"An INVITATION to FOLLOW : A 5-Day Journey Into Discipleship"

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      <div class="chapter ch17" data-usfm="JOS.17">
         <div class="label">17</div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOS.17.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">This was the allotment for the tribe of Manasseh as Joseph&#8217;s firstborn, that is, for Makir, Manasseh&#8217;s firstborn. Makir was the ancestor of the Gileadites, who had received Gilead and Bashan because the Makirites were great soldiers. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOS.17.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">So this allotment was for the rest of the people of Manasseh&#8212;the clans of Abiezer, Helek, Asriel, Shechem, Hepher and Shemida. These are the other male descendants of Manasseh son of Joseph by their clans.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOS.17.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOS.17.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Now Zelophehad son of Hepher, the son of Gilead, the son of Makir, the son of Manasseh, had no sons but only daughters, whose names were Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milkah and Tirzah. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOS.17.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">They went to Eleazar the priest, Joshua son of Nun, and the leaders and said, &#8220;The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> commanded Moses to give us an inheritance among our relatives.&#8221; So Joshua gave them an inheritance along with the brothers of their father, according to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s command. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOS.17.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Manasseh&#8217;s share consisted of ten tracts of land besides Gilead and Bashan east of the Jordan, </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOS.17.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">because the daughters of the tribe of Manasseh received an inheritance among the sons. The land of Gilead belonged to the rest of the descendants of Manasseh.</span></span></div><div class="pi1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOS.17.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOS.17.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">The territory of Manasseh extended from Asher to Mikmethath east of Shechem. The boundary ran southward from there to include the people living at En Tappuah. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOS.17.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">(Manasseh had the land of Tappuah, but Tappuah itself, on the boundary of Manasseh, belonged to the Ephraimites.) </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOS.17.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Then the boundary continued south to the Kanah Ravine. There were towns belonging to Ephraim lying among the towns of Manasseh, but the boundary of Manasseh was the northern side of the ravine and ended at the Mediterranean Sea. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOS.17.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">On the south the land belonged to Ephraim, on the north to Manasseh. The territory of Manasseh reached the Mediterranean Sea and bordered Asher on the north and Issachar on the east.</span></span></div><div class="pi1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOS.17.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOS.17.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Within Issachar and Asher, Manasseh also had Beth Shan, Ibleam and the people of Dor, Endor, Taanach and Megiddo, together with their surrounding settlements (the third in the list is Naphoth</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">17:11 </span><span class="ft">That is, Naphoth Dor</span></span></span><span class="content">).</span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOS.17.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOS.17.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Yet the Manassites were not able to occupy these towns, for the Canaanites were determined to live in that region. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOS.17.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">However, when the Israelites grew stronger, they subjected the Canaanites to forced labor but did not drive them out completely.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOS.17.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOS.17.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">The people of Joseph said to Joshua, &#8220;Why have you given us only one allotment and one portion for an inheritance? We are a numerous people, and the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has blessed us abundantly.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOS.17.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOS.17.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">&#8220;If you are so numerous,&#8221; Joshua answered, &#8220;and if the hill country of Ephraim is too small for you, go up into the forest and clear land for yourselves there in the land of the Perizzites and Rephaites.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOS.17.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOS.17.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">The people of Joseph replied, &#8220;The hill country is not enough for us, and all the Canaanites who live in the plain have chariots fitted with iron, both those in Beth Shan and its settlements and those in the Valley of Jezreel.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOS.17.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOS.17.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">But Joshua said to the tribes of Joseph&#8212;to Ephraim and Manasseh&#8212;&#8220;You are numerous and very powerful. You will have not only one allotment </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOS.17.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">but the forested hill country as well. Clear it, and its farthest limits will be yours; though the Canaanites have chariots fitted with iron and though they are strong, you can drive them out.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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   <div class="book bkJOB">
      <div class="chapter ch11" data-usfm="JOB.11">
         <div class="label">11</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Zophar</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.11.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Then Zophar the Naamathite replied:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.11.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.11.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">&#8220;Are all these words to go unanswered?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.11.2"><span class="content">Is this talker to be vindicated?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.11.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.11.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Will your idle talk reduce others to silence?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.11.3"><span class="content">Will no one rebuke you when you mock?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.11.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.11.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">You say to God, &#8216;My beliefs are flawless</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.11.4"><span class="content">and I am pure in your sight.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.11.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.11.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Oh, how I wish that God would speak,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.11.5"><span class="content">that he would open his lips against you</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.11.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.11.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">and disclose to you the secrets of wisdom,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.11.6"><span class="content">for true wisdom has two sides.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.11.6"><span class="content">Know this: God has even forgotten some of your sin.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.11.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.11.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">&#8220;Can you fathom the mysteries of God?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.11.7"><span class="content">Can you probe the limits of the Almighty?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.11.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.11.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">They are higher than the heavens above&#8212;what can you do?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.11.8"><span class="content">They are deeper than the depths below&#8212;what can you know?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.11.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.11.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Their measure is longer than the earth</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.11.9"><span class="content">and wider than the sea.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.11.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.11.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">&#8220;If he comes along and confines you in prison</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.11.10"><span class="content">and convenes a court, who can oppose him?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.11.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.11.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Surely he recognizes deceivers;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.11.11"><span class="content">and when he sees evil, does he not take note?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.11.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.11.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">But the witless can no more become wise</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.11.12"><span class="content">than a wild donkey&#8217;s colt can be born human.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">11:12 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">wild donkey can be born tame</span></span></span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.11.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.11.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">&#8220;Yet if you devote your heart to him</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.11.13"><span class="content">and stretch out your hands to him,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.11.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.11.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">if you put away the sin that is in your hand</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.11.14"><span class="content">and allow no evil to dwell in your tent,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.11.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.11.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">then, free of fault, you will lift up your face;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.11.15"><span class="content">you will stand firm and without fear.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.11.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.11.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">You will surely forget your trouble,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.11.16"><span class="content">recalling it only as waters gone by.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.11.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.11.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Life will be brighter than noonday,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.11.17"><span class="content">and darkness will become like morning.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.11.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.11.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">You will be secure, because there is hope;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.11.18"><span class="content">you will look about you and take your rest in safety.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.11.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.11.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">You will lie down, with no one to make you afraid,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.11.19"><span class="content">and many will court your favor.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.11.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.11.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">But the eyes of the wicked will fail,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.11.20"><span class="content">and escape will elude them;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.11.20"><span class="content">their hope will become a dying gasp.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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   <div class="book bkISA">
      <div class="chapter ch22" data-usfm="ISA.22">
         <div class="label">22</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">A Prophecy About Jerusalem</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.22.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">A prophecy against the Valley of Vision:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.22.1"><span class="content">What troubles you now,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.22.1"><span class="content">that you have all gone up on the roofs,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.22.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.22.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">you town so full of commotion,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.22.2"><span class="content">you city of tumult and revelry?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.22.2"><span class="content">Your slain were not killed by the sword,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.22.2"><span class="content">nor did they die in battle.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.22.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.22.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">All your leaders have fled together;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.22.3"><span class="content">they have been captured without using the bow.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.22.3"><span class="content">All you who were caught were taken prisoner together,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.22.3"><span class="content">having fled while the enemy was still far away.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.22.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.22.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Therefore I said, &#8220;Turn away from me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.22.4"><span class="content">let me weep bitterly.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.22.4"><span class="content">Do not try to console me</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.22.4"><span class="content">over the destruction of my people.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.22.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.22.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">The Lord, the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty, has a day</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.22.5"><span class="content">of tumult and trampling and terror</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.22.5"><span class="content">in the Valley of Vision,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.22.5"><span class="content">a day of battering down walls</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.22.5"><span class="content">and of crying out to the mountains.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.22.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.22.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Elam takes up the quiver,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.22.6"><span class="content">with her charioteers and horses;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.22.6"><span class="content">Kir uncovers the shield.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.22.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.22.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Your choicest valleys are full of chariots,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.22.7"><span class="content">and horsemen are posted at the city gates.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.22.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.22.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">The Lord stripped away the defenses of Judah,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.22.8"><span class="content">and you looked in that day</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.22.8"><span class="content">to the weapons in the Palace of the Forest.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.22.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.22.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">You saw that the walls of the City of David</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.22.9"><span class="content">were broken through in many places;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.22.9"><span class="content">you stored up water</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.22.9"><span class="content">in the Lower Pool.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.22.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.22.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">You counted the buildings in Jerusalem</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.22.10"><span class="content">and tore down houses to strengthen the wall.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.22.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.22.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">You built a reservoir between the two walls</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.22.11"><span class="content">for the water of the Old Pool,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.22.11"><span class="content">but you did not look to the One who made it,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.22.11"><span class="content">or have regard for the One who planned it long ago.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.22.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.22.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">The Lord, the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.22.12"><span class="content">called you on that day</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.22.12"><span class="content">to weep and to wail,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.22.12"><span class="content">to tear out your hair and put on sackcloth.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.22.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.22.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">But see, there is joy and revelry,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.22.13"><span class="content">slaughtering of cattle and killing of sheep,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.22.13"><span class="content">eating of meat and drinking of wine!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.22.13"><span class="content">&#8220;Let us eat and drink,&#8221; you say,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.22.13"><span class="content">&#8220;for tomorrow we die!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.22.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.22.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty has revealed this in my hearing: &#8220;Till your dying day this sin will not be atoned for,&#8221; says the Lord, the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.22.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.22.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">This is what the Lord, the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty, says:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.22.15"><span class="content">&#8220;Go, say to this steward,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.22.15"><span class="content">to Shebna the palace administrator:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.22.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.22.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">What are you doing here and who gave you permission</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.22.16"><span class="content">to cut out a grave for yourself here,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.22.16"><span class="content">hewing your grave on the height</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.22.16"><span class="content">and chiseling your resting place in the rock?</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.22.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.22.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">&#8220;Beware, the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> is about to take firm hold of you</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.22.17"><span class="content">and hurl you away, you mighty man.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.22.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.22.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">He will roll you up tightly like a ball</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.22.18"><span class="content">and throw you into a large country.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.22.18"><span class="content">There you will die</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.22.18"><span class="content">and there the chariots you were so proud of</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.22.18"><span class="content">will become a disgrace to your master&#8217;s house.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.22.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.22.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">I will depose you from your office,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.22.19"><span class="content">and you will be ousted from your position.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.22.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.22.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">&#8220;In that day I will summon my servant, Eliakim son of Hilkiah. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ISA.22.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">I will clothe him with your robe and fasten your sash around him and hand your authority over to him. He will be a father to those who live in Jerusalem and to the people of Judah. </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ISA.22.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">I will place on his shoulder the key to the house of David; what he opens no one can shut, and what he shuts no one can open. </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ISA.22.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">I will drive him like a peg into a firm place; he will become a seat</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">22:23 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">throne</span></span></span><span class="content"> of honor for the house of his father. </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="ISA.22.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">All the glory of his family will hang on him: its offspring and offshoots&#8212;all its lesser vessels, from the bowls to all the jars.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="ISA.22.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ISA.22.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">&#8220;In that day,&#8221; declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty, &#8220;the peg driven into the firm place will give way; it will be sheared off and will fall, and the load hanging on it will be cut down.&#8221; The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has spoken.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">27</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Paul Sails for Rome</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ACT.27.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">When it was decided that we would sail for Italy, Paul and some other prisoners were handed over to a centurion named Julius, who belonged to the Imperial Regiment. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ACT.27.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">We boarded a ship from Adramyttium about to sail for ports along the coast of the province of Asia, and we put out to sea. Aristarchus, a Macedonian from Thessalonica, was with us.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ACT.27.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ACT.27.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">The next day we landed at Sidon; and Julius, in kindness to Paul, allowed him to go to his friends so they might provide for his needs. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ACT.27.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">From there we put out to sea again and passed to the lee of Cyprus because the winds were against us. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ACT.27.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">When we had sailed across the open sea off the coast of Cilicia and Pamphylia, we landed at Myra in Lycia. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ACT.27.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">There the centurion found an Alexandrian ship sailing for Italy and put us on board. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ACT.27.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">We made slow headway for many days and had difficulty arriving off Cnidus. When the wind did not allow us to hold our course, we sailed to the lee of Crete, opposite Salmone. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ACT.27.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">We moved along the coast with difficulty and came to a place called Fair Havens, near the town of Lasea.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ACT.27.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ACT.27.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Much time had been lost, and sailing had already become dangerous because by now it was after the Day of Atonement.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">27:9 </span><span class="ft">That is, Yom Kippur</span></span></span><span class="content"> So Paul warned them, </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ACT.27.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">&#8220;Men, I can see that our voyage is going to be disastrous and bring great loss to ship and cargo, and to our own lives also.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ACT.27.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">But the centurion, instead of listening to what Paul said, followed the advice of the pilot and of the owner of the ship. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ACT.27.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Since the harbor was unsuitable to winter in, the majority decided that we should sail on, hoping to reach Phoenix and winter there. This was a harbor in Crete, facing both southwest and northwest.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Storm</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ACT.27.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ACT.27.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">When a gentle south wind began to blow, they saw their opportunity; so they weighed anchor and sailed along the shore of Crete. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ACT.27.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Before very long, a wind of hurricane force, called the Northeaster, swept down from the island. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ACT.27.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">The ship was caught by the storm and could not head into the wind; so we gave way to it and were driven along. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ACT.27.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">As we passed to the lee of a small island called Cauda, we were hardly able to make the lifeboat secure, </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ACT.27.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">so the men hoisted it aboard. Then they passed ropes under the ship itself to hold it together. Because they were afraid they would run aground on the sandbars of Syrtis, they lowered the sea anchor</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">27:17 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">the sails</span></span></span><span class="content"> and let the ship be driven along. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ACT.27.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">We took such a violent battering from the storm that the next day they began to throw the cargo overboard. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ACT.27.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">On the third day, they threw the ship&#8217;s tackle overboard with their own hands. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ACT.27.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">When neither sun nor stars appeared for many days and the storm continued raging, we finally gave up all hope of being saved.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ACT.27.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ACT.27.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">After they had gone a long time without food, Paul stood up before them and said: &#8220;Men, you should have taken my advice not to sail from Crete; then you would have spared yourselves this damage and loss. </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ACT.27.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">But now I urge you to keep up your courage, because not one of you will be lost; only the ship will be destroyed. </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ACT.27.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Last night an angel of the God to whom I belong and whom I serve stood beside me </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="ACT.27.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">and said, &#8216;Do not be afraid, Paul. You must stand trial before Caesar; and God has graciously given you the lives of all who sail with you.&#8217; </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ACT.27.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">So keep up your courage, men, for I have faith in God that it will happen just as he told me. </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="ACT.27.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">Nevertheless, we must run aground on some island.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Shipwreck</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="ACT.27.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="ACT.27.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">On the fourteenth night we were still being driven across the Adriatic</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">27:27 </span><span class="ft">In ancient times the name referred to an area extending well south of Italy.</span></span></span><span class="content"> Sea, when about midnight the sailors sensed they were approaching land. </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="ACT.27.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">They took soundings and found that the water was a hundred and twenty feet</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">27:28 </span><span class="ft">Or about 37 meters</span></span></span><span class="content"> deep. A short time later they took soundings again and found it was ninety feet</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">27:28 </span><span class="ft">Or about 27 meters</span></span></span><span class="content"> deep. </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="ACT.27.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">Fearing that we would be dashed against the rocks, they dropped four anchors from the stern and prayed for daylight. </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="ACT.27.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">In an attempt to escape from the ship, the sailors let the lifeboat down into the sea, pretending they were going to lower some anchors from the bow. </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="ACT.27.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">Then Paul said to the centurion and the soldiers, &#8220;Unless these men stay with the ship, you cannot be saved.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="ACT.27.32"><span class="label">32</span><span class="content">So the soldiers cut the ropes that held the lifeboat and let it drift away.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v32" data-usfm="ACT.27.32"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v33" data-usfm="ACT.27.33"><span class="label">33</span><span class="content">Just before dawn Paul urged them all to eat. &#8220;For the last fourteen days,&#8221; he said, &#8220;you have been in constant suspense and have gone without food&#8212;you haven&#8217;t eaten anything. </span></span><span class="verse v34" data-usfm="ACT.27.34"><span class="label">34</span><span class="content">Now I urge you to take some food. You need it to survive. Not one of you will lose a single hair from his head.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v35" data-usfm="ACT.27.35"><span class="label">35</span><span class="content">After he said this, he took some bread and gave thanks to God in front of them all. Then he broke it and began to eat. </span></span><span class="verse v36" data-usfm="ACT.27.36"><span class="label">36</span><span class="content">They were all encouraged and ate some food themselves. </span></span><span class="verse v37" data-usfm="ACT.27.37"><span class="label">37</span><span class="content">Altogether there were 276 of us on board. </span></span><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="ACT.27.38"><span class="label">38</span><span class="content">When they had eaten as much as they wanted, they lightened the ship by throwing the grain into the sea.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v38" data-usfm="ACT.27.38"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v39" data-usfm="ACT.27.39"><span class="label">39</span><span class="content">When daylight came, they did not recognize the land, but they saw a bay with a sandy beach, where they decided to run the ship aground if they could. </span></span><span class="verse v40" data-usfm="ACT.27.40"><span class="label">40</span><span class="content">Cutting loose the anchors, they left them in the sea and at the same time untied the ropes that held the rudders. Then they hoisted the foresail to the wind and made for the beach. </span></span><span class="verse v41" data-usfm="ACT.27.41"><span class="label">41</span><span class="content">But the ship struck a sandbar and ran aground. The bow stuck fast and would not move, and the stern was broken to pieces by the pounding of the surf.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v41" data-usfm="ACT.27.41"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v42" data-usfm="ACT.27.42"><span class="label">42</span><span class="content">The soldiers planned to kill the prisoners to prevent any of them from swimming away and escaping. </span></span><span class="verse v43" data-usfm="ACT.27.43"><span class="label">43</span><span class="content">But the centurion wanted to spare Paul&#8217;s life and kept them from carrying out their plan. He ordered those who could swim to jump overboard first and get to land. </span></span><span class="verse v44" data-usfm="ACT.27.44"><span class="label">44</span><span class="content">The rest were to get there on planks or on other pieces of the ship. In this way everyone reached land safely.</span></span></div>
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