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         <div class="label">10</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">David Defeats the Ammonites</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="2SA.10.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">In the course of time, the king of the Ammonites died, and his son Hanun succeeded him as king. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="2SA.10.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">David thought, &#8220;I will show kindness to Hanun son of Nahash, just as his father showed kindness to me.&#8221; So David sent a delegation to express his sympathy to Hanun concerning his father.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="2SA.10.2"><span class="content">When David&#8217;s men came to the land of the Ammonites, </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="2SA.10.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">the Ammonite commanders said to Hanun their lord, &#8220;Do you think David is honoring your father by sending envoys to you to express sympathy? Hasn&#8217;t David sent them to you only to explore the city and spy it out and overthrow it?&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="2SA.10.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">So Hanun seized David&#8217;s envoys, shaved off half of each man&#8217;s beard, cut off their garments at the buttocks, and sent them away.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="2SA.10.4"></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="2SA.10.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">When David was told about this, he sent messengers to meet the men, for they were greatly humiliated. The king said, &#8220;Stay at Jericho till your beards have grown, and then come back.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="2SA.10.5"></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="2SA.10.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">When the Ammonites realized that they had become obnoxious to David, they hired twenty thousand Aramean foot soldiers from Beth Rehob and Zobah, as well as the king of Maakah with a thousand men, and also twelve thousand men from Tob.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="2SA.10.6"></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="2SA.10.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">On hearing this, David sent Joab out with the entire army of fighting men. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="2SA.10.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">The Ammonites came out and drew up in battle formation at the entrance of their city gate, while the Arameans of Zobah and Rehob and the men of Tob and Maakah were by themselves in the open country.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="2SA.10.8"></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="2SA.10.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Joab saw that there were battle lines in front of him and behind him; so he selected some of the best troops in Israel and deployed them against the Arameans. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="2SA.10.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">He put the rest of the men under the command of Abishai his brother and deployed them against the Ammonites. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="2SA.10.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Joab said, &#8220;If the Arameans are too strong for me, then you are to come to my rescue; but if the Ammonites are too strong for you, then I will come to rescue you. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="2SA.10.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Be strong, and let us fight bravely for our people and the cities of our God. The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> will do what is good in his sight.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="2SA.10.12"></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="2SA.10.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Then Joab and the troops with him advanced to fight the Arameans, and they fled before him. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="2SA.10.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">When the Ammonites realized that the Arameans were fleeing, they fled before Abishai and went inside the city. So Joab returned from fighting the Ammonites and came to Jerusalem.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="2SA.10.14"></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="2SA.10.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">After the Arameans saw that they had been routed by Israel, they regrouped. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="2SA.10.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Hadadezer had Arameans brought from beyond the Euphrates River; they went to Helam, with Shobak the commander of Hadadezer&#8217;s army leading them.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="2SA.10.16"></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="2SA.10.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">When David was told of this, he gathered all Israel, crossed the Jordan and went to Helam. The Arameans formed their battle lines to meet David and fought against him. </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="2SA.10.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">But they fled before Israel, and David killed seven hundred of their charioteers and forty thousand of their foot soldiers.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">10:18 </span><span class="ft">Some Septuagint manuscripts (see also <span class="ref" usfm="1CH.19.18">1 Chron. 19:18</span>); Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">horsemen</span></span></span><span class="content"> He also struck down Shobak the commander of their army, and he died there. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="2SA.10.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">When all the kings who were vassals of Hadadezer saw that they had been routed by Israel, they made peace with the Israelites and became subject to them.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="2SA.10.19"><span class="content">So the Arameans were afraid to help the Ammonites anymore.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">2</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 2</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.2.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Why do the nations conspire</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">2:1 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew; Septuagint </span><span class="fqa">rage</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.2.1"><span class="content">and the peoples plot in vain?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.2.1"></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.2.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">The kings of the earth rise up</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.2.2"><span class="content">and the rulers band together</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.2.2"><span class="content">against the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> and against his anointed, saying,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.2.2"></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.2.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">&#8220;Let us break their chains</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.2.3"><span class="content">and throw off their shackles.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.2.3"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.2.3"></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.2.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">The One enthroned in heaven laughs;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.2.4"><span class="content">the Lord scoffs at them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.2.4"></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.2.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">He rebukes them in his anger</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.2.5"><span class="content">and terrifies them in his wrath, saying,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.2.5"></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.2.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">&#8220;I have installed my king</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.2.6"><span class="content">on Zion, my holy mountain.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.2.6"></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.2.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">I will proclaim the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s decree:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.2.7"><span class="content">He said to me, &#8220;You are my son;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.2.7"><span class="content">today I have become your father.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.2.7"></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.2.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Ask me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.2.8"><span class="content">and I will make the nations your inheritance,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.2.8"><span class="content">the ends of the earth your possession.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.2.8"></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.2.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">You will break them with a rod of iron</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">2:9 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">will rule them with an iron scepter </span><span class="ft">(see Septuagint and Syriac)</span></span></span><span class="content">;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.2.9"><span class="content">you will dash them to pieces like pottery.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.2.9"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.2.9"></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.2.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Therefore, you kings, be wise;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.2.10"><span class="content">be warned, you rulers of the earth.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.2.10"></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.2.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Serve the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> with fear</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.2.11"><span class="content">and celebrate his rule with trembling.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.2.11"></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.2.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Kiss his son, or he will be angry</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.2.12"><span class="content">and your way will lead to your destruction,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.2.12"><span class="content">for his wrath can flare up in a moment.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.2.12"><span class="content">Blessed are all who take refuge in him.</span></span></div>
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      <div class="chapter ch4" data-usfm="ACT.4.24+ACT.4.25+ACT.4.26+ACT.4.27+ACT.4.28">
         <div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="ACT.4.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">When they heard this, they raised their voices together in prayer to God. &#8220;Sovereign Lord,&#8221; they said, &#8220;you made the heavens and the earth and the sea, and everything in them. </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ACT.4.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">You spoke by the Holy Spirit through the mouth of your servant, our father David:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ACT.4.25"><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;Why do the nations rage</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ACT.4.25"><span class="content">and the peoples plot in vain?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ACT.4.25"></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="ACT.4.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">The kings of the earth rise up</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="ACT.4.26"><span class="content">and the rulers band together</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="ACT.4.26"><span class="content">against the Lord</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="ACT.4.26"><span class="content">and against his anointed one.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">4:26 </span><span class="ft">That is, Messiah or Christ</span></span></span><span class="content">&#8217;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">4:26 </span><span class="ft"><span class="ref" usfm="PSA.2.1">Psalm 2:1</span>,<span class="ref" usfm="PSA.2.2">2</span></span></span></span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="ACT.4.26"></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="ACT.4.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">Indeed Herod and Pontius Pilate met together with the Gentiles and the people of Israel in this city to conspire against your holy servant Jesus, whom you anointed. </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="ACT.4.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">They did what your power and will had decided beforehand should happen. </span></span></div>
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