Lifestyle of Worship - Part 2

Overcoming Marital Anxiety

Faith That Endures

Who Owns Your Time?

Competing for Christ

When to Forgive and Stand Firm

Praying God's Word: 7-Day Guide for the Buddhist World

DRAWING FROM the RIGHT WELL

Journey Through 1 Thessalonians

Wait Well: Trusting God's Timing

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         <div class="label">17</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Jehoshaphat King of Judah</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="2CH.17.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Jehoshaphat his son succeeded him as king and strengthened himself against Israel. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="2CH.17.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">He stationed troops in all the fortified cities of Judah and put garrisons in Judah and in the towns of Ephraim that his father Asa had captured.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="2CH.17.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="2CH.17.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> was with Jehoshaphat because he followed the ways of his father David before him. He did not consult the Baals </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="2CH.17.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">but sought the God of his father and followed his commands rather than the practices of Israel. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="2CH.17.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> established the kingdom under his control; and all Judah brought gifts to Jehoshaphat, so that he had great wealth and honor. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="2CH.17.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">His heart was devoted to the ways of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">; furthermore, he removed the high places and the Asherah poles from Judah.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="2CH.17.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="2CH.17.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">In the third year of his reign he sent his officials Ben-Hail, Obadiah, Zechariah, Nethanel and Micaiah to teach in the towns of Judah. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="2CH.17.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">With them were certain Levites&#8212;Shemaiah, Nethaniah, Zebadiah, Asahel, Shemiramoth, Jehonathan, Adonijah, Tobijah and Tob-Adonijah&#8212;and the priests Elishama and Jehoram. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="2CH.17.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">They taught throughout Judah, taking with them the Book of the Law of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">; they went around to all the towns of Judah and taught the people.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="2CH.17.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="2CH.17.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">The fear of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> fell on all the kingdoms of the lands surrounding Judah, so that they did not go to war against Jehoshaphat. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="2CH.17.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Some Philistines brought Jehoshaphat gifts and silver as tribute, and the Arabs brought him flocks: seven thousand seven hundred rams and seven thousand seven hundred goats.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="2CH.17.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="2CH.17.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Jehoshaphat became more and more powerful; he built forts and store cities in Judah </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="2CH.17.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">and had large supplies in the towns of Judah. He also kept experienced fighting men in Jerusalem. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="2CH.17.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Their enrollment by families was as follows:</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="2CH.17.14"><span class="content">From Judah, commanders of units of 1,000:</span></span></div><div class="li2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="2CH.17.14"><span class="content">Adnah the commander, with 300,000 fighting men;</span></span></div><div class="li2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="2CH.17.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="2CH.17.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">next, Jehohanan the commander, with 280,000;</span></span></div><div class="li2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="2CH.17.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="2CH.17.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">next, Amasiah son of Zikri, who volunteered himself for the service of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, with 200,000.</span></span></div><div class="li1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="2CH.17.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="2CH.17.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">From Benjamin:</span></span></div><div class="li2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="2CH.17.17"><span class="content">Eliada, a valiant soldier, with 200,000 men armed with bows and shields;</span></span></div><div class="li2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="2CH.17.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="2CH.17.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">next, Jehozabad, with 180,000 men armed for battle.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="2CH.17.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="2CH.17.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">These were the men who served the king, besides those he stationed in the fortified cities throughout Judah.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">12</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Woman and the Dragon</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="REV.12.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">A great sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet and a crown of twelve stars on her head. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="REV.12.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">She was pregnant and cried out in pain as she was about to give birth. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="REV.12.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Then another sign appeared in heaven: an enormous red dragon with seven heads and ten horns and seven crowns on its heads. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="REV.12.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Its tail swept a third of the stars out of the sky and flung them to the earth. The dragon stood in front of the woman who was about to give birth, so that it might devour her child the moment he was born. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="REV.12.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">She gave birth to a son, a male child, who &#8220;will rule all the nations with an iron scepter.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">12:5 </span><span class="ft"><span class="ref" data-usfm="PSA.2.9">Psalm 2:9</span></span></span></span><span class="content"> And her child was snatched up to God and to his throne. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="REV.12.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">The woman fled into the wilderness to a place prepared for her by God, where she might be taken care of for 1,260 days.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="REV.12.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="REV.12.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Then war broke out in heaven. Michael and his angels fought against the dragon, and the dragon and his angels fought back. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="REV.12.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">But he was not strong enough, and they lost their place in heaven. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="REV.12.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">The great dragon was hurled down&#8212;that ancient serpent called the devil, or Satan, who leads the whole world astray. He was hurled to the earth, and his angels with him.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="REV.12.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="REV.12.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Then I heard a loud voice in heaven say:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="REV.12.10"><span class="content">&#8220;Now have come the salvation and the power</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="REV.12.10"><span class="content">and the kingdom of our God,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="REV.12.10"><span class="content">and the authority of his Messiah.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="REV.12.10"><span class="content">For the accuser of our brothers and sisters,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="REV.12.10"><span class="content">who accuses them before our God day and night,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="REV.12.10"><span class="content">has been hurled down.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="REV.12.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="REV.12.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">They triumphed over him</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="REV.12.11"><span class="content">by the blood of the Lamb</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="REV.12.11"><span class="content">and by the word of their testimony;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="REV.12.11"><span class="content">they did not love their lives so much</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="REV.12.11"><span class="content">as to shrink from death.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="REV.12.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="REV.12.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Therefore rejoice, you heavens</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="REV.12.12"><span class="content">and you who dwell in them!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="REV.12.12"><span class="content">But woe to the earth and the sea,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="REV.12.12"><span class="content">because the devil has gone down to you!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="REV.12.12"><span class="content">He is filled with fury,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="REV.12.12"><span class="content">because he knows that his time is short.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="REV.12.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="REV.12.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">When the dragon saw that he had been hurled to the earth, he pursued the woman who had given birth to the male child. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="REV.12.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">The woman was given the two wings of a great eagle, so that she might fly to the place prepared for her in the wilderness, where she would be taken care of for a time, times and half a time, out of the serpent&#8217;s reach. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="REV.12.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Then from his mouth the serpent spewed water like a river, to overtake the woman and sweep her away with the torrent. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="REV.12.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">But the earth helped the woman by opening its mouth and swallowing the river that the dragon had spewed out of his mouth. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="REV.12.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Then the dragon was enraged at the woman and went off to wage war against the rest of her offspring&#8212;those who keep God&#8217;s commands and hold fast their testimony about Jesus.</span></span></div>
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