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         <div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="GEN.49.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">&#8220;Issachar is a rawboned</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">49:14 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">strong</span></span></span><span class="content"> donkey</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="GEN.49.14"><span class="content">lying down among the sheep pens.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">49:14 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">the campfires</span><span class="ft">; or </span><span class="fqa">the saddlebags</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="GEN.49.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="GEN.49.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">When he sees how good is his resting place</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="GEN.49.15"><span class="content">and how pleasant is his land,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="GEN.49.15"><span class="content">he will bend his shoulder to the burden</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="GEN.49.15"><span class="content">and submit to forced labor.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="GEN.49.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="GEN.49.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">&#8220;Dan</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">49:16 </span><span class="fq">Dan </span><span class="ft">here means </span><span class="fqa">he provides </span><span class="fq">justice</span><span class="fqa">.</span></span></span><span class="content"> will provide justice for his people</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="GEN.49.16"><span class="content">as one of the tribes of Israel.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="GEN.49.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="GEN.49.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Dan will be a snake by the roadside,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="GEN.49.17"><span class="content">a viper along the path,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="GEN.49.17"><span class="content">that bites the horse&#8217;s heels</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="GEN.49.17"><span class="content">so that its rider tumbles backward.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="GEN.49.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="GEN.49.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">&#8220;I look for your deliverance, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="GEN.49.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="GEN.49.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">&#8220;Gad</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">49:19 </span><span class="fq">Gad </span><span class="ft">sounds like the Hebrew for </span><span class="fq">attack </span><span class="ft">and also for </span><span class="fq">band of raiders</span><span class="fqa">.</span></span></span><span class="content"> will be attacked by a band of raiders,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="GEN.49.19"><span class="content">but he will attack them at their heels.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="GEN.49.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="GEN.49.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">&#8220;Asher&#8217;s food will be rich;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="GEN.49.20"><span class="content">he will provide delicacies fit for a king.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="GEN.49.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="GEN.49.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">&#8220;Naphtali is a doe set free</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="GEN.49.21"><span class="content">that bears beautiful fawns.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">49:21 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">free; / he utters beautiful words</span></span></span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="GEN.49.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="GEN.49.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">&#8220;Joseph is a fruitful vine,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="GEN.49.22"><span class="content">a fruitful vine near a spring,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="GEN.49.22"><span class="content">whose branches climb over a wall.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">49:22 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">Joseph is a wild colt, / a wild colt near a spring, / a wild donkey on a terraced hill</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="GEN.49.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="GEN.49.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">With bitterness archers attacked him;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="GEN.49.23"><span class="content">they shot at him with hostility.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="GEN.49.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="GEN.49.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">But his bow remained steady,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="GEN.49.24"><span class="content">his strong arms stayed</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">49:23,24 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">archers will attack&#8230; will shoot&#8230; will remain&#8230; will stay</span></span></span><span class="content"> limber,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="GEN.49.24"><span class="content">because of the hand of the Mighty One of Jacob,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="GEN.49.24"><span class="content">because of the Shepherd, the Rock of Israel,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="GEN.49.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="GEN.49.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">because of your father&#8217;s God, who helps you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="GEN.49.25"><span class="content">because of the Almighty,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">49:25 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">Shaddai</span></span></span><span class="content"> who blesses you</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="GEN.49.25"><span class="content">with blessings of the skies above,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="GEN.49.25"><span class="content">blessings of the deep springs below,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="GEN.49.25"><span class="content">blessings of the breast and womb.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="GEN.49.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="GEN.49.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">Your father&#8217;s blessings are greater</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="GEN.49.26"><span class="content">than the blessings of the ancient mountains,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="GEN.49.26"><span class="content">than</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">49:26 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">of my progenitors, / as great as</span></span></span><span class="content"> the bounty of the age-old hills.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="GEN.49.26"><span class="content">Let all these rest on the head of Joseph,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="GEN.49.26"><span class="content">on the brow of the prince among</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">49:26 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">of the one separated from</span></span></span><span class="content"> his brothers.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="GEN.49.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="GEN.49.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">&#8220;Benjamin is a ravenous wolf;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="GEN.49.27"><span class="content">in the morning he devours the prey,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="GEN.49.27"><span class="content">in the evening he divides the plunder.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="GEN.49.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="GEN.49.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">All these are the twelve tribes of Israel, and this is what their father said to them when he blessed them, giving each the blessing appropriate to him.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="1SA.17.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Now the Philistines gathered their forces for war and assembled at Sokoh in Judah. They pitched camp at Ephes Dammim, between Sokoh and Azekah. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="1SA.17.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Saul and the Israelites assembled and camped in the Valley of Elah and drew up their battle line to meet the Philistines. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="1SA.17.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">The Philistines occupied one hill and the Israelites another, with the valley between them.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="1SA.17.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="1SA.17.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">A champion named Goliath, who was from Gath, came out of the Philistine camp. His height was six cubits and a span.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">17:4 </span><span class="ft">That is, about 9 feet 9 inches or about 3 meters</span></span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="1SA.17.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">He had a bronze helmet on his head and wore a coat of scale armor of bronze weighing five thousand shekels</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">17:5 </span><span class="ft">That is, about 125 pounds or about 58 kilograms</span></span></span><span class="content">; </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="1SA.17.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">on his legs he wore bronze greaves, and a bronze javelin was slung on his back. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="1SA.17.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">His spear shaft was like a weaver&#8217;s rod, and its iron point weighed six hundred shekels.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">17:7 </span><span class="ft">That is, about 15 pounds or about 6.9 kilograms</span></span></span><span class="content"> His shield bearer went ahead of him.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="1SA.17.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="1SA.17.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Goliath stood and shouted to the ranks of Israel, &#8220;Why do you come out and line up for battle? Am I not a Philistine, and are you not the servants of Saul? Choose a man and have him come down to me. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="1SA.17.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">If he is able to fight and kill me, we will become your subjects; but if I overcome him and kill him, you will become our subjects and serve us.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="1SA.17.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Then the Philistine said, &#8220;This day I defy the armies of Israel! Give me a man and let us fight each other.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="1SA.17.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">On hearing the Philistine&#8217;s words, Saul and all the Israelites were dismayed and terrified.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="1SA.17.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="1SA.17.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Now David was the son of an Ephrathite named Jesse, who was from Bethlehem in Judah. Jesse had eight sons, and in Saul&#8217;s time he was very old. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="1SA.17.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Jesse&#8217;s three oldest sons had followed Saul to the war: The firstborn was Eliab; the second, Abinadab; and the third, Shammah. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="1SA.17.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">David was the youngest. The three oldest followed Saul, </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="1SA.17.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">but David went back and forth from Saul to tend his father&#8217;s sheep at Bethlehem.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="1SA.17.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="1SA.17.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">For forty days the Philistine came forward every morning and evening and took his stand.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="1SA.17.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="1SA.17.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Now Jesse said to his son David, &#8220;Take this ephah</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">17:17 </span><span class="ft">That is, probably about 36 pounds or about 16 kilograms</span></span></span><span class="content"> of roasted grain and these ten loaves of bread for your brothers and hurry to their camp. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="1SA.17.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Take along these ten cheeses to the commander of their unit. See how your brothers are and bring back some assurance</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">17:18 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">some token</span><span class="ft">; or </span><span class="fqa">some pledge of spoils</span></span></span><span class="content"> from them. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="1SA.17.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">They are with Saul and all the men of Israel in the Valley of Elah, fighting against the Philistines.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="1SA.17.19"><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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         <div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.24.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">&#8220;There are those who rebel against the light,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.24.13"><span class="content">who do not know its ways</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.24.13"><span class="content">or stay in its paths.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.24.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.24.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">When daylight is gone, the murderer rises up,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.24.14"><span class="content">kills the poor and needy,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.24.14"><span class="content">and in the night steals forth like a thief.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.24.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.24.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">The eye of the adulterer watches for dusk;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.24.15"><span class="content">he thinks, &#8216;No eye will see me,&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.24.15"><span class="content">and he keeps his face concealed.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.24.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.24.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">In the dark, thieves break into houses,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.24.16"><span class="content">but by day they shut themselves in;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.24.16"><span class="content">they want nothing to do with the light.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.24.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.24.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">For all of them, midnight is their morning;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.24.17"><span class="content">they make friends with the terrors of darkness.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.24.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.24.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">&#8220;Yet they are foam on the surface of the water;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.24.18"><span class="content">their portion of the land is cursed,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.24.18"><span class="content">so that no one goes to the vineyards.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.24.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.24.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">As heat and drought snatch away the melted snow,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.24.19"><span class="content">so the grave snatches away those who have sinned.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.24.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.24.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">The womb forgets them,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.24.20"><span class="content">the worm feasts on them;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.24.20"><span class="content">the wicked are no longer remembered</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.24.20"><span class="content">but are broken like a tree.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.24.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.24.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">They prey on the barren and childless woman,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.24.21"><span class="content">and to the widow they show no kindness.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.24.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.24.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">But God drags away the mighty by his power;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.24.22"><span class="content">though they become established, they have no assurance of life.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.24.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.24.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">He may let them rest in a feeling of security,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.24.23"><span class="content">but his eyes are on their ways.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.24.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.24.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">For a little while they are exalted, and then they are gone;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.24.24"><span class="content">they are brought low and gathered up like all others;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.24.24"><span class="content">they are cut off like heads of grain.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.24.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.24.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">&#8220;If this is not so, who can prove me false</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.24.25"><span class="content">and reduce my words to nothing?&#8221;</span></span></div>
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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="DAN.2.36"><span class="label">36</span><span class="content">&#8220;This was the dream, and now we will interpret it to the king. </span></span><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="DAN.2.37"><span class="label">37</span><span class="content">Your Majesty, you are the king of kings. The God of heaven has given you dominion and power and might and glory; </span></span><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="DAN.2.38"><span class="label">38</span><span class="content">in your hands he has placed all mankind and the beasts of the field and the birds in the sky. Wherever they live, he has made you ruler over them all. You are that head of gold.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="DAN.2.38"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="DAN.2.39"><span class="label">39</span><span class="content">&#8220;After you, another kingdom will arise, inferior to yours. Next, a third kingdom, one of bronze, will rule over the whole earth. </span></span><span class="verse v40" data-usfm="DAN.2.40"><span class="label">40</span><span class="content">Finally, there will be a fourth kingdom, strong as iron&#8212;for iron breaks and smashes everything&#8212;and as iron breaks things to pieces, so it will crush and break all the others. </span></span><span class="verse v41" data-usfm="DAN.2.41"><span class="label">41</span><span class="content">Just as you saw that the feet and toes were partly of baked clay and partly of iron, so this will be a divided kingdom; yet it will have some of the strength of iron in it, even as you saw iron mixed with clay. </span></span><span class="verse v42" data-usfm="DAN.2.42"><span class="label">42</span><span class="content">As the toes were partly iron and partly clay, so this kingdom will be partly strong and partly brittle. </span></span><span class="verse v43" data-usfm="DAN.2.43"><span class="label">43</span><span class="content">And just as you saw the iron mixed with baked clay, so the people will be a mixture and will not remain united, any more than iron mixes with clay.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v43" data-usfm="DAN.2.43"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v44" data-usfm="DAN.2.44"><span class="label">44</span><span class="content">&#8220;In the time of those kings, the God of heaven will set up a kingdom that will never be destroyed, nor will it be left to another people. It will crush all those kingdoms and bring them to an end, but it will itself endure forever. </span></span><span class="verse v45" data-usfm="DAN.2.45"><span class="label">45</span><span class="content">This is the meaning of the vision of the rock cut out of a mountain, but not by human hands&#8212;a rock that broke the iron, the bronze, the clay, the silver and the gold to pieces.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v45" data-usfm="DAN.2.45"><span class="content">&#8220;The great God has shown the king what will take place in the future. The dream is true and its interpretation is trustworthy.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v45" data-usfm="DAN.2.45"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v46" data-usfm="DAN.2.46"><span class="label">46</span><span class="content">Then King Nebuchadnezzar fell prostrate before Daniel and paid him honor and ordered that an offering and incense be presented to him. </span></span><span class="verse v47" data-usfm="DAN.2.47"><span class="label">47</span><span class="content">The king said to Daniel, &#8220;Surely your God is the God of gods and the Lord of kings and a revealer of mysteries, for you were able to reveal this mystery.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v47" data-usfm="DAN.2.47"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v48" data-usfm="DAN.2.48"><span class="label">48</span><span class="content">Then the king placed Daniel in a high position and lavished many gifts on him. He made him ruler over the entire province of Babylon and placed him in charge of all its wise men. </span></span><span class="verse v49" data-usfm="DAN.2.49"><span class="label">49</span><span class="content">Moreover, at Daniel&#8217;s request the king appointed Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego administrators over the province of Babylon, while Daniel himself remained at the royal court.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="MRK.1.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">They went to Capernaum, and when the Sabbath came, Jesus went into the synagogue and began to teach. </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="MRK.1.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">The people were amazed at his teaching, because he taught them as one who had authority, not as the teachers of the law. </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="MRK.1.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Just then a man in their synagogue who was possessed by an impure spirit cried out, </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="MRK.1.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">&#8220;What do you want with us, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are&#8212;the Holy One of God!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="MRK.1.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="MRK.1.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Be quiet!&#8221;</span></span><span class="content"> said Jesus sternly. </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;Come out of him!&#8221;</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="MRK.1.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">The impure spirit shook the man violently and came out of him with a shriek.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="MRK.1.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="MRK.1.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">The people were all so amazed that they asked each other, &#8220;What is this? A new teaching&#8212;and with authority! He even gives orders to impure spirits and they obey him.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="MRK.1.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">News about him spread quickly over the whole region of Galilee.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Jesus Heals Many</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="MRK.1.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="MRK.1.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">As soon as they left the synagogue, they went with James and John to the home of Simon and Andrew. </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="MRK.1.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">Simon&#8217;s mother-in-law was in bed with a fever, and they immediately told Jesus about her. </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="MRK.1.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">So he went to her, took her hand and helped her up. The fever left her and she began to wait on them.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="MRK.1.31"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="MRK.1.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">That evening after sunset the people brought to Jesus all the sick and demon-possessed. </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="MRK.1.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">The whole town gathered at the door, </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="MRK.1.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">and Jesus healed many who had various diseases. He also drove out many demons, but he would not let the demons speak because they knew who he was.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="1CO.15.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Now, brothers and sisters, I want to remind you of the gospel I preached to you, which you received and on which you have taken your stand. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="1CO.15.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">By this gospel you are saved, if you hold firmly to the word I preached to you. Otherwise, you have believed in vain.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="1CO.15.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="1CO.15.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">For what I received I passed on to you as of first importance</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">15:3 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">you at the first</span></span></span><span class="content">: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="1CO.15.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures, </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="1CO.15.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">and that he appeared to Cephas,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">15:5 </span><span class="ft">That is, Peter</span></span></span><span class="content"> and then to the Twelve. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="1CO.15.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">After that, he appeared to more than five hundred of the brothers and sisters at the same time, most of whom are still living, though some have fallen asleep. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="1CO.15.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Then he appeared to James, then to all the apostles, </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="1CO.15.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">and last of all he appeared to me also, as to one abnormally born.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="1CO.15.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="1CO.15.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">For I am the least of the apostles and do not even deserve to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="1CO.15.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace to me was not without effect. No, I worked harder than all of them&#8212;yet not I, but the grace of God that was with me. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="1CO.15.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Whether, then, it is I or they, this is what we preach, and this is what you believed.</span></span></div>
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