be guilty; {{rf{7}}} they will confess their sin that they did and will make restitution for their guilt by adding a fifth to it and giving it to whomever was wronged. {{rf{8}}} But if the man does not have a redeemer to make restitution to him for the reparation, the reparation is to be given to Yahweh for the priest, in addition to the ram of atonement by which atonement is made for him. {{rf{9}}} And every contribution of all the holy objects of the Israelites that they bring to the priest for him will be his. {{rf{10}}} The holy objects of a man will be for him; whatever he gives to the priest will be for him.'" {{rf{11}}} Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, {{rf{12}}} "Speak to the Israelites and say to them, 'If any man's wife goes astray and acts unfaithfully to him, {{rf{13}}} and a man sleeps with her and ejaculates and it is hidden from the eyes of her husband and she is concealed, although she is defiled, and there is no witness against her and she was not caught, {{rf{14}}} if a spirit of jealousy comes over him, and he is jealous of his wife and she is defiled; or if a spirit of jealousy comes over him and he is jealous of his wife but she is not defiled, {{rf{15}}} he will bring his wife to the priest. And he will bring her offering for her, one-tenth of an ephah of flour. He will not pour oil on it, and he will not put frankincense on it because it is a grain offering of jealousy, a grain offering of remembering, a reminding of guilt. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Num-05-01]] }}}
{{rf{16}}} " 'Then the priest will bring her near and present her before Yahweh; {{rf{17}}} the priest will take holy waters in a clay vessel, and from the dust that is on the floor of the tabernacle, and the priest will put it into the waters. {{rf{18}}} And the priest will present the woman before Yahweh, and he will uncover the head of the woman; he will then put in her hands the grain offering of the remembering -- which is the grain offering of jealousy -- and in the hand of the priest will be the waters of bitterness that brings a curse. {{rf{19}}} Then the priest will make her swear an oath, and he will say to the woman, "If a man has not slept with you, and if you have not had an impurity affair under your husband, go unpunished from the waters of bitterness that brings this curse. {{rf{20}}} But if you have had an affair under your husband, and if you are defiled and a man other than your husband had intercourse with you," {{rf{21}}} the priest will make the woman swear an oath of the sworn oath of the curse, the priest will say to the woman, "May Yahweh give you a curse and a sworn oath in the midst of your people with Yahweh making your hip fall away and your stomach swollen; {{rf{22}}} and these waters that bring a curse will go into your intestines to cause your womb to swell and to make your hip fall away." And the women will say, "Amen. Amen." {{rf{23}}} " 'And the priests will write these curses on the scroll, and he will wipe them off into the waters of the bitterness. {{rf{24}}} He will make the woman drink the waters of the bitterness that brings a curse, and the waters of bitterness that bring a curse will go into her. {{rf{25}}} The priest will take the grain offering of jealousy from the hand of the woman, and he will wave the grain offering before Yahweh, and he will present it to the altar; {{rf{26}}} the priest will grasp her memorial offering from the grain offering, and he will turn it into smoke on the altar, and afterward he will make the woman drink the waters. {{rf{27}}} When he has made her drink the waters, it will come about, if she has defiled herself and acted unfaithfully to her husband and the waters of bitterness that bring a curse go into her and her stomach swells and her hip falls away, the woman will be as a curse in the midst of her people. {{rf{28}}} And if the woman is not defiled, and she is pure, she will go unpunished and be able to conceive children. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Num-05-16]] }}}
{{rf{29}}} " 'This is the regulation of jealousy, when a woman has an affair under her husband and she is defiled, {{rf{30}}} or when a spirit of jealousy comes over a man and he is jealous of his wife, he will present the woman before Yahweh,and the priest will do to her all of this law. {{rf{31}}} The man will go unpunished from guilt, and the woman, she will bear her guilt.'" {{rf big{1}}} Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, {{rf{2}}} "Speak to the Israelites and say to them, 'When a man or a woman takes a special vow, a vow of a Nazirite, to keep separate for Yahweh, {{rf{3}}} he will abstain from wine and fermented drink; he will not drink wine vinegar or vinegar of fermented drink; he will not drink the fruit juice of grapes or eat fresh or dry grapes. {{rf{4}}} All the days of his separation you will not eat from anything that is made from the grapevine, from sour grapes to the skin of grapes. {{rf{5}}} " 'All the days of the vow of his separation a razor will not pass over his head. Until fulfilling the days that he separated himself to Yahweh he will be holy and grow long the locks of the hair of his head. {{rf{6}}} " 'All the days of keeping himself separated for Yahweh he will not go to a person who is dead; {{rf{7}}} for even his father, mother, brother, or sister he will not make himself unclean by their death, because the separation to his God is on his head. {{rf{8}}} He will be holy for Yahweh all the days of his separation. {{rf{9}}} " 'If someone dies suddenly and makes the head of his separation unclean, he will shave off the hair of his head on the day of his cleansing; on the seventh day he will shave it off. {{rf{10}}} On the eighth day he will bring two turtledoves or two young pigeons to the priest by the doorway of the tent of assembly, {{rf{11}}} and the priest will offer one for a sin offering and one for a burnt offering, and he will make atonement for him because he sinned concerning the corpse. He will consecrate his head on that day. {{rf{12}}} He will rededicate to Yahweh the days of his separation and bring a ram-lamb in its first year as a guilt offering. The former days of his vow will fall away because his separation was defiled. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Num-05-29]] }}}
{{rf{13}}} " 'This is the regulation of the Nazirite for the day of the fulfilling of the days of his separation: one will bring him to the doorway of the tent of the assembly. {{rf{14}}} He will present his offering to Yahweh, one ram-lamb in its first year without defect as a burnt offering, and one ewe-lamb in its first year without defect as a sin offering, and one ram without defect as a fellowship offering; {{rf{15}}} and a basket of unleavened bread, finely milled flour of ring-shaped bread cakes mixed with oil, and wafers of unleavened bread smeared with oil, and their grain offering and their libations. {{rf{16}}} The priest will present before Yahweh and offer his sin offering, his burnt offering; {{rf{17}}} he will offer a ram as a sacrifice of a fellowship offering to Yahweh, in addition to the basket of the unleavened bread; the priest will offer his grain offering and his libation. {{rf{18}}} The Nazirite will shave off the hair of his consecrated head at the doorway of the tent of assembly, and he will take the hair of his consecrated head, and he will put it on the fire that is beneath the sacrifice of the fellowship offering. {{rf{19}}} The priest will take the shoulder from the ram that is boiled, and one ring-shaped bread cake of unleavened bread from the basket, and one wafer of unleavened bread, and he will put them on the hands of the Nazirite after he has shaved his consecrated head. {{rf{20}}} The priest will wave them as a wave offering before the presence of Yahweh; they are a holy object to the priest, in addition to the breast section of the wave offering, and in addition to the upper thigh of the contribution; and afterward the Nazirite may drink wine. {{rf{21}}} " 'This is the regulation of the Nazirite who has made a vow of his offering to Yahweh according to his separation, in addition to what he can afford. In accordance to the word of his vow that he vowed, he will do, concerning the instruction of his separation.'" {{rf{22}}} Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, {{rf{23}}} "Speak to Aaron and his sons, saying, 'You will bless the Israelites: You will say to them: {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Num-06-13]] }}}
{{rf{24}}} Yahweh will bless you and keep you; {{rf{25}}} Yahweh will make shine his face on you and be gracious to you; {{rf{26}}} Yahweh will lift up his face upon you, and he will give you peace.' {{rf{27}}} And they will put my name on the Israelites, and I will bless them." {{rf big{1}}} On the day Moses finished setting up the tabernacle and appointed and consecrated it and all its vessels, and the altar and its vessels, and he appointed them and consecrated them, {{rf{2}}} the leaders of Israel, the heads of the families, presented an offering; they were the leaders of the tribes and were the ones in charge of the counting. {{rf{3}}} They brought their offering before the presence of Yahweh, six covered utility carts and twelve cattle, a utility cart for two of the leaders, and a bull for each; and they presented them before the tabernacle. {{rf{4}}} Yahweh said to Moses, saying, {{rf{5}}} "Take them, and they will be used to do the work of the tent of the assembly; and you will give them to the Levites, each according to his required service." {{rf{6}}} So Moses took the utility carts and the cattle, and he gave them to the Levites. {{rf{7}}} Two utility carts and four cattle he gave to the descendants of Gershon according to their required service; {{rf{8}}} and four utility carts and eight cattle he gave to the descendants of Merari according to their required service, under the authority of Ithamar son of Aaron the priest. {{rf{9}}} But to the descendants of Kohath he did not give anything because the work of the sanctuary they carried upon them on their shoulders. {{rf{10}}} The leaders presented offerings for the dedication of the altar on the day of its anointing, and the leaders presented their offerings before the altar. {{rf{11}}} Yahweh said to Moses, "One leader for each day will present their offering for the dedication of the altar." {{rf{12}}} And it happened, the one who presented his offering on the first day was Nahshon son of Amminadab from the tribe of Judah. {{rf{13}}} His offering was one plate of silver -- its weight was one hundred and thirty shekels -- and one silver bowl weighing seventy shekels according to the sanctuary shekel, both of them filled with finely milled flour mixed with oil as a grain offering; {{rf{14}}} one golden dish weighing ten shekels filled with incense; {{rf{15}}} one young bull, one ram, one male lamb in its first year as a burnt offering; {{rf{16}}} one he-goat as a sin offering; {{rf{17}}} and as a sacrifice of the fellowship offering, two cattle, five rams, five he-goats, and five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Nahshon son of Amminadab. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Num-06-24]] }}}
{{rf{18}}} On the second day Nethanel son of Zuar, leader of Issachar, presented an offering. {{rf{19}}} He presented as his offering one silver plate -- its weight one hundred and thirty shekels -- and one silver bowl for drinking wine weighing seventy shekels according to the sanctuary shekel, both of them filled with finely milled flour mixed with oil as a grain offering. {{rf{20}}} One dish weighing ten shekels filled with incense; {{rf{21}}} one young bull, one ram, a male lamb in its first year as a burnt offering; {{rf{22}}} one he-goat as a sin offering; {{rf{23}}} and for the sacrifice of the fellowship offering, two cattle, five rams, five he-goats, and five male lambs in their first year. This was the offering of Nethanel son of Zuar. {{rf{24}}} On the third day Eliab son of Helon, leader of the descendants of Zebulun: {{rf{25}}} his offering was one silver plate -- its weight one hundred and thirty shekels -- and one silver bowl for drinking wine weighing seventy shekels according to the sanctuary shekel, both of them filled with finely milled flour mixed with oil as a grain offering; {{rf{26}}} one golden dish weighing ten shekels filled with incense; {{rf{27}}} one young bull, one ram, a male lamb in its first year as a burnt offering; {{rf{28}}} one he-goat as a sin offering; {{rf{29}}} and for the sacrifice of the fellowship offering, two cattle, five rams, five he-goats, and five male lambs in their first year. This was the offering of Eliab son of Helon. {{rf{30}}} On the fourth day Elizur son of Shedeur, leader of the descendants of Reuben: {{rf{31}}} his offering was one silver plate -- its weight one hundred and thirty shekels -- and one silver bowl for drinking weighing seventy shekels according to the sanctuary shekel, both of them filled with finely milled flour mixed with oil as a grain offering; {{rf{32}}} one golden dish weighing ten shekels filled with incense; {{rf{33}}} one young bull, one ram, a male lamb in its first year as a burnt offering; {{rf{34}}} one he-goat as a sin offering; {{rf{35}}} and for the sacrifice of the fellowship offering, two cattle, five rams, five he-goats, and five male lambs in their first year. This was the offering of Elizur son of Shedeur. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Num-07-18]] }}}
{{rf{36}}} On the fifth day Shelumiel son of Zurishaddai, leader of the descendants of Simeon: {{rf{37}}} his offering was one silver plate -- its weight one hundred and thirty shekels -- and one silver bowl for drinking weighing seventy shekels according to the sanctuary shekel, both of them filled with finely milled flour mixed with oil as a grain offering; {{rf{38}}} one golden dish weighing ten shekels filled with incense; {{rf{39}}} one young bull, one ram, a male lamb in its first year as a burnt offering; {{rf{40}}} one he-goat as a sin offering; {{rf{41}}} and for the sacrifice of the fellowship offering, two cattle, five rams, five he-goats, and five male lambs in their first year. This was the offering of Shelumiel son of Zurishaddai. {{rf{42}}} On the sixth day Eliasaph son of Deuel, leader of the descendants of Gad: {{rf{43}}} his offering was one silver plate -- its weight one hundred and thirty shekels -- and one silver bowl for drinking weighing seventy shekels according to the sanctuary shekel, both of them filled with finely milled flour mixed with oil as a grain offering; {{rf{44}}} one golden dish weighing ten shekels filled with incense; {{rf{45}}} one young bull, one ram, a male lamb in its first year as a burnt offering; {{rf{46}}} one he-goat as a sin offering; {{rf{47}}} and for the sacrifice of the fellowship offering, two cattle, five rams, five he-goats, and five male lambs in their first year. This was the offering of Eliasaph son of Deuel. {{rf{48}}} On the seventh day Elishama son of Ammihud, leader of the descendants of Ephraim: {{rf{49}}} his offering was one silver plate -- its weight one hundred and thirty shekels -- and one silver bowl for drinking weighing seventy shekels according to the sanctuary shekel, both of them filled with finely milled flour mixed with oil as a grain offering; {{rf{50}}} one golden dish weighing ten shekels filled with incense; {{rf{51}}} one young bull, one ram, a male lamb in its first year as a burnt offering; {{rf{52}}} one he-goat as a sin offering; {{rf{53}}} and for the sacrifice of the fellowship offering, two cattle, five rams, five he-goats, and five male lambs in their first year. This was the offering of Elishama son of Ammihud. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Num-07-36]] }}}
{{rf{54}}} On the eighth day Gamaliel son of Pedahzur, leader of the descendants of Manasseh: {{rf{55}}} his offering was one silver plate -- its weight one hundred and thirty shekels -- and one silver bowl for drinking weighing seventy shekels according to the sanctuary shekel, both of them filled with finely milled flour mixed with oil as a grain offering; {{rf{56}}} one golden dish weighing ten shekels filled with incense; {{rf{57}}} one young bull, one ram, a male lamb in its first year as a burnt offering; {{rf{58}}} one he-goat as a sin offering; {{rf{59}}} and for the sacrifice of the fellowship offering, two cattle, five rams, five he-goats, and five male lambs in their first year. This was the offering of Gamaliel son of Pedahzur. {{rf{60}}} On the ninth day Abidan son of Gideoni, leader of the descendants of Benjamin: {{rf{61}}} his offering was one silver plate -- its weight one hundred and thirty shekels -- and one silver bowl for drinking weighing seventy shekels according to the sanctuary shekel, both of them filled with finely milled flour mixed with oil as a grain offering; {{rf{62}}} one golden dish weighing ten shekels filled with incense; {{rf{63}}} one young bull, one ram, a male lamb in its first year as a burnt offering; {{rf{64}}} one he-goat as a sin offering; {{rf{65}}} and for the sacrifice of the fellowship offering, two cattle, five rams, five he-goats, and five male lambs in their first year. This was the offering of Abidan son of Gideoni. {{rf{66}}} On the tenth day Ahiezer son of Ammishaddai, leader of the descendants of Dan: {{rf{67}}} his offering was one silver plate -- its weight one hundred and thirty shekels -- and one silver bowl for drinking weighing seventy shekels according to the sanctuary shekel, both of them filled with finely milled flour mixed with oil as a grain offering; {{rf{68}}} one golden dish weighing ten shekels filled with incense; {{rf{69}}} one young bull, one ram, a male lamb in its first year as a burnt offering; {{rf{70}}} one he-goat as a sin offering; {{rf{71}}} and for the sacrifice of the fellowship offering, two cattle, five rams, five he-goats, and five male lambs in their first year. This was the offering of Ahiezer son of Ammishaddai. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Num-07-54]] }}}
{{rf{72}}} On the eleventh day Pagiel son of Ocran, leader of the descendants of Asher: {{rf{73}}} his offering was one silver plate -- its weight one hundred and thirty shekels -- and one silver bowl for drinking weighing seventy shekels according to the sanctuary shekel, both of them filled with finely milled flour mixed with oil as a grain offering; {{rf{74}}} one golden dish weighing ten shekels filled with incense; {{rf{75}}} one young bull, one ram, a male lamb in its first year as a burnt offering; {{rf{76}}} one he-goat as a sin offering; {{rf{77}}} and for the sacrifice of the fellowship offering, two cattle, five rams, five he-goats, and five male lambs in their first year. This was the offering of Pagiel son of Ocran. {{rf{78}}} On the twelfth day Ahira son of Enan, leader of the descendants of Naphtali: {{rf{79}}} his offering was one silver plate -- its weight one hundred and thirty shekels -- and one silver bowl for drinking weighing seventy shekels according to the sanctuary shekel, both of them filled with finely milled flour mixed with oil as a grain offering; {{rf{80}}} one golden dish weighing ten shekels filled with incense; {{rf{81}}} one young bull, one ram, a male lamb in its first year as a burnt offering; {{rf{82}}} one he-goat as a sin offering; {{rf{83}}} and for the sacrifice of the fellowship offering, two cattle, five rams, five he-goats, and five male lambs in their first year. This was the offering of Ahira son of Enan. {{rf{84}}} This was the dedication of the altar on the day of anointing it, from the leaders of Israel: twelve silver plates, twelve silver bowls for drinking wine, twelve golden dishes; {{rf{85}}} each plate of silver weighed one hundred and thirty shekels, and each bowl for drinking seventy, all the silver of the vessels two thousand four hundred shekels, according to the sanctuary shekel; {{rf{86}}} the twelve golden dishes filled with incense, each dish weighing ten shekels according to the sanctuary shekel, all the gold of the dishes one hundred and twenty; {{rf{87}}} all the cattle for the burnt offering twelve bulls, twelve rams, twelve male lambs in their first year, and their grain offering; and twelve he-goats as a sin offering; {{rf{88}}} and all the cattle of the sacrifice of the fellowship offering twenty-four bulls, sixty rams, sixty he-goats, sixty male lambs in their first year. These were the dedication of the altar after its anointing. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Num-07-72]] }}}
{{rf{89}}} And when Moses came to the tent of assembly to speak with him, he would hear the voice speaking to him from the atonement cover, which is on the ark of the testimony, from between the two cherubim, and he would speak to him. {{rf big{1}}} Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, {{rf{2}}} "Speak to Aaron, and say to him: 'When you are setting up the lamps, the seven lamps will give light in front of the face of the lampstand.'" {{rf{3}}} And Aaron did so; he set up the lampstand in front of the face of its lamps, just as Yahweh commanded Moses. {{rf{4}}} And this is how the lampstand was made, a hammered-work of gold; from its base up to its blossom, it was hammered-work according to the pattern that Yahweh showed Moses; so he made the lampstand. {{rf{5}}} Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, {{rf{6}}} "Take the Levites from the midst of the Israelites and purify them. {{rf{7}}} So you will do to them, to purify them: sprinkle on them waters of purification, and they will shave their whole body and wash their garments. {{rf{8}}} And they will take a young bull and its grain offering of finely milled flour mixed with oil, and you will take a second young bull as a sin offering. {{rf{9}}} You will bring the Levites before the tent of assembly, and you will summon the entire community of the Israelites. {{rf{10}}} And you will bring the Levites before Yahweh, and the Israelites will lay their hands on the Levites, {{rf{11}}} and Aaron will offer the Levites as a wave offering before Yahweh from the Israelites, and they will do the work of Yahweh. {{rf{12}}} And the Levites will lay their hands on the head of the one bull and offer it as a sin offering and the other one as a burnt offering to Yahweh, to make atonement for the Levites. {{rf{13}}} And you will present the Levites before Aaron and before his sons, and he will offer them as a wave offering to Yahweh. {{rf{14}}} "And you will separate the Levites from the midst of the Israelites, and the Levites will be for me. {{rf{15}}} And after this the Levites will come to serve at the tent of assembly, and you will purify them, and you will offer them as a wave offering. {{rf{16}}} For they are given to me exclusively from the midst of the Israelites. I have taken them for myself in place of the firstborn of every womb, every firstborn from the Israelites. {{rf{17}}} For every firstborn among the Israelites is mine, both humankind and animal. On the day I destroyed every firstborn in the land of Egypt I consecrated them to me, {{rf{18}}} and I have taken the Levites in the place of every firstborn among the Israelites. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Num-07-89]] }}}
{{rf{19}}} And I have given the Levites; they are given to Aaron and his sons from the midst of the Israelites to do the work of the Israelites in the tent of the assembly and to make atonement for the Israelites, so a plague will not be among the Israelites when the Israelites come near the sanctuary." {{rf{20}}} And Moses and Aaron and the entire community of the Israelites did to the Levites; everything that Yahweh commanded Moses concerning the Levites, the Israelites did to them. {{rf{21}}} And the Levites purified themselves, and they washed their garments, and Aaron offered them as a wave offering before Yahweh; and Aaron made atonement for them to purify them. {{rf{22}}} After this the Levites came to do their work in the tent of assembly before Aaron and his sons. Just as Yahweh commanded Moses concerning the Levities, so they did to them. {{rf{23}}} Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, {{rf{24}}} "This is what is for the Levites: those twenty-five years old and above will come to help with the service in the work of the tent of assembly; {{rf{25}}} and those fifty years old will return from the service of the work and will serve no longer. {{rf{26}}} They can attend their brothers in the tent of assembly to keep their responsibilities, but they will not do work. This is what you will do concerning the Levities and their responsibilities." {{rf big{1}}} Yahweh spoke to Moses in the desert of Sinai, in the second year after they came out from the land of Egypt, in the first month, saying, {{rf{2}}} "Let the Israelites observe the Passover at its appointed time. {{rf{3}}} On the fourteenth day of this month at twilight you will perform it at its appointed time according to all its decrees; and according to all its stipulations you will observe it." {{rf{4}}} So Moses spoke to the Israelites to observe the Passover. {{rf{5}}} And they observed the Passover on the fourteenth day of the month at twilight in the desert of Sinai. According to all that Yahweh commanded Moses, thus the Israelites did. {{rf{6}}} And it happened, men who were unclean by a dead person were not able to perform the Passover on that day. And they came before Moses and Aaron on that day. {{rf{7}}} And those men said to him, "Although we are unclean by a dead person, why are we hindered from presenting the offering of Yahweh at its appointed time in the midst of the Israelites?" {{rf{8}}} Moses said to them, "Stay. I will hear what Yahweh commands to you." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Num-08-19]] }}}
{{rf{9}}} And Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, {{rf{10}}} "Speak to the Israelites, saying, 'Each man that is unclean by a dead person or is on a far journey, you or your descendants, he will observe the Passover of Yahweh. {{rf{11}}} On the second month on the fourteenth day at twilight they will observe it; they will eat it with unleavened bread and bitter plants. {{rf{12}}} They will leave none of it until morning, and they will not break a bone in it; they will observe it according to every decree of the Passover. {{rf{13}}} But the man who is clean and not on a journey, and he fails to observe the Passover, that person will be cut off from the people because he did not present the offering of Yahweh on its appointed time. That man will bear his guilt. {{rf{14}}} If an alien dwells with you he will observe the Passover of Yahweh according to the decree of the Passover and according to its stipulation; thus you will have one decree for you, for the alien and for the native of the land.'" {{rf{15}}} And on a day setting up the tabernacle, the cloud covered the tent of the tabernacle, the tent of the testimony; in the evening it was on the tabernacle as an appearance of fire until morning. {{rf{16}}} So it was continually; the cloud would cover it and the appearance of fire by night. {{rf{17}}} Whenever the cloud lifted up from on the tent, after that the Israelites would set out, and in the place where the cloud dwelled, there the Israelites camped. {{rf{18}}} On the command of Yahweh the Israelites would set out, and on the command of Yahweh they encamped; all the days that the cloud dwelled on the tabernacle they encamped. {{rf{19}}} And when the cloud prolonged on the tabernacle many days the Israelites kept the kept requirement of Yahweh and did not set out. {{rf{20}}} When the cloud remained a number of days on the tabernacle, on the command of Yahweh they encamped; and on the command of Yahweh they set out. {{rf{21}}} When the cloud remained from evening until morning, and the cloud lifted up in the morning, they would set out, or if it remained in the daytime and at night, when the cloud lifted up they set out. {{rf{22}}} When it was two days, a month, or a year that the cloud prolonged to dwell on the tabernacle, the Israelites encamped, and they did not set out; when it lifted up they set out. {{rf{23}}} On the command of Yahweh they encamped, and on the command of Yahweh they set out. They kept the requirement of Yahweh, on the command of Yahweh in the hand of Moses. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Num-09-09]] }}}
Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, {{rf{2}}} "Make yourself two silver trumpets; make them of hammered-work. You will use them for calling the community and for breaking the camp. {{rf{3}}} You will blow them, and all the community will assemble to the doorway of the tent of assembly. {{rf{4}}} But if they blow only one, the leaders, the heads of the thousands of Israel, will assemble to you. {{rf{5}}} When you will blow a blast, the camps that are camping on the east will set out; {{rf{6}}} when you blow a second blast, the camps that are camping on the south will set out; they will blow a blast for their journeys. {{rf{7}}} But when summoning the assembly, you will blow, but you will not signal with a loud noise. {{rf{8}}} The sons of Aaron, the priests, will blow on the trumpets; this will be an eternal decree for your generations. {{rf{9}}} If you go to war in your land against the enemy who attacks you, you will signal with a loud noise on the trumpets. You will be remembered before Yahweh your God, and you will be rescued from your enemies. {{rf{10}}} "And on the day of your joy and in your appointed times, at the beginning of your months, you will blow on the trumpets in addition to your burnt offerings and in addition to the sacrifices of your fellowship offerings. And they will be as a memorial for you before your God; I am Yahweh your God." {{rf{11}}} And it happened, in the second year, in the second month, on the twentieth of the month the cloud was lifted from upon the tabernacle of the testimony. {{rf{12}}} And the Israelites set out for their journey from the desert of Sinai, and the cloud dwelled in the desert of Paran. {{rf{13}}} They set out for the first time on the command of Yahweh in the hand of Moses. {{rf{14}}} The standard of the camp of the descendants of Judah set out for the first time according to their divisions, with Nahshon son of Amminadab over its division. {{rf{15}}} And Nathanel son of Zuar was over the division of the descendants of Issachar; {{rf{16}}} Eliab son of Helon was over the division of the tribe of the descendants of Zebulun. {{rf{17}}} The tabernacle was taken down, and the sons of Gershon and the sons of Merari, the bearers of the tabernacle, set out. {{rf{18}}} And the standard of the camp of Reuben according to their divisions; Elizur son of Shedeur was over their division. {{rf{19}}} Shelumiel son of Zurishaddai was over the division of the sons of the tribe of Simeon. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Num-10-01]] }}}
{{rf{20}}} Eliasaph son of Deuel was over the division of the tribe of the descendants of Gad. {{rf{21}}} The Kohathites, the bearers of the sanctuary, set out, and they set up the tabernacle before they arrived. {{rf{22}}} And the stand of the camp of the descendants of Ephraim set out according to their divisions; Elishama son of Ammihud was over its division. {{rf{23}}} Gamaliel son of Pedahzur was over the division of the tribe of the descendants of Manasseh. {{rf{24}}} Abidan son of Gideoni was over the division of the tribe of the descendants of Benjamin. {{rf{25}}} Then the standard of the camp of the descendants of Dan, who formed a rear guard for all the camps, set out according to their divisions; Ahiezer son of Ammishaddai was over its division. {{rf{26}}} Pagiel son of Ocran was over the division of the tribe of the descendants of Asher. {{rf{27}}} Ahira son of Enan was over the division of the tribe of the descendants of Naphtali. {{rf{28}}} These were the departures of the Israelites according to their divisions; and so they set out. {{rf{29}}} Moses said to Hobab son of Reuel the Midianite, the father-in-law of Moses, "We are setting out to the place that Yahweh said, 'I will give it to you'; go with us, and we will treat you well because Yahweh promised good concerning Israel." {{rf{30}}} But he said to him, "I will not go. I will only go to my land and to my family." {{rf{31}}} He said, "Please, do not abandon us because you know our encampment in the desert, and you should be our guide. {{rf{32}}} Moreover, if you go with us, the good that Yahweh will do to us we will do to you." {{rf{33}}} And so they set out from the mountain of Yahweh a journey of three days, with the ark of the covenant of Yahweh setting out ahead of them three days' journey to search out a resting place for them; {{rf{34}}} and the cloud of Yahweh was over them by day when they set out from the camp. {{rf{35}}} And whenever the ark was setting out Moses would say, "Rise up, Yahweh! May your enemies be scattered; may the ones that hate you flee from your presence." {{rf{36}}} And when it rested he would say, "Return, Yahweh, to the countless thousands of Israel." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Num-10-20]] }}}
And it happened, the people were like those who complain of hardship in the hearing of Yahweh, and Yahweh became angry, and the fire of Yahweh burned among them, and it consumed the edge of the camp. {{rf{2}}} Then the people cried out to Moses, and Moses prayed to Yahweh, and the fire died down. {{rf{3}}} And he called the name of that place Taberah because the fire of Yahweh burned among them. {{rf{4}}} The riff-raff that were in their midst had a strong desire; and the Israelites turned back and also wept, and they said, "Who will feed us meat? {{rf{5}}} We remember the fish that we ate in Egypt for nothing, the cucumber, melon, leek, the onions, and the garlic. {{rf{6}}} But now our strength is dried up; there is nothing whatsoever except for the manna before us." {{rf{7}}} Now the manna was like coriander seed, and its outward appearance was like that of bdellium-gum. {{rf{8}}} The people went about and gathered it, and they ground it with mills or crushed it with mortar. Then they boiled it in a pot and made it into bread-cakes; and it tasted like olive oil cakes. {{rf{9}}} When the dew came down on the camp at night, the manna came down with it. {{rf{10}}} Moses heard the people weeping according to their clans, each at the doorway of their tents. Then Yahweh became very angry, and in the eyes of Moses it was bad. {{rf{11}}} And Moses said to Yahweh, "Why have you brought trouble to your servant? Why have I not found favor in your eyes, that the burdens of all these people have been placed on me? {{rf{12}}} Did I conceive all these people? If I have fathered them, that you could say to me, 'Carry them in your lap, just as a foster-father carries the suckling on the land that you swore an oath to their ancestors?' {{rf{13}}} From where do I have meat to give all these people? They weep before me, saying, 'Give us meat and let us eat!' {{rf{14}}} I am not able to carry all these people along alone; they are too heavy for me. {{rf{15}}} If this is how you are going to treat me, please kill me immediately if I find favor in your eyes, and do not let me see my misery." {{rf{16}}} And Yahweh said to Moses, "Gather for me seventy men from the elders of Israel whom you know are elders of the people and their officials; take them to the tent of assembly, and they will stand there with you. {{rf{17}}} I will come down and speak with you there; I will take away from the spirit that is on you, and I will place it on them; and they will bear the burdens of the people with you; you will not bear it alone. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Num-11-01]] }}}
{{rf{18}}} And you will say to the people, 'Sanctify yourselves tomorrow, for you will eat meat because you have wept in the ears of Yahweh, saying, "Who will feed us good meat? It was good for us in Egypt." Yahweh will give to you meat, and you will eat. {{rf{19}}} You will eat, not one day, or two days, or five days, or ten days, or twenty days, {{rf{20}}} but for a whole month, until it comes out from your nose and becomes as nausea to you; because you have rejected Yahweh, who is in your midst, and you wept before his presence, saying, "Why did we ever leave Egypt?" '" {{rf{21}}} But Moses said, "There are six hundred thousand on foot, among whom I am in the midst, and you yourself said, 'I will give meat to them, and they will eat for a whole month.' {{rf{22}}} Should flocks and cattle be slaughtered for them? Should all the fish of the sea be gathered together for them, to be enough for them?" {{rf{23}}} And Yahweh said to Moses, "Is Yahweh's power limited? Now you will see if my word will happen or not." {{rf{24}}} So Moses went out, and he spoke the words of Yahweh to the people, and he gathered together seventy men from the elders of the people, and he made them stand all around the tent. {{rf{25}}} Then Yahweh went down in the cloud and spoke to him, and he took away the spirit that was on him, and he put it on the seventy elders. And as soon as the spirit was resting on them they prophesied, but they did not do it again. {{rf{26}}} But two men were left in the camp; the name of one was Eldad, and the name of the second was Medad, and the spirit rested on them; they were among those who were written down, but they did not go out to the tent, so they prophesied in the camp. {{rf{27}}} So a boy ran and told Moses and said, "Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp." {{rf{28}}} And Joshua son of Nun, the assistant of Moses from time of his youth, answered, "Moses, my lord, stop them." {{rf{29}}} But Moses said to him, "Are you jealous for my sake? Would that he give all Yahweh's people prophets, that Yahweh put his spirit on them!" {{rf{30}}} Then Moses and the elders of Israel were gathered to the camp. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Num-11-18]] }}}
{{rf{31}}} Then a wind set out from Yahweh, and it drove quails from the west, and he spread them out on the camp about a day's journey on one side and about a day's journey on the other, all around the camp, about two cubits on the surface of the land. {{rf{32}}} And so the people worked all day and all night and all the next day, and they gathered the quail (the least of the ones collecting gathered ten homers). {{rf{33}}} While the meat was still between their teeth, before it was consumed, Yahweh was angry with the people, and Yahweh struck a very great plague among the people. {{rf{34}}} And he called the name of that place Kibroth Hattaavah because they buried the people that were greedy. {{rf{35}}} From Kibroth Hattaavah the people set out to Hazeroth; and they stayed in Hazeroth.
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{{rf big{1}}} And Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses because of the Cushite woman whom he took (because he took a Cushite wife); {{rf{2}}} and they said, "Has Yahweh spoken only through Moses? Has not Yahweh also spoken through us?" And Yahweh heard it. {{rf{3}}} Now the man, Moses, was more humble than any other person on the face of the earth, {{rf{4}}} and Yahweh said suddenly to Moses, Aaron, and Miriam, "Go out, you three, to the tent of assembly." So the three of them when out. {{rf{5}}} And Yahweh went down in a column of cloud and stood at the doorway of the tent, and he called Aaron and Miriam, and the two of them went, {{rf{6}}} and he said, "Please hear my words: If there is a prophet among you, I, Yahweh, will make myself known to him in a vision. I will speak to him in a dream. {{rf{7}}} Not so with my servant Moses; in all my house he is faithful. {{rf{8}}} I will speak to him mouth to mouth, in clearness, not in riddles; and he will look at the form of Yahweh. Why were you not afraid to speak against my servant, against Moses?" {{rf{9}}} And Yahweh became very angry with them, and he went away. {{rf{10}}} And the cloud departed from on the tent, and behold, Miriam was infected with a skin disease white like snow; when Aaron turned toward Miriam, behold, she was afflicted with a skin disease. {{rf{11}}} So Aaron said to Moses, "Please, my lord, please do not put on us this sin in which we were foolish and in which we have sinned. {{rf{12}}} Please do not let her be like the dead, whose flesh is half consumed when coming out from the womb of its mother." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Num-11-31]] }}}
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The lessons of chapters 14 and 15 somewhat echo the lessons Moses had to learn considering his credentials for service. However, the order is reversed; first, a refusal to accept God's credentials, and second, a presumptuous attempt to Acts on their own.
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<<Bbl Num 14:12 abbr>> Moses' reply to this reveals his self-sacrificial pastoring heart for the people. Dispossess is quite a word; they are to be dispossessed not from the land -- for it is not theirs -- but from the promise of the land. See <<Bbl Mt 21:40 >>-43
<<Bbl Num 14:17 abbr >> O Lord, this is but an opportunity to show how powerful You truly are! Moses knew "what kind of spirit he was of (<<Bbl L 9:55 >>)".
14:24 I wonder why Joshua's name is not included here.
14:28 Perhaps this is the only instance where God answers a request for death.
14:29 Numbered -- emphasizing the waste of the struggle so far.
<<Bbl Num 15:2 abbr>> After the events of chapter 14, immediately this restatement of the promise.
<<Bbl Num 15:30 abbr>>-31 The word "defiantly" literally means "with a high hand". Imagine a fist raised in the air against God.
16:3 They are correct in the preamble, but fail to recognize that the leadership is ordained by God and actually a humble work of service. Probably their false idea of leadership comes from the way they would behave if they were in that position.
16:13 with milk and honey -- here referring to Egypt! Lord it over us shows the same false idea that Korah espouses.
16:21 A second time this Judgment is proposed.
16:22 This title also in 27:16.
16:26 see <<Bbl Gn 19:15 >>-17
<<Bbl Num 16:38 abbr >>-40 What a symbol of the wrath of God upon those who make false offerings.
16:45 The third proposal.
17:8 We are priests, and we bear fruit miraculously.
18:32 This was the sin of Eli's sons.
{{rf{13}}} And Moses cried to Yahweh, saying, "God, please heal her!" {{rf{14}}} But Yahweh said to Moses, "If her father had surely spit in her face, would she not bear her shame for seven days? Let her be confined for seven days to an outside place of the camp, and afterward she may be gathered." {{rf{15}}} So Miriam was confined to the outside place of the camp seven days, and the people did not set out until Miriam was gathered. {{rf{16}}} And afterward the people set out from Hazeroth, and they encamped in the desert of Paran. {{rf big{1}}} And Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, {{rf{2}}} "Send for yourself men, and let them explore the land of Canaan, which I am about to give to the Israelites; from each tribe of his father send one man, everyone a leader among them." {{rf{3}}} So Moses sent them from the desert of Paran on the command of Yahweh; all of the men were leaders of the Israelites. {{rf{4}}} And these are their names: from the tribe of Reuben, Shammua son of Zaccur; {{rf{5}}} from the tribe of Simeon, Shaphat son of Hori; {{rf{6}}} from the tribe of Judah, Caleb son of Jephunneh; {{rf{7}}} from the tribe of Issachar, Igal son of Joseph; {{rf{8}}} from the tribe of Ephraim, Hoshea son of Nun; {{rf{9}}} from the tribe of Benjamin, Palti son of Raphu; {{rf{10}}} from the tribe of Zebulun, Gaddiel son of Sodi; {{rf{11}}} from the tribe of Joseph, from the tribe of Manasseh, Gaddi son of Susi; {{rf{12}}} from the tribe of Dan, Ammiel son of Gemalli; {{rf{13}}} from the tribe of Asher, Sethur son of Michael; {{rf{14}}} from the tribe of Naphtali, Nahbi son of Vophsi; {{rf{15}}} from the tribe of Gad, Geuel son of Maki. {{rf{16}}} These are the names of the men whom Moses sent to explore the land. And Moses called Hoshea son of Nun Joshua. {{rf{17}}} Moses sent them to explore the land of Canaan, and he said to them, "Go up like this to the Negev, and go up into the hill country, {{rf{18}}} and you will see what the land is like and if the people who inhabit it are strong or weak, or whether they are few or many, {{rf{19}}} and whether the land that they are inhabiting is good or bad, and whether the cities they are inhabiting are camps or fortifications, {{rf{20}}} and whether the land is fertile or lean, and whether there are trees on it or not. You will show yourself courageous, and you will take some of the fruit of the land." It was the time of first ripe grapes. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Num-12-13]] }}}
{{rf{21}}} So they went up and explored the land from the desert of Zin until Rehob, at Lebo Hamath. {{rf{22}}} They went up through the Negev and came to Hebron, where Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai the descendants of the Anakites were. (Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.) {{rf{23}}} And they came up to the valley of Eshcol, and they cut off a vine branch and one cluster of grapes from there; they carried it on a pole between two men, with pomegranates and figs. {{rf{24}}} That place he called the valley of Eshcol on account of the cluster of grapes that the Israelites cut off from there. {{rf{25}}} They returned from exploring the land at the end of forty days. {{rf{26}}} And they came to Moses and Aaron and to the entire community of the Israelites in the desert of Paran at Kadesh; they brought back word to them and to all the community, and they showed them the fruit of the land. {{rf{27}}} And they told him, "We came to the land that you sent us, and it is flowing of milk and honey; this is its fruit. {{rf{28}}} Yet the people who are inhabiting it are strong and the cities are fortified and very large; moreover, we saw the descendants of the Anakites there. {{rf{29}}} The Amalekites are living in the land of the Negev; the Hittites, Jebusites, and the Amorites are living in the hill country; and the Canaanites are living at the sea and on the banks of the Jordan." {{rf{30}}} And Caleb silenced the people before Moses and said, "Surely, let us go up and let us take possession of it because surely we will be able to prevail over it." {{rf{31}}} And the men who went up with him said, "We are not able to go up to the people because they are stronger than us." {{rf{32}}} And they presented the report of the land that they explored to the Israelites, saying, "The land that we went through to explore is a land that eats its inhabitants, and all the people whom we saw in its midst are men of great size. {{rf{33}}} There we saw the Nephilim (the descendants of Anak came from the Nephilim), and we were like grasshoppers in our own sight, and so we were in their eyes." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Num-13-21]] }}}
Then all the community lifted up their voices, and the people wept during that night. {{rf{2}}} And all the Israelites grumbled against Moses and Aaron, and all the community said to them, "If only we had died in the land of Egypt or in this desert! {{rf{3}}} Why did Yahweh bring us into this land to fall by the sword? Our wives and our little children will become plunder; would it not be better for us to return to Egypt?" {{rf{4}}} They said to each other, "Let us appoint a leader, and we will return to Egypt." {{rf{5}}} Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before the assembly of the community of the Israelites. {{rf{6}}} Joshua son of Nun and Caleb son of Jephunneh, from the explorers of the land, tore their garments. {{rf{7}}} And they said to all the community of the Israelites, "The land that we went through to explore is an exceptionally good land. {{rf{8}}} If Yahweh delights in us, then he will bring us into this land, and he will give it to us, a land that is flowing with milk and honey. {{rf{9}}} Only do not rebel against Yahweh, and you will not fear the people of the land, because they will be our food. Their protection has been turned from them; Yahweh is with us. You should not fear them." {{rf{10}}} And all the community said to stone them with stones, but the glory of Yahweh appeared in the tent of assembly among the Israelites. {{rf{11}}} And Yahweh said to Moses, "How long until this people will despise me, and how long until they will not believe in me, and in all the signs that I have done in their midst? {{rf{12}}} I will strike them with disease, and I will dispossess them; I will make you into a greater and stronger nation than them." {{rf{13}}} And Moses said to Yahweh, "Then the Egyptians will hear that you brought up this people from their midst in your power, {{rf{14}}} and they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land. They heard that you, Yahweh, are in the midst of this people, that you are seen eye to eye, and your cloud is standing over them, and in a column of cloud you go before them by day and in a column of fire at night. {{rf{15}}} But if you destroy this people all at once, the nations that will have heard your message will say, {{rf{16}}} 'Yahweh was unable to bring this people in the land that he swore by an oath, and he slaughtered them in the desert.' {{rf{17}}} But now, please, let the power of my Lord be great, just has you spoke, {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Num-14-01]] }}}
{{rf{18}}} 'Yahweh is slow to anger and great of loyal love, forgiving sin and rebellion; but surely he leaves nothing unpunished, visiting the sin of the fathers on the sons to the third and fourth generations.' {{rf{19}}} Please forgive the sin of this people according to the greatness of your loyal love, just as you forgave this people, from Egypt until now." {{rf{20}}} Yahweh said, "I have forgiven them according to your word; {{rf{21}}} but as I am alive, the glory of Yahweh will fill all the earth. {{rf{22}}} But because all the men who have seen my glory and my signs that I did in Egypt and in the desert yet tested me these ten times and did not listen to my voice, {{rf{23}}} they will not see the land that I swore by oath to their ancestors, and all those who despised me will not see it. {{rf{24}}} But my servant Caleb, because another spirit was with him, he remained true after me, and I will bring him into the land that he entered, and his offspring will take possession of it. {{rf{25}}} And the Amalekites and the Canaanites live in the valleys; tomorrow turn and set out for the desert by way of the Red Sea." {{rf{26}}} And Yahweh spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying, {{rf{27}}} "How long will I bear this evil community who are grumbling against me? I have heard the grumbling of the Israelites which they are making against me. {{rf{28}}} Say to them, 'Surely as I live,' declares Yahweh, 'just as you spoke in my hearing, so I will do to you; {{rf{29}}} in this desert your corpses will fall, and all your counted ones, according to all your number, from twenty years old and above who grumbled against me. {{rf{30}}} You yourselves will not come into the land that I swore by oath to make you to dwell in it, but Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun. {{rf{31}}} But your little children, whom you said would be plunder, I will bring them, and they will know the land that you rejected. {{rf{32}}} But for you, all your corpses will fall in this desert. {{rf{33}}} And your children will be shepherds in the desert forty years, and you will bear your unfaithfulness until all your corpses have fallen in the desert. {{rf{34}}} According to the number of the days that you explored the land, forty days, a day for each year, you will bear your sins forty years, and you will know my opposition.' {{rf{35}}} I, Yahweh, have spoken; I will surely do this to all this evil community who has banded together against me. In this desert they will come to an end, and there they will die." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Num-14-18]] }}}
{{rf{36}}} As for the men whom Moses sent to explore the land, who returned and made the community grumble against him by spreading a report over the land, {{rf{37}}} the men who spread the evil report of the land died by the plague before Yahweh. {{rf{38}}} But Joshua son of Nun and Caleb son of Jephunneh lived from among the men who went to explore the land. {{rf{39}}} And Moses spoke words to all the Israelites, and the people mourned greatly. {{rf{40}}} They rose early in the morning and went to the top of the mount, saying, "Here we are. We will go up to the place that Yahweh said, because we have sinned." {{rf{41}}} But Moses said, "Why are you going against the command of Yahweh? It will not succeed. {{rf{42}}} You should not go up because Yahweh is not in your midst; do not let yourselves be defeated in the presence of your enemies, {{rf{43}}} because the Amalekites and the Canaanites are there before you, and you will fall by the sword; because you have turned back from Yahweh, and Yahweh will not be with you." {{rf{44}}} But they dared to go to the top of the mountain, and the ark of the covenant of Yahweh and Moses did not depart from the midst of the camp. {{rf{45}}} So the Amalekites and the Canaanites who were living on the mountain descended, and they beat them down, up to Hormah. {{rf big{1}}} Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, {{rf{2}}} "Speak to the Israelites and say to them, 'When you come into the land of your dwellings that I am about to give to you, {{rf{3}}} you will make an offering by fire for Yahweh from the cattle or from the flock, a burnt offering or a sacrifice to fulfill a vow, or as a freewill offering or at your feasts, to make a fragrance of appeasement for Yahweh. {{rf{4}}} And the one who presents an offering for Yahweh, he will present a grain offering of finely milled flour; a tenth will be mixed with a fourth of the liquid measure of oil; {{rf{5}}} and you will add a fourth of wine for the libation upon the burnt offering, or to the sacrifice for each ram-lamb. {{rf{6}}} Or for the ram you will make a grain offering of two-tenths of finely milled flour mixed into a third of a liquid measure of oil. {{rf{7}}} You will present a third of the liquid measure of wine for the libation, a fragrance of appeasement for Yahweh. {{rf{8}}} When you prepare a bull as a burnt offering or a sacrifice to fulfill a vow or a fellowship offering for Yahweh, {{rf{9}}} you will present with the bull a grain offering of three-tenths of finely milled flour mixed with half a liquid measure of oil, {{rf{10}}} and you will present half a liquid measure of wine as a libation, as an offering made by fire, a fragrance of appeasement for Yahweh. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Num-14-36]] }}}
{{rf{11}}} " 'This is how it should be done for each bull, or for the each ram, or for the small four-footed mammal, or ram-lambs, or goats. {{rf{12}}} According to the number that you prepare, so should you do to each according to their number. {{rf{13}}} Every native must do these things to present an offering made by fire, a fragrance of appeasement for Yahweh. {{rf{14}}} If an alien dwells among you, or whoever is in your midst throughout your generations, and prepares an offering made by fire, a fragrance of appeasement for Yahweh, he should do as you do. {{rf{15}}} For the assembly, there will be one decree for you and for the alien who dwells among you; it is an eternal decree for all your generations. You as well as the alien will be before Yahweh. {{rf{16}}} There will be one law and one stipulation for you and for the alien dwelling among you.'" {{rf{17}}} Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, {{rf{18}}} "Speak to the Israelites and say to them, 'When you come into the land to which I am about to bring you, {{rf{19}}} whenever you eat from the food of the land, you will lift up a contribution to Yahweh. {{rf{20}}} You must lift up a contribution of the first batch of your ring-shaped dough bread; you must lift it up as a contribution of the threshing floor. {{rf{21}}} You will give to Yahweh a contribution from the first of your dough throughout your generations. {{rf{22}}} " 'But if you go astray and you do not follow all these commandments that Yahweh commanded to Moses, {{rf{23}}} all that Yahweh commanded you by the hand of Moses from the day that Yahweh commanded and beyond, throughout your generations, {{rf{24}}} and if it was done unintentionally without the knowledge of the community, then the entire community must prepare one young bull as a burnt offering, as a fragrance of appeasement for Yahweh, and its grain offering and its libation, according to the stipulation, and one male goat as a sin offering. {{rf{25}}} The priest will make atonement for all of the community of the Israelites, and they will be forgiven because it was unintentional; they will bring their offering, an offering made by fire for Yahweh, their sin offering before Yahweh for their unintentional sin. {{rf{26}}} All of the community of the Israelites will be forgiven, as well as the alien that dwells in their midst, because the whole community was involved in the unintentional wrong. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Num-15-11]] }}}
{{rf{27}}} " 'If one person sins unintentionally, that person will present a female goat in its first year as a sin offering. {{rf{28}}} And the priest will make atonement for the person who sinned unintentionally before Yahweh, to make atonement for him, and he will be forgiven. {{rf{29}}} For the native among the Israelites and the alien that dwells in their midst, there will be one law for anyone who commits an unintentional wrong. {{rf{30}}} But the one who acts presumptuously from among the native or alien blasphemes against Yahweh, and that person must be cut off from the midst of the people. {{rf{31}}} Because he despised the word of Yahweh and broke his command, that person will be surely cut off and bear the guilt.'" {{rf{32}}} When the Israelites were in the desert, they found a man who was gathering wood on the day of the Sabbath. {{rf{33}}} The ones who found him gathering wood brought him to Moses, Aaron, and to all the community. {{rf{34}}} And they put him under watch because it was not made clear what should be done to him. {{rf{35}}} And Yahweh said to Moses, "Surely the man must be put to death by stoning him; all the community must stone him with stones from outside the camp." {{rf{36}}} So the entire community brought him out to a place outside the camp, and they stoned him to death just as Yahweh commanded Moses. {{rf{37}}} Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, {{rf{38}}} "Speak to the Israelites, and tell them to make for themselves tassels on the hems of their garments throughout their generations and to put a blue cord on the tassel of the hem. {{rf{39}}} You will have a tassel for you to look at and remember all the commands of Yahweh and do them, and not follow after the unfaithfulness of your own heart and eyes, {{rf{40}}} so that you will remember and do all my commandments, and you will be holy for your God. {{rf{41}}} I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, to be your God; I am Yahweh your God." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Num-15-27]] }}}
Now Korah son of Izhar, son of Kohath, son of Levi, and Dathan and Abiram sons of Eliab, and On son of Peleth, the descendants of Reuben, {{rf{2}}} took two hundred and fifty men from the Israelites, leaders of the community summoned from the assembly, renowned men, and they confronted Moses. {{rf{3}}} They were assembled in front of Moses and Aaron, and they said to them, "You take too much upon yourselves! All of the community is holy, every one of them, and Yahweh is in their midst, so why do you raise yourselves over the assembly of Yahweh?" {{rf{4}}} When Moses heard this, he fell on his face. {{rf{5}}} And he said to Korah and to his entire company, saying, "Tomorrow morning Yahweh will make known who is his and who is holy, and he will bring him near to him, whomever he chooses he will bring near to him. {{rf{6}}} Do this: take for yourselves censers, Korah and all of your company; {{rf{7}}} tomorrow put fire in them and place incense on them before Yahweh; the man whom Yahweh chooses will be the holy one. You take too much upon yourselves, sons of Levi!" {{rf{8}}} And Moses said to Korah, "Please listen, sons of Levi! {{rf{9}}} Is it too little for you that the God of Israel set you apart from the community of Israel to allow you to approach him to do the work of the tabernacle of Yahweh, to stand before the community to serve them? {{rf{10}}} He has allowed you to approach him, you with all your brothers, the descendants of Levi, but yet you also seek the priesthood. {{rf{11}}} Therefore you and your company that has banded together against Yahweh. What is Aaron that you grumble against him?" {{rf{12}}} Moses sent to call for Dathan and Abiram son of Eliab, but they said, "We will not come! {{rf{13}}} Is it too little that you have brought us from a land that flows with milk and honey to kill us in the desert, and that you also appoint yourself as a ruler over us? {{rf{14}}} Surely, you have not brought us to a land that flows with milk and honey, and you have not given us the inheritance of fields and a vineyard. Will you gouge out the eyes of these men? We will not come!" {{rf{15}}} Then Moses became angry, and he said to Yahweh, "Do not notice their grain offering. I have not offered one donkey from them, and I have not mistreated one of them." {{rf{16}}} And Moses said to Korah, "You and your entire company will be before Yahweh tomorrow, you and they and Aaron. {{rf{17}}} Each one take his censer, and put incense on it and you will present it before Yahweh, and each of you bring his censer, two hundred and fifty censers, you and Aaron, each his censer." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Num-16-01]] }}}
{{rf{18}}} So each of them took his censer, and they put fire on them, and they placed incense on them; they stood at the doorway of the tent of the assembly of Moses and Aaron. {{rf{19}}} And Korah summoned them, the entire community, by the doorway of the tent of assembly, and the glory of Yahweh appeared to all the community. {{rf{20}}} And Yahweh spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying, {{rf{21}}} "Separate yourselves from the midst of this community, that I can destroy them in a moment." {{rf{22}}} And they fell on their faces, and they said, "God, God of the spirits of all flesh, will one man sin and you become angry toward the entire community?" {{rf{23}}} Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, {{rf{24}}} "Speak to the community, saying, 'Move away from the dwelling of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram.'" {{rf{25}}} So Moses stood up and went to Dathan and Abiram; the elders of Israel followed after him. {{rf{26}}} He said to the community, saying, "Please turn away from the tents of these wicked men, and do not touch anything that belongs to them, or you will be destroyed with all their sins." {{rf{27}}} And so they moved away from around the dwellings of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram; and Dathan and Abiram came out standing at the doorway of their tents, with their wives, sons, and little children. {{rf{28}}} And Moses said, "In this you will know that Yahweh has sent me to do all these works; it is not from my heart. {{rf{29}}} If they die a natural death or if a natural fate is visited upon them, Yahweh has not sent me. {{rf{30}}} But if Yahweh creates something new, and the ground opens its mouth and swallows them up and all that belongs to them, and they go down alive to Sheol, and you will know that these men have despised Yahweh." {{rf{31}}} And it happened, as soon as he finished speaking all these words, the ground that was under them split open. {{rf{32}}} The land opened its mouth and swallowed them up with their houses and every person that belonged to Korah and all the property. {{rf{33}}} They went down alive to Sheol, they and all that belonged to them, and the land covered over them, and they perished from the midst of the assembly. {{rf{34}}} All Israel who were around them fled at their cry, because they said, "Lest the land swallow us up!" {{rf{35}}} And fire went out from Yahweh, and it consumed the two hundred and fifty men presenting the incense. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Num-16-18]] }}}
{{rf{36}}} And Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, {{rf{37}}} "Say to Eleazar son of Aaron the priest, 'Take out the censers from among the place of burning because they are sacred, and scatter the fire outside. {{rf{38}}} The censers of these who have sinned at the cost of their lives, let them be made into gilded leafing plating for the altar; because they presented them before Yahweh, they are holy; and they will be a sign for the Israelites.'" {{rf{39}}} Eleazar the priest took the bronze censers that the ones who were burned presented, and they hammered them out thinly as plating for the altar; {{rf{40}}} it was a memorial for the Israelites, so that no strange man who is not from the offspring of Aaron should approach the presence of Yahweh to burn a smoke offering; he will not be like Korah and his company, just as Yahweh had spoken to him by the hand of Moses. {{rf{41}}} The next day all the community of the Israelites grumbled against Moses and Aaron, saying, "You have killed the people of Yahweh!" {{rf{42}}} Then, when the community had gathered against Moses and Aaron, they turned to the tent of assembly, and behold, the cloud covered it, and the glory of Yahweh appeared. {{rf{43}}} And Moses and Aaron came to the front of the tent of assembly, {{rf{44}}} and Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, {{rf{45}}} "Get away from the midst of this community, and I will finish them in an instant," but they fell on their faces. {{rf{46}}} And Moses and Aaron said, "Take the censer, and put fire on it from the altar. Place incense on it, and bring it quickly to the community, and make atonement for them, because wrath went out from the presence of Yahweh, and a plague has begun." {{rf{47}}} And so Aaron took it just as Moses had spoken, and he ran into the midst of the assembly, for behold, the plague had begun among the people; so he gave the incense and made atonement for the people. {{rf{48}}} He stood between the dead and between the living, and the plague was stopped. {{rf{49}}} Those who died by the plague were fourteen thousand seven hundred, besides those who died on account of Korah. {{rf{50}}} Then Aaron returned to Moses at the doorway of the tent of assembly, and the plague was stopped. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Num-16-36]] }}}
Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, {{rf{2}}} "Speak to the Israelites, and take from among them twelve staffs, a staff from each family from among all their leaders according to their families' households. Write the name of each man on his staff, {{rf{3}}} and the name of Aaron on the staff of Levi, because one staff is for the head of each of their families. {{rf{4}}} You must then put them in the tent of assembly before the testimony where I meet with you. {{rf{5}}} And it will happen, the man whom I will choose, his staff will blossom, and so I will rid from upon myself the grumblings of the Israelites, who are grumbling against you." {{rf{6}}} Moses spoke to the Israelites, and all their leaders gave him a staff for each leader, one from each of their families, twelve staffs, and the staff of Aaron was in the midst of their tribes. {{rf{7}}} And Moses put the staffs before Yahweh in the tent of testimony. {{rf{8}}} Then the next day, Moses went into the tent of the testimony, and behold the staff of Aaron for the house of Levi blossomed and put forth a flower and produced blossoms, and it produced almonds. {{rf{9}}} Then Moses brought out to all the Israelites all the staffs before the presence of Yahweh, and they saw, and each man took his staff. {{rf{10}}} And Yahweh said to Moses, "Bring back the staff of Aaron before the testimony as a guard and sign for the children of rebellion, and let them finish their grumblings before me and not die." {{rf{11}}} So Moses did; just as Yahweh commanded him, so he did. {{rf{12}}} And the Israelites said to Moses, saying, "Look! We will die! We will be destroyed! All of us will perish! {{rf{13}}} Anyone who approaches the tabernacle of Yahweh will die. Will we all die?" {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Num-17-01]] }}}
Yahweh said to Aaron, "You, your sons, and your family with you will bear the guilt of the sanctuary, and you and your sons with you will bear the guilt of your priesthood. {{rf{2}}} Moreover, bring your brothers with you, the tribe of Levi the tribe of your father, that they may be joined to you and minister to you, you and your sons with you before the tent of testimony. {{rf{3}}} They will keep your responsibility and the responsibility of all the tent, only they may not come near the vessels of the sanctuary and the altar, so both you and they will not die. {{rf{4}}} They will be joined to you, and they will keep the responsibility of the tent of assembly for the entire service of the tent; a stranger may not come near you. {{rf{5}}} You will keep the responsibility of the sanctuary and the responsibility of the altar, and there will no longer be wrath on the Israelites. {{rf{6}}} Look, I myself have chosen your brothers the Levites from the midst of the children. They are a gift to you given from Yahweh to perform the work of the tent of assembly. {{rf{7}}} But you with your sons will keep your priesthood to perform your priestly duties for everything at the altar and for the area behind the curtain. I give you the priesthood as a gift, but the stranger who approaches will be put to death." {{rf{8}}} Yahweh spoke to Aaron, "Behold, I myself have given to you the responsibility of my contributions for all the holy objects of the Israelites; I have given them as a portion to you and your sons as an eternal decree. {{rf{9}}} This will be for you from the sanctuary of the holy things from the fire; all of their offerings, from every grain offering, from every sin offering, and from every guilt offering which they will bring to me is a most holy thing for you and your sons. {{rf{10}}} You will eat it in the most holy place; every male will eat it. It will be a holy object to you. {{rf{11}}} This is also for you: the contribution of their gift of the wave offerings of the children Israel. I have given them to you and your sons and your daughters with you as an eternal decree; whoever is clean in your house may eat it. {{rf{12}}} All the finest olive oil and all the finest new wine and their best grain that they have given to Yahweh, I have given them to you. {{rf{13}}} The firstfruits of all that is in their land that they present to Yahweh will be for you; whoever is clean in your house may eat it. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Num-18-01]] }}}
{{rf{14}}} All consecrated possessions in Israel will be for you. {{rf{15}}} All the first offspring of a womb of any creature that they offer to Yahweh, whether human or animal, will be yours; you will surely redeem the firstborn of the human and the unclean firstborn of the animal. {{rf{16}}} As to their price of redemption, from a one-month-old you will redeem them according to your proper value, five shekels of silver according to the shekel of the sanctuary, which is twenty gerah. {{rf{17}}} Only the firstborn of an ox or the firstborn of a sheep or the firstborn of a goat you will not redeem; they are holy. Their blood you will sprinkle over the altar, and their fat you will turn into smoke as an offering made by fire, a fragrance of appeasement for Yahweh. {{rf{18}}} But their flesh will be for you like the breast section of the wave offering, and it will be for you like the right upper thigh. {{rf{19}}} All the contributions of holiness that the Israelites offer to Yahweh I have given to you and your sons and your daughters with you as an eternal decree; it is an eternal covenant of salt before Yahweh to you and your offspring with you." {{rf{20}}} Then Yahweh said to Aaron, "You will not receive an inheritance in their land, and there will not be a plot of ground for you in the midst of the Israelites. {{rf{21}}} "Behold, I have given to the descendants of Levi every tithe in Israel as an inheritance in return for their service, which they are doing, the work of the tent of assembly. {{rf{22}}} The Israelites will not come near again to the tent of assembly, or they will bear sin and die. {{rf{23}}} The Levites will perform the service of the tent of assembly, and they will bear their guilt, an eternal decree for all your generations. But they will not receive an inheritance in the midst of the Israelites {{rf{24}}} because the tithes of the Israelites that are offered to Yahweh as a contribution, I have given to the Levites as an inheritance; therefore I said to them, 'They will not receive an inheritance in the midst of the Israelites.'" {{rf{25}}} Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, {{rf{26}}} "You will speak to the Levites and say to them, 'When you receive the tithe from the Israelites that I have given to you from them for your inheritance, you will present a contribution from it to Yahweh, a tithe from a tithe. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Num-18-14]] }}}
{{rf{27}}} Your contribution will be credited to you like the grain from the threshing floor and like the produce from the press. {{rf{28}}} So you will present your own contribution to Yahweh from all your tithes that you receive from the Israelites; from it you will give the contribution of Yahweh to Aaron the priest. {{rf{29}}} From all your gifts you will present every contribution of Yahweh, from all its fat, the part that is sacred.' {{rf{30}}} You will say to them, 'When you are presenting its fat, the rest will be credited to the Levites like a yield of the threshing floor and like a yield from the press. {{rf{31}}} You may eat it anywhere, you and your household, because it is a wage in return for your service in the tent of assembly. {{rf{32}}} You will not bear any sin because you have presented its fat; you will not defile the holy objects of the Israelites, or you will die.'" {{rf big{1}}} And Yahweh spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying, {{rf{2}}} "This is the decree of the law that Yahweh has commanded, saying, 'Speak to the Israelites and let them take to you a red heifer without a physical defect, on which a yoke has not been placed. {{rf{3}}} And you will give it to Eleazar the priest, and it will be brought out to a place outside the camp, and it will be slaughtered in his presence. {{rf{4}}} Then Eleazar the priest will take some of its blood on his finger and spatter it toward the mouth of the tent of assembly seven times. {{rf{5}}} The heifer will be burned in his sight; its skin, its meat, and its blood, in addition to its offal, will burn. {{rf{6}}} The priest will take cedar wood, hyssop, and crimson thread, and he will throw them in the midst of the burning heifer. {{rf{7}}} The priest will wash his garments and his body in the water, and afterward he will come to the camp; the priest will be unclean until the evening. {{rf{8}}} The one who burns it will wash his garments and his body in water; he will be unclean until the evening. {{rf{9}}} A clean man will gather the ashes of the heifer, and he will put them in a clean place outside the camp; it will be for the community of the Israelites as a requirement for waters of impurity; it is a purification offering. {{rf{10}}} The one who gathers the ashes of the heifer will wash his garments; he will be unclean until evening. It will be an eternal decree for the Israelites and for one who dwells as an alien in their midst. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Num-18-27]] }}}
{{rf{11}}} " 'The one who touches a corpse of any person will be unclean for seven days. {{rf{12}}} He will purify himself on the third day, and on the seventh day he will be clean. If he does not purify himself on the third day, he will not be clean on the seventh day. {{rf{13}}} Anyone who touches a corpse, the person of a human being who died, and does not purify himself, defiles the tabernacle of Yahweh, and that person will be cut off from Israel because the waters of impurity were not sprinkled on him. He will still be unclean, and uncleanness is on him. {{rf{14}}} " 'This is the law of a person who dies in a tent: everyone who comes into the tent and all who are in the tent will be unclean seven days. {{rf{15}}} Every container that is opened that does not have a lid cord on it is unclean. {{rf{16}}} Anyone in the open field who touches one who has been slain, or a corpse, or a bone of a person, or a burial site, he will be unclean for seven days. {{rf{17}}} For the unclean person they will take from the powder of the burnt purification offering, and they will put running water into a container. {{rf{18}}} A clean person will take hyssop and dip it into the water and sprinkle it on the tent and on all the objects and persons who were there, and on one who touched the bone, or the one slain, or the dead, or the burial site. {{rf{19}}} The clean person will spatter the unclean on the third day and on the seventh day; and on the seventh day he will purify him, and he will wash his garments; he will bathe in the waters, and in the evening he will be clean. {{rf{20}}} But the man who is unclean and does not purify himself, that person will be cut off from the midst of the assembly because he defiled the sanctuary of Yahweh; the water of impurity was not sprinkled on him; he is unclean. {{rf{21}}} " 'It will be an eternal decree for them. The one who spatters the waters of impurity will wash his garments, and the one who touches the waters of impurity will be unclean until the evening. {{rf{22}}} Anything that the unclean person touches will be unclean, and the person who touches it will be unclean until the evening.'" {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Num-19-11]] }}}
Then the entire community of the Israelites came to the desert of Zin on the first month, and the people stayed in Kadesh; Miriam died and was buried there. {{rf{2}}} There was no water for the community, and they were gathered before Moses and Aaron. {{rf{3}}} And the people quarreled with Moses and spoke, saying, "If only we died when our brothers were dying before Yahweh! {{rf{4}}} Why have you brought the assembly of Yahweh, us and our livestock, into this desert to die here? {{rf{5}}} Why have you brought us from Egypt to bring us to this bad place? It is not a place of seed or figs or vines or pomegranate trees, and there is not water to drink." {{rf{6}}} And Moses and Aaron went from the presence of the assembly to the doorway of the tent of assembly. They fell on their faces, and the glory of Yahweh appeared to them. {{rf{7}}} Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, {{rf{8}}} "Take the staff and summon the community, you and Aaron your brother, and speak to the rock before their eyes, and it will give water. Bring out for them water from the rock, and let the community and their livestock drink." {{rf{9}}} So Moses took the staff from before Yahweh just as he command him, {{rf{10}}} and Moses and Aaron summoned the assembly to the presence of the rock, and he said to them, "Please listen, you rebels; can we bring out water for you from this rock?" {{rf{11}}} Then Moses lifted up his hand and struck the rock with his staff twice. And abundant water went out, and the community and their livestock drank. {{rf{12}}} But Yahweh said to Moses and Aaron, "Because you have not trusted in me, to regard me as holy in the sight of the Israelites, you will not bring this assembly into the land that I have given to them." {{rf{13}}} Those were the waters of Meribah, where the Israelites quarreled with Yahweh, and he showed himself holy among them. {{rf{14}}} From Kadesh Moses sent messengers to the king of Edom: "Thus your brother Israel has said, 'You know all the hardship that has found us; {{rf{15}}} our ancestors went down to Egypt, and we lived in Egypt a long time, and the Egyptians mistreated us and our ancestors. {{rf{16}}} Then we cried to Yahweh, and he heard our voice; he sent an angel and brought us out from Egypt. And look, we are in Kadesh, a city on the edge of your territory. {{rf{17}}} Please let us go through your land. We will not go through a field or vineyard, and we will not drink water from a well. We will go along the road of the king; we will not turn aside right or left until we have gone through your territory.'" {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Num-20-01]] }}}
<<Bbl Num 20:9 abbr>> -- Christ the [[Rock]]
<<Bbl Num 21:4 abbr>>-9
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Moses prayed for the people. Yahweh said to Moses, "Make a fiery serpent, and set it on a standard: and it shall happen, that everyone who is bitten, when he sees it, shall live."
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* Fulfilled in Christ, <<Bbl J 3:14>>. The Gospel is summarized in this episode.
* God uses the very image of the snake to provide a remedy, which underscores His sovereignty over any difficult circumstance we face. When we consider the serpent is a symbol of [[Satan]], the significance increases.
* The snake is made of bronze or brass, a base material (unlike the gold of the Tabernacle). God is reproving the wicked, using a base material to reprove a base nature. See [[Discipline]]. He is also proving that he can work through any medium and assert virtue merely by his choice.
* <<Bbl Ex 15:26>> //none of the diseases of the Egyptians//
* Imagine the committed rebel who must //force// himself to look to Moses.
* This is the last complaining in Numbers. Perhaps the old generation is being supplanted by the new, and the new has a capacity for faith. If so, this plague certainly accelerated the process.
Balaam lied (not sure to which verse my note is actually referring). See Num 24 and 25, Revelation 2, 2 Corinthians, and Acts. I also have a note to see an NIV footnote.
22:22 Most likely, as a satan.
22:29 A specific irony here, in that the words Balaam speaks could easily be from the Lord to him -- with the difference that a drawn sword is present!
<<Bbl Num 23:9 abbr>> An apt description of us.
23:22 This might mean that as horns are to a wild ox, so the Lord is to Israel ??
23:23 We find that odd agreement between God's expressed will and the world of occult signs, as seen in the wise men seeking the King of the Jews, or the medium bringing up Samuel.
23:24-25 It may be that Balak interrupts the discourse at this verse!
24:11 A common statement of the world.
<<Bbl Num 25:8 abbr>> See <<Bbl Pr 7:23 >>.
"But we love each other" becomes hyperbolically irrelevant as well as irreverent.
25:16-18 When another person has been an agent of temptation for us, especially as those young in the way, hostility is one way to conclude the relationship. It's better than continuing in sin. When it's someone close, like a parent, it does make difficulties.
27:16 This title also in 16:22.
30:15 The possibility of guilt seems odd in this last verse. Maybe it means, if he annuls the vow more than a day after hearing of it.
I wonder if this didn't become a part of the wedding ceremony
{{rf{18}}} Then Edom said to him, "You will not pass through us lest we will go out to meet you with the sword." {{rf{19}}} The Israelites said to him, "We will go up on the main road, and if we and our livestock drink your water, we will pay for it. It is only a small matter; let us pass through on our feet." {{rf{20}}} But he said, "You will not go through." And Edom went out to meet them with a large army and a strong hand. {{rf{21}}} So Edom refused to give Israel passage through his territory, and Israel turned aside from him. {{rf{22}}} And they set out from Kadesh. The Israelites, the whole community, came to Mount Hor. {{rf{23}}} Yahweh said to Moses and to Aaron on Mount Hor, on the boundary of the land of Edom, saying, {{rf{24}}} "Let Aaron be gathered to his people; he will not come into the land that I have given to the Israelites because you rebelled against my word at the waters of Meribah. {{rf{25}}} Take Aaron and Eleazar his son, and take them up Mount Hor. {{rf{26}}} Strip off Aaron's garments, and put them on Eleazar his son; Aaron will be gathered to his people, and he will die there." {{rf{27}}} So Moses did just as Yahweh commanded, and they went up to Mount Hor before the eyes of all the community. {{rf{28}}} And Moses stripped off Aaron's garments and put them on Eleazar his son. Aaron died there on the top of the mountain; and Moses and Eleazar went down from the mountain. {{rf{29}}} All the community saw that Aaron died; so all the house of Israel wept for Aaron thirty days. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Num-20-18]] }}}
The Canaanite king of Arad, who was dwelling in the Negev, heard that Israel came along the way of Atharim; he fought against Israel and took some of them captive. {{rf{2}}} Israel made a vow to Yahweh, and they said, "If you will surely give this people into our hand, then we will destroy their cities." {{rf{3}}} Yahweh heard the voice of Israel; he gave to them the Canaanites, and they destroyed them and their cities. They called the name of the place Hormah. {{rf{4}}} They set out from Mount Hor by the way of the Red Sea to go around the land of Edom; but the people became impatient along the way. {{rf{5}}} The people spoke against God and against Moses, "Why have you brought us from Egypt to die in the desert? There is no food and no water, and our hearts detest this miserable food." {{rf{6}}} And Yahweh sent among the people poisonous snakes; they bit the people, and many people from Israel died. {{rf{7}}} The people came to Moses and said, "We have sinned because we have spoken against Yahweh and against you. Pray to Yahweh and let him remove the snakes from among us." So Moses prayed for the people. {{rf{8}}} And Yahweh said to Moses, "Make for yourself a snake and place it on a pole. When anyone is bitten and looks at it, that person will live." {{rf{9}}} So Moses made a snake of bronze, and he placed it on the pole; whenever a snake bit someone, and that person looked at the snake of bronze, he lived. {{rf{10}}} The Israelites set out and encamped at Oboth. {{rf{11}}} They set out from Oboth and encamped at Iye Abarim in the desert, which was in front of Moab toward the sunrise. {{rf{12}}} From there they set out and encamped at the valley of Zered. {{rf{13}}} From there they set out and encamped beyond Arnon, which is in the desert that goes out from the boundary of the Amorites, because Arnon is the boundary of Moab, between Moab and the Amorites. {{rf{14}}} Therefore thus it is said in the scroll of the Wars of Yahweh, "Waheb in Suphah, and the wadis of Arnon, {{rf{15}}} and the slope of the wadis that spreads out to the dwelling of Ar and lies at the boundary of Moab." {{rf{16}}} From there they went to Beer, which is the water well where Yahweh spoke to Moses, "Gather the people, that I may give them water." {{rf{17}}} Then Israel sang this song, "Arise, well water! Sing to it! {{rf{18}}} Well water that the princes dug, that the leaders of the people dug, with a staff and with their rods." And from the desert they continued to Mattanah, {{rf{19}}} and from Mattanah to Nahaliel, and from Nahaliel to Bamoth; {{rf{20}}} and from Bamoth to the valley that is in the territory of Moab, by the top of Pisgah, which overlooks the surface of the wasteland. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Num-21-01]] }}}
{{rf{21}}} Israel sent messengers to Sihon, the king of the Amorites, saying, {{rf{22}}} "Let us go through your land; we will not turn aside into a field or vineyard; we will not drink well water along the way of the king until we have gone through your territory." {{rf{23}}} But Sihon did not allow Israel to go through his territory. Sihon gathered all his people and went out to meet Israel; he came to the desert, to Jahaz, and he fought against Israel. {{rf{24}}} But Israel struck him with the edge of the sword, and they took possession of his land from Arnon to Jabbok, until the Ammonites, because the boundary of the Ammonites was strong. {{rf{25}}} Israel took all these cities, and Israel inhabited all the cities of the Amorites, in Heshbon, and in all its environs. {{rf{26}}} Because Heshbon was the city of Sihon king of the Amorites, who had fought against the former king of Moab and taken all his land from his hand until Arnon. {{rf{27}}} Thus the ones who quote proverbs say, "Come to Heshbon! Let it be built! And let the city of Sihon be established. {{rf{28}}} Because fire went out from Heshbon, a flame from the city of Sihon; it consumed Ar of Moab, the lords of the high places of Arnon. {{rf{29}}} Woe to you, Moab! You have perished, people of Chemosh. He has given his sons as fugitives, and his daughters into captivity, to the king of the Amorites, Sihon. {{rf{30}}} We destroyed them; Heshbon has perished up to Dibon; we laid waste up to Nophah, which reaches Medeba." {{rf{31}}} Thus Israel lived in the land of the Amorites. {{rf{32}}} Moses sent to explore Jaazer; they captured its environs and dispossessed the Amorites who were there. {{rf{33}}} Then they turned and went up by the way of the Bashan, and Og king of the Bashan and all his people went out to meet them for battle at Edrei. {{rf{34}}} And Yahweh said to Moses, "Do not fear him because I will give him and all his people and all his land into your hand. You will do to him just as you did to Sihon king of the Amorites, who was living in Heshbon." {{rf{35}}} And so they destroyed him and his sons, and all his people until they had not spared a survivor; and they took possession of his land. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Num-21-21]] }}}
The Israelites set out, and they encamped on the desert-plateau of Moab, across from Jericho beyond the Jordan. {{rf{2}}} Balak son of Zippor saw all that Israel did to the Amorites, {{rf{3}}} and Moab was very terrified in the presence of the people because they were numerous; and Moab dreaded the presence of the Israelites. {{rf{4}}} And Moab said to the elders of Midian, "Now the crowd will lick up all around us, like a bull devours the grass of the field." And Balak son of Zippor was king of Moab at that time. {{rf{5}}} He sent messengers to Balaam son of Beor at Pethor, which is by the river, in the land of the children of his people, to summon him, saying, "Look! A people went out from Egypt. Look! They cover the surface of the land; they are about to dwell opposite me. {{rf{6}}} Now, please go, curse this people for me because they are stronger than me; perhaps I will be able to strike them and drive them out from the land because I know whoever you bless is blessed, and whoever you cursed is cursed." {{rf{7}}} So the elders of Moab and the elders of Midian went with a fee for divination in their hand; they came to Balaam and spoke the words of Balak to him. {{rf{8}}} He said to them, "Spend the night here, and I will return, and I will return word to you, just as Yahweh speaks to me." So the princes of Moab stayed with Balaam. {{rf{9}}} And God came to Balaam and said, "Who are these men with you?" {{rf{10}}} And Balaam said to God, "Balak son of Zippor, king of Moab, sent word to me, {{rf{11}}} 'Look! A people went out from Egypt. Look! They cover the surface of the land. Now, go, curse them for me. Perhaps I will be able to attack them and drive them out." {{rf{12}}} God said to Balaam, "You will not go with them; you will not curse the people, because they are blessed." {{rf{13}}} Balaam got up in the morning, and he said to the princes of Balak, "Go to your land, because Yahweh refused to allow me to go with you." {{rf{14}}} The princes of Moab got up and went to Balak, and they said, "Balaam refused to come with us." {{rf{15}}} Balak again sent many princes, who were more honored than the former. {{rf{16}}} They came to Balaam and said to him, "Thus says Balak son of Zippor, 'Please, let nothing keep you from coming to me {{rf{17}}} because I will surely honor you greatly, and all that you say to me I will do. Please, come; curse this people for me.'" {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Num-22-01]] }}}
{{rf{18}}} Balaam answered and said to the servants of Balak, "Even though Balak gives to me his house full of silver and gold, I am not able to go beyond the command of Yahweh my God to do a little or a lot. {{rf{19}}} And now please, you also stay here the night, and let me find out again what Yahweh will say with me." {{rf{20}}} And God came to Balaam at night, and he said to him, "If the men have come to call you, get up and go with them; but only the word that I will speak to you, you will do." {{rf{21}}} So Balaam got up in the morning and saddled his donkey, and he went with the princes of Moab. {{rf{22}}} But God became angry because he was going, and the angel of Yahweh stood in the road as an adversary to him; he was riding on his donkey, and two servants were with him. {{rf{23}}} The donkey saw the angel of Yahweh standing in the road with his sword drawn in his hand, and the donkey turned aside from the road and went into the field. And Balaam struck the donkey to turn her back to the road. {{rf{24}}} The angel of Yahweh stood in the narrow path of the vineyards, with a wall on either side. {{rf{25}}} When the donkey saw the angel of Yahweh, she pressed herself into the wall, and she pressed the foot of Balaam into the wall, so he struck her again. {{rf{26}}} Then the angel of Yahweh went further ahead and stood in a narrow place where there was not a way to turn aside to the right or left. {{rf{27}}} When the donkey saw the angel of Yahweh, she lay down under Balaam, so Balaam became angry, and he struck the donkey with his staff. {{rf{28}}} Yahweh opened the mouth of the donkey, and she said to Balaam, "What did I do to you that you struck me these three times?" {{rf{29}}} Balaam said to the donkey, "Because you made a mockery of me! If only I had a sword in my hand, I would kill you right now!" {{rf{30}}} The donkey said to Balaam, "Am I not your donkey on which you have ridden all your life until this day? Have I been in the habit of doing this to you?" He said, "No." {{rf{31}}} Then Yahweh exposed the eyes of Balaam, and he saw the angel of Yahweh standing in the road with his sword drawn in his hand, and he bowed down and worshiped to his face. {{rf{32}}} The angel of Yahweh said to him, "Why have you struck this donkey three times? Look, I have come out as an adversary because your conduct is perverse before me. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Num-22-18]] }}}
{{rf{33}}} The donkey saw me and turned aside from me these three times. If she had not turned aside from my face, then I would have killed you and kept her alive." {{rf{34}}} Balaam said to the angel of Yahweh, "I have sinned because I did not know that you were standing to meet me in the road. Now, if it is displeasing to you, I will turn back." {{rf{35}}} The angel of Yahweh said to Balaam, "Go with the men, but speak only the word that I will speak to you." So Balaam went with the princes of Balak. {{rf{36}}} When Balak heard that Balaam was coming, he went out to meet him by the city of Moab, which was on the boundary of Aaron at the end of the territory. {{rf{37}}} And Balak said to Balaam, "Did I not urgently send to meet with you? Why did you not come to me? Am I really not able to honor you?" {{rf{38}}} Balaam said to Balak, "Look, I came to you now. Am I really able to speak anything at all? I speak the word that God puts in my mouth." {{rf{39}}} Balaam went with Balak, and they came to Kiriath-Huzoth. {{rf{40}}} And Balak sacrificed cattle and sheep, and he sent them to Balaam and to the princes who were with him. {{rf{41}}} And it happened, in the morning Balak took Balaam and took him up to Bamoth-Baal, and he saw from there the end of the nation. {{rf big{1}}} Balaam said to Balak, "Build for me this: seven altars. And prepare for me this: seven bulls and seven rams." {{rf{2}}} And Balak did just as Balaam spoke, and Balak offered Balaam a bull and a ram on the altar. {{rf{3}}} And Balaam said to Balak, "Station yourself at your burnt offering, and I will go; perhaps Yahweh will come to meet me, and whatever he shows me I will tell to you." So he went to a barren height. {{rf{4}}} And God met with Balaam, and he said to him, "I have arranged seven altars, and I have offered a bull and a ram on the altar." {{rf{5}}} Yahweh put a word in the mouth of Balaam and said, "Return to Balak, and you must speak thus." {{rf{6}}} So he returned to him, and behold, he was standing beside his burnt offering, he and all the leaders of Moab. {{rf{7}}} And he lifted up his oracle and said, "From Aram Balak lead me, from the mountains of the east the king of Moab, 'Go for me, curse Jacob, and go, denounce Israel.' {{rf{8}}} How can I curse whom God has not cursed, and how can I denounce whom Yahweh has not denounced? {{rf{9}}} Because from the top of the rocks I see him, from hilltops I watch him. Behold, a people who dwell alone, they do not consider themselves among the nations. {{rf{10}}} Who can count the dust of Jacob, or as a number the fourth part of Israel? Let my life die the death of an upright person, and let my end be like his!" {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Num-22-33]] }}}
{{rf{11}}} And Balak said to Balaam, "What have you done to me? I took you to curse my enemies, and look, you have surely blessed them!" {{rf{12}}} He answered and said, "Should I not speak what Yahweh puts in my mouth?" {{rf{13}}} Then Balak said, "Please walk with me to another place where you will see them, but you will only see part of them and will not see all of them; and curse them for me from there." {{rf{14}}} So he took him to the field of Zophim to the top of Pisgah, and he built seven altars, and he offered a bull and a ram on each altar. {{rf{15}}} Balaam said to Balak, "Station yourself here at the burnt offering while I myself meet with Yahweh there." {{rf{16}}} Then Yahweh met with Balaam, and he put a word in his mouth, and he said, "Return to Balak, and you must speak thus." {{rf{17}}} He came to him, and behold, he was standing at his burnt offering, and the princes of Moab with him. And Balak said to him, "What has Yahweh spoken?" {{rf{18}}} Then he uttered his oracle, and said, "Stand up, Balak, and hear; listen to me, son of Zippor! {{rf{19}}} God is not a man, that he should lie, nor a son of humankind, that he should change his mind. Has he said, and will he not do it? And has he spoken, and will he not fulfill it? {{rf{20}}} Behold, I have received a command to bless; when he has blessed, I cannot cause it to return. {{rf{21}}} He has no regard for evil in Jacob, and he does not see trouble in Israel; Yahweh his God is with him, and a shout of a king is among them. {{rf{22}}} God, who brings them out from Egypt, is like the strength of a wild ox for them. {{rf{23}}} Because there is no sorcery against Jacob, and there is no divination against Israel. Now it will be said to Jacob and Israel, what God has done! {{rf{24}}} Look! the people will rise like the lion; he raises himself and will not lie down until he eats the prey and drinks the blood of the slain." {{rf{25}}} Then Balak said to Balaam, "Do not curse them at all, nor bless them at all!" {{rf{26}}} But Balaam answered and said to Balak, "Did I not speak to you, saying, 'Whatever Yahweh speaks I will do'?" {{rf{27}}} Then Balak said to Balaam, "Please, come, I will take you to another place; perhaps it will be acceptable to God, and you will curse for me from there." {{rf{28}}} So Balak took Balaam to the top of Peor, which looks down on the face of the Jeshimon. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Num-23-11]] }}}
{{rf{29}}} And Balaam said to Balak, "Build for me these seven altars, and prepare for me these seven bulls and seven rams." {{rf{30}}} Balak did just as Balaam said, and he offered a bull and a ram on each altar. {{rf big{1}}} And Balaam saw that it pleased Yahweh to bless Israel, and he did not go as other times to seek out sorcery; instead, he set his face toward the desert. {{rf{2}}} Balaam lift up his eyes, and he saw Israel dwelling according to its tribes, and the spirit of God was upon it. {{rf{3}}} He uttered his oracle and said, "The declaration of Balaam son Beor, the declaration of the man whose eyes are closed, {{rf{4}}} the declaration of the hearer of God's words, who sees the revelation of Shaddai, falling down but whose eyes are uncovered. {{rf{5}}} How good are your tents, O Jacob, your dwellings, O Israel! {{rf{6}}} They are spread out like valleys, like gardens on a river, like aloes planted by Yahweh, like cedars at the waters. {{rf{7}}} He will pour water from his buckets, and his offspring will be like many waters; his king will be higher than Agag, and his kingdom will be exalted. {{rf{8}}} God, who brings him out from Egypt, is like the strength of a wild ox for him. He will devour the nations who are his enemies; he will break their bones; he will pierce them with his arrows. {{rf{9}}} He crouches, he lies down like a lion, and like a lioness, who will rouse him? They who bless you will be blessed, and they who curse you will be cursed." {{rf{10}}} Then Balak became angry with Balaam, and he clapped his hands and said to Balaam, "I called you to curse my enemies, but look, you have surely blessed them these three times. {{rf{11}}} Flee to your place now. I said I would richly honor you, but look, Yahweh has withheld honor from you." {{rf{12}}} Balaam said to Balak, "Did I not speak to your messengers whom you sent to me, saying, {{rf{13}}} 'If Balak gave to me the fullness of his house full of silver and gold, I am not able to go beyond the command of Yahweh to do good or evil, from my heart; what Yahweh speaks, I will speak'? {{rf{14}}} And now, look, I am about to go to my people; I will advise you what this people will do to your people in the following days." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Num-23-29]] }}}
{{rf{15}}} And he uttered his oracle and said, "The declaration of Balaam son of Beor, and the declaration of the man whose eye is closed, {{rf{16}}} the declaration of the hearer of God's words, and the knower of the knowledge of the Most High, who sees the vision of Shaddai, who is falling, and his eyes are revealed. {{rf{17}}} I see him, but not now; I behold him, but not near; a star will go out from Jacob, and a scepter will rise from Israel; it will crush the foreheads of Moab and destroy all the children of Seth. {{rf{18}}} Edom will be a captive; Seir, its enemies, will be a captive, and Israel will be acting courageously. {{rf{19}}} Someone from Jacob will rule and will destroy a remnant from the city." {{rf{20}}} And he looked at Amalek, uttered his oracle, and said, "Amalek is first of the nations, but his future will be forever ruin." {{rf{21}}} And he looked at the Kenites, uttered his oracle, and said, "Steady is your dwelling place; in the rock is your nest. {{rf{22}}} Nevertheless, the Kenite will be burned; how long will Asshur keep you captive?" {{rf{23}}} Again he uttered his oracle and said, "Woe, who will live when God establishes this? {{rf{24}}} The ships will come from the hand of the Kittim, and they will afflict Asshur and will afflict Eber; also he will be forever ruin." {{rf{25}}} Then Balaam got up and went and returned to his place, and Balak also went on his way. {{rf big{1}}} When Israel dwelled in Shittim, the people began to prostitute themselves with the daughters of Moab. {{rf{2}}} And they invited the people to the sacrifices of their gods, and the people ate and worshiped their gods. {{rf{3}}} So Israel was joined together to Baal Peor, and Yahweh became angry with Israel. {{rf{4}}} Yahweh said to Moses, "Take all the leaders of the people and kill them before the sun, so the fierce anger of Yahweh will turn from Israel." {{rf{5}}} So Moses said to the judges of Israel, "Each of you kill his men who are joined together with Baal Peor." {{rf{6}}} And behold, a man from the Israelites came and brought to his brothers a Midianite woman before the eyes of Moses and before the eyes of all of the community of the Israelites, and they were weeping at the doorway of the tent of assembly. {{rf{7}}} When Phinehas son of Eleazar son of Aaron the priest saw, he got up from the midst of the community and took a spear in his hand. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Num-24-15]] }}}
{{rf{8}}} He went after the man of Israel into the woman's section of the tent, and he drove the two of them, the man of Israel and the woman, into her belly. And the plague among the Israelites stopped. {{rf{9}}} The ones who died in the plague were twenty-four thousand. {{rf{10}}} Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, {{rf{11}}} "Phinehas son of Eleazar, son of Aaron the priest, turned away my anger from among the Israelites when he was jealous with my jealousy in their midst, and I did not destroy the Israelites with my jealousy. {{rf{12}}} Therefore say, 'Behold, I am giving to him my covenant of peace, {{rf{13}}} and it will be for him and his offspring after him a covenant of an eternal priesthood because he was jealous for his God and made atonement for the Israelites.'" {{rf{14}}} The name of the man of Israel who was struck with the Midianite woman was Zimri son of Salu, a leader of the family of the Simeonites. {{rf{15}}} The name of the Midianite woman who was struck was Cozbi daughter of Zur, a leader of a tribe of the family in Midian. {{rf{16}}} Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, {{rf{17}}} "Attack the Midianites and strike them {{rf{18}}} because they were attacking you with their deception, with which they have deceived you on the matter of Peor and on the matter of Cozbi the daughter of the leader of Midian, their sister who was struck on the day of the plague because of the matter of Peor." {{rf big{1}}} And it happened after the plague, Yahweh said to Moses and to Eleazar son of Aaron the priest, saying, {{rf{2}}} "Take a census of the community of the Israelites from those twenty years old and above, according to their families, all who are able to go out to war in Israel." {{rf{3}}} So Moses and Eleazar the priest spoke with them on the desert-plateau of Moab by the Jordan across from Jericho, saying, {{rf{4}}} "Take a census of the community from those twenty years old and above, just as Yahweh commanded Moses." The Israelites who went out from the land of Egypt were: {{rf{5}}} Reuben, the firstborn of Israel, the descendants of Reuben: of Hanoch, the clan of the Hanochites; of Pallu, the clan of the Palluites; {{rf{6}}} of Hezron, the clan of the Hezronites; of Carmi, the clan of the Carmites. {{rf{7}}} These are the clans of the Reubenites, and the ones counted of them were forty-three thousand seven hundred and thirty. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Num-25-08]] }}}
{{rf{8}}} The children of Pallu: Eliab. {{rf{9}}} The children of Eliab: Nemuel, Dathan, and Abiram. These are the same Dathan and Abiram who were appointed of the community, who rebelled against Moses and Aaron in the company of Korah, when they rebelled against Yahweh, {{rf{10}}} and the land opened its mouth and swallowed them with Korah, when that company died, when the fire consumed two hundred and fifty men, and they were a sign. {{rf{11}}} The children of Korah, however, did not die. {{rf{12}}} The descendants of Simeon, according to their clans: of Nemuel, the clan of the Nemuelites; of Jamin, the clan of the Jaminites; of Jakin, the clan of the Jakinites; {{rf{13}}} of Zerah, the clan of the Zerahites; of Shaul, the clan of the Shaulites. {{rf{14}}} These were the clans of the Simeonites, twenty-two thousand two hundred. {{rf{15}}} The descendants of Gad according to their clans: of Zephon, the clan of the Zephonites; of Haggi, the clan of the Haggites; of Shuni, the clan of the Shunites; {{rf{16}}} of Ozni, the clan of the Oznites; of Eri, the clan of the Erites; {{rf{17}}} of Arod, the clan of the Arodites; of Areli, the clan of the Arelites; {{rf{18}}} These were the clans of the descendants of Gad according to the ones counted of them, forty thousand five hundred. {{rf{19}}} The sons of Judah: Er and Onan; but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan. {{rf{20}}} The descendants of Judah according to their clans were: of Shelah, the clan of the Shelanites; of Perez, the clan of the Perezites; of Zerah, the clan of the Zerahites. {{rf{21}}} The children of Perez were: of Hezron, the clan of the Hezronites; of Hamul, the clan of the Hamulites. {{rf{22}}} These were the clans of Judah according to the ones counted of them, seventy-six thousand five hundred. {{rf{23}}} The descendants of Issachar according to their clans: of Tola, the clan of the Tolaites; of Puvah, the clan of the Punites; {{rf{24}}} of Jashub, the clans of the Jashubites; of Shimron, the clan of the Shimronites. {{rf{25}}} These were the clans of Issachar according to the ones counted of them, sixty-four thousand three hundred. {{rf{26}}} The descendants of Zebulun according to their clans: of Sered, the clan of the Seredites; of Elon, the clan of the Elonites; of Jahleel, the clan of the Jahleelites. {{rf{27}}} These were the clans of the Zebulunites according to the ones counted of them, sixty thousand five hundred. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Num-26-08]] }}}
{{rf{28}}} The descendants of Joseph according to their clans: Manasseh and Ephraim. {{rf{29}}} The descendants of Manasseh: of Makir, the clan of the Makirites. And Makir fathered Gilead; of Gilead, the clan of the Gileadites. {{rf{30}}} These were the descendants of Gilead: of Iezer, the clan of the Iezerites; of Helek, the clan of the Helekites; {{rf{31}}} and of Asriel, the clan of the Asrielites; and of Shechem, the clan of the Shechemites; {{rf{32}}} and of Shemida, the clan of the Shemidaites; and of Hepher, the clan of the Hepherites. {{rf{33}}} Zelophehad son of Hepher did not have sons, but only daughters; and the names of the daughters of Zelophehad were Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah. {{rf{34}}} These were the clans of Manasseh, and the ones counted of them were fifty-two thousand seven hundred. {{rf{35}}} These were the descendants of Ephraim according to their clans: of Shuthelah, the clan of the Shuthelahites; of Beker, the clan of the Bekerites; of Tahan, the clan of the Tahanites. {{rf{36}}} And these were the descendants of Shuthelah: of Eran, the family of the Eranites. {{rf{37}}} These were the clans of the descendants of Ephraim according to the ones counted of them, thirty-two thousand five hundred. These were the descendants of Joseph according to their clans. {{rf{38}}} The descendants of Benjamin according to their clans: of Bela, the clan of the Belaites; of Ashbel, the clan of the Ashbelites; of Ahiram, the clan of the Ahiramites; {{rf{39}}} of Shephupham, the clan of the Shuphamites; of Hupham, the clan of the Huphamites. {{rf{40}}} The sons of Bela were Ard and Naaman: of Ard, the clan of the Ardites; of Naaman, the clan of the Naamites. {{rf{41}}} These were the descendants of Benjamin according to their clans. And the ones counted of them were forty-five thousand six hundred. {{rf{42}}} These were the descendants of Dan according to their clans: of Shuham, the clan of the Shuhamites. These were the clans of Dan according to their clans. {{rf{43}}} All the clans of the Shuhamites, according to the ones counted of them, were sixty-four thousand four hundred. {{rf{44}}} The descendants of Asher according to their clans: of Imnah, the clan of the Imnahites; of Ishvi, the clan of the Ishvites; of Beriah, the clan of the Beriahites. {{rf{45}}} The descendants of Beriah: of Heber, the clan of the Heberites; of Malkiel, the clan of the Malkielites. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Num-26-28]] }}}
{{rf{46}}} The name of the daughter of Asher was Serah. {{rf{47}}} These were the clans of the descendants of Asher according to the ones counted of them, fifty-three thousand four hundred. {{rf{48}}} The descendants of Naphtali according to their clans: of Jahzeel, the clan of the Jahzeelites; of Guni, the clan of the Gunites; {{rf{49}}} of Jezer, the clan of the Jezerites; of Shillem, the clan of the Shillemites. {{rf{50}}} These were the clans of Naphtali according to their clans, the ones counted of them, forty-five thousand four hundred. {{rf{51}}} These were the ones counted of the Israelites, six hundred and one thousand seven hundred and thirty. {{rf{52}}} Then Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, {{rf{53}}} "For these the land must be divided as an inheritance according to the number of names. {{rf{54}}} For the larger group you must increase their inheritance, and for the smaller group you must make smaller their inheritance; each must be given their inheritance according to the number of the ones counted of them. {{rf{55}}} Surely the land will be divided by lot. They will inherit according to the names of the tribes of their ancestors. {{rf{56}}} Their inheritance must be divided according to the lot between the larger and smaller groups." {{rf{57}}} These are the ones counted of the Levites according to their clans: of Gershon, the clan of the Gershonites; of Kohath, the clan of the Kohathites; of Merari, the clan of the Merarites. {{rf{58}}} These are the clans of Levi: the clan of the Libnites, the clan of the Hebronites, the clan of the Mahlites, the clan of the Mushites, the clan of the Korahites. Kohath fathered Amram. {{rf{59}}} The name of the wife of Amram was Jochebed, the daughter of Levi, whose mother bore her for Levi in Egypt; she bore to Amram: Aaron and Moses and their sister Miriam. {{rf{60}}} To Aaron were born Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar. {{rf{61}}} But Nadab and Abihu died when they presented strange fire before Yahweh. {{rf{62}}} The ones counted were twenty-three thousand, every male from a month old and above, because they were not counted in the midst of the Israelites since no inheritance was given to them in the midst of the Israelites. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Num-26-46]] }}}
{{rf{63}}} These were the ones counted by Moses and Eleazar the priest, who counted the Israelites on the desert-plateau of Moab on the Jordan across Jericho. {{rf{64}}} And among these there was not a man of those counted by Moses and Aaron the priest, who counted the Israelites in the desert of Sinai. {{rf{65}}} For Yahweh said to them, "They will surely die in the desert." And not a man was left over from them, except Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun. {{rf big{1}}} Then the daughters of Zelophehad, the son of Hepher, the son of Gilead, the son of Makir, the son of Manasseh, of the clan of Manasseh the son of Joseph, came near; and these were the names of his daughters: Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, and Tirzah. {{rf{2}}} They stood before Moses and before Eleazar the priest and before the leaders of the entire community at the doorway of the tent of assembly, saying, {{rf{3}}} "Our father died in the desert; he was not in the midst of the company of those who banded together against Yahweh in the company of Korah, but he died in his own sin, and he had no sons. {{rf{4}}} Why should the name of our father disappear from the midst of his clan because he does not have a son? Give us property in the midst of the brothers of our father." {{rf{5}}} So Moses brought their case before Yahweh. {{rf{6}}} And Yahweh said to Moses, saying, {{rf{7}}} "The statements of the daughters of Zelophehad are right. You must surely give them the property of an inheritance in the midst of their father's brothers, and you must transfer the inheritance of their father to them. {{rf{8}}} And you must speak to the Israelites, saying, 'If a man dies and has no son, you must transfer his inheritance to his daughter. {{rf{9}}} And if he has no daughter, you must give his inheritance to his brothers. {{rf{10}}} If he has no brothers, then you must give his inheritance to his father's brothers. {{rf{11}}} If his father has no brothers, then you must give his inheritance to his nearest relative from his own clan, and he will take possession of it. It will be as a decree of stipulation for the Israelites, just as Yahweh commanded Moses.'" {{rf{12}}} Yahweh said to Moses, "Go up to this mountain of Abarim, and see the land that I have given to the Israelites. {{rf{13}}} When you see it, you will be gathered to your people, just as Aaron your brother was gathered, {{rf{14}}} because you rebelled against my word in the desert of Zin when the community quarreled regarding my holiness at the waters." (These are the waters of Meribah-Kadesh in the desert of Zin.) {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Num-26-63]] }}}
{{rf{15}}} Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, {{rf{16}}} "Let Yahweh, the God of the spirits of all flesh, appoint a man over the community {{rf{17}}} who will go out before them and will come in before them, and who will lead them out and bring them in, so the community of Yahweh will not be like a flock that does not have a shepherd." {{rf{18}}} Then Yahweh said to Moses, "Take Joshua son of Nun, a man in whom is the spirit, and place your hand on him. {{rf{19}}} Have him stand before Eleazar the priest and before the entire community, and commission him in their sight. {{rf{20}}} You will give to him from your authority so that the entire community of Israel will obey him. {{rf{21}}} He will stand before Eleazar the priest, who will ask for him by the decision of the Urim before Yahweh. On his command they will go out, and at his command they will come in, both he and all of the Israelites with him, the entire community." {{rf{22}}} Moses did just as Yahweh commanded him, and he took Joshua and set him before Eleazar the priest and before the entire community. {{rf{23}}} And he placed his hands on him and commissioned him just as Yahweh spoke by the hand of Moses. {{rf big{1}}} Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, {{rf{2}}} "Command the Israelites and say to them, 'You will be careful to present my offering, my food of my offerings made by fire, of a fragrance of appeasement to me, at its appointed time.' {{rf{3}}} You will say to them, 'This is the offering made by fire that you will offer to Yahweh: two male lambs without defect in their first year as a continual burnt offering each day. {{rf{4}}} You will offer one male lamb in the morning, and the second male lamb you will offer at twilight, {{rf{5}}} and a tenth of an ephah of finely milled flour as a grain offering, mixed with a fourth of a measure of beaten oil. {{rf{6}}} It is a continual burnt offering that was ordained on Mount Sinai as a fragrance of appeasement, an offering made by fire for Yahweh. {{rf{7}}} The libation with it will be a fourth of a liquid measure for each male lamb; in the sanctuary you will pour out the libation of fermented drink for Yahweh. {{rf{8}}} And the second male lamb you will offer at twilight; as the grain offering of the morning and as its libation you will offer it, an offering made by fire, a fragrance of appeasement for Yahweh. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Num-27-15]] }}}
{{rf{9}}} " 'On the day of the Sabbath, two male lambs without defect in their first year, and two-tenths of finely milled flour mixed with oil for a grain offering and its libation. {{rf{10}}} This is the burnt offering every Sabbath in addition to the continual burnt offering and its libation. {{rf{11}}} " 'And at the beginning of each of your months, you will present a burnt offering for Yahweh: two bulls and one ram, seven male lambs without defect in their first year; {{rf{12}}} and three-tenths of finely milled flour mixed with oil for a grain offering, for each bull; and two-tenths of finely milled flour mixed with oil for a grain offering for the one ram; {{rf{13}}} and a tenth of finely milled flour mixed with oil as a grain offering for each male lamb, for a burnt offering of a fragrance of appeasement, an offering of fire for Yahweh. {{rf{14}}} Their libations will be half a liquid measure of wine for the bull and a third of a liquid measure of wine for the ram and a fourth of a liquid measure of wine for the male lamb; this is the burnt offering for every month for the months of the year. {{rf{15}}} And one male goat as a sin offering for Yahweh; it will be offered in addition to the continual burnt offering and its libation. {{rf{16}}} " 'On the fourteenth day of the first month is the Passover for Yahweh. {{rf{17}}} On the fifteenth day of this month is a religious feast, unleavened bread must be eaten for seven days. {{rf{18}}} On the first day there will be a holy convocation; you will not do any regular work. {{rf{19}}} You will present an offering by fire, a burnt offering for Yahweh: two bulls and one ram and seven male lambs in their first year; they will be for you without defect. {{rf{20}}} For their grain offering, you will offer finely milled flour mixed with oil: three-tenths for the bull and two-tenths for the ram. {{rf{21}}} You will offer a tenth for each of the seven male lambs; {{rf{22}}} and a goat for one sin offering to make atonement for you. {{rf{23}}} You will offer these besides the burnt offering of the morning, which is for the continual burnt offering. {{rf{24}}} Like this you will offer daily, for seven days, the food of the offering made by fire, a fragrance of appeasement for Yahweh; it will be offered in addition to the continual burnt offering and its libation. {{rf{25}}} On the seventh day you will have a holy convocation; you will not do any regular work. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Num-28-09]] }}}
{{rf{26}}} " 'And on the day of firstfruits, when you are presenting a new offering for Yahweh during your Festival of Weeks, you will have a holy convocation; you will not do any regular work. {{rf{27}}} You will present a burnt offering for a fragrance of appeasement for Yahweh: two bulls, one ram, seven male lambs in their first year; {{rf{28}}} and their grain offering will be finely milled flour mixed with oil: three-tenths for each bull, two-tenths for one ram, {{rf{29}}} a tenth for each of the male lambs; {{rf{30}}} and one male goat to make atonement for you. {{rf{31}}} In addition to the continual burnt offering and its grain offering, you will offer them without defect with their libation. {{rf big{1}}} " 'On the seventh month, on the first day of the month, you will have a holy convocation; you will not do any regular work. It will be a day for you of blowing trumpets. {{rf{2}}} You will offer a burnt offering as a fragrance of appeasement for Yahweh: one bull, one ram, and seven male lambs in their first year; they will be without defect. {{rf{3}}} Their grain offering will be finely milled flour mixed with oil: three-tenths for the bull, two-tenths for the ram; {{rf{4}}} and one-tenth for each of the seven male lambs; {{rf{5}}} with one male goat for a sin offering, to make atonement for you, {{rf{6}}} in addition to the burnt offering of the new moon and its grain offering, the continual burnt offering and its grain offering, and their libations, according to their stipulations, as a fragrance of appeasement by fire for Yahweh. {{rf{7}}} " 'And on the tenth of this seventh month you will have a holy convocation, and you will afflict yourselves; you will not do any work. {{rf{8}}} You will present a burnt offering for Yahweh, a fragrance of appeasement: one bull, one ram, seven male lambs in their first year; they will be without defect. {{rf{9}}} And their grain offering will be of finely milled flour mixed with oil: three-tenths for the bull, two-tenths for the one ram, {{rf{10}}} one-tenth for each of the seven male lambs; {{rf{11}}} one male goat for a sin offering, in addition to the sin offering of atonement and the continual burnt offering and its grain offering, and their libations. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Num-28-26]] }}}
{{rf{12}}} " 'Then on the fifteenth day of the seventh month you will have a holy convocation; you will not do any regular work, and you will hold a religious feast for Yahweh for seven days. {{rf{13}}} You will present a burnt offering, an offering made by fire as a fragrance of appeasement for Yahweh: thirteen bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs in their first year; they will be without defect. {{rf{14}}} And their grain offering will be of finely milled flour mixed with oil: three-tenths for the bull, two-tenths for the one ram, {{rf{15}}} one-tenth for each of the seven male lambs; {{rf{16}}} and one male goat for a sin offering, in addition to the continual burnt offering, its grain offering, and its libation. {{rf{17}}} " 'On the second day: twelve bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs in their first year; they will be without defect; {{rf{18}}} and their grain offering and their libations for the bulls, for the rams, and for the male lambs, by their number according to the stipulation; {{rf{19}}} and one male goat for a sin offering, in addition to the continual burnt offering and its grain offering, and their libations. {{rf{20}}} " 'On the third day: eleven bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs without defect in their first year; {{rf{21}}} and their grain offering and their libations for the bulls, for the rams, and for the male lambs, by their number according to the stipulation; {{rf{22}}} and one male goat for a sin offering, in addition to the continual burnt offering, its grain offering, and its libation. {{rf{23}}} " 'On the fourth day: ten bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs without defect in their first year; {{rf{24}}} and their grain offering and their libations for the bulls, for the rams, and for the male lambs by their number according to the stipulation; {{rf{25}}} and one male goat for a sin offering, in addition to the continual burnt offering, its grain offering, and its libation. {{rf{26}}} " 'On the fifth day: nine bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs without defect in their first year; {{rf{27}}} and their grain offering and their libations for the bulls, for the rams, and for the male lambs by their number according to the stipulation; {{rf{28}}} and one male goat for a sin offering, in addition to the continual burnt offering, its grain offering, and its libation. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Num-29-12]] }}}
{{rf{29}}} " 'On the sixth day: eight bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs without defect in their first year; and their grain offering and their libations for the bulls, for the rams, and for the male lambs by their number according to the stipulation; {{rf{30}}} and their grain offering and their libations for the bulls, for the rams, and for the male lambs by their number according to the stipulation; {{rf{31}}} and one male goat for a sin offering, in addition to the continual burnt offering, its grain offering, and its libation. {{rf{32}}} " 'On the seventh day: seven bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs without defect in their first year; {{rf{33}}} and their grain offering and their libations for the bulls, for the rams, and for the male lambs by their number according to the stipulation; {{rf{34}}} and one male goat for a sin offering, in addition to the continual burnt offering, its grain offering, and its libation. {{rf{35}}} " 'On the eighth day you will have an assembly; you will not do any regular work. {{rf{36}}} You will present a burnt offering, an offering made by fire as a fragrance of appeasement for Yahweh: one bull, one ram, seven male lambs without defect in their first year; {{rf{37}}} and their grain offering and their libations for the bulls, for the rams, and for the male lambs by their number according to the stipulation; {{rf{38}}} and one male goat for a sin offering, in addition to the continual burnt offering, its grain offering, and its libation. {{rf{39}}} " 'You will present these to Yahweh at your appointed time, in addition to your vows and your freewill offerings, for your burnt offerings and for you grain offerings and for your libations and for your fellowship offerings.'" {{rf{40}}} So Moses said to the Israelites in accordance with all that Yahweh commanded Moses. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Num-29-29]] }}}
Then Moses spoke to the leaders of the tribes concerning the Israelites, saying, "This is the word that Yahweh commanded: {{rf{2}}} if a man makes a vow for Yahweh or swears an oath with a binding pledge on himself, he must not render his word invalid; he must do all that went out from his mouth. {{rf{3}}} "If a woman makes a vow to Yahweh, and she binds a pledge on herself in her father's house in your childhood, {{rf{4}}} but if her father hears her vow or her pledge that she bound on herself and says nothing to her, then all her vows will stand, and every pledge that she binds on her life will stand. {{rf{5}}} If her father forbids her on the day he hears of it, all her vows or her pledges that she bound on herself will not stand, and Yahweh will forgive her because her father has forgiven her. {{rf{6}}} "If she has a husband while bound by her vows or a rash promise of her lips, {{rf{7}}} and her husband hears of it and is silent on the day he hears it, her vows will stand, and her pledge that she bound upon herself will stand. {{rf{8}}} But if on the day her husband hears of it, he forbids her, then he will nullify her vow that she is under, and the rash promise of her lips that she bound on herself; and Yahweh will forgive her. {{rf{9}}} "But the vow of a widow or a woman who is divorced, all that she binds on herself will stand on her. {{rf{10}}} But if she made a vow in her husband's house, or bound herself on a pledge with a sworn oath, {{rf{11}}} and her husband heard it but was silent to her, and he did not forbid her, all her vows will stand and every pledge that she bound on herself will stand. {{rf{12}}} But if her husband nullified them on the day he hears them, all her vows going out of her lips concerning her vows or the pledge on herself will not stand; her husband has nullified them, and Yahweh will forgive her. {{rf{13}}} "Any vow and any sworn oath of a pledge to inflict on herself, her husband can confirm it or her husband can nullify it. {{rf{14}}} But if her husband is completely silent from day to day, then he confirms all her vows or all her pledges that are on her; he confirms them because he was silent to her on the day he heard them. {{rf{15}}} But if he indeed nullifies them after he hears them, then he will bear her guilt." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Num-30-01]] }}}
{{rf{16}}} These are the decrees that Yahweh commanded Moses, as between a husband and his wife, and between a father and his daughter, while her childhood is in her father's house. {{rf big{1}}} Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, {{rf{2}}} "Seek vengeance for the Israelites on the Midianites; afterward you will be gathered to your people." {{rf{3}}} Moses spoke to the people, saying, "Arm yourself from among your men for the battle, so that they will go against Midian to mete out the vengeance of Yahweh on Midian. {{rf{4}}} A thousand from each tribe of every tribe of Israel you will send to battle." {{rf{5}}} So theywere assigned from the thousands of Israel, a thousand from each tribe, twelve thousand equipped for battle. {{rf{6}}} Moses sent them, a thousand from each tribe, to the battle, and Phinehas son of Eleazar the priest to the battle with them, and the vessels of the sanctuary and the trumpets of the blast were in his hand. {{rf{7}}} And they fought against Midian just as Yahweh commanded Moses, and they killed every male. {{rf{8}}} They killed the kings of Midian in addition to the ones they had slain: Evi and Rekem and Zur and Hur and Reba, the five kings of Midian; they also killed Balaam son of Beor by the sword. {{rf{9}}} The Israelites took captive the women of Midian and their children, and they plundered all their domestic animals and all their livestock and all their wealth. {{rf{10}}} They burned all their cities where they dwelled and all their camps with fire. {{rf{11}}} They took all the plunder and all the war-booty with the humans and domestic animals. {{rf{12}}} They brought the captives, the war-booty, and the plunder to Moses, and to Eleazar the priest, and to the community of the Israelites, to the camp to the desert-plateau of Moab, which was on the Jordan across Jericho. {{rf{13}}} And Moses and Eleazar the priest and all the leaders of the community went out to meet them outside the camp. {{rf{14}}} But Moses was angry toward the leaders of the troops, the commanders of the thousands and the commanders of the hundreds, who came from the battle of the war. {{rf{15}}} And Moses said to them, "You have kept alive every female? {{rf{16}}} Behold, these women caused the Israelites, by the word of Balaam, to be in apostasy against Yahweh in the matter of Peor, so that the plague was among the community of Yahweh. {{rf{17}}} Now kill every male among the little children, and kill every woman who has had sexual intercourse with a man. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Num-30-16]] }}}
{{rf{18}}} But all the females who have not had sexual intercourse with a man, keep alive for yourselves. {{rf{19}}} And you, camp outside the camp seven days; all who killed a person and all who touched the slain purify yourselves on the third day and on the seventh day, you and your captives. {{rf{20}}} You will purify yourselves and every garment and every object of hide and all the work of goats' hair, and every object of wood." {{rf{21}}} Then Eleazar the priest said to the men of the battle who came from the war, "This is the decree of the law that Yahweh commanded Moses. {{rf{22}}} Only the gold and the silver, the bronze, the iron, the tin, and the lead -- {{rf{23}}} everything that will go through the fire -- you will pass through the fire, and it will be clean, and only in waters of impurity will it be purified. Whatever does not go into the fire you will pass through the waters. {{rf{24}}} And you will wash your garments on the seventh day and be clean, and afterward you will come into the camp." {{rf{25}}} Yahweh said to Moses, saying, {{rf{26}}} "You and Eleazar the priest and the leaders of the families of the community, take count of the war-booty that was captured, both humans and the domestic animals; {{rf{27}}} divide the war-booty between those who engaged in the war, who went out to the battle, and all the community. {{rf{28}}} Exact a tribute for Yahweh from the men of the war, those who went out to the battle, one from five hundred persons, and from the cattle and from the male donkeys and from the flock; {{rf{29}}} take from their half and give it to Eleazar the priest as a contribution to Yahweh. {{rf{30}}} From half of the Israelites, take one share drawn by lot from the fifty from the humans, from the cattle, from the male donkeys, from the flock, from all the domestic animals, and give them to the Levities who keep the responsibilities of the tabernacle of Yahweh." {{rf{31}}} Moses and Eleazar the priest did just as Yahweh commanded Moses. {{rf{32}}} Thus the war-booty that remained of the plunder that the people of the battle plundered was six hundred and seventy-five thousand flocks of sheep, {{rf{33}}} seventy-two thousand cattle, {{rf{34}}} sixty-one thousand male donkeys, {{rf{35}}} and the life of humankind, from the women who did not have sexual intercourse with a man, all the persons were thirty-two thousand. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Num-31-18]] }}}
{{rf{36}}} The half of the share that was going out to the battle: the number of the flock of sheep was thee hundred and thirty-seven thousand five hundred; {{rf{37}}} the tribute to Yahweh from the flock was six hundred and seventy-five; {{rf{38}}} and the cattle were thirty-six thousand; and the tribute to Yahweh was seventy-two. {{rf{39}}} Of the male donkeys there were thirty thousand five hundred, and the tribute to Yahweh was sixty-one; {{rf{40}}} the humans were sixteen thousand, and the tribute to Yahweh was thirty-two persons. {{rf{41}}} And Moses gave away the tribute of the contribution of Yahweh to Eleazar the priest, just as Yahweh commanded Moses. {{rf{42}}} From the half of the Israelites, which Moses divided from the men who were fighting, {{rf{43}}} the half that belonged to the community was three hundred and thirty-seven thousand five hundred from the flock, {{rf{44}}} and thirty-six thousand cattle, {{rf{45}}} and thirty thousand five hundred male donkeys, {{rf{46}}} and sixteen thousand humans. {{rf{47}}} From the half that belonged to the Israelites, Moses took one share drawn by lot out of every fifty humans and domestic animals, and he gave them to the Levites, who keep the responsibility of the tabernacle of Yahweh, just as Yahweh commanded Moses. {{rf{48}}} Then the leaders of the thousands of the army, the commanders of the thousands and the commanders of the hundreds, approached Moses, {{rf{49}}} and they said to Moses, "Your servants have taken count of the men of war who were in our charge, and no man is missing from us. {{rf{50}}} So we brought the offering of Yahweh, what each man found, objects of gold, bangles, bracelets, rings, earrings, and female ornaments, to make atonement for ourselves before Yahweh." {{rf{51}}} Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold from them, all objects of work. {{rf{52}}} All the gold of the contribution that they raised up to Yahweh, from the commanders of the thousands and the commanders of the hundreds, was sixteen thousand seven hundred and fifty shekels. {{rf{53}}} The men of battle plundered each for himself. {{rf{54}}} So Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold from the commanders of the thousands and hundreds, and they brought it to the tent of the assembly as a memorial for the Israelites before Yahweh. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Num-31-36]] }}}
The descendants of Reuben and the descendants of Gad had a very large number of livestock. And they saw the land of Jazer and the land of Gilead, and behold it was a place for livestock. {{rf{2}}} The descendants of Gad and the descendants of Reuben came, and they said to Moses and to Eleazar the priest and to the leaders of the community, saying, {{rf{3}}} "Ataroth, Dibon, Jazer, Nimrah, Heshbon, Elealeh, Sebam, Nebo, and Beon, {{rf{4}}} the land that Yahweh struck before the community of Israel, is a land of livestock, and your servants have livestock." {{rf{5}}} They said, "If we have found favor in your sight, let this land be given to your servants as property; do not lead us across the Jordan." {{rf{6}}} But Moses said to the descendants of Gad and to the descendants of Reuben, "Will your brothers go to war while you yourselves live here? {{rf{7}}} Why are you discouraging the hearts of the Israelites from crossing into the land that Yahweh gave to them? {{rf{8}}} This is what your fathers did when I sent them from Kadesh Barnea to see the land. {{rf{9}}} When they went up to the valley of Eshcol and saw the land, they discouraged the heart of the Israelites so that they did not come to the land that Yahweh gave to them. {{rf{10}}} So Yahweh's anger burned on that day, and he swore an oath, saying, {{rf{11}}} 'The men who went up from Egypt, from those twenty years old and above, will not see the land that I swore with an oath to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob because they have not wholly followed me, {{rf{12}}} except Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite and Joshua son of Nun, because they followed Yahweh wholly.' {{rf{13}}} And Yahweh became angry, and he made them wander in the desert forty years until the entire generation who did evil in the sight of Yahweh had died. {{rf{14}}} Behold, you stand in the place of your fathers, a brood of sinful men, to increase still more Yahweh's fierce anger against Israel. {{rf{15}}} If you turn from following him, he will again abandon them in the wilderness, and you would have destroyed all these people." {{rf{16}}} They came near to him and said, "We will build sheep pens here for the flock of our livestock and cities for our little children; {{rf{17}}} but we ourselves will become armed and ready before the Israelites until we have brought them to their place, and our little children will live in the fortified cities because of the inhabitants of the land. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Num-32-01]] }}}
{{rf{18}}} We will not return to our houses until the Israelites each obtain their inheritance for themselves. {{rf{19}}} For we will not take possession with them from across the Jordan and beyond because our inheritance has come to us from across the Jordan to the east." {{rf{20}}} So Moses said to them, "If you do this thing, if you arm yourselves before Yahweh for the war, {{rf{21}}} and everyone of you armed cross the Jordan before Yahweh until he has driven out his enemies from before him, {{rf{22}}} and the land is subdued before Yahweh, then afterward you will return and be free of obligation from Yahweh and from Israel, and this land will be your property before Yahweh. {{rf{23}}} But if you do not do so, behold, you have sinned against Yahweh, and know that your sin will find you. {{rf{24}}} Build for yourselves cities for your little children and sheep pens for your flocks; what has gone out from your mouth you will do." {{rf{25}}} So the descendants of Gad and the descendants of Reuben said to Moses, saying, "Your servants will do just as my lord commands. {{rf{26}}} Our little children, our wives, our livestock, and all of our animals will remain in the cities of Gilead, {{rf{27}}} but your servants, everyone who is armed for battle, will cross over before Yahweh to the war, just as my lord says." {{rf{28}}} So Moses commanded them, Eleazar the priest, Joshua son of Nun, and the heads of the families of the tribes of the Israelites. {{rf{29}}} Moses said to them, "If the descendants of Gad and the descendants of Reuben, everyone who is armed for the war, cross over the Jordan before Yahweh, and the land is subdued before you, you will give them the land of Gilead as property. {{rf{30}}} But if they will not cross over with you armed, they will acquire land in your midst in Canaan." {{rf{31}}} The descendants of Gad and the descendants of Reuben answered and said, "What Yahweh has commanded your servants, we will do. {{rf{32}}} We ourselves will cross over armed before Yahweh to the land of Canaan, and the property of our inheritance will remain with us beyond the Jordan." {{rf{33}}} So Moses gave to them, to the descendants of Gad and the descendants of Reuben, and to half of the tribe of Joseph's son Manasseh, the kingdom of Sihon the king of Amorites and the kingdom of Og the king of the Bashan, the land with its cities and their territories, the cities of the surrounding land. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Num-32-18]] }}}
{{rf{34}}} The descendants of Gad rebuilt Dibon, Ataroth, and Aroer, {{rf{35}}} and Atroth Shophan, Jazer, and Jogbehah, {{rf{36}}} and Beth Nimrah and Beth Haran, the cities of Mibzar, and the sheep pens for flocks. {{rf{37}}} The descendants of Reuben rebuilt Heshbon, Elealeh, and Kiriathaim, {{rf{38}}} and Nebo, Baal Meon (their names were changed), and Sibmah, and they renamed the cities that they rebuilt. {{rf{39}}} The descendants of Makir son of Manasseh went to Gilead, and they captured it and drove out the Amorites who were in it. {{rf{40}}} So Moses gave Gilead to Makir son of Manasseh, and he lived in it. {{rf{41}}} And Jair son of Manasseh went and captured their unwalled villages, and he called them Havvoth Jair. {{rf{42}}} Nobah went and captured Kenath and its villages, and he called it Nobah after his own name. {{rf big{1}}} These were the journeys of the Israelites, who went out from the land of Egypt according to their divisions, by the hand of Moses and Aaron. {{rf{2}}} Moses wrote down their movements according to their journeys on the command of Yahweh, and these are their journeys according to their movements. {{rf{3}}} They set out from Rameses on the first month, on the fifteenth day of the first month; on the next day after the Passover the Israelites went out boldly in the sight of all the Egyptians {{rf{4}}} while the Egyptians were burying all the firstborn among them whom Yahweh struck. Yahweh also executed punishments among their gods. {{rf{5}}} Then the Israelites set out from Rameses, and they camped in Succoth. {{rf{6}}} They journeyed from Succoth and camped in Etham, which is on the edge of the desert. {{rf{7}}} Then they set out from Etham and returned to Pi-Hahiroth, which faces Baal Zephon, and they camped before Migdol. {{rf{8}}} They set out from Pi-Hahiroth and went through the midst of the sea into the desert; and they went a journey of three days into the desert of Etham and camped at Marah. {{rf{9}}} They set out from Marah and came to Elim, and in Elim there were twelve springs of water and seventy palm trees, and they camped there. {{rf{10}}} They set out from Elim, and they camped at the Red Sea. {{rf{11}}} They set out from the Red Sea and camped at the desert of Sin. {{rf{12}}} They set out from the desert of Sin and camped at Dophkah. {{rf{13}}} They set out from Dophkah and camped at Alush. {{rf{14}}} They set out from Alush and encamped at Rephidim; and it was there that the people had no water to drink. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Num-32-34]] }}}
{{rf{15}}} They set out from Rephidim and camped in the desert of Sinai. {{rf{16}}} The set out from the desert of Sinai and camped at Kibroth Hattaavah. {{rf{17}}} They set out from Kibroth Hattaavah and camped at Hazeroth. {{rf{18}}} They set out from Hazeroth and camped at Rithmah. {{rf{19}}} They set out from Rithmah and camped at Rimmon Perez. {{rf{20}}} They set out from Rimmon Perez and camped at Libnah. {{rf{21}}} They set out from Libnah and camped at Rissah. {{rf{22}}} They set out from Rissah and camped at Kehelathah. {{rf{23}}} They set out from Kehelathah and camped at Mount Shapher. {{rf{24}}} They set out from Mount Shapher and camped at Haradah. {{rf{25}}} They set out from Haradah and camped at Makheloth. {{rf{26}}} They set out from Makheloth and camped at Tahath. {{rf{27}}} They set out from Tahath and camped at Terah. {{rf{28}}} They set out from Terah and camped at Mithcah. {{rf{29}}} They set out from Mithcah and camped at Hashmonah. {{rf{30}}} They set out from Hashmonah and camped at Moserah. {{rf{31}}} They set out from Moserah and camped at Bene-Jaakan. {{rf{32}}} They set out from Bene-Jaakan and camped at Hor Haggidgad. {{rf{33}}} They set out from Hor Haggidgad and camped at Jotbathah. {{rf{34}}} They set out from Jotbathah and camped at Abronah. {{rf{35}}} They set out from Abronah and camped at Ezion Geber. {{rf{36}}} They set out from Ezion Geber and camped in the desert of Zin, that is, Kadesh. {{rf{37}}} They set out from Kadesh and camped at Mount Hor, at the edge of the land of Edom. {{rf{38}}} Aaron the priest went up to Mount Hor at the command of Yahweh, and he died there in the fortieth year after the Israelites had gone out from the land of Egypt, in the fifth month on the first day of the month. {{rf{39}}} Aaron was one hundred and twenty-three years old when he died on Mount Hor. {{rf{40}}} Now the Canaanite, the king of Arad, who was living in the Negev in the land of Canaan, heard of the coming of the Israelites. {{rf{41}}} Then they set out from Mount Hor and camped at Zalmonah. {{rf{42}}} They set out from Zalmonah and camped at Punon. {{rf{43}}} They set out from Punon and camped at Oboth. {{rf{44}}} They set out from Oboth and camped at Iye Abarim, the boundary of Moab. {{rf{45}}} They set out from Iyim and camped at Dibon Gad. {{rf{46}}} They set out from Dibon Gad and camped at Almon-Diblatayim. {{rf{47}}} They set out from Almon-Diblatayim and camped in the mountains of Abarim, before Nebo. {{rf{48}}} They set out from the mountains of Abarim and camped on the desert-plateau of Moab by the Jordan across Jericho. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Num-33-15]] }}}
{{rf{49}}} They camped by the Jordan, from Beth-Jeshimoth up to Abel Shittim, on the desert-plateau of Moab. {{rf{50}}} Then Yahweh spoke to Moses on the desert-plateau of Moab by the Jordan across Jericho, saying, {{rf{51}}} "Speak to the Israelites and say to them, 'When you cross the Jordan into the land of Canaan, {{rf{52}}} you will drive out the inhabitants of the land from your presence, and you will destroy all their idols and all the images of their molten idols, and you will demolish all their high places; {{rf{53}}} you will dispossess the land and live in it because I have given the land to you to possess it. {{rf{54}}} You will distribute the land by lot according to your clans; to the larger group you will give a larger inheritance, and to the smaller group you will give less inheritance. However the lot falls for him, there the lot will be. You will distribute it according to the tribes of your ancestors. {{rf{55}}} But if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land from your presence, then it will happen that whomever you let remain of them will be like irritants in your eyes and like thorns in your sides; they will be your enemies in the land in which you live. {{rf{56}}} And just as I planned to do to them, I will do to you.'" {{rf big{1}}} Then Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, {{rf{2}}} "Command the Israelites and say to them, 'When you come into the land of Canaan, this is the land that was allotted to you as an inheritance, the land of Canaan according to its boundaries. {{rf{3}}} Your southern edge will be from the desert of Zin toward the side of Edom, and your southern border will be from the end of the Salt Sea to the east; {{rf{4}}} your boundary will turn from the south to the ascent of Akrabbim and will pass over to Zin, and its limits will be from the south of Kadesh Barnea; it will continue to Hazar Addar and pass over to Azmon. {{rf{5}}} The boundary will turn from Azmon to the valley of Egypt, and its limits will be to the sea. {{rf{6}}} " 'Your western boundary will be the Great Sea; this will be your western boundary. {{rf{7}}} Your northern border will be from the Great Sea; you will make a boundary from the Great Sea to Mount Hor. {{rf{8}}} From Mount Hor you will make a boundary to reach Hamath; the limits of the territory will be at Zedad. {{rf{9}}} The boundary will go out to Ziphron, and its limits will be at Hazar Enan. This will be your boundary to the north. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Num-33-49]] }}}
{{rf{10}}} " 'You will mark out your eastern boundary from Hazar Enan to Shepham; {{rf{11}}} the boundary will go down from Shepham to Riblah from the east side of Ain, and the boundary will go down and border on the eastern side of the Sea of Kinnereth. {{rf{12}}} The boundary will go down to the Jordan, and its limits will be at the Salt Sea. This will be your land according to its boundaries all around.'" {{rf{13}}} So Moses commanded the Israelites, saying, "This is the land that you will obtain as an inheritance for yourself by lot, which Yahweh commanded to give to the nine and a half tribes. {{rf{14}}} For the tribe of the children of the Reubenites, the children of the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh took their inheritance according to the house of their families. {{rf{15}}} The two and a half tribes have taken their inheritance from beyond the Jordan across Jericho, east toward the sunrise." {{rf{16}}} Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, {{rf{17}}} "These are the names of the men who divide up the land for your inheritance: Eleazar the priest and Joshua son of Nun. {{rf{18}}} You will take one leader from every tribe to divide up the land for inheritance. {{rf{19}}} These are the names of the men: of the tribe of Judah, Caleb son of Jephunneh; {{rf{20}}} of the tribe of the descendants of Simeon, Samuel son of Ammihud; {{rf{21}}} of the tribe of Benjamin, Elidad son of Chislon; {{rf{22}}} of the tribe of the descendants of Dan, the leader Bukki son of Jogli; {{rf{23}}} of the descendants of Joseph, the tribe of the descendants of Manasseh, the leader Hanniel son of Ephod. {{rf{24}}} Of the tribe of the descendants of Ephraim, the leader Kemuel son of Shiphtan; {{rf{25}}} of the tribe of the descendants of Zebulum, the leader Elizaphan son of Parnach; {{rf{26}}} of the tribe of the descendants of Issachar, the leader Paltiel son of Azzan; {{rf{27}}} of the tribe of the descendants of Asher, the leader Ahihud son of Shelomi; {{rf{28}}} of the tribe of the descendants of Naphtali, the leader Pedahel son of Ammihud." {{rf{29}}} These are those whom Yahweh commanded to allot to the Israelites the land of Canaan. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Num-34-10]] }}}
Yahweh spoke to Moses on the desert plains of Moab beyond the Jordan across Jericho, saying, {{rf{2}}} "Command the Israelites that they give to the Levites from the inheritance of their property cities to live in; and you will give to the Levites pastureland all around the cities. {{rf{3}}} The cities will be theirs to live in, and their pasturelands will be for their domestic animals, for their possessions, and their animals. {{rf{4}}} "The pasturelands of the cities that you will give to the Levites will extend from the wall of the city to a distance of a thousand cubits all around. {{rf{5}}} You will measure outside the city the eastern edge two thousand cubits, for the southern edge two thousand cubits, for the western edge two thousand cubits, and for the northern edge two thousand cubits, with the city in the middle; this will be for them the pasturelands of the cities. {{rf{6}}} "All the cities that you will give the Levites will be six cities of refuge, to which the killer can flee; in addition to them you will give forty-two cities. {{rf{7}}} All the cities that you will give to the Levites will be forty-eight cities, them with their pasturelands. {{rf{8}}} And the cities that you will give from the property of the Israelites, you will take more from the larger group and less from the smaller group; each of them will give according to the portion of their inheritance according to the portion that he inherits." {{rf{9}}} Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, {{rf{10}}} "Speak to the Israelites and say to them, 'When you cross the Jordan into the land of Canaan, {{rf{11}}} you will select for yourselves cities for your cities of refuge, that a killer who has killed a person unintentionally can flee there. {{rf{12}}} The cities will be to you a refuge from a redeemer, so that the killer will not die until he stands before the community for judgment. {{rf{13}}} The cities that you are to give will be your six cities of refuge. {{rf{14}}} You will give three cities across the Jordan and three cities in the land of Canaan; they will be cities of refuge. {{rf{15}}} To the Israelites, to the alien, and to the temporary resident in their midst there will be these six cities as a refuge to which anyone who unintentionally kills a person may flee. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Num-35-01]] }}}
{{rf{16}}} " 'But if he hit him with an object of iron, so that he dies, the killer must surely be put to death. {{rf{17}}} And if he hit him with a stone in the hand, by which he will die, and he does die, he is a killer; the killer must surely be put to death. {{rf{18}}} Or if he hit him with a wooden object, by which he will die, and he does die, he is a killer; the killer must surely be put to death. {{rf{19}}} The blood avenger himself will put the killer to death; he must put him to death when meeting him. {{rf{20}}} If he shoves him in hatred, or he throws something at him with intention, and he dies, {{rf{21}}} or if he hits him in hostility with his hand, and he dies, the one that struck him will put to death the killer when meeting him. {{rf{22}}} " 'Or if in an instant he shoved him, not in hostility, or threw something at him without intention, {{rf{23}}} or with any stone, without seeing it dropped on him so that he dies, while he was not seeking his injury, {{rf{24}}} then the community will judge between the striker and between the blood avenger according to these ordinances. {{rf{25}}} The community will deliver the killer from the hand of the blood avenger, and the community will restore him to the city of his refuge to which he fled; and he will live there in it until the death of the high priest who was anointed with holy oil. {{rf{26}}} But if the killer surely goes out of the territory of the city of his refuge to which he fled, {{rf{27}}} and the blood avenger finds him outside the territory of the city of his refuge, and the blood avenger kills the killer, he will not be guilty of blood {{rf{28}}} because he must live in the city of his refuge until the death of the high priest. But after the death of the high priest the killer will return to the land of his property. {{rf{29}}} These things will be as a decree of justice for you for your generations in all your dwellings. {{rf{30}}} " 'If anyone kills a person, the killer will be put to death according to the testimony of witnesses, but someone cannot die on testimony of one person. {{rf{31}}} Also, you will not take a ransom payment for the life of a killer who is guilty of death; indeed, he must surely be put to death. {{rf{32}}} You will not take a ransom payment for the one that flees to the city of his refuge, so that he may return to live in the land before the death of the priest. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Num-35-16]] }}}
{{rf{33}}} So you will not pollute the land in which you are; because blood pollutes the land, and no atonement can be made for the land for the blood that is poured out on it except with the blood of the one who poured it out. {{rf{34}}} You will not defile the land on which you are living because I am living in the midst of it; I am Yahweh; I am living in the midst of the Israelites.'" {{rf big{1}}} The leaders of the families of the clans of descendants of Gilead the son of Makir, the son of Manasseh, of the clans of the descendants of Joseph came near and spoke before Moses and before the leaders of the families of the Israelites. {{rf{2}}} And they said, "Yahweh commanded my lord to give the land by lot as an inheritance to the Israelites, and my lord was commanded by Yahweh to give the inheritance of Zelophehad our brother to his daughters. {{rf{3}}} But if they become wives to one of the sons from another tribe of the Israelites, their inheritance will disappear from the inheritance of our ancestors, and it will be added to the inheritance of the tribe to which they belong; the lot of our inheritance would disappear. {{rf{4}}} When the Jubilee of the Israelites comes, it will be added to the inheritance of the tribe to which they belong; and their inheritance will disappear from the tribe of our father." {{rf{5}}} Then Moses commanded the Israelites by the command of Yahweh, saying, "The tribe of the descendants of Joseph is right regarding what they are speaking. {{rf{6}}} This is the word that Yahweh commanded the daughters of Zelophehad, saying, 'Let them marry whomever they like; only they must marry from within the clan of the tribe of their father. {{rf{7}}} Thus an inheritance of the Israelites will not go around from tribe to tribe. Rather, the inheritance of each tribe of his father will remain with the Israelites. {{rf{8}}} Every daughter who possesses an inheritance from the tribes of the Israelites will marry one of the clan of the tribe of her father, so that the Israelites will possess the inheritance of his ancestors. {{rf{9}}} Therefore an inheritance will not go around from one tribe to another tribe because the tribes of the Israelites will each hold to their own inheritance.'" {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Num-35-33]] }}}
{{rf{10}}} Just as Yahweh commanded to Moses, so the daughters of Zelophehad did: {{rf{11}}} Mahlah, Tirzah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Noah, the daughters of Zelophehad, married the sons of their uncles. {{rf{12}}} They married those from the sons of Manasseh son of Joseph, and their inheritance remained among the tribe of the clan of their ancestors. {{rf{13}}} These were the commands and the stipulations that Yahweh commanded by the hand of Moses to the Israelites on the desert-plateaus of Moab by the Jordan across Jericho. LENGTH SHORT {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Num-36-10]] }}}
''The most interesting thing is there is so little of it.''
!! Three
* days in the tomb: <<Bbl Jer 6:2 >>. Jonah. Days of darkness over Egypt, hours of darkness over Israel (or the world?) at Christ's passion.
!! Four
* the world. Four corners, four winds (Mike Reed)
!! Six
* man.
** Sixth day of creation.
** <<Bbl Ruth 3:15 "" note>>
** <<Bbl Ex 24:16 >> -- the cloud covering the mountain
** <<Bbl Rev 13:18 >>.
!! Seven
* perfection.
** Sabbath. God's rest in creation
** <<Bbl Ex 24:16 >>, God calls Moses up.
** Hebrew term for [[Vow]]
** 77 -- <<Bbl Gn 4:24 >>, <<Bbl Mt 18:22 >>. These respectively reflect an oath, and a commitment, faithfulness and perseverance
* <<Bbl Judges 16:8 >>, <<Bbl Judges 16:13 >>.
** <<Bbl 2Ch 36:21 >> //sabbath rest ... until the seventy years were completed//
** Spirits -- <<Bbl I 11:2 >>; <<Bbl Rev 3:2 >>, <<Bbl Rev 5:1 abbr>>-6
!! Ten
* Testing. Plagues, trials in wilderness (confirm), days cited in Revelation (confirm).
* Ten. Days in Rev. Daniel. Plagues. Tests in the wilderness of Israel. Virgins. Maybe the tithe can be considered as a test. The Hebrew word has a cognate in Arabic.
* [[Tithe]]. The title is a test for obedience.
* the digits; power, resources, tithe.
!! Thirteen
rebellion.
!! Twelve
foundations and government. <<Bbl Mt 19:28 >>.
!! Forty
* Keil and Delitzsch, vol 1, p. 75. Days on Mt Sinai, years in wilderness, Christ's temptation. <<Bbl Dt 8:9 >>-11
* Limit on lashes for punishment
!! Seventy
* Elders of <<Bbl Ex 24:1 >>
* <<Bbl Num 11:24 >>-25, possibly same as above.
* 70 judges, says David Legge (??).
* The 70 cursed elders of <<Bbl Ez 8:11 >>-14.
* <<Bbl L 10:1 >>
{{rf{1}}} The vision of Obadiah. Thus says my Lord Yahweh concerning Edom: {{rf{2}}} "Look, I will make you insignificant among the nations. You will be utterly despised! {{rf{3}}} The pride of your heart has deceived you, you who live in the clefts of a rock, the heights of its dwelling, you who say in your heart: 'Who can bring me down to the ground?' {{rf{4}}} Even if you soar like the eagle, even if your nest is set among the stars, from there I will bring you down!" declares Yahweh: {{rf{5}}} "If thieves came to you, if plunderers of the night - How you have been destroyed! - would they not steal what they wanted? If grape gatherers came, would they not leave gleanings? {{rf{6}}} How Esau has been pillaged; his treasures have been ransacked! {{rf{7}}} All of your allies have driven you up to the boundary; your confederates have deceived you and have prevailed against you. Those who eat your bread have set an ambush for you, there is no understanding of it. {{rf{8}}} On that day," declares Yahweh, "will I not destroy the wise men from Edom, and understanding from the mountain of Esau? {{rf{9}}} And your warriors will be shattered, O Teman, so that everyone from the mountain of Esau will be cut off because of the slaughter! {{rf{10}}} "Because of the violence done to your brother Jacob, shame will cover you and you will be cut off forever. {{rf{11}}} On the day you stood nearby, on the day strangers took his wealth, and foreigners entered his gates and cast lots over Jerusalem, you were also like one of them. {{rf{12}}} But you should not have gloated over your brother's day, on the day of his misfortune, and you should not have rejoiced over the people of Judah on the day of their perishing, and you should not have opened your mouth wide on the day of distress. {{rf{13}}} You should not have entered the gate of my people on the day of their disaster. You also should not have gloated over his misery on the day of his disaster, and you should not have stretched out your hands on the day of his disaster. {{rf{14}}} And you should not have stood at the crossroads to cut off his fugitives and you should not have handed over his survivors on the day of distress. {{rf{15}}} "For the day of Yahweh is near against all the nations! Just as you have done, it will be done to you. Your deeds will return on your own head. {{rf{16}}} For just as you have drunk on my holy mountain, all the nations will drink continually. They will drink and they will slurp, and they will be as if they had never been. {{rf{17}}} But on Mount Zion there will be an escape, and it will be holy, and the house of Jacob will take possession of their dispossessors. {{rf{18}}} And the house of Jacob will be a fire and the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau stubble; and they will set them on fire and will consume them. And there will not be a survivor for the house of Esau," for Yahweh has spoken. {{rf{19}}} Those of the Negev will take possession of the mountain of Esau, and those of the Shephelah will possess the land of the Philistines, and they shall take possession of the territory of Ephraim and the territory of Samaria, and Benjamin will take possession of Gilead. {{rf{20}}} And the exiles of this army of the people of Israel will possess Canaan up to Zarephath, and the exiles of Jerusalem who are in Sepharad will take possession of the cities of the Negev. {{rf{21}}} And those who have been saved will go up on Mount Zion to rule the mountain of Esau. And the kingdom will belong to Yahweh. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Obadiah-01-01]] }}}
<<Bbl Obediah 1:2 abbr>> //Despised// - same verb as used for Esau in regard to his birthright.
* <<Bbl Mt 7:14 >>. I am on the small path as I commit to the rare form of conduct! I have always thought of this part in terms of [[Trust]] (a.k.a. faith), but now also in terms of its handmaiden Obedience.
* [[Humility]] is one with Trust and Obedience.
* <<Bbl Dt 12:32 >>
* The price of discipleship is complete obedience. This is the meaning of taking up daily the Cross. We tend to reduce our sense of sacrifice to physical and social distress. The cross of Christ entails these, but is not defined by them.
* <<Bbl Gn 37:13 >>
!!! Toward God
* Inseparable from [[Depend]].
* [[Submit]]
* [[Compliance]], [[Genuflect]]
* May be dictated by [[Scruples]].
* [[Serve]] -- <<Bbl Ps 32:9 >>, <<Bbl Dan 3:12 >>; <<Bbl 2C 1:22 >>.
* [[John-02-01-note]] on John 2:7-8
* <<Bbl H 4:7 >>-11
* <<Bbl Pr 28:14 >>
* [[Humility]], [[Disciple]]
* [[Decision]]
* [[Command]]
* {{anti{[[Disobey]]}}}
* @@color:brown;The best measure of a spiritual life is not its ecstasies but its obedience.@@ // -- Oswald Chambers//
* @@color:indigo;God's will hath no 'why'.@@ // -- from Maria Von Trapp's autobiography -- the Mother Superior's ring?//
* @@color:darkgreen;No past privilege, nor all passed privileges together; no past obedience, nor fruitfulness in service, can ever substitute for present obedience to the word of God.@@ // -- Sinclair Ferguson commenting on Jonah//
* @@color:indigo;Sometimes God gives large encouragement, large promises, hope, success, providing for our infirmities - at other times a bare commission, a command, must suffice to do that which would make one's heart ache. It is His prerogative to send whom He will, and upon what service He will.@@ // - William Greenhill //
* The command that intrigues and tests; when you have one need, and God says: do THIS
** Woman collecting vessels for oil (Elijah?)
** Peter putting the boat out into the deep
** the servants obeying Mary, 'Do what HE says'
** Naaman settling for the muddy Jordan.
** seek ye first the Kingdom
!!! Toward earthly [[Authorize]]
* <<Bbl Est 2:20 >>, <<Bbl Ecc 8:1 >>-9 ; <<Bbl Pr 24:21 >>; <<Bbl Pr 22:11 >>
* b Eph 6:2 //with a promise//
* justifiable disobedience to: <<Bbl Dan 6:10 >>-12
* [[Tradition]]
* {{anti{[[Disobey]]}}}
* <<Bbl Dt 18:9 >>-14 highly descriptive of practices
* <<Bbl 2K 21:6 >> ditto
* <<Bbl Lv 20:6 >>,27 penalty of death, "cut off", for the medium or spiritist
* <<Bbl Ex 22:18 >> penalty of death for the witch and sorcerer
* <<Bbl Lv 19:28 >> tattoo marks
* <<Bbl 1S 28:3>>-25 Saul and a sorceress
* <<Bbl I 8:19 >> //they consult the dead... they have no dawn//
* <<Bbl I 19:3 >>
* <<Bbl I 65:4 >>
* <<Bbl Ez 13:17 >>-23
* <<Bbl Ez 21:18 >>-23 Babylon king's divination, God's control over. "Fine, I can play your game. Ezekiel, put some pins in this doll for me."
* <<Bbl Gal 5:19 >>-20 //sorcery//
* [[Anoint]]
* [[Food]]
* <<Bbl Ps 133:2 >>
* //Only a little oil// can come out fine; <<Bbl 2K 4:1 "" note >>-7
* Oil penetrates, gets everywhere, can't be withheld or removed once it is dispensed.
* Olive oil comes by pressing. //Gethsemane// means olive-press.
| ''Oil'' |from the olive tree |necessary for ''cooking'' |
|[[Favor]] |from the Lord |necessary for ''life'' |
!!! Functions in cooking
# prevents sticking
# sears surfaces, makes flavor stay in
# conducts heat, makes cooking even
# integrates ingredients (ex, pancakes)
# adds flavor
These can all be creatively likened to good and godly living.
!!! Connection with Noah's flood
* Oil is iridescent. A rainbow is iridescence in the sky; thus God anoints the sky. This then is an image of the Anointed, the [[Christ-Messiah]].
* Could this be confirmed by asking a Semite if she regards oil as having an iridescent sheen?
* [[Family]], [[God]]
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* Statement of Faith: @@color:darkgreen;eternally existing in a loving ''unity of three'' equally divine Persons: the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit@@.
The doctrine of the One-In-Three could never be comprehended until the Son came to earth.
* [[Mystery]]
* At work in our redemption: Edwards, p 34
* The term //Trinity//: There is no proof text, no lexicon entry. Why not drop it? Why bother with trying to defend it, for example for Muslims?
* Potential errors could be named as unitarianism and tritheism.
* <<Bbl Dt 6:4 >> One, not of singularity but of [[Unity]]. Same as <<Bbl Gn 2:22 >>-24 : Elohim, plural of El, with a singular verb! ONE God, <<Bbl Gal 3:20 >>, <<Bbl J 10:30 >>, <<Bbl 1C 8:4 >>-7 which is concerned with the Father and the Son.
* The MCV model is intriguingly similar.
! One
* //One// should have the emphasis. ~Three-In-One is not so suitable.
* <<Bbl Dt 6:1>>; <<Bbl I 44:6 >>; <<Bbl I 45:18 >>; <<Bbl I 46:9 >>; <<Bbl J 5:44 >>; <<Bbl 1C 8:4 >>; <<Bbl Jms 2:19 >>
! Three
* <<Bbl Mt 28:19 >>; cf. <<Bbl 2C 13:14 >>
* Each possesses the attributes of deity:
** omnipresence - <<Bbl Ps 139:7 >>; <<Bbl Jer 23:23 >>-24; <<Bbl Mt 28:20 >>
** omniscience - <<Bbl Ps 147:5 >>; <<Bbl J 16:30 >>; <<Bbl 1C 2:10 >>-11
** omnipotence - <<Bbl Jer 32:17 >>; <<Bbl J 2:1 >>-11; <<Bbl R 15:19 >>
** eternality - <<Bbl Ps 90:2 >>; <<Bbl Heb 9:14 >>; <<Bbl Rev 22:13 >>
* Each does the works of deity:
** the Father (<<Bbl Gn 1:1 >>; <<Bbl Ps 102:25 >>),
** the Son (<<Bbl J 1:3 >>; <<Bbl Col 1:16 >>; <<Bbl Heb 1:2 >>), and
** the Holy Spirit (<<Bbl Gn 1:2 >>; <<Bbl Job 33:4 >>; <<Bbl Ps 104:30 >>).
* Jehovah's Witnesses deny the doctrine of Three Persons.
!!! Father
* <<Bbl 1P 1:2 >>
* <<Bbl Mk 13:2 >>
!!! Father and Spirit
* <<Bbl Gn 1:1 >>-2
* <<Bbl A 9:31 >>
* <<Bbl R 8:11 >>
* <<Bbl 1C 2:10-11 >>
!!! Spirit
* [[SpiritOfChrist]]
* <<Bbl J 4:24 >>
* <<Bbl A 5:1 >>-4
* <<Bbl R 1:4 >>
* <<Bbl 2C 3:17 >>
!!! Son
* [[SonOfGod]]
* <<Bbl Ps 2:12 >>
* <<Bbl Pr 30:4 >>
* <<Bbl Dan 3:25 >>
* <<Bbl Dan 7:13 >>
* <<Bbl J 20:28 >>
* <<Bbl Col 1:15 >>
* <<Bbl Col 2:9 >>
* <<Bbl Heb 1:8 >>
* <<Bbl Rev 1:4 >>-5
----
* <<Bbl J 1:1 >>-14
* <<Bbl J 17:3 >>
* <<Bbl R 12:1>>ff. //alalan// = one another. 8 occurances. Gene Getz' study.
* <<Bbl R 15:7>> Accept
* Body is exclusively Paul's metaphor
* You can't say to me, 'I don't need you.'
* <<Bbl Col 3:12>>-14 //esteem one another// - success is not a zero-sum game. It is not like chess. The phrase //zero-sum game// is depressing.
* {{anti{<<Bbl 3J 1:7 >>}}} Diotrephes @@this scripture may be missing@@
* [[Fellowship]]
* <<Bbl I 45:19 >>, <<Bbl I 48:16 >>. See {{anti{[[Secrecy]]}}}.
* //These things were not done in a corner// -- Paul, to Festus
* [[Integrity]], [[Truth]], //transparency, transparent.//
* <<Bbl J 3:19>>–20: //This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but men loved darkness...//
* <<Bbl Mt 26:55>>, <<Bbl Mk 14:49 >>, <<Bbl J 18:19>>-21: Transparency... provides a defense to critics and a witness to both believers and nonbelievers. The openness of His public actions revealed a significant contrast to His middle-of-the-night arrest. //(ECFA, Standard 3)//
* <<Bbl 1Th 2:10>>: The Apostle Paul, too, did his deeds openly. He cites this fact as one basis for his authority over the Thessalonians... Being transparent with one another assures credibility and authority. //(ECFA, Standard 3)//
* The [[ECFA says|https://www.ecfa.org/Content/Comment5]] that ''transparency'' fosters:
** A spirit of Christian stewardship over the resources God and donors have entrusted to us, intended for use to advance God's Kingdom (<<Bbl Mt 25:14>>–30). [This is not a passage I would choose; perhaps the application is sound.]
** An attitude of openness concerning an organization's accountability of its stewardship, "taking pains to do what is right, not only in the eyes of the Lord but also in the eyes of men" (<<Bbl 2C 8:16>>–21).
** A sense of humility and gratitude for the material blessings God has provided (<<Bbl Ps 136:1>>ff).
** A desire to be an example of Christian integrity. "Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a workman who does not need to be ashamed and who correctly handles the word of truth" (<<Bbl 2Tim 2:15>>).
* {{anti{[[Confuse]]}}}
* <<Bbl 1C 14:33>>
* <<Bbl 1Th 4:11>>
''First and Second ... the last shall be first''
* //O that Ismael might live before You!//
* <<Bbl Gn 43:34 >>
| First | Second |h
|Adam |Christ |
|Ishmael |Isaac |
|Esau |Jacob |
|Saul |David |
|Moses |Christ |
The point of most proverbs, even American ones. "Let me know how that works out for you."
* [[Judgment-ofGod]]
* <<Bbl Ps 30:5>>
!! Heb word //Acharit//: consummation, consequence, literally back.
* Powerful warning and exhortation from Dr. Michael L. Brown.
* may be in the phrase //latter days// (or the end/back of days)?
* The //backside// of the storm?
* Moroccan //Netizha//
* <<Bbl Pr 5:11 >> (confirm this)
* <<Bbl Dt 8:16 >>
* <<Bbl Jer 5:31 >>.
spiritual -- <<Bbl R 1:14 >>, <<Bbl R 13:8 >>
financial -- <<Bbl Pr 22:7 >>; <<Bbl R 13:8 >>
* [[Wealth]]
* [[Poverty]]
* [[Resources-Personal]]
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Deliverance comes from the palace:
* Moses
* Joseph
* Esther
* Nehemiah
All pictures (some shadowy) of Jesus Who left Heaven's throne room for our sake.
* [[King]]
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* <<Bbl Rev 4:1 "" note >>
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* David Legge says every parable must be understood in terms of its basic point (which is consistent with the historical fact of its in-the-moment presentation). Speculative applications must not obscure or distract from the basic point. The original listeners were not in position to dissect layers of meaning; they took in one essential lesson. Since that is the origin, we must respect the implications of it.
* <<Bbl Mk 4:33-34 "" note>>
* Legge explains the parable about parables: <<Bbl Mt 13:13 >>.
* Mt 25 the thief in the night. We do not learn from this parable that Jesus does the work of a thief.
* <<Bbl Ez 17:2 >>, <<Bbl Ez 20:49 >>
* Jesus does not tell parables to clarify the truth, but to divide men by how they perceive the truth. (P. Jensen)
* //I like reading the parables because, h-yuk, they don't seem to apply to me.//
* Parables often begin with a business proposition. Ask, what is the deliverable?
* //To what shall I compare the Kingdom of God?// The point often seems to be //this is how it will look from your perspective, but see God's intention.// This reinforces [[Elect]] and God's sovereignty in general.
** To you it is a pile of widely assorted fish; to God it is a //net// full of fish, handled by a fisherman who has a plan.
** To you it is a //garden// infested with weeds; to God it is an evil plot (which He will eventually thwart) against His order.
** To you it is an ordinary field; to God there is //treasure hidden// beneath.
----
* ''Andrew:'' //Psst, Philip -- where's He going with this?//
* An aspect of //form criticism.//
* Keil and Delitzch, pp 7 ff, provide an analysis.
* Tyndale commentary on __Job__ as well.
* Robert Lowth in the 18th century, categorized parallel structure into three types synonymous, antithetic, and synthetic. (An application of Hegel?) The effect was "to encourage too narrow a conception of the phenomenon. Nor is it any advantage to complete the scheme ... The variety of possible relations between the stichoi (verse-halves) is endless." -- Karl Budde, c. 1902 (James L. Kugel, The Idea of Biblical Parallelism)
* Several examples of the Hebrew thought that may be inferred:
** A is so, and what's more, B is so
** Not only A, but B
** Not A, not even B
** Not A, and certainly not B
** A is so, how much more B
** Just as A, so B
** You know A, now understand B
* Matthew 7:6 seems to offer an example an inverted parallelism: dogs tear to pieces, and swine trample. (Note this is similar to [[Chiasmus]], but there is no central thought.)
* [[Samson-Parents]]
* [[Father-Son]]
----
* The NT offers few glimpses into parent-child relationships. Jesus and his household; His cousin John; Zebedee and his sons, James and John, and their mother; a few supplicants on behalf of their children. What this presses home is the immediate climactic nature of Christ's work on the earth, in contrast to a great chronicle of generations.
Partiality (God's impartiality)
* See [[Priest]] for Luther's protest against exalted station.
* [[Select]]
* <<Bbl Ex 23:2 >>-3 , <<Bbl Lv 19:15 >>, <<Bbl Dt 1:17 >>, <<Bbl Dt 10:17 >>, <<Bbl Mal 2:9 >>, <<Bbl Mt 22:16 >>; <<Bbl A 10:34 >>-35 (respecter of persons -- KJV), <<Bbl 1C 10:17 >>; <<Bbl Col 3:25 >>, <<Bbl 1Tim 5:21 >>, <<Bbl Jms 2:1 >>-9 .
* Isaiah 6.
* Zachariah 10.
* Daniels prayers in chapter 9 perhaps.
* James 4, Elijah. Elijah merely acted on God's explicit intention, yet his agency is real.
* The disciples handing out Lowes and fish.
* Maybe the boy with the leaves and dishes had great faith! Or, the crowd.
* {{anti{[[Engage]], [[Discipline-Church]]}}}
* [[Complicity]], [[SilenceWrong]]
* @@color: indigo;Half measures availed us nothing.@@ // -- AA preamble//
* My two garden hoses provide an illustration of passivity. The hose that kinks doesn't carry water; it is stressed, pressurized in back, and vacuous in front. So a passive man is ineffective for God. (Take photos of hoses.)
* <<Bbl Pr 25:26 >> //a polluted well or a trampled spring//
* <<Bbl Pr 24:11 >> //staggering to slaughter, oh hold them back//
* <<Bbl Pr 31:9 >> //Open your mouth, judge righteously, And defend the rights of the afflicted and needy.//
* David in his children's crises
* Eli, ditto - this is specifically condemned by God.
* Oddly, //passion// and //passivity// come from the same root verb. It means to [[Suffer]]. Oddly at first glance, //suffer// can mean to experience unhappiness as well as (in an obsolete sense) to permit.
* The //man-cave//, misused
Lane on <<Bbl Mk 14:22 >>-26 , and Geldenhuys on p. 560, go over the details of the Passover liturgy (but I often wonder if these are reliable; were they perhaps practiced on a sectarian basis?).
* [[Remember]]
* [[LordsSupper]]
* {{anti{[[Forget]]}}}
----
* There are many Passovers in the Bible.
** Lot in the city of sodam.
** Rehab in the land of Canaan.
** Ez chapter 9.
** [[Mark]] Ez 8 and the 144,000.
** Revelation says his name on their foreheads, this is the mark put on the remnant to pass over.
!! Negative
** <<Bbl Ez 14:8 >>
** the ban.
** even Cain?
* [[Footware]], [[Walk]]
* <<Bbl I 30:21>>
* <<Bbl Mt 7:13 "" note >>
* <<Bbl Jer 6:16 >> -- //[[Stand|Standing]] in the ways and see, and ask for the old paths...//
* <<Bbl Ecc 7:8 >>
* <<Bbl R 15:5 >>
* <<Bbl James 1:4 "" note>>
* [[Fruit]]
* [[Faithfulness]]
* //Passion// comes from the same root in English (need to confirm this). //Passion and purity// can be taken as //passion and patience//.
!! Patience of God
* <<Bbl 2P 3:8>>-9
* in the shipwreck - a story with prophetic or Messianic shades. It is possible Luke sees post-event Messianic announcements in Acts; contrary to Goldsworthy?!
* Paul is carefully confirmed by Luke. See Ac 1. Luke is all about Paul.
* Libertinis, synagogue in Jerusalem.
* Saul/Paul double names not uncommon. Roman citizenship easy to support. Not a change of name but an alternate name.
* builds in solid teaching of Jesus and the OT but he sometimes frames it in the rhetorical style of his day.
* could have used the words of John Wesley who followed him: "I look upon all the world as my parish."
* in <<Bbl Gal 3:16 >> and 0329 makes a strong point of the single //seed//, but later in the letter he uses the same mass noun; so one teacher says this must be taken as rhetoric rather than textual exegesis. Paul might be compared to a seminary graduate majoring in Bible with a minor in homelitics. He uses the Septuagint a lot - just as if I were discipling a Brazilian in written letters, I would refer to the Bible in Portuguese. Tarsus was a seat of learning.
* Soteriology. IS THIS TRUE? At times when Paul condemns legalism, like Jesus he is not contesting God's covenant with Israel but the scheme of the Pharisees. But Gal 4 examines the OT.
* Always going first to the synagogues - despite many beatings (2Co 11).
* Prophecies he would preach to the highest leadership:
** <<Bbl A 9:15 >>
** <<Bbl A 23.11 >>
** <<Bbl A 27.24 >>, the belt of binding.
* For all the protests raised at his going to Jerusalem, there is no implication Paul was disobeying God. Perhaps it is more a case of //get behind me, Satan//.
* The character of [[Nehemiah]] is much like Paul: Savvy, purposeful and committed, forthright, diplomatic but also confrontational.
* [[Shalom]]
* Not war's cessation, but victory's blessings. Not just closure, but consummation.
* <<Bbl Ps 4:8 >>; <<Bbl Pr 14:30 >>, <<Bbl Pr 16:7 >>; <<Bbl Pr 17:14>>; <<Bbl I 26:3 >> and v. 12, <<Bbl I 32:17 >>-18 , <<Bbl I 54:10 >>; <<Bbl Mt 10:13 >>; <<Bbl L 10:5 >>-6 ; <<Bbl J 14:27 >>; <<Bbl Jud 6:24 >>
* <<Bbl J 20:21 >>-22, <<Bbl L 2:14 >>, <<Bbl Phil 4:6 >>
* <<Bbl 2Thes 3:16 >>
* <<Bbl I 52:7 "" note>>
* Christ as our peace: <<Bbl I 53:5 >>; <<Bbl Mic 5:5 >>; <<Bbl R 5:1 >>; <<Bbl Eph 2:14 >>-18 ; <<Bbl Col 1:20 >>
* God's covenant with Phineas: <<Bbl Num 25:11 >>-12; see also <<Bbl Pr 28:4 >>; <<Bbl 1S 7:13 >>-14 ; <<Bbl Ps 125:4 >>-5 ; <<Bbl Pr 28:4 >>, <<Bbl Pr 29:27 >>; <<Bbl 2Kin 9:22 >>; <<Bbl Dt 23:6 >>
* False, worldly: <<Bbl Dt 29:19 >>; <<Bbl 2S 20:9 >>-10 ("Shalom"); <<Bbl I 48:22 >>; <<Bbl Jer 6:14 >>, <<Bbl Jer 8:11 >>; <<Bbl Ez 13:10 >>
* exhortations to: <<Bbl Mk 9:50 >>; <<Bbl R 12:18 >>; <<Bbl Php 4:6 "" note >>-9
* and righteousness: <<Bbl Ps 72:7 >>
* [[Order]]
* [[Donkey]]
* ''Mental Hygiene'' (riff on "dental hygiene")
* <<Bbl L 10:41 >>-21
* <<Bbl Mt 6:25 >>ff (NASB fn)
* <<Bbl Php 4:6 >>-9 Peace is companion to a steady mind; <<Bbl I 26:3>>
* [[Rest]] [[Respond]]
* <<Bbl Pr 14:30 >> The life of the body is a heart at peace, but envy rots the bones. [[Contentment]].
* "Hey Saul! Have you listened to the words of that p <<Bbl Ps 23:1 >>ff?"
* Absalom's inner vow (we really mean an inner __subversive__ vow).
* <<Bbl E 5:12 >> (avoid media)
* <<Bbl A 23:1 >>
* <<Bbl A 24:16 >>
* <<Bbl 1Tim 1:5 >>
* <<Bbl Gal 5:22 >>-23
* <<Bbl E 5:18 >>
* <<Bbl Pr 25:28 >>
* <<Bbl Mk 6:31 >>
* Sabbath
* <<Bbl 1J 4:18 >>
* <<Bbl E 4:23 >>
* <<Bbl Ps 4:4 >>
* <<Bbl Ps 127:2 >> (Workaholic take note)
* <<Bbl Mt 6:31 >>
* <<Bbl Php 2:5 >>, 0413
* <<Bbl Php 4:8 >>
* <<Bbl 2Tim 1:7 >>
* <<Bbl Pr 15:13 >>, 1722
* <<Bbl 1C 6:12 >>
* <<Bbl Pr 27:17 >>
* Archibald Hart, The Anxiety Cure, 1-9-9-9
* <<Bbl 1P 5:14 >>b Note the qualifier - //in Christ//!
* [[Holiness]]
* Gentiles and [[Abraham]]
* <<Bbl Ex 12:42 "" note >>
The perfection of the saints is implied in the original commissioning and cleansing.
<<Bbl Ex 32:12 abbr >>; <<Bbl Num 14:13 >>-17 ; <<Bbl L 14:28 >>-20 ; <<Bbl Php 1:6 >>; <<Bbl 1P 5:10 >>; <<Bbl Jer 15:10 >>, <<Bbl Jer 20:8 >>; <<Bbl Dan 3:24 >>-25 ; <<Bbl Mt 5:10 >>-16 ; <<Bbl J 15:18 >>-23 , <<Bbl J 16:2 >>; <<Bbl A 4:13 >>, <<Bbl A 5:40 >>; <<Bbl R 8:18 >>; <<Bbl 2C 4:17 >>-18 ; <<Bbl 2Tim 3:12 >>; <<Bbl 1P 2:19 >>-20 , <<Bbl 1P 3:17 >>, <<Bbl 1P 4:12 >>; <<Bbl 1J 3:12 >>-13 ; <<Bbl Rev 2:10 >>.
* If you have a master's degree in physics, you have mastered that subject. It is of no consequence if you flunked a class in high school.
* [[Suffer]]
* [[God-Immutable]]
* <<Bbl 2Tim 1:8 >>
* <<Bbl 1Peter 4:14 >> //If you are insulted for the name of Christ, you are blessed; because __the Spirit of glory and of God rests on you__. On their part He is blasphemed, but on your part He is glorified.//
* <<Bbl Philip 1:29>> // it has been granted to you on behalf of Christ, not only to believe in him, but also to suffer on his behalf//
* [[Suffer]]
* Whenever someone is saying son of David there is a local initiative to make them shut up.
* God preserves His children. Another way of saying this is that He gives them the gift of perseverance.
* God is good, and the rest can just wear themselves out.
* @@color:indigo;Perseverance is more than endurance. It is endurance combined with absolute assurance and certainty that what we are looking for is going to happen.@@ // -- Oswald Chambers//
* @@color:brown;When speaking to youth groups, invariably someone will ask "Can a Christian fall away?" I used to try to explain whether or not one could, but now I know there is only one good answer: "Make sure that you don't."@@ // - Peter Jensen//
* [[SecurityOfBeliever]] (some references below belong there.)
* The Bible saints believed, preached and demonstrated that faith is validated only through perseverance to the end.
* Our Head has made it through the hedge; the rest will too. [[Test]]
* <<Bbl 2C 4:17 >>-18
* <<Bbl Jer 12:5>>
!!Exhortation to persevere to the end
* Comfort, OR, carefulness: a tension
* <<Bbl H 4:14>>, <<Bbl H 6:12>> //Hang on!//
* Hebrews 11 might better be named the Hall of Perseverance than Faith.
* <<Bbl James 1:4>> A trial endured is the cause of growth.
* <<Bbl James 1:12>> //Blessed is the man who endures temptation...// [[Test]]
* <<Bbl R 11:20 >>-21 ; <<Bbl 1C 15:2 >>; <<Bbl 2Tim 2:12 >>; <<Bbl H 3:12 >>-14
* <<Bbl Mt 10:22 >>
* <<Bbl Philip 3:11 >>-16
* <<Bbl H 10:39 >>
* <<Bbl H 12:1 >>-3
* <<Bbl Gal 6:9 >>
* <<Bbl 1J 2:28>>
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* The saints persevere, for God [[preserves|Preservation]].
* [[Stand]], [[Remnant]]
* [[Grace-Prevenient]]
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Perseverance of the Saints is a doctrine which states that the saints (those whom God has saved) will remain in God's hand until they are glorified and brought to abide with him in heaven. Romans 8:28-39 makes it clear that when a person truly has been regenerated by God, he will remain in God's stead. The work of sanctification which God has brought about in his elect will continue until it reaches its fulfillment in eternal life (Phil. 1:6). Christ assures the elect that he will not lose them and that they will be glorified at the "last day" (John 6:39). The Calvinist stands upon the Word of God and trusts in Christ's promise that he will perfectly fulfill the will of the Father in saving all the elect. [[Source|http://www.reformed.org/calvinism/]]
''God created an expanding web of relationships.''
* In creating God said all was good - except Adam's solitude.
* Not good to be alone, because of the Dominion mandate.
* The piercing of the ear leaves a mark in the doorpost - permanent, memorial. I'll always be able to point to that little painful indenture.
* [[Fellowship]]
* [[OneAnother]], [[Support-Mutual]]
* <<Bbl 2C 5:11>>-21 //...no man after the flesh ...//
* [[Friend]]
* [[Forbear]]
* [[LikeMinded]]
* [[Connect]]
* [[Engage]]
! [[Responsibility]]
!! Avoid evil and embrace righteousness
* [[Complicity]]
* [[Immorality-No]]
!! [[Commitment]]
* [[IdentifyWith]], [[Solidarity]]
* [[Covenant]]
* [[Family]]
* [[Burden]]
!! Support by communication
* [[Encourage]], [[Encourage-AsBuild]], [[Comfort]]
* [[Admonish]], [[Accountability]]
* [[Bless]]
!! [[Counsel]] and instruct
!! Practice honesty
* Do not defraud
!! Regard with sound judgment
* [[Attitude]]
* Esteem:
* Respect where due: [[Elder]], [[Teacher]], [[Family]]
!! Be peaceable
* [[Anger]] ?
[[Forbear]]
!! as fellow workers
* [[Commission]]
!! Observe [[Boundaries|Boundary]]
* Acts 10 is a complicated revelation for Peter.
** Foods are declared clean. He must know that Christ has declared all foods clean (I believe it is in the gospel of Mark, which is proposed to be his dictation). Yet apparently this is pretty big news; God is confrontational in <<Bbl A 10:15 >> .
** This revelation is compounded: it heralds the entrance of the Gentiles in <<Bbl A 10:19 >>b and 20. ''I am a Gentile. God says I am clean.''
* "Do not call unclean what I have called clean." How this must have rung in his ears (like the rooster crowing) when Paul rebuked him years later.
How Satan harassed Peter. In this light, he is a contrast to Judas.
* Matthew 18.
* <<Bbl Mt 14:28 0 note >>.
* The sifting, as of wheat.
How dramatic it must have been to hear his Master's voice in Paul, as he was being rebuked for withholding fellowship from the gentile believers.
* Judas denied who Jesus is. But Peter denied who he himself was. This is the state for a disobedient believer.
* The disciples always seem ready to put their foot in their mouth. And Peter we love because he seems to have had three feet.
* //Peter's Path// -- a path of discipleship, an apprenticeship in how to love and serve - and trust.
!!! Callings
* <<Bbl Mk 1:17 >>
* <<Bbl Mt 10:2 >>
* <<Bbl J 21:19 >>
Paul, a prisoner of Christ Jesus, and Timothy our brother, to Philemon, our dear friend and fellow worker, {{ref{2}}} and to Apphia our sister, and to Archippus our fellow soldier, and to the church in your house. {{ref{3}}} Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. {{ref{4}}} I thank my God, always making mention of you in my prayers, {{ref{5}}} because hear about your love and faith which you have toward the Lord Jesus and for all the saints. {{ref{6}}} I pray that the fellowship of your faith may become effective in the knowledge of every good thing that is in us for Christ. {{ref{7}}} For I have great joy and encouragement from your love, because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed through you, brother. {{ref{8}}} Therefore, although I have great confidence in Christ to order you to do what is proper, {{ref{9}}} instead I appeal to you because of love, since I am such a one as Paul, now an old man and also a prisoner of Christ Jesus. {{ref{10}}} I am appealing to you concerning my child whom I became the father of during my imprisonment, Onesimus. {{ref{11}}} Once he was useless to you, but now he is useful to you and to me, {{ref {12}}} whom I have sent back to you himself, that is, my heart, {{ref{13}}} whom I wanted to keep with me, in order that he might serve me on behalf of you during my imprisonment for the gospel. {{ref{14}}} But apart from your consent, I wanted to do nothing, in order that your good deed might be not as according to necessity, but according to your own free will.
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{{ref{15}}} For perhaps because of this, he was separated from you for a time, in order that you might have him back forever, {{ref{16}}} no longer as a slave, but more than a slave, a beloved brother, especially to me, but how much more to you, both in the flesh and in the Lord. {{ref{17}}} If therefore you consider me a partner, receive him as you would me. {{ref{18}}} But if in anything he has caused you loss or owes you anything, charge this to my account. {{ref{19}}} I, Paul, write this with my own hand: I will pay it back, lest I mention to you that you owe me even your very self besides. {{ref{20}}} Yes, brother, I ought to have some benefit of you in the Lord; refresh my heart in Christ. {{ref{21}}} Confident of your obedience, I am writing to you because I know that you will do even beyond what I say. {{ref{22}}} At the same time also, prepare a guest room for me, for I hope that through your prayers I will be restored to you. {{ref{23}}} Epaphras, my fellow prisoner in Christ Jesus, greets you, {{ref{24}}} and so do Mark, Aristarchus, Demas, and Luke, my fellow workers. {{ref{25}}} The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Philemon-01-01]] }}}
* Paul chooses to //commend// rather than //command//.
* Onesimus a picture of the believer, and Paul of the Lord who sends him to find healing in what was broken.
* The letter is redolent of meaningful relationships.
* https://www.crossway.org/articles/does-the-bible-condone-slavery-philemon-1/
* Comment on [[Slave]]ery by Geoffrey Wilson.
* Differences are not obliterated. They are dismissed as cause for exclusion.
* Paul calls himself a //slave//. This is unique in his letters, says A. Begg.
* In <<Bbl Col 4:7>>-9, Tychicus as a slave, Onesimus as a brother.
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1:1 //Beloved// is {{{agape}}}. //Fellow worker// is {{{synergos}}}, rel. to our //synergy//.
1:2 The two names that follow Philemon could be a wife and son. So Alistair Begg speculates.
<<Bbl Philemon 1:7 abbr >> //have been refreshed// -- and now Paul will ask him to refresh Onesimus, and in this way to refresh Paul himself (<<Bbl Philemon 1:20 abbr >>).
<<Bbl Philemon 1:17 abbr >> //partner// is //koine//; note //koinonia// elsewhere in the letter.
<<Bbl Philemon 1:18 abbr >>-22 Such delicious, deliberate humor: //You won't dare object, and I'll be checking on you.//
Paul and Timothy, slaves of Christ Jesus, to all the saints in Christ Jesus who are in Philippi, together with the overseers and deacons. {{rf{2}}} Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. {{rf{3}}} I give thanks to my God upon my every remembrance of you, {{rf{4}}} always in my every prayer for all of you, making the prayer with joy, {{rf{5}}} because of your participation in the gospel from the first day until now, {{rf{6}}} convinced of this same thing, that the one who began a good work in you will finish it until the day of Christ Jesus, {{rf{7}}} just as it is right for me to think this about all of you, because I have you in my heart, since both in my imprisonment and in the defense and confirmation of the gospel all of you are sharers of grace with me. {{rf{8}}} For God is my witness, that I long for all of you with the affection of Christ Jesus. {{rf{9}}} And this I pray: that your love may abound still more and more in knowledge and all discernment, {{rf{10}}} so that you may approve what is superior, in order that you may be sincere and blameless in the day of Christ, {{rf{11}}} having been filled with the fruit of righteousness which comes through Jesus Christ to the glory and praise of God. {{rf{12}}} Now I want you to know, brothers, that my circumstances have happened instead for the progress of the gospel, {{rf{13}}} so that my imprisonment in Christ has become known in the whole praetorium and to all the rest, {{rf{14}}} and most of the brothers, trusting in the Lord because of my imprisonment, dare even more to speak the word without fear. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Philip-01-01]] }}}
[[Philippians-Christ]]
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<<Bbl Php 1:6 abbr >> The verb tenses might be interesting here ??
<<Bbl Php 1:7 abbr >>, <<Bbl Php 1:30 abbr>>. As a Roman citizen on trial for his faith, Paul's case has importance to the local believers as a pending legal precedent.
1:10 under the earth -- i.e., buried.
1:12 see <<Bbl R 8:28 >>
<<Bbl Php 1:14 abbr >> Incarceration is a form of martyrdom and often helps a cause or movement.
1:15 Perhaps Paul uses preaching here to refer even to defamation of the gospel. Hard to imagine that he refers to subversion of the gospel through deceit.
1:23 //Depart// is used also in <<Bbl 2Tim 4:6 >>.
1:27 Taken in context, //whether absent// suggests that Paul may be looking on from Heaven.
<<Bbl Php 2:5 abbr >>-8 see <<Bbl 1C 9:19 >>-23
<<Bbl Php 2:6 abbr >> <<Bbl Gn 39:12 >>, //grasped//
<<Bbl Php 2:7 abbr >> [[Kenosis]], [[Cup]].
{{rf{15}}} Some even because of envy and strife preach Christ, but some also because of good will. {{rf{16}}} The latter do so from love, knowing that I am appointed for the defense of the gospel. {{rf{17}}} The former proclaim Christ from selfish ambition, not sincerely, thinking to raise up affliction in my imprisonment. {{rf{18}}} What is the result? Only that in every way, whether in pretense or in truth, Christ is proclaimed, and in this I rejoice. But also I will rejoice, {{rf{19}}} for I know that this will turn out to me for deliverance through your prayer and the support of the Spirit of Jesus Christ, {{rf{20}}} according to my eager expectation and hope, that I will be put to shame in nothing, but with all boldness, even now as always Christ will be exalted in my body, whether through life or through death. {{rf{21}}} For to me to live is Christ and to die is gain. {{rf{22}}} But if it is to live in the flesh, this is fruitful work for me, and which I will prefer I do not know. {{rf{23}}} But I am hard pressed between the two options, having the desire to depart and to be with Christ, for this is very much better. {{rf{24}}} But to stay on in the flesh is more necessary for your sake. {{rf{25}}} And because I am convinced of this, I know that I will remain and continue with all of you for your progress and joy in the faith, {{rf{26}}} so that what you can be proud of may increase in Christ Jesus because of me through my return again to you. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Philip-01-15]] }}}
{{rf{27}}} Only lead your lives in a manner worthy of the gospel of Christ, so that whether I come and see you or am absent I hear your circumstances, that you are standing firm in one spirit, with one soul contending side by side for the faith of the gospel, {{rf{28}}} and not letting yourselves be intimidated in anything by your opponents, which is a sign of destruction to them, but of your salvation, and this from God, {{rf{29}}} because to you has been graciously granted on behalf of Christ not only to believe in him, but also to suffer on behalf of him, {{rf{30}}} having the same struggle which you saw in me and now hear about in me. {{rf big{1}}} Therefore, if there is any encouragement in Christ, if any consolation of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any affection and compassion, {{rf{2}}} complete my joy, so that you are in agreement, having the same love, united in spirit, having one purpose. {{rf{3}}} Do nothing according to selfish ambition or according to empty conceit, but in humility considering one another better than yourselves, {{rf{4}}} each of you not looking out for your own interests, but also each of you for the interests of others. {{rf{5}}} Think this in yourselves which was also in Christ Jesus, {{rf{6}}} who, existing in the form of God, did not consider being equal with God something to be grasped, {{rf{7}}} but emptied himself by taking the form of a slave, by becoming in the likeness of people. And being found in appearance like a man, {{rf{8}}} he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, that is, death on a cross. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Philip-01-27]] }}}
{{rf{9}}} Therefore also God exalted him and graciously granted him the name above every name, {{rf{10}}} so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those in heaven and of those on earth and of those under the earth, {{rf{11}}} and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. {{rf{12}}} Therefore my dear friends, just as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling. {{rf{13}}} For the one at work in you, both to will and to work for his good pleasure, is God. {{rf{14}}} Do all things without grumbling and disputing, {{rf{15}}} in order that you may become blameless and innocent, children of God without fault in the midst of a crooked and perverted generation, among whom you shine as stars in the world, {{rf{16}}} holding fast to the word of life, for a source of pride to me in the day of Christ, that I did not run in vain or labor in vain. {{rf{17}}} But even if I am being poured out as a drink offering on the sacrifice and service of your faith, I rejoice and rejoice with all of you. {{rf{18}}} And in the same way also you rejoice and rejoice with me. {{rf{19}}} But I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy to you soon, so that I also may be encouraged when I know your circumstances. {{rf{20}}} For I have no one like-minded who will sincerely be concerned about your circumstances. {{rf{21}}} For they all seek their own interests, not those of Jesus Christ. {{rf{22}}} But you know his proven character, that like a child with a father he served with me for the gospel. {{rf{23}}} Therefore I hope to send him at once, as soon as I see my circumstances. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Philip-02-09]] }}}
{{rf{24}}} And I am convinced in the Lord that I myself will arrive shortly also. {{rf{25}}} But I considered it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother and fellow worker and fellow soldier, but your messenger and servant of my need, {{rf{26}}} because he was longing for all of you and was distressed because you had heard that he was sick. {{rf{27}}} For indeed he was sick, coming near to death, but God had mercy on him and not on him only, but also on me, so that I would not have grief upon grief. {{rf{28}}} Therefore I am sending him with special urgency, in order that when you see him again you may rejoice, and I may be less anxious. {{rf{29}}} Therefore welcome him in the Lord with all joy, and consider such people highly honored, {{rf{30}}} because on account of the work of Christ he came near to the point of death, risking his life in order that he might make up for your inability to serve me. {{rf big{1}}} Finally, my brothers, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things to you is not troublesome to me, but is a safeguard for you. {{rf{2}}} Beware of the dogs, beware of the evil workers, beware of the mutilation. {{rf{3}}} For we are the circumcision, the ones who worship by the Spirit of God and boast in Christ Jesus and do not put confidence in the flesh, {{rf{4}}} although I could have confidence even in the flesh. {{rf{5}}} circumcised on the eighth day, from the nation of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew born from Hebrews, according to the law a Pharisee, {{rf{6}}} according to zeal persecuting the church, according to the righteousness in the law being blameless. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Philip-02-24]] }}}
<<Bbl Php 3:2 abbr >>ff (written to Lydia and the jailor). Three kinds of people. //Dogs// are idolatrous gentiles (the epithet has been adapted). //Evildoers// are found in those who opposed the Gospel in Philippi. Third, his Jewish opponents. //Mutilation// does not mean Jewish circumcision, but as a sign forced on Gentiles. (Greek non-believers would have thus referred to it.)
<<Bbl Php 3:5 abbr >> Lancaster says Paul still considers himself a Pharisee. F.F. Bruce (Romans, p. 76) says Paul probably means that Aramaic is his mother-tongue.
3:5 This is given a very short summary treatment in <<Bbl 2C 11:21 >>-22, where it is followed by a counterpoint in which Paul lists his sufferings. <<Bbl 2C 11:23 >>ff.
<<Bbl Php 3:8 abbr >> //the loss of all things// -- meaning not the loss of material goods or resources; the context is false religious credentials, and this is what Paul has entirely lost. That is the //rubbish, dung//.
3:11 see <<Bbl H 11:35 >>
<<Bbl Php 3:15 abbr >> implied warning against excessive introspection.
<<Bbl Php 3:15 abbr >> This is, if you have this attitude, you will be complete in character? Is this "perfect" different from that of vs. 12 ??
3:17-19 There is a possibility (the NIV brings it out) that the gifts can be grouped.
3:21 He has [[Virtue]] to subject all things to Himself; but as for us, He has power to conform us to Himself. [[SanctifiedProgressive]]
<<Bbl Php 4:3 abbr >> <<Bbl Ps 16:3 >>
<<Bbl Php 4:5 abbr >> Would a bride frown half-way down the aisle?
<<Bbl Php 4:6 abbr >> Our flesh tries to negotiate for both, and inspires a so-called prayer that only masks worry.
<<Bbl Php 4:8 abbr >> //Rubbish// when it comes to justification. As righteousness before God, there is equal value between my religious attainments and my bodily waste.
<<Bbl Php 4:8 abbr >>-9 Peace is companion to a steady mind; <<Bbl I 26:3>>
<<Bbl Php 4:11 abbr >>-13 //content in every circumstance// is an interesting sequel to <<Bbl Pr 30:7 >>-09 which finds danger in privation and surfeit.
<<Bbl Php 4:13 abbr >> //Do all things// means //endure all things//. For the sake of Jesus, Paul is given power to remain content through suffering, trials and privation. It isn't presented as God's promise but as Paul's testimony - yet it seems reasonable that we lay claim as a model (and a motto) for how to live in Christ. However it is frequently misused to test God's forbearance and sustaining power. Sometimes used for sensational glory, such as the Power Team's slogan. It really is an antidote to triumphalism: we do not expect success over every obstacle in any situation, nor do we consider every danger as trivial.
4:19 [[Water]]
{{rf{7}}} But whatever things were gain to me, these things I have considered loss because of Christ. {{rf{8}}} More than that, I even consider all things to be loss because of the surpassing greatness of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for the sake of whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and consider them dung, in order that I may gain Christ {{rf{9}}} and may be found in him, not having my righteousness which is from the law, but which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God on the basis of faith, {{rf{10}}} so that I may know him and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of his sufferings, being conformed to his death, {{rf{11}}} if somehow I may attain to the resurrection from the dead. {{rf{12}}} Not that I have already received this, or have already been made perfect, but I press on if indeed I may lay hold of that for which also I was laid hold of by Christ. {{rf{13}}} Brothers, I do not consider myself to have laid hold of it. But I do one thing, forgetting the things behind and straining toward the things ahead, {{rf{14}}} I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. {{rf{15}}} Therefore as many as are perfect, let us hold this opinion, and if you think anything differently, God will reveal this also to you. {{rf{16}}} Only to what we have attained, to the same hold on. {{rf{17}}} Become fellow imitators of me, brothers, and observe those who walk in this way, just as you have us as an example. {{rf{18}}} For many live, of whom I spoke about to you many times, but now speak about even weeping, as the enemies of the cross of Christ, {{rf{19}}} whose end is destruction, whose God is the stomach, and whose glory is in their shame, the ones who think on earthly things. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Philip-03-07]] }}}
{{rf{20}}} For our commonwealth exists in heaven, from which also we eagerly await a savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, {{rf{21}}} who will transform our humble body to be conformed to his glorious body, in accordance with the power that enables him even to subject all things to himself. {{rf big{1}}} So then, my beloved and greatly desired brothers, my joy and crown, thus stand firm in the Lord, dear friends. {{rf{2}}} I appeal to Euodia and I appeal to Syntyche to be in agreement in the Lord. {{rf{3}}} Yes, I ask also you, true yokefellow, help them, who struggled along with me in the gospel with both Clement and the rest of my fellow workers whose names are in the book of life. {{rf{4}}} Rejoice in the Lord always; again I say, rejoice. {{rf{5}}} Let your gentleness be made known to all people. The Lord is near. {{rf{6}}} Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. {{rf{7}}} And the peace of God that surpasses all understanding will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. {{rf{8}}} Finally, brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things are honorable, whatever things are right, whatever things are pure, whatever things are pleasing, whatever things are commendable, if there is any excellence of character and if anything praiseworthy, think about these things. {{rf{9}}} And the things which you have learned and received and heard about and seen in me, practice these things, and the God of peace will be with you. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Philip-03-20]] }}}
<<Bbl Philip 4:5>>b-10
{{{
The Lord is *near*.
Be anxious for nothing...
And the peace of God ...will guard your hearts ...
Finally, brethren, whatever is true ...dwell on these things.
The things you have learned ...practice these things...
and the God of peace will be *with you*.
But I rejoiced ...you have revived your concern for me...
}}}
{{rf{10}}} But I rejoiced in the Lord greatly that now at last you have renewed your concern for me, for whom also you were thinking, but you had no opportunity to express it. {{rf{11}}} Not that I speak from need, for I have learned to be content in whatever circumstances I am. {{rf{12}}} I know how both to make do with little and I know how to have an abundance. In everything and in all things I have learned the secret both to be filled and to be hungry, both to have an abundance and to go without. {{rf{13}}} I am able to do all things by the one who strengthens me. {{rf{14}}} Nevertheless you have done well by sharing with me in my affliction. {{rf{15}}} Now you also know, Philippians, that at the beginning of the gospel, when I departed from Macedonia, no church shared with me in the matter of giving and receiving except you alone, {{rf{16}}} because even in Thessalonica on more than one occasion you sent for my need. {{rf{17}}} Not that I seek the gift, but I seek for the profit that increases to your account. {{rf{18}}} But I have received everything in full and have an abundance; I am well supplied because I received from Epaphroditus what you had sent, a fragrant offering, an acceptable sacrifice, well-pleasing to God. {{rf{19}}} And my God will fulfill your every need according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus. {{rf{20}}} Now to our God and Father be the glory forever and ever. Amen. {{rf{21}}} Greet every saint in Christ Jesus. The brothers with me greet you. {{rf{22}}} All the saints greet you, and especially those of Caesar's household. {{rf{23}}} The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Philip-04-10]] }}}
* <<Bbl Ph 1:1 >> a servant of
* <<Bbl Ph 1:1 >>, <<Bbl Ph 4:21 >> saints in
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* <<Bbl Ph 1:20 >> to exalt Him
* <<Bbl Ph 2:10 >> to reverence
* <<Bbl Ph 2:11 >> to own as Lord
* <<Bbl Ph 3:14 >> for following His call
* <<Bbl Ph 2:21 >> to maintain His interests
* <<Bbl Ph 3:12 >> for being taken hold of by
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* <<Bbl Ph 1:2 >>, <<Bbl Ph 4:23 >> recipients of grace and peace from Him
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* <<Bbl Ph 2:1 >> to be in union with (now)
* <<Bbl Ph 1:23 >> to be in union with (future hope, longing)
* <<Bbl Ph 3:5 >> the Lord is near
* <<Bbl Ph 3:8 >> for gaining
* <<Bbl Ph 3:9 >> for being found in
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* <<Bbl Ph 1:21 >> life
* <<Bbl Ph 1:19 >> helped by his Spirit
* <<Bbl Ph 3:10 >> for knowing His power
* <<Bbl Ph 4:1 >> for standing in
* <<Bbl Ph 3:11 >> for gaining resurrection
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* <<Bbl Ph 1:27 >>, <<Bbl Ph 2:5 >> for emulating
* <<Bbl Ph 1:29 >>, <<Bbl Ph 3:9 >> belief
* <<Bbl Ph 1:13 >> in chains for
* <<Bbl Ph 1:29 >> suffering for
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* <<Bbl Ph 1:8 >> bound in affection
* <<Bbl Ph 2:1 >> fellowship by his Spirit
* <<Bbl Ph 2:19 >> reason for hope
* <<Bbl Ph 1:3 >>, <<Bbl Ph 1:10 >>, <<Bbl Ph 2:16 >>, <<Bbl Ph 3:20 >>-21 waiting for His Day
* <<Bbl Ph 1:11 >>, <<Bbl Ph 3:9 >> righteousness through
* <<Bbl Ph 1:26 >> joy found in
* <<Bbl Ph 3:7 >>-8 source of value
''Pivot or hinge points in New Test narrative and discourse''
* These are important and unfamiliar to our thinking. We are taught the transition statement, but these transitions are more subtle in expression and scope.
* I would like to have a clear way to flag them. I have used both "hinge" and "pivot"; the latter is preferable. So I need to make a global replace of the word "hinge", which was an early choice. But not using "replace all"; I need to inspect each instance.
* <<Bbl R 5:5>>
* <<Bbl Joel 2:28>>
* Is 32 and 44
* Ez 39
* The [[Cup]] doesn't hold anything back, but gives it all.
* Jesus' blood was poured out for [[Atone]], as the grace of God was poured out in Him.
* In <<Bbl Col 1:19 >> the Father pours Himself into the Son; and in <<Bbl J 1:16 >> He pours Himself into us.
* <<Bbl Php 2:7 >> displays two pourings -- first into humanity, second into human death.
* To say someone's blood was poured out meant that he had died by violence (<<Bbl Mt 23:35 >> presents a similar use of the verb). <<Bbl Ps 22:14 >>-15 gives the poignant description of violence.
* <<Bbl Mk 14:24 "" note>>
* Pouring also evokes ritual sacrifice of the OT, note <<Bbl 2Tim 4:6 >>.
* {{anti{[[Wealth]]}}}
* [[Need]]
* [[Owe]]
* [[Famine]]
* [[Laziness]]
* //poor//
* <<Bbl Mt 26:11 >> //the poor you always have with you, and you can do good for them whenever you wish//... this is descriptive, not prescriptive, and in any case it is a side-note more than a teaching -- an observation of the common reality.
!!! Care for the poor
* <<Bbl Dt 15:4 >>-11, <<Bbl Pr 14:31 >>, <<Bbl Pr 21:13 >>, <<Bbl Pr 29:7 >>, <<Bbl I 1:17 >>; <<Bbl Ez 16:49 >>, <<Bbl Mk 14:7 >>, <<Bbl J 12:8 >>; <<Bbl Jms 2:1 >>-6.
* None escape his sight. "Not a sparrow falls to the ground." But they do escape my sight! I merge them into the landscape of buildings and sidewalks; I feel perturbed if some event or circumstance presses them into the foreground.
** Blind Bartemeous refused this treatment.
** Jesus and His followers do take note of the needy. <<Bbl A 3:1 >>ff.
** <<Bbl Ps 34:6>>
!!! Oppression of the poor
* <<Bbl L 21:1 "" note >>-4
!!! The poor need wisdom
* <<Bbl Mt 11:4 "" note >>
* Proverb: //What good is money in the hand of the poor? For he will not use it to buy wisdom.//
!!! Believers often poor
* [[Famine]] meant NEED, esp for believers, who gave to the poor as well as living communally.
* "Needy ones" was a refer to Christians, as witnessed by historic term Ebionites.
* <<Bbl Gal 2:10 "" note>>
* <<Bbl Jud 11:24 >>
* [[Virtue]]
* [[Authorize]]
* [[Strength]]
* [[Resources-Personal]]
* [[Anoint]]
* [[Leader]]
* Rome <<Bbl J 11:48 >>
* Strong man <<Bbl L 11:22 >>
* <<Bbl Ex 4:17 >> -- Moses is not permitted to neglect God's empowerment.
* <<Bbl Josh 5:13 "" note>>
* @@color:brown;When a man wants the things God wants, for the same reasons God wants them, he cannot be stopped.@@ // -- Dave Davidson//
* A study of God's power displayed in the Scriptures: what a study that would be
* {{anti{Counterfeit power, power used for evil}}} -- for these we need [[Renounce]].
* {{anti{ [[Weakness]]}}}
* Tension is the natural home of power. Cognitive dissonance.
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* TO SAVE. <<Bbl R 1:4 >>, 0116, 0119, 0120, 0917, 0922, 1519, <<Bbl Eph 1:19 >>-20.
* TO TRANSFORM <<Bbl R 15:13 >>, <<Bbl 1Co 1:18 >>,
* TO PERSUADE <<Bbl 1Co 2:4 >>-5, <<Bbl 1Thes 1:5 >>.
''Some folks are all talk and no prayer.''
* and [[Believe]]: <<Bbl H 11:6 >>
* of Ahimelech, for leaders: <<Bbl 1S 22:1 >>
* of Jabez: <<Bbl 1Ch 4:10 >>
* effectuality of: <<Bbl I 64:4 >>; <<Bbl L 11:1 >>-10
* guidance through: <<Bbl Jer 31:9 >>
* healing through: <<Bbl Jms 5:13 >>-18
* concerning the future: <<Bbl Dan 2:18 >>
* concerning enemies: <<Bbl 1S 8:21 >>, also the king who spreads a letter before God
* as incense: <<Bbl Rev 5:8 >>, <<Bbl Rev 8:3 >>-4
* <<Bbl R 1:10 >> ardent and sustained
* <<Bbl Neh 2:4 "" note>>. Nehemiah's book opens and ends with prayer.
* [[Need]] (sub-section: Need in reality)
* We do not pray that God will bless the preacher, but the preaching and the hearing of His Word.
* ACTS = Adoration, Confession, Thanksgiving, Supplication.
* PAS -- Protect him, arrest him, save him!
* a walkie-talkie for war-time.
* "Name it and claim it" strikes me as a fine statement. Isn't there Scripture to support it?
* Do not explain matters to God or others in the room. That is not praying and God is dishonored if you pretend it is. If your friend has something you need, and he knows what it is and exactly why you need it, do you make a long explanation? No - especially if you also are sure he wants to let you have it. Your offering an explanation suggests God needs your knowledge. More likely you want to enlighten your friends, or merely express yourself as spiritual; this also is pretense rather than prayer.
* Become pray-ward, or risk going wayward.
* @@color:brown; I would exhort those who have entertained a hope of their being true converts - and who since their supposed conversion have left off the duty of secret prayer, and ordinariliy allow themselves in the omission of it - to throw away their hope. If you have left off calling upon God, it is time for you to leave off hoping and flattering yourselves with an imagination that you are the children of God. Probably it will be a very difficult thing for you to do this. It is hard for a man to let go a hope of heaven, on which he hath once allowed himself to lay hold, and which he hath retained for a considerable time. True conversion is a rare thing; but that men should be brought off from a false hope of conversion - after they are once settled and established in it, and have continued in it for some time - is much more rare.@@ // - Jonathan Edwards//
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what I am praying for seems important. But who I am praying too, and how I regard him, is far more important. (Just as the topic of a conflict is perhaps less important than how the adversaries regard and how we treat each other.)
Our prayers may not be answered with the yes for which we hope, but they are never dismissed. There is always a //yes and amen// as He fulfills our true needs.
God can choose whether to heal from an illness or use our illness to heal us. But every prayer for healing offered by God's child will always be answered.
!! Problems we have
* Failing to ask.
** <<Bbl James 4:1 >>.
* Asking amiss.
** <<Bbl Ps 66:18 >>, notice cherishing.
** <<Bbl James 4:2 >>ff. Notice coveting.
* <<Bbl Gal 3:1 >>, I suppose the //portrayal// was accomplished through preaching.
* [[Gospel]]
* <<Bbl I 52:7 "" note>>
!! Thoughts
* Proverbs: //Apples of gold, settings of silver.// The doctrine is the gold; the effective preaching is the silver setting.
* A man setting forth in a sermon is like a paddler entering wild, white-shot water.
* We do not pray that God will bless the preacher, but the preaching and the hearing of His Word.
* This morning I am not bringing you myself. I am bringing you God's Word, for which one never says "I'm sorry".
* I need a way to wiki oratory and technique.
!!! Over-turn hermeneutic
* How would P. Jensen teach <<Bbl L 21:1>>-4? My guess:
** "This is always taught as the exemplary faith of the woman. But there are several problems. Jesus says (same context) the temple will be destroyed because its custodians are wicked, so why is He seemingly pleased with the woman's donation? He has specifically condemned the religious leaders as impoverishing widows (same context), so why would he want ''all'' her money going to them?
** It isn't at all certain Jesus is lauding her faith. He is teaching His followers that God sees the reality, that He Himself is God the Witness, and He is thoroughly angry with the temple establishment. We don't have to assume she is destined for Heaven, but there's no doubt she is under the care and scrutiny of God."
!! Expository
* //lectio continua//
* <<Bbl A 7:2>> ff This sermon could provide basis for OT review.
* Systematic, but not necessarily exhausted.
* Thorough, but not necessarily linear.
* Lloyd-Jones defends it in "sermon on the mount" by saying all doctrines are covered if the exegesis is complete.
* It teaches from context, historical and textual. It aims to give the hearer an adequate and thorough understanding (inevitably this must be balanced against the patience and capacities of the listeners). It includes technical details when helpful. It does not pass over difficulties and it answers misconceptions.
* P Jensen starts by briefly dismantling the usual misconstruction. Or he may not bother to acknowledge it! He may start with "the passage has puzzles. Why this?" (Options follow) "But if so, why does that follow?" - and these puzzles deal with the text rather than popular treatments. One is brought into the text so quickly as to forget the canned explanations. Of course this is a profound compliment to the listeners.
* //Be Prepared// -- but to be prepared for anything is to be prepared for nothing. What do they say about the latest military aircraft? //It started out as a good idea, an asset that would meet a particular need; but then they added functions and roles, and now it's expensive and useless.// A [[Soldier]] carries just what he needs, //for the right hand and the left//, for he knows he hasn't a third hand. So we must prepare ourselves not for the theoretical "anything" but for the hazards we can foresee, and a solid foundation under all.
[[Equip]], [[Readiness]]
''God preserves His people.''
* Another way of saying this is that He gives them the gift of [[perseverance|Persevere]].
* [[Samson]]
* [[Security]]
* [[Commitment]], [[Faithfulness]], [[Endure]]
* [[Remnant]]
* Christ's [[Intercede]]
* <<Bbl J 21:11 >> //the net was not torn//
* <<Bbl 1C 5:5 >>
* <<Bbl Col 3:3 '' note>>
* <<Bbl 1Thes 5:23>>
* <<Bbl Jude 1:24>>
* [[Persevere]]
<<Bbl Gn 16:4 >> (the natural, first birth); <<Bbl Dt 8:11 >>-18 ; <<Bbl I 10:12 >>-15 , <<Bbl I 65:5 >> ("holier than thou"), 23:9, 47:10 (witchcraft), 50:11, <<Bbl Jer 13:17 >>, <<Bbl Jer 48:7 >>, <<Bbl Ps 73:6 >>; <<Bbl Pr 16:18 >>, <<Bbl Dan 4:30 >>, <<Bbl Dan 8:9 >>-11 , <<Bbl Zph 2:15 >> ("I am")
* [[Horse]]
* [[Humility]]
* [[Complacency]]
* [[Attitude]]
!! Self-Sufficiency
* <<Bbl I 9:9 >>b-10.
* A [[Mediate]] who arranges a meeting between God and man.
## Represents God and man to each other ([[Mediation]], or we might say evangelism for the NT believer (<<Bbl 2C 5:18 >>)
## The [[Teacher]] of God's ways (<<Bbl Mal 2:7 >>, <<Bbl Dan 11:1 >>, <<Bbl Dan 12:1 >>).
## Offers [[Atone]] through [[Sacrifice]].
* <<Bbl 1K 8:38 >>; <<Bbl Ez 44:18 >>
* <<Bbl H 5:1>>
* [[Melchizedek]]
* Our English word comes from a contracted form of the Greek //presbyter//.
* [[Appropriate]]
!!! Christ
* <<Bbl Mal 3:1 >>-3
* Without Hebrews we would have much less to say.
!!! Priesthood of the believer
* The roman view presents the picture of a sacrificial offering with the priest as officiant, while the Bible proposes a fellowship of friends. See [[LordsSupper]].
* <<Bbl Ex 19:5 >>; <<Bbl Jer 31:31 >>-34 ; <<Bbl 1P 2:5 >>; <<Bbl Rev 1:6 >>.
* @@color:navy;All Christians are priests, and all priests are Christians. Worthy of anathema is any assertion that a priest is anything else than a Christian.@@// – John Calvin.//
* Martin Luther, though, is reported as uninterested in this idea. He wanted to reform the roman priesthood, not supplant it. In Luther's time, the Pope kept his seat when receiving the elements - anyone else had to kneel. And the cardinal at his service proferred the host on a golden wand from a kneeling position. Luther declared that the Pope should receive communion kneeling, "like any other stinking sinner."
* The term is used both of earthly and spiritual [[Authorize]]. In fact I suspect you could substitute in modern terms like regimes, administrations, jurisdictions, empires, presidencies, monarchies, bureaucracies. (So does Lewis, in The Screwtape Letters.)
* <<Bbl 1S 5:1 >>-5 ; <<Bbl 2S 5:21 >>
* earthly, Christians subject to: <<Bbl Tit 3:1 >>, <<Bbl R 13:1 >>-7 ; <<Bbl H 13:17 >>
* angelic and demonic: <<Bbl Eph 3:10 >>, <<Bbl Eph 6:12 >>; <<Bbl R 8:38 >>
* created by Christ: <<Bbl Col 1:16 >>
* Christ is Head: <<Bbl Col 2:10 >>-15 ; <<Bbl Eph 1:10 >>; <<Bbl 1C 15:24 >>
* [[Joseph]] experienced prison
** a Bible first-mention
** unknown circumstance for this unknown Hebrew:
*** cafeteria food, scheduled outdoor recreation
*** solitary confinement, lock-downs
*** snitching
**** he knew at least about that
**** this is actually a good springboard for discussing whether Joseph had the tendencies of a snitch; many say yes, I say no
* Prison [[Minister]] -- <<Bbl H 13:3 >>
* <<Bbl I 42:22>> Spider holes are the handiest immediate prison, or pits. Bob Dylan is kept in one in __Masked And Anonymous__.
* //to proclaim {{anti{[[Free]]}}} to the captives//
* //When were You in prison and I did not come to You?//
* [[Samson]]
* Acts 5, 12, 16.
* MLK Jr's //Letter from Birmingham Jail//
* {{anti{[[Deliver]]}}}
* //sex//
* [[Fruit]]
* [[Seed]]
!! picturing [[Sin]]
* James 1:15
* [[Trust]]
* [[Grace]]
* <<Bbl H 6:12 >>,15;
* <<Bbl H 11:13>>, <<Bbl Heb 11:33 abbr>>, <<Bbl H 11:39>>
* The rainbow is a promise. It need not have been given -- one could read the chapter without it and not seem to miss it. But rain had never happened before. It is permanently associated with (almost) complete destruction. God makes a provision for mankind -- you need not fear when rainclouds gather. So this remedies a post-trauma response.
* What promises extend to the end of the age?
** <<Bbl Mt 28:18 >>-20.
* <<Bbl Dt 6:6 >> note
* Consists of ''Life, Sameness'' and ''Newness'' in equal parts.
* There is tension between ''Sameness'' and ''Newness''. Relationally this is expressed as [[Unity]].
** Adaptation, resiliance, surprises
** Genetic variation
* Propagation is almost tantamount to [[PersonalRelations]].
! In creation
!!! [[Live]]
* Responsiveness; creativity.
* [[Seed]]
* [[Sexuality]], //Reproduction// (syn. with propagation)
* Countermands:
** [[Murder-Abortion]], the Pill
** Sterility
!!! Newness
* [[Birth]]
* Generations
* Differentiation, [[Diversity]]
** Order of original creation
** Adaptation
* Puts a constraint on //Sameness//:
** Insularity
** Stagnation
** Dictation (over-control)
!!! Sameness
* [[Order]]
* [[Connect]]
* [[Complementarity]]
* [[Stewardship]]
* [[Inherit]], [[Legacy]]
* Sound doctrine, practice, culture
* Puts a contraint on //Newness//:
** Innovation
** Rebellion
** Heresy
** Abdication
** Anarchy
** Gender dysphoria
! for Christ's Body, the Church
* ''Life''
** Prohibits [[Passivity]].
* ''Newness''
** Generations - <<Bbl Ps 102:18 >>, <<Bbl 2Tim 2:2 >>, Sara Groves song
** [[Diversity]]
** Adaptation
** Puts a constraint on //Sameness//:
*** Insularity
*** Stagnation
*** Dictation (over-control)
* ''Sameness''
** [[LikeMinded]]
** [[Order]]
** [[Stewardship]]
** [[Inherit]], [[Legacy]]
** Sound doctrine, practice, culture
** Puts a constraint on //Newness//:
*** Innovation
*** Rebellion
*** [[Heresy]]
*** Abdication
*** Anarchy
* God's interpretation of history.
* //Prophet//
* <<Bbl 1S 3:19 >>-20
* <<Bbl Ezra 5:1>>, prophecy turns the favor of the rulers; <<Bbl Ezra 6:14 >>, the people benefit
* <<Bbl Ps 82:1 >>
* <<Bbl Ez 33:33 >>
* Evaluation: <<Bbl 1C 14:29>>; <<Bbl 1Th 5:20>>-21
!!! Volume One (O.T.), pointing to Jesus
* <<Bbl 1P 1:10>>-12
* <<Bbl 2P 1:17>>
* <<Bbl J 8:56>>
* The ones placed at the end are in no sense "minor" prophets except they are shorter. Amos and Malachi announce in the name great scope as Isaiah and Ezekiel. It is true that the "major" prophets bring great volume with that scope; they literally have more to say. It may also true that one or two of the brief writings are distinctly parochial.
!!! multiple fulfillments:
* <<Bbl Jer 31:15 >> (<<Bbl Mt 2:17 >>-18 )
!!! [[Christ]]
* <<Bbl 1Peter 1:10 >>-11
* <<Bbl H 1:2 >>
!!! The believer in Christ as prophet in community
* <<Bbl Mt 5:11>>-12
* <<Bbl Mt 23:34>>
!!! False Prophecy
* <<Bbl 1K 13:18>>-22
* <<Bbl Mic 3:5 >>
* <<Bbl Zech 13:3>>-5
* <<Bbl Jer 29:8>>-9
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# Engages, <<Bbl 1C 14:24 >>-25.
# Establishes, <<Bbl 1C 14:3 >> .
# Strengthens the believer, <<Bbl 1C 14:3 >>-4, 8, 12, 17, 19, 26, 31.
* [[Proverbs-01-00-note]]
* [[Speak]]
* [[Wisdom]], [[Outcome]]
!! The sly edification
>If he makes you laugh, kisses your forehead, says he's sorry, makes an effort, holds your hand, works hard, attempts to understand you -- then, believe it or not, he's quite perfect.
This light exhortation from Facebook is directed, we realize, to wives. But is it? Is there not a subtle reminder or admonishment to husbands? So it is with many of the proverbs. We think we are being taught to avoid a fool, when we are actually being taught to avoid //being// a fool. The reverse is as important as the face -- sometimes more so.
>Imagine the husband reads it and the wife gives an appreciative chuckle. She also thinks inside herself, //He could have said "I'm sorry" last week. And when have I ever gotten a kiss on the forehead?// A few days later, here he comes by and plants a kiss on her forehead. She glows and thinks, //Where did __that__ come from?//
* The collection of Proverbs is designed to instruct future kings -- and so we are.
** Does the Hebrew set a scope that includes women?
* As the Psalms are provided to shape our emotions, so the Proverbs shape our communications and much of our relational conduct.
* In many ways the book closely resembles Egyptian writings known as [Sbyoet ?] (unlike these, it has no addressee, because it is for the entire covenant community). This may be attributed to Solomon's attempts to emulate Egypt's government. According to Bruce Waltke, his brightest minds were trained there. (For more of Waltke's insights, see Revelation and Understanding.)
* Treat a proverb as a parable from the lips of our Lord. Ask Him for the explanation.
* Many proverbs first reveal their depth as we consider a converse application. For example, to ignore God is the beginning of folly.
* Chapters 1-9 of Proverbs seem to be a cohesive unit.
* Chapter 27 has a glorious constellation of truths relating to friendship.
* Solomon's early prayer was the perfect exemplar of chapter 2, and chapter 2 is the perfect fulfillment of his prayer.
* [[Proverb]]
* [[Outcome]]
* [[Treasure]] (Wisdom and goodness as a man's treasury)
Proverbs of Solomon, son of David, king of Israel: {{rf{2}}} To know wisdom and instruction, to understand sayings of understanding, {{rf{3}}} to gain insightful instruction, righteousness and justice and equity, {{rf{4}}} to give shrewdness to the simple, knowledge and purpose to the young, {{rf{5}}} may the wise hear and increase learning, and the one who understands gain direction, {{rf{6}}} to understand a proverb and an expression, words of wisdom and their riddles. {{rf{7}}} Fear of Yahweh is the beginning of knowledge; wisdom and instruction, fools despise. {{rf{8}}} My child, may you keep your father's instruction, and do not reject your mother's teachings, {{rf{9}}} for they are a garland of favor for your head, and pendants for your neck. {{rf{10}}} My child, if sinners entice you, do not consent. {{rf{11}}} If they say, "Come with us! We shall lie in wait for blood; we shall ambush the innocent without cause. {{rf{12}}} Like Sheol, we will swallow them alive and whole, like those who descend to the pit. {{rf{13}}} We shall find all precious wealth, we shall fill our houses with booty, {{rf{14}}} you shall throw your lot in our midst, there will be one purse for all of us." {{rf{15}}} My child, do not walk in their way. Keep your foot from their paths, {{rf{16}}} for their feet run to evil, and they hurry to shed blood, {{rf{17}}} for "in vain is the net scattered, in the sight of any winged bird." {{rf{18}}} They lie in wait for their own blood. They ambush their own lives. {{rf{19}}} Thus are the ways of all who are greedy for gain -- it will take the life of its possessors. {{rf{20}}} Wisdom calls out in the streets, in the squares she raises her voice. {{rf{21}}} On a busy corner she cries out, at the entrances of the gates in the city, she speaks her sayings: {{rf{22}}} "How long, O simple ones, will you love simplicity? And how long will scoffers delight in their scoffing, and fools hate knowledge? {{rf{23}}} May you turn to my argument! Behold, I shall pour out my spirit upon you; I will make my words known to you. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Proverbs-01-01]] }}}
<<Bbl Pr 1:2 abbr>> //know// -- Waltke prefers "attain", so as to avoid the materialistic error.
<<Bbl Pr 1:03 abbr >> //Dealings//, relationships, interactions. Control is a big theme to follow.
1:6 riddles -- wisdom has a way of concealing itself from the arrogant.
<<Bbl Pr 1:7 abbr >>, Colossians (in whom are all... Wisdom n knowledge... That no one may... Fine sounding arguments), Timothy (guard what was entrusted to you... Opposing ideas of what is falsely called knowledge... Rather than on Christ). 1peter, always ready to give a defense - but before that: setting apart Christ as Lord. Hi Most apologetics today puts the creature in the place of the judge, weighing the evidence. "Every building has a builder" is not a worthy application of Hebrews, for God is not *a* builder and Hebrews does not present Him in that way.
<<Bbl Pr 1:09 abbr >> You are made attractive. As was Jesus in Capernaum.
<<Bbl Pr 1:10 abbr >> Words can make you attractive; so sinners entice with adornments of their own. You are not to be attracted.
<<Bbl Pr 1:10 abbr >>. The first specific instruction is to have a boundary.
<<Bbl Pr 1:11 abbr >>-14 enticements presented in reverse order. ??
<<Bbl Pr 1:14 abbr >> A little snare all its own. The bad guys have their own shootout near the end. The safety of their secrecy is only imagined.
<<Bbl Pr 1:17 abbr >> You can see the snare. The snare is them.
<<Bbl Pr 1:17 abbr >>-18. The bird perfectly sees the snare made by the hunter. (It will succeed on a different bird.) You are to be that bird. You can walk out as Jesus did in Capernaum. The evildoer perfectly fails to see the snare made by himself. Acharit.
<<Bbl Pr 1:22 abbr >>-23 Reciprocal. Wisdom is prominent and available, yet flouted and neglected. Her loneliness is the loneliness of Jesus.
1:23 see Jol 2:28
1:32-33 see 8:35-36, <<Bbl J 3:36 >>
<<Bbl Pr 2:1 abbr>>-6 He takes his own words as inspired of God. See <<Bbl Ps 9:10 >>
<<Bbl Pr 2:4 abbr >>-5 Look for wisdom, get God.
<<Bbl Pr 2:4 abbr >> Indeed wisdom __is__ hidden treasure, <<Bbl Pr 25:2 >>.
<<Bbl Pr 3:5 abbr >> condemns the evidence approach. If one was convinced God is to be worshipped and later convinced contrary, they never submitted to God's instruction. But we go to work trying to repair their perceptions - the Bible really says this about the topic, etc. If we succeed, nothing fundamental is gained. A conversion from purported atheism to purported deism is worthless. <<Bbl 2Tim 2:25 >> says first repentance, then the knowledge of the truth.
<<Bbl Pr 3:17 abbr >> Interesting liberty to take, to speak of a //tree of life//.
<<Bbl Pr 3:31 abbr >> Use that ungodly man as a negative model.
<<Bbl Pr 3:35 abbr>> Folly comes with instant gratification.
<<Bbl Pr 4:21 abbr>>, 25-26 Like a HUD (heads-up display).
<<Bbl Pr 5:6 abbr >>a Be not curious.
{{rf{24}}} Because I called out and you refused me, I stretched out my hand, yet there is none who heeds. {{rf{25}}} You have ignored all my counsel, and my reproof you are not willing to accept. {{rf{26}}} I will also laugh at your calamity; I will mock when panic comes upon you. {{rf{27}}} When your panic comes like a storm, and your calamity arrives like a whirlwind, when distress and anguish come upon you, {{rf{28}}} then they will call me, but I will not answer; they will seek me diligently but not find me. {{rf{29}}} Since they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of Yahweh, {{rf{30}}} they were not willing to accept my counsel, they despised all my reproof. {{rf{31}}} They shall eat from the fruit of their way, and they shall be sated from their own schemes, {{rf{32}}} for the waywardness of the simple ones will kill them, and the complacency of fools will destroy them. {{rf{33}}} Whoever listens to me will dwell in security and rest securely from dread and disaster." {{rf big{1}}} My child, if you will receive my sayings, and hide my commands with you, {{rf{2}}} in order to incline your ear toward wisdom, then you shall apply your heart to understanding. {{rf{3}}} For if you cry out for understanding, if you lift your voice for insight, {{rf{4}}} if you seek her like silver and search her out like treasure, {{rf{5}}} then you will understand the fear of Yahweh, and the knowledge of God you will find. {{rf{6}}} For Yahweh will give wisdom; from his mouth come knowledge and understanding. {{rf{7}}} For the upright, he stores sound judgment, a shield for those who walk uprightly, {{rf{8}}} in order to guard paths of justice and keep the way of his faithful ones. {{rf{9}}} Then you will understand righteousness and justice and uprightness -- every good course -- {{rf{10}}} for wisdom will enter your heart, and knowledge will be pleasing to your soul. {{rf{11}}} Discretion will watch over you; understanding will protect you, {{rf{12}}} in order to deliver you from the way of evil, from a man who speaks devious things -- {{rf{13}}} those who forsake the paths of uprightness to walk in ways of darkness, {{rf{14}}} those who are happy to do evil, for they delight in the deviousness of evil, {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Proverbs-01-24]] }}}
{{rf{15}}} who are crooked in their ways, and devious in their paths; {{rf{16}}} in order to deliver you from a strange woman, from a foreign woman who flatters with her sayings, {{rf{17}}} she who forsakes the partner of her youth and has forgotten the covenant of her God, {{rf{18}}} for her house sinks to death, and to the dead are her paths. {{rf{19}}} Of all who go to her, none shall return, nor do they reach paths of life. {{rf{20}}} So that you will walk on the road of those who are good, and the paths of those who are righteous you shall keep. {{rf{21}}} For those who are upright will dwell in the land, and those who are blameless will remain in it. {{rf{22}}} And those who are wicked will be cut off from the land, and those who are treacherous will be uprooted from it. {{rf big{1}}} My child, do not forget my instruction, and may your heart guard my commands. {{rf{2}}} For length of days, years of life, and peace they shall add to you. {{rf{3}}} May loyal love and truth not forsake you; bind them around your neck, write them upon your heart. {{rf{4}}} And you shall find favor and good sense in the eyes of God and humankind. {{rf{5}}} Trust Yahweh with all your heart; do not lean toward your own understanding. {{rf{6}}} In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will straighten your paths. {{rf{7}}} Do not be wise in your own eyes; fear Yahweh and retreat from evil. {{rf{8}}} There shall be healing for your flesh, and refreshment for your body. {{rf{9}}} Honor Yahweh from your substance, and from the firstfruits of all that will come to you, {{rf{10}}} and your barns shall be full of plenty, and your vats shall burst with new wine. {{rf{11}}} Do not despise the discipline of Yahweh, my child. Do not be weary of his reproof {{rf{12}}} because whomever Yahweh will love, he will rebuke, as a father delights in his son. {{rf{13}}} Happy is the one who finds wisdom, and one who obtains understanding. {{rf{14}}} For her income is better than the income of silver, and her revenue than that of gold. {{rf{15}}} She is more precious than rubies, and all your desires shall not compare with her. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Proverbs-02-15]] }}}
{{rf{16}}} Length of days is in her right hand; in her left hand are riches and honor. {{rf{17}}} Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace. {{rf{18}}} She is a tree of life for those who seize her; those who take hold of her are considered happy. {{rf{19}}} Yahweh in wisdom founded the earth; he established the heavens in understanding. {{rf{20}}} With his knowledge, depths broke open, and clouds dropped dew. {{rf{21}}} My child, may they not escape from your sight; may you keep sound wisdom and prudence. {{rf{22}}} They shall be life for your soul and adornment for your neck. {{rf{23}}} Then you will walk in the confidence of your ways, and your foot will not stumble. {{rf{24}}} If you sit down, you will not panic, and if you lie down, then your sleep shall be sweet. {{rf{25}}} Do not be afraid of sudden panic, or the storm of wickedness that will come. {{rf{26}}} Yahweh will be your confidence and guard your foot from capture. {{rf{27}}} Do not withhold good from its owner when it is in the power of your hand to do. {{rf{28}}} Do not say to your neighbor, "Go and return and tomorrow I will give it," when it is with you. {{rf{29}}} Do not plot harm against your neighbor who dwells in confidence beside you. {{rf{30}}} Do not quarrel with anyone without cause, when he did not do you harm. {{rf{31}}} Do not envy a man of violence, and do not choose any of his ways, {{rf{32}}} for he who is perverse is an abomination of Yahweh, but those who are upright are his confidence. {{rf{33}}} The curse of Yahweh is on the house of the wicked, and the abode of the righteous ones he blesses. {{rf{34}}} With those who scorn, he is scornful, but to those who are humble, he gives favor. {{rf{35}}} They will inherit the honor of the wise, but stubborn fools, disgrace. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Proverbs-03-16]] }}}
Children, listen to the instruction of a father, and be attentive in order to know insight. {{rf{2}}} For I have given you good instruction; do not forsake my teaching. {{rf{3}}} When I was a son to my father, tender and alone before my mother, {{rf{4}}} he taught me and said to me, "May your heart hold fast to my words; guard my commandments and live. {{rf{5}}} Get wisdom and insight; do not forget and do not turn from the sayings of my mouth. {{rf{6}}} Do not forsake her -- then she will guard you; love her and she will keep you. {{rf{7}}} The beginning of wisdom: Get wisdom! With all that is in your possession, gain insight. {{rf{8}}} Cherish her and she will exalt you; she will honor you if you embrace her. {{rf{9}}} She will give a garland for your head; she shall bestow a crown of glory upon you." {{rf{10}}} Listen, my child, take my sayings, and the years of your life shall be great. {{rf{11}}} In the way of wisdom I have instructed you; I have led you in the path of uprightness. {{rf{12}}} When you walk, your step will not be hampered, and if you run, you will not stumble. {{rf{13}}} Seize the instruction! Do not let go! Guard her, for she is your life. {{rf{14}}} In the path of the wicked do not go; do not walk in the way of those who do evil. {{rf{15}}} Avoid it; do not transgress it; turn away from it and pass by. {{rf{16}}} For they will not sleep if they have not done wrong, and they are robbed of their sleep if they do not cause stumbling. {{rf{17}}} For they ate the bread of wickedness, and they drank the wine of violence. {{rf{18}}} But the path of the righteous ones is like the light of dawn, leading and shining until the day is full. {{rf{19}}} The way of the wicked ones is like deep darkness; they do not know what they stumble over. {{rf{20}}} My child, be attentive to my words; to my sayings incline your ear. {{rf{21}}} May they not escape from your sight; keep them in the midst of your heart. {{rf{22}}} For they are life to those who find them and healing to the entire body. {{rf{23}}} With all vigilance, keep your heart, for from it comes the source of life. {{rf{24}}} Remove from yourself deceitful speech, and abolish devious talk from yourself. {{rf{25}}} May your eyes look forward and your gaze be straight before you. {{rf{26}}} May the path of your foot be balanced and all your ways be sure. {{rf{27}}} Do not swerve right or left; remove your foot from evil. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Proverbs-04-01]] }}}
My child, be attentive to my wisdom, and to my understanding incline your ear; {{rf{2}}} in order to keep prudence, and knowledge will guard your lips. {{rf{3}}} For the lips of the strange woman will drip honey, and smoother than oil is her mouth. {{rf{4}}} But her end is bitter as the wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword. {{rf{5}}} Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold of Sheol. {{rf{6}}} She does not observe the path of life; her ways wander, and she does not know it. {{rf{7}}} Now, O children, listen to me; do not depart from the sayings of my mouth. {{rf{8}}} Keep your paths far from her, and do not go near to the door of her house, {{rf{9}}} lest you give your honor to the others, and your years to the merciless, {{rf{10}}} lest strangers take their fill of your strength, and your labors go to the house of a foreigner, {{rf{11}}} and you groan at your end, when your flesh and body are consumed, {{rf{12}}} and say "How I hated discipline, and I despised reproof!" {{rf{13}}} and "I did not listen to the voice of my teachers, and I did not incline my ear to my instructors! {{rf{14}}} I was almost at utter ruin in the midst of the assembly and congregation." {{rf{15}}} Drink water from your own cistern and flowing waters from inside your own well. {{rf{16}}} Shall your springs be scattered outward? In the streets, shall there be streams of water? {{rf{17}}} May they be yours alone, and not for strangers who are with you. {{rf{18}}} May your fountain be blessed, and rejoice in the wife of your youth. {{rf{19}}} She is a deer of love and a doe of grace; may her breasts satisfy you always; by her love may you be intoxicated continually. {{rf{20}}} Why should you be intoxicated, my child, by a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a foreigner? {{rf{21}}} For before the eyes of Yahweh are human ways, and all his paths he examines. {{rf{22}}} His iniquities shall ensnare him, the evildoer, and in the vanity of his sin he shall be caught. {{rf{23}}} He shall die for lack of discipline, and in the greatness of his folly he shall be lost. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Proverbs-05-01]] }}}
My child, if you have pledged to your neighbor, if you have bound yourself to the stranger, {{rf{2}}} if you are snared by the sayings of your mouth, if you are caught by the sayings of your mouth, {{rf{3}}} do this, then, my child, and save yourself, for you have come into the palm of your neighbor's hand: Go, humble yourself, plead with your neighbor. {{rf{4}}} Do not give sleep to your eyes, or slumber to your eyelids. {{rf{5}}} Save yourself like a gazelle from a hand, or like a bird from the hand of a fowler. {{rf{6}}} Go to the ant, lazy! Consider its ways and be wise. {{rf{7}}} It has no chief, officer, or ruler. {{rf{8}}} In the summer, it prepares its food; in the harvest, it gathers its sustenance. {{rf{9}}} How long will you lie down, lazy? When will you rise up from your sleep? {{rf{10}}} A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands for rest -- {{rf{11}}} like a robber shall your poverty come, and what you lack like an armed man. {{rf{12}}} A worthless man, an evil man, goes around with deceitful speech. {{rf{13}}} Winking in his eye, shuffling in his foot, pointing in his fingers, {{rf{14}}} perversion in his heart, he devises evil; at all times he will send out discord. {{rf{15}}} Upon such a man, suddenly shall his calamity come; in a moment he will be damaged and there is no healing. {{rf{16}}} There are six things Yahweh hates, and seven things are abominations of his soul: {{rf{17}}} haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, {{rf{18}}} a devising heart, plans of deception, feet that hurry to run to evil, {{rf{19}}} a false witness who breathes lies and sends out discord between brothers. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Proverbs-06-01]] }}}
<<Bbl Pr 6:1 abbr >>-5 Do not bind yourself to another who is of unknown quality of character.
<<Bbl Pr 6:20 abbr >>-22 Sounds precisely like a lucky pendant in a fantasy book.
<<Bbl Pr 6:25 abbr >> The signal of availability is incitement.
6:30-31 see 28:21; 30:9; <<Bbl 1C 6:18 >>. All the substance finds an echo in vs 32 himself. Steal food, repay in food; steal the things of body and soul, pay accordingly.
7:6 The writer takes the part of an observer.
7:12 Street-walking hasn't changed -- dress, demeanor, deportment, deployment.
7:23 Records the return of the husband, fulfilling the warning of 6:34.
8:1-4 see <<Bbl J 18:20 >>-21 . The universality of God's good news.
8:22-31 Not to be confused with Jesus. He is present in the Godhead, the creator Lord.
<<Bbl Pr 8:30 abbr >> rejoicing as in <<Bbl 2S 6:21 >>. Waltke translates: "A darling child at His side, filled with wonder and delight."
8:35-36 see 1:32-33, <<Bbl J 3:36 >>
<<Bbl Pr 9:2 abbr >>-6 see <<Bbl L 14:16>>-24
9:17 //Stolen water is sweet; food eaten in secret is delicious!// -- Cognitive dissonance
{{rf{20}}} My child, keep the commandment of your father, and do not disregard the instruction of your mother. {{rf{21}}} Bind them on your heart continually; tie them upon your neck. {{rf{22}}} When you walk, she will lead you, When you lie down, she will watch over you, and when you awake, she will converse with you. {{rf{23}}} For like a lamp is a commandment, and instruction is light, and the way of life is the reproof of discipline, {{rf{24}}} in order to preserve you from an evil woman, from the smoothness of the tongue of an adulteress. {{rf{25}}} Do not desire her beauty in your heart; may she not capture you with her eyelashes. {{rf{26}}} For the price of a woman, a prostitute, is the price of a loaf of bread, but the woman belonging to a man hunts precious life. {{rf{27}}} Can a man carry fire in his lap, and his clothes not burn? {{rf{28}}} If a man walks upon the hot coals, will his feet not be burned? {{rf{29}}} Thus, he who goes to the wife of his neighbor, any who touches her shall not go unpunished. {{rf{30}}} People do not despise a thief when he steals to fill himself when he is hungry. {{rf{31}}} But if he is found, he will pay sevenfold, every possession of his house he shall give. {{rf{32}}} He who commits adultery with a woman lacks sense, he destroys himself who does it. {{rf{33}}} A wound and dishonor he will find, and his disgrace will not be wiped out. {{rf{34}}} For jealousy is the fury of a husband, and he will not show restraint on the day of revenge. {{rf{35}}} He will not accept any compensation, and he will not be willing, though the bribe is large. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Proverbs-06-20]] }}}
My child, guard my sayings; store my commandments with you. {{rf{2}}} Keep my commands and live, and my teaching like the apple of your eye. {{rf{3}}} Bind them on your fingers; write them on the tablet of your heart. {{rf{4}}} Say to wisdom, "you are my sister," and you shall call insight, "intimate friend." {{rf{5}}} In order to guard yourself from an adulteress, from the foreigner who makes her words smooth. {{rf{6}}} For at the window of my house, through my lattice, I looked down. {{rf{7}}} And I saw among the simple, I observed among the youth, a young man lacking sense, {{rf{8}}} passing on the street at her corner, and he takes the road to her house, {{rf{9}}} at twilight, at the day's evening, in the midst of night and the darkness. {{rf{10}}} Then behold! A woman comes to meet him with the garment of a prostitute and a secret heart. {{rf{11}}} She is loud and stubborn; her feet do not stay at her house. {{rf{12}}} Now in the street, now in the square, at every corner she lies in wait. {{rf{13}}} She took hold of him and kissed him. Her face was impudent, and she said to him, {{rf{14}}} "Sacrifices of peace offerings are upon me; today I completed my vows. {{rf{15}}} So I have come out to meet you, to seek your face, and I have found you. {{rf{16}}} With coverings I have adorned my couch, spreads of the linen of Egypt; {{rf{17}}} I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon. {{rf{18}}} Come, let us take our fill of love making, until the morning let us delight in love. {{rf{19}}} For there is no man in his home; he has gone on a long journey. {{rf{20}}} The bag of money he took in his hand, for on the day of the full moon he will come home." {{rf{21}}} She persuades him with the greatness of her teachings; with her smooth lips she compels him. {{rf{22}}} He goes after her suddenly; like an ox to the slaughter he goes, and like a stag to the instruction of a fool, {{rf{23}}} until an arrow pierces his entrails, like a bird rushing into a snare, but he does not know that it will cost him his life. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Proverbs-07-01]] }}}
{{rf{24}}} And now, my children, listen to me, and be attentive to the sayings of my mouth. {{rf{25}}} May your heart not turn aside to her ways; do not stray into her path. {{rf{26}}} For many slain she has laid low, and countless are all of her killings. {{rf{27}}} The ways of Sheol are her house, descending to chambers of death. {{rf big{1}}} Does not wisdom call, and understanding raise its voice? {{rf{2}}} Atop the heights beside the road, at the crossroads she stands. {{rf{3}}} Beside gates, before towns, at the entrance of doors, she cries out: {{rf{4}}} "To you, O people, I call, and my cry is to the children of humankind. {{rf{5}}} Learn prudence, O simple ones; fools, learn intelligence. {{rf{6}}} Listen! For noble things I will speak, and upright things from the opening of my lips. {{rf{7}}} My mouth will utter truth, and wickedness is an abomination to my lips. {{rf{8}}} All sayings of my mouth are in righteousness; none of them are twisted and crooked. {{rf{9}}} All of them are straight to him who understands, and upright to those who find knowledge. {{rf{10}}} Take my teaching and not silver; may you choose knowledge rather than choice gold. {{rf{11}}} For wisdom is better than jewels, and all desires shall not compare with her. {{rf{12}}} I, wisdom, live with prudence, and I find knowledge and discretion. {{rf{13}}} The fear of Yahweh is hatred of evil, pride, and arrogance and an evil way. And I hate a mouth of perversity. {{rf{14}}} Advice and sound judgment are mine; I am understanding, strength is mine. {{rf{15}}} By me kings reign, and rulers decree righteousness. {{rf{16}}} By me rulers rule, and nobles -- all judges of righteousness. {{rf{17}}} I love those who love me, and those who seek me diligently shall find me. {{rf{18}}} Fortune and glory are with me, enduring wealth and righteousness. {{rf{19}}} My fruit is better than gold, even refined gold, and my yield than choice silver. {{rf{20}}} In the way of righteousness I walk, in the midst of paths of justice, {{rf{21}}} in order to endow those who love me with wealth, and I will fill their treasuries. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Proverbs-07-24]] }}}
{{rf{22}}} "Yahweh possessed me, the first of his ways, before his acts of old. {{rf{23}}} From eternity, I was set up from the first, from the beginning of the earth. {{rf{24}}} When there were no depths, I was brought forth, when there were no springs of abounding water. {{rf{25}}} Before mountains had been shaped, before hills, I was brought forth. {{rf{26}}} When he had not yet made earth and fields, or the first dust of the world, {{rf{27}}} when he established the heavens, there I was, when he drew a circle upon the face of the deep, {{rf{28}}} when he made skies from above, when he founded fountains of the deep, {{rf{29}}} when he assigned his limits to the sea, that waters shall not transgress his command, when he marked the foundations of the earth, {{rf{30}}} I was beside him, a master workman, and I was delighting day by day, rejoicing before him always, {{rf{31}}} rejoicing in the world of his earth, and my delight was with the children of humankind. {{rf{32}}} "And now, children, listen to me; happy are those who will keep my ways. {{rf{33}}} Hear teaching and be wise; do not neglect it. {{rf{34}}} Happy is the person who listens to me, in order to keep watch at my doors day by day, in order to guard the frames of my entrances. {{rf{35}}} For he who finds me is he who finds life, and he obtains favor from Yahweh. {{rf{36}}} But he who misses me injures himself. All those who hate me love death." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Proverbs-08-22]] }}}
Wisdom has built her house; she has hewn her seven pillars. {{rf{2}}} She has slaughtered her slaughtering, mixed her wine, and also set her table. {{rf{3}}} She has sent her servant girls, she calls upon the wings of the high places of town, {{rf{4}}} "Whoever is simple, let him turn here." As for the one who lacks sense, she says to him, {{rf{5}}} "Come, eat with my bread; drink with the wine I have mixed. {{rf{6}}} Lay aside simplicity and live; walk in the way of understanding." {{rf{7}}} He who corrects a scoffer gains abuse for himself, and he who rebukes the wicked gets hurt. {{rf{8}}} Do not rebuke a scoffer, lest he hate you; rebuke the wise and he will love you. {{rf{9}}} Give to a wise one and he will become more wise; teach a righteous one and he will increase learning. {{rf{10}}} The start of wisdom is fear of Yahweh, and knowledge of the Holy One, insight. {{rf{11}}} For by me your days shall increase, and years of life shall multiply for you. {{rf{12}}} If you are wise, you are wise for yourself, and if you scoff, alone you shall bear it. {{rf{13}}} A woman of foolishness is loud, simple, and does not know it. {{rf{14}}} She sits at the door of her house, upon a throne at the high places of town, {{rf{15}}} in order to call to those who pass by the road, those who go straight on their way: {{rf{16}}} "Whoever is simple, may he turn here!" As for he who lacks sense, she says to him, {{rf{17}}} "Stolen waters are sweet, and bread of secrecy is pleasant." {{rf{18}}} But he does not know that the dead are there, in the depths of Sheol are her guests. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Proverbs-09-01]] }}}
The proverbs of Solomon: A wise child makes a father glad, but a foolish child grieves his mother. {{rf{2}}} Treasures of wickedness do not profit, but righteousness delivers from death. {{rf{3}}} Yahweh will not cause a righteous person to go hungry, but the craving of the wicked he will thwart. {{rf{4}}} A slack hand causes poverty, but the hand of the diligent enriches. {{rf{5}}} He who gathers in the summer is a child who is prudent; he who sleeps at the harvest is a child who brings shame. {{rf{6}}} Blessings belong to the head of the righteous, but the mouth of the wicked conceals violence. {{rf{7}}} The memory of righteousness is like a blessing, but the name of the wicked will rot. {{rf{8}}} A heart of wisdom will heed commandments, but a babbling fool will come to ruin. {{rf{9}}} Whoever walks in integrity will walk securely, but whoever follows perversity, his ways will be made known. {{rf{10}}} The winking of an eye causes trouble, and the foolishness of lips comes to ruin. {{rf{11}}} A fountain of life is a mouth of righteousness, and a mouth of wickedness conceals violence. {{rf{12}}} Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers over all offenses. {{rf{13}}} On the lips of one who has understanding, wisdom is found, but a rod is for the back of one who lacks sense. {{rf{14}}} Those who are wise lay up knowledge, but to the mouth of the fool, ruin draws near. {{rf{15}}} The wealth of the rich is the city of his strength; the ruin of the poor is their poverty. {{rf{16}}} The wage of the righteous leads to life; the gain of the wicked to sin. {{rf{17}}} On the path to life is he who guards instruction, but he who rejects rebuke goes astray. {{rf{18}}} He who conceals hatred has lips of deceit, and he who utters slander -- he is a fool. {{rf{19}}} In many words, transgression is not lacking, but he who restrains his lips is prudent. {{rf{20}}} Choice silver is a tongue of righteousness, a heart of wickedness is of little worth. {{rf{21}}} Lips of righteousness feed many, but fools die for lack of sense. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Proverbs-10-01]] }}}
<<Bbl Pr 10:19 abbr >> The fallen nature.
<<Bbl Pr 11:14 abbr>> The Bible is a multitude of counselors.
<<Bbl Pr 11:30 abbr>> We usually read this backward (as do the Open Bible and other evangelism teachings ): in order to be wise, we should go out and "win souls."
<<Bbl Pr 12:25 abbr >> Part A, isolation. Part B, intervention.
<<Bbl Pr 13:22 abbr>> see <<Bbl Josh 24:13 >>
<<Bbl Pr 14:4 abbr >> Life's a trade-off. Investment has a return.
<<Bbl Pr 14:30 abbr >> The life of the body is a heart at peace, but envy rots the bones.
15:14 The uses of singular, plural inform us that fools are more common than wise men.
16:26 [[Future]]-orientation.
<<Bbl Pr 16:26 abbr >> Possibly illustrated by Eddie Acaro's warning about silk pajamas.
17:3 God always reveals the most basic motivations within us. In the furnace the weightiest element goes to the very bottom and there becomes pure. Hell is pure, and heaven is pure. God is the weightiest element in the life of the godly man. Thus circumstances, heat, and pressure tend to reveal God in his life.
<<Bbl Pr 18:8 abbr >> //The words of a whisperer// -- Like the Inuit method of hunting a polar bear. They create an everlasting gob-stopper of death. //They wind it and they bind it, to bring down the polar bear.// They don't coat the device with second-rate lard. They use choice whale blubber. Gossip is "decadently delicious", as the purveyors of chocolate say (in an oblique acknowledgment of "decay").
As with so many proverbs, this is not written for the benefit of the whisperer, but for the benefit of the whisperer's companion.
19:23 This verse describes Ruth's life.
19:27 This verse describes Solomon's own end.
{{rf{22}}} The blessing of Yahweh makes one rich, and he does not increase sorrow with it. {{rf{23}}} It is like a sport for a fool to do wrong, wisdom for a person of understanding. {{rf{24}}} The dread of the wicked will come upon him, but the desire of the righteous will be granted. {{rf{25}}} With the passing of the tempest, there is no wickedness, but the righteous have a foundation forever. {{rf{26}}} Like vinegar to the tooth and like smoke to the eyes, thus is the lazy to one who employs him. {{rf{27}}} The fear of Yahweh adds life, but the years of the wicked are shortened. {{rf{28}}} The hope of the righteous is gladness, but the expectation of the wicked comes to nothing. {{rf{29}}} A stronghold for the upright is the way of Yahweh, but ruin belongs to evildoers. {{rf{30}}} The righteous one is forever; he will not be removed. But the wicked will not remain in the land. {{rf{31}}} The mouth of the righteous brings forth wisdom, but a tongue of perversity will be cut off. {{rf{32}}} The lips of the righteous know the acceptable, but the mouth of the wicked, the perverse. {{rf big{1}}} Balances of deceit are an abomination of Yahweh, but an accurate weight delights him. {{rf{2}}} Pride comes, then disgrace comes, but wisdom is with the humble. {{rf{3}}} The integrity of the upright guides them, but the crookedness of the treacherous destroys them. {{rf{4}}} Wealth does not profit on the day of wrath, but righteousness will deliver from death. {{rf{5}}} The righteousness of the blameless will keep his ways straight, but the wicked will fall by his wickedness. {{rf{6}}} The righteousness of the upright will save them, but by a scheme the treacherous will be taken captive. {{rf{7}}} With the death of a wicked person, hope will die, and the expectation of the godless perishes. {{rf{8}}} The righteous is delivered from trouble, but the wicked enters into it. {{rf{9}}} With a mouth, the godless shall destroy his neighbor, but by knowledge the righteous are delivered. {{rf{10}}} When good is with the righteous, the city rejoices, and with the perishing of the wicked, jubilation. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Proverbs-10-22]] }}}
{{rf{11}}} By the blessing of the upright, a city will be exalted, but by the mouth of the wicked, it will be overthrown. {{rf{12}}} He who lacks sense belittles his neighbor, but a person of intelligence will remain silent. {{rf{13}}} A gossip walks about telling a secret, but the trustworthy in spirit keeps the matter. {{rf{14}}} Where there is no guidance, a nation shall fall, but there is safety in an abundance of counsel. {{rf{15}}} He will suffer trouble when he loans to a stranger, but he who refuses a pledge is safe. {{rf{16}}} A woman of grace receives honor, but the ruthless gets wealth. {{rf{17}}} A person of kindness rewards himself, but a cruel person harms his own flesh. {{rf{18}}} The wicked earns deceptive gain, but he who sows righteousness, a true reward. {{rf{19}}} He who is steadfast in righteousness is to life as he who pursues evil is to death. {{rf{20}}} An abomination of Yahweh are the crooked of heart, but his delight are those with blameless ways. {{rf{21}}} Rest assured, the wicked will not go unpunished, but the offspring of the righteous will escape. {{rf{22}}} A ring of gold in the snout of a pig is a woman who is beautiful but without discretion. {{rf{23}}} The desire of the righteous is only good, but the expectation of the wicked, wrath. {{rf{24}}} There is one who gives yet grows richer, but he who withholds what is right only finds need. {{rf{25}}} A person of blessing will be enriched, and he who gives water also will be refreshed. {{rf{26}}} He who withholds grain, the people curse him, but a blessing is for the head of him who sells. {{rf{27}}} He who diligently seeks good seeks favor, but he who inquires of evil, it will come to him. {{rf{28}}} He who trusts in his wealth is he who will fall, but like a green leaf the righteous will flourish. {{rf{29}}} He who brings trouble to his household, he will inherit wind, and a fool will serve the wise of heart. {{rf{30}}} The fruit of righteousness is a tree of life, and he who captures souls is wise. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Proverbs-11-11]] }}}
{{rf{31}}} If the righteous on earth will be repaid, how much more the wicked and sinner. {{rf big{1}}} He who loves discipline loves knowledge, but he who hates rebuke is stupid. {{rf{2}}} The good obtains favor from Yahweh, but anyone who schemes, he condemns. {{rf{3}}} A person will not be established by wickedness, but the root of the righteous will not be moved. {{rf{4}}} A woman of strength is the crown of her master, but like rot in his bones is she who brings shame. {{rf{5}}} The thoughts of the righteous are just; the advice of the wicked is treacherous. {{rf{6}}} The words of the wicked are an ambush of blood, but the mouth of the upright delivers them. {{rf{7}}} The wicked are overthrown and are no more, but the house of the righteous shall stand. {{rf{8}}} For his mouth of good sense, a man will be recommended, but he who is of perverse mind will be despised. {{rf{9}}} It is better to be lowly and a servant to someone than self-glorifying and lacking food. {{rf{10}}} The righteous knows the life of his animal, but the compassion of the wicked is cruel. {{rf{11}}} He who works his land will have plenty of food, but he who follows worthless things lacks sense. {{rf{12}}} The wicked covets the proceeds of evil, but the root of the righteous bears fruit. {{rf{13}}} By the transgression of lips, evil is ensnared, but the righteous escapes from trouble. {{rf{14}}} From the fruit of the mouth of a man, he is filled with good, and the reward of a man's labor will return to him. {{rf{15}}} The way of a fool is upright in his own eyes, but he who listens to advice is wise. {{rf{16}}} As for a fool, on that very day he makes his anger known, but he who ignores an insult is prudent. {{rf{17}}} He who will speak truth will reveal righteousness, but the witness of falsehood, deceit. {{rf{18}}} There is one who speaks rashly, like the thrust of a sword, but the tongue of the wise brings healing. {{rf{19}}} A lip of truth endures forever, but a tongue of deception lasts only a moment. {{rf{20}}} Deceit is in the heart of those who plan evil, but to those who plan peace, there is joy. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Proverbs-11-31]] }}}
{{rf{21}}} No evil will happen to the righteous, but the wicked are filled with trouble. {{rf{22}}} An abomination of Yahweh are lips of deceit, but they who act faithfully are his delight. {{rf{23}}} A clever person conceals knowledge, but the heart of a fool announces folly. {{rf{24}}} The hand of the diligent ones will rule, but the lazy will belong to forced labor. {{rf{25}}} Anxiety in the heart of a man will weigh him down, but a good word will cheer him. {{rf{26}}} A righteous person will seek out his neighbor, but the way of the wicked will lead them astray. {{rf{27}}} The lazy will not roast his game, but diligence is the precious wealth of a man. {{rf{28}}} On the road of righteousness is life, and on the way of the path, may there be no death. {{rf big{1}}} A wise child hears the discipline of a father, but a scoffer does not listen to a rebuke. {{rf{2}}} From the fruit of the mouth of a man, he shall eat what is good, but the desire of the treacherous, wrongdoing. {{rf{3}}} He who keeps his mouth guards his life; he who opens his lips, ruin belongs to him. {{rf{4}}} The soul of the lazy craves, but there is nothing, but the person of diligence is richly supplied. {{rf{5}}} The righteous hates a word of falsehood; the wicked will bring shame and disgrace. {{rf{6}}} Righteousness will guard the upright of way, but wickedness will overthrow sin. {{rf{7}}} There is one who acts rich but has nothing; another who pretends to be poor but has wealth. {{rf{8}}} The ransom of the life of a man is his wealth, but the poor does not receive a threat. {{rf{9}}} The light of the righteous will rejoice, but the lamp of the wicked will die out. {{rf{10}}} Only by insolence is strife set up, and wisdom is with those who take advice. {{rf{11}}} Wealth gained from haste will dwindle, but he who gathers little by little will increase it. {{rf{12}}} Hope that is deferred makes the heart sick, but a desire fulfilled is a tree of life. {{rf{13}}} He who despises a word will bring destruction on himself, but he who respects a commandment will be rewarded. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Proverbs-12-21]] }}}
{{rf{14}}} The teaching of the wise is a fountain of life, in order to avoid the snares of death. {{rf{15}}} Good sense grants favor, but the way of the faithless is coarse. {{rf{16}}} Anyone who is clever will act with intelligence, but the fool will display folly. {{rf{17}}} A messenger of wickedness will fall into trouble, but an envoy of the faithful brings healing. {{rf{18}}} Poverty and disgrace belong to him who ignores instruction, but he who guards reproof will be honored. {{rf{19}}} A desire fulfilled will be sweet to the soul, but an abomination of fools is turning from evil. {{rf{20}}} Walk with the wise and be wise, but as for the companion of fools, he will suffer harm. {{rf{21}}} Misfortune will pursue sinners, but the righteous will be rewarded with prosperity. {{rf{22}}} He who is good will leave an inheritance to his grandchildren, and stored up for the righteous is the wealth of a sinner. {{rf{23}}} There is much food in the field of the poor, but it is swept away by injustice. {{rf{24}}} He who withholds his rod hates his child, but he who loves him gives him discipline. {{rf{25}}} The righteous eats to satisfy his life, but the belly of the wicked will lack. {{rf big{1}}} The wisest of women builds her house, but the foolish tears it down with her hands. {{rf{2}}} He who walks in uprightness fears Yahweh, but he who is devious in his ways displeases him. {{rf{3}}} In the mouth of a fool is the rod of pride, but the lips of the wise preserve them. {{rf{4}}} When there are no oxen the manger is empty, but an abundance of crops comes by the strength of an ox. {{rf{5}}} A faithful witness does not lie, but he who breathes out falsehood is a witness of deceit. {{rf{6}}} A scoffer seeks wisdom, but there is none, but knowledge comes easily to him who understands. {{rf{7}}} Leave the presence of a foolish man, for you will not come to know words of knowledge. {{rf{8}}} The wisdom of the clever is understanding his ways, but the folly of fools is deceit. {{rf{9}}} Fools mock the guilt offering, but among the upright, it is favorable. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Proverbs-13-14]] }}}
{{rf{10}}} The heart knows the bitterness of its soul, but in its joy, it will not share itself with a stranger. {{rf{11}}} The house of the wicked will be destroyed, but the tent of the upright will flourish. {{rf{12}}} There is a way that seems upright to a man, but its end is the way of death. {{rf{13}}} Even in laughter, a heart may be sad, and the end of joy may be grief. {{rf{14}}} From his ways, the perverse of heart will be satisfied, and from his own, so shall a good man. {{rf{15}}} The simple will believe every word, but the clever will consider his step. {{rf{16}}} The wise is cautious and turns from evil, but the fool throws off restraint and is confident. {{rf{17}}} He who is short of temper will act foolishly, and the man who schemes will be hated. {{rf{18}}} The simple are adorned with folly, but the clever are crowned with knowledge. {{rf{19}}} The evil bow down before the good, and the wicked at the gates of the righteous. {{rf{20}}} The poor is disliked even by his neighbor, but the lovers of the rich are many. {{rf{21}}} He who despises his neighbor is a sinner, but he who has mercy on the poor blesses him. {{rf{22}}} Have they not erred, those who plan evil? But loyalty and faithfulness belong to those who plan good. {{rf{23}}} In all toil, there is profit, but the talk of lips leads only to poverty. {{rf{24}}} The crown of the wise is their wealth; the folly of fools is folly. {{rf{25}}} He who saves lives is a witness of truth, but he who utters lies is a betrayer. {{rf{26}}} In the fear of Yahweh, there is confidence of strength, and for his children, there will be refuge. {{rf{27}}} The fear of Yahweh is a fountain of life, in order to turn from the snares of death. {{rf{28}}} In the multitude of people is the glory of the king, but without a population, a prince is ruined. {{rf{29}}} He who is slow to anger has great understanding, but the hasty of spirit exalts folly. ''{{rf{30}}} A heart of tranquility is life to the flesh, but causes bones of passion to rot.'' {{rf{31}}} He who oppresses the poor insults him who made him, but he who has mercy on the poor honors him. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Proverbs-14-10]] }}}
{{rf{32}}} By his evildoing, the wicked will be overthrown, and the righteous will find refuge in his death. {{rf{33}}} In the heart of him who has understanding, wisdom rests, but even in the midst of fools it becomes known. {{rf{34}}} Righteousness will exalt a nation, but sin is a reproach to a people. {{rf{35}}} The favor of a king is for the servant who deals wisely, but his wrath will be on him who acts shamefully. {{rf big{1}}} A soft answer will turn away wrath, but a word of trouble will stir anger. {{rf{2}}} The tongue of the wise will dispense knowledge, but the mouth of fools will pour out folly. {{rf{3}}} In every place, the eyes of Yahweh keep watch over the evil and the good. {{rf{4}}} Gentleness of tongue is a tree of life, but perverseness in it causes a break in spirit. {{rf{5}}} A fool will despise the instruction of his father, but he who guards reproof is prudent. {{rf{6}}} In the house of the righteous there is much treasure, but the income of the wicked brings trouble. {{rf{7}}} The lips of the wise will spread knowledge, but the heart of fools, not so. {{rf{8}}} The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination of Yahweh, but the prayer of the upright is his delight. {{rf{9}}} An abomination of Yahweh is the way of the wicked, but he who pursues righteousness he will love. {{rf{10}}} Severe discipline belongs to him who forsakes the way; he who hates a rebuke will die. {{rf{11}}} Sheol and Abaddon are before Yahweh, how much more the hearts of the children of men! {{rf{12}}} A scoffer does not like his rebuke; to the wise he will not go. {{rf{13}}} A heart of gladness will make good countenance, but in sorrow of heart a spirit is broken. {{rf{14}}} The heart of him who understands will seek knowledge, but the faces of fools, they will feed on folly. {{rf{15}}} All the days of the poor are hard, but goodness of heart is a continuous feast. {{rf{16}}} Better is little with the fear of Yahweh than great treasure and trouble with it. {{rf{17}}} Better is a dinner of vegetables when love is there than a fattened ox and hatred with it. {{rf{18}}} A man who is hot-tempered will stir up strife, but he who is slow to anger, he will calm contention. {{rf{19}}} The way of the lazy is like a hedge of thorns, but the path of the upright is a highway. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Proverbs-14-32]] }}}
{{rf{20}}} A child of wisdom will make a father glad, but a foolish person, he despises his mother. {{rf{21}}} Folly is a joy to him who lacks sense, and a person of understanding will walk upright. {{rf{22}}} Plans go wrong when there is no counsel, but with many advisors it will succeed. {{rf{23}}} Joy belongs to a man with answers in his mouth, and a word in its time, how good it is! {{rf{24}}} The path of life leads upward for him who has insight, in order to turn away from Sheol below. {{rf{25}}} The house of the proud, Yahweh will tear it down, but he will maintain the property line of the widow. {{rf{26}}} Plans of evil are an abomination of Yahweh, but gracious words are pure. {{rf{27}}} He who makes trouble for his house is he who is greedy for unjust gain, but he who hates bribes will live. {{rf{28}}} A heart of righteousness will ponder the answer, but a mouth of wickedness will pour out deceit. {{rf{29}}} Yahweh is far from the wicked, but the prayers of the righteous he will hear. {{rf{30}}} From the light of the eyes, the heart will rejoice, and good news will enliven the bones. {{rf{31}}} The ear of him who listens to admonitions of life, in the midst of the wise it will lodge. {{rf{32}}} He who ignores instruction despises himself, but he who hears admonition gains heart. {{rf{33}}} Fear of Yahweh is the instruction of the wise, and before honor comes humility. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Proverbs-15-20]] }}}
To mortals belong the plans of the heart, but from Yahweh comes the answer of the tongue. {{rf{2}}} All the ways of a man are pure in his own eyes, but Yahweh weighs the spirit. {{rf{3}}} Commit your work to Yahweh, and your plans will be established. {{rf{4}}} All Yahweh has made is for his purpose, and even the wicked for the day of trouble. {{rf{5}}} An abomination of Yahweh are all who are arrogant of heart; rest assured, he will not go unpunished. {{rf{6}}} By loyalty and faithfulness, iniquity will be covered over, and by fear of Yahweh one turns from evil. {{rf{7}}} When the ways of a man are pleasing to Yahweh, even his enemies he will cause to make peace with him. {{rf{8}}} Better is little with righteousness than great income with no justice. {{rf{9}}} The mind of a person will plan his ways, and Yahweh will direct his steps. {{rf{10}}} A decision is upon the lips of a king; in judgment his mouth will not sin. {{rf{11}}} A balance and scales of justice belong to Yahweh; all the weights of the bag are his work. {{rf{12}}} An abomination to kings is doing evil, for by righteousness the throne will be established. {{rf{13}}} The delight of kings are the lips of righteousness, and he who speaks what is upright he will love. {{rf{14}}} The wrath of a king is a messenger of death, but one who is wise will appease it. {{rf{15}}} In the light of the face of the king there is life, and his favor is like a cloud of spring rain. {{rf{16}}} Getting wisdom: how much better than gold! And getting understanding: it is chosen over silver. {{rf{17}}} The highway of the upright, it turns from evil, he who guards himself keeps his way. {{rf{18}}} Before destruction comes pride, and before a fall, a haughty spirit. {{rf{19}}} Better a lowly spirit with the poor than dividing the spoil with the proud. {{rf{20}}} He who is attentive to a matter will find goodness, and he who trusts in Yahweh, his own happiness. {{rf{21}}} The wise of heart is called perceptive, but he who is pleasant of lips will increase persuasiveness. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Proverbs-16-01]] }}}
{{rf{22}}} A fountain of life is wisdom for its owner, but the instruction of fools is folly. {{rf{23}}} The heart of the wise will make his mouth judicious, and upon his lips, it will add persuasiveness. {{rf{24}}} Pleasant sayings are a honeycomb, sweetness to the soul and healing to the bones. {{rf{25}}} There is a way that seems upright to a man, but its end is the way of death. {{rf{26}}} The life of a worker works for him, for his hunger urges him. {{rf{27}}} A man of wickedness concocts evil, and his lips are like a scorching fire. {{rf{28}}} A person of perversity will spread dissent, and he who whispers separates a close friend. {{rf{29}}} A person of violence will entice his neighbor and cause him to walk on a way that is not good. {{rf{30}}} He who winks his eyes does so in order to plan perverse things; he who purses his lips will bring evil to pass. {{rf{31}}} A crown of glory is gray hair; by a righteous life it is gained. {{rf{32}}} He who is slow to anger is better than him who is mighty, and he who controls his spirit than him who captures a city. {{rf{33}}} The lot will be cast into the lap, but all of its decisions are from Yahweh. {{rf big{1}}} Better a dry morsel and quiet with it than a house filled with feasts of strife. {{rf{2}}} A slave who deals wisely will rule over a child who acts shamefully, and in the midst of brothers he will share his inheritance. {{rf{3}}} A crucible is for the silver, and a furnace is for the gold, but Yahweh will test hearts. {{rf{4}}} He who does evil listens to lips of wickedness, and the liar gives heed to the tongue of mischief. {{rf{5}}} He who mocks the poor insults him who made him; he who rejoices at calamity will not go unpunished. {{rf{6}}} The crown of the elderly are grandchildren, and the glory of children is their fathers. {{rf{7}}} Fine speech is not becoming a fool, still less is false speech for a ruler. {{rf{8}}} The bribe is a stone of magic in the eyes of its owner; everywhere he will turn, he will prosper. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Proverbs-16-22]] }}}
{{rf{9}}} He who forgives an affront fosters love, but he who waits on a matter will alienate a friend. {{rf{10}}} A rebuke strikes him who understands deeper than one hundred blows to a fool. {{rf{11}}} An evil person will seek only rebellion, and a cruel messenger will be sent against him. {{rf{12}}} May a man meet a she-bear robbed of offspring and not a fool in his folly. {{rf{13}}} For he who returns evil for good, evil will not depart from his house. {{rf{14}}} Like the release of water is the beginning of strife; before it breaks out, stop the quarrel. {{rf{15}}} He who justifies the wicked and he who condemns the righteous, the two of them are both abominations of Yahweh. {{rf{16}}} Why is this? A price in the hand of a fool, in order to buy wisdom where there is no sense. {{rf{17}}} The friend loves at all times, but a brother is born for adversity. {{rf{18}}} A person who lacks sense pledges; he becomes security before his neighbor. {{rf{19}}} He who loves transgression loves strife; he who builds his high thresholds seeks destruction. {{rf{20}}} He who is crooked of heart will not find goodness, and he who is perverse, by his tongue he will fall into calamity. {{rf{21}}} He who begets a fool, there is trouble for him; the father of a fool will not rejoice. {{rf{22}}} A cheerful heart is good medicine, but a downcast spirit will dry out bones. {{rf{23}}} The wicked will accept a bribe from the lap, in order to pervert the ways of justice. {{rf{24}}} He who understands sets his face toward wisdom, but the eyes of a fool, to the end of the earth. {{rf{25}}} A grief to his father is the child of a fool, and bitterness to her who bore him. {{rf{26}}} Also, imposing a fine on the righteous is not good, nor to flog nobles for uprightness. {{rf{27}}} He who spares his sayings knows knowledge, and a cool spirit is a man of understanding. {{rf{28}}} Even a fool who keeps silent shall be considered wise; he who closes his lips is intelligent. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Proverbs-17-09]] }}}
He who is selfish seeks a craving; against all sound judgment he shows contempt. {{rf{2}}} A fool will not take pleasure in understanding, but in expressing his heart. {{rf{3}}} With the coming of wickedness comes contempt also, and with dishonor, disgrace. {{rf{4}}} Deep waters are words of the mouth of a man; a gushing stream is a fountain of wisdom. {{rf{5}}} Being partial to faces of evil is not good, nor to subvert the righteous at the judgment. {{rf{6}}} The lips of a fool will bring strife, and his mouth calls out for a flogging. {{rf{7}}} The mouth of a fool is ruin to him, and his lips are a snare to his soul. {{rf{8}}} The words of a whisper are like delicious morsels, and they themselves go down to inner parts of the body. {{rf{9}}} Even he who is slack in his work, he is brother to a master of destruction. {{rf{10}}} A tower of strength is the name of Yahweh; into him the righteous will run and be safe. {{rf{11}}} The wealth of the rich is his strong city, and like a wall, it is high in his imagination. {{rf{12}}} In the presence of destruction, the heart of a man will be haughty, but in the presence of honor, humble. {{rf{13}}} He who returns a word before he will hear, folly itself belongs to him as well as shame. {{rf{14}}} The spirit of a man will endure his sickness, but a broken spirit, who may bear it? {{rf{15}}} An intelligent mind will acquire knowledge, and the ear of the wise will seek knowledge. {{rf{16}}} The gift of a person will open doors for him, and before the great, it gives him access. {{rf{17}}} The first in his dispute is deemed righteous, but his neighbor will come and examine him. {{rf{18}}} The lot will put an end to disputes, and between powerful contenders it will decide. {{rf{19}}} A brother who is offended is worse than a city of strength, and quarrels are like the bars of a fortification. {{rf{20}}} From the fruit of a man's mouth, his stomach will be satisfied, as for the yield of his lips, it will satisfy. {{rf{21}}} Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love her will eat of her fruit. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Proverbs-18-01]] }}}
{{rf{22}}} He who finds a wife finds good, and he will obtain favor from Yahweh. {{rf{23}}} The poor may speak entreaties, but the rich will answer roughly. {{rf{24}}} A man of many friends will come to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother. {{rf big{1}}} Better a poor person walking in integrity than one who is perverse in his speech and is a fool. {{rf{2}}} Also, a life without knowledge is not good, and he who moves quickly with his feet misses the mark. {{rf{3}}} As for the folly of humankind, its way leads to ruin, and against Yahweh his heart will rage. {{rf{4}}} Wealth adds many friends, but the poor will be left by his friends. {{rf{5}}} A witness of falsehood will not go unpunished, and he who breathes lies will not escape. {{rf{6}}} Many will seek favor before the generous, and everyone is the friend of a man of gifts. {{rf{7}}} All the brothers of the poor, if they hate him, how much more will his friends keep away from him. He pursues them with words, and they are gone. {{rf{8}}} He who acquires wisdom loves himself; he who guards understanding loves to find good. {{rf{9}}} A false witness will not go unpunished, and he who breathes lies will perish. {{rf{10}}} For a fool living in luxury is not fitting, any more than it is for a slave to rule over princes. {{rf{11}}} The understanding of a person makes him slow to his anger, and his glory overlooks offense. {{rf{12}}} The rage of a king growls like a lion, but his favor is like dew on the grass. {{rf{13}}} A foolish child is a ruin to his father, and the quarreling of a woman is a continuous dripping. {{rf{14}}} A house and wealth are an inheritance from fathers, but from Yahweh comes a woman who is prudent. {{rf{15}}} Laziness will bring on a deep sleep, and a person of idleness will suffer hunger. {{rf{16}}} He who guards commandments guards his life; he who is careless of his ways will be killed. {{rf{17}}} He who lends to Yahweh is he who is kind to the poor, and his benefits he will repay to him. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Proverbs-18-22]] }}}
{{rf{18}}} Discipline your child, for there is hope, but on his destruction do not set your desire. {{rf{19}}} A hot-tempered person pays a penalty; if you rescue him, you will do it yet again. {{rf{20}}} Listen to advice and accept instruction so that you will gain wisdom for your future. {{rf{21}}} Many plans are in the heart of a man, but the purpose of Yahweh will be established. {{rf{22}}} The craving of a man is his steadfast loyalty, and it is better to be poor than a liar. {{rf{23}}} Fear of Yahweh leads to life; he who is filled with it will rest -- he will not suffer harm. {{rf{24}}} A lazy person buries his hand in the dish, and even to his mouth he will not bring it back. {{rf{25}}} The scoffer you shall strike, and the simple, may they learn prudence, and reprove the intelligent and he will gain knowledge. {{rf{26}}} He who does violence to a father, he who chases away a mother, is a child who causes shame and brings reproach. {{rf{27}}} Cease to listen to instruction, my child, and you will stray from sayings of knowledge. {{rf{28}}} A worthless witness will mock justice, and the mouth of the wicked will devour iniquity. {{rf{29}}} Judgments are prepared for the scoffers, and flogging for the back of fools. {{rf big{1}}} Wine is a mocker, strong drink a brawler, and any who go astray by it are not wise. {{rf{2}}} Roaring like the lion is the dreaded anger of a king; he who provokes him forfeits his life. {{rf{3}}} It is honorable for the man to refrain from strife, but every fool will be quick to quarrel. {{rf{4}}} The lazy person will not plow in season; he will expect at the harvest, but there will be nothing. {{rf{5}}} Deep waters are like purpose in the heart of a man, and a man of understanding will draw it out. {{rf{6}}} Many a person will proclaim his loyalty for himself, but a man who is trustworthy, who can find? {{rf{7}}} He who walks in his integrity is righteous; happy are his children who follow him. {{rf{8}}} A king who sits on the throne of judgment winnows all evil with his eyes. {{rf{9}}} Who will say "I have made my heart clean; I am pure from my sin"? {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Proverbs-19-18]] }}}
<<Bbl Pr 20:27 abbr>> see <<Bbl Mt 6:22 >>
<<Bbl Pr 21:9 abbr >>, <<Bbl Mt 25:24 >> (or possibly <<Bbl Pr 25:24 >>?) The man-cave taken to a desperate extreme.
22:14 see <<Bbl Ecc 7:26 >>
<<Bbl Pr 22:15 abbr >> //Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child//... Is it possible //child// refers to the foolish (like //naïve// in <<Bbl Pr 1:7 abbr>>) and //the rod// to life's trials? Then this would be descriptive, and perhaps not as prescriptive as we think. This does run counter to the apparent plain meaning. We might observe that in our preoccupation with wise parenting, we may overlook the application to one's own life before a loving heavenly Father.
<<Bbl Pr 22:18 abbr >> i.e., memorize
<<Bbl Pr 23:20 abbr >> Ensnared perhaps as the partner.
<<Bbl Pr 23:31 abbr>> Lists some pros on the pro/con list for wine. (Verse 30 covers the gourmet culture.) You are exhorted to recall the cons.
<<Bbl Pr 24:22 >> The end of Solomon's own writing.
24:27 see <<Bbl J 4:10 >>
<<Bbl Pr 25:2 abbr >> The vocation of science.
25:7 see <<Bbl L 14:7 >>-11 .
<<Bbl Pr 25:12 abbr >> Two pieces that form a harmonious pair.
25:16 a meaningful companion in <<Bbl Pr 27:7 abbr >>. Imagine trying to counsel such a man on how to enjoy honey again; how useless the effort of a person who is unable to take perspective.
<<Bbl Pr 25:26 abbr>> //polluted well// -- Imagine a good ol' boy saying //__Wa-a-ll__, that's jus' how Jimmy behaves...//
{{rf{10}}} Stone and stone, measure and measure, both of them are an abomination of Yahweh. {{rf{11}}} Even by his acts, a young man will make himself known, whether his acts are pure and upright. {{rf{12}}} The ear that hears and the eye that sees, Yahweh has made them both. {{rf{13}}} Do not love sleep, lest you become poor; open your eyes and have plenty bread. {{rf{14}}} "Bad, bad," the buyer will say, but when one goes to him, then he will boast. {{rf{15}}} There is gold and many costly stones, but precious jewels are lips of knowledge. {{rf{16}}} Take his garment, for he has given security to a stranger, and on behalf of a foreigner -- take it as pledge. {{rf{17}}} Bread gained by deceit is sweet for the man, but afterward, his mouth will be filled with gravel. {{rf{18}}} A plan will be established by advice, and with guidance make war. {{rf{19}}} He reveals a secret, he who walks about with gossip, and do not associate with a babbler's lips. {{rf{20}}} He who curses his father and his mother, his lamp will be extinguished in the midst of darkness. {{rf{21}}} An inheritance acquired hastily at the beginning will not be blessed at its end. {{rf{22}}} Do not say "I will repay evil"; wait for Yahweh and he will deliver you. {{rf{23}}} An abomination of Yahweh is a stone and a weight, and scales of falsehood are not good. {{rf{24}}} Away from Yahweh are the steps of a strong man, and how will humankind understand his ways? {{rf{25}}} It is a snare to humankind to say rashly "It is holy," and after vows, to scrutinize. {{rf{26}}} A wise king winnows the wicked, and he will drive a wheel over them. {{rf{27}}} The lamp of Yahweh is the spirit of humankind, he who searches every innermost part. {{rf{28}}} Loyalty and faithfulness will preserve a king, and he is upheld with the righteousness of his throne. {{rf{29}}} The glory of young men is their strength, but the beauty of the aged is gray hair. {{rf{30}}} The blows of a wound will cleanse evil, as will beatings of the innermost part. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Proverbs-20-10]] }}}
Streams of water are the heart of a king in the hand of Yahweh; wherever he will desire, he will turn. {{rf{2}}} Every way of a man is upright in his own eyes, but Yahweh weighs hearts. {{rf{3}}} Doing righteousness and justice is more acceptable to Yahweh than sacrifice. {{rf{4}}} Haughtiness of the eyes and pride of heart, the lamp of the wicked are sin. {{rf{5}}} The plans of the diligent only lead to abundance, but all who are hasty, only to want. {{rf{6}}} He who makes treasure by a lying tongue is a fleeting vapor and seeker of death. {{rf{7}}} The violence of the wicked will sweep them away, for they refuse to do justice. {{rf{8}}} Crooked is the way of a man and a foreigner, but the pure is upright in his conduct. {{rf{9}}} Better to dwell on the corner of a roof than to share a house with a woman of contention. {{rf{10}}} The soul of the wicked desires evil; his neighbor will not find mercy in his eyes. {{rf{11}}} With the punishment of a scoffer, the simple will become wise, and with the instruction of the wise, he will obtain knowledge. {{rf{12}}} The righteous observes the house of the wicked; he throws the wicked to ruin. {{rf{13}}} He who closes his ear from the cry of the poor, he also will cry out and not be heard. {{rf{14}}} A gift in secret will avert anger, and a concealed bribe, strong wrath. {{rf{15}}} It is a joy to the righteous to do justice, but dismay to those who do evil. {{rf{16}}} Whoever wanders from the way of understanding, in the assembly of the dead he will rest. {{rf{17}}} A man of want is he who loves pleasure; he who loves wine and oil will not become rich. {{rf{18}}} A ransom for the righteous is the wicked, and the faithless instead of the upright. {{rf{19}}} Better to live in a land of wilderness than with a wife of quarrels and provocation. {{rf{20}}} Precious treasure and oil are in the house of the wise, but the foolish person will devour them. {{rf{21}}} He who pursues righteousness and kindness will find life, righteousness, and honor. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Proverbs-21-01]] }}}
{{rf{22}}} To a city of warriors, the wise ascends, and he will bring down the stronghold -- its object of trust. {{rf{23}}} He who guards his mouth and his tongue, he guards his life from danger. {{rf{24}}} The proud, haughty one: "scoffer" is his name; he acts with arrogance of pride. {{rf{25}}} The craving of a lazy person will kill him, for his hands refuse to work. {{rf{26}}} All day he craves a craving, but the righteous will give and not hold back. {{rf{27}}} The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination; how much more when he brings it in divisiveness! {{rf{28}}} A false witness will perish, but a man who listens will testify with success. {{rf{29}}} A wicked man is strong in his countenance, but the upright will appoint his paths. {{rf{30}}} There is no wisdom, nor understanding, nor counsel to oppose Yahweh. {{rf{31}}} A horse is prepared for the day of battle, but to Yahweh belongs the victory. {{rf big{1}}} A reputation is to be chosen rather than great riches; favor is better than silver and gold. {{rf{2}}} Rich and poor have much in common; Yahweh is the maker of all of them. {{rf{3}}} The clever sees danger and hides, but the simple go on and suffer. {{rf{4}}} The reward of humility is the fear of Yahweh -- wealth and honor and life. {{rf{5}}} Thorns and snares are in the way of the perverse; he who guards himself will keep away from them. {{rf{6}}} Train the child concerning his way; even when he is old, he will not stray from it. {{rf{7}}} The rich will rule over the poor, and the borrower is a slave of the lender. {{rf{8}}} He who sows injustice will reap calamity, and the rod of his anger will fail. {{rf{9}}} He who is generous will be blessed, for he gives to the poor from his own bread. {{rf{10}}} Drive out a scoffer and strife will go out; quarrel and abuse will cease. {{rf{11}}} He who loves purity of heart and hasgracious speech, his friend is the king. {{rf{12}}} The eyes of Yahweh keep watch over knowledge, but he will overthrow the words of the faithless. {{rf{13}}} A lazy person says "A lion in the street! In the middle of the highway, I shall be killed!" {{rf{14}}} A deep pit is the mouth of an adulteress, he with whom Yahweh is angry will fall there. {{rf{15}}} Folly is bound up in the heart of a boy; the rod of discipline will drive it from him. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Proverbs-21-22]] }}}
{{rf{16}}} He who oppresses the poor in order to enrich himself, or gives to the rich, will come to poverty. {{rf{17}}} Incline your ear and hear the words of the wise; you shall apply your heart to my teaching. {{rf{18}}} For it is pleasant if you guard them within you; together they will be ready upon your lips. {{rf{19}}} In order for your trust to be in Yahweh, I have made them known to you today -- even you. {{rf{20}}} Have I not written for you thirty sayings with admonitions and knowledge? {{rf{21}}} In order to show you what is right -- sayings of truth -- in order to return a true saying to him who sent you. {{rf{22}}} Do not rob the poor because he is poor, and do not crush the afflicted at the gate; {{rf{23}}} For Yahweh will plead their case and despoil those who despoil them of life. {{rf{24}}} Do not befriend an owner of anger, and with a man of wrath you shall not associate; {{rf{25}}} lest you learn his way and become entangled in a snare to yourself. {{rf{26}}} Do not be with those who give a pledge by becoming surety. {{rf{27}}} If there is nothing for you to pay, why will he take your bed from under you? {{rf{28}}} Do not remove an ancient boundary marker which your ancestors made. {{rf{29}}} A man who is skillful in his work, you shall see: before kings, he will serve; he will not serve before the commoners. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Proverbs-22-16]] }}}
When you sit to eat with a ruler, you shall surely observe what is before you, {{rf{2}}} and you shall put a knife to your throat if you have a big appetite. {{rf{3}}} Do not desire his delicacies, for it is food of deception. {{rf{4}}} Do not tire in order to become rich; out of your understanding, may you desist. {{rf{5}}} Your eyes will alight on it, but there is nothing to it, for suddenly it will make for itself wings like an eagle and it will be exhausted in the heavens. {{rf{6}}} Do not eat the bread of the stingy, and do not desire his delicacies. {{rf{7}}} For, like hair in his throat, so it is. "Eat and drink!" he will say to you, but his heart will not be with you. {{rf{8}}} Your morsel you have eaten, you will vomit it up, and you will waste your pleasant words. {{rf{9}}} In the ears of a fool do not speak, for he will despise the wisdom of your words. {{rf{10}}} Do not remove an ancient boundary marker, and on the fields of orphans do not encroach; {{rf{11}}} For their redeemer is strong, he himself will plead their cause against you. {{rf{12}}} Apply your heart to instruction, and your ear to sayings of knowledge. {{rf{13}}} Do not withhold discipline from a child, if you will beat him with the rod, he will not die. {{rf{14}}} As for you, with the rod you shall beat him, and his life you will save from Sheol. {{rf{15}}} My child, if your heart is wise, my heart will be glad -- even me! {{rf{16}}} And my insides will rejoice when your lips speak what is upright. {{rf{17}}} May your heart not envy the sinners, but live in fear of Yahweh all day. {{rf{18}}} Surely there is a future, and your hope will not be cut off. {{rf{19}}} You, my child, hear and be wise, and direct your heart on the road. {{rf{20}}} Do not be among drinkers of wine, among gluttonous eaters of their meat. {{rf{21}}} For the drunkard and gluttonous, they will become poor, and with rags, drowsiness will clothe them. {{rf{22}}} Listen to your father -- he who gave you life, and do not despise your mother when she is old. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Proverbs-23-01]] }}}
{{rf{23}}} Buy truth and do not sell it, wisdom and instruction and understanding. {{rf{24}}} The father of the righteous will surely rejoice; he who bears a wise person will be happy with him. {{rf{25}}} May your father and your mother be glad, and may she who bore you rejoice. {{rf{26}}} My child, may you give your heart to me, and may your eyes delight in my ways. {{rf{27}}} For a deep pit is a prostitute, and a narrow well is an adulteress. {{rf{28}}} She is also like a robber lying in wait, and the faithless among mankind she increases. {{rf{29}}} To whom is woe? To whom is sorrow? To whom are quarrels? To whom is complaint? To whom are wounds without cause? To whom is redness of the eyes? {{rf{30}}} To those who linger over wine, to those who come to try mixed wine. {{rf{31}}} Do not look at wine when it is red, when it sparkles on the cup, going down smoothly. {{rf{32}}} In the end, it will bite like a serpent, and it will sting like an adder. {{rf{33}}} Your eyes will see strange things, and your heart will speak perverse things. {{rf{34}}} And you will be like him who lies down in the heart of the sea, and like him who lies down on top of a mast. {{rf{35}}} "They struck me; I was not hurt. They beat me; I did not know it. When I will awake, I will continue; I will seek it again." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Proverbs-23-23]] }}}
Do not envy men of evil, and do not desire to be with them. {{rf{2}}} For their minds will devise violence, and their lips will speak mischief. {{rf{3}}} By wisdom a house is built, and by understanding it is established. {{rf{4}}} And by knowledge, rooms are filled with all riches, precious and pleasant. {{rf{5}}} The warrior of wisdom is in strength, and a man of knowledge is strong in power. {{rf{6}}} For with wise guidance you shall make war for yourself, and victory is in an abundance of counsel. {{rf{7}}} Wisdom is too high for fools; at the gate he will not open his mouth. {{rf{8}}} He who plans to do evil for himself, they will call him "master of mischief." {{rf{9}}} Devising folly is a sin, and an abomination to humankind is a scoffer. {{rf{10}}} If you faint on the day of adversity, little is your strength. {{rf{11}}} Rescue those who are led away to the death and those who stagger to the slaughter. If you hold back, {{rf{12}}} if you say, "Look, we do not know this," does not he who weighs hearts perceive it? And he who keeps your soul, he knows and will repay humankind according to his deeds. {{rf{13}}} My child, eat honey, for it is good, and the dripping of the honeycomb is sweet to your taste. {{rf{14}}} Thus know wisdom for the sake of your soul, if you find it, then there is a future, and your hope will not be cut off. {{rf{15}}} Do not lie in wait like an outlaw against the home of the righteous; do not do violence to his dwelling place. {{rf{16}}} For seven times the righteous will fall, but he will rise, but the wicked will be overthrown by calamity. {{rf{17}}} While your enemies are falling, do not rejoice; when he trips himself, may your heart not be glad {{rf{18}}} lest Yahweh see and it be evil in his eyes, and turn his anger away from him. {{rf{19}}} Do not fret because of the evildoers; do not envy the wicked. {{rf{20}}} For there will not be a future for the evil; the lamp of the wicked will die out. {{rf{21}}} Fear Yahweh, my son, and the king; with those who change, do not associate. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Proverbs-24-01]] }}}
{{rf{22}}} For suddenly their disaster will come, and the ruin of both of them, who knows? {{rf{23}}} These sayings are also for the wise: Partiality in judgment is not good. {{rf{24}}} Whoever says to the guilty, "You are righteous," the people will curse him; the nations will abhor him. {{rf{25}}} But they who rebuke will have delight, and upon them blessings of goodness will come. {{rf{26}}} He will kiss the lips, he who gives an honest answer. {{rf{27}}} Prepare your work in the street and get it ready for yourself in the field; afterward, then you shall build your house. {{rf{28}}} Do not be a witness without cause against your neighbor nor deceive with your lips. {{rf{29}}} Do not say, "Just as he has done to me, so shall I do to him; I will pay back the man according to his deed." {{rf{30}}} I passed by the field of a lazy person, and over the vineyard of a person lacking sense; {{rf{31}}} and behold, it was overgrown -- all of it was covered with thorns, its surface with nettles, and its stone wall was broken down. {{rf{32}}} Then I myself saw and my heart considered; I looked, and I took hold of instruction: {{rf{33}}} A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands for rest, {{rf{34}}} and your poverty will come running, and your lack like an armed warrior. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Proverbs-24-22]] }}}
These are also proverbs of Solomon which officials of Hezekiah king of Judah copied: {{rf{2}}} The glory of God conceals things, but the glory of kings searches out things. {{rf{3}}} As heaven is to height and the earth is to depth, so is the heart of kings -- there is no searching. {{rf{4}}} Remove the dross from silver, and it will become a vessel for the smith. {{rf{5}}} Remove the wicked before a king, and his throne will be established in righteousness. {{rf{6}}} Do not promote yourself before the king, and in the place of the great ones do not stand. {{rf{7}}} For it is better that he say to you, "Ascend here," than he humble you before a noble. What your eyes have seen, {{rf{8}}} do not hastily bring out to court, for what will you do at its end, when your neighbor puts you to shame? {{rf{9}}} Argue your argument with your neighbor himself, the secret of another do not disclose, {{rf{10}}} lest he who hears shame you and your ill repute will not end. {{rf{11}}} Apples of gold in a setting of silver is a matter spoken at its proper time. {{rf{12}}} A ring of gold and an ornament of fine gold is a rebuke of the wise to the ear of a listener. {{rf{13}}} Like the cold of snow on a day of harvest is a faithful messenger to those who send him, and the soul of his master is refreshed. {{rf{14}}} Like clouds and wind when there is no rain, so too is a man who boasts in a gift of deception. {{rf{15}}} With patience a ruler may be persuaded, and a soft tongue will break a bone. {{rf{16}}} If you find honey, eat what is sufficient for you, lest you have your fill of it and vomit it out. {{rf{17}}} Make your foot scarce in the house of your neighbor, lest he become weary of you and hate you. {{rf{18}}} Like a club and sword and a sharp arrow is a man who bears false witness against his neighbor. {{rf{19}}} A bad tooth and a lame foot is the trust of a faithless person in a time of trouble. {{rf{20}}} Like one who removes a garment on a cold day, or like vinegar on natron, is he who sings songs to a heavy heart. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Proverbs-25-01]] }}}
{{rf{21}}} If your enemy is hungry, feed him bread, and if thirsty, let him drink water. {{rf{22}}} For coals of fire you will heap upon his head, and Yahweh will reward you. {{rf{23}}} The wind of the north produces rain, and a backbiting tongue, angry faces. {{rf{24}}} Better to live upon the corner of a roof than with a woman of contention and in a shared house. {{rf{25}}} Like cold water upon a weary soul, so too is good news from a distant place. {{rf{26}}} Like a muddied spring or a polluted fountain is the righteous who gives way before the wicked. {{rf{27}}} To eat much honey is not good, nor is seeking one's honor honorable. {{rf{28}}} A breached city where there is no wall is like a man who has no self-control for his spirit. {{rf big{1}}} Like snow in the summer and like rain at the harvest, so honor is not fitting for a fool. {{rf{2}}} Like the sparrow is to fluttering and like the swallow is to flying, so an undeserved curse does not go forth. {{rf{3}}} A whip for the horse, a bridle for the donkey, and a rod for the back of fools. {{rf{4}}} Do not answer a fool according to his folly lest you become like him -- even you. {{rf{5}}} Answer a fool according to his folly, or else he will be wise in his own eyes. {{rf{6}}} Like cutting off feet or drinking violence, so is he who sends messages in the hand of a fool. {{rf{7}}} Like legs that hang limp from a lame person, so is a proverb in the mouth of fools. {{rf{8}}} Like binding a stone in a sling, so is giving honor to a fool. {{rf{9}}} Like a thorn that goes up in the hand of a drunkard, so is a proverb in the mouth of fools. {{rf{10}}} Like an archer who wounds everyone, so is he who hires a fool or he who hires passersby. {{rf{11}}} Like a dog returning to his vomit is a fool reverting to his folly. {{rf{12}}} Do you see a man wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him. {{rf{13}}} A lazy person says "A lion is in the road! A lion among the streets!" {{rf{14}}} The door turns on its hinge, and a lazy person on his bed. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Proverbs-25-21]] }}}
<<Bbl Pr 26:4 abbr >> Don't discuss on terms that buy into the fool's world view. So is arguing for God's existence.
<<Bbl Pr 26:5 abbr >> Apply reason to the fool's ideas in order to disprove them.
26:7 The negative converse of <<Bbl Eccl 12:11>>
<<Bbl Pr 26:11 abbr>> //a dog returns to its vomit// is a meaningful picture:
** We typically choose to sin in familiar ways.
** We may perversely retain this familiarity; for example, repenting to some degree of sin but also subconsciously tracking a source for sin's accessory material.
** Our sin is attractive to us but often revolting to others; furthermore, sin that we would find revolting in others is attractive because it is ours.
{{rf{15}}} A lazy person buries his hands in the dish; he is too tired to return it to his mouth. {{rf{16}}} A lazy person is wiser in his eyes than seven who answer discreetly. {{rf{17}}} Grabbing onto the ears of a dog passing by is one who meddles in a quarrel that is not his own. {{rf{18}}} Like a maniac who shoots firebrands, arrows, and death, {{rf{19}}} so is a man who deceives his neighbor, but says "Am I not joking?" {{rf{20}}} For lack of wood, a fire goes out, and where there is no whisperer, quarreling will cease. {{rf{21}}} As charcoal is to hot embers and wood is to fire, so a man of quarrels is to kindling strife. {{rf{22}}} The words of a whisperer are like delicious morsels, and they go down to the inner parts of the body. {{rf{23}}} Like impure silver which overlays an earthen vessel, so are smooth lips and an evil heart. {{rf{24}}} On his lips, an enemy will pretend, but inside he will harbor deceit. {{rf{25}}} When he makes his voice gracious, do not believe him, for seven abominations are in his heart. {{rf{26}}} Though hatred is covered with guile, its evil will be exposed in the assembly. {{rf{27}}} He who digs a pit, in it he will fall, and he who rolls a stone, on him it will come back. {{rf{28}}} A tongue of deceit hates its victim, and a flattering mouth makes ruin. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Proverbs-26-15]] }}}
Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what the day will bring. {{rf{2}}} May another praise you and not your own mouth, a stranger and not your own lips. {{rf{3}}} Heavy is a stone and weighty is sand, but the provocation of a fool is heavier than both of them. {{rf{4}}} Cruel is wrath and overwhelming is anger, but who will stand before jealousy? ''{{rf{5}}} Better a rebuke that is open than a love that is hidden. {{rf{6}}} The wounds of a friend mean well, but the kisses of an enemy are profane.'' {{rf{7}}} An appetite that is sated spurns honey, but to an appetite that is ravenous, all bitterness is sweet. {{rf{8}}} Like a bird that strays from its nest, so is a man who strays from his place. ''{{rf{9}}} Perfume and incense will gladden a heart, and the pleasantness of one's friend is personal advice.'' {{rf{10}}} As for your friend and a friend of your father, do not forsake them, and the house of your brother, do not enter on the day of your calamity. Better is a close neighbor than a distant brother. {{rf{11}}} Be wise, my child, and make my heart glad, and I will answer him who reproaches me with a word. {{rf{12}}} When the clever sees danger, he hides; the simple go on and suffer. {{rf{13}}} Take his garment, for he gives surety to a stranger, and to an adulteress -- so take his pledge. {{rf{14}}} He who blesses his neighbor with a loud voice early in the morning, a curse will be reckoned to him. {{rf{15}}} Dripping constantly on a day of heavy rain and a woman of contention are alike. {{rf{16}}} In restraining her, he restrains wind, and his right hand will grasp oil. ''{{rf{17}}} As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another.'' {{rf{18}}} He who tends a fig tree will eat its fruit, and he who guards his master will be honored. {{rf{19}}} As the waters reflect face to face, so the heart of a person reflects the person. {{rf{20}}} Sheol and Abaddon will not be satisfied, and the eyes of a person will not be satisfied either. ''{{rf{21}}} A crucible is for the silver, and a furnace for the gold, but a man is tested by the mouth of him who praises him.'' {{rf{22}}} If you crush a fool in the mortar with the pestle along with the crushed grain, it will not drive folly from upon him. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Proverbs-27-01]] }}}
''Proverbs 27:5-20 contains a half-dozen verses specific to friendship.
These stand out as a constellation in the proverbial sky, which is filled with starry lights placed (it would seem) somewhat at random.''
27:5-6 This describes superficial church visiting. Your job at church is to be the friend, and locate those with the same readiness.
* How does this proverb each you to recognize a friend?
* How does this proverb teach you to become a friend?
* How does this proverb relate to 27:9?
<<Bbl Pr 27:7 abbr >> Two seemingly crazy people. But you could be either one, depending on your circumstances. So fragile you are. This verse has a meaningful companion in <<Bbl Pr 25:16 abbr >>.
27:8 I almost ran over a small bird: it was drowsing on the sun-warmed asphalt of a country road. In its comfort zone, I stopped the car just in time. So fragile we are. Stay nested.
<<Bbl Pr 27:9 abbr >>
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Perfume and incense bring joy to the heart; so does earnest counsel from a man's friend.
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* Confession of sin to a friend fulfills the proverb, for it at least invites the counsel.
* Visiting my Dad in 2022. On returning, my true friend asked me "Did you go into the attic?"
<<Bbl Pr 27:11 abbr>> Your decisions affect not only you. There are others studying you for their own encouragement. <<Bbl Job 1:8 >>
27:14 That //loud greeting// makes me think of my grandma Omi in preparation for breakfast.
27:15 This is a statement of male commiseration. But it may not teach only about the wife (querulous, unyielding); it may also teach about the husband (reactive, controlling, and unwilling to hear about his faults). When you whine, however, Jesus is a wonderfully patient husband.
<<Bbl Pr 27:17 abbr>> //Iron sharpens iron//, and the subtle corollary -- what doesn't sharpen iron makes it dull. <<Bbl 1C 15:23 >>
<<Bbl Pr 27:20 abbr>> The "first look" is a measure of our human frailty. So are we fragile.
* I had a friend who was always uncomfortable with his own check-in: "I wish I could just do the right thing. I don't know why I can't." Once during my step-one disclosure, he said "You sound like you're proud of it!" He believed I should show more contrition; underneath that, I think he was reacting to his own unprocessed shame.
* Dave Barry has a funny paragraph about being with his wife at the beach; his eyes have left his sockets and are crawling across the sand toward a woman.
{{rf{23}}} You will surely know the condition of your flock; your heart attends to the herds. {{rf{24}}} For riches are not forever, nor a crown for generation after generation. {{rf{25}}} When the grass is gone, then green growth will appear, and the herbs of the mountains will be gathered. {{rf{26}}} Lambs will be your clothing, and goats the price of the field. {{rf{27}}} And there will be enough goats' milk for your food, for the food of your household and the nourishment of your maidservants. {{rf big{1}}} The wicked flee, but no one pursues, but the righteous is bold like a lion. {{rf{2}}} By the rebellion of a land, her rulers increase, but by a person of intelligence who knows justice, it will last. {{rf{3}}} A man who is poor and oppresses the impoverished is a beating rain that leaves no food. {{rf{4}}} Those who forsake instruction will praise the wicked, but they who guard instruction will struggle against them. {{rf{5}}} Men of evil do not understand justice, but seekers of Yahweh understand completely. {{rf{6}}} Better to be poor and walking in one's integrity than to be crooked of ways when one is rich. {{rf{7}}} He who keeps instruction is a child of understanding, but the companion of gluttons will shame his father. {{rf{8}}} He who augments his wealth with interest and with usury gathers it for him who is kind to the poor. {{rf{9}}} He who turns his ear from listening to instruction, even his prayer is an abomination. {{rf{10}}} He who misleads the upright onto the way of evil, into his pits he will fall. But as for the blameless, they will inherit good. {{rf{11}}} A man of wealth is wise in his own eyes, but the intelligent poor sees through him. {{rf{12}}} When the righteous triumphs, great is the glory, but with the rising of the wicked, a person will be hidden. {{rf{13}}} He who conceals his transgression will not prosper, but he who confesses and forsakes will obtain mercy. {{rf{14}}} Happy is the person who fears continuously, but he who is stubborn of heart, will fall into calamity. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Proverbs-27-23]] }}}
<<Bbl Pr 28:21 abbr >> see <<Bbl Pr 6:30>>-31
<<Bbl Pr 29:7 abbr >> ESV //the rights of the poor//; NAS //the case//.
<<Bbl Pr 30:7 abbr >>-09 <<Bbl Php 4:11 >> note.
<<Bbl Pr 30:9 abbr >> see <<Bbl Pr 6:30>>-31
<<Bbl Pr 30:15 abbr>> A warning to distinguish well- and ill-placed efforts to help. Procreation requires sustainance. You sustain the leech; she procreates, and the outcome is more leeches. Let us rather starve the leech. Perhaps just as cogent, in emo-dependant relationships the needy party becomes the controller as seen in the imperative "Give!".
<<Bbl Pr 31:4 abbr >>-8
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It is not for kings, Lemuel; it is not for kings to drink wine; nor for princes to say, 'Where is strong drink?' 31.5 lest they drink, and forget the law, and pervert the justice due to anyone who is afflicted.
}}}
31:10-31 This is the only passage in the book set up as an acrostic.
Proverbs 31 – Many wives have done well, but you far exceed the statistical norms.
{{rf{15}}} Like a roaring lion and a charging bear is a wicked ruler over a poor people. {{rf{16}}} A ruler who lacks understanding is a cruel oppressor, but those who hate unjust gain will have long days. {{rf{17}}} A person who is burdened with the blood of another, until death he will flee; do not take hold of him. {{rf{18}}} He who walks in integrity will be safe, but he who takes crooked paths will fall in one. {{rf{19}}} He who tills his ground will have plenty bread, but he who follows fantasies will have plenty of poverty. {{rf{20}}} A man of faithfulness has abundant blessings, but he who hurries to become rich will not go unpunished. {{rf{21}}} Showing partiality is not good, and over a morsel of bread, a strong man will do wrong. {{rf{22}}} He who hurries for wealth is a man with an evil eye, but he does not know that poverty will come upon him. {{rf{23}}} He who rebukes a person will afterward find more favor than he who flatters with the tongue. {{rf{24}}} He who robs his father and his mother and says, "There is no crime," is partner to a man who corrupts. {{rf{25}}} The greedy person will stir up strife, but he who trusts in Yahweh will be enriched. {{rf{26}}} He who trusts in his own heart is a fool, but he who walks in wisdom will be saved. {{rf{27}}} For he who gives to the poor, there is no lacking, but for he who turns his eyes, there are many curses. {{rf{28}}} With the rising of the wicked, humankind will be hidden, and with their perishing, the righteous will multiply. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Proverbs-28-15]] }}}
A man who is reproved, being stubborn of neck -- suddenly he will be broken, and there will not be healing. {{rf{2}}} When the righteous are numerous, the people will rejoice, but when the wicked are ruling, people will groan. {{rf{3}}} A man who loves wisdom will make his parents glad, but the friend of prostitutes will squander his wealth. {{rf{4}}} By justice a king gives stability to a land, but a man of bribes will ruin it. {{rf{5}}} A strong man who flatters his neighbor is spreading a net for his feet. {{rf{6}}} In transgression, an evil man is a snare, but the righteous will sing and rejoice. {{rf{7}}} The righteous knows the case of the poor, but the wicked does not understand knowledge. {{rf{8}}} Men of scoffing set a city aflame, but the wise turn away wrath. {{rf{9}}} If a wise man goes to court with a foolish man, then there is rankling and ridicule, but there is no relief. {{rf{10}}} Men of blood hate the blameless, and they seek the life of the upright. {{rf{11}}} A fool gives all his breath, but the wise holds back in quiet. {{rf{12}}} A ruler listening to a word of falsehood, all his officials are wicked. {{rf{13}}} The poor and a man of oppression have this in common: Yahweh gives light to the eyes of them both. {{rf{14}}} A king who judges with truthfulness to the poor, his throne will be established forever. {{rf{15}}} As for a rod and reproof, they will give wisdom, but a neglected child is disgraced by his mother. {{rf{16}}} With the increase of the wicked, transgression will increase, but the righteous will look on his downfall. {{rf{17}}} Discipline your children, and they will give you rest, and they will give delight to your soul. {{rf{18}}} When there is no prophecy, the people cast off restraint, but as for he who guards instruction, happiness is his. {{rf{19}}} By words, a servant is not disciplined, for he will understand, but there is no giving heed. {{rf{20}}} You see a man who is hasty in his words: there is more hope for a fool than him. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Proverbs-29-01]] }}}
{{rf{21}}} He who pampers his servant from childhood, arrogance will be his end. {{rf{22}}} A man of anger will stir strife, and the owner of anger, much transgression. {{rf{23}}} The pride of a person will bring him humiliation, and the lowly of spirit will obtain honor. {{rf{24}}} Being a partner with a thief is hating one's life; a curse he will hear, but not disclose. {{rf{25}}} The fear of a person will lay a snare, but he who trusts in Yahweh will be secure. {{rf{26}}} Many are those who seek the favor of a ruler, but from Yahweh one obtains justice. {{rf{27}}} A man of injustice is an abomination to the righteous, but the upright is an abomination to the wicked. {{rf big{1}}} The words of Agur, son of Yakeh, the oracle. Thus says the man to Ithiel, to Ithiel, and Ucal: {{rf{2}}} Certainly I am more stupid than a man, and the understanding of humankind is not for me. {{rf{3}}} And I have not learned wisdom, nor will I know knowledge of the Holy One. {{rf{4}}} Who has ascended to heaven and come down? Who has gathered the wind in the hollow of his hand? Who has wrapped water in a garment? Who has established all the ends of the earth? What is his name and what is the name of his child? For surely you know. {{rf{5}}} Every word of God is flawless; he is a shield for him who takes refuge in him. {{rf{6}}} Do not add to his words lest he rebuke you and you be found a liar. {{rf{7}}} Two things I ask from you; do not deny me before I die: {{rf{8}}} Keep falsehood and a lying word far from me; do not give me poverty or wealth; provide me with food only for my need. {{rf{9}}} Or else I will be satisfied and will deny him and say "Who is Yahweh?" Or I will be poor and will steal and profane the name of my God. {{rf{10}}} Do not slander a servant to his master, or else he will curse you and you will be guilty. {{rf{11}}} There is a generation that will curse its father, and its mother it will not bless. {{rf{12}}} There is a generation that is pure in its own eyes, but from its filthiness it will not be cleansed. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Proverbs-29-21]] }}}
{{rf{13}}} There is a generation -- how lofty are their eyes! And their eyelids they will lift. {{rf{14}}} There is a generation whose teeth are swords, and its jawbones, knives, in order to devour the poor from the earth and the needy from humankind. {{rf{15}}} For the leech, there are two daughters; "Give, give!" they cry. As for three of these, they are not satisfied; as for four, they do not say enough. {{rf{16}}} Sheol and barrenness of womb, the land is not satisfied with water, and fire does not say "enough!" {{rf{17}}} The eye that mocks a father and scorns the obedience of a mother -- the ravens of the valley will peck it out, and the offspring of vultures will eat it. {{rf{18}}} Three of these are too wonderful for me, and four, I do not understand them: {{rf{19}}} the way of the eagle in the sky, the way of a snake on a rock, the way of a ship in the heart of the sea, and the way of a man with a young woman. {{rf{20}}} This is the way of a woman committing adultery: she eats and wipes her mouth, and says "I have not done wrong." {{rf{21}}} Under three things the earth trembles, and under four, it is not able to bear up: {{rf{22}}} under a slave when he becomes king, and a fool when he is satisfied with food; {{rf{23}}} under an unloved woman when she gets married, and a maid when she succeeds her mistress. {{rf{24}}} There are four small things on the earth, and they are exceedingly wise: {{rf{25}}} The ants are a people who are not strong, yet they prepare their food in the summer; {{rf{26}}} the badgers are a people who are not mighty, yet they set their house on the rock; {{rf{27}}} there is no king for the locust, yet it marches in rank; {{rf{28}}} a lizard you can seize with hands, yet it is in palaces of kings. {{rf{29}}} There are three things that are magnificent of stride, and four that are magnificent when moving: {{rf{30}}} a mighty lion among the beasts, but he will not turn back from any face; {{rf{31}}} a strutting rooster or he-goat, and a king whose army is with him. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Proverbs-30-13]] }}}
{{rf{32}}} If you have been foolish by exalting yourself, and if you have devised evil, put your hand to your mouth. {{rf{33}}} For pressing milk produces curd, and pressing the nose produces blood, so pressing anger produces strife. {{rf big{1}}} The words of Lemuel, the king -- an oracle that his mother taught him: {{rf{2}}} What, my son? And what, my son in my womb? And what, son of my vows? {{rf{3}}} Do not give your strength to the women, and your ways to destroy kings. {{rf{4}}} It is not for the kings, O Lemuel; drinking wine is not for the kings, nor is strong drink for rulers. {{rf{5}}} Or else he will drink and forget what has been decreed, and he will pervert the rights of all the afflicted. {{rf{6}}} Give strong drink to him who is perishing, and wine to those in bitter distress. {{rf{7}}} He will drink and forget his poverty, and his misery he will not remember any more. {{rf{8}}} Open your mouth for the mute, for the rights of all the needy. {{rf{9}}} Open your mouth, judge righteousness, and defend the poor and needy. {{rf{10}}} A woman of excellence, who will find? For her worth is far more than precious jewels. {{rf{11}}} The heart of her husband trusts in her, and gain he will not lack. {{rf{12}}} She does him good, but not harm all the days of her life. {{rf{13}}} She seeks wool and flax, and she works with the diligence of her hands. {{rf{14}}} She is like the ships of a merchant; from far off she brings her food; {{rf{15}}} And she arises while it is still night, and gives food to her household, and tasks to her servant girls. {{rf{16}}} She considers a field and buys it, from the fruit of her hand she plants a vineyard. {{rf{17}}} She girds her waist in strength, and makes her arms strong. {{rf{18}}} She perceives that her merchandise is good; her lamp does not go out in the night. {{rf{19}}} Her hands she puts onto the distaff, and her palms hold a spindle. {{rf{20}}} Her palm she opens to the poor, and her hand she reaches out to the needy. {{rf{21}}} She does not fear for her house when it snows, for her entire household is clothed in crimson. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Proverbs-30-32]] }}}
{{rf{22}}} She makes for herself coverings; her clothing is fine linen and purple. {{rf{23}}} Her husband is known at the gates, in his seat among the elders of the land. {{rf{24}}} Linen garments she makes and sells, and she supplies sashes for the merchants. {{rf{25}}} Strength and dignity are her clothing, and she laughs at the future. {{rf{26}}} She opens her mouth with wisdom, and instruction of kindness is upon her tongue. {{rf{27}}} She looks after the ways of her household, and the bread of idleness she will not eat. {{rf{28}}} Her children rise and consider her happy, her husband also, and he praises her; {{rf{29}}} "Many daughters have done excellence, but you surpass all of them." {{rf{30}}} Charm is deceit and beauty is vain; but a woman who fears Yahweh shall be praised. {{rf{31}}} Give to her from the fruit of her hand, and may they praise her works in the city gates. LENGTH SHORT {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Proverbs-31-22]] }}}
Availability that meets a need. Both elements are needed!
* <<Bbl Php 4:19 >> ; <<Bbl 2C 9:6 >> ,11.
* <<Bbl Php 4:11 >> explains that a critical provision for provision is contentment.
* <<Bbl A 2:45 >> , leveling of need.
* {{big{ {{{Pro}}} + {{{Vision}}} }}}
* Provision is one of Christ's great works, along with [[Heal]].
* Provision is only recognized in the face of [[Need]]; without need, it would be mere availability.
* Provision is guaranteed.
* Provision is [[revealed|Revelation]] as we trust in God and obey His commands.
* //And if these blessings had not been enough I would have given many more besides.// (Deuteronomy but I can't locate it.)
* [[Help]]
* <<Bbl Dt 2:7 >>
! How God reveals provision:
By faith, or by sight. It is His decision. But of course, in our petitions we are only able to ask for the "by sight" form. No one ever asks for the "by faith" form; if we hear of some saint who asks for the "by faith" form, we regard this with wonder or suspicion. Even Jesus asked for a tangible deliverance; but in asking, He also modeled that virtue we can all have by God's Spirit: the over-riding desire to see God perform His will.
!!! Naturally known, tangible, "Seen"
* [[Health]]
* [[Abundance]]
* [[Favor]]
* [[Resources-Personal]]
* [[Power]]
* List every need met by the Lord as recorded in the Bible.
* <<Bbl Pr 30:7>>-9 - //...give me only my daily bread. Otherwise...//
!!! Spiritually known, realized by [[Believe]]
* Paul's deliverance from the thorn
* The land God would give Abraham.
* [[Security]], [[Holiness]] and other [[Virtue]]s
''[[Grow]] needs [[Guide]]''
* The plant doesn't decide what shall be pruned. I don't get to pick out the particulars of sanctification in my life. It would hardly be sanctification if I made the decisions.
* I learned about pruning trees while working on the golf course of the Victoria Country Club.
** From early on a [[Tree]] must be pruned.
** Winter is best, since the sap has slowed down.
** Pruning gives shape and symmetry. A tree that has been well tended is beautiful from any direction.
** It gives unified growth (<<Bbl L 10:41 >>-42 , <<Bbl Ps 86:11 >>). It removes perversities and any growth that tends downward instead of upward.
** It is good to remember that growth occurs at the top of the tree, rather than in the trunk.
** If a tree has been allowed to grow untended, it will look naked and perhaps dead after a thorough pruning.
** Branches must be removed cleanly, lest rot set in, and it is sometimes wise to seal the open places.
** A tree will be ruined by dishonest "tree surgeons" who lop off healthy branches indiscriminately before leaving town.
* <<Bbl I 5:6 >> speaks of God not pruning his vineyard -- an image of [[Judge]].
* [[Purity]], [[SanctifiedProgressive]]
* //You are clean (pruned) because of the word I have spoken to you.//
<<Bbl Ps 119:17 abbr >> And so, in Christ, He has done.
<<Bbl Ps 119:71 abbr>> When I first read this at about age 19, I guessed it to mean that if you were laid up in bed you would have more time to read up on the Bible. Recently I pulled a muscle in my leg, and indeed my day of convalesence permitted me to work through some exegesis in Hebrews. But now I believe that //learning about Your statues// requires something more than mental concentration, something only affliction can provide.
119:133 Freedom from the power of sin.
<<Bbl Psalms 126:5 abbr >>-6 , anguish followed by joy -- <<Bbl J 16:20 >>
<<Bbl Psalms 127:2 abbr >> Workaholics take note.
<<Bbl Ps 132:1 abbr >>ff * <<Bbl 2S 7:1 >>ff
133 -- the great psalm about [[Unity]].
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<<Bbl Psalms 137:1 abbr >>ff Note relationship of //Jerusalem// and //Babylon//. I am seeking a chiastic structure. It would seem to require a new understanding of the part about //hung our harps.// Could it signify sabotage -- destroying the harps?
137:4 see <<Bbl R 6:2 >>. "Required reading" for music ministers.
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<<Bbl Psalms 139:13 abbr >>-15 see <<Bbl Job 10:10 >>-11 ; <<Bbl Ecc 5:11 >>
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141:2 a bold image
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<<Bbl Ps 145:1 abbr >>-2 George Murray calls this a justified unending encore.
<<Bbl Ps 119:17 abbr >> And so, in Christ, He has done.
<<Bbl Ps 119:71 abbr>> When I first read this at about age 19, I guessed it to mean that if you were laid up in bed you would have more time to read up on the Bible. Recently I pulled a muscle in my leg, and indeed my day of convalesence permitted me to work through some exegesis in Hebrews. But now I believe that //learning about Your statues// requires something more than mental concentration, something only affliction can provide.
119:133 Freedom from the power of sin.
<<Bbl Psalms 126:5 abbr >>-6 , anguish followed by joy -- <<Bbl J 16:20 >>
<<Bbl Psalms 127:2 abbr >> Workaholics take note.
<<Bbl Ps 132:1 abbr >>ff * <<Bbl 2S 7:1 >>ff
133 -- the great psalm about [[Unity]].
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<<Bbl Psalms 137:1 abbr >>ff Note relationship of //Jerusalem// and //Babylon//. I am seeking a chiastic structure. It would seem to require a new understanding of the part about //hung our harps.// Could it signify sabotage -- destroying the harps?
137:4 see <<Bbl R 6:2 >>. "Required reading" for music ministers.
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<<Bbl Psalms 139:13 abbr >>-15 see <<Bbl Job 10:10 >>-11 ; <<Bbl Ecc 5:11 >>
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141:2 a bold image
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<<Bbl Ps 145:1 abbr >>-2 George Murray calls this a justified unending encore.
!!! The songs of Jesus
* How did Jesus sing psalms of repentance? The same as psalms of lament: from his empathy, serving as our priest.
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{{{
Psalms 1 - 41 (Book I)
Psalms 42 - 72 (Book II)
Psalms 73 - 89 (Book III)
Psalms 90 - 106 (Book IV)
Psalms 107 - 150 (Book V)
}}}
Blessed is the man who does not walk in the advice of the wicked; nor does he stand in the way of sinners; nor does he sit in the assembly of mockers. {{rf{2}}} Instead, in the law of ''Yahweh'' is his delight, and on his law he meditates day and night.
{{center{{{rf{3}}} And so, he is like a tree planted by streams of water that gives its ''fruit'' in its season; its ''leaf'' also does not wither. }}}
{{center{Therefore all that he does prospers.
{{rf{4}}} Not so the wicked. }}}
{{center{Instead, they are like the ''chaff'' that the wind scatters. }}}
{{rf{5}}} Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous; {{rf{6}}} for ''Yahweh'' knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked will perish. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Psalms-001-001]] }}}
<<Bbl Ps 1:1 abbr >> A chiastic structure leads from where the righteous man is not to be found, where he is to be found, and what sort of plant he is like; then to what sort of plant the wicked man is like and where he is not to be found. The final verse reviews everything.
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<<Bbl Ps 2:1 abbr >>ff is chiastic.
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Psalm 2 doesn't seem to speak of Christ's sonship, his resurrection, or his kingship. Yet this is the application in <<Bbl H 1:5>>b, <<Bbl H 5:5>> and <<Bbl A 13:33>>. The key is understanding the use of //son// in the promise of [[David]]'s dynasty (<<Bbl 2S 7:14>>-16).
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2:1-6 This passage follows in two parts, each of which ends in a quoted statement.
2:1 see <<Bbl I 17:12 >>-14. <<Bbl A 4:23>>-31.
<<Bbl Ps 2:4 abbr >> His //laugh// is followed by his //wrath//. The wrath is yet to come, so we are informed it's not a matter of His lacking control or confidence.
<<Bbl Ps 3:5 abbr >> See <<Bbl Ps 4:8 abbr >>.
<<Bbl Ps 4:8 abbr >> See <<Bbl Ps 3:5 abbr >>
Psalm 5 can be read as a transposition of Ps 2, addressing individual rebels instead of arrogant nations and their kings.
Why are nations in tumult, and countries plotting in vain? {{rf{2}}} The kings of the earth establish themselves, and the rulers conspire together against Yahweh and his anointed: {{rf{3}}} "Let us tear off their bonds, and cast their cords from us!" {{rf{4}}} He who sits enthroned in the heavens laughs. The Lord derides them. {{rf{5}}} Then he speaks to them in his wrath, and in his fury he terrifies them: {{rf{6}}} "But as for me, ''I have set my king on Zion, my holy mountain.''" {{rf{7}}} I will tell the decree; Yahweh said to me: ''"You are my son; today I have begotten you.'' {{rf{8}}} Ask from me and I will make the nations your heritage, and your possession the ends of the earth. {{rf{9}}} You will break them with an iron rod. Like a potter's vessel you will shatter them." {{rf{10}}} So then, O kings, be wise. Be warned, O rulers of the earth. {{rf{11}}} Serve Yahweh with fear, and rejoice with trembling. {{rf{12}}} Kiss the Son lest he be angry and you perish on the way, for his anger burns quickly. Blessed are all who take refuge in him. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Psalms-002-001]] }}}
{{rf{0}}} A psalm of David at his fleeing from the presence of Absalom, his son. {{rf big{1}}} Yahweh, how many are my enemies; many are rising against me. {{rf{2}}} Many are saying about my soul, "There is no deliverance for him from God. Selah {{rf{3}}} But you, Yahweh, are a shield around me, my glory and the one who lifts up my head. {{rf{4}}} With my voice I call to Yahweh and he answers me from his holy hill. Selah {{rf{5}}} I lay down and slept; I woke up because Yahweh sustains me. {{rf{6}}} I am not afraid of the ten thousands of people who all around have set themselves against me. {{rf{7}}} Rise up, O Yahweh; deliver me, O my God; for you strike all my enemies on the cheek. The teeth of the wicked you break. {{rf{8}}} To Yahweh belongs deliverance; may your blessing be over your people. Selah {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Psalms-003-001]] }}}
{{rf{0}}} For the music director; with stringed instruments. A psalm of David. {{rf big{1}}} When I call, answer me, O God of my righteousness. In trouble deliver me. Be gracious to me and hear my prayer. {{rf{2}}} O sons of man, how long will my honor be a disgrace? How long will you love vanity? How long will you seek lies? Selah {{rf{3}}} But know that Yahweh has set apart for himself the faithful one. Yahweh hears when I call to him. {{rf{4}}} Be disturbed but do not sin. Commune in your heart on your bed and be silent. Selah {{rf{5}}} Offer correct sacrifices, and trust in Yahweh. {{rf{6}}} Many are saying, "Who will show us something good?" Lift up over us the light of your face, O Yahweh. {{rf{7}}} You have put gladness in my heart more than when their grain and their wine abound. {{rf{8}}} In peace I will lie down and sleep at once, for you alone, O Yahweh, make me dwell safely. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Psalms-004-001]] }}}
{{rf{0}}} For the music director; with the flutes. A psalm of David. {{rf big{1}}} Hear my words, O Yahweh. Give heed to my sighing. {{rf{2}}} Listen to the sound of my pleading, my king and my God, for to you I pray. {{rf{3}}} O Yahweh, in the morning you will hear my voice. In the morning I will set forth my case to you and I will watch. {{rf{4}}} For you are not a God who desires wickedness. Evil cannot dwell with you. {{rf{5}}} The boastful do not stand before your eyes. You hate all evildoers. {{rf{6}}} You destroy speakers of lies. A man of bloodshed and deceit Yahweh abhors. {{rf{7}}} But as for me, through the abundance of your steadfast love I will enter your house. I will bow down toward your holy temple in awe of you. {{rf{8}}} O Yahweh, lead me in your righteousness because of my enemies; make straight before me your way. {{rf{9}}} For there is not anything reliable in his mouth; their inner part is destruction. Their throat is an open grave; with their tongue they speak deceit. {{rf{10}}} Treat them as guilty, O God; let them fall because of their plans. Because of the abundance of their transgressions cast them out, for they have rebelled against you. {{rf{11}}} But let all who take shelter in you rejoice. Let them ever sing for joy, because you spread protection over them; And let those who love your name exult in you. {{rf{12}}} For you bless the righteous. O Yahweh, like a shield you surround him with good favor. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Psalms-005-001]] }}}
{{rf{0}}} For the music director; with stringed instruments, on the Sheminith. A psalm of David. {{rf big{1}}} O Yahweh, do not rebuke me in your anger, and do not discipline me in your wrath. {{rf{2}}} Be gracious to me, O Yahweh, because I am feeble. Heal me, O Yahweh, for my bones are terrified. {{rf{3}}} My soul is also very terrified. But you, O Yahweh, how long? {{rf{4}}} Turn, O Yahweh; deliver my life. Save me for the sake of your steadfast love. {{rf{5}}} For there is no remembrance of you in death. In Sheol, who will give thanks to you? {{rf{6}}} I am weary with my groaning; I flood my bed every night. With my tears I drench my couch. {{rf{7}}} My eye wastes away because of vexation; it grows old because of all my oppressors. {{rf{8}}} Depart from me, all workers of evil, for Yahweh has heard the sound of my weeping. {{rf{9}}} Yahweh has heard my plea; Yahweh has accepted my prayer. {{rf{10}}} All my enemies shall be ashamed and shall be very terrified. They shall turn back; they shall suddenly be ashamed. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Psalms-006-001]] }}}
<<Bbl Ps 6:6 abbr>> //I'm no good to you if I'm dead.// -- The Message
<<Bbl Ps 6:9 abbr>> Quoted in <<Bbl R 3:13>>, where Paul charges all humankind with murder.
<<Bbl Ps 7:3 abbr >>-5 Read "Jesus" for "I," and "Satan" for "enemy."
7:12-13 This seems to read more naturally if God is not in reference, but rather the wicked man who, in the following verses, is full of mischief and violence.
<<Bbl Ps 8:1 abbr>> The theme is [[Dominion|Dominate]]. Although the focus is mostly on the Adamic scope, verse 2 extends it to the human-world system without hesitation or explanation.
<<Bbl Ps 8:2 abbr>> Jesus quotes the first part of this couplet (<<Bbl Mt 21:16>>), and leaves the second part unsaid. The point, however, is not lost on the the scribes and chief priests. They are called out as God's enemies - and the jubilant children are God's victorious host!
Ps 8:5 Quoted in <<Bbl H 2:8>>-9
<<Bbl Ps 9:1 abbr>> Carter Conlon, the long-time pastor of Times Square Church in NYC, often begins a prayer in just this way: //I thank you, God, with all my heart for...//
<<Bbl Ps 9:3 abbr>> his military success is accredited to God; not just as the critical factor, but in full identification.
<<Bbl Ps 9:10 abbr >> amplified in <<Bbl Ps 13:1 >>ff
<<Bbl Ps 9:10 abbr>> Seek, know, be saved, trust. Translations are remarkably consistent. Chiastic structure:
{{{
And those who *know* Your name
will *put their trust* in You,
For You, O *LORD*,
have *not forsaken* those
who *seek* You.
}}}
<<Bbl Ps 9:16 abbr>> Part b suggests concealment. Part A declares the revelation (like verse 3) - according to Holman version, but not NASB which differently assigns the persons.
9:20 Debunk the regional gods and all idolatrous patriotism.
{{rf{0}}} A Shiggaion of David which he sang to Yahweh on account of Cush, a Benjaminite. {{rf big{1}}} O Yahweh, my God, in you I have taken refuge. Save me from all who pursue me, and deliver me. {{rf{2}}} Or else he will tear me apart like a lion, ripping to pieces, with none to deliver. {{rf{3}}} O Yahweh, my God, if I have done this, if there is wrong in my hands, {{rf{4}}} if I have repaid my ally with harm, or if I have plundered my enemy without cause, {{rf{5}}} let the enemy of my soul pursue, and overtake and trample my life into the ground, and lay my honor in the dust. Selah {{rf{6}}} Rise up, O Yahweh, in your anger, and lift yourself up against the wrath of my oppressors, and awake for me, since you have commanded judgment. {{rf{7}}} And let the assembly of peoples surround you, and over it return on high. {{rf{8}}} Yahweh judges the nations. O Yahweh, vindicate me according to my innocence and according to my integrity within me. {{rf{9}}} Let the evil of the wicked come to an end, but establish the righteous, and test the hearts and innermost being, O righteous God. {{rf{10}}} My shield is with God who saves the upright of heart. {{rf{11}}} God is a righteous judge, and a God who has indignation every day. {{rf{12}}} If he does not repent, he will sharpen his sword. He has bent his bow and he has strung it. {{rf{13}}} And he has prepared for him weapons of death. He has made his arrows fiery shafts. {{rf{14}}} See, he travails with evil. He is pregnant with trouble, and he gives birth to deception. {{rf{15}}} He makes a pit and digs it out, then falls in the trap he has made. {{rf{16}}} His trouble comes back on his head, and his violence comes down on his skull. {{rf{17}}} I will thank Yahweh according to his righteousness, and I will sing praise to the name of Yahweh, the Most High. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Psalms-007-001]] }}}
{{rf{0}}} For the music director, on the Gittith. A psalm of David. {{rf big{1}}} Yahweh, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth, who put your splendor above the heavens. {{rf{2}}} From the mouth of children and infants you have founded strength on account of your enemies, to silence the enemy and the avenger. {{rf{3}}} When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars which you set in place -- {{rf{4}}} what is a human being that you think of him? and a child of humankind that you care for him? {{rf{5}}} And you made him a little lower than heavenly beings, and with glory and with majesty you crowned him. {{rf{6}}} You make him over the works of your hands; all things you have placed under his feet: {{rf{7}}} sheep and cattle, all of them, and also the wild animals of the field, {{rf{8}}} the birds of the sky and the fish of the sea, everything that passes along the paths of seas. {{rf{9}}} Yahweh, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all of the earth! {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Psalms-008-001]] }}}
//{{rf{0}}} For the music director, according to Muth-labben. A psalm of David.// {{rf big{1}}} I will thank Yahweh with all my heart. I will tell of all your wonderful deeds. {{rf{2}}} I will be glad and rejoice in you. I will sing the praise of your name, O Most High. {{rf{3}}} When my enemies turn back, they will stumble and perish because of your presence. {{rf{4}}} For you have maintained my just cause; you have sat on the throne judging correctly. {{rf{5}}} You have rebuked the nations; you have destroyed the wicked. Their name you have blotted out forever and ever. {{rf{6}}} The enemies are destroyed in ruins forever, and you have uprooted their cities; their very memory has perished. {{rf{7}}} But Yahweh sits enthroned forever. He has established his throne for judgment. {{rf{8}}} And he will judge the world with righteousness. He will judge the peoples with equity. {{rf{9}}} And Yahweh will be a stronghold for the oppressed, a stronghold in times of distress. {{rf{10}}} ''And those who know your name will trust in you, for you do not forsake those who seek you, O Yahweh.'' {{rf{11}}} Sing praises to Yahweh who sits enthroned in Zion. Tell his deeds among the peoples, {{rf{12}}} for he who avenges bloodshed remembers them. He does not forget the distressed cry of the afflicted. {{rf{13}}} Be gracious to me, O Yahweh. See my suffering from those who hate me, you who lift me up from the gates of death, {{rf{14}}} so that I may tell of all your praises. In the gates of the daughter of Zion let me rejoice in your salvation. {{rf{15}}} The nations have fallen in the pit that they made; their foot is caught in the net that they hid. {{rf{16}}} Yahweh has made himself known; he has executed judgment. The wicked is snared by the work of his hands. Higgaion Selah {{rf{17}}} The wicked shall turn back to Sheol, all the nations forgetting God, {{rf{18}}} for the needy shall not always be forgotten; the hope of the poor shall never perish. {{rf{19}}} Rise up, O Yahweh, let not humans prevail; let the nations be judged before you. {{rf{20}}} O Yahweh, put them in fear. Let the nations know they are merely human. Selah {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Psalms-009-001]] }}}
{{rf big{1}}} Why, O Yahweh, do you stand far off? Why do you hide during times of distress? {{rf{2}}} In arrogance the wicked persecutes the poor. Let them be caught in the schemes that they devised, {{rf{3}}} for the wicked boasts about the desire of his heart, and the one greedy for gain curses and treats Yahweh with contempt. {{rf{4}}} With bald-faced pride the wicked will not seek God. There is no God in any of his thoughts. {{rf{5}}} His ways endure at all times. Your judgments are aloof from him. As for all his enemies, he scoffs at them. {{rf{6}}} He says in his heart, "I shall not be moved throughout all generations, during which I will have no trouble." {{rf{7}}} His mouth is filled with cursing, with deceits and oppression; under his tongue are trouble and evil. {{rf{8}}} He sits in ambush in villages; in the hiding places he kills the innocent. His eyes lurk for the helpless. {{rf{9}}} He lies in ambush secretly, like a lion in a thicket. He lies in ambush to seize the poor; he seizes the poor by catching him in his net. {{rf{10}}} He is crushed; he is bowed down; so the helpless host falls by his might. {{rf{11}}} He says in his heart, "God has forgotten. He has hidden his face. He never sees." {{rf{12}}} Rise up, O Yahweh; O God, lift up your hand. Do not forget the afflicted. {{rf{13}}} Why does the wicked treat God with contempt? He says in his heart, "You will not call me to account." {{rf{14}}} But you have seen; indeed you have noted trouble and grief to take it into your hand. The helpless abandons himself upon you; you have been the helper for the orphan. {{rf{15}}} Break the arm of the wicked, and as for the evil man -- seek out his wickedness until you find none. {{rf{16}}} Yahweh is king forever and ever; the nations have perished from his land. {{rf{17}}} The longing of the afflicted you have heard, O Yahweh. You will make their heart secure. You will listen attentively {{rf{18}}} to render judgment for the fatherless and the oppressed so that a mere mortal from the earth will no longer cause terror. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Psalms-010-001]] }}}
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Psalms 10 and 12 go well together; the first examines the way of the wicked more closely and the second places a stronger focus on God's restoration of the oppressed.
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<<Bbl Ps 10:1 abbr >>ff Don't hesitate in applying this to the household abuser.
<<Bbl Ps 11:1 abbr >>-3 The warnings should be taken as an extended quote. In <<Bbl Neh 6:10>>-13, Nehemiah sees the intent is to cause him //to sin//.
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11:3 //Destroyed foundations//: lawlessness is rampant - consider Saul's murder of priests, when one of them helped David. But v 4 reminds is there is a higher realm.
<<Bbl Ps 11:4 abbr>>-7 Show chiasmus: God's //eyelids// see, and so the righteous will see //His face//.
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<<Bbl Ps 12:1 abbr >>-4 The wicked are more fully described in Psalm 10.
<<Bbl Ps 12:1 abbr >>,2 The speech of politicians. The politics of slander.
<<Bbl Ps 12:5 abbr >> ''"Because of the oppression of the afflicted, because of the groaning of the poor, now I will rise up," Yahweh says. "I shall put them in the safety for which they long."'' This declaration makes us bold to accept God's help for long-past traumas. (Rhyl 1996)
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<<Bbl Ps 14:1 abbr >> It appears that everyone is the fool //in his heart//. <<Bbl R 1:1 >>
//{{rf{0}}} For the music director. Of David.//
{{rf big{1}}} In Yahweh I have taken refuge; how can you say to my soul, "Flee to your mountain like a bird"? {{rf{2}}} For look: The wicked string the bow. They have fitted their arrow to the string, to shoot from the darkness at the upright of heart. {{rf{3}}} When the foundations are destroyed what can the righteous do? {{rf{4}}} Yahweh is in his holy temple; Yahweh is in the heavens on his throne. His eyelids see; they test the children of humankind. {{rf{5}}} Yahweh tests the righteous, but the wicked and the lover of violence his soul hates. {{rf{6}}} He will rain coals on the wicked. Burning sulfur and scorching wind will be the portion of their cup. {{rf{7}}} For Yahweh is righteous; he loves righteous deeds. The upright shall see his face. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Psalms-011-001]] }}}
//{{rf{0}}} For the music director; on the Sheminith. A psalm of David.// {{rf big{1}}} Save, O Yahweh, for the pious have ceased to be; for the faithful have vanished from among the children of humankind. {{rf{2}}} They speak falseness to each other. With flattering lips, with a double heart they speak. {{rf{3}}} May Yahweh cut off all flattering lips, the tongue speaking great boasts -- {{rf{4}}} those who say, "With our tongue we will prevail. Our lips are on our side. Who is master over us?" {{rf{5}}} ''"Because of the oppression of the afflicted, because of the groaning of the poor, now I will rise up," Yahweh says. "I shall put them in the safety for which they long."'' {{rf{6}}} The words of Yahweh are pure words like silver refined in the crucible on the ground, refined seven times. {{rf{7}}} You, O Yahweh, will protect them. You will preserve him from this generation always. {{rf{8}}} The wicked prowl about when vileness is exalted among the children of humankind. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Psalms-012-001]] }}}
//{{rf{0}}} For the music director. A psalm of David.// {{rf big{1}}} How long, O Yahweh? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me? {{rf{2}}} How long must I take counsel in my soul, and sorrow in my heart all the day? How long will my enemy be exalted over me? {{rf{3}}} Consider and answer me, O Yahweh my God. Give light to my eyes lest I sleep the sleep of death, {{rf{4}}} and lest my enemy should say, "I have overcome him," lest my enemies rejoice because I am shaken. {{rf{5}}} But as for me, I have trusted in your steadfast love. My heart will rejoice in your deliverance. {{rf{6}}} I will sing to Yahweh because he has dealt bountifully with me. LENGTH SHORT {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Psalms-013-001]] }}}
//{{rf{0}}} For the music director. Of David.// {{rf big{1}}} The fool says in his heart, "There is no God." They are corrupt. They do abominable deeds. There is none who does good. {{rf{2}}} Yahweh looks down from heaven upon the children of humankind to see whether there is one who has insight, one who cares about God. {{rf{3}}} All have gone astray; they are altogether corrupt. There is not one who does good; there is not even one. {{rf{4}}} All who do evil -- do they not know, they who eat my people as though they were eating bread? They do not call on Yahweh. {{rf{5}}} There they are very fearful because God is with the generation of the righteous. {{rf{6}}} You would put to shame the plan of the poor, because Yahweh is his refuge. {{rf{7}}} Oh that from Zion would come salvation for Israel! When Yahweh returns the fortunes of his people, Jacob will rejoice; Israel will be happy. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Psalms-014-001]] }}}
//{{rf{0}}} A psalm of David.// {{rf big{1}}} O Yahweh, who may reside in your tent? Who may dwell on your holy mountain? {{rf{2}}} He who walks blamelessly and does what is right. He who speaks honestly in his heart. {{rf{3}}} He does not slander with his tongue. He does not harm his friend, nor bring up a disgrace against his neighbor. {{rf{4}}} In his eyes a rejected one is contemptible, but he honors those who respect Yahweh. He takes an oath to his own injury and does not retract it. {{rf{5}}} He does not lend his money at interest, and does not take a bribe against the innocent. He who does these things will never be shaken. LENGTH SHORT {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Psalms-015-001]] }}}
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Psalms 15 and 16 go well together; the first examines the way of the righteous more closely and the second rejoices in God's favor.
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<<Bbl Ps 16:1 abbr >>-ff Protection, perversion, purification, provision, presence, person, pleasure.
<<Bbl Ps 16:1 abbr >> Rely and thrive - this is the two-fold theme for what follows, and the essential good news of salvation.
<<Bbl Ps 16:2 abbr >> A personal, conclusive confession.
<<Bbl Ps 16:5 abbr >> Parallels cup with lot (or destiny). Note that [[Inherit]] and [[Cup]] seem to refer to the innermost and outermost realms of personal life, and they both have to do with sustenance. (Our word //lot//, meaning a tract of land, is related to allotment and lottery. The ~Anglo-Saxon //hlot// refers to divination (so to "cast one's lot"). Are these from the same root?)
<<Bbl Ps 16:3 abbr >> <<Bbl Php 4:3 >>
<<Bbl Ps 16:7 abbr >> see <<Bbl I 50:4 >>. About night-time: Before artificial lighting, the active day ended with darkness. There wasn't much to do, for most people reading wasn't possible. To receive knowledge was all the more special.
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<<Bbl Ps 17:13 abbr >> Note difference between KJV and some other versions.
<<Bbl Ps 18:18 abbr >>, <<Bbl Ps 21:3 >> , "prevent" in KJV.
//{{rf{0}}} A miktam of David.// {{rf big{1}}} Protect me, O God, for I take refuge in you. {{rf{2}}} Oh my soul you have said to Yahweh, "You are my Lord. I have no good apart from you." {{rf{3}}} With regard to the saints who are in the land, they are the noble ones in whom is all my desire. {{rf{4}}} Those who hurry after another god increase their sorrows. I will not pour out their drink offerings of blood, nor take up their names on my lips.
{{rf{5}}} Yahweh is the portion which is my share and my cup. You hold my lot. {{rf{6}}} The measuring lines have fallen for me in pleasant places. Yes, my inheritance is delightful for me. {{rf{7}}} I will bless Yahweh who advises me; yes, at night my innermost being instructs me. {{rf{8}}} I have set Yahweh before me always. Because he is at my right hand I will not be shaken. {{rf{9}}} Therefore my heart is glad and my glory rejoices. Yes, my body will dwell in safety, {{rf{10}}} for you will not abandon my soul to Sheol; you will not give your faithful one to see the grave. {{rf{11}}} You will make known to me the path of life. In your presence is fullness of joy. At your right hand are pleasures forever. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Psalms-016-001]] }}}
//{{rf{0}}} A prayer of David.// {{rf big{1}}} O Yahweh, hear a just cause. Hear my cry; heed my prayer I make without deceitful lips. {{rf{2}}} Let my vindication come forth from you; let your eyes see fairness. {{rf{3}}} You have tried my heart; you have examined me by night; you have tested me; you found nothing. I have decided that my mouth will not transgress. {{rf{4}}} As for the works of humankind, by the word of your lips, I have kept from the ways of the violent. {{rf{5}}} I have held my steps in your path My feet will not slip. {{rf{6}}} As for me, I have called on you because you will answer me, O God. Incline your ear to me. Hear my words. {{rf{7}}} Show wondrously your acts of loyal love, O Savior of those who take refuge at your right hand from those who rise up against them. {{rf{8}}} Keep me as the apple of your eye. Hide me in the shadow of your wings {{rf{9}}} from the presence of the wicked who destroy me, those enemies against my life, they that surround me. {{rf{10}}} They have shut off their calloused heart; with their mouth they speak arrogantly. {{rf{11}}} Now they surround us at our every step. They intend to pin me to the ground. {{rf{12}}} He is like a lion; he longs to tear apart, and like a strong lion crouching in hiding places. {{rf{13}}} Rise up, O Yahweh, confront him. Make him bow down. Rescue with your sword my life from the wicked, {{rf{14}}} from men by your hand, O Yahweh, from men of this world. Their share is in this life, and you fill their stomach with your treasure. They are satisfied with children. They bequeath their excess to their children. {{rf{15}}} By contrast, I in righteousness shall see your face. Upon awakening I will be satisfied seeing your form. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Psalms-017-001]] }}}
{{rf{0}}} For the music director. Of David, the servant of Yahweh, who spoke to Yahweh the words of this song when Yahweh delivered him from the hand of all his enemies, and from the hand of Saul. {{rf big{1}}} And he said: "I love you, O Yahweh, my strength." {{rf{2}}} Yahweh is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer, my God, my rock in whom I have taken refuge, my shield and the horn of my deliverance, my stronghold. {{rf{3}}} I called upon Yahweh, who is worthy to be praised, and I was saved from my enemies. {{rf{4}}} The ropes of death encircled me, and streams of ruin overwhelmed me. {{rf{5}}} The ropes of Sheol surrounded me; the snares of death confronted me. {{rf{6}}} In my trouble I called on Yahweh, and to my God I cried for help. He heard my voice from his temple, and my cry for help came up before his presence into his ears. {{rf{7}}} Then the earth shook and quaked, and the foundations of the mountains trembled, and they staggered because he was angry. {{rf{8}}} Smoke went forth from his nose, and fire from his mouth consumed. Burning coals blazed from him. {{rf{9}}} So he bowed the heavens and came down with a thick cloud under his feet. {{rf{10}}} And he mounted a cherub and flew, and he swooped down on wings of wind. {{rf{11}}} He made darkness his hiding place; all about him his covering was a darkness of waters, thick clouds. {{rf{12}}} From the brightness before him his clouds passed over with hail and coals of fire. {{rf{13}}} And Yahweh thundered from the heavens, and the Most High uttered his voice with hail and coals of fire. {{rf{14}}} And he shot his arrows and scattered them, and many lightning bolts and routed them. {{rf{15}}} Then the channels of the sea became visible, and the foundations of the world were uncovered by your rebuke, O Yahweh, by the blast of the wind of your nose. {{rf{16}}} He reached from on high; he seized me. He drew me from many waters. {{rf{17}}} He delivered me from my strong enemy, and from those who hated me because they were stronger than I. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Psalms-018-001]] }}}
{{rf{18}}} They confronted me on the day of disaster, but Yahweh was my support. {{rf{19}}} So he brought me out to a spacious place. He delivered me because he delighted in me. {{rf{20}}} Yahweh has rewarded me according to my righteousness; According to the cleanness of my hands he has repaid me. {{rf{21}}} Because I have kept the ways of Yahweh, and have not acted wickedly against my God, {{rf{22}}} because all his ordinances are before me, and his statutes I have not removed from me, {{rf{23}}} and I was blameless before him, and I kept myself from my guilt. {{rf{24}}} Therefore Yahweh has repaid me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in his sight. {{rf{25}}} To the loyal you show yourself loyal. To the blameless you show yourself blameless. {{rf{26}}} To the pure you show yourself pure. but to the wicked you show yourself shrewd. {{rf{27}}} For you deliver humble people, but haughty eyes you humiliate. {{rf{28}}} For you light my lamp; Yahweh, my God, lights up my darkness. {{rf{29}}} For with you I can charge a troop, and with my God I can scale a wall. {{rf{30}}} This God -- his way is blameless. The word of Yahweh is flawless. He is a shield for all those who take refuge in him. {{rf{31}}} For who is God apart from Yahweh, and who is a rock except our God? {{rf{32}}} The God who girded me with strength, and made safe my way, {{rf{33}}} he made my feet like the deer's, and on my high places he makes me stand. {{rf{34}}} He trains my hands for war, so that my arms can bend a bow of bronze. {{rf{35}}} You also gave me the shield of your salvation, and your right hand supported me, and your humility made me great. {{rf{36}}} You enlarged my step under me, and my ankles did not slip. {{rf{37}}} I chased my enemies and overtook them; I did not turn back until they were finished off. {{rf{38}}} I struck them and they were not able to stand up; they fell under my feet. {{rf{39}}} And you girded me with strength for the battle; those rising against me you made to kneel under me. {{rf{40}}} And you made my enemies turn their backs, then I destroyed those who hated me. {{rf{41}}} They cried out but there was no rescuer, even to Yahweh, but he did not answer them. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Psalms-018-018]] }}}
{{rf{42}}} And I ground them like dust in the wind, I emptied them out like mud of the streets. {{rf{43}}} You rescued me from strife with people; you set me as head (over) nations. People I did not know served me; {{rf{44}}} as soon as they heard, they obeyed me. The children of a foreign land feigned obedience before me. {{rf{45}}} The children of a foreign land lost heart, and they came trembling from their strongholds. {{rf{46}}} Yahweh lives, and blessed be my rock, and may the God of my salvation be exalted -- {{rf{47}}} the God who executed vengeance for me, and subdued peoples under me, {{rf{48}}} who delivered me from my enemies. Indeed, you exalted me higher than those who rose against me. You delivered me from the man of violence. {{rf{49}}} Therefore I will give thanks to you among the nations, O Yahweh, and I will sing the praise of your name: {{rf{50}}} the one who makes great victories for his king, and who shows loyal love for his anointed, to David and to his descendants forever. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Psalms-018-042]] }}}
{{rf{0}}} For the music director. A psalm of David. {{rf big{1}}} The heavens are telling the glory of God, and the firmament proclaims the work of his hands. {{rf{2}}} Every day they pour forth speech, and every night they tell knowledge. {{rf{3}}} There is no speech and there are no words; their sound is inaudible. {{rf{4}}} Yet in all the world their line goes out, and their words to the end of the world. In them he has pitched a tent for the sun, {{rf{5}}} and it is like a bridegroom who comes out of his bridal chamber. It is glad like a strong man to run its course. {{rf{6}}} Its rising is from one end of the heavens and its circuit to the other end of them; and nothing is hidden from its heat. {{rf{7}}} The law of Yahweh is perfect, reviving life. The testimony of Yahweh is firm, making wise the simple. {{rf{8}}} The precepts of Yahweh are right, making the heart rejoice. The command of Yahweh is pure, enlightening the eyes. {{rf{9}}} The fear of Yahweh is pure, enduring forever. The ordinances of Yahweh are true; they are righteous altogether, {{rf{10}}} more desirable than gold, even much fine gold; and sweeter than honey, even honey in the comb. {{rf{11}}} Moreover, your servant is warned by them; in keeping them is great reward. {{rf{12}}} Who can perceive his errors? Acquit me from hidden faults. {{rf{13}}} Also, keep back your servant from arrogant sins; let them not rule over me. Then I shall be blameless, and I shall be innocent of great transgression. {{rf{14}}} Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in your presence, O Yahweh, my rock and my redeemer. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Psalms-019-001]] }}}
{{rf{0}}} For the music director. A psalm of David. {{rf big{1}}} May Yahweh answer you in the day of trouble. May the name of Jacob's God protect you. {{rf{2}}} May he send you help from the sanctuary, and from Zion may he sustain you. {{rf{3}}} May he remember all your offerings, and your burnt offering may he regard favorably. {{rf{4}}} May he give to you your heart's desire, and your every plan may he fulfill. Selah {{rf{5}}} May we shout for joy over your victory, and in the name of our God may we set up banners. May Yahweh fulfill all your requests. {{rf{6}}} Now I know that Yahweh will help his anointed. He will answer him from his holy heaven with the victorious power of his right hand. {{rf{7}}} Some boast in chariots and others in horses, but we boast in the name of Yahweh, our God. {{rf{8}}} They will collapse and fall, and we will rise and stand firm. {{rf{9}}} Rescue, O Yahweh. Let the king answer us when we call. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Psalms-020-001]] }}}
<<Bbl Psalms 20:1 abbr >> - victory and blessing
<<Bbl Ps 22:1 abbr >>-5 may have chiastic structure
<<Bbl Ps 22:14 abbr>>-15 The great contrast is life in moisture versus death in dessication. Christ, in being poured out, was poured out completely. In the first verse everything is draining out; in the second nothing is left.
<<Bbl Psalms 23:1 abbr >> -- Trust
''Chiastic structure:''
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> Yahweh
> belonging
> benefits
> benefits - particular
> guidance
> obedience
> adversity, danger
This makes a profound study with 1 Peter 1.
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23:3 I used to think that His Name's sake was the writer's motive for walking the paths; rather it's God's motive for leading him.
<<Bbl Ps 23:5 abbr>> //He anoints my head// -- making this a messianic psalm?
{{rf{0}}} For the music director. A psalm of David. {{rf big{1}}} O Yahweh, the king will rejoice in your strength, and how greatly he will delight in your help. {{rf{2}}} You have given him the desire of his heart, and have not withheld the request of his lips. Selah {{rf{3}}} For you meet him with blessings of good things. You set on his head a crown of fine gold. ''{{rf{4}}} He asked life from you; you gave it to him -- length of days forever and ever.'' {{rf{5}}} His honor is great because of your help. Splendor and majesty you have bestowed upon him. {{rf{6}}} For you set on him blessings forever. ''You make him glad with the joy of your presence.'' {{rf{7}}} Because the king trusts Yahweh, and through the steadfast love of the Most High he shall not be moved. {{rf{8}}} Your hand will find all your enemies; your right hand will find those who hate you. {{rf{9}}} You will make them like your fiery furnace at the time of your appearance. Yahweh will swallow them in his wrath and fire will consume them. {{rf{10}}} You will destroy their offspring from the earth, and their descendants from among the children of humankind. {{rf{11}}} Though they have plotted evil against you, though they have planned a scheme, they will not prevail. {{rf{12}}} For you will turn them to flight; you will aim arrows on your bowstrings at their faces. {{rf{13}}} Be exalted, O Yahweh, in your strength, and we sing and praise your power. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Psalms-021-001]] }}}
{{rf{0}}} For the music director; according to The Doe of the Dawn. A psalm of David. {{rf big{1}}} My God, my God why have you forsaken me? Why are you far from helping me, far from the words of my groaning? {{rf{2}}} O my God, I call by day and you do not answer, and by night but I have no rest. {{rf{3}}} Yet you are holy, enthroned on the praises of Israel. {{rf{4}}} Our ancestors trusted you; they trusted and you delivered them. {{rf{5}}} They cried to you and were saved; they trusted you and were not ashamed. {{rf{6}}} But I am a worm and not a man, scorned by humankind and despised by people. {{rf{7}}} All who see me mock me. They open wide their lips; they shake the head, saying: {{rf{8}}} "He trusts Yahweh. Let him rescue him. Let him deliver him because he delights in him." {{rf{9}}} Yet you took me from the belly; you made me trust while on my mother's breasts. {{rf{10}}} On you I was cast from the womb. From my mother's belly you have been my God. {{rf{11}}} Do not be far from me because trouble is near; because there is no helper. {{rf{12}}} Many bulls have encircled me; mighty bulls of Bashan have surrounded me. {{rf{13}}} They open their mouth against me like a lion tearing and roaring. {{rf{14}}} I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint. My heart is like wax; it is melted within me. {{rf{15}}} My strength is dry like a potsherd, and my tongue is sticking to my jaws; and you have placed me in the dust of death. {{rf{16}}} Because dogs have surrounded me; a gang of evildoers has encircled me. Like the lion they are at my hands and my feet. {{rf{17}}} I can count all my bones; they gaze, they look at me. {{rf{18}}} They divide my garments among them, and for my clothing they cast lots. {{rf{19}}} But you, O Yahweh, do not remain distant. O my help, hasten to help me. {{rf{20}}} Rescue my life from the sword, my only life from the power of the dogs. {{rf{21}}} Save me from the mouth of the lion, and from the horns of the wild oxen answer me. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Psalms-022-001]] }}}
{{rf{22}}} I will tell your name to my brothers; inside the assembly I will praise you. {{rf{23}}} You who revere Yahweh, praise him! Glorify him, all you seed of Jacob, and be in awe of him, all you seed of Israel, {{rf{24}}} because he has not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted, and has not hid his face from him; but he listened to him when he cried for help. {{rf{25}}} From you is my praise. In the great assembly, I will pay my vows before those who revere him. {{rf{26}}} The afflicted will eat and will be satisfied. Those who seek him will praise Yahweh. May your heart live forever. {{rf{27}}} All the ends of the earth will remember and turn to Yahweh. All the families of the nations will worship before you. {{rf{28}}} Because the kingship belongs to Yahweh, and he rules over the nations. {{rf{29}}} All the healthy ones of the earth will eat and worship. Before him all of those descending into the dust will kneel, even he who cannot keep his soul alive. {{rf{30}}} Descendants will serve him. Regarding the Lord, it will be told to the next generation. {{rf{31}}} They will come and tell his saving deeds to a people yet to be born, that he has done it. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Psalms-022-022]] }}}
{{rf{0}}} A psalm of David. {{rf big{1}}} Yahweh is my shepherd; I will not lack for anything. {{rf{2}}} In grassy pastures he makes me lie down; by quiet waters he leads me. {{rf{3}}} He restores my life. He leads me in correct paths for the sake of his name. {{rf{4}}} Even when I walk in a dark valley, I fear no evil because you are with me. Your rod and your staff, they comfort me. {{rf{5}}} You prepare before me a table in the presence of my oppressors. You anoint my head with oil; my cup is overflowing. {{rf{6}}} Surely goodness and loyal love will pursue me all the days of my life, and I will stay in the house of Yahweh for a very long time. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Psalms-023-001]] }}}
{{rf{0}}} A psalm of David. {{rf big{1}}} The earth is Yahweh's, with its fullness, the world and those who live in it, {{rf{2}}} because he has founded it on the seas, and has established it on the rivers. {{rf{3}}} Who may ascend the mountain of Yahweh? And who may stand in his holy place? {{rf{4}}} He who is innocent of hands and pure of heart, who does not lift up his soul to falseness, and does not swear deceitfully. {{rf{5}}} He will receive blessing from Yahweh, and justice from the God of his salvation. {{rf{6}}} Such is the sort of those who seek him, those who seek your face, even Jacob. Selah {{rf{7}}} Lift up your heads, O gates, and rise up, O ancient doorways, that the king of glory may enter. {{rf{8}}} Who is the king of glory? Yahweh, strong and mighty; Yahweh, mighty in war! {{rf{9}}} Lift up your heads, O gates, and lift up, O ancient doorways, that the king of glory may enter. {{rf{10}}} Who is the king of glory? Yahweh of hosts, He is the king of glory! Selah {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Psalms-024-001]] }}}
<<Bbl Ps 24:3 abbr >>-5 like <<Bbl Ps 15:1 >>-5.
<<Bbl Ps 30:1 abbr >> the first part of the Psalm reiterates the teaching that God glorifies himself by saving his people. <<Bbl Ps 30:4 >>-5 has it in a kernel. The final part has the same idea presented more as an episode, and teaches that this reality is not reserved for a final phase (even though the reference to Sheol sets the frame there at the beginning).
<<Bbl Ps 30:5 abbr >>
** Carousing works in reverse. "It's night time -- let's party!" Then in the morning, it's a hangover.
** But Paul says, we are children of the day. Why does the believer rejoice? Because joy comes in the morning, and the believer is a child of that time.
<<Bbl Ps 30:6 abbr >>-7 his ready confidence is reversed, he needs God's mercy now.
<<Bbl Ps 30:8 abbr >>-10 This prayer all proceeds from the dismay of 7b.
<<Bbl Ps 30:11 abbr >>-12 Present a satisfaction compared to which v 6 is pale. The great difference is this glory of God in saving his people.
<<Bbl Psalms 32:1 abbr >>ff Iniquities are not counted. David's view of righteousness is based in humility and brokeness. It's clear that the righteous man is not sinless, but sin-free. This is the Gospel.
<<Bbl Ps 32:6 abbr >>. if God is not present, it is not due to some overwhelming danger.
32:9 This verse is fulfilled with startling clarity in the life of Samson, <<Bbl Jud 16:19 >>-21 .
{{rf{0}}} Of David. {{rf big{1}}} To you, O Yahweh, I lift up my soul. {{rf{2}}} O my God, I trust you; let me not be put to shame. Do not let my enemies exult over me. {{rf{3}}} Indeed, none who wait for you should be put to shame. Those who betray without cause should be put to shame. {{rf{4}}} Make me know your ways, O Yahweh. Teach me your paths. {{rf{5}}} Cause me to walk in your truth and teach me, because you are the God of my salvation. I await you all day long. {{rf{6}}} Remember your compassion, O Yahweh, and your acts of loyal love, because they are from of old. {{rf{7}}} Do not remember the sins of my youth or my transgressions. According to your loyal love remember me if you will, for the sake of your goodness, O Yahweh. {{rf{8}}} Good and right is Yahweh; therefore he instructs sinners in the way. {{rf{9}}} He causes the humble to walk in justice, and teaches the humble his way. {{rf{10}}} All the paths of Yahweh are loyal love and faithfulness for those who keep his covenant and statutes. {{rf{11}}} Also, for the sake of your name, O Yahweh, forgive my sin, because it is great. {{rf{12}}} Who is the man fearing Yahweh? He will instruct him in the way he should choose. {{rf{13}}} His soul will lodge in prosperity, and his offspring will possess the land. {{rf{14}}} Intimate fellowship with Yahweh is for those who fear him, and he makes known his covenant to them. {{rf{15}}} My eyes are continually toward Yahweh, because he will take my feet from the net. {{rf{16}}} Turn to me and have mercy on me because I am lonely and afflicted. {{rf{17}}} Remove the troubles of my heart; bring me out from my distresses. {{rf{18}}} Consider my affliction and trouble, and forgive all my sins. {{rf{19}}} Consider that my enemies are many, and they hate me with violent hatred. {{rf{20}}} Protect my life and deliver me. Let me not be put to shame, because I take shelter in you. {{rf{21}}} Let integrity and uprightness preserve me, because I wait for you. {{rf{22}}} O God, redeem Israel from all its troubles. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Psalms-025-001]] }}}
{{rf{0}}} Of David. {{rf big{1}}} Judge me, O Yahweh, because I have walked in my integrity, and I have trusted Yahweh and not wavered. {{rf{2}}} Prove me, O Yahweh, and test me. Try my innermost being and my mind. {{rf{3}}} Because your loyal love is before my eyes, and I walk about in your faithfulness. {{rf{4}}} I do not sit with deceitful people, nor will I go about with hypocrites. {{rf{5}}} I hate the crowd of evildoers, and with the wicked I will not sit. {{rf{6}}} I will wash my hands in innocence, and I will walk about your altar, O Yahweh, {{rf{7}}} to declare with a voice of thanksgiving, and tell of all your wondrous deeds. {{rf{8}}} O Yahweh, I love the dwelling of your house, and the place where your glory abides. {{rf{9}}} Do not destroy me with the sinners, nor my life with men of bloodshed, {{rf{10}}} in whose hands is an evil plan, and whose right hand is full of bribes. {{rf{11}}} But as for me, I will walk in my integrity. Redeem me and be gracious to me. {{rf{12}}} My foot stands on level ground. In assemblies I will bless Yahweh. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Psalms-026-001]] }}}
{{rf{0}}} Of David. {{rf big{1}}} Yahweh is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? Yahweh is the refuge of my life; of whom shall I be afraid? {{rf{2}}} When evildoers drew near against me to eat my flesh -- my adversaries and my enemies who drew near to me -- they themselves stumbled and fell. {{rf{3}}} Though an army encamp against me, my heart will not fear. Though war arise against me, even in this I will remain confident. {{rf{4}}} One thing I have asked from Yahweh; it I will seek: that I may dwell in the house of Yahweh all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of Yahweh, and to consider his temple. {{rf{5}}} Because he will hide me in his shelter in the day of trouble. He will conceal me in the hiding place of his tent. He will set me high upon a rock. {{rf{6}}} And now my head will be high over my enemies round about me. And I will offer in his tent sacrifices with shouts of joy. I will sing, yes, I will sing praises to Yahweh. {{rf{7}}} Hear, O Yahweh, my voice when I call, and be gracious to me and answer me. {{rf{8}}} On your behalf my heart says, "Seek my face." Your face, O Yahweh, I do seek. {{rf{9}}} Do not hide your face from me; do not turn your servant away in anger. You have been my help; do not abandon nor forsake me, O God of my salvation. {{rf{10}}} If my father or my mother forsake me, then Yahweh will receive me. {{rf{11}}} Teach me, O Yahweh, your way, and lead me on a level path because of my enemies. {{rf{12}}} Do not give me over to the desire of my enemies, because false witnesses have arisen against me, and each breathing out violence. {{rf{13}}} Surely I believe that I will see the goodness of Yahweh in the land of the living. {{rf{14}}} Wait for Yahweh. Be strong and let your heart show strength, and wait for Yahweh. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Psalms-027-001]] }}}
{{rf{0}}} A psalm of David. {{rf big{1}}} To you, O Yahweh, I call. O my rock, do not be deaf to me. Or else, if you are silent to me, then I will become like those descending to the pit. {{rf{2}}} Hear the voice of my supplications when I cry to you for help, when I lift up my hands toward your holy inner sanctuary. {{rf{3}}} Do not drag me away with the wicked or with the workers of evil, who speak of peace with their neighbors, while evil is in their heart. {{rf{4}}} Give to them according to their work, even according to the evil of their deeds. Give to them according to the work of their hands; repay them their rightful due. {{rf{5}}} Because they do not regard the works of Yahweh, nor the work of his hands, he will destroy them and not rebuild them. {{rf{6}}} Blessed is Yahweh, because he has heard the voice of my supplications. {{rf{7}}} Yahweh is my strength and my shield. My heart trusts him and I am helped. So my heart rejoices, and with my song I will give thanks to him. {{rf{8}}} Yahweh is their strength, and he is the refuge for the salvation of his anointed one. {{rf{9}}} Save your people and bless your heritage. Shepherd them also and carry them always. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Psalms-028-001]] }}}
{{rf{0}}} A psalm of David. {{rf big{1}}} Ascribe to Yahweh, O sons of God, ascribe to Yahweh glory and strength. {{rf{2}}} Ascribe to Yahweh the glory due his name. Worship Yahweh in holy array. {{rf{3}}} The voice of Yahweh is over the waters; the God of glory thunders. Yahweh is over many waters. {{rf{4}}} The voice of Yahweh is powerful. The voice of Yahweh is majestic. {{rf{5}}} The voice of Yahweh breaks the cedars. Yahweh shatters even the cedars of Lebanon. {{rf{6}}} And he makes them skip like a calf; Lebanon and Sirion like a young wild ox. {{rf{7}}} The voice of Yahweh flashes flames of fire. {{rf{8}}} The voice of Yahweh shakes the wilderness. Yahweh shakes the wilderness of Kadesh. {{rf{9}}} The voice of Yahweh causes deer to give birth and strips the forests bare. And at his temple all in it say, "Glory!" {{rf{10}}} Yahweh sits enthroned at the flood, and Yahweh sits as king forever. {{rf{11}}} May Yahweh give strength to his people. May Yahweh bless his people with peace. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Psalms-029-001]] }}}
{{rf{0}}} A psalm; a song for the dedication of the house. Of David. {{rf big{1}}} I will exalt you, O Yahweh, because you have drawn me up, and have not made my enemies rejoice over me. {{rf{2}}} O Yahweh, my God, I cried for help to you, and you healed me. {{rf{3}}} O Yahweh, you have brought my life up from Sheol. You preserved me alive from among those going down to the pit. {{rf{4}}} Sing praises to Yahweh, you his faithful ones, and give thanks to his holy fame. {{rf{5}}} For there is a moment in his anger; there is a lifetime in his favor. Weeping lodges for the evening, but in the morning comes rejoicing. {{rf{6}}} But as for me, I had said in my prosperity, "I shall not be moved ever." {{rf{7}}} O Yahweh, by your favor you caused my strong mountain to stand. You hid your face. I was bewildered. {{rf{8}}} To you, O Yahweh, I called, and to the Lord I pleaded for grace saying, {{rf{9}}} "What gain is there in my death, in my going down into the pit? Will the dust praise you? Will it tell of your faithfulness? {{rf{10}}} "O Yahweh, hear and be gracious to me. O Yahweh, be my helper." {{rf{11}}} You have turned my wailing into my dancing. You have removed my sackcloth and clothed me with joy {{rf{12}}} so that I may sing praises to you and not be quiet. O Yahweh, my God, I will give thanks to you forever. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Psalms-030-001]] }}}
{{rf{0}}} For the music director. A psalm of David. {{rf big{1}}} In you, O Yahweh, I have taken refuge. Let me not be put to shame ever. Deliver me by your righteousness. {{rf{2}}} Incline your ear to me. Quickly deliver me. Become my rock of refuge, a fortified keep to save me. {{rf{3}}} For you are my rock and my fortress. So, for the sake of your name, lead me and guide me. {{rf{4}}} Bring me out of the net that they have secretly set for me, for you are my refuge. {{rf{5}}} Into your hand I commit my spirit. You have redeemed me, O Yahweh, faithful God. {{rf{6}}} I hate those devoted to useless idols, but I trust Yahweh. {{rf{7}}} I will exult and rejoice in your loyal love. Because you have seen my misery, you know the distresses of my life. {{rf{8}}} And you have not delivered me into the hand of the enemy. You have set my feet in a broad place. {{rf{9}}} Be gracious to me, O Yahweh, because I have distress. My eye wastes away because of vexation, along with my soul and my body. {{rf{10}}} For my life is at an end with sorrow, and my years with sighing. My strength stumbles because of my iniquity, and my bones waste away. {{rf{11}}} Because of all my adversaries I have become a disgrace, especially to my neighbors, and a dread to my acquaintances. Those who see me in the street flee from me. {{rf{12}}} I have become forgotten like one dead, out of mind. I am like a destroyed vessel. {{rf{13}}} For I hear the rumor of many, "Terror on every side!" When conspiring together against me, they have plotted to take my life. {{rf{14}}} But as for me, I trust you, O Yahweh. I say, "You are my God." {{rf{15}}} My times are in your hand. Deliver me from the hand of my enemies and from those who pursue me. {{rf{16}}} Shine your face upon your servant. Save me by your loyal love. {{rf{17}}} O Yahweh, let me not be put to shame, for I call on you. Let the wicked be put to shame. Let them go silently to Sheol. {{rf{18}}} Let lying lips be dumb, that speak against the righteous unrestrained with arrogance and contempt. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Psalms-031-001]] }}}
{{rf{19}}} How abundant is your goodness that you have stored up for those who fear you, that you perform for those who take refuge in you before the children of humankind. {{rf{20}}} You will hide them in the protection of your presence from the plots of man. You will hide them in a shelter from the strife of tongues. {{rf{21}}} Blessed is Yahweh, because he has worked marvelously his loyal love to me in a besieged city. {{rf{22}}} As for me, I said in my alarm, "I am cut off from before your eyes." However you heard the voice of my supplications when I cried to you for help. {{rf{23}}} Love Yahweh, all you his faithful ones. Yahweh preserves the faithful but repays abundantly the one who acts arrogantly. {{rf{24}}} Be strong and let your heart show strength, all you who wait for Yahweh. LENGTH SHORT {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Psalms-031-019]] }}}
{{rf{0}}} Of David. A maskil. {{rf big{1}}} Happy is he whose transgression is taken away, whose sin is covered. {{rf{2}}} Happy is a person to whom Yahweh does not impute iniquity and in whose spirit there is not deceit. {{rf{3}}} When I kept silent, my bones were worn out due to my groaning all the day. {{rf{4}}} For day and night your hand was heavy upon me. My vigor was changed into the dry heat of summer. Selah {{rf{5}}} I made known my sin to you, and my iniquity I did not cover. I said, "I will confess concerning my transgressions to Yahweh," and you took away the guilt of my sin. Selah {{rf{6}}} Therefore let all the faithful pray to you at the time for finding you. Surely at the flood of many waters they will not reach him. {{rf{7}}} You are my hiding place; from trouble you preserve me. With cries of deliverance you surround me. Selah {{rf{8}}} I will instruct you and teach you in the way that you should go. I will advise you with my eye upon you. {{rf{9}}} Do not be like a horse or like a mule, without understanding; that needs his tackle -- bridle and rein -- for restraint or he would not come near you. {{rf{10}}} Many are the pains of the wicked, but for the one who trusts Yahweh loyal love surrounds him. {{rf{11}}} Be glad in Yahweh and rejoice, you righteous, and shout for joy, all you upright of heart. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Psalms-032-001]] }}}
Exult in Yahweh, O you righteous, for praise is fitting for the upright. {{rf{2}}} Give thanks to Yahweh with the lyre; with a harp of ten strings play to him. {{rf{3}}} Sing to him a new song; play skillfully with jubilant shout. {{rf{4}}} For the word of Yahweh is upright, and all his work is done in faithfulness. {{rf{5}}} He loves righteousness and justice. The earth is full of the loyal love of Yahweh. {{rf{6}}} By the word of Yahweh the heavens were made, and by the breath of his mouth all their host. {{rf{7}}} He gathered the waters of the sea like a heap. He put the deeps in storehouses. {{rf{8}}} Let all the earth fear Yahweh. Let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him. {{rf{9}}} For he himself spoke and it came to pass. He himself commanded and it stood firm. {{rf{10}}} Yahweh brings to nothing the plan of nations; he frustrates the intents of peoples. {{rf{11}}} The plan of Yahweh stands firm forever, the intents of his heart from one generation to the next. {{rf{12}}} Blessed is the nation whose God is Yahweh, the people he has chosen for his inheritance. {{rf{13}}} From heaven Yahweh looks; he sees all the children of humankind. {{rf{14}}} From his dwelling place he gazes on all the inhabitants of the earth, {{rf{15}}} he who fashions altogether their heart, he who understands all their works. {{rf{16}}} The king is not saved by the greatness of an army. The warrior is not delivered by the greatness of strength. {{rf{17}}} The horse is a false hope for victory, nor can it save by the greatness of its power. {{rf{18}}} Behold, the eye of Yahweh is on those who fear him, on those who hope for his loyal love {{rf{19}}} to deliver their soul from death and to keep them alive in famine. {{rf{20}}} Our soul waits for Yahweh; he is our help and our shield. {{rf{21}}} For in him our heart rejoices because in his holy name we trust. {{rf{22}}} Let your loyal love, O Yahweh, be upon us, even as we hope in you. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Psalms-033-001]] }}}
{{rf{0}}} Of David, when he pretended to be crazy in front of Abimelech so that he drove him out, and so he departed. {{rf big{1}}} I will bless Yahweh at all times; his praise shall be in my mouth continually. {{rf{2}}} My soul makes its boast in Yahweh; let the humble hear and be glad. {{rf{3}}} Magnify Yahweh with me, and let us exalt his name together. {{rf{4}}} I sought Yahweh and he answered me, and from all my terrors he delivered me. {{rf{5}}} They looked to him and were radiant, and their faces shall not be ashamed. {{rf{6}}} This poor man called and Yahweh heard, and saved him from all his troubles. {{rf{7}}} The angel of Yahweh encamps around those who fear him, and he rescues them. {{rf{8}}} Taste and see that Yahweh is good; blessed is the man who takes refuge in him. {{rf{9}}} Fear Yahweh, you his saints, for there is no lack for those who fear him. {{rf{10}}} The young lions are in want and suffer hunger, but those who seek Yahweh will not lack for any good thing. {{rf{11}}} Come, you children, listen to me; I will teach you the fear of Yahweh. {{rf{12}}} Who is the man who desires life, who loves many days in order to see good? {{rf{13}}} Keep your tongue from evil and your lips from speaking deceit. {{rf{14}}} Turn from evil and do good. Seek peace and pursue it. {{rf{15}}} The eyes of Yahweh are toward the righteous, and his ears toward their cry for help. {{rf{16}}} The face of Yahweh is against evildoers, to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth. {{rf{17}}} They cry out and Yahweh hears and delivers them from all of their troubles. {{rf{18}}} Yahweh is near to those who are heartbroken and saves those who are crushed in spirit. {{rf{19}}} Many are the distresses of the righteous, but Yahweh delivers him out of them all. {{rf{20}}} He protects all his bones; not one of them is broken. {{rf{21}}} Evil will slay the wicked, and those who hate the righteous will incur guilt. {{rf{22}}} Yahweh redeems the life of his servants, and none who take refuge in him will incur guilt. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Psalms-034-001]] }}}
{{rf{0}}} Of David. {{rf big{1}}} Contend, O Yahweh, with my contenders; fight those who fight me. {{rf{2}}} Grasp buckler and shield and rise to my aid. {{rf{3}}} And draw the spear and javelin to meet those who pursue me. Say to my soul, "I am your salvation." {{rf{4}}} Let those who seek my life be shamed and humiliated. Let those who plot calamity against me be repulsed and ashamed. {{rf{5}}} Let them be like chaff before the wind, with the angel of Yahweh driving them. {{rf{6}}} Let their way be dark and slippery, with the angel of Yahweh pursuing them. {{rf{7}}} For without cause they secretly hide the pit with their net for me; without cause they dug it for my life. {{rf{8}}} Let unforeseen ruin come on him, and his net that he hid, let it catch him. Let him fall into it in ruin. {{rf{9}}} Then my soul will rejoice in Yahweh; it will rejoice in his salvation. {{rf{10}}} All of my bones shall say, "O Yahweh, who is like you, who delivers the poor from one stronger than he and the poor and needy from the one who robs him?" {{rf{11}}} Violent witnesses rise up; they ask me concerning what I do not know. {{rf{12}}} They repay me evil in place of good. It is bereavement to my soul. {{rf{13}}} But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth. I weakened my soul with fasting, and my prayer returned to me unanswered. {{rf{14}}} I behaved as though he were a friend or as a brother to me. As one lamenting a mother, I was bowed down in mourning. {{rf{15}}} But at my stumbling they rejoiced and gathered together; smiters whom I did not know gathered against me. They tore and did not cease. {{rf{16}}} Among the ungodly of the mockers at feasts, they gnashed at me with their teeth. {{rf{17}}} My Lord, how long will you watch? Restore my life from their ravages, my only life from the young lions. {{rf{18}}} I will give thanks to you in the great assembly; among the mighty people I will praise you. {{rf{19}}} Let not those who are wrongfully my enemies rejoice over me. Nor let those who hate me without cause wink the eye. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Psalms-035-001]] }}}
{{rf{20}}} For they do not speak peace, but against the quiet ones of the land they plan deceitful words. {{rf{21}}} They also made wide their mouths against me. They said, "Aha! Aha! Our eyes have seen it." {{rf{22}}} You have seen, O Yahweh. Do not be deaf. O Lord, do not be far from me. {{rf{23}}} Wake up and rouse yourself for my right, for my cause, O my God and my Lord. {{rf{24}}} Vindicate me according to your righteousness, O Yahweh my God, and do not let them rejoice over me. {{rf{25}}} Do not let them say in their hearts, "Aha, our desire." Let them not say, "We have swallowed him up." {{rf{26}}} Let them be shamed and abashed altogether, who rejoice at my misfortune. Let them put on shame and insult, who magnify themselves against me. {{rf{27}}} Let them shout for joy and be glad, who delight in my vindication; and let them say continually, "Yahweh is great, who delights in the welfare of his servant." {{rf{28}}} Then my tongue will proclaim your righteousness, and your praise all day. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Psalms-035-020]] }}}
{{rf{0}}} For the music director. Of David, the servant of Yahweh. {{rf big{1}}} An oracle: the wicked has rebellion in the midst of his heart. There is no fear of God before his eyes. {{rf{2}}} For he flatters himself in his eyes, hating to detect his iniquity. {{rf{3}}} The words of his mouth are wickedness and deceit. He has ceased to have insight and to do good. {{rf{4}}} He plans sin on his bed. He puts himself on a way that is not good. He does not reject evil. {{rf{5}}} O Yahweh, your loyal love extends into the heavens, your faithfulness unto the clouds. {{rf{6}}} Your righteousness is like the mighty mountains, your judgments like the great deep. You save man and beast, O Yahweh. {{rf{7}}} How precious is your loyal love, O God, and the children of humankind take refuge in the shadow of your wings. {{rf{8}}} They are refreshed with the fullness of your house, and you give them drink from the river of your delights. {{rf{9}}} For with you is the fountain of life; in your light we see light. {{rf{10}}} Prolong your loyal love to those who know you, and your righteousness to the upright of heart. {{rf{11}}} Do not let a foot of pride come against me, nor let a wicked hand make me to wander homeless. {{rf{12}}} There doers of evil have fallen; they are thrust down and not able to rise. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Psalms-036-001]] }}}
{{rf{0}}} Of David. {{rf big{1}}} Do not fret because of evildoers; do not be envious of doers of wickedness. {{rf{2}}} For like the grass they will dry up quickly, and like green vegetation they will wither. {{rf{3}}} Trust Yahweh and do good. Abide in the land and feed on faithfulness. {{rf{4}}} Take pleasure in Yahweh as well, and he will give to you the requests of your heart. {{rf{5}}} Commit to Yahweh your way; Trust also on him and he will act. {{rf{6}}} Then he will bring forth your righteousness like the light, and your justice like the noonday. {{rf{7}}} Be quiet before Yahweh and wait for him. Do not fret about one who succeeds in his way, about a man making plots. {{rf{8}}} Refrain from anger and forsake wrath. Do not fret; it only brings evil. {{rf{9}}} For evildoers will be cut off, but those who wait for Yahweh -- they will possess the land. {{rf{10}}} And yet a little while and the wicked will not be, and you will look carefully upon his place, but he will not be. {{rf{11}}} But the afflicted will possess the land, and they will take pleasure in an abundance of peace. {{rf{12}}} The wicked plans evil against the righteous, and gnashes at him with his teeth. {{rf{13}}} The Lord laughs at him, for he sees that his day is coming. {{rf{14}}} The wicked have drawn the sword and have bent their bow to throw down the poor and the needy, to kill those upright in their way. {{rf{15}}} Their sword will enter into their own heart, and their bows shall be broken. {{rf{16}}} The little belonging to the righteous is better than the wealth of many wicked. {{rf{17}}} For the arms of the wicked shall be broken, but Yahweh supports the righteous. {{rf{18}}} Yahweh knows the days of the blameless, and their inheritance will be forever. {{rf{19}}} They will not be put to shame in distressing times, and in the days of famine they will be satisfied. {{rf{20}}} But the wicked will perish, and the enemies of Yahweh will be like the splendor of the pastures. They vanish; in smoke they vanish. {{rf{21}}} The wicked borrows and does not repay, but the righteous is gracious and gives. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Psalms-037-001]] }}}
{{rf{22}}} For those blessed by him shall possess the land, but those cursed by him shall be cut off. {{rf{23}}} The steps of a man are established by Yahweh, and he takes pleasure in his way. {{rf{24}}} Though he fall, he will not be cast headlong, for Yahweh supports him with his hand. {{rf{25}}} I was a youth, but I am now old; yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken or his children begging for bread. {{rf{26}}} All the day he is gracious and lends, and his children are a blessing. {{rf{27}}} Turn aside from evil and do good and so abide forever. {{rf{28}}} For Yahweh loves justice and will not forsake his faithful ones. They are protected forever. But the children of the wicked will be cut off. {{rf{29}}} The righteous will possess the land and abide in it forever. {{rf{30}}} The mouth of the righteous utters wisdom, and his tongue speaks justice. {{rf{31}}} The law of his God is in his heart. His steps will not slip. {{rf{32}}} The wicked watches for the righteous and seeks to kill him. {{rf{33}}} Yahweh will not abandon him into his hand, and he will not let him be condemned when he is judged. {{rf{34}}} Wait for Yahweh and keep his way, and he will exalt you to possess the land. When the wicked are cut off, you will see it. {{rf{35}}} I have seen the wicked acting violently and spreading himself out like a luxuriant native tree. {{rf{36}}} Then he passed on and behold, he was not. And I sought him, but he could not be found. {{rf{37}}} Observe the blameless and look at the upright, for there is a future for a man of peace. {{rf{38}}} But transgressors shall be destroyed altogether. The future of the wicked shall be cut off. {{rf{39}}} And the salvation of the righteous is from Yahweh, their refuge in the time of trouble. {{rf{40}}} And Yahweh helps them and he rescues them. He rescues them from the wicked and saves them, because they take refuge in him. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Psalms-037-022]] }}}
{{rf{0}}} A psalm of David. To bring to remembrance. {{rf big{1}}} O Yahweh, do not rebuke me in your anger or chastise me in your wrath. {{rf{2}}} For your arrows have sunk into me, and your hand has pressed down on me. {{rf{3}}} There is no soundness in my flesh because of your indignation. There is no health in my bones because of my sin. {{rf{4}}} For my iniquities have passed over my head; like a heavy burden they are too heavy for me. {{rf{5}}} My wounds start to stink; they rot because of my foolishness. {{rf{6}}} I am bowed down; I am bent over greatly. All the day I go about mourning. {{rf{7}}} For my loins are full of burning, and there is no soundness in my flesh. {{rf{8}}} I am faint and crushed greatly; I groan because of the roaring of my heart. {{rf{9}}} O Lord, all my longing is before you, and my sighing is not hidden from you. {{rf{10}}} My heart throbs violently, my strength leaves me; and the light of my eyes, that also is not with me. {{rf{11}}} My friends and companions stand aloof from my affliction, and my relatives stand afar off. {{rf{12}}} Those who seek my life lay snares as well, and those intent on my harm speak threats. They also plot deceit all day. {{rf{13}}} But as for me, like the deaf I cannot hear, and I am like the mute who cannot open his mouth. {{rf{14}}} And so I am like a man who hears not, and in whose mouth there are no retorts. {{rf{15}}} Rather for you I wait, O Yahweh. You will answer, O Lord my God. {{rf{16}}} For I said, "Help, lest they rejoice over me, lest they boast against me when my foot slips." {{rf{17}}} For I am ready to stumble, and my pain is before me continually. {{rf{18}}} For my iniquity I confess; I am anxious because of my sin. {{rf{19}}} And my enemies without cause are numerous, and those who hate me wrongfully are many. {{rf{20}}} And those who repay evil in return for good accuse me in return for my pursuing good. {{rf{21}}} Do not forsake me, O Yahweh. O my God, do not be far from me. {{rf{22}}} Hurry to help me, O Lord, my salvation. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Psalms-038-001]] }}}
{{rf{0}}} For the music director. For Jeduthun. A psalm of David. {{rf big{1}}} I said, "I will guard my ways that I may not sin with my tongue. I will keep a muzzle over my mouth as long as the wicked are before me." {{rf{2}}} I was mute with silence. I was silent even from saying good things, and my pain was stirred up. {{rf{3}}} My heart grew hot inside me; in my sighing a fire burned. Then I spoke with my tongue, {{rf{4}}} "Let me know, O Yahweh, my end, and what is the measure of my days. Let me know how transient I am." {{rf{5}}} Look, you have made my days mere handbreadths, and my lifespan as nothing next to you. Surely every person standing firm is complete vanity. Selah {{rf{6}}} Surely a man walks about as a mere shadow; surely in vain they bustle about. He heaps up possessions but does not know who will gather them in. {{rf{7}}} And now, O Lord, for what do I wait? My hope is for you. {{rf{8}}} From all my transgressions deliver me; do not make me the taunt of the fool. {{rf{9}}} I am mute. I do not open my mouth, for you, yourself, have done it. {{rf{10}}} Remove from me your affliction. By the opposition of your hand I perish. {{rf{11}}} When with rebukes you chastise a man for sin, you consume like a moth his delightful things. Surely everyone is a mere vapor. Selah {{rf{12}}} Hear my prayer, O Yahweh, and listen to my cry for help; do not be deaf to my tears. For I am an alien with you, a sojourner like all my ancestors. {{rf{13}}} Look away from me that I may be cheerful, before I depart and I am no more. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Psalms-039-001]] }}}
{{rf{0}}} For the music director. Of David. A psalm. {{rf big{1}}} I waited patiently for Yahweh, And he inclined to me and heard my cry for help. {{rf{2}}} And so he brought me up from the roaring pit, from the miry clay. And he put my feet upon a rock; he made my steps steady. {{rf{3}}} Then he put a new song in my mouth, a praise to our God. Many will see and fear, and will trust Yahweh. {{rf{4}}} Blessed is the man who makes Yahweh his trust and does not turn to the proud and to those who fall away to a lie. {{rf{5}}} Many things, O Yahweh my God, you have done -- your wonderful deeds and your thoughts toward us. There is none to compare with you. If I tried to proclaim and tell of them, they would be too numerous to count. {{rf{6}}} A sacrifice and offering you do not desire. My ears you have opened. Burnt offering and sin offering you have not demanded. {{rf{7}}} ''Then I said, "Look, I come. In the scroll of the book it is written concerning me: {{rf{8}}} 'I delight to do your will, O my God,'' and your law is deep within me.'" {{rf{9}}} I have brought good tidings of righteousness in the great congregation. Look, I have not shut my lips. O Yahweh, you surely know that. {{rf{10}}} Your righteousness I have not hidden in the midst of my heart. I have spoken of your faithfulness and your salvation. I have not concealed your loyal love or your faithfulness from the great congregation. {{rf{11}}} As for you, O Yahweh, do not withhold your mercies from me. Let your loyal love and your faithfulness continually preserve me. {{rf{12}}} For evils without number have encompassed me. My iniquities have overtaken me, so that I am not able to see. They are more than the hairs of my head, and my heart fails me. {{rf{13}}} Be pleased, O Yahweh, to deliver me. O Yahweh, hurry to help me. {{rf{14}}} Let them be shamed and abashed altogether who seek to take away my life. Let them be repulsed and humiliated who desire my harm. {{rf{15}}} Let them be appalled because of their shame, those who say to me, "Aha! Aha!" {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Psalms-040-001]] }}}
<<Bbl Ps 40:7 abbr>> Quoted, <<Bbl H 10:7>> in connection with the negative example of Saul in <<Bbl 1S 15:22>>.
{{rf{16}}} Let them rejoice and be glad in you, all those who seek you. Let them say continually, "Yahweh is great!" -- those who love your salvation. {{rf{17}}} But I am poor and needy. Let my Lord consider me. You are my help and my deliverer. O my God, do not delay. {{rf big{1}}} For the music director. A psalm of David. {{rf big{1}}} Blessed is the one who has regard for the poor; in the day of disaster, Yahweh delivers him. {{rf{2}}} Yahweh protects him and keeps him alive; he is blessed in the land, and you do not give him into the will of his enemies. {{rf{3}}} Yahweh sustains him on his sick bed. In his illness, you restore to health. {{rf{4}}} As for me, I said, "O Yahweh, be gracious to me. Heal me, for I have sinned against you." {{rf{5}}} My enemies speak evil about me, "When will he die and his name perish?" {{rf{6}}} And when one comes to see me, he speaks falsely; his heart gathers disaster for itself. He goes out to the street; he speaks. {{rf{7}}} All who hate me speak together against me. Against me they assume the worst for me: {{rf{8}}} "A ruinous thing is poured out on him, and now that he lies down, he will not rise up again." {{rf{9}}} Even my close friend, whom I trusted, who ate my bread, has lifted his heel against me. {{rf{10}}} But you, O Yahweh, be gracious to me and raise me up that I may repay them. {{rf{11}}} By this I know that you delight in me: because my enemy has not shouted in triumph over me. {{rf{12}}} As for me, you have upheld me in my integrity, and you have set me in your presence forever. {{rf{13}}} Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Israel, from everlasting to everlasting. Amen and Amen. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Psalms-040-016]] }}}
{{rf{0}}} For the music director. A maskil of the sons of Korah. {{rf big{1}}} As a deer longs for streams of water, so my soul longs for you, O God. {{rf{2}}} My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and appear before God? {{rf{3}}} My tears have been my food day and night, while they say to me all day long, "Where is your God?" {{rf{4}}} These I remember and I pour out my soul within me: that I would go with the multitude; I led them in procession to the house of God, with a voice of rejoicing and thanksgiving, a crowd celebrating a festival. {{rf{5}}} Why are you in despair, O my soul, and disturbed within me? Hope in God, because I will again praise him, for the salvation of his presence. {{rf{6}}} O my God, within me my soul is in despair; therefore I remember you from the land of Jordan and the heights of Hermon, from the mountain of Mizar. {{rf{7}}} Deep is calling to deep at the thunder of your waterfalls. All your breakers and your waves have passed over me. {{rf{8}}} By day Yahweh commands his loyal love, and in the night his song is with me, a prayer to the God of my life. {{rf{9}}} I say to God, my rock, "Why have you forgotten me? Why must I walk about mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?" {{rf{10}}} As with a shattering in my bones my oppressors taunt me, while they say to me all day, "Where is your God?" {{rf{11}}} Why are you in despair, O my soul? And why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God, because I shall again praise him, my salvation and my God. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Psalms-042-001]] }}}
<<Bbl Ps 45:1 abbr >>-2 The rendering of the Septuagint suggests that the Jews had in mind a picture of God anointing God.
<<Bbl Ps 45:6 abbr>> //Scepter// <<Bbl Ps 110:2 abbr>>
<<Bbl Ps 45:10 abbr>>-17 God's call to the Church.
<<Bbl Ps 50:10 abbr >> //Cattle on a thousand hills// is about the aseity of God; His provision for our material needs is not the point.
<<Bbl Ps 51:1 abbr >>ff confidence. The joy isn't there but it will be. Almost every verse displays hope; together, they offer a complete vision of restored life in which the present crisis is redeemed as a means of fruitfulness.
<<Bbl Ps 51:3 abbr >> //ever before me// - he "can't get it out of his mind."
<<Bbl Ps 51:4 abbr >> //Against you only// - agreeing with Nathan's charge in <<Bbl 2S 12:9>>.
<<Bbl Ps 51:5 abbr >> //born in iniquity// - we might present this as an excuse; for David, it increases his culpability, aggravates his sin. Some translations (NLT, NIV, Lexham) link vss 5 and 6: even in the womb you desired righteousness, and gave the means for it through wisdom.
<<Bbl Ps 51:6 abbr >> //You have taught me wisdom in my inner person// - this increases his culpability.
<<Bbl Ps 51:9 abbr >> Who can //blot out// the record of evil? <<Bbl Col 2:14>>
73:15 Apparently the fear of relating one's distress to others, lest it discourage them. Tim, however, says it means to speak like the wicked.
Judge me, O God, and plead my case against an unfaithful nation. From a man of deceit and wickedness rescue me, {{rf{2}}} because you are the God of my refuge. Why have you rejected me? Why must I go about mourning because of the oppression of the enemy? {{rf{3}}} Send your light and your truth; they shall lead me. They shall bring me to your holy mountain and to your dwelling places. {{rf{4}}} Then I will go to the altar of God, to God, my surpassing joy, and I will praise you with lyre, O God, my God. {{rf{5}}} Why are you in despair, O my soul? And why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God, because I will again praise him, my salvation and my God. LENGTH SHORT {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Psalms-043-001]] }}}
{{rf{0}}} For the music director. Of the sons of Korah. A maskil. {{rf big{1}}} O God, we have heard with our ears; our ancestors have told us of work you worked in their days, in days of old. {{rf{2}}} You with your hand drove out the nations, but them you planted. You harmed the peoples, but them you let spread out. {{rf{3}}} For not with their sword did they possess the land, and their arm did not give them victory. Rather it was your right hand and your arm and the light of your presence, because you delighted in them. {{rf{4}}} You are my king, O God. Command victories for Jacob. {{rf{5}}} By you we push down our enemies; by your name we tread down those who rise up against us. {{rf{6}}} For I do not trust my bow, and my sword cannot give me victory. {{rf{7}}} Rather you have saved us from our enemies, and have humiliated those who hate us. {{rf{8}}} In God we boast all the day, and we will give thanks to your name forever. Selah {{rf{9}}} Surely you have rejected and disgraced us, and have not gone out with our armies. {{rf{10}}} You have caused us to pull back from the enemy, and so those who hate us have plundered for themselves. {{rf{11}}} You have given us as sheep for food, and among the nations you have scattered us. {{rf{12}}} You have sold your people cheaply, and did not profit by their price. {{rf{13}}} You have made us a taunt to our neighbors, a derision and a scorn to those around us. {{rf{14}}} You have made us a byword among the nations, a shaking of the head among the peoples. {{rf{15}}} All day long my disgrace is before me, and the shame of my face covers me, {{rf{16}}} because of the voice of the taunter and the reviler, because of the enemy and the avenger. {{rf{17}}} All this has befallen us, though we have not forgotten you, and we have not been false to your covenant. {{rf{18}}} Our heart has not turned back, and our steps have not turned aside from your way. {{rf{19}}} But you have crushed us in a place of jackals, and have covered us with deep shadow. {{rf{20}}} If we had forgotten the name of our God, or had spread out our hands in prayer to a foreign god, {{rf{21}}} would not God discover this, for he knows the secrets of the heart? {{rf{22}}} Rather, on account of you we are killed all day long; we are accounted as sheep for slaughter. {{rf{23}}} Wake up! Why do you sleep, O Lord? Awake! Do not reject forever. {{rf{24}}} Why do you hide your face? Have you forgotten our misery and our oppression? {{rf{25}}} For our soul is bowed down to the dust. Our body clings to the ground. {{rf{26}}} Rise up! Be a help for us, and redeem us for the sake of your loyal love. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Psalms-044-001]] }}}
{{rf{0}}} For the music director; according to The Lilies. Of the sons of Korah. A maskil. A song of love. {{rf big{1}}} My heart is moved with a good word; I recite my compositions to the king. My tongue is the pen of a skilled scribe. {{rf{2}}} You are the most handsome of the sons of humankind; grace is poured out on your lips; therefore God has blessed you forever. {{rf{3}}} Gird your sword on your thigh, O mighty one, in your splendor and your majesty. {{rf{4}}} And in your majesty ride victoriously, because of truth and humility and righteousness. And let your right hand teach you awesome deeds. {{rf{5}}} Your arrows are sharp; peoples fall under you in the midst of the king's enemies. {{rf{6}}} Your throne, O God, is forever and ever. A scepter of uprightness is the scepter of your kingdom. ''{{rf{7}}} You love righteousness and hate wickedness. Therefore God, your God, has anointed you from among your companions with festive oil.'' {{rf{8}}} All your robes are scented with myrrh and aloes and cassia. From palaces of ivory stringed instruments gladden you. {{rf{9}}} Kings' daughters are among your noble ladies. The queen stands at your right hand in gold of Ophir. {{rf{10}}} Hear, O daughter, and discern and incline your ear, and forget your people and your father's house. {{rf{11}}} Let the king desire your beauty. Because he is your lord, therefore bow down to him. {{rf{12}}} Even the daughter of Tyre will come with a gift. The rich from among people will seek your favor. {{rf{13}}} The king's daughter is all glorious within; her garment is of gold embroidered cloth. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Psalms-045-001]] }}}
{{rf{14}}} She is brought to the king in colorful garments. The young women behind her, her attendants, are being brought to you. {{rf{15}}} They are led with joy and gladness. They enter the palace of the king. {{rf{16}}} In place of your fathers will be your sons. You will make them princes in all the land. {{rf{17}}} I will cause your name to be remembered in all generations; therefore peoples will praise you forever and ever. {{rf big{1}}} For the music director. Of the sons of Korah. According to Alamoth. A song. {{rf big{1}}} God is our refuge and strength, a very sufficient help in troubles. {{rf{2}}} Therefore we will not fear though the earth change, and though the mountains totter into the midst of the sea, {{rf{3}}} though its waters roar and foam, though mountains shake with its surging water. Selah {{rf{4}}} There is a river whose streams gladden the city of God, the holiest of the dwellings of the Most High. {{rf{5}}} God is in the midst of her; she will not be made to totter. God will help her at daybreak. {{rf{6}}} Nations roar, kingdoms shake; he utters his voice, the earth melts. {{rf{7}}} Yahweh of hosts is with us; our high stronghold is the God of Jacob. Selah {{rf{8}}} Come, see the works of Yahweh, who has placed desolations on the earth. {{rf{9}}} He makes wars cease to the ends of the earth; he breaks the bow and cuts off the spear. The wagons of war he burns with fire. {{rf{10}}} Be still, and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the nations; I will be exalted in the earth. {{rf{11}}} Yahweh of Hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our high stronghold. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Psalms-045-014]] }}}
{{rf{0}}} For the music director. Of the sons of Korah. A psalm. {{rf big{1}}} All you peoples, clap your hands. Shout to God with a voice of rejoicing. {{rf{2}}} For Yahweh Most High is awesome, a great king over all the earth. {{rf{3}}} He subdues peoples under us and nations under our feet. {{rf{4}}} He chooses for us our inheritance, the pride of Jacob whom he loves. {{rf{5}}} God has gone up with a shout, Yahweh with the sound of a trumpet. {{rf{6}}} Sing praises to God, sing praises. Sing praises to our king, sing praises. {{rf{7}}} For God is king of all the earth. Sing praises with understanding. {{rf{8}}} God reigns over nations; God sits on his holy throne. {{rf{9}}} The princes of the peoples are gathered together with the people of Abraham's God. For the shields of the earth belong to God. He is very exalted. LENGTH SHORT {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Psalms-047-001]] }}}
{{rf{0}}} A song. A psalm of the sons of Korah. {{rf big{1}}} Yahweh is great and very worthy of praise in the city of our God, in his holy mountain. {{rf{2}}} Beautiful in elevation, the joy of the whole earth, is Mount Zion, in the far north, the city of the great king. {{rf{3}}} God is in her citadels; he is known as a high stronghold. {{rf{4}}} For see, the kings assembled; they advanced together. {{rf{5}}} They themselves saw it, so they were astonished. They were terrified; they ran off. {{rf{6}}} Trembling seized them there -- pain as of a woman in labor. {{rf{7}}} With an east wind you shatter the ships of Tarshish. {{rf{8}}} As we have heard, so we have seen in the city of Yahweh of hosts, in the city of our God. God will establish her forever. Selah {{rf{9}}} We have pondered your loyal love, O God, in the midst of your temple. {{rf{10}}} As is your name, O God, so is your praise to the ends of the earth. Your right hand is full of righteousness. {{rf{11}}} Let Mount Zion rejoice; let the daughters of Judah rejoice because of your judgments. {{rf{12}}} Walk about Zion and circle it; count her towers. {{rf{13}}} Consider well her ramparts. Go through her citadels so that you can tell the next generatio {{rf{14}}} that this is God, our God forever and ever. He himself will guide us until death. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Psalms-048-001]] }}}
{{rf{0}}} For the music director. Of the sons of Korah. A psalm. {{rf big{1}}} Hear this, all you peoples; give ear, all you inhabitants of the world, {{rf{2}}} both low and high, rich and poor together. {{rf{3}}} My mouth will speak wisdom, and the meditation of my heart will be understanding. {{rf{4}}} I will incline my ear to a proverb; I will propound my riddle on a lyre. {{rf{5}}} Why should I fear in times of calamity, when iniquity surrounds me at my heels, {{rf{6}}} those who trust their wealth and boast about the abundance of their riches? {{rf{7}}} Surely a man cannot redeem a brother. He cannot give to God his ransom {{rf{8}}} (since the redemption price for their life is costly and it always fails), {{rf{9}}} so that he may stay alive forever and not see the pit. {{rf{10}}} For he sees that the wise die, together with the fool and brute they perish, and leave their wealth to the next generation. {{rf{11}}} Within them they think their houses are forever, their dwelling places from generation to generation. They name their lands by their own names. {{rf{12}}} But man cannot continue in his pomp. He is like the beasts that perish. {{rf{13}}} This is the journey of those who have foolish confidence, and those after them who accept their sayings. Selah {{rf{14}}} Like sheep they are destined to Sheol; death will shepherd them. But the upright will rule over them in the morning, and their forms will be for Sheol to consume, far from his lofty abode. {{rf{15}}} Surely God will ransom my life from the power of Sheol, because he will receive me. Selah {{rf{16}}} Do not fear when a man becomes rich, when the wealth of his house increases, {{rf{17}}} because when he dies he will not take away any of it. His wealth will not follow down after him. {{rf{18}}} Though he congratulated his soul while he was living -- and people will praise you when you do well for yourself -- {{rf{19}}} it will go to the generation of his fathers. Never will they see light. {{rf{20}}} Humankind in its pomp, but does not understand, is like the beasts that perish. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Psalms-049-001]] }}}
{{rf{0}}} A psalm of Asaph. {{rf big{1}}} The Supreme God, God, Yahweh, has spoken and summoned the earth, from the rising of the sun to its setting. {{rf{2}}} From Zion, the perfection of beauty, God shines forth. {{rf{3}}} Our God comes and he is not silent. Before him fire devours, and around him it is very tempestuous. {{rf{4}}} He summons the heavens above and the earth that he might judge his people: {{rf{5}}} "Gather to me my loyal ones, those who have made a covenant with me by sacrifice." {{rf{6}}} And the heavens declare his righteousness, because God himself is judge. Selah {{rf{7}}} "Hear, O my people, and I will speak, O Israel, and I will testify against you. I am God, your God. {{rf{8}}} It is not concerning a lack of your sacrifices that I rebuke you, and your burnt offerings are before me continually. {{rf{9}}} I will not take from your house a bull or from your stalls a he-goat, {{rf{10}}} because every animal of the forest is mine, the cattle on a thousand hills. {{rf{11}}} I know every bird of the mountains, and every moving creature in the field is mine. {{rf{12}}} If I were hungry I would not tell you, because the world and its fullness are mine. {{rf{13}}} Do I eat the flesh of bulls or drink the blood of goats? {{rf{14}}} Offer to God a thank offering and pay your vows to the Most High. {{rf{15}}} And call me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you will glorify me." {{rf{16}}} But to the wicked God says, "What right have you to recite my statutes and mention my covenant with your mouth, {{rf{17}}} while you yourself hate discipline, and cast my words behind you? {{rf{18}}} When you see a thief, then you are pleased with him, and your association is with adulterers. {{rf{19}}} You give your mouth free rein for evil, and you harness your tongue to deceit. {{rf{20}}} You sit and speak against your brother; you slander your mother's son. {{rf{21}}} These things you have done, and I have been silent; You imagined that I was just like you. I will rebuke you and present an argument before your eyes. {{rf{22}}} Now consider this, you who forget God, lest I tear you apart, and there will be none to deliver. {{rf{23}}} He who sacrifices a thank offering honors me, and he who orders his way; I will show him the salvation of God." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Psalms-050-001]] }}}
For the music director. A psalm of David. When Nathan the prophet came to him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba. {{rf big{1}}} Be gracious to me, O God, according to your loyal love. According to your abundant mercies, blot out my transgressions. {{rf{2}}} Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and from my sin cleanse me. {{rf{3}}} For I myself know my transgressions, and my sin is ever before me. {{rf{4}}} Against you, only you, I have sinned and have done this evil in your eyes, so that you are correct when you speak, you are blameless when you judge. {{rf{5}}} Behold, in iniquity I was born, and in sin my mother conceived me. {{rf{6}}} Behold, you delight in truth in the inward parts, and in the hidden parts you make me to know wisdom. {{rf{7}}} Purify me with hyssop, and I shall be clean. Wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow. {{rf{8}}} Make me hear joy and gladness; let the bones you have crushed rejoice. {{rf{9}}} Hide your face from my sins, and all my iniquities blot out. {{rf{10}}} Create a clean heart for me, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me. {{rf{11}}} Do not cast me away from your presence, and do not take your Holy Spirit from me. {{rf{12}}} Restore to me the joy of your salvation, and with a willing spirit sustain me. {{rf{13}}} Then I will teach transgressors your ways, and sinners will turn back to you. {{rf{14}}} Deliver me from the guilt of bloodshed, O God, the God of my salvation; then my tongue will sing aloud of your righteousness. {{rf{15}}} O Lord, open my lips, and my mouth will proclaim your praise. {{rf{16}}} For you do not delight in sacrifice or I would give it. With a burnt offering you are not pleased. {{rf{17}}} The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; A broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Psalms-051-001]] }}}
{{rf{18}}} Do good in your favor toward Zion. Build the walls of Jerusalem. {{rf{19}}} Then you will delight in righteous sacrifices, burnt offering and whole burnt offering. Then bulls will be offered on your altar. {{rf big{1}}} For the music director. A maskil of David. When Doeg the Edomite came and informed Saul. And he said to him, "David has come to the house of Ahimelech." {{rf big{1}}} Why do you boast about evil, O mighty man? The loyal love of God endures continually. {{rf{2}}} Your tongue plans destruction, like a sharp razor, working deceit. {{rf{3}}} You love evil more than good, a lie more than speaking what is right. Selah {{rf{4}}} You love all devouring words, O deceitful tongue, {{rf{5}}} but God will pull you down forever. He will snatch you and tear you away from your tent, and he will uproot you from the land of the living. Selah {{rf{6}}} And the righteous will see and fear, and will laugh at him, saying, {{rf{7}}} "Look, the man who would not make God his refuge, but he trusted in the greatness of his wealth; he took refuge in his destructiveness." {{rf{8}}} But I am like an olive tree flourishing in the house of God. I trust the loyal love of God forever and ever. {{rf{9}}} I will give thanks to you forever, because of what you have done, and I will wait on your name, because it is good, in the presence of your faithful ones. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Psalms-051-018]] }}}
{{rf{0}}} For the music director, according to Mahalath. A maskil of David. {{rf big{1}}} The fool says in his heart, "There is no God." They are corrupt and they have done abominable iniquity. There is none who does good. {{rf{2}}} God looks down from heaven upon the children of humankind to see whether there is one who has insight, one who seeks God. {{rf{3}}} All of them have turned back. They are altogether corrupt. There is none who does good; there is not even one. {{rf{4}}} Do not evildoers know, they who eat my people as though they were eating bread? They do not call on God. {{rf{5}}} There they are very fearful where no fear had been, because God has scattered the bones of him who encamps against you. You have put them to shame, because God has rejected them. {{rf{6}}} Oh, that from Zion would come salvation for Israel! When God returns the fortunes of his people, let Jacob rejoice, let Israel be glad. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Psalms-053-001]] }}}
{{rf{0}}} For the music director, with stringed instruments. A maskil of David, when the Ziphites went and said to Saul, "Is not David hiding himself among us?" {{rf big{1}}} O God, by your name save me, and by your power vindicate me. {{rf{2}}} O God, hear my prayer; heed the words of my mouth. {{rf{3}}} For foreigners have risen against me, and ruthless men seek my life. They have not set God before them. Selah {{rf{4}}} See, God is my helper; The Lord is with those who sustain my life. {{rf{5}}} He will repay my enemies for their evil; in your faithfulness destroy them. {{rf{6}}} I will freely sacrifice to you; I will give thanks to your name, O Yahweh, because it is good. {{rf{7}}} Because he has delivered me from all trouble, and my eye has looked with satisfaction on my enemies. LENGTH SHORT {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Psalms-054-001]] }}}
{{rf{0}}} For the music director, with stringed instruments. A maskil of David. {{rf big{1}}} Give ear, O God, to my prayer, and do not hide yourself from my plea. {{rf{2}}} Attend to me and answer me. I am restless in my lamenting and I groan, {{rf{3}}} because of the voice of an enemy, because of the oppression of the wicked, because they bring down evil on me, and in anger they hold a grudge against me. {{rf{4}}} My heart trembles within me, and deathly terrors fall on me. {{rf{5}}} Fear and trembling come on me, and horror overwhelms me. {{rf{6}}} So I say, "Oh, that I had wings like a dove. I would fly away and be at rest. {{rf{7}}} Look, I would flee far away. I would dwell in the wilderness. Selah {{rf{8}}} I would hurry to my refuge from the raging wind and storm." {{rf{9}}} Confuse, O Lord; divide their speech, because I see violence and strife in the city. {{rf{10}}} Day and night they go around it on its walls, and iniquity and trouble are in its midst. {{rf{11}}} Destruction is within it, and oppression and deceit do not depart from its public square. {{rf{12}}} For it is not an enemy that taunts me, or I could bear it. It is not one who hates me that magnifies himself over me, or I could hide myself from him. {{rf{13}}} But it is you, a man my equal, my friend and confidant. {{rf{14}}} We who would take sweet counsel together; in the house of God we would walk with the throng. {{rf{15}}} Let death deceive them. May they descend to Sheol alive, because evil is in their home and heart. {{rf{16}}} As for me, I will call to God, and Yahweh will save me. {{rf{17}}} Morning, noon and night I will lament and groan loudly, and he will hear my voice. {{rf{18}}} He safely redeems my life from the battle against me, because those standing against me are among many. {{rf{19}}} God will hear and answer them, he who is enthroned from of old, Selah Because they do not change, and they do not fear God. {{rf{20}}} He has put forth his hands against his friends; he has defiled his covenant. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Psalms-055-001]] }}}
{{rf{21}}} The buttery words of his mouth were smooth, but there was battle in his heart. His words were smoother than oil, but they were drawn swords. {{rf{22}}} Cast your burden on Yahweh, and he will sustain you. He will never allow the righteous to be moved. {{rf{23}}} But you, O God, you will bring them down to the pit of corruption. The men of bloodshed and deceit will not live half their days, but I will trust you. {{rf big{1}}} For the music director, according to The Silent Dove of Distant Lands. Of David. A miktam. When the Philistines seized him in Gath. {{rf big{1}}} Be gracious to me, O God, because humankind has trampled me; fighting all the day he oppresses me. {{rf{2}}} My enemies trample all day, because many are attacking me proudly. {{rf{3}}} When I fear, I trust you. {{rf{4}}} God, whose word I praise, God I trust; I do not fear. What can mere flesh do to me? {{rf{5}}} All day they twist my words; all their thoughts are against me for evil. {{rf{6}}} They attack, they hide, they watch my steps, as they lie in wait for my life. {{rf{7}}} Because of iniquity will they escape? In anger cast down the peoples, O God. {{rf{8}}} You have kept count of my wonderings. Put my tears in your bottle; are they not in your book? {{rf{9}}} Then my enemies will turn back when I call. This I know because God is for me. {{rf{10}}} God, whose word I praise, Yahweh, whose word I praise, {{rf{11}}} God I trust; I do not fear. What can mere humankind do to me? {{rf{12}}} My vows to you, O God, are binding upon me. I will pay thank offerings to you, {{rf{13}}} because you have delivered my soul from death. Have you not kept my feet from stumbling, that I may walk before God in the light of the living? {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Psalms-055-021]] }}}
{{rf{0}}} For the music director, according to Do Not Destroy. Of David. A miktam. When he fled from Saul into the cave. {{rf big{1}}} Be gracious to me, O God, be gracious to me, because in you my soul takes refuge. In the shadow of your wings I will take refuge until destruction passes by. {{rf{2}}} I will call to God Most High, to God who accomplishes things concerning me. {{rf{3}}} He will send from heaven and save me; he will reproach the one who tramples me. Selah God will send his loyal love and his faithfulness. {{rf{4}}} My soul is among lions. I lie down among those who devour -- the children of humankind whose teeth are spears and arrows and whose tongues are sharp swords. {{rf{5}}} Be exalted above the heavens, O God. Let your glory be above all the earth. {{rf{6}}} They have set a net for my steps; my soul is bowed down. They have dug a pit before me; they have fallen into the midst of it. Selah {{rf{7}}} My heart is steadfast, O God; My heart is steadfast. I will sing and give praise. {{rf{8}}} Awake, my glory; Awake, harp and lyre. I will awake the dawn. {{rf{9}}} I will give you thanks among the peoples, O Lord; I will give you praise among the nations. {{rf{10}}} Because your loyal love is high to the heavens, and your faithfulness to the clouds. {{rf{11}}} Be exalted above the heavens, O God. Let your glory be above all the earth. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Psalms-057-001]] }}}
{{rf{0}}} For the music director, according to Do not Destroy. Of David. A miktam. {{rf big{1}}} Do you really speak what is right when silent? Do you judge fairly the children of humankind? {{rf{2}}} No, in your heart you plan injustices; in the land you weigh out the violence of your hands. {{rf{3}}} The wicked are estranged from the womb. They go astray from the belly, speaking lies. {{rf{4}}} Their venom is like snake venom; They are like a deaf viper that closes its ea {{rf{5}}} so that it does not hear the voice of charmers or the skilled caster of spells. {{rf{6}}} O God, break their teeth in their mouth. Break off the fangs of the young lions, O Yahweh. {{rf{7}}} Let them run away like water that runs off. When he bends the bow, let his arrows be as though they were cut off. {{rf{8}}} Let them be like a snail that melts away as it goes; like the stillborn of woman that do not see the sun. {{rf{9}}} Before your pots can feel the heat of a thornbush, whether green or dry, he will sweep it away. {{rf{10}}} The righteous will rejoice when he sees the vengeance; he will wash his feet in the blood of the wicked. {{rf{11}}} And people will say, "Surely there is a reward for the righteous. Surely there is a God who judges in the land." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Psalms-058-001]] }}}
{{rf{0}}} For the music director, according to Do Not Destroy. Of David. A miktam. When Saul dispatched men and they watched the house to kill him. {{rf big{1}}} Deliver me from my enemies, O my God. Protect me from those who rise up against me. {{rf{2}}} Deliver me from workers of iniquity, and from men of bloodshed save me. {{rf{3}}} For look, they lie in wait for my life. The mighty attack against me, not because of my transgression or my sin, O Yahweh. {{rf{4}}} Without guilt on my part they run and ready themselves. Awake to meet me and see. {{rf{5}}} And you, Yahweh, God of hosts, are the God of Israel. Rouse yourself to punish all the nations. Do not be gracious to any who treacherously plot evil. Selah {{rf{6}}} They return at evening; they howl like dogs while they prowl the city. {{rf{7}}} Look, they pour out talk with their mouth. Swords are on their lips, for they say, "Who hears?" {{rf{8}}} But you, O Yahweh, will laugh at them; you will mock all the nations. {{rf{9}}} O my strength, I will watch for you, because you, O God, are my (high) stronghold. {{rf{10}}} My God of loyal love will meet me; God will cause me to look in triumph on my enemies. {{rf{11}}} Do not kill them, lest my people forget. Make them to wander by your power, and bring them down, O Lord, our shield. {{rf{12}}} By the sin of their mouth and the words of their lips, even in their pride, let them be trapped, and for the curses and lies they proclaim. {{rf{13}}} Destroy in anger; destroy so they are no more, so that they may know that God is ruling in Jacob to the ends of the earth. Selah {{rf{14}}} They return at evening; they howl like dogs while they prowl the city. {{rf{15}}} As for them, they wander for food. If they are not satisfied, then they continue all night. {{rf{16}}} But as for me, I will sing of your strength, and I will hail your loyal love in the morning, because you have been my high stronghold and a refuge in my time of trouble. {{rf{17}}} O my strength, to you I will give praise, because God is my high stronghold, my God of loyal love. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Psalms-059-001]] }}}
{{rf{0}}} For the music director, according to Shushan Eduth. A miktam of David. To teach. When he fought Mesopotamia and Aram Zobah, and Joab returned and struck Edom in the Valley of Salt, twelve thousand persons. {{rf big{1}}} O God, you have rejected us. You have broken us. You have been angry. Restore us! {{rf{2}}} You have made the land quake. You have split it open. Heal its fissures, because it totters. {{rf{3}}} You have shown your people hard things; You have given us wine that staggers. {{rf{4}}} You have rallied those who fear you round a banner out of bowshot, Selah {{rf{5}}} so that your beloved ones may be rescued. Save by your right hand and answer us. {{rf{6}}} God has spoken in his holiness, "I will rejoice; I will divide up Shechem, and portion out the valley of Succoth. {{rf{7}}} Gilead is mine, and Manasseh is mine, and Ephraim is the helmet for my head; Judah is my scepter. {{rf{8}}} Moab is my washing pot; over Edom, I will cast my sandal. On account of me, O Philistia, raise a shout." {{rf{9}}} Who will bring me to the fortified city? Who will lead me to Edom? {{rf{10}}} Have not you yourself rejected us, O God, and not gone out with our armies, O God? {{rf{11}}} Give us help against the adversary, for the help of humankind is futile. {{rf{12}}} Through God we will do valiantly, and it is he who will tread down our enemies. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Psalms-060-001]] }}}
{{rf{0}}} For the music director, upon stringed instruments. Of David. {{rf big{1}}} Hear, O God, my cry; attend to my prayer. {{rf{2}}} From the end of the earth I call to you when my heart grows faint. You will lead me to a rock that is higher than I. {{rf{3}}} For you have been my refuge, a strong tower from the enemy. {{rf{4}}} Let me reside in your tent forever. Let me take refuge under the covering of your wings. Selah {{rf{5}}} For you, O God, you have heard my vows. You have given me the heritage of those who fear your name. {{rf{6}}} You will add days to the days of the king, his years like those of many generations. {{rf{7}}} May he live forever in the presence of God. Appoint loyal love and faithfulness to preserve him. {{rf{8}}} So I will sing the praise of your name forever, that I may fulfill my vows daily. LENGTH SHORT {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Psalms-061-001]] }}}
{{rf{0}}} For the music director, on Jeduthun. A psalm of David. {{rf big{1}}} Only for God my soul waits in silence. From him is my salvation. {{rf{2}}} Only he is my rock and my salvation, my high stronghold; I shall not be greatly shaken. {{rf{3}}} How long will you attack a man? All of you will be shattered like a leaning wall, a tottering fence. {{rf{4}}} They only plan to thrust him down from his high position; they are pleased with deception. With their mouths they bless, but inwardly they curse. Selah {{rf{5}}} Only for God wait in silence, O my soul, because my hope is from him. {{rf{6}}} Only he is my rock and my salvation, my high stronghold; I shall not be shaken. {{rf{7}}} On God rests my salvation and my glory; God is my strong rock, my refuge. {{rf{8}}} Trust him at all times, O people; pour out before him your heart. God is a refuge for us. Selah {{rf{9}}} Only a vapor are men of low degree, a deception are men of high degree. Weighed in a balance, together they are lighter than a vapor. {{rf{10}}} Do not trust in extortion, and do not put vain confidence in robbery. If wealth increases, do not set your heart on it. {{rf{11}}} Once God has spoken; twice I have heard this: that strength belongs to God. {{rf{12}}} And to you belongs loyal love, O Lord, because you will render to each according to his work. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Psalms-062-001]] }}}
{{rf{0}}} A psalm of David, when he was in the wilderness of Judah. {{rf big{1}}} O God, you are my God; I will seek you diligently. My soul thirsts for you; my flesh longs for you as in a dry and weary land without water. {{rf{2}}} Thus I have seen you in the sanctuary, beholding your strength and glory. {{rf{3}}} Because your loyal love is better than life, my lips will praise you. {{rf{4}}} So I will bless you while I live. I will lift up my hands in your name. {{rf{5}}} My soul will be satisfied as with the best and richest food, and with joyful lips my mouth will praise. {{rf{6}}} When I remember you on my bed, I meditate on you in the night watches. {{rf{7}}} Because you have been my help, therefore in the shadow of your wings I will sing for joy. {{rf{8}}} My soul clings to you; your right hand upholds me. {{rf{9}}} But as for them who seek my life for ruin, they will go into the depths of the earth. {{rf{10}}} They who would deliver him to the sword will become a portion for jackals. {{rf{11}}} However, the king will rejoice in God. Everyone who swears an oath by him will boast, because the mouth of the liars will be stopped. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Psalms-063-001]] }}}
{{rf{0}}} For the music director. A psalm of David. {{rf big{1}}} Hear my voice, O God, in my lamenting. Preserve my life from the fear of the enemy. {{rf{2}}} Hide me from the secret plots of evildoers, from the unrest of those who do iniquity, {{rf{3}}} who sharpen their tongue like a sword. They bend their bow to shoot their arrows -- bitter words, {{rf{4}}} to shoot from their hiding places at the blameless. Suddenly they shoot at him and do not fear. {{rf{5}}} They encourage themselves in the evil matter. They talk of secretly laying snares. They say, "Who will see them?" {{rf{6}}} They carefully plot injustices saying, "We have perfected the perfect plot!" Both the inner thought and heart of a man are deep. {{rf{7}}} But God will shoot them; with an arrow they will suddenly be wounded. {{rf{8}}} And they who would cause him to stumble, their own tongue will be against them. All who gaze on them will shake. {{rf{9}}} And then all men will fear, and will declare the working of God, and will understand his doing. {{rf{10}}} The righteous will rejoice in Yahweh and take refuge in him, and all the upright in heart will boast. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Psalms-064-001]] }}}
{{rf{0}}} For the music director. A psalm of David. A song. {{rf big{1}}} Praise awaits you, O God, in Zion, and to you the vow shall be fulfilled. {{rf{2}}} O you who hear prayer, to you all flesh will come. {{rf{3}}} Iniquities prevail over me. As for our transgressions, you will forgive them. {{rf{4}}} Blessed is one whom you choose and bring near, that he may abide in your courts. We will be satisfied with the goodness of your house, your holy temple. {{rf{5}}} By awesome deeds in righteousness you will answer us, O God of our salvation, you who are the confidence of all the ends of the earth and of the far-off seas, {{rf{6}}} who established the mountains by his strength, the one who is girded with might, {{rf{7}}} who stills the roar of the seas, the roar of their waves, and the commotion of the peoples, {{rf{8}}} so that the inhabitants of the farthest reaches are in awe of your signs. You make the dawn and sunset sing for joy. {{rf{9}}} You care for the land and water it; you greatly enrich it. The stream of God is filled with waters. You provide their grain, for so you have established it. {{rf{10}}} You drench its furrows, penetrating its ridges. With rains you soften it; its growth you bless. {{rf{11}}} You crown the year with your bounty, and your wagon paths drip with richness. {{rf{12}}} They drop on the pastures of the wilderness, and the hills gird themselves with joy. {{rf{13}}} The pasturelands put on flocks, and the valleys clothe themselves with grain. They shout in triumph; they even sing. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Psalms-065-001]] }}}
{{rf{0}}} For the music director. A song. A psalm. {{rf big{1}}} Shout joyfully to God, all the earth. {{rf{2}}} Sing the glory of his name. Set forth his glorious praise. {{rf{3}}} Say to God, "How awesome are your works! Because of the greatness of your strength, your enemies will cringe before you. {{rf{4}}} All the earth will bow in worship to you, and sing praise to you. They will sing the praise of your name." Selah {{rf{5}}} Come and consider the works of God; he is awesome in his dealings with the children of humankind. {{rf{6}}} He turned the sea into dry ground; they passed through the river on foot. There we rejoiced in him. {{rf{7}}} He rules by his might forever; his eyes keep watch on the nations. Do not let the rebellious exalt themselves. Selah {{rf{8}}} Bless our God, O peoples, and cause the sound of his praise to be heard, {{rf{9}}} the one who has kept our soul among the living, and has not allowed our foot to slip. {{rf{10}}} For you have tested us, O God; you have tried us as silver is tried. {{rf{11}}} You brought us into the net; you placed a heavy burden on our backs. {{rf{12}}} You let men ride over our heads. We went through fire and through water, but you have brought us out to the place of abundance. {{rf{13}}} I will come into your house with burnt offerings. I will pay to you my vows {{rf{14}}} that my lips uttered, and my mouth spoke in my distress. {{rf{15}}} Burnt offerings of fat animals I will offer to you, with the smoke of rams. I will do cattle with rams. Selah {{rf{16}}} Come and hear, all you God-fearers, and I will tell what he has done for me. {{rf{17}}} I called to him with my mouth, and he was extolled with my tongue. {{rf{18}}} If I had considered evil in my heart, the Lord would not have listened. {{rf{19}}} However, God has listened; he has attended to the sound of my prayer. {{rf{20}}} Blessed be God, who has not turned aside my prayer, or his loyal love from me. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Psalms-066-001]] }}}
{{rf{0}}} For the music director, with stringed instruments. A psalm. A song. {{rf big{1}}} May God be gracious to us and bless us. May he cause his face to shine toward us, Selah {{rf{2}}} that your way may be known on the earth, your salvation among all nations. {{rf{3}}} Let the peoples praise you, O God; let all of the peoples praise you. {{rf{4}}} Let the nations be glad and sing for joy, because you judge the peoples with equity and guide the nations on the earth. Selah {{rf{5}}} Let the peoples praise you, O God; let all the peoples praise you. {{rf{6}}} The earth has yielded its produce. God, our God, will bless us. {{rf{7}}} God will bless us, and all the ends of the earth will fear him. LENGTH SHORT {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Psalms-067-001]] }}}
{{rf{0}}} For the music director. Of David. A psalm. A song. {{rf big{1}}} God will arise; his enemies will be scattered, and those who hate him will flee from before him. {{rf{2}}} As smoke is driven off, you will drive them off. As wax melts before fire, the wicked will perish before God. {{rf{3}}} But the righteous will be glad; they will exalt before God, and will rejoice with joy. {{rf{4}}} Sing to God, sing praises to his name. Lift up a song to the rider on the clouds -- his name is Yah -- and rejoice before him. {{rf{5}}} A father to orphans and a judge for widows is God in his holy habitation. {{rf{6}}} God settles the lonely in a home; he brings prisoners out into prosperity. But the rebellious abide in a barren land. {{rf{7}}} O God, when you went out before your people, when you marched through the desert, Selah {{rf{8}}} the earth shook; the heavens also dripped rain at the presence of God who was at Sinai, at the presence of God, the God of Israel. {{rf{9}}} You caused abundant rain to fall, O God. When your inheritance was weary you revived it. {{rf{10}}} Your community dwelled in it. You provided in your goodness for the poor, O God. {{rf{11}}} The Lord gives the word. Great is the company of women who announce: {{rf{12}}} "The kings of armies flee, they flee, and she who remains at home divides the spoil. {{rf{13}}} Though you men lie down between the sheepfolds, you will be like the wings of a dove covered in silver and its pinions in yellow gold." {{rf{14}}} When Shaddai scattered kings on it, on Zalmon it snowed. {{rf{15}}} A mountain of God is the mountain of Bashan; a mountain of many peaks is the mountain of Bashan. {{rf{16}}} Why do you look with hostility, O many-peaked mountains? This mountain God desires for his dwelling. Yes, Yahweh will abide in it forever. {{rf{17}}} The chariots of God are twice ten thousand, with thousands doubled. The Lord is among them at Sinai, distinctive in victory. {{rf{18}}} You have ascended on high; you have led away captives. You have received gifts from among humankind, and even from the rebellious, so that Yah God may dwell there. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Psalms-068-001]] }}}
{{rf{19}}} Blessed be the Lord. Daily he loads us with benefits, the God of our salvation. Selah {{rf{20}}} Our God is a God of deliverances, and to the Yahweh the Lord belong escapes from death. {{rf{21}}} But God will shatter the head of his enemies, the hairy scalp of the one who continues on in his guilt. {{rf{22}}} The Lord said, "I will bring them back from Bashan; I will bring them back from the depths of the sea, {{rf{23}}} so that your foot may shatter them bloody for the tongues of your dogs to have their share from the enemies." {{rf{24}}} They have seen your processions, O God, the processions of my God, my king, distinctive in victory. {{rf{25}}} Singers went up front, those playing stringed instruments last, between them young women playing tambourines. {{rf{26}}} Bless God in the assemblies, Yahweh from the fountain of Israel. {{rf{27}}} There is little Benjamin ruling them, with the princes of Judah in their throng, the princes of Zebulun and the princes of Naphtali. {{rf{28}}} Your God has commanded your strength. Show yourself strong, O God, by what you perform for us. {{rf{29}}} Because your temple is above Jerusalem, kings will bring tribute to you. {{rf{30}}} Rebuke the beasts in the reeds, the herd of bulls with the calves of the peoples, trampling the pieces of silver. Scatter the nations who delight in battles. {{rf{31}}} Ambassadors will come from Egypt; Cush will quickly stretch out her hands to God. {{rf{32}}} O kingdoms of the earth, sing to God; sing praise to the Lord, Selah {{rf{33}}} to the one who rides in the highest heavens of old. See, he gives forth his voice, a mighty voice. {{rf{34}}} Ascribe strength to God. His majesty is over Israel, and his strength is in the clouds. {{rf{35}}} Awesome are you, O God, from your sanctuary. The God of Israel, it is he who gives strength and might to the people. Blessed be God. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Psalms-068-019]] }}}
{{rf{0}}} For the music director, according to The Lilies. Of David. {{rf big{1}}} Save me, O God, because waters have come up to my neck. {{rf{2}}} I sink in the mud of the deep, and there is no foothold. I have come to watery depths, and the torrent floods over me. {{rf{3}}} I am weary with my calling out; my throat is parched. My eyes are exhausted in my waiting for my God. {{rf{4}}} More numerous than the hairs of my head are those hating me without a cause. Those who are destroying me -- my enemies wrongfully -- are mighty. What I did not steal, I then must restore. {{rf{5}}} O God, you yourself know my foolishness, and my guilty deeds are not hidden from you. {{rf{6}}} Let those who wait for you not be put to shame because of me, O Lord Yahweh of hosts. Let those who seek you not be disgraced because of me, O God of Israel. {{rf{7}}} Because on account of you I have borne reproach; disgrace has covered my face. {{rf{8}}} I have become a stranger to my brothers and a foreigner to my mother's sons, {{rf{9}}} because the zeal for your house has consumed me, and the reproaches of those reproaching you have fallen on me. {{rf{10}}} When I wept in the fasting of my soul, it became reproaches for me. {{rf{11}}} When I made sackcloth my clothing, I became for them a byword. {{rf{12}}} Those sitting at the gate talk about me as also the songs of the drunkards. {{rf{13}}} But as for me, my prayer is to you, O Yahweh, for a favorable time, O God, according to the abundance of your loyal love. Answer me with the faithfulness of your salvation. {{rf{14}}} Deliver me from the mud and do not let me sink. Let me be delivered from those who hate me and from the watery depths. {{rf{15}}} Do not let the torrent of waters flood over me, or the deep swallow me, or the pit close its mouth over me. {{rf{16}}} Answer me, O Yahweh, because your loyal love is good; according to your abundant mercies, turn to me, {{rf{17}}} and do not hide your face from your servant. Because I am in trouble, answer me quickly. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Psalms-069-001]] }}}
{{rf{18}}} Draw near to my soul; redeem it. Because of my enemies, ransom me. {{rf{19}}} You know my reproach, my shame and my disgrace. Fully known to you are all my adversaries. {{rf{20}}} Reproach has broken my heart and I am sick. And I hoped for sympathy, but there was none, and for comforters, but I found none. {{rf{21}}} They also gave me gall for food, and for my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink. {{rf{22}}} Let their table before them be a trap, and their times of peace a snare. {{rf{23}}} Let their eyes be dark so they cannot see, and make their loins continually tremble. {{rf{24}}} Pour out your indignation on them, and let your burning anger overtake them. {{rf{25}}} Let their camp be desolate. Let none dwell in their tents, {{rf{26}}} because they persecute those whom you, yourself, have struck, and they tell of the pain of those you have wounded. {{rf{27}}} Add guilt on top of their guilt, and do not let them be acquitted. {{rf{28}}} Let them be blotted out of the book of the living, and let them not be recorded with the righteous. {{rf{29}}} But as for me, though I am afflicted and pained, your salvation will protect me, O God. {{rf{30}}} I will praise the name of God in song, and magnify him with thanksgiving. {{rf{31}}} For Yahweh it will be better than an ox or bull, horned and hoofed. {{rf{32}}} The afflicted will see and rejoice. O God seekers, let your heart revive, {{rf{33}}} because Yahweh hears the needy and does not despise his own who are prisoners. {{rf{34}}} Let heavens and earth praise him, the seas and all that moves in them, {{rf{35}}} because God will save Zion and build the cities of Judah, that they may dwell there and possess it. {{rf{36}}} And the offspring of his servants will inherit it, and those who love his name will abide in it. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Psalms-069-018]] }}}
{{rf{0}}} For the music director. Of David. To bring to remembrance. {{rf big{1}}} O God, make haste to deliver me. O Yahweh, make haste to help me. {{rf{2}}} Let them be ashamed and abashed who seek my life. Let them be repulsed and humiliated who desire my harm. {{rf{3}}} let them turn back because of their shame, those who say, "Aha! Aha!" {{rf{4}}} Let them rejoice and be glad in you, all those who seek you. Let them say continually, "God is great!" those who love your salvation. {{rf{5}}} But I am poor and needy; O God hasten to me. You are my help and my deliverer. O Yahweh, do not delay. {{rf big{1}}} In you, O Yahweh, I have taken refuge; let me never be put to shame. {{rf{2}}} In your righteousness deliver me and rescue me; incline your ear to me and save me. {{rf{3}}} Be for me a rock of refuge to resort to always; you have ordained to save me, because you are my rock and my fortress. {{rf{4}}} My God, rescue me from the hand of the wicked, from the grasp of the evildoer and the oppressor, {{rf{5}}} because you are my hope, O Lord Yahweh, my confidence from my youth. {{rf{6}}} Upon you I have leaned from birth. It was you who took me from the womb of my mother. My praise is of you continually. {{rf{7}}} I have become a wonder to many, but you are my strong refuge. {{rf{8}}} My mouth is filled with your praise, with your glory all the day. {{rf{9}}} Do not cast me away in the time of old age; when my strength fails do not abandon me. {{rf{10}}} For my enemies talk concerning me, and those who watch for my life conspire together, {{rf{11}}} saying, "His God has abandoned him. Pursue and seize him, because there is no deliverer." {{rf{12}}} O God, do not be far from me. My God, hurry to help me. {{rf{13}}} Let them be ashamed; let them perish who are my adversaries. Let them wrap themselves with scorn and disgrace who seek my harm. {{rf{14}}} But as for me, I will hope continually and increase your praise. {{rf{15}}} My mouth will tell of your righteousness, your salvation all day long, though I do not know the full sum of them. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Psalms-070-001]] }}}
{{rf{16}}} I will come in to tell the mighty deeds of Lord Yahweh. I will make known your righteousness, yours only. {{rf{17}}} O God, you have taught me from my youth, and up to now I have proclaimed your wonderful deeds. {{rf{18}}} And even when I am old and gray, O God, do not abandon me until I proclaim your strength to this generation, your power to every one that comes after. {{rf{19}}} And your righteousness, O God, is to the height of heaven. You who have done great things, O God, who is like you? {{rf{20}}} You who have caused me to see many troubles and evils, you will again revive me. And from the depths of the earth you will again bring me up. {{rf{21}}} You will increase my greatness, and you will comfort me all around. {{rf{22}}} On my part, I will praise you with a stringed instrument, and your faithfulness, O my God. I will sing praises to you with a lyre, O Holy One of Israel. {{rf{23}}} My lips will sing for joy when I sing praises to you, and my soul, which you have redeemed. {{rf{24}}} My tongue also will speak of your righteousness all the day, because they have been put to shame, because they have been humiliated who seek my harm. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Psalms-071-016]] }}}
{{rf{0}}} Of Solomon. {{rf big{1}}} O God, give your judgments to the king, and your righteousness to the king's son. {{rf{2}}} May he judge your people with righteousness, and your poor with justice. {{rf{3}}} Let the mountains yield prosperity for the people, and the hills in righteousness. {{rf{4}}} May he provide justice for the poor of the people, save the children of the needy, and crush the oppressor. {{rf{5}}} May he live long while the sun endures as long as the moon for all generations. {{rf{6}}} May he descend like rain on mown grass, like showers watering the earth. {{rf{7}}} May what is right blossom in his days and an abundance of peace, until the moon is no more. {{rf{8}}} And may he rule from sea up to sea, and from the River to the edges of the land. {{rf{9}}} Let the desert dwellers bow down before him, and his enemies lick the dust. {{rf{10}}} Let the kings of Tarshish and the islands bring tribute. Let the kings of Sheba and Seba present gifts, {{rf{11}}} and let all kings bow down to him. Let all nations serve him. {{rf{12}}} Indeed he will deliver the needy who is crying for help, and the afflicted who has no helper. {{rf{13}}} He will take pity on the helpless and needy, and the lives of the needy he will save. {{rf{14}}} From oppression and from violence he will redeem their lives, and their blood will be precious in his eyes. {{rf{15}}} So may he live, and may gold from Sheba be given to him, and may prayers be offered for him continually. May blessings be invoked for him all day long. {{rf{16}}} May there be an abundance of grain in the land even on the top of the mountains. May his crop sway like the trees of Lebanon, and may those from the city blossom like the grass of the earth. {{rf{17}}} May his name endure forever. May his name increase as long as the sun shines, and let them be blessed in him. Let all nations call him blessed. {{rf{18}}} Blessed be Yahweh God, the God of Israel, who alone does wonderful things. {{rf{19}}} And blessed be his glorious name forever, and may the whole earth be filled with his glory. Amen and Amen. {{rf{20}}} The prayers of David, the son of Jesse, are completed. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Psalms-072-001]] }}}
{{rf{0}}} A song of Asaph. {{rf big{1}}} Surely God is good to Israel, to those pure of heart. {{rf{2}}} But as for me, my feet had almost stumbled. My steps had nearly slipped, {{rf{3}}} because I envied the boastful when I saw the well-being of the wicked. {{rf{4}}} For there are no pains up to their death, and their bodies are healthy. {{rf{5}}} They do not have ordinary trouble, and they are not plagued as other people. {{rf{6}}} Therefore pride is their necklace; an outfit of violence covers them. {{rf{7}}} Their eye bulges from fat. Imaginings overflow their heart. {{rf{8}}} They mock and speak maliciously of oppression; they speak as though from on high. {{rf{9}}} They set their mouth against the heavens, and their tongue roams the earth. {{rf{10}}} Therefore his people turn there, and abundant waters are slurped up by them. {{rf{11}}} And they say, "How does God know?" and, "Does the Most High have knowledge?" {{rf{12}}} See, these are the wicked, and they increase wealth, ever carefree. {{rf{13}}} Surely in vain I have kept my heart pure, and washed my hands in innocence. {{rf{14}}} And I have been plagued all day and rebuked every morning. {{rf{15}}} If I had said, "I will speak thus," behold, I would have acted treacherously against your children's generation. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Psalms-073-001]] }}}
{{rf{16}}} When I thought about how to understand this, it was troubling in my eyes {{rf{17}}} until I went into the sanctuary of God. Then I understood their fate. {{rf{18}}} Surely you set them on slippery places. You cause them to fall onto ruin. {{rf{19}}} How they become a desolation in a moment! They come to a complete end by terrors. {{rf{20}}} Like a dream upon awakening, when you wake up, O Lord, you will despise their fleeting form. {{rf{21}}} When my heart was embittered and I felt stabbed in my kidneys, {{rf{22}}} then I was brutish and ignorant. With you I was like the beasts. {{rf{23}}} But I am continually with you; you have hold of my right hand. {{rf{24}}} You will guide me with your advice, and afterward you will take me into honor. {{rf{25}}} Whom do I have in the heavens except you? And with you I have no other desire on earth. {{rf{26}}} My flesh and heart failed, but God is the strength of my heart and my reward forever. {{rf{27}}} For indeed, those distancing themselves from you will be ruined. You destroy each who abandons you for harlotry. {{rf{28}}} But as for me, the approach to God is for my good. I have set the Lord Yahweh as my refuge, in order to tell all your works. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Psalms-073-016]] }}}
{{rf{0}}} A maskil of Asaph. {{rf{1}}} Why, O God, have you rejected us forever? Why does your anger smoke against the sheep of your pasture? {{rf{2}}} Remember your congregation that you bought long ago, when you redeemed the tribe of your inheritance. Remember Mount Zion where you have dwelt. {{rf{3}}} Lift your steps to the perpetual ruins, to all that the enemy has ruined in the sanctuary. {{rf{4}}} Your enemies have roared in the midst of your meeting place; they have set up their signs for signs. {{rf{5}}} They are known to be like those who wield axes in a thicket of trees. {{rf{6}}} And now its carved works altogether they have smashed with axe and hammer. {{rf{7}}} They have set fire to your sanctuary. They have defiled to the ground, the dwelling place for your name. {{rf{8}}} They have said in their heart, "We will completely oppress them." They burned all the meeting places of God in the land. {{rf{9}}} We do not see our signs, and there is no longer a prophet. No one with us knows how long. {{rf{10}}} How long, O God, will the adversary taunt? Will the enemy treat your name with contempt forever? {{rf{11}}} Why do you draw back your hand, even your right hand? Take it from your bosom; destroy them! {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Psalms-073-025]] }}}
* This portrays devastating judgment. We must understand that every sin creates just this scene.
* God brought this home to me around 2001, early recovery.
* Part A zooms in for despair. Part B zooms out for victory, and also calls out the covenant Name. Take your eyes off circumstances, however dire or riveting.
* As for Jesus, He said His temple would be torn down.
* Coffeepot analogy: trials without grace is like missing the ground coffee.
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* ^^1^^ God, why have you rejected us forever? Why does your anger smolder against the sheep of your pasture?
** ^^2^^ __Remember__ your congregation, which you purchased of old, which you have redeemed to be the tribe of your inheritance; Mount Zion, in which you have lived. Lift up your feet to the perpetual ruins, all the evil that the enemy has done in the sanctuary.
*** ^^4^^ Your adversaries have roared in the midst of your assembly. They have set up their standards as signs. They behaved like men wielding axes, cutting through a thicket of trees. Now they __break all its carved work down__ with hatchet and hammers. They have burned your sanctuary to the ground. They have profaned the dwelling place of your Name. They said in their heart, "We will crush them completely." They have burned up all the places in the land where God was worshiped.
**** ^^9^^ We see __no miraculous signs__. There is no longer any prophet, neither is there among us anyone who knows how long.
***** ^^10^^ How long, God, shall the adversary reproach? Shall the enemy blaspheme your name forever?
****** ^^11^^ ''Why do you draw back your hand, even your right hand? ''
***** Take it out of your pocket and consume them!
**** ^^12^^ Yet God is my King of old, __working salvation in the midst of the earth__. You divided the sea by your strength. You broke the heads of the sea monsters in the waters. You broke the heads of Leviathan in pieces. You gave him as food to people and desert creatures. You opened up spring and stream. You dried up mighty rivers.
*** ^^16^^ The day is yours, the night is also yours. You have __prepared the light and the sun__. You have set all the boundaries of the earth. You have made summer and winter.
** ^^18^^ __Remember__ this, that the enemy has mocked you, Yahweh. Foolish people have blasphemed your name. Don't deliver the soul of your dove to wild beasts. Don't forget the life of your poor forever. Honor your covenant, for haunts of violence fill the dark places of the earth. Don't let the oppressed return ashamed. Let the poor and needy praise your name.
* ^^22^^ Arise, God! Plead your own cause. __Remember__ how the foolish man mocks you all day. Don't forget the voice of your adversaries. The tumult of those who rise up against you ascends continually.
{{rf{12}}} But God has been my king from long ago, working salvation in the midst of the earth. {{rf{13}}} You split open the sea by your strength; You broke the heads of the sea monsters in the waters. {{rf{14}}} You crushed the heads of Leviathan; you gave him as food to the desert dwelling creatures. {{rf{15}}} You split open spring and wadi. You dried up ever-flowing rivers. {{rf{16}}} Yours is the day, yours is the night also. You established light and the sun. {{rf{17}}} You defined all the boundaries of the earth; Summer and winter -- you formed them. {{rf{18}}} O Yahweh, remember this: the enemy taunts, and foolish people treat your name with contempt. {{rf{19}}} Do not give to beasts the life of your dove; do not ever forget the life of your afflicted ones. {{rf{20}}} Have regard for the covenant, because the dark places of the land are full of the haunts of violence. {{rf{21}}} Do not let the oppressed turn back humiliated; let the poor and needy praise your name. {{rf{22}}} Rise up, O God, plead your cause; remember the reproaching of you by the foolish all day long. {{rf{23}}} Do not forget the sound of your adversaries, the roar of those rising up against you ascending continually. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Psalms-074-012]] }}}
{{rf{0}}} For the music director, according to Do Not Destroy. A psalm of Asaph. A song. {{rf big{1}}} We give thanks to you, O God; we give thanks, and your name is near. Your wonderful deeds are told. {{rf{2}}} "I will indeed set an appointed time; I will judge fairly. {{rf{3}}} The earth and all its inhabitants are shaking; I steady its columns. Selah {{rf{4}}} I say to the boastful, 'Do not boast!' and to the wicked, 'Do not lift up your horn! {{rf{5}}} Do not lift up high your horn. Do not speak with arrogant pride.'" {{rf{6}}} For it is not from the east or the west and not from the south that lifting up comes, {{rf{7}}} rather God is the judge; one he brings low, and another he lifts up. {{rf{8}}} For there is a cup in the hand of Yahweh with wine that foams, fully mixed, and he pours out from this. Surely all the wicked of the land will quaff it down to its dregs. {{rf{9}}} But as for me, I will proclaim forever; I will sing praise to the God of Jacob. {{rf{10}}} "And all the horns of the wicked I will cut off. The horns of the righteous will be lifted up." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Psalms-075-001]] }}}
<<Bbl Ps 78:2 abbr >> quoted in <<Bbl Mt 13:35 abbr>>, but a difference.
<<Bbl Ps 78:51 abbr >>-053 He led them as a shepherd - and indeed this vividly describes that leading by a column of fire, a column of smoke.
<<Bbl Ps 78:57 abbr>> This phrase also in <<Bbl Hos 7:16 >>. The bow reveals an internal flaw when tested. The design is good; the material is what is bad. All of this clearly pictures the sinful nature. Such a bow would, in happy accord with the origin of the Greek word for sin, "fall short of the mark."
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Unite my heart to fear your name. - <<Bbl Ps 86:11 abbr>>
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<<Bbl Ps 90:12 abbr>> Thomas a Kempis: "Blessed is the man who hourly keeps the day of his death in mind, and daily prepares for his death."
91:4ab It is said a mother hen's wings entirely conceal the chicks. <<Bbl Mt 23:37 >>.
<<Bbl Ps 91:5 abbr >> Warfare conducted by day, for fear of the terror mentioned here.
<<Bbl Ps 95:7 abbr >> The psalmist uses an ancient history to press his moral. Hebrews asserts that such an application, if it applied in the "Today" of the psalmist, must still apply for this "Today".
<<Bbl Ps 95:11 abbr >> Hebrews discovers essential meaning in the possessive pronoun: //__my__ rest//.
<<Bbl Ps 101:1 abbr>>ff Sixteen declarations or resolves for the court and home of the king. These are initiated in praise to Yahweh and dedicated his person and his environment to holiness.
<<Bbl Ps 101:1 abbr >>ff. <<Bbl 2C 5:9 >>-13. Progression from the inside.
<<Bbl Ps 103:11 abbr >> <<Bbl I 55:8 >>-9
<<Bbl Ps 103:13 abbr >> //As a father// - This is descriptive and also subtly prescriptive. Verse 15 reminds us of the eternal difference; verse 17 returns us again to the mundane level, our human generations.
<<Bbl Ps 104:1 abbr >>ff The earth's ecological systems observed as it were by Solomon.
<<Bbl Ps 104.28 abbr >> As Boaz to Ruth. [[Provide]]
<<Bbl Ps 103:13 abbr>> see <<Bbl Mal 3:17 >>
{{rf{0}}} For the music director, with stringed instruments. A psalm of Asaph. A song. {{rf big{1}}} God is known in Judah. His name is great in Israel. {{rf{2}}} His den has been in Salem, his lair in Zion. {{rf{3}}} There he broke the flames of the bow, the shield and sword and battle. Selah {{rf{4}}} Radiant you are, majestic, from the mountains of prey. {{rf{5}}} The stouthearted are plundered; they sleep their sleep, and all the able men cannot use their hands. {{rf{6}}} At your rebuke, O God of Jacob, both rider and horse slumber. {{rf{7}}} You, indeed, are to be feared, and who can stand before you when you are angry? {{rf{8}}} From heaven you proclaimed judgment. The earth feared and was still {{rf{9}}} when God rose for justice, to save all the afflicted of the land. Selah {{rf{10}}} For the anger of humankind will praise you. You will put on the remnant of anger. {{rf{11}}} Make vows and fulfill them to Yahweh, your God; let all surrounding him bring tribute to the one to be feared. {{rf{12}}} He cuts off the spirit of leaders. He is to be feared by the kings of the earth. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Psalms-076-001]] }}}
{{rf{0}}} For the music director, on Jeduthun. Of Asaph. A psalm. {{rf big{1}}} I cry out with my voice to God; with my voice to God, that he may hear me. {{rf{2}}} In the day I have trouble, I seek the Lord. At night my hand stretches out continually; my soul refuses to be comforted. {{rf{3}}} I remember God and I groan loudly; I meditate and my spirit grows faint. {{rf{4}}} You hold open my eyelids. I am troubled and cannot speak. {{rf{5}}} I think about the days from long ago, the years of ancient times. {{rf{6}}} I remember my song in the night. With my heart I meditate, and my spirit searches to understand. {{rf{7}}} Will the Lord reject us forever, and will he never be pleased with us again? {{rf{8}}} Has his loyal love ceased forever? Is his promise ended throughout generations? {{rf{9}}} Has God forgotten to have compassion? Or has he closed off his mercies in anger? Selah {{rf{10}}} So I said, "This pierces me -- the right hand of the Most High has changed." {{rf{11}}} I will remember the deeds of Yah. Surely I will remember your wonders from long ago. {{rf{12}}} I will also muse on all your work, and meditate on your deeds. {{rf{13}}} O God, your way is distinctive. Who is a great god like our God? {{rf{14}}} You are the God who works wonders; you have made known your might among the peoples. {{rf{15}}} With your arm you redeemed your people, the children of Jacob and Joseph. Selah {{rf{16}}} Waters saw you, O God; waters saw you and they trembled. Surely the deeps shook. {{rf{17}}} The clouds poured out water. The skies thundered. Your arrows also flew about. {{rf{18}}} The sound of your thunder was in the whirlwind; lightnings lit the world; the earth shook and quaked. {{rf{19}}} Your way was through the sea, and your path through many waters. Yet your footprints were not discerned. {{rf{20}}} You led your people like a flock by the hand of Moses and Aaron. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Psalms-077-001]] }}}
{{rf{0}}} A maskil of Asaph. {{rf big{1}}} Listen, O my people, to my teaching. Incline your ears to the words of my mouth. {{rf{2}}} I will offer a parable with my mouth. I will pour out riddles from long ago, {{rf{3}}} that we have heard and known, and our ancestors have told us. {{rf{4}}} We will not hide them from their children, telling the next generation the praises of Yahweh, and his power and his wonders that he has done. {{rf{5}}} For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our ancestors to teach to their children, {{rf{6}}} so that the next generation might know -- children yet to be born -- that they might rise up and tell their children, {{rf{7}}} that they might set their confidence in God, and not forget the deeds of God, but keep his commandments, {{rf{8}}} and not be like their ancestors, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation that did not make ready its heart, whose spirit was not faithful to God. {{rf{9}}} The sons of Ephraim, armed with archers, turned back on the day of battle. {{rf{10}}} They did not keep the covenant of God and refused to go in his law. {{rf{11}}} They also forgot his deeds, and his wonders that he had shown them. {{rf{12}}} In front of their ancestors he did a wonder, in the land of Egypt, in the region of Zoan. {{rf{13}}} He split the sea and caused them to go over, and he caused waters to stand like a heap. {{rf{14}}} And he led them with the cloud by day, and all night with a fiery light. {{rf{15}}} He caused rocks to split in the wilderness and provided drink abundantly as from the depths. {{rf{16}}} And he brought streams out of the rock and caused water to flow down like rivers. {{rf{17}}} But they sinned still further against him by rebelling against the Most High in the desert. {{rf{18}}} And they tested God in their heart by asking food for their craving. {{rf{19}}} And they spoke against God. They said, "Is God able to prepare a table in the wilderness? {{rf{20}}} Yes, he struck the rock and water flowed and streams gushed out, but can he also give food or provide meat for his people?" {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Psalms-078-001]] }}}
{{rf{21}}} Therefore Yahweh heard and he was very angry, and a fire was kindled against Jacob, and his anger also rose up against Israel, {{rf{22}}} because they did not believe God, and they did not trust his salvation. {{rf{23}}} Nevertheless, he commanded the skies above and opened the doors of heaven, {{rf{24}}} and rained down on them manna to eat and gave them the grain of heaven. {{rf{25}}} Humankind ate the bread of angels. He sent them food enough to be satisfied. {{rf{26}}} He caused the east wind to blow in the heavens and drove along the south wind by his strength. {{rf{27}}} Then he rained meat on them like dust, even winged birds like the sand of the seas. {{rf{28}}} He caused them to fall in the midst of his camp, all around his dwellings. {{rf{29}}} So they ate and were well filled, and he brought about what they craved. {{rf{30}}} They had not yet turned aside from their craving, while their food was still in their mouth, {{rf{31}}} the anger of God rose against them, and he killed some of the stoutest of them, even the young men of Israel he caused to bow down in death. {{rf{32}}} In spite of all this they sinned further and did not believe his wonders. {{rf{33}}} And he consumed their days with futility their years with terror. {{rf{34}}} When he killed some of them, then they sought him, and repented and earnestly sought God. {{rf{35}}} And they remembered that God was their rock, and God Most High their redeemer. {{rf{36}}} But they enticed him with their mouth and lied to him with their tongue. {{rf{37}}} For their heart was not steadfast with him, nor were they faithful to his covenant. {{rf{38}}} But he was compassionate; he pardoned their guilt and did not destroy them. And many times he turned back his anger and did not stir up all his wrath, {{rf{39}}} for he remembered that they were flesh, a passing wind that does not return. {{rf{40}}} How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness and vexed him in the wasteland! {{rf{41}}} So they again tested God and distressed the Holy One of Israel. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Psalms-078-021]] }}}
{{rf{42}}} And they did not remember his power when he redeemed them from the enemy, {{rf{43}}} how he performed his signs in Egypt and his wonders in the region of Zoan, {{rf{44}}} when he turned their rivers to blood so they could not drink from their streams. {{rf{45}}} He sent among them flies that devoured them and frogs that destroyed them. {{rf{46}}} And he gave their crop to the locusts and their labor to the locust. {{rf{47}}} He destroyed their vines with hail and their sycamore trees with sleet. {{rf{48}}} He also handed their cattle over to the hail and their livestock to the lightning bolts. {{rf{49}}} He sent against them his fierce anger, rage and indignation and trouble, a band of destroying angels. {{rf{50}}} He cleared a path for his anger. He did not spare them from death but handed their life over to the plague. {{rf{51}}} And he struck down all the firstborn in Egypt, the first of their virility in the tents of Ham. {{rf{52}}} Then he led out his people like sheep and guided them like a herd in the wilderness. {{rf{53}}} And he led them safely and they were not afraid, but the sea covered their enemies. {{rf{54}}} So he brought them to his holy territory, this mountain his right hand acquired. {{rf{55}}} And he drove out nations before them and allocated them for an inheritance by boundary line, and settled the tribes of Israel in their tents. {{rf{56}}} But they tested and rebelled against God Most High and did not keep his statutes. {{rf{57}}} And they turned and were treacherous like their ancestors. They twisted like a crooked bow. {{rf{58}}} For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and made him jealous with their images. {{rf{59}}} God heard and he was very angry and rejected Israel utterly. {{rf{60}}} So he abandoned the dwelling place at Shiloh, the tent he had placed among humankind. {{rf{61}}} And he gave his strength into captivity and his splendor into the hand of the enemy. {{rf{62}}} He also handed his people over to the sword, and he was very angry with his inheritance. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Psalms-078-042]] }}}
{{rf{63}}} Fire devoured his young men, and his young women were not praised. {{rf{64}}} His priests fell by the sword, and his widows did not weep. {{rf{65}}} Then the Lord awoke like one who had been asleep, awoke like a warrior who had been drunk with wine. {{rf{66}}} And he beat back his enemies; he gave them over to perpetual scorn. {{rf{67}}} And he rejected the tent of Joseph, and did not chose the tribe of Ephraim, {{rf{68}}} but chose the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion that he loved. {{rf{69}}} And he built his sanctuary like the heights, like the earth that he established forever. {{rf{70}}} And he chose David his servant and took him from the sheepfolds. {{rf{71}}} He brought him from following nursing ewes to shepherd Jacob, his people, and Israel, his inheritance. {{rf{72}}} And he shepherded them according to the integrity of his heart, and led them by the skillfulness of his hands. LENGTH SHORT {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Psalms-078-063]] }}}
{{rf{0}}} A psalm of Asaph. {{rf big{1}}} O God, the nations have entered your inheritance; they have defiled your holy temple; they have reduced Jerusalem to ruins. {{rf{2}}} They have given the bodies of your servants as food for the birds of the heavens, the flesh of your faithful to the beasts of the earth. {{rf{3}}} They have poured out their blood like water all around Jerusalem, and there was none to bury them. {{rf{4}}} We have become a taunt to our neighbors, a derision and a scorn to those around us. {{rf{5}}} How long, O Yahweh? Will you be angry forever? Will your jealousy burn like fire? {{rf{6}}} Pour out your anger on the nations that do not know you, and on the kingdoms that do not call on your name, {{rf{7}}} because they have devoured Jacob and have laid waste his habitation. {{rf{8}}} Do not remember against us former iniquities; let your mercies meet us quickly because we are brought very low. {{rf{9}}} Help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of your name; and deliver us and forgive our sins for the sake of your name. {{rf{10}}} Why should the nations say, "Where is their God?" Let it be known among the nations before our eyes, by the avenging of the blood of your servants that was poured out. {{rf{11}}} Let the groaning of the prisoner come before you. According to the greatness of your power, spare the children appointed to death. {{rf{12}}} And return to our neighbors sevenfold upon them their taunts with which they taunted you, O Lord. {{rf{13}}} Then we, your people and the flock of your pasture, we will give thanks to you forever. Generation after generation we will tell of your praise. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Psalms-079-001]] }}}
{{rf{0}}} For the music director, according to The Lilies. A testimony. Of Asaph. A psalm. {{rf big{1}}} Give ear, O shepherd of Israel, who leads Joseph like a flock. Shine forth, you who sits enthroned above the cherubim. {{rf{2}}} Before Ephraim, Benjamin, and Manasseh, stir up your power and come for our salvation. {{rf{3}}} O God, restore us, and cause your face to shine that we may be saved. {{rf{4}}} O Yahweh God of hosts, how long will you be angry against the prayer of your people? {{rf{5}}} You have fed them the bread of tears; you have given them tears to drink in full measure. {{rf{6}}} You have made us an object of strife to our neighbors, and our enemies mock among themselves. {{rf{7}}} O God of hosts, restore us and cause your face to shine that we may be saved. {{rf{8}}} You uprooted a vine from Egypt; you drove out the nations and planted it. {{rf{9}}} You prepared a place before it, and it took deep root and filled the land. {{rf{10}}} The mountains were covered with its shade, and the mighty cedars with its boughs. {{rf{11}}} It spread its branches to the sea and its shoots to the river. {{rf{12}}} Why have you broken down its walls, so that all who pass on the road pluck fruit from it? {{rf{13}}} Swine from the forests devour it and creatures of the field feed on it. {{rf{14}}} Please return, O God of hosts. Observe from heaven and see, and pay attention to this vine, {{rf{15}}} eventhe stalk that your right hand planted, and concerning the shoot you strengthened for yourself. {{rf{16}}} It is burned with fire, cut down. They perish at the rebuke of your face. {{rf{17}}} Let your hand be on the man of your right hand, on the son of humankind whom you made strong for yourself. {{rf{18}}} Then we will not turn back from you. Restore us to life, and we will proclaim your name. {{rf{19}}} O Yahweh God of hosts, restore us; cause your face to shine that we may be saved. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Psalms-080-001]] }}}
{{rf{0}}} For the music director; on the Gittith. Of Asaph. {{rf big{1}}} Shout out to God our strength; shout joyfully to the God of Jacob. {{rf{2}}} Lift up a song and strike the tambourine, the pleasant lyre, together with the harp. {{rf{3}}} Blow the horn at new moon, at full moon, for our feast day, {{rf{4}}} because it is a statute for Israel, an ordinance of the God of Jacob. {{rf{5}}} He made it a statute in Joseph when he went out against the land of Egypt, where I heard a language I did not know. {{rf{6}}} "I removed his shoulder from a burden. His hands were freed from the basket. {{rf{7}}} In this trouble you called, and I rescued you. Within the secret place of thunder I answered you; I tested you at the waters of Meribah. Selah {{rf{8}}} Hear, O my people, and I will admonish you; O Israel, if you would but listen to me. {{rf{9}}} There shall be no strange god among you, and you shall not bow down to a foreign god. {{rf{10}}} I am Yahweh your God, who brought you up from the land of Egypt. Open wide your mouth and I will fill it. {{rf{11}}} But my people did not listen to my voice, and Israel did not yield to me. {{rf{12}}} So I let them go in the stubbornness of their heart; they walked in their counsels. {{rf{13}}} Oh that my people would listen to me; that Israel would walk in my ways. {{rf{14}}} I would subdue their enemies quickly, and turn my hand against their adversaries. {{rf{15}}} Those who hate Yahweh would cringe before him, and their fate would be forever. {{rf{16}}} But he would feed him from the choicest wheat, and I would satisfy you with honey from a rock." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Psalms-081-001]] }}}
{{rf{0}}} A psalm of Asaph. {{rf big{1}}} God stands in the divine assembly; he administers judgment in the midst of the gods. {{rf{2}}} "How long will you judge unjustly and show favoritism to the wicked? Selah {{rf{3}}} Judge on behalf of the helpless and the orphan; provide justice to the afflicted and the poor. {{rf{4}}} Rescue the helpless and the needy; deliver them from the hand of the wicked." {{rf{5}}} They do not know or consider. They go about in the darkness, so that all the foundations of the earth are shaken. {{rf{6}}} I have said, "You are gods, and sons of the Most High, all of you. {{rf{7}}} However, you will die like men, and you will fall like one of the princes." {{rf{8}}} Rise up, O God, judge the earth, because you shall inherit all the nations. LENGTH SHORT {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Psalms-082-001]] }}}
{{rf{0}}} A song. A psalm of Asaph. {{rf big{1}}} O God, do not rest silently. Do not keep silent or be still, O God. {{rf{2}}} For look, your enemies roar, and those who hate you have lifted their head. {{rf{3}}} They devise cunning schemes against your people, and consult together against your protected ones. {{rf{4}}} They say, "Come, let us annihilate them from being a nation, so that the name of Israel will be remembered no more." {{rf{5}}} For they have consulted together with a unified purpose. They have made a covenant against you: {{rf{6}}} the tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites, Moab and the Hagrites, {{rf{7}}} Gebal and Ammon and Amalek, Philistia, with the inhabitants of Tyre. {{rf{8}}} Assyria also has joined with them. They provide help to the children of Lot. Selah {{rf{9}}} Do to them as you did with Midian, as with Sisera, as with Jabin at the wadi of Kishon. {{rf{10}}} They were destroyed at En-dor; they became dung for the ground. {{rf{11}}} Make their leaders like Oreb and Zeeb, and all their chiefs like Zebah and Zalmunna, {{rf{12}}} who said, "Let us take as our possession the pastures of God." {{rf{13}}} O my God, make them like the tumbleweed, like the chaff before wind. {{rf{14}}} As fire burns a forest, and as a flame sets afire mountains, {{rf{15}}} so pursue them with your tempest and terrify them with your storm. {{rf{16}}} Fill their faces with shame, that they may seek your name, O Yahweh. {{rf{17}}} Let them be ashamed and terrified forever, and let them be humiliated and perish {{rf{18}}} that they may know that you, whose name is Yahweh, you alone, are the Most High over the whole earth. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Psalms-083-001]] }}}
{{rf{0}}} For the music director; on the Gittith. Of the sons of Korah. A psalm. {{rf big{1}}} How lovely are your dwelling places, O Yahweh of hosts! {{rf{2}}} My soul longs and even fails for the courtyards of Yahweh. My heart and flesh sing for joy to the living God. {{rf{3}}} Even a bird finds a home, and a swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, near your altars, O Yahweh of hosts, my king and my God. {{rf{4}}} Blessed are those who dwell in your house; they can ever praise you. Selah {{rf{5}}} Blessed is the man whose strength is in you; in their heart are the highways to Zion. {{rf{6}}} Passing through the Valley of Baca, they make it a spring. The early rain covers it with blessings as well. {{rf{7}}} They go from strength to strength, until each appears before God in Zion. {{rf{8}}} O Yahweh, God of hosts, hear my prayer; give ear, O God of Jacob. Selah {{rf{9}}} Look at our shield, O God, and have regard for the face of your anointed one. {{rf{10}}} Because better is a day in your courtyards than a thousand elsewhere. I would rather be at the threshold of the house of my God than to dwell in the tents of wickedness. {{rf{11}}} Because Yahweh God is a sun and a shield; Yahweh gives grace and honor. He does not withhold good from those who walk blamelessly. {{rf{12}}} O Yahweh of hosts, blessed is the man who trusts you. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Psalms-084-001]] }}}
{{rf{0}}} For the music director. Of the sons of Korah. A psalm. {{rf big{1}}} O Yahweh, you favored your land. You restored the fortunes of Jacob. {{rf{2}}} You took away the guilt of your people; you covered all their sin. Selah {{rf{3}}} You withdrew all your wrath; you turned from your burning anger. {{rf{4}}} Restore us, O God of our salvation, and annul your vexation with us. {{rf{5}}} Will you be angry against us forever? Will you prolong your anger generation after generation? {{rf{6}}} Will you not again revive us, that your people might rejoice in you? {{rf{7}}} Show us, O Yahweh, your loyal love, and grant us your salvation. {{rf{8}}} I will hear what God, Yahweh, will speak, because he will speak peace to his people, even his faithful ones, but let them not return to folly. {{rf{9}}} Surely his salvation is near for those who fear him, that glory may abide in our land. {{rf{10}}} Loyal love and faithfulness will meet one another; righteousness and peace will kiss. {{rf{11}}} Faithfulness will sprout from the ground, and righteousness will look down from heaven. {{rf{12}}} Yes, Yahweh will give what is good, and our land will give its produce. {{rf{13}}} Righteousness will go before him, and it will make his steps a pathway. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Psalms-085-001]] }}}
{{rf{0}}} A prayer of David. {{rf big{1}}} Incline, O Yahweh, your ear and answer me, because I am poor and needy. {{rf{2}}} Watch over my life because I am faithful. You are my God; save your servant. I am the one who trusts you. {{rf{3}}} Be gracious to me, O Lord, because I call to you all day long. {{rf{4}}} Make glad the soul of your servant, because I desire you, O Lord. {{rf{5}}} For you, O Lord, are good and forgiving, and abundant in loyal love for all who call to you. {{rf{6}}} Heed, O Yahweh, my prayer, and attend to the voice of my supplications. {{rf{7}}} In the day of my trouble I call to you, because you answer me. {{rf{8}}} There is none like you among the gods, O Lord, and there are no works like yours. {{rf{9}}} All the nations that you have made will come and bow down before you, O Lord, and glorify your name. {{rf{10}}} For you are great and doing wondrous things; you alone are God. {{rf{11}}} Teach me, O Yahweh, your way, that I may walk in your truth. ''Unite my heart to fear your name.'' {{rf{12}}} I will give you thanks, O Lord my God, with all my heart, and glorify your name forever, {{rf{13}}} because your loyal love is great toward me, and you will have delivered my life from Sheol below. {{rf{14}}} O God, arrogant men have risen up against me, even a gang of ruthless men seek my life, but they do not set you before them. {{rf{15}}} But you, O Lord, are a compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger and abundant in loyal love and faithfulness. {{rf{16}}} Turn to me and be gracious to me. Give your strength to your servant, and grant victory to the son of your maidservant. {{rf{17}}} Do a sign that benefits me, that those who hate me may see and be put to shame, because you, O Yahweh, have helped me and comforted me. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Psalms-086-001]] }}}
{{rf{0}}} Of the sons of Korah. A psalm. A song. {{rf big{1}}} His foundation is on the holy mountains. {{rf{2}}} Yahweh loves the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob. {{rf{3}}} Glorious things are spoken about you, O city of God. Selah {{rf{4}}} I will record those who know me in Rahab and Babylon, behold in Philistia and Tyre with Cush, "This one was born there." {{rf{5}}} But with respect to Zion it shall be said, "Each one was born in her," for the Most High himself will establish her. {{rf{6}}} Yahweh will record in writing the peoples, "This one was born there." Selah {{rf{7}}} And while dancing, singers will sing, "All my springs are in you." LENGTH SHORT {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Psalms-087-001]] }}}
{{rf{0}}} A song. A psalm of the sons of Korah. For the music director; according to Mahalath Leannoth. A maskil of Heman the Ezrahite. {{rf big{1}}} O Yahweh, God of my salvation, I cry out by day and through the night before you. {{rf{2}}} Let my prayer come before you; incline your ear to my cry. {{rf{3}}} For my soul is full with troubles, and my life approaches Sheol. {{rf{4}}} I am reckoned with those descending to the pit. I am like a man without strength, {{rf{5}}} set free among the dead, like the slain lying in the grave, whom you no longer remember, even those cut off from your hand. {{rf{6}}} You have set me in the pit below, in dark places, in the depths. {{rf{7}}} Your wrath presses upon me, and you afflict me with all your waves. Selah {{rf{8}}} You have removed my acquaintances far from me. You have made me detestable to them. I am confined and cannot go out. {{rf{9}}} My eye languishes from misery. I call on you, O Yahweh, every day; I spread out my hands to you. {{rf{10}}} Do you work wonders for the dead? Or do the departed spirits rise up to praise you? Selah {{rf{11}}} Is your loyal love told in the grave, or your faithfulness in the underworld? {{rf{12}}} Are your wonders known in the darkness, or your righteousness in the land of forgetfulness? {{rf{13}}} But as for me, I cry for help to you, O Yahweh, and in the morning my prayer comes before you. {{rf{14}}} Why do you reject my soul, O Yahweh? Why do you hide your face from me? {{rf{15}}} I am afflicted and perishing from my youth. I bear your terrors. I am distraught. {{rf{16}}} Your burning anger has passed over me; your sudden fears have destroyed me. {{rf{17}}} They surround me like water all the day; they circle about me altogether. {{rf{18}}} You have removed loved one and friend far from me, my acquaintances far from my darkness. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Psalms-088-001]] }}}
{{rf{0}}} A maskil of Ethan the Ezrahite. {{rf big{1}}} I will sing forever of Yahweh's acts of loyal love. From generation to generation I will make known your faithfulness with my mouth. {{rf{2}}} For I say, "Forever your loyal love is built up. The heavens you have established with your faithfulness in them." {{rf{3}}} "I made a covenant with my chosen one; I swore an oath to David my servant: {{rf{4}}} 'I will establish your descendants forever, and I will build up your throne from generation to generation.'" Selah {{rf{5}}} And so the heavens will praise your wonderful deed, O Yahweh, even your faithfulness, in the assembly of the holy ones. {{rf{6}}} For who in the sky is equal to Yahweh? Who is like Yahweh among the sons of God, {{rf{7}}} a God feared greatly in the council of the holy ones, and awesome above all surrounding him? {{rf{8}}} O Yahweh God of hosts, who is mighty like you, O Yah, with your faithfulness surrounding you? {{rf{9}}} You are ruling the surging of the sea. When its waves rise, you yourself still them. {{rf{10}}} You yourself crushed Rahab like one who is slain; you scattered your enemies with your strong arm. {{rf{11}}} The heavens are yours, the earth yours as well, the world with its fullness, because you founded them. {{rf{12}}} North and south, you created them; Tabor and Hermon shout joyfully over your name. {{rf{13}}} You have a mighty arm; Your hand is strong; your right hand reaches high. {{rf{14}}} Righteousness and justice are the foundation of your throne. Loyal love and faithfulness come before your face. {{rf{15}}} Blessed are the people who know the joyful shout; O Yahweh, they walk about in the light of your countenance. {{rf{16}}} In your name they rejoice all the day, and in your righteousness they rise up. {{rf{17}}} For you are the glory of their strength, and by your favor our horn rises up, {{rf{18}}} because our shield belongs to Yahweh, and our king to the Holy One of Israel. {{rf{19}}} Formerly you spoke in a vision to your faithful ones, and said, "I have bestowed help on a mighty man; I have exalted one chosen from the people. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Psalms-089-001]] }}}
{{rf{20}}} I have found David, my servant. With my holy oil I have anointed him, {{rf{21}}} with whom my hand will be steadfast. Surely my arm will strengthen him. {{rf{22}}} The enemy will not deceive him, and no evil man will afflict him. {{rf{23}}} But I will crush his adversaries before him, and I will strike those who hate him. {{rf{24}}} And so my faithfulness and my loyal love will be with him, and in my name his horn will rise up. {{rf{25}}} And I will set his hand on the sea and his right hand on the rivers. {{rf{26}}} He will call out to me, 'You are my Father, my God, and the rock of my salvation.' {{rf{27}}} I will also make him the firstborn, the highest of the kings of the earth. {{rf{28}}} Forever I will keep my loyal love for him, and my covenant will be reliable for him. {{rf{29}}} I will also establish his offspring forever, and his throne as the days of the heavens. {{rf{30}}} If his sons forsake my law and do not walk in my judgments, {{rf{31}}} if they defile my statutes and do not keep my commandments, {{rf{32}}} then I will punish their transgression with a rod, and their guilt with wounds. {{rf{33}}} But I will not break off my loyal love from him, and I will not be false against my faithfulness. {{rf{34}}} I will not defile my covenant, or alter what proceeded from my lips. {{rf{35}}} Once I have sworn by my holiness, 'I will surely not lie to David, {{rf{36}}} His offspring will endure forever, and his throne as the sun before me. {{rf{37}}} Like the moon it will be steadfast forever, and like an enduring witness in the sky.'" Selah {{rf{38}}} But you have spurned and rejected; you are very angry with your anointed one. {{rf{39}}} You have repudiated the covenant with your servant; you have defiled his crown in the dirt. {{rf{40}}} You have broken down all his walls; you have made his fortifications a ruin. {{rf{41}}} All passing along the road plunder him; he has become a taunt to his neighbors. {{rf{42}}} You have raised the right hand of his adversaries. You have made all his enemies rejoice. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Psalms-089-020]] }}}
{{rf{43}}} You have also turned back the edge of his sword and have not helped him stand his ground in the battle. {{rf{44}}} You have made his splendor to cease, and cast his throne to the ground. {{rf{45}}} You have cut short the days of his youth; you have covered him with shame. Selah {{rf{46}}} How long, O Yahweh? Will you hide yourself forever? Will your wrath burn like fire forever? {{rf{47}}} Remember what my lifespan is. Remember for what vanity you have created all the children of humankind. {{rf{48}}} What man can live on and not see death? Can he deliver his life from the power of Sheol? Selah {{rf{49}}} Where are your former acts of loyal love, O Lord, that you swore to David by your faithfulness? {{rf{50}}} Remember, O Lord the taunting of your servants, how I bear in my bosom the taunts of all the many peoples, {{rf{51}}} by which your enemies taunt, O Yahweh, by which they taunt the steps of your anointed one. {{rf{52}}} Blessed be Yahweh forever. Amen and Amen. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Psalms-089-043]] }}}
{{rf{0}}} A prayer of Moses, the man of God. {{rf big{1}}} O Lord, you have been our help in all generations. {{rf{2}}} Before the mountains were born and you brought forth the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, you are God. {{rf{3}}} You return man to the dust, saying, "Return, O sons of man." {{rf{4}}} For a thousand years in your eyes are like yesterday when it passes, or like a watch in the night. {{rf{5}}} You sweep them away like a flood. They fall asleep. In the morning they are like grass that sprouts anew. {{rf{6}}} In the morning it blossoms and sprouts anew; by evening it withers and dries up. {{rf{7}}} For we are brought to an end by your anger, and we hasten off by your wrath. {{rf{8}}} You have put our iniquities before you, our hidden sins into the light of your countenance. {{rf{9}}} For all of our days dwindle away in your rage; we complete our years like a sigh. {{rf{10}}} As for the days of our years, within them are seventy years or if by strength eighty years, and their pride is trouble and disaster, for it passes quickly and we fly away. {{rf{11}}} Who knows the strength of your anger, and your rage consistent with the fear due you? {{rf{12}}} So teach us to number our days that we may gain a heart of wisdom. {{rf{13}}} Return, O Yahweh. How long? And have compassion on your servants. {{rf{14}}} Satisfy us in the morning with your loyal love, that we may sing for joy and be glad all our days. {{rf{15}}} Make us glad for as many days as you have afflicted us, for as many years as we have seen calamity. {{rf{16}}} Let your work be visible to your servants, and your majesty to their children. {{rf{17}}} And let the beauty of the Lord our God be upon us, and establish for us the work of our hands, yes, the work of our hands, establish it. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Psalms-090-001]] }}}
One who lives in the secret place of the Most High will lodge in the shadow of Shaddai. {{rf{2}}} I will say to Yahweh, "You are my refuge and my fortress, my God in whom I trust." {{rf{3}}} For he will deliver you from the snare of the fowler, from the plague of destruction. {{rf{4}}} With his feathers he will cover you, and under his wings you can take refuge. His faithfulness will be a shield and a buckler. {{rf{5}}} You need not fear the terror of the night, or the arrow that flies by day, {{rf{6}}} or the plague that spreads in the darkness, or the destruction that devastates at noon. {{rf{7}}} A thousand may fall at your side, and ten thousand at your right hand, but it will not come near you. {{rf{8}}} You will only look with your eyes, and see the punishment of the wicked. {{rf{9}}} For you, O Yahweh, are my refuge. You have made the Most High your dwelling place. {{rf{10}}} No harm will befall you, and no plague will come near your tent. {{rf{11}}} For he will command his angels concerning you, to watch over you in all your ways. {{rf{12}}} In their hands they will bear you up, lest you strike your foot against a stone. {{rf{13}}} You will tread on lion and viper; you will trample young lion and serpent. {{rf{14}}} Because he loves me, therefore I will deliver him; I will protect him because he knows my name. {{rf{15}}} He will call upon me and I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble; I will rescue and honor him. {{rf{16}}} With long life I will satisfy him, and show him my salvation. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Psalms-091-001]] }}}
{{rf{0}}} A psalm. A song. For the Sabbath day. {{rf big{1}}} It is good to give thanks to Yahweh, and to sing praise concerning your name, O Most High; {{rf{2}}} to declare in the morning your loyal love and your faithfulness in the night, {{rf{3}}} on the ten string, and on the harp, with a melody on the lyre. {{rf{4}}} For you, O Yahweh, have made me glad by your work; by the deeds of your hands I sing for joy. {{rf{5}}} How great are your deeds, O Yahweh; how very deep are your thoughts. {{rf{6}}} The brutish man does not know, and the fool cannot understand this. {{rf{7}}} When the wicked flourish like grass and all the workers of evil blossom, it is so they can be destroyed forever. {{rf{8}}} But you are on high forever, O Yahweh. {{rf{9}}} For behold, your enemies, O Yahweh, for behold, your enemies will perish. All the workers of evil will be scattered. {{rf{10}}} But you have exalted my horn like that of a wild ox; you have anointed me with fresh oil. {{rf{11}}} And so my eye looks on my enemies. My ears hear those evildoers who rise up against me. {{rf{12}}} The righteous will flourish like the date palm. They will grow like a cedar in Lebanon. {{rf{13}}} Planted in the house of Yahweh, they will flourish in the courts of our God. {{rf{14}}} They will still prosper in old age. They will be fat and luxuriant, {{rf{15}}} to declare that Yahweh is upright. He is my rock, and there is no injustice in him. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Psalms-092-001]] }}}
Yahweh is king; he clothes himself with majesty. Yahweh clothes himself; he girds himself with might. Yes, the world is established so that it will not be moved. {{rf{2}}} Your throne is established from of old; you are from everlasting. {{rf{3}}} The rivers have lifted up, O Yahweh; the rivers have lifted up their rumbling; the rivers have lifted up their pounding. {{rf{4}}} Mightier than the rumblings of many waters, mightier than the mighty breakers of the sea, Yahweh on high is mighty. {{rf{5}}} Your testimonies are fully reliable. Holiness is fitting for your house, O Yahweh, forever. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Psalms-093-001]] }}}
O Yahweh, God of vengeance, God of vengeance, shine forth. {{rf{2}}} Rise up, O Judge of the earth. Repay upon the proud what is their rightful due. {{rf{3}}} How long will the wicked, O Yahweh, how long will the wicked exult? {{rf{4}}} They gush words unrestrained. All the evildoers boast. {{rf{5}}} They crush your people, O Yahweh; they oppress your inheritance. {{rf{6}}} They kill widow and stranger, and they murder orphans, {{rf{7}}} while they say, "Yah does not see," and "The God of Jacob does not pay attention." {{rf{8}}} You pay attention, O brutes among the people. And you fools, when you will show insight? {{rf{9}}} Will the one who planted the ear not hear? Will the one who formed the eye not see? {{rf{10}}} Will the one who instructs nations not rebuke, the one who teaches humankind knowledge? {{rf{11}}} Yahweh knows the thoughts of humankind, that they are to no purpose. {{rf{12}}} Blessed is the man, O Yah, whom you instruct and teach from your law, {{rf{13}}} to give him rest from days of trouble, until a pit is dug for the wicked. {{rf{14}}} For Yahweh will not abandon his people, nor forsake his inheritance. {{rf{15}}} For judgment will return to righteousness, and all the upright in heart will follow after it. {{rf{16}}} Who rose up for me against the wicked? Who stood up for me against the workers of iniquity? {{rf{17}}} If Yahweh had not been my help, my soul would soon have dwelt in silence. {{rf{18}}} When I thought, "My foot is slipping," your loyal love, O Yahweh, supported me. {{rf{19}}} When my troubled thoughts were many within me, your consolations cheered my soul. {{rf{20}}} Can there be allied with you a throne of destruction, one that forms trouble based on statute? {{rf{21}}} They band together against the life of the righteous, and declare the blameless guilty of blood. {{rf{22}}} But Yahweh has become my high stronghold, and my God has become my rock of refuge. {{rf{23}}} And he will repay on them their iniquity, and by their evil he will destroy them. Yahweh our God will destroy them. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Psalms-094-001]] }}}
Come, let us sing for joy to Yahweh; let us shout joyfully to the rock of our salvation. {{rf{2}}} Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving; with songs let us shout joyfully to him. {{rf{3}}} For Yahweh is the great God, and the great king over all gods, {{rf{4}}} in whose hand are the unexplored places of the earth, and the heights of the mountains are his, {{rf{5}}} to whom belongs the sea that he made, and the dry land that his hands formed. {{rf{6}}} Come in, let us worship and bow down; let us kneel before Yahweh, our maker. {{rf{7}}} For he is our God, and we are the people of his pasture and the sheep of his hand. Today if you will hear his voice: {{rf{8}}} "Do not harden your heart as at Meribah, as in the day of Massah in the wilderness, {{rf{9}}} when your ancestors tried me. They put me to the test, even though they had seen my work. {{rf{10}}} For forty years I loathed that generation, and said, 'They are a people whose heart wanders. And my ways they do not know.' {{rf{11}}} Therefore I swore in my anger, 'They shall surely not enter into my rest.'" {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Psalms-095-001]] }}}
Sing to Yahweh a new song; sing to Yahweh, all the earth. {{rf{2}}} Sing to Yahweh; bless his name. Announce his salvation from day to day. {{rf{3}}} Tell his glory among the nations, his marvelous works among all the peoples. {{rf{4}}} For Yahweh is great and very worthy of praise; he is to be feared above all gods. {{rf{5}}} For all the gods of the peoples are idols, but Yahweh made the heavens. {{rf{6}}} Splendor and majesty are before him; strength and beauty are in his sanctuary. {{rf{7}}} Ascribe to Yahweh, you families of the peoples, ascribe to Yahweh glory and strength. {{rf{8}}} Ascribe to Yahweh the glory due his name; bring an offering and come into his courts. {{rf{9}}} Worship Yahweh in holy array; tremble before him, all the earth. {{rf{10}}} Say among the nations, "Yahweh is king! Yes, the world is established so that it will not be moved. He will judge the peoples fairly." {{rf{11}}} Let the heavens be glad and the earth rejoice. Let the sea with its fullness roar. {{rf{12}}} Let the field with all that is in it exult. Then all the trees of the forests will sing for joy {{rf{13}}} before Yahweh, for he is coming; for he is coming to judge the earth. He will judge the world with righteousness, and the peoples with his faithfulness. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Psalms-096-001]] }}}
Yahweh is king! Let the earth rejoice; let many coastlands be glad. {{rf{2}}} Cloud and thick darkness are surrounding him; righteousness and justice are the foundation of his throne. {{rf{3}}} Fire goes before him, and devours his enemies round about. {{rf{4}}} His lightnings light the world; the earth sees and trembles. {{rf{5}}} The mountains melt like wax at the presence of Yahweh, at the presence of the Lord of all the earth. {{rf{6}}} The heavens declare his righteousness, and all the peoples see his glory. {{rf{7}}} Let all who serve an image be ashamed, those who boast about idols. Worship him, all you gods. {{rf{8}}} Zion hears and is glad, and the daughters of Judah rejoice because of your judgments, O Yahweh. {{rf{9}}} For you, O Yahweh, are most high over all the earth. You are highly exalted above all gods. {{rf{10}}} You who love Yahweh, hate evil. He protects the lives of his faithful; he delivers them from the hand of the wicked. {{rf{11}}} Light is sown for the righteous, and joy for the upright in heart. {{rf{12}}} Be glad in Yahweh, you righteous, and give thanks to his holy name. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Psalms-097-001]] }}}
{{rf{0}}} A psalm. {{rf big{1}}} Sing to Yahweh a new song, for he has done wonders. His right hand and his holy arm have secured his victory. {{rf{2}}} Yahweh has made known his salvation; to the eyes of the nations he has revealed his righteousness. {{rf{3}}} He has remembered his loyal love and his faithfulness to the house of Israel. All the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God. {{rf{4}}} Shout joyfully to Yahweh, all the earth. Be cheerful and sing for joy and sing praises. {{rf{5}}} Sing praises to Yahweh with lyre, with lyre and melodious sound. {{rf{6}}} With trumpets and sound of horn, shout joyfully before the king, Yahweh. {{rf{7}}} Let the sea with its fullness roar, the world and those who live in it. {{rf{8}}} Let the rivers clap their hands. Let the hills sing joyfully togethe {{rf{9}}} before Yahweh, for he is coming to judge the earth. He will judge the world with righteousness and the peoples with equity. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Psalms-098-001]] }}}
Yahweh is king; let the peoples tremble. He sits enthroned between the cherubim. Let the earth shake. {{rf{2}}} Yahweh is great in Zion, and he is exalted over all the peoples. {{rf{3}}} Let them praise your great and fearful name. He is holy. {{rf{4}}} And the strength of the king loves justice. You have established equity; you have executed justice and righteousness in Jacob. {{rf{5}}} Exalt Yahweh our God, and worship at his footstool. He is holy. {{rf{6}}} Moses and Aaron were among his priests; Samuel also was among those who called on his name. They called to Yahweh, and he answered them. {{rf{7}}} He spoke to them in the pillar of cloud. They kept his testimonies and the statute he gave to them. {{rf{8}}} O Yahweh our God, you answered them. You were a forgiving God to them, but an avenger of their wrong deeds. {{rf{9}}} Exalt Yahweh our God, and worship at his holy mountain, for Yahweh our God is holy. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Psalms-099-001]] }}}
{{rf{0}}} A psalm of thanksgiving. {{rf big{1}}} Shout in triumph to Yahweh, all the earth. {{rf{2}}} Serve Yahweh with joy; come into his presence with exultation. {{rf{3}}} Know that Yahweh, he is God; he made us and we are his. We are his people and the sheep of his pasture. {{rf{4}}} Enter his gates with thanksgiving, his courts with praise. Give thanks to him; bless his name. {{rf{5}}} For Yahweh is good; his loyal love is forever, and his faithfulness is from generation to generation.
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{{rf big{1}}} Of David. A psalm. {{rf big{1}}} I will sing of loyal love and justice; I will sing praises to you, O Yahweh. {{rf{2}}} I will give attention to the way of integrity. When will you come to me? I will walk in the integrity of my heart in the midst of my house. {{rf{3}}} I will not set before my eyes any wicked thing. I hate the work of those who fall away; it will not cling to me. {{rf{4}}} A perverse heart will depart from me; I will not know evil. {{rf{5}}} One who slanders his neighbor in secret, him I will destroy. One haughty of eyes and arrogant of heart, him I will not endure. {{rf{6}}} My eyes will be on the faithful of the land, that they may live with me. He who walks in the way of integrity, he shall minister to me. {{rf{7}}} There will not live in the midst of my house a worker of deceit. One who speaks lies will not remain before my eyes. {{rf{8}}} Each morning, I will destroy all the wicked of the land, cutting off from the city of Yahweh all evildoers. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Psalms-100-001]] }}}
{{rf{0}}} A prayer of one afflicted, when he grows faint and pours out his lament before Yahweh. {{rf big{1}}} O Yahweh, hear my prayer, and let my cry for help come to you. {{rf{2}}} Do not hide your face from me in the day of my trouble. Incline your ear to me. In the day I call, answer me quickly, {{rf{3}}} for my days vanish in smoke, and my bones are charred like a hearth. {{rf{4}}} My heart is struck like grass and withers. Indeed, I forget to eat my bread. {{rf{5}}} Because of the sound of my groaning my bones cling to my skin. {{rf{6}}} I am like an owl of the wilderness; I am like a little owl of the ruins. {{rf{7}}} I lie awake and I am like a lone bird on a roof. {{rf{8}}} All the day my enemies reproach me; those who mock me swear oaths against me. {{rf{9}}} Indeed, I eat ashes like bread and mix my drink with tears {{rf{10}}} because of your indignation and anger, for you have picked me up and thrown me away. {{rf{11}}} My days are like a lengthened shadow, and I wither like grass. {{rf{12}}} But you, O Yahweh, abide forever, and your remembrance from generation to generation. {{rf{13}}} You rise up and take pity on Zion, because it is time to favor it, for the appointed time has come. {{rf{14}}} Your servants take pleasure in her stones, and show favor to its dust. {{rf{15}}} Then the nations will fear the name of Yahweh, and all the kings of the earth your glory. {{rf{16}}} For Yahweh will rebuild Zion; he will appear in his glory. {{rf{17}}} He will turn his attention to the prayer of the destitute and will not despise their prayer. {{rf{18}}} Let this be written for the next generation, so that a people yet to be created may praise Yah, {{rf{19}}} that he looked down from his holy height. Yahweh looked from heaven over the earth {{rf{20}}} to hear the groaning of the prisoner, to liberate those destined to die, {{rf{21}}} so that they may make known in Zion the name of Yahweh, and his praise in Jerusalem, {{rf{22}}} when the peoples assemble, together with kingdoms, to serve Yahweh. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Psalms-102-001]] }}}
{{rf{23}}} He has broken my strength along the way; he has cut short my days. {{rf{24}}} I say, "My God, do not carry me off from my life in the middle of my days." Your years continue throughout all generations. {{rf{25}}} Long ago you laid the foundation of the earth, and the heavens are the work of your hands. {{rf{26}}} They will perish, but you will endure. And like a garment they will all wear out, you will replace them like clothing, and they will be set aside. {{rf{27}}} But you are the same, and your years do not end. {{rf{28}}} The children of your servants will continue, and their descendants will be established before you. LENGTH SHORT {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Psalms-102-023]] }}}
{{rf{0}}} Of David. {{rf big{1}}} Bless Yahweh, O my soul, and all within me, bless his holy name. {{rf{2}}} Bless Yahweh, O my soul, and do not forget all his benefits: {{rf{3}}} who forgives all your iniquity, who heals all your diseases, {{rf{4}}} who redeems your life from the pit, who crowns you with loyal love and mercies, {{rf{5}}} who satisfies your life with good so that your youth is renewed like the eagle's. {{rf{6}}} Yahweh does deeds of justice and judgments for all who are oppressed, {{rf{7}}} who made known his ways to Moses, his deeds to the people of Israel. {{rf{8}}} Yahweh is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger and abundant in loyal love. {{rf{9}}} He does not dispute continually, nor keep his anger forever. {{rf{10}}} He has not dealt with us according to our sins, nor repaid us according to our iniquities. {{rf{11}}} For as the heavens are high above the earth, so his loyal love prevails over those who fear him. {{rf{12}}} As far as east is from west, so he has removed far from us the guilt of our transgressions. {{rf{13}}} As a father pities his children, so Yahweh pities those who fear him. {{rf{14}}} For he knows our frame. He remembers that we are dust. {{rf{15}}} As for man, his days are like the grass. As the flower of the field, so he blossoms. {{rf{16}}} When the wind passes over it, it is no more, and its place knows it no longer. {{rf{17}}} But the loyal love of Yahweh is from everlasting to everlasting on those who fear him, and his righteousness to their children's children, {{rf{18}}} to those who keep his covenant and remember to do his precepts. {{rf{19}}} Yahweh has established his throne in the heavens, and his kingdom rules over all. {{rf{20}}} Bless Yahweh, you his angels, you mighty heroes who do his word by obeying the sound of his word. {{rf{21}}} Bless Yahweh, all you his hosts, you his attendants who do his will. {{rf{22}}} Bless Yahweh, all his works, in all the places of his dominion. Bless Yahweh, O my soul. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Psalms-103-001]] }}}
Bless Yahweh, O my soul. O Yahweh my God, you are very great. You clothe yourself with splendor and majesty, {{rf{2}}} you who cover yourself with light as with a garment, who stretch out the heavens like a tent curtain, {{rf{3}}} the one who sets beams in the waters for his upper chambers, who makes clouds his chariot, who rides on the wings of the wind, {{rf{4}}} who makes his messengers the winds, his attendants a flame of fire. {{rf{5}}} He established the earth on her foundations, so that it will not be moved forever and ever. {{rf{6}}} You covered it with the deep as with a garment. The waters stood above the mountains. {{rf{7}}} At your rebuke they fled; at the sound of your thunder they ran off. {{rf{8}}} They ascended the mountains and drained though the valleys to the place that you established for them. {{rf{9}}} You set a boundary that they may not cross over, so that they would not return to cover the earth. {{rf{10}}} You are the one who sends forth springs into the valleys; they flow between the mountains. {{rf{11}}} They give drink for every beast of the field. The wild donkeys quench their thirst. {{rf{12}}} Along them the birds of the heavens abide. From among the branches they sing. {{rf{13}}} You are the one who waters the mountains from his upper chambers. The earth is full with the fruit of your labors: {{rf{14}}} who causes grass to grow for the cattle and herbs for the service of humankind, to bring forth food from the earth, {{rf{15}}} and wine that makes glad the heart of man, so that their faces shine from oil, and bread that strengthens the heart of man. {{rf{16}}} The trees of Yahweh drink their fill, the cedars of Lebanon that he planted, {{rf{17}}} where birds make their nest. The stork has its home in the fir trees. {{rf{18}}} The high mountains are for the wild goats; the cliffs are a refuge for the rock badgers. {{rf{19}}} He made the moon for appointed times; the sun knows its time for setting. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Psalms-104-001]] }}}
{{rf{20}}} You make darkness, and it is night, when all the animals of the forest creep about. {{rf{21}}} The young lions are roaring for the prey and seeking their food from God. {{rf{22}}} When the sun rises, they gather together and lie down in their dens. {{rf{23}}} Humankind goes out to its work, and to its labor until evening. {{rf{24}}} How many are your works, O Yahweh; all of them you have done in wisdom. The earth is full of your creatures. {{rf{25}}} This is the great and wide sea, in which are moving animals without number, living things small and great. {{rf{26}}} There the ships sail. Leviathan is there that you formed to play with. {{rf{27}}} They all wait for you to give them their food at the proper time. {{rf{28}}} You give to them; they gather it. You open your hand, they are filled with what is good. {{rf{29}}} You hide your face, they are terrified. You take away their breath, they die and return to their dust. {{rf{30}}} You send forth your Spirit, they are created, and you renew the face of the ground. {{rf{31}}} May the glory of Yahweh endure forever. May Yahweh be glad in his works, {{rf{32}}} the one who looks at the earth and it quakes, and touches the mountains and they smoke. {{rf{33}}} I will sing to Yahweh throughout my life; I will sing praise to my God while I remain alive. {{rf{34}}} May my meditation be pleasing to him. I will be glad in Yahweh. {{rf{35}}} Let sinners perish completely from the earth, and the wicked not remain alive. Bless Yahweh, O my soul. Praise Yah. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Psalms-104-020]] }}}
Give thanks to Yahweh; proclaim his name; make known his deeds among the peoples. {{rf{2}}} Sing to him; sing praises concerning him; tell of all his wonderful works. {{rf{3}}} Boast about his holy name. Let the heart of those who seek Yahweh rejoice. {{rf{4}}} Make supplication to Yahweh and his might; seek his face continually. {{rf{5}}} Remember his wonders that he has done, his signs and the judgments of his mouth, {{rf{6}}} O offspring of Abraham his servant, you descendants of Jacob, his chosen ones. {{rf{7}}} He is Yahweh our God; his judgments are in all the earth. {{rf{8}}} He remembers his covenant forever, the word that he commanded for a thousand generations, {{rf{9}}} that he made with Abraham, and by his oath swore to Isaac. {{rf{10}}} He then confirmed it to Jacob as a statute, to Israel as an everlasting covenant, {{rf{11}}} saying, "To you I will give the land of Canaan as the allotment that is your inheritance." {{rf{12}}} When they were few in number -- a trifle -- and were sojourners in it, {{rf{13}}} and they wandered about among the nations, from one kingdom to another people, {{rf{14}}} he allowed no one to oppress them, and he rebuked kings on account of them, {{rf{15}}} "Do not touch my anointed ones, nor harm my prophets." {{rf{16}}} Then he called for a famine upon the land; he broke every supply of bread. {{rf{17}}} He sent a man on ahead of them; Joseph was sold as a slave. {{rf{18}}} They clamped his feet in fetters. His neck went into irons. {{rf{19}}} Until the time his word came about, the word of Yahweh tested him. {{rf{20}}} The king sent and he freed him; the ruler of the peoples sent and let him loose. {{rf{21}}} He made him lord of his house and ruler of all his possessions, {{rf{22}}} to obligate his officials as he saw fit and teach his elders wisdom. {{rf{23}}} Then Israel came to Egypt, and Jacob was a sojourner in the land of Ham. {{rf{24}}} And he made his people very fruitful. He also made them stronger than their enemies. {{rf{25}}} He turned their heart to hate his people, to deal deceitfully against his servants. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Psalms-105-001]] }}}
{{rf{26}}} He sent his servant Moses, together with Aaron whom he had chosen. {{rf{27}}} They set before them the words concerning his signs and portents in the land of Ham. {{rf{28}}} He sent darkness and made it dark, and they did not rebel against his words. {{rf{29}}} He turned their waters into blood and it killed their fish. {{rf{30}}} Their land swarmed with frogs, even in the chambers of their kings. {{rf{31}}} He spoke, and there came flies and gnats throughout all their territory. {{rf{32}}} He gave hail for their rains and the fire of lightning in their land. {{rf{33}}} And he struck their vines and fig trees, and shattered the trees of their territory. {{rf{34}}} He spoke and there came locusts and young locusts without number. {{rf{35}}} And they ate up all the vegetation in their land, and they ate up the fruit of their ground. {{rf{36}}} And he struck down all the firstborn in their land, the first of all their virility. {{rf{37}}} Then he brought them out with silver and gold, and there was none among his tribes who stumbled. {{rf{38}}} Egypt was glad when they departed, because the fear of them had fallen upon them. {{rf{39}}} He spread out a cloud for a covering, and fire to give light at night. {{rf{40}}} They asked, and he brought quail, and satisfied them with the bread of heaven. {{rf{41}}} He opened the rock and waters flowed; they coursed through the dry places like a river. {{rf{42}}} For he remembered his holy promise; he remembered Abraham his servant. {{rf{43}}} And so he brought out his people with joy, his chosen ones with rejoicing. {{rf{44}}} And he gave to them the lands of the nations, and they inherited the labor of the peoples, {{rf{45}}} so that they might observe his statutes, and keep his laws. Praise Yah. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Psalms-105-026]] }}}
Praise Yah. Give thanks to Yahweh, for he is good, for his loyal love is forever. {{rf{2}}} Who can utter the mighty deeds of Yahweh, or proclaim all his praise? {{rf{3}}} Blessed are those who observe justice, he who does righteousness at all times. {{rf{4}}} Remember me, O Yahweh, when you show favor to your people. Look after me when you deliver, {{rf{5}}} that I may see the good done your chosen ones, to be glad in the joy of your nation, to glory together with your inheritance. {{rf{6}}} We have sinned along with our ancestors. We have committed iniquity; we have incurred guilt. {{rf{7}}} Our ancestors in Egypt did not understand your wonderful works. They did not remember your many acts of loyal love, and so they rebelled by the sea at the Red Sea. {{rf{8}}} Yet he saved them for the sake of his name, to make known his might. {{rf{9}}} So he rebuked the Red Sea, and it dried up, and he led them through the deep as through a desert. {{rf{10}}} Thus he saved them from the hand of the hater and redeemed them from the hand of the enemy. {{rf{11}}} But waters covered their adversaries; not one of them survived. {{rf{12}}} Then they believed his words; they sang his praise. {{rf{13}}} They quickly forgot his works; they did not wait for his counsel. {{rf{14}}} And they craved intensely in the wilderness, and tested God in the desert. {{rf{15}}} So he gave to them their request, but he sent leanness into their souls. {{rf{16}}} And they were jealous of Moses in the camp, and of Aaron, the holy one of Yahweh. {{rf{17}}} The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan, and it covered over the gang of Abiram. {{rf{18}}} Also fire burned in their assembly; the flame devoured the wicked. {{rf{19}}} They made a calf at Horeb and bowed down to a cast image. {{rf{20}}} And so they exchanged their glory for an image of an ox that eats grass. {{rf{21}}} They forgot God their Savior, who had done great things in Egypt, {{rf{22}}} wonders in the land of Ham, awesome deeds by the Red Sea. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Psalms-106-001]] }}}
{{rf{23}}} So he said he would exterminate them, had not Moses, his chosen one, stood in the breach before him, to reverse his wrath from destroying them. {{rf{24}}} Then they refused the desirable land; they did not believe his word, {{rf{25}}} but grumbled in their tents. They did not obey the voice of Yahweh. {{rf{26}}} So he made an oath against them, to make them drop in the wilderness, {{rf{27}}} and to disperse their descendants among the nations and to scatter them among the lands. {{rf{28}}} They also attached themselves to Baal of Peor, and they ate sacrifices offered to the dead. {{rf{29}}} Thus they provoked to anger by their deeds, and a plague broke out among them. {{rf{30}}} Then Phinehas stood up and intervened, and so the plague was stopped, {{rf{31}}} and it was reckoned to him as righteousness throughout all generations. {{rf{32}}} They also angered God at the waters of Meribah, and it went badly for Moses on account of them, {{rf{33}}} because they rebelled against his Spirit, and he spoke thoughtlessly with his lips. {{rf{34}}} They did not exterminate the peoples, as Yahweh had commanded them, {{rf{35}}} but they mingled with the nations and learned their works, {{rf{36}}} and served their idols, which became a snare to them. {{rf{37}}} They even sacrificed their sons and daughters to the demons, {{rf{38}}} and they poured out innocent blood, the blood of their sons and daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan, and so the land was defiled with the blood. {{rf{39}}} And they became unclean by their works, and were unfaithful in their deeds. {{rf{40}}} So Yahweh's anger burned against his people, and he abhorred his inheritance. {{rf{41}}} Then he gave them into the hand of the nations, and those who hated them ruled over them. {{rf{42}}} And their enemies oppressed them, and they were subdued under their hand. {{rf{43}}} Many times he delivered them, but they rebelled in their counsel, and were brought low by their iniquity. {{rf{44}}} Yet he looked upon their distress when he heard their cry. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Psalms-106-023]] }}}
{{rf{45}}} And he remembered his covenant with them, and relented based on the abundance of his loyal love. {{rf{46}}} And he let them find compassion before all their captors. {{rf{47}}} Save us, O Yahweh our God, and gather us from the nations, so that we may give thanks to your holy name and boast in your praise. {{rf{48}}} Blessed is Yahweh, the God of Israel, from everlasting and to everlasting. And let all the people say, "Amen!" Praise Yah. {{rf big{1}}} Give thanks to Yahweh, for he is good, for his loyal love is forever. {{rf{2}}} Let the redeemed of Yahweh declare it, those whom he has redeemed from the hand of the enemy {{rf{3}}} and gathered from the lands, from east and from west, from north and from south. {{rf{4}}} They wandered in the wilderness, in a desert. They could find no way to a city to inhabit. {{rf{5}}} Hungry and thirsty, their soul grew faint within them. {{rf{6}}} Then they cried out to Yahweh in their trouble. He delivered them from their distresses {{rf{7}}} and led them by a straight way to get to a city to inhabit. {{rf{8}}} Let them give thanks to Yahweh for his loyal love, and his wonderful deeds for the children of humankind, {{rf{9}}} for he satisfies the longing soul, and the hungry soul he fills with good. {{rf{10}}} Those who sat in darkness and gloom, prisoners of misery and iron -- {{rf{11}}} because they rebelled against the words of God and spurned the counsel of the Most High, {{rf{12}}} he therefore humbled their heart with trouble. They stumbled and there was no helper. {{rf{13}}} Then they called to Yahweh for help in their trouble; he saved them from their distresses. {{rf{14}}} He brought them out of darkness and gloom, and tore off their bonds. {{rf{15}}} Let them give thanks to Yahweh for his loyal love and his wonderful deeds for the children of humankind, {{rf{16}}} for he shatters the doors of bronze, and cuts through the bars of iron. {{rf{17}}} Fools, because of their rebellious way and their iniquities, were afflicted. {{rf{18}}} Their soul abhorred all food, and they approached the gates of death. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Psalms-106-045]] }}}
{{rf{19}}} Then they called to Yahweh for help in their trouble. He saved them from their distresses. {{rf{20}}} He sent his word and healed them, and he delivered them from their pits. {{rf{21}}} Let them give thanks to Yahweh for his loyal love, and his wonderful deeds for the children of humankind, {{rf{22}}} and let them offer sacrifices of thanksgiving, and tell of his works with rejoicing. {{rf{23}}} Those who went down to the sea into ships, doing business on the high seas, {{rf{24}}} they saw the works of Yahweh, and his wonderful deeds in the deep. {{rf{25}}} For he spoke and raised up a stormy wind, and it whipped up its waves. {{rf{26}}} They rose to the heavens; they plunged to the depths. Their soul melted in their calamity. {{rf{27}}} They reeled and staggered like a drunkard, and they were at their wits' end. {{rf{28}}} Then they cried out to Yahweh in their trouble, and he brought them out of their distresses. {{rf{29}}} He made the storm be still and their waves became calm. {{rf{30}}} Then they were glad because they grew silent, so he guided them to their desired harbor. {{rf{31}}} Let them give thanks to Yahweh for his loyal love and his wonderful deeds for the children of humankind, {{rf{32}}} and let them exalt him in the congregation of the people, and praise him in the assembly of the elders. {{rf{33}}} He turns rivers into a wilderness and springs of water into thirsty ground, {{rf{34}}} a fruitful land into a salty place, because of the evil of its inhabitants. {{rf{35}}} He turns a wilderness into a pool of water and a dry land into springs of water. {{rf{36}}} And he settles the hungry there, so that they may establish a city to inhabit, {{rf{37}}} and sow fields and plant vineyards, that they may yield fruit at harvest. {{rf{38}}} And he blesses them and they multiply greatly, and he does not let their cattle become few. {{rf{39}}} When they become few and they are bent down from the oppression of calamity and grief, {{rf{40}}} he pours contempt on princes and causes them to wander in a trackless waste. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Psalms-107-019]] }}}
{{rf{41}}} But he protects the needy from misery, and he makes their families like a flock. {{rf{42}}} The upright see it and are glad, and all wickedness shuts its mouth. {{rf{43}}} Whoever is wise, then let him observe these things, and let them consider Yahweh's acts of loyal love. {{rf big{1}}} A song. A psalm of David. {{rf big{1}}} My heart is steadfast, O God. I will sing and give praise, even with my glory. {{rf{2}}} Awake, harp and lyre. I will awake the dawn. {{rf{3}}} I will give you thanks among the peoples, O Yahweh; I will give you praise among the nations, {{rf{4}}} because your loyal love is great above the heavens, and your faithfulness reaches to the clouds. {{rf{5}}} Be exalted above the heavens, O God, and let your glory be above all the earth, {{rf{6}}} so that your beloved ones may be rescued. Save by your right hand and answer me. {{rf{7}}} God has spoken in his holiness, "I will exult, I will divide up Shechem, and portion out the valley of Succoth. {{rf{8}}} Gilead is mine. Manasseh is mine. And Ephraim is the helmet for my head. Judah is my scepter; {{rf{9}}} Moab is my washing pot. Over Edom I will cast my sandal; Over Philistia I will shout in triumph." {{rf{10}}} Who will bring me to the fortified city? Who will lead me to Edom? {{rf{11}}} Have you not rejected us, O God, and not gone out with our armies, O God? {{rf{12}}} Give us help against the enemy, for the help of humankind is futile. {{rf{13}}} Through God we will do valiantly, and it is he who will tread down our enemies. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Psalms-107-041]] }}}
{{rf{0}}} For the music director. A psalm of David. {{rf big{1}}} O God of my praise, do not keep silent, {{rf{2}}} for wicked and deceitful mouths have opened against me. They speak to me with a lying tongue. {{rf{3}}} They also surround me with words of hate, and fight me without cause. {{rf{4}}} In return for my love they accuse me, though I am in prayer. {{rf{5}}} So they inflicted evil against me in return for good and hatred in return for my love. {{rf{6}}} Appoint over him a wicked man, and let an accuser stand at his right hand. {{rf{7}}} When he is judged, let him come out guilty, and let his prayer become as sin. {{rf{8}}} Let his days be few; let another take his office. {{rf{9}}} Let his children be orphans, and his wife a widow, {{rf{10}}} and let his children wander aimlessly and beg, and let them plead from their ruins. {{rf{11}}} Let the creditor seize all that is his, and let strangers plunder his property. {{rf{12}}} Let there be none who extend to him loyal love, nor any who pities his orphans. {{rf{13}}} Let his descendants be cut off. Let their name be blotted out in the next generation. {{rf{14}}} Let the iniquity of his ancestors be remembered before Yahweh, and let the sin of his mother not be blotted out. {{rf{15}}} Let them be before Yahweh continually, that he may cut off their memory from the earth, {{rf{16}}} because he did not remember to show loyal love, but he pursued anyone, poor or needy or brokenhearted, to slay them. {{rf{17}}} Because he loved cursing, let it come upon him. Because he did not delight in blessing, let it be far from him. {{rf{18}}} Because he wore a curse as his robe, let it enter his body like water, and into his bones like oil. {{rf{19}}} May it be for him like a garment in which he wraps, and a belt he continually wears. {{rf{20}}} Let this be the punishment for my accusers from Yahweh, even those who speak evil against my life. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Psalms-109-001]] }}}
{{rf{21}}} But you, O Yahweh my Lord, deal with me for your name's sake. Because your loyal love is good, deliver me, {{rf{22}}} for I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me. {{rf{23}}} Like a lengthening shadow I am passing away; I am shaken off like a locust. {{rf{24}}} My knees buckle from fasting, and my body grows lean without fat. {{rf{25}}} And so I am a disgrace to them; when they see me, they shake their heads. {{rf{26}}} Help me, O Yahweh my God; save me according to your loyal love, {{rf{27}}} that they may know that this is your hand, that you, O Yahweh, you have done it. {{rf{28}}} Let them curse, but you bless. When they arise, let them be put to shame, that your servant may be glad. {{rf{29}}} Let my accusers put on disgrace, and let them cover themselves with their shame as with a robe. {{rf{30}}} I will give thanks to Yahweh exceedingly with my mouth, and in the midst of many I will praise him, {{rf{31}}} for he stands at the right hand of the needy, to save him from those judging his life. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Psalms-109-021]] }}}
{{rf{0}}} Of David. A psalm. {{rf big{1}}} A declaration of Yahweh to my lord, "Sit at my right hand until I make your enemies your footstool." {{rf{2}}} Yahweh will send out your mighty scepter from Zion; rule in the midst of your enemies. {{rf{3}}} Your people will volunteer in the day of your power. In holy splendor, from the womb of the dawn, you will have the dew of your youth. {{rf{4}}} Yahweh has sworn and he will not change his mind, ''"You are a priest forever according to the manner of Melchizedek."'' {{rf{5}}} O Lord, at your right hand he will shatter kings in the day of his anger. {{rf{6}}} He will judge among the nations; he will fill them with corpses. He will shatter the rulers of many countries. {{rf{7}}} He will drink from the stream by the road; therefore he will lift up his head. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Psalms-110-001]] }}}
<<Bbl Ps 110:1 abbr >> Cited by both Jesus and Peter. //A Psalm of David// (and Jesus affirms this), which is critical to understanding who is //my Lord// in the first oracle (v. 1).
110:2 //Scepter// <<Bbl Ps 45:6 abbr>>
<<Bbl Ps 110:4 abbr >> [[Melchizedek]]. This second oracle could just conceivably have been deduced by David, who (in accord with DT 17) was a student of the Law. The King comes from Judah, priests from Levi; yet before the Law, there was a priest-king. (D.A. Carson)
|<<Bbl Ps 110:1 abbr >> Yahweh declares "Sit at my right hand until" |5 O Lord, at your right hand he will shatter kings |
|2 ...your mighty scepter will rule enemies |6 He will judge, He will shatter the rulers |
|3 In holy splendor, from the dawn, the dew |7 drink from the stream, lift up his head |
| 4 Yahweh has sworn, "the manner of Melchizedek." ||
<<Bbl Ps 113:7 abbr >>-8 Quotes <<Bbl 1S 2:10 >> and so verse 9 alludes to Hannah.
<<Bbl Ps 119:31 abbr>> //Cling//, dabaq, as Genesis //shall cleave to her.//
<<Bbl Ps 130:3 abbr >> Justice is the context for mercy in v 4.
<<Bbl Ps 130:4 abbr >> forgiveness brings hope, so relationship, so appreciation, which when God is the object must result in awe. A stern parent raises a false complier or a rebel, but not a respecter and not a confidant.
<<Bbl Ps 132:1 abbr>>ff See <<Bbl Jer 33:6>>ff. Compare <<Bbl Ps 132:16 abbr>> with <<Bbl Jer 33:17>>.
<<Bbl Ps 132:17 abbr>> See <<Bbl 2Ch 21:7>>.
<<Bbl Ps 139:14 abbr>> Some of us are "fiercely and wonderfully made".
Praise Yah! I will give thanks to Yahweh with all my heart, in the assembly of the upright and the congregation. {{rf{2}}} The works of Yahweh are great, studied by all who delight in them. {{rf{3}}} Full of splendor and majesty is his work, and his righteousness endures forever. {{rf{4}}} He has made his wonders to be remembered; Yahweh is gracious and compassionate. {{rf{5}}} He gives food to those who fear him; he remembers his covenant forever. {{rf{6}}} He has declared the power of his works for his people, by giving to them the inheritance of the nations. {{rf{7}}} The works of his hands are faithfulness and justice; all his precepts are reliable. {{rf{8}}} They are sustained forever and ever, done with faithfulness and uprightness. {{rf{9}}} He has sent redemption to his people; he has commanded his covenant forever; holy and fearful is his name. {{rf{10}}} The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of wisdom; all who do them have a good understanding. His praise endures forever. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Psalms-111-001]] }}}
Praise Yah! Blessed is the man who fears Yahweh; he takes great delight in his commands. {{rf{2}}} His descendants will be mighty in the land; the generation of the upright will be blessed. {{rf{3}}} Wealth and riches are in his house, and his righteousness endures forever. {{rf{4}}} His light rises in the darkness for the upright; he is gracious and compassionate and righteous. {{rf{5}}} It goes well for a man who is gracious and lends, who conducts his business properly. {{rf{6}}} For he will not be shaken forever; the righteous will be remembered forever. {{rf{7}}} He is not afraid of bad news; his heart is steadfast, secure in Yahweh. {{rf{8}}} His heart is sustained; he will not be afraid, until he looks in triumph on his enemies. {{rf{9}}} He gives lavishly to the needy; his righteousness endures forever. His horn rises high in honor. {{rf{10}}} The wicked sees it and is vexed. He gnashes his teeth and becomes weak. The desire of the wicked perishes. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Psalms-112-001]] }}}
Praise Yah! Praise, O servants of Yahweh, praise the name of Yahweh. {{rf{2}}} Let the name of Yahweh be blessed, from now until forever. {{rf{3}}} From the rising of the sun to its setting, let the name of Yahweh be blessed. {{rf{4}}} Yahweh is high above all nations; his glory is above the heavens. {{rf{5}}} Who is like Yahweh our God, who is enthroned on high, {{rf{6}}} who condescends to look at what is in the heavens and in the earth? {{rf{7}}} He raises the helpless from the dust; he lifts the needy from the ash heap, {{rf{8}}} to seat them with princes, with the princes of his people. {{rf{9}}} He causes the barren woman of the house to dwell as the happy mother of children. Praise Yah! {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Psalms-113-001]] }}}
When Israel went out from Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of a strange language, {{rf{2}}} Judah became his sanctuary, Israel his dominion. {{rf{3}}} The sea looked and fled; the Jordan turned back. {{rf{4}}} The mountains skipped like rams, the hills like lambs. {{rf{5}}} What's with you, O sea, that you fled? O Jordan, that you turned back? {{rf{6}}} O mountains, that you skipped like rams? O hills, like lambs? {{rf{7}}} At the presence of the Lord writhe, O earth, at the presence of the God of Jacob, {{rf{8}}} who turned the rock into a pool of water, flinty stone into a spring of water.
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{{rf big{1}}} Not to us, O Yahweh, not to us, but to your name give glory, because of your loyal love, because of your faithfulness. {{rf{2}}} Why should the nations say, "Where, pray tell, is their God?" {{rf{3}}} But our God is in the heavens; all that he desires, he does. {{rf{4}}} Their idols are silver and gold, the work of human hands. {{rf{5}}} They have mouths, but cannot speak; they have eyes, but cannot see; {{rf{6}}} they have ears, but cannot hear; they have noses, but cannot smell; {{rf{7}}} they have their hands, but they cannot feel, their feet, but they cannot walk; they cannot utter a sound in their throats. {{rf{8}}} Those who make them become like them, as does everyone who trusts in them. {{rf{9}}} O Israel, trust Yahweh; he is their help and their shield. {{rf{10}}} O house of Aaron, trust in Yahweh; he is their help and their shield. {{rf{11}}} You who fear Yahweh, trust in Yahweh; he is their help and their shield. {{rf{12}}} Yahweh remembers us; he will bless us. He will bless the house of Israel; he will bless the house of Aaron. {{rf{13}}} He will bless those who fear Yahweh, the small with the great. {{rf{14}}} May Yahweh give you increase, you and your children. {{rf{15}}} May you be blessed by Yahweh, who made heaven and earth. {{rf{16}}} The heavens are Yahweh's heavens, but the earth he has given to the children of humankind. {{rf{17}}} The dead do not praise Yah, nor any descending into silence. {{rf{18}}} It is we, we will bless Yah from now until forever. Praise Yah! {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Psalms-114-001]] }}}
I love him, because Yahweh has heard the voice of my supplications. {{rf{2}}} Because he has inclined his ear to me, I will call all my days. {{rf{3}}} The ropes of death encircled me, and the distresses of Sheol found me. I found trouble and grief. {{rf{4}}} Then I called on the name of Yahweh: "O Yahweh, please save my life!" {{rf{5}}} Gracious is Yahweh and righteous, and our God is merciful. {{rf{6}}} Yahweh watches over the simple. I was brought low, but he gave me victory. {{rf{7}}} Return, O my soul, to your repose, for Yahweh has dealt bountifully with you. {{rf{8}}} For you have rescued me from death, my eyes from tears, my feet from stumbling. {{rf{9}}} I will walk before Yahweh in the land of the living. {{rf{10}}} I believed when I spoke, "I am afflicted greatly." {{rf{11}}} I said in my haste, "Everyone is a liar." {{rf{12}}} What shall I give back to Yahweh for all his benefits to me? {{rf{13}}} I will lift up the cup of salvation and proclaim the name of Yahweh. {{rf{14}}} I will pay my vows made to Yahweh in the presence of all his people. {{rf{15}}} Costly in Yahweh's view is the death of his faithful ones. {{rf{16}}} Ah, Yahweh, I am indeed your servant; I am your servant, the child of your maidservant. You have loosed my bonds. {{rf{17}}} I will offer to you a sacrifice of thanksgiving, and proclaim the name of Yahweh. {{rf{18}}} I will pay my vows made to Yahweh in the presence of all his people, {{rf{19}}} in the courts of the house of Yahweh, in the midst of you, O Jerusalem. Praise Yah!
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{{rf big{1}}} Praise Yahweh, all you nations; extol him, all you peoples. {{rf{2}}} For his loyal love is mighty on our behalf, and the faithfulness of Yahweh is forever. Praise Yah! {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Psalms-116-001]] }}}
{{rf big{1}}} Give thanks to Yahweh for he is good, for his loyal love is forever. {{rf{2}}} Let Israel say, "His loyal love is forever." {{rf{3}}} Let the house of Aaron say, "His loyal love is forever." {{rf{4}}} Let those who fear Yahweh say, "His loyal love is forever." {{rf{5}}} Out of my distress I called to Yah. Yah answered me, setting me in a broad place. {{rf{6}}} Yahweh is for me; I do not fear. What can mere humans do to me? {{rf{7}}} Yahweh is for me as my helper, and so I will look in triumph on those who hate me. {{rf{8}}} It is better to take refuge in Yahweh than to trust in humans. {{rf{9}}} It is better to take refuge in Yahweh than to trust princes. {{rf{10}}} All nations surrounded me. In the name of Yahweh I opposed them indeed. {{rf{11}}} They surrounded me; yes, they surrounded me. In the name of Yahweh I opposed them indeed. {{rf{12}}} They surrounded me like bees; they were extinguished like a fire of thorns. In the name of Yahweh I opposed them indeed. {{rf{13}}} You pushed me hard to make me fall, but Yahweh helped me. {{rf{14}}} Yah is my strength and my song, and he has become my salvation. {{rf{15}}} The sound of rejoicing and salvation is in the tents of the righteous; the right hand of Yahweh has done valiantly. {{rf{16}}} The right hand of Yahweh has exalted; the right hand of Yahweh has done valiantly. {{rf{17}}} I will not die but live, and tell of the works of Yah. {{rf{18}}} Yah has disciplined me severely, but he did not consign me to death. {{rf{19}}} Open to me the gates of righteousness, that I may enter through them and give thanks to Yah. {{rf{20}}} This is the gate of Yahweh, through which the righteous will enter. {{rf{21}}} I will give thanks to you for you have answered me, and you have become my salvation. {{rf{22}}} The stone the builders rejected has become the chief cornerstone. {{rf{23}}} This is from Yahweh; it is wonderful in our eyes. {{rf{24}}} This is the day Yahweh has worked; let us rejoice and be glad in him. {{rf{25}}} O Yahweh, please save; O Yahweh, please grant success. {{rf{26}}} Blessed is he who comes in the name of Yahweh. We bless you from the house of Yahweh. {{rf{27}}} Yahweh is God, and he has given us light. Bind the festal sacrifice with cords to the horns of the altar. {{rf{28}}} You are my God, and I will give thanks to you. You are my God; I will exalt you. {{rf{29}}} Give thanks to Yahweh for he is good, for his loyal love is forever. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Psalms-118-001]] }}}
{{rf big{1}}} Blessed are those whose way is blameless, who walk in the law of Yahweh. {{rf{2}}} Blessed are those who keep his testimonies; they seek him with a whole heart. {{rf{3}}} They also do no wrong; they walk in his ways. {{rf{4}}} You have commanded your precepts, that we should keep them diligently. {{rf{5}}} Oh that my ways were steadfast, to keep your statutes! {{rf{6}}} Then I would not be ashamed when I look to all your commands. {{rf{7}}} I will give you thanks with an upright heart, when I learn your righteous laws. {{rf{8}}} I will heed your statutes; do not utterly forsake me. {{rf{9}}} How can a young man keep his way pure? By taking heed according to your word. ''{{rf{10}}} With my whole heart I have sought you; do not let me stray from your commands. {{rf{11}}} In my heart I have hidden your word, so that I may not sin against you.'' {{rf{12}}} Blessed are you, O Yahweh. Teach me your statutes. {{rf{13}}} With my lips I have told of all the ordinances of your mouth. {{rf{14}}} In the way of your testimonies I have rejoiced as I would over all riches. {{rf{15}}} I will meditate on your precepts and look at your ways. {{rf{16}}} I will take delight in your statutes; I will not forget your word. {{rf{17}}} Deal bountifully with your servant, that I may live and heed your word. {{rf{18}}} Uncover my eyes, that I may look at wonderful things from your law. {{rf{19}}} I am a sojourner on the earth; do not hide your commands from me. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Psalms-119-001]] }}}
{{rf{20}}} My soul is crushed with longing for your ordinances at all times. {{rf{21}}} You rebuke the arrogant, the accursed, who stray from your commands. {{rf{22}}} Remove from me scorn and contempt, for I have kept your testimonies. {{rf{23}}} Even though princes sit and speak against me, your servant meditates on your statutes. {{rf{24}}} Your testimonies are my delight, my counselors. {{rf{25}}} My soul clings to the dust; revive me according to your word. {{rf{26}}} I told of my ways, and you answered me; teach me your statutes. {{rf{27}}} Make me understand the way of your precepts, that I may meditate on your wonderful things. {{rf{28}}} My soul weeps because of grief; strengthen me according to your word. {{rf{29}}} Remove from me the deceptive way, and graciously give me your law. {{rf{30}}} I have chosen the faithful way; I have set your ordinances before me. {{rf{31}}} I cling to your testimonies; O Yahweh, do not let me be put to shame. {{rf{32}}} I will run the way of your commands, for you will enlarge my heart. {{rf{33}}} Teach me, O Yahweh, the way of your statutes, and I will keep it to the end. {{rf{34}}} Give me understanding, that I may keep your law and heed it with my whole heart. {{rf{35}}} Cause me to walk in the path of your commands, for I delight in it. {{rf{36}}} Incline my heart to your testimonies, and not to dishonest gain. {{rf{37}}} Turn away my eyes from looking at what is worthless; revive me in your ways. {{rf{38}}} Fulfill your word to your servant, which is to bring about a reverence for you. {{rf{39}}} Turn away my disgrace that I dread, for your ordinances are good. {{rf{40}}} Look, I have longed for your precepts; revive me in your righteousness. {{rf{41}}} Let your acts of loyal love also come to me, O Yahweh, your salvation according to your word. {{rf{42}}} Then I will have an answer for the one who taunts me, for I trust your word. {{rf{43}}} And do not snatch the word of truth utterly from my mouth, for I hope in your ordinances. {{rf{44}}} So I will heed your law continually, forever and ever. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Psalms-119-020]] }}}
{{rf{45}}} And I will go about freely, for I have sought your precepts. {{rf{46}}} And I will speak of your testimonies before kings, and will not be ashamed. {{rf{47}}} And I will take delight in your commands, which I love. {{rf{48}}} And I will lift up my hands to your commands, which I love, and I will meditate on your statutes. {{rf{49}}} Remember your word to your servant, upon which you have caused me to hope. {{rf{50}}} This is my comfort in my misery: that your word preserves my life. {{rf{51}}} The arrogant utterly deride me; I have not turned aside from your law. {{rf{52}}} I remember your ordinances of old, O Yahweh, and I take comfort. {{rf{53}}} Rage seizes me because of the wicked, those who forsake your law. ''{{rf{54}}} Your statutes have been my songs in the house of my sojourning.'' {{rf{55}}} I remember your name in the night, O Yahweh, and I heed your law. {{rf{56}}} This has been mine, that I have kept your precepts. {{rf{57}}} Yahweh is my portion; I intend to heed your words. {{rf{58}}} I seek your favor with my whole heart; be gracious to me according to your word. {{rf{59}}} I think about my ways, and turn my feet to your testimonies. {{rf{60}}} I hurry and do not delay to heed your commands. {{rf{61}}} The cords of the wicked surround me, but I do not forget your law. {{rf{62}}} In the middle of the night I rise to give you thanks, because of your righteous ordinances. {{rf{63}}} I am a companion of all who fear you and heed your precepts. {{rf{64}}} The earth, O Yahweh, is full of your loyal love. Teach me your statutes. {{rf{65}}} You have dealt well with your servant, O Yahweh, according to your word. {{rf{66}}} Teach me good discernment and knowledge, for I believe your commands. {{rf{67}}} Before I was afflicted, I was going astray, but now I heed your word. {{rf{68}}} You are good and do good; teach me your statutes. ''{{rf{69}}} The arrogant smear me with lies; I keep your precepts with my whole heart. {{rf{70}}} Their heart is insensitive like fat; As for me, I take delight in your law.'' {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Psalms-119-045]] }}}
{{rf{71}}} It is good for me that I was afflicted, so that I might learn your statutes. {{rf{72}}} The law of your mouth is better to me than thousands of gold and silver coins. {{rf{73}}} Your hands have made me and established me; give me understanding that I may learn your commands. {{rf{74}}} Those who fear you will see me and be glad, because I hope in your word. {{rf{75}}} I know, O Yahweh, that your judgments are right, and that in faithfulness you afflicted me. {{rf{76}}} Please let your loyal love comfort me, according to your word to your servant. {{rf{77}}} Let your mercies come to me, that I may live, for your law is my delight. {{rf{78}}} Let the arrogant be put to shame, because they have wronged me with lies. As for me, I will meditate on your precepts. {{rf{79}}} Let those who fear you turn to me, even those who know your testimonies. {{rf{80}}} May my heart be blameless in your statutes, so that I may not be ashamed. {{rf{81}}} My soul languishes for your salvation; I hope in your word. {{rf{82}}} My eyes long for your word, saying, "When will you comfort me?" {{rf{83}}} For I have become like a wineskin in the smoke, yet I have not forgotten your statutes. {{rf{84}}} How many are the days of your servant? When will you execute justice against those who persecute me? {{rf{85}}} The arrogant have dug pits for me, which is not according to your law. {{rf{86}}} All your commands are faithful. They persecute me deceitfully; help me! {{rf{87}}} They have almost destroyed me on the earth, but I have not forsaken your precepts. {{rf{88}}} According to your loyal love preserve me alive, so that I may heed the testimony from your mouth. {{rf{89}}} Forever, O Yahweh, your word is settled in heaven. {{rf{90}}} Your faithfulness endures throughout all generations. You have established the earth and it stands. {{rf{91}}} By your ordinances they stand today, for all are your servants. {{rf{92}}} Unless your law had been my delight, then I would have perished in my misery. {{rf{93}}} I will not ever forget your precepts, for by them you revive me. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Psalms-119-071]] }}}
{{rf{94}}} I am yours. Save me, for I have sought your precepts. {{rf{95}}} For me the wicked lie in wait to destroy me. I give attention to your testimonies. {{rf{96}}} I have seen a limit to every perfection; your command is very broad. {{rf{97}}} How I love your law! The whole day it is my meditation. {{rf{98}}} Your commands make me wiser than my enemies, because they are ever with me. {{rf{99}}} I have more insight than all my teachers, for your testimonies are my meditation. {{rf{100}}} I understand more than the elders, for I keep your precepts. {{rf{101}}} I have restrained my feet from every evil way, so that I may heed your word. {{rf{102}}} I have not turned aside from your ordinances, for you have taught me. {{rf{103}}} How smooth are your words to my palate, more than honey in my mouth. {{rf{104}}} From your precepts I get understanding, therefore I hate every false way. {{rf{105}}} Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path. {{rf{106}}} I have sworn an oath and confirmed it, to heed your righteous ordinances. {{rf{107}}} I am very much afflicted; O Yahweh, revive me according to your word. {{rf{108}}} Please accept the freewill offerings of my mouth, O Yahweh, and teach me your ordinances. {{rf{109}}} My life is in danger continually, yet I do not forget your law. {{rf{110}}} The wicked have laid a snare for me, yet I do not wander from your precepts. {{rf{111}}} I have taken as my own your testimonies forever, for they are the joy of my heart. {{rf{112}}} I have inclined my heart to do your statutes forever, to the end. {{rf{113}}} I hate the double-minded, but I love your law. {{rf{114}}} You are my hiding place and my shield; I hope in your word. {{rf{115}}} Turn aside from me, you evildoers, for I will keep the commands of my God. {{rf{116}}} Sustain me according to your word, that I may live, and do not let me be ashamed of my hope. {{rf{117}}} Uphold me, that I may be delivered, and have regard for your statutes continually. {{rf{118}}} You reject all who stray from your statutes, for their deceit is a breach of faith. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Psalms-119-094]] }}}
{{rf{119}}} You remove all the wicked of the earth like dross, therefore I love your testimonies. {{rf{120}}} My flesh trembles for fear of you, and I am afraid of your judgments. {{rf{121}}} I have done justice and righteousness; do not leave me to my oppressors. {{rf{122}}} Pledge good for your servant; do not let the arrogant oppress me. {{rf{123}}} My eyes long for your salvation, and your righteous word. {{rf{124}}} Deal with your servant according to your loyal love, and teach me your statutes. {{rf{125}}} I am your servant; give me understanding, that I may know your statutes. {{rf{126}}} It is time for Yahweh to act, for they have broken your law. {{rf{127}}} Therefore I love your commands more than gold, even fine gold. {{rf{128}}} Therefore all your precepts of everything I regard as right; I hate every false way. {{rf{129}}} Your testimonies are miracles, therefore my soul keeps them. {{rf{130}}} The unfolding of your words gives light, giving understanding to the simple. {{rf{131}}} I open my mouth and pant, because I long for your commands. {{rf{132}}} Turn to me and be gracious to me, as is proper for those who love your name. {{rf{133}}} Direct my steps in your word, and do not let any iniquity gain power over me. {{rf{134}}} Redeem me from the oppression of humankind, that I may heed your precepts. {{rf{135}}} Shine your face on your servant, and teach me your statutes. {{rf{136}}} Streams of water flow down from my eyes, because people do not heed your law. {{rf{137}}} You are righteous, O Yahweh, and your ordinances are upright. {{rf{138}}} You have ordained your testimonies in righteousness, and in exceeding faithfulness. {{rf{139}}} My zeal consumes me, because my enemies have forgotten your words. {{rf{140}}} Your word is very pure, and your servant loves it. {{rf{141}}} I am small and despised, yet I do not forget your precepts. {{rf{142}}} Your righteousness is an everlasting righteousness, and your law is truth. {{rf{143}}} Trouble and anguish have found me; your commands delight me. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Psalms-119-119]] }}}
{{rf{144}}} The righteousness of your testimonies is forever; give me understanding that I may live. {{rf{145}}} I call with my whole heart; answer me, O Yahweh. I will keep your statutes. {{rf{146}}} I call to you. Save me, and I will heed your testimonies. {{rf{147}}} I rise early in the dawn and cry for help; I hope in your word. {{rf{148}}} My eyes anticipate the night watches, that I may meditate on your word. {{rf{149}}} Hear my voice according to your loyal love; O Yahweh, preserve my life according to your justice. {{rf{150}}} Those who pursue a wicked purpose draw near; they are far from your law. {{rf{151}}} You are near, O Yahweh, and all your commands are truth. {{rf{152}}} Concerning your testimonies, I knew long ago that you have established them forever. {{rf{153}}} See my misery and rescue me, for I do not forget your law. {{rf{154}}} Plead my cause and redeem me; preserve my life according to your word. {{rf{155}}} Salvation is far from the wicked, for they do not seek your statutes. {{rf{156}}} Your mercies are great, O Yahweh; preserve my life according to your ordinances. {{rf{157}}} My persecutors and enemies are many, yet I do not turn aside from your testimonies. {{rf{158}}} I see the treacherous and I feel disgust, because they do not heed your word. {{rf{159}}} Consider that I love your precepts; O Yahweh, according to your loyal love preserve my life. {{rf{160}}} The whole of your word is truth, and your every righteous judgment endures forever. {{rf{161}}} Princes persecute me without cause, but my heart trembles because of your word. {{rf{162}}} I am rejoicing over your word, like one who finds great spoil. {{rf{163}}} I hate and abhor falsehood; I love your law. {{rf{164}}} I praise you seven times in the day for your righteous ordinances. {{rf{165}}} Great peace is for those who love your law, and they do not have a cause for stumbling. {{rf{166}}} I hope for your salvation, O Yahweh, and do your commands. {{rf{167}}} My soul heeds your testimonies, and I love them exceedingly. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Psalms-119-144]] }}}
{{rf{168}}} I heed your precepts and testimonies, because all my ways are before you. {{rf{169}}} Let my cry come before you, O Yahweh; give me understanding according to your word. {{rf{170}}} Let my plea come before you; Deliver me according to your word. {{rf{171}}} Let my lips pour out praise, because you teach me your statutes. {{rf{172}}} Let my tongue sing of your word, because all your commands are right. {{rf{173}}} Let your hand be my help, because I have chosen your precepts. {{rf{174}}} I long for your salvation, O Yahweh, and your law is my delight. {{rf{175}}} Let my soul live that it may praise you, and let your ordinances help me. {{rf{176}}} I have wandered like a lost sheep; seek your servant, because I do not forget your commands. LENGTH SHORT {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Psalms-119-168]] }}}
{{rf{0}}} A song of ascents. {{rf big{1}}} In my distress I called to Yahweh, and he answered me. {{rf{2}}} "Deliver my life, O Yahweh, from lying lips, from a deceitful tongue." {{rf{3}}} What shall be given to you, and what more shall be done to you, deceitful tongue? {{rf{4}}} The sharpened arrows of a warrior, with burning charcoals from broom trees. {{rf{5}}} Woe to me, that I sojourn in Meshech, that I dwell among the tents of Kedar. {{rf{6}}} Too long my soul has had its dwelling near one who hates peace. {{rf{7}}} I am for peace, but when I speak, they are for war. {{rf big{1}}} A song for the ascents. {{rf big{1}}} I lift up my eyes to the mountains; whence will my help come? {{rf{2}}} My help is from Yahweh, maker of heaven and earth. {{rf{3}}} He will not allow your foot to be moved; he who protects you will not slumber. {{rf{4}}} Look, he will not slumber and he will not sleep -- he who protects Israel. {{rf{5}}} Yahweh is your protector; Yahweh is your shade at your right hand. {{rf{6}}} The sun will not strike you by day, nor the moon by night. {{rf{7}}} Yahweh will protect you from all evil; he will protect your life. {{rf{8}}} Yahweh will protect your going out and your coming in from now until forever. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Psalms-120-001]] }}}
{{rf{0}}} A song of ascents. Of David. {{rf big{1}}} I rejoiced in those who said to me, "Let us go to the house of Yahweh." {{rf{2}}} Our feet are standing within your gates, O Jerusalem -- {{rf{3}}} Jerusalem that is built as a city that is joined together, {{rf{4}}} where the tribes go up, the tribes of Yah as a testimony for Israel, to give thanks to the name of Yahweh. {{rf{5}}} For there the thrones sit for judgment, thrones of David's house. {{rf{6}}} Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: "May those who love you be at ease. {{rf{7}}} May peace be within your walls, security within your palaces." {{rf{8}}} For the sake of my brothers and my friends, I will say, "Peace be within you." {{rf{9}}} For the sake of the house of Yahweh our God, I will seek your good. LENGTH SHORT {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Psalms-122-001]] }}}
{{rf{0}}} A song of ascents. {{rf big{1}}} I lift up my eyes to you, the one enthroned in the heavens. {{rf{2}}} Behold, as the eyes of servants look to the hand of their master, as the eyes of a maid to the hand of her mistress, so our eyes look to Yahweh our God, until he is gracious to us. {{rf{3}}} Be gracious to us, O Yahweh, be gracious to us, for long enough we have had our fill of contempt. {{rf{4}}} For long enough our soul has had its fill of the derision of the self-confident, the contempt of the arrogant. {{rf big{1}}} A song of ascents. Of David. {{rf big{1}}} "If it had not been Yahweh who was on our side," do let Israel say, {{rf{2}}} "If it had not been Yahweh who was on our side, when men rose up against us, {{rf{3}}} then they would have swallowed us alive, when their anger was kindled against us. {{rf{4}}} Then the waters would have flooded over us, the torrent would have passed over our soul. {{rf{5}}} Then over our soul would have passed the raging waters." {{rf{6}}} Blessed be Yahweh, who has not made us prey for their teeth. {{rf{7}}} Our soul has escaped like a bird from the snare of fowlers. The snare is broken, and we have escaped. {{rf{8}}} Our help is in the name of Yahweh, maker of heaven and earth. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Psalms-123-001]] }}}
{{rf{0}}} A song of ascents. {{rf big{1}}} Those who trust in Yahweh are like Mount Zion, which cannot be moved, but abides forever. {{rf{2}}} As mountains are round about Jerusalem, so Yahweh is round about his people, from now until forever. {{rf{3}}} For the scepter of wickedness shall not rest on the land of the righteous, lest the righteous stretch out their hands to do wickedness. {{rf{4}}} Do good, O Yahweh, to the good, and to those upright in their hearts. {{rf{5}}} But regarding those who turn aside to their crooked ways, Yahweh will lead them away with the evildoers. Peace be upon Israel. {{rf big{1}}} A song of ascents. {{rf big{1}}} When Yahweh restored the fortunes of Zion, we were like dreamers. {{rf{2}}} Then our mouth was filled with laughter, and our tongue with rejoicing. Then they said among the nations, "Yahweh has done great things for these people." {{rf{3}}} Yahweh has done great things for us; we are glad. {{rf{4}}} Restore, O Yahweh, our fortunes like the streams in the Negeb. {{rf{5}}} Those who sow with tears shall reap with rejoicing. {{rf{6}}} He who diligently goes out with weeping, carrying the seed bag, shall certainly come in with rejoicing, carrying his sheaves. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Psalms-125-001]] }}}
{{rf{0}}} A song of ascents. Of Solomon. {{rf big{1}}} Unless Yahweh builds a house, its builders labor at it in vain. Unless Yahweh guards a city, a guard watches in vain. {{rf{2}}} It is in vain for you who rise early and sit late, eating the bread of anxious toil, when thus he provides for his beloved in his sleep. {{rf{3}}} Look, children are the heritage of Yahweh; the fruit of the womb is a reward. {{rf{4}}} Like arrows in the hand of a warrior, so are the children of one's youth. {{rf{5}}} Blessed is the man who fills his quiver with them. They shall not be put to shame when they speak with enemies at the gate. LENGTH SHORT {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Psalms-127-001]] }}}
{{rf{0}}} A song of ascents. {{rf big{1}}} Blessed is everyone who fears Yahweh, who walks in his ways. {{rf{2}}} You will indeed eat of the labor of your hands; you will be happy and it will be well with you. {{rf{3}}} Your wife will be like a fruitful vine within your house. Your children will be like olive shoots about your table. {{rf{4}}} Look, for thus shall a man be blessed who fears Yahweh. {{rf{5}}} May Yahweh bless you from Zion, that you may see the good of Jerusalem all the days of your life, {{rf{6}}} and that you may see your children's children. May peace be upon Israel.
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{{rf{0}}} A song of ascents. {{rf big{1}}} "Too often they have attacked me from my youth." Let Israel say, {{rf{2}}} "Too often they have attacked me from my youth, yet they have not prevailed against me. {{rf{3}}} On my back plowmen have plowed. They have made their furrows long." {{rf{4}}} Yahweh is righteous. He has cut the ropes of the wicked. {{rf{5}}} Let all be put to shame and repulsed who hate Zion. {{rf{6}}} Let them be like grass on the housetops, that withers before it grows up, {{rf{7}}} with which a reaper cannot fill his hand, nor the binder of sheaves his arms, {{rf{8}}} so that passersby do not say, "The blessing of Yahweh be upon you. We bless you in the name of Yahweh." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Psalms-128-001]] }}}
{{rf{0}}} A song of ascents. {{rf big{1}}} Out of the depths I call to you, O Yahweh. {{rf{2}}} "O Lord, hear my voice. Let your ears be attentive to the voice of my supplications. {{rf{3}}} If you, O Yah, should keep track of iniquities, O Lord, who could stand? {{rf{4}}} But with you is forgiveness, so that you may be feared." {{rf{5}}} I await Yahweh; my soul awaits, and I wait for his word. {{rf{6}}} My soul waits for the Lord more than watchmen for the morning. Yes, more than watchmen for the morning. {{rf{7}}} O Israel, wait for Yahweh. For with Yahweh there is loyal love, and with him there is abundant redemption. {{rf{8}}} And he will redeem Israel from all its iniquities.
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{{rf{0}}} A song of ascents. Of David. {{rf big{1}}} My heart is not haughty nor my eyes arrogant. And I do not concern myself with things too great and difficult for me. {{rf{2}}} Rather I have soothed and quieted my soul, like a weaned child with its mother, like the weaned child is my soul with me. {{rf{3}}} O Israel, hope in Yahweh from now until forever. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Psalms-130-001]] }}}
{{rf {0}}} A song of ascents. O Yahweh, remember with regard to David all his affliction. {{rf{2}}} How he swore to Yahweh, he vowed to the Mighty One of Jacob: {{rf{3}}} "I will not enter into the tent of my house, I will not go up to the couch of my bed, {{rf{4}}} I will give no sleep to my eyes, no slumber to my eyelids, {{rf{5}}} until I find a place for Yahweh, a dwelling place for the Mighty One of Jacob." {{rf{6}}} Look, we heard of it in Ephrathah; we found her in the fields of Jaar. {{rf{7}}} Let us go to his dwelling places; Let us worship at his footstool. {{rf{8}}} Arise, O Yahweh, to your resting place, you and your mighty ark. {{rf{9}}} Let your priests clothe themselves with righteousness, and let your faithful sing for joy. {{rf{10}}} For the sake of your servant David, do not turn away the face of your anointed one. {{rf{11}}} Yahweh swore in truth to David; he will not turn back from it. "One from the fruit of your body I will set on your throne. {{rf{12}}} If your sons will heed my covenant and my testimonies that I will teach them, their sons also forever will sit on your throne." {{rf{13}}} For Yahweh has chosen Zion; he has desired it for his habitation. {{rf{14}}} "This is my resting place forever; here I will dwell, for I have desired it. {{rf{15}}} I will bless its provisions abundantly; I will satisfy its poor with bread. {{rf{16}}} I will also clothe its priests with salvation, and its faithful will shout exuberantly for joy. {{rf{17}}} There I will cause a horn to grow for David; I will set a lamp for my anointed one. {{rf{18}}} I will clothe his enemies with shame, but on him his crown will flourish." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Psalms-132-001]] }}}
{{rf{0}}} A song of ascents. Of David. {{rf big{1}}} Look, how good and how pleasant it is when brothers dwell together in unity. {{rf{2}}} It is like the fragrant oil upon the head, running down upon the beard, the beard of Aaron, that runs down upon the edges of his robes. {{rf{3}}} It is like the dew of Hermon that runs down upon the mountains of Zion, because there Yahweh commanded the blessing -- life forever.
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{{rf{0}}} A song of ascents. {{rf big{1}}} Look, bless Yahweh, all you the servants of Yahweh, who serve in the house of Yahweh by night. {{rf{2}}} Lift up your hands in the sanctuary and bless Yahweh. {{rf{3}}} May Yahweh bless you from Zion, he who made heaven and earth. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Psalms-133-001]] }}}
Praise Yah! Praise the name of Yahweh. Praise him, O servants of Yahweh, {{rf{2}}} who stand in the house of Yahweh, in the courts of the house of our God. {{rf{3}}} Praise Yah, for Yahweh is good. Sing praises concerning his name, for it is pleasant. {{rf{4}}} For Yah has chosen Jacob for himself, Israel as his special possession. {{rf{5}}} For I know that Yahweh is great, and our Lord is greater than all gods. {{rf{6}}} All that Yahweh desires, he does, in heaven and on earth, in the seas and all the depths. {{rf{7}}} He causes clouds to rise from the edge of the earth; he makes lightnings for the rain; he brings out the wind from his storehouses. {{rf{8}}} Who struck the firstborn of Egypt, both of humans and animals. {{rf{9}}} He sent signs and wonders into your midst, O Egypt, against Pharaoh and all his servants. {{rf{10}}} Who struck many nations and killed mighty kings -- {{rf{11}}} Sihon the king of the Amorites, and Og the king of Bashan, and all the kingdoms of Canaan -- {{rf{12}}} and he gave their land as an inheritance, an inheritance for his people Israel. {{rf{13}}} O Yahweh, your name endures forever, your renown throughout all generations, {{rf{14}}} for Yahweh will plead the cause of his people and will have compassion on his servants. {{rf{15}}} The idols of the nations are silver and gold, the work of the hands of humankind. {{rf{16}}} They have mouths, but cannot speak; they have eyes, but cannot see; {{rf{17}}} they have ears, but cannot hear; there is not even breath in their mouths. {{rf{18}}} Those who make them become like them, as does everyone who trusts in them. {{rf{19}}} O house of Israel, bless Yahweh. O house of Aaron, bless Yahweh. {{rf{20}}} O house of Levi, bless Yahweh. You who fear Yahweh, bless Yahweh. {{rf{21}}} Blessed be Yahweh from Zion, who dwells in Jerusalem. Praise Yah! {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Psalms-135-001]] }}}
Give thanks to Yahweh, for he is good, for his loyal love endures forever. {{rf{2}}} Give thanks to the God of gods, for his loyal love endures forever. {{rf{3}}} Give thanks to the Lord of lords, for his loyal love endures forever. {{rf{4}}} To him who alone does great wonders, for his loyal love endures forever. {{rf{5}}} To him who made the heavens with skill, for his loyal love endures forever. {{rf{6}}} To him who spread out the earth above the waters, for his loyal love endures forever. {{rf{7}}} To him who made the great lights, for his loyal love endures forever. {{rf{8}}} The sun to rule the day, for his loyal love endures forever. {{rf{9}}} The moon and stars to rule the night, for his loyal love endures forever. {{rf{10}}} To him who struck Egypt through their firstborn, for his loyal love endures forever. {{rf{11}}} And he brought Israel out from among them, for his loyal love endures forever. {{rf{12}}} With a strong hand and an outstretched arm, for his loyal love endures forever. {{rf{13}}} To him who divided the Red Sea in two, for his loyal love endures forever. {{rf{14}}} And he let Israel cross over through the midst of it, for his loyal love endures forever. {{rf{15}}} But he tossed Pharaoh and his army into the Red Sea, for his loyal love endures forever. {{rf{16}}} To him who led his people through the wilderness, for his loyal love endures forever. {{rf{17}}} To him who struck great kings, for his loyal love endures forever. {{rf{18}}} And he killed mighty kings, for his loyal love endures forever. {{rf{19}}} Sihon the king of the Amorites, for his loyal love endures forever. {{rf{20}}} And Og the king of Bashan, for his loyal love endures forever. {{rf{21}}} And he gave their land as an inheritance, for his loyal love endures forever. {{rf{22}}} An inheritance to Israel his servant, for his loyal love endures forever. {{rf{23}}} Who remembered us in our low estate, for his loyal love endures forever. {{rf{24}}} And he rescued us from our enemies, for his loyal love endures forever. {{rf{25}}} The one who gives food to all flesh, for his loyal love endures forever. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Psalms-136-001]] }}}
{{rf{26}}} Give thanks to the God of heaven, for his loyal love endures forever. {{rf big{1}}} By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat, yes, we wept, when we remembered Zion. {{rf{2}}} On the willows in her midst, we hung up our lyres. {{rf{3}}} For there our captors asked of us words of a song, and our tormentors asked of us jubilation, "Sing for us from a song of Zion." {{rf{4}}} How could we sing the song of Yahweh in a foreign land? {{rf{5}}} If I forget you, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget. {{rf{6}}} Let my tongue cling to the roof of my mouth, if I do not remember you, if do not I exalt Jerusalem above my highest joy. {{rf{7}}} Remember, O Yahweh, against the sons of Edom the day of Jerusalem, the ones who said, "Lay it bare! Lay it bare to its foundation!" {{rf{8}}} O daughter of Babylon, about to be devastated, happy shall be he who pays back to you what you paid out to us. {{rf{9}}} Happy shall be he who seizes and smashes your children against the rock. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Psalms-136-026]] }}}
{{rf{0}}} Of David. {{rf big{1}}} I give you thanks with my whole heart; before the gods I sing your praise. {{rf{2}}} I bow down toward your holy temple and give thanks to your name, because of your loyal love and faithfulness, for you have magnified your word according to all your name. {{rf{3}}} When I called and you answered me, you emboldened me in my soul with strength. {{rf{4}}} All the kings of the earth will praise you, O Yahweh, when they have heard the words of your mouth, {{rf{5}}} and they will sing of the ways of Yahweh, because Yahweh's glory is great. {{rf{6}}} Though Yahweh is high, yet he sees the lowly, but the proud he perceives at a distance. {{rf{7}}} Though I walk in the midst of trouble, you preserve me alive. You stretch out your hand against the anger of my enemies, and you save me with your right hand. {{rf{8}}} Yahweh accomplishes things for my benefit. O Yahweh, your loyal love endures forever; do not abandon the works of your hands. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Psalms-138-001]] }}}
{{rf{0}}} For the music director. Of David. A psalm. {{rf big{1}}} O Yahweh, you have searched me, and you know me. {{rf{2}}} You know my sitting down and my rising up. You understand my thought from afar. {{rf{3}}} You search out my wandering and my lying down, and are acquainted with all my ways. {{rf{4}}} For there is not a word yet on my tongue, but behold, O Yahweh, you know it completely. {{rf{5}}} You barricade me behind and in front, and set your hand upon me. {{rf{6}}} Such knowledge is too wonderful for me. It is set high; I cannot prevail against it. {{rf{7}}} Where I can go from your Spirit, or where can I flee from your presence? {{rf{8}}} If I ascend to heaven, there you are, and if I make my bed in Sheol, look! There you are. {{rf{9}}} If I lift up the wings of the dawn, and I alight on the far side of the sea, {{rf{10}}} even there your hand would lead me, and your right hand would hold me fast. {{rf{11}}} And if I should say, "Surely darkness will cover me, and the light around me will be as night," {{rf{12}}} even the darkness is not too dark for you, and the night shines as the day -- the darkness and the light are alike for you. {{rf{13}}} Indeed you created my inward parts; you wove me in my mother's womb. {{rf{14}}} I praise you, because I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works, and my soul knows it well. {{rf{15}}} My frame was not hidden from you, when I was created secretly, and intricately woven in the depths of the earth. {{rf{16}}} Your eyes saw my embryo, and in your book they all were written -- days fashioned for me when there was not one of them. {{rf{17}}} And to me, how precious are your thoughts, O God; how vast is their sum. {{rf{18}}} If I should count them, they would outnumber the sand. I awaken, and I am still with you. {{rf{19}}} If only you would kill the wicked, O God -- so get away from me, you bloodthirsty men -- {{rf{20}}} who speak against you deceitfully. Your enemies take your name in vain. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Psalms-139-001]] }}}
{{rf{21}}} Do I not hate those who hate you, O Yahweh? And do I not loathe those who rise up against you? {{rf{22}}} I hate them with a complete hatred; they have become my enemies. {{rf{23}}} Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. {{rf{24}}} And see if there is in me the worship of false gods, and lead me in the way everlasting. {{rf big{1}}} For the music director. A psalm of David. {{rf big{1}}} Rescue me, O Yahweh, from evil men. Preserve me from violent men, {{rf{2}}} who plan evil things in their heart. They stir up wars continually. {{rf{3}}} They sharpen their tongue as sharp as a snake's; the venom of a viper is under their lips. Selah {{rf{4}}} Protect me, O Yahweh, from the hands of the wicked. Preserve me from violent men, who have planned to make me stumble. {{rf{5}}} The proud have hidden a trap for me, and cords. They have spread out a net along the side of the path. They have set snares for me. Selah {{rf{6}}} I say to Yahweh, "You are my God." Listen, O Yahweh, to the voice of my supplications. {{rf{7}}} O Yahweh, my Lord, the strength of my salvation, you have covered my head in the day of battle. {{rf{8}}} Do not grant, O Yahweh, the desires of the wicked. Do not allow them to attain their plan, lest they be exalted. Selah {{rf{9}}} With respect to the head of those who surround me, may the harm of their lips cover them. {{rf{10}}} Let burning coals fall on them; let them be dropped into the fire, into bottomless pits from which they cannot rise. {{rf{11}}} Do not let a slanderer be established in the land; as for the man of violence, let evil hunt him quickly. {{rf{12}}} I know that Yahweh will maintain the cause of the afflicted, and justice for the needy. {{rf{13}}} Surely the righteous will give thanks to your name; the upright will dwell in your presence. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Psalms-139-021]] }}}
{{rf{0}}} A psalm of David. {{rf big{1}}} I call on you, O Yahweh; hasten to me. Listen to my voice when I call to you. {{rf{2}}} Let my prayer be set before you as incense, the lifting up of my palms as the evening offering. {{rf{3}}} Set a guard, O Yahweh, over my mouth; keep watch over the door of my lips. {{rf{4}}} Do not incline my heart to any evil thing, to practice wicked deeds with men who do iniquity; and do not let me eat of their delicacies. {{rf{5}}} Let a righteous one strike me in kindness, and let him chasten me. It is oil for my head; let not my head refuse. For still my prayer is against their evil deeds. {{rf{6}}} When their judges are thrown down the sides of a cliff, then they will understand that my words were pleasant. {{rf{7}}} As when one plows and breaks up the earth, so our bones are scattered at the mouth of Sheol. {{rf{8}}} But my eyes are toward you, O Yahweh, my Lord; I have taken refuge in you. Do not lay bare my soul. {{rf{9}}} Protect me from the grasp of the trap they have laid for me, and from the snares of evildoers. {{rf{10}}} Let the wicked fall into their nets, while I escape altogether. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Psalms-141-001]] }}}
{{rf{0}}} A maskil of David. When he was in the cave. A prayer. {{rf big{1}}} I cry out with my voice to Yahweh; I implore favor with my voice to Yahweh. {{rf{2}}} I pour out my complaint before him; I declare my trouble before him. {{rf{3}}} When my spirit faints within me, you know my way. On the path where I walk, they have hidden a trap for me; {{rf{4}}} look to my right and see. There is no one looking out for me; there is no escape for me; no one cares for my soul. {{rf{5}}} I cry out to you, O Yahweh. I say, "You are my refuge, my portion in the land of the living." {{rf{6}}} Attend to my cry, for I am brought very low. Deliver me from my pursuers, for they are stronger than I. {{rf{7}}} Bring me out of prison, that I may give thanks to your name. The righteous will encircle me, because you will deal bountifully with me. LENGTH SHORT {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Psalms-142-001]] }}}
{{rf{0}}} A psalm of David. {{rf big{1}}} O Yahweh, hear my prayer; listen to my supplications. In your faithfulness answer me, and in your righteousness. {{rf{2}}} And do not enter into judgment with your servant, because no one alive is righteous before you. {{rf{3}}} For the enemy has pursued my soul; he has crushed my life to the ground. He has made me dwell in dark places like those long dead. {{rf{4}}} And so my spirit grows faint within me; my heart within me is desolate. {{rf{5}}} I remember the days of long ago; I meditate on all your doings. I muse on the labor of your hands. {{rf{6}}} I stretch out my hands to you; my soul longs for you like a dry land. Selah {{rf{7}}} Quickly answer me, O Yahweh; my spirit fails. Do not hide your face from me, or I will become like those descending to the pit. {{rf{8}}} Cause me to hear your loyal love in the morning, for I trust you. Cause me to know the way that I should go, for I lift up my soul to you. {{rf{9}}} Deliver me from my enemies, O Yahweh. I take refuge in you. {{rf{10}}} Teach me to do your will, for you are my God; your Spirit is good. Lead me onto level ground. {{rf{11}}} For your name's sake, O Yahweh, preserve my life; in your righteousness bring me out of trouble. {{rf{12}}} And in your loyal love destroy my enemies, and exterminate all the adversaries of my soul, for I am your servant. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Psalms-143-001]] }}}
{{rf{0}}} Of David. {{rf big{1}}} Blessed be Yahweh, my rock, the one who trains my hands for battle, my fingers for war -- {{rf{2}}} my loyal love and my fortress, my stronghold and my deliverer, my shield, and one in whom I take refuge, the one who subdues peoples under me. {{rf{3}}} O Yahweh, what is humankind that you take knowledge of him, or the son of man that you take thought of him? {{rf{4}}} Humankind is like a breath, his days like a passing shadow. {{rf{5}}} O Yahweh, bow the heavens and come down; touch the mountains so that they smoke. {{rf{6}}} Flash forth lightning and scatter them; dispatch your arrows and rout them. {{rf{7}}} Stretch out your hands from on high; Rescue me and deliver me from many waters, from the hand of foreigners, {{rf{8}}} whose mouth speaks falsely, and their right hand is a false right hand. {{rf{9}}} O God, I will sing a new song to you. With a lyre of ten strings I will sing praise to you, {{rf{10}}} who gives victory to kings, who rescues David his servant from the evil sword. {{rf{11}}} Rescue me and deliver me from the hand of foreigners, whose mouth speaks falsely, and whose right hand is a false right hand, {{rf{12}}} that our sons may be like plants, full grown in their youth, our daughters like corner pillars, carved in the style of a palace, {{rf{13}}} that our granaries may be full, providing produce of all kinds, that our sheep may produce by the thousands, by the tens of thousands in our open fields, {{rf{14}}} that our cattle may be pregnant; that there be no breach in our walls, and no going out in exile, and no outcry in our plazas. {{rf{15}}} Blessed are the people who have it thus. Blessed are the people whose God is Yahweh. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Psalms-144-001]] }}}
{{rf{0}}} A praise of David. {{rf big{1}}} I will exalt you, my God, O king, and I will bless your name forever and ever. {{rf{2}}} Every day I will bless you and praise your name forever and ever. {{rf{3}}} Great is Yahweh, and very worthy of praise, and his greatness is unsearchable. {{rf{4}}} One generation will laud your works to another, and will declare your mighty deeds. {{rf{5}}} On the splendor of the glory of your majesty, and on your wonderful deeds, I will meditate. {{rf{6}}} And they will speak of the power of your awesome deeds, and I will tell of your greatness. {{rf{7}}} They will utter the renown of your abundant goodness, and they will proclaim with joy your righteousness. {{rf{8}}} Yahweh is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and great in loyal love. {{rf{9}}} Yahweh is good to all, and his mercies are over all his works. {{rf{10}}} All your works will praise you, O Yahweh, and your faithful ones will bless you. {{rf{11}}} They will speak of the glory of your kingdom, and talk of your power, {{rf{12}}} to make known to the children of humankind his mighty deeds, and the glory of the majesty of his kingdom. {{rf{13}}} Your kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and your dominion endures throughout all generations. {{rf{14}}} Yahweh upholds all who are falling, and raises up all who are bowed down. {{rf{15}}} The eyes of all look hopefully to you, and you give them their food in due time, {{rf{16}}} opening your hand, and satisfying the desire of every living creature. {{rf{17}}} Yahweh is righteous in all his ways, and loyal in all his works. {{rf{18}}} Yahweh is near to all who call on him, to all who call on him in truth. {{rf{19}}} He fulfills the desire of those who fear him; he also hears their cry for help, and saves them. {{rf{20}}} Yahweh protects all those who love him, but all the wicked he will exterminate. {{rf{21}}} My mouth will speak the praise of Yahweh, and all flesh will bless his holy name forever and ever. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Psalms-145-001]] }}}
Praise Yah. Praise Yahweh, O my soul. {{rf{2}}} I will praise Yahweh while I live; I will sing praises to my God while I am still alive. {{rf{3}}} Do not place trust in princes, in a son of humankind with whom there is no deliverance. {{rf{4}}} His breath departs; he returns to his plot; on that day his plans perish. {{rf{5}}} Blessed is the one whose help is the God of Jacob, whose hope is on Yahweh as his God, {{rf{6}}} who made heaven and earth, the sea and all that is in them, the one who keeps faith forever, {{rf{7}}} who executes justice for the oppressed, who gives food for the hungry. Yahweh sets prisoners free; {{rf{8}}} Yahweh opens the eyes of the blind; Yahweh raises up those bowed down; Yahweh loves the righteous; {{rf{9}}} Yahweh protects the strangers. He helps up the orphan and the widow, but the way of the wicked he thwarts. {{rf{10}}} Yahweh will reign forever, Your God, O Zion, throughout all generations. Praise Yah. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Psalms-146-001]] }}}
Praise Yah. For it is good to sing praises to our God; for it is pleasant; praise is fitting. {{rf{2}}} Yahweh is building Jerusalem; he gathers the scattered ones of Israel. {{rf{3}}} He is the one who heals the brokenhearted, and binds up their wounds. {{rf{4}}} He counts the number of the stars; he gives names to all of them. {{rf{5}}} Great is our Lord, and abundant in power; his understanding is unlimited. {{rf{6}}} Yahweh helps the afflicted up; he brings the wicked down to the ground. {{rf{7}}} Sing to Yahweh with thanksgiving; sing praises to our God with lyre, {{rf{8}}} who covers the heavens with clouds, who provides rain for the earth, who causes grass to grow on the mountains. {{rf{9}}} He gives to the animal its food, and to the young ravens that cry. {{rf{10}}} He does not delight in the strength of the horse; he takes no pleasure in the legs of the man. {{rf{11}}} Yahweh takes pleasure in those who fear him, the ones who hope for his loyal love. {{rf{12}}} Laud Yahweh, O Jerusalem; praise your God, O Zion, {{rf{13}}} for he strengthens the bars of your gates. He blesses your children within you; {{rf{14}}} he makes your border peaceful; he satisfies you with the finest of wheat. {{rf{15}}} He sends out his command to the earth; his word runs swiftly. {{rf{16}}} He gives snow like wool; he scatters frost like ashes; {{rf{17}}} he throws his hail like crumbs. Who can stand before his cold? {{rf{18}}} He sends out his word and melts them; he blows his breath, the water flows. {{rf{19}}} He declares his word to Jacob, his statutes and his ordinances to Israel. {{rf{20}}} He has not done so for any nation, and they do not know his ordinances. Praise Yah. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Psalms-147-001]] }}}
Praise Yah. Praise Yahweh from the heavens; praise him in the heights. {{rf{2}}} Praise him, all his angels; praise him, all his hosts. {{rf{3}}} Praise him, sun and moon; praise him, all stars of light. {{rf{4}}} Praise him, highest heavens, and waters above the heavens. {{rf{5}}} Let them praise the name of Yahweh, because he commanded and they were created. {{rf{6}}} And he put them in place forever and ever, by a decree he gave that will not pass away. {{rf{7}}} Praise Yahweh from the earth -- great sea creatures and all deeps, {{rf{8}}} fire and hail, snow and cloud, stormy wind doing his bidding, {{rf{9}}} the mountains and all hills, fruit trees and all cedars, {{rf{10}}} beasts and all cattle, creeping things and flying birds, {{rf{11}}} kings of the earth and all peoples, princes and all judges of the earth, {{rf{12}}} young men and young women as well, the old together with the young -- {{rf{13}}} let them praise the name of Yahweh, because his name alone is is exalted. His splendor is above earth and heavens. {{rf{14}}} And he has raised high a horn for his people, praise for all his faithful -- for the children of Israel, a people close to him. Praise Yah. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Psalms-148-001]] }}}
Praise Yah. Sing to Yahweh a new song, his praise in the assembly of the faithful. {{rf{2}}} Let Israel be glad in its maker; let the children of Zion rejoice in their king. {{rf{3}}} Let them praise his name with dancing; let them sing praises to him with tambourine and lyre. {{rf{4}}} For Yahweh takes pleasure in his people; he glorifies the afflicted with salvation. {{rf{5}}} Let the faithful exult in glory; let them sing for joy on their beds. {{rf{6}}} Let the extolling of God be in their throat, and a double-edged sword in their hand, {{rf{7}}} to execute vengeance on the nations and punishment on the peoples, {{rf{8}}} to bind their kings with chains and their nobles with fetters of iron, {{rf{9}}} to execute on them the judgment that is decreed. This will be honor for all his faithful ones; Praise Yah. LENGTH SHORT {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Psalms-149-001]] }}}
Praise Yah. Praise God in his sanctuary; praise him in his mighty firmament. {{rf{2}}} Praise him for his mighty deeds; praise him according to the abundance of his greatness. {{rf{3}}} Praise him with blast of horn; praise him with harp and lyre. {{rf{4}}} Praise him with tambourine and dancing; praise him with strings and flute. {{rf{5}}} Praise him with sounding cymbals; praise him with clashing cymbals. {{rf{6}}} Every breathing thing, let it praise Yah. Praise Yah. LENGTH SHORT {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Psalms-150-001]] }}}
* [[Refine]]
* [[Holiness]]
* <<Bbl 1Thes 4:3 >>-5 -- see [[Vessel]]. Also note [[Honor]]
* <<Bbl Titus 2:11>>-13
* <<Bbl 1P 1:13 >>ff
* <<Bbl 1J 3:3 >>
* [[Hope]]
* <<Bbl Hab 1:13 >>
* <<Bbl Rev 21:27 >>
* <<Bbl H 7:26 >>
* <<Bbl H 12:23 >> (includes the host of chap 11. ) Catharas. <<Bbl 1Tim 5:2 >>. <<Bbl P 4:8 >>.
!!! Before outside world
* [[Immorality-No]]
Argue, dispute, bicker
* [[Controvert]]
<<Bbl Gn 45:24 >>; <<Bbl 1Tim 6:20 >>-21 ; <<Bbl 2Tim 2:14 >>, <<Bbl 2Tim 2:15 >>-17 ; <<Bbl Titus 2:9 >>-11 .
* Greed and [[Covet]] as source -- <<Bbl L 12:14 >>-15 , James
* [[Conflict]]
!! from God
* These usually stand as monuments to His gracious condescension. [[God-Encountered]].
* Seeking Adam
* <<Bbl 2S 7:6 "" note>>
* <<Bbl Gn 3:9 >> "Where are you?"
* <<Bbl Gn 4:6 >>-9 "Why are you angry...Where is your brother?"
* <<Bbl Gn 16:8 >> "Hagar, where have you come from and where -- ?"
* <<Bbl 1K 19:9 >>,13 "What are you doing here, Elijah?"
* <<Bbl 2K 5:25 >> "Where have you been, Gehazi?"
* <<Bbl Pr 18:13 >>
* <<Bbl I 6:8 >> "Whom shall I send?"
!! from Jesus
Often, the essential question is, ''"Do you realize your utter incapacity? And how this indicates your need for Me, My Spirit?"''
* <<Bbl J 4:4 >> "Do you have good reason to be angry?"
* <<Bbl J 1:38 >> "What do you seek?"
* { } "Simon, do the sons of the king pay taxes?"
* <<Bbl J 6:5>>-6 "Where are we to buy bread -- ?" And this He was saying to test him; for He Himself knew --
* <<Bbl J 21:5>> "Children, you do not have any fish, do you?"
* <<Bbl J 21:15>>-17 "Simon, son of John, do you love me?"
* <<Bbl J 18:4>>-7 "Whom do you seek?"
* <<Bbl J 20:15>> "Woman, why are you weeping? Whom do you seek?"
* <<Bbl L 24:17 >> "What are these words that you are exchanging...?"
* [[Why-Lord]]
!!! Questions, as answered by Jesus
* <<Bbl Mt 9:1 >>-2
* <<Bbl Mt 15:2 >>-9
* <<Bbl Mt 16:1 >>-4
* <<Bbl Mt 19:16 >>-17
* <<Bbl Mk 2:4 >>-5
* <<Bbl Mk 10:17 >>-18
* <<Bbl L 5:20 >>
* <<Bbl L 9:54 >>-56
* <<Bbl L 12:13 >>-15
* <<Bbl L 18:18 >>-19
* <<Bbl L 20:22 >>-23
* <<Bbl J 1:48 >>-51
* <<Bbl J 4:9 >>-10
* <<Bbl J 7:15 >>-19
* <<Bbl J 12:21 >>-26
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2008.05.12 2.3.0 added "toggleQuickEdit" command handler (replaces inline script command)
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2007.03.29 1.0.0 initial release (as inline script)
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getField: function(where) {
var here=story.findContainingTiddler(where); if (!here) return null;
var e=story.getTiddlerField(here.getAttribute("tiddler"),"text");
if (e&&e.getAttribute("edit")=="text") return e;
return null;
},
setSelection: function(where,newtext) {
var e=this.getField(where); if (!e) return false;
e.focus(); replaceSelection(e,newtext);
return false;
},
wrapSelection: function(where,before,after) {
var e=this.getField(where); if (!e) return false;
e.focus(); replaceSelection(e,before+config.quickEdit.getSelection(e)+after);
return false;
},
getSelection: function(e) {
var seltext="";
if (e&&e.setSelectionRange)
seltext=e.value.substr(e.selectionStart,e.selectionEnd-e.selectionStart);
else if (document.selection) {
var range = document.selection.createRange();
if (range.parentElement()==e) seltext=range.text
}
return seltext;
},
promptForFilename: function(msg,path,file) {
if(window.Components) { // moz
try {
netscape.security.PrivilegeManager.enablePrivilege('UniversalXPConnect');
var nsIFilePicker = window.Components.interfaces.nsIFilePicker;
var picker = Components.classes['@mozilla.org/filepicker;1'].createInstance(nsIFilePicker);
picker.init(window, msg, nsIFilePicker.modeOpen);
var thispath = Components.classes['@mozilla.org/file/local;1'].createInstance(Components.interfaces.nsILocalFile);
thispath.initWithPath(path);
picker.displayDirectory=thispath;
picker.defaultExtension='jpg';
picker.defaultString=file;
picker.appendFilters(nsIFilePicker.filterAll|nsIFilePicker.filterImages);
if (picker.show()!=nsIFilePicker.returnCancel)
var result="file:///"+picker.file.path.replace(/\\/g,'/');
}
catch(e) { alert('error during local file access: '+e.toString()) }
}
else { // IE
try { // XP only
var s = new ActiveXObject('UserAccounts.CommonDialog');
s.Filter='All files|*.*|JPG files|*.jpg|GIF files|*.gif|PNG files|*.png|';
s.FilterIndex=1; // default to JPG
s.InitialDir=path;
s.FileName=file;
if (s.showOpen()) var result=s.FileName;
}
catch(e) { var result=prompt(msg,path+file); } // fallback for non-XP IE
}
return result;
}
}
//}}}
//{{{
if (config.options.chkShowQuickEdit===undefined) config.options.chkShowQuickEdit=false;
config.commands.toggleQuickEdit = {
hideReadOnly: true,
getText: function() { return config.options.chkShowQuickEdit?'\u221Aquickedit':'quickedit'; },
tooltip: 'show QuickEdit toolbar buttons',
handler: function(event,src,title) {
var opt='chkShowQuickEdit';
config.options[opt]=!config.options[opt];
config.macros.option.propagateOption(opt,"checked", config.options[opt],"input");
if (config.options[opt]) saveOptionCookie(opt); else removeCookie(opt);
src.innerHTML=config.commands.toggleQuickEdit.getText();
story.forEachTiddler(function(t,e){if (story.isDirty(t)) refreshElements(e);});
return false;
}
};
//}}}
// // COPIED FROM [[StickyPopupPlugin]] TO ELIMINATE PLUGIN DEPENDENCY
//{{{
if (config.options.chkStickyPopups==undefined) config.options.chkStickyPopups=false;
Popup.stickyPopup_onDocumentClick = function(ev)
{
// if click is in a sticky popup, ignore it so popup will remain visible
var e = ev ? ev : window.event; var target = resolveTarget(e);
var p=target; while (p) {
if (hasClass(p,"popup") && (hasClass(p,"sticky")||config.options.chkStickyPopups)) break;
else p=p.parentNode;
}
if (!p) // not in sticky popup (or sticky popups disabled)... use normal click handling
Popup.onDocumentClick(ev);
return true;
};
try{removeEvent(document,"click",Popup.onDocumentClick);}catch(e){};
try{addEvent(document,"click",Popup.stickyPopup_onDocumentClick);}catch(e){};
//}}}
/%
|Name|QuickEditToolbar|
|Source|http://www.TiddlyTools.com/#QuickEditToolbar|
|Version|2.4.4|
|Author|Eric Shulman|
|License|http://www.TiddlyTools.com/#LegalStatements|
|~CoreVersion|2.2|
|Type|transclusion|
|Requires|QuickEditPlugin|
|Optional|QuickEdit_*|
|Description|format/insert TiddlyWiki content using toolbar buttons|
Usage:
* install [[QuickEditPlugin]] (runtime support functions)
* add the toolbar to [[EditTemplate]]:
<div macro='tiddler QuickEditToolbar with: show'></div>
* 'show' (optional) forces the toolbar to always be displayed or,
omit keyword and use <<option chkShowQuickEdit>> setting
* selected QuickEdit buttons can also be added individually to the
regular tiddler toolbar by adding references directly in [[EditTemplate]]:
<span class='toolbar' macro='tiddler QuickEdit_...'></span>
* see [[QuickEditPackage]] for additional installation options
%/{{hidden fine center quickEdit{
<<tiddler {{ // show/hide toolbar
var here=story.findContainingTiddler(place); if (here) var tid=here.getAttribute('tiddler');
var show='$1'!='$'+'1'||config.options.chkShowQuickEdit||tid=='QuickEditToolbar';
place.style.display=show?'block':'none';
'';}}>>/%
TOOLBAR DEFINITION - add, remove, or re-order items as desired:
= = = = = = = = = =
%/<<tiddler QuickEdit_format>>/%
%/<<tiddler QuickEdit_align>>/%
%/<<tiddler QuickEdit_color>>/%
%/<<tiddler QuickEdit_font>>/%
%/<<tiddler QuickEdit_custom>>/%
%/ /% (SPACER)
%/<<tiddler QuickEdit_replace>>/%
%/<<tiddler QuickEdit_split>>/%
%/<<tiddler QuickEdit_sort>>/%
%/<<tiddler QuickEdit_convert>>/%
%/ /% (SPACER)
%/<<tiddler QuickEdit_link>>/%
%/<<tiddler QuickEdit_insert>>/%
%/<<tiddler QuickEdit_macro>>/%
%/<<tiddler QuickEdit_image>>/%
%/}}}
/%
|Name|QuickEdit_align|
|Source|http://www.TiddlyTools.com/#QuickEdit_align|
|Version|2.4.3|
|Author|Eric Shulman|
|License|see http://www.TiddlyTools.com/#QuickEditPlugin|
|Type|html|
|Requires|QuickEditPlugin|
|Description|quickedit - text alignment|
Usage: see http://www.TiddlyTools.com/#QuickEditToolbar
%/<html><hide linebreaks><a href="javascript:;" class="tiddlyLink" tabindex="-1"
title="align text"
onclick="var p=Popup.create(this); if (!p) return false; p.className+=' sticky smallform';
var s=createTiddlyElement(p,'select'); s.button=this;
s.options[0]=new Option('select text alignment...','');
s.options[s.length]=new Option('left','left');
s.options[s.length-1].title='{{left{...}}}';
s.options[s.length]=new Option('center','center');
s.options[s.length-1].title='{{center{...}}}';
s.options[s.length]=new Option('right','right');
s.options[s.length-1].title='{{right{...}}}';
s.options[s.length]=new Option('justify','justify');
s.options[s.length-1].title='{{justify{...}}}';
s.options[s.length]=new Option('float left','floatleft');
s.options[s.length-1].title='{{floatleft{...}}}';
s.options[s.length]=new Option('float right','floatright');
s.options[s.length-1].title='{{floatright{...}}}';
s.size=s.length;
s.onclick=function(){ if (!this.value.length) return;
config.quickEdit.wrapSelection(this.button,'{{'+this.value+'{','}}}');
Popup.remove(); return false;
};
s.onkeyup=config.quickEdit.keyup;
Popup.show();
s.focus();
return config.quickEdit.processed(event);"
>align</a></html>
/%
|Name|QuickEdit_color|
|Source|http://www.TiddlyTools.com/#QuickEdit_color|
|Version|2.4.3|
|Author|Eric Shulman|
|License|see http://www.TiddlyTools.com/#QuickEditPlugin|
|Type|html|
|Requires|QuickEditPlugin|
|Description|quickedit - text/background color|
Usage: see http://www.TiddlyTools.com/#QuickEditToolbar
%/<html><hide linebreaks><a href="javascript:;" class="tiddlyLink" tabindex="-1"
title="text/background color - @@color:#RGB;background-color:#RGB;...@@"
onclick="var p=Popup.create(this,null,'popup sticky smallform'); if (!p) return false;
p.style.padding='2px';
function hex(d) { return '0123456789ABCDEF'.substr(d,1); }
var fg=createTiddlyElement(p,'select'); fg.button=this;
fg.style.width='12em';
fg.options[0]=new Option('text color...','');
fg.options[1]=new Option('\xa0 or enter a value','_ask');
fg.options[2]=new Option('\xa0 or use default color','');
for (var r=0;r<16;r+=3) for (var g=0;g<16;g+=3) for (var b=0;b<16;b+=3) {
var label=hex(r)+hex(g)+hex(b);
fg.options[fg.length]=new Option(label,'#'+label);
fg.options[fg.length-1].style.color='#'+label;
}
fg.onchange=function(){ var val=this.value;
if (val=='_ask') { val=prompt('Enter a CSS color value');
if (!val||!val.length) return false; }
this.options[0].value=val; this.options[0].text=val.length?'text: '+val:'text color...';
var bg=this.nextSibling;
for (var i=3;i<bg.options.length;i++) bg.options[i].style.color=val;
var preview=this.nextSibling.nextSibling.nextSibling;
var t=config.quickEdit.getSelection(config.quickEdit.getField(this.button));
t=t.replace(/^@@(color\:.+;)?(background-color\:.+;)?/,'').replace(/@@$/,'');
if (!t.length) t='~AaBbCcDdEeFfGgHhIiJj 1234567890';
var fg=this.value; if (fg.length) fg='color:'+fg+';';
var bg=this.nextSibling.value; if (bg.length) bg='background-color:'+bg+';';
if (fg.length||bg.length) t='@@'+fg+bg+t+'@@';
removeChildren(preview); wikify(t,preview);
this.selectedIndex=0; return false;
};
var bg=createTiddlyElement(p,'select'); bg.button=this;
bg.style.width='12em';
bg.options[0]=new Option('background color...','');
bg.options[1]=new Option('\xa0 or enter a value','_ask');
bg.options[2]=new Option('\xa0 or use default color','');
for (var r=0;r<16;r+=3) for (var g=0;g<16;g+=3) for (var b=0;b<16;b+=3) {
var label=hex(15-r)+hex(15-g)+hex(15-b);
bg.options[bg.length]=new Option(label,'#'+label);
bg.options[bg.length-1].style.backgroundColor='#'+label;
}
bg.onchange=function(){ var val=this.value;
if (val=='_ask') { val=prompt('Enter a CSS color value');
if (!val||!val.length) return false; }
this.options[0].value=val;
this.options[0].text=val.length?'background: '+val:'background color...';
var fg=this.previousSibling;
for (var i=3;i<fg.options.length;i++) fg.options[i].style.backgroundColor=val;
var preview=this.nextSibling.nextSibling;
var t=config.quickEdit.getSelection(config.quickEdit.getField(this.button));
t=t.replace(/^@@(color\:.+;)?(background-color\:.+;)?/,'').replace(/@@$/,'');
if (!t.length) t='~AaBbCcDdEeFfGgHhIiJj 1234567890';
var fg=this.previousSibling.value; if (fg.length) fg='color:'+fg+';';
var bg=this.value; if (bg.length) bg='background-color:'+bg+';';
if (fg.length||bg.length) t='@@'+fg+bg+t+'@@';
removeChildren(preview); wikify(t,preview);
this.selectedIndex=0; return false;
};
var b=createTiddlyElement(p,'input',null,null,null,{type:'button'}); b.button=this;
b.value='ok'; b.style.width='4em';
b.onclick=function() {
var fg=this.previousSibling.previousSibling.value; if (fg.length) fg='color:'+fg+';';
var bg=this.previousSibling.value; if (bg.length) bg='background-color:'+bg+';';
var t=config.quickEdit.getSelection(config.quickEdit.getField(this.button));
t=t.replace(/^@@(color\:.+;)?(background-color\:.+;)?/,'').replace(/@@$/,'');
if (fg.length||bg.length) config.quickEdit.setSelection(this.button,'@@'+fg+bg+t+'@@');
Popup.remove(); return false;
};
var preview=createTiddlyElement(p,'div',null,'viewer'); var s=preview.style;
s.border='1px solid'; s.margin='2px'; s.width='24em'; s.padding='3px'; s.MozBorderRadius='3px';
s.overflow='hidden'; s.textAlign='center'; s.whiteSpace='normal';
var t=config.quickEdit.getSelection(config.quickEdit.getField(this));
wikify(t.length?t:'~AaBbCcDdEeFfGgHhIiJj 1234567890',preview);
Popup.show();
event.cancelBubble=true;if(event.stopPropagation)event.stopPropagation();return false;"
>color</a></html>
/%
|Name|QuickEdit_convert|
|Source|http://www.TiddlyTools.com/#QuickEdit_convert|
|Version|2.4.3|
|Author|Eric Shulman|
|License|see http://www.TiddlyTools.com/#QuickEditPlugin|
|Type|html|
|Requires|QuickEditPlugin|
|Description|quickedit - convert between comma/tab-separated and TW table format|
Usage: see http://www.TiddlyTools.com/#QuickEditToolbar
%/<html><hide linebreaks><a href="javascript:;" class="tiddlyLink" tabindex="-1"
title="convert between comma/tab-separated and TW table format"
onclick="var e=config.quickEdit.getField(this);
if (e) e.focus(); var txt=config.quickEdit.getSelection(e);
if (txt.indexOf(',')+txt.indexOf('\t')+txt.indexOf('|')==-3) {
alert('Please select text containing tabs, commas, or TiddlyWiki table syntax.');
return false;
}
var p=Popup.create(this); if (!p) return false; p.className+=' sticky smallform';
var s=createTiddlyElement(p,'select'); s.button=this;
s.options[0]=new Option('select a converter...','');
if (txt.indexOf(',')!=-1) {
s.options[s.length]=new Option('commas -> table','commasToTable');
s.options[s.length]=new Option('commas -> tabs','commasToTabs');
}
if (txt.indexOf('\t')!=-1) {
s.options[s.length]=new Option('tabs -> table','tabsToTable');
s.options[s.length]=new Option('tabs -> commas','tabsToCommas');
}
if (txt.indexOf('|')!=-1) {
s.options[s.length]=new Option('table -> tabs','tableToTabs');
s.options[s.length]=new Option('table -> commas','tableToCommas');
}
s.size=s.length;
s.onclick=function(){ if (!this.value.length) return;
var e=config.quickEdit.getField(this.button); if (!e) return false;
e.focus(); var txt=config.quickEdit.getSelection(e);
switch(this.value) {
case 'tabsToTable':
txt=txt.replace(/\t/g,'|').replace(/^|$/g,'|');
txt=txt.replace(/\n/g,'|\n|').replace(/^\|$/g,'');
break;
case 'tableToTabs':
txt=txt.replace(/\t/g,' ').replace(/\|/g,'\t');
txt=txt.replace(/^\t/g,'').replace(/\t$/g,'');
txt=txt.replace(/\n\t/g,'\n').replace(/\t\n/g,'\n');
break;
case 'commasToTable':
txt=txt.replace(/,/g,'|').replace(/^|$/g,'|');
txt=txt.replace(/\n/g,'|\n|').replace(/^\|$/g,'');
break;
case 'tableToCommas':
txt=txt.replace(/,/g,' ').replace(/\|/g,',');
txt=txt.replace(/^,/g,'').replace(/,$/g,'');
txt=txt.replace(/\n,/g,'\n').replace(/,\n/g,'\n');
break;
case 'tabsToCommas':
txt=txt.replace(/\t/g,',');
break;
case 'commasToTabs':
txt=txt.replace(/,/g,'\t');
break;
}
replaceSelection(e,txt);
Popup.remove(); return false;
};
s.onkeyup=config.quickEdit.keyup;
Popup.show();
s.focus();
return config.quickEdit.processed(event);"
>convert</a></html>
/%
|Name|QuickEdit_custom|
|Source|http://www.TiddlyTools.com/#QuickEdit_custom|
|Version|2.4.3|
|Author|Eric Shulman|
|License|see http://www.TiddlyTools.com/#QuickEditPlugin|
|Type|html|
|Requires|QuickEditPlugin|
|Description|quickedit - custom defined formats|
Usage: see http://www.TiddlyTools.com/#QuickEditToolbar
!help
Reminders:
Custom formats are stored as an "HR-separated list" in [[QuickEdit_customList]], where the first line of each list item is the text 'label' to show in the droplist, followed by one or more lines of wiki content to be inserted into the tiddler source.
Substitution markers can be used to dynamically insert values into the formatted output: $1 inserts the tiddler editor's current selected text. $[[message|default value]] interactively prompts for a value to be inserted. $[[message|$1]] uses the selected text as the default value. $[[message|{{javascript}}]] calculates the default value using javascript code.
!end help
%/<html><hide linebreaks><a href="javascript:;" class="tiddlyLink" tabindex="-1" title="custom defined formats"
onclick="var p=Popup.create(this); if (!p) return false; p.className+=' sticky smallform';
var s=createTiddlyElement(p,'select'); s.button=this;
s.options[0]=new Option('select a custom format...','');
var items=store.getTiddlerText('QuickEdit_customList','').split('\n----\n');
for (var i=0; i<items.length; i++) {
if (!items[i].length) continue; var lines=items[i].split('\n');
var label=lines.shift(); var val=lines.join('\n');
s.options[s.length]=new Option(label,val); s.options[s.length-1].title=val;
}
s.options[s.length]=new Option('[Edit custom formats...]','_edit');
s.options[s.length-1].title='add/change custom format definitions...';
s.size=Math.min(s.length,15);
s.onclick=function(){ if (!this.value.length) return;
if (this.value=='_edit') {
alert(store.getTiddlerText('QuickEdit_custom##help'));
story.displayTiddler(story.findContainingTiddler(this.button),
'QuickEdit_customList',DEFAULT_EDIT_TEMPLATE);
} else {
var e=config.quickEdit.getField(this.button); if (!e) return false;
e.focus(); var txt=config.quickEdit.getSelection(e);
replaceSelection(e, this.value.replace(/\$\x31/g,txt)
.replace(/\$\[\[[^\]]+\]\]/g, function(t){
x=t.substr(3,t.length-5).split('|');
var msg=x[0]; var def=x[1]||'';
if (def.startsWith('{{')) {
try{def=eval(def.substr(2,def.length-4))} catch(ex){showException(ex)}
}
return prompt(msg,def)||'';
})
);
}
Popup.remove(); return false;
};
s.onkeyup=config.quickEdit.keyup;
Popup.show();
s.focus();
return config.quickEdit.processed(event);"
>custom</a></html>
Bible ref abbr
<<Bbl $1 abbr>>
----
Bible ref
<<Bbl $1>>
----
match tags
<<matchTags '* %0' '\n' $1 >>
----
timestamp
$[[enter a date|{{new Date().formatString('DDD, MMM DDth, YYYY hh12:0mm:0ssam')}}]]
----
scrollbox
@@display:block;height:10em;overflow:auto;$[[enter scrolling content|$1]]@@@@display:block;text-align:right;^^scroll for more...^^@@
----
nested slider
+++[$1]<<tiddler $1>>===
----
big red
@@font-size:36pt;color:red;$1@@
----
/%
|Name|QuickEdit_font|
|Source|http://www.TiddlyTools.com/#QuickEdit_font|
|Version|2.4.3|
|Author|Eric Shulman|
|License|see http://www.TiddlyTools.com/#QuickEditPlugin|
|Type|html|
|Requires|QuickEditPlugin|
|Description|quickedit - select font family|
Usage: see http://www.TiddlyTools.com/#QuickEditToolbar
%/<html><hide linebreaks><a href="javascript:;" class="tiddlyLink" tabindex="-1"
title="set font-family CSS attribute - @@font-family:facename;...@@"
onclick="var p=Popup.create(this); if (!p) return false; p.className+=' sticky smallform';
var s=createTiddlyElement(p,'select'); s.button=this;
s.options[0]=new Option('select a font family...','');
var fonts=store.getTiddlerText('QuickEdit_fontList','').split('\n');
for (var i=0; i<fonts.length; i++) {
if (!fonts[i].length) continue;
s.options[s.length]=new Option(fonts[i],fonts[i]);
s.options[s.length-1].style.fontFamily=fonts[i];
}
s.options[s.length]=new Option('[Edit font list...]','_edit');
s.options[s.length-1].title='enter fonts, one per line...';
s.size=Math.min(s.length,15);
s.onclick=function(){
if (this.value=='_edit')
story.displayTiddler(story.findContainingTiddler(this.button),'QuickEdit_fontList',DEFAULT_EDIT_TEMPLATE);
else
config.quickEdit.wrapSelection(this.button,'@@font-family:\x22'+this.value+'\x22;','@@');
Popup.remove(); return false;
};
s.onkeyup=config.quickEdit.keyup;
Popup.show();
s.focus();
return config.quickEdit.processed(event);"
>font</a></html>
Arial,helvetica,sans-serif
Times New Roman,times,serif
Courier,monospace
/%
|Name|QuickEdit_format|
|Source|http://www.TiddlyTools.com/#QuickEdit_format|
|Version|2.4.3|
|Author|Eric Shulman|
|License|see http://www.TiddlyTools.com/#QuickEditPlugin|
|Type|html|
|Requires|QuickEditPlugin|
|Description|quickedit - basic text formats, headings, blockquotes, etc.|
Usage: see http://www.TiddlyTools.com/#QuickEditToolbar
%/<html><hide linebreaks><a href="javascript:;" class="tiddlyLink" tabindex="-1"
title="plain text (remove ALL formatting)" accesskey="P"
onclick="var e=config.quickEdit.getField(this); if (e) e.focus(); var txt=config.quickEdit.getSelection(e);
config.quickEdit.setSelection(e,wikifyPlainText(txt)); return false;"
> ~ </a></html>/%
%/<html><hide linebreaks><a href="javascript:;" class="tiddlyLink" tabindex="-1"
title="''bold''" accesskey="B"
onclick="config.quickEdit.wrapSelection(this,'\x27\x27','\x27\x27'); return false;"
> B </a></html>/%
%/<html><hide linebreaks><a href="javascript:;" class="tiddlyLink" tabindex="-1"
title="//italics//" accesskey="I"
onclick="config.quickEdit.wrapSelection(this,'//','//'); return false;"
> I </a></html>/%
%/<html><hide linebreaks><a href="javascript:;" class="tiddlyLink" tabindex="-1"
title="__underline__" accesskey="U"
onclick="config.quickEdit.wrapSelection(this,'__','__'); return false;"
> U </a></html>/%
%/<html><hide linebreaks><a href="javascript:;" class="tiddlyLink" tabindex="-1"
title="--strikethrough--" accesskey="S"
onclick="config.quickEdit.wrapSelection(this,'--','--'); return false;"
> S </a></html>/%
%/ /% SPACER
%/<html><hide linebreaks><a href="javascript:;" class="tiddlyLink" tabindex="-1"
title="format text"
onclick="var p=Popup.create(this); if (!p) return false; p.className+=' sticky smallform';
var s=createTiddlyElement(p,'select'); s.button=this;
s.options[0]=new Option('select text format...','');
s.options[s.length]=new Option('CSS class wrapper','{{$1{,}}},Enter a CSS classname');
s.options[s.length-1].title='CSS class wrapper - {{classname classname etc{...}}}';
s.options[s.length]=new Option('inline CSS styles','@@$1,@@,Enter CSS (attribute:value;attribute:value;...;)');
s.options[s.length-1].title='inline CSS styles - @@attr:value;attr:value;...@@';
s.options[s.length]=new Option('heading 1','\n!,\n');
s.options[s.length-1].title='H1 heading - !';
s.options[s.length]=new Option('heading 2','\n!!,\n');
s.options[s.length-1].title='H2 heading - !!';
s.options[s.length]=new Option('heading 3','\n!!!,\n');
s.options[s.length-1].title='H3 heading - !!!';
s.options[s.length]=new Option('heading 4','\n!!!!,\n');
s.options[s.length-1].title='H4 heading - !!!!';
s.options[s.length]=new Option('heading 5','\n!!!!!,\n');
s.options[s.length-1].title='H5 heading - !!!!!';
s.options[s.length]=new Option('blockquote','\n\<\<\<\n,\n\<\<\<\n');
s.options[s.length-1].title='indented blockquote - \<\<\<';
s.options[s.length]=new Option('monospace','{{{,}}}');
s.options[s.length-1].title='inline monospaced text - {{{...}}}';
s.options[s.length]=new Option('plain text','\n{{{\n,\n}}}\n');
s.options[s.length-1].title='multi-line monospaced text box - {{{...}}}';
s.options[s.length]=new Option('superscript','^^,^^');
s.options[s.length-1].title='^^superscript^^';
s.options[s.length]=new Option('subscript','~~,~~');
s.options[s.length-1].title='~~subscript~~';
s.options[s.length]=new Option('HTML','<html>,<\x2fhtml>');
s.options[s.length-1].title='HTML syntax - <html>...<\x2fhtml>';
s.options[s.length]=new Option('comment','/%,%/');
s.options[s.length-1].title='comment (hidden content) - /%...%/';
s.size=s.length;
s.onclick=function(){ if (!this.value.length) return;
var parts=this.value.split(',');
var prefix=parts[0]; var suffix=parts[1]; var ask=parts[2];
if (ask) {
var val=prompt(ask); if (!val) { Popup.remove(); return false; }
prefix=prefix.replace(/\$1/g,val); suffix=suffix.replace(/\$1/g,val);
}
config.quickEdit.wrapSelection(this.button,prefix,suffix);
Popup.remove(); return false;
};
s.onkeyup=config.quickEdit.keyup;
Popup.show();
s.focus();
return config.quickEdit.processed(event);"
>format</a></html>
/%
|Name|QuickEdit_image|
|Source|http://www.TiddlyTools.com/#QuickEdit_image|
|Version|2.4.3|
|Author|Eric Shulman|
|License|see http://www.TiddlyTools.com/#QuickEditPlugin|
|Type|html|
|Requires|QuickEditPlugin|
|Description|quickedit - embed an image|
Usage: see http://www.TiddlyTools.com/#QuickEditToolbar
%/<html><hide linebreaks><a href="javascript:;" class="tiddlyLink" tabindex="-1"
title="embed an image (jpg/gif/png) - [img[tooltip|URL]] or [img[tooltip|path/to/file.ext]]"
onclick="var fn=config.quickEdit.promptForFilename(
'Enter/select an image file',getLocalPath(document.location.href),'');
if (!fn) return false; /* cancelled by user */
var h=document.location.href; var p=decodeURIComponent(h.substr(0,h.lastIndexOf('/')+1));
if (fn.startsWith(p)) fn=fn.substr(p.length); /* use RELATIVE path/filename.ext */
var tip=prompt('Enter a tooltip for this image',''); if (!tip) tip=''; else tip+='|';
return config.quickEdit.setSelection(this,'[img['+tip+fn+']]');"
>image</a></html>
/%
|Name|QuickEdit_insert|
|Source|http://www.TiddlyTools.com/#QuickEdit_insert|
|Version|2.4.3|
|Author|Eric Shulman|
|License|see http://www.TiddlyTools.com/#QuickEditPlugin|
|Type|html|
|Requires|QuickEditPlugin|
|Description|quickedit - insert content from another tiddler or external file|
Usage: see http://www.TiddlyTools.com/#QuickEditToolbar
%/<html><hide linebreaks><a href="javascript:;" class="tiddlyLink" tabindex="-1"
title="insert content from another tiddler or external file"
onclick="var p=Popup.create(this); if (!p) return false; p.className+=' sticky smallform';
var s2=createTiddlyElement(p,'select'); s2.title='filter by tag';
s2.options[0]=new Option('filter by tag...','');
s2.options[s2.length]=new Option('[all tiddlers]','');
var tags=store.getTags();
for (var t=0; t<tags.length; t++) s2.options[s2.length]=new Option(tags[t][0],tags[t][0]);
s2.onchange=function(){
var tag=this.value;
var tids=tag.length?store.reverseLookup('tags',tag,true):store.reverseLookup('tags','excludeLists');
var list=this.nextSibling.nextSibling;
while (list.length) list.options[0]=null;
var prompt='select a tiddler or file...';
if (tag.length) prompt='select a tagged tiddler ['+tids.length+' matches]...';
list.options[0]=new Option(prompt,'');
if (!tag.length) list.options[list.length]=new Option('[browse for file...]','_file');
for (var t=0; t<tids.length; t++) {
list.options[list.length]=new Option(tids[t].title,tids[t].title);
list.options[list.length-1].title=tids[t].getSubtitle();
}
list.size=Math.min(list.length,10);
list.selectedIndex=0; list.focus();
this.style.width=list.offsetWidth+'px';
if (!tag.length) this.selectedIndex=0;
};
createTiddlyElement(p,'br');
var s=createTiddlyElement(p,'select'); s.button=this;
s.title='select a tiddler or file';
s.options[0]=new Option('select a tiddler or file...','');
s.options[s.length]=new Option('[browse for file...]','_file');
var tids=store.reverseLookup('tags','excludeLists');
for (var t=0; t<tids.length; t++) {
s.options[s.length]=new Option(tids[t].title,tids[t].title);
s.options[s.length-1].title=tids[t].getSubtitle();
}
s.size=Math.min(s.length,10);
s.onclick=function(){ if (!this.value.length) return false;
if (this.value=='_file') {
var fn=config.quickEdit.promptForFilename(
'Enter/select a text file',getLocalPath(document.location.href),'');
if (!fn) return false; /* cancelled by user */
var txt=loadFile(getLocalPath(fn));
if (!txt) { alert('Error: unable to read contents from \0027'+fn+'\0027'); return; }
}
else var txt=store.getTiddlerText(this.value);
if (!txt) {
displayMessage(this.value+' not found');
this.selectedIndex=0; this.focus();
return false;
}
config.quickEdit.setSelection(this.button,txt);
Popup.remove(); return false;
};
s.onkeyup=config.quickEdit.keyup;
Popup.show();
s2.style.width=s.offsetWidth+'px';
s.focus();
return config.quickEdit.processed(event);"
>insert</a></html>
/%
|Name|QuickEdit_link|
|Source|http://www.TiddlyTools.com/#QuickEdit_link|
|Version|2.4.3|
|Author|Eric Shulman|
|License|see http://www.TiddlyTools.com/#QuickEditPlugin|
|Type|html|
|Requires|QuickEditPlugin|
|Description|quickedit - link to tiddler or external file|
Usage: see http://www.TiddlyTools.com/#QuickEditToolbar
%/<html><hide linebreaks><a href="javascript:;" class="tiddlyLink" tabindex="-1"
title="add a link to a tiddler or external file - [[link text|TiddlerName]]"
onclick="var p=Popup.create(this); if (!p) return false; p.className+=' sticky smallform';
var s2=createTiddlyElement(p,'select'); s2.title='filter by tag';
s2.options[0]=new Option('filter by tag...','');
s2.options[s2.length]=new Option('[all tiddlers]','');
var tags=store.getTags();
for (var t=0; t<tags.length; t++) s2.options[s2.length]=new Option(tags[t][0],tags[t][0]);
s2.onchange=function(){
var tag=this.value;
var tids=tag.length?store.reverseLookup('tags',tag,true):store.reverseLookup('tags','excludeLists');
var list=this.nextSibling.nextSibling;
while (list.length) list.options[0]=null;
var prompt='select a tiddler or file...';
if (tag.length) prompt='select a tagged tiddler ['+tids.length+' matches]...';
list.options[0]=new Option(prompt,'');
if (!tag.length) list.options[list.length]=new Option('[browse for file...]','_file');
for (var t=0; t<tids.length; t++) {
list.options[list.length]=new Option(tids[t].title,tids[t].title);
list.options[list.length-1].title=tids[t].getSubtitle();
}
list.size=Math.min(list.length,10);
list.selectedIndex=0; list.focus();
this.style.width=list.offsetWidth+'px';
if (!tag.length) this.selectedIndex=0;
};
createTiddlyElement(p,'br');
var s=createTiddlyElement(p,'select'); s.button=this;
s.title='select a tiddler or file';
s.options[0]=new Option('select a tiddler or file...','');
s.options[s.length]=new Option('[browse for file...]','_file');
var tids=store.reverseLookup('tags','excludeLists');
for (var t=0; t<tids.length; t++) {
s.options[s.length]=new Option(tids[t].title,tids[t].title);
s.options[s.length-1].title=tids[t].getSubtitle();
}
s.size=Math.min(s.length,10);
s.onclick=function(){ if (!this.value.length) return false;
var title=this.value; var txt=title;
if (title=='_file') {
title=config.quickEdit.promptForFilename('Select a file',
getLocalPath(document.location.href),'');
if (!title) { this.selectedIndex=0; this.focus(); return false; }
var txt=title.substr(title.lastIndexOf('/')+1);
}
var txt=prompt('Enter the text to display for this link',txt);
if (!txt) { this.selectedIndex=0; this.focus(); return false; }
config.quickEdit.setSelection(this.button,'[['+txt+'|'+title+']]');
Popup.remove(); return false;
};
s.onkeyup=config.quickEdit.keyup;
Popup.show();
s2.style.width=s.offsetWidth+'px';
s.focus();
return config.quickEdit.processed(event);"
>link</a></html>
/%
|Name|QuickEdit_macro|
|Source|http://www.TiddlyTools.com/#QuickEdit_macro|
|Version|2.4.3|
|Author|Eric Shulman|
|License|see http://www.TiddlyTools.com/#QuickEditPlugin|
|Type|html|
|Requires|QuickEditPlugin|
|Description|quickedit - embed a macro with 'guide text'|
Usage: see http://www.TiddlyTools.com/#QuickEditToolbar
Note:
Optional 'guideText' can be used to add suggested defaults/placeholders for specific macro parameters.
Add guideText to your own plugin-defined macros using:
config.macros.macroName.guideText='guide text goes here';
%/<<tiddler {{
/* define guide text for a few common TW core macros */
config.macros.edit.guideText='fieldname #rows';
config.macros.view.guideText='fieldname (link,wikified,date) format';
config.macros.slider.guideText='cookie TiddlerName label tooltip';
config.macros.option.guideText='(txtCookieName,chkCookieName)';
config.macros.tiddler.guideText='TiddlerName with: params...';
''; /* must return blank to suppress output */ }}>>/%
%/<html><hide linebreaks><a href='javascript:;' class='tiddlyLink' tabindex='-1'
title='add a macro - \<\<macroName ...\>\>'
onclick="var p=Popup.create(this); if (!p) return false; p.className+=' sticky smallform';
var s=createTiddlyElement(p,'select'); s.button=this;
s.options[0]=new Option('select a macro...','');
var macros=[]; for (var m in config.macros) if (config.macros[m].handler) macros.push(m); macros.sort();
for (var i=0; i<macros.length; i++) { var m=macros[i];
var help=config.macros[m].guideText; if (!help) help=''; else help=' '+help;
s.options[s.length]=new Option(m,m+help);
s.options[s.length-1].title='\<\<'+m+help+'\>\>';
}
s.size=Math.min(s.length,15);
s.onclick=function(){ if (!this.value.length) return;
config.quickEdit.setSelection(this.button,'\<\<'+this.value+'\>\>');
Popup.remove(); return false;
};
s.onkeyup=config.quickEdit.keyup;
Popup.show();
s.focus();
return config.quickEdit.processed(event);"
>macro</a></html>
/%
|Name|QuickEdit_replace|
|Source|http://www.TiddlyTools.com/#QuickEdit_replace|
|Version|2.4.5|
|Author|Eric Shulman|
|License|see http://www.TiddlyTools.com/#QuickEditPlugin|
|Type|html|
|Requires|QuickEditPlugin|
|Description|quickedit - find/replace selected text with replacement text|
Usage: see http://www.TiddlyTools.com/#QuickEditToolbar
!!!Revisions
<<<
2010.12.26 2.4.5 fix use getField(this) to support hijacks by editSectionPlugin
<<<
%/<html><hide linebreaks><a href="javascript:;" class="tiddlyLink" tabindex="-1"
title="find/replace selected text with replacement text"
onclick="var p=Popup.create(this,null,'popup sticky smallform'); if (!p) return false;
var e=config.quickEdit.getField(this);
var s=config.quickEdit.getSelection(e);
var t=createTiddlyElement(p,'input'); t.onfocus=function(){this.select()};
t.value=s.length?s:'enter target text';
var r=createTiddlyElement(p,'input'); r.onfocus=function(){this.select()};
r.value='enter replacement text';
var b=createTiddlyElement(p,'button',null,null,'?');
b.style.width='2em';
b.title='FIND/FIND NEXT target text';
b.root=this;
b.onclick=function(ev) { /* FIND */
var e=config.quickEdit.getField(this.root);
var t=this.previousSibling.previousSibling;
var tv=t.value.replace(/\\t/mg,'\t').unescapeLineBreaks();
e.focus();
if (e.setSelectionRange) { /* MOZ */
var newstart=e.value.indexOf(tv,e.selectionStart+1);
if (newstart==-1) newstart=e.value.indexOf(tv); /* wrap around */
if (newstart==-1) { alert('\u0022'+t.value+'\u0022 not found'); t.focus(); return; }
e.setSelectionRange(newstart,newstart+tv.length);
var linecount=e.value.split('\n').length;
var thisline=e.value.substr(0,e.selectionStart).split('\n').length;
e.scrollTop=Math.floor((thisline-1-e.rows/2)*e.scrollHeight/linecount);
} else if (document.selection) { /* IE */
var range=document.selection.createRange();
if(range.parentElement()==e) {
range.collapse(false);
var found=false; try{found=range.findText(v,e.value.length,4)}catch(e){}
if (found) range.select();
else { alert('\u0022'+t.value+'\u0022 not found'); t.focus(); }
}
}
};
b=createTiddlyElement(p,'button',null,null,'=');
b.style.width='2em';
b.title='REPLACE selected text';
b.root=this;
b.onclick=function(ev) { /* REPLACE */
var e=config.quickEdit.getField(this.root);
var t=this.previousSibling.previousSibling.previousSibling;
var r=this.previousSibling.previousSibling;
var rv=r.value.replace(/\\t/mg,'\t').unescapeLineBreaks();
if ( (e.selectionStart!==undefined && e.selectionEnd==e.selectionStart)
|| (document.selection && document.selection.createRange().text==''))
this.previousSibling.click(); /* no selection... do FIND first */
if ( (e.selectionStart!==undefined && e.selectionEnd==e.selectionStart)
|| (document.selection && document.selection.createRange().text==''))
{ t.focus(); return; } /* still no selection... goto target input */
e.focus(); replaceSelection(e,rv);
};
b=createTiddlyElement(p,'button',null,null,'+');
b.style.width='2em';
b.title='REPLACE selected text AND FIND NEXT target text';
b.onclick=function(ev) { /* REPLACE and FIND NEXT */
this.previousSibling.click();
this.previousSibling.previousSibling.click();
};
b=createTiddlyElement(p,'button',null,null,'!');
b.style.width='2em';
b.title='REPLACE ALL occurrences of target text';
b.root=this;
b.onclick=function(ev) { /* REPLACE ALL */
var e=config.quickEdit.getField(this.root);
var t=this.previousSibling.previousSibling.previousSibling.previousSibling.previousSibling;
var r=this.previousSibling.previousSibling.previousSibling.previousSibling;
var tv=t.value.replace(/\\t/mg,'\t').unescapeLineBreaks();
var rv=r.value.replace(/\\t/mg,'\t').unescapeLineBreaks();
if (!tv.length) { alert('Please enter the target text'); t.focus(); return; }
var m='This will replace all occurrences of:\n\n'+tv+'\n\nwith:\n\n'+rv+'\n\nAre you sure?';
if (!confirm(m)) { r.focus(); r.select(); return; }
e.value=e.value.replace(new RegExp(tv.escapeRegExp(),'gm'),rv);
e.focus(); e.select(); Popup.remove();
};
Popup.show();
if (!s.length) {t.focus();t.select()} else {r.focus();r.select()}
event.cancelBubble=true;if(event.stopPropagation)event.stopPropagation();return false;"
>replace</a></html>
/%
|Name|QuickEdit_sort|
|Source|http://www.TiddlyTools.com/#QuickEdit_sort|
|Version|2.4.3|
|Author|Eric Shulman|
|License|see http://www.TiddlyTools.com/#QuickEditPlugin|
|Type|html|
|Requires|QuickEditPlugin|
|Description|quickedit - sort lines of text|
Usage: see http://www.TiddlyTools.com/#QuickEditToolbar
%/<html><hide linebreaks><a href="javascript:;" class="tiddlyLink" tabindex="-1"
title="sort lines of text"
onclick="var p=Popup.create(this); if (!p) return false; p.className+=' sticky smallform';
var s=createTiddlyElement(p,'select'); s.button=this;
s.options[0]=new Option('select sort order...','');
s.options[s.length]=new Option('ascending','A');
s.options[s.length-1].title='ascending';
s.options[s.length]=new Option('descending','D');
s.options[s.length-1].title='descending';
s.size=s.length;
s.onclick=function(){ if (!this.value.length) return;
var e=config.quickEdit.getField(this.button); if (!e) return false;
var lines=config.quickEdit.getSelection(e).split('\n').sort();
if (this.value=='D') lines=lines.reverse();
replaceSelection(e,lines.join('\n'));
e.focus();
Popup.remove(); return false;
};
s.onkeyup=config.quickEdit.keyup;
Popup.show();
s.focus();
return config.quickEdit.processed(event);"
>sort</a></html>
/%
|Name|QuickEdit_split|
|Source|http://www.TiddlyTools.com/#QuickEdit_split|
|Version|2.4.3|
|Author|Eric Shulman|
|License|see http://www.TiddlyTools.com/#QuickEditPlugin|
|Type|html|
|Requires|QuickEditPlugin|
|Description|quickedit - move selection to new tiddler and insert link, embedded tiddler, or slider|
Usage: see http://www.TiddlyTools.com/#QuickEditToolbar
Based on ideas originally developed by YannPerrin
(http://yann.perrin.googlepages.com/twkd.html#easySlicer)
%/<html><hide linebreaks><a href="javascript:;" class="tiddlyLink" tabindex="-1"
title="move selection to new tiddler and insert link, embedded tiddler, or slider"
onclick="var p=Popup.create(this); if (!p) return false; p.className+=' sticky smallform';
p.style.whiteSpace='nowrap';
var i=createTiddlyElement(p,'input');
i.defaultValue='Enter a new tiddler title';
i.onfocus=function(){this.select()};
var s=createTiddlyElement(p,'select'); s.button=this;
s.options[0]=new Option('select type...','');
s.options[0].title='select split type';
s.options[1]=new Option('link','link');
s.options[1].title='replace with [[TiddlerName]]';
s.options[2]=new Option('embed','embed');
s.options[2].title='replace with \<\<tiddler TiddlerName\>\>';
s.options[3]=new Option('slider','slider');
s.options[3].title='replace with \<\<slider \u0022\u0022 [[TiddlerName]] [[label]] [[tooltip]]\>\>';
s.onchange=function(){
if (s.previousSibling.value==s.previousSibling.defaultValue)
{ alert('A tiddler title is required'); s.selectedIndex=0; s.previousSibling.focus(); return false; }
var tid=s.previousSibling.value;
if (store.tiddlerExists(tid) && !confirm(config.messages.overwriteWarning.format([tid])))
{ s.previousSibling.focus(); return false; }
switch(s.value) {
case 'link':
var newtxt='[['+tid+']]';
break;
case 'embed':
var newtxt='\<\<tiddler [['+tid+']]\>\>';
break;
case 'slider':
var label=prompt('Enter a slider label',tid);
if (!label) { Popup.remove(); return false; }
var tip=prompt('Enter a slider tooltip',label);
if (!tip) { Popup.remove(); return false; }
var newtxt='\<\<slider \u0022\u0022 [['+tid+']] [['+label+']] [['+tip+']]\>\>';
break;
}
var txt=config.quickEdit.getSelection(config.quickEdit.getField(this.button));
store.saveTiddler(tid,tid,txt,config.options.txtUserName,new Date(),[],{});
story.displayTiddler(story.findContainingTiddler(this.button),tid);
config.quickEdit.setSelection(this.button,newtxt);
Popup.remove(); return false;
};
Popup.show();
event.cancelBubble=true;if(event.stopPropagation)event.stopPropagation();return false;"
>split</a></html>
/%
|Name|QuickEdit_tiddler|
|Source|http://www.TiddlyTools.com/#QuickEdit_tiddler|
|Version|2.2.0|
|Author|Eric Shulman - ELS Design Studios|
|License|http://www.TiddlyTools.com/#LegalStatements <br>and [[Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 License|http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/]]|
|~CoreVersion|2.2|
|Type|script|
|Requires|QuickEditPlugin|
|Overrides||
|Description|definition for toolbar button that inserts content from another tiddler|
Usage:
QuickEditToolbar: <<tiddler QuickEdit_tiddler>>
OR
EditTemplate: <span class='toolbar' macro='tiddler QuickEdit_tiddler'></span>
**** INSERT TIDDLER ****
%/<html><hide linebreaks><a href="javascript:;" class="tiddlyLink"
title="copy content from another tiddler"
onclick="var p=Popup.create(this); if (!p) return false; p.className+=' sticky smallform';
var s=createTiddlyElement(p,'select'); s.button=this;
s.options[0]=new Option('select a tiddler...','');
s.onchange=function(){
var txt=store.getTiddlerText(this.value);
if (!txt) { displayMessage(this.value+' not found'); this.selectedIndex=0; this.focus(); return false; }
config.quickEdit.setSelection(this.button,txt);
Popup.remove(); return false;
};
var tids=store.getTiddlers('title');
for (var t=0; t<tids.length; t++) {
s.options[s.length]=new Option(tids[t].title,tids[t].title);
s.options[s.length-1].title=tids[t].getSubtitle();
}
var s=createTiddlyElement(p,'select');
s.options[0]=new Option('match tag...','');
s.onchange=function(){
var tag=this.value;
var tids=tag.length?store.getTaggedTiddlers(tag,'title'):store.getTiddlers('title');
var list=this.previousSibling;
while (list.length) list.options[0]=null;
var prompt='select a '+(tag.length?'tagged ':'')+'tiddler'+(tag.length?(' ['+tids.length+' matches]'):'')+'...';
list.options[0]=new Option(prompt,'');
for (var t=0; t<tids.length; t++) {
list.options[list.length]=new Option(tids[t].title,tids[t].title);
list.options[list.length-1].title=tids[t].getSubtitle();
}
};
var tags=store.getTags();
for (var t=0; t<tags.length; t++) s.options[s.length]=new Option(tags[t][0],tags[t][0]);
Popup.show(p,false);
event.cancelBubble=true;if(event.stopPropagation)event.stopPropagation();return false;"
>tiddler</a></html>
/***
|Name|[[QuickNotePlugin]]|
|Source|http://www.TiddlyTools.com/#QuickNotePlugin|
|Version|2.1.0|
|Author|Eric Shulman|
|License|http://www.TiddlyTools.com/#LegalStatements|
|~CoreVersion|2.1|
|Type|plugin|
|Description|create quick notes using username+timestamp as tiddler titles|
!!!!!Documenatation
>see [[QuickNotePluginInfo]]
!!!!!Revisions
<<<
2011.06.07 2.1.0 added tiddler:... parameter (default=username)
2011.04.27 2.0.1 merge/clone defaultCustomFields for saving on TiddlySpace
| Please see [[QuickNotePluginInfo]] for previous revision details |
2009.09.15 1.0.0 initial release (transclusion)
<<<
!!!!!Code
***/
//{{{
version.extensions.QuickNotePlugin={ major:2, minor:1, revision:0, date:new Date(2011,6,7) };
config.macros.quickNote = {
addedMsg: 'Note added to: "%0"',
createdMsg: 'Created new note tiddler: "%0"',
shadow: function(tid,txt) {
config.shadowTiddlers[tid]=txt;
config.annotations[tid]='see QuickNotePlugin';
},
init: function() {
this.shadow('QuickNote',
'<<quickNote dateformat:"$1" tags:"$2" tiddler:"$3">>');
this.shadow('QuickNotePluginPanel',
store.getTiddlerText('QuickNotePlugin##html',''));
},
handler: function(place,macroName,params,wikifier,paramString,tiddler) {
var p=paramString.parseParams('name',null,true,false,true);
var s=createTiddlyElement(place,'span');
s.innerHTML=store.getTiddlerText('QuickNotePluginPanel','');
var f=s.getElementsByTagName('form')[0]; if (!f) return;
f.id=new Date().getTime()+Math.random().toString(); // globally unique ID
var v=getParam(p,'dateformat',''); v=v=='$1'?'':v; f.dateformat.value=v;
var v=getParam(p,'tags' ,''); v=v=='$2'?'':v; f.tags.value=v;
var v=getParam(p,'tiddler' ,config.options.txtUserName); v=v=='$3'?'':v; f.target.value=v;
if (v=='here') {
var here=story.findContainingTiddler(place);
if (here) f.target.value=here.getAttribute('tiddler');
}
this.tick(f.id);
},
tick: function(id) {
var f=document.getElementById(id); if (!f) return;
f.title.value=f.target.value+new Date().formatString(f.dateformat.value);
window.setTimeout('config.macros.quickNote.tick("'+id+'")',1000);
},
saveNote: function(f) {
var tid=f.title.value; if (!tid.length) return;
var t=store.getTiddler(tid); var existing=t!=null;
if (!existing) { t=new Tiddler(); t.text=store.getTiddlerText(tid,''); }
var who =t&&config.options.chkForceMinorUpdate?t.modifier:config.options.txtUserName;
var when=t&&config.options.chkForceMinorUpdate?t.modified:new Date();
var txt =t.text+(t.text.length?'\n':'')+f.txt.value;
var tags=t.tags.slice(0); var newtags=f.tags.value.readBracketedList();
for (var i=0; i<newtags.length; i++) tags.pushUnique(newtags[i]);
var fields=merge({},config.defaultCustomFields,true)
store.saveTiddler(tid,tid,txt,who,when,tags,fields);
autoSaveChanges(); story.displayTiddler(null,tid);
if (existing) displayMessage(this.addedMsg.format([tid]));
else displayMessage(this.createdMsg.format([tid]));
}
}
//}}}
/***
!!!!!Shadow tiddler: QuickNotePluginPanel
{{{
!html
<html><nowiki><form class="quickNote" style="display:inline;margin:0;padding:0;white-space:nowrap;">
<input type=hidden name="dateformat" disabled value="">
<input type=hidden name="target" disabled value="">
<input type=text name="title" disabled value="" title="title for new tiddler" style="width:50%">
<input type=text name="tags" value="" title="tags for new tiddler" style="width:40%">
<input type=button value="save" style="width:8%"
onclick="config.macros.quickNote.saveNote(this.form); return false;"><br>
<textarea name="txt" rows="5" cols="60" style="width:100%"></textarea>
</form></html>
!end
}}}
***/
/***
|Name|QuickNotePluginInfo|
|Source|http://www.TiddlyTools.com/#QuickNotePlugin|
|Documentation|http://www.TiddlyTools.com/#QuickNotePluginInfo|
|Version|2.1.0|
|Author|Eric Shulman|
|License|http://www.TiddlyTools.com/#LegalStatements|
|~CoreVersion|2.1|
|Type|documentation|
|Description|documentation for QuickNotePlugin|
!!!!!Usage
<<<
{{{
<<quickNote tiddler:"..." dateformat:"..." taglist:"...">>
}}}
*''tiddler'' //(default=username)//<br>target tiddler in which to add note text. Note: to refer to the current tiddler, use special //keyword value:// ''"here"'' (i.e., "tiddler:here")
*''dateformat'' //(default=none)//<br>format string (e.g. """YYYY0MM0DD0hh0mm0ss""") used to generate a unique tiddler title for each new note that is created, by combining the TW username with a //timestamp// for the current time.
*''taglist'' //(optional)//<br>one or more space-separated tag values (e.g., "tag tag [[tag with spaces]] tag tag ...") that will be added to newly created notes.
For backward-compatibility with existing document content, you can also use the {{{<<tiddler>>}}} macro to transclude the [[QuickNote]] //shadow tiddler//, like this:
{{{
<<tiddler QuickNote with: "dateformat" "taglist" "tiddler">>
}}}
Note: transclusion uses //unnamed// parameters that ''must occur in the order shown above''. You can use "" as placeholders to apply default parameter values.
<<<
!!!!!Examples
<<<
{{{<<quickNote dateformat:"-YYYY0MM0DD0hh0mm0ss" tags:"quicknote journal">>}}}
<<quickNote dateformat:"-YYYY0MM0DD0hh0mm0ss" tags:"quicknote journal">>
<<<
!!!!!Revisions:
<<<
2011.06.07 2.1.0 added tiddler: macro parameter
2011.04.27 2.0.1 merge/clone defaultCustomFields for saving on TiddlySpace
2011.03.06 2.0.0 converted to plugin. Handle append to existing tiddler. Added autosave.
2009.09.15 1.0.0 initial release (transclusion)
<<<
<html><nowiki><form class="quickNote" style="display:inline;margin:0;padding:0;white-space:nowrap;">
<input type=hidden name="dateformat" disabled value="">
<input type=hidden name="target" disabled value="">
<input type=text name="title" disabled value="" title="title for new tiddler" style="width:50%">
<input type=text name="tags" value="" title="tags for new tiddler" style="width:40%">
<input type=button value="save" style="width:8%"
onclick="config.macros.quickNote.saveNote(this.form); return false;"><br>
<textarea name="txt" rows="5" cols="60" style="width:100%"></textarea>
</form></html>
She incurred a curse, it would seem, with Laban's idols, particularly as Jacob took an oath on the issue. Ill naming of Benjamin. (Sandy Davidson)
Jer 31. She is reportedly with the northern tribes.
Rahab was the representative head of her household.
* <<Bbl Josh 6:20 "" note>>, <<Bbl Josh 1:0 "" note>>
* <<Bbl H 11:31>> speaks of her as having been saved by faith; <<Bbl James 2:25>>, on the other hand, in demonstrating that a man is justified by works and not by faith only, curiously chooses the same example.
* <<Bbl 2C 10:5 "" note>>
!!!! Below are notes for a randomly selected passage of the Bible
{{fyi{
{{{ If you want to edit this, don't open this tiddler! Click on header below. }}}
{{{ | }}}
{{{ V }}}
}}}
@@display:block;height:24em;overflow:auto;
{{fyi{
<script>
var tids=store.getMatchingTiddlers("NOT excludeLists AND NOT wiki");
//var tids=store.getTaggedTidlers("Comment");
var randex = Math.floor(Math.random()*tids.length) ;
if (tids.length)
return " [["+tids[randex].title+"]]<br><br><<tiddler "+tids[randex].title+">>";
</script>
}}}
Unsettled in spirit? You are vulnerable.
* [[Respond]]
* Any problem tends to provoke a second problem: my response.
* Fight, Flight, Freeze
* [[Divide]]
* Versatility, [[Equip]]
* [[Footware]]
* [[Prepare]]
* <<Bbl R 1:15 >> KJV //For as much as in me is//
* <<Bbl 2Ti 4:2 >> - //in season and out of season//
* <<Bbl Eph 6:15 >>
* The parable of the ten virgins
* @@color:navy;When opportunity comes, it's too late to prepare.@@ // - John Wooden//
/***
|Name|RearrangeTiddlersPlugin|
|Source|http://www.TiddlyTools.com/#RearrangeTiddlersPlugin|
|Version|2.0.0|
|Author|Eric Shulman|
|OriginalAuthor|Joe Raii|
|License|http://www.TiddlyTools.com/#LegalStatements <br>and [[Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 License|http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/]]|
|~CoreVersion|2.1|
|Type|plugin|
|Requires||
|Overrides|Story.prototype.refreshTiddler|
|Description|drag tiddlers by title to re-order story column display|
adapted from: http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~joeraii/dragn/#Draggable
changes by ELS:
* hijack refreshTiddler() instead of overridding createTiddler()
* find title element by className instead of elementID
* set cursor style via code instead of stylesheet
* set tooltip help text
* set tiddler "position:relative" when starting drag event, restore saved value when drag ends
* update 2006.08.07: use getElementsByTagName("*") to find title element, even when it is 'buried' deep in tiddler DOM elements (due to custom template usage)
* update 2007.03.01: use apply() to invoke hijacked core function
* update 2008.01.13: only hijack core function once. (allows for dynamic loading of plugin via bookmarklet)
* update 2008.10.19: added onclick popup menu with 'move to top' and 'move to bottom' commands
***/
//{{{
if (Story.prototype.rearrangeTiddlersHijack_refreshTiddler===undefined) {
Story.prototype.rearrangeTiddlersHijack_refreshTiddler = Story.prototype.refreshTiddler;
Story.prototype.refreshTiddler = function(title,template)
{
this.rearrangeTiddlersHijack_refreshTiddler.apply(this,arguments);
var theTiddler = document.getElementById(this.idPrefix + title); if (!theTiddler) return;
var theHandle;
var children=theTiddler.getElementsByTagName("*");
for (var i=0; i<children.length; i++) if (hasClass(children[i],"title")) { theHandle=children[i]; break; }
if (!theHandle) return theTiddler;
Drag.init(theHandle, theTiddler, 0, 0, null, null);
theHandle.style.cursor="move";
theHandle.title="drag title to re-arrange tiddlers, click for more options..."
theTiddler.onDrag = function(x,y,myElem) {
if (this.style.position!="relative")
{ this.savedstyle=this.style.position; this.style.position="relative"; }
y = myElem.offsetTop;
var next = myElem.nextSibling;
var prev = myElem.previousSibling;
if (next && y + myElem.offsetHeight > next.offsetTop + next.offsetHeight/2) {
myElem.parentNode.removeChild(myElem);
next.parentNode.insertBefore(myElem, next.nextSibling);//elems[pos+1]);
myElem.style["top"] = -next.offsetHeight/2+"px";
}
if (prev && y < prev.offsetTop + prev.offsetHeight/2) {
myElem.parentNode.removeChild(myElem);
prev.parentNode.insertBefore(myElem, prev);
myElem.style["top"] = prev.offsetHeight/2+"px";
}
};
theTiddler.onDragEnd = function(x,y,myElem) {
myElem.style["top"] = "0px";
if (this.savedstyle!=undefined)
this.style.position=this.savedstyle;
};
theHandle.onclick=function(ev) {
ev=ev||window.event;
var p=Popup.create(this); if (!p) return;
var b=createTiddlyButton(createTiddlyElement(p,"li"),
"\u25B2 move to top of column ","move this tiddler to the top of the story column",
function() {
var t=story.getTiddler(this.getAttribute("tid"));
t.parentNode.insertBefore(t,t.parentNode.firstChild); // move to top of column
window.scrollTo(0,ensureVisible(t));
return false;
});
b.setAttribute("tid",title);
var b=createTiddlyButton(createTiddlyElement(p,"li"),
"\u25BC move to bottom of column ","move this tiddler to the bottom of the story column",
function() {
var t=story.getTiddler(this.getAttribute("tid"));
t.parentNode.insertBefore(t,null); // move to bottom of column
window.scrollTo(0,ensureVisible(t));
return false;
});
b.setAttribute("tid",title);
Popup.show(p,false);
ev.cancelBubble=true; if (ev.stopPropagation) ev.stopPropagation(); return(false);
};
return theTiddler;
}
}
/**************************************************
* dom-drag.js
* 09.25.2001
* www.youngpup.net
**************************************************
* 10.28.2001 - fixed minor bug where events
* sometimes fired off the handle, not the root.
**************************************************/
var Drag = {
obj:null,
init:
function(o, oRoot, minX, maxX, minY, maxY) {
o.onmousedown = Drag.start;
o.root = oRoot && oRoot != null ? oRoot : o ;
if (isNaN(parseInt(o.root.style.left))) o.root.style.left="0px";
if (isNaN(parseInt(o.root.style.top))) o.root.style.top="0px";
o.minX = typeof minX != 'undefined' ? minX : null;
o.minY = typeof minY != 'undefined' ? minY : null;
o.maxX = typeof maxX != 'undefined' ? maxX : null;
o.maxY = typeof maxY != 'undefined' ? maxY : null;
o.root.onDragStart = new Function();
o.root.onDragEnd = new Function();
o.root.onDrag = new Function();
},
start:
function(e) {
var o = Drag.obj = this;
e = Drag.fixE(e);
var y = parseInt(o.root.style.top);
var x = parseInt(o.root.style.left);
o.root.onDragStart(x, y, Drag.obj.root);
o.lastMouseX = e.clientX;
o.lastMouseY = e.clientY;
if (o.minX != null) o.minMouseX = e.clientX - x + o.minX;
if (o.maxX != null) o.maxMouseX = o.minMouseX + o.maxX - o.minX;
if (o.minY != null) o.minMouseY = e.clientY - y + o.minY;
if (o.maxY != null) o.maxMouseY = o.minMouseY + o.maxY - o.minY;
document.onmousemove = Drag.drag;
document.onmouseup = Drag.end;
Drag.obj.root.style["z-index"] = "10";
return false;
},
drag:
function(e) {
e = Drag.fixE(e);
var o = Drag.obj;
var ey = e.clientY;
var ex = e.clientX;
var y = parseInt(o.root.style.top);
var x = parseInt(o.root.style.left);
var nx, ny;
if (o.minX != null) ex = Math.max(ex, o.minMouseX);
if (o.maxX != null) ex = Math.min(ex, o.maxMouseX);
if (o.minY != null) ey = Math.max(ey, o.minMouseY);
if (o.maxY != null) ey = Math.min(ey, o.maxMouseY);
nx = x + (ex - o.lastMouseX);
ny = y + (ey - o.lastMouseY);
Drag.obj.root.style["left"] = nx + "px";
Drag.obj.root.style["top"] = ny + "px";
Drag.obj.lastMouseX = ex;
Drag.obj.lastMouseY = ey;
Drag.obj.root.onDrag(nx, ny, Drag.obj.root);
return false;
},
end:
function() {
document.onmousemove = null;
document.onmouseup = null;
Drag.obj.root.style["z-index"] = "0";
Drag.obj.root.onDragEnd(parseInt(Drag.obj.root.style["left"]), parseInt(Drag.obj.root.style["top"]), Drag.obj.root);
Drag.obj = null;
},
fixE:
function(e) {
if (typeof e == 'undefined') e = window.event;
if (typeof e.layerX == 'undefined') e.layerX = e.offsetX;
if (typeof e.layerY == 'undefined') e.layerY = e.offsetY;
return e;
}
};
//}}}
* <<Bbl 2C 1:4 >>
* <<Bbl R 1:24 >> - wicked desires, rebellion
* [[Solomon]] with the Queen of Sheba.
* Wisdom will mock as fools who ignored her come into judgment.
* God's promise to Abraham following the offering of Isaac.
* God's promise to David following the proposal to //build a house//.
* [[GoldenRule]]
* Interdependence, [[identification|IdentifyWith]]
----
!!!! Tiddlers tagged with //Reciprocate//
<<matchTags %0 "\n" Reciprocate >>
* //fathers...children// -- <<Bbl Mal 3:6 >>, quoted in <<Bbl Mal 1:17 >>. [[Parent]]
* <<Bbl Mt 18:15 >>
* //Fools mock at making amends ...//
* [[Forgive]]
* Romans theme. Gentile believers like Aquilla were forced from Rome for a five year period; came to Christ; returned to Rome after the banisher Claudius died. Now they went to integrate with what has become a thoroughly gentile church culturally. Romans are on record as despising circumcision (as mutilation), dietary rules and sabbaths. Paul spends time dealing with the first and covers the others in 14.
''The return of value which was lost or forfeit.''
* Redemption gives a new [[Worth]].
* Redeemed by [[Sacrifice]].
* <<Bbl Gn 12:17 "" note >>.
* <<Bbl Ex 32:2>> says that a firstborn animal which is clean (a lamb) is to be sacrificed; <<Bbl Ex 32:22 abbr>>-23 says that which is unclean (a donkey) is to be redeemed by sacrifice. Christ is God's first-born or [[Firstfruits]], the Lamb of God; by His sacrifice He is our [[Redeemer]].
* //Vindication// -- <<Bbl Gn 20:16>>, also maybe the [[Gold]] of Exo 5:4.
* <<Bbl 2K 22:1 '' note>>
* [[Redeem]] can never be but relational.
* The OT principle of kinship is found mainly in Leviticus and Numbers.
* [[Substitute]]
!!! Obligations/privileges:
# to redeem (buy back) any inalienable property sold by his kin (<<Bbl Lv 25:10 >>-28).
# to receive any such restitution.
# to redeem the person of his kin if he sold himself into slavery to a foreigner (<<Bbl Lv 25:47 >>-49).
# to avenge the blood of his kin if he was murdered (<<Bbl Gn 9:6 >>, <<Bbl Num 35:18 >>-19 ).
# to propagate (preserve) the name of his family, thus Boaz. The //levirate.// [[Provide]]
!!! Qualifications
<<Bbl Ruth 4:3>>-10 From Salvation When?, Conrad Murrell: the redeemer must meet three requirements.
## He must have the right.
*** Boaz was a close relative, 2:20
*** Christ is a man, <<Bbl H 2:9 >>-18 ; <<Bbl Gal 4:3 >>-5.
## He must have the ability or means.
*** //Boaz// means //in him is strength.// Boaz was wealthy, thus an //eligible bachelor//. And the financial cost includes supporting Naomi. The first kinsman forfeits his claim to Elimelech's property on these grounds (4:6) (though he may also have balked at taking on a Moabites).
*** Christ is God, <<Bbl R 1:14 >>
## He must be willing. And there is the most precious aspect of both Boaz' and Christ's good news.
There's no suggestion that Boaz is required to do anything more than let Ruth and Naomi glean his fields. Moreover, Ruth's foreignness could have been an obstacle. The key to his love is found in Ruth's embrace of God (<<Bbl Ruth 2:11 >>-12). The real covenant of their marriage is 1:16-17.
!!! The Lord Christ our Redeemer
# His work of [[Atone]] spares us from an eternal disinheritance. One could almost say He recovered for us that first, original plot of land.
# He purchased us back from [[Servitude]]. We were //sold under sin// (<<Bbl R 7:14>>).
# He took vengeance upon him who had the power of death. <<Bbl H 2:14 >> and <<Bbl Gal 4:3 >>-4 both emphasize the ''humanity'' of Christ (W.E. Vine).
* For Christ, see <<Bbl H 11:16 >>.
* <<Bbl Mk 7:28 "" note>>
* <<Bbl I 52:3 >>, <<Bbl 1P 1:17 >>-19
* Yet to be fulfilled -- <<Bbl L 21:28 >>, <<Bbl R 8:22 >>-23
!!! Other thoughts
* Fundamentally, only a kinsman can realize and understand the pain and deprivation, or glory and vindication, experienced in this life. So only a kinsman can properly purchase back a lost property or avenge a murder. [[IdentifyWith]].
* Serving as the second in an old-fashioned duel.
* [[IdentifyWith]], [[Family]].
* Jonathan Edwards provides a definition, p 34.
* [[Purity]], [[Gold]], [[Fire]]
* <<Bbl 2C 4:17 >>, the weight of [[Glory]].
* The verb //to try// has a forgotten meaning in English: "1. orig., to separate, set apart. -- 2. to extract or refine (metal, etc.), by heating; usually with out." It is related etymologically to thresh.
* Refining is //separating//.
Egypt is referred to as the furnace; see <<Bbl Ex 9:20>>
<<Bbl Job 23:10 >>: When He has tried me, I shall come out as pure gold.
<<Bbl Ps 66:10>>: For Thou hast tried us, O God; Thou hast refined us as silver is refined.
<<Bbl Pr 17:3 >>: The refining pot is for silver and the furnace for gold, but the LORD tests hearts.
27:21: The crucible is for silver and the furnace for gold, and a man is tested by the praise accorded him.
<<Bbl I 48:10 >>: Behold, I have refined you, but not as silver; I have tested you in the furnace of affliction.
<<Bbl Zech 13:9>>: And I will bring the third part through the fire -- Refine them as silver is refined, and test them as gold is tested. [[Remnant]]
<<Bbl Mal 3:2>>-3 : For He is like a refiner's fire; And He will sit as a smelter and purifier of silver, and He will purify the sons of Levi and refine them like gold and silver, so that they may present to the LORD offerings in righteousness.
Also <<Bbl Job 1:22 >>-25 , <<Bbl Job 7:18 >>, <<Bbl Job 28:1 >>-2 ,<<Bbl Job 34:36 >>; <<Bbl Ps 12:6 >>, <<Bbl Ps 17:3 >>, <<Bbl Ps 66:10 >>, <<Bbl Ps 119:119 >>; <<Bbl Pr 17:3 >>, <<Bbl Pr 25:4 >>-5 , <<Bbl Pr 26:23 >>, <<Bbl Pr 27:21 >>; <<Bbl Jer 6:27 >>-29 , <<Bbl Jer 9:7 >>, <<Bbl Jer 11:4 >>; <<Bbl I 1:25 >>, <<Bbl I 31:9 >>, <<Bbl I 48:10 >>; <<Bbl Ez 22:18 >>-22 ; <<Bbl Zech 13:9 >>; <<Bbl Mt 5:8 >>
<script label="refresh" title="re-render this tiddler">
var here=story.findContainingTiddler(place); if (!here) return false;
story.refreshTiddler(here.getAttribute("tiddler"),null,true);
</script><script>place.lastChild.className='button';</script>
Enable pattern searching from the {{{Options >>}}} panel.
{{{lift\s(up )?\s?[a-z]+\seye}}}
Finds:
* lift your eyes
* lifted up his eyes
* [[Transform]], //conversion, second birth, born again//
* [[Resurrect]]
* The difficult verses of Hebrews indicate that one can experience God's grace and still not become alive in Him. The people of Israel were delivered from Egypt; they //came out//. But they did not //go in// to the land of promise (D.A. Carson). [[Grace-Probatory]]
!! Indications of
* [[Pray]]
* //...you became obedient from the heart...//
* New [[Create]]
!! of God, perhaps in the person of His agent
* <<Bbl Num 11:20 >>
* <<Bbl 1S 8:7>>-8
* <<Bbl H 13:12>>-14
* [[Solitude]]
* [[Betray]]
* [[Vicariousness]]
* [[Kenosis]]: //Although He was God, He did not regard equality with God as a thing to be ''grasped...''//
* 2 Corinthians //Though I have the right, I did not use any of these things ... Forgive me this wrong!//
* Nehemiah declined the customary perks.
* Daniel's fast.
* Ether deferred to the eunuch's judgement in her wardrobe.
* <<Bbl 2S 19:30>>
* of one's rights:
** Paul to the Corinthians
** to Onesimus
** Nehemiah in regard to taxes
** Moses as an Egyptian VIP
** Uriah when called to Jerusalem
** David in regard to Bethlehem's water
** also the land for the temple
** Abraham in buying a burial plot
** A topic in Proverbs
* A sense of Entitlement is the hallmark of this "millennial" generation.
* Much of 1 Corinthians is about not standing on your rights. Indeed the word provides a rich study.
* <<Bbl 1Th 2:7>>, 9; <<Bbl 2Th 3:8>>-9
* {{anti{[[Appropriate-verb]]}}}
The "remnant" is not a tightly defined concept.
* It is claimed by an unverified source that there is no suggestion of smallness or a "minority": @@color:brown;The several Hebrew words translated remnant mean //remainder, descendants, survivors//. The thought of a minority is not implicit in these Hebrew words. The meaning for remnant can refer to either a minority or a majority. When a tenth part of an ephah (1.5 bushels) of flour is given to the priest for a sin-offering, he only uses one handful of the flour as an offering upon the altar. The leftover flour (still more than a bushel) is referred to as a remnant (Leviticus 5:11-13; 2:3). Here the remnant (Hebrew //yathar//) is significantly the larger portion.@@
----
There are two main referents in Volume 1:
# The line of Messiah, of the tribe of Judah.
# People who put their trust in God.
## A passage in 2 Kings declares God's preservation of a remnant in Israel.
## Mordecai and Esther are of Benjamin.
----
* God's law declares that the wicked will be //cut off.// If that is society's majority, then what remains is the remnant.
* Seth, Noah, Shem, [[Joseph]]
* <<Bbl 1K 19:18 >> - 7,000 who have not bowed the knee
* <<Bbl I 37:30 >>-31, <<Bbl 2K 19:30 >> - //again take root below and bear fruit above//; surviving, even thriving.
* <<Bbl I 4:2 >>-4
* <<Bbl I 6:8 >>-13 The [[Tree]] stump
* <<Bbl I 10:20 >>-23
* <<Bbl I 11:11 >>
* <<Bbl I 49:1>>-3
* <<Bbl I 65:8>> and <<Bbl L 13:8>>
* <<Bbl Ez 5:3 >> - divided in thirds for destruction. The remnant mentioned here seems presented as irony, as also doomed - or is there an oblique reference to the new Kingdom? Compare <<Bbl Zech 13:9>>.
* <<Bbl Ez 6:8 >>-10
* <<Bbl Dan 11:32 >>-36
* <<Bbl Amos 9:8 >>-9
* On arrival at the Temple, Jesus is greeted by the true remnant in the persons of Simeon and Anna <<Bbl L 2:38 >>.
* <<Bbl Mk 15:43 >> //Joseph of Arimathea was waiting// (often translated looking)
* Romans 9, 10, 11.
* <<Bbl H 2:13 >> -- See Bruce, __Hebrews__, p. 47
* I wonder if yeast is an image. All you need is the tiniest bit of the original batch. [[Bread]]
* The tree that is not destroyed in Jesus' parable, for it may yet bear fruit.
* The [[Vine|Vineyard]] is used, for a sprig can be carried far away and then bear fruit.
* <<Bbl Rev 7:3>>
* The true Church
* <<Bbl Col 2:17>>
** Cults [[False-Claim]] [[Counterfeit]]. Invoking this idea serves as a defense from the observation that cult heresies are held in disrepute by the godly majority.
* <<Bbl L 2:38 >>b
* <<Bbl J 1:11 >>-12 minority.
* Those 12 spies are a picture of those who have learned of a revelation of God's promises for the saints.
* Ten lepers were healed. Nine went to Hell. Knowing who God was, they chose not to give thanks.
!!! Related themes
* [[Hope]], as evinced in the passages above. No matter how decadent the world, God will preserve His godly seed.
* [[Elect]] and [[Preserve]].
* [[Reject]]. The remnant is despised next to the intended garment, which accords with <<Bbl 1C 1:27>>-31.
* [[Vineyard]]
!!! Remnant and [[Refine]]
* Note several passages divide into thirds, and those and some others besides talk about the further refinement (burning) of the remnant.
* <<Bbl Zech 13:8 >>-9: And I will bring the third part through the fire -- Refine them as silver is refined, and test them as gold is tested. They will call on My name, and I will answer them...
* <<Bbl 1K 21:13 >> - the rejection, it seems, of His remnant! ''But maybe this throws light on the meaning of the Cross.''
''Remorse is active (not suppressed) shame for an identified event or behavior. ''
* [[Repent]]
* [[Emotion]]
!! "Not unto life"
<<Bbl Mt 27:3 >>-5 ; <<Bbl 2C 7:8 >>-11 Sam 19:4-5; <<Bbl Pr 15:10 >>, <<Bbl Pr 29:1 >>; <<Bbl Jer 5:3 >>; <<Bbl Mt 18:15 >>-18 ; <<Bbl L 17:3 >>; <<Bbl 1Tim 5:20 >>; <<Bbl 2Tim 3:16 >>; <<Bbl Tit 1:13 >>, <<Bbl Tit 2:15 >>
/***
|Name:|RenameTagsPlugin|
|Description:|Allows you to easily rename or delete tags across multiple tiddlers|
|Version:|3.0a|
|Date:|27-Jun-2011|
|Source:|http://mptw.tiddlyspot.com/#RenameTagsPlugin|
|Author:|Simon Baird <simon.baird@gmail.com>|
|License|http://mptw.tiddlyspot.com/#TheBSDLicense|
Rename a tag and you will be prompted to rename it in all its tagged tiddlers.
***/
//{{{
config.renameTags = {
prompts: {
rename: "Rename the tag '%0' to '%1' in %2 tidder%3?",
remove: "Remove the tag '%0' from %1 tidder%2?"
},
removeTag: function(tag,tiddlers) {
store.suspendNotifications();
for (var i=0;i<tiddlers.length;i++) {
store.setTiddlerTag(tiddlers[i].title,false,tag);
}
store.resumeNotifications();
store.notifyAll();
},
renameTag: function(oldTag,newTag,tiddlers) {
store.suspendNotifications();
for (var i=0;i<tiddlers.length;i++) {
store.setTiddlerTag(tiddlers[i].title,false,oldTag); // remove old
store.setTiddlerTag(tiddlers[i].title,true,newTag); // add new
}
store.resumeNotifications();
store.notifyAll();
},
storeMethods: {
saveTiddler_orig_renameTags: TiddlyWiki.prototype.saveTiddler,
saveTiddler: function(title,newTitle,newBody,modifier,modified,tags,fields,clearChangeCount,created,creator) {
if (title != newTitle) {
var tagged = this.getTaggedTiddlers(title);
if (tagged.length > 0) {
// then we are renaming a tag
if (confirm(config.renameTags.prompts.rename.format([title,newTitle,tagged.length,tagged.length>1?"s":""])))
config.renameTags.renameTag(title,newTitle,tagged);
if (!this.tiddlerExists(title) && newBody == "")
// dont create unwanted tiddler
return null;
}
}
return this.saveTiddler_orig_renameTags(title,newTitle,newBody,modifier,modified,tags,fields,clearChangeCount,created,creator);
},
removeTiddler_orig_renameTags: TiddlyWiki.prototype.removeTiddler,
removeTiddler: function(title) {
var tagged = this.getTaggedTiddlers(title);
if (tagged.length > 0)
if (confirm(config.renameTags.prompts.remove.format([title,tagged.length,tagged.length>1?"s":""])))
config.renameTags.removeTag(title,tagged);
return this.removeTiddler_orig_renameTags(title);
}
},
init: function() {
merge(TiddlyWiki.prototype,this.storeMethods);
}
}
config.renameTags.init();
//}}}
* //renounce//, [[Repent]]
* We renounce not mere behaviors, but the beliefs that underlay the. Specifically we renounce the perceived ''power'' that once appealed to us.
* //White-knuckling// means attempting to live by a shallow renunciation. We were made to live with power -- a God-given capacity. If we stop behaviors superficially we are merely cutting ourselves off from the familiar power-source while not availing ourselves of God's power. This leads quickly to frustration. ''Don't be a white knuckle-head!''
* A part of every revival on any scale.
* Most people confuse repentance with asking God's forgiveness.
* //Metanoia// God has been "met-annoying" me.
* "About face" - repent is the obsolete(?) British command.
* Twelve Steps of AA - a helpful study.
* Hamburger. Salmonella. God's kindness.
* <<Bbl A 2:40 >>
* Sometimes we must repent anew. Jonah 2 is followed by the perversity of Jonah 4.
* <<Bbl Ps 51:1 >>, <<Bbl I 27:9 >>, <<Bbl I 30:15 >>, <<Bbl I 55:6 >>-7; <<Bbl Ez 18:31 >>-32 , <<Bbl Ez 33:11 >>-19 , <<Bbl Ez 36:31 >>-32 ; <<Bbl Dan 4:27 >>; <<Bbl Hos 2:7 >> (see <<Bbl L 15:17 >>),14:2-3; Jol 2:12-17; <<Bbl A 3:19 >>
* For the Judaic view, see Barclay, Matthew, on 3:7-12.
* From God, His kindness: <<Bbl I 63:17 >>; <<Bbl A 3:26 >>, <<Bbl A 5:31 >>, <<Bbl A 11:18 >>; <<Bbl R 2:4 >>; <<Bbl 2Tim 2:25 >>
* [[Renounce]]
* [[Ashes]]
* msg Steve Lawson. Expressed in the soul: mind, emotions, will.
* Early in John the Baptizer, Jesus
* In the Apostles.
** <<Bbl A 2:38>>, <<Bbl A 5:31 abbr>>, <<Bbl A 11:18 abbr>>, <<Bbl A 17:30 abbr>>, <<Bbl A 20:21 abbr>>
** <<Bbl A 26:18>> provides a vivid definition (compare <<Bbl A 28:27 abbr>>).
** Acts 5 31 Lord and Savior: in Acts the former had all the emphasis, as repentance does over believing.
* Rom 2 4, 2 Cor 7 10, 2 Peter 3 9 (here equivalent to conversion). Rev 2 and 3, five churches urges to repent. @@color:brown;The worst form of human badness is human goodness when it becomes a substitute for the new birth. @@
!!! Too late
* [[Remorse]]
* <<Bbl H 12:17>>
* <<Bbl Num 14:40>>
* Judas, the son of perdition
* [[IdentifyWith]]
* The boy David in his match with Goliath.
* Adam the vice recent was to stay in obedience and thus glorify God the Ruler by a display of sanctioned, obedient authority.
* Of all points of creation, it was the image of God where Satan struck.
* As a colander brings the eclipse into view, so Christ by His Spirit lets us represent Him in multitude.
* //Apostasy, apostate, reprobate//
* [[Reproove]]
* {{anti{[[Persevere]]}}}
*
!!! Followed by restoration
* <<Bbl Jms 5:19 >>-20
* A great theme of Proverbs. Pr 15:10,31, 29:1
* <<Bbl Lv 19:17 >>,18; 1Sm 19:4-5; Jer 5:3; <<Bbl Mt 18:15 "" note>>-18; Luke 17:3; 1Tm 5:20; 2Tm 3:16; <<Bbl Tit 1:13 >>, <<Bbl Tit 2:15 >>, 3:10-11; Jms 5:19-20.
* <<Bbl Ez 32:1>>ff Ezekiel's watchman.
* [[Authorize]]
* //Admonishment//
* [[Confront]]
* [[Discipline-Church]]
!!! God's minister free from reproach
* [[Immorality-No]]
* <<Bbl 2S 12:14 >>
* <<Bbl 1Thes 4:12 >>
* <<Bbl 1Tim 3:7 >>
* <<Bbl 1Tim 5:7 >>-10
* <<Bbl 1Tim 6:1 >>, 14
* <<Bbl Titus 1:6 >>-7 children not //accused// (WEB) or not //open to the charge// (NIV).
* <<Bbl Titus 2:7 >>-10 //integrity ... that cannot be condemned//
* <<Bbl 1P 2:12 >>, 15.
* Samuel impeccable before his countrymen; <<Bbl 1S 12:3>>-5
* Daniel impeccable before his enemies; <<Bbl Dan 6:3>>-5
* The church is glorified to the glory of God through its good conduct.
* <<Bbl R 12:17 >> //before the eyes of everyone//
* [[Openness]]
* The man on the road to Jericho, a true neighbor
* [[Redeem]]
* [[Help]], [[Intervene]]
* I sought the Lord, and he answered me; he delivered me from all my fears...This poor man (or woman) called, and the Lord heard him; he saved him out of all his troubles.
* <<Bbl Pr 24:11>>
The angel of the Lord encamps around those who fear him, and he delivers them. -- Psalms 34:4, 6-7
* from [[Fire]]
** <<Bbl Zech 3:2 >>
** <<Bbl Amos 4:11 >>
** Bbl Jude 23
* //To God belong escapes from death//
* Paul had so many escapes, and even //despaired of life.//
* //Intervention.// God loves to ''//party//'' -- the Red Sea, the menacing mob, the Temple veil, etc.
!! [[Passover]]
* There are many "Passovers" in the Bible..
** Rehab in the land of Canaan.
** Mark
** <<Bbl Gn 19:16 >> Lot from Sodom
** Ez 8 and b the 144,000.
** Ez chapter 9.
** Negative, <<Bbl Ez 14:8 >> the ban.
** [[Passover]]
** even Cain?
** Revelation says his name on their foreheads, this is the Mark put on the remnant to pass over.
* sin: <<Bbl H 12:4 >>
* the devil: <<Bbl Jms 4:7 >>; <<Bbl 1Ch 34:19 >>; <<Bbl J 10:39 >>-41 ,<<Bbl J 12:48 >>;<<Bbl J 15:22 >>; <<Bbl R 7:13 >>; <<Bbl 1C 15:56 >>, <<Bbl H 10:26 >>-31 ; <<Bbl Jms 4:17 >>; <<Bbl Ez 18:13 >>; <<Bbl Mt 23:15 >>, <<Bbl Mt 27:25 >>.
* and Knowledge: <<Bbl Dan 5:22 >>; <<Bbl Mt 28:11 >>-13 ; <<Bbl A 17:31 >>.
* [[Individual]], [[Authorize]], [[Sin]]
* [[Enabling]]
// -- Know well the condition of your flocks//
// -- First prepare the land, then build the house// -- Note, could this be applied to [[Found]] for house?
// -- When the ox is in the stall ...//
* Every decision regarding time is an irrevocable commitment. ''Time'' is the ultimate non-fungible resource. Time is __not__ money (see [[Debase]]).
* Scratch that. ''Favor'' is the ultimate non-fungible resource.
* [[Wealth]], [[Land]], [[Riches]]
* [[Inherit]]
* [[Stewardship]], [[Limitations]]
* [[Contentment]], [[Obey]] -- Exodus 16, the manna
* [[Diligence]]
* [[Intellect]]
* @@color:brown;Suffering, as I've heard it said, can either //break us// or //break us open// to the mystery of Christ.@@ //Christopher West//
* [[Attitude]], [[Volition]]
* [[Favor]]
* [[React]]; [[Divide]]
* [[Decide]]
* [[Comply]]; [[Obey]]
!! Sensibly
* [[Fear-No]]
!! To an invitations or crisis
* The older brother. Is the Father's love enough?
* <<Bbl L 14:22 >>
!! To a season or circumstance
* Moses' exhortation to the ark to rest when resting, move when moving.
* Jesus' reproof for those who anticipate the weather but not the times.
* In solar eclipse, birds and other creatures have been observed to behave just as for nightfall and daybreak. They don't observe clocks.
* //without excuse// rom 1, otherwise instead of sending missionaries we would be wise to seal then from the truth, so as to save souls.
* @@color:navy;We will be judged by what we will do with what we can know.@@ // - P Jensen//
* In proportion with knowledge, revelation. <<Bbl R 2:9 >>, <<Bbl Amos 3:2 >>. //The servant who knew his master's will be beaten with many strokes.//
* //act like men//, a common exhortation.
* The sinful nature is only waiting for a commandment to transgress, for a gift to trample.
* Gn 2,3; 1Ch 34:19; Jn 10:39-41,12:48;15:22,24; Rom 7:13; <<Bbl 1C 15:34 >>, 1C 15:56, <<Bbl 1C 16:13 >>, Heb 10:26-31; Jms 4:17; Ez 18:13; Mat 23:15, 27:25.
* and Knowledge: <<Bbl Ex 9:20>>, Dan 5:22; Mat 28:11-13; Ac 17:31.
* [[Obey]]
* //Mandate, charge, commission.//
* [[Individual]], [[Authorize]]
* [[Sin]], [[Blame]], [[Guilt]]
* [[Complicity]]
* <<Bbl 2S 13:20>> Absalom: //Have not I myself commanded you?//
* Rebekah: //Let the curse come up on me; only do as I have instructed.//
* With God's commands always He gives the [[Grace]] to fulfill. <<Bbl Ez 2:1>>-2.
!! Christ death responsibility
* <<Bbl A 2:36 >>
* <<Bbl A 4:10 >>
* [[Vicariousness]]
* ''Sabbath'', //sabado (Spanish)//
* In the order of creation, Man and Woman's first full day was the day of rest.
* Our everyday definition of rest is //refreshing inactivity,// which doesn't cover enough.
* [[Work]] is not the opposite of resting, but the complement. This is evinced in the commandment of <<Bbl Ex 20:8 >>-11.
* Rest is defined by not-work. But this is a human constraint. The further from God's Spirit, the greater the burden of codification and compliance.
!! Rest and completion
When an advocate says //The defense rests//, it doesn't mean she is exhausted, but that she has completed her case. [[Closure]] appears to be the primary meaning in the Hebrew.
* <<Bbl Gn 2:2 >> God rested. There must be much to consider with [[Peace]].
* <<Bbl H 4:9 >>-10 God offers the same rest to us, says Hebrews.
!! Rest and [[Believe]]
* <<Bbl Ex 16:23 >> "" note >>-30 First mention of the Sabbath after creation.
* <<Bbl Ex 20:8 >>-11 The Command. This is the second mention after creation.
* <<Bbl Ez 20:12 >> //My sabbaths are a [[Sign]]//
* <<Bbl Ex 21:2 >> The freeing of slaves "without payment" every sabbatical year.
* <<Bbl Ex 31:12 >>-17 A [[Covenant]] sign. Faith is the true significance, shown here by implication only.
* <<Bbl Lv 25:2 >>-5 Faith, as <<Bbl Ex 16:23 >>:30 indicates also.
* <<Bbl H 3:18 >>, <<Bbl H 4:1 >>-20. Interesting that Hebrews combines the definitions of refreshing inactivity and completion.
!! Rest and [[Restore]]
* In 1980 I was a young man hitchhiking west from Philadelphia, and of course, what's the single biggest landmark for a person heading west across the country? The Mississippi River! For me, it became especially important. I spent a night on the Michigan side, but I didn't sleep at all because of the mosquitoes. When I crossed the River, I discovered there were no mosquitoes, so I immediately found a small park for motorists and lay down and slept. I was probably on I-90 at the city with the interesting name of La Crosse.
* Yet the lawless views the sabbath as restriction.
* <<Bbl Mt 11:28 "" note>>-12:21 //Come to Me, all ye who are heavy-laden//... it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath.
* <<Bbl Mt 12:5 >>-7 F.F. Bruce exposits this powerfully in The Hard Sayings.
* <<Bbl L 13:15 >> A woman is released from sickness, the indignation of the synagogue official.
!! Rest and [[Peace]]
* <<Bbl Ps 3:1 >>-5 //I awoke, for the LORD sustains me.// In the context of David's circumstances this is the more remarkable.
* <<Bbl Ps 4:8 >> //In peace I will both lay myself down and sleep, for you, Yahweh alone, make me live in safety. //
* <<Bbl Ps 127:2 >> This verse describes Ruth's life.
* <<Bbl Ecc 4:6 >> //One hand full of rest is bett.er...//
!! Rest versus war.
* <<Bbl Gn 5:29 >>, <<Bbl Gn 6:3 abbr>>, <<Bbl Gn 6:13 abbr>>, <<Bbl Gn 8:21 abbr>>. Noah is like the boy Samuel, the boy David. <<Bbl 2S 7:11 >>, <<Bbl 2S 12:10 abbr>>, <<Bbl 1Ch 22:8 >>-09.
----
* The Law and the Covenant, J. Jordan, chap. 10.
* Noah - //This one will give us rest.// <<Bbl Ruth 1:9 "" note>>
* <<Bbl Dt 5:15 >> [[Servitude]] in which there is no day of rest. See <<Bbl Ex 16:23 "" note >>-30 . Also, slaves were freed every sabbatical year, <<Bbl Ex 21:2 >>.
* <<Bbl 2Ch 36:21 >> //the [[Land]] enjoyed its sabbath rest ... until the seventy years were completed//
* <<Bbl L 14:1 >>-6 A continuation of 13:10-17, with the same outcome of humiliation for the opponents of Jesus.
* Fulfilled in the NT: <<Bbl Col 2:16 >>; <<Bbl R 14:5 >>; <<Bbl Gal 4:9 >>-10.
* <<Bbl Ps 23:3 >>; <<Bbl Gal 6:1 >>; <<Bbl 1P 5:10 >>
* <<Bbl Ps 74:1 abbr >>-23 -- "Recovery Psalm"
* [[Redeem]], [[Security]], //recovery//
* [[Heal]] <<Bbl Mt 12:13>>, <<Bbl 2Ki 5:14>>
!! Interpersonal
* <<Bbl Mt 18:17 "" note>>
* Our Lord with Peter
* [[Death-unto-Life]]
* [[Christ]]
* [[Judgment-ofGod]]
* [[Transform]]
* [[Regenerate]]
* [[Live]]
* [[Deliver]]
* [[Hope]]
* [[Power]]
!! Physicality of Christ's resurrection
* <<Bbl 1J 4:2 "" note>>
* The resurrected Jesus asserted that he was not merely a spirit but had a flesh-and-bone body (<<Bbl L 24:39 >>; cf. <<Bbl J 2:19 >>-21).
* He ate food on several occasions to demonstrate this. (<<Bbl L 24:30 >>, 42-43; <<Bbl J 21:12 >>-13).
* This was confirmed by his followers who physically touched him (<<Bbl Mt 28:9 >>; <<Bbl J 20:17 >>).
* The Jehovah’s Witnesses cult teaches that Jesus was resurrected spiritually but not physically from the dead.
----
The resurrection is essential to the [[Gospel]], for it confirms the good news of:
* VICTORY: Christ rose as a Victor over the grave and death.
* VALIDATION: a signal of blessing over creation in all its parts, like the rainbow over Noah.
* VERIFICATION: a seal of authenticity on Christ's redemptive work, so no disciple of His need doubt its efficacy.
* VINDICATION: a convincing and complete triumph over God's enemies, as foretold constantly by His prophets.
----
Christ's physical embodiment means He is not subject to death, sickness, loneliness, disappointment, hurt, trauma, abuse.
* This raises the mystery of suffering for his believers, the body of Christ on earth.
* Question: How many marks and scars remain? Every stripe? Every nick from a carpentry tool? * Question: How far do they go? Inside the rib cage? Pierced through completely, the hands and feet? Deep scars leave pain -- is there now pain?
At the same time, it is an everlasting identification with humans, so he is forevermore Emmanuel. He has a special locus. (Is it possible he isn't omnipresent, making the role of the Spirit that much more important?) The scars mean carries not only a timeless awareness of everything, but he bears physical marks of his human history. (Bears...marks...history -- earthy words.)
''The showing of that which was hidden.''
* These terms share the same semantic essence:
## revelation
## unveiling
## apocalypse
## disclosure
* [[Veil]]
* [[Invisible-Visible]]
* <<Bbl Dan 8:27 "" note >>
* <<Bbl Mt 13:11>>
!!! The inclusion of the Gentiles or [[Nations]].
* <<Bbl I 25:7 "" note >>
* <<Bbl Eph 3:2 >>-11
* <<Bbl Gal 3:3 >>
!!! Aspects of God's revelation
# Act - His workings
** We think primarily of His mighty works such as the Exodus.
** Eutychus raised from his fall is also a work; so is Hudson Taylor's discovery of a couple of umbrellas.
** Ruth's discovery of extra barley on the ground is another.
# Word - verbal disclosure
** The two above are interconnected. They may arrive in any variety of order and development.
# Writ - that which captures both above
** The what and how of journalism is significant in itself
** Preservation is implied
# Reception
** Pragmatically for us, this means a fresh understanding of the page. But it is intrinsic to all above.
* See [[Word]] for another analysis.
* As the little placard explains the work of art that is adjacent, so God's word-revelation explains His act-revelation.
* By word and act: the Cross is the ultimate example of both in concert.
!!! Human words
* [[Language]]. God in 3 person communicating communion with each other through all eternity. He who is three and one creates man who is two in one. Created a relational creature. He gave us language which is in some way an image of his own communication. God made humans to speak in order to reflect his nature, so we aver the capacity of human speech to communicate truth about God. Not exhaustively, but sufficiently and reliably and truly.
* Illumination. The Spirit ministers the meaning. But not as arbitrary, that is not God's character.
* Oral tradition facilitated by long lifespans.
The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his slaves the things which must take place in a short time, and communicated it by sending it through his angel to his slave John, {{rf{2}}} who testified about the word of God and the testimony of Jesus Christ, all that he saw. {{rf{3}}} Blessed is the one who reads aloud and blessed are those who hear the words of the prophecy and observe the things written in it, because the time is near! {{rf{4}}} John, to the seven churches in Asia: grace to you and peace from the one who is and the one who was and the one who is coming, and from the seven spirits who are before his throne, {{rf{5}}} and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To the one who loves us and released us from our sins by his blood {{rf{6}}} and made us a kingdom, priests to his God and Father -- to him be the glory and the power forever and ever. Amen. {{rf{7}}} Behold, he is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see him, even every one who pierced him, and all the tribes of the earth will mourn over him. Yes, amen. {{rf{8}}} I am the Alpha and the Omega, says the Lord God, the one who is and the one who was and the one who is coming, the All-Powerful. {{rf{9}}} I, John, your brother and co-sharer in the affliction and kingdom and steadfastness in Jesus, was on the island called Patmos because of the word of God and the testimony about Jesus. {{rf{10}}} I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day, and I heard behind me a great sound like a trumpet {{rf{11}}} saying, "What you see, write in a book and send it to the seven churches: to Ephesus and to Smyrna and to Pergamum and to Thyatira and to Sardis and to Philadelphia and to Laodicea." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Revelation-01-01]] }}}
* Read as if written next after Malachi.
* Revelation is a sort of Gospel account that differs from the others by presenting Christ in His eternity and transcendence.
----
<<Bbl Rev 1:6 abbr >> The KJV and NKJV are incorrect; we are not kings, but rather a kingdom.
1:15 see <<Bbl Ez 1:28 >>, <<Bbl Ez 43:2 abbr >>
<<Bbl Rev 1:20 abbr >> This demonstrates that there truly are "guardian angels," if not over individuals, then certainly over socio-geographical areas.
<<Bbl Rev 2:1 abbr >> Lampstand means the testimony. May my testimony never be removed because of sin.
2:10 This clearly indicates ten days of torture followed by death. It is a comfort to know when it will end.
<<Bbl Rev 2:12 abbr>> Rome stationed the regional ruler of Asia, the proconsul, in Pergamum. A governor authorized to wear a sword, indicating //ius gladii//, could execute someone without referring to Rome.
3:14: Compare <<Bbl I 65:16 >> (Heb).
{{rf{12}}} And I turned to see the voice which was speaking with me, and when I turned, I saw seven gold lampstands, {{rf{13}}} and in the midst of the lampstands one like a son of man, dressed in a robe reaching to the feet and girded around his chest with a golden belt, {{rf{14}}} and his head and hair were white like wool, white as snow, and his eyes were like a fiery flame, {{rf{15}}} and his feet were like fine bronze when it has been fired in a furnace, and his voice was like the sound of many waters, {{rf{16}}} and he had in his right hand seven stars, and a sharp double-edged sword coming out of his mouth, and his face was like the sun shining in its strength. {{rf{17}}} And when I saw him, I fell at his feet like a dead person, and he placed his right hand on me, saying, "Do not be afraid! I am the first and the last, {{rf{18}}} and the one who lives, and I was dead, and behold, I am living forever and ever, and I hold the keys of death and of Hades. {{rf{19}}} Therefore, write the things which you saw, and the things which are, and the things which are about to take place after these things. {{rf{20}}} As for the mystery of the seven stars which you saw in my right hand and the seven gold lampstands -- the seven stars are the angels of the seven churches, and the seven lampstands are the seven churches. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Revelation-01-12]] }}}
"To the angel of the church in Ephesus write: "This is what the one who holds the seven stars in his right hand says, the one who walks in the midst of the seven gold lampstands: {{rf{2}}} 'I know your works, and your labor and patient endurance, and that you are not able to tolerate evil, and you put to the test those who call themselves apostles and are not, and you found them to be false. {{rf{3}}} And you have patient endurance, and have endured many things because of my name, and have not become weary. {{rf{4}}} But I have this against you: that you have left your first love. {{rf{5}}} Remember therefore from where you have fallen, and repent and do the works you did at first. But if you do not, I am coming to you, and I will remove your lampstand from its place, unless you repent. {{rf{6}}} But you do have this: that you hate the deeds of the Nicolaitans, things which I also hate. {{rf{7}}} The one who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who conquers, I will grant to him to eat from the tree of life which is in the paradise of God.' {{rf{8}}} "And to the angel of the church in Smyrna write: "This is what the first and the last says, who was dead and came to life: {{rf{9}}} 'I know your affliction and poverty (but you are rich), and the slander of those who call themselves Jews and are not, but are a synagogue of Satan. {{rf{10}}} Do not be afraid of the things which you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison so that you may be tested, and you will experience affliction ten days. Be faithful until death, and I will give you the crown of life. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Revelation-02-01]] }}}
{{rf{11}}} The one who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. The one who conquers will never be harmed by the second death.' {{rf{12}}} "And to the angel of the church in Pergamum write: "This is what the one who has the sharp double-edged sword says: {{rf{13}}} 'I know where you live, where the throne of Satan is. And you hold fast to my name and did not deny your faith in me, even in the days of Antipas my faithful witness, who was killed among you, where Satan lives. {{rf{14}}} But I have a few things against you: that you have there those who hold fast to the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to put a stumbling block before the sons of Israel, to eat food sacrificed to idols and to commit sexual immorality. {{rf{15}}} So likewise you also have those who hold fast to the teaching of the Nicolaitans. {{rf{16}}} Therefore repent! But if you do not, I am coming to you quickly, and I will make war with them with the sword from my mouth. {{rf{17}}} The one who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who conquers, I will give to him some of the hidden manna, and I will give to him a white stone, and on the stone a new name written, that no one knows except the one who receives it.' {{rf{18}}} "And to the angel of the church in Thyatira write: "This is what the Son of God says, the one who has his eyes like a fiery flame and his feet like fine bronze: {{rf{19}}} 'I know your works, and your love, and faith, and service, and patient endurance -- and your last works are greater than the first. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Revelation-02-11]] }}}
{{rf{20}}} But I have against you that you tolerate the woman Jezebel, the one who calls herself a prophetess, and teaches and deceives my slaves to commit sexual immorality and to eat food sacrificed to idols. {{rf{21}}} And I have given her time in order to repent, and she did not want to repent from her sexual immorality. {{rf{22}}} Behold, I am throwing her into a sickbed and those who committed adultery with her into great affliction, unless they repent from her deeds. {{rf{23}}} And I will kill her children with deadly disease, and all the churches will know that I am the one who searches minds and hearts, and I will give to each one of you according to your deeds. {{rf{24}}} But I say to you, to the rest who are in Thyatira, all those who do not hold this teaching, who have not known the deep things of Satan, as they say, I do not put upon you any other burden. {{rf{25}}} Nevertheless, hold fast to what you have until I come. {{rf{26}}} And the one who conquers and who keeps my works until the end, I will give him authority over the nations, {{rf{27}}} and "he will shepherd them with an iron rod; he will break them in pieces like jars made of clay," {{rf{28}}} as I also have received from my Father, and I will give him the morning star. {{rf{29}}} The one who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.' {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Revelation-02-20]] }}}
"And to the angel of the church in Sardis write: "This is what the one who has the seven spirits of God and the seven stars says: 'I know your works, that you have a name that you are alive, and you are dead. {{rf{2}}} Be on the alert and strengthen the remaining things that are about to die, for I have not found your works completed before my God. {{rf{3}}} Therefore remember how you have received and heard, and observe it, and repent. If therefore you are not on the alert, I will come like a thief, and you will never know at what hour I will come against you. {{rf{4}}} But you have a few people in Sardis who have not defiled their clothing, and they will walk with me in white, because they are worthy. {{rf{5}}} The one who conquers in this way will be dressed in white clothing, and I will never erase his name from the book of life, and I will declare his name before my Father and before his angels. {{rf{6}}} The one who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.' {{rf{7}}} "And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write: "This is what the holy one, the true one, the one who has the key of David, the one who opens and no one can shut, and who shuts and no one can open, says: {{rf{8}}} 'I know your works (behold, I have put before you an opened door that no one is able to shut) that you have a little strength, and have kept my word, and did not deny my name. {{rf{9}}} Behold, I am causing those of the synagogue of Satan, the ones who call themselves Jews and are not, but are lying -- behold, I will make them come and kneel down before your feet and acknowledge that I have loved you. {{rf{10}}} Because you have kept the word of my patient endurance, I also will keep you from the hour of testing that is about to come upon the whole inhabited world, to put to the test those who live on the earth. {{rf{11}}} I am coming quickly! Hold fast to what you have, so that no one may take away your crown. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Revelation-03-01]] }}}
{{rf{12}}} The one who conquers, I will make him a pillar in the temple of my God, and he will never go outside again, and I will write on him the name of my God and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem that comes down from heaven from my God, and my new name. {{rf{13}}} The one who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.' {{rf{14}}} "And to the angel of the church in Laodicea write: "This is what the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the originator of God's creation, says: {{rf{15}}} 'I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot. Would that you were cold or hot! {{rf{16}}} Thus, because you are lukewarm and neither hot nor cold, I am about to vomit you out of my mouth! {{rf{17}}} Because you are saying, "I am rich, and have become rich, and I have need of nothing," and you do not know that you are wretched and pitiable and poor and blind and naked, {{rf{18}}} I advise you to buy from me gold refined by fire, in order that you may become rich, and white clothing, in order that you may be clothed and the shame of your nakedness may not be revealed, and eye salve to smear on your eyes, in order that you may see. {{rf{19}}} As many as I love, I reprove and discipline. Be zealous, therefore, and repent! {{rf{20}}} Behold, I stand at the door and knock! If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, indeed I will come in to him and dine with him, and he with me. {{rf{21}}} The one who conquers, I will grant to him to sit down with me on my throne, as I also have conquered and have sat down with my Father on his throne. {{rf{22}}} The one who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.'" {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Revelation-03-12]] }}}
After these things I looked, and behold, an open door in heaven, and the former voice that I had heard like a trumpet speaking with me was saying, "Come up here and I will show you the things which must take place after these things." {{rf{2}}} Immediately I was in the Spirit, and behold, a throne was set in heaven, and one was seated on the throne. {{rf{3}}} And the one seated was similar in appearance to jasper and carnelian stone, and a rainbow was around the throne similar in appearance to emerald. {{rf{4}}} And around the throne were twenty-four thrones, and seated on the thrones were twenty-four elders dressed in white clothing, and on their heads were gold crowns. {{rf{5}}} And from the throne came out lightnings and sounds and thunders, and seven torches of fire were burning before the throne, which are the seven spirits of God. {{rf{6}}} And before the throne was something like a sea of glass, like crystal, and in the midst of the throne and around the throne were four living creatures full of eyes in front and in back. {{rf{7}}} And the first living creature was similar to a lion, and the second living creature was similar to an ox, and the third living creature had a face like a man's, and the fourth living creature was similar to an eagle flying. {{rf{8}}} And the four living creatures, each one of them, had six wings apiece, full of eyes around and inside, and they do not have rest day and night, saying, "Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God All-Powerful, the one who was and the one who is and the one who is coming!" {{rf{9}}} And whenever the living creatures give glory and honor and thanks to the one who is seated on the throne, the one who lives forever and ever, {{rf{10}}} the twenty-four elders fall down before the one who is seated on the throne and worship the one who lives forever and ever, and put down their crowns before the throne, saying, {{rf{11}}} "You are worthy, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honor and power, because you have created all things, and because of your will they existed and were created." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Revelation-04-01]] }}}
<<Bbl Rev 5:5 abbr >> The allusion begins to <<Bbl I 11:1>>
<<Bbl Rev 5:6 abbr >> The allusion begins to <<Bbl I 11:1>>-3 continues. <<Bbl Rev 3:1>>
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A [[Seal]] identifies the intended recipient. This scroll requires that all seven of the Spirits of God in Isa 11:1-3 are present.
* John rejoices with Heaven when all seven are found to be present in the Lamb who is worthy.
* He can report that the tribulations that follow are all in line with God's foresight and wisdom.
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There seems to be a chiastic structure in which vss 1-5 are counter-weighted with 7ff. If we take in the whole account of seven seals opened, the chiasmus is dramatically asymmetrical.
<<Bbl Rev 6:1 >> - the Lion is the Lamb.
<<Bbl Rev 7:9 abbr >>-11 see <<Bbl Gn 12:1 >>-3
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Now from all nations, all tongues, and all peoples,
countless the crowd but their voices are one;
vast is the sight and majestic their singing --
"God has the victory: He reigns from the throne!"
These have come out of the hardest oppression,
now they may stand in the presence of God,
serving their Lord day and night in his temple,
ransomed and cleansed by the Lamb's precious blood.
Gone is their thirst and no more shall they hunger,
God is their shelter, his power at their side;
sun shall not pain them, no burning will torture,
Jesus the Lamb is their shepherd and guide.
He will go with them to clear living water
flowing from springs which his mercy supplies;
gone is their grief and their trials are over --
God wipes away every tear from their eyes.
Blessing and glory and wisdom and power
be to the Saviour again and again;
might and thanksgiving and honor for ever
be to our God: Alleluia! Amen.
// -- Christopher Idle//
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{{rf{1}}} And I saw in the right hand of the one who is seated on the throne a scroll, written inside and on the back, sealed up with seven seals. {{rf{2}}} And I saw a powerful angel proclaiming with a loud voice, "Who is worthy to open the scroll and to break its seals?" {{rf{3}}} And no one in heaven or on earth or under the earth was able to open the scroll or to look into it. {{rf{4}}} And I began to weep loudly because no one was found worthy to open the scroll or to look into it. {{rf{5}}} And one of the elders said to me, "Do not weep! Behold, the lion of the tribe of Judah, the root of David, has conquered, so that he can open the scroll and its seven seals. {{rf{6}}} And I saw in the midst of the throne and of the four living creatures and in the midst of the elders a Lamb standing as though slaughtered, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven spirits of God sent into all the earth. {{rf{7}}} And he came and took the scroll from the right hand of the one who was seated on the throne. {{rf{8}}} And when he took the scroll, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb, each one of whom had a harp and golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints. {{rf{9}}} And they were singing a new song, saying, "You are worthy to take the scroll and to open its seals, because you were slaughtered, and bought people for God by your blood from every tribe and language and people and nation, {{rf{10}}} and made them a kingdom and priests to our God, and they will reign on the earth." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Revelation-05-01]] }}}
{{rf{11}}} And I looked, and I heard the voice of many angels around the throne and of the living creatures and of the elders, and their number was ten thousand times ten thousand and thousands times thousands, {{rf{12}}} saying with a loud voice, "Worthy is the Lamb who was slaughtered to receive power and riches and wisdom and strength and honor and glory and praise!" {{rf{13}}} And I heard every creature that is in heaven and on the earth and under the earth and in the sea and everything in them saying, "To the one who is seated on the throne and to the Lamb be praise and honor and glory and power forever and ever." {{rf{14}}} And the four living creatures were saying, "Amen!" and the elders fell down and worshiped. {{rf big{1}}} And I watched when the Lamb opened one of the seven seals, and I heard one of the four living creatures saying like the sound of thunder, "Come!" {{rf{2}}} And I looked, and behold, a white horse, and the one seated on it had a bow, and a crown was given to him, and he went out conquering and in order that he might conquer. {{rf{3}}} And when he opened the second seal, I heard the second living creature saying, "Come!" {{rf{4}}} And another horse came out, fiery red, and it was granted to the one seated on it to take peace from the earth, and that they would slaughter one another, and a large sword was given to him. {{rf{5}}} And when he opened the third seal, I heard the third living creature saying, "Come!" And I looked, and behold, a black horse, and the one seated on it had a balance scale in his hand. {{rf{6}}} And I heard something like a voice in the midst of the four living creatures saying, "A quart of wheat for a denarius, and three quarts of barley for a denarius, and do not damage the olive oil and the wine!" {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Revelation-05-11]] }}}
{{rf{7}}} And when he opened the fourth seal, I heard a voice from the fourth living creature saying, "Come!" {{rf{8}}} And I looked, and behold, a pale green horse, and the one seated on it was named Death, and Hades followed after him. And authority was granted to them over a fourth of the earth, to kill by the sword and by famine and by pestilence and by the wild beasts of the earth. {{rf{9}}} And when he opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slaughtered because of the word of God and because of the testimony which they had, {{rf{10}}} and they cried out with a loud voice, saying, "How long, holy and true Lord, will you not judge and avenge our blood from those who live on the earth?" {{rf{11}}} And to each one of them a white robe was given, and it was said to them that they should rest yet a short time, until the number of their fellow slaves and their brothers who were about to be killed as they had been were completed also. {{rf{12}}} And I watched when he opened the sixth seal, and a great earthquake took place, and the sun became black like sackcloth made of hair, and the whole moon became like blood, {{rf{13}}} and the stars of heaven fell to the earth like a fig tree throws down its unripe figs when shaken by a great wind. {{rf{14}}} And the sky was split apart like a scroll that is rolled up, and every mountain and island were moved from their place. {{rf{15}}} And the kings of the earth, and the most important people, and the military leaders, and the rich, and the powerful, and every slave and free person hid themselves in the caves and among the rocks of the mountains, {{rf{16}}} And they said to the mountains and to the rocks, "Fall on us and hide us from the face of the one who is seated on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb, {{rf{17}}} because the great day of their wrath has come, and who is able to stand?" {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Revelation-06-07]] }}}
After this I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth, holding back the four winds of the earth, so that no wind could blow on the earth or on the sea or on any tree. {{rf{2}}} And I saw another angel ascending from the east, holding the seal of the living God, and he cried out with a loud voice to the four angels who were given permission to damage the earth and the sea, {{rf{3}}} saying, "Do not damage the earth or the sea or the trees until we have sealed the slaves of our God on their foreheads." {{rf{4}}} And I heard the number of the ones who were sealed, one hundred forty-four thousand sealed from every tribe of the sons of Israel: {{rf{5}}} from the tribe of Judah, twelve thousand sealed, from the tribe of Reuben, twelve thousand, from the tribe of Gad, twelve thousand, {{rf{6}}} from the tribe of Asher, twelve thousand, from the tribe of Naphtali, twelve thousand, from the tribe of Manasseh, twelve thousand, {{rf{7}}} from the tribe of Simeon, twelve thousand, from the tribe of Levi, twelve thousand, from the tribe of Issachar, twelve thousand, {{rf{8}}} from the tribe of Zebulun, twelve thousand, from the tribe of Joseph, twelve thousand, from the tribe of Benjamin, twelve thousand were sealed. {{rf{9}}} After these things I looked, and behold, a great crowd that no one was able to number, from every nation and tribe and people and language, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, dressed in white robes and with palm branches in their hands. {{rf{10}}} And they were crying out with a loud voice, saying, "Salvation to our God who is seated on the throne, and to the Lamb!" {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Revelation-07-01]] }}}
{{rf{11}}} And all the angels stood around the throne and the elders and the four living creatures, and they fell down on their faces before the throne and worshiped God, {{rf{12}}} saying, "Amen! Praise and glory, and wisdom and thanksgiving, and honor and power and strength be to our God forever and ever. Amen!" {{rf{13}}} And one of the elders answered, saying to me, "These who are dressed in the white robes -- who are they, and from where have they come?" {{rf{14}}} And I said to him, "My lord, you know." And he said to me, "These are the ones who have come out of the great tribulation, and have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. {{rf{15}}} Because of this, they are before the throne of God, and they serve him day and night in his temple, and the one who is seated on the throne will shelter them. {{rf{16}}} They will not be hungry any longer or be thirsty any longer, nor will the sun ever beat down on them, nor any heat, {{rf{17}}} because the Lamb who is in the midst of the throne will shepherd them and will lead them to springs of living waters, and God will wipe away every tear from their eyes." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Revelation-07-11]] }}}
And when he opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven for about half an hour. {{rf{2}}} And I saw the seven angels who stand before God, and seven trumpets were given to them. {{rf{3}}} And another angel who had a golden censer came and stood at the altar, and a large amount of incense was given to him, in order that he could offer the prayers of all the saints on the golden altar that is before the throne. {{rf{4}}} And the smoke of the incense went up before God with the prayers of the saints from the hand of the angel. {{rf{5}}} And the angel took the censer and filled it with the fire from the altar and threw it to the earth, and there were thunders and sounds and lightnings and an earthquake. {{rf{6}}} And the seven angels who had the seven trumpets prepared themselves in order to blow them. {{rf{7}}} And the first blew the trumpet, and there was hail and fire mixed with blood, and it was thrown to the earth, and a third of the earth was burned up, and a third of the trees were burned up, and all the green grass was burned up. {{rf{8}}} And the second angel blew the trumpet, and something like a great mountain burning with fire was thrown into the sea, and a third of the sea became blood, {{rf{9}}} and a third of the creatures in the sea -- the ones which had life -- died, and a third of the ships were destroyed. {{rf{10}}} And the third angel blew the trumpet, and a great star burning like a torch fell from heaven, and it fell on a third of the rivers and on the springs of water. {{rf{11}}} And the name of the star was called Wormwood, and a third of the waters became wormwood, and many people died from the waters because they were made bitter. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Revelation-08-01]] }}}
{{rf{12}}} And the fourth angel blew the trumpet, and a third of the sun was struck, and a third of the moon, and a third of the stars, so that a third of them were darkened, and the day did not shine with respect to a third of it, and the night likewise. {{rf{13}}} And I looked, and I heard one eagle flying directly overhead, saying with a loud voice, "Woe, woe, woe to those who live on the earth, from the remaining sounds of the trumpets of the three angels who are about to blow the trumpet!" {{rf big{1}}} And the fifth angel blew the trumpet, and I saw a star that had fallen from heaven to the earth, and the key of the shaft of the abyss was given to him. {{rf{2}}} And he opened the shaft of the abyss, and smoke went up from the shaft like smoke from a great furnace, and the sun and the air were darkened by the smoke from the shaft. {{rf{3}}} And out of the smoke locusts came to the earth, and power was given to them like the scorpions of the earth have power. {{rf{4}}} And it was told to them that they should not damage the grass of the earth or any green plant or any tree, except those people who do not have the seal of God on their foreheads. {{rf{5}}} And it was granted to them that they should not kill them, but that they would be tormented five months, and their torment is like the torment of a scorpion when it stings a person. {{rf{6}}} And in those days people will seek death and will never find it, and they will long to die, and death will flee from them. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Revelation-08-12]] }}}
{{rf{7}}} And the appearance of the locusts was like horses prepared for battle, and on their heads were something like crowns similar in appearance to gold, and their faces were like men's faces, {{rf{8}}} and they had hair like the hair of women, and their teeth were like the teeth of lions, {{rf{9}}} and they had breastplates like iron breastplates, and the sound of their wings was like the sound of many horse-drawn chariots running into battle. {{rf{10}}} And they have tails similar in appearance to scorpions, and stings, and their power to injure people for five months is in their tails. {{rf{11}}} They have as king over them the angel of the abyss, whose name in Hebrew is Abaddon, and in Greek he has the name Apollyon. {{rf{12}}} The first woe has passed. Behold, two woes are still coming after these things. {{rf{13}}} And the sixth angel blew the trumpet, and I heard one voice from the horns of the golden altar that is before God {{rf{14}}} saying to the sixth angel, the one who had the trumpet, "Release the four angels who have been bound at the great river Euphrates!" {{rf{15}}} And the four angels who had been prepared for the hour and day and month and year were released, in order that they should kill a third of humanity. {{rf{16}}} And the number of the troops of the cavalry was two hundred million; I heard the number of them. {{rf{17}}} And in this way I saw the horses in the vision, and those seated on them, who had fiery red and hyacinth-colored and sulphurous yellow breastplates, and the heads of the horses were like the heads of lions, and out of their mouths came fire and smoke and sulphur. {{rf{18}}} By these three plagues a third of humanity was killed -- by the fire and the smoke and the sulphur that came out of their mouths. {{rf{19}}} For the power of the horses is in their mouths and in their tails, for their tails are similar in appearance to snakes, having heads, and with them they cause injury. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Revelation-09-07]] }}}
{{rf{20}}} And the rest of humanity who were not killed by these plagues did not repent of the works of their hands, in order not to worship the demons and the gold and silver and bronze and stone and wooden idols, which are able neither to see nor to hear nor to walk, {{rf{21}}} and they did not repent of their murders or of their magic spells or of their sexual immorality or of their thefts. {{rf big{1}}} And I saw another powerful angel descending from heaven, wrapped in a cloud, and a rainbow over his head, and his face was like the sun, and his feet were like pillars of fire, {{rf{2}}} and holding in his hand a little scroll that was opened. And he put his right foot on the sea and his left on the land. {{rf{3}}} And he cried out with a loud voice like a lion roars, and when he cried out, the seven thunders sounded their own voices. {{rf{4}}} And when the seven thunders spoke, I was about to write, and I heard a voice from heaven saying, "Seal up the things which the seven thunders spoke, and do not write them!" {{rf{5}}} And the angel whom I saw standing on the sea and on the land raised his right hand to heave {{rf{6}}} and swore by the one who lives forever and ever, who created heaven and the things in it, and the earth and the things in it, and the sea and the things in it, "There will be no more delay! {{rf{7}}} But in the days of the sound of the seventh angel, whenever he is about to blow the trumpet, then the mystery of God is completed, as he announced to his own slaves the prophets." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Revelation-09-20]] }}}
<<Bbl Rev 12:11 abbr >> see <<Bbl H 11:35 >>
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<<Bbl Rev 12:17 abbr >> see <<Bbl Ex 1:16 >>; <<Bbl Mt 2:16 >>
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<<Bbl Rev 13:18 abbr >> presents the number of the beast; <<Bbl Rev 14:1 abbr >> follows immediately by the number of the redeemed, 144,000.
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<<Bbl Rev 19:7 abbr >> This commences the [[Wedding]] which consummates the book and the entire narrative of redemption.
<<Bbl Rev 19:13 abbr >> See <<Bbl I 63:3 >>.
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<<Bbl Rev 21:1 abbr >> The sea was no more. The sea is often a symbol of chaos which is opposed to God's good order. Evil things come out of the sea. __Wilkerson Redemption__ b p 90.
<<Bbl Rev 21:1 abbr >>-5. This passage has a chiastic structure.
<<Bbl Rev 21:3 abbr >> Emmanuel, God with us.
21:4 What good would these promises be to someone who had never lost a loved one, never cried?
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22:1-2 see <<Bbl Ez 47:12 >>
{{rf{8}}} And the voice that I had heard from heaven was speaking with me again and saying, "Go, take the opened scroll in the hand of the angel who is standing on the sea and on the land." {{rf{9}}} And I went to the angel and told him to give me the little scroll, and he said to me, "Take and eat it up, and it will make your stomach bitter, but in your mouth it will be sweet as honey." {{rf{10}}} And I took the little scroll from the hand of the angel and ate it up, and it was sweet as honey in my mouth, and when I had eaten it, my stomach was made bitter. {{rf{11}}} And they said to me, "It is necessary for you to prophesy again about many peoples and nations and languages and kings." {{rf big{1}}} And a measuring rod similar in appearance to a staff was given to me, saying, "Get up and measure the temple of God and the altar and those who worship in it. {{rf{2}}} And leave out the courtyard outside of the temple, and do not measure it, because it has been given to the Gentiles, and they will trample the holy city for forty two months. {{rf{3}}} And I will grant authority to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy for one thousand two hundred sixty days, dressed in sackcloth." {{rf{4}}} These are the two olive trees and the two lampstands that stand before the Lord of the earth. {{rf{5}}} And if anyone wants to harm them, fire comes out of their mouth and consumes their enemies. And if anyone wants to harm them, in this way he must be killed. {{rf{6}}} These have the authority to shut the sky, so that it does not rain during the days of their prophecy. And they have authority over the waters, to turn them to blood, and to strike the earth with every plague as often as they wish. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Revelation-10-08]] }}}
{{rf{7}}} And when they have completed their testimony, the beast that comes up from the abyss will make war with them and will conquer them and will kill them. {{rf{8}}} And their dead bodies will lie in the street of the great city which is called symbolically Sodom and Egypt, where also their Lord was crucified. {{rf{9}}} And those from peoples and tribes and languages and nations will see their dead bodies three and a half days, and they will not allow their dead bodies to be placed in a tomb. {{rf{10}}} And those who live on the earth will rejoice over them, and will celebrate and will send gifts to one another, because these two prophets tormented those who live on the earth. {{rf{11}}} And after the three and a half days, the breath of life from God entered into them, and they stood on their feet, and great fear fell on those who saw them. {{rf{12}}} And they heard a loud voice from heaven saying to them, "Come up here," and they went up into heaven in a cloud, and their enemies watched them. {{rf{13}}} And at that hour a great earthquake took place, and a tenth of the city collapsed, and seven thousand people were killed by the earthquake, and the rest became terrified and gave glory to the God of heaven. {{rf{14}}} The second woe has passed. Behold, the third woe is coming quickly! {{rf{15}}} And the seventh angel blew the trumpet, and there was a loud voice in heaven saying, "The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of his Christ, and he will reign forever and ever." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Revelation-11-07]] }}}
{{rf{16}}} And the twenty-four elders who are seated on their thrones before God fell down on their faces and worshiped God, {{rf{17}}} saying, "We give thanks to you, Lord God All-Powerful, the one who is and the one who was, because you have taken your great power and have begun to reign. {{rf{18}}} And the nations were angry, and your wrath has come, and the time for the dead to be judged, and to give their reward to your slaves the prophets and to the saints and to the ones who fear your name, the small and the great, and to destroy those who destroy the earth." {{rf{19}}} And the temple of God in heaven was opened, and the ark of his covenant appeared in his temple, and there were lightnings and sounds and thunders and an earthquake and large hail. {{rf big{1}}} And a great sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun and with the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars, {{rf{2}}} and who was pregnant and was crying out because she was having birth pains, and was in torment to give birth. {{rf{3}}} And another sign appeared in heaven, and behold, a great fiery red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and on his heads were seven royal headbands. {{rf{4}}} And his tail swept away a third of the stars from heaven and threw them to the earth. And the dragon stood before the woman who was about to give birth, in order that whenever she gave birth to her child he could devour it. {{rf{5}}} And she gave birth to a son, a male child, who is going to shepherd all the nations with an iron rod, and her child was snatched away to God and to his throne. {{rf{6}}} And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she had a place prepared there by God, so that they could feed her there for one thousand two hundred sixty days. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Revelation-11-16]] }}}
{{rf{7}}} And there was war in heaven; Michael and his angels fought against the dragon, and the dragon and his angels fought back. {{rf{8}}} And they did not prevail, nor was a place found for them any longer in heaven. {{rf{9}}} And the great dragon was thrown down, the ancient serpent, who is called the devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world. He was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him. {{rf{10}}} And I heard a loud voice in heaven saying, "Now the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God and the authority of his Christ have come, because the accuser of our brothers has been thrown down, the one who accuses them before our God day and night. {{rf{11}}} And they conquered him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, and they did not love their lives until death. {{rf{12}}} Because of this, rejoice, you heavens, and those who live in them! Woe to the earth and to the sea, because the devil has come down to you, having great anger, because he knows that he has little time!" {{rf{13}}} And when the dragon saw that he had been thrown down to the earth, he pursued the woman who had given birth to the male child. {{rf{14}}} And the two wings of a great eagle were given to the woman, in order that she could fly into the wilderness, to her place where she is fed there for a time, and times, and half a time, from the presence of the serpent. {{rf{15}}} And from his mouth the serpent spouted water like a river after the woman, in order that he could make her swept away by a river. {{rf{16}}} And the earth came to the aid of the woman, and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed up the river that the dragon had spouted out of his mouth. {{rf{17}}} And the dragon was angry at the woman, and went away to fight against the rest of her children, those who keep the commandments of God and who hold to the testimony about Jesus. {{rf{18}}} And he stood on the sand of the sea. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Revelation-12-07]] }}}
And I saw coming up out of the sea a beast that had ten horns and seven heads, and on its horns ten royal headbands, and on its heads a blasphemous name. {{rf{2}}} And the beast that I saw was similar to a leopard, and its feet were like a bear's, and its mouth was like the mouth of a lion, and the dragon gave it his power and his throne and great authority. {{rf{3}}} And one of its heads appeared as though slaughtered to death, and its fatal wound had been healed. And the whole earth was astonished and followed after the beast. {{rf{4}}} And they worshiped the dragon because he had given authority to the beast, and they worshiped the beast, saying, "Who is like the beast, and who is able to make war with him? {{rf{5}}} And a mouth was given to him speaking great things and blasphemies, and authority to act was given to him for forty-two months. {{rf{6}}} And he opened his mouth for blasphemies toward God, to blaspheme his name and his dwelling, those who live in heaven. {{rf{7}}} And it was given to him to make war with the saints and to conquer them. And authority was given to him over every tribe and people and language and nation. {{rf{8}}} And all those who live on the earth will worship him, everyone whose name is not written from the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb who was slaughtered. {{rf{9}}} If anyone has an ear, let him hear! {{rf{10}}} If anyone is going into captivity, into captivity he goes. If anyone is to be killed by the sword, by the sword he is to be killed. Here is the patient endurance and the faith of the saints. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Revelation-13-01]] }}}
{{rf{11}}} And I saw another beast coming up from the earth, and he had two horns like a lamb, and he was speaking like a dragon. {{rf{12}}} And he exercises all the authority of the first beast on behalf of him, and he causes the earth and those who live in it to worship the first beast whose fatal wound had been healed. {{rf{13}}} And he performs great signs, so that he even causes fire from heaven to come down to the earth before people. {{rf{14}}} And he deceives those who live on the earth because of the signs that it has been granted to him to perform on behalf of the beast, telling those who live on the earth to make an image to the beast who has the wound of the sword and yet lived. {{rf{15}}} And it was given to him to put breath into the image of the beast, in order that the image of the beast both spoke and caused that all those, unless they worshiped the image of the beast, should be killed. {{rf{16}}} And he causes all people, the small and the great, and the rich and the poor, and the free and the slave, that they give them a mark on their right hand or on their forehead, {{rf{17}}} and that no one was able to buy or to sell except the one who had the mark -- the name of the beast or the number of his name. {{rf{18}}} Here is wisdom: the one who has understanding, let him calculate the number of the beast, for it is man's number, and his number is six hundred sixty-six. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Revelation-13-11]] }}}
And I looked, and behold, the Lamb standing on Mount Zion, and with him one hundred forty-four thousand who had his name and the name of his Father written on their foreheads. {{rf{2}}} And I heard a sound from heaven like the sound of many waters and like the sound of loud thunder, and the sound that I heard was like harpists playing on their harps. {{rf{3}}} And they were singing something like a new song before the throne and before the four living creatures and the elders, and no one was able to learn the song except the one hundred forty-four thousand who had been bought from the earth. {{rf{4}}} These are those who have not been defiled with women, for they are virgins. These are the ones who follow the Lamb wherever he goes. These were bought from humanity as first fruits to God and to the Lamb, {{rf{5}}} and in their mouth a lie was not found; they are blameless. {{rf{6}}} And I saw another angel flying directly overhead, having an eternal gospel to proclaim to those who reside on the earth, and to every nation and tribe and language and people, {{rf{7}}} saying with a loud voice, "Fear God and give him glory, because the hour of his judgment has come, and worship the one who made the heaven and the earth and the sea and the springs of water!" {{rf{8}}} And another second angel followed, saying, "Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great, who caused all the nations to drink from the wine of the passion of her sexual immorality." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Revelation-14-01]] }}}
{{rf{9}}} And another third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, "If anyone worships the beast and his image and receives a mark on his forehead or on his hand, {{rf{10}}} he himself also will drink of the wine of the anger of God that has been mixed full strength in the cup of his wrath, and will be tortured with fire and sulphur in the presence of the holy angels and in the presence of the Lamb. {{rf{11}}} And the smoke of their torture went up forever and ever, and those who worshiped the beast and his image did not have rest day and night, along with anyone who received the mark of his name. {{rf{12}}} Here is the patient endurance of the saints, those who keep the commandments of God and the faith in Jesus. {{rf{13}}} And I heard a voice from heaven saying, "Write: 'Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on!'" "Yes," says the Spirit, "in order that they may rest from their labors, for their deeds follow after them." {{rf{14}}} And I looked, and behold, a white cloud, and on the cloud was seated one like a son of man, having on his head a golden crown, and in his hand a sharp sickle. {{rf{15}}} And another angel came out of the temple, crying out with a loud voice to the one seated on the cloud, "Send out your sickle and reap, because the hour to reap has come, because the harvest of the earth is ripe!" {{rf{16}}} And the one seated on the cloud swung his sickle on the earth, and the earth was reaped. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Revelation-14-09]] }}}
{{rf{17}}} And another angel came out of the temple that is in heaven; he also had a sharp sickle. {{rf{18}}} And another angel who had authority over the fire went out from the altar, and he called out with a loud voice to the one who had the sharp sickle, saying, "Send out your sharp sickle and harvest the clusters of grapes from the vine of the earth, because its grapes are at their prime!" {{rf{19}}} And the angel swung his sickle into the earth and harvested the vine of the earth, and threw the grapes into the great winepress of the wrath of God. {{rf{20}}} And the winepress was stomped outside the city, and blood went out from the winepress up to the bridles of the horses, about one thousand six hundred stadia. {{rf big{1}}} And I saw another great and marvelous sign in heaven: seven angels having seven plagues that are the last ones, because with them the wrath of God is completed. {{rf{2}}} And I saw something like a sea of glass mixed with fire, and those who had conquered the beast and his image and the number of his name were standing by the glassy sea, holding harps from God. {{rf{3}}} And they were singing the song of Moses, the slave of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying: "Great and marvelous are your works, Lord God All-Powerful; righteous and true are your ways, King of the ages! {{rf{4}}} Who would never fear, Lord, and glorify your name? For only you are holy, because all the nations will come and worship before you, because your righteous deeds have been revealed." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Revelation-14-17]] }}}
{{rf{5}}} And after these things I looked, and the temple, the tent of the testimony in heaven, was opened, {{rf{6}}} and the seven angels who had the seven plagues came out from the temple, dressed in clean, bright linen garments, and girded with golden belts around their chests. {{rf{7}}} And one of the four living creatures gave to the seven angels seven golden bowls full of the wrath of God, who lives forever and ever, {{rf{8}}} and the temple was filled with smoke from the glory of God and from his power, and no one was able to enter into the temple until the seven plagues of the seven angels were completed. {{rf big{1}}} And I heard a loud voice from the temple saying to the seven angels, "Go and pour out on the earth the seven bowls of the wrath of God." {{rf{2}}} And the first went and poured out his bowl on the earth, and there was an evil and painful sore on the people who had the mark of the beast and who worshiped his image. {{rf{3}}} And the second poured out his bowl on the sea, and it became blood, like that of a dead person, and every living thing that was in the sea died. {{rf{4}}} And the third poured out his bowl on the rivers and the springs of water, and they became blood. {{rf{5}}} And I heard the angel of the waters saying, "You are righteous, the one who is and the one who was, the Holy One, because you have judged these things, {{rf{6}}} because they have poured out the blood of the saints and prophets, and you have given them blood to drink; they are deserving!" {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Revelation-15-05]] }}}
{{rf{7}}} And I heard the altar saying, "Yes, Lord God All-Powerful, true and righteous are your judgments." {{rf{8}}} And the fourth poured out his bowl on the sun, and it was granted to it to burn up people with fire. {{rf{9}}} And people were burned up by the great heat, and they blasphemed the name of God who has the authority over these plagues, and they did not repent to give him glory. {{rf{10}}} And the fifth poured out his bowl on the throne of the beast, and his kingdom became darkened, and they began chewing their tongues because of the pain. {{rf{11}}} And they blasphemed the God of heaven because of their pain and because of their sores, and they did not repent of their deeds. {{rf{12}}} And the sixth poured out his bowl on the great river Euphrates, and its water was dried up, in order that the way would be prepared for the kings from the east. {{rf{13}}} And I saw coming out of the mouth of the dragon and out of the mouth of the beast and out of the mouth of the false prophet three unclean spirits like frogs. {{rf{14}}} For they are the spirits of demons performing signs that go out to the kings of the whole inhabited world, to gather them for the battle of the great day of God the All-Powerful. {{rf{15}}} (Behold, I am coming like a thief. Blessed is the one who is on the alert and who keeps his clothing, so that he does not walk around naked and they see his shamefulness!) {{rf{16}}} And he gathered them to the place called in Hebrew Armageddon. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Revelation-16-07]] }}}
{{rf{17}}} And the seventh poured out his bowl on the air, and a loud voice came out of the temple, from the throne, saying, "It is done!" {{rf{18}}} And there were lightnings and sounds and thunders, and there was a great earthquake, as has not happened from the time humanity has been on the earth -- so great in this way was the earthquake. {{rf{19}}} And the great city was split into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell. And Babylon the great was remembered before God, to give her the cup of the wine of his furious wrath. {{rf{20}}} And every island fled, and mountains were not found. {{rf{21}}} And large hailstones, weighing about a hundred pounds, came down from the sky upon people, and the people blasphemed God because of the plague of hail, because the plague of it was very great. {{rf big{1}}} And one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and spoke with me, saying, "Come, I will show you the judgment of the great prostitute who is seated on many waters, {{rf{2}}} with whom the kings of the earth committed sexual immorality, and those who live on the earth became drunk with the wine of her sexual immorality." {{rf{3}}} And he carried me away into the wilderness in the Spirit, and I saw a woman seated on a scarlet beast that was full of blasphemous names, having seven heads and ten horns. {{rf{4}}} And the woman was dressed in purple and scarlet and adorned with gold and precious stones and pearls, holding a golden cup in her hand full of detestable things and the unclean things of her sexual immorality. {{rf{5}}} And on her forehead a name was written, a mystery: "Babylon the great, the mother of prostitutes and of the detestable things of the earth." {{rf{6}}} And I saw the woman drunk with the blood of the saints and with the blood of the witnesses to Jesus. And I was greatly astonished when I saw her. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Revelation-16-17]] }}}
{{rf{7}}} And the angel said to me, "Why are you astonished? I will tell you the mystery of the woman and of the beast that has the seven heads and the ten horns that carries her. {{rf{8}}} The beast that you saw was, and is not, and is going to come up from the abyss, and he is going to destruction. And those who live on the earth, whose names are not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, will be astonished when they see the beast that was, and is not, and will be present. {{rf{9}}} Here is the mind that has wisdom: the seven heads are seven mountains on which the woman sits and they are seven kings. {{rf{10}}} Five have fallen, one is, the other has not yet come, and whenever he comes it is necessary for him to remain a short time. {{rf{11}}} And the beast that was, and is not, is also himself an eighth, and is of the seven, and he is going to destruction. {{rf{12}}} And the ten horns that you saw are ten kings, who have not yet received a kingdom, but they will receive authority as kings for one hour with the beast. {{rf{13}}} These have one opinion, and they will give their power and authority to the beast. {{rf{14}}} These will make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb will conquer them, because he is Lord of lords and King of kings, and those with him are called and chosen and faithful." {{rf{15}}} And he said to me, "The waters that you saw, where the prostitute is seated, are peoples and crowds and nations and languages. {{rf{16}}} And the ten horns that you saw and the beast, these will hate the prostitute and will make her desolate and naked, and they will eat her flesh and will burn her up with fire. {{rf{17}}} For God put into their hearts to carry out his purpose and to make a unanimous decision and to give their kingdom to the beast, until the words of God are fulfilled. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Revelation-17-07]] }}}
{{rf{18}}} And the woman that you saw is the great city that has sovereignty over the kings of the earth. {{rf big{1}}} After these things I saw another angel descending from heaven, who had great authority, and the earth was illuminated by his splendor. {{rf{2}}} And he cried out with a powerful voice, saying, "Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great, and it has become a dwelling place of demons and a haunt of every unclean spirit and a haunt of every unclean bird and a haunt of every unclean and detested animal. {{rf{3}}} For all the nations have drunk from the wine of the passion of her sexual immorality, and the kings of the earth have committed sexual immorality with her, and the merchants of the earth have become rich from the power of her sensuality." {{rf{4}}} And I heard another voice from heaven saying, "Come out from her, my people, so that you will not participate in her sins, and so that you will not receive her plagues, {{rf{5}}} because her sins have reached up to heaven, and God has remembered her crimes. {{rf{6}}} Pay back to her as she herself also paid out, and pay back double according to her deeds; in the cup that she mixed, mix double for her. {{rf{7}}} As much as she glorified herself and lived in luxury, give to her so much torment and mourning, because in her heart she said, 'I sit as a queen, and am not a widow, and I will never see mourning!' {{rf{8}}} Because of this her plagues will come in one day -- death and mourning and famine -- and she will be burned up with fire, because the Lord God who passes judgment on her is powerful!" {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Revelation-17-18]] }}}
{{rf{9}}} And the kings of the earth will weep and mourn over her, those who committed sexual immorality and lived sensually with her, when they see the smoke of her burning, {{rf{10}}} standing far off because of the fear of her torment, saying, "Woe, woe, the great city, Babylon the powerful city, because in one hour your judgment has come!" {{rf{11}}} And the merchants of the earth weep and mourn over her, because no one buys their cargo any more -- {{rf{12}}} cargo of gold and silver and precious stones and pearls and fine linen and purple cloth and silk and scarlet cloth and all kinds of scented wood and all kinds of ivory goods and all kinds of goods of precious wood and bronze and iron and marble {{rf{13}}} and cinnamon and amomum and incense and ointment and frankincense and wine and olive oil and fine wheat flour and wheat and domesticated animals and sheep and horses and carriages and slaves and human lives. {{rf{14}}} "And the fruit your soul desires has departed from you, and all the luxury and the splendor has perished from you, and they will never find them any more." {{rf{15}}} The merchants of these things, who became rich from them, will stand far off, weeping and mourning because of the fear of her torment, {{rf{16}}} saying, "Woe, woe, the great city, dressed in fine linen and purple cloth and scarlet cloth, and adorned with gold and precious stones and pearls, {{rf{17}}} because in one hour such great wealth has been laid waste!" And every shipmaster and every seafarer and sailors and all those who labor on the sea stood far off {{rf{18}}} and began to cry out when they saw the smoke of her burning, saying, "Who is like the great city?" {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Revelation-18-09]] }}}
{{rf{19}}} And they threw dust on their heads and were crying out, weeping and mourning, saying, "Woe, woe, the great city, in which all those who had ships on the sea became rich from her prosperity, because in one hour she has been laid waste!" {{rf{20}}} Rejoice over her, heaven and the saints and the apostles and the prophets, because God has pronounced your judgment on her!" {{rf{21}}} And one powerful angel picked up a stone like a great millstone and threw it into the sea, saying, "In this way Babylon the great city will be thrown down with violence, and will never be found again! {{rf{22}}} And the sound of harpists and musicians and flute players and trumpeters will never be heard in you again! And every craftsman of every trade will never be found in you again! And the sound of a mill will never be heard in you again! {{rf{23}}} And the light of a lamp will never shine in you again! And the sound of a bridegroom and bride will never be heard in you again! For your merchants were the most important people of the earth, because with your sorcery they deceived all the nations. {{rf{24}}} And in her was found the blood of prophets and saints and all those who had been slaughtered on the earth. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Revelation-18-19]] }}}
After these things I heard something like the loud sound of a great crowd in heaven saying, "Hallelujah! Salvation and glory and power belong to our God, {{rf{2}}} because his judgments are true and righteous, because he has passed judgment on the great prostitute who corrupted the earth with her sexual immorality, and has avenged the blood of his slaves shed by her hand!" {{rf{3}}} And a second time they said, "Hallelujah!" And her smoke goes up forever and ever. {{rf{4}}} And the twenty-four elders and the four living creatures fell down and worshiped God who is seated on the throne, saying, "Amen! Hallelujah!" {{rf{5}}} And a voice came out from the throne, saying, "Praise our God all his slaves, and those who fear him, the small and the great!" {{rf{6}}} And I heard something like the sound of a great crowd and something like the sound of many waters and something like the sound of powerful thunder, saying, "Hallelujah! For the Lord God, the All-Powerful, reigns! {{rf{7}}} Let us rejoice and be glad and give him the glory, because the wedding celebration of the Lamb has come, and his bride has prepared herself. {{rf{8}}} And it has been granted to her that she be dressed in bright, clean fine linen (for the fine linen is the righteous deeds of the saints). {{rf{9}}} And he said to me, "Write: Blessed are those who are invited to the banquet of the wedding celebration of the Lamb!" And he said to me, "These are the true words of God." {{rf{10}}} And I fell down before his feet to worship him, and he said to me, "Do not do that! I am a fellow slave of you and of your brothers who hold to the testimony of Jesus. Worship God! For the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Revelation-19-01]] }}}
{{rf{11}}} And I saw heaven opened, and behold, a white horse, and the one seated on it was called "Faithful" and "True," and with justice he judges and makes war. {{rf{12}}} Now his eyes were a flame of fire, and on his head were many royal headbands having a name written that no one except he himself knows. {{rf{13}}} And he was dressed in an outer garment dipped in blood, and his name is called the Word of God. {{rf{14}}} And the armies that are in heaven, dressed in clean, white fine linen, were following him on white horses. {{rf{15}}} And out of his mouth came a sharp sword, so that with it he could strike the nations. And he will shepherd them with an iron rod, and he stomps the winepress of the wine of the furious wrath of God, the All-Powerful. {{rf{16}}} And he has a name written on his outer garment and on his thigh: "King of kings and Lord of lords." {{rf{17}}} And I saw one angel standing in the sun, and he cried out with a loud voice, saying to all the birds that fly directly overhead, "Come! Assemble for the great banquet of God, {{rf{18}}} in order that you may eat the flesh of kings, and the flesh of military tribunes, and the flesh of the powerful, and the flesh of horses and those seated on them, and the flesh of all people, both free and slave, and small and great!" {{rf{19}}} And I saw the beast and the kings of the earth and their armies assembled to make war with the one who is seated on the horse and with his army. {{rf{20}}} And the beast was seized, and with him the false prophet who performed the signs before him, by which he deceived those who received the mark of the beast and those who had worshiped his image. The two were thrown alive into the lake of fire that burns with sulphur. {{rf{21}}} And the rest were killed by the sword of the one who is seated on the horse -- the sword that comes out of his mouth -- and all the birds gorged themselves on their flesh. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Revelation-19-11]] }}}
And I saw an angel descending from heaven, holding the key of the abyss and a great chain in his hand. {{rf{2}}} And he seized the dragon -- the ancient serpent, who is the devil and Satan -- and bound him for a thousand years, {{rf{3}}} and threw him into the abyss, and shut it and sealed it above him, in order that he could not deceive the nations again until the thousand years are completed. After these things it is necessary for him to be released for a short time. {{rf{4}}} And I saw thrones, and they sat down on them, and authority to judge was granted to them. And I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded because of the testimony about Jesus and because of the word of God, and who had not worshiped the beast or his image, and did not receive the mark on their forehead and on their hand, and they came to life and reigned with Christ for a thousand years. {{rf{5}}} (The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were completed.) This is the first resurrection. {{rf{6}}} Blessed and holy is the one who has a part in the first resurrection. Over this person the second death has no authority, but they will be priests of God and of Christ, and they will reign with him a thousand years. {{rf{7}}} And when the thousand years are completed, Satan will be released from his priso {{rf{8}}} and he will go out to deceive the nations that are at the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to assemble them for battle, whose number is like the sand of the sea. {{rf{9}}} And they went up on the broad plain of the earth and surrounded the fortified camp of the saints and the beloved city, and fire came down from heaven and consumed them. {{rf{10}}} And the devil who deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and sulphur, where the beast and the false prophet also are, and they will be tormented day and night forever and ever. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Revelation-20-01]] }}}
{{rf{11}}} And I saw a great white throne and the one who was seated on it, from whose presence earth and heaven fled, and a place was not found for them. {{rf{12}}} And I saw the dead -- the great and the small -- standing before the throne, and books were opened. And another book was opened, which is the book of life, and the dead were judged by what was written in the books, according to their deeds. {{rf{13}}} And the sea gave up the dead who were in it, and Death and Hades gave up the dead who were in them, and each one was judged according to their deeds. {{rf{14}}} And Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death -- the lake of fire. {{rf{15}}} And if anyone was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire. {{rf big{1}}} And I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea did not exist any longer. {{rf{2}}} And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared like a bride adorned for her husband. {{rf{3}}} And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, "Behold, the dwelling of God is with humanity, and he will take up residence with them, and they will be his people and God himself will be with them. {{rf{4}}} And he will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death will not exist any longer, and mourning or wailing or pain will not exist any longer. The former things have passed away." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Revelation-20-11]] }}}
{{rf{5}}} And the one seated on the throne said, "Behold, I am making all things new!" And he said, "Write, because these words are faithful and true." {{rf{6}}} And he said to me, "It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. To the one who is thirsty I will give water from the spring of the water of life freely. {{rf{7}}} The one who conquers will inherit these things, and I will be his God and he will be my son. {{rf{8}}} But as for the cowards and unbelievers and detestable persons and murderers and sexually immoral people and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, their share is in the lake that burns with fire and sulphur, which is the second death. {{rf{9}}} And one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls full of the seven last plagues came and spoke with me, saying, "Come, I will show you the bride, the wife of the Lamb." {{rf{10}}} And he carried me away in the Spirit to a great and lofty mountain, and showed me the holy city, Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, {{rf{11}}} that has the glory of God. Its radiance is like a precious stone, something like a jasper stone, shining like crystal. {{rf{12}}} It has a great and high wall that has twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels, and names written on the gates which are of the twelve tribes of the sons of Israel -- {{rf{13}}} on the east, three gates, and on the north, three gates, and on the south, three gates, and on the west, three gates. {{rf{14}}} And the wall of the city has twelve foundations, and on them are twelve names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Revelation-21-05]] }}}
{{rf{15}}} And the one who spoke with me was holding a golden measuring rod in order that he could measure the city and its gates and its wall. {{rf{16}}} And the city is laid out as a square, and its length is the same as its width. And he measured the city with the measuring rod at twelve thousand stadia; the length and the width and the height of it are equal. {{rf{17}}} And he measured its wall, one hundred forty-four cubits according to human measure, which is the angel's. {{rf{18}}} And the material of its wall is jasper, and the city is pure gold, similar in appearance to pure glass. {{rf{19}}} The foundations of the wall of the city are adorned with every kind of precious stone: the first foundation jasper, the second sapphire, the third chalcedony, the fourth emerald, {{rf{20}}} the fifth sardonyx, the sixth carnelian, the seventh chrysolite, the eighth beryl, the ninth topaz, the tenth chrysoprase, the eleventh jacinth, the twelfth amethyst. {{rf{21}}} And the twelve gates are twelve pearls, each one of the gates was from a single pearl. And the street of the city is pure gold, like transparent glass. {{rf{22}}} And I did not see a temple in it, for the Lord God All-Powerful is its temple, and the Lamb. {{rf{23}}} And the city has no need of the sun or of the moon, that they shine on it, for the glory of God illuminates it, and its lamp is the Lamb. {{rf{24}}} And the nations will walk by its light, and the kings of the earth will bring their glory into it. {{rf{25}}} And its gates will never be shut by day (for there will be no night there), {{rf{26}}} and they will bring the glory and the honor of the nations into it. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Revelation-21-15]] }}}
{{rf{27}}} And every unclean thing and one who practices detestable things and falsehood will never enter into it, except those who are written in the book of life of the Lamb. {{rf big{1}}} And he showed me the river of the water of life, clear as crystal, coming out from the throne of God and of the Lamb {{rf{2}}} in the middle of its street, and on both sides of the river is the tree of life, producing twelve fruits -- yielding its fruit according to every month -- and the leaves of the tree are for the healing of the nations. {{rf{3}}} And there will not be any curse any longer, and the throne of God and of the Lamb will be in it, and his slaves will serve him, {{rf{4}}} and they will see his face, and his name will be on their foreheads. {{rf{5}}} And night will not exist any longer, and they will not have need of the light of a lamp and the light of the sun, because the Lord God will give light to them, and they will reign forever and ever. {{rf{6}}} And he said to me, "These words are faithful and true, and the Lord, the God of the spirits of the prophets, has sent his angel to show his slaves the things which must take place in a short time." {{rf{7}}} "And behold, I am coming quickly! Blessed is the one who keeps the words of the prophecy of this book." {{rf{8}}} And I, John, am the one who heard and who saw these things. And when I heard and saw them, I fell down to worship before the feet of the angel who showed these things to me. {{rf{9}}} And he said to me, "Do not do that! I am your fellow slave, and of your brothers the prophets, and of those who keep the words of this book. Worship God!" {{rf{10}}} And he said to me, "Do not seal up the words of the prophecy of this book, for the time is near! {{rf{11}}} The one who does evil, let him do evil still, and the defiled, let him be defiled still, and the righteous, let him practice righteousness still, and the holy, let him be holy still." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Revelation-21-27]] }}}
In other words, ''Biblical Theology''.
* @@color:brown;... conceived in eternity and revealed in time...@@ // -- C.K. Cummings, The Covenant of Grace //
* @@color:indigo;We have chosen to begin with a statement about God and then a statement about Scripture, reversing the existing order ... we have placed statements of systematic theology in a framework of biblical theology, providing a narrative for that theology.@@ // -- Greg Strand, EFCA//. You could say they wanted to understand revelation more as a story-line; and that approach is commendable.
* A great value of BT is that ideas and historical events become fresh and meaningful. To appreciate God's promise to Abraham, you have to imagine life without that promise. Of course this requires two things: a knowledge of the information available before it came, and a great deal of imagination.
* Allen Browne has a succinct description of his purpose: "Seeking to understand Jesus in the terms he chose to describe himself: son of man (his identity), and kingdom of God (his mission)."
* Suppose you met a person who has no previous understanding or concept of God, the Bible, religions or morals or world-views of any sort. Suppose you had the privilege of explaining to her your faith in Christ. What is the very first thing you say? //(People will tend to answer 'the Bible,' which is the systematic impulse as well as tuned to pluralistic society. Of course the Bible is the unique resource for all that follows, so this is not an answer to discount. Starting with God is more natural, however; less mechanical.)//
* [[God-Presence]]
* [[Geography-Spiritual]]
* //Unfolding, specific or special; "Biblical theology".//
* <<Bbl Ps 95:7 >>ff asserts that the ancient history is for us.
* It is given for us, though not originally addressed //to// us. Example, <<Bbl L 2:11 >>.
* <<Bbl Ex 9:30 "" note>>
* [[HistoryRecountings]]
* [[Invisible-Visible]] -- History is what we witnessed; its interpretation is revealed by God.
* [[LastDays]]
* Bangladeshis who reserve the cushion for their Bible
* //No other gods before Me//
* //You shall swear in My Name// (Dt 6)
* [[Ark-Covenant]]
* <<Bbl 2S 2:30>>
* [[Simplicity]], [[Humility]], [[Worship]]
* <<Bbl 2S 6:2 >> //the Name//
* <<Bbl Ezra 9:3 >>. Howard Norrish's story from Bangladesh.
* [[Commitment]]
* An Asian man presents his research paper or his business card with both hands.
!!! Loss of reverence; irreverence
* I wonder when they decided to stop bothering with the Rope around the ankle? Did Eli use it?
* 'Bible trivia' trivializes the Bible. Adding the slogan "Where the trivia isn't trivial" doesn't solve the issue.
* http://scott_wiki.htm#DefinitionsChanging
* //God loves us insanely!// -- Steve Johnson
* Shannon Reeves playing a love song from Michael Buble -- //It's you, it's you.//
<<Bbl Mk 14:9 >>
People have glory in God. <<Bbl H 11:9 >> .
Gen 12.
!! Counterfeit
* //They have their own reward//, for they want no other.
* <<Bbl Pr 3:35>>
* Finances, affluence, greed, lucre
* [[Wealth]], [[Resources-Personal]] for the positive aspects
!! Deceitfulness of riches
* 'Money talks' - well, don't let it start talking to you!
* Money serves, in theory and desire, as a universal commodity. It is the fungible. It's a small step for man's vain imagination to view it as a personal power of passage that supersedes God's sovereignty.
* <<Bbl 2P 2:3 >>, <<Bbl 2P 2:14 abbr >>
* <<Bbl 1Tim 6:5 >>-10 -- love of money.
* <<Bbl Ps.49 >>
* <<Bbl Pr 11:4 >>, <<Bbl Pr 18:11 >>, <<Bbl Pr 28:20 >>; <<Bbl Ecc 5:10 >>, <<Bbl Ecc 6:2 >>; <<Bbl Ez 7:19 >>; <<Bbl Mt 6:24 >>, <<Bbl Mt 19:16 >>-26 ; <<Bbl Mk 4:19 >>; <<Bbl L 12:15 >>; <<Bbl H 13:5 >>
* Pro 30:7 //Two things I asked of You...Feed me with the food that is my portion, That I not be full and deny {You} and say, "Who is the LORD?" Or that I not be in want and steal, And profane the name of my God.//
* Pro 11:28 //Whoever trusts in his riches will fall, but the righteous will thrive like a green leaf.//
* Pro 23:4-5 //Do not wear yourself out to get rich; have the wisdom to show restraint. Cast but a glance at riches, and they are gone, for they will surely sprout wings and fly off to the sky like an eagle.//
* Pro 27:24 //for riches do not endure forever, and a crown is not secure for all generations.//
* Pro 28:6 //Better a poor man whose walk is blameless than a rich man whose ways are perverse.//
* Pro 28:11 //A rich man may be wise in his own eyes, but a poor man who has discernment sees through him.//
* Pro 28:22 //A stingy man is eager to get rich and is unaware that poverty awaits him.//
* Pro 13:7 //one who pretends to be rich, but has nothing//
* Pro 13:8 [NASB] - The ransom of a man's life is his wealth, But the poor hears no rebuke. [NIV] - A man's riches may ransom his life, but a poor man hears no threat.
!!! Mammon
* [[Greed]]
* <<Bbl L 16:8 "" note>> This god seeks servants.
* UNITY HEART.
* The "prosperity gospel" is a Mammon religion.
* Mammon promises identity, security, peace, joy. The Antichrist rules by the power to buy and sell.
* "I either need God to come through, or I need someone to give me money."
* "If money can fix it, it's not a problem, and if money can't fix it then God can." *
* <<Bbl L 14:9>>. Robert Morris says it is converted from unrighteous to your true riches verse 11. Verse 10, people who think they have too little to tithe.
* The true riches of Lk 16:11 is people. Our offerings populate heaven and plunder Hell.
!!! Doctrine of so-called prosperity/success
* There is no NT assurance of prosperity through faith and obedience. All such assurances must be transferred from the OT (ex, Mount Gerazim), but there is no Biblical theology to support it.
* There is a transfer theology, but it asserts someting very different: we have been granted all spiritual blessings in Christ. We do not //make use of the things of this world//.
* <<Bbl Jer 45:1>>ff seems to capture it perfectly.
* There is not a single testimony in the NT of someone making career advances through Christ. Paul told slaves in Corinth they should take the option for freedom if it was available; he did not tell them to expect it as a matter of course. That he provided this instruction is //prima facia// (?) evidence they weren't being told to expect it as a matter of course. Imagine that today: would a slave in one of our services not be told to expect freedom, for, //you shall be the head and not the tail//?
* There are hardly any healings without an explicit evangelistic thrust.
* What we are told of course is that we will be adequately sustained. To what standard? To the standard that allows us to minister. Peter's mother in law is illustrative - //she rose from bed and served them.//
* Prosperity is not censured, but it is ranked low in the resources at hand. Indeed, an over-estimation of the value of money is the root of the issue. That is Mammon.
* ''Righteousness'' is the application of [[Truth]] to one's life.
* Leads to [[Holiness]] -- <<Bbl R 6:13>>, 19, 22.
* Not perfectly, but evidentially. Evidence is provided by a witness, and our witness has provided the evidence that clears us from guilt.
* The Greek noun //dichiasunai// in the Septuagint covers many concepts including faithfulness and covenant love. The verb cognate frequently in the NT for God setting his people right with himself (forensic). But used much for the experiential as well.
* <<Bbl R 1:17 >>, @@Isa b 4651, 5456. FIXME?@@
* Proverbs about //the righteous// and //the wise// would comprise a rich study of God.
* To understand what David meant, read <<Bbl Ps 32:1 "" note >>
* <<Bbl I 32:17 >>
* Be rude to sinful thoughts
* <<Bbl Ps 46:4 >>; <<Bbl Ez 47:1 >>-12 ; <<Bbl J 7:37 >>-39 (symbol of the Holy Spirit); <<Bbl Rev 22:1 >>-2
* <<Bbl I 6:8 >>
* [[Water]]
* //highway, Way// -- see [[Gospel]].
* A [[Path]] is what enables two to [[Walk]] together.
* <<Bbl I 35:8 >>-10 -- The Highway of [[Holiness]]
* <<Bbl I 40:3 "" note >>
!!!! Yigael Yadin's road
* The Romans are of course famous for their roads. On December 17, 1948, Yigael Yadin remembered the existence of such a road stretching across the Negev. A team went out secretly and dug until they found it. In for nights of difficult and dangerous work, bulldozers cleared it for action. The Israeli column of half-tracks and troop carriers that charged down that road defeated the principal Egyptian stronghold in the Sinai Peninsula (Fighting Heroes of Israel, 179-181).
** Let that ancient map be [[Believe]]. Let that squad of bulldozers be [[Obey]]. Let that once-buried road be [[Live]].
<<Bbl Dt 32:4 >>; <<Bbl L 20:17 >>-18 . <<Bbl 1S 7:12 >>, stone of help.
<<Bbl L 23:30 abbr >>; <<Bbl Rev 6:16 >>; <<Bbl Mt 21:44 >>; <<Bbl 1P 2:7 >>-8
* //a Stone in Zion// -- <<Bbl 1Pe 2:6 >>, <<Bbl R 9:33 >>, <<Bbl R 10:11 >>. [[Stumble]]
* <<Bbl L 19:38 >>, <<Bbl Ps 118:25 >>, <<Bbl Ps 118:22 >>, <<Bbl L 19:40 >>,44.
* <<Bbl Gn 8:20 >>.
* <<Bbl Mt 24:1 >> "" note. [[Build]]
* <<Bbl 1K 5:15 >>, 17, <<Bbl 1K 6:7 >>
* Bricks are vividly present in Babel and Pharaoh's projects. (Where else?)
!! Cornerstone
* The "Master Course" of stones at the base of the Western Wall (or Wailing Wall) of Herod's temple includes a cornerstone that is 41 feet long, 11 feet high and 15 feet deep. The largest stone in the Great Pyramid weighs 11 tons; this cornerstone weighs 570. This massiveness reflects strength.
* The cornerstone would be impeccably dimensioned and aligned (allusion to "snap-to" function in CAD). This exactitude reflects truth.
Overall structure: first eleven chapters show God's grace, the remainer show our consecration. 11:36 - 12:1 is the fulcrum. Mike Reed gives this general an outline for the first eight chapters:
{{{
chap. 1-2, the Need
chap. 3-4, the Provision
chap. 5, -- freedom from wrath,
chap. 6, -- freedom from sin,
chap. 7, -- freedom from the Law,
chap. 8, -- freedom from death.
}}}
For an overall comparison with the Book of Galatians, see F.F. Bruce, Romans, pp. 30-33.
* Chapter 10 reads well *before* chapter 9. Lord help me understand.
* <<Bbl Dt 4:31 >>, Jer 31 (maybe in connection with chapter 1? My note is unclear.
* Like Ephesians, and unlike Corinthians, topical transitions are not demarcated so much as hinged. The opening of chapter 5 closes what follows and opens what is ahead.
** For years I tried to find the dividing-points in Paul's arguments. "If I were translating, where would I begin a new paragraph?" The puzzle would always come down to some verse that could be taken either as closing of the preceding thought, or as introducing a new, developing thought. If I could figure out which, I would know whether to finish a paragraph or kick off a new one. But verses in this strange category seemed to apply to both what preceded or what followed. So Romans couldn't have paragraphs, which made it a blob. In 2018 I realized these problem-verses work as hinge-points or pivots. (Other examples are <<Bbl R 6:12 abbr>> , <<Bbl R 7:14 abbr>> , <<Bbl R 7:21 abbr>> , <<Bbl R 8:1 abbr>> , <<Bbl R 9:23 abbr>> , <<Bbl R 11:34 abbr>>.) I realized the question of "which paragraph" was based on my hang-up as an English writer, and I let Paul off the hook. The structure of Romans became easier to understand.
!!! Dr Craig Keener
* 1-3 all under judgement. 4-8 salvation in Christ. 9-11 heart.
* Jews had been expelled from Rome, then returned. See details Aquilla n prescilla. They returned to a church that was now decidedly gentile.
* Dr Craig Keener recommends these commentaries: Dunn (Word), Jewitt (Fortress), Moo, Schreiner, Keener, Fitzmeyer, Charles Talbot (which is short, as is Keener's).
* They said Jews keep the ten commandments but gentiles don't even keep the few commands given to Noah. Paul says everyone is equally damned, so the terms of (not only the need for) salvation are the same.
* . A good series opener would be to use Paul's desire for the Romans and his prayers therefore to introduce both Paul and the Romans.
Paul, a slave of Christ Jesus, called to be an apostle, set apart for the gospel of God, {{rf{2}}} which he promised previously through his prophets in the holy scriptures, {{rf{3}}} concerning his Son, who was born a descendant of David according to the flesh, {{rf{4}}} who was declared Son of God in power according to the Holy Spirit by the resurrection from the dead of Jesus Christ our Lord, {{rf{5}}} through whom we have received grace and apostleship for the obedience of faith among all the Gentiles on behalf of his name, {{rf{6}}} among whom you also are the called of Jesus Christ. {{rf{7}}} To all those in Rome who are loved by God, called to be saints. Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. {{rf{8}}} First, I give thanks to my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, because your faith is being proclaimed in the whole world. {{rf{9}}} For God, whom I serve with my spirit in the gospel of his Son, is my witness, how constantly I make mention of you, {{rf{10}}} always asking in my prayers if somehow now at last I may succeed to come to you in the will of God. {{rf{11}}} For I desire to see you, in order that I may impart some spiritual gift to you, in order to strengthen you, {{rf{12}}} that is, to be encouraged together with you through our mutual faith, both yours and mine. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Romans-01-01]] }}}
* [[Depravity]]
* [[Wrath]]
<<Bbl R 1:1 abbr >>. [[Slave]] is not a term of severe debasement any more than as used by the prophets. Paul would be assumed to be a citizen from his name, though he doesn't mention it in the letter.
<<Bbl R 1:1 abbr >>-7. The extended greeting has loose [[Chiasmus]]. The inner part is a summary of the [[Gospel]]; the outer says much of about relationships. Jesus is the true core of both themes. [[Diagram|Wiki_Bible/Rom_1_1-7.pdf]]
{{{
1 Paul
**** slave of
!!! Christ Jesus
*** called to be an apostle, set apart for the gospel of God
2 ** promised previously through
**** his prophets
*** in the holy scriptures ...concerning his Son:
3 who was born a @@ descendant of David @@
~~~~~~~~ according to the flesh ~~~~~~~~~~~
~~~~~~~~ according to the Holy Spirit ~~~~~~~~~~~
4 ** declared @@ Son of God @@
**** resurrection from the dead of Jesus Christ our Lord
*** in power
5 through whom we have received grace and apostleship for the
**** obedience of faith among all the Gentiles on behalf of his name,
6 among whom you also are the *** called of
!!! Jesus Christ.
7 To all those in Rome who are loved by God, called to be saints.
}}}
<<Bbl R 1:3 abbr >>. The Son of God in the Davidic sense.
<<Bbl R 1:4 abbr >>. The Son of God in the eternally divine sense.
<<Bbl R 1:4 abbr >> Not that He was made the Son of God as a result; rather, the emphasis is on with power. See <<Bbl Mk 9:1 >>, where "the coming of the kingdom of God 'with power' (by contrast with the limitations under which it was manifested during Jesus' ministry) is probably the direct sequel to Jesus' death and vindication (Bruce, 69).
** //Spirit of holiness// uses a Hebrew idiom to say the Holy Spirit.
** The antithesis of flesh and spirit in vss. 3-4 refers not to His two natures but rather to the two states of humiliation and exaltation.
** The dead is in a "generalising plural"; some have inferred that the resurrections of others (Lazarus or even those raised during the passion), but the exact same phrase is used in <<Bbl A 26:23 >> in reference solely to Christ. But perhaps the theme of <<Bbl R 8:11 >> is in view (Bruce, p. 69).
<<Bbl R 1:6 abbr >> //Among whom you// indicates the recipients are gentile as a majority.
1:6-7 Echoes the first verse.
<<Bbl R 1:9 abbr >> ? The hindrance to active evangelism is not laziness but unbelief, or more precisely a belief in universalism.
<<Bbl R 1:12 abbr >>. //Under obligation// in proportion to the value of the message. If I am assigned to deliver you something, i am in your debt for that something. The importance of the mission then depends on your need and the value of the deliverable.
{{rf{13}}} Now I do not want you to be ignorant, brothers, that often I intended to come to you, and was prevented until now, in order that I might have some fruit among you also, just as also among the rest of the Gentiles. {{rf{14}}} I am under obligation both to Greeks and to barbarians, both to the wise and to the foolish. {{rf{15}}} Thus I am eager to proclaim the gospel also to you who are in Rome. {{rf{16}}} For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. {{rf{17}}} For the righteousness of God is revealed in it from faith to faith, just as it is written, "But the one who is righteous by faith will live." {{rf{18}}} For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all impiety and unrighteousness of people, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness, {{rf{19}}} because what can be known about God is evident among them, for God made it clear to them. {{rf{20}}} For from the creation of the world, his invisible attributes, both his eternal power and deity, are discerned clearly, being understood in the things created, so that they are without excuse. {{rf{21}}} For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks, but they became futile in their reasoning, and their senseless hearts were darkened. {{rf{22}}} Claiming to be wise, they became fools, {{rf{23}}} and exchanged the glory of the immortal God with the likeness of an image of mortal human beings and birds and quadrupeds and reptiles. {{rf{24}}} Therefore God gave them over in the desires of their hearts to immorality, that their bodies would be dishonored among themselves, {{rf{25}}} who exchanged the truth of God with a lie, and worshiped and served the creation rather than the Creator, who is blessed for eternity. Amen. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Romans-01-13]] }}}
<<Bbl R 1:14 abbr >>. //Barbarians, foolish// would include Jews as being non-Greeks.
1:14 The KJV says debtor , under moral obligation. Note what a remarkable concession in wording for this Jew to say //Greeks and non-Greeks//. I suppose he means Greek gentiles and other gentiles.
<<Bbl R 1:15 abbr >> KJV //For as much as in me is//
<<Bbl R 1:16 abbr >>
** A lack of trust is what would create "shame". That is the saddening explanation for why I, Scott, don't witness much.
** "not ashamed" - this expression uses a double negative with hyperbole (//litotes//), echoed in <<Bbl H 2:11>> and <<Bbl H 11:16>>.
** I lack conviction, that is, trust. For I do not converse as man //not ashamed of the Gospel.//
** Emphasis is on //everyone//. Likewise the later quote from OT in <<Bbl R 10:11 abbr>>-13, the Greek word is the same for //all//.
<<Bbl R 1:17 abbr >>
** Verse 18 is meaningful in the light of 17. But we are so Scripture-dividing, we need the reminder.
** FF Bruce explains how Paul cites the words of Habbakuk 2:4b and "gives them the sense, 'it is he who is righteous (justified) who will live.' The terms of Habakkuk's oracle are sufficiently general to make room for Paul's application of them -- an application, which, far from doing violence to the prophet's intention, expresses the abiding validity of his message" (Bruce, p. 76).
** This is Luther's great conversion verse. The use of genitive case for the word "righteous" (confirm this detail) destroys the possibility of merit. There is no synergy, no contribution. After days of distressed meditation this put him over the edge into Christ's arms of love.
** Yet how we have converted faith into a work. We think it's something we do: "Sinner, do it today!" Paul's exhortation is to invest in God's free grace and forget about our do-ings. FF Bruce: "It is based on faith and addressed to faith." He also cites the NEB margin: "a way that starts from faith and ends in faith."
** Paul cites <<Bbl Hab 2:4 >>b and "gives them the sense, 'it is he who is righteous (justified) who will live.' The terms of Habakkuk's oracle are sufficiently general to make room for Paul's application of them -- an application, which, far from doing violence to the prophet's intention, expresses the abiding validity of his message" (Bruce, p. 76). Bruce also devotes an article to recent misconstructions, F.F. Bruce, __Romans vol 1__, Appendix B
<<Bbl R 1:19 abbr >> //In// them
<<Bbl R 1:20 abbr >> ? and chapter 8 share concept of debased mind.
<<Bbl R 1:20 abbr >> People know not only God's existence, but v32 they know His righteous judgment.
<<Bbl R 1:24 abbr >> //Dishonored among themselves//; reciprocated shame. //Gave them over// is the expression of God's incipient wrath. [[Homosexuality]]
<<Bbl R 1:25 abbr >> Humans should turn to God, but turn inwards.
<<Bbl R 1:26 abbr >> Men should turn to God, but turn inwards.
<<Bbl R 1:27 abbr >> Women should turn to God, but turn inwards.
<<Bbl R 1:28 abbr >> This will be redeemed in <<Bbl R 12:2 abbr >>.
{{rf{26}}} Because of this, God gave them over to degrading passions, for their females exchanged the natural relations for those contrary to nature, {{rf{27}}} and likewise also the males, abandoning the natural relations with the female, were inflamed in their desire toward one another, males with males committing the shameless deed, and receiving in themselves the penalty that was necessary for their error. {{rf{28}}} And just as they did not see fit to recognize God, God gave them over to a debased mind, to do the things that are not proper, {{rf{29}}} being filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, greediness, malice, full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malevolence. They are gossipers, {{rf{30}}} slanderers, haters of God, insolent, arrogant, boasters, contrivers of evil, disobedient to parents, {{rf{31}}} senseless, faithless, unfeeling, unmerciful, {{rf{32}}} who, although they know the requirements of God, that those who do such things are worthy of death, not only do they do the same things, but also they approve of those who do them. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Romans-01-26]] }}}
Therefore you are without excuse, O man, every one of you who passes judgment. For in that which you pass judgment on someone else, you condemn yourself, for you who are passing judgment are doing the same things. {{rf{2}}} Now we know that the judgment of God is according to truth against those who do such things. {{rf{3}}} But do you think this, O man who passes judgment on those who do such things, and who does the same things, that you will escape the judgment of God? {{rf{4}}} Or do you despise the wealth of his kindness and forbearance and patience, not knowing that the kindness of God leads you to repentance? {{rf{5}}} But because of your stubbornness and unrepentant heart, you are storing up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath and of the revelation of the righteous judgment of God, {{rf{6}}} who will reward each one according to his works: {{rf{7}}} to those who, by perseverance in good work, seek glory and honor and immortality, eternal life, {{rf{8}}} but to those who act from selfish ambition and who disobey the truth, but who obey unrighteousness, wrath and anger. {{rf{9}}} There will be affliction and distress for every human being who does evil, of the Jew first and of the Greek, {{rf{10}}} but glory and honor and peace to everyone who does good, to the Jew first and to the Greek. {{rf{11}}} For there is no partiality with God. {{rf{12}}} For as many as have sinned without law will also perish without law, and as many as have sinned under the law will be judged by the law. {{rf{13}}} For it is not the hearers of the law who are righteous in the sight of God, but the doers of the law will be declared righteous. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Romans-02-01]] }}}
Chap 2 - [[Subvert]]
<<Bbl R 2:4 abbr >>-11 chiasmus
<<Bbl R 2:21 abbr >>-23 I find these puzzling because they aren't seemingly persuasive to a Jew. They don't pave the way to the general assertion of <<Bbl R 2:25 >>. Adultery was not a familiar vice; robbing a temple is not even conceivable; and while the Temple officials were notorious profiteers, that corruption was concentrated in Jerusalem. I suppose Paul is not here evangelizing Jews but 'preaching to the choir'. He can expect Christian Jews like Aquilla to agree with the final conclusion. Perhaps there is a consensus among Christians on the assertions of stealing, etc.; but given the distance to Rome, that seems too great a stretch.
<<Bbl R 2:22 >>ff Hyperbole must be recognized here, as in chapter 7.
<<Bbl R 2:29 abbr >> Without context this seems a hopeful proposition; in fact it is a death sentence, as confirmed by the defense that follows.
<<Bbl R 3:8 >> This question will be explored in <<Bbl R 6:1 >>ff.
<<Bbl R 3:20 abbr >>-28 chiasmus
<<Bbl R 3:25 abbr>>-26 It was necessary for the cross to display God's satisfied wrath because, as long as He had waited for this consummation, He had not meted out His wrath; and this forbearance needed a culminating demonstration of its cause, in order for God's righteousness to be vindicated.
3:27 Law here is translated //principle// in the RSV, which is much better.
{{rf{14}}} For whenever the Gentiles, who do not have the law, do by nature the things of the law, these, although they do not have the law, are a law to themselves, {{rf{15}}} who show the work of the law written on their hearts, their conscience bearing witness and their thoughts one after another accusing or even defending them {{rf{16}}} on the day when God judges the secret things of people, according to my gospel, through Christ Jesus. {{rf{17}}} But if you call yourself a Jew and rely on the law and boast in God {{rf{18}}} and know his will and approve the things that are superior, because you are instructed by the law, {{rf{19}}} and are confident that you yourself are a guide of the blind, a light of those in darkness, {{rf{20}}} an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of the immature, having the embodiment of knowledge and of the truth in the law. {{rf{21}}} Therefore, the one who teaches someone else, do you not teach yourself? The one who preaches not to steal, do you steal? {{rf{22}}} The one who says not to commit adultery, do you commit adultery? The one who abhors idols, do you rob temples? {{rf{23}}} Who boast in the law, by the transgression of the law you dishonor God! {{rf{24}}} For just as it is written, "The name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you." {{rf{25}}} For circumcision is of value if you do the law, but if you should be a transgressor of the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision. {{rf{26}}} Therefore, if the uncircumcised person follows the requirements of the law, will not his uncircumcision be credited for circumcision? {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Romans-02-14]] }}}
{{rf{27}}} And the uncircumcised person by nature who carries out the law will judge you who, though provided with the precise written code and circumcision are a transgressor of the law. {{rf{28}}} For the Jew is not one outwardly, nor is circumcision outwardly, in the flesh. {{rf{29}}} But the Jew is one inwardly, and circumcision is of the heart, by the Spirit, not by the letter, whose praise is not from people but from God. {{rf big{1}}} Therefore, what is the advantage of the Jew, or what is the use of circumcision? {{rf{2}}} Much in every way. For first, that they were entrusted with the oracles of God. {{rf{3}}} What is the result if some refused to believe? Their unbelief will not nullify the faithfulness of God, will it? {{rf{4}}} May it never be! But let God be true but every human being a liar, just as it is written, "In order that you may be justified in your words, and may prevail when you are judged." {{rf{5}}} But if our unrighteousness demonstrates the righteousness of God, what shall we say? God, who inflicts wrath, is not unjust, is he? (I am speaking according to a human perspective.) {{rf{6}}} May it never be! For otherwise, how will God judge the world? {{rf{7}}} But if by my lying, the truth of God abounded to his glory, why am I also still condemned as a sinner? {{rf{8}}} And why not (as we are slandered, and as some affirm that we say), "Let us do evil, in order that good may come of it? Their condemnation is just! {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Romans-02-27]] }}}
{{rf{9}}} What then? Do we have an advantage? Not at all. For we have already charged both Jews and Greeks are all under sin, {{rf{10}}} just as it is written, "There is no one righteous, not even one; {{rf{11}}} there is no one who understands; there is no one who seeks God. {{rf{12}}} All have turned aside together; they have become worthless; There is no one who practices kindness; there is not even one. {{rf{13}}} Their throat is an opened grave; they deceive with their tongues; the venom of asps is under their lips, {{rf{14}}} whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness. {{rf{15}}} Their feet are swift to shed blood; {{rf{16}}} destruction and distress are in their paths, {{rf{17}}} and they have not known the way of peace. {{rf{18}}} The fear of God is not before their eyes." {{rf{19}}} Now we know that whatever the law says, it speaks to those under the law, in order that every mouth may be closed and the whole world may become accountable to God. {{rf{20}}} For by the works of the law no person will be declared righteous before him, for through the law comes knowledge of sin. {{rf{21}}} But now, apart from the law, the righteousness of God has been revealed, being testified about by the law and the prophets -- {{rf{22}}} that is, the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe. For there is no distinction, {{rf{23}}} for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, {{rf{24}}} being justified as a gift by his grace, through the redemption which is in Christ Jesus, {{rf{25}}} whom God made publicly available as the mercy seat through faith in his blood, for a demonstration of his righteousness, because of the passing over of previously committed sins, {{rf{26}}} in the forbearance of God, for the demonstration of his righteousness in the present time, so that he should be just and the one who justifies the person by faith in Jesus. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Romans-03-09]] }}}
{{rf{27}}} Therefore, where is boasting? It has been excluded. By what kind of law? Of works? No, but by a law of faith. {{rf{28}}} For we consider a person to be justified by faith apart from the works of the law. {{rf{29}}} Or is God the God of the Jews only? Is he not also the God of the Gentiles? Yes, also of the Gentiles, {{rf{30}}} since God is one, who will justify those who are circumcised by faith and those who are uncircumcised through faith. {{rf{31}}} Therefore, do we nullify the law through faith? May it never be! But we uphold the law. {{rf big{1}}} What then shall we say that Abraham, our ancestor according to the flesh, has found? {{rf{2}}} For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about, but not before God. {{rf{3}}} For what does the scripture say? "And Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him for righteousness." {{rf{4}}} Now to the one who works, his pay is not credited according to grace, but according to his due. {{rf{5}}} But to the one who does not work, but who believes in the one who justifies the ungodly, his faith is credited for righteousness, {{rf{6}}} just as David also speaks about the blessing of the person to whom God credits righteousness apart from works: {{rf{7}}} "Blessed are they whose lawless deeds have been forgiven, and whose sins are covered over. {{rf{8}}} Blessed is the person against whom the Lord will never count sin." {{rf{9}}} Therefore, is this blessing for those who are circumcised, or also for those who are uncircumcised? For we say, "Faith was credited to Abraham for righteousness." {{rf{10}}} How then was it credited? While he was circumcised or uncircumcised? Not while circumcised but while uncircumcised! {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Romans-03-27]] }}}
<<Bbl R 4:2 abbr >> Abraham would //have his own reward//, the applause of men.
<<Bbl R 4:3 abbr >> //reckoned// or credited is a bookkeeping term that is used 11 times in the chapter.
<<Bbl R 4:10 abbr >> Abraham received the promise before he was a Jew.
<<Bbl R 4:12 abbr >> This is the best place to consider the relative newness and immaturity of Abraham's saving faith.
4:13 John Stott matches this with <<Bbl 1C 3:21 >>-22 and with all the NT references to an inheritance.
<<Bbl R 4:16 abbr >> Abraham is presented as a gentile who had faith, thus Paul again presents the dyad of humanity that is Jews and gentiles.
<<Bbl R 4:17 abbr >> Misappropriated as an encouragement to strong faith. Yet this may be to some degree a communicable attribute of God.
<<Bbl R 4:17 abbr >>-18 <<Bbl R 4:24 >>.
<<Bbl R 4:17 abbr >>-20 Compares Abraham with believers. Subsequent verses (ex, chap. 14) refer back to this section.
<<Bbl R 4:18 abbr >>-21 Maintaining hope in hopelessness, as must believers in Chapters 5 and 8.
<<Bbl R 4:18 abbr >>-21 Contrasts Abraham with the depraved people of Chapter 1.
* Use of body, <<Bbl R 1:24 >> and <<Bbl R 4:19 >>.
* <<Bbl R 1:21 >> and <<Bbl R 4:20 >>.
* <<Bbl R 1:26 >>-27 and procreation.
* Recognizing God's power, <<Bbl R 1:20 >> and <<Bbl R 4:21 >>.
<<Bbl R 4:19 abbr >>-20 //strong// <<Bbl R 14:1 >>
<<Bbl R 4:19 abbr >>-21 Points ahead to the bifurcated life of <<Bbl R 7:18 >>ff.
<<Bbl R 4:20 abbr >> <<Bbl R 4:23 >> //diakreni//
<<Bbl R 4:21 abbr >> //persuaded// <<Bbl R 14:5 >>b
4:23 Pivot to the next section of discourse.
{{rf{11}}} And he received the sign of circumcision as a seal of the righteousness by faith which he had while uncircumcised, so that he could be the father of all who believe although they are uncircumcised, so that righteousness could be credited to them, {{rf{12}}} and the father of those who are circumcised to those who are not only from the circumcision, but who also follow in the footsteps of the faith of our father Abraham which he had while uncircumcised. {{rf{13}}} For the promise to Abraham or to his descendants, that he would be heir of the world, was not through the law, but through the righteousness by faith. {{rf{14}}} For if those of the law are heirs, faith is rendered void and the promise is nullified. {{rf{15}}} For the law produces wrath, but where there is no law, neither is there transgression. {{rf{16}}} Because of this, it is by faith, in order that it may be according to grace, so that the promise may be secure to all the descendants, not only to those of the law, but also to those of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all {{rf{17}}} (just as it is written, "I have made you the father of many nations") before God, in whom he believed, the one who makes the dead alive and who calls the things that are not as though they are, {{rf{18}}} who against hope believed in hope, so that he became the father of many nations, according to what was said, "so will your descendants be." {{rf{19}}} And not being weak in faith, he considered his own body as good as dead, because he was approximately a hundred years old, and the deadness of Sarah's womb. {{rf{20}}} And he did not waver in unbelief at the promise of God, but was strengthened in faith, giving glory to God {{rf{21}}} and being fully convinced that what he had promised, he was also able to do. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Romans-04-11]] }}}
{{rf{22}}} Therefore it was credited to him for righteousness. {{rf{23}}} But it was not written for the sake of him alone that it was credited to him, {{rf{24}}} but also for the sake of us to whom it is going to be credited, to those who believe in the one who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead, {{rf{25}}} who was handed over on account of our trespasses, and was raised up in the interest of our justification. {{rf big{1}}} Therefore, because we have been declared righteous by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, {{rf{2}}} through whom also we have obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we boast in the hope of the glory of God. {{rf{3}}} And not only this, but we also boast in our afflictions, because we know that affliction produces patient endurance, {{rf{4}}} and patient endurance, proven character, and proven character, hope, {{rf{5}}} and hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us. {{rf{6}}} For while we were still helpless, yet at the proper time Christ died for the ungodly. {{rf{7}}} For only rarely will someone die on behalf of a righteous person (for on behalf of a good person possibly someone might even dare to die), {{rf{8}}} but God demonstrates his own love for us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. {{rf{9}}} Therefore, by much more, because we have been declared righteous now by his blood, we will be saved through him from the wrath. {{rf{10}}} For if, while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, by much more, having been reconciled, we will be saved by his life. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Romans-04-22]] }}}
<<Bbl R 5:1 abbr>> Don't divide this from preceding verse (though it is hard to fault the decision to break a chapter here).
<<Bbl R 5:1 abbr >>-11 What a panorama of blessing in Christ. [[Justify]] [[Assure]]
<<Bbl R 5:1 abbr >>ff This section ends at vs 11 as indicated by the summary statement (//Jesus Christ// as an //inclusio//).
<<Bbl R 5:2 abbr >> Hope that supports joy - that is distinguishing.
<<Bbl R 5:2 abbr >> //Access// connected to <<Bbl 1Tim 5:5 >>
<<Bbl R 5:2 abbr >> Potentiality
5:3 //Tribulation// here is not qualified. Whether we encounter trouble through genuine persecution, the vicissitudes of life, or our own screw-ups, the result is the same -- a hope which does not disappoint.
5:6-8 These words recall Jesus' admonishment in <<Bbl L 6:32 >>-36 to not love and give merely as the sinners do.
This clearly denies the notion that Jesus died so the Father would love us.
5:8-9 Compare J.B. Phillips.
<<Bbl R 5:12 abbr >>. Paul shifts the focus from Abraham to Adam. Adam as historical, as Moses.
5:12-19 Compares closely with <<Bbl 1C 15:21 >>-22 .
<<Bbl R 5:13 abbr >>-14 A parenthetical statement. It presents a converse idea (consistent with the general comparison that is this passage's theme) that before Christ came into the world, there was indeed grace; but grace had no direct agent. Just as sin could not be revealed as thoroughly sinful, ugly (7:13), so grace could not be revealed in all its loveliness. See also vs. 20.
5:14b Adam is the only OT character specifically called a type of the Christ. Interestingly, this type is composed more of observable differences than similarities.
5:16 The many transgressions is the "sins of countless men," as Phillips puts it. The gift arose in response to //many transgressions//, which in light of v 14 //only one type// may refer to quality as well as quantity.
5:20 See note above fore 5:13.
{{rf{11}}} And not only this, but also we are boasting in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received the reconciliation. {{rf{12}}} Because of this, just as sin entered into the world through one man, and death through sin, so also death spread to all people because all sinned. {{rf{13}}} For until the law, sin was in the world, but sin is not charged to one's account when there is no law. {{rf{14}}} But death reigned from Adam until Moses even over those who did not sin in the likeness of the transgression of Adam, who is a type of the one who is to come. {{rf{15}}} But the gift is not like the trespass, for if by the trespass of the one, the many died, by much more did the grace of God and the gift by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, multiply to the many. {{rf{16}}} And the gift is not as through the one who sinned, for on the one hand, judgment from the one sin led to condemnation, but the gift, from many trespasses, led to justification. {{rf{17}}} For if by the trespass of the one man, death reigned through the one man, much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one, Jesus Christ. {{rf{18}}} Consequently therefore, as through one trespass came condemnation to all people, so also through one righteous deed came justification of life to all people. {{rf{19}}} For just as through the disobedience of the one man, the many were made sinners, so also through the obedience of the one, the many will be made righteous. {{rf{20}}} Now the law came in as a side issue, in order that the trespass could increase, but where sin increased, grace was present in greater abundance, {{rf{21}}} so that just as sin reigned in death, so also grace would reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Romans-05-11]] }}}
What therefore shall we say? Shall we continue in sin, in order that grace may increase? {{rf{2}}} May it never be! How can we who died to sin still live in it? {{rf{3}}} Or do you not know that as many as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? {{rf{4}}} Therefore we have been buried with him through baptism into death, in order that just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so also we may live a new way of life. {{rf{5}}} For if we have become identified with him in the likeness of his death, certainly also we will be identified with him in the likeness of his resurrection, {{rf{6}}} knowing this, that our old man was crucified together with him, in order that the body of sin may be done away with, that we may no longer be enslaved to sin. {{rf{7}}} For the one who has died has been freed from sin. {{rf{8}}} Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him, {{rf{9}}} knowing that Christ, because he has been raised from the dead, is going to die no more, death no longer being master over him. {{rf{10}}} For that death he died, he died to sin once and never again, but that life he lives, he lives to God. {{rf{11}}} So also you, consider yourselves to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus. {{rf{12}}} Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body, so that you obey its desires, {{rf{13}}} and do not present your members to sin as instruments of unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as those who are alive from the dead, and your members to God as instruments of righteousness. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Romans-06-01]] }}}
<<Bbl R 6:1 abbr >> returns to the challenge of <<Bbl R 3:8 >>.
<<Bbl R 6:2 abbr >>-14 The first principle that answers <<Bbl R 6:1 >> is that sin is incompatible with Christ's resurrection life.
6:2 see <<Bbl Ps 137:4 >>
<<Bbl R 6:4 abbr >> Baptism is a compelling image. Having the implication of death, it must by necessity rise again to life. (Fun to illustrate this with a rag doll; immerse, carry on with the teaching, realize it's time to come up again. This agrees with the necessity and inevitability of Christ's resurrection, which Paul adduces as an argument for new life in His Spirit.) So this teaching of new life is given a two-layered support.
<<Bbl R 6:5 abbr >> Expanded in <<Bbl R 6:6 >>-10.
<<Bbl R 6:10 abbr >>-12 This hinge establishes a tension between the indicative and imperative. We are commanded to //be// what we //are//. The imperative aspect has two phase: inner reckoning (v 11) and integral holiness (12, 13a) which is also a presentation to God (13b). This tension is foreshadowed in <<Bbl R 4:18 >> and will be analyzed in chapter 7.
<<Bbl R 6:12 abbr >>-14 prepares us for the terms of slavery and freedom, v16ff.
<<Bbl R 6:13 abbr>> dedicating the self to God's holiness – see verse 19. Seeing the members of our body as instruments of righteousness makes a parallel with verse 13 and the final phrase of 19.
<<Bbl R 6:14 abbr >> consummates the tension established in 10-12.
<<Bbl R 6:14 abbr >> resolves <<Bbl R 6:1 >>.
<<Bbl R 6:15 abbr >>ff The second principle that answers <<Bbl R 6:1 >> is that sin entails bondage which separates us from our true Master. This continues through <<Bbl R 7:6 >>.
<<Bbl R 6:16 abbr >> sets up a dramatic scenario: the Christian who sins! This is what was proposed in <<Bbl R 6:1 >>. Paul has to delineate the results with care. Compare <<Bbl 1J 2:1 >>.
<<Bbl R 6:17 abbr >> //Committed// seems to correspond to //presented// (13,16).
<<Bbl R 6:19 abbr >> Lawlessness deepens and expands, a counterpoint to [[Sanctification-Experiential]] We should expect progressive maturation.
<<Bbl R 6:20 abbr >>-23 Paul frames this with a view to our past state. As redeemed saints, in our current state, we aren't to view death as the penalty for our sins. Yet //death// still has to be considered as sin's consequence, for that is what makes it incompatible with Christ's life. So in v21 the fruit is considered a memory or artifact.
<<Bbl R 6:20 abbr >> You can only have one master. This helps relieve the hazard of <<Bbl R 6:16 >> by declaring a binary state in which we are the Lord's. Vs 22,23 make clear it should not be read as a condition that varies by the day. (Immediate context is critical.)
{{rf{14}}} For sin will not be master over you, because you are not under law, but under grace. {{rf{15}}} What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? May it never be! {{rf{16}}} Do you not know that to whomever you present yourselves as slaves for obedience, you are slaves to whomever you obey, whether sin, leading to death, or obedience, leading to righteousness? {{rf{17}}} But thanks be to God that you were slaves of sin, but you have obeyed from the heart the pattern of teaching to which you were entrusted, {{rf{18}}} and having been set free from sin, you became enslaved to righteousness. {{rf{19}}} (I am speaking in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh.) For just as you presented your members as slaves to immorality and lawlessness, leading to lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness, leading to sanctification. {{rf{20}}} For when you were slaves of sin, you were free with respect to righteousness. {{rf{21}}} Therefore what sort of fruit did you have then, about which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death. {{rf{22}}} But now, having been set free from sin and having been enslaved to God, you have your fruit leading to sanctification, and its end is eternal life. {{rf{23}}} For the compensation due sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Romans-06-14]] }}}
Or do you not know, brothers (for I am speaking to those who know the law), that the law is master of a person for as long a time as he lives? {{rf{2}}} For the married woman is bound by law to her husband while he lives, but if her husband dies, she is released from the law of the husband. {{rf{3}}} Therefore as a result, if she belongs to another man while her husband is living, she will be called an adulteress. But if her husband dies, she is free from the law, so that she is not an adulteress if she belongs to another man. {{rf{4}}} So then, my brothers, you also were brought to death with respect to the law through the body of Christ, so that you may belong to another, to the one who was raised from the dead, in order that we may bear fruit for God. {{rf{5}}} For when we were in the flesh, sinful desires were working through the law in our members, to bear fruit for death. {{rf{6}}} But now we have been released from the law, because we have died to that by which we were bound, so that we may serve in newness of the Spirit and not in oldness of the letter of the law. {{rf{7}}} What then shall we say? Is the law sin? May it never be! But I would not have known sin except through the law, for I would not have known covetousness if the law had not said, "Do not covet." {{rf{8}}} But sin, seizing an opportunity through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of covetousness. For apart from the law, sin is dead. {{rf{9}}} And I was alive once, apart from the law, but when the commandment came, sin sprang to life {{rf{10}}} and I died, and this commandment which was to lead to life was found with respect to me to lead to death. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Romans-07-01]] }}}
7 Some of the arguments in chap. 7 are restatements of the previous argument.
<<Bbl R 7:5 abbr >>-06 Outline of what follows.
<<Bbl R 7:7 abbr >>-16 Jews described sin as "the evil impulse" and taught the Law provides power against it.
<<Bbl R 7:7 abbr >> The question is raised because Paul asserts of both sin and the Law we are now free.
<<Bbl R 7:13 abbr >> Part A presents a potential contradiction: the Law caused my death though it is good, so perhaps it isn't good. Part B explains that rather than disproving the goodness of the law, this resulting death proves the badness of sin - so bad, it was able to produce death using something that is //holy and righteous and good//.
<<Bbl R 7:13 abbr >> you can be a son of Abraham and then be descended from Esau.
<<Bbl R 7:14 abbr >> See <<Bbl 2C 3:11 >> note.
<<Bbl R 7:14 abbr >>ff Hyperbole must be recognized here, as in chapter 2.
7:14-25 This reasoning seems like a Christian version of a view held by the Pharisees that your members could sin independently of your will. Jesus derides that view (if the commentators are correct) in <<Bbl Mt 5:29 >>-30.
<<Bbl R 7:18 abbr >>ff This schismatic life is foreshadowed in Abraham, <<Bbl R 4:19 >>-21.
<<Bbl R 7:21 abbr >> This is a crucial summary. It is not agreed by all whether //me// refers to a man in or outside of Christ. Maybe Paul is pivoting on the word //principle//.
<<Bbl R 7:22 abbr >> //Joyfully agreement// introduces into the discourse a man currently living in the Spirit of Christ, which theme continues into chapter 8.
<<Bbl R 7:24 abbr >> <<Bbl R 8:10 >>.
{{rf{11}}} For sin, seizing the opportunity through the commandment, deceived me and through it killed me. {{rf{12}}} So then, the law is holy, and the commandment is holy and righteous and good. {{rf{13}}} Therefore, did that which is good become death to me? May it never be! Rather it was sin, in order that it might be recognized as sin, producing death through what is good for me, in order that sin might become sinful to an extraordinary degree through the commandment. {{rf{14}}} For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am fleshly, sold into slavery to sin. {{rf{15}}} For what I am doing I do not understand, because what I want to do, this I do not practice, but what I hate, this I do. {{rf{16}}} But if what I do not want to do, this I do, I agree with the law that it is good. {{rf{17}}} But now I am no longer the one doing it, but sin that lives in me. {{rf{18}}} For I know that good does not live in me, that is, in my flesh. For the willing is present in me, but the doing of the good is not. {{rf{19}}} For the good that I want to do, I do not do, but the evil that I do not want to do, this I do. {{rf{20}}} But if what I do not want to do, this I am doing, I am no longer the one doing it, but sin that lives in me. {{rf{21}}} Consequently, I find the principle with me, the one who wants to do good, that evil is present with me. {{rf{22}}} For I joyfully agree with the law of God in my inner person, {{rf{23}}} but I observe another law in my members, at war with the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin that exists in my members. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Romans-07-11]] }}}
{{rf{24}}} Wretched man that I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death? {{rf{25}}} Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself with my mind am enslaved to the law of God, but with my flesh I am enslaved to the law of sin. {{rf big{1}}} Consequently, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. {{rf{2}}} For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and death. {{rf{3}}} For what was impossible for the law, in that it was weak through the flesh, God did. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and concerning sin, he condemned sin in the flesh, {{rf{4}}} in order that the requirement of the law would be fulfilled in us, who do not live according to the flesh but according to the Spirit. {{rf{5}}} For those who are living according to the flesh are intent on the things of the flesh, but those who are living according to the Spirit are intent on the things of the Spirit. {{rf{6}}} For the mindset of the flesh is death, but the mindset of the Spirit is life and peace, {{rf{7}}} because the mindset of the flesh is enmity toward God, for it is not subjected to the law of God, for it is not able to do so, {{rf{8}}} and those who are in the flesh are not able to please God. {{rf{9}}} But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God lives in you. But if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, this person does not belong to him. {{rf{10}}} But if Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the Spirit is life because of righteousness. {{rf{11}}} And if the Spirit of the one who raised Jesus from the dead lives in you, the one who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also make alive your mortal bodies through his Spirit who lives in you. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Romans-07-24]] }}}
<<Bbl R 8:1 abbr >> , <<Bbl R 8:31 >>-34. A court of law in which the judge provides the defense and the victim speaks in favor of the perpetrator. Paraclete is court lingo. <<Bbl I 50:8 >>-09
<<Bbl R 8:1 abbr >>-07 recounts the victory.
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Language is borrowed from the [[Exodus]] and applied to all humanity: //led, adoption, inheritance, redemption.//
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<<Bbl R 8:2 abbr >>-25 Reproduces much of the argument of <<Bbl 2C 3:17 >> - 5:1, combined with part of the argument of Gal 4 see <<Bbl Php 1:12 >>
<<Bbl R 8:5 abbr >>-09 The question of __locus__ persists. Is Paul comparing the unregenerate with the saint, or is he warning believers against a sinful mindset? Or is it a mixture - a charge to make sure the hearer is in Christ, and a simultaneous charge for the believer to stay righteous? For Paul addresses a community some of whom are not regenerate.
<<Bbl R 8:10 abbr >> no flesh can see God and live.
<<Bbl R 8:14 abbr >>-23 Exodus language: //led, adoption, redemption, groaning//
<<Bbl R 8:21 abbr >> This middle phase is birth pangs. //Birth// points to the new body.
<<Bbl R 8:26 abbr >> , <<Bbl R 8:34 >>. Intercession on our behalf.
<<Bbl R 8:26 abbr >> Inarticulate groaning cannot refer to tongues - for they articulate.
<<Bbl R 8:31 abbr >>-37 see <<Bbl I 50:8 >>-10
<<Bbl R 8:32 abbr >> <<Bbl 2C 3:21 >>-23
<<Bbl R 8:35 abbr >> Famine was a concern in Rome; Having little farmland, it was dependent on grain from North Africa (collected as tax). Riots are recorded.
<<Bbl R 8:35 abbr >>ff [[Sword]]. It is less than a decade until Nero's persecution.
<<Bbl R 8:38 abbr >>-39 This is a hinge or pivot for the next section in which there is a grievous //separation// for the Jews.
{{rf{12}}} So then, brothers, we are obligated not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh. {{rf{13}}} For if you live according to the flesh, you are going to die, but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live. {{rf{14}}} For all those who are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God. {{rf{15}}} For you have not received a spirit of slavery leading to fear again, but you have received the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry out, "Abba! Father!" {{rf{16}}} The Spirit himself confirms to our spirit that we are children of God, {{rf{17}}} and if children, also heirs -- heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer together with him so that we may also be glorified together with him. {{rf{18}}} For I consider that the sufferings of the present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory that is about to be revealed to us. {{rf{19}}} For the eagerly expecting creation awaits eagerly the revelation of the sons of God. {{rf{20}}} For the creation has been subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of the one who subjected it, in hope {{rf{21}}} that the creation itself also will be set free from its servility to decay, into the glorious freedom of the children of God. {{rf{22}}} For we know that the whole creation groans together and suffers agony together until now. {{rf{23}}} Not only this, but we ourselves also, having the first fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves while we await eagerly our adoption, the redemption of our body. {{rf{24}}} For in hope we were saved, but hope that is seen is not hope, for who hopes for what he sees? {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Romans-08-12]] }}}
{{rf{25}}} But if we hope for what we do not see, we await it eagerly with patient endurance. {{rf{26}}} And likewise also, the Spirit helps us in our weakness, for we do not know how to pray as one ought, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with unexpressed groanings. {{rf{27}}} And the one who searches our hearts knows what the mindset of the Spirit is, because he intercedes on behalf of the saints according to the will of God. {{rf{28}}} And we know that all things work together for good for those who love God, for those who are called according to his purpose, {{rf{29}}} because those whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, so that he should be the firstborn among many brothers. {{rf{30}}} And those whom he predestined, these he also called, and those whom he called, these he also justified, and those whom he justified, these he also glorified. {{rf{31}}} What then shall we say about these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? {{rf{32}}} Indeed, he who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all, how will he not also, together with him, freely give us all things? {{rf{33}}} Who will bring charges against God's elect? God is the one who justifies. {{rf{34}}} Who is the one who condemns? Christ is the one who died, and more than that, who was raised, who is also at the right hand of God, who also intercedes for us. {{rf{35}}} Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will affliction or distress or persecution or hunger or lack of sufficient clothing or danger or the sword? {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Romans-08-25]] }}}
{{rf{36}}} Just as it is written, "On account of you we are being put to death the whole day long; we are considered as sheep for slaughter." {{rf{37}}} No, but in all these things we prevail completely through the one who loved us. {{rf{38}}} For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor rulers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, {{rf{39}}} nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord. {{rf big{1}}} I am telling the truth in Christ -- I am not lying; my conscience bears witness to me in the Holy Spirit -- {{rf{2}}} that my grief is great and there is constant distress in my heart. {{rf{3}}} For I could wish myself to be accursed from Christ for the sake of my brothers, my fellow countrymen according to the flesh, {{rf{4}}} who are Israelites, to whom belong the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the temple service, and the promises, {{rf{5}}} to whom belong the patriarchs, and from whom is the Christ according to human descent, who is God over all, blessed forever! Amen. {{rf{6}}} But it is not as if the word of God had failed. For not all those who are descended from Israel are truly Israel, {{rf{7}}} nor are they all children because they are descendants of Abraham, but "In Isaac will your descendants be named." {{rf{8}}} That is, it is not the children by human descent who are children of God, but the children of the promise are counted as descendants. {{rf{9}}} For the statement of the promise is this: "At this time I will return and Sarah will have a son." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Romans-08-36]] }}}
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Paul wants to avoid directly saying "Jews will go to Hell". Starting with verse 3, he's kind of delicate about it, and this adds a bit of complexity -- makes the chapter a bit more work to wade through. I think Paul's delicacy or reticence may be the reason chapters nine through eleven make for such long reading. They are somewhat repetitive, or at least Paul seems to labor much over his presentation. I always laugh when I read chapter ten, because it looks as if it should come before nine. (<<Bbl R 10:1 abbr>> is the plain expression of <<Bbl R 9:1 abbr>>-3. It's like Paul is all awkward in nine, and for ten he's warmed up and ready to go.)
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<<Bbl R 9:2 abbr >> Since Paul urges the Philippians to rejoice always, one has to conclude either (or more likely both) of these passages use [[Hyperbole]]
<<Bbl R 9:2 abbr >> The destiny of unbelieving Jews is not specified until v 22.
<<Bbl R 9:4 abbr >> The word endings give a musical pattern to the list of attributes.
<<Bbl R 9:6 abbr >>-08 The spiritual Israel, though Paul does not seem to develop the idea here (except vss 25-26).
<<Bbl R 9:6 abbr >>-13 "Sons of Abraham" is a metonymy, and Paul explores its ambiguity: Abraham's descendants are not all children of promise, but only those of his grandson Israel. In fact some were under a curse.
<<Bbl R 9:13 abbr >> Paul's use of <<Bbl Mal 1:2>> does not lean on the context provided by Malachi but on Genesis. Yet he pulls in this trenchant summary.
<<Bbl R 9:14 abbr >>-22 Seems to be a grand excursus to deal with the issue raised in v 13.
R 2:19 Another excursus to handle a further ramification of God as Determiner.
<<Bbl R 9:22 abbr >> In larger context he refers to the Jews who deny Christ; mercy is reserved for those who confess Him. Paul is blunt about the fate; but in specifying the Jews as the objects of God's wrath, he is delicate. There is reverence in his circumlocution (starting in v 3), and even here the reference is somewhat indirect.
9:23 Paul pivots to the Jewish remnant -- and the new revelation that God's people includes gentiles.
<<Bbl R 9:24 abbr >> Jews and gentiles, believers together, the theme of Romans.
<<Bbl R 10:5 abbr>> The allusion to <<Bbl Lv 18:5 abbr>> presents a puzzle which is explored by F.F. Bruce, __Romans vol 2__, Appendix B.
10:9 Roman believers could not reply in kind to the habitual greeting, "Caesar is Lord".
<<Bbl R 10:15 abbr >> refers to the missionaries in the world, or to the Messiah?
<<Bbl R 11:20 abbr>> The NAS uses //but// where I would prefer //and//.
<<Bbl R 11:30 abbr>>-32 //Mercy// is continued in <<Bbl R 12:1 abbr>>.
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<<Bbl Rm 11:36 abbr >>
For of him, and through him, and to him, are all things. To him be the glory for ever! Amen.
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{{rf{10}}} And not only this, but also when Rebecca conceived children by one man, Isaac our father -- {{rf{11}}} for although they had not yet been born, or done anything good or evil, in order that the purpose of God according to election might remain, {{rf{12}}} not by works but by the one who calls -- it was said to her, "The older will serve the younger," {{rf{13}}} just as it is written, "Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated." {{rf{14}}} What then shall we say? There is no injustice with God, is there? May it never be! {{rf{15}}} For to Moses he says, "I will have mercy on whomever I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whomever I have compassion." {{rf{16}}} Consequently therefore, it does not depend on the one who wills or on the one who runs, but on God who shows mercy. {{rf{17}}} For the scripture says to Pharaoh, "For this very reason I have raised you up, so that I may demonstrate my power in you, and so that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth." {{rf{18}}} Consequently therefore, he has mercy on whomever he wishes, and he hardens whomever he wishes. {{rf{19}}} Therefore you will say to me, "Why then does he still find fault? For who has resisted his will? {{rf{20}}} On the contrary, O man, who are you who answers back to God? Will what is molded say to the one who molded it, "Why did you make me like this"? {{rf{21}}} Or does the potter not have authority over the clay, to make from the same lump a vessel that is for honorable use and one that is for ordinary use? {{rf{22}}} And what if God, wanting to demonstrate his wrath and to make known his power, endured with much patience vessels of wrath prepared for destruction? {{rf{23}}} And he did so in order that he could make known the riches of his glory upon vessels of mercy that he prepared beforehand for glory, {{rf{24}}} us whom he also called, not only from the Jews but also from the Gentiles? {{rf{25}}} As he also says in Hosea, "I will call those who were not my people, 'My people,' and those who were not loved, 'Loved.' {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Romans-09-10]] }}}
{{rf{26}}} And it will be in the place where it was said to them, 'You are not my people,' there they will be called 'sons of the living God.'" {{rf{27}}} And Isaiah cries out concerning Israel, "Even if the number of the sons of Israel is like the sand of the sea, the remnant will be saved, {{rf{28}}} for the Lord will execute his sentence thoroughly and decisively upon the earth." {{rf{29}}} And just as Isaiah foretold, "If the Lord of hosts had not left us descendants, we would have become like Sodom and would have resembled Gomorrah." {{rf{30}}} What then shall we say? That the Gentiles, who did not pursue righteousness, attained righteousness -- even the righteousness that is by faith. {{rf{31}}} But Israel, pursuing the law of righteousness, did not attain to the law. {{rf{32}}} Why that? Because they did not pursue it by faith, but as if by works. They stumbled over the stone that causes people to stumble, {{rf{33}}} just as it is written, "Behold, I am laying in Zion a stone that causes people to stumble, and a rock that causes them to fall, and the one who believes in him will not be put to shame." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Romans-09-26]] }}}
Brothers, the desire of my heart and my prayer to God on behalf of them is for their salvation. {{rf{2}}} For I testify about them that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge. {{rf{3}}} For ignoring the righteousness of God, and seeking to establish their own, they did not subject themselves to the righteousness of God. {{rf{4}}} For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes. {{rf{5}}} For Moses writes about the righteousness that is from the law: "The person who does this will live by it." {{rf{6}}} But the righteousness from faith speaks like this: "Do not say in your heart, 'Who will ascend into heaven?'" (that is, to bring Christ down), {{rf{7}}} or "Who will descend into the abyss?" (that is, to bring Christ up from the dead). {{rf{8}}} But what does it say? "The word is near to you, in your mouth and in your heart" (that is, the word of faith that we proclaim), {{rf{9}}} that if you confess with your mouth "Jesus is Lord" and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. {{rf{10}}} For with the heart one believes, resulting in righteousness, and with the mouth one confesses, resulting in salvation. {{rf{11}}} For the scripture says, "Everyone who believes in him will not be put to shame." {{rf{12}}} For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek, for the same Lord is Lord of all, who is rich to all who call upon him. {{rf{13}}} For "everyone who calls upon the name of the Lord will be saved." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Romans-10-01]] }}}
{{rf{14}}} How then will they call upon him in whom they have not believed? And how will they believe in him about whom they have not heard? And how will they hear about him without one who preaches to them? {{rf{15}}} And how will they preach, unless they are sent? Just as it is written, "How timely are the feet of those who bring good news of good things." {{rf{16}}} But not all have obeyed the good news, for Isaiah says, "Lord, who has believed our report?" {{rf{17}}} Consequently, faith comes by hearing, and hearing through the word about Christ. {{rf{18}}} But I say, they have not heard, have they? On the contrary, "Their voice has gone out to all the earth, and their words to the ends of the inhabited world." {{rf{19}}} But I say, Israel did not know, did they? First, Moses says, "I will provoke you to jealousy by those who are not a nation; by a senseless nation I will provoke you to anger." {{rf{20}}} And Isaiah is very bold and says, "I was found by those who did not seek me; I became known to those who did not ask for me." {{rf{21}}} But about Israel he says, "The whole day long I held out my hands to a disobedient and resistant people." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Romans-10-14]] }}}
Therefore I say, God has not rejected his people, has he? May it never be! For I also am an Israelite, from the descendants of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin. {{rf{2}}} God has not rejected his people, whom he foreknew! Or do you not know, in the passage about Elijah, what the scripture says -- how he appeals to God against Israel? {{rf{3}}} "Lord, they have killed your prophets, they have torn down your altars, and I alone am left, and they are seeking my life!" {{rf{4}}} But what does the divine response say to him? "I have left for myself seven thousand people who have not bent the knee to Baal." {{rf{5}}} So in this way also at the present time, there is a remnant selected by grace. {{rf{6}}} But if by grace, it is no longer by works, for otherwise grace would no longer be grace. {{rf{7}}} What then? What Israel was searching for, this it did not obtain. But the elect obtained it, and the rest were hardened, {{rf{8}}} just as it is written, "God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that do not see and ears that do not hear, until this very day." {{rf{9}}} And David says, "Let their table become a snare and a trap, and a cause for stumbling and a retribution to them; {{rf{10}}} let their eyes be darkened so that they do not see, and cause their backs to bend continually." {{rf{11}}} I say then, they did not stumble so that they fell, did they? May it never be! But by their trespass, salvation has come to the Gentiles, in order to provoke them to jealousy. {{rf{12}}} And if their trespass means riches for the world and their loss means riches for the Gentiles, how much more will their fullness mean? {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Romans-11-01]] }}}
{{rf{13}}} Now I am speaking to you Gentiles. Therefore, inasmuch as I am apostle to the Gentiles, I promote my ministry, {{rf{14}}} if somehow I may provoke my people to jealousy and save some of them. {{rf{15}}} For if their rejection means the reconciliation of the world, what will their acceptance mean except life from the dead? {{rf{16}}} Now if the first fruits are holy, so also is the whole batch of dough, and if the root is holy, so also are the branches. {{rf{17}}} Now if some of the branches were broken off, and you, although you were a wild olive tree, were grafted in among them and became a sharer of the root of the olive tree's richness, {{rf{18}}} do not boast against the branches. But if you boast against them, you do not support the root, but the root supports you. {{rf{19}}} Then you will say, "Branches were broken off in order that I could be grafted in." {{rf{20}}} Well said! They were broken off because of unbelief, but you stand firm because of faith. Do not think arrogant thoughts, but be afraid. {{rf{21}}} For if God did not spare the natural branches, neither will he spare you. {{rf{22}}} See, then, the kindness and severity of God: severity upon those who have fallen, but upon you the kindness of God -- if you continue in his kindness, for otherwise you also will be cut off. {{rf{23}}} And those also, if they do not persist in unbelief, will be grafted in, because God is able to graft them in again. {{rf{24}}} For if you were cut off from what is by nature a wild olive tree, and contrary to nature were grafted into a cultivated olive tree, how much more will these who are natural branches be grafted into their own olive tree? {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Romans-11-13]] }}}
{{rf{25}}} For I do not want you to be ignorant, brothers, of this mystery, so that you will not be wise in your own sight, that a partial hardening has happened to Israel, until the full number of the Gentiles has come in, {{rf{26}}} and so all Israel will be saved, just as it is written, "The deliverer will come out of Zion; he will turn away ungodliness from Jacob. {{rf{27}}} And this is the covenant from me with them when I take away their sins." {{rf{28}}} With respect to the gospel, they are enemies for your sake, but with respect to election, they are dearly loved for the sake of the fathers. {{rf{29}}} For the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable. {{rf{30}}} For just as you formerly were disobedient to God, but now have been shown mercy because of the disobedience of these, {{rf{31}}} so also these have now been disobedient for your mercy, in order that they also may now be shown mercy. {{rf{32}}} For God confined them all in disobedience, in order that he could have mercy on them all. {{rf{33}}} Oh, the depth of the riches and the wisdom and the knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments and how incomprehensible are his ways! {{rf{34}}} "For who has known the mind of the Lord, or who has been his counselor? {{rf{35}}} Or who has given in advance to him, and it will be paid back to him?" {{rf{36}}} For from him and through him and to him are all things. To him be glory for eternity! Amen. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Romans-11-25]] }}}
Therefore I exhort you, brothers, through the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God, which is your reasonable service. {{rf{2}}} And do not be conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, so that you may approve what is the good and well-pleasing and perfect will of God. {{rf{3}}} For by the grace given to me I say to everyone who is among you not to think more highly of yourself than what one ought to think, but to think sensibly, as God has apportioned a measure of faith to each one. {{rf{4}}} For just as in one body we have many members, but all the members do not have the same function, {{rf{5}}} in the same way we who are many are one body in Christ, and individually members of one another, {{rf{6}}} but having different gifts according to the grace given to us: if it is prophecy, according to the proportion of his faith; {{rf{7}}} if it is service, by service; if it is one who teaches, by teaching; {{rf{8}}} if it is one who exhorts, by exhortation; one who gives, with sincerity; one who leads, with diligence; one who shows mercy, with cheerfulness. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Romans-12-01]] }}}
Rom 12 follows a doxology, which may be [[chiastically|Chiasmus]] central; note //mercy// in <<Bbl R 11:30 abbr>>-32 and <<Bbl R 12:1 abbr>>.
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<<Bbl R 12:1 abbr >>-02 Debasement is reversed and made right. The Greek confirms Paul's reference back to <<Bbl R 1:28 >>.
<<Bbl R 12:1 abbr >>-08 The //mind// is prominent in the instruction that follows. <<Bbl R 11:34 >> serves as preparation (pivot). The doxology that closes chapter 11 speaks of God's mind.
<<Bbl R 12:2 abbr >> One could merely recommend to be //not confirmed//, and //transformed// is provoking.
<<Bbl R 12:1 >> - 15.4 -- F.F. Bruce proposes a close comparison with the Sermon on the Mount.
12:1 I preached on this passage on 7/22/90 at Hill Country Church. 25 years later, my suggestion that Paul might have in mind <<Bbl Dan 3:28 >> seems unappealing.
<<Bbl R 12:2 abbr>> [[Attitude]]
12:3 The theme which follows is unity, the unity of the body. So we find this problem of //thinking of ourselves more highly than we ought// is a cause of disunity.
12:3-8 Compares closely with <<Bbl 1C 12:12 >>-31 .
<<Bbl R 12:8 abbr >>-10 after this, Paul starts meddling.
<<Bbl R 12:9 >>-21. This set of exhortations uses //good...evil// as //inclusio//.
12:11 can be translated //diligence// (NAS) or //zeal//.
12:12-13 Wycliffe added the words, "that is, harboring of poor men."
<<Bbl R 12:19 abbr >> //Leave room for the wrath of God// seems a very gentle way to say you must not usurp God.
{{rf{9}}} Love must be without hypocrisy. Abhor what is evil; be attached to what is good, {{rf{10}}} being devoted to one another in brotherly love, esteeming one another more highly in honor, {{rf{11}}} not lagging in diligence, being enthusiastic in spirit, serving the Lord, {{rf{12}}} rejoicing in hope, enduring in affliction, being devoted to prayer, {{rf{13}}} contributing to the needs of the saints, pursuing hospitality. {{rf{14}}} Bless those who persecute, bless and do not curse them. {{rf{15}}} Rejoice with those who rejoice; weep with those who weep. {{rf{16}}} Think the same thing toward one another; do not think arrogantly, but associate with the lowly. Do not be wise in your own sight. {{rf{17}}} Pay back no one evil for evil. Take thought for what is good in the sight of all people. {{rf{18}}} If it is possible on your part, be at peace with all people. {{rf{19}}} Do not take revenge yourselves, dear friends, but give place to God's wrath, for it is written, "Vengeance is mine, I will repay," says the Lord. {{rf{20}}} But "if your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him something to drink; for by doing this, you will heap up coals of fire upon his head." {{rf{21}}} Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Romans-12-09]] }}}
Let every person be subject to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except by God, and those that exist are put in place by God. {{rf{2}}} So then, the one who resists authority resists the ordinance which is from God, and those who resist will receive condemnation on themselves. {{rf{3}}} For rulers are not a cause of terror for a good deed, but for bad conduct. So do you want not to be afraid of authority? Do what is good, and you will have praise from it, {{rf{4}}} for it is God's servant to you for what is good. But if you do what is bad, be afraid, because it does not bear the sword to no purpose. For it is God's servant, the one who avenges for punishment on the one who does what is bad. {{rf{5}}} Therefore it is necessary to be in subjection, not only because of wrath but also because of conscience. {{rf{6}}} For because of this you also pay taxes, for the authorities are servants of God, busily engaged in this very thing. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Romans-13-01]] }}}
<<Bbl R 13:1 abbr >> [[Worship]]
<<Bbl R 13:1 abbr >>-07 General principle of obedience. Do not mistake it as proposing absolute loyalty, for there is a tacit (though reasonable, not naive) assumption of benevolence.
<<Bbl R 13:1 abbr >>-09 [[Submit]]
<<Bbl R 13:11 abbr>>-14
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* In this passage, is it night-time or day-time?
* What are the "Do NOT" commands?
* What are the "Do" commands?
* What are the "deeds of darkness"?
* What are "the weapons of light"?
* Is Paul saying "JUST STOP IT"?
* You are told to "not make provision for the desires of the flesh". Are there any hints on how in this passage?
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Romans had contempt for sabbath and dietary laws.
<<Bbl R 13:15 abbr >> So we remove the hat when we come upon a procession.
<<Bbl R 14:1 abbr >>ff. [[Ethnic-Conciliation]].
<<Bbl R 14:1 abbr >>-15:6 [[Scruples]]
<<Bbl R 14:1 abbr >> The weak and the strong. Presumably those with the scruples were derided as "weak". Paul has concern for those whom the strong call weak.
<<Bbl R 14:1 abbr >> //accept the another//, this verb is used by Paul 4x. <<Bbl Philemon 1:17 >>, <<Bbl R 14:3 >>, <<Bbl R 15:7 >>.
<<Bbl R 14:1 abbr >> In 1 Corinthians Paul discusses the theology (not so here), sandwiching it in more superficial (social) considerations.
<<Bbl R 14:4 abbr >> what a strong counterpoint to <<Bbl R 15:5 >>-06 and <<Bbl E 4:4 >>-06. A strong statement to the effect that each has a personal relationship with God. And imagine the true rudeness of this imaginary situation.
<<Bbl R 14:17 abbr >> //Peace// refers not to a sense of serenity but to relational unity. All three terms have this context.
<<Bbl R 14:19 abbr >> //things that make peace// includes speaking aloud the family secret, [[Confront]].
<<Bbl R 15:1 abbr >> <<Bbl R 13:9 >>-10 neighbor
<<Bbl R 15:1 abbr >> hinge or pivot from the preceding.
<<Bbl R 15:3 abbr >> Goes so far as to say that inflicting your rule for holiness on another is similar to the Pharisees finding fault with Jesus. And in case this seems a step too far, in v 4 Paul doubles down by affirming the general relevance of the OT. But he also uses this as a hinge to infuse the rebuke with hope, his next immediate theme.
{{rf{7}}} Pay to everyone what is owed: pay taxes to whom taxes are due; pay customs duties to whom customs duties are due; pay respect to whom respect is due; pay honor to whom honor is due. {{rf{8}}} Owe nothing to anyone, except to love one another, for the one who loves someone else has fulfilled the law. {{rf{9}}} For the commandments, "You shall not commit adultery, you shall not commit murder, you shall not steal, you shall not covet," and if there is any other commandment, are summed up in this statement: "You shall love your neighbor as yourself." {{rf{10}}} Love does not commit evil against a neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law. {{rf{11}}} And do this because you know the time, that it is already the hour for you to wake up from sleep. For our salvation is nearer now than when we believed. {{rf{12}}} The night is far gone, and the day has drawn near. Therefore let us throw off the deeds of darkness and put on the weapons of light. {{rf{13}}} Let us live decently, as in the day, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and licentiousness, not in strife and jealousy. {{rf{14}}} But put on the Lord Jesus Christ and do not make provision for the desires of the flesh. {{rf{21}}} Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Romans-13-07]] }}}
Now receive the one who is weak in faith, but not for quarrels about opinions. {{rf{2}}} One believes he may eat all things, but the one who is weak eats only vegetables. {{rf{3}}} The one who eats must not despise the one who does not eat, and the one who does not eat must not judge the one who eats, because God has accepted him. {{rf{4}}} Who are you, who passes judgment on the domestic slave belonging to someone else? To his own master he stands or falls, and he will stand, for the Lord is able to make him stand. {{rf{5}}} One person prefers one day over another day, and another person regards every day alike. Each one must be fully convinced in his own mind. {{rf{6}}} The one who is intent on the day is intent on it for the Lord, and the one who eats eats for the Lord, because he is thankful to God, and the one who does not eat does not eat for the Lord, and he is thankful to God. {{rf{7}}} For none of us lives for himself and none dies for himself. {{rf{8}}} For if we live, we live for the Lord, and if we die, we die for the Lord. Therefore whether we live or whether we die, we are the Lord's. {{rf{9}}} For Christ died and became alive again for this reason, in order that he might be Lord of both the dead and the living. {{rf{10}}} But why do you judge your brother? Or also, why do you despise your brother? For we will all stand before the judgment seat of God. {{rf{11}}} For it is written, "As I live, says the Lord, every knee will bow to me, and every tongue will praise God." {{rf{12}}} So each one of us will give an account concerning himself. {{rf{13}}} Therefore, let us no longer pass judgment on one another, but rather decide this: not to place a cause for stumbling or a temptation before a brother. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Romans-14-01]] }}}
{{rf{14}}} I know and am convinced in the Lord Jesus that nothing is unclean of itself, except to the one who considers something to be unclean; to that person it is unclean. {{rf{15}}} For if because of food, your brother is grieved, you are no longer living according to love. Do not destroy by your food that person for whom Christ died. {{rf{16}}} Therefore do not let your good be slandered. {{rf{17}}} For the kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit. {{rf{18}}} For the one who serves Christ in this way is well-pleasing to God and approved by people. {{rf{19}}} So then, let us pursue what promotes peace and what edifies one another. {{rf{20}}} Do not destroy the work of God on account of food. All things are clean, but it is wrong for the person who eats and stumbles in the process. {{rf{21}}} It is good not to eat meat or to drink wine or to do anything by which your brother stumbles or is offended or is weakened. {{rf{22}}} The faith that you have, have with respect to yourself before God. Blessed is the one who does not pass judgment on himself by what he approves. {{rf{23}}} But the one who doubts is condemned if he eats, because he does not do so from faith, and everything that is not from faith is sin. {{rf big{1}}} But we who are strong ought to bear the weaknesses of the weak, and not to please ourselves. {{rf{2}}} Let each one of us please his neighbor for his good, for the purpose of edification. {{rf{3}}} For even Christ did not please himself, but just as it is written, "The insults of those who insult you have fallen on me." {{rf{4}}} For whatever was written beforehand was written for our instruction, in order that through patient endurance and through the encouragement of the scriptures we may have hope. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Romans-14-14]] }}}
{{rf{5}}} Now may the God of patient endurance and of encouragement grant you to be in agreement with one another, in accordance with Christ Jesus, {{rf{6}}} so that with one mind you may glorify with one mouth the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. {{rf{7}}} Therefore accept one another, just as Christ also has accepted you, to the glory of God. {{rf{8}}} For I say, Christ has become a servant of the circumcision on behalf of the truth of God, in order to confirm the promises to the fathers, {{rf{9}}} and that the Gentiles may glorify God for his mercy, just as it is written, "Because of this, I will praise you among the Gentiles, and I will sing praise to your name." {{rf{10}}} And again it says, "Rejoice, Gentiles, with his people." {{rf{11}}} And again, "Praise the Lord, all the Gentiles, and let all the peoples praise him." {{rf{12}}} And again Isaiah says, "The root of Jesse will come, even the one who rises to rule over the Gentiles; in him the Gentiles will put their hope." {{rf{13}}} Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that you may abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Romans-15-05]] }}}
<<Bbl R 15:5 abbr >> climax of this theme.
<<Bbl R 15:5 abbr >> is the capstone.
<<Bbl R 15:7 abbr >>ff example 1, Christ the Jewish Messiah has become a servant to the nations.
{{holyquote{
Romans 15.13: Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope, in the power of the Holy Spirit.
}}}
<<Bbl R 15:26 abbr >>ff example 2, the money gift from gentiles to Jerusalem.
<<Bbl R 15:28 abbr >>. Paul had that knack shared with Cameron Townsend of multiplying the value of a gift relationally.
<<Bbl R 16:7 abbr >> //Outstanding// as //apostles// - yet otherwise unknown to us! But Bruce prefers a deprecated sense of //apostle//. Not only that, these two might be well known //to// the apostles.
<<Bbl R 16:8 abbr >> Paul as infrastructure genius.
<<Bbl R 16:9 abbr >> Spain will be really new ground. No synagogues, serious language challenge.
<<Bbl R 16:10 abbr >> Phoebe was likely the first teacher of Romans. See article by Allan Chapple.
{{rf{14}}} Now I myself also am convinced about you, my brothers, that you yourselves also are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also to instruct one another. {{rf{15}}} But I have written to you more boldly on some points, so as to remind you again because of the grace that has been given to me by God, {{rf{16}}} with the result that I am a servant of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles, serving the gospel of God as a priest, in order that the offering of the Gentiles may become acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit. {{rf{17}}} Therefore I have a reason for boasting in Christ Jesus regarding the things concerning God. {{rf{18}}} For I will not dare to speak about anything except that which Christ has accomplished through me, resulting in the obedience of the Gentiles by word and deed, {{rf{19}}} by the power of signs and wonders, by the power of the Spirit, so that from Jerusalem and traveling around as far as Illyricum I have fully proclaimed the gospel of Christ. {{rf{20}}} And so, having as my ambition to proclaim the gospel where Christ has not been named, in order that I will not build on the foundation belonging to someone else, {{rf{21}}} but just as it is written, "Those to whom it was not announced concerning him will see, and those who have not heard will understand." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Romans-15-14]] }}}
{{rf{22}}} For this reason also I was hindered many times from coming to you, {{rf{23}}} and now, no longer having a place in these regions, but having a desire for many years to come to you {{rf{24}}} whenever I travel to Spain. For I hope while I am passing through to see you and to be sent on my way by you, whenever I have first enjoyed your company for a while. {{rf{25}}} But now I am traveling to Jerusalem, serving the saints. {{rf{26}}} For Macedonia and Achaia were pleased to make some contribution for the poor among the saints in Jerusalem. {{rf{27}}} For they were pleased to do so, and they are obligated to them. For if the Gentiles have shared in their spiritual things, they ought also to serve them in material things. {{rf{28}}} Therefore, after I have accomplished this and sealed this fruit for delivery to them, I will depart by way of you for Spain, {{rf{29}}} and I know that when I come to you, I will come in the fullness of the blessing of Christ. {{rf{30}}} Now I exhort you, brothers, through our Lord Jesus Christ and through the love of the Spirit, to contend along with me in your prayers on my behalf to God, {{rf{31}}} that I may be rescued from those who are disobedient in Judea, and my ministry in Jerusalem may be acceptable to the saints, {{rf{32}}} so that, coming to you with joy by the will of God, I may rest with you. {{rf{33}}} Now may the God of peace be with all of you. Amen. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Romans-15-22]] }}}
Now I commend to you Phoebe our sister, who is also a servant of the church in Cenchrea, {{rf{2}}} in order that you may welcome her in the Lord in a manner worthy of the saints, and help her in whatever task she may have need from you, for she herself also has been a helper of many, even me myself. {{rf{3}}} Greet Prisca and Aquila, my fellow workers in Christ Jesus, {{rf{4}}} who risked their own necks for my life, for which not only I am thankful, but also all the churches of the Gentiles; {{rf{5}}} also greet the church in their house. Greet Epenetus my dear friend, who is the first convert of Asia for Christ. {{rf{6}}} Greet Mary, who has worked hard for you. {{rf{7}}} Greet Andronicus and Junia, my compatriots and my fellow prisoners, who are well known to the apostles, who were also in Christ before me. {{rf{8}}} Greet Ampliatus, my dear friend in the Lord. {{rf{9}}} Greet Urbanus, our fellow worker in Christ, and my dear friend Stachys. {{rf{10}}} Greet Apelles, who is approved in Christ. Greet those of the household of Aristobulus. {{rf{11}}} Greet Herodion my compatriot. Greet those of the household of Narcissus who are in the Lord. {{rf{12}}} Greet Tryphena and Tryphosa, the laborers in the Lord. Greet Persis, the dear friend who has worked hard in the Lord. {{rf{13}}} Greet Rufus, the chosen one in the Lord, and his mother and mine. {{rf{14}}} Greet Asyncritus, Phlegon, Hermes, Patrobas, Hermas, and the brothers with them. {{rf{15}}} Greet Philologus and Julia, Nereus and his sister, and Olympas, and all the saints who are with them. {{rf{16}}} Greet one another with a holy kiss. All the churches of Christ greet you. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Romans-16-01]] }}}
{{rf{17}}} Now I exhort you, brothers, to look out for those who cause dissensions and temptations contrary to the teaching which you learned, and stay away from them. {{rf{18}}} For such people do not serve our Lord Christ, but their own stomach, and by smooth speech and flattery they deceive the hearts of the unsuspecting. {{rf{19}}} For the report of your obedience has reached to all; therefore I am rejoicing over you, and I want you to be wise toward what is good, but innocent toward what is evil. {{rf{20}}} And in a short time the God of peace will crush Satan under your feet. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. {{rf{21}}} Timothy, my fellow worker, greets you, and Lucius and Jason and Sosipater, my compatriots. {{rf{22}}} I, Tertius, the one who wrote this letter, greet you in the Lord. {{rf{23}}} Gaius, my host and the host of the whole church, greets you. Erastus the city treasurer greets you, and Quartus the brother. {{rf{24}}} The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with all of you. Amen. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Romans-16-17]] }}}
* <<Bbl 2K 19:30 >> //...shall again take root downward and bear [[Fruit]] upward.//
* <<Bbl I 61:4>>
* <<Bbl Mt 7:26>>-27.
* Ps 74
* Nehemiah.
* Limestone.
* {{anti{[[Restore]], [[Build]]}}}.
* //Like a broken-down wall, so is a man...''
''The story of two God-fearing people: a wealthy, influential Jewish man and a destitute gentile girl whom he exalts and marries.''
!! Important themes
* The discovery of God's power to provide.
* The reward of God for submission, service and humility.
* God's salvation for the Jews and the other peoples of the world.
!! Historical context
* The period of the Judges was not entirely grim. In the larger book, the children of Israel are always enslaved to idolatry, the Canaanites' or their own; everyone does "what is right in his own eyes", and is (almost) invariably ashamed. Ruth shows us domestic life in a serene Israelite village that is free from lawlessness, perversity and war.
* Ruth provides vital glimpses of the law not as dry statute, but as operational in the lives of God's people.
!! Different points of view or crises
* The town has a problem: fractured by famine and no easy paths to reintegration.
* The tribe has a problem: Elimelech's heritage is at stake.
* Naomi is single, indigent and ashamed.
** The names of Naomi's sons are "sickly" and "pining". I wonder if those names could have been inserted later as marks of shame. In any case there is a strong sense of degeneration and this is confirmed when we realize the character of Boaz.
** Naomi's journey from death. Death versus rest.
** A rich theology of the inclusion of the gentiles. The Jewish matron coaches a gentile bride in how to get the attention of a redeemer. It turn the bride serves as an agent of redemption for the matron.
** //That Jewish mother / hides in her wing a Gentile. / "Now get your husband." //
* Ruth is a widow and a foreigner, with no social protections. And she is childless (but not barren, see below).
** The Foreigner. Don't think there's some kind of charm that goes with being "the Moabitess". Exotic is not appealing. And don't think her (presumable) good looks simplify everything, like "We know you're not from Judah, but Judah wants you anyway."
** Ruth's sojourn in Judah promises to be a rich inverse of Naomi's in Moab. As an expat, Naomi was vulnerable; based on her second-hand experience, Ruth could not look forward to any better.
** Ruth is never described. She can't be too unattractive! (Thomas Hood's "Ruth" offers a piquant though unhistorical view of Ruth in Boaz' eyes.)
** Her journey is a dramatization of the first three chapters of Ephesians.
** Contrast with Esther
** She is presented as a perfect follower of God: modest, humble, reverent, loyal, industrious, courageous, purposeful.
** How does a humble wife get a book named after her? When the husband has exalted her and esteemed her.
** By the end, the epithet //Moabitess// has disappeared!
** She is thoroughly accepted into Israel: by the end of story "the Moabitess" has been dropped.
* Boaz is single, aging and apparently heirless. (There is no mention of heirlessness, which is especially striking in the story's resolution. Possibly he was a widower and not heirless?)
** Boaz is the Field Commander. His issuance of orders is arranged in the chiasmus of chapter two.
* Humanity has a problem: the lineage of the Messiah is at stake.
** God...
* [[IdentifyWith]]
* God seems a non-actor; in his place we have "happenstance". But once we understand the role of Boaz, we discover God is indeed present in that person.
* Ruth is a "pluck and luck" story; God grants her both pluck and luck. <<Bbl Ruth 2:3 "" note>>
* The three characters each deliver the others and themselves. At the simplest level, they all face loneliness and loss of progeny, and the women face destitution and bereavement. But felt needs coalesce with deepest needs; deliverance has multiple aspects and levels, consummated in David, again in Christ.
!! The secret rendezvous
* Romance known to every culture.
* The story creates excitement through ambiguity.
** It's unchaste for us to imagine unchastity, but the story neglects to provide limits for our imagination.
*** We would add, "but they did not have sex."
*** @@color:brown;A woman can look both moral and exciting — if she also looks as if it were quite a struggle.@@ (Edna Ferber in a 1954 interview for Reader's Digest) - that may or may not describe Ruth the woman, but it does seem to describe Ruth the book.
** Is the couple behaving morally?
*** No, perhaps: a young woman waits for the end of the party to sneak into //and// out from the man's bed (while he's inebriated).
*** Yes, surely: she is following her mother's instructions, showing all godliness and faith, and the outcome is blessed by friends and vindicated by history.
!! Skeptical theories:
* Driver described it as propaganda for the kinsman-redeemer idea. Widows encouraged to be faithful.
* Staples said there was a fertility cult in Bethlehem and the writer recorded a cultic myth.
* Some scholars came up with the idea that it was a post-exilic polemic against the view that marrying a gentile wife was sinful (but it doesn't read like a polemic: doesn't go on about how Boaz married her in spite of her Moabite background, doesn't present the first kinsman as rejecting Ruth for that reason).
* A few have claimed it an interesting fiction.
!! Ruth and Orpah are childless (Ruth 1:5)
* There is a clear implication Ruth was not classified as barren.
** No concern or lament is made.
** Boaz and the community aren't worried.
** If, as has been argued, the situation of a Jewish family fleeing their God-given land is disapproved of by narrator and audience alike, fruitlessness could be tacitly accepted as God's judgment.
** Is Ruth's childlessness necessary to the story events?
And it happened in the days when the judges ruled, there was a famine in the land, and a man from Bethlehem of Judah went to reside in the countryside of Moab -- he and his wife and his two sons. {{rf{2}}} And the name of the man was Elimelech, and the name of his wife was Naomi, and the names of his two sons were Mahlon and Kilion. They were Ephraimites from Bethlehem in Judah. And they went to the countryside of Moab and remained there. {{rf{3}}} But Elimelech the husband of Naomi died and she was left behind with her two sons. {{rf{4}}} And they took for themselves Moabite wives. The name of the one was Orpah and the name of the other was Ruth. And they lived there about ten years. {{rf{5}}} But both Mahlon and Kilion died, and the woman was left without her two sons and without her husband. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Ruth-01-01]] }}}
!!! The Sojourn
The story opens cinematographically, an aerial view which zooms in to gaze at a single human discussion. (//The Lady Vanishes// and many a mid-century Christmas movie.)
<<Bbl Ruth 1:1 abbr >>-8 Bethlehem = House of Bread
1:2, 22, 4:3 The country of Moab -- literally, the field or fields. Bounds says the usage points to foreign soil.
<<Bbl Ruth 1:4 abbr>> "Marriages of women of Ammon or Moab are nowhere in the Law expressly forbidden, as were marriages with the women of Canaan (<<Bbl Dt 7:1 >>-3 ). In the days of Nehemiah the special law (<<Bbl Dt 23:3 >>-6 ) was interpreted as forbidding them, and as excluding the children of such marriages from the congregation of Israel (<<Bbl Neh 7:1 >>-3 ) [Bounds, p. 473].
Ruth was the wife of Mahlon (4:10).
Are Ruth and Orpah really Moabite names?
<<Bbl Ruth 1:6 abbr>> The theme of famine and harvest is already established. God is presented as controlling the life of a nation.
Imagine Naomi's position as a widow in a foreign country.
<<Bbl Ruth 1:7 abbr >> In this crisis we find the daughters and Naomi showing deep courtesy to each other. In a formal act of separation, the daughters are going to accompany her to the border as if to cross over, but they will be persuaded to remain in their homeland. The daughters fulfill the piety of shared grief by accompanying Naomi. This is similar to <<Bbl Gn 50:7>>. Naomi is thus caught by surprise when Ruth chooses to continue.
<<Bbl Ruth 1:9 abbr>> The word //rest// is from the same root as Noah's name (<<Bbl Gn 5:28 >>-29 ) and is found in a variant form in 3:1. It is a rough synonym of "sabbath" without the direct theological significance.
<<Bbl Ruth 1:11 abbr>> Refers to the law of the [[Levirate|Brother]]. The Moabites may have had their own version of this law.
Naomi considers for legal role of a brother but can't work out a hopeful application. How would she, since that is given for the sake of a woman of the home community? (And it doesn't proscribe marriage, and hardly considers the wealthy but removed uncle.)
Shame must have been present when rhetorically if it were possible for her to raise more sons for her daughters in law, seeing as the two original sons were so non-productive.
//Return to the house of your mother//, meaning, the person who arranges marriages.
<<Bbl Ruth 1:14 abbr>> Courtesy versus commitment. Contrast Judas and Mary Magdalene. //Cling//, dabaq, as Genesis //shall cleave to her.//
{{rf{6}}} And she got up, she and her daughters-in-law, and returned from the countryside of Moab, because she had heard in the countryside of Moab that Yahweh had come to the aid of his people to give food to them. {{rf{7}}} So she set out from the place where she was and her two daughters-in-law with her, and they went on the way to return to the land of Judah. {{rf{8}}} But Naomi said to her two daughters-in-law, "Go, each of you return to her mother's house. May Yahweh show kindness to you just as you did with the dead and with me. {{rf{9}}} May Yahweh grant that you find a resting place, each in the house of her husband." And she kissed them, and they lifted up their voices and cried. {{rf{10}}} And they said to her, "No, we want to return with you to your people." {{rf{11}}} And Naomi said, "Return, my daughters. Why do you still want to go with me? Are there sons in my womb that may be husbands for you? {{rf{12}}} Turn back, my daughters! Go, for I am too old to have a husband. If I should think there is hope for me, even if I should have a husband this night, and even if I should bear sons, {{rf{13}}} would you therefore wait until they were grown? Would you therefore refrain from marrying? No, my daughters, for it is far more bitter to me than to you. For the hand of Yahweh has gone out against me." {{rf{14}}} And they lifted up their voices and cried again. And Orpah kissed her mother-in-law goodbye, but Ruth clung to her. {{rf{15}}} And she said, "Look, your sister-in-law has returned to her people and to her gods. Return after your sister-in-law too." {{rf{16}}} But Ruth said, "Do not urge me to leave you or to return from following you! For where you go, I will go, and where you lodge, I will lodge. Your people will be my people and your God will be my God. {{rf{17}}} Where you die I will die, and there I will be buried. So may Yahweh do to me, and even more, unless death separates you and me!" {{rf{18}}} When Naomi saw that she was determined to go with her, she said no more. {{rf{19}}} So the two of them went until they came to Bethlehem.
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And when they came to Bethlehem, all of the town was stirred because of them. And they said, "Is this Naomi?" {{rf{20}}} And she said to them, "You should not call me Naomi; call me Mara, for Shaddai has caused me to be very bitter. {{rf{21}}} I went away full, but Yahweh brought me back empty-handed! Why call me Naomi when Yahweh has testified against me and Shaddai has brought calamity upon me?" {{rf{22}}} So Naomi returned, and Ruth the Moabite her daughter-in-law with her, returning from the countryside of Moab. And they came to Bethlehem at the beginning of the harvest of barley. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Ruth-01-08]] }}}
<<Bbl Ruth 1:14 abbr>> dabaq, as in <<Bbl Ge 2:24>>.
<<Bbl Ruth 1:15 abbr>>-18 When do we say such words to each other?
This is more than affection for Naomi. Ruth is after a relationship with the God if Israel, and since Naomi is His representative, that means a relationship with Naomi. A lesson for witnessing.
<<Bbl Ruth 1:16 abbr >> Look to vs 15 for the antecedent. //Lodge// is temporary as in an overnight stay. <<Bbl H 11:8 >>-16 .
<<Bbl Ruth 1:19 abbr >> The KJV says "they." However the Heb. is in the feminine, so other translations are able to say "the women."
1:20-21 Naomi means "pleasant"; Mara means "bitter". The sword of death and famine has severed her from all earthly support. 1:8.
!!! The Return
We must strive to imagine the humiliation of Naomi at returning to her hometown. We can easily compare her situation with that of Job, and we can be sure a few of Job's comforters were present to console her.
<<Bbl Ruth 1:21 abbr >> This is Naomi's second and third statements about the Lord. Here He is //El Shaddai//. This must be bitter irony and indeed a slander; but God reproves no one in this story. ''Instead He consummates the truth of title.''
<<Bbl Ruth 1:22 abbr >> A summary statement of the story's setting, with an additional piece of information. In our own land the homeless are on the move when the weather is right; so they return as if transients.
{{hilite{
<<Bbl Ruth 1:22 abbr >> adds a hint about destitution, which is another aspect of shame. The fruitless sons; the fortunes lost; and we even have a dubious tag-along.
}}}
Now Naomi had a relative of her husband, a prominent rich man from the clan of Elimelech, whose name was Boaz. {{rf{2}}} And Ruth the Moabite said to Naomi, "Please let me go to the field and glean among the ears of grain after someone in whose eyes I may find favor." And she said to her, "Go, my daughter." {{rf{3}}} So she went and came and gleaned in the field behind the reapers. And she happened by chance upon the tract of field belonging to Boaz, who was from the clan of Elimelech. {{rf{4}}} And look, Boaz came from Bethlehem and said to the reapers, "May Yahweh be with you." And they said to him, "May Yahweh bless you." {{rf{5}}} And Boaz said to his servant in charge of the reapers, "To whom does this young woman belong?" {{rf{6}}} And the servant in charge of the reapers said, "She is a Moabite girl returning with Naomi from the countryside of Moab. {{rf{7}}} And she said, 'Please let me glean and let me gather among the sheaves behind the reapers.' So she came and remained from the morning up to now. She is sitting for a little while in the house." {{rf{8}}} And Boaz said to Ruth, "Listen carefully, my daughter, go no longer to glean in another field. Moreover, do not leave from this one, but stay close with my young women. {{rf{9}}} Keep your eyes on the field that they reap and go after them. Have I not ordered the servants not to bother you? And if you get thirsty, you shall go to the containers and drink from where the servants have drawn." {{rf{10}}} And she fell on her face and bowed down to the ground and said to him, "Why have I found favor in your eyes by recognizing me -- for I am a foreigner?" {{rf{11}}} And Boaz answered and said to her, "All that you have done for your mother-in-law after the death of your husband was fully told to me. How you left your father and mother and the land of your birth, and you went to a people that you did not know before. {{rf{12}}} May Yahweh reward your work and may a full reward be given to you from Yahweh, the God of Israel, under whose wings you came to take refuge." {{rf{13}}} And she said, "May I find favor in your eyes, my lord, for you have comforted me and have spoken kindly to your servant, and I am not one of your servants." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Ruth-02-01]] }}}
https://www.ibr-bbr.org/files/bbr/BBR-1993_04_LuterRigsby_Ruth2.pdf
!!! A SECTION ONE 2:1-3.
Introducing Boaz, the channel of grace; the
situation needing grace; and
the action, "chancing into Boaz's
field," setting up
the opportunity for grace.
!!! B SECTION TWO 2:4.
Gracious, kind greeting by Boaz, "Yah-weh be with you."
!!! C SECTION THREE 2:5-7.
Ruth identified by the head worker, and her extraordinary request for grace.
!!! D SECTION FOUR 2:8-10.
Boaz begins to grant favor
(note "girls"); RUTH'S QUESTION: "Why have I found grace?"
!!! D' SECTION FIVE 2:11-13.
BOAZ'S ANSWER: God is repaying your
faithfulness and your faith. Ruth requesting continued favor (note "girls").
!!! C' SECTION SIX 2:14-16.
Boaz's extraordinary invitation and Ruth's protection from the other workers.
!!! B' SECTION SEVEN 2:17.
Ruth, recipient of Boaz's generosity:
Yahweh was with her!
!!! A' SECTION EIGHT 2:18-23.
Recounting to Naomi her "luck" in
Boaz's field, having found favor with Boaz and God
{{{
2:1 Now Naomi had a kinsman of her husband,
a man of great wealth, of the family of Elimelech, whose name was Boaz.
2:2 And Ruth the Moabitess said to Naomi,
"Please let me go to the field and glean among the ears of grain
after one in whose sight I may find favor."
And she said to her, "Go, my daughter."
2:3 So she departed and went and gleaned in the field after the reapers;
and she happened to come to the portion of the field
belonging to Boaz, who was of the family of Elimelech.
2:4 Now behold, Boaz came from Bethlehem and said to the reapers,
"May YAJWEH be with you." And they said to him, "May YAJWEH bless you."
2:5 Then Boaz said to his servant who was in charge of the reapers,
"Whose young woman is this?"
2:6 The servant in charge of the reapers replied,
"She is the young Moabite woman who returned with **Naomi from the land of Moab.
2:7 "And she said, 'Please let me glean and gather
after the reapers among the sheaves.'
Thus she came and has remained from the morning until now;
she has been sitting in the house for a little while."
2:8 Then Boaz said to Ruth, "Listen carefully, my daughter.
Do not go to glean in another field; furthermore,
do not go on from this one, but stay here with my maids.
2:9 "Let your eyes be on the field which they reap, and go after them.
Indeed, I have commanded the servants not to touch you.
When you are thirsty, go to the water jars and drink from what the servants draw."
2:10 Then she fell on her face, bowing to the ground and said to him,
"Why have I found favor in your sight
that you should take notice of me, since I am a foreigner?"
2:11 Boaz replied to her, "All that you have done
for **your mother-in-law after the death of
your husband has been fully reported to me,
and how you left your father and your mother and the land of your birth,
and came to a people that you did not previously know.
2:12 "May YAJWEH reward your work, and your wages be full
from YAJWEH, the God of Israel,
under whose wings you have come to seek refuge."
2:13 Then she said, "I have found favor in your sight, my lord,
for you have comforted me and indeed have spoken kindly
to your maidservant, though I am not like one of your maidservants."
2:14 At mealtime Boaz said to her, "Come here, that you may eat of the bread
and dip your piece of bread in the vinegar." So she sat beside the reapers;
and he served her roasted grain, and she ate and was satisfied and had some left.
2:15 When she rose to glean, Boaz commanded his servants,
saying, "Let her glean even among the sheaves, and do not insult her.
2:16 "Also you shall purposely pull out for her some grain from the bundles
and leave it that she may glean, and do not rebuke her."
2:17 So she gleaned in the field until evening.
Then she beat out what she had gleaned, and it was about an ephah of barley.
2:18 She took it up and went into the city, and her mother-in-law saw what she had gleaned.
She also took it out and gave **Naomi what she had left after she was satisfied.
2:19 Her mother-in-law then said to her, "Where did you glean today and where did you work?
May he who took notice of you be blessed." So she told her mother-in-law with whom
she had worked and said, "The name of the man with whom I worked today is Boaz."
2:20 Naomi said to her daughter-in-law,
"May he be blessed of YAJWEH
who has not withdrawn his kindness to the living and to the dead."
Again Naomi said to her, "The man is our relative, he is one of our closest relatives."
2:21 Then Ruth the Moabitess said, "Furthermore, he said to me,
'You should stay close to my servants until they have finished all my harvest.'"
2:22 Naomi said to Ruth her daughter-in-law,
"It is good, my daughter, that you go out with his maids,
so that others do not fall upon you in another field."
2:23 So she stayed close by the maids of Boaz in order to glean
until the end of the barley harvest and the wheat harvest.
And she lived with her mother-in-law.
}}}
2:1 Here, as elsewhere in Hebrew narrative, much is "given away" at the beginning; more than a modern writer would choose to. Boaz means, "Strength is In Him." One of the pillars for the Temple of Solomon bears this name, <<Bbl 2K 7:21 >>.
<<Bbl Ruth 2:1 abbr >> The greeting is so wholesome.
<<Bbl Ruth 2:2 abbr >> her prayer initially answered in the response of the foreman.
<<Bbl Ruth 2:3 abbr >> NAS margin, her chance chanced upon. One old English version says, "her hap happed upon."
<<Bbl Ruth 2:5 abbr >> Boaz enjoys his place as a provider to the poor.
<<Bbl Ruth 2:5 abbr >> "To whom does that young woman belong?" Such discernment, to inquire at the very heart of the book's theme. HILITE
<<Bbl Ruth 2:6 abbr >>-7. * Watch the field s where the men are working
<<Bbl Ruth 2:7 abbr >> //House,// a booth or shelter from the sun.
<<Bbl Ruth 2:8 abbr >> The maids are women following the men, taking care of the less physically demanding work. Boaz gives orders to them as well. There is no opportunity for feminine malice. Ruth is no way shunned.
<<Bbl Ruth 2:10 abbr >> Ruth had been apprehensive about even finding permission to glean, 2:1.
<<Bbl Ruth 2:11 abbr>>-12
** A huge spiritual discernment of the meaning of her voluntary exile. Abraham comes to mind, and the daughter of <<Bbl Ps 45:10 >>.
** A huge designation of the significance of Boaz' laud is found in the structure. [[Ruth-02-01-chiasmus]]
** //...under whose wings...// This may be taken as the hinge and the unifying theme of the book. It is sweetly fulfilled in <<Bbl Ruth 3:9 abbr>> (Keil & Delitzsch are a bit dismissive, however, as the language is not direct). See Jordan p161n.
<<Bbl Ruth 2:13 abbr >> //Not like//, in that she is a Moabite.
<<Bbl Ruth 2:14 abbr >> //Served her//, margin says //held out to her.// This would be her most enjoyable food in perhaps many weeks. <<Bbl L 14:7 >>-11. Here also is the same sign of favor that the Christ offered His betrayer, <<Bbl J 13:26 >>.
<<Bbl Ruth 2:14 abbr >>c She //keeps some back// - for Naomi, <<Bbl Ruth 2:18 abbr>>b
<<Bbl Ruth 2:15 abbr >>-17 The KJV says, "handfuls of purpose." Boaz turns it from hard work to easy work. An ephah is a half-bushel according to my Open Bible - food for many days. Ruth is covertly promoted to the highest-paid position in Boaz' operation. <<Bbl Mt 11:29 >>
<<Bbl Ruth 2:18 abbr>>a The 1611 KJV put "he" in for the second word; the 1613 corrected this to "she."
2:18b That is, she had been satisfied earlier by the sumptuous prepared food from Boaz' hand; now it reappears as a crowning grace for her mother-in-law.
<<Bbl Ruth 2:22 abbr >> Here is a great reason for remaining within the fellowship of the Lord.
{{rf{14}}} And Boaz said to her at mealtime, "Come here and eat from the bread and dip your morsel in the wine vinegar." So she sat beside the gleaners, and he offered to her roasted grain. And she ate and was satisfied, and she had some left over. {{rf{15}}} And she got up to glean, and Boaz instructed his servants saying, "Let her also glean between the sheaves and do not reproach her. {{rf{16}}} And also pull out for her from your bundles and leave it so that she may glean -- and do not rebuke her." {{rf{17}}} So she gleaned in the field until the evening and she beat out what she had gleaned, and it was about an ephah of barley. {{rf{18}}} And she picked it up and went to the town. Her mother-in-law saw how much she had gleaned. And she took it out and gave to her what she had left over after being satisfied. {{rf{19}}} And her mother-in-law said to her, "Where did you glean today and where did you work? May he who took notice of you be blessed." And she told her mother-in-law with whom she had worked and said, "The name of the man who I worked with today is Boaz." {{rf{20}}} And Naomi said to her daughter-in-law, "May he be blessed by Yahweh, whose loyal love has not forsaken the living or the dead." And Naomi said to her, "The man is a close relative for us, he is one of our redeemers." {{rf{21}}} And Ruth the Moabite said, "Also, he said to me, 'You shall stay close with the servants which are mine until they have finished all of the harvest which is mine.'" {{rf{22}}} And Naomi said to Ruth her daughter-in-law, "It is good, my daughter, that you go out with his maidservants so that you will not be bothered in another field." {{rf{23}}} So she stayed close with the maidservants of Boaz to glean until the end of the barley harvest and wheat harvest. And she lived with her mother-in-law. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Ruth-02-14]] }}}
Now Naomi her mother-in-law said to her, "My daughter, should I not seek for you security that things may be good for you? {{rf{2}}} So then, is not Boaz our kinsman whose maidservants you were with? Look, he is winnowing the barley at the threshing floor tonight. {{rf{3}}} Wash, anoint yourself, put your clothing on, and go down to the threshing floor. Do not make yourself known to the man until he finishes eating and drinking. {{rf{4}}} And when he lies, take notice of the place where he lies. And you shall go and uncover his feet and lie down, and he shall tell you what to do." {{rf{5}}} And she said to her, "I will do all that you say." {{rf{6}}} And she went down to the threshing floor and did all that her mother-in-law had instructed her. {{rf{7}}} And Boaz ate and drank until his heart was merry and then he came to lie at the end of the grain heap. And she came in quietly and uncovered his feet and lay down. {{rf{8}}} And it happened in the middle of the night the man was startled and he reached out and behold, a woman was lying at his feet. {{rf{9}}} And he said, "Who are you?" And she said, "I am Ruth, your servant. Spread your garment over your servant because you are a redeemer." {{rf{10}}} And he said, "You are blessed by Yahweh my daughter. You did better in this last kindness than the first by not going after young men, whether poor or rich. {{rf{11}}} And so then my daughter, do not be afraid. All that you ask I will do for you, for the entire assembly of my people knows that you are a worthy woman. {{rf{12}}} Now truly I am a redeemer, but there is also a redeemer of a closer relationship than me. {{rf{13}}} Stay tonight, and in the morning, if he wants to redeem you, good; but if he is not willing to redeem, then as Yahweh lives, I will redeem you. Lie down until the morning." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Ruth-03-01]] }}}
<<Bbl Ruth 3:1 abbr>> What a revolution in Naomi! Compare <<Bbl Ruth 1:11 abbr>>.
It has dawned on her that the law for a widow could have creative application, especially for so noble a young lady. The law presents an obligation but here perhaps an opportunity.
3:3ff The Jewish mother instructs the gentile girl in how to win the good husband. So //salvation comes from the Jews.//
!!! The Tryst
<<Bbl Ruth 3:9 abbr>> Compare 2:12-13. Boaz is a [[kinsman-redeemer|Redemption]]. Ruth boldly states this fact of his eligibility to him, in both word and symbolic act.
<<Bbl Ruth 3:14 abbr>>. Our life is [[hid|Invisible-Visible]] with Christ. The world knows nothing of the relationship (11/17/90).
* Ruth is a treasure, as in <<Bbl Mt 13:44>>, which Boaz finds "hidden in a field" and out of joy goes and buys the field.
* No indication of why Boaz tells her to stay through the night. One possibility is that for Ruth to return home by night would have been dangerous or compromising to her reputation. Also doesn't say why he chooses secrecy; perhaps it might have compromised the procedure of redemption. But it may be the secrecy of a deep love with a hidden center.
<<Bbl Ruth 3:15 abbr>> Here is a groom's promise. See Rembrandt's sketch. This is the utter converse of gleaning - the lord of the harvest is himself dispensing. It is a consummation of the earlier grain blessings.
Six measures of barley, for Boaz can do only what a man can do and the outcome of his hopes is unknown. As Naomi says, //he shall not rest// (seven).
!!! The Redemption
4:1-2 This formal gathering in the gates does for that time what the courthouse bulletin board does today.
4:3-10 He meets the qualifications for acting in [[Redeem]].
!!! the Consummation
<<Bbl Ruth 4:10 abbr >> Indeed, the first Adam had been cut off from his gate.
<<Bbl Ruth 4:17 abbr >> Obed means "servant."
4:18-22 Compare this list with that of <<Bbl 1Ch 2:5 >>-15 . Some scholars see this list as too short to cover the time required; they presume that some generations were skipped.
<<Bbl Ruth 4:14 abbr>>-15 the child is the (future) Redeemer.
* //famous in Bethlehem//...as Jesus.
* <<Bbl Ruth 4:11 abbr>> //Rachel and Leah who together built the house of Israel// - and Leah may be taken as a picture of the gentile Church!
{{rf{14}}} So she lay at his feet until morning and got up before anyone could recognize each other. And he said, "It must not be known that you came to the threshing floor." {{rf{15}}} And he said, "Bring the cloak that is on you and hold it out." And she held it out and he measured six measures of barley and put it on her cloak. Then she went into the city. {{rf{16}}} And she came to her mother-in-law, and she said, "How did it go for you, my daughter?" And she told her all that the man did for her. {{rf{17}}} And she said, "These six measures of barley he gave to me, for he said, 'You shall not go empty-handed to your mother-in-law.'" {{rf{18}}} And she said, "Wait, my daughter, until you know how the matter turns out, for the man will not rest but will settle the matter today." {{rf big{1}}} And Boaz had gone up to the city gate and sat there. And look, the redeemer of whom Boaz had spoken was passing by. And he said, "Come over here to sit, friend." And he came over and sat. {{rf{2}}} And he took ten men from the elders of the city and said, "Sit here." And they sat. {{rf{3}}} And he said to the redeemer, "Naomi, who returned from the countryside of Moab, is selling the tract of land which was for our brother Elimelech. {{rf{4}}} And I thought I would tell you and say, 'Buy it in the presence of those sitting and before the elders of my people,' if you want to redeem it, redeem it. But if you do not want to redeem, tell me so that I may know, for there is no one except you to redeem it, and I am after you." And he said, "I want to redeem it." {{rf{5}}} And Boaz said, "On the day of your acquiring the field from the hand of Naomi, you also acquire Ruth the Moabite, the wife of the dead man, in order to raise up for the name of the dead his inheritance." {{rf{6}}} And the redeemer said, "I am not able to redeem for myself, lest I ruin my inheritance. You redeem for yourself my kinsman-redemption, for I am not able to redeem it." {{rf{7}}} (Now this was the custom in former times in Israel concerning the kinsman-redemption and transfer of property: to confirm the matter, a man removed his sandal and gave it to his fellow countryman. This was the manner of attesting in Israel.) {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Ruth-03-14]] }}}
{{rf{8}}} So the redeemer said to Boaz, "Acquire it for yourself," and he removed his sandal. {{rf{9}}} And Boaz said to the elders and all of the people, "You are witnesses today that I have acquired all that was for Elimelech and that was for Kilion and Mahlon from the hand of Naomi. {{rf{10}}} And also Ruth the Moabite, the wife of Mahlon, I have acquired as a wife, to raise up the name of the dead over his inheritance, so that the name of the dead may not be cut off from his relatives and from the gate of his birth place. You are witnesses today." {{rf{11}}} And all of the people who were at the gate and the elders said, "We are witnesses. May Yahweh make the woman coming into your house as Rachel and as Leah, who together built the house of Israel. May you have strength in Ephrathah and bestow a name in Bethlehem. {{rf{12}}} And may your house be like the house of Perez, whom Tamar bore to Judah from the offspring that Yahweh will give to you from this young woman." {{rf{13}}} So Boaz took Ruth and she became his wife. And he went in to her, and Yahweh enabled her to conceive, and she bore a son. {{rf{14}}} And the women said to Naomi, "Blessed be Yahweh who today did not leave you without a redeemer! And may his name be renowned in Israel! {{rf{15}}} He shall be for you a restorer of life and a sustainer in your old age, for your daughter-in-law who loves you, who is better for you than seven sons, has borne him." {{rf{16}}} And Naomi took the child and she put him on her bosom and became his nurse. {{rf{17}}} And the women of the neighborhood gave him a name, saying, "A son has been born to Naomi." And they called his name Obed. He was the father of Jesse, the father of David. {{rf{18}}} Now these are the descendants of Perez: Perez fathered Hezron, {{rf{19}}} and Hezron fathered Ram, and Ram fathered Amminadab, {{rf{20}}} and Amminadab fathered Nahshon, and Nahshon fathered Salmon, {{rf{21}}} and Salmon fathered Boaz, and Boaz fathered Obed, {{rf{22}}} and Obed fathered Jesse, and Jesse fathered David. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Ruth-04-08]] }}}
@@color:brown;All biblical sacrifice rests on the idea that the gift of life to God, whether in consecration or expiation, is necessary to the action or the restoration of religion of life...man in the abnormal state of sin is disqualified for offering his own person. Hence the principle of [[Vicariousness]] -- @@ // -- G. Vos//
All biblical sacrifice rests on the idea that you owe God a gift of life. You owe it to Him in //consecration// -- giving Him your whole heart and soul and mind and strength. But if you can't handle that, you owe it to Him in //expiation//, which means paying a penalty -- death. One or the other.
But giving your own life does not satisfy God's requirements, because sin has made us ineligible. Animals brought for sacrifice had to be perfect. Jesus came as the perfect lamb of God, perfectly free from sin, to give His life vicariously. Consecration and expiation are fulfilled in Him.
* [[Priest]], //offering//
* [[Blood]]. [[Atone]]
|v 3, fruits of the soil|v 4, fat portions of <br> 1st-born of flocks |
!!! Acceptable
* <<Bbl Lev 19:5 >>-08
* <<Bbl Gn 4:4 "" note >>-05
* <<Bbl R 12:1 >>, 1519
!!! OT pointing to Christ
* The opening of Leviticus
* <<Bbl Lv 14:1 >>-7
!!! Spiritual Sacrifices
* <<Bbl 1P 2:5 "" note >>
* There are seven spiritual sacrifices that can be found in the NT. The references are
** <<Bbl H 13:15 >>-16 (three of 'em);
** <<Bbl Eph 5:2 >>;
** <<Bbl Php 2:17 >>,
** <<Bbl Php 4:18 >>;
** <<Bbl R 12:1 >>.
!!! "Consumed"
* //by [[Fire]]//, pointing to [[SpiritOfChrist]].
* Indicates God's acceptance.
* Abel's sacrifice?
* <<Bbl Lv 9:24 >>-7
* <<Bbl 1Ch 2:26>>
* <<Bbl 2Ch 7:1>>
* <<Bbl 1K 18:38>>
* A symbol of [[Covenant]] and perhaps of [[Holiness]].
* <<Bbl Lv 2:13 >>, <<Bbl Num 18:19 >>, <<Bbl Job 6:6 >> (stimulates the appetite); <<Bbl 2Ch 13:5 >>, <<Bbl Ezr 4:14 >> (lit., "we partake of the salt of the palace"; check the RSV also), <<Bbl Ez 42:24 >>, <<Bbl Ez 16:4 >>, <<Bbl 2K 2:20 >>-21 , <<Bbl Mk 9:49 >>-50 ; <<Bbl Col 4:6 >>.
* <<Bbl Mt 5:30 >>
* Salt is humble. He didn't call us the __spice__ of the world.
* Arab proverb, "There is salt between us."
* You can't make a horse drink, but as Bill Gothard points out, you can salt the oats.
* See Wycliffe Bible Ency., "Covenant of Salt."
* But what of [[Die]]? When was the "Carthaginian peace" of Alexander?
* [[Christ]] provides [[Heal]] for our wounds and [[Provide]] for our needs.
* The English word is related in its root to "salve". <<Bbl A 4:12 >>; <<Bbl 1Tim 2:3 >>-4
* //Soterio// (verb //sozo//) is the comprehensive NT word for all that Christ has accomplished for us.
** It means wholeness or soundness, and thus corresponds with the Hebrew [[Shalom|Peace]].
** It has been rendered "[[Free]] from the molestation of all enemies."
* Paul encapsulates it before Agrippa in <<Bbl A 26:18 >>
* [[Regenerate]], [[Grace-Probatory]]
* <<Bbl J 4:42 "" note >>
* [[Grace]]
* //Savior, Messiah//
* http://www.christinyou.net/pages/salvation.html
* [[Deliver]], [[Rescue]]
* <<Bbl Mt 1:21>> [[Jesus]], //Yahweh saves.//
* <<Bbl Jer 17:14 >>
* <<Bbl Jer 20:11 >> //But the LORD is with me like a dread champion//
* <<Bbl J 8:24 >>
!!! Accomplished, present, completed
* <<Bbl 1Peter 1:3 >>-9 shows tenses, so to speak -- accomplished, in progress, reserved for the future.
* ''Past -- '' <<Bbl Eph 2:8>>-9, <<Bbl 2Tim 1:9>>-10
* ''Present -- '' <<Bbl R 6:12>>-14
* ''Future -- '' <<Bbl R 5:9>>-10, <<Bbl R 8:24 abbr>>-25, <<Bbl H 9:28>>, <<Bbl Titus 1:1>>-3
* [[SanctifiedProgressive]], [[SanctifiedPositional]]
* [[SecurityOfBeliever]]
----
... the work of salvation, wrought in Christ, is subjectively realized in the hearts and lives of sinners. It aims at describing in their logical order, and also in their interrelations, the various movements of the Holy Spirit in the application of the work of redemption. - Berkoff
* A common layout is:
** Election
** The gospel call (or effectual call)
** Regeneration
** Conversion
** Justification
** Adoption
** Sanctification
** Perseverance
** Death
** Glorification
* The last of those who have been called cyclical judges. Despite <<Bbl Jud 16:31 abbr>>c, Samson never sat as a judge in any proper sense.
* His name is mentioned elsewhere only in <<Bbl H 11:32>>.
* <<Bbl Judges 16:19 >> @@Samson feel asleep on the knees of his own desire.@@ // - Carter Conlon//
* we approach his story from a humanistic mindset: I am a human and I must learn from this other human. No wonder we view him as a study in defeat. To take God's opinion is to find it an epic victory.
* How much better off he would have without eyes from his childhood, but God ordained he should have them.
* Jesus too entered the world and experienced it's fullest cruelty. Except willingly.
* Samson, she was never your heifer. Marriage is more than ownership, and ownership is more than sex.
* [[Samson-Parents]]
! Samson, the ~Inside-Out Christ
{{center{
|Foretold by angels |see note below |
|Holy from infancy |but defiling parents VS honoring parents |
|Oppression <<Bbl Jud 13:1 "" abbr>>b |Rome |
|Enigmatic |A riddle, a parable |
|Solitary |self-will VS holiness |
|Transforming |Honey from the carcass VS water into wine |
|Destroying gates |"shall not prevail" |
|Razing strongholds |An earthly temple |
|Taken by his enemies |Self-seeking VS impeccable |
|Tormented ||
|Concealing strength |[[Invisible-Visible]] |
|Choosing his death with authority ||
|By one man's death, many saved ||
|"For the joy set before him" | |
}}}
! Samson, Braveheart of my Soul
{{center{
| What | How | How (my life) |h
|the situation | Bondage |>|
|God's purpose | Freedom |>|
|the means | war |>|
|the inception |Samson's self-will |My self-will |
|the trigger |Samson's instability |Besetting patterns of sin |
|the response |Philistine aggression |My self-loathing; desire holiness |
|the destiny | Freedom |>|
}}}
God's patience, sovereignty, watchcare are on display during this strange long war.
<<Bbl Jud 13:7 "" abbr>> refers to his death slightly yet explicitly. Jonathan D. points out that only a few have had their destiny prophesied at birth: Jesus, Samson, ____ .
Samson cannot be understood apart from his lustful eyes. These snare him four times in 14:1-7, and then more. Finally they are removed (<<Bbl Jud 16:21 abbr>>).
With the wedding catastrophe Samson perhaps enters a kind of PTSD (self-engendered, of course). Samson was outed by his wife, so his outrage includes (may be largely based on) his father learning of the defilement. ([[Samson-Parents]]) From here he works as a killing machine, a Rambo, a terrorist -- and the Philistines are terrified through chapter 15.
* Depict the dread of learning what news each morning might bring.
Take a teleological view. Samson's exploits in 14 and 15 are not important because he scored big against the Philistines - he didn't. They are important because they made him notorious. This is the lever (<<Bbl Jud 16:25 "" abbr>>) that brought down the pagan temple.
<<Bbl Jud 16:17 "" abbr>>,19 From Samson's understanding, "''my'' strength has departed"; from the writer's understanding, his strength lay not in his hair, but in the Lord with Him. But Samson required every humility to understand his dependence upon that Lord.
@@color:maroon;And here, also, the history of Samson finds its parallel in that of blinded Israel, with the Judgment of bondage, degradation, and suffering, consequent upon their great national sin of casting aside their Nazarite vow.@@ // -- Edersheim, __The Bible History__//
!!Judges 16:21-22
* Count Samson's righteous acts. Count his acts of faith. Count his effective actions. The answer to all is ''one'' -- the period of waiting and fulfilment, <<Bbl Jud 16:22 abbr >>-27.
* Samson had genuinely begun to learn that quality he had always lacked, [[self-control|SelfControl]].
** He could have uprooted the machine and walked out, but he waited and slaved until a better opportunity came.
* Samson learned to //conceal//.
** He was not good at concealment before. But then, there is no woman within view.
** He made countless circles at the machine thinking "It is not time for me to reveal my strength. I must pretend to be weak. I can make this device burst into overheated flame by running it at high speed. But my shift is half-over; it's time to skillfully act like the weak ones. "
** This subterfuge continues in <<Bbl Jud 16:36 abbr>>.
* Sin blinds, sin binds, and sin grinds. See <<Bbl Ps 32:9 >>.
* See the Cross.
!!Judges 16:21-22
* Samson's hair grew because it was God's will for him to fulfill his mission. For this it was necessary to have his hair out of his own reach, and out of his enemy's reach -- at least the discerning representatives.
* Perhaps the citizens of Philistia would reassure each other -- "Well, I'm sure if nothing else they are making sure his hair stays short!" But the Lords of Philistia were not doing that at all. Such government.
!!Judges 16:22-27 -- God vindicated
* God utterly wins. The angel's witness is vindicated.
* Samson teaches us the [[Persevere]] of the saints.
* As Jonathan D. points out, Samson never got on track with God's purpose, yet God's purpose stayed on track.
* [[Samson]]
* [[Parenting]].
!! The story of his conception
* It is fun reading.
* Manoah's wife isn't named, but she's kind of in charge. We learn more about Manoah, but that's mostly due to his hand-wringing and clouded thinking. This finds a climax when he says, //We must surely die!// In <<Bbl Jud 13:23 abbr>> his wife applies perfect logic in three points, as well as admirable tact. She does not say //Duh, how can the child be reared as promised if we both die now?// You can sense that her mind is clear due to more than dry logic -- she sees a child on the way! She now has a mother's investment, as well as joyful anticipation.
* Manoah grapples mightily with the unknown. //What shall be the boy's mode of life?// This is a good passage for any soon-to-be parent. Of course, the angel had called him a Nazirite and didn't need to say more; but Manoah didn't have the Law, it seems.
* I imagine the angel's reticence to answer all of Manoah's questions, such as potentially
** ''Question:'' //Will the boy's life be a train wreck?//
** ''Answer:'' //He will glorify God with his life, but yes, I'm afraid his life will be a train wreck; and it may not be any comfort to know it will still be the happiest stuff in Judges.//
Samson confirms in <<Bbl Judges 16:17 >> that his parents are exemplary in speaking of his own life. Next to God, he truly owes them everything. What a contrast in decision-making.
<<Bbl Jud 16:31 abbr>>b Samson was buried with his father - what a marvel. Manoah means //resting place//. Therefore can this not be seen as a true reuniting always denied the two in the past?
13:5 Ignorance of the law (v 12).
13:5 Num 6
13:5 grace (v 13-14)
13:7 Explicit reference to Samson's death
13:15-16 //detain// -- precisely like Jacob's contention.
13:18 Did Manoah connect with the account of Jacob? Gn 32:29
13:18 Need for propitiation
13:18 "Your concept is not yet what can give Me my proper glory."
In chapter 14, Samson defiles his parents in an egregious violation of his personal mandate. 14:16 assures us the secret was maintained -- but father was at the wedding and a witness to the episode of the riddle.
>Samuel, like Moses (<<Bbl Ps 99:6 >>; <<Bbl Jer 15:1 >>), arrived in one of Israel's darkest hours. He was the last of the judges to guide his people (<<Bbl 1S 7:15>>), and the first of the prophets. He embodied the prophetic motive and he established the position of the prophet before the king.
<<Bbl 1S 2:1 >>-11 Hannah's song is given not in privacy (a Mary's seems to be) but in the very Temple with Eli and Elkinah and tiny Samuel as witnesses. And it is a prophetic description of her son's ministry.
<<Bbl 1S 2:29 >> Eli and his sons are a picture of the abusive false church at its worst -- idolatrous (<<Bbl 1S 4:18 "" note >>, greedy, arrogant and corrupt. Little Samuel will learn the same lessons as did David in his relationship to Saul -- perhaps Samuel had comfort for David that was made explicit though his own trials. Samuel's sensitivity to the damage caused by abusive leaders is reflected in his farewell speech.
When we first meet Eli he is //sitting in the doorway of the Temple.// His sons are later abusing women, the doorway is mentioned in 2:22. Eli's life ends when he is sitting by the roadside, waiting the return of the Ark. See their respective places in 3:2,3
I think it __never__ says Eli was ministering to the Lord. All his blessedness seems to come only in relation to Samuel. 2:25 describes the hardening of Eli's heart, culminates in the description of his death.
2:11, 18, 21b, 26; 3:1, 19-21 and 4:1a Profound emphasis on Samuel's infant ministry, culminating in a spiritual dawn over the entire country fully from north to south. Chapter many times switches from the outer disaster to the inner glory.
2:17 The __real__ sin, the sin against God. For the wicked sons are mistreating "the least of these", the humble of the earth, as well as desecrating the holy rituals. Eli shows his actual (and rare) discernment about this in 2:25.
See the value put on Samuel's intercession in <<Bbl 1S 7:8 >> and <<Bbl 1S 12:23 >>. There are not many about whom is related their painful nights of intercession in the face of disaster, like <<Bbl 1S 15:11 >>.
As for the reliability of his words, see <<Bbl 1S 9:6>>.
* Phillip Jensen says the NT __more frequently than not__ uses sanctification to refer to an act rather than a process. ("If you feel confused, I can assure you your theology is fine but your Bible understanding is faulty... In systematic theology you may find the Bible term used un-Biblically."
* <<Bbl 1P 1:2 >>.
* Sanctification is Christ's declaration of [[Holiness]] as we trust in Him.
* Sanctification has intersecting or paradoxical aspects. It is accomplished, ongoing or progressive, and yet to be consummated. So it is like [[Salvation]].
* Legitimacy of this concept seems controversial. "...worth noting that these doctrinal definitions are narrower than how the words are used in the Bible, which does speak of a process of justification and a state of sanctification. That doesn't mean that the protestant doctrines are wrong, just that the Bible's words have multiple senses, not all of which are considered core doctrines."
* [[Preserve]]
* <<Bbl 1C 1:30>>
* Eternal. <<Bbl Col 1:12 >>, 22. Temporal: <<Bbl Col 1:10 >>-11
* [[SanctifiedProgressive]]
* Sanctification is Christ's expression of [[Holiness]] as we grow in Him.
* It is //sanctity// in a process.
* [[Discipline]], [[Transform]], [[Change]], [[Grow]]
* [[SanctifiedPositional]]
* Grace-MarksOf
** See [[Righteousness]].
** Admission to church membership should be based on marks of grace, the beatitudes in effect.
** Depth of sanctification should be assessed for leaders.
* <<Bbl Ex 23:27>>-32 //I will not drive them out ahead of you in a single year; otherwise, the land would become desolate, and wild animals would multiply against you. I will drive them out little by little ahead of you until you have become numerous and take possession of the land.//
* <<Bbl 1J 3:3 >>
* <<Bbl H 12:14 >>
* <<Bbl Zeph 3:9 >>
* <<Bbl I 1:17>>a
* <<Bbl R 6:17 >>
* <<Bbl Php 3:12 >>-16
* //Don't pray for patience, you'll receive opportunities to be patient.// I wonder why patience is singled out. It's every bit as true for other virtues.
* @@color:brown;It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.@@ // -- C. S. Lewis//
* [[Fruit]], [[Virtue]]
* [[Tempt]]
!!! "Accuser."
* <<Bbl Zech 3:1 >>-2
* <<Bbl 1J 5:19 >>
* <<Bbl 1Ch 21:1 >>
* <<Bbl 2S 24:1 >>
* <<Bbl 2C 11:14 >>.
* <<Bbl 1Thes 3:5 >>, the Tempter.
* <<Bbl 2K 18:17 "" note>>
!!!! his schemes
# accusing us to God. This doesn't work against those who are in Christ Jesus.
# accusing God to us. This is the one we read about first in Genesis. (A sense of self-condemnation in God's child may feel like #1; he must remember that the arena of one's mind is not the same as God's thone-room. In fact God is being accused as unstable, Christ's covering as incomplete.
# accusing other of God's people to us (or to God, <<Bbl 2C 2:11 >>). Since God's people are given His Spirit, this is again accusing God to us.
!!! Serpent, dragon
* <<Bbl Ge 3:1 >>-4 ; <<Bbl I 27:1 >>; <<Bbl Mr 16:17 >>; <<Bbl Lu 10:18 >>; <<Bbl Re 12:9 >>-13 ; <<Bbl Re 16:13 >>-14 ; <<Bbl Re 20:2 >>
* //devil, demon, adversary, Lucifer// (though I believe it's correct to consider this a false appropriation)
* [[Sin]], [[Tempt]], [[Deceive]], [[Demon]]
* <<Bbl I 14:12 >>, Ez 28 are controversial. Re 17 in the same genre is not
!!! Opportunistic
* <<Bbl L 4:13 >>
* <<Bbl J 13:2 >>
* //...like a lion, seeking whom he may devour...//
!!! Cruel
!!! Under God's control
* Job
* the bronze serpent
* the lying spirit sent to King Ahab
* <<Bbl 2Thes 2:11 abbr >>-12
* Romans 1
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* We are accepted by God. God reject every accusation brought against us. Since he does this, we should say this. Since God will not hear any accusation that is made against me in his presence, therefore, I will not hear any accusation that is made against him in my presence.
* This is important because Satan never attacked only us. This would never work to his seems because we would simply run to God. Therefore he must always accuse God before us before he brings his accusation about us. In fact we can go a step further. Every attack against us is really an attack against God and His gospel and the cross. The attack against us uses us as a proxy.
* Satan is cast down (Rev 12), he cannot appear in the court-room as seen in Job. He can accuse us but not before the Father. <<Bbl R 8:33>>
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Scripture's authority is inseparable from its [[inspiration|Scripture-Inspiration]].
* <<Bbl R 15:4 >>: //For whatever was written beforehand was written for our instruction... through the encouragement of the scriptures we may have hope.//
!!! Is <<Bbl H 10:26 >> ("problematic") only for Jewish believers?
No. Everything in the Bible is written for all believers. "None of it was originally written TO you, but ALL of it is written FOR you."
* It's true that not everything in the law of Moses, for example, applies to you. (Actually it does, but not as a rule for practice.) But here's a trustworthy statement: everything that comes after the Book of Acts is directly relevant to every believer, including you.
* If Hebrews is only for Jewish believers, how do you deal with the other letters? Paul wrote Romans to explain how Jews and gentiles must share Christ in fellowship together. The whole letter is addressed to the entire group - there's no hint they're supposed to divide it up.
* Are Jews supposed to ignore things written to non-Jews? That would cut out Colossians, Corinthians, Philippians, Thessalonians, Philemon, Titus and Timothy. ''Paul told Timothy that "all scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness, in order that the person of God may be competent, equipped for every good work."'' What happens if Jewish believers shouldn't listen to that bit of the Bible? The point is, where do you stop?
* [[Scripture-Intertextuality]]
!!The Little Gidding community, 1600s
* @@color:navy; The harmonized gospels that [Nicholas] Ferrar designed at Little Gidding (one of which [George] Herbert apparently owned) provide a rich context for Herbert's work. Their complex linguistic and material interweaving corresponds illuminatingly with Herbert's directions on reading the Bible in __The Country Parson__ and his descriptions of reading it in __The Temple__. 'Harmonizing'-- the reorganizing of the four Gospels so that one can read them together -- was a popular seventeenth-century form and highly suggestive of Herbert's work. More uniquely though, the 'Harmonies' of Little Gidding enacted a dynamic multi-sequentiality that encouraged highly individualized pathways through their material. As such, these books were textual engines, delivering not only Gospel verses, but also many ways to read them, simultaneously making readers aware that they have many reading choices. This awareness is key, for with it, the book teaches the reader to read. I argue that __The Temple__ is likewise a reading engine, always foregrounding to readers their task of finding themselves within the text. @@ //Paul Dyck, thesis ([[source|https://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp02/NQ59952.pdf]])//
* https://digitalbookhistory.com/littlegidding/about-little-gidding
* https://stjohnscollegelibraryoxford.org/2020/04/18/ms-262-the-little-gidding-harmonies/
* https://iiif.lib.harvard.edu/manifests/view/drs:45243608$1i Digitized pages
* https://drmsh.com/the-errancy-and-inerrancy-problem-illustrated-the-case-of-genesis-4821-22/
''The Bible is the word of God: this is tantamount to saying it is God in action.
God is present to us in Scripture. To trust the Bible about Christ is to trust Christ.''
* Scripture's inspiration, as [[revelation|Reveal]] from God, is inseparable from its [[authority|Scripture-Authority]].
* @@color:darkgreen;[For] the didactic inspiration of the biblical historians, wisdom teachers, and New Testament apostles...the effect of inspiration was that after observation, research, reflection, and pray they knew just what they should say in God’s name, as witnesses and interpreters of His work...God so controlled the process of communication to and through His servants that, in the last analysis, He is the source and speaker...Whether spoken //viva voce// or written, and whether dualistic or didactic or lyric in its psychological mode, inspiration - that divine combination of prompting and control that secures precise communication of God’s mind by God’s messenger - remains theologically the same thing.@@ // J.I. Packer, "The Adequacy of Human Language", in __Inerrancy__, ed. Normal L. Geisler (1980), pp. 198, 199//
* <<Bbl H 1:1 >> //in various ways//
** <<Bbl Num 12:6 >>-8 - two modes: the vision and the conversation
** Dictation – "Go and tell the king..."
** <<Bbl Ex 31:18 >> and <<Bbl Dt 9:10 >> - "The Finger of God"
** Ingestion - <<Bbl Ez 2:8 >>b-3:4.
** <<Bbl Pr 31:1 >> – Careful observation with wisdom
** Ps "My heart overflows with a good theme"
* <<Bbl E 4:17 "" note >> - Paul is aware of his authority.
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* <<Bbl Ps 19:7 >>-011
* <<Bbl 2Tim 3:16 >>
* <<Bbl 1Pet 1:9 >>-16
* <<Bbl Jude 1:3 >>
* <<Bbl I 8:20 >>
* <<Bbl Neh 8:1 >>
* <<Bbl 2Tim 3:17 >>. Both ideas of inspiration and Authority are covered. The word Authority is found in the word useful. The NIV does very well to say //God-breathed// - exhaled by God.
* <<Bbl 1Tim 5:18 >>. Paul refers as scripture to both the law of Moses and an account from the gospel of Luke. <<Bbl 1Pe 3:15 >> b and 16. <<Bbl Eph 3:4 >> and 5. <<Bbl Eph 2:20 >> b and 21. Note the foundation of place given to the apostles. Views of the inspiration of scripture may be arranged on the continuum. That one end is the romantic view and at the others eat mechanical view. the former makes man active and God passive and it negates inspiration. The latter makes man passive and it negates Authority.
* <<Bbl L 24:27>>, <<Bbl L 24:44 abbr>>-45 The astounding sessions of Bible study conducted by Jesus following His resurrection.
!!! the Glory of the Bible
* @@color:darkgreen;Men spoke and God spoke. Men spoke from God (<<Bbl 2P 1:21 >>) and God spoke through men.@@ // -- John Stott//
* <<Bbl 1Peter 1:23 >>-24
* //Is not My word like fire, and a hammer that strikes a rock?//
* [[Internal integrity]]
!!! Plenary authority
* "Plenary and Verbal, at the sentence level." This resolves many small discrepancies in text.
* Plenary authority means that when the Bible comments on its other sections, it does so with complete authority and reliability. This includes for example Paul's extrapolations ([[Scripture-FormCriticism]]).
* //Righteous Lot// - we might not have thought it, but the <<Bbl 2Peter 2:7 "" note>> says it.
* [[Melchizedek]]
!!! Attacks against
* [[Scripture-Inerrancy]]
* Isaiah's precise prophecy is cause to propose a later authorship.
* Peter's vindication of Paul (<<Bbl 2Peter 1:15>>) is used to discredit Peter.
* [[Image-Metaphor]] as dismissive.
!!! Motives
* The Bible is the word of God: tantamount to saying it is God in action, that God in it is present to us. To trust the Bible about Christ is to trust Christ.
* Dissatisfaction with the doctrine of inspiration can usually be traced to some disregard for [[Providence]]. This will predictably by followed by distrust of the cross as God's means for salvation.
!!! Trustworthy transmission
([[Source: TGC|https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/justin-taylor/werent-taking-notes-disciples-remember-jesuss-exact-teaching-3-step-process-formulating-4-gospels/]])
# The Life and Teaching of Jesus
** As a Jewish "rabbi" (rabbi), Jesus "taught" (didaskō) his "students" (mathētai) in the context of a rabbi-student relationship. His students lived with him and learned from him for some three years.
** During this time, Jesus expected his students to "remember" (mnēmoneuō) what he said and instructed them to begin "teaching" (didaskō) others while he was still alive (see <<Bbl Mk 4:1>>-20; <<Bbl Mk 6:1 >>-13, <<Bbl Mk 6:30 >>; <<Bbl Mk 8:18 >>; <<Bbl Mk 9:5 >>; <<Bbl Mk 11:21 >>; and parallels).
# The Preaching of Jesus’s Students
** After Jesus’s death, the students of Jesus "remembered" (mnēmoneuō) what he had said and done, and they "taught" (didaskō) others about what they had seen and heard.
** Their preaching was based on the skilled memories of trained students and the rehearsed memories of disciples who repeatedly preached about what Jesus said and did (see <<Bbl J 2:22 >>; <<Bbl J 12:16 >>; <<Bbl J 15:20 >>; <<Bbl J 16:4 >>; <<Bbl A 4:2 >>-20; <<Bbl A 20:35 >>).
# The Writing of the Gospels
** Eventually, the evangelists "wrote" (graphō) either what they themselves "witnessed" (martyreō) or what was "handed on" (paradidōmi) to them by "eyewitnesses" (autoptai) who were present with Jesus "from the beginning" (see <<Bbl L 1:1 >>-4; <<Bbl J 21:24 >> ).
* [[Scripture-Intertextuality]]
!!! Statements of cross-validation
* Our Lord's frequent reliance on the Psalms.
* Jesus about David: He was speaking by the Spirit (like //ex cathedra//).
* David referred to as a prophet.
* Interesting to red-letter the places in Volume One which He quoted.
* <<Bbl H 1:1 >>
* <<Bbl 1Tim 5:18 "" note>> -- Paul validates the Gospel of Luke.
* <<Bbl 2Tim 3:15 >> //''all'' scripture//
* <<Bbl 2Th 3:14 >>
* <<Bbl 1Th 5:27 >>
* 1 Cor, when Paul must qualify: //Not the Lord, but I...//
* <<Bbl 2Peter 3:15>> Peter's glorious vindication of Paul, and the reason why modern critics reject this letter.
Indirect allusion; as if context is given the widest scope possible, in include inferences available to the highly engaged. The term was coined in 1961. See [[Scripture-Integrity]].
* Implications
** An extreme view declares that a word is connected with all others. This eradicates meaning. It makes more sense (!) to reject the extreme view.
** Connecting thoughts uncontrolled leads to errors such as gnostic coding and allegorizing. Scripture must interpret Scripture.
!! Midrash
An ancient rabbinical tradition employs highly creative, intuitive exegesis, sometimes based on a small detail of the Scripture (such as grammar, "jot and tittle").
* Rabbis and the community found this profoundly acceptable, but not to be confused with Scripture as inspired (Midrash was preserved in oral tradition, not writing, to preserve the distinction).
* Some NT interpretation of the OT is Midrashic in nature, which is likely to offend our western sensibilities. But this too is profoundly acceptable, under the doctrine of [[plenary authority|Scripture-Inspiration]] of Scripture revelation.
* Perhaps Midrashic commentary could be compared with the NT prophetic gift.
!! Non-linear reality
* (August 2012) I imagine the glory of the Bible as a large spider web.
** My view is partly obscured by some nearby leaves; this is like areas of the Scripture where the meaning remains mysterious or inscrutable.
** I can see a few places where strands are cross-crossed instead of parallel; this is like the imperfections we can attribute to scribal errors.
** But the overall spectacle is fascinating, compelling; and if the person next to me proposed it were nothing but a heap of unordered threads, I would dismiss the idea without a second thought.
** use photo {{{Spider web from frost bank 06-07-2015 crop}}}.
!! the Glory of the Bible
* Remarkably, the Bible records no one commenting on this quality; perhaps because its sublimity was known and also not contested.
* @@color:darkgreen; The Bible is like a keyboard with a million keys. It takes years of dedicated study to become vaguely aware of how it all works, and most players never rise above the level of chopsticks. Original harmonies are very rare and almost never come from the scholarly corner. Any sort of jazzy virtuosity is exceptionally rare, particularly also because people gifted with it don't play concert halls (<<Bbl I 42:2 >>).@@ // - from a fascinating but unstable source//
* @@color:brown;Oh that I knew how all thy lights combine,
And the configurations of their glory!
Seeing not only how each verse doth shine,
But all the constellations of the story.
This verse marks that, and both do make a motion
Unto a third, that ten leaves off doth lie:
Then as dispersed herbs do watch a potion,
These three make up some Christian's destiny.
Such are thy secrets, which my life makes good,
And comments on thee: for in ev'ry thing
Thy words do find me out, and parallels bring,
And in another make me understood.
Stars are poor books, and oftentimes do miss:
This book of stars lights to eternal bliss.@@ //George Herbert, ''The Holy Scriptures (ii)''//
* @@color:darkgreen; But for the understanding of these; the means he useth are first, a holy Life... prayer... &c. The third means is a diligent Collation of Scripture with Scripture. For all Truth being consonant to it self, and all being penn’d by one and the self-same Spirit, it cannot be, but that an industrious, and judicious comparing of place with place must be a singular help for the right understanding of the Scriptures. To this may be added the consideration of any text with the coherence thereof, touching what goes before, and what follows after, as also the scope of the Holy Ghost. When the Apostles would have called down fire from Heaven, they were reproved, as ignorant of what spirit they were. For the Law required one thing, and the Gospel another: yet as diverse, not as repugnant: therefore the spirit of both is to be considered, and weighed.@@ // - George Herbert, __The Country Parson__//
''"the Bible as literature"''
* Synecdoche.
** Jews and Greeks. (Romans has varied forms, ex barbarians.)
* [[Image-Metaphor]]
* [[Chiasmus]]
* [[Parallelism]]
* [[Hyperbole]]
* [[Adumbration]]
* [[Scripture-Intertextuality]]
* We think of [[Scripture-Inspiration]] as needful for the writing of Scripture. It is, but also for the reading. This has been termed //illumination//.
* Rosaria Butterfield had read through the Bible seven times with the goal of challenging Christian faith. But sitting in on discussions, she found less-educated people were able to draw profound conclusions where she had no insight at all. She thought, "This is not a game of wits!" @@source?@@
* //Bible//, [[Book]]
* [[Scripture-Applied]]
!!! Study - examples in the Bible
* <<Bbl A 17:11 >>, the reception of the Bereans.
* <<Bbl Dan 9:2>>ff
* Simeon in the Temple
* Saul of Tarsus
* Ps 119
* Hebrews author
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* Does someone claim no need for scholarship? His translated Bible is a mountain of scholarship; for that matter so is the compiled Greek text.
* [[Scripture-Study-Modern-Obstacles]]
* 07-19: Teaching notes and slides are due.
* 07-26: Teaching night.
!!! Summer Nights "Flow":
* 6:15-6:25 - Fellowship
* 6:25-6:55 - Teaching (25-30 Minutes)
* 6:55-7:20 - Table Talk
!!!Application questions
# How has being a student of Scripture helped me grow as a disciple of Jesus?
# How has a student of Scripture helped me grow with other disciples of Jesus?
# How has a student of Scripture helped me pursue a life on mission?
# Why does a student of Scripture matter to God?
# Where is a student of Scripture present in the scriptures?
## The Bereans; Dan 9:2; Saul of Tarsus; Ps 119; Hebrews author
# What are some of the barriers that keep you from living as a student of Scripture?
# How does the gospel speak to those barriers and how does the gospel overcome those barriers?
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!! Challenges to reading in general
* Multitasking works as long as you don't try to do something else at the same time.
* Your cell phone is built for multitasking... put it down and turn it off.
* @@color:darkgreen; When you study the Bible, study it in a group. Avoid the use of study guides, dictionaries and commentaries. Avoid loudmouths and self-proclaimed experts. Simply first read a chapter together. Then speak your mind about that chapter (and make it personal). Then listen to the others speak their minds, and freely and respectfully debate. Dictionaries and computers (and experts) certainly serve to study the structure of the Bible, but listening to others talk about the Bible is the only way to learn about the Spirit of the Bible. When you sit down with friends to study the Word, leave your devices off. God speaks through your heart, not your phone. It's not what's in the trough that sustains you but what's in your stomach.@@ // - from a fascinating but unstable source//
* You are preconditioned against meditation on God's word.
* [[AttentionDeficit]] and prefrontal cortex (D. Amen)
!!!! Reading before 20th-century technology
@@color:brown; The tempo of life was slower then. Most men, whether in cities or on the farms, lived close to their work: There was no daily massive rush of commuters. Most women were in the home all day and, as a rule, had more than enough time to do what needed to be done; this fact in itself kept the pace of domestic life slower than anything familiar to us today. People seldom traveled and, if they did, rarely did they go very far... Railways existed, but cars, trucks, planes, radio, movies, and television didn't exist. Most shops and places of public entertainment closed early. No crackling neon signs put any "buzz" in the night. At night, one could read or play cards — provided one could afford to burn the oil or candles; it was cheaper and easier to be inactive from sundown to sunup. On Sundays, everything was closed but the church doors and the park gates. Far fewer people were tyrannized by the deadlines that today's technology has made the rule of the workplace... As a result of this slower pace of life, Victorian people generally had what contemporary psychologists call a "low threshold" — meaning that in order to feel pleasantly stimulated, they didn't require loud, gaudy, psychedelic, fast-moving, or ever-changing stimuli. Young people had, as always, their problems, but one of them was not a tendency to "burn out" early. In Victorian England, patience and easygoing ways were far more common than nerves and distractedness. What this meant for literature is that proportionately more people had more time for reading, and, at the same time, ''they were psychologically well prepared for the art of reading. Reading is a quiet, completely unsensational activity, and it demands a certain patience.'' Time and patience are what the past, including the Victorian days, is all about. @@ // -- from an intro to notes on __Bleak House__ (Dickens, 1853)); [[source|https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/b/bleak-house/about-bleak-house]]//
* <<Bbl Ps 19:7>>–9
* <<Bbl 2Tim 3:15>>-17
* <<Bbl Jude 1:3>> //once for all delivered to the saints//
!! Canon.
* Notice the final Epistles. They don't read like we should expect more writings. //Guard the deposit.//
!! Clarity.
* This does not mean all meanings are obvious to all, nor that all agree. It does mean you don't need an interpreter, an expert.
* Augustine: there is nothing dug out out of the most obscure passage that is not plainly taught somewhere else. The Bible does not teach so many things as you may think; rather it teaches a few things in many ways, and from many angles.
Think, do, feel. Or: conceptual, behavioral, emotional.
* [[Impart]]
* <<Bbl James 4:8>> "Draw near to God" is an imperative grounded in OT historical episodes. Seen from this light, it becomes concrete, active and actionable. And we see it also in the light of the NT Immanuel.
* <<Bbl James 1:21>> "Humbly receive the word imparted to you" -- this expresses passive and active, positional and experiential.
!!! What is "rightly dividing"?
* Hebrews describes the Word of God as living and active, dividing. So the Bible dissects and analyzes us. We should not consider that we dissect and analyze the Bible.
* Consider Paul's description of "rightly dividing the Word of Truth"; we rightly divide so the Word can rightly divide us!
* It is possible to think of application for the Hebrews passage. Just confront a worldly confusion such as the meaning of love or the reduction of righteousness to mere externals. The Bible first dissects/analyzes at the conceptual level (what I often call cognitive, but conceptual is better). Even at this conceptual level it may be "separating soul from spirit". Then it keeps going, penetrates our souls.
The "weak conscience" regards things as wrong that are not objectively wrong.
* [[Conscience]]
* [[Legalism]]
* <<Bbl R 14:1 >> - 15:6
* <<Bbl 1C 8:1 >>-13
* <<Bbl 1C 10:18 abbr >> - 11:1
* Religious principles threaten unity. <<Bbl R 14:20 >>, <<Bbl R 15:7 >>.
!!! Meat from the marketplace
I have the sense in Romans it is presented more as an abstract issue which the readers will be competent to apply, but in Corinthians there is a hint of impatience over their having taken things a step further with the issue of ''sourcing'':
>Did you buy your meat from a certified non-temple source? (We get //all// our meat from Johiachim over on Kosher Avenue.) If not, obviously you can't be certain you didn't buy meat that was dedicated to an idol. I can't imagine why paying a little extra money would be an issue, compared with possibly tainting your inner digestive system with pagan temple byproducts. And you're supporting the whole industry.
From that stance it was necessary to classify people in terms of perceived spiritual maturity or authenticity. As a remedy, Paul recommends a policy of //Don't ask, don't tell//.
Often signifies the unrest of the world.
* Fallen order, I 65, <<Bbl Jer 49:23 >>, Rev 4, Rev 13
* Ps 74:13
* <<Bbl Rev 21:1>>-5 See __Redemption__ p 90
* Many statements God puts boundaries on the sea.
* A seal not only identifies the sender, but the recipient. Only the correct recipient can break the seal.
* A seal like a [[Gate]], in that it is for both closing and opening. Both the sealing and unsealing are important. <<Bbl Rev 5:1 "" note>>-6.
!!! As supporting evidence, a reminder or [[Guarantee]]
* The rainbow [[Sign]]
* <<Bbl R 4:11>>
!!! As essential, the thing itself or a down-payment of the essence
* Kendall, p. 40. [[SpiritOfChrist]].
----
* <<Bbl Gn 38:18>> [[Judah]]'s signet ring, reminiscent of Esau's birthright sold for shallow self-gratification.
* <<Bbl R 15:28 >> (NASB note). <<Bbl 2Cor 1:22 >>.
search in:
{{nowrap{<<option chkSearchTitles>>titles <<option chkSearchText>>text <<option chkSearchTags>>tags}}} /%
%/{{nowrap{<<option chkSearchFields>>fields <<option chkSearchShadows>>shadows}}}
----
{{nowrap{<<option chkCaseSensitiveSearch>>case-sensitive}}} /%
%/{{nowrap{<<option chkRegExpSearch>>match text patterns}}}
{{nowrap{<<option chkIncrementalSearch>>key-by-key search:}}} /%
%/{{threechar smallform nowrap{<<option txtIncrementalSearchMin>> or more characters}}} /%
%/{{threechar smallform nowrap{<<option txtIncrementalSearchDelay>> msec delay}}}<hr>
{{nowrap{<<option chkSearchList>>show results in a list }}} /%
%/{{nowrap{<<option chkSearchListTiddler>>save list in ''[[SearchResults]]''}}}
{{nowrap{<<option chkSearchTitlesFirst>>show title matches first}}} /%
%/{{nowrap{<<option chkSearchByDate>>sort results by date}}} /%
%/{{nowrap{<<option chkSearchHighlight>>highlight matching text}}}
----
{{nowrap{<<option chkSearchOpenTiddlers>>search open tiddlers only}}}
{{nowrap{<<option chkSearchExcludeTags>>exclude tiddlers tagged with:}}}
{{editor{<<option txtSearchExcludeTags>>}}}
/***
|Name|SearchOptionsPlugin|
|Source|http://www.TiddlyTools.com/#SearchOptionsPlugin|
|Documentation|http://www.TiddlyTools.com/#SearchOptionsPluginInfo|
|Version|3.0.5|
|Author|Eric Shulman - ELS Design Studios|
|License|http://www.TiddlyTools.com/#LegalStatements <br>and [[Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 License|http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/]]|
|~CoreVersion|2.1|
|Type|plugin|
|Requires||
|Overrides|Story.prototype.search, TiddlyWiki.prototype.search, config.macros.search.onKeyPress|
|Options|##Configuration|
|Description|extend core search function with additional user-configurable options|
Adds extra options to core search function including selecting which data items to search, enabling/disabling incremental key-by-key searches, and generating a ''list of matching tiddlers'' instead of immediately displaying all matches. This plugin also adds syntax for rendering 'search links' within tiddler content to embed one-click searches using pre-defined 'hard-coded' search terms.
!!!!!Documentation
>see [[SearchOptionsPluginInfo]]
!!!!!Configuration
<<<
Search in:
<<option chkSearchTitles>> titles <<option chkSearchText>> text <<option chkSearchTags>> tags <<option chkSearchFields>> fields <<option chkSearchShadows>> shadows
<<option chkSearchHighlight>> Highlight matching text in displayed tiddlers
<<option chkSearchList>> Show list of matches
<<option chkSearchListTiddler>> Write list to [[SearchResults]] tiddler
<<option chkSearchTitlesFirst>> Show title matches first
<<option chkSearchByDate>> Sort matching tiddlers by modification date (most recent first)
<<option chkIncrementalSearch>> Incremental key-by-key search: {{twochar{<<option txtIncrementalSearchMin>>}}} or more characters, {{threechar{<<option txtIncrementalSearchDelay>>}}} msec delay
<<option chkSearchOpenTiddlers>> Search only in tiddlers that are currently displayed
<<option chkSearchExcludeTags>> Exclude tiddlers tagged with: <<option txtSearchExcludeTags>>
<<<
!!!!!Revisions
<<<
2009.01.16 [3.0.5] added chkSearchOpenTiddlers option to limit searches to displayed tiddlers only
|please see [[SearchOptionsPluginInfo]] for additional revision details|
2005.10.18 [1.0.0] Initial Release
<<<
!!!!!Code
***/
//{{{
version.extensions.SearchOptionsPlugin= {major: 3, minor: 0, revision: 5, date: new Date(2009,1,16)};
var co=config.options; // abbrev
if (co.chkSearchTitles===undefined) co.chkSearchTitles=true;
if (co.chkSearchText===undefined) co.chkSearchText=true;
if (co.chkSearchTags===undefined) co.chkSearchTags=true;
if (co.chkSearchFields===undefined) co.chkSearchFields=true;
if (co.chkSearchTitlesFirst===undefined) co.chkSearchTitlesFirst=true;
if (co.chkSearchList===undefined) co.chkSearchList=true;
if (co.chkSearchHighlight===undefined) co.chkSearchHighlight=true;
if (co.chkSearchListTiddler===undefined) co.chkSearchListTiddler=false;
if (co.chkSearchByDate===undefined) co.chkSearchByDate=false;
if (co.chkIncrementalSearch===undefined) co.chkIncrementalSearch=true;
if (co.chkSearchShadows===undefined) co.chkSearchShadows=true;
if (co.txtIncrementalSearchDelay===undefined) co.txtIncrementalSearchDelay=500;
if (co.txtIncrementalSearchMin===undefined) co.txtIncrementalSearchMin=3;
if (co.chkSearchOpenTiddlers===undefined) co.chkSearchOpenTiddlers=false;
if (co.chkSearchExcludeTags===undefined) co.chkSearchExcludeTags=true;
if (co.txtSearchExcludeTags===undefined) co.txtSearchExcludeTags="excludeSearch";
if (config.macros.search.reportTitle==undefined)
config.macros.search.reportTitle="SearchResults"; // note: not a cookie!
config.macros.search.label+="\xa0"; // a little bit of space just because it looks better
//}}}
// // searchLink: {{{[search[text to find]] OR [search[text to display|text to find]]}}}
//{{{
config.formatters.push( {
name: "searchLink",
match: "\\[search\\[",
lookaheadRegExp: /\[search\[(.*?)(?:\|(.*?))?\]\]/mg,
prompt: "search for: '%0'",
handler: function(w)
{
this.lookaheadRegExp.lastIndex = w.matchStart;
var lookaheadMatch = this.lookaheadRegExp.exec(w.source);
if(lookaheadMatch && lookaheadMatch.index == w.matchStart) {
var label=lookaheadMatch[1];
var text=lookaheadMatch[2]||label;
var prompt=this.prompt.format([text]);
var btn=createTiddlyButton(w.output,label,prompt,
function(){story.search(this.getAttribute("searchText"))},"searchLink");
btn.setAttribute("searchText",text);
w.nextMatch = this.lookaheadRegExp.lastIndex;
}
}
});
//}}}
// // incremental search uses option settings instead of hard-coded delay and minimum input values
//{{{
var fn=config.macros.search.onKeyPress;
fn=fn.toString().replace(/500/g, "config.options.txtIncrementalSearchDelay||500");
fn=fn.toString().replace(/> 2/g, ">=(config.options.txtIncrementalSearchMin||3)");
eval("config.macros.search.onKeyPress="+fn);
//}}}
// // REPLACE story.search() for option to "show search results in a list"
//{{{
Story.prototype.search = function(text,useCaseSensitive,useRegExp)
{
var co=config.options; // abbrev
var re=new RegExp(useRegExp ? text : text.escapeRegExp(),useCaseSensitive ? "mg" : "img");
if (config.options.chkSearchHighlight) highlightHack=re;
var matches = store.search(re,co.chkSearchByDate?"modified":"title","");
if (co.chkSearchByDate) matches=matches.reverse(); // most recent first
var q = useRegExp ? "/" : "'";
clearMessage();
if (!matches.length) {
if (co.chkSearchListTiddler) discardSearchResults();
displayMessage(config.macros.search.failureMsg.format([q+text+q]));
} else {
if (co.chkSearchList||co.chkSearchListTiddler)
reportSearchResults(text,matches);
else {
var titles = []; for(var t=0; t<matches.length; t++) titles.push(matches[t].title);
this.closeAllTiddlers(); story.displayTiddlers(null,titles);
displayMessage(config.macros.search.successMsg.format([matches.length, q+text+q]));
}
}
highlightHack = null;
}
//}}}
// // REPLACE store.search() for enhanced searching/sorting options
//{{{
TiddlyWiki.prototype.search = function(searchRegExp,sortField,excludeTag)
{
var co=config.options; // abbrev
var tids = this.reverseLookup("tags",excludeTag,false,sortField);
var opened=[]; story.forEachTiddler(function(tid,elem){opened.push(tid);});
// eliminate tiddlers tagged with excluded tags
if (co.chkSearchExcludeTags&&co.txtSearchExcludeTags.length) {
var ex=co.txtSearchExcludeTags.readBracketedList();
var temp=[]; for(var t=tids.length-1; t>=0; t--)
if (!tids[t].tags.containsAny(ex)) temp.push(tids[t]);
tids=temp;
}
// scan for matching titles first...
var results = [];
if (co.chkSearchTitles) {
for(var t=0; t<tids.length; t++) {
if (co.chkSearchOpenTiddlers && !opened.contains(tids[t].title)) continue;
if(tids[t].title.search(searchRegExp)!=-1) results.push(tids[t]);
}
if (co.chkSearchShadows)
for (var t in config.shadowTiddlers) {
if (co.chkSearchOpenTiddlers && !opened.contains(t)) continue;
if ((t.search(searchRegExp)!=-1) && !store.tiddlerExists(t))
results.push((new Tiddler()).assign(t,config.shadowTiddlers[t]));
}
}
// then scan for matching text, tags, or field data
for(var t=0; t<tids.length; t++) {
if (co.chkSearchOpenTiddlers && !opened.contains(tids[t].title)) continue;
if (co.chkSearchText && tids[t].text.search(searchRegExp)!=-1)
results.pushUnique(tids[t]);
if (co.chkSearchTags && tids[t].tags.join(" ").search(searchRegExp)!=-1)
results.pushUnique(tids[t]);
if (co.chkSearchFields && store.forEachField!=undefined)
store.forEachField(tids[t],
function(tid,field,val) {
if (val.search(searchRegExp)!=-1) results.pushUnique(tids[t]);
},
true); // extended fields only
}
// then check for matching text in shadows
if (co.chkSearchShadows)
for (var t in config.shadowTiddlers) {
if (co.chkSearchOpenTiddlers && !opened.contains(t)) continue;
if ((config.shadowTiddlers[t].search(searchRegExp)!=-1) && !store.tiddlerExists(t))
results.pushUnique((new Tiddler()).assign(t,config.shadowTiddlers[t]));
}
// if not 'titles first', or sorting by modification date,
// re-sort results to so titles, text, tag and field matches are mixed together
if(!sortField) sortField = "title";
var bySortField=function(a,b){
if(a[sortField]==b[sortField])return(0);else return(a[sortField]<b[sortField])?-1:+1;
}
if (!co.chkSearchTitlesFirst || co.chkSearchByDate) results.sort(bySortField);
return results;
}
//}}}
// // HIJACK core {{{<<search>>}}} macro to add "report" and "simple inline" output
//{{{
config.macros.search.SOP_handler=config.macros.search.handler;
config.macros.search.handler = function(place,macroName,params)
{
// if "report", use SearchOptionsPlugin report generator for inline output
if (params[1]&¶ms[1].substr(0,6)=="report") {
var keyword=params[0];
var options=params[1].split("=")[1]; // split "report=option+option+..."
var heading=params[2]?params[2].unescapeLineBreaks():"";
var matches=store.search(new RegExp(keyword.escapeRegExp(),"img"),"title","excludeSearch");
if (matches.length) wikify(heading+window.formatSearchResults(keyword,matches,options),place);
} else if (params[1]) {
var keyword=params[0];
var heading=params[1]?params[1].unescapeLineBreaks():"";
var seperator=params[2]?params[2].unescapeLineBreaks():", ";
var matches=store.search(new RegExp(keyword.escapeRegExp(),"img"),"title","excludeSearch");
if (matches.length) {
var out=[];
for (var m=0; m<matches.length; m++) out.push("[["+matches[m].title+"]]");
wikify(heading+out.join(seperator),place);
}
} else
config.macros.search.SOP_handler.apply(this,arguments);
};
//}}}
// // SearchResults panel handling
//{{{
setStylesheet(".searchResults { padding:1em 1em 0 1em; }","searchResults"); // matches std tiddler padding
config.macros.search.createPanel=function(text,matches,body) {
function getByClass(e,c) { var d=e.getElementsByTagName("div");
for (var i=0;i<d.length;i++) if (hasClass(d[i],c)) return d[i]; }
var panel=createTiddlyElement(null,"div","searchPanel","searchPanel");
this.renderPanel(panel,text,matches,body);
var oldpanel=document.getElementById("searchPanel");
if (!oldpanel) { // insert new panel just above tiddlers
var da=document.getElementById("displayArea");
da.insertBefore(panel,da.firstChild);
} else { // if panel exists
var oldwrap=getByClass(oldpanel,"searchResults");
var newwrap=getByClass(panel,"searchResults");
// if no prior content, just insert new content
if (!oldwrap) oldpanel.insertBefore(newwrap,null);
else { // swap search results content but leave containing panel intact
oldwrap.style.display='block'; // unfold wrapper if needed
var i=oldwrap.getElementsByTagName("input")[0]; // get input field
if (i) { var pos=this.getCursorPos(i); i.onblur=null; } // get cursor pos, ignore blur
oldpanel.replaceChild(newwrap,oldwrap);
panel=oldpanel; // use existing panel
}
}
this.showPanel(true,pos);
return panel;
}
config.macros.search.renderPanel=function(panel,text,matches,body) {
var wrap=createTiddlyElement(panel,"div",null,"searchResults");
wrap.onmouseover = function(e){ addClass(this,"selected"); }
wrap.onmouseout = function(e){ removeClass(this,"selected"); }
// create toolbar: "open all", "fold/unfold", "close"
var tb=createTiddlyElement(wrap,"div",null,"toolbar");
var b=createTiddlyButton(tb, "open all", "open all matching tiddlers", function() {
story.displayTiddlers(null,this.getAttribute("list").readBracketedList()); return false; },"button");
var list=""; for(var t=0;t<matches.length;t++) list+='[['+matches[t].title+']] ';
b.setAttribute("list",list);
var b=createTiddlyButton(tb, "fold", "toggle display of search results", function() {
config.macros.search.foldPanel(this); return false; },"button");
var b=createTiddlyButton(tb, "close", "dismiss search results", function() {
config.macros.search.showPanel(false); return false; },"button");
createTiddlyText(createTiddlyElement(wrap,"div",null,"title"),"Search for: "+text); // title
wikify(body,createTiddlyElement(wrap,"div",null,"viewer")); // report
return panel;
}
config.macros.search.showPanel=function(show,pos) {
var panel=document.getElementById("searchPanel");
var i=panel.getElementsByTagName("input")[0];
i.onfocus=show?function(){config.macros.search.stayFocused(true);}:null;
i.onblur=show?function(){config.macros.search.stayFocused(false);}:null;
if (show && panel.style.display=="block") { // if shown, grab focus, restore cursor
if (i&&this.stayFocused()) { i.focus(); this.setCursorPos(i,pos); }
return;
}
if(!config.options.chkAnimate) {
panel.style.display=show?"block":"none";
if (!show) { removeChildren(panel); config.macros.search.stayFocused(false); }
} else {
var s=new Slider(panel,show,false,show?"none":"children");
s.callback=function(e,p){e.style.overflow="visible";}
anim.startAnimating(s);
}
return panel;
}
config.macros.search.foldPanel=function(button) {
var d=document.getElementById("searchPanel").getElementsByTagName("div");
for (var i=0;i<d.length;i++) if (hasClass(d[i],"viewer")) var v=d[i]; if (!v) return;
var show=v.style.display=="none";
if(!config.options.chkAnimate)
v.style.display=show?"block":"none";
else {
var s=new Slider(v,show,false,"none");
s.callback=function(e,p){e.style.overflow="visible";}
anim.startAnimating(s);
}
button.innerHTML=show?"fold":"unfold";
return false;
}
config.macros.search.stayFocused=function(keep) { // TRUE/FALSE=set value, no args=get value
if (keep===undefined) return this.keepReportInFocus;
this.keepReportInFocus=keep;
return keep
}
config.macros.search.getCursorPos=function(i) {
var s=0; var e=0; if (!i) return { start:s, end:e };
try {
if (i.setSelectionRange) // FF
{ s=i.selectionStart; e=i.selectionEnd; }
if (document.selection && document.selection.createRange) { // IE
var r=document.selection.createRange().duplicate();
var len=r.text.length; s=0-r.moveStart('character',-100000); e=s+len;
}
}catch(e){};
return { start:s, end:e };
}
config.macros.search.setCursorPos=function(i,pos) {
if (!i||!pos) return; var s=pos.start; var e=pos.end;
if (i.setSelectionRange) //FF
i.setSelectionRange(s,e);
if (i.createTextRange) // IE
{ var r=i.createTextRange(); r.collapse(true); r.moveStart("character",s); r.select(); }
}
//}}}
// // SearchResults report generation
// note: these functions are defined globally, so they can be more easily redefined to customize report formats//
//{{{
if (!window.reportSearchResults) window.reportSearchResults=function(text,matches)
{
var cms=config.macros.search; // abbrev
var body=window.formatSearchResults(text,matches);
if (!config.options.chkSearchListTiddler) // show #searchResults panel
window.scrollTo(0,ensureVisible(cms.createPanel(text,matches,body)));
else { // write [[SearchResults]] tiddler
var title=cms.reportTitle;
var who=config.options.txtUserName;
var when=new Date();
var tags="excludeLists excludeSearch temporary";
var tid=store.getTiddler(title); if (!tid) tid=new Tiddler();
tid.set(title,body,who,when,tags);
store.addTiddler(tid);
story.closeTiddler(title);
story.displayTiddler(null,title);
}
}
if (!window.formatSearchResults) window.formatSearchResults=function(text,matches,opt)
{
var body='';
var title=config.macros.search.reportTitle
var q = config.options.chkRegExpSearch ? "/" : "'";
if (!opt) var opt="all";
var parts=opt.split("+");
for (var i=0; i<parts.length; i++) { var p=parts[i].toLowerCase();
if (p=="again"||p=="all") body+=window.formatSearchResults_again(text,matches);
if (p=="summary"||p=="all") body+=window.formatSearchResults_summary(text,matches);
if (p=="list"||p=="all") body+=window.formatSearchResults_list(text,matches);
if (p=="buttons"||p=="all") body+=window.formatSearchResults_buttons(text,matches);
}
return body;
}
if (!window.formatSearchResults_again) window.formatSearchResults_again=function(text,matches)
{
var title=config.macros.search.reportTitle
var body='';
// search again
body+='{{span{<<search "'+text.replace(/"/g,'"')+'">> /%\n';
body+='%/<html><input type="button" value="search again"';
body+=' onclick="var t=this.parentNode.parentNode.getElementsByTagName(\'input\')[0];';
body+=' config.macros.search.doSearch(t); return false;">';
body+=' <a href="javascript:;" onclick="';
body+=' var e=this.parentNode.nextSibling;';
body+=' var show=e.style.display!=\'block\';';
body+=' if(!config.options.chkAnimate) e.style.display=show?\'block\':\'none\';';
body+=' else anim.startAnimating(new Slider(e,show,false,\'none\'));';
body+=' return false;">options...</a>';
body+='</html>@@display:none;border-left:1px dotted;margin-left:1em;padding:0;padding-left:.5em;font-size:90%;/%\n';
body+=' %/<<option chkSearchTitles>>titles /%\n';
body+=' %/<<option chkSearchText>>text /%\n';
body+=' %/<<option chkSearchTags>>tags /%\n';
body+=' %/<<option chkSearchFields>>fields /%\n';
body+=' %/<<option chkSearchShadows>>shadows\n';
body+=' <<option chkCaseSensitiveSearch>>case-sensitive /%\n';
body+=' %/<<option chkRegExpSearch>>text patterns /%\n';
body+=' %/<<option chkSearchByDate>>sorted by date\n';
body+=' <<option chkSearchHighlight>> highlight matching text in displayed tiddlers\n';
body+=' <<option chkIncrementalSearch>>incremental key-by-key search: /%\n';
body+=' %/{{twochar{<<option txtIncrementalSearchMin>>}}} or more characters, /%\n';
body+=' %/{{threechar{<<option txtIncrementalSearchDelay>>}}} msec delay\n';
body+=' <<option chkSearchOpenTiddlers>> search only in tiddlers that are currently displayed\n';
body+=' <<option chkSearchExcludeTags>>exclude tiddlers tagged with:\n';
body+=' {{editor{<<option txtSearchExcludeTags>>}}}/%\n';
body+='%/@@}}}\n\n';
return body;
}
if (!window.formatSearchResults_summary) window.formatSearchResults_summary=function(text,matches)
{
// summary: nn tiddlers found matching '...', options used
var body='';
var co=config.options; // abbrev
var title=config.macros.search.reportTitle
var q = co.chkRegExpSearch ? "/" : "'";
body+="''"+config.macros.search.successMsg.format([matches.length,q+"{{{"+text+"}}}"+q])+"''\n";
var opts=[];
if (co.chkSearchTitles) opts.push("titles");
if (co.chkSearchText) opts.push("text");
if (co.chkSearchTags) opts.push("tags");
if (co.chkSearchFields) opts.push("fields");
if (co.chkSearchShadows) opts.push("shadows");
if (co.chkSearchOpenTiddlers) body+="^^//search limited to displayed tiddlers only//^^\n";
body+="~~ searched in "+opts.join(" + ")+"~~\n";
body+=(co.chkCaseSensitiveSearch||co.chkRegExpSearch?"^^ using ":"")
+(co.chkCaseSensitiveSearch?"case-sensitive ":"")
+(co.chkRegExpSearch?"pattern ":"")
+(co.chkCaseSensitiveSearch||co.chkRegExpSearch?"matching^^\n":"");
return body;
}
if (!window.formatSearchResults_list) window.formatSearchResults_list=function(text,matches)
{
// bullet list of links to matching tiddlers
var body='';
var pattern=co.chkRegExpSearch?text:text.escapeRegExp();
var sensitive=co.chkCaseSensitiveSearch?"mg":"img";
var link='{{tiddlyLinkExisting{<html><nowiki><a href="javascript:;" onclick="'
+'if(config.options.chkSearchHighlight)'
+' highlightHack=new RegExp(\x27'+pattern+'\x27,\x27'+sensitive+'\x27);'
+'story.displayTiddler(null,\x27%0\x27);'
+'highlightHack = null; return false;'
+'" title="%2">%1</a></html>}}}';
for(var t=0;t<matches.length;t++) {
body+="* ";
if (config.options.chkSearchByDate)
body+=matches[t].modified.formatString('YYYY.0MM.0DD 0hh:0mm')+" ";
var title=matches[t].title;
var fixup=title.replace(/'/g,"\\x27").replace(/"/g,"\\x22");
var tid=store.getTiddler(title);
var tip=tid?tid.getSubtitle():''; tip=tip.replace(/"/g,""");
body+=link.format([fixup,title,tip])+'\n';
}
return body;
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* <<Bbl Ecc 3:1 >>-8 , also Moses' invocation concerning the ark of God in <<Bbl Num 10:35 >>-36 .
* of refreshing: <<Bbl A 3:19 >> (perhaps referring to a whole ethnic hope); see <<Bbl 1K 17:6 >>,19:5-8; <<Bbl Mt 4:11 >>; <<Bbl Mk 1:13 >>.
* //times//
This deals with the negative sense. For other senses, see [[Invisible-Visible]], [[SecretBeliever]]
* Evil expectation that God will not see
* [[Deceive]]
* <<Bbl I 28:15 abbr >>, <<Bbl I 29:15 >>, <<Bbl Jer 23:24 >>, <<Bbl Jer 49:10 >>, <<Bbl Ez 9:9 >>, <<Bbl Ez 8:12 >>
* <<Bbl Eph 5:12 >>
* {{anti{[[God-AllSeeing]]}}}
* {{anti{[[Openness]]}}}
!!! Secret faith in the Lord
* <<Bbl Mal 3.16>>-18 Confessing God before men, even secretively.
* <<Bbl J 3:1 >> -- Nicodemus by night
* //Many believed, but secretly for fear of the Jews.//
* <<Bbl J 19:38 >>
* [[Persevere]], [[Faithfulness]]
* [[SecurityOfBeliever]] -- I need to parse the entries below and move some.
* <<Bbl Ex 4:19 >>, <<Bbl Mt 2:20 >>
* <<Bbl Ps 68:19 >>-20 -- Escapes from Death
* <<Bbl Pr 18:10 >> -- a strong tower
* [[Wall]], [[Home]]
* //safety, protection//
* [[Guarantee]]
* Results in [[Assure]], [[Confidence]] and [[Free]].
* {{anti{[[Fear]], [[Danger]]}}}
''Objective, established by God.
* [[Assure]] is a blessing of God's Spirit.
* //Once saved, always saved//
* //No one will snatch them out of My hand.//
* <<Bbl Ps 138:8 >>
* <<Bbl 2C 6:1>>
!!! Eternally secure, but never complacently secure.
* [[Persevere]]
* <<Bbl Jude 1:21 >>
* [[Eye]], //seeing, blind//
* Many references here may belong with [[Gaze]]
* //[[Light]] to the eyes// is a cardinal blessing.
** the poor and the oppressor: <<Bbl Pr 29:13 >>
* <<Bbl Gn 3:6 >> //pleasing to the eye//
* <<Bbl Gn 48:10 >>, 19 Jacob's vision is dim -- but not spiritually, in contrast with Samuel's mentor Eli.
* Opened Eyes (and Closed Ears)
* Balaam: <<Bbl Num 22:31 >>
* the Israelites: <<Bbl Dt 29:4 >>
* Samson: <<Bbl Jud 16:21 >>
* Eli: <<Bbl 1S 3:1 >>-2 , <<Bbl 1S 4:15 >>
* Abijah: <<Bbl 1K 14:1 >>-6
* Elisha: <<Bbl 2K 2:10 >>. The key is seeing, seeing the unseen. Seeing is receiving.
* Elisha's servant: <<Bbl 2K 6:17 >>
* Aram's army: <<Bbl 2K 6:18 >>-20
* the wicked: <<Bbl I 26:11 >>
* God's people: <<Bbl I 6:9 >>-10 , <<Bbl I 29:9 >>-12 , <<Bbl I 35:5 >>, <<Bbl I 42:16 >>, <<Bbl I 43:8 >>, <<Bbl I 44:18 >>-20 , <<Bbl I 48:8 >>, <<Bbl Jer 6:10 >>
* Ezekiel: <<Bbl Ez 1:1 >>
* God's people: <<Bbl Ez 12:2 >>
* unbelievers: <<Bbl Mk 4:12 >>
* Christ's disciples: <<Bbl Mk 8:16 >>-21
* Pharisees: <<Bbl J 9:39 >>-41
* <<Bbl H 11:21 >>
* In John's Gospel, "seeing" has to do with spiritual apprehension, versus mental acknowledgement; <<Bbl J 3:2 >>-3 , <<Bbl J 10:38 >>, <<Bbl J 14:11 >>
* <<Bbl Gn 22:4 >>
* <<Bbl H 11:3 >>
* <<Bbl I 6:13 >>; <<Bbl Hag 6:19 >>, <<Bbl Zech 8:12 >>; <<Bbl J 12:24 >>; <<Bbl 1P 1:23 >>; <<Bbl 1J 3:19 >>
* <<Bbl Mk 4:26 >> -- D. Legge's sermon #24 on Mark has a round-up of the image of the seed throughout the Bible, as well as anecdotes about the longevity of seed-life.
* [[Believe]]. <<Bbl L 17:6 "" note >>.
* Plant life meets animal life, as God gives seed as food for the animals.
* [[Propagate]]
* [[Remnant]]
!! Human descendance
* <<Bbl Ruth 4:12 >>
* <<Bbl R 9:7 >>
* <<Bbl Gn 3:15 >>
* <<Bbl Gal 3:16 >> and following.
* b Rev 12 verse.
* //of the woman// -- signals the virgin conception. //Offspring//, [[Procreate]]
* [[Covet]], //search.//
* <<Bbl L 15:1>>ff -- Parables of missing items.
* //Seek first God's kingdom ...//
* //...to seek and save what was lost.//
[[Partiality]]
!!!Specific [[Atone]]
* Popularly known as Limited Atonement.
* Another good term is //particular redemption.//
* The term predestined: <<Bbl Eph 1:4 >>-5 , <<Bbl R 8:30 >>
* The Father is selective: <<Bbl J 16:38 >>.
* Christ is selective: <<Bbl J 17:9 >>.
* As Pastor Sam puts it, "He has not chosen the qualified; rather, He has qualified the chosen."
* As you enter, you see //whosoever//; and when you look back, you see //elected//. Source is Earl Rabamacher(?)
!!! What about "all men"?
* 1C 15:22 - the use of //all men// is clearly qualified, by the context. Elsewhere in Paul the context is less forceful but the limitation is still inferred.
* Sometimes the sense is "all classes of humans".
----
Limited atonement is a doctrine offered in answer to the question, "for whose sins did Christ atone?" The Bible teaches that Christ died for those whom God gave him to save (<<Bbl J 17:9>>). Christ died, indeed, for many people, but not all (<<Bbl Mt 26:28>>). Specifically, Christ died for the invisible Church -- the sum total of all those who would ever rightly bear the name "Christian" (<<Bbl Eph 5:25>>).
This doctrine often finds many objections, mostly from those who think that Limited Atonement does damage to evangelism. We have already seen that Christ will not lose any that the father has given to him (<<Bbl J 6:37>>). Christ's death was not a death of potential atonement for all people. Believing that Jesus' death was a potential, symbolic atonement for anyone who might possibly, in the future, accept him trivializes Christ's act of atonement. Christ died to atone for specific sins of specific sinners. Christ died to make holy the church. He did not atone for all men, because obviously all men are not saved. Evangelism is actually lifted up in this doctrine, for the evangelist may tell his congregation that Christ died for sinners, and that he will not lose any of those for whom he died! [[Source|http://www.reformed.org/calvinism/]]
!!! definition
* E.T. Welch offers two-fold definition:
## Self-control is control of the self:
### Living within [[Boundaries]]
### Thinking before acting -- [[ThoughtLife]]
## Self-control is NOT:
### Emotional flatness or indifference
### Self-dependence
{{fyi{Real self-control depends entirely on having a new Self. It is a fruit of the Spirit. A new self is not a reward you receive for your self-control. }}}
* Self-control should not be considered, as we often do, in the small sense of healthy habits; but healthy [[Habit]]s are an aspect of the transformed life.
* {{anti{[[SelfControl-False]]}}}
* The soldier, the athlete.
* [[Wall]]
* <<Bbl R 6:12>>
* <<Bbl Gal 5:22>>-23 -- Relates to [[Godliness]]
* <<Bbl 2Tim 1:7>> //power, love and self-control//
* <<Bbl 1C 9:24 >>-27 //I fight like that, as not beating the air...I buffet my body//
* <<Bbl 1Thes 4:3>>-5
* <<Bbl 1Thes 5:4>>-11 Sons of light = self-controlled = focused (Gene Getz)
* <<Bbl Titus 2:12>>
* <<Bbl Pr 16:32 >>
* <<Bbl Pr 17:27 >>
* <<Bbl 1P 4:1 >>, 7; <<Bbl 1P 5:8 >>
* Mind map Jan 2012
* Helps create [[Faithfulness]], [[Persevere]] and [[Security]]
* Necessary to [[Holiness]]
!!! The Tongue
* [[Speak]]
* <<Bbl James 3:3 >>ff
* <<Bbl Pr 12:18 >>; <<Bbl Pr 15:2 >> //...speaks rashly...gushes out folly//
* <<Bbl Pr 10:10 >> //a chattering fool comes to ruin//
!!! {{anti{Lack of self-control}}}
* [[Ruin]]
* <<Bbl 2Tim 3:1 >> paints a really scary picture.
* Mr. Toad is a study in lack of self-control.
* [[Samson]] is, as well. But he becomes a model of self-control at the end.
* {{anti{[[SelfControl]]}}}
* //white knuckling//. Don't be a knuckle-head!
* <<Bbl Ps 39:1 >>-3
* <<Bbl 1C 9:24 >>-27 //as not beating the air//
* <<Bbl Col 2:23>>
* If you try to do well in your own power, the power of the {{anti{[[Flesh]]}}}, you are fighting God; you are living in a double-bind. Tim Shoemaker cites <<Bbl Gal 5:16>>-18 and proceeds to electrocute a pickle.
* Shows inadequacy when dealing with rationalizations for sinful behavior. {{anti{[[Weakness]]}}}.
!!! Selfishness takes a utilitarian view.
* Unity lets me not think about the value of my elbow, and conscious unity helps me not carelessly deprecate my elbow. And if you dismiss a fellow member, do not think unity was not harmed simply because things seem to go just as well (or even better!) without her. That is a utilitarian view of people, a view God hates. You will learn on the Day of the Lord what you lacked, as did the rich man in Hades.
* Unto the least of these.
* Den of robbers instead of a house of prayer for all peoples. This means all //kinds// of people. (Robbers won't be happy there, but we can't help that.)
* Those who cannot pay you back.
** But what if the thing you are missing will never be perceived by you?
** We miss Billy we didn't know he was the only one who could use the thermostat. You don't have enough Wisdom to make even the utilitarian approach work.
** "One day Billy leaves. We won't say why, it might not reflect well in your reputation."
* Carrying a cup of coffee around the house, I don't think about my elbow even a bit. Yet if you tape my elbow to my side, carrying the coffee is suddenly difficult. Make the elbow rigid, then tie it to waist so shoulder is out of play.
** Or we miss his smile (Downs Syndrome).
** What if on the last day God says "You did not work for unity...We won't say why, it might not reflect well in your reputation."
* [[Diversity]] can be seen at Walmart at 3 AM.
* [[Interdependence]]. "Don't it always seem to go that you don't know what you've got till it's gone."
<<Bbl Ex 8:23 >>; <<Bbl Lv 18:3 >>-4 , <<Bbl Lv 20:22 >>-26 ; <<Bbl Num 23:9 >>, <<Bbl Ezra 9:1 >>-4 (linked to wall, vs. 9); <<Bbl Ps 45:10 >>-12 ; <<Bbl I 8:11>>-12, <<Bbl Ez 22:26 >>, <<Bbl Ez 43:8 >>, <<Bbl Ez 44:23 >>; <<Bbl 1C 7:29 >>-31 .
* [[Holiness]]
* The [[Sword]]
* [[Divide]]
* The Nazirite; John the Baptizer; the Rachabites of Jeremiah
* Lot, who would not separate himself (yet he is cited as //righteous// in the NT!?)
* [[Commission]]
* ''Retain the seed'' -- <<Bbl L 8:4 "" note>> Whatever else is fallen, confused or frustrated, just don't let go of the [[Seed]].
It must be based in love, not in dead works; there will be a constant temptation to the latter. It's not supposed to be like paying taxes.
* <<Bbl Rth 2:22 >>; <<Bbl 1S 14:7 >>; <<Bbl I 26:13 >>; Zch 3:7; <<Bbl Ps.123 >>
* <<Bbl 1Tim 3:13>> The deacon's service has a big "payback".
Right [[Motivation]]: <<Bbl Hos 2:16 >>, <<Bbl Hos 14:3 >>; <<Bbl Mt 8:15 >>
to false or evil allegiances: <<Bbl Dt 4:28 >>, <<Bbl Dt 28:36 >>; <<Bbl Jud 10:11 >>-16; <<Bbl 1K 16:7 >> or <<Bbl 2K 16:7 >> -8; <<Bbl 2Ch 12:8 >>, <<Bbl Jer 5:19 >>, <<Bbl Jer 16:13 >>, <<Bbl Jer 17:4 >>
to others, righteous: <<Bbl 1K 12:7 >>; <<Bbl 1Ch 9:33 >>; <<Bbl Mt 20:25 >>-28 ; <<Bbl 1P 4:10 >>-11
* [[Bondage]]
* //slavery, forced labor//
* [[Addiction]]
* [[Rest]]
* [[Slave]]
* [[Individual]]
* <<Bbl R 16:1>>ff emphasis
* [[Marry]]
* [[Celibacy]]
* [[Stand]] (see //Uprightness//)
* [[Seed]], [[Propagate]]
* [[Immorality-No]]
* <<Bbl Song 1:1 "" note>> -- Not only is pleasure the focus, but procreation is entirely ignored!
* Secular humanism, sexual humanism.
* Animals are sexually differentiated but not in the image of God. So animal sexuality is not bound to God's image. Romans 1 relies greatly on Genesis 1.
!!! Lust
* From [[Lust]] to [[Love]] -- <<Bbl Gn 34:2 >>-3
* From lust to hatred -- <<Bbl 2S 13:13 >>-14
* [[Immorality]]
* <<Bbl I 24:13 >>, 19. [[Test]].
* The earthquake cited by Isaiah.
* <<Bbl H 12:27 >>
* [[Found]]
* Our God-given craving, and in Christ our destiny.
* Interesting possibilities for <<Bbl Gn 33:18 "" note>>.
* [[Peace]]
* [[Order]]
! Core Definition
Worth is the measure of how something or someone is viewed, based on goodness or badness. Shame is the opposite.
* See {{anti{[[Glory]], [[Honor]], [[Vindicate]] and [[Favor]]}}}.
* Habakkuk contrasts //shame and not glory//.
* See also <<Bbl Rev 21:27 >>.
* Other contrastive pairs are dignity, opposed to //ignominy// or //unworth// or //dishonor//.
Shame is much more complicated than we imagine at first blush.
* It can be felt as an emotion which we (inadequately) call embarrassment.
* Shame can be perceived internally, unknown to the community.
* Or the community can perceive it for us, perhaps while we are unaware.
* It can be imposed, imputed, or threatened.
* It can be hidden (very inadequately) under the term "low self-esteem".
The Bible tells us that before all this, shame and worth are objective realities. Because of our relativistic training, this is hard yet important to understand.
* <<Bbl Dan 9:8>>
----
@@color:brown;What you find here is the onset of both guilt and shame. Now I know the western culture prefers to deal with guilt, and oriental cultures often prefer to deal with shame; but the Bible talks happily about both, thank you.@@ // - Don Carson//
! Aspects
!!!! Objective
Intrinsic condition. Objective in basis, through God's revelation. //Shameful ways//.
* Deviance: <<Bbl Eph 5:12 >> says //it is shameful even to mention what the disobedient do in secret.// <<Bbl Rev 21:27 >> says //nothing impure will ever enter it, nor will anyone who does what is shameful or deceitful...//
* [[Subvert]]
* Godlessness -- <<Bbl Php 3:19 >> //...their glory is in their shame. Their mind is on earthly things.//
* Deception
** false ministry -- <<Bbl 2C 4:2 >> //we have renounced secret and shameful ways; we do not use deception...// (but we) //commend ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.//
!!!! Subjective
An assessment that can be threatened, imposed, imputed, or perceived as a transaction in almost any personal or social relationship.
## <<Bbl Gn 38:23 >> -- Judah is nervous about his reputation because of the prostitute.
## to //treat// someone shamefully. <<Bbl L 20:11 >> //they beat and treated shamefully; Prophet without honor//. [[Mistreat]].
## Shaming behavior -- <<Bbl 2K 2:17 "" note>> Elisha is shamed into action (other instances similar).
## [[Satan]] means //accuser//.
## As proscribed punishment -- <<Bbl Dt 25:7 >>-10 //the unsandaled//. Here the objective must find its echo in the subjective -- heaven on earth, so to speak.
## Adultery -- <<Bbl Pr 6:32 >>-35 //he will never overcome his shame//
!!!! As an emotion
* [[Guilt]], humiliation, embarrassment, //low self-esteem//.
* //Condemnation// is the popular term for emotional shame that leads us away from Christ.
* //Conviction// is the popular term for emotional shame that leads us //TO// Christ. <<Bbl 2Thes 3:14 >>, <<Bbl 2Tim 2:15 >>
! Advent in the Garden
The Hebrew word for shame is //bosh.// You would expect to find //bosh// .where we read that "the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew that they were naked." But //bosh// isn't there. In fact, the word appears only once in Genesis and only once in Exodus. It's too strong an idea to throw around frequently.
* <<Bbl Gn 2:25 >> The man and his wife were both naked, and they felt no shame. This is the only place //Bosh// (shame) is used in Genesis (it's used only once in Exodus).
* From Image to image-management.
* {{holyquote{
<<Bbl Gn 3:7 abbr >>: ^^7^^ ... they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves. ^^8^^ ... they hid from the Lord God among the trees of the garden. ... ^^10^^ ..."I was afraid because I was naked; so I hid." ... ^^21^^The Lord God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife and clothed them.
}}}
* It's fascinating the term for shame (//bosh//) isn't used here. Instead, shame is represented in self-consciousness, self-fixing (image management), self-isolation, fear, placing [[Blame]].
* We know Adam wanted a covering before God (he says so), but we also imagine it was a reflexive response for them both in facing each other.
* For making the coverings, I imagine it was each created being for him or herself. But surely too they needed each other ... "Do I look okay?!"
! the passion of our Lord Jesus Christ
See [[Shame-Crucified]]
!!!! Christ's experience of shame
* [[Shame]]
* [[Mistreat]]
* <<Bbl A 8:33 >> -- //In His humiliation he was deprived of justice. //
* <<Bbl H 12:2 >> -- //endured the cross, scorning its shame...//
* <<Bbl Ps 69:6 >>-7 -- //May those who hope in You not be disgraced because of me, O Lord... not be put to shame because of me, O God of Israel. For I endure scorn for Your sake, and shame covers my face.//
* Aspects
## Apprehended as a criminal.
## Officially sentenced as a criminal.
## Isolated, abandoned.
### Mocked, derided by his enemies.
### Repudiated by his friends.
### Discredited in general.
## Humiliated through the beating and torture of His earthly body.
## Naked, stripped of his [[Clothing]].
## His clothing distributed as petty spoils.
## Made a complete public spectacle in all this.
## His mother present as a witness -- a discredit to the family.
## Technically under the Law of Moses, Christ @@color:red;became a violation in His body@@. He became sin. See <<Bbl Gal 3:13 "" note >>.
* For all Semitic people, nothing could be worse than having your Mom present as you are sentenced for the crime, placed naked in stocks for ridicule by strangers, and slowly executed. Our culture cause us to focus on the physiological torture. We do add the spiritual dimension -- "His Father turned away His face -- //that// was the //worst.//" That can't be denied; yet I'm still concerned how our cultural perspective causes us to overlook the aspect of shame. We must consider what it meant for our Lord to "despise the shame of the cross" (Heb 12) to better understand His gift.
!!!! No shame in Christ
* [[Rock]]
* <<Bbl H 12:2 >> -- Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set before him endured the cross, __scorning its shame__, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. //Fix our eyes// means we emulate this.
* Christ came for this -- <<Bbl I 61:7 >>
* Rick Reynolds asked, What do you do with your shame? Later he answered, I think I would take my shame to the cross.
* [[Need]], [[Submit]], //flock//
** Keil says sheep do not thrive without human care, that the skill of husbandry was passed from Adam to Abel.
** Through need we learn humility and obedience. To be FED, you must lead yourself to be LED. He'll FEED you as you let Him LEAD you.
!!! Shepherd
* Guides
* Guards
* <<Bbl 1P 2:25 "" note>>
* <<Bbl 1P 5:1>>-3
* <<Bbl Num 27:17 >>; <<Bbl 1K 22:17 >>; <<Bbl Jer 25:34 >>-35 ,<<Bbl Jer 50:6 >>-8 ; <<Bbl Ez 34:5 >>; <<Bbl Ez 34:23 >>
* <<Bbl Mt 10:6>>. This is the light in which <<Bbl Mt 9:36 "" note>> and <<Bbl Mk 6:34 >> are understood.
* <<Bbl Ps 23:2>>-5
* <<Bbl J 10:1 >>ff
* <<Bbl Gn 48:15>> - First reference to God as a shepherd. Note the experience from which [[Jacob]] speaks.
** He is a shepherd by vocation for decades - //I have born the sun, and the rain.//
** He does much more than raise them - he cunningly breeds them! This points to God's fuller sovereignty.
** And surely Jacob strayed!
* The shepherds of Bethlehem kept watch by night, and day, often reflecting that on these same hills King David had done the same.
* We view sheep as more cute than valuable. We could be cured easily of the first part. A traditional shepherd will view sheep as more valuable than cute. (But we must not overlook <<Bbl 2S 12:3>>!)
----
* Last night (2023-07) I happened to hear Charles Swindoll on being a "shepherd", <<Bbl 1P 5:1>>-3.
** He presents it as a capacity for loving people and speaking to their hearts; and a calling which can't be merely produced by learning, effort, or even godliness. (I thought about our former pastor, Peter D. He was a great evangelist (thus were most of the church brought in!). But he didn't have calling of a shepherd; and though he loves the Lord, he couldn't make it be so.)
** As for its importance: //If the church is led by an evangelist, the church gets evangelized - but not pastored. If by a teacher, the church gets educated - but not pastored. To grow together in Christ, the church must be pastored.//
* Procrastination is the uneasy shirking of today's duty. Fatigue and lateness may reduce your options; but procrastination is a choice.
* Procrastination works in a cycle with [[Fear]].
* <<Bbl Pr 27:1 >>
* <<Bbl Ps 119:60 >>
* {{anti{[[Diligence]]}}}
!!! Putting off God
* {{anti{[[Obey]]}}}
* <<Bbl A 24:25 >> Felix
* //Famous last words// by Jars of Clay
* <<Bbl L 9:57-62 >>
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config.macros.showPopup = {
tip: 'display "%0" in a popup',
init: function() {
config.shadowTiddlers.ShowPopup =
'<<showPopup tiddler:[[$1]] label:"$2" tip:"$3" buttonClass:"button $4" width:"$5" popupClass:"$6" "$7">>';
config.annotations.ShowPopup =
'created by ShowPopupPlugin';
},
handler: function(place,macroName,params,wikifier,paramString,tiddler) {
var p=paramString.parseParams('name',null,true,false,true);
var tid=getParam(p,'tiddler','TiddlerName');
var label=getParam(p,'label',tid);
var tip=getParam(p,'tip',this.tip.format([tid]));
var buttonClass=getParam(p,'buttonClass','');
var width=getParam(p,'width','auto');
var popupClass=getParam(p,'popupClass','');
var above=params.contains('above');
var mouseover=params.contains('mouseover');
var b=createTiddlyButton(place, label, tip, this.click, buttonClass, null, null,
{ tid:tid, popupClass:popupClass, width:width, above:above });
b.innerHTML=label; // render HTML for entities, images, etc
if (mouseover) b.onmouseover=b.onclick; // option: mouseover triggers click
},
click: function(ev) { var ev=ev||window.event;
// DISABLED if (Popup.find(this)!=-1)return false; // popup already shown!
var p=Popup.create(this); if(!p)return false; // popup not created!
addClass(p,this.getAttribute('popupClass'));
var d=createTiddlyElement(p,'div');
var s=d.style; s.whiteSpace='normal'; s.width=this.getAttribute('width'); s.padding='2px';
wikify(store.getTiddlerText(this.getAttribute('tid'),''),d);
if (this.getAttribute('above')!='true') Popup.show();
else Popup.show('top','left',{x:0,y:-jQuery(d).outerHeight()});
ev.cancelBubble=true; if(ev.stopPropagation)ev.stopPropagation(); return false;
}
}
//}}}
<<tabs "A-Z"
"A-Z" "Topical" TabTopicEntries
"recent" "Timeline" TabTimeline
"tag" "All tags" TabTags
"more" "More" TabMore>>
<<tabs txtMainTab "Timeline" "Timeline" TabTimeline "All" "All tiddlers" TabAll "Tags" "All tags" TabTags "More" "More lists" TabMore>>
* [[Image-Metaphor]] -- related indirectly.
* [[Covenant]]
* [[Guarantee]], for example, the rainbow <<Bbl Gn 9:12>>-13, 16-17.
* [[Seal]]
* Philippians speaks of [[Courage]].
* //Type//
* <<Bbl Mt 2:1 "" note>>
* <<Bbl Ps 62:1 >>,
* <<Bbl Ps 65:1 >> (but note NKJV, NIV, "the meaning is uncertain" of silence/awaiting);
* <<Bbl Rev 8:1 >>.
!!! Humility
* //mouth shut// or //all flesh silent// means no boasting. <<Bbl Zech 2:13>>; <<Bbl Hab 2:20 >>
* //Like a lamb that is silent//
!!! Let God
<<Bbl Ex 14:14 >>;
* {{anti{[[Proclamation]]}}}
* That ancient superstition.
** "Knock on wood."
** "Speak of the devil, and he is there"
** "Hope I didn't jinx anything by saying that."
* When [[Satan]] has a lie securely in place, the last thing he wants is someone speaking the truth. __Any__ breach of silence could be dangerous!
* <<Bbl 2S 13:20>>-27
* [[Complicity]]
* [[Rest]], [[Contentment]], [[Humility]]
* //God made man upright, but he has sought out many inventions.// -- Eccl.
* Worship to be unadorned: When you build an altar of stones, you shall wield no tool.
* [[Disobey]], [[Deceive]]
* [[Wickedness]], [[Break]], [[Depravity]]
* [[Usurp]]
* [[Blaspheme]], [[Debauchery]]
* [[Responsibility]], [[Guilt]], [[Shame]]
* @@color:darkgreen;Sin lies at the root of society's difficulties today. Whatever separates man from God disunites man from man. The world's problems will never be solved until the question of sin is settled.@@ // - Billy Graham, 1959//
* Two agencies of sin:
## Omission
## Commission. This kind is assumed when we joke, //I didn't do it.//
## Disposition -- we might add this third, for latent sin is yet sin.
* Three kinds of sin:
## Violating God's command.
## Violating the scruples of my own [[Scruples]] -- this is not done by [[Believe]].
## Violating carelessly the [[Scruples]] of another -- this is not done out of love.
* "Missing the Mark"?
** <<Bbl R 3:23 >> must be considered in earlier context.
** //Harmatea// etymology not helpful.
* Rushdoony (Institutes, p. 82) points out that sin is not merely acting contrary to conscience.
* @@color:indigo;A man may sin securely, but safely never.@@ // -- Ben Jonson//
* It is an appetite suppressant for righteousness. Like cotton candy. (Shai Linne)
* @@color:darkgreen;Sin is likened better to anarchy rather than crime; for crime breaks the laws of the state, but anarchy denies the right of the state to even make the laws. So sin denies the Creator ...@@ // -- unknown//
* Vice lists. These sometime help define sin where the current mode of depravity may be less precisely discussed in the Law (ex, Gossip).
<<Bbl Gn 3:1 >>ff, <<Bbl Gn 6:5 >>-8 ; <<Bbl Ps 36:1 >>-4 ; <<Bbl Pr 14:12 >>, <<Bbl Pr 16:2 >>, <<Bbl Pr 21:2 >>; <<Bbl J 2:24 >>-25 ; <<Bbl I 2:5 >>-8 , <<Bbl I 30:8 >>-17
In Christ my acts of sin are forgiven, and my sin nature is crucified.
*Fallen Nature: <<Bbl Ecc 7:29 >>, <<Bbl Ps 52:1 >>-3 ; <<Bbl I 43:27 >>
*Presumptuous: <<Bbl I 5:18 >>; <<Bbl Ps 36:1 >>-2
*Unforgivable: See Harmony of the Gospels, p 78.
*Separates from God: <<Bbl I 59:2>>
*Rebellion: <<Bbl Num 15:30 >>-31 ; <<Bbl I 1:2 >>-3 , <<Bbl I 48:8 >>; <<Bbl Jer 2:21 >>. The OT tells people offer a sacrifice when they sin through weakness or ignorance. But there is no OT sacrifice for rebellion, for "high-handed" sinning.
*[[Lawlessness]]: <<Bbl 1J 3:4 >>
*Defined: <<Bbl 1J 3:4 >>
*Inevitability of: <<Bbl Ecc 7:20 >>, <<Bbl Job 4:17 >>-19 , <<Bbl Job 14:14 >>-16; <<Bbl 1K 8:46 >>=<<Bbl 2Ch 6:36 >>
*All guilty: <<Bbl Ps 53:1 >>-3 ; <<Bbl Pr 20:9 >>; <<Bbl I 43:27 >>; <<Bbl Lam 3:39 >>; <<Bbl H 12:23 >>
*Tyre, a type of sin and Judgment: <<Bbl Ez 28:2 >>
*of Balaam: <<Bbl Num 31:16 >>; <<Bbl 2P 2:15 >>-16 ; <<Bbl Rev 2:14 >>.
*Unintentional: <<Bbl Lev 3:12 >> to 4:35; <<Bbl Lev 5:17 >>-19; <<Bbl Num 15:22 >>-26
*Attitude towards past: <<Bbl R 6:21 >>
*does not satisfy: <<Bbl Ez 16:28 >>-30
*partaking (participation) in: <<Bbl Gn 19:15 >>-17 (here referring to the punishment); <<Bbl Num 16:26 >>;<<Bbl 1Tim 5:22 >>; <<Bbl 2J 10:11 >> See [[Wicked-Unrestrained]]
!!! Original VS individual
Calvin says no conflict. Sin is worked out corporately, while judgment is required individually.
* Lam 5:7
* //The soul that sins, it shall die// -- Ezekiel on the sins of fathers and son
* //... to a thousand generations//
* [[Individual]]
{{smallform{
<script label="tiddler:" title="select a tiddler title or open matching tiddler">
// send a return key to the gotoTiddler input field
var form=place.parentNode.nextSibling.firstChild;
config.macros.gotoTiddler.inputKeyHandler({keyCode:13},form.gotoTiddler,form.list);
return false;
</script><script>
place.lastChild.style.fontWeight="normal";
</script>
<<gotoTiddler search inputstyle:"display:block;width:98.5%;margin:0;font-size:8pt;" liststyle:"width:85%;font-size:8pt;">>/%
%/}}}/%
%/{{selected{{{toolbar fine{
<<tiddler BreadcrumbsCommand>>/%
%/ <<tiddler ShowPopup with:
FavoriteTiddlers "favorites" "quick access to favorite tiddlers" button auto>>/%
%/ <<openStory popup>>/%
%/ <<tiddler QuickSearchPopup with: {{tiddler?tiddler.title:""}} "see also">>/%
%/}}}}}}{{clear{
}}}
{{tiny left{
<script>
// timestamp for generating GUID (globally unique ID)
config.renderTime=new Date().getTime();
</script>/%
%/+++[options|set search options]#sidebarSearchOptions:
<<tiddler SearchOptions>>===
<script>place.lastChild.id+=config.renderTime;</script>/%
%/{{small {<<search>>}}} }}}
{{outline {
<<gotoTiddler
search
>>/%
%/<script>
// timestamp for generating GUID (globally unique ID)
config.renderTime=new Date().getTime();
</script>/%
%/+++[options|set search options]#sidebarSearchOptions:
<<tiddler SearchOptions>>===
<script>place.lastChild.id+=config.renderTime;</script> }}}
''in Roman and Greek culture:''
* The slave of Ceasar might have more power than a senator (particularly in context).
* Manumission was common. Thousands every year. Often an owner simply wanted to avoid supporting a slave into old age.
* A freed slave was made a citizen, Pompeii had enslaved many Jews who eventually were freed, many at cost to their brethren (60's BC; such would be Paul's parents. Felix (Acts 27 ) and his brother, men of power, were such.
* [[Servitude]]
* [[Bondage]]
* <<Bbl Eph 06:01 "" note>>
* NT remarks about slaves and masters as fellow church members can be applied, by extension, to employees and their supervisors; by extension again, to many relationships that are constrained by heirarchy.
!!! Philemon
If this letter presented no revolutionary challenge to the social structures of the day, the implications of its teaching were bound to prove fatal to slavery in the end. Paul’s letter to the Colossians, which was read to the church at the same time as Philemon, provides the first nail in the coffin: //Here there is no Greek or Jew, circumcised or uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave or free, but Christ is all, and is in all.// (<<Bbl Col 3:11 abbr >>) This truth, that we are all one in Christ, was a ticking time-bomb that would explode with William Wilberforce. The second nail in the coffin of slavery is found in Philemon itself. In v 16, Paul tells Philemon that a converted Onesimus is now both a slave and a brother in the Lord. This was revolutionary teaching. Paul continues by saying //welcome him as you would welcome me.// Maybe Paul does not outrightly condemn slavery, but the seeds are there which will ultimately undermine it. Paul dissolves the slave-master relationship, and erects in its place a brother-brother relationship, in which the former slave is treated with all the dignity with which the apostle himself would be treated. Thus, even before the actual institution of slavery is abolished, ''the work of the gospel abolishes the assumptions and prejudices that make slavery possible.'' (Attributed to Geoffrey Wilson, though probably not all of it.)
/***
|Name|SnapshotPlugin|
|Source|http://www.TiddlyTools.com/#SnapshotPlugin|
|Documentation|http://www.TiddlyTools.com/#SnapshotPluginInfo|
|Version|1.2.0|
|Author|Eric Shulman|
|License|http://www.TiddlyTools.com/#LegalStatements|
|~CoreVersion|2.1|
|Type|plugin|
|Requires||
|Overrides||
|Description|save or print HTML+CSS image of rendered document content|
|Status|ALPHA - DO NOT DISTRIBUTE|
This plugin provides a macro as well as tiddler toolbar commands to create a file or browser window containing the //rendered// CSS-and-HTML that is currently being displayed for selected elements of the current document.
!!!!!Documentation
>see [[SnapshotPluginInfo]]
!!!!!Configuration
<<<
<<option chkSnapshotHTMLOnly>> output HTML only (omit CSS)
<<<
!!!!!Revisions
<<<
2009.06.04 [1.2.0] added handling in getSnap() so current form input values are shown in snapshots
|please see [[SnapshotPluginInfo]] for additional revision details|
2008.04.21 [1.0.0] initial release - derived from [[NewDocumentPlugin]] with many improvements...
<<<
!!!!!Code
***/
//{{{
version.extensions.SnapshotPlugin= {major: 1, minor: 2, revision: 0, date: new Date(2009,6,4)};
if (config.options.chkSnapshotHTMLOnly===undefined) config.options.chkSnapshotHTMLOnly=false;
config.macros.snapshot = {
snapLabel: "save a snapshot",
printLabel: "print a snapshot",
snapPrompt: "save an HTML image of rendered content",
printPrompt: "print an HTML image of rendered content",
hereID: "here",
viewerID: "viewer",
storyID: "story",
allID: "all",
askID: "ask",
askTiddlerID: "askTiddler",
askDOMID: "askDOM",
askMsg: "select an element...",
hereItem: "tiddler: '%0'",
viewerItem: "tiddler: '%0' (content only)",
storyItem: "story column",
allItem: "entire document",
tiddlerItem: "select a tiddler...",
IDItem: "select a DOM element by ID...",
HTMLItem: "[%0] output HTML only (omit CSS)",
fileMsg: "select or enter a target path/filename",
defaultFilename: "snapshot.html",
okmsg: "snapshot written to %0",
failmsg: "An error occurred while creating %0",
handler: function(place,macroName,params,wikifier,paramString,tiddler) {
var printing=params[0]&¶ms[0]=="print"; if (printing) params.shift();
params = paramString.parseParams("anon",null,true,false,false);
var id=getParam(params,"id","here");
var label=getParam(params,"label",printing?this.printLabel:this.snapLabel);
var prompt=getParam(params,"prompt",printing?this.printPrompt:this.snapPrompt);
var btn=createTiddlyButton(place,label,prompt, function(ev){
this.setAttribute("snapID",this.getAttribute("startID"));
config.macros.snapshot.go(this,ev)
});
btn.setAttribute("startID",id);
btn.setAttribute("snapID",id);
btn.setAttribute("printing",printing?"true":"false");
btn.setAttribute("HTMLOnly",config.options.chkSnapshotHTMLOnly?"true":"false");
},
go: function(here,ev) {
var cms=config.macros.snapshot; // abbreviation
var id=here.getAttribute("snapID");
var printing=here.getAttribute("printing")=="true";
var HTMLOnly=here.getAttribute("HTMLOnly")=="true";
if (id==cms.askID||id==cms.askTiddlerID||id==cms.askDOMID) {
cms.askForID(here,ev);
} else {
// get element
if (id==cms.storyID) id="tiddlerDisplay";
if (id==cms.allID) id="contentWrapper";
var snapElem=document.getElementById(id);
if (id==cms.hereID || id==cms.viewerID)
var snapElem=story.findContainingTiddler(here);
if (snapElem && hasClass(snapElem,"tiddler") && (id==cms.viewerID || HTMLOnly)) {
// find viewer class element within tiddler element
var nodes=snapElem.getElementsByTagName("*");
for (var i=0; i<nodes.length; i++)
if (hasClass(nodes[i],"viewer")) { snapElem=nodes[i]; break; }
}
if (!snapElem) // not in a tiddler or no viewer element or unknown ID
{ e.cancelBubble=true; if(e.stopPropagation)e.stopPropagation(); return(false); }
// write or print snapshot
var out=cms.getsnap(snapElem,id,printing,HTMLOnly);
if (printing) cms.printsnap(out); else cms.savesnap(out);
}
return false;
},
askForID: function(here,ev) {
var ev = ev ? ev : window.event;
var cms=config.macros.snapshot; // abbreviation
var id=here.getAttribute("snapID");
var indent='\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0';
var p=Popup.create(here); if (!p) return false; p.className+=' sticky smallform';
var s=createTiddlyElement(p,'select'); s.button=here;
if (id==cms.askID) {
s.options[s.length]=new Option(cms.askMsg,cms.askID);
var tid=story.findContainingTiddler(here);
if(tid) {
var title=tid.getAttribute("tiddler");
if (here.getAttribute("HTMLOnly")!="true")
s.options[s.length]=new Option(indent+cms.hereItem.format([title]),cms.hereID);
s.options[s.length]=new Option(indent+cms.viewerItem.format([title]),cms.viewerID);
}
s.options[s.length]=new Option(indent+cms.tiddlerItem,cms.askTiddlerID);
s.options[s.length]=new Option(indent+cms.IDItem,cms.askDOMID);
s.options[s.length]=new Option(indent+cms.storyItem,"tiddlerDisplay");
s.options[s.length]=new Option(indent+cms.allItem,"contentWrapper");
}
if (id==cms.askDOMID) {
s.options[s.length]=new Option(cms.IDItem,cms.askDOMID);
var elems=document.getElementsByTagName("*");
var ids=[];
for (var i=0;i<elems.length;i++)
if (elems[i].id.length && elems[i].className!="animationContainer")
ids.push(elems[i].id);
ids.sort();
for (var i=0;i<ids.length;i++) s.options[s.length]=new Option(indent+ids[i],ids[i]);
}
if (id==cms.askTiddlerID) {
s.options[s.length]=new Option(cms.tiddlerItem,cms.askTiddlerID);
var elems=document.getElementsByTagName("div");
var ids=[];
for (var i=0;i<elems.length;i++) { var id=elems[i].id;
if (id.length && id.substr(0,story.idPrefix.length)==story.idPrefix && id!="tiddlerDisplay")
ids.push(id);
}
ids.sort();
for (var i=0;i<ids.length;i++) s.options[s.length]=new Option(indent+ids[i].substr(story.idPrefix.length),ids[i]);
}
s.options[s.length]=new Option(cms.HTMLItem.format([here.getAttribute("HTMLOnly")=="true"?"\u221a":"_"]),cms.HTMLItem);
s.onchange=function(ev){
var ev = ev ? ev : window.event;
var cms=config.macros.snapshot; // abbreviation
var here=this.button;
if (this.value==cms.HTMLItem) {
config.options.chkSnapshotHTMLOnly=!config.options.chkSnapshotHTMLOnly;
here.setAttribute("HTMLOnly",config.options.chkSnapshotHTMLOnly?"true":"false");
config.macros.option.propagateOption("chkSnapshotHTMLOnly","checked",
config.options.chkSnapshotHTMLOnly,"input");
} else
here.setAttribute("snapID",this.value);
config.macros.snapshot.go(here,ev);
return false;
};
Popup.show();
ev.cancelBubble=true;
if(ev.stopPropagation)ev.stopPropagation();
return false;
},
getpath: function() {
// get current path
var path=getLocalPath(window.location.href);
var slashpos=path.lastIndexOf("/");
if (slashpos==-1) slashpos=path.lastIndexOf("\\");
if (slashpos!=-1) path=path.substr(0,slashpos+1); // trim filename
return path;
},
getsnap: function(snapElem,id,printing,HTMLOnly) {
var cms=config.macros.snapshot; // abbreviation
var out='<head>\n';
if (printing)
out+='<base href="file:///'+cms.getpath().replace(/\\/g,'/')+'"></base>\n';
if (!HTMLOnly) {
var styles=document.getElementsByTagName('style');
var fmt='<style>\n/* stylesheet=%0 */\n%1\n\n</style>\n';
for(var i=0; i < styles.length; i++)
out+=fmt.format([styles[i].getAttribute('id'),styles[i].innerHTML]);
}
out+='</head>\n';
var elems=snapElem.getElementsByTagName('input');
for (var i=0; i<elems.length; i++) { var e=elems[i];
if (e.type=='text') e.defaultValue=e.value;
if (e.type=='checkbox') e.defaultChecked=e.checked;
if (e.type=='radiobutton') e.defaultChecked=e.checked;
}
var elems=snapElem.getElementsByTagName('textarea');
for (var i=0; i<elems.length; i++) elems[i].defaultValue=elems[i].value;
var fmt='<body>\n\n<div class="%0">%1</div>\n\n</body>\n';
out+=fmt.format([(id==cms.viewerID?'tiddler viewer':''),snapElem.innerHTML]);
return '<html>\n'+out+'</html>';
},
printsnap: function(out) {
var win=window.open("","_blank","");
win.document.open();
win.document.writeln(out);
win.document.close();
win.focus(); // bring to front
win.print(); // trigger print dialog
},
savesnap: function(out) {
var cms=config.macros.snapshot; // abbreviation
// make sure we are local
if (window.location.protocol!="file:")
{ alert(config.messages.notFileUrlError); return; }
var target=cms.askForFilename(cms.fileMsg,cms.getpath(),cms.defaultFilename);
if (!target) return; // cancelled by user
// if specified file does not include a path, assemble fully qualified path and filename
var slashpos=target.lastIndexOf("/");
if (slashpos==-1) slashpos=target.lastIndexOf("\\");
if (slashpos==-1) target=target+cms.defaultFilename;
var link="file:///"+target.replace(/\\/g,'/'); // link for message text
var ok=saveFile(target,convertUnicodeToUTF8(out));
var msg=ok?cms.okmsg.format([target]):cms.failmsg.format([target]);
clearMessage(); displayMessage(msg,link);
},
askForFilename: function(msg,path,file) {
if(window.Components) { // moz
try {
netscape.security.PrivilegeManager.enablePrivilege('UniversalXPConnect');
var nsIFilePicker = window.Components.interfaces.nsIFilePicker;
var picker = Components.classes['@mozilla.org/filepicker;1'].createInstance(nsIFilePicker);
picker.init(window, msg, nsIFilePicker.modeSave);
var thispath = Components.classes['@mozilla.org/file/local;1'].createInstance(Components.interfaces.nsILocalFile);
thispath.initWithPath(path);
picker.displayDirectory=thispath;
picker.defaultExtension='html';
picker.defaultString=file;
picker.appendFilters(nsIFilePicker.filterAll|nsIFilePicker.filterText|nsIFilePicker.filterHTML);
if (picker.show()!=nsIFilePicker.returnCancel) var result=picker.file.persistentDescriptor;
}
catch(e) { alert('error during local file access: '+e.toString()) }
}
else { // IE
try { // XP/Vista only
var s = new ActiveXObject('UserAccounts.CommonDialog');
s.Filter='All files|*.*|Text files|*.txt|HTML files|*.htm;*.html|';
s.FilterIndex=3; // default to HTML files;
s.InitialDir=path;
s.FileName=file;
if (s.showOpen()) var result=s.FileName;
}
catch(e) { var result=prompt(msg,path+file); } // fallback for non-XP IE
}
return result;
}
};
//}}}
// // TOOLBAR DEFINITIONS
//{{{
config.commands.snapshotSave = {
text: "snap",
tooltip: config.macros.snapshot.snapPrompt,
handler: function(ev,src,title) {
src.setAttribute("snapID","ask");
src.setAttribute("printing","false");
src.setAttribute("HTMLOnly",config.options.chkSnapshotHTMLOnly?"true":"false");
config.macros.snapshot.go(src,ev);
return false;
}
};
config.commands.snapshotPrint = {
text: "print",
tooltip: config.macros.snapshot.printPrompt,
handler: function(ev,src,title) {
src.setAttribute("snapID","ask");
src.setAttribute("printing","true");
src.setAttribute("HTMLOnly",config.options.chkSnapshotHTMLOnly?"true":"false");
config.macros.snapshot.go(src,ev);
return false;
}
};
//}}}
// // COPIED FROM [[StickyPopupPlugin]] TO ELIMINATE PLUGIN DEPENDENCY
//{{{
if (config.options.chkStickyPopups==undefined) config.options.chkStickyPopups=false;
Popup.stickyPopup_onDocumentClick = function(ev)
{
// if click is in a sticky popup, ignore it so popup will remain visible
var e = ev ? ev : window.event; var target = resolveTarget(e);
var p=target; while (p) {
if (hasClass(p,"popup") && (hasClass(p,"sticky")||config.options.chkStickyPopups)) break;
else p=p.parentNode;
}
if (!p) // not in sticky popup (or sticky popups disabled)... use normal click handling
Popup.onDocumentClick(ev);
return true;
};
try{removeEvent(document,"click",Popup.onDocumentClick);}catch(e){};
try{addEvent(document,"click",Popup.stickyPopup_onDocumentClick);}catch(e){};
//}}}
* <<Bbl 2Tim 2:3 >>-4; <<Bbl Php 2:25 >>; <<Bbl Eph 6:10 >>-18 , <<Bbl 2C 6:7 >>, <<Bbl 2C 10:3 >>; <<Bbl 1Tim 1:18 >>; <<Bbl 1Tim 6:12 >>.
* @@color:brown;If I profess with the loudest voice and clearest exposition every portion of the truth of God except precisely that little point which the world and the devil are at the moment attacking, I am not confessing Christ, however boldly I may be professing Christ. Where the battle rages, there the loyalty of the soldier is proven, and to be steady on all the battlefield besides, is merely flight and disgrace if he flinches at that point.@@ // -- Martin Luther //
* [[Submit]]
* What makes a soldier? "Training", we are apt to think. But first comes allegiance. A soldier has already surrendered. Every soldier knows he has a C.O. So he does not easily surrender to a competing authority.
* And what do soldiers do? They Kill.
* [[War]], [[Sword]], [[Army]]
* [[Faithfulness]]
* [[IdentifyWith]]
* //Belonging//
* Ruth with Naomi
* Jonathan's armor bearer
* Ittai the Gittite -- <<Bbl 2S 15:21>>
* Esther marshals her palace coterie to fast with the Jewish population of Susa
* <<Bbl 1S 22:23>>
* [[Body]]
<<Bbl 1K 8:38>>; <<Bbl Pr 14:10 >>; <<Bbl Ecc 7:3 >>; <<Bbl Mk 1:35 >>; <<Bbl J 2:24 >>-25 , <<Bbl J 16:32 >>; <<Bbl 1C 2:11 >>; <<Bbl 2Tim 4:16 >>.
* Hebrews? //Christ died apart from God.//
* <<Bbl Ez 4:1 "" note>>-3
* //Alone, [[Loneliness]], isolation//
* {{anti{ [[Host]], [[Marry]]}}}
* <<Bbl Ek 4:1 >>-3 - the rejected Christ.
* [[Reject]]
* Wisdom and wealth are paired. <<Bbl 1K 4:20 >>-34. <<Bbl 1K 10:3 abbr >> and <<Bbl 1K 10:13 abbr >>.
* His weakness begins to appear at <<Bbl 1K 5:1 abbr >>.
** 700 wives and 300 concubines works out to 1,000 porcupines.
** It also results in a huge financial burden - as prophesied by Moses; creating popular dissatisfaction so great as to depose Solomon's successor.
* God appears 3 times to him, but he seems to respond only on the 1st (preach that sermon). After the zenith of <<Bbl 1K 10:3 >>, the tragic break is introduced at <<Bbl 1K 11:1 abbr >> with its sequel (pairing) at <<Bbl 1K 10:14 abbr >>, and climaxes at <<Bbl 1K 11:9 abbr >>.
!!! Son of [[David]]
* <<Bbl 1K 8:20>>, <<Bbl 2K 5:5>>
* [[Glory]] and a contrast with David.
* In the end, this son has failed - and God's promise is left unfulfilled.
!!! Hosting the Queen of Sheba
* <<Bbl 1K 10:01 "" note>>
* [[Father-Son]]
!!! As earthly relationship
* stub
!!! Adoption
* An adopted child can answer the reproach of the world with these words: "Your parents didn't choose you -- but mine chose me!"
* <<Bbl I 56:5 "" note >>; <<Bbl Ez 16:3 >>-6 ; <<Bbl Hos 2:23 >>; <<Bbl J 1:12 >>-13 (vs.14 gives the contrast in Christ); <<Bbl R 8:14 >>-17 ; <<Bbl 2C 6:18 >>; <<Bbl Eph 1:3 >>-11 ; <<Bbl Gal 4:1 >>-7 ; <<Bbl 1J 3:1 >>.
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* <<Bbl J 1:18 >>
* <<Bbl J 3:16 >>-17
* <<Bbl J 5:17 >>-38
* <<Bbl J 5:43 >>
* <<Bbl J 6:37 >>-40
* <<Bbl J 6:44 >>-46
* <<Bbl J 6:57 >>
* <<Bbl J 7:28 >>-29
* <<Bbl J 8:19 >>
* <<Bbl J 8:28 >>-29
* <<Bbl J 10:25 >>-38
* <<Bbl J 12:44 >>-50
* <<Bbl J 13:20 >>
* <<Bbl J 13:31 >>-32
* <<Bbl J 14:1 >>
* <<Bbl J 14:6 >>-13
* <<Bbl J 6:20 >>-31
* <<Bbl J 17:1 >>ff
* <<Bbl 1C 8:4 >>-7
* <<Bbl Php 2:9 >>-11
* <<Bbl L 15:11 '' note>>-32
* <<Bbl Dt 21:20 >> rebellious
! As understood in different epochs
@@color:navy;In the OT, the people of God collectively have been been called the sons of God, but there is only one individual in the NT who is called "the son of God" in this way, and it's the [[Davidic heir|David-RoyalDestiny]].@@ // - Ligon Duncan//
!!! In the Old Testament
** <<Bbl Dt 14:1 >> //You are sons of God; therefore...//
* It's as important to understand there was no concept of the Triune God, and no conceivable path of approach. (Notwithstanding our readiness to find momentous clues in the OT scriptures.)
!!! In the Gospel accounts
* Passages such as <<Bbl Mt 3:17>>, <<Bbl Mt 4:6>>, <<Bbl Mt 26:63>>, <<Bbl J 1:49>> change in meaning.
* <<Bbl J 20:28>> takes on more significance.
* The equivalent //Holy One of God// is less startling to our ears.
* ''John's Gospel'' presents an exception. John presents from a standpoint of realized revelation; unlike the synoptic writers, he tends not to limit his perspective to a portrayal of the local culture in its response to Jesus.
* Since the phrase "son of God" need not mean deity, it is less inflammatory than we will have thought. It could mean Jesus in His public claims was not making as massive a disclosure as we thought.
* Should we then conclude He didn't announce Himself as Lord and God? No; <<Bbl J 10:31 >>-36 precludes this.
!!! In the Book of Acts and epistles
* Now we can speak of ''God the Son''. Of course this does not mean the Davidic reference is gone. The two figures are resolved in the same person, but NT writers still distinguish them - whereas we have to think through a complexity for which initial reading and lessons have not prepared us.
! Filling out the two meanings
!!! Deity
* [[Father-Son]]
!!! Heir of [[David]].
* <<Bbl 2S 7:14>>
** <<Bbl Ps 89:26>>-27
** <<Bbl Ps 2:2>>
*** <<Bbl A 13:33>>, <<Bbl Heb 1:5>>, <<Bbl Heb 5:5 abbr>>
** <<Bbl Mt 3:17>> (draws also on <<Bbl I 42:1>>)
The Song of Songs, which is for Solomon. {{rf{2}}} May you kiss me passionately with your lips, for your love is better than wine. {{rf{3}}} As fragrance, your perfumes are delightful; your name is poured out perfume; therefore young women love you. {{rf{4}}} Draw me after you, let us run! May the king bring me into his chambers! Let us be joyful and let us rejoice in you; let us extol your love more than wine. Rightly do they love you! {{rf{5}}} I am black but beautiful, O maidens of Jerusalem, like the tents of Kedar, like the curtains of Solomon. {{rf{6}}} Do not gaze at me because I am black, because the sun has stared at me. The sons of my mother were angry with me; they made me keeper of the vineyards, but my own "vineyard" I did not keep. {{rf{7}}} Tell me, you whom my heart loves, where do you pasture your flock, where do your sheep lie down at the noon? For why should I be like one who is veiled beside the flocks of your companions? {{rf{8}}} If you do not know, O fairest among women, follow the tracks of the flock, and pasture your little lambs beside the tents of the shepherds. {{rf{9}}} To a mare among the chariots of Pharaoh, I compare you, my beloved. {{rf{10}}} Your cheeks are beautiful with ornaments, your neck with strings of jewels. {{rf{11}}} We will make ornaments of gold for you with studs of silver. {{rf{12}}} While the king was on his couch, my nard gave its fragrance. {{rf{13}}} My beloved is to me a pouch of myrrh, he spends the night between my breasts. {{rf{14}}} My beloved is to me a cluster of blossoms of henna in the vineyards of En Gedi. {{rf{15}}} Look! You are beautiful, my beloved. Look! You are beautiful; your eyes are doves. {{rf{16}}} Look! You are beautiful, my beloved, truly pleasant. Truly our couch is verdant; {{rf{17}}} the beams of our house are cedar; our rafter is cypress. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Song of Solomon-01-01]] }}}
How intriguing that child-bearing is //never mentioned.// Fertility is an allusion in <<Bbl Song 4:2 abbr >> and <<Bbl Song 6:6 abbr >>, but that may be as close as it gets!
Marriage is glorified without ever being quite central. Risk is celebrated without ever being fully explained, justified or endorsed.
This is sex with pleasure as its purpose. But not the pleasure of sex in itself -- rather the pleasure of each other. Just as I was delighted to the point of fixation by the sound of my one-year-old son's laugh, so the writer seems delighted by the sight of his beloved turning pink with desire. Furthermore, he'll settle for any blush -- that, at least, is my best theory for why he would tell her about something like wishing they'd been siblings so they could have started kissing at a young age.
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<<Bbl Song 1:4 abbr >>d Bloch and Bloch: "All the others want you!"
<<Bbl Song 1:9 abbr >>-11 Past, present, and future statements.
<<Bbl Song 1:4 abbr >> Privacy and intimacy are in the king's chambers. These are also found in 2:14, 3:4, 4:12-16.
<<Bbl Song 2:7 >>, 3:5 "Love is too hot to handle. Don't fire it up before you're ready."
2:16 I am my beloved's - this phrase also in 6:3, 7:10.
<<Bbl Song 6:4 >> -13b Compared to an army, for the glory of her beauty. (And what might be banners?)
Song 6:12 "Before I knew it, that army was mine." Bloch and Bloch: "Before I was even aware, she seated me in the finest of chariots."
Song 6:13b The dance introduces the panegyric of chapter 7, which suitably begins with the feet.
<<Bbl Song 6:13 abbr >> If there is no place called //Shulam//, then //Shulamite// is an allusion to peace; see <<Bbl Song 8:10 abbr >>
8:6 The sum total of his emotions (heart) and of his works (arm).
I am a rose of Sharon, a lily of the valleys. {{rf{2}}} Like a lily among the thorns, so is my love among the maidens. {{rf{3}}} As an apple tree among the trees of the forest, so is my beloved among the young men. In his shade I sat down with delight, and his fruit was sweet to my palate. {{rf{4}}} He brought me to the house of the wine, and his intention was love toward me. {{rf{5}}} Sustain me with the raisins, refresh me with the apples, for I am lovesick. {{rf{6}}} His left hand is under my head, and his right hand embraces me. {{rf{7}}} I adjure you, O maidens of Jerusalem, by the gazelles or by the does of the field, do not arouse or awaken love until it pleases! {{rf{8}}} The voice of my beloved! Look! Here he comes leaping upon the mountains, bounding over the hills! {{rf{9}}} My beloved is like a gazelle or a young stag. Look! He is standing behind our wall, gazing through the window, looking through the lattice. {{rf{10}}} My beloved answered and said to me, "Arise, my beloved! Come, my beauty! {{rf{11}}} For look! The winter is over; the rainy season has turned and gone away. {{rf{12}}} The blossoms appear in the land; the time of singing has arrived; the voice of the turtledove is heard in our land. {{rf{13}}} The fig tree puts forth her figs, and the vines are in blossom; they give fragrance. Arise, my beloved! Come, my beauty!" {{rf{14}}} My dove, in the clefts of the rock, in the secluded place in the mountain, Let me see your face, let me hear your voice; for your voice is sweet and your face is lovely. {{rf{15}}} Catch for us the foxes, the little foxes destroying vineyards, for our vineyards are in blossom! {{rf{16}}} My beloved belongs to me and I belong to him; he pastures his flock among the lilies. {{rf{17}}} Until the day breathes and the shadows flee, turn, my beloved! Be like a gazelle or young stag on the cleft mountains. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Song of Solomon-02-01]] }}}
On my bed in the night, I sought him whom my heart loves. I sought him, but I did not find him. {{rf{2}}} Now I will arise, and I will go about in the city, in the streets and in the squares; I will seek him whom my heart loves. I sought him, but I did not find him. {{rf{3}}} The sentinels who go about in the city found me. "Have you seen the one whom my heart loves?" {{rf{4}}} Scarcely had I passed by them when I found him whom my heart loves. I held him and I would not let him go until I brought him to the house of my mother, into the bedroom chamber of she who conceived me. {{rf{5}}} I adjure you, O maidens of Jerusalem, by the gazelles or by the does of the field, do not arouse or awaken love until it pleases! {{rf{6}}} What is this coming up from the desert like a column of smoke, perfumed with myrrh and frankincense from all the fragrant powders of the merchant? {{rf{7}}} Look! It is Solomon's portable couch! Sixty mighty men surround it, the mighty men of Israel. {{rf{8}}} All of them wield swords; they are trained in warfare, each with his sword at his thigh to guard against terror in the night. {{rf{9}}} King Solomon made for himself a sedan chair from the wood of Lebanon. {{rf{10}}} He made its column of silver, its back of gold, its seat of purple; its interior is inlaid with leather by the maidens of Jerusalem. {{rf{11}}} Come out and look, O maidens of Zion, at King Solomon, at the crown with which his mother crowned him on the day of his wedding, on the day of the joy of his heart! {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Song of Solomon-03-01]] }}}
Oh my! You are beautiful, my beloved! Oh my! You are beautiful! Your eyes are doves from behind your veil. Your hair is like a flock of goats that move down from the mountains of Gilead. {{rf{2}}} Your teeth are like a flock of shorn ewes that came up from the washing, all of them bearing twins, and there is none bereaved among them. {{rf{3}}} Your lips are like a thread of crimson, and your mouth is lovely. Your temple is like pomegranate from behind your veil. {{rf{4}}} Your neck is like the tower of David, built in courses; a thousand ornaments are hung on it, all the shields of the warriors. {{rf{5}}} Your two breasts are like two fawns, twins of a gazelle that feed among the lilies. {{rf{6}}} Until the day breathes and the shadows flee, I will go to the mountain of the myrrh, to the hill of the frankincense. {{rf{7}}} You are completely beautiful, my beloved! You are flawless! {{rf{8}}} Come with me from Lebanon, my bride! Come with me from Lebanon! Look from the top of Amana, from the top of Senir and Hermon, from the dwelling places of the lions, from the mountains of leopard. {{rf{9}}} You have stolen (my) heart, my sister bride! You have stolen my heart with one glance from your eyes, with one ornament from your necklaces. {{rf{10}}} How beautiful is your love, my sister bride! How better is your love than wine, and the fragrance of your oils than any spice! {{rf{11}}} Your lips drip nectar, my bride; honey and milk are under your lips; the scent of your garments is like the scent of Lebanon. {{rf{12}}} A garden locked is my sister bride, a spring enclosed, a fountain sealed. {{rf{13}}} Your shoots are an orchard of pomegranates with choice fruit, henna with nard; {{rf{14}}} nard and saffron, calamus and cinnamon spice with all trees of frankincense, myrrh and aloes with all chief spices. {{rf{15}}} A garden fountain, a well of living water, flowing (streams) from Lebanon. {{rf{16}}} Awake, O north wind! Come, O south wind! Blow upon my garden! Let its fragrances waft forth! Let my beloved come to his garden, let him eat his choice fruit! {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Song of Solomon-04-01]] }}}
I have come to my garden, my sister bride, I have gathered my myrrh with my spice, I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey, I have drunk my wine with my milk! Eat, O friends! Drink and become drunk with love! {{rf{2}}} I was asleep but my heart was awake. A sound! My beloved knocking! "Open to me, my sister, my beloved, my dove, my perfect one! For my head is full of dew, my hair drenched from the moist night air." {{rf{3}}} I have taken off my tunic, must I put it on? I have bathed my feet, must I soil them? {{rf{4}}} My beloved thrust his hand into the opening, and my inmost yearned for him. {{rf{5}}} I myself arose to open to my beloved; my hands dripped with myrrh, my fingers with liquid myrrh upon the handles of the bolt. {{rf{6}}} I opened myself to my beloved, but my beloved had turned and gone; my heart sank when he turned away. I sought him, but I did not find him; I called him, but he did not answer me. {{rf{7}}} The sentinels making rounds in the city found me; they beat me, they wounded me; they took my cloak away from me -- those sentinels on the walls! {{rf{8}}} I adjure you, O maidens of Jerusalem, if you find my beloved, what will you tell him? Tell him that I am lovesick! {{rf{9}}} How is your beloved better than another lover, O most beautiful among women? How is your beloved better than another lover, that you adjure us thus? {{rf{10}}} My beloved is radiant and ruddy, distinguished among ten thousand. {{rf{11}}} His head is gold, refined gold; his locks are wavy, black as a raven. {{rf{12}}} His eyes are like doves beside springs of water, bathed in milk, set like mounted jewels. {{rf{13}}} His cheeks are like beds of spice, a tower of fragrances; his lips are lilies dripping liquid myrrh. {{rf{14}}} His arms are rods of gold engraved with jewels; his belly is polished ivory covered with sapphires. {{rf{15}}} His legs are columns of alabaster, set on bases of gold; his appearance is like Lebanon, choice as its cedars. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Song of Solomon-05-01]] }}}
{{rf{16}}} His mouth is sweet, and he is altogether desirable. This is my beloved; this is my friend, O young women of Jerusalem. {{rf big{1}}} Where has your beloved gone, O most beautiful among women? Where has your beloved turned that we may seek him with you? {{rf{2}}} My beloved has gone down to his garden, to the garden bed of the spice, to pasture his flock and to gather lilies in the garden. {{rf{3}}} I belong to my beloved and he belongs to me; he pastures his flock among the lilies. {{rf{4}}} You are beautiful, my beloved, as Tirzah, lovely as Jerusalem, overwhelming as an army with banners. {{rf{5}}} Turn away your eyes from before me, for they overwhelm me. Your hair is like a flock of the goats that moves down from Gilead. {{rf{6}}} Your teeth are like a flock of the ewes that have come up from the washing, all of them bearing twins, and there is none bereaved among them. {{rf{7}}} Your cheeks behind your veil are like halves of a pomegranate. {{rf{8}}} Sixty queens there are, eighty concubines, and maidens beyond number. {{rf{9}}} My dove, she is the one; my perfect, she is the only one; she is the favorite of her mother who bore her. Maidens see her and consider her fortunate; queens and concubines praise her: {{rf{10}}} "Who is this that looks down like the dawn, beautiful as the moon, bright as the sun, overwhelming as an army with banners?" {{rf{11}}} I went down to the orchard of the walnut trees to look at the blossoms of the valley, to see whether the vines have sprouted, whether the pomegranates have blossomed. {{rf{12}}} I did not know my heart set me in a chariot of my princely people. {{rf{13}}} Turn, turn, O Shulammite! Turn, turn so that we may look upon you! Why do you look upon the Shulammite as at a dance of the two armies? {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Song of Solomon-05-16]] }}}
How beautiful are your feet in sandals, O royal princess! The curves of your thighs are like jewels, the work of the hands of a craftsman. {{rf{2}}} Your navel is a round wine-mixing bowl that does not lack mixed wine! Your belly is a heap of wheat encircled with lilies. {{rf{3}}} Your two breasts are like two fawns, twins of a gazelle. {{rf{4}}} Your neck is like a tower of ivory; your eyes are pools in Heshbon at the gate of Beth Rabbim. Your nose is like the tower of Lebanon looking out over Damascus. {{rf{5}}} Your head crowns you like Carmel; the flowing locks of your head are like purple tapestry; a king is held captive in the tresses! {{rf{6}}} How beautiful you are and how pleasant, O loved one in the delights! {{rf{7}}} Your stature is like the palm tree, and your breasts are like clusters. {{rf{8}}} I say, "I will climb up the palm tree; I will lay hold of its fruit clusters." Let your breasts be pleasing like clusters of the vine and the scent of your breath like the apples. {{rf{9}}} Your palate is like the best wine that goes down for my beloved, smoothly gliding over my lips and teeth. {{rf{10}}} I belong to my beloved, and he desires me! {{rf{11}}} Come, my beloved, let us go out to the countryside; let us spend the night in the villages. {{rf{12}}} Let us rise early to go to the vineyards; let us see whether the vine has budded, whether the grape blossom has opened, and whether the pomegranates are in bloom; there I will give my love to you. {{rf{13}}} The mandrakes give off their fragrance, and over our doorway is every kind of delicious fruit; both fresh and dried fruit I have stored up for you, O my beloved. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Song of Solomon-07-01]] }}}
How I wish that you were my little brother, who nursed upon my mother's breasts! If I met you outside, I would kiss you, and no one would despise me! {{rf{2}}} I would surely bring you to the house of my mother, who would surely teach me; I would give you spiced wine to drink, the sweet wine of my pomegranates. {{rf{3}}} His left hand is under my head, and his right hand embraces me. {{rf{4}}} I adjure you, O maidens of Jerusalem, do not arouse or awaken love until it pleases! {{rf{5}}} Who is this coming up from the wilderness, leaning upon her beloved? Under the apple tree I awakened you; there your mother conceived you; there she who was in labor gave birth to you. {{rf{6}}} Set me as a seal upon your heart, as a seal upon your arm; for love is strong as death; passion is fierce as Sheol; its flashes are flashes of fire; it is a blazing flame. {{rf{7}}} Many waters cannot quench love; rivers cannot sweep it away. If a man were to give all the wealth of his house for love, he would be utterly scorned. {{rf{8}}} We have a little sister, and she does not yet have any breasts. What should we do for our sister on the day when she is betrothed? {{rf{9}}} If she is a wall, we will adorn her with a turret of silver; but if she is a door, we will barricade her with boards of cedar. {{rf{10}}} I was a wall, and my breasts were like the towers, so my betrothed viewed me with great delight. {{rf{11}}} Solomon had a vineyard at Baal-hamon; he entrusted his vineyard to the keepers; people paid a thousand silver pieces for its fruit. {{rf{12}}} My own "vineyard" belongs to me; the "thousand" are for you, O Solomon, and "two hundred" for those who tend its fruit. {{rf{13}}} O you who dwell in the garden, my companions are listening to your voice. Let me hear it! {{rf{14}}} Flee, my beloved! Be like a gazelle or a young stag upon the perfumed mountains! {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Song of Solomon-08-01]] }}}
!! Immortal.
* <<Bbl Gn 35:18 >>; <<Bbl Rev 6:9 >>-10).
* Unbelievers are in [[Hell]] while believers are in conscious bliss in [[Heaven]]
* Jehovah’s Witnesses do not believe that humans have an immaterial nature. The “soul” is simply the life-force within a person. At death, that life-force leaves the body.
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Nephesh, the animal soul, *guf corresponds to NT flesh. Yetzer hara. Neshamah is different - "good impulse" (Yetzer ____), the rabbis call it.
!! Will
* <<Bbl H 11:27 >>
!! [[Emotion]]
http://www.in-arch.net/Sqrigg/squrig.html
* <<Bbl Dan 9:3 >> he does not model passivity. (Maybe this intended with as a comment on the text instead of in this topic.)
* <<Bbl Mk 12:11 >>
* [[King]], [[Dominate]]
* [[God-Purposes]]
* <<Bbl J 6:64 >>-66
* //Tongue, speak//
* Important notes under [[SelfControl]]
* [[Revere]], [[Gentleness]]
* [[Confess]]
* [[God-Word]]
* The tongue of the wise.
* As a dog lead has a loop to serve as a handle, so good communication puts handles on wisdom.
* How to give advice.
* <<Bbl I 50:4 >> //the Lord God has given me the tongue of a disciple ... encourage the weary one with a word.//
* <<Bbl Pr 8:6 >>-8 -- Wisdom as a speaker
* <<Bbl Pr 10:32 >> //lips of the righteous know what is fitting, but the mouth of the wicked only what is perverse//
* <<Bbl Pr 16:21 >> //pleasant words promote instruction//
* <<Bbl Pr 24:26 >> //honest answer like a kiss on the lips//
* <<Bbl Pr 22:21 >> //He who loves a pure heart and whose speech is gracious will have the king for his friend.//
* <<Bbl Pr 16:13 >> //Kings take pleasure in honest lips; they value a man who speaks the truth.//
* <<Bbl Pr 26:18>>-19 -- //Like a madman shooting firebrands or deadly arrows is a man who deceives his neighbor and says, 'I was only joking!'//
* <<Bbl Pr 19:1>> -- //Better a poor man whose walk is blameless than a fool whose lips are perverse.//
* <<Bbl Pr 4:24>> -- //Put away perversity from your mouth; keep corrupt talk far from your lips.//
* <<Bbl Pr 8:13>> -- //pride and arrogance, evil behavior and perverse speech//
* <<Bbl Pr 6:6>> -- //A scoundrel and villain, who goes about with a corrupt mouth, who winks with his eye, signals with his feet and motions with his fingers, who plots evil with deceit in his heart; he always stirs up dissension.//
* <<Bbl Pr 7:7>> -- // With persuasive words she seduces him//
* <<Bbl Pr 16:16>> -- //A violent man entices his neighbor and leads him down a path that is not good. He who winks with his eye is plotting perversity; he who purses his lips is bent on evil.//
* <<Bbl Pr 15:15>> -- //A man finds joy in giving an apt reply; and how good is a timely word!//
* <<Bbl Pr 26:26>> -- //A malicious man disguises himself with his lips, but in his heart he harbors deceit.//
* <<Bbl Pr 26:26>> -- //Though his speech is charming, do not believe him, for seven abominations fill his heart. His malice may be concealed by deception, but his wickedness will be exposed in the assembly.//
* F.F. Bruce discusses the term in all its senses in Romans, pp. 44-50.
* Grosheide, I Corinthians, p. 68, refers to the threefold sense of the word (He refers separately to the self-consciousness, or personality of God):
## the Spirit of God, the person of the Holy Ghost -- [[SpiritOfChrist]]
## the sanctified spirit of the believer
## the highest organ of man.
* <<Bbl Job 10:11 >> //You gave me life and showed me kindness, and in Your providence watched over my spirit.//
* <<Bbl Gn 3:8 "" note>> //Ruah//
* <<Bbl Ez 37:9 >> Spirit, breath, wind.
* <<Bbl J 20:22 >>
''Demonstration-Gifts''. I believe in the charismatic gifts, but I don't have a favorable opinion of the so-called charismatic church.
* Fruit indicates God's character; gifts indicate His power.
* Stewardship has been understood as ownership.
* Today's charismatic churches in Texas seem to be carrying the ashes, not the fire.
* The church, instead of the Spirit, possesses the gifts instead of the Spirit. Perhaps this comes from a narrow reading of <<Bbl 1Co 12:1 >>ff.
* [[SpiritOfChrist]]
* [[Virtue]]
* [[Grace]], //charis//
* <<Bbl Pr 18:16 >>, <<Bbl Pr 22:29 >>; <<Bbl Eph 4:11 >>-13 ; <<Bbl 1P 4:10 >>-11.
* Continuing, <<Bbl 1C 1:7 >>
A helpful division of spiritual gifts from Sam Cooksey:
| DOING |teaching, ministering, healing. |
| SAYING |prophecy, tongues, interpretation. |
| KNOWING |knowledge, wisdom, discernment. |
* see <<Bbl Ex 31:6 >> -- spiritual gifts may correspond the natural
Here find a Useful Analysis (perhaps from Ion -- ):
| |UNITY|DIVERSITY|MATURITY|
|1C 12 | 1-13 | 14-31 | 1-13 |
|Rom 12 | 1-5 | 6-8 | 9-21 |
|Eph 4 | 1-6 | 7-12 | 13-16 |
* Idea for teaching series:
# the Presbyterian gifts
# the Baptist gifts
# the Pentecostal gifts
!! Cessationism
* Calvin was a cessationist, according to Kendall.
* Cessation theology is completely nonbiblical. There is absolutely no clear biblical statement that the gifts of the Spirit have gone anywhere, especially away. How could they go away? What could that possibly even mean? The Holy Spirit has not taken the last train for the coast. They were not the possession of the apostles nor of the church in any time or location. Where the Spirit is, the gifts are. The gifts are His gifts. The Bible never says the gifts would stop this side of heaven. One cessationist states "God has decided" the season of the gifts is over. Announcing what God has decided is dangerous business. How does he know? Perhaps he assumes because he disbelieves God would use someone else, somewhere else. Why the gifts are less visible in various periods of church history is a valid question. Why the gifts are frequently misused and abused is a valid question. The supernatural work of God's Holy Spirit is a worldwide reality. There are African villagers who would be surprised to hear that the gifts have been withdrawn. "You cannot find the gifts?" they would ask. "Come to Africa. They are here." It is insular, even ethnocentric, to dismiss the operation of the gifts. It smacks of an incredible conceit. "If God were going to manifest His gifts anywhere in any time among any group, it would surely be now among me and my friends." Denouncing all who dare to believe in the validity of biblical gifts in this and every age is a cave-dweller's point of view: Because I have never seen a train, there are no trains. (The source for these thoughts was an article I deemed otherwise unworthy of citing.)
* <<Bbl 1C 13:8 >>, the real cessation.
!! Spirit-Son
* <<Bbl J 7:37 >>-39
* <<Bbl A 16:6 >>-7
* <<Bbl R 8:6 >>-10
* <<Bbl Gal 4:6 >>
* [[Son]]
* He always glorifies Jesus, putting the Son in the center. The Spirit reproves our tendency to misplace that focus back onto Him. The church that advertises itself as "Spirit-centered" has a problem (Ron Butler).
* He is a Person, not a puzzle.
* [[Spirit]] for generic term
* [[Holiness]]
* [[Power]] and [[Give]]
* [[Fire]]
* [[Anoint]], [[Infill]]
* The Spirit prompts us, like a lever in an ice cream scoop (not to be mechanistic).
** "Out of the Salt Shaker"
** [[SpiritOfChrist_Sensitivity]]
!!! Down payment
* <<Bbl R 8:23 >>; <<Bbl 2C 5:5 >>; <<Bbl Eph 1:13 >>, <<Bbl Eph 4:30 >>. <<Bbl 2C 1:21 >>-22 . <<Bbl Num 11:17 >>, p. 40-42.)
* <<Bbl Gn 13:17 >> gives a type of the Holy Spirit as a down-payment, [[Guarantee]] or //earnest// on a [[Promise]]. Compare <<Bbl H 11:9 >>-16.
* Reprocally, He offers us to God as first-fruits.
* Consider the craftsman who in advance finishes out one tiny section of the work out of eagerness;
## my granddad does that,
## The artist works out his color palette. I saw a watercolor artist in Cartagena finish out one corner.
* The manna in the wilderness
## Prefigured the promised land
## Ceased upon entry -- [[Joshua-01-01-note]]
* <<Bbl 1S 7:12>> The rock called Ebenezer
!!! Permanent for the follower of Christ
* [[Anoint]] <<Bbl 1J 2:20>>
!!! Seal
* <<Bbl 2C 3:2>>-18
!!! Power
* Has some temporal scope apparently from <<Bbl A 4:8 >>, <<Bbl A 6:8 abbr >>.
!!! Understanding
Helps our incapacities
* <<Bbl J 16:12>>.
* <<Bbl R 8:26>>.
* Before they were filled with the Spirit, the disciples had not an inkling of ''why'' Christ had gone to the cross.
!!! Gospel of Luke mentions the Spirit of God
* <<Bbl L 1:3 abbr >> Mary
* <<Bbl L 1:15 abbr >> John (prophecy)
* <<Bbl L 1:41 abbr >> Elizabeth
* <<Bbl L 1:25 abbr >>-27 Simeon
* <<Bbl L 1:67 abbr >> Zecharias
* <<Bbl L 3:21 abbr >> Jesus - His baptiem
* <<Bbl L 3:16 abbr >>
* <<Bbl L 4:1 abbr >> Jesus - the temptation
* <<Bbl L 4:18 abbr >> Isaiah's statement
!!! False views
Subtle forms of [[Idolatry]].
* First of course is the mechanistic view.
* Tendency to reduce Him to a principle. This seen in a lesson for young Christians who are told to follow the "principles" found in the acronym //GROWTH// -- Go to God in prayer, Read the Bible, etc, with //Holy Spirit// being the last element.
----
Jehovah’s Witnesses believe that the Holy Spirit is an impersonal force of God and not a distinct person. Biblically, however, the Holy Spirit has the three primary attributes of personality:
* mind - <<Bbl R 8:27 >>)
* emotions - <<Bbl Eph 4:30 >>
* will - <<Bbl 1C 12:11 >>
Moreover, personal pronouns are used of him (<<Bbl A 13:2 >>). Also, he does things that only a person can do, including:
* teaching (<<Bbl J 14:26 >>),
* testifying (<<Bbl J 15:26 >>),
* commissioning (<<Bbl A 13:4 >>),
* issuing commands (<<Bbl A 8:29 >>), and
* interceding (<<Bbl R 8:26 >>).
The Holy Spirit is the third person of the Trinity (<<Bbl Mt 28:19 >>).
A dog or cat's nose is inside-out. (Strange, perhaps even horrifying; extraordinary in its capacity.)
God wants your spirtual nose to be the same way. (Strange to the world; capacity; with this comes a hazard.)
/%
|Name|SplitTiddler|
|Source|http://www.TiddlyTools.com/#SplitTiddler|
|Version|1.9.5|
|Author|Eric Shulman|
|License|http://www.TiddlyTools.com/#LegalStatements|
|~CoreVersion|2.1|
|Type|html|
|Description|split tiddler contents into separate tiddlers|
%/<html><nowiki><style>
#tiddlerSplitTiddler .tagged { display:none; }
#tiddlerSplitTiddler .label { font-size:90%;font-style:italic;white-space:nowrap; }
#tiddlerSplitTiddler table, #tiddlerSplitTiddler tr, #tiddlerSplitTiddler td
{ border:0; margin:0; padding:0; }
</style><table><tr><td><form>
<table style='width:100%'><tr><td style='width:20%'>
<div class='label'>source tiddler:</div>
<select name='src' value='' style='width:99%;padding:2px;margin:0'
title='select a tiddler containing source material'>
<option value=''>select a tiddler...</option>
</select>
</td><td style='width:20%'>
<div class='label'>target title format:</div>
<input name='titleformat' value='%0 - %1' style='width:99%'
title='format for target tiddler titles'>
</td><td style='width:20%'>
<div class='label'>output format:</div>
<input name='format' value='%4' style='width:99%'
title='format for target tiddler content'>
</td><td style='width:20%'>
<div class='label'>target field:</div>
<input name='fieldname' value='text' style='width:99%'
title='field to hold content in target tiddler'>
</td><td style='width:20%'>
<div class='label'>add tags:</div>
<input name='tags' value='' style='width:99%'
title='tags for target tiddlers'>
</td></tr></table>
<div style='font-size:80%;font-style:italic;text-align:center;color:gray'>
%0=source title, %1=first line of item, %2=first word of item, %3=item number, %4=item content
</div>
<div style='float:left;margin-right:1em'>
<div class='label'>split source content by:</div>
<div style='line-height:2.1em'>
<input type='radio' name='splitby' value='charcount'>every
<input name='charcount' value='1000' onfocus='this.select()' style='width:3em'
title='split content every N characters'> characters<br>
<input type='radio' name='splitby' value='linecount'>every
<input name='linecount' value='20' onfocus='this.select()' style='width:3em'
title='split content every N lines'> lines<br>
<input type='radio' name='splitby' value='match' CHECKED>match
<input name='sep' value='\n----\n' onfocus='this.select()' style='width:8em'
title='match character sequence to split content'><br>
<input type='checkbox' name='regexp' title='match using regular expressions (text patterns)'>use RegExp text pattern<br>
</div></div>
<div style='float:left;margin-right:1em'>
<div class='label'>options:</div>
<input type='checkbox' name='warn' checked>confirm overwrites<br>
<input type='checkbox' name='show'>show tiddlers when done<br>
<input type='checkbox' name='limit'>create only
<input name='maxtids' value='8' style='width:2em'> tiddlers<br>
<input type='checkbox' name='index' checked>create an index tiddler<br>
index item format:
<input name='indexformat' value='<<tiddler [[%0 - %1]]>>' style='width:10em'
title='%0=target tiddler title'>
</div>
<input type='button' style='float:right;height:5em;margin-top:2.5em' value='split tiddler' onclick="
var f=this.form;
if (!f.src.value.length)
{ alert('select a tiddler title'); f.src.focus(); return false; }
if (!f.titleformat.value.length)
{ alert('enter a target title format'); f.titleformat.focus(); return false; }
if (!f.src.value.length)
{ alert('enter an output item format'); f.format.focus(); return false; }
var start=new Date().getTime();
var src=store.getTiddlerText(f.src.value);
if (!src) { displayMessage('\x27'+f.src.value+'\x27 not found'); return false; }
var tags=f.tags.value;
var parts=[];
if (f.splitby[0].checked) { /* chars */
for (var i=0; i<src.length; i+=f.charcount.value)
parts.push(src.substr(i,f.charcount.value));
} else if (f.splitby[1].checked) { /* lines */
var lines=src.split('\n');
var t=''; var c=f.linecount.value;
while (lines.length) {
t+=lines.shift()+'\n'; c--;
if (!c) { parts.push(t); var c=f.linecount.value; t=''; }
}
} else { /* match text/regexp */
var sep=!f.regexp.checked?f.sep.value.unescapeLineBreaks():new RegExp(f.sep.value);
var pieces=src.split(sep);
for (var i=0; i<pieces.length; i++) if (pieces[i].length) parts.push(pieces[i]);
}
var msg='Found '+parts.length+' items in \x27'+f.src.value+'\x27. OK to proceed?';
if (!confirm(msg)) return false;
if (parts.length) store.suspendNotifications();
var pad=parts.length.toString().length;
var tids=[]; var out=[];
var srctitle=f.src.value;
var fmt=f.format.value.unescapeLineBreaks();
var titlefmt=f.titleformat.value.unescapeLineBreaks();
var fieldname=f.fieldname.value.toLowerCase();
var indexfmt=f.indexformat.value.unescapeLineBreaks();
var max=f.limit.checked?f.maxtids.value:parts.length;
var warn=f.warn.checked;
for (var p=0; p<max; p++) {
var lines=parts[p].split('\n');
var firstline=lines[0];
var firstword=firstline.split(' ')[0];
var itemnum=String.zeroPad(p+1,pad);
if (titlefmt.indexOf('%2')!=-1) /* remove firstword if used in title */
{ var words=lines[0].split(' '); words.shift(); lines[0]=words.join(' '); var discard=!words.length; }
if (titlefmt.indexOf('%1')!=-1 || discard) /* remove firstline if used in title */
lines.shift();
var content=lines.join('\n');
var args=[srctitle,firstline,firstword,itemnum,content];
var tid=titlefmt.format(args).replace(/[\[\]\|]/g,'_');
var txt=fmt.format(args);
var fields={}; if (fieldname!='text')
{ fields[fieldname]=txt; txt='<<view '+fieldname+' wikified>>'; }
var tags=tags.format(args);
if (warn && store.tiddlerExists(tid) && !confirm(config.messages.overwriteWarning.format([tid])))
continue;
store.saveTiddler(tid,tid,txt,config.options.txtUserName,new Date(),tags,fields);
if (f.index.checked) out.push(indexfmt.format(args));
tids.pushUnique(tid);
}
var elapsed=(new Date().getTime()-start)/1000;
if (parts.length) store.resumeNotifications();
if (tids.length) {
if (f.index.checked) {
var tid=f.src.value+'Index';
if (!warn||!store.tiddlerExists(tid)||confirm(config.messages.overwriteWarning.format([tid])))
store.saveTiddler(tid,tid,out.join('\n'),config.options.txtUserName,new Date(),[],{});
}
store.notifyAll();
if (f.show.checked) story.displayTiddlers(story.findContainingTiddler(this),tids);
displayMessage('created '+tids.length+' target tiddlers in '+elapsed+' seconds');
}
"><div style='clear:both'></div>
</form></td></tr></table></html><<tiddler {{
var list=place.lastChild.getElementsByTagName('form')[0].src;
store.forEachTiddler(function(title,tiddler){
list.options[list.length]=new Option(title,title);
});
'';}}>>
[[SplitTiddlerScriptureInfy]]
/%
|Name|SplitTiddler|
|Source|http://www.TiddlyTools.com/#SplitTiddler|
|Version|1.9.5|
|Author|Eric Shulman|
|License|http://www.TiddlyTools.com/#LegalStatements|
|~CoreVersion|2.1|
|Type|html|
|Description|split tiddler contents into separate tiddlers|
%/<html><nowiki><style>
#tiddlerSplitTiddler .tagged { display:none; }
#tiddlerSplitTiddler .label { font-size:90%;font-style:italic;white-space:nowrap; }
#tiddlerSplitTiddler table, #tiddlerSplitTiddler tr, #tiddlerSplitTiddler td
{ border:0; margin:0; padding:0; }
</style><table><tr><td><form>
<table style='width:100%'><tr><td style='width:20%'>
<div class='label'>source tiddler:</div>
<select name='src' value='' style='width:99%;padding:2px;margin:0'
title='select source tiddler'>
<option value=''>select a tiddler...</option>
</select>
</td><td style='width:20%'>
<div class='label'>output format:</div>
<input name='format' value='%4' style='width:99%'
title='format for target tiddler content'>
</td><td style='width:20%'>
<div class='label'>target field:</div>
<input name='fieldname' value='text' style='width:99%'
title='field to hold content in target tiddler'>
</td></tr></table>
<div style='font-size:80%;font-style:italic;text-align:center;color:gray'>
%0=source title, %1=first line of item, %2=first word of item, %3=item number, %4=item content
</div>
<div style='float:left;margin-right:1em'>
<div class='label'>options:</div>
<input type='checkbox' name='warn' checked>confirm overwrites<br>
<input type='checkbox' name='limit'>create only
<input name='maxtids' value='4' style='width:2em'> tiddlers
</div>
<input type='button' style='float:right;height:5em;margin-top:2.5em' value='split tiddler' onclick="
var f=this.form;
if (!f.src.value.length)
{ alert('select a tiddler title'); f.src.focus(); return false; }
/* if (!f.titleformat.value.length) */
/* { alert('enter a target title format'); f.titleformat.focus(); return false; } */
if (!f.src.value.length)
{ alert('enter an output item format'); f.format.focus(); return false; }
var start=new Date().getTime();
var src=store.getTiddlerText(f.src.value);
if (!src) { displayMessage('\x27'+f.src.value+'\x27 not found'); return false; }
var tags='Scriptr todo';
var parts=[];
var sep='\n----\n';
var pieces=src.split(sep);
for (var i=0; i<pieces.length; i++) if (pieces[i].length) parts.push(pieces[i]);
/* var msg='Found '+parts.length+' items in \x27'+f.src.value+'\x27. OK to proceed?';
if (!confirm(msg)) return false; */
if (parts.length) store.suspendNotifications();
var pad=parts.length.toString().length;
var tids=[]; var out=[];
var srctitle=f.src.value;
var fmt=f.format.value.unescapeLineBreaks();
var titlefmt='%0 - %3';
var fieldname=f.fieldname.value.toLowerCase();
/*var indexfmt=f.indexformat.value.unescapeLineBreaks();*/
var max=f.limit.checked?f.maxtids.value:parts.length;
var warn=f.warn.checked;
for (var p=0; p<max; p++) {
var lines=parts[p].split('\n');
var firstline=lines[0];
var firstword=firstline.split(' ')[0];
var itemnum=String.zeroPad(p+1,pad);
if (titlefmt.indexOf('%2')!=-1) /* remove firstword if used in title */
{ var words=lines[0].split(' '); words.shift(); lines[0]=words.join(' '); var discard=!words.length; }
if (titlefmt.indexOf('%1')!=-1 || discard) /* remove firstline if used in title */
lines.shift();
var content=lines.join('\n');
var args=[srctitle,firstline,firstword,itemnum,content];
var tid=titlefmt.format(args).replace(/[\[\]\|]/g,'_');
var txt=fmt.format(args);
var fields={}; if (fieldname!='text')
{ fields[fieldname]=txt; txt='<<view '+fieldname+' wikified>>'; }
var tags=tags.format(args);
if (warn && store.tiddlerExists(tid) && !confirm(config.messages.overwriteWarning.format([tid])))
continue;
store.saveTiddler(tid,tid,txt,config.options.txtUserName,new Date(),tags,fields);
/*if (f.index.checked) out.push(indexfmt.format(args));*/
tids.pushUnique(tid);
}
var elapsed=(new Date().getTime()-start)/1000;
if (parts.length) store.resumeNotifications();
if (tids.length) {
store.notifyAll();
if (true) story.displayTiddlers(story.findContainingTiddler(this),tids);
/* SDM above: replaced test argument which had come from form entry */
/* displayMessage('created '+tids.length+' target tiddlers in '+elapsed+' seconds'); */
}
"><div style='clear:both'></div>
</form></td></tr></table></html><<tiddler {{
var list=place.lastChild.getElementsByTagName('form')[0].src;
store.forEachTiddler(function(title,tiddler){
list.options[list.length]=new Option(title,title);
});
'';}}>>
[[SplitTiddlerScripture]] currently is only intended to work for Scripture tiddlers, and does it poorly.
!!!Upon Split:
* For New Tiddler A, the Next link should point to New Tiddler B, but it doesn't change.
* For New Tiddler B, the Next link should point to New Tiddler B, but it doesn't change.
* New Tiddler A should have an Open link at the end.
* The tiddler names are weak, wrong.
* <<Bbl Judges 16:5 >>
* Sun Tzu
James 1:17
* [[Faithfulness]]
* [[Founding]]
----
''Instability''
* You can drive a thousand miles, but you’re still fifteen feet from the ditch.
* [[Depravity]]
* Most marriage betrayals are based in someone's trauma, shame or confusion. But some are due merely to a poor decision.
[[Persevere]], [[Faithfulness]]
[[Believe]]
* [[Uprightness]]
* <<Bbl 1C 15:2>> in which you stand, and by which you are saved
!! Uprightness
* //Rectitude, erection//
* <<Bbl H 1:8 >>
* <<Bbl Amos 7:7 >> //plumb line// -- building construction, [[House]]
* <<Bbl Lv 26:13 >>
* [[Ethics]]
* Jesus: <<Bbl Nu 24:17 >>, <<Bbl Rev 22:16 >>.
* <<Bbl Est 3:8 >> //whose customs are different ... and who do not obey the [[King]]'s laws//
* <<Bbl 1S 14:24 "" note >> The king places his nation under a vow.
* [[Authorize]]
* [[Idolatry]]
* from [[Need]]: <<Bbl Pr 6:30 >>-31 ; <<Bbl Pr 28:21 >>; <<Bbl Pr 30:9 >>;
* See [[MinorProphets-note]] about Haggai 1:4
* //Theft, thief//
* <<Bbl Job 27:16 >>-17
* <<Bbl Pr 1:13 >>;
* <<Bbl 1Tim 3:8 >>
* //Profiteering//
* <<Bbl J 2:14 >>-16
* <<Bbl 2C 2:17 >>
* Eli's sons
* <<Bbl Ez 34:28 >>
* Gehazi's guile
* Judas
* Ananias and Sapphira
* //May your money perish with you//
* [[Accountability]].
* [[Commission]]
* Adam the first steward of everything, but particularly of revelation - both general and specific (or disclosed).
WEALTH:
<<Bbl Mt 6:21>>.
Here is the right order: give, save, taxes, repay debt, spent. Yet we do precisely the opposite.
/***
|Name|StickyPopupPlugin|
|Source|http://www.TiddlyTools.com/#StickyPopupPlugin|
|Version|1.0.1|
|Author|Eric Shulman - ELS Design Studios|
|License|http://www.TiddlyTools.com/#LegalStatements <br>and [[Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 License|http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/]]|
|~CoreVersion|2.1|
|Type|plugin|
|Requires||
|Overrides|Popup.onDocumentClick|
|Options|##Configuration|
|Description|allow mouse interactions inside popups without automatically closing them|
Usually, when a TW popup is displayed, it is automatically closed whenever a click occurs //anywhere// in the document, either //inside// or //outside// the popup itself. This plugin makes popups persistent (a.k.a, "sticky"), allowing you to perform multiple mouse interactions on content //inside// the popup (e.g., entering form fields, opening links, selecting text, etc.), remaining visible until you click //outside// the popup or perform an action that opens another popup (only one popup can be displayed at any given time).
!!!!!Configuration
<<<
You can cause popups to behave in a persistent ("sticky") manner simply by selecting the option checkbox below. The selected popup display behavior will be applied to ALL popups in the document automatically.
><<option chkStickyPopups>> make all popups "sticky"
>{{{usage: <<option chkStickyPopups>>}}}
<<<
!!!!!Usage
<<<
If you are developing your own plugins or inline scripts that create popups programmatically using the core function:
{{{
Popup.create(this)
}}}
you can provide additional parameters that specify the desired CSS classname(s) to assign to the popup DOM element. The default class when none is specified is simply "popup". To create a //sticky// popup, simply enter a custom class combination like this:
{{{
Popup.create(this,null,"sticky popup")
}}}
<<<
!!!!!Revisions
<<<
2008.05.16 [1.0.1] added try..catch around addEvent/removeEvent calls to avoid error in Opera
2007.11.25 [1.0.0] initial release - moved from [[CoreTweaks]]
<<<
!!!!!Code
***/
//{{{
version.extensions.StickyPopupPlugin= {major: 1, minor: 0, revision: 1, date: new Date(2008,5,16)};
if (config.options.chkStickyPopups==undefined) config.options.chkStickyPopups=false;
Popup.stickyPopup_onDocumentClick = function(ev)
{
// if click is in a sticky popup, ignore it so popup will remain visible
var e = ev ? ev : window.event; var target = resolveTarget(e);
var p=target; while (p) {
if (hasClass(p,"popup") && (hasClass(p,"sticky")||config.options.chkStickyPopups)) break;
else p=p.parentNode;
}
if (!p) // not in sticky popup (or sticky popups disabled)... use normal click handling
Popup.onDocumentClick(ev);
return true;
};
try{removeEvent(document,"click",Popup.onDocumentClick);}catch(e){};
try{addEvent(document,"click",Popup.stickyPopup_onDocumentClick);}catch(e){};
//}}}
The storm brings instability, chaos, [[Confuse]], [[Danger]], [[Adversity]], [[Judgment-ofGod]].
* Of the four winds, the OT cites the east [[Wind]] as bringing the storm.
* Job's opening - and denoument.
* God's sovereignty
** <<Bbl Ps 89:9 >>
** <<Bbl Ps 93:4 >>
** <<Bbl Ps 107:23-30 >>
** <<Bbl Mk 4:41 >>
* <<Bbl Nahum 1:3 >>
* <<Bbl Eph 4:14>>
* <<Bbl Jude 1:13>>
* <<Bbl James 1:6>>
* <<Bbl Mt 7:24>>
* //Narrative, fable, parable//
* Lost for our culture
* [[Witness]]
* "Once upon a time" is a phrase that may go back to 14th century.
{{small center{
<<tiddler ShowPopup with:
[[DocumentSetup]] "setup" "configuration and setup" tiddlyLinkExisting auto sticky>>/%
%/ {{inline{<<tiddler ToggleBreadcrumbs##show with: "crumbs">> }}} /%
/***
|Name|StorySaverPlugin|
|Source|http://www.TiddlyTools.com/#StorySaverPlugin|
|Documentation|http://www.TiddlyTools.com/#StorySaverPluginInfo|
|Version|1.8.3|
|Author|Eric Shulman|
|License|http://www.TiddlyTools.com/#LegalStatements|
|~CoreVersion|2.1|
|Type|plugin|
|Requires|MarkupPostBody|
|Description|save/restore current tiddler view between browser sessions|
Automatically save a list of currently viewed tiddlers (the 'story') in a local cookie, {{{txtSavedStory}}} and then open those tiddlers when the document is reloaded, so you can resume working from the same place you left off!! Also, use {{{<<saveStory>>}}} and {{{<<openStory>>}}} macros to quickly save/re-display stories stored in tiddlers, using a command link, droplist, or popup display.
!!!!!Documentation
>see [[StorySaverPluginInfo]]
!!!!!Configuration
<<<
<<option chkSaveStory>> use automatic story cookie (reopens tiddlers on startup)
<<option chkStoryAllowAdd>>include 'add a story' command in droplist/popup
<<option chkStoryFold>>fold story tiddlers when opening a story (see [[CollapseTiddlersPlugin]])
<<option chkStoryClose>>close other tiddlers when opening a story
<<option chkStoryTop>>open story tiddlers at top of column
<<option chkStoryBottom>>open story tiddlers at bottom of column
<<<
!!!!!Revisions
<<<
2009.10.20 1.8.3 fix handling for 'add' item in popup menu
|please see [[StorySaverPluginInfo]] for additional revision details|
2007.10.05 1.0.0 initial release. Moved [[SetDefaultTiddlers]] inline script and rewrote as a {{{<<saveStory>>}}} macro.
<<<
!!!!!Code
***/
//{{{
version.extensions.StorySaverPlugin= {major: 1, minor: 8, revision: 3, date: new Date(2009,10,20)};
var defaults={
chkSaveStory: false,
chkStoryFold: true,
chkStoryClose: true,
chkStoryAllowAdd: true,
chkStoryTop: true,
chkStoryBottom: false
};
for (var id in defaults) if (config.options[id]===undefined)
config.options[id]=defaults[id];
// if removeCookie() function is not defined by TW core, define it here.
if (window.removeCookie===undefined) {
window.removeCookie=function(name) {
document.cookie = name+'=; expires=Thu, 01-Jan-1970 00:00:01 UTC; path=/;';
}
}
// save or clear story cookie on exit
if (window.coreTweaks_confirmExit==undefined) {
window.coreTweaks_confirmExit=window.confirmExit;
window.confirmExit=function() {
if (config.options.chkSaveStory) { // save cookie
var links=[];
story.forEachTiddler(function(title,element){links.push('[['+title+']]');});
config.options.txtSavedStory=links.join(' ');
saveOptionCookie('txtSavedStory');
} else removeCookie('txtSavedStory');
return window.coreTweaks_confirmExit.apply(this,arguments);
}
}
//}}}
/***
''apply saved story on startup:'' //important note: the following code is actually located in [[MarkupPostBody]]. This is because it needs to supercede the core's getParameters() function, which is called BEFORE plugins are loaded, preventing the normal plugin-based hijack method from working, while code loaded into [[MarkupPostBody]] will be processed as soon as the document is read, even before the TW main() function is invoked.//
<<tiddler MarkupPostBody>>
***/
//{{{
config.macros.saveStory = {
label: 'set default tiddlers',
defaultTiddler: 'DefaultTiddlers',
prompt: 'store a list of currently displayed tiddlers in another tiddler',
askMsg: 'Enter the name of a tiddler in which to save the current story:',
tag: 'story',
excludeTag: 'excludeStory',
handler: function(place,macroName,params,wikifier,paramString,tiddler) {
var tid=params.shift()||'DefaultTiddlers';
var label=params.shift()||this.label;
var tip=params.shift()||this.prompt;
var btn=createTiddlyButton(place,label,tip,this.setTiddler,'button');
btn.setAttribute('tid',tid);
btn.setAttribute('extratags','[['+params.join(']] [[')+']]');
},
setTiddler: function() {
var cms=config.macros.saveStory; // abbrev
// get list of current open tiddlers
var tids=[];
story.forEachTiddler(function(title,element){
var t=store.getTiddler(title);
if (!t || !t.isTagged(cms.excludeTag)) tids.push('[['+title+']]');
});
// get target tiddler
var tid=this.getAttribute('tid');
if (!tid || tid=='ask') {
tid=prompt(cms.askMsg,cms.defaultTiddler);
if (!tid || !tid.length) return false; // cancelled by user
}
if(store.tiddlerExists(tid) && !confirm(config.messages.overwriteWarning.format([tid])))
return false;
tids=tids.join('\n');
var t=store.getTiddler(tid); var tags=t?t.tags:[];
var extratags=(this.getAttribute('extratags')||'').readBracketedList();
for (var i=0; i<extratags.length; i++) tags.pushUnique(extratags[i]);
tags.pushUnique(cms.tag);
store.saveTiddler(tid,tid,tids,config.options.txtUserName,new Date(),tags,t?t.fields:null);
story.displayTiddler(null,tid);
story.refreshTiddler(tid,null,true);
displayMessage(tid+' has been '+(t?'updated':'created'));
return false;
}
}
//}}}
//{{{
config.macros.openStory = {
label: 'open story: %0',
prompt: 'open the set of tiddlers listed in: %0',
popuplabel: 'stories',
popupprompt: 'view a set of tiddlers',
tag: 'story',
selectprompt: 'select a story...',
optionsprompt: 'viewing options...',
foldcmd: '[%0] fold story',
foldprompt: 'fold story tiddlers when opening a story',
closecmd: '[%0] close others',
closeprompt: 'close other tiddlers when opening a story',
topcmd: '[%0] open at top',
topprompt: 'open story tiddlers at top of column',
bottomcmd: '[%0] open at bottom',
bottomprompt: 'open story tiddlers at bottom of column',
addcmd: 'add a story...',
addprompt: 'create a new story',
excludeTag: 'excludeStory',
handler: function(place,macroName,params,wikifier,paramString,tiddler) {
if (params[0].toLowerCase()=='list') return this.createList(place,params);
else if (params[0].toLowerCase()=='popup') return this.createPopup(place,params);
else this.createButton(place,params);
},
showStory: function(tid,fold) {
var co=config.options; // abbrev
var tids=[];
var t=store.getTiddler(tid);
var tagged=store.getTaggedTiddlers(tid,'title');
if (tagged.length) // if tiddler IS a tag, use tagged tiddlers as story
for (var i=0; i<tagged.length; i++) tids.push(tagged[i].title);
else if (t) { // get tiddler list from content
if (!t.linksUpdated) t.changed();
for (var i=0; i<t.links.length; i++) {
var tid=store.getTiddler(t.links[i]);
if (tid && !tid.isTagged(this.excludeTag))
tids.push(t.links[i]);
}
}
var template=null;
if (fold||co.chkStoryFold) template='CollapsedTemplate'; // see [[CollapseTiddlersPlugin]]
if (!store.tiddlerExists('CollapsedTemplate')) template=null;
if (co.chkStoryClose) story.closeAllTiddlers();
var pos='top'; var first=tids[0];
if (!story.isEmpty() && co.chkStoryBottom) { pos='bottom'; tids=tids.reverse(); }
story.displayTiddlers(pos,tids,template);
var cmd='var t=story.getTiddler("'+first+'");if(t)window.scrollTo(0,t.offsetTop);';
var delay=config.options.chkAnimate?config.animDuration+100:0;
setTimeout(cmd,delay);
},
createButton: function(place,params) {
var tid=params[0]||'';
var label=params[1]||this.label; label=label.format([tid]);
var tip=params[2]||this.prompt; tip=tip.format([tid]);
var fold=(params[3]&&(params[3].toLowerCase()=='fold'))||config.options.chkStoryFold;
var fn=function(){config.macros.openStory.showStory(this.getAttribute('tid'),this.getAttribute('fold')); return false; };
var btn=createTiddlyButton(place,label,tip,fn,'button');
btn.setAttribute('tid',tid);
if (fold) btn.setAttribute('fold',fold);
},
createPopup: function(place,params) {
params.shift(); // discard 'popup' keyword
var label=params.shift()||this.popuplabel;
var tip=params.shift()||this.popupprompt;
var btn=createTiddlyButton(place,label,tip,this.showPopup,'button');
btn.setAttribute('filter',params.shift()||config.macros.openStory.tag);
},
showPopup: function(ev) { var e=ev||window.event;
var co=config.options; // abbrev
var cmo=config.macros.openStory; // abbrev
var indent='\xa0\xa0';
var p=Popup.create(this); if (!p) return false;
createTiddlyText(createTiddlyElement(p,'li'),cmo.selectprompt);
var stories=store.filterTiddlers('[tag['+this.getAttribute('filter')+']]');
for (var s=0; s<stories.length; s++) {
var label=indent+stories[s].title;
var tip=cmo.prompt.format([stories[s].title]);
var fn=function(){config.macros.openStory.showStory(this.getAttribute('tid'));return false;};
var btn=createTiddlyButton(createTiddlyElement(p,'li'),label,tip,fn,'button');
btn.setAttribute('tid',stories[s].title);
}
createTiddlyText(createTiddlyElement(p,'li'),cmo.optionsprompt);
if (store.tiddlerExists('CollapsedTemplate')) {
var label=indent+cmo.foldcmd.format([co.chkStoryFold?'x':'\xa0\xa0']);
var tip=cmo.foldprompt;
var fn=function(){ config.macros.option.propagateOption(
'chkStoryFold','checked',!config.options.chkStoryFold,'input'); return false; };
var btn=createTiddlyButton(createTiddlyElement(p,'li'),label,tip,fn,'button');
}
var label=indent+cmo.closecmd.format([co.chkStoryClose?'x':'\xa0\xa0']);
var tip=indent+cmo.closeprompt;
var fn=function(){ config.macros.option.propagateOption(
'chkStoryClose','checked',!config.options.chkStoryClose,'input'); return false; };
var btn=createTiddlyButton(createTiddlyElement(p,'li'),label,tip,fn,'button');
if (!co.chkStoryClose) {
var label=indent+cmo.topcmd.format([co.chkStoryTop?'x':'\xa0\xa0']);
var tip=indent+cmo.topprompt;
var fn=function(){
config.macros.option.propagateOption(
'chkStoryTop','checked',!config.options.chkStoryTop,'input');
config.macros.option.propagateOption(
'chkStoryBottom','checked',!config.options.chkStoryTop,'input');
return false;
};
var btn=createTiddlyButton(createTiddlyElement(p,'li'),label,tip,fn,'button');
var label=indent+cmo.bottomcmd.format([co.chkStoryBottom?'x':'\xa0\xa0']);
var tip=indent+cmo.botprompt;
var fn=function(){
config.macros.option.propagateOption(
'chkStoryBottom','checked',!config.options.chkStoryBottom,'input');
config.macros.option.propagateOption(
'chkStoryTop','checked',!config.options.chkStoryBottom,'input');
return false;
};
var btn=createTiddlyButton(createTiddlyElement(p,'li'),label,tip,fn,'button');
}
if (!readOnly && co.chkStoryAllowAdd) {
var label=cmo.addcmd;
var tip=cmo.addprompt;
var fn=config.macros.saveStory.setTiddler;
createTiddlyElement(createTiddlyElement(p,'li'),'hr');
var btn=createTiddlyButton(createTiddlyElement(p,'li'),label,tip,fn,'button');
}
Popup.show();
e.cancelBubble=true;if(e.stopPropagation)e.stopPropagation();
return false;
},
createList: function(place,params) {
var cmo=config.macros.openStory; // abbrev
var s=createTiddlyElement(place,'select',null,'storyListbox');
s.size=1;
s.onchange=function() {
if (this.value=='_fold') {
config.macros.option.propagateOption('chkStoryFold','checked',
!config.options.chkStoryFold,'input');
cmo.refreshList();
} else if (this.value=='_close') {
config.macros.option.propagateOption('chkStoryClose','checked',
!config.options.chkStoryClose,'input');
cmo.refreshList();
} else if (this.value=='_top') {
config.macros.option.propagateOption('chkStoryTop','checked',
!config.options.chkStoryTop,'input');
cmo.refreshList();
} else if (this.value=='_bottom') {
config.macros.option.propagateOption('chkStoryBottom','checked',
!config.options.chkStoryBottom,'input');
cmo.refreshList();
} else if (this.value=='_add')
config.macros.saveStory.setTiddler.apply(this,arguments);
else cmo.showStory(this.value);
}
params.shift(); // discard 'list' keyword
s.setAttribute('filter',params.shift()||cmo.tag);
setStylesheet('.storyListbox { width:100%; }', 'StorySaverStyles');
store.addNotification(null,this.refreshList); this.refreshList();
return;
},
refreshList: function() {
var cmo=config.macros.openStory; // abbrev
var indent='\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0';
var lists=document.getElementsByTagName('select');
for (var i=0; i<lists.length; i++) { if (lists[i].className!='storyListbox') continue;
var here=lists[i];
var stories=store.filterTiddlers('[tag['+here.getAttribute('filter')+']]');
while (here.length) here.options[0]=null; // remove current list items
here.options[here.length]=new Option(cmo.selectprompt,'',true,true);
for (var s=0; s<stories.length; s++)
here.options[here.length]=new Option(indent+stories[s].title,stories[s].title);
if (!readOnly && config.options.chkStoryAllowAdd)
here.options[here.length]=new Option(cmo.addcmd,'_add');
here.options[here.length]=new Option(cmo.optionsprompt,'');
if (store.tiddlerExists('CollapsedTemplate')) {
var msg=cmo.foldcmd.format([config.options.chkStoryFold?'x':'\xa0\xa0']);
here.options[here.length]=new Option(indent+msg,'_fold');
}
var msg=cmo.closecmd.format([config.options.chkStoryClose?'x':'\xa0\xa0']);
here.options[here.length]=new Option(indent+msg,'_close',false,false);
if (!config.options.chkStoryClose) {
var msg=cmo.topcmd.format([config.options.chkStoryTop?'x':'\xa0\xa0']);
here.options[here.length]=new Option(indent+msg,'_top',false,false);
var msg=cmo.bottomcmd.format([config.options.chkStoryBottom?'x':'\xa0\xa0']);
here.options[here.length]=new Option(indent+msg,'_bottom',false,false);
}
}
}
}
//}}}
/***
|Name|StorySaverPlugin|
|Source|http://www.TiddlyTools.com/#StorySaverPlugin|
|Documentation|http://www.TiddlyTools.com/#StorySaverPluginInfo|
|Version|1.8.3|
|Author|Eric Shulman|
|License|http://www.TiddlyTools.com/#LegalStatements|
|~CoreVersion|2.1|
|Type|documentation|
|Requires|MarkupPostBody|
|Description|documentation for [[StorySaverPlugin]]|
Automatically saves a list of currently viewed tiddlers (the "story") in a local cookie, {{{txtSavedStory}}} and then opens those tiddlers when the document is subsequently reloaded, allowing you to quickly resume working with the document from the same place you left off!! The plugin also defines {{{<<saveStory>>}}} and {{{<<openStory>>}}} macros that allow you to quickly save/re-display stories stored in tiddlers, using simple, one-click command links or droplists.
!!!!!Usage
<<<
If a document URL does not contain a paramifier (i.e., a "#..." suffix), then the saved story cookie (if any) will be used //as if// it had been entered as a permaview (e.g., a "#tiddler tiddler tiddler..." suffix on the URL), bypassing the [[DefaultTiddlers]] definition. This behavior is automatically applied whenever the plugin is installed in your document. You can enable/disable the automatic cookie-based StorySaver feature by using the checkbox below:
><<option chkSaveStory>> enable StorySaverPlugin
>//usage:// {{{<<option chkSaveStory>>}}}
You can also temporarily //bypass// the redisplay of a saved story ''without disabling the StorySaver cookie'' by including a trailing "#" at the end of the document URL. This will cause your document to be loaded into the browser without displaying //any// initial tiddlers at all. Alternatively, you can enter {{{#story:storyname}}} on the end of the URL (e.g., {{{#story:DefaultTiddlers}}}) to display any specific saved story, regardless of the value of the cookie-based saved story.
__''saveStory macro:''__
The {{{<<saveStory>>}}} macro lets you write the list of currently viewed tiddlers to a specified tiddler name (e.g., DefaultTiddlers, MyFavorites, etc.). Tiddlers containing saved stories are automatically tagged with <<tag story>>, so that they can be recognized by the {{{<<storyViewer>>}}} macro (see [[StoryViewerPlugin]]). The syntax for the {{{<<saveStory>>}}} macro is:
{{{
<<saveStory storyname label tooltip tag tag tag...>>
}}}
*''storyname''<br>is the target tiddler in which to save the current story. If you use the keyword, ''ask'', in place of the tiddlername, you will be prompted to enter a tiddler title when saving the story (default: DefaultTiddlers).
*''label'' and ''tooltip''<br>are the link text and mouseover guide-text
*''tag tag tag...'' (optional)<br>are extra tags that are added when saving a story tiddler (in addition to the default<<tag story>>tag).
__''openStory macro:''__
To redisplay a saved story, the {{{<<openStory>>}}} macro can be used to embed either a droplist of all saved stories, or a link for a specified story. Selecting from the droplist or clicking the link opens the corresponding set of tiddlers.
{{{
<<openStory list tagValue>>
<<openStory popup label tooltip tagValue>>
<<openStory storyname label tooltip fold>>
}}}
*''list''<br>shows a droplist of all saved stories, plus additional commands/viewing options. Selecting a story opens the corresponding tiddlers.
*''popup''<br>shows a popup display containing a list of all saved stories, plus additional commands/viewing options. Selecting a story opens the corresponding tiddlers. ''label'' and ''tooltip'' are optional and provide alternative display text and mouseover help text, respectively.
*''storyname''<br>is a tiddler containing a saved story. //Note: You can also use a tag value as a storyname, in which case the story view will be composed of all tiddlers tagged with the specified tag value.//
*''label''<br>is the command link text (default: "open story: %0", where %0 is replaced by the storyname).
*''tooltip''<br>is the command mouseover guide-text (default: "open the set of tiddlers listed in: '%0'"),
*''tagValue'' (optional, default='story')<br>specifies an alternative tag value to match when listing story tiddlers. Note: if MatchTagsPlugin is installed, you can also use a compound //boolean tag expression//, enclosed within doubled square brackets.
*''fold''<br>If this optional keyword is present, the story tiddlers are initially 'folded' using [[CollapsedTemplate]] instead of the usual [[ViewTemplate]] (see [[CollapseTiddlersPlugin]]).
__''excludeStory tag:''__
Any tiddlers tagged with<<tag excludeStory>>will be automatically omitted when creating new story tiddlers with {{{<<saveStory>>}}}. Similarly, if a tiddler that is part of a saved story is tagged with<<tag excludeStory>>, it will not be displayed when that story is opened via {{{<<openStory>>}}}.
__''PermaView command link enhancement:''__
In order to further aide in saving/restoring the list of tiddlers currently being viewed, the core {{{<<permaview>>}}} command has been enhanced, so its link value always includes the current story view tiddler list as a paramifier in the URL. This let you quickly use the browser's right-click menu directly on the permalink command text to "bookmark this link...". Depending upon your system, you may also be able to drag the 'permaview' link directly from the page and drop it onto your desktop to create an instant permaview-bearing URL shortcut icon.
<<<
!!!!!Examples
<<<
*{{{<<saveStory TestStory "save a test story">>}}}<br>{{smallform{<<saveStory TestStory "save a test story">>}}}
*{{{<<openStory TestStory>>}}}<br><<openStory TestStory>>
*{{{<<openStory list>>}}}<br>{{smallform{<<openStory list>>}}}
*{{{<<openStory popup label tooltip>>}}}<br>{{smallform{<<openStory popup>>}}}
<<<
!!!!!Configuration
<<<
<<option chkSaveStory>> use automatic story cookie (reopens tiddlers on startup)
<<option chkStoryAllowAdd>>include 'add a story' command in droplist/popup
<<option chkStoryFold>>fold story tiddlers when opening a story (see [[CollapseTiddlersPlugin]])
<<option chkStoryClose>>close other tiddlers when opening a story
<<option chkStoryTop>>open story tiddlers at top of column
<<option chkStoryBottom>>open story tiddlers at bottom of column
<<<
!!!!!Revisions
<<<
2009.10.20 1.8.3 fix handling for 'add' item in popup menu
2009.08.29 1.8.2 added 'return false' to all button handlers to fix IE page-transition error
2009.08.23 1.8.1 fixed 'excludeStory' handling for links to missing tiddlers
2009.08.20 1.8.0 added 'excludeStory' tag handling
2009.07.27 1.7.1 corrected test for {{{chkStoryAllowAdd}}} when rendering //list// output
2009.07.27 1.7.0 added options: {{{chkStoryAllowAdd=true}}}, {{{chkStoryTop=true}}}, and {{{chkStoryBottom=false}}}. Also, autoscroll to first tiddler in story
2009.07.26 1.6.0 added optional 'extratags' param to {{{<<saveStory>>}}} and 'tagfilter' to {{{<<openStory>>}}}
2009.07.06 1.5.1 in setTiddler(), use pushUnique() to avoid double 'story' tag
2009.04.24 1.5.0 added optional 'fold' param to {{{<<openStory StoryName ...>>}}} macro
2008.09.07 1.4.3 added removeCookie() function for compatibility with [[CookieManagerPlugin]]
2008.07.11 1.4.2 in confirmExit(), corrected bracketing for titles containing spaces
2008.03.10 [*.*.*] plugin size reduction: documentation moved to [[StorySaverPluginInfo]]
2008.01.01 1.4.1 sort list of stories alphabetically
2008.01.01 1.4.0 added popup option
2007.12.31 1.3.1 instead of readBracketedList(), use internal tiddler.links[] to retrieve story list from tiddler content. Allows more flexible formatting of story tiddler content: anything content that is not a tiddler link is automatically filtered out of the list.
2007.10.23 1.3.0 split {{{<<storyViewer>>}}} macro definition into stand-alone [[StoryViewerPlugin]] to allow separate installation of story saving vs. story viewing features.
2007.10.21 1.2.0 added {{{<<openStory>>}}} and {{{<<storyViewer>>}}} macros.
2007.10.20 1.1.0 in setTiddler(), automatically add "story" tag to saved story tiddlers
2007.10.18 1.0.1 added default initialization for chkSaveStory option value. Also, in setTiddler(), call displayTiddler() after saving story to ensure that altered tiddler is shown to the user.
2007.10.05 1.0.0 initial release. Moved [[SetDefaultTiddlers]] inline script and rewrote as a {{{<<saveStory>>}}} macro. Moved permaview "mouseover HREF" enhancement from [[CoreTweaks]].
<<<
/***
|Name|[[StoryViewerPlugin]]|
|Source|http://www.TiddlyTools.com/#StoryViewerPlugin|
|Documentation|http://www.TiddlyTools.com/#StoryViewerPluginInfo|
|Version|1.4.0|
|Author|Eric Shulman|
|License|http://www.TiddlyTools.com/#LegalStatements|
|~CoreVersion|2.1|
|Type|plugin|
|Description|view a set of tiddlers using a droplist, "first/previous/next/last" links, or timed slideshow|
The {{{<<storyViewer>>}}} macro allows you to quickly ''display //and// navigate between a set of tiddlers'', using a droplist of titles and/or individual "first/previous/next/last" buttons/text links. It also provides a "slideshow" feature that permits you to ''present one tiddler at a time with a countdown timer to automatically advance to the next tiddler'' after a specified number of seconds.
!!!!!Documentation
> see [[StoryViewerPluginInfo]]
!!!!!Revisions
<<<
2011.03.11 1.4.0 added 'sort:fieldname' parameter
2011.01.24 1.3.4 in droplist onchange handler, don't clear slideshow 'started' flag (allows slideshow to continue after manual navigation)
|please see [[StoryViewerPluginInfo]] for additional revision details|
2007.10.23 1.0.0 Initial release, split {{{<<storyViewer>>}}} macro definition from [[StorySaverPlugin]] to allow separate installation of story saving vs. story viewing features.
<<<
!!!!!Code
***/
//{{{
version.extensions.StoryViewerPlugin= {major: 1, minor: 4, revision: 0, date: new Date(2011,3,11)};
config.macros.storyViewer = {
tag: "story",
storynotfoundmsg: "'%0' is an empty/unrecognized story",
firstcmd: "first",
firstbutton: "<<",
firstmsg: "first: '%0'",
nextcmd: "next",
nextbutton: ">",
nextmsg: "next: '%0'",
previouscmd: "previous",
previousbutton: "<",
prevmsg: "previous: '%0'",
lastcmd: "last",
lastbutton: ">>",
lastmsg: "last: '%0'",
refreshmsg: "redisplay '%0'",
refreshmsg: "",
autostart: false,
handler: function(place,macroName,params,wikifier,paramString,tiddler) {
var parsed=paramString.parseParams('anon',null,true,false,false);
var here=story.findContainingTiddler(place);
if (here) var tid=here.getAttribute("tiddler");
var storyname="";
var p=params.shift();
var keywords=['first','previous','here','next','last','list','links','timer','sort'];
if (!p || keywords.indexOf(p.split(':')[0])!=-1) {
// find story from current tiddler name
if (!tid) return; // not in a tiddler... do nothing!
var stories=store.getTaggedTiddlers(this.tag);
if (!stories) return;
for (var s=0; s<stories.length; s++) {
if (!stories[s].linksUpdated) stories[s].changed();
var tids=stories[s].links.slice(0);
if (tids.contains(tid)) { storyname=stories[s].title; break; }
}
if (!storyname.length) return; // current tiddler is not part of a saved story
}
else { storyname=p; p=params.shift(); } // user-specified story name
var sortby=getParam(parsed,'sort','title');
var tids=this.getStory(storyname,sortby); // get tiddler list
var target=null;
switch (p?p.split(':')[0]:'') {
case 'first':
target=tids[0];
break;
case 'previous':
var i=tids.indexOf(tid);
if (i!=-1) var target=tids[Math.max(i-1,0)];
break;
case 'here':
if (tid) target=tid;
break;
case 'next':
var i=tids.indexOf(tid);
if (i!=-1) var target=tids[Math.min(i+1,tids.length-1)];
break;
case 'last':
target=tids[tids.length-1];
break;
case 'links':
this.renderAllLinks(place,storyname);
break;
case 'timer':
var delay=parseInt(getParam(parsed,'timer',15))*1000; // msecs between slides
var autostart=params[0]=='autostart'; if (autostart) params.shift();
var action=params[0]; // null/close/fold
this.renderTimer(place,tids,tid,delay,autostart,action);
break;
case 'list':
default:
var prompt=getParam(parsed,'prompt',storyname+'...');
var nobuttons=params.contains("nobuttons");
var allbuttons=params.contains("allbuttons");
var onlybuttons=params.contains("onlybuttons");
this.renderList(place,tids,tid,storyname,prompt,nobuttons,allbuttons,onlybuttons);
break;
}
var label=getParam(parsed,'label',params[0]||target);
if (target) this.renderLink(place,tid,target,label);
},
getStory: function(storyname,sortby) { // READ TIDDLER LIST
var tids=[];
var fn=store.getMatchingTiddlers||store.getTaggedTiddlers;
var tagged=store.sortTiddlers(fn.apply(store,[storyname]),sortby||'title');
if (tagged.length) // if storyname is a tag, get tagged tiddlers rather than links
for (var t=0; t<tagged.length; t++) tids.push(tagged[t].title);
else {
var t=store.getTiddler(storyname);
if (t && !t.linksUpdated) t.changed();
var tids=t?t.links.slice(0):[];
}
return tids;
},
renderLink: function(place,tid,target,label) {
// override default labelling with specified text (if any)
if (tid==target) { // self-referential links turn into 'refresh links'
var btn=createTiddlyButton(place,null,this.refreshmsg.format([tid]), function() {
var here=story.findContainingTiddler(place).getAttribute("tiddler");
story.refreshTiddler(here,null,true);
});
wikify(label,btn);
}
else // create link
wikify(label,createTiddlyLink(place,target,false));
},
renderAllLinks: function(place,storyname) {
var out="{{floatleft{";
out+="<<storyViewer [["+storyname+"]] first first>> ";
out+="<<storyViewer [["+storyname+"]] previous previous>> ";
out+="}}}";
out+="{{floatright{";
out+=" <<storyViewer [["+storyname+"]] next next>>";
out+=" <<storyViewer [["+storyname+"]] last last>>";
out+="}}}";
out+="{{center{<<storyViewer [["+storyname+"]] here>>}}}";
wikify(out,place);
},
renderList: function(place,tids,tid,storyname,prompt,nobuttons,allbuttons,onlybuttons) {
var h="";
h+='<form style="display:inline">';
if ((!nobuttons||onlybuttons) && allbuttons) {
h+='<input type="button" value="'+this.firstbutton+'" ';
h+=' style="padding:0" title="'+(tids[0]?this.firstmsg.format([tids[0]]):'')+'"';
h+=' onclick="if (this.form.list.length<2) return; ';
h+=' this.form.list.selectedIndex=1; this.form.list.onchange();">';
}
if (!nobuttons||onlybuttons) {
h+='<input type="button" value="'+this.previousbutton+'" style="padding:0 0.3em"';
h+=' onclick="if (this.form.list.length<2) return; ';
h+=' var i=this.form.list.selectedIndex-1; if (i<1) i=1; ';
h+=' this.form.list.selectedIndex=i; this.form.list.onchange();"';
h+=' onmouseover="if (this.form.list.length<2) return; ';
h+=' var i=this.form.list.selectedIndex-1; if (i<1) i=1; ';
h+=' var v=this.form.list.options[i].value; if (!v.length) return; ';
h+=' this.title=config.macros.storyViewer.prevmsg.format([v]);">';
}
h+='<select size="1" name="list"';
if (onlybuttons) h+=' style="display:none;"';
h+=' onchange="if (this.value) story.displayTiddler(this,this.value);">';
h+='<option value="">'+prompt+'</option>';
for (i=0; i<tids.length; i++) {
h+='<option '+
(tids[i]==tid?'selected ':'')+
'value="'+tids[i]+'">\xa0\xa0'+tids[i]+'</option>';
}
h+='</select>';
if (!nobuttons||onlybuttons) {
h+='<input type="button" value="'+this.nextbutton+'" style="padding:0 0.3em"';
h+=' onclick="var i=this.form.list.selectedIndex+1; ';
h+=' if (i>this.form.list.options.length-1) i=this.form.list.options.length-1; ';
h+=' this.form.list.selectedIndex=i; this.form.list.onchange();"';
h+=' onmouseover="var i=this.form.list.selectedIndex+1; ';
h+=' if (i>this.form.list.options.length-1) i=this.form.list.options.length-1; ';
h+=' var v=this.form.list.options[i].value; if (!v.length) return;';
h+=' this.title=config.macros.storyViewer.nextmsg.format([v]);">';
}
if ((!nobuttons||onlybuttons) && allbuttons) {
h+='<input type="button" value="'+this.lastbutton+'" ';
h+=' style="padding:0" title="'+(tids[tids.length-1]?this.lastmsg.format([tids[tids.length-1]]):'')+'"';
h+=' onclick="this.form.list.selectedIndex=this.form.list.options.length-1; this.form.list.onchange();">';
}
h+='</form>';
createTiddlyElement(place,"span").innerHTML=h;
},
renderTimer: function(place,tids,tid,delay,autostart,action) {
var now=new Date().getTime(); // msec
var target=createTiddlyElement(null,'input',now+Math.random()); // unique ID
target.setAttribute('type','button'); target.style.padding='0';
place.appendChild(target);
target.tid =tids[Math.min(tids.indexOf(tid)+1,tids.length-1)]||''; // next tiddler
target.action =action;
target.formatTimer =this.formatTimer;
target.start =this.startTimer;
target.stop =this.stopTimer;
target.onmouseover =this.pauseTimer;
target.onmouseout =this.resumeTimer;
target.tick =this.timerTick;
target.onclick =this.timerClick;
target.next =this.timerNext;
target.start(delay,autostart);
},
formatTimer: function(t) {
return '0:'+String.zeroPad(Math.floor(t/1000),2);
},
startTimer: function(delay,start) {
var co=config.options; // abbrev
start=config.macros.storyViewer.started=start||config.macros.storyViewer.started;
var now=new Date().getTime(); // msec
this.started=start;
this.delay=delay;
this.paused=start?0:delay;
this.stopTime=now+delay; // msec
this.title='CLICK='+(start?'reset':'start')+" slideshow timer... next: '"+this.tid+"'";
this.style.cursor='pointer';
this.value=this.formatTimer(delay);
if (start) {
var code="var e=document.getElementById('"+this.id+"'); if(e)e.tick()";
this.timer=setTimeout(code,500);
}
return false;
},
stopTimer: function() {
this.timer=clearTimeout(this.timer);
this.started=config.macros.storyViewer.started=false;
this.paused=0;
this.title="CLICK=start slideshow timer... next: '"+this.tid+"'";
this.value=this.formatTimer(this.delay);
return false;
},
pauseTimer: function() {
if (!this.started) return;
var now=new Date().getTime(); // msec
this.paused=Math.max(this.stopTime-now,0);
this.stopTime=now+this.paused;
return false;
},
resumeTimer: function() {
if (!this.started || !this.paused) return;
var now=new Date().getTime(); // msec
this.stopTime=now+this.paused;
this.paused=0;
return false;
},
timerTick: function() {
var now=new Date().getTime(); // msec
if (!this.started)
this.stopTime=now+this.delay;
else if (this.paused) {
this.stopTime=now+this.paused;
this.title="[PAUSED] MOUSEOUT=resume, CLICK=reset... next: '"+this.tid+"'";
}
var remaining=this.stopTime-now;
if (remaining>0) {
if (this.started && !this.paused) this.value=this.formatTimer(remaining);
var code="var e=document.getElementById('"+this.id+"'); if(e)e.tick()";
this.timer=setTimeout(code,500);
} else {
this.stop();
this.next();
}
return false;
},
timerClick: function() {
return this.started?this.stop():this.start(this.delay,true);
},
timerNext: function() { // OPEN NEXT TIDDLER
var here=story.findContainingTiddler(this);
config.macros.storyViewer.started=true; // next slide autostarts to continue slideshow
if (this.tid) story.displayTiddler(here,this.tid);
config.macros.storyViewer.started=false;
if (!here) return false;
var t=here.getAttribute('tiddler');
if (this.action=='close') story.closeTiddler(t);
if (this.action=='fold' && config.commands.collapseTiddler) // see CollapseTiddlerPlugin
config.commands.collapseTiddler.handler(null,here,t);
return false;
}
}
//}}}
//{{{
config.paramifiers.story = {
onstart: function(v) {
var t=store.getTiddler(v); if (t) t.changed();
var list=t?t.links:store.getTiddlerText(v,"").parseParams("open",null,false);
story.displayTiddlers(null,list);
}
};
//}}}
/***
|Name|StoryViewerPluginInfo|
|Source|http://www.TiddlyTools.com/#StoryViewerPlugin|
|Documentation|http://www.TiddlyTools.com/#StoryViewerPluginInfo|
|Version|1.4.0|
|Author|Eric Shulman|
|License|http://www.TiddlyTools.com/#LegalStatements|
|~CoreVersion|2.1|
|Type|documentation|
|Description|documentation for StoryViewerPlugin|
The {{{<<storyViewer>>}}} macro allows you to quickly ''display //and// navigate between a set of tiddlers'', using a droplist of titles and/or individual "first/previous/next/last" buttons/text links. It also provides a "slideshow" feature that permits you to ''present one tiddler at a time with a countdown timer to automatically advance to the next tiddler'' after a specified number of seconds.
!!!!!Usage
<<<
{{{
<<storyViewer storyname|tagvalue list buttonoption prompt:... sort:...>>
<<storyViewer storyname|tagvalue first|previous|here|next|last sort:...>>
<<storyViewer storyname|tagvalue links sort:fieldname>>
<<storyViewer storyname|tagvalue timer:nnn autostart close|fold sort:...>>
}}}
where:
* ''storyname'' or ''tagvalue''<br>specifies a set of tiddler titles, defined either by matching a tag value, or by creating a tiddler, tagged with <<tag story>>, containing a space-separated list of titles. //Note: You can use the {{{<<saveStory>>}}} macro (see [[StorySaverPlugin]]) to automatically create stories using the titles of the tiddlers that are currently being viewed.// If you omit the storyname/tagname parameter, the plugin will attempt to identify a suitable story by locating the current tiddler title within a saved story tiddler. The story view controls are not displayed unless the current tiddler title is explicitly found in at least one saved story.
** Note: if [[MatchTagsPlugin]] is installed, you can use a compound //boolean tag expression//, enclosed within doubled square brackets. This allows you to generate sets of stories based on complex combinations of tags, rather than matching just one tag value. [[MatchTagsPlugin]] also allows you to use a //wildcard// expression, ".*" (without quotes), that will match all tiddlers, regardless of their tag value(s).
* ''list''<br>displays a droplist of tiddlers for the specified story, with previous/next pushbuttons on either side of the list. You can also specify which buttons will appear when using a droplist:
** ''allbuttons''<br>displays buttons for first/last as well as previous/next.
** ''nobuttons''<br>displays the droplist without any buttons
** ''onlybuttons''<br>hides the droplist and shows just the buttons
* ''prompt:...'' (default={{{"storyname..."}}})<br>specifies non-selectable label text to use as the first item in the droplist.
* ''sort:fieldname'' //(optional)//<br>when a ''tagvalue'' is used to select tiddlers, you can specify a tiddler fieldname that can be used to sort the resulting list of tiddlers, with an optional "-" prefix to indicate descending vs. ascending ordering, e.g, "sort:-modified" will generate a list of tiddlers in reverse date order (newest tiddler first).
* ''first'' or ''previous'' or ''here'' or ''next'' or ''last''<br>displays an individual link to the indicated tiddler within the story. The next/previous links are automatically calculated relative to the current tiddler. ''here'' displays the current tiddler title.
* ''links''<br>displays the set of first, previous, here, next and last links with just one convenient macro invocation, allowing you to quickly and easily embed story navigation links into any tiddler content.
* ''timer:nnn''<br>displays an automatic countdown 'slideshow' timer, where ''nnn'' is the number of seconds between slides. Click on the timer to start the countdown. The countdown is paused when hovering over the timer. Click a //running// timer to immediately advance to the next tiddler in the story. Optional slideshow parameters:
** ''autostart''<br>automatically starts the countdown without an initial click.
** ''close'' or ''fold''<br>close or fold (see [[CollapseTiddlerPlugin]]) the current tiddler when the next tiddler in the story is opened. The default is to simply display the next tiddler following the current one.
<<<
!!!!!Examples
<<<
{{smallform{
{{{
<<storyViewer MenuDefinitions list nobuttons>>
}}}
><<storyViewer MenuDefinitions list nobuttons>> //uses "saved story" tiddler//
{{{
<<storyViewer pluginInfo>>
}}}
><<storyViewer pluginInfo>>
{{{
<<storyViewer pluginInfo list allbuttons prompt:"TiddlyTools menu definitions...">>
}}}
><<storyViewer pluginInfo list allbuttons prompt:"TiddlyTools menu definitions...">>
{{{
<<storyViewer pluginInfo first>>
<<storyViewer pluginInfo previous>>
<<storyViewer pluginInfo next>>
<<storyViewer pluginInfo last>>
}}}
><<storyViewer pluginInfo first>>
><<storyViewer pluginInfo previous>>
><<storyViewer pluginInfo next>>
><<storyViewer pluginInfo last>>
{{{
<<storyViewer pluginInfo previous label:"back">>
<<storyViewer pluginInfo next label:"forward">>
}}}
><<storyViewer pluginInfo previous label:"back">>
><<storyViewer pluginInfo next label:"forward">>
{{{
<<storyViewer pluginInfo links>>
}}}
><<storyViewer pluginInfo links>>
{{{
<<storyViewer pluginInfo timer:20 fold>>
}}}
><<storyViewer pluginInfo timer:20 fold>>
{{{
<<storyViewer ".*" prompt:"timeline..." sort:-modified>>
}}}
><<storyViewer ".*" prompt:"timeline..." sort:-modified>>
}}}
<<<
!!!!!Revisions
<<<
2011.03.11 1.4.0 added 'sort:fieldname' parameter
2011.01.24 1.3.4 in droplist onchange handler, don't clear slideshow 'started' flag (allows slideshow to continue after manual navigation)
2011.01.12 1.3.3 added config.macros.storyViewer.started (controls 'autostart' for automatic presentation of multiple pages)
2011.01.11 1.3.2 use pushbutton instead of text to display slideshow timer
2011.01.11 1.3.1 code and documentation cleanup
2011.01.10 1.3.0 added slideshow (params= timer:nnn, autostart, close/fold). Added custom prompt for droplist (param= prompt:"text"). Added support for [[MatchTagsPlugin]]
2008.06.05 1.2.0 added custom story paramifier to extract story titles from tiddler links instead of using parseParams. Permits use of links from any tiddler as a story, even if it contains wiki-syntax formatting in addition to list of tiddler titles
2008.03.10 *.*.* plugin size reduction: documentation moved to [[StoryViewerPluginInfo]]
2007.12.31 1.1.0 instead of readBracketedList(), use internal tiddler.links[] to retrieve story list from tiddler content. Allows more flexible formatting of story tiddler content.
2007.12.04 *.*.* update for TW2.3.0: replaced deprecated core functions, regexps, and macros
2007.10.23 1.0.0 Initial release, split {{{<<storyViewer>>}}} macro definition from [[StorySaverPlugin]] to allow separate installation of story saving vs. story viewing features.
<<<
<<Bbl Gn 12:1 >>; <<Bbl Gn 23:4 >>; <<Bbl Lv 25:2 >>; <<Bbl Ex 12:11 >>; <<Bbl 1Ch 29:15 >>; <<Bbl 2Ch 16:19 >>-20 ; <<Bbl Ps 119:19 >>; <<Bbl Ps 146:9 >>; <<Bbl I 49:21 >>; <<Bbl Mt 8:19 >>-20 ; <<Bbl J 14:1 >>-4 ; <<Bbl H 11:8 >>-10
* //Foriegner//
* //Lonely//
* Root meaning of the word //Hebrew//
* Caleb in his old age
* Samson
* //You have a little strength//
* [[Power]]
* https://www.generationword.com/study.html
* [[biblestudytools.com|http://www.biblestudytools.com]]
** [[torreys-topical-textbook/trees|http://www.biblestudytools.com/concordances/torreys-topical-textbook/trees.html]]
** [[lexicons/hebrew/nas/hiyn|http://www.biblestudytools.com/lexicons/hebrew/nas/hiyn.html]]
** [[lexicons/greek/nas/|http://www.biblestudytools.com/lexicons/greek/nas/]]
** [[eastons-bible-dictionary/earth|http://www.biblestudytools.com/dictionaries/eastons-bible-dictionary/earth.html]]
** [[naves-topical-bible/name|http://www.biblestudytools.com/concordances/naves-topical-bible/name.html]]
** [[smiths-bible-dictionary/shechem|http://www.biblestudytools.com/dictionaries/smiths-bible-dictionary/shechem.html]]
* https://lumina.bible.org
* https://www.studylight.org/
** Keil n Delitzsch https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/eng/kdo.html
* https://www.blueletterbible.org/commentaries/guzik_david/
* http://www.smartbiblesearch.com/
* http://www.bible-researcher.com/gnbc-ch4.html
* http://www.equip.org/article/the-paraphrase-principle/ (~JWs)
* http://www.bibledesignblog.com/faq
* http://www.the-boltons.co.uk/ss/
* http://www.internationalstandardbible.com
!! Chiasmus
* http://www.inthebeginning.org/chiasmus/xfiles.htm
* http://www.wonderful1.com/Chiasmuss_in_the_Bible.html
* http://www.chiasmusxchange.com/ (Pray for these "Christadelphians")
<<Bbl Ps 119:165 >>; <<Bbl Mt 17:6>>-7; <<Bbl Mt 17:27 >>; <<Bbl 1P 2:11 >>-17
* [[Test]]
* [[Rock]]
* May all your stumbling-blocks be stepping-stones.
!!! People
* <<Bbl 1C 8:13 >>
* <<Bbl 1C 11:19 "" note >>
* <<Bbl Mt 18:6 >>-7
* <<Bbl L 17:1 >>
* <<Bbl 1Tim 4:1 >>
* <<Bbl 2Pet 2:1 >>
/*{{{*/
.rf {font-family: calibri, arial; color: #630; font-size:.7em; font-weight: bold; }
.rf .big {font-size:2em; }
.hilite {background:#ffc; color:#000; border:2px solid #79d; margin:6px 12px 6px 24px;padding:5px;}
.holyquote {background:#FDF5E6; color:#000; border:1px solid brown; margin:6px 12px 6px 24px;padding:5px;}
.fyi {background:#FCFDFD; color:#009; border:1px solid #009; margin:6px 12px 6px 24px;padding:5px;}
.diagram {font-family: consolas, monospace;white-space:pre;}
div[tags~="Scriptr"].tiddler .viewer {
font-family:georgia;
background: #FDF5E6;
font-size:1em;
/*background-image: url("./Bbl/parchment.jpg");*/
/* FFF0F5 */
/* FFEFD5 */
}
div[tags~="Comment"].tiddler .viewer {
background-color: #F5F8FA;
}
div[tags~="Comment"].tiddler .viewer a.tiddlyLinkExisting /*, .tiddlyLink*/
{
background-color: #F0F8FF;
}
.tiddler .viewer a.tiddlyLinkExisting /*, .tiddlyLink*/
{
border: 1px solid #ADD8E6;
color: black;
padding-left: 2px;
padding-right: 2px;
margin-left: 2px;
margin-right: 2px;
}
.tiddler .viewer a.tiddlyLinkExisting:hover /*, .tiddlyLink*/
{
color: white;
}
.tiddler .viewer .anti {color:#903;}
.tiddler .viewer .anti a.tiddlyLinkExisting {color:#903;}
[[StyleSheetAdjustments]]
[[StyleSheetShortcuts]]
/*.siteNav { position:absolute;z-index:1;right:.5em;top:2em;width:14em; }
.siteNav { position:absolute;right:.5em;top:2em;width:14em; }
.siteNav .siteNav .button { color:#fff }
.siteNav .button:hover { color:#009 }
.siteNav input[type="checkbox"] { margin:0; }
*/
/*.matchTags .popup*/
.searchBox { text-align:left; background-color: [[ColorPalette::TertiaryPale]]; font-size:0.8em; position:absolute;left:640px;top:22px;width:200px; }
.searchBox .button:hover { color:#009 }
.searchBox input[type="text"] { width:10em; }
.commandBox { display:block;text-align:left; background-color: [[ColorPalette::TertiaryPale]]; font-size:0.8em; position:absolute;left:340px;top:22px;width:280px; }
.commandBox .button:hover { color:#009 }
.commandBox input[type="checkbox"] { margin:0; }
.buttonMenu .imgLink, #hoverMenu .imgLink:hover {border:none; padding:0px; float:right; margin-bottom:2px; margin-top:0px;}
.buttonMenu .button, #hoverMenu .tiddlyLink {border:none; font-weight:bold; background:#18f; color:#FFF; padding:0 5px; float:right; margin-bottom:4px;}
.buttonMenu .button:hover, #hoverMenu .tiddlyLink:hover {font-weight:bold; border:none; color:#fff; background:#000; padding:0 5px; float:right; margin-bottom:4px;}
.buttonMenu .button {width:7px; text-align:center}
/*.buttonMenu { position:absolute; width:7px;}*/
.tabAllSlider .button
{
display: inline-block;
font-family: Consolas,'Courier New',courier,monospace;
font-weight:bold; border:none; background:[[ColorPalette::SecondaryMid]]; color:#fff;
}
.tabAllSlider .button:hover
{
background:[[ColorPalette::PrimaryDark]];
}
#sidebar {position:absolute; right:30px; width:14em; font-size:.9em;}
#sidebarTabs .tabContents {width:13em; overflow:hidden;}
#sidebarTabs .button
{
margin-top: 0em;
margin-right: 0.2em;
margin-bottom: 0em;
margin-left: 0.2em;
padding-top: 0.2em;
padding-right: 0.3em;
padding-bottom: 0.2em;
padding-left: 0.3em;
display: inline;
}
.mapH1 {
font-weight:bold;
text-decoration:none;
display: block;
font-size: 1.5em; /* 1.35em;*/
margin-bottom:5px;
margin-left:12px;
}
.mapH1 {color:[[ColorPalette::SecondaryDark]]; background:transparent;}
.mapH1 {
/*border-bottom:2px solid [[ColorPalette::TertiaryLight]];*/
}
.sliderPanel .mapH1 {
font-size: 1em;
/*border-top:2px solid [[ColorPalette::TertiaryLight]];
border-bottom:2px solid [[ColorPalette::TertiaryLight]];
margin-top:5px;*/
}
.tabContents .dp100 {
font-size: .9em;
font-weight:normal;
}
.tabContents .dp100 ul {
margin: 5px 0px;
/*padding-bottom: 5px;
border-bottom: solid 1px [[ColorPalette::TertiaryLight]];*/
list-style-type: none;
}
[[EmasticStyleSheet]]
[[EmasticPercent]]
/***
!!!Printing
***/
@media print {#mainMenu {display: none ! important;}}
@media print {#topMenu {display: none ! important;}}
@media print {#sidebar {display: none ! important;}}
@media print {#messageArea {display: none ! important;}}
@media print {#toolbar {display: none ! important;}}
@media print {.header {display: none ! important;}}
@media print {.tiddler .subtitle {display: none ! important;}}
@media print {.tiddler .toolbar {display; none ! important; }}
@media print {.tiddler .tagging {display; none ! important; }}
@media print {.tiddler .tagged {display; none ! important; }}
[[StyleSheetPrint]]
/*}}}*/
/*{{{*/
/* ADJUSTMENTS TO STANDARD ELEMENTS */
body {background-color: #FCFDFD; font-size:0.9em; font-family:calibri,arial,helvetica;}
.headerShadow, .headerForeground
{ padding-top:1em; white-space:nowrap; }
#siteNav {top:1em; left:50%; margin:0.5em; padding:0.5em; z-index:1000; _position:absolute;}
.siteNav {display:block; text-align:right; padding:0.2em;}
#mainMenu
{ text-align:left; width:14em; padding:0.5em; }
#mainMenu table, #mainMenu table td
{ border:1px solid #999; border-collapse:collapse; padding:.3em; }
#displayArea
{ margin-left:16em; margin-right:15em; }
.popup
{ max-height:30em; overflow:auto; border-radius:5px; padding:.5em; }
.popup li
{ white-space:nowrap; line-height:100%; }
.toolbar
{ float:right; white-space:nowrap; }
.viewer
{ border:1px solid gray; border-radius:5px; padding:.5em; }
.tiddler {background-color: #FFF;}
.tiddler .title
{ color: [[ColorPalette::QuaternaryDark]]; }
.tiddler h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6
{ color: [[ColorPalette::QuaternaryDark]]; }
.tiddler .subtitle
{ display:inline; }
.tagged
{ border:1px solid #999; border-radius:3px; }
.tagged
{ opacity:.7; }
.selected .tagged
{ opacity:1; }
a.bibleLink:link
{
/*color: brown;*/
color: black;
background-color: #FFD;
border-bottom: 1px solid #FCC;
}
.button, .tiddler .button, #sidebarTabs .button
{ margin:0px; padding: 0px .3em; border:1px solid transparent;
border-radius:1px; }
.button:hover
{ border:1px solid #999; }
#sidebarTabs .button
{ margin:0px 0.2em; padding:0.2em 0.3em; border:1px solid transparent;
border-radius:3px; display:block; }
#sidebarTabs .button:hover
{ border:1px solid #999; }
.editor textarea
{ font-family:monospace; }
.tab
{ padding-bottom:1px;
border-radius-topleft:3px;
border-radius-topright:3px;
}
.tabContents
{ border-radius:5px; }
.tabContents, .tabSelected
{ background-color:#eef; }
.tabUnselected
{ background-color:#79d; }
/*}}}*/
/*{{{*/
body {background:[[ColorPalette::Background]]; color:[[ColorPalette::Foreground]];}
a {color:[[ColorPalette::PrimaryMid]];}
a:hover {background-color:[[ColorPalette::PrimaryMid]]; color:[[ColorPalette::Background]];}
a img {border:0;}
h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6 {color:[[ColorPalette::SecondaryDark]]; background:transparent;}
h1 {border-bottom:2px solid [[ColorPalette::TertiaryLight]];}
h2,h3 {border-bottom:1px solid [[ColorPalette::TertiaryLight]];}
.button {color:[[ColorPalette::PrimaryDark]]; border:1px solid [[ColorPalette::Background]];}
.button:hover {color:[[ColorPalette::PrimaryDark]]; background:[[ColorPalette::SecondaryLight]]; border-color:[[ColorPalette::SecondaryMid]];}
.button:active {color:[[ColorPalette::Background]]; background:[[ColorPalette::SecondaryMid]]; border:1px solid [[ColorPalette::SecondaryDark]];}
.header {background:[[ColorPalette::PrimaryMid]];}
.headerShadow {color:[[ColorPalette::Foreground]];}
.headerShadow a {font-weight:normal; color:[[ColorPalette::Foreground]];}
.headerForeground {color:[[ColorPalette::Background]];}
.headerForeground a {font-weight:normal; color:[[ColorPalette::PrimaryPale]];}
.tabSelected {color:[[ColorPalette::PrimaryDark]];
background:[[ColorPalette::TertiaryPale]];
border-left:1px solid [[ColorPalette::TertiaryLight]];
border-top:1px solid [[ColorPalette::TertiaryLight]];
border-right:1px solid [[ColorPalette::TertiaryLight]];
}
.tabUnselected {color:[[ColorPalette::Background]]; background:[[ColorPalette::TertiaryMid]];}
.tabContents {color:[[ColorPalette::PrimaryDark]]; background:[[ColorPalette::TertiaryPale]]; border:1px solid [[ColorPalette::TertiaryLight]];}
.tabContents .button {border:0;}
#sidebar {}
#sidebarOptions input {border:1px solid [[ColorPalette::PrimaryMid]];}
#sidebarOptions .sliderPanel {background:[[ColorPalette::PrimaryPale]];}
#sidebarOptions .sliderPanel a {border:none;color:[[ColorPalette::PrimaryMid]];}
#sidebarOptions .sliderPanel a:hover {color:[[ColorPalette::Background]]; background:[[ColorPalette::PrimaryMid]];}
#sidebarOptions .sliderPanel a:active {color:[[ColorPalette::PrimaryMid]]; background:[[ColorPalette::Background]];}
.wizard {background:[[ColorPalette::PrimaryPale]]; border:1px solid [[ColorPalette::PrimaryMid]];}
.wizard h1 {color:[[ColorPalette::PrimaryDark]]; border:none;}
.wizard h2 {color:[[ColorPalette::Foreground]]; border:none;}
.wizardStep {background:[[ColorPalette::Background]]; color:[[ColorPalette::Foreground]];
border:1px solid [[ColorPalette::PrimaryMid]];}
.wizardStep.wizardStepDone {background:[[ColorPalette::TertiaryLight]];}
.wizardFooter {background:[[ColorPalette::PrimaryPale]];}
.wizardFooter .status {background:[[ColorPalette::PrimaryDark]]; color:[[ColorPalette::Background]];}
.wizard .button {color:[[ColorPalette::Foreground]]; background:[[ColorPalette::SecondaryLight]]; border: 1px solid;
border-color:[[ColorPalette::SecondaryPale]] [[ColorPalette::SecondaryDark]] [[ColorPalette::SecondaryDark]] [[ColorPalette::SecondaryPale]];}
.wizard .button:hover {color:[[ColorPalette::Foreground]]; background:[[ColorPalette::Background]];}
.wizard .button:active {color:[[ColorPalette::Background]]; background:[[ColorPalette::Foreground]]; border: 1px solid;
border-color:[[ColorPalette::PrimaryDark]] [[ColorPalette::PrimaryPale]] [[ColorPalette::PrimaryPale]] [[ColorPalette::PrimaryDark]];}
.wizard .notChanged {background:transparent;}
.wizard .changedLocally {background:#80ff80;}
.wizard .changedServer {background:#8080ff;}
.wizard .changedBoth {background:#ff8080;}
.wizard .notFound {background:#ffff80;}
.wizard .putToServer {background:#ff80ff;}
.wizard .gotFromServer {background:#80ffff;}
#messageArea {border:1px solid [[ColorPalette::SecondaryMid]]; background:[[ColorPalette::SecondaryLight]]; color:[[ColorPalette::Foreground]];}
#messageArea .button {color:[[ColorPalette::PrimaryMid]]; background:[[ColorPalette::SecondaryPale]]; border:none;}
.popupTiddler {background:[[ColorPalette::TertiaryPale]]; border:2px solid [[ColorPalette::TertiaryMid]];}
.popup {background:[[ColorPalette::TertiaryPale]]; color:[[ColorPalette::TertiaryDark]]; border-left:1px solid [[ColorPalette::TertiaryMid]]; border-top:1px solid [[ColorPalette::TertiaryMid]]; border-right:2px solid [[ColorPalette::TertiaryDark]]; border-bottom:2px solid [[ColorPalette::TertiaryDark]];}
.popup hr {color:[[ColorPalette::PrimaryDark]]; background:[[ColorPalette::PrimaryDark]]; border-bottom:1px;}
.popup li.disabled {color:[[ColorPalette::TertiaryMid]];}
.popup li a, .popup li a:visited {color:[[ColorPalette::Foreground]]; border: none;}
.popup li a:hover {background:[[ColorPalette::SecondaryLight]]; color:[[ColorPalette::Foreground]]; border: none;}
.popup li a:active {background:[[ColorPalette::SecondaryPale]]; color:[[ColorPalette::Foreground]]; border: none;}
.popupHighlight {background:[[ColorPalette::Background]]; color:[[ColorPalette::Foreground]];}
.listBreak div {border-bottom:1px solid [[ColorPalette::TertiaryDark]];}
.tiddler .defaultCommand {font-weight:bold;}
.shadow .title {color:[[ColorPalette::TertiaryDark]];}
.title {color:[[ColorPalette::SecondaryDark]];}
.subtitle {color:[[ColorPalette::TertiaryDark]];}
.toolbar {color:[[ColorPalette::PrimaryMid]];}
.toolbar a {color:[[ColorPalette::TertiaryLight]];}
.selected .toolbar a {color:[[ColorPalette::TertiaryMid]];}
.selected .toolbar a:hover {color:[[ColorPalette::Foreground]];}
.tagging, .tagged {border:1px solid [[ColorPalette::TertiaryPale]]; background-color:[[ColorPalette::TertiaryPale]];}
.selected .tagging, .selected .tagged {background-color:[[ColorPalette::TertiaryLight]]; border:1px solid [[ColorPalette::TertiaryMid]];}
.tagging .listTitle, .tagged .listTitle {color:[[ColorPalette::PrimaryDark]];}
.tagging .button, .tagged .button {border:none;}
.footer {color:[[ColorPalette::TertiaryLight]];}
.selected .footer {color:[[ColorPalette::TertiaryMid]];}
.error, .errorButton {color:[[ColorPalette::Foreground]]; background:[[ColorPalette::Error]];}
.warning {color:[[ColorPalette::Foreground]]; background:[[ColorPalette::SecondaryPale]];}
.lowlight {background:[[ColorPalette::TertiaryLight]];}
.zoomer {background:none; color:[[ColorPalette::TertiaryMid]]; border:3px solid [[ColorPalette::TertiaryMid]];}
.imageLink, #displayArea .imageLink {background:transparent;}
.annotation {background:[[ColorPalette::SecondaryLight]]; color:[[ColorPalette::Foreground]]; border:2px solid [[ColorPalette::SecondaryMid]];}
.viewer .listTitle {list-style-type:none; margin-left:-2em;}
.viewer .button {border:1px solid [[ColorPalette::SecondaryMid]];}
.viewer blockquote {border-left:3px solid [[ColorPalette::TertiaryDark]];}
.viewer table, table.twtable {border:2px solid [[ColorPalette::TertiaryDark]];}
.viewer th, .viewer thead td, .twtable th, .twtable thead td {background:[[ColorPalette::SecondaryMid]]; border:1px solid [[ColorPalette::TertiaryDark]]; color:[[ColorPalette::Background]];}
.viewer td, .viewer tr, .twtable td, .twtable tr {border:1px solid [[ColorPalette::TertiaryDark]];}
.viewer pre {border:1px solid [[ColorPalette::SecondaryLight]]; background:[[ColorPalette::SecondaryPale]];}
.viewer code {color:[[ColorPalette::SecondaryDark]];}
.viewer hr {border:0; border-top:dashed 1px [[ColorPalette::TertiaryDark]]; color:[[ColorPalette::TertiaryDark]];}
.highlight, .marked {background:[[ColorPalette::SecondaryLight]];}
.editor input {border:1px solid [[ColorPalette::PrimaryMid]];}
.editor textarea {border:1px solid [[ColorPalette::PrimaryMid]]; width:100%;}
.editorFooter {color:[[ColorPalette::TertiaryMid]];}
.readOnly {background:[[ColorPalette::TertiaryPale]];}
#backstageArea {background:[[ColorPalette::Foreground]]; color:[[ColorPalette::TertiaryMid]];}
#backstageArea a {background:[[ColorPalette::Foreground]]; color:[[ColorPalette::Background]]; border:none;}
#backstageArea a:hover {background:[[ColorPalette::SecondaryLight]]; color:[[ColorPalette::Foreground]]; }
#backstageArea a.backstageSelTab {background:[[ColorPalette::Background]]; color:[[ColorPalette::Foreground]];}
#backstageButton a {background:none; color:[[ColorPalette::Background]]; border:none;}
#backstageButton a:hover {background:[[ColorPalette::Foreground]]; color:[[ColorPalette::Background]]; border:none;}
#backstagePanel {background:[[ColorPalette::Background]]; border-color: [[ColorPalette::Background]] [[ColorPalette::TertiaryDark]] [[ColorPalette::TertiaryDark]] [[ColorPalette::TertiaryDark]];}
.backstagePanelFooter .button {border:none; color:[[ColorPalette::Background]];}
.backstagePanelFooter .button:hover {color:[[ColorPalette::Foreground]];}
#backstageCloak {background:[[ColorPalette::Foreground]]; opacity:0.6; filter:alpha(opacity=60);}
/*}}}*/
/*{{{*/
* html .tiddler {height:1%;}
body {font-size:.75em; font-family:calibri, arial,helvetica; margin:0; padding:0;}
h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6 {font-weight:bold; text-decoration:none;}
h1,h2,h3 {padding-bottom:1px; margin-top:1.2em;margin-bottom:0.3em;}
h4,h5,h6 {margin-top:1em;}
h1 {font-size:1.35em;}
h2 {font-size:1.25em;}
h3 {font-size:1.1em;}
h4 {font-size:1em;}
h5 {font-size:.9em;}
hr {height:1px;}
a {text-decoration:none;}
dt {font-weight:bold;}
ol {list-style-type:decimal;}
ol ol {list-style-type:lower-alpha;}
ol ol ol {list-style-type:lower-roman;}
ol ol ol ol {list-style-type:decimal;}
ol ol ol ol ol {list-style-type:lower-alpha;}
ol ol ol ol ol ol {list-style-type:lower-roman;}
ol ol ol ol ol ol ol {list-style-type:decimal;}
.txtOptionInput {width:11em;}
#contentWrapper .chkOptionInput {border:0;}
.externalLink {text-decoration:underline;}
.indent {margin-left:3em;}
.outdent {margin-left:3em; text-indent:-3em;}
code.escaped {white-space:nowrap;}
.tiddlyLinkExisting {font-weight:bold;}
.tiddlyLinkNonExisting {font-style:italic;}
/* the 'a' is required for IE, otherwise it renders the whole tiddler in bold */
a.tiddlyLinkNonExisting.shadow {font-weight:bold;}
#mainMenu .tiddlyLinkExisting,
#mainMenu .tiddlyLinkNonExisting,
#sidebarTabs .tiddlyLinkNonExisting {font-weight:normal; font-style:normal;}
#sidebarTabs .tiddlyLinkExisting {font-weight:bold; font-style:normal;}
.header {position:relative;}
.header a:hover {background:transparent;}
.headerShadow {position:relative; padding:4.5em 0 1em 1em; left:-1px; top:-1px;}
.headerForeground {position:absolute; padding:4.5em 0 1em 1em; left:0; top:0;}
.siteTitle {font-size:3em;}
.siteSubtitle {font-size:1.2em;}
#mainMenu {position:absolute; left:0; width:10em; text-align:right; line-height:1.6em; padding:1.5em 0.5em 0.5em 0.5em; font-size:1.1em;}
#sidebar {position:absolute; right:3px; width:16em; font-size:.9em;}
#sidebarOptions {padding-top:0.3em;}
#sidebarOptions a {margin:0 0.2em; padding:0.2em 0.3em; display:block;}
#sidebarOptions input {margin:0.4em 0.5em;}
#sidebarOptions .sliderPanel {margin-left:1em; padding:0.5em; font-size:.85em;}
#sidebarOptions .sliderPanel a {font-weight:bold; display:inline; padding:0;}
#sidebarOptions .sliderPanel input {margin:0 0 0.3em 0;}
#sidebarTabs .tabContents {width:15em; overflow:hidden;}
.wizard {padding:0.1em 1em 0 2em;}
.wizard h1 {font-size:2em; font-weight:bold; background:none; padding:0; margin:0.4em 0 0.2em;}
.wizard h2 {font-size:1.2em; font-weight:bold; background:none; padding:0; margin:0.4em 0 0.2em;}
.wizardStep {padding:1em 1em 1em 1em;}
.wizard .button {margin:0.5em 0 0; font-size:1.2em;}
.wizardFooter {padding:0.8em 0.4em 0.8em 0;}
.wizardFooter .status {padding:0 0.4em; margin-left:1em;}
.wizard .button {padding:0.1em 0.2em;}
#messageArea {position:fixed; top:2em; right:0; margin:0.5em; padding:0.5em; z-index:2000; _position:absolute;}
.messageToolbar {display:block; text-align:right; padding:0.2em;}
#messageArea a {text-decoration:underline;}
.tiddlerPopupButton {padding:0.2em;}
.popupTiddler {position: absolute; z-index:300; padding:1em; margin:0;}
/* font size for scripture popup hmmm and othen popups SDM */
.popup {position:absolute; z-index:300; font-size:1.1em; padding:0; list-style:none; margin:0;}
.popup .popupMessage {padding:0.6em;}
.popup hr {display:block; height:1px; width:auto; padding:0; margin:0.2em 0;}
.popup li.disabled {padding:0.4em;}
.popup li a {display:block; padding:0.4em; font-weight:normal; cursor:pointer;}
.listBreak {font-size:1px; line-height:1px;}
.listBreak div {margin:2px 0;}
.tabset {padding:1em 0 0 0.5em;}
.tab {margin:0 0 0 0.25em; padding:2px;}
.tabContents {padding:0.5em;}
.tabContents ul, .tabContents ol {margin:0; padding:0;}
.txtMainTab .tabContents li {list-style:none;}
.tabContents li.listLink { margin-left:.75em;}
#contentWrapper {display:block;}
#splashScreen {display:none;}
#displayArea {margin:1em 17em 0 14em;}
.toolbar {text-align:right; font-size:.9em;}
.tiddler {padding:1em 1em 0;}
.missing .viewer,.missing .title {font-style:italic;}
.title {font-size:1.6em; font-weight:bold;}
.missing .subtitle {display:none;}
.subtitle {font-size:1.1em;}
.tiddler .button {padding:0.2em 0.4em;}
.tagging {margin:0.5em 0.5em 0.5em 0; float:left; display:none;}
.isTag .tagging {display:block;}
.tagged {margin:0.5em; float:right;}
.tagging, .tagged {font-size:0.9em; padding:0.25em;}
.tagging ul, .tagged ul {list-style:none; margin:0.25em; padding:0;}
.tagClear {clear:both;}
.footer {font-size:.9em;}
.footer li {display:inline;}
.annotation {padding:0.5em; margin:0.5em;}
* html .viewer pre {width:99%; padding:0 0 1em 0;}
.viewer {line-height:1.4em; padding-top:0.5em;}
.viewer .button {margin:0 0.25em; padding:0 0.25em;}
.viewer blockquote {line-height:1.5em; padding-left:0.8em;margin-left:2.5em;}
.viewer ul, .viewer ol {margin-left:0.5em; padding-left:1.5em;}
.viewer table, table.twtable {border-collapse:collapse; margin:0.8em 1.0em;}
.viewer th, .viewer td, .viewer tr,.viewer caption,.twtable th, .twtable td, .twtable tr,.twtable caption {padding:3px;}
table.listView {font-size:0.85em; margin:0.8em 1.0em;}
table.listView th, table.listView td, table.listView tr {padding:0 3px 0 3px;}
.viewer pre {padding:0.5em; margin-left:0.5em; font-size:1.2em; line-height:1.4em; overflow:auto;}
.viewer code {font-size:1.2em; line-height:1.4em;}
.editor {font-size:1.1em;}
.editor input, .editor textarea {display:block; width:100%; font:inherit;}
.editorFooter {padding:0.25em 0; font-size:.9em;}
.editorFooter .button {padding-top:0; padding-bottom:0;}
.fieldsetFix {border:0; padding:0; margin:1px 0px;}
.zoomer {font-size:1.1em; position:absolute; overflow:hidden;}
.zoomer div {padding:1em;}
* html #backstage {width:99%;}
* html #backstageArea {width:99%;}
#backstageArea {display:none; position:relative; overflow: hidden; z-index:150; padding:0.3em 0.5em;}
#backstageToolbar {position:relative;}
#backstageArea a {font-weight:bold; margin-left:0.5em; padding:0.3em 0.5em;}
#backstageButton {display:none; position:absolute; z-index:175; top:0; right:0;}
#backstageButton a {padding:0.1em 0.4em; margin:0.1em;}
#backstage {position:relative; width:100%; z-index:50;}
#backstagePanel {display:none; z-index:100; position:absolute; width:90%; margin-left:3em; padding:1em;}
.backstagePanelFooter {padding-top:0.2em; float:right;}
.backstagePanelFooter a {padding:0.2em 0.4em;}
#backstageCloak {display:none; z-index:20; position:absolute; width:100%; height:100px;}
.whenBackstage {display:none;}
.backstageVisible .whenBackstage {display:block;}
/*}}}*/
/***
|Name|StyleSheetPlugins|
|Source|http://www.TiddlyTools.com/#StyleSheetPlugins|
|Version||
|Author|Eric Shulman|
|License|http://www.TiddlyTools.com/#LegalStatements|
|~CoreVersion|2.1|
|Type|CSS|
|Description|custom definitions for plugin-specific ID's and classes|
>Important Note: ''this tiddler is highly-customized for the TiddlyTools document'' and you may need to extensively modify, supplement, replace or remove portions of these definitions in order to best fit //YOUR// document needs.
***/
/***
!MoveablePanelPlugin - searchResults
***/
/*{{{*/
.undocked .searchResults {
border:1px solid #abe; border-radius:2px;
padding:0em; background:#003; min-width:35em;
}
.undocked .searchResults .title { margin-left:.5em; }
.undocked .searchResults .viewer { -moz-border-radius: 0 0 1em 1em; }
.undocked .searchResults .viewer ul { max-height:20em; overflow:auto; }
.undocked .searchResults .toolbar { margin-top:.3em; padding-right:.5em; }
/*}}}*/
/***
!PageTemplate - siteMenu
***/
/*{{{*/
.siteMenu
{ background:transparent; padding:.5em; padding-top:0; margin:0; }
.siteMenu a, .siteMenu .button, .siteMenu .tiddlyLinkExisting, .siteMenu .tiddlyLinkNonExisting
{ font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; }
/*** LEAVE THESE OUT FOR NOW
.siteMenu .button, .siteMenu a
{ border:1px solid transparent; background:transparent; margin:0px; padding:0px 1px; border-radius:3px; }
.siteMenu .button:hover, .siteMenu a:hover
{ border:1px solid #69c; background:#006; color:#fff; }
***/
/*}}}*/
/***
!PageTemplate - storyMenu
***/
/*{{{*/
.storyMenu
{ display:block; margin:0em 1em .5em 1em; }
.storyMenu a, .storyMenu .button, .storyMenu .tiddlyLinkExisting, .storyMenu .tiddlyLinkNonExisting
{ font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration:none; }
/*}}}*/
/***
!NestedSlidersPlugin
***/
/*{{{*/
.floatingPanel
{ z-index:700; padding:1em; margin:0em; border:1px solid; border-radius:2px; font-size:8pt; text-align:left; }
.floatingPanel hr
{ margin:2px 0 1px 0; padding:0; }
#sidebarOptions .sliderPanel
{ margin:0; padding:0; font-size:1em; background:transparent; }
#sidebarOptions .sliderPanel a
{ font-weight:normal; }
#sidebarOptions .sliderPanel blockquote
{ margin:0;padding:0;margin-left:1em; border-left:1px dotted; padding-left:1em }
.selected .floatingPanel .button,
.selected .floatingPanel a:link,
.selected .floatingPanel a:hover,
.selected .floatingPanel a:visited,
.floatingPanel .button,
.floatingPanel a:link,
.floatingPanel a:hover,
.floatingPanel a:visited
{ color:[[ColorPalette::PrimaryDark]] !important; }
/*}}}*/
/***
!CheckboxPlugin
***/
/*{{{*/
input[type="Checkbox"]
{ margin-top:2px;margin-bottom:2px; }
/*}}}*/
/***
!BreadcrumbsPlugin
***/
/*{{{*/
/* smaller size for bread crumbs (see BreadcrumbsPlugin) */
#breadCrumbs
{ display:none; margin:0em 1em; padding-bottom:.5em; font-size:7pt; } /* display:block is set by plugin when crumbs are in use */
/*}}}*/
/***
!TableOfContentsPlugin
***/
/*{{{*/
#sidebarTabs .tabContents *[class="TOCList"] /* MOZ ONLY */
{ background-color: transparent; border-color:transparent !important; }
/*}}}*/
/***
!AttachFilePlugin
***/
/*{{{*/
#sidebar .attachPanel
{ right:115%; top:3em; text-align:left; }
/*}}}*/
/***
!ImportTiddlersPlugin
***/
/*{{{*/
#sidebar #importPanel
{ right:115%; top:6em; text-align:left; }
/*}}}*/
/***
!ExportTiddlersPlugin
***/
/*{{{*/
#sidebar #exportPanel
{ right:115%; top:9em; text-align:left; }
/*}}}*/
/***
!QuoteOfTheDayPlugin
***/
/*{{{*/
.QOTD
{ color:inherit !important; background:inherit !important; }
/*}}}*/
/***
!TableSorterPlugin
***/
/*{{{*/
.sortedCol
{ color:inherit !important; background:inherit !important; }
/*}}}*/
/***
|Name|StyleSheetPrint|
|Source|http://www.TiddlyTools.com/#StyleSheetPrint|
|Version||
|Author|Eric Shulman|
|License|http://www.TiddlyTools.com/#LegalStatements|
|~CoreVersion|2.1|
|Type|CSS|
|Description|adjustments for printing|
***/
/*{{{*/
@media print {
#mainMenu, #sidebar, #messageArea, .toolbar, .tagged, .tagging, .subtitle, .header
{display: none !important;}
#breadCrumbs, #siteMenu, #storyMenu
{ display:none !important; }
#displayArea
{ margin: 1em !important; }
noscript /* Fixes a feature in Firefox 1.5.0.2 where print preview displays the noscript content */
{ display:none; }
.tiddler
{ page-break-after:always; }
/*****
use this for 3x5 index cards:
.tiddler { height:3in !important; width:5in !important; overflow:none !important; }
*****/
}
/*}}}*/
/***
|Name|StyleSheetShortcuts|
|Source|http://www.TiddlyTools.com/#StyleSheetShortcuts|
|Version||
|Author|Eric Shulman|
|License|http://www.TiddlyTools.com/#LegalStatements|
|~CoreVersion|2.1|
|Type|CSS|
|Description|'convenience' classes for common formatting, alignment, boxes, tables, etc.|
These 'style tweaks' can be easily included in other stylesheet tiddler so they can share a baseline look-and-feel that can then be customized to create a wide variety of 'flavors'.
***/
/*{{{*/
/* text alignments */
.left
{ display:block;text-align:left; }
.center
{ display:block;text-align:center; }
.center table
{ margin:auto !important; }
.right
{ display:block;text-align:right; }
.justify
{ display:block;text-align:justify; }
.indent
{ display:block;margin:0;padding:0;border:0;margin-left:2em; }
.floatleft
{ float:left; }
.floatright
{ float:right; }
.valignTop, .valignTop table, .valignTop tbody, .valignTop th, .valignTop tr, .valignTop td
{ vertical-align:top; }
.valignBottom, .valignBottom table, .valignBottom tbody, .valignBottom th, .valignBottom tr, .valignBottom td
{ vertical-align:bottom; }
.clear
{ clear:both; }
.wrap
{ white-space:normal; }
.nowrap
{ white-space:nowrap; }
.hidden
{ display:none; }
.show
{ display:inline !important; }
.span
{ display:span; }
.block
{ display:block; }
.relative
{ position:relative; }
.absolute
{ position:absolute; }
/* font sizes */
.big
{ font-size: 1.15em; }
.medium
{ font-size: 1.1em; }
.normal
{ font-size: 1em; }
.small
{ font-size: 0.96em; }
.fine
{ font-size: 0.92em; }
.tiny
{ font-size: 0.86em; }
/*
.big
{ font-size:14pt;line-height:120% }
.medium
{ font-size:12pt;line-height:120% }
.normal
{ font-size:9pt;line-height:120% }
.small
{ font-size:8pt;line-height:120% }
.fine
{ font-size:7pt;line-height:120% }
.tiny
{ font-size:6pt;line-height:120% }
.larger
{ font-size:120%; }
.smaller
{ font-size:80%; }
*/
/* font styles */
.bold
{ font-weight:bold; }
.italic
{ font-style:italic; }
.underline
{ text-decoration:underline; }
/* plain list items (no bullets or indent) */
.nobullets li { list-style-type: none; margin-left:-2em; }
/* vertical tabsets - courtesy of Tobias Beer */
.vTabs .tabset {float:left;display:block;padding:0px;margin-top:.5em;min-width:20%;}
.vTabs .tabset .tab {display:block;text-align:right;padding:2px 3px 2px 7px; margin:0 1px 1px 0;}
.vTabs .tabContents {margin-left:20%;max-width:80%;padding:5px;}
.vTabs .tabContents .tabContents {border:none; background:transparent;}
/* multi-column tiddler content (not supported in Internet Explorer) */
.twocolumns { display:block;
-moz-column-count:2; -moz-column-gap:1em; -moz-column-width:50%; /* FireFox */
-webkit-column-count:2; -webkit-column-gap:1em; -webkit-column-width:50%; /* Safari */
column-count:2; column-gap:1em; column-width:50%; /* Opera */
}
.threecolumns { display:block;
-moz-column-count:3; -moz-column-gap:1em; -moz-column-width:33%; /* FireFox */
-webkit-column-count:3; -webkit-column-gap:1em; -webkit-column-width:33%; /* Safari */
column-count:3; column-gap:1em; column-width:33%; /* Opera */
}
.fourcolumns { display:block;
-moz-column-count:4; -moz-column-gap:1em; -moz-column-width:25%; /* FireFox */
-webkit-column-count:4; -webkit-column-gap:1em; -webkit-column-width:25%; /* Safari */
column-count:4; column-gap:1em; column-width:25%; /* Opera */
}
/* page breaks */
.breakbefore { page-break-before:always; }
.breakafter { page-break-before:always; }
/* show/hide browser-specific content for InternetExplorer vs. non-IE ("moz") browsers */
*[class="ieOnly"]
{ display:none; } /* hide in moz (uses CSS selector) */
* html .mozOnly, *:first-child+html .mozOnly
{ display: none; } /* hide in IE (uses IE6/IE7 CSS hacks) */
/* borderless tables */
.borderless, .borderless table, .borderless td, .borderless tr, .borderless th, .borderless tbody
{ border:0 !important; margin:0 !important; padding:0 !important; }
.widetable, .widetable table
{ width:98%; }
.fixedtable, .fixedtable table
{ width:98%; table-layout:fixed; }
/* thumbnail images (fixed-sized scaled images) */
.thumbnail img { height:5em !important; }
/* stretchable images (auto-size to fit tiddler) */
.stretch img { width:95%; }
/* grouped content */
.outline
{ display:block; padding:0.5em; border-radius:3px; border:1px solid; }
.menubox
{ display:block; padding:1em; border-radius:3px; border:1px solid; background:#fff; color:#000; }
.menubox .button, .menubox .tiddlyLinkExisting, .menubox .tiddlyLinkNonExisting
{ color:#009 !important; }
.groupbox
{ display:block; padding:1em; border-radius:5px; border:1px solid; background:#ffe; color:#000; }
.groupbox a, .groupbox .button, .groupbox .tiddlyLinkExisting, .groupbox .tiddlyLinkNonExisting
{ color:#009 !important; font-size: 0.9em; }
.groupbox code
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* [[Obey]]
* [[Compliance]]
* b Col 3:18
* b Eph 5:21 //to one another//
* //Surrender, allegiance//.
* Not for nothing is the congregation referred to as the flock.
* In <<Bbl R 13:1 >>-07 and <<Bbl E 5:24 >> There is an unstated assumption: the state of your commanding authority is reasonably good, not intolerably wicked. Today's reader wishes he would qualify, say something to prevent blind fatal loyalty... But it doesn't seem to have been a need when writing. This is an example of generalization.
* <<Bbl E 5:27 >> Relinquishing responsibility means freedom from blame.
* Leah for Rachel
* Isaac for Esau
* Christ for me, the [[AtoningSubstitute]]
* {{anti{[[Subvert]]}}}
Subversion is deception. It must at least begin in secrecy.
* Isaiah - //Bitter for sweet, sweet for bitter.//
* [[Deceive]], [[Satan]], [[Wickedness]]
* [[Debase]]
* the Pharisees; creation of double-binds in order to enslave.
* Accusation often made against Christ and His own - // turning the world upside down.//
* Ex 32:2 -- holiest gold, used for nastiest idolatry.
* //Let the marriage bed remain undefiled// - from this, we understand there can be defilement.
* Hugh Hefner's mission statement (VonVanderon)
* Against {{anti{[[Order]]}}}; creates [[Confuse]]
* {{anti{[[Substitute]], [[Redeem]]}}}
* @@color:brown;And if any man has the nerve to say that he is chaste and faithful to his wife and this gets known, he is ashamed to mix with other men, whose behaviour is not like his, for they will mock him and despise him and say he's not a real man; for man's wickedness is now of such proportions that no one is considered a man unless he is overcome by lechery, while one who overcomes lechery and stays chaste is considered unmanly. @@ // - Augustine of Hippo, Sermons 1-19//
!! Exchanging glory for [[Shame]]
* <<Bbl Php 3:19 >>
* <<Bbl Pr 24:24 >>
* Jer "Peace, Peace"
* <<Bbl R 1:12 >> //Exchange// is used three times in this passage
''Feast of Succoth (or Booths)''.
* <<Bbl Lev 23:33 >>ff
* [[Water]]
* <<Bbl Amos 1: >>
* <<Bbl 1K 12:32 >> A counterfeit. <<Bbl Amos 9:11 "" note >>.
* [[Christ-Suffering]]
* <<Bbl Ps 119:67 >>; <<Bbl 2C 1:3 >>-10 ; <<Bbl Col 1:24 >>
* <<Bbl Ps 119:71 "" note>>
* This would make a good focus of study for all the Bible's history: Eve, Job, Jacob, Joseph ...
* [[Persecute]]
* [[Mistreat]]
* I have a mind map about 1 Peter's treatment of suffering.
* @@color:darkgreen;Suffering is the thread from which the stuff of joy is woven. Never will the optimist know joy,@@ // -- Henri de Lubac// (I would substitute //[[Triumphalism]]// for //optimism.//
* Mike DeBow? Some one reported about Korean pastors who had been held by Taliban (?) saying, "Don't you remember how sweet it was to have God's presence?" Nostalgia!
Suffering ------
!!! Elizabeth Elliot
* There are many things we can do nothing about; there many things we can do something with.
* Suffering: having what you don't want or wanting what you don't have.
* Helen Rosenberg's story.
* There is no way to conclude from the available evidence that there is a loving God.
* "Himself he cannot save." In the taunts such as <<Bbl Mt 27:43 >> we have the whole problem. See also __Redemption__, page 64.
* Joy is not the absence of suffering but the presence of God.
!!! Peter
* Jesus' own prophecy
* <<Bbl 1P 4:1 >>
* <<Bbl 1P 5:10 >> // ...after you have suffered a little while, perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle you.// When the believer is being attacked by Satan, he is being perfected by the Lord.
----
!!! Group meditation
* What is the definition of suffering?
* What is the old definition (think KJV) of the word "suffering"? (Interesting note under [[Passivity]].)
* Let me qualify suffering in two ways. First, the suffering that qualifies you for ministry does not have to be persecution in the classic sense, meaning persecution for the sake of the Gospel directly. Second, there is a category of suffering that is often not helpful for growing as a minister of Christ, and that is suffering through foolish or sinful decisions. Many people suffer long and hard, again and again, outside of God's plan. I'm not saying God can't use that suffering. He uses it a lot. It's just not the dependable and preferred approach for you.
* Let's get back into our small groups and pick one life from the Bible, one person whose story reveals how godly suffering helps us grow. But you must pick someone not picked by another group. If another group picked that person, we're not going to consider them in the discussion. Here's a hint: Not Jesus, Peter or Paul, or Joseph in the Old Testament. One minute to choose!
* <<Bbl Dt 8:7 >>ff
* [[Complacency]]
* [[Fellowship]]
* //Interdependence//
* [[OneAnother]]
* <<Bbl Pr 27:9 >>
<<Bbl Ps 7:12 >>; <<Bbl H 4:12 >>; <<Bbl L 2:35 >>; <<Bbl Rev 1:16 >>; <<Bbl Josh 5:13 >> (God is evidently not a pacifist); <<Bbl I 1:20 >>; <<Bbl Jer 25:16 >>; <<Bbl Eph 6:17 >>; <<Bbl Gn 3:24 >>; <<Bbl Lv 26:25 >>; <<Bbl Mt 10:34 >>.
* Heb metaphor of the Word as a sword is //scalpel//.
* //I came to bring a sword// - but not to put it in the hands of His people.
* <<Bbl L 02:35 "" note >>
* //weapon//.
* [[War]]
* Capital punishment:
** the power of the state: <<Bbl R 13:4 >>, <<Bbl A 12:2 >>; <<Bbl Rev 2:12 "" note>>
** The "power of sword" refers to the authority of a local governor to have a criminal executed without express permission from Rome. As I recall, Pilate had this authority, reflecting the remoteness and dangerousness of his realm.
* A way of execution despised by the Jews (Lightfoot).
* <<Bbl Acts 12:2 >>
* <<Bbl 2K 17:14>>-41 expresses much irony.
* The Histories offer many examples, a fascinating if loathsome list.
* [[Counterfeit]]
* Steinbeck's //Cannery Row//: Eddie is a part-time bartender who supplies the boys with "hooch" poured off from whatever patrons leave in their glasses at Ida's Bar. "He kept a gallon jug under the bar and in the mouth of the jar was a funnel. Anything left in the glasses Eddie poured into the funnel before he washed the glasses... The resulting punch he took back to the Palace was always interesting and sometimes surprising. The mixture of rye, beer, bourbon, scotch, wine, rum and gin was fairly constant, but now and then some effete customer would order a stinger or an anisette or a curaçao and these little touches gave a distinct character to the punch."
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History speaks of three tabernacles:
* The ''primitive Tabernacle'' pitched at Sinai, a precursor to the proper Tabernacle built by Moses. <<Bbl Ex 33:7>>-11
* The ''Tabernacle proper'' crafted by the Israelites according to instructions Moses received on Mount Sinai (Exodus 25-27,30-31,35-40; <<Bbl H 8:2>>,5; <<Bbl H 9:24>>). It was in use in Solomon's reign.
** <<Bbl 1Ch 6:32 >>,48 //They ministered [in] the tabernacle...until Solomon built the LORD's temple in Jerusalem//
** <<Bbl 1Ch 16:39 >> //David left the priest Zadok...before the tabernacle ...in Gibeon//; also <<Bbl 1Ch 21:29 >>
** <<Bbl 1Ch 23:26 >> //...the Levites no longer need to carry the tabernacle//
** <<Bbl 2Ch 1:5 >> //...he put the bronze altar, which Bezalel son of Uri, son of Hur, had made, in front of the LORD's tabernacle. Solomon and the assembly inquired of him there. //
** <<Bbl Psa 27:5 >>-6 //I will offer sacrifices in his tent with shouts of joy.//
** <<Bbl Psa 78:60 >> //He abandoned the tabernacle at Shiloh, the tent where he resided among mankind.//
** <<Bbl A 7:44>>-47
* The ''[[Tabernacle-of-David]]'' which temporarily housed the [[Ark-Covenant]] on Mount Zion before the building of Solomon's [[Temple]].
!!! As in Heaven
* <<Bbl Rev 15:5>>
* <<Bbl H 9:8>>-12, <<Bbl H 9:24 abbr>>
!!! As an image of godless Israel
* <<Bbl H 13:10>>
The significant aspect of David's worship is joyful nearness to God. This is precisely what the formal Tabernacle and Temple do not display.
* <<Bbl Ps 95:2 >>
* <<Bbl Ps 100:4 >>
* <<Bbl Ps 132:6 >>-7
* <<Bbl Ps 141:2 >>
* <<Bbl I 16:5 >>
* <<Bbl Ezek 29:42>>,44
* <<Bbl Amos 9:11 >>, quoted in <<Bbl A 15:14 >>-16
* There is no chair in the Tabernacle - <<Bbl H 10:11>>-12.
* Became a festival celebrating [[Water]]. This figures big in John 7.
/***
|Name|TaggedTemplateTweak|
|Source|http://www.TiddlyTools.com/#TaggedTemplateTweak|
|Documentation|http://www.TiddlyTools.com/#TaggedTemplateTweakInfo|
|Version|1.6.0|
|Author|Eric Shulman|
|License|http://www.TiddlyTools.com/#LegalStatements|
|~CoreVersion|2.1|
|Type|plugin|
|Requires||
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|Description|use alternative ViewTemplate/EditTemplate for specific tiddlers|
This plugin extends the core function, story.chooseTemplateForTiddler(), so that any given tiddler can be viewed and/or edited using alternatives to the standard tiddler templates.
!!!!!Documentation
>see [[TaggedTemplateTweakInfo]]
!!!!!Revisions
<<<
2009.07.31 [1.6.0] added support for using custom field value as prefix
| please see [[TaggedTemplateTweakInfo]] for previous revision details |
2007.06.11 [1.0.0] initial release
<<<
!!!!!Code
***/
//{{{
version.extensions.TaggedTemplateTweak= {major: 1, minor: 6, revision: 0, date: new Date(2009,7,31)};
if (!config.options.txtTemplateTweakFieldname)
config.options.txtTemplateTweakFieldname='template';
Story.prototype.taggedTemplate_chooseTemplateForTiddler = Story.prototype.chooseTemplateForTiddler
Story.prototype.chooseTemplateForTiddler = function(title,template)
{
// get core template and split into theme and template name
var coreTemplate=this.taggedTemplate_chooseTemplateForTiddler.apply(this,arguments);
var theme=""; var template=coreTemplate;
var parts=template.split(config.textPrimitives.sectionSeparator);
if (parts[1]) { theme=parts[0]; template=parts[1]; }
else theme=config.options.txtTheme||""; // if theme is not specified
theme+=config.textPrimitives.sectionSeparator;
// look for template using title as prefix
if (!store.getTaggedTiddlers(title).length) { // if tiddler is not a tag
if (store.getTiddlerText(theme+title+template))
{ return theme+title+template; } // theme##TitleTemplate
if (store.getTiddlerText(title+template))
{ return title+template; } // TitleTemplate
}
// look for template using tags as prefix
var tiddler=store.getTiddler(title);
if (!tiddler) return coreTemplate; // tiddler doesn't exist... use core result
for (i=0; i<tiddler.tags.length; i++) {
var t=tiddler.tags[i]+template; // add tag prefix to template
var c=t.substr(0,1).toUpperCase()+t.substr(1); // capitalized for WikiWord title
if (store.getTiddlerText(theme+t)) { return theme+t; } // theme##tagTemplate
if (store.getTiddlerText(theme+c)) { return theme+c; } // theme##TagTemplate
if (store.getTiddlerText(t)) { return t; } // tagTemplate
if (store.getTiddlerText(c)) { return c; } // TagTemplate
}
// look for templates using custom field value as prefix
var v=store.getValue(title,config.options.txtTemplateTweakFieldname);
if (store.getTiddlerText(theme+v+template))
{ return theme+v+template; } // theme##valueTemplate
if (store.getTiddlerText(v+template))
{ return v+template; } // valueTemplate
// no match... use core result
return coreTemplate;
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//}}}
!! Positive
* <<Bbl R 12:2 >>
!! Negative
* <<Bbl Pr 18:8 >>
!! [[Wisdom]]
* Is this increasing my appreciation for Jesus?
!!! The mindset of a teacher
Knowledge has four stages. Teaching has a fifth.
# You don't know that you don't know.
# You DO know that you don't know.
# You know, and you know that you know.
# You know and you've forgotten that you ever didn't.
The fourth stage has been called "expert amnesia". It renders you incapable of identifying with the unskilled and thus unfit to teach. Teaching requires a voluntary return to the third stage, that of self-aware competence.
----
* Shoe polish with the "easy" opening lid. The cloth stored in the can: ''saturated.''
* If you are saturated, your goal is to lead others into this saturation. [[Scripture-Transforming]]
* <<Bbl I 30:20 >>-21 -- //your ears will hear a voice behind you, saying, -- This is the way. Walk in it. -- //
* <<Bbl 1J 2:27>>
* Teachers (and preachers) come under greater judgment, and not merely on the last day!
* Instructions to Timothy
* <<Bbl Pr 15:2 >> //the tongue of the wise makes knowledge acceptable//
* <<Bbl Ex 35:34>> The craftsman __anointed__ not only to craft, but to teach and empower others.
* [[Guide]]
!!!Inductive approach to Scripture
* It been summarized as ''Observation, Interpretation, Application.''
* Or ''Look, Dig, Reflect.''
* [[Humility]]
* [[Respond]]
* [[Listen]]
* //I looked upon the sluggard...// -- Observation
* <<Bbl Hos 10:12 >>
!!the Fool
* <<Bbl Pr 27:22>>
* <<Bbl Pr 27:22>> //one hundred blows//, better known to us today as "the school of hard knocks". But note: it is a school. You can strive to be a fool of only fifty knocks.
* //Sought out many witty devices.//
* The Rib taken from his side, it was not for a smart phone.
* Tubal-Cain.
* Chariots
* building materials, Babel.
* [[Glory]], [[Gold]]
* [[Worship]], [[Priest]], [[Sacrifice]]
* <<Bbl Ps 29:9 >>
* <<Bbl Rev 11:19 >>
!!! The Temple (and [[Tabernacle]]) as holiness and judgment
The Temple stands as the monument to God's [[Holiness]].
* <<Bbl Ex 29:42>>-46 asserts God's presence in the Tabernacle; yet the overall effect is not one of companionship.
* The Temple and Tabernacle are outfitted with tongs and pans. Just as burning meat cannot be handled by the priest, so sin is not embraced by the holy God.
* Relaxed companionship is not engendered by a constant flow of fresh animal blood.
* As judgment:
** <<Bbl Ez 43:10 >>-12
** <<Bbl Ez 44:13 >>-23
** Jesus' cleansing
** <<Bbl A 7:48 abbr >>
* A "house for God"?
** <<Bbl 2S 7:6 "" note>>
** Solomon's pious disclaimers at the dedication of his Temple
!!! The Temple as intimacy and grace
* "Close-ing" with God.
* As consummated in Christ, the Temple remains the monument to God's holiness and becomes just as greatly the monument to His love.
* [[Tabernacle-of-David]]
* When the [[Veil]] was torn, its significance was consummated. Now any place at any time is the right setting for Christian worship. We have no temple, shrine, holy site or sacred space. The "holy land" is historically important, but it's no more sacred than a used car lot in Fort Worth.
!!! Solomon's Temple as irreverent
* John Bright believes the design was derived from Babylonian.
* He proposes a schism between the royal establishment and the pure remnant left to its own in the wilderness.
----
* Alberto recommends __The Temple__ by C. Beales.
The world, the flesh and the devil - "It All Comes Bundled!"
!! External
* [[Test]], [[Ensnare]]
* Way of escape. Dragonflies in fog. Personal rituals.
* <<Bbl James 1:14>> - drags you away.
* <<Bbl Pr 30:8>> - zoom out
* <<Bbl L 22:28>> presents us with a wonderful title. Oh, to fulfill it!
* <<Bbl 1Thes 3:5>>, [[Satan]] the Tempter.
* <<Bbl 1C 10:13>> //No temptation has taken you except what is common to man. God is faithful ...//
* Job
* @@color:darkgreen;You can't keep birds from flying overhead, but you do not need to let them build nests in your hair.@@ // -- Martin Luther//
* [[Steal]] from need
!! Internal
* <<Bbl Jms 1:13 >>-15
* <<Bbl Gn 4:7 >>
* <<Bbl Mt 26:41 >> //Watch and pray//
* [[Sin]], [[Backslide]]
* [[Trust]]
| [[World]] | [[Satan]] | [[Flesh]] |h
| "love not" | [[Truth]] | "crucify"<br>[[SelfControl]] |
* <<Bbl 2S 7:5>>-7, <<Bbl 2S 11:11 >>; <<Bbl Job 4:21 >>, <<Bbl Job 5:24 >>, <<Bbl Job 8:22 >>; <<Bbl Ps 119:54 >> (house of my pilgrimage ); <<Bbl 2C 5:1 >>
* Not related to the //tentative.// But good for preaching.
* //Do not lead us into temptation// -- I want to give this word temptation the largest scope possible, and to avoid invoking it for petty encounters.
** A deep-seated pattern ("ritual") may underlie , transaction of the soul or occasion for [[Stumble]] may be the subject.
* A test is a situation that pulls us in two directions: a double-bind.
* As Melisa says, dying well is a trial that may require courage, and one's response isn't anticipated with certainty.
* Instances in the Bible
** <<Bbl Job 1:0 "" note>>
** Abraham ascending Moriah
** Christ in the garden
** Peter at the warming fire
** Peter later in Jerusalem
** other points of stress and conflict in the book of Acts.
* <<Bbl James 1:2>> //Count it all joy//
* <<Bbl Rev 3:10 >>
* <<Bbl Pr 27:21>>-22
* [[Test-TheLord]]
* [[Trial]]
* [[Tempt]]
* [[Shake]]
* [[Persevere]], [[Grace-for-Circumstances]]
!!! Double-bind
Every test, it seems, comes down to a decision. A wager is a test in which you bind yourself to a future potential outcome. (Most wagers can be expressed as asserting that "I know better than you do".)
* <<Bbl Mt 17:24 abbr >>-25 Allegiance to the Temple, or discovering what Jesus wants.
* Tests handed to Jesus by the religious leaders (such as paying tax to Rome).
* Tests handed to Jesus by Satan.
* Job:
** Blessing God in every perverse circumstance, or refusing to accept such circumstances from God.
** Acquiescing to the admonitions of his companions, or accepting (even discovering) what God wants.
** To begin with, Satan has put God to the test, has arranged a double-bind.
* Every exhortation to charity and righteousness -- to the point, those that present //this// or //that//.
* The proverbs.
----
* @@color:darkgreen;My dear brother, we must not mind a little suffering for Christ's sake. When I am getting through a hedge, if my head and shoulders are safely through, I can bear the pricking of my legs. Let us rejoice in the remembrance that our holy Head has surmounted all His suffering and triumphed over death. Let us follow Him patiently; we shall soon be partakers of His victory@@ // -- Charles Simeon, 1831//
* @@color:brown;I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much. @@ // - Mother Teresa//
* When do we test the Lord? When we are tested, naturally. [[Test]]
* For example, when Satan is challenging our credentials. But //you shall not put the Lord your God to the test//, replies our Lord.
* [[Presumption]]
* ''First, relying on God's goodness while sinning.''
** <<Bbl Ps 19:13 >>, //presumptuous sins//
* ''Second, relying on God's protection while being foolish (on our own initiative).''
** <<Bbl Mt 14:28 0 note >>
* ''Third, through unbelief.''
** <<Bbl Ex 17:7>>
!!! Prompted by God (positively enjoined)
* <<Bbl I 7:9>>b
* Malachi
/***
|Name|TextAreaPlugin|
|Source|http://www.TiddlyTools.com/#TextAreaPlugin|
|Documentation|http://www.TiddlyTools.com/#TextAreaPluginInfo|
|Version|2.2.1|
|Author|Eric Shulman|
|License|http://www.TiddlyTools.com/#LegalStatements|
|~CoreVersion|2.1|
|Type|plugin|
|Requires||
|Overrides|Story.prototype.focusTiddler|
|Options|##Configuration|
|Description|Adds Find/Again keyboard search, autosize, and 'stretch bar' resize for textarea controls|
!!!!!Documentation
>see [[TextAreaPluginInfo]]
!!!!!Configuration
<<<
<<option chkTextAreaExtensions>> use control-f (find), control-g (find again) inside text area
<<option chkDisableAutoSelect>> place cursor at start of textarea instead of pre-selecting content
<<option chkResizeEditor>> modify shadow EditTemplate to add resizeable text area (and autosize command)
<<<
!!!!!Revisions
<<<
2009.04.08 [2.2.1] added autosizeEditor macro to enable automatic autosizing without using toolbar command
2009.04.06 [2.2.0] added resizeListbox macro definition and adjusted dragbar width calculation.
|please see [[TextAreaPluginInfo]] for additional revision details|
2006.01.22 [1.0.0] Moved from temporary "System Tweaks" tiddler into 'real' TextAreaPlugin tiddler.
<<<
!!!!!Code
***/
//{{{
version.extensions.TextAreaPlugin= {major: 2, minor: 2, revision: 1, date: new Date(2009,4,8)};
if (config.options.chkTextAreaExtensions===undefined) config.options.chkTextAreaExtensions=true;
if (config.options.chkDisableAutoSelect===undefined) config.options.chkDisableAutoSelect=true;
if (config.options.chkResizeEditor===undefined) config.options.chkResizeEditor=true;
// automatically tweak shadow EditTemplate to add "autosizeEditor" toolbar command
if (config.options.chkResizeEditor)
config.shadowTiddlers.EditTemplate=config.shadowTiddlers.EditTemplate.replace(/deleteTiddler/,"deleteTiddler autosizeEditor");
// automatically tweak shadow EditTemplate to add "resizeEditor" macro
if (config.options.chkResizeEditor)
config.shadowTiddlers.EditTemplate+="<span macro='resizeEditor'></span>";
// Put focus in a specified tiddler field
Story.prototype.TextAreaExtensions_focusTiddler=Story.prototype.focusTiddler;
Story.prototype.focusTiddler = function(title,field)
{
this.TextAreaExtensions_focusTiddler.apply(this,arguments); // first call core
var e = this.getTiddlerField(title,field);
if (e && config.options.chkDisableAutoSelect) {
if (e.setSelectionRange) // FF
e.setSelectionRange(0,0);
else if (e.createTextRange) // IE
{ var r=e.createTextRange(); r.collapse(true); r.select(); }
}
if (e && config.options.chkTextAreaExtensions) addKeyDownHandlers(e);
}
//}}}
//{{{
function addKeyDownHandlers(e)
{
// exit if not textarea or element doesn't allow selections
if (e.tagName.toLowerCase()!="textarea"||!e.setSelectionRange||e.initialized) return;
// utility function: exits keydown handler and prevents browser from processing the keystroke
var processed=function(ev) {
ev.cancelBubble=true; // IE4+
try{event.keyCode=0;}catch(e){}; // IE5
if (window.event) ev.returnValue=false; // IE6
if (ev.preventDefault) ev.preventDefault(); // moz/opera/konqueror
if (ev.stopPropagation) ev.stopPropagation(); // all
return false;
}
// capture keydown in edit field
e.saved_onkeydown=e.onkeydown; // save current keydown handler (if any)
e.onkeydown=function(ev) { if (!ev) var ev=window.event;
var key=ev.keyCode;
if (!key) {
var char=event.which?event.which:event.charCode;
if (char==102) key=70;
if (char==103) key=71;
}
// process CTRL-F (find matching text) or CTRL-G (find next match)
if (ev.ctrlKey && (key==70||key==71)) {
// prompt for text to find
var defFind=e.findText?e.findText:e.value.substring(e.selectionStart,e.selectionEnd);
if (key==70||!e.findText||!e.findText.length) // ctrl-f or no saved search text
{ var f=prompt("find:", defFind); e.focus(); if (f) e.findText=f; }
if (!e.findText||!e.findText.length) return processed(ev); // if no search text, exit
// do case-insensitive match with 'wraparound'... if not found, alert and exit
var newstart=e.value.toLowerCase().indexOf(e.findText.toLowerCase(),e.selectionStart+1);
if (newstart==-1) newstart=e.value.toLowerCase().indexOf(e.findText.toLowerCase());
if (newstart==-1) { alert("'"+e.findText+"' not found"); e.focus(); return processed(ev); }
// set new selection, scroll it into view, and report line position in status bar
e.setSelectionRange(newstart,newstart+e.findText.length);
var linecount=e.value.split('\n').length;
var thisline=e.value.substr(0,e.selectionStart).split('\n').length;
e.scrollTop=Math.floor((thisline-1-e.rows/2)*e.scrollHeight/linecount);
window.status="line: "+thisline+"/"+linecount;
return processed(ev);
}
if (e.saved_onkeydown) // call previous keydown handler (if any)
e.saved_onkeydown(ev);
}
e.initialized=true;
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//}}}
// // 'autosize' toolbar command
//{{{
config.commands.autosizeEditor = {
text: 'autosize',
tooltip: 'automatically adjust the editor height to fit the contents',
text_alt: '\u221Aautosize',
hideReadOnly: false,
handler: function(event,src,title) {
var here=story.findContainingTiddler(src); if (!here) return;
var ta=here.getElementsByTagName('textarea'); if (!ta) return;
for (i=0;i<ta.length;i++) {
// only autosize textareas actually used to edit tiddler fields
if (ta[i].getAttribute("edit")==undefined) continue;
ta[i].button=src;
if (!ta[i].maxed)
config.commands.autosizeEditor.on(ta[i]);
else
config.commands.autosizeEditor.off(ta[i],true);
}
return false;
},
on: function(e) {
if (e.maxed) return; // already autosizing!
if (e.savedheight==undefined)
e.savedheight=e.style.height;
if (e.savedkeyup==undefined) {
e.savedkeyup=e.onkeyup;
e.onkeyup=function(ev) {
if (!ev) var ev=window.event; var e=resolveTarget(ev);
e.style.height=e.scrollHeight+'px';
if (e.savedkeyup) e.savedkeyup();
}
}
// IE reports error: "not implemented" for onkeypress
if (!config.browser.isIE && e.savedkeypress==undefined) {
e.savedkeypress=e.onkeypress;
e.onkeypress=function(ev) {
if (!ev) var ev=window.event; var e=resolveTarget(ev);
if (ev.keyCode==33) { // PGUP
if (window.scrollByPages) window.scrollByPages(-1);
return false;
}
if (ev.keyCode==34) { // PGDN
if (window.scrollByPages) window.scrollByPages(1);
return false;
}
if (e.savedkeypress) e.savedkeypress();
}
}
e.style.height=e.scrollHeight+'px';
if (e.button) e.button.innerHTML=config.commands.autosizeEditor.text_alt;
e.maxed=true;
},
off: function(e,resetHeight) {
if (resetHeight) e.style.height=e.savedheight;
e.onkeyup=e.savedkeyup;
// IE reports error: "not implemented" for onkeypress
if (!config.browser.isIE) e.onkeypress=e.savedkeypress;
if (e.button) e.button.innerHTML=config.commands.autosizeEditor.text;
e.maxed=false;
}
};
config.macros.autosizeEditor={
handler: function(place,macroName,params,wikifier,paramString,tiddler) {
var here=story.findContainingTiddler(place); if (!here) return;
var ta=here.getElementsByTagName('textarea'); if (!ta) return;
for (i=0;i<ta.length;i++) {
// only autosize textareas actually used to edit tiddler fields
if (ta[i].getAttribute("edit")==undefined) continue;
config.commands.autosizeEditor.on(ta[i]);
}
return false;
}
}
//}}}
// // grab-and-stretch handle
//{{{
config.macros.resizeEditor = { // add stretch bar to editor textarea
handler: function(place,macroName,params,wikifier,paramString,tiddler) {
var here=story.findContainingTiddler(place); if (!here) return;
var ta=here.getElementsByTagName('textarea');
if (ta) for (i=0;i<ta.length;i++) {
// only resize tiddler editor textareas
if (ta[i].getAttribute("edit")==undefined) continue;
new window.TextAreaResizer(ta[i]);
}
}
}
config.macros.resizeTiddler = { // add stretch bar to tiddler viewer element
handler: function(place,macroName,params,wikifier,paramString,tiddler) {
var here=story.findContainingTiddler(place); if (!here) return;
var elems=here.getElementsByTagName('div');
if (elems) for (i=0;i<elems.length;i++) if (hasClass(elems[i],'viewer')) break;
if (i<elems.length) new window.TextAreaResizer(elems[i]);
}
}
config.macros.resizeFrame = { // add stretch bar to iframes
handler: function(place,macroName,params,wikifier,paramString,tiddler) {
var here=story.findContainingTiddler(place); if (!here) return;
var fr=here.getElementsByTagName('iframe');
if (fr) for (i=0;i<fr.length;i++) new window.TextAreaResizer(fr[i]);
}
}
config.macros.resizeListbox = { // add stretch bar to listbox controls
handler: function(place,macroName,params,wikifier,paramString,tiddler) {
var here=story.findContainingTiddler(place); if (!here) here=place;
var fr=here.getElementsByTagName('select');
if (fr) for (i=0;i<fr.length;i++) new window.TextAreaResizer(fr[i]);
}
}
// TextAreaResizer script by Jason Johnston (jj@lojjic.net)
// Created August 2003. Use freely, but give me credit.
// adds a handle below textareas that the user can drag with the mouse to resize the textarea.
// MODIFIED by ELS for cross-browser (IE) compatibility, including:
window.TextAreaResizer = function(elt) {
this.element = elt;
this.create();
}
window.TextAreaResizer.prototype = {
create : function() {
var elt = this.element;
var thisRef = this;
var h = this.handle = document.createElement("div");
h.style.height = "2px"; // was 4px... looked too fat!
h.style.overflow = "hidden"; // ELS: force IE to trim height to < 1em
var adjust=elt.nodeName=='textarea'?4:0; // 4 pixels for textarea border edge
// h.style.width=(elt.offsetWidth-adjust)+"px";
h.style.width="auto";
h.style.backgroundColor = "#999"; // ELS: standard mid-tone (dark) gray
h.style.cursor = "s-resize";
h.title = "Drag to resize text box";
h.onmousedown=function(evt){thisRef.dragStart(evt)};
elt.parentNode.insertBefore(h, elt.nextSibling);
},
dragStart : function(evt) {
if (!evt) var evt=window.event;
this.dragStop(evt); // ELS: stop any current drag processing first
var thisRef = this;
this.dragStartY = evt.clientY;
this.dragStartH = this.element.offsetHeight;
document.savedmousemove=document.onmousemove;
document.onmousemove=this.dragMoveHdlr=function(evt){thisRef.dragMove(evt)};
document.savedmouseup=document.onmouseup;
document.onmouseup=this.dragStopHdlr=function(evt){thisRef.dragStop(evt)};
},
dragMove : function(evt) {
if (!evt) var evt=window.event;
// ELS: make sure height is at least 10px
var h=this.dragStartH+evt.clientY-this.dragStartY;
if (h<10) h=10; this.element.style.height=h+"px";
// ELS: match handle to textarea width (which may have changed due to document scrollbars)
// var adjust=this.element.nodeName.toLowerCase()=='textarea'?4:0; // 4 pixels for textarea
// this.handle.style.width=(this.element.offsetWidth-adjust)+"px";
// ELS: when manually resizing, disable autoresizing (without restoring saved height)
if (this.element.maxed!=undefined && this.element.maxed)
config.commands.autosizeEditor.off(this.element,false);
},
dragStop : function(evt) {
if (!evt) var evt=window.event;
document.onmousemove=(document.savedmousemove!=undefined)?document.savedmousemove:null;
document.onmousemove=(document.savedmouseup!=undefined)?document.savedmouseup:null;
},
destroy : function() {
var elt = this.element;
elt.parentNode.removeChild(this.handle);
elt.style.height = "";
}
};
//}}}
"Of the forms of [[Pray]], only [[Worship]] and gratitude will continue eternally." <<Bbl Mt 8:15 >>; <<Bbl L 17:16 >>; <<Bbl Php 4:6 >>; <<Bbl Col 2:7 >>, <<Bbl Col 3:15 >>, <<Bbl Col 4:2 >>; <<Bbl 1Tim 2:1 >>; <<Bbl 2Tim 3:2 >>; <<Bbl Rev 4:9 >>,<<Bbl Rev 7:12 >>.
* //thanksgiving, gratitude//
* [[Attitude]]
* Intrinsic to [[Contentment]] and [[Enjoy]]
* @@color:darkgreen;I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.@@ // -- G.K. Chesterton//
* @@color:indigo;Pride slays thanksgiving, but an humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.@@ // -- Henry Ward Beecher//
* <<Bbl Dt 8:10 "" note>>.
* //Eucharist// -- [[LordsSupper]]
* //Gratitude platitudes//, says Peter Dusan, are when people say Thank The Heavens or Thank My Lucky Stars. Gratitude misplaced.
* {{anti{[[Forget]]}}}
{{fyi{
Of course, //Theology// denotes the study of God Himself. G. Vos has interesting remarks.
}}}
| Theol'cal approach | Tiddler | Word picture | Visual aid |h
|''Biblical'' |[[Revelation-GeoHistorical]] |Foot-path |Loose row of pebbles |
|''Systematic'' |[[EFCA-Statement]] |Database |Array of 3x5 cards |
----
!! How Theology Works
# Systematic Theology
## Display the [[Statement of Faith|EFCA-Statement]]. Note the division into Articles.
## Lay out 3x5 cards. Explain logic-based organization. Background of full knowledge.
## Compare to a database. //Schema// = plan.
## Note that no one proposes using this approach without total reliance on the Bible.
# Biblical Theology
## Explain simple chronological approach.
## How do ideas and truths emerge? Lay out pebbles.
## Compare to a foot path.
## Apology for the term //Biblical Theology.//
## What happens if you spend your time in ST, and then attempt BT?
### You must unlearn a lot -- at least, you must suspend your knowledge.
### You must see what insights were available for the time you are studying.
### You must use your imagination.
## Thus a great value of BT is that ideas become fresh.
## None of this is new to you, but the definition of BT is often new, and people often haven't taken it deliberately as their approach to reading the Bible.
# The Statement of Faith as BT.
----
* Biblical theology is theology from the Bible. Systematic theology is theology from the Bible that has been organized logically, by topic. The other approach necessarily organized it by narrative, which is to say chronologically and geographically. (Begg)
* BT without ST is likely to be confused; ST without BT descends immediately into sterility from which arise many other dangers (Preaching for God's Glory, Begg, p 19).
* Bad theology is atomistic and a-historical.
* Revelation and inspiration are organic processes.
!! The old and new testaments
* Volume 1 (the NT) is not as directly revelatory as Volume 2 (the NT).
* It's natural to want to compare self with OT characters. But we must bear in mind they did not have God's Spirit dwelling inside; nor the early disciples. Yet 1Crand others tell us to compare...for so we are, in the flesh.
* Passages not written TO us yet still written FOR us.
Discontinuity found in matters specific to epoch, culture and person (specific).
In the time of the writing of the NT miracles were displayed and evince to verify the authority of the leadership of the apostles and prophets. After that period it is written we should apply standards which have nothing to do with the per to work miracles. Interesting that Acts 1 did not cite miracles as a standard.
Studying the prophets has resulted in apathy, from disillusionment, from experiences of abuse (by hucksters), and from disorientation when reading the very texts.
Expository presentation is that which takes care to present on meaningful chunks below, at or above the book level. See A Begg p47
!! Timeline of Revelation.
Revelation through the acts of God is through history, so it can be understood geographically chronologically. Revelation through the words of God is asynchronous. But it can be charted against the time line, and I believe this would be interesting.
* <<Bbl Mt 9:15 >> a time for fasting.
* The age of "is and not yet". [[LastDays]]
* While he tarries. <<Bbl Mt 26:11 >>.
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* The opposite of fruit. So cited in the parables of the [[Vineyard]].
* The worst of fuel (ironic the burning bush). <<Bbl Eccl 7:6>>.
* Gn 3:18
* <<Bbl I 7:23 >>-25
* <<Bbl I 27:2 >>-6
* Isaiah 55
* <<Bbl Hosea 9:6 >>, <<Bbl Hosea 10:8 >>
* Jr 4:3
* Mk 15:17
* //Brambles//
!!! The burning bush
* @@color:brown; The Hebrew word simply means “bush” or “thorn bush.” The word is found only in this text and in <<Bbl Dt 33:16 >>, in which Moses blesses the tribe of Joseph...@@ // - Sr. Sarah Schwartzberg//
* The early punishment for Adam's sin.
* <<Bbl Ex 2:2 >>, [[Moses]] is presented with a picture of Israel in the furnace of affliction.
* <<Bbl A 7:30 >>,35.
* Since this happens on Mount Horeb, and we understand that to be Sinai where the Law was to be given, can we not meditate on the pricking of the Law on man's conscience and spiritual state?
* Jesus on the cross was God's inextinguishable, revelatory flame; so the crown of thorns.
* [[LifeInChrist]]
* //Thinking, reason//
* <<Bbl R 12:1 >>
* Ro 08
* Phil
* Isa 50
* <<Bbl 2C 10:5 >> //Bringing every thought captive//
* Loving the Lord your God with all //your mind//
* [[SelfControl]] starts here
* [[Attitude]]
* [[Intellect]]
* [[PeaceOfMind]]
* [[Need]] (includes cognitive dissonance)
* @@color:navy;It's good to know the Bible, but we need to know God better than we know the Bible.@@ // Fount Schultz//
Threshing we find hard to appreciate. To open a pecan you must press hard, but not too hard.
* Isaiah refers to a //threshing sled//.
* Threshing illustrates the meaning of exploitation in its positive sense (which of course is now a lost sense) of wise utilization.
* [[Break]]
* [[Circumcise]] * [[Flesh]]
* The disciples walking across the wheat field were threshing for a snack. While Jesus their Lord was with them, threshing them.
| Format | Method |h
|''bold''|{{{''bold''}}} - two single-quotes, not a double-quote|
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|''//bold italics//''|{{{''//bold italics//''}}}|
|__underline__|{{{__underline__}}}|
|--strikethrough--|{{{--Strikethrough--}}}|
|super^^script^^|{{{^^super^^script}}} ^^<<Bbl L 9:41>>^^ He set His face like flint...|
|sub~~script~~|{{{sub~~script~~}}} But Jacob traveled on to Succoth... ~~<<Bbl Gn 33:17>>~~|
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* Bullet level 1
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{{{
* Bullet level 1
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This is a mark-up demo; not intended for theological instruction.
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|>|. . .''Note:'' link must include pretty label |
|[[Folder of this doc|./]] |{{{[[Folder of this doc|./]]}}} |
|[[Subfolder of same|./7 PAUL/Galations by Lancaster]] |{{{[[Subfolder of same|./7 PAUL/Galations by Lancaster]]}}} |
|[[Folder elsewhere|../Living_Thinking/Quotes Anecdotes]] |{{{[[Folder elsewhere|../Living_Thinking/Quotes Anecdotes]]}}} |
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|[[Internal "GettingStarted"|GettingStarted]] |{{{[[Internal "GettingStarted"|GettingStarted]]}}} |
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R:/%%/ <<tiddler TiddlerMapX##Col1 with: R>>
/%
S:/%%/ <<tiddler TiddlerMapX##Col1 with: S>>
/%
TUV:/%%/ <<tiddler TiddlerMapX##Col3 with: T U V>>
/%
W:/%%/ <<tiddler TiddlerMapX##Col1 with: W>>
/%
XYZ:/%%/ <<tiddler TiddlerMapX##Col3 with: X Y Z>>
/%
0to9:/%%/ <<tiddler TiddlerMapX##Col3 with: '0-3' '4-6' '7-9'>>
/%
!!!Col
{{mapH1{$1}}}{{dp33{<<list noCase title '[$1]'>>}}} {{mapH1{$2}}}{{dp33{<<list noCase title '[$2]'>>}}} {{mapH1{$3}}}{{dp33{<<list noCase title '[$3]'>>}}}
{{dp100{<br>}}}
!!!Col1
{{dp100{<<list xCase title '[$1]' filter '[tag[NOT Comment AND NOT Scriptr]]'>>}}}
!!!end
!!!Col1_backup
<hr>
{{dp100{<<list noCase title '[$1]'>>}}}
<hr>
!!!end
*Col2
!!!Col2
{{fourcolumns{''$1'' <<list xCase title '[$1]' [tag[(NOT Comment AND NOT Scriptr)]]>> ''$2''<<list xCase title '[$2]' [tag[(NOT Comment AND NOT Scriptr)]]>>}}}
!!!end
*Col3
!!!Col3
{{mapH1{$1}}}{{dp33{<<list xCase title '[$1]' '[tag[NOT Comment AND NOT Scriptr]]'>>}}} {{mapH1{$2}}}{{dp33{<<list noCase title '[$2]' '[tag[NOT Comment AND NOT Scriptr]]'>>}}} {{mapH1{$3}}}{{dp33{<<list noCase title '[$3]' '[tag[NOT Comment AND NOT Scriptr]]'>>}}}
{{dp100{<br>}}}
!!!end
*Col4
!!!Col4
{{fourcolumns{
{{mapH1{$1}}}<<list xCase title '[$1]' '[tag[NOT Comment]]'>> {{mapH1{$2}}}<<list xCase title '[$2]' '[tag[NOT Comment]]'>> {{mapH1{$3}}}<<list xCase title '[$3]' '[tag[NOT Comment]]'>> {{mapH1{$4}}}<<list xCase title '[$4]' '[tag[NOT Comment]]'>>
}}}
!!!end
!!!ColAZ3
{{dp33{''$1''-[$2]
<<list noCase title '$1[$2]'>>}}} {{dp33{''$1''-[$3]
<<list noCase title '$1[$3]'>>}}} {{dp33{''$1''-[$4]
<<list noCase title '$1[$4]'>>}}}
{{dp100{<br>}}}
!!!end
!!!ColAZ4
{{dp25{''$1''-[$2]
<<list noCase title '$1[$2]'>>}}} {{dp25{''$1''-[$3]
<<list noCase title '$1[$3]'>>}}} {{dp25{''$1''-[$4]
<<list noCase title '$1[$4]'>>}}} {{dp25{''$1''-[$5]
<<list noCase title '$1[$5]'>>}}}
{{dp100{<br>}}}
!!!end
!!!Col0to9
{{dp33{''$1''<<list noCase title '[$1]'>>}}} {{dp33{''$2''
<<list noCase title '[$2]'>>}}} {{dp33{''$3''
<<list noCase title '[$3]'>>}}}
{{dp100{<br>}}}
!!!end
%/
/***
|Name|TiddlerTweakerPlugin|
|Source|http://www.TiddlyTools.com/#TiddlerTweakerPlugin|
|Version|2.4.2|
|Author|Eric Shulman|
|License|http://www.TiddlyTools.com/#LegalStatements|
|~CoreVersion|2.1|
|Type|plugin|
|Requires||
|Overrides||
|Description|select multiple tiddlers and modify author, created, modified and/or tag values|
~TiddlerTweaker is a tool for TiddlyWiki authors. It allows you to select multiple tiddlers from a listbox, either by direct interaction or automatically matching specific criteria. You can then modify the creator, author, created, modified and/or tag values of those tiddlers using a compact set of form fields. The values you enter into the fields simultantously overwrite the existing values in all tiddlers you have selected.
!!!!!Usage
<<<
{{{<<tiddlerTweaker>>}}}
{{smallform{<<tiddlerTweaker>>}}}
By default, any tags you enter into the TiddlerTweaker will //replace// the existing tags in all the tiddlers you have selected. However, you can also use TiddlerTweaker to quickly filter specified tags from the selected tiddlers, while leaving any other tags assigned to those tiddlers unchanged:
>Any tag preceded by a "+" (plus) or "-" (minus), will be added or removed from the existing tags //instead of replacing the entire tag definition// of each tiddler (e.g., enter "-excludeLists" to remove that tag from all selected tiddlers. When using this syntax, care should be taken to ensure that //every// tag is preceded by "+" or "-", to avoid inadvertently overwriting any other existing tags on the selected tiddlers. (note: the "+" or "-" prefix on each tag value is NOT part of the tag value, and is only used by TiddlerTweaker to control how that tag value is processed)
Important Notes:
* Inasmuch as TiddlerTweaker is a 'power user' tool that can perform 'batch' functions (operating on many tiddlers at once), you should always have a recent backup of your document (or "save changes" just *before* tweaking the tiddlers), just in case you "shoot yourself in the foot".
* The date and author information on any tiddlers you tweak will ONLY be updated if the corresponding TiddlyTweaker checkboxes have been selected. As a general rule, after using TiddlerTweaker, always ''//remember to save your document//'' when you are done, even though the tiddler timeline tab may not show any recently modified tiddlers.
* Selecting and updating all tiddlers in a document can take a while. Your browser may warn about an "unresponsive script". Usually, if you allow it to continue, it should complete the processing... eventually. Nonetheless, be sure to save your work before you begin tweaking lots of tiddlers, just in case something does get 'stuck'.
<<<
!!!!!Revisions
<<<
2009.06.26 [2.4.2] only add brackets around tags containing spaces
2009.06.22 [2.4.1] in setFields(), add brackets around all tags shown tweaker edit field
2009.03.30 [2.4.0] added 'sort by modifier'
2009.01.22 [2.3.0] added support for text pattern find/replace
2008.10.27 [2.2.3] in setTiddlers(), fixed Safari bug by replacing static Array.concat(...) with new Array().concat(...)
2008.09.07 [2.2.2] added removeCookie() function for compatibility with [[CookieManagerPlugin]]
2008.05.12 [2.2.1] replace built-in backstage "tweak" task with tiddler tweaker control panel (moved from BackstageTweaks)
2008.01.13 [2.2.0] added "auto-selection" links: all, changed, tags, title, text
2007.12.26 [2.1.0] added support for managing 'creator' custom field (see [[CoreTweaks]])
2007.11.01 [2.0.3] added config.options.txtTweakerSortBy for cookie-based persistence of list display order preference setting.
2007.09.28 [2.0.2] in settiddlers() and deltiddlers(), added suspend/resume notification handling (improves performance when operating on multiple tiddlers)
2007.08.03 [2.0.1] added shadow definition for [[TiddlerTweaker]] tiddler for use as parameter references with {{{<<tiddler>>, <<slider>> or <<tabs>>}}} macros.
2007.08.03 [2.0.0] converted from inline script
2006.01.01 [1.0.0] initial release
<<<
!!!!!Code
***/
//{{{
version.extensions.TiddlerTweakerPlugin= {major: 2, minor: 4, revision: 1, date: new Date(2009,6,22)};
// shadow tiddler
config.shadowTiddlers.TiddlerTweaker="<<tiddlerTweaker>>";
/// backstage task
if (config.tasks) { // for TW2.2b3 or above
config.tasks.tweak.tooltip="review/modify tiddler internals: dates, authors, tags, etc.";
config.tasks.tweak.content="{{smallform small groupbox{<<tiddlerTweaker>>}}}";
}
if (config.options.txtTweakerSortBy==undefined) config.options.txtTweakerSortBy="modified";
// if removeCookie() function is not defined by TW core, define it here.
if (window.removeCookie===undefined) {
window.removeCookie=function(name) {
document.cookie = name+'=; expires=Thu, 01-Jan-1970 00:00:01 UTC; path=/;';
}
}
config.macros.tiddlerTweaker = {
html: '<form style="display:inline"><!--\
--><table style="padding:0;margin:0;border:0;width:100%"><tr valign="top" style="padding:0;margin:0;border:0"><!--\
--><td style="text-align:center;white-space:nowrap;width:99%;padding:0;margin:0;border:0"><!--\
--><font size=-2><div style="text-align:left;"><span style="float:right"><!--\
--> <a href="javascript:;" \
title="select all tiddlers"\
onclick="\
var f=this; while (f&&f.nodeName.toLowerCase()!=\'form\')f=f.parentNode;\
for (var t=0; t<f.list.options.length; t++)\
if (f.list.options[t].value.length) f.list.options[t].selected=true;\
config.macros.tiddlerTweaker.selecttiddlers(f.list);\
return false">all</a><!--\
--> <a href="javascript:;" \
title="select tiddlers that are new/changed since the last file save"\
onclick="\
var lastmod=new Date(document.lastModified);\
var f=this; while (f&&f.nodeName.toLowerCase()!=\'form\')f=f.parentNode;\
for (var t=0; t<f.list.options.length; t++) {\
var tid=store.getTiddler(f.list.options[t].value);\
f.list.options[t].selected=tid&&tid.modified>lastmod;\
}\
config.macros.tiddlerTweaker.selecttiddlers(f.list);\
return false">changed</a><!--\
--> <a href="javascript:;" \
title="select tiddlers with at least one matching tag"\
onclick="\
var t=prompt(\'Enter space-separated tags (match ONE)\');\
if (!t||!t.length) return false;\
var tags=t.readBracketedList();\
var f=this; while (f&&f.nodeName.toLowerCase()!=\'form\')f=f.parentNode;\
for (var t=0; t<f.list.options.length; t++) {\
f.list.options[t].selected=false;\
var tid=store.getTiddler(f.list.options[t].value);\
if (tid&&tid.tags.containsAny(tags)) f.list.options[t].selected=true;\
}\
config.macros.tiddlerTweaker.selecttiddlers(f.list);\
return false">tags</a><!--\
--> <a href="javascript:;" \
title="select tiddlers whose titles include matching text"\
onclick="\
var txt=prompt(\'Enter a title (or portion of a title) to match\');\
if (!txt||!txt.length) return false;\
var f=this; while (f&&f.nodeName.toLowerCase()!=\'form\')f=f.parentNode;\
for (var t=0; t<f.list.options.length; t++) {\
f.list.options[t].selected=f.list.options[t].value.indexOf(txt)!=-1;\
}\
config.macros.tiddlerTweaker.selecttiddlers(f.list);\
return false">titles</a><!--\
--> <a href="javascript:;" \
title="select tiddlers containing matching text"\
onclick="\
var txt=prompt(\'Enter tiddler text (content) to match\');\
if (!txt||!txt.length) return false;\
var f=this; while (f&&f.nodeName.toLowerCase()!=\'form\')f=f.parentNode;\
for (var t=0; t<f.list.options.length; t++) {\
var tt=store.getTiddlerText(f.list.options[t].value,\'\');\
f.list.options[t].selected=(tt.indexOf(txt)!=-1);\
}\
config.macros.tiddlerTweaker.selecttiddlers(f.list);\
return false">text</a> <!--\
--></span><span>select tiddlers</span><!--\
--></div><!--\
--></font><select multiple name=list size="30" style="width:99.99%" \
title="use click, shift-click and/or ctrl-click to select multiple tiddler titles" \
onclick="config.macros.tiddlerTweaker.selecttiddlers(this)" \
onchange="config.macros.tiddlerTweaker.setfields(this)"><!--\
--></select><br><!--\
-->show<input type=text size=1 value="30" \
onchange="this.form.list.size=this.value; this.form.list.multiple=(this.value>1);"><!--\
-->by<!--\
--><select name=sortby size=1 \
onchange="config.macros.tiddlerTweaker.init(this.form,this.value)"><!--\
--><option value="title">title</option><!--\
--><option value="size">size</option><!--\
--><option value="modified">modified</option><!--\
--><option value="created">created</option><!--\
--><option value="modifier">modifier</option><!--\
--></select><!--\
--><input type="button" value="refresh" \
onclick="config.macros.tiddlerTweaker.init(this.form,this.form.sortby.value)"<!--\
--> <input type="button" name="stats" disabled value="totals..." \
onclick="config.macros.tiddlerTweaker.stats(this)"><!--\
--></td><td style="white-space:nowrap;padding:0;margin:0;border:0;width:1%"><!--\
--><div style="text-align:left"><font size=-2> modify values</font></div><!--\
--><table border=0 style="width:100%;padding:0;margin:0;border:0;"><tr style="padding:0;border:0;"><!--\
--><td style="padding:1px;border:0;white-space:nowrap"><!--\
--><input type=checkbox name=settitle unchecked \
title="allow changes to tiddler title (rename tiddler)" \
onclick="this.form.title.disabled=!this.checked">title<!--\
--></td><td style="padding:1px;border:0;white-space:nowrap"><!--\
--><input type=text name=title size=35 style="width:98%" disabled><!--\
--></td></tr><tr style="padding:0;border:0;"><td style="padding:1px;border:0;white-space:nowrap"><!--\
--><input type=checkbox name=setcreator unchecked \
title="allow changes to tiddler creator" \
onclick="this.form.creator.disabled=!this.checked">created by<!--\
--></td><td style="padding:1px;border:0;white-space:nowrap"><!--\
--><input type=text name=creator size=35 style="width:98%" disabled><!--\
--></td></tr><tr style="padding:0;border:0;"><td style="padding:1px;border:0;white-space:nowrap"><!--\
--><input type=checkbox name=setwho unchecked \
title="allow changes to tiddler author" \
onclick="this.form.who.disabled=!this.checked">modified by<!--\
--></td><td style="padding:1px;border:0;white-space:nowrap"><!--\
--><input type=text name=who size=35 style="width:98%" disabled><!--\
--></td></tr><tr style="padding:0;border:0;"><td style="padding:1px;border:0;white-space:nowrap"><!--\
--><input type=checkbox name=setcdate unchecked \
title="allow changes to created date" \
onclick="var f=this.form; f.cm.disabled=f.cd.disabled=f.cy.disabled=f.ch.disabled=f.cn.disabled=!this.checked"><!--\
-->created on<!--\
--></td><td style="padding:1px;border:0;white-space:nowrap"><!--\
--><input type=text name=cm size=2 style="width:2em;padding:0;text-align:center" disabled><!--\
--> / <input type=text name=cd size=2 style="width:2em;padding:0;text-align:center" disabled><!--\
--> / <input type=text name=cy size=4 style="width:3em;padding:0;text-align:center" disabled><!--\
--> at <input type=text name=ch size=2 style="width:2em;padding:0;text-align:center" disabled><!--\
--> : <input type=text name=cn size=2 style="width:2em;padding:0;text-align:center" disabled><!--\
--></td></tr><tr style="padding:0;border:0;"><td style="padding:1px;border:0;white-space:nowrap"><!--\
--><input type=checkbox name=setmdate unchecked \
title="allow changes to modified date" \
onclick="var f=this.form; f.mm.disabled=f.md.disabled=f.my.disabled=f.mh.disabled=f.mn.disabled=!this.checked"><!--\
-->modified on<!--\
--></td><td style="padding:1px;border:0;white-space:nowrap"><!--\
--><input type=text name=mm size=2 style="width:2em;padding:0;text-align:center" disabled><!--\
--> / <input type=text name=md size=2 style="width:2em;padding:0;text-align:center" disabled><!--\
--> / <input type=text name=my size=4 style="width:3em;padding:0;text-align:center" disabled><!--\
--> at <input type=text name=mh size=2 style="width:2em;padding:0;text-align:center" disabled><!--\
--> : <input type=text name=mn size=2 style="width:2em;padding:0;text-align:center" disabled><!--\
--></td></tr><tr style="padding:0;border:0;"><td style="padding:1px;border:0;white-space:nowrap"><!--\
--><input type=checkbox name=replacetext unchecked\
title="find/replace matching text" \
onclick="this.form.pattern.disabled=this.form.replacement.disabled=!this.checked">replace text<!--\
--></td><td style="padding:1px;border:0;white-space:nowrap"><!--\
--><input type=text name=pattern size=15 value="" style="width:40%" disabled \
title="enter TEXT PATTERN (regular expression)"> with <!--\
--><input type=text name=replacement size=15 value="" style="width:40%" disabled \
title="enter REPLACEMENT TEXT"><!--\
--></td></tr><tr style="padding:0;border:0;"><td style="padding:1px;border:0;white-space:nowrap"><!--\
--><input type=checkbox name=settags checked \
title="allow changes to tiddler tags" \
onclick="this.form.tags.disabled=!this.checked">tags<!--\
--></td><td style="padding:1px;border:0;white-space:nowrap"><!--\
--><input type=text name=tags size=35 value="" style="width:98%" \
title="enter new tags or use \'+tag\' and \'-tag\' to add/remove tags from existing tags"><!--\
--></td></tr></table><!--\
--><div style="text-align:center"><!--\
--><nobr><input type=button name=display disabled style="width:32%" value="display tiddlers" \
onclick="config.macros.tiddlerTweaker.displaytiddlers(this)"><!--\
--> <input type=button name=del disabled style="width:32%" value="delete tiddlers" \
onclick="config.macros.tiddlerTweaker.deltiddlers(this)"><!--\
--> <input type=button name=set disabled style="width:32%" value="update tiddlers" \
onclick="config.macros.tiddlerTweaker.settiddlers(this)"></nobr><!--\
--></div><!--\
--></td></tr></table><!--\
--></form><span style="display:none"><!--content replaced by tiddler "stats"--></span>\
',
handler: function(place,macroName,params,wikifier,paramString,tiddler) {
var span=createTiddlyElement(place,"span");
span.innerHTML=this.html;
this.init(span.firstChild,config.options.txtTweakerSortBy);
},
init: function(f,sortby) { // initialize form controls
if (!f) return; // form might not be rendered yet...
while (f.list.options[0]) f.list.options[0]=null; // empty current list content
var tids=store.getTiddlers(sortby);
if (sortby=='size') // descending order
tids.sort(function(a,b) {return a.text.length > b.text.length ? -1 : (a.text.length == b.text.length ? 0 : +1);});
var who='';
for (i=0; i<tids.length; i++) { var t=tids[i];
var label=t.title; var value=t.title;
switch (sortby) {
case 'modified':
case 'created':
var t=tids[tids.length-i-1]; // reverse order
var when=t[sortby].formatString('YY.0MM.0DD 0hh:0mm ');
label=when+t.title;
value=t.title;
break;
case 'size':
label='['+t.text.length+'] '+label;
break;
case 'modifier':
case 'creator':
if (who!=t[sortby]) {
who=t[sortby];
f.list.options[f.list.length]=new Option('by '+who+':','',false,false);
}
label='\xa0\xa0\xa0'+label; // indent
break;
}
f.list.options[f.list.length]=new Option(label,value,false,false);
}
f.title.value=f.who.value=f.creator.value=f.tags.value="";
f.cm.value=f.cd.value=f.cy.value=f.ch.value=f.cn.value="";
f.mm.value=f.md.value=f.my.value=f.mh.value=f.mn.value="";
f.stats.disabled=f.set.disabled=f.del.disabled=f.display.disabled=true;
f.settitle.disabled=false;
config.options.txtTweakerSortBy=sortby; // remember current setting
f.sortby.value=sortby; // sync droplist selection with current setting
if (sortby!="modified") // non-default preference... save cookie
saveOptionCookie("txtTweakerSortBy");
else removeCookie("txtTweakerSortBy"); // default preference... clear cookie
},
selecttiddlers: function(here) { // enable/disable tweaker fields based on number of items selected
// count how many tiddlers are selected
var f=here.form; var list=f.list;
var c=0; for (i=0;i<list.length;i++) if (list.options[i].selected) c++;
if (c>1) f.title.disabled=true;
if (c>1) f.settitle.checked=false;
f.set.disabled=(c==0);
f.del.disabled=(c==0);
f.display.disabled=(c==0);
f.settitle.disabled=(c>1);
f.stats.disabled=(c==0);
var msg=(c==0)?'select tiddlers':(c+' tiddler'+(c!=1?'s':'')+' selected');
here.previousSibling.firstChild.firstChild.nextSibling.innerHTML=msg;
if (c) clearMessage(); else displayMessage("no tiddlers selected");
},
setfields: function(here) { // set tweaker edit fields from first selected tiddler
var f=here.form;
if (!here.value.length) {
f.title.value=f.who.value=f.creator.value=f.tags.value="";
f.cm.value=f.cd.value=f.cy.value=f.ch.value=f.cn.value="";
f.mm.value=f.md.value=f.my.value=f.mh.value=f.mn.value="";
return;
}
var tid=store.getTiddler(here.value); if (!tid) return;
f.title.value=tid.title;
f.who.value=tid.modifier;
f.creator.value=tid.fields['creator']||''; // custom field - might not exist
f.tags.value=tid.tags.map(function(t){return String.encodeTiddlyLink(t)}).join(' ');
var c=tid.created; var m=tid.modified;
f.cm.value=c.getMonth()+1;
f.cd.value=c.getDate();
f.cy.value=c.getFullYear();
f.ch.value=c.getHours();
f.cn.value=c.getMinutes();
f.mm.value=m.getMonth()+1;
f.md.value=m.getDate();
f.my.value=m.getFullYear();
f.mh.value=m.getHours();
f.mn.value=m.getMinutes();
},
settiddlers: function(here) {
var f=here.form; var list=f.list;
var tids=[];
for (i=0;i<list.length;i++) if (list.options[i].selected) tids.push(list.options[i].value);
if (!tids.length) { alert("please select at least one tiddler"); return; }
var cdate=new Date(f.cy.value,f.cm.value-1,f.cd.value,f.ch.value,f.cn.value);
var mdate=new Date(f.my.value,f.mm.value-1,f.md.value,f.mh.value,f.mn.value);
if (tids.length>1 && !confirm("Are you sure you want to update these tiddlers:\n\n"+tids.join(', '))) return;
store.suspendNotifications();
for (t=0;t<tids.length;t++) {
var tid=store.getTiddler(tids[t]); if (!tid) continue;
var title=!f.settitle.checked?tid.title:f.title.value;
var who=!f.setwho.checked?tid.modifier:f.who.value;
var text=tid.text;
if (f.replacetext.checked) text=text.replace(new RegExp(f.pattern.value,'mg'),f.replacement.value);
var tags=tid.tags;
if (f.settags.checked) {
var intags=f.tags.value.readBracketedList();
var addtags=[]; var deltags=[]; var reptags=[];
for (i=0;i<intags.length;i++) {
if (intags[i].substr(0,1)=='+')
addtags.push(intags[i].substr(1));
else if (intags[i].substr(0,1)=='-')
deltags.push(intags[i].substr(1));
else
reptags.push(intags[i]);
}
if (reptags.length)
tags=reptags;
if (addtags.length)
tags=new Array().concat(tags,addtags);
if (deltags.length)
for (i=0;i<deltags.length;i++)
{ var pos=tags.indexOf(deltags[i]); if (pos!=-1) tags.splice(pos,1); }
}
if (!f.setcdate.checked) cdate=tid.created;
if (!f.setmdate.checked) mdate=tid.modified;
store.saveTiddler(tid.title,title,text,who,mdate,tags,tid.fields);
if (f.setcreator.checked) store.setValue(tid.title,'creator',f.creator.value); // set creator
if (f.setcdate.checked) tid.assign(null,null,null,null,null,cdate); // set create date
}
store.resumeNotifications();
this.init(f,f.sortby.value);
},
displaytiddlers: function(here) {
var f=here.form; var list=f.list;
var tids=[];
for (i=0; i<list.length;i++) if (list.options[i].selected) tids.push(list.options[i].value);
if (!tids.length) { alert("please select at least one tiddler"); return; }
story.displayTiddlers(story.findContainingTiddler(f),tids)
},
deltiddlers: function(here) {
var f=here.form; var list=f.list;
var tids=[];
for (i=0;i<list.length;i++) if (list.options[i].selected) tids.push(list.options[i].value);
if (!tids.length) { alert("please select at least one tiddler"); return; }
if (!confirm("Are you sure you want to delete these tiddlers:\n\n"+tids.join(', '))) return;
store.suspendNotifications();
for (t=0;t<tids.length;t++) {
var tid=store.getTiddler(tids[t]); if (!tid) continue;
if (tid.tags.contains("systemConfig"))
if (!confirm("'"+tid.title+"' is tagged with 'systemConfig'.\n\nRemoving this tiddler may cause unexpected results. Are you sure?"))
continue;
store.removeTiddler(tid.title);
story.closeTiddler(tid.title);
}
store.resumeNotifications();
this.init(f,f.sortby.value);
},
stats: function(here) {
var f=here.form; var list=f.list; var tids=[]; var out=''; var tot=0;
var target=f.nextSibling;
for (i=0;i<list.length;i++) if (list.options[i].selected) tids.push(list.options[i].value);
if (!tids.length) { alert("please select at least one tiddler"); return; }
for (t=0;t<tids.length;t++) {
var tid=store.getTiddler(tids[t]); if (!tid) continue;
out+='[['+tid.title+']] '+tid.text.length+'\n'; tot+=tid.text.length;
}
var avg=tot/tids.length;
out=tot+' bytes in '+tids.length+' selected tiddlers ('+avg+' bytes/tiddler)\n<<<\n'+out+'<<<\n';
removeChildren(target);
target.innerHTML="<hr><font size=-2><a href='javascript:;' style='float:right' "
+"onclick='this.parentNode.parentNode.style.display=\"none\"'>close</a></font>";
wikify(out,target);
target.style.display="block";
}
};
//}}}
This is not a Tiddlywiki how-to; rather a style guide for this document.
! the TAG is for SPOTTING
* is ''temporary''. Two purposes:
## Retaining results of new brain-storming, insights, research -- non-linear, unorganized connections. // I'm not sure how these all fit together, but they seem interesting.// Mind-mapping.
## Recording an isolated new insight (saves time)
## Fast-indexing for a specific purpose such as teaching study. // I'm piling up resources, working fast.//
* Tiddly-Tagging approach is deprecated here. Instead, use {{{ <<matchTags '* %0' '\n' House >> }}} (see [[House]] as example).
! the TIDDLER is for THINKING (building in)
* has a LINK to a related Tiddler.
* has a discrete entry (a quoted statement, anecdote).
* has an outline structure, to facilitate organizing.
* has synonyms, to facilitate Search.
* has no TAG (except temporary).
* OR, is a stub for future building. No blame.
!!! Idea
* For each major Topic:
## add guiding metaphors
## add earliest reference
! the LINK is for PUSHING (building out)
# to a Scripture page or TIDDLER
# Says: //Don't forget to think about this.//
# Says: //This may be a better location for your next recorded insight.//
# //References// lets you see where the 'pushes' are coming from.
! the Search is for PULLING
# ... and especially brain-storming and initiating.
# It finds Links.
# It does NOT find Tags.
You may get this error:
{{{
Your profile can not be used because it is from a newer version of NW.js
}}}
It doesn't have any consequence. But here's how to fix it in Win 10:
# Close the app.
# Go to your app data folder in Windows (C:\Users\[Your Username]\AppData\Local). If you can't find it, make sure you can see hidden folders.
# Delete the folder {{{nwjs}}}.
# Go into {{{User Data > Default}}}. Delete the files ''Web Data'' and ''Web Data-journal''.
Re-open the app.
* may bring unease because of a stingy heart; experience of abuse, manipulation; awareness that the Bible is being taught poorly.
<<Bbl Gn 14:20 >>; <<Bbl Mal 3:6 >>-12 ; <<Bbl Mt 23:16 >>-24 ; <<Bbl H 7:1 >>-6
* [[Wealth]]
* https://www.jpost.com//Opinion/Columnists/Jewish-Ideas-Daily-Tithing-and-taxes-310762
* The tithe is to be taken from the [[Firstfruits]].
* It's the first one that leaves your hand. Who is first in your life? Know by looking at the firstfruits.
* Lk 16:12. God owns it all but he has reserved the tithe.
* Abraham, 500 years before the Law. Gn 14:23. Note the order of kings. Thus tithing is first.
* [[Jacob]].
* Lev 27:30. Dt 26.2, 14. Jesus affirms it in Mt 23.23. Heb 7.8 note. 2Ch 31.4. "You will never be able to afford to tithe until you tithe - certainly not if the devourer is at work cited by Malachi." There is no such thing as a single-digit tithe.
* Ex 13:2 It is mine - highly emphatic in Hebrew.
* Better to say we *return* the tithe, not give the tithe.
<<Bbl Mt 23:7 >>-10
* [[Name]]
Paul, a slave of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ for the faith of the chosen of God and the knowledge of the truth that is according to godliness, {{rf{2}}} in the hope of eternal life which God, who does not lie, promised before eternal ages, {{rf{3}}} but at the proper time has disclosed his message in the proclamation with which I was entrusted according to the command of God our Savior, {{rf{4}}} to Titus, my true child according to a common faith. Grace and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Savior. {{rf{5}}} On account of this, I left you behind in Crete, in order that what remains may be set in order and you may appoint elders in every town, as I ordered you. {{rf{6}}} If anyone is blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children, not accused of dissipation or rebellious. {{rf{7}}} For it is necessary for the overseer to be blameless as God's steward, not self-willed, not quick-tempered, not addicted to wine, not violent, not greedy for dishonest gain, {{rf{8}}} but hospitable, loving what is good, prudent, just, devout, self-controlled, {{rf{9}}} holding fast to the faithful message according to the teaching, in order that he may be able both to exhort with sound instruction and to reprove those who speak against it. {{rf{10}}} For there are many rebellious people, idle talkers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision, {{rf{11}}} whom it is necessary to silence, whoever are ruining whole families by teaching things which must not be taught for the sake of dishonest gain. {{rf{12}}} A certain one of them, one of their own prophets, has said, "Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, lazy gluttons." {{rf{13}}} This testimony is true, for which reason reprove them severely, in order that they may be sound in the faith, {{rf{14}}} not paying attention to Jewish myths and commandments of people who turn away from the truth. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Titus-01-01]] }}}
Assertiveness: 1:5, 13, 2:1, 7-9, 15, 3:1, 8-10
----
<<Bbl Titus 1:4 abbr>> Titus, uncircumcised (<<Bbl Gal 2:3>>), the //true child// of Paul.
1:5 //in every town// -- a regional authority. It is the //appointing// that will accomplish the //putting into order//.
1:5 Multiplication of leadership, elucidated more richly in <<Bbl 2Tim 2:1>>.
1:6 The leader must be "a one-woman man".
1:7 Not controlled by a besetting sin.
!!!Chiasmus 1:10 to 3:11
''needs study to confirm''
{{{
enemies
His power
Good works, submission to God
His gift
His appearing
His gift
Good works, submission to God
His power
enemies
}}}
2:11-14
{{holyquote{
For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all men, instructing us to the intent that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we would live soberly, righteously, and godly in this present world; looking for the blessed hope and appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ; who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify for himself a people for his own possession, zealous for good works.
}}}
<<Bbl Titus 2:12 abbr >> The exhortation to [[SelfControl]] is embedded in the grace of God, and accompanied by a comprehensive strategy that addresses how to live in a dissolute culture (1:12) //-- Edward Welch, A Banquet in the Grave, 214//
3:1 This mention of good works opens a theme which climaxes in vss 8-9 and is reiterated finally in vs 14. This theme has been foreshadowed as well: 1:16, 2:7, 2:10.
<<Bbl Titus 3:1 abbr >>-8 This passage evocative of <<Bbl Ex 23:9 >>.
<<Bbl Titus 3:3 abbr >> The //we//, and the //ourselves// giving emphasis, could refer to those who now lead the church, if that is to whom the exhortation is directed. It seems more likely that Paul has temporarily changed the grammatical person. By shifting to the first person he carefully identifies himself, Titus, and leaders in general as sinful, redeemed men. In vs 8 he resumes the third person.
<<Bbl Titus 3:3 abbr >>-4 //Kindness and love// contrast with //envy and malice//. See <<Bbl 1C 13:4 >>.
3:4 Kindness of God -- compare <<Bbl R 2:4 >>, <<Bbl 1P 2:3 >>. The structure seems almost to make this phrase a title of the Christ.
3:8-9 Here good works is presented in it very best and worst aspects. There is a direct, strong parallelism between good and profitable, unprofitable and worthless. Public repudiation.
{{rf{15}}} To the pure all things are pure, but to those who are defiled and unbelieving nothing is pure, but both their mind and conscience are defiled. {{rf{16}}} They profess to know God, but by their deeds they deny him, because they are detestable and disobedient, and unfit for every good deed. {{rf big{2}}} But you, speak the things which are fitting for sound instruction. {{rf{2}}} Older men are to be temperate, worthy of respect, self-controlled, sound in faith, in love, and in endurance. {{rf {3}}} Older women likewise are to be reverent in their behavior, not slanderous, not enslaved to much wine, teaching what is good, {{rf{4}}} in order that they may encourage the young women to love their husbands and to love their children, {{rf{5}}} to be self-controlled, pure, busy at home, good, being subject to their own husbands, in order that the word of God may not be slandered. {{rf{6}}} Likewise, exhort the young men to be self-controlled, {{rf{7}}} concerning everything showing yourself to be an example of good deeds, in your teaching demonstrating soundness, dignity, {{rf{8}}} a sound message beyond reproach, in order that an opponent may be put to shame, because he has nothing bad to say concerning us. {{rf{9}}} Slaves must be subject to their own masters in everything, to be well-pleasing, not to talk back, {{rf{10}}} not stealing, but demonstrating all good faith, in order that they may do credit to the teaching of God our Savior in everything. ''{{rf{11}}} For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all people, {{rf{12}}} training us in order that, denying impiety and worldly desires, we may live self-controlled and righteously and godly in the present age, {{rf{13}}} looking forward to the blessed hope and the glorious appearing of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ, {{rf{14}}} who gave himself for us, in order that he might redeem us from all lawlessness and purify for himself a people for his own possession, zealous for good deeds.'' {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Titus-01-15]] }}}
{{rf{15}}} Speak these things and exhort and reprove with all authority. Let no one disregard you. {{rf big{1}}} Remind them to be subject to the rulers and to the authorities, to obey, to be prepared for every good work, {{rf{2}}} to speak evil of no one, to be peaceable, gentle, showing all courtesy to all people. {{rf{3}}} For we also were once foolish, disobedient, led astray, enslaved to various desires and pleasures, spending our lives in wickedness and envy, despicable, hating one another. {{rf{4}}} But when the kindness and love for mankind of God our Savior appeared, {{rf{5}}} he saved us, not by deeds of righteousness that we have done, but because of his mercy, through the washing of regeneration and renewal by the Holy Spirit, {{rf{6}}} whom he poured out on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Savior, {{rf{7}}} so that, having been justified by his grace, we may become heirs according to the hope of eternal life. {{rf{8}}} The saying is trustworthy, and I want you to insist concerning these things, so that those who have believed in God may be careful to engage in good deeds. These things are good and beneficial for people. {{rf{9}}} But avoid foolish controversies and genealogies and contentions and quarrels about the law, for they are useless and fruitless. {{rf{10}}} Reject a divisive person after a first and second admonition, {{rf{11}}} knowing that such a person is perverted and is sinning, being self-condemned. {{rf{12}}} When I send Artemas or Tychicus to you, make haste to come to me in Nicopolis, for I have decided to spend the winter there. {{rf{13}}} Diligently send on their way Zenas the lawyer and Apollos, so that they may lack nothing. {{rf{14}}} But also our people must learn to engage in good deeds for necessary needs, so that they will not be unfruitful. {{rf{15}}} All those with me greet you. Greet those who love us in the faith. Grace be with all of you. LENGTH SHORT {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Titus-03-12]] }}} {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Titus-02-15]] }}}
/%
!info
|Name|ToggleBreadcrumbs|
|Source|http://www.TiddlyTools.com/#ToggleBreadcrumbs|
|Version|2.0.0|
|Author|Eric Shulman|
|License|http://www.TiddlyTools.com/#LegalStatements|
|~CoreVersion|2.1|
|Type|transclusion|
|Description|enable/disable display of breadcrumbs (uses BreadcrumbsPlugin)|
Usage
<<<
{{{
<<tiddler ToggleBreadcrumbs>>
<<tiddler ToggleBreadcrumbs with: label tip>>
}}}
<<<
Example
<<<
{{{<<tiddler ToggleBreadcrumbs>>}}}
<<tiddler ToggleBreadcrumbs##show with: "crumbs">>
<<<
!end
!show
<<tiddler {{
if (config.options.chkShowBreadcrumbs===undefined) config.options.chkShowBreadcrumbs=true;
'';}}>><<option chkShowBreadcrumbs>><<tiddler {{
var chk=place.lastChild;
if (!chk.coreOnChange) { // only once
chk.coreOnChange=chk.onchange;
chk.onchange=function() {
if (this.coreOnChange) this.coreOnChange.apply(this,arguments);
this.checked=config.options.chkShowBreadcrumbs;
if (config.macros.breadcrumbs) config.macros.breadcrumbs.refresh();
};
}
'';}}>> $1
!end
%/<<tiddler {{var src='ToggleBreadcrumbs'; src+(tiddler&&tiddler.title==src?'##info':'##show');}}
with: {{'$1'!='$'+'1'?'$1':'show breadcrumbs'}}
{{'$2'!='$'+'2'?'$2':'toggle breadcrumbs display'}}>>
/%
|Name|ToggleFullScreen|
|Source|http://www.TiddlyTools.com/#ToggleFullScreen|
|Version|1.1.3|
|Author|Eric Shulman - ELS Design Studios|
|License|http://www.TiddlyTools.com/#LegalStatements <br>and [[Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 License|http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/]]|
|~CoreVersion|2.1|
|Type|script|
|Requires|InlineJavascriptPlugin|
|Overrides||
|Description|show/hide main menu, sidebar and page header|
Usage:
<<tiddler ToggleFullScreen with: label altlabel>>
- displays 'onclick' command link that toggles full screen display mode
or
<<tiddler ToggleFullScreen##ON>>
- immediately sets full screen mode
or
<<tiddler ToggleFullScreen##OFF>>
- immediately resets full screen mode
!ON
<script> if (!config.options.chkFullScreen) window.toggleFullScreen(); </script>
!end ON
!OFF
<script> if (config.options.chkFullScreen) window.toggleFullScreen(); </script>
!end OFF
%/<script>
window.toggleFullScreen=function(here) {
config.options.chkFullScreen=!config.options.chkFullScreen;
var showmm=!config.options.chkFullScreen && config.options.chkShowLeftSidebar!==false;
var showsb=!config.options.chkFullScreen && config.options.chkShowRightSidebar!==false;
var showcrumbs=!config.options.chkFullScreen && config.options.chkShowBreadcrumbs!==false
&& config.macros.breadcrumbs && config.macros.breadcrumbs.crumbs.length;
var cw=document.getElementById('contentWrapper');
var da=document.getElementById('displayArea');
var mm=document.getElementById('mainMenu');
var sb=document.getElementById('sidebar');
var sm=document.getElementById('storyMenu');
var bc=document.getElementById('breadCrumbs');
var sn=document.getElementById('siteNav');
if (cw){
for (var i=0; i<cw.childNodes.length; i++)
if (hasClass(cw.childNodes[i],'header')) { var h=cw.childNodes[i]; break; }
if (h) h.style.display=!config.options.chkFullScreen?'block':'none';
}
if (mm) {
mm.style.display=showmm?'block':'none';
da.style.marginLeft=showmm?(config.options.txtDisplayAreaLeftMargin||''):'1em';
}
if (sb) {
sb.style.display=showsb?'block':'none';
da.style.marginRight=showsb?(config.options.txtDisplayAreaRightMargin||''):'1em';
}
if (sm)
sm.style.display=!config.options.chkFullScreen ?'block':'none';
if (bc)
bc.style.display=showcrumbs?'block':'none';
if (sn)
sn.style.display=!config.options.chkFullScreen?'block':'none';
var label=('$'+'1'=='$1')?'fullscreen':'$1';
var altlabel='$2'; if ('$'+'2'=='$2') altlabel=label;
if (typeof(here)!='undefined' && here!=window.place)
here.innerHTML=!config.options.chkFullScreen?label:altlabel;
var b=document.getElementById('restoreFromFullscreenButton');
if (b) removeNode(b);
else {
var b=createTiddlyElement(null,'span','restoreFromFullscreenButton','selected');
b.innerHTML='◊';
b.title='RESTORE: redisplay page header, menu and sidebar';
b.onclick=window.toggleFullScreen;
var s=b.style;
s.position='fixed'; s.top='.3em'; s.right='.3em'; s.zIndex='10001';
s.border='2px outset ButtonFace';
s.padding='0px 3px';
s.cursor='pointer';
s.fontSize='8pt';
s.backgroundColor='ButtonFace';
if (config.browser.isGecko) {
s.color='ButtonText !important';
s.MozAppearance='button';
}
document.body.insertBefore(b,null);
}
return false;
};
</script>/%
%/<script label="$1" title="FULLSCREEN: toggle display of mainmenu, sidebar, and page header">
window.toggleFullScreen(place);
return false;
</script><script>
place.lastChild.innerHTML=('$'+'1'=='$1')?'fullscreen':'$1';
</script>
/%
|Name|ToggleLeftSidebar|
|Source|http://www.TiddlyTools.com/#ToggleLeftSidebar|
|Version|2.0.0|
|Author|Eric Shulman - ELS Design Studios|
|License|http://www.TiddlyTools.com/#LegalStatements <br>and [[Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 License|http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/]]|
|~CoreVersion|2.1|
|Type|script|
|Requires|InlineJavascriptPlugin|
|Overrides||
|Description|show/hide left sidebar (MainMenu)|
Usage: <<tiddler ToggleLeftSidebar with: "label">>
Config settings:
config.options.chkShowLeftSidebar (true)
config.options.txtToggleLeftSideBarLabelShow (?)
config.options.txtToggleLeftSideBarLabelHide (?)
%/<script label="$1" title="show/hide MainMenu content">
var co=config.options;
if (co.chkShowLeftSidebar=='undefined') co.chkShowLeftSidebar=true;
co.chkShowLeftSidebar=!co.chkShowLeftSidebar;
var mm=document.getElementById('mainMenu'); if (!mm) return;
mm.style.display=co.chkShowLeftSidebar?'block':'none';
document.getElementById('displayArea').style.marginLeft=co.chkShowLeftSidebar?'':'1em';
saveOptionCookie('chkShowLeftSidebar');
var labelShow=co.txtToggleLeftSideBarLabelShow||'<';
var labelHide=co.txtToggleLeftSideBarLabelHide||'<';
if (typeof(place)!='undefined' && '$1'=='$'+'1') {
place.innerHTML=co.chkShowLeftSidebar?labelHide:labelShow;
place.title=(co.chkShowLeftSidebar?'hide':'show')+' left sidebar';
}
var sm=document.getElementById('storyMenu'); if (sm) config.refreshers.content(sm);
</script><script>
var co=config.options;
if (co.chkShowLeftSidebar=='undefined') co.chkShowLeftSidebar=true;
var mm=document.getElementById('mainMenu'); if (!mm) return;
mm.style.display=co.chkShowLeftSidebar?'block':'none';
document.getElementById('displayArea').style.marginLeft=co.chkShowLeftSidebar?'':'1em';
if ('$1'=='$'+'1') {
var labelShow=co.txtToggleLeftSideBarLabelShow||'►';
var labelHide=co.txtToggleLeftSideBarLabelHide||'◄';
place.lastChild.innerHTML=co.chkShowLeftSidebar?labelHide:labelShow;
place.lastChild.title=(co.chkShowLeftSidebar?'hide':'show')+' left sidebar';
}
</script>
If your press the command key on the Mac or the control key on the PC while clicking on a link to a tiddler, the tiddler will be opened as usual if it isn't already open, but if //is// open, it will be closed. It makes a handy way to review links without having to move the mouse around to re-close tiddlers.
You can make this behaviour the default under AdvancedOptions (you can override back to the normal behaviour with the same command/control key).
/%
|Name|ToggleRightSidebar|
|Source|http://www.TiddlyTools.com/#ToggleRightSidebar|
|Version|2.0.0|
|Author|Eric Shulman - ELS Design Studios|
|License|http://www.TiddlyTools.com/#LegalStatements <br>and [[Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 License|http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/]]|
|~CoreVersion|2.1|
|Type|script|
|Requires|InlineJavascriptPlugin|
|Overrides||
|Description|show/hide right sidebar (MainMenu)|
Usage: <<tiddler ToggleRightSidebar with: "label">>
Config settings:
config.options.chkShowRightSidebar (true)
config.options.txtToggleRightSideBarLabelShow (?)
config.options.txtToggleRightSideBarLabelHide (?)
%/<script label="$1" title="show/hide right sidebar content">
var co=config.options;
if (co.chkShowRightSidebar=='undefined') co.chkShowRightSidebar=true;
co.chkShowRightSidebar=!co.chkShowRightSidebar;
var sb=document.getElementById('sidebar'); if (!sb) return;
sb.style.display=co.chkShowRightSidebar?'block':'none';
document.getElementById('displayArea').style.marginRight=co.chkShowRightSidebar?'':'1em';
saveOptionCookie('chkShowRightSidebar');
var labelShow=co.txtToggleRightSideBarLabelShow||'◄';
var labelHide=co.txtToggleRightSideBarLabelHide||'►';
if (typeof(place)!='undefined' && '$1'=='$'+'1') {
place.innerHTML=co.chkShowRightSidebar?labelHide:labelShow;
place.title=(co.chkShowRightSidebar?'hide':'show')+' right sidebar';
}
var sm=document.getElementById('storyMenu'); if (sm) config.refreshers.content(sm);
</script><script>
var co=config.options;
if (co.chkShowRightSidebar=='undefined') co.chkShowRightSidebar=true;
var sb=document.getElementById('sidebar'); if (!sb) return;
sb.style.display=co.chkShowRightSidebar?'block':'none';
document.getElementById('displayArea').style.marginRight=co.chkShowRightSidebar?'':'1em';
if ('$1'=='$'+'1') {
var labelShow=co.txtToggleRightSideBarLabelShow||'◄';
var labelHide=co.txtToggleRightSideBarLabelHide||'►';
place.lastChild.innerHTML=co.chkShowRightSidebar?labelHide:labelShow;
place.lastChild.title=(co.chkShowRightSidebar?'hide':'show')+' right sidebar';
}
</script>
/%
!info
|Name|ToggleSliders|
|Source|http://www.TiddlyTools.com/#ToggleSliders|
|Version|2.0.0|
|Author|Eric Shulman|
|License|http://www.TiddlyTools.com/#LegalStatements|
|~CoreVersion|2.1|
|Type|transclusion|
|Description|toggle (expand/collapse) all sliders in a tiddler (or ID'd DOM element)|
Usage
<<<
{{{
<<tiddler ToggleSliders with: elementID expandlabel collapselabel>>
}}}
*''elementID'' is one of:
**"" (empty quotes) = the current tiddler
**''here'' = the current container
**''ID'' = specific DOM element ID (e.g., "mainMenu")
*''expandlabel/collapselabel'' (optional)<br>are alternative link text to display when sliders are closed (expandlabel) or opened (collapselabel)
<<<
Example
<<<
{{{
<<tiddler ToggleSliders with: "" "open all" "close all">>
}}}
with sample sliders:
{{{
<<slider chkExample ToggleSliders::slider1 Example1 Example1>>
<<slider chkExample ToggleSliders::slider2 Example2 Example2>>
Example1: |This is example slider 1|
Example2: |This is example slider 2|
}}}
<<tiddler ToggleSliders##show with: "" "open all" "close all">>
<<slider chkExample1 ToggleSliders::Example1 Example1 Example1>>
<<slider chkExample2 ToggleSliders::Example2 Example2 Example2>>
<<<
!end
!show
<html><a href="javascript:;" class="TiddlyLink" title="toggle sliders"
onclick="
if ('$1'=='here') var here=this.parentNode.parentNode.parentNode.parentNode; // container
else if ('$1'!='$'+'1' && '$1'.length) here=document.getElementById('$1'); // ID
else var here=story.findContainingTiddler(this); // tiddler
if (!here) return false;
var elems=here.getElementsByTagName('*');
var state=(this.innerHTML.toLowerCase()=='$2')?'none':'block';
for (var e=0; e<elems.length; e++) { var p=elems[e];
if (p.className!='sliderPanel' || p.style.display!=state) continue;
if (p.button) window.onClickNestedSlider({target:p.button}); // see NestedSlidersPlugin
else p.previousSibling.onclick();
}
this.innerHTML=state=='none'?'$3':'$2';
return false;
">$2</a><nowiki></html>
!end
%/<<tiddler {{ var src='ToggleSliders'; src+(tiddler&&tiddler.title==src?'##info':'##show')}}
with: [[$1]]
{{'$2'!='$'+'2'?'$2':'expand'}}
{{'$3'!='$'+'3'?'$3':'collapse'}}
{{'$4'!='$'+'4'?'$4':'toggle sliders'}}
>>
/***
|Name:|ToggleTagPlugin|
|Description:|Makes a checkbox which toggles a tag in a tiddler|
|Version:|3.1.0a|
|Date:|27-Jun-2011|
|Source:|http://mptw.tiddlyspot.com/#ToggleTagPlugin|
|Author:|Simon Baird <simon.baird@gmail.com>|
|License:|http://mptw.tiddlyspot.com/#TheBSDLicense|
!!Usage
{{{<<toggleTag }}}//{{{TagName TiddlerName LabelText}}}//{{{>>}}}
* TagName - the tag to be toggled, default value "checked"
* TiddlerName - the tiddler to toggle the tag in, default value the current tiddler
* LabelText - the text (gets wikified) to put next to the check box, default value is '{{{[[TagName]]}}}' or '{{{[[TagName]] [[TiddlerName]]}}}'
(If a parameter is '.' then the default will be used)
* TouchMod flag - if non empty then touch the tiddlers mod date. Note, can set config.toggleTagAlwaysTouchModDate to always touch mod date
!!Examples
|Code|Description|Example|h
|{{{<<toggleTag>>}}}|Toggles the default tag (checked) in this tiddler|<<toggleTag>>|
|{{{<<toggleTag TagName>>}}}|Toggles the TagName tag in this tiddler|<<toggleTag TagName>>|
|{{{<<toggleTag TagName TiddlerName>>}}}|Toggles the TagName tag in the TiddlerName tiddler|<<toggleTag TagName TiddlerName>>|
|{{{<<toggleTag TagName TiddlerName 'click me'>>}}}|Same but with custom label|<<toggleTag TagName TiddlerName 'click me'>>|
|{{{<<toggleTag . . 'click me'>>}}}|dot means use default value|<<toggleTag . . 'click me'>>|
!!Notes
* If TiddlerName doesn't exist it will be silently created
* Set label to '-' to specify no label
* See also http://mgtd-alpha.tiddlyspot.com/#ToggleTag2
!!Known issues
* Doesn't smoothly handle the case where you toggle a tag in a tiddler that is current open for editing
* Should convert to use named params
***/
//{{{
if (config.toggleTagAlwaysTouchModDate == undefined) config.toggleTagAlwaysTouchModDate = false;
merge(config.macros,{
toggleTag: {
createIfRequired: true,
shortLabel: "[[%0]]",
longLabel: "[[%0]] [[%1]]",
handler: function(place,macroName,params,wikifier,paramString,tiddler) {
var tiddlerTitle = tiddler ? tiddler.title : '';
var tag = (params[0] && params[0] != '.') ? params[0] : "checked";
var title = (params[1] && params[1] != '.') ? params[1] : tiddlerTitle;
var defaultLabel = (title == tiddlerTitle ? this.shortLabel : this.longLabel);
var label = (params[2] && params[2] != '.') ? params[2] : defaultLabel;
var touchMod = (params[3] && params[3] != '.') ? params[3] : "";
label = (label == '-' ? '' : label); // dash means no label
var theTiddler = (title == tiddlerTitle ? tiddler : store.getTiddler(title));
var cb = createTiddlyCheckbox(place, label.format([tag,title]), theTiddler && theTiddler.isTagged(tag), function(e) {
if (!store.tiddlerExists(title)) {
if (config.macros.toggleTag.createIfRequired) {
var content = store.getTiddlerText(title); // just in case it's a shadow
store.saveTiddler(title,title,content?content:"",config.options.txtUserName,new Date(),null);
}
else
return false;
}
if ((touchMod != "" || config.toggleTagAlwaysTouchModDate) && theTiddler)
theTiddler.modified = new Date();
store.setTiddlerTag(title,this.checked,tag);
return true;
});
}
}
});
//}}}
!!!!!toolbar definitions for templates
<<<
Uses CoreTweaks (#609/#610) for extended "!" and 'toolbar include' syntax
See also [[ToolbarCommands-AttemptMaybeDangerous]] and [[ToolbarCommandsInfy]]
|~ViewToolbar|closeTiddler ~ToolbarCommands##spacer ~ToolbarCommands##spacer ~ToolbarCommands##spacer collapseTiddler ! ~ToolbarCommands##editTiddler collapseOthers closeOthers ! ~ToolbarCommands##goto ! ~ToolbarCommands##deleteTiddler ! ~ToolbarCommands##spacer > < * ~ToolbarCommands##copyTiddler ~ToolbarCommands##snapshotSave ~ToolbarCommands##snapshotPrint ~ToolbarCommands##refreshTiddler ~ToolbarCommands##spacer ! ~ToolbarCommands##permalink ~ToolbarCommands##revertTiddler |
|~CollapsedToolbar|closeTiddler expandTiddler ! ~ToolbarCommands##editTiddler collapseOthers closeOthers ! ~ToolbarCommands##related ~ToolbarCommands##goto ! ~ToolbarCommands##deleteTiddler ! ~ToolbarCommands##spacer > < * ~ToolbarCommands##copyTiddler ~ToolbarCommands##deleteTiddler ! ~ToolbarCommands##fields |
|~EditToolbar|~ToolbarCommands##saveTiddler ~ToolbarCommands##saveCloseTiddler ~ToolbarCommands##cancelTiddler ~ToolbarCommands##spacer ! ~ToolbarCommands##spacer ~ToolbarCommands##options ~ToolbarCommands##autosizeCheckbox ~ToolbarCommands##quickeditCheckbox ToolbarCommands##minorchangesCheckbox ! ~ToolbarCommands##spacer > < * ~ToolbarCommands##copyTiddler ~ToolbarCommands##deleteTiddler ! ~ToolbarCommands##fields |
|~EditToolbarReadOnly|~ToolbarCommands##spacer closeTiddler ! ~ToolbarCommands##fields |
<<<
!!!!! wiki-syntax toolbar commands+++
<<<
!!!!!spacer
{{{
/% force whitespace separation and baseline alignment of toolbar with tiddler title %/@@font-size:12pt; @@
}}}
!!!!!goto
{{{
@@position:static;+++^25em^*[goto|view another tiddler]...
{{fine{
{{floatright{ }}}/%
%/<<tiddler SiteMenuGoto>>}}}===@@
}}}
!!!!!editTiddler
{{{
<script>
if (readOnly) return "<<toolbar +editTiddler>>"; // view
else return "<<toolbar +editTiddler>>"; // edit
</script>
}}}
!!!!!refreshTiddler
{{{
<script label="refresh" title="redisplay the contents of this tiddler">
story.refreshTiddler(story.findContainingTiddler(place).getAttribute("tiddler"),null,true);
</script><script>
place.lastChild.style.fontWeight="normal";
</script>
}}}
!!!!!related
{{{
@@position:static;+++^65em^[related|show list/tree view of tiddlers related to the current tiddler]...
{{smallform{
{{floatright{ }}}/%
%/<<relatedTiddlers here hideform>>}}}===@@
}}}
!!!!!permalink
{{{
<<toolbar permalink>>
}}}
!!!!!copyTiddler
{{{
<script> if (!readOnly) return "<<toolbar copyTiddler>>"; </script>
}}}
!!!!!snapshotSave
{{{
<<toolbar snapshotSave>>
}}}
!!!!!snapshotPrint
{{{
<<toolbar snapshotPrint>>
}}}
!!!!!saveTiddlerToFile
{{{
<<toolbar saveTiddlerToFile>>
}}}
!!!!!sendTiddler
{{{
<<toolbar sendTiddler>>
}}}
!!!!!runTiddler
{{{
<<toolbar runTiddler>>
}}}
!!!!!revertTiddler
{{{
<html><hide linebreaks><a href="javascript:;"
title="reload the last SAVED version of this tiddler"
onclick="
var here=story.findContainingTiddler(this); if (!here) return;
var tid=here.getAttribute('tiddler');
var t='\<\<loadTiddlers [[tiddler:'+tid+']] '+document.location.href+' confirm force noreport\>\>';
var e=document.getElementById('executeRevertTiddler');
if (e) e.parentNode.removeChild(e);
e=document.createElement('span'); e.id='executeRevertTiddler';
wikify(t,e);
">revert</a>
</html>
}}}
!!!!!saveTiddler
{{{
<<toolbar +saveTiddler>>
}}}
!!!!!saveCloseTiddler
{{{
<<toolbar +saveCloseTiddler>>
}}}
!!!!!cancelTiddler
{{{
<script> return "<<toolbar -cancelTiddler>>"; </script>
}}}
!!!!!deleteTiddler
{{{
<<toolbar deleteTiddler>>
}}}
!!!!!fields
{{{
<<toolbar fields>>
}}}
!!!!!options
{{{
{{fine{//options://}}}
}}}
!!!!!autosizeCheckbox
{{{
<script label="autosize" title="automatically resize editor to fit contents">
var txt="<input type='checkbox' style='padding:0;margin:0;' %0>autosize";
var chk=place.innerHTML.toLowerCase().indexOf("checked")==-1?"checked":"";
config.commands.autosizeEditor.handler(null,place,null);
place.innerHTML=txt.format([chk]);
</script><script>
place.lastChild.innerHTML="<input type='checkbox' style='padding:0;margin:0;'>autosize";
place.lastChild.style.fontWeight="normal";
place.lastChild.style.fontSize="90%";
</script>
}}}
!!!!!previewCheckbox
{{{
<script label="preview" title="show key-by-key preview">
var txt="<input type='checkbox' style='padding:0;margin:0;' %0>preview";
var chk=place.innerHTML.toLowerCase().indexOf("checked")==-1?"checked":"";
config.commands.previewTiddler.handler(null,place,null);
place.innerHTML=txt.format([chk]);
</script><script>
place.lastChild.innerHTML="<input type='checkbox' style='padding:0;margin:0;'>preview";
place.lastChild.style.fontWeight="normal";
place.lastChild.style.fontSize="90%";
</script>
}}}
!!!!!quickeditCheckbox
{{{
<script label="quickedit" title="show QuickEdit toolbar buttons">
var opt="chkShowQuickEdit";
config.commands.toggleQuickEdit.handler(null,place,null);
var chk=config.options[opt]?"CHECKED":"";
var txt="<input type='checkbox' style='padding:0;margin:0;' option='%0' %1>quickedit";
place.innerHTML=txt.format([opt,chk]);
</script><script>
var opt="chkShowQuickEdit";
var chk=config.options[opt]?"CHECKED":"";
var txt="<input type='checkbox' style='padding:0;margin:0;' option='%0' %1>quickedit";
place.lastChild.innerHTML=txt.format([opt,chk]);
place.lastChild.style.fontWeight="normal";
place.lastChild.style.fontSize="90%";
</script>
}}}
!!!!!minorchangesCheckbox
{{{
<script label="minor changes">
var opt="chkForceMinorUpdate";
config.options[opt]=!config.options[opt];
config.macros.option.propagateOption(opt,"checked", config.options[opt],"input");
var chk=config.options[opt]?"CHECKED":"";
var txt="<input type='checkbox' style='padding:0;margin:0;' option='%0' %1>minor changes";
place.innerHTML=txt.format([opt,chk]);
</script><script>
var opt="chkForceMinorUpdate";
var chk=config.options[opt]?"CHECKED":"";
var txt="<input type='checkbox' style='padding:0;margin:0;' option='%0' %1>minor changes";
place.lastChild.innerHTML=txt.format([opt,chk]);
place.lastChild.style.fontWeight="normal";
place.lastChild.style.fontSize="90%";
place.lastChild.title=config.optionsDesc[opt];
</script>
}}}
!!!!!end of extra commands
<<<
===
<<tabs txtTopic-IndexTabs
AB 'list "A/B" tiddlers' [[Topic-Index::AB]]
C 'list "C" tiddlers' [[Topic-Index::C]]
DEF 'list "D/E/F" tiddlers' [[Topic-Index::DEF]]
GHI 'list "G/H/I" tiddlers' [[Topic-Index::GHI]]
JKL 'list "J/K/L" tiddlers' [[Topic-Index::JKL]]
MNO 'list "M/N/O" tiddlers' [[Topic-Index::MNO]]
P 'list "P" tiddlers' [[Topic-Index::P]]
QR 'list "Q/R" tiddlers' [[Topic-Index::QR]]
S 'list "S" tiddlers' [[Topic-Index::S]]
T 'list "T" tiddlers' [[Topic-Index::T]]
UVW 'list "U/V/W" tiddlers' [[Topic-Index::UVW]]
etc 'list "X/Y/Z/0-9" tiddlers' [[Topic-Index::XYZ09]]
>> {{hidden{
/%
AB:/%%/ <<tiddler Topic-Index##Col2 with: A B>>
/%
C:/%%/ <<tiddler Topic-Index##Col3-span with: C>>
/%
DEF:/%%/ <<tiddler Topic-Index##Col3 with: D E F>>
/%
GHI:/%%/ <<tiddler Topic-Index##Col3 with: G H I>>
/%
JKL:/%%/ <<tiddler Topic-Index##Col3 with: J K L>>
/%
MNO:/%%/ <<tiddler Topic-Index##Col3 with: M N O>>
/%
P:/%%/ <<tiddler Topic-Index##Col3-span with: P>>
/%
QR:/%%/ <<tiddler Topic-Index##Col2 with: Q R>>
/%
S:/%%/ <<tiddler Topic-Index##Col3-span with: S>>
/%
T:/%%/ <<tiddler Topic-Index##Col3-span with: T>>
/%
UVW:/%%/ <<tiddler Topic-Index##Col3 with: U V W>>
/%
XYZ:/%%/ <<tiddler Topic-Index##Col3 with: X Y Z>>
/%
XYZ09:/%%/ <<tiddler Topic-Index##Col4 with: X Y Z '0-9'>>
/%
0to9:/%%/ <<tiddler Topic-Index##Col3 with: '0-3' '4-6' '7-9'>>
// /%
// 0to9:/%%/ <<tiddler Topic-Index##Col1 with: '0-9'>>
/%
*Col
!!!Col
{{mapH1{$1}}}{{dp33{<<list noCase title '[$1]'>>}}} {{mapH1{$2}}}{{dp33{<<list noCase title '[$2]'>>}}} {{mapH1{$3}}}{{dp33{<<list noCase title '[$3]'>>}}}
{{dp100{<br>}}}
!!!Col1
{{mapH1{$1}}}{{dp100{ <<list noCase title '[$1]'>>}}}
!!!end
*Col2
!!!Col2
{{dp50{ {{mapH1{$1}}}
<<forEachTiddler
where
'! tiddler.tags.contains("Comment") && ! tiddler.tags.contains("excludeLists") && tiddler.title.startsWith("$1")'
write
'"* [["+tiddler.title+"]]\n"'
>>
}}} {{dp50{ {{mapH1{$2}}}
<<forEachTiddler
where
'! tiddler.tags.contains("Comment") && ! tiddler.tags.contains("excludeLists") && tiddler.title.startsWith("$2")'
write
'"* [["+tiddler.title+"]]\n"'
>>
}}}
{{dp100{<br>}}}
!!!end
*Col3
!!!Col3
{{dp33{ {{mapH1{$1}}}
<<forEachTiddler
where
'! tiddler.tags.contains("Comment") && ! tiddler.tags.contains("excludeLists") && tiddler.title.startsWith("$1")'
write
'"* [["+tiddler.title+"]]\n"'
>>
}}} {{dp33{ {{mapH1{$2}}}
<<forEachTiddler
where
'! tiddler.tags.contains("Comment") && ! tiddler.tags.contains("excludeLists") && tiddler.title.startsWith("$2")'
write
'"* [["+tiddler.title+"]]\n"'
>>
}}} {{dp33{ {{mapH1{$3}}}
<<forEachTiddler
where
'! tiddler.tags.contains("Comment") && ! tiddler.tags.contains("excludeLists") && tiddler.title.startsWith("$3")'
write
'"* [["+tiddler.title+"]]\n"'
>>
}}}
{{dp100{<br>}}}
!!!end
*Col3-span
!!!Col3-span
{{threecolumns{ {{mapH1{$1}}}
<<forEachTiddler
where
'! tiddler.tags.contains("Comment") && ! tiddler.tags.contains("excludeLists") && tiddler.title.startsWith("$1")'
write
'"* [["+tiddler.title+"]]\n"'
>>
}}}
{{dp100{<br>}}}
!!!end
*Col4
!!!Col4
{{dp25{ {{mapH1{$1}}}
<<forEachTiddler
where
'! tiddler.tags.contains("Comment") && ! tiddler.tags.contains("excludeLists") && tiddler.title.startsWith("$1")'
write
'"* [["+tiddler.title+"]]\n"'
>>
}}} {{dp25{ {{mapH1{$2}}}
<<forEachTiddler
where
'! tiddler.tags.contains("Comment") && ! tiddler.tags.contains("excludeLists") && tiddler.title.startsWith("$2")'
write
'"* [["+tiddler.title+"]]\n"'
>>
}}} {{dp25{ {{mapH1{$3}}}
<<forEachTiddler
where
'! tiddler.tags.contains("Comment") && ! tiddler.tags.contains("excludeLists") && tiddler.title.startsWith("$3")'
write
'"* [["+tiddler.title+"]]\n"'
>>
}}} {{dp25{ {{mapH1{$4}}}
<<forEachTiddler
where
'! tiddler.tags.contains("Comment") && ! tiddler.tags.contains("excludeLists") && tiddler.title.startsWith("$4")'
write
'"* [["+tiddler.title+"]]\n"'
>>
}}}
{{dp100{<br>}}}
!!!end
!!!ColAZ3
{{dp33{''$1''-[$2]
<<list noCase title '$1[$2]'>>}}} {{dp33{''$1''-[$3]
<<list noCase title '$1[$3]'>>}}} {{dp33{''$1''-[$4]
<<list noCase title '$1[$4]'>>}}}
{{dp100{<br>}}}
!!!end
!!!ColAZ4
{{dp25{''$1''-[$2]
<<list noCase title '$1[$2]'>>}}} {{dp25{''$1''-[$3]
<<list noCase title '$1[$3]'>>}}} {{dp25{''$1''-[$4]
<<list noCase title '$1[$4]'>>}}} {{dp25{''$1''-[$5]
<<list noCase title '$1[$5]'>>}}}
{{dp100{<br>}}}
!!!end
!!!Col0to9
{{dp33{''$1''<<list noCase title '[$1]'>>}}} {{dp33{''$2''
<<list noCase title '[$2]'>>}}} {{dp33{''$3''
<<list noCase title '[$3]'>>}}}
{{dp100{<br>}}}
!!!end
%/
<<tiddler HideTiddlerTags>>
}}}
To handle.
* The danger of deprivation.
* Matthew's cost-counting,
* the tower of Babel,
* and "unless the LORD builds the house..."
* <<Bbl Pr 18:10 >> -- a strong tower
* contrast with Temple
* [[Disciple]]
* Sandra Davidson's lawnmower.
* A break with tradition must require transforming power. [[Obey]] requires only modeling, and it is confrontation and conflict that bring the substance.
! Of The Fathers
* A respect for one's immediate father, the measure of obeisance he discovered and inculcated.
* [[Paul]], [[Pharisee]]
* <<Bbl Mt 15:1 "" note >>
!!! Ongoing work of entering notes
*entries are typed in load document
**use of syntax for wiki-specific formatting
**careful use of new-lines to avoid sorting issues
*prep document
**use reg ex to apply TW mark-up
**sort lines
**use reg ex to apply new-lines to bullet points (new-lines are lost)
*import content
**this is prolly done by transferring chunks from text to wiki
!!! More about the load document
* One insight per line. Best perhaps to have word wrap off.
* Each line begins with with {{{#}}} (topical) or {{{b}}} (scripture comment).
* Sort ascending when ready to import.
!!! Scripture references are design for regex treatment.
** Solitary {{{b}}} serves as a cue.
** Regex find string:
*** {{{ b\s([1-3]*[A-Z][a-z]*)\s(\d?\d)[\:\.](\d?\d) }}}
** Regex replace string:
*** {{{ <<Bbl \1 \2:\3>> }}}
!!! Sample text
{{{
## Reminders at top (## sorts to first position).
#Generosity b Lk 7:36 -50
#Salvation b Jer 17:14
b 2C 10:5 Do not take a light view of //taking captive//, as if it were a mere quarantine. Paul indicates this //thought// is a token or messenger of a //stronghold//. Imagine a king who is aware of repeated incursions; it is not enough to put the miscreants in prison -- they must be interrogated. So we must examine our temptations and distractions to find their source.
b Ac 2:42 -47 Recurrance of //together, added//.
}}}
* [[Regenerate]]
* [[Scripture-Transforming]]
* Not a new leaf. You need a new LIFE.
* My marriage transformed my mindset and behaviors. Transforming my life never made me married.
* <<Bbl Mk 2:21 >>, <<Bbl Mt 9:16 >> -- cool preaching illustration featuring processing of cloth over a couple of sermons, and a woman sewing during the sermon. I think we call pre-shrinking sizing; we do it even for thread.
* Nestle company provides a big refrigerator magnet, "Quick Conversions". What does it offer? A set of formulas. The purpose of a formula is to convert; but for the big matters of life, this approach is not adequate, however tempting it may be to try.
* <<Bbl 2Co 3:18 >>, happening to us. <<Bbl R 12:1 >>, we work. Mt 17. ??? A foretaste. <<Bbl Ps 084:005>>ff.
* Forensic: justification. Relational: reconciliation. Positional: death/life, darkness/light, safety/danger. Organic: born anew. Gal 04. Christ is always the agent.
* <<Bbl 1C 15:49 >>. <<Bbl Php 3:20 >>,21. <<Bbl 1C 2:9 >>-10. <<Bbl 1C 13:12 >>. <<Bbl 1J 3:2 >>.
! Outside in
* <<Bbl Col 3:9 >>
* [[Counsel]]
! Inside out
* <<Bbl Col 3:3 >>
* <<Bbl Ex 19:5 >>
* <<Bbl Pr 2:4 >>
* <<Bbl Pr 21:20 >>
* <<Bbl Mt 12:35 >>
* <<Bbl 2C 4:6 >>-7
* <<Bbl 2Tim 1:14 >>
* [[Colors]]
* [[Wealth]], [[Gold]]
* [[Refine]]
* [[Witness]] -- [[Solomon]] versus Hezekiah
! Exchange.
* <<Bbl Mt 19:21 >>, 27f.
* <<Bbl Heb 10:34 >>
! Hidden treasure
* <<Bbl Pr 13:7 >>
* <<Bbl Col 2:3 >>
* The finders of the steamboat Arabia knew to keep quiet while gathering their resources.
* In <<Bbl Ruth 3:14 >> Boaz "found and hid" the treasure, and then out of joy went and bought the field. <<Bbl Mt 13:44 "" note >>
* [[Invisible-Visible]]
! On display
* Solomon and Hezekiah: a contrast
** <<Bbl 1K 10:1 "" note>> - Solomon with the Queen of Sheba.
** <<Bbl 2K 20:13>> - Hezekiah's guests.
*** They are dazzled but not humbled.
*** Hezekiah incurred a terrifying rebuke from the Lord.
*** //Do not cast your pearls out to swine.//
! Wisdom and Goodness, a man's treasury
* <<Bbl 1K 10:3 >>, <<Bbl 1K 10:13 abbr >>: Sheba before Solomon: sees the gold, and the wisdom.
* <<Bbl Pr 8:21 >>
* <<Bbl Mt 13:52 "" note>>
* <<Bbl Mt 12:35>>, <<Bbl L 6:45>>
* @@color:indigo;Above all, the fig tree is often in the Old Testament a symbol for Israel, and more than once Israel is judged under this symbol, "There will be no figs on the tree, and their leaves will wither," said <<Bbl Jer 8:13 >>. In connection with this is the intriguing statement that "it was not the season for figs" (<<Bbl Mk 11:13 >>). This statement surely has less to do with horticulture than theology. The word for "season" (kairos) is used at the opening of the Gospel, "The time (kairos) has come," said Jesus, "the kingdom of God is near" (<<Bbl Mk 1:14 >>). Kairos means a special, critical moment. There is no fruit on the tree because its time has passed. The leafy fig tree, with all its promise of fruit, is as deceptive as the temple. @@ //J Edwards//
* ! As male member.
* <<Bbl Is 56:3 >>.
!!! Tree of Life
[Pro 3:18 NIV] - //a tree of life to those who embrace her//
[Pro 11:30 NIV] - //The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life, and he who wins souls is wise//
[Pro 13:12 NIV] - //a longing fulfilled is a tree of life//
[Pro 15:4 NIV] - //The tongue that brings healing is a tree of life, but a deceitful tongue//
* Some ancient saint (says Peggy Noonan) described life as //a bad night in a bad inn.//
* [[Exigency]]
* [[Test]], [[Tempt]]
* [[Persevere]]
* [[Hardship]], [[Adversity]]
* <<Bbl Ps 74:1 "" note>>ff
* @@color:brown;If God is getting our full cooperation, the length of the process or the intensity of the struggle is really up to Him. You see, it all depends on His objectives. @@ // - Beth Moore, Praying God's Word.//
* @@color:darkgreen;[[Suffer]] is the thread from which the stuff of [[Joy]] is woven. Never will the optimimist know joy,@@ // -- Henri de Lubac// (I would substitute //triumphalist// for //optimist.//
* <<Bbl Php 4:13 0 note >>
* //They have healed the wounds of my people lightly, saying Peace, peace -- but there is no peace.//
* Imagine a doctor's waiting room where the patients all appear healthy. You are admitted, and the doctor asks if you are doing well today. You reply "No, not at all well", whereupon she backs up a step and almost drops her clipboard.
Warning, [[Judge]], [[Proclamation]].
<<Bbl 1C 14:8 >>, <<Bbl Ez 3:17 >>
* Reliance, [[dependence|Depend]]; requiring [[Humility]].
* Based on another's [[Faithfulness]].
* Shaped by another's [[Promise]].
* Guiding through [[expectation|Expect]].
* Resulting in [[Hope]] and [[Confidence]], which register in our emotions but are not at all based there.
* //Faith// is the word most on our lips. But that common usage can be misleading, for trust is distinct from [[belief|Believe]].
** Saving faith = reliance.
*** Faith is believing the parachute works. Saving faith is making the jump. That is reliance, and it requires a crisis, a need.
*** MLK Jr compared this to descending a staircase in the dark - much truer than a blind leap.
* @@color:brown;The spiritual saint never believes circumstances to be haphazard, or thinks of his life as secular and sacred; he sees everything he is dumped down in as the means of securing the knowledge of Jesus Christ.@@ // - Oswald Chambers//
* <<Bbl Dt 1:30 >>-33 ; <<Bbl I 50:10 >>-11 ; <<Bbl Dt 31:2 >>-3
* <<Bbl Ps 9:10 "" note>>
* <<Bbl 2Tim 1:12 >> //For I know in Whom I have trusted...//
* <<Bbl H 6:12>> //faith and patience//: [[Trust]] guides our [[waiting|Wait]].
* <<Bbl 1P 4:19>> //...entrust their souls to him, as to a faithful Creator.//
* <<Bbl J 2:23 "" note >>-24
!!! Trust in God: Four Supporting Truths
# His [[Faithfulness]]
** [[Stability]]
** Christ's obedience: [[FaithfulnessOfJesus]]
# His [[Power]]
** [[Sovereignty]]
** [[God-AllSeeing]]
# His [[Love]]
** [[Grace]]
# His [[Promise]]s
** [[Rescue]]
!!! Trust in another person
* [[Stewardship]]
* {{anti{[[Betray]]}}}
* @@color:indigo;The truth is like a lion. You don't have to defend it. Let it loose and it will defend itself.@@ // -- Augustine//
* ''Truth'' is the objective standard by which we validate reality.
* It is only controversial to (or, it is controverted by) those who will not accept it. There are always such. Therefore truth always is accompanied by [[Controvert]].
* [[Hope]], [[Believe]], and all our perspectives can be grounded or ungrounded.
* <<Bbl J 14:17 >> We are given the Spirit of Truth.
* <<Bbl J 18:37 >>-38 //Everyone who is of the truth listens to my voice.// Pilate responds, //What is truth?//
* <<Bbl Pr 8:6 >>-9 ; <<Bbl J 14:6 >>
* <<Bbl Pr 19:22 >>.
* {{anti{[[Deceive]]}}}
* {{anti{[[Error]]}}}
* [[God-AllSeeing]]
* In 1982 I told Mike Reed said, "Someone [Dick Proescher] told me the story of Adam and Eve can't be taken literally and also have spiritual meaning." He smiled and said, "Somebody lied to you, brother."
!!! Defending the truth
* Spreading a lie is so fast, so easy. @@color:brown;A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is still getting its pants on.@@ // - Churchill, approx. quote//
!!! Denying the truth
* //Suppress//
* [[Deny]]
* //Prevaricate (equivocate, squirm, evade, obfuscate)//
** Pilate's question, "What is truth?"
*
''The player is the picture, and the picture is the reality''
* Before Christ, the player is the picture.
* With the life of Christ, the picture is the reality.
** Christ himself is the picture-reality.
** The reality is the picture: see how the miracles are ready for heart-demonstration.
** When Caiaphas prophesies, he is the player-picture.
* After His ascension there is only the reality.
This is deeply significant for Biblical Theology. It is evidence for dispensationalism.
* //Type//
* //For this cause they stumble// -- [[Stumble]]
* <<Bbl I 8:20 "" note>>
* Men do not reject the Bible because it contradicts itself, but because it contradicts them. - E. Paul Hovey
* Rapport through relationship. An auctioneer can send a "secret" message to his child requesting a drink. So we, alone in a crowd, may hear God's word though others "think it only thunder".
* //dia-gnosis//, through-seeing.
* Mark Twain's river.
# Spiritual union in Christ.
# Evident in believers generally.
# Evident in the local church. [[Unity-PursuitOf]]
----
!! Spiritual union in Christ
* In Corinthians Paul argues that the body is integral because God is one.
* <<Bbl R 8:1 >>, <<Bbl R 12:3 >>-5, <<Bbl R 15:5 abbr>>-7; <<Bbl 1C 6:17 >>, <<Bbl 1C 12:13 >>; <<Bbl 1C 12:25 >>; <<Bbl 2C 13:14 >>; <<Bbl Eph 4:3 >>; <<Bbl Php 1:27 >> - 2:4; <<Bbl Col 3:14 >>-15
* <<Bbl Ps 133:1 >> -- [[Anoint]]
* <<Bbl Titus 1:4 "" note>>
* <<Bbl Eph 4:13 >> - is a product of [[Believe]].
* Big metaphors: [[Road]], [[Flock|Sheep]], [[Edifice|Build]], Body (living organism)
* We Americans would feel comfortable with the legal-business corporation or the [[Army]].
* <<Bbl 1J 1:7 >>, <<Bbl 1J 4:13 >>, 0209-11. <<Bbl 1J 2:12 >>-14 note. <<Bbl 1J 2:15 >> note. <<Bbl R 15:5 >>-06 (context of not laying a trip on each other)
## [[Humility]] expressed as [[Teachable]].
## [[Openness]] resulting in [[Intimacy]].
## [[Submission|Submit]] resulting in [[Holiness]].
## [[Identification]] resulting in [[GoldenRule]],[[LikeMinded]],[[Generosity]]
## [[Gospel]] understanding expressed in [[Ministry|Minister]]
----
* [[Heart]], [[Integrity]], [[Purity]]
* {{anti{[[Unity-Lacking]], [[Selfish]]}}}
* Paul says unity is demonstrated in [[Diversity]].
* <<Bbl 1C 1:10 >>, a practical definition followed by concrete application and vigorous exhortation. Vs 12 describes its opposite - and vs 11 offers a subtle, important side-light: the unified perspective of Paul and "Chloe's people".
* <<Bbl R 8:1 >>, <<Bbl R 12:3 >>-5, <<Bbl R 15:5 abbr>>-7; <<Bbl 1C 12:13 >>; <<Bbl 1C 12:25 >>; <<Bbl 2C 13:14 >>; <<Bbl Eph 4:3 >>; <<Bbl Php 1:27 >> - 2:4; <<Bbl Col 3:14 >>
* <<Bbl Ps 133:1 >> -- [[Anoint]]
* <<Bbl Titus 1:4 "" note>>
* <<Bbl Eph 4:13 >> - is a product of [[Believe]].
* <<Bbl 1J 1:7 >>, <<Bbl 1J 4:13 >>, <<Bbl 1J 2:9 >>-11. <<Bbl 1J 2:12 "" note >>, <<Bbl 1J 2:15 "" note >>. <<Bbl R 15:5 >>-06 (context of not laying a trip on each other)
/***
|Name|UnsavedChangesPlugin|
|Source|http://www.TiddlyTools.com/#UnsavedChangesPlugin|
|Version|3.3.3|
|Author|Eric Shulman - ELS Design Studios|
|License|http://www.TiddlyTools.com/#LegalStatements <br>and [[Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 License|http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/]]|
|~CoreVersion|2.1|
|Type|plugin|
|Requires||
|Overrides|TiddlyWiki.prototype.setDirty,store.saveTiddler,store.removeTiddler|
|Description|show droplist of tiddlers that have changed since the last time the document was saved|
Display a list of tiddlers that have been changed since the last time the document was saved. The list includes all new/modified tiddlers as well as those changed with "minor edits" enabled and any tiddlers that you import during the session, regardless of their modification date.
!!!!!Usage
<<<
{{{
<<unsavedChanges panel>> or <<unsavedChanges>>
}}}
{{indent{
the ''panel'' keyword displays a 'control panel' interface containing a droplist of unsaved tiddlers and a 'goto' button, along with a command link to 'save changes'. Depending upon what other plugins are installed, several additional elements will also be displayed: When [[NestedSlidersPlugin]] is installed, the entire control panel is contained within a ''SLIDER''. When [[LoadTiddlersPlugin]] is installed, a ''REVERT'' button is added. When [[SaveAsPlugin]] is installed, a ''SAVE AS'' link is added. When [[UploadPlugin]] is installed, an ''UPLOAD'' (or ''save to web'') link is added. When [[TrashPlugin]] is installed and there are tiddlers tagged with<<tag Trash>>, an ''EMPTY TRASH'' link is added.
}}}
{{{
<<unsavedChanges list separator>>
}}}
{{indent{
the ''list'' keyword displays a simple space-separated list of unsaved tiddlers without any other command links. You can specify an optional ''separator'' value that can be used in place of the default space character. For example, you can specify {{{"<br>"}}} as the separator in order to display each link, one per line.
}}}
{{{
<<unsavedChanges command label tip>>
}}}
{{indent{
the ''command'' keyword displays a single 'command link' that, when clicked, displays a ~TiddlyWiki popup containing the list of unsaved tiddlers, the 'save changes' command and, depending upon what other plugins are installed, additional commands for 'save as', 'upload', and 'empty trash' (similar to the panel display described above).
You can specify optional ''label'' and ''tip'' parameters in the macro to customize the command link text and tooltip. The default label for the command link is: "There %1 %0 unsaved tiddler%2...", where:
* %0 is automatically replaced with the number of unsaved changes
* %1 is either "is" (if changes=1) or "are" (if changes>1)
* %2 is either blank (if changes=1) or "s" (if changes>1)
resulting in the text: //"There is 1 unsaved tiddler...", "There are 2 unsaved tiddlers...", etc.//
}}}
<<<
!!!!!Examples
<<<
^^//note: the following examples will not display any output unless you have already created/modified tiddlers in the current document.//^^
{{{<<unsavedChanges>>}}}
<<unsavedChanges>>
----
{{{<<unsavedChanges command>>}}}
<<unsavedChanges command>>
----
{{{<<unsavedChanges list>>}}}
<<unsavedChanges list>>
----
{{{<<unsavedChanges list "<br>">>}}}
<<unsavedChanges list "<br>">>
<<<
!!!!!Revisions
<<<
2009.03.02 [3.3.3] fix handling for titles that contain HTML special chars (lt,gt,quot,amp)
2008.09.02 [3.3.2] cleanup popup list output generation and added timestamps/sizes to popup display
2008.08.23 [3.3.1] added optional custom 'label' and 'tip' params to 'command' mode and defined default values for mode, label, tip, and separator as object properties for I18N/L10N-readiness.
2008.08.21 [3.3.0] complete re-write of rendering and refresh processing to support multiple instances and automatic self-refresh (no longer depends upon core refresh notifications)
2008.08.21 [3.2.0] added 'command' option for link+popup as alternative to 'control panel' interface
2008.04.22 [3.1.2] use SaveAsPlugin instead of obsolete NewDocumentPlugin to add "save as" link
2007.12.22 [3.1.1] hijack removeTiddler() instead of low-level deleteTiddler() to correct tracking and refresh handling issues. in saveTiddler(), check for 'tiddler rename' (title!=newtitle) and adjust list accordingly.
2007.12.21 [3.1.0] added support for {{{<<unsavedChanges list separator>>}}} usage to unsaved tiddlers as a simple list of links, embedded in tiddler content (e.g., [[MainMenu]])
2007.12.20 [3.0.0] rewrite to track ALL changed tiddlers, including imports and minor edits, regardless of saved modification dates. Also, rewrote display logic to directly refresh macro output instead of triggering a page refresh. The entire process is MUCH more efficient now.
2007.08.02 [2.0.0] converted from inline script
2007.01.01 [1.0.0] initial release
<<<
!!!!!Code
***/
//{{{
version.extensions.UnsavedChangesPlugin= {major: 3, minor: 3, revision: 3, date: new Date(2009,3,2)};
config.macros.unsavedChanges = {
changed: [], // list of currently unsaved tiddler titles
defMode: "panel",
defSep: " ",
defLabel: "There %1 %0 unsaved tiddler%2...",
defTip: "view a list of unsaved tiddler changes",
handler: function(place,macroName,params,wikifier,paramString,tiddler) {
var wrapper=createTiddlyElement(place,"span",null,"unsavedChanges");
wrapper.setAttribute("mode",params[0]||this.defMode);
wrapper.setAttribute("sep",params[1]||this.defSep); // for 'list' mode
wrapper.setAttribute("label",params[1]||this.defLabel); // for 'command' mode
wrapper.setAttribute("tip",params[2]||this.defTip); // for 'command' mode
this.render(wrapper);
},
render: function(wrapper) {
removeChildren(wrapper); // make sure its empty
if (!this.changed.length) return; // no changes = no output
switch (wrapper.getAttribute("mode")) {
case "command": this.command(wrapper); break;
case "list": this.list(wrapper); break;
case "panel": default: this.panel(wrapper); break;
}
},
refresh: function() {
var wrappers=document.getElementsByTagName("span");
for (var w=0; w<wrappers.length; w++)
if (hasClass(wrappers[w],"unsavedChanges"))
this.render(wrappers[w]);
},
list: function(place) { // show simple list of unsaved tiddlers
wikify("[["+this.changed.join("]]"+place.getAttribute("sep")+"[[")+"]]",place);
},
command: function(place) { // show command link with popup list
var c=this.changed.length;
var txt=place.getAttribute("label").format([c,c==1?'is':'are',c==1?'':'s']);
var tip=place.getAttribute("tip");
var action=function(ev) { if (!ev) var ev=window.event;
var p=Popup.create(this); if (!p) return false;
var d=createTiddlyElement(p,"div");
d.style.whiteSpace="normal"; d.style.width="auto"; d.style.padding="2px";
// gather pretty links for changed tiddlers
var list=[]; var item=" [[%1 - %0 (%2 bytes)|%0]] ";
for (var i=config.macros.unsavedChanges.changed.length-1; i>=0; i--) {
var tid=store.getTiddler(config.macros.unsavedChanges.changed[i]);
if (!tid) continue;
var when=tid.modified.formatString('YYYY.0MM.0DD 0hh:0mm:0ss');
list.push(item.format([tid.title,when,tid.text.length]));
}
wikify("@@white-space:nowrap;"+list.join("<br>")+"@@",d);
if (!readOnly) {
var t="\n----\n";
t+="@@white-space:nowrap;display:block;text-align:center; ";
t+="<<saveChanges>>";
t+=config.macros.saveAs?" | <<saveAs>>":"";
t+=config.macros.upload?" | <<upload>>":"";
t+=(config.macros.emptyTrash&&store.getTaggedTiddlers("Trash").length)?" | <<emptyTrash>>":"";
t+=" @@";
wikify(t,d);
}
Popup.show(p,false);
ev.cancelBubble=true; if(ev.stopPropagation)ev.stopPropagation();
return(false);
}
createTiddlyButton(place,txt,tip,action,"button");
},
panel: function(place) { // show composite droplist+buttons+commands
// gather changed tiddlers (in reverse order by date - most recent first)
var tids=[]; for (var i=this.changed.length-1; i>=0; i--)
{ var t=store.getTiddler(this.changed[i]); if (t) tids.push(t); }
tids.sort(function(a,b){return a.modified<b.modified?-1:(a.modified==b.modified?0:1);});
// generate droplist items
var list=[]; var item='<option value="%0">%1 - %0 (%2 bytes)</option>';
for (var i=tids.length-1; i>=0; i--) {
var when=tids[i].modified.formatString('YYYY.0MM.0DD 0hh:0mm:0ss');
list.push(item.format([tids[i].title.htmlEncode(),when,tids[i].text.length]));
}
// display droplist, buttons, and command links
var out=''; var c=this.changed.length;
var NSP=config.formatters.findByField("name","nestedSliders");
var summary=this.defLabel.format([c,c==1?'is':'are',c==1?'':'s'])
out+=NSP?'+++(unsaved)['+summary+'|'+this.defTip+']...':(summary+"\n");
out+='<html><form style="display:inline"><!--\
--><select size="1" name="list" \
title="select a tiddler to view" \
onchange="var v=this.value; if (v.length) story.displayTiddler(null,v);"><!--\
-->'+list.join('')+'<!--\
--></select><!--\
--><input type="button" value="goto" onclick="this.form.list.onchange();">';
if (config.macros.loadTiddlers) {
out+='<input type="button" value="revert" \
title="import the last saved version of this tiddler" \
onclick="var v=this.form.list.value; if (!v.length) return; \
var t=\'<\'+\'<loadTiddlers [[tiddler:\'+v+\']] \'; \
t+=document.location.href; \
t+=\' confirm force noreport>\'+\'>\'; \
var e=document.getElementById(\'executeRevert\'); \
if (e) e.parentNode.removeChild(e); \
e=document.createElement(\'span\'); \
e.id=\'executeRevert\'; \
wikify(t,e);">';
}
out+='</form></html>';
if (!readOnly) {
out+='\n{{small nowrap{';
out+="<<saveChanges>>";
out+=config.macros.saveAs?" | <<saveAs>>":"";
out+=config.macros.upload?" | <<upload>>":"";
out+=(config.macros.emptyTrash&&store.getTaggedTiddlers("Trash").length)?" | <<emptyTrash>>":"";
out+='}}}';
}
out+=NSP?'===':'';
wikify(out,place);
}
};
// hijack store.saveTiddler() to track changes to tiddlers
if (store.showUnsaved_saveTiddler==undefined) {
store.showUnsaved_saveTiddler=store.saveTiddler;
store.saveTiddler=function(title,newtitle) {
if (title!=newtitle) {
var i=config.macros.unsavedChanges.changed.indexOf(title);
if (i!=-1) config.macros.unsavedChanges.changed.splice(i,1); // remove old from list
}
var i=config.macros.unsavedChanges.changed.indexOf(newtitle);
if (i!=-1) config.macros.unsavedChanges.changed.splice(i,1); // remove new title from list
config.macros.unsavedChanges.changed.push(newtitle); // add new title to END of list
var t=this.showUnsaved_saveTiddler.apply(this,arguments);
if (!this.notificationLevel) config.macros.unsavedChanges.refresh();
return t;
}
}
// hijack store.removeTiddler() to track changes to tiddlers
if (store.showUnsaved_removeTiddler==undefined) {
store.showUnsaved_removeTiddler=store.removeTiddler;
store.removeTiddler=function(title) {
var i=config.macros.unsavedChanges.changed.indexOf(title);
if (i!=-1) config.macros.unsavedChanges.changed.splice(i,1); // remove from list
this.showUnsaved_removeTiddler.apply(this,arguments);
if (!this.notificationLevel) config.macros.unsavedChanges.refresh();
}
}
// hijack store.setDirty() function to reset change list after file save
// note: do NOT hijack the prototype function. This hijack should only be applied to
// the main 'store' instance only (i.e., don't refresh when loading temporary store
// as part of ImportTiddlers processing)
if (store.showUnsaved_setDirty==undefined) {
store.showUnsaved_setDirty=store.setDirty;
store.setDirty = function(flag) {
var refresh=this.isDirty() && !flag; // 'dirty' to 'clean', force a refresh...
this.showUnsaved_setDirty.apply(this,arguments); // but change the flag first.
if (refresh) {
config.macros.unsavedChanges.changed=[]; // clear changed list
config.macros.unsavedChanges.refresh();
}
}
}
//}}}
* For the time is short.
* Guides our decisions. Keeps us from coveting. Elijah to Gehazi, Paul to the Corinthians.
* <<Bbl Jonah 1:3 >>
* <<Bbl Jonah 4:2 >>
* <<Bbl Gn 22:3 >> .
* //Rebellion, revolt//
* [[Appropriate-verb]]
* A wanna-be king starts with a retinue - and, of course, he must have a [[Donkey]]. <<Bbl 2S 15:1 >>, <<Bbl 1K 1:5 >>.
* <<Bbl Mt 4:8 >>-10, <<Bbl L 4:5 >> - Jesus tempted to be Christ - but on wrong terms
* //Without us you have become kings!//(<<Bbl 1C 4:8>>).
* Tyre, the bestower of crowns (<<Bbl I 23:8>>); they made kings, but not by me (<<Bbl Hosea 8:4>>); they put the crown on Joash (<<Bbl 2K 11:12>>); 'give me a king and princes' (<<Bbl Hosea 13:10>>); they were going to make Jesus king by force (<<Bbl J 6:15>>); we will not make anyone king (<<Bbl 2K 10:5>>); the trees went forth to anoint a king (<<Bbl Jud 9:8>>);
* After David sinned, God announced that judgment would come on his house even from those close to him (<<Bbl 2S 12:11>>). This was fulfilled in the revolt of Absalom, possibly David’s eldest son after Amnon’s death. But now another son of David, the next eldest after Absalom, is seeking to seize the throne (<<Bbl 1K 1:5>>). The verses about David not being able to keep warm reveal how weak and susceptible he was to this new revolt; the mention of the concubine helps explain why Adonijah later merits death by asking to marry her (<<Bbl 1K 2:21>>). To marry a concubine of the former king was to position oneself to become king (<<Bbl 1K 2:22>>; cf. <<Bbl 2S 16:21>>-22) - Adonijah still wants to overthrow Solomon’s kingdom! (Craig Keener)
* Moses used a veil to cover over God's glory shining on his face. But ... outrageously ... the Bible appears to say that he actually used the veil to keep people from noticing it was fading. Could it be true?
* So Christ used the veil //of His flesh// (<<Bbl H 10:20>>) to cloak His divine power ([[Kenosis]]). As the veil in the [[Temple]] was torn, that veil of His flesh was torn.
* In the tearing of the temple veil, God in effect rent His clothes.
* [[Invisible-Visible]]
* [[Reveal]]
Conflict of the soul, or in the soul, or in the creation.
* 1Jn 4:18 Fear VS Love
* Jms 2:12-13 Judgement VS Mercy
* James 1:25 Freedom VS Law
* N.T. study from Vine's, 12/'83. [a Gr. term translated, vessel]; <<Bbl H 9:21 >>; <<Bbl Mt 12:29 >>; <<Bbl A 9:15 >>; <<Bbl 2C 4:7 >>; <<Bbl Rev 2:27 >> (<<Bbl Ps 2:9 >>, <<Bbl Ps 31:12 >>); <<Bbl R 9:20 >>-21 ; <<Bbl 2Tim 2:20 >>-21 ; <<Bbl 1P 3:7 >>
* <<Bbl I 66:20 abbr >>.
* [[Break]]
* [[Water]]
* [[Purity]] -- <<Bbl 1S 21:5 >>; <<Bbl 1Thes 4:4 >> (possibly referring to body, likely to wife; Vine's presents arguments);
{{fyi{The note about Vine's is from my original alphabetized notebook, added in in 1983.}}}
* [[Sacrifice]], [[Atone]]
* [[Reject]]
* <<Bbl 1S 8:7 >> Samuel assured by God -- //they are rejecting Me//.
* <<Bbl Ex 32:34>> Moses cannot take the place as substitute.
* Jesus
* <<Bbl Col 2:15>>
* <<Bbl 1J 4:4>>
* [[Sovereignty]]
* [[War]], [[Conflict]]
* [[Banner]] - its proclamation
* //conquest, triumph, success, overcoming//
<!--{{{-->
<div class='toolbar' macro='toolbar [[ToolbarCommands::ViewToolbar]]'></div>
<span class='title' macro='view title'></span>
<!-- <div class='subtitle fine'>
<span macro='view modifier link'></span>, <span macro='view modified date'></span> (<span macro='message views.wikified.createdPrompt'></span> <span macro='view created date'></span>)</div> -->
<div class='subtitle fine'>
<!-- <span macro='view modified date'></span> --> </div>
<div class='tagClear'></div>
<!--- <div class='tagging' macro='tagging'></div> //SDM -->
<div class='tagged' macro='tags'></div>
<div class='viewer' macro='view text wikified'></div>
<div class='tagClear'></div>
<div class='toolbar' style='line-height:100%;margin-top:.5em;'><a href="javascript:;"
onclick="window.scrollTo(0,ensureVisible(story.findContainingTiddler(this)));return false;"
onmouseover="this.title='scroll to top of '+story.findContainingTiddler(this).getAttribute('tiddler')">▲</a>
</div>
<div class='tagClear'></div>
<!--}}}-->
* //Watchfulness, alertness//, [[Wait]]
* <<Bbl Neh 4:23>>
The opposite is being put to [[Shame]].
* <<Bbl Ezk 33:33 >>
* <<Bbl 2Chr 34:8 >>b through <<Bbl 2Chr 34:21 abbr >>
''The vineyard seems to be specifically an object of God's disappointment and wrath which is redeemed and fulfilled in the church purchased by Christ's blood.''
* ''<<Bbl I 27:2 >>-6'' -- the object of God's delight and protection; but a careful reading suggests God treats a //thorns and briars// counterfeit as the object of judgment, so it may fall into the category below. And verse 5 is a prophecy of the church, where John 15 may be fulfilled.
* [[Living-Plant]], [[Wine]], //grape, vintage//
* <<Bbl Mt 21:28 >>-45
* <<Bbl J 15:1>>-17, the True Vine
!!! the object of God's Judgment
* Consider: Is the image of the vineyard almost always negative? If so, <<Bbl J 15:1 >>-8 is a great reversal.
* First mention - Noah
* <<Bbl Ps 80:8 >>-16 ; <<Bbl I 5:1 >>-7 , <<Bbl Jer 2:21 >>, <<Bbl Jer 12:10 >>,<<Bbl Ez 17:3 >>-10 , <<Bbl Ez 19:10 >>-14 ; <<Bbl Hos 10:1 >>
* [[Thorns]]
* <<Bbl Gn 6:11 >>
* <<Bbl Ez 33:26 >>; <<Bbl Ez 34:4 >>
* <<Bbl Dan 11:14 >>
* <<Bbl Mal 2:16 >> //a man covers himself with violence//
* [[War]]
* Virtue is simply [[Power]]. A fairly non-literate man told me this when I was about 19. This is specifically helpful for understanding the KJV ... but it seems to be edifying on a more purely philosophical level as well.
* The popular definition is moral excellence; we like to say //virtue is its own reward.// Noah Webster had to combat this definition, according to Eric Gross; in his dictionary he referred to the qualities of herbs.
* Patience, humility, and confidence: these spring from a true faith in God's sovereignty.
* [[SanctifiedProgressive]], [[Godliness]], [[Purity]].
* [[Benefit]]
* [[Gold]] in Exodus is a symbol.
* //the day of your visitation// -- for Christ has visited (//theophany//)
* Elijah as John the Baptist
* Moses and Elijah on the mount
{{hilite{
Next to our Lord Jesus Himself, Elijah has to be the busiest visitator in the Bible!}}}
* The OT saints at Christ's death
* Samuel to Saul ... that's an unusual one
* What does God want my vocational life to look like? God, what should be my immediate or long-term goals? God, bring me closer to Christ, in conformity to Him and enjoyment and awareness of His goodness.
* Why pray for "a good interview"? Better to pray the job will be obtained, or not, God's will.
* [[Work]]
* //Will//
* Value in our decisions requires free will. (God's word is tested like gold seven times refined.)
* Free will requires the presence of alternatives: temptation.
* After the Last Day, our value is established; what of free will then?
* <<Bbl Ex 20:7 >>; <<Bbl Lv 5:4 >>,<<Bbl Lv 19:12 >>; <<Bbl Num 6:13 >>, <<Bbl Num 30:1 >>-16 ; <<Bbl Dt 6:13 >>, <<Bbl Dt 23:21 >>-23 ; <<Bbl Jud 11:30 >>-36 ; <<Bbl Neh 10:29 >>; <<Bbl Ps 15:4 >>; <<Bbl Ps 56:12 >>, <<Bbl Ps 63:11 >>; <<Bbl Ps 132:2 >>; <<Bbl Pr 20:25 >>; <<Bbl Eccl 5:4 >>-6 , <<Bbl Eccl 8:2 >>; <<Bbl Dan 6:8 >>; <<Bbl Mt 5:33 >>-37 , <<Bbl Mt 12:34 >>-37 , <<Bbl Mt 14:7 >>-11 , <<Bbl Mt 23:16 >>-22 , <<Bbl Mk 6:22 >>-28 ; <<Bbl Jms 5:12 >>.
* The Hebrew word for swear comes from a root meaning "seven", referring to the act of prostrating oneself seven times.
* Latin //adjurare// -- thus to //adjure// is to ask or request in a way that puts the receiver under oath (//jury//).
* The purpose of an oath is to eliminate all doubt, which also ends all argument.
* The essence of swearing is liability, as the swearer invokes a kind of collateral. He is bonded, shackled as it were to a tangible or at least specific penalty. If one's word is one's bond, this is a way of saying no extra collateral is needed.
* //May the Lord to do me// -- <<Bbl Jer 34:18>>
* <<Bbl Gn 22:16 >> -- God swears, and the collateral is Himself.
* The pharisaic error therefore seems to have been an attempt at limited liability, a less-binding oath. This was always implied in that one chooses one's penalty, whether more or less extreme; but the Pharisees had it down to a rule-book, and the motive was ultimately dishonest. Jesus says it's a false and wicked gambit.
* <<Bbl Gn 50:5 >>-6.
* Jeremiah's Rachabites.
* God speaks, and it IS; His Word does not return to Him void. We are destined to also have continually effectual words.
* Bad vows: <<Bbl Jos 9:6 >> (but in 10:1-11, God sanctions the vow); <<Bbl Jud 21:1 >>-7 ; <<Bbl 1S 15:24 >>-46 ; <<Bbl Jer 44:24 >>-28
* <<Bbl Dt 18:10 >> ,12; <<Bbl Dt 12:31 >>
* <<Bbl Dt 23:22 >>. Live and speak so as to never need an oath.
* The oath for your own sake is sin, for another's sake at times appropriate.
!!! Vows that bond together.
* Ruth.
* David and Jonathan.
!!! Reviewed and annulled
* A vow is subject to review.
* The disciple who wanted to bury his father.
* The provision in the Law for a woman's vow.
!!! Paying a vow .
* In the sacrificial system we find a votive or vow offering. • Jonah's sailors, <<Bbl Jonah 1:16 >>
* Jonah himself, <<Bbl Jonah 2:9 >>.
* [[Depend]]
* [[Obey]]
* [[Remnant]]
* <<Bbl Gn 49:18 >> Israel's personal testimony, and the testimony of God's people named Israel.
* <<Bbl Job 14:14 >>;
* <<Bbl Ps 25:5 >>, <<Bbl Ps 27:14 >>, <<Bbl Ps 37:7 >>-9 , <<Bbl Ps 40:1 >>, <<Bbl Ps 119:81 >>, <<Bbl Ps 130:5 >>-6 ;
* <<Bbl Jud 16:22 "" note >> -- Samson patiently and painfully seeking his opportunity.
* <<Bbl I 25:9 >>, <<Bbl I 26:8 >>
* <<Bbl I 30:18 >> //Yahweh waits, we wait//
* <<Bbl I 40:31 >> //will renew their [[Strength]]//
* <<Bbl Dan 12:12 >> [[Persevere]]
* <<Bbl Hab 2:3 >> //wait for it; because it will surely come. It won't delay.//
* <<Bbl Mk 15:43 >> //Joseph of Arimathea was waiting// (often translated looking)
* <<Bbl Mt 24:45 "" note >>
* <<Bbl L 2:25 >> Simeon
* <<Bbl L 12:36 >> Like men on vigil during a marriage.
* <<Bbl R 8:23 >>; <<Bbl Gal 5:5 >>; <<Bbl Php 3:20 >>
* The devil, after the temptation in the desert.
* @@color:brown;The essence of chastity is not the suppression of lust, but the total orientation of one's life towards a goal. @@ // - Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Letters and Papers From Prison//
* [[Expectation]], [[Vigilance]]
!!! in the Letter to the Hebrews
* Hebrews 1 declares that the [[prophets]] of the OT waited and did not receive what was promised.
* Hebrews 11 is a record of [[perseverance|Persevere]] expressed in waiting.
* Moses, Joshua and the entry to the land.
* David and the temple.
* Abraham and the son (who finally came).
* Sarah, too, for her child.
* Abraham, owning nothing of the promised land but that bargain cave.
* [[Joseph]] in the matter of his bones. Indeed Hebrews 11 is a record of [[perseverance|Persevere]] as well as faith; for [[faith|Believe]] is expressed in waiting.
!!! Impatience
* Cricket was compressed to baseball, and still we're bored. And in 2017 they are trying out a rule in minor leagues to limit over-time - start each OT inning with a runner on second!
* [[Path]], [[Road]]
* [[Conduct]]
* [[Stand]]
* Walking is repeated, controlled [[Fall]]. To learn to walk, you must fall; there is no non-falling way to learn. So walking requires a safe setting for falling.
* <<Bbl Pr 4:25 >>-27 //Let your eyes look straight ahead. Fix your gaze directly before you. 4.26 Make the path of your feet level. Let all of your ways be established. 4.27 Don't turn to the right hand nor to the left. Remove your foot from evil.//
* <<Bbl Eph 2:10 >> //which God prepared beforehand so that we would walk in them//
* <<Bbl Eph 4:1 >> //I...implore you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling with which you have been called// @@color:darkred;Unfortunately the NIV translates //walk// as //live//.@@
* <<Bbl Eph 4:17 >> //walk no longer just as the Gentiles also walk, in the futility of their mind//
* <<Bbl Eph 5:2 >> //and walk in love, just as Christ also loved you//
* <<Bbl Eph 5:8 >> //walk as children of Light//
* <<Bbl Eph 5:15 >> //Therefore be careful how you walk, not as unwise men but as wise//
* //barrier, boundary, boundaries//
* [[Divide]]
* [[House]]
* {{anti{[[Gate]],[[Door]]}}}
!! as safety
* <<Bbl Pr 25:28>> When the walls of a city are broken down, no place is safe. When there is a break anywhere, safety is reduced. [[SelfControl]]
* Jericho
* <<Bbl Neh 1:4>> Jerusalem
* <<Bbl Zech 2:4>> looks to a Jerusalem without walls.
!!! Breached
** Through attack - by sappers, terriers (? - army slang), under-miners; or by a battering ram, siege, or ramp.
** Through neglect - in guarding, or possibly maintenance.
!! as negative
* //He tore down the dividing wall//
* <<Bbl Ex 13:17 >>-18 , <<Bbl Ps 149:5 >>-9 ; <<Bbl 2Tim 2:22 >>; <<Bbl 1P 2:11 >>
* Resist the devil. Not ignore the devil.
* [[Soldier]], [[Sword]], [[Violence]], [[Victory]]
* [[David]]
! War and Folly
* <<Bbl 2S 10:3 >> relates a stupid war based on bad counsel.
* Elisha averts war when Naaman shows up at the palace.
* The OT relates many examples of [[Folly]] which produces war. Strong congruity with //The Art of War//.
** <<Bbl 2S 20:15>>-22
! War and [[Virtue]]
* The exciting OODA tactics of John Boyd could be enjoyably used to describe some Bible victories -- David's cunning against Saul, the Lord Himself against our enemies.
* Consider the "rumble strips" on the side of the highway.
* Beseting sin or addiction can be a sign warning of deeper issues -- the "canary in the coal mine."
* [[Water]]
* [[Baptize]]
* <<Bbl Eph 5:26 >>
!!! Foot washing
* A ceremony that for us suggests intimacy rather than servanthood.
* <<Bbl 1S 25:41 >> provides the original perspective.
* Water as a symbol of life could comprise as extensive a study as that of [[Resurrect]] life after death.
* ''Thirst'' is need reified.
* //Cistern, well, spring, fountain,// [[Vessel]], [[River]].
* [[Baptize]], [[Wash]]
* [[Sea]]
* [[Flood]]
* Listing in Moody Bible Atlas, p. 51.
* A well is a live spring. (I'm too used to a faucet.)
* Preach with reference to an exacting and awe-inspiring description of the Edwards Aquifer.
* <<Bbl Gn 21:19 >> Hagar's deliverance.
* <<Bbl Lv 11:34 >>-36
* <<Bbl Num 21:16 >>-18 Israel's song. The scepter and staff refer to Moses' staff.
* <<Bbl 2S 14:14>> //We are like water which is spilled...//
* <<Bbl 2K 2:19 >>ff
* <<Bbl I 12:3 >> drawing "...water from the wells of salvation."
* <<Bbl I 43:18>>-21, and note vs 17 //extinguished//. EXODUS.
* <<Bbl I 44:5>>
* <<Bbl Jer 2:13 >>). Broken cisterns is a powerful image of men's attempt to organize God's appointments, e.g. in forming big denominations. see vs. 18.
* <<Bbl Jer 14:3 >> the shame of Israel, empty cisterns.
* <<Bbl Ecc 12:3 >> the pitcher by the well, the wheel (windlass) by the cistern: within the analogy of this passage, this could refer to losing your intellectual (and, in some sense, spiritual?) capacity with old age.
* <<Bbl Ps 36:8 >>-9 "...river of Thy delights...fountain of life."
* <<Bbl Ps 63:1 >> "...my soul thirsts for You...in a dry and thirsty land..."
* <<Bbl Pr 4:23 >> "...the springs of life..."
* <<Bbl Pr 5:15 >>-18 Mike Birch has proposes the husband is the spring and the stream, the source of water, while the wife is the receptacle or reservoir.
* <<Bbl Pr 14:27 >> the fear of the Lord is a fountain of life.
* <<Bbl Pr 20:5 >> "...like deep water, but a man of understanding..."
* <<Bbl Pr 20:26 >> [[Compromise]]
* <<Bbl Pr 22:14 "" note >>
* <<Bbl Song 4:12 >> in describing his lover.
* <<Bbl I 58:11 >> "...a spring that does not fail."
* <<Bbl Hos 13:15 >> Samaria's dry spring
* <<Bbl Zech 13:1>>
* <<Bbl Zech 14:8>>
* <<Bbl J 4:7 >>-1 5 the Samaritan woman
* <<Bbl J 7:37-39>> - the [[Feast of Tabernacles|Tabernacles-Feast]]? It has been proposed.
* <<Bbl Rev 21:6 >>.
* <<Bbl Rev 22:1 >>ff, <<Bbl Rev 22:17 >>
* <<Bbl Isaiah 55:1 >>.
* [[Frailty]]
* [[Addiction]]
* [[Servitude]]
* <<Bbl Pr 25:28>> -- //broken down walls//
* {{anti{ [[Strength]]}}}
!! sermon
on 3 kinds of weak: in resources, in faith, in obedience. Help the first two; maybe not the third.
* <<Bbl 2C 4:17>>
* <<Bbl Dt 8:18 >>
* [[Tithe]]
* {{anti{[[Poverty]]}}}
* [[Treasure]]
* [[Riches]], //prosperity, money// (negative)
* [[Resources-Personal]]
* [[Generosity]]
* [[War]]
* [[Sword]]
* Arrow
** Meditation: The head is purpose or mission. The shaft is character (when straight, a center of gravity is directly behind the head). The fletching is counsel (movable fins are the difference on a "smart bomb").
!! Formed
* <<Bbl I 49:2 >>
* <<Bbl I 54:17 >>
* The death of Josiah by a select arrow.
* //Who will go and deceive Ahab?//
The formal initiation of a [[marriage|Marry]] [[Covenant]].
Locally and culturally, the wedding has been appropriated by the church as "sacrament".
* Marriage is given by God to the families of the earth.
* The ceremony presents an idealized portrait of the relationship. The marriage supper of the Lamb is the true ideal, all truth, all whole.
* [[Food]], //feast//
!! Attire, [[Clothing]]
!!!! the Groom
* <<Bbl Rev 19:11>>-16
!!!! the Bride
* <<Bbl Rev 19:7>>-8
* <<Bbl Rev 21:2>>, <<Bbl Rev 21:2 abbr>>, <<Bbl Rev 21:10 abbr>>-11
!!!! the Attendants
This is a TiddlyWiki "Classic".
* https://classic.tiddlywiki.com/
* The new improved Version 5 is found at https://tiddlywiki.com/.
** "Classic" and Version 5 are very different. This wiki would not be easily migrated.
** I never felt comfortable with the new version. "Classic" still has a following.
The online link is http://home.grandecom.net/~scottmorse/bible_wiki.htm.
I love TiddlyWiki because
* It's the most efficient tool I've found for personal knowledge management.
* It uses a text document with no proprietary features (just HTML and ~JavaScript). So your content can never be taken or locked away from you.
* It's open-source and free.
* It's not In The Cloud. The Cloud gives me the ~Heebie-Jeebies.
* I care about text, not multi-media content. Unlike ~EverNote and so many others, TW has the same orientation.
* I can modify it. I can add features using ~JavaScript.
!! User Experience
* [[Wiki-FunctionalGoals]], with info about templates that control certain pages
* [[Bible-Index]] - top navigation for Bible passages AND notes
* [[Topic-Index]] - topics, listed alphabetically
!! Under the hood
* [[Wiki-FunctionalMethods]]
* [[Dev-History]]
* [[Wiki-Tagged]] -- Tiddlers tagged with {{{wiki}}}
* [[Wiki-HowTo]] -- Tiddlers tagged with {{{howto}}}
* [[Wiki-ToDo]] -- Tiddlers tagged with {{{todo}}}
* [[Wiki_Resources]] -- Potential Tiddlywiki tools
!! Making use of this tool
* If you are viewing this over the Internet, you can make content changes ''but you can't save them.''
* However, you can copy this to a hard drive and you will be one step closer. The best way to make the copy is to use View Source to put the entire text onto your clipboard, and then paste that into an empty text document, stored locally with the {{{.htm}}} document type.
* You also must download [[TiddlyWiki-Desktop]] (there is no install). Now you can make and save edits! https://tiddlywiki.com/static/TiddlyDesktop.html
* [[Need]]
* <<Bbl Gn 25:22 >> Rebekah and her combative unborn twins.
* <<Bbl L 10:40 >>, <<Bbl Mk 4:38 >>
* <<Bbl Jud 6:13 >>
* <<Bbl Mt 13:28 >>
* [[Questions-FromJesus]]
* <<Bbl Jer 44:19 >> Husbands, responsibility of
* Pr. //a good man who gives way before the wicked//
* [[Passivity]]
* {{anti{[[Resist]]}}}
* <<Bbl Ps 92:7 >>; <<Bbl Ez 18:23 >>; <<Bbl Ez 33:7 >>-20 ; <<Bbl Mic 2:1 >>
* [[Depravity]], [[Subvert]], [[Sin]]
* The [[World]], the [[Flesh]] and [[Satan]] -- See <<Bbl Eph 2:1>>-3
* //Why does God allow evil in the world?// This study is named ''theodicy''. [[God-Patience]].
* Just as hell is more seemingly right as we mature in the understanding of God's holiness, so too the descriptions of the wicked as in Psalm 10. Oh for the eyes of Christ.
* <<Bbl Job 9:24 >>
* [[Satan]] (Warrant)
!! Goals
* Non-linear wiki for insights, ideas, anything that needs remembering.
## a scratch-pad for less-formed ideas, teaching plans
## an archive for codified conclusions.
* Allows access to complete Bible text
## for reference
## for search
* Portable application
## USB drive
## works on any operating system
## works without Internet access
## can be accessed @ http://home.grandecom.net/~scottmorse/bible_wiki.htm
* Future //"extensibility"//
## This is a normalized form of storage that can be squirted into future applications.
For more about the user experience, see [[Tiddler_tag_and_link]].
!! This wiki is Opinionated
# Bible books follow my preferred order and grouping. For example, the Gospel accounts are re-ordered with John first and Luke last. Acts is grouped with the Gospels (following Luke, naturally).
# "Chunking" of passages follows my determinations -- on a good day, at least (see [[Wiki-Scripture-Chunk]]).
!! Dynamic links
* Any tiddler can link to Scripture passages or notes. See [[BibleHyperlinkInfo]].
* Links can be abbreviated by omitting the book name.
!! Top Navigation menus
* [[NoCaseListPlugin]] with {{{Scriptr}}} tag allows dynamic lists, making [[Topic-Index]] possible.
* [[Bible-Index]] has nested tabbed views. This added structural layer took some effort to build.
!! Tidders for wiki content come in three styles:
!!! Topic
* This is a plain-vanilla tiddler.
* It will make the most use of [[Tiddler_tag_and_link]].
!!! Scripture Passage
* The tag {{{Scriptr}}} uses [[TaggedTemplateTweak]] to bind this tiddler to the [[ScriptrViewTemplate]].
* Presents links to navigate passages sequentially (previous, next).
* Presents a link to the nearest matching Notes tiddler.
!!! Scripture-passage Notes
* The tag {{{Comment}}} uses [[TaggedTemplateTweak]] to bind this tiddler to the [[CommentViewTemplate]].
* Presents links to navigate passage-notes sequentially (previous, next).
* Presents a link to the nearest matching ~Scripture-Passage tiddler.
* A variant deals with chiastic structures; ex, [[Gen-31-01-chiasmus]]
----
!!!! Idea: Combination tiddler
Text at top, notes below.
| - - - - | Preceding Text |
|>| <br> Passage of text <br> |
|>| <br> Bible notes <br> |
| - - - - | Next Text |
<<matchTags "* %0" "\n" howto >>
As of about 2018, this wiki runs on the Lexham translation.
* https://lexhampress.com/product/37521/lexham-english-bible
* https://www.biblestudytools.com/leb/
!! The problems of "Chunking"
An inescapable challenge with my approach is how to serve out an appropriately-sized "chunk" of Scripture for the purpose at hand. The Tiddler scheme is based on a concept of "microcontent" that more or less agrees with a paragraph of text. Theoretically, a thousand tiddlers should cover the whole Bible.
Another problem is the import process, which requires logic to satisfactorily "chunk" Scripture. As of 2022, there are many obviously poor choices. Typical problems:
* Finding division points where the text offers no immediate clues (ex, a genealogy).
* The final short Psalms: combine them?
* Dealing with chapter divisions that are historically accepted but offensively bad.
In terms of the user experience, these situations arise:
* The user wants to see a particular bit, not a whole paragraph. Worse, the bit happens to be in the middle of the paragraph.
* The user wants to see a passage which spans 1+ tiddler.
!! Notes and plans (late 2014 and earlier)
* Next chunking will be "greedy" or "assertive" in that every firm indication for division will be obeyed:
** Chapter
** Tiddler division in my current {{{Scriptr}}} tiddlers.
** Horizontal rule ({{{\n----\n}}}) in my current {{{Scriptr}}} tiddlers.
* This will make for a lot of small or tiny chunks. Clean-up will more often consist of merging. But I think this is the only way to settle the uncertainties. And now I have RAM on my side.
* There will still be many long chunks.
** When it comes to Proverbs, we are forced to use sheer length of text. We could ignore chapter divisions!
** The obvious demarcator is paragraphs in the text being imported...
*** We face a big problem with poetry or block quotes.
*** I think these call for a second, separate run dedicated to {{{long}}} chunks.
* There are a half-dozen points where I have made a division in mid-verse. I need a title/reference solution for these.
''Use of tags:''
* {{{long}}}
* {{{short}}}
* {{{chop-verse}}} for division in mid-verse
!! Older notes
Unfortunately, chunks are found in two states:
# Careful and considered
# Automatic and appalling
I think I should do some sorting. I can add tag to passages that are well-formed.
## the NT
## sections of Isaiah I have reviewed
## Other such sections, and the way to spot these perhaps is by searching the notes.
## My divisions for Notes tiddlers may be normative.
!!!! In the WEB
* I don't want to follow chapter divisions outright because occasionally they are poorly chosen; and at least for passages subject to study, a chapter makes too long a tiddler.
* The {{{<p>}}} tags provide paragraph divisions that are probably astute; but their usage varies by the shape of the literature.
* Perhaps to start, I could say that chapters in the OT are divided in half or thirds, depending on length; {{{<p>}}} tags
!!!! Synthesis
Insert {{{demarc}}} tags over successive runs as follows:
# book divisions
# my explicit declared divisions
# my Notes tiddler divisions
# book chapters, where a tiddler is too long (but taking care with the Psalms!)
# paragraphs, where a tiddler is too long and paragraphs are suitable
<<matchTags "* %0" "\n" wiki >>
!! Tiddlers tagged {{{todo}}}
<<matchTags "* %0" "\n" todo >>
!! Miscellaneous
* Take self standing teachings and scraps from the Bible folder and integrate OR reference them in the wiki.
* Scripture tiddlers have a footer device which is a self-open hyperlink, for use when the tiddler has been opened as a popup.
** Probably better placed at top of tiddler. Also can be just {{{O}}}.
** This link is currently "hard-coded", but it could easily be generated -- I just need the macro that gets title of containing tiddler. This would save __a lot of work__ when adjusting a Scripture chunk. Find my attempt in [[BibleHyperlink]].
* Graceful fail for Bible hyperlink macro. It fails fine now, but a tell-tale would be an improvement.
* Use ~HTML to set monospace while allowing links; so to present links as diagram.
* improve Bible abbreviations. See email.
* make Bible TOC tiddlers show the abbreviations.
* tag idea - //major// or //key// for big themes; good for a cloud presentation.
& Find a way to track geography to assemble a Theological Atlas of the Bible.
* Improve format for h1 through h6. See [[StylesheetAdjustments]]: {{{.tiddler .title { color: [[ColorPalette::PrimaryDark]];}}}
!! Meta
* Differentiate ''{{{todo}}}'' tiddlers for users and development
!! Bible text wiki
* Make a Split Tiddler macro for editing.
This wiki ran on WEB for a few years, after which I switch it to the Lexham translation and repository. [[Wiki-LEB-Import]]
----
* Find it on-line at [[World English Bible|http://ebible.org/web/]]
* Find it locally [[here|./Bbl/web.htm]]. This is the no-frames page, and I think it isn't very nice looking; so I intend to [[change the CSS|Wiki-ToDo]].
* This Bible wiki will let you reference the entire Bible, stored as local HTML files.
* Link: {{{ [[16:8-11|./Bbl/John.htm#C16V8]] }}} yields [[16:8-11|./Bbl/John.htm#C16V8]]
----
* WEB offers a version in USFX format, which is well-formed XML at the expense of goodies aimed at print publication.
* I can use python to convert it into a pure store format TW.
* Stay aware that Tiddler content in the storeArea uses [[HtmlEntities]]:
{{{
< <
> >
" "
& &
}}}
** see http://wiki.python.org/moin/EscapingHtml
* [[SplitTiddler]]
* I am now remembering I have quite a store of notes on this project...
!! XML weirdness
Unfortunately, the {{{USFX}}} format places all the actual text in a sort of tag limbo.
{{{
<p>
<v id="30"/>The king rose up with the governor, and Bernice... <ve/>
<v id="31"/>When they had withdrawn, they spoke to one another..." <ve/>
<v id="32"/>Agrippa said to Festus, "This man might have been set free ..." <ve/>
</p>
}}}
I'm thinking it's possible to just make these replacements:
* {{{ <v id="n"/> }}} to {{{ <v id="n"> }}}
* {{{ <ve/> }}} to {{{ <v/> }}}
One hopes this will result in a well-formed as well as usable document.
ADDED NOTE: The snip from verse 32 also includes some non-ASCII characters for quote marks. I have cleaned them up here.
----
* Then there are those awkward Psalm introductions...
* Let's make a provision for footnotes this time.
* http://www.headjump.de/article/arrows-and-boxes
* In November 2010 I found the [[Quickstart Basics version|http://www.tiddlytools.com/quickstart/basics.html]] of ~TiddlyWiki. These plug-ins really made things exciting.
* Thrills of late December 2010 are from http://apm-plugins.tiddlyspot.com.
* ditto, June 2013: http://yakovl.bplaced.net/TW/ExtraFilters.html#[[TiddlyWiki%20filters]]
/***
|Name|WikifyPlugin|
|Source|http://www.TiddlyTools.com/#WikifyPlugin|
|Documentation|http://www.TiddlyTools.com/#WikifyPluginInfo|
|Version|1.1.4|
|Author|Eric Shulman - ELS Design Studios|
|License|http://www.TiddlyTools.com/#LegalStatements <br>and [[Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 License|http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/]]|
|~CoreVersion|2.1|
|Type|plugin|
|Requires||
|Overrides||
|Description|substitute fields, slices, or computed values into a wiki-syntax format string and render results dynamically|
The {{{<<wikify>>}}} macro allows you to easily retrieve values from custom tiddler fields, tiddler slices, computed values (using javascript) or just plain old literals, and assemble them into small bits of generated wiki-syntax text content that can be rendered directly into a tiddler, or used in the ViewTemplate or EditTemplate to add dynamically-generated content to each tiddler.
The {{{<<wikiCalc>>}}} macro performs the same processing as {{{<<wikify>>}}} and, in addition, passes the assembled text content through javascript's {{{eval()}}} function before rendering the results. This allows you to, for example, construct and compute mathematical expressions that use input values extracted from tiddler fields or slices.
!!!!!Documentation
> see [[WikifyPluginInfo]]
!!!!!Revisions
<<<
2009.03.29 [1.1.4] in handler(), pass 'tiddler' value to wikify() to fix macro errors in rendered content
|please see [[WikifyPluginInfo]] for additional revision details|
2007.06.22 [1.0.0] initial release
<<<
!!!!!Code
***/
//{{{
version.extensions.WikifyPlugin= {major: 1, minor: 1, revision: 4, date: new Date(2009,3,29)};
config.macros.wikify={
handler: function(place,macroName,params,wikifier,paramString,tiddler) {
var fmt=params.shift();
var values=[];
var out="";
if (!fmt.match(/\%[0-9]/g) && params.length) // format has no markers, just join all params with spaces
out=fmt+" "+params.join(" ");
else { // format param has markers, get values and perform substitution
while (p=params.shift()) values.push(this.getFieldReference(place,p));
out=fmt.format(values);
}
if (macroName=="wikiCalc") out=eval(out).toString();
wikify(out.unescapeLineBreaks(),place,null,tiddler);
},
getFieldReference: function(place,p) { // "slicename::tiddlername" or "fieldname@tiddlername" or "fieldname"
if (typeof p != "string") return p; // literal non-string value... just return it...
var parts=p.split(config.textPrimitives.sliceSeparator);
if (parts.length==2) {// maybe a slice reference?
var tid=parts[0]; var slice=parts[1];
if (!tid || !tid.length || tid=="here") { // no target (or "here"), use containing tiddler
tid=story.findContainingTiddler(place);
if (tid) tid=tid.getAttribute("tiddler")
else tid="SiteSlices"; // fallback for 'non-tiddler' areas (e.g, header, sidebar, etc.)
}
var val=store.getTiddlerSlice(tid,slice); // get tiddler slice value
}
if (val==undefined) {// not a slice, or slice not found, maybe a field reference?
var parts=p.split("@");
var field=parts[0];
if (!field || !field.length) field="checked"; // missing fieldname, fallback: checked@tiddlername
var tid=parts[1];
if (!tid || !tid.length || tid=="here") { // no target (or "here"), use containing tiddler
tid=story.findContainingTiddler(place);
if (tid) tid=tid.getAttribute("tiddler")
else tid="SiteFields"; // fallback for 'non-tiddler' areas (e.g, header, sidebar, etc.)
}
var val=store.getValue(tid,field);
}
// not a slice or field, or slice/field not found... return value unchanged
return val===undefined?p:val;
}
}
//}}}
//{{{
// define alternative macroName for triggering pre-rendering call to eval()
config.macros.wikiCalc=config.macros.wikify;
//}}}
/***
|Name|WikifyPlugin|
|Source|http://www.TiddlyTools.com/#WikifyPlugin|
|Documentation|http://www.TiddlyTools.com/#WikifyPluginInfo|
|Version|1.2.0|
|Author|Eric Shulman|
|License|http://www.TiddlyTools.com/#LegalStatements|
|~CoreVersion|2.1|
|Type|documentation|
|Description|documentation for WikifyPlugin|
The {{{<<wikify>>}}} macro retrieves values from tiddler slices, sections, or fields and then inserts those values into wiki-formatted output. The {{{<<wikiCalc>>}}} macro performs the same processing as {{{<<wikify>>}}} and, in addition, passes the assembled text content through javascript's {{{eval()}}} function before rendering the results. This allows you to, for example, construct and compute mathematical expressions that use input values extracted from tiddler fields or slices.
!!!!!Usage
<<<
{{{
<<wikify "format" value value value value ...>>
<<wikiCalc "format" value value value value ...>>
}}}
* ''format'' specifies the output format of the wiki-syntax content (or javascript expression, if using {{{<<wikiCalc>>}}}). Use //substitution markers// "%0" through "%9" to insert each value parameter into the formatted content, replacing its corresponding marker. If the ''format'' is blank (or does //not// contain any substitution markers), then all values are simply joined together (with spaces) for output. If {{{<<wikiCalc>>}}} is used, the formatted output is evaluated as a javascript expression before rendering.
* ''value'' parameters (space-separated), specified using any of:
** slices:<br>''::slicename'' or ''tiddlername::slicename'' or ''here::slicename''
** sections:<br>''##sectionname'' or ''tiddlername##sectionname'' or ''here##sectionname''
** fields:<br>''fieldname'' or ''fieldname@tiddlername'' or ''fieldname@here''
** evaluated javascript:<br>''"""{{...}}"""''
** literal text:<br>''"..."''
Note: if a slice/section/field reference omits the tiddlername (or uses the special keyword, ''here''), the current tiddler is implied.
<<<
!!!!!Examples
<<<
{{{
<<wikify [[This tiddler is: %0 using %1 bytes (last author: %2)]] title {{tiddler.text.length}} modifier>>
<<wikify [[The source URL for this plugin is: %0]] 'here::Source'>>
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<<<
!!!!!Revisions
<<<
2011.03.07 1.2.0 added handling in getFieldReference() for retrieving section values and eliminated ~SiteSlices, ~SiteFields and 'checked' (fieldname) fallbacks.
2009.03.29 1.1.4 in handler(), pass 'tiddler' value to wikify() to fix macro errors in rendered content
2009.03.26 1.1.3 unescape output before wikify so that \n can be used in formatting string
2008.11.16 1.1.2 in getFieldReference(), if not a field/slice reference (or field/slice is not found), return string input unchanged instead of returning a blank string.
2008.03.08 1.1.1 size reduction: documentation moved to [[WikifyPluginInfo]]
2008.03.07 1.1.0 added {{{<<wikicalc>>}}} variant for evaluating assembled output as javascript before rendering the result
2007.11.11 1.0.1 in handler(), fixed problem where a trailing space was created when no substitution markers were present in the format param.
2007.06.22 1.0.0 initial release
<<<
* [[Spirit]]
* [[Storm]]
* <<Bbl Hos 8:7>> For they sow the wind and they reap the whirlwind.
* <<Bbl Pr 11:29>> Whoever brings ruin on their family will inherit only wind...
* It is what makes a desert. A single sheltered point provides the possibility of an oasis.
The Bible extols wine, but water more. How strange if it were otherwise.
!!! Messianic era.
* <<Bbl J 2:4 "" note >>
* <<Bbl Gn 49:11 >>
* <<Bbl I 25:6 >>
* <<Bbl L 22:17 >>-18, 20.
!!! First references:
# <<Bbl Gn 9:21 >> -- //... he became drunk and lay uncovered ...//
# <<Bbl Gn 19:33 >> -- //... they got their father to drink wine, and the older daughter went in ...//
# <<Bbl Gn 14:18 >> -- //Then Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine.//
# <<Bbl Gn 27:25 >>-11; <<Bbl Num 6:3 >>-4 ; <<Bbl Ps 104:15 >>; <<Bbl Pr 31:4 >>-7 (note parallel with <<Bbl Eph 5:18 >>); <<Bbl I 25:6 >>.
* <<Bbl J 2:1 >>-11 -- At His opening, Jesus gave the world wine; at His closing, the world gave him vinegar (Tony Edridge).
* <<Bbl Amos 9:13 >> //sweet wine will drip from the mountains//
* Wine delights the righteous and snares the intemperate.
* If "new wine" means unfermented, why <<Bbl Jud 9:13 >>?
* [[Cup]], [[Drunkenness]], //alcohol//
!!! Abstinance
* It is axiomatic that the Bible does not recommend avoiding all alcohol. It is less often noted that complete abstinance is a singular mark of holiness and treated with highest regard.
* Melisa quips (2018) that her wedding miracle would be the opposite of Cana.
!!! Filled with the Spirit, not with wine
* <<Bbl 1S 1:15>>
* <<Bbl Eph 5:18>>
* <<Bbl L 1:15>>
* <<Bbl A 2:4>>,13
!!! [[Test]] and [[Judge]]
* The making of wine can be a metaphor for testing, similar to threshing.
* I am told //Gethsemane// means wine press. <<Bbl Mt 26:36 "" note >>
* [[Guide]], [[Knowledge of God's will|Know]], //Sage//, [[Understand]], [[Discretion]]
* [[Counsel]] provides wisdom; wisdom solicits counsel.
* [[Judge]]
* {{anti{[[Folly]]}}}
* The Queen of Sheba is won to righteousness (so Jesus attests) by Solomon's wisdom -- she being wise herself.
* What a paragon is [[Daniel]] of the man who ''seeks'' understanding.
* (... should I combine this with [[Understand]] ?)
* <<Bbl Dt 4:5 >>-6 ; <<Bbl Pr 9:10 >>, <<Bbl Pr 21:30 >>, <<Bbl Pr 25:2 >>, <<Bbl Pr 28:5 >>; <<Bbl Mt 11:25 >>; <<Bbl J 15:15 >>-16; <<Bbl Jms 3:13 >>-18
* <<Bbl Pr 17:16 >> suggests one can purchase wisdom. This could be professional counsel of any kind.
* of the world: <<Bbl Pr 14:12 >>; <<Bbl Jer 8:9 >>; <<Bbl L 9:45 >>, <<Bbl L 10:21 >>; <<Bbl 1C 1:18 >>-29 , <<Bbl 1C 3:18 >>-20 ; <<Bbl Jms 3:15 >>
* of <<Bbl Pr 1:2 >>: Wisdom is the key word of Proverbs. The Hebrew word is ['xokma] and Bruce Waltke gives it the following meanings:
## Skill. Used for coping survival. 22:17-19; 30:24-28
## Technical skill, used of tailors, carpenters, metallurgists. <<Bbl Ex 28:3 >>; <<Bbl Ex 35:1 >>; <<Bbl Ex 36:1 >>.
## Judicial and administrative skill. <<Bbl Dt 1:15 >>, Solomon's prayer, <<Bbl I 11:2 >>.
* Wisdom is substantial. Feigned wisdom is effete, //like legs which hang down from the lame,// <<Bbl Pr 26:7 >>.
* @@color:indigo;We will intuitively know how to handle situations which used to baffle us.@@ //-- AA's Twelve Promises, #11//
----
* <<Bbl 1Cr 2:6 >>-15, <<Bbl 1Cr 13:9 >>. <<Bbl Ro 8:12 >>ff.
* Donna Westphall's analysis: Things we don't know, thinks we only think we know, and things we cannot be wrong about.
* <<Bbl Is 64:4 >>
* <<Bbl Jn 16:13 >>-16
* <<Bbl Ro 5:5 >>, <<Bbl Ro 8:15 >>-16
* <<Bbl Ro 8:9 >>-10. First taste
* [[Limits]]
!! Attesting to God's goodness
* //Testimony//
* [[Evangelize]]
* [[Treasure]] on display (Solomon versus Hezekiah)
* The word //eyewitness// pervades the Book of Acts and the apostolic letters. When they preach, Paul and Peter not only call on their own authority as eyewitnesses, but they call out the audience as people who are aware of recent events. <<Bbl A 26:26 "" note >>.
* [[John_Immerser]]
* <<Bbl 1K 8:42 >>-43; <<Bbl Ps 69:6 >>,<<Bbl Ps 89:13 >>; <<Bbl I 30:8 >>, <<Bbl I 41:17 >>-20 , <<Bbl I 43:10 >>-12 ; <<Bbl Jer 22:9 >>; <<Bbl 1P 2:12 >>-15 ; <<Bbl Ez 33:7 >>-9 ; <<Bbl Eph 6:12 >>; <<Bbl J 5:31 >>-47 ; <<Bbl J 18:37 >>; <<Bbl Jms 4:19 >>-20
* <<Bbl L 2:38 >>b
* Andrew: <<Bbl J 1:14 >>, <<Bbl J 12:22 >>
* door to door: <<Bbl A 5:42 >>; <<Bbl A 20:20 >>1
* <<Bbl J 20:4 "" note >>
* Do not {{anti{[[Forget]]}}}
!! Legal
* testimony of 2 or 3: <<Bbl Num 35:30 >>; <<Bbl Dt 17:6 >>; <<Bbl Dt 19:15 >>; <<Bbl 1Tim 5:19 >>
!! Self-witness
* John's remarks about Jesus (letters and gospel)
* Proverb: //One man's story sounds just, but then another comes...//
* <<Bbl H 11:35>> - Fascinating specification.
* <<Bbl L 2:36 >> - as prophet (and daughters of Philip)
* [[Mary-HisMother]]
* The vigil at the cross.
* <<Bbl Judges 4:4 >> - as judge and military leader
* <<Bbl 2C 11:5 >>. <<Bbl I 8:3 >>. <<Bbl 2K 22:14 >>ff.
* The //weaker vessel// is characterized by phases in life - micro and macro, physiological and social - all related to the reproductive cycle.
* <<Bbl Mk 13:17 >>
* <<Bbl 1P 3:7 "" note >>
----
* Approach 1. Start with the rules, work on accounting for (presumed) exceptions in history.
* Approach 2, Start with the history and look for (presumed) exceptional situations in view of Romans and Timothy.
----
!! as Minister
* Prophet and Judge
** Miriam is called a prophet. Hulda, 2K 22. Junias. She invented singing to the Lord. (Is Miriam that same sister who reunited the baby Moses with his mother?)
** <<Bbl Jud 4:4>> specifies "woman judge".
** Deborah, Moses, Samuel are the only judge-prophets (2C 03).
** <<Bbl I 8:1>>, Isaiah's wife.
** <<Bbl L 2:17>>-18 is Luke's manifesto
*** Anna, Agabus, Philip's daughters.
*** Acts 21.
** 1C 11, woman can pray and prophesy.
** <<Bbl 1Tim 2:11>>-12: How much silence? We allow singing! And how do you square total silence with the descriptions of women as ministers?
** <<Bbl 1C 14:34>>-35 in context would seem to refer to asking questions by way of interruption. 1Tim 3, false teachers were targeting women (widows), the two letters to Tim are the only place this is a phenomenon. 1Tim 5.
* <<Bbl 1Tim 2:13>>-14 grounds the argument in creation. Craig Keener seems uncertain what to do with that one.
* Lydia, <<Bbl Acts 16:15 "" note >>.
----
Women married young. For Jews it was a matter of tradition. There was a shortage of women in the Gentile world; the Roman government offered a tax break to encourage marriage.
!! Normative (didactic)
* <<Bbl A 2:17>> -18 The prophecy from Joel -- your sons and daughters will prophesy (may be dismissed under cessationism)
!! Descriptive
* <<Bbl 1C 1:10>>-11 Chloe "has people"; not really indicative IMO
* <<Bbl A 21:8>> -9 Four daughters who prophesy (may be dismissed under cessationism)
* <<Bbl Php 4:2>> -3 Eudia and Syntech, gospel workers
* <<Bbl R 16:1>> -4 Pheobe, a trusted worker
!! Problematic
* <<Bbl 1C 14:34>> -35
* <<Bbl 1Tim 2:11>> -15
* <<Bbl 1C 11:1>> -16
!! Beside the point (?)
''Simply about equal spiritual status in Christ''
* <<Bbl Gal 3:28>>
* <<Bbl 1C 7:4>> -5
* <<Bbl 1C 11:11>> -12
<<<
''My response (2020-09):''
The spirit of [[Jezebel]] has a stranglehold on the world and our nation in particular. This spirit intends to kill the church if it could. Many rebellious women and church assemblies have been taken over by this spirit. They are possessed, functionally if not spiritually. We know families and fellowships destroyed by this attack.
For a married woman, God provides a covering: her husband. A married woman should defer to her husband. That's a general rule, but not always simple to apply. 1 Sam 25 tells us about Abigail and Nabal. Many situations can take a wife to a difficult point of decision in submitting to her husband, and not just with husbands as bad as Nabal. But sadly, husbands like Nabal are common.
A Christian must learn to have the normal, godly respect for church leaders, whether they are older, wiser, or simply honored as leaders. Furthemore, Ephesian 5 tells us all to "submit one to another". Anyone who doesn't have this basic humility should not be a leader. This standard applies equally to male and female.
I thank God for thousands of women around the world who have this humility and serve fruitfully as pastors and teachers. Beth Moore, the late Elizabeth Elliot and Joni ~Erickson-Tada are exemplary teachers. I haven't heard anything from Mye Nunag (the teacher for our lecture) that gave me a concern.
The murdering spirit of Jezebel is so pervasive that when I hear that a church's lead pastor is a woman, my first response is concern and even suspicion. But it's different if the setting is China, or a war-torn nation in Africa. In some places Satan has brought about the literal killing of all male leadership.
One more thing to mention. Some churches operate as if every woman is subject to any man. That's not Biblical. Your wife Jane should defer to you because you are her husband, but not to me because I'm male.
<<<
<<Bbl A 20:35 >>; <<Bbl Eph 4:28 >>; <<Bbl 1Tim 5:8 >>; <<Bbl 2The 3:7 >>-14
* [[Vocation]]
* [[Rest]] is not the opposite of working, but the complement.
** Note <<Bbl Ex 20:8 >>-11.
** Dave Davidson would call to our attention //six days will you work//.
* [[Laziness]]
!!! Work and culture
* Will ~McCann mentions that in [nation] they were forced to abandon the traditional place of cricket test matches; they lasted for days and people would skip work in their national fascination. On one hand, the loss of a cultural institution under the pressure, many would say, of westernization. On the other hand, an acquiescence (indirectly, most likely) to the Law of God.
Can be a symbol or a metaphor for #[[Works]].
<<Bbl I 3:15 >>-16
!!! as Dead
* //You planned the defenses, but you did not take into account Him who planned it long ago.//
* The altar of worked stones.
* Isaiah's parody of those who build idols, with their "quality standards". <<Bbl I 3:15 >>-16.
!!! As Good and Righteous
* Paul to the Corinthians, metaphor
* <<Bbl J 6:28 >>-29 note the sing. and plu. forms of the word
* Titus has a major theme of good works.
!!! True, good:
* <<Bbl Ps 90:17 >>; <<Bbl H 6:10 >>
* [[Faith-And-Works]]
* As light, <<Bbl Mt 5:16 >>.
* As personal adornment, <<Bbl 1Tim 2:10 >>.
* As wealth, <<Bbl 1Tim 6:18 >>.
* As fine clothing, <<Bbl Rev 19:8 >>.
!!! Dead:
* [[Legalism]], [[Scruples]], [[Strive]]
* <<Bbl Gn 3:7 >>, <<Bbl Gn 4:4 >>
* <<Bbl Ex 5:4>> Assigned by the enemy.
* <<Bbl I 1:31 >>, <<Bbl I 26:12 >>, <<Bbl I 57:12 >>, <<Bbl I 59:6 "" note >>, <<Bbl I 64:6 >>
* <<Bbl Ez 3:20 >>
* <<Bbl R 3:19 >> - 4.6
* <<Bbl H 4:9 >>-10 ; <<Bbl H 6:1 >>; <<Bbl H 9:14 >>
* <<Bbl Gn 43:11 >>-12, the attempt to gain [[Favor]] - and from the informed perspective, it's laughable. It would prolly have elicited an concealed response of concern in Joseph, which says a bit about how God looks at our misguided distractions.
!! God's creation
* Present realm
* Where //you will have trouble//
* <<Bbl Mt 6:19 >>
* passing away: <<Bbl 1C 7:31 >>
!! World System
* Inseparable yet distinct from the world as God's creation.
* elementary principles of: <<Bbl Col 2:8 >>
* Do not love it. <<Bbl Est 3:8 >>; <<Bbl J 3:19 >>, <<Bbl J 7:7 >>, <<Bbl J 15:18 >>-19 , <<Bbl J 17:14 >>-16 ; <<Bbl 1J 5:19 >>
* hates Christ and Christians: <<Bbl J 18:23 >>, <<Bbl 1J 3:12 >>-13 , <<Bbl 1J 4:5 >>
* sinful imitation of: <<Bbl 1S 8:19 >>-20
{{fyi{
This week someone will come to you and say, I see you're having difficulty, and I want to tell you: you've got to trust the system. The system is big, lots of moving parts, and you can only see a little bit -- but you can see it, it's real, and you've got to trust it. //My trust is in the Lord.// Good! It should be. But let me ask, have you seen the Lord? //No.// Right. If you said yes, we'd have to have another talk. You haven't seen the Lord. But you can see the system. So I'm saying, trust the Lord, and also trust the system, which is a plus because you can see it. ''You have to decide at that point: I am going to keep on not believing in what he says, and I'm going to keep on walking.''}}}
* [[Praise]]
* @@color:darkgreen;Worship is the submission of all of our nature to God. It is the quickening of conscience by His holiness, nourishment of mind by His truth, purifying of imagination by His beauty, opening of the heart to His love, and submission of will to His purpose. And all this gathered up in adoration is the greatest of human expressions of which we are capable.@@ //William Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury//
* Dictionaries are no help. They define worship first as a performing of prescribed rituals and second as a moving emotion or perception of God (nouma?). But in the NT true worship never means anything other than submission to the person and commands of Jesus. References to OT ceremonial rites are either for contrast (<<Bbl H 12:30>>, <<Bbl James 1:27>>) or transcended application (<<Bbl R 12:1>>, <<Bbl 1C 6:19>>). (Question: how is transcended application different from metaphor?)
* [[God-Preeminent]], [[Tithe]], [[Sacrifice]], [[Temple]]
* In English, a contraction of //worth-ship//. He is worthy.
* Hallelujah is a call for others to praise: "Praise the Lord!". D. Gifford points out it is a great one-word summary of the evangelistic message, by which we call the world to worship God.
* [[Idolatry]], [[Jealousy]]
* [[Scott Wiki#WorshipMusic|./scott_wiki.htm#WorshipMusic]]
* Why the worship team should not be thanked.
* Is 24.
* [[Redeem]], //worth//
* [[Man_ImageOfGod]]
* It doesn't matter how the coin or sheep was lost.
!!! Coin Illustration
To teach this, show a junction box so the origin of the slug will be clear.
| Object | Literal value | Applied as a view of the person |h
|slug from a junction box | 0.05|Reductionist view (chemicals only) |
|quarter | 0.25|Man in God's image |
|Susan B Anthony dollar | 1.00|Redeemed value (hard to notice) |
|Real silver dollar | 1.00|Manifest value -- God glorified |
* [[Minister]]
* The opposite would not be love, but indifference.
* @@color:brown;If it is felt that the word 'wrath' is scarcely suitable to be used in relation to God, it is probably because wrath as we know it in human life so constantly involves sinful, self-regarding passion. Not so with God: his 'wrath' is the response of his holiness to wickedness and rebellion@@ // -- F.F. Bruce, Romans, p. 79//
* Geno observes that while God's grace sets up before us roadblocks to sin, His wrath removes them.
* <<Bbl Ez 16:42 >>; <<Bbl J 3:36 >>.
* [[Cup]] as symbol.
* [[Depravity]]
! Romans 1
* His holy revulsion
* Passive yet aggressive
* //Revealed:// its significance unknown otherwise (because passive).
/***
|''Name:''|XCaseListPlugin|
|''Description:''|Adds a new command ''xCase'' to the core list macro|
|''Author:''|Mario Pietsch|
|''Version:''|0.3|
|''Date:''|2010.08.03|
|''Status:''|''beta''|
|''Source:''|http://apm-plugins.tiddlyspot.com/#XCaseListPlugin|
|''License''|[[MIT License]]|
|''CoreVersion:''|2.5.0|
|''Requires:''||
|''Documentation:''|this file|
|''Keywords:''|list, sort, not case sensitive, filter|
!Description
This plugin performs a alphabetical sort for tiddlers. Default it is not case sensitive. That means ab = AB = aB = Ab! And it does some little more filtering using the RegExp syntax. The RegExp Syntax can be a little bit tricky to read and configure. But the best description I have found is at [[regular-expressions.info]]
!!!Example
{{{
<<list xCase title '[m]'>>
}}}
< <list xCase title '[m]'>>
!Default Format
{{{
<<list xCase>>
}}}
!More Possibilities
<<<
!!!Reverse sort order
{{{
<<list xCase -title >>
}}}
!!!Some basic filtering
*Every tiddler title, that starts with a number from 0 to 9.
{{{
<<list xCase title '[0-9]'>>
}}}
*Every tiddler title, that starts with an ''"a"'' or ''"b"'' or ''"c"''.
{{{
<<list xCase title '[abc]'>>
}}}
*Every tiddler title, that starts with exactly ''abc''.
{{{
<<list xCase title 'abc'>>
}}}
<<<
!!!Some advanced filtering
<<<
*same as above but with a tagList for additional filtering.
*adding the tag filter will disable the "excludeLists" setting !!
**If you need excludeLists, than you have to define it with the expression.
*XCaseListPlugin should be compatible to [[MatchTagsPlugin]] from TiddlyTools!
{{{
<<list xCase title '[a]' "[tag[MyTag]]">>
}}}
!!!Global / Local Settings
|<<option chkXCaseListCaseSensitive>> Global sort case sensitive |Sets case sensitiv sort globally|
|<<option chkXCaseListCheckField>> Sortfield defines case sensitive |Ignores global setting. Evaluates sortField and sets the value everytime <br> {{{<<list xCase sortField ..>>}}} is executed.|
If sortField is eg: 'title' .. not case sensitive (default).
if sortField is eg: 'Title' or 'TITLE' .. case sesitive sort is active.
<<<
!Code
***/
/*{{{*/
if(!version.extensions.XCaseListPlugin) { //# ensure that the plugin is only installed once
version.extensions.XCaseListPlugin = { installed: true };
config.macros.list.xCase = {};
config.macros.list.xCase.handler = function(params){
var lookupField = 'tags';
var lookupValue = 'excludeLists';
var lookupMatch = false;
var sortField = params[1] || '+title';
// global setting for case sensitive search
var caseSensitive = config.options.chkXCaseListCaseSensitive || false;
var chkSortField = config.options.chkXCaseListCheckField || false;
// if this option is active the macro parameter sortField is parsed
// global setting is ignored !!
if (chkSortField) caseSensitive = (sortField != sortField.toLowerCase());
sortField = sortField.toLowerCase();
// check if numberedText called this macro.
// this parameter is used by <<list numberedText ..>> macro
// if you directly use it, it will return an unsorted list !!!
var numberedText = false;
if (sortField.substr(0, 1)== '#') {
numberedText = true;
sortField = sortField.substr(1);
caseSensitive = false;
}
// check for ascending or descending sort order
var asc = 1;
switch (sortField.substr(0, 1)) {
case "-":
asc = -1;
case "+":
sortField = sortField.substr(1);
break;
default: ;
}
var results = [];
var tmpResults = [];
// set the default for regExp filtering
var regSnip = params[2] || '.';
var regExp = new RegExp('^' + regSnip, 'im');
var match = null;
// check if [tag[...]] is set
var tagList = params[3] || '';
var tagMatch = tagList.length != 0; // if list is empty everything is valid.
if (tagMatch) {
tmpResults = store.filterTiddlers(params[3]);
for (var i=0, max=tmpResults.length; i<max; i++){
// match = tmpResults[i][sortField].match(regExp);
match = tmpResults[i].title.match(regExp);
if (match) results.push(tmpResults[i]);
}; // for ..
}
else {
store.forEachTiddler(function(title, tiddler){
var f = !lookupMatch;
for (var lookup = 0; lookup < tiddler[lookupField].length; lookup++) {
if (tiddler[lookupField][lookup] == lookupValue) {
f = lookupMatch;
}
}; // for..
if (f) {
// match = tiddler[sortField].match(regExp);
match = tiddler.title.match(regExp);
if (match) results.push(tiddler);
}; // if (f) ..
}); // store.forEach ..
}; // else ..
if (TiddlyWiki.isStandardField(sortField)) {
if (caseSensitive) {
results.sort(function(a, b){
return a[sortField] < b[sortField] ? -asc : a[sortField] == b[sortField] ? 0 : asc;
}); // results.sort
}
else if (numberedText) {
// do nothing, return the list, for further processing !
}
else {
results.sort(function(a, b){
return a[sortField].toLowerCase() < b[sortField].toLowerCase() ? -asc : a[sortField].toLowerCase() == b[sortField].toLowerCase() ? 0 : asc;
}); // results.sort
}; // if
}
else {
results.sort(function (a, b) {
var aField = (a.fields[sortField]) ? a.fields[sortField] : 'zzz';
var bField = (b.fields[sortField]) ? b.fields[sortField] : 'zzz';
return aField.toLowerCase() < bField.toLowerCase() ? -asc : aField.toLowerCase() == bField.toLowerCase() ? 0 : +asc;
});
}
return results;
}
} //# end of "install only once"
/*}}}*/
!! Positive
* As of productive work; a harness.
!! Negative
* As of slavery; a burden.
<<Bbl Jer 1:6 >>-7 ; <<Bbl Lam 3:27 >>; <<Bbl 1Tim 4:12 >>
@@display:block;height:32em;overflow:auto;{{threecolumns{
{{medium{ ''2Thessalonians'' }}}
@@color:brown;''Notes''
<<list noCase title '2Thes.*note'>>@@
''Text''
<<list xCase title '2Thes' '[tag[Scriptr]]'>>
{{ floatright tiny { [[tab2Thessalonians]] }}}
}}}
Directly related to [[Jealousy]] in our language.
* @@Move this@@ @@color:indigo; //Let us not glide through this world and then slip quietly into heaven, without having blown the trumpet loud and long for our Redeemer, Jesus Christ. Let us see to it that the devil will hold a thanksgiving service in hell, when he gets the news of our departure from the field of battle.//@@ //-- C.T. Studd //
* [[Urgency]]
* <<Bbl 2K 10:16>>
* <<Bbl J 2:17>>
* <<Bbl Titus 2:14 >> -- //eager to do good works//
* [[Persevere]]
* "If something is right, it must not be too difficult" - so our human wisdom supposes. Really there is no connection.
!!! False zeal
* <<Bbl R 10:2>>
* <<Bbl Mt 23:15 >>
* //Zealot// - In our terminology, a (wicked) nationalist.
In the eighth month, in the second year of Darius, the word of Yahweh came to the prophet Zechariah son of Berekiah, son of Iddo, saying, {{rf{2}}} "Yahweh was very angry with your ancestors. {{rf{3}}} You must say to them: 'Thus says Yahweh of hosts: "Return to me," declares Yahweh of hosts, "and I will return to you," says Yahweh of hosts. {{rf{4}}} "Do not be like your ancestors, to whom the former prophets proclaimed, saying, 'Thus says Yahweh of hosts: "Return from your evil ways and your evil deeds!" ' But they did not hear and they did not pay attention to me," declares Yahweh. {{rf{5}}} "Your ancestors, where are they? And the prophets, do they live forever? {{rf{6}}} However, did not my words and my regulations which I commanded my servants the prophets overtake your ancestors? And they repented and said, 'Yahweh of hosts planned to do with us according to our ways, and according to our deeds so he has dealt with us.'" '" {{rf{7}}} On the twenty-fourth day of the eleventh month, the month of Shebat, in the second year of Darius, the word of Yahweh came to Zechariah the prophet, son of Berekiah, son of Iddo, saying, {{rf{8}}} I had a vision in the night, and look, a man riding on a red horse. And he was standing between the myrtle shrubs that were in the ravine, and behind him were red, reddish-brown, and white horses. {{rf{9}}} And I asked, "What are these, my lord?" And the angel who was talking with me said, "I will show you what these are." {{rf{10}}} And the man standing between the myrtle shrubs answered and said, "These are those whom Yahweh has sent to patrol the earth." {{rf{11}}} And they answered the angel of Yahweh who was standing between the myrtle shrubs, and they said, "We have patrolled the earth, and look, all the earth is dwelling in peace." {{rf{12}}} The angel of Yahweh answered and said, "O Yahweh of hosts, how long will you have no compassion on Jerusalem and the cities of Judah, with which you showed fury these seventy years?" {{rf{13}}} With gracious and comforting words Yahweh answered the angel who was talking with me. {{rf{14}}} And the angel who was talking with me said to me, "Proclaim, saying, 'Thus says Yahweh of hosts: "I am very jealous for Jerusalem and for Zion! {{rf{15}}} And I am extremely angry with the nations that are at ease, for while I was a little angry, they furthered disaster." {{rf{16}}} Therefore, thus says Yahweh: "I have returned to Jerusalem with compassion. My temple will be built in it," declares Yahweh of hosts, "and a measuring line will be stretched out over Jerusalem." ' {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Zech-01-01]] }}}
<<Bbl Zech 3:2 abbr>> see <<Bbl Amos 4:11 >>
<<Bbl Zech 8:23 abbr >> one Jew - The singular Jesus?!
<<Bbl Zech 9:9 abbr>>-10
{{holyquote{
Your king comes to you; he is righteous and victorious, humble and riding on a donkey... and he will announce peace to the nations.
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<<Bbl Zech 12:10 abbr>>-13:1 -- <<Bbl Mt 5:4 >> //comfort//
<<Bbl Zech 13:6 abbr>> Possibly the spirit of false prophecy requires self-mutilation. Zechariah is saying that the repentant false prophet will be ashamed of this and give another explanation.
{{rf{17}}} Proclaim again, saying, 'Thus says Yahweh of hosts: "My cities shall again overflow from prosperity, and Yahweh will comfort Zion again, and he will choose Jerusalem again." '" {{rf{18}}} And I looked up and I saw, and look, there were four horns! {{rf{19}}} And I said to the angel who was talking with me, "What are these?" And he said to me, "These are the horns that have scattered Judah, Israel, and Jerusalem." {{rf{20}}} Then Yahweh showed me four skilled craftsmen, {{rf{21}}} and I asked, "What are these coming to do?" And he answered, saying, "These are the horns that scattered Judah, so that no man lifted up his head; but these have come to frighten them, to strike down the horns of the nations that lifted a horn against the land of Judah to scatter it."
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{{rf big{1}}} And I looked up and I saw, and look, a man, and in his hand was a measuring rope! {{rf{2}}} And I asked, "Where are you going?" And he answered me, "To measure Jerusalem to see what is its width and what is its length." {{rf{3}}} And look, the angel who was talking to me was coming forward, and another angel was coming forward to meet him. {{rf{4}}} And he said to him, "Run, say to that young man, 'Jerusalem shall be inhabited like villages without walls because of the multitude of people and animals in its midst. {{rf{5}}} And I will be for it a wall of fire all around,' declares Yahweh, 'and I will be the glory in its midst.'" {{rf{6}}} "Woe! Woe! Flee from the land of the north," declares Yahweh, "for I have scattered you like the four winds of the heavens," declares Yahweh. {{rf{7}}} "Woe, Zion! Escape, you inhabitants of the daughter of Babylon!" {{rf{8}}} For thus said Yahweh of hosts, after glory he sent me against the nations plundering you: Truly, the one touching you is touching the apple of his eye. {{rf{9}}} "Yes, look! I am going to wave my hand against them, and they will become plunder for their servants, and you will know that Yahweh of hosts has sent me. {{rf{10}}} Sing and rejoice, O daughter of Zion, for look, I am coming and I will dwell in your midst," declares Yahweh. {{rf{11}}} "Many nations will join themselves to Yahweh on that day, and they will be my people, and I will dwell in your midst. And you will know that Yahweh of hosts has sent me to you. {{rf{12}}} And Yahweh will inherit Judah as his portion in the holy land, and he will again choose Jerusalem. {{rf{13}}} Be silent, all people, before Yahweh, for he is roused from his holy dwelling." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Zech-01-17]] }}}
And he showed me Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of Yahweh; and Satan was standing on his right to accuse him. {{rf{2}}} But Yahweh said to Satan, "Yahweh rebukes you, O Satan! Yahweh who has chosen Jerusalem rebukes you! Is this not a stick snatched from the fire?" {{rf{3}}} And Joshua was clothed in filthy garments and was standing before the angel. {{rf{4}}} And he answered and said to the ones standing before him, saying, "Remove the filthy garments from him." And he said to him, "See, I have taken away your guilt from you, and will clothe you with rich garments." {{rf{5}}} And I said, "Let them put a clean headband on his head." And they put a clean headband on his head, and they clothed him with garments. And the angel of Yahweh was standing by. {{rf{6}}} And the angel of Yahweh assured Joshua, saying, {{rf{7}}} "Thus says Yahweh of hosts: 'If you will walk in my ways, and if you will keep my requirements, then you will judge my house, and you will also guard my courtyards, and I will give to you passageways among these that are standing here. {{rf{8}}} Listen, please, O Joshua the high priest, you and your companions that are sitting before you. For the men are a sign that, look, I am going to bring my servant the Branch. {{rf{9}}} For consider, the stone that I set before Joshua, on one stone are seven eyes. Look, I am going to engrave an inscription on it,' declares Yahweh of hosts, 'and I will remove the guilt of that land in a single day. {{rf{10}}} On that day,' declares Yahweh of hosts, 'you will invite one another under the vine and under the fig tree.'" {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Zech-03-01]] }}}
And the angel who was talking with me returned, and he wakened me as one who is wakened from his sleep. {{rf{2}}} And he said to me, "What do you see?" And I said, "I see, and look, a lampstand all of gold, and a bowl was on its top, and its seven lamps on it, and seven lips on each of the lamps that are on its top. {{rf{3}}} And there are two olive trees by it, one on the right of the bowl and the other on its left." {{rf{4}}} And I answered and said to the angel who was talking to me, "What are these, my lord?" {{rf{5}}} And the angel who was talking with me answered and said to me, "Do you not know what these are?" And I said, "No, my lord." {{rf{6}}} And he answered and said to me, "This is the word of Yahweh to Zerubbabel, saying, 'Not by strength and not by power, but only by my Spirit,' says Yahweh of hosts. {{rf{7}}} 'Who are you O great mountain? Before Zerubbabel you will become level ground, and he will bring out the top stone amid the shouts of "Grace, grace to it!" '" {{rf{8}}} And the word of Yahweh came to me, saying, {{rf{9}}} "The hands of Zerubbabel have founded this house, and his hands will finish it. And you will know that Yahweh of hosts has sent me to you. {{rf{10}}} For whoever has despised the day of small things will rejoice and will see the plumb line in the hand of Zerubbabel." These seven are the eyes of Yahweh which are ranging throughout the whole earth. {{rf{11}}} And I answered and said to him, "What are these two olive trees on the right of the lampstand and on its left?" {{rf{12}}} And I replied a second time and asked him, "What are these two twigs of olive trees on the right of the lampstand and on its left?" {{rf{13}}} And he replied to me, "Do you not know what these are?" And I said, "No, my lord." {{rf{14}}} And he said, "These are the two anointed ones standing by the Lord of the whole earth." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Zech-04-01]] }}}
I looked up again, and I saw, and look! -- a flying scroll! {{rf{2}}} And he asked me, "What are you seeing?" And I said, "I am seeing a flying scroll twenty cubits long and ten cubits wide." {{rf{3}}} And he said to me, "This is the curse going out over the surface of the whole earth. For everyone who steals has gone unpunished according to it, and likewise everyone who swears falsely has gone unpunished according to it. {{rf{4}}} 'I have sent it out,' declares Yahweh of hosts, 'and it will go into the house of the thief and into the house of the one swearing falsely by my name, and it will spend the night in that house and will destroy it, with its timber and its stone.'" {{rf{5}}} And the angel who was speaking to me went out, and he said to me, "Please look up! See what this is going out." {{rf{6}}} And I asked, "What is it?" And he said, "This is a basket going out. And he said, "This is their iniquity throughout all the earth. {{rf{7}}} And look, the lead cover was lifted and a woman was sitting inside the basket. {{rf{8}}} And he said, "This is Wickedness!" And he thrust her back down into the basket, and threw the lead cover on top of it. {{rf{9}}} And I looked up and saw, and look! -- two women coming forward, and the wind was in their wings, and they had wings like those of a stork, and they lifted up the basket between the earth and the sky. {{rf{10}}} And I asked the angel who was talking to me, "Where are they taking the basket?" {{rf{11}}} And he said to me, "To build for it a house in the land of Shinar, and when it is put in place, it will be placed there on its site." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Zech-05-01]] }}}
I looked up again, and I saw, and look! -- four chariots coming out from between two mountains, and the mountains were mountains of bronze. {{rf{2}}} With the first chariot there were red horses, and with the second chariot there were black horses. {{rf{3}}} And with the third chariot there were white horses, and with the fourth chariot there were strong dappled horses. {{rf{4}}} And I answered and said to the angel that was talking to me, "What are these, my lord?" {{rf{5}}} And the angel answered and said to me, "These are the four winds of the heavens going out after presenting themselves before the Lord of all the earth. {{rf{6}}} The one with the black horses is going out to the north country, and the white horses go after them, while the dappled ones go to the south country." {{rf{7}}} When the strong horses went out, they were anxious to go to patrol the earth. And he said, "Go, patrol the earth." And they patrolled the earth. {{rf{8}}} And he cried out to me and said to me, "See those going out to the north country have set my spirit at rest in the north country." {{rf{9}}} And the word of Yahweh came to me, saying, {{rf{10}}} "Collect from the exiles -- from Heldai, Tobijah, and from Jedaiah, all of whom came from Babylon -- and go on that day, go to the house of Josiah son of Zephaniah. {{rf{11}}} Take the silver and gold and make a crown, and set it on the head of Joshua son of Jehozadak, the high priest. {{rf{12}}} And say to him, 'Thus says Yahweh of hosts: "Look, here is a man whose name is Branch, and from his place he will sprout, and he will build the temple of Yahweh. {{rf{13}}} And he will build the temple of Yahweh, and he will bear majesty and will sit and rule on his throne. And he shall be a priest on his throne, and the counsel of peace will be between the two of them." ' {{rf{14}}} And the crown will be for Helem, for Tobijah, for Jedaiah, and for Hen son of Zephaniah, as a memorial in the temple of Yahweh. {{rf{15}}} And those who are far off will come and build the temple of Yahweh, and you will know that Yahweh of hosts has sent me to you. And it will happen if you will listen diligently to the voice of Yahweh your God." {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Zech-06-01]] }}}
And then, in the fourth year of King Darius, the word of Yahweh came to Zechariah on the fourth day of the ninth month, which is Kislev. {{rf{2}}} And the people of Bethel sent Sharezer and Regem-Melech, and their men, to entreat the favor of Yahweh, {{rf{3}}} saying to the priests of the house of Yahweh of hosts and to the prophets, "Should I mourn in the fifth month and keep myself separate as I have done for these many years?" {{rf{4}}} And the word of Yahweh of hosts came to me, saying, {{rf{5}}} "Say to all the people of the land and to the priests: 'When you fasted and lamented in the fifth and seventh months for these seventy years, did you really fast for me? {{rf{6}}} And when you eat and drink, are you not eating and drinking for yourselves? {{rf{7}}} Are not these the words that Yahweh proclaimed through the former prophets, when Jerusalem and its surrounding towns were inhabited and at ease, and the Negev and the Shephelah were inhabited?'" {{rf{8}}} And the word of Yahweh came to Zechariah, saying, {{rf{9}}} "Thus says Yahweh of hosts: 'Judge with trustworthy justice, and show steadfast love and compassion to one another. {{rf{10}}} You must not oppress the widow, the orphan, the foreigner, and the needy. You must not devise evil in your heart against one another.' {{rf{11}}} But they refused to listen, and turned a stubborn shoulder and stopped their ears from listening. {{rf{12}}} They made their hearts adamant in order not to hear the law and the words that Yahweh of hosts had sent by his spirit through the former prophets; therefore great wrath came from Yahweh of hosts. {{rf{13}}} 'Thus, just as I called and they would not hear, so they will call and I will not hear,' says Yahweh of hosts. {{rf{14}}} 'And I scattered them with a wind among all the nations that they had not known; the land was made desolate behind them -- no one crossing through it or returning -- and they made the desirable land a desolation.'" {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Zech-07-01]] }}}
And the word of Yahweh of hosts came, saying, {{rf{2}}} "Thus says Yahweh of hosts: 'I am exceedingly jealous for Zion; I am jealous for it with great wrath.' {{rf{3}}} Thus says Yahweh: 'I have returned to Zion, and I will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem; and Jerusalem will be called the faithful city, and the mountain of Yahweh of hosts will be called the holy mountain.' {{rf{4}}} Thus says Yahweh of hosts: 'Old men and old women shall again sit in the public squares of Jerusalem, each with staff in hand because of great age. {{rf{5}}} And the public squares of the city will be filled with boys and girls playing in its public squares.' {{rf{6}}} Thus says Yahweh of hosts: 'Even if it seems impossible to the remnant of this people in those days, should it also seem impossible to me?' declares Yahweh of hosts. {{rf{7}}} Thus says Yahweh of hosts: 'Look! I am going to save my people from the land of the east, and from the land of the west, {{rf{8}}} and I will bring them and they will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem. They will be my people and I will be their God in faithfulness and in righteousness.' {{rf{9}}} "Thus says Yahweh of hosts: 'Let your hands be strong, you who are hearing in these days these words from the mouth of the prophets who were present on the day the foundation was laid for the rebuilding of the temple, the house of Yahweh of hosts. {{rf{10}}} For before those days there was no wage for people or for animals, and there was no safety from the enemy for those who went out or those who came in, and I sent each person against one another. {{rf{11}}} But now I will not deal with the remnant of this people as in the former days,' declares Yahweh of hosts. {{rf{12}}} 'For there will be a sowing of peace; the vine will give its fruit, and the soil will give its produce, and the heavens will give their dew. And I will cause the remnant of this people to inherit all these things. {{rf{13}}} And then, just as you were a curse among the nations, O house of Judah and house of Israel, so will I save you, and you will be a blessing. You must not be afraid; let your hands be strong!'" {{rf{14}}} For thus says Yahweh of hosts: "Just as I planned to bring disaster on you when your ancestors provoked me to anger," says Yahweh of hosts, "and I did not regret it, {{rf{15}}} so again I have planned in these days to do good to Jerusalem and the house of Judah. Do not be afraid! {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Zech-08-01]] }}}
{{rf{16}}} These are the things that you must do: speak truth, each of you, with his neighbor; practice trustworthy judgment and peace in your gates. {{rf{17}}} Do not devise evil in your hearts against your neighbor, and do not love a false oath, because all these are things I hate," declares Yahweh. {{rf{18}}} And the word of Yahweh of hosts came to me, saying {{rf{19}}} "Thus says Yahweh of hosts: 'The fast of the fourth month, the fifth month, the seventh month, and the tenth month will be for the house of Judah jubilation and joy and merry festivals; therefore love truth and peace.' {{rf{20}}} Thus says Yahweh of hosts: 'It will happen again that nations and the inhabitants of many cities will come. {{rf{21}}} And the inhabitants of one city will go to another city, saying, "Let us go immediately to entreat the favor of Yahweh, to seek Yahweh of hosts -- I also will go!" {{rf{22}}} And many peoples and powerful nations will come to seek Yahweh of hosts in Jerusalem, and to entreat the favor of Yahweh.' {{rf{23}}} Thus says Yahweh of hosts: 'In those days ten men from all the nations of every language will take hold of the hem of a Judean man, saying, "Let us go with you, for we have heard that God is with you!" '"
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{{rf big{1}}} An oracle. The word of Yahweh is against the land of Hadrach, and Damascus is its resting place. For to Yahweh belongs the eye of humankind, and all the tribes of Israel, {{rf{2}}} and also Hamath, which borders on it; Tyre and Sidon -- yes, they are very wise! {{rf{3}}} Tyre has built a fortification for itself, and it heaped up silver like dust, and gold like the mud of the streets. {{rf{4}}} Look! The Lord will drive it out and will hurl its outer ramparts into the sea, and it will be consumed by fire. {{rf{5}}} Ashkelon will see and will be afraid, and Gaza will writhe exceedingly, and Ekron also, because its hope is ruined. And the king from Gaza will perish, and Ashkelon will not be inhabited. {{rf{6}}} A mongrel people will dwell in Ashdod, and I will cut down the pride of the Philistines. {{rf{7}}} I will remove its blood from its mouth, and its abominations from between its teeth. And it too will be a remnant for our God; and it will be like a tribal chief in Judah, and Ekron will be like the Jebusite. {{rf{8}}} But I will encamp at my temple like a guard, against those crossing through and returning; no oppressor will cross through them again, for now I have seen with my own eyes. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Zech-08-16]] }}}
{{rf{9}}} Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion! Shout aloud, O daughter of Jerusalem! Look! Your king comes to you; he is righteous and victorious, humble and riding on a donkey, and on a male donkey, the foal of a female donkey! {{rf{10}}} And I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim, and the horse from Jerusalem; the battle bow will be cut down, and he will announce peace to the nations. His dominion will be from sea to sea, and from the River to the ends of the earth. {{rf{11}}} As for you also, because of the blood of your covenant, I will release your prisoners from the waterless pit. {{rf{12}}} Return to the fortress, O prisoners of hope; today I am declaring that I will repay you double. {{rf{13}}} For I have bent Judah as my bow; I have set Ephraim as an arrow. I will set in motion your sons, O Zion, against your sons, O Javan. I will wield you like the sword of a warrior. {{rf{14}}} Then Yahweh will appear over them, and his arrow will go forth like lightning; and my Lord Yahweh will blow the trumpet, and he shall go out in the storm winds of the south. {{rf{15}}} Yahweh of hosts will defend them, and they will devour and subdue the slingstones; they will drink, they will make noise like wine, and they will be full like the sacrificial basin, drenched like the corners of an altar. {{rf{16}}} And Yahweh their God will save them on that day, as the flock of his people; for they are like the stones of a diadem, glittering on his land. {{rf{17}}} For how great is his goodness, and how great is his beauty! Grain will make the young men thrive, and new wine the young women.
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{{rf big{1}}} Ask rain from Yahweh in the season of the spring rain -- Yahweh, who makes storm clouds, and he gives showers of rain to them, to everyone vegetation in the field. {{rf{2}}} Because the household gods speak deceit, and those who practice divination see a lie, and the dreamers of vanity speak in vain. Therefore the people wander like sheep; they are afflicted because there is no shepherd. {{rf{3}}} My anger burns against the shepherds, and I will punish the leaders, because Yahweh of hosts watches over his flock, the house of Judah; and he will make them like his majestic horse in war. {{rf{4}}} From them the cornerstone will go out, from them the tent peg, from them the battle bow, from them every ruler, all together. {{rf{5}}} And they will be like warriors, trampling in the mud of the streets in the battle. They will fight, because Yahweh is with them, and they will put to shame the riders on horses. {{rf{6}}} And I will strengthen the house of Judah, and the house of Joseph I will save. And I will bring them back, because I have compassion on them, and they will be as if I had not rejected them, for I am Yahweh their God, and I will answer them. {{rf{7}}} And the people of Ephraim will be like a warrior, and their heart will be glad as with wine. And their children will see and rejoice; their heart will shout in exultation in Yahweh. {{rf{8}}} I will whistle to them and gather them, for I have redeemed them, and they will become numerous as they have been numerous before. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Zech-09-09]] }}}
{{rf{9}}} Though I sow them among the nations, in the distant places they will remember me, and they will stay alive with their children, and they will return. {{rf{10}}} And I will bring them back from the land of Egypt, and from Assyria I will gather them. To the land of Gilead and Lebanon I will bring them, until no room will be found for them there. {{rf{11}}} And he will pass through the sea of distress, and he will strike the waves of the sea, and all the depths of the Nile will dry up. The pride of Assyria will be brought low, and the scepter of Egypt will depart. {{rf{12}}} I will make them strong in Yahweh, and in his name they will walk, declares Yahweh. {{rf big{1}}} Open your doors, O Lebanon, so that fire will devour your cedars! {{rf{2}}} Wail, O juniper, for the cedar has fallen, for the magnificent trees are ruined! Wail, oaks of Bashan, for the impenetrable forest has come down! {{rf{3}}} Listen to the wailing of the shepherds, for their splendor is ruined! Listen to the roar of the young lions, for the thickets of the Jordan are ruined!
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{{rf{4}}} Thus says Yahweh my God: "Shepherd the flock doomed to slaughter. {{rf{5}}} The ones buying them kill them and go unpunished, and the ones selling them say, 'Blessed be Yahweh, for I have become rich.' Their own shepherds have no compassion for them. {{rf{6}}} For I will no longer have compassion on the inhabitants of the land," declares Yahweh. "Look, I am going to cause humankind to fall, each into the hand of his neighbor, and into the hand of his king; and they will devastate the land, and I will not deliver anyone from their hand." {{rf{7}}} And I shepherded the flock doomed to slaughter, even the afflicted of the flock. I took two staffs, one I called Kindness, and the other I called Unity, and I shepherded the flock. {{rf{8}}} And I got rid of three shepherds in one month, for I grew impatient with them, and they also became tired of me. {{rf{9}}} So I said, "I will not shepherd you! The one dying will die, and the one to be destroyed will be destroyed. And the ones remaining, let them devour the flesh of each other." {{rf{10}}} And I took my staff Kindness and broke it, to break my covenant that I had made with all the peoples. {{rf{11}}} And it was broken on that day. Then the afflicted of the flock, the ones who were watching me, knew that it was the word of Yahweh. {{rf{12}}} And I said to them, "If it seems right to you, give me my wages, but if not, keep them." And they weighed out my wages, thirty silver shekels. {{rf{13}}} And Yahweh said to me, "Throw it to the potter," this noble price at which I was valued by them!" So I took the thirty silver shekels and I threw them to the potter in the house of Yahweh. {{rf{14}}} Then I broke my second staff Unity to break the family ties between Judah and Israel. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Zech-10-09]] }}}
{{rf{15}}} And Yahweh said to me, "Take again the implements of a foolish shepherd. {{rf{16}}} For look, I am raising up a shepherd in the land who will not attend to the ones that are perishing; he will not seek the young man, he will not heal the ones that are crushed and he will not sustain the healthy ones; he will devour the flesh of the fattened ones and tear apart even their hoofs. {{rf{17}}} "Woe, my worthless shepherd who deserts the flock! May a sword fall on his arm and on his right eye! May his arm wither completely and his right eye be utterly blinded!" {{rf big{1}}} An oracle. The word of Yahweh concerning Israel. "Thus declares Yahweh, who stretches out the heavens, founds the earth, and forms the spirit of humankind in its midst: {{rf{2}}} 'Look, I am going to make Jerusalem a cup of reeling for all the surrounding nations; it will also be against Judah in the siege against Jerusalem. {{rf{3}}} And then on that day I will make Jerusalem a stone weight for all the peoples. All those lifting it up will grievously hurt themselves, and all the nations of the earth will assemble against it. {{rf{4}}} On that day,' declares Yahweh, 'I will strike every horse with confusion, and the one riding it with madness; but over the house of Judah I will keep my eyes open, and I will strike every horse of the peoples with blindness. {{rf{5}}} And the clans of Judah will say to themselves, "The inhabitants of Jerusalem are a strength to us, through Yahweh of hosts, their God." {{rf{6}}} " 'On that day I will make the clans of Judah like a pan of fire among sticks of wood, and like a torch of fire among stalks of grain, and they will devour to the right and to the left all the surrounding peoples, and Jerusalem will be inhabited again in its place, in Jerusalem. {{rf{7}}} And Yahweh will save the tents of Judah first, so that the glory of the house of David and the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem may not be exalted over Judah. {{rf{8}}} On that day Yahweh will put a shield around the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and the one who stumbles among them on that day will be like David, and the house of David will be like God, like the angel of Yahweh, before them. {{rf{9}}} And then on that day I will seek to destroy all the nations coming against Jerusalem. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Zech-11-15]] }}}
{{rf{10}}} " 'I will pour on the house of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and supplication, and they will look to me whom they pierced, and they shall mourn over him, as one wails over an only child, and they will grieve bitterly over him as one grieves bitterly over a firstborn. {{rf{11}}} On that day the wailing will be great in Jerusalem, like the wailing for Hadad Rimmon in the plain of Megiddo. {{rf{12}}} And the land shall mourn, each clan by itself; the clan of the house of David by itself, and their wives by themselves; the clan of the house of Nathan by itself, and their wives by themselves; {{rf{13}}} the clan of the house of Levi by itself, and their wives by themselves; the clan of the Shimeites by itself, and their wives by themselves; {{rf{14}}} and all those clans remaining, each clan by itself, and their wives by themselves.'"
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{{rf big{1}}} " 'On that day a well will be opened for the house of David and for the inhabitants of Jerusalem, to cleanse them from sin and from impurity. {{rf{2}}} And then, on that day,' declares Yahweh of hosts, 'I will cut off the names of the idols from the land, and they will no longer be remembered; and also the prophets and the spirit of uncleanness I will banish from the land. {{rf{3}}} And then, if anyone prophesies again, his father and his mother who bore him will say to him, "You shall not live, because you have spoken a lie in the name of Yahweh!" And his father and his mother who bore him will pierce him through when he prophesies. {{rf{4}}} And then on that day, each of the prophets will be ashamed because of his vision when he was prophesying, and they will not put on a cloak of hair in order to deceive, {{rf{5}}} but he will say, "I am not a prophet; I am a tiller of the soil, for a man has acquired me since my youth." {{rf{6}}} And someone shall say to him, "What are these wounds between your arms?" and he will say, "Those I have received in the house of the ones who love me." '" {{rf{7}}} "O sword, awake against my shepherd, against the man who is my associate," declares Yahweh of hosts. "Strike the shepherd, so that the sheep may be scattered, and I will turn my hand against the small ones. {{rf{8}}} And then in all the land," declares Yahweh, "two thirds will be cut off and perish, and one third will be left alive in it. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Zech-12-10]] }}} {{rf{9}}} And I will bring the remaining third into the fire, and I will refine them like one refines silver, and I will test them like one tests gold. They will call my name, and I will answer them. I will say, 'They are my people,' and they will say, 'Yahweh is my God.'"
{{rf big{1}}} Look! A day is coming for Yahweh, when your plunder will be divided in your midst. {{rf{2}}} I will gather all the nations against Jerusalem to battle, and the city will be captured, and they will loot the houses, and the women will be raped; half of the city will go into exile, but the remainder of the people will not be cut off from the city. {{rf{3}}} Then Yahweh will go forth and fight against those nations, like when he fights on a day of battle. {{rf{4}}} On that day his feet will stand on the Mount of Olives, which faces Jerusalem on the east; and the Mount of Olives will be split in half, from east to west, by a very great valley; and half of the mountain will withdraw toward the north, and the other half toward the south. {{rf{5}}} And you will flee by the valley of my mountains, because the valley of the mountains will reach to Azal, and you will flee like you fled from the earthquake in the days of King Uzziah of Judah. And Yahweh my God will come, and all the holy ones with him. {{rf{6}}} And then on that day there will not be light, the precious things will congeal. {{rf{7}}} There shall be continuous day -- it is known to Yahweh -- not day and not night; and at evening time there will be light. {{rf{8}}} And then on that day, living waters will flow out from Jerusalem, half of them to the eastern sea, and the other half to the western sea; it will happen both in the summer and in the winter. {{rf{9}}} And Yahweh will be king over all the earth; on that day Yahweh will be one and his name one. {{rf{10}}} All the land will be transformed into a desert plateau from Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem. But it will rise up high and it will stay in its place from the Gate of Benjamin to the place of the former gate, up to the Corner Gate and from the Tower of Hananel to the king's winepresses. {{rf{11}}} And they will dwell in it, and there will be no more ban imposed, and Jerusalem will dwell in security. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Zech-14-01]] }}}
{{rf{12}}} And this will be the plague with which Yahweh will strike all the peoples that fight against Jerusalem: their flesh will rot while they are standing on their feet; their eyes will rot in their sockets, and their tongues will rot in their mouths. {{rf{13}}} And then on that day a great panic from Yahweh will fall on them, and they will seize one another's hand, and the hand of the one will be raised against the hand of another. {{rf{14}}} And Judah also will fight at Jerusalem. And the wealth of all the surrounding nations will be collected -- gold and silver, and garments in great abundance. {{rf{15}}} Like this plague will be the plague on the horse, the mule, the camel, and the donkey, and every kind of animal in those camps. {{rf{16}}} And then every survivor from all those nations coming against Jerusalem will go up year after year to worship the king, Yahweh of hosts, and celebrate the Feast of Booths. {{rf{17}}} And then whoever of the clans of the earth does not go up to Jerusalem to worship the king, Yahweh of hosts, it will not rain on them. {{rf{18}}} And if the clan of Egypt will not go up and come in, on them will be that plague Yahweh inflicts on the nations that do not go up to celebrate the Feast of Booths. {{rf{19}}} This will be the punishment of Egypt and the punishment of all the nations that do not go up to celebrate the Feast of Booths. {{rf{20}}} On that day there will be inscribed on the bells of the horses, "Holy to Yahweh." And the cooking pots in the house of Yahweh will be holy like the sacrificial basins before the altar. {{rf{21}}} And every cooking pot in Jerusalem and in Judah will be holy to Yahweh of hosts, and all those who sacrifice will come and will take from them, and will cook in them, and there will be no longer a trader in the house of Yahweh of hosts on that day. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Zech-14-12]] }}}
The word of Yahweh that came to Zephaniah the son of Cushi, the son of Gedaliah, the son of Amariah, the son of Hezekiah, in the days of Josiah son of Amon, king of Judah. {{rf{2}}} "I will surely destroy everything from the face of the earth" -- a declaration of Yahweh. {{rf{3}}} "I will destroy humanity and beast; I will destroy the birds of the sky and the fish of the sea, and the stumbling blocks with the wicked. And I will cut off humankind from the face of the earth" -- a declaration of Yahweh. {{rf{4}}} "And I will stretch out my hand against Judah and against all the inhabitants of Jerusalem. And I will cut off from this place the remnant of Baal, and the name of idolatrous priests with the priests, {{rf{5}}} and those who bow down on the rooftops to the host of heaven, and those who bow down, swearing to Yahweh but also swearing by Milkom, {{rf{6}}} and those who turned back from following Yahweh, and who did not seek Yahweh, and did not inquire of him." {{rf{7}}} Be silent before the Lord Yahweh, for the day of Yahweh draws near, for Yahweh has provided a sacrifice and has consecrated his guests. {{rf{8}}} And it shall be that on the day of the sacrifice of Yahweh, I will punish the officials and the sons of the king and those who dress in foreign clothing. {{rf{9}}} And on that day I will punish all who leap over the threshold, who fill up the house of their master with violence and deceit. {{rf{10}}} "And there shall be on that day" -- a declaration of Yahweh -- "a loud outcry from the Fish Gate, and a wailing from the Second District, and a loud crashing from the hills. {{rf{11}}} The inhabitants of the Mortar shall wail, for all the traders have perished; all who trade with silver have been cut off. {{rf{12}}} And it shall be that at that time I will search Jerusalem with lamps, and I will punish the men whose senses are dulled from drinking, who say in their hearts, 'Yahweh will not do good, nor will he do evil.' {{rf{13}}} Then their wealth shall be as plunder, and their homes as desolation. And they shall build their houses and not inhabit them, and they shall plant vineyards and not drink their wine." {{rf{14}}} The great day of Yahweh draws near; it is near and coming very swiftly. The sound of the day of Yahweh is bitterness; there, a warrior cries out! {{rf{15}}} That day will be a day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress, a day of disaster and ruination, a day of darkness and deep gloom, a day of clouds and thick clouds, {{rf{16}}} a day of trumpet and trumpet blast against the fortified cities and against the high corner towers. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Zeph-01-01]] }}}
{{rf{17}}} And I will bring distress to all humankind, and they shall walk about like the blind, for they sinned against Yahweh; their blood shall be poured out like dust and their entrails like dung. {{rf{18}}} Moreover, their silver and their gold will not be able to save them on the day of the wrath of Yahweh. And in the fire of his zeal, the whole land shall be consumed, for a terrifying end he shall make for all the inhabitants of the land. {{rf big{1}}} Gather yourselves together! Now gather together, O nation having no shame! {{rf{2}}} Before the birth of the decree, the day flies away like chaff; before the fierce anger of Yahweh overtakes you; before the day of the anger of Yahweh overtakes you. {{rf{3}}} Seek Yahweh, all you afflicted of the land who have fulfilled his law; seek righteousness; seek humility. Perhaps you will be concealed on the day of the anger of Yahweh. {{rf{4}}} For Gaza will be abandoned, and Ashkelon as a desolation. As for Ashdod, at noon they will drive her away, and Ekron shall be uprooted. {{rf{5}}} Woe to you, inhabitants of the region of the sea, people of the Kerethites! The word of Yahweh is against you, O Canaan, land of the Philistines. I will destroy you until there is no inhabitant. {{rf{6}}} And you, O region of the sea, shall become pastures and meadows for shepherds and sheep pens for the flocks. {{rf{7}}} And it shall become a region for the remnant of the house of Judah; upon them they shall graze, and in the houses of Ashkelon they shall lie down in the evening. For Yahweh their God shall be mindful of them, and he will restore their fortunes. {{rf{8}}} I have heard the reproaches of Moab and the scorning of the Ammonites, with which they have taunted my nation and made boasts against their territory. {{rf{9}}} "Therefore, as I live" -- a declaration of Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel -- "Moab shall be as Sodom, and the Ammonites like Gomorrah, a place of weeds and salt pits and a desolation forever. The remnant of my people shall plunder them, and the remainder of my nation shall possess them." {{rf{10}}} This shall be for them in place of their pride because they mocked and boasted against the people of Yahweh of hosts. {{rf{11}}} Yahweh will be awesome against them, for he will destroy all the gods of the earth and all the lands of the nations; each in its place will bow down to him. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Zeph-01-17]] }}}
{{rf{12}}} You also, O Cushites, they shall be killed by my sword. {{rf{13}}} And he will stretch out his hand against the north, and he will destroy Assyria and will make Nineveh a desolation, a dry wasteland like the desert. {{rf{14}}} Herds shall lie down in her midst, every wild animal of a nation; even the desert owl and the screech owl shall lodge on her capitals. A voice shall hoot in the window; rubble on the threshold; for the cedar is laid bare. {{rf{15}}} This is the city of rejoicing that lived securely; the one saying in her heart, "I am, and there is none besides me." How she has become a desolation, a lair for wild animals! Everyone who passes by her hisses and shakes his fist. {{rf big{1}}} Woe to you, O rebellious and defiled one! The oppressing city! {{rf{2}}} She listens to no voice; she does not accept correction. In Yahweh she does not trust; to her God she does not draw near. {{rf{3}}} Her officials in her midst are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves; they leave nothing until the morning. {{rf{4}}} Her prophets are arrogant men of treachery; her priests have defiled that which is holy; they do violence to the law. {{rf{5}}} Yahweh is righteous in her midst; he does not do wickedness. Morning by morning he renders his judgment; at dawn he does not fail, but an evil one knows no shame. {{rf{6}}} "I have cut off nations; their strongholds are deserted. I have laid waste their streets, so that none pass through. Their cities have been destroyed and are without a man, without an inhabitant. {{rf{7}}} I have said, 'Surely she will fear me; she will accept discipline. Then her dwelling place will not be cut down, nor all that I have brought upon her.' Surely they rise early; they make all their deeds corrupt. {{rf{8}}} "Therefore, wait for me" -- a declaration of Yahweh -- "for the day of my rising as a witness. For my decision is to gather nations, to assemble kingdoms, to pour out my wrath upon them, all my burning anger. For by the fire of my anger all the land shall be consumed. {{rf{9}}} Because then I will make the speech of the nations pure; that all of them might call on the name of Yahweh, to serve him in unison. {{rf{10}}} From beyond the rivers of Cush my worshipers and the daughter of my scattered ones shall bring my offering. {{rf{11}}} On that day you shall not be humiliated on account of all your deeds by which you have rebelled against me. For then I shall remove from your midst those exulting in your pride, and you shall no longer be haughty in my holy mountain. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Zeph-02-12]] }}}
{{rf{12}}} And I will leave in your midst a people afflicted and poor, and they shall take refuge in the name of Yahweh. {{rf{13}}} The remnant of Israel shall not do wickedness; they shall not speak deception, nor shall a deceitful tongue be found in their mouth. For they shall graze and lie down, and none shall frighten them." {{rf{14}}} Shout for joy, O daughter of Zion! Cry aloud, O Israel! Rejoice and be jubilant with all your heart, O daughter of Jerusalem! {{rf{15}}} Yahweh has annulled your judgments; he has turned away your enemies. The king of Israel, Yahweh, is in your midst; you shall no longer fear misfortune. {{rf{16}}} On that day it shall be said to Jerusalem, "Fear not, O Zion; your hands shall not hang limp. {{rf{17}}} Yahweh your God is in your midst; a mighty warrior who saves. He shall rejoice over you with joy; he renews you in his love; he will exult over you with singing. {{rf{18}}} I will gather those of you grieving on account of the feast; they were raising against her a reproach. {{rf{19}}} Behold, at that time I will deal with all your oppressors; I will save the lame and gather the outcast. I will change them from shame to glory and renown throughout the whole world. {{rf{20}}} At that time I will bring you in; at the time of my gathering you together. For I will make you renowned and praised among all the nations of the earth when I restore your fortunes before your eyes," says Yahweh. {{floatright tiny{ [[Open|Zeph-03-12]] }}}
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The {{{<<list>>}}} macro creates a list of tiddlers of a given type. It takes the following parameters:
{{{
<<list {type} [template:<templateTiddlerName>] [emptyMessage:"<message for when the list is empty>"]>>
}}}
The template tiddlers allows you to customise the text that is displayed about each tiddler. If it is not provided, then the default of "{{{<<view title link>>}}}" is used, which just includes the title of the tiddler as a link. You could add the author to each entry in the list by setting the template to a tiddler with the text "{{{<<view title link>> by <<view modified link>>}}}".
The empty message parameter allows you to specify text to be displayed if the list of tiddlers is empty.
The following types are supported:
!all
To list all tiddlers
{{{
<<list all>>
}}}
!filter
List tiddlers that match a certain [[filter|filters syntax]]. The following example lists all plugins.
{{{
<<list filter [tag[systemConfig]]>>
}}}
!Missing
To list tiddlers that have links to them but are not defined:
{{{
<<list missing>>
}}}
!Orphans
To list tiddlers that are not linked to from any other tiddlers:
{{{
<<list orphans>>
}}}
!Shadowed
To list tiddlers shadowed with default contents:
{{{
<<list shadowed>>
}}}
!Touched
Show tiddlers that have been modified locally:
{{{
<<list touched>>
}}}
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}}}
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''Text''
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>>
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''Text''
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}}}
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<<list xCase title 'Jeremiah' '[tag[Scriptr]]'>>
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''Text''
<<list xCase title 'Lament' '[tag[Scriptr]]'>>
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<<list noCase title 'John.*note'>>
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}}}
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''Text''
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}}}
{{big{ ''Other letters and the Book of Revelation'' }}}{{ floatright tiny { <<view title link>> }}}
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"1/2/3 John J" "" [[tabLetters##John]]
"Jude" "" [[tabLetters##Jude]]
"Revelation Rev" "" [[tabLetters##Revelation]]
>>
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''Text''
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''Notes''
<<list noCase title 'Hebrews.*note'>>
''Text''
<<list xCase title 'Hebrews' '[tag[Scriptr]]'>>
}}}
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{{threecolumns{
''Notes''
<<list noCase title '1Peter.*note'>>
<<list noCase title '2Peter.*note'>>
''Text''
<<list xCase title '1Peter' '[tag[Scriptr]]'>>
<<list xCase title '2Peter' '[tag[Scriptr]]'>>
}}}
!!! John
{{threecolumns{
''Notes''
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<<list noCase title '3John.*note'>>
''Text''
<<list xCase title '1John' '[tag[Scriptr]]'>>
<<list xCase title '2John' '[tag[Scriptr]]'>>
<<list xCase title '3John' '[tag[Scriptr]]'>>
}}}
!!! Jude
{{threecolumns{
''Notes''
<<list noCase title 'Jude.*note'>>
''Text''
<<list xCase title 'Jude' '[tag[Scriptr]]'>>
}}}
!!! Revelation
{{threecolumns{
''Notes''
<<list noCase title 'Rev.*note'>>
''Text''
<<list xCase title 'Rev' '[tag[Scriptr]]'>>
}}}
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''Text''
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}}}
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}}}
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}}}
{{ floatright tiny { [[tabPaul]] }}}<<tabs "Romans"
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"Gal" "Galatians" tabGalatians
"Eph" "Ephesians" tabEphesians
"Philip Php" "Philippians" tabPhilippians
"Col" "Colossians" tabColossians
"Timothy Tim" "Timothy" "tabTimothy"
"Thess Th" "Thess" "tabThessalonians"
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>>
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<<list xCase title 'Philemon' '[tag[Scriptr]]'>>
{{medium{ ''Titus'' }}}
@@color:brown;''Notes''
<<list noCase title 'Titus.*note'>>@@
''Text''
<<list xCase title 'Titus' '[tag[Scriptr]]'>>
}}}
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{{medium{ ''Philippians'' }}}
@@color:brown;''Notes''
<<list noCase title 'Philip.*note'>>@@
''Text''
<<list xCase title 'Philip' '[tag[Scriptr]]'>>
{{ floatright tiny { [[tabPhilippians]] }}}
}}}
{{big{ ''the books of Poetry'' }}}{{ floatright tiny { <<view title link>> }}}
@@display:block;height:32em;overflow:auto;
<<tabs "Psalms"
"Job" "" [[tabPoetry##Job]]
"Psalms Ps" "" [[tabPoetry##Psalms]]
"Proverbs Pr" "" [[tabPoetry##Proverbs]]
"Eccl, Song" "" [[tabPoetry##Eccl_Song]]
>>
{{hidden{
!!! Psalms
{{threecolumns{
''Notes''
<<list noCase title 'Psalms.*note'>>
''Text''
<<list xCase title 'Psalms' '[tag[Scriptr]]'>>
}}}
!!! Proverbs
{{threecolumns{
''Notes''
<<list noCase title 'Proverbs.*note'>>
''Text''
<<list xCase title 'Proverbs' '[tag[Scriptr]]'>>
}}}
!!! Eccl_Song
{{threecolumns{
''Notes''
<<list noCase title 'Eccl.*note'>>
<<list noCase title 'Song.*note'>>
''Text''
<<list xCase title 'Eccl' '[tag[Scriptr]]'>>
<<list xCase title 'Song' '[tag[Scriptr]]'>>
}}}
!!! Job
{{threecolumns{
''Notes''
<<list noCase title 'Job.*note'>>
''Text''
<<list xCase title 'Job' '[tag[Scriptr]]'>>
}}}
@@display:block;height:32em;overflow:auto;
{{threecolumns{
@@color:brown;''Notes''
<<list noCase title 'Ezra.*note'>>@@
''Text''
<<list xCase title 'Ezra' '[tag[Scriptr]]'>>
@@color:brown;''Notes''
<<list noCase title 'Nehemiah.*note'>>@@
''Text''
<<list xCase title 'Nehemiah' '[tag[Scriptr]]'>>
@@color:brown;''Notes''
<<list noCase title 'Esther.*note'>>@@
''Text''
<<list xCase title 'Esther' '[tag[Scriptr]]'>>
{{ floatright tiny { [[tabPostExile]] }}}
}}}
{{big{ ''The Prophets'' }}}{{ floatright tiny { <<view title link>> }}}
<<tabs "Isaiah"
"Isaiah I" "" tabIsaiah
"Jeremiah Jer" "" tabJeremiah
"Ezek Ez" "" tabEzekiel
"DanHosea" "" tabDanHosea
"Other" "" tabProphetsOther
>>
@@display:block;height:32em;overflow:auto;{{threecolumns{
{{medium{ ''Other Prophets'' }}}
<<list noCase title 'Zech.*note'>>
<<list xCase title 'Zech' '[tag[Scriptr]]'>>
----
<<list noCase title 'Amos'>>
<<list xCase title 'Amos' '[tag[Scriptr]]'>>
----
<<list noCase title 'Obadiah'>>
<<list xCase title 'Obadiah' '[tag[Scriptr]]'>>
----
<<list noCase title 'Jonah'>>
<<list xCase title 'Jonah' '[tag[Scriptr]]'>>
----
<<list noCase title 'Habakkuk'>>
<<list xCase title 'Habakkuk' '[tag[Scriptr]]'>>
----
<<list noCase title 'Joel'>>
<<list xCase title 'Joel' '[tag[Scriptr]]'>>
----
<<list noCase title 'Micah'>>
<<list xCase title 'Micah' '[tag[Scriptr]]'>>
----
<<list noCase title 'Nahum'>>
<<list xCase title 'Nahum' '[tag[Scriptr]]'>>
----
<<list noCase title 'Haggai'>>
<<list xCase title 'Haggai' '[tag[Scriptr]]'>>
----
<<list noCase title 'Zeph'>>
<<list xCase title 'Zeph' '[tag[Scriptr]]'>>
----
<<list noCase title 'Malachi'>>
<<list xCase title 'Malachi' '[tag[Scriptr]]'>>
{{ floatright tiny { [[tabProphetsOther]] }}}
}}}
@@display:block;height:32em;overflow:auto;{{threecolumns{
{{medium{ ''Romans'' }}}
@@color:brown;''Notes''
<<list noCase title 'Romans.*note'>>@@
''Text''
<<list xCase title 'Romans' '[tag[Scriptr]]'>>
{{ floatright tiny { [[tabRomans]] }}}
}}}
@@display:block;height:32em;overflow:auto;{{threecolumns{
{{medium{ ''Ruth'' }}}
@@color:brown;''Notes''
<<list noCase title 'Ruth.*note'>>@@
''Text''
<<list xCase title 'Ruth' '[tag[Scriptr]]'>>
{{ floatright tiny { [[tabRuth]] }}}
}}}
@@display:block;height:32em;overflow:auto;{{twocolumns{
{{medium{ ''1Thessalonians'' }}}
@@color:brown;''Notes''
<<list noCase title '1Thes.*note'>>@@
''Text''
<<list xCase title '1Thes' '[tag[Scriptr]]'>>
{{medium{ ''2Thessalonians @@color:blue;2Th@@'' }}}
@@color:brown;''Notes''
<<list noCase title '2Thes.*note'>>@@
''Text''
<<list xCase title '2Thes' '[tag[Scriptr]]'>>
{{ floatright tiny { [[tabThessalonians]] }}}
}}}
@@display:block;height:32em;overflow:auto;{{twocolumns{
{{medium{ ''1Timothy'' }}}
@@color:brown;''Notes''
<<list noCase title '1Tim.*note'>>@@
''Text''
<<list xCase title '1Tim' '[tag[Scriptr]]'>>
{{medium{ ''2Timothy'' }}}
@@color:brown;''Notes''
<<list noCase title '2Tim.*note'>>@@
''Text''
<<list xCase title '2Tim' '[tag[Scriptr]]'>>
{{ floatright tiny { [[tabTimothy]] }}}
}}}
@@display:block;height:32em;overflow:auto;{{threecolumns{
{{medium{ ''Titus'' }}}
@@color:brown;''Notes''
<<list noCase title 'Titus.*note'>>@@
''Text''
<<list xCase title 'Titus' '[tag[Scriptr]]'>>
{{ floatright tiny { [[tabTitus]] }}}
}}}
<<tabs txtTiddlerMapTabs
AB 'list "A/B" tiddlers' [[TiddlerMapX::AB]]
CD 'list "C/D" tiddlers' [[TiddlerMapX::CD]]
EF 'list "E/F" tiddlers' [[TiddlerMapX::EF]]
GH 'list "G/H/I" tiddlers' [[TiddlerMapX::GH]]
IJKL 'list "J/K/L" tiddlers' [[TiddlerMapX::IJKL]]
MNO 'list "M/N/O" tiddlers' [[TiddlerMapX::MNO]]
PQ 'list "P/Q" tiddlers' [[TiddlerMapX::PQ]]
R 'list "R" tiddlers' [[TiddlerMapX::R]]
S 'list "S" tiddlers' [[TiddlerMapX::S]]
TUV 'list "T/U/V" tiddlers' [[TiddlerMapX::TUV]]
W 'list "W" tiddlers' [[TiddlerMapX::W]]
XYZ 'list "X/Y/Z" tiddlers' [[TiddlerMapX::XYZ]]
0-9 'list "0-9" tiddlers' [[TiddlerMapX::0to9]]
>>
<<tiddler HideTiddlerTags>>
@@display:block;height:32em;overflow:auto; {{fourcolumns{
<<matchTags "%0" " \n " NOT excludeLists AND NOT Scriptr AND NOT Comment >>
}}}
{{big{ ''The TORAH'' }}}{{ floatright tiny { <<view title link>> }}}
@@display:block;height:32em;overflow:auto;
<<tabs "Genesis"
"Genesis Gn" "" [[tabTorah##Genesis]]
"Exodus Ex" "" [[tabTorah##Exodus]]
"Leviticus Lv" "" [[tabTorah##Leviticus]]
"Numbers Num" "" [[tabTorah##Numbers]]
"Deuteronomy Dt" "" [[tabTorah##Deuteronomy]]
>>
{{hidden{
!!! Genesis
{{threecolumns{
@@color:brown;''Notes''
<<list noCase title 'Genesis.*note'>>@@
<<list noCase title 'Genesis.*chiasmus'>>@@
''Text''
<<list xCase title 'Genesis' '[tag[Scriptr]]'>>
!!! Exodus
{{threecolumns{
''Notes''
<<list noCase title 'Exodus.*note'>>
''Text''
<<list xCase title 'Exodus' '[tag[Scriptr]]'>>
}}}
!!! Leviticus
{{threecolumns{
''Notes''
<<list noCase title 'Lev.*note'>>
''Text''
<<list xCase title 'Lev' '[tag[Scriptr]]'>>
}}}
!!! Numbers
{{threecolumns{
''Notes''
<<list noCase title 'Num.*note'>>
''Text''
<<list xCase title 'Num' '[tag[Scriptr]]'>>
}}}
!!! Deuteronomy
{{threecolumns{
''Notes''
<<list noCase title 'Deut.*note'>>
''Text''
<<list xCase title 'Deut' '[tag[Scriptr]]'>>
}}}
The tiddler macro allows you to [[transclude|Tranclusion]] the text of other tidders, or sections of other tiddlers, into your current tiddler.
!!Basic Usage
The basic usage is:
{{{
<<tiddler tiddlerToTransclude>>
}}}
This displays as:
<<<
<<tiddler tiddlerToTransclude>>
<<<
Have a look at the actual [[tiddlerToTransclude]] tiddler.
!!Transcluding Sections and Slices
Instead of transcluding an entire tiddler, you can also transclude individual [[slices|Tiddler Slices]] or [[sections|Tiddler Sections]]:
{{{
<<tiddler [[Title::sliceLabel]]>>
<<tiddler [[Title##sectionHeading]]>>
}}}
!!Parameterised Transclusion
Using the {{{with:}}} parameter, placeholders in the transcluded content can be replaced with a desired value. For example:
{{{
<<tiddler anotherTiddlerToTransclude with:"Jim" "Oz">>
}}}
Which displays as:
<<<
<<tiddler anotherTiddlerToTransclude with:"Jim" "Oz">>
<<<
Have a look at the actual [[anotherTiddlerToTransclude]].
The view macro is a powerful macro that allows you to access fields on a given tiddler and format them.
The first parameter is the field to access (note tags does not work).
The second parameter defines a [[view type|view macro types]] which defines how the value of that field should be rendered.
{{{
<<view title link>>
}}}
renders the link of the current tiddler i.e. <<view title link>>
Unfortunately {{{<<view title link >>}}} cannot be used in the View template for a Scripture tiddler, AFAIK.
!Text
Renders the field exactly how it is stored.
For example
{{{
<<view modified text>>
<<view title text>>
}}}
gives:
* <<view modified text>>
* <<view title text>>
!Link
Renders the value of the field as a link
{{{
<<view title link>>
}}}
gives
* <<view title link>>
!Date
Applicable to the modified and created fields. Note a further parameter - a date format can be used.
{{{
<<view created date>>
<<view modified date "YYYY">>
}}}
gives:
* <<view created date>>
* <<view modified date "YYYY">>
See [[Date Formats]] for possible date format strings.
!Wikified
Treats the string as wikitext.
e.g.
{{{
<<view customfield wikified>>
}}}
An optional third parameter can be used to transform the text before it is wikified. For example:
{{{
<<view customfield wikified "//$1//"
}}}
The result of this example would be to make the field display in italics.
!TiddlySpace specific
See [[TiddlySpace View Types]]
BasicsPkg EmasticSystem bookmarklet excludeLists excludeSearch html journal menu script settings setup story stylesheet systemConfig template wiki EFCA_Statement Comment
Abraham Atonement Authority Broken Clothing Covenant Faith Faithfulness Family God Humility Priest Shame Sin Virtue Freedom Harvest House Living-Animal Living-Plant Redemption assembly attitude building evil money order
Anointing Christ Food House Image_Metaphor Individual Need
<<quickNote tiddler:"Buffer" dateformat:"-YYYY-0MM-0DD-0hh0mm" tags:"todo">>
{{annotation{
Purpose of [[A-Buffer]] is to retain super-fast unprocessed notes. Related: [[TranscribeNotes]]
}}}
<<tiddler HideTiddlerTags>>