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            <div class="label">11</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Northern Kings Defeated</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOS.11.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">When Jabin king of Hazor heard of this, he sent word to Jobab king of Madon, to the kings of Shimron and Akshaph, </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOS.11.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">and to the northern kings who were in the mountains, in the Arabah south of Kinnereth, in the western foothills and in Naphoth Dor on the west; </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOS.11.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">to the Canaanites in the east and west; to the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites and Jebusites in the hill country; and to the Hivites below Hermon in the region of Mizpah. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOS.11.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">They came out with all their troops and a large number of horses and chariots&#8212;a huge army, as numerous as the sand on the seashore. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOS.11.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">All these kings joined forces and made camp together at the Waters of Merom to fight against Israel.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOS.11.5"></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOS.11.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to Joshua, &#8220;Do not be afraid of them, because by this time tomorrow I will hand all of them, slain, over to Israel. You are to hamstring their horses and burn their chariots.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOS.11.6"></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOS.11.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">So Joshua and his whole army came against them suddenly at the Waters of Merom and attacked them, </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOS.11.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">and the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> gave them into the hand of Israel. They defeated them and pursued them all the way to Greater Sidon, to Misrephoth Maim, and to the Valley of Mizpah on the east, until no survivors were left. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOS.11.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Joshua did to them as the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> had directed: He hamstrung their horses and burned their chariots.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOS.11.9"></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOS.11.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">At that time Joshua turned back and captured Hazor and put its king to the sword. (Hazor had been the head of all these kingdoms.) </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOS.11.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Everyone in it they put to the sword. They totally destroyed</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">11:11 </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew term refers to the irrevocable giving over of things or persons to the <span class="nd">Lord</span>, often by totally destroying them; also in verses 12, 20 and 21.</span></span></span><span class="content"> them, not sparing anyone that breathed, and he burned Hazor itself.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOS.11.11"></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOS.11.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Joshua took all these royal cities and their kings and put them to the sword. He totally destroyed them, as Moses the servant of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> had commanded. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOS.11.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Yet Israel did not burn any of the cities built on their mounds&#8212;except Hazor, which Joshua burned. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOS.11.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">The Israelites carried off for themselves all the plunder and livestock of these cities, but all the people they put to the sword until they completely destroyed them, not sparing anyone that breathed. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOS.11.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">As the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> commanded his servant Moses, so Moses commanded Joshua, and Joshua did it; he left nothing undone of all that the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> commanded Moses.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOS.11.15"></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOS.11.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">So Joshua took this entire land: the hill country, all the Negev, the whole region of Goshen, the western foothills, the Arabah and the mountains of Israel with their foothills, </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOS.11.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">from Mount Halak, which rises toward Seir, to Baal Gad in the Valley of Lebanon below Mount Hermon. He captured all their kings and put them to death. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOS.11.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Joshua waged war against all these kings for a long time. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOS.11.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Except for the Hivites living in Gibeon, not one city made a treaty of peace with the Israelites, who took them all in battle. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOS.11.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">For it was the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> himself who hardened their hearts to wage war against Israel, so that he might destroy them totally, exterminating them without mercy, as the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> had commanded Moses.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOS.11.20"></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOS.11.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">At that time Joshua went and destroyed the Anakites from the hill country: from Hebron, Debir and Anab, from all the hill country of Judah, and from all the hill country of Israel. Joshua totally destroyed them and their towns. </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOS.11.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">No Anakites were left in Israelite territory; only in Gaza, Gath and Ashdod did any survive.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOS.11.22"></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOS.11.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">So Joshua took the entire land, just as the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> had directed Moses, and he gave it as an inheritance to Israel according to their tribal divisions. Then the land had rest from war.</span></span></div>
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        <div class="chapter ch5" data-usfm="JOB.5">
            <div class="label">5</div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.5.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">&#8220;Call if you will, but who will answer you?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.5.1"><span class="content">To which of the holy ones will you turn?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.5.1"></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.5.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Resentment kills a fool,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.5.2"><span class="content">and envy slays the simple.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.5.2"></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.5.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">I myself have seen a fool taking root,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.5.3"><span class="content">but suddenly his house was cursed.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.5.3"></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.5.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">His children are far from safety,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.5.4"><span class="content">crushed in court without a defender.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.5.4"></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.5.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">The hungry consume his harvest,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.5.5"><span class="content">taking it even from among thorns,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.5.5"><span class="content">and the thirsty pant after his wealth.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.5.5"></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.5.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">For hardship does not spring from the soil,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.5.6"><span class="content">nor does trouble sprout from the ground.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.5.6"></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.5.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Yet man is born to trouble</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.5.7"><span class="content">as surely as sparks fly upward.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.5.7"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.5.7"></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.5.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">&#8220;But if I were you, I would appeal to God;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.5.8"><span class="content">I would lay my cause before him.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.5.8"></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.5.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">He performs wonders that cannot be fathomed,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.5.9"><span class="content">miracles that cannot be counted.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.5.9"></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.5.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">He provides rain for the earth;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.5.10"><span class="content">he sends water on the countryside.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.5.10"></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.5.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">The lowly he sets on high,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.5.11"><span class="content">and those who mourn are lifted to safety.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.5.11"></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.5.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">He thwarts the plans of the crafty,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.5.12"><span class="content">so that their hands achieve no success.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.5.12"></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.5.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">He catches the wise in their craftiness,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.5.13"><span class="content">and the schemes of the wily are swept away.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.5.13"></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.5.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Darkness comes upon them in the daytime;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.5.14"><span class="content">at noon they grope as in the night.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.5.14"></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.5.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">He saves the needy from the sword in their mouth;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.5.15"><span class="content">he saves them from the clutches of the powerful.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.5.15"></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.5.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">So the poor have hope,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.5.16"><span class="content">and injustice shuts its mouth.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.5.16"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.5.16"></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.5.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">&#8220;Blessed is the one whom God corrects;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.5.17"><span class="content">so do not despise the discipline of the Almighty.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">5:17 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">Shaddai</span><span class="ft">; here and throughout Job</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.5.17"></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.5.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">For he wounds, but he also binds up;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.5.18"><span class="content">he injures, but his hands also heal.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.5.18"></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.5.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">From six calamities he will rescue you;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.5.19"><span class="content">in seven no harm will touch you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.5.19"></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.5.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">In famine he will deliver you from death,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.5.20"><span class="content">and in battle from the stroke of the sword.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.5.20"></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.5.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">You will be protected from the lash of the tongue,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.5.21"><span class="content">and need not fear when destruction comes.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.5.21"></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.5.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">You will laugh at destruction and famine,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.5.22"><span class="content">and need not fear the wild animals.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.5.22"></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.5.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">For you will have a covenant with the stones of the field,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.5.23"><span class="content">and the wild animals will be at peace with you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.5.23"></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.5.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">You will know that your tent is secure;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.5.24"><span class="content">you will take stock of your property and find nothing missing.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.5.24"></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.5.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">You will know that your children will be many,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.5.25"><span class="content">and your descendants like the grass of the earth.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.5.25"></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.5.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">You will come to the grave in full vigor,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.5.26"><span class="content">like sheaves gathered in season.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.5.26"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.5.26"></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOB.5.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">&#8220;We have examined this, and it is true.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOB.5.27"><span class="content">So hear it and apply it to yourself.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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        <div class="chapter ch16" data-usfm="ISA.16">
            <div class="label">16</div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.16.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Send lambs as tribute</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.16.1"><span class="content">to the ruler of the land,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.16.1"><span class="content">from Sela, across the desert,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.16.1"><span class="content">to the mount of Daughter Zion.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.16.1"></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.16.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Like fluttering birds</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.16.2"><span class="content">pushed from the nest,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.16.2"><span class="content">so are the women of Moab</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.16.2"><span class="content">at the fords of the Arnon.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.16.2"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.16.2"></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.16.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">&#8220;Make up your mind,&#8221; Moab says.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.16.3"><span class="content">&#8220;Render a decision.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.16.3"><span class="content">Make your shadow like night&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.16.3"><span class="content">at high noon.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.16.3"><span class="content">Hide the fugitives,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.16.3"><span class="content">do not betray the refugees.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.16.3"></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.16.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Let the Moabite fugitives stay with you;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.16.4"><span class="content">be their shelter from the destroyer.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.16.4"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.16.4"><span class="content">The oppressor will come to an end,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.16.4"><span class="content">and destruction will cease;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.16.4"><span class="content">the aggressor will vanish from the land.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.16.4"></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.16.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">In love a throne will be established;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.16.5"><span class="content">in faithfulness a man will sit on it&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.16.5"><span class="content">one from the house</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">16:5 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">tent</span></span></span><span class="content"> of David&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.16.5"><span class="content">one who in judging seeks justice</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.16.5"><span class="content">and speeds the cause of righteousness.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.16.5"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.16.5"></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.16.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">We have heard of Moab&#8217;s pride&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.16.6"><span class="content">how great is her arrogance!&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.16.6"><span class="content">of her conceit, her pride and her insolence;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.16.6"><span class="content">but her boasts are empty.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.16.6"></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.16.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Therefore the Moabites wail,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.16.7"><span class="content">they wail together for Moab.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.16.7"><span class="content">Lament and grieve</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.16.7"><span class="content">for the raisin cakes of Kir Hareseth.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.16.7"></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.16.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">The fields of Heshbon wither,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.16.8"><span class="content">the vines of Sibmah also.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.16.8"><span class="content">The rulers of the nations</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.16.8"><span class="content">have trampled down the choicest vines,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.16.8"><span class="content">which once reached Jazer</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.16.8"><span class="content">and spread toward the desert.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.16.8"><span class="content">Their shoots spread out</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.16.8"><span class="content">and went as far as the sea.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">16:8 </span><span class="ft">Probably the Dead Sea</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.16.8"></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.16.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">So I weep, as Jazer weeps,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.16.9"><span class="content">for the vines of Sibmah.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.16.9"><span class="content">Heshbon and Elealeh,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.16.9"><span class="content">I drench you with tears!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.16.9"><span class="content">The shouts of joy over your ripened fruit</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.16.9"><span class="content">and over your harvests have been stilled.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.16.9"></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.16.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Joy and gladness are taken away from the orchards;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.16.10"><span class="content">no one sings or shouts in the vineyards;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.16.10"><span class="content">no one treads out wine at the presses,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.16.10"><span class="content">for I have put an end to the shouting.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.16.10"></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.16.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">My heart laments for Moab like a harp,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.16.11"><span class="content">my inmost being for Kir Hareseth.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.16.11"></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.16.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">When Moab appears at her high place,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.16.12"><span class="content">she only wears herself out;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.16.12"><span class="content">when she goes to her shrine to pray,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.16.12"><span class="content">it is to no avail.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.16.12"></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.16.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">This is the word the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has already spoken concerning Moab. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.16.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">But now the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says: &#8220;Within three years, as a servant bound by contract would count them, Moab&#8217;s splendor and all her many people will be despised, and her survivors will be very few and feeble.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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            <div class="label">21</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">On to Jerusalem</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ACT.21.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">After we had torn ourselves away from them, we put out to sea and sailed straight to Kos. The next day we went to Rhodes and from there to Patara. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ACT.21.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">We found a ship crossing over to Phoenicia, went on board and set sail. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ACT.21.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">After sighting Cyprus and passing to the south of it, we sailed on to Syria. We landed at Tyre, where our ship was to unload its cargo. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ACT.21.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">We sought out the disciples there and stayed with them seven days. Through the Spirit they urged Paul not to go on to Jerusalem. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ACT.21.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">When it was time to leave, we left and continued on our way. All of them, including wives and children, accompanied us out of the city, and there on the beach we knelt to pray. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ACT.21.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">After saying goodbye to each other, we went aboard the ship, and they returned home.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ACT.21.6"></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ACT.21.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">We continued our voyage from Tyre and landed at Ptolemais, where we greeted the brothers and sisters and stayed with them for a day. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ACT.21.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Leaving the next day, we reached Caesarea and stayed at the house of Philip the evangelist, one of the Seven. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ACT.21.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">He had four unmarried daughters who prophesied.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ACT.21.9"></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ACT.21.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">After we had been there a number of days, a prophet named Agabus came down from Judea. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ACT.21.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Coming over to us, he took Paul&#8217;s belt, tied his own hands and feet with it and said, &#8220;The Holy Spirit says, &#8216;In this way the Jewish leaders in Jerusalem will bind the owner of this belt and will hand him over to the Gentiles.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ACT.21.11"></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ACT.21.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">When we heard this, we and the people there pleaded with Paul not to go up to Jerusalem. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ACT.21.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Then Paul answered, &#8220;Why are you weeping and breaking my heart? I am ready not only to be bound, but also to die in Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ACT.21.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">When he would not be dissuaded, we gave up and said, &#8220;The Lord&#8217;s will be done.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ACT.21.14"></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ACT.21.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">After this, we started on our way up to Jerusalem. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ACT.21.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Some of the disciples from Caesarea accompanied us and brought us to the home of Mnason, where we were to stay. He was a man from Cyprus and one of the early disciples.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Paul&#8217;s Arrival at Jerusalem</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ACT.21.16"></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ACT.21.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">When we arrived at Jerusalem, the brothers and sisters received us warmly. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ACT.21.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">The next day Paul and the rest of us went to see James, and all the elders were present. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ACT.21.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Paul greeted them and reported in detail what God had done among the Gentiles through his ministry.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ACT.21.19"></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ACT.21.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">When they heard this, they praised God. Then they said to Paul: &#8220;You see, brother, how many thousands of Jews have believed, and all of them are zealous for the law. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ACT.21.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">They have been informed that you teach all the Jews who live among the Gentiles to turn away from Moses, telling them not to circumcise their children or live according to our customs. </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ACT.21.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">What shall we do? They will certainly hear that you have come, </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ACT.21.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">so do what we tell you. There are four men with us who have made a vow. </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="ACT.21.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">Take these men, join in their purification rites and pay their expenses, so that they can have their heads shaved. Then everyone will know there is no truth in these reports about you, but that you yourself are living in obedience to the law. </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ACT.21.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">As for the Gentile believers, we have written to them our decision that they should abstain from food sacrificed to idols, from blood, from the meat of strangled animals and from sexual immorality.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ACT.21.25"></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="ACT.21.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">The next day Paul took the men and purified himself along with them. Then he went to the temple to give notice of the date when the days of purification would end and the offering would be made for each of them.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Paul Arrested</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="ACT.21.26"></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="ACT.21.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">When the seven days were nearly over, some Jews from the province of Asia saw Paul at the temple. They stirred up the whole crowd and seized him, </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="ACT.21.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">shouting, &#8220;Fellow Israelites, help us! This is the man who teaches everyone everywhere against our people and our law and this place. And besides, he has brought Greeks into the temple and defiled this holy place.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="ACT.21.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">(They had previously seen Trophimus the Ephesian in the city with Paul and assumed that Paul had brought him into the temple.)</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="ACT.21.29"></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="ACT.21.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">The whole city was aroused, and the people came running from all directions. Seizing Paul, they dragged him from the temple, and immediately the gates were shut. </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="ACT.21.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">While they were trying to kill him, news reached the commander of the Roman troops that the whole city of Jerusalem was in an uproar. </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="ACT.21.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">He at once took some officers and soldiers and ran down to the crowd. When the rioters saw the commander and his soldiers, they stopped beating Paul.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="ACT.21.32"></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="ACT.21.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">The commander came up and arrested him and ordered him to be bound with two chains. Then he asked who he was and what he had done. </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="ACT.21.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">Some in the crowd shouted one thing and some another, and since the commander could not get at the truth because of the uproar, he ordered that Paul be taken into the barracks. </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="ACT.21.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content">When Paul reached the steps, the violence of the mob was so great he had to be carried by the soldiers. </span></span><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="ACT.21.36"><span class="label">36</span><span class="content">The crowd that followed kept shouting, &#8220;Get rid of him!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Paul Speaks to the Crowd</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="ACT.21.36"></span><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="ACT.21.37"><span class="label">37</span><span class="content">As the soldiers were about to take Paul into the barracks, he asked the commander, &#8220;May I say something to you?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="ACT.21.37"><span class="content">&#8220;Do you speak Greek?&#8221; he replied. </span></span><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="ACT.21.38"><span class="label">38</span><span class="content">&#8220;Aren&#8217;t you the Egyptian who started a revolt and led four thousand terrorists out into the wilderness some time ago?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="ACT.21.38"></span><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="ACT.21.39"><span class="label">39</span><span class="content">Paul answered, &#8220;I am a Jew, from Tarsus in Cilicia, a citizen of no ordinary city. Please let me speak to the people.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="ACT.21.39"></span><span class="verse v40" data-usfm="ACT.21.40"><span class="label">40</span><span class="content">After receiving the commander&#8217;s permission, Paul stood on the steps and motioned to the crowd. When they were all silent, he said to them in Aramaic</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">21:40 </span><span class="ft">Or possibly </span><span class="fqa">Hebrew</span><span class="ft">; also in 22:2</span></span></span><span class="content">:</span></span></div>
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