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The Northern Tribes Rebel Rehoboam traveled to Shechem, for all Israel had gathered in Shechem to make Rehoboam king.
And Rehoboam went to Shechem: for to Shechem were all Israel come to make him king.
Now be sure to make them according to the pattern you were shown on the mountain.
And look that thou make [them] after their pattern, which was shewed thee in the mount.
“Brothers, the scripture had to be fulfilled that the Holy Spirit foretold through David concerning Judas– who became the guide for those who arrested Jesus–
Men [and] brethren, this scripture must needs have been fulfilled, which the Holy Ghost by the mouth of David spake before concerning Judas, which was guide to them that took Jesus.
Remember that you have made me as with the clay
Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as the clay; and wilt thou bring me into dust again?
if my people, who belong to me, humble themselves, pray, seek to please me, and repudiate their sinful practices, then I will respond from heaven, forgive their sin, and heal their land.
If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
For those who live according to the flesh have their outlook shaped by the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit have their outlook shaped by the things of the Spirit.
For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.
I go about blackened, but not by the sun; in the assembly I stand up and cry for help.
I went mourning without the sun: I stood up, [and] I cried in the congregation.
However, because Moses gave you the practice of circumcision(not that it came from Moses, but from the forefathers), you circumcise a male child on the Sabbath.
‹Moses therefore gave unto you circumcision; (not because it is of Moses, but of the fathers;) and ye on the sabbath day circumcise a man.›
“I have made your face adamant to match their faces, and your forehead hard to match their foreheads.
Behold, I have made thy face strong against their faces, and thy forehead strong against their foreheads.
“You must not wrong a resident foreigner nor oppress him, for you were foreigners in the land of Egypt.
Thou shalt neither vex a stranger, nor oppress him: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.
For there on my holy mountain, the high mountain of Israel, declares the Sovereign LORD, all the house of Israel will serve me, all of them in the land. I will accept them there, and there I will seek your contributions and your choice gifts, with all your holy things.
For in mine holy mountain, in the mountain of the height of Israel, saith the Lord GOD, there shall all the house of Israel, all of them in the land, serve me: there will I accept them, and there will I require your offerings, and the firstfruits of your oblations, with all your holy things.
The people traveled from Kibroth Hattaavah to Hazeroth, and they stayed at Hazeroth.
[And] the people journeyed from Kibrothhattaavah unto Hazeroth and abode at Hazeroth.
I am the door. If anyone enters through me, he will be saved, and will come in and go out, and find pasture.
‹I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture.›
The Supremacy of Christ He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation,
Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature:
The people who do this will be blessed, the people who commit themselves to obedience, who observe the Sabbath and do not defile it, who refrain from doing anything that is wrong.
Blessed [is] the man [that] doeth this, and the son of man [that] layeth hold on it; that keepeth the sabbath from polluting it, and keepeth his hand from doing any evil.
The LORD created me as the beginning of his works, before his deeds of long ago.
The LORD possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his works of old.
The Disciples’ Failure to Heal When they came to the crowd, a man came to him, knelt before him,
And when they were come to the multitude, there came to him a [certain] man, kneeling down to him, and saying,
He took a pair of oxen and cut them up. Then he sent the pieces throughout the territory of Israel by the hand of messengers, who said,“Whoever does not go out after Saul and after Samuel should expect this to be done to his oxen!” Then the terror of the LORD fell on the people, and they went out as one army.
And he took a yoke of oxen, and hewed them in pieces, and sent [them] throughout all the coasts of Israel by the hands of messengers, saying, Whosoever cometh not forth after Saul and after Samuel, so shall it be done unto his oxen. And the fear of the LORD fell on the people, and they came out with one consent.
Those who are under the yoke as slaves must regard their own masters as deserving of full respect. This will prevent the name of God and Christian teaching from being discredited.
Let as many servants as are under the yoke count their own masters worthy of all honour, that the name of God and [his] doctrine be not blasphemed.
“This is what the Sovereign LORD says to Tyre: Oh, how the coastlands will shake at the sound of your fall, when the wounded groan, at the massive slaughter in your midst!
Thus saith the Lord GOD to Tyrus; Shall not the isles shake at the sound of thy fall, when the wounded cry, when the slaughter is made in the midst of thee?
If a king judges the poor in truth, his throne will be established forever.
The king that faithfully judgeth the poor, his throne shall be established for ever.
What did you go out to see? A prophet? Yes, I tell you, and more than a prophet.
‹But what went ye out for to see? A prophet? Yea, I say unto you, and much more than a prophet.›
The Nature of True LoveThe Beloved to Her Lover: Set me like a cylinder seal over your heart, like a sigsource on your arm. For love is as strong as death, passion is as unrelenting as Sheol. Its flames burst forth, it is a blazing flame.
Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love [is] strong as death; jealousy [is] cruel as the grave: the coals thereof [are] coals of fire, [which hath a] most vehement flame.
Then the angel I saw standing on the sea and on the land raised his right hand to heaven
And the angel which I saw stand upon the sea and upon the earth lifted up his hand to heaven,
Then Paul went back upstairs, and after he had broken bread and eaten, he talked with them a long time, until dawn. Then he left.
When he therefore was come up again, and had broken bread, and eaten, and talked a long while, even till break of day, so he departed.
in a moment, in the blinking of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed.
In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
When a sentence is not executed at once against a crime, the human heart is encouraged to do evil.
Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.
For just as the Father has life in himself, thus he has granted the Son to have life in himself,
‹For as the Father hath life in himself so hath he given to the Son to have life in himself
Watching over the ways of her household, she would not eat the bread of idleness.
She looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth not the bread of idleness.
For,’ I say,‘just as shorts cling tightly to a person’s body, so I bound the whole nation of Israel and the whole nation of Judah tightly to me.’ I intended for them to be my special people and to bring me fame, honor, and praise. But they would not obey me.
For as the girdle cleaveth to the loins of a man, so have I caused to cleave unto me the whole house of Israel and the whole house of Judah, saith the LORD; that they might be unto me for a people, and for a name, and for a praise, and for a glory: but they would not hear.
but you rise up as an enemy against my people. You steal a robe from a friend, from those who pass by peacefully as if returning from a war.
Even of late my people is risen up as an enemy: ye pull off the robe with the garment from them that pass by securely as men averse from war.
The rest of humanity, who had not been killed by these plagues, did not repent of the works of their hands, so that they did not stop worshiping demons and idols made of gold, silver, bronze, stone, and wood– idols that cannot see or hear or walk about.
And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship devils, and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood: which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk:
I continually think about this, and I am depressed.
My soul hath [them] still in remembrance, and is humbled in me.
Job’s Reply to Bildad Then Job replied:
But Job answered and said,
Many bulls surround me
Many bulls have compassed me: strong [bulls] of Bashan have beset me round.
A lying tongue hates those crushed by it, and a flattering mouth works ruin.
A lying tongue hateth [those that are] afflicted by it and a flattering mouth worketh ruin.
As for the rest of the beasts, their ruling authority had already been removed, though they were permitted to go on living for a time and a season.
As concerning the rest of the beasts, they had their dominion taken away: yet their lives were prolonged for a season and time.
and burn the whole ram on the altar. It is a burnt offering to the LORD, a soothing aroma; it is an offering made by fire to the LORD.
And thou shalt burn the whole ram upon the altar: it [is] a burnt offering unto the LORD: it [is] a sweet savour, an offering made by fire unto the LORD.
This is what the LORD says:“When juice is discovered in a cluster of grapes, someone says,‘Don’t destroy it, for it contains juice.’ So I will do for the sake of my servants– I will not destroy everyone.
Thus saith the LORD, As the new wine is found in the cluster, and [one] saith, Destroy it not; for a blessing [is] in it: so will I do for my servants' sakes, that I may not destroy them all.
In the third month they began piling their contributions in heaps and finished in the seventh month.
In the third month they began to lay the foundation of the heaps, and finished [them] in the seventh month.
The Curse of Canaan The sons of Noah who came out of the ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth.(Now Ham was the father of Canaan.)
And the sons of Noah, that went forth of the ark, were Shem, and Ham, and Japheth: and Ham [is] the father of Canaan.
(This happened to fulfill the word Jesus had spoken when he indicated what kind of death he was going to die.)
That the saying of Jesus might be fulfilled, which he spake, signifying what death he should die.
As a matter of fact, even your own brothers and the members of your own family have betrayed you too. Even they have plotted to do away with you. So do not trust them even when they say kind things to you.
For even thy brethren, and the house of thy father, even they have dealt treacherously with thee; yea, they have called a multitude after thee: believe them not, though they speak fair words unto thee.
In the troubling thoughts of the dreams in the night when a deep sleep falls on men,
In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on men,
You made us an object of disdain to our neighbors
Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us.
When he says above,“Sacrifices and offerings and whole burnt offerings and sin-offerings you did not desire nor did you take delight in them”(which are offered according to the law),
Above when he said, Sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings and [offering] for sin thou wouldest not, neither hadst pleasure [therein]; which are offered by the law;
Does God pervert justice? Or does the Almighty pervert what is right?
Doth God pervert judgment? or doth the Almighty pervert justice?
You remove all the wicked of the earth like slag. Therefore I love your rules.
Thou puttest away all the wicked of the earth [like] dross: therefore I love thy testimonies.
When you invade, you will encounter unsuspecting people. The land is wide! God is handing it over to you– a place that lacks nothing on earth!”
When ye go, ye shall come unto a people secure, and to a large land: for God hath given it into your hands; a place where [there is] no want of any thing that [is] in the earth.
You must not offer false testimony against another.
Neither shalt thou bear false witness against thy neighbour.
But the one who had received one talent went out and dug a hole in the ground and hid his master’s money in it.
‹But he that had received one went and digged in the earth, and hid his lord's money.›
These were the kings who reigned in the land of Edom before any king ruled over the Israelites:
And these [are] the kings that reigned in the land of Edom, before there reigned any king over the children of Israel.
“Father, if you are willing, take this cup away from me. Yet not my will but yours be done.”[
Saying, ‹Father, if thou be willing, remove this cup from me: nevertheless not my will, but thine, be done.›
She will be a place where fishing sources are spread, surrounded by the sea. For I have spoken, declares the Sovereign LORD. She will become plunder for the nations,
It shall be [a place for] the spreading of sources in the midst of the sea: for I have spoken [it], saith the Lord GOD: and it shall become a spoil to the nations.
But we passionately want each of you to demonstrate the same eagerness for the fulfillment of your hope until the end,
And we desire that every one of you do shew the same diligence to the full assurance of hope unto the end:
On that same day the number of those killed in Susa the citadel was brought to the king’s attention.
On that day the number of those that were slain in Shushan the palace was brought before the king.
five have fallen; one is, and the other has not yet come, but whenever he does come, he must remain for only a brief time.
And there are seven kings: five are fallen, and one is, [and] the other is not yet come; and when he cometh, he must continue a short space.
The one who neglects discipline ends up in poverty and shame, but the one who accepts reproof is honored.
Poverty and shame [shall be to] him that refuseth instruction: but he that regardeth reproof shall be honoured.
“It is not our custom here,” Laban replied,“to give the younger daughter in marriage before the firstborn.
And Laban said, It must not be so done in our country, to give the younger before the firstborn.
At that time Jeroboam’s son Abijah became sick.
At that time Abijah the son of Jeroboam fell sick.
“Yet you say,‘Why should the son not suffer for his father’s iniquity?’ When the son does what is just and right, and observes all my statutes and carries them out, he will surely live.
Yet say ye, Why? doth not the son bear the iniquity of the father? When the son hath done that which is lawful and right, [and] hath kept all my statutes, and hath done them, he shall surely live.
David reigned over Israel forty years; he reigned in Hebron seven years, and in Jerusalem thirty-three years.
And the days that David reigned over Israel [were] forty years: seven years reigned he in Hebron, and thirty and three years reigned he in Jerusalem.
Deliver yourself like a gazelle from a snare, and like a bird from the trap of the fowler.
Deliver thyself as a roe from the hand [of the hunter], and as a bird from the hand of the fowler.
The neighbor women named him, saying,“A son has been born to Naomi.” They named him Obed. Now he became the father of Jesse– David’s father!
And the women her neighbours gave it a name, saying, There is a son born to Naomi; and they called his name Obed: he [is] the father of Jesse, the father of David.
King Rehoboam made bronze shields to replace them and assigned them to the officers of the royal guard who protected the entrance to the royal palace.
And king Rehoboam made in their stead brasen shields, and committed [them] unto the hands of the chief of the guard, which kept the door of the king's house.
He must eat the same share they do, despite any profits he may gain from the sale of his family’s inheritance.
They shall have like portions to eat, beside that which cometh of the sale of his patrimony.
He then orders it all to melt; he breathes on it, and the water flows.
He sendeth out his word, and melteth them: he causeth his wind to blow, [and] the waters flow.
In my time of trouble I sought the Lord. I kept my hand raised in prayer throughout the night. I refused to be comforted.
In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord: my sore ran in the night, and ceased not: my soul refused to be comforted.
I too will answer my part, I too will explain what I know.
[I said], I will answer also my part, I also will shew mine opinion.
Wasn’t it necessary for the Christ to suffer these things and enter into his glory?”
‹Ought not Christ to have suffered these things, and to enter into his glory?›
He built a hedge around it, removed its stones, and planted a vine. He built a tower in the middle of it, and constructed a winepress. He waited for it to produce edible grapes, but it produced sour ones instead.
And he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also made a winepress therein: and he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes.
But he only got as far as the Benjamin Gate. There an officer in charge of the guards named Irijah, who was the son of Shelemiah and the grandson of Hananiah, stopped him. He seized Jeremiah and said,“You are deserting to the Babylonians!”
And when he was in the gate of Benjamin, a captain of the ward [was] there, whose name [was] Irijah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Hananiah; and he took Jeremiah the prophet, saying, Thou fallest away to the Chaldeans.
The sun will not harm you by day, or the moon by night.
The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon by night.
Instead, does a Christian sue a Christian, and do this before unbelievers?
But brother goeth to law with brother, and that before the unbelievers.
So he said to the messengers of Ben Hadad,“Say this to my master, the king,‘I will give you everything you demanded at first from your servant, but I am unable to agree to this latest demand.’” So the messengers went back and gave their report.
Wherefore he said unto the messengers of Benhadad, Tell my lord the king, All that thou didst send for to thy servant at the first I will do: but this thing I may not do. And the messengers departed, and brought him word again.
Slaves, be subject to your masters with all reverence, not only to those who are good and gentle, but also to those who are perverse.
Servants, [be] subject to [your] masters with all fear; not only to the good and gentle, but also to the froward.
because a friend of mine has stopped here while on a journey, and I have nothing to set before him.’
‹For a friend of mine in his journey is come to me, and I have nothing to set before him?›
The LORD did as he asked. When he got up the next morning, he squeezed the fleece, and enough dew dripped from it to fill a bowl.
And it was so: for he rose up early on the morrow, and thrust the fleece together, and wringed the dew out of the fleece, a bowl full of water.
People will fear you as long as the sun and moon remain in the sky, for generation after generation.
They shall fear thee as long as the sun and moon endure, throughout all generations.
The Hebrews who had earlier gone over to the Philistine side joined the Israelites who were with Saul and Jonathan.
Moreover the Hebrews [that] were with the Philistines before that time, which went up with them into the camp [from the country] round about, even they also [turned] to be with the Israelites that [were] with Saul and Jonathan.
Come down from your place of honor; sit on the dry ground, you who live in Dibon. For the one who will destroy Moab will attack you; he will destroy your fortifications.
Thou daughter that dost inhabit Dibon, come down from [thy] glory, and sit in thirst; for the spoiler of Moab shall come upon thee, [and] he shall destroy thy strong holds.
The Lord’s Covenant Lawsuit against the Nation Israel Listen to the LORD’s message, you Israelites! For the LORD has a covenant lawsuit against the people of Israel. For there is neither faithfulness nor loyalty in the land, nor do they acknowledge God.
Hear the word of the LORD, ye children of Israel: for the LORD hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because [there is] no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land.
You are the reason I offer praise in the great assembly
My praise [shall be] of thee in the great congregation: I will pay my vows before them that fear him.
(5:1) Solomon ruled all the kingdoms from the Euphrates River to the land of the Philistines, as far as the border of Egypt. These kingdoms paid tribute as Solomon’s subjects throughout his lifetime.
And Solomon reigned over all kingdoms from the river unto the land of the Philistines, and unto the border of Egypt: they brought presents, and served Solomon all the days of his life.
Although I am innocent, I could not answer him; I could only plead with my judge for mercy.
Whom, though I were righteous, [yet] would I not answer, [but] I would make supplication to my judge.
She became pregnant again and had another son. She said,“This time I will praise the LORD.”That is why she named him Judah. Then she stopped having children.
And she conceived again, and bare a son: and she said, Now will I praise the LORD: therefore she called his name Judah; and left bearing.
As for me, I cry out to you, O LORD; in the morning my prayer confronts you.
But unto thee have I cried, O LORD; and in the morning shall my prayer prevent thee.
As for the heads of those who surround me– may the harm done by their lips overwhelm them!
[As for] the head of those that compass me about, let the mischief of their own lips cover them.
From now on let no one cause me trouble, for I bear the marks of Jesus on my body.
From henceforth let no man trouble me: for I bear in my body the marks of the Lord Jesus.
but then he may go free, he and his children with him, and may return to his family and to the property of his ancestors.
And [then] shall he depart from thee, [both] he and his children with him, and shall return unto his own family, and unto the possession of his fathers shall he return.
I will also hand King Zedekiah of Judah and his officials over to their enemies who want to kill them. I will hand them over to the army of the king of Babylon, even though they have temporarily withdrawn from attacking you.
And Zedekiah king of Judah and his princes will I give into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of them that seek their life, and into the hand of the king of Babylon's army, which are gone up from you.
This is from the Lord, and it is marvelous in our eyes’?”
‹This was the Lord's doing, and it is marvellous in our eyes?›
If the foot says,“Since I am not a hand, I am not part of the body,” it does not lose its membership in the body because of that.
If the foot shall say, Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body?
for they aroused his temper, and he spoke rashly.
Because they provoked his spirit, so that he spake unadvisedly with his lips.
Ungodly Complainers Provoke God’s Wrath“Now a word was secretly brought to me, and my ear caught a whisper of it.
Now a thing was secretly brought to me, and mine ear received a little thereof.
O LORD my God, I cried out to you and you healed me.
O LORD my God, I cried unto thee, and thou hast healed me.
The name of his brother was Jubal
And his brother's name [was] Jubal: he was the father of all such as handle the harp and organ.
I was embarrassed to request soldiers and horsemen from the king to protect us from the enemy along the way, because we had said to the king,“The good hand of our God is on everyone who is seeking him, but his great anger is against everyone who forsakes him.”
For I was ashamed to require of the king a band of soldiers and horsemen to help us against the enemy in the way: because we had spoken unto the king, saying, The hand of our God [is] upon all them for good that seek him; but his power and his wrath [is] against all them that forsake him.
But I am a worm, not a man; people insult me and despise me.
But I [am] a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised of the people.
In the speech of a fool is a rod for his back, but the words of the wise protect them.
In the mouth of the foolish [is] a rod of pride: but the lips of the wise shall preserve them.